#also I'm sure I've said this before

[meownotgood]

Can I ask what your ✨Aki journey✨ was like? I’m a Aki girlie but you clearly love Aki more than any blog I’ve ever seen (purrr) When did you start becoming interested in him? Was it an aHA moment or did it develop over time? I’m really curious!!! What inspired you to start this blog? I live, laugh, love backstories 🫶🏾❤️‍🔥

YES I would be so happy to answer this!!!!!!!

so before I read chainsaw man, I knew next to nothing about it, I wasn't really a manga reader in general to be honest but I started getting into it because I wanted to get caught up with jujutsu kaisen after finishing the anime. when I did, I really enjoyed jjk, I wanted to read more manga and a friend suggested I read chainsaw man because it's similar. I was like okay... a lot of people are into it... it looks cool... why not.

and when I started reading and I got to that third chapter and I saw aki... I literally said to myself: yeah, he is going to be my favorite. because he's exactly my type — the suit, the hair tied up so it's long and pretty when he takes it down, the SMOKING??? THE PIERCINGS????? I thought his hair was silly but adorable, his personality was stern but quirky and likable, his kon power was so cool. he was just so cute and hot and definitely my type of character.

but really, even though aki was always my favorite character from the start, my obsession truly began when I finished the manga. aki's arc is just so good... I fell in love with him the whole way through but especially after the manga was over... I loved watching him grow as a character, he just feels so real and relatable personality wise and story wise. he's immensely flawed but kindhearted to his core. he's so human. I love how he's emotional and soft and the conclusion to his arc is genuinely my favorite thing in any piece of media ever, it's so bittersweet and compelling. (and I'm a mess for that bittersweet shit okay)

anyway after I read chainsaw man for the first time I was feeling a mix of emotions between "wow that was the greatest thing ever" and "what the fuck did I just read" but more than anything I yearned for more aki, and so I read it a second time almost immediately after, and then the aki brain infection just grew worse and worse.... was screenshotting every panel of him... I read it a third time... a fourth time in the colored version to collect more panels......... I started my blog over a year ago to post fanfic and rant about aki and the rest is history

#I love this question #I also think it's important to say #albeit it's a bit silly #when I read chainsaw man I was going through a pretty hard time in my life #I'd gone through a bad breakup and I felt very lost #I was reading a lot of manga because I needed something to do to get my mind off things #I think that's part of the reason why I got attached to aki so quickly... #but he means a lot to me because of that #aki helped me to become myself again #also I'm sure I've said this before #but I started writing fanfic because I'd read all the fanfic of aki and #I still needed more #I thought it would be fun bc I always enjoyed writing but it'd been years since I did #suddenly on a random night at 3 in the morning I was like #you know what... I can't sleep... I know how to write... I can make my own aki content... let's do it #and I wrote that first fic like there was no tomorrow #(don't read it btw it sucked BAHAHA) #I posted it on ao3 for fun expecting no one to care but when just a handful of people read it and said they liked it I was overjoyed #I'm grateful I started writing again... I'm glad I get to do what I love and write about what makes me happy #and people actually enjoy it?? THAT'S CRAZY #sorry for ranting too much #can't wait to see where this journey will continue to take me #ask mags

[witchoverlord]

No, but: in the trailer we barely see Aziraphale, and when we do, he's just slightly turned or hunched over on something, so we don't really see his face, AND THEN suddenly he looks straight into the camera (preferably at Crowley too) and we're hit with the image of two of the most disturbing purple eyes in the world. Just imagen how gut-wrenching this could be… It would be so much fun. It would do irreversible damage to my mental health. I NEED IT.

