#I might lose my mind

[antimonyandthyme]

i'm guessing you've seen this but. what.

https://www.tumblr.com/steviethenarwhal/766153091769909248/most-devastating-quotes-of-all-time-btw

i am actually tearing up. i can joke but. that is so genuinely earth shattering. esteban saying he was thinking about it during the race? not thinking podium but podium with pierre?? that's. that's something incredible

you know when something—not even something good, but just something’s ending, and you dig your heels in to try and slow it down and try to find meaning in the ending and then of all things, in the rainiest most grueling improbable race the both of you find a way to stand on the top together and you think to yourself there just couldn’t be a better ending than this maybe after all that’s happened it wasn’t something good but it was something

[shifthours]

netflix sees a queer show winning and they're like GUARDS🗣❗️❗️❗️❗️ GUARDS🗣🗣🗣☝️☝️☝️❗️❗️❗️ 50000 LASHINGS 🗣☝️ CANCEL IT ❗️QUICK WE CANNOT HAVE THE PUBLIC SUPPORTING QUEER PEOPLE 🗣❗️❗️5000 MORE LASHINGS REMOVE THE FUNDING AT ONCE☝️☝️❗️

[museofvoid]

listen, I like my job, but today I'm working in a unit playing the same three children's songs on repeat. constantly.

[renamusing]

ok so ive caught up with todays ep and i wanted to write down a few thoughts.

im actually happy to see things moving on for aaron plotwise. it was nice to see him hang out with the dingles (if only briefly) after chas barred him, though the state he was in at the police station because of her just didnt match the vile he has been dishing out for the past few months. it's clear the writers are struggling with continuity/consistency, so i try not to expect too much, but i still felt a bit of whiplash.

anw, now that the love triangle nonsense is over, i wonder what aaron will be irritated about on thursday? it was a CHOICE to have him there watching mack give up his son. aaron surely remembered how the same thing happened to him when robert let rebecca take their son. so im kinda excited for a mention on thursday if aaron gets angry at mack for letting it happen. it fits in with the car stealing plot thats coming too, so i hope to god it doesnt have anything to do with chas and charles or paddy. we've had enough of that, thanks.

[crashdown]

OKAY FINE ILL WATCH DIRK GENTLY AGAIN

[minutestildawn]

Becoming something Different

[chillybuilt]

y'all sound like right wingers with this, seriously, right wing people will go on and on about how men aren't allowed to be masculine anymore and why can't men be men like,,,, who is stopping men from being masculine rn? y'all think low male self esteem and young men becoming incels is because of people online saying yikes I hate men or men are trash etc and not because of like the actual patriarchy? that is not allowing men to see any non toxic displays of masculinity?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The penisest of tunes.

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[mirrorballmolly]

home for the holidays

[snorzyy]

genuinely cant believe im having to say this in the year of our lord 2024 but since media literacy is evidently dead; what we do in the shadows has never been and will never be queerbait. even if nandor and guillermo didnt speak for the rest of the season and nandor got a girlfriend (which, by the way, as if), the show would still not be queerbait.

we still would have gotten to see guillermo come to terms with his identity as a gay man and come out to his family. we still would have seen the normalised bisexuality/pansexuality and polyamory represented amongst the vampires, where no one blinks an eye if same sex attraction is expressed. we still would have had the pride parade episode, where the vampires all got to experience their first pride in their small town.

like i want nandermo to be cannon as much as the next guy, but even if that doesn’t happen, i can still appreciate everything the show has done for its queer audience.

[wistfulwatcher]

2.05 The Aftermath | 5.01 Nameless, Faceless

[antennabot]

new ii trailer means a new delusional team up from me!!! kind of losing it guys

I know I KNOW this is unlikely don't take it too seriously I just like this group im just gonna circle these three around in my head for a bit while I freak about everything else from the trailer haha whiCH BTW EVIL PAPER. I,, I want to see him again

Im so curious at whats going on with him now please paper character moment paper character moment and maybe salt? I also love salt. it would just be very neat I think wouldn't it be so cool Im gonna go crazy it comes out NEXT WEEK WHAT IT COMES OUT NEXT WEEK ARE YOU KIDDING ME-

[doyelikehaggis]

Definitely not a new concept but I propose: Sciles dressing up as Captain America and Winter Soldier for Halloween.

also, a more casual option:

[mayabishopgold]

Maya Bishop Boyfriend Core | Station 19 [Maya & Carina Core Series]

[mimikyuno]

no but guys. look at these peak Internalized Transphobia™️ lyrics. we all jumped the gun and assumed ena was told before mizuki could hence why mizuki looks so heartbroken but guys what if. what if mizuki is being bullied on the rooftop. what if they taunt her and say her friend left. what if they bully mizuki rly badly. what if that’s why she looks like that. what if that’s why nakiso and hina and minoringo are basically trigger warning us. AND THEN what if ena comes to the rooftops and jumps the transphobes. like when in middle school she defended airi. guys.

