#the beauty of being a hater

[snowyvoid]

i understand why people write hurt/comfort whump what if they died together etc etc fics. however. what if the character got to complete all of the things they wanted. what if they got their love interest, finished that artwork theyve been working on, completed their transition in the fullest sense they could, etc, etc, etc, and yes they are still chronically suicidal but they are here and alive and theyve gone through everything and they are only living out of spite but that means they are alive. their crying means they are alive. what if you dont need to be happy and okay and beautiful and human to be alive. what if they got evrythinf they wanted and they hated it all but they where still alive. and what if in all those years where they are living out of spite they start to realise oh my god i actually find this kinda fun. what if they watched the sunset and thought to themself thank god i hated myself so much that i forced myself to be alive and miserable. because i know that in a few months thibgs are going to go to shit again, but right here, right now, i am still breathing and i can feel the sun and everything is beautiful even when it hurts.

[chxchki]

Untucked: RuPaul's Drag Race | S7E6

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[ayo-edebiri]

We should celebrate the fourth of july because it’s the day Billy Hargrove died <3

[seagreenstardust]

One of my favorite things about bkdk is how easily they fall into just about any AU

And Hori gave us so many to work with, winter and fantasy and pirates and steampunk and dragon riders and even band AU’s, and more and I just realized

It doesn’t matter what world you put bkdk in, it works because the chemistry is there in canon

[kacievvbbbb]

It’s so funny to think about but because Shanks is who he is. He probably threw a party for Mihawk the first time they met up after Mihawk was finally tall enough to wear Yoru straight down his back.

Bonus if Shanks had already had his growth spurt and Mihawk was getting genuinely worried he had hit his final height and would never complete his aesthetic. (Also Shanks already lords over the one inch he could not have handled a several inches height difference it would have actually killed him if he didn’t kill himself first)

Also of course he pulls up with the Long coat and the hat already in checks who do you think this is?

[booksandmate]

i hope gabriel and beelzebub don’t make it. they just tell each other everything they’ve been trough and once they’re done it’s like lol you’re so annoying. divorce

[the-patrex]

Love tht I have both rtd haters and chibs haters in my dash, keeps me grounded abt how annoying we as a fandom are

[acediaedeus]

this does contain them sweet

SPOILERS

what I find really upsetting about Ichigo’s dynamic with his friends/family/mentors is how they treat the fact that he’s part-Hollow. especially when it comes to the Visored and Orihime.

bc yeah, the Visored did struggle with their Hollows, bc they already lived hundreds of years without that aspect. they were comfortable with their shinigami existence, but then this hollowfication bullshit drops on their heads and suddenly they’re not only barely in control of themselves, constantly in a fight with an inner “demon”, but also there’s no one to support them AND they’re getting fucking exiled and then they exist as this tightly knit community of eight for a fucking century with no one to understand them but each other. I’d hate the Hollow in me too, probably.

BUT, then there’s this fresh guy, that hasn’t accepted the fact that he’s now an amalgamation of a million different things, including something that he has been told he has to fight and exterminate, that they have to teach to manage the hollowfication bullshit™️ so what do we do? correct, scare the shit out of him and present existing with a Hollow as amensalism (one is harmed, one is unaffected) or parasitism (one benefits, one is harmed) when it’s more like commensalism (one benefits, one is unaffected), in which the shinigami is clearly the one who’s benefiting from this.

(although we could argue that for the Visored this is a symbiotic relationship in which both are getting harmed, but even then the shinigami still gains benefit and the Hollow gets nothing but hatred, so like, fuck them, lol (I’m advocating for inner-Hollow rights 💀🙏🏻)).

biology lesson out of the way, they essentially do not teach Ichigo anything that would bring long-term benefits (we see this when Ichigo is unable to complete his training with Squad 0, bc he has no fucking idea who Zangetsu (or he himself) actually is (this is, of course, in part his quincy power’s doing, but I wouldn’t say his supposed “mentors” helped much).

in conclusion what does Ichigo get out of this? self-hatred and the habit to suppress what is, whichever way you look at it, a big part of his being, thus blocking himself and Zangetsu from reaching their full potential.

but I guess you can’t teach lessons you haven’t learnt yourself, so there is that with the Visored.

now onto my dear Orihime, who I love dearly (this is a disclaimer). for someone who, supposedly, loves Ichigo more than anything and who we have to take seriously as not only just a potential love-interest, but the actual, one-and-only lover, she is a little bit too scared of Ichigo.

this, of course, for me, begs the question of how am I supposed to accept a love-interest who is consistently terrified of the mc? not a single battle with Orihime present (and Ichigo using the mask) without her shaking in fear and having to be reminded by others (who have known him for much less time than she has), that not only is it still Ichigo in front of her, but he’s also fighting and pulling out the mask he himself doesn’t like much, in order to protect her.

