I was born with a will to learn. And I chose to learn how to love. And then, i found you. All of you,
8,299,156,200 people currently here. More born every second. More die every day. Too soon, too long, inevitable, preventable.
8 billion people on the planet. 8 billion lives that flash across our screens or papers or daydreams everyday. 8 billion reasons to keep working toileously, hoping, demanding, praying, screaming.
We want to live. 8 billion people who just want to live in a world that's worth it.
8 billion people, 52 billion hours from homo sapiens' first introduction.
And somehow,
Some way,
I found you.
I was born with a will to learn, and I chose to learn how to love. And I choose to love you. I choose to love you until I can't- even then, a part of me will still love you anyway.
I'll love you in the way we make our coffee.
I'll love you in the way we still complain about fast fashion that isn't even good.
I'll love you in every single what-if, every if only, every yes, and-, that we deign to think... even if only to ourselves
I'll love the you that you don't talk about. I'll love the you that you cringe at. I'll love the you that you hated becoming. I'll love the you that can't bear to love yourself. And of course, I'll love the you that does, as well.
I was born with a will to learn. And 8 billion lives to love. And 8 billion lives to learn about. And 8 billion lives to cry for. And hopefully, a couple lives that stick close me to remind me what love is. How. Why I still should. And to love myself, because 7.00099 billion doesn't have the jennies (je ne sais quoi)(I love you for that too, by the way.)(I hope you laughed).
I was born with a soul that wants to learn how to love everything I have and will ever see!!
I'm so, so happy I can love you. Thank you!
Thank you that I'm here. With you, loving you until I can't anymore. Don't worry though, death is only as permanent as you think it is. I sigh CO2 into the air like my grandfather did. I smile at a lovely, verdant tree- that will convert it back into oxygen- like my aunt did. I laugh like my sister and I love like my mother and I cry like my childhood friend and I hurt like my other that I still wish I had made myself love just a bit more.
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I can’t remember I ever told y’all about the prank I pulled on my costar the last day of Faire last year, but I’m sad and miss my friends, so I’m gonna tell you again.
Okay so. It’s traditional that on the last day of Faire, the show goes a little off the rails due to the cast’s final-day pranks on each other. Faire management hates it, so we’re not technically supposed to do it, but, like…they never quite manage to stop us.
Anyway, last year, I was playing one of the lead villains. I was the second in command of the viking king, and it took approximately ten seconds for everyone to start shipping our characters. There’s at least one ship every year that gets popular, and that year, it was us. The vibe was 100% “Viking Mom and Viking Dad are getting a Viking Divorce and the berserkers are stuck in the middle of a custody battle.” Like, five minutes after opening gate one day, I had a patron strike up conversation with me about how I needed to get a better man, lmfao.
By the end of the show, my character betrayed the king and joined the Good Guys, and I got this epic showdown with him at the end where I kick his ass and get in a one-liner.
So for my last-day prank, I replaced my usual one-liner by just full-volume screaming, “And the divorce is FINAL!!!!”
The audience, and the rest of the cast, lost their absolute shit.
And @borinquenaqueer managed to take a picture of the exact moment of reaction, in which my costar later told me he actually broke character for a split second and didn’t know how to react because he was just caught so off-guard:
You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.
Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.
"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.
...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed.
This is apparently, not obvious enough.
So I kinda went crazy looking at all the little things in this opening animation and what they symbolise: character positioning, scene layout, etc. I’m not going to go into the basic things, like the animation progressively getting more disturbing (I think that’s a good symbol for the story in general though, LOL) but here are a bunch of things I saw:
The angling of the twins’ eyes:
So when the screen splits to show Shiro with one twin on one side while the teen/current other twin’s eye is in the other side, Rin’s eye widens while Yukio’s begins to shut. Because while Rin has seen his brother as a source of strength since he was young, Yukio believes he’s weak because Rin could always do things he couldn’t. Because he had to fight, learn how to wield a gun, while his brother was allowed to remain ignorant for fifteen years.
(Keep this idea of the twins doing the opposite things in mind, it’ll come up again later)
Hachiro’s snakes:
Yeah this one’s pretty simple, the snakes surrounding Shura look like a cage. Pretty obvious symbolism for her being trapped in a contract with Hachiro. And then she’s reaching for Shiro, the one who initially got her away from Hachiro and allowed her to become her own person in the first place.
(And then Shiro is replaced with Rin, because he’s the one who manages to defeat Hachiro. The one who first separates her from Hachiro versus the one who stops him from interfering in Shura’s life anymore or something like that)
The Illuminati shot:
It’s the character positioning here that’s important. Most characters, including Lucifer (who’s much further back in the shot) is facing towards the center of the screen, like they’re looking at the viewer.
Except Shima.
Shima’s facing the opposite direction, partially hidden behind Homare. He’s hiding in the background, as is the role of a spy. But also, he isn’t facing the same direction as the rest of the Illuminati. He’s not fully devoted towards their cause or ideals, he has his own motivations. He’s not acting for any organisation, but for himself.
