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I can see 3 explanations for this Malevolent Shrine and its altered construct.
It's infused with the 10ST, or
It's a different version of MS, or
It's a mix of both
10 Shadows Technique
When I first saw this page, my first thought was "shikigami". It's the multiple eyes that, like you said, remind us of Nue and Agito but it's also the hands, it's overall animalistic design and also the dark spine that keeps it in the air.
Like we already said, this could've happened because Sukuna was forced to use parts of his brain that weren't damaged by UV and those extra parts may have been the place where 10ST is stored.
This would mean that this look happened on accident or better said, it's a compromise Sukuna had to make to expand his domain again. Or he simply sacrificed the 10ST for the remainder of this fight and that's why it looks like that right now.
As was already said in the story, the construct has no innate ability, it merely symbolizes the centre of MS so the addition of the 10ST wouldn't add anything to it outside of the expansion of the domain itself. If this DE had been properly fused with Chimera Shadow Garden than I think the text would've indicated it. (Except Gege wanted to hide that part and explain it later, like how Miwa(?) suddenly appeared to protect Maki.
My overall assumption for more than a year now since Megumi has been possessed, is that a reincarnated sorcerer doesn't have access to the DE of their host because a DE comes from the soul and that has been submerged now. So if that above is the 10ST than it's only a shallow paint of it.
Another Version of Malevolent Shrine
To expand MS, Sukuna had to make 3 compromises: Binding Vows, different handsign and usage of other parts of his brain. The last 2 could've very well changed the appearance of his construct but I'm concentrating on his handsign now
(The handsigns that the characters are using for their DEs come from a set of Buddhist greetings when I remember it correctly. These greetings are limited so as long as Gege doesn't expand his pool, the amount of characters with DE will stay low (as is the case right now). It could also happen that some characters will have the same handsign for their DE)
Kusakabe said that for a DE, you have to mix a set of parameters until it all fits and that changing those parameters is insane (paraphrasing) but that's exactly what Sukuna and Gojo did during their fight.
My theory is that changing the trigger of MS - the enmaten handsign - is the cause for why his construct is different now. Other sorcerers most likely wouldn't be able to expand their domains at all when they don't use their normal handsign but Sukuna somehow pushed that through.
IMO, the change of handsign itself changed the appearance of the construct (and maybe overall ability of the domain?) simply because it's not its own handsign. It's not about Gojo's sign in particular but about Sukuna needing a one-handed sign which forced his domain through a shape it's not accustomed to.
(This would also be true when that isn't Gojo's sign.)
The construct itself, while bizarre at first glance, also fits into Sukuna's established themes re his previous construct, his inner domain and his face.
The animal parts would come from the deer bones and skull, there is a mouth behind Sukuna that's the same as the mouth in his normal MS, the bones on top remind me of the deer antlers but also the ripcage his inner domain is in, and the hands symbolize Sukuna's own because that's how he uses his CT.
(Worth noting is that Makora has been destroyed; if some part of it would reappear again, it would be his wheel.)
The multiple eyes look like Sukuna's own face.
Gege did a few design changes when he reintroduced original Sukuna; he's better looking now for one and less animalistic. His right eyes are now significantly bigger as well, extremely big actually and IMO that's because Gege sketched that construct at the same time and matched Sukuna's look with it (plus other story related reasons probably)
And of course, the change in the construct's look could be a mix of everything I've said right now.
We'll definitely get more domain expansions in the future especially with Megumi's CSG looming on the horizon so this will get answered most likely... just not in the next three months.
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When people get a little too gung-ho about-
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
That’s…wild. What was I talking about?
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Furnace
The kanji 竈 for Sukuna's much anticipated secret technique is revealed and its meaning is: furnace... but also stove, hearth and kiln. An old word fitting for someone who lived 1000 years ago.
Sukuna pronounces it as [kamino] which isn't its actual pronouncation though. That kanji is read as [kama] but also as [SOU] and [hittsui]. You can find the [kama] reading in Demon Slayers protagonist; the first kanji in Tanjiro's last name Kamado is exactly this one. For Tanjiro this kanji fits because his family's occupation is making coal. Just like Sukuna's occupation is working in a kitchen.
But why the different pronounciation?
Now my Japanese isn't the best but it's a wordplay together with the second part of the fire arrow attack: [fuuga] aka OPEN.
[Fuuga] is written with the kanji 開 for open but again that kanji isn't actually pronounced like that and that's part of the wordplay. When you put the two kanji of this attack together it becomes: 竈開 "open the furnace".
