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@vuomelo
Hello!
You can call me V, and I basically just like to post stupid stuff once every 6 months
art books on the internet archive for you
morpho books
figure drawing for all it's worth (+ creative illustration)
framed ink
will eisner comics and sequential art
will eisner graphic storytelling and visual narrative
understanding comics (+ making comics)
folder of various animation production art
burne hogarth drawing dynamic hands
perspective for comic book artists
michael mattesi force drawing
the animator's survival kit
color and light james gurney
be free
Hmmm nostalgia kicked in 😔
Just to keep everyone here aware:
Shit's going down in Los Angeles area.
What happened is that there was already protests against the ICE detention facilities, and ICE made the brilliant move of kidnapping the leader of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Protestors started pushing their non-violent actions, with ZERO weaponry, and ICE has begun firing teargas and rubber bullets (which can be fatal). Tonight they are bringing in the NATIONAL GUARD.
Meanwhile, they're stepping up kidnappings and "deportations"--If you dont have your papers and you live in southern california I'd avoid leaving your house. If you're a citizen, keep your papers on you as you leave.
And if you're one of the brave people fighting this gestapo, PLEASE DO SO SAFELY!!! Dont use milk to rinse out teargas or pepper spray, it can cause infections with the bacteria in it!!!! Use water!!!! Tell someone where you're going, but leave your phone at home unless you're there to document. If you are there to document, DONT SHARE PROTESTORS FACES OR IDENTIFYING FEATURES on social media!!!! And for fucks sake, WRITE A LAWYER PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR BODY WITH SHARPIE, trust me, it could save your ass.
Another hot take... is it just me or does Yana Toboso's consistent... weirdness abt Ciel ruin a lot of the... oomph if you will, that chapter 135 had or the serious moments she does try to give him. Cw for sexual assault related to children. No fucking proship/antiship debates in my comments this is a serious discussion about framing and weight I don't want petty catfights or ship wars even if i will slightly discuss one in particular, but its for a reason. If you want to discuss this topic as well from any side I am happy to discuss but I don't want any fandom bs.
First off, I think Ciel's PTSD breakdowns and adjacent experiences are some of the most harrowing I've seen. Maybe it's because I haven't watched much media actually wwww but his breakdown in Emerald Witch for instance, wow that cuts hard. I don't think these scenes or any moment that discusses Ciel's abuse for that matter will ever lose any weight. He was a boy that was violented assaulted there is nothing that can take from the horror of that.
What i am specifically meaning to discussing is how audiences should perceive these moments. These are horrifying moments no doubt and any reader can look upon them and be. Well. Horrified or pitying Ciel etc etc normal human reactions. But Toboso constantly, mostly in the beginning, has done a lot. Of shipbait with Ciel and Sebastian, framing angles that are kind of sensual? If that makes sense? Like intimate between the two. For instance Ciel raising his feet out and placing one on Sebastian.
There's also jokes involving other underage characters such as Sullivan's advances on Ciel and Sebastian, or comments about Lizzy's chest in the recent chapters. Because of the way these are framed... it almost puts the audience in a sort of situation where we are seeing these characters through that lens even though we aren't actually or we don't. Sure the poses Ciel makes can be taken innocently, but knowing this series and knowing the history... it just feels like a mask of the earlier chapters. It's almost disconcerting you know??? Like I AM utterly abhorred by Ciel's abuse, and I abhor the angles he's put in sometimes, but I'm forced to witness it as I read. And at a certain point i have to wonder, does the author take it seriously?
I am of the opinion that chapter 135 wasn't just shock value, sexual assault and especially male survivors deserve to be represented as that is a thing that happens in real life. The scenes cutaway and don't linger on the actual abuse which is good. His abuse isn't brought up to just be sexualized, it's only hinted at, and you see the emotional and psychological scars it's left on him. That is incredibly important! Of course anyone that disagrees with my sentiment is free to leave a comment. I would love to hear other peoples opinions on this matter! I am not personally a survivor, so i don't have an expert opinion on this, only lesser experiences that causes me to find comfort in Ciel.
