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#thank you all so much holy shit?
holybasementdweller · 1 month
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hehe funny number
also why the hell did these blow up on Twitter overnight i just- oh my god- 4c, minute, AND red all saw them?????? and i know 4c and minute are putting them on the server?? w h a t is happening
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feralmoonlight · 1 year
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cowboys are ok I guess @castercassette
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marclef · 4 months
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t- the cats......... they're multiplying.......
they're in the walls.... THEY'RE IN THE FUCKING WALLS!!!!!!!
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(aka I've Added The Newest Gift Eyhms Around My Room Oh God)
don't have enough frames for all of them aaahh sorry!!! i need to stop spending all of my money on cheapass Amazon frames though hggh
BUUUUUT here it's time to shout out every single person who's added an Eyhm here (not counting previous ones). here we go:
*deep breath followed by abrupt choking because my throat hates me*
@kaijubrainsart/@kaijubrains @cutechan555 @gabaobab @snakeinabag @goobergoop08 @azazelangel5 @luigigirl12 @yo-kai123 @notsquid @mrfellsans @annatheavian277 @dingle-dee @lucia-the-mii @whereismyhat5678
ENJOY HANGING OUT BY MY SHRIMP TANK AND POKEMON PLUSHES!!! (god that shelf's been there for years maybe i should move it 😓)
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undead-resting-box · 1 year
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Louis! Lestat! Them! Dancing! Smiling! Can you believe it?
HUGE thank you to @nasnyys for this perfect commission, I’m so happy with it! Please go appreciate his art and give him some love!!!
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ghost-proofbaby · 1 month
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Hi ghost! Wanted to ask you, if you would be ok with me binding twenty four hours into a book for myself. I love the fic so much and it would be a dream to get to bind it🩶
absolutely under one condition:
you've gotta show me alllll the pictures once you do!! <3
no but seriously. this ask just made me cry. you guys absolutely can bind my fics if you truly want to, as long as it's just for yourselves and you're not reselling them or anything. alright. going back into my corner to sob now because someone likes my writing enough to want a physical fucking copy. god you just made my day my dear
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cyberpunkboytoy · 5 months
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My DID-having ass is experiencing so much world-envy for the fictional country of Vaugarde I'm going to throw up
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reegis · 6 months
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commissions closed!!! thank you all so much!!
ill open them again after iv finished all of my current slots!!!
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Hello! Hope you don't mind the random ask 🥺 You said after the newest episode that Mushitarou is one of your favorite BSD characters; could you talk a little about your thoughts on him/why you love him/his arc? He's one of my favorites too, and it makes me so so sad how underrated he is, because imo he's one of the most well-written and tragic characters in the entire series, despite how little screentime (pagetime?) he gets :' ) I wish more people would talk about him. Really hope that changes after the next episode 💚
I honestly almost screamed when I got this ask YES I CAN TALK ABOUT MUSHITARO. I CAN TALK ABOUT HIM ALL DAY.
Ok well first of all he is the poor little meow meow. Pathetic scrunkly man. I'm sorry but you can't deny that it's true. Even in-universe, it's like he's the BSD world's chew toy. He keeps getting kidnapped by different organizations with like. No breathing room in between. Give him a BREAK. Funnily enough, I enjoy and usually like to poke fun at these kinds of characters, but they're not typically my favourites. Mushitaro is, by far, an exception to my usual favourite character types.
Second, I am a lover of bittersweet tragic storylines. Yeah. Honestly, the way the storyline built to the slow reveal - I knew immediately after Poe mentioned the water droplets that they were his tears, and I was starting to suspect what was really going on, but the way it was unraveled was so, so painful and beautifully done. Even knowing it was coming today when I watched the episode, it still hurt.
Thirdly, Mushitaro's circumstances raise some intriguing questions we still don't have answered. He was captured by the Seventh Agency and made to work for them with his ability - he considers them a worse alternative to Dostoevsky and refers to them as tyrants. (We also know of another shadowy organization that takes on ability users with useful skills for nefarious purposes, V. V also somehow managed to not be discovered by either the government or Ranpo in 13 years. I'm not saying there's a connection there but... but... there might be. 👀) Anyways, point is, there's stuff goin' on there. And I wanna know. (Also I like the motivation parallels with Ango very much.)
But most of all, I fully agree with you - he is very well-written. What I love most about his character is actually the way his narrative showcases what I believe to be some of the series' character writing's biggest strengths - to excellent (and heartbreaking) effect.
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Characters are often revealed to be quite different than what their initial introductions would suggest. Later revelations serve to recontextualize earlier character cues - these early cues are often misleading but not outright lies.
To be clear, this isn't a hard or particularly unique thing in character writing - in fact, this is... kind of a minimum requirement. Your audience should be able to go back after the fact and notice new things about characters that you only get on re-read. But I find BSD is interesting for this because these initial impressions don't frequently tell you what these characters actually value - the "establishing moments" are often incredibly misleading. Mushitaro is an excellent example of this.
