Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein
Wakes up insanely early but also free day so. Honestly don’t know about you but I’m suffering from brain rot but and this blog’s beginning and continuation of having Tumblr completely ..... not make things work right. Will that stop me? Probably not but it’s a bit frustrating! It’s just one of those things that it inevitably when you think it never will, will probably sort itself out.
Honestly my first meta will be about Kenshin’s red gi but I also just want to talk about one of my favorite fights / that one time Kenshin roasted someone so bad they were almost Shishio 2.0 aka the second battle with Shinomori Aoshi and just how Kenshin gives so much wisdom and inner, unshakable strength of will against empty physical strength and how he calls him out on it as using it to do awful things.
It’s a great example that while Kenshin is the strongest warrior of the Bakumatsu / Revolution in this canon, that’s literally stated in the opening pages starting our story, and just how I feel again, Kenshin hones in on what matters. Is it cool that you can single-handedly deal from 14-19 against adult men of the Shinsengumi on your own at once without breaking a sweat greats like Okita Souji and Saito Hajime and make them consider if it’s smart to touch you? Much less be the very person to make them break back or break their stance, again, at once? Yes, it’s very impressive and quite scary and very telling that at that young he’s so strong, in that way.
Is it perhaps even more compelling to me that such a legendary swordsman has a soul, even when it’s ultimately tested and broken, restores itself at the end of the story simply by listening to an innocent girl weeping for his protection to save an innocent life and finds even when he wants to give up, his own will won’t let him? In a way, yes. Both aren’t exclusive. But it gives Kenshin’s title of strongest in battle new meaning when you realize that out of every character in Ruroken, Kenshin’s willpower / will to live is the highest and “off the charts “ , canonly in one of the many info books that...I don’t have my hands on.
Me: And most of the series he didn’t even care if he lived or died! GROWTH.
Also me: That is chapters and volumes away / a season away. One thing at a time!
HELLO. long story short, i need a bit of help. i live in an apartment with my mom and we are both currently low on funds needed to pay our electricity and rent due to issues with social security and disability.
i’ll be, hopefully soon, receiving my inheritance from my grandfather’s estate now that i’m not long a minor, but because i don’t have a definitive date for that, i can’t rely on it when we already have some late payments. we are also trying to get help on our utilities but there is no guarantee they will pay every single dollar, and we barely have enough to get our basic needs this month because everything went straight on the bills.
i have a PAYPAL RIGHT HERE, and i’ll even pay you back once i get my inheritance if that’s something you need. even reblogs help immensely. thank you.
𝐋𝐈𝐋𝐘 ☆#8954
my discord for anyone who would like it ! limited time onl --- well, maybe not. i thought i’d use an icon that had actual lilies in it so i used my first video game fave! please let me know who you are, and if you’d rather just im me, that is most welcome also. really, my goal is to be a safe place and a mutual that looks out for you / does right by you, as much as you may allow or even in subtle little things like comments ! i know it’s hard to earn trust, but i’m up for trying and not be someone disingenuous or fake. you won’t get that. ever. i am many things but not that.
details of being lily’s mutual and possible friend. - protector mutual / friend. no if’s and’s or but’s. lily-types will protect with their life. - gentle conversations! no time limits to when you reply! space respect! - honesty and the ‘nothing leaves this chat’ policy, our place is sacred! - me up at weird hours because i can never sleep properly earning a look. - always available to talk about whatever you’d like to share, be it in the physical world or just our roleplays, and always always gratitude that you opened up or invested! - plots, plots and more plots. i may be slow, but that’s okay because i believe quality is as much as quantity. judgment free zone on replies / responses, i can’t stress enough. - hopefully, a calm, warm, gentle, protective place where you can feel at ease telling me what you’d like, knowing that i will never ask for more than you feel you can give. as kaoru says, ‘we all have things we don’t want to talk about!’
as ever, there is no pressure to add me on dms, i’m very easy going! you can always, always just im me. but if you want a place i’m always on when i get online, that is also a spot as well because we all need dash breaks. i want to be respectful of what makes you comfortable and i want to make sure your experiences with me are nothing short of calm and gentle and quietly warm! i want you to feel safe so please, do what is best for you, but just know that this is an open ticket that will never expire. thank you kindly if you read this, thank you either way, and know there is no pressure to add me, just do what you feel is best for you.
sincerely, lily. ps: please drink your water!
(…) something is left of what happened (…) that marks the line between past and present like an iron barrier.
Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo van Gogh, July 1882 (via weltenwellen)
Kyoto, Japan (by yako ma)
I love characters that are completely harmless until they finally unleash their power and then they’re TERRIFYING
- lost and found
@miburoni when miss sunny and i go back into the bakumatsu to meiji restoration times .... ishin shishi and shinsengumi bonding . . . . wholesome..... kenshin and hijikata bonding imminent, a walking mass of talent if i do say so myself. guess i’m making a fate verse and working harder than ever on my research / reviewing! people like her are worth following. this is a polite promo.
ok but serious talk, if one were to simply replace all instances of 'oro' with, instead, 'uwu', rurouni kenshin as a series would actually not change at all. because. you know. it. works???
the most deceptive phrasing of all got even more deceptive... this is all cURSED i don’t even have a funny / crack tag rn smh. the sakabato is CRACKED! yeah oro basically is like some form of disarming people from being freaked by his existence and now we amped it up to high quality levels of
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