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[ladyloveandjustice]

Top 5 Usagi moments?

if you're including all continuities that's incredibly hard

BUT OKAY

1) The end of the first season of the anime- She fights against Mamoru beause she can't let him kill her and dishonor her friend's sacrifice. She brings him back by reminding him he's not alone- he has her. that she holds off on kissing Mamoru because her friends didn't get to kiss anyone they loved before dying. She goes and fights and dies alone, this girl who is so afraid and relied so much on others and she never forgets the strength of her friends and how much she believes in this world.

2) The R movie- "Give me power! Power so no one will be alone! I will protect everyone!"- and we see how much she's impacted her friends and everyone.

3) The end of S, both manga and anime- the voice acting for the anime was amazing and her just forcing a transformation through sheer willpower- and in the manga the little smile she gives before diving into the storm on her own, knowing she has everyone's power in her always gets me.

4) Basically the end of the Stars manga, full stop. 

Not that the ending to anime wasn't great, but I prefer the Stars manga because it was just such massive character development for Usagi and such an interesting choice- she's seen everyone around her die. She's had to personally kill them too. The entire fucking universe is basically dead. This is the girl who gave up on life when her boyfriend died in her past life, who gave up on life when she had to kill him in the first arc (understandable, she was fourteen and having to straight up murder someone you like would break most people)- but now she's been through so much, she's being blamed for "attracting it all" and she has the choice to end all the pain and suffering in the universe- but that would take away the chance of new life- because life is conflict and suffering. I freaking love moral dilemma's like that, and it's a surprisingly thorny thing to get into for a cheesy 90s manga.

But she's grown. She's seen the strength of the people around her and she knows her own strength. So she refuses to give up, and she refuses to end life to end war. She's accepted that her life will be hard, that being powerful is hard. She's accepted she'll see death. But everyone is still with her as long as she keeps going. She believes in her own strength enough now that she just doesn't call it quits when someone she loves dies, she goes all the way to save them. So she freaking dives in there and purifies the entire freaking universe- taking on the SOURCE OF LIFE AND EVIL ITSELF- and when she's given an option to just chill in the galaxy cauldron and not be reborn again? "No matter how tough it is, I want to live my life with these people".

When people say the manga had no character development, they're objectively wrong. A lot of the supporting characters may have gotten the shaft (though they did have some) but Usagi's was beautiful to me and always will be.

5) man I feel bad for leaving out PGSM because I like PGSM Usagi? But she doesn't do anything quite as spectacular geez. But I'll include when she stepped on that guy's face and did a slam dunk in episode 6 and tie it with a selected moment from the anime and manga- let's seeeeee the manga is def when she gives Dimande's victim blaming bullshit the finger and destroys his evil lair and yoinks her friends to safety and the anime... "Who gives a damn? I'm used to people bad-mouthing me!" Forever girl.

[catsbythegreat]

Top five fandom moments that make you flail with any sort of emotion.

Aw yis. 

1. Freddie finally taking action with Bel in The Hour. 

2. Freddie making his awesome the-government-lies-to-you speech in series one of The Hour. 

3. Loki's confrontation with Odin in the treasure vault in Thor. 

4. The last part of Return of the King (all of it.)

5. When the Doctor decides to fight against time in The Waters of Mars in Doctor Who. 

There are plenty more, but those are the ones I thought of off the top of my head. 

[catsbythegreat]

00Q Western AU as requested by Craw101. Not sorry (also not sure what I did): 

http://archiveofourown.org/works/624402

[catsbythegreat]

7, 23, 52, 81, 100, 121, 156, 190, and 202

7. Pisces. Well I am sensitive and shy and empathetic to other peoples' feelings. And I have a lot of feels myself. Also I'm a fish, secretly. 

23. I do not. 

52. I have not! Apparently I'm pretty careful. Or resilient. 

81. CATS. I mean, I like dogs, but I love cats. The cats back home are adorable (and pictures of them have been posted here, then again, so have the home-dog pictures) and we have foster cats at the apartment so we can experience the cat love away from home. 

100. Wait there's no 100 on the post I reblogged. That's weird. 

121. Ohhhh good question. I honestly have no idea. I mean, nobody's perfect but I guess on a sort of which looks better level, I don't know. I tend to go on a person-by-person basis. Both can look very good. 

156. Oh man the post ate this number too. That's strange. 

190. It would be full of Shakespeare, Neil Gaiman, Alexandre Dumas, and lots of other books that I've read and books I've yet to get to (probably recommended by friends/the internet). And it would have a warm glow lighting sort of thing. With comfy chairs. That you could easily nap in if you so choose. 

202. Shit. No idea why. 

[dondaario]

All the evens.

what

[catsbythegreat]

I was tagged by mykingdomforapen! Thanks for tagging! I needed distractions! 

Rule 1: always post the rules.

