bambi

nothing NOTHING pisses me off more than a good premise and a good characterization and good prose but major holes in the worldbuilding and plot for the sake of the romantic dynamic

i might work on NYs day which means i'll have and excuse to avoid any nye celebrations there's no better way to start 2025

gojo secretly having a dog bc he takes in strays and the only ppl who know about the dog are shoko and ijichi but shoko is afraid of dogs and ijichi has been feeding it for a while so... he takes it in thinking hes doing a kindness but the dog is an absolute menace and ijichi tells himself that it's somehow gojo reborn as a silly little inside joke but then he starts being rlly paranoid bc this dog is a really wierd dog (that's satoru's spawn really what did u expect? ieiri-san says). one day yuji sees it and is that gojo-sensei's dog?! and no one knew that dog existed!! and yuji is able to see the soul..........so eventually ijichi starts calling the dog gojo-san just to be safe.

i am finally free i can go back re reading a clash of kings and yeah maybe writing my thesis who knows

so, it wasn't that bad, as a last chapter it wasn't awful, not great, it was ok. the problem lays in 270/269/268 and that makes it a very anticlimatic ending, very little emotional payoff, as much a i liked gojo and yuji last conversation it did feel a little too meta. i don't agree with a lot of you who say gojo was treated badly, his writing is very consistent, the most well fleshed out character with probably one of the best chapeter entierly dedicated to him (having a tragic character being satisfied in his own ending isn't bad writing, or fumbling). it's the students who have been treated poorly as characters (especially megumi and nobara) and the reaction to their sensei's death was nonexistent bc gege didn't want to go there, he wanted an hopeful ending. he couldn't pull it off tho

imma need to call gege's old editor real quick bc wat is dat

i just thought about it so imma leave it right here: the clock in the last 2 chapters of jjk means something and i think it might be tengen (the final boss? idk): the clock... being a cog... being part of something bigger and just playing your part... the six eyes/plasma vessel, amanai's blood still being down there, kenjaku and tengen being friends...

i can never read something that's totally happy or totally sad, love it when there's a little humour and light in tragedy and LOVE IT when there's a little bit of dread and nostalgia in comedy

working with people younger than me is so much fun like, i told them I stopped smoking and they looked at me like I was a breath away from death