Good Things Will Happen 🧿

im putting them in a box until they stop fighting

CAN we run away together

Sure <3 /platonic

Wait no nevermind I aint tagging all those characters

hey ns you still gonna do the hunger games thing now that you arent shadowbanned i yearn for blood

Ykw I keep losing twt moot battles where I promised it so I just might do it here instead (clearly twt doesn't want it smh /j)

I'm still unsure on how the format's gonna be though :'D I guess reblog chain would work? I also need to check if the hunger games simulator accept Tumblr image links for the images

It really makes me sad when people try to defend a character so much that they just take away all their nuance 🥀

Like... It's not just with certain characters, but the two I see the most are Hanako and Teru (which I think makes sense, they're two sides of the same coin which I could write a whole thing about-)

It's like the fandom can't like one of the two without tearing down the other despite the parallels in their actions and morals.

With Teru, rather than explaining that there is a balance with his actions (his actions are understandable and not malicious from his own perspective, as that's how he was raised, but they aren't completely correct), they focus on emphasizing how awful other characters are in comparison (specially the supernaturals, which make sense— those are the ones Teru is against. Sometimes it's Kou which is strange to me though ngl 💔)

With Hanako, it's interesting. I see people tear down Teru especially, yes, but I see people more willing to explain away Hanako's actions through the lense of his own trauma and morals. He sacrifices Aoi for Yashiro because he's selfishly selfless— same with the picture perfect arc. Teru literally calls him out on this— he wants to do the dirty work so Yashiro doesn't have to.

Hanako stans defend Hanako through his trauma, Teru stans defend him through the missteps of other characters. I think it's more interesting when we combine the two personally, and apply it to all characters other than just one. Maybe I'm biased because I could write essays on just about every tbhk character but it makes me really sad when there's no nuance allowed for characters and they're either defended or demonized until they're a shell of themself 💔 🙏

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It's Kou's month!! Yay!!

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I can't wait for your submissions yayay!!

(i've been real excited frfr omg kou ships... send them in yes... send them in....)

It's crazy how giant squids and sperm whales just have like giant kaiju battles down in the deepest depths everyday and it's real

Bad news about the boulder everyone D:

good morning kings let’s push this boulder

Hey so op these tags are absolutely diabolical /pos

Little insight of my absolute favourite official art ever made and the meaning behind it (imo).

Let's start with this: it did not come out of nowhere. It splits an important interaction in two, a fundamental turning point for their relationship: Kou deciding to open up to Nene after the Severance (and the aftermath of that).

When Kou methaphorically points at his and Nene's very similar apples to asks a very important question.

"What are you going to do.../ What do you want to do?"

Did you think of a solution?

Arc after arc, Kou and Nene were proven times and times again that you can't just wish for the supernatural you care about to stick by your side. Because something always happens. Because they'll find a way to always slip from your fingers. Because Nene and Kou have the exact same kind of apple in hand: a supernatural they can't be with, not by the rules of their world. Hanako is the apple, Mitsuba is the apple.

And Kou has made his decision already.

There is no time left for the perfect solution to be figured out. Kou can't wait anymore for things to get fixed the right way. Of course, Kou aspires and will always try to reach for Absolute Victory. Why settle for less? Why giving up when something can still be done?

But that has no importance if his future with Mitsuba isn't secured first.

The taste of honey of the forbidden garden at reach is what Nene and Kou have in common; their sinful desire of what is forbidden to know the flavor of. And Kou's stare is anything but doubtful when he comes closer to take the first bite.

He knows a way to reach the apple, now. He knows how to get Mitsuba, in the end. A road with no way back, finally (in fact, a bite is enough to get banished from Eden, you can't undo it, the same way someone who died can't turn back to a human, not by their world's rules, at least.)

Because she has to have thought about it as well, right? A solution to their desires. A way to secure their happiness, no matter what happens around them, to them. They are the same, after all, so she will understand.

And so he tells her.

The art is placed here, cutting in half a question from its response: Kou and Nene are back to back, and while he looks straight ahead... Nene looks doubtfully in our direction, the apple right to her face, ...no intention to eat it yet. And that's it.

He doesn't really give her a chance at all to properly respond. To decide. To understand.

She answers the question with another question, with doubts and concern, and Kou not only doesn't have an answer for her but expected something totally different; he expected her to be like him, to understand instantly, without further questions. Because he didn't need any of those.

The one time Kou opens up to her ends as quick as it started: Nene answers wrongly and so he closes her off again, because he wasn't looking for her actual opinion, he was looking for her comforting presence next to him while taking the bite that he had already choosen to take.

I think it isn't just a coincidence that Kou went and faced all of his rotten desires right after this, in the Red House. Maybe Adam and Eve discovered the feeling of shame after the first bite, but Kou is facing it as if, by willingness alone, he had already set his faults in stone and is already paying the consequences of his sin.

Fallen Tributes 2...

TBHK Tumblr Hunger Games: Tributes, stand on your podiums!

Hi hi! The time has finally come to start the TBHK Tumblr Hunger Games! Introducing our tributes:

@wispisstillverybored67 @hy4c1nthh @ocelotlesbian @snowiwyvern @strawbes @mysteriousmissme @astrocket @nenenumbereight @sl33pd3mxn @makshu @elizabethzoopzoop986 @musicalmoritz @redcamellia13 @maramarabum @frogwithaflowercrown @hill-ll-p @blushing-bunniez @lyingintheclouds @nam-the-nacho @venusluvmechain @matcha-mintea @weebs6284 @sophisfish

...also additional ping: @jshkcommunity

You can certainly follow along as the rb chain is being posted, but if you couldn't don't worry :D the final chain would be reblogged to jshk community!

Commission for @strawbes role swap au!