#Herman Mao

[zetsubo-bani]

Scenes/characters I expect to see after blue revenge arc

Just to clarify, with blue revenge arc I'm referring to this mission arc we currently have. I doubt r!ciel will be defeated after the missions are over so I will probably give it a different name whatever follows after we've seen o!ciel and sebastian at the hotel.

For obvious reasons I will exclude o!ciel and sebastian, they are literally the protagonists, ofc we will see them again. Undertaker and r!ciel will also be excluded since they are the major antagonists right now and will also definitely appear again.

So let's begin:

1. An interrogation scene between layla and the reapers

Remember that layla got captured by ronald and william? I definitely expect layla to make a return once she arrived in the shinigami corp. I'm not sure if I expect ronald to be there but william definitely will be and I can also see grell and othello watching since we haven't seen the two in quite a while

2. Another interrogation scene in scotland yard headquarters

Blavat got arrested and was supposed to be put into prison and later appear in court alongsides o!ciel but since he and sebastian already escaped, blavat is the only one in prison. Considering scotland yard just freshly captured blavat, an interrogation about his motives is to be expected

3. Some focus on the midfords

Lizzy is included as well (but that was the best picture I found). They obviously need to deal with the whole drama themselves and I definitely expect them to reappear and talk to each other about what they think about the twins drama and lizzys depression

4. Sieglinde and wolfram with their research and planning

Sieglinde still has the blood samples from the sphere music hall and surely must have read what happened in the newspaper. I don't think she will just sit by and do nothing for the rest of the manga, I'm certain they will appear again somehow

5. A reunion between the servants, lau and ran mao

Sebastian and o!ciel will probably be there too (or not depending on their mission) but I do expect those 5 to see each other again and exchange how their missions went. I think that's where they will find out that snake died

6. The queen and her servants

Girlie has been awfully quiet since the twin reveal and I wonder when she will appear again. R!ciel mentioned needing to hold a audience with her but being too weak right now so who knows when she will appear again. I do think it will happen somehow

7. The p4 reuniting

I don't think we will get something too big but I definitely think they will appear again. They were part of the sphere music hall so the police was on the lookout for them anyways. I do expect them to appear again and talk to violet since we haven't seen them reunite after blavat nearly killed violet

8. Soma focus (?)

Now I wasn't sure if I should include him since I'm pretty certain he will be in the hotel that o!ciel and sebastian will visit next. But if he isn't in the hotel then he will definitely still appear afterwards. That man can not completely dip after agni died and he still falsely believes it was o!ciel

9. Tanaka (maybe with the servants?)

Tanaka is still with r!ciel and undertaker but we haven't seen him in a good while. I do think we will see him again once yana finally shows r!ciel again. I theorize that maybe we will see some reunion between the servants and tanaka but that's probably something I just really want to see. I doubt tanaka will leave r!ciels side since he did say that he's forever serving the head/heir of phantomhive and o!ciel wasn't supposed to be

10. Some flashback with vincent

That smug bastard will appear, I know it. I'm pretty sure he must have done something to end up dead so I think we will get a focus on him in a potential flashback from r!ciel. Afterall since r! ciel was raised to be the heir, I'm certain he spent more time with vincent than o!ciel did and probably did catch a few things here and there. Maybe that would explain why r!ciel caught onto the fact that something was off much quicker than o!ciel did

That was my little theory on who/what I think will appear/happen in the next arc after the missions. Hope you liked it!

If you have any corrections, additional thoughts or agree with anything, please let me know!

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #ciel phantomhive #sebastian michaelis #real ciel #kuroshitsuji spoilers #kuroshitsuji finny #undertaker #black butler spoilers #grell sutcliff #william t spears #vincent phantomhive #kuroshitsuji mey rin #mey rin #soma asman kadar #prince soma #elizabeth midford #ran mao #sieglinde sullivan #black butler violet #gregory violet #edgar redmond #edward midford #herman greenhill #lawrence bluewer

[bapydemonprincess]

So, say what you want but it's actually canonically accurate that Sebastian Michaelis is outright a thot and their son is absolutely 100% done with this fact at all times 😌

Bonus with our favorite skrunkly and his loyal group of fellow trolls lovely ladies:

#kuroshitsuji #kuroshitsuji 2024 #sebastian michaelis #o!ciel #lau #ran mao #herman greenhill #look at those girls THEY LOVE PLAYING ALONG #I have no doubt Lau told them they were gonna go mess with a bunch of uptight brits at a cricket game and the girls were like LETS GOOOOO

[txttletale]

niceys positive anon!! i don't agree with you on everything but you are so clearly like well read and well rounded that you've helped me think through a lot of my own inconsistencies and hypocrises in my own political and social thought, even if i do have slightly different conclusions at times then u (mainly because i believe there's more of a place for idealism and 'mind politics' than u do). anyway this is a preamble to ask if you have recommended reading in the past and if not if you had any recommended reading? there's some obvious like Read Marx but beyond that im always a little lost wading through theory and given you seem well read and i always admire your takes, i wondered about your recs

it's been a while since i've done a big reading list post so--bearing in mind that my specific areas of 'expertise' (i say that in huge quotation marks obvsies i'm just a girlblogger) are imperialism and media studies, here are some books and essays/pamphlets i recommend. the bolded ones are ones that i consider foundational to my politics

BASICS OF MARXISM

friedrich engels, principles of commmunism

friedrich engels, socialism: utopian & scientific

karl marx, the german ideology

karl marx, wage labour & capital

mao zedong, on contradiction

nikolai bukharin, anarchy and scientific communism

rosa luxemburg, reform or revolution?

v.i lenin, left-wing communism: an infantile disorder

v.i. lenin, the state & revolution

v.i. lenin, what is to be done?

