#Boy I love this anime so much

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[uchiwaflame]

frimmel has my heart

#sousou no frieren #frimmel #frieren #himmel #frieren fanart #anime fanart #artists on tumblr #my art #frieren at the funeral #frieren: beyond journey's end #frieren x himmel #uchiwaflame #art #I love this scene SO MUCH #it's so beautiful #himmel is such a gentleman BEST BOY

[airborneice]

i think we all know who the REAL star of season 3 is

i'm making a vague attempt to pace out this season by doing a drawing after each episode, so anyway here's my new fave character

#rip to my friend and brother who had to hear me start screaming with delight 5 minutes in when this guy showed up #THEY BROUGHT BACK MY BOY #I MEAN ITS A DIFFERENT ONE AND ITS A GIRL BUT ITS STILL THE DIRT GUYS. THANK YOU #whoever on the creative team made this decision i owe you my life #these guys are animated in the most delightful way and i love them #hilda spoilers #hilda season 3 #hilda season 3 spoilers #season 3 spoilers #hilda s3 spoilers #is that enough spoilers tags #yeah this is my fanart for episode 1. did something happen in that ep i was too busy looking at the creature of all time #jk i loved the episode so much. everyone better be so grateful that i chose not to draw the thing instead for this post i love himb #s3 is knocking it out of the park with funky little guys #hilda the series #hilda netflix #stray sod #hilda loam #art tag

[skialdi]

🌻Sabo + sunflower and symbolism

A little self-indulgent Sabo I drew for myself for my birthday.

#revolutionary sabo #sabo #sabo one piece #one piece fanart #one piece #;; my art #skialdi art #digital art #anime art #fanart #sunflowers #I will love you forever if you can guess the symbolism of this piece #the pins string and sunflower itself over his eye have meaning hehe #happy birthday to mee #I love this so much 😭 #I'm so happy with how it turned out #please enjoy my boy

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!! #video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet. #the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but. #good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort??? #and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it.. #if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another.... #For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret... #Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

[thoughtsareclouded]

He looks so pretty here wtf

#pretty #pretty boy #pretty baby #your honour i love him so much #kakashi #kakashi hakate #hatake kakashi #kakashi sensei #kakashi senpai #sixth hokage #rokudaime hokage #hokage kakashi #naruto #boruto #anime #naruto series #naruto fandom #shinobi #ninja #konoha #hidden leaf village #konohagakure #team 7 #team seven #kakashi fanart

[temeyes]

boyish smile

#im a worm... a LIAR!!!!!!! i said i wasn't in the mood to draw... #but i woke up thinking about this mfer........ and i was inspired......... #it's really nice to see fictional characters you grew up with grow up with you too LOL #he's my favorite blond boy.. ilysm #i have so much to say but im too shy to ramble how much i love him HAHAHAHA #haikyuu!! #haikyu!! #haikyu #hq!! #haikyuu #tsukishima kei #kei tsukishima #tsukki #tsukki kei #haikyuu tsukki #art #fanart #digital art #digital drawing #sketch #doodle #anime #manga

[akantorrr]

~ Greetings from Limbo!

#ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #v2 ultrakill #minos prime #sisyphus prime #the bois are having a great night out! #another old-ish thing from a couple months ago #I still love this so much #v1 going ✌😊 is my spirit animal #v2 is just chilling #don't worry about them #and sisyphus is not impressed by whatever minos is trying to do #gabe is just happy to be there :> #holding his bf gentle like hamborgir #akans art

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

Honorary appreciation post for this mentally exhausted sweetheart.

#i am utterly in love #beautiful traumatized fictional man #my beloved #he’s the bestest boy #he’s full of heart #so many more expectations he feels he has to live up to because he’s just too young for all of this #he’s being pulled in all directions #but he is TRYING his best #they fumbled so hard with this movie #it was supposed to be about him but the entire thing was another propaganda piece #about how he’s going down the wrong path by straying from Batman’s morals #a decade of no animated Jason content since utrh there’s so much more they should’ve done with him #not counting yj cuz he barely made an appearance #jason todd #dc #death in the family (2020) #ditf #my post #stills #favs

[beif0ngs]

PEAK SILLINESS

#One Piece #opgraphics #Monkey D. Luffy #Joy Boy #*mine #flashing tw #it's been a day but i'm still going absolutely INSANE over G5 Luffy finally being animated!! #literally obsessed with the way he moves around!! #he's so bouncy and light on his feet~ #and the cartoon sound effects really adds to the silliness of G5 uGH i love it so much

[ebysse]

snape celebration 2023 week 3 - “the spy”

occlumency, before meeting the dark lord.

