#cinnamon roll too pure for this world

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I'm having feelings about the new Superman

Image ID: [A picture of Clark Kent from My Adventures with Superman. Text box reads - Clark: *can literally destroy a building*; Me: "Tiny baby. So smol. Must protecc"]

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Tuesday, January 23.

Ten Years of Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure.

Well, how about that. Ten whole years. A decade. The Tin Anniversary. 

The Tin Anniversary is rather fitting, as it happens, as a tin is just the sort of storage object one might wish to place their cinnamon roll, were it not so good, so pure, so sublime, so very beautiful. This particular roll is too graceful, too evocative of the divine, to be hidden away.

It was on this day, ten years ago, that The Onion published the headline that would stir the hearts and minds with this sugary little friend. 

[heartfulselkie]

He is HER Buggaboy!

[willfulabyss]

[canisalbus]

According to my dash, a cinnamon roll is exactly what Vasco is 😅

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[zu-is-here]

Kross!

Cross x Killer please? \(°^°)/

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[bad-traffic-smp-ideas]

Trope life: everyone is given a randomly chosen character trope from tvtropes and failure to conform results in death

They get a new trope when they die or their trope becomes obsolete (ex: the archnemesis' nemesis dies)

Everyone can act as destructively as their trope allows

the most destructive tropes are reserved for the red lives, though greens and yellows can also get evil tropes

If a red gets a trope that has a "built in endgame" that isnt kill everyone (ex: conquer and rule the world) then that can be used as an alternative wincon, which means certain tropes can also win together

I haven't visited tvtropes in a while... I imagine there would be some interesting implications there

[ridiasfangirlings]

i feel like it gets glazed over in a lot of the fandom etc but the main 3 of homra are genuinely so well written imo

rewatching r:b makes me think abt how mikoto is geniunely emotionally smart the way he read yamata and his view on fushimi, then again with totsuka i just the way hes written and how you can see the different sides of him

idk i just thought it needed appreciation

To be honest when I first watched K I didn’t like Mikoto very much, I thought he was hard to read and just didn’t have a lot of interest in him. The side materials really helped though, I agree that he’s actually written very well as a character. I like that he’s such a contrast to Munakata, where Munakata saw being King as answering a question for Mikoto it was like equal parts blessing and curse — it both allowed him to protect the people he cares about and gave him a group of people who he wants to protect, but at the same time this power always puts them in danger and Mikoto has to dull himself to keep from losing control. He’s very focused on living freely and doing as he pleases, but it’s not like he’s unaware of the consequences either. One of the things I really like about the King and the Traitor short story (besides, like, all of it) is how when Fushimi berates him for being selfish Mikoto is just like ‘yup,’ like he kinda wanted someone to say that to him and he actually appreciated Fushimi being honest. And in general Mikoto caring about people — especially Fushimi — while looking like he doesn’t is great, in both the aforementioned short story and in LSW when he shows up after Hisui is defeated, I think it’s very clear to literally everyone but Fushimi that Mikoto cares about his well being. Mikoto puts on an image like this violent barbarian but he’s clearly very perceptive in his own way and does understand his people.

Totsuka I think tends to get flattened down by fandom some and it’s a shame because I love the duality of Totsuka. Like on the one hand he’s a tragic cinnamon roll who dies to start the story rolling, but he’s also someone with his own selfishness and flaws and he’s keenly aware of both how other people see him and his own feelings. He’s internalized the idea of himself as someone who ‘doesn’t hold onto anything’ and thinks that seeing Mikoto be King is the only thing he truly wants, and seems to treat it flippantly when Anna says he’ll die if he stays near Mikoto — but when he’s actually dying he regrets, and he’s upset, because he did truly want to stay with everyone. He can switch between being friends with everyone in Homra on equal footing and ‘seeming like he’s watching over them,’ he clearly tries to get Fushimi and Yata to understand each other and make up but he’s also very aware when he’s pushing Fushimi’s buttons and keeps doing it anyway. He can be friends with everyone but also cruel when he wants to be, and he thinks of himself as selfish because he wants Mikoto to be King more than Mikoto himself wants it. My favorite part of Totsuka is that he could have been this perfect innocent angel martyr but he’s actually a much more complex and interesting character than that. 

And of course poor Kusanagi, with his dead friends. Honestly if there’s one complaint I have with the writing for the Homra trio it’s probably in Kusanagi, because he’s great but I don’t think the series follows through with him enough. I’ve complained before about Circle Vision giving the dreams to the wrong people, Homra’s dream should have 100% been Kusanagi’s and taken time to explore his grief, because I feel like the show at large glosses over it. Like that whole movie was everyone else being like ‘yeah so this is a dream’ and basically everyone except Sukuna and Kusanagi accept that. Kusanagi would normally be one to immediately notice it though, it’s just he clearly doesn’t want to because he wants his friends back. I love that Mikoto and Totsuka stay behind with him a bit and drink with him but I really wanted more of that, justice for Kusanagi. I like everything that they do with him before that, especially in Side Red where we get the first hints of it with Kusanagi and Shiotsu talking about ‘when your King crumbles what will you do.’ I think Kusanagi in particular has the hardest role in the trio, because Mikoto’s accepted he’ll likely die eventually due to being a King and I think Totsuka’s always assumed he’d die first, while Kusanagi is the one who really has to accept that he’s going to be the one to survive.

[xzidane]

I love him, Your Honor.

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[fenrhi]

he really gets cuter with each passing episode i can't do this anymore

[riku-wo]

"I'd like to be a tree" -Fluttershy (Over a Barrel | S1 Ep 21)

[roseaesynstylae]

Alpha-17: I don’t do “nice.”

