#WE GOT EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

[fighting-these-demons]

Sweat as a shorthand for tears when they've lost hope My Beloved Trope from this anime! 💖💖💖😫😫😫😭😭😭

Onoda!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's so sweet and his spirits uplift everyone and he's just so great!!!!!! 💖😭💖😭

TESHIMA THINKING IF RIDING WITH AOYAGI AGAIN WITH HIS HAND CLECHED BY HIS HEART!!! AND REMINDING HIMSELF NOT TO GET DISTRACTED BECAUSE THEYRE IN A RACE!!!!!!!!! 💖💔💖💔💖💔💖💔

JESUS CHRIST TESHIMA!!!!!!!!!! 😫🤦 LET YOUR HEARTBREAK AND FEELINGS OF BETRAYL GO FOR A FUCKING MINUTE I BEG OF YOU!!!!

It makes sense though it was only like half an hour ago for them even though we're in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber of seeing every meanwhile and flashback there is to see. Of course he's clinging to that. His heart is so broken right now. 😭 Teshimaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!

Onoda ships them as hard as we do and his faith is unbroken and I love him so much for it! He wavers when things get tough like anyone does but he believes in them so much!!! 😭

No matter how this race ends I hope Aoyagi tackles Teshima off screen and kisses him and their relationship survives this.

He doesn't say "no stay strong! " he says something like he won't let his feelings sway him.

And to that I say WHICH FEELINGS TESHIMA????? HMMMM???

Can't stop thinking about riding next to him huh?

Can't top thinking about how great a guy he is and how long you've been struggling side by side huh?

Love how the current team captain and who I assume will be the next team captain are both stuck on their Poor decisions on whether or not to stick by their friends and deeply regret them because they go against their nature.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊

WISHES DO COME TRUE TESHIMA!!!!!!!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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THEY'VE GIVEN US EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!

💖😭

I'll never complain about Blue Predator Again!!! God Bless the Red Herring!!!!

They have him crying because Aoyagi came to Save Him!!!!!! I'm So Dang Happy yall!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IS HE GONNA CATCH HIS TEARS?!?!?!?!?!?! PLEASE SAY YES OH MY GOD

"BUT YOU CHARMED ME" "WHEN I LOST HOPE, YOU ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO BE YOUR PARTNER." "WE'RE A TWO MAN TEAM" "YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO BELIEVED IN ME"

THE TEARS HIT AOYAGIS CHEEK JUST BELOW HIS LEFT EYE AS IF THEY WERE A KISS THAT TESHIMA BLEW!!!!!!!!!!

AOYAGI MOVES HIS HAND TO WHERE THE TEARS HIT IN A MOTION LIKE CATCHING A BLOWN KISS OR TOUCHING WHERE A KISS HAS LANDED AFTER A LOVER HAS PULLED BACK!!!!!!!!!! AND SMILES IN VICTORY!!!!!!!!!!

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THIS IS THE SWEETEST AND GAYEST SHIT IN SPORTS ANIME HISTORY IM DYING THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

DHSIDJSNSHSUSHSBSHSHS

aw man not the Imainoda crush kicking back into full gear! 💔😭😫 It's fair though. If I was Imaizumi I'd be falling in love all over again too. Onoda is just so great. He's truly Best Boy!

ONODA EXPLAINING AOYAGIS SACRIFICE!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

Precious idiot. Embarrassment is his greatest enemy. Someone help Kaburagi his man isn't there to soothe him with Praise! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Onoda honey youre a pot calling a kettle black right now. Lmao!

HAND HOLDING!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

THE GLOVES OF TRUE LOVE AND CERTAIN VICTORY!!!!!!!

No you fuckin didn't! You liar!😂😂😂

These host club boys are all the same! All they know how to do is Make tea Worm their way into your heart with their confidence and Lie.

HERE WE GO BOYS!!!!!!!! YOU'RE HEADED TO THE FRONT OF THE RACE!!!!!! 🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊

uhg not him again

Kaburagi's Achilles Heel is embarrassment and the way to get him through anything is to praise him call him a genius and make him feel like a hero thay needs to save someone.

