Since this has become more of a Main Blog than a spot to put my madness combat art, I’m finally getting around to trying to organize my posts with tags. Feel free to mute tags you don’t wanna see posts from--CWs will still be added onto posts as needed!
TAGS IN USE:
posting from nevada [madness combat]
I LOVE YOU BIRD [birds :)]
handsome streamer <3 [jerma985]
echo banging out the tunes [music]
mental illness innit [neurodiversity, mental health, posts that make me (very mentally ill and neurodiverse) say “ahaha... i do that”]
distant echoing [ramblings, personal, the kinds of posts where i ramble in the tags]
women... gotta be one of my favorite genders [ilu girls]
peace and love on planet earth [nose exhales/things i like genuinely/things i like ironically/things i think it’s funny to say “peace and love on planet earth” in response to]
That’s the important stuff out of the way! Everything after this part is just some fun flavor text.
~*~*~ABOUT ME~*~*~
I’m Echo Wing! No, the pun wasn’t intentional (at first). I’m a queer neurodiverse dork in a quarter-life crisis who likes drawing fat women holding guns and swords. Needless to say, Madness Combat was a perfect fit.
I’m using my Failson Era to explore other interests I never had the chance to growing up. On top of digital & physical art, I also do:
creative writing (poetry & fanfiction--shameless AO3 plug here [NOTE: MY AO3 DOES HAVE MATURE CONTENT, including explicit sexual text & stories. Use discretion when viewing.]
Gaming (PC/Switch)--currently trapped in Splatoon 3 after falling victim to a successful peer pressure campaign
Birdwatching (Life List: 27)
Hiking & outdoor sports
Mild quantities of farmboy shit
~*~*~SPECIAL INTERESTS~*~*~
BIRDS: I own several livestock breeds of poultry and enjoy watching wild bird populations in my area. I have multiple small flocks, including a Bachelor Flock for my roosters from past breeding programs. Current breeds:
GEESE: American Buff
DUCKS: Indian Runner (Chocolate, Black, White/Fawn)
MEDIA PRESERVATION: using a hodgepodge of various physical & digital mediums to maintain a good library. I’ve had streaming platforms yank away albums I paid money for w/out refunding too many times.
MUSIC: Here’s some of the artists & genres I like--not in particular order, but I did bold the ones that are some of my favorites:
Pop/Pop Punk/Alternative: Bad Suns, Ball Park Music, Fall Out Boy, IDKHBTFM, MIKA, Mother Mother, My Chemical Romance, Neil Cicierega, Radiohead
Goth/Industrial/Electronic/Alt Rock: Depeche Mode, KMFDM, Ministry, AFI & Blaqk Audio, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Rammstein, Primus, The Cure
Folk/Folk-punk: AJJ, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Utah Phillips
Punk/Metal/Grunge/Rap/Hip Hop: Dead Kennedys, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, System of a Down
every now n then i think about how native americans as human beings just dont exist in like 99% of mainstream media. in movies or tv shows or books or video games or you know even in porn like we just arent people. when theres a native character theyre like a wild west indian. like truly to ppl we all died back in the 1900s.
Me: Tom Cruise I picked up more plain steamed fish for you to eat for every meal because of your pathologies
Tom Cruise: thank you so much. By the way I feel that we have been through enough together - you doing a Misery on me and breaking both my legs, etc - that you can just call me Tom
- he’s considered feminine for a dwarf in dungeon meshi canon
- he spent most of his life living off of the ecology of the dungeon (monster food) after (insert ptsd inducing backstory) happened when he was just a youngin
- he doesn’t have kids and I genuinely think he’d be a bad parent because of how oblivious he can be at times, but he would try his hardest to keep them well fed
- he assumes that all halflings are children because they are small
- he doesn’t wash his beard and this makes it hard for magic to be cast on him
- he hates magic and sees it as a shortcut to getting things done the hard and right way
- he explains EVERYTHING he does when cooking so that those around him can learn from him
- he would make a great teacher of some kind of dungeon survival skills class
- he has a mithril cooking knife
- he turned a perfectly good mithril shield into a large wok he takes everywhere
- the fact that he is hot without his helmet is initially treated as a gag because of how silly he looks with it on
- he can be very careless outside of his obsession with cooking monsters (ignoring directions from his party members and not taking proper care of his supplies) (so real. adhd representation. not caring about anything but your hyperfocus. I understand king)
- one time he gave the birds and the bees talk to Chilchuck because he thought Chilchuck was a child (he’s literally just a young looking 29 year old halfling with three children) (eventually he realizes that Chilchuck as a halfling is essentially middle aged and they get closer bc he gets over his prejudices)(chilshi shoutout)
- he deeply believes in only taking what you need and giving back what you can. Don’t over harvest. Don’t destroy an ecosystem for your own gain. The ecology of the dungeon is important for everyone.
- again his hyperfixation is cooking monsters and he is in canon the best monster food chef in the world
- (MANGA SPOILERS) he tells a character who was (spoiler spoiler spoiler) and is left feeling like the scraps of food left behind on the plate that vegetable scraps can always be used to grow something new and should never be thrown away 🩵
VOTE SENSHI!
Also shoutout to chilshi everyone get more chilshi pilled right now
I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.
breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby
Americans can never talk about japan in a normal way either they go full fetishy orientalist while forgetting japanese includes Real people, or they blatantly forget that the USA is the primary reason why japan sucks so much. Like americans STRONGLY shaped japan's politics and culture by basically threatening them with higher forms of mass destruction multiple times in history like of all people, USA americans shut up. Meji era is on you and so is the bombs.
Like some "progressive" americans will see "Oh japan is imperial country so we can mask our hardly buried racism while trying to be progressive" like no. You can't. Cause America did all that shit. Twice. The rot came from the USA. Japan was an isolationist country still swinging around swords and minding their business till the USA came and basically said change your government and give us military positioning over china or we will shoot you all. America made japan feel so frugal and ashamed that japan felt like they had no choice but to basically copy the west's shitty homework because that is "the advanced way to live." Because the USA made them feel like their whole culture and way of life was shameful and primitive. The japanese said "there is no past only the future." "We have no culture." No one talks about how much shame the USA made the japanese feel about their whole existence.
And now white ass americans star in samurai movies and shit and have basically all the culture they made japan evict to the point where the whole culture of japan exists more as a famtasy for white people rather than something that actually has people and real history attached to it. Japan's culture is not even theirs anymore.
and combine this with the eastern technology scare racism that the west funneled into their cyberpunk genres of "Asia will take over the world with a dystopian tech revolution," when a large influencer of making eastern countries including japan, progress faster is in fact, the USA, after the USA (and europe) came in with mass weapons of destruction and made asians feel primitive and backwards.
Like. Whiter countries are the primary reason behind their own dumbass fears of the east. It just so happens when you barge in with guns, you influence other countries to retaliate or evolve to meet you in some way back. How can this be. Shocker.
krinkels getting asked "which madness character would you be friends with?" and him just going "none of them theyre all terrible people and im judgey as fuck. id be like, youre problematic"
