#yeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss

[lullabyes22-blog]

honestly as a tried and true robot fucker seeing Viktor’s new form did something to my psyche XD

(it also reignited by robot arcane AU from a few months ago XD)

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!

WE DIG GIANT ROBOTS!

YOU DIG GIANT ROBOTS!

CHICKS DIG GIANT ROBOTS!

[psychewritesbs]

Chapter 214: Cursed Womb Under Heaven, part 6—Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna Daddy Sukuna Sukuna Sukuna

Blessed / Cursed JJK-Sunday! Pick your poison...

I hate (affectionate) Sukuna because... well... this whole Megumi thing is so weird. Like... what is going on with the hair?

And yet I am a massive Sukuna simp (questionable) because... well.. this whole conversation with Yuji...

Like Sir. Yes, I will dedicate my life’s work to spreading the gospel of Sukuna to all who will listen. Ura Ume can cook, I can be your Marketing person and do your social media if that’s what you’re into. 

I LOVE a character twisted by his own humanity. Yeeeessss...

More, please!

There’s more of me “yeeeeeeeeeesssss”+ing and promoting Sukunaism under the cut.

yeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss.....

The King of Curses

I am perhaps projecting, but there’s something definitively very regal about Sukuna and the way he carries himself in an embodied state. 

I also loved that there is also something very benevolent about the look in Sukuna’s face as he speaks with Yuji about the nature of suffering for weaker beings.

Almost like “oh you poor thing, you really thought you were just going to be handed your cake and get to eat it too, didn’t you?”

And I am VERY consciously choosing to use the word benevolent to describe Sukuna because... there is something inherently twisted and yet, extremely real, in the message that Sukuna embodies.

Almost like he’s doing Yuji a favor by enlightening him on the root cause of his suffering.

YES! yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes YES!

Am I like a crazy person for loving Sukuna so much?

And there’s something so fascinating here about how, despite dropping deep truths about the human condition, Sukuna is literally the epitome of all that is cursed, a sort of container for all that is inherently wrong about humanity--to the point that you can’t even think of him as human, but rather, as inhuman.

But... really... what does it mean to be a human, what does it mean to be a curse, and where do we draw the line?

Are curses truly the sole source of suffering as Spooks asks? 

After all... are curses not the result of negative human emotion?

Are we, as humans, not responsible for their existence?

You see, I became a cursed spirit apologist the moment Yuta kissed a cockroach. This forced me to start questioning what is good and what is evil.

The marriage of Heaven and Hell

Now... I am not asking for Sukuna to not be thought of as evil. 

I am asking for a wider, more profound interpretation of evil. One that is not colored by the Western, white-washed, Judeo-Christian idea of the figure of Satan as a red horned creature that is evil for the sake of evil and makes people do evil #things.

I am asking for you to leave your pre-conceptions of evil at the door...

What if perhaps we saw Satan as Lucifer, the harbinger of light who was thrown out of Heaven for challenging the status quo and daring to seek enlightenment through embodiment?

What if we saw evil as as a corruption and degeneration of all that is good and humane--a sort of rejection of one expression of the self in favor of the trappings of self-gratification and self-identification?

What if we asked how Sukuna’s degenerated and corrupted humanity is an embracing and transcendence of suffering as not just inherent to the human condition, but a precursor of psychological and psychospiritual growth and development?

What if evil was a choice made in favor of the self and that is why Satan was cast out of Heaven? 

What if evil was just trying to re-affirm the sense of self, and that is why Sukuna has chosen ego as his path of enlightenment?

After all...

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”

When Gege introduced Jacob’s Ladder in chapter 213...

... he introduced one hell pun intended of a rabbit hole. One that I am not quite ready to talk about in great detail because I am unsure on how the symbols will be explored, or let’s be real here, whether they will get explored at all.

But with this tiny panel, Gege basically introduced the “upper” extreme of a metaphorical experience of psychospiritual growth depicted in the shape of a ladder. At the lower end of said ladder is the experience of descent into hell that is depicted in stories like Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Now. The interesting bit about Jacob’s Ladder getting mentioned, is that Gege added a neat little detail that is easy to miss unless you know what you’re looking for:

That is: Urizen’s Architect’s compass.

Now, for context, the painting above is a painting by William Blake, who perhaps not so coincidentally, also has a painting titled Jacob’s Ladder.

The painting is, indeed, inspired by the Biblical depiction of Jacob’s dream found in Genesis 28:10-17.

Again, the rabbit hole runs deep.

What I’ll say about this for now is that Gege might be using these symbols to present Sukuna as a character that personifies a sense of self that is beyond logic and reason where...

Good = logic bound by reason, and

Evil = imagination free from reason.

I still haven’t made up my mind about it because Gege is being a bit inconsistent with symbols, so we’ll have to wait to confirm.