#by god i would never recover from this #but then again i've never recoverd from good omens either soo #had this been said a thousand times before? #i'm pretty sure yeah #had i also needed to say it? #also yes because i'm absolutley right you know it #good omens #good omens s3 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #archangel aziraphale

[gummi-ships]

#kingdom hearts 2 #kh2 #sora #riku #xemnas #my gif #flashing #this fight is everything i hope we can team up with riku again for another boss fight #i'm sure i've said it before but having riku join your party was always THE major highlight of this game for me #it's been how many years and it still makes me feel just as excited and amazed as the first time i experienced it #riku is just that powerful... #anyways the way the heel of xemnas's boot hits sora's wrist making him drop the keyblade. ouch #also it's just cool to see riku wield kingdom key in any way #i never see this sequence when playing normally but from time to time i'll trigger it so that i can watch it

[tvckerwash]

wash tormenting the reds in the most petty ways possible because he's still pissed off about them hitting him with a car and then blowing him up in s8 is so important to me you don't even understand

#I'm pretty sure I've said it on my old blog before but wash is the blues older brother but to the reds? he's the neighborhood bully lmao #that scene in s13 where wash gets all the chorus soldiers to turn on grif for refusing to attend the training sessions? 100% an act of #calculated cruelty on wash's part lmao #oh oh or in s11 when wash hooked up blue base to the ships power but not the reds? also calculated lol #wash stealing all of their stuff in s10 will also always be a fav petty wash moment of mine #he is out to make them suffer and they're not even aware of it lol #rvb #agent washington #mine #not t/oaru #if i ever write my ct lives au fic I'm going so hard on petty grudge holding wash #he is an absolute menace but he's so lowkey about it that in universe trying to convince ppl that wash is as petty as he is #is nearly impossible #the only ppl aware of wash's true nature are the counselor the director ct alpha and probably maine (and maybe florida) #everyone else sees him in a similar light as his fanon characterization #that's part of the reason why i think lina was so shock in s10 when he turned his gun on her bc to her wash was always so subordinate that #she just genuinely never saw it coming #anyway wash/ct/maine friendship is so important to me. i like to include south in there too sometimes but honestly south comes off as a #loner type. like she doesn't mind ppl but no one except north is really willing to tolerate her uh....personality for long periods of time #shes very....reactive and emotionally charged #but tbh id be that way too if i was stuck with north #north unironically reminds me of my dad but not in the good way lol #god my tags are all over the place #audhd brain goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

submissive and beheadable *kneels down at the chopping block and looks up at you so sweetly* x

for the prompt 'quest' in @mortiscausa's March to Camelot

#I'm actually doing the thing that I said I would do! suck it adhd #I'm sure that literally everyone is going to do gawain and the green knight for this one. but at least I'm one of the first #also I've never done one of these colour palette challenges before so idk if you're 'allowed' to blend colours #but i literally can't not blend colours. I love unblended art styles but it could never be me #i mean.. ive also never really done any digital art. not for like 7 years at least #march to camelot #my art #< woo i can have a tag for that now #gawain and the green knight #gawain #gwaine #bbc gwaine #< this is technically based on eoin macken but take it for what it is #arthurian legend #arthuriana art #the green knight

[echofades]

LOIS & CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN SEASON 4 (pt 1)

#lois and clark #the new adventures of superman #lois x clark #loisandclarkedit #tvedit #photoset #I simply could not narrow down the smooches in this season #so I am splitting it into two posts #also I didn't want to be done with giffing them just yet #anyway I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not sure I've ever known a tv show let its leads kiss so much after getting together #they kissed 50+ times this season alone and most of them were PROPER kisses #and they're squeezing that in around saving the world and stuff #showrunners need to be taking romance notes from 90s family superhero shows honestly #also just realised superman doesn't even make an appearance here #sorry supes #it's a superhero show I promise!

[astagfirulah]

idg why oikawa gets the villain treatment tbh like he just loves volleyball a bit too much. the real villain is fucking ushijima who's a dick and even had a whole villain monologue

#I've said this before I'm p sure #also idt you get him if you've never played a sport bc u really do get that into it.. #like yeah they're all intense bc it's anime but who wants to lose ? #neesh.chat

[killyourrdarlingss]

Watching Andor

My dad: I'm excited to see the robot who falls in love with him

Me, blinks: what?

Him: the robot who's in love with him, his co pilot

Me: oh yeah K2S0 ...!

