#Black Butler Vol. 29 | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

unrivalling · 6 months

Text

"Just When Was Grell Sutcliff Alive?" Part 1: Establishing a Timeline

So as many of you know, I recently got into Black Butler (I know, about 17 years too late), and I'm almost caught up. However, I want to talk about how I'm still thinking about Vol 29 and some of the lore dropping Othello does at the beginning there.

Namely I'm fixated on possibly having a timeline for Grell's human life and death.

This wasn't intended to be a proper meta. It's been too long since I've written one, and there's probably important stuff I'm forgetting or don't know. But I wanted to write all of this down to get it out on the page, for posterity. Then it accidentally became a meta. Oops. Mild BB spoilers up to Vol 29, and heads up for some discussion of historical homophobia, transphobia, and state violence at the end. As well as a canon-typical suicide mention. I use she/her pronouns for Grell, but broadly interpret her as queer and transfeminine given the complexity of talking about identity in the time periods I'll be referencing (I use "queer" as a reclaimed, academic, blanket term). I'm also largely taking a Watsonian approach (Grell's experiences from her perspective), although a Doylist approach to Grell (as in relating to the author's intent and cultural context rather than the character's) is also really interesting one, but feels like more well trodden territory. With that out of the way, let's begin.

The info we have So. Something really interesting happened in Vol 29. We got a lot of great Undertaker backstory, but Othello said something relating to Grell that made me eyes emoji.

"Weren't you around 70 years ago?"

So, she never replies to this. But it seems highly plausible this means Grell was not a reaper 70 years before the current date in the manga. We don't quite know what the lag time is between someone dying and becoming a reaper, but I'm taking this to mean she had not died yet, as I assume she would have remembered an event like the one Othello describes. I believe this is the implication. Now, I am making some assumptions:

- To clarify, I know this is all guesswork. I'm just having fun with different possibilities. - Like I said, we don't know what the lag time is between someone dying and becoming a reaper (as in, the new state of being, not the job), and we don't know how long it takes to go from trainee to collections to senior. - That Grell was around 25 when she died. It's hard to tell anime character ages from 20-40 at a glance, but her design seems similar to me to characters that are in their 20s in other series. She could be older or younger, but I'm using that in lieu of a better option. It's not precise, but it'll get us in the ballpark anyway - Black Butler has a lot of anachronisms. However, Toboso is known to research things heavily and her changes are typically very purposeful (the purpose is usually "Rule of cool" and that's why we stan). I'm assuming historical events happening in BB to mirror the real world except where indicated otherwise. - I'm also assuming she's English. The names Grell and Grelle are both German in origin, but there are a lot of Germanic names in English and Sutcliff as a surname originated in Yorkshire. This is only based on a quick Google search--I could do more later, but this seems in line with Grell not being presented as "foreign" to England in any way in the series making her stand out in the same way her flamboyance or flirtation with men does. Establishing a range

The series takes place in 1888 and 1889. 70 years ago would put Undertaker's defection at 1818. If what Othello says is true, this means Grell became a reaper sometime after that date.

Let's establish the outlier possibilities first (again, assuming a pretty rapid transition from human death to becoming a reaper).

The earliest possible date Grell could have become a reaper: sometime in the following year, around 1819. This would put her birth at around 1794, and her death that year in 1819. This feels unlikely because it seems like she would have been exposed to people talking about Undertaker defecting since it was such a catastrophe, but who knows.

The latest possible date Grell could have become a reaper is 1887, which would place her birth at around 1862. This is massively improbable to the point of being impossible since she's a senior in collections and I assume that didn't happen in a year, but again, it's important for establishing a range. Basically, tldr, according to this framework, Grell became a reaper sometime between 1819 and 1887, which puts her human life (and death) in that timeframe as well. This would place her in the Georgian-Victorian eras, or possibly even the 8 year Regency period.

Will the Reaper OVA I've only talked about the manga so far since the 1st anime canon is wildly divergent in a number of ways, but if we include the Will the Reaper OVA, this would push things towards the earlier end of that timeline. I don't know much about the history of fashion (especially not middle and lower class dress), but it seems distinctly late 1700s/maybe early 1800s to me. Which if I'm reading right, would actually push Grell becoming a reaper back as far as the 1790s or 1810s, and would dispute the 1819 date implied by Vol 29. IF ANYONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE FASHION REFERENCES HERE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO TELL ME. I WANT TO KNOW.

(Baby....Grell...furious and stark raving mad recently dead stray cat making it everyone's problem. I'm fine) This is subverted a little bit by the reaper outfits appearing more like Victorian businesswear, but Reapers always seem to be a few decades ahead of the world in terms of fashion and technology. My personal assessment is that the fashion in this is to make it immediately, visually clear that the OVA takes place in the Georgian rather than Victorian period, however that forces me to break my largely Watsonian approach for a Doylist one ("the animators perhaps decided it was necessary to show that time had passed since the events of the OVA"), but considering it came out so long before the lore drop in Vol 29, who knows.

I'm not inclined to take it as gospel truth for the manga canon, but considering Toboso did collaborate on that one, I think it at least worth talking about and considering as supplemental information.

