#am i foreshadowing or is it symbolism

[cookiecomics]

"Let's Play A Game Inside Your Heart."

A Tale of Two Tricksters cover art by the lovely @mafuwara thank you so much

Why have one champion when you can have them both? A bet between gods that decides humanity's fate. Yaldy knows that the outcome is certain, now with both tricksters under his grasp. Yet Humanity's sponsor is confident. The ‘god’ of the velvet room does not sway. It’s incomprehensible. Everything is going according to plan. Isn’t it? Akechi is certain that these upstart Phantom thieves' rumors are of far greater consequence. He realizes this when the castle that once loomed over Shujin Academy is gone post-Kamoshida’s confession. Gone yet replaced, by something larger. Darker. He is certain it holds the final piece he needs for his plans. All he has to do is recruit one lonely boy to his side. One misunderstanding later and Ren finds himself isolated at school. Burdened by the rumors of his own past and present actions. He takes the hand of someone unexpected. - Akechi and Ren team up against the PTs and Shido. || Act 1: The Colosseum of Treachery Arc: Chapters 1 - 23] - Complete || || Act 2: Detriments to Society Arc: Chapters 24 - 44] - Complete || || Act 3: Chains of Fate Arc: Chapters 45 - Ongoing ||

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Actually writing a HWINEBHABWNAJCAHOWEEATOWEUB AU fic with a solid story line because there's too much stuff going on in this goddamn AU and I need to organize it a little!!

[veveisveryuncool]

Could you do Dedede and Taranza playing chess? (random idea that crossed my mind) Btw I love your artstyle, it looks soft!

awe, thank you!! here they are :]

[azaracyy]

"true partner" click here for the uquiz created by @/niconicomuda on twitter

[old-skyguy]

Thoughts on episode 54 because I am very normal about the character development of this show.

Spoilers for FMA Brotherhood. Up to episode 54, at least.

The parallels between Mustang and Scar.

The fact Scar had his whole family, his nation, his culture, taken away from him and he chose violence and retribution and destruction over trying to help what remained of his community.

The fact Mustang had his friend taken away, had to watch this man who cared so deeply get killed and see the aftermath for his family. How it must've felt to slowly realize that he did that same thing to scar and so many other innocent people to further fuel a corrupt web of lies that benefits no one but the ones weaving it. The guilt. The anger. How he wanted so badly to take it out on something, on someone, just like Scar did.

Except Scar had been changed too. Riza sees this. Riza has had to live with this guilt for a fucking *while* and I mean they all have to an extent, but none of the other military understand the gravity of the situation like she does. They can all tune it out, believe that they're doing this for their country or for the greater good, but she doesn't have that luxury . Her tattoo directly resulted in the sheer power used as violence against so many innocent people.

You know who ELSE has a tattoo that represents the hard work of a family member in the name of innovation that ultimately became a weapon never meant to be wielded?

SCAR. SCAR DOES.

He resorted to blind carnage as well. He killed off good men, people with families, with deeper aspects to them besides their part in the war, and ultimately many, many innocent people, whose deaths impacted the lives of those around them and devastated them as much as his own family's. And you know what??

He was RIGHT to be angry at the government.

He was RIGHT to be angry at the military.

That doesn't mean he had the right to blindly kill anyone in uniform. It's an absolutely brilliant juxtaposition between two extreme sides of the same coin. Such a poignant commentary on military vs terrorist ideals and how they're both just inherently wrong and dehumanizing to the very people they stand for, but both refusing to take responsibility for their wrongdoings.

Until Scar realizes how his idea of revenge affected other people, innocent people just like him, just like his family, just like the life of the child that sparked the fucking war. And he steps back. Slowly, he becomes more willing to work together, more aware of what is actually behind this, more patient with the people he once swore revenge on. Because with military, even in real life, there's always like several degrees of separation between the people who control the narrative and control the war from the conference rooms and the people who are ordered to pull the trigger. That doesn't mean he isn't allowed to be angry at the ones behind the gun, it's just that he should be more worried about the people behind the battlefield. God, this show's politics and depictions of war are so realistic and just dead on. I could talk about it for hours.

Mustang almost went down that same path of misdirected retribution. He was so close it was literally UNDER HIS FOOT. But seeing how this affected Scar, how it affected Hughes and his fellow soldiers and Al and Ed and how it affected RIZA. Seeing how she was willing to kill herself just so *his own* destructive powers could die with her.

