#SORRY FOR THE LONG ANSWER BTW

[cubur]

Hey hey, I adore your art they are always so dang cute. Definitely keep up the work. It brightness my day seeing how many other people enjoy these as much as I do.

But my question might be silly and borning but I am curious when did you realize you started to ship Naruto and Sasuke? Do you happen to remember the moment or reason?

Yes, I'm trying to keep up the work (even though my speed is quite slow…) But glad to hear now you enjoy my pieces！Thank you for your support and kind motivational message！🙏

And not gonna lie, i have never come across such a question before. I had to think for a few minutes before answering this. So yep I will try to explain in a quick summary, if i can x)

Well actually, when I first started watching the naruto anime, I didn't even like or care about Naruto …i was just here to learn the story of Sasuke and Itachi (also i read the manga a lot later). But everything changed after I started watching. And I was able to see the bond between these two more clearly, especially thanks to Sakura. So one of the reasons might be Sakura. I can hear you say "what" now x) but yes！In the first part, Sakura was being incredibly rude to Naruto, and it bothered me immensely that she fell in love with Sasuke while not even understand Sasuke's pain. So the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke caught my attention more since Sasuke is the first character who understands Naruto's loneliness and feelings. But I think i didn't pay much attention to this feeling until Sasuke died in their battle with Haku. I mean, how many people can give up their dreams/future and die without hesitation just for their friend? So, from that moment I realized that it was more than just a friend. And after the feelings Sasuke gave me in the last part of their first battle (I mean that last look when it was raining) i started shipping them officially i guess. So the main reason is Sasuke. Sasuke was my favorite character from the very beginning and still is. And I started shipping them so i could see more of the happiness i saw in his eyes when he was with Naruto. That's why I keep telling him "you deserve to be happy" in my pieces. And if I remember correctly i watched the anime in 2014, but started drawing them in 2016. So the main reason for this too is thanks to some of the artists that I chose as my teacher！I mean, if they didn't exist I probably wouldn't even be here right now, so thank you ^^！

[mchiti]

Oooh thank you for replying, the insight on his name was quite interesting! I didn't know it was "ch" to resemble the french pronunciation. You're right this is a reflection of colonialism, but then again if you use "sh" from an english point of view, is it going to work for every country or any other language? This is interesting because unless you have a standard way to translate from arabic you have to make that choice basically...

(Anon apologies this turned out long). The thing is even the idea of romanisation is colonialist itself. Even the fact we commonly write darija in latin alphabet. So automatically moroccans use "ch" because they are familiar with french and they pronounce it in the same way french do, which is merely the reason why we write Inchallah and not Inshallah for instance. That's simply a cultural thing.

I would have to say if you have to transliterate names into actual official documents it's vital that you have a standard transliteration system. in the case of hakim's his parents have migrated when morocco wasn't a french colony anymore obviously, but the transliteration itself happened through census under french governance. so dutch authorities issued their papers just re-copying it. That's the reason why his name is written ziyech, cause as I said from a french perspective you pronunce ch as in cheval etc.

Now apologies for being a little linguistics nerd but the thing is the french pronunciation of "ch" is very specific to french phonetic system. Like "cheval" comes from the medieval latin "caballum" with "ca"pronounced as in a ka sound right? in other languages coming from latin you still have the K sound: italian "cavallo", spanish "caballo", portuguese "cavalo", romanian "cal" ... I say this because you can see K > CH only happened in french, and it's called palatalisation in linguistics. So you take a very specific diagraph (ch) that will only make sense in one language and transliterate a name with it: that's colonialism you know? Because if there was an actual consideration, an attention to phonetics, his name would have been ziyesh on official documents. I'm not talking about the way moroccans commonly write, so we type inchallah and chokran, that's normal for a country who had to speak french, but official documents have to be a different thing and it's important your name - your own identity - works in at least the most spoken western languages. You're right when you say "sh" is also another western point of view because you have the sound in many languages but not every language is going to write that sound with a "sh" diagraph (as in actual words written with "sh" like in english, or I can think of albanian for instance). But the diagraph "sh" for ش still makes sense even if you don't have it in your language, "ch" pronounced /sh/ no unless you speak french, and that's what I mean when I say this is a reflection of french colonialism.

