does like anyone else sort parts of hgsn into tiers of canonness? Maybe it’s just my warrior cat origins where all the information was directly contradicting so you had to decide how to sort everything yourself but like, I just go into media expecting stuff to be retconned.
Like I tier it:
>Ch3 = anything after chapter 3 with preference to the most recent chapter being the most correct. Maki says in ch23 that after the unuki was made, the illness and famine died down, but according to Kouhei in 25, it only really stopped after the Indoh sin. In this case, I would take Kouhei’s explanation as the more correct explanation unless a subsequent chapter contradicts him.
Len’s Twitter extras = Generally supplemental and trustworthy but occasionally taking them at face value can create conflict with the manga. One comic strip says that ‘Hikaru’ has to manually beat his heart, but during his stint in the hospital, he was completely unconscious. Certainly the hospital staff would notice his heart wasn’t beating, right? Therefore, we will discard this comic as not canon nor representative of how ‘hikaru’ actually works.
Chs1-3 = A separate tier because just about everything in them has been retconned and they’re riddled with beginning weirdness. The example I’ll point to for a clear retcon is ‘Hikaru’ blushing at Yoshiki at the end of ch1 when we know he doesn’t experience romantic or sexual attraction. This fits with the genre change after chapter 3, and so, it can be assumed that it was retconned and is no longer considered for the plot going forward.
Light novel = the light novel wasn’t written by Mokumokulen, but any extra information is just that. Extra. There’s no real contradictions. Yet. If anything in the light novel or extra chapter is contradicted by the manga going further, the light novel will be entirely tossed aside.
Misc hgsn art = Anything lacking text or explanation (such as the decapitation pieces) as well as the pilot. While sometimes these act as foreshadowing, most of the time they’re just cool images. Dont think we’ll see ‘Hikaru’ with a bottle of ketchup anytime soon for example.
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"Do not seek forgiveness, for it will not ease the burden. It weighs as it should."
Redemption Arc
Redemption Arc- "Your story had a pretty rough start and you did some things you're not proud of, but you made the choice to change. I won't go through how important it is to accept responsibility and keep striving to improve or whatever because you know that already. What I think you should know is that your fuel does not need to be shame. You don’t need to stand over the bathroom sink with your blood in your hands until you can no longer make out your reflection. You will look at your face and you will see the person you used to be, but that person no longer exists. Today, you are looking, and that makes all the difference."
tagged by @iron-sparrow tyty!! It was fun to try and think of a way for this to fit at least one version of Hazel and I think I got it.
Quiz can be found here
aaaand I will tag: @the-white-snake, @sparrowsong-7, @cindernet-explorer, @selnyam, @hinganskies
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✨Behind the Scenes at Monstrous HQ - Feb 6th 2024✨
What do you blog about when you haven't done any podcasting for a week? Well, uh… [checks notes] definitions and limitations of the concept of "queer art", of course!
This week's Intro to Queer Theory is now available for our Silver tier supporters on our Ko-Fi page! For £5 a month you get access to this and tons of other cool content, including some beautiful bonus art-work from @diabeticspoon92.
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Concept: Duke’s pupils glow white when he uses his powers. White rather than gold matches his bat symbol and fits that he’s about light itself, not just sunlight. The pupil glowing represents how his retina, the part which the pupil opens to and actually responds to and absorbs light, would probably be the part affected by his metahuman power to absorb light in superhuman ways; is a somewhat more subtle power indicator than glowing irises; avoids giving yet another black character/PoC unnaturally non-brown eyes, even temporarily; and tell me circles of bright white inside dark brown irises isn’t an immensely cool image. Light in the darkness. Like the classic solid white eyes in Batman’s cowl in some art styles.
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Musical Touken Ranbu: Tokyo Kokoro Oboe english sub
I know this isn’t the TsuruKara Souki you were expecting, but on the plus side, neither was I expecting this! Since I’m watching this with a friend soon, I figured, why not? It is very high up in my faves list, after all 🥺
Following my predecessors, the start of the subtitles has a little intro blurb on each of the historical figures, and I’m also planning on making a little research file in which I’ll try to explain a few things about Masakado and horses, Masakado and Kikyou, Ota Dokan and the yamabuki (Japanese kerria) girl, and some details about Tenkai as person and his planning of Edo as city.
I’m also planning to include some translation notes (specifically on ほころび・る hokorobi/ru because that deserves to be mentioned) in the file, some interpretations on the girl with the Noh mask, and a few fun facts about how each of the historical figures relates to Inari or foxes. Because in the context of the roles Suishinshi and the Gous get given throughout TKO, as well as the themes present in it, it may be interesting to keep a certain little fox in the back of your mind while watching!
Keep in mind that this is only the subtitle file, timed and tled to the DMM archive distribution.
You can download the subs for the DMM archive distribution here,
and with lots of thanks to a friend, the subs for the BD/DVD version can be found here!
The research file will be able to be found here too, at a later date.
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I apologize for not spending my childhood reading that massive stack of star wars books I always saw in the library that honestly seemed so boring and extraneous, but you're telling me Ben was a Skywalker, Luke's son, and the movies just .. didn't take any of that?
Can you imagine the drama of Ben's fall to the dark after being manipulated his whole life by snoke, after his mother dies, after years of abandonment by his father which culminate in the dude trying to kill him one night because he thinks bens irredeemable or something. That he'll never be balanced in the force because he's tempted by the dark or whatever.
Ben and Luke meeting on the bridge, Luke having to face what he's done, the hypocrisy the irony of believing in his father enough to try and save him but not having faith enough in his son? Bens been convinced by "his grandfather" and snoke that he has to kill his father to prove his loyalty, to get revenge for his attempted murder. Luke knows he has to sacrifice himself to bring Ben back from the darkness, it's his death at bens hand that sets into motion the events for his return to the light.
God that could have been so interesting
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last night sucked. today was not great. i just don't know why i can't get past this. i thought i was doing better, except i must not be because i fully cried in the kohls dressing room and i haven't done that since i was like 12. i just want to LIKE my body. i don't even need to love it. i just want to look and the mirror and think "yeah that's me :)" i just want to be content. i am so tired of looking in the mirror every day and forcing myself to just take a deep breath, sigh it out, and move on. i am tired of avoiding looking at myself in the shower. i'm tired of only feeling comfortable in clothes that hide the entire shape of my torso. i don't need to be smoking hot. i don't need 6 pack abs and the fucking gills on my ribs. i don't need to be skinny. i just want to be comfortable. and i'm not. i haven't been since i hit puberty. and i'm fucking sick of it.
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