We - are the birds - that stay

Welcome to my obsessions pit - I post mostly about fanfictions, Narutoverse; Jujutsu Kaisen and SpyxFamily. English + Spanish

[asoftepiloguemylove]

AND THE UNIVERSE SAID I LOVE YOU / BECAUSE YOU ARE LOVE

Julian Gough End Poem // Mary Oliver Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays // Lovers of Turuel // Garth Greenwell Still Dancing: An Interview with Ilya Kaminsky // Mary Oliver October // Mary Oliver Wild Geese // Artemis II // Chen Chen When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities // @/intactics // Voltarie Candide // Interstellar (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan // Mary Oliver For Example

[avadcniels]

THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL ⇢ 1x01 | PILOT

Ok, let's put it like this: If there was anything else in the entire world that I could possibly do to earn a living, I would. Anything! I'm talking dry cleaners to the Klan, crippled kid portrait painters, slaughterhouse attendant. If someone said to me, "Leonard, you can either eat a guy's head, or do two weeks at the Copa," I'd say "Pass the fucking salt." It's a terrible, terrible job. It should not exist. Like cancer. And God. But do you love it?

[bakapandy]

Drawing the Suna Brothers

[pitroig]

If Gojo Satoru were a Western white guy, it would absolutely be this dude.

After a completely impartial, unanimous, and 100% one-sided decision-making process, I’ve concluded that this guy—Parker York Smith, apparently a men’s fashion influencer (?) who’s 6'3", with intense blue eyes and silver hair—is exactly what Gojo would look like if Jujutsu Kaisen took place in, I don’t know… San Francisco.

I would still love your endorsement, though my mind is pretty much made up. 😌

[pitroig]

Surprise surprise:

I didn't hate JJK Modulo

I didn't hate JJK Modulo as much as I thought I was going to, so to some extent: it had a little bit of nostalgia, a wink of hope, some aliens I couldn't care less about but who were weirdly lovable.

I'm glad I read it and that it got published, although the most important thing (for my ego, above all) is that I felt vindicated by the ending, because it's exactly what I predicted back when chapter 266 dropped:

This is what I posted here when I was explaining why I didn't want to keep reading JJK (I ended up reading it anyway) because what was going to happen was so predictable. And I was right.

The future of the franchise. (...) here is my prediction. Most of the characters will perish. My bet on the survivors: Maki, Yuuta, Yuuji, and some random people here and there. They will win, Kenjaku and Sukuna will be sealed or something like that, but after that, there won't be more jujutsu world. No more cursed energy. The survivors will have to deal with some curses-related issues around the globe, but they will be able to live a normal life that will, honestly, suck.

And it's not that I want to act like I'm that smart — it's that there were genuinely too many things pointing at the disappearance of cursed energy being the final resolution:

Yuki, who dedicated her entire life to figuring out how to eliminate it, does not show up just to die anticlimactically. She simply does not.

The whole Tengen and his barriers situation — which, given the worldbuilding, seemed important enough to have everyone losing their minds over what happens if Tengen disappears or regular people merge with the barrier — just gets dropped as a plot goal. Excuse me??

That thing (what was even the point??) with the military killing cursed spirits and the political debates about energy and cursed energy (????) could only make sense if you were actually going to give a central role to the nature of the energy itself.

The development of heavenly restriction is, honestly, one of the most interesting threads in the entire series — and it just... stops. Even though it was clearly at the heart of how cursed energy works.

Even Geto's whole dilemma — the thing that kicks off the entire plot in Star Plasma Vessel — would have come full circle if that had been possible.

And don't even get me started on the famous "are you the strongest because you're Gojo Satoru, etc." — that would have taken on a whole other dimension if analyzed through the lens of cursed energy ceasing to exist. It would have forced us to ask whether Gojo was ever anything more than a weapon.

So once again, I'm going to put on my Gege mind-reading hat — because as I've said a million times, his fatal flaw is always wanting to be the smartest guy in the room — and throw out the theory that the disappearance of cursed energy was the final conflict the story was building toward, and that it was roughly around the start of the Culling Games that it all got away from him and he accepted he just had to keep going the traditional shonen route: one fight, another fight, repeat until everyone's exhausted. This was not, I'm convinced, his original plan. And the proof is right there in Modulo, which ends exactly the way I predicted.

