#raven.txt

[bloodraven55]

most baffling and annoying type of person in fandom will always be the ones who are deadass like “i hate literally everything about this dogshit thing but i’m still gonna complain constantly instead of dropping it and you have to take my opinions on it seriously bc i’m a fan too”

#raven.txt #raven.salt

[tyrantraveveromega]

I don't care if finnster came out. Still doesn't fix all the transmisogyny and previous "teehee you thought im a girl but im a GUY" videos. And im not sorry

#raven.txt #the harm you caused is still real 😊

[spudcat]

why haven't i seen anyone make a redhead hornet gijinka. why are people so afraid of the truth

#raven.txt #hollow knight

[saint-nevermore]

im watching a playthrough of Dangan Ronpa (the third game) with my partner and i have thoughts. its definitely one of those things that were ruined by a fandom because they were too young for it. dont get me wrong, the characters are so out-there and unique they lend themselves to be perfect shipping war candidates, but there is seriously a wealth of artistic value to the games. watching through it ive been delighted with the artistic direction and sound design. the OST is dripping with personality and whimsy. its all around a fucking hoot to watch. its goofy and leans into the absurdity of it's setting without sacrificing sincere moments of the story. the murder mysteries are solid and engaging. Monokuma and his kubs are the stupidest motherfuckers ive ever seen and are hilarious whenever they show up. Ouma is there. ive had the most fun interpreting the ultimates as different flavours of neurodivergent and even if their role is short (i.e. theyre an early game victim/culprit) they have complexities. DR is genuinely cool as hell, if youve ever been interested in it i recommend tackling the playthroughs to enjoy the art of it - there really is nothing like it and i think we're all grown up enough to see the beauty in the absurd.

#i love when things surprise me witj being works of art. i never saw any kind of interrogation of the design in fandom #its a piece of media that begs for the characters to be scrutinized and explored so i get it #but ugh holy shit its pretty. and the soundtrack is incredible. #dr3 is the best in my partners opinion and im looking forward to seeing how the other games compare #also Ouma Kokichi is a fucking good ass character i hate and love his gay ass #dangan ronpa #raven.txt #also i watched the anime a Bit and i remember it being Alright #but it lacks what makes the series so distinct due to the shift in medium

[hell-raven]

absurdly long tangent/analysis

EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: this isn't to dissuade anyone from interpreting the canon as they want i just wanted to share my personal opinions based on the preexisting canon that may or may not be very passionate, please just have fun do whatever you want none of this is fact

i really hate how utsuho is flanderized to death and constantly boiled down to "the dumb bird girl" because if you actually sit down and Read her dialogue instead of relying on secondhand information you learn quite a few things about her (when i say this is absurdly long i mean it so keep reading at your own risk)

extrapolating from her own dialogue:

she actually wanted to blow everything up in th11 for real and it wasnt just a "hehe whoops" kind of thing. she was bestowed an extremely powerful ability and deliberately wanted to use it to cause destruction/take over gensokyo

she is extremely knowledgeable about her ability and job (anything related to nuclear power and regulating the flames of blazing hell, or just things about former hell itself)

she takes her job very seriously and supposedly does it very well

but there are a few things that get people: she has poor memory, other characters refer to her as "birdbrained" or "empty-headed, and there are a select few instances of dialogue from hisouten/gouyoku ibun that catch peoples attention. its one of those things where because other characters (and people) say shes stupid, it influences everyone else! in my opinion, i think her own actions straight from the source are much more indicative of who she is rather than the quick judgements of other characters.

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the first major point before i get into the specific dialogue in the fighting games: "kanako needed an empty-headed hell raven, and utsuho fit the bill"

what exactly is meant by "empty-headed"? this is going to be more of an abstraction, so definitely take it with a grain of salt. we dont know much about utsuho before she gained her powers, just that she worked as a lowly hell raven that helped around the palace of the earth spirits/hell. to me, it sounds like an incredibly mind-numbing job that really doesnt require much thinking to begin with, so of course you wouldn't expect some kind of supergenius from it. im also going to go out on a limb and say that utsuho was a candidate for kanako's plan because she's also considered a pet. many unfortunately conclude that pets can't be intelligent, and even the title of "pet" carries the connotation of inferiority. even if she was truly empty-headed as previously suggested, this doesn't mean that she stayed as such with no change at all. when i first played th11, i would have never guessed that she would be "the stupid one".

small note: ZUN's comment on her theme ("even a fool that possesses great power can't cause too much harm")

the problem i have with this is that she really would have caused a lot of harm if the protagonists hadn't stopped her. you could say shes a fool for letting the power get to her head, but objectively i cant exactly point to anything in th11's dialogue/scenarios that suggests she's foolish unless you really want to count bad memory-retention as such. not gonna argue this too hard, but it seems like "fool" is a word thrown around very freely with little thought to how you can actually apply it to a situation.

