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the end of the semester is so disconcerting. what do you mean I have no more assignments to complete. when’s the next deadline. what do you mean I have to go live with my parents again for 3 months.
#damien.txt#i'm literally not going to survive i stg#the structure of college is actually so good for me and now i have to... what. get a new job?#i literally work on campus and it's so nice and now i have to find a summer job for. literally only 3 months#uhm also i have no friends at home anymore so??? what??? do i just... exist? in stasis? for 3 months?#hate it can we jumpcut to the bit where i'm moving back here with my friends and i get to have a little apartment decorating moment#though! i think i'm going to get on t this summer so!!! that's exciting!!#i am also probably going to have to come out to my siblings though. and also i'm not going to pass enough for my summer job.#so. those concepts suck. but still! we're out here maybe finally living#how we're meant to
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chanlix moments i think about a lot (7/?) - channie’s room ep. 105
#stray kids#bang chan#chanlix#stray kids gifs#skz#skz gifs#my gifs#chanlixmoments#oh my god everytime he moves the lighting changes i cannot be fucked to adjust every layer im sorry#we're all gonna have to live w it ik it looks awful#anw horrible coloring aside.....this was A Moment. 3rd gif look how he perks up when he hears i made them like u said!!!!!!#sa u get a smooch assuming this is the one u meant unless another one exists w brownies that im forgetting about. if so im witholding#the smooch until u point me in its direction thank u
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he's our little brother. take care of him.
anne carson - antigone / alec benjamin - if we have each other / dan pearce - single dad laughing: the best of year one / kodaline - brother
#dean winchester voice we're gonna fix you up. that's my job right? to look after my pain in the ass little brother.#[guy who's not over marineford voice] yeah i'm sooo over marineford#tried to read the manga for reference. got sad about ace and luffy again. thus the cycle continues#asl brothers#ace#luffy#sabo#riko.txt#one piece#op spoilers#kinda???? it's been out for over a decade. everyone talks about it#btw you have NO IDEA how much it took for me to not include the spn gif i made for this. or the shinazugawa bros scene. you know the one.#anyway. hahaha. heehee. hohohoho. i'm an older brother. i have a younger sister. and. i get it.#she was having a bad time a few months back and i remember telling her i'd do anything for her. i don't think i've ever meant anything more#so. yeah. i get it.
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Something's missing.
#rain world#rain world downpour#rw art month#rw saint#egg art#eggmoon creations#that one room in chimney canopy...hehe#i think it's fun how there's an audio stinger and everything#there's no reason for saint to understand the feeling of emptiness#but the player does#I think it's fun to imagine Saint having somewhat of a meta element#it doesn't feel like saint is meant to be here#saint feels like some kind of outsider#it's incapable of achieveing ascension it seems#i wonder if saint can ever be freed from its cycle#perhaps saint is merely the vessel we're dragging along with us in an attempt to fulfill our own desires#lunart
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i like them together....
#a doodley#jumpscaring everyone again#im stilll deciding talons nose shape#saw a nose shape that looked a lot like his the other day and im trying to integrate it with the old way i used to draw it too#undecided if he should have very visible nostrils or if theyre more hidden like al's#speaking of al he's existed for over a decade and im still deciding eye color!#i feel his whole scheme fits the light grey or green eyes ive always given him#but. light eyes scare me and he is my forever girl. so we're leaning brownish again rn#it all goes back to brown. like how i cant stop drawing talon with his original eye color when he's meant to have the scary purple eyes#as a vampyre#AND FINALLY im trying to find a way to add more texture to talons face#i have to do more intentional wrinkles around the eyes and sockets that add form#i give al his acne scars + bumps + pores#wanted to give talon liver spots but he is a vampire! no sun exposure!#might also just do like. bumps and blemishes#the illusion of rugged skin
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I know it's a weird thing to say, coming off the back of eps 1-3, but I really feel like under all his despair, Ed is fundamentally a hopeful person. He just cannot quench that little spark of hope inside him.
