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The Goats and the Letters

i know this information has made its way to the broader kh fandom before, but i haven't seen a reference to it on this website, so i thought i'd make a post about it!

the story that luxord tells xigbar in remind, about the black goat and the white goat, is a reference to a poem called "Yagi-san Yūbin" (translated as "The Goats and the Letters", "Goat Mail", and "Goats' Letters" in different places) by the poet Michio Mado (1909-2014). this poem as well as a few others by Mado have become so popular and ubiquitous that they're not always attributed to him anymore.

the text above (translated by Empress Michiko in 1998, and fetched from the Internet Archive) is often sung as a song, repeating the two verses over and over, with each goat compulsively eating the other goat's letter because of their natural appetite.

this poem appears to be a common japanese cultural reference for goats—i found multiple cases where capricorn, for instance, is represented partially (or entirely!) by a letter, and the Animal Crossing villagers Chevre and Nan also reference this poem.

(i was unable to find a better source for the first image than this blog post, which has inaccurate information in general, but ive gone down enough rabbit holes to know that i would rather have a bad source with an asterisk than no source at all)

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"Ok, ma'am that'll be 226.03$."

I take my wallet out of my pocket and unfold it. It is empty other than a single moth that lazily flies out. The moth lands on the tap point of the card reader. There's a beat, and my payment is processed. The moth flies back into my wallet and I put it back in my pocket.

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"He would not fucking say that" but it's "He would not handle someone having a breakdown in front of him like that."

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keyblades should have blood I think send post

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Please draw your oc x canon please be unashamedly loud about it please post it without embarrassment please make dramatic emotional edits of them please indulge yourself

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having so many thoughts about everything all the time but not being able to put actual words together unless I’m very lucky sucks so much I’m projecting saix posts into the sky with my mind

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some of the sketch requests ! ty for sending them everyone :)

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"...Where is my heart?"

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harbinger

the word "comet" comes from the greek "komētēs" meaning "long-haired". many cultures throughout history have viewed comets as ill omens and portents of disaster.

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xigbar images

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cringe oc x canon comix

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sketch dump from recent experiments in being messier and uglier and worse

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i cant be held accountable for my actions

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i have my beef with the kh wiki (as i imagine i would with any fan wiki, its not unique to this one) but i gotta be real this is a W. "entelechy" rules as a piece of unofficial fan terminology. in a universe where there are thematically meaningful distinctions between humans and non-humans in some cases (e.g. human Lea vs Nobody Axel) but not others (e.g. human Sora vs duck Donald), there needs to be a term defined oppositionally to "Nobody" and "Heartless" but not "duck" or "mouse".

the fandom has often used "Somebody" in the context of Nobodies, e.g. Lea's Nobody is Axel, Axel's "Somebody" is Lea, but this term 1. is kinda cutesy and on the nose for my tastes and 2. has limited applicability. like, how do you describe the relationship between Terra-Xehanort and Ansem, then? Terra-Xehanort can't be Ansem's "Somebody" in that case, too.

"entelechy" is a bit of a mouthful, but this is a game that throws around terms like "Recusant's Sigil" and names like "Terra-Xehanort" so pulling an obscure philosophical term for this purpose makes a lot of sense to me. also "entelechy" is just a fun word to say imo. (it's pronounced en-TEL-ih-key—oh look, Key!)

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and a very happy saix titties saturday to you all

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[Video ID: a clip from an HD cutscene from 358/2 Days. Xemnas says, "or, whether he destroys her first and takes back what is his, there is no change to our plans." Xigbar cocks his head and smirks, then Saix is shown glaring. end ID.]

this is. one of my favorite scenes in all of kingdom hearts. it's so funny. them being juxtaposed like this implies they're looking at each other but there's no context for WHY theyre looking at each other like this. i like to imagine that this is just how they passively interact with each other while xemnas monologues