#Nothing like hurting the faves!

[rising-volteccers]

As a Friede enjoyer myself, regarding your recap/analysis of Friede from the most recent epsiode, I just gotta add: Friede's line of "Keep going! Take care of Cap!" as he stays behind to face off against an insanely strong Pokemon that he just pissed off while the mine is already collapsing all around him ... He might at this point fully expect to not make it out of there but he WILL make sure Moltres is going down with him instead of chasing after Liko and Roy. And he leaves Cap in their care.

YELLS YOU GET IT!!

Friede without any hesitation had Charizard attack the Moltres as soon he saw it was chasing the kids. He didn't run after them, only told them to keep Cap safe. He was committed to stay behind and face this dangerous Pokemon if it meant Liko, Roy and Cap would make it out safely. The way the mine entrance collapsed as they exited had me wondering whether it had been intentional on Friede's end or Moltres had started attacking again, causing damage to its surroundings.

A part of me is hoping to see Friede and Amethio get affected by the black flames that sapped away at their energy cause I want to see them on the ground, desperate to get up in front of this angry Legendary.

Oh for sure had Spinel been in possession of Ceruledge, he would definitely go for Friede instead. This is the same guy that had Beheeyem fire off a base 120 power Meteor Beam to take out both Friede and Charizard, as well as have his Magneton attack Quaxly that's being held by Dot. Easiest way to end a Pokemon battle is to incapacitate the Trainer commanding the Pokemon. Cap's shown that he's able to battle pretty effectively and make snap decisions on his own but we don't know whether Charizard is the same.

Also how did you predict what I'm slowly writing next? (lighthearted) I doubt that we'll get that seeing that Friede's up and alright to help the kids from the preview but that's why I do what-if scenes haha. Have this small snippet from the piece.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! It was fun reading them!

[fatehbaz]

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[michinekot]

i felt like drawing Maru but I really don't have the energy to even color this sketch.

[raayllum]

Without you

[fromtheseventhhell]

I hate it when people write entire dissertations on Jon's ADWD and northern politics without even mentioning Arya. It's crazy how hard fans try to invisibilize her and diminish her importance.

I've never understood why it's such a controversial thing to say that Arya is important to Jon's arc in ADWD. I think it's just fandom's thing about acknowledging Arya's importance. The usual complaint is that we try and make it entirely about her but I've never actually seen an Arya stan do that. No one is saying that Arya is his sole motivation or all he thinks about. We just point out what's written in the story! There's just no way you can read his arc in ADWD and ignore how important Arya is to his thought process and motivations. Arya and Jon's love for each other are integral to both of their characters but somehow their relationship gets downplayed so much.

[deityofhearts]

the current (and consistent) mood is “my presence is unnecessary and contributes nothing”

[hirugaymi]

Sasamiya's guide book rant: a bit upsetting

Sasaki to Miyano is a very casual read, a simple, cliche BL story with gorgeous art and interesting main characters that hooks out from beginning to the end of the romance and gets you to a satisfying conclusion.

But to a person who's been hooked in this silly story like I'm committing substance abuse, the real key of Sasaki to Miyano's storytelling are its side characters, and I am not happy about what I found.

The Slice of Life genre, and consequentely shoujo manga/BL manga tend to rely on the side cast for most of its lighter moments: jokes, exposition and expanding the story.

Harusono-sensei has a habit of discreetly releasing the lore of these side characters in contexts that extrapolate her main manga story unless said lore has influence over one of her MCs.

Merch products with little story snippets, captions for her birthday art posts, little comments over her Fanbox exclusive livestreams, artbooks, light novels and Volume Extras all paint this interesting landscape of characters much richers than you'd firstly assume when picking up SasaMiya or HiraKagi to read for the first time, and as an avid fan of this Manga Universe she's built, I was anxiously waiting for the SasaMiya guidebook in hopes of getting to know one of her most recent additions to her cast: Shirahama Kyouji.

Offically debuting in the manga by chapter 42, Shirahama was previously established as Tashiro's childhood friend from the basketball club in the First Year's Novel. In 2019, when Tashiro's birthday art was posted, his name was revealed to the readers for the first time through a quote-retweet from Harusono clarifying that no, she had not invented a character out of the blue, this guy's always been Tashiro's companion. In 2020, he made another appearance in his friend's birthday art, later then becoming an established member of Miyano's now group of four friends.

In the guidebook, like she does with all her side characters, Harusono establishes his gimmick: Shirahama is a boy who wants to be popular with girls and is upset at his state of perpetual loneliness.

His current function in the story is to be the one guy who's more aware of romantic social cues, considering Kuresawa's is constantly talking about his girlfriend, Miyano is the main character who's dating for the first time and Tashiro is...

