#not @ me debating if i should've added 1 more scene to this

[phishphin]

OKAY!! This got a little more traction than I thought it would, so I thought I'd add some context to some of these songs! My reasons for adding, lyrical analysis and so on. (I'm not at ALL trying to avoid doing my assignments no not at all :>>>) This is going to be kind of long so strap in!!!!

1. Universal Soldier, Buffy Sainte-Marie Most of these lyrics are very Kaladin, upon listening this becomes very obvious, but I'll pick some of my favorites.

"He's all of 31 and he's only 17/ He's been a soldier for a thousand years" Kaladin starts out his career in the military incredibly young, and in Cenn's chapter everyone is appalled at how young but still in control of himself he is. This reaction to Kaladin's age continues throughout basically every book (most notably I think when Teft begins speaking with him, as well as the way Dalinar interacts with him). He's incredibly mature for his age, but the fact that he's still at most 19 shines through in some of his most pressing/traumatic moments. I think specifically of this specific moment in Oathbringer, where he's leaning over Adolin's body in Shadesmar:

“You know what you need to do. “I … can’t,” Kaladin finally whispered, tears streaming down his cheeks. “I can’t lose him, but … oh, Almighty … I can’t save him.” Kaladin bowed his head, sagging forward, trembling. He couldn’t say those Words.” (I'm sorry! :))

"And he knows he shouldn't kill,/ and he knows he always will."

This is a pretty obvious lyric I think, at multiple points throughout the books Kaladin struggles with the fact that he was raised to be a doctor and surgeon, yet now his job, for better or for worse, is to do the opposite. That despite how he was raised, he's good at fighting and how his father despises it.

"And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France/ He's fighting for the USA/ And he's fighting for the/ Russians and he's fighting for Japan/ And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way"

This lyric in part reminds me specifically of Kaladin's journey in TWoK and WoR. He fights in both Amaram's and Sadeas' armies (albeit against his will), then fights for Dalinar in an attempt to put an end to the evils Sadeas has committed against the bridgemen (and Dalinar, and Roshar, and and and etc.)

"Without him, Caesar would have stood alone/ He's the one who gives his body as the weapon of the war/ And without him all this killing can't go on"

So! Kaladin is quite literally the biggest trump card/pawn in all of the books. He gets traded and tossed around (like in the lyric above). One of the biggest reasons Dalinar can get anything done in WoR is because he has Kaladin and his bridgemen to rely on, Kaladin quite literally is the weapon. He killed Shallan's brother (unknowingly) as his one of his first heroic acts (which can be debated as to whether it actually was heroic or not- I would say his actual first heroic act was volunteering to go join Amaram's troops with Tien, but I digress) which now looking back on it and knowing who Helaran Davar was.. Well, you get my point.

2. Five Years, David Bowie

"I never though I'd need so many people"

Bridge Four. The Kholin family. Yeah.

"A soldier with a broken arm/ Fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadilac"

All of the injured soldiers from Bridge Four; Hobber, Lopen, Dabbid. This imagery just evokes the same feeling I got during the scene when all of the bridgemen became Kaladin's squires and started to gain their powers (while some of them took a little longer than others, or believed they couldn't).

"I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor/ Drinking milk shalkes, cold and long/ Smiling and waving and looking so fine"

This reminded me of Kaladin's assorted flashbacks to Tien and his childhood. I also just believe that Kaladin should visit an ice cream parlor, the man deserves it. He should've been at the club HE SHOULD'VE BEEN AT CARVEL! DAIRY QUEEN! Insert ice cream store chain here. Anyways.

"And it was cold, and it rained, so I felt like an actor/ And I thought of 'ma and I wanted to get back there"

In the first part of this lyric I'm reminded of RoW, Chapter 80:

“The image of the dog in the rain felt far too familiar to Kaladin. Far too personal.”

And the latter half reminds me of the scene of Kal, Tien, and Hesina lying on their roof in the rain. 3. Brain Damage, Pink Floyd This song just reminds of of Taravangian and him sliding between intelligent madness and stupid empathy. I'll just list the lyrics for this because most of them are quite obvious.

