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hiro, playfully removing the glasses from kazami's face and trying them on: how do i look in these?

kazami: i wish i can say handsome but the truth is i can't see anything

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Akai and Rei are not allowed to die under any circumstances. Not because I ship them, but because their deaths would free them and we cannot allow that to happen. They deserve nothing less than to continue to suffer on this miserable plane of existence we call life 💕

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kazami tomorrow? :3 tomowwo? kazami? :3 🤲

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New favorite panel of all time. Baby Shinichi coming out of nowhere to call Akai a clown

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Why are Gin and Vodka being grouped with canon couples in TCG promo? It’s like they’re trying to get me to call him them gay smh

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You two were the highlight of this movie

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hey reblog this with a piece of your favorite poem, please

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This one takes me waaaaay back

𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬 - 𝗞𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗼 𝗞𝗶𝗱 🕊️💎

Every day through December I will be drawing Hawks celebrating his birthmonth with characters from other series. Let’s make it a fun Hawkcember 2024! :) 🪶

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Well, you might as well change it, and yet

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hey, i don't know if you're cozy right now, but if you aren't cozy, please, please get cozy. snuggle up. do whatever you have to do. please I'm begging

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5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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a pair of goobers

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The UK Government have launched a consultation on whether AI should be allowed to scrape content online with complete disregard for copyright.

The consultation is stuffed to the brim with technobabble buzzwords and jargon that frames AI as wonderful and that this is a foregone conclusion.

You can submit a response via the link above and tell them what you really think.

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i was thinking this morning about kazami, as they do, and his relationship with furuya, and specifically the fact that kazami is an elite in his own right. among his peers, he made it into the PSB, which, as we saw repeatedly in the movies, can order the regular crime divisions of the tokyo MPD around with minimal explanation. and even among his PSB colleagues, kazami is one of the rare people to have regular contact with the National Police Agency. In addition, within the PSB, kazami has people who answer to him and from the little we see, he's respected there.

so he is an elite, and would be considered highly competent by the average person, and that's how he's progressed in life, probably, but now he answers to furuya, who is younger than him, and setting aside the meta explanation that furuya wins by gary stu armour, as far as kazami is concerned, he's now faced with a daily situation where this one guy is outdoing him in every area by a landslide, whether it's work, baseball, ...and is ordering him around (and completely unreasonable in his expectations at times). and this guy is even younger than him. which brings me to my point:

does kazami ever get relieved that furuya is in a position where he's not a rival? and never has to be a rival or adversary? does the hierarchy between them make him feel some sort of weird, twisted comfort that he feels ashamed of? ashamed that the sense of distance inherent in the boss-subordinate relationship reassures him that furuya is, in fact, not a level he should aspire to? and then does it get to him sometimes? does he struggle with this? is he truly at peace with it? (the line "i've tried to follow you desperately, but-" comes to mind)

and does it get better or worse when their relationship starts becoming more complex, more layered, sometimes bordering friendship and lovers and power harrassment? when the sense of distance starts to crumble in places, does he feel frustrated with furuya's petulant sides, or does the fondness take over and he tells himself that, 'ah, well. it's this man, this person, and i follow him because it's him'? in the end, does he simply starts caring, and does that trump the rest?

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im forever insane about how much kazami changes his behavior based on context and what it means for furukaza as well

the way he talked to satou, takagi and megure, and to his own subordinates A and B in M25 was just SO different from how he talks to furuya

this change goes beyond the fact that he uses keigo with furuya and not with takagi/satou/megure. he's also a lot more serious and stern whenever he is in a professional context. he's hyperaware of the social context he's in all the time and acts accordingly

at the same time, in ZTT AND in the main manga we see him flounder, we see him hyper-expressive, and we see him be CUTE. this means that, a lot of times, kazami is considerably relaxed in furuya's presence, even when he panics about what furuya thinks and is aware of the professional hierarchy between them... there's a considerable amount of trust that's built up and it's become more personal between them than he perhaps realises on a conscious level °w°

(^a relaxed kazami) (I want to see the moment when furuya woke him up)

what i also mean to say is, if there is anyone who is able to navigate dexterously the intricacies in a boss-subordinate relationship, managing the subtle differences between what is private and intimate and what is professional, it's kazami.