Nope, blood work and salivary gland biopsy (they took 18 chunks out of my gland that won’t grow back!) are pointing towards Sjögren's syndrome, which—to quote the Johns Hopkins site—is a ”systemic disease and may also lead to nervous system, lung, gynecologic, kidney and blood disease.” It primarily effects the salivary glands and tear ducts, leading to dental decay (gosh, this explains a lot!). It’s also quite common for it to double team with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, or fibromyalgia, and I’m eager to hear back from my rheumatologist because I can’t help but suspect the latter to be the cause of my constant headaches and wrecked neck/upper back.
Admittedly I haven’t gotten The Official Diagnosis yet, but it’s looking quite likely at this juncture, so....
Hi, I remember reading your meta about TG tarot phase, in which moon arc started with the end of Tsukiyama arc, the one with moon kanji in it's name. Do you think the sun arc will start with someone with sun in their name? If name is what it counts, I could only think of two people, first is Amon, the sun god himself. Second is Akira. While most Akira means Light, her kanji means Dawn, just the time before the sun comes out. Thank you & have a good day!
The moon arc doesn’t actually start with the Tsukiyama arc. The Tsukiyama arc is the Tower arc. The moon arc starts right after Arima’s death and is made explicit in ch. 86 (on the Cochlea side). It’s unclear if the Rushima chapters still the Star arc or if we’re already meant to be in the Moon there as well.
The full tarot arc break down is something like this.
0 - The Fool :: Chapter 1 -> becoming a ghoul
I - The Magician :: Held by Hide - everything through the Nishiki fight/aftermath
II - The High Priestess :: Meeting Touka and Anteiku
III - The Empress :: Ryoko and Hinami
IV - The Emperor :: Our first glimpse into the CCG/Ryoko’s death
V - The Hierophant :: Mado Kureo’s death and Kaneki vs Amon
VI - Lovers :: Gourmet Arc
VII - The Chariot :: Aogiri through torture
VIII - Strength :: 6th ward through Kanou’s raid (I am the fucking strong)
IX - The Hermit :: Old Niner/Kuzen’s story
X - Wheel of Fortune :: The plan for the CCG’s raid on Anteiku
XI - Justice :: Eto and Amon, mostly - Amon starting to doubt, probably also Amon and Kaneki at the Raid
XII - The Hanged Man :: Held by Kaneki - The Anteiku Raid, esp. Kaneki’s choices during it.
XIII - Death :: V14 -> epilogue
XIV - Temperance :: Haise - everything leading up to Auction
XV - The Devil :: Held by Takizawa - Auction arc
XVI - The Tower :: Tsukiyama raid arc
XVII - The Star :: Cochlea and Rushima
XVIII - The Moon :: NOW
XIX - The Sun :: Held by Uta
XX - Judgement :: Held by Suzuya
XXI - The World :: THE END
(note that TG spends a lot less time on each card than :re, and that some of the cards overlap chapters a little. Also, lots of characters are associated with certain cards. I haven’t noted them all here. Additionally multiple characters can be associated with the same card. Ishida uses tarot in a lot of ways, so in addition to some characters which are strongly tied to one card, a tarot number might be associated with a character in one moment.)
Tsukiyama does get reintroduced at the end of the Rushima arc, for whatever that’s worth, but the arc was already very clearly marked by 86. What Tsukiyama’s overall role in the Moon Arc is has yet to play out. He is certainly tied to the moon and the specific eclipse imagery on the moon arc, but what that will mean for this arc isn’t obvious. It is almost certainly in part a hint to Tsukiyama being largely driven by subconscious desires and a nod to the fact that he himself is often unaware of these.
The Sun is very tied to Uta, and while Mado and Amon might play roles in that arc, or undergo some important development there, I don’t think we are meant to take this meeting as the start of that arc. Furuta is the linchpin of the Moon Arc and we are at the point where the subconscious desires are really rising to the surface, so to speak. Which does lead the way to the truth and clarity of the Sun arc, but not before those now manifest subconscious desires wreck some havoc. This chapter had Takizawa calling Kaneki out on his true motivations and Furuta bringing the darkest side of the CCG to the fore. I suspect the consequences of these two things will take us to the end of the Moon arc.
