#but she could’ve!!

[aimfor-theheart]

omg good evening!! hope you are having a good week so far!! long time no message. would you consider sharing your nobara thoughts 👀👀 i agree that her potential was super wasted. like why introduce her technique only to so quickly nerf her 😭😭

i do understand if this is a can of worm you don't want to open but would love to hear your hot take 🙏🙏

omg hello my friend!! i hope you’ve been doing well!!

i would absolutely consider sharing my nobara thoughts….i will absolutely open the can of worms if asked….just didn’t want to fully plague the dash with my ramblings.

mostly i wish she was a more integrated and integral part of the plot and world of jjk. i think in general, when you have strongly written characters, their own arcs, backstories, etc. are often built into the very fabric of the world and plot you’re telling.

below the cut, i’ll share some more of these thoughts and ideas that i would’ve found interesting for her:

(spoiler warnings ahead!)

nobara, in comparison to megumi, maki, or even yuuta, has a rather singular and non-connective backstory. it’s not bad, but it’s not massively strong to me, either. and i think her backstory is such a waste of potential.

there’s several routes here i think could’ve been interesting and worked to embed nobara into the world and plot more.

i think it could’ve been interesting if nobara is a descendant or relative of someone important….specifically, perhaps, someone bad? mostly so we could get the added potential mystery/tension of her maybe being one of the moles

it’s mentioned that nobara is from the country, which makes me think of getou. it could be cool if she was a cousin/relative of his. and this could open a whole plethora of options for her own development, the plot, and character dynamics….not to mention jjk’s central themes and ideas.

following the line of thought of her being a relative…if she were a descendant of kenjaku’s, that could’ve been quite interesting.

i think her being a relative of someone bad also would’ve played into her whole “i live by my own terms and don’t care about anyone else” …also could’ve been about FOUND family rather than blood….yuuji and megumi having seats in her life, rather than her relative, etc. a lot of her story could’ve been about shaking off old shackles of sorcery world. you’re not always your family legacy, which would contrast nicely with megumi and maki, who are so entrenched in theirs. but all of them are there to end cycles that have been going on forever.

or something with her and sukuna would’ve been fun….perhaps maybe just sukuna even having a greater interest in her

specifically for her technique and how it can touch souls!! seems potentially threatening to him, who used yuuji and his body as hostage at points. if nobara could impact and harm sukuna’s soul specifically, without harming yuuji, it could’ve been huge.

more than that, her technique and this talk of souls vs the body with mahito and kenjaku…..is like THE key to separating sukuna from yuuji (or now, spoiler warning, megumi)

so in general, she feels greatly wasted for not being highlighted or pushed into those directions

i also think it’s a shame we don’t see nobara with a mentor figure the way we see yuuji with nanami (or gojo) and megumi with gojo.

i think nanami could’ve been a great fit for her, too, for several reasons. 1.) they both use cured tools specifically 2.) nobara’s prickly-ness and sass would’ve been fun beside nanami’s calmer demeanor 3.) they both face mahito and lose………..it could’ve been cool for nobara to be defeated in shibuya, but return to the story to show that like. the apprentice will outlive the mentor. to even get to defeat mahito finally would be even greater to complete that arc

MORE THAN THAT…..it just would’ve been fun to see her and yuuji with nanami….couldve been similar to like kishibe with denji and power from chainsaw man but perhaps more wholesome LMAOAO

in general, jjk doesn’t do a great job of giving itself breath for connection and relationship and love which like. arguably……a theme of it is…..love being the greatest curse of all….i think its earlier stuff is stronger at this…..once we hit the culling games, it lost itself. and lost nobara’s thread, which was rather weak at points to begin with, which is a shame.

anyways…..i’ll stop here. but i just think at every point, nobara could’ve been a far stronger character and every day i mourn her potential and jjk’s potential in general

[thejadecount]

To anyone who wants to talk shit about bad story/character development in Deadpool & Wolverine CAN SHUT THE FUCK UP! I CAME TO SEE 2 HOURS OF DEADPOOL MAKING META & SEX JOKES AND HAVING HOMOEROTIC TENSION WITH WOLVERINE AND MARVEL DELIVERED EXACTLY THAT

[jtranageder1]

i don’t think any catgirl has ever embodied a cat like Izutsumi has. she just is a fucjing cat

[ciderjacks]

when I was around 6 I’m like 90% sure I almost got kidnapped bc an older woman found me playing outside and told me she had a ton of dogs back at her apartment and I should come inside to meet all her dogs and I was like yeass but I was too stupid to even get kidnapped right so I was just really cheerfully like “let me ask my dad first :3” and I don’t think she stuck around after that

[batbabydamian]

it’s so funny to me Damian made and wore this suit for ONE meeting with his mom 😭

shown in the “Demon or Detective?” backups in Batman (2016) #106 and Detective Comics #1034!

