#me: i miss kk :'(

[torra-and-the-toons]

I had a stunning revelation today that I can't believe I didn't piece together sooner.

The best things really do come in 3's.

#my doodles #Animaniacs #sweet cap'n cakes #yakko warner #wakko warner #dot warner #sweet deltarune #capn deltarune #kk deltarune #I've compared SCC to ed edd n eddy before in personality #but they're def animaniacs in style except for Sweet they're the odd one out #I'd been trying to figure out for SO LONG why Cakes' pants were familiar and it finally hit me #man I haven't drawn scc in like 2 years #I miss them #I'm probably super late to this party but I'm late to every party ever so yea #I'm the internet explorer of getting into fandoms

[travalerray]

I am going to slap you myself

#WHY ARE THEY LIKE THIS #the conversation is flying over both their heads because they are saying entirely different things #wwx: it was such a huge blow to me. Losing my golden core was the stuff of nightmares. I do not want to recall that. I want to move on #what jc hears: Get Lost shidi. I no longer want to see your face #jc: I want to hate you so bad. Why can't I hate you? Haven't you broken my heart enough? Why couldn't you just TELL me anything? Why. #what wwx hears: JC can't deal with the fact that I wwx who did everything terrible am actually responsible for his achievements. His pride #took a huge blow. Damn. Better tell him that I don't actually mind lmao #[grimly said while looking at the wwx papercraft I have hanging on my bedroom wall.] #[actually what many do miss is that deep down there are multiple times WWX actually does understand JC's thing. He understands the pride as #a cultivator. He understands how horrifying the self sacrifice must have been (see: wq and wn). He just doesn't like thinking about it for #very long in this life. Sigh] #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #kk's rambles tag

[the-meme-monarch]

do you think there could be a weird route with your oc ham? maybe like RadioRaze or something? anyways have a good day!!! :)

i like to think a weird route with ham would be pretty much impossible bc ham is a kinda stubborn and maybe-a-little-mean-on-purpose 12 year old with no allegiances NDNDNHSJ she’d find out lancer was in your inventory and just talk to him the whole time and ignore you and the only reason he doesn’t immediately ditch you for trying to tell her what to do is bc lancer is there and he wants to talk to him bc he seems like fun. have a good day too :]

#you’d tell him to do something and she’d go ‘you didn’t even say please so no. also you’re old.’ #the monarch’s court #like in beatdown route with sweet he thinks you’re on the same side with the same goal and you pretty much peer pressure him int #into worse and worse shit in the name of his cause like ‘this is what you wanted. this is how we do it’ #ive been thinking ​ham doesn’t care about his brother’s revolution bc Well Queen Was Nice To Me I Think She Just Doesn’t Like You Guys #she does think the music ban is real though he just doesn’t really care bc she’s not part of the band anyway #deltarune ocs #mostly unrelated but i think it’s neat that (with my headcanon) that kk and ham grew up with the same parents(capn and sweet dont reme #don’t remember them) that kk seems to hav become a neutral ground people pleaser type of person to avoid conflict w sweet and capn but h #but ham became combative to people telling them what to do. he also doesn’t like conflict but in that she’ll tell her brothers to stfu #kk became passive while ham became combative even though they came from the same environment and upbringing. thats what i was trying to say #anyway i should draw ham again. i miss him

[birdmenmanga]

@raventhekittycat

hi okay so I've been mulling this one over for the past day or two and I think I have the answer. not to be using hamburger to explain anything to an american but you're my detco mutual so I'm going to try and explain it in detco terms

There's a post going around recently about how if you've read detco and only detco, the first time hakuba shows up you're going to be totally flummoxed, because damn this guy is clearly important, he gets to be even cooler than Shinichi, he's got a half-page shot of him (in such a panel-dense series such as Detective Conan, no less!!) and he's got a fucking hawk. he's CLEARLY important. everything about the narrative is indicating that you need to PAY ATTENTION to hakuba and that he's the coolest guy and he's important!!!! and then he dies in the case lol (not for real. but still.)!! and you're like huh??? what was that. why did aoyama do that.

But with the context of magic kaito this totally makes sense. He's a beloved character that people have been waiting decades to see again. Of course Aoyama is going to hype him up!! It's his big moment after years of being locked in the backrooms!!!

