#of just their adolescence in love

[thewolfisawake]

I know this is that one song that is used for that jump but it is that song for a reason! But I didn't know of the trend years ago of folks??? Kissing the one they're crushing on???

And it just reminds me of Bal being a flirty and semi-oblivious bastard. And Mhoirbheinn in peak broody teenage fashion is side eyeing whomever Bal flirted with. And continuing to push his luck teases Mhoirbheinn like 'what can you do better?' To a fae that knows no chill.

Cue a full on kabedon and hand under the chin and like 'So what if I can?' Like literally centimeters from ruining that friendship. (Sorry though folks, Mhoirbheinn backed out thinking Bal is just flirting to flirt. Balmoral was just as disappointed as the rest of us.)

[littlelightfish]

I would like to remind people that Chilchuck hasn't seen his wife in 4 years.

So he maybe wasn't there to see his daughters become adults, but he was there for the majority of their childhood.

When he left, Mayjack and Flertom were 12, and Puckpatty was 10. They reach adulthood at 14, so maybe yes, he was absent when they were still kids, but that doesn't mean he didn't maintained contact with them afterwards as far as I know. The thing he uses around his neck was a gift from Flertom, and he was using it when he met Laios's party.

[beybuniki]

also I love platonic bakudeku because it’s just beautiful to me to see two young people be so extreme about and invested in each other in good and bad ways even without any attraction involved, deku being so willing to risk his life for a friend who doesn’t even like him like that anyone is so important to meeeeee

[himemeiya]

Haha I like you *undooms your yuri* [x]

[cybersodas]

The surveyors of the kingdom

[swamp-cryptids]

We don’t talk about Gary and Hank’s friendship NEARLY as much as we should. It’s adorable.

[joseigamer]

Patalliro! is fascinating to me because of stuff like this. It's unapologetically gay - even within its anime which aired during primetime hours in 1982 - in a way that many later BL manga would never be, like the ones from the early 2000s which would never dare to call their characters actual homosexuals. Patalliro has actually aged quite well in this regard, there's something comforting about how campy it is.

[therabbitthatpostthings]

Hey, check on your local gay person. They just announced the Yuri on Ice Movie cancellation.

[retributory]

gx is so crazy how do you explain to someone with a surface-level understanding of what yugioh is that the series after dm features a hermaphroditic dragon-demon card spirit fusing their soul with the main character, who also has apparently been continually reincarnating for 100s of years with the card spirit's primary goal being to protect him, and when they embrace to fuse he says they shall never part again because they will forever and always from that point on be one jointed soul and body, and also he commits a borderline genocide against the card spirit race (???) and straight up kills some of his friends (they get better), and also there's a character who got his leg broken during an archeological dig and they replaced the broken bone with a dinosaur bone (???) and now he's like part dino and has fucking dino dna (?????????) and they send him to space as his dinosona to destroy a satellite that is about to destroy the earth (????????????), and also one of the teachers in the school (seto kaiba's duel school for dueling) is a homunculus and when he dies his soul (???) gets eaten by his cat and for the rest of the series he is living (?) inside of the cat's body, and also on top of all that theres a cool rival character as expected of a show targeted towards young boys who looks cool but in actuality he's lame as hell like he canonically stinks like shit cause he doesn't wash his clothes and he joins a cult and they get him out of the cult by reminding him that his real personality is being a rancid little stinky smelly bastard loser and no one likes him and he spends the entire series getting completely dunked on and also his main archetype is these things:

and then you have to concede that at the end of the day it is still an anime for a children's card game designed to sell the cards so if you ever try to explain the impact this had on your developing mind at 7 years old you'll sound sick

[dark-kingdom-stan-account]

Just like any self-respecting Utena fan, I've latched onto a (semi) minor detail that I just can't find a satisfactory explanation for!

(MASSIVE RGU (series and movie) spoilers ahead!)

