#oh boy time 2 tag

[jestroer]

Couldnt finish this lil guy for a few days! Im not used to being out of the house for 12 hours of the day but oh well!

#More hermits in dresses boys! #i have more plans but i saw this pic of a dove with big fluffy tail and thought of grian for some reason #hermits in dresses! #<-- pretty sure all of my hermits in dresses tagged with this #court jester's art #court jester's dress moment #grian #hermitcraft #college kind of consumes most of my time at the minute #its a lot more than school cause i also need to ride there for 2+ ours and back the same thing #but oh well #for now im fine lets see how that will go!

[todayisyourturntolose]

hi postal fans

#oh boy tagging time! #postal #postal dude #postal 1 #postal 2 #postal 3 #postal 4 #postal brain damaged #corkscrew rules #postal movie #zack ward #the other dude

[sparring-spirals]

The parallels, in Imogen, who had spent years, and years, and years, running from the storm. Felt that fear in every inch of her and had fled it, for years. The only directive she ever had when the sky turned red, her only defense. Run. And only recently, so recently, had she started to do something else, started to screw up that courage to walk into it, to face it head on, to do something, anything, other than run. Sitting after a nightmare in the darkness with Fearne and Orym and Laudna around her, promising they'll be there, promising they'll help, promising she isn't alone.

The parallels to this battle, to her, running, her being quickest and cleanest to exit, heart in her throat, hoping against all odds they can get out too-

She's running, of course she's running, she's hiding, she hasn't left, not yet, but she's running.

And Orym falls.

Orym falls, and Orym was the one to put a hand on her knee and tell her, intent, urgent, that she wasn't alone. Orym, sweet Orym, who trusts her, right? To do good, to stay good-

And she stops running, and she gets angry, and furious, she flies up, she plants herself as a distraction, as a prize, demands STOP.

She flies into the eye of the storm.

(The eye of a hurricane is the calmest part. The rest of the storm rages on).

Far below, Fearne falls. Fearne, sweet and fickle and a matched pair with Orym, Fearne who watches her with worry whenever she wakes up shaking, Fearne, who wrapped a bracelet around her wrist so Imogen would know when it was a nightmare, so she could look down and know she could just wake up and be surrounded by them again.

(Is the bracelet still there? Would Imogen even want to look?)

Pleading, now, desperate, angry, negotiating- what do you WANT? What do you want. Her friends, her friends, scattered far below and hurt and broken, scraping themselves together and trying so hard to haul themselves upright, trying to give each other those last little scraps of healing. Trying. Trying so hard, so far, far below.

"I want you to give in"

(It felt wonderful.) (Maybe I should just give in.)

She doesn't give in, she doesn't. She fights. She attacks. She tries to give herself up.

"Is she your favorite?"

"Ill go with you! I give in!"

She tries. She tries. She tries to give up. She tries to give in.

Laudna falls.

Imogen doesn't give in. The storm takes her.

The storm takes all of them, by the end.

#critical role #cr spoilers #c3e33 #imogen temult #bell's hells #character meta #okay folks im writing this between meetings so i cant put the essay in the tags here that i want to #but like: 1- im still figuring out how to process fearne and orym in a way that approaches the emotions of the deaths #while being aware a lot of details are still in flux and nothing is set #2- holy SHIT the way things lined up was awfuo but uh. uhhh. man. the thoroughlines. fearne and orym and laudna specifically #anyway YES this is about imogen but its also a good lens for Me Specifically to chew through the latter half of that encounter bc oh boy #okay time to go to another meeting #have fun folks!!!!! #my meta #imogen meta #narrative meta #ashton technically got out!!! fcg the healer on empty. chet trying so hard to draw fire. #theres SO much in that encounter

[jichanxo]

sooooo... *twirls her hair* how many asks should i send until kuwagami art. jk as well. the real question will be: does it happen often that someone else’s art inspires you? in fandom spaces specifically

well you see it’s like a loyalty card program, every 10 asks or so you get a complimentary kuwagami

just kidding you can just breathe in my direction and I’ll be tempted to draw them. kuwagami blast! (you've caught me on a... just okay art day lol)

(people still like kabedons, right?)