Ha!

[smol-ackerman]

"I'm so glad you're safe!"

SPY X FAMILY S3 Ep. 09:

[hypokeimena]

remember when you could find websites that contained information

[bloodraven55]

I CAN'T BREATHE WHY IS SHE LIKE THISSDFHSJFH

[messrsage]

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

[burr-ell]

[pitroig]

Down the Logan-Rory rabbit hole once again

Okay I'm down the Logan-Rory rabbit hole once again and I need to vent because listen – he was the best terrible boyfriend Rory ever had but their story makes absolutely no sense.

Like, at all.

I love him more than any of Rory's other guys because he was the only one who actually gave Rory space to just be herself. He stuck with her through her mistakes, her doubts, her wins, and never expected her to be anything other than Rory. Dean loved her because she was cute and smart. Jess loved her because they shared the same books. But Logan? Logan loved her because she was Rory and she made him want to be better, and honestly that's what love should be.

Season 5 Logan was a jerk with redeeming qualities. Season 6 gaves us a mix of villain and hero. Season 7 gave us this genuinely great guy who was trying so hard to build a life outside his father's shadow, who was painfully in love with Rory, who had actual goals and maturity. If you didn't fall for S7 Logan then I don't know what to tell you.

But here's the problem: S7 Logan wasn't supposed to exist. ASP abandoned the show after S6, so S7 is basically the illegitimate child that nobody acknowledges.

The real story would've gone straight from S6 to the revival (minus that time jump bullshit) because that's the only way we can understand their dynamic – him so in love, her always hesitant – and how we ended up with pregnant Rory.

Here's what should have happened in a real ASP Season 7:

Logan goes to London and they try long distance until it inevitably falls apart. Rory finishes Yale but realizes journalism isn't her thing (thank god because she wasn't great at it). She decides to write her family novel instead. Meanwhile she gets back with Jess but also occasionally hooks up with Logan because emotions are messy. Eventually she gets pregnant and Logan's on the other side of the world and she's trapped in Stars Hollow again. Logan doesn't know whether to come back because he's always been destined to be Christopher 2.0 but can he actually break that cycle?

Imagine them with more dignity and not the crappy storyline in AYITL

I keep coming back to this because the revival gave us two beautiful disasters, but S7 Logan – who was so mature and sure of himself and desperately in love – would never have become revival Logan. And Rory would never have been cynical enough to sleep with someone she destroyed while pretending she didn't know exactly what she was doing.

So yeah, I'm forever haunted by what we could have had instead of what we got.

[mitsuba00]

Childhood

[pitroig]

SpyxFamily 120

So like everyone's talking about Spy x Family chapter 120, so I'm gonna jump on this bandwagon and talk about 120... and the previous chapters too, because what's important here isn't just the chapter. It's the whole arc and what it means.

This narrative arc starts with Yor's mission with her colleagues, the betrayal by one of them who attacks her for not considering her valid for the job, and the fake date to attempt to recover from her injuries. In between we learn more about Yor's life in Garden, and we finally learn her true feelings about Loid, but like in every single one of Endo's arcs, he's using this framework to deal with a much more complex and deeper theme: the different forms that romantic love can take and specifically, how it manifests in marriage.

So let's go back to the beginning: Yor is crossing the forest with Matthew and Hemlock to save those poor deer and the conversation turns to relationships and marriage and expectations about them.

Hemlock and Yor are more or less on the same wavelength: love and marriage are, in the end, just kiss-kiss and make out. For Hemlock, it's also about abandoning your own values and abilities to worry about someone other than yourself, and for Yor it's actually the fire that fuels her motivations and her work within Garden.

Matthew, however, has another point of view: that gray man, of few words and lethal actions is also a married man in a quiet and discreet relationship. With his wife there isn't a relationship of honesty as we would expect, but it relies on deep affection between both parties and in Mathew's case, a space where Mathew is able to forgive himself through the care that he and his wife offer each other. There's not so much hope or passion as there is a place to feel rest.

Then, later on, we find that Millie falls head over heels for Hemlock's physical appearance, and her (married) friends warn her once again not to get carried away by the looks of her new fake partner, because lasting love, as has been said, isn't just superficial making out and kiss kiss smack smack.

