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I dont know what to say. I’m at a ,’ , |,’_’ for words

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Korrasami bicep meme

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What is the appeal of ShuRai to you?

oh, anon. you've no idea the worm can you've just opened... *ahem* Okay, primarily, ShuRai's appeal is actually one that's pretty common for me in a lot of my more beloved ships:

Shared Trauma But We Each Processed It Differently So We Piss Each Other Off. long winded explination under read more because hoo boy this got long winded i need to get back to a fic of them i've been writing...

At their core, both Shuten and Raikou are deeply wounded children who were cast away and thrown aside for something they had no control over, their lineage. They are, the two of them, monsters. Literal, actual monsters, in a setting where that has tangible weight on both how the world perceives you and how you perceive yourself. Both of them need to constantly grapple with what their half divine/demonic blood actually means, both of them need to reckon with how they view themselves as opposed to how the world views them. The difference is how they dealt with it...or rather, how the both of them didn't deal with it.

Raikou buried her resentment and anger (personified as the emaciated and pale Ushi Gozen) as deep as she could possibly manage so she would be accepted by her family (especially her massive prick of a father Mitsunaka), outright refusing to cope with that and projecting that hatred of herself into her skills as a demon slayer. She surrounded herself with people who looked up to her, her generals, because she wanted to feel wanted and loved and so she projects that outward as well, her maternal feelings for Kintoki and Tsuna are genuine but are driven by a deep fear that she's less then human, that one day she'll snap and there would be no turning back. Shuten on the other hand...gives up. Sort of. She doesn't engage in self reflection whatsoever, instead launching herself into drink and blood and indulgence because that's easier then confronting the tormoil inside of her. She outright considers herself a monster, admits it out loud, with pride, and with zero nuance. She's an oni, a demon, she kills people and eats people and there's no shame in it so long as she never ever ever thinks about it too deeply. Instead of actually confronting her conflicting inner nature she says, "I am Shuten Douji." And not as a statement of self-actualization, but as a statement of resignation. And as such Shuten refuses to be anything other then "herself" or rather the image of herself that she's built up over the years. She would rather die, literally, explicitly, then be anything other then "Shuten Douji." To consider if she ever had another choice or another path is literally impossible for her without just..snapping. Both of them find their own sort of comfort, Shuten in her gang of Oni and Ibaraki, Raikou with her Kings and what praise she gets from the people she serves. But none of it addresses the root of their problems. For all they want to be one thing, human or oni, the fact remains that they are both, and this causes a rift and an emptiness within themselves that they just don't know how to heal. And then...they meet. The demon slayer with hidden demonic blood and the demon with a touch of hidden human despair, and of course we all know how that went. Blood and pain and it ended with Shuten Douji dying...in more ways then one. It ends with Raikou looking down at the head of a demon that she killed by acting like a demon. And their issues die with them, unresolved as they fester in their graves. And then...they meet again. In Chaldea. Alive again, with all those issues as ripe and raw as they were that fateful day on Mt. Ooe. And what do they do? They bicker, they needle, they fight and scream and annoy each other to no end because they know deep in their bones how similar they both are. And it pisses them off to no end. Raikou and Shuten appeal to me because they are both broken people, broken in different ways but from the same source, alienation. Deep down all the two of them want is to not be alone. And since they are both of mixed blood and lineage, demon and divine and human, no matter how they meet...they will always feel that loneliness eating away at them. Because nobody else gets it, nobody else knows exactly how they feel, not even themselves...except for each other. And that would just piss them off further. All that emotion and history and blood (both literal and metaphorical) between them is just ripe for boiling over into something explosive and violent. Given enough time to adjust to each other and have to deal with each other in Chaldea on a regular basis, they would either get into a fight so violent it would rip the base in half....or have a night of fucking (not making love, not sex, fucking) so intense it would...rip the base in half. Either way, they would finally get some catharsis, some outlet, some source of twisted comfort and relief from someone who actually gets it. And they could maybe, just maybe, find a way to help each other pick up the pieces after that. Maybe.

And honestly I just think that would be really really neat.

#fate #fgo #fate grand order #shuten douji #minamoto no raikou #YEs #I love how they are the polar opposite but at the same time crave the same thing. You really said what my brain thinks aloud

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ShuRai Shenanigans

#fate grand order #shuten douji #minamoto no raikou #I FUCKING LOVE THESE TWO IDIOTS #This video is going to be in my head during days

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quick shuten doodle because i miss her

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ever since I saw her this is all I could think about

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alright trans ppl we're returning to the fucking sea until shit gets better lets go everyone

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may i share with you the best video on the internet

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✨️Joana Indi and the Queen of Egypt ✨️

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why is this site trying to become twitter. why must everything i love die

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On Project Moon

Hey, this is gonna be long, I'm putting most of it under the cut. This post is about the recent firing of VellMori from Project Moon, I know that it warrants some tags for triggers, but I have no idea what's commonly used, so if I miss something, please tell me.

Additionally, I have written this up in a way that if it escapes the target audience of Project Moon fans, it can still be understood, so with that in mind, there will be Library of Ruina spoilers.

The tl;dr for those who don't wanna read the full thing is that Project Moon was put in a very bad position with some violent extremists targeting them and that I'm not happy about any of what happened.

