#for the whole thing

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

blargh blargh BLARGH. bloom into you rant touko my aro-coded theater queer im suddenly salty for you

the live reaction experience of getting to the last chapters of the Bloom Into You yuri manga as they were being released and thinking with increasing baffled passion that Yuu and Sayaka should've jumped from mutually respectful rivalry over how to best be a friend to Touko, to cozy not dramatic very competitive girlfriends with each other while their tall dark tragic theater girl realizes her one true love was the stage all along

Touko's story arc was so much bigger in scope than a confession of love to someone who's ancillary to all of it could ever satisfyingly wrap up (to ME) (my opinion means nothing except to me sself) she felt like a fully completed character with romance slapped on top last minute like a discount price tag sticker

her whole thing about being the one declaring her love and asking for kisses specifically with a girl who thinks she can't love anyone and then we find out Touko's been an actress this whole time not coping with grief by pretending to be her dead big sister only to find out said sister wasn't so extraordinary actually and Touko's perfect persona is almost nothing like her and Touko's need to do and be everything her sister couldn't is a whole thing

and who better to act out the quintessential highschool love and lust that you think you should be into but just can't bring yourself to try out, than with a partner who'll never be hurt by it not being real. What is more ace or aro than experiencing things you personally don't click with via a fictional character you can inhabit without worrying about long term real life consequences or connections to the real you, and finding out that it CAN be fun in that situation, with that distance

Touko's attracted to someone who says she can't fall in love and Touko makes that a requirement of their relationship that Yuu won't fall in love with her

(i know i know there's a Lot of reasons for her to do this i don't care im lost in the aro vibes)

but then Yuu does fall in love because whoops maybe she was gay this whole time after all and just didn't feel anything for the guy who asked her out

meanwhile Touko's long time bestie confesses HER love for Touko too

and im reading this screaming LET THE ARO-CODED GIRL ESCAPE THIS MADNESS LET THEsE TWO DATE EACH OTHER AND LEAVE HER BE!!!

by the end theater girl is out there moving past her trauma living her best normal girl life as a stage actress who's allowed to be imperfect off stage, and she has no idea her bestie had gotten a girlfriend until Yuu tells her

then a side story comes out and Sayaka the former Touko unrequited romantic suitor ended dating a girl who looks Exactly Like Yuu

in my head there's a sequel when they're in their thirties figuring out Hey Wait A Second with a dash of Maybe The AroAce Who Likes Having Girlfriends Was Touko All Along

(maybe Yuu and Sayaka should date about it) (maybe Touko can kiss her friends sometimes and go on dates with them for fun without it having to be romantic) (maybe Yuu's athletic childhood bestie meets the Yuu look alike and Sayaka finally gets one amicable fully mutual break up under her belt)

maybe my problem is that writers put so much effort into the pre-relationship but then treat the confession as the end, the resulting happiness a boring given, and almost never reward me with actually getting to see what the relationship itself looks like, when it's the whole thing I spent all this time waiting for and cheering on. Which makes the relationship feel empty and hollow (to me) compared to the other connections that DID get shown and established and grown into

maybe that's a silly thing to think about a highschool romance story.

maybe this is why im more and more only reading stories with relationships already established pre-canon so i don't have to worry about burning energy on something that won't make me go !!! by the end of it

maybe there's also stories where, even though the characters aren't officially together yet, they're still together enough for their dynamic to shift and settle into something that FEEELS like what they'll have for the rest of their lives no matter if they've confessed to each other or not

maybe bloom into you was very well made and STILL missed the mark for me so hard i stopped reading the entire genre, because if something THIS GOOD still could fundamentally not work for me, im just probably reading in the entirely wrong section of the romance isle

maybe i need to start sleeping again my brain feels like a gently poked sunny side up egg in a frying pan

[im-tempted]

This is the song stickers

I need your actual genuine reaction to the first line

It's... I don't know

[lycanthropdyke]

I got an award from my hs for like a $100 which was very nice! My mom then told me about how when she graduated she got a brand new kind of scholarship which was also! $100 dollars!!!!! Money is fucking awful!!!!

