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[gunkbaby]

if i were ken kaneki and several beautiful women with purple hair wanted to eat me i would simply shut my ass up and get in the oven

[ghostalope]

when the when the and the and then you the when the sus

[shewhoeatssand]

I posted 7,358 times in 2022

That's 1,075 more posts than 2021!

71 posts created (1%)

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I tagged 1,114 of my posts in 2022

#tokyo ghoul - 456 posts

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#kaneki - 142 posts

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#tokyo ghoul:re - 97 posts

#tg - 65 posts

#anime - 60 posts

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#tokyoghoulcore - 57 posts

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#and it’s just akira going ‘oh? you want to see the cat? here’s the cat then’ and she pulls out haise looking very uncomfy wearing cat ears

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

General TG characters and what pets they should/shouldn’t have

When I say “general” I mean the ones either from Anteiku or ones that were introduced before :re and aren’t shown to be part of an organization. I’ll do CCG and Aogiri characters later.

Hide - Our favourite blond boy! I think it’d be illegal for me not to let him have a golden retriever. He’d take it on walks to Johoku Chuo park on the weekends, and he’d name it Ethan after the first blond boy in The Blond Boys (the one who performs for the other boys with a ribbon baton).

Kaneki - A house cat. Just an American shorthair or calico from off the side of the road. This cat would probably live a very calm life, sitting on it’s owner’s lap while he reads, before suddenly being thrown into a house with a bunch of strangers and being fed scraps of human meat lol. I think it’d be very therapeutic for Kaneki to have a cat though, and Touka can look after it while Haise is happening.

Touka - A rabbit!! She should absolutely have a rabbit. She already loves rabbits, and I imagine the only reasons she doesn’t have one yet is because she doesn’t have the space, money or time to look after it properly, but if she did, she’d have a rabbit. Heck, she could have multiple rabbits. And she would spoil them rotten too, and buy them cute outfits and take them for walks to shrines and stuff (can you walk a rabbit? I hope you can). Just. Touka with rabbits. It would be amazing.

Tsukiyama - He must have horses. A bunch of them big sprinty bois. I don’t know horses very well, so I can’t tell you exactly which breed of horse he’d own (though I’m pretty sure I remember someone making a post about it!), but let’s say he has multiple horses of a variety of breeds. They’d probably live on a separate property dedicated to his horses, with a lot of land on it for them to explore. Shuu would also take photos of them in beautiful places a lot, and run a blog posting about his horses.

Yoshimura - A cage full of budgies, that would be named after different teas and flowers that Ukina used to like. They’d live upstairs in Anteiku, and be evacuated to Yomo’s shipping container when the CCG came to destroy Anteiku. Yoshimura would probably put pretty potted plants inside their cage for them to investigate every once in a while. I can also see him putting a large tank full of goldfish for the customers to watch inside the shop.

Uta - Another bird. But this time, it’s a big bird. Uta would probably like owning an African Grey bird, because it can be trained to say more words than most birds, and can therefore be used in some of the best pranks. Imagine being a dove, and chasing down a ghoul, but then it disappears around a corner and you hear “quick! He’s over here!”. Then this voice proceeds to lead you around in circles for 20 minutes, before the ghoul you were chasing earlier appears with a bird on his shoulder and kills you while laughing his head off. Typical day for investigators once Uta gets himself a bird.

Roma - Every time I see the name “Roma”, I think of the tomato. Which makes me think of gardening, which makes me think of guinea pigs. Roma would probably own exactly 2 guinea pigs, and they would be called Felony and Misdemeanor, however she would tell most people that they’re called Felix and Missy. She would feed them lettuce from her neighbor’s garden, and join race groups to put them in guinea pig races, then if her guinea pigs ever came last, she would kill everyone at the tournament.

Nishiki - I can’t believe I got this far without remembering Nishiki! He would have a chihuahua that was originally bought for his girlfriend Kimi, but then he ended up taking it for walks instead of her, and then it got really attached to him and now he sleeps next to the chihuahua more often than he sleeps with Kimi. If anyone ever laughs at him for owning a chihuahua, he will flip them inside out and hang them from a telephone pole, which he will make very clear to everyone. Good job Nishiki.

