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26 // back in the trenches // anime side blog

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Ngl I just really don’t like the post wano one piece animation style

I thought I might like it more once they got into elbaph/once they went seasonal but it just isn’t for me

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Be not afraid! For this Witch Hat Monday I bring you the most blursed creature of all, Biblically Accurate Brushbuddy 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️

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geto saying “at least curse me a little at the end” vs geto dropping the “are you the strongest because you’re Satoru Gojo or are you Satoru Gojo because you’re the strongest” during their last conversation in hidden inventory, which definitely counts as a curse

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I believe in the “King Dean is doing vivisections to try and figure out what makes witches witches” theory and I’m a little worried he’s gonna do it to Bel but at the same time I think he’s politically savvy enough to know that he can’t just do that to one of the Wise without repercussions so I don’t actually think that he would risk killing Beldaruit while he is under his care, he’s too careful and playing the long game for that

(Which is part of why I find Eoleo scarier than king Dean, cause kids are more unpredictable and impulsive than adults (and also cause Eoleo is trying to manipulate other children who might be less aware of what he’s doing than a seasoned politician like Beldaruit))

He’s more likely to run minor experiments (ie blood tests) and just use him and Rili as a hostage than to actually do any kind of permanent physical harm

(I also don’t believe that Deanreldy is evil per se, I don’t think he’s purely power hungry and evil, he genuinely seems to care for the good of the people (while at the same time being a hypocrite cause he didn’t evacuate the ghettos) and rightly criticizes Witch society on some issues but he also wants to consolidate all the power in himself and will abuse his power to gain more)

Just like Beldaruit showed his ugly side while dealing with Custas (pointed cap witch high society is quite classist and elitist in general and even Bel’s disability and general benevolence doesn’t absolve him of similar prejudice/abuse of his position)

The whole dichotomy between the Ezrest family and the Witches both abusing their power in a way is fascinating and I love how it interacts with the separation between magic and medicine and isn’t just a one dimensional “political ruler craves more power” plot line the way it seems to be with the other royals in the Peninsula

The whole emphasis/conflict around the separation of medicine and magic through multiple major characters is extremely interesting to me (on a personal level cause I am in the medical field) and I love how much this story deals with ableism and medical ethics

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Qifrey: casually holding a twelve year old (40kg per kid on average) on each arm for however long the flight to Kalhn takes

Also Qifrey’s willowy (heh) ass arm to a random Kalhn resident:

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man i was really hoping they would translate this as “first apprentice” to keep the double meaning (her being the first to join while also introducing herself as the most skilled) but they went with just the skill aspect in both english and german sub and dub

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what Utowin wants to wake up to every morning

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can’t decide if the whole “the Silverwood will grow roots and consume the host if they ever feel truly at peace” plot is

a) a reflection of how a lot of traumatized people end up afraid that letting go of their trauma will result in them losing a defining part of themselves

or if

b) it’s a commentary on how a lot of creative people feel that they create better art when they are suffering on some level

or

c) it’s representing a secret third thing

or d) all of the above

but yeah i don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two people who are hosts are Custas and Qifrey, who might have the most unresolved traumatic backstories of the whole bunch (Luluci and Rili are also contenders but their trauma is more isolated to specific periods of their lives)

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At the very least the silverwood is a metaphor for very unprocessed PTSD/CPTSD.

Constantly reminding oneself of discomfort and bad things and never allowing oneself to sit in peace I think 100% would lead to nervous system dysregulation, thus also making them on edge and unable to be at peace on a physiological level. CPSTD and PTSD keep the nervous system in a near constant state of being either hyper or hypo aroused, disallowing it from being in the ventral vagal state which is the one where we feel most calm and normal. Plus with the context surrounding how Qifrey and Vustas each acquired their parasites, the silverwood seems to show up similarly to PTSD/CPTSD. A big part of PTSD/CPTSD is constantly being brought back to a time when you were in danger/being hurt, which like. I dont have the words for it rn but yall can see how that connects right.

Ofc I dont even know if it was intentional on shirahama's end and if it is I doubt thats the only thing she intended with it (Because qifrey and custas 100% both definitely have actual PTSD/CPTSD) but yeah. I think its definitely leaning towards Interpretion A that you said because Qifrey is actively seeking to relieve himself of it which contradicts B bc even at best I dont think he actually saw any value in it.

