#everyone is broken

[aparticularbandit]

So I started the dub of Fruits Basket again.

Forgetting, of course, that the primary theme is about life changing and having to be okay with letting go of the past even though the future is uncertain.

More importantly, forgetting that one of the main threads of this throughout the series is Tohru's grief (and guilt) over her mother's death.

....

Well, you know what, my therapist told me to engage with grief as homework the past couple of weeks, so between this and starting Anohana again I THINK IT COUNTS.

#musings #bandit liveblogs #bandit liveblogs furuba #i know i could have just skipped to when my murderous akii shows up but #fruits basket is one of my defining pieces of media #the manga more than the anime although the new anime does a FANTASTIC job of adapting it #(they cut a bunch out of the third season which feels weird after everything to that point is pretty much #an exact chapter by chapter adaptation of the manga #BUT #the part i was most upset about being cut got turned into the movie so) #but like #fruits basket as a story influenced so much of how i write and conceive of people and etc. #the manga is very much about everybody has reasons for why they do what they do #everyone is broken #even if they don't show it #even if it shows up in different ways #and i remember when it first started coming out how there was a group of us reading it who had our own characters #i was hiro (although i wanted to be kisa i think) #we didn't get far enough in before i moved #i know now that akito is me #in danganronpa terms - tohru is ryoko to akito's junko #akito is nothing like junko i need you to understand #but in terms of foils to each other and what they represent and how they interact with the zodiac #tohru is light and warmth and hope #akito is constrictive and dark and despair #i just #ugh i love furuba #i love furuba so much #noir is my favorite anime but fruits basket is my manga and left the biggest impact

[void-thegod]

I'm just as bad as I am good.

The brighter the light, the darker the shadows.

I can accept you as you are.

That's why I want nothing to do with you. Why I'll never love you. Why I expect nothing more.

In these things, we're all alike: animals, humans, Gods, and monsters.

#voidpunk #trans #trans man #trans masc #love and hate #are not the same #let them have texas #mass exodus of blue to blue states and red to red #reverse rapture #queer #autistic #cptsd #tired of the stupid bullshit #i have a lot of love to give #just never find someone that worthy of it #everyone is broken #but we do what we can #put gold in the cracks that make us more #i forget what it's called off the top of my head #person of color #sick and tired #i want this world to end #so we can live in startrek like solarpunk #with magic

[pangur-and-grim]

I’m too gullible with people. I’ll have encounters and be like “aw they seemed nice ☺️” and then everyone around me will be like NONONONONO THAT WAS THE DEVIL!!!!!!!

[daeyumi]

decay 🌑🗡️⚫️

[2022]

#zelda #totk #zelda tears of the kingdom #tears of the kingdom #zelda totk #link #TotK link #legend of zelda #zelda fanart #daeyumi art #i drew this piece last year #around the time we first saw the broken master sword revealed for totk #and idk but i just really love the idea of link as a broken person just like his sword #he’s been beaten up by duty & destiny so much and even after he’s saved everyone there’s still no rest for him #even his own body is foreign to him now; literally belonging to someone else (rauru’s arm) #agh damn i need to draw more art relating to this i just— #im so sorry link i love u so much #😭😭😭

[hajihiko]

Multilingual 🌍

Fuyuhiko: its beneficial to understand when rivals are talking in secret

Sonia: diplomacy is easier when you speak their language too

Hajime: duolingo library forced speedrun

Akane: worked in customer service

Kazuichi is just more of a Language of Numbera guy 😋

#Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Hajime hinata #Kazuichi Souda #Sonia nevermind #Akane owari #Sdr2 #Super danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa 2 #Danganronpa #super danganronpa 2 goodbye despair #If Fuyuhiko and Hajime need to talk something sensitive they can switch to Italian #Hajime and Sonia can talk in Novosel together (and often do when she's feeling homesick) #Everyone but Kazuichi speaks fairly fluent English lol but he can sorta keep up (he knows mechanic speak better than anyone tho) #Kaz gets jealous and wants his own Hajime language. They end up with broken Swedish or something obscure like that #An art #First time I've had the danganronpa art spark in a WHILE feels like #Japanese isnt exactly heavy in swear words so I imagine it feels good to let out a little CURWA MAC every once in a while #(That's probably not written right lol sorry polish ppl) #Any errors in writing are because. I had to look it all up

[theminecraftbee]

task: answer the following question. do you believe in curses? respond as completely with relevant information as possible.

Grian: Well, that's a lie. This isn't a task. I know it's not a task, I set the things up! Not sure why we're getting a question as pointless as this one, but sure, mysterious scroll, I'll answer. There's no such thing as curses, unless you're Timmy, in which case it's funny, yeah? Besides, I didn't actually kill Etho. Even if that did count, self-fulfilling prophecies aren't the same thing as curses, and I know which one I fall under.

