#i know that part is a shocker

[animegirl1363]

I kind of wish that Crow joined Sherry's side during the duel. Maybe it could have been a mix of both hypnosis and Crow's own free will. Sherry using Crow's kids against him to turn him over to her side would have been fun to see.

Not only would the kids get to be with their parents, but Crow would also get to be with his parents too (also Jack and Yusei too). And that would be what he would fight for. For every one to be with their parents. Even if it means that he won't ever meet his friends.

On Akiza's end of things, it would have been great to see her try and talk Crow back to his senses. We would get to see the fruition of that friendship the two have with each other after they don't interact much after the whole team Catastrophe ordeal.

The two have a back and forth with each other. Crow being resolute that if everyone gets to be happy with their families then destroying the timeline is fine.

And Akiza telling him how she dosen't want to lose all the friends she met. And that Crow should have hope in the future. After all the spirit of freedom and hope is his very soul (yes Akiza doesn't know about the Daedalus Bridge legend. But let's pretend that Crow told her about it at some point in the timeline).

The duel being used to highlight the two's friendship would have been enjoyable to watch. Aki get to have an epic last duel showcasing what she can do.

I kind of sideline Sherry here, but I honestly don't think Crow and Akiza can handle her issues. Crow and Sherry have dead parents so that's something connecting them. But at the end of the day, Crow eventually felt the love of a parent through Martha. Akiza (while complicated) also felt the love of a parent (also her parents are not dead). While Sherry never got that feeling back after her parents died.

There is just nothing connecting Crow and Aki to Sherry. At this point using her as a catalyst for more Crow and Aki interaction would have been better.

This duel could have brought up how Crow feels about his family and wanting to see his real parents. Then him coming to terms that he has a family already. And needs to protect them.

Maybe I am missing something.

[yuwuta]

You know I’m here to listen to you ramble about every AU ily give us the pacific rim NGE 🤲🏽

- @yuutito

aleks beloved, thank you for always enabling my rambling 💞 this is the kinda ask where i wish i could draw because there are such vivid images of what each jaeger/mech would look like to me but for now consider the following in the yuuta verse: 

hiromi and kento used to be co-pilots on the same jaeger, and despite having average drift compatibility, they had a near perfect streak. there were theories that judgeman would be even more successful with a single pilot, and ultimately hiromi was the better fit, which works out in the end because it turns out kento and satoru are a near perfect match in terms of compatibility, holding the record for a co-pilot duo. kenjaku is a much less predictable jaeger, but satoru and kento are the only pair to co-pilot it and survive. 

the zenin family has snuck their way into jaeger mechanics and government control of them. they almost exclusively build and fund mechs for their own family members, and have their own training program they put their pilots through to ensure that they are the only ones able to pilot the robots. other big families and government sectors don’t like this, but the zenins fund so many refuge relief and engineering programs, that nobody can say anything. 

the only good thing is because they tailor the mechs to their pilots, the drift compatibility of the co-pilots matters much less. 

toji is the first person in history to solo pilot a jaeger, and proves that solo piloting is possible, but only in extremely rare cases. he piloted alongside megumi for a while until playful cloud was put out of commission and toji retired to focus on stealing the zenin’s training regiment and teaching it to other pilots in training. megumi’s co-pilot is now yuuji, and sukuna was a jaeger was sponsored by the gojo family (which the zenin’s are still mad about)  

the zenin’s wormed their way into the financial and political side of things, but the gojo family is famous for their pilots and engineers. satoru’s mother and father were hailed as one of the greatest pilot duos, and even though they never wanted satoru to become a pilot, their deaths inspired him to take his training seriously. his cousins and aunts and uncles are a mix of co-pilots and engineers. it’s expected that yuuta become one or the other, but after rika’s death, he decides on the pilot route. it seems to be the fate of the gojo’s that the death of a loved one leads the path to pilot training. 

rika’s parents were scouted by the gojo family and the government to help build mechs. they packed up everything to move to sendai and begin their research and construction. rika was that little kid running around the hangar and yuuta was much less enthusiastic and much more scared one tailing behind her. even though her parents were brilliant engineers, rika always loudly proclaimed her dreams of becoming a pilot. when she dies, her parents memorialize her dreams by designing and naming a jaeger after her, and they only think its right that yuuta be its pilot. 

yuuta and rika have always been a special pair, and so even though their actions concerning you are far from normal, it’s not a surprise either. yuuta was asked to be rika’s pilot, but he also did it because he thought it was the right thing to do. but now, as yuuta watches you recover after he/rika saved you after an attack, he knows that wanting you is the wrong thing—but if he found you through piloting, if he found you through rika, how wrong could that be? how bad could a pilot really be—they’re the heroes after all, right?

anyways enough about yuuta’s pacrim au, time to talk about other ones teehee

there’s a pink wolf in your dreams and it always saves you from whatever impending doom is heading your way: a pack of hungry coyotes, the unstable ledge of a cliff, a group of angry huntsmen with arrows and pitchforks. it’s been this way every since your last co-pilot died in battle, while you were still connected to him. you try to make sense of it, try to find comfort in the savior of your dreams, but the natural human response is to scream and shout and wake up in cold sweat when face to face with a wild animal in your face. so, the instinct kicks in when you tiredly roll into the sparring room and the newest recruit has a head of pink hair and scar over his left eye that mirrors the one of the wolf in your dreams, is to run away as fast as you can. it’s futile though, because itadori yuuji is more than the wolf in your dreams and your destined co-pilot, he’s your soulmate. 

