#am I reading too much into this? Yes

[vipitis]

i keep thinking about the brazil vs japan battle in the big bang bladers arc in the manga, and the implications behind a few lines during/after it?

for context, masamune & gingka both get hurt pretty badly so they can't fight, which means technically team japan would've lost, if not for ryuuga ex machina. he battles against argo and beats his ass, and then ian forfeits, so japan moves on to the finale.

however there's some implications in this battle which i doubt were at all intentional, but it's very funny to think about. first of all the fact that ryuuga is there at all. this is the first time we've seen him since battle bladers, but he's there now..

it's funnier when you think about the fact that before the battle only masamune was hurt. the only reason gingka was unable to fight was because he literally got blown up just as the battle was about to start.

so ryuuga was either there by chance, or he came to watch their battle. he wasn't there because there was a need for him to actually intervene, because no one knew that gingka would be unable to battle at that point. he pretends it's because of that, but there's literally no possibility of that being the case. afterwards he turns around and we're supposed to assume he's leaving.

HOWEVER

the next scene we see our heroes in (after a brief team starbreaker + doji intermission), is when they're in the usa. and then masamune asks "hey, where's ryuuga?" and gingka is like "oh you know how he is, he's probably around here somewhere" which implies several things. the first thing it implies is that ryuuga just traveled with them to the usa. because it'd make no sense for masamune to wonder where he is if he left them again in brazil. so either by helicopter or bus or train or ship or how they got there, ryuuga just stayed with them.

and for gingka to boldly claim that masamune knows the way ryuuga is, it implies he has spent a prolonged amount of time around masamune. because masamune wasn't in battle bladers and we have no indication that they knew each other prior. he also implies that ryuuga must still be hanging around (which does later turn out to be true when he confronts gingka before the finale)

so in conclusion, ryuuga just hung around gingka, kenta, & masamune for a bit before leaving again, and he's watching them even afterwards.

[blairwld]

oh this is bullshit

[podcastwizard]

because here's the thing here's the thing the question was not "would you be more surprised to run into a fairy or a walrus" the question was "would you be more surprised to find a fairy or a walrus AT YOUR DOOR" and while no, i do not believe in fairies and would be surprised to know they EXIST i would NOT be surprised to find one at my door. HOWEVER, if a WALRUS shows up at my door i have to contend with the fact that a walrus somehow made it to my apartment specifically and knocked on my door for god knows what reason. i would be more surprised to know that a fairy EXISTS, of course, but NOT that they're at my door, do you get me?

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[extraterracetrial]

Personally I think Ody already knew Eury opened the wind bag, initially bc there's just something about his tone and the way Ody cut him off in the beginning of Puppeteer that felt... deliberate? But it's also mirrored in Scylla and Mutiny

It's just a little thing in Scylla but when Eury first tries to confess in Puppeteer Ody gives him a task instead "go check out the island" vs "light up six torches" instead of talking about it, like he's avoiding it

But more prominently is "whatever you have to say can wait some more of this I'm sure" sounds to me like "don't tell me. If you don't tell me we can pretend I don't know and I don't have to do anything about it. Lie to me (by omission)" vs Eury's "tell me you did not know that would happen" and "then you have forced my hand" while said in anger can also totally be ready similarly. I've already seen others talk about how he was basically begging Ody to lie to him so like, "lie to me so I don't have to do anything about it" again

(whether or not Eury would've been able to play along, assuming he did want that, I don't know, and ig we'll never know)

Also Ody's total lack of reaction. Sure Scylla had "leaving them feeling betrayed" but having it said out loud could still sting. It could also be a "I thought we had a deal to not talking about that" type betrayal.

Anyway many thoughts head full

[dealbrekker]

At first glance, "What are you two old gas bags talking about?" is hilarious coming from Zuko, and cracks me up every time. But on second thought, this boy would NEVER say such a thing to his father. Which just goes to show how safe he is with Iroh, how comfortable he is, that he can let his irritation show, over and over, knowing Iroh would never lash back out.

[sciderman]

avenging spider-man #13

[obsob]

big man...why is he so big...(hes full of love)

[fumifooms]

Kaka compilation

Because everyone is sleeping on him. Witness his greatness!! First two Kaka colored icons were colored by me, lineart by Ryoko Kui though!

Kaka & Kiki are kinda like Laios & Falin… Kaka being stoic and giving repressed energy like early Laios, Kiki being cryptic and always smiling and kinda soft-looking. Autism siblings 2, ostracized and othered as kids and have a deep bond due to sticking together through it all, though unlike with Laios their parents are very loving so Kaka developed family as a big value more than Laios (bc asides for Falin Laios doesn’t care much about it).

