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soupmonarchart · 1 year ago
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I can't explain it, but . . . cassian/gangu vibes
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both were fighting to live only to die in the end despite their efforts (in cassian's case, having to live on in a body that isn't his while he is essentially a dead man walking)
like--its cass in the beginning--running from lampas for reasons he doesn't know--dying to whom he thought were friends and left to drown alone in an abyss "enter the city of the dead"
the first latin part is speaking to moros--wanting salvation--revival
revenge
then the second verse is gangu--dying to the bullies, unable to fight back his life flashes before his eyes and recalls his past then "enter the city of the dead"
and again the Latin. its cassian coming into gangu's body--awakening as a villain to bring "judgment" to lampas for his betrayal
and the final bit--"damned, hated, everywhere, by everyone, forever" does that not sound exactly like what most people think about villains? beings to be hated for what they are? Feared just because they exist?
IM NOT CRAZY I SWEAR
especially that first line "Im scared of what's inside my head, what's inside my soul" just feels so cassian--his internal fear of the villain inside of him and what it could do if he every lost control
". . . Im going under. memories flash before my eyes, im losing time . . . " DOES THAT NOT SOUND EXACTLY LIKE DROWNING? LIFE FLASHING BEFORE YOUR EYES
and then "white lite fades red" its gangu fading and cassian taking over
its anger taking over the white nothingness they felt in death
its an awakening
IM NOT CRAzY I SwEAr
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chuu-huahua · 1 year ago
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i told @downbadforpixels that i was gonna write SLEEPING BEAUTY PT.2 and i keep my promises (most of the time). i know chapter 109 came out like 2 days ago but it's all i can think about right now :( tw blood
you know the whole "our fate will not end in a place like this. because you and i are destined to-" shebang? yea that. let's start from there.
bram can feel the tug of the sword deep in his brain, making him grit his teeth. the table makes it off the tower, and aya can only rush to grab onto bram's head and pull. it comes out cleaner than they both expected, thankfully, and they watch as the table crashes down onto the ground below, breaking into several pieces of wood. bram is quick to release his control over the vampires as his body pieces itself back together.
in meursault, chuuya's fingers that clutch onto the gun loosen, and the weapon clacks onto the ground. they rise to his head as he screams, his consciousness a mess as his vision clears. dazai's cooling body is sitting before him, and chuuya reaches a hand out to touch his cheek. it's colder than usual.
"congratulations, nakahara. you've defeated the enemy," fyodor's voice echos in the hallway from the speaker, and chuuya can almost imagine the smug smile on that rat's face. his teeth no longer include the longer canines it did before, so when his teeth grind together he does not worry about breaking any skin.
"o grantors of dark disgrace..."
"nakahara?"
"you need not wake me again."
when chuuya comes to, he's face to face with dazai again, but this time the brunette is awake and smiling. meursault lies in ruins around them, and chuuya can spot fyodor's dismembered body amongst the broken walls and crumbling infrastructure.
he wraps his arms around dazai's lanky frame, pulling his face close to his. dazai chuckles, bending his back to accommodate for their difference in height.
"is the chibi finally going to grant me my sleeping beauty kiss?"
"what else, you bastard?"
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box-o · 1 year ago
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I think Sonic would be perfectly capable of swimming if he was given a different approach other than the normal freestyle/front crawl stroke to go off of because I think he would be an absolute menace in the water if he knew the Butterfly stroke
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tikklil · 6 months ago
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The ghost of the strongest
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miyukisluv · 11 months ago
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i love insane people
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justvea18 · 9 days ago
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And nothing bad happened, ever
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jadecantcreate · 2 months ago
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the stage kiss that should’ve been a real kiss…romance of the millennium, kremy and gi— i mean…..…ragnarachel and ragnaross *exaggerated torbek wink*
requested by @nb-person !
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connorsnothereeither · 11 months ago
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He would and has done this, can confirm
I had a dream venear_ looked me in the eyes and then summoned a flash flood, kinda iconic of him honestly
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saamaton · 5 months ago
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formula 1 ft. guess
the sequel: formula 1 ft. talk talk
made by me, obviously inspired by the callengers guess edit by gal1tzine that i can't find anymore but was great!
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portrait-of-a-moron · 4 months ago
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Green ninja solos Goku in converse his mommy bought him.