IMPERIALISM

aijaz ahmed, iraq, afghanistan, and the imperialism of our time

albert memmi, the colonizer and the colonized

che guevara, on socialism and internationalism (ed. aijaz ahmad)

eduardo galeano, the open veins of latin america

edward said, orientalism

fernando cardoso, dependency and development in latin america

frantz fanon, black skin, white masks

frantz fanon, the wretched of the earth

greg grandin, empire's workshop

kwame nkrumah, neocolonialism, the last stage of imperialism

michael parenti, against empire

naomi klein, the shock doctrine

ruy mauro marini, the dialectics of dependency

v.i. lenin, imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism

vijay prashad, red star over the third world

vincent bevins, the jakarta method

walter rodney, how europe underdeveloped africa

william blum, killing hope

zak cope, divided world divided class

zak cope, the wealth of (some) nations

MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES

antonio gramsci, the prison notebooks

ed. mick gidley, representing others: white views of indigenous peoples

ed. stuart hall, representation: cultural representations and signifying pratices

gilles deleuze & felix guattari, capitalism & schizophrenia

jacques derrida, margins of philosophy

jacques derrida, speech and phenomena

michael parenti, inventing reality

michel foucault, disicipline and punish

michel foucault, the archeology of knowledge

natasha schull, addiction by design

nick snricek, platform capitalism

noam chomsky and edward herman, manufacturing consent

regis tove stella, imagining the other

richard sennett and jonathan cobb, the hidden injuries of class

safiya umoja noble, algoriths of oppression

stuart hall, cultural studies 1983: a theoretical history

theodor adorno and max horkheimer, the culture industry

walter benjamin, the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

OTHER

angela davis, women, race, and class

anna louise strong, cash and violence in laos and vietnam

anna louise strong, the soviets expected it

anna louise strong, when serfs stood up in tibet

carrie hamilton, sexual revolutions in cuba

chris chitty, sexual hegemony

christian fuchs, theorizing and analysing digital labor

eds. jules joanne gleeson and elle o'rourke, transgender marxism

elaine scarry, the body in pain

jules joanne gleeson, this infamous proposal

michael parenti, blackshirts & reds

paulo freire, pedagogy of the oppressed

peter drucker, warped: gay normality and queer anticapitalism

rosemary hennessy, profit and pleasure

sophie lewis, abolish the family

suzy kim, everyday life in the north korean revolution

walter rodney, the russian revolution: a view from the third world

#ask #avowed inframaterialist reading group #i obviously do not 100% agree with all the points made by and conclusions reached by these works #but i think they are valuable and useful to read

[thepeelucof87]

IGNORE THAT PREVIOUS POLL I FORGOT VARKA

#crepussy conundrum #anyway #who do you think did it

[blondeaxolotl]

Red Butler/Swap AU Character guide list

This list does not go in order and only has characters that have been swapped with already/confirmed to be swapped with another, more will be added/changed when I figure them out Elizabeth Midford <- -> o!Ciel Phantomhive Alois Trancy <- -> r!Ciel/Sirius Phantomhive Grell Sutcliff <- -> Sebastian Michaelis Ran-Mao <- -> Mey-Rin Joanna <- -> Baldroy Soma Asman Kadar <- -> Finnian Paula <- -> Tanaka Drossel Keinz <- -> Snake

Irene Diaz <- -> Pluto Madame Red <- -> Lau Francis Midford <- -> Rachel Phantomhive Alexis Leon Midford <- -> Vincent Phantomhive Hannah Annafellows<- -> William T. Spears Wolfram Gelzer <- -> Ronald Knox Agni <- -> Othello Claude Faustus<- -> Undertaker Sascha, Ludger <- -> Timber, Canterbury (Third triplet does exists, they're just an extra) Ash Landers <- -> Rian Stoker Angela Blanc <- -> Nina Hopkins Layla <- -> Sieglinde Sullivan Charles Grey <- -> Joker Charles Phipps <- -> Dagger Jane <- -> Beast Joanne Harcourt <- -> Doll Johann Agares <- -> Jumbo Edward V <- -> Peter Richard <- -> Wendy Viscount Druitt <- -> Blavat Edward Midford <- -> Clayton Maurice Cole <- -> Cheslock Gregory Violet <- -> Edgar Redmond Lawrence Bluewer <- -> Herman Greenhill McMillan <- -> Derrick Arden Baldroy JR <- -> Luka Macken Theodore <- -> Mabel Artie <- -> Oliver

Note: when more characters are revealed in the series as it goes on, chances are some swaps might be changed because they fit newer characters more than previous ones.

