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The Simpsons AU where Homer is in pain

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I feel like CSM 168 is gonna be even more polarizing than 167 if what I think is gonna happen will happen. I really feel like this is gonna be the inciting incident to start pushing Denji and Asa together, and I'm not necessarily saying thats right or good (the noncon makes this whole thing real messy), but both are broken and traumatized (Denji especially), both are attracted to the other, and neither of THEM are at fault. I don't think Denji will care that much about what happened, and like, I've read people say Asa is sex-repulsed, but I don't think that's true. I think she's A) the kind of virgin who wont admit they actually are interested in sex and/or B) affected by the Japanese cultural thing about women being 'disinterested' in sex in that weird traditionalist sort of way. I think War is infected by Asa's inner feelings but not her morality, and I suspect that this will be the Asadenji push.

And I think that will further split the fanbase up, because alot of people are "believing in Fujimoto" to "handle this well" and I'm not precisely sure what they're expecting to happen. I really don't think this will be the big thing that alot of the people who are "believing in Fujimoto" seem to be hoping for? Not that I'm in anyone's head, it could just be me reading too deep into people's posts, but if I'm right, 168 will fracture the fanbase more.

#csm 167 #csm part 2 #csm part 2 spoilers #sa related #sa mention #chainsaw man spoilers #chainsaw man 167 #chainsaw man part 2 #chainsaw man part 2 spoilers

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I was looking for a steam trash game that realseased recently and joke about how a piece of garbage had higher priority but I may have found the greatest videogame know to humankind

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42,000 matches .

#da erf

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Samus commission that I streamed last night!

As someone mentioned in the chat, I’m sick of barbie Samus. 

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Yo, so apparently I found out one of my college teachers actually did some art for Nintendo in the 90s

nice

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most of the talk on this website about Game Changer is how Sam Reich psychologically tortures his contestants, but I want to make it clear to the uninitiated that he's actually extremely ethical about it

He sends out a company wide email and asks them to choose episodes based on a chili pepper rating system

meaning he doesn't put 🌶️🌶️ people into 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ episodes

they're also big on consent ie cast and crew have to be okay with it before they'll do nudity or something like that in an episode

it's like the bdsm of psychological torture. safe, sane, and consensual.

the contestants know what they're getting into, and they're full down

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japanese game dev in the 90s: hey dude can you make some music for our game about anime girls getting fucked sloppy style

guy who's about to push the PC-98 sound card to its absolute limit and create the most heartachingly beautiful music you've ever heard: Yeah okay

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I had to mute all chainsawman related words on twitter today bc jfc how are you people so ILLITERATE.An entire week of joking about cutting of denji's dick and discussing how he is hypersexual only to start clutching your pearls at this? Yes what Yoru did was wrong but that's the point! What she is doing is no different then Makima!She wants to get Chainsaw Man out of denji and fight him even if it's at the expense of hurting Denji!

Some of y'all will screech about how it's only ok to portray dark or touchy subject if it's done "appropriately" and then still get butthurt when the author does as you want bc you are bunch of puritan shitheads who need everything to be spoonfed to them

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Fuckin thank you. I feel like I'm going psychotic reading takes like "i will personally kill fujimoto for this one" or "damn, Denji lucky af." Art can be messy and sexual and uncomfortable. Being able to accept that doesn't make you evil, but it also doesn't mean you need to then engage with it as though what happened was GOOD. The scene is good. The act is bad. Fuckin move forward or turn back.

I, uh, don’t know how to actually preface this. It’s really just a mini rant/pseudo-analysis of chapter 167. Which was pretty crazy. But, I loved this chapter, and yes I’m typing this with two hands.

But first let me try and do some housekeeping.

It’s perfectly fine to have an emotional, even visceral reaction to 167. That’s the point

If you feel grossed out, betrayed, unnerved, dumbstruck, or any form of bamboozled by today’s chapter then good! That means the emotional weight of the scene is working, and that you are a proper, feeling human. The

The whole point of fiction is to explore themes that would be difficult, even dangerous to experience from a place of safety. To me that’s, like the entire reason I ever wanted to become a writer, one of the most unsung broke boy jobs in the history of the world. My desire for Denji to get better in a world that is dead set on making him fail is the entire reason I have an emotional investment in the first place. Stories are inherently about conflict and the struggle with resolving conflict, that should make you uncomfortable.

Say what you want about Chainsaw Man. I can take it, I’m a big boy. But one thing that it has always had since Chapter one is a well-defined through line about the complexity of our innate desire to find some type of love fighting against the pain-wrought pathway that it leads us down. In a good story, every chapter should have some way of showing the highs and lows of that theme, and I’m pretty confident when I say that 167 perfectly shows us that.

It’s bad. Don’t let people who brag about their trauma tolerance tell you otherwise. You are well within your right to feel. But I think it would behoove people to 1. Realize that this is fiction, and its effects, though evocatory, are ultimately abstract, and 2. Realize that exploring dark themes allows people, especially a 16-25 (Or whatever the target audience for CSM is) to grapple with and think on human concepts as all encompassing as love.

From a writing standpoint, one chapter has escalated the tension of the entire story more than anything that has happened in Part 2 so far. It’s admittedly a bit early to call it peak. But looking at it as a simple story beat, that’s a fantastic chapter as far as the medium goes.

