Hak prolly the whole Chapter 181, or maybe the whole Tournament, or the whole time staying at Hiryuu castle. Orrrrrr… lels

grrrrrr....😰😰😰

NaLu analysis: What do people want from a relationship?

Someone, once claimed that NaLu cannot evolve into a canon relationship, because Natsu leaving two years ago changes the context of his words at the end of the Alvarez arc: “We’ll be together forever from now on.” Completely disregarding how attached Natsu and Lucy are to one another

Adding to this argument, others claim Natsu will choose Touka over Lucy despite the fact one relationship is far more developed than the other, or how Natsu and Lucy display actual chemistry, something he doesn’t have with his other “love interest.”

Others probably say that since Natsu isn’t actively seeking “romantic love,” only someone actively seeking his affection can be his wife. However, the argument that baffled me the most was the ‘NaLu shouldn’t happen because Lucy doesn’t want romance from Natsu’

I could cheat my way through this matter by merely posting Mashima’s NaLu twits featuring situations that go beyond what “friends” would do, or behaviors that showcase both characters may want something “more” from each other…

…but a potent pairing only needs what the story shows to prove its worth

So, this time around we have some question to answer: what do the characters seek in their relationship? How those that affect their potential to become a canon pairing?

We already know how Lucy became emotionally attached to Natsu. In fact , @decadus already analyzed the moment that “solidified his role in her life” And we already saw how the story shaped their chemistry from that poin onwards, so after several shared experiences, what does Lucy often seek in Natsu?

We already know she looks for fun and excitement, which she finds with Natsu due to him being a thrill seeker who loves adventures and actively tries to get Lucy involved in them, which provides Lucy with a lot of excitement and joy

This particular point is not something unique to an adventure shonen setting. Some experts at psychology admit that when women are looking for healthy relationships, most of them tend to seek partners that bring fun and a sense of adventure capable of keeping a lively and interesting dynamic

On the other hand, Lucy also seeks comfort and relief in him…

…this is a very relevant point in the development of emotional chemistry. And it’s something that occurs in real life too.

According to a licensed counselor, good relationships are built on some basic and down-to-earth traits or qualities such as loyalty, trust, kindness, and so on. But, one of the tratis women often want from a relationship with a potential partner is emotional and/or practical support.

That could come in the form of small but thoughtful actions or big yet meaningful gestures…

…a potential partner should not only acknowledge the trials and tribulations the girl goes through, but also take action to bring relief, comfort or even reassure her depending on the circumstances

Something that Natsu had done, both passively and actively, for Lucy throughtout the series.

More importantly, Lucy wants companionship from Natsu! An element that keeps most long-term relationships firm and stable.

Without it, romantic partners are less likely to stick together as time goes by. And NaLu had been displaying a deep and strong companionship for ages. A solid chemistry with a strong emotional attachment

When it comes to Natsu himself, we already saw how Lucy also had a profound and tangible effect on him

He not only expressed how “precious” Lucy is to him, more than that we’ve seen how much Natsu values the way Lucy perceives him…

…we’ve seen how lost he would be if forced to face her death…

…we’ve seen how Lucy can be the driving force behind some of his biggest choices…

…we’ve seen how when he lost himself to power, Lucy was the one who could bring him back

Detractors may argue that none of this is explicitly romantic. All while claiming that someone who actually wants “romantic love” should be with Natsu. Or that Lucy should fall for someone far more interesting and better-looking.

People who makes such arguments against NaLu ignore a lot of details and implications inherent to their claims. But, they also ignore two highly relevant points: the first one being that all the traits described here are essential for a romantic relationship to work out, and the second one is context

In the Fairy Tail manga sequel we had one chapter that allowed us to put all of these showings in a new perspective.

Fairy Tail 100 years quest chapter 25 confirmed that…

…the main cast doesn’t have much experience with “romantic love.” And the ones with literally zero experience are Lucy and Natsu.

So, it’s very difficult for a character with little knowledge and/or experience on this field to actively seek romance

But, this revelation gives us something else to consider. The fact, Natsu and Lucy managed to build a relationship that shares so many traits with a healthy romance proves how effortlessly natural this bond feels to both characters

They’ve been spontaneously growing closer and closer over time without realizing how deep and intimate their connection had become.