The best part of the perfect murder arc is the way it slowly unravels piece by piece - and as it unravels, more and more, we get to see the real Mushitaro. He starts off with these terrifying facial expressions, bragging and boasting about how he is the "detective killer" and how none stand in his way, cackling like a shallow cartoon villain. There's not much there to suggest a deeper character. Then there's the first flash to Yokomizo's murder, and Mushitaro appears to revel in it and the idea that he can't be caught. Another flashback shows him making these arrogant demands of a literal terrorist, like all his tableware being silver and porcelain and having access to a library of occult books for his study. Ok dude. This all paints the picture of a selfish individual, primarily concerned with expensive things and money and image - all things that perfectly fit Ranpo's initial conjecture as to the kind of person behind the Kindaichi murder. And just like Ranpo later says, it's a little too perfect.
The reveal builds slowly but surely, and Mushitaro's built-up image as a dramatic, remorseless murderer crumbles. Because he didn't kill out of hatred at all. He killed Yokomizo because Yokomizo asked him to do so. Because this, and the legacy of a mystery that transcended fiction into reality, was his only friend's dying wish. It was enough for Mushitaro to delay his escape just to fulfill it - what Ranpo refers to as a kind of willing self-destruction.
What Mushitaro ultimately values then is honouring the wishes of those he cares about and repaying those he owes. He will take the secret of Yokomizo's ultimate mystery to his grave. He used what he likely thought were his last moments alive to grab the transceiver and warn Ranpo about the danger the Agency was in. He only decided to trust Ango after Ango admitted his use of the Seventh Agency was to honour Oda's memory and wishes.
So, going back and re-reading his intro again, it becomes more clear that he was suffering from a kind of cognitive dissonance. "But wasn't he just playing the role he was supposed to?" No. He wasn't. The first flashback to Yokomizo's murder is much more violent and ends with Mushitaro cackling and going into a full villain monologue when there is no one else around but him. There's no one to perform this role for - except Mushitaro himself.
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Both the killing and the ensuing grief stemmed from the exact same source - Mushitaro loved his friend deeply. But there is, I believe, no small amount of bitterness too, for the way they argued frequently, and the way his friend asked this of him. It's practically irreconcilable in his mind, and so Mushitaro leans into his role as the evil perpetrator who hated Yokomizo to such a degree that I honestly think he started to believe it - Mushitaro, with two narratives in his mind running parallel to each other that are fundamentally conflicting, tried to make a monster of himself. Insisted on being the monster, at least until Ranpo made it impossible for him to deny the true motive behind his actions - protecting his friend's last wish.
Fittingly for the climactic reveal of a mystery storyline that blurs fiction and reality, Mushitaro's real-life grief was his perfect fictional role's undoing.
Is he boastful? Arrogant? A bit of a coward? Absolutely. But Mushitaro is no monstrous villain - he is a man unable to confront his grief over his friend's death, and who, ultimately, doesn't intend any real harm.
Because other than Yokomizo, revealed as an agreed upon assisted suicide - Mushitaro never murdered anyone.
2. Characters are not cured of their pain and trauma. They continue to struggle with it during their development and it actively impacts the way they view and interact with the world around them.
Mushitaro's story is heavily themed around grief and his consistent denial of it's effects on him. At first, he denies by embodying the role Yokomizo wanted him to play - it seems to the point where he legitimately started to lose it. He's slipping when we first meet him. In a weird way, for as much as Ranpo tore his perfect crime apart... I feel like he also saved him, in a sense. The dissonance he was experiencing likely only would've gotten worse if he had not been forced to speak the truth aloud.
After that point... the denial focuses solely on the idea that Mushitaro doesn't miss Yokomizo at all. That he's doing just fine and Yokomizo should be jealous (he's far from fine; he doesn't even see a point in going outside anymore now that he won't be able to see his friend) and that he hated him (he doesn't. he never did. but he has to. he can't deal with it.).
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Another thing I really like about his arc is that Mushitaro's grief also clearly stems from the entire thing being traumatic for him - but neither Yokomizo nor Mushitaro are demonized or victimized for this; rather the situation is just shown as it is. It's nice, that the story allows the reader/viewer to draw their own judgements. Both had their reasons for their actions - Yokomizo was already dying and wanted to go out in a way that was meaningful to him, while Mushitaro chose to fulfill this wish in spite of the cost to him. They both mutually self-destructed, in a way.
The narrative doesn't frame either as the villain. It doesn't fully frame either in victimhood either. It's a tragedy all the same.
Mushitaro continues to see and hear Yokomizo wherever he goes, not because he can't get rid of him... but because he never wanted him to be gone in the first place. Stabbing me would hurt less I think. :/
3. Characters often grow and change before they consciously realize it or have any sort of "epiphany".
This ties in a lot with the ongoing theme of uncertainty, and I above all really like this aspect of the series. BSD has characters grow and change and try to be better, do better by themselves and others... without being sure of the outcome. Sometimes before they're ready to consciously admit a change is necessary. There are few epiphanies. The characters are forced to slog through hardship and only then suddenly realize how far they've come - for better or for worse.