it’s plain and simple upsetting how there’s absolutely no one to accept and embrace the essence of Kurosaki Ichigo. everyone around him wants the shinigami and human in him, no one is interested in the Hollow (except for *ahem* Grimmjow *ahem*), all they do is reject and cower and isn’t that fucking hypocritical after hiding behind his back and begging him to save them?

everyone around Ichigo just really pisses me off with their constant whining. I feel like the only ones who love and cherish Ichigo for the absolute gem of a person he is are Chad and the fucking Arrancars 💀🙏🏻

as I mentioned in the ALT to the last photo in this parade of idiocy: trying to separate and think of Hollow Ichigo and Ichigo as two different entities is crazy and delusional behaviour, bc we have been told countless times, that a person’s inner Hollow is a manifestation of all repressed emotions and traits that they view as unsavoury. which for Ichigo happened to be aggression, cruelty, being merciless and thirst for bloody battles.

let me remind everyone that you cannot truly love a person w/o accepting and acknowledging all their flaws (including yourself).

this is not me trying to say Orihime doesn’t love Ichigo, it’s not really about the characters, more so the writing. I am actively trying to square up with Tite Kubo. for many reasons, but this is one of the ones I pay most attention to.

Ichigo is someone who is in perfect control of himself, who protects no matter what, bc even when he turned into the vasto lorde (after getting his heart ripped out of his chest) it was all his Hollow, yet it still carried out the mission of protection seamlessly, that’s how strong his will is. Kurosaki Ichigo deserves ppl who actually love him around, thank you.

thanks for coming to this ted talk, love y’all!

[ot3]

Phoenix is not by any means a bad dad. I'm not going to pretend he was a perfect dad because that would be incorrect and boring. it's definitely Not Great from a parental standpoint that he has to get his daughter to help him cheat at poker (and later in court) ((although from a non-parental standpoint I think this rules and is awesome)) and seems to semi-regularly be off the grid for awhile with trucy having no idea where he is or what he's doing. And it's definitely Bad that trucy feels in any way responsible for her father's well-being, they are definitely codependent in a way that's not super kosher ((I also think this is awesome)) but the thing about this all is that these are all failings in responsibility that are super consistent with phoenixs previously established behavior. This is the kind of guy who would drag an 8 year old around a murder scene because it helps him pull himself together.

And there's also just the larger context of like. Phoenix was literally 26 years old, just lost his job, and suddenly had an incredibly precocious and traumatized child dropped into his lap to raise as a single parent. and the. Somewhere along the line being unemployed changed to having two jobs - playing poker at various clubs and also developing the jurist system which seems to have been a pretty Involved process. So yeah. Of course he was kind of flaky! Dude is probably under a killer, nightmarish amount of stress and responsibility for a really long time. And also somewhat heavily implied to have a drinking problem.

But despite the fact it is beyond clear at every turn that he loves trucy so so so much, and does the best he can to take care of her at every turn. She's happy and healthy and loved!! but not only that, phoenixs "I'm the only one who knows how she really feels" line near the end of aa4 makes it pretty clear that phoenix understands trucy has a lot of issues she's masking and is there for her in that regard too. What more does a guy have to do to be considered a decent dad around here!!

[edgarallennope]

i will genuinely welcome and cherish a hundred annoying straight girls who quote drag race at me and a hundred straight partners of bisexuals over ONE gatekeeping terminally online queer person telling people who can and can't be at pride.

[mxnosferatu]

travel season is endlessly charming . many others have already said but i need to throw it out there: a genuinely fantastic show

[communistkenobi]

sorry I know this is old news by now but god that fucking line from the nyt poetry editor about her quitting her job is still under my skin like “if my resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present” what a self-centred and ridiculous thing to say. there is a deep wealth of Palestinian art and poetry about their culture and their struggle, including poetry being written right now currently today. there is no vacuum of art being left because an editor quit their job from the single most evil newspaper to ever exist in history, and certainly not about Palestine

[marztapatan]

It rains over this dead garden

[fandomsupporter]

being petty and ignoring orders from ed directly resulted in izzy’s crush personally tending to the wounds of the guy who has been nothing but a nuisance to him in all previous interactions and i personally can’t imagine fumbling the bag that hard

[torgawl]

if you call himmel pathetic i'm throwing hands at you. himmel showed the purest form of love for frieren and you guys think that's pathetic? what's pathetic is not respect other people's feelings or boundaries and acting like people owe you anything just because you like them. himmel was happy to have a friendship with frieren within her own conditions just because he genuinely enjoyed her as part of his life. he was happy to wait for her for his entire life is he had to but he also never stopped living for himself. that's fucking beautiful. loving someone so much you are able to let them go, not wanting to change who they are or impose anything on them? unconditionally, nonetheless? that's the point of life.

[samipekoe]

I feel like Shuten was made to be drawn in your style

THank you I am a big fan of oni women with big butts and a fuckass bob