#grim: they just show up

[blinkpen]

Have you thought about giving Grimstone her own girlfriend. I feel bad for her lol

For the most part, Grimstone generally prefers flings, and oh, Whatever you do, don't tell her that,

#mog art #ask x #grimstone #monster girl #cyclops #demon #grim is only really cringefail when demersa is in the same room #grim in an urgent tone: yes i was dumped by demersa but consider how much game you need to GET demersa to begin with #grim: the wandering oasis in my death maze is filled with ladies willing to feed me grapes and i don't even have to pay them to be there #grim: they just show up #girls will say I Know A Place and take you to the Lesbian Labyrinth

[imnotgrimimjustagrumpyreaper]

Hot-est "Side?"

Last time (without polls) the results were a battle to the death between Logan and Janus. Logan won by the skin of his apparently sexy sexy teeth. I feel its time for a rematch without room for human fallacy (me literally just going through the notes and counting) LETS GOOO: (Including some bonuses for fun)

#the word of grim #polls #sanders sides polls #sanders sides #sander sides #thomas sanders #patton sanders #logan sanders #roman sanders #virgil sanders #remus sanders #janus sanders #no orange side but I will do a rematch when he shows up just in case #remy sanders #dr emile picani #emile picani #missy sanders #pranks sanders #I put this in descending order least to most votes I think

[itsafternoonpast5]

very crazy episode. too bad it was based off of lord of the flies

#sorry biggest lord of the flies hater the ideology of the book is so frustrating. anything based off it is destined to be mid (joke) #THE EPISODE WAS OKAY but it couldve been better #as an episode its good but as a finale it doesnt work LOL but i dont think it was even intended to be the finale #the crew seems like they have a lot of hope for the series. that they dont want it to be the end #im with them i dont think itll be the end either but its grim with the chance it wont be picked up by another company :( #im hoping for the best. this show has a small yet dedicated fanbase. itd feel like dishonour to the fans and the crew #we had some of the best quality episodes lately. itd surprise me if the show wasnt taken up #but ahh ah im just hoping. this show is very dear to me :( #camp camp

[squeakadeeks]

if i had a dollar for every time a religious missionary knocked on my door to "spread the good news" while i was actively in an acute mental health crisis i'd have 2 dollars, which isnt a lot but also. how many times does this have to happen before they stop coming.

#technically ive actually had three but the ones where they come to my home feel more violating and embarrassing #heads up im going to talk about grim things but its so bananas that its hard not to talk about #2 years ago i had one come while i was Participating In An Activity One Does When You're Grappling With SI #and it was a very bad time and an overall terrible encounter #especially bc it was obvious at the time i was deeply unwell but of course they didnt want to actually address it #and today i had two come while i was having an active manic episode and looked DEEPLY insane and was in the middle of some bullshit #and both times as soon as i opened the door i can tell theyre like 'oh fuck' and realize that theres something serious going on #but at the same time. play stupid games win stupid prizes. #if someone is having a MH crisis they try to do it in a safe and private environment like their gotdamn house for a reason w/o strangers #and if you just show up unannounced to talk about Mormonism to a random persons house theres a good chance youre going to be- #interrupting something and that something isnt always good #i know door-to-door solicitors are '''normal''' but the whole thing really whacks me out and makes me feel kind of angry

[blanketorghost]

Welcome to Yuuposting pt. 3 this time... relationship charts! Side A is Yuu's perspective, Side B is other characters' perspective. Template can be found here!!

Some relationship highlights + doodles ahead (possible spoilers for Book 7!!)

1. Special

Ace, Deuce, Epel, Jack, Ortho: Yuu, despite being a freshman in NRC, still is 18 years old and was a university student back on earth. This obviously means he's slightly more mature than his other peers and has kind of taken the role of pseudo big brother of the first years and has also unofficially made them Ramshackle dorm members. Each (aside from Ortho) even getting their own bedroom to hang out in whenever they need a break from their official dorms. To Yuu, it is a bit weird to have this newly found authority. He was a younger brother and even the youngest in his friend group for the longest time, so he feels a newly found sense of responsibility towards his weird, rambunctious set of children.