Joel: Do I believe in bloody curses what kind of question is that? Do I really get hearts just for answering this? This feels like a prank or something... well, whatever. There are no such thing as curses, except the Boogeyman curse, which I sort of had today, but it wasn't actually the same at all. A lot of the bloodlust, sure, but a lot more... Etho had to be the one to do it, huh? And it's not the same. Not comforting. That's a stupid thing to say actually. Take it out of wherever you're putting this. Cut it out of the recording. Comforting. Please. As if it were ever... Yeah, I'm done actually. Don't have a good answer. Go away.

Scott: What, other than Jimmy? Bless that man, he may not have died first, but he sure tried his best. Sure, I'll believe Jimmy is cursed. I mean, mostly he's just kind of stupid. Lovingly so. I mean, despite him being stupid, I put up with him, right? That seems like a complete answer to this question. Jimmy's an omen but we put up with him anyway. That's all.

Mumbo: NO RESPONSE GIVEN.

Pearl: Oh, I mean, I'm probably cursed. That's what everyone liked to say at one point. I think... I mean, I think this time I have good friends, which is nice. They don't think I'm cursed. And it's not like I--I mean, it's surprisingly fun, acting cursed! And I am just acting. Acting scary, blowing up dance floors, all of that. And I don't really have to this time, so... Maybe I'm not cursed? And since it's acting, it's not real? This is a weird question.

Etho: Oh, man, that's a question. Um, do I have to answer? Because I feel like if I say no, that's really just asking for it, but if I say yes, I have to explain myself. Uh, I think I'm abstaining, unless the zombie thing from earlier counts. That was scary and I hated it. Curses are scary and I hate them in general, but apparently I'm good at them, if you ask everyone else. Um, it's not the only thing I find scary that apparently I'm good at.

Scar: Why, of course I believe in curses! Look at poor, poor... Timbert? Timmy? Jim? Gosh, sorry, I'm very tired right now. That's more proof of curses, by the way! That I'm tired. I've been tired straight since the desert, let me tell you what. And that, my friends, is a curse like no other. What a terrible beast, loneliness is. Wish me luck breaking it, because it's not happening this season!

Cleo: Oh, you mean the thing people like to blame instead of their own actions? Nah. My soulbond was kind of a curse, I guess, but even that's at least half just... bad people. Bad relationships. Good ones, too. We're all just doing what you can, you know? No script, no curses, no characters, just... Oh, I hope everything turns out tomorrow. Sorry, that's unrelated. It's just nicer to hope than to preemptively blame things on curses that don't exist.

Impulse: Well, I mean, I didn't until you just asked me that, but now I feel like I should. Wouldn't that be nice? Being cursed instead of just sort of unlovable? Sorry, no, that's mean to Gem. I shouldn't say that about Gem, she's been good this season. Super, super cursed, mind you, in the like, game mechanic sense? But she's been good, no backstabbing or inability to get love involved. Um, and I guess that's not fair to Bdubs, kind of, except it also totally is and I haven't forgiven him. So I guess if they ask I said I believed in curses, and that's why my life keeps circling clocks? Don't put any of that other stuff down, I'm trying to work on that.

Lizzie: NO RESPONSE GIVEN.

Gem: I was just cursed for a task, but that probably isn't what you're asking about, right? I'm new, so I don't know! A task is a concrete thing to believe in, like bloodshed or victory or fun and games. You don't have to believe in those to know they're real, either! They just are, whether you like it or not. I understand that much!

Tango: Gah, don't talk to me about... Deep breaths. Look, I don't care if it's a curse, or if it's just me being really bad, or what, I'm not going out pointlessly this time. Jimmy managed not to die first, I can manage to not go out to a stray arrow or my own bomb or a misstep this time, right? Is that so much to ask?

Skizz: Huh? Curses? I mean, I don't think so, and to be totally honest I think it's kind of mean the way people sometimes rag on people about them. Everyone's got so many good things about them! Why do people like to focus on the unfortunate luck, huh?

Bdubs: Hah! Curses! Let me tell you about curses. When I see curses, I eat them for breakfast. I don't got curses, I've got better things to do! I've got my buddies with the Mounders, and I've got-well, I'd say keeping Etho safe, but he's being weird at me again this season. Not that it matters. It never matters. Etho and I, we're... The point is, that doesn't matter anyway, because I have the Mounders, and they're the ones who matter here. And because I'm a strong, independent Bdubs, who doesn't need anyone but my bow and my perfect, flawless fighting prowess! Sorry, what was the question? I've been thinking so much lately that it's just sort of made everything else pop out of my head, so it's hard to keep track. I'm sure I answered it flawlessly, though.