"And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too/ I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"

"The lunatic is in my head/ You raise the blade/ You make the change."

^^These two remind me specifically of Taravangian's interactions with Dalinar.

"You lock the door/ And throw away the key/ There's someone in my head but it's not me"

4. Lucky, Radiohead

"Pull me out of the air crash/ Pull me out of the lake/ 'Cause I'm your superhero/ We are standing on the edge"

This lyric is incredibly reminiscent of how Bridge Four treated Kaladin when he started to train them while still working in Sadeas' bridge crews. Especially with how poor Kaladin's mental health was in comparison to how the bridgemen treated him (Cough cough, Teft). They were constantly in danger, always on the edge of death (whether it was when Kaladin was literally on deaths door after being tossed out in the highstorm, or being sent to die on bridge runs).

"The head of state, has called for me, by name/ But I don't have time for him"

Yeah, this happens to Kaladin at least once a book, if not more.

"It's gonna be a glorious day!/ I feel my luck could change"

AND FOR MY BOON! (Shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up shut up what are you doing shut up shut up shut up shut up)

5. Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Smiths

All I have to say is Morrissey had no idea how Joan of Arc felt, but Kaladin Stormblessed sure as braize does.

6. Lover, You Should've Come Over, Jeff Buckley

Hear me out. This song to me is very... Dalinar. Would he listen to it? Only while alone, and he wouldn't admit to it (unless we're talking post Oathbringer Dalinar).

"Maybe I'm too young/ To keep good love from going wrong/ But tonight you're on my mind/ So.. you'll never know/ Broken down and hungry for your love/ With no way to feed it"

Young Dalinar (feral Dalinar? Might I say) while married to Evi knew he still was in love with Navani. But he couldn't do anything about it. To me, it seemed that Dalinar did love Evi, but not as a wife, not in the same way that Evi loved him. Evi gave him Adolin and then Renarin, and nearing the end of their time together it was clear he respected her and that they were close in the ways they had to be.

But he still wanted Navani, and knew he couldn't have her (that's what happens when you take the L and your brother marries your first love. Dalinar's biggest L perhaps?).

"Sometimes a man gets carried away/ When he feels like should be having his fun/ Much too blind to the see the damage he's done/ Sometime a man must awake to find that/ Really has no one" Dalinar gets carried away many times in his youth. Every flashback of him in Oathbringer is him just playing a first person shooter irl no guns all sword. Part of that was the thrill, but I think what made him so susceptible to Odium and the thrill was the fact that that's just who he was. He was the brother of the king, he proved himself useful and absolutely ruthless in battle. Galivar would've never conquered all of Alethkar if it weren't for Dalinar, and once they'd finally had their kingdom? Galivar had the kingship, had Navani, he had an heir and a ridiculously intelligent daughter. And Dalinar was married to a woman he didn't truly love, he had two sons yes, but he was basically untamed from his years of constant warfare and his addiction to the thrill. Then, when Evi dies, what does Dalinar have? He doesn't have the throne (he scared himself shitless out of that), he doesn't have Evi (who, while he did not love romantically, she still was incredibly important to him and a large part of his life, adding onto the fact that he believed he'd murdered her), and he 'gave up' the thrill. So as many addicts do, he replaced one addiction with another and turned to drinking.

"It's never over/ My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder/ It's never over/ All my riches for her smiles/ When I've slept so soft against her/ It's never over/ All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter/ It's never over/ She is the tear the hangs inside my soul forever"

They're really my two favorite straight people. I must say. Dalinar risked a lot for his relationship with Navani, his political standing, the respect of the people. Because of Navani, Dalinar learned to read and was able to finally step away from Vorinism, where he originally clung to at least the facade of looking like he still believed in the religion. Navani was his biggest catalyst for taking the step into becoming a 'heretic' and making the moves needed to help his people. He waited, what, thirty or so years to marry her? Yeah. They're real yearners. They get it. I want to eat them alive.

7. Communication Breakdown, Led Zeppelin

FUCK YEAH. Honestly, forget why I added this to this playlist. It's kinda just like Freebird. Sometimes you just have to imagine fight scenes to dadrock you know. Guitar solo or something. You feel??

