#i can finally sleep in peace now

[starmaker-astral]

I FOUND IT 🗣🗣🗣

(Oh no now I'm in for yet another rewatch oh noooo 🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚶‍♀️‍➡️🚶‍♀️‍➡️)

[jils-things]

dusts off hands. that's enough of wrestling with artfight 💚

[glowingsand]

gojo’s notes to friends and family :’)

[mrs-gauche]

I beat Veilguard.

It's 4am. I'm a mess. I'm in tears.

[neversleepuntilfive]

twin flame bruise (Art masterpost) Author: stayawake Art by me! :) Summary: All Dean wants is a happily ever after with his soulmate. He meets Cas, an aspiring poet who ran away from his life as a law school student. Dean feels an instant connection with the guy despite the fact that they aren't soulmates. It's fine. They can maintain a friendship while Dean continues the hunt for his soulmate. Absolutely no flaws in that plan whatsoever.

My piece for this-years @deancasbigbang! It was such a wonderful story to read, very emotional and i just love Cas is written. Make sure to check the fic out on ao3!!

[tianhai03]

took me awhile to continue this but the belts are off. we're finally taking his shirt off next :)

[prev part here]

[adhdtsukasa]

because nene's full yoru ni kakeru alt releases in LESS THAN A WEEK!!!! and i'm sooo so sane about this cover (a lie!), i just can't go on with my life without RAMBLING!!! and i'm rather surprised that it hasn't been done before (or maybe i just can't search properly. also very possible. anyways), so here it is — an analysis? of how yoru ni kakeru's lyrics correspond to ruinene's relationship so much that it HURTS (and why nene got this cover instead of rui, even though it's about suicide).

quick disclaimer: i will be using the lyrics from vocaloid lyrics wiki, because i'm uh. not a fan of the official english ver. and because it had to be somewhat changed so the english translation could fit the rhythm, it's also just not the same as original. hope you understand.

also this is not neccesarily a ship post. feel free to view it as such, but i'm interpreting everything here as fully platonic and how it is in canon.

starting with basically one of the first lines, it immediately connects with rui and nene losing contact during middle school — even moreso, to their unfamous scramble crossing conversation, where rui tells nene that he's now doing shows alone. they talked just like normal (did they, though?) and rui was still polite and kind towards nene, yet his goodbye was carrying something else with it: they're not best friends anymore. hell, it's not even clear if they're still friends, or did they simply become complete strangers to each other.

a throwback to their first meeting, so i'll also say it now: i see the whole song as kind of a messy retrospection, actually. the lyrics basically escalate in a present (as of main story) -> middle school -> childhood -> middle school -> present (still as of in main story) way, but i think it's rather easy to spot on? so i'm not gonna talk about it too much.

whatever, let's get back to the topic: it's important to remember that nene was rui's first friend, the first person (outside of his parents, obviously) that accepted him for who he is. obviously rui had a lonely gaze when they first met — because he was lonely. he was alone.

the first two verses can be referencing how rui's peers treated him: they were scared of him, they called him a weirdo. for a child like him, these words surely were enough to make him cry, as he only wanted to have friends — that's why nene is here for the rescue! they're together, so he doesn't have to be scared anymore. as long as they're together, everything will be just fine.

the happiness they want to find is ordinary, but that's because rui wants to be treated as an ordinary human being, too.

nene wanted to be rui's friend, sincerely. he was and still is such an important person to her, her very best friend. she wishes for him to finally be happy, to finally have friends, to finally give her the sincerest of all of his smiles. and she wants to be a part of his happiness.

as long as they have each other, the sun will surely rise for them. but...

...as the years pass by, everything starts to fall apart. rui is getting more and more stigmatized and him being in middle school now is definitely not helping him in any way. in this moment, we're back to their conversation mentioned at the very beginning: rui tells nene everything, and nene tries to believe it. she really does! if rui didn't beg for her to get closer to him again, then he surely must be fine being alone, surely.

but there is doubt in her heart, and it's sickening. it cannot be true. this is in no way what rui wanted.

she still hopes that they can go back to what they used to be. one day, rui will surely trust her again. and maybe one day, she'll finally understand his struggles. she wishes for that out of the kindness of her heart — but rui's middle school self is just unable to fulfill this wish.

