#rant over. ty

[d4rkshad0w]

Ty was one of the only people to ever treat Annabel with human decency and what he got in return was her killing his twin

[starheirxero]

Been thinking about the ways you could hug Centipede Eclipse

(Also, does he have legs?)

AAAAAA OKAY FIRST OF ALL THIS ASK HAS BEEN SITTING FER A MINUTE AND IT FILLS ME WITH SO MUCH JOY EVERYTIME I LOOK AT IT!!!! THAT BEAST IS GIVING HUGS...... WHAT A NICE GOD HE IS U GUYS <3 /silly

BUT ALSO SECONDLY THIS INSPIRED ME SM HELLO !!!! The first idea is the softest I think so personally ofc that's the one I like personally. but the second idea is SO FUNNY 2 ME bc it's something that Lord Eclipse would probably loathe to do but probably have to do a few times to boost morale LMAOOO 😭 THEY TURNED HIS ASS INTO A JUNGLE GYM!!!!!

Even still, as delightful as both options are, I'd imagine there's WAY less arms and hands involved and more... like. boa constrictor moves. and it'd go like that AHAJSBAKDNW

(Also yes he has legs, just not people legs! He has both the lil skittery legs and the long fake-out legs that actual centipedes have! The first several sections of his body are arms, but unfortunately I like my men to skitter, so he needed some actual buggy legs <3 worth noting tho this is only bc my beloved friend kat drew him like that and I liked it much more than the idea of "his long body with many arms Never Stops" LMAOAHSKWHD)

[harmoniouseclipse]

Me and my freaking ship charts for my freaky mind

[mightbemod]

ik Johnny's wheelchair doesn't show up in the manga a lot but GOD i wish we got his wheelchair with his figure I think it would be so cool.

Like Pol obviously got his, so they're fully capable of making wheelchairs! IT EVEN HAS A WORKING BREAK thats so nifty!!!

Tbh im genuinely considering buying the Polnareff figure to repaint his wheelchair and give it to Johnny, im sorry Pol </3 assuming their figures are about the same size that is. I'll have to check.

Surely someone's done that before already right? pleaaase share if so :]

[urlocalwormtoday]

wait codecicle theory real 😨😨

okay hear me out.

We know from Phil that there was something about purgatory that allowed his wings to heal- it might have been the air or just something else about the general aura of the island, but there's definitely some wacky shit going on there

Maybe it WAS the air, considering how the entire Island was shrouded in a red mist

But anyways, something about egg Island proved beneficial to Phil (and his wings) health, so who's to say that doesn't apply to others?

While on egg Island, Charlie never glitched. Not once. His code never got worse, he never spasmed, his voice never became digitalized, the spreading of it all just kind of halted

The thing is

As soon as Phil got back to quesadilla island, his wings stopped healing

What if the air or the aura or whatever it is that surrounded egg Island that was healing Phil's wings was also keeping the code corruption at bay?

What if, the next time we see Charlie around quesadilla island, he's even worse? What if the code has spread to parts of his face?? What then?

it's a terrifying thought/theory that I REALLY hope comes true bc I'm a sucker for angst lmao

[parttimesiffrinfulltimeproblem]

Hi thank you for the greyson tags you’re the only person who understands my vision <3

oh my god literally the thing about greyson is he's so implacable he's not just like the sort of bland everyman protagonist that authors use for readers to project onto he's just Like That. he flirts with the coolest person ever by being a complete idiot like. things happen to him and it's so funny every time it's like every other character is in a dystopian novel and greyson is in some elaborate seinfeld episode (ive never seen seinfeld) and even though his actions have weight due to events around him everything he does is so fucking funny. his surname is tolliver and youll never believe who he becomes. he's fascinating he's my babygirl I want to study him under a microscope. im so sorry for the rant but I cannot stop thinking about this man he is such an enigma. I honestly think he's the best instance that I've seen of Just Some Guy as a protagonist/deuteragonist in a story filled with people who fit the genre (which makes him fit the genre and tone of the story in such an interesting way) which is clearly due to shusterman's amazing writing but jesus christ there will never be another greyson tolliver he is the character ever

tl;dr: im picking him up like a bouncy ball and throwing him against the wall

[swimmingchicken9]

no but I feel like kanji had the potential to be a great character and positive gay influence but unfortunately he was doomed by the narrative

