My Brain is a Shit Factory

PFP by https://marccurie.tumblr.com !!! Any pronouns. Multifandom sideblog where I can post my ideas and headcanons. I would just use a document or some shit but this format suits me better :)

[shitmak]

To the people who watched Sapnap's Monopoly stream/VOD the other night: I'd like to present to you a MASTERPIECE of foreshadowing.

From Sapnap's VOD– Monopoly W/ Karl, George, Ranboo and BadBoyHalo at 1:48:59

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Transcript:

Karl: That's a deal! (Trade is denied.) Oh.

Ranboo: No, it's not a deal. I think we're just gonna have a stalemate game, honestly!

Dream: Nah, we won't.

[shitmak]

Okay so i've got a couple of ideas about EpicSMP characters... but i mainly wanna talk about mister Charlie Slimecicle? Specifically from his internship for Swagger and Schlatt.

(Just for clarification: I don't see these people as being characters; i'm talking about the roles they're playing on the server. I know they're very real people and as always, we should respect them👍)

Talking in-character-wise, the amount of injuries Slimecicle gets on the job, even just from his first day is concerning, but i imagine it's easily explained by the fact that his character is partly made of slime. So when he gets run through the crushing wheel, he only gets kinda banged up. He's still partially human so it does some damage, but he survives where an average person wouldn't.

I also imagine that he got a mechanical replacement for his left arm, after the tree farm sawblade fuckin got it. Maybe his slime abilities allow him to slowly regrow limbs? I think it'd be neat if he was given a mech as a quick substitute, and then his body tried to gradually regen back over it, but it was like: "What? There is already bone?" So his character has a sort of translucent slime arm with a semi-visible mechanical skeleton inside. Is that just me, or would that look so goddamn cool?

Anyways, from a business point of view, it made sense to supply him with a mechanical arm. Two hands would work faster than just one, and it wasn't hard to rig up, considering he was working for the most successful engineering company on the server. Other injuries– like the drowning incident– played out similarly to the crushing wheel, and Swagger & Schlatt were like "Hey, we can TOTALLY use this to our advantage." So i imagine Slime is forced to do a lot of dangerous jobs at the company, simply because he's much harder to kill.

When Slime is building the dock, digging up land and working around the property, he very likely finds bodies of people who used to work there. Y'know, the drowned interns and other charming characters? I doubt they can speak, but maybe they try to communicate with him and even help him escape, along with the other living residents. Long story short, he forms a secret alliance with the drowned and maybe some recent skeletons; also very cool.

-- There was just the one stream focused on his internship (at the time i'm writing this) but i wanted to share my thoughts on it. My last point is just a song that's eerily well suited for the whole thing. I felt a need to bring this up because it's uncanny.

"Honestly, did you not read the colony policy— that defines you as company property? That waivers your say in autonomy? The conglomerate's got you in lock and key!"

[shitmak]

Ship Chart Edit for your OT3's :)

I split the original image into two because the HD file was too big. They still line up nicely in separate images.

Transparent Version

The artist credit is still there on the bottom half of the chart. I don't know if anyone else has made an OT3 version of this, but I couldn't find one, so I made my own!

[shitmak]

Can we PLEASE talk about comedian James Acaster matching his outfit to the stage background when he performs? I absolutely adore it, though i'm not fully sure why.

I mean just look at this:

Everything is fair game. No set is safe from a colour-coded accessory– and I admire the commitment.

[shitmak]

So @toadollie was answering some asks about different ships, I was gonna reblog and write my own thoughts on what he said, because i very much agreed with him. And then i realized "WOW this is a lot" and it would probably seem like i was trying to obscure or upstage his post. So here's a separate one to briefly talk about my feelings on Ougoku, because it makes me feel and think about a lot. This is the original post here, so check it out for context.

Oh and just a sidenote– this isn't meant as any disrespect to people who like this ship! I just think about it a lot and this post finally motivated me to write my thoughts out. Might do a more in depth thing in the future i dunno?

Ok let's go!

So to start, um.... their dynamic? Could have been VERY fuckin solid– in another world. The opposite personalities trope is always appealing (to me anyways), but the fact that Kokichi takes advantage of Gonta really ruins them for me, platonic or otherwise. Now hear me out, because i do think they have chemistry; it's just a bit more complicated.

So don't get me wrong here: i love Ouma's character, AND i know he manipulated plenty of people besides Gonta. But it feels worse knowing that not only was he tricked, but he was tricked into doing something that he would never do, if he'd understood how truly wrong it was.

Like for example with Miu (again, someone who holds a a very special place in my heart), she was a lot more selfish and desperate than Gonta. If her and Gonta's roles were reversed in chapter 4, it wouldn't have been as powerful when she was eventually accused and executed. The reason I say that is because it's more likely that she would have agreed to Kokichi's plan to benefit herself, more than she would have because she thought it was the "right" thing to do. That would result in less empathy or pity for her actions, because she would have showed that her classmates didn't really matter to her in the end.

I think you could say similar things about all the other characters as well. They all would have known that Kokichi's whole plan was immoral, and going along with it would make them no better than Miu, if she was in that situation. Gonta however, was the only one who wouldn't realize this, which unfortunately, made him the perfect (and only) target. That innocence of wanting to do anything to help his classmates, a lot of which he barely really knew, makes it so much more painful when he realizes that his kindness was taken advantage of, and that his actions had hurt more than they helped.

In another universe where this all didn't happen and where Kokichi didn't mess with Gonta specifically because of his naivety, i think they could be an absolute unit of a pairing. Imagine the possibilities if they helped each other instead of... well, everything that happened. Their opposite skill sets and personalities would make for amazing character development, and i'm honestly sad we didnt get more of it in the game.

Kokichi helping Gonta think strategically, or teaching him how to lead a crowd. Or reminding him that you probably shouldn't immediately trust every single person you meet, because really, that's not the best idea. And Gonta showing Kokichi that most people are NOT out to get him, and how things are often nicer and more "worth it" than they appear to be, if you can spare some kindness, patience and support. Demonstrating that support and trust is the opposite of weakness. And showing that maybe bugs aren't quite so bad. They would just keep building the other person up until they became nearly unstoppable, and I think that would be an AMAZING story in and of itself. That kind of Ougoku? 11/10. Maybe... a fic is in order?

[shitmak]

Miu Iruma ; ℂ𝕪𝕓𝕖𝕣-𝔏𝔲𝔰𝔱

Small town baby got his knickers in a twist

Doesn't like the way that this curse leaves my lips

Fuck what you think, I'm not trying to impress you

I'll probably just upset you, you're tryna' be your best you

– Teach Me To Fight by YONAKA

I was listening to YONAKA's albums and i suddenly wanted to make an aesthetic board, so... Yeah!

Took a little bit to get (almost) right, but it was a good time! I'm down to take requests if anyone is interested in that but y'know, we'll see what happens.