#This list took forever but hey hope this helps keep track of swapped characters easier. tried to keep it as simple as possible #again not all characters are shown here so this post will most likely be edited the more this au goes on #or be updated with some swaps changing places because I end up realising they actually fit better than their previous ones #again ty imviotrash for suggesting I make a character guide list #black butler #kuroshitsuji #black butler 2 #kuroshitsuji 2 #black butler swap au #red butler au #not an art post #not tagging a single one of these characters nuh uh #swap au

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

Which black butler characters do you think would prefer a dominant s/o?

*eyes all the ones who want dominant* c'mere babies- XD

Who prefers a more dominant/authoritative S/O: Arthur, Conny, Edgar, Finny, Joanne, Lizzie, Mey Rin, Othello, Patrick, Ran Mao, Sascha, Snake, Soma, Thomas, Triplets

Who prefers a more submissive/supportive S/O: Aleister, Ash, Astre, Bravat, Claude, Clayton, Derrick, Diedrich, Grell, Grey, Herman, Lau, Maurice, Peter, Sebastian

Who would be fine with either/would prefer a S/O who has both traits in equal or almost equal measure: Agni, Alan, Alois, Anne, Bard, Cheslock, Ciel, Dagger, Drossel, Edward, Eric, Freckles, Gregory, Hannah, John, Joker, Jumbo, Lawrence, Nina, Phipps, Ronald, Rudger, Undertaker, Wendy, William, Wolfram

#Black Butler #Kuroshitsuji #preferences #romantic #OO LA LA~ #one hell of a queue

[kurobracket]

BRACKET REVEAL

At last, the highly anticipated bracket reveal for the Akuma 6 V2 is now out! Before viewing this bracket, please keep in mind that I randomized who goes against who so that I wouldn't be biased in my decision. Regarding the decision of who made it in the bracket, I took the results from my Google Form I put out a few weeks ago, while also considering some of the most popular fan favorite characters and consulting outside help. So if you're wondering why a certain character isn't there, or why an "unpopular" character is there, that is the reason why. Also, since the size of the bracket is so huge, the image quality is SUPER LOW, which is why I included a PDF of the bracket so you can zoom in a higher quality. Without further ado, here is the official bracket:

And here is the link to the PDF where you can freely zoom in

I know its super small, which is why I am including a text description of who is going against who in round one:

Rachel Phantomhive vs William T. Spears

Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Midford vs Alois Trancy

Undertaker vs Lawrence Anderson (Pops)

Blavat Sky vs Drocell Keinz

Jane vs Grelle Sutcliff

Mey Rin vs Frederick Abberline

Ronald Knox vs Edgar Redmond

Alan Humphries vs Ash/Angela Landers

Lau vs Herman Greenhill

Tanaka vs Othello

Charles Grey vs Soma Asman Kadar

Doll vs Sebastian Michaelis

Snake’s snakes vs Nina Hopkins

Sieglinde Sullivan vs Bard

Sascha vs Agni

Angelina Dalles vs Vincent Phantomhive

Wolfram Gelzer vs Lawrence Bluewer

Gregory Violet vs Hannah Annafellows

Ciel Phantomhive vs Ran Mao

Snake vs Ludger

Butler Grelle vs Finnian

Eric Slingby vs Thomas Wallis

Charles Phipps vs Joker

Sharpe Hanks vs “Ciel” Phantomhive

Asks and submissions are open for questions and propaganda posts! Please remember to have fun, be kind to each other, and remember this is just for fun.

Round one will be posted tomorrow, Monday March 6th at 12 P.M. EST!

#announcements #kuroshitsuji #black butler #tumblr bracket

[cannolicorgi]

//twitter ship discourse and Genshin leaks (?)

What’s with this “Tighnari and Cyno are siblings” bs? Because they said they are like siblings? And why are some people treating this as if only Asian countries use brother/sister as terms of endearment? Once again Twitter ruins other people’s perceptions of what American culture is actually like. Brother/sister and bro/sis are endearing here too, calling someone your bro doesn’t actually mean you’re related. Plus in many religions here we call everyone brother/sister. It’s not American culture, it’s just EN Twitter culture. No one calls Ayato and Itto brothers despite Itto calling him “my bro Ayato”, because they’re so obviously not brothers. Even if you ignore the fact that Tighnari and Cyno look nothing alike, don’t you think it’s a little weird that one of them is... idunno... HALF DOG?? And if Tighnari and Cyno were actually siblings, don’t you think it’d be important enough to mention in a voiceline?? Mika isn’t even out yet and we already know he’s Huffman’s little brother! I can at least understand thinking Diluc and Kaeya are brothers because most people only see the dogshit localization, so the only hint they’d get to the real relationship is the fact that Kaeya is still Kaeya Alberich and not Ragnvindr, but thinking Tighnari and Cyno are seriously brothers because they said they are “like siblings” is quite the leap for an average player.

