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me while crossing the road

this is so wild

I know everyone cites Percy Jackson, Harry Potter or The Secret History as their entry into dark academia, but I think we’ve all been forgetting these ??

Literally any modern academic, astrology, historian could be tied to these. The art in them and the interactive aspects?? Forget anything else THIS was the blueprint. We all wish our bullet journals and study notes looked like these. 

Not to mention there is a film in development with the premise of “a research institute, where the fringe sciences that no one else takes seriously are studied in earnest” ??!!! Guys it’s made for us. Everyone go thank author Dugald Steer! 

And also make your own book like this for your subject specialty so I can enjoy learning like a kid again. Maybe  I’ll present my master’s thesis in one of these bad boys, who knows?

IM NOT CRYING... YOURE CRYING

Work from home be like

i’m a little late, but i wanted to make a little smth for adventure time’s 10th anniversary! i still remember seeing the commercials announcing this “new show” when I was like 8.. now i’m 18 and i never would’ve thought it would come to be such an important part of the person i have become! thank you for the good memories, i’m honored that i had the opportunity to grow up alongside Finn :’)

April 1st means

INUYASHAS BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

BEAUTIFUL BOI

Sango: I'm cold

Miroku: Here take my jacket.

Kagome: I'm cold too.

Inuyasha: What?! *takes off jacket* I fucking told you to bring more fucking layers but of course you didn’t listen and now *piles scarves on Kagome* I have to make sure you don’t fucking FREEZE to death, but what the fuck did I expect, and *takes somebody else’s hat* how long have you been cold? You should’ve said something sooner.

Friend: Oh my gosh, this is so crazy, but The Witcher totally made white hair and yellow eyes a thing. That's the new hot guy combo now.

Me, a decades long Inuyasha Fan:

Why do you love Kagome Higurashi xD ?

Offt…hard to narrow down the reasons into something that makes sense lol I’d say that at the start, I watched Inuyasha on youtube and let’s just say there was a lot of comments bashing her. The thing is, I couldn’t understand it. She had justifiable reasons for why she wasn’t a hand-to-hand combat gal like Sango, she was 15 and from the future, a normal high school girl. And not enough credit was being given to her, picking up a bow and arrow and just trying her best. 

I think what I like most about her is her adaptability. Demons? Kinda weird but she can roll with that. Time travel? Scary but she had to stay and collect the shards because she felt it was the right thing to do. Getting kidnapped? An inconvenience that she gotta either wait out or talk to her capture to try and weasel her way out of it using her wits if she can. 

The amount of stuff she went through that would have seriously stressed and frightened another person is just astounding and on top of that, she had exams and tests at school. She had to do homework while taking a break from fighting demons. AND ON TOP OF THAT she had the love triangle to deal with.

Kagome. does. not. get. enough. credit.

What’s amazing is that most of the time in these dangerous situations, she’s hardly ever thinking of herself. If ever. She’s always looking out for the frightened orphan, saving Shippo, saving Inuyasha on a number of occasions, lending aid as best she can to Miroku and Sango.

I do have some problems with how she’s handled in canon as she’s clearly extremely powerful but is never formally trained to control it. She’s always regulated to the back row the second Miroku and Sango come into the series. It’s just a shame to me that she couldn’t have been given more tools to defend herself and grow. Archery is a mostly long-distance weapon and she needed something close range, considering the amount of times enemies got close enough to kidnap her. I don’t blame her specifically for it, it’s just something I find a shame. 

But yeah, I love her tenacity, no bullshit attitude, her caring nature, her SASS, her cute sense of humour, and her badass moments make her a truly great character. 

🎉 Happy 30th Anniversary to Ranma ½! 🎉 The first episode aired in Japan April 15th, 1989. 🐼

Our love is shown through our actions.

Even when they act like self-sacrificing idiots.

I mean, Inuyasha’s all like, “Until I met Kagome I never trusted a soul in this bleak world of murderous bigots, but I’m not supposed to be happy and it’s unfair to Kagome, so I gotta let her go,” even though it was established Inuyasha GETS HIS STRENGTH FROM HAVING KAGOME BY YOUR SIDE YA DINGUS, HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING?!

