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Hunter x Hunter is like this is Alluka her incredibly abusive family that doesn’t treat her like a human refers to her as a boy but Killua, the only member of her family that loves & cares about her, explicitly refers to her as his little sister. & some fans are still like What could Togashi have possibly meant by this. We will never know
noragami is a comedy. here is the tormented spirit of a dead 14-year-old who was buried alive by his father. noragami is a comedy. one of the characters just got beheaded. noragami is a comedy. a god reckons with the iterative loneliness and depression of being repeatedly reincarnated. noragami is a comedy. “i wanted to be a girl like you,” wails the ghost of an infant who never lived long enough to draw breath. noragami is a comedy. a high school girl watches her grandmother slip away, ushered into the soft darkness hand-in-hand with her long-dead lover. noragami is a comedy
CQL/MDZS ULTIMATE CHARACTER RE-DESIGN
Added sect leaders + some additional designs for the different time periods/stages for some of the characters!
ALSO! if anyone wants to use these designs for art or edits or fics, please feel free to, i'd be so honored! all i'm asking for is to tag me/send it to me so i SEE AND DIE OF HAPPINESS
Remember that, no matter what you’re going through, Yato & Yukine are proud of you and they see that you are trying <3
Ever growing list of anime protagonists 4/?
April 2:
I met Yato again.
my mouth remembers, my mouth remembers, my mouth remembers. she had no memory of him, nothing but an empty spot in her heart and yet.... her mouth remembers. she said his name so many times, her mouth remembers. even when she has nothing else of him, her mouth remembers. my mouth remembers, my mouth remembers, my mouth remembers.
noragami ending w hiyori getting absolutely ripped is so fucking funny
Ever growing list of anime protagonists 5/?
May I request prompt 16 from list b with Hinata?
hq!!reqs temporarily: closed ; although as i always say, if you have hinata or kageyama reqs, send them in anyways because i am #BiasedAsFuck
16. punctuation hinata
the first time he meets you, hinata swears he forgets everything he knew of language. he forgets how the subject precedes the predicate, like how hi comes before how are you or how people usually start introductions with their own names – he forgets the meaning of proper nouns, how they mark names and places (hinata shouyou, karasuno high), or how adjectives can modify the words around them (second year, wing spiker).
all he remembers is how you smiled like present tense – perfect. how he wishes it were progressive instead. like an -ing verb that could just keep on going. but the fact that you’ve smiled at him once is good enough reason for the world to be a beautiful place. what other reason does he need?
Continuar lendo
Howl's Moving Castle | ハウルの動く城 (2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Ever growing list of anime protagonists 6/?
i love haikyuu so much. bc it’s just. so cute. i love how many characters there are and all of the useless, trivial information we have abt all of the characters. like how iwaizumi used to collect cicadas, only to let them go bc he said he’d feel bad if he kept them. how yamaguchi likes “long fries that have gone soft and floppy”. how kunimi likes salted caramel. how akaashi wrings his hands. how kuroo just happens to get top grades and slips all these scientific words into casual conversation. kenma’s username on everything is “applepi”. it’s just so cute. i love the character interactions, like when bokuto is looking out of the window in his pyjamas and he says “i’m glad it’s fukurodani who i could play my last match with” and akaashi is like “are u dying bokuto?” and bokuto says “what? i’m going to live until i’m 130″. and when shimizu holds suga’s hands when he’s visibly stressed and suga instantly goes red and swirly and he’s like “pls wait!!!!!! we can’t get married yet!!!!!”. and when kuroo and bokuto knowingly smile at each other and hug after nekoma are eliminated from nationals. when kenma smiles and thanks kuroo for getting him into volleyball and kuroo is like “… … … … … huh… …? … … W-WAIT…” and he covers his face and starts laughing and it’s rly cute. nobody is bad. kyoutani is really scary and only listens to iwaizumi, but only bc iwaizumi beat him at arm wrestling. a cunning, deceitful character like daishou has a rly pretty gf he tries to impress, and when they watch volleyball matches together he gets bashful bc he feels like he’s being a huge volleyball nerd but she calls him cool. i just don’t understand how a series is this cute. they’re all so cute. moniwa is so cute. goshiki is so cute. oikawa teaches volleyball to children on mondays. don’t even get me started on yachi
