This has never been officially confirmed, but there are several indications that Tartah was abandoned by his family. Or perhaps they have unofficially cut off contact with him.
Although he isn't studying under any teacher yet, Tartah lives only with his grandfather. It's likely that when his Silverwash came to light, Nolnoa was the only family member who didn't give up on him.
Whatâs more, Nolnoa taking Tartah in caused them to lose a lot of social connections. It got to the point where they had to ask Qifrey's atelier to help run the stall, even though they were just regular customers. They literally had no one else to turn to for help.
Itâs a very subtle and easy to overlook, but it starkly illustrates just how cruel society can be toward someone who had no control over their condition and also toward those who try to help them.
shirahama-sensei is known for her manga panels and you might've noticed two panels that connect together.
qifrey's one from ch. 53 and coustas'es one from ch. 55. tree-characters
actually i wasn't so attentive and understood this only when it was pointed out to me. and it was long before this particular chapter released with another one piece (?) of this "puzzle":
ch. 78 with coco.
coco is associated with trees as well as the stars. but i don't think i can make more then visual connection today, so if u possibly know what this might mean... please tell me (im losing my mind)
so.
firstly i cleaned qifrey's and coustas'es panels, tried to connect them as much as possible and defined every pattern so they are full on each side. side note: they weren't connected originally and it is possible that i connected then wrong, but the red ones, loops weren't connected with those rhombic middle part buttttt it seems to be fitting. i also tried to make it colourblind friendly but :( doesn't seem to work
this how it looks with their respective panels on top:
qifrey's one is outer (blue/lighter) and coustas'es is inner (red, darker). at this point in my research i didn't know there was a third one but turns out it doesn't give much about branch pattern itself. it's in a middle.
but what it did said to me: i was right and this pattern extends to four corners!
and the other thing this panel implies is... that in the middle of tree branches there's this sigil.
reverse time sigil.
u might've noticed that "puzzle pieces" reoccur within a little range within chapters: first tree branch panels are from 53, 55 and last with the biggest gap, was in 78 chapter, and reverse time sigils occur throughout the story, but the ones i took in first picture was from 82, 84 and, again gap, 95. pieces that come with a gap doesn't give anything new but does close pattern, but i must say i learned about qifrey having this sigil also in his book too late and it does contribute to puzzle with new info (as well as dagda's sigil... and one that beldaruit did.... well...). so, about the picture:
i took ch. 82 sigil and overlaid it with coco's panel. if u closely look to original one there's no cube inside, much likely because there's something different as in ch. 84's panel which has curtain leech's sign instead.
the sigils i took in first picture did not had dark triangles and qifrey's, dagda's and beldaruit's do have them. it also seems that lines i revealed in darker parts extent as those fork signs that differ from sigil to sigil and i actually dunno what are they... buttttt we don't know for sure if they are there actually.
hell, we don't even know if reverse time sigil is truly related to tree branch pattern!!!! does this means that only cure for three is to reverse time?! coco having both of them in her panel is a symbol that she will learn this truth?! no clue. i jus did a silly pattern copy while listening to the opening for... HOW MUCH... FIVE HOURS??? damn those fixations are hard..... well.....
bye ig
i would share tree pattern but i run out of image space in this post đ
.....and when qifrey becomes the silverwood before coco has a chance to visit the library, so she goes with olly and finds the means to destroy the silverwood while olly finds qifrey's failsafe letter.... but the means to destroy the silverwood is to burn it out of its host with fire....... so olly has to use fire on qifrey to bring him back....... and of course he already has undisclosed trauma related to seeing living things burn........... is this anything
Theory? about Witch Hat's current arc and what it could entail
Spoilers at least up to chapter 96 of the manga
Okay, so I was fumbling around the independent witch hat wiki for inspiration, and I stopped at the section about the mythology of the world. I said, "Cool, maybe this will help."
There's a section on this page about a trilogy of drawings Sensei did of three epics of Zozah
The first one is about the Dadah King's death and the other about the King and his witch
But there's a third one.
"Song of the Princess who married the wind, handed down in the tribe of the dragon herders"
While the first two have been referenced in the anime, this is the only one that hasn't. The Japanese version of chapter 96 referred to the current arc as something akin to the "Dragon Isles arc". This arc is the perfect place to introduce the full story behind the princess's epic.
The thing about the princess marrying the wind might also be connected; there have been some ominous mentions of something in the wind, not only by Vinanna (and its mention immediately worries Beldaruit) in chapter 75, but by Eoleo when talking to Riliphin.
The mysterious person at the end of chapter 96 is also introduced with their hair blowing in the wind.
The princess who married the wind passed by the people who herded the dragons and possibly lived on the isle of dragons. I don't think this is all a coincidence, not entirely at least.
I was about to call it off on theorising, but something else caught my attention when taking a closer look at the art of the princess.