I personally take this to support (but not solely uphold) the idea that "Grell became a reaper sometime during the Georgian period (1713-1837)", but again, grain of salt.

What would it mean for Grell to be a queer person in England in the 1700s and 1800s?

As far as I'm aware, we don't know anything about what Grell's life might have been like before becoming a reaper. Unless I'm missing something, that's a black box until Toboso reveals more.

But establishing this timeline gives us a great opportunity to consider the circumstances she would have lived under.

Understand that I'm not speaking in absolutes here, more "here are some interesting things I like to think about when considering why this character might be the way she is". I'm also not saying Toboso intended any of this to be read into Grell, but as readers I believe it's reasonable to assume Grell may have encountered these events or they might have impacted her unless stated otherwise. A brief list of things Grell would have been living under or around or could have been aware of. I want to do a part 2 talking about how these things might relate to someone like Grell, as well as talking about other major historical events not directly related to queer people (like, you know, the Napoleonic Wars), but this post is already feeling long enough: - The Buggery Act and the Offenses Against the Person Act, which made a variety of sexual acts punishable by death, including acts like anal sex. These laws were used to persecute people, usually queer men (although people who would today be called trans women and nonbinary people were also certainly prosecuted as well*), particularly in the 1700s and 1800s. I believe as of 1862 it was no longer punishable by death, but people still lived in fear of prison and hard labor (Oscar Wilde going to prison in 1895 being a famous later example). Here's an article about the men killed under the Buggery Act. *Trans men were not exempt from this, even if the specific legal and social threat was likely different. If memory serves, Dr. James Barry was jeopardized by rumors that he may have been Too Close to one of his cis male friends. - Molly houses. Generally considered places in the 1700s and 1800s where queer men gathered to socialize and find sexual partners. There was a lot of gender divergence in these spaces, and it's widely believed they were frequented by people who, again, today, could have a variety of gender identities. This article about molly houses and gender is really interesting. This article specifically talks about one in Whitechapel. - The Chevalier d'Eon. This one is just really interesting. While the Chevalier d'Eon was likely one of the first examples of legally recognized gender transition, this person was very famous and wealthy and the circumstances are buckwild. This video is highly watchable and informative. Grell

As a queer person and someone who likes history (I don't have any specific training, I just like learning about it), I already think a lot about what it must have been like to live during this specific time period, and Grell slots into that pretty well as a character to fixate on, since she dovetails with the other existing hyperfixation. By extension, I like using this information to think about what Grell's human life might have been like, and how those experiences could be aligned to explain a lot of her behavior, and seems especially poignant to me in light of all reapers having been people who committed suicide, another recent lore reveal in the manga. Maybe she lived closeted and lived in fear of discovery. Maybe she wasn't afraid! Maybe she was impulsive and endangered herself and others! Maybe she got blackmailed. What if she experienced her first taste of femininity at a molly house? Does she only go after men who reject her because she lived during a time where her affections being returned was intensely dangerous? Did she care about anyone? Is anyone she knew still alive? Thank you so much to everyone who read to the end! If I'm able to rally, I do want there to be a part 2 to this going more into detail about how it makes sense to me that these homophobic and transphobic societal pressures could have created a character like Grell.

#grell sutcliff #grelle sutcliff #black butler meta #black butler spoilers #black butler

36 notes · View notes

josiwonderland · 4 months

Text

Just read that Black butler vol 29 chapter. I thought it would be a nice, relaxing bath reading time. Then there's this suuuuper explicit scene.

#black butler #manga #read #bath #embarrassing #welp #mey rin #helpppp #book

2 notes · View notes

bad-ads · 4 months

Text

BOOKS I READ IN 2023 ( YES I DO COUNT REREADS)