but the days are still passing by, and nothing is going for the better — everything is actually deteriorating. everytime nene tries to approach rui, his answer is always the same. he doesn't want her close. and soon, rui isolating himself from her is not her only problem (or you can even say, her only trauma). her stage incident happens and she's left with nothing, as well as with no one to turn to. rui is already tired of everything, and nene is slowly becoming tired too. the days are getting duller and more gray for both of them.

their hands are just like parallel lines. somehow, they also can never meet.

so now, nene is just like rui. traumatized. alone. scared. she's just like that until she starts her first year of high school, because then she suddenly sees rui again. oh, god, she sees rui again. he offers her to join wxs, and he's actually smiling. his smile is just like a cure for all of her problems. it's a smile she has always wanted to see... a smile that he has offered her when he finally reached out to her.

so, nene joins wxs. and it's not the end of their problems, but also surely a new beginning for their relationship. the damage has been already done and they both suffered because of it, so they're still racing into the night, but at least they're together—

there's one thing that differs them from the yoru ni kakeru story, though (and i'm talking about the lyrics exclusively here. and, well, the end of the mv. but nothing else, none of the references that the song used) — yoru ni kakeru is about suicide, after all. the mv ends with the main character committing, that's a dead end. but it's nothing like that for rui and nene; ever since they joined wxs, their lives slowly started to get better. they managed to achieve their happy ending, despite the circumstances.

they're friends again.

so, why is not rui covering this song? after all, his middle school self just screams depression, suicidal thoughts, stuff like that, he'd be such an obvious pick. but... from the perspective of the lyrics, there's something more to the song than just the theme of suicide. the lyrics are going in the direction of being unable to help the person you love, of being forced to only look at how they're becoming worse and worse each day, of finally getting overwhelmed by it as well. that's precisely what middle school nene was. suicide is not enough to give it to rui. he wouldn't fit the lyrics at all, since his relationship with nene didn't look like that from his side.

was nene actually suicidal during middle school as well? i believe that's a question that should be left to one's own interpretation. but i think it's worth considering, especially since proseka's line distribution usually implies some things.

oh, obviously, they could've just picked her because she was the most accurate vocal to sing this song. but you cannot say that it doesn't fit her. it does. a lot.

middle school rui kamishiro and nene kusanagi, i hope you explode.

[spicylittleeggroll]

I think the detective Conan x persona 5 crossovers are so funny because joker and Kaito would 100% be best phantom thieves in crime while Shinichi/Conan and akechi would outwardly be civil detective colleagues except with passive-aggressive undertones because they fucking hate each other

[raccoon-crown]

Hi Kit!

My first try to draw the little Fenec fox!

[chaosduckies]

So remember that minecraft g/t fic I was writing? Well it’s done. Um. I don’t really know what to do with it honestly.

If you want to read it just know that it’s a cursed giant trope. So um, do what you will with that :D

[restingknight]

“Tackle life with as much energy as Goku! I’ll try to do the same!”

-akira toriyama

Akira Toriyama is gone but the adventures he inspires in life and stories will never end.

So lets tackle life like Arale and Goku combined.

[starlightandetherealshadows]

THREE LOVELY SOULS @coeluvr @victoriel AND @loveandleases helped me figure out the coding and it WORKED! we are SO back

[moo-blogging]

No thoughts tonight, just yearning for Levi to hug me and rub my back while he assures me things are alright now. He would whisper about how amazing I am and how everything is alright now as he cups my face, rubbing my cheek with his thumb.

I would exhale in relief and melt in his arms.

"Let's go to bed, love," he would take my coat from me, throw it onto the sofa, and guide me to the bedroom. Things are alright now.

I am safe with him.

[fruitchakra]

idk if this bothers anyone else but me but it’s been eating me up - the wording for the most romantic quote in naruto is translated slightly differently:

mangastream:

official viz:

got a friend to confirm whether it’s ‘die with you’ or ‘die together’ and: 

だからお前の憎しみを一緒に背負って一緒に死んでやる

die together

mangastream’s translation is slightly more accurate, and imo it makes all the difference. ‘with you’ does not carry the same weight as ‘together’.

[0509-brainrot]

dying over domestic 0509. like Actually Deceasing.

their jobs Suck and half the time one or both of them are Exhausted as Hell when they get home (but that won't stop Shidou from trying to ensure that mikoto never touches an energy drink Ever Again). They cuddle when they get home. Or just collapse.

They have a plant. Actually they have several. They're everywhere. They just keep buying them.