Koma - I can think of two things for Koma - either an entire giant catfish (yes! A whole catfish!) or a squirrel monkey, but I’ll go with the catfish for now because it’s funnier. Originally he wanted a trilobite, but when he found out they didn’t exist anymore he bought a giant catfish instead. Obviously he couldn’t fit the catfish in a regular fish tank, so he took it to a hidden pond in the woods and marked out a trail with a sign that said “Koma’s catfish trail” on it so he could remember where to go. He even put a collar on the catfish with a tracker before leaving it, and sent an Ape to the woods each day to feed it and update him on how the catfish is going. However, the government did not enjoy having a catfish trail that lead to an actual catfish in their forest, so they sent someone to remove it and set it free. So when Koma received news that someone moved his catfish, he tracked them down, brought 50 ghouls to their house, yelled at them for 2 hours, stole their toenails and threatened to kill them if they or another person moved his catfish again. Then he orchestrated a mission to find his catfish, followed the tracker, got his catfish and put it the fuck back because no one moves his goddamn catfish.

Irimi - A black doberman, as a group mascot, and a little pink axolotl that she buys miniature hats for. The hats usually fall off though. She takes the dog for walks in the same park as Hide, so sometimes when they see eachother they have to awkwardly say hello while their dogs yap at eachother very very loudly and attract the attention of everyone around them.

34 notes - Posted August 28, 2022

#4

Comments under a picture of Tsukiyama Shuu alongside some other characters on Pinterest

38 notes - Posted August 6, 2022

#3

Small wip sneak peek of the Kaneki fanart that just happens to be an entire month late 💕

40 notes - Posted January 4, 2022

#2

Yoriko when she eventually finds out Kaneki made most of her bento and Touka is just taking the credit for it

44 notes - Posted October 9, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Hide hides another print of this underneath Kaneki’s pillow whenever he goes to sleep over at his house

83 notes - Posted March 27, 2022

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[ghostalope]

Yes! His favourite scent is probably rose but maybe he would have different favourites depending on the season? Like a lemongrass in spring and nutmeg in winter?

I think he might enjoy incense and things too? You can get pretty burners, I think he’d have a little collection of them.

Shuu Tsukiyama loves scented candles. This man has rooms filled with them and just relaxes in them.

[gunkbaby]

New Tokyo Ghoul Shuu Tsukiyama Plush !!!!

Link to info!

[gunkbaby]

i think, on being ‘over critical’ of tg - i do feel like a lot of people have confused ‘ability to criticise something in a few different ways’ with the overall product being objectively bad.

What I mean by this is that - I think TG lends itself to criticism in multiple ways. For example, a lot of characters have arcs - they have their own story in this bigger story. And not all of those stories are perfect, or delivered in ways that we’re all comfortable with. The criticism of this (ie, I’m quite critical of Shuu’s handling post Tsukiyama extermination, and of Kanae’s death and postmortem handling), is good and valid and definitely needs room within analysis.

But I think the issue is that people maybe view these arcs in a vacuum - without taking the overall story into mind. When we look at a very small part within a big story - or one character in a large ensemble - I think we might open ourselves to nitpicking - tg is objectively bad, and ishida Sui hates us all, because this specific arc, or this specific character, was handled in a way that can be criticised. There are lots of points like this where they do affect the greater story, so become narrative flaws more so than the smaller ones. I think lots of us are in agreement that TG really falters in the latter half of :re - but I think where things diverge is how I’ve seen the previous story be categorised because of that dip in quality.

Personally, I think a story can be good and have flaws, and maybe a pretty shite ending - read literally anything by Stephen King. But no one really is out here saying that IT is objectively a bad piece of media because of that one scene, or the ending - it’s a shit scene. It’s a shit ending. But is IT shit overall? That’s what I think is being ignored.