anyway for my actual answer: in terms of direct inspiration, it doesn't really happen much? the last two times i did art directly based on someone else's work is probably this one from this fic, and also that time i drew art of someone else's judgment au. oh! and there's that moriohpsycho art based on this comic! (filthyguts' work is so very. hgngngghh. very good.) nothing else really comes to mind, and when i think of the other things i've been into recently there hasn't been as much opportunity for that to happen...

flex and herds = strong fixation but lmao. almost nobody else made stuff about them. nobody is surprised umineko = surprisingly i don't read much umineko fanfiction? and in terms of illustration, i certainly picked up imagery and indirect inspiration but nothing concrete enough for me to give an example... now that i think about it, i did once draw andromalius from redaction/sunny, but that was years ago, and also mostly because i was acquainted with the writer. ...i don't have that artwork on hand right now death note = didn't really get involved with the fandom + i enjoyed my own ideas well enough! ...i can't recall if i drew long-hair-L art before or after seeing other artists do it. and as for everything else the same kind of reasoning applies. didn't really get involved with the fandom or wasn't really compelled to make art in response to stuff i saw, or i just don't remember anymore.

buuuuuuut if we're opening this up to just... pulling ideas from other people? then yeah, all the time, though that kind of goes without saying when you have a creative hobby. ...it's probably going to be hard to come up with examples of this since it's more ambiguous.

there's uhhhhhh... kuwana listens to nickelback which was a @/four-white-trees invention, wasn't it? (EDIT: and @/overdevelopedglasses!) (not tagging in this post so he doesn't feel obligated to read my big ass ask responses 💀) as of writing this, it's not posted but i did end up making kuwagami art based on a nickelback song so. yknow. there's that LMAO

for sawashiro and arakawa, i do sometimes go reference @/todayisafridaynight 's art to help me with my own. ("how did he draw this part of the suit? oh, like that huh? hmm" <- this kind of thing)

and um. i'm not trying to pander to you (at least not this time), but genuinely it's one of the few examples that come to mind at this moment. but when i was writing my first kuwagami fic, i could feel the influence of the ever-changing on my brain... was turning over some of your ideas there...

you remember this? (you even pointed it out in your comment on my fic, and i should've said something then, but whatever i'm saying it now)

that was absolutely because of this

(obligatory poke at anybody else reading this post that you can read passthroughtime's fic here.)

so, um. yeah. not really sure what else to add to that. pretty self evident i think. (i'm always talking about the ever-changing but i don't think i can overstate the impression it left on me at the time)

anyhow there aren't really any other examples off the top of my head! these are all recent examples so they're not so difficult to recall, but there are probably others i've forgotten...

#jitxt #started writing this unsure if i could give many examples and i ended up with more than i expected. nice! #sunny is a very good piece of umineko writing and i should reread it with the author's notes toggled on. and also read redaction #“shouldn't you have read redaction first” n-no. shut up! (besides i think renall said it was fine) #nobody remind me of that 20k note post that's just an uncredited screenshot of sunny. it'll piss me off #as cosmic balance i ought to shill sunny as much as possible #anyway uhhhhhh. the everchanging. #i am awful about receiving compliments (i never know how to respond aside from a rehearsed “thank you”) but i sure am great at giving them! #apologies if i'm laying it on too thick but #1. i am being truthful and #2. i figure it's reparations for all the time i spent as a lurker on the kuwagami ao3 tag #the explosion in my brain when i realised that “the nice person who leaves lots of tags on my kuwagami art” #and “the person who wrote that REALLY FUCKING GOOD FIC” were one and the same. crazy. and now we are mutuals ❤ #it is a little funny thinking of when i'd read your and four-white-trees' work before meeting you #real life foreshadowing for me meeting you both.... #i still have these discord messages of me telling a friend about both your works #basically: (reading an update to the everchanging) wow that was depressing (reading a joke in four-white-trees' fic) nevermind i'm good now #i ought to reread the everchanging and take detailed notes on all the parts i like #just so you know your impact on my brain lol #kuwana calling yagami a pretty boy and meaning it sincerely oh my GOD. rewired my brain

[docthesock]

