#the attention to detail in this manga

[savashroom]

me scrolling thru the dunmeshi tag: aww yeah thats cute art of chilchuck being a mimic and his daughters dressed as treasure bugs

me, the 16th time seeing that image: oh hey, one treasure bug detail is different from the other two

the laios in my brain: Coin insects have a different insignia dependant on their gender!

me: oh shit thanks Laios dunmeshi

brain Laios: you're welcome!

me:

me: wait

me: CHIL-CHILD TRANS?????

[epickiya722]

I've always been a little on edge when it comes to the visual of Gege ever since I realized in chapter 1, Akutami-sensei foreshadowed what happened to Megumi and among other things, I said this in another post of mine...

And uh...

They did indeed fight later in Sukuna's innate domain/soul room in chapter 11/episode 6 of the first season. And the first opening shows Yuji on a train.

Domains are a reflection of the soul or something along those lines, right?

Well, it makes sense that Yuji's soul would be of a train station.

And here's why... the first fight Yuji has against a curse or anybody that he wins (that doesn't involve any inference and/or just a simple assignment that is being overseen)? He wins IN A TRAIN STATION!! AND THAT CURSE HAD FOUR ARMS!!

What else is significant is that it takes place at the start of the Shibuya Arc, it's the second fight we actually see (first being Mechamaru vs Mahito, RIP Kokichi).

The Shibuya Arc becomes that turning point to Yuji's character. While he was already strong before, he progresses even further from then on out.

Kind of funny, I remember the grasshopper calling himself "clever" and mocking Yuji and it reminds me of how Sukuna tends to have this overly confident attitude and taunts Yuji. We saw what happened to Ko-Guy (that's the curse's name) and what's happening to Sukuna.

I did a quick search and grasshoppers can symbolize good luck. What if Yuji's good luck is now reaching him?

I think that fight was another piece of foreshadowing to Yuji's Domain and what's to come, a fight I know a lot of people look over. Keep in mind the location name.

"Shrine" is in there. Sukuna's Domain is called Malevolent SHRINE.

Yuji brought Sukuna into his shrine.

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[lotus-pear]

bsd fic authors i understand yalls pain SO well right now why is it so fucking HARD to write dazai. like i have a whole fucking spreadsheet dedicated to tireless analysis i have done on my part so i can accurately characterize him but he is such an unpredictable and morally gray character that it's hard knowing his limits and boundaries and where he draws the line for himself.

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay you know what actually yeah. I was tired but I had a point.

Why. On earth. In zelda fics. Do people not shut up about everything being hylia's fault forever and ever.

Like, the one deity out of a dozen odd who got cursed into this right alongside Link. All the focus on one great all being power who then gets blamed or blessed for everything that ever happens. It's just... I don't know, it just seems like a culturally Christian thing. Not even that - American catholic.

Especially Legend omg when people write him he never shuts up about how everything bad that's ever happened to him is all hylia's fault and she's doing it on purpose with no thought to her poor beleagured hero. He sounds like someone who grew up in an American conservative household who turned out to be queer and never bothered to unpack any of it and acts like he's now atheist.

But even then you could do something interesting with that!! The common headcanon that Legend is hylian royalty - of course that family would put immense worth and worship on hylia as her descendants, she who founded their kingdom. And maybe legend could feel bitter about not inheriting the magic, or the throne, or whatever meant he grew up away from the castle. Give him some unexamined religious trauma! Heck, he could bond with Flora over disappointing your family's expectations or something! They could work on unpacking it together! If you must make it part of his character at least think about why!

Because that belief is wrong, because hylia is literally the one deity we can pretty safely understand is not all seeing, all knowing, all being.

Every time she has a voice, a role, we see her make mistakes or be tricked and have regrets.

Skyward sword, she's literally zelda. She's a young protective warrior goddess (she used a sword and lead armies to battle against demise) who was created by the Three to guard the triforce and keep watch over hyrules lands. By the time ss starts she's already made several tough calls, not limited to yoinking hylians into the sky. When she was zelda she hated every second of leading Link around and even then!! It all hinged on him being completely willing! He was never forced to do anything, she didn't even have her memories with the plan until after she'd fallen to the surface! Their relationship was entirely genuine and she very nearly overestimated her own willingness to go through with the plan! And even then she still managed to get kidnapped lmao. That's not what happens when you're in charge of fate.

