#highest point

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Last one on Highest Point. I thought it was cute even if coincidence but this OP is so tight with an all-star team so I doubt a shred of it is coincidental. Like I said, Kiku pops up a few times in the highlight reel starting the song. One moment lined up with the kokoro/heart line down to the word.

I've gotten way too emotional about this opening even before I paid attention to the lyrics. Not like I put stock in this kind of detail, but my god does it track well with the Wano I adore. The back half is more bombastic, fun shonen OP fare though has some neat hidden ties like the line roughly "I bet you're laughing, numbed by it all" accompanying that gorgeous fireworks shot with Hyo. The first half though, "It's a pity to linger in a place like this, for the things that have been lost to lose their spark." Damn does that resonate, sounds just like something I'd want Kiku to say. Lines about making weakness your strength and serendipity are all right at home too. I love the transition is the "speaker" saying they already know it's dawn.

At this point I don't really care about ranking Wano in terms of favorite arcs. It's One Piece going weird and high art as much as it can and that's wonderful. So it's only fitting the final anime opening is such a loving, thoughtful homage that does so well at the tall order of capturing such an extravagant tapestry.

[8movemontanhas8]

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The very most important thing that people seem to forget about very sensitive and emotional people, is that, the very act of making them seem different from everybody else, difficult to deal with, walk on eggshells around them so you don’t say anything that might make them break… those actions are exactly what sends healthy intense emotional and sensitive people into stuck depression. People like this, deeply need connection just like anybody else, and those actions send the message that them being themselves, is wrong… not accepted..not the normal thing…therefore not loved, not for what they truly are or are feeling…

Maybe we have something to say with our emotions, maybe our way to communicate says something about other’s people behavior…maybe is a natural part of human beings that tends more and more to be neglected, even in modern times, because it’s bothersome, boring, too much, too dramatic, uncalled for, unfair, childish, unnecessary… 

I always say nowadays, “I’m getting tired of people”, while I know that true connections saves me, from myself and from decaying my health more. 

My strongest villain right now is the fear of what others think of me, and this is all because, people that I care about, are afraid to talk to me, and it becomes visible sometimes, I can see in their faces, how they have things on their minds, but prefer not to say, because don’t want to get in trouble… how lonesome I feel in those moments…

But what hurts the most is that when you cry or have an outburst you feel more like yourself, yet, people that love you try no to say anything anymore or try to stop this motion, believing it’s for my own good. If anything they say makes me cry or react in any way, somehow in their eyes, is bad for me… I don’t believe so… people don’t give me many chances to test my opposing theory anyway…

In my core I was always a positive child and teenager, I know from my old diaries. So naive, and always believing in people, always giving them second chances, time and time again. I haven’t changed, the difference is that life showed me how my extended hand ready to help got scared, bruised and almost cut off for good, when I did the same I always did to the people that didn't deserve that help. I’m sure it was useful for them, some points for me in that aspect I guess, just means I did a good job on helping, but along the way, I feel like I almost lost my both hands and feet. Can’t move forward, can’t go back, can’t feel who I love, can’t reach my goals.

I think “adulthood” only has meaning for society alone, because for ourselves, we stay teenagers untill we get to be childs again when we are old. Teenagers playing grownups, nobody really knowing what they are doing. Somehow thinking that way is funny to me. Imagining the world around me like that, helps me breath a little, beneath all the destructions, wars, climate chances telling me constantly that there is no future for me our my possible future family and kids…

some of you are reading this and thinking “this is too much”... well it is…but it would be easier if we could share more between each other…our fears and insecurities…are part of us, yet they are treated like a neglected child.

I dream I can wake up hopeful, maybe a little bit faithfull? My arms with ripped off hands are extending in pain searching for people that are not afraid to touch it, not afraid of my history, or my feelings, because, that’s all they are… how hurt can you get, if you truly love me? Or is it that you are afraid to get yourself hurt?

There is no power in pain, but pain can turn to hope, because we that feel it more than others, show we survived it, and then the hope becomes the power. Not pain. Yet pain is part of the process, and the better we accept it the stronger we are, but showing that to others, somehow is uncomfortable. That is where the hope dies. You being an empathic person, you know in your being, that none of it makes sense if people you love don’t believe in what you are trying to process and achieve. Not because you are influenced, but because you believe there is no gratification on reaching the highest point if there is no one there with you to share.

