What is it about Black Butler that sticks with you so much? Like, I read all of death note about the same time as I watched Black Butler for the first time, and much as I have boundless love for the series it just didn’t alter my brain chemistry on the same level as Black Butler did. I have a another friend who has broadly moved on from a lot of her old fandoms but is still in the kuro fandom. What is it about kuro?
Hmm the idea that sebastian has been wandering around from contract to contract, bored, unsatisfied, and deeply unhappy without even realising it for thousands of years. And then he meets the youngest human he's ever served and makes a contract. It's the hardest he's ever had to work for a meal, and he finds himself constantly busy. The Young Master even takes a child only a bit older than him home from a mission and inadvertently makes it sebastian's job to raise it. And then, slowly, they add more staff to the household. And everyone is so bad at their jobs that it just adds to sebastian's work. And slowly, without realising it, he starts to feel fulfilled and the boredom leaves him. There's no room for boredom in a place so full of chaos. Sebastian is happy there, though he doesn't know it yet. He's been changed by these humans
There's something so * clenches fist * about the boy who felt like an afterthought going on to be immortalised in an eternal being's mind as everyone else's image is washed out by history
I am totally normal about this * is shaking violently *
Tangential to my last post: I'm enamored with the style of ending where a character undergoes an ordeal and then returns back to the place where they started. I can't really imagine a scenario where Ciel will be able to resume his life posing as his brother, playing the Queen's Watchdog, because for all intents and purposes the probable stakes and revelations seem to imply that status quo will be impossible to return to. But I do like the idea of Ciel returning to his point before his revenge as the spare, as the boy who took a demon's hand in the wake of chaos.
the character development I crave: Ciel breaking down and crying into Sebastian's arms. Ciel finally having his long-delayed emotional response to the years of trauma inflicted upon him and accepting affection from his demon, his proof of sin, who accepts him for his humanity and finally shows Ciel that he's capable of understanding, capable of loving, all in the name of the boy who was intended as an afterthought.
can this be a real thing, can it?
snow on the beach—taylor swift ft lana del rey (2022)
Hiromu Arakawa, Fullmetal Alchemist // George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire // Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment // Taylor Swift, Dear Reader
“Dear Reader” is the biggest and the most perfect call out-anthem to those who are emphatic rocks to everyone else, carry out “don’t do as I do, do as I say”-message and who seem to have it all figured out but who are really breaking down inside. A self-ironic and deep masterpiece.
dear reader is for the people who seek solace in books. for people whose favorite/comfort characters are misunderstood. for readers who use books as an escape. for people whose comfort characters keep them sane. for people who are open books but secretive at the same time. for people who still believe that true love exists despite it all. for people who have large groups of friends but still feel alone at times. for people who daydream. for people who live a thousand lives by reading and dreaming and hoping. for people who never want to say goodbye to their characters.
dear reader is for the girls who never share their trauma and their secrets so everyone assumes that they’re doing well and goes for advice to them when in reality they’re just as lost as the rest of the world.
I take 'Dear Reader' very personally because I feel like it kinda connects with the fact that we, fans, always are like 'taylor is my bestie, she gives the best advices, she should be more vocal about some things, she should speak up on this and on that, I wish she could tell me what's her take on this problem, I wish she could tell me what to do' and sadly, we forget, she's a real person just like us and she's experienced things we have no idea about. I think she's trying to say: hey, you're broken and you want me to help you get through this, but Iook, I'm broken too. And now I really appreciate all the interactions she used to have with us on here, especially during 1989 era because she was literally falling apart and we didn't know, but still she was sending us comforting messages when we needed and she was trying to cheer us up when probably there was no one to cheer her up cause she was feeling super lonely as the line 'If you knew where I was walking to a house, not a home, all alone 'cause nobody's there' says. It's heartbreaking to think about but I am really happy she said it out loud. She can't solve everyone's problem cause she's not a god, she's a human being with emotions and heart.
