#i'm sorry but this made me giggle

[emeraldblonde]

bro said chill

[corrupted-spire-au]

kisses are pizzano's weakness.. THEY ARE.. HIS WEAKNESS..

*proceeds to kiss pizzano's cheek just for the fun of it, then runs away and falls flat on my face* "WORTH IT.."

👍

Poor Pizzano

[im-no-jedi]

I HAVE MADE AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY

Hunter types with only his pointer fingers, he is truly the stereotypical technologically illiterate parent 😭😂

bonus pic of the fingey:

[moonlightflower-queen]

The rulers of the underworld have an important message about mental health

[chemilico]

Is your refrigerator running (+ bonus thing :3)

[ghosting-fox]

i know a lot of people on Tumblr dot com headcanon Sun as very cocky but let me tell you, this man is a mess and would stutter at the smallest pick-up line

[spirk-trek]

spock when bones jumps in front of him to plead with the metrons for jim's life:

"we appeal to you in the name of civilization!"

humans i swear to god WHAT CIVILIZATION i am in the captain's chair i was h a n d l i n g it but NO he just has to make himself known why are they like this why can't i just do what i need to do why are they all standing so close to me i am trying to save this apparently very abductable man will you PLEASE-

[memes-in-a-half-shell]

The bayverse boys would 1000% have beef with your pet turtle and would consider it a betrayal of the highest order if you so much as looked at it (or, god forbid, showed it affection) in their presence.

They would certainly feel ... something LOL

Leo

"Oh, alright, I see how it is. Cool, cool, cool..."

He wants to be the ONLY turtle in your life! What can that one do? It can't talk. It can't hug you back. It can't protect you. Everytime he looks at the small terrapin, it's always with a slight disdain - this little sneer you always catch out of him. You try to have him involve in the pet's care, but you soon give it up when you see him teasing the poor thing with a salad leaf, always getting it out of the reptile's reach as it comes close to munching on it.

"What? I'm just trying to train him to get faster and hone his ninja reflexes. Come on!"

***

Raph

"Watchu lookin' at, punk?"

You do notice that your pet is acting a bit more... defiant everytime Raphael steps into the room. And the mutant knows that as well, he can sense it. And he's NOT going to get overthrown by some dooky-ass lookin' wet turtle BITCH. The moment he sees that fucker starts to flutter his front claws in the glass and in HIS general direction, the fight is on. You just step in one day, fidning both Raph and your turtle in a tapping fight marathon; your pet slapping the glass and the mutant tapping his indexes rapidly against it as well, determined to last longer than the animal.

"I'll show you who's boss, ya nasty son of a dirty cloaca."

***

Donnie

"A pet turtle? Seriously?"

He's not absolutely against it ... it just feels a bit weird, you know? There's no denying that Donatello will spend some time studying it - just 'cause he's curious, leave him be. But that's also how you find out that these mutant guys can make other sounds as well... You first hear the usual little chirps coming out of your pet's tank, then comes out a low churr-like sound, reverberating from Donnie's chest and ending in a question sounding chirp. You just stare as the "discussion" unfolds, catching the mutant frown a little.

"Fascinating," he started. "We can understand eachother, but that damn turtle has one filthy mouth. I think you should stop swearing around it... He just called me a motherfucking freak!"

***

Mikey

"You wish you were me, brah."

He doesn't say it outloud that he's jealous... but you do see it in his eyes whenever you pick your pet up or just take care of it generally. He can be cute too!! He can be cuddly turtle, if you just ask. Michelangelo will try to show off whenever around that pet of yours; puffing up his chest, flexing his arms, actively flirting just to grab your attention. But then one day you needed to clean the tank and put your turtle on a little skateboard for it to move around the place freely, and that gave Mikey pause...

"Okay ... actually he's cool. Go off, lil' fella. Do an ollie!"

They are now best friends.

[my-fancy-hat]

Most romance novels follows an scheme of what love should it goes, how people have to meet and follow a certain path and archetypes to correctly fall in or out of love, that what's makes this kind of stories predictable and boring to some people, but what about love that evolves? love that exists despite the desire for romance/selfishness? what about friendship? family? what if we choose to love ourselves too? to love the path we choose? I think that what Ao no Flag is majoritary about, romance as we know in a love triangle it's just the surface the tip of the iceberg of what this story is about, series of choices where we pray for them to make us happy, to make our loved ones happy, because we want to be brave about the things we love.

