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(NOT SPOILER FREE) tori (they/them). CEO of father backstory since 2015 || twitter: @kanotototori || meta: #my meta (V3)

[kanotototori]

Noragami Meta + Misc Masterpost (V3)

Some meta and adjacent thoughts may no longer hold up to canon or my current thoughts on the manga, this is just an archive of my Noragami-related posts to date.

Apparently, Tumblr decided to somehow eat my last meta masterpost (or I accidentally deleted it, lol) so, here’s V3. 

The Loophole™ - May 31, 2019

So, what’s the deal with Nora? -  December 6, 2019

Goryoujin: what’s the deal with Father? (89-2 edition) (Part 1) (Part 2) - August 8, 2020

Additional Thoughts on 89-2 - February 28, 2021

  Father: true desires, projection theory, and related thoughts  (Part 1-1) (Part 1-2) (Part 2 - discontinued) - April 11, 2021

(Mini) thread on some thoughts about Father’s “separateness” and isolation as a person (Twitter) - June 24, 2021

Chapter 95-1 Thoughts - July 5, 2021

About the poem from Chapter 95... - July 6, 2021

On Magatsukami: A Few Noragami Thoughts - August 8, 2021

Chapter 97-1 Thoughts (Part 1) (Part 2) - November 11, 2021

In response to “Villains and Victims”... - November 14, 2021

Chapter 51 “Salvation” (救 Sukui) vs. Chapter 97 “Savior” (救主 Sukuinushi) (Twitter) - November 19, 2021

黄泉帰る(yomigaeru) “to return from Yomi” vs. 蘇る (yomigaeru) “to return from Yomi” (Twitter) - November 24, 2021

Chapter 97-2 Thoughts (Part 1) (Part 2) - December 8, 2021

On Father’s “I’d even sleep among monks” - Feb 3, 2022

On Father and Yato - March 28, 2022

So, let’s talk Father and Yato in Chapter 102-1 - September 6, 2022

Chapter 103-2 Thoughts - February 6, 2023

“Even if you fell into the Underworld, I’ll come save you” - July 6, 2023

“Is this run-down nation what you really wanted to create?” - November 21, 2023

[kanotototori]

Noragami Volume 26 insert art + omakes

[pentamerous]

EDIT: Feeling kind of dumb now because I didn't realize pampas grass and silver grass were not actually closely related and instead just look similar.

From the link below, the entry for silver grass says that it means vitality, authority, one's life force, and/or closeness. It blooms at about the same time as pampas grass but is a little shorter, at a height of 1-2m tall.

As a plant, it is invasive in some areas (like pampas grass) and is very difficult to remove once established because it propagates underground via rhizomes. This is actually hilarious to me because traveling via lifelines as mentioned in a recent chapter is pretty much the same way a rhizome makes the plant grow a new plant without seeds.

The leaves are kind of sharp but I don't have a comparison to pampas grass.

Last, silver grass is commonly called susuki but is also referred to as "kaya," a grass used for thatching!

ORIGINAL POST: I'm not sure if the "flower" meaning of the grass in the background is the same everywhere, but I found a page about pampas grass (which is what this grass looks like to me) and found this:

https://hanakotoba.net/pampasgrass/

パンパスグラスの主な花言葉は、下記のとおりです。花の名前パンパスグラス学名Cortaderia selloana主な花言葉（日本）光輝、雄大な愛主な花言葉（海外）ー誕生花8月9日、11月25日開花期9月〜10月花名は『南アメリカの草原（パン

It says the meaning of pampas grass in Japan is splendor and/or a great love, mainly due to the fact how large pampas grass grows (up to about 3 meters!). It "blooms" the feathery tops around September and they last through the fall.

What I know about this plant contrasts pretty sharply with the hanakotoba. The appearance of the plant and it's vigor are well liked (it will grow in places other plants might not), but it is wildly invasive outside of its native range, killing and displacing other plants. Like many invasives that are cultivated outside their natural range, they take resources the other plants might use while also growing so fast that it takes the sunlight from the plants closest to it. The leaves are also very sharp and can harm both people and animals.

Both are interesting to consider (at least to me) because it's been said many times in the manga how extreme devotion and love can turn in on itself and become a destructive force. I have to wonder if Adachitoka intended for this art to also carry that kind of double meaning.

[we-are-making-it-up-as-we-go]

I wonder if Hannibal realizes that he sometimes behaves like the orphaned child that he is. There's something missing and it's the love that he should have received but was instead violently ripped from him.

In addition, Will is the only one who notices.

Hannibal's childlike wonder with the world, his anxious attachments, his mood swings, his possessiveness over the few people he lets himself be attached to, his need for everything to be exactly how he molded it, his jealousy at being sidelined by the few people he loves...

...and most of all his stubborn idea that everybody should be kind, polite and considering to each other, and if they aren't, the scared starved child in Hannibal will see to it that those Rude People can't hurt him anymore. He desperatly wants to keep on his rose colored glasses while the world keeps yanking them away. In order to get them back, he has to defeat and quite literally put down the people who keep ruining his illusion of a world where he is loved. He needs that illusion so much that he modelled his whole life to adhere to it, starting with a higher education, a respectable job, nice clothes, nice food for guests, etc, in hope that those things and atteibutes will make people love him.

