#this showwwwwww

[jemmo]

i might be just the tiniest bit obsessed with segasaki from mpw. hes just… so good, so shaped, so moulded as a character, as a performance, as a person. its just all coming together with him and it’s only ep 3. like every facet about the way he is and the way he’s played is perfect. the low voice that can be played off as indifference and moodiness early on but then later says the sweetest things you wouldn’t expect, the way he uses that monotone voice to tease yoh, taking any single hint of unhappiness or a complaint back to yoh saying he hates him bc he’s just that petty and as much as it’s to mess with him, it still actually hurts, bc yoh still said he hates him, but that sadness just reverts back to indifference and moodiness. its the way that voice and vibe contrast so fantastically the way he just does stuff, just goes for it. he’s so not a verbal person and everything about the way he presents is so casual and unbothered but he will also just ask yoh out with no beating around the bush. he decides and commands so easily, whether it’s ordering food or what they’re doing or buying clothes, but it’s never bossy bc its what yoh wants. whether segasaki has asked him or he just says it randomly, whenever yoh says something he wants, segasaki just decides to make it happen and it’s such a perfect match to yoh’s indecision and hesitancy, and that command segasaki has is always used to overcome that. it’s the way his flirting is so subtle but gets to yoh so much bc it gets at exactly where that hesitancy and indecisiveness is. he leans in when they speak so that yoh hears him and he hears everything yoh says, and he pesters him for an opinion until he gives one and still teases him about it. it’s so good bc it’s so not obvious on the surface, it’s just flirting, but it’s also segasaki trying to create a space where yoh is comfortable so that he’ll come out of his shell, he pushes him just enough, and it’s playful enough, that it gets through. and it’s the way he smiles in those moments yoh isn’t looking. it’s not that he hides them, its bc yoh looks away bc he’s flustered too, that he doesn’t see the smile that grows when they hold hands or sit close or when yoh says something and segasaki is just overcome with how cute he is and how smitten he is. it’s the way yoh says he only sees them slight smiles, and holds onto that as a reason to hope but also be cautious, that he doesn’t know the full extent of the happiness segasaki is feeling in any single moment when he’s around bc he misses those smiles. and yet segasaki has faith in yoh enough to know that despite being reserved, despite saying horrible things, he trusts that there’s feelings there, and that’s beautiful and also so scary bc i don’t think yoh knows just how much of a hold he has over segasaki, and just how capable of breaking his heart he is. bc segasaki acts so sure, he acts beyond doubt despite what yoh has said to him, but just that line of him saying ‘you’re beloved sex’ at the end betrays that some of that faith is constructed, that there’s little basis for it from yoh, bc yoh has been stuck on sex, and rightly so as he sees it as one of their only points of connection, bc they act so separately and unattached when they’re not having sex, and you see through the eps them developing these small bits of closeness outside the bedroom, but that’s still their biggest form of connection. so of course yoh sticks to it and focuses on it, but for segasaki of course it feels like that’s all yoh is concerned with. his whole meltdown in ep 2 centered on the fact they weren’t having sex, and even when they go on a date and have fun, yoh thinks about sex, and buys sheets, and brings it back to that. at the start you think segasaki holds all the power, but the show is about realizing they equally hold power, precisely bc they both feel strongly about each other but fail to communicate it. yoh doubts segasaki bc of his indifferent persona, and segasaki doubts yoh bc he only seems concerned with sex, and doesn’t actually like him.

it’s such a mess of emotions veiled behind this quiet, understated show bc it perfectly extends and captures with everything about its production and writing and delivery the way they both have much more complex feelings hidden underneath the surface of casual normalcy and it’s just utter perfection.

[partly-functioning-liver]

“We’re human,” said the eldritch monster to the vassal of a god, “we’re better than them.”

[gayfrasier]

JEEVES IN DRAG. WITH THE WEIRDEST ACCENT ON EARTH.

[baddingtonbitch]

starting sneaky pete s3 pretending it's not the last one

[assumptionprime]

My relationship with mirrors has been a real rollercoaster over the past year and half or so. Don't get me wrong, I can still absolutely rip my reflection to metaphorical shreds on a bad day. But more often I find myself passing by the mirror and liking what I see more than I ever have before.

We're in a better place now, me and reflective surfaces.

