#this probably made more sense in my head

[noridoorman]

Okay, but can we talk about this scene more?

(Credits to u/murderdronesfanatic for inspiration)

Despite Uzi's angsty and edgy personality, she has lots of love in her. I think that much is clear. She really cares about other people but due to the neglect and bullying she went through almost all her life, she closes herself off and acts defensive about being vulnerable. She doesn't trust anybody in her life, not even her own dad, and rightfully so. It was only through N and his unconditinal love towards her (be it platonic or more) that helped her slowly open up and accept help when she needs it.

So why am I talking about this?

We know that Khan was an absolute awful father figure to Uzi, either neglecting her or borderline (borderline said lightly) abusing her by comparing her to his doors, claiming those to be his greatest achivements. Even greater than Uzi, no matter how much she tried to prove herself.

Because, let's be honest, Uzi loves Khan. Through her edginess, through her rebellious nature, she craved for his approval and attention, for him to love her more than he loves his doors. And Khan does love her - but due to his trauma with having to put Nori down, he completely shut down as a father (btw, that's not a justification for what he has done!)

At this point in the story (EP2) Uzi had every right to hate Khan.

He neglected her and never payed any attention to her (I don't know about you but if I heard that my child was somehow involved in an explosion at school, I'd be there for her and check if she's okay)

He compared her to his doors, claiming they're better and calling Uzi a disappointment publicly.

He left her for dead when N had her pinned against the wall. You could make many (like, a lot) valid arguments why Khan left her for dead - which all make sense! However, Uzi doesn't think of it as we do, from the outside perspective. In Uzi's eyes, he betrayed her trust, proving once again (to her) that she most likely means nothing to him.

And yet, after seeing that hologram of Khan getting ripped into two and believing it was real, being tossed and thrown around by Eldritch J and having a hologram of her dead mother being shown to her and losing her friend, she hugged Khan. The last person she should believe does love her.

Because Uzi loves him.

And no matter what Uzi believes, Khan loves her too. And he tries his best to make up to her at least, to make things right after having almost lost her too.

Man, I remember when I watched that scene for the first time, it broke me to see. Poor Uzi, poor Khan.

[kingofanemptyworld]

Rin, identity issues, and the complications of being an isolated, alienated teenager

It feels sort of weird to say but I generally don’t head canon characters as having particular sexualities. Whatever people go for in fics is usually fine with me - gay, lesbian, bi, pan, something more general like queer. As long as it makes sense for the story they’ve built and the character they’ve shaped to fit it, I’m good. Unless you’re ignoring a canon LGBTQ+ sexuality, in which case, yeah, I’ll take issue with that.

But anyway. Rin.

I’ve got my personal ship for him (BonRin my beloved), but regardless of the pairing I see him as bisexual. He’s so open with his infatuation with Shiemi, and okay, sure, fandom likes to ignore the love interest in shounen for the most part because we’ve got gay ships to peddle. But I don’t see the point in that unless it really reads like it’s a front, or a result of a character suppressing themselves for one reason or another. And with Rin, I think it’s pretty clear his affection for Shiemi is sincere. You technically have the in-universe evidence of the demon that brought out his true desires to back that up, but even without it, Rin likes her. It’s complicated because of Yukio and Shiemi’s own inexperience with romance, and yet I never once doubt he really likes her.

That being said… he’s very appreciative of the guys in his life, too. (Peddling my gay ship here) Bon in particular, considering he’s often admiring how cool he thinks Bon is, that his haircut suits him whether it’s the blonde rooster look or the undercut. If you don’t want to see it as romantic interest, that’s your prerogative, but to me Rin comes across as seeing cool and cute as different traits he finds attractive (in Bon and Shiemi respectively).

I also think his bisexuality would fit neatly into his narrative struggles to “pass” throughout the early parts of the series. Rin has grown up as the neighborhood problem child, ostracized for being violent, and eventually he decides he’s fine with just his brother and his father — and the rest of the monastery, presumably — for company. (Except that’s absolutely not true and clearly he’s starved for friendship and support.) People looked at him and saw a monster, even before his demonic heritage made an appearance; why would he bother giving them even more ammunition when it comes to reasons to hate him? So no matter when he figured out his attraction to guys, he’s not going to lean into it, because he also likes girls, right? (Ignoring for a moment that bisexuality is a lot more nuanced than that.)

Rin likes girls, Rin is human — that’s what’s going to get people to like him, or at the very least tolerate him. That he likes guys, that he’s half demon, he can shove that shit down and pretend it doesn’t exist. Lock up any stray thoughts and keep the sword sheathed around anyone who doesn’t already know.

(Excuse me for being amused by Rin wielding his humanity and supposed heterosexuality as a sword and shield.)

The problem, of course, is that he can’t keep up the facade forever. The narrative won’t let him. Rin has to embrace his demonic side, because it’s the only way to move forward and to continue to help his loved ones. And once he’s moved past the issue of his friends being upset over the deception, when they understand he’s still Rin despite what he’d hidden from them, Rin is finally allowed to be himself. He uses his flames, he lets his tail move freely in the open around the Cram School kids. Rin still doesn’t like this side of himself — it’s inextricably tied to every moment of pain and isolation he’s dealt with his entire life, including the death of Father Fujimoto (and, y’know, his mom). But he is moving forward, he’s trying to adapt.

