#truly one of the greats idgaf

[claudiadpdl]

whoever made the decision to cast jacob anderson as louis dpdl struck fucking gold and i mean that. not only is he a phenomenal actor but every time i look at his beautiful face i too realize that i would do utterly deranged, fucking unhinged shit to keep him in my life forever. at the end of the day lestat and armand and everyone else need not explain a damn thing.

[chitra111goddess]

VEDIC ASTROLOGY NOTES ♡

(Can apply to any planet placement)

⚡️Ashwini women always stand out to me with their creativity especially in acting , they rly know to embody the character they're playing to the fullest even irl it may be easier for them to shift thro different identities or alter-egos just for funsies

⚡️There's smtg about purva phalguni women , they're gorgeous but for some reason I noticed they get hate esp from other women like they're called fake or pick-mes or they make up stories hmm

⚡️Purva ashadha women are so inspiring like they're always the ones to be teaching or preaching or saying smtg inspiring/motivational. They're beauties with soul and a mind of their own ! If u know a purva ashadha better take notes 📝

⚡️Magha women love wearing black and something about their looks or style is unconventional/gothy, it suits them

⚡️Uttara-phalguni women are so headstrong bruh and they have this leadership aura about them, they're gonna do what THEY think is right. Like other sun-ruled nakshatras they easily get attention

⚡️Mrigashira women love the push & pull , cat &mouse game, they either attract this dynamic or they create it themselves. There's also smth about Mrigashira and obsession 👀

⚡️Jyestha women embody the wild feminine archetype imo, when evolved theyre truly empowered and have this idgaf energy. people may be threatened by their power or skills. Their voice or the way the speak is commanding and naturally charismatic

⚡️Swati/ardra and their eyes 👁👁 most captivating eyes imo I'm in luv

⚡️Purva bhadrapada women seem to attract or be drawn to men with dark nature or men who carry trauma ? Or they know how to bring that out in a man

⚡️Dhanishta women love dancing and they appear to be friendly or have many acquaintances but very little people they relate to. Popular girlies

⚡️Rohini women feminine energy is undeniable , something about them feels innocent yet erotic. They just give off this juicy fertile vibee lmao💦 unlike jyestha which is more dry (not in a bad way its just different 💀)

⚡️Anuradha women are secretive as hell even if they tell u shit don't think u have them all figured out. there's so much to unpack with them , they're generally intriguing complex characters

⚡️Most bratty nakshatras are mrigashira and chitra lmao

⚡️Revati women are pretty privilege girlies also they're master manipulators 👀 they know how to use their femininity to get what they want

⚡️Pushya women have big MOMMY energy. they seem/look mature. They're either the ones taking care of others or others take care of them

⚡️Uttara bhadrapada women have dualistic nature they're either the sweetest ppl u know or ur worst nightmare depending on who theyre dealing with 💀they're like a mirror projecting and reflecting back ur inner self back at ya (Pisces energy) also don't forget the karmic saturn influence.. u don't wanna mess w them or any other saturn ruled woman

⚡️Viahaka women go through intense ups and downs , starting from their good girl phase then they snap and go wild then they mature/become spiritual

⚡️Chitra women secretly (or not so secretly) enjoy drama , they're either the ones caught up in it or they play the role of the "judge" where they can solve conflicts between others. Somehow they're surrounded by it.

⚡️Don't underestimate krittika women especially when it comes to survival 💀 these women can be dangerous and will stab a bitch if they rly had to (whether its for defending loved ones or them surviving) their symbol is 🔪 after all and taurus/aries gives them that survival instinct

⚡️Ardra women can make great poets/song writers , their creativity and inspiration stems from their own 'tragic' experiences

⚡️Punarvasu women remind me of that quote "home is where the heart is" they always end up coming back to their origins and what they feel in their heart

Lemme know ur thoughts & what I should make next

[the-moon-devi]

RANDOM/UNPOPULAR ASTRO OBSERVATIONS

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warning! These are my observations and unpopular opinions!!

🦋 Mars in gemini how yall like starting multiple projects at once and then stopping because it's boring? This placement may also give a lil bit of ADHD.

🦋 Sun in 12th housers are VERYY VERYYY VERYYY private & mysterious. These people have such a dreamy aura and appearance to them!

🦋 I really haven't seen many people talk about Lilith in the solar return chart but babyyyyy..... watch out for her if she falls into your 1st house cuz omgggg. Lilith will take you for a loop when it comes to how others view you. Constant unwanted commentary on your appearance. Impacts how you feel about yourself definitely could have an effect on your mental health.

Oh yeah and if Lilith falls into ur 1st, channel that dark goddess energy because this is a great time for transformation when it comes to your beauty and how others & yourself view u. People can also definitely obess over you.

🦋 Not only are Mars in 3rd rude but they are also the punctuation police! 🚨 🙁🙄

Aqaurius are very smart but we knew this. This one for my Aqau Moons: (luh yall)

🦋 Yes I'm an Aqaurius moon & yes I have unpopular opinions/ I'm a wierdo. And yes idgaf what you think about my unpopular opinions because in the end...... I'm always right..... 🤷🏽‍♀️

(As I proceed to state an unpopular opinion.....😁)

This may be an unpopular opinion but I speak from own experiences/ intuition when I do astrology so let me know if some of yall resonate with this;

So we know how Venus is exalted in pisces and can show like unconditional love, spiritual love and they tend to be very creative.

I feel like 7th house lord in 12th house / Neptune in 7th house can replicate this. This placement gets a bad rep yes you do attract a lot of narcissistic people and you daydream about your partners and put them on a pedestal. BLAH BLAH BLAHHHH....😫🙄

But whether your spiritual or not this could ultimately lead you to be in a highly spiritual connection with someone and neptune/12th house are like prophecies, future predictions you know......

So when you have this placement if your having dreams or you keep getting signs about a certain person I feel this can lead you to the right person. You just have to really listen and be intuitive to make the right decisions.

This can also make the native to be very creative and imaginative. I could go on and on about this placement but it's truly beautiful and to me resembles venus in pisces. Juno In 12th may also give this.

Is it just me......or do aries men be kinda very mean? I'm a aries and ik i can be mean but it's only when I feel very passionate about something & i dont like to potray that energy to others outwardly but aries men can kinda be very mean at any time ....🥺😣 I luh my aries tho....yall men just be a Lil mean.

Venus in scorpio may get hurt in love alot or have alot of sexual partners. obsessive partners as well

I feel like 1st house lord in 7th can represent beauty as well since 7th house is libra ruled by venus ♀ . This can give the native balanced features

~ These natives also tend to attract a lot partners to them. It could be a case where you don't want a relationship but they just come to you

I watch a video on YouTube from Novi Brown's channel this girl said it's best to get things done during your Saturn sign szn because saturn restricts things & it's hard for you to see & understand lessons. I believe it to be trueeee!!

Ex: my saturn is in cancer

(This may be a little biased since I'm a cancer rising but it worked for me)

In 2020 in cancer szn I Started losing weight and working out/ dieting. (This changed my life)

In 2021 in cancer szn I started looking for a job because I was sick of being home all the time (Isolation my saturn is in the 12th)🙄

In 2022 in cancer szn that same Job I got in 2021 I was promoted to be a manager. These gave me new experiences and helped me get ahead in a way. It was my first job and I was promoted in under a year!

🦋 4th house placements and their privacy

🦋 Saturn ruled signs can be very tone deaf 😭😫

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Alright thats all! Thank u 4 reading & ik it was short just wanted to get this out of the drafts! I hope you guys enjoyed! catch ya later lovelies! Til' next time!

