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Every time we get a spider in our house, I scoop them up in a little plastic box, let them loose outside, and tell them "Fuck off Claude."
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Fuck off Claude
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If you didn’t think I would be bringing this back all Summer then you were wrong.
Fuck off Claude.
Seriously Claude? I'm at work rn
Get out of my bathroom
Just a little guy today
After 3 days of him appearing and disappearing...
Fuck off Claude
Again? Already?
Yeah, we're definitely in 'that' season now
Wishing you a Very Fuck off Claude
the core of the finnysnake dynamic is like One day you start a new job and you have exactly one coworker who's your age and he seems SUPER into the idea of being friends and you go with it because he's easy to talk to even though you don't really consider your coworkers "friends" so you hang out with this guy every shift and sometimes you go out to eat afterwards etc and you don't think much about it until a year later you're going to quit and you realize you'll actually really miss that one guy, and would like to get his number to keep in contact. So you catch him in the breakroom during your last shift and say "hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm quitting-" and he smiles and says "that's great, man! happy for you!" and at that exact moment you realize that maybe he's just a really nice guy who never thought of you as anything but a coworker. which is true but what you don't know is he's considered impulsively asking you out at least 4 separate times, but talked himself down from it each time by reminding himself that he's initiated every conversation you've ever had and you don't seem to want to mix the professional and personal, and he barely knows anything about you at the end of the day. and also if you and your boss were both drowning he would save your boss without ever looking back even if he could've saved you both but thats not a fair standard to judge him by he's just best friends with your boss as well as a little insane
"ciel" Phantomhive 🤝 "william" Moriarty
british noble kids so traumatized that the only way they can bear to live on is with a guarantee of death at the end of it....... kids that can't bring themselves to fully choose to live, but use the tiny glimmer of will to live that they do have left to at least orchestrate the world's longest and most convoluted prolonged suicide. something about "we are born only to die" not as a statement of helplessness and futility, but as a statement of comfort and security. "i can bear to live one more day, several more days, countless more days, to achieve what i must, so long as i know there will be an end to it" is such an interesting and frankly depressing character archetype and it's weird that it happened twice
I love that Sebastian liked Ciel's joke so much that he reused it in the next chapter.
It makes it so much better that he said it again in German, too. Ciel couldn't understand him. He said it just for himself. Cuz it made him happy.
It's such a cute little detail! Their relationship plenty of things- plenty of complicated things- but one of those things is best friends!!
Snake is not a human with snake genes. He's a snake with human genes.
If you're at all familiar with the 1896 early science fiction novel "The Island of Doctor Moreau" by A. G. Wells, the tittle surely might've brought it to mind. Indeed, I am basing this theory on this novel. "The Island of Dr. Moreau reflects the ethical, philosophical, and scientific concerns and controversies raised by the themes and ideas of Darwinian evolution, which were so disruptive to social norms in the late 1800s."
In brief, Doctor Moreau was an eminent physiologist (read: mad scientist) in London who ended up fleeing Great Britain due to his experiments in vivisection being publicly exposed. Vivisection is, for all intents and purposes, experimentation on live animals. What he accomplished with his experimenting was human-animal hybrids. But it's not as one would assume at first glance (as did the main protagonist in the novel), that he'd turn humans into animals, as is often portrayed in this sort of fiction or even in real-world folklore (think werewolves or berserkers).
Instead, Doctor Moreau turned animals into humans. And unfortunately, through means of extremely painful surgery, which fits in quite well with a dark story such as Kuroshitsuji.
Almost all of the beast-folk are named after "what they're made of". For example: Leopard-Man, Hyena-Swine, Wolf-Man, Fox-Bear Woman, etc… And he refers to them as his children. Children he holds hostage on an island. You know, like an orphanage? The orphanage, which is mentioned in Chapter 192, could very well be "the island" where the Doctor's children were being held at. After all, an island is just like a building where one can be held in, only the walls are a vast ocean. Snake (or Oscar) refers to it as "… a terrible place." and remembering the painful surgery part, I think that's an understatement.
