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NONE OF YOU ARE EXEMPT FROM THIS 🫵

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stop signs grow out of the ground like sunflowers and they are watered by blood they want you to Pick Them and Use Them As A Weapon Of Blunt Force thisis something yyou need to do. You need to do this

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see madcom has genuinely got to be one of my favorite ways a story, or fictional world, has ever been told. krinkels has fucking MASTERED the art of environmental storytelling- i think my favorite example is Mag Agent Torture, a character who could easily just be a big baddie for Hank to fight, but bears some pretty grim implications about their own past & existence if you're really paying attention. it goes like

•they have weird spikes stuck in their head and a cool name

•oh, wait. those spikes kind of look like the ones auditor uses to punish dissenters, seen in the background of several episodes, don't they?

•then the torture focused Incident reveals in their internal monologue that "their disharmony is my pain", implying in some way that torture carries the burden of suffering for the entire agency

•oh. dissenter spikes and that knowledge in mind, and the name Torture. did something happen to this guy. Were they always like that? is auditor punishing them in some way?

like, idk. krinkels is just very good at knowing exactly what to elaborate on and what to leave nebulous- giving hofnarr & jeb proper backstories & explanations for how they got that way in mpn doesn't really end up removing any character agency or weight of the mystery behind their actions, it just characterizes them more thoroughly & makes them more compelling overall. meanwhile refusing to elaborate in a clear cut way on whatever the fuck is going on with Hank keeps them a nebulously terrifying force, just as they're perceived in-universe- i think if we ever did get a straight answer for why Hank is the way they are without it being vital info for the conclusion of the series, it'd just kind of fall flat and kill the wiggle room your mind has for working with them

some things in worldbuilding are more fun and interesting when they have more thorough explanations, and some of them aren't. it very heavily relies on the context and level of plot relevance of the information itself- you can't just spoonfeed everything to the audience, they have to be able to make their own takeaways of course! but you can drip-feed them in small enough increments about inconsequential enough things that it still ultimately gives them a rich and fascinating array of information to work with.

idk. madcom the animated series is primarily very good at this bc of it's lack of dialogue, but mpn dodged a HUGE bullet in destroying this method with the way the story is framed- ultimately it ends up being exactly like a very long, playable version of one of the animated "incidents", because of how inconsequential it ends up being to the main story. it gives us MASSIVE insight into how the world works and what goes on in the background of it, but is far enough removed from the main plot that we don't end up sitting through the characters literally just grabbing us by the shoulders and spoiling the entire mystery of the series through soliloquy.

i think it's cool!!! i think it's really fucking cool and really masterfully done!!! and its one of the many many reasons i adore this series as much as i do. Muah

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one of my favorite personal hcs for madcom is that in the episode sanford & deimos first appear in, that was

1. their first, official mission for status quo, still fresh out of the AAHW

2. their first time meeting Hank as a coworker

because. Oh my god. can you FATHOM the comedic potential of that situation. hank is literally Jeff the Killer to them. like agents are born to die at his hand. That is their entire life purpose. and here this asshole is and he's their COWORKER and they have to DELIVER A WEAPON TO HIM. like. GOOD MORNING???

i don't even think doc told them who they were delivering to. i don't think they knew,or really thought about the fact that hank was affiliated with status quo when they were taken in by them- it was just smt they never rly considered for one reason or another, they were too busy worrying about NOT getting their asses impaled for dissenting.

And doc was just like. Oh my god. You know what would be literally the funniest thing I could possibly do to these agent freshies. can you IMAGINE it for me. can you IMAGINE

#pory turgles #madcom #madness combat #deimos voice UHH DOC BUDDY WE.GOT A PROBLEM #they come back like ARE YOU INSANE??? HE COULD'VE HANK THE J'D US #deimos voice WHAT IF HE CAN STILL SMELL THE AGENCY ON MEEEEEE

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SO I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW I WANT TO STRUCTURE MY NEVADEANS, LIKE, ANATOMICALLY. ive always had a vague idea in my head BUT what always gave me the most trouble was the legs.

