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widowshill · 6 months

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i might have already posted this one but little moments that make me go crazy go stupid

#136.#➤ roger collins & victoria winters. ┊ pain sometimes precedes pleasure，miss winters.#THE WAY SHE SAYS “HOW? 🥺😳”#and then almost immediately after this: oh you dont have to worry about losing your job here we'll find something #you know what im tagging it #➤ arc: mrs. collins. ┊ collinwood will always mean home to me.#lawful good stepmother.

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jesamnelovelace · 11 months

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Bruce’s mental state is looking great

#tuesday spoilers #batman 136 #bruce wayne #dick grayson #jason todd #damian wayne #cassandra cain #tim drake #stephanie brown #duke thomas #barbara gordon

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add1rall · 10 months

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“Is this what it’s like to be normal…?”

#chainsaw man #csm #csm denji #csm makima #csm 136 #denji #makima #yoshida #csm spoilers #1k

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ddenji · 10 months

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denjis character arc rn is sooo good and fujimoto is so good at turning things like character goals on their head. denji’s gotten (almost) everything he ever wanted and it sucks. he’s gone from dreaming of a normal life in part 1 to feeling so empty when a normal life is all he has in part 2. it seems like theres an element of him feeling like he’s betraying himself and his goals and everything he enjoys in his normal life if he admits he wants more, but the normal life in his mind was the idealized daydream of a neglected child and the real thing is not fulfilling for him. he never was normal & normal doesn’t cut it for him, and im looking forward to seeing how he comes to terms with all of this.

#csm #chainsaw man #chainsaw man manga spoilers #csm part 2 #csm 136 #csm meta #spence.speaks

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pearlescentmoon-enjoyers · 1 day

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Omg double life pearl but happy!

#daily traffic doodle #day 136 #pearlescentmoon #pearlescentmoon fanart #soykapost

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hayakaws · 10 months

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#yeah everything's fine .#chainsaw man #csm #denji #csm 136

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levelzeo · 10 months

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My poor boy is just so confused about everything all the time. Things just keep happening to him.

#all of these panels are from the same chapter btw #denji #chainsaw man #csm #chainsaw man chapter 136 #csm chapter 136 #csm spoilers

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oifaaa · 11 months

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This one page from batman #136 might have actually healed my dead cold heart

#dc #batman #batman 136 #wednesday spoilers #tuesday spoilers #batman spoilers #dc spoilers #belen ortegas art style is actually so pretty throughout this whole issue as well #also tim cant cook says who #look at duke and damian in the batground #babies

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itseghost · 2 months

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i have been steadily catching up with the mighty nein campaign the past few weeks after i fell off right around travelercon arc a few years ago.... i am ENTRANCED AGAIN and i have been doodling them while i put off thesis film work..

#jester lavorre #caduceus clay #lucien tavelle #mollymauk tealeaf #critical role #critical role fanart #critrole #the mighty nein #cr m9 #cr campaign 2 #m9 #technically this is just lucien. because i didnt wanna paint the rest of his tattoos i fear. but im tagging molly anyways dont kill me #but he has the horn jewelry? i didnt think this through #and no i have no idea where his eye tattoos actually are #im on episode 136 right now. utterly captivated by whatever essek and caleb have going on #deeply stressed about the incoming end of the campaign though #what like 2 years late. LMAO #itseart

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sugar-grigri · 9 months

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Fujimoto answers you directly in this chapter (yes)

How about reading CSM differently? Or at least cut it up differently? Because the more the chapters progress, the more a certain pattern seems to repeat itself: Part 1 sounds as if Fujimoto is unveiling CSM in its purest form, then Part 2 sounds as if CSM is responding to its own reception by its fans.

I've already said many times that Fujimoto likes contrast in form and in writing, and this chapter, though brain-numbing, simply follows Fujimoto's own rules, only in an even more accentuated way.

To prove my point, I recommend you reread chapter 133 "Protest", which for me speaks directly to the divisive image represented by Fujimoto and his work Chainsaw Man.