Yet, despite their “obliviousness” to romantic love. Lucy gets from her relationship with Natsu nearly everything a woman would ask from a romantic partner. On the other had, we saw how Natsu had been growing so attached to Lucy that not only he sees her as someone “precious” to him, they got to the point in which someone like Zeref could comment on how much of an impact Lucy had on Natsu, characters like Mavis could get inspiration from them to formulate a plan based on love, and Natsu himself gets jealous when people flirt with Lucy…

All is set for this potent relationship to evolve.

So, is it necessary for Lucy go all “Touka” over Natsu so this bond may become something else? Obviously not, without getting all lovey-dovey, or even realizing it, Lucy already finds in Natsu all she needs from a partner.

Does Natsu need to actively try to get into Lucy’s pants for NaLu to be a thing? No, he made note-worthy contributions to their relationship’s growth by being himself, not a Casanova Wannabe or a Mr. Fanservice

Any other choice is pretty much underdeveloped or simply implausible from a story-telling point of view.

As quoted in another post:

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

- Bruce Lee

can't argueeee 😍😍😍

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for the last 2+ weeks, the Amazon has been catching fire. Yes, it’s the season where that’s normal but because of the sayings (aka incentive) of our new president, some farmers are taking advantage of that and intentionally setting the trees on fire. Yesterday, because of this, the sky of São Paulo looked like this. AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.

Hospitals of the northern states are filling up with people (especially children and seniors) claiming they can’t breathe properly. ALREADY ENDANGERED ANIMALS ARE DYING. THIS IS SERIOUS.

Germany and Norway, huge donators to the Amazon cause will stop sending money because they don’t see results (that can also be credited to our president, who has been tweeting angrily ever since - not because he cares about the environment, btw). That money gives this guy and his team equipment to save little guys like these:

THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE, NOT JUST BRAZILIANS. The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and it’s being destroyed. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.

If your country is holding elections, vote for someone who cares about this. Don’t let another Bolsonaro or another Trump have the power to do something and then do nothing. This is going to shape our future — if we have one.

PLEASE REBLOG, EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS!!

side note: not to sound bitter or ungrateful but also like what’s up with Europe… y’all exploited South America for centuries but just because you “aren’t seeing results” you stop helping altogether?? if you really wanted to help you wouldn’t stop because you think you aren’t helping lol

theres a petition going around. PLEASE sign it. this is HUGE

Please reblog to spread the news. This is important.

Please #SaveAmazonia

DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS

for the last 2+ weeks, the Amazon has been catching fire. Yes, it’s the season where that’s normal but because of the sayings (aka incentive) of our new president, some farmers are taking advantage of that and intentionally setting the trees on fire. Yesterday, because of this, the sky of São Paulo looked like this. AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.

Hospitals of the northern states are filling up with people (especially children and seniors) claiming they can’t breathe properly. ALREADY ENDANGERED ANIMALS ARE DYING. THIS IS SERIOUS.

Germany and Norway, huge donators to the Amazon cause will stop sending money because they don’t see results (that can also be credited to our president, who has been tweeting angrily ever since - not because he cares about the environment, btw). That money gives this guy and his team equipment to save little guys like these:

THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE, NOT JUST BRAZILIANS. The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and it’s being destroyed. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.

If your country is holding elections, vote for someone who cares about this. Don’t let another Bolsonaro or another Trump have the power to do something and then do nothing. This is going to shape our future — if we have one.

PLEASE REBLOG, EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS!!

side note: not to sound bitter or ungrateful but also like what’s up with Europe… y’all exploited South America for centuries but just because you “aren’t seeing results” you stop helping altogether?? if you really wanted to help you wouldn’t stop because you think you aren’t helping lol

theres a petition going around. PLEASE sign it. this is HUGE

Please reblog to spread the news. This is important.

Please #SaveAmazonia

I’m...I’m sorry, I just this minute realized that there are people out there who have no idea that Heinz Doofenshmirtz is the best fictional father out there. You guys don’t mind if I bombard your entire dashboard with proof right? Excellent.

BONUS: Doofenshmirtz around children he literally just met who wrecked his ‘inator’.

Literally I could go on and on with examples but my computer’s starting to crash from the amount of images.

The point is that Heinz Doofenshmirtz is the greatest fictional father out there and anyone who says otherwise was hit by a Lie-inator.