But yeah there is such a disconnect between this and those other scenes that feel. So weird. How can he be treated with such respect one moment and then turn into a sexual joke the other when he's most likely sex-repulsed? It feels incredibly disrespectful to his trauma. Even the massive Sebaciel fanbase behind it contributes to this disconnect, as fans have picked up the cues Toboso left behind in the first few chapters and then ran with it. Emerald Witch arc showed how terrified Ciel was with Sebastian during his breakdown. He was quite literally a manifestation of his most terrible trauma. Isn't this a bit of a division between the two tones the manga took? Fujobait sebaciel v mainline ciel who's traumatized by abuse at the hands of adults
In the end it makes me a bit jaded. You mean to tell me Ciel was scared of Sebastian at his most vulnerable of moments when you've been drawing shipbait between them the whole time? Are you only serious when the plot demands it? That's so stupid. Despite any arguments to be made about how this may affect perception of survivors and Toboso's actual thoughts on them, I do feel like the story shoots itself in the foot in that regard. Only one of those things wasn't necessary and key word it starts with an f and and ends in an anservice.
MAYBE I'M JUST BEING PETTY AND THIS ISN'T ACTUALLY A PROBLEM. i think anyone with functional literacy can tell when to take a story seriously, but I don't think it's in good writing (nor taste) to take serious story elements to toy with as needed. I never liked the racism in Black Butler either, and even if the colored characters are taken seriously sometimes, it still doesn't take from the fact they are caricatured to be ridiculed at times (EG Soma being. Well. Indian. I really don't know how to explain that one. And Lau constantly smoking opium w sexualized Chinese women). Do i make sense??? I hope i do... im tweaking
NOOO I GET YOU ON A SPIRITUAL LEVEL HERE!!
The portrayal of Ciel’s trauma (when taken serious) was so impactful to me! The moments where things are taken seriously are some of the best moments in the entire series, but there can be such a big disconnect.
You can’t have a serious depiction of SA and PTSD (that she clearly wanted the audience to take seriously) AND your fetishized shipbait. It’s contradictory and frankly in such bad taste. Like if your going to write the later, than at least stick to it. Because what is the message the audience is supposed to get here? What’s even the point of taking his trauma seriously?
I don’t know. There’s just something really vindictive about making your character traumatized by his SA, framing the event as an undeniably bad thing that happened to him, but also wanting to have your cake and eat it by playing into the whole shota-underage-yaoi. Not even like on a pro-anti ship debate sort of thing. Like it’s just genuinely so tone deaf that it’s just bad writing.
People will jump you for ever criticizing or even just not liking an author but still tuning in for their works, but honestly I don’t even care. I’ve never understood the riding people will do for authors of series they like.
And yeah. The racism is pretty bad when it does show. Ran-Mao especially left a bad taste in my mouth. People will say it’s common to portray Chinese people like that in anime, but honestly? Still sucks. There was a user on here that kind of delved into that stuff about black butler, I remember liking their stuff, but they took an indefinite hiatus. Worth checking out though, cause their Ran-Mao was so cool. I’ll see if I can find a link.
Which really is too bad, cause I think the premise and the characters have something interesting here! But it could’ve been so much better.
In the end Black Butler holds a very nostalgic place in my heart, I honestly only stick around because I’m hoping Ciel will get a happy ending somehow.
FOUND IT!!!
I’m a huge history fashion nerd, so I loved their stuff. If I remember well some of their posts were pretty interesting.
Holy shit that design is heat. YESSSS YES YES YES claws at my neck. Snarls. Growls.