But in a nutshell, this feels like a murky exploration of the sense of self and where it stands in relation to the question of “good and evil” or as Blake calls it “the marriage of Heaven and Hell”.

So if Gege is using William Blake’s philosophy then... I can’t help but see Sukuna as a character who has become enlightened through becoming entangled in the trappings of ego. Which is a nice dichotomy to how enlightenment is thought to be about transcending and leaving behind ego attachments.

But not Sukuna. 

Sukuna is about experiencing the highest of highs and the lowest of lows of the human experience. 

Logic be damned.

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom”.

In other words, Sukuna strikes me as being about willingly and consciously embracing the suffering that is inherent to the human condition, and growing in strength because of it.

After all, you cannot know pleasure without first having known pain, and you cannot know pain if you have not known pleasure. In Blake’s words, "without contraries is no progression.”

Quick detour here to expand on these panels above... Explaining the sense of self is not easy.

What I can say right now is that the sense of self is the result of the ego-self negotiating with reality as it presents to you compared to your expectations and hopes for your reality.

In the words of Westworld’s Robert Ford:

"...the thing that led... to... awakening [is] suffering. The pain that the world is not as you want it to be.”

Similarly, Westworld’s Man in Black tells us that

“When you are suffering, that’s when you are most real.”

Which is another way of saying that there is strength and transformation to be found in suffering and that turning away from suffering is what weak minded people would do according to the gospel of Sukuna.

Or basically, when life hands you the lemons, you make margaritas with them although I highly recommend you use limes instead of lemons and might I also recommend Mezcal instead of Tequila for a nice smokey twist on everybody’s favorite Mexican cocktail.

Suffering is an inherent aspect of the human condition after all. You either develop the mental fortitude to keep moving forward, or, in Sukuna’s view, you remain weak, defeated by your fate. 

And what’s interesting here is that Yuji has a very infantile unwillingness to see suffering as an inherent aspect of human existence.

Or as Spooks reminds us all, it’s not just curses that cause suffering.

So to me, Sukuna’s philosophy is about overwhelming strength as a result of self-gratification. He is the kind of character who will put himself through hell for the sake of acquiring strength. 

This is where Jacob’s Ladder becomes relevant, because in Blake’s philosophy, the Angels who are “good”, could only see ego attachment (which is a metaphor for hell) as suffering. As such, they could not comprehend why anyone would put themselves through hell for the sake of self development.

In other words, Sukuna is an exploration on hedonism and all that can be considered sinful if only because the ego’s attachment to pleasure is at the root of suffering.

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom”.

A different execution of this trope is another one of my blorbos, Twelve, from Watanabe’s Terror in Resonance (Zankyou no Terror). 

Twelve is the kind of character who wants to have certain experiences and will, at the expense of his better judgment and other people, force certain experiences to happen just because he wants to have them. In fact, he doesn’t stop to think about consequences, he just acts for the sake of experiencing.

Whether these experiences cause pain and suffering or joy and happiness, does not matter. The point is to have the experience because the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

For those of us who are crazy enough to be romantically inclined, it’s like the experience of falling in love while fearing rejection, but still choosing love. 

Logic be damned.

But that’s just the thing, isn’t it? If you held back from the moments when you are invited to come alive every single time that you saw suffering in the horizon, would you cower from those experiences?

Or would you embrace them for the sake of self development?

Similarly, Sukuna who exists only for his own pleasure, is an example of how the ego is shaped and transformed through experience. 

In Sukuna’s case, experience can come in the shape of fights and women and whatever will satiate the appetite of an ego hungry for embodied experience... 

Hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure and sensual self-indulgence.

But I want to think that Sukuna also understands that you cannot forsake suffering, especially if you are in the pursuit of the better things that life has to offer. 

There isn’t one without the other after all.

If you want to be happy, you have to be willing to suffer for that happiness. 

You can’t know what wealth is unless you have known poverty. 

You can’t know great love unless you have known heartbreak.

"Without Contraries is no progression.”

To reject this principle of human existence is, in Sukuna’s gospel, to be weak, to be prey to those who will consume anything and everything that is standing in the way of their hungry, insatiable ego.

God I love Jujutsu Kaisen...

Splat

Well, that was two *splat* moments in one month and I have to admit they are both just as brutal.

Anyways. This was an interesting chapter from a translator’s pov because there were subtle messages that may or may not have gotten lost in translation. 

So just a heads up I kind of stuck to the fan translation for the most part for that very same reason.

Yuji and Megumi vs. Sukuna

Ok but to wrap things up... 

I love that Sukuna is always impressed by Megumi...

THAT’S MY BOY!!!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!

And I also love that Sukuna underestimates Yuji...

Yuji is by far one of my absolute favorite mcs in Shonen. He embodies the characteristics of your typical Shonen mc and then re-defines them in a way that is very uniquely Yuji.

