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Hoshikawa gave us no mercy this chapter, Rimbaud is so sad and beautiful and WHEN HE TOLD CHUUYA TO LIVE 😭😭😭

"but even if you are but a pattern etched on the surface of raw power, you are you. nothing changes that, because all people, all humanity, their brains and flesh are nothing more than patterns—beautiful patterns upon the material world."

right in the FEELS, in the GUT

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"Strange.... it's not cold at all. The world that has always been so cold... Paul, did you also... feel this warmth in your last moments..."

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Yang & Ruby's Childhood

Oh how I wish, I wish that people would stop ignoring canon and pretending Yang & Ruby had functional adults who were good parents in their lives after Summer died. 

Because the fact of the matter is that they did not and canon has spelled this out again and again for the audience with increasing clarity every single time.

In Volume 2, Yang overtly states that Tai shut down following Summer’s to the point where his neglect became so pronounced a 5 and 3 year old who were grieving were left alone for hours and could disappear into a Grimm inhabited island looking for a different parental figure. 

Its re-established again in volume Five when Yang spells out to Weiss in no uncertain terms that after Summer disappeared, Yang, a five year old, was the one who needed to keep the family together and the trauma this inflicted on her alone is obvious. Let alone Ruby, because she was both being neglected and being raised by someone only two years her senior. Something Ruby fully acknowledges was the cast. 

There’s a multitude of other things I feel Tai has done wrong as both a teacher and a parent, but these one’s are undeniable, openly stated facets of the household. 

And Qrow doesn’t get an out by being the uncle either, oh no. 

Ruby makes it expressly clearly despite how much she loves and admires her Uncle she is very much used to him dropping back into her life shit faced drunk and being carted home by a stranger and needing to be taken care of. 

Again, by children! 

He has his reasons and his problems, but amazingly that doesn’t stop this from being a shitty way to grow up. No matter how much Tai & Qrow might love these two, they were not ‘great parents’, I wouldn’t even call them good. 

These two adults were negligent and damaging to the children under their care despite how much they may have loved them, and the fact that is ignored really burns me up inside. 

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wolfboy

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teef

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taps mic. shin soukoku

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Akio trying to convince Utena in the last episode that Anthy's suffering is a tragic but inevitable facet of reality and nothing can be done about it despite him being the primary one responsible for her suffering, and this being part of his smoke and mirrors illusion through which he maintains control, acting like his tower is the highest place in the world and he is the end of the world and there's nothing beyond the limits of his power and it's naive and delusional to think otherwise...and Anthy having internalized this idea that there's no hope for her and there's no possible future for her beyond Akio's abuse...and Utena rejecting this ultimately not out of some abstract idea of heroism or nobility or some clear idea of how to fix things but simply because she cannot accept it and she loves Anthy too much to not try to do something...and that giving Anthy the hope and courage to believe in a future where she can be loved and be happy and the strength to choose to leave herself and even subtly mock Akio's own immaturity and self-delusion on her way out the door as she goes to step over the line to the outside world while Akio is shocked because he never considered that his power over her was not absolute and he too believed in the indestructibility of the system he created...the revolution was the power to imagine the future!! the world (the stage) is free and wide!!

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If I die today, could you be the one to kill me?

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KINNPORSCHE TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY EVENT

— Ep 8: Favourite Scene

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imagine you got drunk for the second time in your life, first time in a decade, and wake up with no memory of anything you did, half naked in bed next to the man you’re secretly in love with. he laughs and tells you that he just took off both your clothes to mess with you, but don’t worry nothing happened. the pieces of the dismembered corpse you’ve been collecting start screaming, and in reaction, the love of your life reaches inside your robe to fish out his flute. after you subdue the corpse with a musical duet, the psychopath you love more than anything starts slapping the dismembered bare torso and talking about how much the dude must have worked out to look this hot. you are Lan Wangji, the most upright, principled member of the strictest clan in the area, how do you deal with the fact that your reaction to this is jealousy?

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The Ruins - Ibrahim Nagi

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The ​Heart Killers | GMMTV 2024

#...👀

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Do you believe in destiny?

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I mean, technically Rhodes was risking himself just by training cinder in the first place, he may have truly believed that running away meant she’d always be running

The fact he was secretly training her at all was potentially against the law

Answer me something: What actual risk was Rhodes putting himself in by training Cinder? What ACTUAL repercussions might he have faced if it were found out that he was training a young 'servant' (BIG-ass airquotes there) girl? A slap on the wrist? A scolding perhaps? Being banned from the establishment? Like you said, he was only potentially breaking the law.

You know what WOULD have been breaking the law? What would have been a REAL risk for Rhodes to take in order to help Cinder? Getting her out of that hotel.

But he didn't do that, did he?

You can give Rhodes all the sympathetic hand-wringing you like, at the end of the day, Midnight made it abundantly clear EXACTLY how far Rhodes was actually willing to go to help Cinder:

Right up to the point where helping Cinder would require him to break the law. After that? Well that's just too bad. The law which, mind you, was totally okay with child slavery.

When it came down to either helping an abused, tortured young girl, or upholding 'The System', Rhodes picked the system.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Rhodes was not a 'bad' guy, but he also wasn't an especially good guy either. At least not where and when it truly MATTERED to be good.

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pubby

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a little comic about kisses and curses. happy halloween!

(all my comics are here!)

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what i love about mlp fim is that the power of friendship is not a symbolic thing it is a real and tangible force so potent it can be channeled into killing people