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#me #avrii things

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saw the reddit post about this dude and im going insane. like what world are we living in

I've spent an hour scouring this guy's blog and there's ALWAYS something else omfg. My brain is mush but I cans stop the tea is just so SCALDING

#avrii things

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i cannot stand the fact adap Chishiya is a Hearts player, sowz. it's clear to me the adap writers completely misunderstood what makes someone a Hearts player in the first place and ran with it.

Chishiya can read others emotions to some extent, sure, but not in-depth enough to sympathize.

you wanna know why Chishiya (and Niragi) are Diamonds players? because they don't care enough to truly understand the hearts of others. they manipulate situations, not (usually) out of desperation, but because it's all they know. they lack a genuine understanding with others.

(adap) Arisu being a Diamonds player also completely misses the point: Arisu is so similar to Chishiya and Niragi that if, at any point prior to the Borderlands, he had one more thing go wrong, he could've ended up like the two of them; but he didn't because he refused to be like that.

Arisu is a Hearts player because he's both smarter than he gives himself credit for, and emotionally mature enough to take to heart (wink wink) the emotions of others and actively put himself in their shoes to get through a game.

that last reason is why Matsushita Enji is such a lousey Hearts player, because, like Chishiya and Niragi, he isn't emotionally mature enough to truly be good at Hearts. he has great setups, sure, but he's too proud to acknowledge other players and their inteligence, which is why he was ultimately defeated by Yaba and Banda.

Yaba and Banda both come from backgrounds where they need to read others to some extent: Yaba, a CEO who climbed the corporate ladder by reading others and using those emotions to his advantage (as we saw happen with Arisu when he was confronted by the militants), and Banda, a misogynistic murderer who got into the houses of women he killed, needed to be agile enough to get them to trust him by manipulating the situation in his favor, all while keeping in mind the emotions of those he killed.

Hearts games are not won by sheer manipulation, as we saw with Enji and Urumi; there needs to be a level of connection with others if you want to survive, which is also why Mitsurugi's defeat was so upsetting; ideally, he did everything right, but ultimately was a bit too confident in his plan and thus, refused to acknowledge the power the other players had. he was too good of a person.

Mira is a bit of an outlier, not because she was bad at the games or anything, but because she's the perfect mix of both understanding and master manipulator; if she went up against any other player in the Borderlands, they would easily lose. Arisu almost lost too, but as we've established, Hearts games are built off connections with others and Usagi was needed in order to make it.

I'm sure Mira was well-aware of that fact, especially with Arisu, but her ulimate failure was the same as Mitsurugi's: she ended up downplaying the connection between him and Usagi. Hearts games need love, level-headedness, mild manipulation, and an open mind if you intend to win.

going back to my main point, that's why Chishiya either avoids Hearts games all together, manipulates people during them, or turns to violence; he lacks the emotional maturity and agency to clear one the way they are meant to be cleared, why Arisu is a much better Hearts player than Chishiya will ever be, and why the adap writers completely misunderstood that point.

#was listening to my aib playlists and started thinkin #i hope this all makes sense and that i didnt miss anything #i need to reread the manga and rewatch the show again LMAO #i had the urge the other night to watch the show but then i remembered we dont have netflix... #sighs deeply #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #imawa no kuni no alice #chishiya shuntaro #shuntaro chishiya #arisu ryohei #ryohei arisu #kano mira #mira kano #yaba ouki #ouki yaba #banda suntao #suntao banda #matsushita enji #enji matsushita #aramaki urumi #urumi aramaki #mitsurugi eiji #eiji mitsurugi #OMG STOP I FORGOT TO BRING UP DOUDOU... #hes a good hearts player for the same rzn as Arisu but if i add that now #it'd ruin the whole flow of the post oopsies my bad

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Asahi and Momoka are so butchfemme omg

#queerplatonic butchfemme #or romantic butchfemme #idgaf bc theyre both lesbians!!!!! #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #imawa no kuni no alice #kujo asahi #asahi kujo #inoue momoka #momoka inoue #my wifi went off as i was typing this so either God is that big of a fan or He hates it