I will update this as i add more

#oh boy tag time #tmnt #rottmnt #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 1987 #supernatural #cbs elementary #welcome home #teddy ruxpin #sonic #knuckles the echidna #shadow the hedgehog #jrwi riptide #mlp fim #tmnt mutant mayhem #portal 2 #good omens #she ra #saki k #Shigeo Kageyama #tmnt 2012 #slimecicle #<- most all of his characters istg #god i hope that’s all of them #feel free to add on #autism

[azoosepted]

IMFINALLYDONETRANSCRIPTINGCANTOVIPARTONEOHMYGOD

#google translated project moon #anzu says shit #project moon #limbus company #its time to butcher translate this oh boy. #the antagonistic characters have always wound up being the funniest in every canto ive google translated so far #hopkins in canto 1 #dont remember who it was in canto 2 #kromer in canto 3 #dongrang in canto 4 #and ahab in canto 5 #following this pattern hindley and linton are going to be saying the funniest shit ever. #i can post canto vi part one things without spoiler tagging it now right???

[egberts]

girls wake up there's a new worm bike playlist in progress

alana said the new one is way more funky, I've noticed a lot of punk bands are piggy dippin in a funk/punk sound more than a pop/punk sound and honestly? I'm so obsessed.

#its only like half done but ive already had it on repeat for 2 months #truly a I love this song! oh yeah i added it ass playlist #ever since going public with the worm bikes i am more conscious of how incohesive these playlists are #i can have songs bordering on e boy trap music noise alongside what is basically a pop song alongside screamo #but the point was never to have a cohesive sound or vibe. it was to collect new music in one place #and it does that effectively for me even if not everyone who seeks them out has the same taste #also a seperate thought to make these tags extra long: some of them ARE more cohesive and that's the funny part #you can tell my moods of the time or what i was seeking in song. one of them is full of songs about cutting off abusive parents and #simultaneously songs about being happy having a good time healing and starting over #like in a convoluted way that is cohesive and poetic #idk just weird to look back and be able to identify periods of my life with the music i collected now that theres so much of it #wish i could hard copy it but some of these songs are so obscure i feel like it's unrealistic #but i do want to have copies of my VIP list #okay sorry for the long ass rambling tags byyyyeeee

[glass-oranges]

guess who finished it's last artfight refs!! I did!!

A

#help the more human designs for space core and wheatley were made like months ago and i never posted it because i could not figure out rick #and i didn't even like the one i made for fact core so fuck it we ball #also i did have rick idea. scene country mix. thank u #but hi Nigel design is a kinsona!! we both deserve to spontaneously combust <3 #the object head ones and both nigel's refs are the recent ones <3 #my artfight is sodacrush i'm so excited for artfight!! last time i joined right when it started but now i'm preparing early!! #OH BOY THRID TIME REDOING THIS POST SEND HELP😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 #portal 2 #aperture tag #nigel aperture tag #wheatley #space core #fact core #if i have to do this again i am going to 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[b4kuch1n]

been scribblin with the dip pens to prepare for inking the next comic (yuuto⏫’s “origin story” kind of basically) and wow turns out I can do anything I want forever

yuuto’s new friends names of amy and linh >:]c

#UTAU #sawayama yuuto #bakuspecial #[comic tag pending] #I'll be drawing about just the beginning of this whole plot this time round. but boy oh boy if I were paid to serialize this!! #well even if I wont. I will hopefully get to chip away at it a bit at a time. over the next uhhhhh ten years #in another news. I think somethings up with the dip pens. about anything comes out looking good with them #its scary!! I kept looking at my sketches like no way these are gonna work out. but I'll do it for the practice hour #and then I do it and it always turns out pretty good. what the hells!!! thats weird!! thats kinda scary I like it!!! #and like I'm absolutely not even that good with a dip pen yet!! 1/Ive just had these for uhh. two days. and 2/my hands are NOT steady #its why u see me undo and redo a line 298473987 times twice a half hour. it was caught on stream multiple times #but!! the dip pen's making me commit to a line. and also I'm slowly internalizing that anything'd come out okay with them #as long as I have a sketch. boy oh boy is freehanding with these hard #its so. idk its so nice!! its so fun. somehow a lot less pressure than the usual stuff I do lol #I cant wait to really get into drawing this comic... I cant wait to force all of u to look at yuuto&co #you WILL see and hear my baby boy #dskjfhsjk Im so glad the senpai lets me do this. I mean even if he doesnt I will do it anyway. its just gonna suck #but Im so happy I get to do this with him actually #hehehe >:]c

[zellk]

I have begun to ponder about Lana and Rena in Hades II... All the witches stuff suddenly makes it so fucking easy to add them in.... Hopefully some art to come about all this will come......

