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dartty · 7 months

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Birthday

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egophiliac · 8 months

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I was wanting to try doing an art piece in the style of the signature spell poster art pieces you create. But I’m not really the best at coming up with a composition for such a thing.

Do you have a process for how you come up with the compositions for them?

oh, awesome! it is an INCREDIBLY enjoyable style to work in; I hope you have fun with it! :D

I'm not great at putting my thought/art process into words, so my apologies if this doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'll try! my first step is always to do a LOT of thumbnails to figure out both the idea and how I want to show it; not trying to do a real sketch or anything, just little doodles to figure out what exactly I'm trying to portray. (I also call these "garbage passes" because they're not meant to be any good, they're just there to throw things out. aha. ha. ...anyway.) I think it's important during that first stage to really focus on the idea and the layout and not to get too bogged down in the actual drawing yet!

I tend to save my final thumbnails, so I'll use 'em as examples (I posted the ones up through episode 5 here if you're interested!) (and, uhhh, spoilers through episode 5 also in this post, hopefully that won't be an issue!)

the main thing I try to think about in composition is balance -- not necessarily in terms of symmetry, but in where each element is placed and how much space it's taking up. remember, empty space is still space! it's also really important to think about the parts that don't have anything in them, as much as the parts that do!

personally, I like to divide things up roughly by both halves and by thirds -- there's a lot more in-depth info out there on why the "rule of thirds" in particular works well visually, but in short, our brains tend to focus on things that are placed closer to imaginary division lines, instead of in the exact center of an image. so even when I'm doing something that is very centered and symmetrical, I try to keep that in mind and generally aim around those for landmarks like faces/eyes (or...where they would be, anyway) and other focal points.

it's not a formula of "the character's face should be in this division of this grid" or anything, more like "our minds like to focus on these areas, let's think about how to use that", if that makes sense! and of course rules are made to be broken, art is lawless anarchy, and so on. but it can be a good starting place for deciding where you want to put things!

(blue - thirds, red - half)

and against the finished versions, because they do usually end up changing a lot (including the empty space of the border):

(...these actually lined up a lot better than I thought they would. :') it makes me look like I do things way more intentionally than I do.)

other stuff I just try to keep in mind is that our eyes like following arcs and paths, which can be a good way to guide the eye:

and frame and control the focus:

honestly, composition is one of those things I feel like I struggle with a lot, so I'm not sure how much of this is helpful or actually makes sense outside of my head. but hopefully it helps a little! it's all just stuff to think about while drawing and not anything hard-and-fast, so don't, like, stress out about making sure things are lining up exactly on the thirds or anything. again, it's more "our brains think these are the dopest parts of the rectangle" than anything else! take advantage of the cool parts of the rectangle!

NOW GO HAVE FUN DRAWING seriously though, it is always super cool that other people like this idea and style enough to want to do it themselves and for other/their own characters! thank you! ❤️❤️❤️

#art #sketch #twisted wonderland #...technically i guess? it's not about twst but there is twst art present anyway #i did have a few more examples but then i wasn't sure if you were cool with episode 7 spoilers. whoops. 🫠#many other people have explained the rule of thirds and directional flow way better than me and i apologize #it is so hard to put things into words i am so sorry #me: the...you know...the lines...they sort of converge? like a triangle?#the internet: mm-hmm. yes. go on.#me: (sweating) the...the triangle points here...because it...it has a point.#the internet: it's doing better than you are then #genuinely shocked at how well some of these line up though #uh. i mean. actually it was all totally intentional and i put actual thought into it! NOT an accident at all!#my eyes darting back and forth shiftily are just ✨following the paths✨

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coquelicoq · 4 months

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i still can't really have a conversation in french but i can read the french dictionary and i can translate 18th-century treatises on mollusks from french. that should count for something.

