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This isn't the usual type of post here, but I cannot tell you how much this result delighted me.

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Hey Ellie! I hope you’re doing good! May I please request sfw prompts #39 and #13 with Vegeta? I got hit with the mood of wanting something soft with Vegeta out of nowhere.

Slow | Vegeta x Reader |

#13- "I didn't think it was possible to love someone this much."

#39- "Why are you scared of loving?"

author's note: something soft with vegeta? sign me the hell up 🫡🫡 this is also (i believe) the second to last request i have remaining from the prompt lists requests, since i lost the lists 🫠

pairing: vegeta x fem!reader

warnings: brief mentions of canon typical violence and death, no dialogue

Stargazing with Vegeta wasn't a new pastime of yours, but it's always somehow felt so special to sit with your prince in the darkened silence, watching the twinkles above you with no one around to interrupt. It's been a long time of this, with plenty lost along the way, but time and time again you've proven your strength to match up to his and that's why you've remained his second for so long.

You find that your eyes keep slipping to look at him rather than the dipper before you, however.

Oh, how he's changed after all this time. He used to be horrific, cruel even for a Saiyan. He was even unbothered by Frieza's annihilation of your home planet! And now he's at ease, though not without an occasional princely tantrum every now and then. Having his ass absolutely handed to him on Earth ended up yielding results you never could have seen coming; perhaps his death on Namek played the biggest role in his changing ways.

Though it was temporary and will continue to be should he perish again, you'll never quite recover from the scars his death left on you.

Vegeta shifts just a tad, his arm brushing against yours as you both lean on the large rock. It's wide and tall, slanted and perfect for gazing at the stars or clouds alike. It's as if destiny curated this spot just for you and your Prince of all Saiyans— you've never once seen or sensed another soul here.

Goosebumps cover your skin at the vague touch. He's attractive, no doubt, and you've seen him damn near naked more than once and vice versa, but the proximity is a thousand times more intimate and only ever occurs here. Any other time, without this setting, you and Vegeta are both highly prone to distance from the world and each other.

You're certainly best friends, having lived through what feels like three separate lifetimes together. And at one point, it seemed this barrier had the potential to lift. Post-Namek, things were… Gentler. Vegeta had hugged you for the first time, and you remember it more fondly than you'd like to.

There's a solid few taps on the door to the bedroom Bulma's given you, and you don't need to recognize the strength behind it to know it's Vegeta. It's late, well past midnight even, and perhaps he's also finding it hard to sleep on the too-soft bed. You can hardly stand to even sit on it, though you've been seated at the end of it ever since the shower you took in the extravagant bathroom connected to your new bedroom.

"Come in."

He enters quietly, not even a word spoken as he crosses the room to join you. The bed dips as he takes his place to your left, and together you stare at the carpet. This place is much different from Planet Vegeta, of which your memories hold an unfavorable fog, or any Frieza Station. There's no tyrant to obey, no missions to fulfill… The world is yours to claim on terms you get to create, for the first time in your thirty years of life.

Will you and Vegeta have those same terms, though? Or for the first time in both of your lives, will you navigate entirely alone?

Vegeta's arm moves around your shoulders, tugging you close enough for him to rest his cheek atop your head, and your lips curl just a bit for the first time in quite a while.

A breeze rolls through and you shiver despite your hot-blooded Saiyan nature. Unbothered by the chill himself, Vegeta tugs off the jacket he's wearing and drapes it over your shoulders. Wearing a small smile, you give his arm a gentle pat.

You find it difficult to believe the man before you is the man you once knew— though he can probably say the same about you. You were his favorite warrior, slitting throats and tearing things apart with your bare hands right alongside him, and now you care for the son he had out of wedlock with Bulma as if the boy was your own.

Vegeta being a father in itself has been hard to believe at times. But just as he's grown as a man, his fatherhood journey has been complex and constantly changing too. In the beginning he chose not to acknowledge the child at all, not until you swiftly nipped it in the bud at least, though one thing you absolutely could not (and wouldn't dream of attempting to) change was his lack of commitment to Bulma herself. Truthfully, it's probably for the best that they co-parent rather than cohabitate as husband and wife.

She's got it all, though. Money, beauty and fame, his firstborn child even. Why he hesitates, you may just never know.

Looking away from the sky and in the face of the man that's already looking at you, his normally sharp features softer than usual and illuminated by the stars and dwindling fire you lit hours ago. You're left to simply stare and wonder as far as your mind can take you.

Why are you scared of loving, Prince? You think to yourself as Vegeta's knuckles brush against you lightly in his effort to adjust his jacket over you properly.

To himself, Vegeta muses something he may never gain the ability to say aloud.

I didn't think it was possible to love someone this much.