1. Mind of my mind (butler) 9/10

2. Clay ark (butler) 9/10

3. Patternmaster (butler) 7/10

4. Dawn (butler) 8.5/10

5. Bloodchild (butler) 10/10

6. The Gilda stories (Gomez) 7/10

7. Sandman vol 1 (gaiman) 8/10

8. Slaughterhouse 5 (vonnegut) 10/10

9. The sirens of titan (vonnegut) 9/10

10. Adulthood rites (butler) 9/10

11. Imago (butler) 9.5/10

12. Never let me go 7/10

13. The sandman vol 2 6/10

14. Kindred 9/10

15. Blood feast 10/10

16. The bell jar 9/10

17. Bottle grove 8/10

18. The basic eight 10/10

19. Be gay, do comics 5/10

20. The metamorphosis 7/10

21. The grace year 9/10

22. Wilder Girls 8/10

23. Yours Cruelly, Elvira 6/10

24. The pleasure of my company 4/10

25. Crazy rich asians 6/10

26. China rich girlfriend 5/10

27. Rich people problems 4/10

28. We Run the Tides 7/10

29. Fantasticland 10/10

30. The hunger 7/10

31. The southern book club guide to slaying vampires 8/10

32. My best friends exorcism 7/10

33. Horrorstor 7/10

34. Story Time 9/10

35. We sold our souls 9/10

36. Friday black 10/10

37. Gabi, a girl in pieces 6/10

38. Woman, eating 7/10

39. Gideon the ninth 10/10

40. Harrow the ninth 6/10

41. Nona the ninth 8/10

42. Small game 7/10

43. What moves the dead 9/10

44. The hacienda 9/10

45. The girl with all the gifts 9/10

46. hell followed with us 8/10

47. The boy on the bridge 7/10

48. Station eleven 6/10

49. comforts me with apples 7/10

50. Feed 8/10

51. Deadline 8/10

52. Blackout 8/10

53. Parasite 9/10

54. Symbiont 10/10

55. Chimera 10/10

56. Circe 9/10

57. The junkie quatrain 7/10

58. Certain dark things 5/10

59. Tender is the flesh 9/10

60. Nightbitch 10/10

61. The lamb will slaughter the lion 6/10

62. velvet is the night 7/10

63. Into the drowning deep 9/10

64. sister maiden monster 9/10

65. A very normal family 8.5/10

66. Interview with the vampire 6/10

67. Final girl support group 8/10

68. Bunny 9/10

69. How to sell a haunted house 8/10

70. Vampires of El norte 8/10

71. Silver Nitrate 9/10

72. Mexican Gothic 10/10

73. The Beautiful Ones 7/10

74. Wait for the Night 8/10

75. Moon of the Crusted Snow 8/10

76. We Spread 6/10

77. My heart is a chainsaw 9/10

78. The Spirit Bares its Teeth 10/10

79. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (6/10)

80. Copykate (9/10)

81. A ballad of song birds and snakes (8/10)

82. The hunger games 8/10

83. Catching Fire 7/10

84. Nona the ninth 10/10

#reading tag 🔮

2 notes · View notes

appareils-futiles · 1 year

Text

2023 TB(H)R

to be (hopefully) read

I've made a list of books I hope to read in 2023, last year I made a longer list and finished about 8. My goodreads minimum was 20. This year, I've made my Goodreads 10 minimum, and hope to read more than 10. I've also added the non-reads of last year. Those with (*) I started reading and didnt finish before the end of the 2022.

Here's my hopefuls:

*1. Dune by: Frank Herbert

2. Dune Messiah by: Frank Herbert

*3. Crime & Punishment by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4. Marabou Stork Nightmares by: Irvine Welsh

5. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by: Oceon Vuong

*6. Time Is A Mother by: Ocean Vuong

7. Of Human Bondage by: W. Somerset Maugham

8. Heartstopper Vol. 5 by: Alice Oseman

9. Tender Is The Night by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

*10. The Beautiful & The Damned by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

11. This Side of Paradise by: F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. The Bell Jar by: Sylvia Plath

*13. King Leopold's Ghost by: Adam Hochschild

14. 1984 by: George Orwell

*15. Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake by: Veronica Lake

16. The Complete Maus by: Art Spiegelman

17. War & Peace by: Leo Tolstoy

18. The Count of Monte Cristo by: Alexandre Dumas

19. Anna Karenina by: Anna Karenina

20. The Brothers Karamazov by: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

21. Don Quixote by: Miguel De Cervantes

22. Cocaine blues : a Phryne Fisher mystery (Book I) BY: Kerry Greenwood.

23. Flying Too High: A Phryne Fisher mystery (Book II) by: Kerry Greenwood.

24. Pride and Prejudice by: Jane Austen

25. Animal Farm by: George Orwell

26. Gone With The Wind by: Margaret Mitchell

27. Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell

28. Song of Achilles by: Madeline Miller

*29. REBECCA by: Daphne Du Maurier

30. Black Butler Vol. 6 by: Toboso Yana

31. Black Butler Vol. 7. By: Toboso Yana

32. No Surrender: My 30 year War by: Hiroo Oonada.

*33. The Lonely Life by: Bette Davis

#BOOKS #2023 TBR #LENIINERO #APPAREILS-FUTILES #ME MYSELF I AND YOURS TRULY

3 notes · View notes

ridley-was-a-cat · 3 months

Text

50. Black Butler, Vol. 29 - licensed - Ciel and his allies have surveyed the playing field, and set plans in motion to catch their enemies and turn the situation around. They've split into four groups of two and spread out around the country, and Mey-Rin and Ran find themselves in a predicament.

