#mannn summer here is going crazy

[frenchfry99]

"Summer weather is at it's most! Get yourself a cold drink and keep your hats on, darlings! >BD 🌞🔥"

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Bonus (real late) pride month thing I made of Daria and Sean! Lovebirds? Lovebugs? We've got one of each I dunno

Cropped vers cuz yeah!

[blue-thief]

Ok. Thoughts on the Itoshi Sibs / their parallels with Isagi?

HELLO this took forever for me to answer because summer school and the sadness. as you know.

also i went too crazy with tying blue lock into my fixation with japanese nationalism so it got way too complex and i got scared but now i'm just gonna make that its own post (<- said the same thing about bsd. that analysis about bsd's connection with japanese nationalism has been sitting in my docs for a year now i think)

(smh this is what happens when the japanese imperial army almost wipes out your entire bloodline /gen /srs)

anyway. all that waiting to say that rin is... just some guy to me

usually a fw anime boys named rin. esp if they're the sworn rival of the plain protagonist. not necessarily this one though

i have no clue why he doesn't scratch my brain properly. he just doesn't. i need to spend a good three hours staring at the ceiling at night to figure that out

when you first sent me this i didn't really care for sae much either. now i do

that's how long this has been sitting in my drafts 😃😃

(i've written and scrapped thousands of words for this ask sob sob)

(this answer wasn't even formatted this way originally)

i've probably told you the story of how sae grew on me before but like

i don't plan out my fics right

i do play out random scenes in my head to test out if i like them or not

(shivers because updating my fic is another thing that is taking forever.......)

and i was just fucking around with random jokes kaiser and sae could say to each other

then i imagined sae smiling

and i was like "what the fuck... why is that so endearing........"

that was the turning point but it really was a lot of sitting and contemplating sae's character honestly

to really understand him and why he'd be friends with kaiser

and sae is kinda just like me frfr

that guy can't do anything other than soccer/football. he has nothing going on beyond that

and yeah. yeah... i get that.......

it's the reason why i like a bunch of other bllk characters but it's most pronounced with sae yk

(SORRY MR. SNUFFY)

and like. just his inability to be a normal fucking person 😭😭 too real

anyway those are my general itoshi brothers thoughts

now for the parallels part.

(this is the part that killed me and i wanna go more in-depth. but i'm saving that for another post. because holy shit my original idea was so fucking ambitious)

i had other thoughts and god i wish i wrote that stuff down

but the major thing i want to get into here is dependence

isagi is independent. soo independent it's kinda crazy

this was outlined most during the second selection with bachira where he had to learn to play by himself

meanwhile there's rin who seems independent on the surface

however, rin has always been dependent on sae in one way or another

when they were younger, rin was dependent on sae to take care of and guide him

rin also depended heavily on sae on the field

now that they are older, sae's attempt to shake rin off has just made rin's dependence on sae even more intense, just in a different way

rin's only motivation to play soccer/football had been to "crush" sae

...but now he's met isagi

and his obsession has found a new object

with the recent chapters, now we know he places isagi and sae on a similar level in his personal hierarchy, and his desire to destroy sae has bled into rin's feelings toward isagi

while rin has only one rival, the same can't be said for isagi

isagi gains rivals like pokemon, and while they have all played a significant roll in isagi's development as a person and a character, his obsession doesn't consume him. in the PXG vs BM match, he's doesn't fully comprehend the effect he's had on kaiser and rin

and mannn i wish i could find this analysis, but it's gone now

but someone compared isagi's desire to "devour" to rin and nagi's desire to "kill"

I WISH I COULD REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAID

but from what i remember, "devouring" someone is temporarily defeating them, but both parties ultimately improve so there's room for them to meet again and help each other improve even more

however, "killing" someone is defeating them completely so they're never able to play/improve ever again

which outlines the fact that while isagi can be a little bitch on the field, he wants his rivals to improve alongside him, and in the end, he wants the best for people (in terms of soccer/football)

which is why he never became overly-dependent on bachira and why he treats midfielders as actual human beings 😭😭

isagi is independent, but he pushes for the people around him to be just as independent

the itoshi brothers are different though

rin is codependent on sae, and you could say his hatred/obsession with isagi is a different type of codependency

but that thing about treating midfielders as human beings...

