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When Shoko said in the manga "I was there too" I actually fucking lost it because yes exactly she was there too but everybody acts like Satoru and Suguru were the only people that existed and like everything revolves around them. Like those people were her best friends but she wasn't their best friend, that shit hurts. She was so close to them but not close enough to actually be really seen.

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Choso vs internet

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Something about how Jason Todd’s core character trait is how he lost faith. He lost faith in Shiela, in Bruce, in the entire concept that someone else can care about him and actually have his best interests at heart.

Something about how Catholic priest Flashpoint Jason Todd is someone who has such intense faith, who trust so heavily in someone basically unprovable. Something about how without Bruce, without being Robin, it was his faith that was his core character trait.

Something about how being Robin and the life he was led into changed him in such a tragic and deep seeded way. I don’t know

#dc #batfam

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#mob psycho 100

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I miss mp100 and when mob would lose his filter and tell his opponents that they mean nothing to the world and are pathetic friendless LOSERS and say that with his whole heart like he MEANS that shit fr how is anyone supposed to recover from that

#mob psycho 100

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CRYING SOBBING THROWING UP

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day 167 | excerpt from ‘the worm king’s lullaby’ by richard siken [id in alt]

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I've always really loved how Geto's trauma has been portrayed. His weight loss is a small detail that I love even though it's sad and besides that his messy, unruly hair (even in scenes where he had his hair tied in a bun it still looked unkempt) and the way he didn't even wear his uniform properly anymore... :( These little details make his story so sad; he didn't have the motivation anymore to do even the simplest of things. This is something that is very important to show when you're portraying depression and trauma in media and Gege (and Mappa) did it perfectly.

For anime onlys this episode was really important. All they know about Geto is from the movie where he was an antagonist and it's important for them to know what exactly happened that made Geto become like that.

Geto was empathetic, kind, caring, and loving. But he's the one who suffered the most from being a jujutsu sorcerer. First of all, his cursed technique is the hardest both mentally and physically. It's literally described as “the taste of a cursed spirit no one knows... Like swallowing whole a cloth that was used to wipe up vomit”. Consuming people's negative emotions daily? It's understandable why Geto felt so shitty after doing it.

But after seeing people cheering at Riko's death, seeing his friends die protecting non-sorcerers, seeing a whole village of more than a hundred residents call on for the death of two little girls, it's very understandable why Geto just snapped. He undertook so much burden and pain, so much suffering and hardship, and all it resulted in was humans mistreating sorcerer's in such a horrible way.

That's when this quote comes: “it's just that in a world like this, I couldn't laugh from the bottom of my heart”. He couldn't live in a world where he and other jujutsu sorcerers were treated in such a way. And that's how he started away from his ideals.

I really hope I don't have to see anime onlys blindly hate on him anymore now that his full story and trauma is in front of them.

Geto Suguru I love and appreciate you so much :(

#jujutsu kaisen

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My heart aches omg so in the movie this break up scene was shown from Gojo's point of view which is why the overall atmosphere was very dark there. In today's episode this scene was shown how it actually took place; it was a sunny and bright day. But Gojo remembers it very gloomily. Also, in the episode we can the faces of the bystanders but in the movie we couldn't. This shows how for Gojo absolutely nothing mattered except Geto. He couldn't even comprehend anything else in that moment besides him.

Mappa did an incredible job showing this scene in two ways. It adds so much more depth to the characters and makes it even more sad.

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#mob psycho 100

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Now that Buddy Daddies is finished, I’m gonna say it: SPOILERS!

Buddy Daddies really is for the aces, aros, queerplatonic partners, and platonic life partners out there. 

I know, 100%  that there are going to be some people out there that are going to say, “See! It really was just queerbait all along” or some who are going to bemoan the fact that there were no declarations of romantic love or kiss or whatever. I’m sure this part right here:

Miri: “Didn’t you slip out yesterday to go drinking with a girl again?” 

Caused some frowns and I do get it. Because of this, the queerbait and Kazuki and Rei are just friends dialogue will continue and follow the series around. But, this episode has made it clear that Kazuki and Rei love not only Miri, but each other as well.

They are a work partners (相棒 - aibou)

They are partners raising a child together. (相方 - aikata).

They’ve moved (I’m pretty sure their diner is in Okinawa for reasons I’ll get to in another post), they’ve opened a business together, one which has a part of Kazuki’s last name in it (来栖 - Kurusu is his last name, the 栖 (su) part of his name means “nest.”), and Rei’s words to his father: Miri, Kazuki, and I share a bond stronger than blood. 

They are a family. They love each other.

Of course, friends can be a part of a family. Friends can love each other, but there are also reasons why people who are in situations like co-parenting, queerplatonic relationships, platonic life partnerships, and etc. don’t refer to their bonds as friendships and the people they are co-parenting or in a partnership with as their friends, but as words that give some space for those grey areas in-between.

Friendships are strong, deep, and beautiful. Platonic love is love and is powerful.

But, there are definitely still different sets of expectations and boundaries that come with friendships vs. other relationship dynamics. 

Kazuki and Rei’s situation falls outside of the usual friendship expectations and boundaries and sits somewhere between that, family and partnership.

I know this topic has been talked to death about. But, I felt like I needed to write about and address it one final time since Buddy Daddies has come to an end (though, who knows about a potential Daughter Daddies!) Especially after Miri’s line to Kazuki. (I feel I could also go into open relationship dynamics, polyamorous relationships, and etc. but that feels like it would be derailing). 

