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Power couple

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was having a minor crisis but this appeared in my head and it was so stupid it just snapped me right out of it

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natori shuuichi/matoba seiji; t; ~2900 w.

yuletide treat written for @izumisays

Matoba sitting cross-legged in Shuuichi's living room with a pot of ink, a calligraphy brush, and a look of intense concentration on his face as he painted a script up Shuuichi’s arm wasn't even close to the direction he could have expected this day going in.

(Shuuichi embarks on an exorcism job for the Matoba clan. The clan head loans him some help in the form of a spell.)

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Happy New Year!

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Some sketches of my favorite exorcists

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read devil venerable also wants to know for shu yanyan/qiu congxue

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Aah cheng xiaoshi. Born to be the lead in a basketball sports anime, forced to be the dead wife in a time travel thriller

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till the end of the moon as text posts (5/?)

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me when i don’t let past and future be

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screw asking people for their pronouns, start asking them what their measure words are instead

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Puppets Imitate Art

Pili employees are strong contenders for the funniest people on the planet and nowhere is this more apparent than their social media posts where they use Photoshop wizardry to put those puppets in situations. Here are some of my favorites, all referencing/parodying famous works of art:

Rembrandt: The Night Watch (1642)

The gang's all here in this recreation for Mie Tian Hai's birthday, complete with a cake for the birthday warlord. Shout-out to jester!Lin Xue Ya from the first movie as the drummer on the right.

Raphael: Tempi Madonna (1508)

Raphael did so many Madonna and Child paintings, it can be difficult to tell them apart but the castle in the background on the middle right gives this one away. Given what happened in canon, this one's kind of painful, but the parallels are undeniable.

Leonardo da Vinci: The Last Supper (c. 1495–1498)

The cast of Bewitching Melody of the West settles in for a recreation of this iconic piece, with Pili character Baili Binghong, the "father of Thunderbolt Fantasy", standing in for Christ.

me: hold on I gotta look something up real quick me, a few seconds later: yeah this is funny actually

It turns out Baili Binghong was Gen Urobuchi's favorite character from the Pili main series, and when Pili killed him off, Urobuchi was stunned, which in turn led to the creation of Thunderbolt Fantasy. RIP, Baili Binghong; thanks for taking one for the team!

For additional emphasis, Pili originally dropped this one on Thanksgiving, which is why there's turkey and pie... except for Baili Binghong, who has a bento (Pili slang for character death) in preparation for his ascent to Puppet Heaven.

There's so much going on here, it's hard to pick a favorite, but I love that the good guys and bad guys are on opposite sides of the table, and also Lin Xue Ya's pose is especially funny.

Gustav Klimt: The Kiss (c. 1907)

Lou Zhen Jie embraces Seven Blasphemous Deaths with fervent devotion surrounded by gold and flowers. This is less of a direct recreation than a reference, as evidenced by the golden halo around Lou Zhen Jie's head, which would not be out of place in a medieval manuscript (one of Klimt's influences/inspirations for the original piece).

Alphonse Mucha: F. Champenois Imprimeur-Éditeur (1897)

There are a number of different riffs of this Mucha print featuring different characters, all of which are variations on the same basic theme, but I picked this one with Mu Tian Ming because it was originally posted to promote an exhibit on Mucha's influence on Japanese manga artists, thus bringing the conversation full circle.

Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam (c. 1512)

Huo Shi Ming Huang desires god-like powers and here he gets his wish, bringing life to.... Lin Xue Ya?? No way this won't backfire on him, hahaha. Shout out to Xing Hai, Ba Wang Yu, and Hua Wu Zong as the attending "angels".

(As an aside, this is at least the third time this particular painting has been referenced in media originally written by Gen Urobuchi, the first two being Madoka Magica and Rusty Rabbit, where they are mentioned directly in-text as opposed to extracanonical material. I can't decide if it's funnier if Pili did this on purpose or if it's just a coincidence.)

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Thunderbolt Fantasy + The Onion. [x]

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rational brain: so cool how midorikawa yuki may be alluding to some sort of upcoming reconciliation leading perhaps to potentially more teamwork and complex character development for both natori and matoba

lizard brain: wow matoba seiji’s been in love with this boy since he was sixteen years old and we are gonna witness their inevitable exorcist wedding whenever midorikawa yuki is done playing the long(est) game with my heart!!!!!

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Xie Lian meeting his soon to be new puppy 🤲🏻

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one of the funniest things you can do is vagueblog about a book you hated and what you specifically found objectionable and inevitably someone will be like “op you should read [the very book you’re complaining about], it handles this soooo well” no lad it does not

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Just started devil venerable and Yin Hanjiang is uh. He's something