#I'll probably have to edit this soon

[2x4plank]

Ooh, oh no... The hospital act of TLOU. I'm gonna be upfront: least favorite part of the game.

I really wanted to like it (of course I did; I paid $70 dollars for this game), but it never hit me as hard as all the other acts. With the acts that came before this one, I looked at all the little nuances in interactions between the characters, reading notes, looking at whatever's in Joel & Ellie's backpacks--just loving what this game fed to me.

But the hospital act felt rushed to me.

Let me start with my first, ongoing grievance: the Fireflies.

I get where they were going with this, the moral dilemma they were trying to set up: should Joel save his daughter at the cost of the world? But the Fireflies don't seem very smart. I won't even talk about the viability of them creating a vaccine (or cure, rather) with the fungus on Ellie's brain. For the purposes of this piece, the vaccine will 100% work. So where does that leave us now?

The Fireflies seem to have a streak of malpractice. At the University of Colorado, players will pick up recordings from a dead Firefly. Long story short, that Firefly released infected monkeys just...into the world. This same Firefly also talks about the long stretch of time (5 years) that passed between the last scientific breakthrough. This does not inspire confidence.

Fast forward to the hospital act. Two Fireflies encounter a man doing CPR on a child and they...knock him out with the butt of their guns? I'll clarify I have a personal vendetta against people that are particularly a part of an organization hitting people with the butt of their guns, but outside of that, this is stupid. Joel is clearly trying to resuscitate Ellie, so even if they "didn't know who [he] was", knocking him unconscious doesn't make sense.

And then Joel wakes up and Marlene drops the bomb that they're currently taking Ellie's brain out. Okay. That was very quick. I'm sure they had time to run several complete tests and cross their t's and dot their i's. It makes complete sense that in the time between Joel being brought to the hospital and regaining consciousness, they figured out that removing her brain was the best way to create that vaccine. I'm sure keeping Ellie alive would have absolutely no benefits and going straight to killing her is the best option.

Additionally, that one Firefly that eggs Joel on? What is with these guys and abusing their power? They can't compete with FEDRA on that front, but it's still bad.

Finally, I always wondered how they were going to distribute that cure to the greater public. They're quite ostracized by FEDRA, if I remember correctly, and creating a cure is only a part of a problem. It's not like the current government hasn't displayed a tendency to hog resources, so working with them seems like a no-go.

None of what we've seen of the Fireflies makes me think they're competent.

My second grievance is Marlene. I liked her at the start, but what we see in the last part soured me on her. She isn't very compassionate to Joel's situation, but he's grown and a murderer (of both baddies and innocents in his hunter days), so I don't have a problem with that. He's not the most compassionate either. It's moreover her claiming to have monopoly over caring about Ellie. Girl, what?

Of course, we saw little of Ellie and Marlene's relationship as a function of the game. It was about Joel and Ellie sticking together when their loved ones either died or, in the case of Bill, simply refused to come with them. Marlene passed her along, and we just kind of hear how Ellie cares about Marlene. We also receive letters and recordings about Anna and Marlene's relationship in the late game. I get why it is this way, as it sets up the player to care about Ellie just as Joel did, but I do wish we got to see some more of Marlene's relationship with Ellie.

My third grievance is this idea of choice. Ellie did not choose to die. We might have some idea of if she would (she's really happy to think of herself as the cure to all mankind), but she didn't and all throughout the game, there is this emphasis on continuing to survive. Finding a reason to keep going. I would not say that Joel took this choice away from her, because never was this dilemma presented to her. Joel woke up, found out they were going to murder Ellie, and intervened so that did not happen. You can't choose to do anything if you're dead.

And then Joel takes her to get some McDonald's...

The problem I see people take with Joel that I can actually understand is him lying to her. Him lying has the potential to completely blow up in his face, and this concerns not only the cure, but Marlene as well. I wholeheartedly agree with him saving her, but this is a bit more dubious.

