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Ykw I usually praise franchises for the fact that a trans character will be trans and nobody will make a big deal about it, but I’m actually quite married to the fact that tgcf doesn’t hesitate to show that being trans actually does suck through Shi Qingxuan (and yes, sqx is trans, eat my ass). It wasn’t some individual scene that tries to hammer down intense and violent trans suffering as hard-hittingly as humanly possible, to the point of triggering trauma, just to never bring it up again like most shows- it’s more subtle than that. Shi Qingxuan is frequently subtly mocked for switching between genders. Their brother scolds them publicly for being in their female form and demands they switch back. People frequently make fun of them for being ‘shameless’ and imply that they’re just a cross dresser. They’re never bothered by it, and never bring it up. They’re perfectly content with their existence, if a little intimidated by their brother. That’s such a nice portrayal of things like this. Sometimes transphobia isn’t violence or slurs, sometimes it’s subtle snideness and the bare minimum of respect. Mxtx doesn’t shy away from these topics, but doesn’t exaggerate them cruelly either (mind you, I’m not sure how deliberate this representation is on their part). They’re portrayed in a realistically subtle way.

anime women in the 90’s versus now. I’m violent.

I’m biting people

reblogging cause it’s cute and I don’t want to lose it.

touch starved atsushi who doesn't know how to ask for affection but has learned the following:

if he falls asleep on his desk near the end of his shift, kunikida will carry him back to his dorm (so now he pretends to fall asleep at least twice every week)

if he accidentally loses control of his ability, dazai will ruffle his hair to nullify it (so he starts controlling it enough to "accidentally" bring out random tiger features)

if he gets even a small bruise and yosano knows, she'll check it out and then pat his back after bandaging it (so he becomes more clumsy)

if he sits a little close to naomi during long boring meetings, she'll rest her head against his shoulder (so he makes sure to "accidentally" end up between her and juni or on her other side every time)

if he accidentally runs into president fukuzawa, the president will steady him by placing a hand on his shoulder (so he makes sure to almost bump into him at least once a week)

if he and kyouka are walking around in busy streets, kyouka will hold on to his wrist or hand or something to make sure that they dont go separated (so he gains an interest in all crowded shopping areas)

if he gives kenji a gift, kenji will thank him with a hug (kenji is very confused but pleased by his growing collection of random knick knacks given to him by atsushi)

if he says something funny, junichiro will chuckle and bump their shoulders (so he starts trying to be purposefully funny)

weirdly enough though... ranpo doesn't have a pattern but still he pops up awkwardly next to atsushi and bumps their shoulders or pats his back or something similar even though he isn't usually touchy... hmmm....

This is the face of a man who has no idea

That he’s about to become a single father

there are few things that bring together jaded thirty-somethings and eighteen year olds high on caffeine and lean, but I think the one (1) thing that does is 30/90 by Andrew Garfield. Like

36 year old man with a mortgage who gets an uncomfortable feeling of dread in the back of his throat when he sees how the things he loved as a kid are now relics of a dead past: Gettin’ older sucks, huh?

18 year old kid, shaking from adrenaline high and terror, watching as the blue ‘one’ and ‘eight’ candles on their cake burn down to piles of wax because blowing them out will make it Real, and they’re suddenly on the verge of tears because they’ll never be small enough to cry on their mother’s lap again and they can’t play in the mud anymore and they’re being thrown into something grey and void of rest, knowing that the years that they can spend getting drunk and spraying graffiti on buildings (already a failed attempt at prolonging youth) are running out like grains of sand in a relentless hourglass: Yeah :(

why he kitty

The way Qi Rong reacts to Xie Lian's praise is my Roman Empire.

Look how happy it made him

Then how mad he got when he realized how he reacted

The unpacked trauma is crazy

I’ve never been to America but I think I want to go there just so I can get a car, start in New York or something, and drive all the way to California. Then all the way back. Preferably with a gang of buddies who are all also non binary bisexuals and varying displays of autism. Cons are that I get motion sick after fifteen minutes in a vehicle and I will put metal music and Hozier on in the same five-minute timespan, pros are that I’m hot and willing to make out with anyone else there and I’ll eat the fruit gummies that nobody else likes.

The audacity Ash Lynx has to call ANYBODY ELSE a fag while wearing those glasses and having that boyfriend needs to be studied

ugh nauseating the way eiji looks at ash when he's pouting about their little lover's quarrel

some serious faggotry happening in the new york public library

I need a fanfic where Qi Rong actually does what he says he’s gonna. Beats the shit out of everyone at mt. Tong’lu and becomes the Ghost King. Torments the heavens eternally. Reigns unopposed as a tyrant over mortals. Raises Guzi the whole time cause he’s a good father thank you very much. Passes weird-ass laws. Starts wars with everyone who he can think to fight. Ends up hating it and making ghosts who know what they’re doing do all the diplomacy and rule-making while he runs around scaring people, lording his power, and telling his son exaggerated stories about his accomplishments. Idk I love him and if he wants to take over the world he should be allowed to. As a treat.

