They're equals. They're opposites. They're each other's perfect dark mirror. They could not be more different. They would kill each other in a heartbeat. They have saved each other more times than they can count. They are uniquely capable of understanding one another. They don't understand a single thing the other does. They wouldn't trust the other to hold a butter knife. They wouldn't trust anybody else from each other's side at their back. They're brothers. They're mortal enemies. In another life they would have been best friends. They both know it. They both would fucking lose it if they had to think about it for more than a fleeting glance. Their allies think they both have fucking lost it when they see how these two act when within 20 feet of each other.

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I honestly just want to frame this and stare at it always. It will be a tapestry I hang over my mantlepiece so I can gaze at it adoringly.

We’ve already talked about it so much but the MEANING they layer into this one moment.

How it concludes and wraps up everything between them. 

Everything that went unsaid in Seresu - everything that was conveyed instead with their choices, their actions, their feelings. 

But also back to Infinity, where the punch first happened. With the choices Fai was making there and the ones Kurogane made instead. With what that meant - with how Kurogane was choosing to save him - and how he HAS saved him, and now it’s coming full circle, and now they’ve saved each other. 

But BEFORE THAT TOO, into Acid Tokyo, where they divorced. Where Fai stopped calling him by his nicknames and retracted all affection between them. How Fai became clinical, building distance between them, keeping Kurogane away from him because Kurogane put his entire life goal in jeopardy and stole his choices from him - how, just like in the other arcs, Kurogane was CHOOSING to SAVE him AGAIN. How in three arcs in a row Kurogane had to stop Fai in order to save his life, and how Fai was so hurt and scared by this that he emotionally retreated. But now here he is, bringing it all back around and reconnecting them both once again. He breathes life back into their interactions - he returns Kurogane’s nicknames to him. He fucking decks him, in a way that only Kurogane would find as romantic as it’s truly meant to be. 

And just how much that means for Fai’s entire life. Fai, who was always just a mask of emotion he didn’t feel, who was always hiding his past and his mission and his feeling - Fai now has nothing left to hide. There are no lies left, no hidden trauma, no backstory that would ruin things. The only thing left is his future, and what he chooses to do with it. 

So he chooses THIS. He chooses KUROGANE. Time has passed since their arrival here, he’s had time to think, he’s made his decisions, and he’s been able to chose who Fai is now. Where he will be. What he wants to do. And who he wants to be with. 

And THIS is the Fai that Fai wants to be. Happy and playful and not actually lying about it, or doing it as escapism. He’s choosing to be happy and affectionate with the man he loves, with the man who’s already chosen over and over again to save his life when Fai was unable to do it himself. 

Here in the present Fai finally gets to make decisions about his life, for the first time completely free, and the first thing he chooses to do is come back to Kurogane and just wreck him. Which is hilarious, naturally, but also the JOY that he’s choosing is absolutely unmissable. The open emotion they both show on their faces, neither one of them guarded at all anymore. 

They’re together, and they’ve chosen each other, and they’re both here on purpose. 

Whenever I see wenclair I just can't stop thinking of hitchannie, I watched the Wednesday show and the whole time I just kept thinking about the sunshine x goth roommates of aot

oh oh oh oh oh! when james baldwin compares trying to defend to elijah that all white ppl aren't bad to what it must feel like when a white person tries to advocate that all black people aren't bad like screams goes ferals this is what it all means can't you see it james baldwin saw it ahhhhhhhhhhhh

OMGGG are you fucking telling me that gojo is back?!??!?

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Will Byers/Mike Wheeler, Max Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair (background/mentioned), Dustin Henderson/Susie (mentioned), Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson (background/mentioned), Robin Buckley/Nancy Wheeler (background/mentioned), Jonathan Byers/Argyle (mentioned), Joyce Byers/Jim Hopper (background/mentioned) Characters: Will Byers, Mike Wheeler, Eleven | Jane Hopper, Jonathan Byers, Argyle (Stranger Things), Lucas Sinclair (mentioned), Dustin Henderson (mentioned), Max Mayfield (mentioned), Steve Harrington (Mentioned), Eddie Munson (mentioned), Nancy Wheeler (mentioned), Robin Buckley (mentioned), Joyce Byers (mentioned), Jim Hopper (mentioned), Murray Bauman (mentioned) Additional Tags: the party (and the older teens) are besties and i love that for them, hopper-byers fam being the best, jonathan and el are good siblings, so is nancy, will and mike get it together at last, will’s painting is also finally revealed, happy ending bc I said so Series: Part 3 of All Roads Lead Back To You (Crazy Together) Summary:

Will worries what will come next while dealing with his feelings for Mike. This culminates in the reveal of The Painting, and leads to an unexpected confession.

i get so excited when i see my mutuals online but then i don’t wanna creep on them by talking to them right away so then i just never talk to them ever: a love story

RAHHHHHH, LOOK AT HOW JIM STARES AT OLUWANDE! THEY'RE SO IN LOVEEEE!

(almost) four years in, and I finally had time to draw something for the anniversary! woo! 🎉🎉🎉

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) dir. Peter Weir

whenever i've imagined the upcoming bucktommy kiss (which is a lot) where buck initiates the kiss at the wedding once tommy saves chim, i imagine buck runs up to tommy and immediately kisses him in front of everyone. which is great and all, but now i think it'd be great if it starts with a simple hug first. like there's a slowmo scene of tommy getting off the plane, looking around for someone he knows, and then buck yells his name and sprints over, we hear tommy let out a soft "evan" before he's stumbling at the force of buck's body colliding with his as he hugs him so tightly. and as buck holds him, there's a few reaction shots. bobby has a slightly raised eyebrow, wondering when they got so close, athena looks a lil confused but happy nonetheless, hen and karen share a look, maybe we see buck's parents share one too (but less knowing/sweet and more worried), and eddie smiles a lil. let's out a sigh of relief because tommy is his friend too and he's glad he's safe. and THEN buck kisses tommy. and oh my god we get to see everyone's face switch immediately. the shock and the confusion and the pride. oh it'd just be so beautiful.

Hua Cheng for Spoon.2di Magazine cover/poster 🦋

Phil Lester is a King for using the word introvert correctly

You want me to go to college?? The thing that killed Jessica Moore

There’s something so raw about the image of Cardan with his sleeves rolled up washing the blood off Jude’s hands, after he’s ruined his velvet jacket to stop her bleeding. It’s one of the moments where we clearly see how much he cares for her. He wouldn’t let the guards touch her, despite—from his perspective—not having any way of knowing she wasn’t there to kill him. On top of that, he declares to the palace crowd that Jude is the rightful Queen of Elfhame, who is not in exile, stunning everyone. And then later tells Jude that he had been terrified, not of her but for her.

“It was terrifying,” he says, “watching you fall.”

“Mortals are fragile,” I say. “Not you,” he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. “You never break.”

Jurdan are wild because they may not have been able to verbalise what they felt for each other, nor even admit it to themselves, but it showed through their actions anyway.

he just needs a hug