This Is What People Do

This Is What People Do

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Summary: Baz has been planning to propose for weeks. Simon, however, wrecks his plans with one simple sentence.

I was incredibly sick when I decided to write this and the only thing my mind could keep up with was fanfiction. So I’m blaming this on that.

Fictional men with slutty waists>>>>>>>>> but specifically these ones.

Spike Spiegel

Baz Grimm-Pitch

Alucard Tepes

Kite (HxH)

Koro- Sensei's human form

Sigma from BSD

Every new chapter of TBHK reminds me how long a month is. If I thought waiting for the Night Life arc to come was bad I don’t think I have it in me for this.

Spoilers for the newest chapter:

Aois hair is up. That means the Severance didn’t happen. What if the Clock Keepers prevented the murder of Tsukasa and therefore Hanako being a ghost. And the festival will be for nothing. Nene can’t confess her feelings for someone who doesn’t exist.

Toilet- Bound Hanako-Kun. I never expected such a premise to make me cry this much. Mitsuba is alive? Hanako lived to become a teacher? None of this story even happened? This, The Severance and the Night Life arc are impeccable. I can’t wait an entire month to know what happens! Will Nene remember and go to the clock keepers to change everything back?

Random screenshots I got that made me quite upset:

my main takeaway from the Simon Snow series

You Are Not Broken.

Simon grew up in care with no one that really cared about him. No one coddled him, no one fussed over him when he didn't feel well, and he felt like the most insignificant nobody in all of England.

And then this cool guy that has a sword and can do magic (whoa!) sweeps in and tells him that he's the most important and powerful somebody to ever exist and sweeps his entire world out from under him.

When we get his POVs, the mage spends the entire book telling us he has to fix Simon. That Simon is broken because he can't harness his power (which I did a tiny essay on here if you're interested). That Simon is so broken and shattered that he is unfixable.

From a boy with nothing to "Let the greatest power of powers reign, and may it save us all" and then back to a boy with nothing. His magic was what connected him to that beautiful world of worthiness and just as quickly as he was whisked into it, he was cast out. After being told by his mentor that he was unfixably broken.

That's... devastating.

and even more devastatingly, he believed it.

He believed it so much that started self-sabotaging every other good thing in his life because one horrible manipulative person told him he was broken.

and he believed it for over a year.

Which is why Simon and Baz meeting Lady Salisbury was so important.

She had a son who barely had any magic. And even though he didn't have magic, he didn't have that crucial connection to his mother's world that was coveted above everything else, she loved him anyway. She loves him so so much. and then, her son with some magic became her son with no magic at all. And she still cried with joy over his return when he came back to her.

Because love doesn't care about a silly thing like magic. Love is the greater magic, and it always is, and always will be.

He didn't have any magic to give, because he gave it all away. But he had love. He has more love in him than any other character in that series, except for maybe Ruth. He loves his school. He loves his friends. He loves his world of mages, even if it hurts too much to be a big part of it. He loves his mentor, and the silly goats that everyone overlooked, and even his evil, scorned roommate. Maybe the scorned roommate most of all. Simon never had a shortage of love to give.

And meeting Ruth and his real family was finally able to prove to him that the love he held close and carried around his whole life was finally enough. Better yet, it had always been enough, even though he was the last to see it.

Your love is enough. The love and goodness you put out into this world is enough. And you are worthy of love in return. Always. No exceptions. You are not broken. You are human, and humans are immovable and unshatterable. Your love is your magic, and you are worthy.

This post is for you. Never let them tell you you're not magic.

Ineffability is just some bullshit God came up with to hide the fact that Their plans are stupid