#Lana is ; ofc ; a witch #Very recluse ??????? like the other witches know her but they haven't seen each other in millenniums or sth #Rena is a witch slayer :) #gameplay wise you'd probably get to choose an alternate path to get to Lana's hut #the first time you get there (or everytime???? you have to fight Rena #When you get to the hut proper Lana would be prob very welcoming if a little ominous... #BUT it makes the boon* #i think to fit her magic Lana would be able to 'overload' one of your boon / upgrade #BUT #it makes it *unstable* #Which means it's good to go for like X minutes and then it has a growing chance to fucking explode #(she can prob also do minor tweaking which is more stable) #(but she's disappointed when you play it safe and if you do it too many times in a row she'll only offer you dangerous choices) #also like Charon there's a way to trigger a fight with her :) #(in phase 2 Rena joins in) #beary talk #beary rambling #oh boy i hope I'll find some energy to at least do doodles of all this #Lana #Rena #Hades #Hades 2 #Hades II #the tags were a mess holy shit i'm never writing so many tags on phone ever again

[le-agent-egg]

Hey wait a minute didnt you draw something for Kiyotaka week yesterday and deleted it because you thought of a better idea five seconds before you fell asleep no nope what do you mean its still august 25th

#danganronpa #kiyotaka ishimaru #kiyotakaweek2023 #trigger happy havoc #dr thh #i am so normal about this man #PLEASE tell me the details on his jacket are visible PLEA #zachs art tag #oh boy i start school in 2 days blorbo projection time

[dizzybevvie]

boy how do you reblog such great things

been cultivating my dash for years. i also found most of them in my drafts

#looked at my drafts to find a Rb about my day / the boy i like (☕) BUT. IT ATE JT LMAO POST IS GONE #however i will do it here and now #SO IT WAS “CULTURE DAY” TODAY BUT MOST PPL USE IT AS NON UNIFORM DAY #I go in & see ☕ in form and go to assembly blah blah blah dont see him again until 3rd period #i sit behind him in english bc we have a room change and i have an excuse hes sososo funny and talks to me like the whole time #same as biology but he got kicked out for talking too much lol #then at lunch he disappears nd im a little bummed BUT HE APPEARS FROM THE HALL AND INVITES ME #so i go and bring my friends too and we sit while he & some younger years dance #and hes dancing and slaying etc etc all flamboyant /pos /pos /pos sometimes on the stage sometimes near us #near us he looks. fucking DEAD into my eyes and sings along to the song when its like “i know you like me” or sum #NDJSBDJSBE AHHHHH #and im sat a little away from the group but he sits with me specifically #friendgroup takes a pic without me really noticing & my friend Annabelle jokingly goes “why is Bev looking at ☕ with so much love” #I laugh it off. but ohhh ny god u have no idea. i was heart eyes motherfucker the whole time #HES SO CUTE IM SCREAAAAMING WITH THE WAY HIS KIPPAH KINDA MOVES HIS HAIR & HIS NEW GLASSES & SHIRT THAT ISNT UNIFORM SO I CAN SEE HIS WAIST #UGHFJSBSKSB MY GOD MY GOD MY GOD #hes so cool its so scary to be around him #then in PE we were meant to habe just dance for the last 2 weeks but theres been no available room #our group were in the gym but we got permission to wonder around instead #☕ says “whatre you doing?” i say “walking aimlessly” and he says “OH MY GOD PERFECT SAME LETS DO IT TOGETHER” #so him & me & my friends r walking and then im like. can we play just dance in the tennis courts #So he gets it on his phone starts playing and dibs me as a partner for Girlfriend and Timber. oh my sweet lord. #GODDD HES SO PRETTY AND FUNNY AND COOL IM OBSESSED WITH HIM OH MY GOD. #so anyway. thats the answer to your question LMAOOO #loz tag #asks #beverly says stuff #the bev is gay chronicles #☕ #like before i wasnt sure if i LIKE-LIKED him or if it was hyperfix or smthn. im now 100%sure i really really like him

[lonelycornergremlin]

“Dazzling lights distract the moon’s telling of time, but the boom of music keeps Sage Island burning bright. Welcome one and all, to the yearly Electrical Twilight!”

