#s: heart connect

[technicalthinker]

Me in 2021 starting episode 1 off Loki: haha wouldnt it be funny if Loki got to kiss Owen Wilson??

Me now:

[beccawise7]

The way the world loves itself so selfishly, it's no wonder it hasn't turned to ash.

Everyone so desperate in seeking their own desires, they forget the one they hurt has a heart and soul.

I see the world differently. A bit of an altered reality, I suppose.

I believe being kind in the face of anger is strength.

Showing love in the midst of hate breeds change.

Serving others brings joy, not just to them but to us as we serve.

Loving others brings me hope that one day, they will love someone as deeply as I loved them, even if they couldn't love me back.

How beautiful the world would become if we saw past our own needs and looked to help others, unconditionally.

I choose rare, real, and kindness.

~beccawise7 💜🖤

[graciecatfamilyband]

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[spiderwarden]

when I say 'her life in menzobarranzan ' I don't want you to JUST picture the graceful tactful politician and rebel hunter that she was.

i want you to imagine Minthara as the playboy she also was, the stereotypical child of mommy's riches who spends their days partying and having sex with men and women, and being up to her EARS in cunt and cock. Coming down to the family breakfast table, hungover, naked under a robe, and lighting a canon equivalent to a cigarette and she reaches for the toast. In some cases covered in blood if her lover from the previous night tried to kill her. Known every bit as the pleasure party lover, party animal she was. Eyes scrunching and rubbing her temples because mom is giving her hell again for not focusing on anything else BESIDES cock and cunt.

[xiewho]

not to also be in tc denial but i cant see how this conversation won't include gorgug saying in some way that he joined the owlbears to spend time with fabian. what other reason would he have to be on the team for so long if not to hang out with him or something 😭

nno cause. youre so right like what reason do u have other than u wanna spend time with ur bff . like 'if i get to be with u then that's enough for me !!' . its ok anon if we hold hands when the episode drops then through the power of friendship and Believing this WILL get referenced in the ep. godspeed

[alexcabotgf]

not to be true crime posting on main but i think i'm falling down the wm3 rabbit hole again

[wayti-blog]

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot

[sysig]

Last man standing (Patreon)

[ar-mage-ddon]

What if Luxord was Keykiid's apprentice? I believe this because they both use cards (in Chi, before the medals, cards were used) they both use darkness and light, in addition to ludor, one of the possible names of Luxord's somebody, which means playing, what do you think?

it's an interesting theory! i've been thinking of the possibility that player themself could be luxord (though it's a bit of a stretch since we don't know what the exact rules for reincarnation are yet), but apprentice seems plausible too — especially since in the jp dialogue for the final dark road cutscene, xehanort calls player "master" (not necessarily indicative of them having apprentices, but interesting to note either way)

related to their similarities, i also keep thinking about that kh3 remind scene between luxord and xigbar, specifically where luxord says, "yes, that's what i've always done. i followed the orders from above without question." obviously this could just as easily be me picking out coincidences and making connections where there aren't any, but i have to admit that it just makes me think of player's line in the clock tower when they confronted their foreteller: "i've done everything that was expected of me without a second thought."

which also reminds me of luxord saying "the game isn't over until it's over" in the caribbean, which seems to be becoming something of a reoccuring line — it's said once in the loading screen of xehanort and eraqus's chess game with the exact same wording, ephemer says a variant of it in the khux finale ("it's not over till it's over, skuld."), and even player sorta says it right before they fade away though it's a lot more truncated and could be handwaved away ("it's not over yet."). it's interesting to me to see who gets those lines, and out of all of those luxord's sticks out like a sore thumb to me; sure, games are kinda his thing, but it seems like a line that's gaining some importance, so to give it to luxord of all people feels suspicious — all part of him becoming more important in the story moving forward supposedly

(and this probably isn't related at all so i'm just slipping this in last, but in that dark road q&a there's a question about odin where nomura just says "Naturally, Master Odin also had a master to mentor him. Said master entrusted Odin with a mission, which actually ties in with the identity of the blue-robed individual." and it just . it hasn't left my head because there are so many things you could extrapolate from it. does this imply player and odin had the same master? or is player odin's master? are they completely unrelated and the mission is the only thing that connects them? it keeps me up at night)

anyway i'm rambling but tldr; i think there's a lot of tiny details that link player and luxord together and it's fun to think about what their connection could possibly be, and i'm more than excited to see what gets revealed about them in the coming installments !!

