#it’s really just me yapping for a bit

[stellarisstars]

Something that’s been on my mind as I’ve lived in the sunturine ao3 tag for the past week is how the fandom (generally writers and fans) tend to depict and interpret the relationship between Sunday and Gopher Wood.

Now I’ve seen a lot of interpretations where Sunday is reprimanded by Gopher Wood a lot either through punishment, emotional abuse or physical abuse. I’m not going to argue and say “oh those are inaccurate and wrong” because I can see how people could interpret the relationship between them like that. I’m here to offer my own perspective on the matter because I think it’s interesting.

I think that rather than abuse, Gopher Wood excelled at manipulating Sunday. He manipulated and carefully crafted situations where his point of the Harmony’s flaws would always be true, example being, when Sunday was appointed as the Bronze Melodia. He knew that Sunday would see how the long-time resident Dreamchasers would affect Sunday, wavering his belief in the Harmony and push him towards the Order. He INTENTIONALLY created such a circumstance where Sunday had very little power and was forced as an observer and the few times Sunday did actually try to help (recall back to when he tried to help someone wanted by the BloodHound Family) he was punished for his kindness, another thing Gopher Wood did intentionally.

He also purposefully gave Sunday control of Aideen Park and the insane set of rules because he knew that it would affect Sunday, once again, he slowly manipulated and moulded the Sunday we saw in the Penacony quest over years. He made him believe that Robin’s ideals were too romantic, too foolish for so long that he couldn’t even admit to himself or anyone that he likes her songs because of the rules and manipulation done by Gopher Wood.

Yet at the end of it, Sunday doesn’t blame Gopher Wood. He doesn’t seem to hate him or particularly resent him for anything which makes me wonder if there a genuine bond between them but it’s hard to say since there’s a lack of depth on Gopher Wood’s side. But overall I believe rather than abuse, Gopher Wood took advantage of an emotionally well-meaning child like Sunday and manipulated him into a puppet, devoid of any notable traits. It also worth noting that, all of these incidents ended up giving Sunday a saviour complex and seeing himself as expendable/ creating even more hatred for himself, as ive mentioned in my previous post

Of course, this just my opinion lmk know what you guys think too because the power dynamics between their relationship are also very interesting to me

[abstractfrog]

Happy 1 year anniversary to Mr Sherlock Holmes! Here's a litttleee celebratory comic from me

[dualitieds]

Happy (late) new year everyone!

I hope 2025 is a bit more productive than the last

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I've been doing a lot of reflection as of late, especially after this past class.

This past class was about the Torah and Tanakh in general, and the way the rabbi talked about the commandments (specifically the ten commandments) has made me really reflect on how I interpret them, specifically the fifth commandment, or honoring your mother and father.

This is a commandment I have wrestled with for a long time - in fact, it brought me away from g-d at multiple times. I was severely abused when I was incredibly young by my mother, and I used to feel insulted at the implication that I were to honor her while she got to live a better life. It was hypocritical, in my eyes.

But this rabbi surmised that this particular commandment was because parenthood is an act of creation, something that is like the g-d from which we come from. My realization is this: I don't think we're necessarily meant to take even these commandments literally.

I this particular commandment is more of a call to honor creation - creation is a gift, and like any gift, many people simply will not like it and will discard it. The person who abused me created me, but she did not honor creation. She didn't honor me, but I can still honor it.

I have started to honor creation much more. I'm too young, too unstable, not mature enough to be a father (though I fantasize about it), but I create all the time. I create relationships, I create with my hands through crochet. I create memories, I create my world. And I can honor who I am and where I came from that made me who I am. I've been learning one of the mother tongues of my family (Italian, since part of my family originates there) and it was judaism that inspired me to do this.

I don't think g-d wants me to honor my abuser. I think He wants me to remember the Holy action of creation. When I am a father, that act of creation will be Holy, and indeed, I am already joyful about the thought.

I have seen many people struggle with this particular commandment, but I think this perspective helps me personally. I don't think I ever have to forgive my abusers (plural), and I don't think I am commanded to simply because they happened to be family. I am commanded to recognize the holy, to elevate the mundane. In doing so, I will remember g-d. Through creation, I honor g-d and everything he has done for us, for me, and for our collective people.

[ratatatastic]

"A little chirpin' going on here from Tkachuk. He's still yelling at the bench, 'Hey, that's what you get! That's what you get!' And it was Hagel who got wacked along the wall, and it was Hagel that he was yelling at for the most part. [...] Yep! There's Tkachuk, he is loving it. This is his kind-of game." "Hagel obviously leaking over there on the Lightning bench. He laid a big hit on Barkov in the opening minutes of this one."

"Welp, they got the upper hand right now and Tkachuk being who he is, he's taking advantage of that. But that sets the table for tommorow night, and he dun care about that. He will be more than happy to have it go that way. See, he's still—" Matthew: That's what you get! All of that! [?] "He's talking about how sorry you're gonna be. He's talking to Guentzel and a couple other guys. Just setting the table for tommorow." "Oh, man! He is not letting up down there is he?" "Nope!"

"That's what you fucking get. That! (referring to the Kuli on Hagel hit that caused Hagel to go to the bench) That's what you fucking get."

florida panthers @ tampa bay lightning | 12.22.24

[gods-perfect-idiots]

❤️💛

[puppppppppy]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[ccrisntok]

I finally figured out why I feel so strongly about DRDT characters compared to mainline danganronpa/other fangan characters. (a short yapping session)

With Kiyotaka (my favorite mainline Danganronpa character), I met the character and, he died within two days bc I was binging. Not much time to get attached, but still enough to care a lot, you know?