[strangenewfriends]

It’s Harry’s House, and we’re all just living in it. Today brings a new look at the HA HA HA collection designed by Harry Styles and Gucci (plus a mess of behind-the-scenes photos from the campaign shoot shared exclusively with GQ). Styles and Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele have dreamt up many ways to describe this collection: it’s the result of the two playing like kids, it’s their dream wardrobe designed through WhatsApp and over glasses of wine, and “it’s more about life,” Michele said during the presentation of the collection back in June. Either way, what’s evident is that the clothes that Styles models in this new campaign are killer.

The new HA HA HA campaign is an extension of the years-long project Styles and Gucci have been organically working towards for years: an effort to tip us closer towards “masculine transformation,” said a press release from the brand. What started as Styles embracing his role as one of Michele’s muses and wearing a custom Gucci dress on the cover of Vogue is culminating in this collaboration. “I’m so happy to see this project finally come to life,” Styles said in a statement. “I’ve known Alessandro for years now, and he’s always been one of my favorite people. I’m always inspired watching him work, so doing this collaboration with my friend was very special to me.”

In the campaign, Styles is having a lot of fun: he poses next to a slender tree wearing a checked Prince of Wales coat, discovers a chair in a pinstriped suit, languishes against a couch wearing a double-breasted jacket and flared trousers in pale shades of plum and teal, and finds time to sit on a mountain of clothes from the collection while wearing a yellow checkered suit dotted with cherries. The campaign also highlights graphic tees with stern cartoon bears, patchwork leather jackets, and serious tailoring, while Styles’s painted nails are ever present. Styles is almost always carrying a purse, too: the Gucci Bamboo 1947, which “embeds within the narrative like a beacon of the renewal of the masculine world,” the press release said. Whatever it is, Styles makes you want one.

The suits in the collection, meanwhile, are classic Styles: big and ‘70s inspired with free-flowing flared pants. “I put on [Harry] a lot of suits for years and years,” Michele said in June. “And he was the most eccentric and free guy on earth.” Styles’s fashion inspiration lies in the rock gods who came to prominence in the ‘70s. “We were sharing for a long time images of eccentric men from the era,” Michele said. “And so we went really close to the things that are very difficult to find in vintage, or things that apparently belong to an era that, in a way, doesn’t exist anymore.”

One thing that’s striking about the collection, and a way it departs from Gucci’s other popular collaborations with brands like The North Face and Palace, is the lack of the Italian label’s signature logomania. There is hardly a logo, insignia, or the word “Gucci” in sight. And why would you need one?The HA HA HA collection’s tailoring, colors, and playful pajamas ooze with an unmistakable Gucciness—a quality clearly shaped and influenced by Styles.

[dionysus-complex]

funniest Kamala Harris VP picks go

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[s-lycopersicum]

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[great-and-small]

Do y’all wanna hear about some absolutely crazy shit going down in the birding world right now

[constantine-2005]

mfs when a male athlete has a genetic advantage: 😍😍😘🥰🥰😘😘☺️☺️😜😜😜😍😍😜☺️

mfs when a female athlete has a genetic advantage: 😱😱😱😱🤬🤬🤬😡😡😨😨😭😭😭😭🤬🤬🤬🤬

[wirefoxedterrier]

Btw, non UK users here, would be genuinely super helpful if you could boost posts relating to the far right violence happening and also counter protests. A lot of UK users don’t really follow each other, and also it just helps to increase the chance of people who could go to counter protests seeing posts about what’s happening when. I know posts about our politics; and non USAmerican politics really; don’t get a lot of traction on here, but like despite the UScentrism of the English speaking user base it’s really helpful and beneficial to share these things. The situation is likely downright horrifying to those being targeted right now and it really should be a priority for us to go out and counter this to the best of our abilities

[dzknik]

im sooo late but here’s armenian miku!!

(bonus under the cut)

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

Today I saw a pic of a baby cowbird next 2 its nest "parent" and it was so much bigger!!!!! Which is the sort of thing that gets normal people upset about the injustice of nest parasitism but makes *me* worry if baby cowbirds get bird dysmorphia

[typewriter-worries]

The New York Times did a piece titled 100 Small Acts of Love and these are some of my favorites 💕

[otto-doctavius]

old man in da shorty shorts

Bonus:

[bananonbinary]

for ages i thought i didnt like drag because of internalized homophobia but it turned out i just don't like bright lights and loud music and really visually complicated things

spd is homophobic i guess is what im saying

[solarwreathe]

in another universe they could have been playing at the beach