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[image description: Comic, 12 panels. Panel 1: Pre-transition Robin looking in the mirror. Captions "I used to feel nothing when I looked in the mirror. Not good. Not Bad. Not even "fine" Panel 2: Past Robin's reflection, with no eyes, and cast in shadow. Captions "I was apathetic. I think I had to be." Panel 3: A large iceberg viewed from above and below the surface of an ocean. Above the water it is light blue and average-looking, hidden beneath the blue gives way to the alternating pink, white and blue of the trans pride flag. Captions "I think I had a feeling that if I thought about it too hard-- I would find a much deeper problem." The panel borders are cracked and broken. Panel 4:  A mirror with pre transition Robin after admitting to her own transness. She is gripping her head and shirt in distress, eyes wide at the sight of herself. Stubble dots her face and arms. Captions "When I inevitably did find that deeper problem-- Mirrors quickly became terrible for me. I knew that I didn't like myself. I knew why." Panel 5: Severly cracked panels holding bits of Robin, exaggerated in intensity, brows and hairline, nose and stubbled lip, stubble arms. Captions: "And I could see it-- in every inch-- of my reflection." Panel 6: Robin's fingers digging into a stubbled arm. Captions: "If I looked too long, I started to feel trapped in my skin." Fuzzy paint bordered panels, watercolors bleeding through the lines of the images. Panel 7: Female Robin, face indistinct, reaching toward the screen. Captions "Shortly after I started HRT, I had a dream that stuck with me. I looked in the mirror and saw myself as a woman. That part was hardly unique. I'd done that before. (Kind of a lot.)" Panel 8: Bottles of medication, labels indistinct and unreadable. Captions "But in those older dreams it was always that I woke up that way, or something magic had happened. In this dream, I know that this was because I had transitioned, and it had worked. Panel 9: Dream Robin smiling. Captions "I don't remember exactly what I looked like. But I do remember that in that moment, I was happy to see myself." Return to normal panel borders. Panel 10: Past Robin waking up in bed. Captions "At the time, it was just a nice little confirmation that I was on the right track. That, deep down, I truly did want to do this." Panel 11: Present Robin, over year into transition, looking toward the screen in surprise. Caption "The thing I somehow didn't expect was that only a year later-" Panel 12: Robin looking the mirror, smiling. Caption "I'd start having the same moment while I'm awake."]

[sunglassesmish]

they really said: “middies, motorcycle riding and ✨acting✨” in that series preview and as a misha fan i’m feeling v blessed and wonderfully pandered to 😌

they sure did, and this promo actually looked so cool!!!!!!

[muchmossymess]

"There is no place for magic in Camelot." NOOOOOOOOOO MERLIN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[potatochip-oc-dump]

JUST TRY TO RELAX, ITS A HOUSE OF WAX !

[thekidsarentalright]

we are literally on joe trohman lockdown he played a show last night .

[storge]

Ando arranged for the Emperor's sister Princess Kazu to marry into the shogun family, in an attempt to strengthen ties with the Imperial Court. October 20th, 1861. Princess Kazu's procession left Kyoto for Edo. The bridal procession passed through Fukaya post town and arrived in Edo on November 15th.

Fukagawa Mai as Princess Kazu Seiten wo Tsuke 1.10

[alivegirlmari]

i hope misty finds another black box. and i hope she smashes that one too <3

[coredrill]

BRAVERN

[skhardwarevers1]

i think someone should write a fic that’s literally just the fall of the house of usher but in the house on ash tree lane thank you for coming to my ted talk

[wikipediadogdotnet]

holy fuck steven & the diamonds arc in the finale is so trans allegory . and like . WAY more than i remembered

the diamonds calling him Pink & misgendering him is one thing ofc (+ the “she prefers to be called Steven” line LMAO), but it’s also there in Steven’s doubt, his guilt, and the infantilization, the disregard of autonomy, Yellow’s talk of setting an example, and Blue realizing Pink left because she couldn’t be herself, and the “if we bend the rules for her, we bend the rules for everyone!” thing .

& it hits way harder than just misnomers and misgendering would. something about the Experience, something very specifically visceral about his confusion, his dreams of shuttering between Pink, and Rose, and him,, something about how the diamonds react like real people, it all makes it feel a lot more personal . it’s not a story about being trans, it’s about the EXPERIENCE . yknow??

it’s Blue & Yellow’s bonding over losing Pink, it’s Yellow trying to poof Blue on the bridge, and it’s the two of them both stubbornly effecting their power over Pink and Steven, and their persisting fear of what White will say. it’s the fact all of them are hurt by the stifling of their identities, and they’re stuck that way bc of a larger system they feel they need to uphold . that’s literally so transgender of them