#he is so selfless here

[ruporas]

endless love!

[ID Two drawing collage pages of Vash and Wolfwood from Trigun Maximum. In the first collage, top corner, Wolfwood looks upwards disgruntled with a flushed expression, lying against a pillow, as his hair is being pet by Vash's hand. Next shows Vash and Wolfwood from behind, Wolfwood with his top bare and hickies covers around his nape area. Vash lifts hair away from his nape and asks, "More?" Wolfwood nervously says, "No." Next is a side profile of Vash, his arms around Wolfwood from behind while Wolfwood rests his hands against Vash's arms. Next to this are two smaller drawings; Vash turns to Wolfwood and says repetitively, "Wolfwood, Wolfwood..." Wolfwood, not looking at him, says "What?" He finally turns his head and looks shocked as he exclaims, "So close!" Vash says plainly, "You just noticed?" Below these is a drawing of Vash and Wolfwood sitting together as Vash kisses and hugs him from behind with his right arm around Wolfwood's neck and his left hand around his side. He also has his right leg propped against Wolfwood's knee. Bottom of the page has a comic. Wolfwood looks annoyed, speaking to himself, "Where is that idiot?! Need to get out of town before--" A chat bubble exclaims, "Wolfwood!" The next panel shows Vash running from the townspeople, small text saying "Get him! Vash the stampede!". Wolfwood, mad and about to pull the Punisher off his shoulder, says, "Argh, you fucking dumbass!" Vash exclaims, "Ah, don't!" before pulling Wolfwood into a quick kiss. He then tugs on Wolfwood's collar and says, "There's no need to shoot, just run!" Wolfwood stammers, "R-right..." with a flushed, dumbstruck expression.

Second collage; Top left, Wolfwood spoons Vash in bed, his arms around his chest and the other beneath Vash's head. Vash has his hand on top of Wolfwood's as he sleeps while Wolfwood lies awake. Behind this drawing is faint sketches of Vash's face. In a small panel, Wolfwood hides in Vash's neck as he mumbles to himself "Stop. Stop thinking embarrassing things, Wolfwood..." Beneath this drawing is another of them in bed, Vash now turned to Wolfwood and a hand on his cheek as he kisses him good morning. In a simpler style, Vash wraps an arm tightly around wolfwood with the text "snork mimimi" next to him while Wolfwood says, "We need to get up. Spikey! HEY!" In this corner, there are faint sketches of Vash and Wolfwood; one of them looking at each other; Vash kissing Wolfwood's forehead; Wolfwood saying, "Hand" with an outstretch hand and Vash says "ok" behind a drawing of them holding hands, both turned away from each other shyly. Next is a 4 panel comic. First shows Wolfwood's face getting squished by Vash's hands with the text "squish" around his face. Next, his cheeks are stretched with the text "Chee--" Wolfwood then hits Vash's face with his palm, exclaimining "That hurts!" The last shows Vash on Wolfwood's lap, smiling to himself as he continues to have Wolfwood's face in his hands. Next to this is another comic; A close up of their hands, Vash holding Wolfwood's with both of his. He then kisses the palm of Wolfwood's palm and says, "They're soft!" Wolfwood looks at him with flushed cheeks, "There's no way that's true..." END ID]

[clairedaring]

Liar! Why would P'Joe help you? At first, he wasn't going to help me. But he wanted to help my baby

MY STAND-IN (2024) | 1.11

[white-weasel]

Before I watched Saw IV and V, all I knew about Hoffstrahm was that they had a bit of an antagonistic relationship to each other (that caused people to ship them) and there was a scene where they’re in a Saw trap together and one of them gets into a glass coffin to survive while the other subsequently dies

All this to say: I thought the whole glass coffin scene was supposed to be Strahm sacrificing himself by shoving Hoffman into the box and Hoffman watching in horror, trying to open the coffin but being unable to… and in hindsight I could not have been more wrong about any of the context of the scene lol

[blazingstar24]

And if I say that both Anakin and Thrawn suffered the same childhood trauma and it manifests in completely different ways that makes their dynamic very interesting, what then? The loss of a family member and how they reacted to it is crucial in their characters. It is the loss of Shmi that turns Anakin’s love into a possessive, obsessive, abandonment fearing mess. It is the loss of Vurika/Borika, that informs Thrawn’s view of himself and others as just assets to a larger cause.

