Anyway I reorganized my room and cleared up some space yesterday! (Don’t mind the pile of dolls on my vanity lol they’re the ones I’m washing/styling next 😭)
I’m trying to think positive after that absurdly horrendous drop lmao
No art today, but I got these two girlies last week as birthday gifts for myself 💜✨
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(ngl Victoria was a impulse purchase but hey, the store I got her at is completely ass, sketch as hell, and they didn't have any of the stuff I needed so I bought her.)
The frustrating part about conversations like "should people with self-harm scars warn others before showing off their body?" and conversations like it is how nobody would tell me that my scars are obscene or should be hidden despite, literally, being self-harm scars. They just do not know because people literally do not know what self-harm scars are and what self-harm is.
Our bodies are not vulgar or gross. We deserve to live our lives, and if our scars make you uncomfortable, we can be compassionate about that, but that doesn't mean that our bodies are Bad and should be Locked Away. Treat us like we belong, because we do.
I just wanted to let you know I hope to be done with chapter 4 tomorrow night, meaning I should be able to upload it on Wednesday. I'm really looking forward to it, because I'm even more excited to finally tackle chapter 5!
That one promises to be quite lengthy and I have a lot of ideas for it I hope you'll love as much as I do, so let's see how it goes :) Hope you'll be on the look-out for what's to come!
hii! honeslty just curious, I read/watched kuroshitsuji AGES ago and I don't think I've finished the manga anyway, does grell go by she/her?? I vageuly remember ppl headcanonning them as enby though iirc in canon he's a guy?
Your tags peaked my curiosity, I haven't seen any Kuro content in a hot minute, but I remember it being the absolute must watch in my peak anime watching years lol And I absolutely loved the manga's artstyle
in canon grell is a trans woman, yana toboso has said something like "grell is a man with a woman's heart" ages ago and sometimes around 2014/16 had tweeted something about wanting to be more careful with her representation of people like grell in the future, don't quote me on that thought because i only read that tweet once and only remember reading a shitty screenshot of a translation of that interview where she allegedly said that.
i can however show you this:
it's from a bonus chapter (after chapter 108) about the popularity polls (it's a very convoluted non canon chapter) but it's one of the most blatant example of her being trans.
there's also the way she constantly refers to herself as a "young maiden" ect. idk how it goes exactly in the og but in french they translated it so grell always refers to herself with feminine terms while everyone else misgender her including the narrator. she very consistently reaffirm herself as a woman through every single ones of her appearances, like it's a thing she very much does, every single time she's on screen.
i haven't watched the anime in forever (cause it's kind of a disgrace and insult to the manga lol) but if i remember properly (which i mostly likely don't) they did omit/lowkey censor some of grell explicitly going "i wish i had been born a woman/could have been able to carry children" when she first properly introduce herself as a shinigami & the other half of jack the killer. (the anime also really did lean a lot more into the pervert queer caricature whereas in the manga she's given a bit more dignity, especially the further the story goes. though that might be my own impression and maybe it didn't change that much i just love her a whole lot).
also because i have to, please forget the anime (the first two seasons that is) and read the manga first and foremost because oh boy, what a disaster the anime is (nostlagia and atmosphere wise it's entertaining, i really love the op & ed, but it just, i just cant man it doesn't even compare to the manga at all). only watch book of circus -> book of murder -> campania movie -> the new private school arc that's coming soon (idk what they called it) after reading the manga.
no more collector dolls no more dolls over $25 no more mermaid dress no more polypropylene hair no more COLLECTOR DOLL THAT IS THE SAME QUALITY AS REGULAR DOLL OR HAS LESS QUALITY THAN REGULAR DOLL AND IS $50+ NO MORE STRAIGHT HAIR OR SLIGHTLY WAVED HAIR NO MORE UGLY BOYS NO MORE PINK AND PEACH LIPS ONLY NO MORE MOTHERFUCKING SHOES THAT CANNOT GET ON AND OFF THE FEET