But when you put the pronounciation of it together it becomes: [kami no fuuga] 神の風雅 -> "Elegance/Grace of the Gods".
Seeing as this attack is absolutely devastating, that name is an apt description of it.
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Everyone can join the analysis!
I tried to curl my ringfinger inward while holding my hand in Gojo's seal form but it's nearly impossible to do mostly because the ring and middle finger are connected by the same tendon. I'm positive that Suku's sign is supposed to be Gojo's also because Sukuna's hand sign was named in ch255. This seems to be part of why his construct looks so grotesque now, Sukuna basically started his DE with the trigger of someone else. I'm sure that this will be revisited again in the future
Miwa sounds really logical here. Maki might've survived MS but only extremely injured and with what was said about healing this chapter I'm not sure anymore if she can be healed by Shoko. Someone to do SD for her is a good plan.
Sukuna is definitely pulling everything out of his brain and he would sacrifice even more of the 10ST for his goal. I don't think that's the case here though 🤔 I got the impression that Sukuna used and "unused/unusual" part of his brain for MS. If it had been the 10ST part then that would've been mentioned BUT Gege has been suspicously keeping the 10ST away from this fight so there might be sth going on there (that isn't Megumi related)
Thoughts on JJK Chapter 258 (spoilers)
We get an explanation about what happened to Gojo after his two BF and what should've happened to Sukuna but didn't because Yuji's BF disrupted his cohesion to Megumi's soul and body.
Sukuna of course, in complete bitch mode, expanded his domain as an answer to Yuji's attacks. His domain construct looks significantly different to his previous ones though and there is an explanation for that as well.
Sukuna is still suffering the effects of Gojo's Unlimited Void but he compensated for that by using other areas of his brain. He also had to use Binding Vows and a different hand sign (the fuck) and he expanded MS with a shell.
When I first saw that new construct I thought that Sukuna had somehow incorporated the 10Shadows into his domain but no, he changed his domain so much that the construct changed with it.
The shape isn't out of the blue though: it has hands symbolizing how Sukuna uses his slashes and the eyes and spine are like the mouth in his normal construct. The antlers on top are from his inner domain where there are deer skulls everywhere.
The many eyes could also symbolize Gojo because, as we see in a few panels clearly but can guess in this panel as well, Sukuna used Gojo's hand sign. The eyes have Sukuna's double/triple iris though.
Another explanation, this time on healing others. This is huge for Shoko's part because we've had trouble understanding the full extant of her healing ability. She can't e.g. regenerate an arm but now her healing has the potential to shoot up when her patient is someone she's compatible with (like Gojo?)
The gang is at the beginning of the time skip (no Gojo here again) and they discuss Yuji eating his brothers to gain a CT and RCT. We also find out what the soul switching is (Ui Ui's CT) and how they utilized it for their (cheater) training.
Yuji and some others have also learned Simple Domain like this. Ui Ui's CT has some limits on how often it can be used so I'm curious who did which switching with whom. We're also talking about souls again so could Ui Ui switch Megumi's soul too?
We also learn that Sukuna DE is incomplete and can't be maintained for long. Because his domain has a shell, it's range is smaller (only about his Megumi-induced range of Shibuya.) But the Sure-hit still activates everywhere making sure that Maki is also targeted.
It's only 99 seconds though that Malevolent Shrine lasts and the four panels showing the gang enduring it with their SDs is pretty cool.
(I have no idea what is going with Maki though. Who's with her? Larue???)
The next panels were awesome but I did take 3 seconds to understand it so here:
Yuji re-attached his cut off foot with blood manipulation and RCT!
But of course, Sukuna is still in bitch mode and activates his secret technique that we've been waiting for all this time: It's FURNACE
Yes, his CT really is a kitchen. Don't be surprised when he opens his faucet next and don't forget, Sukuna one-shotted Jogo and Makora with his fire arrow.
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People have commented on my fic that I constantly bully Yuji when he appears. But the Yuji-bullying is innate to the series, I'm nothing but a messenger amplifying the message.
Of bullying Yuji
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Thoughts on JJK Chapter 258 (spoilers)
We get an explanation about what happened to Gojo after his two BF and what should've happened to Sukuna but didn't because Yuji's BF disrupted his cohesion to Megumi's soul and body.
Sukuna of course, in complete bitch mode, expanded his domain as an answer to Yuji's attacks. His domain construct looks significantly different to his previous ones though and there is an explanation for that as well.