#I'm baffled rn I'm not only lost why he thinks this because I've never even talked about any shipping stuff near him but i also have never- #shipped this ever? i can definitely see the appeal for sure! but it was kind of funny how sure my dad is and who am i to say ANYTHING #it was such a funny Convo. me too dad i also am excited for his lil robot husband or whatever my dad said before lmfao ♥️ #droidcaptain #andor

[jakeperalta]

spent weeks psyching myself up to stand up to my mum and then immediately got shot down by her 😃👍

#vent incoming i apologise in advance for the long tags #we've lived together just the two of us since dec 2021 (although her boyfriend is here like 2/3 of the time as well) #and since i got my job in march 2022 i have been paying half of all the bills (literally down to like tv license when i barely watch the tv) #which is £300 a month #plus i buy all my own food + pay for the amazon prime she uses + contribute to various household things like toilet roll etc #and she doesn't have a mortgage so i am paying the same amount as her to live in her house #(and it is very much her house not our house) #and I've never been very happy with any of that but never complained either #but then recently it turned out she never set up the water bill when we moved in (it's one of the only bills i didn't sort for us) #so we have a huge backdated bill from dec 2021 and i knew she was going to tell me to pay half #so for the past month or so I've been preparing myself for this conversation and sure enough today she came and said 'we owe £700' #so i was like 'oh i thought maybe it would've been covered by my £300/month' which is the biggest stand I've been able to work myself up to #and she immediately started going on about how i live here too and use water too so it's just as much my responsibility to pay #and how when we're both earning i should be paying my share and i was like yeah i know that's why i never complained about paying before #but also i already pay more than most people would to live with their parents #and she went off about how actually most people charge their grown up kids rent on top of the bills so really i'm lucky i don't have to #(when she got the original £300 figure it was actually rounded up from like £240 to include 'rent' but i wasn't gonna bring that up now) #and in conclusion she doesn't see why she should be subsidising my bills #like i don't know maybe because you're my MOTHER and i am your CHILD who is just starting out in the adult world #and maybe that entitles me to being treated better than some lodger???!!!!! #anyway i paid the bill and now i'm trying and failing at not crying at my desk 😃 #talking

[ladyluscinia]

I've already expressed that I think people who read Izzy as a clearly racist / homophobic villain are setting themselves up for disappointment - doubly so if they are throwing around "irredeemable" or expecting he'll be harshly punished somehow - because the show is simply... not that kind of show.

But I've also decided they are just plain missing out on good writing.

Just in general, do you know what standard straight romcom couples pretty much never have to deal with? Extreme bigotry as a major obstacle to their relationship. It's not a normal thing to, say, set up an interracial couple and then have one particular character constantly around spouting segregation era views because that's a slap in the face you don't need in a romcom. If a story does go that way it's pretty much exclusively a brief, "oh shit did they just go there?" moment, kills the lighthearted tone immediately, and leads directly to a huge climactic explosion because, again, slap in the face.

So why should Stede and Edward have to face seasons of explicit homophobia and racism (without even a cathartic explosion up front) for the crime of being a non-standard romcom couple? They shouldn't! Canon gay couples deserve to get the romance and the lighthearted tone without having to run through a required Homophobia Exists obstacle course. At the same time, though, that can be kinda difficult writing-wise because homophobia does exist.

And the OFMD writers were actually really fucking smart about it!

Like, as people have pointed out around Izzy, any character being hostile to a gay couple is going to ping homophobia radars, because in reality that is a likely explanation. Same for insulting gay characters based on their appearance or manner (so... the basis of most insults?). This means you probably can't just copy the obstacle characters from a straight romcom and play them out the same way - they would just read as homophobic without ever saying it out loud - but also you need obstacle characters for a lot of the romcom beats. So instead of doing that, they wrote Izzy reasons for his behavior that make sense.