In a 1996 film adaptation that slightly deviated from the original work, the beast-folk as they're called, need to take a serum in order to keep them from turning back into their original form. All except for one hybrid in particular, which the doctor refers to almost perfect or the closest he's gotten to perfection. I feel inclined to mention that in the film someone confronts the protagonist with something along the lines of "What do you intend to do once you get her out of the island? Sell her to a circus?". I believe it to be the case that Snake could be the perfect hybrid. The doctor mentions the fact that in turning animals into humans, he could create the perfect human, devoid of its human flaws, devoid of malice. I firmly believe Snake is devoid of malice.
The whole incident with Phelps was nothing but a mistake, and Snake's paying dearly for that mistake as he got his neck sliced in the same place Phelps had the mamba bite.
Whichever the case, the plan was not very well thought through: he was going to kill Smile without knowing the circus troupe was dead and without so much as asking Smile about it. He was going to kill Sebastian too, were he not a demon. As Smile was telling him that he had infiltrated the circus in order to investigate, Snake kept flip-flopping between getting shocked with the revelation that the troupe were kidnapers and getting aggravated, insisting Smile was lying. Probably due to the snakes' chattering each of their opinions. He's confused, but he's not evil. It's clear from his reactions.
The reason I'm bringing this up is because he was acting purely on impulse. Not much thought. Or at least, the thought he put into it wasn't much. It wasn't malice guiding his actions, but a sort of instinct. Snakes don't think much about attacking when they feel threatened. If they feel inclined to do so, they just do. No questions asked. No thinking about consequences.
In the film mentioned earlier, the doctor's office looks like a small library. The doctor is obviously quite literate. However, his "children" aren't.
There seems to be quite a bit of focus on Snake not knowing how to read. First mentioned on Yana's personal blog and most recently brought up in Chapter 195. It was quite common for people to be illiterate at the time Kuro takes place, but there was a focus on Snake from Yana's part, which I only find interesting because of how his snakes were named. After famous writers.
Could the doctor have named the other snakes but not him, as he was the first snake? The Snake. Or could Snake have named the others because he himself didn't have a name? It's funny that among all his family, the one human is simply named "snake" while the ones that would be naturally referred to as snakes are named quite fancifully. It's also quite comical if you consider chapter 51, when Finnian thought Snake was "Mister Oscar" as he introduced himself with "I'm Snake…", "- Says Oscar."
If you'd like to consider going a little further and going a bit crazy on these what ifs: consider that his snakes are the others who didn't make it or reverted back to normal. The panel in chapter 195 (page 7) where Snake has himself a little dilemma (in space!) with all the snakes chiming in in his head? I know it might sound a little out there, but I think the reason those three Snakes are shown naked could be because they're not Snake, they really might be Keats, Emily, and Wilde. Either the Snake-Man hybrids all look the same, or this is how Snake visualizes them speaking, as he himself is a snake like them. The difference is that he can use human speech, so if they were to use it as well, they too would look like him… right?
In fact, he often makes little distinction. He's said this in chapter 202 when Arty asks if he's a snake charmer, to which he firmly responds, "No. Snake and us are family. - says Dan." and "We are all footmen. - Says Goethe." Before this, he says "We're all here. - says everyone." He refers to them as "us". He makes little separation between himself and the other snakes. He understands and talks to snakes because, naturally, he is a snake. And he's the only snake who can talk to humans—the only one who is also human. He's the spokesperson (spokesnake, lol) of the group.
In chapter 53, he's sneaked down to the cargo to share the food with "everyone" as he says. I always found it a little odd to share human food with snakes, who only eat whole animals. On the plate, there were some leaves. There are no herbivorous snakes; they're all exclusively carnivorous (insectivorous, too). Of course, the lettuce, or whatever it is, is intact. But still, snakes don't eat breaded chicken or liver pâté either… It's just odd that Snake, who's been seen feeding his snakes mice twice, suddenly thinks they'd be interested in this gourmet, first-class dish. I believe he thinks, since it's delicious to him, surely they might think so too. After all, they're all snakes. Could he get a little confused sometimes?
He's also never showed any fear of the werewolf forest while the other servants were scared as they made their way to the village in the Emerald Witch arc. He doesn't seem phased by the idea of wolf-men. He was freaked out by the torture instruments in the village though, meaning some things are scary, just not the werewolves.
I think that sums it up nicely, although I might have forgotten some things. I do apologize if anyone has already made this correlation between this work by A. G. Wells and Snake's possible origins, I couldn't find anything related.