I am soooooo embarassed to admit i like BB to my irl oomfs like. It takes me 5 minutes to explain what i like. Ciel is always going to be near and dear to my heart and a beacon of strength to admire. AND I TRULY DO HATE HIS EXPERIENCES BEING WATERED DOWN AS A JOKE... like is that all that is to the author??? A quick 5 min gag until she remembers this is real shit people get hurt by??? PMO PMO PMO we need to save Ciel
pleaseeee I don’t even mention it irl cause I can’t even blame people for judging lmfaoo.
when I first watched bb I was like,,,11, and it was a very surface level experience. Oh wow Victorian era. Oh wow, demons. Oh wow I have a crush on all the characters, tehee type of deal.
I didn’t really develop an attachment to the series until I decided to lock in and read the manga. and honestly I probably would have dropped it if the tone had just stayed consistent, but there was enough depth there that I was just to invested to let it go.
and it’s so silly to be upset about it because its like getting conned by a guy with a devious expression who twirls his mustache while laughing manically. she branded herself on this sort of imagery, and it’s what the series is basically known for. but damn, those moments where things are serious just hit me so hard, and I was genuinely so disappointed to not see the tone be consistent with it afterwards.
Another hot take... is it just me or does Yana Toboso's consistent... weirdness abt Ciel ruin a lot of the... oomph if you will, that chapter 135 had or the serious moments she does try to give him. Cw for sexual assault related to children. No fucking proship/antiship debates in my comments this is a serious discussion about framing and weight I don't want petty catfights or ship wars even if i will slightly discuss one in particular, but its for a reason. If you want to discuss this topic as well from any side I am happy to discuss but I don't want any fandom bs.
First off, I think Ciel's PTSD breakdowns and adjacent experiences are some of the most harrowing I've seen. Maybe it's because I haven't watched much media actually wwww but his breakdown in Emerald Witch for instance, wow that cuts hard. I don't think these scenes or any moment that discusses Ciel's abuse for that matter will ever lose any weight. He was a boy that was violented assaulted there is nothing that can take from the horror of that.
What i am specifically meaning to discussing is how audiences should perceive these moments. These are horrifying moments no doubt and any reader can look upon them and be. Well. Horrified or pitying Ciel etc etc normal human reactions. But Toboso constantly, mostly in the beginning, has done a lot. Of shipbait with Ciel and Sebastian, framing angles that are kind of sensual? If that makes sense? Like intimate between the two. For instance Ciel raising his feet out and placing one on Sebastian.
There's also jokes involving other underage characters such as Sullivan's advances on Ciel and Sebastian, or comments about Lizzy's chest in the recent chapters. Because of the way these are framed... it almost puts the audience in a sort of situation where we are seeing these characters through that lens even though we aren't actually or we don't. Sure the poses Ciel makes can be taken innocently, but knowing this series and knowing the history... it just feels like a mask of the earlier chapters. It's almost disconcerting you know??? Like I AM utterly abhorred by Ciel's abuse, and I abhor the angles he's put in sometimes, but I'm forced to witness it as I read. And at a certain point i have to wonder, does the author take it seriously?
I am of the opinion that chapter 135 wasn't just shock value, sexual assault and especially male survivors deserve to be represented as that is a thing that happens in real life. The scenes cutaway and don't linger on the actual abuse which is good. His abuse isn't brought up to just be sexualized, it's only hinted at, and you see the emotional and psychological scars it's left on him. That is incredibly important! Of course anyone that disagrees with my sentiment is free to leave a comment. I would love to hear other peoples opinions on this matter! I am not personally a survivor, so i don't have an expert opinion on this, only lesser experiences that causes me to find comfort in Ciel.
