I still haven't watched Boy (2010) but my beloved mutual @nofeelingisfinall has such a sincerity for it that I was inspired by proxy for them.
I couldn't decide which was the most successful so here's all four versions...
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it just takes some time.
you're in the middle of the ride.
everything - everything - will be just fine. everything, everyone will be alright.
(just take some time.)
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Dear x
I just had therapyyy. Was a very interesting session, I cried AGAIN. Don’t think I’ve had a session where I didn’t cry lmao. Didn’t talk about you, first session where that didn’t happen LOL. Anyways, I don’t know why I feel the need to write to you every time I have a session. I guess it’s because you were such a big part of my life and still are. Anyways, I just had dinner with r. It was very nice. Been skating a lot by where we used to work. I went in twice and it brings back a lot of memories. Sometimes I wonder if this is really where our story began and ends. And what a shame it would be if it is. I think of what we would say to each other if we saw each other again. I think I would smile at you, I hope you would smile back too.
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Thinking a lot about how Simon himself is, in essence, a walking ship of Theseus. At what point between Simon and Ice King did he become a different person? The crown changed him, sure, but it mostly just scrambled what was already there in his brain. And we know that even after becoming “himself” again, he’s been fundamentally altered by the experience. Ice King is still with him, even if the crown isn’t.
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sometimes, i read something and i get reminded of how much i feel for you
like when clementine von radics wrote “i’m afraid i will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again”, because it’s been, what, 10 years? and i still feel like a fool, still dream for your warm voice and kind eyes, and i use them to calm myself at night, alone, when i tremble, i think of you and keep you as my anchor, like a ship i carry you everywhere with me.
but what are the chances i’ll see you again? we haven’t seen each other in 4 years, you have a life and family and you have it build as a tall, steady house, long before i came and made a silly stupid cardboard copy of it so i can grow my garden of ivy over something that resembles it. and i watered it non-stop, nurturing it, as if i ever needed to, because it would have grown despite everything, because like me, all it does know is how to extend, how to spill over things, how to try in vain to protect something, no matter how hard you try to keep in inside.
i’m ivy because i don’t know when to stop, how to stop, i grow bigger and bigger in hopes no one outside will see the corners of the cardboard copy and in my vain hopes of helping, i always end up hurting the things i touch.
and what if i see you again? how will i hide my love from your ever-knowing eyes? how will i pretend i wouldn’t throw myself in the middle of the traffic so you would save me again, like you did 10 years ago? how will i pretend to be fine when all i ever known was to need you. how will i stop myself from spilling my disgusting love all over the table, praying you won’t run away at the red mess?
and if you run, how will i save me by myself?
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something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.
“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”
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