Meta
fanart of HxH’s Illumi, Hisoka, Chrollo, and Kurapika by @briochy
Here be meta I am actually at least somewhat proud of to definitely read before you read all of my other shitposts.
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Banana Fish
- The Forgotten Children
- Art in Banana Fish series (parts 1-3)
- Devil, Christ, Child: Heavenly and Hellish Imagery in Banana Fish
Boku no Hero Academia
- Falling Heroes
- Dabi’s Love Language: Social Distancing
- A Child Shall Lead Them
- The Todorokis: Lost in Darkness and Distance
- All We Wanted Was Somebody Who Cared
- Twisted Skeletons of the Past
- Kouta and Eri, Dabi and Shigaraki
- Dabi’s Missing Heart
- Ending = the Ending
- What Does It Mean to Save
Bungou Stray Dogs
- The Man-God: BSD’s Dostoyevsky and Demons’ Kirillov
- Three Shades of Double Black
- On Higuchi and Kyouka
- Pain, Fear, Death, and God
- Five Shades of Double Black?
Case File Compendium/Bing An Ben
Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire
- Show vs. Book Ending
- Daenerys and Arianne, Jon and Aegon
- Daenerys Targaryen: The Romantic Hero
- Mysaria’s Role
Harry Potter
Hunter x Hunter
- On Gon’s Abandonment and Self-Worth Issues
- Queen Oito and Her Thematic Resonance
- The Zoldyck Siblings and Their Search for Freedom and Love
- What are HxH’s Themes?
Kinnporsche
Mo Dao Zu Shi
- The Soul Eater: Dafan Mountain’s Dancing Goddess and Symbolism
- Xue Yang: A Tragic Study in How Not to Empathy
- MDZS’s Trio and the Quest for Balance
- WangXian, XiYao, and Lan XiChen’s Ending
- On Privilege and Parallels: MianMian and SiSi, Wei WuXian and Jin GuangYao
- Mama Lan, WangXian, and XiYao
- Nie MingJue: Righteousness Without Empathy
- Wen Ning’s Arc
- The Women in MDZS: Power and Patriarchy
- Su She and Jin ZiXun: Society vs. Connection
- Wangxian as the Elixir of Life: Alchemy in MDZS
- Jiang Cheng and Projection
- Jin Guangyao’s Character Song Analysis
- Am I My Brother’s Keeper?: Nie Mingjue and Jiang Cheng
MDZS’s Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, by @briochy!
Noragami
Oshi no Ko
Qiang Jin Jiu
Queer as Folk
- Why Michael is Important as Folk
- Justin and Ethan and Brian
- Lindsay and Melanie: The Illusion of Control
- Why Justin Fell For Brian
- Ted and Brian: If You Were Me
RWBY
- RWBY and the Philosopher’s Stone
- Metals and Heavenly Bodies: Why There is So Much Metal in RWBY
- Chemical Weddings in RWBY
- Chemical Weddings in RWBY 2.0
- Chemical Weddings in RWBY: Emerald and Mercury
- Mercurius and the Emerald Tablet
- RWBY’s Tragedies
- Jaune’s Arc: Imitating the Sun
- RWBY as Jungian Archetypes
- Ruby and Oscar: The Heroine and Hero’s Journeys
- Syzygy, or Animus & Anima: Weiss and Jaune
Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System
SVSSS’s Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe by @briochy!
Shingeki no Kyojin
- Historia and Ymir’s Shared Paths
- Armin and Annie’s Dynamic
- Beauty Will Save the World
- Eren as a Deconstruction of a Shonen Protagonist
- The Desire of Your Heart
- Unless a Grain of Wheat Falls and Dies…
- Unlimited Freedom, Unlimited Despotism
- What Was It All For?
The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty
Tales of Arcadia
Tian Guan Ci Fu/Heaven Official’s Blessing
- He Xuan, Shi Wu Du, Shi Qing Xuan: Three Mirrors
- The Faces Under Bai WuXiang’s Mask
- The Alchemical Structure of TGCF
- The Symbolism of the Earth Master’s Shovel
- Girls, Goddesses, and Ghosts
TGCF’s Xie Lian and Hua Cheng by @briochy!
Titanic
Tokyo Ghoul:re
- TG’s Chiastic Structure
- Love That Counts
- Tokyo Ghoul’s Thematic Tightrope
- The Vanishingly Slim Line Between Villain and Protagonist
- Mutsuki and the Tragic Irony of TGre 134
- In This Fading World
- Metaphorical Sex in Uta and Yomo’s Fight
- Jungian, Freudian, and Oedipal Symbolism in Mutsurie
- Outline of a Revised Final Arc(s)
Star Wars
- Rey’s Arc and the Truth About Mary Sues and Gary Stus
- They Hate Rose Because She Tells Them the Truth
- Rose’s Arc and Sacrifice
- Luke’s Arc in TLJ
The Witcher (the books)
- Who Holds Destiny’s Pen?
- Lost and Found: the Rats vs. the Hansa
- The Rose and the Raven
- Tragic Snow White: Renfri as a Mirror to Ciri
Disney Princesses as Strong Women series
- Snow White’s Self-Esteem
- Cinderella’s Courage and Compassion
- Aurora’s Autonomy
- Ariel’s Adventurous Spirit
- Belle’s Bravery (and Boundaries)
- Jasmine’s Justice
- Pocahontas’s Power to Choose Her Path
- Esmeralda’s Empathy
- Meg’s Mistakes
- Mulan’s Masks
- Tiana’s Tenacity
- Rapunzel’s Radiance
- Anna’s Allegiance and Elsa’s Empowerment
- Moana’s Maturity
- Raya’s Risk
Random Other Metas:
- Female Characters in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment
- Themes in Crime and Punishment
- The Message of Dostoyevsky’s Demons: Kirillov, Stavrogin, and Verkhovensky
- What did Smerdyakov Want?
- Romeo, Juliet, and Humanity
Personal narrative essays:
fanart of Banana Fish’s Ash, Eiji, Yut-Lung, and Sing by @briochy