As someone who has engaged with RGU supplementary material plenty, it often goes out of its way to point out how Miki's eyes are "like crystals" and similar things. You can see it in the game and in the light novels.

The fan translation is accurate in this case.

So after staring at movie screenshots one too many times, I noticed that his eyes aren't blue there... they're green! And he's the only character whose eyes changed like this.

What does this mean? My first thought was to connect it with the characters who most prominently have green eyes in the series - Anthy, Akio and Dios. The characters who have the most power despite also being the most trapped in the system, with Anthy in particular having the power in the movie and being the only one of the three who is alive - if some theories are to be believed, she was the one who created the world the movie takes place in in the first place. However, she's also the person most trapped in it too.

However, their eyes are definitely not the same shade. More on that later.

An interesting part occurs in the movie during the Touga and Shiori scene - we cut to Miki and Kozue in the bath. It seems Miki has grown since the anime - he accepts that there's no going back to their childhood, and tells Kozue she's still precious to him. In response, Kozue threatens him with a razor and calls him a traitor.

And yet, the next time we see them, Kozue has become a car, and he smiles after she passes by, not sparing her a single glance. What happened? Did she become a sacrifice? She isn't seen individually afterwards unlike Shiori or Wakaba, she becomes just another car in the locust crowd. Perhaps more unsettling is the reason he gives to Juri for being a duelist - "I always wish to obtain more power". Juri responds to him by calling it manly.

That fucking smirk haunts me. Anyway.

Pursuit of power - doesn't this ring a bell? Perhaps like a certain student council president? Of course, in the movie, Touga is dead, so perhaps someone else took his place in the narrative... Miki. The unsettling implications of what happened to Kozue seem to add to this. Not quite as sinister as Touga's relationship with Nanami, and there's no reason to see it as similarly complex, but also I don't see what else it could be.

So even though Miki appears to be pursuing power at the cost of even his sister, potentially, he's unable to get there. His eyes are not the same shade as Anthy or Akio, not even close - they're much brighter. He appears to have shed some of his innocence - no longer wishing to go back to that garden - but he traded it to pursue more power. No wonder he isn't ready to leave Ohtori yet.

An English-speaking person may also be tempted to connect this to the common expression of "green-eyed envy", and yet I'm profoundly unsure if this is the case. He's never shown to be envious of the power possessed by anyone (unlike Touga, he can't look up to Akio, who is also very dead), even if he and Juri see the ghost of Dios inspecting the cars.

However, no matter how much he desires power, in the end, he's one of the people helping Utena and Anthy escape. He tells them how to go to the outside world. He promises the student council will join them eventually. Arguably the most good-natured interaction Anthy has with any of them.

His eyes appear to be showing how much he's changed since we saw him in the anime, and in some ways, perhaps not for the best. However, he's not fully trapped in the hell of Ohtori Academy yet - there is hope for him, even if he's strayed into such a dangerous path.

In the end, I think all of them deserve their revolution, even if the road getting there is bumpy.

...Or maybe they thought it would fit him more to have green eyes idk lol-

[alexhasalotofthoughts]

When I found out Ice Adolescence had been cancelled, my mum told me to just write a fanfic to cope with the loss and post it on ao3.

Why does my mother know what ao3 is and why is she telling me to post fan fiction on it??

I mean at least she's supportive?

↑ live footage of my mum telling me to write Yuri On Ice fan fiction.

[inchidentally]

https://x.com/MERCL4REN/status/1743286121973555513?s=20

find the difference level impossible :D but seriously, this tweet gave me a stomachache from laughing so hard.

THERE'S MY TWO CREEPY TOO SIMILAR VESTAL VIRGINS THAT MAKE ALL THE MEN ON THE GRID (except lewis) GO HUUUHHHHH???