[eastofedean]

i'd love to own a house, too. and i'm glad you said about not feeling silly - childlike wonder is a must in this life. i'd been thinking just yesterday about fitting a toy train track around the edge of a room, with a little train to loop round in circles. there was a store i used to visit as a child which had one, this little toy steam train that would run around the edge of the store and it always mesmerized me. you sorta had the real life version of that, i think it's pretty cool. i hope you get a house of your own too, where you can put your own big adult glow in the dark stars wherever you want

anon! ahhh, you have no idea how much I love to hear that, and you are so fucking right, dude! I think children are way better than us when it comes to surviving this strange thing we call life. they are our future and we can learn so much from them!

that's so cool, anon!!! like, SO COOL! I always liked trains a lot, I mean... I don't know anything about them, but I think they look pretty cool (especially the old ones). I love it when people manage to make their places unique and cozy in their own ways! like, I really like bears and wolves (I just recently got into bison as well lol), and I have these little statutes of them. I once almost bought a table that was shaped like a bear kdskaj. people might find these things stupid, but life is already so goddamn weird, so why not enjoy our little trinkets, bears and model trains, am I right!

I am a big supporter of your train ideas! I know you said there was this store you used to visit, but are you a big train fan in general? (you don't have to answer that, of course. I just enjoy hearing about what people enjoy and all that). look at us. We are connected through our little train stories; isn't that awesome?

thank you so much, anon! I mean, I could live in my parents' house and all that, but that's definitely not the same. I'd like to have a little lakehouse one day and I would really like to share it. I guess, I'll have to see where my life leads me. I think we both deserve those fucking stars anon!

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

okay now i REALLY wanna see stan being full werewolf

JUST PRACTICE because I realized I actually don't know how to draw wolves right before I went to draw the comic where he's a wolf

[ask-queen-arti]

(the ask box is open!)

[daily-smol-silm]

Some of the Fëanorians (as children?) in Foremenos while the snow falls outside the windows? Or Maglor and Maedhros browsing through Important Ruling Stuff in Himring, or Caranthir enjoying the peace in Thargelion, while snow and wind blow outside... Your choice :)

Day #169 - Snow Day

It's snowing outside the fortress of Formenos, and the brothers are enjoying the view.

[sillysiluriforme]

you should keep making them frencher actually. 20x more French miraculous please

(But like - wanna drop some cool insight into making them frencher/french youth culture. I can only pester my one french friend so much and she only lives there for short bursts xD. Your art is cool, you’ve tuned into a frequency with the show that is just so funny and I love it.)

thank you !! im glad youre enjoying this as much as i am

to help you i have conscripted the help of my brother to make a list of things you can use to make your french teens more accurate

-verlan -complaining as a contest -pixelated snapchats of dudes in the projects getting up to some bullshit again -no guns you have to use fireworks -public transports -north african diaspora cultural appropriation -tracksuits -underage drinking -the quoi-feur joke. You can't escape it. it's intergenerational. They'll still be making it in 20 years. -no one under 25 smokes anymore cause a pack costs 11 euros now -violence in your heart -the only sport ppl care about is football -shonens

[kosssich]

A little while back you made a Vaggie headcanon post, and I was wondering if you’d be interested in doing the same for your Charlie. I think she just looks the coolest in your style, and I’d love to hear everything you have to say about her, if you’d want to, of course.

actually, i realy like this idea. honestly, i wanted to make such post myself, just when i posted about vaggie, but charlie is like, far from my favorite, and i was like "meh", but when you asked and why not? if you're intrested, sure!

so, have some of my thoughts

- Fluffy girl. She has a goat coat. And goat-like features in general - hooves, ears, horns, tail.

- She’s a top. fight me.

- She has also a sweet tooth. You know that huge ass milka? I bet she and Vaggie eat that in one row

- Low self esteem and absolutely awful abandonment issues

- Her blood is deep red with beautiful little streams of gold. Her father’s legacy. Truly unique

- Charlie grew up locked in the mansion, far away from the awful life of sinners in the circle of Pride. "The Princess trapped in the tower"

- When Lilith disappeared, Charlie and Lucifer's relationship has deteriorated dramatically, Charlie moved into a Hotel. And so, with the beginning of a free, independent life, she had the opportunity to get to know her people better - to help them

- But expectations are not always met. People are... complicated. And sinners are even more complicated and contradictory. Her help turned against her

- For the first year, Charlie hated sinners. Ungrateful, disgusting bastards who only care about themselves. "You were right, Mother, Father. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them!”. She was ready to give up everything, fall on her knees in front of Lucifer, beg for forgiveness, beg that he would allow her to return to the palace

- One year she hated… The second… She observed. Why are they like that? What motivates them? What are they capable of? Can those broken souls be redeemed?

