#HRMMMMM...

[mattodore]

you're begging me to take a bite

[thechibilitwick]

yaoi more like wowee

[spampai]

Tried making my CRK AU in manga or comic or wtv

I’m pretty sure this is why Shadow Milk Cookie refused

AU MASTERPOST

[cedric-k-rossignol]

Alright for the Undertaker & Tanaka crowd, i have silly thoughts (don't take them too seriously) & stupid feelings (ignore me) about Tanaka bowing to Undertaker at the end of Sebastian's fake ass funeral - in the OVA, that is. It doesn't happen in the manga, so sue me for taking the anime way too seriously and clinging to every scrap of subtext.

oh how i wish to know the ways in which Undertaker trolled Sebastian while preparing his body for burial.

But what does happen in the manga is this exchange;

"The Phantomhive family butler is not allowed to breathe his last before his master." Now, I'm going to take this a little too literally - after all, it's not as if Tanaka is saying once the Earl Phantomhive dies the butler must also die. But it is an interesting choice of words, isn't it?

Tanaka's master was first Claudia, who died, and then Vincent, who also died. So technically, Tanaka is free to die at any point, isn't he? Isn't he?

I've said before that I do not think Undertaker and Claudia were married to each other. But in all ways that mattered, including fathering her children, Cedric was her de-facto husband, her partner. Claudia was undoubtedly Tanaka's master, as the head of the household... But there's something to be said for a servant's relationship to a spouse, isn't there? Cedric was a part of Claudia's life for at least 16 years. Tanaka's new master was Claudia's heir, but surely Tanaka felt some sort of (perhaps begrudging) obligation towards Cedric. He was the widow, left behind; not the heir, not a Phantomhive by blood or by name... But he was a part of the Phantomhive family, and that is who Tanaka claims to serve.

Don't get me wrong - we know that Tanaka cares deeply for o!Ciel (and I'm sure he cares for o!Ciel much more than he does the Undertaker). But when R!Ciel showed up, Tanaka appears to have chosen the 'rightful' heir... Or, in fact, did he just choose Undertaker?

check out mr. blind-as-a-bat doing some light reading... Tanaka staring at him like you've got to be fucking kidding me

Tanaka knows so much about Undertaker, more than anyone else we've met so far in the story. He knows that Undertaker is not mortal; if he didn't know that when Claudia was alive, Undertaker not having aged a day in 40 years would be a dead giveaway. But he shares none of this information with Ciel - why? Does he not think it's his place? Is he trying to protect Ciel? Or does his obligation to Claudia's 'spouse' outweigh his service to either twin? Or is it Undertaker's cause to which Tanaka feels an obligation - not the bizarre dolls, but Undertaker's vendetta against Queen Victoria, that Claudia likely shared? Does Tanaka still see himself as bound in service to Cedric, unable to breathe his last before his master?

The irony being Tanaka is probably just as fed up with Undertaker as Sebastian is with Ciel, if not moreso. He became a surrogate father to Vincent and Frances, and a surrogate grandfather to the twins... Not the step-dad, but the dad who stepped up. And he's forced to make nice with the asshole who abandoned his kids...

A tale as old as time 😌

[rennyrose]

Your Livio/Razlo is the primary version in my brain. I see canon manga LivRaz and I'm like. Who is that again? Your art just has such a delicious weight to it, no matter who you're drawing. Everyone just feels so alive!

Shiooooooot sometimes I think I walk a fine line between keeping it cannon and OC-ifying them lolololol- I’m glad you like em tho-!

I offer some Liv studies-

[soapyakships]

How we feelin about Mafu6

[pondslime]

Would you rather stay at the Waffle House as a waitress forever?

Elisha Cuthbert as Carly Jones HOUSE OF WAX (2005) dir. Jaume Collet-Serra

[aleiiii]

what if Macaque.......but buff and interacting with reader

I like the way you think anon B] ……

Mac getting his time to shine too, defo more of tease when it comes to Nà,,,

wukong just gets to the point

Drawing all these buff monkies really making me get in my anatomy practice in (especially muscles hnnnn)

[ouroborosreilig]

my old dl scar design kinda goes hard..... i miss it..... i miss his pants...............

[deer-a-day]

087

how does one render fur? ?

[perfectwitchcrown]

I've accidentally left this post sit in my drafts for awhile, so here is my meta (mostly) about File #71 (with some updated sections since I first wrote it). More under the cut.

CW: References to homophobia, references to suicide and suicidal ideation

I had suspected that Abbott Nicholas didn't think Dante was gay, and this file more or less confirmed my suspicion. I feel it is more likely that he really did say something cruel in the scene we've only seen snippets of where Vergilius left. Especially since he brings up the idea of "influence" in this file. As closeted as Dante was, all of the other children seemed to be aware that he was gay. Abbott Nicholas seems to have not broached the topic with Dante, largely because he doesn't believe Dante is gay. I wonder if Abbott Nicholas not addressing the rumors with Dante might have been in some way reassuring to a young Dante. I don't at all mean that he thought Abbott Nicholas was supportive of him being gay, because I think the extent to which he was trying to prove he was straight to him makes it clear he didn't. But Abbott Nicholas not broaching the subject and continuing to be perceived as favoring him might have allowed for a little bit of hope. Which is part of where my mind goes with Comedy 2's presentation of Dante and Vergilius's separation, where Dante just looks absolutely crushed while he's looking back at Abbott Nicholas. If Abbott Nicholas connected Dante's relationship to Vergilius as having some relationship to the rumors he'd heard from the children and said something, the limbo in which Dante doesn't have to let his sexuality impact his relationship with someone who was likely his parental figure would've been over. If Dante goes with Vergilius, then he would have to confirm he is gay and he would now be faced with evidence of that meaning rejection from his parental figure. If Abbott Nicholas identified Vergilius as the source of the rumors that Dante was gay, and Dante didn't go with Vergilius, then he can continue being the favored student of his parental figure, but with the knowledge that he's betrayed the one he loves and cannot ever reveal the truth without losing all of it.

