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This is Chadd, he's from the Inx in Conv/rgence, he loves Jinx, and he organizes elaborate acts of terrorism/performance art against Piltover in Jinx's name. And I NEED this strain of Jinx stan to make it into season 2 of Arcane.
Chadd is the best example of the kind Zaunite that takes their admiration of Jinx seriously and let's it influence their own violence and art, because yes, he plays guitar and sings with the Inx's band. Chadd's an obnoxious, in your face, musically-talented (but borderline nerdy), organized weirdo that gathers all the other stans to plan aerial concerts/bombing events on Piltover.
He's such a dedicated stan (in the concept art) that he dresses up like Jinx too, shorts, fishnets, collar and all. Chadd even has his Jinx tattoo drawn in the same placement aswhere Jinx has her own.
Please Arcane, let obsessive freaks like Chadd overwhelm the chembarons next season as Jinx's stans believe the chembarons don't pay her enough proper tribute. Let Jinx be mildly amused at their antics and keep them around for logistics and grunt work.
#arcane#jinx arcane#chadd convergence#the inx#this guy has got to exist#conv/rgence#if only convergence was a better written story then interesting bits like chadd would be more obvious#hold me like a fermata#he makes makes weapons and music related puns#the concept art is almost uniformly more interesting for all the characters in the final product unfortunately#arcane meta#does this count as meta?#the jacket ties the while thing together#it acts like a shawl/boa to cinch the diva personality#zaun
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Not to skk post on main but that scene from Dead Apple made me insane for I think a slightly different reason than most...
Ok so. Gonna be honest. When I first watched this, the ah... positioning... did not occur to me at all, other than thinking "that looks really uncomfy :/".
I was too focused on what Dazai's hand does here. He first pushes him. Ok so he was trying to stop him from getting up and losing contact due to the fog. Cool. That serves a practical purpose.
But then Chuuya falls unconscious and Dazai's hand loses that contact for a second before he lowers it back down to rest on his head.
The thing is, there's no need for him to do that. Chuuya is already in contact with Dazai's legs and his ability works through clothes. Moreover, it wasn't just a continuation of pushing him down - there's a slight delay before he sets his hand back on his head.
He sets his hand there just because. And, due to the delay/hesitation, it appears to be a conscious choice to do so as well. Chuuya's out. There's no one around to act for.
I watched that and went holy shit that's genuine, isn't it? It's such a simple gesture of fondness, maybe even a bit of protectiveness, but it means a lot from someone as emotionally closed off as Dazai.
It's... weirdly sweet. He appears to have done it after Chuuya lost all his friends (again...) during DHC in the manga adaptation too, which is... :(
And now, with seeing Dazai immediately start playing with Chuuya's hair in the latest Fifteen adaptation, it also doubles as really funny to me. He saw a chance to touch his hair again and took it. What is wrong with this man.
#this is probably as shippy as i'm going to get on here tbh#except perhaps my fanfics if i ever get them done...#when you miss the obvious fanservice and focus on other things lol#the pros of being asexual and a lil stupid :)#does this count as meta?#i ask for the millionth time#eh not really#bsd#bsd dead apple#bsd dazai#bsd chuuya#soukoku#skk#storyrambles
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In the anime, William says “it’s my loss, Sherly.” And then immediately cuts Sherlock’s arm so that he will let go of him.
In the manga, before he cuts Sherlock, he says “Live on and atone for my sins, you say? There might have been such a future… but now it seems like fate won’t show me any mercy[*]… That scaffold cannot possibly support this much weight…”
Sherlock tells him “throw away the damn sword… and use both hands to grab mine,” to which he responds “The only one I wish to have return home alive… is you”. And then he cuts Sherlock.
And although it may not seem like it, I think this difference greatly changes the meaning of William’s intended final actions.
In the anime, William forced Sherlock to let go of him to ensure/hasten his own death, getting the final word despite admitting that Sherlock did beat him in the end.
