Owl Street

Hello, I'm a dork. I love terriermon.

[wordcubed]

something incredibly American about an Allied trooper yelling brand names at Soviets until they recognize him as an ally.

[ouppygirlcity]

[redpandarascal]

I thought it would be an hour of listening to screaming and looking at pictures of draculas, but it was so much for frightening than fathomed

[izukutears]

I’m not one of those people who finds Akito’s actions justifiable because of her trauma, but I really appreciate the parallels between her and Tohru. They both have a desire to keep their connections eternal and unchanged. For Tohru, this began after her father’s death. Kyoko was so focused on her grief that she neglected Tohru and nearly took her own life. In an attempt to give her mother something to live for, Tohru took on her father’s polite/formal speaking style and became the perfect daughter. The belief that she needs to act a specific way to maintain her relationships spread to the rest of her life. While Tohru’s kindness is genuine, her motivation isn’t completely selfless. She’s nice to people because she wants them to stay. The show portrays her extreme kindness as a strength, but her motive is cast in a negative light. When Kyoko passes, Tohru is scared to love anyone more than she loved her mom because that might weaken their connection. This fear stopped her from moving forward in life. Bonds are not meant to be eternal. Change leads to growth. (TOHRU IS NOT A MARY SUE BTW!!)

Akito also lost her father at a young age, but unlike in Tohru’s situation, her mother permanently rejects her afterwards. This gave Akito a fear of abandonment and causes her to aggressively cling to the other zodiac members. As the head of the family, she believes that she’s owed a relationship with them. She maintains these bonds with extreme force, lashing out at the possibility of them caring for anyone else.

The protagonist and antagonist having the same core fear allowed the story to explore the theme from both angles. Whether you’re convincing people to stay through carefully crafted kindness or needless cruelty, it won’t guarantee genuine connection. Choice > Obligation. Growth > Comfort.

[sighsra]

like a rice ball in a fruits basket!

[lleann-art]

my favorite recurring kyoru moment is tohru hitting kyo with her pompom scarf

[hairbrushed]

how do i describe what it's like to be a 12 year old girl whose life is controlled by shoujo manga that start off cute but then descend into cult mayhem (and all the characters are also 12)

[zodiac-monkey]

[otomokatsuhiro]

FRUITS BASKET 2001

[emilylovescookies]

tohru honda… the shoujo girl of my dreams 🐱🎀💕

[samairuart]

🍙 redraw for some practice, I’m feeling so rusty

[pink-doc-martains]

Watch Fruits basket guys

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Fruits Basket is actually a pretty fire manga when you consider that it portrayed a perfect picture of people stuck in a situation not of their choosing, who were both victims and perpetrators in their own way but all trapped and hurting, needing an outsider to approach them with kindness and acceptance and love for their current state who still very much did not want them to suffer under the effects of that vicious cycle. Sometimes you need to look beyond your own self to find freedom and healing (the zodiacs), and maybe by serving others can you be reminded that you yourself are just as precious as well (Tohru). Maybe all you need to escape the cycle of suffering is to look beyond yourself and listen, maybe you need a bit of space with the knowledge that you aren't isolated, and maybe sometimes you need that something beyond yourself to reach out to you and never let you go.

[maddy-k-reads-all-day]

Exactly I love fruba so much!

[daily-spooky]

source

[despazito]

more cat

[rhodericks]

[planeyboys]

if your flight ever gets delayed cause I;m out here grabbin em all hohohohohoho puttin em in my pockets hahahaha

[squiddleward-deactivated2019060]

what the fuck

[beatcroc]

#it’s NOT inexplicable#it’s bc someone based it on the unicode 6 yellow heart#which is colorless but shaded with halftone dots#and someone interpreted that like stubble#and drew this#which is SO FUCKING FUNNY via @animusbell

[eldermindless]

[culmaer]

oké but ‘shaded with dots’ to represent yellow is probably from Heraldry, where each of the tinctures (ie. colours) has a corresponding Standard Hatching Pattern in case you’re printing in black and white. or doing an engraving or striking the coat of arms on a coin or some other context where you can’t use actual colours

Heraldry does also have standard fur patterns. most common are Ermine and Vair. so you could do a representation of a hairy heart in Heraldry, if you wanted to (except pink isn’t a standard heraldic tincture, sadly)

[tlbodine]

wait a goddamn minute is THAT why MS Paint had that color mode where everything was crosshatching and dots and shit??? That confused the hell out of me as a kid. Mind blown.

(also lmfao at the hairy heart. I’m not gonna say it)