#clampposting

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have Not stopped thinking abt these tweets. "I don't know why" SO TRUE. if this had happened when I was a teenager I would have cried.

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in my heart hokuto sumeragi and the gaijin girl are in outo but like they're busy doing actually cool stuff and ditched the line for the simulation at fairy park they're eating ice cream on a bench and doing looney tunes shit to security guards. hokuto has opinions on the character costuming and regales her friend with that as they eat in an off-limits area overlooking the attraction

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top clover outfit inspos. for ambiance

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one thing I love about tbx is everyone (fandom) has to make up encounters in the 9 year gap between seishiro killing Subaru's sister and the apocalypse cigarette lighting. because it undermines the ending and how absolutely insanely ridiculous seishiro Incapable Of Human Affection sakurazuka is as a character. but also like 40% of all clamp yaoi is just jotakak recolored, they started with sonic doujin. I think at least some of them would approve

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kendappa-ou and souma will NOT stop touching each other's faces lovingly as kendappa murders a man in cold blood and souma tells her that she's a musician and shouldn't be getting her hands dirty before going off to fight destiny itself where she will probably die. lesbians

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one thing that does make me crazy and probably explains a lot about how i do fandom today is that. in the 90s clamp published x1999 which is technically a sequel to tokyo babylon. in this the main jesus figure teenage protagonist receives visions of a desert-ified tokyo in ruins from the prophetess-figure trying to encourage him to take humanity's side in the apocalypse (rather than the earth's). she implies this is the Bad Ending, since, you know, it's clearly all in ruin and humanity is absent although she is later revealed to be kind of possessed by evil so. this series goes on permanent hiatus after irl earthquakes that are too resonant with the themes/events of the story and it's never finished.

many years later clamp publishes tsubasa reservoir chronicle, which you might know as the sister manga to the noodle people one (xxxholic). in it an alternate clone* version of cardcaptor sakura fights a dune-style sandworm in a very similar desert-ified tokyo, and all the alternate-universe x1999 good & bad guys are there (close enough). however later it's revealed that this "acid tokyo" - it has massive, dangerously burning acid rains - is the desert alt-clone-sakura came from before she started universe hopping with the rayearth bunny and it's a huge reveal.

however. if you consider this - the "bad" guys in x1999 are basically anti-human ecoterrorists, and the "desert Tokyo bad ending" when considering a) the prophetess' evil possession and b) the acid rain in trc - it's essentially confirmed by proxy that hinoto was showing the protag visions of what will happen if he joins the human side and wins, and it's so much later and the source is so unfinished. nobody will ever care. except me

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most important throway scene of characters whose fate has already been revealed in history. in a manga nobody has read bc it stopped in 1999 before it was even finished

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critical incident thought about Tokyo Babylon annex evening unrecoverable. like idk maybe people who do bad things are really just lonely <- devilishly cruel statement in the context of the epilogue

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relevant to several things rn

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puts a neon sign around my neck warning that if you talk to me within the next 72 hours I will be dangerously close to explaining KF to any living person. if you want to die so badly ill kill you myself but until then live *turns you into a vampire against your will* you know how it is

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opening up my PC while trying to kill time during the work day and discovering this extremely informative chart i had apparently made the other day. can't bear to finish it

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okay clamp moment over thanks for bearing with me. I'll do it again someday but for now that's all

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"don't die before me, I'd dirty up your corpse" he says while passing the cigarette back and forth. normal emotions

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sorry for only bolsposting about clover but if i tried to explain to you what is actually happening there - kazuhiko taking a girl who's the most powerful sorcerer in the world who'd sequestered herself away voluntarily so she'd never make any attachments to anyone and use her powers for evil but she has one final Wish to go see fairy park because kazuhiko's dead girlfriend was the only friend she ever had because she'd heard his gf singing with her powers and she came to love both ora and kazuhiko so kazuhiko gets assigned to take her to the statue and she finally reveals her powers and that she loved ora and loves him too and then she DIES because that was always the DEAL because she CAN'T STAY IN THIS WORLD FREE and then volume 2 ENDS and it's ONLY FLASHBACKS AFTER to REALLY DRIVE HOW SAD THAT WAS

well i would start sobbing and wailing and i'll never decide how to write this clover au. because oh my god

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one of the craziest parts of clover bc it's so small is when kazuhiko brings suu over to gingetsu's and obviously ran is there too and suu is like does he know about the (gesturing at own skull)? and kazuhiko is so confused it gets dropped. and then VOLUMES LATER it's revealed that it's because gingetsu took a bomb being implanted in his skull in exchange for being allowed to keep ran with him instead of going back to the cage. and it's not exactly clear if ran knows this was the precise tradeoff but probably he has to. but then [redacted entire rest of plot]

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trying to find a tokyo babylon panel and it's tagged "boys love" LIKE I GUESS. I GUESS ??? but i would love to pitch TB something like "a mild-mannered veterinarian and a teenage exorcist have a meet-cute on a train platform and navigate the exorcist's fashionista matchmaking sister and the realities of magical and human tragedies in a city where tragedies like this happen every day, and it's eventually revealed they've known each other since they were much younger...." and then get a review. because everything i wrote is technically true. that is what happens in tokyo babylon. and things like this happen in tokyo every day so why would you be surprised............