#black butler #manga #shounen #yen press

1 note · View note

famu720 · 1 year

Photo

NCAA 🏈 week 11 finals: 🦎 38 chikins 6 Roll Tide 30 land 🦈 24 UConn 36 🗽 33 Dook 24 gobbles 7 Hail 2 Pitt 37 wahoos 7 LSU 13 🐷 10 ⚓ 24 UK 21 Sparty 27 RU 21 Bucks 56 IU 14 Irish 35 Navy 32 Boilers 31 Illini 24 Vols 66 Mizzou 24 Kittens 31 Red ♥️ 🐔 16 Big 🔵 34 big ♥️ 3 🐎 Express 41 USF 🐂 23 WVU 23 boomaz 20 The U 35 bugs 14 BC 🦅 21 🐺 Pack 20 We r Penn State 30 🐢 0 Hawks 24 wisky 10 UCF 38 Tulsa 31 OK St pokes 20 🌪️ 14 Wazzu 28 sparky 😈 18 J 😡 38 👑 7 Troy 10 Army 🪖 9 Cola 🦁 31 🟤 24 OT Merrimack 20 CCSU 14 Holy Cross 36 Bryant 29 SFU 51 Duquesne 14 Sacred 💜 38 Wagner 28 Colgate 36 Lehigh 33 Valpo 45 Marist 🦊 24 Albany 23 Maine 21 Yale 24 Princeton 20 NC A &T 20 ⚔️ 10 Bucknell 24 G town 21 OT Cornell 17 Dartmouth 13 Guvs 31 Kennesaw St 14 ND 28 SD 19 ACU 45 SHSU 28 WCU 20 ETSU 17 Harvard 37 Penn 14 Howard 28 Q 🐶 14 🕷️ 21 Delaware 13 NMSU 51 Lamar 14 WKU 45 🍚 10 Komodos 41 mean 🍏 21 Air Force 35 Los lobos 3 Fordham ♈ 45 Lafayette 10 St Thomas 23 Stetson 0 Dayton 49 more 🏠 27 Elon 38 Hampton 🗡️ 24 Towson st 21 Stony Brook 17 NH 31 URI 28 W&M 45 Nova 😺 21 ULM 31 G St 🐈 28 Gophers 31 NW 3 Meep meep 51 LA Tech 7 G 🕸️ 42 🐫 35 Wofford 34 VMI 16 LIU 🦈 34 🪨 hage 28 Samford 35 UTC 24 Jax State 42 EKU 17 NCO 🐻 21 NAU 20 NCCU 48 Norfolk State 14 Drake 27 Butler 🐶 24 K state 31 sic'ems 3 Citadel 66 VA Lynch 0 Puppies 45 hail State 19 Indiana St 21 WIU 0 NDSU 21 SIU 18 Morgan St 37 Delaware St 7 Murray St 27 RoMo 9 H Town 43 🦉 36 ♥️ 🐺 35 UMass 33 FAU 52 FIU 7 Wyoming 14 CSU 🐏 13 USA 38 so Miss 31 MO St 25 YSU 22 Griz 63 EWU 7 🐇 31 IL St 7 MC 9 17 B Cook 14 FU 23 Mercer 🐻 13 Puppy 🐶 37 quax 34 Chants 26 USM 23 PV 55 UAPB 24 Linden 63 McKendree 35 Mc neese St 21 HT Christian 10 🐸 17 Bevos 10 🐐 36 deacs 34 FAMU 🐍21 bama St bugs 14 SE MO 31 EIU 7 Human Jukebox 27 MVSU 7 Tarleton 34 Utah Tech 28 So Utah 55 Linc CA 0 The 🦬28 black n 🪙 21 MTSU 24 UNCC 14 Nichols 12 TX AMC 10 USD 31 Davidson 14 UNA 35 TN Tech 27 UTM 20 TSU 3 Sonic 💥 27 Alabama A &M 13 C AR 🐻34 SFA 7 SE LA 🦁 23 NW state 7 TTRR 43 KU 28 TX So 41 Grambling 7 War 🦅 13 gig ems 10 UCD 44 Idaho 26 War chant 38 🍊 3 Montana St 72 Cal poly 28 (at Laurens, South Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck41ShjORFC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

0 notes

vidastransmutationgestation · 1 year

Text

Colation of references

Octavia Butler Appropriate reference, also writers like Kim Stanley Robinson and Samuel Delany and Ursula K LeGuin could be of interest.

consider clowns like Bill Irwin and inventive slapstick comedians like Buster Keaton.

Writings on Socially Engaged practice would be relevant. Gregory Sholette a relevant writer and his anthology Art as Social Action has an interesting selection of artists/writers. Nato Thompson, Pablo Helguera would also be relevant also, along with Amelia Jones' writings on body art and performance.

Yates McKee's book Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy Condition has a range of works in the "artivism" vein. I would also consider performance artists Linda Montano, and Guillermo Gómez Peña and others….

Pleasure Activism Yes this recalls philosopher Kate Soper's notion of "alternative hedonism”

self-care is “not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare”

Lauren Berlant was amazing!!! Her book Cruel Optimism so important along with other writings.

Segal proposes the re-adaptation of ‘inventing utopias’: a tool that has been largely shunned by academics and sociologists alike. - And inventiveness and its power is often underestimated these days I would argue!

Barbara Ehrenreich’s Dancing in the Streets, A much earlier, seminal work is the cultural theorist and novelist Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power. And as I mentioned in last chat Mikhail Bahktin's book on Rabelais and the carnivalesque has really interesting historical analysis of the behavior of crowds in the public sphere.

Our Sea of Islands by Epeli Hau’ofa - French-Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant's writings would surely be up your street also, I would think.

Writer and poet Fred Moten writes in detail about the black radical tradition in thought but very often through music, and the ways in which he writes "performatively" (and you can watch his talks online also) could be of interest given your topics.