With TG, I don’t think it’s so much over-criticism that’s the problem as such. Because like I said, TG has so many characters and so many arcs - none of them are perfect, and we’re all looking at different characters, different arcs, with different eyes. So when you have this sort of community where everyone is criticising these different things - so of course it kind of doesn’t look good? Because no one’s looking at the overall product, the overall effect - I think a lot of us have been here a longer time, we maybe have become a bit jaded. We know what’s good, maybe even forgotten it, so now we’re analysing deeper and maybe things aren’t so perfect - but that doesn’t make it bad.

I don’t think people aren’t entitled to the opinion that TG is bad - using the IT example before, plenty of people think IT is bad. I don’t even like Stephen King books - so I’m hardly innocent in the old ‘popular thing bad’ camp. But what I thinkI’m maybe having trouble with, is how sort of widespread this belief is on here. I feel like the ‘TG bad lol’ take has sort of been accepted uncritically - because maybe the jokes are funny, or something. I do think sometimes that people just think it’s cool on tumblr to like flop media, to have these ‘unpopular’ opinions - because let’s face it, everyone on tumblr is a smidge up their own arses because they use tumblr - so tg maybe has been unfairly categorised as bad? maybe a hot take, but that’s how I feel - of course you guys are more than welcome to disagree.

I’ve mentioned this plenty in smaller posts where I was taking the piss, but I genuinely think a lot of us in the fandom can benefit from re-visiting tg. You know, we all know the anime isn’t a 10/10 - that’s not the TG bad take I am referring to, I mean specifically the manga - and I feel like I see a lot of people getting takes and ideas about the story and characters that maybe aren’t exact, because people use the anime or the wiki - instead of re-visiting the text? We all know the manga is very different, so why are we basing our opinions on the lesser of the media we supposedly love?

I think re-reads should be encouraged, personally. We could host like, re-read parties - TG book club, where we all read say, 10 chapters a week and discuss. It could be something really fun, and even community based. I think a lot of people don’t want to re-read the manga because it’s long, and a lot of us are neurodivergent (i have audhd girlies I literally get it!!!!), but like I said - reading 10 chapters a week, with friends.

I’m planning my own reread myself - normally I just reread the Shuu bits for his character analysis - and I’m so excited! Part of why I haven’t re-read the entire story in the past six months is because when I tried before, I had only just realised that my mother had been abusing me for quite a long time, and I had always sort of defended her from that title before. So I wasn’t mentally ready to relive that through Kaneki? But now I am, and I’m excited to seeing how the story will look for me - now that I’m older, and I have the knowledge of what I was put through, I’m sort of excited to see what new takeaways I’ll have from places I haven’t looked at, and what the story will make me feel. And of course, I’m excited to look at a certain beautiful autistic man for so many pages…

That’s another thing too though. A lot of people read TG when they were younger, or didn’t have certain experiences. So when you don’t reread, you’re remembering what you read when you were 14 and maybe a bit stupid - so of course, it might not look good if it’s been 5 years since. Age changes people, experience changes how something feels - if we’re engaging with this media critically, I think re-reading it becomes incredibly crucial. And yeah, maybe afterwards you still think TG is objectively bad - maybe that’s just how you feel, and that’s valid. But I do wonder if a lot of people would reconsider this POV if they were to re-experience it - the manga specifically.

Like I said, we can make it fun too! I’m strongly considering hosting this ‘tg reread’ in my discord server (ironic bc i did initially intend my discord server as a book club lmao) - lots of you guys have discord servers too, we have those tumblr communities, don’t we? Group chats? (Omg…WhatsApp group…) - so why not? Why not make it a thing? TG book club could be so fun!

I hope this kind of makes sense. I know I am quite critical of this fandom, and maybe a lot of people don’t like that. But I’ve said it before, I don’t really like echo chambers. I think we can question popular opinions or analysis, and it should be allowed. I’ve seen so many analysis lately, where people aren’t really analysing? I mean, they are, but it’s under this bombastic umbrella, where anyone that even respectfully tries to discuss is shut down. That’s not discussion. That’s creating an echo-chamber.

It’s important to reflect, to ask ourselves why we think certain ways. To look at a past take or analysis we’ve had and realise we no longer agree, or it’s just so so wrong - God knows I have had some beyond terrible Shuu takes. And God knows, I didn’t listen to criticism of them that well either - when I definitely should have! But that was before, and this is now. And now I think about these things differently, with more research and behind-the-scenes study, and I’ve been through more, and I’m just…not 17 anymore! And that’s okay.

