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A thing on Uran and Helena in Pluto
Okay a short little thing on Pluto. Uran and Helena are my absolute favourite characters in Pluto. Urasawa has always had amazing side characters, from Mr. Rosso in Monster to Lee Harvey Oswald and Jackie in Billy Bat to God in 20th Century Boys, but very few have tied off the emotional ends of the story like Uran and Helena.
Maybe I'm projecting here but much like myself I feel like Urasawa is absolutely obsessed with Frankenstein. And he recognizes the influence Frankenstein has on Dr. Umataro Tenma. Or at the very least, the similarities between the two. And so when he made the protagonist of one of his most popular works Monster, Dr Kenzo Tenma, he solidified that connection. Kenzo Tenma calls back to Victor Frankenstein needing to end his creation while also calling back to Japan's other famous Tenma, thus making the connection explicit. Another throughline between the three of them is that all three are father figures to their creations and have obligations to their children, though all three have varying levels of success with them.
I've only read what I like to call Urasawa's "Core Four", conspiracy minded thrillers that are essentially road trips featuring usually two main protagonists that we see the world through, Monster, 20th Century Boys, Pluto and Billy Bat. Though I still haven't caught up to Asadora and that could still possibly fit this mold, Urasawa's Core Four share a lot of themes and ideas. One of the most important being the responsibility for one's creations, whether it was Kenji Endo and the Book of Prophecy or Kevin Yamagata and Billy Bat or Dr. Kenzo Tenma and Johan, all of his protagonists could arguably be seen as someone with the need to take up the responsibility of their creations. So where do the protagonists of Pluto fit in there? That's where Uran and Helena come in.
But first, we should take a look at Pluto's themes. While I could be wrong, at a cursory glance, I feel like the general consensus towards it's themes is that it's about hatred. I don't really think that's what it is as I feel like Urasawa is more trying to show us what it is to be human and what it is to be alive. And in that, he has a hidden protagonist in Pluto. Someone who's influence snakes through the plot and isn't seen much, but without who the story's themes would remain incomplete. Pluto tackles what it is to be alive through many things, such as memory, sadness, grief, hatred, love and parenthood. But none of that works without the realization by Tenma of his own mistakes. And Uran and Helena bookend these revelations and are absolutley key to understanding that.
In my favourite chapter of the series, Chapter 37, Uran goes from person to person as she finds a way to deal with her grief and eventually comes across Tobio's grave, Tenma having left recently. It's an absolutely beautiful chapter that shows Uran's humanity and Urasawa's love for sharing these kind and soft moments. But it also sheds a light on Tenma as Uran realizes someone who was grieving has just left. Without saying much at all we realize that Tenma has finally realized his mistakes. In the process of grieving one son, he lost the other. While remembering Tobio, he let Atom go. His grief towards Tobio is clear in the following chapter, Chapter 38. All of the things he wanted Atom to be; Tobio come back to life, Tobio's ghost punishing him, Atom rejected. And Tenma could only see that rejection, and not what he had, another son.
Uran shows us very clearly what Pluto, the story, is. It's a chapter in their lives. And we've come into a story nearing the end for Tenma. And it's through the humanity of two absolutely amazing characters in their own right, Uran and Helena, that we are able to so fully understand Tenma. Despite being robots, these two characters are the most alive of everyone. They love fully and freely and are catalysts of change. Uran's vibrant and full of life in a way that really sticks out. And Helena has such depth that it's evident in every scene she's in. She's not pointed out to be made by any famous scientist so all the life she has is her own. These two represent the life of robot's more than any other characters in the series.
So it's that much more poignant when Helena finally breaks down after putting on such a strong front of everybody. Grief intersects and she brings out Tenma's sadness as well. They've both been putting up such strong fronts that it's heartbreaking to see them collapse. It completes Tenma's growth and strikes a heartbreaking contrast between the two. Tenma became the way he is through the loss of his son whereas Helena doesn't even get to remember her own loss. It makes you wonder if the grief for her and Geischt's child compounds her sorrow too.
Without these two and their grief, a large part of Pluto becomes inaccessible. Pluto is largely about death so when two characters come in who've never had a hand in the grim work of taking life, you see the world through a lens that's absolutely crucial in order to fully connect with all of the character's and their situations. Death and Grief has scarred the characters in Pluto. Time and time again they've chosen the worst path. They've chosen revenge and hatred. But Uran and Helena are different. Without them, the story is incomplete. They provide an alternative. They provide the path towards healing.
