#ankna

[badass-at-fandoming]

Ngl HnKnA writers really, delightfully ran with Nightmare's dreamscaping abilities. Now this is some goddamn whimsy.

[ej-brunson]

Blood my scrunkle

[filipinoizukuu]

HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW HORI ART. not to be a deku kinnie but oh my fucking god jesus christ

WJDJ JECKINSBDEN XNSDX ISYES U DIDN ANDBI5DNGICKFING HOYM SHTI HOLY ISHIT AAAAA IM GOINGNGFUKCIGN INSANENYES I SWW IT FUCJ UFKC FICKDJCJSKJ

[purrplebun]

oh!! i also drew a little thing for otome amino since they had a 3-year anniversary a while ago~ that's where i got all of those art trades, too (≧∇≦)/

[sonic-nancy-fan]

In celebration of HnKnA’s 12th anniversary, have an English cover of Anniversary no Kuni no Alice’s opening.

[were-dimensions-coiled]

Sexuality & Romanticism:

Ace: Polysexual & Panromantic Alice Liddell: Omnisexual & Panromantic Blood Dupre: Bisexual & Demiromantic Boris Airay: Pansexual & Panromantic Crysta Snowpigeon: Polysexual & Homoromantic Dumpty: Demisexual & Biromantic Elliot March: Heteroflexible (Bloodflexible) & Heteroromantic Gray Ringmarc: Heterosexual  & Heteroromantic   Humpty: Pansexual & Panromantic Jericho Bermuda: Heterosexual & Heteroromantic   Joker Black: Demisexual & Biromantic Joker White: Polysexual & Aromantic Julius Monrey: Graysexual & Demiromantic Mary Gowland: Heterosexual & Heteroromantic   Nightmare Gottschalk: Heterosexual & Heteroromantic   Peter White: Bisexual & Biromantic Pierce Villiers: Heterosexual & Heteroromantic   Sidney Black: Demisexual & Polyromantic Tweedle Dee: Polysexual & Polyromantic Tweedle Dum: Polysexual & Polyromantic Vivaldi: Femme Lesbian &  Homoromantic

[badass-at-fandoming]

The Dead as Frozen, Unresponsive Time

So this post sponsored by me noticing that Alice's dad:

Looks the same as the corpse in the forest:

This moment in the forest is a traumatic one for Alice. It happens no matter the route—a literally unavoidable event, which is often how trauma feels. Alice's shock freezes her as fear response. She continually returns to this scene, like how triggers return the sufferer to the place of trauma. Nightmare bails her out, blurs the event over, and repeats the mantra that "this is a dream" for Alice to calm down. He tries to sweep the experience under the rug, and this "treatment" lasts until something (another trigger, like walking the same path in the woods) returns her to the traumatic event (the death that happened on the roadside). Her father and his grief in Alice's original world is over-layed and repeated (in a transformed way) in the fantastical world of Wonderland. Put a pin in it and follow the red string to this interaction with Nightmare:

Every Wonderland citizen is a unit of time. The Faceless are minutes and seconds, while the role-holders are hours. When Vivaldi executes people, she's literally killing time. Here, Nightmare says the dead are "frozen time" that can be "only idealized, without a trace of pollution." That is to say, Alice's original society says it's rude to speak ill of the dead. They can do no wrong. The dead are no longer encumbered by the mess of living. They can't fart, or pee their pants, or a million other embarrassing human squelches. Following this logic, Wonderland citizens would become "perfect" in Alice's eyes, once they're dead, which almost makes them sound like a death cult and could explain how the cavalier attitude towards death got started.

Yet, there's a sadness. A rub. This rough-edges-sanded-off perfection is a mere afterimage compared to the real, flesh-and-blood person. The dead are not permitted to be make mistakes, be messy; to grow or change. They're stuck as they were, forever.

Just like Alice's father's grief.

Alice says her father "lived on like a corpse. Despairing over the fact he had to live." His grief, his regret, and obsession with an idealized version of wife made him "die" too. Beyond financially, he failed to care for Lorina, Alice, and Edith. He didn't parent them. He refused to move from the immediate aftermath of his wife's death—this single point in time. While he may have regretted something he said or did to his wife, his stillness also robbed his children from forming any relationship with him. His beautiful, frozen moment emptied him of any possibility for growth. His beauty is empty. He's cruel the way the dead are cruel—for not responding to others.

Alice, meanwhile, struggles. Nightmare remarks that she's like her father, full of regrets and not able to make amends. Her "struggling is beautiful." Yet Alice says that she "can't live like that [her father]" and she'd "walk the path of forgetting." I'd argue that Alice's beauty is full of life. She grows and changes. When she transmigrates, she doesn't become a unit of time, fated to die in the woods, and flicker into a beloved afterimage of a person. Yeah, she is haunted by trauma—Peter made her literally walk a path of forgetting about Lorina's death—but she takes a step forward. The hurts may be re-visited. She may think about her father at the grave. But she won't live there.

[badass-at-fandoming]

No thoughts. Only Julius and his cute coffee cup.