#majorposting

[csharpmajor0091]

When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.

- John Green: Looking for Alaska

[rukako]

one of my favorite things about major is all the different ways that the characters refer to their fathers. the father/son relationships in this show are so important so i think that the honorifics, etc. that goro and junior use for their fathers are a really significant part of their relationship.

in goro's mind, shigeharu is always referred to with the venerable "otou-sama," ('father') denoting his great respect and admiration towards his biological father to whom he owes so much. shigeno, his adoptive father, is always addressed with the mainstream "tou-san," or 'dad,' indicating that they have a more casual father-son relationship.

what i truly love is the fact that junior calls gibson "oyaji," which can mean 'father' or 'old man' in japanese, in the sense that a father figure is being referred to as one's old man. it's still translated as the more respectful 'father' rather than 'old man' in the subtitles though, which gives the impression that calling gibson names is how junior shows his respect and affection for him.

[csharpmajor0091]

“It’s not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It’s that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.”

- Patrick Ness: The Ask and the Answer

[csharpmajor0091]

We’ve got the best and the worst of it ahead of us.

- John Green: Turtles all the Way Down

[csharpmajor0091]

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[csharpmajor0091]

monday is the best day of the week.

[csharpmajor0091]

all i want in the world right now is to get all of my friends together and watch looking for alaska with them… every single level of maslow’s hierarchy right there

[rukako]

what she says: i’m fine

what she means: joe gibson went on to pitch in the majors for fourteen more years after shigeharu’s death as a tribute to his memory. he didn’t throw a single pitch that wasn’t for the sake of upholding the vow he made to goro and momoko, even though it must have eaten him up inside to keep going after his carelessness took a man’s life and orphaned a five-year-old child. for fourteen years he gave all of himself up to the hondas and lived for the sole purpose of one day fulfilling his promise to goro. he probably never let even a single runner get on base in all of the time he spent on the mound because to do so would be an insult to shigeharu’s memory. he carried the weight of his sins like a cross on his back for an eternity and slowly, surely, it killed him inside. even after being diagnosed with a fatal heart condition that surely would have cost him his life, he still took the mound and selflessly put goro’s childhood wishes above his own welfare. ultimately, he wasn’t even able to see things through to the very end, but he was able to earn goro’s forgiveness and find redemption within himself as a result. regardless of the kind of man he was before he killed shigeharu, joe gibson was a man who always kept his word.