#anyway 🪦

[kociepierogi]

you just got transformed into the last drawing you did. how are you faring?

[soyochii]

Failed attempt to give Megumi a normal hairstyle 😭✌️

[haggz-is-here]

he’s waiting

other version 🤫🧏‍♂️

[shewhosleepsalotincemeteries]

Crazy how every year someone has a hot take about the “bi girls with straight boyfriends” but no one ever worries about bi men with straight girlfriends 🤔 it’s almost as if y’all just hate women or something…

[72graves]

It's quite possible that for the first time, at his death no less, Arthur Lester could finally see with his own eyes. And what he saw and saw alone was The Dark World.

[fujii-draws]

Okay prev reblog is making me think somewhat at the notion that Ribbons and Dusknoir relationship while they’re working on things. Can be summed up as them trying to find eachother in a bloody maze. (Dusknoir w/ the weight of his sins following him as he tries to grow close to her again, especially now that she’s shown signs of wanting that.)(Ribbon’s w/ having Every Reason to turn back from the aforementioned horrifying maze[and ghost], but trudging along and trusting the process because it can get better for them. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.)

But also. I could be overthinking this and the visual of those two being from different perspectives in the Dark Mines gobsmacked like SpongeBob in the image is so funny to me

Where are they.

[sparklingpax]

do you guys remember that one ad where megatron excitedly announces that he loves pounding the autobots. and pound cake

[scriv3lloirl]

Desperate times call for desperate measures..

Now. Should I drew Orin Scrivello in a maid dress, chat? Yes or no.

[gradelstuff]

Omg... Gintama nendoroids...

[my-fancy-hat]

Most romance novels follows an scheme of what love should it goes, how people have to meet and follow a certain path and archetypes to correctly fall in or out of love, that what's makes this kind of stories predictable and boring to some people, but what about love that evolves? love that exists despite the desire for romance/selfishness? what about friendship? family? what if we choose to love ourselves too? to love the path we choose? I think that what Ao no Flag is majoritary about, romance as we know in a love triangle it's just the surface the tip of the iceberg of what this story is about, series of choices where we pray for them to make us happy, to make our loved ones happy, because we want to be brave about the things we love.

The four cour characters are put in one of the most troublesome and chaotic times of every person who had access to the system education can experience: final year of high-school, the deadline between childhood and adulthood, to accept reality on how it approaches us, the fear of rejection and failure of what we are of what we do. Many people incluided me had wished to have been more wise, more patient, more accepting yet strong about our chosen path, and that's what Ichinose, Touma and Futaba had to learn and eventually guided them toward their happy end. Not just that, but the experience many queer people had to endure avoiding the social suicide of showing to the world who we are, this ilustrated with Touma and Masumi's characters, and (subtly yet quite importantly) Ichinose. How can I exists in their world if I live like this? will my parents accept me? they will still think about me as someone successful and worth of their last name? will they disown me? hate me? will my best friend who I am in love with reject me in disgust? It's so easy and understandable to succumb to a hatred that you think you deserve, because at the time it was less painful to play along lying to your loved ones about this secret than "revealing the truth", they deserved to know yet you failed, and this loneliness is what you get. If this is how the enviorment wants you to feel, then isn't it expected that the individual would desire for freedom of it? that's what Touma wished for his future to be, not concrete answer more than to exists without regrets.

The desire for romance can be rightfully observed by its selfish nature, to own the right, the demand for them to love us back, but it can be the exercise to accept ourselves as well. Touma wanted to show Taichi his heart without fears, despite if he would love him back or not, in doing so, he would be walking toward the ideal happiness he dreamed of. To openly love is the call for the indifferent cruel world to see in us the desire for goodness, that in this place can exists kindness too.: Touma most than anything, wanted for Ichinose and (by extention) Futaba, to be happy, to share their 1000+ points of best friend power and make everyone happy. That is, the core of love, to wish the best for your dears, and see them smile.

But accepting and not to, can be actually be the same. Masumi had to constantly fight with herself, with the inavility to change what she can't, to live with the fabricated idea of what she is supposed to be and what she is supposed to do, and what other people would react about it. That's why that, even if I have my reservations about her ending, I find it really meta for Masumi end to end up in a het marriage, making us conclude that at some point she gave up on Futaba, but paradoxically, accepted herself and her reality by coming out as bi. Us readers expected and rotted for her to confess to her crush and end up in similar terms like Touma and Taichi did, but this ending make us putting the lesson she learned though her character arc into practice: what people may think or not about our decisions, is their problem, not ours. Life can be so treacky and unfair, but no matter the circunstances, we can still find and make our place. We deserve it.