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~𝓕𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓟𝓻𝓮𝓽𝓽𝔂 𝓒𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓵

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[fullmoonfireball]

WELCOME TO THE FINAL ROUND OF THE PIKMIN TREASURES TOURNAMENT!

Our final match is against two final boss treasures, which seems quite fitting! Now let's get to the good stuff.

Propaganda:

King of Bugs

“Louie betraying you and then you collecting him as a treasure is really great.”

“he [is] technically classed as a treasure lol”

“Giving his life a monetary value of 10 is SAVAGE”

“Isn’t the greatest treasure the friends we made along the way?”

“it’s just Louie and I think that’s hilarious”

“tfw you are worth as much as a leaf”

“my fav title for Louie is food thief. he is worth 10 poko. truly a terrible thang”

“The real treasure was my wife all along”

“HE IS WORTH SOSO SO MUCH MORE THAN TEN POKOS. PLEAS. PUT SOME RESPECT ON HIS NAME HES GONE THRU SO MUCH IDGAF”

“my son who is worth 10 pokos”

"guy worth 10 pokos"

"louie being worth 10 dollars is objectively fucking hilarious"

"cash that bug man in boys we got enough pokos to buy a soda"

"god Louie being worth 10 pokos... funniest shit I’ve ever seen"

Gift of Friendship

“i dont even know the context behind it but the gift of friendship carries such weight in name alone. its a dog collar and dogs are important in pikmin 4. so that name just feels so strongly. it looks so old and worn, the dog it used to belong to must have been loved until old age. and now its a gift, a gift of friendship. to who from who? i dont know, but i can feel the love in that collar and i dont even have a pet in general. JUST THE IDEA THAT A COLLAR IS CALLED A GIFT. A GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP”

"i swear i got way into gift of friendship just because it was late at night and i was tired, but i'll continue loving it. you need two people for a gift- one who gives and one who gets the gift"

[raine-witcher]

I have finished Spirit of Justice and I have OPINIONS:

These are not going to be at all well organized instead will be tangent filled and disorganized af. Bear with me.

First of all the trilogy itself id describe as a…interesting sandwich, we have a rocky depressing start but with absolutely solid new characters. The absolute masterpiece of Duel destines being a completely amazing set of cases consistently. And then…this absolutely devastating rollercoaster. I think the cases in Japanafornia are solid, great cases. While the first 2 cases in Kura’in are…they’re pretty bad, especially the 3rd case of the game. And that issue is entirely because the characters from Kura’in are incredibly uncomplying. Nahyuta is a complete asshole and hypocrite who shows no signs of his change. And Rayfa is a spoiled brat. Neither of these characters change until the last half of the last case. That. Is. A. Problem. Why should I care about their changes when I haven’t seen a steady pattern of growth from them? Instead we get coin flips. That’s not compelling that’s a waste of my time having to read their stupid. Boring. Dialogue. I hated Nahyuta so much I stoped voicing him for a while in my play though. The best way k can describe why he sucks is because he wasted 4 dialogue boxes to just say he likes peaches. He drags on about nothing. After following the incredible acts of Gavin and Simon the best was I can explain my disappointment is by pointing out how both they before him had the ability to admit when they’re wrong and be helpful in a case. Nahyuta said Trucy was a sinful being pretending to be a cute little girl. That’s not a great introduction when we know Trucy is far from that. They keep saying he’s “kind and generous” but they show no action confirming that idea. The writers forgot about the core rule of “show don’t tell” that man was awful constantly and consistently. So when we get to the final case, I don’t give a single flying fuck about his feelings or change of heart. Because I’ve been given no real reason to care. Speaking of the 5th case. Oh my god. I cried so much about Dhurke. And part of me is upset because that proves the writers could make a character worth bringing me to tears and he had so much less screen time then Nahyuta or Rayfa. So they proved they can write characters that don’t suck ass from Kura’in. So I’m just all the more disappointed. Finally. I hate Apollo staying there. And that’s for multiple reasons. One, I don’t like the kingdom of Kura’in. Best way I can explain that is due to the fact it doesn’t have its own voice as a distinct country. I can clearly tell it’s a large melting point of every country from the east. What am I supposed to latch onto if it doesn’t truly have a culture? It’s biggest defining feature is it’s hostility towards me. So my reaction is to want to get tf out of there as fast as possible. Secondly as I’ve stated. All the characters in Kura’in are fucking boring. Or annoying. Or whatever. I don’t want to spend my time talking to them. Therfore I don’t want to be in this location. Okay two. I love Apollo. And I’m terrified that he won’t be a main character in the next game. I don’t want him to come back as a cameo character in a single case. He is a core part of the main 3 I’ve come to adore and I want him to be there. As a main character. Consistently. And I don’t know if he is. And I’m worried. So the ending made me feel bittersweet, upset, disappointed. This cast I’ve come to know as a family. And then being together is important to me. Is that stupid? Personally Idgaf it’s my feelings and I’ll get myself attached to what I want. I will criticize the writers for these decisions because they’re also written an amazing franchise that I’ve come to adore incredibly. I care about this game and it’s characters and I want to see them together. The end of duel destines where they all 3 point together left such an impression on me. As an artist and a character designer (not professional in any sense but it’s what I love to do) I respect the fuck out of the creators for making the cast of Wright anything agency. But the fumbles in Spirit of Justice have me concerned for the next game in the franchise. I hope to be proven wrong in my fears.

[cookie-de-baunilha]

Most people agree that John should move on with his life, let go of Jamie and find happiness in a real relationship. But there are some takes on this subject that really piss me off.

I’m sorry but “oh I know John will never love someone like/more than he loves Jamie, but I really wish he could find a great guy and have a nice relationship with him!!” is not the good argument that you think it is.

That’s not getting over Jamie, that’s settling for second best. Well, he can’t have Jamie, poor thing! So he will have to take someone else who he won’t love as much as he loves Jamie but at least he will have someone to cuddle with at night 🥺

Why can’t John actually get over Jamie?? Why should he settle for the second best? Worse, why should his partner accept being the second choice??

I damn well don’t want John loving someone else like he loves Jamie because that shit is completely unhealthy imo, but I know that’s not what people mean.

Jamie being the superior god-like man that everyone is in love with/is attracted to/wants to fuck is kinda ridiculous imho, but I understand the appeal that a character like that has for the audience of a romance book/show. But to put Jamie so high up in a pedestal and to think that John should be forever in love with him and not ever get over him because oh lord nothing is comparable to King-of-Men-Jamie is… a choice.

Listen. I know that’s on Diana. She is the one who wrote John like this. But I wish people would be more critical of Diana’s writing of him instead of swallowing that shit up like it’s chocolate. Everyone knows how problematic the books can be regarding certain topics, this is just another one of these things.

Instead of accepting that John won’t ever get over Jamie/won’t ever love someone as much as he loves Jamie, you should be asking yourself: why is that Diana writes him like this? Why does she insist in the stereotypical cliché of the gay man having unrequited feelings for his straight best friend? Why can’t John truly move on and stop having romantic feelings for Jamie? Why should Jamie be John’s greatest love?

Outlander is essentially a romance (idgaf about what DG says). Love of all types is a running theme: not only romantic love, but the love that exists within family and friendship. And yes, there’s a lot of platonic/friendship kind of love between J/J.

