Germaphobic the First

Lupin III Artist, JigLup, Many a Cowboy & Werewolf AU, tired, but there's no rest for the wicked

[lupin3germs]

I’ve gone to the end of my rope for you, partner.

“Help me, Lupin.”

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Wake up (why can't you) And face me (come on now) Don't play dead (don't play dead) 'Cause maybe (because maybe) Someday I'll (someday I'll) walk away and say You fucking disappoint me Maybe you're better off this way

Two parts of the plan to be carried out by each partner. Not unusual to be separated, they work alone in harmony. But someone Lupin was not expecting, an enemy on the many he did not know of, wants to foil the thief’s plans…in pursuit of a greater goal…

Lupin’s been caught by surprise, he did not know about Jigen’s whereabouts, and did not expect him to be captured by the same group, and even less so expect the shape he’s in…

The pair have been blindsided by an unexpectedly competent and very dangerous enemy…

Jigen’s in very rough shape.

Try not to draw beat up jigen challenge…impossible. tried to design interesting background characters on the go, i think it worked out okay.

[key-rk]

More Jigen + a very angry zenigata

[kuno2480]

Hah, you call that a punch?

[iwuznuthin99]

Yasuo Otsuka - Mechanical Artworks (my scans)

[yumiko-ichi-zeniiigata]

Some drawings of the lupgang bc yes

Ofc also the Zenigotyumi....

[eatmildneverspicy]

regurgitates this at you

[kuno2480]

Lend me your cigarette

[kuno2480]

Nuh uh you're not running away again

[glitterandteeth]

bro.......

[semoart]

What're you looking at, Lupin?

[biftix]

Fujilup collab with @marena-echo

They're amazing! I'm so happy we collaborated; it was a wonderful experience! ❤

[febreezylalala]

Updated my sdc designs, old on right

[diamondzart]

The best noir detective cosplayer deserves thematic fanarts :]

[lupin3germs]

another update. We’re almost done with the bitch ass fight scene so i can finish the rest of the animatic. To be completely honest i don’t know why i decided to make a full on fight scene (when i didn’t know how lol. HUGE learning curve) for 1 little scene but what ever.

On second thought, as i’m writing this i realized it looks half good and i’m not gonna touch it beside little edits. It’s done. It’s good and i am proud.

Baby’s first animated fight scene

[lupin3germs]

Idk idk

[cowinf]

Some more Magnum Dance pages, this time featuring Fujiko! <3

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

[themself]

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

[westenra]

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

[lunaescribe]

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist. 

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective. 

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream. 

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’ 

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions. 

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior. 

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are. 

[lupin3germs]

I think one of things that contributes to this “media worship” is the fact that online spaces and fictional worlds have become a stand in for real life in a really disturbing way (any mild behavior like that has been SEVERELY exacerbated by the social isolation during Covid) . People are unable to separate fiction from reality, because the online spaces for this fiction has effectively replaced all the aspects in their life that’s supposed to ground them (social interaction, community) so they morally police their community in a way that they would otherwise be policing their irl life.

[bee-unknown]

It seems like a lot of spaces have become very cultish lately, or maybe I’ve just started to notice, not only in fictional spaces but also irl, like yesterday I watched a video about a makeup brand and the girl talking about the situation apparently got death threats from fans for questioning the brands practices

Like you’re either a fan or a hater, and if you even DARE to criticize or point out something negative you’re immediately put on the “unemployed troll stalker” box even IF the criticisms are valid

[bellasauruss]

Creatures of Sonaria like fuckkkkkk the GoogooGaka just corpsed my Bitcklemarpo , nothing can make me happy

oh sweet they just released a remodel for Pobbo and he has projectile Poop, AND I only have to play for 49 more hours to get enough MUSHROOMS to purchase him?!? SWEEEEET