Tbh i was totally fine and chill with the secret twin trope, but I really hate the “I was there the whole time” cliche (is it a cliche in Japan too?)
THAT BEING SAID: if the reason Agares was constantly falling over in the school arc was because he was tripping over RC’s awkward corpse, then that is. That is the height of Dark Comedy™. It’s literally two undead abominations coming together for a running slapstick gag. I just. Wow.
Here’s a bit of a crying Undertaker watching the reunion of the Midfords with Ciel after the events on Campania in the final of the latest “Tango on the Campania” musical, for your Undertaker/Claudia feelings.
Bonus: Sebastian, who noticed an unexpected guest:
I am incredibly grateful to the authors of the musical for this small addited scene.
last post on the subject i swear but basically i always liked “Ciel” because in French the meaning is both “sky” and “heaven” and, well, the poor boy’s soul is damned to end in a demon’s stomach so i found that to be pretty ironic and poetic at the same time
it just hardly works with Astre, sorry not sorry, but it’s the truth. Astre is this word hardly anyone uses in French, because, generally we call the sun “sun” and stars “stars”. It is used when it comes to deviners saying they’ll read your fortune, or even probably in very specific/specialized circles, buuuuut i mean, again, where is the poetry in this?
Even Lizzie being called “Soleil” (Sun) because she’s got such a bright smile and is like a ray of sunshine would at least be more meaningful at this point.
it’s like the main character from Berserk: a lot of people who don’t know the story find his name ridiculous but it’s actually plot relevant and an extremely mean joke by his violent and very abusive adoptive father because of the circumstances in which he found him as a baby.
So i’m all for a meaningful name for main characters, even if they’re unusual names. it’s just… there are other ways to give our!Ciel a name fitting the sky theme, besides Astre, if that’s what Sensei is after. So that’s why personally i’m very meh on the idea.
But you know what? I never actually thought that Tolkien was sexist.
Hear me out – I see many various arguments about the lack of female characters in his works. But how I see this, is… quality over quantity. I just… can’t think the Professor was sexist when I read about Galadriel, one of the most powerful beings in Middle-Earth, or Éowyn, who slayed the Witch-King of Angmar, or Arwen, the Queen of Gondor, who had the strength of choosing to bear misery in the name of her love.
As I see it, it’s not about how many women are in the story, but who they are. And Tolkien’s women were all… iconic, dare I say. Some of the most characteristic and iconic characters of the entire genre. Sexism would be depreciating them, patronising them, humiliating them to show how weak women are. But Tolkien did the exact opposite, making his female characters strong and wise and loving women, wives, mothers, queens, warriors, people.
And I can’t think that Tolkien was sexist when I read about Lúthien, don’t even get me started on how iconic and epic and important she was. And she was based on his wife.
So… think what you want, guys. If you think the Professor was sexist, I can’t force you to change your mind, but I, as a reader, as a fan, and also as a woman, just can’t agree.
Gandalf: man I am so done with this world. I need a break. I think it’s time to visit old valinor.
Elrond: you think you have it tough??? My parents left me for some sparkly rocks, my brother abandoned me to face the ages of this world alone, my wife is gone and my daughter ran away and married my fucking foster son. What could possibly be worse than thousands of years of this???
The cover of the new comicbook vol.27 (release date: 7/27/2018) is out!
According to Yana RC is wearing the same outfit OC wore in vol.6:
“It’s the same good old outfit [OC] wore in the cover illustration of vol.6, but several details have been customised, so please compare them. (putting aside that my art style has changed in general…) -Toboso”
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