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if i look back, i am lost
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anyway I'm very very sensitive about them
The Romonons and The Silverwood
Coco has had two separate instances where she watches someone let themself die and one where he very heavily implies it in front of her.
The Romonons who let themselves die to be free of the agony of being trapped in gold, dying as they reach for what is comfort. This one is completely by choice, they could have chosen to keep living, but they refuse and purposefully reach for death. This arc really did feel like an ending in many ways. Coco watches as they melt, thanking her for giving them what they need to die. That isn't all that died that day, as the way Coco sees the world was irrevocably changed. How could it not be? She just watched an entire civilization commit suicide in front of her, all because they couldn't take the absolute suffering magic inflicted on them. A curse preventing comfort from ever being in reach and finally being provided that comfort meaning death. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
The silverwood curse requires the host to never relax, never let their guard down, never feel comfort, all in order to continue living. When Custas's father, Dagda, learns of this, he snatches away the total memory-erasure spell that Coco would have used on Custas. He takes away the chance for Coco to once again be the catalyst for a type of death. Dagda lets his wounds run their course and lets the spell wear out. He dies bloody and broken to save Custas, to remove the comfort he had, and save his life. The opposite of the Romonons. In this case, he thinks continuing living for the sake of living, even without your source of comfort, is worth it. At this point, Dagda already saw himself as a corpse walking, so what does it matter if he kills himself? Especially for his beloved son. This weighs heavily on Coco's mind, death is being used both to reach comfort and to take it away.
Then Qifrey brings up his own death almost like a joke. "A wide-open sky to spread my roots." He is currently in a position between the two, a balancing act. Will something finally push him to end it all? Or will something happen that will make the possibility of feeling comfort ever again impossible?
We see Qifrey writing something soon after. Perhaps a final goodbye as he is anticipating his death with his secret revealed, especially as he reminisces on the past, thinking of all he has had to do to get to this point. Though for now he will hold on. Hopefully, that goodbye will never have to be read. Maybe, just maybe, a third option can be found in the future, one that costs no one anything.
Due to the nature of these various curses magic invokes, comfort means death and life means no comfort. At least, that is what Coco is being made to believe time and time again. It is no wonder Coco is so distant from the others. While they have seen bits and pieces, they have not faced the worst of it. With luck, this snowfall will serve as a time for Coco to recover, but seeing as death and the cycle of life is something Coco will once again have to face, I worry for her state of mind.
DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED
ITS ALL DOOMED.
YAOI? DOOMED
FATHER FIGURE(S)? DOOMED
FAMILY? DOOMED
FRIENDSHIPS? DOOMED
ITS LIKE ALMOST 2AM BUT I FINISHED IT GRAAAAAA
about ten chapters away from being totally caught up with wha and i have to say
I went into this manga fully expecting maybe one or two sweet moments and a lot of vague hinting, but not to OVERDOSE on YURI COCAINE
Baby ducklings!
Almost caught up with the wha manga(ch 93) and haha haha no one cared to warn me about it. No one
Actually no it's my fault. I had heard it was a great story and that it changed people's life. But what so great about a kid who wants to become a witch, or so I thought.
I started the anime and I saw Qifrey and all I knew was he reminded me of Gojo; white haired, blue eyes, and the same silly Gojo (well now I know it was serialised way before jjk) and then came other black haired guy and oh I knew it. I knew I signed up for it.
Gets caught up with the anime, came here to see the artworks and just things and it smelled doomed yaoi(subtle spoilers I got) and when I tell you I was scared for my life
Then catches up with the manga 2 days later and now is the present when I'm yapping about it here at 2 am.
What will I do with my life now
Also this might be just the best story for a manga anyone has ever written. The story, the plot, the themes and yadda yadda. AND THE ARTWORK MFG.
