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Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you

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thinking abt this tweet again

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i thought i posted this but i think i didn't ??? so i'm doing that now HAJWLSDFKL this is a bit older but turns out it's been rotting in my folders JKDSFKLSDKL

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happy lesbian visibility week

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It cracks me up that Saiki was so confident during his short-lived battle against Chiyo, bragging about being able to stop her from raising flags with him…

And then he not only can’t stop Teruhashi from getting those flags, he raises them himself! lol

Throughout the manga, I counted like, 24 wins for Teruhashi and only 2 for Saiki. And I didn’t even count in her favor the flags he raises without Teruhashi knowing, like picking an outfit that she likes and a cup that she loves. 

There are seriously waaaay too many, but here are some of my top favorites!

Keep reading

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I've talked about this before but I love the rivalry between teruhashi and saiki SO much

Teruhashi being simultaneously flustered by her crush and treating him like he's an opponent she has to defeat is like. So good. She can literally go HAHA FUCK YOU SAIKI I WIN while giggling and blushing to herself and she like. Got to sit next to him on the bus

And SAIKI. He enjoys it so much and is completely unable to admit it. Him using teruhashi against kuusuke... Him manipulating the three guys in the mixer to impress her... Him going "sorry teruhashi, I win this one." Every time he foils one of her dumbass plans. He respects the hell out of teruhashi both for her social intelligence (which he does not have) but also for her commitment to get what she wants. But at the same time for him to even be a valid opponent in this game (that he loves playing) he has to pretend like all of that isn't true

It's a chess match where the stakes are that one of them wants the other to love them back which is both incredibly funny to watch and a really interesting dynamic. The Okinawa group formation episode is basically the same as the horse race betting episode, except it's saiki vs teruhashi instead of saiki vs akechi and it's much less explicit

This is why I headcanon them becoming best friends (or enemies to lovers, depending on my mood lol) them becoming more explicit about the game they're playing just makes sense. Teruhashi can still try to get saiki to say offu even if he already knows her feelings. Saiki can still try to ruin her plans even if she already knows about his powers. And they can both enjoy each other's company through this stupid game

This is why teruhashi is my favorite character, ramble over

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I can't seem to shut up about this, but my last post got me revisiting the manga again and the change in Saiki's behavior after that Mixer is seriously something else and I love it to bits.

I mean, times Saiki tries to make Teruhashi give up on him [before The Mixer]:

The Mixer:

Times Saiki tries to make Teruhashi give up on him [after The Mixer]:

And he wasn't even actually trying to make her give up on him. He just wanted to go back to her normal-self.

So unless I missed something, after Teruhashi "moves his heart", he really makes no effort whatsoever to make her stop liking him .

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Incredibly messy list of reasons why Saiteru is real and why I ship them (with occasional examples)

(and a little fan art to draw the attention)

Disclaimer: I did not read the manga, I watched anime and then searched for examples in manga as in supreme source

A little introduction.

There's a two things about Saiki K. that I need to mention before I will try to prove that Saiki actually likes Teruhashi back.

First of all, hope we can all agree on that, Saiki as the protagonist is unreliable narrator. This comes both from a) the form of the series - the fact that we as viewers don't see things the way Saiki does (just like with his X-ray vision, he's unable to see Teruhashi's appearance, but we actually can - so he says she's not that special or pretty while we can appreciate her beauty) and b) his view of relationships he has. He can deny his friendship with Nendou, Kaido and others all he wants, but we, as viewers see in every episode that he loves them dearly. He can say all he wants about how he's not gonna solve other people problems, but he helps every time and so on.

An secondly (kinda follows the last statement) he is tsundere. Not even kinda tsundere - he's hereditary tsundere and takes this after his grandfather.

Those two points I based my proofs on establish one big thesis - we're not gonna get any real straight verbal confirmation from Saiki that he has any feelings towards anyone, especially Teruhashi. So instead we gonna do what shippers do best - thoroughly search for any indirect evidences that something in fact goes on between them.

This list is based purely on objective and subtle changes in Saiki's patterns of behaviour.

So here's reasons why Saiteru is in fact real in no particular order:

Mixer issue.