While the texts discussed vary in both form and subject, they share in their potential as decolonising methodologies. Whether it be through performance, music, ritual, pleasure or the relocation of identity in water's fluidity, each text speaks to a potential for transformative and ecstatically joyful collective liberation. These texts speak to the reliance of meaningful action on interdependence, and centre the activation of connectivity and/or joy as one of the most powerful forms of resistance to the suffering of oppression.

JULIAN

General:

Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen. “Joy: An Integrative Theory.” The Journal of Positive Psychology, Mar. 2022. http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=psyh&AN=2022-46966-001&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Brown, Treajané Tranette Rocheka. ‘So Euphoric, It's Indescribable’: A Black Feminist Exploration of Pleasure as a Liberatory Practice. 2022, U of Akron, PhD Dissertation. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_etd/send_file/send?accession=akron1647800112954614&disposition=inline

Gabriel, S., et al. “Creating the Sacred from the Profane: Collective Effervescence and Everyday Activities.” Journal of Positive Psychology, vol. 15, no. 1, 2020, pp. 129–54. http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=edselc&AN=edselc.2-52.0-85075153162&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Woodman, Sophia, and Andreas Zaunseder. “Exploring ‘Festive Commoning’ in Radical Gatherings in Scotland.” Identities, vol. 29, no. 1, 2022, pp. 108–26. http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=s3h&AN=154794117&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Time:

Brettkelly-Chalmers, Kate. Time, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art: Beyond the Clock. Intellect, 2019. [ebook] http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=cat09011a&AN=mul.oai.edge.massey.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001086.25dcfdd2.adc9.54af.bf26.ebfb1c165d6f&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Groom, Amelia, editor. Time. Whitechapel Gallery, 2013. 701.8 Tim [The title is deceptively simple – this anthology “contextualises art that proposes alternatives to the models of linear time that have underpinned both capitalism and progressive modernity.”]

Gunkel, Henriette, and kara lynch, editors. We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions. transcript Verlag, 2019. [ebook – there's a chapter called Alienation and Queer Discontent, which looks as if it may talk about time, as well as some other chapters that might be relevant] http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=nlebk&AN=2160813&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Lee, Pamela M. Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960’s. MIT Press, 2004. 700.9046 Lee [some of this will be relevant]

Massumi, Brian. Semblance and Event: Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts. MIT Press, 2011. 701 Mas [not sure about this one, it may not be a key source but have a quick look]

Phillips, Bruce E. Unstuck in Time. Te Tuhi, 2015. 709.93 Uns [Catalogue of a multi-format NZ exhibition with a piece by Martin Patrick on Shannon Te Ao’s work]

Rawson, Philip S., and Piers B. Rawson. Art and Time. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005. [on loan – you will need to place a hold on Discover at http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=cat09011a&AN=mul.oai.edge.massey.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001086.4215ecac.6a1e.5f4a.b9dc.c82579f7bc0c&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306]

Ross, Christine. The Past Is the Present; It’s the Future Too: The Temporal Turn in Contemporary Art. Bloomsbury, 2014. 701.08 Rox [This one looks like it could be a key text]

Radical kinship/collective creativity - how they’re used to effect social transformation

Bruce, John A. Participatory Design and Social Transformation: Images and Narratives of Crisis and Change. Routledge, 2022. [ebook] http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=cat09011a&AN=mul.oai.edge.massey.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001086.bb68bc14.764c.42f4.9f14.c10e2b10f7e8&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Eynaud, Philippe, et al. “Participatory Art as a Social Practice of Commoning to Reinvent the Right to the City.” Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, vol. 29, no. 4, 2018, pp. 621–36. http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.45105548&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Harrebye, Silas F. Social Change and Creative Activism in the 21st Century: The Mirror Effect. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. [ebook] http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=cat09011a&AN=mul.oai.edge.massey.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001086.87731f22.0e75.543c.92b0.893b6638a565&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Jolivétte, Andrew. Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change. Policy Press, 2015. [you’ll need to request this from Manawatu but have a look at the table of contents before that to see if it’s worthwhile: http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=cat09011a&AN=mul.oai.edge.massey.folio.ebsco.com.fs00001086.f081e1df.72db.5a26.bf49.62f52e1c3b28&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306]

Kasat, Pilar. Community Arts and Cultural Development: A Powerful Tool for Social Transformation. Murdoch U, 2013, Masters thesis. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/20482/2/02Whole.pdf

Salazar Pérez, Michelle, and Cinthya M. Saavedra. “Spiritual Activism as a Means for Social Transformation: Womanist and Chicana Feminist Possibilities.” Equity & Excellence in Education, vol. 53, no. 3, 2020, pp. 315–23. http://ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=sso&db=ehh&AN=147625832&site=eds-live&scope=site&authtype=sso&custid=s3027306

Extras:

Unfortunatelyf that book we talked about, Boogie Down Predictions, isn't due to be published till August, but I'll let you know when it gets here. May not be till September!

