[crisismoth]

always reframe your mindset !!!! and never stop thinking about the character

"things are getting bad again" -> "im just like the character"

"i dont feel like myself" -> "the character is here"

"i dont feel connected to reality" -> "i am immersing myself in the character's world"

"who am i" -> the character! the character.

i dont know where i was going with this . have you ever thought about riding horses.

[naviclenek0]

They are UNAWARE

[ravioliet]

similarly to how you should never trust gamers with a nonbinary character i feel like you can also never trust a fandom with an aroace character. whether it's explicitly canon or implied it just ends up the same

[ravioliet]

every time an allo person wants to ship an aroace spec coded character they should write an essay with MLA format citations on how this serves the themes of the story and is necessary for the character and how their ship is any different than the relationships said character already has and they should also send $500 dollars minimum to at least one aroace person in their fandom

[ravioliet]

"but people can do whatever they want!!!" i don't caaaaaare go examine your biases and cry about it or i'm blowing both of us up

[books-bread-and-brigandage]

Look allos, you know the flinch you get when you contemplate shipping the cannon lesbian with a man, or suggest the 2 dudes from that gay hockey show just need to find the right girls? THAT is what you should be feeling, for exactly the same reasons, when you start shipping an aro or ace character. That same 'its not right to obliterate an identity to make a more easily smushable interchangeable Barbie doll out of the character'. Can aros date?! Sure! Can Aces have sex?! Absolutely! in exactly the same ways for a lot of the same reasons as Gay men and lesbians can enter into relationships with members of the opposite and non-desired gender. And there is story in that, in what bits they need from it, and what bits they endure and how those balance out, and the tension and contradictions in that!

Hell! Its even simpler if you can pry the notion that all aros and all aces are aro ace out of your head. plenty of aros like to fuck, plenty of aces want romance. But the one fucking thing you need to do is to stop seeing asexuality and aromanticism as is some kind of blank page to be written over, a silence to be spoken over.

[nomaumona]

This guy is about to have a lot of free time. I still like the original series the most with all the horror and blood-curdling screams.

[s1lentpine]

Purple (He always comes back iykyk)

Everytime I see Fyodor in Harukawa’s style I just stare in awe for a little and then get angry at how the anime FUCKED UP HIS DESIGN.

Manga Fyodor showers everyday.

Anime Fyodor smells like a sewer rat and has more grease in his hair than PM Dazai.

[nyvraexx]

First time posting on Tumblr. Idk what I’m doing 🥀

[primsheep]

Magma doodles bleghhh

[kaicantry]

i miss my wife tails /ref

[hellzabeth]

Mononoke series' new Medicine Seller! Hello there Qian/Ken!

First of all: I love him already.

Second: we HAVE to talk about this outfit.

Let's go through this bit by bit, shall we? (For simplicity's sake, I'll be referring to the sellers by their Japanese sword names, Ken, Kon, and Ri, and to the trigrams by their Chinese names, Qian, Kun, and Li.)

Firstly and most strikingly: the colours. We're leaning heavily on a yellow-gold colour scheme, with highlights of orange and a minty green and contrasting purple. Historically, in China the colour of heaven was yellow/gold, and in some eras only the emperor was allowed to wear this specific rich shade. Very fitting for the sword of Qian, representing heaven.

Secondly: the kimono and how he's wearing it. Ohhhh boy. So just like Ri and Kon, Ken is wearing a woman's kimono, though it's folded up slightly shorter than normal, presumably to make moving around easier when fighting, and to allow us to see those beautiful hakama, which we will come back to in a moment.

This kimono has furisode sleeves, and possibly some of the longest furisode we've seen outside of Ooku characters. These are typically reserved for unmarried women - interesting, because Qian is a deeply masculine trigram, arguably the MOST masculine, as it is three unbroken yang lines. Fittingly, Ken is wearing the kimono with one sleeve off, a style typically associated with samurai, ronin, and other physical fighters to allow for more movement.

His obi belt is also quite slim compared to how Kon and Ri wear theirs, and most notably, it seems to not have the massive bow knot at the back that the other two do. Hard to say more on it while we don't have a full turn around, but smaller and more subtle knots are, once again, a much more masculine way of tying an obi than we're used to seeing on sellers. The feminine vibe is still there with the himo (oh, and look, that's where he's keeping his mirror), but with it positioned further down and being a plain black, it's definitely more masc.

Hakama are a split-skirt type outfit similar to trousers, and perform a similar function - they were invented for horse riding, which makes sense, as the animal associated with the Qian trigram is the horse. While both genders wear them, they're much more common for men, especially if this is again set in a pre-Showa era time. Over all, the whole outfit is much more masculine than any we've seen before on a medicine seller, which is very interesting, and carries some implications for the Shingi of Qian too, as they tend to contrast with their sellers (just look at Kon's excessively loud and colourful outfit vs his shingi's very understated pure white kimono).