God Bless. Wish the anime could go further and we could see his and his man's journey through Sohoku and future races.

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[demaparbat-hp]

*pats Zuko's head* This bad boy can fit so many near-death experiences.

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Read For the Spirits Chapter VIII here!

[egophiliac]

he did it! 🐍 and it only took...uhhh...well, there probably could've been less punches, but why hold back!

PUNCHES FOR EVERYONE

[chaoparty]

[erabu-san]

I enjoyed every second of this quest

[This art has platonic intention. Thank you for not tag ship!]

[umblrspectrum]

happy solvermas

[inkskinned]

i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.

most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.

it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.

and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).

i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.

grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.

[tiniest-hands-in-all-the-land]

Carry me home

[shanastoryteller]

i know supernatural is the show of missed opportunities but man. the trials really get to me - what a perfect way to reboot and reset this show that you're artificially extending for ratings. it could have been really, really good, actually

so the trials of god is a way for someone to gain the ability to seal the gates of hell and the gates of heaven

they have the translation for hell, they know that slamming the gates of hell shut means calling all the demons back home and locking the key. it's logical, then, to for them to believe the same is true of the one for heaven - that it calls all the angels back home and locks them away where they can't do any more damage

peace, for the people of earth, outside of the influence of angels and demons. that's got to be worth it, right?

so while sam is completing the hell trials, they get the angel tablet, kevin gets translating, to figure out the angel trials. or maybe metatron helps nudge them along to figuring it out, since him being the big bad here isn't really relevant and they are in a bit of time crunch

canon doesn't tell us what the heaven trials are, except that the first one involves a ritual using the heart of a nephilim. they make it sound like they're carving it from their chest, but what i would do is

have a nephilim offer you their heart from their chest (gain their loyalty in a binding ceremony)

create grace from freshwater (there is no rain that falls anywhere on earth that is safe to drink and god said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters)

find a human soul to guide you to heaven (babel fell but the stairway was built and those with wings have no need of stairs)

so sam is in the midst of the hell trials when dean sort of accidentally on purpose completes the first heaven trial and then the brothers are on parallel train tracks heading in the opposite direction

sam works to close the gates of hell

dean works to close the gates of heaven

demons and angels both working to stop them

sam completes the trials. he restores crowley's humanity and he dies and the gates of hell are closed

but that's not the end

metatron says they can close the gates if they're willing to pay the price. canon says the price is sam's death, but frankly that doesn't make any sense. what's the death of one human against the horrors of hell? and remember, metatron doesn't know the winchesters. maybe another angel would make this comment, knowing how the winchesters have weighed the safety of the world against their brother and left the world out to dry, would think this a price worth warning for. but metatron wouldn't bother, wouldn't even think of it, if that was the only price

the gates of hell close and malevolent spirits explode across the globe, evil spirits and angry ghosts causing death and destruction everywhere

hell serves a function and now the gates are closed and every evil human soul is forced to stay on earth, causing as much destruction as it can

that's the price for closing the gates of hell

except. except. aren't the hell trials interesting?

kill a hellhound. rescue an innocent soul and return it to heaven. purify a demon and restore their humanity.

the trials are not to prove if someone is worthy of closing the gates of hell. it's to prove they're capable of setting hell to rights

the trials are if things got too out of hand, if things were taken too far, and hell had to be put back in it's place. sam dies and ends up exactly where azazel wanted him - ruler of hell. all the demons and souls are trapped with him and what he has to do, while he has them all there, while they can't escape, is exactly what he did to get there

he kills the hellhounds, leaving only those meant to patrol hell. he releases every innocent soul bound there. he purifies the demons one by one, who he either releases as innocent souls or who to pledge to do their job as demons of hell - punishing evil, containing evil - in penance for what they did before (how do i even begin to make up for what i've done, crowley had asked, and this is the answer)

meanwhile, dean, heartbroken, completes the heaven trials and dies

and the gates of heaven slam shut and all the angels are stripped of their grace and expelled from heaven and dean finds himself in charge of an empty heaven

the trials are for when things have gone too far and heaven must be rebuilt, after all