But here's the thing: beyond his selfish reasons for doing so (such as absolving himself of guilt), Joel has some legitimate reasons to lie to her. First and firstmost, Ellie has been through a lot at an extremely young age. Seen a lot of loved one's die, carries some survivor's guilt along with that. She does not need or deserve to have "I could have saved the world, if only I died" hanging over her head. Ellie deserves a happy childhood--or a happy remainder of her childhood, because she lost quite a bit and had to deal with David, among other things. The damage this truth has the potential to do to her is reason enough to lie.

Second of all, she does not need to know that the same woman she probably came to see as a second mother was willing to put her to death on a doctor's word. I believe in science and medicine, but maybe get a second opinion on that?

So yeah... When it comes to Joel vs. the Fireflies, it's no contest to me.

I should add: I would've loved if at least one named POC character survived. Kind of crazy all of them died, and as a non-white player, it didn't escape my notice. It also made me sad when Henry wasn't mentioned among the people they lost. I mean, Henry did protect/look after Ellie during that short part in the sewer. I think he should've been mentioned.

#And also I'm not playing TLOU 2 #I just don't feel like it #tlou part 1 #tlou spoilers #tlou fireflies #tlou ellie #tlou joel #tlou marlene #2x4plank essay post #I'll probably have to edit this soon #I added something at the end #tlou critical #tlou hospital #tlou commentary

[dailyloopdeloop]

DAY 76: louis wain

#codacheetah #isat #loop isat #siffrin isat #louis wain #for all of my followers who are not well versed in Codacheetah Lore #which is to say probably about 98 percent of you. #i fucking love louis wain #i cant even make a joke abt 'if i had a nickel for every time i drew a wain cat meeting a kaleidoscopic wain cat i'd have 2 nickels' #bc i would have THREE nickels. and soon i'll have four. ive been wanting to draw a third part to my wain cats for over a year #i love his adorable normal cats and his beautiful kaleidoscopic cats #i'd go more into how much i love his psychedelic cats but then id start typing way too much defending a guy that died a century ago #isat spoilers #<- very funny post to get that tag i think #EDIT: THIS IS THE ONLY IMAGE I'VE EDITED AFTER THE FACT. but there was a minor mistake that was pissing me off #it's fine... the defective version will also circle around too i guess... ue ue ue

[icewindandboringhorror]

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#i feel like I posted this already but I also can't find it in any recent posts so... #......he #cats #EVEN if I did post it.. why not poast himb again? it's he #I'm like halfway through actually editing aforementioned costumes and stuff and i WANT to work on sculptures again and I have video #s and that worldbuilding slideshow and all of these things so hopefully like.. more usual stuff soon maybe.. to be posted #for now though yeah.. just cats #The end of the year is also when I panic about the passage of time and how little I've gotten done and how I will never actually be a #sucessful game maker slash author slash cat cafe owner slash set designer slash costume designer slash psychologist #who lives in like Scotland or somehting and also owns my own candle company or something ghbjhb #and will probably just be a mentally ill hermit recluse all my life who dies early of mysterious health issues with 5000 projects left #undone and blah blah the crushing weight of chronic illness and capitalism and so on and so forth #So then I scramble to get projects done to try and meet some goals but usually that means I scatter between projects #so it takes longer to finish all of them. Like instead of dedicating 8 hours to one thing and finishing it one sitting. I'll do 2 hours on #this then 2 hours on that then 2 hours on another things. so they all get done slower even though I'm still technically making progress on #them all. This is also a very poo poo pee pee stink brain way to work and is not like. the most efficent thing but it's just how my brain #organizes tasks sometimes lol #*** #(<ignore this its part of an OCD compulsion lol. anytime you see me type three asterisks I'm not bleeping out a curse word #it's just a Special Secret Foolish Thing I Have To Do At Specific Uncontrolable Times When Brain Says So gbjhhj) #ANYWAY... eeeee #Still haven't resolved my mystery chest injury though so being at te computer for too long is also kind of achey-inducing #Better get over it though because I have like 30+ hours of slideshow vidoe to edit hahaha hee hee hoo!!!!!