#-me to me after totally wiping out in conversation class #whatever!! i'm in conversation class to get better at conversation not because i'm already good at it!#<-repeating this to myself ten times a day #some of my classmates however. now those SOBs can converse. can they ever. you wouldn't believe #the conversations these assholes are having in front of me and trying to engage me in #such as 'where do you live?' and 'what do you do for exercise?'#and then i'm also supposed to think of questions to ask them. unfortunately when this happens i can't think of a single question #that has ever been posed in the history of human interaction #'do you like...uhhh...[sweating and eyes darting around] calendars?'#except i forget the word for calendar and say a made-up word #(this exact scenario has not occurred but in the broad strokes it is accurate and in the particulars it is only a matter of time)#every time someone asks me a question i want to say 'thanks for your question! you can expect a response in 2-3 business days.'#for some reason this is frowned upon however.#french

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tj-crochets · 2 months

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so in the past I have made themed gifts for people who have helped me* and it's been a little weird but like. Understandable to the person I am gifting the thing to weird? My current problem is that I want to make something for my endocrinologist because he has improved my quality of life hugely** but endocrinology doesn't have an easily themed gift and my endocrinologist reminds me very very strongly of like a sad greyhound or a whippet but I cannot explain to this very nice, very normal man that "hey I made you a plushie of a dog because I wanted to thank you for the steroids and you remind me of a dog. In a good way!" *like teeth plushies for the dentist who helped me figure out I have to have dental anesthetic without epinephrine in it, or a chicken plushie for the people at the chicken restaurant that went the extra mile to get their ingredients list that were the reason I figured out I'm allergic to coconut **I had what would have been a severe allergic reaction and it wasn't pleasant but I didn't end up in the hospital and I didn't take like a week minimum to recover and

#the person behind the yarn #I realize this is a problem of my own making #and that I very much do not need to make my endocrinologist anything #but it's such a HUGE difference in my life #he really does have like sad dog energy idk how to describe it #he wears very nice flannel shirts that I am slightly envious of because I'd never seen a blue and orange flannel before #and is like somehow even more obviously unthreatening than I am #like. I have PTSD. Had PTSD? Have? Not sure how to word that #I have worked through most of my major PTSD triggers but one thing that still gets me is people touching my neck #to the point where I have like flinched off the medical bed darted across the room kinda avoidance in previous medical appointments #I can mostly manage to sit still and let doctors touch my neck if I see it coming but I always flinch and I always hate it #and this guy is so incredibly unthreatening I didn't flinch at all and didn't even notice it was weird I didn't react negatively #until after I'd left his office #I am also (usually) seen as very unthreatening but mine is something I worked on deliberately for a while #(when I was working with toddlers) and also is made easier by the fact that I am very short and look younger than I am #idk how to describe how much this dude reminds me of a greyhound. WAIT NO he reminds me of a borzoi!#the wizard version of a greyhound

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amoralmorel · 5 months

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listen. i need markings like perhaps that of a poisonous frog that indicate to the world that i am aroace. because. well. i do not wish to be apostrophized by people with intentions.

#me.txt #ace #aro #not to mention i am bad at catching the intentions until it is too late #so like pls #for my sake and all of gods creations’#give me the frog markings #anyway just googled poison dart frogs and learned the word aposematic #cool word i like it

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bubmyg · 7 months

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anyway i reiterate the cheesy as fuck sentiment abt having grown up with jeongguk like once a month but hearing him describe how his growth has been a process and he has so many factors to account for in whatever that shift may be just made me sit and reminisce a little like i too cant pinpoint a particular moment as a fan and at the same time, the shy youngest who barely spoke in interviews that i felt instantly adoring to doesn’t feel disconnected or surprising from the soft spoken but quietly confident man i continue to adore today. like there wasn’t some drastic image shift. jeongguk has just been jeongguk, at least as long as ive known him, and i think that’s what makes him so easy to love and root for. i’ve never doubted his sincerity and i think that’s one of his strongest traits as a vocalist: he’s believable and he’s genuine and he’s so passionate abt the art of performing and improving. he so ardently is my forever singer and i continuously feel quite inspired by his growth that has never quite come without an equal, if not greater, amount of suffocating love and tenderness. i greatly appreciate that i have been able to “grow up” loving jeongguk

#head in hands he’s made me tender on main again #anyway i just throw words at a dart board and hope they form something semi coherent #bc i love him a lot and after six years i admittedly lose ways to articulate it 😭

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radioves · 2 years

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its quite shrimple actually

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watcheraurora · 7 days

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"Tango noises" are really hard to try and spell sometimes