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l3viat8an · 6 months ago
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I got the card <333
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dimdiamond · 3 months ago
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@cenvast you're so right to mention the complexity of Maizuru and the rest retainers as they are never shown as poor victims or helpless slaves with no personality or fault. Because they are in the end humans who were harmed but also harmed others. The difference here and the whole point as has been mentioned already is the position in the social hierarchy, who has the power over the other. Obviously in the clan the patriarch has the whole power yet he is powerless without everyone and the fact that he clings on his first retainer, Maizuru, shows how weak he is and thus falls in the eyes of the rest, especially to Maizuru. Even the one lower than him see him as weak for relying on someone lower than him. Maizuru probably sees the potential of a good leader in Toshiro because he doesn't rely on anyone that shamelessly and still she will complain about him not relying on her and the rest more. Yet she ignores she (alongside the parents of course) is responsible for Toshiro's distance to any of the people around him. Because when he was a boy, although the heir, she was the one in power and used her power over him. Her intentions may have been good but she still traumatised him.
Patriarchy's lowest are always women and then below them the kids until they grow up to be considered a man or a woman and take their position. I can't help seeing Maizuru as the woman who reinforces the patriarchal status, consciously or not, and how she becomes a role model to the rest girls (except Izutsumi but let's not forget how Izutsumi was treated by her so in a way she was already rejected in their system).
So the real question shouldn't be if Toshiro is problematic but what Toshiro and the whole world he comes from says about our world and our self-reflection towards our patriarchal system and in the end how big can the change be from just one person.
"Toshiro Is Sexist," "Toshiro Owns Slaves": What's Really Going on With This Guy?
I've seen a lot of debate on whether or not Toshiro is problematic because he's a slave owner or because he's sexist in the context of his crush on Falin. While I do want to examine his relationship to Falin, I'd like to take a few steps back and unpack his upbringing first. We'll dive into the gender and class dynamics he was raised with and how it impacts his behavior in the main storyline.
Like all people, Toshiro is shaped by the environment he grew up in. Toshitsugu, Toshiro's father and the head of the Nakamoto clan, is the most impactful model of authority and manhood in his life. Toshiro does recognize some of his father's flaws and tries to avoid replicating them. But whether or not he emulates or subverts his father's behavior, Toshitsugu is often the starting point for Toshiro's treatment of others, particularly marginalized people.
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The Nakamoto clan exists under a patriarchal hierarchy with Toshitsugu at the top. As noted by @fumifooms in their Nakamoto household post, his wife has more authority than Maizuru. She's able to ban Maizuru from parts of their residence, but despite disliking his infidelity, she can't divorce him or stop him from cheating on her. Their marriage is not an equal partnership.
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On an interpersonal level, Toshitsugu and Maizuru also have a fraught relationship. While she does seem to care for him, she's often frustrated by his thoughtless behavior.
For example, he drunkenly buys Izutsumi for her — without considering how she'll have to raise this child — and invades her room in the middle of the night. When he cryptically says, "It's all my fault," she replies, "I can think of a lot of things that are your fault." She calls him an "idiot" and "believes that [Toshiro] will grow up to be a better clan leader than his father," implying that she takes issue with Toshitsugu's leadership.
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Because Maizuru and Toshitsugu are described as being "in an intimate relationship" and "seem[ing] to be lovers," Maizuru appears to be a consensual participant. Still, this doesn't negate the large power imbalance between them as a male noble clan leader and his female retainer. This imbalance introduces an insidious undertone to Maizuru's frustration with Toshitsugu. Like Toshiro's mother, Maizuru doesn't have the agency to do as she pleases in their relationship; he has the ultimate authority. For instance, she doesn't seem to want to raise Izutsumi, but she has to anyway.
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While Maizuru's role as Toshitsugu's mistress is significant, she's also the Nakamoto clan's teacher and Toshiro's primary maternal figure. She cares deeply for Toshiro: tailing him, feeding him, and taking responsibility even for his actions as an adult. While it might seem sweet that she cares for him like a son at first, Maizuru was notably fifteen years old at the time of his birth. In the extra comic below, he's six years old and has already been in her care for some time. Even if we're being generous and assuming that she didn't start raising him until he was six, she was still only twenty-one at the time she was parenting her boss/lover's child with another woman.
