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willow-p012 · 1 year ago

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Little Red Riding Hood

!!TW FOR MENTIONED S/A!!

Because it's impossible to talk about Little Red Riding Hood without mentioning it at least once.

Q: Tell us your family structure. A: Grandmother, father, mother, older brother.

Once upon a time, there lived in a certain village, a little country girl, the prettiest creature who ever was seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grand-mother doted on her much more.

Kotoko mentions her Grandmother in her family structure, and yet we have no mention of her Grandfather, just as in Little Red Riding Hood. This could be for many reasons, such as perhaps simply dying of old age.

This good woman had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.

Once she gave her a little cap made of red velvet. Because it suited her so well, and she wanted to wear it all the time, she came to be known as Little Red Cap.

One of Kotoko's most worn outfits is a red jacket. In most versions, the outfit has a hood, except for the brothers Grimm version in which it is "Little Red Cap", but you can probably still get the idea. Kotoko wears a red hood, just like Red.

Her prison outfit also notably has a hood on it.

As she was going through the wood,

she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up,

I am surprised I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but this is very much so a parallel to the Little Red Riding Hood story. Kotoko goes into the woods, where she is surrounded by wolves, but notably there is a wolf that runs with her, it's not like the other's, who cannot keep up, but it doesn't eat her when she stops. No, it looks at her, and it tells her to do what it does, to bite.

"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"

"All the better to eat you up with."

And back to her Grandmother. The wolf shows her it's teeth, it could eat her, even if it does not jump up like the wolf in the story. With the Little Red Riding Hood parallels, it's not a far reach that the wolf may be representative of someone talking to Kotoko in her Grandmother's name.

Moral: Children, especially attractive, well bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf.

I say "wolf," but there are various kinds of wolves. There are also those who are charming, quiet, polite, unassuming, complacent, and sweet, who pursue young women at home and in the streets. And unfortunately, it is these gentle wolves who are the most dangerous ones of all.

It is these gentle wolves, the ones who do not bite immediately, who are most dangerous of all.

Most of the time in dreams, the wolf is a representation of the male sexual predator. As in fairy tales, the wolf is a lover of fresh flesh (Little Red Riding Hood). Its presence in a dream can then mean that the dreamer has been exposed to disturbing, abusive and/or pedophilic sexual behavior.

While I do not believe it is known if Kaneshiro was a sexual sort of predator or not, a lot of people have theorised it so, either way he is one of the most common things the wolf is used to represent: a male predator. He is a 'lover of flesh'. Obviously, there are themes of young women being abused within Kotoko's story, specifically by these men, these 'lovers of flesh'.

#milgram #kotoko yuzuriha #milgram analysis #This is honestly part of the reason I'm so confused when people just write off wolves in Kotoko's story as her justice #She obviously has a lot symbolism to do with Little Red Riding Hood #So why would they JUST be that?#Obviously a part of it is her representation of justice but also #Kotoko is a representation of both Little Red Riding Hood and the Huntsman wolves would likely be more to her #But those are just my thoughts #Kotoko Yuzuriha my wife you make me ill

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raddest-laddest · 8 months ago

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i find it a bit strange that gutsy opted to make toffle genderless in this adaptation… i find it even stranger that they cut out miffle entirely

#don’t get me wrong i love nonbinary characters; but it just feels like another way to censor their relationship to me.#i think if they wanted to “pay homage” to the original idea; they shoulda just let them be together as girls #as they were originally intended #but those are just my thoughts #moomin valley #toffle #miffle #stan’s forum

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hinamie · 3 months ago

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newest issue of first years fashion just dropped

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #yuji itadori #nobara kugisaki #fushiguro megumi #itafushikugi #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jjk art #this quickly got away from me #taking hina from 3 days ago who thought 'yeah ill do 3 outfits for each of them what's the harm' and strangling her w my bare hands #original concept fr this was drawing the kids each matching a different outfit w gojo #but i got frustrated by th heights and placement so i said no tall people allowed and scrapped gojo from plans <3 #tbh it wouldnt have been /that/ much better in terms of workload but the 3 drawings it would have saved me isnt nothing #but im just complaining fr nothing atp lmao i love all of these sm i love playing dress up with my tuoys (the jjk first years)#love treating them like mannequins i love coming up w outfits layer those kids UP #nobara especially i have so much fun brainstorming she looks good in everything To Me #i dressed megumi more smart casual than normal bc he's got gojo's credit card info and if i want him in balenciagas gdi he's gna get them #also listen i love megumi we know this but fr the sake of not dressing him in solid colour slacks and sweaters 3 different ways #i gave him the workout fit. it cant b yuuji all the time ok i think we deserve megumi in a compression shirt as a treat #speaking of yuuji good god where do i start #he's definitely stylish but in a 'got dressed in the dark/threw on the first articles of clothing i saw' way and i adore him so much for it #wears things tht make him happy w no regard for how they may or may not look tgt bless his heart #also i drew th skateboard fr posing purposes entirely forgetting my prior hc that yuuji cant skate so i roughed him up fr consistency #th boy just ate concrete but is ready to get back up and try again what a champ #anyway bless this line and shading style i lov u less detailed render i love u sharp swoopy fabric lines #saved me sm time fr #also this is my application fr the mappa jjk marketing team they should hire me and let me dress the chars id be so good i promise #ill even take out the vocaloid and pop culture references i wont infringe on any ip i sweaaarr