Mushitaro does change, even in the short span of time he is a focus character. I love the first little signs of it too - Mushitaro, who doesn't even like mystery novels, uses a trick Yokomizo told him about to help himself, Atsushi and Kyouka escape. Look at him :')
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Afterwards, he starts to wonder if he can see Yokomizo whenever he enters a locked room - as in, if connecting to the memory of his friend through what he loved in life will mean that he keeps that memory alive.
And as annoyed as he is with Poe's attempts to get him to write a mystery... a part of him is happy to be around people that he could start to consider his friends. Enough that the Yokomizo he hallucinates wonders if maybe he doesn't need him there anymore. And finally Mushitaro bursts.
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But this is actually good. He's finally past that denial phase, the part that had him talking about hate when really he missed him all along. Thing is, he'd already been developing and changing by this point, in that he needed the growth to come to terms with this truth, and it was not the truth that drove the growth.
In a sense, Mushitaro working through his grief and uncertainty led him to a brighter outcome, one where he has more friends and can start anew. He lost the closest person in his life. But his arc continuously asserts that in spite of the fact that he will always miss his friend, Mushitaro himself is still alive. And he should live that life - both moving forward and keeping the memory of his friend with him.
Odasaku believed that writing a novel was to write people. Poe was so insistent on getting him to write because it's a way of seeing the people we want to see anytime we want.
What a beautiful character arc, that began with fiction as an escape from real-life pain, and concluded with fiction as a means to work through it and with it instead.
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Plus he's just such a funky little dude.
I. Love. Mushitaro.
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glitchedcosmos · 4 months
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I was browsing YouTube and nearly choked on my energy drink.
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todaysbird · 1 year
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(sequence of a cartoon bird getting hit on the head, going “SQUAWK”, then falling out of a tree and seeing stars)
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realjrwiquotes · 3 months
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thank you :D
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mandiemegatron · 5 months
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I just wanted to come on and say thank you to everyone who showed love and support during all this absolutely WACK bullshit that happened in the last few days. It's so tough when you put yourself out there and try to do something you enjoy, only for someone to come along and essentially rip it out of your hands and smash it on the ground.
BUT, I'm not going to let one or two miserable bullies stop me from being my silly, bright, sunshine-y, self-shippy self. I love my mans and they love me, and if you don't like it, that's a whole fuckin you problem!
So keep your pants on yall, cos my next fic is gunna blow 'em right off 😈😈💖💖💖
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everysongineverykey · 8 months
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what the fuck do you mean soul brother is about brian may. what do you MEAN freddie mercury wrote a song about brian harold may that went "he's my best friend, he's my champion, and he will rock you, rock you, rock you, cause he's the saviour of the universe, he can make you keep yourself alive, make you keep yourself alive, cause he's somebody, somebody you can love" what do you mean he just wrote that and then casually told brian may about it in the studio one day and was like surprise! i've written a song about you, but it needs your touch! break out that guitar! what do yuo mean they both wrote songs aimed at each other at least once but brian wrote so many for freddie he can't remember which one he was working on at the time. WHAT DO YOU MENA
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ratstuckinamarble · 7 months
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Hey! Saw you were having a bit of a rough time lately, so I wanted to sketch ya a quick little thing to keep pushing the jock Lagoona agenda hopefully help raise your spirits a little
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I- thank you... I don't even know what to say. That's so incredibly sweet I'm kinda tearing up.
I'll always be here to pass the jock Lagoona agenda along ('-'*ゞ Gosh look at these cutiiiies, the vibe on all all your drawings of them is absolutely immaculate.
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piningpebbles · 2 months
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Stream vods anon once again! I loved reading your analysis, since I'm rather new to Jack Manifold lore it was really enlightening. I found the vod on internet archive if you want to watch it again!
https://archive.org/details/2022-07-11-jack-manifold-tv-my-first-dream-smp-stream-in-2022-just-chilling-thou
oh my god stream vods anon i am so sorry i don't know how long it's been since you sent me this (i'm so bad about answering asks on time i'm so fucking sorry) but OH MY GOD,,
THE C!JACK BLOWING UP THE HOTEL STREAM??
THE "so he does care about the hotel, he just doesn't care about me." STREAM??
i didn't know if i'd be able to see this vod again.. i had no idea how i was going to search for it. and you just found it for me? oh my god thank you thank you thank you so fucking much you have no idea how much this means to me.
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theyoshimister · 2 months
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Happy full maturity day. Here’s a throwback as a gift for such occasion.
2012, 2018 and 2023 in 1 drawing
I was originally going to put Marci parallel to talli at first as they’re both yoshi’s most well known 2010s characters. But, i couldn’t find a proper reference for the former so i went with a personal favourite instead.
The galaxia in meta knight’s reference had a very short, unwieldy handle so i had trouble drawing a pose with it. So i drew him polishing his sword with “cake slicer” written on it so people don’t get the wrong ideas.
The other tails doll fumo is actually an OC that i draw all the time and is accordingly owned by me. I put her alongside cheshire as they share pretty striking similarities with their personality and backstory
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