The buns. My mind immediately remembered not only the cover of chapter 96, but the bonus chapter of volume 8.
Tetia has a similar side-bun style on the cover of the chapter that introduces the arc, and again when she calls herself a princess.
My theory is that Tetia has some connection to the dragon isles. Wheter she is aware of it or not. And we're going to find more about it in this arc.
Maybe it's a stretch, but I'm dying for Tetia lore, the whole connection she started having with the nobles by stumbling onto Eoleo during the Silver Eve. A witch whose past is connected by blood to a princess, making herself a contradiction of the pact that says royalty and witch life can't be mixed, so there are no more wars or conflict.
The boy who came from Slistas: in which I theorise that Qifrey is a tree
So I have read Witch Hat Atelier, I have connected way too many dots, and I have concluded that Qifrey is a silver tree who was turned human and experimented upon to allow the Brimhats to perform blood magic. And he is a little freaked out about the whole situation.
Please come dive down that rabbit hole with me (detailed spoilers up to Chapter 40 under the cut):
Iâm not super proud of how this turned out but after 11 hours I finally finished it!! One of these days Iâll get better at drawing environments and backgrounds
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as âproblematicâ in class and our professor was like, âThatâs cool, but âproblematicâ doesnât really mean anything. It means that the thing youâre describing has a problem, and in and of itself thatâs not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else itâs not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like youâre trying to say that this is bad, but you donât want to say âbad.â Is that right?â
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the âbadâ thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, âIâm uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.â
Once we stopped calling things âproblematicâ and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, âthatâs racistâ or âthatâs misogynisticâ or âew capitalism grossâ out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, âUhhh... Iâm not sure whatâs so bad?â and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I canât help but think of this professor being like, âGood starting point, now letâs get specific.â I think when we have to commit to saying âthatâs ___â it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever weâre claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes itâs art, and it should be full of problems, because thatâs what art is.
Pathologizing: Hey sorry I yelled at you. I have this ADHD symptom called RSD that makes me really sensitive.
Humanizing: Hey, Iâm sorry that I blew up like that earlier. In the moment I felt really attacked and overwhelmed and I reacted badly, but I know you didnât mean to offend me with what you said, so that behavior is on me.
people will literally say this and then not actually believe you when you say you're abnormally upset by something unless you disclose your mental disability to clarify it.
yeah i'm sorry i convulsed and snapped when you and your friend spoke to me at the same time, i actually have- wait, mentioning my sensory issues would be pathologizing my behavior, uh yea i just hate the sound of your voice i guess. let me jump in this hole real quick
i was reminded of this anemic post by a reblog, and i wanna emphasize, this is the neurodiversity version of when someone immerses themselves in an online community of outsiders for too long without engaging with normal society until they're saying "but we shouldn't shame women for wanting to be housewives" and thinking its a hot take. if someone "pathologizes their behavior" it is likely the first time they have ever done so in their lives, if a neurodivergent person legitimately tried to use their condition as an "excuse" towards you it is because they trust you more than any other human on earth and the maddening refusal to acknowledge this is nothing short of terminal entitlement.
there are endless reblogs and replies who seem to be trying to convince me this post says something it doesn't. there is nothing compassionate about telling disabled people to forever concede that their behaviors are indistinguishable from a neurotypical person who simply sucks and is wrong all the time.
this isn't analogous to apologizing because you ran someone's foot over with your wheelchair, it's turning to that wheelchair user and telling them to apologize for making their feet so big and heavy
there is nothing compassionate about telling disabled people to forever concede that their behaviors are indistinguishable from a neurotypical person who simply sucks and is wrong all the time
Everything is like âQUEER historyâ and âList of QUEER young adult booksâ or âTop 10 QUEER moviesâ and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
Itâs also the respected academic term?? The acronym isnât static and itâs usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.
Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didnât always use or identify with the terms we use now and you canât always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.
Like yeah if youâre talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if youâre talking about more than one identity or someone who doesnât conform to our perceptions of âLGBT,â or a person or people whose identity you donât know, queer is just the better word.
every time one of you fools spout about âqueer is a slurâ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word âtabooâ is fucking working you dipshit.
I donât know if this is just because Iâm not American but Iâve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didnât like was âsoo gayâ. Queer wasnât even a word most of us knew back then.
It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.
The reason people are upset about the word queer is that itâs a unifying term. You can say youâre queer and all people will know is that youâre part of the community. But you canât say youâre LGBT, you have to say youâre gay or trans or ace. They donât want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether youâre undesirable.
yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other âgayâ as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether âgayâ is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.
It seemed like a plot hole to me that Olruggio did not question waking up on the floor after his memory is erased, until we found out this man passes out from his poor health and stressful lifestyle on the regular. He just thinks that's a normal daily activity.