Regardless if Anakin could or couldn’t have saved his mother if the council listened, Shmi’s death in his mind is framed as an event in that Anakin was too late, he wasn’t there. It is a loss that turns into this idea that if he doesn’t protect what he loves, someone or something will take it from him. We see this in the Rush Clovis arc, we see it in the way he immediately jumps to jealousy at Obi Wan in ROTS despite Obi Wan never having such a relation with Padme. For Anakin, loss is always framed as someone took something from me. Even platonically, we see this in the Rako Hardeen arc. And it is evident that this started after Shmi’s death because Anakin does not have the same sort of hatred for Maul who killed Quigon.

For Anakin, it will always be that someone took something from me, so I have to do something about that. And it’s why Palpatine can manipulate him so easily, because all Palps has to do is point at someone, give him a target to blame and say kill.

For Thrawn, yes it is slightly different as Borika isn’t dead. But it is a loss nevertheless. Thrawn on the flip side of Anakin, registers loss as something inevitable and thus why harbor deep attachments? Not to say he doesn’t care because we know he does. Thrass, Ar’alani, and Eli all speak to the fact that he does very much care and love. But in every instance, he does keep them at a distance, he pushes them away just as they get close. And it stems from Borika because the reason why he loses her is so she could serve the Ascendancy. It is not a choice she made and he knows this. And that informs why everything he does is for this goal, because all he knows is that everything, even things that caused him pain is supposed to be for this goal.

Where Anakin sought to justify the loss in blaming himself and then others, Thrawn justifies the loss by trying to give the pain purpose. If it meant something then he shouldn’t be upset. It is what it is. Yet, just like how Anakin’s possessiveness leads to his downfall by Palpatine, by pushing all his friends away instead of keeping them close, Thrawn leaves himself vulnerable and surrounded by his enemies instead. All those friends will serve the larger goal, the Ascendancy, but who is left looking to him?

Idk what I’m really trying to say other than yeah that’s some interesting character dynamics. The idea that both these characters are defined by loss as much as they are also defined by hope as their shining moments of good.

[cosmicbucket]

evil?? overworked??? you decide <3

[rodentbrains]

the way sidestep ortega and chen are forever tied to each other by heartbreak mostly/especially because they cannot talk about it to each other or those who weren't there. the way that dannys feelings reflect a general truth which is that as long as they dont talk about it there will always be a wall between them and everyone else. the way they don't even get the full comfort of the quiet knowledge that at least these two other people know exactly what you went trough due to the telepathic nature of the event. the way we know the least about heartbreak from ortega's perspective who came closest to experiencing it "objectively"

[lesbiankordian]

you know how Dazai makes references to the princesses? he should now make one about Chuuya and the Little Mermaid:

her natural habitat is water

she's ginger

she lost her voice (and Chuuya is under sb's control now)

she became a different species at one point in her life

she was used for her voice (and Chuuya for his ability)

also Dazai'd laugh his ass off if he called Chuuya 'little'

[tango-but-everywhere]

o7 Holsten, Adequate and Season 8!Tango. I know I still miss you.

It’s been one year since Tango, Season 8, episode 22. ‘To Save The World!’

[ID: a minecraft screenshot taken from hermitcraft 8’s moon’s surface. Tango and Adequate the horse are both looking at the burning ruins of the rocket ship that brought them there. Both Tango and Adequate are in their astronaut clothes. Tango is on the left of the image, facing right and looking away from the viewer. Adequate’s closer to the rocket, and further from the viewer. End ID]

[catsvkis]

it's so lovely to think that even if izuku rn is suppressing his true emotions and thoughts from his own situation and everything that's happened, he's still Fully Aware of how to handle katsuki and react to him the way he knows katsuki needs from him. like his knee jerk reaction is to console and reassure him (because his strong, brave katsuki is crying like a little boy and being so vulnerable in front of him) while being so considerate as to not make him embarrassed afterwards. he'll always be present for kacchan.

[greenerteacups]

How do you feel about the fact that Bellatrix was Voldemort’s concubine/lover?