Also I have watched a lot of animes but olrufrey might just be the most impactful queer platonic ships ever written cuz wdym!!!! I mean I know alright I have my favs too but I just have to admit that no one did or will do like them. I will have to admit this even when I am in my full biased mood. Oh olrufrey! Oh olrufrey! Oh Olly and oh Qifrey. My babies better have a happy ending!!!!
"Kill your local sex offender!" Oh, you mean the guy who went streaking at his local college football game on a dare one time? That's a sex crime.
"No, I mean-"
Oh, maybe the woman who had to pee in a public park that only had pay toilets, so she tried to hide behind the bushes but got caught? Public urination is a sex crime.
"What? No, I mean-"
Oh, maybe you mean the homeless guy who had to strip down to get his clothes in the laundromat to clean them for the first time in weeks? He tried being subtle, but someone called the cops on him, and now he's on the sex offender registry for public nudity.
"Rapists and pedophiles! Kill rapists and pedophiles!"
Oh, like the trans woman who got called a pedophile groomer for helping a trans kid escape her abusive parents?
Or maybe the black man who got labeled a rapist because he came on to another man's wife, and he decided to get back at him by charging him with rape?
How about the 17 year olds who were fooling around, fully consensually, in one of their bedrooms? That's still technically underage sex and thus rape of a minor.
Oh, or maybe you're talking about the doctor who performed genital reconstructive surgery in a state that just voted to get that classified as rape?
People will do everything they can to get you convinced rape and pedophilia are the worst crimes possible, then accuse whoever they like the least of being either a rapist, a pedophile, or both, counting on you turning on them just for being accused of the crime.
"Oh, so you're saying you don't want to kill a serial rapist?"
That's exactly what I'm goddamn saying.
Once we decide a group is okay to kill, the government will do everything they can to convince you that their political enemies are either part of that group, or just as bad as that group, to get you to kill their enemies for them.
The only way out is to accept every life as worth saving.
Queen of Life
GUYS. AGOTT’S MOM IS DEFINITELY A BRIM HAT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. IDK IF I WAS SUPPOSED TO CATCH THIS SOONER BUT LOOK AT THE SIMILARITIES. SAME HAIR LENGTH SAME HAIR TEXTURE SAME BUILD SAME ELEGANT AURA THEY EVEN BOTH DRESS FANCY. THAT BRIMHAT IS DEFINITELY AGOTTS MOM HOLY SHIT
I understand thematically why they gave the witches different accents in the Eng dub. But it doesnt make any sense from a worldbuilding perspective.
The witches are a notoriously secretive, insulur society. Most witches are born, raised and continue to live in one place. Think of how quickly gossip about Coco spread. There wouldn't be as much variation in their accents compared to normal folk. It makes sense they'd have a different accent from Coco, but not each other.
The More Things Change
I am trying my best not to suck into Medalist —>> Witch Hat Atelier Pipeline but it seems that it can’t be helped. Tsurumaikada and Shirahama Kamome seem to be these professional colleagues who admire each other’s work that they inspire each other. (Kamome said in an interview that Medalist is one of the stories that they enjoy lately.)
Their works are about the preteens and the adults who mind them. The girls work their magic as figure skaters and witches. Innate talent versus motivation and drive.
And then you have scenes from WHA that remind me of Medalist.
I am up to date with Medalist, I don’t know yet the history between Qifrey and Olruggio, and if Coco would be able to reach her goals.
It doesn’t help when Medalist has merch that is inspired from WHA.
Team Medalist vs Team Witch Hat Atelier
I know. I know. I might be imagining and all.
they are so maguka here
Witch Hat Atelier has been really inspiring me to get back into art again. I've been struggling with anxiety in making pieces but I'm so happy with how this one with Agott turned out! Based on Joaquín Sorolla's "Italian Girl with Flowers".
Found family as a trope is well and truly excellent but every time an older character who has a variety of complex relationships with the rest of the cast gets flattened to "he's basically like their dad 🥰" an angel loses its wings
