I currently use LiveJournal to host my artwork, but since thereās no way to renew the account anymore I have to switch sites; I just updated my dreamwidth account to host images, but whenever I tried posting the images on AO3, the images would be broken. Come to find out, dreamwidth wonāt let you post outside their website. Iām the dumbass who bought the paid account without checking first, I just assumed itād be like LiveJournal. Ugh.
Does anyone have any image hosting platforms they like? I was looking at flickr but since my stuff is all nsfw fanart Iām pretty sure it would violate their TOS.
Has anyone ever used ImageBB, ImageVenue.com, or imgbox? Iām thinking of starting to upload stuff on imgur but I wasnāt sure if the images disappear after a few months or not :/
ETA: imgur is a no-go. From their TOS:
Also, donāt use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. [ā¦] If you do ā and we will be the judge ā or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site youāre hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.
In case people were wondering whereās a good place to host images, I just signed up for images.squidge.org , which is like the fanart version of AO3. Itās run on donations and image sizes can be as high as 256 MB. Itās fantastic.
Iām slowly migrating my fanart hosted on livejournal over to squidge, but thereās still a chance my stuff could get deleted before Iām able to move everything and change the links on AO3. If thatās the case, I might be deleting a bunch of stuff from AO3 instead of trying to piece together the broken links - everything is backed up on deviantart, with the exception of the NSFW stuff. My livejournal account expires in September, so Iām hoping Iāll be able to migrate everything to squidge before then.
PSA: How to turn off anon comments en masse in AO3 (re: spambots)
My AO3 page has been inundated by spam comments - I opened my inbox and saw no fewer than 57 comments with random letters/numbers and spam links. I was getting annoyed having to click through each comment to individually mark them as āspam,ā and was even more dismayed when I saw I had to go through each fic individually to change the comment settings. But then this helpful redditor posted how to change the comment settings across all fic at once:
Go to your Dashboard.
Click āEdit Works.ā
Select āAll.ā Click āedit.ā (You might have to wait awhile for the screen to load - I have almost 400 fics so it took a bit)
Scroll all the way to the bottom to the comment section, then change settings to āAccept Comments from Registered Users Only.ā
Short chapter but things won't stop Happening, so! Spoilers under the cut.
Kazuma still has his past on the brain, as expected. I've seen a lot of strife about whether he's dead, so let me offer my input:
He's not dead. Yet! When he talked about returning home, he answered Bishamon's call and went to her. I think if he'd died, there'd be a LOT more blood and Yato would be a LOT more upset. As it was, he was just like :( and when Mizuchi started yelling at him he was like "fine, let me die" which is not really what I'd expect if he'd just lost his shinki. After all, he's insisted he won't actually let Kazuma die, but rather, take advantage of his willingness to die.
If Kazuma had died, he'd be swearing revenge, or trying to go after Mizuchi, or doing anything than passively laying down and waiting for the sweet embrace of the void.
Anyway, the visual effects when Kazuma disappeared look like the effects of someone going from near shore to far shore (chapter 16). When shinki die, there's a lot more blood (chapter 55). Food for thought.
We haven't seen Kazuma smile in soooooooo long. But at what cost?
However, my #1 guess is Kazuma went to Bishamon, still affected by GGS. So that could spread to Kuraha. I hope Bisha helps him get a grip before he accidentally kills everyone. Wouldn't be the first time!
Basically, he's off the hook for now, but I'm not ruling out Kazubisha pain in the next couple chapters.
Haha. Mizuchi telling Yato she wishes he would die, and him being like "yeah I should." Sir. Sir please stop talking like that. Sir you need to go home to Hiyori and Yukine without losing your memories PLEASE KNOCK IT OFF.
So, as to why Hiyori can't smell Yato's scent, I have two guesses: The first is he left with Kazuma to reconvene with Bishamon and figure that out (unlikely, since he didn't have a shrine on him and was not near one of Bishamon's, as far as has been mentioned). The second guess is that she's distant enough from the far shore to have lost her ability to sniff him out. I don't recall if we've had Hiyori searching for Yato's smell in her body before, but I feel like she could? So that's a fun possibility, if true.
The panel of Father taking people away was so nice it stole my breath.
This Hiyori bit does serve as a nice segue to Father, who's back in Yomi and trying to find a way back while "that person" still breathes. Yato? Or Hiyori? The gravekeeper?
It's looking increasingly likely that while Father's time as Fujisaki is done, he's planning to reincarnate in another body. Will he be able to, using the gravekeeper or one of our two heroes? Or is this really the end?
Either way, I expect next chapter to contain another flashback of Father's time in Yomi--perhaps his first death--so I don't anticipate an answer soon. All my braincells will be devoted to deciphering That mess.
- Honestly? Even though they did kazubisha as a ship dirty, this is probably the best send off Kazuma could get. Heās finally at peace. Heās happy. That pure, baby smile at the end, when he realizes his real name, that he had people who loved him for /him/, not his abilities or what he could do for themā¦I mean, he was finally at peace. The whole crux and tension of Kazumaās relationship with Bisha and others was āHow can I best serve them?ā In his mind, Kazuma was only worth something to Bisha because he was a hafuri (which is NOT true, but he never knew otherwise bc Bisha was crap at communicating or showing affection). The closest familial relationship he had on the Far Shore was with Yukine, which he screwed up royally, and Yato, who (again) needed him to sacrifice himself and serve as Yatoās shield.
Even though I, as a reader, really *really* wanted Kazuma and Bisha to reunite, wanted some angst and horrible-ness to get them together finally and have Bisha confessā¦.Kazuma as a character deserved better than that. He deserved to be at peace. And if that means dying and returning as an untethered soul so that he can be reincarnated and re-enter the cycle of life and death, well, then Iām okay with that. He died without his karma destroying him, he died at peace with his past, he died happy he could reunite with his real family again.
