#it's to ensure that EVERYONE lives

[kaurwreck]

I don't know why it's so common to characterize Kunikida's willingness to sacrifice himself for his ideals as suicidality or inevitable. It's so short sighted, and neglectful of the relationship between existence, life, and death profferred by Bungou Stray Dogs.

I came to the decision when I was seven that anything worth devoting myself to must be worth dying for, too. Not because I thought I would inevitably be asked or because I wanted to die (that wouldn't manifest for another two years). But because there are some things that transcend me, and those are the things into which I want to concentrate my immense but nevertheless limited energy, love, time, and will.

I don't know what's difficult to understand about there being some things worth dying for (or that maybe death is an end, rather than the end). But there are (and for some of us, it is).

[opal-owl-flight]

"Can I be your hero, this time?"

8s noticed how much 3 has been a bit too willing to lay their life down to save the world. As someone who fought beak and claw to live a brand new life in the surface world, seeing her hero acting this way makes her worried sick for them...

[notbecauseofvictories]

I wonder if I'm having my midlife crisis now. Maybe if you don't marry or have children, you just....jump ahead. Start worrying at 32 about the shape you'll leave behind, if any at all, and how that makes you feel about the cold and windless maw of eternity.

[gai-sucks-titties-in-my-basement]

People criticize the Itachi reveal often because I think they have it in their heads that the Uchiha somehow had a chance of survival in a war, when Kishimoto intentionally shows us that the Uchiha failed a war before to a much less powerful and all encompassing opponent. Because the Uchiha aren’t built for war, they are built for love. Itachi made the only decision he could that would guarantee the life of Sasuke Uchiha would be spared. The point of Sasukes character is that he was always loved. His path of darkness does not exist. His revenge is not against a random act of cruelty on him, isolate him, victimized because he is unloved, but a battle for a bloodline that was declared dead the moment Madara conceded. The Itachi reveal is not to “redeem” Itachi its to let us know that the core of Sasukes character was never darkness, but love.

[writer-room]

Honestly Rayla is equally 100% ride or die for Callum too.

That's so true I almost mentioned it in that post. They're so ridiculously feral for each other it's hilarious to watch. Callum's the legitimate "we ride AND die together" whereas Rayla is the "I will ride and die FOR you" sort of deal yknow?

Could be literally any situation, no matter how dangerous, and she's already decided she will die here. Does it ensure Callum lives? Then batter-up buckeroo we're going in swords blazing! Everyone cheer and clap for her human or she'll blow this whole place up. Kinda person who says "even if you hate me I'd still lose everything if it meant you were okay". She thinks they're in a tragic love story where she's always at risk of losing him but that's okay as long as it keeps him safe and happy like y'know Viren parallels, she'd risk losing her very self for him over and over. Except Callum would wait until the end of the world itself, and even beyond, and she wouldn't even have to ask.

The difference between them, really, is that Rayla will die for Callum on any given day. Callum will kill for Rayla on any given day. Something something matching sets

[grimark]

unnecessarily long wall of text tag essay aside, “we all need to be nicer to men so they don’t radicalise and try to kill us” is really not a take i’m in the mood for hearing right now.

[s0fter-sin]

wow so watcher just singlehandedly killed their channel

[faehrnem]

In a different timeline, where Faehrnem never comes to be as the Bold Tree follows in his older sister's footsteps by setting aside his own wants and dreams to instead begrudgingly take on his role as an avatar.

[possiblyfunny]

With all the Missing Numbers Doodles popping up today, I finally found it in me to actually doodle and not care about how it looked. Anyways—

Here is Aster’s Halloween Costume! I didn’t color it, but Aster is Little Red Riding Hood and Del is the Werewolf. He’s not trick-or-treating, by the way—he’s just handing out king-sized chocolate bars to everyone he passes while walking around!

It’s not much- Just a goofy little thing to celebrate the holiday. Happy Halloween, everyone!

