#IMMACULATELY WRITTEN

[nikolaidelphiki]

as someone who absolutely devoured the wheel of time series, I absolutely cannot watch the show. not because of any elitist, "the books were better" sentiments. it's just my attention span can only be dedicated to written words. i have a problem ok. but that won't stop me from staring at gifsets of Lan Mandragoran, my love for him persists

[maximumqueer]

I would like to thank Stephen Paul, official One Piece translator of Viz Media, for giving us this line of dialogue. The "... lol" caught me so off guard I couldn't help but laugh.

[wastelandhell]

im glad the one thing fo4 fans can agree on about danse is that he has massive tits good job everyone

[icedgarlic]

leigh bardugo must be stopped !!!! her slow burns are too much for me like they hurt me so much but they're so good

[whiskerknittles]

Y’ever go so nuts over a fic it’s literally all you can think about

[orbitfalls]

The painstaking struggle of your favourite book being a danish trilogy with absolutely no international recognition and not a single work under the ao3 tag. The painstaking struggle

[magicaldragons]

this fuckin show.

[thedemises]

I wanna make a custom header for you👀🫣(I'm not good at them as you can see lmaoo but I'll try my best!)

I have made one with reca and Argenti but I want to know which character(s) you want for? 👀

Just a silly little ask ehehe 🧍‍♀️

WAIT WHAGS

yes please 🙏 your headers like Feixiao's, Moze's, and Dr. Ratio's are very very pretty :3 idk what else to say since words are a scramble in my head but you're awesome and they're awesome :D

I kinda want a custom header of Argenti and Jiaoqiu cuz they r quite a good pair together lmao I really love their color palettes and themes sm

[96percentdone]

It is deeply frustrating to me that it is a relatively common opinion that Amame murdering Uru was a moral good because it was "justice", and she "stopped Uru." To be clear, they're right that he needed to be stopped. His plan was evil, whether he has the sanity to parse that or not (and he demonstrably does not), but I think that's entirely beyond the point of the claims about the morality of Amame's actions. Whether or not Uru was in the wrong (he was by every possible metric) is not a worthwhile question to ask when it comes to evaluating what justice is.

First, and I cannot emphasize this enough, Amame literally didn't stop him. She just objectively didn't! Yes, he died, but the present day half of the plot plays out fucking anyway because it turns out the genocidal maniac had contingency plans to carry out his scheme! His guys do it for him! He says in his own tapes he planned for this just in case! Is that stopping him? The Nirvana Initiative gets as far as the genocide missile launching before his plan is actually ended. I cannot stress this enough; ya boi straight up almost won at KILLING EVERYONE posthumously. Sorry, but the in universe team "Amame did nothing wrong" is like suffering terminal hindsight bias, which is hilarious, because all of them were literally there when Uru almost killed everyone on the earth from beyond the grave.

Moreover, because Amame (and Gen who is helping her) spend that entire period of time trying to keep the murder a secret, she ends up actively getting in the way of stopping his plan until on the day of the initiative she finally steps forward because she can't take the pressure and the guilt any longer. She keeps critical information about the exact problem they are dealing with--like the fact that the guy they're looking for is fucking dead--a secret on purpose! Whether or not the police would have gotten anywhere faster if he lived is irrelevant; her actions for what actually happened made things worse. And there's a good reason for this! It's the same reason she is utterly ravaged by guilt for her own actions, despite how hard she tries to convince herself and the world she has no regrets: murder is always wrong, and Amame wanted revenge.