I always worry about writing this stuff and people seeing me as a negative person, and worry about me, so I normally try to end in a high note, but honestly…there is only one feeling coming to me with these words: serenity. I feel serene, I accept my feelings no matter how overwhelming and welcome them, because I know I am the only one strong enough to do so. I am not neglecting my child anymore.

[useless-englandfacts]

of course i don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here but super duper rare british… w?

[prokopetz]

I’m not sure how much of it is innate and how much of it is imitative, but a thing I’ve always found interesting about feline vocalisation is that they enunciate for emphasis in pretty much the same way that humans do, so when a cat is being emphatic you can literally hear the exclamation point.

[egophiliac]

just thinking about hair and faces

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

He is at his limit.

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[starry-bi-sky]

Out of Context Stuff for a Danyal Al Ghul au i haven't posted - Pit Beast Danyal

Damian, 13: Look, Danyal, -- I am so sorry for everything that happened between us in the League, I hope you can forgive me.

Danny, 10 (allegedly): (has been secretly plotting to murder Damian this whole time, is still gonna do it obvs, but is going to make it significantly less painful now)

Danny: I-- of course, older brother. :]

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Bruce: what do you have there, Damian?

Damian:

Danny: (a hulking 10ft pit beast standing beside him, growling idly with ram horns gouging out his eyes and a second set of horns jutting into the air, spines down his back, and a long, spiked tail with an animalistic, skull-like face)

Damian, who smuggled him in (they've made amends): a smoothie, father

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Damian: this is my little brother Danyal, i murdered him when he was five. He festered in rage for the last half-a decade, took over a League mountain base in Switzerland, murdered everyone inside and then tried to murder me when I went to investigate with Drake.

Danny: hello!

Damian: we're cool now

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Damian: thoughts on resurrection

Danny, (a full ghost): i will succeed in murdering you if you try it

Damian: we'll put a pin in it then

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Danny (still instilled with League values): why don't we just murder him??

Damian, on patrol (Danny followed him): we don't murder people, Danyal

Danyal:,,,,are you sick, Dami?? Have you been possessed? Why not!?

(There is raucous laughing through the comms)

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Danny, five, pre-death: Dami! :D

Danny, dead, vengeful: Older brother (:

Danny, post-forgiveness: Dami! :]

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For some actual context: Danny is fully dead in this au, its a result of the classic DPxDC Demon Twins "death duel" trope but instead of Danny getting revived, he stays fully dead. Danny was five, Damian was seven. His ghost lingered though, and due to the proximity of the pits his ghost steadily absorbed the ambient energy it was letting off. The pits are not corrupted ectoplasm in this au, it's just liquid ecto.

Which means Danny's corruption from an angry and hurt little ghost boy to an unrecognizable monster is from his own doing. It's a result of him stewing in his hurt and anger for years, it physically warped him. He's very powerful. Danny can travel between League Bases but chose a small, out-of-the-way base in the Swiss mountains to fester in and then just. Never Left.

His influence steeped into the very foundations of the building, allowing him to transform and warp the rooms and hallways for his own bidding, Meaning he could turn it into a seemingly unending labyrinth if he so wished to, and block the entrance.

Eventually, blinded (both metaphorically and physically) by his own rage, Danny grew powerful enough to appear physically in the living realm and attacked everyone in the base, slaughtering them all and leaving the base abandoned. He attacks anyone who dares enter -- whether that be other league members, or the unfortunate hiker who stumbled across the base. His conscious is steeped into every nook and cranny of the building, there is nowhere you can hide where he can't find. Nobody leaves without his explicit say so. Nobody ever does.

Him appearing as ten years old before Damian in the skits above is his own physical doing. First it was to prevent Damian from being suspicious of him. Damian initially thought Danny was revived with the pits, he was too busy with his own training afterwards to notice that Danny never showed up again, and when he did notice, he assumed it was because Danny was too ashamed of his loss to face him. He'd always forget to ask about him.