Of course it can all be explained easily by just saying he sees the snakes as family and as "us" because he has a connection to them. However, it's the "how he came to be" part that is my main motive behind the theory.
I put a lot of love and care into this theory and since Snake's flashbacks might be coming up soon, I thought I'd share it just so that it's out there for all it's worth.
Thank you so much for reading. Have a lovely day. Red
Sebastian vision:
On the subject of my last reblog, stories of the supposedly infallible being fallible are the best.
Deities of specific things who, though very versed in their particular area, are clueless on how to act in other sitiations.
Bring me a fire god who one day encounters fish for the first time, who finds them fascinating and would like to keep one but has no idea what to do with it.
Bring me a god of death who wants to grow a garden of flowers, but is clueless in how to maintain the health of something living.
Bring me old gods who learn modern languages because the language of their previous followers has died out. Gods who repurpose themselves to the modern era to keep up with the changing lifestyles of the people who may call upon them. Primordial beings reawakening from eon-long dormancy who have to learn to keep up with the times and have fallen so out of touch that they have no idea how to engage.
Sebastian is a very unusual protagonist because while he is a powerful entity, he also seems to be a relatively inexperienced demon - at the very least in the beginning of the manga. He encounters Ciel as someone who is skillful at manipulation, killing, seduction - that is true. However, his abilities in terms of managing household, knowing how to treat human illnesses as well as his general knowledge about how human beings work, what they like their food to taste like, and more seem to be lacking.
A demon that needs to actively learn from his Master, read books to understand Victorian medicine, and repeatedly go through failures before he grasps certain concepts is not a typical character to encounter in supernatural media. Usually, entities are portrayed as omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, but Sebastian does not seem to fit those criteria: he simply lacks knowledge a truly Ancient being would possess. He is seemingly weaker than some of the reapers, he gets injured, he makes mistakes. He does not fit the archetype of a "primordial entity with excessive powers" because he learns how to be a perfect butler alongside his Master who is growing into being a proper Earl.
I think more than necessarily just being a lack of 'experience', Sebastian's limited knowledge also shows his lack of interest.
He has never considered the need to 'care' before this contract, because that is not what had ever been required of him as a Devil. As a being so vastly removed from Us, he knows only what he has learned that humans desire through his own encouters - self-centred greed, lust, the want for power and violence. And beyong that, he hasn't much desired to be among the inferior humans himself, and so he has only ever 'learned' what was required of him.
The current contract has been a real eye-opener, and a chance to acquire new knowledge and skills and do something different, in a manner unlike anything that has previously been required of him.
And he's enjoying it! He isn't bored of this contract, like he had been of the others, because its new and challenging!
He clearly likes learning these new things, because he has said himself that 'one can never possess too much knowledge', and he revels in having a chance to gain these new experiences because they have never before been asked of him. He's never had a master like Ciel before.
I swear this is exactly how Sebastian be looking everytime Ciel gives him an order:
doesn't work...
Completely unrelated to anything, but @ectoplasmbrainfart and I have been leaving tiny drawings of rats all over our house for eachother to find since picking up the Layers of Fear 2023 remake -
And let's just say I decided to up the ante today.
Arthur Conan Doyle:
Doctor, Writer, Occult Researcher/Enthusiast...
... Football player?
In new BBC documentary Killing Sherlock, historian Lucy Worsley will highlight how the author used the name AC Smith to play for Portsmouth
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Spoilers for chapter 206 below the cut!!
I'm so scared for Snake!! Things are not looking good for him and being slit on the throat has a very low survival rate, especially since there's no one there to help him - medical wise. Snake is my second most favourite among the four servants (Finny is the first, sorry Bard & Mey) and I don't want him to die 😭
If he did die, Snake died a good man, protecting someone from a zombie that claimed to be his 'family'.
Next chapter is going to be a very, very emotional one.
Unless Yana would choose to go into Snake's flashback next month and we won't know of Snake's fate until 2025 or something.
I feel a mixed feelings right now, but mostly, I'm worried for Snake and angry at Doll. I never did like her.
I was hoping that everyone would make it through and be reunited with o!Ciel & Seb in the end to fight the final battle, but it's looking really bad for Snake.
Sebastian, go and visit Snake in the land of the fluffy bread and tell Snake that he's not done fighting yet! That's an order!
