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in my richard papen era (failing academics, falling out with friends, living for the pretentious aesthetics of it all)

"Back off, pal"

You don't want to be messed with a Dragon.

I hate this but it got muted so it will be immortalised here

modern au happy being a cat that hates it when people other than natsu touches him. he's gladly around, chattering his mouth off, jumping up on tables and sitting on the chairs by the dining table, but pull out your hand and he'll run away faster than lighting. except for the fact that one day happy (who's an indoor cat) jumpes out an open window and natsu walks around the entire block, calling out for him. and suddenly he's met by this gorgeous blonde girl with huge brown eyes and a tiny, shaky, white dog beside her, and wait-

"Is this your cat?" she asks, HOLDING his bluish gray cat, and to natsu's surprise? he doesn't struggle at all? in fact, is he making bisquits on her chest?

anyways happy's obsessed with lucy in every universe (and plue is an odd looking shaky dog - the only dog happy isn't scared of, in every universe)

(happy saw a certain white cat on a catio in the neighbourhood and of course went to give her a gift)

In a world of boys, he’s a gentleman

Credit to artist

Lucy heartfilia is so pretty and then there's Natsu.

Literal godess and her loser boyfriend

I love that Mashima stated on live that Lucy is wearing Natsu's shirt, which he rarely uses. Mashima also said that Natsu isn't the type to wear them. LIKE HOW CAN I FUCKING SLEEP KNOWING THIS SHIT? I'M ALREADY FUCKING SURE THEY DID THE DEED.

And my boi looks so flustered that he had to grip the back couch?

And the said shirt looks like a mf button down shirt? Who are we kidding? This is straight outta those spicy ff that I've read. You can't fucking convince me that Mashima didn't read those sheet gripping toe curling Nalu smut and giggling like a teenager.

You know what's surprising with Nalu is I think Natsu is more attracted to Lucy than she is to him

Like pushing my feminist to the side for a shameful moment, he only ever gets flustered and pleased when he sees her naked or when he some way or another ends up groping her (a lot more obvious in 100YQ)

(The fucking random chapter where they're in the stone age holy fuck 😭😭😭✋️✋️✋️)

He deadass attacked guys that were hitting on her at the train station

Says he finds her smell comforting (she's his canonical safe space lord have mercy)

Lucy gets flustered when Natsu closes in on her face when they dance, and when that kid (whose name I forgot lol) tried to force them to kiss

Lucy also gets flustered when he's naked, but any guy who is suddenly naked in front of her makes her embarrassed. Same with when he ends up landing on her boobs or something.

Lucy's attraction to Natsu is a lot more subtle and sometimes you can even interpret these teases as not special to Natsu specifically if you REALLY wanted to stretch it that way

From what I remember, Natsu flusters Lucy when he does something unexpectedly intimate or flirty, but when other guys do something similar (i.e. Loki) she's pretty stale about it

But Natsu now

It's Lucy or nothing LMAO

Like even when he semi-admits to having a crush on someone else- Anna Heartfilia- it is only so Mashima can reveal he is attracted to Lucy in the same way he was attracted to Anna before

When Lucy's drunk she's extremely clingy to only Natsu, while the usual oblivious Natsu is visibly flustered and nervous from her attention and proximity- WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY MASHIMA HIMSELF

Insane man

It's NaLu gift exchange ✨🔥

Thanks to @allaboutnalu for hosting the event! This gift is for a long-time mutual of mine (I somehow got them by chance) @hollie-artz! Hope you like it! Thanks for being my mutual ever since I was sorta awful at art, you were a true trooper 😔

Listen I was fine with thinking the same thing about Mashima and Nalu in terms of shounen ships; he just makes them extremely close bc shounen friendships are always strangely the most passionate relationships in the entire genre, all the stuff with Lucy being naked around Natsu is just typical shounen fan service. Yep. Nakama. Titties. Same stuff. Don't read into it. These shounen authors don't think about romance unless its extremely apparent that they have a love interest for their MC.

