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Yoshizawa Ryo

Harper’s BAZAAR July-August 2025

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Would it be possible to have a film bio of these three people?

Pictures of Magnus Hirschfeld with partner Karl Giese, then with partner Tao Li (Li Shiu Tong) and finally Karl Giese and Tao Li in the same picture (and Tao holding a rabbit!) 

I haven’t been able to find any pictures of all three men together. 

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RonToto and their cat. Today is Cat Day 2/22 猫の日 in Japan

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I would love to see this ship flesh out. But I guess, I never will.

Focusing too much on RonToto we haven’t talked about Winter’s growing attachment to Amamiya.

Perhaps it is all for naught.

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The start of the arc was promising only to plummet when AA included Amamiya like a third wheel defeating the purpose of the initial plan of the “two of them (RonToto) against the world.”

What a frustrating end. AA wrapping up the story without explaining Toto’s background, plots that aren’t followed up, too many instances of deus ex machina… it has become evident that she is not into it anymore. Unless, she has a plan. But i highly doubt it.

I am devoid of poetry. This story is so abrupt. I feel so empty. AA ending it without telling us about Toto. He’s a blank canvas. Always been. Lately he doesn’t talk about his grandmother. I have a feeling she’s died and he doesn’t want others to know what he’s truly feeling. So instead of bothering Ron about the pain of losing the last relative he’s had he stays with Ron and shares his troubles. He has no one. He has nothing. So that explains his lack of self-preservation. Death is natural. Death is unkind. He’s ready to sacrifice his life all the time. But with Ron he has uses. Ron needs him at the moment. Ron needs an anchor. He’s ready to give him that. On that day he’s seen his chance. When Ron wants to follow Alice, Toto has disagreed. His friend just got his father back, who he lost once but now has returned to him. Amamiya has Winter. Everyone has someone to hold onto. He, Toto, has no one. He’s the perfect choice to do this task because no one is waiting for him. If he dies, no one has to grieve him. Ron will forget him. He has his parents. He’s only Toto. He’s not important.

Don’t die, Toto. (AA, don’t let him die!) We need you. And you are wrong. Ron needs you so much. You are loved.

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Paard van Marken

@thedayaftereveryday

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Of course the meaning would be brief and casual involvement, but methinks the English localisation writer used it for teasing the English-speaking audience. They know how we are serious with our analyses and how words can easily be interpreted and understood like a double entrende.

OK I KNOW MOST OF YOU DON'T WATCH THE ENGLISH DUB BUT I NEED YOU GUYS TO SEE THIS CUZ IT MADE ME CACKLE

For those who don't know what dalliance means:

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Reblogging S’ suffering bc well, he suffers and it is now animated.

Sebastian Michaelis’ Lament: Nina Hopkins and Victorian women’s hair

“Chapter 107: At Night, The Butler, Compelling” is another favourite chapter. It fully describes Sebastian’s pettiness when it comes to Nina Hopkins snubbing him, one of the few people who doesn’t like him, not impressed by him, doesn’t admire him. It must be the demon’s one of the many pet peeves. He values her professionalism and her sense of style but her negative treatment of him sends him to question himself : “why manifest to be a virile, young, and a beautiful man if I cannot charm everyone?” It doesn’t amuse him. It agitates him. Anyway, Nina also treats the male servants of the Phantomhive Household the same: Bard, really pissed, and Finnian, clueless. Except for Tanaka.

In the manga, Nina as a tailor admits that she loves to dress up pubescent boys. But I don’t think it has to do with her sexual preference. She adores Mey-rin’s androgynousness the first time they’ve met. True. Her declarations though have become the subject of discussion among the puritanical accounts on Twitter. Just because Yana Toboso designed her character so the “mangaka must be pedophile.” It is this ambiguity that makes reading it difficult for others.

(Chapter 17: At Midnight, The Butler, Brand New)

Anyway, difference of opinion irritates S. Nina is avant-garde and very open to changes. While S is not. For a demon, his sense of style is very conservative and clings to etiquette and protocol. That’s why his rebuke of Bard’s sexism is truly remarkable. Demons probably find it amusing what holds the people back in order to feed their bigotry and in turn their hypocrisy.

Which is why S views the hair an impeccable requirement in the Victorian society. He was so heartbroken after he saw Sieglinde Sullivan’s short hair. The demon’s reaction is one to be framed!

Hair was a very important body part during the Victorian era among women of the middle and upper classes. It was a sign of their femininity and a focus of sexual interest. No wonder, poor women, who were deprived of clean toilets and struggled with poor hygiene, were forced to sell their hair, which they normally hid with bonnets or hats.