(Psst-! Hey, @100nebulas ! Starry! I know it’s not a lot, but I promised! Here’s your small dose of Aster content :])

[nozomijoestar]

Asuka is a tragic figure, a figure of mystery, a wild card, all because the only thing she wants in life is peace and quiet for herself and to feel in control- yet her secret heritage that may be hidden from her for her own protection and the reality that life is unpredictable and will go on with or without you keep ruining that delusion, that vision of how the world is meant to work to her, and she suffers regardless of what she wants, what she does, and how little she understands anything

She was born into a family preaching peace and balance and order while being a creature of violence, and puts a dozen mental locks and excuses over this truth to justify giving into her impulse for fighting by pretending she's justice when she does it

She keeps trying to build a place of safety but she's using sand and life is a wave that destroys, yet she stubbornly persists rather than give up, not drowned to the point of self centered suicidal loathing like Jin- there's contrast, where Jin is cloaked in death Asuka stubbornly clings to life and humanity as a normal person in a terrifying world

She's not a fucking narrative clone for Jun's own purpose, Asuka's purpose must be determined by Asuka herself

[solace-seekers]

screaming into the void <3

[walker-lister]

I just have to remind myself sometimes that no matter what anyone else says, the way a piece of media makes me feel and the positive impact it has had on my queer identity is valid, and that tearing myself apart thinking I have to defend it or questioning my own place within queer communities is not at all important when compared to the almost tangible sense of 'rightness' that piece of media helped me to feel about myself.

[aberooski]

Hassleberry's immune to the Light of Destruction, he has no darkness in his heart, he's part dinosaur..... he's a real problem for the bad guys because they can't do SHIT to him very easily at all! And I couldn't be happier 😌

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

So, trivia! It's implied in the Complete Allspark Almanac that TFA Cyclonus is the future version of Skywarp (yes, really). He's apparently a time-traveler, and fanatically loyal to Galvatron.

Okay, so I have heard this one before! And I do think about it. But I think it would be more interesting if Cyclonus time travels to get away from Galvatron. Alternatively, he time travels with the intent to ensure Megatron becomes Galvatron but changes his mind once getting to the past. (I think it's also mentioned he loses his memories?) I also think it's interesting that they chose the scared, terrified Starscream clone to become the quiet brooding guy, instead of having it be one of the other clones. I kick the idea around in my head sometimes and I do want to use it eventually, I'm just not sure how.

[remythologise]

goro defense squad rise up!

I can excuse poppy hill and earthsea but I draw the line at earwig and the witch, a movie so fiendishly awful that it may well have been a devilish ploy to unretire mr hayao and fuel the malicious fire in the engine room of the boy and the heron

[canichangemyblogname]

Do people just not have best friends or something? Or is y'all's attitude toward people hanging out with others' families shaped by family size? I see people saying stuff like: "These two people must be romantically interested in each other because one invited the other to a family party after only a month of knowing each other!" And, like... no? Friends get invited to the family picnic after a month of knowing each other.

As someone from a VERY large family, you do not bring your s/o or someone you're romantically interested in to your 70+ person family barbecue. They will grill them and make the day very, very awkward. But your friend can grab a plate. That one kid you sat next to in Kindergarten can grab a plate. Your neighbor's cousin's cat can grab a plate. Your second-grade classmate's neighbor's son? He can also grab a plate.

Your s/o though? They can grab a plate in about a year or so. They have to meet your mom and pop for dinner first. Then your gran and pop. Then there's the "obligatory" (it's not actually) "your sibling accidentally third wheels on a date" first, too. Then you can bring them around to a birthday, often your own. The entire birthday party will have already met your s/o. And only after that will you bring them to the barbecue/picnic/reunion/christmas/easter holiday. Bringing them along is serious stuff. Bringing a friend along is expected.

This does not apply to weddings. You are not allowed to bring friends to a family's wedding. You're either tagging along with your parents or bringing a date.