The four cour characters are put in one of the most troublesome and chaotic times of every person who had access to the system education can experience: final year of high-school, the deadline between childhood and adulthood, to accept reality on how it approaches us, the fear of rejection and failure of what we are of what we do. Many people incluided me had wished to have been more wise, more patient, more accepting yet strong about our chosen path, and that's what Ichinose, Touma and Futaba had to learn and eventually guided them toward their happy end. Not just that, but the experience many queer people had to endure avoiding the social suicide of showing to the world who we are, this ilustrated with Touma and Masumi's characters, and (subtly yet quite importantly) Ichinose. How can I exists in their world if I live like this? will my parents accept me? they will still think about me as someone successful and worth of their last name? will they disown me? hate me? will my best friend who I am in love with reject me in disgust? It's so easy and understandable to succumb to a hatred that you think you deserve, because at the time it was less painful to play along lying to your loved ones about this secret than "revealing the truth", they deserved to know yet you failed, and this loneliness is what you get. If this is how the enviorment wants you to feel, then isn't it expected that the individual would desire for freedom of it? that's what Touma wished for his future to be, not concrete answer more than to exists without regrets.

The desire for romance can be rightfully observed by its selfish nature, to own the right, the demand for them to love us back, but it can be the exercise to accept ourselves as well. Touma wanted to show Taichi his heart without fears, despite if he would love him back or not, in doing so, he would be walking toward the ideal happiness he dreamed of. To openly love is the call for the indifferent cruel world to see in us the desire for goodness, that in this place can exists kindness too.: Touma most than anything, wanted for Ichinose and (by extention) Futaba, to be happy, to share their 1000+ points of best friend power and make everyone happy. That is, the core of love, to wish the best for your dears, and see them smile.

But accepting and not to, can be actually be the same. Masumi had to constantly fight with herself, with the inavility to change what she can't, to live with the fabricated idea of what she is supposed to be and what she is supposed to do, and what other people would react about it. That's why that, even if I have my reservations about her ending, I find it really meta for Masumi end to end up in a het marriage, making us conclude that at some point she gave up on Futaba, but paradoxically, accepted herself and her reality by coming out as bi. Us readers expected and rotted for her to confess to her crush and end up in similar terms like Touma and Taichi did, but this ending make us putting the lesson she learned though her character arc into practice: what people may think or not about our decisions, is their problem, not ours. Life can be so treacky and unfair, but no matter the circunstances, we can still find and make our place. We deserve it.

A friend or a lover, what is the difference if you just want to share our happiness with them?

That's how you humanize your characters, by expossing through them the good, the bad and the absurd, to tell a story in each how the circunstances molds them, but to oppose what damage us is quite a brave thing to do, even if it's our own mind, and that's what Futaba character speaks to me. The desire for wanting to change, to (once again) accept and not-to-accept. She's a weakling, clumsy girl loaded on self-hatred for her unability to live just as the others do. The fear of have reached your maximum potential and there's nothing else for you to do about it, that you born to live like this for the rest of your life. But she sees in Touma an example of hard work and due to her admiration (mistaked at first for a crush), wants to prove herself that life can be something else. To break our self-stablished limits and see what's beyond, to surpass your limits and try to understand what scares you. To be confident enough to think you have the right to live too. Failure reafims the truth that you are better off muted; what bother trying if it will end up in misery anyways? but the beauty of humankind is the unbeatable hope that things will change, to not give up, and without noticing, we'll feel blessed for have born in this time, in this place.

This as a result inspires Taichi's way of viewing life without him realizing too, just as how Touma's pure-lover heart expeled his sincere feelings ever since they started talking again, to the point to even sacrifice his leg and career for Ichinose: How can I exists and make it up for such people like you? what can I do? It's easy to fill your heart with resentment for the things you couldn't live, to feel prideful as consolation for a lonely life you didn't choose, as the left overs. But what we think makes what we are, if you keep on your days thinking you exists for the things you believe you deserve, to live in the imaginary unbreakable rules you made for yourself, then nothing will change. Touma, Futaba and Masumi changed Taichi's life forever, in the driving force of his spirit to pursue a better version of himself, to live driven by the desire for freedom, for love, and not care of what other people may see this choices.

That's why I think the final chapter is such a piece of art that makes the pay off so satisfying. What tortured him when Touma confessed wasn't that his best friend was gay, or that he lied to him about the nature of their friendship (he didn't): it was the though of losing him, so he chose both options at the end (if the analogy can't be more in the face). But as Yorkie said, it part of the course of life to most likely break up with your first gf, more less if they go to different universities, so them going their separate ways wasn't a surprise, but what made me happy about it that they still ended up in good terms and respected each other deeply for what they lived together. The surprise though comes from the actual realize of which POV we're following at the end, that reveals that Taichi had become Touma's husband. This is where I think Ichinose teach to the audience the lesson he learned from his former classmates, where he reaches for Touma above the lines that divides panels, to reach his husband's hand, the hand he shouldn't hold, and walk together toward home: he surpassed his own limits, his barriers and knew where his happiness lied.