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She’s so real

(Sex and The City, season 4 episode 6)

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I saw @crysuzumushi asking about the TBtP flashback's squad 9 jackets, and the kanji on them, and I gave a brief answer (although @bleachbleachbleach beat me to the punch *shakes vindictive fist*) but I figured I'd post a little more at length about this here, because it's a cool detail... Although I think I've covered most of this in some old Bleach post from a while back...

六車九番隊

Muguruma[六車] is obviously just Kensei's surname, but it's made up of the kanji for Mu[六]:"Six" and Kuruma[車]:"Car" which is technically an old pre-automobile ideogram of a wagon, but was adapted to be the word for "car"/"automobile" upon their invention and introduction into China and Japan.

[九] is just the number "Nine" and then [番] denotes a number in a series,

and [隊] is of course the same kanji used in Gotei 13[護廷十三隊]: "Safeguard, Imperial Court, 13, Squad(s)"

So it just reads "Muguruma(6 Car) No.9 Squad." It's also the decidedly less sexy explanation for his "69" tattoo.

But what's actually more important than the words themselves is the style evoked here. This is pretty clearly, for those who would recognize it, a Bousozoku[暴走族] aesthetic.

The term is made up of [暴]:"Violent"/"Wild"/"Crude" and as a consequence can also directly refer to "delinquency," [走]: "running"/"racing," and [族]: an archaic word for "tribe" and consequently a colloquial term for a "gang." I often see this translated into English as "Run Wild Tribe" or "Violent Running Tribe" which are both technically accurate, but I feel they miss some of the nuance.

The specific tie between bousouzoku and the 1980s comes from the Japanese car boom. As Japan rocketed onto the world stage as an automotive manufacturer, cheap car and motorcycle parts became available right along with a growing call for automotive industry labor, as well as increasingly poor work conditions and fast rotation of layoffs. This meant a lot of factory towns became hotbeds for these kinds of biker gangs.

And I should note, they're often called "biker" gangs, but technically they often included cars as well. The only point was that they were loud and disruptive, often elaborately decorating their cars and bikes to be as garish and noise making as possible. This also includes removing mufflers as a pretty standard practice, and if you've ever heard an unmuffled exhaust pipe running then imagine a dozen or more of those coming down your street in the middle of the evening.

You used to see a lot more of this in anime during that time, and subsequently lingering into the 90s, but they started to fade from pop culture in the 00s. Similar to the classic banchou, yankii, and tsupari character types, they actually persisted in anime for quite a while after they'd more or less vanished from the real world. But in a lot of ways those romantic popculture images also served to influence the real world in return.

Keeping in mind that, because of the monolithic role of the yakuza in Japan's organized crime scene, bousouzoku have always been very distinctly a youth culture phenomena; effectively any biker who implicitly ages out of the biker scene either has to develop a normal life with a real job, or throws in with more serious organized crime.

Anyway, the jackets in particular evoke a distinctive style of old 80s Japanese biker gangs that tended to involve a jumpsuit (repurposed from factory labor) combat boots, and often the long tail jackets with text embroidered. The long white coat somehow became kind of the classic look, but there wasn't any specific meaning to it; plenty were black, or blue, or even bright colors like orange, red, or purple.

Anyway... the point I'm getting at with all this random context is that when Kubo made the very deliberate choice to put those jackets on the 9th Squad's seated officers in the flashback it was to indicate pretty explicitly that Muguruma runs his squad like a biker gang. (This bousouzoku motif is in turn why his hollow form looks so mechanical, with slats like vents or a set of tail lights for face, and big pipes or pistons sticking out of his back and arms)

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Nice consequences, did your actions pick them out for you ?

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idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

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ichigo is a good boy, and when he went to retrieve kūgo from the soul society my appreciation and love for him increased tenfold

#ellie.talks #i have been a lot more emotional over the lost agent arc this second time around

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kensei saving shūhei and taking down the hollow is such a strong scene for him, i have a lot of complaints about how the vizard were handled and sidelined despite being some of the most interesting characters in the series (or at least with the most potential) but goodness i love turn back the pendulum. kensei really got to shine and we got to see him in his captain role and i wish so badly there was more of it. he's intelligent, strong, and even though he wasn't very good at it, he had the warmth in his heart to try and comfort shūhei. he's a good man and captain and i love him with all my heart

#ellie.talks #i cannot stop loving tbtp #it gave me kensei and no matter how many times i rewatch his scenes i feel so happy #kensei muguruma

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toji stink man

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toji

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Double cake 🍰

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Spend most of your life ruled by another...watch your race dwindle to a handful...and then, tell me what has more meaning than your own strength.

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i love when people like my kūgo thirst posts. makes me feel seen 🩷

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