When Fandoms Want Ship Wars To End So They Add A Third Character You Couldn't Give Less Of A Shit About

I'm not watching arcane because Mel ends up as just another instance of the "disposable black girlfriend" trope, fuck those gay swirls 🙏

DRIVE LINK HERE to the official mob psycho 100 fanbook!

as far as i can find, there's not been any comprehensive scans of the fanbook put up online, at least on the english-speaking internet. soooo since there's all sorts of fun stuff in it (character birthdays! character & creator q&a's! who would be most likely to survive on a desert island! guest art by other manga authors (the one in the upper left there is by the creator of FMA)!) i wanted to make sure everybody who wants to could see it!

more info under the cut. enjoy!

5x7", scanned at 300dpi in jpg format. exact pixel dimensions differ slightly due to how my scanner's auto-crop works.

the images uploaded are exactly as they were scanned, no image editing save for cropping. they could use some editing to be more presentable (levels adjustment to bring the darks down, more saturation on the color pages, & a teensy bit of rotation/adjustment) but i wanted to upload the untouched files. i might create a new drive with cleaned-up versions at some point.

i claim no ownership over these images, please feel free to do whatever you like with them, share em, edit em, and so on, no attribution necessary.

i bought my copy from hiro_shop_japan on ebay, if anybody wants to get their own.

these are obviously untranslated- some awesome folks have scanned & translated parts of the book (particularly the qnas). you can find those here! there's also a twitter thread of translated bits from 4chan, but i can't seem to find that one at the moment.

oreides:

“Shihoko Fujiwara runs Lighthouse, a nonprofit for exploited children. She told CNN she once worked on a case where a predator used a cartoon to convince a child that sex abuse was normal. “So the pedophiles might bring the animation and say ‘this is how you practice with adults,’” she said.

Child abuse in Japan

While no link has been made between anime, manga and child abuse, Japan is facing a “serious” child abuse problem, according to a White Paper issued by the National Police Agency in March.

The paper said the number of child abuse victims jumped 20% between 2011 and 2012, and the number of victims, arrests and cases are at their highest levels since they started compiling statistics in 1999.

At the same time, the number of cleared child pornography crime cases rose to 1,596, the highest ever recorded, the paper said. Most – 85% – were Internet-related. The figures inspired the U.S. State Department to label Japan as an “international hub” for producing and trafficking child pornography.

The U.S. report noted that no national law addresses the “unfettered availability of sexual explicit cartoons, comics and video games, some of which depicted scenes of violent sexual abuse and the rape of children.

It added: ‘While the NPA continued to maintain that no link was established between these animated images and child victimization, other experts suggested children are harmed by a culture that appears to accept child sexual abuse.”

#gee who woulda thought that depicting children in sexual situations would lead to it occurring more in real life

This needs to be fucking slam-dunked in the faces of every single abhorrent and disgusting pedophile and/or pedo-apologist that wants to cry and whine about how fictitious child pornography doesn’t contribute to nor perpetuate CSA just as real footage or photographs of children does; those disgusting clods who insist that fictitious depictions of children in sexual situations doesn’t somehow normalize the idea that sexualizing children is okay, and that it doesn’t ~actually~ harm anyone… as if this form of child pornography exists in a vacuum.

Lolicon and Shotacon are child pornography.  They hurt children in Japan, and most likely children in other various places world-wide where this type of child pornography spreads.  Why?  Because child pornography is child pornography, plain and simple, and every last bit of it is toxic and harmful… and this particular variety only makes it easier for pedophiles to victimize children due to its “appealing” style, so don’t you dare ever say that it’s somehow more acceptable for child pornography to exist and that it’s somehow not harmful - all because it’s DRAWN.

Some people seem surprised that Chuuya managed to fool Fyodor about being a vampire for less than 30 minutes, but you gotta remember that when he and Dazai first met, Chuuya succesfully hid that he was Arahabaki for two or three days, all while Dazai was specifically investigating Arahabaki.

Chuuya has always been an extremely good liar, and he is kryptonite to people like Fyodor or Dazai (or at least Fifteen's Dazai, he learned from that experience) because he looks brash and impulsive and ""simple"", but actually Chuuya has been lying about who he is for most of his life, and nobody knows how to be a mindless monster better than him.

I hate the "both sides are bad" narrative about jayviks vs Mel stans people use because only one side has written multiple fanfiction of a black woman being experimented on by their favorite white gay man. The way this isn't the first time jayviks put Mel in their fics just to write weird ass scenes like this

OK THAT'S IT

GET THE AESTHETIC COUNCIL

WHAT

THE

FUCK

IS

THIS AESTHETIC

CALLED!!!!!!

and if you reply with "hehe Tim burton aesthetic" or "goth" I will feed you to the rising tides.

BECAUSE THERE IS THREE ONGOING THEMES HERE OF A MIXTURE OF THE CIRCUS, THE SEA, AND VICTORIAN ERA ALL TOGETHER AT ONCE OR ALMOST, WELL HAVING FADED COLORS AND JAGGED SPOOKY LINE-ART AND I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THIS IS BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH OF IT TO IGNORE NOW JUST TO LEAVE IT IN SEPARATE LABELS.

SOMEBODY PUT A "CORE" ON THIS SHIT, THIS FEELS LIKE A MISSING "CORE"

IT'S LIKE DARK ACADEMIA

BUT IT HAS THE EMOTION OF DARK CABARET MUSIC.

AND ALL OF IT SMELT OF THEE AFTERMATH OF A MUSICAL, RUM, AND POVERTY and sad clowns...and the moon always has a creepy smug face....

And Don't forget to sprinkle dead dreams from tragedy✨

I mean I personally would like to call it GrimCore, FeverdreamGoth, or CabaretCore. but I don't know, tell me what you think. 🌜🌞🎪🎭⚓🥀🍷🍾

Update: someone suggested CabaretCore

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warming up babyyyyyyy

Bro why are people still arguing under here damn 😭🙏

This whole Sansa vs Arya shit always makes me laugh, "Sansa bullied Arya" bruh my sister used to call me a fucking whale and i used to make fun of her teeth cuz she had kind bunny like front teeth it's normal for CHILDREN who are also SIBLINGS to make fun of each other "Uuuh but Jeyne Poole also made fun of Arya" I'm a younger sibling my sister and her friend did not want me around when they were together and would usually tease me to make me leave because guess what? They were children that did not want a random ass kid in their business (and they were older than both Sansa and Jeyne). Arya teases and makes fun of Sansa too y'all i promise you that shit ain't that deep, we literally know that they love and care deeply for each so this whole rivalry y'all got going on needs to stop cuz it's getting embarrassing this girls are between the ages of like 8-11 please stop trying to make them out to be bad people, they are children and children are selfish and assholes sometimes doesn't mean they're evil

THEY WOULD BE SO SO PROUD OF YOU

I love art like this 😭

oni