Anyways reading birdmen for me was kind of like that. The author's previous series, Kekkaishi, was pretty one-dimensional at the beginning, and even after the main plot started picking up at around volume 6, it still felt quite understandable. I knew what she was trying to get at, and the spectacular job she did with the anthropocene and climate change metaphor towards the end of that series really made me interested in the rest of her works. That and the way she writes familial relationships is absolutely DEVASTATING. (I mean this with the highest of praise)

But when I read BIRDMEN for the first time, I was probably in... middle school, maybe? And I read it, sure, but I didn't get it. I could see what was literally happening on the page but the narrative choices were absolutely baffling at times. Why skip over the entire part of the plot where they figure out who the birdman that saved them was? She blatantly doesn't care about that. What does she care about then?? I knew I didn't get it, I knew there were parts of it that were important and I couldn't figure out why and THAT'S how it dug its pretty little claws into me. Even after I finished catching up it nagged at me a little bit, not often at all, but enough that every once in a while I go, huh, right, that was a thing, let me go read it again.

For the record this type of story haunting has happened to me twice. First time was the Heart of Thomas, second time was BIRDMEN. I think the thing is that these are both stories which are not what other people say they are and I think I came into both of these stories with a misconception, trying to look too hard for things that weren't important and therefore missing the things that were.

Because sure, BIRDMEN is about mental illness. Yeah, it's about an evil scientific organization growing mutants in a lab. Yeah, it's about what it means to leave your humanity behind. That's all technically correct, on a surface level, and the fandom at large likely agrees with these takes for the most part, but in my opinion none of that really delves into what the thematic messaging of the story is about.

There are cryptic conversations about authority and human extinction and peculiar outfit and ability choices. You can tell these choices weren't made to serve the purpose of "writing exciting shonen manga" because that was what she did for the most part in Kekkaishi and you can tell she wasn't putting her whole pussy into doing that here. So what was she doing? What's like. All of this. Waves my hands at this.

The short answer is that it's really about the interplay between capitalism (represented by humanity) and communism (represented by birdmen), and explores the role institutional white supremacy (EDEN) plays in enforcing capitalism. It is ALSO about queer liberation and the importance of community, but hey, that double-stacks conveniently with the communism metaphor.

But also take this opinion of mine with a grain of salt. As far as I know I'm the only one who really truly deeply believes that it is not only AN interpretation of the work, but one that was fully intended by the author.

So basically, I like it, because I think it says something true and beautiful that I also believe in, even if I didn't have the words for it the first time I read it. But I don't really think that's what people really look for in a media recommendation.

Do I like it? Yes, I love it. Will I recommend it to others? Yeah, sure. But do I think it's deeply flawed? Yeah, absolutely. It's flawed in the same ways as The Witch from Mercury— a rushed ending, too many threads that were opened and never tied together. The pacing and characterization is perfect in the beginning, and too rushed at the end. There are prerequisites you basically HAVE to read in order to understand the story (tempest for G-Witch and the communist manifesto for birdmen). I think a truly good story wouldn't have any of these things so if people don't like it I never blame them.

It's my personal experiences that make birdmen so profound to me. If you are not queer I just don't think Eishi coming out as a birdman to his mom will hit the same, just as an example. Sorry that I wasn't the kid you wanted me to be. I know you love me and you just want the best for me and that's why you're so controlling, because you think I can be saved by conforming to societal expectations. But I can't live like that. I can't be like that. And that's why I must go. etc.

Aesthetically I do love birdmen a lot. If I had to describe it in a few words it would probably be "chilling", "beautiful", and "powerful", which nicely coincides with the type of things I personally like to draw. It's also silly to a small degree but it's so serious and I know Tanabe can be way way way funnier (read kekkaishi for this. kekkaishi and hanazakari no kimitachi he were foundational to my sense of sequential art humor) so that's not really the standout trait of this series.

I can't let it go because I'm chewing this series like a bone. And it's taking me years but I am getting that sweet sweet marrow. By god. We are on year 3 of this shit and I am GOING to understand this series. and I'm going to make 3 video essays about it

