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Black☆Star and Tsubaki as perfect opposites

i made a post a while back talking about the lack of parents in Soul Eater, and in that i had a realization that Black☆Star and Tsubaki have very similar backstories conceptually and i would like to explore that more in this post.

both of them come from families that are very infamous for their line of work: the Nakatsukasa clan having their special multi-form weapons, and the Star clan being ruthless assassins. their respective families have their own reputation, though those reputations have wildly different connotations. they are both the only ones that can continue on their family name, they carry the burden of decades of their family's legacy, and yet they are both defying those legacies in a way.

Black☆Star's meant to be a ruthless assassin, someone who is willing to do anything for any sum of money, and someone who will do anything for power. even though Black☆Star's whole thing is he's trying to surpass god and whatnot, he is abandoning the "i will do it by any means necessary" thing. also, he's admittedly a shitty assassin for a while (not fighter, he's obviously extremely strong, i mean SPECIFICALLY the act of being a sneaky, silent assassin). he's doing things his own way, he's not going to be told what to do, and he's going to do it as loudly as he sees fit.

Tsubaki was seemingly crushed underneath the weight of her bloodline's legacy. her own identity problems stem from the fact that she feels that she has no defining characteristics and that she is lending herself and her powers out to others. that's what she is "meant" to do as the member of the Nakatsukasa family with multi-weapon form ability. she feels like she must put herself to the side to better serve her meister and be a better weapon.

their partnership almost feels sacrilegious: the "heir," so to speak, of the Nakatsukasa abilities with the last remaining member of the killer Star clan. their families are seemingly on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to honor and morality (at least from what family history we're given), and yet they work extremely well together. Black☆Star even masters the form of the shadow sword, which literally claimed many many lives that tried to master it before him.

by being partners, they are defying the paths that were set out for them by the simple act of choosing each other. they also pretty much affirm the parts about themselves that they're trying to prove to the world. thinking about when they first meet and partner up, Tsubaki fully listens to Black☆Star's whole deal, and Black☆Star talks to her out of respect, not because she's part of the Nakatsukasa clan. they saw each other as people, not their family histories.

i like the idea that someday, somewhere down the line, someone encounters them while they're on a mission. the person doesn't know what they're up against, but they recognize Black☆Star's tattoo and they're like "oh man, Star clan, i thought all of those guys were dead. guess i'm in for a rough ride." and then they see him wielding Tsubaki, watching her change form, probably using the shadow sword, and then they're really like "okay wtf did i just get myself into" because they know the history of these two families, but they don't know Black☆Star and Tsubaki, and they don't know what they're capable of together because there's never been a partnership quite like theirs.

#soul eater #soul eater manga #blackstar #Black☆Star #tsubaki nakatsukasa #haven't done an analysis post in a while hehehe #dw guys i still very much have analysis thoughts all the time #just a lot of them aren't coherent enough to be posts #still want to make a post comparing Asura and Crona #i love comparative analysis OUGH #anyways here you go homies

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hi hi everyone, just reblogging this to throw it out into the world again. i've got some more updated examples of my art on my Ko-fi now. i'll say now that with PayPal fees, if you're interested in a sketch commission, i'd prefer payment through Venmo, but i'm always open to discuss!!

i'm opening commissions!!

hi hi!! i've got a wide variety of commission options for a range of budgets!! some more information can be found on my ko-fi, which i'll link at the bottom of this post!!

if you have any questions, feel free to message me here on Tumblr, or on my Instagram: @fightmeimshort

i'm accepting payment through Ko-fi, PayPal, or Venmo!! for any sketch commissions, payment has to be upfront. for meme edits, character refs, and digital pieces, it can be paid for 100% upfront, or 50% upfront and 50% after approval of the initial sketch.

my Ko-fi has more examples of my work!! thank you to anyone who supports me, whether that's through commissions or reblogs!! :D

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Croma week day 6: Madness

teehee :)

inspired by my own thoughts LOL one of the questions on the Soul Eater ask board that's been passed around asked which of your favorite characters would you turn into a villian (or something like that) and so i ran w/ that a while ago and haven't stopped thinking about it. scenario is that after Crona's put on Lord Death's list, Maka leaves the Spartoi to defend Crona and try to help them before the others can get to them (i got into the idea a bit more here)

also, this was one of the WIPs i mentioned that got deleted in The Incident. i luckily was able to be scrappy and resourceful and bring this piece back from the dead, but my sketches for tomorrow also got deleted so i Most Likely won't have anything to post tomorrow even though i love that prompt </3