But romantic love specifically has a huge role in this story. We have straight couples left and right in this series: Claire and Jamie, Bree and Roger, Fergus and Marsali, Ian and Rachel, Dottie and Denzell, Hal and Minnie, Jenny and Ian, hell, even Brian and Ellen are getting a spin-off.

So I’m sorry but it’s really freaking weird that, in the middle of all this, people say that John (the character with his own book series and one of the main POV characters in the main series, mind you) won’t ever be able to love someone like he loves Jamie, or more than he loves Jamie. It’s really freaking weird that people say that John has to settle with second best — because that’s essentially what’s being said every time someone says that John won’t ever love someone like he loves Jamie but he should find someone else to be in a relationship with anyway.

All of that for what? Keep the cliché of the gay dude in love with his straight best friend and who never moves on? C’mon now. Don’t piss me off.

[mono-blogs-art]

The Loyal Pin episode 14 was both very fun and very frustrating.

Let me preface this by saying it very clearly: I never don't enjoy my time with this show. It has consumed my brain for the past 2+ months and I love this show and I'm sad we are getting into the last 2 episodes now. But this episode was admittedly a lot of screen time and nothing happening that brings us forward. Which is somewhat disappointing especially after last week's episode 13 which I thought was probably the best episode in the entire show so far.

I don't have a huge essay like last week, but three points that I would like to point out. First, as much as I LOVE the trio of Anin/Anan/Prik and their shenanigans, the comedic tone the show took was just misplaced this late in the show. Especially while the other main character is crying in every scene she's in. I understand that because of the pacing and the fact that we have time to fill before the wedding gets inevitably crashed (which needs to be the cliffhanger, of course), a prolonged sequence of chase scenes and a stake-out is necessary (+ gives some very deserved appreciation to Prik, who is the best side character) but I feel like the time could have been allotted better.

Secondly, Anin immediately not respecting her own boundaries she sets with Pin is funny (she is loosing the IDGAF war so much) but especially after hearing that in the book, she does go away and is not around for basically all of what happened this episode, I'm sad!!! She set a clear line, she never wants to see Pin again and she's finally giving herself space to grieve fully, and then she immediately goes back to investigating Kuea and his wife and fighting for Pin risking it all. Girl, I understand you are down horrendous and that you are courageous and righteous and the only Gentleman™️ this show has, but at some point you need to respect yourself a little. I understand this was also likely done for production constraints, you can't really have your main actress be absent for a whole episode etc. Just purely from a narrative standpoint it's frustrating because it feels like backtracking an important point that last episode made about Anin's development. But...

The worst offense is Pin. Babygirl I said I would always be on your side but I can't defend you any longer. You are giving into the doomerism and martyrhood too much. As a viewer, Pin is our main character, and part of the enjoyment of watching a high-stakes drama like this is that at some point the protagonists take a chance. In TLP, that chance was now - when Pin was at her very lowest point at the wedding. And she is suffering. She is absolutely destroyed. But she endures it all because, like Anin says in the beginning of the episode: "I bet you still think that the decision you made was the right one." It's incredibly frustrating because it just feels like Anin has made leaps in character development while Pin retracted back. I understand that she is doing her very best, and in-universe she is doing everything she can within her power - but AGAIN, AS A VIEWER it becomes frustrating at a point when your girl doesn't fight back at all and becomes a pawn in her own story. And I don't even expected Pin to defy authority actively this episode. I was hoping for even just like, a sliver of hesitation. A silent resignation. A passive act of letting her true emotions bubble over. Like having no strength to hold up her hands for the King to pour the water at the ceremony. Or look up into Princess Patt's face and be unable to stop the tears. Anything. But no, Pin is stronger than me, and she endures it all and smiles through most of it. Noble, yes. Sure. But in a way that makes me feel like the character really just plummets deeper into the abyss and refuses to even look for a rope.

That said, there was a lot of good stuff this episode too. Anin & Uangfah's conversation in the car was great - Uangfah truly is Pin's only other ally. Both of Anin and Pin's confrontations were great, especially the first one where Anin (who is physically smaller) remained stood on the stairs for the whole conversation so she could still look down at Pin. It's simple but good. The second confrontation was also great, with Anin turning away when her voice breaks and the tears start rolling because she can't look at Pin giving up anymore. Throwing away the ring. Pin telling her outright that she will suffer forever and bear the pain, which she thinks she deserves, and Anin just looks at her like; What the Fuck are you on about?? The acting? Top. Tier. Truly. The cinematography? There were multiple shots where me and my watchbuddy @transimailisa called out: "Wow, that just looks like a painting." Anin going to the beach and not telling anyone so she doesn't have to attend the wedding? Amazing, and drawing a line even if it should have been earlier. That shot of Pin in her (GORGEOUS) wedding gown, sitting alone in her room with just the bunny? Fucking. Devastating.

There's so much to love with this show. And I'm really looking forward to episodes 15 & 16. I just wanted to voice some of my criticism with this particular episode. See you next week!

[eclipseaotters]

The funny thing about Jungkook’s live and all the other lives he’s had recently is that—

It’s all so Seven MV-coded 😂

Listen, I’m not here to assume that the Seven MV took some inspiration from Jikook’s relationship, especially for one, Jungkook didn’t even write the song. For sure, he’s had more input in the MV making but I still don’t want to liken it to Jikook in any way because Seven Jungkook is just one big simp and Seven Sohee is very stubborn and dismissive right until the last bit.

It’s comical and funny if we don’t deep it! But I don’t want to feed into the toxic Jungkook simp agenda that runs around shipping circles. It just sucks that he’s always the ultimate simp, regardless of who he’s shipped with, and the simping is often imbalanced.

Now that that’s out of the way, I really just wanna let out a laugh at how Jungkook’s live birthed a new genre of Jikook tweets in relation to this.

We know what this is reminiscent of (cue in: Weight of the world on your shoulders—), but I can’t even perceive these takes negatively because these are actually based on True Events SO maaaaybe we can limit the Jungkook simp culture to…getting Jimin to do a live? 😭

Okay, great!

Now, Jimin isn’t exactly Seven Sohee. He’s just…a different kind of evil. Libra evil? Because why the heck would you respond to your little bro (asking fans if they can handle him coming out from under the blanket) by commenting, “In my case, I can handle it.”????

It doesn’t help at all that Jungkook visibly melts and downright agrees.

What the heck.

And then, like clockwork, Jungkook starts convincing Jimin to come and do a live. And the King of Babygirlism has the audacity to respond with “Seems like you’re gonna hit me!” How in the world am I to read that it a non-flirty tone?

Jungkook’s convincing persists and it’s not a one time thing. When translations were coming in, I really thought he only says it once, but no. He repeats it multiple times throughout the entire live. Seven MV levels of persistence.

[Trans by: verritaee on Twitter]

Somewhere along the way, Jungkook even leverages on ARMYs, which is really smart and sneaky. Use ARMYs as bait to lure the ARMY-pleaser. You know how public proposals bring about this social pressure to say yes to the proposer? Yeah, Jungkook’s the only public proposer I’d forgive, probably.

Can you imagine him doing this to his other hyungs? I truly can’t, not in a million years.

And then, amidst the giggly persuading, Jimin in Seven Sohee-coded fashion says, “I’m not that easy.” which, of COURSE, gets deleted by God (because we’ll never truly know who deleted it, right?)

How am I supposed to take this, really?

Somewhere along the way, there’s also a mention of a picture being sent. And honestly, it’s not the selca sending that gets to me—I already think that they’re a couple so naturally, for me, they’d have hundreds of bed selcas of each other. It’s the fact that Jimin commented it on a live. That, and the 2 o’clock thing, which has multiple translations but implies something fruity either way.

