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Ultraman Ace teaches Verokron a very painful lesson on tonight’s episode of--
--ULTRAMAN HAS HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR $#%*&!
Thursdays at 8pm on PBS.
#Ultraman#Ultraman Ace#Verokron#chujo#terrible beast#kaiju#tokusatsu#Tsuburaya Productions#Japanese superheroes#Ultraman Has Had Enough Of Your $&*@!
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Feeling Happy ' Stay See Summer Mix (Throwback to 2018)
Feeling Happy ‘ Stay See Summer Mix (Throwback to 2018)
Digital Crate Digging Continues on a Saturday Night, as our O-Dog Day Party transitions into the Saturday Night Fever!
It’s the weekend baby!! you know what my motto is; let the music play!! that brotha O-Dizzle is an overachiever!!This message to a weak one? please!! let us pray, then go on with your bad self!! let’s get it!!A message in the music? oh yes!! let the music take your mind!! that…
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#Babak#Chujo#DanntTenaglia#disco#housemusic#Indeep#mnek#ODogDayParty#poetry#politics#Sade#SaturdayNightFever#soulmusic#TheFamilysJam
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A little Christmas gift.
-featuring jolyne
-christmas special!
Jolyne isn't a fan of Christmas. She lost the spirit years ago, but seeing you get so exicted over this silly holiday brings her so much joy;
It was your first Christmas since you moved togheter and you were going crazy with buying decorations and baking stuff;
"Jolyne, Jolyne wake up!" you basically yelled, shaking her awake. It was the Christmas morning and you couldn't wait for her to open her presents;
"Huh? What happened, what who where...?" she said confused, looking around sleepily. "Let's open the presents!" you said happily, jumping like a baby.
"Mhmm, later." she pulled you in her arms, burying her face in your chest. You whined, obviously displeased. "Come onnn, you have to be curious what Santa got you".
It took awhile to get her to get up. All she wanted was to cuddle with you, but you wouldn't shut up. Defeated, Jolyne let you drag her across the apartment, to the living room.
When she saw the amount of presents there, she was in pure shock. Of course, she got you a few little presents, like some earrings or a candle, but you went over the edge. There were like ten or eleven of them, each wrapped individually;
"Y/N, babe, you didn't have to... Those are way too many presents." poor girl was in shock, small tears forming in the corners of her eyes. "That must've cost you a lot, now I feel bad"
"Remember when you told me you haven't gotten a nice present since you you were nine? Well, I got you a present for every age you didn't get one. I hope your inner child is satisfied. And don't feel bad, you deserve them, and even more." Jolyne burst into tears when she heard you. She was so lucky to meet you.
"Come on! Open them up!" you said after wiping her tears and giving her a kiss, clapping your hands excited. So she did, opening each of them up. They went from toys to necklaces to hair dye to dog toys.
"Dog toys? For what?" Jolyne raised a brow and you giggled. "Think about it."
"But Y/N, didn't you say you got one for every single Christmas since i was nine? I don't see the fourteenth one.. I don't mean to sound ungreatful, I just feel you are planning something I don't know about." You giggled once again at her words. "Well, your present from you were fourteen is arriving a bit late, but it should be here so- Oh, there it is." The doorbell could be heard and you ran to the door.
Jolyne was more than confused. What did you do? And why did you get her dog toys?
"Merry Christmas, my darling." A deep, oh-so known voice, followed by your giggles could be heard.
The moment she saw her dad walking in the living room with a pair of reindeer horns on his head, replacing his hat and a puppy in his hands, she understood.
"First of all, what is this all about? Second of all, how did you get him to do it?" she asked and you shrugged it off. "It took a while but I did it. Now, I know that when you were fourteen and that accident with the wallet happened, mr. Kujo wasn't there. Not that he didn't want to, but he wanted to protect you from the danger. Annnd I know you wished for him to be there for you your whole childhood and I also know you always wanted a puppy so...Here you go! Merry Christmas Jolyne!"
The blonde's heart melted and she pulled you into a big hug. You were truly the best in her opinion.
Later, Anasui, F.F, Ermes, Weather Report and Emporio showed up at your door and the rest of the day was spent with your group + Jotaro watching Christmas movies and eating baked goods. What a wonderful way to spend the Christmas day.
