#griffith just like me fr

[shitasspandabear]

can't stop thinking about the time my dad walked in on me watching berserk NOT the eclipse scene, but the scene where guts is homoerotically punching tf out of griffith when they first meet, and says something like "back in my day it was not acceptable for a man to beat up a woman" so then i have to tell him, no that's not actually a woman its just a Twink with luscious silver locks..... yes he has perfect lashes and angelic imagery its just a thing.... and his hairdo is ridiculously high maintenance looking especially in actual medieval times it's just a thing

[paint-it-dead]

berserk is just a self insert 1 direction wattapad fanfiction...

[cosmicrhetoric]

the problem with reading berserk and going "ok yeah i think that was actually too much for me. like i went in with clear eyes and thought i could handle it but maybe that was too much. no shame in tapping out" is that i keep remembering parts of it that were genuinely awesome and then getting hit with the memory of like. well. iykyk and then i feel so so so so conflicted about the work as a whole that i immediately get a stomach ache

[scum-belina]

Oh Lord I just found out I share a bday with Sam Elliott and while I don't hate the guy I just hate the fact every corny conservative uses his pics for the worst political takes and memes imaginable

[berscrk]

Griffith x guts x casca makes me feel gross and bad. Icky, even. Please don’t come near me with that

[barrenwomb]

mutual 1: what if their periods synced [picture of griffith and guts from berserk]

mutual 2: just had the most insane sex of my life. i'm so lonely & no one loves me

mutual 3: they should have fucked tbh [about blood siblings]

mutual 4: yeah i'm aware i have commitment issues but like, no one ever threatened to kill themselves so i wouldn't leave them. i mean is it even worth it. like

mutual 5: i need to be put on adderall sooo bad. i ghosted my psych btw

mutual 6: i'm having a mid life crisis at 23 uuuugh kms fr. attended my first class in months and the professor called me a good girl. woof 🐶

mutual 7: this omega just had an abortion omg...anyways being a fujoshi actually makes u a feminist because men deserve to be reduced to sexual objects as well

mutual 8: i don't believe in god but if god existed i'd be his little whore

mutual 9: men need to be walked around like dogs

mutual 10: i'm fundamentally unlovable

mutual 11: need someone to get a matching succubus womb tattoo with

mutual 12: i'm so horny i deserve to be put down . i wish someone groomed me

mutual 13: does anyone know if sniffing ibuprofen is bad for your health

mutual 14: got my birth control refilled. anyone need some estradiol? hmu

mutual 15: rip amico mio. e mo si mangia

[mrderbird]

8, 12, 16 for the choose violence meme

already did 8 and 12 so 16 it is

16: you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

MOON. BABY. there are people who think (hypothetically, we still don't know yet, but they ASSUME this is what's happening) just throwing out all that set-up of griffith's attachment to guts, the foreshadowing of his heart not being fully frozen from before moonbaby even existed, and just making him an obstacle to guts and casca's relationship with their practically nonexistent character of a son is a GREAT writing decision. it essentially throws out his entire character and makes everything we learned about his and guts' relationship in the golden age arc completely worthless. to me this, if it goes this way, would be a SHOCKINGLY bad decision. like, legitimately one of the worst in fiction that i've seen tbh. griffith would be getting fucked harder by the writing than cersei lannister getting relegated to sitting on a balcony going "but my baby tho" for an entire season. but somehow there are people who think it's sooooo deep, and i just. i physically don't have it in me to take it seriously

and then there are all the ending theories centered around this thing. just the worst. if Berserk ends with them somehow separating, griffith alone dying and guts and casca skipping off into the sunset to go live some Harvest Moon ass cottagecore tradwife nightmare with their kid i'm killing myself fr. it's not that i want guts and griffith to get married or whatever the fuck idiots on reddit dot com think. there's just no precedent for that, and a HUGE precedent for practically anything else

[a-witch-image]

TW: rape, pedophilia

Bro why is Casca always getting her clothes ripped off and nearly raped -_-

Like how many times can this happen to her? Honestly...

Yes, I get it, us as women/fem-presenting people are targets for the scum of the earth and this is what sexual violence looks like, but come on.

And now her (valid and understandable) psychological break has basically turned her into a sick little kid in a woman's body? I have a lot of conflicting feelings about the portrayal of sexual trauma as something that you can't come back from.