The thing going on between Saiki and Teruhashi changes after Mixer date (there's also a post here on the subject of how it changes everything which I do not intend to repeat). I just wanna say that there were a million of ways of how it could go with the basically same outcome. But no. From Saiki actually showing up at the mixer to control things like some sort of power broker to the very end of the issue there is:

Kusuo's irritation at those guys generally;

his mentioning that he knows Teruhashi's preferences (like, yeah, he reads people minds, duh, but how much exactly he had to read her mind to know her favourite song or joke? It's not something you think about all the time, you know);

appreciation of her thoughts about him;

smile;

admitting he would/does enjoy this;

and rock-paper-scissors. This just blows my shipper mind - he actually participated in gambling on Teruhashi and actually won the game on purpose just for the sake of it. Of course it played out as a joke, but guys, GUYS! He literally won Kokomi-chan! On purpose! He participated in something this ... morally questionable, even though if he felt indifferent about her he would'd just thought something like "she's not an object to gamble on her")

Saiki usually tries to ignore his friends inviting him to some special events (New Year eve or Kaido's secret base and so on) until it's absolutely rude to decline or there's a chance something will go wrong or his mom is nearby. But these few times Teruhashi didn't even ask him to go somewhere (milkshake incident, mixer) he avoided her asking him but still followed her around.

He did in fact say "of-fu". Out loud. While being completely silent all the time. No more comments (mic drop).

Cultural festival lottery.

This one is tricky and requires analysis. So there's actually two lotteries involving Teruhashi - first one to choose her group for Okinawa trip and second one is cultural festival committee members. Both lotteries is drawn by Teruhashi knowing she will draw Saiki with Kami-sama's help and Saiki knowing she's gonna succeed. But in the Okinawa lottery he overplays her and uses X-ray vision and telekinesis to change her draw.

And in the cultural festival committee member (which happens after mixer) he just...don't.

And it's not even about avoiding Teruhashi personally, this time it's about avoiding huge pain in the ass cultural festival committee member is. As for me, personally, crush or no crush, I would do everything to not have such responsibilities. And he just chooses not to do anything? Even though this time it would be worse than a trip in one group of six, it would require them actually working together, possibly with no one around.

Cultural festival issue #2. Saiki admitted that their superpowers work together perfectly and when combined they are in fact invincible. While doing something so trivial as school play.

Prior to that he worked together with his actual psi-team with some actual superpowers over something not so trivial (stopped train) and even though he admitted he wouldn't do that with such efficiency without them but he didn't say a word about their powers complementing each other, their working together this well or something like this - but he did say something this cheesy to Teruhashi, your usual perfect bishoujo.

Kusuo felt incredibly irritated when his brother bothered her (and kinda proud of her when he paid him back with her powers). Saiki from first chapters would've just use the crowd to teleport (like he actually did with Teruhashi when he didn't say "of-fu" for the first time) and left those two alone. Also, do you see it here? Saiki, you're being a little bit hypocritical, don't you?

He stops avoiding her or plotting so that she fall out of love with him after mixer issue.

He's incredibly annoyed at her brother but still deals with him instead of just disappearing out of his sight (especially birthday present episode).

I don't actually think that issue with her overwhelming herself fits here. He would do the same for Kaido or anybody of his friends. He's irritated at guys but it kinda rational reaction for him about the cause of someone's suffering. He kinda opposes himself and them, but he has a god complex, he always does this.

He constantly complements her after mixer. Constantly. It's basically praises to her whether they are working together and he complements her superpowers, or he helps her with press club and compliments her anti-stalker skills or her overwhelming herself just to maintain her perfect bishoujo image and he compliments her dedication.

He actually thought that she's pretty at the end of the series. Legitimately. No other comments, just this. Okay, maybe also that I'm happy that he had a chance to look at her without his powers. But also it means that if he really did like her before this, which I think he did, he liked glowing skeleton/humonoid body of muscles. You know, perfect form of liking other person without knowing how they actually look.

Reasons why I personally ship them.

(Obviously) Kami-sama is on Teruhashi's side. No matter what. Like come on guys. Its inevitable at this point. Even Saiki stopped resisting.

