#It made my heart flutter!

[heavenly-hand]

kaijou arcade date: jounouchi finds out how insane kaiba is at ddr

(not sure if i will get the chance to properly draw this out later, so have a scribble first haha)

[aprilblossomgirl]

Winny Thanawin as Q & Satang Kittiphop as Toey

We Are (2024) | Ep.01

[rxmye]

Remember seeing a blog so pretty that I literally fell in love, and girl stopped uploading immediately after I followed.

[betterthanbatman1]

I’m so-

[meiruihan]

imagining Andy touching Fuuko’s face while he was cutting her hair and she’s just blushing the whole time

[ameliaenya404]

This piccrew is soo cute omg

No pressure taggies but yall might like this 🩷🩷🩷

@dog55teeth @hollowtakami @verypomegranate @yippe3allthedamnnamesrtaken

[swords-and-or]

[mbat]

i know its literally a vent au but seeing him so sad all the time was making me sad so i had to draw him happy, and all his friends are happy that hes finally himself now. also, hes not the only one!

i drew both an alicorn and earth pony version because... idk why not ahghg the alicorn one was the original cause i didnt even think about him just being able to be un-alicorned but then i looked at some of the posts for the au and was like. yeah i should make him earth also

[cloudcountry]

Ah, letters letters letters!

Hmmmmm

How about Trey after a first date (could be something he would enjoy or something totally random; just a completely random, fun, chaotic date would be fun with him)?

[as for a backup … hmmm; *pushes Cater forward as a potential sacrifice*]

*****

Remember to not push yourself too hard; and *dumps a bunch of hearts on you* Proud of your accomplishments Aubergine (both on here and IRL)!!!

hey honey,

thank you for accepting my offer for a date. cater was thrilled when i told him, and riddle grilled me on proper etiquette for a few hours...they really care about you, you know?

i hope i showed you a fun time. you seemed really happy to be with me, and to be honest with you, that made my heart flutter quite a bit. i’m surprised at how cheesy i got...i shouldn’t be getting this corny on you so early, right?

knowing you though...you wouldn’t mind. you’d say something sweet like “i like you however you are, trey!” and then i’d want to brush off your compliments...it always happens like that, doesn’t it?

thank you again for accepting. really, i mean it. i’m so lucky you’re attracted to me too.

let me know if you want to go out again, okay? we can plan it together this time ^^

yours,

trey clover.

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

I see your tags on the Wocky and Alita art, I would love to hear your thoughts on Alita actually!

I only need one person to show interest in what I have to say for me to talk forever and ever, thank you. HAHA Okay, in seriousness, this won't be as thorough/long as the Klavier post because... there really isn't much to her, but I find it extremely interesting how Alita falls into the same category of witnesses as April May and Dahlia without being — and I mean no offence to her when I say this — stunning? Like, with April and Dahlia, there's a very clear mass appeal to them which most people point out. Contrariwise, Alita's appearance is really only commented on by Trucy, and just glancing at her portrait, you can see that, without her slightly outlandish fashion, she's frankly nothing to write home about.

So why am I discussing this? Surely it's a little reductive to analyse female characters beginning with their appearances? Usually, yes, but that's the thing about this category of witnesses: their pretty faces aren't just pretty faces.

For April and Dahlia, their beauty is part of their arsenal. It functions as both their defence and their weapon of choice; they know how to wield it to bring people under their heel. Alita being ordinarily pretty instead of drop-dead gorgeous deprives her of that weapon and leads you to wonder how she became a mafia heiress to begin with. It also parallels her to Mimi Miney in a way that goes beyond the 'murderous nurse who worked for and killed her awful boss' comparison you get on the surface. Presumably, Alita, like Mimi, only got to where she was because she managed to fool the people around her into believing she was less dangerous than she actually is. Mimi did this by feigning stupidity and inviting people to underestimate her. Alita seems to do this by showing them what they want to see.