#soul eater #cromaweek #maka albarn #soul eater manga #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #maka soul eater #i have been staring at this piece for TOO LONG #oh my god my back hurts #i am free i am free #soul eater fanart

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Croma week day 5: Date

another silly from my college au. they're on a bookstore date mwahahahaha. Maka's infodumping about the book because it's a special edition or something and Crona is Listening

#soul eater #cromaweek #croma #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #maka albarn #maka soul eater #cromaka #soul eater fan art

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Croma week day 4: Prom night

teehee they're silly. inspired by the insane amount of awkward prom photos i saw on Pinterest while looking for inspo. i was gonna write a silly one shot for this, but i didn't want to give myself more work than necessary

fun fact, i accidentally deleted like half of my Soul Eater art off on Procreate and this piece was included in what was lost 🫡 luckily i had already exported it onto my camera roll, but yeah this image is all that's left of it. my piece for day 6 was ALSO deleted and it wasn't finished, but life finds a way and i frankensteined it back to life

#soul eater #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #maka albarn #croma #cromaweek #cromaweek 2023 #crona x maka #cromaka #maka soul eater #soul eater fan art #digital art

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Croma week day 2: Sun & Moon

somehow, for some reason, i GREATLY STRUGGLED to come up with an idea for this prompt!!! i am pleased i was able to come up with something and i like how this turned out for the most part!! anyways, happy Croma week everyone, it's so fun seeing everyone post teehee

#soul eater #soul eater manga #crona gorgon #cromaweek #crona soul eater #maka albarn #crona x maka #croma #maka soul eater #soul eater anime #cromaka #croma week

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Croma week day 1: Sleepover

CROMA WEEK BEGINS!!!! I AM RELEASING MY CREATIONS INTO THE WILD!!!! this is based off of my College AU fic that i'm writing (and will hopefully maybe be posting in its entirety by the end of the summer, it's probably gonna be about 100k words ♥️)

they are schlumped, maybe they stayed up too late writing a paper, maybe they partied too hard (with their friends downstairs in the house, they don't go to big university parties), maybe they're just sleepy af. that's up to you to decide.

i had a lot of fun w/ this piece!!! still trying to figure out exactly how i like to do shading sooooo there will be experimentation all throughout this week

#soul eater #cromaweek #cromaweek 2023 #croma #cromaka #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #maka albarn #crona x maka #maka soul eater #soul eater fanart #digital art

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🌻 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🌻

this is a cute little thing!! i shall do it and share

ik i've said it before, but i'm an English major!! i have a "writing emphasis" and i'm planning on pursuing a master's in creative writing after i graduate. after that, i hope to continue writing just about any and everything. i love fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, so that's what i mainly do, but i'd love to expand my horizons (a fun dream of mine would be to work as a writer for a video game one day). right now, i'm really digging magical realism

i love LEGOS!!!! i wish they weren't a million dollars!!!! i would be an unstoppable force if i had a supply of LEGO sets to do all the time. every day i yearn for the boutique hotel set that i probably will never get because it's so expensive

there's an embarrassing amount of movies, shows, and games that i've never partaken in!!! i'll admit i must be horrible to make small talk with for people without funky brains because i don't watch shows or movies in my free time, i watch multiple hour long video essays about things i've never heard of. there's a lot of shows and movies i simply refuse to ever watch that people think are cultural phenomena, there's a lot of others that i haven't seen and the fact that people tell me that they're good makes me somehow violently resistant to partaking in it (this is sort of a small one that's related; i love video games, but i rarely play them!!! i'm super bad at them and i usually play for story much more than gameplay, so it's easier for me to watch someone play them so i can absorb the game)

this was fun!!! i'll pass the lil message on :)

#me talking #idk what to tag this lol #ask game #asks #guys keep sending me asks this is fun

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the greatest country on earth

Standing in the Memorial Day aisle of Walmart:

red-white-and-blue wreaths, cups, and shirts.

The flag is half-mast outside. 

An article notification on my computer I can’t bear to read,

the third worst shooting in American history.

A ranking system for the tragedies littering this country. 

Remixed details, the articles all sound the same:

a tragedy, a rampage, a call to action. 

They’ve got the format down. 

A massacre on Wednesday, 

a barbecue the following Monday. 

“Land of the free!” and “Party in the USA!” 

on mass produced plastic cracked from shipment. 

The land of the free, where certain freedoms 

are always debated. 

The freedom to love, 

the freedom to exist in comfort, 

the freedom to have a body.

The firearm in the closet 

and a corrupted claim on ancient land.

Wave that American flag 

on the back of your truck, 

it’ll let everyone know you’re a patriot. 