Anyways, sigh of relief about Megumi. I can stop holding my breath FOR THE TIME BEING!!!!

It’s not that I don’t trust that Megumi has what it takes, the one I don’t trust is the cursed cat.

Can’t wait to see these two beautiful boys fight together. 

Happy Jujutsu Kaisen Sunday and thank you for joining me again this week in this hell pun intended of a roller coaster. 

[shinydixon]

https://open.spotify.com/track/2vrkbsds2V5BXyIEgqGfFA?si=7e77b9b73b504e19

kas!eddie returning to hawkins, ready to cause havoc

YES YES YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS

[ctommyisnt]

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS

[astridflies]

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS

[dreadsuitsamus]

we all get insecure about the noises we make during sex sometimes but i love that goku doesn’t give a single fuck he’s moaning whimpering whining begging, he just wants to nut there’s nothing else on his mind

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS he is so fucking noisy even with a simple handjob. do not attempt any sort of public sex with this guy bc you will be caught and arrested so fast lol

[whimsyalien]

Arts and crafts won........ hashtag BLESSED

[jezy]

yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES

[bunchofroses07]

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS MAAAAAAMMMMMM

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ... 🐚🌪♡.

[loverboybrightsideghost]

NO ONE'S DOING IT LIKE ME ✨🎻✨🎻✨🎻✨

[twigstarpikachutroll22]

cadmium orange

cadmium orange; what do you like to do on your days off?

Sleep late. Mess around on tumblr and YouTube. Watch cartoons. I mean, I do all that stuff (except sleeping late) on days I don't have off too, but I can do more of them on days off and feel less guilt for them. Also my mom and I visit my grandmother on Sundays.

[kookies2000]

*Someone asks what's Hunter's favorite thing about Willow.*

Zeno: Their friendship! 😁

Also Zeno:

Me:

Yeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss.

[thejosiebird]

FUCK! YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!

It’s happening!

https://x.com/thedragonprince/status/1787879043783901328?s=61&t=kHLNiljvrmgZdZk43ifg1w

[divetothefandom]

BEING TEASED BY HIS FAMILY IN FRONT OF HIS PARTNER | Samezuka

Rin:

Yesss... YES! YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!! Makoto’s my fave but... but Rin’s too good on this XD

Gou you queen leave him alone don’t, this is too funny:

Rin’s easy too fluster:

Just talk about how he used to be such a bright kid and he’s a gonner.

Or asking him of his poems

How he loves cats but they don’t like him

The weird intro he had as a kid

His obsession with the relay

How he’s actually super nice and the tough act is... just an act

The pillow fight incident

His 2nd year at the Maid Café from Hell

Gou just has so much material to annoy him

Rin has to deal with it because there’s nothing he can do from Australia

And he just loves his little sister too much to be mad at her

Sousuke:

He doesn’t have much family but we’ve seen how he gets along with his cousin and it gives me brother-like vibes, so I’ll go with that

Sousuke is a tough cookie but we’re not here to talk about that, I’m gonna tell you the cookie crumbles

Sousuke is a perfectionist

And we know he’s a good cook thanks to Kazuma 

So he’ll go on for hours about the silly mistakes Sousuke did in the kitchen when he was learning.

Or the fact this dumbass bought a zebra pattern jersey for a kitchen event.

Making Sousuke call him Kazu-nii (I really want to hear lil’suke calling him Kazu-nii-chan or something because that’d be adorable) in front of his partner will do a number on his pride.

“Oh, this kid, used to be crazy competitive with that little friend of his, Rin was it?“

Oh no. Do you know what time is it? It’s time for embarrassing Rin-Sousuke-Showdown stories!!!

Sousuke will not look at you the moment you let out the first laugh at any story

Sousuke? Oh he’s dead over there, what killed him? They reminded him that he had really dumb competitions with Rin

Can we get an F in the chat for out good Sousuke?

Nitori:

We only know his uncle but I’ll try to think of something

He’ll probably give him muscle proteins and regimens to improve his muscles right in from of his partner while he’s just begging for him to stop.

Momo:

Poor child

Seijuro will probably find them cute as well (but he’d never try to steal his little brother’s partner)

He comments on Momo’s bug collection and make him show you

He’s super nervous because not everyone likes them

He wants them to get along with Pyunsuke.

He’ll make a bunch of tests for him

But Momo isn’t the type to be embarrassed easily.

He’ll even claim that he’ll do it if his partner promises to watch him win the right to date them

“Momo... we’re already dating“

“I know, but I’ll prove you I’m worthy of you! So you watch me!“

If he fails he will sob in their arms apologzing

Later he’ll feel embarrassed that he went crazy and promise he’ll beat the next challenge

You’re probably more embarrassed than he is

Seijuro:

I couldn’t do Momo and exclude Seijuro, and also I couldn’t much for Nitori so… You win some you lose some.

