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[strogelen21]

Looking back at Chapter 254, this time with the official translation, I noticed this panel:

Kya ha?

KYA HA?!

What do you mean KYA HA-

So you know I had to draw this:

Isn't he fucking adorable.

(Thinking about drawing something related to the latest Chainsaw Man chapter, but it hasn't struck me yet as to what to draw.)

[baristabomb]

...weird amount of dunmeshi fans have been saying being a caretaker in a relationship is the worst thing ever..marcille must want to killl everyone soo bad because doing things for people suuuucks sooo muchh

it's an act of love, not just a job i promise. we all want someone who's willing to take care of us in some way, just like how senshi shows care for others by cooking for them :'|

[optimisticmosquito]

What if Shen Yuan was transmigrated into Shang Yuan, youngest son in the merchant Shang family and Shang Qinghua's little brother.

At first Shang Qinghua doesn't put much thought into it. He never did write much of a backstory for the other peak lords, so it makes sense the world has kind of just, written itself? Shang Yuan is several years younger anyways (I'm thinking 7-10 years) so it's not like he has a lot in common with him either. Shang Qinghua even joined CQM when he was barely out of toddlerhood. Shang Qinghua was fully prepared to just slowly fade out of sight and mind in his new family, just like he had in his old one.

Except this kid just really hates his guts? He gets letters regularly from his family, telling him how a-Yuan has been asking about him. But every time he visits the brat just shouts and kicks him around. All out of sight of their parents so he can't even go and complain to them! In their eyes Shang Yuan is their perfect little angel.

Honestly, Shang Qinghua isn't even that surprised the original goods turned into a villain if this was how he grew up. And oops, did he say that out loud? Shang Qinghua peeks down at the rigid brat he's holding under his arm in an attempt to stop him from trying to beat him up. With big eyes the kid turns his head up and whispers "you're a transmigrator too?".

From that day on Shang Qinghua can't help but feel a little bit less lonely, and maybe even a little happy. Who would have thought his number 1 anti fan would transmigrate into his didi! They start writing letters, both complaining about the system, and Shang Qinghua about the sect and his martial siblings. When he starts working for Mobei-jun he tells Shang Yuan everything about it. He even has a reason to go back and visit his family!

Shang Qinhua quickly accepts his responsibility as gege. Helping (or trying to) his little didi grow up to a nice young man and giving tips when Shang Yuan starts cultivating as well. And despite Yuan-di's tsundere behavior, Shang Qinghua knows he has his back as well.

In his own badly written stallion novel, Shang Qinghua finally finds the family he didn't have in the real world.

Now as for pairings. Bingyuan would be hilarious just because I want Shang Qinghua to ask, with a shit eating grin, how long Shang Yuan has been coveting his own nephew. And then for Shang Yuan to try and beat the shit out of him for it.

Jiuyuan would also be an interesting pairing (it can always be a jiuyuan if you're brave enough). Shang Qinghua knows his scum villain is misunderstood and not as bad as the book and rumors portrays him to be. But also he knows Shen Jiu is at least a dozen traumas in a trenchcoat. Does it really have to be his didi helping Shen Jiu deal with all of that? Sure Shang Yuan doesn't seem to mind, but Shang Qinghua also knows his didi makes some really stupid choices if you take your eyes off him. But also he's too much of a coward to say anything to Shen Jiu's face.

Hm, better to keep an eye on that from a distance.

[gatoburr0]

[toopsy]

hello american tumblr user. i see that you have reblogged the nazi getting punched gif and the clip of the nazi flag being ripped. that is all well and good. but have you checked in on friends and family members affected by trumps executive orders? have you offered any tangible help?

this is not to say that showing your support for anti fascism is bad, but it needs to be paired with action.

posting about trump removing the price cap on prescription drugs does nothing if you are not also sharing resources with your diabetic friends like the American Diabetes Association's article on how to keep insulin costs manageable, or pharmacy discount cards like SingleCare or GoodRx.

instead of publicly posting about friends/family members that youre worried about due to the ICE raids, consider sharing things like the ACLUs article on immigration rights and what to do if youre being detained. PRIVATELY reach out to any undocumented people you know and advise them to carry a red card so that they can quickly and easily advocate for themselves. maybe even do some research yourself and find some local immigration lawyers that they can use if they ever need it.

this is not a post meant to guilt you, it is a post to remind you that there are a lot of ways that you can make a difference. start locally, with people that you can reach and give tangible assistance. does your friend group have a discord? make a resources channel and share things there. take care of your local community as best you can. that will do more good than a tumblr post will.