Again I am standing in the Memorial Day aisle of Walmart,

and it makes me remember how I used to feel. 

The greatest country in the world. 

Something big and bold and bright, 

connected through so many hands and so many colors. 

I pick up a plastic cup, 

the glittery liquid sloshing around.

The print is off center.

#my writing #poetry #original poem #i wrote this ages ago and got it published in my school literary magazine #feels appropriate for 4th of july #been in a funk recently #doom and gloom and all that

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this is me!!

this is kind of a meet the artist but i do more than art on here so this is just me

i have never made a meet the artist thing that i actually liked b/c i felt pressured to make a format but i ditched all format for this so i could finish it and i like it now

if you have any questions about me i'll answer them LOLOL

#meet the artist #art #i love when people make these so i can be nosey and look at them #so i give back to everyone now you can be nosey and look at me now

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I Guess.

sorry for the insanely depressing edit. my friend on insta sent me this song and was like "this with moon Crona" and i became inconsolable. i had to spread the image to everyone else.

song is "I Guess" by Mitski

#soul eater #soul eater manga #crona soul eater #maka albarn #crona x maka #maka soul eater #croma #crona gorgon #croma nation #so sorry for the pain everyone but the song fits them so so so well #and i'm VERY EMOTIONAL about it #i can seemingly only make sad manga edits #no happy ideas ever enter my brain #i have another idea that isn't specifically croma angst tho so we'll see whenever i make that one #Spotify #SoundCloud

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an elaborated version of the post i did on my other blog. Maka's probably not even flirting she's probably just talking to them

happy pride month to these gayasses

here's the text post that inspired me LOL

#soul eater #soul eater manga #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #soul eater anime #maka albarn #crona x maka #maka soul eater #croma #gay people #croma nation

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I wish you well

To you, whom I once knew,

am I still part of your memory?

If your mind were a library,

would you have purged me from the catalog?

Or would you tuck me in some dusty corner,

far from your patrons and passersby,

praying to your god that no one

would pull me from that rotten corner

and quiz you on my contents.

Would you lie, deny my existence?

Would you discredit me, ridicule my chapters,

even if they cross-reference your own?

To you, whom I no longer know,

do you mourn me?

You are a poltergiest in my hippocampus,

haunting restaurants and ruining pictures.

What words pass your lips when you think of me?

Have I become a husk of all my flaws,

a training dummy for your internal battles?

Do you remember the nights we talked,

telling me things you’d never said aloud?

Do you regret what we were,

or the idea of who we were?

To you, whom I no longer need,

will you feel my absence? 

I still know the turns to your house,

and what made you laugh.

I missed you once and I may mourn our future,

but you would not recognize me now.

The flames from our burning bridge melted me down,

purified what you gave me.

I sometimes look back,

but the smoke is thick and my eyes are burning.

I can only see your silhouette.

#my first non-soul eater post lol #my writing #original poem #poetry #i'm trying to write some more things that aren't fan fiction this summer LOL #so far it's just been poems #maybe one day i'll return to my short stories #did any of you even know i write stuff other than fan fic lol #i wrote this about an hour ago so if i come back and it's not as good as i thought i'll take this post down and work on it a bit more #writing

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showing one of the wildest panels w/ foreshadowing i remembered while looking through the manga for one of my long posts

this happens during Medusa's fight with Justin (and then Tezca comes in) and this is right after Justin's like "oh, Tzeca, is that you?" and Tezca spouts this line about how a person's death is up to them and that he's just reflecting their lives up until now.

and Medusa just . . . SEES Crona when talking about how a person's death is a product of what they've done??? and all she says is, "Damn . . ."

like maybe i'm getting way too into it, but it is crazy to me that Medusa seemingly sees that because of her treatment of Crona she is going to die by them, and is just kinda like "fuck it, gotta go all the way i guess." there's no acknowledgement of this moment afterwards, Tezca and Justin fight and the next time we hear from Medusa she's telling Crona they did a good job during their fight with Black☆Star and Tsubaki. Medusa is just so casual about the fact that she's pushed a person so far that it will inevitably lead to her own death. she doesn't even try to amend anything or figure something else out after this. what's the point in amending your wrongs since there's no going back, i suppose.