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Maizuru's roles as mistress and maternal figure, in addition to her role as retainer, demonstrate the intersection between gendered and class oppression in the Nakamoto household. Despite her original role being a retainer trained in espionage, Toshitsugu presses her into performing gendered labor for him and eventually, Toshiro. She's expected to be Toshitsugu's lover, perform emotional labor for him as his confidant, care for his child, and carry out domestic tasks like cooking. She says, "Even during missions, I was often dragged into the kitchen." If she was a male servant, I doubt she would have been expected to perform these additional tasks. She can't avoid these tasks either, stating that her "own feelings don't factor into it."
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Toshitsugu disregards his wife's and Maizuru's desires and emotions to serve his own interests. Because he has societal power over them as a nobleman and in Maizuru's case, her master, neither woman can escape their position in the household hierarchy.
As a result, Toshiro grew up within a structure where men and male nobility, in particular, wield the most societal power. The hierarchical nature of his household and society discourages everyone, including him as a clan leader's eldest son, from questioning and disrupting the existing hierarchy.
The other Nakamoto household members also internalize its sexist, classist power dynamics.
For example, Hien expects that she and Toshiro will replicate the uneven dynamics of the previous generation, regardless of her personal feelings. She sees her and Toshiro's relationship as paralleling Maizuru and Toshitsugu's relationship; she is the closest woman to Toshiro and his retainer, so she's shocked when Toshiro doesn't attempt to begin an intimate relationship with her. Notably, she doesn't have actual feelings for him. Her expectations are centered around the household's precedent of placing emotional, sexual, domestic, and child-rearing labor onto the female servants without any regard for their personal desires.
Hien also probably knows that her position in the household will improve if she is Toshiro's lover because she's seen it improve Maizuru's position. However, the fact that being the future clan leader's lover is the closest proximity she, as a female servant, has to power further reveals the gendered, class-based oppression she and the other women live under.
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It's important to note that the Nakamoto clan bought Benichidori, Izutsumi, and Inutade as slaves, so they have less power and agency than Maizuru and Hien. The clan further dehumanizes Izutsumi and Inutade as demi-humans; their enslavement contains an additional layer of racialization.
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Toshiro isn't oblivious to the gendered, class, and racial power dynamics of his household. He tries to distance himself from participating in its exploitative power structure. He walls himself off from Hien, who he's known since childhood, to avoid replicating his father's behavior and making his servant into his lover. He disapproves of his father's enslavement of Izutsumi and Inutade, and he lets Izutsumi go when she runs away in the Dungeon.
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But does any of this absolve him of his complicity in his household's sexist, classist power dynamics and racialized slavery?
The short answer is absolutely not.
Despite his distaste for his father's exploitation of his servants and slaves, Toshiro still uses them. He refers to his party as "his retainers," and he has them fight and perform domestic tasks for him. You could argue that Toshiro doesn't like to and thus, doesn't regularly use his servants and slaves. In the context of him asking his retainers to help him rescue Falin, Maizuru says, "The only time he ever made any sort of personal request was for this task." But it shouldn't matter whether exploitation is a regular occurrence or not for it to be considered harmful. Toshiro asking Maizuru to cook him a meal still constitutes asking his female servant to perform gendered labor for him. He's also very accustomed to her grooming and dressing him.
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Maizuru sees feeding, washing, and even advising Toshiro romantically as fulfilling Toshitsugu's orders to care for his son. They aren't fulfilling a "personal request." But just because her labor has been deemed expected and thereby devalued doesn't mean that it isn't labor or that she isn't performing it.
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Maizuru's dynamic with Toshiro is also complicated by her role as his maternal figure. She loves him and wants to take care of him, and she doesn't have a choice in the matter. During Toshiro's childhood, the onus was on Toshitsugu to cease exploiting his lover and release her from servitude, but Toshiro is now an adult man. Seeing as how Maizuru defers to his wishes and calls him "Young Master," they still have a power imbalance that he's passively maintaining. Ideally, he would not ask anything of her until he has the authority to release her from servitude.
Throughout the story, Toshiro acts as if he has no agency and quietly disapproving of his father's actions absolves him of his participation in maintaining oppressive dynamics. While his father still ranks higher than him, he's essentially his father's heir. He has much more power than Maizuru, the highest-ranked servant. At the very least, he could leave his slave-owning household.
Unfortunately, his refusal to confront injustice is consistent with his character's major flaw: he does not express his opinions, desires, or needs. While this character trait obviously hurts his friendships, it also furthers his complicity in the injustices his household runs on.
