#Population: Me

[holoship]

[arisfruity]

guys guys guys omg omg omg

i just started arcane and im literally sobbing guys whyd he die he was so fine like marry me you literal chunk of australia

[completeoveranalysis]

[5]

This is Exhibit B in the case for Watanuki being so comfortable in this world now that not only is he no longer surprised when things like this happen, but he anticipates it and acts completely natural. 

The rising vibe that Watanuki doesn’t need Yuuko anymore and will probably be fine without her is both nice and terrible and I’m already pre-booking my stay in the wailing room. 

Even Haruka notices it too! Which is very nice, and also even worse because if they’re talking about it in the text it means it’s absolutely 100% about to be relevant very soon.

But OH I adore this! The neutral and balanced way that xxxHolic talks about universal human experiences without judgement. That both moving forward and moving backward are neither good or bad on their own and that change is just change. That sometimes people need one or the other, and sometimes they don’t, but Watanuki is doing the one that suits him best at the moment and that is still worthy of praise. 

And he’s right to point it out because Watanuki wouldn’t necessarily notice this about himself but he DOES deserve the compliment!

[kidsnextdoor-doodles]

I think about how in Op Daddy Fanny was scared to tell Mr Boss that she was in the KND because she was afraid he wouldn’t love her anymore. Because Fanny, up until that point, didn’t know her dad was a villain. Mr Boss’s status was seemingly kept secret from her. Despite this, she was still afraid to tell him she was an operative for what seemed to be no reason.

In Op Closet, the mother was afraid of being seen asking for help from the KND and that she could be kicked out of the club she’s in for it. From what we know the mother isn’t a villain of any kind, she’s just a regular adult. But she still has this bias against the KND or is at least aware that many adults do.

In the opening for Op Safety, we see Senators and Lawmakers passing a law to make ‘math class 70% more boring for kids” and disregard Senator Safely’s demands for Child Safety Laws. A direct quote from the scene; “We’re trying to make some fun laws that make life miserable for kids, not laws to protect them”. Of course, the laws are cartoonishly unserious and Senator Safely’s demands are exaggerated (worrying about kids somehow swallowing fishing rods), we are shown that in the KND universe, the US Government is actively oppressing children and denying them protection and safety.

In the KND universe, a bias against kids and those who fight for their rights is the norm. We see the government denying them rights and we’re told that being associated or even seen with a KND operative can cause an adult to be ostracised. Fanny was afraid to tell Mr Boss that she was a KND operative because, to her, the idea that her dad could turn on her and no longer love her was a real fear despite the fact she didn’t know he was a villain. She probably knows about cases of that actually happening, and the fact that she was a high-ranking operative most likely made that fear even worse.

So basically that scene in Op Daddy is a metaphor for coming out

[kittehbiscuits]

I hate greasy old men.

[original-punks]

Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals. 💌💜

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[anarcho-dj-anxious]

I'm doing my best, but I know I am not doing enough, and that I should be doing better. But I'm too stressed, drained and burnt out to focus enough to do better and I think this is hell!

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[foundationaldecay]

fuckass bob

[3liza]

incredible to me that in the age of spending minimum $100 for groceries for one person every three weeks where i live, people are still online like "dairy is bad for you because it has a lot of calories". at this point im calculating calories per dollar at the grocery store and youre still stuck in "fat bad" mindset from 1980. you are an absurd person to me. laughable

[possumsinatrenchcoat]

Aging tumblr user base find this relatable?

[hawberries]

they are like. BEST friends

[cowboy-in-training]

my single hottest splatoon 3 take is that marooner's bay is good, you guys just like luring too much

[sonderhere]

what do you call it when you’re and extrovert who loves seeing your friends but you sometimes dread hanging out with people because you always come home afterwards and feel gross inside and second guess everything you said, how much you talked, everything you did, whether you hogged the conversation or asked them about themselves enough, and you try not to text them a “sorry if i was weird tonight” text, because that’s even weirder than being weird, and so you lay in bed and try and convince yourself that yes, you were fine and that no, your friend doesn’t hate you and that yes, you behaved normally and that yes, they will hang out with you again! and that’s a relief because you love seeing your friends… but you’re also kinda dreading it because you know you’ll feel this exact same way again next time? is there a name for that?

[sealsdaily]

Today's Seal Is: Nvidia GPU