#soul eater #soul eater manga #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #medusa soul eater #medusa gorgon #idk if i'm sounding dumb for pointing it out b/c duh #but idk man this panel has just been in my mind ever since i saw it again #there's more coherent thoughts i could say about abuse and manipulation. but i don't feel up to that rn #medusa worst mom award

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i know the end

this has been rattling around in my head for days and i finally had to make it. i'm so normal about them.

song is "I Know The End" by Phoebe Bridgers

#soul eater #soul eater manga #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #maka albarn #maka soul eater #crona x maka #croma #phoebe bridgers #they make me so incredibly emotional #this song has been having me in a choke hold with this idea #now i'm free #and YOU have to see it

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Maka and Crona gay moment masterpost (part 2)

welcome back everyone. part 1 is here.

literally pain and nothing else

fellas, is it gay to threaten to kill your crush's mom in exchange for information of their whereabouts???

i feel like this definitely counts. when your friends know how much you care about one person that they immediately react to hearing bad news about that person is "oh man, they're gonna cry." kinda gay imo.

also, Maka literally sends re-brainwashed Crona into a panic. by Black☆Star and Tsubaki just mentioning Maka to them, they literally lose it and it messes with the brainwashing, experimentation, whatever it is that Medusa did to them so that by the time they've killed Medusa they can at least pull some of Maka's significance in their life out of the depths of the madness. UGH!!!! devastating,,,,,,

Maka trying to pinpoint Crona's soul wavelength?? her first instinct is to look for them as she remembers them, not what they've become. i'm emotional

the church

idk man, abandoning the order you fought for your whole life to make sure that you are able to spare and knock some sense into this person, who you know has been wrongfully manipulated??? these are kinda gay.

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

the head cradling, the reestablished connection, and once again, someone Maka is close to is like "yeah, Crona means a lot to Maka, so we've been making sure to keep believing in you too"

and would it truly be gay without tragedy??? without redemption and devotion and sacrifice??? without the lingering devastation that one has to live without the other for the rest of their life??? understanding that, while people may somewhat understand how they feel, they will never be able to share this specific experience with someone else??? the mourning, the memory, staring at a reminder every night of everything that happened and a promise that couldn't be kept while everyone moves on with their lives.

literally devastating. is it that poetic because that's because it's the way it was written and planned, or is it because i've become extremely attached to these characters??? that's up to interpretation (not really, i doubt Ohkubo would do what i wish this all meant)

now, happy anime things to make this nice at the end!!!!

misc. homosexual anime behavior

okay, yeah, each of these scenes didn't happen in this order, but it's still gay.

i tried to upload that as a gif, but it was Too Big. fellas, is it gay to have a montage of all your memories as you avenge them, and then the montage is apparently too long to become a gif because you have all these memories with them???

thanks for joining me. haven't done a long post in a bit and this one is Long. if there are any other gay moments i missed, let me know and i'll edit this post and add more of them (or maybe just a part 3, but i hate making "parts" so we'll see)

(edit 1: found a better translation for the panels from Chapter 112, so i replaced the previous panels!)

#soul eater #soul eater manga #soul eater anime #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #maka albarn #maka soul eater #croma #crona x maka #cromaka

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Maka and Crona gay moment masterpost (part 1)

a mix of the manga and the anime!! there's a lot. gonna try and go in chronological order, and then i'll put the anime stuff at the end since the manga ending is devastating. this is an extremely scholarly and serious post, so take everything i say literally because i am the gay people expert.

this will be two parts b/c of the sheer amount of images i will be using and my computer is crying, but i will make sure both parts are completely ready to post and then post them at the same time

beginning: the first encounter

girliker Crona. gayass can't even make eye contact with Maka while they fight. truly, this is nervous gay person behavior

fight to the death

only gay people would fight like this

soul shenanigans

fellas, is it gay to see the raw essence of your fighting opponent's soul, cradle it in your arms, and immediately describe it as beautiful???

this is gay as hell

school

breaking news: gay person doesn't know how to hold hands or fist bump

these are arguably two of the gayest moments. i don't even have the words to explain how. Crona protecting Maka. the fact that Crona gave Maka that many flowers when the coffin was shown earlier, completely devoid of flowers. gay gay homosexual gay.

inevitably, now we get a bit sad

but first, gotta make sure you walk home your crush (but only if they need it of course)

then you notice they're down in the dumps (aka facing The Horrors)

only gay people go to cafes. everyone in this picture is GAY. (idek if they went to a cafe here they're just standing in front of it)

and then Maka spends and entire night stewing about how to approach them after witnessing their conversation with Eruka, then after that Crona disappears, Maka doesn't even see them again until they meet again in the church. it is time for pain.

my computer is struggling for some reason to add more pictures, so now is a good time to make a part 2, starting with pain and probably ending in it. i will include the happy anime gay moments there.

#soul eater #soul eater manga #soul eater anime #crona gorgon #crona soul eater #maka albarn #maka soul eater #medusa soul eater #croma #crona x maka #cromaka