#jjba x reader#jjba x you#jojo x reader#jjba headcanons#jjba#jolyne#jolyne x reader#jolyne chujo#jotaro part 6#puppy#ermes#christmas special#jojo christmas
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Hell yeah Mothra gang
#Tokyo S.O.S. is FUN#Dr Chujo introducing the Shobijin to his family like they’re old friends#makes me wanna cry#badass movie#getting rid of Akane was ridiculous of course
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rlly hope they keep in tō no chūjō homoerotically staring at genji during that rainy night. and that aoi gets more than the single line the novel gives her. just want more of sadaijin's kids being fleshed out moreee
#its so important to me bc as characters im more drawn to aoi and chujo than. genji himself#aoi is the cold proud aloof (in genjis eyes) wife he isintimidated by and thus never romantically pursues in any way#and chūjō is his best friend rival in everything + love and i think as i read further theres probably going tj be some#kind of confrontation abt genji hiding away tamakazura. so#but in their younger days......i very much think it was some kind of triangulation of desire#randomeows
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Yay!! another Taifu no Myobu appreciatior! I love her, for such a relatively minor character she has a ton of charisma and it's hilarious to see her sass Genji back.
TAIFU NO MYOBU MY BELOVED!!!!! you’re so right about her charisma—it’s honestly a joy to see a character like her in the refined milieu of heian society, particularly considering its restrictive standards for women. and it’s doubly wonderful to see somebody talking back to genji 🤭
#I JUST LOVE HER#her sections also make me a little bit sad sometimes when i reread them#because it makes me think about how few genuine no-strings-attached friendships genji has in his life#his rank is so high that he doesn’t really have many social equals#and the friendships he does have with other men are often coloured by politics (even his friendship with to no chujo is in the end)#while his relationships with women are almost always conducted as love affairs#he rarely has the opportunity to just mess around with other people#so his friendship with taifu no myobu really represents for me a type of casual and easy human attachment which he can rarely attain#skdjfjdjgk yeah i just. i sometimes just stop and think about how lonely everyone in this book is#((((:#but that’s one of the reasons I love taifu no myobu!!! because she is so vibrant and charismatic and sassy#even though she’s a minor character she really lights up the page :)#characters like her remind me that while the tale of genji may be tragic at times it isn’t exclusively a tragedy at all#ask response#anonymous#tale of genji#genji talk
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Arien's Advent Calendar
25 Days of TLOU fic
All claims now taken, thank you!
To say thank you to everyone who has been so supportive of my fic this past year (where I rather explosively started writing every day again after a long slump) I’d like to invite you all to the Arien Advent Calendar!
From 1 - 25 December I will be posting a short story (it will be short, I will control myself) as part of a collection of works from Driftersverse, Snowqueen and The Legend of Charro.
This is where you guys come in! Beneath the cut I have a little information about the story to be written each day (universe, characters and date/era). I’d like to dedicate each to a reader, so please claim one and I’ll write it for you.
I don’t think all days will fill up, but I’d like to give everyone a chance to get one they really like, so at this stage each person can claim ONE day only - I’ll open it up to more later on. You’re welcome to send me a few in order of preference in case someone has already beaten you to the punch on your favourite, and I haven’t yet updated the list.
If you would rather claim as anon, please give me a name or an emoji or something - just so I can identify you against your chosen day and so we don’t get all our anons muddled up.
Please send claims via asks so I can keep track of them in one place and if not anon, include your AO3 name (if you have one).
Happy Holidays!
Driftersverse Tess and Joel - 2012 - pktralkgirl
Driftersverse Joel and Ellie - 2024 - bumblepony
Snowqueen Tess and Joel - fluff - adoringhxxd
Driftersverse Joel and Sarah - 1995 ilovecats491
Driftersverse Bill and Frank - 2014 - bumblepony
The Legend of Charro Tess and Joel - “sweetheart” years - chujo-hume
Driftersverse Tess and Maria - 2026 - ameerawrites
Driftersverse Tess and Joel 2004 - bignosebushybrows
Mystery AU - beerandyarn
Driftersverse Tess, Joel and Tommy - 2006 - peppermint-smile
Driftersverse Ellie and Tess - 2025 - emooni
Snowqueen Tess and Joel - smut - kokureno
Driftersverse Maria and Tommy - 2024 - mariamillerstan
The Legend of Charro Tess and Joel - “bandit” years - glitter-gecko
Driftersverse Tommy and Joel - 2003 - belantana
The Legend of Charro Tess, Joel and Ellie - “family” years elizabethpickett
Snowqueen Tess and Joel - angst - carol
Driftersverse Tess, Joel, Bill and Frank - 2011 - betweentwoceremonials
Mystery AU - justplainsalty
Driftersverse Tommy and Tess - 2005 - be-an-echo
Driftersverse Maria and Joel - 2026 - ameerawrites
Snowqueen Miller family - ?? - bignosebushybrows
Mystery AU - pktralkgirl
The Legend of Charro "What if?" - glitter-gecko
Mystery Christmas story - beerandyarn
* strike-out denotes a claimed day
*purple donates an alternative option
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Shockingly, the Fathom Events screening of Godzilla: Tokyo SOS had legitimate subtitles! (The ones on the Sony DVD and Blu-ray just transcribe the English dub.) Some notes:
This was the Japanese version of the film visually as well, meaning location supers were in Japanese, there was no ugly English text slapped over the title card, and the Americans were accompanied by Japanese subtitles.
