xenopyxis

non-practicing nerd, aspiring auteur, silliest billy any pronouns

[jojos-bizarre-imagines]

Can you make a Divorce Moodboard? Your choice on who as long as it's fucking epic, bro. I love divorce, I wish every marriage would end.

great timing my sister just got married yesterday

[xenopyxis]

i’m a migrating bird

[collidewithgalaxies]

hisoka and illumi’s engagement in the manga- an explanation!

so we’ve all seen the “it’s a mistranslation” explanation for hisoka and illumi’s engagement in chapter 377. but it’s not actually a mistranslation, and here’s why.

here’s the japanese scan of the panel:

and here’s the english translation:

the text we’re going to be focusing on is this one:

the kanji for that says 婚前契約 (which means prenuptial agreement), and the katakana* next to the kanji says エンゲージメントリング (which literally says “engagement ring”)

*the katakana is there for pronunciation help! so it would have the meaning of prenup, and be pronounced as engagement ring.

here’s what google translate says about the prenup kanji:

and here’s what GT says about the engagement ring katakana:

so, what exactly is a prenuptial agreement?

a prenuptial agreement (or prenup for short) is a legal document that is typically used for married couples to divide up their assets in the case of their marriage failing, or in this case, one of them dying. (sources: here and here)

the addition of the “engagement ring” katakana next to the kanji adds legitimacy this.

going off of togashi’s writing:

togashi wouldn’t put something in there that he doesn’t mean, and the prenup kanji along with the engagement ring pronunciation shows that the idea of their marriage was intentional. there’s also probably a reason that togashi has illumi stating the fact- he’s very blunt, and wouldn’t play around with words just for the fun of it, unlike hisoka.

togashi also has stated that he wanted to write gay manga- he’s said that in a couple interviews that i believe are on youtube (once i find them, i’ll link them in this post!!). there is a lot of gay subtext in the hxh series (ex. killua handing gon the rainbow diamond for proposals), so it’s quite believable that togashi meant for hisoka and illumi to be married.

hisoka and illumi have pretty messed up ideas about love, affection, and friendship. they’re most likely not going to have a wedding, complete with vows and an audience, but they’re still bound by marriage, even if it’s less romance-based and more murder-based.

anyway, that’s my two cents on the whole hisoka/illumi marriage situation. sorry if it’s hard to read or anything, i wrote this at around 2am and did not edit it.

tl;dr it’s not a mistranslation bc the official japanese scans show the kanji for prenuptial agreement, and put the katakana for engagement ring right next to it. also bc togashi’s writing has lotsa gay subtext.

@xiu21chen99 here you go!!! i hope it’s ok!!

[polarsirens]

lou wilson my beloved

[blazeball]

who cares about breaking bad or steven universe here's some garages songs listen to these

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[conceiteddemon]

Ok SO I’ve seen theories that next week’s episode might MIGHT establish neverafter as a time loop campaign (please Brennan I’m begging you) and I’ve also seen theories that maybe because there is a shot of Ylfa that hasn’t happened yet in the trailer that due to her charisma check being the only success SHE’S gonna be the only original PC to return/revive/survive. combining those ideas with the theory that it IS a time loop and everyone who died in that combat WILL come back, but Ylfa is the only one of them that is actually going to REMEMBER what happened in the last three episodes. The fate of whatever the fuck is going on is now dependent solely on a twelve year old. Ylfa is now the Authority Figure

[antlerchrist]

that was something, wasn't it?

[skeletonthecreator]

so this is probably a bad time to call prince gerard my babygirl huh. 

[xenopyxis]

joining the time loop theory gang. rosemund is the key to everything, pinocchio might lead them all to the door, mother timothy goose is going to record all of their stories in the book and pib is the ending of it all but yilfa is the bravest little girl in the world and even if it’s going to be even harder to make friends now after coming back in time she’s such a hero and a tank and she loves them all very much despite her perceived doom.

gerard is

[canonicallyanxious]

(d20 neverafter ep 3 spoilers)

Feeling rather heartbroken over Ylfa saying multiple times almost offhandedly something along the lines of "I always knew this was how this story was going to end"... This 12 year old girl fully prepared and expecting to die, to be dragged by the wolf into hell, something like meta awareness of the tragedy of her own narrative compounded by an almost casual disregard for her own self worth: she's doomed, so she's not worth saving. She's doomed, so no one should try to save her. She's doomed, so no one will save her in the end, and she knows it, and she expects it. Phew. Phew.

