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kaori's facial expressions get their own gold medal at the award ceremony!!

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Kaori Sakamoto: All That Jazz » 2024 Japanese Nationals

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@Vivienne Medrano you could literally lay me on the operating table, cut open my chest and rip out my still-beating heart, and it would deal me less damage than this. If you even care

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Stolitz kiss!

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This is the most romantic shit I have ever seen I’m gonna throw up

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We love depressed dads beating up a bitch for their little princesses

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No nuance you fuckers need to vote to know the answer. I'm team no.

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Demonstrating the rope dart (繩標; sheng2biao1)

[eng by me]

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immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

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The Witcher IV

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you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you’re next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! say her name!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard

HAPPY DRAGON AGE DAY EVERYONE 🥳

Fine memes direct from Crossroads ✨

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Did you know that there's another Chocolate Guy called Kris Zhaokai?

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(Vague allusions to Wind Breaker manga spoilers below.)

Something I really like about Wind Breaker is how intensely local it is. It's a hero story with a lot of tropes that wouldn't be out of place in a much grander narrative, but all the action takes place entirely (or almost entirely) within walking distance of Sakura's home.

Even the stakes are small, relatively speaking: Sakura himself just wants to be the top of Furin, while the first chapter tells us that he's going to become the hero of the town. That's it. This isn't even some big city with millions of people. All of this is focused on one small part of one relatively ordinary town.

As far as hero stories go, that would sound almost comically unambitious compared to the protagonists who aspire to save the world from evil... except, for Sakura, this is his world. For a boy who's been treated like garbage all his life, a threat to ruin his newfound home may as well be a threat to destroy the entire planet. Either way, he loses everything.

I really like how this contrasts with more typical hero narratives. Whereas the traditional hero's journey is typically an arduous quest that takes them far from their home, Sakura's journey is instead about finding his home and becoming a part of it.

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I'd argue that Tamlin and Lucien in book 1 count as found family and a good/true friendship as well. Though, sadly, this gets destroyed and retconned in later books to make Tamlin look bad and the IC look better.

it's actually crazy that people genuinely categorize ACOTAR as found family

the Valkyries are the only genuine friendship to exist in that series. There are no strings attached with their relationships, they take each other as they are don't expect any more or less, they support each other and love each other unconditionally

the inner circle are like work colleagues or some weird dysfunctional/manipulative family, I would never class them as friends. The bat boys hero worship Rhysand too much and he uses them as pawns too much for it to feel like a legitimate friendship

Feyre doesn't really have friends because apparently the IC are the only acceptable ones out of all the peasants around and we don't know enough about Elain and the twins to even say whether they're really friends

SJM completely butchered Feyre and Lucien because Feyre is a straight up bully when it comes to that relationship

so tell me where the found family is exactly outside of the Valkyries? More like the most unlikable people found each other because nobody else can stand to be around them

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One of those ‘pick two pills’ things but it’s things I actually want