#that will always choose me??

[theygender]

You know I'm gonna be honest. I don't think all these apps really need access to my precise location

[armythings-love]

It’s the way that Chiron and Mr. D should be on their knees thanking Grover for telling Percy abt his mom. If it wasn’t for Grover telling him his mom is in the Underworld, nothing Chiron or Mr. D could’ve said would’ve convinced that boy to go. Grover knows his best friend. Intrinsically. He’s the first friend Percy has ever had, has ever kept for a long period of time. Gods, the Grover/Percy best friendisms are getting to me😭

grover being the first friend percy had and being the reason he didn't feel so lonely, him risking percy hating him to get him kicked out of school to protect him. swearing to sally jackson that he will protect her son. standing up to chiron and dionysus saying that he believes percy should be told the truth. and telling him anyway right in front of them even when they told him not to.

grover underwood you will always be loved by me

[ozumii-fucking-wizard]

Stay hopeful, stay kind, dear Halsin.

[erabu-san]

Why does it feel like i betray my bros

[bungobble-my-balls]

OK correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like the main 'yin/yang' parallel with Atsushi and Akutagawa is not something like 'this one is bad but secretly has a good side and this one is good but secretly has a bad side'.

I feel like it's more about 'who they are at their core vs who they choose to be'.

At his core Akutagawa is kind and at his core Atsushi is not. But despite this Atsushi tries every day to make the kinder choices and I love him so much for it. He has to work so hard to be good.

He wants to be a bitch SO bad I know he does but he tries his best to help people and be nice (sometimes he fails but that's OK <3)

Atsushi doesn't always WANT to help people, a lot of the time he's selfish and scared, but he does help people anyway. He keeps helping people over and over again. There's still some selfish motivation to it, and his initial motivation for helping people was because the headmaster told him that's all he was worth, but overall he does care about the people he helps and it weighs on him if he fails to save them. And of course, as the series goes on he starts helping people more because he can rather than because he feels like he needs to.

In Akutagawa's case, he's still capable of being kind but his environment led him into being someone who chooses to hurt people. But he's always been a protector at heart. In the start he was bad compared to Atsushi because he was choosing to hurt people and keep the cycle of abuse going. Just like how Atsushi developed in why he saved people, Akutagawa starts to get redeemed when he chooses to not just act on his rage. Not only does he start to spare people, but he speaks more kindly to them (apologising to Higuchi and telling Kyouka he's proud of her). It all culminates into the moment he chooses to help Atsushi and sacrifice himself for him, going back to his core value of being a protector. Even when he's finally revived, he keeps this role in his new position as Aya's Knight.

I kind of see the streaks of white in Akutagawa and the streaks of black in Atsushi not as their 'hidden sides' but as their fundamental selfs. That's who they are at their core, and their main colours (black for Akutagawa and white for Atsushi) are how they're presented to everyone else and how they try to have people see them as.

[namespara]

Queen Marika because people dont realise how evil of a girlboss she is. I love power driven evil women helloooo

[choccy-milky]

MC doing what we all wished we could do (aka napping on the floor with ominis )😴💕

[bacchuschucklefuck]

while teen while goblin while aroace while injured while doing your best

[femmesandhoney]

I do think the female boxer who got absolutely shit on by the entire world deserves an apology still

[mxwhore]

hey!!! what if transfem jmart. what then

eh its not too different

[catmask]

i think im going to give up on naming my mascot and just call it 'the creature' or critter forever now. like, giving it a different name than my own feels completely wrong, but calling it by my own name feels wrong too, its like the bite sized version of me and my personality so its not ALL of me, but its also not NOT me. the critter

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you?

Chen Bowen as CHEN YI & Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[platoapproved]

armand + preparing to tell louis about his past

[inkskinned]

one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

thinking about the cycle of: women do better in school - more women become teachers - men are socialized not to listen to or pay attention to women - men do worse in school

[pansyfemme]

everytime i am even mildly critical of transmascs people seem to think i am betraying my own community rather than saying something like ‘if the only queer people you will listen to and relate to have to hold the exact same identity as you, that is an issue, especially if you are a queer man who does not interact with queer women’ which is a pretty. basic statement