[elenaes]

was also talking with pat about this last night but im so tired of ppl constantly hating on elena for being ~selfish, self-centered, whatever~. in case anyone has forgotten, she was a fucking high school student!! she was 17 in season 1. teenagers are known to be selfish, emotional and prone to making dumb / selfish choices. her brain wouldn't have been fully developed for about 9 more years, and people were ... what, expecting her to make good choices rather than shortsighted "selfish" ones? please. not to mention, most of the supernatural creatures that entered her life were at least 100 years older than her; they should have fucking known better. ~ "oh, she made everything about her!!" uh first of all, that responsibility shouldn't be put at her feet when everyone around her was constantly like "omg elena!! omg doppelganger!!!" and were basically circling her like sharks. even the group of people who cared about her ( which is a totally average thing for a teenager to have btw and not her fault ) were always at her heels, always hounding her. and even if she did make everything about her, can one really blame her? her parents die in a car accident that also almost kills her, then literal months later, she's thrown into the supernatural world with beings centuries older than her and far stronger than her hunting her and tormenting / killing her loved ones around her bc again, "zomg doppelganger!!" elena didn't ask for or deserve any of it, and was just trying her best to deal with everything beings many centuries older than her put at her feet. and yeah, sometimes she retaliated. sometimes she took it too far. but she was a grieving, terrified teenage girl that was pushed and pushed and pushed. anyone would snap eventually.

[lzrusrising]

i dont know why ppl are so determined on seeing sam as straight. let him be queer

[murdleandmarot]

📱 and ☠️ for the ask game!!

Hi hello!!! Thank you for asking :3

📱: I’m a sucker for Pintrest collage backgrounds, this is mine currently :)

Aesthetics and collages drive me feral I love you the interconnectedness of the universe

☠️: I have a burning hate for a lot of things, but one of the things is definitely the word ‘unalive.’ It makes my blood boil. It makes my skin crawl. It makes my hair fall out in rage. It’s such a stupid word, what the hell do you mean ‘unalive’???? There are words for that!!!! There are SO many words for that!!!! There are PHRASES for that word, it drives me so fucking crazy, you’re telling me you have ‘sleeping with the fishes’ and you choose UNALIVE?????? I don’t even know if it’s grammatically correct!!! It doesn’t sound like a real word!!!! Un-alive. Unbelievable. I understand using it online only IF you know the content is sensitive, or it’s gonna lead to censorship, but using it in real life is so upsetting to me personally. For my sake everyone should stop using the world ‘unalive’ to preserve what little is left of my slowly draining sanity.

[bubbleteasing]

Tea I bring music

i feel like your underfell! Sans would like/ gives off the energy of full Nelson by limp bizkit

also the one by limp bizkit reminds of him and 2x1! MC (I know they aren't there yet or any time soon but let a girl dream.)

Ooooh I like it. Very edgy, very aggressive… just like him.

They aren’t there but… it does fit the vibe they could (will?) have, you know 👀

[chiisana-lion]

[swamp-chicken]

hi sorry to bother but considering you’re the first person i think of when i think ethubs videos i was wondering if you’ve seen these clips, i’ve been ill over the whole thread for the past 24 hours and i needed to share if you haven’t <3

https://x.com/just_ratto/status/1700848212662263892?s=61&t=0tBBfUNs_9mGyP6WQWaFiw

waHAHAH I had forgotten abt this!!! critical ethubs herstory info revealed herein: etho commented on bdubs' channel back before they were friends telling him how funny he is :O

[crazy-fangirl2524]

Why all for the game series got us all so hooked

An attempt at combining everything I’ve read on tumblr and recent (re)discovery I have from rereading the books for the fourth time:

We all know it’s the characters. But why? Yeah they are real and raw and resonant with us. Neil and Andrew and Kevin and foxes story captivated us. Let’s start with Neil:

Neil Josten. A runaway that stated so many times how alone and lonely he is. How he is a nobody. He insisted on all that and couldn’t care more or less for his teammates throughout the first book. But his character development is astounding. We can see him actually choosing to stay in the end of the first book. When he decided to strike a deal with Andrew who he didn’t trust at all to stay. He rationalised it at Andrew letting him stay because Andrew was the main antagonist throughout the first book even though we have been hinted throughout the book that the real threat to Neil’s life is his father. So he deal with the easier one first.

