#dr ciel

[0of64]

Could you imagine when X found out about the 4 Gaurdians?

[elyos03]

Felt bored. Might post some custom dialogs I have not posted elsewhere.

A good number of custom mugshots by: @/model-xis (or @/delightful-69 (idfk they're the same person) (but i'm not one to talk, i guess))

Custom Ciel mugshots by: TheYungFe

Some custom expressions by: Yours truly

Aaaaaannnd that should be about it, I guess? Here's the Rie Tanaka tweets in question. After all, I told you I'd put it here.

Oh, and here's some alternate versions. Feel free to ask me why Ciel gets Model W induced red eyes in most of them.

P.S. u/Spiritual-Treehugger. Buddy. Pal. Hombre. I know you're seeing this.

[bluesicle]

my bday was yesterday 🎉🎉 here's some doodles idk if I've posted yet

A couple of bonus 👀

[msnihilist]

So now that it's 2024, we can all agree that Ciel was flirting with Arthur, right?

[abybweisse]

Blood Work (p1), Elitism, transmutation, and religious fear

⚠️ long post ⚠️

So, I now have a copy of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, by Holly Tucker. It's a reference for Yana-san, as she mentioned it in her old tuna.be blog around the start of the blue arc.

I see in the list of important people a mention of the real Dr. Moreau, and there's a later chapter about chimeras... so I know I'll be talking about that some, over this series of posts.

It's important here, too, because when researchers were first attempting blood transfusions in the 17th century, people were terrified about receiving blood from animals, like sheep and cattle. They thought that animal blood would transmute humans into human-animal hybrids. Even in the 20th century, some white people were terrified of receiving blood from black people, because they thought the blood could effect the race of their future children or grandchildren. Nonsense, of course, but they didn't understand.

17th century blood transfusions were generally performed by taking blood from a lamb or a calf. The barbers/physicians/researchers had no clue about blood types. Jean-Baptiste Denis successfully transfused blood from a lamb into a teenage patient. Then he made several successful attempts at transfusing from a calf to a "madman". The guy later died, and Denis was blamed. Turns out some doctors who didn't want him to succeed had actually poisoned that second subject with arsenic.

It wasn't even a matter of those physicians wanting his experiments to fail while theirs worked; no, they simply didn't want blood transfusions to become a practice. They were afraid of transmutation from animal blood, and they were afraid of what animal-to-human blood transfusions would reveal about humanity -- that we are truly just animals, too. The trial against Denis ended research into blood transfusions for about 150 years.

Blood types were still unknown in the late 18th century, when a physician wanted to attempt to revive George Washington's largely exsanguinated corpse with a transfusion of lamb's blood. FYI, he died on a December 14th, just like Prince Albert. His family refused the offer only because they feared sullying his body with animal blood, and they insisted his body must be left untainted and wholly together for him to be properly received into heaven. Such was the continued lack of understanding. Yana-san might have given Undertaker the idea to use blood transfusions in conjunction with other techniques for the reanimating and revival process from the account of what that physician wanted to do to Washington.

When blood transfusion research was in full swing, in the 19th century, they were starting to piece together the idea of blood groups, but they still didn't quite know about things like universal whole blood donor and universal whole blood recipient. There was a strong elitist element to this, so they generally thought like could only be compatible with like. They also still saw non-human blood as inferior, even if it might be compatible. The best compatibility was expected between twins and then between close relatives.

I have a feeling that Yana-san has played around with this bias, which would explain why real Ciel is only receiving AB (Sirius) blood, Canopus B, Vega O, and Polaris A. All those people at Sphere Music Hall are led to believe they are being treated as equals, when they are in fact being split up into a caste system where some "stars" are of a higher magnitude than others. And, at times, Blavat Sky and others have made it clear they see some blood types as being less worthy than others. By extension, some people are treated as less worthy. Blavat seems to realize that Sirius can receive blood from other blood types, because he gives "leftovers" of Vega and Polaris blood to the Sirius renal patients. It's possible that real Ciel doesn't know he can have any type of whole blood, but I suspect he knows and simply doesn't think anything else is good enough for him.