There was a strict societal code to follow how to style their long hair. Cutting the hair was simply unthinkable. Coiffed hair was a sign of coming into age. Victorian women never wore their hair loose, but for pictorial purposes only, and when there was intimacy involved.

They did occasionally trim split ends, or even singe them, but long hair was viewed as being ultra-feminine and desirable.

In order to celebrate the extreme long Victorian hair, people catapulted it into art. One of them is incorporating the strands of hair into ornate mourning lockets, a memento mori of a deceased loved one. (Morbid Anatomy, for one, offers courses how to design intricate Victorian mourning hair lockets.)

Empress Sisi of Austria, for example, had an elaborate regimen to groom her hair. Apart from exercising to death and starving herself.

Sisi looked on her daily sessions of hairdressing as a “sacred ritual.” She used the morning hours that Fanny (Franziska Feifalik) was combing and styling her hair for reading, writing letters, and for studying Greek and Hungarian with her tutors. But daily hairstyling was only one component of Sisi’s haircare regime. Every three weeks, her hair had to be washed and dried. This was a time consuming process in itself.

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Every three weeks it was washed with raw eggs and brandy, a procedure which took an entire day, including drying. After washing her hair, the Empress would don a long, waterproof silk dressing gown and walk up and down until her hair dried. ( x )

Her vanity, like “to be beautiful is to suffer”, caused her to have a headache, but saved her life for a few minutes, due to tight lacing of her corset.

Also calling in sick when one is cross with the employer is the oldest trick in the book. When Sisi’s personal hairstylist, who earned as high as a university professor, didn’t show up for work because of the monarch’s capriciousness, the empress admitted that she needed her: “After several such days of hairdressing, I am quite worn down. She knows that and waits for capitulation. I am a slave to my hair.”

A predicament Sisi shared with the other women during her time, but in Yana Toboso’s universe one of her characters has been spared.

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I know that it will come soon. But this ? I am shocked, everyone.

The Reichenbach Falls, but instead of Ron (SH) it is Toto (JW).

There is nothing new under the sun.

Toto what is with you and your suicidal tendencies ?

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Yes, Ron, grieve for Toto. Grieve for that partner you’ve taken for granted.

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Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!

Totooooo!!!!

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Emiri Kato, the VA of Mey-rin, drew a fan art of her own character.

I drew fan art on my own!

Mey-rin 👓

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I am a firm believer that anime, manga and the original work are all separate animals. Or like what “Yatagarasu” series writer, Chisato Abe, just described: “For Ms Abe, the novel is herself, the manga version is like a ‘daughter,’ and the anime version is like a ‘grandchild.’ ” Almost the same, but not quite.

The adaptations may be a hit or miss. That is true. But if a long running book/manga series should be made compact in less than 25 minutes of airtime having 24 episodes or even less, it could cause a lot of blood, sweat and tears among the anime staff. Moreover, those who are faithful to the original work would feel hostile toward the adaptation. Dialogues are cut short, edited scenes, vanished ones. More often than not, lots of fillers, which can help flesh out a certain scene to be more effective. Or maybe make it worse.

The anime version, for example, of Akira Amano’s “Kamonohashi Ron no kindan suiri” enhances the story between Ron and Toto.

My one and only concern is that if the author of the original work had a problem with it then I wouldn’t and couldn’t trust the adaptation (the tragic story of “Sexy Tanaka-san” comes to mind).

But as long as the OW author supports it then maybe they had a change of heart along the way that could probably work for the narrative when it is relayed on the new medium. Then perhaps viewing the adaptation with fresh eyes and an open mind wouldn’t hurt.

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They are okay with cousin incest due to society’s acceptance (and religious dispensation too as long as the couples asked their institutions to “officially allow them to get married”). The thing is nature always gets your ass due to the underlying family diseases (the Habsburgs’ “lips” and madness and the Hanovers with haemophilia, to cite some real-life examples).

Hypocrisy never goes away. It is ugly when fiction is treated as reality.

ok this dni has me sobbing

proshippers are the ONLY thing on the list

this person doesn’t know what they are

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日本のすまい 1　西山夘三

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Unfortunate that tomorrow’s airing of Episode 23 (47) will be suspended, but i cannot wait for Jinshi/Loulan confrontation next Friday instead.

A fear of loulan's mother that shattered her to the core.”🍃

Can't wait to see this scene getting animated.