And it’s all capped off with Jungkook ~coincidentally~ flexing his arm right after he says goodbye to Jimin. I genuinely found it so endearingly funny because it was just sooo random. What are you doing, you little peacock? 😭

And while that might be enough to convince Jimin to come, it’s definitely not enough for a live. That one’s gonna take a lot more prodding.

Because we know Jimin’s the kind to want to feel in control of the situation, especially in a live, real-time setup. Going live at Hybe instead of at home, doing scheduled lives instead of spontaneous. A new live with Jungkook—after having THAT jikook birthday live, that vminhopekook live in October and the recent idgaf lives that Jungkook has done—is not the kind that Jimin can control and he knows that.

So Jungkook might just have to do something more elaborate than a fake funeral to get Jimin to say yes, because Jimin is not that easy!

[narutosux]

i want to talk about the frank castle, mr The Punisher, of my dreams

the version of the punisher that is canon to me in my heart and idgaf about reality because men wrote him anyway and i dont respect men in general. im also going to talk a tiny bit about daredevil because to me they are literally two sides of the same coin they're literally bbc merlin and arthur and im this woke ass dragon going "two sides of the same coin go freaky on each other"

In my heart of hearts, Frank Castle is an anarcho communist. He is a hardcore anti-establishment commie who believes that revolution cannot come without bloodshed. He respects and cares about the wellbeing of Daredevil, Matt Murdock, and other heroes who have similar goals, because they do want revolution and change, but they don't have the balls to actually kill wholesale like Frank. Frank sees himself as the only one willing to actually get shit done, and he's okay with being an attack dog. He's used to it, because its what the US government used him as when he was a Marine.

The concept he would ever respect the police, a violent force used to oppress lower classes and protect capital, is LAUGHABLE. It's foolish. I ignore iterations of the Punisher who is fine with killing drug addicts because they're "breaking the law", and I believe in versions of Frank Castle that kills CEOs of pharmaceutical companies for pushing opioids as harmless drugs. I think the Punisher of the 80s might focus on street level drug offenses, however I think he would learn that the problem is systemic and tearing the leaves off a tree won't kill it, you have to attack it at the root.

I believe that he would work willingly with Daredevil A LOT... Obviously, Frank Castle is more than capable of doing investigative work on his own, and he's great at planning, however I think that both men recognize their ability to work well as a team and function together. Frank is willing to work with him on jobs where he can admit that killing isn't NEEDED, even if it would do things a whole lot faster.

Frank Castle, without a single doubt in my mind, HATES the US Military Industrial Complex, and the enforcement of violence. He accepts violence because it's all he's ever known. He's a good trained attack dog, and it's where he feels comfortable, but he's both a dog and his own master, and he feels he can only make up for the attrocities he's helped commit by righting the wrongs he's done. He's single-minded, headstrong, focused on his goals of destroying in order for rebuilding a better version of the world. Allowing people to take time to change means they can fuck up and harm others in the meantime. He's not willing to risk that.

Another piece that I did like from the version of him where he was the leader of the Hand, I really liked the idea that Maria was planning to divorce him right before his family was slaughtered. I think it would make him recognize just how little of life he had, and it would make him even more angry at him failing to protect them and failing to be a genuinely good husband. But, he also recognizes that it was never love, it was a role he thought he was supposed to fill. I just don't think he really loved her. Love doesn't look like what he put Maria through.

He knows how to fill roles, but he doesn't know who he actually is. Something quite similar to Matt Murdock, who feels he's the Devil, but also doesn't know who he is when he's Matthew. They're both constantly trying to fill roles in other people's lives, or fill the roles they think that they're supposed to be in, but they don't actually know who they truly are as people.

I think that's so powerful, for these two men who are so full of conviction and so firm in their beliefs but when it comes to thinking about who they are as people, they don't know themselves. But, they know each other. I think they know each other better than they know themselves, but they don't recognize that it's because they see so much of themselves in the other man.

Sorry, but you can't convince me they aren't completely fucking obsessed with each other. Daredevil sometimes wishes he could be the Punisher. He wishes he could just kill the evil he has had to hear for years and years and years and years of his life. But he knows it would never solve anything, it would only make him as bad as the evil around him. The Punisher wishes he could see a world where redemption is possible, he wishes he had that scrap of humanity left in him still. I think when he works with Daredevil he feels himself growing weaker and he has to run away and can't stay with him long, because it makes him recognize that he might not have the resolve to kill. He also fears he might taint Matt Murdock. He might eventually actually convince him to kill. And that scares him. Frank Castle taints everything around him, even his bloodsoaked, mangled children. Even his wife Maria, brought back from the dead, still covered in bullet wounds and beautiful as ever. He drove her to kill.

One day he might ruin Daredevil like that too, and the only saving grace of that moment would be that Daredevil would finally put down the sick dog that is Frank Castle.

[cyberdragoninfinity]

saw your arc-v livepostings on twitter n' your z-one/aporia posts and now i really wanna get into the show and into ygo in general. do you have any recommendations on where to start so that it won't be too confusing for a poor sap such as i if you can? please and thank you (:

WAHHH IM HONORED THAT MY SILLY POSTING HAS INSPIRED YA TO CHECK OUT YUGIOH!! ;w;

yugioh really is something truly special and an absolute blast to really dig into, but it IS a very big franchise.... forgive me for being a bit inexperienced at giving recommendations, but I shall do my best!! here's some pointers that I think could be helpful if ya wanna get into the show(s) (not getting into the mangas too much on this, for the sake of brevity LOL) (the spinoff mangas are fun reads, though!)

ok so the thing with yugioh is there are Eight Different 'Main' Yugioh Series (and a few little stray other series but we ain talkin bout those right now)--my recommendations are focusing on the first five series, since those the ones i've seen (though ive heard glowing reviews for VRAINS and Sevens and you could certainly go check either of those out if you wanted to! You don't really need to know anything about the plots of the other series to follow those stories)

as a yugioh fan i am of course obligated to recommend Duel Monsters as a starter. It's the OG, just absolute Yugioh at its most tried and true Yugioh, it Is that good, the dub and sub are both classics--but IF i am being my most honest true self, if my arc-v postin and zoneporia chattering have got ya ygo hooked then I would recc maybe taking a gander at one of the spinoff series first instead ;3

(In general what's cool about yugioh is you can basically pick up any of the series as your 'first' ygo experience to start with and have a great time with it! I know tons of people who've all started with different series/only are invested in 1-2 series,Theyre all made to be their own self-contained plots, and there's really something for everyone among 'em! you could honestly just read wiki blurbs on each series and go with whatever one sounds most interesting to you, and that's a fine start right there.) (though sometimes youll see characters from one series show up in another one, the Entire Storyline isnt Hinged on that--i.e. a bunch of alternate version GX/5D's/Zexal characters show up in ARC-V, but you dont need to have seen all those series to watch arc-v or follow its plot.) also idgaf what anyone says, the dubs are just as wonderful a watch as the subs are when it comes to ygos--you have to deal with some scene censorship or dialogue changes, but to me it doesn't really impede the experience. (in fact I almost want to recommend the dubs MORE for someone just starting to get into yugioh--it can be easier to follow the duels sometimes. AND a lot of the dubs are free on Youtube!!)

