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Symbolism of Pure Vanilla and Shadow Milk:

Okay I was scrolling and it suddenly hit me why I felt way more attached to the dynamic that Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla had then say Dark Cacao and Mystic flour It’s because of the freaking double meaning to their primary roles as a Jester and King. (And me having the cultural knowledge to get any secondary meaning between their roles unlike the other two ancients at the minute).

So in the modern media and more frequent interpretation of the royal court the Jester was there to entertain, which is how SM is introduce to us, but in some cases it wasn’t their only job in court. They could responsible for bearing bad news to the King but also being one of the few people in court who could publicly mock and talk freely to him, so long as it seemed funny. This reflects on the actual game as Shadow Milk is the only one be it positive or negative that will not speak to Pure Vanilla without some form of formality.

While yes PV is friends with the other ancients there’s still a formality between them due to their ranks and roles even with Gingerbrave and Co they’re still a bit formal to him as he’s their elder. Shadow Milk as his elder in age but equal in terms of power (due to possessing the same soul jam), is the only one who talks frankly to him.

As for bearing bad news (yes this is relative but makes sense in context) SM is the one albeit in a very manipulative and disingenuous manner informs PV truth is only relative to the individual or group but is made up of lies varying from meaningless to meaningful, and that even he will lie as some situations a sweet lie is better than the bitter truth.

SM both directly and indirectly aided in PV’s decision making which on occasion for some Jesters was their role albeit this was extremely uncommon. Which ended up with the Truthless Recluse and eventually Compassionate.

All this making their roles as the Jester and the King even more intertwined than just a cosmetic choice.

Anyway Inky signing this post off!

I want more stories that explore the angst potential of unrequited platonic love.

Like:

‘You’ve always been like a brother to me but I’ve realised you only come to me when you want something’

‘My surrogate parental figure just sees me as another student/employee/lackey’

‘I raised you like my own child but you don’t even remember who I am’

And of course, the classic ‘You’re my best (and only) friend but I know I’m only one of yours’.

this is almost certainly a post ive made before but when a character's grief is so strong it fully alters the form of the narrative itself... moby dick being so much longer than strictly necessary because ishmael's grief made him stall for time in the telling of the tragedy... harrow the ninth being in second person because harrow was so grief-stricken that she herself was not capable of making narrative sense of the events of the novel and so someone else had to do it.... do u know what i mean

obsessed with stories where the message is that you can’t bring someone back from the dead even if you can bring someone back from the dead

this never stopped being so crazy

simply cannot ever resist what i call the little mermaid or the tin man or the pinnochio plot, the one about a character who is either inhuman or human but outside in some way, constantly searching for whatever it is that they consider to be the quintessential proof of humanity, preoccupied by it so deeply that they fail to realize the proof is in the act and fact of the search itself

Theme [27]: Astralis by glenthemes

Astrālis, e, adj. astrum, relating to the stars. This is a space-inspired theme featuring 12 zodiac constellations made from CSS, with love (and pain). Color aesthetics inspired by @jaesthm.

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Theme features:

container: customizable frame thickness, tiled/repeated image

sidebar: 12 constellations to choose from, 8 custom links, icon image (64px), description, default links

posts: customizable width, padding, photoset gutter width, permalink padding, post margins, border option

pagination: bottom of posts, or in sidebar

background: animated stars option, background image

Credits:

PXU photoset tutorial, lightbox tutorial, video resizing script, like & reblog button tutorial by shythemes

inline images resizing script by gukthemes

“SaturnIcons” icon font by saturnthms

“rotating stars” pen by Lucas Bebber

sidebar icon in this preview: “Light” by Shilin

background image by davehugs

Be sure to follow the terms of use and like/reblog if you’re using this theme! Please contact me if you have any questions/problems with the coding and I’ll try to help you as much as I can! ♥

- On the Themes of Love, Vulnerability and Blindfolds in Jujutsu Kaisen -

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TAGS/WARNINGS- Implied/Slight spoilers for the Jjk Anime and Manga.

THESE ARE THOUGHTS THAT I WAS HAVING THAT I STRUNG TOGETHER- please don't come at me about the working I already know it's horrible.

((if you want to add one your own takes or pick apart mine, please do so cuz I eat this shit up like food on thanksgiving (and tag me I wanna see what you come up with))

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Love

Vulnerability

Blind love

Love is blind

Justice is blind

Love is not Justice and v.v.

(Justice and Love are two sides of the same coin but this is a conversation for another day)

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Justice is impartial

"Lady Justice wears a blindfold to represent impartial justice and everyday people close their eyes to shield themselves from reality"

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Gojo is not Justice

Gojo is Jusitce

Gojo is not impartial- he uses a blindfold to create a physical barrier between himself and others.

Gojo wears a blindfold to keep his memory of Geto in

Gojo wears a blindfold like a mask; a personally built facade to keep others out

Gojo harbours immense and infinite cursed energy

Gojo harbors immense and infinite love

Gojo's birth caused a boom in cursed energy/spirits to appear

Geto was born to mitigate (swallow) all of it

Geto was born to cancel out the effects of Gojo's birth

Geton was born to accept Gojo's love

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Gojo's immense and infinite love/cursed energy was meant for someone who is no longer with us;

He uses it sparringly

Basically never•

Few and far between•

Taking off the blindfold means to be vulnerable

Gojo has his blindfold off when he runs into Kenjaku (in his pov, it was Geto)

Gojo is vulnerable around Geto.

