#they respect and value each other

[snakedemonstories]

And then Xiang Liu finally drops the bomb.

Jing wants to ask more, but we get this delicious piece of dialogue.

I am giggling like a little girl 🤭

Btw, Xiang Liu telling Jing his secret - even if it was only an insinuation and not a direct reveal - is a big deal. It means he fully trusts him. He helps him as best as he can, providing him with that small piece of information that can lead Jing to uncover his brother's schemes against him.

[habken]

thoughts of todomomo? I love ur work :D

​two rich kids maximizing their joint slay, thumbs up

[beanghostprincess]

Luffy not knowing about Zoro promising Sanji to kill him if he ever ends up losing himself makes me go feral because that's something they can only know about. Because Zoro's respect for life and death goes beyond anything, and Sanji knows he understands. Sanji knows that if somebody has to kill him, it's him.

And I don't even think it's because Sanji assumes Zoro's opinion of him is hatred and it would hurt less for him to do this, but because Sanji knows only Zoro would be able to treat the promise as it is. Because he would put Sanji's wishes before any feelings he has for him. It's not that Zoro doesn't care, but I think he respects people's ideals and decisions to the extent of being able to kill Sanji if he so desires.

That being said, he'd do it if there's no other way to fix it. If it's either dying or living as an emotionless machine, which is the same as dying for Sanji, Zoro would fulfill his promise. And there is just... Something about Luffy not knowing. Their captain. The man they're devoted to the most as if he were their God. Luffy doesn't know. It's something only the captain's wings are aware of and the thought of these two keeping this from Luffy until the end is just insane. Not even trying to make it romantic here, but the bond and respect these two have for each other is crazy.

Maybe it's the poetry of it all, too. Somebody like Zoro, who has looked at Death in her face multiple times and said "no", ending Sanji's life, who wants to give in to death to not experience a fate worse than death for him.

[bisexualandaninsomnia]

Lowkey beginning to dislike this new upsurge in the extreme twinkification and villainisation of Achilles…..

Even with Patroclus I feel like in order to subvert with what happened in TSOA people try to make him the complete opposite. Like presenting him as this hyper masculine alpha male who holds complete agency over Achilles and treats him like a brat 24/7

I understand crack headcanons but after a point the extreme mischaracterisation of a character really pisses me off

[dykedvonte]

Piper and Danse friendship is like the platonic version of that married couple where the husband says nothing and the wife is the chattiest most extroverted person and you cannot imagine how they found each other let alone end up as a pair.

But like he knows her favorites and the one joke, the one time you heard him speak mind you, he made had her dying with laughter cause it was specifically for her. Or she can tell exactly how he’s feeling despite the same expression for every emotion and you swear she made a comment and try corners of his mouth lifted.

Like they are those two that bonded not because they were alike but because they were so different what they did like together made them grow much closer.

[abigmessofablog]

i love you, characters who have the explicit purpose of representing entire concepts in the narrative. i love you, characters bigger than themselves. i love you allegorical characters. i love you characters so wrapped in metaphor and the creator philosophizing through you it eclipses you as a "person," i love you characters who haunt the narrative long after you're gone. i love you characters who are doomed because the thing that they represent are doomed. i love you characters who are more lesson then character.

[undead-moth]

I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.

[windwenn]

*sitting on a throne of lies* im perfectly happy with my friendship with agent scully

[akkivee]

In the latest ARB event, I think Samatoki ended up dreaming about Kuko is simply because he has a pretty good opinion and relationship with him. Like back in the New MCD days, he likely saw firsthand how Kuko would cooperate without much regard for personal gain, helped out when anyone needed it and is strong enough to handle his own in a fight! This might be the 3rd time Samatoki is shown to rely on Kuko too iirc. The event where Kuko trains Samatoki's underlings + that concafe event..

yeah!!!!! i made the post with the angle of dreams manifesting samatoki’s subconscious but those events are the reasons why i think samatoki has a lot of trust in kuukou!!!! it looks like i didn’t explicitly say that tho and that’s on me lol

[throughpatchesofviolet]

A win for patience ... my new Ishmael, maxed out upon acquisition.

[abigailspinach]

“What do you think, my lord Castillar?” Cazaril swallowed. “I think…I think if you lent me a razor now, for me to cut my throat with, it would save ever so many steps. Please Your Grace.” The Provincara snorted. “Good, Cazaril, good. I do so like a man who doesn’t underestimate his situation.” ― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

[amelikos]

Friede casually praising Orio and saying she made the best airship in the world was cute.

[empressofthewind]

When you look at the way Mello and Near treat the people around them, it actually makes so much sense that they would hold each other in such high regard despite all their interpersonal challenges. They really do both seem to believe that everyone is stupid except each other 😵‍💫

[sunsetzer]

On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.

On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.

[twinksintrees]

i wanna be taken seriously but i don’t know how. i don’t take myself seriously i feel like a fucking cartoon character i don’t know how to lock in and be serious and have other people actually respect me

[you-are-a-saucy-boi]

some of you guys need to go outside and make friends that aren't on tumblr and be niceys to them. it's very important to discuss ideology in real life and not online because people that haven't gone down the rabbit holes you have will notice when your arguments aren't sound and then you have to figure out which things you actually believe and which things you heard on tiktok and felt like you had to repeat in order to be a real leftist