Shidou: "They mean x and it reminded me of you"

Mikoto: "They were really pretty and it reminded me of you"

Shidou knows all of their flower language meanings and Mikoto names all of them (they're written on popsicle sticks stuck in the soil because there's too many to remember) and is also very guilty of overwatering them sometimes. Or forgetting to water them. (But Shidou usually checks the soil so it's fine)

Mikoto gets Shidou into his hobbies. I think they'd enjoy photography a lot :))) Maybe nature photography especially

Shidou writes notes and reminders for Mikoto just in case he forgets to get/do something (I feel like Mikoto himself is/becomes pretty organized about writing stuff down actually, but just in case)

Physically affectionate Mikoto. Shidou headpats. Enough said. *Backflips into the sun*

I want them to be happyyy uwahh... I wish....

[fukanouna]

I watched Ghost in the Shell (1995 & 2017)

On a whim, I decided to rewatch the original 1995 film and watch the 2017 live-action with Scarlett for the first time back-to-back.

TL;DR - If you've never watched the original film and enjoy the cyberpunk genre with dystopian themes, the live action was a fun ride and I enjoyed it. Live-action adaptations of anime are usually poorly done, but as a whole, the 2017 film was done well. The world, the music, the fight choreography, and Scarlett's performance as The Major really made the film for me and is worth a watch imo. One of the best live-action anime adaptations for sure.

Now... if you've seen the original, the live-action makes questionable changes to the plot. (I'm not going to add anything to the topic of Scarlett's casting as The Major because it's already been said)

No spoilers.

In both films, the "ghost" refers to the consciousness and the "shell" refers to the body, and that The Major is a cyborg: a being with a human brain and robotic, artificial body.

Given that the original was released in 1995 when technology was still developing field and the concept of AI sounded like an impossible farfetched concept, the film's themes focused on identity and individuality in an advanced technological, digital world. The Major's shell was created from a cyborg manufacturer. She questions her existence, even her memories, arguing that if her shell can be created, why can't everything else? Is she her own person or does she have no freedom because her shell was manufactured? The Major is the main character, but she isn't the main focus: the themes of the movie are, and The Major is a visual metaphor to help express those themes.

Meanwhile, the live-action takes a different route. The Major is still a cyborg, but she's given a backstory. Her real body was destroyed in an accident, and her brain was salvaged and transplanted into an artificial shell, becoming a cyborg. The Major becomes the focus as she begins to question her memories when she begins to have glitches and what really happened to her original self. The themes on identity and individualism are still there, but the movie's focus is more about solving the mystery behind The Major's past.

Then there's the difference in antagonists. Kuze is the live-action's and the Puppet Master is from the 1995 film.

Kuze was never in the original film and the character is actually from the anime series, but he was underwhelming as villain who seeks revenge and is there to serve as a shock value to the live-action's very questionable plot twist towards the end.

The Puppet Master is a rogue AI that becomes self-aware of its existence and argues it has its own individuality because of its self-awareness. It hacks its way into a shell to further emphasize its newfound identity. Together with The Major, the Puppet Master brings in a different perspective on the film's themes.

And the live-action's plot twist... it reminded me of Jordan Peele's Get Out. I could see what they were going for, but because that's not the kind of story the 2017 film was trying to tell, the revelation came off as uncomfortable. Fans of the original say that they dumbed down the plot for Western audiences and that caused the plot to be a trainwreck. I have to agree.

But that doesn't mean I hate the live-action. They did an amazing job at recreating the Ghost in the Shell world with the CG visuals that still gives off that anime feel, costume design, and the fight choreo. The opening scene of The Major's cybernetic body being created is beautiful, and the scene with the robot geishas is always so fun to watch.

I also prefer Scarlett's Major over the original. The Major in the original was emotionless for most of the film and made it difficult to connect to her, but since the live-action was more character driven, Scarlett initially played The Major expressing little to no emotions then gradually becoming more expressive as the story went on. No doubt that playing Natasha helped her get into the role of The Major, as there are some similarities in the characters' personalities.

That being said, I personally can't decide which is better because each film excels in one thing compared to the other, but I'm willing to rewatch both films.

I can say the live-action is more digestible as a whole while the original is one of those movies that makes you think about its narrative. But I think the 1995 film is still well animated for being over 20 years old and that alone is enough to give it a watch.