On one hand, what did Miura do to our warrior? She's a badass leader and an accomplished knight ffs. She's led armies! She holds her own alongside Griffith and Guts! Casca is one of the most intriguing, inspiring, complex female characters I've ever read. She deserves the space to explore her potential. So what happened??

Nb4 "But she's traumatized!" So is Guts!!! Who was sold to a pedophile by his adoptive father! So is Charlotte!!! Who was raped (that wasn't "just" assault let's be fr) by her biological father! Let her move forward! Let her heal! Let Casca find herself again! (I'm on volume 18, I think) (first-timer here)

On the other hand, sexual trauma/abuse, etc. is life-changing/ruining in the most fucked up way. It never leaves you. Speaking from experience, I feel like I'll never get that innocence back from the people who took it and there's a void where it used to be. I understand the concept of blocking it out so hard that you forget or minimize the trauma. I relate to it.

But!!

Why does the man get an emotional breakthrough but the woman's mind is seemingly irreparably broken? It just bothers me.

Is this something that's been the center of discourse in the fandom? Bc i feel like the Yay/Nay of her storyline could absolutely be a topic that gets people heated

Aaauughhhhh

terfs dni btw. I specified "Feminine-Presenting" on purpose. Fuck off.

[funkii-fox]

Hot take: proshippers that interact w discourse are not much better than antis that interact w discourse. Like, if you're REALLY dedicated to doing ur weird stuff without judgement, why are you so worried abt what antis do? Mind ya damn business

I used to engage in discourse for fun from time to time, but as an adult and more mature i have actual shit to do and i realize its all dumb af.

You can at least understand antis being into discourse bc they truly believe they're doing gods work and preventing bad stuff, but wtf are proship discourse pages doing? It's one thing to support other proshippers, but thats not what i see a lot of the time. It’s not interacting w ur own community for support or care, its interacting w ur own community to put down antis and pretend ur better. Especially bc are there "anti hate pages" be fr. Enjoy ur weird stuff in peace bruh life is short. Focus on urself. Getting into discourse and making everything about being proshipper really makes yourself a target for antis. Ur just feeding this hate train by being hateful to ALL antis, even tho a lot are normal and chill. A lot of them are kids (too young to be online) groomed into a borderline cult because they dont know any better. A lot of them are terrified to speak out incase they get hanged, drawn, and quartered by the community.

Maybe it’s just me, my “minding my own damn business” attitude, or bc i get like 3 notes per post max anyway, but i haven’t rlly encountered a lot of antis. Not on tumblr, and a few times on instagram. The worst thing to happen to me on here was someone put “erm what the scallop” in my asks (anonymously bc shes scared). I didnt shrivel up and die, i answered w something sarcastic like “oh no! Im gonna kill myself bc random anonymously doesn’t like me :(“ and i went abt my day. On instagram, ive gotten canceled probably a million times, but rarely do they come in my dms. They just kinda stalk my story and posts and freak out in their private circles.

Although, i remember a funny time when an anti told me to kill myself and calling me a pedo in a story + tagged me, with GRIFFITH (pretty white haired twink from berserk) as the background. I haven’t gotten into berserk but i do know that that guy is a rapist so ummm i think he would be on my side. Its goofy ngl

I think it’s a little bit of a persecution complex. Proshippers are mistreated and misrepresented, but at the same time some ppl go way too far is “protecting” proshippers.

[to2llynottoby]

rules: shuffle your likes or your favorite playlist and post the first ten tracks (and say a little something about them if you want!)

Doing my likes cause I want to see what insane tonal whiplash I get from all the music I listen to

Ezekiel Saw De Wheel - Louis Armstrong: One of my favorite spirituals and this is such a great version of it.

Move Along - All American Rejects: BANGERS ONLY BIONICLE COMMERCIAL CLASSIC

Across The Great Divide - Nanci Griffith: Thank you female folk vocalists I owe you my life. Top ten songs to wistfully reflect to

All My Friends Are Nobodies - Zebrahead: Goes hard. Zebrahead rules and not just because I like their version of His World. This song was on Tony Hawk 1+2 Remastered and that game owns.

