#but also--

[mermmarie]

Trying to capture Rami's likeness and fuse it with my style seems impossible. I'm gonna kms. 💀

[cxdemusings]

How Straight is Akechi

"...Straighter than Akira, apparently."

[kaiba-fangirl]

Touch family trauma with my bare hands?

No.

Yu-Gi-Oh! & Linkin Park.

[astrxlfinale]

❛ can you show me how to fight? ❜ guinaifen has stars in her eyes . how can you say no to that -

Just as that very question was drawn to the sunlight, a few starskiffs sailed overhead, all in tune to Caelus's unconsciously squeezing his juice box within his hand. Enough to make his cheek puff out in a burst of surprise (and a rush of his drink) as the state of those words registered. They found themselves comfortably tucked at the high ends of town, a vivid view of the artificial sky beyond them as his head cranked towards her with the finesse of a rusted gate.

Only to see those eyes. The eyes of a innocent dream, a fiery passion of the kindled from the scenes witnessed.

He gulps the juice down first, then the follow ups can spark.

"Ya wanna!? We're talkin' about...." Yet, there's a conflicted pause once the vibrant energy that's just hard to simmer down with Guinaifen. What about risks? The inevitable perils? This Trailblazer isn't ignorant to the sort of calling a wish would elicit. After all, with the few glimpses gleaned, it's distinctly clear that her woven nature as a Pathstrider meant she had a few cards in that hand of fate.

Should he be the metaphorical trigger to shoot that into reality? "First off, no talkin' like it'll be a quick lesson here! Kickin' ass, gettin' your ass kicked, I'm sure with all the martial artists paradin' here, you've caught a few hints of what all that entails. Still. You've got some baddies here that can't exactly be ignored either.. Hrmmmmrgh." His lips scrunch as he tries to alter his view. To stare at the skies! Maybe their fine kicks below? How about the whipping freedom of her glossy hair?

All he did understand was things would get hard if he were to look at Guinaifen's face with this wish on the table.

So that's exactly why he does. Difficult as it is, as much as this moment relishes tugs upon the heart strings, he sees something in the possibility.

"But it would give me one less worry in the head. There's a reason I need to learn though-- Why? No givin' me those big ol' eyes either!" He immediately clips in, lips scrunched as it was clear a struggle. "Like anything else, you'll need some Heart to build that kinda skill up."

@avaere

[inevitablesurrender]

Okay, I’ve had two days to recover from re-reading Trigun Maximum.  So, let me make a recommendation.  If you like stories that Put You Through Something, but leave you with actual hope and Good Shit Payoff at the end.  If you like "Don't get attached, don't get attached, don't get--FUCK--" and characters treated with legitimate empathy even when their views oppose Main Character Hero.  If you like masculinity and femininity Not Really Treated as Much of Anything, Actually.  If you like beautiful artwork and that very classic Starts Off as Silly Fun Entertainment and Swells Into JFC How Did I Get Here layered in with Christian Symbolism Through a Very Japanese Lens and body horror and violence sprinkled throughout.  If you like A Simple Tale of Family Except it is Also a Space Western Except it is Also an Exploration of Personhood Rather Than Just "Humanity" (important distinction) Except Also it is Going to Punch You in the Chest so Hard That You Won't Even Stumble, You'll Just Be on the Ground Looking Up at the Stars.  They're Beautiful Stars.  If you want a tale of trauma and love where the losses actually matter.

May I suggest heading over to Trigun Ultimate Overhaul and either reading Trigun/Maximum online or downloading the whole thing.  The official DarkHorse translation is still available in various places, but it... uh... starts to reek of "I don't get paid enough for this shit" at moments when you really, really need to understand what's happening, and this read-through didn’t have me backtracking several times to try and figure out what’s actually going on.  Takes a little of the magic out of a work, you know?

Yeah, me wondering about a small detail in regards to Livio got me to say to myself "You  know, I may as well just read the whole thing over, it's been too long..."  And it has been and I did and I don't regret as much as I'm just still laying in the dirt recovering because it’s a lot but it’s so good and its influence on me is going to be so damn obvious but sshhh.  I do still love the '98 anime, "sex pest" being treated as a cute little character quirk and all (some of those lines still make me laugh so much), but it's also a very '90s anime and only scratches the surface of Maximum's echoing depth.

In case you need more encouragement, beneath the cut are a few bits of dialog regarding my favorite wider themes that get explored directly and indirectly, with context/spoilers edited out.

[zelda7999]

Behold! The Artfight teams reveal

https://youtu.be/poDWhh73uxA

Oh god it's Twilight all over again-- Team Jacob LMAOOO

Tho in seriousness, yes I would genuinely choose Werewolf over Vampire.

[bitwynn]

No....

Noooooo...

NOOOOOOOO--

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKK

[bloodbending]

can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bootlickers, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

[hauntingrabbits]

comic

[quietwingsinthesky]

im a fucking sucker for the “character gets so badly injured that they can’t think clearly and start calling for help in a distressingly vulnerable way.” characters who start using nicknames for their friends they haven’t used since they were kids. characters who start begging for their brother they haven’t seen in years to be there. characters who would usually use their parents’ names or call them mother/father/etc crying out mama when they go down. u understand.

[edgebug]

remember in 2007 or 2008 when emo was at its peak and gay marriage wasn't legal and so we had boys in eyeliner and skirts making out with each other at the mall in protest. i think we need this again

[daftpatience]

slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[stealingpotatoes]

it’s eunuch Tucker’s adoptiversary and defacto birthday today <3

[jellogram]

On my first day in Germany I got to my hotel and I couldn't get the lights to turn on. And I was like "Eh, fuck it, I'll just take a shower in the dark." And then the shower wouldn't get hot. I waited and waited and it stayed ice cold.

So I go down to the front desk and I'm like "My lights won't turn on and my shower won't get hot" so they send this guy up with me. We get into the room and I flick the switch and nothing happens so I'm like "See?"

And he goes "You must put your card in the slot."

"I... what? I have to put my room card in the light switch?"

"Of course!"

Now I have been in many hotels in the US and never encountered this concept, but apparently it was something most of their guests already knew. So I'm looking like a fool at this point. I feel like an idiot. The dude is fully grinning at me. I put the card in the slot and voila, the light turns on.

Then he's like "Ok, let's see if the shower works. You know you must wait for the hot water?" and I just know he's thinking I'm an idiot who also can't use a shower. This stupid American can't wait for the hot water! She can't even use a light switch or a shower!

And I guess he was distracted by these thoughts of my stupidity, because this dude fully stepped into the shower. In his nice dress shirt and slacks. He just. Gets into the shower.

And turns it on.

Have you ever seen a playing field get leveled instantaneously