There’s a new book coming very soon edited by Elspeth Tilley from Massey called Creative Activism Research, Pedagogy and Practice. You can see the table of contents here: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-8104-3-sample.pdf Some of the chapters look like they may be of interest. We’ve ordered it but it hasn’t arrived yet. I’ll keep an eye out for it though, and if you’re super interested you could always contact Elspeth directly to talk more about it.

And finally, two other resources I came across that I think are a bit marginal but you never know.

This is nice and short and may be of some interest: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/listening-as-activism-the-sonic-meditations-of-pauline-oliveros

‘Oh My God!’ Exploring Ecstatic Experience through the Evocative Technology of Gospel Choir, https://www.proquest.com/docview/2597477886?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true [some parts of this may be relevant? Not sure - it's very long and possibly not quite where you’re focusing as it’s coming from a Judeo-Christian lens.]

Boogie Down Predictions

Discover searches:

Afrofutur*

Black futur*

"speculative fiction"

utopia*

Google the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Saintmaking: the 90s 'nuns' who made a gay, HIV positive icon a saint

Perhaps Jarman’s film The Garden might be of interest. It’s available to watch here: https://archive.org/details/thegardenderekjarman1990https://archive.org/details/thegardenderekjarman1990

The differences between the various forms of disciplinarity: https://makinggood.design/thoughts/tasty [There’s lots of thinking and disagreement about this topic but this is a good place to start!]

Found this Youtube video about the concept of Celtic futurism What is Celtic Futurism?

And this: https://medium.com/@nwdls/cambrofuturism-5df99c0999df

#attunement #process

0 notes

beforenightfalls · 2 years

Text

2022 Books I intended on reading and IDK what happened.

Est: 04-12-22, updated periodically

BOOKS I'VE ACTUALLY FINISHED: 1. CALL ME BY YOUR NAME by: André Aciman

2. For you Mom, Finally by: Ruth Reichl.

3. Heartstopper Vol. 1 by: Alice Oseman

4. Heartstopper Vol. 2 by: Alice Oseman

**STARTED READING THOSE WITHOUT STARS I'VE YET TO READ THOSE SLASHED I GAVE UP ON. **1. REBECCA by: Daphne Du Maurier (Started with physical book, continued with audio)

**2. Dune by: Frank Herbert

3. Dune Messiah by: Frank Herbert

4. The Bell Jar by: Sylvia Plath

5. Black Butler Vol. 6 by: Toboso Yana

6. Black Butler Vol. 7. By: Toboso Yana

7. Black Butler Vol. 8. By: Toboso Yana

8. Black Butler Vol. 9 By: Toboso Yana

9. Black Butler Vol. 10 by: Toboso Yana

**10. King Leopold’s Ghost by: Adam Hochchild

**11. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by: Taylor Jenkins Reid

12. Crime and Punishment by: Fyodor D.

**13. CMBYN: A little book that touched so many lives by: Barb Mirell

**14. The Prophet by Khalil Gibran

15. No Surrender: My 30 year War by: Hiroo Oonada.

**16. Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake by: Veronica Lake

17. God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx by Desus Nice

18. Reclaim Your Heart: Personal insights on breaking free from life’s shackles by: Yasmin Mogahed

**19. Bones and All by: Camille Angelilis

**20. Death on The Nile by: Agatha Christie

**21. Find Me (Call Me By Your Name II) by: Andre Aciman (the pain of this book will be my end)

——-

Extras (if I get to them):

21. Cocaine blues : a Phryne Fisher mystery (Book I) BY: Kerry Greenwood.

22. Flying Too High: A Phryne Fisher mystery (Book II) by: Kerry Greenwood.

23. Pride and Prejudice by: Jane Austen

24. The Jungle by: Upton Sinclair

25. 1984 by: George Orwell

26. Animal Farm by: George Orwell

27. How to Win Friends and Influence People by: Dale Carnagie

28. Gone With The Wind by: Margaret Mitchell

**29. Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell

30. Song of Achilles by: Madeline Miller

0 notes

officialphantomhivehousehold · 4 years

Photo

“Phantomhive Household’s Butler”

Black Butler Vol. XXVIIII

A latest illustration by Miss Yana Toboso of Sebastian Michaelis promoting Black Butler Vol. 29. It’s now available on bookstores in Japan.

©️Yana Toboso

#kuroshitsuji #black butler #sebastian michaelis #black butler volume 29 #sebastian michaelis vol 29 #yana toboso #yana toboso illustration #black butler manga

418 notes · View notes

chibimyumi · 4 years

Photo

Back cover of Kuroshitsuji Volume 29!

“Now... entrust yourself to me......

Ciel has been dethroned from his position as Earl and is now on the wanted list of the police. Now he takes refuge in Lau’s opium den. Now, how will the counter attack he is devising take shape......!? The russet mist whirls and swirls around the pipe of lawless man who hides the master of predicaments. We present to you the most unscrupulous butler comic in the world...”

The Japanese ‘Kuroshitsuji’ volume 29 on sale today!