But yeah there is such a disconnect between this and those other scenes that feel. So weird. How can he be treated with such respect one moment and then turn into a sexual joke the other when he's most likely sex-repulsed? It feels incredibly disrespectful to his trauma. Even the massive Sebaciel fanbase behind it contributes to this disconnect, as fans have picked up the cues Toboso left behind in the first few chapters and then ran with it. Emerald Witch arc showed how terrified Ciel was with Sebastian during his breakdown. He was quite literally a manifestation of his most terrible trauma. Isn't this a bit of a division between the two tones the manga took? Fujobait sebaciel v mainline ciel who's traumatized by abuse at the hands of adults
In the end it makes me a bit jaded. You mean to tell me Ciel was scared of Sebastian at his most vulnerable of moments when you've been drawing shipbait between them the whole time? Are you only serious when the plot demands it? That's so stupid. Despite any arguments to be made about how this may affect perception of survivors and Toboso's actual thoughts on them, I do feel like the story shoots itself in the foot in that regard. Only one of those things wasn't necessary and key word it starts with an f and and ends in an anservice.
MAYBE I'M JUST BEING PETTY AND THIS ISN'T ACTUALLY A PROBLEM. i think anyone with functional literacy can tell when to take a story seriously, but I don't think it's in good writing (nor taste) to take serious story elements to toy with as needed. I never liked the racism in Black Butler either, and even if the colored characters are taken seriously sometimes, it still doesn't take from the fact they are caricatured to be ridiculed at times (EG Soma being. Well. Indian. I really don't know how to explain that one. And Lau constantly smoking opium w sexualized Chinese women). Do i make sense??? I hope i do... im tweaking
NOOO I GET YOU ON A SPIRITUAL LEVEL HERE!!
The portrayal of Ciel’s trauma (when taken serious) was so impactful to me! The moments where things are taken seriously are some of the best moments in the entire series, but there can be such a big disconnect.
You can’t have a serious depiction of SA and PTSD (that she clearly wanted the audience to take seriously) AND your fetishized shipbait. It’s contradictory and frankly in such bad taste. Like if your going to write the later, than at least stick to it. Because what is the message the audience is supposed to get here? What’s even the point of taking his trauma seriously?
I don’t know. There’s just something really vindictive about making your character traumatized by his SA, framing the event as an undeniably bad thing that happened to him, but also wanting to have your cake and eat it by playing into the whole shota-underage-yaoi. Not even like on a pro-anti ship debate sort of thing. Like it’s just genuinely so tone deaf that it’s just bad writing.
People will jump you for ever criticizing or even just not liking an author but still tuning in for their works, but honestly I don’t even care. I’ve never understood the riding people will do for authors of series they like.
And yeah. The racism is pretty bad when it does show. Ran-Mao especially left a bad taste in my mouth. People will say it’s common to portray Chinese people like that in anime, but honestly? Still sucks. There was a user on here that kind of delved into that stuff about black butler, I remember liking their stuff, but they took an indefinite hiatus. Worth checking out though, cause their Ran-Mao was so cool. I’ll see if I can find a link.
Which really is too bad, cause I think the premise and the characters have something interesting here! But it could’ve been so much better.
In the end Black Butler holds a very nostalgic place in my heart, I honestly only stick around because I’m hoping Ciel will get a happy ending somehow.
FOUND IT!!!
I’m a huge history fashion nerd, so I loved their stuff. If I remember well some of their posts were pretty interesting.
Another hot take... is it just me or does Yana Toboso's consistent... weirdness abt Ciel ruin a lot of the... oomph if you will, that chapter 135 had or the serious moments she does try to give him. Cw for sexual assault related to children. No fucking proship/antiship debates in my comments this is a serious discussion about framing and weight I don't want petty catfights or ship wars even if i will slightly discuss one in particular, but its for a reason. If you want to discuss this topic as well from any side I am happy to discuss but I don't want any fandom bs.
First off, I think Ciel's PTSD breakdowns and adjacent experiences are some of the most harrowing I've seen. Maybe it's because I haven't watched much media actually wwww but his breakdown in Emerald Witch for instance, wow that cuts hard. I don't think these scenes or any moment that discusses Ciel's abuse for that matter will ever lose any weight. He was a boy that was violented assaulted there is nothing that can take from the horror of that.