This ask prompted a real coleslaw of emotions.

Top level, I can't take the Cursed Child seriously as canon. I'm a purist about text to begin with — no word of God or adaptation can change what you put in the original books, and if the author wanted the text to be different, they had their shot — but, even if not, the Cursed Child is bad. Like, it's My Immortal type bad. It's the kind of bad that makes you glad it didn't come out closer to the original books + movies, or it could have had a Game of Thrones-type cratering effect on discussion and fandom. The Albus/Scorpius dynamic is cute — everything else about it sucks. It is a no-fly zone for good ideas. The Golden Trio are all twisted into funhouse mirrors, Voldemort has a daughter, and most perversely, the absolutely horrific mutilation of Cedric Diggory's character (in no world did that boy become a Death Eater! he was KIND AND DECENT! and he DIED ANYWAY! that was THE FUCKING POINT!!!!!!!).

Second layer: let's say that Bellatrix/Voldemort is canon and explored beyond the writers going "whoops gotta find a working womb for Voldemort's kid." That's a really interesting dynamic. It's a horrible dynamic! It's a motherfucker of an age gap to begin with, and it would have started when she was in her late teens to early twenties! Plus, she was married. To another man. So that would have to be explained? Because she obviously wasn't always so mindlessly devoted to Voldemort that she couldn't entertain connections with others? But that's not to say that I'm against it as a narrative decision. Tom Riddle is (captain obvious moment incoming) a Bad, Bad Man, and the idea of him seducing a younger woman is actually an understandable extension of his connection with his followers that's not explored in the books. Because, like: the Death Eaters are a cult! Riddle runs a death cult. Cults use sex to manipulate members. One of the oldest tricks in the book.

Third layer: this could be a kind of interesting move for Riddle, who as a villain is never developed all that much, and doesn't have much in the way of humanizing qualities. Because Riddle is anti-love as such. He doesn't believe in it, and if you believe Dumbledore, he's not capable of it. (I don't really love this take on the character, but I think that Riddle thinks this is the case, and Dumbledore is so grizzled and jaded by the years that he believes him. Dumbledore's great failure with Tom was never seeing past the person Tom wanted him to see — or, rather, looking at Tom and seeing Grindlewald when he should have seen Harry.) So for him to harbor enough affection for Bellatrix to take her as his (only?) lover, when he doesn't seem to need it to convince her to join him (and he doesn't really need her support, anyway) creates a wrinkle in the Story of Voldemort as we're told. It suggests that either Tom or Dumbledore (or both) is lying about his capacity for love— or at least his capacity for human attachment. And that Tom isn't so unique as either of them would like to believe.

Also, it adds a wrinkle to Bellatrix's character, too: even if they met when she was an adult, there's manipulation happening there that's clearly one-sided and unequal. or at least, there probably is. and if it's consensual, or if she aggressively pursued him— that's interesting, too. my point being: this isn't a bad idea, necessarily. it's a bad idea because i don't think the writers of the Cursed Child thought about any of that when they were trying to find a womb for the Voldebaby.

[gayofthefae]

I think the Van Scene was also important for some of the audience for WillEl. To just emphasize once and for all that while he may have been a bit petty towards her at the roller rink, when it really comes down to it over Mike, he doesn’t let them be “pitted against each other” and sacrifices himself for her happiness as well.

It’s so sad because he shouldn’t feel like he has to sacrifice his happiness and there was absolutely a way for him to share his love as his own without it being a competition or even romantic but it is also important to have that emphasis that he is prioritizing what he thinks Mike wants, yes, but he is also prioritizing his sister. Nobody talks about that. 

It’s for both of them. To him it’s not just deprioritizing himself, it’s that the happiness is two against one anyways. Either they’re happy and he’s not and they don’t have to know he’s not or he’s happy and they’re not but he’ll know they’re not so he won’t be either, in his mind as the options. So he hears that Mike is struggling in his relationship because he’s insecure and he validates him by saying what he believes El feels and has just also not expressed in so many words. But because Will spoke for them, we don’t actually know what they’re thinking in relation to each other because even with the speech, El and Mike still have not had a conversation about it. But Will still basically pushed them back together. Both of them. For both of them.

