#125 spoilers

[itaduri]

this seriously made me cry IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

[lexieloo28]

Hey man she did ask politely

[pockethep]

Denji jumping in to help for the most random reasons is my brand of comedy.

[eddiekasppbrak]

the falling devil going to the store and getting apples is maybe the funniest thing to ever happen in csm… like yes queen whip out ur shopping list run your errands while everyone around you is in emotional and physical agony

[my-magnus-rabbithole]

So Jon’s like a month out of his coma and he has already sedated his coworker to cut out a ghost bullet from her leg (without her consent),

And I think that incapsulates his life choices pretty well

[freakinator]

ive thought this for a while now but its especially obvious with the new adds: a lot of lifestealers rely way too much on wins for climaxes

like you can still make an interesting story out of a loss, its all about how you frame it

[inafieldofdaisies]

Halo (2022-) | Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2, "Sanctuary" and "Sword" | Favorite scenes

[delzinrowe]

June of this year... Nobara transfered to a high school in Tokyo.

[littleholmes]

this devil is just…shopping for ingredients

looking for apples that pair with flesh

and being so casual and polite leaving with her ingredients for this. It’s so unsettling and wholesome, I love it!

[delawaredetroit]

"My master showed me his picture once."

All for One: Tomura look, it's your quirk donor!

He might have just been showing Shigaraki pictures of all his business rivals. But knowing All for One the goal could have been making Shigaraki keep tabs on Overhaul the way he made Number Six obsess over the hero O'Clock (whose quirk he was given and then tried to become)

[thelvadams]

Halo • Season 2 Episode 5 ‘Aleria’

He'd gotten a glimpse of the one in charge. He wore armor like Shane had seen in fairy tale books: the Green Knight who fought dragons. That's what Shane wanted. He was going to wear armor like that one day and kill all the monsters.

Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, Chapter 6

[authortobenamedlater]

SPARTANS

NEVER

DIE

Kai lives

[sugar-grigri]

If you haven't done one before, could you do an analysis of Denji's use of sexuality as the only form of love he still has untouched?

Sex and love, two bets Denji wants to take

At first, touching breasts, getting close to a girl, was a way for Denji to fill something he didn't understand. Projecting his lack of relationships, and affection, into what was visible, represented on those posters and magazines, through all those sexual images. Denji is someone who reasons through his senses, his intuitions. For him, pure physical contact was love.

When he loses Pochita for the first time, Denji doesn't immediately place his feelings in the abstract. He's sad, having just lost his family, but physically, organically and symbolically, he remains in his heart, he is his heart. It's only afterwards, as Denji experiments, that he understands the ambivalence of relationships: things don't turn out as we'd hoped, we can even have bad experiences, be violated against our will even when we were convinced we'd get a reward, a pleasant, harmless act.

Proposing a carnal act is not necessarily an act of kindness; on the contrary, it's often a way of dominating and manipulating the other person. Falling in love and sleeping together isn't as simple as cooking and eating. It's a risk before it's a pleasure.

Then there was Aki and Power. The symbol of platonic family relationships. For whom Denji didn't realize his attachment until after their loss. To the point of understanding that losing someone isn't as simple to resolve as sleeping when you're sleepy. That it follows us without solution.

Denji understood this plurality of love, he also understood that sex, or one's own body, is a currency of exchange, as his dialogue with Yoshida had shown. A body can be bruised, sex can be non-consensual. These aren't just abstract concepts, Denji doesn't think like that; if he's understood them at all, it's through his own experiences.

In chapter 127, Denji catches up with Asa, subjected to the Falling Devil, who argues that life is only pain. What Denji is trying to do is reassure her, which is not easy for him as speech is not his strong suit. But he puts himself in her place anyway, and it's one of the rare times when CSM expressly and voluntarily helps someone simply to help them, without projecting anything behind it (he wasn't supposed to see Asa anymore).