And in botw and totk - she's in her full divine form, her full divine powers, she's ancient and magic and worshipped in every corner of the kingdom. And (spoilers!) she loses contact with one of her own mf statues. Not just any ten apples high chibi statue you see in the towns, no, it's The Big One. She's got no idea what happened to it, but she's (rightfully) worried, and asks Link to check it out. And in an entirely separate instance, her OTHER big statue in the ToT gets overridden!! By a triangle head! And ol creep in the deep is the one who releases the statue! It's been what 20k years of power and worship - if she's not all powerful then she never will be.

Hyrule - every hyrule - is very, very polytheistic. She's not even a goddess of time to be in charge of stuff like that! There's multiple of them: Naryu, Cia (and Lana), Farosh to an extent, and many artifacts that can cause time travel, like the harp of ages, the ocarina, the big portal in ss, those time shift stones in the same game, the statue in wind waker. Please stop treating her like the magic elf equivalent of Monotheistic American Christianity God.

She was introduced in skyward sword. The game that came out before botw. She did not exist in any of the games that came before that. There was a lake hylia! In the kingdom hyrule! That's it! Her name or even existence wasn't even hinted at before that. It's actually canonically pretty unlikely any of the chain (cough cough legend) have even heard of her! And her assigned job is protector of the triforce. That's it. And she can't even use the thing. She can very explicitly as a main driving force of the ss plot not use the triforce she protects. And the triforce, shockingly, is not even in every game.

Cases that hylia often gets the most flack for (links awakening and all the trauma from that, Link failing in botw, the events of totk) hylia has absolutely zero part in. Hilariously. And she has zero power over wishes made to the triforce or who makes those wishes or what the triforce does about it.

She even gets all the blame for the cycle of the hero, the reincarnation! Which? We know exactly how that happened. Blaming her for a curse she herself is a victim to?? Demise, in skyward sword, explicitly, on screen, doing it ON PURPOSE, cursing the spirit of the hero and the blood of the goddess.

Hylia, I don't know if you've noticed, also has her own blood. Whether or not she lost that blood upon return to her divine form, she still couldn't break the curse. Link, spirit now tied to whatever demise had cooking up, is basically to reincarnate in time for whenever the Interesting Times happen. And it's demise's fault, who, again, did it on screen, on purpose, explicitly, pointing at the camera with text bolded and everything.

So why do people even blame her? I think it comes down to this:

Her name matches the kingdom. Whatever her connection to the people with the same name, I don't know, but she did found the surface kingdom as a mortal. Being named zelda at the time I wonder who chose the name XD!

Her worship in botk as a high ranking deity. Again, not monotheistic, there's temples to the Three and there's Malanya and Satori and the great fairies and the yiga worship ganon, but hylia is the most widespread for all she's basically a side character working for the new heart piece situation. Again, this is only the case in ss/botk, she doesn't appear in even aoc.

A misguided belief spread in fanfiction that in linked universe, hylia is the one opening and controlling the portals. To my knowledge, lu canon is that the portals are opened by dark link, or at least that's the working theory. I think it's assumed that hylia is the one who gathered the heroes together to combat it? If that's true? Congratulations! We have one (very plot necessary) act of hers in a fan comic. That is not canon to The Legend Of Zelda series.

An american Christian (I hesitate to say evangelican?) cultural understanding of religion. The differences between polytheism and monotheism. How one might feel if the divine was proven real on earth. Zelda is a Japanese property, it is not a Christian country. Though it draws aesthetic inspiration from western medieval fantasy it is not and never will be culturally western. The majority of ao3/tumblr users are American or at least English speaking, and that will always affect interpretation. It's giving 'be thankful to God no matter what for he always has a plan. Trust in him and your suffering will be rewarded' which is not a universal religious belief.

Something I've noticed to be surprisingly common in fandom, is where a mentor or figure of authority who is anything less than perfect or all forgiving can very quickly have their reputation ripped to shreds by the fandom. And then newer authors come, read those works, internalise that about the characters and produce new works that assume that character's cruelty to be par for the course. I will not be listing those characters or fandoms for a variety of reasons lol. But it is amazingly common and very hard to untangle, especially in larger fandoms. It's character bashing in a way near identical to cancelling people irl. It's not 'giving them depth' or 'making it more realistic' (grittier equalling realism is an ice cold take proliferated by dudebro comic authors and wrong besides.) Have some critical thinking.

