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[fairycourts]

You forget how intense Nagi Seishiro can sometimes be when he’s not playing soccer. He is certainly reminding you of it now as he sprawls on the bed, belly down, arms crossing on a pillow, chin resting on his arms. Normally, he would be playing a game on his phone but he must have finished for the night because now he’s just… staring.

Piercing grey eyes track your movements as you putter around the bedroom and bathroom, preparing for bed. You know he’s watching—the weight of his gaze makes you shiver—but you carry on as usual, tossing him a smile when you lock eyes. He likes watching you move, carefree and a little sleepy, as you wash your face and rub lotion into your skin. The way your hands caress your legs makes his own itch to do it for you, but he chooses to continue watching for now.

By the time you are ready to get into bed, your body buzzes from all his staring. You can’t help the curl to your lips as you approach Nagi and climb onto the bed. After fluffing up your pillow and lying down, you turn on your side to face him. He’s still looking at you, now also turned on his side.

A shiver runs through you. “You’re staring.”

His gaze is half-lidded, yet no less intense. “Yes,” he says. “I like watching you.”

Your lips part and your eyes grow wide. He takes in your change in expression with a pleased tilt to his lips. After trying and failing to find something to say, and the look on his face only serves to make you more flustered, you settle for grabbing your pillow and shoving it into his face. He chuckles and half-heartedly tries to remove it but gives up when you smack him with it again. You let him play dead for a moment before pulling the pillow off him and set it back under your head. His eyes slowly flutter open to your beautiful smile. You hold his gaze, face warming again as you take in the steel eyes framed by soft white lashes, his pupils growing the longer he stares at you.

Yes, Nagi can be intense sometimes, even outside of soccer. Especially when it comes to you.

[kissoflightning]

IDK who needs to hear this but (I certainly did) : A chapter is not required to be 2000-4000 words in length (or whatever 'reasonable' amount it is in your head.) A chapter ends where you feel comfortable ending it. You make your own rules!

[soilmicrobiology]

nanami is a really awesome character because when you first meet her you think she is a really over the top character parodystyle but over the series you realise that she is the most teenage girl ever maybe tied with anthyand is just getting thrown through the torment and abuse nexus. genuinely she is reacting in an understandable manner. is it entirely reasonable no but she is also. what. 12 or 13

[theclashofqueens]

How buddhist themes in JJK frame Satosugu

(This is actually the author's note from chapter 86 of my stsg fic, but I felt like sharing it on Tumblr, because why not.)

ICYDK, A bodhisattva is someone who reaches enlightenment but chooses not to fully transcend, staying in the cycle of suffering to help others reach it too. Sort of a "buddha-to-be."

This is just me studying the idea I think Gege was trying to convey of Gojo being a true Bodhisattva, while Geto is a corrupted/fake one.

Suguru's reaction after he killed everyone in that village can be seen as a sort of transcendence, a final understanding, but he takes that feeling and reduces everything into one answer: eliminate the source of suffering. It feels like enlightenment because it removes doubt, but it’s actually just fixation. He doesn’t let go of attachment, he replaces it with ideology. And the key thing is, he never questions that interpretation again. He clings to it because he needs it to be true. If it isn’t, then everything he’s done since collapses. So his “non-self” becomes the most rigid version of himself possible.

Satoru goes through that state for real after Toji. He could’ve gone down the same path, the story even puts him in a position where mass killing (destroying the source of suffering) would be effortless and, in a twisted way, justifiable. But the difference is that Satoru rejects it because Suguru is there to tether him. Because of him, he understands that it's not just freedom from suffering, it’s freedom from connection, from responsibility, from other people’s weight. And that’s the part he refuses. He chooses to come back down, to feel, to carry things that would be easier to drop.

So where Suguru’s “enlightenment” is about escaping suffering by eliminating its source, Satoru’s becomes less about escaping suffering and more about reducing it, by helping others grow strong enough to carry their share.

That’s where the Bodhisattva parallel comes in. He could detach, could live above everything, but doesn’t. He stays, like a true Bodhisattva would.

And it ties back to a core JJK idea: people can only really transcend when they’re aligned with who they actually are. We see this a LOT with Yuji, Sukuna, Mahito, etc.

Suguru isn’t aligned with himself. He’s someone who loves deeply, who forms bonds easily, who cares A LOT, and he turns himself into someone who doesn’t. That contradiction undermines him, his twisted ideology is the only thing holding him together.

Satoru, on the other hand, is aligned. He’s someone who protects, who invests in people, who acts freely according to his own will. Even when his life is a complete mess internally, his actions still move in that direction. That’s why he stabilizes instead of spiraling.

So yeah. Same starting point, same “enlightenment” feeling.

One becomes obsession. The other becomes purpose.

Mind you, I'm not a Buddhism expert at all, this is just my two cents after a lot of research and hours of non-stop thinking about them and narrative themes.

Then this also ties to Sukuna being the only other person who truly found enlightenment in the whole narrative, turning him into Gojo's equal. But he has an extremely different approach to the cycle of suffering because he didn’t know love. Essentially, Sukuna didn't have his own Suguru, so he's not a complete bodhisattva because he is still untethered.

“The loneliness that comes with unrivaled strength. The one who will teach you about love is…”

There's so much more, but that’s a discussion for another day.

[wingheadshellhead]

marvel hiring heavy hitter joshua williamson (of dc rebirth flash, superman, batman fame) to write the upcoming 2026 iron man run, and williamson actually loving iron man and understanding tony's character. things that i'm already obsessed with from his interview:

he loves iron man, has read a lot of tony's comics and has read them consistently since early 90's because his dad liked iron man & captain america

he's had this idea for over 10 years and always wanted to write an iron man book

the tagline for the comic is "tony stark is the most dangerous weapon in the marvel universe." it was never about the armour, it was always about tony.

the main idea is "what if tony was put back in the cave again, what would he create next time?" because he's thought a lot about how "the armour is not the thing he made in that cave, he made himself. he went in one way, he came out another way. he came out as a person who wanted to help people, believing he needed to use his skills for good and he needed to find a way to use his intelligence and to do more with it. the tony stark we know was made in that cave." and expanding on this: what if somebody else tries to repeat that proces?

doesn't want the book to feel like a spinoff of the movies, doesn't want to have a tight synergy with mcu

[celestialprompt]

send me 💬 or "unsent texts" i'll share three texts my muse typed but never sent yours.

[eoncored]

before they first teased valko, i genuinely did not expect to main the 6th li. i've been a caleb main since 1.0, when he wasn't even an option. i stopped playing for months because i was tired of waiting for caleb. but when i saw how everyone was treating valko, i pivoted. hard. then, they released his big trailers, and i fell ABSOLUTELY for him. i know the lads devs want to encourage that feeling of love at first sight with these guys, and while it wasn't first sight with valko, it was definitely second. and now... man, if they give him back to us, i don't know if i'll ever stop playing lads, not until eos. this bastard has me feeling devoted. he has me feeling like i want to write, like i want to make things, like i want to draw again. he's made me fall even more in love with the mc somehow. i need the dumb perfect wolf back. also, if anyone wants to be mutuals, i only recently made this blog, and i really want to make some new connections with other valko fans!! 🐺🖤

[dailybisexuals]

isn't it beautiful how all bisexuals in the whole entire world were born on the same day?? happy birthday to all fellow bi people out there!! 🩷💜💙 enjoy the only day of year we're visible! be loud and be proud!!! even if you can't irl for any reason you're still bisexual you matter and you still should be very proud!!!