I'd also like to mention Snake and Finny here, since we know Finny was injected with something to increase his strength and other traits. Then we see Snake with various attributes that are associated with snakes. In either case (or both) we could be dealing with transmutation. It's not realistic in our world, but it might very well be possible in theirs. Each of them might have been injected with chemical cocktails derived from other animals: Snake from snakes and Finny from perhaps a few completely different species.

We now know Snake wasn't born a snake and turned into a human, but there's nothing to say he wasn't born human and "adulterated" with snake traits. There's also the weird story the freak show attendant claims: human mother and snake father. Maybe not an actual snake as his father but more like his mother being injected with snake blood or something... and that producing a hybrid child. Again, not what we'd consider possible, but the Kuroverse plays by different rules.

One other aspect I want to touch on in this post: Othello's and Grelle's fears regarding the very nature of human souls and existence. This is a form of religious fear, not too different from what George Washington's family feared. His family feared he wouldn't be accepted into heaven, while these two reapers fear humans might no longer even need souls, and that heaven may no longer matter to them. What would that mean for the existence of reapers, when their supposed salvation requires them to keep collecting souls?

Well, I'll probably talk about bias and fear again, as well as these other issues, but I'll stop here... for now.

[freetobeafcknriot]

MY FAVORITE QUEER CHARACTERS OF 2023

[zetsubobu]

What's a character you love but what absolutely be intimidated by if you ever met them irl?

[jiuchives]

my fbci tag is too empty for the amount of content that it has, so have the wip pages for a comic!

[redthefortuneteller]

A Pet Snake

In chapter 50, upon getting questioned by Sebastian about having taken Snake in, our Ciel answers with this:

My first thought is that he's talking about all the snakes. But if we consider my theory on Snake's origins, by having our Ciel refer to his new servant as a pet, there's a possibility Yana could be hinting at Snake being a snake himself (originally). After all, he is quite literally talking about Snake as seen in the first panel. I can't see him refer to any of the other servants as pets, so this instance is interesting when considering the possibility of the "Snake is a snake" theory having some validity.

The 18th is upon us, aren't you excited to see what this month's chapter holds for us? I seem to always get a little nervous! And for everyone who celebrates it, have a lovely Valentine's Day, the day of love, be it romantic or friendship wise. May your day be filled with love! ♡ ♡ ♡

Thanks for reading! 𓆙

[authorazurite]

Third chapter is out!

Harpuia is edgy, Vile sucks, Zero is going through it and Cerveau needs a hug. Also Ciel is there.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65122120/chapters/167768617

[could-they-be-a-pro-wrestler]

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE OF FRIDAY NIGHT PUNCHGROUND

ROAD TO “CLASH AT THE CASTLE”

Previously, it was announced that for the next event Clash at the Castle, Sherlock Holmes (BBC Sherlock) is exercising his rematch clause against Dr. Gregory House (House MD) for the ABW World Heavyweight Championship. With one world title match booked for the event, a battle royale was set up for this episode of PunchGround in order to determine who will be challenging for the ABW Universal Championship.

Since Clash at the Castle is a United Kingdom-centric show, the battle royale is exclusively for British characters/British-coded characters.

* Marc Spector and Jake Lockley are barred from helping Steven

** Callum initially didn’t qualify until he revealed that he will be accompanied to the ring by Rayla, who is Scottish. Although the ABW management team still felt that wasn’t enough to let him compete, the unnamed commissioner decided to allow it.

[elyos03]

Oh look, yet another crosspost from the ZX server

[purpleeyesgreydragon]

Hello! It's me, your local nice guy apologist.

[dingviant-art]

Various sketches of various characters of mine both old and new. Hmm, some of these faces are familiar...

[thedeafprophet]

why is my brains baseline when im tired to return to overanalyzing light fingers

[aqueousablution]

Renamed all my emotes on FFZ to use the characters' names instead of "aque" as the prefix, so I thought I'd also take the opportunity to revise some that were bothering me!

On a related note, once the updated emotes are approved, they'll be publicly available here, including all the ones that only had their names changed :^)