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soc roadtrip au!
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It's not even a want at this point, it's a NEED. I'm a writer and need anyone who is an artist (cuz I cannot draw to save my life but can picture the image in my head) to draw Ivan the Terrible and his son but with Gojo and Megumi after chapter 226. I READ ANGST BUT NOW I GOTTA SEE THE ANGST.
A Look into Mental Health: Jujutsu Kaisen Analysis
"Being a child is not a sin." (Nanami Kento, Jujutsu Kaisen)
With the release of Chapter 251, I've seen many horrible takes from dudebros saying that Megumi has "sold" the team. This makes me unreasonably angry because of course it does, so obviously my next plan of action is to take all of my hour-long rants about the mental health of JJK characters and put it here, where said dudebros will never see my (correct) analysis in their entire life. Oh well.
One thing Gege is really, really good at is creating believable, undeniably human, and complex characters. Every character has a different set of motivations, beliefs, ideals, and especially mental states. The constant theme of Jujutsu Kiasen has been "Strength vs Weakness". While the clearest interpretation can be seen through the physical attributes of the characters (Gojo being the strongest sorcerer of his time due to his abilities, and Miwa being one of the weakest, again, due to her abilities), it is also directly applied to the mental strength of characters. No two characters are able to withstand the same trauma and come out the exact same, just as no two real people can process the same trauma. Not only is it a result of nature, as people are genetically different and therefore process information differently, but a product of nurture - in other words, character motivation and environment.
This is where we come to the current state of the manga, Chapter 251. The fated Yuuji vs Megumi debate. I keep seeing people wildly misunderstanding these two, and why it's so important that Megumi isn't standing up to fight, why he isn't able to handle his trauma, when Yuuji can.
Gege writes phenomenal characters. And I want to express just how well done they are, making Jujutsu Kaisen actually kind of deserve its popularity, because some people only care about power scaling. I'm going to touch on Megumi last, because understanding all of the other characters' makes his visible struggle that much more impactful.
Leigh Bardugo really went itâs not enough that theyâre Dante and Virgil, theyâre Orpheus and Eurydice as well?!??
Victor and Sydney looked like father and daughter. A crossing of fates. Sydney, the only reason Victor believed he could feel alone.
â the first chapter of Vicious by V. E. Schwab

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âSheâd been told to go somewhere safe. And over the course of the last week, safe had ceased to be a place for Sydney, and had become a person. Specifically, safe had become Victor.â
-Vicious by V.E Schwab
âOnce upon a time, Victor had promised Sydney that he wouldnât let anyone hurt her- that he would always hurt them first. Heâd broken that promise.â
-Vengeful by V.E Schwab
Iâm emotional. How dare you.
The way I screamed at this part was unholy....
Victor Vale believed that Things Could be repaired.
(âDonât lie to me,â Victor warned.)
He closed his eyes.
It was unpleasant.
âfirst chapter of vengeful by V. E. Schwab
It was a stick-figure drawing. Two people holding hands. A thin man in black and a girl, half his height with short hair, and wide eyes. The stick-girlâs head was cocked slightly, and a small red spot marked her arm. Three similar spots, no bigger than periods, dotted the stick-manâs chest. The stick-manâs mouth was nothing more than a faint grim line.
Beneath the drawing ran a single sentence: I made a friend.
- Vicious by V. E. Schwab
There are no good men in this game (1/2)
âLook Sydney, thereâs something you need to understand about Victor-â âHeâs not a bad man,â she said.

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insane quote no one talks aboutâŚ
what do you think iâll see if he dies wednesdayâŚ..
I could spend hours thinking of names. The list is endless.
I think the thing I love most about Victor Vale is not his ruthless pragmatism, or his flair for being edgy and dramaticâ but in those early days, in Lockland University, I honestly can relate to him whenever he saw Eli and Angie together.
Victorâs love for Angie aside, I understand why heâd look away whenever they kiss, or are together, why he wanted Eliâs attention, why he tries to covet them seperatelyâ he wanted Eli or Angie but not together. Because if they are together, they donât spare even a second of attention at him. When they are together it is the most alone that he ever felt.
Itâs not so much that he is jealous of their love. Heâs jealous of their easy relationship / interaction.
Friendship-jealousy. Fear of being the third wheel. A fear of being forgotten. A fear of being left adrift.
Everyone wants a place in the world, and as much as Victor narrated to us in the books of how he doesnât careâ he cares so so much, but he hides his heart. It isnât him to be vulnerable. He hates being vulnerable.
His parentâs might have something to do with it. Heâs left alone when they go on tours, and Victor doesnât get any attention from his parents other than the fact that they just want to fix him (and I will argue an entire essay how Victorâs personality is a result of nurture rather than nature, and it his parentâs neglect that played a big factor in creating who Victor is now â and if his dam parents have anyone to blame, it is themselves for failing to practice what they preach).