When she first meets Apollo and Trucy, Alita stays quiet and spends more time listening to them than she does talking. Once she has a hold on who they are, then she slips into her persona, and I find it interesting how she doesn't even attempt to come across as particularly delicate or lovelorn? Instead she goes for the relatively typical role of a distressed, indulgent loved one earnestly entreating Apollo for help. I'm inclined to say she does this because her read on Apollo makes her realise that he'd likely be exasperated or annoyed by such a person; but it's also almost as if she knows she doesn't have the disposition to pull off that frail, damsel-in-distress archetype and has resigned herself to being ordinary. Like how she looks. The next time she has to reapply her persona, Alita's appearing in court, and again she makes subtle adjustments that best suit her situation. The judge is old, so she takes a chance on expressing her dedication as a wife while balancing her dedication as a righteous citizen, which works. But oddly enough, despite her successes, I don't think Alita is actually good? At donning disguises? Everyone I've seen discuss this case has been able to guess almost immediately that she's the culprit, and maybe we're just prepped by past characters like her that have appeared, but I don't think she's even that convincing in the game.

Both the identities she assumes are risky manoeuvres that happen to fall in her favour, and she's not particularly dedicated to maintaining the front. When she asks Apollo to be Wocky's defence, she admits that marrying him is largely a chance at a more exciting life than some great love story; Plum Kitaki straight up says that there's a darkness in Alita she doesn't like, despite how docile Alita behaves in front of her; and Wocky has moments where he slips up and calls her things like, "imposter" and "fallen angel", implying that at least subconsciously, he knows she's not what she makes herself out to be. Even her general mannerisms don't greatly differ between her actual self and the mask who's blunt her claws — nothing is ever overtly coy or cutesy — and when Apollo brings up the fact she was Wocky's nurse, she drops the facade almost immediately. There's no waffling, no, "Whatever do you mean?"s or, "You're scaring me"s, just the statement, "I don't know what you mean by 'meaning', Mr. Justice!" delivered in a sudden cool, frosted steeliness.

And I think that steel is what really makes her different.

See, the other women are all driven to crime by some defining trait in themselves caused by their circumstances. For Dahlia, it's her desperate need to be free of the Fey clan; for Mimi, it's grief over her sister's unjust death; and for April, it's her fear of Redd White. You don't really get that with Alita. Instead of there being something dark in her life that leads her down this path, she just seems... tired. Tired of being "pretty enough" but not "gorgeous", tired of being the obedient nurse to the corrupt doctor, tired of being ordinary. There's no predatory external force pushing her into a corner, there's no abusive family beliefs pinning her down. There's just an ordinary life, lived dull and ordinarily, and she had had enough. So what does this girl, who's tired and ordinary in every way except the steel that lines her spine, do to get out of this?

She gambles.

Marrying into the mafia was a gamble, seeking Apollo as council was a gamble, shooting Dr. Meraktis was a gamble. Every decision she's made since she met Wocky has been a series of high-stakes gambles that leave her life on the line all so she won't be second-best anymore. This time, she was going to be the one on top. No matter what.

... And I'm sorry for loving evil women, but girlboss?? Girlboss???

I've heard people say they're disappointed that her "breakdown" is just an extension of her usual damage sprite, but it's honestly one of my favourite "breakdowns" in the series ever? Just because it isn't really one? Everything Alita has done up till now has been reckless, calculated risk, of course being convicted for murder is no different than losing in any other aspect of her life. Of course you're not going to get more than her damaged sprite, because this doesn't warrant a more dramatic reaction. She's lived this whole time knowing it could all come crashing down around her, and it finally did.

She made a bad bet. You caught her. Oh well.

The frosted girl of steel, standing tall to the very end. It's kind of sad that, even after all that, she's still seen as only second-best, incomparable to mimi, dahlia or any of the other women who've stood in her place.

[shynrinn]

At some point it really didn't make sense to me for matriarchangel michael to become "power hungry" in s2 and then i realized, well probably bcuz dagon is such a good orator, they were able to convince michael to be the next supreme archangel.

[meownotgood]

it's been a year since we first saw aki's anime concept arts <3

[astridthevalkyrie]

anyway. taking a deep breath. do you guys think we will get cheek kiss or even actual kiss poses in lads photobooth eventually?

[betterthanbatman1]

Umm I love them???

[letsgauxplay]

Finally! I hope I get Xavier’s pair next too! 🥹

[duahauuoplanh]

My love is over so you do whatever you have to with yours.