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mxrtified777 · 5 hours
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when you try to get into the png nightclub but you see the dotted rectangle surrounding the bouncer stretch him wider to block the entrance cus ur not on his clipboard
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would you like to elaborate on the "catastrophic mommy issues"? I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on that lol
Thief King is a child raised by a mass of vengeful tortured souls in the ruined basement where they all died, all of whom are in effect a stand-in for family/community/parents. They are all TKB has left, and they are highly protective of him; they seem not entirely within their right minds, not capable of competent childcare, and they give him explicit instructions on how to destroy and take over the world, which he follows enthusiastically.
I think about this a lot, like a lot a lot, and while we don't see much I think its gotta be a very tangled dynamic. When writing him I tend to use "mom issues" or general references to his mom as an emotional stand in because I think she's probably the most likely person he'd remember clearly when he needs a real face, but that's not necessary. All of Kul Elna is Mom for these purposes.
There is a lot going on here, for example:
>Kul Elna does not seem to leave the temple unless accompanied, or at very least they prefer to stay there. This means TKB probably spent a significant portion of his childhood in the same ruins and possibly the same room where he watched everyone die. Cool! Great!
>Kul Elna appears to be only partially corporeal, limited in their ability to do much besides menace, and TKB says they are "in hell" (unclear what that means). I do not think they are up to the daily tasks of feeding, bathing, or taking care of a small child. I think he probably grew up as an urchin mainly in squalor.
The closest real-life analogue to this is, probably, simply a child in the care of someone who is ill or disabled such that they cannot effectively take care of even themselves without support; so you have a situation where no one has done anything wrong, and this family loves each other very much, and the only real culprit is the society that failed them. But you're still going to end up with a kid who is not getting their needs met, is in a situation that is often stressful and sometimes scary, and that will lead to a rapid Adultification where the kid takes on the role of steward without ever having a proper childhood.
>The Zork-raising instructions were given to TKB by Kul Elna. He tells us this. I am less concerned by Kul Elna's obviously Zork-influenced plan to destroy everything than I am its effect on a 16 year old boy who loves them very much because they're all he has left in the entire world. When did they bring this up? Is it recent? Has it been an ongoing plan for years--has TKB effectively been raised on the idea that he is to be Egypt's own destined apocalypse maiden? How fucked up would that be?
Fandom is hesitant, I think, to ascribe anything malicious to Kul Elna or suggest that their relationship with TKB is sinister--which, for the record, I don't think it is, I think this fucked-up little family has nothing but love for this kid in the depths of whatever humanity they have left--because Kul Elna gets such an unjust treatment in canon it makes us incandescent. Yet the same would apply to TKB--if they want the world in ruins and him at the top, how could he even think anything different? After everything the pharaoh did to them, and to you, of the life they deprived you of? Impossible to suggest something different. You can't tell him they're wrong. What's that old softer world bit; I am a pacifist, and I will be a pacifist until I die, or someone threatens my mother.
>TKB does not need survivors guilt to be an unfailingly loyal Mama's Boy to his ghost family (Ghost's Boy?) but he's got to have it. A simultaneous immense guilt for getting out when no one else did; the immense loss of being left behind, like they all went to become this without him; the weight of being the only one left, the only one who can take revenge not only for you but for them, and if you fail then no one will remember any of their names, or yours. One chance. Avenge them or die a nobody. Don't fuck this up. It's your responsibility, like it or not, because no one else can help, and no one else can help because of what your enemies did to them, which is why you need to do it. It's almost self-justifying.
If you want me to editorialize, I don't think he actually cares much about ruling the world, nor does that goal make sense. I think in the back of his little brain he thinks that if he wins he finally gets to join them somehow.
tldr; I think TKB's relationship with whatever the hell Kul Elna has going on is way, way more complicated and nuanced than even he is consciously aware of and you can love someone very much and still fuck them up immensely (arguably a major them of ygo itself). TKB's has such catastrophic mommy issues he literally tries to end the world. We are talking literal apocalyptic mom issues. Cataclysmic.
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mxrtified777 · 14 hours
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I hope that if my personal gap-filling TKB characterization adds anything to other people's mental models it's that I have chosen to believe he suffers from nigh-pathological negative attention seeking and catastrophic mommy issues.
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mxrtified777 · 15 hours
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Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch 1999
"The Bad Touch" is a song by American alternative rockband Bloodhound Gang. It was released in September 1999 as the second single from their third studio album, Hooray for Boobies. "The Bad Touch" became a hit in Europe throughout late 1999 and early 2000, reaching number one in Flanders, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Scotland, Spain, and Sweden. Outside Europe, the song peaked at number five in Australia, number four in New Zealand, number nine in Canada, and number 52 in the US.
In Ireland, the song won a Meteor Music Award for Best Selling International Single - Group.
"The Bad Touch" received a total of 64,7% yes votes!
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mxrtified777 · 15 hours
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You got any thiefshipping headcanons you’ve never had the chance to share before? 👀
I PROBABLY DO. LET ME THINK
I think that out of the two of them, Marik is the one who is the most preoccupied with putting up "a confident, has-his-shit-together" act and he's very good at it, even managing to fool his siblings-up to some extent-because keeping up appearances is very important to him. Hell, it comes as second nature to him since it's what he's needed to do since birth to survive: he had to be a good heir to keep his Father happy, then prove he was capable of overthrowing the Pharaoh to liberate his clan and avenge his Father's murder, and now he has to prove the second chance he was given at life was worth it.
His life is all about proving why he deserves to be alive to those around him, and it's really a fucking wonder how he manages to keep himself together as well as he does. I think he is riddled with tons of insecurities and self-doubt, MOUNTAINS of it, that he keeps repressed, even around those closest to him. But I think Bakura is the only one who is truly able to see through all the bullshit walls Marik puts up and like, really look at him... and Marik lets him, because he understands what living like that is like, and perhaps that's why he allows himself to crumble every once in a while in Bakura's arms.
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mxrtified777 · 16 hours
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A.I. photos are flooding social media and contributing to an Internet where we can't believe what we see. Spotting A.I. 📷s is an important media literacy skill.
None of us have time to research every image we see. We just need people to notice BEFORE THEY LIKE OR SHARE that an image might be fake. If unsure, check it or don't share.
I've started drawing some comics explaining the basic of AI spot-checking and media literacy in the age of disinformation. Follow along here or on my Twitter.
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mxrtified777 · 17 hours
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Are there any characters/ocs you want to draw but keep procrastinating?
I am literally procrastinating drawing thief king bakura as im typing this LOL, and I've been thinking about drawing anzu and atem all week. I haven't really thought about drawing my ocs in a while, actually; sorry, cain and adonis
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mxrtified777 · 18 hours
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what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online
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mxrtified777 · 21 hours
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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.
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mxrtified777 · 24 hours
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mxrtified777 · 24 hours
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I need to update my commission page so badly, but unfortunately your boy cant catch a fucking break. goddamn
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mxrtified777 · 1 day
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These are partly based on my experience going to theatre shows this year. I love the change of atmosphere and lighting per act, say in a ballet🥹it is always so magical. I just want to draw something silently powerful in a simliar way
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mxrtified777 · 1 day
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yugiohs of all time!!
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mxrtified777 · 1 day
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favorite character from any media BUT it has to be a woman. in the tags now go (pls talk to me about your favorite fictional women pls pls pls pls)
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mxrtified777 · 1 day
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if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?
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We’re not making it out of this one
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