Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.
Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????
I feel like all the jobs for hot weirdos have disappeared. Where is a goth 6th year college undergrad supposed to work without a 24/hr photo studio? Where should a tired, old looking young man with big earrings work if not at the electronics parts store? Where is someone with the most asymmetrical and androgynous haircut you've ever seen supposed to work if not a record store?
In this link there is definitely not a folder with every Dragon Age eBook, numbered in order of reading plus the two Encyclopedias about the world. Please do not use the link, there are not free books in there.
My Dear!!! There’s an update!!! I have definitely not added EVERY SINGLE DA COMIC to this empty folder. They’re also not numbered in their respective order of reading and timeline (plus the DA Recipe book). There are no free books in there, at all.
Can you pretty pleeeaaaseee post that picture from the reze movie scene that you used? I literally cannot find it anywhere else and you awesome fan art is the only post I've seen so far about that specific scene 💔
Greatly appreciated and keep up with the cool art!
No problem, here you go! Thanks a lot for the appreciation~♡ ദ്ദി（• ᗜ •マ.ᐟ
I am going to start of by admitting I haven't properly consumed Chainsaw Man. I can't remember if I actually watched season 1 or saw too many clips, I read a middle section of the manga, and I have yet to see the Chainsaw man Reze arc. But I see the leaks of the pool scene and I cry.
I think I want to start of with my love for Denji. Sadly a lot of the fandom paints him as a degen and like, he is but he isn't. Denji is a really really really fucked up kid before we even get to the plot. He's painted as naive but you see him perfusion doing things like eating cigarettes to get 100¥ and playing dumb and happy just to get by. He never lost a body part in combat but sold various parts to chip away what was down to $400,000 debt. The boy has only known hardship and cruelty and pain. His second change to change his life was at the loss of the only person who cared for him and immediately into the hands of someone who would harm him more. I don't think Denji believes in the Public Safety Bureau as much as he wants to believe in it. He was hoping he was finally going to have his life turn around and a better quality of life where he gets respectable peers and he keeps trying to contort himself into someone that fits that story.
One of the very present trends of modern Shonen is the influence of Naruto's team 7 and the Orange/Blue/Pink theming (KNY: Zenitsu/Inosuke/Nezuko, JJK:Nobara/Megumi/Yuji, CSM: Denji,Aki,Power). The dynamic isn't always a 1/1 in the story though I'd describe as JJK and CSM as being pretty close. What was often the failing of Naruto was the imbalance of each relationship and the pacing of the story often ruining the arcs in them. By the time Sasuke is trying to stab Sakura while testing her loyalty, I do not understand the mindset of any of the 3s relationship. But I understand how much Yuji cares for Nobara and Megumi and I understand how Denji and Power slowly becomes Aki's weakness.
Denji is also a better 'Naruto'. They are both traumatized outcast orphans who act out for attentio. But what matters to me is how they explore that in the minutiae. Naruto was orphaned the day of his birth and due to his relationship to his village, was neglected from proper child care.....which brings up the question of how did he survive as a newborn to the point we could conceptualize seeking care. But with Denji, was raised (poorly) until a point he would know at least what he was supposed to do to take care of himself. Like mentioned before though, he has had to maim himself for survival where as Naruto was at least given a decent enough quality of life. Where Naruto's goofiness often stems out of ego, Denji's initial goals are getting to indulge in what is essentially a luxurious life compared to what he had; proper shelter, a proper amount of food in good quality and variety, access to hygienic care and new clothing, and comfort. Extremely meaningful scenes are when he's eating, making toast with all the jams (possibly a fear that he will loose the chance to try all of them if he spaces them out) and how the deeply values the vegetables in his curry. But most importantly, despite the chavaunist he pretends to be, he is extremely tender hearted and a caring person.
Despite all these qualities of life, what Denji craves most is the connection his life keeps denying him. What can be most assumed is familial affection that neither of his parents ever gave him, which manifests as wanting to touch boobs. Somewhere there is a quote in an evangelion video essay I'm too lazy to properly source about the psycho sexual representation of the bosom as the first form of nourishment a baby receives but eventually must part with leaving a yearning to return to that comfort. Denji's lack of skinship and maternal comfort leads him to keep seeking it from any woman he comes in contact with. His love of Makima is less a genuine crush and more a yearning to receive more affection from the first human* that provided to him, he's excited to get his first kiss with Himeno despite his conflicting emotions only to cry when it goes wrong, and tries to see is feeling up Power will make him feel whole only for it to becomes a stuffed bra joke. Intimacy is the one thing Denji is constantly denied agency over while in parallel, often succeeds in violent or underhanded actions. In cases like Aki, their initial relationship arc comes full circle starting with Denji using his undignified ball kick tactic and ending with him giving Aki the opportunity to kick the katana devils balls nonstop in revenge for Himeno. Similarly he bonds with Power in an arc where they are being killed repeatedly and constantly. If we were to really get into it, he is denied the bosom, a symbol of intimacy and lost to him due to his dead mother versus the violence of the balls, a symbol of aggression and ego, as represented the abusive father he eventually killed. Denji has not known one but is constantly oppressed by the other no matter how much he offers it.
"Everyone is after my chainsaw heart, what about my heart? Denji's heart?"