Then in the second book, we can see glimpse of how he is becoming “real” and how his teammates treat him as a friend but he didn’t even realise and in just less than half a year he managed to have friends and by the end of the second book he is literally willing to die for them. He cares for them. His teammates care for him. And most importantly andrew.

Yeah Andrew is the main focus and let’s just say all of us were as shocked as Neil at his confession in the third book (unless we all knew from the start but) even after reading the books multiple times. It is actually not that obvious that Andrew likes Neil. Because neil himself didn’t notice.

Here is a sidetracked paragraph about the narration. The narration is flawless. The pov is strictly neil and it is so neil that all he cares about is exy and survival and so that’s all we cared about in the first book. But as his priorities shift in the second book. We begin to care for the others too. He doesn’t waste his time describing the setting of places or cloths or people. There are barely any descriptions except for the court and during the exy games. Until the third book when neil begin describing Andrew when he realised his feelings. The narration got us hooked from the start when he didn’t even tell us his real name until riko said it. And the narration allow us to feel his fear and confusion and apathy and did it so seamlessly that we can’t help but fall in love with exy as neil did and slowly for Andrew and the foxes and of course neil himself.

People talked about the plot holes and ridiculous plot of yakuza and a fake sport and shit but is the plot really that ridiculous? There are books about faeries and vampires and romances where it literally would never happen in real life and people want to argue that a make up sport and yakuza is plot holes??? The fast pace plot itself is what got me hooked first and not the characters (but the characters are what made me stay) the pacing and narration is perfect and I don’t know why people cant see it. Everything make sense and it is all possible just because it’s not the usual thing that is written in books and do I have to remind you all this is an entirely fictional series??

Now onto Andrew. Andrew minyard is first presented as the antagonist and one of the threats and then into a teammate Neil valued and then suddenly boom he is the freaking love interest. We were as shock as Neil at first but rereading for the nth time it is so obvious from the way neil can understand Andrew whereas even his family and those closest to him couldn’t. Not for the lack of trying though (yes they all tried, just maybe not hard enough but I’ll say it is also because it’s impossible for them)

Andrew minyard is impossible. He didn’t let anyone in. He doesn’t explain himself at all or anything or his actions. Neil josten is just smart enough and on the same wave length as him. Nicky and Aaron and Kevin and the rest of the foxes couldn’t understand Andrew because they don’t think like him. Neil josten came to the conclusion that Andrew killed his mother for Aaron because he cared for him. Nicky cannot because he could never kill anyone so he cannot imagine why Andrew will do it for someone even though it’s his brother and to his mother of all people. Neil understand because he understand how Andrew works. Yes you can argue others can try harder and try to ask but will you still ask if you never get straight answers? Why is it only renee ever got close with Andrew? Because renee is the same as Andrew and she understands. No of course I’m not blaming Andrew for not explaining himself because god knows he doesn’t have to to people that he know won’t understand him. But I’m also not going to blame the people that doesn’t understand him. Yes we can say the foxes are wrong for always calling Andrew soulless and a monster but what else are they suppose to do? They see Andrew as violent and Andrew never bothered to correct them and Andrew is violent but they just cannot see the reasoning behind it.

Andrew minyard has been through so much and after the foxes realised just what he had been through (they don’t even know about his childhood only know about drake they don’t know it was since seven years old they don’t know it’s more than one person) they begin to understand his boundaries more and that’s when they get closer.

Andrew minyard is so strong for surviving all that. Imagine since a baby, since you are seven. It’s a miracle that he hasn’t killed more people or killed himself. It makes perfect sense why he is the way he is and yeah people get mad that why in the EC Nora was like Andrew will never heal and stuff but that’s just EC you can interpret and imagine after the books yourself. In just the last book you can see how much Andrew has opened up once someone truly truly understands him and see all of him without flinching away.

