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her eyes were the sickly green of the sky before a tornado, and to his horror he discovered she could throw cows around just as easily
to his horror? weak shit. outta my way gayboy im boutta get it
all of our trobles seem so small from up here
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You guys do know you're supposed to reblog things, right
"well i like this post but i'm worried my followers might not" fuck your followers. The entire point of tumblr is to cause irreparable psychic damage to your followers. We are locked in mortal combat on the astral plane. You must win. You Must Win. You Must Destroy Them.
when you reblog a post because you think a specific mutual would enjoy it and then they reblog it from you
slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand
i love walking fast to flex. but I don't feel the need to flex often, and if I had any physically disabled friends I hung out with I'd give them the fucking respect of pacing myself for them. because like op said, it's not much to ask.
I feel like a lot of people who cry that Yugis character arc has been ruined by DSOD don't realize that the entire point of yugioh is that self-sacrifice and relying on friends is the key to the future. Yugi is not made weaker by getting help from Atem he is made stronger. DSOD also fixed one of the biggest problems with the original yugioh manga ending. Which is that the story over time developed this weird subtext that in order to be independent Yugi has to "man up" and while Takahashi definitely tried to still present Yugi with a softer interpretation of masculinity in the end it falls a little flat when the last page is Yugi standing in the desert giving the coldest dialogue the character ever had five minutes after his best friend died. And I think people tend to forget that because the anime is a lot softer than the manga. DSOD gives Yugi more emotional complexity about his best friend dying, than just kind of getting over it real quick. It presents us with a Yugi that perfectly continues from the manga, but now it gives us this layer of understanding that instead of getting over it over the span of five minutes, he is pretending that he did and tries to push his emotions away.
Kaiba of all characters becomes the character who now has to teach Yugi the lesson that the past is important. Which is something he struggled with while Atem was "alive". And while he is aggressive and self-absorbed, Kaiba also learns to be softer and kinder. That moment when Atem returns is there to show Yugi that Kaiba was right. Kaiba finally got the lesson and was able to be there for Yugi in a moment were Yugi almost stopped believing.
It is very obvious that Takahashi thought about it for a long time, and he was obviously a lot older when he wrote DSOD and you can tell a lot of his personal opinions on politics, relationships, faith and death changed as he got older. The way death is presented in DSoD is not the same as in the original Yugioh manga. Kaiba entering the afterlife is VERY different than Atem leaving. Death is presented as a recconection between friends and not as seperation. Something the original manga tried to do but I think DSOD does a lot better.
oh ok
“Why would you stop in hell?” has changed my brain chemistry
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific
STOP BEING SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT YOUR CREATIONS STOP SECOND GUESSING WHAT YOU REALLY WANNA DO STOP DEBATING IT'S WORTH. LET YOUR ART SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF THE OTHER WAY AROUND