THAT BEING SAID, HERE'S TWO DIAGRAMS OF A MORE "BIOLOGICALLY ACCURATE" NEVADEAN THAN MY USUAL STYLE- ONE LABELLED, ONE NOT!

they r STRANGE critters. used mainly rabbits, penguins and horses for reference here figuring out the legs/paws... im MAD proud of this though, i think it looks really fucking fun n im excited to experiment w incorporating it into my style in the future

ALSO, IMPORTANT INFORMATION: THEY DO, IN FACT, POSSESS THE RIGHT RANGE OF MOTION TO LOAF.

it's considered a little rude to just Do it anywhere since it's such a comfortable position- its like kicking your feet up on your desk in the middle of an office, yk?

side note: shld i make a tag dedicated to my nevadean specbio to make it easier to find? I feel like i shld maybe do that. scratches my big noggin

#pory turgles #madness combat #madcom #madness project nexus #project nexus #madcom fanart #madness combat fanart #specbio #nevadean specbio

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flies when they land on a rotting corpse

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If i see one more hazbin hotel on my dash im going to crawl into a furnace ITS NOT THAT GOOD OF A SHOW ITS NOT THAT FUCKING GOOD VIVZIEPOP IS A FREAK STOP SHOWING ME THIS FUCKING SHOOOWWW!!!!!! 👎👎👎👎👎👎

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crakcpot ha s. hip dips btw fuck you fuck your mama

#pory turgles #madcom #ineed more people tod raw him as literally anything otber than Rail Thin Twink it drives me insane

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im so tired of the tboi tags constantly being full of grown ass adult versions of the characters who r treated as completely separate entities from isaac. like god bless good on you for writing Bible fanfiction but that is literally, unexaggeratedly what you're doing at this point- the thematics of the game are so intrinsically tied to Isaac being a child experiencing horrific trauma and processing it with his child baby brain, that pretty much 90% of these aus just end up completely discarding everything that makes the game interesting at all. like. idk. im not The Fun Police, i just think maybe you guys should start making ocs or something if you're not gonna actually give the game itself any thought & are just taking the characters' designs to do your own thing with them

#pory turgles #the point of tboi is that its a very open to interpretation game but like #but like. #with all these 'adults who actually literally have nothing to do with isaac himself' aus #you aren't hardly INTERPRETING anything except for characters & personalities #and it's just. so. bbghhbgjhnhhjhjjngjj

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hey dude re: everyone malding about subspace being "an abuser", have you never fucking been abused before?? abusers are PEOPLE. you cannot be serious right now. abusers aren't just magically scum of the earth in every aspect, anyone has the potential to be an abuser. even YOU!!! ESPECIALLY YOU, READING THIS RN!!!! You cannot be ripping sodas throat out about portraying a character with flaws, who is a shitty person, and that's exactly what you're doing right now. it's kind of fucking disgusting. you have to chill the fuck out. i KNOW y'all are twitter mfs too just by your goddamn media comprehension.

artists are people. devs are people. You need to learn boundaries. you need to learn some fucking respect. the things they make are their own, they're not fucking making shit purely to cater to you and they are under zero obligation to heed to your specific likes and comforts. characters in media can be morally grey, do shitty things, just like real life people! y'know what's fucking abusive?? clubbing someone over the head who makes the thing you like just because you personally were taken aback by a creative choice they made!!!!

tldr get the fuck over your moral purity bullshit with the subspace situation and leave soda alone. characters are allowed to be portrayed as morally grey, abusers are human beings, let it be the fucking end of it and for the love of GOD get off sodas fucking back and learn some fucking boundaries!!!! people like you are killing the creative drives of the artists you claim to praise. it's disgusting.

#pory turgles #phighting! #phighting #subspace phighting #maintagging this bc i NEED it to get through peoples fucking heade #heads* #i really really hate the way you people have been treating the devs so far #and if you wanna see this project go ANYWHERE you HAVE to lay off them before you wring them fucking dry

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DID SOMEONE SAY "ENOT". PLEASE HAVE MY ENOT TAKE I INSIST

more or less in my beautiful mind rainworld arena mode is like VRchat for iterators- it's an online simulation that allows them to interface with eachother using generated purposed organism "avatars". it was supposed to be for collaborative testing and simulations, but now that the ancients are gone (and frankly before they were) Iterators were using it as a glorified social media to hang out with eachother and goof around. one such iterator was Eclipsed Night Over Treetops, who frequently used a generated avatar based on a melanistic slugcat they'd seen around their can every so often! in the middle of them goofing around something very sudden and catastrophic happened that completely killed them- their karma was shot out of their body and into the slug avatar, and they became more or less trapped in a broken version of the simulation projected by their own dying brain. ascension for them is effectively their only way to leave it- their ascension ending is, in my beautiful mind, them finally getting out and into the real world (though still permanently Weird & stuck as a slugcat)!