It can’t be anyone else. Of course it is Neil josten because Neil is the only other person that understands protecting yourself. Using whatever means. And Neil josten understands the possessive claim Andrew has because Andrew never had control over anything in his entire life (just like how Neil runs all the time) and Neil josten is just as possessive of his people as Andrew minyard are (Neil holds on so tightly too. He is willing to die for the foxes by book two already) yeah renee understands Andrew but she was saved whereas Andrew was dammed even more. Wymack has already been there and done that so it is different for him. Bee is still just a psychiatrist she can only understand so much. So of course it is Neil. Neil who can challenge and understand and push andrews buttons just right.

Now Aaron minyard. For as long as I remember the fandom has make Aaron minyard into someone that has always hated Neil josten. That isn’t the case. Aaron didn’t hate Neil josten. He just didn’t care for any of the foxes. He only hates Neil josten when he gets with his brother and justifiably so. He hates Neil josten becaude Aaron minyard tried so hard to get to know his brother and all he got in return is a dead mother and a brother that is not willing to speak to him. Imagine you are Aaron. You are desperate and then you found out you have a brother and you tried with him but he rejected you again and again and then last straw was when he seemingly killed your mother. The one thing you have always had. And then your brother doesn’t talk to you again. Aaron’s grief of course won’t allow him to see it how Neil as an outsider can see. And then this fucking outsider come in and wreck the team got one of the teammates killed even and he’s the fucking son of the butcher and he lies and lies and lies and he gets with your brother. Your brother who has been a sexually assaulted victim for who knows how long. And this liar and mafia kid comes in and get with your brother. Your brother and entire family and team love and trust this guy even though all he does is lie and make trouble for your team. (Yes Aaron understand neil is not really the bad guy and Aaron literally did not care about Neil even after everything until Baltimore and neil and Andrew is obviously a thing) so yeah Aaron justifiably hates Neil because his brother that apparently killed his mother for him and saved him from rapists but is more willing to trust someone he met less than a year ago than Aaron himself.

Now Kevin day. I’ll be honest and say I didn’t care for him at all in my first read. After rereading again and all the tumblr post I’m literally in love with the man. People say he is a coward but we all know he isnt. The way he manage to relearn an entire sport with his nondominant is not only impressive but also nearly impossible. He did it through sheer determination and spite and fear. Exy is all he has and he’s so goddamn good at it. His relationship with Andrew is so precious. He is the first one to see something in Andrew and actually try to give Andrew something. He is andrews first friend that isn’t related by blood that isn’t forced to be by Andrew’s side through any family obligation or whatever. And Andrew trusts Kevin enough with his medicine. Kevin trusts Andrew to protect him from his biggest fear and nightmare and abuser. Kevin is willing to teach Neil even when he knows Neil doesn’t have a future. He is willing to waste time and effort in neil because Neil cares about exy as much as he does. Neil chose to sign with the foxes because of kevin. Neil wants kevin to make it. When he realised kevin hasn’t escaped either he does his damn best to get kevin out of it through winning exy games and trying his best to get them to championship. The book doesn’t end with Neil beating his father. The book ends with the foxes beating the ravens. Ends with kevin winning against riko. All for the game. Neil played and survived all for exy and half of it is also for kevin. All for the game. These two are like twin flames that their lives are nothing compare to their love for exy and obsession for each other.

Nicky hemmick. The guy that doesn’t have to take care of his cousins and were under absolute no obligation to help them and provide them a home and drop his entire life in Germany and leave his boyfriend and get treated like shit by them and as a joke by everyone on his team. Yeah nicky assaulted neil and that’s no excuse and it’s not justified at all. Andrew minyard assaulted neil and drugged him too. All the monsters assaulted neil. Just because Nicky’s assaults are different from Andrew doesn’t make them more wrong. It’s all wrong. And if we are going to hold accountability to the characters every single one of the foxes including wymack are all wrong and should go to jail. So yes I don’t condone nicky on kissing Neil but I don’t think that’s what the fandom should always hold against nicky. If nicky had punched Neil instead yall wouldn’t have this big of a reaction. (And yes of course I understand why the fandom is more freaked out over Nicky’s sexual assault but I don’t think we should all hate nicky for it) nicky knows it’s wrong and yeah his commenst are too much but he toned it down and even stopped after Andrew said so and after he can see how Neil is genuinely not interested. If nicky is really the predator yall make him to be Andrew minyard will be the first one to kill him.