Grim: Yuu used to have a black cat named Kafka back home, so when he found out he'd be babysitting Grim on the daily, he thought it would be pretty similar to taking care of a pet. Of course, he was woefully wrong. At first, he found it extremely annoying to have to take care of what was essentially a superpowered toddler, but now he has become extremely protective of little Grim. Even awakening a 'maternal instinct' as he likes to call it. Yuu and the ramshackle ghosts are the only family Grim knows of, so his little mind considers Yuu, his primary caretaker, as some sort of parental figure.

Trein: Yuu is this lost, barely legal child that is being used by the headmaster to do his dirty work with the looming threat of being thrown out if he does not succeed. As a self-respecting teacher who cares about his students, Trein couldn't just ignore the poor kid! Of course he cannot play favorites with his students while in class, but he still worries. Trein is also very displeased with Yuu cheesing it through his classes, and after learning he could even be a straight A student with a little more motivation, he does not hesitate to push Yuu to achieve his full potential. After learning that Yuu had to stay in Ramshackle over the winter vacation, basically doing janitorial work, Trein has offered Yuu a place at his home instead. If Yuu ever decides to stay in Twisted Wonderland permanently, Trein has also voiced his concerns about documentation, and has off-handedly offered once or twice to legally adopt him into his family. For documentation only.... of course. Yuu respects Trein a lot, and truly sees him as a mentor/father figure he can trust whenever he gets into trouble that he may not be able to handle all on his own. He may get annoyed at the fact that he can no longer purposefully half-ass his work at Trein's classes, but he appreciates the challenge— especially when he never had that sort of motivation growing up. Also, Trein is great at babysitting Grim.

2. Best Friends

Riddle & Trey: Look. If you're friends with Riddle, best friends even, you are automatically friends with Trey. They are a package deal, period. That said, Riddle, Trey and Yuu have shared custody of the Ace2 duo, so of course they have stories aplenty to share about their dumb, dumb friends' shenanigans. Yuu also really values having friends his age and especially friends he can reliably trust and not look after like a distressed mother hen. After Riddle's overblot, Yuu does feel a little bit bad that he got sorted into such a strict dorm, but Trey assures him that Riddle's truly best suited for it. Either way, Yuu's always invited to the monthly unbirthday parties (Even when he complains about Heartslabyul's "gaudy" uniforms).

Vil: Them becoming best friends was a surprise to everyone, especially Vil and Yuu themselves. After SDC and Vil's draconian training of the NRC boy group, he was able to piece together that Yuu had some sort of musical experience judging by his management and mentoring of some of the members (mainly Deuce and Kalim). This ended up becoming the route in which they'd become unlikely friends, as Yuu's view of musical performance as a hobby clashed with Vil's extreme dedication to the arts. Either way, the two balance each other out. Vil pushing Yuu to practice and perfect his rusty knowledge, and Yuu encouraging Vil to have more fun with his art. While true they grind each others' gears very often and most of their conversations are comprised of insults, they are very close and are literally ride or die for each other.

Kalim: Look, Yuu loves Kalim. He really does. But does Yuu think of him as his best friend? Hell no. Yuu distinguishes his best friends from his regular friends by the amount of trust he has on them to keep his secrets and Kalim... He's got a pretty lose mouth unlesss it comes to Jamil. Kalim, on the other hand, thinks everyone is his best friend... he is literally so lovely but at what cost. Yuu's very protective of him.

3. Crushes and General Romance

Azul/Yuu's perspective: Yuu didn't mean to get a crush on this conman. He really did not. He loathes the fact that Azul has managed to sneak his way into his heart and refuses to let go. It is even more embarassing to admit that Yuu caught feelings for him as soon as they first spoke. He was immediately attracted to his wit and cunning, how his each move was so carefully calculated to provide the best possible outcome. After it was revealed that Azul wasn't actually a genius like Yuu, but that he actually had to study and hone his abilities, and also how he was actually an (absolutely adorable) underdog during his childhood, Yuu's admiration for Azul only grew, him coming to truly appreciate and adore that stupid octo-jerk's personality even more. He knows having feelings for NRC's most notorious blackmailer is extremely dangerous, and so he is very tight-lipped about his crush and only has allowed his best friends to be privvy to that info (mostly so they can slap some sense into him). He doesn't really hate Azul. In fact, he thinks that if he didn't have a crush, they could have been pretty good friends. What he hates is how vulnerable he feels around him and how, if Azul somehow learnt about Yuu's crush on him, he most definitely will use those feelings to his advantage. This is why Yuu keeps his interactions with Ashengrotto to a minimum— having to pretend he is not absolutely head over heels for this stupid cephalo-punk gets exhausting fast.

