#him cRYING ABOUT HIS REFLECTION

[haine-kleine]

don't mind my self indulgence but uhh Touya being healed with the combination of rapidly evolving technology, healing quirks and Endeavor's funding to the point it's like the fire on Sekoto never happened. he looks in the mirror and doesn't recognize the person that looks back at him. the burns were such an intrinsic part of him, even before he became Dabi, even before he woke up sixteen years old with stitches all over his face, back when he was a child and trained his fire with the parts of his body that he he could easily hide under his clothes.

it's nothing like when he woke up from the coma and looked in the mirror for the first time, seeing something his mind struggled to comprehend as himself, the too-old boy with desperation in his eyes and a garish smile cut directly into his face belonging in his worst nightmare that has come true. accepting it back then was easy, the wretched feeling of brokenness following his every footstep since he was four years old. the outside matching his insides was a relief, in a twisted way, as much as it hurt to imagine his family looking at him and not recognizing Touya, as sorrowful as it was to live through that fantasy.

this- just feels wrong. he doesn't see himself in this new, unfamiliar face. what he sees is rather a mosaic of his family's features: his mother's soft white hair, his father's eyes, Fuyumi's eyelashes and Natsuo's stubborn eyebrows. the combination of so familiar but foreign features combined into a mask that was plastered on his own ruined face.

he hated that forlorn looking boy's picture sitting on his altar and he hated thinking that that's how his family remembered him. it's the very same boy's older face that he sees in the mirror.

Touya was never this pitiful, desolate boy. he was always burning, even when the others couldn't see it. being stuck with this hurts worse than being faced with the consequences of his reckless self-abandoning training.

and worst of all, he knows that if he ever starts using his quirk, the cremation process will start all over again.

[here-there-everyfuckenwhere]

I saw this post the other day that said something about how back in The Day, most sitcoms were about a group of friends or a family, and very little was ever said about their jobs and what they do for a living. And now all sitcoms are set in a workplace and very little is said about people’s lives outside of work and I just wanna say; Ever since I read that post, I have been ripping my hair out.

Because like. Yeah. That’s basically it, isn’t it? In the 80s and 90s it was all about hanging out with your friends at the coffee house or spending time with your family after work and on the weekends, and that was the most important thing in these characters lives, and now it’s just. Work. Friends outside of work? Don’t exist. Family outside of work? Don’t matter. “Workplace romances” is such an overused trope nowadays because these characters don’t meet anyone outside of work. And it’s never really fulfilling work, either. Normally it’s an office or someplace where people wish they were doing something else.

Kicking, screaming, biting ect ect.

[russell-crowe]

i desperately want to gif these but the file keeps corrupting but 💗this made me so happy in his doc

[skhardwarevers1]

got that dog in me (scared. Tired. Trusts approximately three and a half people. Did I say tired)

[larabar]

Sonic the Hedgehog and why he's impossible to write Perfectly

(including me i could not get him right if my life depended on it)

is this me giving up on trying to find the perfect way to write him? Maybe

i've been making lots and lots of notes on a bunch of his characterizations and the differences between them, including what makes any of them Better than the others and it's been .inconclusive

but i think ive found the problem. i can't accurately describe him as a character in general in one sentence without getting too specific or listing stuff like 'fast'

and i think that's one of the only things that stays consistent between all the different media he's in

one of my favorite examples of all this is sonic's lack of a solid theme. he has themes, yes. but they change with every game and tend to be the main theme Of the game. not just sonic. so he doesn't really have one of his own like most other characters.

just gonna plug this video again. it talks about sonic leitmotifs and character themes and how they're used to define each character and it's really cool check it out :]

all this comes with a blessing and a curse. there's always someone who will like one characterization and someone else who will Absolutely Despise it. and honestly that's just sonic's thing. especially with sonic media as a whole

there are definitely ways to mess up sonic's character. it's been done many times. but that's when the writers completely dismiss sonic's core values (but let's be honest even those are flexible and everyone still does them differently)

so. if someone has the golden formula to writing sonic please please please i am on my hands and knees i need to know how it's done

but until i figure it out. im just gonna stick to this. ->

TLDR: sonic is so complex and so simple at the same time and i cannot find any one way to describe him. there are infinite ways to write him and it's honestly better to just not worry about getting it perfect and have fun with it :]

[orcelito]

Like I think peak Naruto for me was the episode after Asuma died where we followed Shikamaru around as he processed and grieved. It was all just daily life, but it was so heavy and GOOD. And then afterwards, with his plan to counter Hidan. Just. It was the Peak.

