#I just love them lots and lots

[danikatze]

I wrote a little fragment for the UmeMatsu fic that has to do with Matsu and Otake's friendship.. Just jotted this down half an hour ago, so it's very slightly edited first draft and I'm not sure if it's gonna fit in the fic yet (this is from Otake's pov, while the rest of the fic switches between Matsu and Ume each chapter) but I like it, so I'm sharing it. Also because some of you are so nice about my hofl hc's!

It started not long after she and Matsu had first met. One night she spotted him, from behind, accompanied by a young man she didn’t know. It couldn’t be more obvious to Otake’s experienced eyes what was happening. Matsu’s hand was placed on the small of the man’s back and he smiled the way he only did when he was trying to charm someone. It looked so sincere. Maybe it was. Either way, it was working. Something made him look over his shoulder, directly at Otake. They locked eyes for a moment. Otake didn’t know what made her acknowledge the situation. It was none of her business, after all, and she’d only just met him. But she just liked him very much and she got the feeling the connection was mutual, so she nodded at the man as she raised her eyebrows, to ask if this situation was indeed what she thought it was. Matsu glanced at the man and back at Otake, then briefly raised his eyebrows in confirmation. It happened a few more times, while they were in Edo. Whenever they saw one another at night and he was accompanied by yet a different man, she asked and he confirmed from a distance. They never talked about it afterwards. Not verbally anyway. The day after at breakfast Otake would usually smile at Matsu in approval, and he’d flash the barest hint of a smile, and shrug his shoulders the tiniest bit. Sometimes, when he’d had a particularly good night, and he hadn’t bumped into Otake with his catch, he would do the eyebrow thing at breakfast, and she’d do the approving smile, and he’d do the shrug.. It was a little thing they did that made them feel like they were the closest of friends.

[inkskinned]

having good & true friends will literally save and protect you in a million unfathomable ways. like okay we have written so many times about lovers. but the way a platonic friend laughs and cries with you. the way they hold your hand at 14 years old and at 34. the way they keep a little silver tie to you, touching base over and over and over. how you can go years without talking, only to re-meet and discover: oh shit! you're still cool!

there are people who have been in my life for more than half of it, and i have loved every version of them. do you know how fucking beautiful that is. yeah love will save the world. but the way friends love you is gonna save the you.

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[katblazeparttwo]

listening to season five shenanigans

Inspired by (and og pics at) this post !

[mroddmod]

one of the very few to show the batch kindness back on kamino

[chloesimaginationthings]

Happy one year anniversary to this FNAF post,,

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[omentu5]

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[lotus-pear]

charm stat at debonair ‼️‼️

[morganbritton132]

17 year old, CEO Tim Drake canceling a press conference and then putting out a statement like, “Sorry for canceling last min, Alfred said that he was going to run my laptop through the dishwasher if I didn’t clean my room. I think he’d do it :/. Also, wasn’t really in the mood. Cya -Tim.”

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[astronnova]

danny phantom cast explorations and thoughts :v

[rocceater]

love it when people draw aus differently so some ideas for art styles and designs

ink belongs to comyet fresh belongs to loverofpiggies dream + nightmare belong to joku-blog

[curlytsunamiart]

a confrontation between miquella and messmer in the shadow keep throne room

[casscainmainly]

The lack of substantial Duke and Tim interactions is funny to me because in a lot of ways Duke is Tim's exact opposite. They have really dissimilar backgrounds; Duke's motto, 'Robin doesn't need a Batman', is a deliberate inversion of Tim's 'Batman needs a Robin'; in their introductions, Tim helps pull Batman out of a dark place, whereas Duke more or less puts an amnesiac Bruce back into a dark place. They also have wildly different opinions on basically every other Robin, particularly Dick. It's funny that even with all of their differences they have no real dynamic - they kind of just know each other. I don't think they dislike each other, but given their opposing philosophies and perspectives, I think it would be very hard for them to understand each other.