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#naoki urasawa's pluto#helena#uran#pluto#pluto anime#umataro tenma#astro boy#this was supposed to be short#also its largely unreasearched#i would need to read the original atom and read all of urasawa's other works and read up on the gulf war before tackling a proper piece#random thoughts I didn't put in:#something i love about Pluto is how each robot is a reflection of their creators in some way or another with Uran being Ochanamizu's love#the combination of jackie and lee harvey oswald will probably throw off so many people who don't know(totally not why I did it)#also God#honestly though no side characters feel insignificant in Pluto#Some more shared ideas between the Core Four are the burdens we carry and share and the importance of stories in our lives
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There's an especially funny part about Twilight freaking out over Anya's apparent stress from "being dragged out of an orphanage by a stranger"... when Anya was the one who gaslit gatekept girlbossed her way into being adopted by him.
#like???#he didn't choose her SHE chose HIM to adopt her#spin the found family dynamic on its fucking head#Spy x Family#500#Anya Forger#Loid Forger#1k#2k#it's always the random posts isn't it?#I made this post a few minutes after waking up while I was snuggling in bed#barely any thought was put into it#and it has become my top post of the year lmao#3k#4k
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in regards to the constant dismissal of his aroace identity, i hate it when alastor 'fans' say and use the excuse: "he's fictional, he won't get offended."
like, you're right, but it can and will offend us.
when you see yourself being represented on screen, of course you'd feel enthusiastic about it — representation allows individuals to see themselves reflected in the media they consume, validating their identities and experiences. but when so many people take that representation and decide to disregard and discard it, it is so fucking frustrating. we finally have another character to be part of the tiny amount of representation we have, but then people don't even care about how much it means to us? like yeah, alastor won't get offended because he's not real, but it frustrates and annoys us. do you realize that it's also technically invalidating the aroace community? that you're invalidating our feelings? imagine feeling like you're finally being seen because your orientation is finally being represented in media, and people just decide to blatantly ignore, discard, and invalidate it.
media has such a powerful influence on real life, representation being a prevalent factor of it. there are numerous posts that dictate how people went to watch a movie/show or read a book just because a character depicts their identity in it — obviously, being represented is an incredibly uplifting and validating experience.
which is why seeing an aroace character in a popular show is so meaningful to us because we live in a world where romance and sex are literally everywhere and prioritized above all else. (and it's pretty obvious that alastor's on the repulsed end of the spectrum, but even if he wasn't, at least make an effort to acknowledge his sexuality instead of continuing to portray him as allo; aroace folks can be in relationships but it's not going to be the same thing with allos' experiences.)
any and every representation matters, but why does that seem to stop at people under the aroace spectrum? like y'all can't even let us appreciate the scraps of representation we have. we barely have any, so are we really that dramatic for being upset at how people easily disregard and dismiss our identities that are being depicted on screen just like that? is it truly wrong of us to want to defend and maintain the little representation we have?
#like imagine if i asked you ab your fav character and then i said i hated them and proceeded to insult them#wouldn't that irritate you even just a bit and maybe even come to their defense?#like why would you be offended when they're not even real lmaoo#they're fictional and won't get offended but if you love that character then YOU might feel offended and maybe even defend them#ok now take that situation and put it into this context#except it's much more meaningful bc it's about representation#just a random thought#i'm not against shipping him or finding him attractive (bc same LMAO) or the fanart btw#i just hate it when people use bs excuses to justify their obvious dismissal & indifference towards aro/ace rep#like at least acknowledge his identity :((#sorry for the long ass rant and if some parts don't make sense i'm not in the best mood rn lol#and i've been wanting to get this off my chest for a while#didn't know double standards were a thing when it came to representation....#but here we are#alastor#aroace alastor#aroace#asexual#aromantic#asexuality#aromanticism#arospec#aspec#alastor hazbin hotel#aromantic alastor#asexual alastor#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel alastor#aroacespec#queer
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Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.
Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen
A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death
#hellsing#alucard#kouta hirano#translation was found in a comment by u/lazyfoxheart on r/Kurrent#fun fact this is the highest quality version of this image that exists online#i know because i've been looking forever for a version that's clear enough to actually read what hirano wrote under '1443'#but there weren't any so i had to take matters into my own hands#the real image on the back of the guidebook is only 2 inches tall so i had to take this with my smartphone and will my hands not to shake#anyway i'm pretty sure it's supposed to say Eğrigöz (the location vlad was imprisoned) so yeah. thank you hirano very cool#if i might rant for a sec it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out because i didn't have the guidebook at first#and in the images i could find online that part was just a blur that looked suspiciously like a person's signature and i was like. who tf#i was thinking matthias corvinus since he issued some political propaganda against vlad iirc but it didn't match his signature on wikipedia#then i thought it might be vlad II dracul's since he probably had to sign an agreement to send his sons over as hostages at some point#but that didnt seem right either so i kept skimming vlad's wiki page#and then i was like goddammit...hirano.....you just misspelled Eğrigöz didn't you.. ....#i maybe should've made a separate post dedicated to this instead of writing a novel in the tags but eh#the hellsing brainrot runs deep#also- i put it in the source link at the bottom of the post but the german inscription is copied off a real woodcut of vlad from 1491#except instead of depicting him as an adult hirano drew him as a child which gives the inscription a very different feel imo#the one final thing that interests me about this is the fact that hirano published this calendar in 2002#which is REALLY early in the series. like this was before volume 5 came out??#i have no idea why he decided to do a massive spoiler drop in a random piece of japan-only merch#sandwiched between a drawing of alucard as john travolta from saturday night fever and integra as a fish no less#it makes me really curious to know what the fan response to this was back then. like did people even know who this was#maybe im just an idiot and everyone back then was like 'ah yes its alucard as a 12 year old. how very informative'
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Through the magic of an AU, Xander, Min, and Teruko make it through the night, avoid a Class Trial, and participate in the first motive alongside everyone else. Except, this time, the first motive is... a gift exhange?
(basically, if it wasn't clear, i'm drawing the drdt characters doing a secret santa exchange with each other, hopefully posting one interaction per day until christmas!)
#drdt secret santa saga#<- block this tag if you don't want to see any of the posts. since there will be seventeen of them#danganronpa despair time#drdt#monotv#teruko tawaki#xander matthews#drdt spoilers#<- for the caption. i think i'm largely gonna avoid spoilers this time yippee!#aw shit here we go again etc etc#i'm hoping this one will take less time than drdttober but also i wanted to have more of them done before today#and i didn't#so we'll see what happens!!!!1!!#hopefully posting one per day is okay for drdttober i put them all together because i didn't want to spam the tag#but i feel like something more advent calendar-ish is more suitable for christmas? i hope it's just like a nice present :)#also please do not take this as a knock on drdtcember or the fangan gift exchange#those are both very cool ideas i was just intimidated out of doing them by quantity of work and others' expectations#but i still wanted to do something fun! hence this#all of the matchups are randomized btw. i thought that would be most fun#my art#comic#fanart#fanganronpa#fun fact i was originally going to do something with sdra 2 and the 12 days of christmas#but did you know. that there are SO MANY parts of the 12 days of christmas that are just large groups of people. it was boring#i pretty much only had ideas for 12 11 5 and 1 so i aborted and did this instead#i'll figure out a way to draw sdra 2 someday. someday......
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WAIT I need more soap chaos
turns out juvenile space dragons are just the right size to be put into crècheling robes. the more you know
#sorry i read that ask and somehow this specific mental picture didn't leave my brain so i had to doodle it real quick#soap the tirra'taka#it took the crechemaster in charge an entire day to realize something as off#so really. who's at fault here#(also yes putting ali alann in there doesnt make much sense timeline wise but he was the first crechemaster that came to my mind so deal)#random boli thoughts#star wars#my art#answering asks#⛏️⛏️⛏️
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What form did Croissant's Dream Guardian take prior to, well, all that stuff that happens?
Their dream guardian was an unfamiliar drow. He wasn't based on anyone Croissant knew, so Croissant was always a bit wary of who he was and what his intentions might be.
#Put that man through the randomizer and gave him a few tweaks before sending to print#I did give the two of them matching white eyeliner though bc I thought that was cute haha#((That didn't stick for Croissant's final design - makeup is too much effort)). SPOILERS NEXT TAG#I went into BG3 blind so I had no idea what the deal with the Dream Guardian was but I DID clock that he was a mindflayer pretty quickly lo#bg3 spoilers#baldur's gate 3 spoilers#croissant lore#ALSO SORRY I DON'T HAVE BETTER SCREENSHOTS I had exactly two (2) from this scene in act 2 and that was IT
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*screams about mobei's mom* *calms down*
Omg, when sqh and mbj marry... Who's going to pay for that wedding?