Here’s a list of known relationships (to my knowledge)

Siblings: Mika, Huffman Jean, Barbara Ayato, Ayaka Ajax, Anthon, Tonia, Teucer Aether, Lumine Ei/Beelzebul, Makoto/Baal Dori, unnamed older sister Gorou, at least 4 unnamed older siblings (this might just be a pun on his name in Japanese) Xingqiu, unnamed older brother Shenhe, at least one sibling Cyrus, Iris

“Siblings”: Diluc, Kaeya Ayato, Itto Tighnari, Cyno Albedo, Klee (Alice is a stand-in mother figure by extension)

Other relatives: Shenhe, Chongyun (aunt, nephew) Xiangling, Chef Mao (daughter, father) Diona, Draff, Olaf (daughter, father, ???) Yoimiya, Ryuunosuke (daughter, father) Diluc, Crepus (son, father) Klee, Alice (daughter, mother) Jean, Barbara, Frederica, Seamus (daughter, daughter, mother, father)(parents are divorced) Eula, Schubert (niece, uncle) Niwa, Kazuha (distant relatives) Herman, Ellin (father, daughter) Cyrus, Iris, Majorie (father, aunt, daughter/niece) Guy, Tunner (son, father)

???: Kunikuzushi, Raiden Shogun, Ei, Makoto (creation/son/brother, clone/sister, creator/mother, creator’s sister/aunt) Albedo, Durin, Rhinedottir (creation/brother, creation/brother, creator)

#corgi-speaks #tw discourse #possible leaks #genshin siblings #genshin families #genshin impact #cynonari #cyno #tighnari #kaeluc #kaeya #diluc #mika

[blackbutlercharacterpoll2023]

After the cut is the final list of characters that will be in the poll, aside from any new characters that are introduced in chapter 199.

Abbie

Ada

Agni / Arshad Satyendra Iyer

Akashi

Al

Alan Humphries

Aleister Chamber / Viscount of Druitt

Alexis Leon Midford

Alois Trancy / Jim Macken

Angela Blanc

Angelina Dalles / Madam Red / Aunt An

Anne Drewanz

Annie

the archeologist (Season 2 character)

Arihito Genpou

Aristocrat of Evil with the scarred face

Arnold Trancy

Artie

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Randall

Ash Landers

Aurora Society member (first one O!Ciel and Seb meet)

Aurora Society purified water seller

Azzurro Vanel

Baldroy / Bard / Baldo

Baldroy Jr.

Baldroy's cow

the bear

Beast

beggar boy that Soma gives a necklace to, mother, and baby brother

Betty

Bitter Rabbit

bizarre dolls

bizarre doll horses

Blavat Sky

Bloodbath Johnny

Bronte

Burnett

Canterbury

Carter

the cat from the live action movie

the cats Sebastian rescues from the rain

Cedric Brandel

Cedric K. Ros

CGI horses / driver

Charles Bennett Sato

Charles Grey

Charles Phipps

Charles Phipps's chicken

Chef Lach

Chef Rickman

Chef Tarpin

Chef Wollest

Cheslock

Chlaus

Chris Heathfield

Chris Heathfield's Chris Heathfield's maids

Ciel Phantomhive bizarre doll / Real Ciel / R!Ciel

Ciel Phantomhive child / R!Ciel child

"Ciel" Phantomhive / Our Ciel / O!Ciel

Ciel's horse

Claude Faustus

Claude's birds

Cloudia Phantomhive

Clayton

Conny

Countess Trancy and her baby

the cultists

Dagger

Damian

Daniel

"Deer"

demon Ciel

demon Crow

demon "pet" (the xenomorph)

Derrick Arden

Diedrich

Doctor

Doll / Freckles

Donne

Dove

Drossel Keinz

Drossel's dolls

Edgar Redmond

Edward Abberline

Edward Midford

Edward V

Elizabeth Midford / Lizzy

Ellery Nixon

Emily

Eric Slingby

Fennian

Finnian / Finny

Finny's hat

FOL Orphanage staff

Francis Midford

Fred Abberline

Funtom Corporation's unicorn suit

Georg von Siemens

German countryman

Ginny

Goethe

Green House dorm master

Gregory Violet

Grelle Sutcliff

Grelle's chainsaw

Grete Hilbard

Grimsby Keane

Haku

Haku's henchman

Hanae Wakatsuki

Hannah Annafellows

Hao

Harold West Jeb

Heinrich

Henry Barrymore

"Her"

Herman Greenhill

Higham

Hilde Dickhaut

the iceberg

Irene Diaz

Jackknife Haywood

James

Jan

Jane

Japanese man with a katana

Japanese woman with a lunchbox

Jay the Undertaker

Jeremy Rathbone

Joanna

Joanne Harcourt

Johann Agares

John Brown

John Brown's horse

Johnny

Joker

Julius Pitt

Jumbo

Karl Woodley

Keats

Kelvin

kenpo master

King's Bear prostitutes

Lau

Lau's girls

Lawrence Anderson / Pops

Lawrence Bluewer

Lawrence Bluewer's sisters

Layla

Lord Ackroyd

Lord Ackroyd's son

Lorraine McDowell

Ludger

Luka Macken

the Mad Dog of Venice

Mabel

Margaret Connor

Margaret Connor's father

Margaret Turner

Maria

Mathilda Simmons

Maurice Cole

McDowell

McMillan

Mey-Rin

Milly

Mina

Miranda

Mrs. Mayell

Munemitsu Aoki

Nicholas

Nick

Nina Hopkins

Nina's assistants

O!Ciel's land renters

Oliver

the orphan that called Sebastian an old guy

Oscar

Othello

the other children in the lab Finny was kept in

Paul Jones

the Panzer

Patrick Phelps

Patrick the Grey Wizard

Paula

Peter

Phantomhive family ring

Pitt

Pluto

Polaris

priest (from Season 2)