That's why he didn't end it decades ago and was "waiting to drown" instead. That's why he went looking for this fascinating new pirate he heard about. That's why he was trying to egg other people into taking him out, in the hope that they'd actually stop him. That's why, even at his absolute lowest ebb, he still draws up a list of pros and cons for staying alive.
He really wants to keep clinging to that spark of hope and Stede leaving is the closest he comes to it snuffing out, but when he hears Stede's voice again, boy, it just comes roaring back to life.
#ofmd s2 spoilers#ed teach#I love Ed he's the most character of all time#(yes this is informed by my own lived experience but I think I'm right in how we're meant to interpret Ed here)
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Peace and love in farm arrays
My screenshot that inspired this; it didn't end up being very similar but I liked the idea of these three taking a break together :]
#ID in alt text#Rain World#Rain World Survivor#Rain Deer#rw Survivor#Farm Arrays#This was meant to be a quick screenshot redraw. It ended up being neither. I don't want to talk about it#Anyway I *think* I'm close to the end of my first Surv playthrough? I don't really know where I'm going ngl but I'm excited to see how it-#wraps up! Hoping we find Monk but given 5P's speech I doubt that... let's be real we're probably marching towards death#No spoilers though please; I know a lot about RW (this is by no means a blind run) but not how any of the campaigns end#Still got a couple more regions to get my ass kicked in before that though; don't forget to like & subscribe to see how it goes (joke)#Hrokkall Art
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two questions to ask yourself when you start looking for pre-christian material in medieval literature:
1. when are these texts from
2. when did christianity come to this area
i can guarantee you in the vast majority of celtic-language sources (and others) the answer to 2. is several centuries before 1. and at that point you gotta ask yourself... how likely is it that these people would be writing about something that has not been a thing for them or anyone they know for, like, four hundred years (or, in many cases, eight or nine hundred years), especially given that most of the people doing that writing are not merely passively existing in a christian society but are, yunno, monks
there are exceptions! but there are way fewer exceptions than you think there are gonna be! and the exceptions are almost always extremely nebulous sub layers that can't be disentangled from the other layers (which are christian) with any certainty so are always somewhat speculative!
and most importantly those other layers are interesting too, but if you only ever treat them like dirt to dig through to get to something "real" underneath you're sure gonna be disappointed a lot of the time (and you're gonna miss a lot of cool shit that would be really exciting if this was an actual archaeological dig and not a metaphor)!!
#this feels a bit like lobbing a grenade into a crowded theatre#but tbh everyone who is mad at me for saying this has probably already blocked me#given that I've been saying it for several years at this point#i think these days people are so used to religion being a personal thing#they don't really comprehend what it meant to Live In A Christian Society As A Medieval Person#like. we're not talking primarily about faith or what someone personally believed#but how society is structured and ordered and the paradigms its literature lives within#AND WHO PRODUCES THE LITERATURE#education is ecclesiastical. book production is ecclesiastical. literacy itself is in many cases ecclesiastical#the christianity is coming from inside the house#anyway whatever why am i trying#i had two (2) entire sips of wine this evening (i don't drink and don't like wine)#so maybe that's why i'm posting this lol
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there's an interesting statement being made about identity if you accept all of the wolf 359 characters are equally themselves as of the finale: eiffel is form without memory; hera is memory without form; lovelace is both, but without continuity of experience; minkowski is both with continuity - and she's still not the same person that goddard recruited. if we're never the same people we were, but we're always ourselves, then the only way the self can be defined is through its own assertion - and maybe it can be argued that "my name is-" (and later, being able to say "my name is hera" reintroducing herself to pryce) and "i am captain isabel lovelace. no matter how hard you try, you are not taking that away from me" and "without me, who are you?" / "renée minkowski, and that is more than enough to kick your ass" are all the set up for (and part of the answer to) "am i still doug eiffel?"
