Lily

She/Her || 20+

[shiina-a]

Today i offer you Julius being the cutest character to ever exist, tomorrow? Who knows.

[shiina-a]

I know that the headcanon of Soren being the one pining is very popular, but I personally think that it's not like that at all.

Ike said it himself, Soren is great at everything but at reading his own feelings, so I genuinely don't think he knows he loves Ike romantically simply because I don't think he has ever thought about that possibility himself. He probably just knows that Ike's presence makes him feel at ease and that he wants to be with him forever but since he just doesn't have a good graps of how emotions are he simply doesn't dwell on them too much.

The other reason why I think it is that he never seems upset about people flirting with Ike, he even gives actual tips to Aimee and only interferes when Ike is about to get in real trouble. He doesn't get upset at Ranulf, who is Ike's other love interest either, and his biggest conflict regarding Ike in RD is that he's going to die first and that's pretty much all.

Now, this is why their post-canon dynamic interests me so much, because Ike DEFINITELY knows that he loves Soren after base conversation 5, that bit about him realizing why Soren was so dear to him clearly references a classical "oh" moment and this solidifies when you hear him talk about love to Ashera.

So Ike, who is also a person who doesn't dwell on his feelings often, is stuck with someone who is completely oblivious to any emotion of his unless it's something as simple as happy/sad/angry/scared and even then he constantly dismisses those feelings. It's so funny, I was going to say may god bless his soul but he kinda stabbed her and ended the age of the gods in Tellius

[zelldotcom]

Wake your psyche up, Mob!

[shiina-a]

I personally believe the reason why Lan Wangji totally stopped reprimanding Wei Wuxian about his cultivation path is simply because he grasped exactly what went wrong with Wei Wuxian.

The first time he saw Wei Wuxian using the resentment energy, his warning was very mechanical, like something you would find in a manual, he was only reciting from memory because he personally havent seen that cultivation path.

The last warning he gave Wei Wuxian is more personalized, focusing about Wei Wuxian's control.

The thing is that Wei Wuxian's control was perfect. The actual problem is that it depends A LOT about how good is his mental health.

Things were tense before, not only because of him hiding his lack of core and receiving judging glares whenever he went, but because he was still mourning the old Lotus Pier, with Jiang Fengmian and Madame Yu and the disciples he grew up with.

But after leaving the Jiang sect he faced an extra ugly side of the world. Pushing his body to the limits to keep corpses patrolling the mountain at all times, and barely sleeping and eating to wake Wen Ning and later creating Jin Ling's gift. The judgement increased and he had to live far away from the people he loved. Missing Jiang Yanli's wedding and being able just to see them in some corner, hidden.

Wei Wuxian could control everything but that ugly side of the world and the feeling of loneliness. Of fighting against the world.

So Lan Wangji solution was pretty simple, not leaving him alone again, make sure that no matter what Wei Wuxian had an unconditional ally this time.

And it worked wonders because even when Su She was trying to make him go berserker in the second siege, it didn't work.

Wei wuxian is a person who finds happiness very easily, and one single person staying was enough.

[shiina-a]

About how Wei Wuxian died.

Wei Wuxian describes the second siege as a repetition of what happened and it makes sense. Not only because of the mob drunk on self righteousness but because of the Yin Tiger tally situation.

Destroying one half makes easy to imagine a situation where all that cursed energy made the fierce corpses he kept around go insane, and since they obeyed the "early bird gets the worm" rule he couldn't control them.

That left all those people who came to kill him, fighting the corpses and since they were corpses specially created by Wei wuxian then they probably were hard to kill.

It was the same type of situation.

So what did Wei Wuxian do?

The same thing he tried to do in the second siege. Paint a target on his clothes and sacrifice himself by luring them away. Of course, that would mean that the fierce corpses were going to eat him, bit by bit, until there were not even bones left.

In the eyes of our self righteous mob this could only look like Wei Wuxian's power backfiring him, it was easy and no one would even begin to consider any other explanation, much less one that painted Wei Wuxian as their savior. So that was the final version that everyone told and Wei Wuxian was happily ambiguous about it, because after all, he isn't the type of person who treasures the good things he does.

That leaves us with how did he feel? Doing something that would guarantee him a painful death.

Well, we can also see glimpses of it in the second siege.

The second siege is different because Lan Wangji stands by side. He isn't asking Lan Wangji to die with him, he's asking him to stay, so if the worst happens he doesnt have to die alone.

With all this, we have a clear picture. The mob came when Wei Wuxian was busy trying to destroy the Yin Tiger Tally. Wei Wuxian lost control of the corpses he created probably because of the heavy resentment energy and since that energy belonged to the Tally there was nothing he could do. The corpses attacked the mob and Wei Wuxian sacrificed himself and of course, while all this happened the only thing is his mind is how utterly alone he was.

