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this medieval fucking meal i'm going to cry
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making beef & guinness stew today & looking for a recipe was so enlightening to the fact that the irish do not play about their cuisine... i feel like someone from cork is about to break into my house & beat me to death for using garlic
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in the google document. straight up "writing it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. Nothing
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thistle dungeon meshi
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yaoi is soooo good when one guy is just scared as fuck
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fujimoto bringing quanxi back from the dead like a lesbian second coming of christ and gege sending gojo to gay superhell all in one day... every action really does have its equal and opposite reaction
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making beef & guinness stew today & looking for a recipe was so enlightening to the fact that the irish do not play about their cuisine... i feel like someone from cork is about to break into my house & beat me to death for using garlic
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this poem has been living in my head and whacking my brain with a pickaxe recently
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i need to go to bed before i start talking about anything crazy like how sexual desire is often sublimated into hunger and all i'm saying is that would laios fuck the winged lion well you look at this and tell me you aren't suspicious that's all i'm sayin—[GUNSHOT]
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i think about this tweet every single time asa and yoshida interact
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HELLO. i have spent the past couple days picking this poster apart like a mad scientist. here are my findings. welcome to the reze flower thread. [ anime onlys give this a miss, there will be major spoilers. this is your only warning ] #chainsawman #chainsawmanmovie
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woahhh okay i didn't know you guys fucked with fantasy tavern dishes this much.. i'll have to make more stews. also i know they didn't have potatoes in the middle ages i'm sorry for being historically inaccurate in my joke caption on a photo of my dinner. won't happen again
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torches and pitchforks this lot
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okay i filled it out. this isn't even everything in the overlaps but i only had so much room. i am taking notes of any and all kinds please talk to me about this i'm rattling the bars of my cage
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hey guys who understands
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look at our horsemen dawg we are not getting an apocalypse 😭 #csm159
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① in japanese folklore: dogs have the ability to deter spirits; crows are birds that carry spirits & are harbingers of death ② denji is associated w/ canine symbolism, asa w/ avian symbolism & she is also 'carrying' yoru (a demon) ③ denji steps on crow ④ um can anyone hear me
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not trying to tell anyone how to interact with art but looking at the responses to this, i want to say i think you lose a lot of meaning if you only look at things at a literal level without conceptualising themes & examining what's being communicated in terms of symbolism
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i need to go to bed before i start talking about anything crazy like how sexual desire is often sublimated into hunger and all i'm saying is that would laios fuck the winged lion well you look at this and tell me you aren't suspicious that's all i'm sayin—[GUNSHOT]
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hey guys who understands
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i think kenma said it best
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#chainsawman149 i think it's extremely telling of denji's character that, despite the neglect he experienced from his father, the care he has for nayuta is the unconditional devotion he never received himself. he isn't emulating anyone; it's coming from him.
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when i got drunk on new year's i spent twenty minutes talking to a guy about love and cannibalism and how the language of sex often IS the language food and eating. i can keep going i have so many jstor articles about this topic. dungeon meshi is my domain
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@sadcowboy200 bread was built different i could not cut that shit to save my life i was sawing at it full force... it did taste good though yes
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considering how much fujimoto loves cinema i thought i'd look and see if there was any inspiration drawn from the menu (2022) for the falling devil's character #chainsawman123
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realising marcille named her magic staff ambrosia because it means "immortality" in ancient greek and it's the "food of the goods" in greek/roman mythos and drinking ambrosia will grant longevity/immortality... which is what she wanted to do for her friends with her magic
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denji.............
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or whatever mitski said in that song
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@misteryurifag it's the fact that he always meets denji exactly where he's at. doesn't impose or force him into anything. it's a little like.... he's opening a door....... for denji to walk through......
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bakusquad this bakusquad that you know who actually deserved a flashback? them
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sorry but you can't talk about the funniest manga panels without including hikaru dying because he saw a curvy tree and fell
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so who's gonna write the academic papers on biblical interpretations of barbie (2023) & the subversion of patriarchal structures perpetuated in christian tradition because i'm so there
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she is operating at levels we can barely comprehend
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i understand the very human desire to leave a mark on the world but it’s shortsighted to me, this instinct to conquer nature when you’re already a part of it. the trees have known your name for longer than you’ve been alive; there's no need to carve it into their flesh
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can't believe you guys still support fujimoto like the police didn't find human remains and evidence of cannibalism in his LA home 😕
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this man roleplays as his little sister and almost got sued by his editors, ate his pet fish, tried to levitate or some shit, got turned on by a girl bullying him, promised himself that if he didnt get better in art college he'd kill his peers, and now roleplayed as a filipino 😭
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while rereading "the miracle of mindfulness" i found a passage about tangerines that hasn't been chopped up, passed around and beaten to death by the webweaving girls so i thought i'd share
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do NOT crawl into a Dog cage because an Older woman Told you there was Fruit snacks inside . she is LYING there isnt anythinf inside except a dog bed and stuffed animal.
