#why is not on the adults minds though?

[spicylove4ever]

[canisalbus]

Absolutely sending me that vasco sleeps butt fucking naked with his weird little Victorian doll boyfriend

Different strokes for different folks.

Vasco finds sleepwear kind of unnecessary and restricting. He doesn't insist on sleeping nude and can go to bed decently dressed if the situation calls for it, but if it's up to him and he's comfortable and in trusted company, he prefers wearing very little.

Machete gets cold easily and has weird body image issues, not being properly covered tends to distress him. Plus he has a thing for high guality garments and wants to look pretty or at least passably presentable even in bed.

[rainymoodlet]

ivory was actually introduced to sachiko during a dinner party (her second in terms of generational goals!) held to celebrate dallas and shingo's upcoming wedding (and for her parents to meet her two partners!) i seriously can't even tell you the storm of emotions that went through me while i watched this whole interaction, i just...

these two have come so far 💛

[jankwritten]

yall wanna know how fucked up my anxiety is about some shit

i scroll past a post that's about a topic i don't like. whatever, it's fine. i scroll past a video that's a topic i don't care about. that's normal.

i scroll past a video that's a topic i don't like or care about but the person presenting it is a person of color? i IMMEDIATELY feel immensely guilty and need to "compensate" by "proving" it wasn't because of race by also skipping other random posts, JUST IN CASE someone thinks I'm racist because I didn't want to watch a video on a topic I didn't like or care about, that happened to be presented by a person of color.

this just in on: the police in my brain are loud and i'm scared of them

[skyburger]

"fnaf is the scariest game ever" "no its silent hill" "well i think its resident evil" everyone shut up!!!!!! youre all wrong. its actually zack & wiki quest for barbaros' treasure (on the nintendo wii) but only the level "keeper of the ice". that level scared me so bad as a kid and you can tell because its the only individual level i remember the name of off the top of my head. like there is nothing scarier than a) being chased and b) being on a time limit. and you know what this level has? BOTH OF THOSE. this level is still scary to me im like AHHHHH!!!! and then i die

[lupfull]

how the fuck are you supposed to save things for therapy another day instead of lashing out at people during conversation. by then i'll feel like an emotionless dead corpse when right now i feel like there's Gods pulling on my arteries like fishing line with my skin being what's caught on the thousand hooks

[blueish-bird]

sorry if I don’t remember your name or conversations/experiences or basic things about myself, every few weeks my brain gets factory reset and I have to relearn how to be alive

[raiiny-bay]

writing adult kel & co for the first time in my life

[semi-sketchy]

God damn can people learn to use their words already

[coockie8]

So have y'all also heard about the 13-year-old TikToker who had an 18-year-old fan travel all the way to Florida from Maryland with a gun to, I assume, kidnap her, after which her parents just continued to let her post publicly available videos of herself online for literally anyone to find?

I'm sorry, I'm just losing my mind a little bit over this. Like apparently they even had to pull her out of school at some point due to a second stalker, and at no point do these parents stop to think "Maybe we should stop letting our barely pubescent daughter post videos of herself online for every single creep in the world to fawn over" like seriously!?!?!?

I get wanting to give your child freedom, but at what point do you draw the line here? After she gets kidnapped and further traumatized for life, 'cause you know her dad having to literally kill a guy who showed up at her house with a gun is having some kind of impact here.

[yuridovewing]

Wha

[vanity-complex]

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[agallimaufryofoddments]

“Could be that I’m aging out of anime, though, let’s be real, when I was an undergrad I was already more discerning...”

...could be I’m aging out of many things, who knows! Aren’t we all, Narita. Hey, I’m still faithful, but y’know, hup hup, I’m not exactly Peter Pan over here.

(I was going to say this in the tags, but: can I really make a joke about my age vs. dignity and self-awareness considering Narita turned 42 this year? My God, the man’s over 40. Been writing Baccano! since he was 22/23. How about all the dogged One Piece fans who’ve been following One Piece for all that time and then some? To say nothing of Potterheads. Or all the adults who insist that AITA is one of the best TV shows ever made. Not even cartoons. TV shows. Ho boy.)

Edit: Forget laughing at my own post in five years / in my thirties, I’m going to laugh at this post five minutes from now. Five days from now. It really is just me taking out unrelated personal insecurities on something as inconsequential as fictional media because that’s an easier, ‘harmless’ topic than the root cause of those insecurities.

Edit: The secret, cap, is that I’m always procrastinating. That’s right; jokes on me, this was procrastination disguised as a post.

This was supposed to be a lighthearted post, if not a self-deprecating one influenced by self-conscious thoughts re: not just Narita’s works & general anime / LNs but also my stagnation in life. Even while writing that Fate/strange fake post, I was thinking, You realize that the majority of those 1.3 million views for the TV special teaser are from teens, right? 

Which...of course they are; why wouldn’t they be? Good for them. I’ll watch because it’s Narita; they’re watching because Fate, and it’s because of their age but even more because they’re Fate franchise fans that they’ll be taking it more seriously than I shall be. If I think about it even a little, it’s not like I was taking the majority of anime I was watching in college overly seriously. Most people don’t take the media they watch ‘overly seriously’. I was selective then (though, of course, there are still anime I look back at and think, huh, did I not have more self-awareness when watching that? Even in college?), and I’m sure I’ll be more selective going forward.

Then again, what do I know? Doesn’t this just boil down to how I’ve fallen out of the swing of consuming new media, especially anime? I’ve been reading new books, sure, and watching a few new things with my family, but I barely know what’s aired in the last two to three years of anime seasons. All this wimbling is just faff; I’m kidding myself if I think there’s no new anime I’d like and that I wouldn’t have a good time resuming watching one or two shows a year.

