#under very specific circumstances

[conspiracyofcuttlefish]

May I introduce the population to the anime Moribito

Grizzled halberd-wielding female mercenary who ends up in the guardianship of a Prince possessed by a god. If they find him, they'll put him to death, so she has to keep him hidden.

i understand why the ‘grizzled loner who slowly melts & improves their outlook on life when forced to take care of a kid’ trope is a male exclusive role, bc the optics of a grizzled loner woman healing by becoming a mother are maybe not so good, but every time i think abt a hypothetical female version of that trope i black out instantly. could we maybe just do it one time and all agree to be cool about it

[tackykachowch]

If I see another "Silco didn't accept Powder" take I'm breaking tables I'm so serious right now

[crimeronan]

i can already feel made-up brain strawmen getting mad at me for using "found family" to describe severance and yelling WHY CANT PEOPLE JUST BE FRIENDS. GOD YOU FUCKING FANROTTED ASSHOLES ARE SO DETERMINED TO WATER EVERYTHING DOWN TO NOTHING guys i promise..... it's ok.... i know theyre friends. and that this is a loose constellation of coworkers coerced into an upsetting codependent relationship due to external horrors beyond their control. i'm evilly assigning them an oppressive social construct and pretending it's cute because i have no critical thinking skills and i want to make everybody really mad at me, forever. thank you for your understanding.

[wellijustfinnihedoneofthebooks]

I understand why everyones so mad about five x lila (i dont like it either) BUT i do think the setup of it (lost in time with no one else to rely on, protecting eachother, ect) would probably make five fall in love with just about anyone. Just like, this is kind of what he always imagined having with deloras. So i dont fully agree with the wide consensus that its out of character for him to fuck his brothers wife (in this specific scenario)

That being said, he absolutely wouldnt give up on his family over it.

[taraxippos]

There's a LOT of things people do wrong when constructing fantasy beliefs in pantheons of gods, but one of the more specific is having only one god related to fertility and it kind of being just a horny sex thing.

Like you'll have one in the entire bunch whose sphere is listed as fertility and it's basically like Yeah this is the sex one. She's always depicted naked (but not TOO naked because censorship and/or the writer's own skittishness). She's going to have the exact body type epitomized in contemporary western beauty standards and there's usually no chance in hell that she's gonna be fat (unless MAYBE they're referencing 'venus' figurines). Her thing is fertility, which means having sex and making babies. Might be a goddess of beauty or love or marriage too, because these are kinda sex things, but that's probably it. And yeah that sort of thing is virtually nonexistent in real life.

Like the concept of fertility is so fundamentally important to the function of most societies in human history in ways that it is just Not in industrialized imperial core countries. Most people are getting food from stores, and not having to worry about harvesting crops or breeding livestock or foraging for food or having enough animals to hunt, so fertility only really comes up as a concern if you're trying to have kids (and there is certainly societal pressure to have children, but your wellbeing and survival is rarely going to Depend on it). And I think writing only from that perspective and not even trying to learn about WHY fertility is so conceptually important is why you see this trend.

There's no absolute universal statement about how people believe in gods but it's broadly accurate that systems with many deities will Usually have more than one deity associated with fertility, and these associations will certainly include human reproduction but also the fertility of livestock/hunted animals, plants, the land itself.

Some fertility deities may also be heavily associated with seasonal changes or environmental factors that agriculture or foraging is dependent on (spring/summer/fall, seasonal rains, seasonal flooding, rain itself, sunlight, good soil, rivers, wetlands, etc). Some certainly might be related to love, marriage, sex, and beauty, but that's VERY RARELY going to be the sole way the concept of fertility is embodied. And they'll often will have other associations not directly about fertility, or related to fertility in culturally specific ways.

[uzukage-naruto]

i've recently started to appreciate tdbkdk as a trio more, whether platonic or romantic. that being said, tdbk is still not my top preference but you'd have to be blind to not see how well fed they were this season.

and then of course the one tdbkdk scene to end the season

[transmasccofee]

satousai fic where Satou finds out about Saiki’s powers by accident and after the initial shock and disbelief, wants to befriend him (painfully normal reaction)

[spilledmilkfkdies]

Grown men btw 🗣🗣

[harlequinoccult]

If this is too graphic, feel free to skip, but who would be the most likely to torture their victims?

Cold, Host, and....Sweetheart, under the right circumstances.

[dimsilver]

:)

[akkivee]

something that makes me weep about fool’s gold is how shakku tells kuukou his path of violence will lead him on the road to loneliness, but it was kuukou deciding to follow his father’s path that brought him that loneliness

and it’s a point ichiro and samatoki also share; ichiro, going off on his own to make money and protect his family no matter the cost, was a similar choice rei made that lost him his family as well, and samatoki, despite channeling that violence to protect his family, sometimes took it too far and that nonsensical violence, much like his father’s own, is what helped him lose nemu

[toki-toro]

Springtrap. Dump him in the washing machine and watch him spin round and round

It’s funny you say that because I took this photo of springtrap inside my washing machine last month and have yet to relay it to the masses

[ask-the-voices-of-the-quiet]

Can you do a backflip?

[hazbinned]

Ssssssslllllurrrrrrp!

[sixxtytoo]

they would start getting along at some point i think