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I could die for them. (New here! Tried my best to replicate Takamatsu sensei's artstyle. I hope tumblr likes it :3)

Edit: 😫😫😫 thank you so much for your support! I’m really glad you guys like this drawing, it took me more than 3 hours cuz I kept getting distracted by my reference (the original manga) lmfaooo ALSO! I’m open on VGen (in bio) if you ever want skip and loafer fanart or self insert I’m really good at drawing people so this is me promoting :))) also the tags??? are so nice??? I don’t understand how you guys keep adding them and I don’t know how to answer to them but thank you!! (I’m seeing so many of you saying this looks like it’s from the original manga, istg you make me ascend to heaven)

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Ship rant:

Itafushi writers please switch it up. I can't keep reading the same version of jock yuji and loner megumi for the millionth time. Quit it with the big dick Yuji as well.

And before someone starts yes I write my own. I still would like something to read.

Sukufushi yall need help. Not even cause of the ship but cause you all only write bottom feminized Megumi and it's ass. Change it up make Megumi the top and give Sukuna the vag.

Goyuu no comment, yall switch it up at least. Same for Sukita.

Satosugo yall boring af, or maybe the the ship itself is boring.

Sukugo when it's good it's good, when it's bad it's bad

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Manspreading alone in the endless darkness

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Sasaki is SUCH an incorrigible flirt. The man is a menace to society he needs to be stopped

Miyano is a stronger man than me because I would have simply passed away

THE WAY HE LOOKS AT HIM

I would not survive being the subject of Sasaki Shuumei’s affection

How does Miyano not combust

How can you not melt away at the sight of that gorgeous face

He really has a way of making the smallest gestures seem momentous

Miyano is the strongest of us all

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Thinking about the fight in Ba Sing Se. There's a moment when Zuko first comes in when he looks between Azula and Aang. In that moment, Aang also looked at him, and he doesn't look at him like an enemy, he looks like he's waiting because he is. He's waiting for Zuko to make a choice between him and Azula, and you're literally shown the second he realizes Zuko is choosing Azula, because he panics, almost surprised by this.

It got me thinking about it and I realized this is a call back to the fight they had in the abandoned town during The Chase. There too, Zuko came in in the middle of a confrontation between Aang and Azula, then too there was a period of time in which Zuko looked between Azula and Aang, making a decision on who to attack, and he attacked Azula. He took Aang's side. He and Aang (and co. as they come in) work together against Azula.

Now, was this because he really 'sided' with Aang? No. It was because Zuko needed Aang for himself, and Aang knows this. This has happened before, during the blue spirit, where the two of them work together, not because Zuko is defending Aang, but because he needs him for himself. There's been an established pattern that, while Zuko and Aang are enemies, any third player becomes a common enemy, and they work together against that person. If there is a third threat, Aang and Zuko are on the same team (and there's a twisted kind of companionship in that, relying on someone to have your back because you know they want to be the one to defeat you).

During Ba Sing Se, Zuko once again enters. It's the same scene, and I think part of Aang expected the same thing to happen, but it doesn't. Zuko picks Azula's side, and Aang was surprised (and might I even say betrayed?) by this.

"Back off Azula, he's mine." Aang took those words to heart, and Zuko went back on them.

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Aang sketchpage time :D

★ patreon || website || bluesky ★

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Zuko tries to emulate what he's seen Katara do when Aang is in the avatar state. Its not as easy as it looks

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THE BEST FIC IN THE WORLD UPDATED YAAAASSSSSSSSSSS

not enough ppl know about this fic

take me to the answers (i'm the one who's listening) by annnubis

if your favorite character in JJK is either Yuuji or Geto, you have got to read this fic. This story understands those two characters like no other.

It's a canon-divergence, time-travel fix-it AU, in which Yuji, post-shibuya, is thrown back to gojo and geto's schooldays (post hidden inventory arc).

the prose in this fic is so polished and the characters are all given a level of maturity that i found so refreshinggggg. all the other characters are also just as fleshed out, from satoru, shoko, to even Yaga. Yuji's reactions pertaining to Gojo are especially touching. And the way he sees Geto is so characteristically kind.

some excerpts from the fic to entice you guys to read it:

They surround the crater and naturally Satoru gets closer to it than any of them, though he's right behind him. Suguru knows Satoru noticed it, too—something terribly human-shaped, with a soft filthy face and hunched shoulders and scuffed red sneakers.

The first thing Sukuna ever gave me, he thinks in the direction of his teacher sealed terrifyingly away in the dark, was all this blood on his hands.

Sensei or not. It's Satoru Gojo. It seems every version of him contains the fundamentals that set Yuuji just a little bit at ease.

Toji Fushiguro is dead. Suguru lies awake in his bed, reminding himself of this supposedly comforting fact that instead leaves him feeling hollow and restless, laying flat underneath a thin bed sheet staring up at his ceiling fan.

Sorcerers die all the time.

He is not one of the strongest. Not anymore.

Sukuna Ryomen’s vessel is compelling. The unscarred parts of his face look soft as down, but the scars put a warm feeling in Suguru's stomach.

Also, one of my favorite aspects of the fic is how it describes Yuuji's scent/energy. I know the accepted fanon is that Yuuji smells like peaches, but I've always found the idea of that scent to be a bit too sugarysweet and childish(?) to fit Yuuji.

But this:  Rosewater steam, faint and warm and welcoming, and pooling blood and something herbaceous.

now this is what I'm fucking talking abouttttt. That's how you fucking describe a scent, man! The idea of Yuuji's aura being ~rosewater steam~ is just so much more alluring and tantalizing than peaches, imo. ahhhhhh I'm in loveeee.