#somebody shoot me in the forehead with a Nerf dart. maybe it'll make my brain work #Random Rora #Even Ice Walls Fall Down #(well. the sequel anyway. working on it)#*Tango voice* Words Are Hard #TangoTek #Tango Tek

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codacheetah · 9 days

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Nobody told me the price of having a lot of dialogue of one character near memorized would be that I will have to battle the urge to be extremely fucking annoying about them

#I don't even claim to be like. A Loop Scholar I think there are absolutely people with better reads on their character #I'm a Loop archivist. A Loop scribe #but every time i see ppl say something mildly off color abt loop i'm like tch. do these guys not have all of the loop chats memorized #fucking nerds.#(words of the deranged) you guys should go count how many times loop says they're here to help or they asked to be here!#and for every time they say something to this effect with an L_fake portrait be sure to throw a dart through your computer monitor #I'm just kidding. I don't actually know the number because my spreadsheet is not done.

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dwellordream · 3 months

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"According to Brother Louvel, Naamah was filled with a mystic purity of spirit when she went to the King of Persis, and when she lay down with strangers in the market. But that is what they say at Gentian House, and not at Alyssum, where they say she trembled to lay aside her modesty, nor at Balm, where they say she came in compassion. I know, for I listened to the adepts talk. At Bryony, they say she made a good bargain of it, and at Camellia, that her perfection unveiled left him blind for a fortnight, which led him to betray her out of uncomprehending fear. Dahlia claims she bestowed herself like a queen, while Heliotrope says she basked in love as in the sun, which shines on middens and kings' chambers alike. Jasmine House, to which I would have been heir, holds that she did it for pleasure, and Orchis, for a lark. Eglantine maintains she charmed with the sweetness of her song. What Valerian claims I know not, for of the two Houses that cater to tastes with a sharper edge, we heard less; but I heard once that Mandrake holds Naamah chose her patrons like victims and whipped them to violent pleasures, leaving them sated and half-dead."

Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

#jacqueline carey #kushiel's dart #word to the wise #literature

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dartty · 3 months

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SORA AMIIBO

#word dart

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rosaacicularis · 1 year

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which was more culturally significant, the renaissance or hermitgang

#it all started when grian touched my redstone he played himself like a xylophone set on automatic doc monster is a savage with technical #skills and crazy vocal acrobatics i’m a legend of the nho with etho beef and double o docmc is coming for you seven fold i got rendog and #other firemen to douce the flames that you shoot at this leviathan iskall can try again you think i’m in hiding i’m just biding my time #putting pen to paper coming up with rhymes were the star studded group got together just to crush you once we start something you know were #going to see it through i’m the knight the soldier who brings the fight at first light y’all had to incite so now i gotta indict you’re #guilty of getting murdered with words y’all are outgunned go home nerds hermitgangx16 if you think you can stop the symmetry that’s false #gteam is dialling for help but i’m in ignoring their calls and when their bodies dissolve you know that false’s on a killing spree try to #stop my pvp and perish painfully i’m the queen of hearts heads and body parts your diamond armour can’t compare to my martial arts i’ll #send a poison dart to make you breath your final breath gteams name will be the only thing left caffeinated animated redstone innovator my #behaviour’s crazy can’t phase me impulse is never lazy tango why would you betray now my scope is aiming better run from cover from all the #ghast balls that i be taming without a sound without no hesitation my creations are amazing better watch your step or the gteam will end up #blazing whos the better team there is no controversy but before it’s said and done y’all be begging us for mercy hermitgangx16 x gone give #it to ya i’m gone give it to ya x gone give it to ya what lyrical boxing dropping blows on all my foes and the gteam they’re looking #unclean needing some sunscreen burnt by words this herd of nerds it’s ubsurd how my rhymes got them injured danger danger i got lasers to #cut them up like razors it’s flexing season and i got flavour their weak defenses like trenches and fences that these dense heads are #presenting they’re presenting them alright they’re not very good i could walk over them i could jump over them i could use an ender pearl i #could use my elytra come one gteam geez hermitgangx16 now i’m back and i got some things i wanna say what’s the letter that starts the #alphabet a ladies get it line the diggity be on the way cleo don’t know who she freaking with all the signs say to notify her next of kin #this digitty dog be dropping bombs nothing but hits spit that line again brrr cause the message is i could mumble rap and still be the best #there is hermitgangx16 oh you wanted me to do a verse i’ll have to check with gteam i mean i’ll have to check my schedule to see if i can #see if i’m able to do that sort of thing busy guy lots of things to do oh do averse bananas do a verse bananas i just don’t know if it’s a #good idea for me to a part of this song really #i just typed all of that out from memory im a little bit insane i think