Lately, I've also been running into a great many fics (not so much comics) that make hylia do some fairly heinous stuff... And then unironically blame her for it. They do remember they're the ones deciding what the characters do, right? She's not an abusive master playing with her puppets until they break, she's quite the opposite! Use the right tags (dark hylia/ooc characters/character bashing/author made them do it, idk) or dial it back. This is a growing percentage of fics and I'll never restrict content but yanno, if you're going to make hylia evil or manipulative at least understand it's a canon deviation (and do something interesting with it, I once read an amazing botw fic with evil hylia and fierce deity!).

TLDR, To summarise, hylia is canonically incapable both emotionally and physically of doing the majority of things characters in fics blame her for. Stop using her as a scapegoat especially when demise is right there. Please give your whumpees deeper characterisation than hating on hylia. Please give legend deeper characterisation than hating on hylia every time he or someone else is sad. Please remember wild can talk to hylia if he wants. Please double check anything you're not sure about :D!

[boinin]

Blue Lock Season 1 ED 1

[robotsafari]

deep in the kingdom hearts trenches..

[mypersonalsandbox]

Dandadan (ダンダダン)

[i-have-no-enemies]

Only after reading the manga twice do I realize the symbolism behind Hild letting her hair fall loose.

Her master taught her to keep her hair up when she was hunting to not cover her eyes and ears, so she can stay on guard.

That hair-do is her “hunting mode” and in the time she’s been traveling with Thorfinn it’s been one long continuous hunt, stalking and waiting to strike, but now she’s let her hair down because the hunt is over and there’s no need to be on guard any longer… not around Thorfinn at least

[mysteriousdragon2]

Sketched the CDDH Chapter Cover of Hol Horse, how could I not? A redraw of it, of course. Granted it's not the most accurate piece, but I honestly took a while to finish it- but to visually see what I'm going to draw is always a good way to test my observation skills. Composition wise it could've been better, but I'm pretty proud nonetheless. Original image:

Still the best Chapter Cover I've ever seen thus far. Enjoy ;p Apologies for the lack of posting..!

[orcelito]

Went skimming thru late trimax For Reasons, got caught up reading the Legato fight, realized things about the fight that I never had before & went WOW, I kind of want to write an analysis post right now!

Felt the same kind of insanity grip me, however momentarily, that fueled all my analysis posts however many months ago. Too tired to actually word things coherently right now, but...

I May or may not have a full(ish?) analysis of the Legato & Vash fight a la style of This post analyzing the Trigun: Multiple Bullets fight that got unexpectedly kind of popular. People seemed to really appreciate that one, & I even had some ppl saying it could be cool if I did that for others?

So. Legato fight. Maybe. Feel free to remind me later if u see no mention of it again for over a week lol

[snaillock]

i’m trying to dissect what type of person kiyora is and what his personality is like. so can someone who’s really into astrology tell me how closely blue lock characters act to their star signs?

[inkykeiji]

so i’m finally catching up on jjk because i was like 9 episodes behind whoops and i just,,, i’m having so much trouble actually focusing and paying attention. my issue with jjk is that i LOVE the characters—i think they’re great and fun and so, so interesting, and i love their dynamics with one another—but the story itself, like the plot n all that, bores me to absolute tears 。ﾟ(ﾟﾉД｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡

it’s quite well written, i think, but i’m (personally!) just having such a hard time actually feeling invested in it :(

[yakksalot]

hi i dont know if anybodys seen the update for the phantom blood musical but it has me losing my mind all over again wondering what they'll do EVERYBODY LOOKS SO GOOODD NOW I NEED TO SEE WHAT THE PROPS AND THE SETS ARE GOING TO LOOK LIKE CHRIST!!!!!!!!!

[daz4i]

i wish i was able to read plain text so i could catch up with the lns fr

[boinin]

Blue Lock Volume 15 Omake

[cartoonrival]

since you said you're skipping anime-only episodes now, does that mean you're only watching the ones based on the boruto manga or are you also planning to watch the eps based on the novels and naruto? gaiden?

whatever this image tells me brother

i really don't know anything about the novels etc so if you have any suggestions or advice im open to it ^_^ rn im sticking to manga canon and mixed canon