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Spin this wheel of ~300 AO3 tags three times.

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Ririka and Shima are the kind of intertwined that only kids who've gone through the same storm and seen each other at their ugliest, could be. they're too deeply rooted in each other, lying under scabbed-over-skin. they hurt each other and comfort each other in equal measure.

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Something I can't stop thinking about though -

When in-ho is eavesdropping on gi-hun and jung-bae's conversation he hears jung-bae say "when we get out if here we should get soju like the old days" and then later when they're getting ready to rebel, in-ho makes a point of telling gi-hun "you can buy me soju when we get out of here" SO he heard these two best friends reminiscing about the time they used to spend together and took the next opportunity to insert HIMSELF into that scenario with gi-hun instead.

He was jealous af listening to that conversation and he is down bad for gi-hun and no one can tell me otherwise

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best addition to season 2 is the new layers of class divide that we see by giving the pink soldiers more dimension as characters. we see that they’re not financially stable—the recruiter had to work his way up the ladder from the bottom, noeul lives in her car—they’re not the rich. they’re symbolic (and literal, in the case of the game) class traitors who serve the elites. they may seem like they have power since they have guns and masks, but really the only difference between them and the players is the weapon in their hand, and who gave it to them.

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Although I’m not sure if this was the director’s actual intent, I like how the games of both seasons of Squid Game reflect the theme of the story (excluding Red Light, Green Light since that’s more of a basic, early elimination game). S1 was about how unfair capitalism is as a system. We saw that reflected in:

1) Dalgona: people are randomly handicapped by the images they select since they’re not told what the images mean. So it’s the same game, but some people have it easier than the others while other people are doomed from the start.

2) Tug-of-War: it’s unfair since the contestants aren’t told what they’re playing and some people are at a natural disadvantage due to their physical strength

3) Marbles: the goal is to defeat your opponent by any means necessary

4) Glass Steps: literally, just a leap of faith. If you’re lucky, you live. If you’re unlucky, you die.

5) Squid Game: same as marbles.

Meanwhile, S2 was more about human nature and how even though the system of capitalism is destructive and unfair, people are willing to play ball with it. When given the choice of doing things for the greater good or your own self-interest, people will choose their own interests. We saw that reflected in:

1) Six-legged pentathlon: the game reinforces the idea that if you die, it’s because you were dragged down by the people around you. Also, since there are mixed teams, the people who wanted to live are dragged down by the people who chose their own interests over other people’s survival.

2) Mingle: people will backstab each other in order to survive. We saw that in full display when Min-su threw Se-mi under the bus, despite her having his back in the earlier episodes. Also, people will tear other groups apart if it means their own interests are protected. We saw that in display when two strangers dragged Yong-sik away from his mom, knowing full well that she could’ve died.

TL;DR Squid Game S1’s games were about capitalism as a system since they’re inherently unfair and are centered on competition. S2’s games were about human nature and people being inherently selfish since they encourage backstabbing and the idea that people will drag each other down.

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the indisputable fact that inho's only blind spot is his brother. he could have (and would have) killed any other intruder. if anyone else would have infiltrated the games instead of his younger brother—the younger brother who idolizes him, admires him, whose entire world within the narrative frame of the show revolves around him—inho would have killed them. he would have not done it personally, he had enough guards with him to assure that. but then, it turns out that the person who has crawled into this pit of darkness he has vanished to, year after year, is junho. junho, who loves him enough to bring him back. who has ventured into this hell on earth to bring inho back. who could not stand a week of his brother's disappearance, that little vanishing act, who is perhaps just alike enough to come as far as he did. who else could have made it that far? junho has a singular advantage compared to anyone else who might have ever wondered, or tried. he knows his brother. he is the only living person who knows inho better than anyone else.

but, see, of course junho had to survive. he could have never died after the first season, because the person who shot him is inho, and not the guards. the mirror image of himself (which is a motive repeated when inho sees junho while he is extracting the bullet out of his matching gun shot wound—it could literally not be any more obvious), his achilles heel. inho never intended to kill junho. instead, he sent the boat that would save junho's life and bring him back to the shore. despite the increased risk of keeping an intruder alive, inho does not care and does so anyway. junho is his brother, and because that is all that inho has left in the world, his brother cannot die. because inho could watch hundreds, thousands of people die with the resolute detachment of a business man, but he could not watch junho fall into the ocean without inspiring a haunting. he could not stand the fact that his brother would die, that he could have killed him. inho is not even the first to pull the trigger—that is junho. junho shoots first, draws blood, and inho watches him, stunned into silence.

do they know each other? better than anyone. maybe this violence should not come as a surprise then, but it does, to the both of them. inho does not expect junho to harm him, he thinks, genuinely, that junho will come with him. and, for a brief moment, he believes that junho will. junho, who has followed him into the police force and onto that wretched island. why would he not follow him further?

but junho has also been changed, and this is the one place he cannot follow his brother to. his own desire is, once again, a mirror image of his older brother: he wants inho to follow him back home. this is the main motivation for junho's entire character arc, which has followed him into season two; it has remained unchanged, instead only increased in fervor. junho, honestly, could not care less about these games; actually, gihun cares much more about the games and the sacrifices than junho does.

because junho cares about inho.

and inho cares about junho, enough to keep him far away from him. which goes directly against junho's need to bring inho back, of course. now, the question is—what will happen when those two forces will finally push against each other? and that is very much the central question of the show.

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gihun collecting deranged homicidal freaks like infinity stones

bonus:

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“maybe in another universe we get our happy ending”

the other universe: