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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KANEKI KEN ❤️❤️❤️

YOU ARE MORE THAN KENOUGH 💖💖💖

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Kaneki Week Day 6 - Food

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Kaneki Week Day 3 - AU

He’s a fairy :) @kaneki-week

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Spot the difference

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yeah i still have absolutely no idea how tumblr works but i thought i'd post my art here too bc why not? i've been rambling about tokyo ghoul on twitter pretty much every day for like 4 months now and i guess i might just do it here too once i figure out how to use this app💀 anyways since ishida butchered both the ending of the series and tooru's entire character by the end and provided no conclusion for his arc, let alone any kind of comfort or closure, i now draw tooru fluff as free therapy for both him and myself, so today i bring you touka & tooru cuddling after one of their bi-weekly movie nights! they're close friends now bc i said so and bc fuck ishida, and touka is super protective of tooru<3 (also i already tweeted a ton about it on twitter but yeah i gave tooru a new hairstyle bc for some reason i just cannot get his canon hair right and he also had like, at least 5 different hairstyles throughout the manga which doesn't make my job easier. it's also just whatever color i currently feel like drawing, it can be either black white or green, or a mixture of these🤷‍��️) two versions of the drawing, with cringe lighting and without cringe lighting lmao

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I feel like we need a refresher on Watsonian vs Doylist perspectives in media analysis. When you have a question about a piece of media - about a potential plot hole or error, about a dubious costuming decision, about a character suddenly acting out of character -

A Watsonian answer is one that positions itself within the fictional world.

A Doylist answer is one that positions itself within the real world.

Meaning: if Watson says something that isn't true, one explanation is that Watson made a mistake. Another explanation is that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made a mistake.

Watsonian explanations are implicitly charitable. You are implicitly buying into the notion that there is a good in-world reason for what you're seeing on screen or on the page. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie all the time because they're from a desert culture!")

Doylist explanations are pragmatic. You are acknowledging that the fiction is shaped by real-world forces, like the creators' personal taste, their biases, the pressures they might be under from managers or editors, or the limits of their expertise. ("The bunny girls in Final Fantasy wear lingerie because somebody thought they'd sell more units that way.")

Watsonian explanations tend to be imaginative but naive. Seeking a Watsonian explanation for a problem within a narrative is inherently pleasure-seeking: you don't want your suspension of disbelief to be broken, and you're willing to put in the leg work to prevent it. Looking for a Watsonian answer can make for a fun game! But it can quickly stray into making excuses for lazy or biased storytelling, or cynical and greedy executives.

Doylist explanations are very often accurate, but they're not much fun. They should supersede efforts to provide a Watsonian explanation where actual harm is being done: "This character is being depicted in a racist way because the creators have a racist bias.'" Or: "The lore changed because management fired all of the writers from last season because they didn't want to pay then residuals."

Doylism also runs the risk of becoming trite, when applied to lower stakes discrepancies. Yes, it's possible that this character acted strangely in this episode because this episode had a different writer, but that isn't interesting, and it terminates conversation.

I think a lot of conversations about media would go a lot more smoothly, and everyone would have a lot more fun, if people were just clearer about whether they are looking to engage in Watsonian or Doylist analysis. How many arguments could be prevented by just saying, "No, Doylist you're probably right, but it's more fun to imagine there's a Watsonian reason for this, so that's what I'm doing." Or, "From a Watsonian POV that explanation makes sense, but I'm going with the Doylist view here because the creator's intentions leave a bad taste in my mouth that I can't ignore."

Idk, just keep those terms in your pocket? And if you start to get mad at somebody for their analysis, take a second to see if what they're saying makes more sense from the other side of the Watsonian/Doylist divide.

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Just a quick drawing of Touka from Tokyo Ghoul, I really wanted to draw her fluffy hair from the manga 😭💖

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come on, fuck me, emo boy

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No one can say I'm not right

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I wanna talk about my boys... What do I even say?

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Kaneki Week Day 1 / Anteiku!

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I also did Past because I couldn't choose so that will be posted separately :)

Some close ups ^_^

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Kaneki is a loser and I'm tired of pretending he's not. He's not cool he just does things that look cool. He's STILL awkward and skittish, even after he "gets cool" or "becomes Kaneki" or however people word it. If we were in the POV of another character he'd probably be villainous (looks at Tooru). He's a coward just about Every Time. He never takes the path of least resistance he's always stupid about things and tries to make himself into someone HE could idolize, which is a dead person. His self hatred holds him back from being clearheaded and truly capable, but he's so busy trying to be a martyr for his own selfish "self actualization" that he refuses to even address that there might be ways less harmful to himself and others.

He's hardly a hero yall hes an idiot 💀

- Signed someone who loves him

I WASNT EXPECTING THAT

I mean... you ain't wrong at all. I've always felt dubious about calling him a protagonist. I still feel surprised when other people slate him too.

Anon, do you have any other controversial opinions/thoughts?

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EVERYBODY SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BESTEST BOY IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE OUT ELSE I BLOW THIS WHOLE BUILDING UP 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊

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SMASH OR PASS: Kaneki Ken, Tokyo Ghoul

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With u.. // Tokyo Ghoul. (made by me)