she's MIDDLE AGED she's a DOCTOR she's an AXE MURDER and NECROMANCER she's DIVORCED she played ROLLER DERBY in college she's a HORROR MOVIE FINAL GIRL she's a MILF she's a SHORT KING she has a SOUTHERN ACCENT she's a CANONICAL SAINT. And she's even BISEXUAL.

i think steampianist's thing really suits kabukimono. the speaker in the song struggles to convey emotions properly and wishes to have certain traits ("hair like yours," "hands like yours," "eyes to stare and to cry with," "fingers that curl in the cold"), which can be read as fervently coveting to look and feel "normal." or, in kabukimono's case, to look and feel human.

like the speaker in the song, kabukimono cannot understand or show certain emotions, and so he learns from those around him (like a sponge absorbing new information) about human life. he hides his true nature as a puppet and learns how to live as a human, but as human as he may act he can never truly be human if the parameters set for what it means to be human are that (1) you must have a heart and (2) your lifespan must be finite (which are parameters kabukimono thinks equals humanity). he has neither of these, which is why he never truly views himself as a human even though you could argue that being "human" simply means you are a complex individual who can feel, think, speak, and articulate (all things kabukimono is capable of).

as the song nears its conclusion, it's implied that the speaker hurt or killed their friends in some way, and you learn that all along this "thing" has wanted companionship and to feel and display emotions properly. but something goes wrong and the result is this eerie line: "struggling only makes the hugs much tighter." both kabukimono and the speaker in the song are driven by their obsessions, and both have bloodied their hands as the result of their circumstances (kabukimono's motivation for murder being revenge and the speaker's most likely being the threat of their friends leaving, so they become determined to make them stay even if it ends in death).

and by the end, the speaker still continues to wish for the traits mentioned above. likewise, kabukimono continues in his travels after sating his hunger for revenge and with "human" traits he has learned and experienced throughout his journey, only to soon step onto the path that leads him to becoming a harbinger once he comes to believe that his "humanity" is a sign of weakness. and so he does away with the things that made him human and starts a new era of his existence (albeit a more violent, cruel one), much like how the speaker in the song will probably continue to search for a way to express themselves in socially acceptable ways.

i think popopo could also fit kabukimono in that it's a song about an alien who travels from planet to planet in hopes of finding a home and a friend, but no one accepts or wants him so he is constantly shunned and lonesome. thus he is a "shooting star sinking in the spacey, black tar" with "hopes and dreams in teardrops," which are lines that fit kabukimono so much!

i wish the internet had never learned the term prefrontal cortex because people use it to make 25 the new 18 which is so strange

rambling time but while I’m fine with emerald getting redeemed (it was gonna happen eventually) and thank fuck for ilia getting redeemed but if they redeem cinder and especially if they redeem salem herself I will throw a metal chair at

i have many many thoughts about rose & tentoo and how their relationship would evolve in this verse. about how you can't just take the love you have for one person and put it on someone else. not even a clone, a regeneration, a metacrisis. about how that doesn't mean you can't love them, or that you can't fall in love with them the same way, but that love has to be for them.

Alright tumblr do your magic.

Find me Avad/Aloy/Helis shippers.

the thing about beth as i've written her so far is that she's less rachel animorphs (although rachel was a big part of the original inspiration) and much more girldean . except like only the parts where he SUCKS

ROSE TYLER *SHAKING YOU*

8 days until the 8 game ................

another wc take is that the girlbossification of mapleshade is boring as hell

I've been trying to think if there are any circumstances where I could see Dany giving up her claim to the throne in favor of anyone else, and honestly, I don't think that would ever happen. Obviously she is willing to make certain concessions, especially regarding leadership in the North, but for the Iron Throne itself? Like . . . Rhaegar himself could come back from the dead and she still would not abandon her claim for his sake. Even if she would postpone taking the throne for whatever reason like fixing problems elsewhere or properly establishing herself as Princess of Dragonstone first, she still wants to take the throne when she feels she's ready. Because Dany's claim isn't really built around whatever birthright she may have. Her approach is, ironically, the same right of conquest that Robert Baratheon used to back his own claim, with his ancestry used to bolster his claim but not as the crux of it. Her bloodline isn't something that's ignored, but that's certainly not her primary reason for wanting the throne. She wants the throne because she truly believes she is the right person to sit it. Her sense of self-righteousness is what drives her to claim it, not the feeling that she should just because she's (supposedly) the last Targaryen. It's clear from Dany's POV chapters that she never cared for taking the throne until she tasted power and saw the good she could do with it, and THAT was when she began to wonder if she should contest for the throne herself. She isn't doing this because she believes the Targaryen dynasty must be avenged or restored to power; she's doing this because she believes in herself and the things she can do.

my mom is the best person in this household and she is the best person in this whole fucking family and im sick of people acting like its otherwise

I’m in for the morning tomorrow which means working the same shift as my co-“worker”, and I’m absolutely dreading it because she is a literal nightmare and makes me furious even when I only see her for a few MINUTES, let alone hours. But maybe they’ll be drama so that could be funny lol GOODNIGHT ⭐️💤

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