#the themes are stairs

[casualavocados]

You are what you eat. What you take builds who you are.

THE ECLIPSE ✦ EP07

[theoldkyokodied]

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

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[ilhoonftw]

[willowser]

how funny is it to think about you and bakugou deciding to try for a baby, and you're texting him while he's at work like, "i need you to come home for 20 minutes bc the time is now" and he's having to make an excuse 😂 as to why he'll be right back 😂 lmaooo

[hajihiko]

I interpret Kaz's relationship with his dad a little differently from that one convo. He says something like 'he knew better than anyone that we didn't have the money' and I took that as his dad wanted him to go and have fun like a normal kid and not worry about the money. Of course, I don't justify physical discipline and it is abuse, even if the parent is well intentioned. I think that Kaz does love his dad and they're relationship might be more complicated. But you know that's just one of the many things he needs to work out in therapy.

(Again this is just my interpretation and I'm not saying yours is wrong. I do love the art.)

Just gonna use this as a little jumping point to talk about this bc why not, warnings for obviously sensitive topics

I dont think you're wrong, I actually probably agree, but one thing;

It's not uncommon for public perception to weigh more than actual actions or intent. In the example given, I see it like so; yeah, Souda sr. wanted his son to go on a field trip that they couldn't really afford. Yeah, Kaz wanted to help the household by not going on the trip and saving the money. Both have good intent here. It's not about that, though, because in Souda sr.'s eyes, refusing to go on the trip is like admitting that they're poor, which is like saying the father can't provide for his family, which is like public humiliation- in his eyes. In a fit of rage (and insecurity, if it's something that's already weighing on his mind, as these things often go) the assumption isnt that his son was trying to help, just that he did something that makes the father look bad. Which is a bigger trigger than most things, often, for patriarchal authority figures.

And it not an excuse for physical harm, no, nothing is. Probably, Souda sr. knows that, and didn't mean to snap- doesnt think he committed an act of child abuse- but he's been under a lot of stress, and his son was talking back, and, well.

I think they do usually get along alright, and Souda sr. does his best to provide for himself and his son and keep their relationship good, and Kazuichi is genuinely grateful for everything his dad's done for him? But in the end, it's another person Kazuichi trusted teaching him the lesson that people will let him down and hurt him, in some way at some point. If your parent whom you trust has made you genuinely afraid of them, it's hard to come back from it, and someone as anxious and emotionally sensitive as Kazuichi will hold onto that forever, probably, even as he might internalized some of it as his own fault.

It's a lot more complicated than just "bad father, sad son" (but again, not excusable, you don't hit your kids period). It's father and son who love each other and might be the only family they both have, but they clash horribly on occasion, make up (or don't talk about it at all), things die down, stay good for a while, then there's another clash- so it goes, even if the bad times are only occasional. The biggest Thing about these kind of relationships, to me, is that it's so easy to fall into a routine and let things stagnate, and before you know it, it's just How Things Are and it's easier to just deal than start rocking the boat.

[anch-vaviel]

Although the outside may look abandoned, I've learned that the light house keeper's home is rather cozy. I enjoy our weekly visits but she always cuts them short, insisting I must get home before dark. I wonder what she's so afraid of..

[pictureswithboxes]

One thing I love a lot about the aa anime is how they designed the prosecution’s offices. Like. They really sat down and said “these assholes work in a palace”

[fate-defiant]

I'm only like six episodes in (been trying to average out about an episode a day but it's an uphill battle my executives are dysfunctioning ok) but I have some Initial Thoughts on Utena I want to share so here's some Initial Thought on Utena:

I didn't look much into the marketing of the show but I do wonder how people initially responded like.... this was airing once a week right? I wonder how people responded to the first few episodes. If you're going in completely blind it really comes off as a particularly batshit shoujo. It's not hard to figure out that it's meant as a parody of sorts but still. What an Experience lmaoooooo

I know that rn we're only scratching the surface but still I like the things it sets up

Like that scene where Utena shows up in the boys uniform and Totally Owns The Teacher is like. Farcical. Category five and-everyone-clapped moment. There's already plenty in that alone.

Also Utena not being able to clearly recall how her desire to be a prince started being immediately being juxtaposed to Wakaba's recollection of a silly childhood memory. Something something the way this shit takes root and the absurdity of it all...

I know this is all baby level stuff don't laugh at me established Utena scholars

"Uuum this whole duel thing is so dumb you guys are like dumb" said Utena, taking no actions to like. Take off the ring. Refuse to participate.

Obviously it's not as simple as saying Nah but her protests still ring hollow

We get it she's lost in the sauce. She's lost in the sauce she needs to get outta that damn sauce or like properly examine how and why she's in the sauce and then at least like navigate her way toward the shallow end of the sauce.heh You see what I did there I totally did a metaphor there I'm so good at this hehe--

You know a big problem with examining systems of oppression is how they can trap you just by making you overthink how steeped we all are in them it's like an eldritch horror It's Literally Everywhere. Hard to focus on fighting back when you're also fighting the fucking. The despair the fatigue the confusion

It's like trying to root out a blackberry bush what the fuck this shit is neverending

That kangaroo really said fuck them kids

We haven't even scratched the surface of the incest and I'm already banging my head against the table. Why are they all like this.

And that is It so far thank you fir joining me on my journey towards expanding my horizons. Also look see I've been a Good Girl I've been doing my supplemental reading.

[last-hourglass]

I read the latest chapter over my lunch break then went back to work and thought of nothing else. And I came to a horrible realization. Is the fic named "Last Grain of Sand in the Hourglass" because Leo isn't going to get saved until the last. possible. second.?

I feel like I just fell down 3 flights of stairs.

SKJDGHYDSKJDGHSKJFHASKGHASKJ

GOD FUCKING

IMAGINE IF THAT WAS THE REASONING

NO BESTIE IT'S NAMED THAT BECAUSE 80% OF THE TIME MY MUSE OPERATES WHILST I'M ZONING OUT AT MY FACTORY JOB AND SOMETIMES I GET A THING INTO MY BRAIN AND SAY "WELL THAT SOUNDS NEAT WE WILL REVERSE ENGINEER HOW IT MAKES SENSE LATER

[nailmaster-oreo]

I started chapter 7 today and

Mom come pick me up im scared

[ssreeder]

i feel like sokka letting iroh and fire nation friends take zuko away because he's insecure/doesn't want to appear not straight just yet could go either of two ways.

1) he spirals out if control and feels like he's a failure bc he couldnt save his boy and zuko wakes up without him and now we're ALL sad

2) sokka sneaks into zuko's bed that very night because he can't help himself and ~codependency~

what's it gonna be.....

Or a secret third thing….

[bestgband]

ROUND 1 SIDE B Match 7

[lazinesswrites]

Did I really wake up early and go all the way to the university library, in the rain, in order to motivate my self to actually work on my thesis instead of staying home and doing nothing, only to give up at lunch and write The Bad Batch fanfic instead?

Yes. Yes I did.

These clones are gonna be the end of me, clearly.

[unopenablebox]

for yesterday’s day-long picket i ended up being a morning speaker + one of our 3 rotating chant leaders + bandleader for 3 half-hour performances, the latter of which involved extensive improvised banter and chant interludes as well as, uh, singing and ‘dancing’ and doing all the actual ‘bandleader’ stuff where i like signaled whether to sustain the song and queued things for the setlist and stuff, a job i had despite literally no longer remembering how to read music let alone any kind of actual qualification

by the end my voice was so shot i could barely speak & i have been basically bedridden from exhaustion and muscle soreness. however

i had

so much fun