Imitation And Flattery Pt. 2

something i was thinking about

If someone were to ask me what I could binge hours upon hours of, clearly, I’d say Hunter X Hunter. It could be either the 2011, 1999, or even the manga, but I can say that I most definitely can watch hours worth of people analyzing the characters and the impact their backgrounds and walks of life play on their emotional, physical, and mental states.

Through those videos, I can understand the characters better and understand how they got there, with those specific motives and drives for what they do on a more in-depth level.

Another thing that I get from the videos is understanding not only the true impacts certain ways of life, habits, trauma, and issues have on the psyche of the characters and those around them, but it also helps me to understand the show waaaaaayyyy better.

Little side note, I notice that it also seeps into my life. The impact this show had on me didn’t entirely occur to me until I binged people analyzing the world and characters. I, for once, truly learned something that has stuck with me for longer than most other things have.

heyy, hello.

so basically, because summer is upon me, ive gotten in the habit of going to bed at 5 or 6 something in the morning, but hey, at least i get some pretty pictures of the sunrise and the moon, right?? idk if i’ll link the photos, but I might.

Kite as a Narrative Foil to Killua

Goddamn I love writing meta so here’s some more meta. A huge thank you to @owlphallacies for helping me revise this monster!

In this I’m going to be talking about something that’s been percolating in my brain for a long time: the relationship that Kite and Killua have to each other as characters. Specifically, that Kite is likely to be a narrative foil to Killua. A narrative foil is a literary device that contrasts two things (plots, settings, characters, etc) by either setting them up as ‘completely different’ or ‘extremely similar except for one key difference’. This example would be the latter, definitely, and as a matching set Ging is certainly a foil to Gon (there’s a lot to say there, but this is already a 20 page Word doc so  >.>  I’ll just touch on it at times).

It’s not unreasonable for Kite and Ging to be a ‘previous generation’ version of Killua and Gon given how that’s a common thing in shonen manga—One Piece, for example, is rife with characters inheriting the unfulfilled dreams of their mentors. It’s a good way to establish character motivation, in that case, but in this one would more of a catalyst for character development than protagonist-vs-antagonist plot events.

tl; dr: In all likelihood Kite acts as a narrative foil to Killua through his relationship to Ging, which is similar to Killua and Gon’s except that the power imbalance is more exaggerated. On the more theoretical side, I predict that what prompts Gon and Killua to truly air out their respective issues and begin working to improve their relationship will be the dramatic destruction of Kite and Ging’s, proving the consequences of allowing such issues to fester over time.

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Did a remake of my old drawing of Killua and Gon!

love tsoa, but currently thinking about how this fits killugon lol

Im a big fan of the "I am yours" trope. Like, in less of a possessive way and more of a sacrificial, two-way way.

When they would live for them, die for them, kill for them, throw away their past and future for them, give up their humanity and embrace the forbidden for them. When they would push against the world, everybody and everything around them, when they would challenge God for them. When they're the lighthouse in a dark storm, when they're only safe with them, when it's them against the world and the world can burn if it means they're together.

— Haven’t you ever been on a date, Killua?

Any drunk head cannons for Mabel, Pacifica, dipper and wirt? Can wirt even get drunk?

Yes of course.

Mabel is the kind of drunk that sings at the top of her lungs on top of the table while everyone else cheers… which tbh is not that different from the normal Mabel behaviour so is kind of hard to figure out if she is drunk or just excited.

Pacifica is the cheerful drunk, the one making jokes and also she gets touchy with Mabel, sitting on her lap, giving her smooches on the cheek, hugging her, you know, everything she would never do had she been sobber.

We know how Dipper gets like when drunk, he goes into detailed explanations about paranormal stuff, and recently about his demon boyfriend that does not act as a demon but that doesn’t mean anyone is allowed to make fun of him or Dipper is getting his great uncle Ford’s crossbow to teach them a lesson.

Wirt can get drunk but he can only do so on certain liquors, aka either Elves’  special liquors that they refuse to share unless they get a good deal, or whatever the heck Mabel makes each time they forget to keep her away from the bar when they are drinking together.

Mabel might have lost the recipe for the Mabel Juice but she is quite good at making stuff to affect even a demon.

“I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself (via books-n-quotes)

“Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.”

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Abraham Verghese, Cutting of the Stone (via clarev)

@gothvixengoddess

i was talking to max about how my hometown in NC has changed since he’s been gone and he pointed out that our town is quickly becoming a wtnv situation. for instance: 

apparently our high school, which is 96 years old and looks like a 16th century gothic castle (complete with lion gargoyles), has a fourth floor that no one really knew about until this year. no one knows how long it’s been in the building but from pictures it looks completely different than the rest and has a strange metal staircase in a spiral pattern. 

there is also a basement in the high school with a swimming pool but no one is allowed down there and it is starting to rot the first floor.

for a good while there was a nice elderly black man that would stand outside of random stores and street corners and dance to make people smile. however, in the past few months he has disappeared and is nowhere to be found.

we have a kapstone paper mill in our town and it is regularly normal but some days the smell is absolutely overwhelming and blankets the town like a thick fog.

the abandoned movie theater is blocked off to the public but i was talking to some girls from school about it who occasionally break in to chill what it is like on the inside, and they said that there is a giant, bottomless hole in the entrance’s floor so they have to tiptoe across a single plank of wood to get to the other side. 

fairly popular places in town will close down for literally no reason. 

one time a tornado came through our town and it destroyed the sonic drive-in and a car dealership next to it but no debris could be found. only the empty lots were there. they rebuilt the sonic in less than a month but the car rental lot was kept empty and now bored teenagers harp around it like vultures.

one time my grandmother saw an unidentified animal in our backyard. she thought it was a fox but when my dog barked at it, it stood up on its back legs and ran away.

fox and coyote sightings are becoming strangely frequent in one single area of town and no one knows why???? its like they all congregate near a horse stable by an old junkyard my cousin used to work at.

whenever a dog runs away from home they all end up coming to my house. every dog that gets loose.

my grandmother saw an unidentified bird in a tree and i still can’t figure out what kind it was based on her description. 

sometimes you can hear random gunshots and loud, unknown bestial screams in the uptown areas

there’s probably more but i don’t really get out much. these are just things that i’ve witnessed myself or is common knowledge in town.