SPACE DEN

there was absolutely no reason for them to meet in the library instead of, as usual, in sebastian’s office. mr. michaelis is their teacher, and ciel is the student who transferred in the middle of the school year. it’s completely natural that he would be trying to catch up through private tutoring. on top of that, he was already spending most of his time there anyway.

yana just wanted to draw ciel wrapping his arms around sebastian and sebastian covering his mouth, and who cares about the rest.

“you’re quite lively this morning, my lord.”

but ciel will look him straight in the eye and simply say, “deal with it.”

“pardon?” sebastian will even be taken aback, because, yes, he dresses and bathes him every day, but this is a different sort of task, one that certainly doesn’t fall within a butler’s duties.

And...if i can ask you another question...did you create/imagined Sebaciel kids? If yes, could you tell me about them? 😊

(WARNING: RAMBLING AHEAD)

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Oh Nice! Hi!

I started shipping Sebaciel as part of the original anime fandom back in 2008, ironically the same age as Ciel. Back then, much of the English speaking fandom did not know that the manga even existed, and our introduction was only through the DVD anime release. (A side note, but I watched the first Black Butler Season on a Netflix DVD sent to my house. How times have changed.)

The fandom was also different then, you’d get a meme here about them or a fanfic on deviant art there but nothing laborious. There was more of a tolerance to “queerbaiting” in anime, of a “Will they Won’t they” situation, but for 2008 standards their relationship was Highly Implied.

Originally, when I watched the first season I was rather troubled at how it ended so abruptly.

Then, I watched the second season which answered none of the first season’s questions, and left me even more confused.

I wanted them to go on more adventures together, get into more hijinks, solve mysteries and slowly depend on each other.

I wasn’t apart of the Black Butler fandom afterwards, oblivious that there were new shows, multiple musical adaptations, and that the manga it was based off of was a continuous series.

So when the knowledge hit 17 years later that yes, your favorite pairing canonically goes to Germany, is in a boyband, solves murder mysteries in their own house, and sails the high seas, my heart could not be fuller, and I dedicated this blog to them and the amazing talented artists who love Sebaciel too.

Their relationship dynamic, themes, and metaphors resonated with me. I love that they rub off on each other’s (yeah, that too) personalities, and make each other both better and worse for it. I’m weak when it comes to Faustian romances, so Sebaciel ticks off all of the boxes!

It’s an oddly comforting yet complex ship that has stayed with me for over 18 years and still feels brand new with each fan interpretation and each new chapter release. Having survived through similar ordeals as Ciel at the same age (thus not really having time to engage in the fandom as much), I view Sebaciel sort of like an iconography of resistance. I could go on and on why I love these two together so much, but I realized that whatever I ended up writing would be too short or not encapsulate enough, so I created an entire blog instead (:

In short, I love my little guys.

As for Sebaciel children, unfortunately I don’t have any headcannons on what their kids would be like. It seemed too sad for me to imagine because, would Sebastian have to tenderly raise his tiefling children alone after the contract was complete, cutting crust off of sandwiches and longing what was? Or the opposite, and try to replace Ciel in an Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho grooming situation. Would Ciel even want children after cursing and damning the world as a kid himself? Or would this be in the season 2 au where both Ciel and Sebastian are demons and raise a family together? Do they adopt children together to raise, or does Sebastian already see his fellow servants as their kids? Many questions to ponder 🤔

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

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blocking is NOT a personal attack against someone. it’s you curating your own internet experience and catering for your comfort, and you have every right to do that.

you, yes, you!!! you CANNOT tell other people to censor themselves for your own comfort and personal likings. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t post. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t write. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t draw. BUT you CAN block them for whatever reason.