Setting up one of Stede's primary character flaws (and a major theme of the show) as his unconscious class privilege, and then dropping in an aggressively working class guy as the main onscreen antagonist? That's brilliant. Izzy can insult and despise his clothes, his manners, his very existence in the world, and not only does it work, but it's also sympathetic and fixable and crucially based on a real flaw of Stede's. Making him hate Stede for something Stede has actually "done wrong" makes it more difficult to slip into a mindset where a neutral reason (like finding him annoying or something) is just disguising a bigoted one. And then making him hate the relationship because Stede, who he hates, is stealing Edward, who he is in love with? Classic romcom trope AND another clever sidestep of more serious and less sympathetic motivations.

The show is fantastically pulling off getting a man to hate a gay man and a gay romance for realistic, messy, straight out of a romcom reasons entirely unrelated to them being gay, and a bunch of people are STILL obsessed with proving that, no, it's definitely irredeemable, awful, "I'll kill you for being yourself" violent homophobia at work. Why not just consider the alternative?

#our flag means death #and this is all before we even get into the cycles of abuse and toxic defense methods against emotional vulnerability #which hits on the working class struggle to survive AND clever use of comedy violence to play with in universe severity #just... how are the same people putting the show on the highest pedestal i've ever seen the ones also ignoring good rep writing? #izzy hands ofmd #stede bonnet ofmd #blackbeard ofmd #homophobia #racism #ladyluscinia #(disclaimer - i don't actually watch romcoms very often but i'm pretty sure everything i've said here applies)

[mortellanarts]

I forgot to post my OC's on that experimental style! You will perceive them!!!

#oc tag #my art #I made these before the ze characters! they're practically the blueprint for this style and I'm very proud of them ^w^ #they also look perfect for game portraits?? so I've been trying to think of a story and asking people what they think they look like #a friend said on insta that they look like they're from a rich girl boarding school which is pretty bonkers a connection for her to make #considering I'm pretty sure I subconsciously pulled from St. Lucia's uniform for the color palette at the very least #and she doesn't know anything about umineko to connect those fots so wow #also the last one is my current haircut :3 mmm... just a bit more orange and tidy #artists on tumblr

[darkseldarine]

Still baffled that I’ve met people who’ve been of the “drow are inherently evil” opinion. The word ‘indoctrinating’ is literally in Homeland to refer to how drow children are raised. Chapter five sentence two it’s just RIGHT THERE. It’s not even subtext it’s Just Text. What is going on.

#Drizzt read through #The answer is that for a certain subset of people it’s probably like a shibboleth #Pardon me if I’m rambling a bit more on this and if this is all poorly worded but it's just like. #Salvatore is writing what's (so far to me) pretty clearly a story about a society led by a cult #(furthermore with a god who has a VERY TANGIBLE influence) #And the mechanics of how this society works and how it affects people and how people move within it #And also how people (plural (not just Drizzt)) chafe against it in different ways #Reading it again makes some of the talking points I've seen people have feel so out of context that it’s kinda jarring #It’s like people are talking about a funhouse version of the material in the book hanging out on my nightstand #There's more I can attempt to say on this but I don't want to write an essay LMAO. I'm sure people have said all this before as well #(read: I'm sure that I vaguely remember a post that was basically about this) #so I won't reinvent the wheel :P

[braceletofteeth]

Congratulations to Never Let Me Go for being the second drama to get the highest rating from me this year. Currently preparing my mind and body to be insufferable about it forever.

#haha! sike! I've actually already started- #(list of things I did BEFORE finishing NLMG tonight: #1. downloaded the episodes to cherish and protect in case the downfall of internet is tomorrow/other disasters #2. bought a replica of Nueng's necklace for the price of two croissants in the not-very-legal market #3. included a shot from the series in a special gifset #4. had heated mental arguments with the people making negative comments about it #5. .......... considered giving FUTS another chance out of gratitude to PP (not sure yet but just the fact that I gave it a THOUGHT-)) #// #well now that being said #I'm kinda disappointed there are only 2 new dramas in the annual list that got the ''I will definitely rewatch this'' badge #last year there were 3 BLs alone. not even counting OTHER genres!!! and in 2023 I watched many MORE dramas!!! what is this!!!!!! #was I unlucky. was I going after the wrong stuff. I keep thinking about that. #but there were also a good number of dramas that got the ''I might rewatch this'' badge #and even the ones I didn't really enjoy were important to give me perspective/parameter #so... no time was wasted. and I was doing what I like to do? so I guess it's ok...