How Envy was just a byproduct. He was always depicted as this scary, blood-shedding, horrific creature of carnage, which *is* what he's supposed to represent, but I feel like in the moment he realized just how small Envy really was, he feels for a brief moment what it was like for Scar to learn that. It was pointless to take all his anger out on the person who was created specifically to BE a weapon - just a weapon - and nothing more. Who was created to act as a blind, uncaring soldier in a war that they don't even really have the ability to comprehend. That he should save his anger for the system that created him, the system that blinded him to the truth and never let him learn empathy. Never let him be a person Just like the dehumanization of war.

It doesn't help anyone to withhold mercy from the one who executed another's will. It would be just like Scar killing soldiers, it does NOTHING about the real issue and so he'll save it for the real man behind the slaughter.

And Jesus envy as a deconstruction of that system. Brilliant. I love it. Being so confused by the mindset of the people on the opposing side and rather than confronting the fact that maybe he was on the wrong side this whole time and confronting his humanity (philosopher's stone) and trying to remedy himself like Scar and all the other State Alchemists that fought the Ishvalan War he kills himself (also with the philosopher's stone) out of fear and a warped sense of honor and loyalty to a cause he doesn't even grasp.

That could've been Riza. That would've been her if Mustang decided to go through with killing Envy himself. If he chose selfish retribution over those affected by tragedy and government corruption. But it wasn't.

He chose to focus on the bigger picture of who's at fault instead of blindly killing out of rage.

And that is the ideal leader.

Because a tyrannical, angry leader stuck in the past is a horrible leader. It's just as bad as a cold blooded murderer, and eventually, they'll become the very thing that broke them.

He would've perpetuated the cycle.

He came **so close** to perpetuating the cycle that it's honestly terrifying.

But he didn't.

The character growth showcased here is *masterful.*

I could go on but I'd just repeat myself, I'm like a dog chasing it's tail.

Inject it into my ***veins***.

[plague-of-insomnia]

Expansion In Black Butler, Public School Arc Anime: Stained Glass

One of the things that absolutely delights me with the new anime is how they’ve used expansion to bring the world to life. I hope to do more posts on this when I am able to get better screenshots, so for now please accept these poor quality ones I took with my phone.

What is “expansion” in this sense?

Essentially, when you adapt something for the screen, you often have to add stuff to fill space, both in the physical sense of what’s on the screen, but also in terms of time. A scene might work fine on one manga page, but if you kept the view fixed like that for an entire scene in an anime or live action, the audience would quickly lose interest.

The anime has done a good job of expanding to fill these spaces in a way that can be charming and clever.

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Something I noticed while rewatching the episode for the twenty millionth time, I realized that the stained glass window that is featured so prominently in the opening scene has been expanded into something with far more symbolism than the original manga page:

The basic design of the room and window is retained, but far more detail has been added, including the fact that the window has two halves, each with a person depicted on them, and they frame Ciel on both sides.

He’s quite literally trapped in shadow between two people, and to me, this is representative of how he is caught between Sebastian and Undertaker/His twin. (Or perhaps one is meant to be RC and one UT, with Seb the shadow in between.)

But there’s more. The top window has a flower motif, but the central flower looks a lot like a star, or perhaps a lily if it were spread out flat?? Additionally, the four flowers of the Weston houses appear in each corner.

Additionally, the window has distinctive doves above and below the saints. While ofc that is a common animal in Christian iconography, the fact that the reapers use pigeons (doves) to communicate, and the fact that UT is a former reaper, could mean this was a very deliberate choice. Perhaps representing how reapers communicate to their superiors (there are images of a man and woman at the top I assume is meant to represent Jesus and Mary)?

The images of the saints feel very familiar to me, but I’m such a lapsed Catholic that I’ve been struggling to identify them.

I thought perhaps that the one on the left could be Frances of Assisi. He’s the patron saint of animals, and is often associated with birds.

The other, I am really unsure about. I thought about things like St. Paul or Augustine, but those don’t fit.

Perhaps St Lazarus? For those of you unfamiliar with Christian mythos, Lazarus died and came back to life, so he’s associated with resurrection. That would certainly fit kuro and Undertaker, wouldn’t it?