Meanwhile here we are, the ten tails summed (despite the fact that it's supposed to require the eight tails and nine tails too?? But it only has a portion of their chakra??? But that's enough for some reason???? Idfk the logic does not make sense) and everything is so high stakes and there are world shaking explosions over and over and over again and Honestly the kyuubi is fuckin carrying them through this fight, they'd be Absolutely Fucked without him, but even he's gotta have a limit right??? He said the ten tails is much stronger than him. So what the fuck are they supposed to do???? I'm tired of the huge stakes and the constant increasing of power (this isn't even including Kaguya, which I'm Really not looking forward to for how bullshit it is)

I'm watching it anyways. Because I want to finally be able to say I've finished naruto. But God I can really feel why I never finished it throughout all these years. Ugh!!!!!!

[abyssalpriest]

Damnit lev lmfao. I was thinking about Shiva wearing corpse ash being resonant for other reasons, something about his relationship with the Bright Skinned Ones and death and whatever. No, no. More fucking importantly: Oh I wonder why Shiva is known for. you know. wearing bodies. his appearance is a mass of bodies joined together. yeah

[ishouldreallybeelsewhere]

Episode one of Supernatural is so flawed that, had I watched it for the first time last night (instead of for the third), I would not have have watched the second. Ever. The flaws are things I simply didn't pick up on when I was thirteen, and memory glazed over with emotional attachment. I understand why these flaws are there, what the writers tried and failed to do through clumsy dialogue and strange character decisions. There's no subtlety. Everything Sam says is direct exposition, specifically the things that he would not have to say to his brother.

I do not do reviews so that's all I'm going to say.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also was revisiting a little bmc bway interview ft. william last night & him saying his favorite part of the show was probably doing the agtikbi reprise scene on the couch at the party & mentioning the Nonverbal aspect of jeremy & christine's interacting / communicating there & a way of exploring/depicting Love & Affection in a way you don't always see everywhere and like aaaarghhhhh so true good lord that specific scene. and Again the bway obcr version Existing and being like that, it's just like. winded exhale yeah obsessed 5ever thank you all

[melancholictearz]

dean having and decorating his bedroom for the first time in his life is something so important to me

i’m currently crying on the floor btw

[markantonys]

thinking about gawyn during the coup. upon first read i took min's pov of his behavior at face value and was like "oh no, he's being so scary and cold!" but going back i realized Oh.............Actually, He Is Incredibly Traumatized :(

Worry and fear filled his blue eyes, and his face was a mask of determination not to give in to them.

He was as tight as coiled steel, ready to burst out in any direction.

Most frightening to Min, with that blood-masked face and half-glazed eyes, with his body tensed almost to quivering and his hand upflung as if he had forgotten it, he never raised his voice or put any emotion into it. He only sounded tired, more tired than she had ever heard anyone sound in her life.

“If anything happens to them,” he said in that expressionless voice, “to Egwene or my sister, I will find you, wherever you hide, and I will make sure the same happens to you.” Abruptly he stalked a dozen paces away and stood with his arms folded, head down as if he could not bear to look at them any longer.

he was brittle, ready to shatter at the wrong blow.

[akkivee]

absolutely in love with the narrative that, similar to the way dice gets, this whole time otome’s been on a gambler’s high since she’s been on a roll with all that she’s gambled away and that the off arc is where her luck runs out because she didn’t know when to quit, also similar to how dice gambles 😭😭😭

[no1ryomafan]

I’m laying in bed after a long day out with a friend after talking a bit about getter to them and once more at war at myself on *why* arma ryoma is the ryoma to scratch my brain when new is objectively better written then him.

I will always argue and say arma ryoma isn’t a terrible written interpretation of him, there’s a lot from that you can poke at him like with most ryomas but he has clear missed potential and he isn’t he as fleshed out as he could be, especially compared to new. Yet no matter how many times I think about it he still intrigues slightly more.

