#also while we're here

[blackered]

i've seen everybody posting their operators and drifters pre update so i'm doing this too both versions of Venn patiently waiting for their transition. i need that gender mixing feature NOW!!!

[crokitheloki]

sorry but Rio is Nicky's father because

a) she just is, they're lesbian witches who have magic and they're in love, also Rio is death which also makes her partly life (it's literally in her name, river of life) so she used that to give Nicky life

b) its written in the score sorry I don't make the rules

[sunlaire]

i love the detox era. Jopson taking care of crozier. helping him change his nightshirt. peeling it from his back and shoulders and replacing it with a fresh clean one. combing his hair. Not letting him get up or strain himself. Telling him to lie back and let himself be taken care of. Hes all weak and fevered. ahhhhh h

[super-productivity]

Considering that Sebastian was seemingly only given a first name at the beginning of his contract, I would assume that demons choose their own surnames should they become necessary?

Given the etymology of his name, I would guess that Sebastian came up with it when officially fully introducing himself to Tanaka, knowing that the man was Japanese and might pick up on his little bit of word association (since we know that Sebastian is a fan of wordplay).

He also probably had some prior knowledge of the demonology reports of the late Sébastien Michaëlis (1543-1618), which just meant double points for humour and irony - not just to be recognised by himself, but also by the demon Berith who had given over the information, as one of his noted roles in Hell is to officiate demonic pacts as Chief Secretary of Hell and Head of Hell's Public Archives.

Claude meanwhile decided:

"Idk, Faustus, as in Dr. Faustus, as in Faustian Contract...

... I don't really want to be here tbh."

[bericas]

you say, "we gotta look on the bright side!"

i say, "well, maybe if you wanna go blind."

[the-mother-of-lions]

For @thesorcerersguild-quests​  Canon What Canon? - Day Four: Alternate Ending - S5E06

[catboyyukineapologist]

HOLY SHIT Y'ALL HOLY SHIT. this chapter was so much it made me drop off the face of the earth for three weeks this time. hi. I’m still alive. ...But trash dad may not be for much longer lmao YEET

anyway, me losing my shit is under the cut. (along with some actual surface level analysis this time, I had Opinions and I’m choosing to make that all of y’all’s problem)

OH MY FUCKING GOD

SHIT HAS OFFICIALLY HIT THE FAN Y’ALL

okay let’s mcfucking GO

So just to. Get this out of the way.

Yuuki’s weapon form? SLAPS. Sorry. I know he’s in pain. but it’s just so PRETTY.

I don’t even really know what to say about this one??? That Shit Hurted.

Father going straight for the jugular with the “you really took my advice to heart” shit, and Yato not caring. That’s Character Development, baby.

YES KING GROW FROM YOUR TRAUMA FUCK HIM UP

I’m just wondering how they didn’t assume he had the koto-no-ha already- maybe it’s been too long and I need to brush up on my Noragami canon, but wouldn’t him being the sorcerer and having manipulated Ebi and sent him off to die in the underworld put him directly in line for “asshole most probably in possession of the brush?“ idk.

speaking of the brush, the entire scene looked so good. Like ik I’m always fawning all over the art but the angles? the panel distribution? YES THANK YOU.

THIS MOTHERFUCKER REALLY HAS NO SHAME HUH. HE REALLY JUST FLICKED HIS STUPID LITTLE BRUSH AND TRIED TO ABDUCT KAZUMA.

It ENRAGES ME that he even tried to take away Yato’s name. I’ve discussed the importance of names in this manga At Length (if One Long Post can be considered “at length”-) on this blog, but even if that was not a factor, it’s sickening to see him try so viciously to take him down physically and emotionally back to back; first threatening to name Kazuma, and then trying to take “Yato” away from him like that. Trying to tie it back to himself and take back ownership of Yato like that. The portrayal of abuse in this manga is chillingly on-point sometimes and it Hurts.

The Crimson Petals Attack The Crimson Petals Attack The Crimson Petals Attack The Crimson Petals Attack The Crimson Petals At

“If you have time to come up with an attack name you have time to work on your technique“ okAY BOOMER

*gets destroyed immediately*

My favorite part of this is his very violent change of attitude from “Stupid kid” to Pure Unadulterated Horror in under 10 pages.

And yeah, on that topic: trash dad’s weak point has always been that he refuses to see Yato as anything other than a little kid— a fairly dangerous little kid, but a little kid nontheless. He thinks he knows everything there is to know about him (which. he doesn’t), and Yato’s literal only drawback was accepting that; that he was nothing without him, that he could never outgrow what he was taught as a child, that he was stuck with what he got in life and happiness was out of the question. And now that he’s starting to realize that hey— perhaps that’s all bullshit, and maybe he has grown as a person and began to heal from all the damage that was done to him in the past, he is able to fight back and see his dad as an equal (and honestly probably inferior in skill) opponent instead of this untouchable lifeline.

And obviously his goading still kind of gets to him, but he’s getting better at standing his ground and standing up to him, and idk I just think that’s Neat™.

Anyway, I really liked the facial expressions on this one, too.

And as always, here’s our monthly toast for trash dad to be thoroughly destroyed. That arrow should have gotten him on the dick.

Oh! By the way! From this month on I’ll be changing my url to catboyyukineapologist! honestly it’s been a bit yucky for me to kind of have this sort of extra-letter username and also @/rekkis snatched it fair and square, so yeah! rekkiss had a good run and I will miss the slight yatoma implications, but we’re moving on to something I actually cooked up with my own brain cell.

[mrslackles]

Also the way Dean says "tattoo guy" with a mouthful of privilege and whiteness makes me wanna deck his face every time. Lord save me I'm too Latino for this show

🤣🤣🤣🤣

And didn’t he also say Rio “emptied a clip” into him when he legit got shot with one (1) bullet? 

I remember being like

But on a serious note, this was what I was meaning about Dean being portrayed as something different than what the show wants us to accept him as. Because I do think these lines and the way Matthew does them is supposed to be off-putting. (In fact -- and I know people are gonna be shocked by this because I talk a lot of shit about him, but -- I think Matthew did a terrific job in season 1. The way the character skirted the line between absolute privileged jerk and a guy just trying to do his best was fantastic. It just outstayed its welcome.) 

75% of the time he’s doing or saying these really off-putting things, whether it’s racially insensitive, sexist or downright privileged. And then 25% of the time he’s actively put forth as this standup guy who deserves your sympathy (the most sympathetic character, apparently!!). 

And it makes you question that 75%; what on earth the writers are doing?? Are they saying the 75 is okay? Are they saying this is realistic; what real men are like (by which they’re also basically saying it’s okay)? Or are they simply confused and contradicting themselves? 

If I were watching the show, I’d say I’m curious to see how the MRA stuff is brought forth and how the writers handle it because I think it’ll be very telling. That being said, I doubt it’ll touch on his whiteness because this show’s “feminism” is honestly several decades behind.