Machete and Vasco are so pomegranate-and-the-hand-that-slices coded. To me.
Pomegranates are seen as messy, bloody, inconvenient fruits. You slice or tear or bite and in return for your effort you come away underwhelmed, disgusted, and stained too deep to wash. The consumption of a pomegranate is a violent act of defilement, for both the fruit and the eater.
But that is because most do not understand how to open a pomegranate. They have little patience for the precise carving. They see no point in coreing the fruit gently, no reason to be reverent as they pull the quarters apart. When done correctly, opening a pomegranate leaves little mess. Your fingers will still stain, your knife will still slick, but there will be no pool of crimson drowning both you and the fruit.
The seeds are only sweet to those who understand the merit of a light hand and intricate slicing. Why put in so much effort for a food so bitter and clearly armored against consumption? Surely it must not yearn to be eaten.
"This ep is mostly about understanding where you fit in a world of romantics [...] you aromantics need to read my lyrics! You should read "It's All Futile It's All Pointless", figure out what it's about, man. And "Perfume". And pretty much most of my music."
"It was as if Purple had ever thought of *not* helping him." / "Purple had *only* been helping him."
IN THE WEEK THAT FOLLOWS MAKES ME SO UNWELL HEJDMMDDM . like I have wanted immediate post ep30 content SO bad. Literally THE fic ever. SO YKNOW WHAT THAT MEANS!!!
DOODLE TIME.
they've been through literal hell and it definitely LOOKS like it doesn't it. obsessed . Probably doesn't help they both wear heeled boots the way I draw them on that walk back. (Apologies for the fact I've been LOSING it on both Tumblr and the one comment I gave on the AO3 fic. The brainrot about these two and this fic is strong.)
WAAAAAAAH
THANK YOU FOR THE ART??
AND FOR ALL THE COMMENTS AND TAGS
I love seeing them, the motivate me to continue writing so much
BRINGING THE DILF THING BACK BECAUSE I DONT THINK MUMBO WOULD KNOW WHAT IT MEANS SINCE HE DOESNT HAVE A PHONE AND PROBABLY DOESNT HAVE ANY CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET
Idk how connected Scar is with the internet and modern times but it would also be really funny if he doesnt know either
Grian can just show up in a "DILF Magnet" shirt and idk if any of them would ask lol
mybe they'll ask and he'd just shrug
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scar is definitely more connected than mumbo is, considering he has tubbo
but it’d be funny if scar thinks he knows what it means. mumbo is fully confused and scar is over here like “dilf…. Oh! that means ‘dad is loving fishing’, right????” and grian thinks it’s better to not explain it to either of them. let scar think it’s about dads and fishing
so I was going through atsv frame by frame (as you do) and I love the onomatopoeia in this (approximately 2-second-long) scene where gwen and hobie are trying to stop this building from collapsing:
first of all gwen's web snapping has the snap onomatopoeia in her pink white & blue and hobie's snap is in his collage style which is awesome attention for detail for something that is onscreen for a culmination of 4 frames tops
then we get this great 4-way splitscreen of the big ol' oh-shit eyes, but keep an eye on the lines dividing it cause one of them is gonna turn into---
---the last web holding up the building, which of course---
---snaps.
(also, the S is in pavitr's vibrant sketchy style, the N is gwen's watercolour, A is miles' comic book style, and P is hobie's collage)