99: *exists* Alpha-17: Shit.

[phoenixcatch7]

Persephone captain marvel au. Hear me out.

Associated with duality, reincarnation, resurrection, childhood innocence (and it getting ripped away by adults), and her 'counterpart' Kore, which is her in her returning aspect of spring, youthfulness, new life... Come on. Is that not the closest thing to Billy you've ever seen in ancient Greece? Where he gets his powers?

It all starts with Teth Adam, and his devastation at the death of his son. He finds the old paths, breaks them open, and storms down into the underworld to demand him back. His is not a new story.

But where Persephone might ordinarily be inclined to ease her husband's scorn, give the troubled mourner a chance, she is speaking to the champion of magic, the world's mightiest mortal. The chance of success is too high. The challenge would not be enough. The death was too high profile and would risk too many attempting to follow in his footsteps. The man is too unstable, too powerful, too close to the heart of magic for it to be safe - for any of him - to grant his wish and risk his false hope.

They deny him.

Enraged, implacable, Teth Adam lashes out. The battle is long and drawn out, neither side tiring even as both weaken, but Persephone, in either form, is not one of war, and she is felled as her curses shatter, her furies tossed aside like dolls. The sound of Hades' scream as Adam's surprise leaves him open flattens the rubble of their throne room.

The wounded champion escapes, hounded by cerberus and skeletons instead of his son's shade, as her husband crashes to his knees beside her. She has not a mortal soul, and thus will be going where even Death cannot reach.

But Adam killed the goddess of reincarnation, and Billy has odd dreams. He's pretty sure he needs to ease up on the stress. He's restless in winter and distracted in summer, he can sleep outside in howling storms as long as he's tucked snug in the boughs of a tree, he's had the luck of never tasting a rotten fruit. Sometimes it feels like there's ghosts in his hideouts and the kids at school try and bribe him to curse their enemies.

When he chosen to be Captain Marvel the wizard chokes on his own speech when the smoke clears. They stare at each other.

"Well," says Persephone, "that was unexpected. Hullo."

"Hello," the wizard replies, "I was under the impression..."

"I don't think the laws of interference quite apply until I'm immortal again," he says.

The wizard's relief is palpable. It's understandable, he looks ready to keel over from old age. "Can I ask...?" he gestures at the new body. It takes a second to understand.

"Oh, I'm a boy now. For a while."

And that's that.

Until green lantern is killed in battle.

[mjrtaurus]

Dadan isnt scared of a lot honestly. It’s most Marines…it’s mostly Vice Admirals..It’s mostly Garp. Someone she’s definitely not scared of though? Dragon. Despite what all the other kids seem to believe, he’s easily the least scary kid she’s ever met and that meant all things Dragon are, by definition, not scary either.

His monstrous levels of strength? Yeah makes sense, have you met his dad? The fact that he has snow white wings on his back? Odd sure but she shrugged it off when she first saw them (later she asked Mrs. Urpi and got told a brief history of the Shandians which she thought was so cool! She never says it out loud because that’s basically like calling Dragon cool…)

Walking into the Monkey Family residence one day and seeing a living breathing lump of feathers with red and white eyes definitely gave her pause but her legs didn’t shake and her teeth refused to chatter. It actually scared her a little how not scared she was. Whatever it was blinked up at her in surprise, why did it feel so oddly familiar? If she just squinted a little and turned her head just slightly to the left it sorta looked like…

Immediately she jumped into action, swiftly closing and locking the door behind her before scrambling to shut all the curtains to every window. She practically jumped on the couch and started stage whispering and shaking her little brother by the shoulders asking him if he was just that much of an airhead! Didn’t he know how people treated those who’ve eaten Zoan Devil Fruits? She quickly started to devise a plan, what if some snot nosed brats has been spying at the windows before she arrived? She head to town and beat them all down and make them swear to keep their mouths firmly shut by themselves or she'd shut them permanently. If worst came to worst and the secret got out, she’d say it was her they caught, no one liked her much anyways so it wouldn’t be a huge loss. And of course if they tried to run her out of town she could just resort back to Plan A.

She hopped off the couch ready to enact her plan when she felt the lightest tug on her sleeve and the shakiest tone of voice she had ever heard.

“Yo-You're not scared of me?”

Dadan slowly turned around eyebrows furrowed, nose scrunched, mouth in a frown. Her? Scared of her younger brother? The mere suggestion offended her but Dragon's watery eyes and fear stricken expression snapped her back to the reality of the situation.

She quickly tugged him close and rested her chin on his shoulder. It felt weird, fur and feathers and claws surrounded her senses but that only made her hug him tighter.

“Listen closely cause I’m only gonna say this once: I am not, have not and will not ever be scared of you. No matter what you look like or whatever you’re gonna look like later on, I’m still gonna be here. I’m your big sister and I’m not gonna let you think you’re some kind of monster. If anyone tells you anything different send them my way, I can set up a date with them and my metal pipe.”

She could feel tears hit her shoulder and a quiet repetition of “thank you”and “okay” in her ear.

Those tiny gossips would unfortunately have to live without fear a little while longer, her little brother needed her and Dadan wasn’t planning on leaving anytime soon.

I would like to imagine that little Dragon only likes being in his zoan transformation when he’s in the house or out in the forest.

I would also like to imagine little Dragon clambering up to the basin of the bathroom sink for a little bird bath, catching a glimpse of himself in the bathroom mirror, scaring himself into a ball of fluffed up feathers, and clinging to Urpi for the rest of the day.

And when she’s off to fix him a snack or something, that’s how Dadan finds him.

[justapassingstranger]

I'm watching welcome to demon school Iruma for the first time and I would actually die for Balam-sensei