#chainsaw of truth

[spookysweaterblog]

How's Grandpa fairing? We know he's the best at killing but surviving explosions? Hmmmmmm.

you know how grandpa joe got out of bed and then he could dance and run around? Grandpa Sawyer had the strength to finally get out of his chair to help his grandson and now he's unstoppable

(he was also the furthest away from the dud explosion)

[basofy]

le uhhh reference and all..........

[eightspringdays]

no one:

absolutely no soul in the whole big japan area:

fujimoto: CANNIBALISM

[blueish-bird]

I read all of Part 1 after it was already released, but reading Chainsaw Man Part 2 as each chapter is being published is a new and at times difficult experience. Like, sorry, I forgot what happened again. It’s been two weeks and I keep getting distracted by Barem’s tits.

[v3mp3lla]

horror movies that i recommend

Scream movies 1996-2023

old and new IT movies 1986-2019

us 2019

halloween movies 1978-2022

childs play movies/show 1988-2019

texas chainsaw massacre 1974-2022

ginger snaps 2001

silent hill movies 2006-2012

alien 1979-2017

friday the 13th 1980-1984

carrie 1976

X 2022

psycho 1960

the shining 1980

black christmas 1974

midsommar 2019

house of wax 2005

nigthmare on elm street 1984

jennifers body 2009

american pyscho 2000

evil dead rise 2023

bram stokers dracula 1992

terrifier 2016-2022

insidious 2011-2023

pearl 2022

hereditary 2018

sinister 2012-2015

the black phone 2022

grimcutty 2022

barbarian 2022

nope 2022

the autopsy of jane doe 2016

the babadook 2014

all hallows eve 2013

la llorona 2019

dawn of the dead 2004

jigsaw 2004-2022

evil dead 2013

the devil rejects 2005

hellraiser 2022

house of 1000 corpse 2003

renfield 2023

prey 2022

trian to busan 2016

escape room 2019-2021

28 days later 2007

resident evil 1996-2017

resident evil raccon city 2021

the purge 2013-2021

get out 2017

the blair witch project 1999

orphan 2009-2021

a quiet place 2018 2021

happy death day 2017-2019

the lost boys 1987

queen of the damned 2002

dark shadows 2012

30 days of night 2007

ready or not 2019

trick r treat 2007

spree 2020

scary movie 2000-2006

the love witch 2016

the witches 2020

children of the corn 1977

the blackening 2023

truth or dare 2018

candyman 2021

the skeleton key 2005

jeepers creepers 2001-2022

frankenstein 1818-1935

day shift 2022

the conjuring 2013-2021

annabelle 2014-2019

winchester 2018

the boy 2016-2020

sleepy hallow 1999

the nun 2018

[chainsawmatinee]

Our new episode is out! We dare you to listen!

[nihilistic-optimistest]

asa mitaka is an ace icon i called it

[solarrene]

KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY EX-POTENTIAL GIRLFRIEND

[nirvusc0nc3pti0n]

Bro. These woman are just mmmmmmgh.

[ask-them-horror]

A TRUTH AND OR DARE 🤖

[wizardnaturalist]

people who depict angel devil as a subby little uwu boy...imbeciles

he and aki are perfect contrasts not because aki is stoic and severe and angel is soft and sweet, but because aki is wound tighter than a bowstring at all times and angel could not give less of a shit if he tried (which he wont)

[pixiecaps]

Natalan: Hey, you speak Spanish?

Cellbit: Yeah yeah. I’m married with a Mexican.

Natalan: (Misheard) You’re Mexican?

Cellbit: No, no. I’m married to one.

Natalan: Ah, okay.

Cellbit: I’m Brazilian.

-

Cellbit: I know Spanish because I married Roier, who is my husband. He’s Mexican.

Natalan: Ah Roier.

Cellbit: Yeah yeah. Do you know Roier?

Natalan: Yeah I know him. Yeah he was my husband before as well.

Cellbit: What did you say?

Natalan: I’m serious.

Cellbit: What did you say? What did you say about my husband?

Natalan: No, uh, lets see. First of all he was my husband before.

Cellbit: Before where?

Natalan: Uhhh-

Baghera: Don’t speak about his husband.

Cellbit: He’s saying he was married to Roier.

Baghera: What? What are you saying?

Cellbit: That’s. No. He’s crazy. He’s not saying that.

Baghera: What are you saying?

Cellbit: Yeah what the fuck are you saying?

Natalan: I’m saying that I was married with Roier before Cellbit.

Baghera: You’re saying bullshit.

Natalan: No! What?

Baghera: Yeah.

Cellbit: Then what is his favorite color?

Baghera: You are an idiot.

Natalan: No you are an idiot-

Cellbit: Yeah you’re an idiot.

(Cellbit Kills Natalan)

-

Cellbit: Hey, don’t you ever- You will never, never again, speak that name again, yeah?

Baghera: Yeah.

Cellbit: Never again. Never again.

Baghera: You don’t say the name anytime. No. It’s over.

Cellbit: You are never getting near him again.

-

Cellbit: He is gone for you. He will be happy without me and without you. And he will never come back to this place! He will never return here!

Natalan: I’m just telling the truth. I’m just telling the truth.

Cellbit: He will never come back here! He will never come back here!

Natalan: I was married with Roier before you.

Cellbit: The past doesn't matter. The past doesn't matter.

(Baghera chainsaws Natalan)

Natalan: It’s just the truth! It’s just the truth, okay- I won’t say anything, okay- You’re killing me!

(Cellbit walks away)

[flyndragon]

I've read lots of posts about jedi doing art but I was thinking... Jedi SPECIFIC art.

First Idea I had was lightsaber carving - like chainsaw carving irl, but the chainsaw is a lightsaber and the log is a big hunk of metal. It started as a way that you could connect with your kyber without sparring or other violence and evolved over jedi history to have its own complex artistic history.

The two genres of lightsaber scuplts are 'art led' and 'force led'. The first is a more traditional artistic process where the maker plans out the forms they want and uses their skill to enact them. The second is where a jedi can practice to sink into a deep enough moving meditation that the force itself guides their blade to reveal a truth inside the metal. The jedi don't see one as superior per-se but its context for appreciation of the art.

Like...

The most famous artistic process piece is from a jedi in the high republic era. They carved out an entire model of the galaxy as it had been mapped in 3d from a 7ft by 7ft metal cube. It took them years and they damn near re-invented the hyperspace lanes in the process. The piece is notable because if you stand at a couple of angles to look at the model, the fine metal holding up the planets, stars, and other phenomena almost completely disappear, leaving an illusion of a completely floating sculpture.

The highest regarded Force-driven piece is from the beginning of the republic. Modern scholars mostly agree on the big picture - that it represents the burning of the jedi order and the rebirth of hope after. Its creator, an elderly jedi master, known for intense force visions, created it in a 3 day trance, and he passed a mere month later. He never provided any insight as to the piece or what he might have seen, only that the art 'spoke for itself'. There has been an uncountable number of papers debating whether the sculpture was the old jedi processing the pain of witnessing a dark age of the jedi during his youth or whether its truly a vision taken form.

[sugar-grigri]

Fans are Denji's source of unhappiness

First observation: Fumiko is worse than Barem

I don't like making meaningless comparisons, especially in a work like Chainsaw Man where when the characters aren't nuts, they remain at least morally gray. But this comparison makes sense in the sense that the construction of the chapter refers to it. As usual, let's analyze this by following the chapter's chronology.

This one takes place in a funfair, which is not an insignificant location, but we'll come back to that later. These few lines of dialogue already evoke a very simple idea: Denji isn't so stupid that he wouldn't know he was being manipulated. He knows full well that Fumiko was placed in Yoshida's care not to protect him, but to keep a close eye on him, to prevent him from turning and joining the church.

But she tries to disprove all this, evoking the ecstasy one might feel if one were Chainsaw Man. Being Chainsaw Man is also a source of unhappiness for Denji, who corrects her, and Fumiko adapts to his speech, looking for the first negative point that comes to mind. I think it was a real mistake for Fumiko to mention this point, but once again, she adapts to Denji's reaction. He's completely horrified at having been observed in the bathroom, so she shares his negative view of the situation.

She knows that Denji's main objective is sex-related, so she builds on that by downplaying what she's doing. This is fan behavior; fans are sexually obsessed with Denji in the hope that it will delight him. But Fumiko knows no bounds, either ignoring his consent or stalking him, which logically engages Denji's rejection reaction again.

Once again, he perceives the means of manipulation with the word "fan", and rejects it. So far, these experiences have only been negative and intrusive, and even when they have been positive, whether with Asa romantically or Power platonically, the demon of control, another female figure, has put an end to them.

But instead of stopping the manipulation, Fumiko goes on to confirm Denji's words even as they express pure disgust and rejection. For a character who knows absolutely no limits, she may also override stopping this conservation, but she continues with her family history. If public demon hunters know anything about Denji apart from his natural distrust and need for affection, whether sentimental or physical, it's his sensitivity.

I can't say that the story Fumiko tells is a complete lie, just as I can't say that she's telling the truth. She's a hunter, and anything she mentions could well have ended up in a report, especially given the national authorities' interest in the gun demon. But even if her story is true, the tragic aspect, not for her but for Denji, is even stronger.

Fumiko says she lost her parents because of the gun demon, that CSM didn't hear her cries for help. I'd like to remind you that chapter 79, the chapter in which she refers to Aki's death, is dedicated to the trauma of what it means to be Chainsaw Man.

For the demon from the future, Aki died in the worst possible way, not for him, but for Denji. It's clear that the little boy is forcing himself to continue this snowball fight he no longer wants to play.

At first, he tries to reason with Aki, forcing him to wake up, but when he himself is shot trying to spare one of his only loved ones, people won't let him lose. Chainsaw Man is a weapon of vengeance into which everyone projects their frustrations, the deaths of their loved ones. Denji was forced to be resurrected, to kill Aki not for himself, but for the community. Chainsaw Man never acts for himself. If Aki died in the worst way for Denji, it's because his fans, this community, forced him back to life to remove one of his sources of love.

Denji was traumatized by having to win.

Let's be clear: it wasn't Denji who ignored their calls for help, it was they who ignored his.

Isn't it tragic to criticize Chainsaw Man for not hearing Fumiko's cries for help, or the cries of all those people, when he was instead so compelled by them, like a machine that would be reset to kill a loved one ? Chainsaw Man, on the other hand, hears all the pain in the world. This doesn't mean that Denji is altruistic - he isn't. He's closer to amorality than compassion, but like a permanently dehumanized machine, he must serve others. It has no morals, so how can it live for itself ?

That's why what Fumiko says is so paradoxical: saving Denji means finally allowing him to live for himself, granting him the right not to hear all those voices.

She doesn't mean what she says when she says she's never thought of him as a god, but simply as a child in need of protection. She's only setting up a dissident discourse to that of the church, which idealizes him by banking on the part of identity that is Denji, while the church banks on Chainsaw Man. How can someone who is constantly sexually abusing Denji be competent to protect a boy?

This chapter is about setting limits for children. To have access to the merry-go-round, you have to be over 1m10 tall. These clear limits were never set for Denji, either when he was forced to kill Aki or even when he explores his sexuality.

Having killed his father, been martyred by the mafia and then manipulated by a demon, Denji is now at the heart of other vicious circles. He's condemned to being too young an adult, watching over Nayuta like a parent while children play behind him, not enjoying the funfair with friends, a girlfriend, being cloistered on that bench. The bench represents the stagnation in Denji's life, his questioning, placed on the bench of his own life, his name unknown to his fans, his nature instrumentalized, his age ignored.

Denji needs and must be considered with the age he is, a 17-year-old teenager. Yet even this characteristic, even the fact that he's still a child, is ignored by Fumiko, hence her insistence on the word "senpai".

The treatment of Fumiko is good, I find her to be the very embodiment of Denji's sexual trauma in the sense that she constantly manipulates him to play on his interests, and constantly ignores his own desires, his limits.

Fumiko manipulates, hence the emphasis on her outraged expression when Barem interrupts. If Barem's manipulation is more grotesque, it's not to manipulate Denji but to mock Fumiko's strategy. Although it's incredibly more insidious, the weapon has a clear idea of what she's up to.

And yet, in just a few sentences, it's right on target. It's much closer to Denji's reality than to Fumiko's human perspective. Weapons are seen as weapons, machines at the service of humans, whose immortality is a pain, as it leads them to the trauma of always winning.

Barem uses a cigarette, obviously reminiscent of those smoked by Aki, who had given in to Himeko's advances and needed an outlet for his stress. Aki's misfortune is to have spent his life on revenge, living to avenge the dead, not living for himself. The cigarette was his flaw, the proof of his humanity, the one he threw at Denji to spare him the pain of getting involved in the horrible business of hunting demons.

Whether or not it was there to manipulate Denji by reminding him of his older brother, whether or not it was there by chance, it conveyed the same message: proof of the humanity of a man who lived for others. A man who was executed once again for that same community.

This community, Denji's fan club, is the cause of his deepest misfortune. Chainsaw Man has never been so popular, yet Denji has never been alone. Because he's not allowed to have loved ones. Nayuta, too, is proof of this: she wants her brother for herself, and convinces him that he's loved by others by acting under the cover of Chainsaw Man.

That's why Denji's intervention to stop the attack in progress is much less certain. All these fans, this humanity waiting for Chainsaw Man, are the source of his misfortune. Of course the fan club will call Chainsaw Man. What's less obvious...

Will Denji listen to their cries for help?

[hecksupremechips]

And don’t worry. Akane Kurashiki is also my patrick bateman

Kuruto Ryuki is my Patrick Bateman

[thatgirlonstage]

Okay I’m too tired to keep listening to Dark Heir but I’ve got a whole bus ride home so I’m going to spin Black Butler thoughts at you all.

(Idk how coherent this is, I’m sorry if it’s rambly my brain is SO dead but it wants to Talk so)

I’m thinking about… the gradual build of Sebastian’s fear that he could actually lose Ciel, as we go:

The asthma attack in Circus Arc: not ultimately serious, but a danger to Ciel’s wellbeing Sebastian had not been aware of and cannot easily fix

The fight on the Campania, where Sebastian is very seriously injured himself, to the point where he’s in danger of losing Ciel to Undertaker because he can’t physically stop him from being taken,

Which leads into THIS fucking moment in school arc:

which is entirely fueled by Sebastian’s fear that Undertaker will snatch Ciel out from under him, AGAIN, because he did it before

AND THEN GREEN WITCH ARC HAPPENS, where Sebastian gets within literal minutes of losing Ciel to the gas, and WOULD HAVE if Sieglinde hadn’t been there or hadn’t been willing to help them

And still in Green Witch Arc, even AFTER Ciel has physically survived, Sebastian nearly loses him anyway because he backslides so dramatically into a PTSD episode that it nearly voids their contract

All of which is why by the time you get to the Blue Cult Arc, Sebastian is so genuinely afraid he might not be able to protect Ciel that the scent of blood from a single needle prick makes him do. This.

And now, with bizarre dolls getting ever more advanced and better at hiding from Sebastian’s senses and the whole police force mobilized against them, I’m very ready for Sebastian in Brighton to be doing everything short of wrapping Ciel in 19th century bubble wrap. I’ll frankly be shocked if he lets Ciel out of his sight for more than five minutes.

But the thing is. The thing is. Narratively, there isn’t much further you can ratchet up the stakes for Sebastian (at least until you get to the moment of truth with the contract and eating his soul, which is a different conversation). Ciel being put in danger or hurt again isn’t going to do all that much to alter their relationship at this point. Sebastian is already about as whipped as the poor guy can get.

What would be a change, is Ciel nearly losing Sebastian.

There’s been—for obvious reasons—much less risk and fear on that front. There has been some build for it:

Red Butler Arc, encountering reapers, Ciel sees Sebastian fight an enemy who can actually hold their own against him for the first time (and while I don’t think this is confirmed, I suspect Grell’s chainsaw eating his shoulder is the first time Ciel sees him get injured for real (as opposed to allowing himself to get shot and playing dead just for the sake of being a dramatic bitch))

Curry Arc, Agni successfully fights Sebastian to a tie (which is why I’m VERY interested to see if Soma turns back up in the Brighton arc as well, feat. angry Kali powers)

[The murder arc is a fake out, because Ciel knows he’s fine the whole time]

On the Campania, Ciel sees him get very badly injured. This is the one and only time Ciel has real cause to fear for Sebastian’s safety, as such.

And since then, while Sebastian isn’t quite untouchable, he hasn’t really suffered any serious injury or physical danger to himself. There have been defeats or fights that didn’t end perfectly for him—such as the school arc fight—but Sebastian hasn’t been existentially threatened. Ciel, I think, still has pretty high confidence that worst case scenario, Sebastian can always just pick him up and make a run for it (indeed, part of the reason things got so bad on the Campania was because they were trapped on a boat). And even if Sebastian couldn’t save him, Ciel—to the extent it’s even occurred to him—doesn’t have a lot of reason to think he couldn’t save himself.

This is now the second time Ciel has lost everything—his title, his name, his home, his safety, his dignity and respect. The first time was worse, obviously, but he’s got to be feeling the similarities.

The first time, Sebastian pulled him out of his despair by offering him the power to escape.

Now, the second time, he at least still has Sebastian by his side. A Sebastian who is going to be laser-focused on protecting Ciel from all possible threats.

But what happens if Ciel thinks he might lose Sebastian too?