Pico - Friday Night Funkin: Shoutouts to this sick soundtrack. I love fake vocals. Ba Bee Bo

Forever and Ever - Pooh's Grand Adventure: I wanna call your name forever. And you will always answer, "forever" :'). brb sobbing

All Out Of Love - Air Supply: I don't care if it's corny I love Air Supply. This song, Even The Nights Are Better, Making Love Out Of Nothing At All, just the BEST love songs to clench your fist and belt out (even if it's a little high)

Have A Short Rest - Persona 5: Sue me, this soundtrack is kickass

White Collar Holler - Stan Rogers: Fantastic song and also hilarious. Who would've thought to make a completely played straight worker song about a bored to death office worker.

That Summer - Garth Brooks: HE'S JUST LIKE ME FR

This was super fun, I love doing stuff like this and just taking an inventory of all my different music. Thanks for prompting me to do this ixaca!

I'm tagging @narwhaled-wheatfield @tactfulsaboteur @prehistwhoreic @vi-sigoth @foxmulderswaifu5ever @khanuckle @a-certain-nigerian-toyota and anyone else who wants to!

[bthump]

hi bthump! I just recently binged berserk and stumbled onto all your writings - really loving working through all your analyses!! thank you for all that you do!

I had a question that I've been trying to turn over in my head, what do you think about Guts' feelings towards Casca? To me, the way I read the story its always seemed that Griffith (since GA fr sure) has been the sole person that Guts has 100% romantically+ platonically loved in that soulmate kind of way. Sure, casca is very important to guts as a friend, comrade, fellow survivor of all they've been through, but i have trouble really reading guts feelings towards her as truly romantic... I do think Casca herself caught real feelings for guts, but in all their scenes together I kind of read Guts interactions with her as him processing.. his own trauma in a way? like take whole cave thing, where they even kiss and have sex; when i think of that scene i really think of it less as, casca and guts getting Together as a couple. but rather two friends sharing their traumas together in a mutually healing sort of way. the fact that they do get physically intimate together doesn't necessarily mean that guts actually is in love with her I believe. like I think that whole scene just touches on that trope of how lots of men are Only able to bare themselves emotionally/share their traumas through physical intimacy— usually with a woman.

And especially right now as it stands in the story I definitely think that guts doesn't see her romantically at all... and the sole reason guts feels strongly about getting her memory back isn't because he's hoping to get his "lover" back but rather simply feels like he wants to do right by his close friend and comrade, especially how particularly horrible and traumatic the eclipse was for her.

am i being delusional!!

Thanks for the ask! lol yeah I definitely agree with you.

I don't think Guts is in love with Casca, and I think that's pretty apparent in how he behaves throughout the story. Their sex scene definitely had a friends hooking up vibe to me, and they're probably meant to have potential as a couple in theory, but in practice it's totally unrealized.

In case you're interested, I'm gonna link you some posts I've written on the subject of their relationship rather than get into it in detail, because I have a big backlog on this topic lol.

The constrast between Guts and Judeau's feelings towards Casca and how Guts' and Casca's relationship contains some unbalanced feelings and emotional misunderstandings

What Judeau orchestrating their relationship suggests about it

The sex scene as repression

The sex scene as rebounding from Griffith

How you can read Guts and Casca's relationship is a misstep for the characters

How their relationship fails to affect Guts

A list of reasons Guts has for taking Casca to Elfhelm that doesn't include true love

A list of Guts' bad behaviour towards Casca that points away from true love

Thoughts on the scene where Roderick asks about their relationship

[nerice]

elden ring sote bingo let's fucking GO!!

dawn of the final 24 hours before my life gets eaten. details under th cut >>

the eclipse

what the fuck were they doing at castle sol what was the point !! "the sun has not been swallowed your companion remains soulless" how was this supposed to connect to/help resurrect godwyn. may we find out when it happens!!

scythe fixes

my partner contributed this one it seems 2 be a vry specific gripe towards scythe builds that i do not understand bc i run my game with two toothpick daggers and refuse to upgrade vigor lmao

death swamp

i think it wld be funny. do it miyazaki

malenia's severed arm/oath ring

WHAT IF WE. FOUND IT >:) no idea why it'd be in the realm of shadow but i wanna pick up specifically the oath ring fr item description lore juice so bad :3

messmer blasphemy arsenal

why is he running around talking abt those unworthy of gold when he's fully stacked w/ anti erdtree insignia!! battle trophies? just to flex? let us know!!