[egginfroggin]

Redraw of little thumbnail sketch 6 on doodle page 2 in this post.

(Program used: Krita; time taken: about 2 hours, 45 minutes)

#cryptid-flavored variant #wtst #cw blood #eggin creatin' #subway boss emmet #submas #he is having a bad time #is he suffering enough yet yes or no #I can make it worse #still probably going to be mostly reblogs for a while #but things have calmed a bit #so hopefully I'll be back at it again soon #thank you guys #edit: you know what screw it I love this face it's my ao3 pfp now woo

[pathetichoney]

[Image ID: A drawing of a selfie taken by Sam Manson with Damian Wayne. They are both dressed up in formal attire, Damian in a black/dark grey suit with a red tie, and Sam in a purple topped off the shoulder dress with black straps. She is wearing a variety of jewelry, a necklace with a bat pendant, a black choker with a star of david in a circle pendant and cartoonish spider shaped earrings. Her hair is reminiscent in her half-up hairstyle, but with two ponytails rather than one. The background is a dark wall, a white collumn and white tile flooring. There is a window in the back, with green curtains, and outside the window is a cityscape of Gotham at night. There is a watermark of the artist’s username in the top left corner @pathetichoney​. End ID.]

i am back on my bullshit this time with a v special new way that i’m drawing bc i got a new phone that i am paying out the wazoo for, however i can draw on it so my art has gotten significantly better. though of course i had to test myself and do both 1. a full background 2. a character who wears lipstick which i always struggle with unless their mouth is in a particular position and 3. a character that i have never ever tried to draw.

so like. rip me lol.

anyways i am back on my bullshit bc this is fanart of fanfic!!!! i always feel exactly in my element when i do this, it’s just always so good??? and fun?? and when i first read this fic, i mean oh god i just fell for it so hard. i ended up rereading it again like barely 48 hours after i’d finished reading it the first time lol

the fic in question is a damian and danny are twins au! it’s called Leap Before You Think by TourettesDog and i just-- the characterisations are just so well done it all feels incredibly natural especially with the merging of the two different universes into one cohesively and seamlessly it’s wonderful. there are a few faults with this pic i think, however i am still incredibly proud of it. as a bonus, here’s a better view of the window scene because i’m still really proud of that one:

#my art #danny phantom #batman #batfam #dp x dc #dp/dc #sam manson #damian al ghul wayne #fanfic fanart #also i am not jewish and i could not find a solid answer for this: but my intention w sam's choker necklace pendant was to be #the jewish star of david however when i looked online to find if i was right when i was doing the image id it was called a wiccan symbol? #as in the star of david in a circle and i couldn't find an answer to the question if they were two separate symbols or they're the same? #if this is NOT a jewish symbol then i can v easily change this and will make an edit for it even if it looks rather gothic for sam #i added the circle because the star that i'd drawn felt unfinished but i can v easily go back and add more detail to the star to remove it #as for damian i wish i could have accurately portrayed his murder scowl but due to my unfamiliarity with him i literally had to redraw him #like 10 times and i was v much relying on my friend to tell me exactly what i needed to adjust rip #in the end i gave up because this was the closest i could get to him and sigh oh well #i'll get it better next time i draw dp/dc stuff bc i probably will be doing it again soon lol #ALSO i am still v new to writing image ids so if there's any issues with this one please let me know!