And what will happen to Bisha? Bisha, who had been trying and struggling, all this time, to create a fake family? Sheās gonna have to confront that she was never enough to make Kazuma truly happy. And *that* is going to be devastating.
(At the same time, selfishly, I hope Iām wrong, and that Kazuma just returned to Bisha again, and that this is a fake out. But narratively, Kazuma being at peace is the best ending Adachitoka could give him.)
(STRIKE THAT the best ending they could give him is him FINALLY hooking up with Bisha AND THEN being at peace but then this wouldnāt be a very good manga lololol *sobs*)
ETA: Also, way to go Adachitoka for subverting our expectations AGAIN! They were like, āLetās set up this tragic unrequited arcā¦and HAHAHA GUESS WHAT ITāS FOREVER UNREQUITED lmao.ā I bet they high fived each other in the studio orz (but seriously, his send off was beautiful and totally befitting of a character that suffered so much. Aggh my heart :( )
ETA: WAIT if this is a fake out then I demand that the first panel in 104-1 will be of Kazuma slumped in Bishaās arms!!! Aggh Iām gonna be late for work *slams head on the table*
Ā jfc heās at peace but Iām NOT at peace and Bisha sure as hell wonāt be at peace. Now Iām definitely late for work thanks Adachitoka.
Iām rereading the chapter, and even though the paneling shows Kazuma running back to his family, maybe thatās just what Yatoās imagining, and the āI can finally go back homeā is āI can finally heed Bishaās call.ā !!! Like @kurisus said, the SFX they used is for shinki being called to their master...I really hope this is right. I was just steeling myself for Kazuma to be gone from the manga forever (except in angsty flashbacks), but honestly this makes more sense. āI can finally go home (because Viinaās been calling me)ā is probably the rest of his thought bubble XDD
- Honestly? Even though they did kazubisha as a ship dirty, this is probably the best send off Kazuma could get. Heās finally at peace. Heās happy. That pure, baby smile at the end, when he realizes his real name, that he had people who loved him for /him/, not his abilities or what he could do for them...I mean, he was finally at peace. The whole crux and tension of Kazumaās relationship with Bisha and others was āHow can I best serve them?ā In his mind, Kazuma was only worth something to Bisha because he was a hafuri (which is NOT true, but he never knew otherwise bc Bisha was crap at communicating or showing affection). The closest familial relationship he had on the Far Shore was with Yukine, which he screwed up royally, and Yato, who (again) needed him to sacrifice himself and serve as Yatoās shield.
Even though I, as a reader, really *really* wanted Kazuma and Bisha to reunite, wanted some angst and horrible-ness to get them together finally and have Bisha confess....Kazuma as a character deserved better than that. He deserved to be at peace. And if that means dying and returning as an untethered soul so that he can be reincarnated and re-enter the cycle of life and death, well, then Iām okay with that. He died without his karma destroying him, he died at peace with his past, he died happy he could reunite with his real family again.
And what will happen to Bisha? Bisha, who had been trying and struggling, all this time, to create a fake family? Sheās gonna have to confront that she was never enough to make Kazuma truly happy. And *that* is going to be devastating.
(At the same time, selfishly, I hope Iām wrong, and that Kazuma just returned to Bisha again, and that this is a fake out. But narratively, Kazuma being at peace is the best ending Adachitoka could give him.)
(STRIKE THAT the best ending they could give him is him FINALLY hooking up with Bisha AND THEN being at peace but then this wouldnāt be a very good manga lololol *sobs*)
ETA: Also, way to go Adachitoka for subverting our expectations AGAIN! They were like, āLetās set up this tragic unrequited arc...and HAHAHA GUESS WHAT ITāS FOREVER UNREQUITED lmao.ā I bet they high fived each other in the studio orz (but seriously, his send off was beautiful and totally befitting of a character that suffered so much. Aggh my heart :( )
ETA: WAIT if this is a fake out then I demand that the first panel in 104-1 will be of Kazuma slumped in Bishaās arms!!! Aggh Iām gonna be late for work *slams head on the table*
Ā jfc heās at peace but Iām NOT at peace and Bisha sure as hell wonāt be at peace. Now Iām definitely late for work thanks Adachitoka.
Thereās so much happening in Noragami right now, but all I can think of is how Kazuma is now seeing things - I legit shrieked and jumped out of my chair when his blade broke, then fist-pumped when I saw Kazu knit those pieces together into a friggin short sword. YES. YES MY BADASS MEGANE ASSHOLE THIS IS WHY YOUāRE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER.
I feel like something bad is going to happen, but I canāt figure out what. I feel like this is the darkness-before-the-dawn, where it finally looks like good things are gonna happen, until a reverse deus-ex machina smacks them in the face. Bisha is still racing toward them, and I really think before she gets there, something terrible is gonna happen to him. And that something will give Father just enough time to escape, even if gravely wounded (ie, can his spirit form heal if he returns to his physical body?)
If they kill Father off now, will Heaven be the new antagonist? Is he going to be redeemed after Yato has a bunch of post-killing realizations?
Father only has one life now. But rather than being struck down by the gods, I really feel like his redemption arc will probably be if he dies willingly to save Mizuchi or Yato. So even though things look dire for him, I donāt foresee him dying now.
ETA: It just occurred to me - what if Father dies, Heaven becomes the final antagonist, and they have to use Hiyori to summon him back? Thatās something I can see as a plot twist, the former Big Bad teaming up with the good guys to take down the greater evil.
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