A lot of lines were preceded by character names in parenthesis. I've never seen this done before and hope I never will again; it was super distracting.
The Japanese satellite used to obtain that shot of Mothra's wing in the pre-title sequence is given a name (Survey or Surveyor?).
Tragically, Kiryu is still called "Mecha G" throughout.
The scrapbook Chujo is working on is to help make his case to the prime minister, not to serve as "a record for future generations."
There's a throughline about Chujo personifying machines which starts during the going-away party. After his scrap with Akiba, Azusa calls him out on it, saying he's more conscious of the feelings he projects onto machines than the feelings of women. (Which makes his obliviousness to her crush even funnier.) At the end of the film, when he announces his intent to sink to the bottom of the Pacific with Kiryu, she refuses to let him die with a machine and flies into action.
The Shobijin go out of sync and exclaim each other's names (Hio and Mana) when they see twin Mothra larvae hatch from the egg.
The prime minister realizes that Mothra laid her egg on Himago Island, closer to Japan than Infant Island, so her children could more easily intervene against Godzilla. That's what she was doing at the start of the film, in fact. (The Doylist explanation is that Toho has been leery about depicting Infant Islanders in live-action since Ebirah, on account of the brownface.)
Rather than Kiryu's one female mechanic coming up with the solution to fix him that a coworker immediately takes credit for, her suggestion is merely rejected.
There's no "extinct subject" mentioned in the post-credits scene (which I remember taking as evidence that Godzilla had died the first time I saw it).
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i forgot to post her but i came up with yet another touhou oc, her name is akira chujo, she's a cockroach, and she lives underground and likes to spar with oni in old hell (where she loses)
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Queer headcanons are important because they create representation in otherwise heteronornative works and allow lgbt members like me see themselves in their favorite characters. Here's a short list of characters I can only see as Queer.
Granblue Fantasy: Jin- He has an overwhelming gay himbo vibe that's hard to ignore. Everything about him is so flamboyant and screams bottom energy.
Warframe: Equinox and Nezha- NONBINARY- They're the most androgynous characters and they just have gender nonconforming energy.
Tekken: Leo- NONBINARY- They definitely don't care about gender norms and go out of their way to present as gender neutral.
Jojo: Rohan- ASEXUAL- Hard to imagine him ever being remotely interested in sex.
Yotsuyu Yagiyami- NONBINARY- It just suits them.
Giant Robo: Professor Go Gakujin- GAY- He totally has a crush in Chujo and it's hard to blame him.
Pokemon- Archie and Matt- GAY COUPLE- they're just perfect together.
#queer coded characters#queer coding#queer theory#queer headcanons#queer lens#pop culture#granblue fantasy#jojoba#jojolion#rohan kishibe#tekken#giant robo#warframe#lgbt#anime#videogame#pokemon
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＊クルド人自治区首都アルビール🇮🇶にいます。ここは隣国イラン🇮🇷より未だにミサイルが飛んできます。10年程前はシリア難民、ヤジリー教徒、難民約50万人程の難民がこられました。10万人の野宿。復興の状況。環境や状況は違えど🇺🇦で応用できる問題解決方法、仕組み作りを学んでいきます⚡️🐹
Twitter/pika Chujoさんより(原文ママ/画像とも)
＊A Japanese who support Ukraine went to Erbil for reference of refugee support.
”I am in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region. About 10 years ago, about 500,000 Syrian refugees,Yazidis, and refugees arrived here. 100,000 people are camping out. The situation of reconstruction. Although the environment and circumstances are different, we will learn how to solve problems and create mechanisms that can be applied in Ukraine“
Via Twitter/pika Chujo(original text in Japanese/+photos)
＊Ukrayna'ya yardım eden bir Japon vatandaşı, mülteci yardımı için referans sağlamak üzere Başûr-Erbil'e gitti.
”Kürt özerk bölgesinin başkenti Erbil'deyim. Yaklaşık 10 yıl önce 500,000 Suriyeli mülteci, Ezidi ve sığınmacı buraya geldi. 100,000 kişi kamp kurmuş durumda. Yeniden yapılanma durumu. Ortam ve koşullar farklı olsa da, sorunları nasıl çözeceğimizi ve Ukrayna'da uygulanabilecek mekanizmaları nasıl oluşturacağımızı öğreneceğiz“
Twitter pika Chujo aracılığıyla (orijinal metini Japonca/+fotolar)
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Paid a visit to To-no-Chujo's mansion. The air is filled with laughter and gossip as we “caught up” on the latest happenings
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The Philadelphia cheesesteak as obsession and art
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Anytime he visits Philadelphia, Chujo almost exclusively eats cheesesteaks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for research. He measures each cheesesteak with a mini tape measure and digital food scale, writing extensive notes in a cheesesteak notebook he carries with him everywhere.