What i am specifically meaning to discussing is how audiences should perceive these moments. These are horrifying moments no doubt and any reader can look upon them and be. Well. Horrified or pitying Ciel etc etc normal human reactions. But Toboso constantly, mostly in the beginning, has done a lot. Of shipbait with Ciel and Sebastian, framing angles that are kind of sensual? If that makes sense? Like intimate between the two. For instance Ciel raising his feet out and placing one on Sebastian.
There's also jokes involving other underage characters such as Sullivan's advances on Ciel and Sebastian, or comments about Lizzy's chest in the recent chapters. Because of the way these are framed... it almost puts the audience in a sort of situation where we are seeing these characters through that lens even though we aren't actually or we don't. Sure the poses Ciel makes can be taken innocently, but knowing this series and knowing the history... it just feels like a mask of the earlier chapters. It's almost disconcerting you know??? Like I AM utterly abhorred by Ciel's abuse, and I abhor the angles he's put in sometimes, but I'm forced to witness it as I read. And at a certain point i have to wonder, does the author take it seriously?
I am of the opinion that chapter 135 wasn't just shock value, sexual assault and especially male survivors deserve to be represented as that is a thing that happens in real life. The scenes cutaway and don't linger on the actual abuse which is good. His abuse isn't brought up to just be sexualized, it's only hinted at, and you see the emotional and psychological scars it's left on him. That is incredibly important! Of course anyone that disagrees with my sentiment is free to leave a comment. I would love to hear other peoples opinions on this matter! I am not personally a survivor, so i don't have an expert opinion on this, only lesser experiences that causes me to find comfort in Ciel.
But yeah there is such a disconnect between this and those other scenes that feel. So weird. How can he be treated with such respect one moment and then turn into a sexual joke the other when he's most likely sex-repulsed? It feels incredibly disrespectful to his trauma. Even the massive Sebaciel fanbase behind it contributes to this disconnect, as fans have picked up the cues Toboso left behind in the first few chapters and then ran with it. Emerald Witch arc showed how terrified Ciel was with Sebastian during his breakdown. He was quite literally a manifestation of his most terrible trauma. Isn't this a bit of a division between the two tones the manga took? Fujobait sebaciel v mainline ciel who's traumatized by abuse at the hands of adults
In the end it makes me a bit jaded. You mean to tell me Ciel was scared of Sebastian at his most vulnerable of moments when you've been drawing shipbait between them the whole time? Are you only serious when the plot demands it? That's so stupid. Despite any arguments to be made about how this may affect perception of survivors and Toboso's actual thoughts on them, I do feel like the story shoots itself in the foot in that regard. Only one of those things wasn't necessary and key word it starts with an f and and ends in an anservice.
MAYBE I'M JUST BEING PETTY AND THIS ISN'T ACTUALLY A PROBLEM. i think anyone with functional literacy can tell when to take a story seriously, but I don't think it's in good writing (nor taste) to take serious story elements to toy with as needed. I never liked the racism in Black Butler either, and even if the colored characters are taken seriously sometimes, it still doesn't take from the fact they are caricatured to be ridiculed at times (EG Soma being. Well. Indian. I really don't know how to explain that one. And Lau constantly smoking opium w sexualized Chinese women). Do i make sense??? I hope i do... im tweaking
NOOO I GET YOU ON A SPIRITUAL LEVEL HERE!!
The portrayal of Ciel’s trauma (when taken serious) was so impactful to me! The moments where things are taken seriously are some of the best moments in the entire series, but there can be such a big disconnect.
You can’t have a serious depiction of SA and PTSD (that she clearly wanted the audience to take seriously) AND your fetishized shipbait. It’s contradictory and frankly in such bad taste. Like if your going to write the later, than at least stick to it. Because what is the message the audience is supposed to get here? What’s even the point of taking his trauma seriously?