“Me? A dancer for the show?”

“Well, one of our dancers had a change of plans, and Jiyuu recommended you.”

“Hah..he did? Fine, I’ll join.”

“Hey, Yuu, I’ll make this the best parade of both worlds!”

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hi @twstedstoryshop i’m a drawer opens and closes and dies

i can draw :D i am artist mm

also, i hate how i have ideas for this event, how dare you, your monster!! being the start of my thinkus of my brainstorm, of my ideass

i, do not like you anymore ]:< bit also brain juice

also th google translate fo r the kanji at the bototm ily

#Electrical Twilight #idk if any one’ll actually uses that tag but #twisted wonderland #twst #twisted wonderland oc #twst oc #you ahv e no idea myb rain power i was gonna edit it so it looked like you pullded them but noo because it actually requires work #i even drew Jiyuu my baby boy for the one of two cards shown on the banner but uh oh i dont wan ttoanhmkre #becuase no #and if takes time #also i sped when i forst staw this like i finished it in 2-3 days but whent #ok but what if more #which was a bad idea #bad idea time ahha #hahahah #aa #o also submission

[vocalmocha]

Really wanted to try one of these six fanart things! But my friends had lots of suggestions, so I did nine! It was actually a lot of fun, so I might do another round in the future!

#oh boy tag time #destiny 2 #destiny titan #foo fighters #jojo part 6 #fred crumbs #he’s my dad #splatoon #omori aubrey #omori #spamton #deltarune #star butterfly #svtfoe #the drifter #hyper light drifter #aloy horizon #horizon zero dawn #mileena #mortal kombat #apologies if to many tags! #still very much learning tumblr! #sixfanarts

[whumpacabra]

Day 7 - Radio Silence

Bombing mention, military setting, teammate captured, assumed death of a teammate, adult character referred to as kid, angst

[Directly follows Wolf Down]

Comms-off ops were freeing in a way Ghost had forgotten.

It wasn’t that he disliked working with Wolf or that he thought the apprentice was slowing him down. (On the contrary, he thought keeping the young gun around was improving his own instincts and skills). He simply…forgot how comforting the silence was.

No sitreps, no copies, no static crackling at his peripheral - just night air and blood on his hands. There was something primal about it, something that reminded him he was no avenging angel working to remind wicked men why they should fear the shadows.

He was just another weapon with a price.

And weapons didn’t have to think, didn’t have to worry - he just needed to complete the job and move on.

Perhaps that’s what motivated him to be so ruthlessly efficient that night. Kill the guards. Enter west wing of compound. Descend placing charges. Set the fuse. Return to the surface.

Watch the world burn.

And repeat.

Their targets were spread across hundreds of hectares, but the flat desert plains let the crack of shattered concrete and screams of warped rebar echo like fiery thunder in the distance.

Ghost had cleared the south bunkers with time to spare. Time in blissful, terrifying silence with nothing to do but pace the rendezvous point and admire his work from afar.

Ten minutes passed. Then twenty.

His pacing intensified, his track making a rut in the sandy soil beside the freeway. Wolf should have finished by now.

His apprentice was more than competent- he wasn’t supposed to worry about him, even if the kid wasn’t good at what he did, but -

Ghost had a bad feeling about this, something heavy and cold sinking in his gut.

He flicked on his comms, pulsing his connection in the static. He couldn’t risk speaking on the channel but Wolf should recognize the coded message -

“Bravo-1, we’ve got confirmed survivors at the north end.” English snapped, loud and clear over the dim static. The ice in Ghost’s gut coiled tighter. “Exercise caution - it’s believed a hostile is still on the scene. H through K have been evacuated but over watch has no eyes on potential hostiles past G.”

“Solid copy, Hera. Bravo team inbound - few minutes out.” The American man’s voice grew dark with a chuckle. “I take it you want him alive?”

“Correct, Bravo-1. No field executions tonight.”