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gumy-shark · 7 months

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how sad that no one hates you enough to send you a hate anon :( you really gotta step up your game

i’m gonna count this as anon hate bc i think this is the most devastating thing you could’ve possibly said to me

#ask!!#anon ask!!#anon hate #like should i post about mumbo jumbo/joe biden among us pregnancy or something?#(<- just mentally threw darts at a board and said random terrible words)

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deamare · 7 months

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lyssamania: the irrational fear that someone you know is angry with you.

obscure sorrows

Some days you are the world's very center.

Adorned with jewels and showered with praise; you are a goddess. You are because he tells you so, because he smiles as he watches your handmaid clasp his latest gift around your throat. It's a pretty thing -- heavy and expensive -- and you know mother will be overjoyed when she sees it.

And you are overjoyed too, because you know this means that he loves you.

It means he loves you even when, on other days, you are no longer a goddess but instead just a girl. On days where he looks through instead of at you, when he is bored of decorating you with gold. Those are the days that his love weighs at your wrists like fetters, that it tightens around your throat and threatens your very breath.

You know to be quiet these days, to fade into the background and to do nothing but what you are told. It is better that way, because love only hurts when you give it a reason to. Somewhere you fell out of line, you are sure. Somewhere you asked for this ache.

You tell yourself it will not happen again, swear that you will give your love no more reason to twist the knife it has buried in your heart. Though you know it will twist anyway, know it will carve deeper and deeper still no matter your efforts.

And you do not mind, because love that hurts is better than none at all.

#♡. — 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 #i think i've said it before but more often than not i feel like im jsut throwing darts at a prompt and hoping to god one lands LMAO #anyway. i figured this being an ask from julius meant an appropriate time to word vomit about him #hopefully i did not completely butcher his vibes god bless america #if this feels scattered and nonsensical its because i took a twenty minute break between each paragraph for some fucking reason

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dirtbra1n · 2 years

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if you’d asked tashiro gonzaburou maybe two years ago if he likes boys, he’d have probably told you something like, “don’t think so,” and asked you in turn, minutes later, if you wanted to go do karaoke.

if you asked tashiro gonzaburou maybe like right now if he likes boys, he. well. did you know that no one knows like… anything about themselves? tashiro gonzaburou didn’t know that.

about that other question though. he’ll get back to you on that. it’s kind of complicated. in the meantime, it’s like this:

it’s third year. his class is fired up over the culture festival. tashiro is sitting at his desk, hands on his cheeks.

“so it’s going to be miyano again, right?”

“it is absolutely going to be miyano.”

he is pouting. doesn’t anyone realize how left out he feels? kuresawa isn’t even in their class anymore, the traitor, why can’t tashiro be the runner-up girl?

miyano catches his eye. “if I can’t get a girlfriend,” tashiro says to him, feeling a little scorned, “I might as well be a girlfriend. right?”

miyano looks as if he’s seen god.

kuresawa, sensing opportunity in that way he does, slides to a halt in front of their door.