(I know Grim picked this up from Yuu gushing over Azul's grade school pic. I know it.)

Yuu/Azul's perspective: (Un)fortunately, Yuu's confusing feelings for Azul can only be rivaled by Azul's themselves. At first Azul didn't think much of Yuu. Sure, he'd solved some overblot cases with the power of friendship or whatever, but he had never thought that Yuu would not only beat him at his own game, but that he was aware of his every move all that time! Azul had finally found a proper intellectual rival, and he couldn't wait to win their next rematch. Yet, Yuu kept on surprising him in many other ways. First, by revealing that Yuu had been hiding his own academic potential under a guise of mediocrity— having Grim as his perfect mask and lowering his GPA to a fairly believable rate. And second, by subtly pointing Azul towards Jamil as the possible cause for Kalim's sudden bout of madness. Yuu seemed to be always one step ahead. Even when he fumbled, he still managed to regroup and recover so quickly, it seemed impossible to Azul that Yuu would be completely magicless. And not only that, but through some kind of ungodly power, Yuu managed to chip away at the walls he had put up for years. Azul felt at ease, comfortable even, whenever he and Yuu hung out— even if it wasn't as often as he would like. Behind all of the banter about contracts and shady deals, Azul found himself trusting Yuu even more than the Tweels themselves (not like he trusted them that much either...). The insecure, pudgy, nerdy octopus of his childhood came out and was completely embraced by Yuu with absolutely no judgement. Overall though, his crush on Yuu is often overshadowed by his much more prominent crush on Jamil, one that is certainly less confusing and, therefore, much more easy to focus on rather than the undescifferable mess that are his feelings for the Ramshackle prefect.

Malleus: Look, its no secret that Malleus has a gigantic puppy love crush on Yuu. He has been intrigued and enamored by the odd huamn's behaviour ever since that one fateful night at Ramshackle dorm. Though fairly rusty on his courting knowledge, he sure does try. And he tries real damn hard. When Yuu left Twisted Wonderland, Malleus' biggest regret was never properly confessing how he felt— and yet he cannot find the courage to tell him how he feels even after Yuu has chosen to stay indefinitely. Yuu, on the other hand, considers Tsunotaro to be a very trusted friend. Maybe if he wasn't so cryptic and if they spent more time together, he would even be promoted to best friend status someday. Yuu is sort-of-kind-of aware of Malleus' crush. And he wishes he could return his feelings. But, as his bad luck would have it, his heart is already dead-set on a certain, annoying cephalopod.

Jamil: Though Yuu does not harbor any romantic feelings for Jamil, the biggest, and most obvious reason he cannot stand the guy is pure and unfiltered jealousy. He is jealous that Azul shamelessly flirts with Jamil only to be met with a cold shoulder. He hates how, every time Jamil mentions Azul off-handedly and his advances, it makes him wish he was in Jamil's place instead. And what he hates the most is that Azul seems to forget Yuu's existence whenever Jamil is nearby. Either way, he cannot completely hate Jamil because, if Azul's crush on him is obvious, then Jamil's own disastorous crush on Kalim can be seen through space. Yuu, once again, thinks that if it weren't for his crush on Azul, they'd be on fairly okay terms with each other.

#twisted wonderland #art stuff #twst oc #twst mc #twst yuu #twst grim #twst azul #twst riddle #twst trey #twst vil #twst ace #twst deuce #twst epel #twst jack #twst ortho #look my posts havent been showing up on the twst tag so im just living my best insane life out there in the sidelines #yuu fujisaki

[see-arcane]

If I have understood right, Barking Harker was full of subplots that you have decided to separate in different stories unrelated to the storyline (eg the parts with the white and black dogs and the ghouls)?