What the fuck is Tashiro doing?

Being the guy with no girlfriend was Tashiro's thing at the start! He's the one whos compained about wanting to live some kind of high school romance even if he studied in an All Boy's School (ie: the Bazaar Drama CD), he's the guy who was afraid his friends would leave him for their S/O's.

By Shirahama's official debut I started noticing a process I could only call "straight man-fication" of Tashiro's character. The author quite literally transferred his gag to Shirahama.

I abhor this decision with my whole heart, not because I don't believe Tashiro can be anything but a funny character, on the contrary, he's proved in both his novel chapters that he can be interesting and funny, specially if he's interacting with his narrative foil.

Enter Hanzawa and the contradictions of his hinted romance storyline

Harusono has established pretty well who Hanzawa is by the latter half of SasaMiya, her most developed side character apart from Hirano, who has his own manga, his family issues and his overall aversion to romance when it came to his own life made for an interesting one-time side character beyond his gimmicks with the rest of the cast.

Hanzawa's role in Tashiro's chapter in the First Years LN is to guide him into believing he can and wants to be responsible for something for once. Tashiro's role in Hanzawa's later development is to show him there's need for balance in everything and that the man deserves to rest for a while instead of trying to work his brain into repressing his personal issues.

This is a fine dynamic on its own and that, in my honest opinion, never needed to be turned into the hinted romance the manga has been giving us in the newest appearances of these characters. In the guide book, these two characters gain a whole pages long fully colored extra about the two of them missing each other.

Tashiro doesn't feel like himself when he's nostagically reminiscing the departure of his upperclasmen, his internal monologue feels divorced from the guy we cam to associate with a carefree and lighter nature. But that's fine, isn't it? Giving the carefree guy a serious moment is a classic Anime Character Development move.

Tashiro's been serious before, in moments mostly associated with Hanzawa and with worrying about him (the Movie extra where he gives him a juice bottle).

What bothers me the most is what Hanzawa becomes here.

In this guide book comic, Hanzawa's attachment to his high school life is comically exaggerated as he repeatedly refuses to leave his classroom at the last day before the Third Year's graduation ceremony and has to be forcefully dragged by Hirano.

When these two out of pocket moments for these characters appear associated with each other by matching internal monologues, they feel OOC to me.

I do not think Hanzawa's story needs a romance. I absolutely do not think Tashiro's pair should be his overachiever upperclassman.

I think Harusono's haste is apparent when you look at what these two characters became and associate it with Shirahama's persistent appearances in the story. It feels contradictory to all these established characters, but specially unfair to Shirahama, since his role in the narrative as Tashiro's companion is lost and he becomes a flanderized mess of exposition dialogue and Miyano's personal tutorial to dating life.

Not the first time she does that to a character, don't get me started on my poor boy Ogasawara.

If the guide book's a guide to anything that's bound to happen in SasaMiya's last volume and the upcoming spin-off, I don't think Hanzawa and Tashiro (or poor Shirahama, he doesn't deserve this) are on a good path.

I love SasaMiya and this has not hindered my enjoyment of the series at all, but it does hurt a bit, specially considering their individual potential.

[mewtwo24]

You know reading vol 5 of mdzs before all the rest (don't ask me why I'm a clown and there were Circumstances) has to be the craziest experience of my life. Because it took all of ten minutes of wwx talking to literally hit me so hard in the gut I had to sit down and listen to really loud music for a while to calm down.

Who needs therapy when mxtx is alive and writing, I guess????? 🤡

Can't wait to get to the actual tragic parts I just know I'm gonna be that "help" frog phone meme

[starlooove]

TIM???? MIDDLE CLASS???? THE BITCH GREW UP IN A MANSION AND WENT TO BOARDING SCHOOL OVERSEAS????? THAT AINT MIDDLE CLASS????

LITERALLLY AND I KNOW THIS STARTED ON TWITTER MADE ITS WAY TO TUMBLR AND I JUST SAW IT ON TIKTOK LIKE…

[k3fanblog]

Bracket round 2 overview

The polls will again be posted in 8 batches, all of 4 polls this time. All polls in this round will last a week, this post will get updated with links and results when polls come live and finish.

