#they make me punch walls. literally

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

"Why didn't you stop me?" by Mitski

[angstflavoured]

is there a name for this kind of character design bc im convinced they put crack cocaine inside

[puppyeared]

its so hard to watch time pass when things like careers and assignments exist. what do you mean im supposed to take that seriously

[blueautumngrave]

“Loose bolt of a complete machine” this, “half doomed, half semi sweet” that. You wanna know what gets me about Disloyal Order? What makes me want to scream? What makes me gnaw on my bed posts? What makes me slowly get down on the ground and contemplate my whole existence while staring at the popcorn ceiling of my room? The line, “P-p-painted dolls in the highway, truck stop stalls, a lot of lizard scales cool your nightlife moods”. That, that is what makes me just stand and stare every time I hear it. That’s the line I constantly rewind and listen to on repeat. No one talks about it. No one.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

not to out myself on main but Katsuki Bakugo continues to make me fucking insane

[lilacautomatic]

I really love how Harunobu is arrogant but not selfish.

Like—unlike a lot of similar characters I end up enjoying, his pride is 100% sincere. He’s not covering up for a poor sense of self-worth by playing up his confidence, he GENUINELY thinks he’s the shit and he can (usually) back it up too.

…But his pride isn’t and hasn’t ever been in service to himself. He lived his entire life devoted exclusively to his province and barely treated himself like a person with how much he prioritized his responsibility to his people. He takes being exceptional as an objective fact about himself, but being exceptional is only worth taking pride in because it makes him a good Takeda. As the head of his clan, the ONLY thing that matters is how well he can provide for others. And he didn’t just feel responsible for Kai because it was what he was born to do—he loved that place and its people, more deeply and sincerely than any other daimyo we see in FGO. (And he still does! Hometown pride is basically one of his core fuckin personality traits! He’s so obnoxious about it and I love him!)

Knowing exactly how much he abandoned everything that didn’t allow him to serve Kai better—his relationships, alliances, even his own desires as a person—really makes it feel so much more meaningful when he tells you that supporting you is his choice, not as a Takeda, but as himself. After all, being a Takeda was his reason for living. All of his responsibilities, all of his pride, every single thing he ever defined himself by—he’s putting it all to the side to tell you he’ll see you through to a beautiful world when it all ends.

[kaleidoscopek9]

lego fire man my beloved 🙏

[the-converse-high-top]

unforseen issue with watching the emperor's new groove for the first time: I fucking hate kuzco so much I don't know if I can finish the movie

[bucephaly]

Google search how do make friend after college

[myhyperfixationisback]

hey. what the fuck is up with Ratchet and Clank merch

[misclogarts]

i'm going to be so serious if you're judging how much of a "woman" a woman is based on her appearance i am killing you on the spot

[batsplat]

Brno 2005 anon again, thanks for answering! And yes the end of that race had me screaming, it’s so narratively perfect. The last ten laps are the commentators yapping about Valentino pulling a last corner overtake, saying it would be risky, but remember sachsenring, and if anyone would risk their race to prove that kind of point it would be Valentino.

And there’s sete who is basically (and unfortunately) sitting and waiting for Valentino to make his move. Sete who TOLD THE PRESS that he set up his bike around ‘a specific part of the track’ because he predicted it would be important, aka Valentino would try to overtake there. And the anticipation builds, everyone thinking about vale pulling off the move of a lifetime in the last few moments. And then Valentino overtakes sete in the beginning of the last lap! Catches sete and the audience by surprise!! Sete barely hangs on, and before he has a chance to see if he can catch vale in the last corner, potentially redeeming himself or reversing his fate, he runs out of gas!!!! A man who told the press in detail the many ways he prepared himself and his bike for the race lost due to such a basic detail (obviously his team was involved here but?????).

Genuinely, Brno 2005 would be more believable if it was a Greek myth about a mortal offending a god and reaping the consequences.