Revenge murder really isn't this incredible healing force people can hype it up to be in their heads. Amame says she went because she wanted to hear what he had to say. She wanted closure. Now of course he's severely out of his mind and everything he said in that moment pissed her off, understandable, and she'd have to wait like 100 years for him to maybe parse he was wrong, so okay, but did the revenge work? "I'm going to make you suffer the same pain..." She waits for him to be conscious when she kills him, she is explicitly out to make him hurt, but like...was it actually effective? No, lmao. The funny thing is, that first line we see of that flashback where she kills him is Uru referencing his own torture: "Yes, this world is an imperfect one. I was put through much hardship." At this point, even if he didn't tell her the details, we the players know he was held prisoner in a cell for over two decades and had his organs harvested so frequently anesthetics stopped working on him. We are being deliberately reminded of this fact so that when Amame says her classic one-liner, we'll know it was for nothing.

Revenge isn't justice. You can convince yourself that it will be satisfying, it's what he deserves, it's what you deserve to do, but what's left when it's over? What did you really gain? Amame didn't gain anything. This didn't heal her at all. She still mourns her father the same, only now she has to deal with new, worse problems of her own making. She spends the last of her free days catatonic from fear and guilt, she hates that she betrayed Shouma and Gen and her actions will force her to leave them, because she lost sight of what matters most in the name of punishment. It will never matter that Uru was wrong. Amame killed Uru for the same reasons he killed her father, and Horadori, and Jin; how could she ever be right? The fallout of her actions on her own psyche and on the world at large is the greatest proof of that.

If your definition of justice is just "we destroyed the bad guy most responsible for the problem" your definition of justice is worthless. The world is not meaningfully made better by punishing wrongdoers, but by healing the social and political ills that lead to their creation and that ravage to the victims they left behind.

[greater-than-the-sword]

Rereading your own writing is something that can be so energizing actually

[licorishh]

Replayed Modern Warfare 3 2011 on Veteran tonight and goooooooood night. Blood Brothers never gets any easier to watch no matter how many times you've done it and the ending really never misses huh

I apologize for the amount of yapping in the tags I reread it all on mobile and started giggling because it went on for so long but eh. Blessed are those who won't shut the freak up and all that

[jumpscaregoose]

hey goose you called?

tell me ab the latest adaptation

SHAMAN KING FLOWERS ANIME MY BELOVED

so we all know flowers right. first sequel manga covers the next part of the main timeline yada yada it's great

now the flowers anime itself goes CRAZY it's AWESOME it's PEAK SHAMAN KING ANIME. you won't believe this but the pacing... paces? like it's GREAT???

best way I can demonstrate is to point you towards the op, it's gorgeous

and then. this is the best part

all of the promo art released before the show premiered

looked like THIS

HANA MY BOY WHAT HAPPENED

these had me so nervous for the quality of the adaptation and then it turned out to be great so we're fine we're good everything's ok

the big thing we're all wondering about though is what they're going to do about the mainline sequels being stuck in a fucking death loop where their magazines get canceled and they come back under a new name (flowers -> the super star -> I've heard the next one is "shaman king yard" but don't quote me on that)

I think it would be pretty cool to adapt all the mainline sequels under one continuity because it would make it way less confusing but there hasn't been any news of flowers continuing past the current 13 episode run

we're all crossing our fingers for TSS anime adaptation because TSS also goes crazy

(personally I'm also hoping for red crimson anime adaptation of some kind but that's probably a pipe dream)

oh another thing about the flowers anime

they haven't announced ANY english simulcast streaming so far. the only english subs available are fansubs. this makes it significantly harder to find and watch the damn thing unless you know where to look.

fortunately I've been able to watch the episodes as they come out (except 6 which came out yesterday fuck you employment)

anyways where was I going with this

uh

flowers anime good. if you want to watch any single episode of it I recommend 4 (the BL episode) because it was everything I hoped for and more

[azelletown]

it's a shame i don't see as much love for jojolion as all the other parts because this little guy really helped me process some of the worst shit i ever went through in my life

[mysterystarz]

match up exchange post

for @shxtodxroki because we came to a cool deal so hi there bee <3

you’re actually extremely cool i really enjoyed learning about you because you’re actually awesome

anyways………

after careful deliberation, i’ve chosen to match you with……..

