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no, i haven't heard back from them. have you?
thinking about toriel trying to encourage kris out of the house this day. and carol calling before hand, confirming noelle is going to go. thinking about how this isn’t the first time carol has had this horrible phone call
I haven't feel well lately, I don't find the motivation to continue my projects. I'm playing some DS2 and made Faraam/ Bearer of the Curse doodles in a attempt to cheer myself up.
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free use is kind of a funny kink bc it relies on the idea that everybody wants to touch you and have sex with you but what if they don't. what if you tell everybody at the party you're free use but they all ignore you and mind their own business
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a few extra sketches + some explorations of other chars in the bg dont mind them
A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE.
I’m not sure I knew the thy/thine distinction. Thanks for this!
Goodbye Forever
I Read A Nasty Thing On-Line And Well I Have Had Enougfh So-Long Boarever
please come back horace we love you
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Still one of the best animations I've ever done. Took just under a week and was equal parts fun and challenging. So here are some process passes! The full version had too many colors so I had to do some compression T0T
As always, no ai.
Tie Nut & Bumbling Idiot
happy in his blankeyy
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Every character in Mob Psycho is so lonely at the beginning of the series, but they all express it in different ways so they don’t realize they’re all dealing with the same problem!
Mob makes himself small and quiet and blends in and does his best to never make a scene and never ask for anything and never think about what he wants. Reigen makes himself big and loud boisterous and takes up as much space as possible–but it’s all show, it’s all slight-of-hand, it’s a magic trick so everyone looks where he wants them to and he doesn’t have to risk anyone seeing through him. Ritsu makes himself perfect and dutiful and studious and pours himself into the mold of A Good Son, A Good Student, A Good Brother, and thinks that if he buries himself deep enough no one can touch him. Teru makes himself sharp and brilliant and frightening and puts himself at the top of the pyramid and convinces himself that it’s a feature that no one can get close to him. Dimple does the same thing–makes himself into a god and a monster, someone who only sees humans as pawns. Never equals. Never friends.
Everyone has walled themselves off from genuine connection, convinced themselves that there’s an important reason they’re alone that isn’t just that they’re afraid, and the series is about all of those walls being torn down, bit by bit. There are a million ways to be lonely, but the solution to all of them, every time, is vulnerability and kindness.
I realize this is a cast iron gate but I’m choosing to believe it’s a magic protection ritual
It IS a magic protection ritual, and it summons an iron gate to protect you from intruders.
“I cast Iron Gate!”
As a blacksmith I have been called a wizard by several small kids
There is a single story that governs the Light World: one perspective so pervasive that it gets to call itself objective truth. Someone will try to change the world, to call on darkness and its limitless possibilities; but change is nothing but a wound in the Earth's side. Three heroes will appear and drive out the dark. It's repeated, over and over, in church, in games, in stories.
A lost girl falls out of the world. She finds herself immured in endless darkness. She tells herself, I was never going to make it out alive – that place was choking me to death. But with darkness, I could show everyone left behind that it doesn't have to be that way. I could tell a new story! A better story!
She strikes the Earth with her blade, the black pen of dreams, and tells a story: an evil ruler tries to call on the power of darkness. Three heroes appear and drive him out.
She tries again: an evil ruler tries to call on the power of darkness. Three heroes appear and change her mind.
Even with all the raw, formless potential in the world, the Light World hasn't given her any other material to work with. The girl can only tell the only story she's ever heard, over and over again. Her Dark Worlds are doomed from the start, sabotaged from within by the single perspective that shapes what she understands as possible.
December Holiday is in kind of a curious position: with the attitudes and desires of someone on the margins, but far closer to the center of the Light (Asriel's presumptive first love; Mayor's daughter; biggest house in Hometown; etc.) than almost anyone.
I think that's her fatal flaw here, that she was raised in that center, even if she's rejected and been rejected from it. She shows Noelle a shining city, but she can't make Noelle see that she could go there, instead of going back home in the end. She might spread the darkness, but she still ends up using Darkners as props in the story she wants to tell, then discards them when their jobs are done – if she doesn't rip them apart! And her stories for Kris still end in them destroying themself in the pursuit of an imaginary and delusional freedom; the Darkners she appoints as creatures of freedom struggle in vain against the Great Chain, and the only secret boss with genuine hope for something to change is the one who refused to look through her Shadow Crystal. She's an emissary of possibility but she has no capacity to imagine a future for herself that lasts.
