I Need

I know it’s year of the dragon this year but I wouldn’t mind if it became year of the capybara

A lucky capybara has given you a blessing! ✨ May it last the whole year and more!

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“Knowing what I know now, and how hard I fought to come out of that depression, I would have told that girl in the waiting room a different story. I would have sat really close to her and said, ‘This is a bump in the road. And you can’t swerve away from it. And you can’t dodge it. So we are going to move through it. There’s no other way—we must move through it. But one day, one day soon, we are going to celebrate how you came out of the woods and it will be so very good.’” – Hannah Brencher

I find it unfathomable and astounding that Tumblr isn't more obsessed with Sam Reich. You're telling me there exists out there a man who was born into the aristocracy of our country—with every privilege of modern society at his fingertips—who didn't complete high school (due to his mental health) and instead chose to devote his life to making strangers laugh and raising awareness on mental health. A full-bearded short king who is so committed to being the change he wants to see in the world that he decided to take the company he worked for into his own hands so that he could make sure all the people who worked under him could keep their livelihoods.

How many other CEOs are out here being as honest and transparent with their target audience/market as Sam Reich is? How many of them acknowledge when they fumble and continuously strive to be better than they were? How many of them actually seem like they respect their talent, both in the cast and crew? Sam Reich is the standard we should be holding other CEOs to.

But forget about all that (I could talk for a long time about the respect I have for Sam Reich)—ignore just how respectable he is as a businessman and a person. Ignore all the wholesome reasons for obsessing over Sam Dalton Reich.

The man is a stone-cold fox.

He's a little chaos gremlin and an absolute evil mastermind all rolled into one classy suit and well-groomed beard. Whenever Sam is on the set, you can guarantee he is going to make you crack a smile. And for someone with such natural authority, he's never afraid to be the butt of a joke and show himself being embarrassed. Go ahead, watch any clip of him trying to improvise in No Laugh Newsroom and just try to resist that blush.

You're sleeping on a goldmine of a man, here, damnit! And I will NOT let this go ignored any longer!

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

rare vent art from a few months ago

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I need this this year

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Comments are turned off so I guess I’ll just have to reblog. Keep scrolling if Dr.Stone isn’t your thing. Now, if we take a look at most of Senku’s appearances w/in the series, the lines used for his face and body are naturally very sharp. In film and tv, sharp lines on a character can mean the character is devious, dangerous, scheming, closed off, etc. Even his lower eye lines, although they are softer to show his eye shape are still pretty sharp in comparison to the other characters.

Now let’s compare these images to ones shown in the original post. Those photos show a Senku who’s lines have grown quite soft and smooth. Soft and smooth lines in film and tv usually mean a character is open, emotionally vulnerable, trusting, safe to be around etc. These moments are when Gen has really gotten through his hard and stony facade and revealed to Senku how much he really knows about his partner in crime. And before anyone says it, yes, these types of lines are used when he first interacts with Kaseki and during a few of his interactions w/Taiju&Yuzuriha. These are important but not for what we’re talking about right now. I don’t think Senku realizes how much of a caring person he is. I would dare say he is up there with Natsu from Fairytail in that department, but he keeps his emotions at bay for fear of judgment and the abuse of those emotions used against him. Idk where this seeming innate fear comes from but I would like to see how Gen and Senku learn to beat it together. This had turned into a pretty long rant so I’ll end with this, the difference of lines is not one the original mangaka needed to add, but by adding this subtle difference they have made a truly great character with a great relationship that I’m excited to see as it continues to bloom more and more over the course of the series.

Edit: Typo

My random SENGEN relationship analysis

I absolutely adore Senku’s facial expressions every single time when Gen reads his mind and says something totally obvious to him. Senku is a type of person who always tries to hide his kindness (it doesn’t work because everyone finds out that actually he is a kind hearted and caring person) and he just wants to keep his cool appearance but he knows it’s unnecessary because Gen knows him better.

His face is like “I won’t say it aloud but you know me better than anyone else, mentalist” every time when Gen reads his mind and says his inner thoughts aloud. Senku loves being with him because Gen really understands this part of Senku’s personality, and in this way Senku feels comfortable with him. I believe Gen is the most trusted partner and probably the closest person to Senku. He accepts and unconditionally loves Senku - this is the most heartwarming part of their relationship.