Sukuna is still suffering the effects of Gojo's Unlimited Void but he compensated for that by using other areas of his brain. He also had to use Binding Vows and a different hand sign (the fuck) and he expanded MS with a shell.
When I first saw that new construct I thought that Sukuna had somehow incorporated the 10Shadows into his domain but no, he changed his domain so much that the construct changed with it.
The shape isn't out of the blue though: it has hands symbolizing how Sukuna uses his slashes and the eyes and spine are like the mouth in his normal construct. The antlers on top are from his inner domain where there are deer skulls everywhere.
The many eyes could also symbolize Gojo because, as we see in a few panels clearly but can guess in this panel as well, Sukuna used Gojo's hand sign. The eyes have Sukuna's double/triple iris though.
Another explanation, this time on healing others. This is huge for Shoko's part because we've had trouble understanding the full extant of her healing ability. She can't e.g. regenerate an arm but now her healing has the potential to shoot up when her patient is someone she's compatible with (like Gojo?)
The gang is at the beginning of the time skip (no Gojo here again) and they discuss Yuji eating his brothers to gain a CT and RCT. We also find out what the soul switching is (Ui Ui's CT) and how they utilized it for their (cheater) training.
Yuji and some others have also learned Simple Domain like this. Ui Ui's CT has some limits on how often it can be used so I'm curious who did which switching with whom. We're also talking about souls again so could Ui Ui switch Megumi's soul too?
We also learn that Sukuna DE is incomplete and can't be maintained for long. Because his domain has a shell, it's range is smaller (only about his Megumi-induced range of Shibuya.) But the Sure-hit still activates everywhere making sure that Maki is also targeted.
It's only 99 seconds though that Malevolent Shrine lasts and the four panels showing the gang enduring it with their SDs is pretty cool.
(I have no idea what is going with Maki though. Who's with her? Larue???)
The next panels were awesome but I did take 3 seconds to understand it so here:
Yuji re-attached his cut off foot with blood manipulation and RCT!
But of course, Sukuna is still in bitch mode and activates his secret technique that we've been waiting for all this time: It's FURNACE
Yes, his CT really is a kitchen. Don't be surprised when he opens his faucet next and don't forget, Sukuna one-shotted Jogo and Makora with his fire arrow.
#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk spoilers#spoilers#sukuna#yuji itadori#itadori yuuji#gojo satoru#ryomen sukuna#maki zenin#meta
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When the rest of the world looks at the united states right now, we see a government who sends billions to support genocide but cannot help their own people starving on the streets.
We see a police force who won't go in to save children from school shootings, but deploy at a rapid rate to arrest peaceful protestors using their right to free speech to protest a genocide
America, you are a war mongering snake eating your own tail. You will protect and support war criminals in another country but let your own people starve and die
To the students bravely protesting now, we see your strength. We see what we saw when students protested the Vietnam War. We have faith you will prevail
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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.
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Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.
The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.
The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel.
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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.
I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!
From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!
I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.
The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.
(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)
If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.
The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.
insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box
add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box
delete -> self explanatory
on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic
The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.
Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.
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Jujutsu Kaisen and JR Central collab illustration.
The gang (and Todo) wearing Yukata!
#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#fushiguro megumi#gojo satoru#yuji itadori#itadori yuuji#nobara kugisaki#todo aoi#offical art#any chance of a todo and nobara comeback???
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When I made this post just ten days ago, it was about mass graves discovered at Al Shifa hospital and now we have learned that the same had happened at Nasser hospital in Gaza. The same genocidal pattern: a hospital is put under siege, patients and medical staff are abducted, tortured and buried in mass graves.
But to build on the last point I wanted to bring attention to in the previous post, it is very crucial to also keep in mind is that the Palestinian Civil Defence have reported that Israel had deliberately concealed the identities of those it killed and buried in these mass graves. Close to 400 bodies have been buried in these mass graves, 58% of the recovered bodies have not been identified.
In a press conference, a spokesperson of the civil defence in Gaza said that Israel had intentionally disfigured the bodies postmortem in order to remove any identifying markers such as birthmarks. He also mentioned that they suspect that the bodies have been placed in body bags that expedited the decomposition process, destroying any possibility of them being identified.
One of the main and only ways families have been able to identify the bodies of their loved ones is through the clothes they remember them wearing the last time they saw them. I saw a video of a mother identifying her son by his striped jacket. You can see the grief mixed with relief that she will be able to give her son proper burial.
