my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

I’ve seen so many versions of the tma finale where Jon is a distorted thing with a bunch of eyes floating above the ground but hear me out:

The moment Jon becomes the pupil of the eye, he looks even more like himself than he’s looked in years.

I dunno I feel like the implications are kinda sick.

The Distortion,

Time to let Alexander J Newall lull me to sleep with the soothing sounds of a guilt ridden murderer slowly and agonizingly turning into a tree. 😌

Care to give a Statement?

I finally updated my helen design yippee🎉🎉 i put my notes and ramblings under the cut

(I've been waiting for ages to be able to talk about my distortion designs and the distortion in general so sorry if this gets a bit long.)

The distortion really interests me because of all the fears with prominent avatars, helen and michael appear to be (imo) the most inhuman, being reduced to mostly abstract concept but also somewhat devoid of free will, much like an animal. So when i draw them i try to emulate animal characteristics - the yellow eyes match the door but are also similar to cats or owls for instance (The kubrick stare i tend to give them does the same thing lol). The way the distortion feeds itself reminds me of a venus flytrap or a pitcher plant and i associate it very closely with naturalistic elements because of this, because of the fact that technically the distortion as a fear is thousands if not millions of years old, and because i like the contrast of something urban like a door surrounded by wildlife. Its curious and tempting and it doesnt make sense, which reflects the nature of the distortion itself. In the same way i like to give them facial features typically considered enticing or friendly - round faces, resting smiles, dimples, smaller eyebrows etc, but i always try to place them in the uncanny valley by extending the smile slightly too far and keeping the eyes wide open.

I liked this hairstyle for helen in particular because it feels almost like a halo and i like the comparison of certain fear avatars to deities. In general i draw helen happier than michael because she always seemed to revel in her nature (once she got past the initial feelings) more than michael did, but thats just a vibes thing.

(not a confession just a bit of a rant)

i think the tma/tmagp fandom needs to collectively realise that these are HORROR podcasts. and even if the episode or whatever doesn't scare you, it is made to be terrifying and will scare someone else. rusty quill puts content warnings in their episode descriptions for a reason.

tumblr has these handy content warning tags, and it takes about 2 seconds to add them to your post. so when you post art of an episode, chances are you should be adding a few content warnings there.

I saw it with art of needles for a bit, even though the fear of needles is actually quite a well-known phobia. Now i'm seeing it again with tmagp 11. I've seen several pieces of art and not one of them had any content warnings.

i really did not have a great time with tmagp 11's statement, and i really don't need to be reminded of that everytime i scroll through tumblr because nobody can be bothered to tag their posts.

it's not that hard. and just a little bit more effort might stop someone from accidentally coming across their worst fear.

also, and this is less of a pressing issue, maybe it isn't just art that should be tagged with tw. just the words are designed to be terrifying. so if you have quotes from episodes in a text post, quotes that are designed to provoke fear, tag that too.

(also, just because you don't know the name of a phobia, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. it just confuses me that we can all tag stuff for scopophobia and eye contact but not thalassophobia??)

(respond to this as honestly as you want, i don't care. i just wanted to share something that's been bothering me lately)

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Doorkeay doodle I made in school today while totally paying attention to the lesson

cant wait to listen to celia die in the most wonderfully horrific way possible :)

The beginning of mag 200 is so funny it's literally Jon coming there with badass music going like jonah magnus..... Time to pay for your crimes.... And elias just fell a 30 ft drop high as a kite hungover off his ass woozy as shit mascara smudged bedside hair like whah in the darnest boggin hen is going on my good fellow

You might be wondering hey mei do you have an artistic rendition of this and of course i do here goes

I've just finished rusty quill gaming today and have been working on this while I've been listening - I'm really really happy with this!!

i’ve seen a few people saying that because there was no glitch (glitches meaning lies) when Alice was saying she knows what is going on, she is masterminding the whole thing

now don’t get me wrong, she could be the mastermind for all I know but I don’t think the fact that there was no glitch means as much as we think as there isn’t a glitch every time someone lies (and there aren’t glitches when Alice makes her quirky quips)

i happen to be obsessed with dyhard right now

this is what happened to nigel dickerson btw. if you even care