[crazylittlejester]

i don’t know if this is something Jojo is doing on purpose, or if it was an intentional detail but i grabbed and ran away with it, or if I’ve just completely read far to into things and entered the realm of just making shit up, but Warriors and his little crooked smile are so GODDAMN important to me and I am shaking him like a squeak toy (gently)

(big yap/analysis under the cut)

disclaimer, i just have a lot of thoughts, probably way too many thoughts, and 97% of them are about Wars so I might be insane, and what you’re about to read provided you’ve stuck around so far might be the equivalent of your high school english teacher yelling with tears in their eyes about how the curtains were blue to “symbolize her sadness”. also my apologies for weird spelling mistakes or oddly misspelled words, i am dyslexic 💔 but with that being said:

Warriors to me comes off as someone who’s constantly acting larger than life. He masks a LOT in front of the chain, he acts overdramatic and a bit ridiculous on purpose, and to an extent he just is a bit ridiculous, but his reactions to things are sometimes blow way out of proportion or are just larger than life in a comedic way where it just seems like he’s doing it intentionally. He comes across as a very extroverted, talkative person, and he seems like he’d honestly be a bit loud too (whether that’s who is REALLY is or what he’s REALLY like is a yap for another post). His (physical) image and the way his character/personality is perceived by others both seem like things that are not his CORE values or the things that mean the most to him, but they do seem to be at least a LITTLE bit important to him just based on how he presents himself and the way he acts. And to an extent, the whole thing with him caring so much about his looks is canon in LU, with that one sketch of him and Legend where he’s looking at his eye in a reflection of a shield and Legend says “alright break it up you two” being the first thing that comes to mind (which is in the post “Mirror Shield”, click the name for the link)

To me, from what I’ve seen and from my perspective, there are very few times we see an actual genuine smile from Warriors, and when we do it tends to be in moments where he’s not in the spotlight, he’s not trying to command the center of attention, and/or the focus is NOT on him. It tends to be moments where he just seems genuinely happy or at peace, and those seem pretty rare. He smiles a LOT, but the majority of his smiles seem big and flashy and performative, and not that that means he’s not happy AT ALL in any of those moments, but those smiles seem a lot more controlled and closely managed because he’s aware of the attention on him and therefore thinking about how he’s perceived. (I’ve made some posts in the past and I’ll probably make others in the future about how I think Warriors puts on this “Captain” or “Hero of Hyrule” persona because of how an entire war was started because a sorceress found him beautiful, and how he feels like him being just him isn’t really good enough for that and how he feels like he needs to fit in and look/act/seem like the legendary heroes he’s being compared to. He’s created this idea of what he COULD be and that’s what he presents to others, fake it till you make it and all that, but thats another yap for another day)

However there are these little moments where we see him smile, and the same one side of his mouth is pretty consistently always just a little bit higher no matter which way his head is facing (here’s a few examples):

@/linkeduniverse, from the 2023 monthly art, “January- Cold Sunrise”

@/linkeduniverse, both from “Dawn pt. 2”

And the thing that really started this whole headcanon of mine that his REAL smile is crooked was this specific part of Dawn pt. 2 where Warriors sees that Twilight is gonna be find for the first time after most likely worrying about him and being up all night:

That middle panel, to me at least, is probably the most genuine expression of a positive emotion we’ve seen from him this entire time. No one’s focus is on him, no one’s really looking at him, he doesn’t have the pressure of being the center of attention on him, and honestly even if that WERE the case, the genuine relief that hit him once he was Twilight was gonna be okay probably would’ve been enough to get a genuine smile out of him anyways. But the second he walks into the room officially, he kinda, for lack of a better way to put it, announces his presence and starts “acting” again (also from Dawn pt 2):

And while that same one side of his mouth does seem a bit higher and not very straight, it’s definitely more even than it was just five seconds previously

Now, acknowledging there is an art style, and that I also just might be insane, but Warriors’s smiles for the most part (when they seem controlled) appear to be a Lot straighter and more even to me than when it’s a more genuine moment and he doesn’t seem like he’s “acting” so much (and just a note: it certainly isn’t EVERY time, but in general, in moments like these his smile seems consistently straighter unless he’s just flat out smirking. and im not saying it’s PERFECTLY straight either, just noticeably more even). When he’s being more dramatic or intentionally obnoxious or the attention is on him, it really does feel like his smile is more controlled: here are just a few examples, obviously this isn’t every single time he’s smiled in all of LU

@/linkeduniverse, from “Swords”

@/linkeduniverse, from “Shady Escape pt 2”

@/linkeduniverse, from “Divine Dark Reflections pt. 8”

@/linkeduniverse, both from “Magic Sword”

am i looking too far into a little thing? probably. am i insane? yeah. but i just really love the idea that when Warriors is truly, genuinely happy, the part of himself that he tries to hide, the sweet and caring person he hides underneath all the dramatics, that true self he’s probably kept hidden away since the start of the war who’s been buried under insecurity and hidden because of the fear that who he is just isnt ENOUGH peaks through, and that person comes out through his happiness in the form of his smile. and yeah it does probably mean nothing and Jojo might not have done any of this on purpose, but i’m crazy, and Warriors’s crooked little smile is so so important to me *insert image of a guy crying face down on the floor because unfortunately i’ve hit the image limit*