“tashiro, look here,” he says. tashiro does. kuresawa’s phone camera shutters. he doesn’t look up from his phone as he announces, “my girlfriend thinks you’d be pretty as a girl.” he does look up from his phone, though, to add, “but you wouldn’t be as pretty as her.”

tashiro’s pout worsens. he clenches his eyes shut. “go back to your class already!” he wails. “you traitor!”

miyano, unperturbed by the exchange, continues standing as if he’d seen the light of heaven. he flips his phone open and types fervently.

this was, in retrospect, a red flag that went tragically unnoticed.

when tashiro opens his eyes next, hanzawa masato is looking down at him.

tashiro falls out of his chair.

mind you, he doesn’t stay there very long. it’s too late for him to hide, so he instead moves to stand and situates himself in a defensive stance. hanzawa senpai continues standing right where he was, holding a pair of bags in either hand.

it would come to tashiro’s attention, much later than any of his other classmates, that he’d been invited to play stylist again.

it is right about then that shirahama materializes in the doorway. he is holding a bag of miscellaneous supplies that he was sent off to retrieve. it sways forebodingly. tashiro can still only imagine what the scene laid out in front of him must have looked like: tashiro gonzaburou ready to fight for his life, hanzawa masato senpai standing menacingly armed with two handfuls of mystery bags. miyano as well.

a layer of misfortune that tashiro hadn’t anticipated: shirahama knows that things are kind of complicated. shirahama knows exactly how things are complicated. shirahama’s brain is rotted by girl games.

shirahama, thusly, probably sees before him a scene of jealousy and confrontation. and miyano is there as well.

kuresawa reappears in the doorway. “hanzawa senpai, could you actually help me with my makeup first?” he asks. shirahama visibly grits his teeth, waiting. “I want to send a picture to my girlfriend.” he falls to the floor in his agonized bachelorhood.

hanzawa senpai steps over his corpse on his way out.

tashiro collapses bonelessly back into his seat. miyano joins him and starts reading one of his manga. tashiro peeks over his shoulder, every so often, because he’s curious.

a few minutes pass like that.

tashiro’s phone buzzes. text from kuresawa. ‘senpai has a wig for you. come here.’ tashiro leaves miyano sitting there, listening with suspicious eyes as shirahama laments to him from the floor about his agonies.

hanzawa senpai’s eyes, meanwhile, are just as unreadable as ever.

he says to tashiro, lilted, unreadable, “take a seat, tashiro-kun.”

kuresawa’s blocked off the door with his body when tashiro turns to flee. kuresawa is a bad person.

tashiro sits, and closes his eyes, and waits. when he feels hands moving his head around, he squints just to check that it isn’t kuresawa. his eyes fall closed again.

this is hardly the first time senpai’s hands have been on his face, anyway. tashiro can’t stress enough how kind of complicated everything is.

tashiro wakes up a while later to find hanzawa senpai sitting across from him. he’s talking to miyano, who looks thrilled at the end product. kuresawa stands at the ready with his phone. shirahama is, startlingly, maybe five centimeters from his left cheek.

for the second time that day, tashiro falls out of his chair.

kuresawa orates in a dull voice, “no, young lady, you have to be more careful than that…” ka-chick.

kuresawa is a very bad person.

then again, hanzawa senpai is laughing breathlessly above him, so he’s probably no saint either.

tashiro stands up, straightens his clothes. kuresawa shows him the photo he just took, and—

“oh, I’m pretty, huh?”

hanzawa senpai rests his head on his hand to look at him.

kuresawa, perpetually unsubtle, says, “miyano, come with me to wash your face. shirahama, you too.”

he drags them away. only tashiro watches them leave.

it seems like tashiro missed the golden hour, because the room is rapidly sinking into shades of emotive blues.

hanzawa senpai still hasn’t really said anything to him, is still just looking at him. he’s smiling, sort of, but his eyes betray nothing.

that in itself sort of says everything tashiro feels like he needs to know, though.

“so,” tashiro says, just barely pushing the limits of acceptable volume for the atmosphere, “I really look like a girl, right?”

hanzawa senpai hardly gets to open his mouth before shirahama comes barrelling in a craze through the door. hanzawa senpai takes that as his cue to leave.

he looks meaningfully at tashiro one last time, smiling faintly—halfway amused, the other half veiled behind the same telling unreadability as before—before collecting his bags and smiling broader, lips curling upwards. he floats into the hallway, now being lit with makeshift lanterns for what tashiro can only assume is vibes, and calls, “miyano-kuuun.”

shirahama lurches where he stands. tashiro frowns displeasedly at him.

“ugh, don’t do that. you look too much like a girl.”

tashiro fluffs the wig on his head and pouts instead.

shirahama groans.

echoing down the hall, distant now, they hear again, “mi—ya—no—kuuun.”

