Clueless

…human.

The Last Summer Vacation

ASAKURA SHIN YOU HAVE CHANGED LIVES (mine specifically)

Asakura Shin

Get shigeo'd idiot

thank you

banged this out in an evening for reasons (im excited)

i will never NOT talk about the episode where they all dress up

it’s so GOOD

so is the song oh boy

LOOK AT THEM

LOOK

KAJSGAJHDHSH

Ao no Flag (SERIES FINALE SPOILERS!!)

Seriously, don’t read this if you are planning to read Ao no Flag. That being said, go read the manga now!!

Finally finished reading Ao no Flag and I have so many feelings. Non-coherent, rambly, messy feelings. I was looking at reactions online and what mainly boggles me about the reactions to the final 2 chapters is people being “how is Taichi suddenly gay??” My friend living on this big planet he never was (he’s bi). He most likely just realized it later in life. Did the events of his 3rd HS year help him figure it out? Heck yes. Is he suddenly bi? No.

Not all queer people pop out into this world and instantly know they are queer. Heck, it took me 23 years to figure that out. It’s not like Taichi instantly realized he likes Touma and started dating him. He knew Touma mattered to him somehow, but it took him multiple years to realize how, as evident by him maybe starting his relationship with Touma after 5 years when Touma contacted them all. He gained life experience and grew.

People go through a lot of learning, unlearning and growing. Especially if you are outside of societal expectations and norms. Taichi grew up learning to and wanting to blend in with society. “Be normal, don’t stand out too much”. Add to that low self-confidence and you feel stuck. Feel like there is only black and white. only one right answer to life. It can be very difficult to look out of this dark box, trust me, I had a tough time and sometimes still do. But it feels like Taichi thought and thought and pondered even back in high school and came to the decisions that he did.

And isn’t that what the series is about? growing as a person, making mistakes, learning, allowing yourself to be visible and vulnerable, and eventually, making choices, even if they don’t make sense to anyone else, and continuing to do so?

These two pages really hit me hard and I was wondering why. And then it hit me. This is possibly the happiest I’ve seen Taichi be since his childhood. Like genuinely happy. He’s reached max happiness points and is sharing those with Touma. He’s made his choices, and he’s happy. You can and are allowed to choose what or who makes you happy.

That’s all that matters.

NO

Sweet, sweet parallels (i am currently drowning in my tears)

They even have the sparkly tears thing going on

slides down walls

Wanna unlock a new mental illness? Rewatch the scene where the og4 meet for the first time and are bickering and dont really get along, then immediately watch that one scene at the end of Crystalized where they're destroying the Golden Weapons and saying their goodbyes in the event that they dont survive, vowing to be there for each other "till the end". And then lay on the ground for approximately 4-6 hours while thinking about how these guys really are the found family of all time