[metiredlr]

Yuri on ice fandom of Tumblr let's do w/ Ice Adolescence what the rest of the site did with Goncharov(1973) because it's been 5 years n we got no news of the movie yet. I'm begging. We can do this

[no-depression-for-vampires]

I totally get why Adolescence is a bit controversial canon wise esp regarding erasure of characters instrumental to understanding the main ones, but idk the sheer amount of vulnerability shown by utena and anthy, the support provided by the student council on escaping and akio dying a miserable death did make me warm somewhere, anthy and utena rewriting, reliving a different, less tragic, the shadows and ghosts more or less dissipated at first sight of each other with their scars out in the open in the most brutal yet cathartic ways possible, the victims banding together to escape their stasis and the car as the road to hell, as hell itself; taken away from fake self-pitying Lucifer himself to be a tool of liberation itself. Anthy's rewriting her story, clumsily, out of grief, out of a desire to rectify her and Utena's real and perceived mistakes, to be close to her missing friend who she will find; has found, will be with, their bleeding wounds carefully tended to by each other. Carry your coffin with you girls, as we all carry our scars and wonder if we could change it in the idling of our minds. We regret and we heal.

Also Nanami still being a cow and getting wrecked by Chu Chu is the pettiest shit from my girl and I love her.

[applesandpavenders]

Been relistening to How to Train Your Dragon, and something I’ve noticed is:

Hiccup chooses his fate.

Like, I absolutely love the whole fate is ruling Hiccup’s life - playing games with him - I mean he is a walking “lost things magnet” to quote the witch. He seems destined to be king because there are so many signs - the blue snow, the swimming race, speaking dragonese, the dragon mark, the list goes on.

But. (And I only spotted this now) In the very beginning, when Gobber sends the boys in to steal a baby hunting dragon, the first dragon Hiccup ever has to train, he picks out one. He gets a nice easy basic brown (Horracow) and he probably would have been very happy with her. She’s obedient, holds similar non-violent beliefs as him, and would have been easy to train. He could have had a fairly ordinary life with her, nothing impressive but he’d have lived.

But Fishlegs didn’t get a dragon.

Fishlegs would have been banished from the tribe had Hiccup not decided to disobey the ‘only the strong can belong’ mentality and given up his dragon. Because he gives Fishlegs his dragon, Hiccup chooses Toothless. And Toothless. Toothless is the key to everything. Literally. *Looks hard at the lobster claw*

The point is, that because Hiccup chooses compassion over self preservation, he chooses to become king the wilderwest. He would rather do a hard thing, like find another dragon, than let his friend suffer. He would rather pick a dangerous adventure over those he’s responsible for, who he cares about, getting hurt. And that’s why, again and again, he always pick the path toward being king.

It’s the same when he saves Fishlegs by claiming he wrote the letter to Tantrum, and in the quest for the potato, and, finally, in how he defeats his father in the flashburn duel. Because dragons are people he cares about.

Yes, Fate chooses Hiccup, but only because Hiccup chose Fate first.

[abirddogmoment]

Another dog show in the books!

We showed in a sporting dog specialty this morning and she did beautifully! Great stacking, great gaiting, honestly just awesome. The judge really focused on expression which is not our strong suit (Rory bounces between a melted "omg you're my best friend in the world" face and a "I can't see you there's a pepperoni I want" face) and she ultimately awarded it to the other dog in our class. I felt like she gave Rory a fair look though and Rory really did great!

We also showed in an all breed show this afternoon but unfortunately it was so so so so so warm and the show was so delayed we went in a little frazzled. Rory tried her best but she was a little overwhelmed and really tired so we didn't gait well. The judge also mumbled instructions and I couldn't tell what she wanted me to do (I was first in our class) and I feel like she just gave up on having me do things. She gave Rory a really thorough look before she awarded the other dog though so that was nice!

I'm excited for tomorrow! It is unfortunately another afternoon show but we don't have anything in the morning so hopefully we can get in the game. We have a lot of really nice competition so I'm not expecting anything, but it's been really nice practice so far anyway!