#what an absolute SQUAD

[fiiiiin]

Dagger Squad hanging out at a bar and Jake is uncharacteristically quiet and docile but clearly GLOWING and happy; he’s calmly chatting with Javy in the corner all smiles and no snark while the rest of the team watch from across the bar; Phoenix asks “what happened to his attitude?” and Bradley smirks and goes “fucked it out of him” and the whole team does a double take not because they didn’t predict it but just because Bradley was so blunt about it

#anyways I love Bradley making it KNOWN that he’s the brat tamer #only he can do this to Jake #and I love Dagger Squad being reminded all the time that Jake gets railed #and I love Jake doing a full 360 and becoming an absolute sweetheart the moment he gets what he wants (Bradley’s dick) #hangster #jake seresin #top gun #bradley bradshaw #sereshaw #top gun maverick #jake ‘hangman’ seresin #tgm #bradley ‘rooster’ bradshaw

[nono-uwu]

Very messy and quick redraw of the new An(hane) card because GOD DAYUM THESE BITCHES GAY !!!

#my jaw literally dropped when i saw this card for the first time #what in the absolute yuri #anhane deniers in shambles rn #project sekai #prsk #prsk fa #fanart #an shiraishi #kohane asuzawa #anhane #yuri #vivid bad squad

[atopvisenyashill]

there's a really sad parallel theme running through arya and cat's stories and it's that both of them are considered to be Doing Womanhood Improperly and struggling at how to reconcile their own feelings with the expectations of the people around them...

cat spends her whole life with arguably more power than most women would have due to her atypical life; first, as heir presumptive of riverrun, then, as acting lady of riverrun, and finally, as ned's beloved wife. all of this gives her the freedom to do wild stuff like travel to KL in secret, take tyrion hostage (and outwit him at nearly every turn!), get involved in conspiracies and politics and help raise banners, to use her shrewd mind and her intellect in a way that challenges and excites her....but when ned dies, every single iota of power is stripped from her and handed to robb by law and there's nothing she can do to reign in her fifteen year old son who makes mistake after mistake and drowns out her voice because it conflicts with his....

and as she struggles through her complete loss of power, unable to decide for herself where her path will go, unable to give commands, unable to argue for the safety of her daughters, helplessly watching her father die, arya goes on her own journey that involves a complete loss of power. arya's womanhood is a constant threat looming over her head so she leans into her non conformity to save her own life and fears that her newfound strength and harshness will make her mother turn from her for Being A Lady Incorrectly, never knowing that her mother is so desperate to get her back that catelyn has decided she's through being a proper lady and starts arguing back, starts acting without asking, starts showing her resentment on her face and gets herself banished by her own son...

both of them spend all of the first two books struggling with their womanhood only to have a flashpoint of realizing they can simply stop following the rules because the rules are unfair - from arya's " I am a direwolf, and done with wooden teeth" to catelyn freeing jaime from the dungeons, they realize the Rules of Men will never help them, will never save them, and turn to their own intellect, their own grief, their own cunning and despair and violence, to do what the Rules of Men have never been able to do and that is to keep them as women safe.

And its with each other, I think, that they will only be able to lay down their despair and grief and find both peace and comfort in this new definition of womanhood that they've both carved out for themselves!

#valyrianscrolls #catelyn stark defense squad #been trying to make this post for like 8 months and could never figure out how to compare the two #catelyn stark #arya stark #mothers and daughters #getting on my soap box #i'm saying arya and lady stoneheart are going to meet that's what i'm saying #i know everyone says this but if i had to bet money on one (1) thing happening in twow it's arya and lsh being lsh's final scene #clearing out my drafts a bit here #well not everyone says this there's some absolutely stupid takes that jaime will kill lsh and i cannot even begin to explain why THAT #is not fucking happening

[ollieartss]

skk nation I have made a harrowing discovery.

last year, skk was number 4 on the top 100 ships of ao3 for 2023. when they catalogued the numbers, our boys had around 24k total fics, with about 6k new fics being added that year (new fics is what determines placement on the list). we did great last year :D let’s go gang.