I don’t know. There’s just something really vindictive about making your character traumatized by his SA, framing the event as an undeniably bad thing that happened to him, but also wanting to have your cake and eat it by playing into the whole shota-underage-yaoi. Not even like on a pro-anti ship debate sort of thing. Like it’s just genuinely so tone deaf that it’s just bad writing.
People will jump you for ever criticizing or even just not liking an author but still tuning in for their works, but honestly I don’t even care. I’ve never understood the riding people will do for authors of series they like.
And yeah. The racism is pretty bad when it does show. Ran-Mao especially left a bad taste in my mouth. People will say it’s common to portray Chinese people like that in anime, but honestly? Still sucks. There was a user on here that kind of delved into that stuff about black butler, I remember liking their stuff, but they took an indefinite hiatus. Worth checking out though, cause their Ran-Mao was so cool. I’ll see if I can find a link.
Which really is too bad, cause I think the premise and the characters have something interesting here! But it could’ve been so much better.
In the end Black Butler holds a very nostalgic place in my heart, I honestly only stick around because I’m hoping Ciel will get a happy ending somehow.
it makes me sad the way cis women are so terrified of and disgusted by their own body hair. and i'm not talking "i have to shave for sensory reasons" i mean i keep seeing videos of women using hair identifier spray on their faces and hands so they can shave the tiniest barely-there bits of peach fuzz that came free with their bodies. hair that serves a purpose and that purpose is cleanliness and protection. i mean when i was in elementary school girls who had barely hit puberty were talking about shaving their arms. i mean full-grown adult women who will have a breakdown if they see two days of stubble on their legs/crotch/ jaw/pits because god forbid you don't look like a perfect plastic barbie doll. god forbid your body that keeps you alive comes with hair that may not be soft and glossy and photogenic. some women are so afraid of having any hair apart from their head and eyebrows that they've uno reversed themselves into six different kinds of gender dysphoria that they can't recognize as such because they're convinced that this unnatural state of highly-groomed capital-informed beauty is how women have always been. you're so scared of looking "gross" or "ugly" or "mannish" that you can't even look at your body in the mirror and recognize what it is. sister you are an ape. why are you so determined to deny your nature.
"This is some gay shit" Good. Silly. Fair enough. Doesn't inherently invalidate other interpretations of the relationship. Honestly yeah, it is kind of gay regardless of their canonical relationship status
"There's literally no platonic explanation for th-" WRONG!! KILLING YOU WITH AMATANORMATIVITY KILLING LOBSTERS 🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞
By now, you all must have seen the news that Gaza had officially run out of food, as one of the main aid suppliers in Gaza, World Food Program, had announced that their stock has been completely depleted, leaving just a few days for community kitchens to function.
This comes after more than 50 days (and counting) of Israel's complete closure of the borders, preventing food and medicine, among other life essentials, from entering Gaza. There are children crying out of hunger with trucks loaded with over 100,000 tons of food mere minutes away from them, which Israel continues to prevent from entering besieged Gaza.
This also comes after Israel had deliberately destroyed swaths of farmlands in Gaza, specifically targeting them with bombs and chemical weapons that destroy the chance of growing crops. Israel also made sure bakeries are destroyed as well as water sources.
Diabolical is an understatement when it comes to the Zionist entity.
There are still things you can do. On top of raising awareness and protesting when possible, independent organisations like APN are working directly with farmers in Gaza to rehabilitate the agricultural sector and restore local food systems to combat famine, counter the blockade and build food sovereignty. You can donate to their Revive Gaza's Farmlands initiative here.
Additionally, keep in mind that this means whatever food supplies remain available in Gaza now cost astronomical amounts of money, so keep sharing and donating to individual fundraising campaigns. Gazafunds is a good source if you're not sure where to start. Remember that your donations and shares are often the only source of hope for these families.
