#they drive me insane actually bc like

[daisies-on-a-cup]

the fucking smile hannibal did when will immediately said "i'd be a good father" PAIN AND SUFFERING AND LOVE FOR 1000 YEARS

[the-sage-libriomancer]

Shigure's relationship with Kyo drives me crazy. he doesn't hate Kyo in the slightest - in fact, he pities Kyo, and not in the condescending "oh you poor little boy, cursed to be a horrible, disgusting monster" sort of way that everyone else does. Shigure pities Kyo for the reason he should be pitied: he's just a kid caught up in a system so inhumane it can't possibly be survived without some seriously unhealthy coping mechanisms.

and it drives me crazy because - listen, Shigure is the only zodiac member who's emotionally aware enough to see the other zodiac members as exactly what they are. he knows Yuki is a severely traumatized kid who projects all of his self-hatred on a single convenient target. he knows Akito is really a scared little girl with a raging god complex (literally) and no concept of a healthy relationship. and he knows Kyo is a regular-ass human being who doesn't deserve to be locked up for the rest of his life just because some arbitrary system says so. he KNOWS it's stupid. he KNOWS it's ridiculous and unfair. and he has to share a house with Kyo knowing that Kyo is living with a sword over his head, hating himself and hating others in perfect tandem because he has no other way of coping with the insane amounts of negativity he's had to deal with his entire life.

but the thing about Shigure is that he KNOWS all of this, and the same time he doesn't really CARE. he feels sorry for Kyo, but an apathetic sort of pity, a disinterested "this is how it is. such a shame." sort of pity. in some ways he's worse than the other zodiacs because he DOES see Kyo as a person, someone he likes being around even, but he still considers Kyo below his attention because all his focus is on Akito and breaking the curse. and sure, once the curse is broken Kyo will theoretically be set free with the rest of them, but that's more of a coincidental side effect than anything. despite being in a much more dangerous and precarious mental space AND comfortably in Shigure's reach, Kyo is about as much a priority for Shigure as Ritsu or Momiji.

and it drives me CRAZY because i think Shigure does start actively caring about Kyo as the series goes on, but it's hard to tell when that happens and to what extent. when Kazuma told Shigure he planned to reveal Kyo's true form and Shigure said he was going too far - whose sake was it for? was Shigure trying to protect Kyo, who would be hideously traumatized/emotionally scarred by such a cruel betrayal? was he trying to protect Kyo and Tohru's relationship, which was still formulating and might, under such severe testing, ultimately end up damaged beyond repair? was he only trying to protect Tohru, who wasn't ready to be burdened by such a horrible aspect of the curse so soon, or perhaps simply didn't deserve it? or was it all for the sake of himself, trying to protect his still-forming plans of using Tohru's positive effect on the Sohmas to break the curse?

Shigure cares about Kyo, but they're not close and Kyo clearly isn't a priority. he treats Kyo like a person - offering him genuine advice, teasing him like he teases anyone else, even speaking up on his behalf once or twice - and yet he's too entrenched in the long game to spare much active interest in Kyo. for a very long time, he doesn't care about Kyo the way he cares about Yuki or Tohru, and it's never made clear when exactly that changed. and the thing that gets me about this whole situation is that right from the start, Shigure is in a position where he can meet Kyo at his level - as equals, just one human being to another - but he doesn't, because Shigure is a chessmaster, Shigure is someone who observes and calculates, Shigure never steps in unless one of his chess pieces makes a wrong move and he absolutely has to.

it drives me crazy. Shigure drives me crazy. this series drives me so so crazy.

[ar-mage-ddon]

wanted to do an outfit deconstruction of the default style for fun which i guess doubles as a ref sheet

[skrunksthatwunk]

this could be kuwameshi if you guys would like. take my hand and trust me

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

if anyone’s got really good posts about the way Dungeon Meshi handles gastronomy and/or the impact it’s had on people’s irl relationships with food, could you send em my way? please and thank

[archiveofliterature]

thinking about how griffin and robin are connected through their whiteness, but what actually brings them together is their shared chinese heritage

that even though they were born from of two different women, they have this mutual understanding of what that means and they have a shared resentment for it (the older's resentment is always, always stronger, but the younger's resentment actually has an impact)

and how robin craved the cultural significance of family and just nearly got it until the empire took that away from him too

[firebirdsdaughter]

Ah…

… I had blissfully forgotten about Nozomi.