BUT. pause. the list came out on august 7th, 2023. BEFORE the end of s5 and the whole debacle there.

due to this, the list cut off RIGHT before the absolute surge of fics from that. you add on the 15 manga and maybe stormbringer being animated this year, and BOY HOWDY. it’s been six months since the 2023 list and we’ve already surpassed what we wrote last year (we have like 31k fics now,,)

currently predicting either 2nd or 1st for skk in 2024. there’s already like 7k new fics and unless people start putting out ai fics to climb the ranks (please don’t do this ever) I don’t see any ship that could hold us back. skk is officially taking over ao3 and I cannot wait to see it happen.

#soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd dazai #dazai osamu #bsd chuuya #chuuya nakahara #skk #bungo stray dogs #I’ve been thinking about this for days #our sheer power omg #praying nobody is an absolute party pooper and spit out ai fics #nobody is repeating what ppl did for steddie did last year #squad we’ve got this #keep writing!! #ao3 #archive of our own #this is all in good fun btw #I don’t care abt numbers #just excited for this ship <3

[freswoe]

i really don’t know how im feeling about the latest fhjy episode. sure, it was fun, the combat planning was great to watch and the battle map was awesome, but… story-wise? It wasn’t good. more than that, the preview for the next episode looks like it’ll mainly be just a battle episode, and that combination does Not make me feel optimistic about the ending of fhjy as a whole.

i think the thing that best sums up my confusion and disappointment with this episode is when Ally/Kristen shouts ‘For Lucy!’ and honestly… why? What about Lucy Frostblade - the kind girl whose major philosophy was that the world is cold so we have to keep each other warm, the foil to Porter’s house of conquest without mercy - suggests that she’d want the brutal murder of her friends without any attempt to talk to or redeem them? the entire season has stressed the doubt/conviction relationship - with the RGs representing wrathful conviction and the BKs representing doubt - and yet there’s zero doubt, zero room for understanding, when Fig’s first action as Wanda Chillda is to stress that she fucking hates ruben and wants to see him die. also, whatever the fuck was going on with ivy and fabian.

its just. this episode is the penultimate episode of the entire season, and if i was watching with no prior knowledge, id probably say it would be episode 13, 14 etc. a cool fight, but absolutely zero emotional resonance - just the Bad Kids going to town on yet another enemy. cool fights, cool planning, cool teamwork, but nothing really special about it.

i’ve seen some people saying not to take this so seriously, that it’s an dnd liveplay so of course the storytelling isn’t always gonna be Handcrafted To Perfection TM, but Fantasy High has a track record of some pretty amazing and thoughtful storytelling, and that’s what makes this episode kinda suck. There’s zero emotional resonance. The BKs clearly view the RGs as minibosses, annoying obstacles to defeat so they can focus on the main event, and that would be fine if that’s what the RGs were. But they’re not. We’ve learnt about them, we’ve seen how they were corrupted and groomed, we’ve seen how they really are just the Bad Kids who really went bad. They have narrative weight! They represent the mindless, wrathful conviction that the BKs are trying to stop, and for the BKs to slaughter them with that wrathful conviction (with no room for doubt or redemption at all) is… it’s not good.

don’t get me wrong, I get why (they’ve been awful to the BKs all season, cathartic last fight etc) but it still sucks narratively. like i can’t stress enough that the BKs are using the exact same tactics that they resented the RGs for to slaughter them. ruben says to fig that the BKs are killing his friends (despite their awful interparty relationships, they’re still his friends) and her response, instead of the understanding and kindness that fig (and, tbh, Emily) are known for is to cast ruben into literal fucking hell.

even oisin’s death was anticlimactic. gorgug’s kill on him was cool, but no nod to adaine? not even a mention of ‘you led my friend on and broke her heart so now i’ll break your heart?’ the broken heart thing was Right There and nothing happened. oisin died, a player was removed from the field, the battle went on. no emotional connection or resonance whatsoever.

i don’t know. from a narrative perspective, this episode was bad. all the nuance of the bad kids/rat grinders dynamic has been lost. the bad kids have become Exactly what the rat grinders said they were with apparently zero self-awareness on the matter. they shoot porter and jace and the RGs down with zingers and cool spells and don’t bother even trying to de-rage the rat grinders, and the result is an episode 19 which feels like a mid-season miniboss fight. they bring the same approach to fighting the RGs that they did to fighting the monsters in the Last Stand, which, y’know. not good.

the only way i can think that they might turn this around is if the BKs are shown to be influenced by rage/the RGs get brought back (still hating the BKs, but at least giving them the chance to try again), but I really don’t know at this point. just overall feeling very disappointed.