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IN HISOUTEN: sanae beats her up and afterwards says "youre trying to help me, actually" to which utsuho is like "Oh Ok". you could argue this is probably her dumbest moment, but would you really not follow or listen to the person who defeated you in battle? its not the most defensible point, but she didnt even seem completely oblivious either when she was asking sanae about the incident. my personal interpretation is that she has a bit of a short temper related to how important her job is. there are plenty of other 2hus who are generally sillier than this, it doesnt make much sense why utsuho is the only one who gets this treatment.

IN GOUYOKU IBUN: utsuho doesnt notice reimu before she starts blasting her to bits, which to be fair reimu wears all red in Hell (her fault honestly) + correct me if im wrong but is the power of nuclear fusion not extremely blinding? supporting this, in the events of GI its also implied that shes being overworked due to the oil incident, and we already established that she takes her job very seriously, so to me it makes sense that her first thought is to "remove the contaminant" and to use a lot of her energy in the process. a lot of people in general sometimes get wrapped up in their own work to the point of hyperfocusing, i say the bird can do it too

i also havent brought up the fact that we dont exactly know wtf eating a god does to your brain, whos to say it didnt fuck with you a little bit?

past all of this though i still think utsuho is funny as hell with her particularly bold and uncaring personality, its just that people seem to think that a couple of goofy moments make up her whole character and its just mildly annoying to me.. subterranean animism will probably be my favorite portrayal of utsuho because of how seriously they all treat her (mostly) but overall i wish more touhou fans would actually indulge in the source material and think a bit deeper about this neat little piece of fiction that i am WAY too passionate about (also its just way more fun to look at characters from a complex perspective)

#raven.txt #touhou #long post sorry #i realize how funny this looks from tumblr user Hell Raven i promise im not mad i just have many thoughts

[kingthunder]

I've been on tumblr through three fandoms now. My first blog got kind of popular and I interacted with a ton of people all the time and it was really fun. And then tumblr imploded and I deleted it and went to twitter for awhile. The second blog (this one) never took off the way the first one did and I feel very lonely here. It's like I'm just sitting on my porch yelling at the people walking by on the sidewalk, but no one ever comes over to talk. ;(

Anyway this is all a very long winded way of saying I'd love it if you come say hi! Leave comments, message me, send an ask, anything! My porch is open.

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[corvigato]

Yeehaw, an intro post!

Name's Raven but you may also call me Ravie or come up with a nickname, if you feel like it. Some people call me Kibby, which also works.

I'm an adult (25+) and work full-time so most of the content on here will likely be reblogged posts. There is, however, a small chance you will also encounter some doodles (#corvigato-arts), idle writings (#corvigato-writings) or graphics (#corvigato-designs).

Personal posts/ramblings will be tagged with #raven.txt and you can find a list of fandom-related tags I'm likely to use on my taglist.

#raven.txt #yay first post done

[therhythmafterthesummer]

if you don’t mind sharing, how did you get raven and how old is she?

love you both and hugs for both!

according to the papers i was given upon adoption, Raven is currently two years old!! i can hardly believe she's been with me for almost two years 🥺🥺🥺

so, the story of how i got her is pretty straight-forward... i think.

this got REALLY long, so i'll put a cut here.

i'd been wanting to adopt a cat for the longest time but never got the courage to reach out to any association about it. in October 2021 one of the pages i followed on facebook posted a pic of Raven, where you could just see her crazy eyes and her just being her cute self, and i just... blacked out. next thing i knew i had sent them a message to let them know i was interested in adopting her.

you see, she's a black cat, right?? so, where i live, witchcraft is prominent, and there are certain practices that unfortunately use animals for their rituals, ESPECIALLY around Halloween time (to some of you this might sound like bullshit, but trust me, it's a real thing), so they didn't really want to give her to me right then and there, they wanted to wait until it was well into November so they could be sure i wasn't just trying to adopt her to use her for any sort of ritual.

they asked me to somehow protect the door to my balcony just in case she was one of those cats that felt like jumping off of it, so i did it. i think the girl from the association just saw how committed i was. you guys don't understand, i just NEEDED to adopt this cat. i would've done anything to get her. so i DIY'd something to get her from getting to the balcony.

