#and that's enough for me

[jeremiahthefroge]

Hey so y'all know how Garroth asks Aph if she's sure about taking in Levin? Because her duties as a lord might get in the way? Do you ever think about how he was raised? And how maybe he's looking at Levin and seeing another kid who might suffer bc his parent is too busy being important to love him, and he's afraid? Because he knows (or at least REALLY wants to believe) Aphmau wouldn't do it on purpose, but then again, part of him still wants to believe his father didn't either? And the way he IMMEDIATELY volunteers to be in Levin's life, IMMEDIATELY steps up at every occasion, gets Zoey involved, ACTIVELY SAYS THAT HE KNOWS LEVIN WILL BE SOMETHING GREAT SOMEDAY TO OTHER PEOPLE?? He's making DAMN sure that kid has people in his life, and that the kid has somebody who unapologetically is proud and enthusiastic about him. I think he's making sure no kid ever has to grow up anything like he did.

[emilyskinners]

I think being in a throuple with misty day and kyle spencer can fix me

[z0nefive]

hargreeves kids and their emo phases

luther: pretends to hate the music but then would discreetly tap his foot with the beat

diego: very typical angsty emo kid and his obsession with knives was a tad scarier then

allison: very into the makeup aspect of it and would stay up late doing crazy eyeliner (and then furiously scrubbing it off before the next morning)

klaus: all of it. the peak emo kid. makeup, clothes, music, he was at the top. he would force others to listen to the music but not force them into being emo ("just try it! it's not that bad of a song")

five: discreet emo kid. didn't show it physically with makeup or clothing but if you played mcr around him he would fold (mcr fan five truthers rise up)

ben: appreciated the lyric aspect of emo music more, obviously he liked the sound too but he loved analyzing the lyrics

viktor: never directly identified with the emo label but he would stay up late learning the songs he particularly liked on violin

[piiinkfreak]

I was watching rollerskating videos and had a vision

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[calamitoustide]

i admit that lily and Marlene are pretty underrated and for some reason I don’t ship them bc I barely hear of them

I didn't used to like them until one day it just like clicked in my head like Lily and Marlene are those best friends who make each other their whole entire worlds when they're like thirteen move away from each other only to come back together when they're in their late teens and it's just like that oh moment and they realize they'd actually been in love with each other for most of their lives and they're different now but they still know each other better than anyone. marlene is mad at the world but with lily she turns back into that little kid who used to play pirates with her. lily has no idea what she's doing but with marlene things just start making sense again. it's like she's been walking in a fog for these last few years without her and and

[xovera-toz]

Silly Game Time: Happy Pride! Share a photo or gif that reflects a term you presently use to describe yourself.

I'm adrift

[stormy-nights-are-best]

Guess who just got diagnosed at THE age where I won't need it anymore

[immobiliter]

i know that navia didn't appear in arlecchino's sq, but it made me very happy that the house of the hearth relocated to poisson of all places, especially considering that we learn at the very end of the aq that arle/the house offered navia and the spina assistance in rebuilding it. i like to think that poisson was navia's suggestion to arlecchino after all the help they'd given the residents over the past months of rebuilding, and if you don't think navia wouldn't have ensured personally that all of the house's needs were met ( including any issues of privacy and discretion ) and they were all happy in their temporary surroundings, idk what to tell you. i do think this sq was a sign that there is now a good working relationship between the house and the spina

[virtuosen]