Victor found two people who understands him. He had Angie. He had Eli. But then, when they both got together, he now has no one. And that is frustrating. It hurts, it hurts so much. Itâs not love, itâs nothing as simple as that, but itâs this severance of connection. Being shoved outside of somewhere you thought is finally comfortable, safe, where you can leave all of your facades at the door.
Victor is; as everyone is, desperate for attention. He is desperate to be understood, even if he doesnât act like it. He wanted his friends, okay. He wanted them to focus on him. He wanted to be seen. Why is it that love ruins everything? Why is it that when you are in love with someone, you forget everyone else?
People who are in love donât realise how much pain it causes to others when you neglect them. And I felt it from Victor, I felt that pain from him. The feeling of being discarded or tossed aside. Being deemed less important, less of a priority, that he needs to freakinâ fight for some scrap of attention, and damn it, I felt his frustration, his anger and his internalised hurt.
âVictor Vale is not a fucking sidekick.â
You think that itâs the ego talking, and you are half-right. That is his internalised hurt and rage of being shoved to the side. That is him not wanting to ever be neglected again.
That is him trying to give reason to why he is hurting so much, and I hope everyone would understand that it isnât so simple to sexualise Victorâs feelings as that he wanted to have sex with Eli or Angie. Even without that huge ASEXUAL label on him, I find the fandomâs response to the university arc to be highly dimissive of Victorâs (nonsexualised) feelings.
This is Victor trying to cope (and failing) as many do when their best friend gets together with their other best friend. Once again, it damn hurts.
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. *drops mic*
@tlounetworkâ | The Last of Us week 2023Â
day #7: free choice
      -> tlou + art
1. Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, 1883-1885 |Â Ilya Repin
2. Judith Beheading Holofernes, 1614-8Â | Artemisia Gentileschi
3. Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene, 1864 | Simeon Solomon
4. Pieta, 1627 | Daniele Crespi
5. At Eternityâs Gate, 1890 | Vincent Van GoghÂ

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You can alway count on Kaz for top tier dark humor.
i gasped when i heard the man yell âmy leg!â because i knew what line was coming next and i did not expect to see it here
as a follow up to this post: link (prequel here), you are now welcome to the sequel: an analysis of any and every time mint is mentioned in conjunction with gansey in tdtÂ
the first and second times are in chapter 5 when he and Ronan are up and talking about how Ronanâs dreaming works.Â
âTell me what itâs like.â Gansey stretched to get a mint leaf from his pocket. He put it on his tongue and spoke around it. âWalk me through it. What happens?â
(he doesnât understand Ronanâs dreaming and right before this they had been talking about the violent night horrors that almost killed Ronan, ganseyâs best friend who he loves so fucking much. i feel like i donât need to explain the way this plays into the whole mint ordeal)Â
and then before they decide to go to the barns.
âGansey considered. He looked to where his keys sat on the desk beside his mint plant. The clock beside it, a repellently ugly vintage number Gansey had found lying by a bin at the dump, said 3:32.âÂ
the third time is in chapter 18 when noah and him find ronan in the first floor of monmouth
âInside, the small smells of the building â the rusty fixtures, the wormholed wood, his mint plants â had been overtaken by an unfamiliar odor. Something damp and strangely fertile and unpleasant.â
(note that he apparently has several mint plants in his possession)
the fourth time is in chapter 19 after the whole gang goes to the barns and buries the night horror.Â
âWith a gentle oath, Gansey jammed the tip of the shovel into the ground and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand. He stuffed a mint leaf into his mouth. âI have blisters. Ninoâs? ââ
(they bury a night horror, a terrible monster that attacked ronan and gansey and tried to kill them both. theyâre at the barns when theyâre not supposed to be. gansey is wound up and strung out, he is not having a good time. and what is his method of dealing with this to not bother anyone else with his feelings? mint leaf)
(it also struck me while i was editing this that gansey knew this entire time that this was the year he died. and then he thought he was going to get killed by a nightmare monster,,, my poor boy)
the fifth time is when the gray man breaks into monmouth in chapter 23
âAnd itâs you. The sword in my spine. I seem to have lost my wallet somewhere.â The Gray Man let the compromised door fall open. A smell of musty paper and mint rolled around him. Dust motes played over a thousand books; this wasnât quite what heâd expected. âWhen you were vacuuming under Calla, did you happen to see anything?â
the sixth through eighth times are blue noting how much and how constantly gansey smells of mint. first when blue goes to monmouth after gansey leaves. (hah, leaves)
âAn hour later, Noah let Blue into Monmouth Manufacturing. The sun had made the space vast and musty and lovely. The warm, trapped air was scented with old wood and mint and tenthousand pages about Glendower. Although Gansey had been gone only hours, it suddenly seemed longer, like this was all that was left of him.â
