🌲 looping woods 🌀

been giggling at this video from the pop-up in shanghai... around 50 seconds in, this interaction... really unbelievable 😭

Finally the king himself ✨

I do wish I went with a more pinkier tone in the 2026 version like how I did back in 2022, but the gold seems to work fine enough 🙂

I want to spend every lifetime with you

Uppies from gege

Imagine you float up from near death and some old guy is poking you in the face and humming

Okay wait one more

Dumb joke

what a happy couple i hope their spaceship and crew aren’t torn in half by circumstances beyond their reach or understanding leading to the two having to learn how to be strong without their crutches in each other and inevitably reuniting but not seeing the same person they left behind. yeah i reaaallyy hope nothing like THAT happens.

Do you see us getting scraped up off the pavement?

Please get your memory back and get married and be happy.

Found family so strong that it's not even started yet and it's already painful

Way back home.

BFsplaining (?

the thing about Galga and Atwert is like. you're introduced to them like that and you're like "oh that's nice :) gay rights :)" and then That happens to Galga and you're like "wait was Galga being gay just introduced to make it hurt more when he's (symbolically) killed off??? i expected way better from this series :/" and then Atwert comes back and it turns out he's a lot more than just the side character soft boy boyfriend. And Then he figures out how to buck the law and save Galga from being sent away, but it's only by making him his apprentice. and that's so tragic and- and i don't think this is unintentional- actually reflects the reality of same-sex adult adoption, a practice many gay couples were forced to partake in to retain their rights, and a practice still alive in Japan (see "Why I Adopted My Husband"). AND THEN Galga ends up saving Ininia, the one who took his memories in the first place, and bringing her along with the two of them, inadvertly recreating the family unit with his forgotten lover and the source of their misery, with all parties having differing levels of knowledge of what "the truth" is and being unable to disclose it. and then you're like, wait, did Kamome Shirahama just take the token Wholesome Gay Background Couple you see a lot of nowadays, and then introduce tragedy to them, but then also eschew "Bury Your Gays" (symbolically in this case) to keep them together, and then make them a cog in the main story in a way that engages with the overarching themes of the narrative AND touches on real world issues? did Kamome Shirahama just do " what if they were a wholesome found family :)" but in a way that's actually really fascinating and bitterly tragic and ironic? are comics good???????????????