ANYWAY Z-one and Aporia are from Yugioh 5D's!! The, Last twenty episodes or so. Of 5D's. 🥴 <--the suffering nicherfaverrrr. So if you want to meet them properly you Do unfortunately have to be in for the long haul (i am of course biased and will say: Worth It.) 5D's is all around fantastic though; it has its slow spots, but the duels get crazy fun on those damn motorcycles, so even if you do buckle in for the All of It you'll have a good time--there are some chunks in the second half of the show that never got dubbed though (sad!) which is just something to keep in mind.

RE: Arc-V! since youve seen me tweetin about it, I will say, the first 50 episodes or so of it, that first season, does make for a really great crash course intro to yugioh and its worlds/how dueling works, since it touches upon all the main types of summoning as part of its plot, and talks about how they work. You get to learn about them as the characters do, which is really cool! My main hesitance from suggesting it 100% as a starter series is that it gets. fucking Bonkers. like characters from the other series showing up aside there is just So Much Going On in Arc-V At Any Given Point. IT CAN BE A BIT OVERWHELMING. AND APPARENTLY ITS ENDING IS. NOT VERY GOOD. which might not be very fun for a first time ygo experience 😭BUT BY ALL MEANS GIVE IT A WHIRL IF YOU'RE INTERESTED. I'm having fun with it at least, hehehe.

OK HONESTLY. HONESTLY. I think if I have one good recommendation to take away from all of this: watch Zexal. Zexal is a fantastic starter yugioh, I can't recommend giving it a go enough. Yuma as a protagonist starts out dogshit at the game and gets better over the course of the series, and that really helps the viewer follow along with the card game and start to understand it at a nice pace without getting confused over all the finer points of it. It does a really nice job of explaining how things work imo! It's also just, a gorgeous show. It's one of the most beautiful cartoons ive ever seen art direction wise. It's so kind and so fun and goes hard as hell and the characters are so full of love and personality. AND THE WHOLE DUB IS FREE ON YOUTUBE. BTW. BONUS.

THIS ENDED UP SO LONG SORRY tl;dr you can pretty much start with whatever yugioh sounds most interesting to you personally as your first series and you won't be missing any critical lore! Also Zexal is one of the best, consistently good and really easy to pick up. I think if you could only ever watch one yugioh make it that one.

also this is a less a recommendation and more just "little things about watching yugioh to keep in mind" but: don't let the card game aspect intimidate ya too much! the show really does it's best to explain how cards work and keeps it engaging; it's a show geared towards kids so of course it tries to keep things pretty easy to follow along, game-wise (also do not listen to the 'The Duels Arent Important' Crowd they are Wrong. yugioh is a sports anime but the sport is a card game. that's the crux of its storytelling. and it's genuinely really cool!!!) And if you're interested in giving the game itself a whirl, Duel Links is pretty beginner friendly imo!

I HOPE THATS AT LEAST SOMEWHAT HELPFUL the trials and tribulations of recommending where to start with a franchise that boasts some 1000+ episodes across 8 series is mighty but that should give ya some sort of idea!! whatever you end up going with I hope you have a ton of fun! YUGIOHHHH

[coconox]

late night ramble but ig heres my 2 cents of this poll (not directly attaching this to the poll cause im a coward LOL)

ofc, i won't put my thoughts on luci/belphe/asmo. ik we get tidbits of them through their nobles or pb's prev games but i wanna judge them based on how they actually show up in-game. i also know there's prob gonna be some luci lore later when gamigin update is out (atm its like abt 4 or so days till that update's release) but i'll just omit my thoughts on luci for now

ok now for the rest of the kings:

i should also put a disclaimer that i don't read any of the unholy board stories unless if it's mammon's, so for the other kings that aren't mammon my opinions are purely based off of main story or event appearances or how they act in comics

satan - honestly pretty ok w him. i'm kinda biased when it comes to mc being recoginized as their own person rather than purely just the descendant of solomon so i like him based on that. idk i don't have any strong opinions abt him i just see him as a very fluffy cat :3

mammon - absolutely love him. 0 flaws. wins the idgaf war. my absolute fav squeak toy. lol ok but fr tho i don't really have any complaints abt him. will spoil tf out of mc and wants to ensure their safety. also sees mc as mc and was even kinda disgusted(? idk a better word for this💀💀) by the fact that a part of solomons soul can be sensed in them, almost as if he doesnt want it to be in the way of mc. also wasnt afraid to call out the fact that sitri kept calling mc solomon. and ofc the love at first sight thing is great too but also the bodyworship (or ig faceworship bc he only just kissed mc's entire face??) before the confession like UGH... absolutely weak for that man (devil?). idk i dont rlly see that many mammon fans rlly anywhere and it saddens me hes such a good char outside of just having huge tibbies. srsly tho pb pls we get it he has huge tits you dont need to constantly bring it up the char sprite is literally right in front of us-

cant wait for the next chapter w the big lore dump abt mammon and hope we finally get a pt 2 of his h scene (hopium)

no srsly he's the only king w 1 h scene, satan and levi got 2,, WHERE IS MAMMON'S PT 2

as a side comment also i love the silly banter btwn mammon and satan like they are truly besties from the cross on their foreheads to matching skill names to the amnt of times they throw hands and still hang out and care for each other

beel - hes ok ig? i think lore-wise hes gonna be one of the more interesting ones considering how "mysterious" he is i.e. constantly wandering, almost being an absent king. like what led to the constant wandering? what did andrealphus mean when he said beel is the key to ending the war? how does his cloning work? i kinda feel bad for bael and the other nobels needing to manage everything while beels away but i don't rlly hate him for it? at least not now considering we don't rlly know the definite reason and i want to assume the best and say he has a valid reason for being absent so he could protect his region. hate is a strong word ig its more of a slight dislike towards beel, but its like this 🤏 small of a dislike im still overall neutral abt him

levi - falling into the majority from the poll i have to agree that levi is my least fav king also lol. i get where he's coming from and why he acts the way he does, i just dont like how he's written? or ig moreso how he's written in the perspective of mc. tho tbh that's more of an mc issue than a levi issue, but i got pretty tired of the story constantly reminding us how pretty levi is (similar to how we always get reminded of how big mammon is/how huge mammons tits are). idk its like a gut feeling to not like/trust him. i also just don't really vibe w him in general even before we were actually introduced to him in main story. hes a good attacker gameplay-wise tho lol

so yeah, those are my thoughts for now. ofc they could change in the future when we get more info abt all of them but we'll see

[chaichaiiskai]

TITLE: Invisible

— PART TEN. —

yandere! bully! sukuna x gn! idgaf! fearless! reader! x yandere! yuuji itadori

MASTERPOST. PREV. NEXT.

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“MAKI. Wake up, The Great One wishes for you to report directly to him as soon as possible. Seems you’ve stumbled across something important.”

A soft and recognizable voice said, forcing the recently fallen Sorceangel to open her eyes, blinking rapidly in an attempt to adjust to the brightness of the all-white room she’d just spawned into. The source of the voice seemed to be peering over her form, in the form of a blob with stark white locks that was nearly recognizable. Suddenly, the ‘blob’ reached over her and slid something onto her face— her specialized glasses. Once she was able to see again, her vision stabilizing itself with the assistance of her glasses, she smiled faintly at the sight of her old friend, slowly sitting up on the bed to speak properly to him. The woman then sighed, stretching out her limbs with a groan of relief upon being in her original form.