Today, he has customers who venture to the shop from all across the U.S., United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, and Europe. Last summer, his restaurant went viral after being shared by Philly-based social media accounts and media outlets, including The Inquirer, for his authentic cheesesteak on a long roll, served in a restaurant intricately adorned with Philadelphia sports memorabilia, murals with local slogans, and merchandise from various Philly businesses.
Apologies if this article made you hungry, but I loved this piece interviewing Kosuke Chujo, chef and restauranteur, owner of Philly, based in Tokyo, Japan.
Obsessed with making the perfect cheesesteak, Chujo heads to Philadelphia to research, measure, and hone his skills. It’s a really cool look into how American and Japanese culture and palates can differ, and crucially, how they can be brought together.
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VA - NOTHING BUT... SOULFUL HOUSE ESSENTIALS, VOL. 13
- Artists: Various Artists
DATE CREATED: 2023-06-26
GENRES: Nothing But
Tracklist :
1. Daniele Baldi - Hypnotized(Original Mix)
2. Ryan Amor| Sonique Infusoul - Themba(Original Mix)
3. Walkman| Lyrik Shoxen - One(Original Mix)
4. Master Fale| Afro Soulmate - Liar(Hood Natives Soul Mix)
5. Ash Damree| Jodie Mattan - I Can Move(Original Mix)
6. Thea Austin| ISSA (US) - Sweet(Thea Austin Remix)
7. Chriss DeVynal| Fezile - Loving You(Original Mix)
8. Federico d'Alessio - Son Of The Stars(Guitar Mix)
9. Steal Vybe| Sara Devine - Fill The Skyy(Mesmerized Soul Instrumental)
10. House Bros| Jenny Cruz - Set Me Free(House Bros Vocal)
11. Rhemi - Windy City(Instrumental)
12. Erik Rico| Franz vu Letzebuerg - Find A Way(DJ Spinna Galactic Soul Remix)
13. Soulbridge| Kwesi Bless - Guide You Pt.1(Chujo Mix)
14. Snazzy Trax - Loved (Like U Should)(Original Mix)
15. Fizzikx - Got 2 Me(Original Mix)
16. Munky Fike - Mambo(Original Mix)
17. Darren Studholme - Allright(Deep
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VA - NOTHING BUT... SOULFUL HOUSE ESSENTIALS, VOL. 13
- Artists: Various Artists
DATE CREATED: 2023-06-26
GENRES: Nothing But
Tracklist :
1. Daniele Baldi - Hypnotized(Original Mix)
2. Ryan Amor| Sonique Infusoul - Themba(Original Mix)
3. Walkman| Lyrik Shoxen - One(Original Mix)
4. Master Fale| Afro Soulmate - Liar(Hood Natives Soul Mix)
5. Ash Damree| Jodie Mattan - I Can Move(Original Mix)
6. Thea Austin| ISSA (US) - Sweet(Thea Austin Remix)
7. Chriss DeVynal| Fezile - Loving You(Original Mix)
8. Federico d'Alessio - Son Of The Stars(Guitar Mix)
9. Steal Vybe| Sara Devine - Fill The Skyy(Mesmerized Soul Instrumental)
10. House Bros| Jenny Cruz - Set Me Free(House Bros Vocal)
11. Rhemi - Windy City(Instrumental)
12. Erik Rico| Franz vu Letzebuerg - Find A Way(DJ Spinna Galactic Soul Remix)
13. Soulbridge| Kwesi Bless - Guide You Pt.1(Chujo Mix)
14. Snazzy Trax - Loved (Like U Should)(Original Mix)
15. Fizzikx - Got 2 Me(Original Mix)
16. Munky Fike - Mambo(Original Mix)
17. Darren Studholme - Allright(Deep
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guden thought dump
(pronouns will vary, it's not deep I prommy)
the OP is so so so hot everyone is x100 more beautiful somehow . FANS. truly whats hotter than women dancing w fans. actual fav op after kiden's.
ok so im v bad at parsing lyrics in songs of any language by solely hearing them but im p sure they mention Ishiyama - the temple at which it is said murasaki shikibu wrote out the entire tale.
i've heard that ayana has a background in ballet?? norimune could high kick me any day of the week
being bi really amplifies things
hajimeyouka ^^
well the goal here is to make the tale of genji into actual history. that would implicate and fuck up the existing imperial lineage ig.
its soooo weird to see kasen being so friendly and vibing w his teammates bc usually he has a massive stick up him . he even lets ookurikara go his own separate way pursuing the shikigami (?) like???? thats a step up from the hostility theyd share n he's more trusting of kara in this honmaru.
