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@esthelle18

Not all those who wander are lost. Female and Christian. Fandom flotsam and jetsam, including but not limited to LoZ, Linked Universe, LotR, Fullmetal Alchemist, The Promised Neverland, and Watership Down.
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LotR tags for my own enjoyment:

Bilbo Baggins: not so prosy

Frodo Baggins: even the wise

Samwise Gamgee: a gardener

Meriadoc Brandybuck: master holbytla

Peregrin Took: little wanderer

Gandalf the Grey: fool of a wizard

Aragorn son of Arathorn: the dúnadan

Legolas Greenleaf: speaker and listener

Gimli son of Gloin: the dwarf who loved the morning

Boromir of Gondor: what they defend

Eowyn: she chose the spring

Faramir: wizard’s pupil

Denethor: withered hands

Eomer: hope for sunrise

Arwen Undomiel: evening star

Elrond: lord of the last

Theoden: like a father

Sauruman: your staff is broken

Sauron doesn’t deserve one of my self-indulgent tags. His name suits him perfectly and it serves him right.

Pipeweed: things I find funny

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failhag

you need to be earnest. you need to tell people that you love them. you need to speak on how you’re feeling honestly. you need to be sentimental. you need to stop letting the fear of other people laughing at you have so much control over how you express yourself. you need to get over yourself. you need to be embarrassing but true.

#random reblogs#sincerity
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coolperson4499

A variety of headcanons about the promised Neverland characters, manga characters included. Warning for manga and ending spoilers! (Ps. In my own little world Emma never lost her memories bc my fragile heart can't handle the real ending)

  • Ray is a caffeine addict and drinks at least one cup of coffee with way too much sugar a day.
  • Right before the kids raided gracefield Emma and Ray had to teach Norman how to fire a gun.
  • Ray dangles Norman's crush on Emma over his head and teases him without mercy.
  • If Norman has just a little too much sugar he feels sick so he usually doesn't eat sweets.
  • Emma has a minor case of ADHD so she constantly has to be doing something.
  • Norman started calling Ray a 'ray of sunshine' as a joke and eventually it caught on until all of the gracefield kids started calling him that.
  • Emma's love language is physical touch.
  • Emma and Ray like to roughhouse. Emma usually ends up winning but Ray claims it's because he lets her (even though he doesn't.) Sometimes the younger kids will join in and they'll tone it down a little. Once Norman wanted to join in but immediately got his butt kicked by Emma.
  • Once Emma got to the human world she stopped eating meat. Phil, Gilda, Anna and a few other kids followed her lead and stopped eating meat as well.
  • When Ray was really young he had a stuffed cow he named Mr. Moomoo.
  • Ray has terrible social skills and has a hard time talking to strangers after they get to the human world.
  • Despite being the co-ceo Ray doesn't really do much other than bother Norman all day. At least once a week one plays a prank on the other. Vincent gets a little annoyed with their antics but low key thinks it's funny.
  • Ray hates wearing fancy clothes.
  • Emma doesn't like dresses or skirts just because that's all she could wear at Grace Field.
  • Phil and Ray became really close after they crossed worlds. Phil confided in Ray as he was really the only one who understood his guilt.
  • Don started a memorial/cemetery mainly for Connie and it eventually grew until everyone they lost had a headstone or cross (including Yuugo and Lucas). Eventually it got so we'll known kids from other farms added their own loved ones. Mom's added all the kids they raised, the Goldy pond kids put stones in for their fallen comrades, and all of the gracefield kids showed up to put down Isabella's. Ray had the honor of putting the cross in the ground.
  • Norman doesn't like driving so either he gets someone else to drive him around or he takes the subway.
  • Vincent is the only one who should be trusted behind the wheel. Zazie and Barbara are too reckless and would crash just for fun, Ray is a total speed demon, and Emma swerves for squirrels no matter what.
  • Ayshe became a dog trainer. She also started fake threatening Norman just to watch him squirm.
  • "You should hire a body guard."
  • "Why?"
  • "You never know when a sharp shooter wants you dead," she said as she cleans the barrel of her gun. "Also it be a fun challenge."
  • "..."
  • Anyway Norman hired a body guard.
  • Ray will still hum Isabella's song to lull Emma and Norman to sleep.
  • Ray and Emma made sure Norman got a bed big enough to fit all of them. The two of them usually end up sleeping in it with him anyway.
  • Some of the younger kids will get bad nightmares and go to Emma, Norman, Ray, Gilda, or Don for comfort.
  • Emma and Ray went absolutely bat shit when they tried pizza for the first time. Norman didn't really like it but still orders it for the two of them at least once every two weeks because they enjoy it so much. Ray likes mushrooms and Emma is a classic cheese lover.
  • Anna went on to become a nurse after going to medical school.
  • Ray received a turtle for his 17th birthday from the gracefield kids and was so choked up he started crying. He named it Nikola after the Nikola Tesla.
  • Ray and Norman have a reoccurring argument over Tesla or Edison being better electricians. Almost everyone has watched the two of them almost rip each other's throats out over two dead inventors.
  • Ray got really into fiction books once they crossed worlds because he spent 12 years studying out of spite and is now a little burnt out on non-fiction.
  • Norman is a pit of a picky eater. But that's okay because Emma and Ray eat all of the foods he doesn't like.
  • Emma likes to try a bunch of hobbies and activities just to see if she likes them. Hiking, crochet, bug hunting, painting, whittling, and many more. Sometimes she can rope Norman and Ray into trying some activities. Once she got the three of them to go to swimming lessons and ended up having fun.
  • Oliver has accidentally called Lucas dad so many times Lucas eventually just suggested that he just call him dad permanently. Oliver cried a little.
#tpn headcanons
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whywoulditho