#obvious disclaimer that im not coming at the cast it’s their show etc #its just really disappointing because we’ve SEEN excellent narrative evolution in the show before! #hell they have a whole squad of reformed villains! #THEY EVEN REFORMED THE DEAD GODDESS OF WRATH! #and yet these kids don’t deserve a second chance because what. they were mean? #i get that they’re trying to destroy the world but it’s clear that the BKs don’t want the RGs to come back #see riz suggesting cutting off oisin’s head #i don’t know. it looks like a pretty shitty end to a season which ive been absolutely loving so far #guess we’ll have to wait for next week! oh boy. #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 fantasy high

[marimayscarlett]

i’m going to sound insane for this but could you post some vids of richard hugging ? very curious about the hugs you speak of

A small and tiny hugging-compilation of our beloved cuddly guitarist (no concept to this post as to why/how long/how intense the hugging is, just Richard cuddling and smooching others):

First, some gifs of Richard squeezing people to the fullest:

(last gif by richard-mooserr)

Now another point of view of the on-stage birthday celebrations this year (I love this one especially because you can see his face while he hugs Schneider):

Flake also gets some hugging:

And two times of giving Till lots of love:

Not sure if you had something like this in mind, dear anon. Since searching for hugs in videos requires a lot of time, and that's something I currently don't really have (getting ready for vacation with my family), I hope this will suffice for now 🤗

#will try and search for some more as soon as i have the chance!! #cuddly guitarist #god his hugs must feel absolutely amazing #and that's what other fans report about upon meeting him #he loves hugging fans and gives the best hugs apparently #btw anon you're not insane!!! you fit right in the richard-hugging-squad and the rzk girlies #bc we obsesse over every little thing this damn emo vanpire goth does #rammstein #richard kruspe #rzk

[flannelepicurean]

EXCUSE ME.

WHAT

THE EVER-LOVING

COCK-FUCKING

TIT-SHITTING

FUCK-SHIT

is WAL-BOG, U.S.A doing putting out

THIS FUCKING SHIT RIGHT HERE

when I have

NO GODDAMN MONEY?!?!?!

Seriously, what the fuuuuuckkk?!?!?!

Vegeta front and center??? SAIYAN SQUAD ON THE GODDAMN CENTER STAGE???

They put Raditz on the front of a fuckin haaaaattt, babes!!! ✨💖 😭😭😭💖✨

And...and Nappa...Uncle Nappa's bald-ass head got second-tier top billing before SON GOKU! Wha...???

Piccolo on the side there doin the lord's work with my boi Gohan, and YES, our actual lord & savior Goku is there too, but MY GOOD AND LOVELY LIFE FORMS AND INDESCRIBABLE DENIZENS OF THE VOID, I CANNOT...CANNOT EXPLAIN TO YOU THE SHEER LEVELS OF EMOTION I'M FEELING RIGHT NOW.

#dbz merch #the sheer level of feelings i have right now #it's over 9000 #saiyan squad #front and center on a snapback #what the actual fuck #and i mean that in the best possible way #sweet christmas #dear gay jesus and black santa #please bless my broke ass with twelve american dollars #i have been such a good boy #and i deserve a little treat #lol #i deserve that dumbass hat #i would not wear it out in public #i promise #i would just wear it in the comfort of my in front of the computer #with my vegeta adidas logo sport tank #and my goku bizness face sleep shorts #or my chibi deeby zeeby pajama pants #while i write my gay little scenarios #like a sensible lad #a trash-ass wack ass hot garbage little human being #absolute glittering dumpster fire filled with love #goddamn #i literally cannot

[rosalinesurvived]

I’m trying to imagine the sheer horror Nathaniel and Margaret must’ve felt after tossing a bomb onto a guy, calling for God to kill him, having it explode, walking away only for the guy to call out a challenge to your religion completely fucking unhurt. And then its followed up with an encounter with a dude so bloodthirsty and so violent that you call him the Devil incarnate. The outcome being of course Margaret became so severely injured that Pastor Nathaniel decided to become an assassin to Fyodor.