#Kuroshitsuji #Black Butler #Volume 29 #manga cover #back cover #Kuroshitsuji vol 29 #Kuro 29 #Sebas in that getup is BLESSSSSING #Thank you LAU

580 notes · View notes

theanimeview · 3 years

Text

Foreshadowing Ciel's Revenge: Kuroshitsuji’s “His Butler, Performer” & Shakespeare’s Hamlet

By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting

Episode 25, one of the first OVAs of the Black Butler franchise, has stood out to me as one of the most confusing entries to the series I can recall (you know, with the exception of all of Season 2…) and it seems fitting to discuss right before Halloween given the theme. For those of you not familiar with Hamlet or caught up on with this old episode of Black Butler, I’ve linked some summaries that I recommend as a brief run down:

https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-plays/hamlet/

https://kuroshitsuji.fandom.com/wiki/His_Butler,_Performer

All up-to-date? Good--

"His Butler, On Stage" or “His Butler, Performer,” the Black Butler episode under review here, has been rolling around in the back of my mind for years now. I, a person who has--at one time--been obsessed with both Black Butler and Shakespeare’s Hamlet, have looked back on it fondly and questioningly in the handful of times that I re-watched it on Netflix.

Initially, I thought it odd to show Hamlet in the series. Because, why Hamlet? Other than the main character wanting revenge, I didn’t really see any reason for it. However, now I see it as foreshadowing to what we currently see in the manga. For example, Hamlet refers to the country of Denmark having become like a prison in the play, and this comes as a response to always being watched by those around him. Hamlet is constantly being spied on and surrounded by potential enemies, which Ciel is facing at present by those like the Midford family (who turned their back on him upon learning he was/is not the eldest son of the Phantomhive family, the OG “Ciel”) and servants of the Queen. (Undertaker, too--as well as Tanaka, from what we can tell.)

This foreshadowing also extends to Ciel’s declaration for revenge, which is reaffirmed in Chapter 63 (it was released long after Season 1’s conclusion):

Moreover, with Lizzy as a stand-in for the role of Ophelia in the series (though she actually takes the place of a guard in the episode), we see the two fold tragedy of her character. First is the betrayal of Hamlet (in this case, “our” Ciel), the madness of the choice (Vol. 29, I believe), and--probably--a future death by suicide or accident. In fact, I would not be surprised if the Midfords undergo a tragedy similar to all of Ophelia’s family…

And with that in mind, I think we can use this particular episode to get a clear idea that Ciel will have his revenge before this series comes to an end, though it will cost him his life and the life of many others. Likely the only ones to remain will be the faithful servants at his side (Finnian, Baldroy, and Mey-Rin. They seem like excellent stand-ins for Horatio.

Sebastian, meanwhile, seems to be a reflection of the madness and capability Hamlet has in the Shakespearian play. Hamlet, debatably, is both insane from grief and not, and we (as well as he) are led to believe that the performance of acting crazy/mad is blurred between reality and fiction. Regardless of Hamlet’s mental status, he is shown to be extremely capable. Not only is he witty enough to hide insults behind a mask of potential insanity, he’s able to root out treason (the order for execution written by his uncle), perform sword play, plan a new play for the actors to perform, and more. What better stand-in than Sebastian for this role then? As the capable butler not only performs things to perfection, but is constantly threatening to overtake Ciel should he let go mentally. This is confirmed later in the series during the Green Witch arc (specifically Chapters 94/95), but highlighted and foreshadowed in this early OVA when Ciel is distracted by the crowd and Sebastian takes aim with a sword:

What is perhaps the most pivotal point of the episode in question, and my comparison of Ciel’s story to Hamlet, however, comes from the all too well-known “To be, or not to be” speech provided in our play-within-a-play (a dramatic plot device or extended metaphor where characters narrate one story while still part of another) structure.

In Hamlet, the play within is put on by actors who perform “The Murder of Gonzago” and acts both as an extended metaphor for Hamlet’s show of madness to his parents and those around him, but also a way to test whether or not Claudius is quilty of fratricide. In Black Butler, the play within the play is literally Hamlet being performed in the OVA, and the extended metaphor--the ending of Black Butler that is presented to us--is the tragedy that will come at the end of our long road to revenge.

Despite my initial blindness to it, the attribution or adaptation of Hamlet’s story in Ciel’s is fitting. Both are about, as Ciel puts it in the episode, “A young prince who loses his father and burns for revenge.” However, the stories are more than that--they’re a question of choice as highlighted by the all-to-famous “To be, or not to be” soliloquy. In Hamlet’s speech, he has basically made up his mind to commit revenge. He’s scared, though, as revenge will likely mean his death and what lies beyond life’s end is frightening and unknown. Sure, he’s seen his father’s ghost, so he can think that maybe an afterlife exists, but he has also been questioning whether or not the ghost is real. Moreover, while he has somewhat decided on revenge, he’s reaffirming that revenge is something he wants above any duty he may have to fulfill his ghost-father’s request or because of some other reason (like his mother remarrying so soon). Hamlet wants revenge for the wrongs he feels his uncle has committed and the crimes he suspects--it’s a personal want and a personal decision no longer made simply because his father’s ghost came about and told him to do it. Likewise, Ciel mirrors similar notions in the manga--his revenge is not for his family but for himself.