My Vento Aureo AU where it happens on Brazil lol
Here’s part of the jjk mer!au I was scrambling to put together for mermay aahhh
You can read my idea and rambles of this below lol
Originally my idea is that merfolks are people who are considered “sea children/witches” who die in the sea, and sea witches/children’s are descendants of a water spirit. The lineage is considered cursed cause when they die they supposedly turn into monsters (merfolks). But there are conditions for them to “turn”, one they perish in the water (drown) and they’re magical affinity needs to be strong enough. How they do know if a sea child is strong enough? They don’t. Sea children are scarce. Most don’t know they’re one. The Gojo clan/kamo clan/zenin clan exist as clans of sea children. But they’re recluse/scattered in the wind. So there’s a facility that’s dedicated to rehabilitating and studying Mers cause there’s just a lot of unknowns
To be fair the idea kind of got too dark for my liking sooo, and there’s just a lot of holes, I just drew fluffier cuter parts of the au lol. (Dw I doodles angsty bits too) idk I might just scrap the idea above haha
Jojo's Bizarre Adventures: Protagonists
The heavy surrealism in RGU used to frustrate me as a new viewer, but now, I think it's such an integral piece of Ikuhara's storytelling. Because to me, the absurdities of Ohtori Academy perfectly capture how it feels to live under an abuser.
We as outside observers naturally question why there's a baseball game happening during the Student Council meeting, or how thirty cars can magically spring up in the middle of the dueling arena. And yet, the characters hardly bat an eye. Utena initially struggles to make sense of the duelists, the Rose Bride, and the Castle Said to Hold Eternity, but the more she becomes absorbed in this system, the more normalized it becomes.
We viewers fall for this, too! Show someone almost any Utena scene out of context, and they're going to have questions. Did that guy drive his car through a second-story window? Why is this boy boxing with a kangaroo?? Where the hell did all those swords come from???
"Yeah, don't think too hard about the logic. That's just how things are at Ohtori, you know?"
It's debatable to what extent the characters can perceive the visual symbolism that Ikuhara presents to us. Nevertheless, Ohtori remains a very weird place. But abusers possess the sinister power of normalizing behavior that any outsider would find absurd and unacceptable. They can — quite literally, in Akio's case — project their own version of reality onto their victims.
When Anthy gives Akio her glasses at the end of episode 39, she's rejecting the version of reality that he's convinced her to believe. Through Utena's sacrifice, she can finally see her circumstances for what they truly are.
The exit to Ohtori was always there for Anthy, but like so many real life victims of abuse, sometimes the logistics of leaving aren't what's keeping you trapped. An abuser can make themselves your whole world, and sometimes the greatest challenge can be realizing just how small, confining, and batshit crazy their rules really are.
Abandoning the life an abuser has made for you can feel impossible from the inside. But then you catch a glimpse of something beyond, something that makes you look around and ask, "How did I think any of this was even remotely normal?" And suddenly, leaving starts to feel like the most natural thing in the world.
when I first watched utena I noted how peculiar it was that people depicted in their coffins were always curled up in a fetal position instead of the typical coffin position of lying on their back with their hands crossed over. it just hit me now that it probably has to do with the egg speech given at the start of the student council sequences. the one inside the coffin shows the chick that died without breaking the shell, or being born. the coffin shows the safety of eternity at the cost of never growing or changing. the coffin is the egg that doesn't crack. the juxtaposition of the egg (new life and potential) and the coffin (death and stasis). the ending of Utena is open-ended, as Anthy has emerged from her coffin and has cracked the shell of the egg/her world, and now she's creating a life of her own. the coffin seems eternal but it can be escaped, that's why they aren't posed as if already dead. oh my god