Momo is a brat

He’ll whine that his older brother has the cutest partner ever.

He’s just gonna be his hyper self and Seijuro can’t help but play along

But after a while he’ll start getting a bit flustered because he doesn’t want to scare his partner

He’ll try to ask Momo to stop but Momo will insist that they always do this when they see each other

And finally you see Seijuro blushing

“Honey, don’t worry, I knew what I was getting into when we started dating“

And they can be the judge for their contest seeing Seijuro being a cool big brother.

Funny enough the fact that their partner enjoy seeing him spend time with Momo is more embarrassing than anything Momo could’ve done

IWATOBI | MASTERPOST

[junikshanasar]

bnha chapter 325 thoughts

If last chapter was blowing everything to smithereens, this one was just picking up the pieces to start building our next part of the story.

As usual, I’ll go through it~

Horikoshi just giving Mineta wholesome scenes because he knows we all hate him lol. Seriously speaking though, if this disaster has woken him up and gotten him to mature (which I’m sure it has for the entire class), I don’t mind standing behind him as a character.

Awww this was cute, the role reversal, and it ties nicely with the realization we have going on here with the people helping the heroes who help them. Kota is someone we know Midoriya has rescued personally, so seeing him come to tell Midoriya the same words that saved him is heartwarming.

Also, you can just see the recognition and pleasant bewilderment on Mido’s face, why are the expressions in the art so lovely-

This is so sweet tooooooooooooooo! why is this whole chapter so sweet

But oh man, we see glimpses of discrimination again, most notably against those with mutant quirks (˘･_･˘). It has been brought up before, and hopefully will be again because I found that we see more about discrimination on people with dangerous/unconventional quirks and are usually emitter or transformation. 

Mutant quirk discrimination has been more background until now: just hints of stuff, like how people are scared of Gang Orca, or how Spinner felt rejected for his appearance. I think there was a villain mad about how people hated him for his appearance in the second movie (?), but I haven’t seen it so I don’t really know.

IT’S OUR MAN, MIDO’S FIRST FAN!

that rhymed, nice.

But he puts what Ochako was saying in terms for these dumbfounded civvies to understand, and it’s kind of cool to hear this whole theatre analogy from him, as someone we’ve seen loves watching hero fights as though he were watching a movie (I reread the first chapter for last week’s chapter XD)

Ok but for real, what were these three doing inside UA? Like Shouto was with his classmates to bring back Mido, so what was he doing inside while the rest of his class was outside? I can only assume they were discussing the plans for Touya, considering this comment from Shouto and the Dabi flashback:

Ha ha he’s so cute dammit, I don’t know why but as soon as he showed up this guy became my favourite character. I’ve adopted him, he is my child

This takes Hawks’ attitude about being a hero and puts a wholesome spin on it. Hawks sorta has this lazy, unambitious mask (I don’t want to be Number 3, I wish I had more free time) which pretty much everyone knows is fake, but the notino of having ‘time to kill’ here is now less ‘lazy’, and shows that what he means is less crime, less hate, and more acceptance.

Also lol, Kaminari’s always been super brave man, and now lookit him, not even a bit scared of Bakugou anymore:

Bahahahaha I don’t think any of Class A really is, now. Actually, someone commented on the chapter that Bakugou is glaring at the jerk who was yelling about how sucky heroes are:

lollll, in any case the entire panel is wholesome in general. I’m glad All Might Shirt Guy came around, and Inko finally got to embrace Midoriya

Also!

Aizawa lives! Well obsvly, but we only saw a glimpse of his back earlier and I was starting to miss our favourite teacher

Yeeeeeeeeeeeesssssss I was wondering if they were just keeping Kurogiri locked up and hoping for Oboro to somehow emerge, but it’s nice they’ve already gotten started on trying to bring him and the Nomus back to the people they used to be!

I wonder if they’ll retain their memories or if it will be like waking up from a coma for them.

Totally did not consider this, but I’m glad the heroes did lol. I’m actually looking forward to seeing Toga again, she’s such a delightful character, and her story + conflict with Ochako is def not over yet.

Brooding All Might

I wonder what’s on his mind. I mean, obvsly the situation with Midoriya, but it also seems like he’s walking away from UA? He’s leaving right as Midoirya is arriving? Either he feels guilty for not being able to take care of Midoriya (which I feel isn’t exactly it), or there’s something he needs to take care of. 

Perhaps he’s initializing the first step of this ‘payback’? On the other hand, there’s not much he can actually do in his current state. Well he’s certainly off to do something, but I’m 90% sure it’s on his own. 

Yeah, I have a bad feeling.

[yaynotgaybutbi]

YES MICHAEL LORE

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS