#chang ho

[lucabyte]

Hmmm just gonna spit this headcanon out in text post form since A. I don't think I could exposit it well enough in image form and B. It's not actually textually/thematically substantiated and I don't like actually staking my stuff on just vibes alone*

But anyway. I'd say it's pretty evident that all the islanders forgot their names, right? King obviously. Because why the hell else would he do that, but also Siffrin No Middle Names No Last Name.

They're 'pretty sure' they've 'always' been 'Just Siffrin' 'as long as they can remember'. It's a pretty cruel twist of the knife to say that they don't even get to keep their birth name as a memento, which is why I'm saying as such.

My utterly unsubstantiated claim is I think it'd be cute to say that Sisyphus *is* the name Siffrin initially picked, assuming the myth of King Sisyphus is recontextualised as idk, just a play or something in the setting. But I like the idea of Siffrin going 'oh shit 🫵 he's just like me fr' at a tortured fictional character long before the irony kicks in.

As for how Sisyphus -> Siffrin. I think that chronic mumbler and emotional doormat Sif just did not correct people who misheard the name during their time travelling, and went through enough places with incompatible phonologies (pronounceable sounds in the language) without ever really writing it down that it just got kinda. Changed until it was unrecognisable, and Siffrin just went with it until the earlier pronunciations slipped out of their swiss-cheese brain. And they just kinda don't remember any of that.

Also, something something the horrid realisation that Siffrin also named themselves after a King. Just not as blatantly.

*(though I think there's something here about Siffrin, a guy from a belief system that seems to thoroughly disincentivise autonomy and self-motivated choice continuously having their hand forced to make changes/choices they don't want but have no choice but to... It's not solid enough to really back this up tbh, but it informs it.)

Anyway.

[polarsirens]

epilogue, 2: rapunzel & la bête

this is super vague, but the gist is that they remain where they are as they wish—not having to join the neverafter that has hapley in it—but they can be together (look i love them both okay)

[daftpatience]

it was volo. its volo. im deeply in love w him

[andythelemon]

Chainsaw Man art compilation from the last year! You can get prints here.

[mango-fizz]

back on my bullshit 🫶❤️💕

[the-east-art]

Couldn't shifter stan try a big lung fish, catfish, or even seal/ giant river otter?

Oh that’s easy! Because

[potionio]

- Weren't there five of you? - Yeah.

Sloane Gardner. Donovan Gardner. Alana Bloom. Kit Stafford.

[heyanobody]

Gangnam B-Side (2024)

[zetterbabe]

sasha for the tennis channel (07.05.24)

[taikoturtle]

WLW'S Pride Month Celebration - Day 1 (TV Show)

Yoon Sol & Seo Ji-wan from Nevertheless

[whatsfourteenupto]

Man in the progression from nine to thirteen you really truly can see the Doctor stretching like a rubber band until they snap and 14/15 happens

[dailydccomics]

Super-Man and the Justice League of China (and friends!) art by Bernard Chang

[novaliae]

begging white trans people to think for one (1) second before choosing a name with a strong nonwhite ethnic/cultural background. especially if you have no connection to that background beyond liking a show etc

[vaperarmand]

listen here!

[gen4grl]

karens “strong pokemon weak pokemon” quote is such a great piece of storytelling for the player, silver and lances dynamic it really sucks its become a giant joke and now no one can appreciate what it actually adds to the story of johto arghhh

[numberonetribble]

Welcome back David 7!