A friend or a lover, what is the difference if you just want to share our happiness with them?

That's how you humanize your characters, by expossing through them the good, the bad and the absurd, to tell a story in each how the circunstances molds them, but to oppose what damage us is quite a brave thing to do, even if it's our own mind, and that's what Futaba character speaks to me. The desire for wanting to change, to (once again) accept and not-to-accept. She's a weakling, clumsy girl loaded on self-hatred for her unability to live just as the others do. The fear of have reached your maximum potential and there's nothing else for you to do about it, that you born to live like this for the rest of your life. But she sees in Touma an example of hard work and due to her admiration (mistaked at first for a crush), wants to prove herself that life can be something else. To break our self-stablished limits and see what's beyond, to surpass your limits and try to understand what scares you. To be confident enough to think you have the right to live too. Failure reafims the truth that you are better off muted; what bother trying if it will end up in misery anyways? but the beauty of humankind is the unbeatable hope that things will change, to not give up, and without noticing, we'll feel blessed for have born in this time, in this place.

This as a result inspires Taichi's way of viewing life without him realizing too, just as how Touma's pure-lover heart expeled his sincere feelings ever since they started talking again, to the point to even sacrifice his leg and career for Ichinose: How can I exists and make it up for such people like you? what can I do? It's easy to fill your heart with resentment for the things you couldn't live, to feel prideful as consolation for a lonely life you didn't choose, as the left overs. But what we think makes what we are, if you keep on your days thinking you exists for the things you believe you deserve, to live in the imaginary unbreakable rules you made for yourself, then nothing will change. Touma, Futaba and Masumi changed Taichi's life forever, in the driving force of his spirit to pursue a better version of himself, to live driven by the desire for freedom, for love, and not care of what other people may see this choices.

That's why I think the final chapter is such a piece of art that makes the pay off so satisfying. What tortured him when Touma confessed wasn't that his best friend was gay, or that he lied to him about the nature of their friendship (he didn't): it was the though of losing him, so he chose both options at the end (if the analogy can't be more in the face). But as Yorkie said, it part of the course of life to most likely break up with your first gf, more less if they go to different universities, so them going their separate ways wasn't a surprise, but what made me happy about it that they still ended up in good terms and respected each other deeply for what they lived together. The surprise though comes from the actual realize of which POV we're following at the end, that reveals that Taichi had become Touma's husband. This is where I think Ichinose teach to the audience the lesson he learned from his former classmates, where he reaches for Touma above the lines that divides panels, to reach his husband's hand, the hand he shouldn't hold, and walk together toward home: he surpassed his own limits, his barriers and knew where his happiness lied.

A lot of queer people had *the realization* in their 20s (me included as nb), finally giving an explanation of all our past behaviour. I know before-hand most people got shocked for Ichinose to get reveal as bisexual, but isn't the story already gave us an idea this would happen eventually? when Futaba and Ichinose confess to each other, it's Touma's (and Masumi's) heartbreak that it's on spotlight overlaying their conversation, how Taichi and Touma hand-holding is such a central element for the story telling (literally it ends with them holding hands), and much more? Even Futaba suspected it before himself realized years later.

(it happened twice that when Taichi thinks about Touma what crosses his mind is his well-build chest/cleavage area like, ok)

But what makes the different between friendship and love? can a boy and a girl be friends? can a gay boy have male friends? can I be friends of someone I love and viseversa? can I forgive and maitain what we have? The only certainty I have right now, in this moment, is that I love you so much. I'm so happy to have meet you.

This got too long so to grap my final thoughs and make myself more loose right at the end, I'm so happy for have read this story FULL BLIND OMG I was so conviced that no one would end up together lol the only thing I knew of it is that it talked about queer drama and, textually: "had the ending it deserves". It genuinely made my perspective on some things change for the better. I actually loved so much how this story handles with such maturity a pretty much easy-target for comedy and bitter angst (bury your gays) the premise of "bff is gay and in love with the main character since they were kids". Not only that, but not picking sides of "who deserves who" taking leads between Touma vs Futaba, is quite refreshing for the genre: it humanize and treats fairly each member of the cast, giving proper space for them to explain themselves (worth mentioning Mami I loved her character so much you have no idea). Most of the drama in romance comes from missunderstandings or the lack of dialogue, when everything can be solved if the characters can actually sit and talk their feelings and thoughts out! and Ao no Flag is a masterclass on this manner. The explanation, exposition and introspection of every character struggle, the script, monologues, are so compelling and to the bone, I can't choose which interaction of the cast is my favorite. The pay-off is spectacular because we can actually follow each person train of thoughts and choices in which these end up in, with the faith that this path will make themselves and his loved ones happy, because even if we aren't certain about anything we do, we'll still find meaning in the absudity of destiny (or the lack of it?).