individual fights now. norimune really is stealing the show i cant tear my eyes off herrrr.
its so cute how nansen and himetsuru call each other hime no aniki and nan-kun........ and nansen being taller than hime too. like an elegant elder sibling indulging the younger scruffier one.
hmmm so in GM the 'rainy night conversation' scene where genji and co. r dissecting what kind of woman would be the best to pursue takes place in hahakigi, literally the second chapter, and the opinions of women they put forth in the text r presented as worldly advice that spurs genji to realize that he loves fujitsubo, and in the long run, also shapes his motivations behind kidnapping wakamurasaki ("it is probably not a bad idea to take a wholly childlike, tractable wife and form her yourself as well you can"). while the entire thing does reek of misogyny its more nuanced and bealievable given that the characters justify their opinions w anecdotes (also very fucked up in their own right). guden sort of downplayed the nuance there by solely having genji, to-no-chuji et al focus on beauty and a few quick lines resembling a summary of one or two paragraphs of to-no-chujo. it serves its purpose but......i would have liked it to be a bit longer.....
OHHH MY GOD one of them says 「美しさは人を惑わせる」 / beauty leads people astray which is just like kasen saying 「美しさは兎角人を狂わせる」 / beauty tends to drive people to madness' in kiden. didnt realize my blog title could fit both sutes
*touken danshi roasting the misogynistic convo* this has so many layers bc. written by a woman -> story centred around a casanova -> adapted into a stage play for a franchise that only has male characters -> all of the roles are played by actresses
this kasen uses his hands while talking and its such an extrovert trait its throwing me off lol.
gyoukan: between the lines of the text vs honpen: main story. so gyoukan is the designated period where the people behind the roles of the characters of genji monogatari retain their original sense of self, while during honpen they completely become the characters n forget their real selves. so koshosho no kimi (one of murasaki shikubu's close friends) is the antagonistic empress mother of the tale, kokiden no nyogo.
hmmm i wonder what the mechanism that determines the turnover of gyoukan/honpen is. the touken danshi arrive in heian-kyo, and find the entire era under control of this dichotomous influence, but how did the hra even manage to pull off smth on this scale? and why even give leeway to the touken danshi to break this process by keeping the gyoukan as a loophole?
but actually id say gyoukan serves its purpose in expanding upon the finer aspects behind the work and working it into the narrative.
so murasaki shikibu's caught on to the fact that the novel's story should be destroyed to stop this historical aberration and passes the book onto koshosho no kimi's keeping and thats why shes been resisting the forced characterization even tho its honpen rn
they made rokujou no miyasudokoro an ONMYOJI
koshosho hands three books to kasen. im glad they kept this little detail bc in fact genji monogatari is divided into three parts: the first two deal with the life of Genji and the last w two of Genji's prominent descendants, niou no miya and kaoru. theres much academic contention abt how much of the later chapters murasaki shikibu herself wrote, whether there were supposed to be more chapters, all the complications added from the fact that no original text exists etc etc but sute's understandably not involving itself w all that.
how come rokujou Knows shes in a story,,,,
like what is the criteria for someone to be aware theyre an actor
norimune's so Pretty its like hes a statue in a display case made to be revered . the curves of your lips rewrite history etc
kasen literally has sparkles in his eyes when talking abt how genji is a tale of love + how his prev master was one who lived alongside love and nansen paws him and says 'you bring up your former master everytime' wwww
norimune and himetsuru whispering to each other behind norimunes fan is,. literally the peak sexy use of a fan
apparently hosokawa yuusai used to be regarded as an authority on genji .... and thats why kasen is so passionate in his explanation of it. what a nerd (affectionate)
nansen being disgusted by the fact that genjis #1 love was a woman that resembled his mother . girl it gets worse hang on tight
make way for the hottest most haunting fucking part of this sute (starts reciting th names of all 54 chapters) boy am i glad i read all the chapters guden covers
honpen time....utsusemi's chapter. really fun that they included the snippy remarks towards genjis lecherous insistence and nansen's tsukkomi to genji flattering himself. this man keeps getting more and more disgusted by genjis actions towards women its so funny
yeah they did the sex.
the poem that earns utsusemi her name in genji monogatari (just gonna shorten that to GM from now on) is: 'underneath this tree, where the molting cicada shed her empty shell / my longing still goes to her, for all i know her to be' referring to the kimono she leaves behind while escaping him. but the poem kasen recites is 'just as drops of dew settle on cicada wings, concealed in this tree / secretly, oh secretly, these sleeves are wet with my tears' which is actually utsusemi's own reply to genjis aforementioned poem in GM.