I don’t know. I see issues, and I’m a cunt, so I like making my opinions heard. I don’t fucking like echo chambers, if I see something I maybe disagree with, why not try and articulate why? If I think I know enough, and if I think I can have a good discussion with someone I don’t agree with - why not? It’s good to be challenged. It doesn’t feel good to be wrong about something, but it’s better to fail and learn.

I just think lots of us are maybe jaded. Maybe we’ve forgotten things. And maybe we just need to look at these things again. I think we should all start questioning things more - especially ourselves.

[gunkbaby]

I’ve seen this rumour that ‘ishida has stated Kaneki was originally gay / ishida has confirmed kaneki is bi/pan’ since i got into Tokyo ghoul in 2016 and I’ve had enough.

There is no evidence, anywhere, that i can find, that Ishida has ever said something to this effect. All i can find are posts from people saying ishida said that - i have never seen proof of this claim.

Similarly, i have seen outrageous claims about Shuu - that he was based off of Hisoka from HxH and that his design was more similar to Hisoka’s initially - this claim is also false. I have only ever seen this via those tg instagram fan pages that were popular back in the day, and people regurgitating them. This claim feels more verifiably false - because we know that Shuu was initially used in a different manga with Hori. About a year ago, people did find panels that they believed with good reason were from this scrapped manga - i can’t find them for the life of me now, will add if i do - but in this manga, Shuu’s design was most like his Pinto design. I assume this was his ‘initial’ design. Ishida appears to be a fan of HxH, and has drawn Hisoka, but I cannot find anywhere, him saying that he had based Shuu off of Hisoka.

Neither claim appears to be true. There is very little evidence. I am begging you people, please, fact-check these things. There might be evidence that I have missed - if so, send it to me. I might have missed it.

But I have no reason to believe in any of this, or similar, and i don’t understand why so many people have taken them at face value?

For the love of God, please look into things before you post them.

[gunkbaby]

I’ve spoke on this a little bit before - yesterday in my ramble about Shuu i mentioned my feelings about his character pre :re being viewed too cynically - but i sometimes think that the takes i have seen abt tg over the years feel overly pessimistic.

i think some people’s anger or discontent over tokyo ghoul’s ending comes from this kind of philia ppl have about it being solely tragedy, and not truly allowing room for an idea of hope or optimism. it feels doomeresque, i suppose. a lot of takes i have seen about the story and the ending specifically (hi tg reddit…) follow this pattern, and i think it limits one’s ability to analyse and engage with a story fully. there’s this idea that having hope or being an optimist can be a sign of stupidity, hence why so much pretentious ‘smart guy’ media is darker, and i find i have seen this in some tg analysis and conversation.

there has been the idea that the ending is bad because it ended happily. personally, i think the ending is ‘bad’ because the arcs far preceding it were rushed - despite my passioned defense of tg on here as a good story, the quality did very much suffer through much of :re - but the ending itself felt perfect for me.

it’s not like tokyo ghoul is a happy story. it’s not that i don’t not understand a pessimistic viewpoint or even dislike such an understanding of the story and characters. tg being tragic is heavily reinforced by the narrative, and it follows the story beats and flow of a tragedy - my qualm is not with this idea itself, but in how rigid i have seen some opinions be that tg could only ever end tragically, and i do wonder if that sort of thinking misses something within tg’s messaging. tokyo ghoul being viewed more nihilistically is not shocking. i think it appeals to people who have struggled with a myriad of issues that aren’t widely understood - i mean, i can and have written so much about how the story (one character particularly) has helped me feel less alone in my darkest moments. so this cynical takeaway is hardly a surprise - it’s not incorrect - but i think it is limiting.

i’ve seen it said (hi reddit x2) that tokyo ghoul’s happy ending was lazy and shallow, that Ishida’s alternative ending - killing basically every character - suited the story more and would have been better. i don’t feel like this is the case at all. i think killing all the characters would have been quite lazy, actually - i mean, how cliche - i think such an ending would have been dreadfully gauche.

