#HHHHHHHHH FUCKED

[deadwar-a]

someone said what if s.oap fakes his death and secretly shadows the 1.41 for years

and now im thinking about it bc.... what if he did because ma.karov promised to kill him and he knew that if he didn't "die" then the man would still be after him so he does end up shadowing them, watching their backs where they can't and quietly getting closer to ma.karov to wipe him off the map before he's able to kill the others

[bakudekublogblog]

god hori tell me there's more bkdk coming there has to be more bkdk coming you can't just leave them with kacchan crying that he won't get a future with izuku right we can't be just leaving them there

[silverskye13]

Me: This next chapter is going to be so hard. I have no idea how I'm going to handle the topics, or the build up to what happens next. This is kind of important and I need to make sure it establishes things that will recur later, while also making sense and being in character, and I haven't written RnS Tango much so I'm going to have to work hard on making his and Wels's conflict seem reasonable but also make it make sense when we've only seen another character's outsider point of view and--

Also me: 2500 words in two days

[spilledbutter]

look merwyn might be a bitch but she's a well dressed bitch

[cum-a-calla]

Roman Roy watching you when you're working

Roman Roy abusing his status to watch what you do at work on your computer, Roman Roy leaving a tracker on your phone, on your car

Roman Roy rubbing surreptitiously at his dick under his desk when you're in the room taking notes or dictating or rattling off news or questions or bullet-points to him, noticing his intense stare but chalking it up to him being an asshole and nothing too untoward

Roman Roy stalking the places you go - your favorite shitty little cafés, the trails you walk, the grocery stores you frequent most, just to have a hint of you, just to quell that aching need inside of him to Know

Roman Roy forcing his driver to stop outside your shitty apartment so he can look up and guess what window might be yours - that is, until he finds out for sure, and he sits in the back seat fighting the urge to touch his cock or get out and march up the stairs

Roman Roy planning. Roman Roy figuring out your routine and figuring out what you like, searching your phone when you aren't around it, Roman Roy sniffing your hair when you're too close, sniffing your jackets and scarves when you're not in his vicinity

[lover-of-skellies]

A FUCKING MOUSE NEARLY GOT ONTO MY BED WITH ME AND THEN RAN OVER MY FOOT A MINUTE LATER I'M LOSING MY MIND

[sh1-n0bu]

No matter which account I go to 😔

He's always there to stalk me

[mayasaura]

The possibilities Prince Kiriona brings to royal aus and arranged marriage aus and fairytale aus.... Like. Yes, we were already doing that bc we knew about her dad and all, but now there's a brand new dynamic at work! The golden child in shining white, trusted right hand of her father and completely dead inside from grief. The literal corpse prince, like something out of the darker kind of fairytale. The untouchable royal with a gaping hole in her chest

[p1x1x]

me pushing myself further with my art drawing really cool perspectives and whatever with the Duo and then i turn around and make lame cutesy ship art waaahhah 😭😭😭

dont read the tags on this if you havent watched gbc i just ramble spoilers 😭 just uhh screaming yknow. mostly mmnn but i like the other characters i swear its just these guys are making me insane

[somebluemelodies]

if i had a nickel for every time i saw a spiderbit edit on tiktok that used “die with a smile” by bruno mars and lady gaga, i’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s SEVERELY EMOTIONALLY DISTRESSING ITS HAPPENED TWICE

[kylos-starlight]

EXCUSE ME EXCUSE ME FUCKING EXCUSE ME

MY NAME FOR IT IS LITERALLY

LOSING MY

FUCKING

MIND!!

EXCUSE ME SIR!? SIR!? HELLO1? SIR!? >////////<

I NEED THIS POSTER I FUCKING NEEDDDDDDD ITTTT

I AM SO FUCKING GIDDY OH MY GOD THE EYE CONTACT PLEASE FUCKING HELP MEEEEEEEE DONT HELP ME THIS IS HOW I WANNA DIE

IS IT FUCKING SEPTEMBER 27TH YET HOOO MY GODDDDDDD (/W\) BABY YOU LOOK SO GOOOODDDDD oH my GODDDDDDDD

I FORGET HOW TO BREATHE

[philosophiums]

there's a conversation happening on tiktok right now about why there has been such a sharp rise in people wanting to watch female-led anime instead of being so focused on shonen and the girl who posted the video listed her reasoning as shonen constantly fucking up "power creep" (her words but i'm pretty sure she meant power scaling).

anyway i'm going to subject you all to my thoughts on this because i refuse to post anything on tiktok. (i'm also putting this under a read more because it got longer than i thought it would SKJDBVKJDBVJ).

now, i don't think complaints of power scaling in shonen is a bad thing, but i also don't think it's actually the problem with shonen (nor do i think it's the reason that there's an increase in interest for female leads bc i think that's literally just people wanting to see more female main characters which is not new or surprising or weird, but that's not the point of this rn).