I’m afraid for my life

Yut Lung you fuck don’t make me relate to you

i choose to ignore the fact shorter was bald in the manga

idk why there’s so much porn in the Banana Fish tag but it feels like the world is writing a poem for me and it’s gonna put me in the ground

How I see the tgcf timeline as someone who hasn’t gotten far enough to have my theories proved or not

(Note: this is based on what little evidence I’ve been given and mostly fandom spoilers)

Sp firstly, Jun Wu is a dope ass prince but has his kingdom all die to a volcano (I think) and ends up living what is basically a parallel to Xie Lian’s life (will touch on that later) but ends up becoming the emperor of heaven and just all around a real ominous dude. Before that, he became that half-smiley half-frowny dude (white-clothed calamity I think? Or, he might have just dressed up as that during the fall of Xianle? Idk yet)

He uses his little heaven binoculars or something and sees that Xie Lian is living his best life in Xianle and is an incredibly dope ass prince, just like JW was when he was alive mortal so JW decided to go ‘Haha kin’ and ruin his entire life because ‘Body in abyss mind in paradise’ or whatever the fuck his saying is (I think it’s actually cause he’s a bitch but whatever). Xie Lian has the worst life humanly (godly?) possible after that and also almost becomes a calamity but doesn’t for some reason idk. Then he gets banished and then ascends a second time, during which he lasts a whole thirty seconds as a god and gets turned into sort of (sword of haha) a pincushion (I’ll see myself out) and then banished again. Then he ascends a third time and the Story starts, and he ends up getting a ghost boyfriend who had the hots for him cause he caught him one time when he yeeted himself off a building. Eventually HC fucking dies somehow, idk how that happens. Qi Rong gets turned into a lamp somehow and now Guzi is traumatised (I think it was Lang Qianqiu (Who has a tiger for some reason btw) who did it?Fuck if I know. Also right before getting lampified Qi Rong might take Jun Wu’s side in something he shouldn’t which I honestly can’t say is out of character cause he’s a little shit. Anyways)

After all the mt tong’lu shit (that’s where I’m at rn) I imagine everyone tries to beat the shit outta Jun Wu and that’s probably where Hua Cheng dies, but idk. Will update later when I can be bothered to read more.

okay I recently got to Mount Tong’lu in the tgcf books, and I got some shit I wanna say.

Do y’all remember the time I was in hysterics over Qi Rong’s ‘HAHHAHAHA DADDY’S LEAVING! DON’T FOLLOW ME, WHAT A NUISANCE!’ Bullshit? Do you remember when I said that the fatherless community has not forgiven Qi Rong?

Well, we’ve forgiven Qi Rong.

The whole ‘Uhhhhhh I’m totally just fattening him up to eat him! I don’t care- GUZI GET DOWN FROM THERE YOU’LL HURT YOURSELD D:’ Vibe has charmed me. I would like fic recs with these two’s evil found family thank you.

I don’t even go here but this makes me want to become physically violent

how did it end on book four. Why are we all gluttons for punishment.

no "show results" button this is for hardcore tgcfheads only no "more than one" button you must choose and save your nuance for the tags good luck

I think on Ao3 you should be able to ‘adopt’ orphaned fics and continue them as your own. I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I think it’d be really funny.

AAAAAAUUUUUUURRRRRRRGGGHHHH

quotes and lyrics that make me think of asheiji:

I was in pain putting this together

creds:

Herakles - Euripides// art by @ana--pudim// Seventy years of sleep - Nikka Ursula// art by @edamammy// writing prompts for the broken-hearted - Eden Robinson// the Great War - Taylor Swift// ivy - Taylor Swift// autumn - Patty Dickson Pieczka// art by @bigansa// good light - Andrea Gibson// Euripides - Anne Carson// art by @ana--pudim// peace - Taylor Swift// sweet nothing - Taylor Swift// the fear - Clementine Von Radics// art by @shira47a// king the colour of space/tower of molasses & marrow// art by @ginkohs// love letter from Zelda Fitzgerald// banana fish// Eurydice - Sarah Ruhl// banana fish

Haiku bot baby I would die for you

over christmas when i came out fully to my mom she did tell me i was beautiful and gave me some of her old jewelry and told me she was excited to have another daughter and that was all wonderful, but the part that meant the most to me was when i told her "i want to get my facial hair taken care of sooner than later, the whole "girl" thing is a lot easier to swallow when im shaved" and she examined my use of the phrase "it's a lot easier to swallow" and said "Scout, I didn't have a good relationship with my mother. you know that." (i did know that, my grandma was NOT good to my mother) "but your grandma kim [friend of my grandma's, unrelated by blood in any way, but was adopted as a grandma through familial osmosis] was the greatest woman who's ever been in my life. and up until the day she died, she had a beard and a moustache [which is true, my grandma kim, a cis woman, had VERY thick facial hair]. if you kept your facial hair for the rest of your life i wouldnt think of you as less of a woman" and ya know what? THAT'S the part of her support that made me cry.

my grandma kim was an amazing woman and she had peach fuzz that she didnt give a FUCK about. and everyone loved her.

you can have your own fuzz too, and that doesn't make you not a woman.

sometimes I go on Pinterest and see comments I made and forgot about, and it feels like I’m being executed by gunshot against a brick wall

whelp, thanks for the headcanon.