it’s in this idea that intelligence = pessimism that people forget how difficult it is to be optimistic in a world that rejects you. and what is tokyo ghoul if not a story about learning to come into love and self-acceptance - of overcoming cycles of violence? if that is the case - and that is how i view it - then how could the story have ever ended horribly? like i say, dreadfully gauche.

a question i have asked myself lately - is tokyo ghoul really a tragedy, or is that just kaneki’s perception of his story? that particular train of thought is hardly new or original, but i think sometimes we ought to question ourselves with it. sometimes i think this story is taken at face value, despite how praised it is for possessing so much depth.

[gunkbaby]

i suppose you’re quite content in your fluffy christmas tree cape

[gunkbaby]

All Of The New 10th Anniversary Expo’s Shuu Merch/Merch Appearances I Guess

I’ll be honest chat, I am not a happy bunny abt most of this, but i love my beautiful princess no matter what and besides, what is my life without documenting Shuu Tsukiyama merch?

(This is all the merch from the TG expo - not including the merch released beforehand, which I have covered in other posts. Some of the merch was similar so I grouped a few of them)

Holographic Sticker/Acrylic Stand

Not enough Shuu stickers out there, I think. Whilst this illustration is not my favourite, I am glad to have another Shuu Sticker for my scrapbook.

Metallic Keychain/Postcard

(He’s top left for the postcard.)

Can Badge

Badge is 57mm - I only note this bc it’s quite a Large size! I’d put this on a tote bag or in my Ita if I weren’t paranoid about it falling off

Scene Badge

3rd image is the :re scene badge. 2nd image is just how the badges stand (?) for reference.

Famous Quote Magnet

I can’t find the exact translation but it’s roughly the ‘I want to feast upon sweet Kaneki, whilst he feasts upon her!’ quote.

Postcard Book

Shuu Appears four times in the postcards shown thus far - i am unsure as to whether there is more to come. I don’t think so, but idk.

This merch feels notable as it is also the only Kanae appearance so far in any of the merch drops. Unsurprising but it still dampened my bonfire a bit - i was hoping for a crumb of new Kanae merch.

Clear card

Mini Sticker

Another sticker - yay for my Shuu scrapbook!

Leather Charm

Shuu Wine Opener

This is the only piece of merch solely dedicated to Shuu from the expo so far. The piece of art used here could be new, but it appears similar to a different piece of art I have seen for him before, so I’m not sure exactly. I will need to compare.

If I am honest, I find the wine opener a bit lacklustre disappointing. It’s not colourful, which I’m aware is a personal gripe but like. Idk it looks like this thing is hot off the 3D printer. It’s a such a cute idea to have his kagune be the corkscrew itself - like that’s hella cool, i rly rly enjoy that idea, drillyama my beloved - but idk. It just doesn’t look quite right?

Also, just to indulge myself in a little vent: I have huge personal beef with this wine opener bc i was on the edge of my seat, waiting for the Shuu merch and the one thing we get is a fucking wine opener? It feels like an attack on me personally. (For context: I am a recovered alcoholic.)

But anyway. The rest of the merch is okay, I suppose. I’ll never turn down new Shuu merch, but I didn’t really like the new illustration of him, and it’s on a lot of this new merch. The new chibi illustration of him is cute, and I do prefer it, but idk. I’m feeling quite meh about the whole thing.

Regardless, I’ll still be buying whatever I can, because I’m a sad little freak who’s only purpose in life is to think about this fictional man, but let it be known; my credit card will be used begrudgingly with contempt for the people behind the TG anime expo merch.

[gunkbaby]

Erm…You guys seriously shouldn’t be posting about Tokyo Ghoul characters in a positive light. They literally like, eat and kill people. That’s pretty problematic…😬😬😬

[gunkbaby]

shuu merch haul + lil kanae keychain as a treat bc i got rly good exam results 🥳🥳🥳

[gunkbaby]

[gunkbaby]

‘Omg chat are u seeing this rn?’

‘Chat is this real?’

[gunkbaby]

very mad at chiehori’s underutilization in tokyo ghoul today