#u mui

[derseprinceoftbd]

You know something? I've *never* seen a gender-equal Shonen popularity poll top 10 before!

[beddybites]

"those who unlock the demon slayer mark, without exception..."

tdlr obanai's reaction to muichiro and mitsuri's fates as a result of manifesting the demon slayer mark will haunt me forever..... two of the people he cares about the most... doomed... and right after he lost rengoku, too is he to blame... could he have stopped it somehow? had he never exposed them to his tainted blood, had he never cared... could he have saved them...

[boringa55binch]

Roundtable Meeting

[d-u-d-a-s-ss]

Busco amistad sincera para comernos 100 piezas de sushi entre 2

[munchboxart]

New background OC for my Salmon guys + Mui drinking

[isabelleadjani]

ANITA MUI & LESLIE CHEUNG as Fleur & Chen-pang ROUGE dir. Stanley Kwan, 1987

[wickedsick]

I can hear this conversation in my head so easily. Glad Tozuka's using this arc to show off pre-100 vicjuiz

Not silver??

Also Fuuko princess carrying Julia is cute

Fuuko's face. I need an emote of that.

Julia is insane in the best way

Shen and Mui casually taking out Platinum

Sean I swear to god

Oh she's a sabre fencer

Pack it up, we don't need this one, she's a lost cause.

Recognition of the self through the other (derogatory)

The sabre was holding her back. Now she can get a foil and do actual good fencing

TACTICAL THIGH SLAP

How did they find pants strong enough to contain Shen's legs

I can show you the woooorld~

First stop, Top's mom's house

[mishidefresa]

Owning my mistakes ❎

Create a narrative to excuse my stupidity ✅

[knife-catto]

Love the “strangely sounds like wedding vows” shounen classic declaration of rivalry

[superbellsubways]

thought about it for a while i think i really like the idea of genderfluid flavio actually. guy can be masc or fem whatever+whenever he wants .ican do a lil projection as a treat 👍

[nientedal]

me: reads a lovely fanfic me: leaves a comment me: notices a different comment on said fanfic that seems like it's being unnecessarily snide about the thing i am sick and fucking tired of seeing people be unnecessarily snide about me: me: me: i must not bite someone in the comments of a fanfic that is not mine, i must not bite someone in the comments of a fanfic that is not mine, i must NOT bite someone in the comments of a fanfic th

[derseprinceoftbd]

Mui I love you

[overleftdown]

saltburn and lo real maravilloso

bare with me.

lo real maravilloso, in its direct translation, means "the marvelous real." in english language, this is more commonly said as "magical reality." magical reality is (arguably) a genre of fiction.

lo real maravilloso is a genre which defies definition. it is the inexplicable, the absurd, the ironic, the whimsical, the manifestation of dream and abstraction. lo real maravilloso is also the mundane. if this is confusing, that's entirely understandable. let me quote alberto rios; "first things first. nothing so important and nothing at all unimportant." this is the essence of magical realism. the absurd and unbelievable in a constant dance with the mundane, creating nothing so important and nothing at all unimportant.

to quote un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes (a very old man with enormous wings) by gabriel garcía márquez, "his huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud. they looked at him so long and so closely that pelayo and elisenda very soon overcame their surprise and in the end found him familiar." in the story about un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes, the absurd and unbelievable (a winged man crashing to the earth) becomes the mundane (the winged man is flightless, and those that found him are quickly annoyed by his pathetic presence). a winged man becomes nothing so important, and the drag of every-day life is nothing at all unimportant.

now, saltburn. i'm fascinated by emerald fennell's choice of using the aristocratic english as her metaphor for the untouchable. in a lot of ways, i'm grateful this is what she chose. while the ultimate inspiration for saltburn was less the materialistic class commentary that it came to be, the aristocracy becomes so many things throughout the movie. what i wanted to talk about is how the aristocracy, the cattons, are lo real maravilloso. the essay i quoted before by alberto rios is spectacular, because it delves into not just the ironic nature of magical realism, but the rhetoric, as well; what it means to think we understand something, how language deludes us into believing we know something, how our own reality is mistaken for reality itself. saltburn and the cattons live in their own reality, which to the outsider, is absurdity. when watching the film, what we find ourselves thinking throughout it is essential to understanding the rhetoric of the movie.