“…you two are so weird.”

tashiro startles a little. “what’s it to you,” he asks.

“nothing, I guess.”

silence settles.

“I lied. is this gonna be another thing you make me deal with?”

tashiro groans.

#tashiro gonzaburou #hanzawa to tashiro #been twenty something days. finally scrounge up Words #someone give me a high-five for managing to write this without falling into the prose pit #not that i don’t like the prose pit. but you understand #i have bestowed upon tashiro Gender. a great honor #no one’s told miyano about the situation by the way. not maliciously but. well you get it #things that have gone unsaid. and interruptions. and the limited third person omniscient perspective.#kuresawa being an awful and good friend. and so on #as per usual am going to tack on tags at the end like darts #sasaki to miyano #hirano to kagiura #because i forget. i always forget #dirtbrain writing

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katyspersonal · 1 year

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Doll’s creator might not even been Gehrman??

Honestly though, the idea that it was Moon Presence who created the Doll like that is so frikin good as well, and it works too?

- Lore never mentions WHO created the Doll by the name or the status, every description only says ‘doll’s creator’ (!)

- Doll does bleed paleblood, so that’s at least a hint on what animates her, so is this a far stretch that she just made the whole creature altogether?

- Wishing for comfort, warmth and support ‘albeit in vain’ could have referred to Moon Presence’s failure to force a genuine love for her into a creation; meanwhile Doll does mention that thing about creation by gods

- ‘Mania’ link doesn’t exist; “his curious mania” is mistranslation of “madness of his curiousity” and the mania put into creation of Doll’s clothes refers to being absorbed in work, so what if it was her who got so lost into getting to design something like this? (retranslation document: ( x ))

- Doll’s purpose is stated to serve the hunters and the Hunter’s Dream, she is like Gehrman but is more perceived as one of the tools (to channel blood echoes)... and, well, Moon Presence does govern the dreaming hunters... It is not far stretch to assume that most of the hunters visiting the Dream are hetero males, so it is very palatable that Moon Presence simply used her most barebones idea of ‘a woman’, that will be comforting for ‘men’. I mean, a being of entirely different and superior plane of existence could very well interpret humans through stereotypes and basic ideas. Heck, some humans also do it xD

- Making the Doll look like Maria could be her awkward attempt to make Gehrman happy, to honor Maria as one of the most “useful” hunters (to perpetuate the cycle of beasts, hunting and GOs’ worship), or both

- For someone who supposedly created the Doll as either an unhealthy grief reaction and clinging for happier, simpler times before Maria’s hunter arc, or dreaming about better life, is not it... strange that he never mentions Maria, even when he is sleeping? He seems to care about Laurence more, in fact. So what if he did not care about her to SUCH big extent as to create a doll of her?

- Would resolve big immersion break when you find doll’s clothes in the chest rather than pick them from the “real world” doll; maybe Moon Presence saved extra copy of the dress just in case if someone ever loves Gehrman and wants to join the Dream. Like maybe she has whole one (1) idea for what such people would want to wear.

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I think there are still a few sticks in the wheel here. Like how someone who cared about hair ornament had to be a real person. But even then, could’ve been Maria herself, maybe she just really fucking loved that hair ornament a lot. And also that Doll sleeping is odd but finding Maria asleep too could explain it; that when one of them is asleep another is awake, and vice-versa, but neither remembers what’s in another one’s realm. (and they also have the same voice, in Japan too - it’s Saori Hayami!)

But honestly, this is such a.... how do I put it, sparing theory? Forgiving one? It is basically “nobody was weird, it was just a god that doesn’t know much of humans’ complexity beyond just what they want from them”. Yet again, Miyazaki put the story in such a way that opens SO many opportunities for interpretation?

#bloodborne #moon presence #plain doll #bloodborne theory #(more like 'bloodborne potential intepretation')#like i said i am basically rom who keeps catching 500000 information with those constantly darting eyes #talking with me about bloodborne is a dangerous game because even one word could spawn another theory #it will always bother me that miyazaki HAS a clear lore idea but just refuses to tell us tho #but when even 'wrong' idea can seem very right that's how you know you written the story perfectly

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