[i-m-art-ix]

Wu: I can't believe, I left you for just an hour and you managed to destroy almost the entire monastery!

Lloyd: In our defense, you shouldn't have left us alone in a flammable place, especially since I'm still learning my Oni powers.

Garmadon: And it didn't take an hour.

[zinphandel]

just seen this art on twitter and thought aw! incredible dan and phil yuri!

turns out it’s NOT: its the lesbians from the game of thrones spin off 😭😭😭😭

ITS GOT THE PHEAL AND EVERYTHING!

(creds 2 @TCN_tancha on the bird app)

(cropped out the lesbian sex cos tumblr is boring) 👎👎👎

[gornackeaterofworlds]

Drew Raph writing the letter from @avery73 's blurb, first time drawing a bay boy outside of practice, but the vibe of the writing was just so nice and sweet

[daughterofafighter]

Anyone else doing elf still on here? Because here’s me doing mine and my 30 minutes of work for the tree one😭

[existingingrey]

백공죽 Expanded Version

If you wait until the end, a chance will come at least once- Jeongwoo's Father. Watch me and see how I live until the end- Jeongwoo

Detective, you'll stay with me until the end, right?

[cowpokebeetle]

how beautiful that we live on the same planet as arachnids

[aeonophagic]

me, the jester, asked the court if yaoi could bloom even on a battlefield. the court was so kind as to even help me care for the fields for it to sprout and then bloom — is it my fault?

bonus

[sunforgrace]

no but the thing is the thing is orpheus turns and. you’re early. i missed you. he sacrifices his life to save his love and he still dies at 41

[zooperdoopers]

She had left Harrowhark a note on her vastly underused pillow — “WHATS WITH THE SKULLS?” — and received only a terse “Ambiance.”

[sanekfr]

Nearly completely caught up with the Re:Zero webnovels and I am loving it but if I don’t talk about arc 8 my heads going to explode

SO

I’m sure everybody who’s read arc 8 completely can agree that it definitely has some flaws and is objectively one of the weaker arcs in the series, which imo just makes it more impressive that it can still be so loved.

Heavy spoilers ahead if your not caught up, but anyways, to talk about the problems in the arc briefly, and then about the good stuff:

A big part of it was probably the fact that it didn’t feel like it had much stakes. We seemingly had Subaru losing his sense of self a bit because of Olbart and im being shrunken for an extended period of time, but that wasn’t really touched on after that, and on top of that, 2 major antagonists just switched sides halfway through to fight with the living. I get it for Eugard, but I’m still a bit confused about Balleroy.

Additionally, bringing in Halibel made the whole arc a lot easier, and although I like the character I feel like he was kinda just there to even out the odds a bit. Same with Anastasia and Julius, they were kinda just there to bring in Halibel and then didn’t do much else after that aside from a huge rainbow shield thing, and most of the characterization, albeit some of the best in the series, happened in the middle of a battle.

Even with the war being way more fair because of Halibel’s existence, Subaru still died a ton of times trying to get the best outcome, but the problem is we’re not shown any of that. It’s implied heavily, but for the majority of the arc we’re following the successful loop, the one where Subaru knows exactly where to place everyone for the best odds of success, which kinda diminishes on the whole “overcoming insurmountable odds” part of the show, even if we know that logically, Subaru lived through hell a amount of times potentially in the thousands, having to listen to his friends pleas every time he reset via suicide.