But with Eden? Ace?? It's been a year and a half 😭 I've gotten impossibly attached to those silly guys.

Honestly, the hiatus has probably elevated this series into what Danganronpa is supposed to be (in my opinion): characters you really love dying.

We've gotten so much time to fall for these characters that having them killed is that much more painful. But that could literally just be me! Idk!

[ferryfoam]

He has no idea he's like a daughter to me. My middle aged male daughter

ASIT is making me real sad and lately I have been spending every waking hour thinking about nothing but Elim Garak

I have also been reading this wonderful fic by Cucumbermoon and it is making me sadder but it's beautifully written and very good https://archiveofourown.org/works/30310065 I am very enthusiastic to read the sequel once I am finished (it is possibly correlated to the fact I am menstruating as of current but I cried multiple times while reading so. Really good!!!)

[toffiendfee]

I've been browsing the Surugaya (japanese secondhand store mostly for all kinds of fandom goods) website, which fyi you SHOULD NOT do if you're like me and easily drawn in by fun merch, augh my wallet, but anyway, I've been looking around the Blue Lock stuff that was only sold at the special exhibition. That's pretty much the only official merch you'll find of characters that are manga-only so far.

And the sheer amount that anything Kaiser-related costs more than any single other character merch?? I could have been convinced to buy a little pin badge with official art of that bastard's face, but not for over 40 euros, wtf! I could get one of Ness for around six euros though. They also have little collectible (I think blind box) figures of the characters and they are adorable. Most of them will run you around 11-15 euros secondhand, some more popular characters like Isagi or Nagi go up to around 30 euros. And Kaiser? Can be yours for 12,282 yen. Which is. Over 75 euros!!

And. Honestly I'm not even that surprised, but it still sure is something to see. It's actually kind of hilarious. Side note, last summer I went to a con with a friend and we saw three Blue Lock cosplayers. All of them were cosplaying Kaiser.

I wonder what that all will evolve into once the guy actually makes his anime appearance.

[kuroo-hitsuji]

I somehow only Just noticed how Lucifer's wings move when he laughs in Surprise Guest interactions and I'm. Kind of obsessed? Like that's inexplicably adorable what

I've been due for some wings brainrot for a while now, hoping this one sticks around for a while afhsfjsf the tails got more than their fair share of my attention i Need to be spinning the concept of wings around in my brain at all times for the next three months At Least--

(Bonus hc infodump in the tags bc I have minimal self restraint)

[residentialsinyomakai]

YO-TOBER DAY 10....A DAY LATE: PISTACHIONYAN

....Plus a little message!

(The Rongo Swirll was an idea from a friend aidjoekf)

But anyways, just gonna say that as much as I wanna, I'm not gonna have time to do it every day as I'm sure you've noticed (* ´ ▽ ` *)ﾉ thank you for your understanding!!

Under cut there'll be the usual alt as well as a small doodle dump!! ^u^

Alt + sketches for my favorite day of yo-tober so far 💔 I love the Tough Tribe!!!

Heres this little shading practice I'm kinda proud of! I had fun drawing the eye :)

A LOT of squid stuff.....and I still have more. I'll post them on SpaceHey tho!! (@squ1dcurry btw -u-) one of those is a goofy different outfit inspired by the puni puni event fit + his original!

And timidevil!!! He's a cutie pie ^u^

anyways, I'll be off for now!

[hardwiredd]

gonna be real i hate edgar x miles. i hate them by themselves. madeline x edgar x miles? epic, i love it. but madeline x edgar is so peak. only way to make it better is to add me brah

[myokk]

me bc my favorite fanfic updated & now I don’t know what to do with my life after I finished the latest chapter…maybe reread it all again…😐

[tulpar-transmissions]

disclaimer before i start writing this is just kind of a brain dump. so. yeag 👍

it really fucking bothers me. how the mouthwashing fandom tags things. especially their character HATE. ohh my god.

They will make a post that is just "I HATE JIMMY" repeated 27 times. And then they put it in #Jimmy Mouthwashing.

Now, I completely understand WHY. He's an absolute piece of shit and should rot in hell for all eternity.

But it also... really sucks. I dunno. Maybe I'm being a little bitch, but it's always so aggressive. Saying that Jimmy should kill himself and that you want to kill him and all of that.

It really sucks. And as a fictive of Jimmy, it's upsetting to a point where I sometimes worry about making posts about myself, because we are so violent to him.

Sometimes, when I'm having a really rough time, I like to go look through my tag. It's nice. I like seeing art of myself. It's fun!

But I can't, because I know that I'm going to see "Jimmy should actually kill himself," and I know that it's going to be untagged.

Maybe I'm just overreacting? I dunno. I truly do understand why we say these things, but it's really shitty to me. I mean, come on. The general untagged "kys" jokes bother me anyway, but it especially hurts like this.

I'm not mad at anyone. I'm not upset. I'm not apologizing for canon. I'm not taking moral high ground. I'm just talking about something that upsets me.

If you took the time to read this, thank you. I appreciate it /gen

It's not even that you have to keep everything out of the character tags! Maybe just use "#fuck jimmy" or "#i hate jimmy" or something? Make it a common thing, so that filtering it actually does something.

Again, thank you! Much love to the entire community, y'all are awesome 💖 /p /gen

Sincerely, Jimmy 📗🌿 :)

[kipkiphoorayy]

how it feels getting crumbs for the sequel of your all time favorite movie that child you used to pray for and came out when you were in elementary school (i’m a college animation major now)