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#theyre so funny when they arent fighting #breaking bad

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"we need more complex female characters!!" yall couldnt even handle THEM

#biggest Heiya and Shibuki defender until i die #or am shipped off to a convent #whichever comes first #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #imawa no kuni no alice #heiya akane #akane heiya #shibuki saori #saori shibuki

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most girlies on tiktok dont know how she felt either and i fear saying "a man will never know how she felt" wont change that😭

I love the smiths but how could a man ever know how joan of arc felt

#not a callout on you op #i just get very defensive over her #bc how could i not shes literally the reason im Catholic now #St. Joan pray for us #joan of arc #st joan of arc #saint joan of arc #jehanne d'arc #jeanne d'arc #jeanne romée #jeannette d'arc #jeannette romée

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this song is so Arisucore idgaf

#esp during the shootout more ppl need to talk about it the way i do #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #arisu ryohei #ryohei arisu

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you dont have to agree with my "Niragi raised Catholic/religious trauma" hc but you have to admit that the symbolism is insane

the Borderlands being purgatory and hes burned while in purgatory?? like the Catholic idea of it where, if you die in veinal sin, youre sent to purgatory to have your sins cleansed via fire?? thats crazy to me sorry

#keep in mind i am a practicing Catholic #(getting confirmed next month!!) #so i adore Catholic symbolism so much and will do everything in my power to point it out #i could go on and on abt my An and Niragi Catholic hcs bc im just #IT'S SO GOOD ALWAYS #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #niragi suguru #suguru niragi

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03/22/2024

Judas bein' kinda... ඞ

(As usual, no cartoon on next week on Good Friday. Tomics will be back on Easter Sunday!)

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: In the Bible, Judas decides to betray God (been there, amirite?) and leads a group of Jewish soldiers to arrest Jesus.  He proposes they lie in wait for the right moment, when he -- Judas -- kisses Jesus in the garden to show them Who to arrest.  The kiss is perfectly ironic, because it's a wholesome symbol of friendship being used as the signal for betrayal.  CLASSIC!  In this cartoon, however, we see the planning phase of Judas's big moment.  Maybe it didn't seem as smooth and Shakespearian to the guards who just wanted to get it over with.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Huhuhu.  You thought you'd get through Lent without one more "Tomics Resurrection" (where I take an old comic from my first few years of Tomics and reinvigorate it with MODERN TECHNIQUE and CUTTING EDGE STYLE)?  Of course you did, FOOL that you are.  Gaze upon the evidence of your FOOLISHNESS, Fool.  Hmm?  A question?  Then speak, Fool, if you can.  Hmm?!  You ask, "In the original, Judas had a full beard, so where did that go in the update?"  Well, I read somewhere in my ancient youth that Eastern icons are split on depicting Judas as one of the younger or older apostles, and so I gave him a patchy pseudo-beard to place him between his bearded and beardless friends in my comics.  Hmm??!  Another question, you say?  You ask, "What about those Roman soldiers?  Where did they go in the update?"  HA!  Simple.  They were all TURNED INTO JEWS BY A WITCH to be more accurate to the modern scholarly consensus that it was probably just Jewish soldiers that arrested Jesus in the garden.  Any more FOOLISH questions, FOOL?!  One more?  Proceed.  Hmm?!?!  You DARE ask, "How are you today?"  FOOL!  Now your FOOLISHNESS is surely at its zenith.  You DARE to fool with ME?  FOOL!!!  I shall only entertain such impudence out of PITY and answer... "'S'all cool, fool."

#this reminds me of a post I saw a while back on here #it was like: #I always thought the church didn’t like gay ppl bc Judas kissed Jesus and it didn’t go well that time #makes me giggle every time I think about it #catholic #christian

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“A Palestinian girl in a Betty Boop shirt watches as Israeli border guards keep watch as Palestinians attend the third friday prayer of Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan outside the Ibrahimi mosque.”

