MY ZEKI HEART CANT TAKE IT

MY ZEKI HEART CANT TAKE IT 😭

“Open your hands if you want to be held.” —Rumi

I do agree that Hino isn’t really fixing all the things she really should, but the VK series wasn’t cut short. Hino said she had always planned to end the series before it reached 20 volumes. That was something she decided in the very beginning of the series. Just wanted to let everyone know.

I'm honestly shocked that Lala would even green-lit a sequel manga for Vampire Knight after they forced Hino to cut VK's main story short. I wonder why they did that? If sales are decreasing with every volume, then VKM can't last for too much longer. Hino already royally screwed up VK (which she even admits) and while I enjoy seeing Ai, Ren, Zero being a father and typing up loose ends, the series isn't salvageable because of how badly the writing the characters and narrative were written.

It is not confirmed that VK was cut short. No one knows what happened tbh, it is just a fan theory based on some of Hino’s blog posts from that time. I’m paraphrasing here but if I remember correctly she said that she regrets not being able to write the story better, she had deep regrets concerning Kaname in particular. They might have green-lit VKM to give Hino a chance to fix things and to get closure, but then again, this is also just a theory.

VKM is actually doing quite well compared to other series in the same magazine, it can probably last for a bit more and won’t be cut short that soon. But then again, it’s obviously nowhere near the popularity of VK when it was at its prime. There is also the concern of LalaDX usually not having mangas longer than 25-30 chapters. VKM is already getting close to that limit, and there is no way the popularity is good enough to move it to the main Lala magaine. Not even Hino wants a move actually, cause she said she is more comfortable with the bi-monthly release. So honestly, no one knows whats going to happen lol.

There is one thing I don’t understand:  Hino got the perfect opportunity to fix some things, stuff that even she was having regrets about. Yet, she is not doing that and instead spends most of VKM on unnecessary stuff, making an even bigger mess. Hino, why?

- purebloodprincess

“To love you is not my promise, it is my fate, to burn until I can burn no more.” —Atticus

I always find it kind of weird that matriarchal cultures in fiction are always “women fight and hunt, men stay home and care for the babies” because world-building-wise, it makes no sense

think about it. like, assuming that gender even works the same in this fantasy culture as it does in ours, with gender conflated with sex (because let’s be real, all of these stories assume that), men wouldn’t be the ones to make the babies, so why would they be the ones to care for the babies? why is fighting and hunting necessary for leadership?

writing a matriarchy this way is just lazy, because you’re just taking the patriarchy and just swapping the people in it, rather than actually swapping the culture. especially when there are so many other cool things you could explore. like, what if it’s not a swap of roles but of what society deems important?

maybe a matriarchy would have hunting and fighting be part of the man’s job, but undervalued. like taking the trash out or cleaning toilets: necessary, but gross, and not noble or interesting. maybe farming is now the most important thing, and is given a lot of spiritual and cultural weight.

how would law work? what crimes would exist, and what things would be considered too trivial to make illegal? who gets what property? why?

how would religion work? how would you mark time or the passage into adulthood? what would marriage look like? if bloodlines are through the mother, bastardy wouldn’t even be a concept - how does that work?

what qualities would be most important in a person? how would you define strength or leadership? what knowledge would be the most coveted and protected? what acts or roles are considered useless or degrading?

like, you can’t just take our current society and say you’re turning it on its head when you’re just regurgitating it wholesale. you have to really think about why things are the way they are and change that. 

“A sky full of stars and he was staring at her.” —Atticus