#*slaps roof of snape* this bad boy can hold so much trauma in him! #the way i approach comics is kinda like frames of an animation..for better or for worse #ahhhh i do wish i could animate..all the snape scenes in my head #this thing took 2 weeks of redraws…..forcing myself to post it and move on TT.TT #if only i could will art into existence purely from thought! #i do love drawing hands though… #mine #severus snape #hp fanart #snape #snapecelebration2023 #occlumency

[hellspawnmotel]

I finished wild arms yesterday! what a great game

#wild arms #wild arms 1 #cecilia adlehyde #jack van burace #rudy roughnight #earth golem #art tag #i really really loved this one im so glad i finished it #its really fun and not overly long for a jrpg (about 30 hours) #also gets my seal of approval in that despite what all promotional material would have you believe cecilia is the main character #like its not even a question she just is. compounded by the fact that if you want to you can play as her the whole time #my biggest criticism would prob be that by the end of the game the party feels kind of unbalanced especially in boss fights #cecilia can do so much shit and the boys basically just do different kinds of big damage lol #cecilia can also do big damage but shes too busy healing and buffing and debuffing and all that #its not all that hard though so its not a huge deal just kind of funny #anyway i definitely want to play the rest of the series at some point. apparently theres an anime too?? exciting

[mblue-art]

sans au sexyman polls doooodle

congrats to the kings<3 🫶🫶🫶

#utmv #cross!sans #error!sans #uf!sans #underfell!sans #fell!sans #sans au sexyman polls #no talk error angy #m rambles #after this tag #unfortunately i was not able to join in on the fun in xtwitter (or tumblr even) during the polls' duration 😔 #but this year's results were interesting :)! #i super love all of the grapehead / lightbulb-head glowing blush cross art so much why is he so cute and handsome and rrhrfgrhgh #squeezes him like a stress ball /j #cross deserves it bc hes HOT theres no denying it tbh #he is everywhere and ppl like him and angst enjoyers like him and he has an ANIME (animation) so hes like. an anime boy. kinda. yk #/ hot - / handsome - / cute - / charming - / goofy - / sweet --- he checks some other boxes i wont mention them all bUT #HHELLOOO DO YOU SEE WHY. HE LIVES IN MY HEAD RENT-FREE. EVERY. DAY. #he is SO easy to put in Situations and ppl have fun with that and /puts head in hands/ anyway. #me looping strings around the pins i tacked onto their pictures and looking for their similarities (insert that one meme) #(if anyone wants me to actually go insane feral weird and simp/info dump/ramble and be annoying abt my beloveds in a post lmk 👍)

[jojosbizarrekakyoinobsession]

I love, love, LOVE how once Kakyoin becomes close with his new friends and feels comfortable with fully expressing his true self around them, he occasionally lets himself drop the good boy honours student façade and turns into the rudest and snarkiest crusader ever, and of course this snark is mostly directed at Polnareff and sometimes Joseph. He somehow outranks Jotaro for being the rudest at times lmao.

#i know 3 of these examples are from the anime and it’s all a discombobulated mess #just roll with it pls #kakyoin had so much more snark in the anime than in the manga sometimes what a lil shit #it’s so funny #i love him regardless of his sass #cherry boi #kakyoin noriaki #jjba #jojo #stardust crusaders #jojo’s bizarre adventure

[ssaraexposs]

Sometimes I think about the fact that both Atsushi and Aku trusted the other to the point of confessing their deepest secret.

While fighting Ivan Goncharov , Atsushi confesses seeing the headmaster of the orphanage looming near him constantly. Akutagawa was the only person he actually opened up about it. Not the ADA members, not Dazai (even though Dazai knows how much the headmaster meant to him).

While fighting Ouchi Fukuchi, Akutagawa confesses having a lung disease, which will kill him sooner than later. Atsushi is most likely the only person Akutagawa talked to about it (if we don't include Gin and maybe Dazai).

When I think about it, I start tearing up a little bit more...

#bsd #shin soukoku #sskk #atsushi nakajima #akutagawa ryuunosuke #bungo stray dogs #bsd manga #bungo stray dogs manga #bungo stray dogs anime #bsd atsushi #bsd akutagawa #i love my boys #enemies to partners #so real #they trust each other so much #sobbing

[sillycathorrors]

every now and again i get depressed about the current state of the filmmaking industry and then i see a movie that makes me go ‘wow. im gonna create shit like this even if it kills me’ and i think thats an important sentiment to have in this age of ai and not paying actors/writers enough

#i have genuine passion for filmmaking its just seeing so many filmmakers/directors talk about how much they hate making movies #is really disheartening yk? #this post was brought to you by the boy and the heron btw #thats today’s ‘holy fuck im in love with movies’ film #filmmaking #cinemetography #film industry #the boy and the heron #studio ghibli #animation #my thoughts #sorrens rambles