Little by little the people close to him died or left. And the one person he thought was his ally, Jiang Cheng, was part of the mob who came to kill him.

So he died like that, thinking that the whole world hated him. Probably more than the corpses devouring him, that sole idea is what hurt him the most.

[soren-apologist]

i’m fascinated by the people who claim “ike deserves better than soren,” because ignoring how nonsensical of an argument it is, none of these people ever have a strong enough understanding of ike as a character to decide what type of relationship he should have; specifically, if anyone tried to argue this to his face, they’d very likely come out of it with a minumum of a few teeth missing

[shiina-a]

Even if I ignore the way they keep pretending that being the love interest is some sort of weird prize, they are still dead wrong.

I get that Soren himself tends to dismiss his own worth but he's extraordinary and a great complement to Ike.

He's as ridiculously persistent as Ike, ALWAYS finding a way to give the mercenaries the chance to survive, not only that but he's very level headed, more like a pillar for the whole group than anything. That makes him a perfect complement to Ike, bc he definitely doesn't need someone to cheer him up but someone to rely on, and that's something Ike says to him frequently. They also get along too well, if the drama CD and base conversations gave us a hint, they have this light tease dynamic + deep understanding that give the solid idea that they spend a lot of time together and they enjoy that time.

And just natural that they fit like this, we should not forget that they are fictional characters so it's completely intended that things work this way, they clearly put a lot of thought into their relationship.

[the-nysh]

The fact Saitama sees Fubuki as an acquaintance but Manako as a friend (or at least enough to want to eat udon with her) is hilarious to me

Saitama, pls. The almost passive aggressive way he tries to dismiss someone or nope out of any situation that even mildly sets off his annoyance/inconvenience/disrespect meter is just...ghkjah.

But the fact Manako isn't overbearing, arrogant, or rudely tries to use/force him to do something he doesn't want to do (unlike say, Flash and Fubuki's ulterior motives and ways of speaking over him, assuming their 'ownership' over him -as if he's already agreed to their whims- being something he really doesn't vibe with) makes a pretty significant difference in his book + comfort levels. You could say he's pretty sensitive to those who show him basic courtesy, hospitality, and respect (like Kuseno), so even despite Manako being a monster - or rather, how that aspect doesn't even matter to him (aww~) that's really all it takes for Saitama to be chill and accepting of someone! Which is something so simple enough, that hilariously, probably also as a running gag, Fubuki hasn't figured it out yet how to properly 'friend' him. :'D

[gofancyninjaworld]

I wish he hadn't noped out but damn, do I understand.

[shiina-a]

Someday Fubuki will learn acceptable social skills, i believe in her. If Garou can make friends literally anyone else can.

[shiina-a]

I love how Gil normally has a LOT to say when he considers his opponents pitiful in any way but when Shinji appeared he simply laughed, absolutely nothing else to add.

Most unserious character to ever exist.

[shiina-a]

This, right here was the exact moment I started to realize that Nasu was about to do something great with both Hakunon and Gilgamesh's characters.

There's a thing with Hakuno and it's that she isn't the classic kind character who does good deeds without even considering the rest.

She analyzes the situation, figures out what's the best course of action and yet she will do the exact opposite of what she's thinking if her heart considers that there's something wrong.

An example of this is when the noise was consuming Shinji at the beginning, she thinks that it is useless to try and she might even die and the best is to run away but she runs and tries to save him. This is no different.

Who else but Hakunon knows how cruel can Gilgamesh can be? He was very close to killing her just because she looked at him the wrong way and he has been acting like an outsider who finds her suffering (and other's suffering) amusing.

She also received Hans opinion on him. About what he did, about what he is. An arbiter who can't understand and can't be understood.

It's very easy to agree with the perfect example of a good servant but, she opens her mouth and says that no, that Gilgamesh being a murderer is wrong.

Now, Gilgamesh doesn't exactly like the idea of people not being able to understand him nor him being unable to understand others. Which is why Enkidu made him so happy, being understood is something that even a King needs.

So, what Hakuno did was obviously significant.

Yet, he proceeds to tsun his way out of the situation and call himself a monster, because he obviously wasn't expecting this, specially because he himself has a good portion of guilt for what he did to Uruk and probably accepts that title of a tyrant so easily because of it. Gil is the type of character who wouldn't accept redeeming himself because it would mean to ignore the suffering he caused, so just like his way to mourn Enkidu is not having a second friend, his way to apologize to Uruk was dedicating the rest of himself to them and own the weight of his crimes.

Ah, im rambling. But what I want to say is that this moment was perfectly constructed. Nasu constructed the path for this moment very carefully, adding things here and there. Convos and actions. And it's very important because this is the turning point, this is the very reason why Hakuno was able to reach Gil's heart later.