But when this mf released the Edolas chapter

Edolas Nalu are MARRIED. WITH A KID.

Oh HELL NAAAAHHHHH

I am FULLY convinced this dude knows exactly what he's doing and fucking with all of us Nalu truthers

+the Nalu art he draws himself on twitter

The edging this man is doing with Nalu is one for the history books, a generational con atp

Bro is a villain

Natsu, Honey... listen to me, *sobs* u and lucy havent even kissed yet.... the kids' hair color can be figured out later *cries*

NaLu Week 2024: Day 2 - Firsts

Please let's pretend I'm not late and I didn't post Day 4 first (≖_≖ )

I also have Day 5. I'll post it tomorrow if I don't forget it (⁠ﾉﾟ⁠0ﾟ⁠)⁠ﾉ

every now and then i look back on this GIF i have of nalu during tartaros arc and cry about how this particular scene alone solidifies the beauty of their relationship (natsu holding lucy's hand gently in the face of chaos and panic did wonders to my heart)

Fairy Tail couples by 序川_

sweet dreams

“i’ll be so lucky to have you” is such a beautiful line. himi knowingly returns to a world that is destined to consume her in the fires she holds dear, all because they’re also the very doors that’ll bring mahito into existence.

and that’s the enduring essence of miyazaki’s works: life, through all its suffering and misery, is still worth living. through the people we love and the memories we cherish, we search for and find our reasons to live.

One thing for those who have watched The Boy and The Heron or will watch it. The Japanese title for it is How Do You Live? And Miyazaki stated he was leaving it for his grandson, saying, "Grandpa is moving onto the next world soon but he is leaving behind this film".

The deaths of contemporaries and friends such as Satoshi Kon and Isao Takahata and also the expected successor of Yoshifumi Kondo were things that have always weighed heavily on the back of Miyazaki's mind.

He recognizes the industry and the occupation for how soul crushing it was, grinding up either the spirit or the physical body of those who work in it. He loves and hates the industry he stands on the peak of and fully recognizes how it will probably be the death of him. And he knows it'll leave him unable to say a lot of things to his Grandson.

So How Do You Live? is a lesson. For his grandson. For himself. For his two sons. And probably for anyone else willing to pay attention.

Hayao Miyazaki is a flawed man that makes things so important to so many people. And I think more than any other film of his, in this you get to pull back the curtain a bit and see him at work. And what should be this giant unblemished titan can be seen for what he is, a sad old man who had higher hopes for himself and has even higher hopes for the people he makes his work for.

It's a beautiful thing to see another's humanity in their work. To look past the artifice and glam of commercialized art and find humans behind it. And humans willing to show their humanity and mortality is even rarer. And something to be celebrated. So when you watch it. Or if you've watched it already. Understand that this film is Miyazaki kneeling down, weary after years of weaving dreams and making mistakes, reaching out and saying to you that he hopes you can do better. It's an old man who's made all the mistakes of the world passing it on to you, hoping you do better, and making sure you know it's okay if you don't.

How do you Live? By making mistakes. By messing up. But still moving forward. And still reaching out.

mahito!!! save me, mahito!!

when I say this the the ghibliest movie to have ever ghiblied. i mean that in the best way.

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With The Boy and the Heron, Miyazaki really said: I accept that my legacy is out of my control, that my children may not be my successors, that this tremendous monument I've built with a lifetime of toil, this fiery blessing that simply fell out of the sky, may not continue without me, In fact, it may crumble to dust, I accept it because my children and their children are alive and well, in this imperfect world, and thats enough. Yes, I accept that this is the end, but God damn, I'll go out with a bang.

was it casual when you shoved him off the cliff and then stood over his corpse watching the warmth and light slowly fade from his familiar blue eyes was it casual when his father said you made his son the happiest he'd ever seen his baby boy was it casual when his parents gave you the honor of being the pallbearer when you stood amongst his brothers and carried the corpse you'd made to the hollowed ground was it casual when you were so lost in your own mind standing above his grave that you smeared the dirt of his grave across your chest (you killed him. it doesn't mean you didn't love him.)