Part 1:

10.000 luchtballonnen vs. Zwaai als je verliefd bent -> 10.000 luchtballonnen (81.2%)

Parels vs. Je hebt een vriend -> Je hebt een vriend (73.5%)

Baby come back vs. Jij bent mooi -> Baby come back (75.8%)

Jij bent de bom! vs. Alle kleuren -> Alle kleuren (84.3%)

Part 2:

Hippie shake vs. Yeke yeke -> Hippie shake (81.4%)

Zonder liefde vs. Zou er iemand zijn op Mars? -> Zou er iemand zijn op Mars? (56.1%)

Leonardo vs. Yippee yippee -> Leonardo (62.5%)

Hallo K3 vs. Liefdeskapitein -> Liefdeskapitein (70.5%)

Part 3:

Oya lélé vs. Mama's en papa's -> Oya Lélé (92.2%)

Blub, ik ben een vis vs. Oma's aan de top -> Blub, ik ben een vis (65.2%)

Mr. De president vs. Willem-Alexander -> Mr. De president (72.4%)

Waar zijn die engeltjes vs. Loko le -> Loko Le (53.3%)

Part 4:

Laat de wind maar waaien vs. Feest -> Feest (62.5%)

Verliefd (3 biggetjes) vs. Kusjesdag -> Verliefd (3 biggetjes) (54.1%)

Hokus pokus dikke dokus vs. Visje in het water -> Hokus pokus dikke dokus (80%)

Lollypopland vs. Superhero -> Superhero (90.6%)

Part 5:

Mamasé vs. Verliefd -> Mamasé (51.2%)

Ya ya yippee vs. Ushuaia -> Ya ya yippee (91.2%)

Tele-Romeo vs. Kus van de juf -> Tele-Romeo (98.2%)

Superster vs. Roller Disco -> Superster (57.1%)

Part 6:

Pina Colada vs. Kuma he -> Kuma he (60.5%)

Wij zijn gibbertjes vs. De 3 biggetjes -> De 3 biggetjes (80%)

Trouwen vs. Op elkaar -> Trouwen (66.7%)

Eeuwig en altijd vs. Altijd blijven dromen -> Eeuwig en altijd (77.8%)

Part 7:

Waterval vs. I love you baby -> I love you baby (56.4%)

Bikini vol zand vs. Luka luna -> Luka Luna (54.2%)

Dieper dan de zee vs. Love boat baby -> Tie-break! -> Love boat baby

Frans liedje vs. Dokter dokter -> Frans liedje (66.7%)

Part 8:

Hart verloren vs. De wereld van K3 -> Hart verloren (87.5%)

1, 2, doe met me mee vs. Vleugels -> 1, 2, doe met me mee (74.1%)

Heyah mama vs. Borst vooruit -> Heyah mama (71%)

Jongens zijn gek vs. Toveren -> Toveren (66.7%)

[vanweezer]

lesbians love kendall trans people love logan. bisexual people love carlos and james but lesbians also love james. big time rush is for gay people

[xamaxenta]

Stresses me out alot that i cant physically bind anymore idk what happened in the last few years but any kind of compression hurts and it sucks it was the only thing i could do now i cant even do that

[bombshellsandbluebells]

the Nate Shelley s3 arc reminds me of the s5 Murphy arc in terms of how much I actually loved it despite it not being widely liked by the fandom and was actually disappointed because it wasn't ugly enough lol

and it's basically the same arc. character with deep-seated wounds and a lack of true self-love has realistic, damaging coping methods and crashes and burns spectacularly by hurting other people around them and isolating themselves because it doesn't matter how good things get for you, deep-seated wounds that don't get addressed will eventually come out one way or another. and it will be ugly when they do.

the Murphy arc was disappointing because it got wrapped up way too easily with Memori getting back together which didn't actually address ANY of Murphy's issues and Nate's was disappointing because it just didn't commit fully to being ugly and didn't let him be enough of an asshole

[reel-fear]

Actually wait I'm not done why does the fandom always jump to giving Male Characters Super Sad Backstories to explore in fics, videos, etc That canon never even hints to while BA who actually has a tragic backstory never gets explored. Like what if I start saying BA comes from a broken household and her neglectful family was another reason why shes so hostile and struggles to take help. What if I dont wanna give Wasp or Sentinel super sad backstories to make their actions seem more sympathetic,, what if I make their backstories being rich entitled assholes who think they're better than everyone else bc thats what we see manifest in canon. What then?

[sainz100]

George Russel | 2024 Hungarian GP | via the Hungaroring insta 07/20/2024

[killuaisaprincess]

happy

“Thanks, Sushi…”

“A-Ah, it’s Zushi…”

Killua mumbles into his chest.

“I know that… you’re Sushi, though, and Leorio is Oreo…”

Zushi nods his head, dumbfounded.

Was Killua drunk? Or just tired? Either way, it’s-it’s kinda adorable…

“So, what’s Gon…?”

Killua hums and peeks his head out, his eyes half-lidded.

“Goulash.”