Happy New Year!!!! (with Silly Rat Man And His Boyfriend Dear Friend)

Not to me. Not if it’s you.

doodles

im at a payphoneee trying to call home

Okay. Denji’s Pov in “All circuits are busy” and why it’s written like that. Let’s talk about it:

I’ve gotten a (small but significant) amount of comments/ asks, telling me how refreshing it is to have Denji’s pov be very fast paced and wordy because it is a show of perceptiveness, if not intelligence.

And while it makes me incredibly happy that people appreciate it, it also makes me sad that not more characterisations of Denji are like that.

Because listen. Characterisation is a free real estate in fandoms you can do whatever you please, always. But when you have a character who is canonically illiterate and you decide to make them dumber than a door….it’s telling. And it’s not telling nice things.

I’m not saying Denji is an underrated genius, but he doesn’t have to be. Most of the characters in chainsaw man are of simply average intelligence, and that’s the point. At their core, they are your average run of the mill human that’s struggling to find the place in the world. Not every character has to either be a genius or downright worm-brained. There’s a middle ground. Step on it I beg of you

Yes, Denji is gullible and a bad liar and can’t read/write. He is also the fastest learner in the manga, incredibly perceptive, has the most emotional intelligence out of all the cast, and could fucking do advanced math to calculate his debt at age 10.

One of the main points of Chainsaw Man is “don’t underestimate the illiterate teenager.” Did we not read the same story? Characters fall into this trap time and time and time again, and Denji makes them eat dirt for it. So why, pray tell, do people keep underestimating the illiterate teenager???

Also I like my povs to reek of a bit of autism.

Thank you if you read through this garbage fire of frustration.

Happy lunar/chinese new year everybawdy 🧧

Tomorrow I wrap up a work project and I want to quickly set up and record Episode 5 of the podcast (decided it’s a Chainsaw man episode) because jjk is ending within the week and I obviously will want to talk about that too, BUT

it might be two parts. I think unless i cut stuff the csm episode will wind up being 2 hours of content which I absolutely cannot edit all at once.

help

now that jjk is over and doesn't cause me crippling anxiety, I can appreciate the simple things about it...

Okay so here is exhibit A of why I wanted to start putting these on a side blog. This has been sitting on my iPad for what’s got to be 8 months now in some stage of completion, because I’ve been wayy too nervous to post it.

It’s just much further off canon than I’m used to going with fanart, but it’s really fun to play around with pre-fall, fall husbands

partner

“what if these palestinians asking for donations in my inbox are actually scammers” you’d refuse to give a homeless person ten dollars cause you’d think they’d buy drugs with it