#gray posts

[master-thief-gray-shadow]

Everyone wants to talk about how Senshi is a tumblr sexyman but...Senshi is actually attractive. Like even aside from the fact that he's pretty good-looking he's a nice, sweet guy and he can cook and loves doing it. He's a perfectly eligible candidate for marriage, which kind of goes against the spirit of a tumblr sexyman.

Chilchuck, however? Chilchuck is a tumblr sexyman. What the fuck do you people see in him

[mechanicaudi]

Beautiful Audi RS6😍😍😍

[y-pumpkindum]

My dad told me to make somethin’ less bright, so here we go - Gray. Autumn

[livramente]

[master-thief-gray-shadow]

I think the reason the Ryoko Kui interview is making these kinds of waves that it is is because a distressing number of people have somehow, without any real, solid evidence, convinced themselves that Kui is "one of us." There's this idea that only someone just like you can accurately depict your struggles in fiction, that someone can only ever write what they know and if they're writing what they don't know then you, the reader, will be able to tell immediately. Many readers are quicker to ascribe the way the characters in Dungeon Meshi personally resonate with you to Kui being like you, rather than her simply being a very good writer. So when Kui reveals that she has a different interpretation of her own work, that she's not the type of person people assumed she was based solely on the content of her work, that she's not "one of us," it breaks these people. It breaks them to face the fact that you can't always know an artist just from their art, and that authors put things they don't intend into their work all the time. Death of the author is a concept that is often misunderstood and twisted in fandom spaces, so it's destabilizing when it comes to the surface this blatantly. Is Laios autistic? You can certainly read him that way. But that clearly wasn't something that Kui was thinking about when she was writing him, and you can't assume anything in the creative process was autobiographical in any way. Is it really so hard to believe that a writer simply wrote a good character?

Maybe Ryoko Kui is "one of us." Maybe she isn't. As readers, it's none of our business.

[master-thief-gray-shadow]

Sometimes I ponder just how severely Ave Mujica broke containment. MyGo was lauded when it came out, sure, but its main effect was just revitalizing the Bandori fandom as a whole, which had been stagnating for a while at the time. When it was airing I only ever saw the exact sort of people I expected talking about it, which is to say Bandori fans and former fans who had been lured back. But over the past few months I have witnessed multiple people, strangers, friends, mutuals, the like, many of whom have no history with Bandori at all, go "wait, what's Ave Mujica" and fall down a massive rabbithole and now Sakiko is Char for people who got into music anime via Bocchi the Rock

[master-thief-gray-shadow]

What a completely normal thing to say about another girl

[master-thief-gray-shadow]

Honoka...