[mattodore]

guy whose childhood drags behind him like a dead body

#river dipping #simblr #ts4 #ts4 edit #theodore doe #echthroi #i forgot to post this after sharing theo's birthday edit last night... listen i was so tired i just hit post and passed out #but so far today i've just been looking through character page themes for a bit and messing around with codes while watching dropout tv #i still need to get to my activity feed sometime today or tomorrow and then i want to set aside some time to just hang out on here #and catch up on things like i keep disappearing and missing out on posts jgkhjfnkh so i gotta do that... #but i'm actually fighting off the world's biggest nap rn..... my meds work really well but lord i'm still so tired all the time woof #so i'll probably end up caving soon lmao #but!!! anyway!! THEO!!! there was nothing i could do abt the proportions on theo as a kid like i couldn't make his head any smaller... #the sims team actually hate me so bad and are trying to force the huge cartoonishly big heads onto my sims </3 #also when i aged him down to a kid like all of his presets were gone so i just had to try and replicate them to the best of my abilities #his lip preset actually has a much deeper cupid's bow but thanks to the liquify tool <33333 it looks like his regular preset #i've actually posted teen theo on here before but i've made a ton of changes to him since then so this version is pretty different compared #to the older version of him at sixteen #he's definitely got more baby fat than he did before like his cheeks are pretty round #um. also i have these closeups i took of adult theo from the pose i made for his birthday edit that i gotta edit a lil and then post!!! #bc you really didn't get to see his expression or the actual pose that well and EYEEEE personally am really in love with the details #of the pose itself like ugh.......... theo is so.......................... yeah. #holds him

[soriastrider]

okay here's my boy :) pretty glowy alien dirk… i'll draw him a proper outfit later lol but for now here's his fancy alien anatomy, featuring wings, bioluminescence, and space limbs :D

#dirk strider #homestuck #my art #alien dirk #i have also been writing some fic nonsense for this au #gotta edit my first chapter since i came up with some proper plot/backstory stuff #but i'll probably post that sometime soon :)

[iolypse]

primarily english speaking qsmp members as D&D characters because I can't help but fuse both of my current fixations together

Philza — species for this one was tricky, class and subclass a little harder, but I ultimately decided on aasimar ranger (horizon walker). kept trying to pick between aasimar and air genasi, almost put air genasi because I felt like qfoolish fit aasimar better, but they can both be aasimar it's fine. by the time I finish writing this, foolish might not even be an aasimar anymore, im still thinking. regardless, qphil has always been a bit of a tactician and a bowman, hasnt he? classic traits of a ranger. from there, it felt like horizon walker was the only subclass that fit. protecting from otherworldly threats, preserving life and other planes. yeppp sounds like this paranoid motherfucker right here.

BadBoyHalo — now that's a tiefling if I've ever seen one. class is a little more complicated. I've deliberated between paladin and warlock before eventually settling on paladin, making him a tiefling paladin (ancients). I don't have to explain the tiefling part (have you seen his everything?), but the paladin part could use it. we're yet to really see qbad make any real deals with any powerful forces, so that took out the warlock part for me. I wanted to make sure he had at least a little bit of magic though (c'mon), so I immediately went to paladin, and it worked out. he's a dedicated man! he'll make a promise and he'll fuckin stick to it. I debated between devotion and ancients after that, but devotion tends to have a more lawful side, which ended with me choosing ancients. they fight the darkness because they love life, plain and simple, and you're dull if you can't see how much this dude loves life.

FitMC — alright, I'm sorry, I had to do it, but this is a human fighter (rune knight) right here. I simply couldnt see him as anything other than human, and rogue and artificer didn't fit since there's other characters that fit those classes so much better, so fighter it was. still, qfit has a lot of cool gadgets and bits and bobs, and I wanted to recognize that in this adaptation of him, so I decided to show that through the rune knight subclass. rune knight fighters can do a lot of cool shit with their runes, enhancing pretty much anything they put their mind to. probably some shit he found scrawled in the horrors of 2b2t and decided to study.