Basically, I just wanted to get one final post out on this. I was very pleased with this ending episode. It made my heart so happy and warm, and I know I’ve said it before, but this series really speaks to me as someone who is aroace. Aroace characters and our relationship dynamics have basically no rep, so even if this series wasn’t intended to be written with a queerplatonic relationship dynamic in mind, they ended up writing a beautiful depiction of one that makes me and what I would want from a relationship of some kind, finally feel seen.

#buddy daddies

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#mob psycho 100

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JJK Season 2 - SSS Trio ♡

MANGA | ANIME

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Something silly before the anime gets ... fun 🙃

Based off of this:

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the difference between geto and nanami is that nanami’s sense of self-preservation triumphs over whatever aspirations he may have had for the jujutsu system.

geto based his motivations on something greater than himself, working towards the liberation of all jujutsu sorcerers. nanami, however, left jujutsu society upon graduating, walking out with a jaded outlook on life—one of the many reasons why he eventually returned is that he didn’t want another repeat of haibara to happen; he didn’t want to see any more young sorcerers abandoning their youth only to ultimately die.

geto is fully aware that his end-goal is impossible for anyone but gojo. his defection served as a statement to all sorcerers that he’d rather die trying to make a “better world” than stay complicit in a system that preys on the very thing it needs to sustain itself. he valued his end-goal more than the means to reach it, as evidently seen by the way he declared war on the school and unleashed all his curses in tokyo and kyoto at the expense of the very sorcerers he advocated for, all with the greater good in mind.

nanami did not care about becoming this hyper-visible agent of change like geto did. in spite of his general pessimism, he was still attentive towards his fellow sorcerers on a much smaller-scale, treating them with concern and compassion. this particular trait of his is most notably seen by the way he mentors yuuji.

while they both recognize that jujutsu society’s system desperately needs to change, geto’s approach to “rehabilitation” is collective-based (“nipping the problem in the bud”), whereas nanami’s approach is more individual-based (“treating the symptoms”).

geto’s grandiose righteousness and nanami’s practical empathy—the fundamental difference lies within their core motivations as characters.

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ED ANALYSIS

Two fishes to represent Satoru and Suguru obviously, both of them are chilling in circles harmoniously in the water.

Suguru's fish goes dark after a ripple, a disturbance and then they go their separate ways. I searched it up and they are both Betta splendens and betta splendens turn black due to poor water conditions and stress, and Suguru was in a bad mental state after the Hidden Inventory Arc. I know this may seem overreaching this but I believe the ripple represents the Hidden Inventory Arc disturbing them, and causing Suguru leaving.

In the background Riko's classmate is erasing the wall behind her, that seems to mean to erasing Riko’s identity.

We can see here that Riko is about to leave but she looks back.

This is an orange osmanthus, in most posts I have seen they usually say the flower represents true love, however most osmanthus flowers bloom in white. These flowers symbolize true love, faithfulness, fertility, nobility, and peace. They are talking about white osmanthus flowers not the orange ones. Orange osmanthus flowers may also symbolize joy, serenity, and optimism.

Our favorite orange flowers are immediately followed by red spider lilies, and everybody knows what they mean by now. So in the order of which the 2 flowers are shown, that is also how the season started SatoSugu being idiots (orange flowers) and then all hell breaking loose (spider lilies).

Satoru is looking at Sugu's fish, he can't take his eyes away from him.

These are hydrangeas, in Japanese culture, they are associated with heartfelt emotion, gratitude and apology. These are pink hydrangeas. Pink hydrangeas are the most romantic of them all as they symbolize love and sincere emotions. So love is in the air.

Suguru closes his eyes as Satoru the fish is passing through, he can't bear to look at Satoru the fish.

Satoru here is shown looking down but his background is the top of buildings

In contrast to Sugu here who is at the bottom. I find that very interesting but I can't figure out the meaning behind this.

Shoko and Satoru is on one side and the rest is on the other side (Nanamin, Haibara, and most importantly Sugu) as a manga reader this hurt me when I saw it. Sugu and co. died, Shoko and Satoru lived.

just hold hands already hgfvhyhu66trfghy

gotta love Sugu's finger lmao

Two shadows, one is Sugu's, the other is Satoru's. One shadow is lower than the other. Guess which.

Sugu's going the dark path, Satoru's going into the light, and Shoko's way has some darkness but she still is in the light. So I will take it as referencing her sad adulthood. (She didn't even have eyebags yet.)

This is Satoru, he now has finally met up with Sugu. Now from Sugu's perspective, he is smiling stupidly, in our pov he is smiling wholesomely. Perspective matters.

Satoru the fish is on Sugu's side and Sugu's fish is on Satoru's side. very similar to this:

And that is all

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One thing about SatoSugu that I just can't recover from is that, in his moment of doubt, Gojo asked Geto for help ("Should we just kill them all?"), and Geto said exactly what Gojo needed to hear. But when Geto was facing his own doubts, he couldn’t ask for help. Not only Gojo was away a lot, but Geto probably felt like he couldn’t, even when he was around. Geto was always the one being compassionate and righteous, so it must have been agonizing to feel himself falter. And people who always help others can have such a hard time asking for help themselves. At first, maybe he even thought he was protecting Gojo by keeping to himself. He probably didn’t want to be a burden when Gojo was busy becoming the strongest. In the end, Gojo didn’t get an actual chance to help him (”The only ones I can  save are those who are ready to be saved by another”) The aloneness of Geto or the guilt Gojo must have felt. I don't know which hurts more.

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