#to read thru it all again

[hootyhoowoo]

A little 15 min doodle but first post of the year has to be Bingqiu!

[anakindoodles]

Fractured sense of self

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[calmparticles]

Happy new year 1997! 🎉🍾

I'm meaning. 2023.9999999999999999999!!!!!!! 🎉🍾

[gaysolangelo]

guys… i’m not ready for aftg to end after the next book :( we need the olympics arc

[all-inmoderation]

not enough ppl know about this fic

take me to the answers (i'm the one who's listening) by annnubis

if your favorite character in JJK is either Yuuji or Geto, you have got to read this fic. This story understands those two characters like no other.

It's a canon-divergence, time-travel fix-it AU, in which Yuji, post-shibuya, is thrown back to gojo and geto's schooldays (post hidden inventory arc).

the prose in this fic is so polished and the characters are all given a level of maturity that i found so refreshinggggg. all the other characters are also just as fleshed out, from satoru, shoko, to even Yaga. Yuji's reactions pertaining to Gojo are especially touching. And the way he sees Geto is so characteristically kind.

some excerpts from the fic to entice you guys to read it:

They surround the crater and naturally Satoru gets closer to it than any of them, though he's right behind him. Suguru knows Satoru noticed it, too—something terribly human-shaped, with a soft filthy face and hunched shoulders and scuffed red sneakers.

The first thing Sukuna ever gave me, he thinks in the direction of his teacher sealed terrifyingly away in the dark, was all this blood on his hands.

Sensei or not. It's Satoru Gojo. It seems every version of him contains the fundamentals that set Yuuji just a little bit at ease.

Toji Fushiguro is dead. Suguru lies awake in his bed, reminding himself of this supposedly comforting fact that instead leaves him feeling hollow and restless, laying flat underneath a thin bed sheet staring up at his ceiling fan.

Sorcerers die all the time.

He is not one of the strongest. Not anymore.

Sukuna Ryomen’s vessel is compelling. The unscarred parts of his face look soft as down, but the scars put a warm feeling in Suguru's stomach.

Also, one of my favorite aspects of the fic is how it describes Yuuji's scent/energy. I know the accepted fanon is that Yuuji smells like peaches, but I've always found the idea of that scent to be a bit too sugarysweet and childish(?) to fit Yuuji.

But this:  Rosewater steam, faint and warm and welcoming, and pooling blood and something herbaceous.

now this is what I'm fucking talking abouttttt. That's how you fucking describe a scent, man! The idea of Yuuji's aura being ~rosewater steam~ is just so much more alluring and tantalizing than peaches, imo. ahhhhhh I'm in loveeee.

[apotelesmaa]

I don’t think ppl give enough credit to rui for his dedication to fucking with people (outside of tsukasa of course) like. Knowing & acknowledging that nene wants nothing to do with him and Tsukasa on her first day of second year and deliberately following tsukasa to loudly ask if she’s getting along with people (just to be a jackass)? Implying his gift to akito will explode even though it won’t bc he wants to bug akito? Like I think rui at his core is full of love and a desire to make ppl smile but I also think he’s 200% committed to the bit first and foremost. If something will be funny he’s going to do it regardless of the consequences. Guy filled with zero social anxiety & a never ending desire to embarrass his friends.

[domokunrainbowkinz]

shipping yhk not in a romantic or platonic way but a secret third way (⬛️⬛️)

[cannibalisticskittles]

the whole mess about lucanis becoming first talon is, well, a mess no matter what, but im kind of obsessed with how much more of a mess it can be with a rook that doesn't know how royally fucked lucanis is until later.

like obviously a de riva rook knows what's up with the crows and their hierarchy and all the awful shit that happens as a part of that life -- not even just the parts that come about because, say, a house is staging a coup, but all the terrible aspects that come with being a crow when everything goes right. the training (a form of torture), having to compete against other fledglings (another flavor of torture!), the risk of death, the reality of injury, the possibility of betrayal from someone you thought was close to you just to gain power or favor, and all the trauma that comes from having to use seduction as a part of an assassin's repertoire. fun stuff!