9. Black Sun, Death Cab for Cutie

NOW! MASSIVE PREFACE! One of you guys said this was a Kaladin song, and I've searched for hours TO SEE WHO POSTED IT AND I CANT FIND IT. If it was you please pm me and I’ll tag you, I owe you my life.

"There is fear in the eyes of your father/ And there is 'Yours' and there is 'Mine'"

Kaladin and Lirin's relationship to me is like the Bible. As someone who's father works in medicine and as someone who studied and worked in healthcare for a time and found it wasnt quite what I needed, I think about them a lot. Lirin makes no attempt to mask his revulsion for violence and warfare in front of Kaladin, and you can't necessarily blame him. He's had to deal with the effects of such violence in his profession and would much rather to not have to. Lirin's way is pacifism. Kaladin's way is, in some ways, 'ends justify the means' (I think his outlook on his actions is a little more nuanced, but it get's the point across).

"How could something so fair/ Be so cruel/ When this black sun revolved/ Around you!"

Lirin has to battle with how he originally saw his son vs how his son returned to him. A young boy who's intention was to study medicine (as much as that was placed upon him), his son who was incredibly helpful but always carried this sadness around with him. His son, who against his warnings, still went after his younger brother to protect him. And then the man that returned to Hearthstone during it's darkest hour, and instead of returning a surgeon, Kaladin returned as one of the most dangerous and powerful of soldiers yet seen (except probably for Dalinar in Rathalas lmfao). Not only that, but he practiced for it, and in a sense, enjoyed it. (I don't think Kaladin enjoys the fighting and warfare, however I do think I feels at home in it. It's what he knows, it's what he's trained for, and it's where his friends and family are. It's where he knows he can contribute the most with his skills.) 10. Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes

"I was raised up believing/ I was somehow unique"

Kaladin was raised being told he was supposed to be a surgeon. He was a high ranking darkeyes because of his fathers job, he was told he was above being a farmer, a soldier, a laborer. His parents gave him a lighteye'd name, as much an omen as Ialai's name. They believed he was destined to do something great (as many parents do with their children).

"And now after some thinking/ I'd say I'd rather be/ A functioning cog in some great machinery/ Serving something beyond me" As Kaladin got older, he grew to resent the lighteyes more and more (for good reason). He began to, through his distaste for them, prefer is station among darkeyes.

"I'll get back to you someday soon, you will see"

Kaladin, while Tien was still alive, wanted nothing more to get back to his parents with his younger brother and just serve his time and get out.

But you can't tell me there wasn't some part of Kaladin, the part of him that had always wanted to be a solider, that wouldn't revel in the idea of going back to his parents when he was done and being able to tell them he'd done well.

"I don't need to be kind to the armies of night/ That would do such injustice to you/ Or bow down and be grateful/ And say, 'Sure take all that you see'/ To the men that move only in dimly-lit halls/ and determine my future for me"

After Tien's death and having killed Helaran, Kaladin dug hard into the fact that he was a darkeyes as a source of pride. He hated Amaram for what had happened to Tien, for the deaths of his men for the shardplate, especially when he only had good intentions. (Especially given the fact that, as Lirin's son he hadn't wanted the shards because of how destructive they are. And how Amaram wouldn't have given them to him anyways. His punishment of watching his men fight for their lives and being slaughtered only because he'd fought well in battle, for Kal protected Amaram, the man he hated most, from Helaran and earned those shards protecting him).

"If I know only one thing/ It's that every thing that I see/ Of the world outside is so inconceivable/ Often I can barely speak/ Yeah Im tongue tied and dizzy/ and I can't keep it to myself"

While being transported in the slave caravan, Kaladin, nor anyone else in the cart with him spoke. They refused to talk about their lives before. But, when Syl kept 'bothering' him, finally he cracked and spoke with her. Eventually, the two of them began to trust each other and Kaladin would joke with her, they would plan and help each other.