He then talks about cats and dogs, because he knows that universally they are beings that bring us happiness. But he also evokes all his traumas: ice cream (Aki), cats (Power), but above all hamburgers (representing his mourning when he gave up control of his being to Pochita). Denji evokes them all positively, yet symbolically, they are all finely chosen elements that will evoke negativity.

But in the end, Denji says he's moving on to have sex one day. I know this isn't the right way to reassure Asa, but Denji wanted to help her, to comfort her, and he did it sincerely, because he can't change what he says if it's what he thinks. Wanting sex is what a teenager wants. It's also a desire for Denji not to compartmentalize growing up and not to pay attention to his needs.

Denji is attracted by what he can touch directly, by pure sensations. So it's natural that he only talks about sex. That's not to say he'll reduce his girlfriend to that, he just doesn't know what envelops the act, feelings, love. He's never had a girlfriend!

Denji was abandoned by his parents, dehumanized, having grown up with a demon, behaving like an animal. So he answers his questions with this latest experience, a sensation not yet acquired: the origin of humanity, his own, Asa's. If everyone's doing it, it must be good!!!

Sex is presented as two sides of the same coin in this part, as a kind of naive claim for Denji to move forward, to get out of his pain, but something that is constantly used against him, to manipulate him, that puts him in danger.

And once again, he begins to spot the danger, but can't fight it. Fumiko is the perfect example, a symbol of his sexual trauma to which Denji is completely subjected.

Denji is beginning to know that sex can be both positive and negative. But he also doesn't know how to discuss it, how to talk about it, especially to the girl he's interested in. As he thinks sex is something universally pleasurable so talking about it had to resonate in Asa as much as cats, dogs, ice cream. He presented something that was also traumatic in a beautiful light.

Denji wants a girlfriend, he wants to be loved and to love, yes. Even though love is rarely a pleasant experience, even a factor of despair.

Denji also wants to sleep with someone, yes something just as risky, or he consciously knows he can be used and manipulated for it.

Sex isn't Denji's way of being loved, it's like love, something as beautiful as it is traumatic. And Denji wants to experiment. Even if it means suffering. Because in suffering, there will always be pleasure.

CSM, the fruit of an act of love for Pochita and mourning for Denji, is above all the chimera of trauma.

Denji doesn't think he can get out of the trauma. He has experienced it so much that he now sees it as something necessary to experience. He doesn't confront suffering, he deflects it, even if it means suffering more.

How could Denji break out of this cycle?

By learning to trust.

And that's something he'll experience with a teenager who's distrustful, his opposite.

Both the attraction and the rejection of sex are normal reactions for two teenagers. But they are also two responses from the two protagonists to their own suffering.

Denji's obsession with sex is a desire to move forward, to tie the knot to the point of putting himself in danger. Asa's absolute rejection of contact is also symbolic of the fact that she no longer wants to suffer by connecting with others, even if it means suffering from her loneliness.

One is literally swept away by his suffering, while the other cuts off his own head to get some hope, accepting his suffering as necessary, even if it deprives him of his loved ones. And the result will be the same: solitude.

You can't throw yourself into someone's arms, just as you can't isolate yourself.

Loneliness will devour them if they don't bond with each other.

A relationship with someone you trust is enough.

[basilpaste]

mmy playlists.

[foxdrawdoodles]

Doodles of MAG 121, MAG 124 to 128 and MAG 130 to 131

Spoilers for The Magnus Archives, Season 4

Haven’t posted one of these in about a month and in that time Jon has gained a new scar and lost a couple of ribs. I had a surprisingly hard time drawing Oliver Banks despite the very clear image of him in my head, I am happy with the result of the drawing but would probably like to try a couple of different ways of drawing him before I settle on a design for him. The other half of Breekon and Hopes’s statement actually made me quite sad and I actually wasn’t expecting that, his statement made me feel like that feeling you get when you finish a book series (or any show or comic book series in general) you really like. Also look at that goats head! I am actually quite proud of it, it turned out exactly how I wanted it to look.

[numbmontezuma]

Reblog if you would give the falling devil head