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lynmars79 · 1 day

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Reflecting on the meme responses and jokes to episode 12 of season 3 Midst--and don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the reactions too, after sitting on this for two weeks--and there's specific ways in universe, and by the narrators, in which Weepe's Fold disability is treated compared to others afflicted by their Fold scars.

He's hardly the only weird or monstrous looking person in the cosmos, particularly those who live within the Fold itself, and now many of the citizens of Midst who survived the moonfall. There's people with extra eyes, limbs, even heads. Fiona's left leg is now a man named Jacob. Giselle's personality is replaced by frogs. Fuze's upside down mouth, hidden behind his facial hair. Ettie's constant laughing. Saskia's doubling can even be horrifying in a few ways, though she's currently coping and using it as an advantage, most times.

And then there's Moc Weepe, who was the most noticeably Fold-affected person on Midst pre-tearror. Because of what happened in the Arca, his situation became a lot worse--a situation he tells Imelda was an inevitability someday.

(Was it really? Or is that his assumption, given how events in his life tend to happen? That if it wasn't Imelda pushing him like that, someone else would have sooner or later?)

Weepe's appearance is described as ghastly and horrific, and it is! He's a translucent jelly of a person, innards on display, the Fold visibly slinking through his system. He has to constantly have a pump going, not unlike people who need their constant oxygen, or drainage bags, or other outward signs of their disability.

Weepe's falling into a(n often dicey) trope of his outward appearance reflecting the monstrousness within, though his descriptions in that way are different from others afflicted by the Fold. Many of them are noted by the narrators as simply existing, a little odd but nothing grotesque, even when the descriptions given would be extremely off-putting. They're spoken of as normal, if noticeable, ramifications of exposure to the Fold. The images and descriptions of the Sequester citizens that Phineas, Lark, and Tzila encountered in season 2 could also be considered monstrous by some.

But it's Weepe specifically who murders people with his own tainted blood, even selling it to others (like Lark, unknowingly). Having his security use it to kill Kozma's entourage. I doubt he's sending any samples to the Mothers now. There are indications, too, that Weepe is exaggerating how weak/ill he is to take others off guard (like Kozma). It's Weepe who weaponizes his Fold affliction, with all sorts of justifications pertaining to his own survival and success.

(Perhaps Saskia to a degree also, using her doubling to literally be in two places at once, passing information between herself, but for very different reasons.)

I say in another post that I gotta respect Imelda's monster-fucking game (I've been on the internet for 30 years, y'all). Especially since I consider her as a monster of another kind, the True Believer with ambition and seeking power, somehow seeing Weepe as a key to her own success, willing to do anything to achieve that. So far it's working, and there have been some concerning appendices about her actions as Archauditor already.

It's not so much about Weepe's horrific Fold-altered state (though that is part of it, but unlike with other Fold-afflicted characters). It's not the middle-aged aspect of the participants (that may be part of it for some younger listeners, though Lark and Sherman hooking up is also considered normal to sweet, and Imogen Loxlee is forever a catch).

It is two horrible people, who have done horrible things to each other as well as to other people, giving in to a long-standing tension (Weepe describing Imelda in detail down to her "little sexy suits" during his Arca ranting, and her fawning on Midst and into the Highest Light didn't seem entirely business-driven) for their own dubious reasons that likely have nothing to do with actual romantic emotions, and are more likely as much about their parallel schemes as about the sexual attraction over their matching ruthlessness

Of the relationships, complicated as they all are in this series, it's the potentially most toxic we are shown as sex occurs, in an exchange to cut the various tensions and issues with this particular hookup; it's actually one of my favorite narrator interactions, the awkwardness and uncertainty playing up the funny to describe the scene without describing it.

I just also look to all the discussions about aging, weight, and disabled, and other folks who fall outside our society's norms for desirability, and wish the narrative descriptions did lean a little more on Weepe's actual monstrosity, and not the grotesqueness of his Fold-afflicted appearance. Cuz when they do turn on the Actual Monster Weepe mode, he's terrifying regardless.

Besides, the pump sound effects and ability to "see" Weepe's physical reactions definitely added to the creative descriptions of that scene in a way that wouldn't be possible otherwise!

Anyway. Mostly feel like there's some unintentional line toe-ing happening in some of these descriptors and reasons for them, which is going to happen in pretty much any and every media, especially a semi-improvised one, as our diabolical businessman--inspired by various traditional villain characters--slips further into villainy himself and his oft-described appearance reflects it.

#midst podcast #midst spoilers #Third Person #season 3 #Interest #Moc Weepe #Imelda Goldfinch #Stationary Hill #Fold #Disability #Monsters #Tearror #character description #musing

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xponentialdesign · 2 months

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loop made with trapcodeTAO, inspired by one part of @daseboogie's tribute to Rudolph de Harak

#grid #fold #geometry #opart #op art #rudolf de harak #tribute #monochrome #visuals #cubes #black and white #moodboard #trapcode #trapcodeTAO

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viejospellejos · 1 year

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El jefe final del ZARA

#video #sfw #vaqueros #jeans #fold #doblar

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roususu · 1 year

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#fold #drawing practice #references #clothing reference #doodle #gesture drawing #art reference

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midstpodcast · 1 month

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What is a Tearror, the sudden surreal force that reshapes the Fold? 🌊💡

Let out wondrous Junior Lore Keeper Jared Deiro explain in his latest deep dive into the MIDST Cosmos! 🧡

#midst #midst podcast #midst lore #lore explainer #lore #explainer #fold #un #fictional science #fiction podcast #audio drama #moc weepe #lark #phineas thatch #surreal #horror #body horror #critical role

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kenaim · 10 months

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#kenaim #art #wind #visuals #landscape #yellow #desert #space #fold #fiber #fabric #animosity #release #pain

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categorised-art-tutorials-tips · 1 year

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Drawing Drapery & Folds Tutorials

Credit: Lesbidar

#drapery #fold #folds #clothing #material #materials #clothes #tip #art #drawing #art tip #art tips #art tutorial #art tutorials #drawing tip #drawing tips #drawing tutorial #costume #cloth #outfit

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hypnoneghoul · 6 months

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did you know that with eds your eyes can get refractive errors and they often change? from short-sighted to far-sighted with a sprinkle of astigmatism here and there? lemme tell you it's fucking annoying when my glasses work just from time to time and I will not get 63536262 pairs to switch them out every week or two lmao

but we know I like to give rain ghoul my problems so... he does have a lot of glasses, multiple styles and stuff, organized all nice in a pretty little cabinet by prescription level or whatever it's called. he absolutely rocks them, all and any styles, and being the princess that he is, he knows how to use that fact

there are three special pairs that he doesn't wear daily, just in a specific circumstances. one is to make swiss fold, second one to make dew fold, and the third one to make phantom fold

works like a charm, every damn time

#they just have a thing for glasses #and for rain #and rain in glasses???#FOLD #rain ghoul #the band ghost #hypnone's disabled ghouls #hypnone's hcs

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unbotheredmuse · 2 years

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