RARE kasen boke moment. at least he realized he shouldnt make utsusemi accept genjis advances for the sake of distorting GM's plot bc that would be against her wishes. consent > tentatively correcting history. rare W there. genji could never.
interesting moral conflict here...norimune and choumou would rather cut down petty things like consent for the greater good of protecting history.
ookurikara went on a solo mission to confront genji while the rest (all 5 of them) go witness utsusemis chapter. so their plan mutsve been to break apart the story by either distorting the women's part of the story, or killing genji himself. what kind of insane confidence did kasen have to let kara go on his own to kill genji lol. also whats with the uneven team distribution....
ookurikara smack cam😔😔
genji cant die bc it isnt his time to die, as per GM. so he has infinite revival and plot protection to back him up
ironic that genji calls kara dekuningyou/ wooden puppet as an insult for a hollow and manipulated being bc at the end of the day isnt he also supposed to be bound by the story thats woven around him? yeah hes gained sentience now, but originally he existed inside the fourth wall, just like originally touken danshi used to be metal. but then again, this role-reversal has been brought about precisely so that his story will be recorded as reality, as his own actions, and that would make him better than sword puppets who will always be invisible and obedient toward the saniwa.
kasen: thank you for your hard work, i appreciate it ^^
kara: im not ur errand boy
kasen: ya thats why i expressed my gratitude (classist nod)
no one perfectly knows what the creator intended save for the creator themself, so only murasaki shikibu can know the contents of kumogakure, and she alone will be able to kill him.
thats the 'lack' in GM which leaves the death subject to interpretation. what genjis last moments are like, who he was surrounded by, etc etc will never be known to us. but since theres no description of his death, in what manner will he die....
for the love of god theyre SOOOO. (not meant in a shippy way tbc)
rokujou's actress is so good. thats a fucking villain alright.
hmm when the characters place blame on murasaki shikibu for making them the way they are, theyre also discounting the coherence and agency of the tale that has its roots in courtly affairs
with sentience also comes the indispensable fourth wall . and the newfound denial of free will.
chilllllls when genji wraps the manuscript around kasen as the newly formed genji.
"a tWeLvE LAyErEd KiMiNo woNt SuiT yOU" BET
ughfjdhjsdhvjksnj aoi no ue's baby fjkdsnfkjsdnvjkdsbnfjbwkjfnrkjfnekfnjewbfskdfnrkfnuejfnskjfnjsefnefkjbejkfn this scene is so kfjsndjfkjdnjvkbfgjbdfvnwsedrftgybhnjkmnhbgfrdecfvgbhjbgfdsrxcgvhbjnkmjhuygtfrdtfwghdvbcehefbiuwgnuwifn 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 FUCK😭😭😭😭😭😭KASEN AS GENJI HOLDING HIS BABY 😭😭😭😭😭
BECAUSE THATS SOMETHING NO TOUKEN DANSHI WILL EVER GET TO EXPERIENCE IT MAKES ME A LITTLE INSANE
hes a father....like an Actual Biological father......
ok but that doesnt happen in GM like in no shape or form do they share a happy-married-couple-cradling-their-child moment like that but also i am not complaining
youve got to fucking wonder when aoi says "resembling hikaru-gimi, how beautiful you are!" to her baby is it resembling kasen. Like does she mean the abstract concept of beauty that is general rather than particular or does it have purple hair blue eyes etc. sorry
ach whys sanchoumou spouting nikkaris battle lines. and norimune's saying kogarasumaru's and hime's doing hasebe's
actually i really like this. the government's actually outdone itself . using the power of anecdotes of swords and attaching them to unrelated swords to make them stronger...well ofc the expected end result is for mkzk and to sort out the number he's done on the timeline, but this is still! so! delightfully fucked up!! the end result of increased power takes precedence over individual stories!!! the ichimonji themselves dont seem to mind the fact they might just be an experimental citadel after all .
does that mean that kasen having gracia as master wouldve made him stronger than if he was regular old kasen w tadaoki ..? and ookurikara being stronger without the date attachment ..? but they still do retain their original characteristics. except that kasen is not as intense. <-idk if thats just the way kaichan interprets him or it's intentional writing
hello ms murasaki shikibu finally. fitting that the author takes the role of she who is forever out of genjis reach, and the person playing genji is an avid GM fan thats willing to doom history as we know it to save the author. get you a man like that etc etc<- NOT.
its so very sad that genji has to find a replacement for fujitsubo in a child of all places.
