There is much talk about Toph’s inventing metalbending, and she is clearly an absolute genius, but you know what I love about her even more?
Toph’s response to not being able to control sand absolutely perfectly (as in hold up a sinking tower with one hand and fight off a gang of sandbenders with the other) is to work on her sandbending until she’s fully in control of every speck of dirt.
She is so wonderfully stubborn - she pursues bending not as a tool to defeat someone or gain power, but just to prove that she can do it. She’s the basic researcher of earthbending - just keeps pushing the limits of what can be done with no mind to the practical application.
Anyway stars is my favorite arc. I love the 90s version and I love the manga version and I will LOVE this version, my soul is ready for the space angstbus. Gah.
Like. I swear half of my daydreamy battle inspirations are drawn from this formative place of when I was young and read about Usagi having to face this battle alone in friggin SPACE. AND SHE DID IT.
(And yes I am an absolute weirdo but one of the scenes I’m most looking forward to is that super angsty torturous scene where Galaxia uses Mamoru’s body as a puppet for her battle because the TRAGEDY of Usagi having to go through Evil Endymion AGAIN.)
This!!!!
Spoilers for Stars
The scene on Sagittarius Zero Star, when Mamoru steps through the doorway as Tuxedo Mask, and Usagi sees him for the first time in forever but hasn’t yet realized what he is….
She hasn’t yet comprehended what the presence of the love of her life and her senshi standing on the steps before her actually means…
Nor what it will force her to do…
Which she DOES, simply because she must.
And, of course, everything that follows…
This arc is the culmination of Usagi’s growth as a senshi. We’ve already watched her grow from a self-proclaimed cry baby into a warrior, but here we will watch her grow into a warrior who ENDURES.
This arc is all my angst Sailor Moon dreams come to life, and I am HERE for it.
This this this this this. I will scream this to the hills – Stars is the culmination of Usagi’s growth. Shit gets real. And she hides her pain and steps up and is someone her first season self would never believe she could be.
Yep.
I love the growth she gets in both versions, her evolution into neo queen Serenity
I keep seeing all of these posts about how InuYasha and Kikyou were never really in love.
You absolutely cannot tell me they weren’t in love.
Look at the way they they grab at each other. Look at the way they protect each other. Look at the way Kikyou mourns the loss of InuYasha, in recognizing that KAGOME will be the one to heal InuYasha’s heart and let him see what unconditional love is when it was always HER intention to show him such affection and adoration. Look at the way InuYasha, even when she was hateful and angry upon her return, wanted nothing more than to protect her, and pulled her close, holding her in desperation, knowing that she could kill him- and even when she TRIED, he still went and saved her AGAIN, because he LOVED her. Still loves her. And against all better judgement on her part, in all of her worse situations, she always goes to him, always finds him, without even realizing it until she’s wrapped in his arms again. She lost nearly all of her spiritual powers because she’d fallen so in love with him.
Those two loved each other. Everyone talks about how “comfortable” InuYasha and Kagome were with each other, and I’ll say that they were, but InuYasha and Kikyou were, too. He doesn’t just snatch her around for protection like people imply, he pulls her into his arms in a loving embrace, nearly every time. This tells me that, at one time or another, he was comfortable with her, too, just like Kagome. Comfortable enough to hug her without shame or remorse, and cradle her close.
It really tears me apart when people say these two didn’t love each other to try and justify InuKag more. It makes me so sad. InuYasha loved and loves BOTH of them so very much, its just different relationships. Stop destroying such a beautiful love story to justify the other. Kagome and Kikyou are both InuYasha’s soul-mate, hence the whole, ya know, soul thing. Entirely different people, but the same love. That same, whole-hearted, love you to death, love.
InuKik will always be my OTP, but InuYasha loves both of them, and I don’t see him ever loving one or the other “more.” He didn’t make it into a competition between two of the most beautiful female characters I’ve ever seen. Why do you have to?
It makes me sad to surf the InuYasha tag sometimes.
ok i think what gets me about the kind of post that’s like ’[children’s media] has child soldiers, where are their parents!!’ is that those stories really and truly aren’t forpeople who’ll think about that, they’re for the people the children’s age, who don’t, for the most part, want to be kept safe or told they’re too young to participate in the world, they want to be given a sword
the reason ratatouille is so good is because like. it IS about a rat learning to become a chef. but it’s also NOT about that at all. it’s about the elitism that keeps incredibly talented people out of artistic circles because of their origins…it’s about how art is richer when we value input from people from all walks of life…it’s about how to create is to bear your soul, and how exemplary talent often isn’t enough to thrive in a world that is structured to keep you out. it is about how a great artist can come from anywhere and god I love this film so much