Going to put all this in its own post too by popular request: here's how you make your own website with no understanding of HTML code at all, no software, no backend, absolutely nothing but a text file and image files! First get website server space of your own, like at NEOCITIES. The free version has enough room to host a whole fan page, your art, a simple comic series, whatever! The link I've provided goes to a silly comic that will tell you how to save the page as an html file and make it into a page for your own site. The bare minimum of all you need to do with it is JUST THIS:
Change the titles, text, and image url's to whatever you want them to be, upload your image files and the html file together to your free website (or the same subfolder in that website), and now you have a webpage with those pictures on it. That's it!!!!! .....But if you want to change some more super basic things about it, here's additional tips from the same terrible little guy:
have you heard of this spray that makes you see hair on your face that is otherwise invisible so you can shave it with a dull plastic razor that comes in a 20 pack which will be on this planet for hundreds of years??? buy. have you heard of this single use sheet masks that does nothing different than a normal mask and you have to wear it overnight (it will come off) and on flights (you look crazy)??? buy. have you heard of this camera that makes you see your greasy scalp (normal) and dead skin (also normal) up close so you can purchase a treatment for hundreds of dollars and/or exfoliating scrub containing particles that are going down your drain and straight into the sea???? buy. have you heard of this special plastic gadget that
Some1 explain this please I'm scrolling thru the notes but haven't found something yet
how can i help you bud
how did kishimoto change the core values of the narrative. i felt that something was different about the manga but I can't articulate it
up until the chunin exams the message is anti-military industrial complex - the series literally opens with the revelation that the military entity of konoha has implanted a weapon into a child and ostracized him for it then continues on to the land of waves arc to show the destabilization of a small nation for the sake of capital by corporate interests spearheaded by two more trained child soldiers (zabuza now being an adult and being unable to live any other way that so even when he adopts a kid who he cares for, he is unable to do anything but bring them into a life of killing). kakashi even has sakura explain how conflict between large military nations is necessary for economic prosperity in the shinobi village system and how it leads to strife and exploitation in bystander countries like the land of waves, then when the kids question his faith in such an unjust system he follows it up with the whole thing (which he started with the bell test) about how blindly following orders and the status quo is actually bad. blah blah blah
and then! suddenly kishimoto goes pro-state, dude's on the LDP party line, we jump to the arrival of itachi + jiraiya at the chuunin exams and the reveal of the uchiha massacre and how suddenly naruto's correct path is Not being anti-konoha, in fact, because going against konoha is Evil and the Dark Path, and jiraiya's the big noble hero for being a spy and soldier for konoha, yippee, will of fire! then you get shit like the waterfall of truth (naruto is aware that the system has been unjustly cruel to him but winning konoha's approval is depicted as logical and taking moral and narrative precedence), the creation of the akatsuki as an anti-imperialist movement initially just looking to protect and feed civilians in a wartorn region and eventually escalating to dismantle the system itself but when push comes to shove kishimoto makes it so talk no jutsu works on pein, the entire framing of sasuke being a bad person for deserting and itachi being a hero for massacring a marginalized and resistant ethnic group, kishimoto's interview where he says the narrative is based on his grandparents saying ww2 was based on "lingering grudges", the fact that kishimoto put the rising sun flag behind the sage of six paths when we get dojutsu origin backstory.... then after all the setup about obito and madara creating the crux of the struggle in shippuden as a concerted effort to destroy the shinobi system then suddenly kishimoto introduces kaguya as the ultimate seed of narrative conflict because haha hey it turns out that the massacred ethnic group is inherently genetically eeeevil haha isn't that a normal thing to write with no real world parallels
anyway most of this is introduced right after the 2005 anti japan protests across east asia, which as we know sparked an enormous reactionary right wing movement in japan. shippuden starts right in the midst of those actually fjskjfkd
To add to this, one of the major themes of Naruto, initially, was that of hard work vs inherent talent, and of chosen path vs imposed genetic fate. Naruto --poor, stupid, ward of the state, was representative of the former two, respectively; Sasuke --rich, genius, heir to a famous and powerful family, was representative of the latter two, respectively. (Incidentally, Sasuke, pardon my French, got his shit rocked by Rock Lee, a character who is explicitly stated to have no innate talents in the context of this world, upon which, in an oft forgotten, but pivotal scene, Naruto remarks something like: "look at his hands" emphasizing how torn and bandaged they are from untold hours of individual training up until this point)
This resonated with a lot of fans, minority groups, and even other artists, as can be seen by the use of very similar character types to create the same juxtaposition in other works, such as Black Star, who is a very naruto-like character in Soul Eater, or Hinata, who is a naruto-like character in Haikyuu.