[carlyraejepsans]

either people with OCD need to stop being relatable or i need to see a doctor

#the intrusive thought part is insanely relatable to me but also so much of everything else in tests is just not something i struggle with? #like the cleanliness thing or the disease thing. I don't have rituals per se #or at least I wouldn't call them that? i have really bad intrusive thoughts and I've gotten in the habit of hitting myself #or saying random words/noises out loud when it happens to snap out of it. and it's getting worse with time ngl #only people i ever saw relate to it said it had smth to do with ocd. but it's not exactly a compulsion is it? I don't even realize i do it #it's instantaneous. like instinct. and then I'm left to deal with my head aching or my hand almost bitten to blood lol #it's painful! and it sucks and i hate it and I'm so tired of dealing with it. but it's literally just That #i guess if have anything like a compulsion it's that i check behind my bathroom curtains a lot before i shower #to make sure i closed the windows even though i just did it and checked a dozen times before. but it doesn't stop me from showering #or impact me anywhere else either. like most times i just leave the curtains open so i can see they're closed with a glance and move on #that's it! #man. this i exhausting #anyone got advice?

[nightmarecountry]

it does kind of amuse and intrigue me that corinth.ian KNOWS he can't fuck with dream on his own and is always seeking allies to help him do it instead... he really shows up to ethel like "i'm going to manipulate you let's work together, you and me :)" and then when she hits back at him with the exact same False Seduction method ("are you flirting with me?" / "now who's flirting" etc. i don't care what neil says that shit was NOT genuine for either of them, they were playing each other) he's like :/ well if you don't wanna be friends i'll just eat your eyes. fine.

#( ooc. ) #hc. #[ i love him. can't help seeking out people to kind of lead the way so he can follow. ] #[ also i've said it before but the 'supernatural and sexist' nonsense was so flimsily written. ] #[ i rolled my eyes out of my SKULL. ] #[ like i'm not saying he isn't sexist (he sure is in the comics) but giving her a weird Feminist TM TM TM moment when he didn't actually #imply it was THe Only Way A Woman Can Succeed TM at all was. weird. ]

[spinoff-antithesis]

(muth being music theory!)

#FUCK IT MY OWN EDITION OF THE ODDLY SPECIFIC POLLS BC THESE ARE FUN #me when i've been obsessed with space/time stuff since i was a KID its more an interest than hyperfixation rn but man. #media with any of those?? i am OBSESSED (star wars rottmnt movie etc etc) like i hyperfixated on dr who for a year in middle school #the skateboard one is so funny. in high school my guard instructor saw me with a friend's pennyboard & immediately said no. #me when i was notoriously clumsy in middle + high school so everyone i knew was like. “this is a bad idea” when i did anything #my first semester of college i bought a longboard off someone then 5months later i turned around & ate SHIT it was so funny in retrospect #anyway fun sage lore i have only ever heavily injured the left side of my body. my knee + elbow and the SAME FUCKING TOOTH. TWICE. #also i have a high pain tolerance. like idk how or when but in middle school it just got Really Strong. me when i injure myself and just #live with it for a year before it becomes a concern and i get told to get an xray (i will live with a fractured knee the rest of my life) #also when i fell off my skateboard and ate shit my first concern was “ah fuck my glasses did i break my nose” and #“nah my elbow isnt broken! my arm is just rly sore from how i landed on it” (readers. it was in fact fractured.) #like i literally went “no im fine we dont need to tell my mom or go to the er” and my friends said “call your mom and go to the er” #me spitting out my tooth and blood bc i also busted my lip: that hurt. time to hobble back to my dorm. #anyway hiding this one in the tags bc i will never not just ignore my issues LMAO did it with my ptsd dx and i will continue to do it #another incredibly hyperspecific thing: oh this doesnt seem normal! im gonna ignore it and hope it goes away #these symptoms match up to something? nah i'm sure it's not that! (proceeds to get dx'd with ptsd five months later)