“Yuta… I wasn’t expecting to see you so soon, but my mission was cut a tad bit shorter than I anticipated.” She said, shaking out the feathers of the small white wings that sprung from her back, feeling relaxed now that she was no longer constricted in her human vessel. Yuta covered his mouth with a finger to stifle his laugh, reaching up to affectionately ruffle her now-turned-white locks, smiling at her. “No need to fret. He looks down upon you with happiness, and you are one of his favorites, I’m sure he’ll promote you for what you’ve done so far.” Maki laughed along with him lowly, standing up from the bed to begin walking out of the Spawn Room, silently preparing herself to speak to The Great One. He was rather… intense.

“I can only hope so. Has anything changed since I’ve been gone?”

“Oh, nothing in particular. Rika was sent on a mission for learning about the newest human plague, Panda is roaming the mortal world, living out his days as a panda, ruling over them… I believe he’s in China, currently.”

“What about Toge..?”

“Ah, Toge recently got promoted to a Tier 4, which reminds me! You’ve made it right on time for the celebration and ceremony, The Great One knows how long it has been since we’ve seen a Tier 4, and we all know that is basically the end of promotions since… The last Tier 5 is currently locked away who knows where. I suppose it is not smart to speak of Her, especially after committing such an atrocious sin.” He whispered the last bit, knowing that speaking of Her would often make others uncomfortable or anxious.

The two Sorceangels left the building of Spawn Rooms and began to roam around, heading towards the humongous castle in the center of Heaven where The Great One would undoubtedly be residing, probably goofing around without a care in the world.

Maki shuddered at the thought, thinking of how the Demons have managed to seduce yet another innocent soul. And it was truly unfortunate that you were that soul. She wondered why they had chosen you as their target instead of someone else. As far as she could sense from being around your soul for so long was that you were a bundle of many, many different lives lived before you. Her original mission had been to observe all who appeared to have many lives attached to their current lives. She’d been doing it for as long as she could remember, moving around the mortal world, observing everyone who fit the description. Before she’d stumbled across you, she remembered that the most reincarnated soul she’d witnessed was one who’d been reincarnated over thirty times. He was an older man who was known for his wisdom around the neighborhood he lived in, Maki had disguised herself as an older version of her human vessel to get closer to him and soon befriended him.

One day, she had been sitting beside him on a park bench, feeding corn and grain to the ducks when she’d suddenly witnessed something she’d never seen before in all her millennia of creation.

A tiny human toddler… reincarnated over a thousand times, playing innocently on a play structure with a few other children.

Upon her discovery, Maki erased the memories of herself from the older man, just like she’d done before to the other’s she shadowed, and shrunk her vessel down to match your age at the time, slowly becoming closer and closer to you. As she did this, she found herself falling for you, platonically, you were truly her best friend, despite being merely a mortal. You were the one that helped her to discover the meaning of humanity, as well as what love felt like, something unheard of amongst the Sorceangel.

It’s not that they didn’t know what it was, they weren’t allowed to experience it, and if they did, they would end up having a solemn fate and become useless to Him.

After walking for a bit, the two of them moving side by side in a comfortable silence towards The Hall of Blues, occasionally waving at some familiar faces and exchanging a few words, they got closer and closer to the building. Before Maki knew it, she was led in front of a pair of large white wooden double doors with trimmings of turquoise and sapphire. Yuta smiled with his eyes at his old friend and bowed at her, fluttering his silver wings in her direction as a gesture of good luck and fortune. Then, he turned around, walking back down the hall that led them here. With a deep inhale, Maki rested her hands onto the handles of the hefty doors and pushed through them, revealing the grand room where The Great One liked to play.

After entering, she glanced around the spacious room until her eyes landed on Him. He appeared to be deeply concentrated on a mortal board game known as chest, currently partnered up against a Tier 4 Sorceangel who she recognized as one of her previous mentors, Kento. The two of them sat at a table, both comfortably seated in cushioned white seats that matched the look of the doors and the rest of the decorations in the room. Just like the rest of Heaven, it kept the theme of white, turquoise, and sapphire— it was frankly the most beautiful place in existence, as far as she knew. Everything was made with extravagance, crafted in the image of Him.

From Maki’s point of view, it seemed that her mentor was the one winning this round. The Great One’s six multicolored wings were fluffed and he was pouting like a frustrated child, brows knitted together in the middle of his forehead in a mode of concentration. Kento, on the other hand, was relaxed and calm, moving yet another chess piece across the board, knocking one of The Great One’s kings over to replace it with one of his own pieces.

“Ahhh!! How are you so good at this? Have you been studying outside of our sessions? How unfair!!!”

“No, Gojo. I have not been doing such things. Simply put, you’re just not very good at this game, unless you’ve been holding back on every single one of our matches.”

Maki shivered at the casual conversation, knowing the true extent of The Great One’s power and just how easily he could obliterate anyone he so desires, yet, he never even bat an eye when her mentor spoke to him in a such a way, instead, he would always laugh and ramble about how much he loved the Tier 4’s honesty and wished more were like him. That was untrue, no one else would ever be allowed to speak so casually to him the way Kento did, it was almost as if they had a special bond to each other, even deeper than companionship. In the midst of her thinking, she barely caught on when she was directly addressed.

“My dear junior, are you going to continue standing there like a statue or are you going to come over here and give me that report of yours?” The Great One announced, even with his back facing her as he continued the game of chess. Maki quickly cleared her throat and apologized, walking towards the table with her head bowed towards the both of them, not daring to look either of them in the eye out of respect. “My apologies, sir. I didn’t wish to interrupt your session, you both seem to be concentrating.”

The Great One chuckled. “Well, I am, but I don’t know about Kento, he always seems so bored when he’s beating me at my own creation. But!” He paused, leaning back in his cushioned chair to slap at his clothed thighs that was draped over with a silk white toga that covered his slightly muscular form, the edges made of embellished sapphire. He turned to Maki and smiled at her, his bright cerulean eyes boring into the depths of her soul, giving her his full attention. “What have you?”

His gaze always made her feel slightly on edge, causing her to promptly press her hands together, rubbing them gently together as she began to speak. “I have found the Demon Princes in the mortal world. They appear to be both connected to a mortal that’s been reincarnated thousands of times whom I’ve been observing named Y/N L/N. I found out after going to check up on them after not hearing from them in a couple of days. Upon my discovery… I attempted to seperate them, however, the older prince initiated combat with me and upon realizing that I could not win, I retreated. He hunted me down anyway and killed my mortal vessel, which led me here. Which reminds me— how am I awake..? Wouldn’t it usually take a few years to return back to this form..?” Maki recited but then found herself curious about the last bit, brows knitted together in the middle of her forehead as she looked at him expectedly.

Tier 1 Sorceangels, often used for small tasks involving many different things that directly entailed mortals, were provided with mortal vessels to use in order to roam unsuspected amongst the mortals. However, after their death in their vessel, it can take as long as a decade for their soul to return to their true form, but it only took a single day for Maki to be returned. Which proved a few things— this mission was something of a top priority for The Great One and the information she gained was important for him to learn. Of course, he saw everything that occured to the use of Maki’s eyes, but he didn’t mind listening to her verbal report, it was a good way to tell where her loyalty stood and as far as he could tell, she appeared to still be quite loyal to Him.

“No need to fret your pretty little head about that, Maki. You’ve done great work, that means you get a promotion! Isn’t that exciting?” He said rather excitedly after hearing her report, and then He snapped his fingers, causing Maki’s entire body to explode with light for just a moment before the energy making up her being recollected itself and she returned to her original form. Except, this time, her little white wings were now silver, signifying that she was officially a Tier 3, skipping over Tier 2 where her wings would have become bronze. And whereas her two smaller wings were smaller, providing limited travel time, her present wings were the same size as her entire height and there was a third wing now resting between her shoulder blades.