And isn’t that some great fucking subtext for his bisexuality, too?

[centaur-dreaming]

Me when my cat winds herself around my feet and gives me the baby eyes after I’ve used the lint roller

[pixelatedraindrops]

Yuma Month: Day 20: Truth

The truth…is uglier than you could have ever expected.

tw // vomit (spoilers too)

...happens only if he ate a meat bun prior to this

(all vomit in rain code is censored in pink glitter ✨)

based on this post I made long back

[moeblob]

"Him? Oh, you know, he's kind of a loser." - probably everyone except for his younger brother.

Germaine is based on the layer of hell (Dante's Inferno) for material wealth before self, others, and god. So basically very materialistic and possessive of his belongings. Unfortunately, his younger brother qualifies as a belonging in his mind. So he does his absolute best to keep his brother safe and sound and scratch free - which is a bit tough in a post apocalyptic setting but he mostly manages.

Also a fact I just like to mention: he is incapable of lying.

[ssruis]

I personally really could not give less of a fuck about genderswapped ruikasa because first and foremost imo I think people just do it to get yuri warrior points instead of actually caring about female characters/wlw relationships. however I also dgaf because I think people do it in the most boring way possible without thinking about how tsukasa and rui’s personalities would impact how they present themselves as girls.

Tsukasa is so incredibly determined to be seen as a reliable mature older brother figure to the point where he dresses in an incredibly stuffy and boring way & has stripped his room of anything childish (& anything with personality). She would not dress super cute & girly. she would want to be taken seriously (& you should be able to be taken seriously wearing fashion like that but I’m not getting into that rn) & be viewed as anything but childish. She would not dress like Saki she would dress like she worked at a library or something. Her fashion would still be boring. Integral to the character.

I have less to say abt rui because I generally think less about what his fashion choices say about him (beyond hater of tight clothes #sensory issues king) but he is almost never in shorts and dresses in comfy loose fitting clothes he would also not be a hashtag girly girl wearing short skirts and bows either.

‘But I want to draw yuri and I want them in cute clothes’ draw emunene instead. Hope that helps.

[miserymet]

episode 10 starts tomorrow hehehe

[lunarharp]

Very important conferences.

[masterfuldoodler]

girlbossed too hard.... unless...

[yellllowstar]

slowly I'm recovering the beauty of discovery

(creature by half•alive)

(textless + timelapse below cut)

[arolesbianism]

I wanna take a crack at making some fake screenshot graphics for my Sif Odile duo loopers au but I do not feel confident enough in my ability to mimic isat's art style and I also have a crippling fear of drawing backgrounds

[koinotame]

you: whenever grim misbehaves, I lick him. just to assert dominance. he hates it yan twst character: would you.... want to lick me? you: uh. what yan: to assert dominance you, trying to deflect without outright saying no: ...I don't know where you've been yan: ...what if I stay by your side 24/7 like grim does then? you:

[elftwink]

have to work on a project today and an unrelated thing happened that just made me so so so so so mad (just some irl personal stuff), which normally derails my entire day because i find it so hard to come out of the angry/upset state and tend to just circle back and obsess over whatever triggered it but! today after 20 minutes of that i had a council meeting about it (<- what i call my decision making process) the outcome of which was putting it aside (!!!) for later when i could actually talk about it and resolve it (!!!) & in the meantime we could just do other stuff.

local man exuberant and jubilated to achieve feats of basic emotional self-regulation and was seen excitedly telling reporters he "never thought this day would come" and began giving a thank you speech to nobody in particular. more on this story as it develops

[moonrisebutterfly]

maybe this look weird but have somebody tried uno cards for divination? for me it makes a lot of sense but at the same time so weird

like, uno has cards with numbers, colors and some other symbols. each color have a meaning and same for the numbers, starting with it we already have how to make a little interpretation. the other cards like +2 and +4 idk but i can think about the possible meanings of the multicolor, reverse, block etc. just don't know how to write it

[meepmeep19]

Suegiku fic that’s just Tetchou helping Jouno open up and accept his own emotions, since Jouno has kinda perfected the whole ‘bury your emotions so deep that you can’t even feel them anymore’ thing due to his time in the mafia. Ofc we all know Jouno has no problem expressing stuff like anger, bitterness, disgust… basically all those negative ones used mostly in a comical manner for his character. It’s rly just his sadness that he’s tries to disown as he’s already deemed it as a ‘weak’ emotion that doesn’t do anything except make ppl pity and underestimate him, which needless to say, he HATES more than anything. So yeah, Tetchou would help him realize that feelings of sadness are completely valid and that he deserves to express those emotions instead of bottling them up. (Ngl Tetchou would honestly still be kinda learning this alongside Jouno because he’s probably so used to his stoicism-like mindset.)

‘Your Tears are Priceless’ would be a good title, i think; in reference to his ‘Priceless Tears’ ability.

[itsalwaysdark]

i was gonna make a post abt how i dont rly like like. Genre changing covers of songs and then realized upon introspection is that i sort of just dont like rock covers of songs generally