butterfly trio

fringe theory that i don't subscribe to that the trio statue in the haligtree is *not* prodigy twins + godwyn but instead twins + messmer, on account of cape & the fact that they all get butterfly items (nascent for miquella, aeonian for malenia, and smoldering for - presumably - messmer bc of his fire theming) don't rly care for it but am curious abt the butterfly symbolism nd if it will show up

lake of rot expansion

THIS HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME SINCE I FOUND IT. why is that upper portion there, completely inaccesible, with the other end suspiciously faded out!!!! no other part of the giant ass world map has smth like this LET US GO THERE!! blue dancer portal i believe in u

marika's dad

that guy in the painting. who's a talking corpse pulling a sword out of his fucked up body later in the trailer, LOREDROP US

age of rot

easy. malenia resurrection phase three full ending truther. yes i realize this wld be the worst possible fate for her i love dying and despair

sleep swamp

we kind of saw it in the trailer. might not be an actual inflicting-the-effect soup location but again i think it'd be funny!!

godwyn's resurrection (mermaid boss)

with or without connection to whatever the eclipse is. there's no way they're not gonna use that huge disgusting model of him from the deeproot depths 2 fuck us up. miquella can save him but he cannot save him tm :)!

messmer destined death user

every possible evil flame theory under the sun has been floated for him nd which shade of fire it is he's actually wielding. i think he's camp destined death for juice nd (possible) melina connection

gloam-eyed queen is marika's sibling/twin

my fav little pet theory!! assuming the guy in the painting is marika's dad and assuming (spicily) that the woman in the painting isn't actually her but another numen / empyrean / possibly sibling / most likely 2 be the gloam eyed queen aka whoever marika has slain at the beginning of the sote story trailer when she claims godhood. i just think this game loves sibling beef too much 2 not go there. conversely i don't think melina is the gloam-eyed queen but i do think there's a connection/possible inheritance avenue w.

malenia death consequences

THE ONLY THING I REALLY CARE ABT FOR THIS DLC it cannot be a 10/10 without this, indulge meeeeee pwease she's a fkcin optional boss and the entire reason for miquella's quest. it has to matter COME ON !!!! idc if it's a lot to code and account for u built this house

melina/messmer siblings

melina is the odd one out whose parentage is so far unconfirmed. nd there are no only children in this game. so w/ the addition of messmer > obv conclusion that might still be fully off lol

miquella anti-griffith path

yes ive seen the theories. yes ive read berserk. yes it makes sense and the parallels are off the charts. when i first found the bewitching branch nd the lore bits abt miquella/st trina i also sent my partner a long essay abt the parallels. miquella the beloved defender of the weak, (+ there is LITERALLY AN ECLIPSE HE TRIED TO CAUSE) however all the "miquella is evil" theories are supremely boring sorry. playing it straight wld be such a waste. u meet miquella nd he turns out to be a mastermind manipulator who used dream control and charm and even malenia was tricked etc etc IT'S BORING gtfo

boss w/ 3rd phase

haven't had that yet. bonus points if i get my resurrected malenia insect body horror for this (wldnt even count bc it's not a consequtive phase) but a girl can dream uwu

final boss fight @ the vagina tree roots

sorry for the uninitiated. but yeah this wld be a dope final boss location and either way i wanna go there!!!!! give us pussy

outer god of sleep

this shot in the story trailer. "abandoning his fate" can be interpreted either way, abandoning (unalloyed) gold for existence as st trina OR WHAT I'M PUSHING. him even abandoning his fate as empyrean i.e. godhood since power in this game always comes at the price of outer gods whispering in ur ear nd i want!! an outer god of sleep !! to have been that for miquella. sleep was his destined path like rot was for malenia, and he wants no part of it >:3

torrent's origins

this is a filler square u_u but also i'm genuinely curious if we will get more lore abt him. it's confirmed miquella was riding torrent when he set out, and the torrent we have now is a spectral steed, first seen with melina and then gifted to us by ranni in disguise so like. how do we get from a to b to c d e f here chat !!!!