"If I had an orchard/ I'd work 'til i'm raw/ If I had an orchard/ I'd work 'til I'm sore" When given the chance, Kaladin took every opportunity given (or just straight up schemed until he made it happen) to better the quality of life for the people around him, and thus himself. When told he needed to learn to ride horses to guard Elhokar, he took all of his people and they worked until they were quite literally sore. And many such examples lol. OKAY !!! THANK YOU FOR READING. If you have any comments, or recommendations or want to tell me im wrong or something let me know. If you're the person who said Black Sun was the Kal song please hmu, I owe you my life and want to make sure you're properly tagged in this. AND IF ANYONE SAW ME POST THIS EARLY BY ACCIDENT. No you didn't. I'll send Vyre after you.

Felt the need to share my Stormlight playlist. If anyone makes fun of it I WILL! kill myself no questions asked.

That said if you have questions, please do ask. :)

The playlist cover is a picture of when I hit a curb and got a flat tire (I felt like Kaladin Stormblessed)

[wintergojo]

hi hii i just want to say that i absolutely love your gojo!dad stories they are all very very delightful to read and brings me soooo mucu serotonin omg bless your soul for making those <33 and if its not too much and youre not busy can you do onw for toge? if you can’t that’s totally fine your gojo fics are already a blessing :D

hiiii!! i'm sorry this response took too long. and thank u for your words!! it makes me so happy that u love gojo w/ a son (i love them too 🤧) bless ur whole being for being so sweet 😚 but i’m sorry this is a babysitter toge. i just can't imagine/write him as a dad 😭😭

a little fun fact: when i started watching jjk, i told myself i definitely wasn’t going to simp for gojo (and i thought i’d succeed bcos i immediately liked toge than gojo) and look where i am now 🥲

i would also like to note that i based what toge says here

navi

when gojo told him he was asking toge a favor, he thought his teacher would give him some sort of mission he was too busy to do, or ask him to help train the first years.

inumaki never expected for the tall sorcerer to ask him to babysit his child because no one else was available; the toddler’s mother was called for an investigation with nanami, principal yaga was in kyoto for a meeting, ieiri went with him to tend to a seriously injured third year, maki and panda are both on a mission, and the first years are on a different separate mission.

he started to think gojo orchestrated this whole thing for him to be the only one remaining in the campus, but he couldn’t think of any motive.

“behave and listen to nii-chan. alright, dumpling?” the teacher gave his child a peck on the forehead before standing up from his crouching position and facing inumaki. he then tapped the younger sorcerer’s shoulder and flashed him a grin.

"i'm counting on you, toge! i'll be back in the evening!"

he didn’t even allow the purple-eyed teen to respond before disappearing into thin air, leaving toge alone with a two and a half year old boy.

he looked down at the bag his right hand holds which, according to the man who disappeared, consisted of his son’s three extra change of clothes, sippy cup, and a whole load of toys. he then looked down at the white-haired toddler holding his left hand, who he found was already staring at him with his blue doe eyes. seishiro gave him a sheepish smile similar to his father as he raised his short arms at him.

"twooge, cawwy!"

now, inumaki wasn’t unfamiliar with the cute little boy. he met seishiro when the child was still a few months old and he had interacted a lot of times with the toddler. and because they both had limited vocabulary, they played a lot and got along well. he’s sure the child also learned to love pulling pranks because of him.

however, he was completely unfamiliar with taking care of seishiro (or any other children) because gojo-sensei and his wife were always there whenever he saw the child. so while carrying the happy baby in his right arm who was singing gibberish about onigiri ingredients, he managed to get his phone from his pocket and ask someone he knew was available for help—you, a.k.a. ieiri’s apprentice that’s the same age as him but isn’t his classmate because you prefer to be in a normal high school, and the only person other than him who is at the school because you were filling in for your teacher, and his childhood friend who understands his language just as much as (maybe even more than) panda does.

and now look what’s happening, you were gone for a few minutes and inumaki already lost the toddler.

"toge, where's seishiro?!" you hastily ask, eyes and head darting frantically around the greenery of jujutsu tech.

you're panicking, which also made inumaki start to panic.

"ikura!" he responded too vigorously accompanied by a way too aggressive shake of his head.

"what do you mean you don't know?! weren't you playing hide and seek with him?"