Immediately after being promoted, she dropped to one knee in a slight bow to pay her respects to him.

“Thank you, sir. I will wear my title with honor.”

“Ah ah ah. You shouldn’t thank me just yet, your mission is not over. I need you to go back to the mortal world and continue to surveillance the mortal and the princes. Tell me if anything changes or if you notice anything of importance.”

Maki nodded.

“Of course. I will do everything in my power to protect them from the wrath of the prince called Sukuna as well as the prince called Yuuji.”

Ah. One more thing.

“Well, about that—“ The Great One smiled sadly at his junior and snapped his fingers again, effectively erasing any fond memories she’s had with you, therefore erasing all and any memories of your established friendship (though you would still be able to remember). Soon, he watched as she became devoid of emotion in regards to her newest mission, turning her back into one of his perfect little dolls.

“It is unfortunate that I had to do that, but I have to make sure you remain loyal to everything we’ve built here, one little mortal should not cause you to succumb to mortal emotions, Maki. Now, can you repeat your mission back to me?”

“I will continue to surveil the mortal Y/N L/N, along with the Princes of Hell, awaiting further instructions from you, Great One.”

The Great One grinned, gently clasping his hands together in a giddy and childish manner, his eyes sparkling with mischief and deviousness.

“Fantastic. Go on then.”

Maki nodded and turned, heading out of the room with her hands tucked behind her back.

The Great One sighs in accomplishment as he gets more comfortable in his seat, almost forgetting the second presence who was still seated across from him, awaiting the game of Chess to continue. However, Kento appeared to have a few other ideas in mind.

“Pardon me for questioning you, Gojo, but, I’ve always been curious. Why do you torture the Prince of Hell? Haven’t you already stolen away hundreds of his Invisibilis Gustums before? Are your desires not satisfied yet?”

Throwing his head back to laugh, The Great One seemed to be tickled silly by the questions asked of him. Then, he recollected himself before he spoke again, almost as if he was talking about a loved hobby of his.

“Why not? Those heathens don’t deserve to be happy. Especially not after taking my sweet Yemema and corrupting her to the point where I had to lock her up for her own safety. Truthfully… they deserve to feel my pain. They will never make the same mistake again.”

Leaving The Hall of Blues, Maki was soon met by Yuta at the top of the steps that led to the front doors. He perked up slightly upon seeing her, his usual gentle smile gracing his face as greeted her yet again. “I see things have gone well for you, now we’re silverette twins.” He verbally observed, laughing faintly as his shoulders bounced. Maki offered her own smile and then opened her mouth to say something to him, but felt a slight throbbing pain in the front of her forehead, causing her to stagger and nearly fall down the last couple of steps. Fortunately, Yuta made haste and grabbed onto her arms to keep her from falling, assisting her down the rest of the steps as he looked at her in worry.

Maki looked up and quickly shook her head, using her other hand to wave dismissively as a means to get him to relax. “No no no. Nothing of the sort, I am just feeling… empty. Emptier than usual, I believe.” That causes him to rear back in surprise, giving her an expression that spoke many words, every one of them she understood. “That is how we are /supposed/ to feel, Maki. You know that we are not allowed the luxuries of experiencing true emotion. We are simply vessels made to serve Him…” He spoke, though his words sounded… sad. They were a stark contrast to his protective voice that had darkened just a few seconds prior when he inquired about The Great One potentially harming her.

Without a word, she nodded, allowing him to lead her along as she placed a hand on her forehead where the sudden painful throbbing had occurred. She’d never felt such a thing before, and what was even stranger was that the throbbing had been accompanied by an image that she couldn’t decipher, showing her a smiling face of someone she couldn’t recognize. Who were they? What was their significance? Why couldn’t she remember who they were? Perhaps she was running a little low on mana, maybe afterwards she would be able to remember them and place their face.

That was wishful thinking.

No matter what she did, she just couldn’t remember and it was distracting her from the one-sided conversation happening between herself and Yuta, which he took note of, suddenly snapping his fingers gently in front of her face. Slightly startled from her ever growing dilemma, she blinks, looking at her companion with a bitter taste on her tongue. Noticing the grimace present on her face, he pursued his lips in a pout and furrowed his brows at her. “Is something wrong? You’ve seemed… distant since speaking to The Great One? Did something happen alongside your promotion?” He asked in a hushed tone, knowing just how nosey the other Socreangels could be, he already heard some of them gossiping about Maki suddenly skipping the ranks after her short mission in the mortal world.

Matching the tone and volume level of his voice, she decides to confide in him considering that she always does, she considers him one of her closest.. friends. Another throb has her tensing up in her seat at one of the many tables in the cafeteria, only this time instead of being in the front of her skull it was in her chest. Which was strange, since Sorceangels did not need other organs aside from their brain, and stomach. However, she found herself reaching up to rub at an area on her chest where the human heart would be. There was an absence of a heart but with phantom pain in full blossom. The sensation was strange and not enjoyable in the least. Noticing this, Yuta frowned and reached over the table from where he sat across from her, encasing her wrist with his slender fingers and gripping onto it to get her to stop what she was doing. “Did He say something unfavorable to you…?” Yuta whispered even lower than before, his voice having the slightest edge to it along with his protectiveness just barely shielding itself from the world around them.

Maki looked up and quickly shook her head, using her other hand to wave dismissively as a means to get him to relax. “No no no. Nothing of the sort, I am just feeling… empty. Emptier than usual, I believe.” That causes him to rear back in surprise, giving her an expression that spoke many words, every one of them she understood. “That is how we are supposed to feel, Maki. You know that we are not allowed the luxuries of experiencing true emotion. We are simply vessels made to serve Him…” He spoke, though his words sounded… sad. They were a stark contrast to his protective voice that had darkened just a few seconds prior when he inquired about The Great One potentially harming her.

Uncharacteristically, she scoffed at him, shaking her wrist free from his grip to look at him with an unreadable expression. “I am aware, but something just— does not feel right. It feels as though I am missing a crucial part of my mission, as if I have forgotten something important to me. I do not enjoy this feeling, it displeases me.”

Yuta listens, his shoulders slightly tensed as he eyes his friend, unable to say anything else to her considering he knew nothing of what she spoke of. Instead, he pushed the glass of strange blue, glimmering liquid towards her, urging her to drink it. Maki stared down at it and then at him but eventually gave in, picking it up and gulping it down with a blank look on her face. Perhaps restoration of her energy would be able to explain this. One could only hope she could get her head back on straight before being sent back down to the mortal realm to continue her mission.

Yuta listened, his shoulders slightly tensed as he eyes his friend, unable to say anything else to her considering he knew nothing of what she spoke of. Instead, he pushed the glass of strange blue, glimmering liquid towards her, urging her to drink it. Maki stared down at it and then at him but eventually gave in, picking it up and gulping it down with a blank look on her face. Perhaps restoration of her energy would be able to explain this. One could only hope she could get her head back on straight before being sent back down to the mortal realm to continue her mission.

[fullmoonfireball]

PIKMIN TREASURES TOURNAMENT, ROUND 5, MATCH 1

(Notes: This is specifically the music box that plays the Pikmin 3 theme, as shown in the video below.)

Propaganda:

Mechanical Harp (Memory Song)

“I just really love that they play music while you carry them.”

“The implications, though. It’s like when splatoon had the image of a skeleton plaing splatoon in one of the sunken scrolls.”

