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personnage-neutre

Hergé & Zhang Chongren, Le Lotus Bleu (1936)

Colors: Hergé & E. P. Jacobs, 1946

lianmilanesa

Alternative universe

naimu420

Devil’s Foot and whatnot

artaudmatic

"Nobody writes of Holmes and Watson without love." - John le Carré

vanecoded

If you want to be a dog, you must learn to believe that you are not in fact a dog at all.

unforth

So I stress-splurged a little and got the Aloha Comics official English translation of volume 1 of the Nirvana in Fire manhua. I sat down to read it but instead I just keep staring at how pretty the art is.

Look at her !!! My beautiful wife 😭😭😭

And...

And LOOK AT THIS PRECIOUS MURDER BOY

Anyway.

I can't say anything about the translation yet but. It's shiny.

dijon-mayonnaise

Andreas Maler as Saint Andrew (also happy 2 years Pentiment !!!!!!!!!!) Comm for my bestie @faroe3 !! Commission me here!!!: 🧸

coffeekaspbrak

marty: i can’t stop cheating on my wife bruh

rust subplot:

merrymorningofmay

something tastyyyyyy about marty and rust in ep4 where marty's losing the grip on his patriarchal status as a husband/father/macho, so when rust comes in like "hey fuck your feelings we have a job to do, also here's my gruesome undercover backstory" he's acting as kind of a masculinity role model for marty: someone who's done all this novel manly stuff like Killing People and Wearing Cool Jacket herding marty back to "being a real man" (which marty conceptualises as enduring the horrors for the greater good and being soo brave about it)

EXCEPT to rust, and to the viewer who's heard rust tell that same backstory in 2012, his time undercover was not about heroism or tough yet necessary choices but about powerlessness and humiliation and being given no choice. it was an experience he compares to prostitution specifically, with his body physically penetrated by bullets and substances (and possibly tattoo needles) and every hierarchy, both the gangs and the police, seeing him as less than human (prey or a tool respectively). the thing that in ep4 makes marty feel low-key envious of rust's manhood is the part of rust's life where he had to assume a symbolically feminine role

onenationundergod

citheroniaregalis

the problem with showrunners is that they create these distant, quiet, misunderstood-but-brilliant male characters with steely expressions and hearts of gold expecting for them to attract a male audience that would idolize them; but they are fundementally missing the fact that NOBODY is going to resonate with being pushed away from society, constantly questioned and talked down to, hating yourself but also hating everyone else but also loving everything in such a deep and terrible manner that it turns dreadfully violent, and being deeply disconnected with your body and autonomy as much as a young girl. Men reinvent women in themselves without ever being able to recognize it because of how much they hate being associated with femininity.