#sounds of me crying

[cariciapadre]

before there was sargento caricias there was cabo caricias and i need to see him in that stupid little beret

[rifleonthewall]

I get emotional bc I keep thinking abt how by y7 nico and majima have been together like 20 odd years and just. God they would know each other so well and just. God they're just.

[hinamie]

bunch of portraits

[gascreates]

a new star

[fumifooms]

The world must know about french Chilchuck’s chuckles

[shummthechumm]

NICKELODEON/BACKYARDIGANS OFFICIAL HIRE ME I CAN HELP YOU!!!!

[s1yfox14]

Okay this may be common knowledge but,

"Clay reminds me of this mug that Grian made me for my birthday" I will CRY I will cry. I will.

[lordartsy]

have you guys seen the leaks

[daphnalia]

and they were galpals

[chibi-lucca]

[nordidia]

when ur autistic brother is having a sensory meltdown but you gotta make sure he's eating so you bring him his comfort snack

[hyperfocusthusly]

[jasonsbruce]

[starcurtain]

One thing I wish I'd see more of among Ratio fans is some thought about how he views himself as a teacher.

Like yes, of course he refuses to compromise on the quality and rigor of the education he imparts, and he would find it unforgivably unethical to lower his standards in order to pass more students who had not genuinely learned the material. This is core to his character.

However, as someone who is a teacher IRL, I know the absolutely miserable feeling setting that kind of standard can cause. There's the obvious disheartening sense of disappointment ("Are students these days really not capable of doing the work correctly? Is our future in danger, if this is the highest level of understanding our current generation of students can achieve?"), but even worse than that is the self-doubt.

"Is this somehow my fault? Am I not teaching this material in the right ways for the students to learn? Is there something I could have done differently to get through to these students? Would a better teacher have a higher passing rate?"

We know that Ratio does (or at least did) struggle with feeling inferior to the Genius Society, so I think it is also likely, as much as he absolutely will not budge on his academic standards, that he has doubts about his teaching ability as well.

This is the man who wants to educate the entire world to cure the disease of ignorance, and yet only 3% of his actual students are able to get there. How can someone who gets so few of his direct students to a state of enlightenment hope to enlighten the whole universe? If so few students are successfully learning the material of a given class, doesn't that mean the teacher is doing something wrong?Would a better teacher--would a genius, maybe--not be able to impart their knowledge more efficiently and educate even the most challenging of students?

As someone constantly struggling with that balance between keeping academic standards high while also meeting the needs of today's students, I think the passing rates of his courses must affect Dr. Ratio much more deeply than I've seen fans discuss. I think he would question himself harshly over his class success rates, and I think he must be constantly trying to push himself to become the best teacher he possibly can be.

tl;dr: I hope one day the HSR fandom will stop sleeping on the fact that Ratio is an actual practicing professor who probably has astronomical levels of teacher angst. 😂

[geniemillies]

think i was gaslit into liking and thinking velaris was this super beautiful, advanced, better than every place ever city when it's literally just idk new york or something

i miss the whimsical of spring, something about faerie people in masks in those cliche fantasy medieval clothes. i miss the rose gardens and horses 😮‍💨 also the lesser fae being granted sanctuary and work in the high lord's mansion. they have celebrations that don't even belong to spring just for the refugees from other courts. forests. the starlight pool. the plants apparently sing if you listen hard enough? will-o'-the-wisps!?!?!? omg

grabs book 1 and starts violently shaking it. book one felt like i was really in faerie land, after that everywhere else just wasn't doing it for me. 😔 spring wasn't much but it was homey and quiet and void of any weird drama love triangles between sibling-lovers(?) or weird tiny demon ladies who drink blood that no one really trusts or slums in the perfect city ever or whatever it is that velaris has going on idk

[sanjiaftersex]

Can we talk about how normal and incredibly human Luffy was in this scene?

His earth shattering grief didnt awaken any supernatural haki or abilities within him, instead it overwhelmed him, it was destroying him. The bleeding from his throat while his eyes lose focus and his body goes into shock - grief is ugly, loud, destructive and it tears you apart and leaves you vulnerable out in the open- thats what happening to him.

This was Luffy's, a 17 year old kid's moment of overwhelming realization that humans are powerless and weak on the face of death as his brother bled out in his arms while he (and world's most powerful pirate whitebeard) watched it helplessly. This was the biggest loss of his life as he understood that sometimes no matter how hard you try, things don't work out for you. This was when Luffy witnessed the consequence of the path he (and ace) had chosen, that a pirate life was actually much harder than just adventure and freedom and that there was a heavy price to pay, that death could take anyone anytime.

This wasnt just sadness, this was the end of the world for Luffy and he wasn't the same person after this moment.