[c-is-for-circinate]

RE: EXU Calamity episode 2...

There are...thoughts, feelings, vague half-formed ideas I'm having, about the story that's growing up around Zerxus and Evandran and Asmodeus, and they're not so much about the story itself as they are about the fact that it's the very start of Pride month again and I'm thinking about history, queer history, gay history, about Luis Carazo's adorable instagram takeover singing love songs with his partner, about context and the resonance of stories.

There's not a cohesive whole yet, exactly, just...there are pieces of the way this story is being put together that feel like they echo very specific things, real-world things rather than Exandrian things.

(A man says, my husband was dying of a disease that nobody could identify, I lifted his body and it was so light, there was so little of him left, nobody could stop it and nobody even tried, in this city of wonders I KNOW somebody could have tried. And it's the second day of pride month, and magic or no magic, there's a twist and a phrasing to that story that hits a very, very specific place.)

(The devil has a beautiful face, the Lord of Lies who looks like a good and angry man's dead husband. And the devil says, the ones who call themselves Bright and Good hated me for what was only my nature, and the good and honorable and righteous and angry man hates gods and wizards both, hates pride and power that calls itself Good and scorns compassion. And the devil looks like the good man's husband, who the bright and powerful let die, and the devil is beautiful.)

(Art doesn't exist without context. This little game of dungeons and dragons doesn't exist without John Milton as Lucifer, writing about how much better it is to reign upon the throne of hell than serve at the foot of heaven. Art is a conversation, a network of thoughts and ideas, relations and inspiration twisted up together to make something new.)

It's morality and compassion and a little bit passion, a little bit sex and romance rooted among the bitterness and resentment and grief. It's an old, old question of agnostics and heretics alike: if the gods are cruel and the monarchs corrupt, and everything claimed to be good is evil, then what does it mean to embrace everything claimed to be evil as good? And the answer is never that simple, and it's not going to be that simple here.

I don't know. I don't know. It's 2:00 in the morning, I'm googling pieces of Paradise Lost, I'm a little bit loopy, I have to be up in six hours.

Just. I think. I think that sympathy-for-the-devil is not a new story, not in this or any other incarnation. But I think that telling it in this way, with this face...there's something very, very gay, something queer as in fuck you, in the fabric of the story. Something extra that doesn't happen with a straight actor playing the paladin, with a dead wife instead of a dead husband. Some sort of context.

[theoppositeofadults]

“ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death.”

[scribblebunnys]

“Write some fan fiction to resolve this story because I ain’t fuckin’ doin’ it.” -Mark Twain

[rikmach]

I like how these are two different moods. “Look, I wrote everything I wanted to on this subject, and it didn’t lead to any satisfactory conclusion, so you’re just going to have to deal.” Vs “I wrote myself into a corner so I’m going to stop here. If you want to know what happens next, figure it out yourself.”

[allegorymetaphory]

I like how both of these authors decided that yes indeedy that story without the ending was still going to be published.

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

And presumably two different publishers didn’t give a single shit

[tallahasseemp3]

i don’t think humans are inherently bad i just don’t. once i posted about how i can’t ever get poached eggs right and someone took time out of their day to send me tips on how to make them. they used their finite time on this planet to teach me how to poach an egg with no motivation other than helping a stranger have a better breakfast and if that isn’t proof humanity is worth saving i don’t know what is

[physticuffs]

was crying to a friend at a bar about leaving my academic program and this random woman came up to me and was like, “is it about a boy? tell me where he is. i’ll beat his ass.” and i was like omg no you’re so kind but it’s much weirder than that, i recently quit academia and i’m feeling extremely conflicted about it. she was nice but i fully expected her to leave because that’s a very niche thing and like hey, she was hanging out with her friends.

she sat down and spent the next several minutes telling me how it was all gonna work out and she knows my life is gonna be better now. just wait five years and i’ll see she’s right.

and i felt better about my specific problem, but i also felt better about a world where someone will see a stranger crying at a bar and her deepest instinct is to reach out and help.

[himbos-hotline]

The last time I was in the hospital to stay in. There was a lady in my ward who, when she overheard me talking to the doctor about Judaism, sat and woke up whenever I did and told me stories about her family and how they celebrated different Jewish holidays. She held my hand when I had to have different IVs.

When I saw spring awakening for the first time, the lady who sat on my row paid 58 pound on a cab to get me home because she saw me have a panic attack and didn't want me hurt.