Her Susie parallels are pretty obvious, but Susie wasn't raised with the Prophecy – she hasn't just rejected it after a lifetime of immersion, she's never known it at all! Except in brief, and she found out about the final tragedy too soon to incorporate it too heavily into her identity. She has no exposure to weird Hometown church, and barely any exposure to RPGs (which kind of serve as a metonym for that single perspective, in Deltarune's symbolic language). She's also near-explicitly compared to the Darkners, the throwaway toys whose position at the bottom of Hometown's Great Chain of Being legitimizes the entire arrangement.
Accordingly, she's a poor bully whose most immediate parallel in Chapter 1 is King. As far as portal fantasies go, "your school bully manifests in the magical world as an evil ruler, who you have to overcome in order to gain the confidence to stand up to her in real life" is – standard-issue. More charitable stories might have their hero befriend the bully as a show of their goodness, then relegate her to a supporting role, a token of the hero's growth. Susie is a prop in a bigger story with no room for her, who – thanks to circumstance and her own hope for something better – rewrites her role. If anyone can change this, it's her.
In Undertale, the difference in physical structure between humans and monsters represents their different... let's say "ontological" status; humans are more physical because they're more real that monsters, right, they're the ones with real agency and moral patienthood; the world is implicitly telling you that monsters don't matter, they aren't moral patients, they are to humans as NPCs are to a player. They aren't real people made of flesh and blood, they're made of magic! That's the joke, I think.
Now Deltarune, with Lightners and Darkners, takes that subtext of ontological superiority and brings it even closer to text; the Darkners are literally not real, Ralsei encourages you to disregard their lives; the Lightners stand above them in the great chain of being, and closer to the Sun.
It would then stand to thematic reason that Monsters, as Lightners in the world of Deltarune, where we already know they don't have Magic, all bleed. This is what I have been staunchly defending for years now. And yet the game has just danced around it the entire time— if it's just a simple fact of the world, why not be straightforward about it? Why treat Susie bleeding four chapters in like a big deal? Why let Darkners so consistently talk about blood?
—Deltarune does not borrow Undertale's symbolism here; blood does not anymore stand for "real", or, rather, if it does, it stands for "real" as in "visceral", as in the opposite of "sanitized".
I don't actually know if Lightners bleed or not, but it doesn't matter, because either way, this fact would not be brought up. This is not a place where things like violence or blood are talked about (just ignore the weird man in the weird costume). This is just a quaint little town! Nothing bad ever happens here. We especially wouldn't talk about it around the kids! We're protecting them from it! Kids shouldn't worry about things like blood or trauma— So even a giant bloodstain on the floor goes unacknowledged.
The Light World doesn't allow talking about anything uncomfortable. Horror movies and rock music that may contain references to scary things are banned! But in the Dark Worlds, where the kids are free from the eyes of the grown ups, and can talk about everything weird and uncomfortable they're going and have gone through, the things they know are there just under the surface but aren't allowed to speak of— they can talk about blood. The Darkness itself manifests gushing from a wound in the Earth!
And Susie— well she talks about blood all of the time. She bluntly acknowledges the truth that "everyone bleeds". And when she rejects the prophecy, when she calls out the lie of the religion which claims to be all about everyone being always nice to one another, she, herself, bleeds.
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And because of that, the kids noticeably and consistently lack the conceptual vocabulary to talk about what's happening in Hometown, and have to use the language they do have to approximate it, badly – first and foremost the language of games; toys; stories.
Noelle can't say "Kris did something," she can only say "it snowed," and "It was snowing so hard, I couldn't see anything." Kris goes to Art Therapy, trying to depict what they saw behind the tree, and draws the trees of Card Kingdom instead – and the Forgotten Man and Mancountry are games, too. The closest we've gotten to the "core" of what Kris is hiding was through MANTLE, game abstraction wrapped in game abstraction wrapped in game abstraction like the shielding of a nuclear waste disposal site, while some shrieking, giggling, unspeakable fear sits at its center and writhes hard enough to tear through that defensive layer and torment Kris in flesh.
They can't say it without a video game to do the talking for them – and that game, derived from Dragon Blazers / Lord of the Hammer / The Prophecy, carries its own conceptual load, doesn't it?
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