good souls pile up, no one who dies able to truly leave earth, and given enough time they become twisted things that must be hunted along with the spirits of evil men and women who cause chaos from their last breath

dean has work to do. he has one angel - the nephilim whose loyalty he earned in the first trial - and this is what he has to do. he recruits more, to replace the ranks, he creates grace and hands it out judiciously. he sends them to guide the good souls home, using the stairway that the former angels wouldn't be able to use even if they wanted to, and each good act and deed earns them a little more grace. former angels throw themselves into the fight for humans, because they know it's the only way that dean will return their grace to them and lift them back into heaven

and in fighting for them, in living like them, they learn to love these creations of their father that they'd despised. they see what he saw and the thought of destroying this place in a civil war becomes unthinkable to them. they are once more the angels god intended them to be

in this, dean and sam fulfill their destiny as lucifer and michael's vessels. not in letting them in, but in pushing them out, in doing the work each was intended for but refused

only when there is only evil human souls being punished and caged, only once the demons are once more working to run hell and earn their release to heaven, does sam reopen the gates of hell

only when there's a full choir of angels once more, committed to their cause, only once there are souls working with reapers as it once always was, does dean reopen the gates of heaven

they're called the god trials for a reason. above and below, sam and dean act as god, putting things back in their intended places

they could stay. they should stay. keeping house, making sure it all goes smoothly, eternally keeping earth safe from angels and demons both

they're called the god trials for a reason. not even god could resist the paradise inbetween that he'd created

dean doesn't know if sam is going to return to earth. he might stay in hell, and if dean becomes human once more, then what's the point? he'll live and die a human, get stuck in heaven, and be forever separated from the brother he loves

sam doesn't know if dean is going to return to earth. he migh not be able to, might be stuck doing his work - sam assumes if the hell trials did this to him, then the heaven trials did the same to dean, and the idea that dean could have failed the heaven trials after he dies doesn't even cross mind. if he returns and dean's not there then he loses it all, he never again gets to see the brother he loves

but when, exactly, haven't they been willing to risk everything for each other?

dean falls as lucifer fell, throwing himself towards earth

sam rises as michael did after the fall, pulling himself towards earth the same way michael once pulled himself to the top of heaven

what's the use of being a god without his brother, after all?

dean and sam are reunited on earth, human once more

no more angels, no more demons, heaven and hell functioning once more as they should. we're back to basics, a clean slate, all of the rest remade and set aside by their own hands (it's literal and a metaphor, the way the show could have remade itself with the trials, after setting aside kripke's plan while at the same time recognizing that the design of it - two brothers who love each other going across america and fighting evil - is the thing that made it worth watching to begin with) and now it's them again, brothers forged in blood and sacrifice and love, and a new appreciation for the humanity they gave up and returned to

and then we get my beloved monster of the week with no stupid too high stakes, convoluted bullshit involved, beyond the occasional angel who dean refused to reinstate and demon tracking down miscreant souls and, every once in a while, a person or creature or something in between squinting at them and going - weren't you two gods?

nah, they say, all corn fed grins and the dimples their momma gave them, we're brothers

[fyrewept]

“helaena does not ride, she has no taste for it”

incorrect, wrong

she was riding dreamfyre since age eleven and only stopped due to her depression and grief. dreamfyre awoke, broke her chains, and roared so loudly that the entire dragonpit shook when she sensed that helaena jumped to her death. they LOVED each other﹠ this show is insane for ignoring their bond.

[haliaiii]

reading up on argenti’s lore

[hinamie]

"I'll show you every day that choosing to live was worth it"

some of my favourite scenes from @hijinks-n-lowjinks' fic things i would miss from the other side . this fic tore my heart out fr but like in a good way and i wanted to pay it homage the only way i know how <3

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[egophiliac]

time for skeleman

with the lack of any other info yet, all I can focus on are those Charles Lloyd-looking sunglasses. they are absolutely sending me. I feel like we're gonna fall through a tree or whatever and this stitched-up boney gentleman is gonna pop out from behind a gravestone and start serenading us with some smooth jazz on the saxophone.

or should I say...the saxoBONE???????

[artemis-pendragon]

He's feeding us but at what cost