August 19th, 2011. Hebron, West Bank

#I’ll never understand how people can be so cruel #especially toward children #may God grant that girl (and all other children) a free and safe Palestine #palestine

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the long awaited part 2

making aib picrews (w my hcs) is my new hobby

(also you cant see it, but i gave Arisu, Enji and Chishiya top surgery scars😇)

#i made up the “long awaited” part #i just enjoy picrews #growing up i was never a dressup kinda girl #(i was more into “boyish” games on friv and kizi) #so im making up for lost time #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #usagi yuzuha #arisu ryohei #kuina hikari #niragi suguru #chishiya shuntaro #tatta kodai #karube daikichi #shibuki saori #segawa chota

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do i think these aib characters are bilangual? an important post

Arisu: no. he took an English class for a trimester and dropped out almost immediately.

Karube: kind of. he can speak some Spanish bc his grandma is Mexican and he visited her while growing up.

Chota: no. same reason as Arisu.

Shibuki: no. same reason as Arisu and Chota.

Usagi: no. she's thought about learning Spanish though.

Chishiya: yes. fluent in both Japanese and French, dabbled in Italian, (Spaniard) Spanish, and English, but never got around to actually learning them.

Niragi: no. he can understand general Latin though.

Kuina: no. if someone was willing to teach her English she'd happily learn it.

Aguni: yes. Japanese and (Latin) Spanish.

Ann: yes. Japanese, Chinese, and Hmong.

Mahiru: yes. English, Tagalog, and Japanese. some Chinese, too.

Hatter: no. he knows a few words in almost every major language but will never commit to actually learning them.

Mira: surprisingly no. she hasnt had any reason to.

Kuzuryū: yes. (canonically) English, Japanese, and (non canonically) Mandrin.

Kyuuma: kind of. in the process of learning English. probably learned some from his bf (Kuzuryū)

Shiirabi: yes.

Enji: no. he dgaf

Heiya: no. she knows a few slang words in English and that's about it.

Doudou: no. for the same reason as Arisu, Chota, and Shibuki.

Mitsurugi: yes. English and Japanese.

Urumi: yes. Mandrin and Japanese.

Kariya: no.

Ippei: no. see Arisu, Chota, Doudou, and Shibuki.

#lmk if i forgot anyone important #i dont think i have though but still!! #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #chishiya shuntaro #heiya akane #arisu ryohei #niragi suguru #usagi yuzuha #doudou hayato #mahiru yuji #rizuna ann #segawa chota #karube daikichi #shibuki saori #kuina hikari #aguni morizono #danma takeru #kano mira #kuzuryu keiichi #kyuma ginji #shiirabi isao #an rizuna #matsushita enji #karyia kunio #mitsurugi eiji #ippei oki #aramaki urumi

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"I owe a debt to the me that survived that day. I'm here because of what she did. So I'll survive, no matter what the cost. I'm never gonna take the easy way out. I have to keep living."

#HEIYA YOU ARE SO SPECIAL TO ME #IF HEIYA HAS NO FANS I AM DEAD #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #heiya akane #akane heiya

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an ongoing series of Alice shitposts I’ve drawn

#I need to fix Aguni’s…everything… on the last one but I’m too lazy rn #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #chishiya shuntaro #shuntaro chishiya #kuina hikari #hikari kuina #kano mira #mira kano #kuzuryu keiichi #keiichi kuzuryu #kyuma ginji #shiirabi isao #isao shiirabi #matsushita enji #aguni morizono #morizono aguni #niragi suguru #suguru niragi #last boss #takatora samura

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Mira throwing away her parasol before the K♡ which symbolizes her becoming more of her authentic self and also foreshadowing for when she disguises herself as a player during the Beach arc

#you guys. #i love her #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice #kano mira #mira kano

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who tf is Song Kang and why tf is he clogging up the aib tags. no one gaf get out of heres hes not even in the damn show

#“hes in sweet home!!” #okay but is that alice in borderland?? #no i dont think so #get him out of here #literally no one cares #alice in borderland #ima wa no kuni no alice