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i just think love how loid's feelings for yor and damian's feelings for anya began even after they got ko'd by them respectively. like mother, like daughter :(
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#csm139 i love that food as a tool of control keeps coming up over & over again bc the famine devil is the main puppet master character of part 2 (as makima was in part 1) & her domain lies in hunger & sustenance & indulgence
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kabru is the world's biggest parasocial relationship success story because imagine you go from the guy you're obsessed with forgetting you exist despite having 'met' you twice to being one of his most trusted advisors and commander of his guard (because he's a king now)
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@cottongecko he better be on the other side of the planet or six feet under to justify this
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i genuinely judge csm fans based on their opinion/reading of makima but especially on how they respond when you bring up makima as a maternal figure. bc i feel like fujimoto was pretty clear with what he was going for but maybe that's just me
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you guys have got to stop arguing with richard siken about cannibalism because he's right!!! of course it's selfish!!! it's desire & hunger for a person warped beyond anything healthy. isn't that the whole point of the metaphor like goddamn !
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yoru & asa have always been sibling-coded to me bc the petulance & defensiveness & bossiness they exhibit around each other is the kind of thing you'd only ever be comfortable enough to show to your sibling(s). couldn't imagine acting like this with anyone who isn't my sister
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@riferise THANK YOU i was agonising over the lighting especially
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rereading the canary chapters & i love that cithis is objectively the most evil criminal of them but is always so composed & agreeable, whereas pattadol is supposed to be the straight-laced guard but has a very short fuse & is more susceptible to lashing out
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> i am taken to the psych ward > the hospital wifi doesn't support twt but it does support the shonen jump app > i read chainsaw man bc my ex told me to > i have a genuine breakdown at 2am over the final arc > the psych team extends my stay by another week
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> Friend posted it in 2019 > I read and i liked it but it only went up to katana man fight so I wasn’t really gripped and forgot about it > Friend posts ten paragraph eulogy for Aki when his death chapter dropped > Decide to reread > Bad things happened
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honestly i almost respect gege for being so unserious like i've been laughing all morning my guy doesn't give a fuck at all
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not sure what the discourse is but i think it's very silly to make fun of people who enjoy analysing their favourite media instead of mindlessly/passively absorbing it. to me, critical engagement is a marker of intentional love, not pretension
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when i tell you i squealed
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everyone's getting hypothetical barem / makima wrong. him being genuinely in love with makima (if he is) when (1) everyone else was forced & deceived into it and (2) knowing she can & will never be able to reciprocate... that's not a cunty antagonist couple. that's unbearable
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this fucking poll.....
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but denji has shown he has great mental & emotional strength. he would never want to become the people who have hurt him. understands & accepts the responsibility he has as nayuta's primary caretaker. his past is his incentive, yes, but for him to be better — not the same.
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every week with chainsaw man it's like dog motif door imagery food symbolism biblical iconography bird motif capitalism allegory freudian psychoanalysis more food symbolism more christian imagery
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was talking about this with a friend bc of dungeon meshi but the concept of *humans* eating devils (as delicacy?) is woefully under-explored in chainsaw man. i mean asa's class were going to kill & eat bucky so other people must eat devils too if it's acceptable in a school
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that tweet got a lot of people riled up but regardless of whether laios is actually literally sexually attracted to monsters is the least interesting thing abt that scene. kui is a writer constructing a story. she composed the panel like that to evoke certain connotations +
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this update has made me unbelievably happy
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really cracks me up that this historic cosmic battle with literal biblical precedence is just some crazy family drama. but it makes sense when you think about how the bible's first sibling rivalry ended in the first murder
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the first time he hands his survival over to an adult he believes he can truly trust — makima — she utterly destroys his spirit. himeno & fumiko assault him. even kishibe is negligent. frankly, all the adults in denji's own life have mistreated him in one way or another.
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#chainsawman144 oh i love a politely unhinged character... the juxtaposition of their prim mannerisms and the inherent violence of their actions is too good. it reminds me of the falling devil. this is quintessential chainsaw man
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you guys have got to stop arguing with richard siken about cannibalism because he's right!!! of course it's selfish!!! it's desire & hunger for a person warped beyond anything healthy. isn't that the whole point of the metaphor like goddamn !