Idk, people just forget that he’s also sacrificing his happiness for El’s.

[needle-noggins]

I got so caught up in part 1 that I forgot to do part 2 of my Vol. 7 analysis! This time a little more about baby Knives and then adult Vash, just casually altering my very brain chemistry.

KNIVES. BOY. SHUTTING YOURSELF IN IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU. Remember what I said in part 1 about Knives avoiding Rem and holding it all back? Vash may have lashed out and tried to kill Rem (instantly regretting it), but sweet sensitive Knives held himself together so that he could try to kill Rem later... and he succeeded. Here Rem tries to get him to open up, but it's too little, too late. He's made up his mind. She grossly misunderstood how bad the situation was.

In case you didn't already know, don't do this. Don't bottle everything up. Find someone you can trust and tell them what's heavy. Don't be Knives. Don't let your trauma twist your thoughts and actions out of control. Can we read Knives as a cautionary tale, even just for a moment?

Now, as an adult... For as much as he's quiet and cunning, he's still detached from reality. He can't see, or maybe he can't admit, that he's angry because he's fearful. He can't understand that, if he had an ounce of reflection, he would see that he's not better than the humans who he claim have no self-control, are all terrible, no nuance allowed. Or, perhaps he tells himself that since he's an Independent, and therefore something higher, that he's right by default.

A bit aside - I'm really surprised no one has brought up the fact that the twins are half-plant when they - especially Knives - talks as if he's entirely plant. He's completely ignoring the fact that he's human in many ways, even if not in full. Independents are weird, though, so I may be wrong and maybe the thought that they're half-human/half-plant is a translation thing from Stampede or whatever, I don't know.

I DO also love that this monologue comes around the same time that Knives tries to literally absorb Vash (bringing our symbolic assault count to 3) (way to go, boys) (stop walking into this situation, Vash). Knives complains about humans being parasites, meanwhile ya boy is trying to absorb his sister plants and his brother, trying to feed off their power, taking everything for himself. What a hypocrite.

Then Vash and Knives have their little fight, which, oof, Vash thinking that this is the end of the line for him is so painful. We're only halfway through the manga and Vash thinks he's about to die already. It just prolongs the pain. Then we get Vash's line about running away and settling down with humans when it calms down, a line that Stampede took basically verbatim, and I love it so much. Vash doesn't talk about his future much, but he foresees himself always running, always hoping for a quiet, easy life in some nebulous, untouchable tomorrow. Once people gain compassion for him and the plants. Once they finally listen. Until then, he'll just keep trying.

And, for all of Vash's suicidal ideations, for all of his grief and regret, he stubbornly tries to believe in a better tomorrow. For all he has to live with in his past, he can still use his hands now, make someone else's life easier. Through this he can himself feel better. There's a true thing about being altruistic in that it makes you happier as well. Compassion begets compassion. Hope begets hope. This is set so wonderfully within the same volume as Rem's story and drives home the way in which Vash took her words to heart. Yes, Rem was flawed just as everyone else is, but she tried to impart some goodness in these boys, and for what it's worth, it worked with Vash. And, is it really all that bad, to try to do what you can, to use your hands for good, to try to make someone else's life easier? To lessen someone's suffering? Altruism may be Vash's greatest virtue, and if that isn't admirable, then I don't know what is.

This boy is quickly escaping "haha blorbo" territory and heading straight into "irreversible impact on my very soul".

[longagoitwastuesday]

ngl it sort of pisses me off the way adults regard Gojo in Jujutsu Kaisen at times. Which could be a very interesting and poignant point in a good way if well written, but as it is it becomes mainly just frustrating and sad in a negative way.

Nanami saying Gojo never cared about anything or anyone other than himself crashes interestingly with Kusakabe saying the whole situation was just all his fault because he refused to kill Itadori. The students are very aware of those aspects of Gojo's personality, but overall they seem to regard him with way more kindness and fondness even when at their rudest, not truly coinciding with either Nanami's or Kusakabe's views.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[chilapis]

save me man with the personality of a loyal hound. man with the personality of a loyal hound save me

[ice-sculptures]

like ripping off a band-aid