#. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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this one tweet where someone was talking abt like . . . how one thing lending itself to one version of a common mischaracterization of gojo is that ppl forget that he isn't the main protagonist, and the typical lawful good morals of a shonen hero don't apply to him. they apply to yuuji, because he's the mc. gojo, though, he can be awful. he can be selfish to a point capped off by the strict self - disciplinary code that he developed after life - altering experiences as a teen failing for the first time to save someone physically, and failing to save someone mentally. he's capable and willing to be cold, to weigh out his options logically at the cost of sacrifices, even when objectively acknowledging as much. the good side of his heart and all his best intentions are there, but they're also incredibly selective. give him the trolley problem and his answer won't always be impartial. like megumi, he'll pick and choose. like nobara, he won't be swayed by just anyone. he's grey, these characters are all grey all over, and there's no right answer.

#they're grey except where they're red . . . . . #bc the blood on their hands . . . #honorable mention @ choso #ok i took a break let's keep writing :flex: #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐨𝐮𝐭. #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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so like, fully intentional to give gojo this irritated reddened discoloration under his eye compared to the more straightforwardly optimistic way the scene's laid out in the manga, and if it's all safe and fair to assume that the implication could be that gojo had cried in his sleep, that's actually a pretty great full circle within the collective flashback arc, just . . . . . gojo ridiculing and openly compounding crying with being weak, him standing there and saying with full conviction that somebody strong wouldn't cry. and ending in the sum of the memory, of a deep deep regret that shapes everything about who he chooses to be. what he failed to be. he didn't get it back then. he's not slipping up the same way twice.

#. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲. #anyway ✨✌️😩 canon shit #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥. : psd.

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maladjusted gojo is actually so real. spoiled gojo born in a world in love with him right off the bat, didn't socially adjust so much as take a running start, never watching where he's going, touching what he wants and taking all he likes. gojo who never again reaches past the surface level once his spring is over, won't give more than generous flashes behind a mask with a smile stuck on, leveling with yuuta, momentary honesty for someone deserving of it, guiding megumi whose advancement is his treasured personal project, asking a favor from nanami and knowing the cost for cooperation. but gojo when things were an endless depth of truth and reciprocation, jealous gojo. whiny and poorly communicated. huffing and insisting he should get to stand outside with geto and shoko even if he doesn't smoke, even if he fidgets and complains and gets bored, can't stand not being included, feeling like he's missing out. wants to be a shining point of consideration in their minds, a person you can't live without, wants to be loved back.

#he's not the main character he's just got The Syndrome #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲. #he'll be called big headed. selfish. but it doesn't feel selfish to him. #it feels like an open ache wanting to be filled. what's so wrong about that?

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Q. 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥   ?    A.   𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠. jokes are simple and easy to comprehend, and laughter helps with all that tension in your belly. you just want a break from the other stuff, and if someone makes you laugh, then that means that they care, in some way, about your happiness. especially if, after making you laugh the once, they try &. do it again. if laughter is the greatest medicine, then you can share it and no one has to be sick. it's contagious, and free to give and receive. there is never too much of it. there is never too much of you. i hope when you laugh you speak it from your belly. that you use your muscles &. let it fill the room. that you know the sound rings like a bell. i hope that when you smile you show your teeth.

𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 : idkk 𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 : @withsorrowandregret @vartouhix @floraguard @parieha @staggerbackwards @sarastuss @bonbaiye + u !

#o #o o o o o o o o o ok #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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#. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥. : psd. #physical reality of death / the psychological death of ego required to occur before the mind can be liberated to reach limitless wisdom #the base truth of the world down to its atomic level being a reflection of life in all its phases and movement and superposition #death a natural inevitability and suffering as the same. the dying granted the dignity of serenity instead of prolonging death's imminence #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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What is Gojo’s view on Riko?

so, riko is the first weak person that gojo ever held legitimate regard for, and while this progression in his character is way more of a quiet background arc than any sort of main focus, it still lends itself hugely to the total sum of the gojo who winds up walking into shibuya a couple chapters later. something super important to note is that gojo and geto mutually agree to protect this girl if she changes her mind about the merger before they ever meet her, and the significance in that is how gojo's the one to suggest it, and that it's all from geto's influence. the quiet running progression stems from that, from nakamura's explanation that this wasn't gojo maturing on his own but rather him allowing geto to always do all the emotionally supportive heavy lifting &. relying on him to be the moral compass, despite how loudly he bemoaned his righteous sense - whenever geto course corrects him, gojo complains, but he always listens. this isn't true for everyone.

riko is where this extends beyond just monkey see monkey do ( haha ), because riko isn't the same as everyone else. if anything, she's honestly a lot like gojo, with her not giving a single shit about respecting him or his seniority or his power status, and her having an ego of her very own re : being deemed special &. different from birth because of some intangible valuable quality that she was born with. what'd been an important mission put up on a pedestal purely because of the tengen aspect gets eclipsed by riko herself - becoming more than cargo with a strict shipping date or the object of the general unattached opinion that forcing kids to literally sacrifice their youth even for a greater good is no bueno ( hey doesn't that sound familiar ? : thinking : hmmmmmmmm ) in his own mind and on his own time as according to which direction that trusty moral compass pointed when geto urged him to have compassion, gojo knows the person in her when the world only ever knew the vessel. it's a mutual idea.