[legionofpotatoes]

nimona thoughts! still my top movie of the year so far!!

been thinking about how to frame my thoughts on this gem, and I ultimately arrived at a bit of a pretentious jumping-off point. but honestly, my favorite stories are always the ones that end up demoting the whats, the hows, and sometimes even the whos in service of the whys. it's the hardest question and context to tackle in any story, and it's worth interrogating the most in order to find any true meaning, any connection at all to what's told.

nimona shows exactly why walling yourself away from the "others" isn't good enough. it shows why you have to do the work and see them.

not just that it is dogmatically "the right thing to do". not just depicting what certain systemic injustices are, how they are deployed, and who they are targeted at. but the why. that simplest, purest shape of questioning an injustice dating back to your gentlest time as a child, when you were vulnerable, naive, and truly curious in the best possible faith. the question you would always ask was why.

you are picking up a sword to threaten the unknown. you've been told the whos and whats. you parse it thus. but you don't know the why. you are watching this happen on TV, contextualized, simplified, dramatized. you are connecting the dots. understanding the why.

nimona painstakingly drills down on that why. arduously, achingly digging past the institutions of fear fed by cycles of indoctrination and right down to the core of it. packaged in a simple-to-parse fantasy world built with deft, elegant metaphors and archetypes that immediately fall into place and make sense to a person of any age.

it is animation as a medium and fantasy as a genre both working in concert. a fun and colorful romp that ends on a gentle embrace of reassurance that tells children - both literal and the ones buried deep inside adults - that their first question to the world was always the correct one. because it was the kindest.

[meguhime]

15. children for Au Ra April and 15. conceal for Vierapril

And he thinks of a person he doesn't know and knows with all his heart, who grows up in place without shrines and hidden banners and missing figures, held instead by two loving sets of hands. By three sets of hands. And he considers.

They look toward him with curious smiles, and he looks down at his hands.

And "What if…" becomes "Yes."

This was inspired by the beautiful words written by @waveknight

[salmonsaur]

Sometimes I wonder if snow has a lot of significance in ToG.

About Horyang (Ilmar): during his backstory, after becoming the devil's right arm, we see he's being transported somewhere unknown. When I was reading this part, I remember it felt like Horyang was being transported to either be discarded/ destroyed, or sold to someone because the Workshop was done with him. Anyway Headon appears, the transport driver is shocked, Horyang is taken by Headon, and that's how Horyang ended up climbing the Tower. (S2 chapter 42).

The place Horyang was being transported to was over a body of water, and it was snowing. Horyang stated that it was his first snow back then, and that he thought it was beautiful. In the distance, there seems to be a fuzzy silhouette of maybe a giant tree or multiple trees.

About Wangnan: there's a scene (S2 chapter 230) where Wangnan tells Miseng that he was born in a cold place, and the Hell Train's cold climate is easy for him to deal with.

About Arlene: we learn in season 3 that Arlene has stayed at a place called Seolhyangwon that has eternal snow within it (S3 chapter 132).

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What if all three of these mentions of snow and the cold are connected? Maybe it's a coincidence that they all have something to do with cold weather (and the possible tree silhouette in Horyang's flashback and Seolhyangwon is a coincidence too), but I have a hard time ignoring coincidences in this story 😅 Hopefully we get to see more Arlene/ Bam/ V/ Jahad/ Wangnan lore in the upcoming arc

[antihibikase-archive]

I wanna say I’m in love But I wanna save those words for when I’m cute enough! Don’t you know it’s not alright? Won’t you wait for me, my charming prince in shining armor?

[monogatcri]

if niwa cannot find anyone prior to reaching narukami island, he will take his time to carve several bokken and fans for himself to use as a means to earn money. at first, he sells the wooden swords and fans to children, but then, when he's found alone, practicing kenbu to pass his time, he begins to engage in the art on the streets as a means to earn a more sizeable chunk of change for himself to eventually afford a real blade. his performances are silent pieces at first but soon develop into more professional-appearing sets with accompanying instruments of kind patrons who wish to help his art stand out. though his red streak of hair is something that most focus upon when they first encounter him, his moniker used to snatch the attention of curious individuals is surely more prominent for its decline known in inazuma: the isshin dancer.

[cherrymoonvol6]

oh.

[lenievi]

I’m kinda sad that I haven’t written a proper spones fic for a year (I don’t count the 12dos stuff or the short snippets/whatever because they weren’t things I really wanted to write. They’re like sketches... and kinda like “I should write something”, so I did) and even before that it wasn’t like okay this is IT for a while (and the last fic I was “yes, love this” about I didn’t actually finish, just called it finished because I low-key gave up (maybe I should look at it again and write the third part it always deserved hm it was supposed to include kirk and mccoy scenes so I guess that should go easy now lol)

and it isn’t that I can’t write, obviously, I’m having fun with my mckirk-ish fics, but I’d just really like to write some proper (to me) spones fic lol