'Because it's from zuka and the cast is all female, the harshness is alleviated, and because it's a female cast, the hellishness of the women who live the story as reality stands out' <- someone i follow on twt said this and its so so true
ive read a bit of murasaki shikibus diary + the context of it and the reason why people were so dissuasive of murasaki was bc she was keen on pursuing the chinese texts and those were, as a rule, male territory. while men concerned themselves w chinese characters, women wrote in kana, and . that is why the big fabric of script they use in guden has only kana on it !! bc its a tale by a women for women. 'The Tale of Genji’s readership too has been naturalized female, at times discussed as if women were the exclusive audience of the tale, not least because by Murasaki’s time in the Heian period fictional tales had long been identified as a generic category for women.' (x)
lmfaoo suetsumuhana's actress-courtier saying she didnt like sei shonagon's makura no soushi as much as shikibu's GM (<- context is that shonagon served the empress teishi and was the literary jewel of her entourage while shikibu was empress soshi's. shikibu had some not-so-polite words to say abt shonagon in her diary w)
rattles cage DEATH OF THE AUTHOR DEATH OF THE AUTHORRR
perhaps soshi asking shikibu abt why she decided to write a tale of 'man and woman' is the only instance she was asked abt her intentions behind it
i like shikibus answer actually. it doesnt advocate for separatism of the 'man' and 'woman' binary, but shelters the motivations and flaws of characters under the umbrella of simply 'people'. ofc the book is a criticism of male whims and ofc guden does take it that way, but the motivations and fates of all characters cannot be put solely in the neat category of 'due to gender', bc in the end even the characters and ofc shikibu herself realize that this is how the wider society has molded them to be. so, it is 'a tale of people'
thatd mean touken danshi are outsiders with no relation or stakes in the tale, they are neither women who have loved/endured affairs, nor are they men that whimsically toy around in love. they are there to voice (ours, the audience's) morality.
so the logic used by th Nobody is: waka and poems are permissible bc they r expressions of the heart, but not prose that contains fiction, which is why writers like izumi shikibu and sei shonagon will be spared while murasaki shikibu will fall into hell. all out of respect for buddhist precepts. (mental note to translate shiotsuki shu's blog entry soon)
and making the lie that is GM into reality/truth will absolve shikibu of her sins
just realized...didn't Ishiyama temple become a sort of tourist spot for allegedly being the spot where GM was completed? Ironic how such a 'heretical' piece of work could come into being in the house of god.
really good stuff in this paper
seeing how protests only arose from the 12th century on and there arent any surviving records of such criticism from the time shikibu wrote , im inclined to think that maybe the unnamed man that confronts shikibu is literally some rando guy from the latter centuries that got picked up by the HRA, from when the availability of printed books led to GM being way more accessible . bc come to think of it - its highly unlikely shikibu would Not know a courtier, the only class that was in the know abt GM. but then again, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, so maybe putting that 'nobody' there as a placeholder male aristocrat is so he can serve as vehicle for the problems that arise when fiction is come across by those who were unintended as target readers in the first place, in this case, men.
also its sort of ironic how the guy (the nobody) is overly concerned with the metaphysical fate of shikibu while the flow of history has proved agin and again that she remained not only an author that was respected and idealized, but also a historian that was treated as a valuable source on heian noble etiquette. typical patriarchal delusion stemming from misplaced concern.
well either way, whether all this is true or not, its p clear that there have been exaggerations and unproved myths surrounding shikibu and GM all along, whether be for or against, so should another lie really make any difference in the grand scheme of things?
'....aren't we also a big lie? what a sinful existence are touken danshi' norimunes fucking line deliveryyyy
i bet real genji made quick work of koremitsu during gyoukan to appear in front of genji!kasen as koremitsu himself lol
ah the ave maria from kiden
when the fuck did they discover they can travel to diff chapters by flipping pages ???????? itd be funny if kasen just realised that spur of the moment
fitting that empress soshi mentions chuang tzu's 'butterfly who dreams' analogy to describe their situation bc historically, she was so interested in chinese lit that she studied it under shikibu's guidance
wait so this has strayed far enough from reality that the intention has transformed this genji monogatari re-enactment into a genji kuyo? oh this FUCKS
norimune's old man laughter >>>>> mkzk's old man laughter
'the only actual person here is that man playing genji?!' theyre in platos cave. theyre all in platos cave. we were all in platos cave until now. we were all butterflies dreaming we're humans.
its the fact that everything was truly black and white until now history was history and GM was a story that was well liked until some guy came along, threw everything into chaos, managed to mix up actual existences with falsified ones, gave rise to incoherence in the story due to the existence of multiple genjis at the same time, with the sole hope that in the future some people would dig up his bones and recognize GM as a true story, but the only way to stop this contradiction is itself a contradiction: killing the main genji in kumogakure would indeed lift the altered existence of heian-kyo, but it would also accomplish his death which was what he hoped for in the first place. is this really then a plot with no holes?
good lord but that is quite a nose on suetsumuhana. it looks like...something else entirely. not gonna say what
wakey wakey @ ookurikara. congrats to date masamune for appearing in three difftypes of stage adaptations
ive said it already but its so striking how different the types of scenes we're shown of kasen as genji and kara as genji are. kasen's always romancing and getting the best scenes while kara isnt shown romancing at all
norimune is a beaut x100
GOD himes fight sequence w all the wings flapping sfx and the twirling is so elegant ..... what was that HRA formation tho lol they were just being goofy
did i mention norimune is so mesmerizing everytime she's onstage . the sex appeal is off the charts like genuinely
i keep forgetting its a woman in ookurikaras role bc she looks so cool.