[artiststarme]

Steve keeps brushing off Eddie’s flirting and thinking he isn’t interested while putting his all into flirting. Eddie is losing his mind until eventually he snaps. He literally jumps up in the middle of a movie everyone is watching when Steve tangles their hands together and screams for all to hear.

“Jesus fucking Christ, Harrington! Either kiss the fuck out of me or stop flirting with me like you mean it and holding my hands during a chick flick!”

Steve blinked at him. “So you mean you like me back? Well why didn’t you just say so?!”

“I’ve been flirting with you for months! As soon as you took your shirt off, I started making moves. I was flirting with you in the Upside Down!”

“Well I was a little distracted then! And besides, you should’ve made it more obvious,” he said with all the sass he could muster.

“Holy shit Steve, you’re gonna be the death of me,” he muttered exasperatedly before grabbing Steve’s face and mashing his lips to his.

[morganbritton132]

Eddie, continuing this conversation: Okay, let’s flip it. Do you know how I’d ID you if I couldn’t see your face?

Steve: How?

Eddie & Robin at the same time: Scar on your ass.

Eddie:

Robin:

Eddie: How do you know about that?

Robin: We were roommates

Steve, at the same time as Robin: We took a bath together once

Robin: …That’s true. When we had swine flu. I wore a bathing suit.

Steve: And I didn’t but I was in the bath first

Eddie:

Eddie:

Eddie: You guys are maybe a little too close

Nancy: Just a little.

[darlingod]

QoN Ch.16

“She is my wife,” Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd. “The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.”

I can’t get over Cardan announcing that Jude’s his wife before stating she’s their Queen. It’s as if being his wife was more important in that moment than her being their Queen.

[sunfortune]

penelope featherington would’ve slayed so hard as a character if she went for the men of the ton as an anonymous gossip sheet. LIKE full anonymity and that kind of influence as a woman..just to regurgitate what the average member of the ton is already itching to say about young girls who can’t defend themself? like all the mystery and allure of the column just to humiliate and ruin WOMEN using the established rules of the PATRIARCHY?? WHATS even the point then?! countess boochie flagrant ass character

[aquariusdeanw]

If jujutsu kaisen was a 2000s anime we would have had 35+ episodes of filler during the hidden inventory arc of just shoko, gojo, geto, nanami and haibara doing random missions and ngl I kinda feel robbed

[loosethreadsofyoursoul]

petition for chappell roan to guest star on what we do in the shadows

[crabussy]

the psychological horror created by Hasbro’s desire to sell more toys rather than honour the desires of the original creator resulting in an immortal alicorn princess of friendship doomed to watch her friends grow old and die without her is so interesting to me. by trying to cater to children more you have accidentally created a reality in which death of the main characters friends as she lives on for centuries is not just implied but confirmed. idk it’s fascinating to think about

[visenyaism]

the real savior of baldur’s gate is orin the red because if not for her heroic decision to prioritize being an insane cunty batman villain over doing her actual job that plan to end the world wouldve worked. salute the flag🔪🩸

[eddiespornstache]

Raise your hand if you think Taylor Kelly deserved to exist within the narrative as an independent party and the choice to write her out of the show almost entirely after her breakup with Buck was a maybe understandable but still extremely unfortunate decision!!

[yaralulu]

lowkey think it’s gonna be such an experience for nesta to watch Elain and Lucien get together bc Lucien’s just so… normal? like her sister’s mated to a lunatic who hates her guts and she’s mated to an asshole who doesn’t even like her all that much and then there’s Lucien. He’s not weird or creepy or a liar. He doesn’t tell Elain everyone hates her or force her to do things she doesn’t want to do or tell he feels shackled to her. He’s respectful and chivalrous and literally worships the ground Elain walks on. He’s probably fighting the urge to say I love you on the first date because he’s so smitten. He’s just so normal. Good. He almost makes the whole mates thing seem like the gift it’s supposed to be.

[rainedropsart]

fucking around with an anita design and um. she looks like she’s in a marching band