The Kamikakushi key:
(This is the best shot I could get. lol)
But yeah this is just foreshadowing the role the key plays. It’s an important symbol but is also simple enough of an image to not spoil anything. As it’s used later on(in volume 25), you can also interpret this as a representation of Rin deciding where he takes himself: he has the key, it’s up to him what happens next.
And then the key’s glow envelops the screen, the next shot being this:
Yuri.
That’s where the key takes Rin. To Yuri, in the past. So the key takes the animation there as well.
(Again, subtle enough that you won’t get it unless you know where the plot goes. Yuri appears in flashbacks this arc, we get a face to her name. To those unaware, this shot seems to simply reference that.)
Split Screen/lighting:
Two things here:
1/ The divide in the screen, representing how the twins feel that they no longer understand each other.
2/ Rin’s looking up into the light, and Yukio down into the shadows. Represents the opposite directions of their arcs at this point, Rin working on accepting himself (though this arc proves that’s harder than it seems, and his reliance on avoidance behaviour means he hasn’t actually solved the root of his problems) while Yukio spirals more and more.
Demon Rin:
he is (already) here. what who said that not me
no actually I like that the opening contrasts Rin “looking into the light” with his deep-set fears of monstrousness and the consequences of his existence.
The snowflake:
Ok we can agree this represents Yukio right. It’s in his name (“Yuki” literally means “snow”) , “beyond the snow” itself is a reference to Yukio’s downward spiral and Rin’s inability to understand him.
The snowflake represents the same thing: Rin trying to understand Yukio, who’s been his source of strength since he was young.
More split screen:
This is the same as the above split screen, representing the divide between the twins while the day/night effect does the same thing as the lighting in the earlier shot. But I think them walking in separate directions at the end of the opening is also important since it shows the different directions they end up going in at the end of the arc: one towards the past and one towards destroying it all.
Also:
I like that the side the twins are on isn’t consistent throughout the opening. There may be a literal split between them in a lot of shots, but they aren’t confined to certain sides of the screen. Because in reality, the two are more similar than they realise.
..And yeah that’s it! There’s more I could go into but this is what I found the most interesting/important.
Sorry for the homestuck reference. It will happen again.
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ahhh so you're shown to be capable of recognising that people's trauma can make them act irrationally and unpleasantly! you recognised it in the white man! can you also recognise it in the brown woman? no? she's mean and bitchy and uncaring? i see
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Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.
I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that
Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D
one of the best things about the cram group (+their friends) is that to the rest of their class, none of them seem like they would ever interact with each other, let alone be close friends. like. imagine being a first year at true cross and everyone's got their little cliques, but then there's this one just Really Weird group that includes:
the class president, who's generally considered Smart and Friendly, if not a little bit closed off. plus quite a few people find him attractive
the class president's Weird Ass Twin. nobody could guess they're related from their grades and behaviour. everyone thinks he's a freak. he carries a fucking sword around for some reason but isn't part of the kendo club or anything like that. he seems like a delinquent. that one guy who's kind of an asshole is TERRIFIED of him. his brother say he's good at cooking but that seems untrue considering how much of a disaster he is. nobody can get a read on this fucking guy.
the blonde girl who transferred in halfway through the year. she's nice but kind of awkward. people were probably all over her for like a week after she transferred in but the attention eventually faded. and then she straight up FOUGHT the principal's terrifying ass nephew. so now she has a reputation for being nice but also an absolute badass.
that guy from kyoto who looks like a punk but is in the advanced class. people definitely recognised him by his hair and got major whiplash when he cut it. also they probably know he has a job and that it keeps him really busy but they don't know the details.
the bald kid who somehow knows every cat on the fucking campus. apparently he makes cat toys. he seems like a nice guy though. he's more known for hanging around with an Interesting Group of people, he seems pretty normal otherwise.
Shima. i guarantee you every single girl in the grade (and some of the girls in the upper grades) know who he is. a lot of the guys know him by proxy. Fucking Annoying. need i say more.
That One Girl who doesn't have many friends outside of that one group and probably has a reputation for being an asshole and keeping to herself. (ily izumo but i guarantee you people still think of her as being kind of a jerk. god forbid women do anything.) i doubt she's as good as she thinks at hiding her affection for cute things. people know about it they just don't interact with her all that much because of her personality so they don't really care either
paku, who actually probably has some popularity within the class because she's a generally agreeable person to be around, but she's generally seen as someone who's pretty normal. people don't really get why she hangs out with izumo constantly, let alone the rest of this grab bag ass group.
godaiin is probably just A Guy. he doesn't have a reputation at all aside from "that guy who had a panic attack in the hall once." same as paku in regards to being really normal in comparison to everyone else. has led to questions about how he ended up in this group to begin with.
someone's probably asked about how they got to know one another (most likely, they asked paku or yukio). they've both said it's a cram school, obviously, but they're really cagey about it. which is weird because paku is usually more open, and some of the people in the group do Not seem like they'd go to cram school At All (looking at you, rin and shima). i guarantee you that a few people have come up with absurd conspiracy theories as to what they're doing. none of them have really picked up that much traction though, even though a lot of people do find that group to be strange.
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