(x) I could print out this ask and kiss it

no but seriously, I absolutely adore sachsenring/brno 2005 specifically because it's such a sick and twisted addition to the canon? like it was so Plot Significant as a duo of races two years earlier and is it not kind of CRAZY that you have sachsenring/brno 2003 and 2005 as four races where each time they both arrive at the final lap together. for all four races!! and then the dynamic has completely transformed in these two years and so has the power balance!! what it means to both of them to win and lose!! like this is some sicko shit!! other rivalries could only dream of this kind of narrative juice!!

so you've got the ecstasy of sete's sachsenring 2003 where valentino makes an error versus the horror of sete's sachsenring 2005 when HE makes the error:

genuinely I dare you to find me ANY other race after which valentino so visibly wants to end it all after losing wheel to wheel. look at him they had to talk him off the ledge. eyes are dead. hello darkness my old friend. he usually manages to find SOME kind of vaguely believable smile like look at this what is this. you've got sete going CRAZY on his bike and then valentino just comes across like someone who desperately needs to sit in a darkened room for a few hours contemplating the futility of our existence on this planet. whereas two years later!! he's won!! and the worst bit is that he doesn't even have to go crazy about the whole thing. this is already his eighth win of the season and they've not even gotten to the summer break!! there's something cruel in how understated it is and I am ALWAYS thinking of the suggestion that valentino was planning to overtake sete at the exact spot he had two years earlier... to reverse the mistake... but he didn't even have to!! it's just. so symbolically perfect. cruel as shit

psst psst notice how the loser is hiding his eyes with the sunglasses these men are NOT slick

and then brno!! 2003 is the race valentino was so determined not to lose.... after he'd gone off in the summer break, had his hot girl crisis, gotten his hair dyed and then beat sete by an even tighter margin than he'd just been beaten. after allegedly spending at least some of that summer break WITH SETE on ibiza where he'd gotten his hair dyed!! but now everything is different!! no more ibiza bonding after the horrors of the sachsenring!! what I really really love about brno 2005 is that it's like... it just feels like such an immediate continuation to what we'd just seen at sachsenring, it's almost you could cut it together and have a continuation of a single race. the duel picks up again at once. there's been several weeks between it but sete is just plugged right into the same situation. it's a time loop!! it's inescapable!! do you hear valentino's voice in your ear telling you how you will fail again? you will make a mistake here too. something will happen. you cannot win this

but the thing about sete's tragedy is that it is fundamentally at least partially self-inflicted, as all the best tragedies are. it's his mistake at sachsenring! he goes off on a summer race and then come backs and apparently spends far too much time blabbing at journalists about the minutiae of his approach for the coming race. and then. and then!! and then. valentino gets past again. and sete does not even make it to the end of the race. because his team did not fuel the bike correctly. his final downfall. was secured. through fuel levels

"another negative day" kinda tells you everything you need to know, huh

is there anything as quietly brutal as the phrase 'offered race winner rossi'. OFFERED. sete deserved to be on the podium :)) genuinely I could not live my life like this

literally

sete had the audacity to step up to become the challenger and then he gets dragged through the most straight up absurd horrors this sport has ever seen as punishment

[nomairuins]

i literally likw felt sick hust now bc i thought abt gay people and ive just realized as i was about to hit post that this sounds homophobic. it was pure envy unfortunately

[homogranates]

i'm so serious when i say that school makes me wanna rip my flesh off

[nerevarswritingstuff]

I have quietly had chapter 26 and 27 already finished for a bit and just

Chapter 26 was almost 8k words

Chapter 27.... mmm.....

I got a little carried away

And by carried away I mean full degenerate bc ofc ya girl had to put more Twisted references in the fic I feel contractually obligated to at this point

And also because we finally meet a character I've been WAITING TO INTRODUCE SINCE CHAPTER 14

AND ALSO A FUN MINI-CAMEO OF A CHARACTER WHO LASTS MAYBE 4 PARAGRAPHS BUT I'M VIBRATING

It's just a fun chapter guys I'm so fucking MMMM

I know I say that with almost every god damn chapter but just

Y'all ain't ready for these next few bad boys that are coming

Because we're finally entering my favorite arc for the "Season 1" section of the fic :3c

[seagullcharmer]

i want to scream