when kakashis voice actor talked about how kakashi is really kind… he got it

It is SO comforting that you are an adult who has not read Harry Potter, has no intention to read Harry Potter, and makes no apologies for not having read Harry Potter. I didn’t read them growing up and when I got to adulthood I kept going, “I’ll get around to it.” But depression is a bitch and reading HP was never important enough for me to force myself to do it despite the pressure I got from people. And then when little miss JK started spewing her hateful rhetoric I just went, “You know what? I’m fine without it.”

I do really like the movies though.

there truly is so much content out there in the world that a human can exist quite happily with no knowledge of harry potter i think

Can I request Rika with a short s/o

Finally getting around to doing requests hehe! Excited to start off this batch with Rika my beloved.

Rika With A Short S/O

- Rika herself isn’t as tall as she would like to be. If she had her way, she would be six feet tall, give or take an inch. She’s not short by any means, sitting at an average 5 '8, but she won’t deny that she’s always wanted to be taller. The height difference between you and Rika gives her a bit of a rush. You make her feel like a giant, even if you’re only a few inches shorter than her yourself.

- The opportunity to tease you is too much. Rika jumps at every chance she gets. Her favorite is resting her arm on your head or shoulder, depending on your height in comparison to her. A sly grin stretches across her face. It doesn’t matter if you get flustered or give her an annoyed eye roll. She eats up your reactions either way.

- Rika would be lying if she said she doesn't enjoy caging you between her arms, your back against the wall as you look up at her. You look adorable that way. She can’t help but give you a quick peck on the forehead before pulling away. If you give her a taste of her own medicine, instead of her playful grin, she’ll blush and avert her eyes. Rika flushes even darker when you give her a peck on the nose.

- Good luck if you need to reach things on the top shelf. Rika hides your step stool specifically so you have to seek her out. You can either give in or haul yourself onto the counter. If you go for the latter, Rika stands behind you, prepared to catch you if you fall. As if she could. Just as with her height, she doesn’t have as much muscle as she wishes. Sometimes, she’ll try to lift you up, only to crumple beneath you. Her enthusiasm never wanes, no matter how many times her arms give out.

So if we're working off the logic that the kiy has been split in 2 halves, yellow and john, then that means that the king had john back for, what, maybe a solid half hour before throwing him away? And then immediately after that he got fucking snatched by kayne? So how is it that yellow remembers the dark world? Did kayne throw him in there to just deep fry him a little? Is 1 kiy + 1 dark world the recipe for a john? And then what happens to the kings body in the dreamlands? Did he just collapse where he stood? Are the cultists drawing dicks on his face?

Idk what's funnier, the idea that the kiy got john back and then immediately after lost ANOTHER slice of himself once his back was turned OR that he himself was whisked away to the exact position he just got john out of and was 100% powerless to stop it. Either way it makes him a bit of a loser and I love him for it

Anybody else out there enjoy a song that goes a little batshit in the middle? I think I like a song that goes a little batshit in the middle. I’m talking like… starts out fine. Normal. Maybe odd but it’s jaunty. It’s fun.

And then there’s an audio cue of a gun cocking and everything goes to hell in a handbasket.

Glitchy! Faster! Too much with odd sounds thrown in! And sometimes with that plonky keyboard that’s just a little out of tune and brings to mind music boxes and marionettes. Some of them are like that the whole time, but some will go right back to normal like nothing ever went wrong. What do you mean, ‘what was that’? This is a normal song! It’s fine!

I love it. I love it for writing inspiration.

And no pressure but if anyone has any recs, I always love recs

mid-apocalypse Steve with a shaved head is living rent free in my mind rn

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feeling sick about ellis and marshall’s relationship again

i’m in danger (having spicy angsty wolfwren thoughts)

dai and dark together are kind of crazy bc when u look at satoshi and krad they kind of both exude a cold aura of pretentiousness enough that it might not be that much of a surprise to learn about the whole transformation thing. but dai and dark are so completely dissimilar whether it comes to appearance or personality at first impression that if dark really isn't careful daisuke's going to Die fr

I feel so guilty i feel like i'm going to ruin everything all the time i feel like my mind's already too broken to be good I think I need to talk to someone about some things but I don't trust anyone but still i trust everyone more than me

Feeling sort of weird reflecting on the past year and the start of the next one this New Year's Eve.

It's been a pretty terrible year for me (with some genuine bright spots, but still), and most years that's been true, the shift from December to January has felt like it's at least demarcated..... something. That I'd made it through the parts that were bad, but things were getting better. Like it could be celebrated.

But this year most of the things that made my 2022 really awful are still ongoing. Scribe is still incredibly sick and unlikely to get much better. Our finances remain extremely precarious as a result and I'm not about to start making enough money to change that. I am still struggling with my mental health in ways I don't know how to fix, and the logistics of being a student with a brain that doesn't play nice with school are still going to be a problem for me.

I know it's more complicated than that. I'm further along in my grieving process for our old life (and the life I thought we would have), even if it doesn't always feel like it, our friends have stepped up to support us in a big way, I may not have made the most progress on learning how to manage my brain but I've at least been exploring my options. But I don't have that feeling of victory I usually do after making it through a difficult year -- and I've had some difficult years. It doesn't really feel like crossing the finish line; more like reaching a trail marker and looking up and seeing you still have most of the mountain to climb.