Then there's Anya and Damian and their number 1 shipper, Becky. Where Becky puts romantic relationship expectations like the ones she sees on TV (jealousy, crushes, pining, etc.), when in reality it's just Damian unable to behave in front of the girl he likes and Anya, who only sees a friend who makes weird faces and thinks Becky is a bit annoying with all the romance stuff.

And we even have Nightfall at the end, who has always put her work, her romantic expectations, and her dedication to an idyllic image she has of Twilight that doesn't correspond to reality and above all, has no coherence with her own personality. Faced with the idea of actually being Twilight's fake wife, Fiona is relieved not to be chosen for it, which tells us that probably, between the idea and reality, her daydreams have no place.

So this is the main theme, for me, of this arc (and not that love for your loved ones makes you stronger) that connects, at the end of everything, to what for me is the total theme of Spy x Family (as I've explained in other posts): the reconciliation of what we put outside ourselves and the true us beneath the facade.

This union between both parts is achieved through Yor's date with Loid. On this date, for the first time, we see that Yor has no romantic aspirations whatsoever; she just wants to see if with the restaurant's cocktail, she can heal her wound again. That is: she strips away the romantic expectation as a girl and as a wife and focuses solely on a utilitarian character that benefits her real self.

This way, without further aspirations, she can concentrate on discovering Loid from a much more honest point that's aligned with herself. And that allows her to be honest with her relationship and with her own feelings: she sees Loid as a good, smart, and kind man who takes care of them. A man to fall in love with.

But where does Loid fit in all this? Well, Loid has a long road ahead. First, because we still need to know who Twilight really is, what his true "form" is. Second, because, although Twilight and Yor have reached a similar point (doing ugly things to protect others), Yor has done it out of love for her brother and Twilight has done it because he has rationalized his pain for fear that the suffering will repeat itself. And those are two totally different processes that must follow different routes and timings.

So we have a long road ahead, but we'll reach our destination. If there's something I've always been sure of, it's that Loid and Yor will end up together.

Overall, I'm very grateful for chapter 120 because I was about to drop the manga in this last arc: really Hemlock's appearance seemed like a hassle for the plot to me. But I'm glad I stayed: Endo Tatsuya creates beautiful arcs that offer depth and lots of ideas to think about.

I hope this post wasn't too long!

[kinbari14]

Their Blue Spring 🥲

[pitroig]

Ugh, my heart

[gojosbf]

they had matching shirts oh my god i think we should all kill ourselves

[exo-raskreia]

Do you have any favorite gojohime fanfic recommendations? Top 5 or 10?

I have fallen in love with their fanart and I’m trying to get more into the fandom.

Ooh, well, here are some of my favorites... 😊

• two steps forward by badanada - T, ongoing. (My fav GojoHime fic! Teen Gojo pining for an oblivious Uta & it's so cute & realistic! 😍)

• The Joke and the Fool by ohmytheon - T, complete. (Cute AU inspired by the "10 Things I Hate About You (1999)" movie. Gojo makes a bet that he can take Uta to prom...)

• Blind Binds by evanesukeii - T, complete. (GojoHime over the years)

• knowing you now is proof that I'm alive by Winter_Rhapsody - M, one-shot. (Uta achieves DE by finally acknowledging her suppressed feelings for Gojo 👀)

• Sunlight through the Trees by songhime - T, one-shot. (Cute & realistic fic in which Uta & her students stay a little longer in Tokyo after the Goodwill Event & Gojo wants to ask her out)

• do i wanna know? by otherthingsonhold - T, one-shot. (Cute office AU in which CEO Gojo overhears his secretary Uta went on a date & he's hellbent on finding out with who)

• The Vow by Lovehsm - M, one-shot/ongoing? (GojoHime finally give in to their feelings after Gojo got unsealed)

• Beautiful by Lanri - T, complete. (GojoHime go to a weekend-long teacher conference & Gojo overhears some people mocking Uta's scar, so he wants to prove to her that she's beautiful)

• Anne Carson by majycka - G, ongoing. (Realistic fic set after Gojo got unsealed & began training with Uta for the battle against Sukuna)

• Little Sun by unpetitlapin - T, one-shot. (Cute. Teen Gojo finally sees Uta again over the summer after she moved to Kyoto...)

[sidsinning]

Gojo zoning out

[3-aem]

nerdjo