In the manga, William forced Sherlock to let go because he knew that Sherlock wouldn’t let go on his own even if it meant the bridge giving out and them both falling to their deaths. He cut him not because he wanted to die, but because he wanted Sherlock to live.
*I’ve also thought a lot about how this line almost feels like William regretting not being able to live to see the future he set in motion the way Sherlock is trying to persuade him to. As if maybe Sherlock had given him a tiny spark of desire to live on, but he can see that there is no longer a way for Sherlock to pull him back up onto the bridge without their combined weight dooming both of them.
#I just#feel so much#and I love the anime but there’s so much depth it leaves out for the sake of cramming everything into 24 episodes#yuukoku no moriarty spoilers#moriarty the patriot spoilers#moriarty the patriot#yuukoku no moriarty#anime vs manga comparisons#sherliam#my posts#manga musings#not really because there are no images but whatever#meta#does this count as meta?#help why am I adding tags
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You don't have a mother
From the perspective that God is the mother of the angels, and by extension the demons, this sign is particularly dark.
In fact, I believe that's the direct intent, since we have some evidence that all (over the overwhelming majority of) humans go to Hell, and so anyone who is there is statistically likely to be there with their mother.
#good omens#good omens 2#good omens meta#does this count as meta?#I mean tags are just for searching right?#fuck it#oh well#it's there now
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fuck it I'm elaborating on that last post actually. My preface is that I don't work in or study marketing, but I had to do extensive unit on it for my actual course which means while I'm not an expert I do know enough that the arc annoys the shit out of me! This is a disorganized rant on my part, no one read too much into it.
POINT A.1
a lot of the work we see Keeley do in season one and two isn't actually PR, it's brand coordination. That's a separate department to Public Relations. They both fall under the marketing department umbrella, and there is an overlap in responsibilities depending on the size of the corporate entity but they aren't the same thing!
This doesn't actually matter that much, and sometimes it varies from company to company how marketing teams are structured anyway but it bothers me that it's called PR when she's doing Brand Coordination! They aren't the same thing!
POINT A.2
jumping off from point A.1 into the actual rant, the show likes to treat Keeley as an all-rounder, which I'm sure is just for convenience sake so they don't have to write in or hire actors to actually be Richmond's marketing department, but I think that's stupid! Most corporate marketing and communications roles in real life require at least a bachelors degree, she wouldn't have the necessary knowledge or experience to fulfill multiple of these roles at once.
Which leads me to my actual point, which is that Keeley is supposed to be a self made character but they consistently just hand her things.
Rebecca just hands her a job she isn't qualified for, very similarly to what she does to Ted, only with Keeley her motivations are to provide Keeley with a new avenue* in life rather than Keeley actively seeking these opportunities for herself! It's not self made if Keeley isn't trying to make it happen for herself.
I will admit it's been a while since I properly watched season one, so I might be wrong about that above statement, but it doesn't change the fact Keeley, much like Ted and probably even moreso than Ted who is at least qualified to coach to some degree, is not qualified for the job that Rebecca just hands her in any formal capacity.
(*side note; I can't remember if Rebecca was being genuine or trying to sabotage the club some more when she offered Keeley the job, but if she was doing the latter that is an entirely separate rant)
Then, they just hand her her own company she is equally underqualified for! She has maybe a year of formal marketing experience at the time, she has no formal training and she is a free lancer with one known client. They never show us Keeley working for anyone but Richmond! in fact, she works within Richmond, so it's safe to say they are literally her only client!
look, I'm not saying it's impossible for her to have gotten a free lance PR job at Richmond, that isn't actually my main concern with Keeley's arc, it's a good starting point, but it's important that it's acknowledged that Keeley isn't as prepared for the role as she could be. It's a conflict and conflict is what makes stories interesting.
My main problem is that they ignore the fact she isn't qualified, make her seem perfect and on top of everything, give her multiple legs up via friendship nepotism and dumb luck, and then when she is finally shown to be struggling, the rug is swept out from under her due to external, bullshit factors that have nothing to do with her actual professional struggles. And then she gets bailed out, via more friendship nepotism. It's BORING! You had a perfect plot sitting right there and you stepped over it!