Prince Albert

Prince Albert puppet

Professor Sullivan / village crone

Purple House dorm master

Purple House prefect from Vincent's year

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria (Season 1)

Rachel Phantomhive

Ran-Mao

Reaper managers

Reaper trainees

Red House dorm master

Red House prefect from Vincent's year

Richard

Ridley

Rian Stoker

Rin

Ronald Knox

Ronald's lawnmower

the Rowdy Count

Sam / Old Man Sam

Sam's grandson

Saneatsu Nekoma

Sascha

Scotland Yard officers

Sebastian Michaelis

the Sebastian Roomba

Sebastian the dog

Sebastian's silverware

Sharpe Hanks

Shiori Genpou

Sieglinde Sullivan

Sieglinde Sullivan's father

Snake

Snake's unnamed snakes

Soma Asman Kadar

Soma's elephant

Sophie Smith

Sphere Music Hall staff

Stella Rose

Susan

Susannah Connor

Tanaka

Terry

Theodore

Thomas Wallis

Thompson

Timber

the timetable guy

the train kidnapper

Trancy / Former Head Trancy

the turnspit dog

Undertaker

Undertaker's death scythe

Undertaker's mourning lockets

Vicar Rathbone

Vincent Phantomhive

Vincent Phantomhive's staff

walking stick shopkeeper

Webster

Wendy

the "werewolves"

Wilde

William T. Spears

William's death scythe

William's pigeons

Wolfram Gelzer

Wordsworth

Yana Toboso

#poll info

[blackbutlerfandomnerddomain]

I just heard that you do poly content and now I’m tempted to send in Black Butler poly requests.

Please do!

my main poly ships of Black Butler are:

Doll x O!Ciel x Alois

Sebastian x Grelle x Ronald x Mey-Rin

Grelle x Hannah x Madam Red

Madam Red x Hannah x Angela x Beast

Claude x Sebastian x Ash/Angela

Lau x Bard x Paula

William x Grelle x Ronald

Ronald x Grelle x Sebastian

The Prefect Four

Maurice x Cheslock x Soma x Joanne

Gregory x Herman x Lawerence

Mey-Rin x Ran Mao x Hannah

Rachel x Vincent x Diedrich

#black butler #poly shipping #polyamory #polyamourous

[shadowsphere]

☼Sphere's Black Butler Masterlist☼

"𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴. 𝘈 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸, 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘢 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘈 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺." -𝘊𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦 "𝘙𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘴, 𝘸𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘥." -𝘓𝘦𝘰 𝘛𝘰𝘭𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘺

☀︎ - 𝘚𝘮𝘶𝘵 ☁︎ - 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵 ⛅︎ - 𝘍𝘭𝘶𝘧𝘧

🔮Phantomhive Household

☼ Sebastian Michaelis ☼ Baldroy ☼ Mey-Rin ☼ Snake

🔮Midford Household

☼ Edward Midford

🔮Royal Household

☼ Charles Grey ☼ Charles Phipps

🔮Grim Reapers

☼ Grelle Sutcliff ☼ William T. Spears ☼ Ronald Knox ☼ Undertaker

🔮Aristocrats of Evil

☼ Angelina Dalles

🔮Noah's Ark Circus

☼ Beast ☼ Doll ☼ Joker

🔮Weston College

☼ Johann Agares ☼ Herman Greenhill ☼ Gregory Violet

🔮Trancy Household

☼ Claude Faustus ☼ Hannah Annafellows

🔮Misc

☼ Agni ☼ Arthur Conan Doyle ☼ Grimsby Keane ☼ Irene Diaz ☼ Mina ☼ Ran-Mao ☼ Rian Stoker ☼ Soma Asman Kadar ☼ Drossel Keinz ☼ Edward V

#black butler #black butler masterlist #masterlist #anime masterlist #phantomhive household #midford household #royal household #grim reapers #aristocrats of evil #noahs ark circus #weston college #trancy household #shadow's sphere☽

[grandhotelabyss]

An amusing flourish in the picture caption to Justin Murphy’s newsletter on Flannery O’Connor: “When was the last time you heard about Elizabeth Hardwick?” The cognoscenti have been hyping a Hardwick revival for half a decade now, to semi-avail. I got in on the game in 2017 by reading her little Herman Melville bio; I wrote about it here. For what it’s worth, I think that’s one of the funnier essays I’ve ever written:

All of the above to say that I approach Hardwick, at this stage of my reading life, with a bit, just a hint really, the proverbial soupçon, whatever that means, of suspicion—with apprehensions of fatigue. These days, for me, somehow, the New York Intellectuals, The New York Review of Each Other’s Books, have lost their luster. If I don’t care about Bloomsbury, why should I care about this even less generally relevant coterie? Their organs have been disintermediated, their politics obsolesced, in the thresher of the 21st century. The problem with ressentiment and separatism, though, is that you miss too much of relevance to yourself, because you have artificially constricted your own soul too far in advance of experience. Lady Ottoline Morrell, Barbara Epstein—sure, if you’re not in the club, who cares? But you would not want to miss a Virginia Woolf, not even in the 21st century: so to Hardwick’s Melville I go.

I suspect Murphy may have had in mind that recent survey that showed the average reader of the New York Review of Books to be, in age terms, pretty much deceased. 

I never did read Hardwick’s most celebrated novel Sleepless Nights, with all those blurbs from Sontag, Roth, Didion. I started it right after I read Adler’s Speedboat and it was too similar so I put it down. These aren’t universal writers, Adler and Hardwick, in the way that O’Connor is a universal writer. It’s a different order of being. I may have heard about Hardwick lately—and she’s okay, very intelligent, very civilized; I do think her metropolitan milieu partially liked her so much because she escaped from Hicksville, and I increasingly detest that kind of thing—but nobody would say about her what (if I recall) Robert Fitzgerald said about O’Connor: that she should be mentioned in the company not of Hemingway but of Sophocles. Which might go too far, but is in the ballpark.

Speaking of mid-to-late-20th-century American letters: over in Tablet, at whose Substack annex I myself sometimes appear, David Mikics nominates Ralph Ellison, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon, Flannery O’Connor, and Elizabeth Bishop as the most important postwar American writers and the antidotes to today’s over-politicized rage. No quarreling with the list—I appreciate that he said Bishop where one is probably supposed to say Ashbery—though a little Saul Bellow and a little Don DeLillo wouldn’t be amiss.

If literature can teach anything, it is patience and conviction. We mostly have neither. We lash out violently, apocalyptic and urgent, with our enemies’ lists in hand. The days of rage have returned, both on the right and the left. To weather these tantrums, we should turn back to the writers who oppose the infantile fervor of groupthink—who acknowledge the lostness of the self in the world, the first step to declaring independence.

And speaking of Don DeLillo, I spent the last week and half gratuitously and luxuriously rereading the massive Underworld—truly one of the best books there is—and I wrote about it at length here. Of DeLillo’s oeuvre, I still need to read End Zone and Ratner’s Star, both of which I’ve avoided on principles that have stood me in good stead since grade school: I don’t care about sports and I don’t care about math. And it’s been so long since I read The Names and Mao II that those readings probably don’t count. Underworld, though, is where it’s at, as I write:

For Underworld is, first of all, in the high tradition of the American novel, which, as umpteenth observers from Nathaniel Hawthorne forward have told us, has never been a novel at all, not a sober realist social survey, but a weird symbolic prose-poem, an inward voyage projected out onto the national landscape. Underworld places itself in this tradition with its first sentence: “He speaks in your voice, American, and there’s a shine in his eye that’s halfway hopeful.” The first thing to say about this sentence is that it pays tribute to two sentences from the Great American Novels of the early 1950s, the period when Underworld begins: the first sentence of Bellow’s Adventures of Augie March (“I am an American, Chicago born”) and the last sentence of Ellison’s Invisible Man (“Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”). The second thing to say is that, like a line of poetry, the sentence admits of two readings, with “American” as either a noun, which makes the sentence a direct address to the American reader, or an adjective modifying “voice,” declaring a national origin and destiny for the novel’s style. So this is an American romance, and you have to read it like a poem; and, as in Bellow’s and Ellison’s novels, or Faulkner’s and Melville’s before them, the sensibility and suffering that emerges is less the sojourning protagonists’ and more that of the organizing and presiding consciousness. As in a book of poems or in a long poem, it’s the poet you get to know best, and not for nothing does Underworld, in its final one-word sentence, echo no novel at all but the century’s most famous poem, The Waste Land. “Shantih shantih shantih,” Eliot chants in Sanskrit, which DeLillo puts into plain American: “Peace.”

#american literature #flannery o'connor #elizabeth hardwick #don delillo #justin murphy #david mikics #literary criticism

[blackbutler-readerinsertsandjunk]

Which characters do you think would prefer a plus sized s/o?

tbh most of them ended up in the 'it doesn't matter' category bc I can't imagine anyone thinking it's a dealbreaker or finding it unattractive or anything? but there's definitely those who like it more hehe

anyway as a plus size lady who loves all these babies, I 10000% approve =)

Who likes it more than average: Agni, Bard, Finny, Freckles Joanne, Joker, Maurice, Nina, Sascha, Snake, Soma, Undertaker, Wolfram

Who has no preference/doesn’t matter to them: Alan, Aleister, Alois, Anne, Arthur, Ash, Astre, Bravat, Cheslock, Ciel, Claude, Clayton, Conny, Dagger, Derrick, Diedrich, Drossel, Edgar, Edward, Eric, Gregory, Grell, Grey, Hannah, Herman, John, Jumbo, Lau, Lawrence, Lizzie, Mey Rin, Othello, Patrick, Peter, Phipps, Ran Mao, Ronald, Rudger, Sebastian, Thomas, Triplets, Wendy, William

#Black Butler #Kuroshitsuji #preferences #romantic #I'm not actually gonna tag all the characters on preferences anymore cuz it always cuts them off since there's so many tags lmao #anyway my babiessssss #one hell of a queue

[kurobracket]