Foolish — this one was hard! the fuck is this guy? I instinctively thought aasimar, but I already made qphil an aasimar, so I played around with different types of genasi and then goliaths, even minotaurs just trying to find something that fit the semi-inhuman sorta innately magical, physically strong being vibes. I think aasimar fit best, so then it was a matter of class. hes a builder! he builds shit. that's what qfoolish does. but he is NOT a mechanic and therefore not an artificer, not musical enough to be a bard, not angry enough to be a barbarian, so what the fuck is he? took a LOT of fucking around, but eventually I remembered the college of creation exists, and I felt it fit well enough, making him an aasimar bard (creation). he draws his power from his builds— he inspires with sight, not song. it's a unique take on a bard, but I've seen some awesome chef bards, so I think this works just fine. he's an architect bard.

Slimecicle — this one was FUN. 100% that's a fucking plasmoid. he's a goopy guy! then I experimented with different bard and rogue classes, thought maybe warlock for his deal with demon rubius, and then decided i couldn't disrespect the juanaflippa song and said fuck it, he can be a bard. again in correlation with the song, I went with valor, since he's telling her great story through the lyrics, keeping her memory alive with it. I DID consider spirits, however, since he actually managed to bring juanaflippa back, however briefly. still, I felt valor fit the bill just a little better. he's a plasmoid bard (valor).

JaidenAnimations — ohhh this one took some thought. I wanted her to be fairly humanoid while still having some subtle unusual traits, and elf was considered but it felt too regal. I almost considered kenku for how she tends to repeat what other people say, but it wasn't right. thought I'd try something a little strange, and I ended up with shifter! specifically wildhunt. class was just as difficult— she wasnt going to be any primarily martial classes, so that cut out a bunch, and she's not really faithful or super devoted, so that took out paladin, warlock, and cleric, and eventually I narrowed it down to sorcerer, picking aberrant mind for their mystery and influence on others. being the only woman in an island full of gay twinks is tough, man. she's a shifter sorcerer (aberrant mind).

Wilbur — half-elf bard (eloquence). this one came pretty quick to me, actually. the bard part is more than obvious, subclass picked for the number of times qwilbur's casually convinced other people to just go with the bit. he's a man of words, and he weaves them well. he can be damn persuasive, mixing in genuine arguments with small white lies, all while playing your heart strings just right. half-elf is almost entirely vibes honestly— human was too bland, elf too spicy, so we met in the middle.

DanTDM — this dude's been gone since the very fucking beginning pretty much. I almost want to make him a rogue just for that, but man, he's the diamond minecart, alright? I grew up watching him. it'd be a disservice not to make him an artificer. from there, alchemist best suited the vibes, since he never really did much of anything machinery-related. he is a human artificer (alchemist).

#qsmp #look #I Know three of them are bards. #but we have some whores here okay #let them be #qsmp philza #qsmp fitmc #qsmp dantdm #qsmp jaiden #qsmp wilbur #qsmp slimecicle #qsmp badboyhalo #qsmp foolish #qsmp juanaflippa #I think I'll do an egg edition of this soon #I'm not familiar enough w the Spanish and Portuguese speakers to do a whole post on each of them #but I could probably do at least some of them #anyways I fucking love dnd guys #if y'all have any other ideas absolutely share in tags #these are not concrete and I would love feedback

[raiiny-bay]

my favorite edits - 2023 edition 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9

#ts4 #simblr #once again i don't know how to tag this so... #i'm just gonna use the same tags i used last year ig #2023 was apparently the year of the monster boyz #only 3 of these are not mb posts & i'm ok with that actually #ik i've said it a million times already but #i had soooo much fun doing mb stuff this year! #i'm really excited about all the stuff i have planned for the AU tbh #like. i have a list #i'm hoping................... to get the origin stories done at some point. #probably gonna do some writing here soon ish. #i've gotta make all of the side characters still & finish the character page so idk. i'll figure it out. i have a lot of ideas #i really wanna start sharing more about the story & the boys' actual personalities so that's probably what i'll focus on this next year #edit-wise i mean. like doing lore edits & stuff. idk #making cricket's was really fun so i think i'll like making stuff for everyone else too #i just have to not try to do a whole story bc then i'll lose interest. it'll be like the degenerates all over again lmao #idk why i just hate making story posts #lore posts are fine but story posts? mm no. not for me. idk how but they are different in my brain ok #n e way #i rambled. sorry. bye lol

[saintmachina]

vocational bellyaching under the cut

Spending Holy Saturday crying over the fact that the two things I want more than anything in the world, the two things I feel divinely called to, are to make queer erotic art that affirms the goodness of bodies and desire, and to work as a priest midwifing people's search for God. I'm so angry that the world has decided that those two things are in conflict and has forced me to choose between them.