#wolf 359#w359#it's about accountability but also about inevitable change and the willingness to learn from the past#and change for the better#holding those maybe contradictory ideas in your head#that we can't escape who we are. the limitations of the self or the people we've been in the past. but also#that there's no permanent state of self we're bound to#that the self is a constant negotiation of presentation and communication with others and can't exist in a vacuum#but also that it is about inherent worth and self-defined and self-named#i think that line is so interesting. 'we can't just change who we are but we get better.'#because depending on how you interpret it it either supports or contradicts this philosophy#and i think the difference in how hera interpreted it vs how maxwell might've meant it is part of how they misunderstood each other#and why it's an idea that stuck with hera and that she returns to. and feels like it was a lie. after maxwell betrays her#but that's another discussion maybe.#and also of course. the significance of names in wolf 359. but that's a whole thing on its own too.
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the guys from the accidentally-gay sino-soviet communist propaganda posters look a lot like Tom Paris and Harry Kim from Voyager
(sorry for the photo dump, I wasn't sure which ones to use)
#star trek#tom paris#harry kim#voyager#star trek voyager#propaganda#sino-soviet propaganda#they didn't mean to make the posters look like the two were in love#they just meant#“look how close the symbolic representations of our countries are: it'd be great if our nations were allies since we're both communist!"#but like....
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Nene’s Role in Wonderlands x Showtime
The release of The Miniature Garden’s Coral seems to have confirmed some things I’ve recently speculated might transpire in future Wonderlands x Showtime events-- namely regarding Nene and how she may actually be the most important member of the troupe-- so, let’s talk about them! I’ll be using zui’s lyrics video for my translations, so hopefully they’re accurate.
With the past couple of WxS events in mind, it’s easy to see that this 3DMV is also about endings. While the MV begins in a sunny blue afternoon light...
...the characters and set eventually bask in a beautiful sunset orange, signaling the end of the day. The lyrics even mention being “between the end of the blue sky and the beginning of the night sky,” further emphasizing that we’re in the middle of the story. When the sky is blue, the troupe expresses uncertainty: Rui mentions that he feels lost, and Tsukasa, scared. But eventually, Nene admits that, in this beginning period, she was “spoiled by the sound of the waves,” AKA that the commotion surrounding WxS’s formation led to a troupe that became a source of comfort for all of them.
Once the sun sets, there are a lot of “even ifs.” Nene sings about how she’ll continue to sing this song, even if things are starting to look unsteady and she’s not sure if she should proceed. However, by the end of the song, she resolves to "still sing this song” while keeping up a smile.
I think that the fact that Nene says she will sing this song is incredibly important, because, as established, this song is about endings. Meanwhile, back in Mr. Showtime, Tsukasa firmly didn’t want WxS to end, and was holding out until closing time. Rui’s What Sort of Ending Are You Wishing For? and Emu’s Starry Sky Orchestra seemingly both acknowledge an ending as well, but it’s not at all easy. Rui seems to fall into a resigned depression at the thought, keeping a whimsical facade up when the very thought of separating kills him inside. The thought haunts him, MV riddled with hourglasses that he can’t get out of his head. Emu can only tolerate taking the first step towards a breakup with tooth-rottingly sugarcoated promises of eternal togetherness and literally holding hands as they go (I love her btw this is not Emu slander). She never even says the word “end,” only “tomorrow.”
Rui, Emu, and Tsukasa are basically Denialx3. Rui tries to deny his emotions regarding disbanding, Emu tries to deny that the ending is coming at all, and Tsukasa tries to deny that there’s nothing he can do to keep them from inevitably drifting apart. And that’s where Nene comes in again.
Rui’s dream is to perform technically complex shows that will resonate with an audience. He can do that from Phoenix Wonderland. Emu’s dream is to keep the Wonder Stage up and operating forever. She has to do that from Phoenix Wonderland. Tsukasa’s dream is to become the number one world star and make everyone smile. While this would likely take him away from the park, in another story, I could see it being possible that, in the end, Tsukasa decides that making the people in his local community happy is more important than trying to change the entire world. Thus, he could also follow his dream from Phoenix Wonderland, even if it’s not ideal.
But then there’s Nene. Her dream is, and always has been, to perform in Broadway musicals. Broadway is a live performance in New York City. There is no possible way for Nene to get what she wants while staying in Phoenix Wonderland. And that is possibly why Wonderlands x Showtime’s ending is the easiest for her to process.
