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[agroupofcrows]

it’s two am but ​do you guys remember the big reveal scene where gintoki is like. ‘are you my dad’s evil twin? actually it doesn’t matter if you are, i can kill you just like i killed real dad.’ and then a flying ship, because obviously there are flying ships in this story, a flying ship crashes to the ground right on top of uturo. and after pausing for effect, utsuro dramatically tears the shipwreck off of himself, not unlike that “grandma it’s me!” meme guy revealing his anastasia drag, except utsuro is naked and unharmed under the shipwreck and voiced by yamadera koichi and he aims a withering look at gintoki (entirely unnecessarily, as gintoki is temporarily blinded by adrenaline) aims a withering look at gintoki that is meant to convey ‘i’m not your evil dad, i’m corpse georg. your real dad was also corpse georg. you are corpse georg. and guess what? this entire planet is corpse georg.’

[lotus-tower]

hi hi i hope you are still doing essay commentary because WOAG this latest oboro visual poem meta thing. messed me UP. predictably your mention of third person perspective is my favourite part of the whole post. im wondering why you chose those specific oboro and gintoki Eye Moments for example. but anything else or anything more on the rainbow body segment that you want to talk about would be wonderful! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

(— groupofcrows main)

yesss thank you for the question! i love talking about this stuff.

So the rainbow body is a phenomenon and concept from Dzogchen, a tradition within Tibetan Buddhism. Essentially, when a master attains full knowledge, their body changes. I'm not going to go into the details here because it's not too relevant, but upon death the master's body will dissolve into light instead of leaving a corpse behind, and then their spirit can go wherever in the world to aid others. (Very much like how I think of Shouyou's final death in the final arc where he The World arcana's himself into sublimation.)

I was originally going to go in a different direction with the collage, but it didn't work with the flow as well, and it was difficult to get suitable quotes. You haven't seen the end of the rainbow body quotes though, I have a bunch more I'm saving for another collage. lol.

Anyway, what's meant by "third person perspective" in the actual definition of the rainbow body is just that this is what's observable to the people around the master. Buddhism is largely concerned with the internal, which is probably why it's phrased this way. I took it and ran though! The first screenshot in that section is of Gintoki's iconic PTSD moment when he sees Utsuro's face for the first time, perfectly coincidentally in the arc where Utsuro is depicted with a LGBT pride aura as he moves for no reason (except, I presume, hilarity). What more significant moment of "knowledge" attainment is there for him? For Oboro, though, that moment of horrified realization is when he "realizes" he's been replaced, that Shouyou getting to live means that he will actually, you know, live his life and move on.

I juxtaposed these moments because, in a way, Gintoki and Oboro are already "third person perspectives" of each other. I've already talked about how Oboro is a retroactively created echo of Gintoki. What's fun in the wording of the quote is that it's the third-person perspective of someone else attaining knowledge, right? Oboro and Gintoki are "at the scene" of their respective deepest horror, with Oboro's image being second because it implicitly frames him as potentially looking at Gintoki. Because that's indeed what happened. Oboro is also always looking at Gintoki, but not at all in the same way as Takasugi.

In the execution pic, he's simply watching the execution--Gintoki is just the guillotine, and despite how terrible this moment is for everyone involved, Oboro isn't haunted by this. Some part of him knows that the worst is yet to come--that Gintoki will survive because of this choice, so one day he may come to the truly horrible realization, Utsuro. And so the images also imply that Oboro is looking at Gintoki's realization with horror. Oboro in the present had already come to this realization long ago, and so he's become empty of all (or almost all...) desires, attachments, resentments and lets himself be dressed by the narrative in priestly attire without protest.

What about Gintoki? He's not watching anything in this moment except his own memories flying past, but we, the viewer, are watching him have this realization. Just as we watch Oboro have his realization, and understand the catalyst for the entire underlying tragedy of Gintama. Which was Gintoki, or rather Oboro seeing Gintoki. In this situation we are also literally the third person. Gintoki finding out about Utsuro is just the sound of a pebble hitting water a very, very long time after Oboro first dropped it into a well over 10 years ago.

But also, Gintoki meeting Utsuro is quite literally why Utsuro has that LGBT pride aura going on. Because Utsuro needs a very dramatic entrance scene, because this is a very tense moment the narrative can't not gas up. So that we can enjoy it as viewers.