In the gnome festival comic you can see Kaka is more emotive than he seems! Full with a :3 face, and he’s the one crying at the end. He’s insecure about his legs and being tall… It really got to him. Conceal don’t feel. In the gnome festival comic you also see him sensing others’ gaze on him and that something is off unlike Kiki, again Laios-like in the way that judgement from others gets to him more than her.

[marmot-bee-person]

okay so darth vader sometimes stresses obi-wan’s name weirdly and i realize this is probably not anything but it’s funny to me if this is anakin’s little shit tendencies coming out to play. like. imma just pronounce your name JUST a little off to mess with you. i won’t acknowledge and i know you won’t acknowledge it but we’ll both know.

[violetrains]

i love you tinker bell i love you silvermist i love you rosetta i love you iridessa i love you fawn i love you vidia i love you clank and bobble i love you terrence i love you queen clarion i love you fairy mary i love you pixie hollow i love you neverland i love you pixie dust i love you lost things i love you cute little fairy dresses made of flower petals and leaves i love you pompoms on tinker bell's shoes i love you music box with the ballerina that belongs to wendy darling i love you nature magic powers i love you tinkerfairy inventions i love you animal companions i love you fairy humor i love you fairy lore i love you tinker bell soundtrack i love you credits at the end with the cute illustrations i love you disney fairies movies i love you tales of pixie hollow books i love you tinker bell franchise

[egophiliac]

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

PUNCHES FOR EVERYONE

[allmightyscroll-swag]

The green. Goes well with the orange. Harry's green blazer. Kim's orange jacket

They go well together

[xoxoemynn]

I spent the night catching up on reading some fic after taking a bit of a breather to focus on writing and omg, it felt SO GOOD. The amount of TALENT in this fandom is unreal. Un. Real. For the past few hours I've been immersed in so many different worlds featuring my favorite characters and it was BREATHTAKING.

And now I'm sitting here thinking about how much fun that was and how I need to do that more often because oh my god the EXHILARATION truly I am just LIVING right now. I felt SO MANY EMOTIONS and I didn't even leave my couch?!

And it's so cool because I was reading one fic and losing my mind over it and mid-way through I went "wow, I want to write a fic Like That." Because it stirred a kind of emotion in me and I'd love to stir that kind of emotion in others and it's got my brain buzzing in a new way I doubt it would have buzzed on its own had I not read that fic and it's just SO. COOL. how creativity begets more creativity and how we all inspire each other.

And it's all because we found This Show and loved it and couldn't let it go, and there are still countless stories to be told and universes to play in and it's SO EXCITING and I love you all and I'm so grateful.

Thank you for sharing your love for OFMD however you share it, thank you for your fic and your art and your text posts and your tags and your comments.

Thank you for being here. 💕

[britcision]

Hey by the way if anyone tries to deny Kabru is a judgy bitch I’ll send you the panels of him calling everyone worthless

Respect his duality he’s a good boy who genuinely wants the best for everyone but also thinks he has to do everything himself despite being the Least Qualified Ever because no one else lives up to his standards

He doesn’t even want to look at monsters but oh well every single other person is a piece of shit let’s go get my friends killed over and over again

He’s interesting BECAUSE he’s not one dimensional Good Pure Boy all the time, he’s a judgy manipulative little shit who will eat monsters if it gets him towards his goals, which are “nobody should be killed by monsters actually” and “i want to know what the fuck is going on”

He coulda had ONE honest conversation with Laios and known literally everything about him, Laios has never met a filter

But Kabru was raised for a good chunk of his life (6-18) by Milsiril, and for all he believes elves can never understand short lived people… he picked up the whole “I must be secretive and always conceal my own motivations”

He only breaks under literally the most intense high pressure situation he’s likely to see in his life, which along with being the potential goddamn apocalypse is also a rehashing of All Of His Personal Trauma oh and also Every Suspicion He Ever Had About This One Guy

He’s not more honest because he’s an honest person, he’s more honest because he forgot how sentences work when he finally caught Laios and doesn’t have the bandwidth to play the constant 4D chess in his head that underpins his EVERY INTERACTION WITH EVERYONE EVER until Marcille takes the lion

Kabru’s a pretty good person, with extremely good motivations and goals.

He’s a manipulative son of a bitch who will do anything, anywhere, anytime, to meet those goals, and spends a solid chunk of his time and energy on reading people so he can be someone they like… regardless of his own feelings.

He’s the living The Good Of The Many Outweigh The Needs Of The Few, and solidly puts himself in with “the few” by doing shit he hates because he thinks it’ll help.

Isn’t that more interesting than “oh he would never manipulate anyone, he’s so nice and good all the time”?

[let-roman-bite-someone]

the fact that roman’s journal says “do what makes you happy” is very… ironic. and very sad.