Rule 2: answer the questions the person who tagged you has written and write 11 new ones.

Rule 3: tag 11 new people and link them to your post.

Rule 4: let them know you’ve tagged them

      1. What’s a song that has been on your mind lately? The Cloud Atlas Sextet, because it's beautiful and that movie is awesome. 

2. What is your dream house like? It would be located on the side of a mountain, kind of like a large log-cabin, where there's lots of snow and where you could ski in and out. Think Whistler-Blackomb, which has these sorts of houses. 

3. If you could be a part of any musical, which musical and which part? I don't know a lot of musicals, actually. I guess I'd be in Rent and play Mark, because I'm a bit like Mark anyway and, well, he doesn't die. 

4. Would you rather be so afraid that it hurt, or be in so much pain that you are afraid? This is hard. I guess I'd rather be so afraid that it hurt, because that much physical pain sounds like it might be harder to deal with. I've been both at some point, and the so afraid that it hurt lasts longer but it's less acute, if that makes sense. 

5. If you woke up one day to magically find yourself in the body and life of a fictional character, who would that character be? Rose Tyler, from Doctor Who. Probably because I can relate to her a bit, we have some of the same insecurities and hell, if I had to choose between a normal life and a life in the TARDIS, I'd choose life in the TARDIS. We're both at that turning point in our lives. 

6. Are you afraid of death? Not for me. For other people that I love. I don't want to be the one left behind, but I suppose it wouldn't matter what I thought if I were dead. 

7. What exotic animal would you want to hug? A hedgehog 

8. If you found out somehow that the life you’ve been living in was all a dream and you had an entire reality outside of this ‘dream,’ but you don’t know what it’s like, would you rather stay where you are (dreaming/coma) or wake up and find out who you really are?  I wrote a story about this, actually. In the story the main character decides to wake up. It's a bit more complicated than that, but I guess the point is that I would decide to wake up as well. 

9. Is there anything in your past you wish you could forget? I wish I could forget the pain of kidney stones. 

10. If money wasn’t an issue and abilities weren’t an issue, what would be your dream job? A travel scout for films. Or just someone who traveled and took photographs for magazines like National Geographic Travel or something like that. Or a screenwriter. Maybe a ballet dancer. That last one is the only one I'm not actually trying to do. I'm probably not going to have a lot of money anyway. 

11. If your best friend was a dessert, what kind of dessert would they be? Cookies. Chocolate chip and gooey. Those are my favorite and my best friend is one of my favorite people. 

My 11 questions

1. What's one book you would recommend to people and why? 

2. If you could only travel to one place, where would it be? 

3. What is something you don't understand?

4. What's your favorite film? 

5. What's a quote that inspires you? 

6. Which fictional character do you relate to most? 

7. What's your biggest fear? 

8. What's the best class you've ever taken? 

9. What's the happiest you've ever been? 

10. Where do you want to settle down? 

11. What means the most to you in your life? 

I tag: craw101, earlyreturns, 1weektoroam (powerchords?), weareshiningstars3, annoyedandroid, dontneedawhiteknight, sobrightthesunisashamed, latitans

[achillcs-remade-blog]

2, 3, 6, 8

did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?i don’t think i did omgand yes, i’m going to make more :)

did anyone close to you give birth?nope!

what would you like to have in 2013 that you lacked in 2012?idk happiness??

what was your biggest achievement of the year?don’t know, maybe stand up for myself? learning new things, getting to know fantastic people? recovering from self destructive behaviour and selfharm.

[achillcs-remade-blog]

A, C, H, I, M, R, S, T

a already done :)

a pairing you have never liked and probably never will:

destiel

do you prefer characters from real action series or anime series?

i don’t watch anime, so real characters i guess?

has tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

bbc sherlock, the whole johnlock deal was getting out of hand, some fans were just… crazy. i didn’t want to be a part of that. well, i never really got into the fandom either, i juts enjoyed the series.

your favorite fanart or fanartist:

edith, stephanie and fiona (fiona’s mclennon drawings are just hNGH)

a pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships:

well i don’t think there’s any pairing that only one person ships, so i’m gonna go with uncommon insteadi don’t see a lot of havshee-shippers around, it’s like the entire xmfc fandom fell for cherik lmao 

show us an example of your personal headcanon:

…i don’t really do headcanons oH MY GOD I’M SO FUCKING BORING????

if you mostly have homoships, do you have any heteroships?

of course i do! clint/natasha, steve/peggy, tony/pepper, eli/kate, cassie/nathaniel, cassie/jonas (all three from young avengers), peter/gwen, ron/hermione, gale/katniss, cato/clove, finnick/annie, marshall/lily, barney/robin, and like… idk celebrities with their wives/husbands/boyfriends/girlfriends, scarlett johansson/jeremy renner, etc etc. i have so many omfg