Listen, the whole point of stories since, like, Mesopotamian times was the tension between wanting a character to achieve happiness vs the hardships and trauma that life happens in life. They’re supposed to put you in a sensitive state emulative of a tense environment. I’d argue that the prevalence of escapist fiction and fandom has changed how we emotionally digest fiction. But that’s a whole nother essay.

The events of 167 aren’t some horny non-sequitur. Everything that happened is entirely a logical, if graven, extension of how we know characters.

Denji is at the lowest point we have ever seen him at. He was literally dismembered and put back together less than 10 chapters ago. The last chapter literally had him groveling on his knees at a cauldron’s brew of his own weakness, immaturity, stupidity, and horniness. I think we can all understand why he would not be in a good mental state to just lose himself in the moment. You can’t even blame Denji in this situation. He was in an entirely vulnerable state that was exploited entirely by

Yoru. Who is the literal embodiment of war. If you think that someone who represents the human fear of war is going to play fair. Turn on the news for five minutes. Yoru is a character we are not supposed to like. She’s fun, because she’s a work of fiction, but she’s arguably less trustworthy than Fami. She’s a violent, exploitative being who possesses a dead teenager. There is no “too far” for her if it’s the fastest way on the road to conquest. Reminder that before she caught feelings, her plan was literally just to castrate Denji because she thought that would further her goals. The fact that it turned into kissing was actually sparing a worse fate. IMO that savior was all in the actions of Asa.

Asa. I genuinely believe that, subconsciously, Asa wanted to kiss Chainsaw Man. Not like how it happened. Never like how it happened, but her desire for Denji/Chainsaw Man's affection has always been evident. She gets irreparably upset when she’s stood up, she makes cringe poetry for Chainsaw Man, and her entire goal as of now is in some misguided desire to make him happy. I also don’t think Asa is actually demisexual, or averse to sex. She is afraid of intimacy, which stops her from ever acting on her urges. Notice that both times Yoru has kissed Denji, it was after the idea of sex and intimacy was explicitly brought to the conversation. To me that screams that Yoru is spurred on by her host’s innate desires. Hell, it’s been shown that in the same way that Yoru has made Asa more proactive of a human being, Asa has made her feel emotions. I don’t think it's a coincidence that Yoru is blushing while kissing Denji. None of that was part of her plan. That’s Asa’s emotional influence getting the better of her in what I predict to be a fantastic role reversal of their initial contract.

This is thematically in line with how Chainsaw Man presents love and sets up deeper themes.



Remember way back in Part One when Denji was just an initial horndog and everybody kinda hated him? I hated Denji back then! When I first heard of Chainsaw Man I genuinely thought it was going to be a mommy-kink fuelled power fantasy. But I was wrong. Wonderfully wrong. Fujimoto used the allure of that idea in Makima to present a story about how dangerous and manipulative the very idea of grooming is, and how damaging that can be to a person. The same way Denji’s desire to get the approval of Makima was poisonous to him is mirrored in his desire for vapid, instantly gratifying sex is being portrayed here. I genuinely think this chapter is going to age like fine wine, and I am absolutely willing to take egg on my face if I’m wrong.

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you can really tell which csm fans havent read fire punch

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I mean we know War is made more human by inhabiting Asa and is affected by her mental. We know that Asa has a thing for Denji whether she wants to admit it or not. I'm pretty sure this is gonna be Asa and Denji breaking down from the stress of CSM part 2 and probably just finding comfort together. She knows its not Denji's fault shes got a handful of swimmers, and while Denji isn't consenting I'd be shocked if the next chapter was him being especially torn up about it. I think it's just gonna be a fucked up way for two broken people to find each other and ultimately build themselves back up. Probably be mad at War, but not in a way that meaningfully affects the plot.

My thoughts anyway.

i'm seeing a lot of discourse about the most recent csm chapter, and while i haven't read enough of the "anti-chapter-167" opinions, i think it's important to also consider asa in this moment. so here are some of my not-fully-developed thoughts.

the series has always focused a lot on sexuality and consent. i can't remember everything, so i'm willing to be corrected, but generally speaking a lot of the questionable behaviors have come from women coming onto denji. the only "positive" sexual encounter i can remember is quanxi and her girlfriends, who seemed pretty enthusiastic about her (there could be a power dynamic there tho, particularly with cosmo since she can't form actual sentences and communicate. for another time tho).

what's interesting here is that at the end of the chapter, we don't see the war devil's scar that shows up when controlling asa's body. her face is scarless and visibly shocked. while it is no question that denji is a victim (no matter what he has to say about it later, as i can imagine him twisting it in his mind into something positive), i think it's important to consider that asa is as well. denji has been assaulted/violated by women frequently, and this is the first time (at least that i can recall) that a woman also became a "victim" (albeit, at the hands of another "woman" (war devil)).

anyways. just thought i'd throw that thought into the mix. because while denji definitely didn't consent, neither did asa. i can imagine the war devil doing this to create more tension between asa and denji, possibly making asa and denji more keen on fighting each other.

it was an uncomfortable chapter for sure. but i trust fujimoto.

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TIL Alex Hall, the game master for Ben Drowned, is an AI blockchain bro.

Can't have nothing.

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zero suit

thanks to aprils' patrons for voting on this samus pinup!

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what terminally online looks like will depend on your primary platform. twitter brain worms look very different from tiktok brain worms and tumblr brain worms are a whole other species

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