A lot of queer people had *the realization* in their 20s (me included as nb), finally giving an explanation of all our past behaviour. I know before-hand most people got shocked for Ichinose to get reveal as bisexual, but isn't the story already gave us an idea this would happen eventually? when Futaba and Ichinose confess to each other, it's Touma's (and Masumi's) heartbreak that it's on spotlight overlaying their conversation, how Taichi and Touma hand-holding is such a central element for the story telling (literally it ends with them holding hands), and much more? Even Futaba suspected it before himself realized years later.

(it happened twice that when Taichi thinks about Touma what crosses his mind is his well-build chest/cleavage area like, ok)

But what makes the different between friendship and love? can a boy and a girl be friends? can a gay boy have male friends? can I be friends of someone I love and viseversa? can I forgive and maitain what we have? The only certainty I have right now, in this moment, is that I love you so much. I'm so happy to have meet you.

This got too long so to grap my final thoughs and make myself more loose right at the end, I'm so happy for have read this story FULL BLIND OMG I was so conviced that no one would end up together lol the only thing I knew of it is that it talked about queer drama and, textually: "had the ending it deserves". It genuinely made my perspective on some things change for the better. I actually loved so much how this story handles with such maturity a pretty much easy-target for comedy and bitter angst (bury your gays) the premise of "bff is gay and in love with the main character since they were kids". Not only that, but not picking sides of "who deserves who" taking leads between Touma vs Futaba, is quite refreshing for the genre: it humanize and treats fairly each member of the cast, giving proper space for them to explain themselves (worth mentioning Mami I loved her character so much you have no idea). Most of the drama in romance comes from missunderstandings or the lack of dialogue, when everything can be solved if the characters can actually sit and talk their feelings and thoughts out! and Ao no Flag is a masterclass on this manner. The explanation, exposition and introspection of every character struggle, the script, monologues, are so compelling and to the bone, I can't choose which interaction of the cast is my favorite. The pay-off is spectacular because we can actually follow each person train of thoughts and choices in which these end up in, with the faith that this path will make themselves and his loved ones happy, because even if we aren't certain about anything we do, we'll still find meaning in the absudity of destiny (or the lack of it?).

[muppetjackrackham]

just noticed your (new?) icon. bless that is good

You like Sondheim? His early work was a little too Rodgers and Hammerstein for my taste. But when Sweeney Todd came out in '79, I think he really came into his own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a boost. He's been compared to Andrew Lloyd Webber, but I think Stephen has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '23, Thomas Kail released this; Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a full scale revival of the original text and score, complete with a 26-piece orchestra for the first time since 1982. I think the undisputed masterpiece is "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd." A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about Sweeney's personal reputation! It's also a Shakespearean chorus and a warning in the form of a prologue about the story, the tragedy even that's about to unfold before our eyes. Hey Paul!

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

Dancing with the devil...

@estelletheskeleton forgot to add this here but here you go >:Dc

[lunearobservatory]

baseball posting on main el oh el

rangers beat yankees 15-2 🤭 embarrassing (i hate the rangers too but ANYTHING to take down the yankees tbh, signed a giants fan)

speaking of the giants

giants and padres played in mexico city which was super rad ! out of country games woo !!! and that's all i have to say about that !

[romulussy]

[blondeaxolotl]

Hey I hope it's nt weird to ask but I wanted to know if you can explain, are you this blog AND grimreaperauthority but like, for, a seperate persona of yours or is that just someone you know on another blog??

Me and @grimreaperauthority are two separate people and are friends who just happen to share the same braincell together (and often share custody of headcanons with eachother because we like them, like of the reapers specifically) So yeah no, I'm not a persona off Grim and Grim's not a persona of me, just two separate entities that hang out together

[ratcandy]

monch burned sozo and zote at the stake to replace them in your head. and also the lesbian kissing

yea

[navree]

to be clear, i'm not angry about pretty boy slade wilson at all, if clark is just starting out then bruce has probably only been at it for a couple years himself, and dick is definitely still flipping about at haly's with his totally alive not ever gonna die parents and a good few years from slade deciding that his archnemesis needs to be a teenager from the most insane family in all of north america, it makes sense that slade so far is a young man still fulfilling mercenary contracts and other things like that and still in the relative flush of youth

also again, the way they drew him was hot, if this is how slade's anime twink phase goes i'm not mad about it