A few depictions of stained glass windows featuring St Frances and St Lazarus:

[jacarandaaaas]

it is almost 2024 WHEN are we gonna stop the “reason why mirabel didn’t get a gift” theories. like please there’s so much stuff in the movie that’s way more important 😭

[holisticblight]

rereading incursion. hhey. hey. guys. narako nation. whats going on with seinru here

is this just one of those p.999 alt-universe flash things? because, like. every other red & white flash that happened during that sequence was pretty canon compliant. either that or its her ancestor maybe?? because like that is Definitely seinru?? But just with like corpora and fucked up eyes??

[justarandomlambblog]

Quick sketch of a cover bc apparently 20+ waking hours straight was not enough drawing for me

[merakiui]

Hi, you probably noticed that i may or may not have been spam reblogging you and I just want to say sorry and before I continue, would that be ok or would you rather I not? I know for some people it might be annoying to be spam reblogged. I just came across your content and I like it so much and 🥺

I’m not part of some of the fandoms but i just like the way you write so much 🥺

Pls dont block me for being annoying 💔

Anyways, looking forward for more of your brilliant writings! 🫶

Hello! Please don't apologize or worry! Spam reblog does not bother me at all. I'm so flattered you would want to reblog so many of my works despite not being in some of the fandoms, so thank you so much!!!! And it isn't annoying in the slightest! Feel free to reblog to your heart's content! (ෆ˙ᵕ˙ෆ)♡

I'm happy you can look forward to my writings! Here are a few I intend to eventually post in this order:

✧ discord mod scara for lunar love hotel (I promise he is almost finished!!!! >_<)

✧ idia ficlet for lunar love hotel

✧ the most dangerous game (yandere!jade)

✧ death row undertow chapter 7 (after so long I am finally back to writing it :D)

[grinchwrapsupreme]

y'know what part of the trailer i'm rotating in my mind rn? the way they overlaid the sound of Humphrey's head falling off over the visual of the Captain walking through the gates of Button House one last time

[fandoms-spamdom]

psssst 👁️👁️ do you think the one panel in the new chapter of the black sky could be foreshadowing the darkness devil return

I had not considered that 👁👁

[masezace]

1. very little or no romance

2. character-driven plots

3. a healthy dose of sad

4. animals (whether it's about animals, the characters have pets, or they're just mentioned as existing in the background lol)

5. symbolism and foreshadowing

Alright lads, here's one for any and all writers: what are the top five things readers can basically always expect to see in your work?

[whatareyoudoingwithamaserati]

NEW ICE NINE KILLS SONG. EXPLODES INTO MILLIONS OF BILLIONS OF SMITHEREENS

[kacchanisms]

look at this bnha panel from chapter 326:

i'm intrigued by how AM's lines bleed into deku and bkg, showing how they're the inheritors of his legacy. but interestingly enough, the woman who maintains the statue also blends into bkg, which seems symbolic of his relationship with OFA.

in the same chapter, it's shown that the woman started maintaining this statue because she was grateful for being saved at kamino, and arguably, this is relatively similar to bkg's feelings after kamino. she cares for the statue, just as bkg learned to care for deku and AM after dvk2.

consider how the woman cleans up the nasty signs placed on the AM statue. bkg does the same with deku, trying to clear away the toxic effects that OFA's legacy (& his own actions) had on deku. hence, "deku" becomes "izuku", and "your turn" becomes a plea to share the burden alongside deku.

framing this in terms of OFA, this is a good comparison to bkg's own connection to the power. he's not the inheritor of OFA in flesh (that's deku, shown by how the majority of AM's image bleeds into him), but bkg does (currently) play an accompanimant role to OFA.

he's like the woman, tending to OFA's legacy. he's the only character in the panel to be holding a dialogue bubble, cupping it between his palms respectfully. he's... one of the select few nurturing the flickering ember left behind until it grows into a roaring blaze.

perhaps he is even the one holding the ember. after all, in this scene in 326, stain isn't talking about a legacy composed by quirks or powers. he's talking about heroes devoting themselves to the people, like bkg's recent philosophy.

not to mention how his cluster upgrade resembles the OFA stars. or how he's directly connected to this idea of legacy through these panels in 364:

oh, and the scene with all might and stain? it happens in the rain. as stain runs off and the woman finishes cleaning the statue, this is the last page of chapter 326. take it as you will.

[ouroborosorder]

I am in love with the new dungeon meshi OP because it seems way more cute and lighthearted but if you have read the manga there is a genuinely insane amount of horrifyingly pointed foreshadowing and symbolism to every fucking shot. this thing foreshadows every single thing in the finale and no first timer will ever know