Now, I’m not trying to say that Nene doesn’t love her friends. She adores them. Her three previous commissions have proven that. It’s the amount of love she has for them that will propel her to make what is actually the best choice for their dreams. Nene is the little mermaid, both when swimming freely the oceans with a beautiful, unstoppable song, and when enduring pain herself to stand with and for the ones she loves. Her friends, in this situation... are coral.
Remember that coral, “blurred” and uncertain in the water and “stained orange by the setting sun”? The miniature garden is Phoenix Wonderland; the coral is Emu, Rui, and Tsukasa; and that coral is stained orange by its desperation to keep rereading the final chapter instead of closing the book for now and putting it away to revisit in the future. Coral, while a beautiful living organism, is also completely static.
Static like stone statues which, at least by my interpretation, is what the rest of WxS turns into at the end of the 3DMV. The three of them (and Kaito) are paralyzed with the fear of the suffering an ending would bring. Only Nene is alive and human to be the one to show the group the benefits it can bring as well.
There are a lot of aspects of this song and Nene’s entire personality that lead me to believe that she will be the one to bring about change in WxS. First, she most often “has the braincell,” so to speak. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that she performs this song with Kaito, the most mature of the WxS vocaloids, either. During April Fool’s 2023, she was put into the Solid Heart class. One might think that troupe leader Tsukasa should be the Solid Heart, and that shy Nene should be the Cautious Heart, but they (accurately) sorted it the other way.
Nene is a very strong-willed person. In other stories, it might be seen as a negative that Nene is always the most hesitant one to get into shenanigans, or that she would even dare to be the one to suggest a WxS split in the first place. What an ungrateful wet blanket Nene is, willing to throw away her friends for the sake of her own selfish dream. But in this story, staying at Phoenix Wonderland isn’t really what will make Rui or Tsukasa happy, and even Emu may have to graduate to focusing on the entire company instead of just one stage someday.
Nene’s friends brought her out of the darkness and into the light of day, and she is so grateful for that. She knows how amazing they are, which is how she knows that they can make more friends and continue to do even more amazing things in the future if they can bear to leave their high school part-time jobs behind and enter the real world, just like her.
So, Nene’s role is to be Wonderlands x Showtime’s guiding light. She’ll tell Rui what sort of ending she’s wishing for, and then console him when he can’t repress his tears. She’ll be the one to hold Emu’s hand while they take that next step into tomorrow. Her three best friends helped her to grow from the loner who operated a robot from the theme park bushes, and she’ll help them step out of that theme park and be who they truly want to be.
There is one other thing I wanted to mention, though...
Tsukasa.
As I mentioned previously, while all three of Rui, Emu, and Tsukasa are in denial, Tsukasa is the most actively in opposition to an ending. He’s also the troupe leader, and the sole creator of the Wonderland Sekai. If someone is going to actively try to stop Nene from suggesting separation, it’s definitely going to at least start with him. But as Nene has already stated in The Miniature Garden’s Coral, despite any opposition that makes her question whether or not she should proceed, she already plans to continue singing her beliefs about a bittersweet yet timely goodbye.
And, their conflict is something that’s basically been foreshadowed from the beginning too, right? Nene has always roasted Tsukasa, giving a counterpoint to his blindingly bright worldview. In upcoming chapters, however, I believe that may start to transform from simple fun banter into a genuine conflict with clear sides drawn...
And THAT’S why ColoPale gave them Childish War.
Nenekasa nation get ready, ‘cause I don’t think this is the last Nene and Tsukasa fight we’re going to see.