#just thinking thoughts... #stray bird thoughts #so it's like... I don't like it because birdmen is good #I think I like it because I am a certain type of person and the author was trying to say something specifically to the type of person I am #OH #I'M THE TARGETED AUDIENCE THATS WHY I LIKE IT. #YEAH THATS REALLY IT!!! #A long time ago I said that birdmen wasn't written for the people who read it at the time it serialized. #it was written for the people they would become. #and I stand by that 100% #if it really stays with you there is going to be a reason even if you can't articulate it yet #and it may APPEAR sloppy to someone who doesn't see the queer or communist metaphor #like 'what is she doing what is she saying here she's not saying anything meaningful and emphasizing the wrong things' #but that sort of presumes she is gunning to make 'the best shonen manga ever' #which she clearly isn't. #I remember when I was reading fma with a bunch of my classmates and I'd lend them a volume or two every day #and a piece of feedback I received that has stuck with me was 'volume 15 was so boring' #(that was the volume recounting the ishval civil war. it was boring because we were middle schoolers and didn't REALLY get it.) #and like. I think to people who are looking for something like kks. the whole thing is going to feel like fma volume 15 #like WHAT is she going on about? ? ? #like witch hat and dunmesh I think are similar types of stories but I think these two are just executed way better than bm #but because of that it is just not as compelling to me you know. #like yeah yeah it's well constructed. we all see it's well constructed. #the metaphor is so well constructed that I don't feel the need to point it out. everyone is saying it already you know #but bm is cryptic enough and just slightly missed that execution enough that I feel like I'm pulling the analysis out of a smoking wreckage #recently I've been watching mentourpilot videos about airplane accidents and like. that's exactly it. #there's nothing to say about a perfectly executed flight. #it's the ones that failed. and in particular the ones that just barely failed by a little bit. that compels people the most. #cue my de communism is failure post. bc that bm sure did fail.

[kyouka-supremacy]

***

#The new anime official art RULES #(I mean‚ how could it not. Atsushi with hoodie AND kimono AND converse? Braid Sigma? Fingers heart Dazai???? ) #But I'm so saddened by the fact they now seem to be going for the Meursault girlies for official merch- #and Akutagawa is already left out of promo art again 😭😭 #Not only I've always been let down by the lack of Kyouka (which. I mean. Is no less understable but at least it's grown predictable.) #But now Akutagawa joins the bunch of left behinds 😭😭 #I can't believe I'm saying this (I've cursed bsd's male-exclusive merch like. every day of my life) #but I miss the skk/sskk merch art format. At least that always gave me ss/kk to rejoice for ಥ_ಥ #I had to bear a whole season of no Akutagawa merch and I was like it's okay... There'll be plenty with season 5......... #And now they've forgotten about him already 😭😭😭 #At this point Atsushi is going to be next for how much they seem to care about their protagonist ಥ_ಥ #Okay I'm done complaining I'm not actually mad ahah. The new designs truly are so pretty!!! Sigma with heels (??) at last... ? #random rambles

[kkpwnall]

tagged by @vecnuthy to spell my url with song titles!! thanks for tagging me!!

kilby girl by the backseat lovers

kiss her you fool by kids that fly

pierre by ryn weaver

wildflower by mel bryant & the mercy makers

not strong enough by boygenius

ashes by kevin atwater

lay all your love on me by abba (mamma mia movie version)

lovesong by the cure

no rush and no pressure and no obligation tags: @cheatghost @fragilecapric0rnn @judasofsuburbia @ahhrenata @robbie-verse @starryeyedjanai @steves-strapcollection @corrodedcoughin @heybluechild @metal-dads

#i know i missed this one going around a few weeks ago #thanks to all the lovelies who tagged me in it i simply did not have the spoons to participate #trying to get better at doing these things when i have the energy because it really is so much fun #!!! #kk rants #about me

[casualavocados]

the true eclipse

Buckle up, folks, this is going to get long.

What seems to be the most popular theory people have derived from the symbolism in this series casts Akk as the sun and Ayan as the moon in an eclipse. @grapejuicegay (kk) and I, through a number of posts and a bunch of dms, have been breaking that idea down to its barest functions, starting with:

“I don’t actually think that Akk is the sun. I think that credit belongs entirely to Suppalo, and Akk, [...] is just a representation of that sun.

I think the eclipse is Ayan’s influence on Akk blocking out the influence of the sun.” (ref: kk)

Suppalo's emblem is literally an image of the sun. And it’s not just Akk being affected here by the moon! It’s everyone! It’s Kan, Thua, Wat, and the entire student body.

“During an eclipse, when the moon covers the sun the sun’s influence is reduced. So if control over the students is through the sun, the moon covering it would mean the loss on control.” 

- (ref: kk’s post about lighting and cinematography)

That made me think though about Ayan saying "even if i wasnt here this would still be happening" - so yes Aye is the moon to Akk, and a figure many of the characters go to for advice - but as a whole The World Remembers group is actually the moon to Suppalo.

And while Ayan supports The World Remembers, he’s not actually behind what they’re doing. The protests started before he joined the school. He’s given them encouragement, but lately they’ve been growing their own support from others in Suppalo, and they’ve done that all themselves.