Also reiterating this is Ciel’s version of the “To be…” speech, which is noticeably different from Hamlet’s:

“To be, or not to be: that is the question. My uncle is a cunning man. Even if I’m able to carry out my revenge, I shan’t escape alive. And… the truth is… I don’t want to die. Ah! Quit being a coward, hamlet! Drive out that foolish, stunted soul of thine this instant! My vow is a bloody one. There’s no turning back now. Now, let me be off, before the blazing sun in my blood rises.”

Other than the first line, every line is different from Hamlet’s, yet both are expressing their want for revenge and the fear of what happens to the soul after death, which is sure to follow.

Two lines in the animated OVA that stand out in particular to make me feel like this is all foreshadowing, too, are these lines said by Sebastian,“Let’s make this a prelude to the bloody revenge coming” and “The curtain is finally rising on this tale of revenge.”

But, what are your thoughts? Do you think the tragedy of Hamlet may foreshadow the ending of Black Butler? Or do you think I have, perhaps, read too much into it? I’d be interested to know…

#analysis #review #Kuroshitsuji #black butler #shakespeare #hamlet #hamlet: prince of denmark

17 notes · View notes

ohshanksno · 3 years

Text

I just finished vol 29 of black butler and i

what the ever loving FUCK

#vin talks #black butler #kuroshitsuji

11 notes · View notes

demonprinceryan · 3 years

Text

Now that’s just cruel.

This a fake preview from Attack on Titan vol 28.

If interested I can post all fake previews. I have volumes 1-32. Also have Black butler 1-29 and am willing to share fake previews from those as well.

#attack on titan #hajime isayama #marco bott #eren jeager #mikasa akerman #armin arlert #fake preview #volume 28

7 notes · View notes

bad-ads · 4 months

Text

🎉all the books i read in 2023 🎉

1. Mind of my mind (butler) 9/10

2. Clay ark (butler) 9/10

3. Patternmaster (butler) 7/10

4. Dawn (butler) 8.5/10

5. Bloodchild (butler) 10/10

6. The Gilda stories (Gomez) 7/10

7. Sandman vol 1 (gaiman) 8/10

8. Slaughterhouse 5 (vonnegut) 10/10

9. The sirens of titan (vonnegut) 9/10

10. Adulthood rites (butler) 9/10

11. Imago (butler) 9.5/10

12. Never let me go 7/10

13. The sandman vol 2 6/10

14. Kindred 9/10

15. Blood feast 10/10

16. The bell jar 9/10

17. Bottle grove 8/10

18. The basic eight 10/10

19. Be gay, do comics 5/10

20. The metamorphosis 7/10

21. The grace year 9/10

22. Wilder Girls 8/10

23. Yours Cruelly, Elvira 6/10

24. The pleasure of my company 4/10

25. Crazy rich asians 6/10

26. China rich girlfriend 5/10

27. Rich people problems 4/10

28. We Run the Tides 7/10

29. Fantasticland 10/10

30. The hunger 7/10

31. The southern book club guide to slaying vampires 8/10

32. My best friends exorcism 7/10

33. Horrorstor 7/10

34. Story Time 9/10

35. We sold our souls 9/10

36. Friday black 10/10

37. Gabi, a girl in pieces 6/10

38. Woman, eating 7/10

39. Gideon the ninth 10/10

40. Harrow the ninth 6/10

41. Nona the ninth 8/10

42. Small game 7/10

43. What moves the dead 9/10

44. The hacienda 9/10

45. The girl with all the gifts 9/10

46. hell followed with us 8/10

47. The boy on the bridge 7/10

48. Station eleven 6/10

49. comforts me with apples 7/10

50. Feed 8/10

51. Deadline 8/10

52. Blackout 8/10

53. Parasite 9/10

54. Symbiont 10/10

55. Chimera 10/10

56. Circe 9/10

57. The junkie quatrain 7/10

58. Certain dark things 5/10

59. Tender is the flesh 9/10

60. Nightbitch 10/10

61. The lamb will slaughter the lion 6/10

62. velvet is the night 7/10

63. Into the drowning deep 9/10

64. sister maiden monster 9/10

65. A very normal family 8.5/10

66. Interview with the vampire 6/10

67. Final girl support group 8/10

68. Bunny 9/10

69. How to sell a haunted house 8/10

70. Vampires of El norte 8/10

71. Silver Nitrate 9/10

72. Mexican Gothic 10/10

73. The Beautiful Ones 7/10

74. Wait for the Night 8/10

75. Moon of the Crusted Snow 8/10

76. We Spread 6/10

77. My heart is a chainsaw 9/10

78. The Spirit Bares its Teeth 10/10

79. The Daughter of Doctor Moreau (6/10)

80. Copykate (9/10)

81. A ballad of song birds and snakes (8/10)

82. The hunger games 8/10

83. Catching Fire 7/10

84. Nona the ninth 10/10

and yes i count re-reads and short stories

#book tag 🔮

1 note · View note