#MIKI YES

[condohavenoking]

[teddybeartoji]

satoru as the guardian of an itty bitty six year old nobara... he spoils her so fucking much, and he lets her do anything and everything lmao nobara is so loud and lively and satoru fucking loves it like he adooores her so so so much<333333333

lets nobara climb all over him like he's her personal jungle gym whenever she's bored and lets nobara mess up his hair if she so desires. this is all very normal btw,, satoru doesn't even bat an eye when he feels her tugging at his arm as he's cooking, only smiling to himself when nobara grumbles that he's too heavy for her too pull on. satoru just ruffles her hair and tells her that he'll play mario cart with her after they've eaten and just fucking dies out of cuteness agression when nobara stomps her little foot while glaring at him. the hair thing is very casual too – sometimes satoru's just laying on the couch, watching tv, when nobara plops onto his back and just splays herself all over him like a puppy. yk how they sometimes lay on their backs with their paws up in the air – like that. it's very cute!!! she watches the tv with him for a while in silence but then she gets a little bored and goes to play with his hair instead. she styles it, she combs it; she makes fun of it being white, commenting that satoru's just so old already but he loves it.

they have spa days together, too. after a very, very bubbly bath, they're both clad in the cutest pyjamas with equally adorable headbands holding back their head. satoru's never been afraid to spend his money, meaning that the bathroom they share is as big as they come – they both have their own sides, seperate sinks and cupboard for the both of them (satoru really loves spoiling her). nobara has her own little stool to stand on as well, so she can see herself in the mirror perfectly as they wash their faces before applying face masks. sometimes nobara insists on putting on satoru's herself bc she thinks she can do it better. of course, he lets her.

after that, satoru carries her to the couch, so they can watch a movie while the mask dries. they eat popcorn and candy, and joke about whatever's playing on the screen. and when the twenty minutes are up, they both head back to the bathroom to wash their faces again. nobara does this for satoru, too – her eyebrows are furrowed, her eyes determined as she cleans him up. satoru pokes her cheek and laughs as she tells him off, as she tells him to stop messing around. satoru apologizes with a grin.

he blow dries her hair after all the skincare is done, his hands gentle as he combs through the strands. he's extra careful, knowing full well that he'll get reprimanded if he were to tug on her a bit too hard. satoru's rather good at it btw – doing her hair. he's learned how to braid it in different ways, so he's ready for whatever she could ever want. he's got hairties with him at all times, he's even got some hairclips in his pockets – in various shades, to match with the outfit she's wearing.

satoru likes to teasingly call her "little lady". it almost always ends up with her trying to shove him, the argument that 'she's not little' the saying she counters her guardian with. satoru thinks she's very adorable. nobara usually calls him by his name, sometimes by his last name but that's only when she's a little pissed off or when she's trying to be tough. she calls him 'toru' when she's tired though; when she's glued to him, her tiny hands circled around his neck as satoru's carrying her home from the park.

satoru's always there at her taekwondo practices, silently cheering her on as she kicks ass. he's so proud of her, so fucking proud. every once in a while, she turns to him with a big grin on her face, yelling out in excitement after yet another win. satoru is so incredibly proud.

satoru really adores nobara. she might not be his kid, but he still loves her like one. a father, a brother, a guardian - it doesn't matter. family. and nobara couldn't be any happier either – to have somebody that lets her have her fun, that doesn't even try to tone her down in any way. to have somebody that loves her unconditionally. it's everything a child could ever possibly want.

[puddii-ng]

i ♡︎ koisuru scramble and i ♡︎ koisuru scramble the otome. highly recommend.

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[nemuro-incinerator]

One of my evil headcanons is that Kozue has perfect pitch or some other sort of natural musical prowess but is just really mid at piano in particular because of Family Horrors and comparing herself to Literal Prodigy Miki Kaoru. Frankly I just think it’s cruelly funny. She does relate both Miki AND HERSELF to songbirds by projecting onto those bluebirds… she thinks she’s a wild animal because she refuses to sing but she is just as much a caged songbird as any other

[himemeiya]

One for the money, two for the show [x]

[cafeleningrad]

It's kinda funny to me how Shiori is ever so often scapegoated as "sole toxic" element in her and Juri's relatinship. She shoved a rose into Juri's face, saying: "You would actually be surprised how people felt about you, if you only ever opened up to them.... 👀. Try talking to people.", wrote a long apology letter for dating their common friend, and moved all the way back from Ohtori because she wanted to make ammends with Juri. And Juri is there, wallowing in the mental cage of her own making, constantly repeating to herself that it Shiori could never, ever possibly like her, and how impossible, absurd, unthinkable their love could be. And because the thought to be ever loved back by the girls of her deepest desires is so absolutely unthinkable 5eva, she must push her away.

Like, no wonder Shiori ran into the elevator of doom.

[rayventoodles]

wip dump (Splash Star to Yes! 5) because idk if I'll ever get these finished. If a character is missing, it's because I already finished them a while ago and don't want to spoil anything.

I changed the Dark Precure 5 a bit from my original concept to show less skin.

If some are hard to see, try turning up the brightness on your screen.

[ratatatastic]

AFTER 11 LONG MONTHS OF WAITING. ITS FINALLY HIS CHANCE. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. MIKKSY TAKING A SHIFT ON THE PP.

carolina hurricanes @ florida panthers | 9.28.24

[transmascutena]

thinking about episode 26 when kozue kisses anthy in the car and miki gets so distracted by it that he loses the duel while utena doesn't react at all. and then like two episodes later she asks anthy what a lesbian is in the episode previews

[feliichu]

Shinji, Aki, and Miki!

[taurus-spacecraft]

What a way to go~~~

im gonna cry over how beautiful John came out on this drawing, lock me up.

[teammagica]

Shipping in PMMM is easy, Homura and Madoka are together and Sayaka, Kyoko, and Mami are all in a polycule whats so hard to understand????

[blossyossyossy]

Live Fresh Precure reaction

[echoed-salvation]

bitches be like "look at my comfort character ^-^" and it's a character who desperately needs comfort themselves...

[scootarooni]

mage? piko ?????????