Martyn: Of course there are curses. That's half the fun for you lot, isn't it? Putting your little curses on us and watching us rail against them. Bet you think it's real cute to ask us what we think of the things, too. "Oh, what do you think of curses," like we have any control over them. Please. If I had any control over curses, Jimmy--or, well, no, I guess that one was technically broken, wasn't it? Sure doesn't feel like it. Point is, curses are bad, and they're definitely real, and I hate you for them, got it?

BigB: Look, man, if you're trying to get me to write my character out for you, just say so! I won't tell anyone. We can come up with a hole thing about holes and red tasks and the Backrooms together! It'll be fun! After all, you probably don't know what kind of curse to say I have, right? Haha, just kidding. I have no idea what I'm talking about. Luckily, neither does anyone else, so I think that evens out between the lot of us.

Jimmy: NO RESPONSE GIVEN.

#secret life smp #a bee fic #not tagging everyone in this because it's. everyone #anyway i have wanted to write this for like TWO WEEKS so i figured that now's as good a time as any #anyway this is probably as thinly disguised as my character meta gets #we talk a LOT in this fandom about curses #we talk about whether we like them as fanon we talk about whether we dislike them we talk about who has them we talk about why #we talk about if they're here or broken or anything else #so i'd like to think the characters have an opinion on curses too after how much talking about them we've been doing #...at least the characters around to tell us their opinions do. #(anyway for all I claim this is thinly disguised character meta it IS actually of note that this isn’t actually about if they believe) #(but instead about how they’d respond if they were asked) #(hence why half of them don’t even answer the right question) #(this is why I’m not good at character meta btw)

[samipekoe]

Monday its time to return to my office in lacille inc

#pet play lacille? more likely than you think #i think its a funny kink to give laios. marcille would hesitantly agree to try and maybe even get into it #and then laios starts doing shit like ripping up curtains and shes like what the fuck are you doing #you havent house trained me marcille! it takes 4 months of training for a puppy to be fully house broken! #and then falin comes home and laios is tied up outside #anyway those were my delusions for today good monday everyone

[worldformula]

all the star’s a stage!

#ffxiv #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #i.. don’t want to tag everyone.. smiles w broken teeth

[dykealloy]

ripple effect legacy // my tears are becoming a sea, M83

#weaving parallels but god at what cost #something something luffy inheriting the will of a burnt out sun #something something the things we leave behind (broken promises. pain. little brothers. cool fire punch moves) #see the significance of ace is that he spends his whole life asking 'should i even have been born' and then through the positive #impact he has on everyone around him he creates a continuing cycle of change where people reach out a hand to help others #he said 'im not sure i deserve to live' and then became the most remembered and loved and sorely missed dude in one piece #like it's almost comedic how luffy keeps finding his big brother in the stories and best qualities of all the people he comes across vs. #people who knew ace and keep seeing pieces of him in luffy #anyway happy new year portgas d. ace trauma be upon ye~ #one piece #op #portugas d ace #portgas d ace #asl brothers #yamato #wano spoilers #one piece spoilers #CJ's edits #amv #monkey d luffy #straw hat luffy #monkey d. luffy #portgas d. ace #CJ's op watch-through

[artaintfart]

I am the Angel sent down from above / I am the Cancer swimming deep in your blood

#wc #my art #warrior cats #warriors #shadowsight #Ashfur #the broken code #tbc #favorite fuckin arc EVERRRRRR god. #ik everyone has done ghost Ashfur whispering in shadows ear but idcccccc #also yea ik song lyrics for captions r cringe or whatever but I never do it so shut up!!!!! #blood #TW blood

[pretty--in--purple]

let's be real, being guillermo's friend/partner irl would suck ass. he's a manipulative serial killing embezzler who is having an emotional affair, plus he's constantly busy with his kid/creature that crawled out of the chest cavity of his dead friend + his undead three stooges.

HOWEVER

being his cousin would slap so fuckin hard man. every few weeks: "cousin memo's here and he's brought the five most attractive people you've ever met, an autistic child, and 50 grand cash." he barely comes to any family events but when he does you get to share gay judgemental looks w/ him. he keeps making you garlic bread and he bought you nunchucks. his trunk has a corpse in it.

