#i must away

[apesoformythoughts]

“En el Camino [de Santiago] se contemplan nuevos horizontes que hacen recapacitar sobre las angosturas de la propia existencia y la inmensidad que el ser humano tiene dentro y fuera de sí, preparándole para ir en busca de lo que realmente su corazón anhela…”

— Papa Benedicto XVI

[abyssal-author-and-artist]

I have been thinking about this every day for a month you all need to hear this

No I'm not putting a cut just just hear me out please

So I passed this car on my way to college, like a month ago in the carpool and I saw this Mimikyu sticker on the car. Mimikyu is literally my least favorite pokemon but I saw it and my brain wanted to do something with it. So I came up with a character. This is their story.

It starts with a little blind girl. All she wants in life is a Pikachu. She wants to raise a Pikachu and be its best friend and that's all she wants. But her parents can't catch one bc of overcatching or something, so they get her a Mimikyu and hope that's good enough - she's blind, after all, and they don't think she'll notice.

Instantly, she takes to the Mimikyu - she calls him Kyukyu and they go everywhere together. He guides her around objects, she always refers to him as a Pikachu, so on and so forth. Well one day she hits like 10 and has to go to trainer school. Her parents write into her 504 (or japanese equivalent) that Kyukyu is only to be referred to as Kyukyu or as a Pikachu. To not upset her.

It's time for practice battle number one, and when the teacher tells her to use a move, everyone gets nervous. She thinks Kyukyu is a real Pikachu, of course, so how will she fight? She'd probably use Thunderbolt or something else Mimikyu can't learn.

She has him use Shadow Ball.

Everyone is confused, including Kyukyu, but he uses the move and life moves on. That day at lunch someone asks her about it. Because everyone treats Kyukyu like a Pikachu, right? But she told him to move like she knew he was a ghost type.

She says "He is a Pikachu. Just because he's physically a Mimikyu doesn't make him less of a Pikachu to me. He's my best friend, and I understand him better than anyone else in this world. Why do you think I call him Kyukyu instead of any other nickname? And besides, it doesn't matter if he's a Pikachu or a Mimikyu or whatever. He's my partner Pokemon, and that's all that really matters."

In the end, she ends up not being a she, and in fact, he's a trans man. He names himself Ryou and lives with his girlfriend as a gym leader. They're a double battle gym. He focuses on ghost types and she focuses on fairy types. Their whole thing is being the odd gym leaders.

I even know what this guy looks like, like he's been consuming my head and I love him so much

[chloesimaginationthings]

I know Vanessa regret saying this in the FNAF movie,,

[brainrotcharacters]

TW: Wolverine Badonkas

I laughed rewatching because like

[cherrytonacademy]

if this doesn't make it into the anime i will riot

[ams-puppy]

guys is it cruel that I turned AM into a car air freshener please say no

[hinamie]

i don't normally participate in these redraw challenges but it's megumi so i'll make an exception

[aesthetic-uni]

Miles “Who’s Morales” vs Gwen “Gwwwwanda” vs Pavtir “You seem like a nice young woman I do not know” FIGHT

[cowardlykrow]

“Not my circus, not my monkeys”… Except those are his monkeys and they are the circus

[ygamiraito]

chat is this real

[choccy-milky]

scenes from my fic but make it ghibli 🌟

[to-be-a-dreamer]

I can’t stand that TikTok trend that’s like “just saw Hadestown and my boyfriend is walking the entire way back to the hotel without looking back at me to prove Orpheus was a chump” because not only do they not get the whole point of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth they also Were Not Paying Attention to the musical they just saw.

Hate people who see WSS as “just a Romeo and Juliet retelling”. Hate people who see Hadestown as “Just an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling”.

Hate people who watch a musical that takes a classic story everyone knows and uses it to explore/critique our modern society and only see it as a funky retelling.

Not Getting The Point of WSS is one thing because it’s more subtle and it can be really easy to just see it as a modern R&J, especially if you don’t really know R&J.

How the fuck do you watch Hadestown and see it as just an O&E retelling? It is one of the most heavy-handed political musicals out there how are so many people missing the point?

Orpheus has to fail. Not because that’s how the Greek myth ends but because that’s the whole point of the message of Hadestown.

Social reform is hard. Changing the world is one of the most challenging things you can try to do. So often we see people try to make a difference in society, to change some kind of injustice in the world. And so often we see those people fail. It can feel so impossible to actually do some good in this fucked up world because we see these people who are smarter and stronger and more qualified than us fail over and over again.

Why do we even keep trying?

Because we have to.

Because one day, someone will try and they’ll succeed.

One day Orpheus won’t turn around.

One day the people of Hadestown will get to see someone escape and they’ll know they can escape too. Only then does the world get to change.

So we have to try. We have to keep singing the sad song, no matter how many times Orpheus turns around, because one day he won’t.

In the Greek myth, Orpheus fails because he loves Eurydice.

In Hadestown, Orpheus fails because we fail.

We try and we fail to make a difference. We try and we fail to change the world for the better. We try to see the world for what it could be and it keeps letting us down.

But we don’t give up. We don’t stop singing.

Hadestown is genuinely one of the best musicals ever. Full stop. This musical is one of the reasons i wish I was smarter because I would love to be able to do an entire thesis on this show and all the themes and messages in it. Some of them are subtle. Some of them aren’t.

It is not just an Orpheus and Eurydice retelling. I am begging people to hear the real message.

Never stop trying to change the world.

One day we’ll make it out of Hadestown.

We just have to keep singing the song.

[buggsxp]

something something moths and sunflowers, and how they follow light something something

[oniomn]

some npmd sketches!!

[slidehead]

hello online feminist do you hate men as an extension of the hierarchical class they create, uphold and coercively enforce in society or do you hate men because you genuinely believe they are evil through an inherent biological heritage that cannot be mended

[coloredlion]

HOLY SHIT ARE THOSE NERDY PRUDES ?????