#hitting next episode

[parkinglotmystic]

Been listening to Off Book all day and now my head sounds like a Hamilton parody

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Heh...Literally nothing personal, kid.

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[maxthefromg]

I love when Alice Dyer said “it’s diversity time” and diversed all over OIAR

I say this as I retreat back to my cave

[logicalbookthief]

I adore the fact that in so many other stories, Mob Psycho would’ve concluded with the World Domination Arc. After all, it has the big, climatic battle with the ensemble cast versus the overarching villain. They win, and everyone goes home, all’s well that ends well, right?

Except the story doesn’t end there. Because Mob has yet to reckon with this internal, antagonist force that has haunted the narrative since the very beginning: Himself.

When Mob comes face-to-face with ???% at long last, he says: I am Kageyama Shigeo.

This isn’t a conflict with a villain, or another esper, or even a separate entity that resides inside Mob’s body. It is something far more personal, and far more relatable.

???% is the culmination of everything Mob’s held back. Not just emotions like anger or fear. Even his desires, like his crush on Tsubomi. All muted by his efforts not to hurt anybody with his powers. Mob has come such a long way, but he’s still restraining his feelings so tightly that the moment his control wavered, ???% took over.

But the conflict isn’t the destruction ???% is wreaking just by walking through the city. The conflict is Mob refusing to accept this part of himself he’s suppressed for so long.

And ???% is right! Every attempt to stop him thus far has failed. Because he isn’t meant to be stopped. Mob has to reconcile with the parts of himself that he won’t acknowledge.

And it’s the most difficult thing Mob has ever had to do! This is the part of himself that hurt his brother; that hurt his friends and decimated so much of the city. Reconciling with it means accepting that Mob hurt those people, whether he wanted to or not. It means accepting all facets of himself, even ones he’s not proud of or wishes he could change but cannot.

Mob has grown so much in this latest season alone, he hasn’t had any explosions, and he felt confident enough in his own abilities to actually ask Tsubomi out, which was something the Mob of two seasons ago could never imagine.

But what about the advice Reigen gave him for his confession to Tsubomi?

His true self, in its totality. This is what Mob has struggled with the entire story. This is why his confession to Tsubomi is the culmination of his character arc. Expressing his feelings means exposing his true self to someone else, even with the fear of rejection.

And while we’re on that subject. Let’s talk about Reigen. Right after he gives this advice to Mob, he says this about himself:

It is the height of irony (and tragedy) that Mob and Reigen admire each other’s strengths so much, yet have no idea they struggle with the same exact fear: that if the people they cared for found out who they truly were, they would reject them. It is why Reigen relies on lies and why Mob suppresses himself.

It is also why Reigen has never actually witnessed ???% until now. It is why Mob has never heard Reigen admit the truth about himself out loud.

And that’s why the final arc feels like such a gut-punch in the best of ways. What is harder than accepting who you are, and hoping for others to accept you as you are? Even at your most deceitful, or your most destructive? Mob Psycho ends with the Confession Arc because that’s the very heart of the story.

[st-hedge]

MGSV sketch dump. The brainrot is thriving

[orions-garden]

things d.a.d.d.i.e.s. hq has:

✅ hummus vending machine

things d.a.d.d.i.e.s. hq does not have:

❌ child-proof locks

[driftwoodthrone]

ARE WE LIT?

— Gates McFadden, The Shuttlepod Show, Ancient Proverb

[grimtrespasser]

We are feeling machines that think

[luxshua]

The winners of the life series all had their own ways of winning:

1. Grian loyalty, playing into every one of Scar's schemes no matter how stupid they seemed. His win came from blood and tears, a descion made surronded by sand and cacti.

2. Scott defiance, he was never going to play the game the way it was designed. Why would he take life needlessly, no his win came from the refusal to do the watchers bidding.

3. Pearl alone, discarded by her soulmate, discarded by the one who pulled her into the nether in the first place. She won with her ties cut, she won not of her own descion but of the one who decided for her.

4. Martyn scavenger, taking time where most convient, stealing kills from right under peoples noses. His win came when even his trusted ally had his guard down, feral and desperate for just a drop more time, even if it left him frenzied and alone.

[superellysan]

Not me thinking the hole in the dragon’s stomach looked like pussy yesterday only to realize today that oh yeah that might have been the point

Falin is literally being reborn

10/10 framing I love this series so much and TRIGGER is killing it on the visuals

[fan-fricking-fiction]

We are ft. commentary textposts (8)

other We are posts <3

[stuckinapril]

me stoically navigating my way through drama bc bigger things are ahead and it’s not my fault people are dumb

[alastor-simp]

AGAIN THIS EPISODE HIT ME RIGHT IN THE FEELS😭😭💔💔

GODDAM YOU VIVZIE, LET THE TWO MAKE UP ALREADY! MY HEART CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!

I’m honestly glad Blitz and Verosika made up, but now it’s time for Stolas and Blitz to make amends and start over. Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[transmascutena]

when someone comes out of episode 31 and 32 still believing nanami is in love with touga

[r0semultiverse]

well, this all looks rather familiar...

[aniposting]

Ame: "You gotta know, I gotta know that you know, that it bothers you even just a little bit!" Fox: "What bothers me?" Ame: "What other people think of you!" Fox: "No. If they can't catch me, they can think whatever they want about me." Ame: "And if they can catch you?" Fox: "Ohohoho, I'm in trouble." Ame: "Yeah.. Imagine that they can always catch you, then how would you live your life? Would you always be doing what you wanted to do?" Fox: "Yeah, because if I stop doing what I wanted to do then they've already caught me." Ame: "Ugh, I hate how much sense you make."

-- Worlds Beyond Number, Episode 9.