POINT B
But Asteria, I hear you asking, why do you keep calling Keeley a free lancer? Because, dear reader, if she actually worked for Richmonds Marketing department, she would be in their marketing department!
There are mutliple interconnecting roles in a marketing department, data analysts, social media teams, media coordinators! They typically work together in an office building, similar to Keeley's PR company! There are a lot of different roles and a lot of different employees involved! think cubicles and break rooms, not a private office in the dungeon of a stadium.
So, Keeley from what the show tells and shows, is a free lance PR consultant not for the stadium itself, but for members of the team and later the greyhounds as an entity. This is where I would veer off course!
Instead of ending season two with a bullshit out of the blue here's your own company girl boss arc, I'd have Rebecca offer Keeley some kind of formal training avenue to get some more experience, build up her portfolio, and make progress in her career via some kind of internship or traineeship with Nelson Roads marketing team.
Why does this cause conflict? Because Keeley sucks at it! Keeley, for as friendly and sociable as she is, is not a corporate team player. She canonically doesn't understand corporate etiquette, she doesn't respect a lot of corporate practices, and to the people who have actually spent years of their lives studying and working for their positions, she doesn't deserve to be there!
She's there because she's a rich model whose friends with their millionaire boss. She's not self made to them, she hasn't come from nothing, she owns a mansion and wears designer almost exclusively. She has weekly lunch with the owner of their company, she was dating their star player and now she's dating the assistant coach, she got hired with no experience or education because she has friends in high places, if I was some poor marketing employee with student debt who worked my ass off to be there? I'd be pissed off, I wouldn't like her!
and Keeley is a very make her own way person, she isn't prepared for the rules and parameters that working in a corporate environment has! She also isn't used to not being liked! The team all love her, she makes friends really easy! It isn't an environment that she is comfortable in or used too, and she struggles with it!
Her arc would be about deciding if it's worth it! Where to compromise and where to hold to fast! Proving that she does deserve to be there to herself and to others! Realizing that she has had a lot of things handed to her, and that she is not as self made and independent as she previously claimed to be! Deciding how to proceed with that realization! Working on herself to understand the perspective of others!
You can give her a crisis of confidence and self doubt with that! You can make her actively trying to learn more and better herself! Give her the Elle Woods Arc She Deserved! She doesn't have to be The Boss, she just has to be an active character in her own story!
POINT C
Splitting Keeley from the main cast was dumb! It was just a bad choice! It's an ensemble show, ensemble shows never work when you split up the ensemble. That's part of why season three felt so weird to watch!
I love Keeley, I really do, but her story was not substantial enough to stand on its own! She needs to be connected to Nelson Road and Richmond one way or another, or she might of well have been written off because the KJPR story line doesn't serve the over all plot or Keeley's character development. She starts and ends the season in the exact same spot, and she contributes almost nothing to the main story line.
This point of mine is more of technical perspective on writing but if something doesn't serve a purpose in a story, especially a story that is actively trying to be concise like the third season of ted lasso allegedly was, you need to either change it so that it does serve a purpose or cut it. Characters aren't people, they are tools used within a narrative to tell a story. Keeley wasn't used effectively as a tool to the narrative in any capacity.
Also I just think it would've been a lot more interesting to explore Roy and Keeley's relationship breaking down in real time. Them breaking up off screen and then ignoring each other for most of the season was, once again, boring!
In Conclusion
I hate the KJPR story line because it was so easy to fix and it could've elevated the narrative in so many ways but nooooooo we had to have THAT shit show. You could even keep Barbara in my version. Like,, she can still be there and it would work better. They fumbled so bad, Keeley deserved better.
#Keeley Jones#I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about this as you can probably tell#does this count as meta?#I think so#ted lasso meta
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something something Ed left Stede because he thought he was too horrible for Stede to love him, and Stede left Ed because he didn't want Ed to change who he was for him
#our flag means death#blackbonnet#gentlebeard#stede bonnet#ed teach#ofmd edward teach#ofmd blackbeard#blackbeard#ofmd stede#ofmd stede bonnet#I can't be normal about these two#ofmd meta#does this count as meta?