Real Jonah in the whale hours.

May the bridges I burn light my way home I guess.

#this will undoubtedly get deleted but enjoy the limited edition post I guess #thoughts #I am also aware that it's been about seven years since seminary and the heart tends to swing in seven year cycles #i'll get over myself soon #I KNOW i KNOW i would have made a bad priest #I get burned out easily and I'm argumentative and highly emotional and I resent authority as much as I crave its approval #I love money and leisure and luxury and decadence #I probably would have had an affair with a parishioner or had an off color essay go viral and been stripped of my clerical collar anyway #but God I've wanted nothing more in my life nothing like it

[honeydots]

I would like some teasers about that Xander - Soleil father-daughter support fic please 💖

HEHEHE that'd be my pleasure~~!! i'll put a couple things under the cut c:

the fanart nattie drew for me is from their c-support!! the gist of it is that xander's employing a similar punishment to soleil as he did to laslow for excessive flirting :3 but as they're working in xander's office, they both end up falling asleep, hence the little scene in the art <3

the rest of the support is about soleil lying through her teeth about how she totally isn't flirting anymore so she doesn't get in trouble again, and xander completely seeing through her lie and doing a dad-thing of trying to make her come clean herself instead of directly calling her out !!

#THANK U FOR ASKING!! #ive actually been considering making it an actual edit rather than a fic--or potentially doing both? #confession for my queer studies class i had to 'queer a piece of media' and i chose fire emblem and made an s-support for caeldori/soleil #(the assignment was more than just that but for simplicity's sake i'll leave it there) #where im going with this is that i HAVE done some edits before so i might do one for xander&soleil? it just seems like a lot of fun #i know there's a fe14 support maker mod as well. so that might also be someth i try and do in the future.... #the reason i might do this is bc i did write my outline with the intention of it being a script? which CAN translate to a fic but... #we'll see. we'll see!!! i'll probably post at least the script version here sometime #maybe soon bc i JUST GRADUATED WOOO so i have more time on my hands #(....allegedly but im still busy bc im moving rn LOL) #it was fun to pull up that doc again and read thru it.... my darling father-daughter combo i love them sm ;A; #thanks again i love to ramble about these sorts of things c: #dots's xnlw tag #soleil-is-the-bae #dots answers asks

[cherrirui-official]

nice banner LMAO

Thank you lol!

It came to me in a vision... (And is also based off of that one SpongeBob meme ofc)

Here's the full image for anyone who wants it ( !! CW // light body horror, it's just a blurred silhouette but still ) vvv

#I'll probably have to remake it soon bc Pasteys boisona got an epic redesign #but for now I'll keep it like that #also a bug got on me while typing this... thats crazy #rui replies #sanctoklinge #saltydkdan #cherris canvas #<- ig this goes in the art tag even tho its an edit #cw light body horror

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 10, day 22

Another photo edit tonight. Pay close attention to her eyes :3

Original under the cut as usual!