[shiina-a]

It's extremely funny to me that the other servants couldn't use their np and were weak bc of those restrictive clothes. But Gil's reason is that the asshole slept too much and doesn't like to share his things.

Amazing.

[shiina-a]

Hakunon: *just got saved from being erased, still processing what she did with the command seals and whatever the fuck happened in the school. Prolly struggling to breath and scared shitless bc some random dude with a very specific set of rules just threatened to dismember her if she gave the wrong answer*

Gil: You're pretty 👍🏻

[datcravat]

what does the lamp do!!!!! 😭

[cherubcallremade]

im having a moment

[shiina-a]

I can't stop thinking in how Hua Cheng's feelings must have been evolved during tgcf.

First of all he was pretty clear that he loved Xie Lian since before dying and he knew the emotion was too hard to him to keep it to himself, so he made a point in trying to maintain a certain distance with Xie Lian while also trying to be near enough, knowing himself too well to know he surely will get carried away if he didn't maintain that distance.

He did it fairly well during a time but Xie Lian is obviously not the kind of person who was agreeable to that plan, and by the end of the Banyue arc that plan was a lost cause. Both of them got too familiar and Hua Cheng got addicted to that closeness.

From that point Hua Cheng gave little steps. I don't think he expected for his feelings to be reciprocal, if nothing I think he was sure they weren't at all, but he probably found himself wanting more and more.

It helped that Xie Lian is, well, very naive in these matters so he didn't think too hard in that direction when Hua Cheng was doing this or that. Hua Cheng probably felt encouraged to keep pushing and pushing the invisible boundary he himself put between him and Xie Lian because none of those innocent acts of flirting met a negative reaction.

There were small cracks here and there, like the kisses or that proposal, but nothing too severe, nothing that actually broke that delicate balance. If nothing he found that Xie Lian and him became closer and closer, sharing moments of vulnerability, Hua Cheng even sharing his feelings with him even if censoring who he was talking about so he got braver and...

The delicate balance got destroyed in that one cave.

It's interesting to see someone so smug fighting against feelings of inferiority that are almost as old as him.

It's also weird to see a moment of raw weakness in Hua Cheng because he was always the kind of guy who was too strong for his own good, if not physically, mentally. We are talking about the same guy who at 10 years old decided that if he was going to die he might as well burn the city down in the process.

But in his moment he wasn't like that, he tried to stop Xie Lian from reject him even. Someone who would confront the ugly truths of the world willingly since he was a child would hide from something like that.

And, oh well, let's say it's very good that he wasn't Icarus after all.

[shiina-a]

Honestly, i think what is happening right with Genos is a consequence of him seeing himself as nothing but a tool for destruction.

If that's what ONE has in mind it makes sense that he didn't give importance to Saitama acknowledging that his heart became stronger or that he cares about him to the point of going batshit crazy and almost destroy earth. It's simply that those things don't focus in his own strength and don't help him in his goal, what i mean is... he has a serious horrible case of tunnel vision and the target of that tunnel vision is never gonna give him the kind of attention he wants.

Because for Saitama, Genos was never a rival, he's that element in his life that grounds him and makes him want other things that aren't finding stronger enemies. In short, he's the one that connects him with his humanity while Genos doesn't even think of himself as human. It's a difficult situation.

[wiidogasts]

there are three types of pigeon breeds: "just your average french fry thief," "a little weird but nothing to write home about," and "what the fuck"

[wiidogasts]

all images from the american pigeon museum's breed gallery

normal dude. just loitering around the city. kinda funky, interesting colorway, but feral pigeons have plenty of variety. not really of any particular note, all things considered

[wiidogasts]

u know, that one’s a bit of an oddity right there. in the realm of weird, yeah, but i can still connect point A to point Z

[wiidogasts]

what the fuck. no, seriously, what the fuck is this. how did you get to this morphology via selective breeding. what led you to choose to continue this at each and every step. what.

[wiidogasts]

bonus: why they ourple

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

Maybe plow the Lord’s fields in heaven

[beardedmrbean]

The Internet Mourns The Death Of Their Favorite Farmer Dave Brandt

For many online, Dave Brandt is known more as the Farmer from "But It's Honest Work", but with his death many are learning about his great c

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[arborealgargoyle]

Dave Brandt was a leading researcher and farmer involved in no-till farming, which means farming without disturbing the soil.

His decades-long career of no-till farming and different methods and materials used to increase his crop yield have been used all over the world to better agriculture in various climates and places where more modern tilling isn't a viable option.

the earth and everyone who lives here will always owe something to farmers who fight for a better way to cultivate this world instead of destroy it. It’s honest work indeed. Thank you Dave Brandt, may the soil care for you as tenderly as you cared for it.