Will understood this to be true both in Hannibal and in the Ripper, way before he knew they cohabitated in the same body. He understood that they both need to eliminate everything that threatens to break them, and it's a lot of things/ people, considering how fragile Hannibal and the Ripper are.

A lot of things/people have the audacity to hurt him, and once they do, Hannibal needs to assure himself that they'll never hurt him again, while also assuring himself that he was always superior to them (he does this by eating them) so to convince himself that they never really hurt him.

This way, he can keep convincing himself that the soldiers that ate Misha did not actually hurt him, since they are inferior to him —they are, since he hunted them down and consumed them; this demostrates their inferiority— and what's inferior to him can't really hurt him. ("Nothing [traumatic] happened to me")

The problem to this reasoning is that upon further scrutiny it crubles fast. And to keep it steady and straight, Hannibal needs to reassure himself of his invulnerability more and more often, with more show of force and superiority each time.

He's one of those pitiful things born in hospitals who miracolously survive their damned conditions and will forever be more vulnerable to the outside world; their only hope to not be shattered upon contact with others is to annihilate those others.

He is starved, most of all, of affection, and you know the saying "those who never received love with spoons, adapt to lick it off knives"? (It isnt the exact phrasing, I know). Well, he doesn't willingly lick knives and cuts himself; but since he never developed appropriate armour (aka, a healthy self esteem), every small slight from other people hurts him like a bitch, and the only way to make sure the pain doesn't come back is to waste the son of a bitch that caused it.

[sirenja-and-stag]

[sirenja-and-stag]

Liar liar pants on fire

[bookofbabadook]

[lyr11sk]

hannibal was right about will and i hate when people pretend otherwise. will is not simply a product of hannibal’s abuse. hannibal specificity chose to pursue him because he saw not only wills ability to understand him, but also his similarity to hannibal (which is why in episode one, before anything happens, he calls him a mongoose he wants under his house when the snakes slither by or whatever). he has always seen wills true self despite will’s attempts to repress it. which is why before he even got encephalitis, he admitted to having enjoyed killing hobbs. it made him feel powerful and he felt no remorse. he didn’t think of hobbs as his victim, just as dead. which is also why hobb’s last words of: “see? see?” continue to haunt will. he does see. he understands that killing feels good. he understands hobbs beyond his empathy disorder, so much so that he almost mentally becomes him. he takes his roll as abigail’s “father” because of the tie he felt towards hobbs. mentally, hobbs represents the side of will that he’s running from. he is will’s proof that he wasn’t the man he thought he was. so no, will wasn’t made into a killer by hannibal. although hannibal did have to continuously break him in order to make him give up on adapting and blending into society, he was always a killer.

[l3wrenxx]

Random parallels

[bloodydancy]

Hannibal S2E13 Mizumono | S3E13 The Wrath of the Lamb

[whydoihavetoart]

dinner

[sadfishpile]

“i am a good fisherman, jack.”

[twinkhughdancy]

1st watch of hannibal: wow what an amazing beautiful & insightful show. the acting is incredible the writing is incredible the directing & worldbuilding & set design & costuming & music & FOOD DESIGN is incredible. BOOM mizumono. BOOM digestivo. BOOM the wrath of the lamb nuke & you can’t leave the house for days

2nd watch of hannibal: oh my god. OH MY GOD. OHHHHH MYYYY GOD. OH MY GOD!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!! ITS EVEN BETTER!!!!!!! BOOM mizumono & you fling yourself into the sun

3rd watch of hannibal: hahahahaha omggggg bitch he did not. this shit hilarious. BOOM you hit the floor & start sobbing

4th watch of hannibal: yelling at the TV like its a sports game watching them do the same gay bullshit they do every time despite your impassioned warnings. drinking just to get through it

5+ watches: heart palpitations and you feel like you’re going crazy and then you go crazy and you tweak out so hard and feel for the characters so much that you can’t ever watch it again

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x01 - “Apéritif”

"I think that for Hannibal, it was love at first sight. He found that young man so fascinating and he knew right there that he had a future with him somehow." -Mads Mikkelsen

[greisekinderschar]

tbh i find it funny when polish people are amazed non-polish people would enjoy 1670 bc of course, it’s a commentary on polish society and some jokes definitely only land for polish people, but at the same time, knowing it is a netflix show, it proudly presents polish culture to foreigners at every opportunity. poland-lithuania, the veto, historical hegemonic structures in general compared to the present, folk stuff like the drowning of marzanna, the polish wedding, folklore, kupala night, the harvest festival, the dances, the dumka na dwa serca, the music in general. what makes the show so good is that it references polish culture and society in a way that can appeal to both polish and non-polish people, while at the same time bringing in aspects that are universal for, at least, europe as a whole. it proudly presents polish culture in combination with the Western Slavic Humor™️ (with that spicy progressive sprinkle) that includes critique and prevents it from having an uncomfortable patriotic vibe, while the universal, connecting things show that even societies that might be entirely foreign to you have the same issues as yours.

what i’m saying is everyone should watch 1670 it’s an amazing show.

[tt-rexxu]

Frostbite ❄️ Ichigo gently holds Rukia's face in his hands, the numbness takes hold as his fingers become frostbitten and stiff.

[zakirsiz]

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

Did you kill him with your hands? It was… intimate.

HANNIBAL (2013 - 2015)

[liminalcanibal]

Hannibal 2x10 - “Naka-Choko”

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

1x04 - “Œuf”