#overthinking shit

[wifeofvinsmokereiju]

One of the worst things is that for all we know Kuma is carrying the Nika bible. Which would mean Nika uses crosses as a symbol.

[lilliths-matori-blog]

Mildew: Redeemed

Alvin: Redeemed

Dagur: Redeemed

Ryker: Dead (we watched it happen)

Krogan: Dead (we heard it happen)

Johann: Dead (we watched it happen)

Drago: Dead (presumed dead post-HTTYD 2 but we never watched him actually die - was revealed to be alive in Fire Tides where we saw him die)

Grimmel: Dead (we watched it happen)

Viggo: Dead??? (we never saw it happen, and if this pattern is true that means he's most likely still alive)

[misskhae]

my evil side. it comes out when i’m in love. and i can’t help to think how can love bring out the evil in a person. love is so wonderful and pure and the most magical of things, how can it make someone evil. well. i’m full of insecurities. and from that insecurity spawns a terrible fear of losing someone. but i ignore that side of myself on a usual occasions, or rather i refrain from discussing it because i feel that i should not feel that way and therefore should not talk it out with anyone which would be admitting my negative traits which i want to believe i don’t actually have or can close off or shut down if i simply didn’t believe they are there. but damn it they are there. and for so long i have push them away.

they swallow me whole when i love someone. they swallow me whole when i’m starting to feel unsure if i still wanted to love someone, because i’m unsure about a lot of things, but even if i’m in the process of figuring out how i truly feel, i still get scared and i overthink and it destroys me. absolutely destroys me. i lose myself. i’m not even me anymore, i’m this mass of hatred and anger and unworthiness and it's so horrible and i can’t escape it no matter where i go and no matter what i do. it takes over my life. it takes over my soul. and my mind. all now run by fear fear FEAR and OVERTHINKING. i don’t ever think about anything else. damn life!

anyway i’m too tired to get to the point of what i was trying to say. well i suppose i was just needing to vent and you know i don’t know where else to go but tumblr. always tumblr.

[earthquake1987-blog]

Littlefoot as an Adult Headcanon

In his adult years, Littlefoot keeps his name, is the Great Valley's guardian and is so absurdly good at it that at first the other carnivores outside the valley are embarrassed to admit defeat by a longneck named Littlefoot.

For the longest time, the notion of being driven back by a herbivore with such a soft sounding name was indicative of weakness, cowardice, incompetence.

As time goes on, his legend grows. The name "Littlefoot" stops being funny and becomes a name that keeps even the mightiest T-rex awake at night.

Eventually myths arise. Some say he was born in the heart of a Smoking Mountain, some say he is of sharptooth blood, some even say he ate his own father's heart to gain his strength, others say he must be appeased with sacrifice or he will destroy everything. He sits atop a throne of sharptooth skulls, not unlike Warhammer's Khorne.

But the reality is just that he's really good at what he does: slapping sharpteeth six ways to sunday. But nobody outside the great valley has the nads to verify it.

Eventually he gets old and passes away... and the legends persist. This time it's his children who defend the valley now. His angry spirit still defends the valley. One day he will rise from his grave and the world will end, if his bloodthirsty spawn don't conquer it first!

tl;dr: the carnivores in Land Before Time have very metal legends about some longneck kid that they can't seem to kill.... because!

[mysecretmeowmeow]

maybe we feel love in our stomachs first bc thats where the red string really pierces us and that’s why missionary is our default position

[blitzbuckz]

🐎 hhhhhhhhnnnnggg,, HE SAID YEEEEES!! SJSJKSNSK

FUCK IT WE BAWL

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

Aww, Shouto.

So, I saw a post that I've lost that talks about how All Might is Coded America and Enji is Coded Japan, with all the flaws tangled up. And this felt really cool (the red head is Imperialistic Rising Sun!), especially with the weird thing about Shouto and Touya being super in to soba.

Which, look. I'm reading a book about the history of ramen (The Untold History of Ramen by George Solt) and it makes the point that soba was the original Japanese noodle. Yes, it was (kind of?) imported from China in the Tokugawa Shogunate era (KIND OF), but in that neo-Confuscian idolization way.

So, like, if we have All Might as the flawed and ultimately hollow representation of America/the West, Endeavor as the violent and tradition-bound representation of Japan/The Rising Sun ideals, and Rei as the wasting-away representation of Traditional Original Japan with all of the rot that a determination to Cling To Tradition brings.

And while I'm absolutely overthinking this, there comes Shouto. Who, through the course of the narrative, works to reconcile all these different pieces and the newness and ideas of his friends can be incorporated to move forward and make different choices than the people who came before. He is literally the marriage of Rising Sun Imperialism (The Mindset) and Tradition of Deified Times Passed moving in to the modern era.

So it's kind of funny and cool that this kid's favorite food is soba. Not ramen, but the traditional, original Japanese noodle. And so is Touya's! Because traditionalism itself is not the problem. Nationalism and identity are not THE PROBLEM. Being unwilling to investigate traditions that no longer serve or become harmful are the problems.

Anyway, I absolutely overthought that, but I think it's neat that Shouto (and Touya)'s favorite food is soba, a traditional food that isn't actually """authentically""" Japanese.

[purplepuffball]

Genuine question: is it normal to not want to follow people who you like so much because you don’t want them to be aware of your existence ??