#luka: about

[celestialshearts]

how do you need to be loved?

LUKA

casually, the same way you love to breathe you want someone who will see your favorite flower and will give it to you, without even thinking about it. you want someone who will remember all the little details about you, the things so seemingly unimportant but that matter more than you thought they did. you want someone who will still be there, thirty years down the line, holding your hand while the two of you do two separate things. you want the intimacy of being known by someone who makes you feel safe. you don't want expensive dinners or grand proposals. you want someone who will love you consistently.

SASHA

carefully, like a gentle rain on dry earth you've been left beaten down and by someone you really trusted and loved, so now love doesn't come easy for you. you want it to. you want to love and be loved, but you're not sure you remember how. so you need someone else to take the lead. they have to be gentle and sweet and patient. they have to watch out for you, and make sure you're doing okay, because most days you feel a little fragile, if not totally shattered. but someone will come along who will put those pieces back together again.

tagged by @sunfollows (thanks for making me miserable JHDSHDSH)

tagging: @illctaffairs, @2minus, @unfinishedjulyrain, @gcldbrew, @svnandmccn and whoever else would like to do it!! :D

[dollya-robinprotector]

Luka - deciding on what to wear on round 7 to face Till

[frostedpuffs]

miraculous furrybug

[hilacopter]

it's the way american leftists will insist on separating themselves from their government because, you know, a single governing force does not represent an entire country full of people with differing opinions. and then they absolutely refuse to apply that logic to non-western countries.

[zoe-oneesama]

This scene feels familiar.

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[shakingparadigm]

TOP 3

[makaira-art]

ML Determination Spoilers!

I knew this day would come but I still wasn’t prepared

[realmyth]

You know your cooked if your a fan of all three

[anakirui]

hot take ??

the only reason people say that "mafuyu and tsukasa have nothing in common" when presented with mafukasa parallels is because they equate mafuyu and tsukasa being similar to "tsukasa has depression" because the fandom equates mafuyu's personality to being depressed and nothing else.

it doesn't help that people (primarily younger people in the fandom) who DO believe in mafukasa parallels end up making the mistake of portraying tsukasa as depressed because as of right now he is not (although it's possible he was in past because of his Very Unclear Middle School Backstory but that's irrelevant)

anyways, mafuyu and tsukasa are narrative foils because their core personalities are built off of the concept of wanting to make the people around them— especially their families— happy.

they both developed personalities at a young age based on someone they looked up to. for tsukasa, it was seiichi amami's performance that inspired him to be a star— a hero that could cheer anyone up. for mafuyu, it was her mother taking care of her that inspired her to be a nurse— and you can see the similarities from there.

for mafuyu, her identity would first come into conflict when her mother expressed her want for mafuyu to be a doctor— suddenly, "everyone's" happiness didn't match what she wanted to do, leaving her in a state of disorder and eventual depression.

for tsukasa, his identity was something he nearly forgot in its entirety at the start of the main story— becoming arrogant and fully absorbed in a hero persona, forgetting the kind person he truly is. furthermore, his current character arc seems to be foreshadowing that what "being a star" to him is going to be called into question— maybe it is something more than just being the main character that saves everyone.

their insecurities are incredibly similar.

in mafuyu's first mixed, mafuyu feels insecure towards ichika because unlike ichika, she feels as if her lyrics have no genuine meaning to be expressed to other people— despite them being her very real feelings. this is brought up again in her second mixed as well.

in tsukasa's third focus event, something similar happens. when watching seiichi's performance, he thinks that his acting is "real" and feels inferior towards him, which is ironic because tsukasa has been method acting this whole time. when tsukasa is acting out rio or bartlett or really anyone at this point in the story, it's not just those characters— it's a reflection of his traumas.

just like mafuyu, tsukasa undermines his passions he's poured his feelings into because someone else's work is more genuine in his eyes.

now, then, foils have many similarities and parallels (and i could honestly list a lot more), but how i define them is that they usually have some kind of major branching difference that MAKES them foils.

