#mini meta

so. they're in the car. tin has said that he meant what he wrote in the letter, setting a boundary. phob has just laid out his test - "I can forget [the letter/our past]. But you need to prove to me that you forgot all about it as well."

"Prove how?"

baby boy is T E R R I F I E D. (ongsa, those eyes, i swear to god. they gave his eyeballs secondary dialogue and he's locked. the fuck. in.) tin knows what's coming, and he's realizing that in all these years he spent burying his feelings, he never dug deep enough.

phob kisses him, and for half a second, tin has the willpower to resist, to reestablish the boundary he's trying so desperately to cling to. his hand even comes up to push phob away.

but once he does push phob away... there's that tear, running down the side of phob's nose. the reminder of all the pain they both feel, the choices phob was forced to make because of tin, the incredible guilt tin feels as the genesis of phob's suffering.

and it breaks his resolve immediately.

the only way he can repent for making phob cry is to tell the truth - and kiss him again. yes, i miss you. yes, i never forgot you. yes, i can't love anyone like i love you.

until he finds the scar on phob's arm... one more devastating reminder that tin letting himself love phob has only hurt him. ("You were with him when he had a hard time in life. I was the one who gave him the hard time.") tin can't be the reason phob suffers anymore.

He knows when he’s lying to himself even when he tries his hardest to believe it, just like he still loves Darry when he tried to convince himself he doesn’t. Ponyboy is still young and still has time to see who he’s going to be… going full hood just isn’t who he is. Or a better way to put it is that it isn’t who he has to be— he’s always had an out, his family, his brothers, his friends- his brain… he’s a little bit softer but that’s a pretty alright way to be at 14 years old.

He picks up the pieces of the bottle so no one pops a tire.

not only is aang the first guy she meets in her age range that’s not her brother, but he’s a genuine breath of fresh air for a girl that had to grow up too fast in a patriarchal society.

So, this shirt Hiruma wears back in middle school, during the volume 28 flashback

Hiruma is wearing a shirt with a very similar design after the timeskip in volume 37, to the point i thought it was actually the same shirt from his middle school days

Im pretty sure it's not, tho i love the idea of 21 year old Hiruma wearing his middle school shirt bc it was a favorite of his

but while trying to check on that, i found something else that im sure is a 100% intentional detail

So, this jacket Hiruma is wearing early on in volume 29.

You can't even see it clearly in the manga proper itself, you only get a good shot of it in the volume 29 preview in the previous volume

But it's a pretty distinctive looking jacket. it's a black zipper up with a folded over collar, a chain and a spiderweb patch on the left side, and some detailing on the right

He's wearing the same fucking jacket in volume 35

Once in Seasons Two, after he's paralyzed by the dragon.

"I was confused, and I didn’t want to do it, but I do want Dad to love me, and be proud of me."

And once in Season Six, when Viren is apologizing to him for all the hurt he's caused.

"Somehow you found the right path in spite of everything I've done. I'm so proud of you."

Everyone's goal was to keep her safe. Elrond would not allow her to see combat, even though she was likely fully capable, out of fear of losing her like he lost Celebrian...and Elros, and Eärendil and Elwing.

Galadriel did not want to lose her granddaughter either, after losing her brothers and Luthien, and technically Melian, who returned to Valinor after Thingol's death. Galadriel likely looked at Arwen and saw everything Luthien was, her legacy, and everything she left behind. And additionally, she saw Celebrian, a fresher loss, a harsher loss, though with the comfort of a future reunion.

i don’t wish to be defending starlin, but i do have to argue in his favor that he, himself, did not singularly hate jason todd. he believed child sidekicks as a whole to be a ridiculous form of normalized child endangerment in the narrative. i firmly believe that his writing bruce as saying jason was reckless and took too many risks was an intentional choice on starlin’s part to invite the audience to question why jason was in a position to take so many risks in the first place.

the writers that succeeded starlin, however, had a different intent in saying jason brought his death upon himself. they needed to justify why this new robin, so careful and intelligent, is fit to be robin when jason was not. the point starlin wanted to make with jason’s recklessness was warped by later writers. it became a tool to build tim. as tim’s popularity grew, it became fact to the narrative, instead of a piece of subtle irony to support starlin’s meta-argument against child sidekicks.