Teruhashi feels super comfortable with Saiki's friends - as opposed to literally every other guy in their school when she has to overwhelm herself just to talk to them. On contrary, Nendou, Kaido and Kurosaki usually have no problem hanging out with Teruhashi. Like yeah, they blush sometimes and act like she is blessing them with her presence, but they do not put the same kind of pressure that everybody else does.

They both have super weird (pervert) elder brothers they suffer from.

He sees all her imperfect thoughts and feelings and still choses to respect Teruhashi for both her good qualities and her flaws. (But guys, actually, how great this trope is? Someone knows all your dirtн secrets and bad thoughts and still chooses not only to love you (not talking about Saiki, cause it's debatable, even though I do think he loves her back, but generally speaking) but actually respects you for that?)

Saiki's almost omnipotent powers can't beat Teruhashi's powers of luck and ability to be loved by Kami-sama. And her powers are only powers in the show he has to reckon with constantly and that challenges him on multiple occasions. Not only that - he actually loses to her almost every time. Which is ironic, cause the only time Teruhashi did really lose against him in every possible way - it was the first time she appears in manga, when he didn't say of-fu and she eventually kinda fell in love with him.

This one goes a bit deeper then this post meant to be, but Teruhashi's life is actually terrible. She learned to enjoy it and to get the best out of the situation she's in, but that is truly a nightmare. Her brother is a pervert who is able to give her underwear as a present and wishes he could marry her. All of the boys literally block her way on regular basis. She has a fanclub who can approve or disapprove her social interactions (i don't think she pays much attention to them, but what if she knew they tried to tell her crush not to talk to her?). Press club is constantly after her, trying to take or photoshop embarassing fotos of her (borderline pornography). And every one of them sees her as an object. As a doll. A beautiful picture. So it's only consistent for her as a character to fall for guy who doesn't fall for her act and sees her as she is. It's beautiful. She needs that.

In conclusion (if someone will actually read to this point) I wanna say that for me the best ship is the ship that didn't happen but was implied. Especially with such complicated characters like Saiki K. It gives so much place to debate, to search for subtle evidences that there is some sort of affection or that there's not, to interpret facts and play with them, trying to understand authors intentions and finding some clues and hints...it's just so much more fun that established ships.

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I’ve finished rewatching the first season and now 7 episodes into the second, I wanted to point out a few things that caught my attention this time :

Saiki fulfilled Teruhashi’s biggest wish in the very first episode. Albeit it was because of his shock, seeing her convince herself that she was in love with him, he still said offu.

Teruhashi wasn’t interested in Saiki in the beginning after their first meeting. She even tried to convince herself a few times afterwards that she doesn’t care about him. Initially she just wanted to get a reaction from him because he hurt her ego, however, what she wanted to hear from out of self-esteem became what she saw as reciprocation of her feelings.

By the end of the season, Teruhashi was completely in love with Saiki regardless of how indifferent he acted to her. She was confident enough about her feelings that she even shared it with Yumehara.

Teruhashi always wanted a rich guy and she admitted it when men approached her at the beach during the school trip. But later when Saiko proposed to her, she straight up rejected him and was bold enough to actually tell him that she loved Saiki. We see her inner monologue that she couldn’t accept what Saiko did to her friends and Saiki.

Teruhashi actually made Saiki nervous during their little chitchat in the sweet shop while he was transformed into Kuriko. Despite having the power to control the situation, somehow all Saiki did was mess up by knocking over his bag and ultimately had to lie about being Saiki’s sister. If only he had listened to Teruhashi’s confession silently, which he could because she wouldn’t know it was him to begin with.

When Teruhashi asked Saiki out on a date while Makoto’s shooting was going on, he said yes because she inwardly said she’d die if he rejected her lol. He could do anything to prevent Makoto’s team from meeting Teruhashi while not having to spend time with her, not that she’d actually die lmao.

Saiki actually had a new year card for Teruhashi and he was mulling over whether or not he should give it to her right outside her house lol.

Can’t believe I had missed this many details during my first watch.

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saiki when people are in weird situations: well, i don’t really care what they do, as long as its not affecting me.

also saiki: does some weird psychic shenanigans to help them, follows them, solves their problem completely, makes sure they're okay, all without them knowing he helped them or where he is

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All the torso animated studies.

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Summer🌤️

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Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei

Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best

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hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious

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now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck