yuuji thaws the ice that cocoons your weary soul.
work is unbearable; family is draining; relationships are fleeting; life is hard. it’s natural to get caught up in the “fuck it—who cares?” mindset. complacency is a safe, easy haven to reside in amidst a burning world. but it’s cold in there, all alone.
(let me show you a thing or two, he says with a smile so devastating you wish the earth would crack open and swallow you whole.
i don’t deserve it, you breathe—it’s second nature.
he cups your face with sun-warmed hands. who lied to you?)
there’s a spark in his honeyed eyes that makes every moment with him feel like a deep breath of salt-air; it’s reinvigorating. he may have scars that mar his face and body and heart, but he takes you by the hand, leading you confidently to a life worth living.
his optimism is infectious, as is his conviction—despite his wounds—that humanity is good. and you believe him. how else would he exist? for winter there is summer; for ice there is fire; for moonlight there is sunshine.
and for you? there’s yuuji.
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season 16 macdennis
I can’t stop thinking about Dennis and Frank’s conversation in “Dee Sinks in a Bog”, where Dennis credits Frank for making him the way he is in regards to his coldness, repressed emotions, and everything with the murder hole.
Based on the particular arc that seems to have been set up for Dennis since Season 12 (with Tends Bar and Dennis’ Double Life), it feels like they are building towards something huge. It has been established that Dennis does in fact feel “big feelings”, and while he could’ve been acting, I don’t think he was, especially considering the RPG scene that directly followed.
Dennis has been repressing his emotions for an extremely long time. We see how his denial affects his physical health too, from his issues with food to his experience with covid. And then we get this moment between him and Frank that feels very intentional.
Mac and Charlie’s big cathartic moments (MFHP and The Gang Carries a Corpse Up a Mountain, respectively), both had to do with their fathers, and them finally letting go of their fathers. Dennis’ Double Life was a big episode, but I don’t think it was THE Dennis episode.
I believe that Dennis’ big episode (his MFHP equivalent, if you will) will be the Season 16 finale, in which he will finally confront Frank in some big way and let go of Frank’s expectations / judgments / worldview that Dennis confirmed in S15 that he still upholds to some degree.
Upon letting go of Frank’s (and Barbara’s) expectations, Dennis will finally be able to address the things that he’s been avoiding, such as his relationship with food, his own mortality and ability to get sick, and of course:
his complicated feelings
for 1 (one) Ronald MacDonald.
I truly believe that RCG are setting up an arc with Mac and Dennis, and my main evidence is this:
Despite 15 seasons of subtext, and 4 seasons of Mac being out and canonically in love with Dennis, nothing has ever happened between them. Charlie and the waitress have hooked up and gotten together multiple times. Dennis and Charlie even kissed onstage once.
It would be such an easy plot point to utilize. There are hundreds of ways in which they could’ve played MacDennis for laughs and had them kiss already by now. And if they weren’t planning on making MacDennis canon, I believe that they would have.
So why haven’t they done anything with Mac and Dennis yet?
Because they’re building up to it. And with Mac having gone on his identity arc in Season 15, put some distance between him and Dennis all season, and gotten a comment from Dee about getting a boyfriend, his arc for Season 16 seems clear as well.
Mac will move on and date someone else, and Dennis will repress his jealousy until he is able to let go of Frank’s parenting and finally accept his feelings for Mac.
And it’s going to be a love story for the ages.
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It feels weird to go over to someone’s house just break up with them. But we’re supposed to go to a semi fancy dinner tomorrow night and I think it would be worse to do it after that (or during it 😬) so here we are.
I just really wanted it to work but it’s making me so sad. We just don’t have an emotional connection or really any emotional intimacy at all. And it sucks because the physical connection was so great and he was nice and tried so hard but we aren’t best friends and so it just doesn’t work. I’ve been waffling on this for so long but it’s past time to rip off the band aid. Sigh
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Ruthless and Beel
Featuring: The evolution of Ruthless
Ruthless got some heavy redesigning and I thought I was going to completely abandon them as a character, but I had some inspiration to bring them back from the dead. They were originally created back in 2018 as my Nightmare Before Christmas OC named Gunhilde.
Back then You could definetly tell I had no sense of color palette nor color theory. Also I had a hard time actually designing clowns.
This was the updated version in 2022 where they got a completely new look. This is also the time where I changed their name to Ruthless (or Ruthy for short). During the 2018 and 2022 versions of Ruthless they were originally a “good guy”.
Now the new version (2024) Ruthless is now a villain and a guy (He, him, they them) and they have a companion, Beel. For the new design I actually took inspiration from Horny the Clown (Drive Thru) and Killjoy the Clown (Killjoy).
I will also like to give thanks to my friend, Jack, for creating and gifting me Beel :)
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