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[casekek]

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[feefal]

Seraph in the headlights

[feefal]

This is the celestial deer in natural lighting, turns out it’s actually a pigeon…?

[eemamminy-art]

Warmup sketch today (~40 mins) Sebastian having a good mental health day

[casecoded]

omg hi not me abandoning my tumblr acc for half a year ...

boyfriend acquired, what can i say :)

[casekek]

We're engaged now lollll

[sokodraws]

fine, you want the butcher? come on

[sokodraws]

...is that so wrong?

[axondrite-ink]

A job that slowly kills you

A parallel to Laika The Space Dog: Schrödinger’s cat.

[whumpshaped]

"I created you; you're mine."

"I created you; you're mine."

"Just because you created me... Does that really make me yours?" Whumpee asked, more confused than combative. Whumper gave them a condescending smile. They were given a lot of those.

"Yes, Whumpee. It does. You're not a sentient being. You're a fancy toaster at this point. And definitely mine."

Whumpee looked down at their metallic hands. They clenched their fists, then relaxed them. They... didn't feel like a fancy toaster. They felt sentient. But then again, how would they be able to tell? Their whole understanding of being human, being a living, breathing— no, they weren't breathing... whatever, their whole understanding was derived from Whumper. If Whumper said they weren't sentient, then they weren't. "Okay," they said quietly.

"Good. Now, let's see what I can do about those bugs that are slowing down your processing speed. Hop on the table."

[velvetterabby]

Why dis 🤖 so mad???

[oolong-egg]

OC | 20250328

Oops…

[feefal]

Seems like you left some moldy food in your fridge…

I guess it’s their fridge now

[wolves-in-the-world]

thinking about the Sterling & Eliot fight scene in the context of that thing where Eliot seeming to be out of control is pretty much always a grift. It’s something I didn’t properly twig until reading this meta of the french connection job - and it surprised me how perfectly possible it is to watch the show and believe his performance at every turn.

(even with the example early on of Eliot using this trick - anger as a performance, quickly switched off - to get Sophie to admit that she wasn’t apologising. I will never be over season one Eliot successfully tricking the team’s grifter that way. And for such a gentle reason.)

so we get Nate strolling casually up to the table to ask Sterling what he’s doing here - which, big mob boss vibes there, it’s gorgeous - and I’m just thinking about how Eliot ‘snapping’ and going after Sterling allows Nate to be civilised, because Nate doesn’t have to threaten Sterling or remind him not to mess with them; his man, working for him and under his control, has already done that. And Nate being civilised and calling the shots allows Eliot to safely lean into his don’t-mess-with-me angry hitter persona, probably to make a point, probably to have a little fun as well. (Really I don’t even stop to justify that scene. It just causes me so much joy as it is.)

the first time I saw the french connection job, the ‘call off your dog’ bit bugged me. Nate hearing that and (after a moment) doing so meant he was implicitly agreeing with the idea that Eliot was his dog, and that Eliot wasn’t capable of standing down by himself. Which goes entirely out the window if it’s a grift. Reading it as almost transactional, an agreement between the two to enable each other to lean into their respective roles in little plays for their marks’ benefits - and their own - makes it so much better. Nate gets to come across as reasonable and in control of powerful assets; Eliot gets to scare people into believing that he really would hurt them badly if they gave him a reason, and his reputation survives another day, and people don’t look too closely.

“You know, people underestimate you, Eliot.” “That’s kind of the point.”

there’s quite a bit of trust in it, both ways - and an unspoken understanding of what’s really going on - and it just… I just think it’s neat.

[wolves-in-the-world]

#Playing Nate’s pet hitter is kind of just a different spin on his “power negative” grifts. #In one version he pretends the mark is the one with the power. #In the other he pretends that Nate’s the one in power and that the mark is in danger from both of them. #But either way Eliot rarely assumes the role of the person in charge #even though he’s the most ready to call Nate out of anyone on the team. #He doesn’t want to be in charge. But he has standards for how being “in charge” should be done and he will enforce them. [tags by @onyxbird]

[padmedala]

#one of the things I’m forever grateful to this show for is the way it takes Eliot’s skillset seriously and recognizes that it’s not#entirely or even primarily about being able to hit others or even all about physical skill #Eliot perhaps more than any other character in the main cast sees what he does as a role and not who he is#(we see him bring the same professional pride to cooking that he does to fighting) #and he recognizes that a big part of his role is that underestimation - consciously downplaying and sometimes taking literal hits #(which Eliot notes in the tap out job & also in the 3 strikes job where he says he doesn’t like baseball b/c you can’t score on defense) #and because we get all that comments like that from third parties about Eliot being a thug or a dog never bothered me #because that’s the point - because he knows exactly what he’s doing and how much pressure he needs to apply and what aspects of his #skills he needs to play up or diminish #in the Rashomon job he just plays into the doctor’s pre-existing ideas to get him to do what he wants w/o using violence at all #and even the many times we do see Eliot be violent we never see him out of control - we always get the sense that with very few (drugged) #exceptions he’s always in control even when it doesn’t on the surface seem that way

[coffered]

I love you whump. I love you character development through suffering. I love you exploring a character’s lowest point. I love you examining how a character copes with extreme trauma and pain. I love you breaking the strong character and forcing them to come to terms with their own weakness. I love you making a character face their own mortality.

[rxsiki]

i started reading peak aka gachiakuta

[ohdaisyfoxes]

I PUT SCOOBY-DOO SONG ON THIS.

[misouppy]

crinkled tissue rudo

[eotoast]

baby rudo was too cute in ep. 2!!!! 😭😭😭

[mrturnyp]

clean baby rudo i love you