then it continues as noah and blue are spending time together
âOne of Ganseyâs EpiPens bounced against the interior of the topmost drawer as Blue withdrew a fancy pen. She copied Ganseyâs blocky handwriting onto a Ninoâs receipt as Noah put on a preppy sweater heâd found balled under the desk. She ate a mint leaf and breathed on Noahâs face.â
âWithout any particular discussion, they curled on top of the blanket, each taking one of Ganseyâs pillows. It felt illicit and drowsy. Only inches away, Noah blinked sleepily at her. Blue crumpled the edge of the sheet against her nose. It smelled like mint and wheatgrass, which was to say, like Gansey.â
(then she admits she has a crush on him) (also further proves that he smells so much like mint that mint becomes synonymous with him for the people in his life)
the ninth time is in chapter 33 when gansey and adam are at the party for ganseyâs mom
âJesus Christ,â Gansey said tragically, his eyes on the gathering. âOh well.â He flicked an invisible piece of lint off the shoulder of Adamâs suit and placed a mint leaf on his own tongue. âGood for them to see your face.â
(neither adam nor gansey was comfortable at this party, gansey knows that theyâre about to have a difficult ass conversation, and heâs been carrying the weight of everything adamâs sacrifice made him feel alone. Heâs been afraid and agonising over losing adam and adam leaving him (and we all know how gansey feels extreme anxiety around the fact that he doesnât perceive himself to be as important to other people as they are to him). heâs anxious and wound up and strung out and uncomfortable and in a situation where he doesnât have full control. and heâs also been wearing his richard gansey iii mask all night, something we know he partly developed (or at least the ease with which he uses it) to hide his violent ptsd from people)
the tenth time is in chapter 36 when gansey and adam have their argument about the whole cabeswater debacle
âGansey turned to him; his breath was all mint leaves and champagne, him and them. He asked, âWhy did you go to Cabeswater without me, Adam?ââ
(very big thing that âhim and themâ and the distinction between the smells of the people at the party and gansey, two very different things in adams mind. gansey, to adam, is encapsulated by the smell of mint)
the eleventh and twelfth times are in chapter 45 when adam and gansey leave his parents house and his mom gives them gifts
âNext was Mrs. Gansey, peering out the window to verify that her driver was out front before saying, âDick, Iâve gotten you another mint plant to take back. Donât forget it. Adam, I picked you up a rubber plant, too. You boys never think about feng shui.ââÂ
(this is something his family knows about, at least in the peripheral) (could it be something theyâve encouraged? do they know the real reason?) (she knows he already has other mint plants but also knows that he will gladly accept another)
and then
âAs the boys were headed out the door, Gansey holding his tiny mint plant and Adam struggling beneath a five-gallon pot of rubber tree, Helen came down dragging a tiny black wheeled suitcase.â
and then the thirteenth time is in the same chapter in the garage
âJust get back, he thought. Get back so you can find out . . . âLook, just flash your lights if something goes wrong,â Gansey said, standing before the open door of his black Suburban. He ordinarily kept it here, but no one really trusted Adamâs new vehicle to make the drive across the state. Gansey rocked the driverâs side door a little. Adam could tell that he wanted nothing more than to ask, Are you all right? or What do you need, Adam? The mint plant, placed on the dash, peered anxiously around Ganseyâs shoulder.â
(and as we all know from miss maggie herself, every time an object is closely described, itâs describing a person. and mint is previously said by adam to BE gansey. what does this tell us? well you see, gansey is anxious and the symbolism is turned up to fucking 11. Mint Theory⢠truthers rise)
the fourteenth time is in chapter 51 when gansey and blue have their not-kiss
âHe leaned toward her â her heart spun again â and pressed his cheek against hers. His lips didnât touch her skin, but she felt his breath, hot and uneven, on her face. His fingers splayed on either side of her spine. Her lips were so close to his jaw that she felt his hint of stubble at the end of them. It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if sheâd done this before and already she longed to do it again.â
the fifteenth time is in chapter 52 when blue gets home from the great big not-kiss that didnât mean anything at all whatsoeverÂ
âHer mind took the memory of mint and spun it into a related memory of him, one that Gansey didnât have yet: the first time she had ever seen him. Not at Ninoâs when he asked her out on Adamâs behalf. But that night in the churchyard when all of the spirits of the future dead walked past. One yearâ that was the longest that any of those spirits had. They would all be dead before the next St. Markâs Eve.â
(the memory of mint easily turns into one of gansey himself)
then the last and number sixteen is in that same chapterÂ
âHer mother climbed into Blueâs narrow bed. She jerked at the pillow until Blue allowed her a few inches of it. Then she lay down behind Blue, mother and daughter like spoons in a drawer. Blue closed her eyes again, inhaling the soft clove scent of her mother and the fading mint of Gansey.â
(and once again we see this: gansey is mint to these people)