Hey op?

BEST POST ON TUMBLR

And then you read the whole thing in his voice.

I started with that

He was an evil scientist but he was a pure hearted evil scientist.

He gave Perry a key so he wouldnt break down his door again.

He was sweet to the children.

He let the spy team keep his inators

i love this show

phineas and ferb ❤️❤️❤️

my friend left her window open in her bedroom and came back to find this

look at his self-satisfied little face, the cheeky shit

motherfucking australia

if there was a post to describe australia, this is it

wait. 

you mean to tell me this isn’t even a pet bird?

that in australia, you have wild birds that just fly from house to house with the express purpose of fucking shit up?

fucking HELL australia, what is wrong with you?

wake up australia 

That’s what birds do

They fly around and fuck shit up

Do you have some kind of mysterious nice birds in your weird foreign country

Do birds in America and England fly into your house and make the bed and tidy up the living room a little bit

It’s cold here, so they just bounce off the windows and lie there and twitch spasmodically while you look for the shovel.

Basically hurling themselves at windows is the worst thing birds do

yeah man a kookaburra literally flew into a classroom at my high school and just sat his smug ass down on top of the desk for a good 20 minutes

why has nobody mentioned the fact that in australia there are 3-4 months a year where everybody just accepts that they’re going to get attacked by magpies. It is literally called “swooping season” and these birds will fly down to peck your fucking face, and people get their eyes ripped out and shit, it’s fucking brutal.

My teacher had to go to hospital and have surgery because of swooping season. It was in the parking lot of school and all the kids would do a mad dash towards the car as the magpies tried to kill us.

no but when you’re 12 years old and riding your bike like mad on the way home from school with an icecream bucket on your head with like branches and shit sticking out if it to scare them off and none of this is considered strange

what the actual fuck australia 

I am pretty sure all of these Australia stories are a massive, globally-spanning trolling effort, and only the people who have visited the country are allowed to be in on the joke.

Nope.

Went there.

Parrots tried to take our car.

Came home IN A FUCKING HURRY.

Interesting thing about magpies - they’re not great at identifying individual humans visually, but if you make yourself identifiable in some way they’re usually open to reason. We used to have some very aggressive swoopers in our back yard - as soon as they realised that the humans *inside* the fence never bothered them and were the source of the delicious compost heap, they turned into flying black and white guard dogs who would viciously assault any passing stranger but never bothered anyone inside the yard. Several times they swooped at us when we approached from outside, then when we walked into the yard they would pull up and act incredibly apologetic like sorry ma’am I had no idea it was you I would never please don’t stop stocking the food pile.

There was another little group of magpies in the park who would attack any solo pedestrian but never bothered anyone walking a dog or pushing a pram, because apparently those were identifiable traits indicating a non-threatening human. In the spirit of inquiry, I started going out of my way to be polite to the magpies - carefully walking a wide arc around them when they were on the ground, etc - and emitting an identifiable call of ‘hello birdie’ before swooping season started. 

I spent the next ten years crossing that park at least once a day and as long as I turned at the first flutter of wings and said ‘hello birdie’ to the magpie waiting to attack as soon as my back was turned, I was fine. Every time, the magpie would stare at me for a minute and then fly off to harass some other pedestrian because apparently the magpies and I, we were cool. 

Parrots are a lot less open to negotiation, and the little bastards travel in flocks. Beware the parrots. 

Australia: the only country where it is necessary to sign a peace treaty with the birds in order to stay unmangled.

They lost a war against emus. The the magpie stories are unsurprising.

the parrot thread 🤣

— Osho

Can I be tired for a bit? i'm so empty.. I doubt every actions .. everything. im not strong just try'in to be 😶

Akatsuki no Yona 173

Credits for scans to Instagram: yona_raiju

My cosplay instagram: moe_moe_toaster

that 1 (one) panel of jaeha and hak back to back

never saw anything more beautiful in my entire life

Holy Shit 😭😭❤️

I LOVE YOU BRIE

also does anyone know where i can find this suit?

same

cutieeee #brieLarson

I felt now was a good time for the memes-of-the-year recap:

OH MY GOD

memes 2018 😂

ouch

Tony 😭💔❤️

— (via coral)

I have been crying since you left me, and I am afraid… I do not know how to stop.