{{ AKA Lenore's goofy rambling about her recent absence }}

Okay, being kind to myself here...life just got heavy. I won't go too in depth with it, but life circumstances really kept me strained. I had to pull back from a lot of stuff, and admittedly, I think there's going to be some rough patches this year as well, but I'm feelin good enough to return. And believe me, I've been wanting to return for a long ass time. But once you feel the pressure of life weighing you down, it's kinda hard not to curl up and go into focus mode, y'know? Though, on the bright side of things...I started a new career! I've become a tattoo artist! It's wild to me that that's my calling, but it genuinely feels right. I am loving this journey to bits and pieces. And I've already done my very first tattoo on a client! My books opened recently and I'm happily keeping busy with that (along with a day job to supplement finances until I become stable with tattooing). I'm doing my best to live on my own terms, in my own way, so that no matter what I can be happy and at least proud that I'm in control of my life. Those of you who have followed me for a long time may know how I struggled with feeling in control and confident in my life. But I'm getting there, and I can say that I am proud of this version of Lenore--of who I am today. I'm not everything that I wish to be, but I know in time that I will be. There is so much gratitude in my heart for those of you who continued following me, tried reaching out, and for those who are new here. Y'all, I appreciate each and every one of ya. Please treat me with patience as I come back to the platform and still suck as replying to some DMs. I'm still a bit rusty and busy with life, but I am back, I am here, and I hope to be sticking around for a while yet.

[weeeeeeezamboni]

do we really think they'd just throw in something actually substantial to hope for in the second to last episode, when half the fandom already believed he was dead anyway, just to show us his decline and eventual death? maybe. but idk if i can

[milo-hypno]

My Spotify unwrapped is in fact, "pays for youtube premium and gets YouTube music bundled with it/too cheap to subscribe to spotify"

[bluelockednyx]

thoughts on lunasae? u have them listed in your pairings, i was wondering if u could elaborate on them more specifically. i'm still conflicted on the pair myself. sometimes, i think it'd be a cute and funny ship that id love to see more content for. other times, it feels like it'd be wayy too draining to put anyone in a relationship with luna (probably just my own personal biases speaking though. it's tiring to deal with people who are so… backhanded. but i feel sae would probably handle his personality better since he doesnt really seem to take shit passively). i can see them as a couple… but like, one that's gonna break up in the future? or just a relationship where they just have the occasional hookup or sumn? idk, thats why im so interested on what u may have to say abt it. im also curious as to why u may like it over something like shidousae

An ask for my other shipping log in Blue Lock!!!!

As always, a ton of rambling, so it's behind the read more.

On Shidou / Sae: they're on the lower end of my ship interest ranking, simply because there’s nothing in their interactions that particularly compel me towards them (those superbly gay lines to each other aside), and there’s not much of Shidou’s character design that interest me. My initial impression of him was some sort of spoof on the gyaruo subculture, and it really hasn’t changed much, hypersexualisation included. If there��s more stuff between them, or more development of either of them in the future I might get more invested, but for now I think that Lunasae could have a far more interesting dynamic and narrative, even if the authors don’t take it to where I think they could.

I get why you say that Luna is possibly tiring to deal with in a relationship. The way he talked to Rin? Not everyone can accept that kind of sarcasm and way of talking. But there’s quite a bit more to his character, even in his very, very brief appearance in the manga. It could really just be me overthinking things as usual, but I don’t think so. There’s some subtlety both in his character design and depiction that suggests that he is a character that has been given a fair bit of thought by the authors, so I’m running off of that. This is gonna be a little all over the place, so bear with me.

As a very, very minor character, there’s not much screen time for Luna, but there’s a ton of stuff we can extrapolate from his very brief appearance.

His interactions with Rin in the vs World 5 miniarc is really fun from a writing perspective. On the surface and in a quick skim through, the impression that he gives off is that he’s sarcastic and rude, but his actions with Rin in the mini arc tell a different story. He first deescalated Rin’s provocations (to Rin’s benefit, might I add) and neatly keeps Dada, Pablo and Adam from Rin after that by turning Rin’s attention, and Rin’s ire, onto himself. And how does he do it? By talking about Sae, praising Sae, even, to Rin’s face and saying he’s looking forward to see how Rin does.

