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22. i'm like if a guy and a girl had a baby. i like noragami and limbus company and a handful of other things. i still have a kinlist that i update regularly. love you all!

[mienwr]

hesitant post because this is cringe and i don't like how it looks but my friends approved so it's ok i suppose

[mienwr]

awful photo sorry. but #my noragami shelf. and also mob psycho 100 is there

[mienwr]

unfortunately my own photos do not do them justice (on account of the i'm awful at taking photos) so here are the kc deluxe covers from... online. you can see them on adachitoka's twitter or elsewhere i'm sure. for anyone who may not have seen them already. heart emoji smile emoji

[skara-skoot]

biblically accurate hmc redraws!

i was rereading the book so why not! i have a couple more doodles but i’ll post them all together later. not too happy with how Sophie turned out, but i also wanted her to look plain compared to michael and howl…

a redraw of these i did a year ago:

[mienwr]

every time i talk about noragami i have a moment of guilt because all i ever really talk about is yato and i feel bad because i want to talk about the others too but omfg... i have to dissect him in a lab. something's so wrong with that guy i think about him constantly

[mienwr]

i'm chatty today so i'm #posting again.

but ahhhhh.......... in the terms of like. post-ending noragami something i think about so much is hiyori and her relationships with everyone. i think a lot of noragami's story revolved around yukine having to accept he's dead and not being a part of regular peoples' world anymore and having to learn to 'live' without getting to live like everyone else who's alive.

and on the other end once the series is over and hiyori's moving on with her life and growing up i wonder how odd that must feel for her. to be growing up and getting a job and trying to plan out your future while so many of your friends stay the same. i feel like in your 20s you already are grappling with the passage of time and growing up it'd be so awful to have to deal with half your friends being dead kids / gods who never 'change' the way you do. nightmare!!!!!

[mienwr]

awful photo sorry. but #my noragami shelf. and also mob psycho 100 is there

[mienwr]

every day i look wistfully at my noragami volumes and dvds and go Sure would love to reread.... Sure would love to rewatch......... and then i don't do that. #mycurse

[god-of-a-thousand-demons]

It’s so fascinating and disappointing that persona 4 is juuuust on the edge of being feminist, but falls short. The stir up about mayumi being held “just as responsible” as the man who cheated on his wife and how harshly SHE was punished for his infidelity, and they bring up that treatment, but don’t shame it. And in fact, we’re supposed to sympathize with Namatame, the man who is alive and facing consequences, and not the woman who was murdered. We are very aware adachi is a bad guy, and his misogyny is used to show that, but then the other characters are misogynistic themselves, like yosuke, Adachi’s foil, his supposed “good guy” counterpart, and it muddies the waters. Multiple girls and women were attacked, kidnapped, and killed, but it’s never brought up as femicide. The very poignant misogyny of adachi is generalized to worldly nihilism, despite his very targeted female attacks, and his bias against women. How awfully he talks about women is on full display, but it’s not punished directly. It’s a side effect, not his main problem. There’s women all over the story; main characters, main villain, the death of a mother (Mrs. Dojima) and what that does to a family, the stigma of being a young step mom, a widow, the complexities of young femininity and female friendships, the prejudice of being a girl in high school who’s beauty is used against her, our role model (Margaret) is a woman; all of this exists, and yet it doesn’t go deeper than the surface. It’s RIGHT THERE but atlus didn’t connected the dots they themselves plotted out. It drives me crazy, honestly, how obvious this connection is, but their nose was too close to the book to be able to see the text in full. I hope they bring it home in rewind, but who knows with atlus

[mienwr]

drank 1/2 of a buzzball and wrnt i Need to kill yato noragami. this looks like shit but my boyfriend liked it so it's ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kluiyu]

beach time !!!

[mienwr]

i need to draw a shitty comic putting yato noragami in a meat grinder this is my post to remind myself #dont forget tumblr user mienwr everyone say this. don't let me forget

[geummi]

i’m devastated after reading noragami

[mienwr]

this is maybe me stretching things in my mind a bit but i often think about how father / nora have those wolves and how yato seems to dislike them and father / nora are shown to not be afraid of using other ayakashi to physically hurt yato it doesn't seem farfetched to me that the wolves would also be used for that. but also yukine's wolf-y form. something something the wolves being used to hurt yato/the people around yato > yukine becoming a wolf that protects yato/the people around them. am i overthinking this

[nephilimbrute]

more marina🥹

[whatthekoi-deactivated20260510]

big loud incorrect buzzer noise that plays after every social interaction i have

[mienwr]

everyone's redrawing the csm page on twitter with their own series i wanted to be included