"shake!"

you started walking up the stairs leading to a nearby forest, whipping your head around in search for a tint of white fluffy hair. you left the two of them alone after eating lunch in the training grounds when you went to get the toddler an extra shirt in inumaki’s dorm, and by that time seishiro’s hiding places were where the two of you could still easily find him.

behind you, inumaki is walking backwards while muttering “sujiko…” “sujiko!!” “sujiko?” on what you know is finding and calling for the little toddler in his own way.

“we need to find him soon. didn’t you say gojo-sensei told you seishiro naps an hour or two after his lunch?” the two of you were nearing the entrance of the wide forest, and frankly you were starting to get worried you wouldn’t be able to find the little boy you just met in this vast location. you know there would be no curses because of master tengen’s barrier but still, better to be safe than sorry.

when you heard no onigiri ingredient uttered or even a hum, you turned around and frowned when you were greeted by the sight of only tall trees surrounding you. your shoulders droop as you let out a long sigh. great. now both of them are gone.

you were about to turn back around and continue searching for your friend’s teacher’s son (because toge can take care of himself) when you heard the other missing man’s “tuna tuna!” coming from your right.

you whip your head in the direction and see the cursed speech user looking at you with pleading eyes while holding the missing toddler, whose little sniffles are slowly starting to reach your ears as the two of them walk towards you.

looking closer, seishiro's face is buried in toge's collar which you're probably sure is now wet with snot and tears. and your friend is comically running his hands up and down the boy's back to calm him down.

"where did you find him?" you ask when toge starts handing you the baby. he pointed twice behind him using his thumb, uttering "mentaiko" when you were finally holding seishiro.

you turned your attention back to the child, wiping his tears from his chubby cheeks. "poor baby, are you okay?" 

seishiro's sobs turn into hysterical cries as he buries his face now on your neck, and you instantly regret asking the question. you remember from your past conversations that toge mentioned the little boy doesn't cry a lot, so it's a wonder he's crying so much right now. he must've been so scared, you think. 

toge was watching both of you the whole time, and at some point he even thought of using his technique to make his teacher's son fall asleep, but even he knows that's wrong (and he'd get the scolding of his life from you if he did that).

so he makes his way beside you, pulls something out of his pocket, ruffles seishiro's hair to make him look at the off-white haired teen, and waves his phone in front of both of you before fiddling with it. you were about to ask him how the gadget would help soothe the toddler, when you suddenly heard a loud fart noise come from toge's direction.

seishiro started giggling and asked "more, twooge!" causing toge's eyes to crinkle underneath his bangs as he plays the godforsaken sound on his phone repeatedly.

at that point the toddler had completely forgotten about his earlier demise as evidenced by his uncontrollable laughter and flailing around while holding the phone bigger than his hand.

he kept pressing the button over and over again, sometimes even attempting to recreate the sound with his little lips. you wanted to facepalm internally, but seeing both of them having so much fun and eyes crinkling so hard, you couldn't help but share their laughter as the three of you started heading back into the dorms, hand in hand with toge as he carries seishiro in his arms.

ps. i actually thought about what it would be like if toge had a toddler that also has cursed speech. and i just can imagine the two of them talking w/ random ingredients like the bby’s gonna say “papa, tuna?” and inumaki would be like “sujiko?” then they’re gonna have a full conversation consisting of “tuna mayo!” “shake shake” “ikuraaa?” and the mom is just looking at them like “??”

although gege did say the inumakis communicate with their heart so… they may just be like this

[leonardhoee]

Why TROS (The Rise of Skywalker) is better than Endgame (AKA absolute trash)

SPOILER WARNING!!! SCROLL IF YOU HAVENT SEEN TROS

Ok so apparently there’s actually a debate about which is better. First of all. I acknowledge that TROS may not be the best Star Wars movie to ever come out but compared to the trash that endgame/Infinity War are it was 10000x better.

TROS did a pretty good job with character development. Even though I’m not happy that Ben died, he had a purpose. There was no other choice in that situation but to do what he did and his death was more bittersweet than acutely painful. They did a great job redeeming him and the moment he talked to Han Solo made me so emotional. 8.5/10. the ending was satisfying and it left room for fans to make their own headcannons about the future.