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yes B/a manufactured dependency on the silverwood is more inspired by Custas’ (using it as a mobility aid) and Ininia’s (seemingly using it as prosthetic hand(s)) /possibly the other brimmed caps (Iguin and more) being hosts (and also the close tie between the silverwood and magic/art in this universe)

repressed trauma/ptsd is definitely the primary interpretation but as the second person said as well, Shirahama is definitely doing multiple things with it at the same time

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Intellectually I know that they made Olruggio’s beard denser and Dagda’s beard sparser because a lot of individual beard hairs are harder to consistently animate and they need to keep the characters on model, however, that will not stop me from making jokes about Dagda donating beard hairs for Olruggio’s beard hair transplant surgery

“Your beard transplant was a success”

“where’s Dagda”

“who do you think gave you the beard hair” looking character models

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ngl i rolled my eyes a bit at 3/4 of the girls having a male love interest set up but Shirahama did a good job of subverting the trope later on for now (Euini turned into a werwolf, Tartah chose Custas and got involved with the Brimmed Caps, Eoleo is a creepy little guy Tetia must be protected from)

do especially appreciate how there was a line where it seemed like Custas was trying to compete with Tartah for Coco’s affections only for the two of them to both end up on the other side together

they all truly went “but i’ve got a job (going through witchy horrors) so idrc about that rn” and i love that for us, subvert those expectations

i can see the coco/agott vibes too, though i’m not sure how intentional that is in the writing (but maybe that’s just me being too used to being queerbaited)

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WHA chapter 96 spoilers

i have a feeling that the reason Hieheart is looking to talk to Qifrey is cause someone messed with Jujy’s memory in a way that did damage to her brain

(a possible side effect of memory erasure that was mentioned early on in the manga that we haven’t really seen happen yet in the story, i thought it would happen to Nolnoa but we haven’t seen any signs of that)

it would explain the sad way he is looking at his apprentice and her seeming kind of subdued compared to her usual personality

plus it seems like the circumstances of how Qifrey arrived at the great hall are known so it would make sense for an acquaintance to reach out if they had a related issue, especially if they felt they couldn’t go to the Knights about it (the other people very familiar with memory erasure) or if they ended up unable/unwilling to help like the last time someone (cough cough only offering deportation/exile to one of their own lol) tried to get their help post memory manipulation

take all of Jujy’s pain and give it to Esthies tbh

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I love you fic writers who use the “Gojo refuses to take off his blindfold/bandages in front of Suguru even when things are getting intimate as a way to distance himself from him so he doesn’t get hurt when he inevitably leaves him again” head canon in secret meeting/slow burn fix it AUs

Especially when Geto is feeling absolutely devastated/incensed by it

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i haven’t read yesterday’s chapter yet (waiting for the translation), but the imagery surrounding Tetia recently is making me nervous…

the birds and the fancy clothing and the blindfold combined with Eoleo’s interest for her and how the royal family is basically holding Bel and co captive is very much making me connect dots in ways that remind me of kept songbirds or falconry (trimmed wings, falcon hoods etc)

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so i’m new in this fandom so idk if that’s a controversial opinion or if it’s a very common interpretation, but i feel like it’s pretty clear that Qifrey was manipulating Coco a bit when he dropped the “my roots are going to need plenty of space to grow” line with that smile (especially having read the rest of what’s currently out, including the scene of kid!frey stealing the map from Olly)

he’s a three dimensional character and he truly deeply cares for the girls, and i do believe that on some level it was a real possibility that he is conscious of that telling her his secrets would be enough to turn him into a tree in the way it does when Olrugio finds out, but i do also think that he intentionally told her that to make her stop asking questions

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if you think about it in a silly fanfic trope way and not in the more serious media analysis “Silverwood and how trauma affects people” way, the whole issue with the parasitic silverwood for Olruggio and Qifrey is kinda just reverse Hanahaki

instead of a plant growing out of heartbreak because of perceived unrequited love, for Qifrey the treeification happens when Olruggio accepts him and loves him despite everything, and in both cases memory erasure is part of the cure

in Hanahaki the “infected” person gives up their memories/feelings if they get the plant removing surgery, meanwhile in Oufrey canon Olruggio gives up his memories to keep Qifrey on edge enough not to go full tree

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can’t decide if the whole “the Silverwood will grow roots and consume the host if they ever feel truly at peace” plot is

a) a reflection of how a lot of traumatized people end up afraid that letting go of their trauma will result in them losing a defining part of themselves

or if

b) it’s a commentary on how a lot of creative people feel that they create better art when they are suffering on some level

or

c) it’s representing a secret third thing

or d) all of the above

but yeah i don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two people who are hosts are Custas and Qifrey, who might have the most unresolved traumatic backstories of the whole bunch (Luluci and Rili are also contenders but their trauma is more isolated to specific periods of their lives)

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i feel like i’m in the minority with liking OPLA season 2 less than season 1 judging by what i’m seeing from reactors and people online… maybe it’s cause i like this stretch of story in general less than i like East Blue Saga