when we see the grandeur and wealth and think how impractical, how unreal, how hilarious. the humor that saltburn taps into is near-identical to the core of magical realistic irony. "to use classical terminology, tone so often derives from the delivery of the narrative as litotes—understatement—in the middle of hyperbole-- overstatement. If it is not humor, then it comes off as flatness of treatment, non-reactivity, deadpan almost, which is the great comedian’s trick..." (rios). think back to the casualty of the cattons' absurdity. the sincerity in which elspeth delivers the most appalling, unreal anecdotes and additions. magical realism places culture, sincerity, normativity uncomfortably close to what we could hardly fathom. a winged man falling from the sky, kept in the chicken coup because it is quickly understood that he is hideous. finding your winged son dead in the middle of an elaborate maze, sprawled out beneath a minotaur statue, and the knowledge that lunch is about to begin.

the longer we experience the world emerald has created, the more we understand the reality in which the cattons live, the more we find it familiar. the absurdity is forgotten, until it's once again realized, until it's once again forgotten. this is the act of interacting realities; ours, and then another, and then back to ours. what's so fun about exploring wealth is this clashing of reality. believing that it's so absurd to be so rich, then succumbing to the normativity of richness, then once again finding yourself laughing at the idea of it. "what do you mean it's almost lunch? how could you say that? your son is dead. and beyond that, he's dead in the middle of a maze. he's dead in the middle of your estate maze, with your estate statues and your 179 bedrooms, one of them being the king's." and when lunch begins, we're dragged back into foreign reality. we feel the grief that pollutes the air, pulls at each of the cattons. we understand that our reality is not reality, nor is their reality. we're submerged in the tone of the film, the tone of the writing. a well-written character is a character who has their own reality; not that they're right or wrong, but that they are.

there is also the clashing of culture. the aristocracy is more familiar to the english. the emotional repression visualized throughout the movie is more familiar to the english. the culture of british boarding school is more familiar to the english. the longer we experience, the longer we stare at the unreasonable, the more familiar it becomes. our reality is not reality. we stand amidst billions of others, who have millions of preconceived notions, derived from millions of alternate cultures, experienced through thousands of languages, interacting with another billion people. what this all boils down to is how little we understand.

how does oliver interact with this foreign reality? how does farleigh? how are felix and venetia interacting with each other, as well as this life that so little experience? how do we understand it? how do we react to it? how do we react to the sex throughout the movie, which exist in its own absurdly real world? at what point in watching saltburn did you forget how stupid it was? at what point did you forget that having a maze in your backyard is ridiculous? having gargoyles? having footmen? having 200-person parties in your own house? at what point did you lose yourself in this foreign reality, and when did you remember that it's all ridiculous? have you remembered? have you realized that the sex was absurd? have you realized that felix catton is absurd? have you realized that oliver is blind to the absurdity as well? hm. hmmm.

[alien-girl-21]

música sad

–Perdonen por tardar, el tráfico estaba horrible, pero al menos traje café —la voz de Nace se volvió más y más fuerte mientras se acercaba al cuarto—. Wow, ¿qué le pasó a Bojan? –Su casi nada le dejó de hablar. –El amor de mi vida. - Bojan tiene el corazón roto, sus amigos tienen que lidiar con él.

Hi, hello, may I interest you in some silly Spanish bojere words?

[vodka-and-ocs]

it's still pride month somewhere-

[trainingdummyrabbit]

god. i love knys art direction so much but theres One thing that Completely takes me out of it like. you CANNOT convince me these fucking kids have abs.