Ghost shuddered, the chill of the desert night not responsible for the ice seeping into his veins. Wolf was down - dead or otherwise (dead would be a mercy, a relief, a miracle he didn’t deserve - )

Ghost couldn’t reach him in time. Bunker G was too far, and he could already hear the distant churn of helicopter blades. He repeated his desperate, subtle message.

“Wolf, are you broken?”

If his apprentice was alive he would answer. If his apprentice was alive Ghost would come for him, against all odds, even if failure was guaranteed.

If he answered.

If he was alive.

The static was still only punctuated by snappy English orders and the barking replies of loyal dogs. No response code. Not even a verbal acknowledgment - the kid had to know he was already made, why not speak? Why not respond to his mentor’s increasingly desperate question?

Ghost knew why - but he wasn’t ready.

He wasn’t ready to bury that kid yet.

Ghost sat on the side of the highway until the first violet threads of dawn began to crest over the eastern horizon. He didn’t care that he would be easy to pick out if the targets were doing a perimeter sweep. He just kept clicking his mic, the coded message repeating over and over and over.

“Wolf, are you broken?”

[Directly before Three Too Many]

(Part of my Freelancers: Swansong series)

#whump #whumptober #whumptober 2023 #no. 2 #radio silence #oc #whump writing #bombing #military #teammate #captured #missing person #assumed dead #angst #freelancers #I can’t wait to use some of the other prompts to explore the wolf-ghost dynamic bc. oh boy these guys are having bad times. #*insert do not separate meme* okay but what if I did? hm? how would they react? how would they change? #ghost: I don’t care (said caringly. most than he’s ever cared abt anyone else in his life.) #hm. I just. realized. the ‘no.’ tag is probably. supposed to reflect the day. not the number of the prompt for the day. oops. I’ll fix that #…later. still sick and so sleepy. nap time <- got up three hours ago

[strawberryseeded]

itadori yuji: unwavering humanity

sorry this is mostly rambling tbh i just need to get this STUFF out of my system !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive had this in my drafts for over a MONTH now so i just need it OUT

from the beginning of jjk, itadori wants to help ppl by allowing them to die a "proper death". during his time as a sorcerer, however, and particulary after (his first time lol) dying in the reform school, he realized how weak he was & how much he wasnt even in control of his own death. the curses were. sukuna was. and itadori learnt what it felt to be scared of his own helplessness.

but still, bc hes itadori yuji (a very stubborn guy who keep moving forward no matter what, without thinking, without an ounce of self-preservation), he still mantained this goal of helping ppl. this time, however, understanding that in order to do so, he has to (in typical shounen fashion) get stronger.

in the next arc, itadori meets junpei and mahito. we learn that junpei is a nice kid, but as we know, after much pain and sorrow plus mahito's manipulation and corruption, he ends up trying to kill his classmates. itadori once again faces the fact that there's a lot of evil in this world. there's people he can't save, things he can't fix. even more importantly, if it's about curses as evil as mahito, he wants to kill (itadori and mahito's enmity is really prolongued and interesting in general, constantly making each other evolve).

a bit later, he and kugisaki kill two death wombs (who they believe are curses at first) and after that he learns (from sukuna who just needs to make him suffer more, as a little treat <3) that it's bc he ate sukuna's finger that many spirits are awakening and causing ppl to die. he doesn't exactly regret his actions, but it all weights on him, painfully so.

on his way to save as many ppl as possible, itadori has become stronger, but he's also killed.

then comes shibuya (ha.....)

after losing people so close to him, allowing sukuna to end so many lives and being made fun of by sukuna and mahito for being so naive and (again) so weak, itadori almost gave up his goal. it's thanks to todo's ted talk that he got up again (as he always does).

itadori thru this arc learns to see himself not as a hero but as a cog in a machine. he's only human, after all: an individual (a weak one at that), but also part of something way bigger. his values, beliefs and desires are itadori's: born from his temperament and upbringing. individual. but the fact that he is human shapes him, the same way being a curse shapes mahito.

itadori finally understands that caring about people it's in his nature because he is human, but also that the why doesnt matter. and so, to save people, he'll kill mahito like it's also second nature to him.

