#wane over time

[shibe]

although me getting exhausted saying yes to one date might be a sign of me not being ready i also think my last relationship made me a bit disillusioned towards dating

[lorebird]

In which Ford struggles so badly to relate to other people that he wonders if he’s really human at all. The more isolated he becomes, the harder it is to reconcile with his own humanity.

[coachbeards]

like imagine if alongside nathan and duke's relationship developing from enemies to friends, nathan's trouble begins to slowly go away over time. as trust and camaraderie grows, sensation begins to creep back into nathan's life. it starts out small, a burnt tongue from a coffee or the way his new shoes feel....tight around his feet...small sensations. mostly numb, but there's light shining through the clouds, and nathan has no idea why. then they finally detangle the fishing trip...what happened, what duke did, how they did it...and yeah. it's sensation.

[july-19th-club]

i really love long-running tv shows. ten, twelve, fifteen seasons seems excessive, but i love the way that much time winds up being more organically true-to-life than a tightly-structured ten-episode realist drama, no matter how contrived the situations in a ten-year-old medical or legal drama might become. status quos warp and change, characters come in and out, relationships begin and end - marriages, divorces, children born, parents dying, everything from a character's hairstyle to their weight fluctuates as the actor's does. a protagonist leaves to spend more time with their family because a performer wants to do the same. there's a kind of natural moss that grows on these long runners, some seasons are better than others, some plots engage more enthusiasm from the crew and audience than others, but the work or the location or the group of people remains the same, or changes in the way things change in life: incrementally, abruptly, and then settling again into something that becomes familiar. young faces grow lines. dark hair goes grey. lean faces put on fat. and life happens

[moghedien]

Me: My mind at least once a day for the past six months: You know nothing makes it explicitly impossible for Wheel of Time and Sailor Moon to take place in the same universe

[baeshijima]

when you have a crisis over whether or not a kiss scene is needed to make the yearning and reunion and pent up emotions that much more meaningful or if it is better to have them commit small fleeting touches and nuzzles and trembling eyes and

[lanayrutower]

this keeps me up at night btw.

[todayisafridaynight]

YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABT KIRYU HONESTLY

I’ve ranted to friends before abt how Kiryu is just genuinely so stupid that it comes of as dick-ish and inconsiderate to the people around him ESPECIALLY majima like?? He absolutely knows majima would walk through hell for Kiryu and takes full advantage of that in the worst ways and I don’t even think he fully realizes that that’s what he’s doing. Like please I love kazumaji as much as the next person but really only at a very specific point in time when they were both at their least fucked up gsgdfdf (kiwami 1 obv)

All is to say I agree please put the whole rgg fandom in an intro to literature class I think they’d greatly benefit gsgdf

kiryu is one of my favorite characters BECAUSE he's just so ass backwards. like On Paper he's a good guy: left the yakuza and is trying to live a normal life, has an orphanage and takes care of kids etc etc. but then you like. ACTUALLY look into him and its so funny.. he's such a dick and he doesn't even know and i love him. he just wants to do what he thinks is right and SOMETIMES he's right but his judgement also puts other people in peril (i.e. majima and daigo)

[irradiatedsnakes]

yknow besides a higher-stakes-but-still-very-silly plot always being a lot of fun, night of the living pharmacists has some of the tightest writing + jokes + animation of the whole show. it's an unbearably good episode

[supercantaloupe]

so maestro told me tonight at the end of rehearsal that he "got an email about me", turns out it was the org that's interviewing me next week for their summer job reaching out to him as a reference. and then when that was figured out maestro proceeded to spend the next, like, twenty minutes standing there writing out a recommendation for me on his phone at 10 pm while i'm Sitting Right There, just trying to get the assignment notes to send to the orchestra,

[skeleton---arts]

Finally finished the refs for all of my party members! Meet Ellie (she/her), Adriane (she/her), and Nieven (they/them)!

[red-dyed-sarumane]

vocaloid could get me to do anything they could release a hatsune miku tax prep thing & suddenly i'd be like wow i cant wait for tax season so miku can help me with my taxes

[slverblood]

Wanna know something else that's interesting to think about? Sha.dow.he.art's story being a symptom of Sel.ûne's weariness. I'm not even really talking about the Sharrans taking her + her parents. I know we want to hold the gods accountable for every misfortune — and there's some merit to that — but a glaring trait of the DND pantheons is they are not omnipotent. Sh.ar and Sel.ûne have been locked in a cosmic battle for millennia, each winning and losing different battles. This isn't a "every bad thing is Sel.ûne's fault" argument that I'm making.

The argument I am making is that what happened to the Hallowleaf family and families like them is probably a result of Sel.ûne's lessened power — which is itself partially Sel.ûne's fault. We can't say entirely because it's unclear what caused Sel.ûne to surrender part of her portfolio to Sune and serve her. What is clear, though, is that Sel.ûne at a point made the choice to live in as mortal a manner as possible. She locked away her godly power, stopped checking in on godly affairs, and lived as her avatar, Luna. This would cause her already lessened power to wane even more.

This occurred a little over a century ago, but it takes time to build back up the sort of power Sel.ûne once had. Not to mention her portfolio has only shrunk over time and it hasn't expanded again in ages. Sh.ar meanwhile has been steadily growing her power. She's experienced a loss here and there (i.e. to Mask), but her power has largely experienced either growth or a plateau. She hasn't waned as Sel.ûne has.

Now Sel.ûne is still considered a greater deity. HOWEVER, she is not a member of the Circle of Greater Powers like Sh.ar is. Which, combined with other evidence, implies that Sel.ûne is currently less powerful than her sister. They might be in the same "rank", but within that ranking, Sh.ar outstrips her. By how much is unclear, but any imbalance in their power dynamic makes a great difference. Especially to mortals who rely on these deities. Sel.ûne's waning power logically makes it more difficult to oppose her sister — which includes protecting her faithful from Sh.ar. It's not that Sel.ûne didn't hear the cries of the Hallowleaf family and others like them. It's not even that she didn't care. It's that she has never had perfect power to thwart her sister, and now, partly due to choices she's made, that task has become even more difficult.

[emometalhead]

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[helenofblackthorns]

the way it's October.... wdym I've now been in the pits of a tsc obsession for 9 months straight 😃

[killerboyratzmp3]

"i wonder if the sad i'd be without you would be less than the sad i get from being with you" this show is so sickening .