#IM ACTUALLY LOSING MY BALLS

[treymeow]

GUYS HOLY FUCKING SHIT

SONIC LOVES KEANU ASWELL

OH MY GOD. DO YOU THINK HES GONNA SAY "hey you sound like Keanu!" To SHADOW CUZ KEANU IA HIS VA

THATD BE AWESOME

SONADOW POTENTIAL

IM SO EXCITED NOT EVEN JUST FOR THE SONADOW

Guys

GUYS

GUYYYYSSS

[maraschinotopped]

undertale yellow. clutches head in anguish.

[colinfeatherington]

weeks late to this but interesting to me that for the bridgerton promos everyone is in evening wear but penelope

[beautifel]

seems like my heart does nothing but break lately

[quirinah]

HGHRGBRGHRBGRHGRBGHR (just got an idea for an illustration that's probably a little too ambitious for skill level)

[artemisbarnowl]

I was in my level D job for 13 months. 12 months as a contractor and then one month after securing a proper position I won a Level E position. This started some jokes about how next month i would be an F and so on but after 6 months as an E I WILL be backfilling as a level F!! Just while someone goes on leave but still. 2 promotions in a year is sooooooo good for my resume. There are people who were Ds for years before I arrived and are still Ds now, some of whom have backfilled as Es but none who've actually won roles through an interview process with contracts. Im morbidly curious about how they'll take the announcement. These people remember when I was like "hey friend, how log onto intranet thing?" And now I will approve their timesheets.

[prick-love-for-pricking]

Me vs the instinct to chug

[flamboyant-king]

Magfest was fun! Walked around as Cammy, made a lot of “merch,” talked to a bunch of cool dudes, traded wares, met new friends and finally met old ones, got a jello shot from a Raccacoonie cosplayer, ate so much awful food, learned of new games, and got inspired.

I made so many buttons of cammypus and other funny creatures, folded 50+ origami boxes for the perler bead crafters, and drew on any paper I can find. It was nice and now I have no money.

[todayisafridaynight]

INCREDIBLY FUNNY that I refused to settle for just saying "bread" but yes it was those! So in that sense, the lavish bread physics are integral to conveying how important the little things were in getting him through prison. Still, for the sake of the drip…...... perhaps sacrifices are needed...

But yeah, I'm thrilled you noticed those things about the evolution of Jo's design, too! It's super interesting to think about in terms of storytelling, I don't think you're inarticulate in saying that at all. Speaking of, I also just look up "holder" to find prev asks at this point lol

Jo and Ichi's dynamic is also a major topic of interest for me (as we've seen). I think a lot of what's going on with them is definitely some variation of "old habits die hard." That's natural when you form that kind of uneasy coexistence. But like you mentioned, it's also telling that Jo picked up the nickname in the first place, because I went back through the entire script, and it really is the case that only Arakawa, Masato, Jo, and the people who raised Ichi call him that. It's reserved for his family.

I think this line about Aoki (that I completely forgot about before looking at the script again lol) may also shed some light: "A long time ago, I knew him as the young master. He knew me as Ichi." Because they all do that, don't they? Ichi still says Captain, Boss, and Young Master, Jo still says Boss, Ichi, and Young Master, Aoki still says Dad and Ichi.

Even though on paper these relationships should've dissolved with Ichi being expelled, Masato becoming Aoki, and Jo taking over as second patriarch, to one another, they're all still who they used to be. And as an aspect of how they communicate, the "learned language" that forms in families, it stands out when they're all on the same page with the terms they choose to use.

This line from Ichi also stood out to me: "But my aniki taught me different. He said whoever makes the first move is the victor. The guy with steel balls wins." Like, that's clearly Jo, right? For one thing, the "flavor" of aniki is different from Captain, of course--one is directly an appointed post, and one is more open to interpretation--but it also clearly shows that Jo's imparted his "philosophy" to Ichi in some ways.

I think, to a degree, it's one of those holdovers from RGGO that wasn't fully implemented. Because they're more or less the same in RGGO in this regard, but RGGJo does outright say it makes him weirdly happy that Ichi still calls him Captain, so that's a clearer indicator and makes the idea feel more "complete."