(is he fine with it? does he want to? thats not relevant anymore. he's only following his nature, moving in automatic-mode. like a predator when he sees prey. not evil, not selfish. just doing what he needs to, what he's made for).

after shibuya itadori changes. he's still him, but the way he kills curses and tackles his job as a sorcerer it's almost machine-like. it's kinda eerie. we know he's not a machine, obviously. by this point we know itadori well: his immense suffering caused by other's peoples deaths and pain, we see his scars. he's still very much human, and still very much itadori.

more than ever before he wants to help people.

the thing is... despite what he said to mahito about saving people "for no reason, just like mahito kills and makes people suffer for no reason", itadori's desire to help people says a lot about him.

from the very beginning this desire has profoundly affected the way he interacts with other people and also the way he views himself. he's only worthy and valuable when he's able to save people. it gives him a role to play, a reason to live, a way to connect with others.

(it always has: in one of the first chs (i think ch 3 in the manga?), when confronted with the reason for becoming a sorcerer, he finally admits that he wanted something only he could do. that's even why he joined the occult club (which was bound to shut down without him) but not the sports clubs even when he was clearly gifted for any sport he could play. yes, it was also bc he wanted to visit his grandpa at the hospital, but itadori wanted to be needed. to serve others).

even when it's hard, when he doesn't want to, when the price is so high...

for itadori it's not only an instinct, it's a choice.

and then the culling games happen... and sukuna takes megumi's body.

megumi's itadori's friend, itadori cares about him. and megumi saved him. and he is taken by sukuna bc of itadori's fault. bc of the vow he and sukuna made that itadori cant even remember.

itadori's no longer sukuna's vessel now, so his initial purpose of retrieving sukuna's fingers so he can be killed along him is over. by this point he's long realized not only that he can't save every single person, but that he cant avoid killing and hurting other ppl, can't control his own death, can't even protect people who are close and important to him. he's weak, he's "bad". guilty. but it's not like before; itadori doesn't want to absolve his sins, that's not why he does what he does.

itadori's only goal remains unchanged: to save megumi and fucking KILL sukuna once and for all. it's literally his life purpose; once a wish given by his grandfather, then a duty imposed by the jujutsu society. now, it's itadori's own will. he despises sukuna. it's absolutely personal.

more than ever, his capability to help and save other people gives him a purpose, a reason to live and keep moving forward. its what keeps him grounded and himself. what makes him so human, despite all the pain and all the evil, despite all of the powerful curses and curse users around him who thrive on hurting and taking. no matter how many times he's beaten to the ground, he gets up again, his ideal never faltering. he'll always care about and do his best to protect people.

this is the reason why sukuna cant really figure him out. why he says over and over again thru the series that itadori's boring and weak. sukuna was human once, a sorcerer as well, but the thing is... he was strong. insanely so. and the way sees it, being strong is everything, not a plus, but a must. being weak is equivalent to death, so helping the weak is pointless. being already at the top of the food chain, sukuna's only moved by and interested in power and strenght, and so, he doesnt really get itadori. he sees him as -basically- a pathetic insect, which is, funnily, part of the reason why he hasnt killed him yet (the other part of the reason is, as ive said, that itadori is tough as nails).

& maybe it sounds kinda cheesy but i do truly think that all of what i just said is the reason why itadori just might win. he literally represents the compassion and resilience of humans, even against pure evil. this unwavering humanity and love for other people, even when it's painful and hard, is what makes him so strong, in a way sukuna doesnt understand. this is why people love itadori yuji.

#NOTE: each time i say itadori's weak i mean by jjk's world's cruel standars lol T-T this boy is STRONG both physically & mentally #jjk #jjk manga spoilers #no i can't stop thinking abt itadori yuji AGAIN. SO WHAT #i wanna talk more abt sukuna..hes insane. but ill SHUT UP for now #oh alsoooooooo another part of me believes that uhh sukuna might as well win and jjk will end in a 'and the adventure continues...' #bad yet hopeful kinda way...like..itadori & sukuna keep fighting till death #even after sukuna wins & destroys everything n everyone itadori loves (even more)..or something #BUT I WANTED 2 KEEP THE POST ITSELF POSITIVE SO THAT STAYS IN THE TAGS #....oh fuck ...tthis..got long.... #di4ry