[mienwr]

something i really appreciate about noragami is how abuse is depicted, but further than that, is how abuse affects the victims of it (aka tumblr user mienwr rambles and talks in circles and goes off on a million tangents and i confuse myself and give up)

i think the first example that comes to mind with noragami is yukine. i feel like the entire series is very blatant with how abuse has affected him as a person. a lot of people especially a few years back hated yukine soooo much because he was 'whiny' and 'annoying' which has changed in recent times but god. i remember defending him w my life at the ripe age of like 16. not the point. anyway. it's important to recognize WHY yukine is 'like that'. it's how a lifetime of surviving abuse and eventually being murdered by his abuser shows up in a child. in all honesty i don't actually have a lot to say about yukine because i feel like that is a central point of the series and they handle it really well in my opinion and it's not my problem if other people don't get it read the series again (joke)

but i think our other most notable examples would be yato and nora / the stray Watever

i think with the way yato and nora are abused it's very easy to pass their traits off as nothing because we don't really see a lot of like. explicit physical and verbal abuse and so on. and that is probably the intention at first. at the beginning you're meant to dislike nora because she targets hiyori for no real reason and yato's just a silly funguy who aurafarms on occasion #awesome

but as we get more information we see that like. both of them are very isolated people who are sabotaged and beaten down into submission. granted that is more prevalent with yato but just walk with me. nora doesn't really have to be isolated the same way yato does because she is already solely dedicated to their father and she doesn't really make any attempts to leave. i think this is for various reasons whether it be her feeling that she 'owes' something to him for him being her father or because she's scared of him or something else. or all of the above who know. but nora is a lot like yukine in that she is a little kid who was left alone with an abuser and i think she reacts to abuse in similar ways (the lashing out namely) but i think she also is very good at putting on a 'mature' facade. just. like. acting 'older' but blowing up childishly when pushed. on account of her being like 10. whatever what am i talking about. moving on #my train of thought is leaving

i think that sabotage and beating down comes more into play with yato like we see with sakura and his repeated disappearances and how yukine and hiyori and hiyori's family are targeted. it feels like a more subtle form of abuse but it is still abusive and a form of isolation and destroying (or trying to destroy) the attempts he makes at building outside connections and his own forms of work and so on.

i think all of this is soo obvious in hindsight when you look at how yato just acts about everything. the lying and the secrecy and the fact that his friends are all 12 (said jokingly) it's just. like. he is a very socially and emotionally stunted (?) person and it all makes soooo much sense when they show how he's been isolated and abused and manipulated and been beaten down into thinking there's no real hope for changing or 'getting out' because no matter what he will have to go back 'home' and do what his father tells him to do. i think also this in part really heavily affects his relationship with hiyori but that is another ramble for another day and it is a bit of an anti yatori one. peave and love to the yatoris out there not me tho. tangent again

but urhhg both nora and yato are treated as objects rather than like. actual people. and i don't mean this to say father doesn't care about them. i think he does genuinely care about them in a way but that doesn't change his abusiveness towards them and how it's hurt them. i think there are also physical and verbal aspects to their abuse which are shown a few times if memory serves correct but i. it's not that they're unimportant it's just i think these other specific ways of abuse are more.............. reflected in how they act. ??? does this make sense. i don't think it does. whatever

both of them are also very passive (?) about their abuse which. i mean yeah after like 1000 years of it i'd give up too. regardless. you see it in how yato accepts doing work for their father and he warns others to just leave it alone (until it gets to the point where it CAN'T be left alone) anddddd so on

side thought i think it also affects yato and nora's relationship soooo much. i think about them every day and start chewing on my table legs because there has to be soo much resentment between them even if it's never something they outright talk about. i could see nora resenting yato for leaving and choosing other things over her and yato resenting her for being an active participant in their abuse and choosing their father over him. that might be projecting tho it's my curse. i lost my train of thought i give up post over

[mienwr]

adding onto this because i CANNOT stop talking ever

but i think also additionally why i appreciate how father's abusiveness in particular is written is because of its subtlety. it's not as overtly depicted where it's like 100000 pages of a kid being beaten (which speaking generally i don't think this is a 'wrong' depiction but i've read a few books where abuse was written this way and i really did not like it. i think in particular one book i read was a list of cages by robin roe and i felt the scenes of abuse were really excessive and while i found the reactions to them and the behaviors caused by it relatable it felt bad to read that kid getting beat over and over. i liked this about how noragami handled abuse in general though because it felt a bit more respectful? or just like. not making a spectacle of it. whatever sorry not the point)

but regardless, i think the primary way father's abuse shows up in his isolation of nora and yato. he doesn't NEED to be constantly beating them and verbally abusing them (which he does do these things!) if he can force them into being alone and only having him then they have no choice but to do what he wants them to do.

and i think isolation on its own is a very damaging form of abuse and it shows up with how both nora and yato interact with other characters. neither of them are GOOD at socializing and [unintentionally] antagonize other people and push them away. neither of them have the skills to form good healthy relationships with other people (and it's not to say that their relationships with others are all bad. i think yato really does well for himself finding yukine and hiyori and so on. but within the whole timeline of noragami those are all very new relationships that he struggles to actually make. and tbh half of them only get nurtured because hiyori acts somewhat as a mediator which is crazy!!! she's 16!!! moving on)

though i think those things ^ are more noticeable in yato because he's the one we see out and about and socializing and such for most of the series it's just like. still there with nora. and also with nora i think it shows with nora's anger towards hiyori which i mentioned before i think but. like. she is a little girl who wants to be loved and cared for and her only source of that is their father because of how isolated she is and her role as a stray. she has all those names but nobody is REALLY choosing and caring for her and she has nobody but their father to rely on. maybe at one point she had yato but that leads into how even as mutual victims they're isolated from each other. bla bla bla i'm done talking for tonight