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ACÁ CON JALTER Y LA OTRA GRINGA YENDO A RECUPERAR LAS MALVINAS
Eat the brown part now
“ashiya douman is evil for the sake of being evil”
yes! but also…..very much no.
(heian-kyo and very mild out of context paper moon spoilers abound below)
i think what i find sometimes among fate/go players is treating ashiya douman As It Says On The Tin; they’re a nuisance, a monstrous soul, a giddy evil jester happy to spread their malice to cause harm to human beings. and yes, as it stands, that’s exactly their role. even nasu states in an interview that douman was created to be a negative force to push the lostbelt kings a little to serve the plans of the foreign god as her Apostle. the man was told “be amusingly evil” and boy, did they live up to the task!
but to stop at just the interpretation of “oh, guy is EVIL that’s all, time to wrap it up and go home boys” completely misses the true complexity lying behind the surface, and whitewashes a key point repeated time and time again in heian-kyo.
douman….or rather, limbo (and the distinction is important!) is an alter ego. limbo is a shadow. limbo is a part of the whole. limbo is an aspect, a silhouette of humanity, a piece, a caricature. xu fu even goes into detail of the nature of alter egos here:
limbo is an alter ego, which means if you take the whole of ashiya douman and write them off as “evil for the sake of doing evil”, you are more than happy to stare at the shadow at the back of the cave without wanting to turn around. heian-kyo is more than unsubtle about this point. for where, does it ask, that resentment come from? where does that malice originate? when guda and the others meet the living douman (even if it is limbo, hiding in plain sight), the man they meet is not a overly hammy evil clown but a mild-mannered, sincerely humble monk. and it is seimei….yes, that seimei, the great nemesis, the one limbo spits at and hates with every fiber of their being, who makes the distinction over and over again that limbo and ashiya douman are distinct.
“but living douman also wanted to do evil for the sake of evil!” are you sure? this is a man who we see in a brief moment want to end his own life with no real hesitation because he was deeply appalled by the nature of his own evil in the form of limbo.
and then, if we really want to go down to brass tacks, even if we make a distinction between limbo and douman, with writing off limbo as the monstrous form of a human’s resentment and evil, is LIMBO really evil for the sake of evil? time and time again, we see limbo do things that seem so contrary as to be suspect. douman finds and fixes danzou up, claiming that they are doing so as to make her suffer more by giving her memories of her son, but without limbo, danzou would’ve continued to be a cold unfeeling broken machine with no recollection of what mattered to her most. in nagiko’s interlude, guda even calls limbo out for acting as a nuisance to actually help her and raikou resolve their differences. is that “evil for the sake of being evil”?
this isn’t to say that limbo isn’t evil at all. this isn’t even to say douman, as tragic as they are, isn’t evil in his own way, either. but the truth is more complicated. in the end, limbo and douman are just….human. flawed and horribly human, even if one is an aspect of a person. to write them off as some grand evil with nothing more to it is to make the same mistake that history did. douman was the nemesis of seimei, so he had to be evil. of course he’s evil. there’s nothing more. ignore the man crying at the edge of a cliff for all his sins and vices and flaws, hm? there’s nothing more. there’s nothing more. there’s nothing more-
Fufu. Even if I am in the guise of a Heroic Spirit, I am still the shadow monk of humanity. But I suppose that’s no different than what it means to be human.
