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asra time !

The background is a stained glass from Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque.

Inspired by 'Fame Holding Pegasus' by Eugène-Louis Lequesne

and when you remembered nothing, he loved you still, and taught you gently how to speak and walk and live and breathe, but he never told you. he never pressured you. he expected nothing but hoped so deeply. he made choice after choice just to keep you safe and demanded nothing in return.

and when you kiss him, he’s shaking.

and his heaven is only with you.

he’s forgetful and flighty and fiercely independent and brilliant and resourceful and kind.

Dreamscape

Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars ~ 🎶

A lot of anime present samurai as these, like, hardcore unstoppable badasses, but whenever a Medicine Man runs into a samurai, they're either stupid, cowardly, or they just get in the way. At best, they're portrayed as being in way over their heads. Even the evil samurai in the series aren't particularly badass. They're just portrayed as thugs and lowlives that happen to have swords.

Not only is this funny, it also ties into the feminist themes of the franchise. A lot of Mononoke has to do with the hardships women face in a male-dominated world. That an exalted, all-male class like the samurai are in reality a bunch of losers helps show how bitterly unfair the gender dynamic in Edo society is. A lot of these guys are just allowed to fail upward because of their connections or social status or whatever while lower class women who are braver and more competent than them just get crushed by the system.

Scene from the lovely untangled au by @merinathropp. I love this fic wholeheartedly and can’t wait for it to come back. I found it years ago and always hoped it would continue after it stopped being updated at some point. Then it actually did come back and I was ecstatic.

It is on hiatus at the moment, but I would still suggest anyone who enjoys cassunzel to read it. I especially love that it doesn’t get rid of Eugene, or portrays him as a bad person for the sake of the ship. Everyone is very in character, which I am a sucker for.

I got Tumblr literally for the sake of sharing this lol.

Commissions are open.