Friendly reminder that sites like pinterest, zero chan and the like aren’t valid sources/credit

And before reposting artworks that didn’t come from yourself, you have to: 

  • search for the actual artist in order to properly credit them
  • one way to do this is to use the little camera on google image
  • don’t u tell me u don’t know how this works when u’re using tumblr
  • check whether or not the artists agree to their art being reposted in the first place

If you don’t have the actual source and the artist’s approval, then you’re basically stealing someone else’s work and credit and that’s plain disrespectful and shitty.

So if you see blogs doing that in the tags, please notify them of their mistake with a quick message or comment, because they didn’t have to be aware that they were in the wrong. 

However, if they don’t change, feel free to report their blog because they’re definitely not in the right. 

You like your fandoms? We all do, so it’s about time we show respect to content creators. Of every kind. 

Art thief is the biggest and most common problem, but you have the basic attitude above as to what to do before you consider reposting an artwork that isn’t yours. It’s not because it’s on the internet that it belongs to everyone.  

And the absolute same goes for: 

  • reposting a fanfiction that’s not yours 
  • (yes it happens and it’s stealing), 
  • translating a fanfiction that’s not yours without crediting and asking for the author’s autorization 
  • (it happens as well and it’s the worst), 
  • using someone else’s translations or theories for your own posts 
  • (at least tag the OP or credit them or link to the original post). 

Thank you for understanding. 

facets-and-rainbows:

MY HABIT OF LOOKING RANDOM CRAP UP FINALLY PAID OFF YOU GUYS I AM LAUGHING SO HARD

okay so in the Blue Exorcist movie this spooky chant shows up a bunch of times in the background of stuff, and it sounded vaguely sutra-ish to me, and Blue Exorcist uses a lot of excerpts of real religious texts, so I figured I’d look for the lyrics and see what I could see

AND I SAW THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BLOG POST [X]

whose author has looked up the lyrics for us and found them to be

ニ・カズ・シオ・ハ・チュウ・エイ・ウ・ジョ (ni kazu shio ha chuu ei u jo)
ニ・フオハ・ゲン・デン・ノ・イ・タイ・ケ (ni fuoha gen den no i tai ke)
エン・キン・ナイ・カン (en kin nai kan)
シン・キ・エイ・サツ (shin ki ei satsu)
イ・ナ・ラ・ケ・ハ・キ・セ・ノ・エ・マ (i na ra ke ha ki se no e ma)

which, as this wonderful person points out, is NOT SANSKRIT OR CHINESE OR ANYTHING JUST JAPANESE SPELLED BACKWARDS / ANAGRAMMED A BIT

AND THE JAPANESE IT SPELLS BACKWARDS IS AS FOLLOWS:

上映中はお静かに (jouei-chuu wa oshizuka ni)
携帯の電源はオフに (keitai no dengen wa ofu ni)
館内禁煙 (kannai kin’en)
撮影禁止 (satsuei kinshi)
前の席はけらない (mae no seki wa keranai)

AKA

Please be quiet during the film
Turn your cell phone off
No smoking in the theater
No photography allowed
Don’t kick the seat in front of you

I WILL NEVER STOP LAUGHING WE LIVE IN SUCH A FANTASTIC WORLD

Source: facets-and-rainbows

1/1 I’m glad to hear that I was afraid you would get annoyed by the long ask but with this arc I can’t help myself since it involves so many characters and we may even get the long awaited UT’s flashback and why he is so obsessed with the phantomhives That’s true but if our Ciel get over his guilt and start to accept himself he may start to think about saving his soul ?

shinigami-mistress:

2/2 Of course as readers we are aware of how strong and capable he is but also of how fragile he can be .I think he does need someone else because the reason he sees himself that way is mostly because of the people around him .So perhaps Frances would get the job done but then again his other aunt told him she wish he was never born so I wonder what to expect from this one ?

3/3 That’s why I think he is insane because he doesn’t even see how wrong his actions are (just look at all the people who died during the compania arc) .I won’t call him batshit crazy but I don’t think he is mentally healthy .True ,and thank you for answering .