Probably Mobei, tbh. Even if they stop hiding that they are courting much earlier, I don't think they would commit to the wedding until Mobei-jun is the king. And him taking his first (and most likely only) spouse is going to be a huge event for the entire demon realm, them tagging a human-compatible second party onto the proceedings (that nonetheless will make everyone, even Huan Hua Palace green with envy) won't even show up as a meaningful expense on the event budget, because Mobei is just That Important to the north
The way I came up with Mobei's mom for this story started with trying to figure out how Mobei can be number 2 epic OP mofo (author's favorite blorbo edition) while not directly threatening Binghe (Bingge) in their usual setting. Other than, you know, being the loyal sort who wouldn't attack Binghe unless Binghe attacked him first, thus betraying the agreement between them. In some of my original stories, I have something I call 'conditional divinity', where something can have god-like powers, but only under certain circumstances. In this case, Mobei's mom is a primordial god, but only when she's in her natural environment in the Endless Abyss. Her leaving the depth of the Abyss and living on a decidedly more material and stable plane puts her roughly in the same category of being as a heavenly demon, because she had to be significantly diminished to make it work.
So Mobei can be considered a very similar kind of being to Binghe, with the caveat that his power is a lot more tied up in the Abyss. If they fight in the demon or human realm, Binghe wins because he doesn't have a condition on his power. If they fought in the Abyss or near a suitably large abyssal vent, then Mobei would win - but Binghe will never go back to the Abyss of his own volition and with Xin Mo in hand he can't be kept in there even if someone were to throw him in, so...
#this went off on a random tangent I'm sorry#but I put some thought into mbj's mom beyond 'gorgeous sky kitty GOOD'#though that was a very important part of the process#and I didn't really have the chance to talk to anyone about it before your ask
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i love you people who go above and beyond to be accommodating without you even asking. a while back I asked the dental assistant person if I could have sunglasses instead of clear glasses when I visit because the lights are too bright for me, and ever since she's made sure to give me the darkest sunglasses she could find every time. and today she--completely unprompted, I didn't even know this was an option--turned off the harsh overhead lights too, and like. I cannot explain how touching it is to have others make changes to help you instead of you making changes to yourself to make things work. i love it very much. so to those out there who put in that effort, thank you :)
#unsure what to tag this its random#humans are good#hopepunk#<- it is to me#there was zero eye pain this time it was so nice#i didn't even know the lights /could/ be off I thought best case scenario was really dark sunglasses#i tried to deal with the clear ones for a few visits (they gave me sunglasses as a kid and then clear when I was older)#but i just couldn't do it it hurt#i don't know what note she left herself in my charts but I appreciate it#and did not expect it#i am very used to changing myself and putting up with things to make it work so#bringing my ear plugs and not complaining when the volume hurts. that kinda thing#i'd kinda forgotten how nice it is to be accommodated
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Okay so when I was at bttmw2 I gave Madison a bracelet I made for her and today she uploaded a video of getting a tattoo in Brazil and in it I saw that She's Still Wearing That Bracelet!!!!!
I tried showing which one it is in this picture, but if the arrow isn't clear enough is the purple one that's very far to the right
Also here's picture of the whole bracelet!!! <3
#when i gave it to her at the con she immediately put it on and showed me all her other bracelets and i wanted to tell her that i like#wearing a lot of bracelets too but i was too excited and nervous so i didn't fkdbsjds#but this makes me so happy!!!!#ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh /pos#jatp#julie and the phantoms#madison reyes#lea's random thoughts#fun things i made
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Red's Favourite Women Of All Time: Angela Orosco
"Or maybe... You think you can save me? Will you love me? Take care of me? Heal all my pain? Hmph. That's what I thought."