#what a day. what an absolute day for them all. And its never brought up again! #religion in bsd especially concerning their abilities is so intriguing. #like kajii calling out science to being the language of the universe… my meals. #oda being given a bible in prison ability users being called fallen angels akutagawa dazai and kyouka being demons/devils #bsd #margaret mitchell #nathaniel hawthorne #akutagawa ryuunosuke #motojirou kajii #the squad of all time #hawmitch

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH ACTUALLY I'LL MISS THEM 😭😭😭💖💖💖💕💕💕

#fluff speaks !!! #THE FRIENDS EVER..................................... 🥺🥺🥺✨✨✨ #Shoutout to ScarVio for feeding us so many loveable friend trios (Area Zero squad and these blorbos . my beloveds) #I just love how they changed in their own little ways throughout this series and became good frenssssssssss 💖💖💖💕💕💕 #they're all so sweet I love them I treasure them and I'll miss them now that this is over ueueueueueeeeueueeee #their video was absolutely stellar too god it WAS SO GOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDD #ALL THE TEACHERS AND LEAGUE MEMBERS AND THE FACT THAT WE ACTUALLY GET TO HEAR RYME RAP????????????FIREEEEEEEEEEE #god the animation was soooooo soooo edible and delicious as well I could gnaw on it all day #I'm honestly so glad I saved the last two episodes of Paldean Winds to watch cause I was having a really awful day #and getting to see these sillies and just how much wholesome lovely vibes there were in these episodes was just a wonderful mood boost #ooooooughhghghggggg they're just so cute I love they 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭💖💖💖💖💖 #also I'm not the only one who noticed that spark between Ohara and Aliquis rightSDJKFSHDNFJKANSDNDFS #there was that extended shot of how glad Aliquis was to see how happy Ohara was and I couldn't help but go 👀👀👀👀👀 #IT WAS CUTEEEEEEEE but anyhow them as a trio of friends is absolutely precious in and of itself hehe #aaauuugggww what a delightful way to celebrate ScarVio ✨✨✨ #paldean winds #pokemon #pokemon scarvio #pokemon scarvi #pokemon scarlet and violet #ohara pokemon #aliquis pokemon #hohma pokemon

[katyspersonal]

i thought the mohglester was a joke but did mohg actually mohglested his brother!!😭

#ask replies #elden ring #shitposting #bghhghgjh SORRY LOL i dont know what else to tell you anon xDDDDD 😭 #alright on a serious note I go with the 'it is strongly implied' and I used this meme because- #-martins involvement is my biggest clue to go off xD #I can closer inspect the case tho if you want me to because its true that nothing in Soulsborne games- #-is absolutely stated except for like 2 random facts #I just think it is the safest thing to assume though we're not on Reddit and know that- #-occam's razor =/= the only take possible #(glaring at YOU the 'there is no proof so you can't think this' squad!)

[jumping-mirrors]

Screaming, crying, tearing solid wood apart. I now know whatever horrors Nat will experience in the '96 timeline will be for nothing. However much she fights to live and to survive she will never manage to get to the point when it's all okay again. She will never have truly have gotten out of the wilderness. Because she will never have that chance now.

#AND FOR WHAT MISTY #FOR WHAT #on a side note the whole squad in the '96 timeline is absolutely batshit insane now #even coach ben and travis #yellowjackets #misty quigley #natalie scatorccio #lottie matthews #travis martinez #ben scott

[delkios]

Still can't get over the fact that after a year (two?) with the Empire, Scorch makes commander while Boss led one of the top commando squads for three years with the Republic and never got promoted passed sergeant.

#republic commando #honestly i've got an entire headcanon regarding commandos' lack of upward mobility in the ranks #originally they were organized to serve directly under the jedi and commanders would exist in a parallel hierarchy to infantry #which they still did mostly #but after losing half their number on geonosis and realizing the jedi didn't know what to do with them they had a massive restructuring #only a couple divisions- like kenobi's -got commando squads but to ensure they were deployed properly they needed their own officers #so clones like gregor were taken from the command track and crosstrained as commandos #i imagine first gen commandos have very mixed feelings about this because suddenly outsiders are in charge of them? #and scorch and fixer and sev resent it because on one hand boss was absolutely wasted as a sergeant #on the other hand they looked at a fucking alpha-arc-desk-jockey captain maze and knew boss would be even more wasted off the field #trying to imagine scorch's reaction to his meteoric rise in rank suddenly leading hundreds of commandos and TKs and no foreseeable fieldwor #'no! how could they do this to me the great and loveable scorch!' #sev would find it hilarious that they gave scorch that much responsibility but also #he went mia as a private and now the others are all officers what the fuck #probably would've been more hilarious if scorch hadn't already been on the verge of snapping from ptsd and having abandoned a brother #and knowing fixer and boss are held hostage to keep him in line just as he knows he's a hostage to keep them in line (headcanon) #these tags are now novels #i just have a lot of thoughts about commandos okay?