ROUND ONE NAVIGATION

Rachel Phantomhive vs William T. Spears

Elizabeth Midford vs Alois Trancy

Undertaker vs Pops

Blavat Sky vs Drocell Keinz

Jane vs Grelle Sutcliff

Mey Rin vs Frederick Abberline

Ronald Knox vs Edgar Redmond

Alan Humphries vs Ash/Angela Landers

Lau vs Herman Greenhill

Tanaka vs Othello

Charles Grey vs Soma Asman Kadar

Doll vs Sebastian Michaelis

Snake's snakes vs Nina Hopkins

Sieglinde Sullivan vs Bard

Sascha vs Agni

Angelina Dalles vs Vincent Phantomhive

Wolfram Gelzer vs Lawrence Bluewer

Gregory Violet vs Hannah Annafellows

Ciel Phantomhive vs Ran Mao

Snake vs Ludger

Butler Grelle vs Finnian

Eric Slingby vs Thomas Wallis

Charles Phipps vs Joker

Sharpe Hanks vs "Ciel" Phantomhive

Good luck to everyone!

#akuma 6 v2 #round one

[murder-senpai]

F A N F I C T I O N

Oh, hello there!! My name is Murder-senpai! I’m new here to tumblr sooooo don’t mind me being awkward n’ stuff. So this is gonna be like, what fandoms and characters I write for sOoooOoOo

AU’s and other stuff I’ll do: ABO, genderbend, hanahaki, soulmate, supernatural/power, soft yandere/ stockholm syndrome, coffee shop, modern, fantasy, baby/kid versions of characters, babysitter, neko, inu, kitsune, post apocalyptic, zombie, flower shop, book store, dragon, fairy tale, high school/college, mafia, pregnant, steampunk, merpeople, pirate, pirate/merperson, prison, reincarnation, famous, vampire, werewolf

There is more shit I’ll do but I can’t really think anymore so just request

(reader insert crap)

I will NOT do nsfw. This is a christian minecraft sever 

You CAN request multiple character/poly and platonic stuff

If your not specific, I will choose between headcanons or a fic/drabble

If you request angst, I will give it a fluffy ending unless requested otherwise

Please be specific in your request   ex: reader gender (fem, male, gender neutral)

Edit: I will now take character x character, character + character platonic stuff, aus (like, medevil bnha, or a story about friendship or enemies to friends or adoption, anything really), and stuff like that

Current hyperfixation (aka, what I will probably write better for/ do more): dream smp

Will probably put the scenario in a non specific arc

Fairy Tail:

Natsu

Gray

Loke/leo

Laxus

Sting

Rouge

Gajeel

Zeref

Jellal

Jackal

Lucy

Levy

Juvia

Guildarts

Freed

Erza

DBH:

Connor

Hank

Markus

Gavin

nines

ATLA:

Aang

Zuko

Sokka

Katara

Toph

mai

ty lee

azula

BNHA:

Izuku

Katsuki

Shouto

Denki

Eijiro

Tenya

Toshinori

Shouta

hizashi

fumikage

neito

mirio

takami

hitoshi

inasa

Enji

keigo

rumi

momo

mina

ochaco

dabi

shigaraki

overhaul

sir nighteye

kurogiri

toga

twice

Inuyasha:

Inuyahsa

kagome

naraku

miroku

koga

sesshomaru

sango

BNA:

michiru

shirou

nazuna

alan

marie

pinga

Sherlock:

Sherlock

john

moriarty

mycroft

greg

molly

Harry potter:

harry

ron

hermione

draco

cedric

Black Butler:

ciel

sebastian

bard

finny

ash

claude

alois

triplets

william

grell

ronald

undertaker

joker

dagger

agni

soma

pluto

beast

lizzy

mey-rin

ran-mao

edward

aleistar

vincent

real ciel (I refer to him as astre tho)

snake

charles grey

charles phipps

gregory

cheslock

joanne

maurice

herman

clayton

lawrance

mcmillan

edgar

blavat

seiglinde

MLB:

Marinette/ladybug

adrien/chat noir

gabriel/hawkmoth

nathaniel

marc

luka

alya

nino

felix

bridgette

chloe

TPN:

emma

ray

norman

don

gilda

leslie

Undertale:

sans

papyrus

frisk

toriel

chara

asriel

asgore

grillby

gaster

mettaton

blooky 

AU’s- underfell, mafiatale, mafiafell, underswap, swapfell

Beastars:

legoshi

haru

louis

juno

gouhin

melon

Gravity falls:

dipper

mable

ford

wendy

robbie

bill

AU-reverse falls, monster falls

SVTFOE:

star

marco

tom

toffee

Hazbin:

alastor

angle dust

charlie

husk

vaggie

lucifer

val

vox

Pokemon:

Gladion

ash

clemont

serena

james

jesse

zeraora

lucario

mewtwo

zacian

zamazenta

literally any pokemon but those are my fave(and human versions ofc either is fine)

guzma

kukui

alain

lysandre

bede

hop

leon

milo

allister

raihan

marnie

piers

ACNH:

tom nook

raymond

lobo 

kabuki

lolly

marshal

Isabelle

redd

fang

Avengers:

tony

steve

bucky

clint

natasha

dr. strange

thor 

loki

peter

Voltron:

lance

keith

shiro

hunk

lotor

pidge

Aggretsuko:

tadano

haida

hyoudou

The hobbit:

literally JUST smaug

MLP:

twilight

pinkie

apple jack

rainbow

fluttershy

rarity

discord

Maid sama:

takumi

misaki

shoichiro

the three idiots

aoi (totaly gives off a ciel/lizzy vibe don’t even lie)

sotaro

tora

kanade

kuga

koma

yujiro

shosei

Naruto:

naruto

sauske

kakashi

itachi

gaara

neji

shikamaru

kurama

kiba

OHSHC:

tamaki

haruhi

hikaru

karou

both twins

kyoya

hunny

mori

kasanoda

nekosawa

Cells at work:

white blood cell

red blood cell

killer t cell

Little witch academia:

atsuko

diana

sucy

lotte

amanda

andrew

louis

frank

Pucca:

pucca

garu

tobe

abyo

Glitter force:

emily/Miyuki

kelsey/Akane

lily/Yayoi

april/Nao

chole/Reika

ulric/wolfrun

rascal

Glitter force doki doki:

ira

maya/Mana

rachel/Rikka

clara/Alice

mackenzie/Makoto

TMNT(2012):

leonardo

raphael

michelangelo

donatello

splinter

april

ROTG:

aster bunnymund

north

pitch

sandy

jack

tooth

Soul eater:

death the kid

soul 

black star

maka

stein

Aot:

levi

eren

armin

mikasa

jean

erwin

IT(2017):

pennywise

richie

beverly

eddie 

stanley

ben

bill 

henry

patrick

victor

belch

bowers gang

losers club

kamisama kiss:

nanami

tomoe

mizkui

kurama

otohiku

mikage

jiro

The outsiders:

dallas

darry

ponyboy

johnny

two-bit

steve

soda

Diabolik lovers:

shu

reiji

ayato

laito

kanato

subaru

yui

karlheinz

kou

azuza

carla

ruki

richter

yuma

shin

Hamilton:

alex

john

king george

george washington

lafayette

hercules

philip

aaron

thomas

Venom(2018):

eddie/venom

Tokyo mew mew:

ichigo

zakuro

tart

pie

Kisshu

Fran bow

Fran

remor

itward

mr. midnight

Steven universe

steven

connie

pearl

amethyst

larz 

sadie

garnet

lapiz

peridot

spinel

Haven't you heard i'm sakamoto

sakamota

Shou

Gargantia on the verdurous planet

ledo

amy

Animaniacs

yakko

wakko

dot

Over the garden wall

wirt

beast

Sonic

sonic

tails

knuckles

amy

shadow

Snow white with the red hair

Shirayuki

zen

obi

The sacrificial princess and the king of beasts(manga)

Leonhart

Sariphi

Lanteveldt

Anubis/Sirius

Jormungand

Fenrir

Nir

Joz

Ilya

Beetlejuice(musical)

beetlejuice

lydia

Creepypasta

Jeff the killer

slenderman

offenderman

trenderman

splenderman

ticci toby

masky

hoodie

BEN drowned 

eyeless jack

laughing jack

homicidal liu

zalgo

clockwork

Jason the toymaker

puppeteer

Yu-gi-oh

Seto Kaiba

FNAF

Freddy

bonnie

chica

foxy

golden freddy

toy freddy

toy bonnie

toy chica

mangle (male and female ver pls specify)

marionette ^

springtrap

william afton/ purple guy

baby

funtime freddy

ennard

nightmare freddy

nightmare bonnie

nightmare chica

nightmare foxy

nightmare mangle

fredbear

nightmare fredbear

Cuphead

cuphead

mugman

devil

king dice

Bendy and the ink machine

bendy

boris

alice 

Duck tales

Scrooge (aged down tho)

webby

della

donald

louie

dewey

huey

launchpad

lena

Dream smp

everyone (all platonic. Will do reader stuff, but would prefer more character +character interactions, specifically, SBI. PLSSS give me sbi stuff, ill marry you)

#anime #the outsiders #kamisama kiss #it 2017 #aot #tpn #fairy tail #bna #bnha #mha #soul eater #rotg #tmnt 2012 #glitter force #glitter force doki doki #pucca #little witch academia #my little pony #mlp #my hero academia #boco no hero academia #the promised neverland #cells at work #naruto #ohshc #ouran high school host club #maid sama #the hobbit #aggretsuko #beastars

[sleepingdeath-light]

last updated; 04/09/23

listed below is all of the content that I have published on this account for the “black butler” fandom that feature the supportive/secondary cast of characters.

* younger characters are aged up by default *

agni

alphabet — smut

hcs — being in a relationship [here]

edgar redmond

alphabet — smut

edward midford

hcs — falling in love with sebastian’s daughter [here]

one shot — “improper behaviour” (nsfw)

elizabeth midford

hcs — what kind of wife she’d be [here]

gregory violet

alphabet — smut

herman greenhill

alphabet — smut

lawrence bluewer

alphabet — smut

ran mao

alphabet — smut

soma

alphabet — smut

hcs — being in a relationship [here]

hcs — marrying ciel’s older sister [here]

#sleepingdeath #kuroshitsuji masterlist #writing masterlist #black butler masterlist #black butler x reader #black butler fanfic #black butler fanfiction #kuroshitsuji fanfic #kuroshitsuji fanfiction #kuroshitsuji x reader #kuroshitsuji #black butler