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How to make a romance!
A Recipe Guide by TV tropes
Love At First Sight:
"This is one of the most common and oldest story archetypes. Love at First Sight is either a recipe for Happily Ever After or eventual disillusionment and heartbreak."
Watching The Sunset!
"It's often for their own pleasure, based on the romantic connotations, or for a symbolic purpose. They may even be waiting for something that's supposed to happen after the sun sets. Often symbolizes the end of a period — often a rather happy one — in somebody's life."
Finishing Each Other's Sentences~
"The effect is usually a demonstration of how close the two people are — they're so familiar with one another, they even think alike."
Meet The In-Laws!
"In many cultures, this is obligatory as a form of knowing and being close to each other's families. Everyone wants to make a good first impression in the face of possible disapproval and for this reason can be played for laughs or drama."
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"Have you ever.....killed someone?"
LOADING.....LOADING.....STANDBY--
Despair Event
"The line that, once crossed,
destroys any last remaining sense of hope."
We Used To Be Friends
"The reasons might vary, but bottom line is, the once tight bond between the character(s) in question and their former friend(s) is severely damaged, if not completely broken."
Don't You Dare Pity Me
"An injured or suffering character is approached by another, eager to help, but the injured party is offended. This reaction of humiliation and resentment may be spoken, acted upon, or merely felt."
The Power of Love
"The Power of Love is a curious thing. It makes one man weep, and another man sing."
"It might just save your life."
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//ERROR//
LOADING
PLOT TWIST
THE FOOL
"the Power of Love can be applied in dire situations to make things better."
"Don't you dare mock it, it's more than a feeling, that's the Power of Love."
ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR
HAPPILY EVER AFTER!?!?!?!
The Lost Lenore
"The Lost Lenore is another character's deceased love interest. This kind of tragedy is one of The Oldest Ones in the Book"
"In order to fit this trope, the character must have just as much, if not more, importance to the narrative dead than they would alive."
Itadori Yuuji: The next words that spilled from my lips came from so deep within my gut that it nearly made all the things I've ever said feel like a lie.
Itadori Yuuji: I will kill you.
#itajun#itadori yuuji x yoshino junpei#jjk#jujutsu kaisen#jjk s1#does this count as meta?#jjk meta#lol#ultfreakme art#i'm way too proud of this post
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Marx and Magolor and their "it's complicated" thing. I keep promising to actually dissect their dynamic but then I get emotionally burnt out and just make them cuddle instead.
The general binding theme of "the way we interact with others makes us fundamentally isolated, and the existence of the Soul is so inherently frightening and a profoundly lonely experience, and you are the only one who can fully understand this facet of myself" paired against their conflicting feelings.
Marx's "you're a hypocrite, your double standards are infuriating, you make me want to pull my hair out. You make me laugh, you're fun, I miss you when you're gone."
Magolor's "I changed, you didn't, you don't get to judge me. I wish I was a better friend to you. You seem to know me better than I know myself and that scares me. I hate you. I lovingly dedicate this hat to you."
It gets worse before it gets better but it gets better.
#gihijinks rambles#magolor#marx#marxolor#they make me want to crawl up the walls#meta#does this count as meta?
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You all are WRONG. Steve is not a DOG BOY....HE IS A CAT BOY. HERE'S WHY.
1) Has a favorite person whom he spends almost all of his time interacting with
2. He loves back pats (Natasha gives him back pats, Bucky gives him back pats, Steve gives ppl back pats)
3. Spends a lot of his time alone, in the quiet, in sun spots, curled up somewhere
3.5. On this note! Steve spends a lot of his time alone and in social situations where there are multiple people, he sticks to the fringes and is still pretty quiet, though he does interact alot with his FAVORITE. PEOPLE! Cat!! Thats what cats do!!
