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why i will never stop talking about vincenzo

The chemistry between Vincenzo and Cha Young that is stronger than the periodic table itself

Ok Taecyeon’s acting being out of this world + being the reason that I now question all my morals

The Cassano Geumga family. Do I need to say more?

Han Seo’s character arc + finding a true brother in Vincenzo

Vincenzo being a protagonist that really is a villain but it’s ✨necessary✨

This show BLEW me out of the water. The acting is superb, the writing is addicting, the cinematography is stunning, the music conveyed ALL the right emotions. It’s kind of a masterpiece. And you kind of have to see it.

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k dramas that made me fall in love with k dramas

nevertheless

vincenzo

tale of the nine tailed

what’s wrong with secretary kim

business proposal

her private life

my roommate is a gumiho

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i started jujutsu kaisen: here are my thoughts

Um yeah...I completely get the hype. I didn’t think it would be my thing at all but I started it because I heard so much.

The characters are already so captivating and interesting. They all have a unique personality and they’re a joy to watch. They bounce off each others opposite personalities so well, for example Gojo’s lack of seriousness and Megumi’s dedication to what he does. Itadori is a very likeable main character, but I have to say that my favorite is very much Gojo so far. He’s so funny without even trying which makes the comedy even better. Also uh look at him.

The animation is AMAZING. I cannot say enough about how beautiful and detailed and artistic it is!!! It’s colorful and pleasing to the eye. The curses are creepy in all the right ways. I don’t want to be that fan but the characters are indeed gorgeous. Aside from the curses, it can also be so creepy in other aspects and that makes it almost even better??? And again, the COLORS.

The plot is actually really cool. I didn’t expext to like it so much but the writers have handled it marvelously so far. It’s not too much to take in but it also doesn’t drag everything out to the point that it’s boring. It doesn’t take long at all to kick off so it draws you in early on. It’s action packed but it’s not fight scene after fight scene so if that’s not your thing, that’s not all the show is. If you love them though, one like below is a minor one and still incredibly fascinating to watch. They really alternate well between different scenes to draw out different emotions and effects.

Overall, I will definitely continue watching! I think this might be a future favorite for sure. And obviously I will keep y’all updated.

[headspace-hotel]

idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little

[findingfeather]

Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.

Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink

[headspace-hotel]

...Oh

[brainsforbabyjesus]

second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.

awkward

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”

[tygermama]

scene later in the movie - one of the characters pulls out a knife, it's not one of theirs, they laugh and use it anyway

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I would like to share with you all, my greatest anime crushes.

1) General Hak. Oh lord, this man is too hot for his own good. Probably my top one.

2) Kyo Sohma. I strongly believe it’s I hate everyone but my girl energy. And maybe everything else but you know. Honorable mention for honestly all the Sohma men.

3) Satoru Gojo. It might be the white hair or the black sleevless turtleneck but oh lord.

4) Izumi Miyamura. Must protect at all costs. Cutest bean.

5) Takumi Usui. The ability and willingness to protect is admirable but the man can do literally anything and that is amazing.

6) Tomoe. Being a land deity doesn’t sound so bad and familiar contracts? I am all for them.

7) Odanna. He may seem scary but this mf is soft as hell. And hot as hell.

8) Li-ren Fang. Far too underrated and far too gorgeous.

9) Asahi Azumane. The soft but looks like he could beat you up energy is perfect.

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allow me to introduce my favorite genre: supernaturals falling in love with humans

Kamisama Kiss

Fruits Basket

Noragami

Bed and Breakfast for Spirits

Spice and Wolf

Inuyasha

Inari konkon

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my fruits basket opinions:

favorite female character: i think tohru because how could i not love her??? i also adore kyoko, what a badass and amazing bean

favorite male character: kyo but i love all of them tbh

least favorite character: kyo’s biological father or yuki’s mom (shoutout to many of the furuba parents for being AWFUL)

favorite romantic ship: i am a yuchi kind of girl, they are absolutely adorable but also kyoru comes in after them

least favorite romantic ship: kureno and akito, that was downright toxic and awful

favorite friendship: ayame, hatori and shigure because they are amazing together (uo, hana and tohru are very close second)

most tragic backstory: for me it’s probably kyo just because of the fate he was meant to endure, his parents and the way he was looked down upon by the zodiac but yuki and rin also have incredibly tragic backstories

funniest character: ayame for sure, one of my favorite moments is “am i a top or a bottom, well i am a bottom all the way”

most handsome character: the sohma men are SO fine but i would have to choose between hatori, haru or kyo

prettiest character: hanajima is absolutely stunning

favorite episode: probably “cinderella-ish”, we get some yuchi content, uo-chan and kureno, hana-chan meets kazuma which is hilarious and kyoru moments, overall the play is so funny too

most underrated character: manabe!!! he helps yuki grow so much but he is also so so funny and i love him

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Akito Sohma: a dissection

I know one of the biggest discussions within the fandom and within the series itself is whether or not Akito should be forgiven for what she has done.

Akito has inflicted a lot of harm on the zodiac members and even outsiders like Tohru. She threw Rin out of the window for her relationship with Hatsuharu. She beat up Kisa because Hiro was in love with her. She emotionally abused Yuki and kept him locked away in a dark room. She calls Kyo a monster and plans to lock him up for the rest of his life. The list goes on and on. She is feared by the zodiac members, and because of the bond they cannot quite ever defy her. She’s quite frankly awful. I truly hated her for the longest time. To this day I’m still not a huge fan (obviously).