#the great artscapade of 2023 #art #my art #Forspoken #Forspoken photo mode #Frey Holland #Forspoken Cuff #photo edit #color correction #I see Lys getting up to some hot nonsense in my push notifs #I'll have to read it later ): #probably next weekend ): #the city is inspecting my house on Thursday and my roommate and I are gonna be frantically working to unfuck the place #we got a lot of work done this weekend but there's more work yet to do #so sorry if I'm not active for awhile #basically we're gonna find out soon whether or not our slumlord landlord is gonna evict us for HIS neglect of the property #so wish us luck! #we're gonna need it

[logicheartsoul]

You know what's great about making gifs out of old psds? Makes finishing new ones with them so much easier

#personal #it's like hey i already have this gif already made but I can edit it a bit to make it kinda new again #90% of the work is already done by past me so I can just get onto finishing 😂😂😂 #so yeah let it be known I'll probably finish a gifset I didn't conceive of until yesterday to be posted soon

[mattodore]

finally updated my game for growing together and the first thing i did when i opened cas was make this guy... say hi to rajan 👋

#river dipping #my sims #simblr #ts4 #ts4 edit #basically mia for two days bc i was updating my game and cc hunting for infants and fixing mods and i come back w/ this #WHO is he? you ask #...............................idk just some guy kdjfngsjdnkjnsdgk #literally no refs no aesthetic board just made this guy from scratch after i realized i forgot to update stand still in cas #which meant the infants were all glitched and i couldn't do anything with them #like i was annoyed so i just started fucking around in cas instead of fixing the problem jfgkdjhg #i've fixed it now tho (i think) so i'm loading the game back up as we speak!!!! #i actually wanted to check on some sweaters i recolored and then i'm gonna make a baby for the sole purpose of putting them in theo's arms #>:) #also yea i went through the trouble of updating everything knowing that horses drops soon <3 #i'll just wait another four months to update again 😁 #...........also seriously this is just some guy i don't really have anything i need him for #i gave him outfits for all the categories too like....... why? idk but he was fun to dress #i'll probably throw him in either attilio's legacy gameplay (...pour one out for our forgotten men) or the new !! casual oc save #ALSOOOO need to edit the sim lush made me so it suits my sim style more and i'll put the sim in my saves too #i'll probably bring her back out whenever i DO update to horses kdjnhkjgnh i think her and attilio could be ranchers together

[radioghosts-freakster]

I was working on building up Klythe a bit more, both lore and design-wise, and I found two cool things that it'd probably love so much 💖

First, I discovered a cool band from New Zealand, I think? They make some pretty awesome music, and I'm already thinking that Klythe's a huge fan of theirs

Maybe they even make some patches of the band's logo and stitch them onto their favorite pair of gloves? Possibly? We'll see! (Yeah, the group is literally named Shapeshifter!! It's almost too perfect, honestly)

And second, probably kinda obvious too, but...

Klythe would love this movie. Absolutely love it.

There's a shapeshifting alien creature in the tundra that exists purely to assimilate every living thing it touches? Automatically cool and has their attention. It's not evil or sinister. That's simply its nature - what it was born to do. All of the humans that know of it grow paranoid and slowly destroy themselves in their attempt to resist being infected. They might even be more dangerous than this Thing, in some respects.

It would be incredibly invested in the thematic metaphors, the overall message of the story itself. Humans have difficulty trusting things that are foreign and unconventional. They can let fear move them to do atrocious things. Some creatures can be dangerous, yet that doesn't automatically make them 'evil'. Maybe it's just a natural instinct, a survival mechanism. There is a lot to digest in that film, and Klythe would enjoy analyzing every piece of lore for hours. I bet it would even buy the book to read, if it could!

Also, the Thing has a fluffy doggo form, which makes it instantly feel a certain kind of kinship/comraderie with the character. It adores dogs and has its own anthro-wolf form it can shift into, as well. Even though it's not big on horror as a genre (mainly because humans seem to portray the creatures so unfairly most of the time), this is one of the few movies that I think Klythe would really like.

They would see so much of themself in these things that it'd be impossible not to like them!

#🐂 #📚 #💭 #Can you tell that I'm having SO MUCH FUN RN???? 🤩 #Fleshing Klythe out like this is really making me wanna finish editing that huge lore dump I've been writing!! Aside from this one LOL #But typing on my tablet is slow and torturous actually. I realized this as soon as I got my laptop xD #So I'll probably switch devices to do that hdbhgnhmjk #tw body horror