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they/them / 30s reblog heavy - art tag 🔞 not a blog for minors! 🔞

[kingstooth]

finally put the dandelions on threadless until i have the space and resources to order prints and other stock and ship on my own 🌼 enjoy, my fellow dandelions

🌼🌼🌼totes, mini prints, a sticker and a couple different styles of notebook are available!

[kingstooth]

you will never guess who got trapped in another endless hallway of nightmares and despair #hallwaysquad

[peachdelta]

Being a fan of this band is so funny. Why are we the exception to the secret ending conspiracy rule

[peachdelta]

To my followers that don’t know what the fuck I’ve been posting about since October, the Protomen are a rock opera band that’s loosely based on Megaman. “For the uninitiated, The Protomen sound like if Queen and Rush got drunk listening to Devo records, fell into an 80s cyberpunk dystopia, and decided to write a rock opera about the classic video game series, Mega Man.” (via metalsucks)

The story is told primarily through the liner notes that come with the CDs of each act, and we’ve been waiting for Act III for literally over sixteen years, since 2009. They released each song digitally on Bandcamp every week for a few months during the last quarter of 2025, and we hadn’t gotten any of the liner notes until MAGfest, where they were selling the CD physically with the libretto.

I won’t get into the actual ending details because there’s still a bit of an embargo, but some people thought it was really abrupt and sudden. It was abrupt. It was fucking scary! You should listen to the whole album on Bandcamp! I kind of loved it, but there were some plot threads that went unresolved. On top of that, years ago, there was a song called The Fight (which is a much more uplifting song than the ending we got) that they outright said was part of Act III— but it never showed up on the album. They said during a Twitch stream a few weeks ago that there was almost nothing left on the cutting room floor, so why was The Fight excluded?

So people started to do the classic thing that usually never ever works— theorize that there was another secret part they weren’t showing us.

Then, MAGfest people were buying the MAGfest Power magazine (which is a really cool magazine about all the stuff to see at the con) and noticed in an interview with Panther and Commander that they were dropping literal actual ARG hints. Along with that, they were selling bracelets with a cipher on them. Most of being in the Protomen Discord during MAGfest was watching people run around the Gaylord hotel trying to figure out what the fuck was going on before the Act III performance— there was a scavenger hunt that ended with one guy finding a jar of Ovaltine?— and you can read the whole thing about the ARG here. Spoilers for the libretto part of the ARG. It’s so fucked up.

I literally met the band at the meet & greet with my friend Veg, we asked Reanimator, “hey, what’s going on with Act III? Is that it?”

He tells us to “look at the disc”. Veg pulls it out, looks at the back without the design. Reanimator goes “no, no, the other side”.

Yeah alright man. Just cut off half of your logo like it’s only part one of two. Just cut your logo in half for your “final” album. Sure

This is so funny. So many other fandoms have risen and fallen with the “secret ending being hidden” theory. Why are we the exception to this. Why is the rock opera dystopian cyberpunk Megaman the exception to this. This has never once worked for anyone ever except for us. Why are we the only ones who have ever gotten this right

[prokopetz]

Protomen Act III Act I.

[kingstooth]

the long silence is because i was so deeply and severely suicidal and have been dealing w a myriad of severe health issues. it will probably continue until i can stabilize my life. i miss talking to people though and i look forward to feeling deserving of it ❤️

[kingstooth]

difficult to overstate how severely depressed i have been my entire life but by god i am handcrafting a future. i am carving it from marble w my bare hands if i have to.

[kingstooth]

resisting the urge to quit my job and drive across the country over the weekend to stay w a friend until i find a job there

[kingstooth]

in october i was suicidal and spiraling about my future and how dearly i missed my friends

this coming weekend i am starting the move to live w one of those friends! i have a job lined up! never kill yourself

[kingstooth]

more tattoos and throwing up and someone calling me sir again and a night walking around a waterfront w my friends and the perfect lemon iced tea and a cool dark empty room w pouring rain and cracks of thunder outside and fifty thousand US dollars would not fix me but it would give me the will to live

[kingstooth]

i dont think im capable of feeling happy or comfortable or safe and i dont think i ever have been

[kingstooth]

theres just this inescapable place im always in and i dont think i can leave. im in a field and the dry grass scratches my legs and i am so afraid of the ticks and the distant people and dread going back to a house with eggshell floors and demons in the corners, watching me through the windows, or i am trapped in a cold building with sharp red edges like glass and a floor i can't touch and doors i am always so stressed will be left open and i will lose someone through them, and my phone is always ringing but it is always always bad, or i am in a sunbeam in a dusty room holding cheap dog fur coated fleece blankets with the silk edges, you know the kind, watching the sunwhite dust hairs but i am small and i am not safe but i cannot run and the warm cooking smell and the dog oil makes me want to be sick

i dont know. i dont know. i am always in these places, like little pieces of my being are just trapped there in the past and i am looking through them and feeling them on my skin and i do not know how to make it stop or feel some other way. maybe when too many things happen its harder to piece it back together or maybe there was never enough of me for this to begin with or maybe i am particularly unsuited for repair but i want so, so badly to feel something else. safe, or loved, or wanted, or calm. i am a hurricane of bad memories and facades. things were supposed to be different eventually

[kingstooth]

i dont think im capable of feeling happy or comfortable or safe and i dont think i ever have been

[kingstooth]

resisting the urge to quit my job and drive across the country over the weekend to stay w a friend until i find a job there

[copperbadge]

On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."

As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.

As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.

I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.

May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.

[vergess]

hey bestie i think ur post might be charmed 'cause you aren't gonna fuckin believe what happened today

[kingstooth]

not really sure i can keep trying and im not lucky enough to coast haha

[kingstooth]

there should be a different horn for when you want to thank the other drivers for letting you merge

[kingstooth]

there should also be a horn for telling someone i hate them. it should be sharp and abrupt.

[kingstooth]

there should be a different horn for when you want to thank the other drivers for letting you merge

[kingstooth]

hi everyone please pray for me it's 102F and i work in a warehouse without AC

[kingstooth]

we aren't allowed to wear tanktops and the sensation of my bra on my shoulders in the heat makes me want to try stand up comedy in front of a hungry pack of wolves so like for real pray for me

[kingstooth]

hi everyone please pray for me it's 102F and i work in a warehouse without AC

[cuubism]

my friend and i have been losing our goddamn minds over the photography in this zillow listing and i feel the need to share it with you all too

the lighting??? the fog?? the atmosphere???

this shit is like high art and it's a ZILLOW LISTING . and that's not even all the photos!!! what the fuck!!!

[hollowedskin]

Ohhhhh I want to be there...