This is mostly just complete speculation over Dante backstory though and motivations though. Ultimately, I don't know whether we even will get a concrete explanation of what exactly happened that day, or whether it'll always be kept vague. Frankly, I could see it going either way, but this is just where my mind goes to what might have happened.

I do want to also mention though how I did not notice at first that this separation occurred in the forest. The forest shows up a couple of times in the Inferno: the first is at the very beginning in Canto I, when Dante is lost, and the second is in Canto XIII, where Dante encounters "The Wood of the Self-Murderers," where those who have taken their own lives have turned into trees. Some scholars have connected similarities in some of the phrases of these two sections as indicating the depth of Dante's despair at the beginning of the poem. At the end of Canto I, after Dante has wandered lost in the woods and been chased by wild animals, Virgil appears and the Canto ends with Dante following behind Virgil: "Then he moved on, and I behind him followed" in the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation, which is publicly available online. It feels significant then that MTEFIL's Dante came across Vergilius in the woods, was also offered an opportunity to follow behind him, and failed to do so. Vergilius naming himself that also then feels like a really cutting decision.

Back to the file, I'm also curious to see that we received more information about Dante's mentor/mentee relationship with Mother Rosa. I had assumed he hadn't started working with her until after these events, but I was completely incorrect. Abbott Nicholas blames her for Dante's attitude getting worse which is super fascinating. I'm really curious about what her relationship with him at this period looked like. I've mentioned in previous meta, but Dante has reused her advice she gave him in a way that suggests to me he genuinely respected her. That he repeats Mother Rosa's advice she gave to Priest after recognizing Priest's mentality as a result of Abbott Nicholas's influence suggests to me that he felt she helped him as well with some of the baggage Abbott Nicholas gave him. That it's so connected to the idea of sexuality also makes me wonder the extent to which she was aware that Dante was gay. I'm really hoping we get more of her, especially since we know she was the prior strongest exorcist. She was also the previous strongest exorcist pleaseee I wanna see more of her....

There's also the performance of heterosexuality. Ekuoto Dante's expression of internalized homophobia reminded me of some sections from real Dante's Vita Nuova. Idk how intentional this is, it could just be an interesting coincidence but I just thought I might share.

Towards the beginning of Dante's Vita Nuova, he writes about how on one occasion he was staring at Beatrice, who was near another woman. The other woman, and other people around them, thought he was staring at her, rather than Beatrice. He decides to make use of it:

"Therefore I was reassured, and knew that for that day my secret had not become manifest. Then immediately it came into my mind that I might make use of this lady as a screen to the truth: and so well did I play my part that the most of those who had hitherto watched and wondered at me, now imagined they had found me out."

Later on, he further decides to "screen" his love of Beatrice by doing this:

"I took the resolution to set down the name of this most gracious creature accompanied with many other women’s names, and especially with hers whom I spake of. And to this end I put together the names of sixty of the most beautiful ladies in that city where God had placed mine own lady"

So he masks his love for one woman by writing poetry about how beautiful sixty different women were. Why he does this, idk. There's a section not long after this that I personally find funny where Dante describes how this actually pisses Beatrice off because he's stringing along various women and she doesn't say hi to him when they come across each other so he sobs himself to sleep.

Anyways, back to MTEFIL. I know I'm not the first person to say this, but I really hope we see more of the in-between moments that caused Dante's personality to change so drastically. The period where I would argue he seems to have been the most emotionally stable and confident, the first chapter of the series, comes after Vergilius left sometime in either their late preteen or early teen years, and the subsequent death of Mother Rosa in 2011. How the hell did this guy bounce back so well from all of that, and then what possibly could've happened that was worse than both of those events to make him as more or less hopeless as he is now??

I'm also no where near the first person to say this, but I agree with the assessment that he might've reunited with Vergilius at some point prior to the first chapter, after their separation in childhood. I suspect there is a second break up we don't know about that really crushed him. Dante talks about love not being able to save people while thinking about Vergilius in one of his "my advice to Priest was shitty" monologues, which is so distinctly at odds with his thought process in the first chapter. I wonder if he tried to "save" Vergilius sometime in those seven years.

As always, if anyone has any different takes or feels I missed something, I'd love to hear what u think on it!

[vanii-la]

.. O-oh-!

*he looks really surprised*

..

I thought you didn't care, haha--!!

are you okay? I am quite worried for you

I'm fine, don't worry!! heh, why would you ask anyway?

[pup-pee]

i think i accidentally started doodling the cutest bart ever ive ever done ever in the history of ever

[themlemever]

Guys I have a question/idea

If I drew the first one as Max, how many of you would draw the second as Sam 👉👈

[what-even-is-sleep]

thinking about Bodkin again bc I mean,,, ALL THE SYMBOLISM OHHHHHGH. i NEED some tumblr film analysis hobbyists to watch this show and tell me all the themes n such

[moeblob]

Adam!

(my farmer gremlin in Fields of Mistria)