#he would be a perfect cousin man #i do NOT want a direct relationship w this man #what i want is for him to be that weird fringe relative who everyone looks at funny but who his younger relatives are vaguely obsessed with #his skills w colin have to come from SOMEWHERE #guillermo de la cruz #also the five attractive people are: #nandor the relentless #nadja of antipaxos #laszlo cravensworth #marwa wwdits #the djinn wwdits #and the autistic child is obvs #colin robinson #wwdits #wwdits fx #wwdits spoilers #this has officially broken containment bc like 20 people thought this was abt the director #sky (the blogger) originals

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ooo fantasy au Poppy oooo there's so much empty space on this, it's killing me

rambles:

why is there lace? why does she have a neck corset? because she's Gorgeous and I'm the Artist Here. i will always inflict my personal tastes on everyone I draw. pretty bird <3

it's really difficult to put clothes on a bird... stream helped out a bunch with the colors & the leg gear! I imagine that the leather is durable, which is probably the only thing that gets her to traverse less Forgiving terrain. Thornbushes and itchy tallgrass can't hurt her! she's got "boots"! How Does She Secure Them, i hear no one ask. that's what neighbors are for, isn't it? and a skilled beak once she gets the swing of it.

her shawl remains largely the same due to my lack of imagination! i put a lil feather clasp instead of the shawl being tied together to give it a more fantasy-oriented look. i think i succeeded? i like to think so! i imagine that the clasp gives Poppy some stress, though. It's sharp! Ish. it's sharp by her standards!

Poppy's enchanted glasses allow her to "see" injuries and illness, both caused by magical & normal means. this is very helpful in her role as healer, but also extremely stressful - just because she can see issues doesn't mean she automatically knows what they are! to her, a papercut may be misinterpreted by the beginnings of a fatal infection! i like to think that she got tired of needing to hold the glasses in place over her beak and asked if there was a charm to keep them steady. and they confidently had their resident wizard spell them on - oops! the spell was a little too strong! they're now magically superglued on! yeah, those are never coming off.

she also has a magic bag that i imagine was a gift from her family when she left the nest! she'd never directly use it herself - what if she falls in? what if something nasty managed to crawl inside? - but the Neighborhood uses it as collective storage. it can hold a lot! supplies, books, tents, gold, even Julie when she's determined enough!

#'why are her legs broken' Technically! theyre bending the correct way for a bird #i would draw them normally but since this au is uhhhh #mmmm how do i say? theyre Flesh and Bone and Biological Creatures! #so... normal bird legs :]c #its like how everyone gets teeth here! except poppy. cause she's a bird. #and wally. bc home forgot. #but yeah. poppy <3 #i like to imagine her trying to make dinner at a campsite #im now Realizing that part of the appeal of fantasy aus for me is the camping #god i miss camping. take me BACK #but also dont oh my god dont make me go back i dont want to be a kid again it was terrible- #scribble salad #wh fantasy au #poppy really can do it all! #she cooks! she heals! she screams loudly and hides during fights! #she helps frank keep careful track of the party's collective Coin!

[harriertail]

WARRIOR CATS: SHADOWSIGHT'S SOLITUDE (release date unknown)

#warrior cats #shadowsight #the broken code #shadowpaw #shadowclan #cover illustration #okay i was gonna do this as a bit where i try convince everyone its a real SE but that relies on like. tumblr getting a joke lmao #but its about shadowsight feeling outcast after TBC and the clans not trusting him for 'bringing' ashfur in #harriertail

[shirmirart]

You're my favorite RWRB artist, your arts are so breathtakingly pretty... thank you for drawing our boys with such love and care 🩷

you can't make me weep this early in the day (it's 6pm but shhh) here, a forehead kiss for you 🩷

#thank youuuuuu #I feel like a broken record just saying thank you all the time everyone is too kind to meeee #😭 #answered #fanart #art #my art #firstprince #alex and henry #red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwrb movie #alex claremont diaz #henry fox #henry hannover stuart fox #henry fox mountchristen windsor

[god-of-this-new-blog]

“You need Kira’s mercy.”

“I need His mercy. I beg for it.”

From Heard in Heaven by @lightyaoigami

#happy lateeeeeee late late birthday Monica #sorry my gift to you took 800 years but u had a vision (and also had to defend my thesis plan hahaha) #anywayyy #death note #lawlight #light yagami #l lawliet #my art #tw blood #this fic is veryyyyy sexy and something about L having a broken nose is sending me #why do I feel sexually about a broken nose???? I’m fucked in the head for ever by fic #everyone read that fic it’s got everything: sex and violence #I <3 violence

[sygneth]

that was actually how it all started in my head, the post-apo AU that is! This whole idea has no sense whatsoever but it's fun to draw, so may happen on occasion

(later same night:)

#harry with a fuller beard looks a bit menacing #but now they are all one big feral family yeah? #and everyone is even more broken and tired than normally yay #disco elysium #disco elysium au #postapo disco inferno #disco elysium fanart #harry du bois #kim kitsuragi #jean vicquemare #dolores the dog #i think that would be a tag for her #my art #fanart #artists on tumblr