So, for those unaware, Project Moon has fired VellMori, the CG artist for Limbus Company. Now, a not inaccurate statement that can be made from this is "Project Moon fired a woman for being a feminist" but this is... somewhat reductive. Let's immediately get out of the way that VellMori did absolutely nothing wrong. Some people have said she is a TERF. I've seen no evidence of this. Some people have said she wished death on all men. I've seen no evidence of this.

What I HAVE seen is that VellMori thinks sexual abuse is bad. Now, why would this lead to a firing? The short answer is that a bunch of violent incels, one of which was literally dressed as a clown, came knocking at their office doors.

See, Limbus Company has a "beach" event coming up. In this event, we are getting a water themed outfit for two of the characters, one male and one female. For Sinclair, the guy, he has been given an EXTREMELY slutty mechanic's outfit. For Ishmael, the woman, she has been given a very skintight wet suit outfit. Now, I wanna take care to note that VellMori is the CG artist - she had no hand in these designs, a man made them. I would also like to mention that both outfit designs are amazing, and I will be including them at the end of this post for reference.

Now, upon revealing the wet suit design for Ishmael, a bunch of whiny incels on what is basically Korean 4chan got upset that Ishmael, instead of being in a bikini as is usual for gacha games, was wearing a wet suit. Nevermind that the designs in Limbus Company have always been conservative and that the Sinclair design is the most skin we've ever seen and it's just an open shirt. Again, the wet suit is still super revealing, it's skin tight and this is literally the first design of her that doesn't make her look flat chested. They're not rioting over the lack of sex appeal, they're specifically mad that it's not a bikini.

The incels come to the conclusion that the lack of any skin being shown on Ishmael's outfit is a result of evil feminism. No, I'm not exaggerating. They initially begin harassing the artist who is actually responsible for drawing the outfits, but upon learning that he is a man, set their sights on VellMori because she's a woman, and being an artist is good enough I guess. What they do from here is they start digging and digging and digging on VellMori's twitter, making use of archived pages because many of the "offensive" tweets had been deleted.

I'd like to take a moment to point out that VellMori never actually tweeted anything out here - it was all retweets from a 4-6 year old archive, and retweets that have been long deleted. These retweets contain such transgressive statements as "I'm sick of misogyny" and "If being against patriarchy makes me antisocial, then so be it" and just... mirroring back to men what those men were saying to women. Some people would like to have you think she was calling for death to all men. She wasn't. She ALSO retweeted all this stuff while she was a teenager and well before she worked for Project Moon.

Nonetheless, the incels had decided that feminism was the reason Ishmael had a wet suit and not a bikini and they had found a feminist working for Project Moon. It is at this point that we must take a brief detour and talk about Library of Ruina, Project Moon's previous game.

See, in Library of Ruina, one of the protagonists, Angela, has this whole arc about escaping her abuser and becoming a human. Yes, she is literally a robot, but Project Moon isn't exactly a stranger to symbolism in their stories and a feminist reading of Angela is ridiculously easy. The main antagonist in Library of Ruina is Argalia, the Blue Reverberation, and his crew is called the Reverberation Ensemble. Every member of the Reverberation Ensemble is a violent lunatic who each want to reinforce the status quo in their own unique shitty way. In addition to this, typically in order to reach the titular Library, you would need to be invited. The Reverb Ensemble are the "uninvited guests", the ones who managed to reach the Library and knock down the door without an invite.

Why am I talking about this? Well, the incels decided to start calling themselves the Reverb Ensemble, and referring to each other using names of the Reverb Ensemble members such as Pluto, Elena, and Oswald. Having taken on the moniker of the uninvited guests, they then showed up to Project Moon's office to protest. Over the lack of a bikini. Now, remember how I mentioned someone was dressed up as a clown? One of the Reverb Ensemble members, Oswald, is a clown with an extremely tenuous grip on reality. So much so, that his ideal world is one in which there is no meaning whatsoever. That is the character they chose to dress up as. This is either a case of extreme self awareness or extreme self unawareness.

Eventually, the incels were let into the office possibly as a form of damage mitigation to prevent the crowd of protestors from getting any bigger. This was a questionable decision, but they had a group of violent incels at their doorstep either way, and I don't exactly have full details on this. Regardless, Project Moon had on their hands a group of violent protesting incels, who they felt compelled to let into the building, and who had demands including the firing of their feminist employee.

So while "Project Moon fired a woman for being a feminist" isn't inaccurate it also isn't the full picture. More appropriately, it'd be "Project Moon fired a woman because a group of violent incels who weren't satisfied with a form fitting wet suit instead of a bikini showed up to their office demanding that an artist who did not make the wet suit design be fired because she retweeted some feminist stuff 5 years ago while she was a teenager".

I'm not happy with this. None of this is good. People are allowed to be feminists, and Project Moon stories have always presented progressive ideas to anyone with half a brain to do some basic literary analysis. I can understand why they would cave to the demands of people who were threatening them and showed up to their actual place of work, but at the same time, that's someone's livelihood gone and proof that in the future, the same sorts of people can use the same sorts of tactics to bully Project Moon into doing whatever they want. All of this sucks.

For those who would like to see the retweets in question alongside translations: https://twitter.com/danghwangs/status/1683884236888223744

And for people who would like reference as to what the artworks these incels were up in arms about, Ishmael in the wet suit and Sinclair in the mechanic's outfit.