Somehow though, even with the exceptionally large amount of characters introduced in arc 7 and 8, it was honestly easy to care about all of them (with the exception of Palladio and Lamia, who felt like they were just kinda there as a plot device). Madelyn and Balleroy’s subplot ended beautifully with her having to finally accept his death, Yorna and Eugard got a brief happy ending, every time Cecilus and the rest of the Pleiades Battalion appeared I was honestly pretty happy.

Now to have a smooth transition to the stuff I really wanna talk about:

Holy hell. Arc 8 was a rollercoaster the entire time that had to stop in the middle of the ride for maintenance (Phase 3).

There were some moments that honestly really moved me, but there’s two in specific I absolutely need to bring up, being the death of Balleroy and Moguro and the ending.

Honestly, even though I didn’t think too much about either of those 2 characters, the duo of Balleroy and Moguro almost had me tearing up. There was just something about their ending that felt so, so amazing to read. Maybe it was the fact they were willingly charging towards their death to save everyone else, maybe it was that I had started to really like the characters without realizing, I don’t know, but it was beautiful.

On the other hand, we have her.

Priscilla, possibly my least favorite character in s1 is now permanently one of my favorite characters in all of fiction, right up there with.. uh, Natsuki Subaru, and Emilia, and Vincent Vollachia, and Wilhelmina, and Heinkel, you get the idea.

I was.. half expecting it, admittedly I did get spoiled, but while I was reading the final chapter I was genuinely thinking “Oh, I guess I got lied to. Honestly kinda glad.” The whole chapter was genuinely one of my favorites before that scene, and I really liked seeing Priscilla finally seeming to open up to people, finished amazingly with her and Al dancing under the stars while a slightly drunk Subaru sang for them.

And then the sun rose.

And then, one of the most emotionally impactful scenes in all of Re:Zero was thrown in the form of a compete curveball.

I don’t think any words can do ‘Curtain’s Close- “Priscilla Barielle”’ justice.

This is what cemented it as one of the best in the whole series, this is what made me spent 40 minutes writing a tumblr post that not a lot of people are probably gonna read when I should really be sleeping, this is what made me love arc 8 so much more then I had previously.

This entire time, Re:Zero felt like a story that shied away from permanent character death. Of course, it made sense given Subaru’s RBD, but in the end everything always worked out somewhat well for the main characters.. after Subaru dies in incredibly horrible ways over and over, even killing himself in arc 2, in that weird gray zone between 3 and 4, in 4 after Satella shows up, and SO much in 7 and 8 that it’s blatantly said in one of the chapters the leading cause of death so far is himself, with the exception of maybe Olbart.

And now, a major character, one extremely important to the whole main objective of the series is dead after having some of the best writing in the entire story. Everything from her getting captured, to descending from the sky after somehow escaping the prison, to the final scene had me gradually starting to love Priscilla more and more.

I said this a bit ago but I wanna restate it, I loved seeing her open up. I loved seeing her Soul Marriage activate on everyone fighting in the capital, I loved seeing her interactions with Subaru in the finale, and I loved her, Al, and Subaru just have a great time together.

And I loved seeing her give one final speech to the pair from beyond the great waterfall, preventing Subaru from killing himself again while Al begged him to jump off the railing, and getting Al to confess his love while he hugged her. It was enough to make me want to cry, even if I didn’t- and reflect in the form of spending about 50 minutes now writing a tumblr post.

Still, even with all that, I don’t think I’ve done the scene any kind of justice to how impactful and amazingly well written it is. It’s really something you gotta read for yourself to understand fully, which I’m hoping everyone who may be reading this now has already done. But, well, disorganized thoughts out of the way, I can’t wait for it to be adapted, because when it does I get the feeling I’ll find it a lot easier to cry then.

It feels weird to say thank you to a fictional character, but thank you, Priscilla. If there’s anything to take to heart from your character, it’s to learn to love the world, and be loved by the world.

The sunset of Arc 8, Curtain’s Close- “Priscilla Barielle” is over, one of the brightest flames in the story being extinguished.

Thank you, Tappei Natsuguki.

[shadowhaert]

asked someone if they wanted to hang out outside of work i’m gonna be sick