(Ri and Kon also wear trousers under their kimono, but they wear momohiki, or something close to it, cut close to the ankle and drawn up to allow for movement, much more common for working class people than hakama.)

This tight sleeve that ends in a ring on the finger is called a tekkou (or rather, the long version is a nagatekkou), and was typically worn by archers to protect the arms and chest from the bowstring, as they would typically disrobe one shoulder to fire in some instances. They can extend to the forearm, or all the way up to the chest. I don't have much to say about this one, but he is the first seller we've seen with one! I love how we can see some of his kumadori makeup peeking out, and speaking of which.

Interestingly, almost all of Ken's kumadori body paint is black, unlike Ri or Kon's which is predominantly red. We can also see a lot more of it. All the medicine sellers wear kumadori markings that echo those from kabuki theatre. They serve as a visual shorthand for what kind of character is being played. Red on white is explicitly youthful and heroic, with a sense of justice - very fitting for Kon's high energy character. Black paint, by contrast, is typically applied to villains and demons, particularly around the face and mouth.

(Oh my god look at his little fang while he's fixing his earring i LOVE him)

For his face, we see something quite interesting - unlike Ri or Kon, he has barely any lip paint, but what he DOES have is a little bit of green on the bottom lip and an extremely thin purple line on the top. Around the eyes we see another little highlight of green on the eyelid, and thick black around the lower lid. Green is often a marker of the supernatural or the undead in kabuki theatre, which fits well enough here. He's still got that red stripe on the nose that marks him as heroic, but the incorporation of black into more of his makeup would give any kabuki-knowledgeable people a cause to be wary - this guy's just as likely to hinder as help you.

The sword. This is one scary looking sword if I'm completely honest. Maybe it's the bulging eyes or the way the teeth are rendered, it upsettingly resembles a bird with teeth to me. Let's consider the others for a moment.

Compare and contrast, Kun and Li. The sword of Qian has a narrow but MUCH longer hilt. The blade looks proportionally longer too, or at least the sheath is. As a result I'm not entirely sure how Ken fits it in his travelling pack - though we haven't seen what his looks like yet, so perhaps he uses something different to Ri and Kon.

In conclusion

BABY YOU'RE MY AAAAAAANGEEEEEEEEELLLLLLL

[raven-bythesea]

My complete piece for @mononoke-zine from a few years back, I like seeing how my arts improved

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno

[meanbuddhist]

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god

[jennelikejennay]

turn your attention to The Character

[royalbootlace]

HAPPY PRIDE!

I live in a country where being gay is illegal and criminal and it gets worse every year, but there's no greater act of defiance than living a full life!

[shamrock-the-cat]

i love whatever’s wrong with him

[nacch-an]

Greetings, folks. I've come bearing news: I am now peddling some of my wares on acggoods 🥳 If you happen to reside outside Indonesia and are interested in my wares, now is your chance to grab them! All proceeds will go to my new pc fund (please)

Fandom (for now):

- Mononoke

- Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

- Hyakuemu

- Fate/Grand Order

- Project Moon (Limbus Company, Library of Ruina, Lobotomy Corporation)

I will probably add more of my wares in the future…

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[rainbow-femme]

Post-hockey Shane Hollander who becomes a volunteer at a national park because he needs something to do and accidentally becomes everyone’s favorite guy for a second time

He’s useful for helping with missing people because he is fast and strong and also missing people go insane when they’re found and it is Canada’s Own Best Hockey Player In the World Shane Hollander awkwardly asking if they’re ok

He learns all the fun facts about the park and starts to be requested as a guide for school trips because he takes all of the kids questions seriously because this park is his Thing now and he takes talking about his Thing seriously

As a joke their social media person asks Shane to spoof one of his old ads from his hockey days but related to the park and it blows up so now the Canadian national park service has posters and signs with Shane doing his awkward picture smile and saying something about not starting fires during the dry season

He does bird calls and kids love it

He becomes a meme similar to Tony Hawk where people post about how they got directions from a park worker only to find out later it was world famous Olympic medalist and Stanley cup winner Shane Hollander and people start acting like he’s a national park cryptid

At first Ilya just thinks it’s great because it makes Shane happy, but then he sees him in uniform talking to a group of kids and realizes he suddenly is extremely into this

[lon3lysalsa]

A fanart I made of the medicine seller (series/Ri) because he was beautiful. And because I saw a lot of photos of geisha's on Pinterest and realized how amazing models/references they would be. So here he is💛