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I recently got realisation
As we all know, new Abnormality Butterfly of Entangled Lives (羅生蝶) is named after Rashōmon (羅生門), since Entangled Lives (羅生) part is literally Rashō (羅生) part of it
And given that Araya is victim of temporal entanglement, she literally has Entangled Life
And Rashōmon itself is well, here how Wikipedia describes it
The Rashōmon in Kyoto was the grander of the two city gates built during the Heian period (794–1185). Built in 789, it was 106 feet (32 m) wide by 26 feet (7.9 m) high, with a 75-foot (23 m) stone wall and topped by a ridge-pole. By the 12th century, it had fallen into disrepair and became an unsavory place, with a reputation as a hideout for thieves and other such characters. People would abandon corpses and unwanted babies at the gate.
A hideout for criminals, a place for unwanted babies, a horrible place that no one wants to touch
That why only people at HoS are criminals and children they took under their wing, House of Spiders itself is Rashōmon
Araya is Rashō (羅生) in Rashōmon (羅生門)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. I think this is one of THE most important connections to make in canto 9: when the op pointed this out to me I started YELLING. it had fallen into disrepair and became an unsavory place, with a reputation as a hideout for thieves and other such characters. People would abandon corpses and unwanted babies at the gate.
The House of Spiders is the Rashōmon-gate: a liminal space between life and death, inside and outside. Moreover, the entire story of the NAME and MEANING of Rashōmon is its own series of puns, linguistic shifts, and happenstance entanglements. Look at this shit. The original south gate of Kyoto, built at the end of the 8th century, is technically called Rajoumon (羅城門). In the 15th century, the Noh play of Kanze Nobumitsu, was said to popularize an alternate rendering of the name - Rashoumon (羅生門). This is a pun, replacing the kanji for castle (城, read as 'jou', or 'sei') with the kanji for life (生, which can be read as 'sei', or 'shou'.) It's not a tower....it's power! What is the Noh play about? It's about the demon of the Rashoumon gate. This is a folk story with NUMEROUS forms. Broadly: is a story about a plucky young samurai, Tsuna, who climbs up the ruined and unlucky gate following the rumor that a powerful oni (Ibaraki-doji) is hiding out there. He bests the demon, slicing off its arm. Afterwards, Tsuna is given STRICT instructions to stay home with the arm for 7 days, answering the door to no-one. HOWEVER, on the last day, his dying aunt knocks at the door and begs to come in, to see the arm and pray for him. Tsuna says no. She then wails, talking about how she nursed him for years in place of his mother, and how could he be so cruel. Moved by compassion, he violates bushido and opens the door. It's the oni. Ibaraki-doji takes back his arm and flees away into the night. In 1915, Akutagawa (he of Hell Screen) would write the short story, Rashoumon. (羅生門). But, guess what? It's not ABOUT the rashoumon demon. THIS story is about a starving man who comes to the ruined gate, not knowing what to do with his life. He sees an old woman who is desecrating dead bodies by stealing their hair. Disgusted, he's ready to choose death, but she explains that she's only robbing to survive - and besides, the people she's stealing from cheated OTHER people in life (also to survive) - so, isn't that just the way of things? There's no harm in it. The man then violently beats her, steals everything she has, and flees into the night. In 1950, Kurosawa would direct Rashomon (the famous one). What's Rashomon about? NOT THE SHORT STORY. Rashomon, in fact, while keeping the name of the short story and a little of the framing, largely adapts a DIFFERENT Akutagawa short story, In the Grove. As a result of this movie, we'd eventually get to the loose psychological term: "the Rashomon effect", which broadly is about the way in which memory is fucky and sometimes our subjectivity means we can recall events differently to how "they occured". Over time, the meaning of Rajoumon/Raseimon -> Rashoumon -> Rashomon has shifted and accrued resonances along with the name. These different meanings, each prominent at different times in history, have become entangled with one another, nestling under the same shared signifier. YEAH. YEAH. EXACTLY. ITS ABOUT MEMORY AND IDENTITY AND WHAT IS PASSED DOWN WITH A NAME. Did you know there's more than one meaning of 'House' in both english and japanese? 家 means 'the physical home you live in', but it also means family, or lineage. Another way to think about the House of Spiders is as A Lineage of Spiders. Finally, you wanna know what the 'Ra' (羅) in Rashoumon comes from? It's from the middle chinese for 'net for catching birds' or 'trap', which in japanese can mean a gauze or a fine silk. Y'know, like the one Dihui Star wears as a bridal veil.
A butterfly, caught in a net. A woman, caught in a web. A web of entangled lives. This fucking game, man.
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wanting depressed and traumatized middle aged characters to kiss and hold hands can truly be something incredibly personal.
music is literally so songs as fuck and dont you forget it
music is literally so songs as fuck and dont you forget it
low-key got Evangelion vibes from these panels
something about giant beings that are wired up and and being used and on display. sickening!!!
My webcomic turned 14-years-old this weekend. Happy Birthday Ava's Demon 😊❤️🔥
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i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that
Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that will companies are still trying to stomp out.
*takes the hand of a period drama writer gently* A queen consort is not a queen regnant. A dowager queen is not a queen regnant either.
There is very little intrinsic institutional power in queenship. The power a consort, dowager, or queen mother has depends mostly on how much the reigning sovereign (usually a man) is willing to grant her. Needing a queen to serve as regent is exceptionally rare, and the regent is more often a male relative.
I know this is a bit of a bummer. I'm sorry.
For clarity:
Queen regnant: woman who rules in her own right, not on behalf of someone else.
Regent: Someone who temporarily assumes the powers of the monarch on account of the monarch being too young or too incapacitated to govern.
Queen consort: Woman who is married to the monarch.
Dowager queen: Woman who was married to the monarch. The monarch is dead, and she is owed support as his widow.
Queen mother: Woman who is the mother of the monarch. Usually the dowager queen, though there are exceptions if there isn't a straight line of succession.
I was tidying up a room, and right in the middle of it I saw a massive grandfather clock. At some point I noticed it had the AO3 symbol on it, so obviously I decided to take a picture and post it on Tumblr.
Except I accidentally captioned it, “guys check this out, I’ve got the one and only AO3 grandfather cock.”
I realized immediately, but by the time I reblogged it with “CLOCK” in all caps, it was too late. It had already done numbers on this hellsite.
#mygrandfathercock