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butchfalin · 2 years ago

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the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours?#also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that!#unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

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shitbl0gger · 2 months ago

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uncanny-tranny · 1 year ago

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I think so many people are so deeply alienated from themselves that they have no clue how to exercise their free will and autonomy. For some, this alienation runs so deep that they are afraid of their own autonomy and humanity. It is completely understandable why one would have those feelings, but it can be worrisome.

I want to help others who feel this way, so here are small things I have done to exercise my free will:

Add "guilty pleasure" songs to playlists and actually listen to them (I have a ton of late 1990s-early 2000s music I listen to now proudly that I never listened to in the past out of shame)

Getting the décor item, bath set, bed spread, ect. in the patterns you like, even if it's "childish" (I got a dinosaur-themed wastebasket from the kids' décor section and I adore it)

Taking a new route to get to a place you go to often

Eat dessert first

Celebrate well, and often

Collect things that are "odd" or don't seem like an "acceptable" thing to collect (somebody on my "for you" page collects dandelion crayola crayons and it was so cool!!!!!!)

Incorporate one new piece in an outfit you wear frequently (e.g., a new chain, a necklace, ribbons, bracelets, ect.). Challenge yourself to add onto the outfits if you feel up for it.

Sing along to songs without worrying that you sound "good" or your intonation is completely accurate

Read a book from a genre you weren't allowed to read as a kid (comics, thrillers, mysteries, anything!)

Walk without having a specific destination or goal

Pick up a new craft without expecting yourself to master it or to ever be "good" enough. Get your hands messy.

I don't want to shame anybody for not feeling as though they have free will or that they are exempt from exercising it. However, I wanted to give ideas so that you might read this list and find your own ways to express your intrinsic autonomy and will. You deserve to be a person, to feel alive, not just living. That is what our lives are for.

#mental health #mental health support #positivity #if anybody has ideas of their own definitely include them!#i just think being stuck with this feeling that you don't have autonomy and that you ultimately aren't an equal person or a person at all..#...in comparison to other people can be a really troubling and dangerous place to be in...#...and that isn't the person's fault for feeling that way. they didn't pluck those thoughts out of thin air...#...like i have felt that exact way all my LIFE because i have been abused for. probably 2/3s of my life...#...only within these past few years have i even FELT alive. frankly it's going to take a while to repair what i have been left with...#...so i know the feeling and i want to help others feel even a LITTLE bit alive. you deserve it...#...you deserve to take in a deep breath before slowly realizing 'oh my gd this is what it feels like to be alive' and SMILE about it #i want that for you even if it is brief. even if it is small. even if it is a whisper. i want you to feel alive #unironically getting rid of the idea of 'guilty pleasures' has made my life SO much better

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egophiliac · 4 months ago

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IF YOU GO NOW TO SILVER'S PROFILE IT SHOWS "SILVER VANROUGE" I AM!!! NOT OKAY!!! WAUGH

OH MY GOD 😭

like...it wasn't even just "oh we'll call you Silver Vanrouge now", they just straight-up made the adoption official, under the statute of Malleus Says So. he's legally recognized as Lilia's kid! I'm so happy for them!

this may take some getting used to though

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 13 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 13 spoilers #the vanrougening continues #look a lot happened in the finale but i refuse to stop obsessing over this part #lilia being like HA HA WHAT no you don't want my dumb stupid name it's bad #i always thought you'd find yourself a way better name someday #and anyway your REAL parents --#(sebek crashes through a wall koolaid man-style) LILIA-SAMA JUST ADMIT HE'S YOUR SON #malleus says they're family no takesie-backsies #malleus: now this does mean we're going to have to make some adjustments to your taxes #lilia:#lilia: taxes...uh...right #lilia: i have definitely absolutely been paying those for the last 400 years #lilia: unrelated but have you already told the government that i got better from being dead...or....

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artsymeeshee · 24 days ago

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An hour later…

Out like a light.