Is it because what happens to him is most engaging? How with even his absence he goes through some of the most insane shit ever? That you can tell despite what he lacks he’s a fucked man, arguably if not more then the direct trauma his new self goes through? And yet he still gets a decent resolution to his arc?

…Or is it because I find him more hot even still. Fuck if I know at this hour.

[rainbluealoekitten]

i genuinely feel so bad for my ex's gf though because she's out here posting on her insta that it's their 3 month anniversary but boyo is making me playlists with unrequited love songs and posts stuff about being nostalgic about when we were dating, keeps complimenting how i look, and literally yesterday was telling me he still has the sticker we stole from the library where we held hands and cuddled like. he's such an important friend to me but really i guess i will have to cut him off (again) bc i thought we were both over this but apparently not and it's just going to hurt a lot of people if i don't

[windfighter]

The world keeps tilting

Prompt: Blurry vision

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Kouji stood up from the bench and blinked. His head felt light. The world blurred around him. Out of focus. He took a step, stumbled as his feet didn’t quite want to leave the ground. He tried to look at Takuya, but the lines between Takuya and the world was gone. Everything floated together in a mash of colors. Kouji stopped, rubbed his eyes and tried again.

The world was still unfocused. Kouichi stepped infront of him and Kouji’s head spun from the sudden change in blurrness. He frowned. Something was wrong and he massaged his forehead.

”Do you have a headache?” Kouichi asked.

Kouji tried to answer, but the clear line in his head became muddled as it came out. The edges of his vision was getting darker. Kouichi took a step closer. Kouji’s head hurt as his eyes strained to focus. It spun. Kouji reached a hand out. The world tilted and he needed something to steady him. Kouichi grabbed his arm.

”What’s wrong?” Kouichi asked.

”Uuuuh….”

The world kept tilting. Some of the cylinders in Kouji’s head fired.

”Passing out”, he tried to answer.

The words still came out muddled. His knees started buckling, the darkness took over. At least the world was less blurry like that. Kouichi caught him as the world disappeared completely.

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Kouji blinked. His head hurt. He was on his back, Takuya’s face hovered above him. In focus. Mostly. Kouji blinked again and rubbed his eyes.

”Hey”, Takuya said.

His voice was low, barely a whisper. Kouji frowned.

”You okay?” Takuya continued.

”Mmm?” Kouji answered.

He started sitting up, but Kouichi pressed a hand against his shoulder. Takuya sat back down and Kouji raised an eyebrow at Kouichi.

”Wasn’t out that long”, he said.

At least he hoped so. He was a little confused about how he ended up on his back, but not as confused as when he had been out a whole day. Kouichi raised an eyebrow as well.

”20 seconds, give or take a couple. Do you need a doctor? What happened?”

”I think”, Kouji made a new attempt to sit up and Kouichi let him, ”I should be the one asking that.”

His head hurt worse and it was hard to get his eyes to focus again. He leaned his head into his hands with a groan.

”I’m not sick”, he said before anyone could ask. ”Blood pressure dropped, it’s fine.”

”Doesn’t sound fine”, Takuya said.

Kouji turned his head and looked at Takuya.

”You’ve… never gotten dizzy from standing too fast?”

Takuya shrugged and Kouji narrowed his eyes in disbelief. He lifted his head from his hands, pulled one of them across his eyes before letting both fall into his lap. Takuya and Kouichi both stared at him. His head hurt less, but…

”I don’t think I’m up to running through stores after that”, he admitted. ”Can we do something at home instead?”

Takuya snorted and stood up.

”You didn’t have to get that dramatic to get out of a shopping spree.”

Kouji snorted as well. Kouichi looked at him with worry in his eyes.

”You sure you don’t need a doctor? Low blood pressure can be dangerous.”

”I just have to not stand up that quickly”, Kouji answered and pushed himself off the ground.

A little… too quickly. The world disappeared again and he grabbed Takuya’s arm until it was back.

”See? All better!” he said and forced a smile.

Kouichi shook his head and stood up as well. He didn’t look convinced, but he wasn’t arguing. Kouji decided that was success enough. He patted Kouichi’s shoulder and started walking.

[shigussy]

for a really long time i mixed up jodi arias and casey anthony bc both those cases were having coverage at the same time and i was like 7