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Vulnerability is a weakness

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'Curses that work together in groups are weak'

Groups are weak

To Sukuna, Yuji making friends practically wherever he goes is a sign of weakness

But Yuji is strong

He subdues Sukuna for the greater part of the entire story

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Yuji and his friends are strong together

There is strength in numbers

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It's lonely at the top

It's lonely being the strongest

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Love means to be vulnerable and compromise strength in lieu of compassion and connection

Sukuna tries to 'connect' but is pushed away when his methods don't work

Sukuna uses extreme violence to play with and 'connect' to others

Most individuals don't want to connect that way

Sukuna doesn't use Yuji's methids of connection because that goes against everything he stands for

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Love is the worst curse of them all

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Who will teach Sukuna love?

Sukuna does not need to be taught love;

He has no use for it

___ will teach ___ (Sukuna) love

Sukuna is the strongest sorcerer in history

Sukuna is the King if Curses

Sukuna is the King of Love

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Sacrifices

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In order to make one, you need to sacrifice something

How much has Sukuna sacrificed to become the strongest?

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Binding Vows

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Love means to make sacrifieces

Love means to make sacrifices

Love means to be vulnerable

Gojo sacrificed Geto (and his love) for the greater good (and for other obvious reason)

Gojo loved Geto

Gojo cannot stand out when paired with Geto

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Hidden Inventory Arc (anime) - Gojo's eyes seem duller and less illustrious than usual,

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Gojo stands out when Geto is not around

Gojo is The Strongest

The Strongest isn't vulnerable

Gojo is vulnerable with Geto

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Sukuna believes vulnerablility is weak

Yuji wears his heart on his sleeve

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Gojo closed his heart.away after Geto died

Gojo never puts down infinity again (with minor exceptions)

Gojo wears a blindfold to keep others out

Taking off the blindfold means to be vulnerable

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Vulnerability is a weakness

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*The suffix -utl, "Something and nothing at once, polar opposites existing simultaneously."*

Love-utl

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Sukuna does not love

Sukuna hates Yuji

Gojo can love, chooses not to

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Love is sacrifice

Sukuna doesn't love anyone but himself

Sukuna rejected and sacrificed his previous (human) identity for his cursed one

Sukuna loves himself

Gojo loves loved Geto

Goji is immensely fond of others (his students/close friends)

Yuji loves (pretty much) everyone

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Gojo/Sukuna/Yuji is the strongest

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1. Love is sacrifice

- Gojo sacrificed Geto; his love

- Sukuna sacrificed everything else; his humanity

- Yuji sacrificed his previous peaceful life so he could save more people in his sorcerer life

2. Love is vulnerability

- Gojo swore to never be vulnerable again; his love came back to bite him again in his adult years and he payed the price for it; love is weakness

- Sukuna is not vulnerable; it is a weakness; the weak should die

- Yuji is vulnerable with his friends and is always ready to use his compassion for the best outcome; Yuji is open with his companions

3. Love is the worst curse of them all

- Love took the only person that could accept him; Gojo rarely uses love anymore

- Sukuna is the King of Curses, therefore the King of Love by proxy; Sukuna hates love; doesn't need to be taught it; Sukuna hates Yuji

- Yuji harbors the King of Curses

- Yuji defeated the King of Love

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Love is the worst curse of them all

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Love is not a curse

Love is strength

There is strength in numbers

Groups- together, connection, vulnerability, sacrifice- are strength

Yuji is/has all of these

Yuji is strong

Yuji defeated the King of Curses

Yuji harbors immense love

Sukuna hates love

Sukuna hates Yuji

Love is the worst curse of them all

Yuji is the worst curse of them all

Yuji is strong

Love is strength

Love is vulnerable

Yuji is both,

Love-utl,

Yuji is love

Yuji is The Strongest

--- Notes ---

*Please see (Tess of the Road, Rachel Hartman)

•"Basically never - few and far between":

I was making a reference to Gojo's infinity, how no one could ever get close to him. Fitting, no?

Fresh theme by me ^_^👍

code + preview

I’ve been on a huge splatoon kick lately and I thought it would be lots of fun to make a theme based on the ui in splatoon 2 and 3!

Theme comes with some basic customization features! Along with the ability to change the description font to two different versions of the inkling script that can be seen in-game! Sources for the fonts used can be found in the theme code ^_^

As always if there’s any issues feel free to send me an ask on either here or on my main blog @townslime! 

Theme — Latte by tanaka-drew Preview/Download

Features:

280x280px sidebar

custom blog title

five custom links

tasks section**

about section with 110x110px about image**

muses section with 70x70px muse image**

option for 450/500*/540px blog posts

option for multiple font families for heading and body

option for 1/0.9*/0.8rem body font size

option for 0.9/0.8*rem uppercase font size

option for hide tags*

option for show tags

Notes:

* denotes default features.

** denotes default features that you have to edit directly into the code.

Sidebar is on position “sticky”. This means that it will stick to top and the succeeding elements are cut if you go beyond your screen but will scroll up when you reach the bottom.

This theme is NPF posts friendly. :D

Neither ask or submit links would show if you don’t allow people to ask you questions or allow people to submit things to you.

I don’t claim any of the fonts, scripts and/or tutorials I used unless stated otherwise. See full credits here.

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2015 Visual Update

Team X Visual has just gotten a thematic update! We hope you enjoy our new look and that is it easier to navigate all of our content! We'd like to give a big thanks to wantering for the amazing theme for our blog!