Let Me Cook….

What kind of monster does that make me?

it’s us against the world.

Blue flag does many subtle things remarkably well, but one of my favorite is that Taichi is a pretty average looking protagonist, but every once in a while the camera/POV switches to the perspective of someone who's in love with him and suddenly he's gorgeous. Nothing about him changes- he's drawn with the exact same features as always- but it's instantly obvious why they love him. We see him through their eyes instead of through Taichi's own, and he becomes the most beautiful person in the world and he doesn't even realize it.

Taichi looks up at Touma with doe eyes and food stuck to his face and suddenly he's heart achingly cute. He gives a full body laugh and it's so rare and genuine that Futaba/we through Futaba's eyes stare in lovestruck awe.

It's just. It's so subtle and deftly conveys so, so much without uttering a single word. But it also strengthens the fact that the camera POV is tied to the characters. So when Taichi/the default POV does the same to the others, every time it oogles Touma or makes Futaba glow, that's Taichi. That's his feelings, his love, his attraction that he doesn't even realize he's feeling yet. And you reach that final reveal in the final pages of the story and then you go back to the beginning and you the reader have the fanfic oh. moment. Because it's been there all along.

Calypso & Odysseus :’)

I am Jewish. I am an anti-Zionist. I am always and forever pro-Palestine.

My grandmother was born in Palestine before Israel existed. My grandmother, who died less than a decade ago (in her 70s) was already older than the settler colonial state of Israel. Judaism exists without Zionism. Zionism goes against the Jewish religion. Zionism is white supremacy.

From the river to the sea Palestine WILL BE FREE

No portal incident AU I love you, please take me back

Here's a fic (that you should read) that I love that made me remember the love I had for this AU btw:

by the skin of your teeth

Girls can’t like girls!!!!! girls can’t like girls!!!!

TOUMA CANONICALLY GOES TO SCHOOL AND GIVES UP ON HIS BASE BALL DREAM, MUCH LIKE TAICHI GAVE UP ON HIS, TO BE WITH HIM, AND TAICHI REGRETTED NOT ASKING HIM BEFORE THE QUESTION BEFORE. THAT'S WHAT THE REGRET DREAM WAS ABTTT

When two people sit down, they think it’s cute that they sit in different ways.

This music sure does rock