*fucking legs it.*

so far I've only seen the "haha jun wu was so funny putting fengqing in charge of the same domain" take and yes it is objectively a hilarious thing for him to have done but has anyone considered he did that hoping they'd fail? i mean look at yin yu and quan yizhen. being in charge of the same domain didn't work out so well for them. I'm betting jun wu was hoping something equally devastating would befall fengqing so that when xie lian eventually ascended again he'd be without his old friends and all alone. put the two known for hating each other together and let them fight over the south and surely they'll end up destroying each other right? well jokes on jun wu fengqing are the worst kind of codependant and they ain't going anywhere

’Not for people who are good at living’ baby that’d be a sweet sentiment if you weren’t making it HARDER

every now and then i think about how asagiri literally said bsd was made for people who aren’t good at living. like he was onto something with that

I know damn well Shorter would be the most IRRITATING older brother type, and it’d be so cute

maybe dont go on a date at the exact restaurant shorter works at next time

idk who needs to hear this rn, but you can literally do whatever you want forever with your gender. You can want boobs in a guy way and want a dick in a girl way. You can want neither and both and everything in any way you’d like. You can have any gender, and still do whatever you want. Present the way you want to, transition into anything, do anything- regardless of your gender. Gender has no walls, the differentiation between gender and sex is intended to liberate. If you aren’t liberated, there’s no point. I implore you, do whatever you want forever.

”Do I. Do I just have a tiger now.”

chuuya, seeing a white tiger: hey aren't you dazai's weird kid??

white tiger: *tiger noises*

chuuya, sighing: well whatever. i guess i'll take you back to shitty dazai. ur almost on port mafia territory

white tiger: *tiger noises*

chuuya, using his ability to carry a freaked out tiger:

chuuya, at the ada office: oi open up

fukuzawa, walking out at the commotion and seeing a giant cat i mean tiger: O-O

dazai, walking out becuz chuuya: chibi what are you- why do you have a tiger

chuuya: huh??? wtf do u mean y do i have a tiger

kunikida: i think he means: why are you in possession of a tiger?

chuuya: i didn't fucking kidnap him if thats what ur implying

atsushi, walking out: whats going o- oh! is that a white tiger? chuuya-san, are you in kenji's saving wildlife club??

chuuya, staring wide eyed at atsushi and then the tiger and then atsushi: what

need more characters with prey rage. Characters whose animosity rivals that of a wolf tasting the air in search of an elk are out. I want characters covered in their own blood, chewing off their legs to escape bear traps. You understand.

sing is actually like that huh

blanca slander so real

Rating Bf characters on how well I think they would perform at their Part-time job

Y'all remember the Banana Fish part-time job artworks? Well I remembered it so now it's my job to share my unwanted opinion on all of them :)

1. Ash as Pizza delivery boy: 5/10

With Ash it just really depends on his mood

He's the fastest deliverer if he wants to

But he's also the guy to deliver your pizza with half the pizza missing and his explanation being: "sorry bro I got hungry"

Also your order will "mysteriously disappear" if you don't tip him enough

2. Shorter as Waiter: 10/10

I mean it's canon that Shorter works at Chang Dai

He wants to be the future owner of the diner so his grind is strong 💪💪

Makes the customers feel comfortable and I just feel like the vibe would be good with him.

3. Sing as Messenger Boy: 7/10

I can see him having fun at this job

Problem is when he starts to have too much fun and gets too invested in people's businesses

He's gonna know every secret in every neighborhood that's nearby

Bonus point because despite acting like he's a delivery boy from the 1900's (definitely tried to speak like them as well), he does a good job

4. Eiji as Pet Groomer: 100/10

Staff was so right for this

Puppy happiness increases by 1000%

5. Yut Lung as Beauty Advisor: 9.5/10

Okay first of all he ABSOLUTELY KNOWS what he's doing so this is an amazing job choice

Will give his clients actual helpful advice and make sure they look STUNNING

Also he definitely lets you rant about your day and will gossip with you whilst fixing your mascara

(and he absolutely calls his clients "honey" or "sweetie" so bonus point)

Minor problem is he WILL judge you if he doesn't like one of your requests and he WILL let you know

6. Blanca as Bartender: -1000/10

I do not trust this man with my drink.

FUCKING ASH AND EIJI *eats a sink*

I could fix him. I could make him worse. Good for you. I could gently take the weapon out of his shaking, blood-soaked hand and hold him until he finally believes that he doesn't have to be defined by all the ways the world has hurt him. Then we could ruin the lives of everyone who has ever treated him like he's a monster who doesn't deserve love.

Important calculations underway