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i love how in the first book of the radiant emperor, zhu and ouyang's relationship is basically:

zhu: me and general ouyang are like substances. twin strings. we are connected. i delivered him to his destiny, and he delivered me to mine. we are tidally locked in this existence, and it is wretched but comforting to know ourselves not alone, but rather united by something so unique, something so sweet,

ouyang: i hate you. ugly bald cockroach. die

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I think what really elevated Zhu’s character for me was the excellent cheer in which she goes about doing the most morally corrupt things. She’s mild and funny and grins a lot and jokes with her friends and flirts with her wife and loves her sooo tenderly (the end of swbts though oughhh); she’s a monk who can’t fight for shit (or ride a horse) and is altogether a pretty chill guy. And idk it’s so refreshing because the author subverts the (incredibly infuriating) trope of squashing every ‘badass’ non-male character into the snarky-and-cold-and-hates-everyone cast. Zhu is warm and loving and wily and incredibly fucked up and it’s so much more fun to watch than whatever is going on with most YA leads

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Bokuto rot is back guys

#haikyu manga #bokuto koutarou #haikyuu bokuto #haikyuu!! #the brainrot is real

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is it just me or the books that I always delay reading are the ones that actually becomes my favorite

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mr d: who's sally jackson?

percy:

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I still can’t believe this stupid gay mafia book genuinely changed my perspective on relationships, sex and consent

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never really noticed before how TWELVE percy’s quest companion choices are. its his best friend and that one bossy girl that seems to know whats going on. peak group project in middle school choices

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Sooo how do you feel about the aot ending.

i don’t think you meant how i feel compared to the manga ending but since it’s connected to my feelings i’ll go that route anyway :D

i was always super mixed on the manga ending. and don’t get me wrong there’s no plot difference, which is why it’s a little hard to explain why i think the anime executed it perfectly.

1: the manga ending felt rushed. specifically armin and eren’s last conversation, there wasn’t NEARLY as much depth. mappa changed that, with a bunch of very slight additions which ended up making a huge difference.

2: so did the pacing of (for instance) mikasa’s grieving under the tree, the extra pages passing along slowly with the end credits, historia’s last monologue about her memories of the future that eren gave her.

3: the manga also did VERY little in giving a glimpse into everyone’s lives in the epilogue. as armin is telling annie how important it is that paradis hears their story, there’s just panels of how onya, levi, etc looks like. yelena wasn’t there at all. the anime really did everyone justice.

even on my second reread of the whole manga, the ending just left me feeling really really empty and bummed out. it felt like nothing everyone ever did mattered. it was abrupt i guess? the anime better communicated the idea that YES while there will always be “titans”, aka war, violence, cruelty, no matter what, you can still hang onto hope. there is still love to be found.

really if aot was given a happy, everything worked out ending, then that would’ve made everything before that utterly pointless. aot was ALWAYS about love and hope in the face of death and cruelty. humanity will never not be human.

specifically in the final scene with the boy and the dog going to the hole in the tree, he has THE CHOICE to go in. unlike ymir, he isn’t being forced to hide and most likely die. could the worm be there? yes sure. it symbolizes that cycle of violence, but in this case, the boy has the FREEDOM to do what he chooses.

aot was always nuanced. there was NEVER any morally best or morally worst characters. everyone had sympathetic reasons, even when they did horrible things. i appreciate the tenacity(?) isayama had to tell a story like that. to this day and most likely forever, every fan will be divided on every damn thing. but that has nothing to do with how great the ending is (to me at least).

so tldr, the way the anime handled the ending made me love the ending period.

here’s a little more of my thoughts btw

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Crying myself to sleep

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Seeing this scene finally animated actually broke something in me you dont understand

GNAWING ON THE WALLS OF MY ENCLOSURE YOURE FUCKING KIDDING

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Omfg

The fact that this is the same woman is so symbolic

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Not a single day goes by without me crying over these two (I just cried)

#jjk #jjk 236 #satosugu #gojo and geto #satoru....suguru #i need to go cry again

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cutie patooties ~ kandreil

TWITTER || INSTAGRAM || PATREON || SHOP

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Andrew & Neil

TWITTER || INSTAGRAM || PATREON || SHOP

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My Ukrainian version of the cover for the first book👁️👄👁️

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No way did I reach the level in my academic life where I have to watch a movie as an assignment

#and i am too tired to watch it #college #communication design #movies #persona

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this post goes out to sally fucking jackson

the woman who stayed in an abusive relationship for years to keep her son safe.

the woman who survived a minotaur attack and the underworld.

the woman who ate a primarily blue diet out of pure spite.

the woman who turned her abusive husband into a statue and sold him for a fortune.

the woman who was offered, by poseidon, a palace under the sea if she wished.

the woman who picked up a shotgun from a police car, used it against a laistrygonian giant, and when asked when she learned how to use it, responded “just now”.

a woman who, without notice, was met by a newly-human god and his twelve year old master and, without batting an eye, offered them food and clothing.

a woman who is a mother above all mothers.

i love sally jackson.

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“You’re telling me you could’ve stopped this?”

“You know what? Yeah. I could’ve, but I didn’t. I didn’t stop it and people are dead because I kept it.”

“You’re a fucking monster.”

“So many people are alive because I did, though. And I have no qualms in taking more in service of that.”