I will literally never get tired of the sute trope of having kasen's fight sequences the last w dramatic music precluding his appearance onstage and him spreading his arms wide and going ware koso wa nosada ga hitofuri, kasen kanesada nari! and then wrecking shit up (god there r so many similarities between this fight and kidens hissatsu fight)
shut upppp shut up the kuyou spotlight circling the kikyou spotlight as he realizes his true story >!>!!>I!UH@*#$%^&*(struggles to breathe
final form genji looks like hes stepped out a wuxia novel. jun wu vibes fr
yayyy final fight
i think so far in the entire play norimune's had her stomach slashed in the same place thrice
i like how they include little waltz (?) dance steps into hime's fight choreo
CHILLS as norimune says theyre not the ones who'll kill genji and then all the women walk on stage
ummmmmmmmmmmmmm
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the honpen retains its influence on them....ofc they wont be the ones to kill genji. that would be incoherent with the storyline . what do you call it when the characters drawn by a woman for women are in the end too crippled by love to kill the source of their suffering? .... someone who is until the end mean in his love....
after rewinding multiple times......yes wakamurasaki does stick the knife into herself . the thrust overlaps w kasen pushing his sword into genji + lights go off so its jus t silhouettes
ah
its so fitting that genji dies right after wakamurasaki here since kumogakure follows right after maboroshi (the chapter in GM where wakamurasaki dies)
whats a little homoerotic cheek cupping between enemies...heh
we cannot leave heiankyo in any media without mentioning shuten douji ofc
kasen................why . how do you justify that
they let th HRA fucken run off w genjis dead body like bro. BRO I AM SHAKIGN YOU SO HARD . HIS CORPSE WAS RIGHT THERE HOW COME NOBODY THOUGHT OF HOLDING ON TO IT TO YKNOW, ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION THEY CAME HERE FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE .
AND DNA TESTING EXISTS????????????? COULDNT THE GUY'S BONES BE TESTED AND THEREFORE PROVED NOT TO BE GENJI BC HIS GENE POOL WOULD NOT MATCH THAT OF THE PREVIOUS IMPERIAL LINE OR SMTH. I DOUBT THE HRA METICULOUSLY PROGRAMMED THE STORY TO MAGICALLY ALTER THE GENETIC MAKEUP OF THE GUY
kasen says its alright bc itll be imperceptible but. no ? if GM is proved to be real it won't be the first fictional novel discovered anymore??? that's a Big thing
nyan's silliness is so refreshing after That
what. was that contradiction. why . what was the neeeed for a flimsy ending like that. just to secure their citadel's destruction? semt-san i know youre better than thisss i know you can write a complicated ending to your complicated premise but this really wasnt it
'even though you might be broken, gozen sure is carefree' lets just carry on like normal after saying that yeah
hime saw kasen stuck in platos cave slowly realizing he should turn around and said no we hold on to the illusion that everythign right in frotn of us is reality. harsh ? maybe, but it coheres. the ichimonji are after all government tools.
hell is other people hell is us . theres so much potential here for sequels of zukatousute, esp since they brought up og tousute's manba and mkzk. feels cruel to leave that honmaru hanging.
curtain call now
shu is so cute she talked abt how she was out of letter sets so she couldnt send her honmaru's nansen for his kiwame
sayato sumiki saying she'll feel #gudenloss
noooooo maomao is so close to tears ;-; but also WOW the gap moe
so ayana's voice is so much higher than what she uses for norimune... i could listen to her for hours ….. heart is taking -1000 dmg
zachouuuuuuuuuuu aaaaaaaaa. [mimes closing a book] "i believe its time to close this story." *someone from the cast whispering "kawaii!"*
all in all, i think the genji monogatari + jinbutsu storyline was pretty solid and did make for a gripping plot but the ending that the touken danshi chose troubles me to no end......ideally kara wouldve snatched genjis corpse and theyd have given him a proper cremation and theyd have pondered the same things they do after the hra take away genji
or what would also have been fun is kasen and kara realizing their altered stories were due to the government's tampering and thus letting go of genji was a conscious decision between two of them setting up for a nice kurikase / ichimonji-seifu dichotomy where they chose to remain true to themselves while the ichimonji willingly give their stories up and resign themselves to being mere tools
......plus the fact that none of them ever mentioned smth like hope to see you in another sute work! in the curtain call...........aaaa it's too sad
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