Then it becomes a personal choice to appear as ten. It's how old he would've been had he been alive.

danny forgiving Damian is kinda for an offshoot branch of the main au. Whereas the main au takes the form of a ps4 first person horror game where Damian and Tim are investigating the Base for Plot Reasons. There's no sign of the rumored "monster" living inside until the end, where Danny, who was found inside the Base and has been happily "helping" them look around, manages to persuade Damian into splitting off from Tim in order to "show him something."

This something turns out to be Danny revealing that he never really forgave Damian for that fight, and he reveals through a horrifying transformation, that he was the monster the whole time. Which the game subtly hints at throughout as Danny's strange behavior becomes harder to ignore.

First from his insistence to only refer to Damian as "older brother" (when before the duel he always called him Damian or Dami), to him right off the bat denying the existence of a monster when questioned. ("There's no monster here, older brother. It's just me.") To other various things, like his knowledge of the outside world not matching up to modern times or things going on with the league outside of the base, or what happened to the other league members.

This whole idea was inspired by the song "Scylla" from Epic the Musical, with Danyal being the voice of Scylla as well as Odysseus, while Damian stands as Eurylochus. The instrumentals after Scylla says "hello" is him turning into the pit beast, and Scylla's "drown in your sorrow and fears" part is danny, as the pit beast, snarling at Damian while he attacks him.

There's a Good Ending, a Bad Ending, and a True Ending. The Bad Ending results in Damian being killed by Danny, it happens when Damian decides not to question or suspect Danny and treats him kindly. The Bad Ending is a cutscene, where Danny kills Damian quick and painlessly.

Meanwhile the Good Ending is Damian killing Danny. This is a boss fight, and it happens when Damian treats Danny coldly and suspiciously the whole time. Danny as a result, decides to make Damian's death painful as he had planned to, which is why it's a boss fight because it only causes him to double down on his anger.

The True Ending is Damian escapes with Tim. It happens when you treat Danny warmly up until the last minute, where when Danny proposes to Damian that he wants to show him something, Damian goes to talk to Tim and finally, reluctantly agrees that something is off with Danny, and that he'll be careful going in. It starts off with the boss fight until a third through, where it then changes to a cutscene where Tim manages to get the door open and Damian escapes out. It's then a chase scene down a never-ending hallway as the building actively works to keep you trapped inside. But you eventually make it to the exit so long as you avoid all the projectiles and doors.

Remember when I mentioned that Danny only lets people leave when he wants them to? That's where the treating Danny kindly throughout the game comes into play. It causes him to second guess himself and, eventually, reawaken and strengthen the love and admiration he had for Damian prior to his murder. It's why in the Bad Ending he kills Damian quickly -- because by then, he loves him enough that he doesn't want him to suffer, but is still so consumed by his rage and need for vengeance that he kills him anyways. That quiet part is what allows Damian (and Tim) to find the exit, because some part of Danny still loves Damian enough that he wants him to live.

The True Ending ends with a cutscene of Damian and Tim tumbling out into the snow/grass outside of the base. Damian looks up back to the entrance to see Danny standing there. But rather than a ten year old boy, there's a little five year old Danyal Al Ghul instead. He stares at Damian emotionlessly, blood seeping from his chest, staining his clothes, and little, bloody sword in his hands and tearstains on his cheeks, before he turns away and disappears back into the building.

[cobaltfluff]

I genuinely thought it was his stage name ???? who names their child the equivalent of herlock sholmes??????

bonus because my joker is, unfortunately, an idiot:

[thottybrucewayne]

People get so pissy when they're told to be mindful not to overstep when discussing the oppression of a community they aren't a part of and it's sooooo obvious too like, how are you being supportive if you can't take criticism from the group of people you're "supporting"

[fiepige]

Compilation of EVERY single time they changed Hobie's filter in the digital version:

Left: Theatrical release Right: Digital release

You might have to click on some of them to get a better look at Hobie, sadly I don't have a video editor that allows me to make better edits than these :')

[julijbee]

girlbossing too close to the sun.

[karvakera]

drawing gojo every day as stupid pet memes until THE shibuya incident: day 16

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - San Fransokyo

[emotinalsupportturtle]

How much did they have to pay Hugh Laurie to say this line with such disgust?

[seagulley]

Kaija at Gaiziņkalns - the highest point in Latvia. ...we live in a very flat country.

[mapsontheweb]

Map of tallest mountain on each continent