Humanity exists to breed humanity. The world is good sometimes.

[thekadster]

Last semester, I had a science teacher who played music before class. I asked her what the name of the song was, and along with giving me the title, she also gave me the whole playlist where the song was from. It also had other songs she played before.

She's not teaching in our school anymore, but when she emailed us our grades, she thanked me for being interested in her music taste and offered to give me recommendations if I needed it. She didn't have to go or do that far, she didn't even have to give me the playlist.

It feels nice; the playlist she sent me feels like I have a little piece of her.

[sage-nebula]

The night before I left my study abroad in London, I ended up in the ER with a UTI. That was bad enough, but the real issue I was struggling with was that I was stressed to the max about how I was going to get to the airport the next morning, because the tube maps were still confusing to someone as directionally challenged as I am, and heaving suitcases up and down the stairs in the tube stations was difficult. This is relevant because, in the 6 or so hours that I spent in the waiting room for my test results, I befriended an elderly couple that was also there, and it turns out that their son was a cab driver. They promised me that he would be waiting outside my flat the next morning to take me to the airport. And you know what? He was. I got to the airport with time to spare and he helped me with my luggage and everything.

Another time, back in my home city, I was in danger of not being able to continue my schooling if my financial aid didn’t go through. Problem was, my university’s financial aid office is cruel and uncaring, and refused to return any of my calls or emails. I finally went to the office in person to ask them if my request for continued financial aid had been accepted, and they said, “Eh, we don’t know, we’ll get back to you.” Completely defeated, I found an out of the way hallway to cry in. 

Only, it wasn’t as out of the way as I thought. Another student saw me crying, and came over to ask what was wrong. I explained the situation to her, and her face hardened. “Come with me,” she said, and she marched me back into the financial aid office and demanded the clerk actually go look at my file to see if my request had been submitted. Once they went and retrieved my file, she patted me on the shoulder, said, “Good luck,” and left. I never saw her again after that, though I wish I could have bought her a coffee at least. She went out of her way to help me and I never even learned her name. (My request had been accepted, btw. Weeks prior. They just didn’t feel like telling me.)

There really is goodness and kindness in the world, but it doesn’t stop with us in these moments. We always have to remember to pay it forward, however we can. If you ever have an opportunity where you can be kind, or you can turn the other way, be kind. Always choose to be kind.

[lordtraco]

Kindness is even in the little gestures! So often strangers will see someone taking a photo or selfie of friends and offer to take it for them. People will hold open a door out of courtesy, wish you well when you sneeze, leave room for you while driving, and cut in line at a store.

People create things for free, just to make others happy. People build upon patterns, make improvements, offer solutions, write up tutorials, everything! The human urge to create and to help is really beautiful to me.

[adreadfulidea-deactivated202402]

I think a surprising amount of writers don’t realize that tragedies are supposed to be cathartic. They’re intended to result in a purging of emotion, a luxurious cry; the sorrow caused by a great tragedy is akin to fear caused by a good horror movie – it’s a “safe” sorrow, one that is actually satisfying to the audience. It can still be beautiful! It’s isn’t supposed to just be salting the earth so nothing can grow.

But that’s how you get grimdark: writers who don’t realize that they’re supposed to be doing something with the audience instead of to the audience.

[jadewhisper]

#i once heard a lecture where someone said that the great appeal of tragedy is to see terrible things happen to people you’re supposed to#empathize with and see yourself in#and that the catharsis comes from seeing someone’s life go horribly wrong and still have the author hold your hand and tell you#‘this story mattered. even though it had a sad ending it still mattered. even if you don’t succeed your attempts matter’#grimdark tells you that the world sucks and nothing you do matters#well-written tragedy tells you that sometimes the world sucks but everything you do matters so so much#your story is still worth telling even if you never achieve that happy ending#or if you lose it along the way#people have inherent value and their stories deserve to be told no matter if they turn out okay or not#and in a reality that has no concept of ‘fair’ that shit just hits good man!!! feels good!!!!! it’s COMFORTING

[xenopyxis]

Brennan Lee Mulligan not having a tumblr account is a true sign that things are not right in this world.

[sparklemaia]

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[leonordchoem]

im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends

[aerialsquid]

I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.

[findingfeather]

….yeah me too.

[lireavue]

Me three.

[star-anise]

Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”

[brawltogethernow]

“hey he’s back did you study this”

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Getting a message from a prophet telling you to do things and instead texting your friends “wtf is this?” is very, very Jewish.