- In the third year, she stumbled upon a sinner. A sinner who showed her that maybe this stupid, immature idea of redemption was real. A sinner who, in response to salvation, offered Charlie her unwavering loyalty, her support, and eventually… her love

[quirefeast]

Please give the fish man food 🙏

Depends!! Do you want sweet?

Or spicy?

Choose wisely >:0

[milolovesbmc]

bites you… dilf whizzer is on my mind again

Whizzer Brown the man you are……..

[biblically-accurate-dca]

I like that this blog is exactly what you read on the tin

Biblically accurate boys!

GAME INACCURATE DCA JUMPSCARE!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

[falling-star-cygnus]

What's your favorite platonic wbk pairing and/or group and what do you love most about their dynamic? 👀

RAHHH BUT THERE ARE SO MANY GOOD ONES‼️ -> how could i possibly choose… 😞

hm…. i suppose if i had to though, my favorite platonic pairing would probably beeeeee….

Sakura [bc i love him… so so much]

and Choji!✨

their dynamic is so so so silly, especially in the later manga chapters TwT

it's givinggg itty bitty hyper kitty badgering a different, much grumpier kitty to play

i wish more people wrote about them, they would be a FANTASTIC duo in a fight, and i can see them teaching each other different acrobatic moves :D

[skunkes]

I might be stupid but is Al, Smunker, and Talon togetherrrr. Like a polycule or are they having a secret 3rd thing? Sorry if the answer is obvious jdjdj

theyre together! au (?) for cheye's survival

(general info doodle i made a few months ago) (i say au but idk it could become permanent in my daydream zone, Talon is meant to have his own canon but I like him too much and am bad at writing plots)

This is still a fairly recent development so the current needed-SOME-foundation lore is:

talon and al were as together as talon would allow at the time (so not really) but he liked Al most even amidst his anxieties about men. He leaves for a long while with no contact once he realizes he's getting toooooo comfortable with al, comes back for another round of comfort and gets attached again to both the guy he knew AND the guy's boyfriend

I dont think Talon actually likes being referred to as boyfriend by either of them, nor would he refer to them as his boyfriends, but the attachment and "role" is still there and that's what they loosely consider him (i have to explore this further, theres still a lot i dont know abt him) while also knowing he could just decide to leave again if he so wishes

[tcustodisart]

La creatura

[swallowerofdharma]

Following the discussion from here. Hoping you don’t mind if I make a new post so that the other one doesn’t become too heavy. I’m answering some lingering questions, but I am also saying that I won’t be dissuaded from treating this manga differently. As said recently*, Yoneda takes such care to give details and context to the story, that it is intriguing to look into things with analytical eyes and I can’t see the problem with it. For those who maybe feel like “the story isn’t that deep”, that is more offensive to the author tbh than to me or others in fandom who write commentaries. * @dragomfry said: “It makes our analyses of her work hold extra weight because there are things that she wants us to look for and derive meaning from (rather than us trying to derive meaning from nothing to begin with)”.

So to clear this first.

I can’t quite see why this story would be distorted into something it’s not intended to be if we approach it under a romantic lens.

I am not debating people for approaching the story romantically, but - because some troubling arguments were made about the recent poll - I will say this. Rape culture takes some arguments from romantic and patriarcal views to defend the aggressors and blame the victims instead: this isn’t romanticism’s fault, but the very fact should be at least taken into consideration. [More on this below**]. So several of the reflections I was writing about framing the manga as romance rather than literary realism were prompted by this issue. And reading your thoughts about the story, I can understand where we differ so much: and that is in how we view Doumeki especially, rather than the rest. Maybe you are not romanticizing Yashiro and his trauma, but you are especially romanticizing Doumeki. For example:

I allow myself to indulge in the romanticism of it all; both of them falling in love at first sight, depressed Yashiro finally finding someone who truly cares about him, Doumeki who doesn’t back down when Yashiro rejects him, Doumeki still having feelings for Yashiro even after he shot him in the leg and pretended not to remember him, etc. There’s so much in this story that’s blatantly romantic, almost corny.