Up until the third season we don’t really get any backstory on her, we rather see her as a villainous person who terrorizes the family. We then learn that she was treated as special, isolated first by her parents and then by the zodiac members themselves. She wasn’t treated as a part of the group but instead above it. Akito was forced to be a man, which is why she despises the girls. They are allowed to freely be feminine, yet she cannot. She hates the idea of the zodiac members being in love because that will take away from their love for her. She was never truly loved and that is what she yearned for. She wanted to be loved and that’s why she clung to the bonds, it was all she had and all she was taught to want to have.

I don’t think we are meant to forgive Akito or not forgive her. I think we are meant to just understand her. Understand her motivations. Understand that she is to blame. Understand that she knew no better. Understand that she needs to change. I really think that at the core of it, none of the members truly forgave her. I think they chose to move forward and leave the darkness behind. They aren’t forgetting, but learning to walk again. And so is Akito. I don’t think she got a redemption arc but rather the opportunity to reinvent herself through the broken curse that also held her down and her meeting with Tohru, who really saw her loneliness for the first time. She’s getting the chance the rest of them are, to fix the wrongs she did and her parents did. She’s not a villain but not an angel either, she just is.

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I just rewatched Fruits Basket for the second time and can I just say, Machi has my whole heart.

I relate to her struggle with expectations and perfection so much. Knowing who your unique shape is impossible when you are constantly molded into something else by someone else. When living for the expectations of others, you forget what expectations you had for yourself. You are no longer yourself because you are simply someone else’s ideal, a vision for what you should be not what you are. That idea is suffocating, just like the idea that perfection has no end. There is no ultimate perfection because there will always be something to improve on. There will always be someone better at something than you. It’s daunting because no matter how much you try, there is no end to the struggle. Machi, her perception of herself or perhaps lack thereof, is a great depiction of what happens and just how terrifying these things are.

I think that’s why I also love her with Yuki. You don’t know how to cry out, you know how to be an ideal but being just a person is tough. He notices the small things in her mannerisms, she doesn’t have to spell it out for him. She doesn’t have to ask for him to take notice of her or to help her, he simply does it. You try so hard, because that is what is expected of you, but being praised for that isn’t what you expect. When he tells her he did well, that means so much because that effort is finally being acknowledged as not just something basic. She doesn’t want perfection in a partner, and despite what everyone says about Yuki, he isn’t perfect. He also has his flaws, which she is able to see, to her he is no prince because she doesn’t want that, and neither does he. They’re able to see one another for everything, not just the ideals they have been given. They seek each other out consistently, make each other feel needed and seen. And may I add, one of my favorite things is Yuki completely seems to forget about his curse when Machi tries to give him back the bookmark, he seems more concerned that she’s being stubborn. She makes him feel like a normal teenage boy, unafraid of transforming.

In conclusion, Machi Kuragi is a character that deserves far more love because damn this girl needs it. What a cute bean. Running around the whole school to give a crumpled flower? Adorable. Giving Tohru a get well gift for basically raising Yuki? Queen. Kicking Manabe’s ass? As she should. Dealing with Yuki’s airheaded ways and constant teasing? I don’t know how she does it. She and Yuki are my favorite couple on the show (despite the fact that I love literally all of them). They are just chefs kiss and there shall be no debate.

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Cancel culture doesn’t actually produce really genuine change in people we try to hold accountable. Creators or celebrities are forced to release an apology, not because they are genuinely sorry for their actions, but because they are scared for their careers and of being canceled. If they were genuinely sorry or at least acknowledging of their mistakes, apologies would have been made earlier than a trending hashtag on Twitter. The reason they feel so ingenuine is because they are. They don’t feel sorry that they did, they feel sorry that they got caught.

Cancel culture doesn’t foster growth, it forces ingenuity and false promises from creators and celebrities. There is no way to allow proper growth when the response is an immediate cancellation and an attitude that is closed off to the words of those in the wrong. Cancel culture is not open to growth and accountability, it is the definition of herd mentality and swift, sometimes right and sometimes wrong, judgement. But the problem with cancel culture lies in its speed. For how easily these problematic people get canceled, the campaign to cancel them disappears just as quickly. It is drama for the week and then everyone moves on. So perhaps it is not justice and accountability that everyone seeks, but some excitement in their own lives and in celebrity culture. It is the desire for scandal, not societal progress.

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To the girls that say you’re not like other girls. To the girls that say that they don’t have basic music taste like Taylor Swift. To the girls that say they are friends with guys because girls are too much drama. To the girls that say they have a different style , not dresses or skirts or pink. Stop.

You are not edgy. You are misogynistic. You are putting down other girls because you want to look good. You are shaming the choices of other women. You are not a feminist.

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me about a strong female character: she’s so independent, strong willed, she knows what she wants and she doesn’t let anyone take her for granted and she gets things done. total badass. i want to be her. i will be her.

also me: stuttering over my order at starbucks and proceeding to stress out about it for 20 minutes afterwards because what if people thought i was stupid

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me: has 10 movies and tv shows on my list to watch while i keep adding because i like the description

also me: ignores them all and watches the same 3 movies over and over

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I’m not saying I’m in love with a nonexistent man from the 19th century that is painfully awkward and is perfect in every way. But yes, Fitzwilliam Darcy has my heart.

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Sometimes I prefer the villain because they are self aware. When authors bring layers to them, they are so enjoyable. And they always point out the faults in the main character that no one else sees. For example, Draco Malfoy is one of my favorite characters. His development is chefs kiss (Tom Felton also added a little something amirite) and he’s not the villain because he’s just bad but because that’s the toxic environment he grew up in. He became self aware later on and worked on himself. I love Harry, but the fact that he’s almost too heroic and good, and he gets so many passes on bad behavior or breaking rules, can make him unrelatable. I wish more authors gave main characters flaws that they overwork and are aware of, and other characters are aware of.