blue dancer lore

ANOTHER 10/10 REQUIREMENT. ive made my case and it's a strong one. ik all of the malenia content wishes are copium at best but getting vicarious lore on this one is extremely feasible imo

age of unalloyed gold

there's no way we aren't getting a miquella themed ending right. riiiight??

full melina lore

TRULY THE MOST ENIGMATIC CHARACTER there's a billion theories (geq being the strongest one) i don't even care what her specific lore details are gonna be but it'll be so interesting if any of it gets elaborated on !!

all new npcs fucking die

they're such a merry band in the story trailer :) wld be a shame if something happened to them :))))))))

[angfdzfilm]

Berserk, 1997

I love the spotlight watercolor shots Berserk uses for their intense shots, they're so beautiful! Also look at that beautiful drawing of Griffith after he's been knocked out. They use it several times in the scene so obviously it had to be a really good one.

Another particular thing I like about the Berserk anime is that they animate so much blood, but it's really cartoonified enough that it doesn't actually end up in grim-dark gore territories... somehow. It's kind of a strange show because there's plenty of politics and scenes of just characters talking (like, it fr reminded me a little of game of thrones, or idk some other prestige fantasy show), but also this show is still obviously for kids.

Which just makes me insane like, if I had watched this as a kid I think my brain chemistry would have changed permanently.

[lesbiancharliedalton]

lana singing hiking up griffith and getting sad in the midwest....... wow she’s just like me fr

[cagesidewrittings]

My rant on being closeted

Sometimes I find myself despising the fact that I like men. I like women too but sometimes I see a beautiful man and my imagination runs rampant with all the beautiful and dirty things I’d like to do with them.

I feel as if there is something wrong with me because I am not stereotypically gay. I don’t really act feminine. Quite the opposite, I lift weights and am one of the physically strongest people I know. I fight, matter of fact I will be fighting in a couple of months. I drive a muscle car. I love guns and I carry one myself. I come from a very masculine culture. With the women I have been with I’ve been very dominant. I love combat sports which are the most masculine there is like boxing, jiu jitsu, mma, etc and I train and fight in them. The only feminine thing I have is probably skin care and sometimes I grow my hair long.

My problem isn’t with strangers or even most family members talking shit. I recently saw an episode in six feet under where they attacked a guy for being gay. I am not afraid of that for myself as I know I’m stronger than most, know how to fight, and have a gun. If anyone ever tries me for my sexuality I can handle myself. What I am scared of is disappointing a certain male family member. There are two that I care about, I know the woman will accept me but I don’t know about the man. Yes in theory I could destroy him in a fight but that’s not important to me. I really don’t wanna disappoint him.

Then there is the fight community. Every single person I’ve met in combat sports with the exception of two have some sort of problem with homosexuality on some level. I don’t want to be looked at by my coaches or teammates as some freak or an outcast. Like I am still that same guy you met I just sometimes like the company of men. I don’t like any of them so there isn’t nothing to worry about. However I know they’d look at me differently. I feel like I don’t really belong anywhere.

I love writing and theatre, but I also love lifting and fighting. I am torn between two worlds and feel like I don’t belong in neither, and that’s without even getting into ethnicity/heritage and nationality. I switch between masks constantly as to not expose myself. I feel like a fucking mistake. Why the fuck couldn’t I just be part of one world or the other. Why couldn’t I be straight or just not into fighting cause fuck I love it. I love my sexuality too. I don’t wanna let go of either part of me, but I feel like I lose myself constantly.

I just wish I was normal instead of having to express myself to strangers cause I have no one.

Type of timing I’m on fr fr #gofuckyourself I’d put you to sleep if you say some homophobic shit to me in real life and not hide behind a screen pussy

A big inspiration for me is Emile Griffith. He was a pro boxer who was bisexual, sort of an open secret. He fought a guy named “The Kid” Perez who called him a faggot before they fought. Emile killed him in the ring and that’s how I look to carry myself, I want to be strong and dangerous for if the day ever comes where I have to fight to exist because of my sexuality, I will be the one that gets to walk away and not some bigot ass pussy bitch.

[cardassian-artistry]

I would post something like “I’m Griffith-pilled”, “I’m Griffith-maxxing” or “he just like me fr” but that would carry some unfortunate implications so I’ll just think it.