There are many aspects of the manga that I do find realistic in it’s portrayal, such as the CSA, what I don’t find realistic, however, is the portrayal of love, the romance. I find it very idealised and romanticised for the most part (i.e the falling in love at first sight (I’ll get to that), Doumeki being Yashiro’s exact type, Doumeki happens to be impotent which allows Yashiro to develop feelings for him, the fact that Doumeki is completely accepting of everything Yashiro does regardless of how Yashiro treats him, the fact that Doumeki is still in love with Yashiro after he shot him the leg, maybe he even stayed in the Yakuza world just to be near him (although who knows why exactly he did that?) Idk maybe it’s just me but I find it very unrealistic. It’s this romantic idea of „there is this perfect person out there who accepts you just the way you are and you don’t have to do anything to keep them happy, you can even shoot them in the leg and they’ll still love you, they’ll stick around no matter what it takes to be with you“.

I can’t pick and choose what I want to romanticize or not, I have chosen to look at things differently, and I am keeping the same approach when looking at characterizarion. When I look at Doumeki, I see as many problems as those Yashiro has. He is the one depressed imo, at the beginning of the story, he is in much worse shape than Yashiro. Yashiro has a support network, Doumeki was isolated in prison and kept family away when he was released. Doumeki isn’t this strong and stoic person who is in love with Yashiro and is therefore shouldering a burden or enduring abuse in the name of love. I have been misunderstood before on this, but I want to say that I look at these characters without romanticizing either of them. I am not so much interested in looking at who is right or wrong, or to paint one character in a better light and bashing another: I want to understand their differences and how they came to be, how the relationship is affected by those differences. This is why I don’t take a shipper’s approach either, I am not solely focused in their relationship, but in the story as a whole.

There are several posts where I talked at lenght about these characters, because Yoneda gave a lot of backstory, and I encourage who may be interested in checking further. Doumeki has trouble facing or recognizing reality, until reality kicks him in the face, and that is happening to him since the nurse and Aoi. So he is only observing when it suits him. Yashiro established his emotional boundaries plenty of times, and Nanahara is there to corroborate and reinforce Yashiro’s prefereces. Here are some examples, and these are from volume one alone. It is a pretty clear situation, and Doumeki understood it.

I know that people are objecting to the very idea of framing Doumeki as the aggressor in this case, but the power dynamics had already shifted at that point when things went down in ch 24-25. It is the result of an escalation that sees Doumeki hiding his feelings and his arousal, and becoming more aggressive and unhinged towards others during the investigation into who ordered the hit on Yashiro. Yoneda was painstakingly building towards that scene, while also painting a bigger picture and external plot, and there are so many details that I haven’t even touched upon yet, but nothing is filler. And the parallels between Doumeki’s arousal and his violent behavior can’t be easily ignored.

Again, I feel quite powerless and unequipped to persuade those who already formed their opinion. But when given arguments in favor of dismissing Yashiro’s right to object or arguments that shift the focus away from the simple topic of consent, then I have to ask myself why this is happening. **Rape culture does play a role, and as I said, rape culture can and does weaponize some romantic ideas about love. Or against the autonomy of the person, against choice and so on.

I find it very important that Yoneda chose to put those words in the mouth of an ex-policeman, while dressed up as a policeman, and of another abusive detective with the police. Or the fact that Inami commented on Doumeki’s father building a career to cover up his crimes. See these statements from the Wikipedia page on rape culture:

With how difficult has become to search on the web for unbiased results, I am just giving the Wikipedia page not as a source of authority, but as a peer reviewed summary that provides a starting point for research and some bibliography on the subject. For example:

I want to add that I don’t agree with the way the article frames “men” as perpetrators and “women” as victims. That should be corrected and can be misleading. Men have been historically and consistently discouraged to speak up about being victims of rape themselves and often the law didn’t even consider them. And the gendered approach contributed to make so many victims invisibile. There is so much we have to learn.

Again, this post is solely for the purpose of answering arguments or points made directly to me about how we interpret the story in Saezuru. These are my observations and reflections, the links I see, and it is possible because these things are in the manga. And last, I love love-stories. But romance - especially romantic tropes, often reinforced by fandom shipping culture - don’t always equal love to me.

[ivytea]

curious... what are your favorite books, movies, or shows?

hi there! here are some of my favourite stories —books: yami-hara, lonely castle in the mirror, when marnie was there, 84 charing cross road, underland, piranesi, h is for hawk, guyabano holiday —writings of: jorge luis borges, tove jansson, pg wodehouse, tomas transtromer, edward gorey —movies/shows: the fall, grand budapest hotel, hannibal, midnight diner, mononoke, mushishi, billy elliot, the house, phantom thread, from up on poppy hill, song of the sea, the night is short walk on girl, spirited away i hope that some of these stories can resonate with you if you check them out :-) & if anyone has recommendations i'd love to hear about them too!! about to go on library holds spree