Hello again, Anon. Sorry for the delay in answering this time.

I think Undertaker’s obsession with the families is one of those mysteries a lot of us want to know. How did he get involved with them? Is it Claudia? In all reality, I think it will be some of the last things to be revealed, so we can only guess at this point. I do look for a detailed flashback.

A long time ago, I was working on different ways the contract could be voided when a friend pointed out that our!Ciel doesn’t want to break the contract. However, I think his guilt is only a tiny part of that. Another part is that was the deal that he made with Sebastian, and he isn’t looking to back out on his end of the deal. Remember he sacrificed his own identity. Just because his brother returned doesn’t change that fact.

Our!Ciel’s perception of himself isn’t just the way other people around him saw him. He did hear people talking about how he was suited to be the watchdog, but that’s actually not really an insult. He was just more timid and shy. Our!Ciel’s view of himself came more from comparing himself to his brother, whom he had put on a pedestal. He loved and admired his twin, It’s even quite possible he saw real!Ciel as being even better than he really was because of how he felt about him.

I was talking to @midnight-in-town the other day and said that if Frances shows up, she could be the voice of reason in all this insanity. I still stand by that. I have a strong suspicion she knew that it was our!Ciel who had returned and not his brother, so I think she might be able to act rationally in this situation.

Madam Red did say that our!Ciel should have never been born. Looking back now, I wonder about that. Was she saying the twins should have never been born because she should have been the one with Vincent, or did she recognize this was our!Ciel and she compared her experiences of being the younger sibling to our!Ciel? Maybe it was both. Either way, you can’t really compare Madam Red and Frances just because both are/were his aunts. Madam Red was selfish. She was mired in this idea that she should have had Vincent, and couldn’t really move past it. Later tragedies caused her to lose her grip on her sanity. Frances may seem cold and hard, but she loves her family, and I believe she puts their needs before her own. She firmly rooted in reality. She may push our!Ciel to make him stronger. 

Personally I still think the person who will snap our!Ciel out of his current state is either himself, Lizzie, or Frances. I might be wrong, but that’s my guess.

Undertaker’s thinking and actions are certainly warped. He has canonically caused the deaths of more people in the manga than the literal demon. In his mind, he probably has justified it all, but it doesn’t seem rational to anyone else. A part of me wants him to have some moment of clarity so he can see what he’s truly done, but he might be too far gone.

Maybe Frances could bring him back to reality because she could remind him of Claudia, or possibly even Lizzie.

Thanks so much for writing. 🙂

I have a question about Gangsta and I’m interested with trying. I see you read it but did you watch the anime? Can starting with the anime be okay for trying the story? Thanks for helping.

Hi there Anon! Yup, I watched the Gangsta. anime and I’m keeping up with the manga on a regular basis (the chapters are released monthly, but Kohske-sensei has a few health-related issues so we don’t always get content). Here’s my tag for it.

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I’m personally really fond of it, but it is Seinen (i.e targeting adult demographics) and addressing hardcore themes like prostitution, drugs, mafia and civil war, so beware the many trigger warnings because it doesn’t have to be for everyone.

I can’t speak of your personal tolerance to such subjects though, so you’ll have to read a summary and give it a try to see if that’s something you may want to watch/read or not, knowing that the anime covers most of the content from ch1 to ch28 in one cour. Here’s also a “why you should read” post for more info.

I won’t lie, it can be a very disheartening series, in the sense that getting attached to the characters is unavoidable and, considering the themes, most of them (if not all) aren’t treated kindly. In terms of body count within the cast, I think comparing it to Shingeki no Kyojin should give you a good idea. 

As for anime vs manga: I prefer the manga because it’s the original content and the art is really good, but the anime does a good job of giving life to this series through the great cast of voice actors (the two main guys are voiced by Suwabe Junichi-san and Tsuda Kenjiro-san who are personal faves of mine and they really work well with the characters). 

If you’re not sure about enjoying the series after all that I said, I’d recommend the anime more, to check how you feel. If it turns out that you’re liking it though, then I’d recommend moving onto the manga. 

I hope this helps, have a nice day Anon!