During the match he gives Rin valid criticism and points out his weaknesses, and towards the end after Isagi and co. have given up on winning the match, while Rin is still trying to win, he even goes so far as to say he’ll face Rin sincerely. After he scores the last goal, he immediately reassures them as well, reminding them that this is an evaluation, and that they were never expected to win. He even tells them (foreshadows?) to meet in an official match next time. All in all, I think Luna has a sharp tongue on the surface, but he’s also pretty subtly caring with a certain level of emotional maturity and astuteness at handling conflict. Also seems to be a bit offbeat, judging by how Loki had to point out that he was being rude for him to apparently notice it.

I’m gonna dive a little more into meta about character design, since there really is so little we have about him in the story right now.

I’m going to start off with his name: Leonardo Luna. Luna was the part that really jumped out at me first, because one of the most common uses of Sae’s given name, the Japanese kanji, is to describe nights and shine, e.g. 冴えた夜、冴え輝く, both of which well, can be easily linked to the moon, thus Luna. The moon shines brightest in a clear night, after all. :D

For Leonardo, the meaning is lion-heart, and there’s a ton of positive connotations with the name of course, mostly to do with bravery, but I also like the implied meaning of a lion at the head of its pride, caring for the cubs and its pride members etc.

Then Leonardo’s nickname: the Noble of Real Madrid. Probably something in there about how he’s probably noble-hearted, tying into his given name, but there could also be something about Leonardo being a Madrileño and perhaps a legacy player of sorts, with older family who had made names for themselves in the sport too.

I’ve said before that I like them as an asshole x asshole ship, though in all fairness that’s pretty much all of the Blue Lock characters and ships. Just thinking of the both of them being judgy assholes together is hilarious to me, along the veins of Sae outright insulting someone to their face and meaning it, then Luna at first seeming to come to the other person’s face, then delivers another backhand insult way worse than Sae’s without intending to be rude is a comedy bit for me.

From what little we’ve seen of Luna, he seems to be a little fond of teasing people. Maybe a bit fond of leading people around the nose, with the way he played against Rin that time. I think that Sae is okay with that. Sae doesn’t give Shidou a hard time for any of it in the U20 match, even going along with it, somewhat. The only time he got pissed was when Shidou leapt onto his back without permission after Shidou got his second goal. When Oliver outmaneuvered him, Sae too, went along with it and continued playing in the match.

I think they both appreciate the hard truth, and have a pretty level-headed view of things overall (arguably you can’t get far in competitive sports without being able to do that, but y’know). Leonardo certainly doesn’t hesitate to say that he believes a Spanish guy could win in sumo more easily than Japan could win the World Cup in football, and its the same poor opinion that Sae himself has about Japanese football. They’re both also pretty decent at guiding/giving advice to others – I’d even say that Leonardo and Sae had some parallels to each other when they were with Rin and Shidou in the World 5 miniarc + U20 arc respectively, talking about Rin and Shidou’s weaknesses and how they needed to get better.

They’re both also more subtle with how they care for people, and we can see it in how they treat Rin. I just talked about how Luna looked out for Rin in the World 5 miniarc, but Sae is similar too. I’ve talked about how Sae treated Rin badly, but he’s still mostly a good brother to Rin: he didn’t scold Rin when Rin interrupted his match when they were children, he played and pushed Rin to be better with him, before he went to Madrid he was worried about how Rin would do without him since it’s implied Rin has never played without him up till that point. He would have ditched the U20 match after seeing Rin score, even saying that he has ‘seen what he wanted to see’, which strongly implies he just wanted to see Rin doing well with the Blue Lock project. He also thinks very highly of Rin’s capabilities, and his word choice shows as much when he talks about Isagi to Rin at the end of the U20 match (RIP Rin for not understanding the subtlety and having better insight to Sae’s thoughts).