Toshiro's relationship with eating food — the prevailing metaphor of the series — also parallels his relationship with confronting injustice. Maizuru mentions that he was a sickly child, so the act of eating may have been physically uncomfortable for him. As an adult, his refusal to eat crops up during his rescue attempt of Falin. Denying himself food might have been punishment for not accomplishing important tasks like rescuing Falin and/or a way to maintain control over something in his life when he felt like he'd lost control over the rest of it, again in the context of losing Falin. (Note: I suggest reading this post on Toshiro's disordered eating by @malaierba.)
But he cannot and does not avoid consuming food forever.
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Similarly, Toshiro keeps his distance from his retainers and tries not to use them until the Falin situation occurs. His efforts to avoid exploiting his retainers amount to inaction — things he doesn't ask of them or do to them. But his inaction does nothing to dismantle the existing hierarchy that places his retainers under his authority, denies them agency, and often marginalizes them as not only servants or slaves but as women, and he ends up using them as servants and slaves anyways.
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Returning to the narrative's themes of consumption, Toshiro cannot avoid eating just as he cannot avoid perpetuating the exploitative system of his household. The Nakamoto clan consumes the labor and personhood of those lower in the hierarchy. The retainers' labor as spies and domestic servants is the foundation of the clan's existence. Thus, the clan consumes their labor to sustain itself.
Within this hierarchy, the retainers' personhood is also consumed and erased. As Izutsumi describes, they are given different names and stripped of their agency to reject orders or leave. Maizuru and Hien also say their feelings are irrelevant in the context of Toshitsugu's and Toshiro's wants and needs. Both women are expected to comply to whatever is most beneficial and comfortable for the noblemen. Clearly, despite Toshiro's detachment from his household's functions, these social structures remain in place and harm the women under him.
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Although we know the Nakamoto clan has male retainers, the choice to highlight the female retainers seems intentional. We're asked to interrogate how not only being a servant or a slave in a noble household impacts a person's life and agency, but how being a woman intersects with being a member of some of the lowest social classes.
Toshiro only distances himself from his father's behaviors of infidelity and exploitation so long as it doesn't take Toshiro out of his comfort zone. He doesn't free his slaves. He's far too comfortable with his female retainers performing domestic labor for him, and he barely acknowledges their efforts; they're shocked when he thanks them for helping him save Falin. He hasn't unpacked his sexist (or classist or racist) biases because he perpetuates his household's oppressive hierarchy throughout the narrative. Considering all of this, he inevitably brings this baggage to his interactions with Falin.
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Falin is presumably one of the first women he's had extended contact with that isn't his relative or his family's servant. Because of his trauma surrounding his father and Maizuru sleeping together, he understandably falls for a woman as disconnected as possible from his father and his clan. He seems to genuinely like Falin, respects her boundaries, and graciously accepts her rejection. His behavior towards her is overall kind and unproblematic.
But if Falin had gone with him, she would've likely been devalued and sidelined like the other women of the Nakamoto household. No matter how much he loves Falin, simply loving her cannot replace the difficult work of unlearning his sexism. Love, of course, can and should be accompanied by that work, but by the close of the narrative, we gain little indication that Toshiro acknowledges or seeks to end his part in exploiting and devaluing women and other marginalized people.
A spark of hope does exist. Toshiro expressing his feelings to Laios and Falin suggests that his time away from home has encouraged him to speak up more. Breaking his habit of avoidance may be the first step towards acknowledging his complicity in systems of injustice and moving towards dismantling them.
Special thanks to my very smart friend @atialeague for bringing up Toshitsugu's relationship with Maizuru and the replication of dynamics of consumption and class! <3
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tabooiart · 10 months ago
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i heard mariah!ethan and i blacked out and when i woke up this was in my drawing program. anyways lesbian ethan truthers rise up
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staypuff · 7 months ago
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"i love being drunk. i feel nothing... it just feels so good. i hate it i fucking hate it i hate it. but i love it."
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lazy-raven · 1 month ago
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I heard that Yanas favourite Disney movies are "Lilo & Sitch", "Nightmare before Christmas" and "Treasure planet".
Now I'm not saying that there is a pattern but I'm definitely saying that there is a pattern.
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hana-bobo-finch · 2 months ago
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Yeah, I’ve played bug fables for one hour and 20 minutes so I guess you could say, I’m a bit of an expert now *RUSHES TO GET FIRST PIECE OF FANART DONE AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE* anyway look it’s leif
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