#Crimson's Gifs: Silent Hill#Silent Hill#SH#Silent Hill 2#SH2#Silent Hill 2: Directors Cut#Angela Orosco#Angela (SH)#Angela (SH2)#Angela (Silent Hill)#Angela Silent Hill 2#James Sunderland#Abstract Daddy#<- tagged for those who tweak the fuck out because of that thing#I swear I start moving like I'm freddy fazbear every time I see this thing its so fucking grotesque as a concept#Masahiro Ito i am in your walls and behind you always like Lisa in P.T.#I actually beat a procured version of P.T. the other day and it was really funny because the sink fetus looked like a red block because the#didn't put the actual model in or something. That and some random dude was giving out shoutouts at the end instead of the trailer rolling#Anyways Angela Orosco thank you for being the most thought provoking character ive experienced in a while#I genuinely think SH2 is a masterpiece and I havent even beaten it on my own yet#I keep bringing up Marys photo every 5 minutes like the camera menu in FNAF 2 if I don't get the Leave ending I'm gonna In Water real.#<- Greetings federal agents the last tag was Satire#Theme: Favourite Women Of All Time#Theme: Psychological Horror
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Always reassuring seeing people like my original posts because sometimes I worry about being too weird and awkward or that. My vibes are off-putting or something. Even though this is the weird awkward people with off-putting vibes website
#i struggle a lot with putting my random thoughts into text online so it's also a feeling of like.#oh thank god i didn't say something incomprehensible#i worry too much#cookie.txt
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Another screencap redraw as I rewatch episode of all time (The Most Toys).
#geordi laforge#Star Trek: The Next Generation#star trek#tng#the composition of this shot is just very nice tho I did edit the painting behind him a bit to make the planet halo him better#thinking many thoughts. also just the fact that he has a random painting in his room. he doesn't own a lot of art#it's very hyperrealistic in the sense that it really just looks like a picture taken of a planet from a moon that orbits it#do u know where im going with this. it looks like data painted it. we know what data's paintings look like. data made that ive decided#like it makes sense with the whole thing about this episode how they think data's dead. its good#also the fact that when he's sleeping here. full uniform. didn't even take off his boots or combadge#i forget who exactly but maybe riker or picard who was telling geordi to go the fuck to bed earlier#you KNOW he was just up working trying to find what went wrong with the shuttle and then Conked Out#star trek will give us characters in pajamas if theyre SLEEPIN sleeping. u KNOW he wasnt#if he wasnt working himself to death they wouldve given us geordi jammies#anyway :(((((((((( episode of all time. put data in SITUATIONS.#FUCK kivas fajo#kill kill bite main destroy. they shoulve let data kill him. a a treat
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(*・ω・*)b♪
#I'm a bit late but :)#Mmmhh lots of thoughts about this episode. Nothing really relevant though lol#I like it... Mostly. Well‚ I like Atsushi‚ and I like Atsushi screentime.#I always forget that there's actually a one week timeskip within the Guild arc#I think these chapters were generally better executed in the manga.#But even then it's just...#Why do the make the Guild / Fitzgerald so. dumb. Why do they make them act so wildly irrationally and at the protagonists' advantage#It really gives villain acting entirely mindlessly to make the plot advance and the heroes win. It's really sensless.#I mean especially when Atsushi yielded. Why didn't Fitzgerald take his offer. For real!!#For real. He had NOTHING to gain from proceeding with his plan. He already obtained for Atsushi and the ada to collaborate.#Now they are NEVER going to help him‚ and that's agreat loss for him.#And idk. i hear that little Tumblr post in my voice saying “why would you complain about characters acting irrationally!#Do people irl never act irrationally?”#And yeah I get Fitzgerald was frustrated for losing Mitchell and his fight with Hawthorne. Okay I understand.#But that's definitely too much. That's him acting downright stupid at the heroes' advantage and it's just pretty underwhelming to read?#That said. It's just general notes I'm not particularly annoyed because like. That's just b/s/d to you. Dumbing down the villains a second–#so the author can escape the trap they put themselves into. Very Marvel-esque move lol.#On that exact same note WHY WOULD LUCY HAVE THE DOLL.#The doll is the whole premise for your plan working why would you not protect it with everything 😭😭😭#I'm not getting in the Lucy / Atsushi scene itself. I love Lucy but I swear every time that scene gets played a femminist dies#(it's me. I'm the femminist dying every time.)#Mmmhh a couple more things. I dislike the ost choice in the scene where Steinbeck is torturing Q it feels so out of place#And I really don't get what's the deal with the Hawthorne / Fitzgerald convo it's so confusing to me. Like it It looks like Hawtorne is–#blaming Fitzgerald for Mitchell's condition (both in health and for her family status) but...#Objectively neither of those things are Fitzgerald's fault? Idk maybe I just have very little media comprehension for this arc because–#a lot of things just seem to happen with no sense. But it's okay#Im complaining a lot lol but its mostly irrelevant things (or like with the dumbification of villains things I've learnt to live with lmao)#But the episode was generally nice. The animation this season is consistently very pretty.#random rambles
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You know, I'm glad that some of us take the step to embrace things that we like even if they're "cringe" or "objectively bad"
But perhaps we could take the next step forward and embrace the idea of reading into books/shows/movies/etc even if they don't seem deep. Perhaps we could understand that the two kinds of media aren't either "shallow and meaningless so you're weird and brainrotted to read into it" or "incredibly and profoundly deep in every way so if you don't analyze every single angle of the thing then you're brainrotted". Some media is deeper than others, but all I propose is that no matter how deep it seems it's acceptable to dig into the thing and take the media seriously instead of just assuming that because of ____ thing (such as target audience or how cringe it is) the media not deep and will never be deep and everything good about it happened on accident.