I don't know. I'm still here, I still made it, and that's obviously not nothing. But I've never felt this hollow about surviving before, and it's not sitting great with me.

sometimes it just really hits me that i’m not still trapped in my childhood bedroom. suddenly i’m 23 and i’m grabbing drinks from the corner store and chatting with the man who owns it about his garden and how it’s doing and everything that happened to me before the age of 19 feels like a bad dream

it's kind of sad to read through those pre timeskip novels in retrospect, because I genuinely think his speed and agility as a fighter were the only things he was proud of? he wasn't remarkable otherwise though he tried to be more through bonding with Khazid'hea. then post timeskip, the first thing we have to know is that actual sword mocks him for his disability and with the life he's had he doesn't have a sliver of "you shouldn't treat me this way" in him... okay. and the last thing he left Sinnafain was his own pain. mirrored. she outlived him well which is for another post and has to carry that...

Top 3 (or 5 or 10, this is a difficult choice) fave Hermann Hesse works? 👀

Ohhhh good question

I have read 5 of his books so i will rank all 5 👍

Beneath the Wheel

Demian

Journey to the East

Narcissus and Goldmund

Siddhartha

This may be considered a very unpopular opinion but...I've tried to imagine like how exactly Logan loves Rory, like what his personal feelings for her are. And I don't mean it in the sense of how he's expressed his love or admiration for her, I mean like how he personally has felt for Rory in ways that isn't just explained through words to her. And I have to be honest: I come up short every time I've thought about it now.

I don't deny that Logan begged Rory to take him back, to the point where he went to Lorelai to plead with her to ask Rory to reconsider for him. And yes, he bought and did several things which were nice, thoughtful and considerate towards Rory in those moments. But I honestly don't think that Logan ever had a scene within the original series or even the revival where we actually get to hear about how he feels towards Rory or even see it, without Rory herself being in the room or talking to him. You know how we got numerous scenes where Jess is back in Stars Hollow in season 4, and both Luke and Lorelai repeatedly mention Rory to him? Or how Jess confesses that he told Rory he loved her to Luke? Or how we even get to see Jess's own reactions to seeing her around town? We get none of that with Logan. And this is actually something that we even got with Dean to a lesser extent, like when Jess comes in season 2 and you have several moments where Dean expresses his doubts to Lorelai. By comparison, the most we see of Logan talking to someone about Rory is to Lorelai, and I can't even take this as complete 'proof' because obviously Logan tried to be "at his most charming" with her when she's Rory's mother and he's asking her for a favor relating to her daughter and his relationship with her. We never get scenes where Logan talks to his friends about Rory, or even to Mitchum about her. And I don't even find this as a fault towards him as a character, I simply find this as a personal fault towards the writing. Even in season 7, I don't think we ever really get this with him. We get Logan talking to Mitchum about his job and wanting to quit, but again, nothing in terms of a scene where he talks about her with someone else (without Rory being in the room). And I don't fully know why, but it's a reason why I find their relationship somewhat lacking. There's just a lot of moments where Logan doesn't even feel fully fleshed out to me because of this. Like yes, I know he loves Rory later on and wants to be with her, but how does he love her, beyond the supposed "healthy, perfect" way his fans repeatedly say? Like, why was he fine with suddenly up and leaving after his turned-down proposal? Was his love for Rory this passionate and desperate to fully have her? Or was it something he felt like was "time" for them to do in their relationship? I feel like we never get a proper answer for this even in season 5, where at most he just kept going hot and cold on her. I've seen some fans mention that he very much so did think of her in season 5 while he was ghosting her and she ended up crying on the bathroom floor, but where exactly was this??? Is this really a proven thing within the writing or is it just another fan-favorite view of him?

Opinionwise, I sadly can’t share much in regards to Logan overall because I’m 1.25 episodes away from finishing season 5. And when it comes to seasons 6 and 7, most of it I either remember so vaguely that my opinion is unreliable or I just haven’t watched yet... What I can say is that season 5 Logan is a fuckboy through and through. We don’t get any sign from scenes or dialogue or even looks that Logan was thinking of Rory while he was off doing other stuff and possibly dating other girls (for all we know he might have, but it is pure speculation and not confirmed canon onscreen). He made a point out of not getting tied down but sabotaged any of Rory’s attempts to explore that same freedom (see: costume party). When Rory clarified her needs and explained that she respected his boundaries, he accused her of forcing him into a relationship or dealing some ultimatum that she wasn’t dealing before begging to be her boyfriend no less than two minutes later in real time. And while he doesn’t seem to take it like a sitting duck, we don’t see a lot of him fighting his family over their sexist and elitist opinions about Rory as a potential long term girlfriend for Logan. He’s by no means the devil, but he does nothing to prove he’s actual boyfriend material either (again, at least in season 5).

Also I feel like while Dean did get some moments to express his feelings for Rory, what makes Jess stand out to many viewers (especially his fans) is that his whole existence isn’t tied to a romance with Rory. Like no, we don’t see him after season 6, but from what I’ve learned that had less to do with him not serving a purpose anymore without Rory and more to do with scheduling conflicts and behind the scenes disagreements. Dean only exists in regards to relationships, and even though he introduces new characters like Lindsay, his arcs are always about where he stands with Rory. Jess had his arc with Luke. He had a minor arc with Lorelai. Hell, his existence introduced Liz Danes to the town and to becoming a recurring character on the show without him. While Dean and Logan are narratively (though not physically) incapable of existing without Rory, Jess can (at least in theory). I think that might be why some Jess fans actually turn on Rory more than Rogan or Dean x Rory shippers do. Because we are allowed to see Jess side of the story in more ways than one, it is easier to pick one of at least three sides (Rory, Jess or both) as opposed to rooting for or against a coupling.