[deathcan-be-beautiful]

I love looking back at messages when our btd/tpof headmates front.

(This was when he was playing minecraft for like 4 hours straight)

[stories-that-feed-our-souls]

They really gave us a happy Ha Yichan having some domestic moments with his cute girlfriend, an adorable Ha Yichan kicking his feet because grandmother said to him he is her most adored person, a loyal Ha Yichan finally listening to his friend/future son, a vulnerable Ha Yichan recording his thanks for Ha Eungyeol...

...

... just to have an unconscious and injured Ha Yichan in the final minute of the episode hugged by a destroyed Eungyeol 💔

[sunlightfeeling]

🐷❤️🎥🫥💛

(…i cant think of a good caption…)

smapxsmap: 2000.1.10

[shewhosleepsalotincemeteries]

I think to me the most insidious thing about everything I’ve learned in the past two days about James Somerton is the way that he clearly intentionally tried to isolate his audience for maximum profit. He cut a largely queer and trusting audience off from other queer writers and creators that he stole from and didn’t credit, as well as feeding them false facts about history AND fake information about queer writers being censored in instances when they were not. He presented himself as an authority and one of the ONLY creators telling this history, while directly suppressing the other better creators who WERE doing the work he pretended to do. And just spreading false information!!

And him falsifying stories about queer oppression is so insanely damaging because it first of all is going to inherently discredit other stories about ACTUAL censorship to some people, and secondly again makes his audience feel like everyone but him is lying and censoring them and he’s the only authority. Also WHY would you need to do that when there are actual cases of queer censorship and pushes against representation.

Everything he has done has betrayed the community he claims to advocate for and directly exploited them for money. It’s so deeply angering and this dude fucking sucks and I hope his career never recovers.

[sadisticyouko]

— DEVIL’S AFFAIR ft. KURAMA

PAIRING. kurama x reader

NOTE. i am asking u to suspend ur disbelief here, also kurama decides to be uncharacteristically sadistic, but hey everyone makes an exception for someone

SHORT SUMMARY. years after the first dark tournament, the gang is invited to a second one. in this one, you’re competing against them, and with the rules more lax than the previous years, they don’t mind fighting dirty.

Pushed face down onto the mattress, the lightly rose scented mattress, you snarled as Kurama pulled your arms back and pinned them to the small of your waist. The dry fabric of the hotel bedding scratching against your cheek.

“You shouldn’t barge into someone else’s room unattended. Let alone an enemy’s.” His silky voice threatened as he pressed a gentle weight against your body. Keeping you pinned. Keeping his thighs and hips flush against the curve of your ass.

“Wasn’t trying to wake you,” you gently teased with a light wiggle, one that didn’t go unnoticed by the adversary fox.

“You’re in no position to be making jokes. I could easily kill you if I so desired. Tell me what you came for, and I might let you go easy,” his grip on your wrists tightened painfully, a warning, but it wasn’t anything less than what you had already expected.

“I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you why I’m here. Just getting a jump start on the competition,” you giggle, pushing back against him with a slow grind of your hips.

In an attempt to still your body, he pushed back with his own weight, only for the sensations of your sultry movements to heighten against him. Stirring that inevitable, animalistic reaction from him.

Not that he would acknowledge them. Nor would he deign to speak on them.

“Eager, aren’t you?”

“I have a lot more to lose from this competition than you do, that’s for sure.”

Kurama lets out a dark chuckle, adjusting the grip on your arms so that they’re beside your head, allowing your fingers to curl around the sheets as he presses his body down. Chest against your back as he leans in to whisper beside your ear with another slow, voluntary roll of his hips, “it seems you may have overlooked a small detail of your reasoning.”

“Is that so?”

“That the opposite is true. I have the power to act more freely because I have nothing to lose.”

[giddlygoat]

i’ve just been informed that some of my sam & max art made it into a callout post [my art was not the issue, just relevant to the context] and i find that impossibly hilarious