#fandom wank#i just be ramblin#I'm not putting this in any tags#I'm just frustrated that Sonic Prime is going to be remembered by the bulk of its fanbase/people who watched it as a shallow stupid badly#written kid's show where the only thing good about it that we can even consider was created on purpose and is deep is Sonadow#I'm frustrated that when people learned that sometimes the death note creators did things because it was cool and not because they were#planning for it to be some great symbolism that so many people jumped from 'death note is a masterpiece and every bit of it is meticulously#thought out the curtains are never blue' to 'pack it up guys! the curtains are just blue! Everything good about death note like that#profound relationship I like and the neat symbolism completely happened by accident and Ohba sucks as a writer otherwise'#I'm frustrated when I see people talk about 'a kid's show' as if it's not gonna be deep at all or written well *because#it's a kid's show and then turn around and complain that said show sucks and isn't deep at all (even if that's how they're choosing to look#at it and they could see the care put into the story if they didn't go into it assuming that it will be lesser and shallow and dumb based on#what it is)#I guess it's also just getting me on this random Wednesday the idea that the bulk of one's viewers determine the legacy of a piece of media‚#no matter how close or far away they are from painting the media as it actually is or tries to bw#It's also just bleak (especially from a manga/anime standpoint) that if your work is considered profound and intellectual‚ then any reveal#of something not being deep is grounds for people to completely swap how they think of your work and how they see you as a writer#And any work that's considered 'not actually that deep' from the getgo ends up with people only engaging with it seriously saying stuff like#'I know nothing about it is purposeful or deep but I like it'#and just ends up with prevailing opinion putting down anything percieved as 'good' or 'profound' about the work as a complete fluke
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"Oh, my poor darling!" As she spoke, she took her husband's grey head in her hands and kissed it. "Lay your poor head here and rest it. All will yet be well, dear! God will protect us if He so will it in His good intent." The poor fellow groaned.
Jonathan's like, I love you but how do I tell you as gently as possible not to talk about God's will when I'm this close to going full Faustus. Also, your wording isn't helping things.
On the one hand, I get that Mina was just being herself, trying to keep Jonathan and everyone's spirits up. But at the same time, I know in my heart that the only thing Jonathan heard was--
Mina: Don't worry, Jonathan! Just because God didn't step in for Lucy, or for Mr. Swales, or for the sailors of the Demeter, or for that mother who got torn apart by wolves, or those children Dracula fed to his Brides, or presumably any of the other uncountable legions of innocent victims Dracula's preyed on for centuries, doesn't mean He won't take care of our predicament! But hey, on the off-chance it's God's will that He fumbles my soul and humanity too, could you and our new friends maybe swear to double-kill me to prevent my chances of coming back as a vampire? It's cool, just think of it like it's olden times, when husbands and fathers would murder their families to prevent their enemies from getting to them. Also can you give me an early funeral rite? It'd make me feel better. :)
Jonathan: ...
Mephistopheles, sliding into his spiritual DMs: lol, that's crazy. Want to look at our Unholy Vengeance package?
#and then Jonathan did in fact wind up striking the killing blow that sent Dracula (presumably) to Hell forever#as requested#yeah I know the text only says he WOULD sell his soul to do it#not that he DID#but...we know Jonathan kept a lot of incriminating thoughts and plots to himself#who's to say he didn't have a certain Faustian chat on the side?#after all--God gave them some toys (that also injured his wife! fun!)--but also noticeably left Dracula to free range for centuries#the thought of this handful of random folks just happening to put an end to him On His Own Turf precisely at sunset#seems a bit too convenient#diabolically so#-adds Jonathan made a deal with the Devil to guarantee victory to my pile of Fucked Up Jonathan Harker AUs-#jonathan harker#mina harker#mephistopheles#doctor faustus#dracula#dracula daily
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