#necle

HAPPY HOLIDAYS @necle 🎉🎉 I was your secret santa 😌

I cannot tell you how thrilled I was to see you request Nanase and Reiko lol ive been wanting to draw old reiko/if she had lived and you have given me the perfect prompting! I think they would be a fun influence on each other

thank you @natsume-ss for hosting this it was such a blast!

Could you talk about Taki?

i WOULD LOVE TO 

i mean, taki is just generally my best gal, but i’ve been wanting to specifically talk about her role in chapters 85-6. what i love about those chapters is that even though she has the least ~spiritual sensitivity~ out of the youkai trio, she’s also the closest to doing the work of exorcists — not only can she read whatever the language is that natsume can’t, she can also create talismans of her own. (natsume explicitly says it’s because of her lineage, which really makes me curious about where onmyouji are delineated from exorcists.) there’s also the fact that most of her magic is Super Forbidden and she doesn’t have a clue; i’m pretty sure i’ve mentioned taki-reiko parallels before, but the souko chapters really hammer home how reiko, like taki, just kind of stumbled into the sort of magic that ends up being so harmful to youkai.

I had similar thoughts about using paper charms for security. But in retrospect to the Takuma arc, Natsume found Natori's note for Tsukiko out on the street. Granted, the rain might have killed whatever concealment it had and the exorcist client could have made it so normal people cant see it. But I wonder if part of it goes back to the technology discussion where older exorcists are too stuck in their methods to risk using any other means of communication (which to some extent includes Natori).

for anyone who is wondering what necle is talking about, the technology post about online curses and natsume yuujinchou is here. that’s probably a good point! about the older exorcists being stuck in their methods...at first i would think most traditional clan houses had too many secret areas and important wards built in to go to the trouble of installing phone lines, but then...cell phones...are a thing, and some exorcists clearly do know how to use at telephone

reminds me a bit of an article i read somewhere about the work environment in japan, and how even though a lot of cool tech stuff is happening in the cities, a lot of offices are still using fax machines to communicate instead of email because the older management was more used to it?? might be an inaccurate impression, but i think that was the gist of it

i still want those fics about matoba seiji’s teen texting adventures if the tiny teen exorcists had cell phones tho

matoba: shuuichi-san. we have not yet received your rsvp for my birthday party invitation. 

matoba: should we expect your presence?

@defeateddetectives replied to your post “nanase’s best chapter in general is special 17, but i’m incredibly...”

now i'm wondering if this is where tiny seiji learned the art of magically popping up and out of random corners from!

@epiphenomenal replied to your post “nanase’s best chapter in general is special 17, but i’m incredibly...”

mirai beat me to it but i want to 100% second the idea that nanase trained seiji in the art of magically appearing out of nowhere

sometimes i feel like too many of my matoba headcanons are “because nanase,” but someone needs to fill the void of nanase content in this fandom and that person is me. yes. i think bb seiji probably just learned from observation, because she would keep her secrets close to her chest, but he definitely decided that this was a skill he needed to adopt.

@necle replied to your post “nanase’s best chapter in general is special 17, but i’m incredibly...”

Natsume had just told himself to avoid the other clans members and immediately fails just a few seconds later

he’s trying his best! but being unavoidable is a honed skill of the matoba clan.

necle replied to your post “nanase’s best chapter in general is special 17, but i’m incredibly...”

Too bad in the Hadozuki arc, we couldnt get her encountering Natsumeg (and/or Natori trying to explain that to her)

If there is a dispute between two parties that aren't from the same clan, I would imagine there is a some council in place that manages those things. One that organizes the general meeting, bounty reward, etc. They probably the same group who decided what spells are considered illegal in the first place

On the note of paperwork,  I can imagine when he was growing into the role, Matoba ditching on occasion and  pushing the work to his attendants (and Nanase get very upset about it and no one else willing to put their foot down around the next clan head)

do you use the mobile app? I havent been on PC for a while but activity is basically broken on the phone (doenst load probably or jut straight up crashes). Its been that way for me for a couple of months

lmaoo i would if my phone worked well at handling lots of things

im a little too leery of logging into tmblr on too many devices so i usually dont use the phone for it