uh. that doesn't really apply to rin

sae is somewhat similar with how he "tamed" shidou but it's not THAT imbalanced lmao

there's also how the three of them are on different places of the striker-midfielder spectrum

in-universe and within the fandom, rin is perceived as japan's ultimate striker. his raw shooting power + metavision makes him perfect for this position.

however sae, another metavision user, is the perfect midfielder

then there's isagi who's tried emulating rin's play style at first but is ultimately most similar to sae, leading people to say that isagi is better suited to be a midfielder rather than a striker

while rin represents what the ultimate japanese striker is, something isagi is trying to reach, sae's path is one that isagi could easily fall down instead

many people have theorized that sae became a midfielder to improve rin's chances at becoming a better striker. sae may be considered to have a strong ego, but if this turns out to be true, that might not be the case lmao

errm. idk how to end this off. sorry for the wait sob sob

[ihaveitprinteddout]

LOLLLL lemme just ramble:

There is a 4 WEEK break so I am BEGGING for Mercedes to take this long break and utilize it to make any improvements that can help them heading into Austin. I'm also begging them to stop repeating the same shitty strategy over and over, weekend after weekend bc CLEARLYYY it isn't working and absolutely no one benefits from it. Toto (I love you sir buttt) talks about how 'we didn't give you a good enough car' after nearly every race (especially towards Lewis) at this point and it drives me PORANGIII (crazy) bc SIRRR, you had the summer break to make the car good enough and yet here we are, seemingly going backwards compared to BEFORE the summer break. I don't know what the fuck is going with the 'team' but they need to get their shit together reaaal quick.

I'd loathe if Lewis' final races with Mercedes ended up being like the last three have been, struggle after struggle every damn weekend bc he deserves so much fucking better and I know the whole team in general can do so much fucking better.

Lemme hush now. I just had to get this kōrero (talk) out bc mannn has Merc had me raging and disappointed the past three (or is it four?) races and it gets me so hōhā (annoyed) bc I know we can and should be doing better 😭

[chinateacup]

Ooo, love me some colours, colours are always fun for their flexible meanings!!

so, if I had to pick a colour that you'd represent it'd probably beeeeeee

Yellow, the type that comes after a frigid and long winter, the type that shimmers on fields of sunflowers and forsythias, with buzzing bees whizzing past and monarch butterflies fluttering around lemon trees!

Orange, the daring type with no qualms to taking risks, it's the orange of exhilaration that comes from pulling off the impossible, the satisfaction of getting away with it, it's an inside joke that no one will ever know the punchline too

Finally, in this pot of colours, I'll pour in a nice Rose, a kind of rose that hums a song of bonfires, with summer hidden in every swirling crackle of fire, the warmth emitting from it glazing those around it with a nice rosey hue!

Blue, though not the very Blue that comes hand in hand with empty, barren rooms and clouded over skies, tearfully weeping sorrow in every raindrop.

No, it's the admiring kind! The cool type of blue, the type you enjoy from afar, up atop a lighthouse, casting off an awed gaze at the ocean surrounding you, the blinding light that shouts a siren call to any lost wandering boats, steering them in the direction of home, wherever that may be.

Okay, I hear you thinking, that's swell but didntcha say 'a colour'? You just listed 4, so is this the thrilling conclusion to this colourful journey??? is this where you do a death-defying stunt, bungee jump onto a train and derail this whole spiel and get right to the point?

Well, no, yes, look, listen, see, but here's the problem!! I like to think everyone and everything has a colour, and people assume because it has no name that it can't be considered one, but I digress, everyone's got a colour, one that's uniquely them, whether that be the orange-yellow of a caprisun, or a jubilant red of Cherry's, the earthy brown of muddied boots reeking nostalgia or the fresh shined of new green sneakers you just got the other day! So, if I was hard-pressed to pick one, and only one, and this was for every single marble, all the marbles, every marble that'll ever exist, laying it all down on the table, do or die, go big or go bigger, it's now or never, if I really had to pick

If I really, really had to pick the greatest colour of all, it'd be you!

(I swear, I swear I geniuenly don't mean for these to go off as long as they do 😭😭 this started off with a bullet point list, but then I was like, oh shit, oh damn, you know colours r pretty kooky, pretty crazy, like isn't there that whole synesthesia thing where peeps can taste colours??? and from there it was all down the rabbit hole dlfkfjrkdj)

MANNN YOU ALWAYS SEND THE SWEETEST ASKS I SWEAR!!

I have so much envy for your writing style for real, I wish I could use this much descriptive language and imagery.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!