[dasmanishjh]

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[dbarmmer]

Attempted murder? #sanclemente #birdsofsanclemente #birdmanofsanclemente #birdsofinstagram #murderofcrows #groupofcrows #crowmorning #birdzoo #wildbirds #crows #crow

[everoutoftouch]

There's been a murder. O.O #crow #crows #murderofcrows #groupofcrows #murder #lovethem #letmeloveyou #birds #cuties

[agroupofcrows]

god this is from more than two years ago. i hope anon has read the holeistic gintama essays

on the topic of tama/utsuro comparisons.. if theyre both emptiness then one would be a holes desire to be filled while the other is a holes desire to grow larger. either destroy the hole by filling it up or by making everything else empty too

hahaHAHAHAHA are we going to talk about that which resembles the grave but isn’t? (maybe gintama is about being put in holes)

in terms of... hole, i think of tama as a treasure chest hole! she is the story itself, personified because why not because personhood is the highest form of being. a metanarrative character, if you will. everyone's treasures (mostly memories) are welcome to be buried, the ground will guard it and bear it and remember it all until others dig it up in future eras and different stories. and that's why kintoki arc and tamako (and shinpachi being tamako's father!) happened the way they happened, at least in my interpretation.

utsuro, my guy. my dude. he is a black hole. not a hungry mouth but an empty place. a neutron star that kept falling inside itself until it broke down everything that can exist, time and space, everything. who was it who said that gintama is about character restoration and not development? that's true about shoyo-utsuro too, he goes back to being a star in the end...

the reason why utsuro didn't lose his vision here is that this has been his point of view to begin with. if you take something from emptiness (eg eyeballs or dignity or power or authority) it just becomes emptier. again the black and white medium is perfect to communicate that this is blood, but also the emptiness pouring out. two gates into a hole that unmakes those who enter it

[agroupofcrows]

“so hasegawa on the cross adored by gintoki(virgin mary swooning), katsura(st john supporting the virgin mary), elisabeth(angel holding scroll) and monday elisabeth(bored roman soldier with good legs)”

—nephew-cardinal groupofcrows ottoboni on a 16th century zoom call with a starving homosexual painter who is in love with and secretly trying to steal andrea my favourite castrato from the cupboard

[agroupofcrows]

groupofcrows blog a year ago: multiple-paragraph meta posts with screenshots. lovingly edited memes

groupofcrows blog now:

[picture of a cockroach and white dog] oooh gintamathomme

happened to my friend wigmund zureud once

coan arc seductively bends down to pick up a lawsuit from the tolkien estate. the estate respectfully returns the bow

he ginpachi on my sensei till i world serpent

have you guys seen the Water

[agroupofcrows]

and how come theres no fanart of baby gintoki in shoson sleeping with shoyo's sword like it's a teddy bear

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

A year ago, when I first posted this, I saw a small murder, (the name for a group of crows), of crows this afternoon. There was a breeze with some pretty strong gusts 💨 but they seemed to ride the wind 🌬 without any trouble. So it got me wondering what was online and this is what I found. I chose short but dramatic snippets of crows really getting worked up with the last entry winning hands down. Crows gather together in large murders before they go to a collective roost. When gathering together they can make a considerable racket and there have been reports of people being driven to near insanity by the ruckus. Neighbourhoods are rarely pleased to be under the roost of crows. Cleaning up feathers and small hills of droppings is not a pleasant task. Still, they are interesting birds with considerable intelligence, which has been revealed in studies of crow’s behavior. • I hope you enjoy the short film. The snippets were from: Deep Look Chuck Smith Tubodacious Jesse McNeil Visit them on YouTube for more crow video footage. • #Crows #MurderOfCrows #LoudCrows #CrowRuckus #GroupOfCrows #AmericanCrow #CorvusBrachyrhynchos https://www.instagram.com/p/B-XqgyqAfQY/?igshid=z4h8rlrourut

[nonbinary-nature-lover-jeri]

I saw a small murder, (the name for a group of crows), of crows this afternoon. There was a breeze with some pretty strong gusts 💨 but they seemed to ride the wind 🌬 without any trouble. So it got me wondering what was online and this is what I found. I chose short but dramatic snippets of crows really getting worked up with the last entry winning hands down. Crows gather together in large murders before they go to a collective roost. When gathering together they can make a considerable racket and there have been reports of people being driven to near insanity by the ruckus. Neighbourhoods are rarely pleased to be under the roost of crows. Cleaning up feathers and small hills of droppings is not a pleasant task. Still, they are interesting birds with considerable intelligence, which has been revealed in studies of crow’s behavior. • I hope you enjoy the short film. The snippets were from: Deep Look Chuck Smith Tubodacious Jesse McNeil Visit them on YouTube for more crow video footage. • #Crows #MurderOfCrows #LoudCrows #CrowRuckus #GroupOfCrows #AmericanCrow #CorvusBrachyrhynchos https://www.instagram.com/p/BvnzzccALR3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mj7fyphpyf8d