i still find it so interesting how jackie is (was?) largely defined by her niceness, her friendliness. she's not the strongest, or the smartest, but she can bring people together. so when she is mean to the other girls, you notice it. she's mean to taissa when she feels like her position as leader is undermined; she knows that taissa is just as much of their leader as she is and it scares her. she's mean to shauna when she finds out about jeff; understandable considering what a huge betrayal it is (at least on the surface). but the girl she is by far the meanest to is nat.

and there is no good reason why anyone should be mean to nat. she is kind of treated as a punching bag, and taissa especially resents her because she doesn't like the idea of nat threatening the team's performance with her day-drinking or whatever. but nat is by far the kindest, sweetest, most compassionate, genuine member of the team. even as an adult you can see that she might be jaded and grieving and ruthless, but she's still at her core a good person. young natalie especially though is someone with a very strong moral center and uses those guiding principles of kindness to define who she is.

she's more mature, capable, and sure of herself than the rest of the group, because before ever landing in that forest, she's had a much harder life than the rest of them. we see that van probably doesn't have the best home life, but the rest of them are living comfortably. even if they don't have great relationships with their parents, they still live in middle to upper class households. nat grew up in a trailer park with a father who horribly abused her and her mother (until the day she witnessed him accidentally shoot his own face off). these circumstances made nat more resilient, braver, and more empathetic than the other girls.

and i think jackie recognizes that, whether or not it's a conscious recognition. she knows that nat is everything she herself is not. nat is confident in herself whereas jackie is terribly insecure and relies on external validation to uphold her own identity. where nat comes from poverty, jackie grew up in a huge house. where nat is comfortable having sex with boys, jackie is too repressed to have sex with her longterm boyfriend because she's terrified of having to confront the fact that she won't actually like it. natalie expresses herself through alt/grunge fashion, music, and culture, whereas jackie is as preppy as it is physically possible to be. natalie is jackie's perfect opposite: a poor outcast who is nevertheless comfortable enough in her own (hetero)sexuality to present in a (gender) non-conforming way and not care what others think of her to jackie's rich popular prom queen soccer captain who is debilitatingly insecure and sexually repressed, conforming perfectly to society's expectations of her to the point that she'd rather die than explore the possibility that she might like girls.

jackie has negative interest in travis, but she breaks him and nat up and steals him from her anyway. and the thing is, nat doesn't even care. she forgives jackie. when lottie locks jackie in the closet (ha), nat is the one who comes to her rescue. when travis apologizes to nat for sleeping with jackie, she says it doesn't matter to her. jackie is horrible to nat, but nat is genuinely mature enough that it doesn't even bother her. jackie wears her insecurities on her sleeve, and nat sees right through her. she doesn't put up with jackie's bullshit, but she's also gracious enough to not gang up on jackie with the rest of the girls, even though she's the only one who actually has any right to be mad at her. nat is generally apart from the rest of the team, not only because she's an outcast, but because she's simply above their petty dramas.

jackie doesn't have a good reason to be mean to her. she's the kindest, sweetest girl on the team. but jackie is mean when she feels threatened, and nat's existence threatens her very identity.

I haven't played the game but based on your posts it felt like there were a lot of PegoRyu interactions. Which was your favorite (if any)?

I guess i went insane with the P5/pegoryu spam in general... i can't control the hyperfixation 💀 but yeah, there is a LOT of interactions cause the two are best friends and Ryuji is one of the first characters the protagonist meets! So it's hard to choose a favorite interaction cause there is a lot throughout the games such...

But maybe in P5R in Ryuji's confidant cause of how he thanks Joker for staying with him and not abandoning him... tldr of the story, Ryuji was without a real friend for quite a long time, so you know he really meant that. plus how he says things in his confidant like how he feels free when talking to him and how he's glad he finally found a place to belong and that there was place for Joker too... right next to him... like bro what do you mean?? What did you mean by that?? 😭

my most recent fav BRC headcanon (ft. jet jay and faux)

James being an absolute dork at Metallica's Night 1 gig in LA

vid by cda.charli50

♪A stroll through groovy road♪

Holy guacamole this took me forever to finish but I finally did! On the left is Slime Wally and on the right is groovy wally!

Dialogue:

Melly: I'm not sure if I'm doing this "groovy" thing right. . .

Groovy: You're doing great darling! You really dig those skates, especially for a first timer

Basically I tried drawing the glasses on groovy but I failed miserably, so I just grabbed a plastic bag, colored it a light purple, cut it out into like a glasses shape (that sounds weird to say lol) and I used it like regular glasses, you can take em on or off whenever!

(I know there's like a ton of mistakes on this and I had to re-paint the background like 10 times 😭 But I think it was really worth it!)

