#she is so shape

[starrysharks]

last night's warm up and this night's cool down

[ari-zonia]

Inspired by this post

[orangedogsquad]

Henlo, is meeple !

[farsight-the-char]

Her ability to communicate with her eyebrows/forehead is fascinating. Increases her kissability greately.

Pic taken yesterday. She had noticed 2 squirrels atop a tree.

@sevi-fuk

[ruushes]

sleeping arrangements (not sure tara would ever actually deign to sleep in the same 20ft radius as shovel but who can resist those big shiny insectoid black eyes 🥺)

plus:

[autumndragons]

[image ids: two photos of a mostly white pigeon with a pink beak and two dark grey stripes towards the ends of her wings, sitting in a light pink cup. in the first photo the pigeon is smooth, eyes half closed, while in the second photo the pigeon has puffed her feathers out immensely, nearly doubling her size and making her almost completely spherical. end id.]

Beau only has two modes

[lonepower]

yes i Am paying real money to make you all look at our new dog. we've had her for 3 hours and if anything happened to her I'd kill everyone in this room and then myself. her name is Tater Tot

[willabee]

brushies stance

[hotcinnamonsunset]

a whale of a good time🐋

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You keep telling yourself that Namari.

[makenna-made-this]

CompliHENtary colors💙🧡

[demaparbat-hp]

Zutara makes a statement.

[farsight-the-char]

Big Yawn, Big Yawn.

@sevi-fuk

....

I am still not "back" properly, going to wait til Monday to return to full posting capacity.

[aquamarinebling]

isats as a treat. for me.

[puppyeared]

Wyrm on a string

[persona-brainrot-real]

Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)

Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.

And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.

Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.