#project sekai#pjsekai#nene kusanagi#tsukasa tenma#rui kamishiro#emu otori#wonderlands x showtime#as always thank you so much for reading!!!#i can post things about the rest of wxs too not just tsukasa i love all of them#on that note though i was reading something lately about angstkasa#and how a lot of the people who haven't read the source material mischaracterize him (and others)#and uh well. i haven't actually read much of the source material#so i'm SUPER sorry if i'm mischaracterizing him here it is not at all my intention#i just hear a lot about what happens on JP and have thoughts and feelings about it so i post#my theories regarding sekai are always meant to be a best case scenario#where the stories are as interesting and the characters are as deep as possible#i fully acknowledge that what i wrote here might not actually be true#i don't want to get anyone's hopes up about something that i have no guarantees will actually happen#i just want to have fun while we're all here y'know? :)#that is all. i can't wait to see where the story goes from here#my theories#WXS
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okay but like it means so much to me that marco genuinely had so much faith and admiration for jean, long before jean really did anything to clearly merit it. like when marco knew jean, jean was still kinda a sheltered brat, but marco saw through the bravado and recognised how much goodness there was and how much potential for leadership he had, and he loved him for it. and like, not only did marco express this to jean (so like maybe one could think that he was just exaggerating or trying to build jean up), but he tells eren about how highly he thinks of jean. like marco was out here being jean's cheerleader to possibly the least receptive person in the 104th with a smile on his face. and that's another thing!! jean makes marco smile!! the thought of jean makes marco smile like a maniac and i just-
#yday's breakdown was over thg but we're back to rewatching snk#and just!!!!#he loved him!!!!#like people talk about how much marco meant to jean and like yes that's so true and we should be talking about it#but like we (i) sometimes forget that marco spent most of his limited screen time just. so obviously in love with jean#it's almost ridiculous#jeanmarco#marco bodt#jean kirstein#snk
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What reads/videos would you recommend that explain chara's relationship with the player more clearly for monkey brained folk like me? I'm gonna admit my reading comprehension is not the best and I'm having trouble understanding the meta aspect of it (mostly why chara doesn't fight back during the geno route if they really care for monsterkind that much). I'm 100% being dumb rn but you have to be dumb to be smart
i don't trust youtube with chara. at all. defenders and offenders. though tbh i dont trust youtube with UTDR in general.
andrew cunningham had an old written essay about them from way back that hit almost every metanarrative point i also share. the only thing i personally disagree with is his thesis that those points are non syncretizable. i personally see chara as a more fluid, dymanic character compared to rest of the cast in function of their role as player proxy; all 3 readings that he proposes are ways to accomodate it diegetically, within the story, and not. the essay's linked in his discord server, if you want to check it out!
#i'm not sure if we're meant to share those links outside the server but if you jump in and fetch em yourself i doubt it's gonna be a problem#he sent me the link a while back when i asked about it and he was cringing at his old writing style so bad LMAO. i thought it was cute :]#whenever i read his essays without his voice and video editing in the bg he reminds me a lot of how pre fame toby fox wrote#answered asks
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NEWSIES TWITTER PT.6
#my dog was staring at me strangely as i made these#if it was meant as judgement or not is beyond me-#but yes#we're onto pt6#how crazy#anyways look its my favourite gang of hooligans#newsies#uksies#newsies twitter#ralbert
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ppl who watched s1 while it was airing with the framework of sam being the main character...........i would like 2 study you bc i do not understand
#but at the same time. the beauty of what makes dean soo interesting IS that he wasn't the main character at first#he was just the fun sidekick w/ a heart of gold and more going on beneath the surface#which makes u. intrigued by him#makes u want him more#every ep i'm like. ok but tell me abt dean#and the crazy thing is. so many early eps are focused on revealing things abt dean by paralleling him to ppl in the cases#like sam's stuff is just. handed to us bc he's the main character. he's coping w/ jess's death he's having dreams he wants to find john#but dean is like. we gotta dig. we gotta go meta to understand him. and that's just. soo fun and delicious 2 me#he is our subtext boy. he has always been our subtext boy. everything abt him is subtext and it's still 100% real#bc since day one that's how we're meant to read him#anyways. re-falling in love w/ dean don't mind me<3#vic.txt#vics spn rewatch
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royal benders takeover
i would sell my soul to have an episode where toph gets her life changing field trip with zuko. let the two royals bond over the unfortunate reality of being royals
#zuko#toph beifong#atla fanart#avatar the last airbender#sonadire#let toph say fuck#i dont know how tumblr works#so this was posted elsewhere#but now itshere and we're going to pretend i meant to do that all along#avatar the last airbender fanart
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