Remember when months ago I said that to be identified and buried in Gaza has become a luxury? This is very much still the case.
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New chapter for GoWaD is up! We're nearing the end of Part 1!
This chapter is about the reunion between Toji and Benimaru. It's introspective, a bit depressive but also uplifting at the same time. Most of the chapter also takes place inside the shower but no sexy times happen unfortunately.
Right now, I'm also working on the new chapter for Bandaid. Megumi is filling out his application for JJ High which will prompt Gojo to harrass him about 10 minutes later until Megumi snaps and fights 70% of the students presents.
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Both Toji and Ryomen survive the happenings of the past, stay low and apparently go separate ways (they kinda do but still fuck on occasion).
The Itadoris are heartbroken about it and Ryomen becomes somewhat of a taboo topic but the boys are extremely curious about him especially Sukuna. Later it turns out that Ryomen works with Kenjaku and the teens end up on a mission where they meet him.
Only the first years though and Ryomen beats them bloody but doesn't kill them because Toji's son is with them (that's an excuse he tells himself because he wouldn't be able to bring himself to kill his nephew) but then Sukuna sees his brother with broken bones and deep cuts and he takes that badly.
How dare his uncle hurt his brother and that with his technique on top. He swears vengeance against him especially because they're related. Yuji isn't so keen on that but the next time they meet him he's with his brother fighting his uncle.
Their parents told them about why Ryomen turned out like that and how he was disillusioned about the world and how he thought that when he controlled everything everyone would become happier but his mind became darker and darker as time went on.
They fight but at the end Ryomen simply leaves. He had the opportunity to kill his nephews several times and he was even extremely close to it more than once but he had realized that he couldn't kill his own family. He had played with these boys when they were really small especially with Sukuna. So he simply leaves when he had the opportunity.
No one knows what to do with that later and no one knows where Ryomen went to, not even Kenjaku. Except Toji of course because the big bad sorcerer needed a (sex) buddy to cry his eyes out drink his problems away and one-armed Toji was a good listener when you paid him enough.
They end up in a 5 Star restaurant, Ryomen with his head in his hands and Toji eating his money away but then... Megumi, Yuji and Sukuna show up.
Turns out that Toji had invited Megumi to the dinner fully expecting him to decline like always but Yuji had convinced Megumi to go to mend family relationships before you lost them forever and he would help with the awkwardness by coming with him. Sukuna went with them too just so he could protect Megumi's honour or sth when his old men turned out to be as bad as his uncle.
So all of them were flabbergasted to hell and back when they found themselves in the same restaurant BUT no one was able to fight it out despite half of them wanting to really badly.
Just as a precaution, Megumi insisted on a binding vow with Yuji and Sukuna where they wouldn't start fights without his approval. A binding vow that was suspiciously similar to one that Ryomen and Toji had between them to ensure peaceful outings.
In other words, without the approval of the Fushiguros, the Itadoris weren't allowed to throw hands again. They were also too proud to leave so the most awkward, stressful, intense and anxiety inducing dinner took place.
For the Itadoris. The Fushiguro father-son-pair found common ground in their relationship for the first time in years, and that was to silently watch, analyze and judge a family dynamic even more fucked up than theirs.
Hmm. A thought occurs, as to how nothing bad happens between Toji and the 2007 kids--
If Ryomen was already working with him and Shiu, and there was a non-zero chance that any conflict with Jujutsu Tech was going to touch his family, you know he'd shut that shit down. Killing other main house sorcerers? Sounds like fun! But what if Kaori is getting an assignment the day of and tries to intervene? What if Sukuna is using the training grounds--he's not a first year yet, but he's got to practice somewhere that isn't on people, right?--and gets roped into it?
Guy's definitely a murderer but he's got, like, three and a half people he's not getting involved in this shit.
(the "half" is Jin because he still smacks Jin around sometimes but ONLY Ryomen gets away with that)
ooh but let me put the twist (and possibly angst), what if ryomen decided to betray his family and actually going down the same path as toji? Like, he starts to hate sorcerers and not gonna hesitate to off them for money or something like that.
yuuji and sukuna having a “battle” with their uncle, do you guys get my vision here
#the writing took hold of me#jjk sibling au#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#yuji itadori#sukuna#megumi fushiguro#toji fushiguro#tojikuna#sukufushi#evershipping
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"You ate him first."
Canon dialogue
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visual by zayn alarbi, words by ibrahim nasrallah
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