One thing i can yap and yap on about for ages is the fact that the greek class cant for the life of them grasp the fact that bunny is upset by the murder of the farmer

When henry is telling the story of the bacchanal to richard, he says bunny couldnt understand how serious the situation was because he was freaking out which is funny, because he was the only one who understood

Henry also said that bunny wasnt upset about the murder but rather about the fact that theyd gone without him, and that he couldn't possibly care that theyd killed a man because he wasnt "exactly the most moral man" as if u needed to be fucking gandhi to realize that killing someone is wrong

When bunny started acting out they were all convinced he was doing it out of spite or to get under their skin, completely ignoring the signs that showed he was having a complete nervous breakdown and was slowly losing his mind because of what they had done

This is because they themselves did not see the act as something that was morally wrong, but rather an inconvenience for them. Like francis said, it wasnt voltaire they killed. They were so out of touch with reality that they lived not in this world but in one where morality doesnt exist, one they are the center of where the gods personally descend to be by their side. They lived in their ancient tales and greek poems. Bunny was the only one who was grounded and they cant understand that. It doesnt even begin to cross their minds. And its the same with bunnys death, they dont care about the morality of it because in their mind they are closer to gods than to humans and gods do whatever they please. They can kill a farmer and who cares? Its not like he was voltaire. They can kill their friend and who cares? Heroes kill and heroes die all the time.

this distance between them and the real world is the most important part of their characters because it explains everything else, from the incest to henrys suicide. Bunny was the only one who was rooted to reality which is what always set him apart from the rest and most importantly why things started to spiral out of control as soon as they killed him. He was their anchor to the real world and to sanity.

-Zoë Lianne

THINKING ABOUT HER

The Eras Tour

July 9 - Zürich, Switzerland

the ending of the european leg of the eras tour feels like something so grand.

i mean, we’ve had everything this leg. the fun with swift alert, brand new mashups each and every night, the new tortured poets addition - just to name a few. something about the ending this time feels important, like the start of the end is beginning to loom. which, in a way, it is. we’re advancing forth to the last leg of the entire tour: no more added dates, no more “where are the x dates”. sure, not exactly the end of the world, but this moment in all of our lives is soon coming to a close. millions of people having attended the eras tour themselves, watched the film, and even going as far as watching livestreams every single night. what an influence, right?

and it all ends in december. all the joy and positivity that has been spread across the world, all uniting to enjoy the artwork of such an incredible person. it’s just an incredibly unique sensation that something that has been ongoing for an amazing 18 months is finally coming to a close. it’s certainly beautiful in a melancholic way. however! i, in no way, imagine that the experience we’ve all had along this tour will end so soon, this will be something carried through the generations (not to sound dramatic) - in some ways, it already has! this will be the time people will say they wish they lived through; wished they were lucky enough to be alive during the feat that has been the eras tour.

“the night you danced like you knew our lives would never be the same” - taylor swift, 2010.

''We did it!''

(on August 20, 2024 | Eras Tour, London N8 closing night)

seeing taylor say “we did it” and letting out a massive sigh of relief before taking her final bow at the last london show hits so hard after her instagram caption. i don’t think any of us can begin to fathom what she’s been grappling with in the wake of the thwarted terrorist attack in vienna, what weight it must feel like to have the health and safety of thousands of people resting squarely on your shoulders. for her to get back on the eras tour stage in london this week and put on a brave face for everyone — knowing that just one wrong action, one wrong comment, could “provoke those who want to harm the fans who come to [her] shows” — took an incredible amount of courage. idk about you guys, but i just feel so overwhelmingly proud of her and i hope that her, the dancers, the band, and her crew can get some well-deserved rest now.

I want my bride back

I want my bride back

I want my bride back

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ORIGINAL ART: "Veil" by (@ _k0tterl_)