#a love dissection

[hinamie]

subject, specimen, spectacle;

should i say that you're dead?

[amalgamezz]

ALT

[mayasaura]

Was thinking about this line because Harrow what the actual fuck are you talking about, and I realised something.

Not only does Harrow really for real not know that Gideon loves her—in the bullshit context of their lives, this is a reasonable misunderstanding for her to have.

What has Harrow known Gideon's life goals to be since they were children? Hint: There are at least two Harrow is fully aware of.

The first is to be wanted. As much as Gideon hates and wants to escape the Ninth, she also paradoxically craves their acceptance. They're the only community she's ever known. Harrow plays on that desire from the very beginning, mostly by kind of .... well, okay, by negging her about it. Ironically appealing to her sense of loyalty and duty to her house when they both know Gideon never even had that bridge to burn. That kind of thing.

Whether or not she's right, Harrow sincerely believes that acceptance to still be important to Gideon. First flower of my house, the greatest cavalier we have ever produced. You are our triumph. The best of all of us. When Harrow has only seconds left to make amends, she not only banks hard into praising Gideon, she frames it to unambiguously offer Gideon the acceptance she's always been conspicuously denied. Assuring her of her value not just as a person or as a cavalier, but as one of their house, one of their people.

The second thing Harrow knows is that Gideon wants to join the Cohort. Easy, everybody knows that. She's only been telling everyone with ears (and then some) since she was eight years old. It's the bait Harrow dangled to entice her into this mess. She wants to be a hero, to do great deeds like in the comic books. She wants to be a soldier.

Against the backdrop of all that context, Gideon's dying declaration "for the Ninth" starts to sound a hell of a lot more like "for Queen and country." Especially when you remember that Harrow is still the sovereign ruler of the Ninth. From Harrow's vantage point, Gideon could easily be playing the heroic underdog in a war movie. The soldier no one believed in until she threw herself on a grenade to save her squad. The knight errant who proved her chivalry by giving her life in service to her king.

From that perspective, Harrow's line to Ortus makes sense. She's following through on her promise of acceptance, defending Gideon's loyalty to the first Ninth face she sees. She's playing out Gideon's war hero fantasy, where Gideon's act of heroism proved them all wrong about her. In which case Ortus's response, "You are the most worthy heroes the Ninth House could muster. I truly believe that," flows very naturally as a reply. He understands what Harrow is trying to say, and affirms it.

It's not a hero's burial in the Anastasian, but it's the closest thing Harrow has the power to give her. And it's a fucking reasonable interpretation of Gideon's actions that doesn't touch on her feelings for Harrow at all. Fuck me.

[vellichorom]

can you put that out on me

[threecowsusingthisforreblogging]

ninth grade frog dissection <3

[mustfindcreativeusername]

Sometimes I remember he died, he was dead for real, but SO MANY people loved him SO MUCH that he was brought back to life and got to have so many more adventures and get old and eventually retire and yes it's a fictional character but sometimes I think about that and I have to lie down and have a cry about it. We love you Sherlock Holmes

[orengejoshi]

Paperhatober Day 17: Mouth

Flug is gonna get his fingers chomped off... for science!🧪

[supmaww]

I can't believe Bizly confirmed Le Frog x Mallard Conway as canon ♥ Love wins!!!

[potatobugz]

did you know? ninjago season 6: skybound (bonus drawings under the cut. i feel like im going insane)

[sunlightnmoonshine]

gwangshik swimming across the ocean to get to aesun lives in my head rent free but the build up to that scene is why it's so powerful. how it's pointed out that everything he's done since he was 10 has been for her, to give her a life she wanted and how he's literally leaving the island only because he thinks it's what she wants and he doesn't want to stand in her way but we see that losing her makes living seem futile to him. how we are led to think aesun cares about a career and education and that's why she's considering marrying that sleazy man but we learn it actually doesn't matter but love matters to her, a love she thinks she can't have since she doesn't want to stand in gwangshik's way, how he was her home but she was losing it because she couldn't be with him. we learn that she was never settling for him, she truly loved him and would have given up everything else to be with him just like he would do the same.

it's the way this show raises the question of what we choose in a partner and for the both of them, love mattered the most.

had I been a bystander watching their tearful reunion I would have been in tears because I woukd have felt the longing, the angst, the love. it's just so beautiful.

[mauvemischief]

I think the part of Andreil that I have only come to love with time has been realizing that they both were learning to love by loving one another.

especially when considering that for Andrew, Neil was the first time that a relationship wasn't about just the physical give and take. Neil didn't want anything from him Neil just wanted him Neil wanted the Andrew that would fight for everyone he loved until he had no fight left. Andrew was used to seeing that part of himself as monstrous, as something to fear, but Neil took him in entirety scars and all and that it special to me

[lotus-pear]

songs whose underlying bass mimics a heartbeat will always be the most superior hidden detail an instrumental track can have

even better when the tempo matches a character's heartbeat. it's elevated if they're fighting or afraid, it's sporadic if they're injured or losing blood. it completely dropping off, signifying their death....always the best application of musical storytelling imo

[merakiui]

Newest manga chapter is a flashback! Octavinelle as kids! Aaaaah so cuuuute!

We are so blessed for another amazing update hehe. <3 beneath the cut for spoilers~

So smol,,,,, so precious. 🥺🥺🥺 baby tako!!!!!

AND THE EELS… these creatures…… I just know they were a handful,,, absolute menaces even as fry.

[viminoo]

big soft tiddies and a smile to die for :)

[starmocha]

"Thank god for men and their bigass fucking veiny hands and long fingers." — your local girlie with a hand fetish 💖

[francy-sketches]

weird little guy