Also about exy. The way neil describes it oh my gods how can you NOT be obsess with exy as well? And the way Andrew Kevin and neil is so so good at exy that you just feel it like most of us aren’t sport fans but exy makes us into one. Imagine being the FASTEST STRIKER like you don’t get it the fastest fucking striker and then you earn 3 MILLION per year on average as a pro exy player like. And and. Andrew minyard shutting down the goal. Someone recently calculated that remember the 150 goals shot and he only let in 13??? The games are 90 minutes. That’s more than one goal per minute. No wonder Andrew couldn’t lift his arms afterwards. And they were playing against the “best” college team. Andrew minyard doesn’t even train. It’s all raw talent. And Kevin day. Already drafted to court before he even graduated university. Exy stadium seats (at least the foxhole court one) has 65k seats. It’s Taylor Swift concert seats. Imagine that many people watching and obsessing over exy. And remember Neil’s awe when he first practiced with the cousins and he’s like you guys are so good. Every single one of the foxes are so so good at exy. How can you not love them and they genuinely love and care for the sport and that makes you care for exy too.

And they are all so fucking smart. Everyone hates dumb characters. Not a single one of the characters are dumb. They are all smart as fuck. Aaron studies med alongside with fucking exy (and all the mafia and trauma and a gf). Andrew minyard has an eidetic memory. Neil josten survived on the run for eight years. He is fluent in three languages and know at least five. Kevin day is a history major.

And you know how good a series has to be one the author hasn’t given us any content since 2016? It’s 2023 right now it’s been seven years and this fandom is THRIVING. I have genuinely never seen a fandom where there’s no more content yet it is still this active. Yeah some people leave. But most don’t. And there’s always new people. New content. Yeah maybe this fandom can sometimes get toxic but most of it is so so amazing. We genuinely has amazing edits and fanarts and the fanfictions oh my gods and just you guys are amazing.

In conclusion if you have make it this far congratulations I just love aftg too much this is literally just a love letter to aftg. I’m so tempted to write an actual thesis on aftg with quotations and sources but I’m too lazy and yeah maybe I’m just repeating everything people had already said and pointed out before but I just want to remind everyone again why we love this series it’s because of the characters and how real they are and how they show us that there are second and third and fourth and fifth chances and that we all deserve it and that we will make it we can survive and if even the foxes can then why can’t we?

[webvampzz]

how i feel when i ramble about my interests

[everykillerbee]

Alright. This is going to be the only time I break from how I usually do these posts, because this is such an off-putting moment for me. This is a Kishimoto fanservice moment that breaks a lot of things in order to happen.

For starters, it is text that Bee respects Yugito Nii highly. We had just been hammered in about how horrific the situation is, that even in death jinchuuriki are used for their bodies in that they are mutilated and completely controlled in a way unlike the rest of the edo tensei'd characters. This was treated like a moment that hit hard for Bee, especially because he was finding out about it by encountering her reanimated corpse. She's the only one in this group he was close to. He notes his grief. Not to mention, they have a 7 year age gap (Bee is 36, Yugito Nii is 29) which makes this kind of uncomfortable if you think about how long they may have known each other. Thankfully, Bee isn't written in the way Jiraiya is when it comes to this moment (him commenting on Tsunade is a little more that speed, but still comparatively subdued and moreso highlights shock than perversion/harassment). It happened to happen, no nosebleeds or overtly sexual comments, thankfully you can read it as he's just observing and making a goof of it like he does with most things when he disengages emotionally. But it still feels off considering previous moments.

Let's also talk about the fact that she had to have her clothes slashed conveniently in order for this to happen. Through both a shirt and a corset-style blouse. When this whole time, Utakata is Right There With His Chest Out!!!

This is not the exact panel where that wardrobe malfunction happens, but it's of a similar distance. And we can see in the next panel that shows him after that, when Kishimoto decides to draw the node on him, it's very easy to see because... his chest is just out.

Funny enough, all these issues would've not occurred if Bee simply observed it on Utakata. There's no history between the two, his chest is on full display, and it'd happen because this is just the way he dressed when he was living. The only reason Yugito Nii was the reveal was because she's a woman, and it'd been a hot minute since someone's commented on lady boobs for Kishimoto.