A Story In A Single Image, Of How One (1) Man Took Over My Entire Brain After Just 45 Days.....

18 year old Dazai losing Odasaku on Mori’s orders and leaving the Port Mafia well aware that Mori always feared that one day he’d kill him.

18 year old Junichiro walking into the Port Mafia against Fukuzawa’s orders fully intending to kill off Mori in order to save Fukuzawa’s life.

Oh yeah I love this type of relationship like theemm. In my headcanons they'll figured out w situation and will continue talking, nyananannm

Quick things I made with the comic creator (176/?)

you know what’s a trope that never gets tired is when theyre bouncing around in the plot and suddenly an important name crops up- it’s blorbo bleebus. and some dude is like who the hell is blorbo bleebus. and we immediately cut to our new friend blorbo bleebus pulling the most absolutely buckwild shit you’ve ever seen

Glad to see that everyone is collectively going apeshit for Progenitor!Kaveh

My biggest fear is probably my parents finding out about my obsession with gay ships of any kind

zuko getting brutally attacked by very murderous frogs

pray for those who persecute you 🫵💥‼️

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I don't usually dabble in realism - but this was a gift for someone very meaningful in my life. And some things just deserve to be painted as they are.

One thing about Mononoke that I find kinda funny is that the samurai in the series are always pretty useless.

A lot of anime present samurai as these, like, hardcore unstoppable badasses, but whenever a Medicine Man runs into a samurai, they're either stupid, cowardly, or they just get in the way. At best, they're portrayed as being in way over their heads. Even the evil samurai in the series aren't particularly badass. They're just portrayed as thugs and lowlives that happen to have swords.

Not only is this funny, it also ties into the feminist themes of the franchise. A lot of Mononoke has to do with the hardships women face in a male-dominated world. That an exalted, all-male class like the samurai are in reality a bunch of losers helps show how bitterly unfair the gender dynamic in Edo society is. A lot of these guys are just allowed to fail upward because of their connections or social status or whatever while lower class women who are braver and more competent than them just get crushed by the system.

One thing that's never said outright but is still clear from the reactions of the characters is that only men of the samurai class are allowed to carry swords. Legally, a merchant like the Medicine Man isn't allowed to have one. However, not only are the swords the samurai carry completely useless against mononoke, but none of the samurai are even good swordsmen in the first place. Whenever they do use a sword to kill someone (which is rare), it's usually an unarmed civilian that can't defend themselves. These aren't hardened warriors; they're just bullies with a title. The Medicine Man is way more qualified to carry a sword than any of them.