hello tumblr user. in front of you stands a confident and outspoken character. your challenge today & forever is to consider the possibility they may simply have self-confidence and are not just faking to secretly cover up massive insecurities. good luck
Critically acclaimed visual novel Fate/Stay Night releases in English on PS4/5 Nintendo Switch and Steam at MIDNIGHT JST TODAY which is ABOUT FIVE HOURS FROM THIS POST
Important post
I was getting suspicions but now I'm very 100% sure that most of this website's userbase hates Palestinians and not passively. I'm now fully 100% comprehending that the vast majority of this website's userbase passes by any mention of Palestinians and seethes to their core and the only reason little of it came out was because you thought there might be social repercussions for attacking Palestinians in our time of need. All it took was an easily debunkable false accusation to get people to attack people undergoing genocide as well as a genocide survivor, and now he's been stopped from doing the work he has spent months doing. I will not allow this experience to go undocumented or forgotten. Those who partook in the harassment know what they've done and the unspeakable repurcussions of it. I expected this honestly, because that is exactly what happened to BLM and other Black rights activists since 2014; a cycle of unbelievable praise before horrendous abuse and harassment once they stopped being deified. I also saw the way people treated Moataz Azaiza after he evacuated Ghazzah, and expected the same to happen to Ahmed, who also survived unspeakable things for months in an accelerated genocide, and got harassed and attacked by the THOUSANDS on tumblr after this harassment campaign was put out. I will not forgive any one involved, especially not for what they've done to Ahmed.
Here's a collection of links to posts about the issue in the past couple of days, in chronological order I think. And under the cut will be screenshots of the initial post that I saw that brought this to my attention.
[Post 1] [Post 2] [Post 3] [Post 4] [Post 5]
[Post 6] [Post 7] [Post 8] [Post 9] [Post 10]
[Post 11] [Post 12] Edit: forgot one [Post 13].
These links are absolutely non-exhaustive and there's more shit these people have said that I don't have the patience to go collect and link here.
Honorable mention for white victim-playing after leading a hate-campaign against Palestinians surviving genocide:
Teeth weak as fuck why can't you be like bones
douman summary:
- animal (large cat/polar bear/orca)
- ik he's gender:unknown and in his case i parse that less as he/they and more as he/it
- trained itself to behave properly in order to receive chunks of meat; intimately familiar with etiquette but will still eat any idiot that wanders into the enclosure out of opportunistic instinct
- not necessarily suited to be an onmyouji but huge and buff enough (and clawed enough) to compensate for any lack of talent. can you imagine if it had decided to seek power through something less detail-oriented and reliant on rules as onmyoudou? if it had chosen animalistic violence instead?
- chose the path of adhering to strict rules because it has something to prove through the refined approach, so it humbly requests that you stay out of the enclosure and do not place your head in its jaws
- would probably blush if you listed all this out
realest imageset on earth btw
you could stick your fingers in his mouth just to watch his eyes bug out while he tries not to chomp em. and afterwards he will politely request that you operate with more restraint in the future so that you don't die, because if he were to snap and bite down in that instant he would probably immediately start eating the rest of you too.
no matter how excited he gets [with you close to him] you don't really need to be afraid. it's when his face loses all expression in the middle of whatever you're doing that he's about to bite your head off without realizing it.
sorry what were we talking about
and aren't i my worst enemy?
i was looking through my old art files and man i never DID post this comic i made when heian-kyo dropped, did i. this is such old art but man, the emotions fate/grand order makes you feel about a whole clown. nothing like it
Fate/Grand Order Unofficial Book - Sake Book
Chapter 5 - Douman and Tamagozake
Translated as a gift for my friends over at the Douman discord server.
PS.
Do not repost, thank you!
Messmer, shedding tears because her mother chose someone else.
As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.
It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.
Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.
now im not one to encourage misinformation. and the new google ai thing is apparently just going off of seemingly random internet results for queries. that being said. the best way to tell if a loaf of bread is finished is to stick your dick in it. are you hearing me? the best way to tell a loaf of bread is finished IS TO STICK YOUR DICK IN IT. I SAID THE BEST WAY TO TELL A LOAF OF BREAD IS FINISHED IS TO STICK YOUR DICK IN IT.
as an artist reading hdoujins to jack off is risky because there's always a chance that my cursed eye will activate and I'll start analyzing the panel layouts and the linework and all that and it keeps me from beating my meat. ive had to close doujins because the paneling or camera angles or something were so good it was distracting me from the cock dick balling. not only are porn doujin artists more valuable to society than credit card companies, mediocre-to-decent porn doujin artists have an important niche in the ecosystem that good porn doujin artists cannot fill
You can also have my cloak if you get cold.
just a comic about that really cute scene on sei’s interlude