Luna mentioned Sae specifically to Rin. It could be simply a minor detail more to distract Rin than anything, but I’m inclined to think that Luna has watched, or maybe trained a bit with Sae before despite the age gap. It’s not unlikely, since Sae is one of the best young talents around within Real’s Youth system. Clubs try to train up their own people irl and move them up if they have potential. There’s probably some level of regard he has for Sae there. On a more speculative note: I wonder if the authors are implying that Luna took the part-time job with Blue Lock because he was interested in Sae’s interest. Sae cancelled his return flight to Spain just to observe the Blue Lock project. It would have made some buzz in Real, especially if Sae is a core figure of Real’s youth team and that well-regarded, which I believe he is.

Also, Luna’s a world-class player, I can’t imagine Sae considering his butt as unattractive lmao.

Beyond that, I think Luna could be a fantastic foil to Sae, if the authors take it that way. Given the name etymology I discussed above, it would be amazing to have their stories paralleling each others: Leonardo, as a true blue Madrileño, growing up and achieving international success in his hometown and home team, vs the struggles that Sae had to go through while living out the basic immigrant story: of searching for greener pastures overseas to fulfill his dream, the hardships from living in a very different culture etc. Potentially quite a bit of drama, such as microaggressions, racism + bullying, the need to work twice as hard to prove himself to get at the same starting point others already are, the child exploitation that exists behind the whole sports youth system; basically a side commentary of a ton of social issues, which, again, I kind of doubt they’ll dive deeply into. It’s a bit too heavy, I think, for your average shonen sports manga, but who knows.

Then there’s the whole bit of the career paths both have chosen and are succeeding in: Luna as a world-class forward, and Sae as a genius midfielder part of the current generation's world-level players. There’s a fair amount of conflict and, well, story that could be in there too. We have nothing yet about the full reasoning behind Sae’s decision to change his dream, so *shrug* imagination, here I come.

Also I wonder why all the forwards Sae's been shown to play with, besides Rin, are blonde. Hmm?? Hinting at something, Kaneshiro-sensei??? Does Sae have A Type beyond the butts???

On the shippier side, I do believe they can have a pretty easygoing dynamic going on between them. A lot of easy banter, not quite like Shidou and Sae's conversations in the U20, but similar. They both definitely like the high life too, and I wouldn't put it past them to be the type who'd have super expensive dates and have them on a whim too, like, idk, a spur-of-the-moment trip to Paris or something.

And there's the typical drama involved with an age-gap relationship, plus the side dishes of navigating an interracial relationship, and a queer one, in a pretty homophobic environment overall. Especially when you remember that Sae himself is a perfectionist. It's an excellent bedrock for all sorts of character and ship dynamic explorations. All fun stuff to explore and think about.

TLDR; I like their individual aesthetics. I like what we’ve seen of their individual personalities. I like the potential they could have, both their commonalities and their differences. There’s a lot of story that could be there between them, and I have a ton of fun imagining dumb shippy and not-so-shippy stuff between them. So that’s why I ship Lunasae.

[queen-ofsunflowers]

Do you ever just wonder if you should stop a fic because it’s not getting as much attention as your other ones?

I want you to remember that it doesn’t matter what others think. So long as your writing makes you happy and you’re enjoying yourself, keep writing.

[delafiseaseses]

I dunno about anyone else, but I'm a firm believer that Sunny Smiles and Trudy are together, it just makes sense.

The obvious thing to point to is that they share a house, but there's also the fact Sunny's very existence is a reffrence to Smiley of Fallout 2. There's the obviousness parallels of a gecko hunter (well, 'Trapper' in Smiley's case) named relating to smiles, but then you also remember Smiley was the boyfriend of Ardin Buckner... the owner of a shop/bar.

All seems like very intentional subtext, is what I'm sayin'.

However, I have absolutely no idea where the Unnamed Settler who gets attacked by Geckos and also lives with them comes into this, Sunny's quick dismissal of her death as 'Part of life out here.' implies to me not much connection between the two.

[featherymainffins]

If we're not cooking together I'm not fucking cooking.

if u choose other pls explain in the tags <3

[codecicle]

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