Yup yup

I was basically doing the little kid version of Making a Thing by cramming every cool add-on I could think of into one giant mass. Which sadly results in a never ending monolith that wouldn’t satisfy as anything but an overly complicated doorstopper

I’ve also come to realize that the prospect of Ghouls and Spectral hounds/other psychopomps > Vampires/Other undead is a concept that has teeth with or without a Dracula-adjacent background. Time will tell where that particular angle goes

#Dracula revamp that’s just the Count showing up in England and getting mobbed by a pack of church grims #the end #my writing

[smartzelda]

Everyone can rip the theory/prediction for season 3 that Nine brought Chaos Sonic back and he's just chilling in Nine's crystal fortress during the robot battle in the teaser out of my cold. Dead. Hands.

#sonic prime #sonic the hedgehog #nine the fox #miles nine prower #nine sonic prime #chaos sonic #sonic prime s3 teaser #All I'm saying is that no one can expect me to believe that Nine was just fine chilling alone in the Grim after s2‚ especially if he's going #to be in there more than an episode (not saying he will be. depends on the structure of the season. but you get it) #Like post meeting Sonic‚ this is the two tailed fox who thought of him and his situation #who in Sonic's absense built up this idea of creating a new home for them both‚ for just the two of them. Who spent Sonic's time away after #finding his place to make home (a goal for him) thought a lot about how excited he was to finally bring Sonic here and show him what he was #working on #This is the fox who wanted Sonic to share in his dream and wanted him to stay in seclusion with him *so badly* that he gave Sonic another #chance to choose to stay with him after Sonic had left to go fight in New Yolk #After that argument at the end of s2 how long do you think Nine would be able to sit in the Grim‚ sitting on the knowledge that he'll be #alone after achieving his dream #‚ before feeling very...lonely #And if being around Sonic makes him feel like he's not completely alone for the first time in his life‚ makes him consider being alone but #with someone else #What does he do when he wants to be alone and yet is plagued by loneliness? Creating robot versions of Sonic’s friends? He's never been #jealous of Sonic's friend count. It's not far fetched to say that he most likely made them in preparation for facing off with Sonic (perhaps #even to make him hurt) #And really‚ if he feels lonely but refuses to be around organic living beings. What better attempt to make it go away than by summoning and #fixing the robot copy of him (You know a robot who is like him but will never betray you or want anything other than what you want) #That's all I'm saying #And tbh I personally refuse to believe Chaos Sonic is done. Especially since his run was short and his removal from the story was sudden. I #think he has use as a plot device yet #anyways I'm rambling on sorry I have terminal brainrot

[ohplasticheart]

just finished watching sonic prime and uuuummmhhhh is that it? that ending was so underwhelming somehow and the battle a little too long

#i have so many questions????? #does shadow remember anything????????? #i thought the shattereverse would disappear with the prism back together but its just another door????? #are there two prisms now??????? #now that im thinking about it shadow carrying sonic bridal style to save him feels like something they just added to slap on the trailer and #attrac the sonadow girlies like bees to honey (it worked on me at least) #like there was no reason for that they were right there how come everyone is such a bad driver #is nine really just...all alone on the grim????? #didn't they said all of this was actually just season one??? like when they announced it i feel like there was a chance for s2 #but it feels like thats just the end like yeah everything is back to normal #what happened with the emerald they lost on the void??? it doesn't matter???? like its just that one that shadow had???? #on that note what was the deal with the void? it seemed like that was going to be important #well im gonna shut up now its 3am and i dont think i should be thinking this hard about a kids show

[cometrose]

nobody has suffered in kingdom hearts like sora did in the last 5 hours of kh3

#kingdom hearts #kh #sora #just awful just traumatizing #like i’m thinking about it now and damn he was put through the fucking trenches #imagine showing up to fight watching all your friends die then dying yourself then reassembling your body in purgatory #then you chase down the grim reaper to save your friends go back in time to fight 13 shadow men #including their evil boss with the power of the key to heaven in his hands then you have to save your girl and you go back in time #first to piece her body together and then you have to fight the 13 shadow men AGAIN including the dark inferno and terranort #AND YOU STILL HAVE TO FIGHT THE EVIL BOSS in his true goat demon form once you get your girl back only to then die again #then wake up in purgatory and have to fight a man with homophobia in his eyes just sick poor sora

[figureofdismay]