Groovy wally is made by @jazzzzzzhands!!

Slime Wally is made by me :) (All my art by the way)

Is canon aki mean? In any case whether he’d be annoyed, irritated or just having a horrible rough day would he be mean to his s/o canonically?

no, he isn't mean at all. aki is easily the kindest character in the entire manga, in fact. his identity as a character centers around his complete and utter selflessness, even towards those he says he doesn't like.

aki has a strong sense of morals, so he can be serious or strict at times. he keeps a cold facade because he can't have people knowing how he really feels, and because it's the only way he can continue on in such a horrible world. but he's never outright mean, nothing he does is out of spite.

he's rude towards denji at the beginning of the manga because he knows devil hunters who don't know what they're getting into often end up dying, he's trying to protect denji in this way. and at the beginning, he still carries a lot of blind hate towards devils. but all of his values end up getting tested as the manga goes on and he finds he cares deeply for denji and power, because that's just the kind of person he is.

so I don't think he'd ever be mean to someone who he loves. sometimes, he can get irritated, but he would never take it out on you. actually, I think being near you would help to calm him down. he would want your presence and company after he's had a really terrible day.

look! i can lift you now!

(im so grateful i met you)

when

When @bamsara exists

;; huaaaahu , tyssm @wanderers-wife for drawing the belovedss . i'm so emotional tbh , they're soso completely precious and perfect in every single way eeeek ! ; v ; ♡

tysvm forever i'm so happyyy ~

zeph's life is about to become a comedy when they run into gortash for the first time.

like, imagine your bestie has told you all these awful things about the guy who fucked her over and ruined her life and you hate him so bad because he fucked with your best friend so of course you hate his ass and you're so ready to get your hands on him and finally put your murderous instincts to good use because this guy deserves the most brutal killing you're capable of...

...and then you set eyes on his stupid face for the first time and something in the back of your mind says you know what this dude's dick tastes like.

"you're not stupid, you're just straight"

— me to my friend who discovered gay people are real for the first time

wisdom tooth extraction u r my new enemy the entire left part of my mouth HURTS

helloo!! ok so i sincerely hope this doesn’t come off as creepy or anything of the sort but i love watching the things you reblog change as you watch new things- it gives me stuff to add to my watchlist lmfao

like you posted a tonnn of nimona stuff and i was like “hey this movie looks pretty cool i should watch it” and i did! and it was awesome!!!

and kinda completely unrelated- but sometimes after i’ll watch something i’ll immediately see you reblogging content of it and it’s like ??? crazy coincidence?? but that’s awesome??

like a some time ago (forgot when lol) i rewatched sk8 the infinity bc it’s one my fav animes and you started reblogging a bunch of sk8 stuff and it’s like woahhhh what??

fuck this turned out so much longer than i meant it to 💀 and once again i really hope this is not weird but basically- i appreciate you and your blog a lot and i love seeing you on my dash :) 🫶 that’s all!!

This is the sweetest ask ever oh my god??? This makes me so absolutely happy you have no idea. It’s really fun knowing that I influence people to watch stuff I love??? That’s wild???

Also those coincidences are so funny I love that. We are SYNCED

THIS WASNT WEIRD AT ALL I LOVE THIS SO MUCH THANK YOU 💖💖

My poetry class is fucking crazy last week we were doing group work and this girl who’s always wearing all an hot pink new outfit every class starts whispering to us that we should take it up with some higher authority that my instructor is being unfair and discriminatory. What was her reasoning well I’m glad you asked… see Barbie is mad because my instructor changed the attendance policy to be less lenient for people who don’t show up to class and this girl doesn’t show up to class and is .. getting a bad grade now lol. And she said she’s gonna research the legality of this. And that it’s really so unfair to her because she’s paying for the class so that means she’s entitled to not show up and still pass 👍 worst part is when she was like “she doesn’t want us to socialize with each other so we can’t UNIONIZE and realize how awful she is”. And everyone was agreeing with her fuccck this rich ass school

were you ever intimidated by me? 😌😏😚

ACTUALLY HMMM... i'm trying to think back now. here, have a sexy pierre gif so long

(still thinking. admittedly getting distracted by the sexy pierre gifs.)

(yeah i am deliberately looking for gifs where he looks like he's thinking, and looks sexy doing that. to be fair though, he looks sexy doing anything.)

the look, pierre. the LOOK. i melt

CONCENTRATION!!!

(AKA, something which i do not have. i will answer your question in the tags, bb. i love you. pls focus on the sexy pierre gifs and not me being a disaster ❤️)

Something rubs me the wrong way about how robin williams is being literally sanctified by the public since his death. Like that must be rough for people who Actually Knew Him As A Mutifaceted Person.