all around and away we go

im my own person i enjoy most things

[leylenangel]

Huntress Wizards Endless Cycle

[macholob0]

i don't need the whole world to see

[vampyofmemes]

As much as I can’t stand the discussion about Ren’ai, the difference between Koi and Ai, and what the names put together stand for… I think I cracked Hino’s cheeky code despite the annoyance of this topic.

We like to use the terms to describe Yuuki’s love for either men but why not reverse it? I’m willing to bet Hino’s inside meta joke, her true intention of naming the girls those terms was not to indicate YUUKI’s romantic feelings for either men but THEIR romantic feelings for HER.

However! Only when you put both names together to be “ren’ai” is when it’s in context to YUUKI’S affections for both men. Since the term “ren’ai” is the complete package word usage for romantic love that is equal—requited. It’s a sickening twist to tell the readers, “haha, she loves them both equally—suck it.” Since it’s so much easier to hide behind such a term when you put both names of the girls together to encompass Yuuki’s feelings. It’s always the evasion to answer the question, “who she loves more?” Cause she doesn’t have to answer that question when you put the names together—she loves them equally, mutually.

Though, lemme break this down through the male love interests.

Zero IS in love with Yuuki, there is no familiar attachment for him—thus, Koi—this type of love is only used for romantic partners exclusively. Koi is used in words for unrequited love, too—which is how Zero’s love for Yuuki was since the beginning. Koi is a wanting, selfish love, of first, young love, of falling in love, it’s used for infatuation, of the start of being in love. Zero and Yuuki’s relationship is kind of selfish since they went against social norms to be together—at least because they were not meant to be since they were on opposite sides of societal social standings. However, despite all odds, Zero wanted to be with her.

While Kaname’s love for Yuuki is the term, Ai—it has the nuance of admiration, familiar love but also romantic interest. Ai isn’t a mutually exclusive term like Koi is when it comes to romantic love since it can be used to describe love between family and friends, too. It’s all mixed up for Kanaki since they’re family—descendants—they grew up first as siblings when Yuuki was born, but also promised fiancées. Ai is a giving type of love, it can develop deeper in context of romance. In Hino’s eyes, her ending narrative of Kaname made him out to be “always living for someone else” thus Hino’s use of a “giving” type of love. In general, it’s definitely got a double entendre that leads some credence to how brazen Hino used it for them.

When you see Ai in context of other phrases or terms, it doesn’t necessarily mean equally or mutually received in return, though.

It’s only when you put Koi and Ai—Ren’ai, that it means two people equally, mutually are in love. Hilarious, really.

Granted, this is just an inverse take of all the arguments I’ve seen and for all the years it’s been a topic of discussion. Take it as you will.

[makingimages]

[chiisanahoshi]

this...

reminded me about this...

[lladydaydream]

this specific panel of Yuki & Zero just does something to me 😣💓

& I think it’s soooo funny how Yuki thinks back to this moment multiple times throughout the manga too 😭

[hunterschafer]

Rue was the first girl that didn’t just look at me. She actually saw me. The me that’s underneath a million layers of not me.

[jadedmemories]

There's a bone-chilling atmosphere...

[usui-zero]

[lelouch]

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[afroesoteric]

Men so rarely are useful that women see their boyfriends correctly doing something elementary and start convincing themselves that they have a competency kink

[saphicangel]

“and too, when candles burn out and the record is faded down I know you’ve got people to turn to…” thank you clairo for your service, this song was monumental to me.

[silvermoon424]

[jolenegifs]

FKA TWIGS for THE FACE shot by Charlotte Wales, styled by Matthew Josephs

[smilefromtheheartalways]

“The princess desperately extends her hand. Inside her glass prison she only had eyes for one person. The prince also desperately extends his hand. He ignored the chains that weighed him heavily around his ankles, cutting into his bleeding flesh. In his heart there was only one person. 

Between the two of them there was an invisible wall. It was the boundary between two different worlds. It could not be crossed. Despite knowing this, they still couldn’t help extend their hands out to each other. They would never be able to touch one another, but they still desired, to.  They knew they were powerless but they couldn’t quite erase the small ray of hope inside them. Seeing the foolish lovers like this, the magician couldn’t help but cackle with glee. 

‘You know you two can’t touch each other, and yet you still extend your hands out to each other. It’s pointless!’ 

Yet still with their hands extended to the absolute limit, the glass started to crack. The magician’s gleeful expression disappeared. Listening to the sound of glass gently breaking, all the princess was thinking

I really want to see him…”

From the Vampire Knight Light Novel, ’The Noir Trap’ [ x ]

In which Hino makes it clear that the real ship in VK is Zeki and that Kaname’s simply the asshole who gets in the way

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[twotheleft]