It's been interesting getting back into both Sam/Jack and MSR at the same time, I get to compare and contrast really similar themes (secret duty, dangerous truths, aliens, government oversight, honor, loss of family, pining, devotion etc) from really different framing. The X files is a much darker show overall and Chris Carter's misogyny problem and hand of fate baby arcs are frustrating and painful, and yet the MSR fic has so much more room to be much sweeter and more openly domestic and a lot of times the stakes are lower because as much as it affects their own lives, the Syndicate and the threat of Colonization is much bigger than what they personally alone can bring about or prevent. They have guilt and repression and fear of losing each other or the work to contend with, but we're also shown that as long as they have each other they're generally okay even without the work -- I mean aimlessness and depression (and out of character writing choices) yes, but the Syndicate operations aren't that closely affected by if Mulder and Scully are in the basement office or not, so you can conjure up a wide variety of believable paths for them to be together with or without 'the files.'

Meanwhile Sam and Jack could literally be prosecuted for disobeying orders/getting involved within the same chain of command, they could get their team or the whole program taken apart thanks to that excuse in the hands of Simmons or similar, they're directly on the front lines for 8 years and they're repeatedly shown via the quantum mirror that Sam and Jack both being active members of SG1 is the only reason Earth wasn't decimated in a hostile Goa'uld invasion so they can't just resign and be together. For a second you think there's a window but then there's a new war and they make Jack everyone's boss and send Sam to a different galaxy and then put her up on a ship, and you go; Oh. So that's an endless set of circumstances, then. There's so much 'be miserably, honorably apart, serving and pining forever or the destruction of Earth will directly be your fault' baggage baked into Sam and Jack's narrative setup that you're boxed into either character-bending wish fulfillment (which is satisfying to read but hard to commit to writing ime) or the soul excoriating 'hanging on waiting for what can never be' flavor of overly believable quiet tragedy.

I'm finding I'm spending more time with the show where the skinny grey aliens with big eyes are a lot more evil and the themes are more bleak but the characters are less entirely trapped by their own best intentions 💀😭😭

#msr #sam x jack #the x files #stargate sg1 #it is very interesting though the way the 2 shows use so many of the themes and concepts but point them in totally different directions #i mean they were both Vancouver scifi in the 90s so they had to be somewhat aware of each other but I don't think it was that intentional #the whole txf.... thing seems to have been very insular #but they were still treading a lot of the same ground with the aliens and conspiracies and the pining and whatnot #it's just funny to me that bleak grim misty never resolved and mumbling txf has room for so much sweet silly domestic hopeful fic #and the bantery straightforward scifi show with a lot of comedy and yay teamwork themes has.... #some of that but also so much 'it's literally impossible how can we cope' themed work as a natural consequence of canon #that I ended up taking breaks from reading s/j because I got tired of crying my way through it so often #i mean it's cathartic but. that sensation of 'there's gotta be a solution so they're not stuck like this right?' gets stressful 🫠 #and no i didn't come up with any bright ideas either

[dragon-cookies]

I finally watched Season 2 of the Cuphead Show. I've got a new headcanon that these two bond over being single parents.

#cuphead show #grim matchstick #baroness von bon bon #cuphead oc #my art #more HCs: grim's son is adopted. he found him as an egg and decided to raise him on his own #the little green bab bon bon's got is her daughter Caramel (and an oc of mine) #could be considered ship art or just platonic #I'll leave that up to viewer interpretation

[sinhasfluffyheadfur]

NO ONE TOLD ME IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY but I drew him because I have to he’s my BOY

#grim draws #jjk #jjk fanart #jjk inumaki #inumaki toge #jjk toge #jujutsu kaisen #half these tags just showed up because I follow them (so normal guys definitely not a special interest trust #inumaki fanart #oh he’s so pookie #the pookiest #thought maybe it was cringe to do the kissy but I think he would hit me if I didn’t and I can’t anger the bday boy .so #that mischievous grin #he’s staring huge at me rn #stop lookin at me with those eyes…. damn.. #OKAY SHUTTING UP BEING NOTNAL HAHA #I crash into the walls as a spin away like a tornado