i think the problem with shonen (most of the time) is the lack of actual story content - like fucking... plots and themes and motifs.

her two examples were mha and jjk because to her they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum in regards to power scaling (in mha the villains are so weak that children can defeat them, and in jjk the villains are so strong that no one can defeat them), so i'm also going to work off of these two examples.

mha's problem is not that the children are the only ones who can fight the big bads, it's that we don't get to see proof that the kids are actually stronger than the adults. sure there's evidence of adults fighting the villains and losing vs the kids fighting the villains and winning, but there's no setup for like a mentor/mentee moment of the mentee finally besting their mentor and us the audience getting to see that they're finally stronger. in fact it's... typically the opposite.

mha shows us multiple times that even the strongest characters in the main cast of kids are not stronger than, say, kids who are two years older than them or their teachers, let alone the best and strongest professional heroes in the verse. and that's not a power scaling issue, that's a storytelling issue. because you can set up stories where kids are stronger than the adults in their verse, and you can write it in a way that makes sense, but mha does not do that.

and of course mha has multiple other storytelling problems, not the least of them being the fact that it set itself up to be one of those "if you believe in yourself and try hard enough you can do anything" stories only to immediately undermine itself by giving the mc the most powerful ability in the verse free of charge, making the entire opening sequence have zero emotional payoff (a problem that continues on and on forever in the anime/manga).

jjk, on the other hand, set itself up to be a story about cycles, about the past repeating itself, about the inevitability of curses and hardship and never learning from past mistakes, but all of that was completely abandoned somewhere in the middle of the shibuya arc and was never touched on again.

all of the main characters in jjk have direct mirrors within the main cast - yuji & geto, fushiguro & gojo, nobara & shoko, maki & toji, nanami & mei mei, the list goes on - and it had the perfect opportunity to either be a story about the inevitability of trauma cycles OR a story about breaking those cycles, but instead half the cast is now dead and it's become a manga that's just about cool-looking fights.

the problem with jjk is not that the villains are too strong/unbeatable (i actually think there could have been merit to making jjk a story where the villains win, but that would have required focusing on the theme of cycles which, again, has unfortunately been lost) - it's just that there's no fucking plot anymore. there's no meat. there's no point. even if the goal of jjk from the beginning was to subvert a lot of typical shonen tropes, it's so so hard to care about that anymore because there's no reason. the plot is gone, the themes have vanished, the emotion is no longer in the room with us, and it has absolutely nothing to do with (im)balances of power within the verse.

but of course this is not a new problem in shonen. it's so incredibly rare for shonen to have a good story that maintains from start to finish in a satisfying arc, and that's almost a staple of the genre now - training arcs and a war arcs and lots of fighting and very little actual substance. the ones that do have it are gold mines. but again, this is not a new problem and it's not a new conversation, and i don't think it's the heart of why that girl posted that video or why all those people agree with her.

i truly think the actual reason this conversation is happening is because there's a new set of people who have recently turned twenty-something and are realizing that they don't identify with shonen protagonists anymore because they're no longer teenagers. and i think those people are upset that the characters/stories aren't aging with them and are finally looking at all the shows they like and are realizing that they're constructed around a trope of, essentially, child soldiers fighting battles that the adults in their verses cannot. and these people are realizing that they maybe don't like that anymore.

because when you're a teenager, shonen is escapism or a power fantasy or both. it's more relatable because it's made for that age group. but when you're an adult you start going "hey... where are these kids' parents?" because you realize that it's unfair and unreasonable in real life to put so much pressure on literal children. (i always think of that post that went around tumblr a few years ago that was a gif of this character in a tv show saying something like "i'm 13. i'm practically an adult." - bc when you're a 10 year old watching that, you go Yeah That's Right She's So Old, but when you're 30 watching that, you're just internally groaning because you have been a full legal adult for this child's entire life and they're barely older than a baby to you).

but of course shonen (and YA lit and superhero cartoons/comics and the list goes on) is not meant to be "realistic."

but just because it's not crafted as realism doesn't mean it shouldn't have story elements or themes that can reflect reality and/or be applied to real life. it also doesn't mean it can't have a fucking plot SKJDBVJKDVB

[eternal-brainrot]

hospital just phoned me and the surgery i thought id be having MONTHS from now has been scheduled to next week im fucking bricking ittttt

[narwhalandchill]

WTF THIS IS SO FUCKING PEAK HE LOOKS SO GOOD 😭😭😭😭😭😭 Actually best bday art hes gotten so far do NOT @ me .

Anyway. HAPPY BIRTH AJAX!!!!!!!!! uve been rent free for years now and the Visions plaguing my mind and sanity are Not going away i am cursed and doomed and its so over i hate it over here (not rly) but ily still 💕💕💕🐋 come back soon i miss u

[whipbogard]

A photo of me pining after that limited edition signed Harvey print by Christian Ward for City of Madness #2 😭

[marcusagrippa]

true romance died in 12bc