(Note to self: you know you’ll like Odd Taxi, you snobby craven. Will it help if I reiterate it’s the kind of anime adults will enjoy? —And you’re / I’m writing this knowing darn well I’ll reread it in my thirties in five years and laugh at the posturing over ‘maturity’ and ‘age demographics’ and ‘adulthood’, especially given how humiliatingly I’m handling my life circumstances right now.)

I hope I’ll laugh. I hope I’m in a position where I can have self-respect and dignity. ‘Seriously’, what this is right now is just a by-product of insecurities and self-conscious thoughts and problems that don’t actually have much at all to do with fictional media; I just happen to be taking out those feelings about stagnation, failure, and adulthood out on something inconsequential instead of the problems themselves because it’s easier and I’m weak.

[causalitylinked]

Spoilers abound for Monark, so if you plan on playing it blind at some point, feel free to skip past this post! As a disclaimer, bolded terms/names will have their own glossary at the end of this post, so people will know what they actually mean even with no prior knowledge of Monark.

Honestly, this is by no means canon, but I like to think that a side effect from being the Pactbearer of Greed is that you can’t exactly die from old age anymore, so those who were previously bound to Avaritia (the Monark of Greed) either die from grievous injuries, poison, or suicide... so in a way, Kakeru is pretty much immortal, as long as someone doesn’t stab him or he himself doesn’t take extreme measures to end his own life.

Still, him choosing to commit suicide is hardly likely, so if anything, he’s far likelier to die from being murdered than, say... overdosing on pills. Due to this, it’s very possible that had Yoru not severely injured him or his Ideals weren’t shattered, Kakeru could live long past the age of 100 years old.

Naturally, he can still physically age, but because he’s granted the ability to rewind time and teleport anywhere he pleases as the Pactbearer of Greed, he could theoretically alter his appearance too by using his Authority on himself, especially since it’s canonically established he could easily manipulate time and space itself to heal any injury he gets by making it so it never happened to begin with. Kakeru just chooses not to make himself look younger because he thinks he’s already handsome the way he is.

Modern verse wise, though, I made it so he never ended up forging a Pact with Avaritia... meaning there is no angst-y plot elements to his story and he never gets to experience multiple time loops/timelines like how he did in Monark.

GLOSSARY.

Monark: Ruler class entity among the Daemons who are responsible for the spawning of lower ranked Daemons called Nobles and Legion. They are drawn to strong Egos and wishes, forming pacts with humans and granting them special abilities called Authorities. The Monarks are associated with the seven sins or desires.

Avaritia: Daemon of Greed who canonically takes on this form and this form. Those who make a pact with them end up getting Chronokinesis, the ability to manipulate space and time.

Authority: Powers that go against the laws of the universe. Only Daemons, residents of the Otherworld, and Pactbearers are capable of wielding them. Because these powers adhere to the laws of the Otherworld, their usage creates distortions in the world, giving rise to distortions such as Mist.

Ideals: Manifestation of a pact between a Daemon and a human. They appear as physical crystals within the Otherworld. There are three Ideals formed for each pact. The areas of the Otherworld containing these pacts can be accessed from areas of the Mist receiving a call from that part of the Otherworld. These spots in the Mist can be identified by a messy stack of smartphones in the vicinity of where the calls are received. Ideals are usually left defended by Daemons.

[blackstarising]

what was it about Buzz that first got Azari’s attention? and when did she realized she had it down bad?

the first time she sees Buzz Lightyear The Person - as opposed to buzz lightyear the voice recording or buzz lightyear: the legend of the starman or buzz lightyear the history lesson - is from a distance, perched unseen on a scaffold, watching, holding her breath as the good commander lectures him and the rest of the junior patrol in front of the entire command center.

whatever he's been through, it's been rough. his famed space ranger suit is so smudged all the white is grey. the brown hair she'd seen on her tablet so many times is now wind-blown and wild. his face is marked with dirt, pink bruises, and stripes of bright blood.

and yet. as her father paces back and forth, barely hiding 22 years of stored frustration behind his threats of arrest, his back is straight. his chin is lifted.

and when the good commander threatens the stockade, he never. breaks. eye contact.

and time slows, watching him do what no one on the base, not even she, could even dare to. and her heart shifts from pounding to fluttering and her palms begin to sweat and her lips flush with heat and she suddenly wants to turn away and also lean closer and closer and she never really puts it into words, that watching buzz lightyear stand up to her father is actually one of the sexiest things she's ever seen in her adult life (maybe it's the general's daughter stereotype of it all) but for weeks afterwards, she can't think about that moment without taking an extra five minutes to stare into space.

the first time she realizes she's in love with Buzz Lightyear The Person is when she's alone in the studio, half swaying and half reading over schematics on her tablet, listening to never be the same, which she doesn't even like because the pre-chorus is too feathery and whistly for her liking.

but something about taking a second to listen to the chorus just. makes her think about his smile. how you can look closely and see how his two front teeth protrude, how one is larger than the other. and how she finally got him to laugh for the first time yesterday and how he's actually got laugh lines and how he's quiet in the way that she's quiet and they can be quiet together and how safe that is, and how safe he is, isn't he, and suddenly, her tablet is on the floor, long forgotten, and she's doing full pirouettes out of nowhere and movements are pulling themselves to her with almost no effort and how it's all too real that it's you, babe, and I'm a sucker for the way that you move, babe, and I could try to run, but it would be useless-