4. WHEN hes SAD he GOES AWAY and SULKS BY HIMSELF
5. Stubborn! Cats are not controllable animals, they are very independent and strong-willed...yknow who else is!?!?
6. Throws himself from tall places
7. ......look at him. He is literally a cat.
IN CONCLUSION.....STEVE ROGERS IS A CATBOY
A CATBOY I SAY!!!!
#meow#meow he says#steve rogers#steve rogers my beloved#bucky barnes#stucky#natasha romanoff#sam wilson#catboy#i will push my steve rogers is a catboy agenda!!"#steve rogers is a catboy#its the truth!!!!#also if ur wanting to know bucky is a dog boy I HAVE PROOF.#captain america the winter soldier#captain america: the first avenger#captain america#the winter soldier#does this count as meta?#idc im tagging it#steve rogers meta#mcu meta
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Dream Critical Role Class Choice
Travis: Dunamancy Wizard. His mind for battlefield tactics combined with the crowd control of a Graviturgist would be SO MUCH FUN to watch.
Marisha: Soulknife Rogue/Fighter Multiclass. High damage, multiple attacks, cool flavor and a lot of RP abilities, I think Marisha would crush this class.
Liam: Circle of Stars Druid. Combine Liam's reverence for the Air Ashari with one of the coolest subclasses and better healers in the game. Plus, I think he'd have a blast describing Starry Form and Cosmic Omen.
Laura: Barbarian, any subclass. Let Laura hit things and do Insane Damage. She should be a smol race though. Goblin Barbarian.
Sam: Chaos Magic Sorcerer. He's already an agent of chaos.
Tailesin: Great Old One Warlock. I know he probably doesn't want to bring his private life to work, but at the same time, let him be the wonderful (evil?) weirdo with high charisma that he was born to be.
Ashley: Paladin. Vengeance Paladin. Ashley as a Fantasy Batman With Magic would make me so happy.
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heyyy, guess who’s back with more thoughts about itoshi rin????
so, we’ve already established that rin is a very extrinsically motivated person, at least when it comes to football. he doesn’t play football for himself, and he never has. and in a setting like blue lock i just don’t think that’s a sustainably way to play football. blue lock is a place that wants people have a real love for the sport, and would play it every single day of their lives if they could. ego wants people who want to win and want to be the best striker in the world.
rin,, doesn’t really want that. sure, he wants to beat isagi and prove his brother wrong, but that’s not really a longterm, sustainable goal. what happens when he succeeds? does he just stop and say, “okay, that’s good enough”? what happens if he never succeeds? if isagi just continually gets better and better and rin never beats him in a way that makes sae acknowledge him?
having extrinsic motivations is good and normal, but you also eventually have to do things that you want to do for you or you’re going to get burnt out. and i feel like that’s the path that rin’s headed towards if we’re being realistic about this. he just goes and goes and goes in a really unsustainable way, and eventually it’s going to catch up to him.
he’s a really interesting foil to isagi, who’s motivations are almost entirely intrinsic. part of why isagi’s mindset feels more sustainable to me is because he really only plays football for himself. he plays because he really loves the sport. and we don’t ever really see that in rin, so i feel like it’s eventually going to kind of blow up in his face as we’ve seen in previous rounds of blue lock.
or i’m entirely wrong about this. idk, i’m not kaneshiro. i’m just saying that i don’t think that rin’s got anything sustainable going on in how he plays football ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
#original post#blue lock#itoshi rin#rin’s really good at football#that’s why he’s survived in blue lock for so long#i just don’t think that being really good at football is all that ego’s looking for in a striker#also#jsyk#i love rin so so so much#he’s my special little boy#i just also think that maybe just maybe he should find a reason to play football for himself before he burns out and decides to never play#again#he doesn’t seem like he really enjoys the sport anymore#and that makes me sad#because he deserves to have fun with the thing that he’s apparently going to spend the rest of his life doing#he’s only sixteen#he deserves to enjoy the life that he’s living#isagi yoichi#ig#he was mentioned#i feel like i talk a lot#get him on a volleyball court with hinata and kageyama#they’ll force him to find some enjoyment with what he’s doing#okay i’m done#does this count as meta?#meta post#blue lock meta#okay for real this time#bye
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Something I noticed is that the variability in the effects of Ty Lee’s chi blocking. At the extreme end, one pinch took down Katara.
