#yuri is claudia

[nattyontherun]

Another draft taken from the heap of crumpled papers beside the bin of an office space in Roshchino, Leningrad Oblast:

My editor adores the boy-demon. My alpha readers, my fact-checkers - they all drown in his allure. What is it about beauty that prompts decent people to justify atrocity after atrocity? That my life was in danger is a given; that the boy had killed thousands before this interview and will live on to kill tens of thousands more after it…

Is it the tragic nature of the boys’ turning that so moves the rational thinker? That he was a fair-skinned child with a head of brush blonde hair and doll-like, seafoam green eyes?

Some call it a kind of grooming, a type of conditioning: Viktor as mentor and maker, Yuuri as lover and keeper, both acting as chain and grate to the lonesome Russian Fairy.

But Gosha, one sent him racing off a bridge and the other damned him to eternity! He was sixteen upon his death! Sixteen upon his turning!

Can we call the boy a murderer when it is the nature of a vampire to crave the blood of humans? He never asked to be made! He never asked for forever! His only fault is the love he harbors and where are those loves now? Both alive, yes - yet both of them hidden! Both of them so deep in the groves of each other, mere tourists to the destruction they wrought!

I say to you, reader, Viktor is a child's hopeless aspiration and Yuuri is a figment of that same child's gravid imagination! Sixteen, they say? The walking death is a being entrapped by the flesh-suit of his youth. He has not been sixteen in nearly three decades!

Read this and heed my warning: the demon cares little for your empathy. The demon has loved nothing more than the devils he dedicated his death to, and none of us qualify to pretend ourselves of equal value.

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For more context, the rest of the AU can be found here: your spirit pressed up against my longing

[ayo-edebiri]

Okay, well... to finding the X.

IWTV (2022 - ) I 2.06 Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light

[slothliart]

Angelic Claudeleine 🙏

Prints!

[kaitcake1289]

me and the bad bitch i pulled by being enamored by her

[seancefemme]

Maybe I’m what she needs to survive

[mugentakeda]

that xfiles photoshoot

[midnight-in-town]

Ao no Exorcist is a Shonen series written by a woman and it shows

Since the latest chapter, I've been thinking about how several usual Shonen tropes are written rather differently under Kato-sensei's pen. No judgement or anything, it's just cool to observe. Some examples :

1) Rin's mentor is a woman

2) Rin's secret, despite being the MC, was revealed in ch13 to the entire cast, meanwhile Shiemi, The Main Girl, who was introduced to be so helpless is only starting to be explained.

3) Also, the Mysterious plot-relevant Shonen Parent is actually the twins' mother. (Of course Shiro is super plot-relevant too, but Satan is still angsting over Yuri and she's a huge part of the reason why he's the big bad)

4) Rin also changed his view about his future throughout the story: from dropping out of school, passing by hoping to become the Order's Paladin (probably to cope with Shiro's death and also to antagonize Arthur), to finally showing way more interest and potential in the (less epic and heroic in appearance) field of talismanic cooking.

5) When it comes to arcs, mental illness is a valid reason to build a character arc around...

6) And so is making an arc about girls being "cursed" to basically "get married and have children before they hit 30, the age where their beauty fade thus they become useless" :

7) ANE is a story about women becoming traitors to protect their loved ones, like Mamushi

or becoming overwhelmed because men toyed with their feelings like Tamamo

8) Older women can be absolute badasses like Shiemi's grandma

or Lucy.

9) Complicated mother-daughter relationship and girl friendships are given as much focus as complicated father-son relationships and sweet bro friendships (like Bon and his dad during the Kyoto arc, as well as the complicated but deep bond between the Kyoto Trio)

10) And one of my favorites: full time single dad, asking for help to do the job as well as he can and finding his true purpose in life by doing so :D

Hmm and now that I think about it, the only other Shonen series written by a woman I've been as invested in is Kuroshitsuji, by Yana Toboso, and similar examples can be found in it too, namely:

1) If Ciel ever finally admits needing a mentor, his aunt Frances will probably play that role

2) Girls can be super strong & skilled (Elizabeth, Mey Rin) and clever (Sieglinde)

3) (one part of) the Big Bad is a woman (Queen Victoria)

4) maybe Ciel's entire revenge stems from a conflict between Queen Victoria and Ciel's maternal grandmother, Claudia.

5) the Undertaker has been a continuously freaking pain in the ass because he probably fell in love with that same maternal grandmother and couldn't mourn properly

TL;DR we love our boys and their spectacular growth and development under women's pens a.k.a shonen series written by ladies are hella fun to read. :D

[fanfictionroxs]

In this moment, Claudia says to Madeleine, "It's okay. Choose them. Live. It's fine with me as long as you live."

And Madeleine looks at Claudia and thinks, "There is no choice. You're my choice. Living without you is no living, so let me die with you."

And Claudia finally has someone for whom she is the only choice. Madeleine, who would rather die, than live with anyone other than Claudia.

[sixxxer]

I can't get over how poetic it is that Madeleine perceives Claudia swathed in beautiful warm and radiant sunlight in her mind. She's all warm and beaming at Madeleine, finally happy and free to be herself without compromise.

Ohhhh the writers love seeing me suffer

[wanderinggoddess]

-Orpheus et Eurydice, Metamorphoses bk. 10, Ovid.

[somepinkthing]

It is absolutely useless to point out to me that my favorite characters went insane and perhaps slightly evil, especially when they were the ones wronged first. I support them and think they could have been more insane, actually. I think they should have just started attacking people on sight. They should have gone off the walls completely. They should have made all their decisions based off of grief and fear for far longer! I support rights and wrongs indiscriminately. I think forgive and forget should only come after they've worked through their hurt in the most destructive way possible and traumatized everyone back. Pls never assume otherwise

[nattyontherun]

preview of smth new I'm working on via sketch:

[janeacular]

the thing that kills me about Claudia is not only do WE know she's doomed by the narrative. SHE KNOWS IT TOO! She can feel that she's inessential to those around her as you're watching her it almost feels like she knows she's destined to be killed, which feeds into her desperation and anger in some instances. then to have Madeleine come along and finally make her feel safe and loved, understood, prioritized. the narrative's target on Claudia's back doesn't go away now that Madeleine is holding her. we feel happy for them, we want madeleine to be the thing Claudia needs to survive. But it was never about her. She has to die. even if for a second you hoped that maybe it'll turn out different this time. Orpheus can't save Eurydice, all he can do is follow her to the underworld. That's just how the story goes. But the love was there.

[slothliart]

Happy Birthday to Catgirl Claudia 🐈‍⬛

[usernamesoft]

im not a lipreader at all but i think madeleine whispers ‘beautiful’ to claudia and she replies with ‘me?’ which madeleine answers with a nod…

my two beautiful girls. strong women who love each other. you will be dearly missed

https://www.tumblr.com/cuntylestat/754100653320798208/its-not-a-trial-its-a-stoning

[spacecatlivesonthemoon]