“directly references the third game and one of the best songs in the series (said objectively). its existence messes up the timeline even worse once olimar starts talking about it. beautiful whimsical thing. I go onto the treasure catalogue so often JUST for this specific harp and it makes me do this”

"this is such a beautiful rendition of the song"

"PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE"

King of Bugs

“Louie betraying you and then you collecting him as a treasure is really great.”

“he [is] technically classed as a treasure lol”

“Giving his life a monetary value of 10 is SAVAGE”

“Isn’t the greatest treasure the friends we made along the way?”

“it’s just Louie and I think that’s hilarious”

“tfw you are worth as much as a leaf”

“my fav title for Louie is food thief. he is worth 10 poko. truly a terrible thang”

“The real treasure was my wife all along”

“HE IS WORTH SOSO SO MUCH MORE THAN TEN POKOS. PLEAS. PUT SOME RESPECT ON HIS NAME HES GONE THRU SO MUCH IDGAF”

“we need battle of the L’s. L Wars. cmon folks.”

“my son who is worth 10 pokos”

"guy worth 10 pokos"

"louie being worth 10 dollars is objectively fucking hilarious"

"cash that bug man in boys we got enough pokos to buy a soda"

[doulayogimama]

This photo is from yesterday but we met up with this little girl and her mom again (third day in a row) and they love each other so much 😭🤍

We hung out with them all over Málaga for 5 hours! The girls were like let’s goooooooo and the mom and I were exhausted by the end lol

That was really nice though, I’ve never experienced that. Connecting with a mom and just being able to have a 5 hour conversation and not have it be awkward. She was very vulnerable, very open about her life. It was refreshing, because I’m like that too. Like… just lay it on me, idgaf about pleasantries, tell me all of the wonderful and terrible shit about you 😆

Her ex is the Cuban one, she’s Swiss and Italian. Honestly, her stories about him made me very grateful that I married outside of my culture. I know that’s not a great thing to say, but to meet a decent Cuban man that won’t cheat / take advantage of you in some way is … almost like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The machismo aspect really poisons the minds of men. Their inability to tap into their emotions and be honest with themselves, with others… ugh it’s sad. I truly only know a couple of Cuban dudes (and one is my brother) that I would trust to be an upstanding partner.

Cuban men (and more women than most other cultures) commit adultery and just… lie to their spouses and partners. This guy had a gambling addiction and the mom I’m hanging out with (M) is a successful influencer who makes a great salary from social media. Guess who “borrowed” money from her and never gave it back? Yeah.

I wish I could say differently, there’s lots of beautiful things about the Cuban culture, but the reverence for marriage / partnership ain’t one of them.

[outrunningthedark]

So, KR is saying that Buck's arc focus is to make him grow by himself (can't remember the exact quote). With this in mind, what do you think about it and its execution?

Just gonna use this quote because she said variations of the same thing in her interviews: "And that felt like a change in Buck, and that's what catapulted him into this season, was wanting to understand himself. Because I think you have to do that before you can understand the kind of person you want to be with. And so his journey this season is him discovering who he is and who he wants to be for himself.

Not because other people will like him or because other people will be proud of him, but for Buck. When Buck looks in the mirror, how does he like the person he's looking at? What needs to happen for him that he can say, "I'm Buck, and I'm enough?" And so that's sort of the journey that he's on." Start of the season - Buck focusing on work, pushing himself. Great! Makes sense! It's his one constant, the one place he feels most accomplished, most valuable, and most like himself. Saying yes to possibilities to gain more life experience and figure out if anything sticks? I'm with it. Lev dying and making Buck realize he truly doesn't know what he wants out of his life or how to make it happen? He doesn't know what will make him happy? I see the connection. Where they lost me: WHY DOES BUCK HAVE TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE HAVE A KID TO REALIZE HE'S TOO MUCH OF A PEOPLE-PLEASER??? WHY DID THE PREGNANCY HAVE TO GO THROUGH (regardless of what happens in 6B because we don't know) FOR HIM TO REALIZE HE ALREADY IS A PARENT, ALREADY HAS HIS OWN FAMILY??? HE COULDN'T COME TO THIS CONCLUSION WHEN THE DONATIONS FAILED??? THAT WASN'T ENOUGH OF A REASON FOR A "BREAKDOWN"??? (I'm not rooting for a miscarriage here.) This storyline has me mad as hell, idgaf. The only "good" outcome is that it turns out the baby isn't is (because by some miracle, Connor got his wife pregnant), and Buck is feeling like discarded/defective parts again, or he had a family, a legacy (in his head) and it was "snatched away" from him, thus leading to the "breakdown" fans are waiting for. I do not need to be in year seven, eight, nine reading speculation about "do you think this is when C&K get killed off so Buck will somehow get *his* baby???"

[osarina]

okay so i read the newest part really late last night so i read it again just now and i SGABGHFHVJDHGJFF i have many things to say

“I’ll be back later tonight… wait for me?” “Yeah,” you finally agree, voice wavering. “I’ll wait for you.” hey now. that one kinda hurt.

“Fate, the word haunts him, curses him, he wants to spit in its face but every passing day reminds him that the gods must be laughing down at him.” IM ABOUT TO THROW HANDS W FATE IDGAF 

THE FLASHBACKS. THATS ENOUGH. DONT DO THAT TO ME.

“i am NOT coming to ur funeral.” our friends are so real tho 😭😭😭

THE KISS !! THE KISS THE KISS THE KISS

“and god, you want him.” YES TF I DO ‼️‼️

“it’s unfair, you might die” CARINA WE TALKED ABOUT THIS

“The man lets out a sigh of what can only be utter suffering, lifting his head to look up to the ceiling as if asking a higher deity ‘why me?’” chuuya ily you don’t get paid enough to deal with dazais shit

THE SCENE W HIM COMING BACN TO THE EMPTY APARTMENT IM SCREAMING. THE FLASHBACKS. THE PURE PANIC. I JUST.

“the way you meet him (although you’re always the one to find him), the way you die (he always finds you though),” hey so what the fuck.

the sunsets im sobbing 😭

WALKING TO THE EDGE OF THE ROOF??? AND STAYING THERE???? that shit made me so nervous my heart was in my ass for the entirety of this scene

the pov change at the end omfg i wanted to cry

UGH anyways ty for listening to my ramblings ily and your writing have a great day/night!! 🫶

TUMBLR USER PE4RL-DIVER WELCOME BACKKKK IVE MISSED YOU

dazai and his legendary beef with hate will never not make me snort - every time someone comments or sends an ask about it, it makes me giggle because this man is TRULY ready to throw hands with gods at this point

NOOOO WE LOVE THE FLASHBACKS <33333 it's not the end of them either!!!

I WAS SOOOOO EXCITED TO WRITE THE KISS - i wanted i to be in chapter 2 soooo bad but i just couldn't figure out a way to cleanly weave it in so i had to push it off</3 BUT I THINK IT WAS WORTH IT

HELP MEEEEE I CAN'T HELP IT also it's partially because i'm dramatic and every time something slightly inconvenient happens im seeking death so </3

CHUUYA IS SOOOO FUNNY BC YOU KNOW HE'S SO SICK OF DAZAI'S BULLSHIT LOLLLL poor man questions his existence every day

the pov change was such a last minute decision BUT im rlly happy i went with it because it also gave me an idea for uu6 that i think im going to try to implement so we shall see how it goes

TYYYY FOR SENDING YOUR RAMBLINGS ILY HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY