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[mindthedocent]

Min-Gi in episode 5:

[mindthedocent]

[ID: a screenshot of a blue Pikmin staring vaguely in the camera's direction. there is text to the right of it that says "im also problem?" /end ID]

[temaru]

ghost images...

[ayanarts-01]

the rymin leg-eating au

[temaru]

happy pride month to the very first ryan and mins i ever drew on my first art program five years ago!! and happy pride month errybody

[temaru]

rymin doge. playing around with different breeds about it! rambling under the cut!

i love stumbling upon the rymin dog crew art. audacious pom ryan and anxious dog min brings me so much joy but also the fact that dog ryan is quite small made me think. i'd been watching a lot of dog agility competition videos and some of my favorites are the papillons and the border collies who straight up trailblaze the whole thing. i've always associated ryan with speed and unbridled energy in my head and while he definitely doesn't have the grace of a borzoi or the like he can definitely flit around like a little motherfucker. i love pom ryan to bits and i still think he's a funny little guy but when i actually think of dog ryan i think of a faster running or herding dog but maybe that's just me. i lean more towards border collie for my actual dog ryan hc but i just love drawing papillon ryan more because i like making the long ear fur look like his scruffy hair!

if i were to solidly headcanon ryan as a dog i'd think of him as a border-pap mix like Nimble! that's just me though

i actually thought dog min was perfect and the first time i saw his downward ears and anxious dog body language i thought to myself "fuuuck. that's perfect". i personally interpreted him as a black labrador retriever but if there's another dog breed he's more like i'd love to hear about it? despite their capacity for all sorts of things iirc black labs are primarily domestic house pets and i thought that fit. i visited a friend who had a big ol labrador that was absolutely TERRIFIED of us and either 1) hid when we came near or 2) stayed glued to her side either to protect her or protect himself we don't really know. and i just feel min would be that kind of dog. a big anxious lapdog baby. I'm pretty set on him as a black lab but i also drew him up as a black alaskan malamute just for funsies, i have no explanation for it other than it's cute.

by the way i'm sure it's obvious but I am ASS at drawing dogs! i suck at anatomical correctness so i just made them silly! which is why they are also pretty inaccurate. will try to get better in the future but i had fun with it!

[noknowshame]

resurrected dead wife watching her own montage: wow I looked so hot in that

[rusted-fairy-wings]

Okay, there's something I have to talk about with this scene.

My absolute favorite part about Lake's "I guess I changed too" line is how much it rejects what One-One, Mace, and the train itself keep asserting.

Everyone is telling Lake that because they are a denizen, they're meant to help passengers. It's part of how Mace mocks them before his death and part of how he tries to get into Lake's head. And it's not just Mace. It's also asserted by One-One and his insistence that Lake is exactly where they belong by being on the train, that they're so good at helping because they did help Jesse grow. Hell, if you think about it, they also helped Tulip both literally because Tulip and Lake had to swap to open the door and also emotionally because Tulip seemed to really take Lake calling her flaws out to heart. All this to say, it's been repeatedly drilled in by those surrounding Lake that not only is their purpose to help passengers but also that they're good at it. The problem here is clearly not Lake being bad at this.

Yet I feel like this one tiny line flips the script entirely. Yes, Lake did help Jesse grow. Yes, Lake did help Jesse change for the better. But this one line acknowledges that this was mutual. Lake also grew. Lake also changed for the better. Just as much as Lake helped Jesse, Jesse helped Lake. Jesse helped Lake let people in, helped them on their identity journey, showed them real human connection—the list of how much Jesse helped Lake goes on. This one line blurs the line between passenger and denizen. It rejects the very notion that denizens only exist to help passengers grow; shows that this growth can go both ways. It rejects the idea that denizens helping passengers is a defining different between the two and shows how Lake doesn't fit neatly into either category. This clip acknowledges Lake's personhood, that they're a person capable of change, a person who exists beyond helping others.

To me it just really shows the importance of Jesse and Lake to each other and the mutual nature of their dynamic. They both equally helped each other. It shows Lake acknowledging and realizing that they change just like Jesse or any other passenger does. It shows that they're worthy of growth and so much more than an accessory, a reflection designated to support others. They're a person worthy and capable of their own growth and journeys, not just facilitating other people's. Lake does help people, particularly Jesse. But Jesse helps them just as much. Lake's journey and growth is just as real and valid as Jesse's. And this line, to me, really makes that clear.

[temaru]

hello universe!!! random self-indulgent bullshit from my sketchbook GO!!!!!

[mars--stars]

she’s fun to draw

[silliest-guy-ever]

ryannnnn

[eudicotyledon]

They have moved into my brain and refuse to leave.

[oh-cosmia]

updates on rymin nendos: they have instruments now!

[oh-cosmia]

:3 illustrations for committing to the bit w/ @mindthedocent

[johannesviii]

This joke has been on my mind ever since I first saw Amelia's living space in the Engine

[okapi8]

[johannesviii]

Childhood memories, tainted forever

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4

[oh-cosmia]

sorry if you already answered this, but was there a specific reason why you decided for ryan to be a cat (as opposed to combined with a different denizen/animal) in dbttlor? i know there was that huge catboy ryan joke and all back in the day, but now i’m wondering if it’s going to have an actual reason in the story. i have my own theories but i’m curious :3

AH sorry i thought i answered this before but its still in my inbox so i must not have?? sorry about that!!

so initially i remember having a different animal in mind, like a chicken but more chimera-esque (think falin monster form from dungeon meshi, but nowhere near as big), but tbh every design i came up with based on that just kinda grossed me out 😭 and i also figured it’d be way too easy to guess what the form was since chicken choice judy and all. (and in one of the group servers where i first discussed this, someone literally guessed it immediately😭 so i had to change it)

i settled on a cat for multiple reasons! cats can be cute, scary, or gross (hairballs… bringing dead animal gifts…) depending on the situation. i wanted ryan’s denizen form to be something where it makes sense that min can look at him and only see him as adorable and lovable, but that other denizens (like the Cat) or other humans (like amelia) might look at him and feel a visceral, uncanny disgust.

yes, the fandom joke abt catboys was part of it but more than that… well, by this point in the story ryan’s going through something alienating and horrible, and min’s just revealed some traumatic, scary shit on top of his ongoing mental spiral. when something really intense happens, i try to follow it up with something silly or hopeful to cut the tension— and i figured the readers would already be stressed enough by this point. So i figured it’d be funny and a bit of a relief to punctuate this incredibly depressing section of the story with “Surprise! We got plot-relevant catboys now!”

The last reason is that I’m not above being self indulgent and I never wanna take myself so seriously I can’t pull some silly bullshit like “what if ryan was a catboy. and we explore how this is genuinely body horror lite™️ for him”