I've already done an exhaustive analysis of it, but let's get one thing out of the way: Fujimoto answers his fans in part 2.

Whether it's by posing a heroine who seems incompatible with Denji, hating the figure of CSM which is nonetheless the work in which she's included, whether it's through the themes addressed by part 2, the question of dual identity, creating antagonists like Fake!CSM, setting up a church (us) around CSM

We're in a work that speaks for itself, as chapter 137 confirms, and for this very rule, we refer to the previous chapters (an eternal restart).

Chapter 136, entitled "Normal Life", refers to a more-than-CENTRAL theme in Chainsaw Man, the nerve that irrigated the whole of Part 1 Denji's disillusionment, a bargaining chip for the former antagonist, Fujimoto takes his fans by the hand and puts them back into the game they know.

We see what we'd all expected to see, a Denji who doesn't know how to fit into normal life, who's not cut out for

In my previous analysis, I explained how not only is Denji incapable of having a normal life, not only because of himself but also because of Yoshida, who offers him this life, and above all because of Fujimoto, who abruptly breaks the rhythm of his own chapter with this aggression, frustrating (I'm sure on purpose) his own fans.

What Fujimoto does is make you think you were reading in the right direction, showing you a Denji depressed by his normal life, and like a child amused by not wanting to be predictable, he breaks what would otherwise have been a logical thing to see. I mean… Who could have foreseen such a title?

Chapter 137 simply follows the same logic: Fujimoto has foreseen your frustrated reactions and knows full well that you've become attached to Denji, hoping that he'll break out of the cycle of manipulation.

He plays you in this chapter by setting up a confident, emotionally well-adjusted Denji who pushes this stranger away, reminding her of the rules of respect and consent.

It's not just Denji's thoughts, the way he would have liked to act, it's also the way YOU would have liked him to act.

Now I can explain why these chapters, which break with the previous ones in their absurdity, are surely the most important in CSM.

Many had pointed to the famous cinema reference in chapter 136, others had even noted that chapter 136 constituted chapter 39 of part 2, responding to Makima's date with Denji in part 1 in the same chapter.

But chapter 39 of part 1 wasn't just interesting for the cinema scene, it was the one that set the rules for understanding CSM.

In fact, it was this chapter to which chapter 93 responded, with Denji's ideology (in favor of bad movies) confronting Makima (against bad movies).

In the same way, the second chapter 39 (the 136th) also seeks to lay down rules

Chapters 136 and 137 have never been more responsive to CSM fans, stubbornly denying them what they want.

What Fujimoto does is to return to cinema in its purest form in the second half, using the codes of the middle-aged male slasher.

That's why the two high-school students go to Fujimoto's karaoke bar, because you're going to find yourself in its purest essence: having fun with the utmost absurdity.

It's no longer a question of representing cinema, as in the two chapters 39, but of making cinema.

But why a slasher? Think of the mythical slashers that traumatized a generation… Yes… The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a work that has achieved cult status for having opened the door to a new trend in American horror cinema: the slasher movie. Nothing represents a slasher movie more than a chainsaw-headed hero?

Inspired by the Italian "giallos", slasher movies feature a masked killer, a gang of youngsters and the killings of the serial killer in question. Fujimoto takes up this theme in his own way: Denji doesn't kill with his iconic chainsaw, he's not masked, and it's the young couple who hold the beats and the shady men who get killed.

If we go back to the depression we all expected to see, it's actually more complicated to understand: Denji's depression at being trapped in a type of writing that's too serious for him.

Here Denji follows the rules of the game, enjoying himself by killing all those old people, saying ironically: "not bad this normal life".

Because this scene is perfectly normal in Fujimoto's karaoke.

In itself, Yoshida was right. Indeed, no, Denji is not the hero of the normal film that was unfolding before them. Because they're not in normal life, it's projected onto the screen. CSM's reality is an absurd slasher. It is in this slasher, in this false normal life, that the protagonist, Denji, is.