#off + monster season

[nadekofannumber1]

I think Nadeko has some real “my mom doesn’t let me pick my clothes, this is the most androgynous thing I own.” vibes so I was fairly hesitant on concepts like Tsukihi picking clothes for her or Nadeko becoming girly in a traditional cute way again. I understand the concept of that Nadeko reclaiming her own femininity from her trauma is something valuable in storytelling that can be validating. Yet that plot line has mostly been used misogyny plots to de-tomboy some tomboy characters or like “fixing” a girl character. So it becomes awkward to view with nadeko, as this is a character with a story about expressing repressed parts of yourself, following your dreams, being authentic and not what society wants, and living ungracefully. The rebellion against cuteness can easily be undercut by the need to market nadeko girlier.

(I feel like a lot of the nademono fanart I’ve seen has mostly been nadeko in the more masc fits which I feel like says something about the core nadeko audience outside the anime lol)

But the trailer had me thinking that the showrunners may understand this to the degree of making the outfit from tsukihi’s closet boyish (well as masculine as sorta sweet ouji Lolita style fashion can be, but there’s an intent of boyishness in there). So it’s got me imagining that maybe in the nadeko timeskip outfit, she also wears something boyish! I think that if Nadeko has to reclaim anything cute it would have to break the mold on some level. If that ended up as cute boy fashion then so be it. This is my truth.

I think nisio could do it and go beyond bc the guy’s cap of how butch a woman can be before he starts getting scared is higher than the average light novel author. (To a degree that it factors into the nisio gender chart and he invents some in fact not girls)

Of course, it would need to be his truth too.

[chalkrub]

various art trades from the past month! had FUN as usual

[megaawkwardhuman]

[lifterboyfriend]

He isn't just your homely chemistry teacher anymore.

[bluuscreen]

laios touden the monster man that you are…

original panel btw

[superchat]

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Sento gets a page too.

[fatestayyuri]

Koyomi Araragi — Hard Knock Life

[shittymihodaily]

Happy Halloween. This year I'm sending out my scary yamiho brainworms to the public

[hotcoldcoffee]

[wejustvibing]

🫶🏾.

[nadekofannumber1]

Monogatari OMS illustration for megami magazine

[vaguely-concerned]

there are a lot of daddy issues to go around on DS9 in general, but odo, bashir and garak are really in their own special little fucked up 'what am I but wrought in my father's image' club

[lovethytendytenderly]

27 by Fall Out Boy // an edit a day til penguins hockey, a countdown (day 0)

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Hockey is back!🐧🏒 Welcome home 😈😇

[lifterboyfriend]

[marsti]

Ougi in Nadeko Draw part 2