Had this idea for so long and finally had the motivation to make it :’D

#gravity falls #stanford pines #mabel pines #ford pines #grunkle ford #waddles the pig #my art #sketches #comic #ford & mabel bonding #long post #almost wanted to not post this #mainly because i thought it was dumb #i saw someone giving their dog a spa day #and i said you know what? ford’s getting one too #also those are suppose to be hand puppet dinosaur things in the 8th pic #because i know mabel has something like that and it’s just a her thing to do/have #small backstory to this is mabel noticing ford is visibly tired so a spa day for her grunkle it is #ford x sleep my otp

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zombie-bait · 9 months ago

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Larian modding animation + Legends of Avantris Chuckles animation held hands to bring him to life folks

#bg3 #gale dekarios #bg3 fanart #baldur’s gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #gale fanart #fanart #digital art #video game #wizard moment #I know that phrase wasn't invented by LoA btw #I just thought it fit super well and those lil animations are playing on loop in my silly lil brain yknow

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wishfulsketching · 6 months ago

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Season 1 Silco, my beloved

#my art #sketchy sketch #arcane #silco #I just had the sudden need to draw Silco from s1 so here ya go #very rough sketches this time #mission impossible = draw silco with his mouth closed #i NEED TO draw those teefies #i drew him looking up and my first thought was uppies #i don't get me #thats my queue to leave

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turtleblogatlast · 1 year ago

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Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #trans leonardo #trans leo #rottmnt headcanons #turtle art tag #rise draxum #happy pride everyone~#if you’re wondering why there’s no backgrounds that’s because my files got messed up so just blankness in the bg sorry #but yeah!#this is forever and always my fav headcanon for Leo it makes too much sense to me #I wanted to make sure I got it done in time for pride haha #I don’t know if it’s obvious by the end but Draxum ran off because he was for once doing something nice for Leo #that being leading him somewhere else not in front of everyone so Leo can process the fact that he was born female in peace haha #(but he also just - wanted to avoid the ensuing awkward Talk as long as he could lol)#“how would Leo NOT know’’ he had an inkling but never thought much of it because he’s a teenage turtle mutant with no access to healthcare #also yeah that’s splinter’s hand at the end there I just KNOW he’d want those pics #also also - Leo here can technically be trans or even intersex in some way too #both is good #making this made me remember why I never do color #at least for comics #it just takes sooo long #but it was fun and worth it for my fave hc #this is like the first time I’ve drawn Draxum and man he’s kinda hard to draw #also their sizes are just 1 2 and 3 because Draxum had a simple system in place for sizing his subjects #(aka I was too lazy to think of anything else to put there)#also dunno if anyone noticed but look at Raph’s paper and look at his baby’s self’s photo

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qvert · 1 month ago

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So uh... I've been busy... studying

You know any of the times I've complained about Vis secret soft ingredient? Well I certainly hope/suspect I've learned smth after this :D

Things I have definitely learned however:

Despite being the small one she is still just 2/3 legs which is INSANE

Her chin is way more pointed than I thought!

Her Hair is also usually bigger than initially thought

Eyebrows are always crunched :D

Her shoulders are quite slim actually! Bulky and round but still kind of slim!

Biceps for days though :))

And very cute butt

...No 6pack actually but im SO okay with that - give that woman some nutrients

At this point I hate those bandages almost as much as Caitlyn probably does

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wickedcriminal · 1 year ago

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Oh that's where he went

#i knew those voids looked familiar *WHEEZE*#linked universe #lu hyrule #lu legend #lu four #lu time #lu twilight #lu wind #lu sky #lu warriors #lu wild #my art #no but actually id love for this ZELDA to join the chain because she's the hero of this game #but i saw link disappear into the void and the FIRST thing i thought of were the lu portals and this comic manifested #and i just had to draw it #SO THAT'S MY EXCUSE

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hinamie · 9 months ago

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in spite of everything, I had fun <3

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #jjk spoilers #jjk manga spoilers #jjk leaks #yuji itadori #fushiguro megumi #nobara kugisaki #itafushikugi #jjk 271 #well we made it :'>#im kind of ignoring a lot of the tag rn ghsdff ik people are upset #if u follow me u know th full extent of my thoughts on the wrapping up of the series but tl;dr the caption says it all #this series meant a lot to me and im working on a bigger tribute to fully express that love and gratitude #but take a redraw 2 tide u over for now #im just so happy. its bittersweet but those r my kids n theyre tgt and theyre okay #i think the return to normalcy is good fr them. i say let them rest n b together n process everything in time #/i'm/ satisfied with what i got out of jjk as a whole and that's all that matters to me #however ik that not everyone shares tht sentiment n thats valid!#regardless of how u feel abt the finale i hope that u at least take time to remember things abt the series that brought u joy #thats all i can say #oh yeah anyway i lightened up megumi's expression his face is so funny in that panel i can't believe he really said -_- until the very end #still tho i think megu deserves a content lil smile

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shitbl0gger · 2 months ago

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adorethesmiths · 11 months ago

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