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just layers and layers to this thing, huh.

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More cat doodles I did!

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THERE. that's the context! my twiyor royal au idea 😭

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protective mama yor ～

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I cannot stress enough how much I love love love the way Loid and Yor’s relationship is written. By removing actual romantic attraction from the equation, the story ironically gives one of the most accurate and honest depictions of what it takes to be a married couple. Way too many people assume romantic relationships are primarily centered around…well, romance. So they commit to a long-term relationship on the basis of emotions–fleeting things that you can’t control. And then one day, the honeymoon phase high wears off and maybe you don’t feel like making out today, maybe the other is in a bad mood and not fun to talk to right now. Maybe things just aren’t as sexy as they used to be and you’re starting to get bored. 

That’s where the importance of an actual foundation comes in. From what I’ve observed of my own parents and grandparents, love is maybe 10% emotion and 90% willpower. Love is working as a team, embracing each other’s strengths and weaknesses, always seeking the other’s happiness and wellbeing. It’s acknowledging your faults and working to be better for them. Linking arms and digging in your heels whenever times get tough because you two are in this together to the very end, and it doesn’t matter if things are less sexy or exciting than they were at the start, because you’re bound by something deeper and far more mysterious than that. 

SPY x FAMILY starts building Loid and Yor’s relationship not from a place of romance, but from a place of mutual teamwork. The most compelling developments in their relationship are things like Loid taking Yor’s advice on raising Anya, Yor wanting to contribute to the family in practical ways, the two of them valuing and being genuinely grateful for the other’s strengths. They work as a couple long before they’re actually….y’know, a couple because they are building a strong and stable foundation for a real relationship. Romance will be the reward, but it’s not the end goal. Their real goal is to support and empower each other and their daughter. And that more than anything is what’s going to make their romance feel so good to watch.

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i like to think that tina sees herself as the Ultimate Girl Protag. she IS betty cooper. she IS marsha brady. she IS clarissa explains it all.

(s13e14 these boots were made for stalking)

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one of the reasons i like bob's burgers is that they're all so violently neurodivergant and not in a "omg they're a genius way" but in a "weird, unsocial, and unacademic" way

none of these people want to read books and they all talk to inanimate objects and develop attachments to them and failing in school and it's great

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First ever

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Drunk mistakes

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she told me everything's gonna be okay

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"You're the only person I've met whose teaching made me actually feel LESS stupid."

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Krusie anniversary (and Ralsei)

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people when toriel isn't the Perfect Mother Gentle Character Who Knows Exactly What Her Teenager Is Feeling and makes mistakes

toriel when she's a single mother who spends the entire day participating in her town's community life getting harassed by her ex or pushed to get back with him by her peers and ends up hanging out with the one guy treating her normally in their entire town, so she ditches church to spend some time with him and gets drunk for the first time in (likely) years

it's sad!! the end of chapter 4 is a really fucking sad scene, hilarious as it may be, because we know for a fact toriel's had to be the bigger person in her and asgore's rapport ever since they separated. as a character in hometown she's implicated in this extremely tangled web of social relations and painful drama going back years, that she needs something like this in her life. in a way, as the new guy in town completely unattached to its past, sans is a bit of a susie of her own. she needs this.

...and kris really, really doesn't.

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school on monday is gonna be crazy 😭

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ngl one of my favorite moments in the whole game so far is when susie switched controller inputs in chapter 3. idk, there's something so cozy and playful in that little section, i couldn't stop smiling. you can feel team's dynamic so well, their little inside jokes and such. not to mention its importance for character development. "kris prefers to play as me" - yes, because susie has more freedom in her actions even in the minigame; ralsei tentatively enjoying playing as kris because he can choose where to go, instead of following others… but even not thinking about all this, the moment is just incredibly cute. i could stay there

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battered and bruised