#so ready for the rest of HI ! : D (lying) #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐨𝐮𝐭. #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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so, gojo and the flowers from the vivid vice OP and the way there's no real explanation beyond speculation, like it possibly just being a super literal reference to hanami / the title of one of the goodwill event chapters ( but that's kinda boring and the hanami battle is straight up spoiled in the opening like ten seconds later anyway ) so my take on this is totally unfounded but like, ok. in the animation and in the merchandise art, it's still . . . fairly unclear what the flowers he's holding definitively are, but across all the most plausible options, the flower meaning stays relatively consistent : it might mean something unattainable, something that shouldn't exist but does. an impossible dream coming true, a living miracle. it might mean memories, everlasting friendship. death, mourning, love, trust. and then the song itself describes a painful struggle, conflicts and suffering, the impossible choices you're gonna be forced to make if you wanna stay on this path. so, all this and the way that JJK0 would release a year later to cover events that happened a year prior to the first season, for me i think that this clip with the flowers kind of . . . serves basically the same purpose as slipping in a 2 second clip of yuuta with miguel. neither of them feature in this season, general viewers wouldn't know who they're even supposed to be. but that clip's still there, still reminding you that, hey. keep yuuta in mind. the movie comes out between the first and second season. remember yuuta. remember gojo's grief, remember what he's mourning. remember that geto is dead, geto has always been dead. so why is geto still here ? keep that in mind. don't forget. it's about to become the most crucial detail. it's about to create the plot.

#long post #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲. #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥. : psd. #also seen the common thought that the imagery at the start of the second OP feels rlly reminiscent to that of a funeral #just the dark clothes and the dark umbrellas and the overall somber tone and the context of how the first cour wraps up #but y'know so much varying mileage i'm juss Talking

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is satoru competitive? i thought of this question because a friend mentioned satoru playing uno...

o he's got the competitive asshole spirit in spades, he's a whole natural born show - off, doesn't even need to shove 15 cards up his ass to win because he's just that good. but the thing with competition is that you need a competitor. without an equal other who could match gojo's absurd attributes & natural genius, there is no competition. just him lazing around, already knowing the outcome and declining to invest where the effort was just gonna be like cracking a peanut with a sledgehammer. there wasn't anyone equal to him after his youth with geto ended, no person who could challenge him and even less who'd wanna bother with the whole hassle of it. so he kinda just . . . parks himself. and picks up his feet and lets it all happen where he can watch.

#and then came sukuna #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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thinking abt gojou &. sensory overloading, abt that one birthday illustration where gojou's wearing ear plugs, how even his automatic rct doesn't completely prevent the fatigue from smacking if he isn't keeping his eyes blacked out, how compensating for his taxed out brain with sugar and caffeine just developed into regular cravings and a mild dependency, how he doesn't sleep for more than a few hours at a time. thinking abt gojou laying stretched out with a wet towel splat across his forehead, abt migraines that lead into nausea and circle back again, can't take an aspirin without a big glass of juice &. the shove of his fingers to flood it all the way down, dozes off midday on fancy loveseats and expensive desk chairs and leaning his cheek on panda's side, but hardly ever in an actual bed, hardly ever for the whole night through. wakes up with a headache, drowns it out in chemical spikes, cycles over and over.

#gojou sleeping when his face halfway smooshed into the pillow whenever he *does* lay down proper #or that thing where you put your whole arm over your face #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲. #medication cw #give him a safe place. let him disappear for 12 hours and just Sleep

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thinking abt teenage gojo getting squirmy and sulky when he gets in trouble with yaga, about teacher gojo whose most effective argument against yuuta's forced isolation is that it gets lonely living alone. thinking about how he's so many things and not all of them good or sweet or soft, but there's still this exposed strip of him that's like touching a live wire, like a cut rubbing itself raw. the bare human nature to crave closeness and lovingness, but being too much like a serrated blade to really properly claim any of it for himself. can't touch him most days, and shouldn't touch him on all the others. he's too unwieldy. too large and too heavy, too jagged. you'll get tired, or cut up, and you'll set him back down where you found him either way. let him stay a stray in a box.