With what I said before about their "learned language," too, the Arakawa Family has this way of saying goodbye that's specific to them, and I really miss it in Y7. It is referenced briefly, but it's not a "thing" like it was in RGGO. It's kinda like how The Gang in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia greet each other with "Hey-ohhh!" LMAO idk but. I Enjoy. But that's also why it stood out to me that LaD8Jo greets Ichi the same way as Y7Jo and RGGJo.

ALSO that is so sick the author of Soliloquy saw your art…… incredible……….. + as an aside since I was reminded, it's very true that sometimes people seem to "fill in the blanks" with tropes, and my favorite is honestly when it's both funny and offensive. There was this whole "phase" (and to everyone's credit it was short-lived) of playing Mine up like this Huge Misogynist because he's not attracted to women, and it's WILD to recognize that he's gay but still pull up homophobic tropes for funsies.

Like I was mad at the time mostly on account of the mischaracterization (because come on, even if you've only seen Y3, he is still uncharacteristically soft with Katase… not that he wasn't INSANE for The Slap, but it also wasn't at all rooted in the same things as say, Nishiki slapping Reina might've been.) But it was funny. Perhaps not in the way it was intended to be, but it was funny. And, you know, that's why I'm happy to stay in my own little corner as well.

You coulda just said bread it's ok 😭 I WAS right though it WAS a carb......

On the subject of language though, it's def something I picked up on (if my last ask wasn't any indication lmao)! It's a real neat detail and something I think helps push that 'family' theme Y7 has going on (or at the very least demonstrates how despite the times changing, they still have those bonds with each other whether they acknowledge it or not), it definitely being a case of picking up a habit/term from family.

About tropes in fan works though, I can't act like I'm guiltless of it LMAO so I don't have too strong of a leg to stand on when it comes to criticizing it (and I can't lie, sometimes I do find playing into the trope funny if it's at least based on something from the text and it's just exaggerated For The Bit yeah). However I do think the strangest thing was linking misogyny and Mine (I made a post rambling about it but deleted it like. .3 seconds later) because nothing he does in either Y3 nor RGGO is explicitly misogynistic? In the slightest? And as we talked about before he's considerably pretty respectful towards women? Again, he surely did slap a little girl, but it wasn't because she was a girl you know (still cringe to do but if we're gonna talk about it let's do it right please and thank you). As you say though, pushing that trope onto Mine just feels like perpetuating the harmful stereotype that gay men hate women, and in cases like that then I can't really take the piss out of it without having a weird taste in my mouth.

[therosejamjournal]

wait, so horn of orcus is one thing but like,,, uk'otoa won't be released again, right? they definitely killed that thing, right????

[1-800-simping]

when u played soccer in pe and ur state hates u and so bc u we’re wearing a mask, now u have the worst mask tan in existence 😍😍

[raiii-bee]

fuck this stupid baka life

[xeneric-shrooms]

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[aromanticasterisms]

............huh.

[mainfaggot]

hey guess who has been actually pretty normal this weekend . insane idk what happened to make things easier

[anasleaf]

my reasons for losing weight that aren’t just ‘i wanna be skinny’:

i have adhd so i get overstimulated easily and being fat does NOT help there’s nothing worse than being hot and tired and everything’s loud and i can feel my fat rolls. nope.

so i can take photos with my friends :(

so i can go back to confidently buying clothes

CUTE LINGERIE

bc i feel like im going to be stuck in a lonely life if i don’t start looking pretty

bc i want to be cute and girly but im just too fucking FAT.

less body wash.. need i say more

SHORTS

i’ve always wanted to make cute vlogs without my face but what if someone sees my hand and they’re like.. yep that’s a fat bitch right there

cute pyjama sets

so i can pull my knees to my chest in the car

i feel like i could be pretty if i lose my face fat

and everywhere else actually

i’ll take up less space so the lingering feeling of being nothing but a waste of space can ease

cute side profile

i’m getting a gaming chair and i wanna curl up in it with a blanket that sounds so comfy

cute outfits!!

the whole messy vibe i have going on would be so cute if i wasn’t a ball of grease

so people can worry about me again :)

dainty jewellery!!