We watch Naruto, through hard work, dedication, and the continued support of a few good people who love him, become an instrumental figure of inspiration in the lives of the people he interacts with. Through his refusal to give up in the face of hardship, much of which has been forced upon him (aside from the cruelty of being ostracized, the demon fox interferes with his chakra control, which is why he did so poorly in school), he masters arts that most people in this world could only dream of. It is implied that he accomplishes these things because his personality and force of will is similar to that of the people who were successful before him, and that, with the support he consistently wins from others, he can succeed where they failed.
... And then Kishimoto throws all of that in the garbage by not only explicitly stating, over and over, that the reason for Naruto's abilities is a direct result of his genetics (explicitly making him the biological son of the former ninja president, and another extremely powerful person), he actually undid everything by explicitly making Naruto and Sasuke the fucking, reincarnations of the founding deities of the ninja world.
(he also reduced Rock Lee to a minor side character and gave all the plot points that should have been his to his teacher, even though it had been heavily implied that the jonin of the former generation had more or less reached the peak of their abilities and that it wasn't enough to combat the stronger enemies they face at the non-filler end of the first series and Shippuden fiaAND a third major theme in the original series was the concept of handing down ideals from the older to younger generations with the hope that they would succeed where the former had failed.
AlsoresurectionjutsuwentfrombeinganinterestingshowcaseinhowunethicalOrochimaruhadbecomeasaresultofthemilitaryindustrialcomplexfailingasittaughthimtoseizepowerattheexpenseofallelsetobeingahackneyedplotdevicetomakedeathmeaninglesssinceallthecharacterswhodiedwithunfinishedbusinessandsomanywordsunspokenjustcamebackandwereabletosayallthosewordsandfinishthatbusinessitSSUCHSLOPPYWRITING. but that's a whole other can of worms.)
And yeah, most of those changes happened after 2005. Like, gee, I wonder what could have influenced the introduction of a "blood and genetics are super important, actually" theme during this time.
I think i saw a post a loong time ago (unrelated to Naruto, actually I think it was discussing ATLA/LOK) talking about how characters who want to change "the system" (whatever system that may be, in the real world or whatever fantasy world such character exists in) are often portrayed as the villains. These characters might have good points, but these characters also have to be some flavour of crazy or immoral so that the protagonist can be the reasonable one and not really contend with a different ideology.
Idk if I'm making any sense here and I should probably make this thought vomit more coherent, but I think about that a lot...
there’s nothing I love more then when people take creative liberties with the story and make it their own.
yuu’s that have conflicts with the characters? that just don’t get along with certain ones?
yuu’s that challenge the narrative?
yuu’s that stray from the OG stories format?
yuu’s that already have their own reasons for being in twst?
stunning. 10/10. love it.
I hate the lack of portrayal of female body hair in art, especially in public region. If it's there it's usually trimmed and/or doesn't extend past the "aesthetic" socially acceptable zone... I know I can 'be the change you want to see' and all that but it's lonely out there :(
azula better than me because if I found out that my mother who I had an unhealthy relationship with went off and had a toddler daughter who called my brother by the nickname I made for him, and everyone and their grandmothers liked her more than me I would kill myself fr