#*it gets lonely living alone* and then he plops yuji right next door to megumi and walks around all proud of himself eheh #can't do it for himself but he'll handpick his students and fit them together like perfectly harmonious puzzle pieces #knowing he alone can't be *everything* they need and having no ego about utilizing the strengths of others to compensate for weaknesses #that tend to be more emotional or psychological #playing it all by the seat of his pants but good intuition is his secret weapon ~ #. . . . . . . . . . . or maybe it's just dumb luck #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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headcanon prompt: satoru’s first kiss

OKAY, SO. it wasn't especially significant, or meaningful, or memorable. ask and he'd think and struggle to say exactly when or what the very first was, but at the time it was a nice little milestone, a page marker for expected things he was guaranteed to excel with flying colors at now that he'd left the clan's residential estate and achieved independence as a tech student. still, in spite of intentions and those same expectations, he'd polarized himself from his only classmates for a while. difference in backgrounds and dispositions dulled the shine of being the gojo satoru, so he pursued those superficial connections outside the grounds, spent every other afternoon nagging for admittance to navigate nearby sites, to shop and sample foods and put his striking anonymity to full use around the usual hangout spots for neighboring students - the sorts that'd benefit from his attention as much as he did theirs, mingling groups mutually thrilling in the novelty of something as typical as flirting after school. it was one of those days, usual and surface leveled, a finger curled under a girl's chin like the way they do in the movies and a lingering peck behind a shared booth, feeling full with melon soda and little scattering butterflies. they hadn't exchanged given names and that was a ceiling hit, a milestone passed, nothing bitter in the shallowness, and she'd carry the thrill of the silliness of a day with the blue - eyed boy to her following classes. that was what it was, what he was : silly, thrilling. nothing any more meaningful than just that. it'd lose its shine eventually, the gimmick in accepting childish dates from anyone bold enough to offer becoming amusing, but not as shiny as that year ago, as two years ago. he'd grow, and so too would his taste for connections, unfulfilled with superficiality and unwilling to compromise, even if that meant staying empty.

#ty for the prompt !! :-O #i've been out sick so this was ahh #very yes hm #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐨𝐮𝐭. #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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an ideal gift to honor somebody’s accomplishments or goals.

#phew . . . . #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲. #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥. : psd. #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭 + 𝐬𝐠. : ( but right now ) i'm just not strong enough for you.

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Q. 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳   ?    A.   𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨. you die saving the world as you were always supposed to. peace comes only with your blood. the world will remember you for centuries. they will write poems, create art, &. film movies all about you. no one will remember what you were before your death. maybe you don't even know it either. you have spent so long saving the world time after time that there is nothing left of you except the heroism. you die never knowing love.

𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 : @ayahimes <3 𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 : idk whoever hasn't already !

#. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲. #when gojou was born and the world changed on the spot #inadvertently making the lives of sorcerers harder and harder with the rebalancing of the power scales #when gojou's existence alone holds their entire society in place based wholly on the threat of what he *could* do #world renown and known by name but the list of people who really *know him* gets whittled down smaller and smaller #who even is he beyond that and how could he ever be anything but the one who has to hold it all together over and over until it kills him #phew

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Q. 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥   ?    A.   𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐤. you are made of light. your cheeks hurt from grinning, sun - kissed &. lifting in a bubbling laugh. you should be kissed there. and often. a reminder that you are a joy to be around, and that your smiling face is a gift.

𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 : @sarastuss &. @vartouhix <3 𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 : @kawajoro @neonbitch @wra1thes @lunarette + u !

#being called a joy is Not in the room with us rn unfortunately #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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Q. 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶   ?    A.   𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞. someone hurts you or pisses you off, and you don't do anything. at first. but you hold that feeling of rage in your chest for weeks after the fact, acting nice but silently hating their guts, pretending like all is forgiven until you can ruin their life &. hurt them the way they hurt you. it's calculated. but when you've executed your revenge, will you be satisfied ?

𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 : @vartouhix <3 𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐 : @unmachine @fenrirs @crimsnwng @guujies @killerhubby @vtriol + u !

#i laughed but y'know what . . . . . #when gojou's waxing poetic to ijichi about his 'dream' #when he laughs and smiles and shows his teeth in gakuganji's face #still waters boiling over and #in the end it isn't satisfying #in the end it isn't fun or triumphant or vindicating. it's a necessary end to a hurt far extending just himself #. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲.

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difficult person test.

#. ☁️☁️ 〃 ⋯ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲. #shocked . . . . . awed . . . . . . .