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very late entry for #csmtober day 6: denji. 986w. this piece deals with how fujimoto said makima & denji's relationship is modelled off abusive parental relationships. please mind the content warnings in author's note. read here:
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but still, denji continues to prioritise nayuta. he is committed to her the way no one would commit to him. it could easily be codependency but i also think of it as denji doing everything he can to keep his promises. this story started with a promise, after all.
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@paesbruubs i should clarify that europe didn't have potatoes! they were brought over from in the 1500s from south america and the medieval period is roughly between 400 and 1400
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& so much of csm centres on transformation, on personal choice & the reclamation of autonomy, & the breaking of cycles of trauma. denji has done & continues to do his utmost to be the kind of figure to nayuta that he himself needed & deserved. that every child needs & deserves.
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and i'm just trying to poke at why she did that. eating and food is the centre of dungeon meshi; everything is defined in terms of it at some level or another. life itself is defined in terms of eating. why is it suddenly weird to consider sexual appetite alongside food appetite?
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mitaka asa: bird & war chainsaw man 99 / chainsaw man 127 / love letters, victoria chang
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which is why he is shocked & distressed by seeing nayuta act like her past incarnation. he doesn't want to think that he has had a hand in making her that way. that, despite his best efforts, nayuta may have become the next makima anyway.
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listen to me very carefully. garlic. onion. shallot. leeks. scallions. green onions. spring onions. chives.
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i will be obsessed with art about cannibalism / bodies / metamorphosis / consumption / transgression / desire / hunger / cooking & meals & cuisine & dining / vampirism / lesbianism and all their intersections forever probably
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whether or not that is working, if he can alter nayuta's very nature as the control devil or if devilhood is incontrovertible, is another discussion. but denji is trying. all he ever does is try. he is a study in resilience & in hope & in the transformative power of love.
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dungeon meshi....... ah dungeon meshi..............
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so if these are the role models he has had, it isn't groundless for him to think this is how parents & caretakers should be. people imitate their parents. that's the basis of the nurture argument of the nature vs nurture debate — which is prominent in csm at the moment.
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so many scenes with the demons are framed erotically! that's undeniable! and there are so many ways to read what kui is saying about sexuality and i think to engage with that you have to have more nuance than "laios is a monsterfucker" "no he's not"
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to begin, a little context about flowers in chainsaw man & how they relate to reze specifically
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@cottongecko the fucking cake is killing me
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this is literally denji. if you even care
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kabru and laios literally
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okay hi i'm rory my credentials are i love flowers & reze. & also i own several books on the floriography of several different cultures. i am warning you now that we will be going unreasonably in-depth. this is about to be us:
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last thing i say on this post ever but if you're genuinely interested in my reasoning, here is the intro to the essay i wrote on this topic for my lit class last year. it deals specifically w/ female desire in literature but the groundwork is the same. thank you & goodbye forever
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@misteryurifag all i'm saying is his sense of self-importance would never have become inflated if there wasn't a whole consciousness built around 'hero' quirks & 'villain' quirks & quirklessness being useless
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“the second olive tree” by mahmoud darwish (translated by marilyn hacker)
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Palestine & Olives.
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#chainsawman143 just screeched embarrassingly loudly at the bus stop oh my fucking GOD i'm never coming down from this high
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@thedxman i understand what you're saying for sure but i think the poem is more considering the kind of selfishness that can prompt these actions in some cases & the idea of seeing beauty & wanting to gain some sort of ownership over it
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BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT AKI. here's what i replied to doves. & here's something else i said on priv. yes aki taught him many things. but denji was still never truly afforded child status in his childhood. his time with aki does not erase the impact of that.
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wonder woman (2017)
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@zuguzu55 i love the idea that bc nayuta was 'born' (?) again in china so that's the food she was used to before kishibe picked her up so denji made/got a lot of it to make her feel more comfortable and ease the transition 🥹
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it wasn't a serious post, honestly, and i was half asleep, but there's plenty of precedence to explore these ideas. and my reading is my own reading. i'm really not trying to draw any concrete or unquestionable conclusions about kui's intentions. love and peace on planet earth 🤍
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asa is a completely different character than i thought she would be based on her introduction & while i am deeply fond of her, a part of me is still waiting to see her tap into what "living selfishly" means for her with the second chance she's gotten at life
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