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Crow In The Clinic : (Friend In A Petri Dish) (2804 words) by CrypticAuthour
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Bloodborne (Video Game)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Eileen the Crow (Bloodborne), Isofeka (Bloodborne), Gascoigne (Bloodborne)
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Blood and Injury, Psychological Horror, Disturbing Themes, Rule of Cool regarding time period and references, Pulls From Canon Material (example the comics wiki and interview with the creators), Other Additional Tags to Be Added
Summary:
"You are a doctor of Yharnam. See here that you now gained yourself two patients."
A furrowed brow on a creaseless face. "There be, but one for you in need of tending. Unless you-"
"Aye no. Forget about me. Your patient be this near mongral lout." At last the relief of setting him upon a horizontal surface. His weight a close thing for the operating table to cradle. Her back isn't much better, but you took the mercies where you could nick them. Cracked out like an overly dry biscuit, then turned back to the lost lamb she was about to ask so, so much of. But she wasn't leaving till what needed to be done was done. Same as every job.
"Then not only are you going to cure him, but your next patient - this hell ridden city."
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After Eileen spares Father Gascoigne's life, she must work to face all the consequences.
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did you know the cops once found a fully functioning movie theater with a well-stocked bar inside the catacombs and they when they tried to go back later to formally investigate it was completely emptied out save for a note that read "don't search for us"
my little bro is part of the catacombs community and yeah, it's basically a fully autonomous society! enough that when my bro goes in on a friday night, they don't come out until monday for work- sometimes longer if they took days off.
some of the rooms have fully stocked pantries with cooking equipment, some have movies like the one described above, some have books you're allowed to just take but people always put back- every day people bring things from the outside. artists often set up galleries there. there are rooms with mattresses and hammocks set up for people to sleep. one of the room is just a place where people leave shoes for the fun of it.
this is Known, it's not a secret by any means. the catacombs are as big as paris itself, and people live there just as people live above. it's wonderful when you think about it.
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RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.
Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.
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please read/watch marriagetoxin for pride month please pspspsps
Okay in seriousness there are some questions that people ask about this series and have discourse about but I can't really go into detail without some minor spoilers so view this little FAQ with caution:
Is MARRIAGETOXIN a BL?
From a marketing standpoint, MARRIAGETOXIN has never been and will never be labeled as a BL. It is a battle shounen through and through. However, just because it's not a BL does not mean it's not queer.
And usually when people ask this question what they're really trying to ask is, "Will Gero and Kinosaki get together?"
I can't predict the future, and the manga is still ongoing. That being said, at this point in the manga, it is HEAVILY implied that Gero and Kinosaki are in love with each other.
2. Is Kinosaki trans?
I'm not going to answer this as a yes/no question, but give some clarity about what they have/haven't said.
For starters, Kinosaki fits cleanly into the social identity of an otokonoko (オトコの娘, literally "male daughter"), which is sometimes translated as femboy. That's not a horrible translation, but those two words are not 1:1. "Otokonoko" is an identity that excludes neither binary cis men NOR binary trans women. Saying something like "they can't be trans, they're otokonoko" is not useful because those ideas are NOT mutually exclusive.
Kinosaki says in the first episode/first chapter that they are a guy (男 otoko). They could be referring to their gender identity, their assigned gender at birth, or both. I want to emphasize that it is not unusual for even binary trans women in Japanese to use phrases identifying themselves as "men," "men who want to become women," or "men with the heart/mind of a woman," so I don't think it's fair to say that that wholly negates a transfem reading of Kinosaki.
Kinosaki presents as female and is regularly assumed to be a (presumably cis) woman and shows no discomfort towards that. We don't see Kinosaki presenting as male much, but they haven't said they have any discomfort towards that either.
Kinosaki's personal pronoun is watashi, which is female-leaning in casual contexts. Kinosaki's first name, Mei, is also very feminine, and might therefore be a chosen name or pseudonym (it's also written in katakana, which may indicate a pseudonym in other media, but many names are written in katakana in MARRIAGETOXIN so that's not particularly notable). Kinosaki's way of speaking is a bit feminine-leaning but mostly gender neutral.
Kinosaki says they enjoy being attractive to "both sides" in Japanese.
So....basically, it's not too hard to substantiate any cis man, trans woman, x-gender, or unlabelled reading of Kinosaki with canon points. Kinosaki is also an unreliable narrator with some secrets, so keep that in mind.
3. I've heard that Kinosaki was revealed to be "a girl all along," is that true?
This is a common statement on Twitter. If you're asking about Kinosaki being a trans woman, see above. If you're asking about Kinosaki being a a cis woman, anyone who says that Kinosaki is a cis woman in the manga is lying out of their ass. Some people believe that Kinosaki will be revealed to be a cis woman, or that there are "hints" that Kinosaki is a cis woman. Again, I can't predict the future, but "hints" is a massive reach.
Most of the "argument" comes down to the fact that Kinosaki's chest has been obscured very occasionally:
There is a spoilery, non-gender-related reason for this. Some people also point out that, even after that reason is revealed, their nipples are still obscured and like...listen, it's a Shonen Jump title, and seeing a very feminine person with exposed nipples can lead to controversy.
Regardless, it's clear that Kinosaki's chest is flat:
There's nothing that contradicts Kinosaki being AMAB and they are not a "secret cis woman."
As a sometime transmasc: because it's attractive to be around a male. If that wasn't part of the experience for us, being male with people giving off male signals, we wouldn't need to be transmasc in the first place. Male bonding is part of the joy of being male. Imagining that you are as male, were always as male, as the cis male you're with is a joy for a transmasc.
Or at least, for this particular one. Opinions may differ.
Okay but what about transmen and transmascs who are attracted to women? Like I’m attracted to women and I’m a transman and I just don’t get why that never is represented in these books.
I would love for there to be a book with a transman/masc main character where his love interest was a woman, it’d make my day tbh.
Reblogging this in hopes one of my followers can swoop in with a recommendation for my friend dullyn here since the only response so far has been misogynistic drivel which completely misses the point of the original post which was attempting to bring love and attention to women-inclusive relationships!
ok sorry to double reblog BUT I just looked him up and he does these fantastic videos where he breaks down HOW he actually mimics the other artists’ styles. Like for ed Sheeran, he explains how he brings his voice forward in the mouth, while Adam Levine sings in the back of the mouth, stuff like that. It’s SO COOL, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone actually break down how to do this sort of thing, as a skill, instead of just treating it like a neat trick they just happen to be good at.
https://www.tiktok.com/@justinjmooremusic
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Here's the cover for the Legends & Lattes graphic novel adaptation that my friend Shanti and I have been making over the last year! I'm super excited that this was just announced by the publishers, and should be available to cozy up with this fall. :)
Process below - it was really fun to collaborate with another cartoonist and pass the work back and forth. Our process for the comic pages was pretty similar.