[july-19th-club]

new configeration of the office at work makes it so i won't have a computer at the book-putting-together desk which is fine but it does mean i have no excuse not to get back into listening to my podcasts while i process . only it's been years since i listened to podcast and i frankly don't even know where to start . last time i listened to any podcast for any length of time was the year i first had really bad insomnia and i would put on adventure zone (ethersea? i believe? the underwater one) on an incredibly low volume at like three am and lie there frustrated as i failed to find rest so that sort of soured me on the whole podcast experience . but suppose i start one up in the light of day with a nice new big desk in front of me and a sweet pile of books that need covers? like . why did i stop listening to that show really . or any of the other ones . i bet they're still good

#i stopped halfway through juno steel bc every single episode was like a kick in the head and i couldn't concentrate on anything else #i got like an episode and a half into salt verses but stopped because the narration didn't match up with the story (to me) #like it was too .... character-voicy. and the content is so grim i actually wanted it to feel more flat of affect . #^ but then ... i often feel that . i get that audio dramas have their own style of acting . but it might just .... not be for me per se #because i often find myself getting . i'm not sure what it is. embarrassed? i'm afraid someone will listen in somehow #and think i am listening to a story for little kids . when i have an audio drama on and the character voices are VERY animated like that #which is a super weird thing to think. right? like . where's that coming from #but it's a very distinct sense that sort of puts me off of many shows even if i've heard from all corners that they're good or whatever #but unfortunately transcripts in this context is besides the point . because i need something to listen to while doing a hands-on activity #q

[natura-est-sacellum]

What happened to fashion shows? Why does everyone look stoned out of their minds? What happened to the class of old school models?

Even just in this collage, you can see a delineation from models who wore their personalities on their faces, to dead-eyed dress-up dolls. Something happened in the 80s and 90s haute couture landscape that began begging their models to become little more than living, breathing mannequins, staring vapidly at the audience and camera as if they had no souls. Can we bring back smiling models once more?

#I remember I was watching a Victoria's Secret fashion show once (for the musical guest that year) #And I saw one of the models smiling seemingly genuinely like she was having a good time #She had a pep in her step #And I found it so charming because you just don't see that anymore today #Models today look so grim and dour #Like cheer up! You're wearing an outfit that cost more than most will make in a lifetime! #Maybe seem a little grateful or like you actually have a dream job? #''And what do you do?'' #''Why I walk around in high fashion for a living'' #Your life could be worse ya know?

[plumbley-bee]

"I'm your friend, I'm supposed to be nice to you."

#my clueless first friend #tear my emotions to fucking shreds whh don't you #I started this show because I was bored #I DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR THIS #THE WAY HE CALLS HER THE GRIM REAPER AFTER EPISODE 5 BECAUSE SHE ASKED HIM TO!!!!! #HE JUST WANTS TO BE AROUND HER #AND TO MAKE HER HAPPY #HE SAID HE'D STOP THE GAME AND STOP CALLING HER THE GRIM REAPER #GUYS HE KNOWS SHES JUST A REGULAR CUTE GIRL #SHE ASKED HIM NOT TO CHANGE #AND HE WANTS TO DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS #I'm so emotional about this

[frog-whisperer]

Can’t sleep thinking about how irrationally angry Andy Serkis’s Jungle Book made me

#‘It was something different! it was darker and more faithful to the books!’ No it wasn’t!! #it was an edgy grim dark take on the Disney movie by someone that hadn’t read the books since they were 12!!! #literally half of the plot points are things directly lifed from the Disney canon and had no basis in the books at all #you knew that Baloo in the books was a stern old grumpy teacher. great cool. but you didn’t realise that for the Disney movies him #and Bagheera switch personalities. So you kept Bagheera with his stern and grumpy personality from the Disney movie resulting in #two of the exact same character #Shere Khan is entirely unintimidating and gets ragdolled around by every other character just to show how cool they are #he tries to slink off into the jungle after getting brutalised by 10 elephants but Mowgli catches him and stabs him in the literal back… #Kaa shows up. says some words. then shows up the end with a knowing grin like she did anything meaningful #Mowgli attaches an elephant’s tusk like it’s a god dam jigsaw puzzle #his new albino wolf brother who is there to show ‘it’s okay to be different’ gets his horrible cgi head mounted on a wall #it’s just… #I WANTED a faithful adaption of the books Andy! and as much as you say you did you did not give me that!!!!