• Late 20s
• I don’t ship, only interest in theorizing about canon
• idgaf and I’ll interact with whoever
• no horny posting
• black butler is not a tragedy
SID - Shokuzai [Eng Lyrics]
Something I made a while ago with the assistance of my friend
”The title of the song, 贖罪 is pronounced the same as 食材、which means ingredients for food ^^”
@VladisWidow I desperately want it confronted because it cant sit right with me otherwise lol, I don’t feel as capable of ignoring it as a lot of people seem to be. I remember that sex scene with Baron Heathfield where he’s repeating things that Sebastian has said verbatim was pretty shocking
@VladisWidow Those elements have always been present in the manga, ciel is not a CSA victim for no reason
she even made a pretty dark joke about it here back when it was published https://t.co/TiUm4aHTNl
@VladisWidow I still see it somewhat possible that he was trying to con anna into marrying him, though, because he didn’t actually say he made the doctor into a groom here; just a man who didn’t love her. It seems like Modri’s internal dialogue lied to us?
@VladisWidow I thought it possible for him to end up doing it to either of them, & it would be symbolic of their heart being unfaithful (to their loved one or to god). Its odd to me that Yana has only ever gone *there* with Sebas once & the allegory falls flat now since he didnt get consent
So now with Anna’s story not having the most basic illusion of choice, which has been stressed so much throughout the series as some justification to Ciel, Sebastian, and the audience by extension— is he just a rape protagonist?? Will the elephant in the room ever be addressed?
something something, white roses = worthy of you, but doesn’t inherently mean purity. There is a juxtaposition being created between “pure” as in unblemished and “pure” as in potent, where red is extremely potent and black is completely opaque.
@mochimochimoon3 On that note, I think it’s also worth acknowledging how much the scene where Anna is making her first wish looked like making marriage vows, then it ended with her dead at the altar.
Sebas & ciel made their “vows” at an altar as well 🤔 so Yana is intentionally playing on that
@mochimochimoon3 Oh I’m surprised you made this a blog post! I had further thoughts on it myself:
https://t.co/E6Ibf8lAJ7
I’ve mentioned before that I think that highlighting the way their relationship is “romanticized” (by us or by Sebastian and/or ciel?) seems to be getting addressed eventually
“To the strength and beauty of white china, woven by Master and Servant. A toast to our 20th anniversary” (furigana: porcelain anniversary)
Someone showed me a bunch of comments on rednote about the cover. But I actually remembered Kuma using this exact phrasing before?
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“To the strength and beauty of white china, woven by Master and Servant. A toast to our 20th anniversary” (furigana: porcelain anniversary)
Someone showed me a bunch of comments on rednote about the cover. But I actually remembered Kuma using this exact phrasing before?
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When I say its not a matter of shipping, I mean things like this? 🤔 I dont take it literally, but theres clearly something going on here thats getting relevant to the narrative. Whenever I see someone believe UT had a phantomhive lover but deny this as a theme, I don’t get it
And for a little while, bc of how I already reasoned that the covenant is like marriage, I was awkwardly trying to ask around about what they use in place of “consummate” in Japanese?
At least in the Bible, it’s what the demon used here
@KPexil I always liked imagining young jeremy Brett, minus the nose I guess lol. He’s the Sherlock Holmes that Sebastian’s murder arc disguise was based on and the love interest in My Fair Lady, which Yana has mentioned when talking about Ciel’s Robin disguise