Just some of the best moments

Look at the difference from the beginning to the end. *chefs kiss

Meanwhile...

Endgame and IW:

Carol?: reduced to a deus ex machina

Thor?: a fat joke; has no purpose for even being there anymore since anyone can use his hammer now

Steve?: threw away his entire new life to go back to the past with Peggy

Tony?: dead when it should've been nebula who killed thanos and his abusive dad got redemption

Natasha?: JUST found a family and redemption and happiness but she sacrificed herself for no reason

Wanda: had her trauma erased and basically made to not be taken seriously by the audience when thanos said he didn't even know who she is. And that’s exactly what happened.

Loki?: died for ABSOLUTELY no reason other than drama; undid his redemption arc

Gamora?: proved the trope that in the end you won't escape your abuser

Black panther/ wakanda?: reduced to ash in .5 seconds after they were supposed to be this great advanced nation

Banner?: basically useless bc he can't bring out the hulk. This couldve been their moment to truly show what BANNER can do but no. Apparently he's nothing without the hulk

And that’s just some of the characters they fucked up

1) The movie perpetuated a lot of misogynistic stereotypes (can’t expect anything better from the Russo’s), reducing most of the female characters to emotional wrecks (Wanda, nat), deus ex machinas that are shelved for most of the movie (carol) sacrificial lambs (gamora, nat), and plot devices for male characters (Peggy). And they think adding one “token feminist scene” is going to cover up their horrid treatment of the women in the rest of the movie

2) It supported basically most of the abusers in the MCU. Showing Gamora being sacrificed supported the trope that you can never escape your abuser. Loki being violently murdered for no reason showed that you can only find redemption in death (even though he was already redeemed). And tony easily forgiving Howard supports the idea that no matter how bad they are, you should forgive your abuser because they’re family.

3) Thor was ridiculed throughout the movie, undoing everything Ragnarok did for his character development. It’s like that movie never even existed at this point. Instead of showing him healing from his trauma, his weight, mental health, and destructive coping mechanisms were made fun of by all the characters. Would tony stark ever actually mock Thor for alcoholism when he struggled with the same thing? Would Valkyrie seriously just leave him alone to drink and forget his pain when she went through the same thing?

4) Another thing is Mjolnir. I get that steve was able to lift mjolnir in the comics. However what exactly makes him worthy in the MCU? We know that Hela and Odin were able to use mjolnir and there’s a pattern there. People who are blood related to Thor are worthy of wielding mjolnir. That’s why loki was never able to lift it. So why is steve Rogers, a human, able to use it. And with lighting powers on top of that. After the way Thor was treated in the movie (basically being useless until the fight at the end) what is the purpose in him even being there if now even humans are able to summon lighting like he can?? Lightning is something only Thor can do. Not even Odin can do it. It doesn’t make sense with the logic they’ve established in the MCU.

5) Going back to loki. Ragnarok already finished his redemption arc. He was ready to go to earth with thor and the rest of the asgardians. He was finally being treated as an equal yet the Russo brothers decided to kill him pointlessly and violently before even the title credits. That’s just disrespectful they reduced him to a plot device for drama, to make thanos seem dangerous. Now, Looking at the scene. Thanos was literally ready to let him go. He did not need to die. Loki had to have known that attempt to kill him wouldn’t have worked after being tortured by thanos for so long. He can’t be killed by a dagger. Loki isn’t that dumb. And he’s not that selfless. He wouldn’t sacrifice himself for no reason especially when he could’ve walked away unscathed. His death scenes was one of the most unnecessary, gruesome, graphic deaths I’ve ever seen from marvel. It made me feel sick. The sound of his bone snapping seeing the blood running down his eyes was it. They could’ve done so much with this character but they chose to do this instead. Hopefully the Disney + show fixes his character arc.

Overall, my expectations were low for both movies. But endgame was the biggest disappointment to the marvel franchise I’ve ever seen. TROS was truthfully very satisfying and did everything endgame wishes it did.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I hope the sun will shine on us again.