in a sort of post-war world, you and kento are very comfortable in your retirement. you have the respect of the entire world, support from every government, enough money to last multiple life times. the jaeger program is kept in effect, but at a much smaller scale due to the reduced likelihood of an attack; so, when the radar picks up the possibility of another attack years after the last one, kento isn’t happy to hear you’ve volunteered yourself for the war efforts. there are new recruits, younger recruits, even other experienced recruits who never fully retired—he doesn’t understand why it has to be you. he just got happy with his life with you. it turns into a whole argument, and ends with you leaving for your old base by yourself. your old jaeger has long since been retired, and you feel nervous stepping into the cockpit of a new mech after all these years, but much of it dissipates when you step in to find kento already suited up and waiting for you, because there’s no way he’d let you go out to war without him by your side. 

it’s a poorly kept secret that you and megumi are soulmates. with an almost perfect drift compatibility and a lifetime of friendship to solidify your coordination and teamwork, the only mystery is why you two refuse to actually date each other. your argument is that there’d be no privacy or true intimacy in that relationship—you and megumi are already, always, physically in each other’s minds; dating wouldn’t leave room for anything more. megumi’s argument is that he’s simply waiting for you to realize that you’ve been in his head long before your first drift sequence. when people aren’t wondering about the status of your relationship, they often take note about how even though you and megumi are co-pilots, you resemble pilot and mech more often than not: you have the controls and megumi seems to carry out your every command. 

[sabo-torao]

HELLO??? SABO'S NEW VIVRE CARD GOT RELEASED!!! i don't know what's up with today and all the new content but i won't complain!!!

even if i always feel iffy about vivre cards since their "canonicity" is veeeeery up to debate, i do enjoy finally knowing that sabo's least favorite food is truffle <3 it also makes a lot of sense since it's considered a luxury food and always served at fancy meals... god i love him.

i'm also THRILLED to know that his bounty is currently "unknown". can't wait for that 3+ billion beri bounty hehe

anyway, what striked me the most are the very last lines of the tweet.

"is this checkered fate a coincidence? or perhaps..."

that. if you follow me/know my blog/read my url once you should know exactly what thought process that single sentence prompted.

but putting my rose-colored goggles aside...

i've been thinking about the will of D. often ever since i've started reading one piece, and i have lots of thoughts and theories about it that i don't think i'll ever have the courage to elaborate and share with a wider public outside my own circle of friends. one of those silly thoughts though, i'm willing to share for this particular case.

i think there could be the possibility of the D. being not only connected to bloodlines, but inherited through strong bonds and twists of fate. i know ace and luffy put the D. in sabo's name for fun when they were kids, but how the three's bond is always described to be everlasting, a true example of family and brotherhood...

that "or perhaps" could then signify that sabo is indeed a D., too. which would open up a lot more roads, and prompt a lot more questions about what is the will and how do you inherit it and why.

it's just so interesting! i really hope more will be revealed about it soon!!! especially in relation to sabo!

[phoenixyfriend]

[taps microphone and gets in way too close] I actually like S17+ Project Runway more than S1-10.

(S11-15 is... decent. But imo saying that the Siriano seasons are worse than 1-10 is just the nostalgia talking lmao.)

please don't argue with me I'm just here to complain about Popular Opinions I Disagree With

[girlscience]

I hate getting into something that has a canon(ish) sapphic couple, but I only end up caring about one of the two women 😭😭😭

[voltrixz]

also. how cooked am i if. I had a dream last night. And let me preface that I like hardly have dreams. And if I do. I usually forgot about most of it by the time I wake up. Ok so now if i told you, if shocker and electro showed up in my dream last night. Something dramatic was going on, polycule break up i think. Ended up kicking the stupid cowboy's ASS!!!!

[kdrama-movies-more]

[featureenvyproductions]

"Why does everything need to be Gay now it's so shallow to make men attracted to each other when they could be Pure Platonic Friends -"

oops sorry I can't hear you over the sound of me Doing What I Want Forever because I have been watching movies, TV, and animation since the 80s and have watched enough shallow heterosexual romances that would have been stronger as mlm-wlw solidarity friendships to fill the space between stars in a galaxy

[nexus-nebulae]

it's kinda funny how similar to my grandpa i am considering my birthday was three days after his

[manipulatorkaleidoscope]

And I thought my unhinged beyblade dreams were over but…

There was this movie

Where Phi was the villian ofc

But

It wasn’t like a normal beyblade “oh we will be battle you with pieces of plastic” because

the protagonists

were ✨magical girls✨

yes, you heard me right

✨magical girls✨

[anidealistatbestburntoutatworst]

nikolai: “what’s your biggest fear?”

sigma: “arachnophobia”

nikolai: *concerned* “what…. why wouldn’t you want spiders to get married?!?!”

sigma: *facepalm*

[ask-cloverfield]

On the one hand Toei reimagining most of its non-Kamen Rider heroes as villains is kind of annoying

on the other hand I can kinda see some of the seeds for what Shin K is

He has an odd tendency of encouraging children to go on paths of vengeance and just bringing them with him when he kills the subject of their vengeance and like sir

[nitroglycerinlacedcigarette]

one of my fave pant doodles like i’ve ever done. ??

[robingivesmemagic]

figuring out really cool ideas for my new au but i cant share any of them cuz nobody knows abt the au and i havent drawn any designs 4 it yet 😭😭😭

[nomairuins]

the world if sims 4 had more lots per world

[grapecaseschoices]

#or there's not much to work with or the writers failed or w/e bullshit excuse they come up with for not engaging w women who aren't their oc#& then they turn around and give an irrelevant male NPC a whole personality and backstory!!!!!#if you do this regularly you're a misogynist. sorry not sorry (@/lelianasbong)

some people would say "this work of fiction just has the guys better written than the women" and will cite something like this as the example