some misc doodles of me trying to figure out their design + one (1) anthro enny

#pory turgles #rain world #rain world enot #rain world inv #rain world fanart

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btw. in my beautiful soul sanmos is an Extremely queerplatonic thing. those boys never put a label on that shit bc they never even had to ask eachother, they don't care, they're bros, they're partners for life and it runs so much deeper than just being boyfriends, they're bound by blood and dissention and the targets on their heads and they're utterly stuck with eachother but they wouldn't have it any other way 💖

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sitting around in a blunt rotation with my friends going "This shit is gaaaasssssss" and coughing really hard but upon closer inspection the blunt is actually a hotdog with mustard and ketchup and relish we've all been taking bites of

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stop telling people to kill themselves online stop telling people to kill themselves online the SECOND you start suibaiting i genuinely don't give a fuck what your argument is you've lost my interest completely. STOP TELLING PEOPLE TO KILL THEMSELVES CONSIDER THE WEIGHT OF YOUR WORDS FOR FIVE FUCKING SECONDS YOU BRAINDEAD MORONS

#pory turgles #i hope this isnt aimed @ any of my followers EBDKRBFKN #i trust yall not to be fucking stupid but. Good god #its been getting so bad lately

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spiritual successor to the "i hope this email blows your tits clean off" picture (which, by the way, was my suggestion to trin)

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having an interesting realization rn. if my memory serves me right, and it should, that whole level towards the end of mpn that takes you on a tour of everything the Great Minds At Nexus are busy innovating never even once mentions the Enmeshment Program.

like, it even goes out of its way to mention the clone life insurance program, but like- not a single whiff of anything about jailbreaking the mortality loop or any exciting stuff like that you'd REALLY THINK a company like them would want to flaunt, right??

you can interpret this as you will, but what it means for my personal take on things is that it solidifies 2 ideas to me-

a) that crackpot's work was never finished, and An Army Of Mindless Zombies was never hys actual goal. hy wanted immortality, not... whatever zeds ended up as, which are VERY EASILY dispatched!! why would anyone looking for immortality settle for rotting bodies and declining cognitive function?? i think hy still talks hymnself up about how great and cool hys work was because hy has Literally nothing else to show for hys entire career & hy's angry and embarrassed about it so hy can't really just admit that hys entire career was a flunk, yannow? but i definitely don't think it was what hy was going for, and i don't think hy's ever been truly happy with the results. (i actually think hy has a horrifically guilty conscience about the state of zeds but that's for another ramble). and like, plus, why WOULD phobos advertise something that was unfinished to his investors?? like, it's not READY, and it looks TERRIBLE in the state it's in!!!

b) despite being Literal Insane People Talk and very clearly a bad idea, the enmeshment program was greenlit by phobos bc it made FANTASTIC busywork to keep crackpot out of his way. see, i don't think crackpot was apathetic to phobos's Project Gestalt related tomfoolery-- i think hy was genuinely too clueless and naïve to think His God Emperor Phobos could really pull something so horrifically evil out of his ass. i mean, the nexus charter was made to save the world, why would he wanna DESTROY it??? and with crackpot so worried abt hys own program- it would keep hymn very preoccupied, which means hy would have far less brain space to worry about asking questions or noticing weird little things that might potentially lead to hymn growing suspicious about phobos's real intentions. i do think phobos truly loves hymn, yes- but i also think phobos plays people like it's an Olympic sport, and is excellent at using blind loyalty to his advantage, and Crackpot is like, by far the most blindly loyal person at Nexus.

(also to be clear, i do think project kobold, the sleepwalker program and the seeking asylum were all similar tools to keep the head scientists busy and out of Phobos's way-- in tandem with the fact that he was able to get information out of them for his own work. jeb was the only one that didn't really fall for it LOL)

so like, tldr: enmeshment program was never actually advertised and to me this is because it was a dummy program to keep crackpot busy & out of phobos's hair, and also because it was never actually finished, and zeds were never supposed to be the end result, crackpot just acts like they were bc hy's angry and embarrassed about everything

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