anyway, fast-forward to November, and i asked to meet her. i wanted to see her in person and i wanted to see if she'd be comfortable with me. as soon as i met her i just knew she was the cat for me. she seemed comfortable with me as well, so a week or two after that, i finally took her from her foster home and to the vet to get her vaccinated and put her chip on💜💜💜

i originally wanted to name her Morgana because i'd always wanted a black cat and name her that, but the foster home had named her Raven and i loved it so much i ended up just naming her Raven Morgana (bc this is a hispanic household and having two names is the norm, alright?).

so she's been with me since late November 2021💜 the moment i brought her home it was almost like she'd lived here her whole life. she even took a nap on my lap immediately after assessing the house lol

that's the story of how i got my fluffy little void.

#anon #ask #raven.txt

[thestarseersystem]

Ayo shout out to me fronting again.

Can't really trust anyone or be trusted by anyone. But really what's the damn point? It doesn't matter. Pissed people off but I really don't care. As long as we're okay.

But we're not. Kinda pissed about that. Should probably sleep but I want to front tomorrow. I don't know if I'll get the chance.

I want others to know about me, but can't really do that. Girls really don't want a dude to be around them. But I really don't care.

I want to also squeeze people dry like a juice pouch. This body tiny though. Not like headspace.

I'm cool though. I got an ear piercing, tatts and fangs. Everything feels heavy and dark though.

I just want everyone to know in case they get confused. That's what the rest of us want. But it doesn't matter. Can't fuck with it now.

Dressing up masc tmrw tho. We'll try to sleep now. I hope they let me front. I may just have to take it though.

#kuro.txt #jay.txt #raven.txt #call me by any of those #kuro pretty cool but so's the rest #use he/him for me btw

[bloodraven55]

it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even when all of the context clues are screaming the opposite

#raven.txt

[tyrantraveveromega]

I'm not in touch with the fandom enough to know who's considered the "popular blogs" for p3 but I will say: I think its interesting how people are willing to understand minato's apathy is a wall to keep people away, and therefore write a bunch of sappy fanfics about him opening up, but refuse to understand that kotone's relentless positivity is exactly the same kind of emotional wall, and just take it at face value, treating it like it's her entire personality. So almost no one creates fanworks where she gets to open up.

#raven.txt #persona 3 #congrats you fell for the character's mask and also assumed the girl has no inner struggles or thoughts or feelings. ok

[spudcat]

Who gave you permission to make pk so cute??!?!?!

my hands :]

#raven.txt #hollow knight #pale king #raven.art

[saint-nevermore]

my new favourite hobby is taking pictures of the impulse plush purchase of the day (charity shop find) in charming and whimsical scenarios

#carry plushes in public more now now now. it makes me smile #raven.txt

[hell-raven]

the other week someone in one of my classes asked where one of the characters in my notebook came from and i said something along the lines of "oh haha just a bullet hell game called touhou it doesnt really matter" and he asked a what bullet hell was, so i whipped out a gameplay video on youtube of imperishable night stage 6B right there in class (no idea why i picked this it was just the first thing that came to mind) so there i was very shakily trying to explain as best as i could that you control the little player at the bottom of the screen as the funnily drawn lady explodes you to death with magic, then i realized right then and there how incredibly ridiculous i sounded to someone whos only a casual anime fan and has a regular life outside of that. anyways he said it looked cool so it was a win overall but boy do i hate unintentionally revealing my secrets :pensive:

#raven.txt #& he said something like “oh youre a fast typer” which made me more nervous .. double not-normal (wpm is anywhere between 150-170 depends) #waiting until i accidentally infodump about something like umineko on some unsuspecting fool whos favorite anime is like jjk or something #can you tell i dont talk much to people in real life and have mild social anxiety

[kingthunder]

Your tags on that earliest memory also made me weepy. I have been there bouncing and soothing a little kid to sleep, when they look up at you and seem to be going down and then suddenly jerk themselves back awake, and you think ‘whyyyy are you fighting this??’. It’s so lovely to think that sometimes that is why. So thank you for that lovely story, it really made my day

I'm glad you got something good out of it, anon! I'm so happy I have this memory and that I'm able to share it. ❤️

For everyone else wondering what we're talking about, there was a poll asking what age your first discrete memory is from, and here were my tags:

#ask box #raven.txt #memories

[cusnckanckam]

I am: a cryptic cryo toaster

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