He seriously says he’s not supposed to know joy (in Japanese, dunno about other dubs). Inuyasha actually chose to repay a debt (Kikyo) over happiness (Kagome). I know Kikyo’s death is recent for him since he just woke up, but I swear his abandonment issue is messing with his life choices.

Or survivor’s guilt? The world may never know. What we do know is sometimes that boy thinks things through as much as a hyperactive puppy.

A stray puppy, in fact. He grew up in his mom’s fancy house until he was orphaned and then forced to live in the wild…OK, I made myself sad.

And then Kagome’s like, “It’s impossible for me to come into Inuyasha’s heart. Still, I can’t forget him, so I’ll stay by his side and put myself through constant peril because I want him to be happy,” even though his daily actions indicate he’s fallen head over heels for Kagome GODDAMMIT GIRL YOU NEED TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR DOG-MAN!

GET HIM ON A FUCKING COUCH AND LET HIM EXPERIENCE A THERAPY SESSION OF THE CENTURY BECAUSE THAT BOY NEEDS TO LEARN ABOUT HEALTHY LIFE CHOICES! MAKE HIM SHUT UP AND BE HAPPY –

– sorry, I’ve been re-watching old episodes. Found my VHS recordings…from way back in 2000…when I was living in Japan. I’m old.

A wise decision, Shippo.

Those stubborn fools put us on a wild roller coaster of emotions. *Sigh* But I guess their consideration for the other is what makes them good partners. And partnership is important in a relationship. They bicker but they accept everything about the other like the partners they are.

Kagome is more about treating his physical and mental injuries, while Inuyasha is usually about active protection and behaving like a watchdog, but I love it when they switch roles. No matter what, she’s got his back and he’s got hers.

Which is why I believe Kagome would totally entrust her soul to Inuyasha. Sooo romantic.

Fighting evil by moonlight. Winning love by daylight. Never running from a real fight. She is the one named… Oh shit, wrong anime.

Snapcats

Haha look what I found on IG explore (@mcm)

I was commissioned for another comic in the chat noir as a cat AU by @powerdragonmoon!! It was a blast… this is my favorite streak of commissions ive ever gotten oh my god.

anyways adrien started this idea as an excuse to get marinette to kiss him but it spiraled and he 100% convinced himself that he was going to turn back into a human…

Queen Tikki! Royal, Regal, Really-small…. Really-cute…. Another commission from @powerdragonmoon, as a gift for @mardimari!! Thanks for bringing me in on queen tikki shes so cute and so in charge! small and in charge. (thats the opposite of the idiom ‘large and in charge’.)

Miraculous Ladybug + Rainbow (inspired by this edit)

some ladynoir fluff!!

my kofi

This is so wholesome

it’s all fun and games until someone hits a pole

You know the main problem with the “live action” Lion King? Why it looks so lifeless?

The hyper realistic style is actually limiting the animators, rather than freeing them. The style makes it much harder to have memorable character designs and good expressions. Real lions don’t need to do things like emote in a way that humans can understand – but characters in a film do. The original movie was more cartoony not due to animation limitations of the time, but because that style genuinely serves the story better.

To show you what I mean, compare these two shots of Simba, from right after Scar says “run away and never return.”

Here is a clear reaction, with a strong beat for us to connect with before the character makes a decision. Even without any dialogue, even without any context, you can understand the emotion there just by the expression and the mannerisms. Is it realistic? No! He’s bright yellow and has eyebrows. But do we empathize with him? Yes!

Meanwhile, here is… a lion. Turning and running. No expression, no beats, no character moments, nothing. He actually can’t express himself because the animators are locked into the realistic style. If they tried to animate a strong expression as warranted for the scene, it would look terrible. Is it realistic? Hell yeah! Look at those textures! Look at that fur! But do we empathize with him? …nah. Not really.

To conclude: when you’re retelling Hamlet with a bunch of animated lions, cartoonish-ness is your friend, not your enemy.

:3 it's so cool

finally! not all the panels ended up as expected but i needed to spit out this idea out of my head. Panels without lyrics go with the busic btw. 

~ The End ~ :D