now and then i think about how much more kaiu shirai had to tell and they didn't allow him. how he had to suffer the consequences of working for jump, where how much money you make determines everything. in in an earlier interview he said that he wanted the promised neverland to have 25 to 30 volumes. and now it's finished with 20 volumes and it's been two years but the thought of it still haunts me because i just know that he wasn't okay with it. he had more to tell. he wanted to, if only they let him. i know it from how many side stories there was that we couldn't see the end of. from the way so many things still remain a mystery. i just know that we could have so much more. we could see more mind battles, a more complicated demon society, more action in Cuvitidala Arc, more conflict, more of the perspectives of side characters, a more effectful Ray in the last few arcs, Ayshe actually having that character arc we were so sure we were getting, which then was thrown away entirely. we could have a Lambda Arc, we could see more about Smee and how he helped Norman make an escape out of Lambda. Barbara, Cislo, Vincent and Zazie could have more depth as characters and we could see how they bounded with Norman. we could have a more complicated final battle in the Imperial Capital Arc, where instead of everyone suddenly agreeing with Emma, some of them still standing on the way and making it more difficult for them. like Ayshe betraying everyone last minute to take his revenge from Norman, or Barbara and Cislo and even Gillian and some of the Goldy Pond kids disagreeing with Emma's plan. them actually having opinions. Isabella's death could actually make sense, maybe. in a way that would make us cry for good without feeling deep down that it's so dumb they kill her off like that. we could have a longer Human World Arc, too, where everything went slower and made more sense. We could have so much more. And I think it's obvious from the way they kept releasing extra chapters after the manga's finale, that shirai wasn't fucking done yet

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1000sunnygo

Ahh this made me want to rant a bit

It's commonly believed WSJ axed TPN due to poor sales. Not true at all! TPN manga was very successful in Japan, all 20 volumes of it.

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4th in Oricon's 2019 yearly sales ranking, 6th in 2020 without having an anime season to push its sales (+fewer released volumes due to completion), 6th again in 2021 half yearly ranking (during season 2).

TPN had 32M copies in circulation in April 2021, that's a LOT for a mere 20 vol. series.

When a manga is as popular as TPN, the mangaka decides when it ends. It's true that editor Sugita was the first person to mention "20", but evidently it was Shirai's own decision that sealed TPN's fate.

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Pretty sure Jump would've loved a hit series to go on! Especially at the time they lost Kimetsu no Yaiba. But Shirai can be v stubborn with what he wants pft

He admits that he fumbled near the end and was running out of pages every week. But writing abrupt endings is very much like Shirai. Man loves to torture his readers.

#it was up to him to end it when and where he did#still salty about it though…#tpn meta#tpn shirai
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fullscoreshenanigans

*We never got to see the Paradise Hideout in its proper glory, along with all the characters introduced during that arc

**Isabella being reintroduced back into the story differently in S2e04 but still following the same path she took in the manga (minus her dying)

***The special ops team armed with guns being taken out during the bunker raid by a group of kids thirteen and under armed with a chair and a few bows and arrows and none of the finesse used to escape Grace Field

Wish we had ranked poll choices because all of these are terrible, but what hurts you the worst specifically.

#methinks the ‘this is how people remember it’ is the worst because of how it seems to have affected the fan base#just. such a waste of hype#next is definitely how they butchered emma’s character#I’m personally wounded by the absence of Paradise Hideout because it seems like an animator’s playground#but that may have been a blessing actually because (based on season 1) cloverworks is not good at settings#I didn’t like how they rendered GF house in bland cgi#that was apparently carbon copied from several other anime becusee they all get the same lackluster company to do the backgrounds#anyway…#tpn poll#tpn season 2