[painwithoutplot]

is there literally anythinggg better in stories than "oh my god that's a person"

[nosdollgia]

Kingdom Hearts website in 2002 archived via Web Design Museum

[frenchifries]

and yes ok fine i did have kairi kingdomhearts a bit on the mind while making that post because what if you were a little girl and your whole life was ripped apart but it's ok you don't really remember any of that anyway, and now you're thrust into a new life with two best friends but they're boys and they've known each other longer and you didn't get to grow up playing swords like they did so there is always this fear that they like each other more than you, that they'll leave you behind, and aren't you sick of being helpless and having things ripped away from you?

but hey at least you have one thing going for you, because gender roles dictate that as a girl they're obligated to protect you, and maybe one of them will even fall in love with you someday, so you can use that to keep them close and make sure you don't get left behind. and then everything gets ripped apart again and you're helpless as all this stuff happens to you and around you and because of you, and by the time you're even capable of trying to help you're told you'll just get in the way because you didn't get to grow up playing swords!!!! and then they leave you behind.

and maybe you eventually get to help and fight and train and learn. but that doesn't change the fact that they left you behind so all those things society told you should make you secure in your relationships were never enough, you were never enough, so you cling to them harder in an effort to keep it from happening again. except every time you try to seize agency over this it ultimately gets seized right back and so all this stuff is still happening to you and around you and because of you. and in the end it turns out your entire life was just someone else's plan to relegate you again and again to being nothing more than the object, the damsel, the motivation.

like helloooo this is interesting. these feelings and flaws and experiences comprise pretty much the whole central thesis of kairi's character and decisions. and even though these things get touched on in bits and pieces, it is obviously frustrating that the story is more emphatic about exploring the development and relationships of male characters. but that doesn't mean the solution is to shove all those faults off the table in favor of some sassy untouchable independent girlboss interpretation. am i making sense. can anyone hear me.

[evilresidentz]

hi cutieful 😍

[layalu]

may i offer a sora in these trying times

[cute-girls-from-anime-manga-vns]

Tfw you find a new mutual with a fetishism you"ve never encountered before

[sunwurm]

sometimes i'm like yay i love being a sick pervert hooray and then somehow from four circles of mutuals away i see the victor wembanyama of freakdom shooting threes and i realize im not there at all im not even on a college team im playing a pick up game at the y on a weekday

[fennysstuff]

Blasts Xehanort Plays the Violin onto your psyche

[tsarina-anadyomene]

There's really this strong temptation that everyone has which basically says "to have interiority is to be like me; ordinary people are surface everywhere." And this manifests in different ways in different spaces, and becomes really pronounced when you cluster together with similar people. So tumblr users often act like straight people don't have any interiority because it helps you feel the deepening of social bonds with other gay people. This happens professionally too. I think it was Summer or Sharks who was saying that programming people think that intelligence is just being really good at writing code. Not surprising but very strange to me! I am (equally ridiculously) used to thinking that intelligence is being really good at philosophy, having command of a lot of sources that you can use creatively, etc. This reflects a kind of dynamic on tumblr and reddit. On reddit to have interiority is to be a science guy and on tumblr to have interiority is to be a humanities girl (and the dynamic is gendered in exactly this way). And I think there is something dangerous about habitually regarding other people as automatons. It's good to have people outside of your niche to remind you that other people from different walks of life are quite deep and complicated. They are full of love and fine grained attention to things you never thought to care about. And I think a lot of people go through life thinking of themselves as perpetually victimized by basically empty people rather than having genuine confrontations with full, genuine people who are committed to subtle, complex and real values, who have detailed and intricate histories, and who have a bond to you that you might never quite fully understand. But we rarely even try at understanding these things. We just decide that they're stupid and ridiculous and unreasonable.

[chiaro-scudo]

[tobermoriansass]

saying this as mildly as possible but the anti ai posting tenor on this website (not last post, but in general - i have been biting my tongue for a long long time) is one generally oriented towards a maximal amount of self-righteousness. in my experience, self-righteousness only ever produces martyrdom and a punitive desire for "justice" that can never quite be quenched. none of it is actually conducive towards good politics around the matter in question, least of all ai, which is frankly poorly understood and thought about on here. a little more compassion and thoughtfulness and a little less solipsistic self-absorption perhaps is in order.

[caracalliope]

finally! a type of pollution i am not complicit in

finally! proof my art is innately virtuous in at least one way

finally! a perceived theft of which i am invisibly the victim

finally! a perceived laziness which i can avoid falling into

[halflightdaily]

JUL 25, 2026

happy birthday to me

[f-tet-w]

[numbuh-3]

Me and my friend found this account on deviantart where they make peoples stamps the opposite of what they say and im really obsessed its so fucking funny

[ufokia]

[snaffleshortcake]

xehanort life stages

[sekajiku]

caught you