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Ursula K. Le Guin

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a really defining moment of aang and sokka’s relationship is that sokka literally lets himself get beat up for aang’s amusement and entertainment like a day into knowing him. like he is literally letting aang drop him onto the ground from a not insignificant height over and over again just to see aang smile and laugh. he is putting his own safety and physical wellbeing at risk because it makes aang happy. and there��s a lot we could get into here about how sokka fundamentally views himself and his body as a vessel through which to provide services to others instead of a whole human being in his own right, but what matters for the purposes of this post is that it’s very immediately established that sokka will do anything to see aang enjoy himself, to the point that he will quite literally put up with physical abuse without complaint to make aang happy. so when people are like “it’s crazy how sokka is so smart and yet loses all his braincells whenever he’s around aang,” it’s like yeah, teenage boy adhd2adhd communication will do that, but also a large part of it is sokka contorting himself into an image that he thinks aang will appreciate, because he knows just how valuable preserving aang’s childhood joy and laughter is.

and what’s beautiful is that through actively becoming this person for aang’s benefit, he also actually starts to internalize the sentiment. through the process of letting himself be silly and goofy for the sake of making aang happy, he also absorbs some of that sillygoofy happiness and regains some of his own childhood joy and laughter and sense of wonder he truly thought he had lost forever. he’s not just helping aang retain his childhood, but aang is also helping sokka regain his sense of humanity. the sokka of book 3 is someone who enjoys “wacky, time wasting nonsense” and throws beach parties, a far cry from the sokka of book 1 who thought fun and joy were luxuries no one could afford. his selfless love for aang is also self-affirming, helps him to embrace aang’s point of view, to love himself slightly more than he otherwise would have. because to love aang is to necessarily let kindness into your life; it’s to learn how to be free.

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letter to theo by vincent van gogh

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he doesnt know theyre in love with each other in an alternate universe….

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Wait these cats

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🏐✨️

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I wanted to draw these two in these poses since forever

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Credits to @UQUOOZZ on Twitter

@asjeontrw

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See they are fine they are okay they are ALIVE! 😁

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Artist: erinlindseyart (click on name to see their account)

Howl’s moving castle x KnY

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“April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

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Something i colored on the bus to and from a school trip!! It was real fun :]

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i know a lot of people extol the fact haikyuu is so much more than just volleyball and i count myself as one of them (i literally made this whole side blog bc of it), but also? hq is honestly just that: volleyball. that volleyball is fun. even furudate has said they wrote hq to show that volleyball is fun. the title of the series is literally “volleyball!!” i think that’s one of the main reasons hq is so good, that what came out of furudate wanting to prove how fun volleyball is was this incredibly transformational work of media packed with astute observations on life, relationships, coming into yourself as a person, and self care…all within the simple framework of volleyball. all the underlying themes such as connections, being strong is being free, surpassing your limits, hunger, genius vs talent, etc stem from the story’s central core of playing volleyball. i think i said it before, but the plot of hq is not complex or inherently unique especially in the realm of shounen manga: the main character who is lacking but wants to be the best, his rival he wants to surpass, and the mc or group’s collective goal of wanting to reach a virtually impossible goal (in the case of sports series this is usually nationals). everything that happens during and in between…it is all about volleyball and playing volleyball.

volleyball is the catalyst for everyone’s character arcs in the series. it’s precisely because of volleyball that their worlds are altered, what makes them grow as players and people. it’s due to volleyball that they learn to come into their own as people no matter what that journey looks like or where they eventually end up. i get it’s certain people who are saying, “it’s just about playing volleyball” to be dismissive but like, objectively, that statement isn’t wrong. i don’t know if i’m managing to articulate what i mean here but i just think it’s so great that hq really is just about playing volleyball. and that furudate wrote all 402 chapters, created all of these characters with emotionally moving development with which to say, “yes this story is volleyball. all of this is precisely what volleyball is. it is living and life itself.”

there is no greater love letter to something than what haikyuu is to volleyball

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Kid Kenma reference sheet redraw

guess I'm back at it with the reference sheets.

Been in a good mood lately, just happy to see so much haikyuu stuff coming out. I'm just afraid I will vaporize before the movie comes out for the rest of us.

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Kid Kenma reference sheet redraw

guess I'm back at it with the reference sheets.

Been in a good mood lately, just happy to see so much haikyuu stuff coming out. I'm just afraid I will vaporize before the movie comes out for the rest of us.

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doukyuusei

suddenly appearing as if i didn't disappear lol