and i as a player know all this and am looking at the path before lucanis with horror (oh no baby you're right where you started -- in a position you never wanted to have, under your grandmother's thumb without having learned how to say no to her, except now you don't even have your cousin to lean on)

but my mourn watch rook is not in the know at all.

like. she definitely picks up on the fact that all is not quite right and satisfactory with the way things go with lucanis and the crows throughout the game, and with the way that technically wraps up, but. that's kind of The Usual Vibe with lucanis.

things happen and he buries them down instead of processing them. gotta show him support and trust and kindness and hope he eventually feels comfortable enough to work thru it enough to talk about it (or do something about it). pspsps-ing at the feral cat who's scared to approach. she's unraveling his trauma little by little but she has not gotten to all the bits that make it click that this is a nightmare scenario until well after he's technically accepted the position of first talon.

weeks after the fall of the gods, she's kicking down doors at the necropolis hollering "PROFESSOR HOLY FUCK WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING TO HELP LUCANIS"

[vigilskept]

seeing a take that “the veil would’ve come down anyway, solas was just too impatient/prideful to wait” but…. i don’t think that’s true actually?

he’s extremely prideful that’s beyond question, but based on the conversations in veilguard & trespasser (albeit both conversations where you’re in an adversarial role and can only get limited information from him!) my impression was always that the veil is already in piss poor condition & that it was never meant to function as it does. it was meant to contain the blight & the evanuris who were exploiting it.

it failed to do both of those things and had innumerable unintended consequences (hence the regrets, hence the inescapable guilt as he bears witness to all of this)

“2 more blights and it would’ve been fine” to me is an odd take given the sheer amount of devastation that a blight causes. ferelden still hasn’t recovered 2 decades later, whole swathes of the thedosian continent were irrevocably transformed by the earlier blights (which…. lasted anywhere from over a decade to over a century)

even in a best case scenario, a blight would entail significant devastation across the continent followed by more devastation as the veil weakened AGAIN after the death of 1 archdemon, followed by another blight & the total collapse of the veil before anyone could begin to recover from that second blight.

trying to avoid two more blights is an understandable goal surely?

we don’t get much out of solas, but if he’s taken until 9:52 to tear down the veil when he’s had that ritual dagger since 9:45……. i feel like there’s some merit at least to the idea that he was planning to tear down the veil AND contain the evanuris + the blight by some other mechanism. so that there would be no more blights, ever.

would it have worked? maybe. maybe not.

i genuinely can’t see how sitting back and waiting it out is in any way a preferable alternative to trying to do something unless you’re just making the argument that witnessing a catastrophe you could prevent makes you less culpable than acting in a way that might cause some other (seen or unforeseen) harm.

all this to say it’s an insane trolley problem regardless — and it’s absolutely solas’ pride that makes him believe he has to be the one pulling that lever! — but it’s critical that the side of the tracks solas is trying to swing the trolley over to does not involve those 2 more blights. he’s trying to AVOID those blights. he’s trying to avoid the veil coming down in a way that will release ALL of the contained blight into thedas.

[bertrei]

The bertholdt hoover fandom is dying rt if youd wipe the sweat from his brow like if youd give him a warm glass of milk

[princesofphithia]

i’m re-reading song of achilles, and i’m reading it out loud to my partner…. does madeline miller know that this is a line by line masterpiece

[crplpunkklavier]

judgement free zone of course, but you guys have gotten me curious

[cern1cal0]

for the cancelled riddlebat zine

[wpmz]

what if i got stigmata from a cursed tattoo and your physical touch was the only thing that could stop the pain because you're a priest. and we're both boys😳

[kickbutts-singsongs]

Hi.

Just wanted to say that I just read “From the Sidelines” for the first time.

Ummmmmmmmmm if u wanna be emotionally destroyed and then put back together again, I highly recommend.

Many tears were shed (and are still currently shedding)

so yeah 🥲✌️

[demeterdefence]

i understand the intent was that hades being “such a good dad!” /s is what helps him get away from Kronos’ abuse but it really just comes off as once again a female character getting the burden of being hades’ mental healer. three thousand years hades has been dealing with this but his five year old daughter from the future is what gets him to figure it out? come on