And kk had something absolutely galaxy brained to say about that too in our dms:

The World Remembers WOULD still be doing everything they're doing now without ayan around and they WOULD reach the same conclusions and the only reason we don't think that more is because this show has been diverting our attention this entire time. i've been rewatching old episodes a little bit and the only reason there's any connection between world remembers organising stuff and ayan is because AKK KEPT SAYING IT and he was always wrong but he said it so much that it just became this thing that was like, yeah ofc.

WHICH ALSO. SUCH a good way to show brainwashing??? they're not even showing it, they're just doing it to us [the audience] so that at some point we might realise it's happening and it's like you're not special, it can happen to anybody. everybody is susceptible to propaganda.”

And here’s the real kicker: BOTH of these parties - The World Remembers group and Ayan - have differing motivations that are leading towards the same goal. Both are devoted to searches for the truth, and are uncovering oppressive regulations in the process. Aye is searching for the truth about Dika, and The World Remembers is searching for the truth about the curse - asking for a proper investigation into who could be trying to hurt the students and tearing down Suppalo’s credibility as they go.

(there's already been a lot of analysis into the other ideas they represent: the fight for no uniforms which has led to a criticism of homophobic society and the way oppressive systems benefit from heteronormativity specifically - so i won't say more of that here)

The point is...the real eclipse is truth and knowledge outshining fear and oppression.  

...But surely Akk has a bigger role in this, right?

To us, Akk can't be the sun because he isn't being covered up, or smothered, like the moon does to the sun - he's being brought out of his shell instead.

And so here is a special shoutout to @singharit​’s theory that made kk and i lose our minds:

“something something the way how akk is associated with water and the sea and how so many moments i can think of that involve him opening up to ayan also involve water in some way. [...]  

the way how ayan is the moon, steady and sure [...] being not just a light in the dark for the other students wrt truth and justice and the concept of shame, but also the very thing that controls the tides with its gravitation pull.

We both adore this idea, not just because water is the exact opposite of fire, but also because it's a symbol of change and erosion. The longer Akk spends around Aye and his influence, the more he opens up, the more he changes, the more he questions, the more his original brainwashing by Suppalo/Chadok/the sun to focus on rules wears away into embracing the freedom of expression and being himself. 

“the way how during an eclipse, the tides are the highest that they’ll ever be.”- ( @singharit​ cont.)

As Akk’s relationship with Ayan grows, the eclipse draws closer, which leaves only one question left to ask: What will happen when the eclipse arrives and the tides reach their peak?

TLDR; The real eclipse is truth and knowledge (the moon) outshining fear and oppression (the sun). Akk is affected by the moon, changing like the tides the longer he is in it’s influence.

#the eclipse #grapejuicegay #90% of this is direct quotes from our dms i just tried to organize them into something a little more coherent and tied together for everyon #singharit i hope u dont mind me quoting your post here i just got soooo excited about it #and it really truly needed to be included here #I THINK I SAID IT ALL? #KK FEEL FREE TO ADD ON ANYTHING YOU WANT OR THAT I MISSED #also gonna tag a couple people I HOPE U DONT MIND ily all 💛💛 #pdribs #tosnimeat #usernuria #hipranparakul #none of you have to rb this if you dont want to ofc #i just thought maybe you might like to see it im enjoying watchung this show with u guys <3 #and this post is kk's fault (affectionate) #long post #akkayan #anyway wat's impression of the vague exploration of reality and supernatural is right. so jot that down. #the eclipse the series #🍇 kk

[quirkle2]

having fun. i think

#qktalks #acnh #im just kidding im having a blast #i missed this game man im glad im back into it #i think i beat the game tomorrow ? or at least like. kk is coming tomorrow #got to 3 stars pretty quickly for somebody like me who takes it slow let's goooo #now i can enjoy everything !!!

[piratespencil]

Finished watching Shadow & Bone s2 last night and my Six of Crows obsession has returned full force. Just catapulted me back to 2016-2017. I love those crows so much.