[goldiipond]

Your cat was giving me this look

im gonn,a cry

#skye's ramblings #KJHGFDSDFGHJHGFDSADFGHGFDFGHJ THATWAS EXACTLY HOW I WAS SEEING IT TOO. fuckr knows exactly what hes doing #this is so fucking funny thank yoi brry. absolutely obsessed with him #raspbrrytea #shrimps squad

[goldensunset]

ya ever think about how kairi is THE current most recent link in the chain of the scala keyblade legacy? aka generations of masters taught students who then grew up to become masters of their own and teach students of their own etc etc. as far as characters we know for certain we’ve got a line going from odin to eraqus to aqua to kairi

and obviously we know that everyone else at that (probably prestigious) scala school died young without ever achieving their dreams. like given that odin apparently just straight up retired after dark road it seems those two classes were the only ones and there weren’t any other keyblade trainees in scala. (unless there was another school in a different part of town but even if there was, those guys are probably all long gone by now. would be a killer side plot though.)

meaning it was all up to xehanort and eraqus to keep up the legacy. and xehanort obviously said ‘screw that i’m gonna do my own thing and cause problems instead’ meaning it was literally all up to eraqus. who for whatever reason didn’t even stay in town and went to hang out in the middle of nowhere (i need this story so badly. why was scala abandoned. where did he even find terra and aqua.) and he only named one of his students a keyblade master before he died.

so now it’s all up to aqua to carry the legacy. although i am curious to see what’s gonna happen with terra and ven bc they need someone to officially recognize them as masters, or at least they’d probably appreciate it. but then it might be kind of embarrassing to begin studying under their former peer, if not downright painful as a reminder of all that they lost in bbs. maybe aqua would be nice and just outright hand them the title instantly. or she might be a stickler and force them to do arbitrary extra work bc that’s how these guys are.

in any case, we at least know kairi intends to train under aqua. which is huge for her because that means these guys are single-handedly keeping the ancient scala tradition alive. quadratum kairi this quadratum kairi that. where is the fanart of her in traditional scala ad caelum swag. we all KNOW they had absolutely fire fashion sense can we please get an outfit like that for kairi. get her one of those charms. c’mon would that not be insanely cool. and also maybe herald some super fun narrative implications

#basically i love the idea of kairi falling in with the wayfinder squad for a game or two #that anniversary art… riku w/ the days crew (not the best relationship lol) and kairi w/ the bbs crew (will be interesting no matter what) #but imagine both the in-universe and fandom reaction if kairi gets named a master before sora (mc who deserves it so badly) #or ven (teenager who is 300+ years old and an absolutely terrifying beast of a keyblade wielder) #or terra (guy who gave a keyblade to the guy who gave a keyblade to her) #kingdom hearts #kairi #khdr spoilers #<- just a bit #mine: kh #also kinda wild because the wayfinders are insane super focused hardcore jocks #meanwhile kairi is like. well other people have said it. she doesn’t seem to like roughhousing more than necessary. #she’s only doing this cuz she feels like she has to both for her sake and the sakes of others #basically kairi training with the wayfinders is about to be me running the mile in gym class #aka AUUUGH CAN WE PLEASE TAKE A BREAK I’M WEAK #well this depends on whether they decide to suddenly girlbossify her or not. hope not. let her struggle

[kenniko]

“we're going DOWN- oh no we're not going down. AMP is goin- fUCK”

#bros just a no brainer cutie #whats up w this boy and why am i in love #hattrick is crazy cinsidering the fact that he absolutely sucks at football #😭 #beta squad #king kenny #betasquad #kingkennytv

[wvldorf]

coyg and dont forget

#if he doesnt make the squad you’re absolutely allowed to ask me to delete my tumblr #coyg i guess #3am still havent gone to bed but what can you say