for mafuyu and tsukasa it's pretty straightforward.

mafuyu's people pleasing behavior comes from external expectations and pressures— her mother's demands.

tsukasa's people pleasing behavior comes internally, from himself— if he can't meet his own standards, if he can't be the perfect big brother or the perfect star, then he is nothing.

and even then, there's some overlap.

tsukasa's behavior was indirectly encouraged by his mother praising him for being a "good big brother" over the phone instead of asking him if he was okay while home alone.

mafuyu's terrified to be herself around other people because she doesn't want to worry or bother them— she doesn't want to be a burden— and projects her mother's expectations onto them, not realizing that they would prefer the real mafuyu if they knew the truth.

and the concept of mafukasa being foils is most perfectly and blatantly portrayed in these two cards.

mafuyu, the marionette, sitting limp on the floor— puppeteered by her mother's demands and donning a mask to hide her true self.

tsukasa, the jester, standing above everything else— puppeteering silenced plushies— his feelings. he's not being completely honest with himself, and he doesn't even realize it.

mafuyu has cut her strings and ripped her mask in half. she has acknowledged her true feelings and expressed them to her mother, even if she had to run away in the end.

tsukasa has not yet cut his.

[celestialshearts]

which tarot card are you?

SASHA

the lovers

the bounty of your heart is abundant. warmth extends from your fingertips, and your smile has the power to light the darkest of rooms. your presence is a comfort– a gift– it is something to be cherished. just beware of stretching yourself too thin; a heart cannot be full if it is constantly emptying itself for the benefit of others. extend that mercy to your own heart, so you may continue to love and let yourself be loved. your chest is not an empty cavity. number: 6 upright: love, harmony, relationships, values alignment, choices / reversed: self-love, disharmony, imbalance, misalignment of values

LUKA

the sun

light follows behind your heels. the daylight yields to your shining face. it is difficult to compare such radience to anything but the sun. bright and warm, people seem to gravitate toward you for your neverending optimism and the positivity you exude. but it tires you, doesn't it? the constant smiles, the ceaseless extension of yourself? does it not make you burn? do not allow yourself to fizzle out. number: 19 upright: positivity, fun, warmth, success, vitality / reversed: inner child, feeling down, overly optimistic

tagged by: @sunfollows (tysm!!)

tagging: @wickedluvs, @illctaffairs, @drnkdazed, @unfinishedjulyrain, @2minus and whoever else would like to do it, just say i tagged you!! :D

[zephyrins]

I want Luka to believe Till is absolutely broken and depressed but Till casually walks onto the scene and blows everyone up with the most heavy metal song ever

[thimbleb3rries]

In a similar style to this post of mine, more sketches/doodles!

I mostly do these in class or at home while watching YouTube lmao

I love sketching in that blue colored pencil so muchhhh hfhffb I like how it's both textured but also fun to look at when flipping through my sketchbook

[hilacopter]

normalize liking platonic dynamics just as much as romantic dynamics. normalize being insane over characters as friends and not as a ship. normalize wanting characters to be closer platonically just as you would want them to be closer romantically (I call it platonic shipping). normalize not having characters fall in love for no reason when they were already great and compelling platonically. normalize characters doing things that are usually seen as romantic but in a platonic context. normalize writing platonic fanfiction and drawing platonic fanart. "I am insane about their friendship" can and should be common actually. amatonormativity BEGONE!

[masao-micchi]

they should’ve asked agnes because she kept track

PART 2 HERE

[bayonetta-origins]

CHAT IM GETTING SICK OF GAY PEOPLE

dont repost reblogs ok

[cult-of-the-eye]

Toxic ex husbands is the funniest dynamic like actually we've been married for 40 years we've been divorced for longer he took all the money I took his fucking antique scarves collection I hate him we're making out in a broom closet we both try to inconvenience each other in every way we have extremely loving and emotional sex every anniversary and then go straight back to hating each other