IWAIZUMI HAJIME !!!

runners up: kuroo tetsuro, yamaguchi tadashi

WHY DID I PICK THIS PAIRING?

when i was reading your info, i noticed a lot of softer qualities and a lot of deep and insightful thoughts. literally iwaizumi was the first person who popped into my head because truthfully, i think he would absolutely adore you (let me dive into this)

we all know iwaizumi is dependable. he’s shown time and time again that he can pick up the slack for seijoh when oikawa needs it. he also grows up to be a sexy athletic trainer which means his job is literally caring for people.

i think when he meets you, iwaizumi would genuinely be fascinated by you. i feel like you’re the type of people to have a class together and are paired up for group work simply because of seat proximity. you share some small talk and work on projects and slowly get to know each other. when you open up to him and start rambling about your interests, he’s a goner and he’s in love.

i feel like iwaizumi would absolutely love a soft s/o. you’ve got a lot of amazing qualities and values, and he likes how you’re sentimental. i feel like he’d also be a sentimentalist as well (can imagine you guys sitting on the couch and looking at remnants of past — you and your merch and him and his jerseys)

he is absolutely a conversationalist when it comes to you and would absolutely have a back and forth with you!! he is also super methodical so i think he could also help with your procrastination!

i also think he’d just adore your major. you’re studying something super cool and i just know he’d like to hear all about it.

speaking of love languages — this man will melt for your gifts. anytime you give him a thoughtful token he will literally treasure it with his entire soul. he loves whatever you give him and is always honored to be the object of your affection. even better, iwa-chan is literally the poster child for acts of service and physical touch! he would absolutely do gestures of love for you and reassure you that you’re amazing. his entire presence tends to be pretty soothing and i just know he’d be really understanding about your anxiety and always make sure you feel okay.

he is definitely out and proud with his partner. it’s a subtle way but he is in no way ashamed of you. you will hear from tooru that he thinks about you all the time. he is patient and caring and would absolutely take care of the bugs for you. i can also imagine him watching movies with you in his free time (i think he would also suggest godzilla at least once — indulge him)

and yes swapping playlists too! anytime you’re on drives i feel like the two of you would swap playlists. also spotify blend <3 he enjoys mixing your taste with his and carries it with him.

he’s a soft and patient lover, and i just know he would absolutely ADORE YOU.

SOME QUICK HEADCANONS

- iwaizumi would ABSOLUTELY start to read whatever mangas and watch whatever shows you like. it’s his way of staying connected to you.

- will lend you his hoodies as a subtle act of “hey you see bee. that’s my girl.”

- finds all your merch absolutely adorable. will take the time to learn the history behind each and every single one.

- he’d find your love of teaching just so amazing.

- he love love loves your pink hair. if you’re into hairstyles he would totally learn them just to have the chance to feel it and pop a forehead kiss on you

a song i think would be cute for you two is:

fluorescent adolescent from artic monkeys - light and energetic like your relationship

another potential song could be the walker by fitz and the tantrums

oh and maybe even body talk by red velvet

[kikuism]

it's not a guilty pleasure but i LOVE this specific brand of books with these features:

take place in the winter, in a remote, isolated area; key themes are confinement and isolation

a sense of Otherness that the main character feels, whether from the wilderness or the people

an eerie uncanny feeling that permeates through the story—something's not right....but what could it be.....the townspeople aren't telling me anything....

slowly building dread and paranoia

[dearestxiao]

hi everyone, it's mostly-recovered june here! i have some small announcements to make:

firstly, thank you everyone for the extremely kind messages and patience when it came to the delay of the 3rd chapter of the color blue. I'm very grateful to have the community that I have 😭!!!!! I will be posting the new release date after it's fully edited. currently not sure when that will be but hopefully sooner than later.

something completely unrelated is that I decided I will be multifandom. in addition to genshin, I will also be writing for jjk and haikyuu (and a few other things here and there). I'm very excited!