[ardentpoop]

JACK KLINE, for the fic ask thing, jack kline

hi :3

so this one is again not an actual wip just a concept I wrote down when I was being eaten alive by s13 lmao. like the early samndean and jack dynamic makes me SICK I need to play with it . especially bc the rest of the season disappointed me so badly by veering off every which way to avoid the frightful endeavor of focused character development.

I really want to contrast the early sam-and-jack-alone moments where they’re cautiously getting to know each other w/ the atmosphere shift that happens when dean walks in. I want to dig into sam’s emotions here specifically bc jack’s introduction to the Home creates sooooo much opportunity for sam to rethink certain behavioral patterns he’s fallen into with dean for the first time in years! like sam would have that new-parent thing going on where he’s terrified of fucking jack up as badly as he was fucked up by the OG winchester household, and dean would exacerbate sam’s anxiety like crazy every time he opened his mouth lmao. that teeny tiny moment from “the big empty” where dean rudely says to jack ��what took you so long” and sam gives dean that blink-and-you’ll-miss-it disapproving glance…. except way amped up <3

also I made a note abt jack’s self-harm scene (with the knife) bc I want to explore how sam would respond if dean told him abt it in his characteristically blunt way. I did write out a placeholder dean quote in service of this lol essentially I want him to call jack “defective” or something similar and for him to attribute the Defectiveness to lucifer in no uncertain terms, and I want the association to make sam Violently Unwell.

last thing I’ve got here is that I NEED to tease out jack’s hidden resentment for dean somehow. like obviously jack loves him and is in awe of him and is much more motivated to try to impress dean than to try to impress sam bc dean is The Man Of The House however the part of jack that’s afraid of dean is being pressure-cooked alongside anger and frustration . and I think it would be very fun if the lid popped off. maybe there’s blood! maybe sam’s powers reactivate. anything could happen.

[raksh-writes]

It was 36 degrees C (in the shade) at the peak point today, humid as hell and I could pretty much Feel my skin sizzling in the sun, like actual physical sensation, and now its 7pm and its still 32C and there's no air to breath inside and my room's gotta be like at least 26 degrees with Nothing external adding to the temp (haven’t even powered up my PC today bcs of the heat wave) and Im dying over here. I hate it so much ;_;

[persephoneflouwers]

Anyway, free Palestine from z*onists, liberals and slothful hearts.

[hiveswap]

Im going to fucking throw up

[grmpgm]

guys is it okay if i’m a hater on main…

[girlfriendline]

6 + 19!

6. do you use a watch?

yeah! i got a coros pace 3 for myself this year and i love her dearly even if i wish she was a little better at tracking swimming.

19. the veggie you dislike the most?

ONION. have a genuine aversion. it's not even the taste, i can have anything with onions like. blended in. like sauce or soup or whatever. but i can't stand the texture. and if i find one in smth i'm eating that's me done lmao i can't finish the plate.

THANK u 💜

[timeladies]

did crowley think it was impossible for aziraphale to love him? he'd never heard of an angel or a demon being in love with anyone. aziraphale couldn't have loved him if angels weren't capable of love beyond god and crepes. crowley must've thought he was a freak of nature, that there was another mistake in his making, to allow him to love another so deeply. then he saw that same type of love in gabriel and beelzebub and he realised, maybe he is not the exception? if angels and demons can love romantically, maybe aziraphale loves him?

so in hopes that he does, he confesses. and the most terrible part of it all? aziraphale doesn’t seem to love him back, but not because he’s an angel incapable of that love. he could love crowley, want him and accept him just like crowley loves him. but he doesn’t, because - in crowleys eyes - he doesn’t deserve it.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Me internally, everytime I have to agree to let someone do something nice for me: haha my schedule has been disturbed *bursts into tears*

[wereh0gz]

Wait wait... i have.... an Idea

A Sonic AU based on the song Aura by Ghost and Pals

It follows Amy as she investigates a series of disappearances, including the disappearance of her childhood friend and crush Sonic, and tries to find the cause of a strange "fog disease" that is plagueing her village at night, using her fortune cards to guide her

The disease drives people mad and changes them, even turning some into beasts. She believes it's connected to the disappearances, and that Sonic may have been afflicted, which is why he went missing in the first place

Tails would join her in her investigation as he is Sonic's brother and has been trying to find him with no results. He also wants to learn more about said disease to hopefully find some kind of cure to help the rest of the village

(The "fog disease" is of course dark gaia energy. I literally cannot listen to that song without thinking about dark gaia energy when I hear the words "fog disease" like it's literally purple smoke that makes ppl act weird and turned Sonic into a werehog like. How could I not make that connection (<- i am not normal))