#i thought the changes they made from the books were fun!! #i dont think the show is Better than the books by any means but i like that they’re doing their own thing with it #giving us new storylines and working them into alina’s story #tbh they could make up whatever they wanted and as long as that meant more crows content i’d be down #that cast is soooo so good #kaz and inej especially. their actors fucking NAILED them #the kanej scenes this season….. destroyed me #and the wesper stuff?? cute as FUCK #sad that we’re gonna miss out on some of my fave early wesper content #but thrilled that they gave us so much cute wesper stuff this season #so if they DONT get renewed. we didn’t miss out on that cuteness lol #also curious to see more of nina and matthias bc we definitely got the least of them this season #anyways!!! this is such a ramble lol but. fuck i love the crows #six of crows #shadow and bone #kk talks about stuff

[m4ruk4ts]

yfm oc shenanigans (ft @kazpng's yfm oc lmao) (aka max and kk :3)

they are very silly, your honor

#i guess this counts as yfm oc lore??? lmao what even #but anyways #as you can see. they met at a yfm concert and instantly became besties #i dont remember how but kk managed to start working with yfm. Sorry benson i forgot help #so he got to actually meet the band first #and then he dragged max with him despite max being. Extremely reluctant to go bc. Coward. Wydm fans actually want to meet their idols. Lol #and they all became besties. Kind of. after that kk and the band start working and max just. Hangs out with them. Go girl give us nothing! #i bet he'd try to help them but he doesn't. Contribute as much. He tries tho #and that's all i think? the “lore” might change in the future but as of now it's gonna stay like this #no one actually cares but those two mean a lot to me :c i love the besties i miss them....... #yfm oc #my art

[dykekarkat]

i dont even like pesterquest that much but karkat’s route has me fucked up forever and always. ‘don’t make me tell you how much i hate you’ what if i killed myself right here right now.

#and then karkats refusal to endanger sollux and the fact their feelings are known but not spoken outloud and kk refusing to hurt his friends #SOLKAT COME BACK TO ME I MISS YOU SO DAMN MUCH #like theyre insanely fucking yuri in pesterquest i appreciate it #solkat #karkat vantas

[cloudyvulpine]

"yeah i'm dealing with twice's death well"

the way im dealing with it:

#'Due to their quick blooming season cherry blossoms also symbolize the transience of life' #he even died during/near cherry blossom season #im gonna cry my eyes out i miss him sm #you know things are rough when i make a whole shrine in animal crossing #kk chorale is playing in it sobs #ill never hear that song the same way again #shoutout to everyone on nookazon that traded w me you made me complete #bnha spoilers #bnha #bnha manga spoilers #bnha twice #bubaigawara jin #missing twice hours </3

[rivereddies]

assorted fursonas

#eddie arts :) #bearkitty #riverdoggy #avery tag #kk tag #i need. tags for them. but im lazy #also zeph should be here too but cats are so hit or miss for me orz #furry #furry art #<- for filtering purposes ig #this ones for me folks i just like putting my art somewhere in case i have a moment and delete all my files #and i dont like it when my Normal People followers see my fursonas idk

[saviorkink]

x

#txt #im tired and sad i just miss him #i've been reliving so many memories tonight #i dont even really have anything substantial to say. i miss him. it feels like this'll never change #we'll never talk to each other again lol it's so over #my best friend is falling in love again and it drives me crazy im so jealous #die ene kk tweet had me echt ff goed gepakt #en ik ging door mn photos van oktober november 2022 dus ik had het kunnen zien aankomen #vraag me gwn af hoe lang dit gaat blijven duren i try to celebrate milestones like 2 months since we said goodbye. 1 month no contact #1.5 months since we last spoke on the phone #it doesnt work i miss him so bad i still want him to text me every single day #blahhhh blah blah

[vampireloverz]

microdosing the gow dlc bc i keep getting so emotional about kratos i feel queasy

#gow anon hi… i miss u…… have u seen or played the dlc yet…… no spoilers pls but lmk what u think….. kk love u miss u muah 🤍 #can’t believe i got the double gut punch of the cyberpunk dlc and the gow dlc in the same month… my lifes a movie fr 🙏🏼 #and i got a job so bg3…. soon u will be mine….. everyone say thank u to my bestie for letting me borrow his ps5 LOL

[kkpwnall]

oo i saw in your tags that you were at a hockey game! what hockey team/s do you like?

hey there anon!! i'm still kinda new to the city i just moved to, and JUST went to my first nhl game, so i won't claim any particular loyalty. mostly i'm here for big dudes on tiny skates, an exquisitely smooth passing game, the way it just flows from offense to defense, and the high probability of a fight breaking out on the ice

as i told a friend recently, this game has EVERYTHING

#oh and the way refs jump out of the way like when a cat gets spooked #the whole concept of the penalty box #like you have to watch the other kids play while you go have a timeout #i'm on on my laptop tonight and realizing how many anons i missed i'm so sorry #asks from the ask box #kk rants #get to know me #anon