Denji canonically has a frail heart before pochita becomes it. Pochita is actually one of the most respected devils and unbelievabley strong. So when people are trying to capture him, Denji is just the unwanted box that holds the real item of desire, The Chainsaw Devil. A symbolic representation of Pochita's love for Denji is also what denies him to be loved again. Others want what's in him, not him, and the few who do love him are destroyed to get to him. Becoming Chainsaw man is the money's paw curse, you are loved by everyone and can connect to no one.
So let's finally leap to the pool scene. Reze is the same as him, valued for who she becomes rather than for herself and here to be the fighter for the Soviets and kill Denji. She offers him a glimpse at a school life that unbeknownst to him, neither has had the luxury to have. And while somewhat being a trap, Reze offers him adolescence.
I think skinny dipping into a pool is the ultimate coming of age trope for teenhood. It's an intermingled scenario of whimssey, risk taking, social navigation and sexual awakening. To be nude is to be vulnerable and therefore express trust in the other person physically and emotionally. It is an event horizon to one's own relationship with their own body and ego. To face each other nude is to shed the boundaries and armor we wear. To have someone strip in front of you is the confrontation of your reaction and how you respect them. To jump into a pool nude is a symbolic return to the womb, it is symbolically baptismal. To return to the womb is to shed the cage of adulthood and embrace childhood bliss and ignorance. To share the womb with another means that you are twins.
In all this context, it shows how Denji and Reze are the same, two creatures locked into a fate where they are tools of their respective governments rather than the humans they still are. Reze, poisoned to this world, is tricking Denji into the intimacy and vulnerability of the womb and to shed the boundaries between them. From Denji's side, he is afraid to join. To bare himself unprotected to the scrutiny of another and face the possiblity of rejection and to admit desire to connect. He is curled up fetal, protective, only for his desire to overpower it and jump into the unknown whole heartedly. In the pool, he keeps reaching out for her, always just a little too far to touch. The whole scene a beautiful visual metaphor of who they are and their journeys they're on. It the beautiful moment that Denji makes a real, meaningful connection instead of chasing after a puppy love crush and is also at the time a lie. It is the liminal space, the threshold of the height of bliss and the looming tragedy.
A small final note about their kiss. A firework is essentially a beautiful bomb. It's not just an on the nose metaphor for Reze visually but also shows how her existence could be just as nice for the world as it is destructive.
Chainsaw man reze arc movie was SO GOOD. PLEASE GO WATCH IT
A few things I loved:
(Light spoilers for the movie if you haven't seen it)
The animation was INSANE. Much much more faithful to Fujimoto's style, and it was just BEAUTIFUL. I absolutely loved the color, they finally made it colorful and neon like the manga volume covers. Some scenes made me gasp with how beautiful and striking the visuals were
The way that they extended certain scenes (like the big fight and the pool scene) was masterfully done
On that note, the pool scene was perfect - they absolutely NAILED the vibe of innocent and sexual without making it weird or exploitative of Reze or Denji. It was honestly a beautiful scene and the addition of the spider/moth imagery was a stroke of genius
ANGEL DEVIL IN LINGERIE PANEL ANIMATED!!! My theater cheered lmao
The Aki/Angel scenes were so so good.... I love those two more than life itself and this movie really captured their dynamic so perfectly. The choice to remove music during the hand touch scene was so.... ughhhh. So perfect.
The choice to add shots of Aki looking at Angel in the car specifically during the scene where Reze is singing her russian lullaby about wishing to go on a date with someone.... CINEMA. POETRY
The comedy in this movie was spot-on too, the scenes that read as mildly funny or ridiculous in the manga were laugh out loud hilarious in theaters. The scene where Denji rides Beam like a horse had my whole theater laughing, it was so good
THE FIGHT SCENES WERE SO HYPE!!! They expanded on them from the manga a LOT and my jaw was on the floor. THE FLOOD OF BLOOD??? THE BUILDING COLLAPSING??? HELLO????
I loved everything about this movie. Truly the best anime movie I've ever seen, and the best manga adaptation I've ever seen. I love the manga so much and truly believe that part 1 is absolutely perfect, and yet, this movie was even BETTER than the manga. Absolutely fantastic.
When are you gonna do wizard stuff? You've been etching that same spell array for the last 5 streams lmao
"When am I gonna do wizard stuff? You're watching it right now man. This is it."
you should hunt more demons again
Laughs "Look man, that was last month. This is now. You gotta understand the role of violence in the cycle if you're ever going to thread the needle of your will into the tapestry of fate."
So are you not gonna accept ManaMuncher2003's wizard duel challenge?
"Okay first of all, I don't even know who this guy is. Second of all, you gotta remember that wizard duels are fought across the entirety of reality and the victor is decided long before the challenge is ever issued. But I guess no one ever taught you that."
you're calling us stupid lol
"No I'm just saying that there's a reason why I'm the one doing spells and you're the one watching me from your mom's laptop. No shame or anything."
fuck you and your entire mage guild you shitty hedge witch
"Alright buddy, you're getting annoying. Mods, send this guy to the mind prison where he has to fight a shadow doppelganger representing his deepest insecurities to escape"
NL's never shown us his shadow demon because we know he'd have hair
Failing to hold back laughter "Okay to be fair to that last guy, I gotta send you to the mind prison too. But I'm gonna give you thirty seconds to find a weapon to bring in with you because I have to admit that one was pretty funny"
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