Trains in Anime (and other random opinions)

Sabrina Raincomprix

AfterAdrien Chapter 1...

Oof this episode got me good I had to draw this scene😭😭

Sketch + lineart and the clip that inspired this pose under cut⬇️

So sorry this is SO last minute, but RTS will be airing both Secret Protocol and Nemesis this Friday August 14th at 8:10 am CEST (source), meaning we will finally have the french dubs for these episodes! I hadn’t noticed it before now because I was only checking RTS for Sunday premieres (since that’s when they would almost exclusivley premiere Miraculous episodes before), so like total mistake on my part.

(I have no ideas for a post title again)

The Ninth as we see it is a civilization in its death throes. It's a utilitarian horror show, hollowed out by tragedy and stripped of all dignity and sentiment, but we have good reason to think it wasn't always like that. They have a history of fine textile production and poetry, and occassionally forming hero cults to celebrate cultural icons. There used to be families who raised their children communally. Before the sea of tiny coffins, the Ninth may have known how to live, and even how to mourn.

There are glimmers of what their death culture might have been like in Harrow's prayer beads: made from the bones of her ancestors, a tangible link to her history and community. And in Gideon searching for her mother in the leek fields, imagining that a woman she never met is still present in her life.

In a living culture with a functioning community, the use of human bone as a crafting material could make mundane objects into momentos, ways to keep loved ones close after their passing. The skeleton servitors could be seen as a way individuals continued to care and provide for the community, even after death.

If their dead are routinely exhumed to be added to the chore rota, it would make sense for the exhumation, cleaning, and raising of those bones to traditionally be a cultural ritual like a graduation or funeral. Most of those skeletons would have had living friends and family working alongside them, when the Ninth still had generations. The skeleton sweeping the chapel used to be someone's uncle. People in these cultures do mourn death. We've seen them with the corpses of people they knew, and they're not completely desensitized; just very weird. There's a throw-away line once about Harrow having a pet peeve about personalising the skeletons, which means it must be fairly common to do that. What was to stop previous generations of the Ninth from getting scolded for putting funny hats on Cousin Balbus's bones? Nothing, that's what. Balbus liked hats, anyway, so I don't see how it was disrespectful.

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

Ships

Week Ending April 20th, 2020

Geraskier Geralt of Rivia & Jaskier, The Witcher

Adrichat Adrien Agreste & Chat Noir, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir

Ineffable Husbands +3 Aziraphale & Crowley, Good Omens

Reylo −2 Rey & Kylo Ren, the Star Wars universe

Barchie Betty Cooper & Archie Andrews, Riverdale

WangXian +1 Lan Wangji & Wei Wuxian, Mo Dao Zu Shi

JonMartin −3 Jonathan Sims & Martin Blackwood, The Magnus Archives

Reddie −5 Richie Tozier & Eddie Kaspbrak, It

Jikook −4 Park Jimin & Jeon Jungkook, BTS

Drarry −2 Draco Malfoy & Harry Potter, the Harry Potter universe

Malex −1 Michael Guerin & Alex Manes, Roswell, New Mexico

Cloti Cloud Strife & Tifa Lockhart, the Final Fantasy franchise

Kiribaku −4 Kirishima Eijirou & Bakugou Katsuki, Boku No Hero Academia

Stucky −3 Steve Rogers & Bucky Barnes, the Marvel universe

Destiel +1 Dean Winchester & Castiel, Supernatural

Supercorp −2 Kara Danvers & Lena Luthor, Supergirl

Cockles Misha Collins & Jensen Ackles, Actors

Bakudeku −5 Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Boku No Hero Academia

Buddie Evan Buckley & Edmundo Diaz, 9-1-1

Bughead Betty Cooper & Jughead Jones, Riverdale

The number in italics indicates how many spots a ship moved up or down from the previous week. The ones in bold weren’t on the list last week.