Okay no but I'm actually devolving into Shimateru like one of those water soluble pills that turns into a small foam dinosaur. Like I wasn't sure at first but now I get it, I am insane about it—

Because aside from the astronomical sexual tension between them for each of their fights, Shimazaki is the ONLY other person that Hanazawa has lost to aside from Mob. And given that Hanazawa has seemingly been running from Claw for so long, I don't think it's wrong to say that he's likely up there with Shou in power level—so either on par with or juuust below the Ultimate Five. Hanazawa probably wouldn't have lost to anyone else; the others in the Ultimate Five included, because Shimazaki seems to be the most ruthless and sadistic out of all of them.

But again!! Hanazawa is ALSO likely one of the only people that could beat Shimazaki!!! (We don't count Reigen because he has Sponge abilities so Shimazaki literally can't even see him, but other than that it's likely just Toichiro and Mob). And not even just because of power—it's like Hanazawa says; "Even I could defeat you." Meaning that he KNOWS his power level is below Shimazaki's—it's about the strategy. Both Hanazawa and Shimazaki wouldn't be nearly such intimidating fighters if they weren't incredibly smart to go along with it. Knowing where and when to move is half the fight (unless you're Mob apparently but that's okay bc we love him for being a literal supernova), and figuring out what strategies work on which opponent in real time is super impressive!

Which is why the idea of Shimateru has me so so so obsessed rn: it's about the ANTAGONISM 🤌 It's the idea of Shimazaki taking an interest in Teru earlier and being the one that hunts him down for Claw, but then backing off and letting him run because he's having too much fun fighting him. It's about the Cat and Mouse dynamics. It's about the Reformed™ Villain with lingering anger issues and violent impulses suddenly getting accosted and tempted by a Villain who has NOT reformed—likely the only one left who hasn't. It's about falling back into old habits because Shimazaki is the one person Hanazawa is "safe" doing so with. It's about the fact that Hanazawa could call Mob at any time to make Shimazaki go away, could end things whenever he wanted, but he doesn't. It's about the VIOLENCE and INTRIGUE 🤌🤌🤌✨

GOD I'm going feral, I'm going insane, I think they should've gotten more screentime together because they have such a fun dynamic. I think Shimazaki should've been chasing Hanazawa down for Claw, they should've been enemies for longer, that tension should've brewed like royal tea in a china pot for far longer it would've been SO GOOD 🙏🙏😩

U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

Distant Utopia - from ひきだしにテラリウム (Terrarium in a Drawer) by Ryoko Kui

now that Dungeon Meshi has an official English translation, i hope someday Kui’s other work will get translated too. this anthology was really good, and this story was one of my favorites

“I’ve seen the mask of humanity fall from capital”

a review from the cispontine end of london bridge, 8th of april 2023

working class

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me and the boys

In 4th grade, my bff was in a death feud over chess with a boy in our class but instead of competing like normal people they decided that the best way to determine who was chess master was for each of them to select one of the two biggest idiots in class and teach them to play chess, My Fair Lady style, and see whose idiot won. We are just now, 22 years later, grappling with the moral implications of this exercise.

Mushrooms Unknown , 1970.

Oil on panel , 40 x 35 cm.

Josef Liesler (1912-2005)—Between Heaven and Earth [oil, hardboard, 1975]

remember if you wake up feeling sick and your whole body hurts the best course of action is to jack off and moan like a girl

Frederick Judd Waud, Rum Row, 1922. Via Art Gallery X