Usually you’ll notice two strikes (paralyzing Sokka’s arms in “The Chase,” as well as her takedown of Azula in “The Boiling Rock pt 2”).
Or three (against that one member of the Terra Team in “The Drill” or her simultaneous takedown of Sokka and Toph in “The Crossroads of Destiny.”)
And then there’s Ty Lee against that one Kyoshi Warrior.
Umm, apparently coming at Ty Lee with a sword gets you five strikes? (Assuming there’s a connection to the number of strikes and duration, Ty Lee wanted that Kyoshi Warrior to stay down.)
#ty lee#chi blocking#Ty Lee meta#does this count as meta?#chi blocking meta#take note: don’t come at Ty Lee with a sword#she don’t like it#also Ty Lee’s takedown of Azula was seems to be standard except for the target#Ty Lee’s priority wasn’t keeping Azula from getting up#so much as stopping Azula’s attack in the moment#dragonfruit’s oc
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Also re: Danny being Jewish, I do think some of it comes down to how a character is written initially, and then how they are portrayed, especially as a series goes on. I do think that CBS intended for Danny to one of their token catholic characters, because they love to sprinkle that sort of shit in. If Danny was intended to be Jewish from the beginning, it probably would have been of a more Ziva David from NCIS situation. CBS is not known for it's nuance or delicacy. Or consistent writing.
But then you have a character portrayed by a Jewish actor, and that gets all folded in. Especially when you add in the East Coast bit. Which frankly makes this aspect of Danny's character not only more interesting, but also more organic. It feels right. And it's very easy to mix that in with the catholicism that's already been included with that character. People can be Jewish and catholic. Families can be religiously blended. Pointing out that Danny is Jewish is not somehow taking away from the catholic angle.
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thinking about Dutch and wanting to sob and cry. of course he went off the rails the way he did. he lost his entire family within the span of a few weeks with Hosea being shot and killed, Arthur visibly deteriorating from TB, and John (in his eyes) betraying him. in his eyes he had already lost or was in the process of losing everything that ever mattered to him. I think trying so hard to cling to the gang and preserve them (even if it ended up driving them apart even faster) was his attempt to keep some sense of control and stability and make it seem like his life wasn’t changing so drastically.
#rdr2#rdr2 spoilers#merc talks#I’m in my fucking feelings rn guys#thank perilit on ao3 for that (positive)#also none of this in any way excuses dutch’s actions#it’s just so horribly sad#dutch van der linde#van der linde gang#rdr2 meta#does this count as meta?#idk
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I know that not every injury turns into a scar and in One Piece only "significant" injuries do, but honestly, it is such a disservice to Nami that she isn't portrayed with a scar on her left hand, where she stabbed herself to save Usopp!
Because personally I think that was a very significant moment.
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I could rant about how much I love Uzui for literally hours. He just embodies such duality— he’s boastful and confident and borderline conceited (calling himself a god lol), but at the same time is plagued by self-doubt and trauma and grief. Feeling like he’ll never measure up to the people he looks up to (Rengoku) while also knowing that he has incredible and unique skills that make him good enough to be a hashira. Growing up facing pain and hatred and violence all around him, aimed at him, watching his siblings die because of it, and then choosing to subject himself to more violence to protect people like he couldn’t do for his siblings. Taking the path of love instead of spite and using it to make the world a safer place. Struggling to distance himself from an upbringing that damaged him while trying to embrace a life of love. I just. He really said “get better not bitter” and I love him for it.
#uzui tengen#tengen uzui#kimetsu no yaiba uzui#demon slayer uzui#does this count as meta?#idk meta i guess
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