Silly Lily Art

mainly ship art, animatics, and unhinged rambling Right now I like TWST and Deltarune adult, she/her

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The fact that Minajael showed up and instantly stole half of Kalim’s ships

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Cater Diamond is a Freak

So I’ve been reading a lot of Google translated Japanese fanfics on Pixiv, and one thing I’ve learned about Japanese fandom is the ship naming convention. Unlike in English fandom, where we name ships by just smashing characters’ names together in whatever way sounds best, Japanese gay ships have the top first and the bottom second, (I think for straight ships the boy is always first) , so every gay ship has two tags, which is actually pretty annoying.

After learning this fact I remembered that of course Cater refers to Ace and Deuce as “adeuce”. Sooooooo…… what the actual fuck that is insane what is wrong with him. Giving your classmates, who at that point in the story you barely know, a ship name is one thing, but to make a CONSCIOUS DECISION about that is crazy. I hope Deuce didn’t know that omg. Like what is wrong with that man

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Audio is from Maleficent

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You said on twitter that you wouldn’t talk about real life history and fandom there, but will you do it on tumblr? I wanna know what you think

If anyone is genuinely interested in how historiography works (I took a class on it in grad school, and I employ a lot of that in my irl work) then yeah! If ya'll don't want to read this you don't have to tho and *** Do not take anything I say as a fact nor an endorsement of irl war. I do not support irl war. ***

But with twitter and many fandom spaces, there's a lot of people with knee-jerk reactions to start fights and label people trying to discuss stuff like that as bad and evil, and so on and so forth. How dare anyone talk about the game as it is when fanon and head canons are so protected and personal to many people.

And there's been a history of people twisting my words into something bad faith when it is never my intention. It can be exhausting to the point of wanting to willingly silence myself because why try to speak to people determined not to understand me, nor even try.

I will say here that with Lilia's discussion on how how easily history can become biased, even in written works and primary sources, often leads you to have to research both sides of a conflict to understand the whole picture- something I've seen people unwilling to do. I've seen people even intentionally ignore the new info about what Night Fae did to and stole from Day Fae from 1500 years ago, and you can't force people to acknowledge stuff if they don't want to.

That, added with the dreams in 7 being manipulated by the dreamer's desire, makes me think Lilia's dream might've been biased. But as of until recently, it was the only source of the past we had so we had no choice but to take it as fact, and I don't think people are willing to see it as not fact even if Lilia and Malleus talk about what Maleficia did to the day fae, and how night fae have invaded day fae territory and currently live in their original land.

I had been wondering why the conflict from 400 years ago had gained the human and day fae side so many allies, or why humans got involved in the way they did, and why in the dream the Silver Owls were weirdly cowardly despite being an invading force, and Henrick being one-dimensional evil but saving his dad for whatever reason, or the possibility that Lilia may have given Dawn grace in his dream since he is his son's bio dad, and that's why Dawn isn't quite as one-dimensional as everyone else.

Or, of course, I'm completely wrong. People seem to think I think I'm right about everything. I don't think that. I think the way I write and source the game comes off as academic because that's what I've done in school and work.

** I'm actually okay with being wrong when new info comes out/story progresses

I've never gotten vibes that twst was ever going to be a revenge story. No I don't think RSA are secretly evil and NRC is allowed to be messy and wrong and embody villains because the game is from a villain-esc POV. I don't think introducing more lore is bad, our first view was in a dream and now we're hearing more from conscious and significantly older individuals who are sharing history that has been passed down orally strictly by fae and never written down (which yes that is a form of history that can only be preserved through actually speaking with someone delivering it or hearing a recording, there are no recordings of fae history so Lilia and Malleus speaking themselves are primary sources)

**Yes I know Silver Owls are bad and did a bad thing I'm not saying they are not bad, they are bad. I do not condone their actions.

I hope when the RSA Housewarden that looks like a Day Fae shares his experiences, he isn't completely villainized or immediately treated with disdain simply for experiencing something different than the characters we've known for long/are fan favorites have.

and I'm fine with them not wanting to take the glow because it was stolen from Day Fae to begin with. It's very 'one ring' from Lord of the Rings. I still think they'll get it regardless though.

idk, again, I'm not involved in those popular head canons people stick to and get mad when the game doesn't. Any headcanon I've ever had, I can live with them getting busted even if it does suck. I can relate to the heartbreak but I don't feel a need to be that angry all the time.

At the end of the day I'm typing this at work lmao and yes I'm going to write on paid time because I can. If twst goes that route I do understand, you can never fully understand something unless you research everything. It's kinda like how twst is, you lose a lot of info if you never read vignettes or you never look at any characters outside of your fave. Idk if thats what theyre going for as the story is still in the early stages and will probably be ongoing for years but thats just my thoughts rn. I am open-minded enough to change as new info comes out.

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Why do like 90% of leoruggie fics start with either them being FWB or with Leona paying Ruggie?

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TWST!Meg’s backstory is gonna be that they become a indentured servant to Styx because his parents lost all their money on gacha gaming trust me

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So

In the new story update, we found out that the nocturnal fae were not the primary inhabitants of the current Briar Land territory and originally came from the north. They went to war with the diurnal fae and won, which essentially positions them as — oh my God — the oppressors!

I was just so tired of seeing stupid posts from time to time from certain people who were seething whenever the topic of a human invasion of Briar Land was brought up, along with narratives about how the poor fae suffered and how humans are inherently evil, to the point of claiming that Silver should want to kill himself simply because of his lineage. God forbid you mention you like the Dawn Knight.

This frustrated me because it was coming from specific groups of people who are clearly projecting their own real-world insecurities and political interpretations onto the game and are evidently unable to separate them from fictional narrative analysis.

“Poor fae” — the oppressed minority vs. “evil humans” — the ruthless oppressors (cough white people cough).

However, what do we see now? The “poor nocturnal fae” were also, at some point in history, the “oppressors”! What a surprise, isn’t it? That historical power dynamics shift and there are no permanently “good” or “bad” groups. This is consistent with real-world historical processes. Yet for some reason, those same individuals are now in denial of these narrative implications and are reacting with claims that this development ruined the Diasomnia arc lol. What hypocrisy.

It simply does not align with their preferred interpretive framework, in which “the oppressed are always victims and the oppressors are inherently evil”. This tendency reflects a desire to map fictional factions onto simplified real-world moral binaries.

However, when confronted with the idea that historical groups can occupy both dominant and subordinate positions across different time periods, they react negatively and frame it as unfair or inconsistent.

In any case, I am glad TWST introduced more nuanced lore, and those who dislike it are, in my view, over-projecting interpretive frameworks onto a fictional work.

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I, for one, am shocked and appalled by this turn of events. To think that the knight in shining armor who slayed the fire breathing dragon wasn’t actually evil! Next thing you’ll say is that the Great Seven weren’t actually good. smh absolutely gobsmacked

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I love Kalim but I genuinely think that Kalim haters are the only ones who actually understand his character

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I’m afraid I failed to capture the sheer magnificence of Sebek’s eyebrows

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“Good Times Back” - TWST Animatic

Audio is “I Want the Good Times Back” from the Little Mermaid stage musical

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When I was a kid I watched a lot of shows where there was romance between actual adopted siblings and they would be like ‘it’s ok because we’re not blood related.’ So I was like ‘why don’t people see that a relationship can be incest even when they’re not biologically related?’ And then the universe said “ok” *Monkey’s Paw Curls* and now people think childhood friends and found family is incest.

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Azul POV

KaliJami is my favorite ship but I always thought that AzuJami was the healthiest outcome for everyone, and the new chapter absolutely reaffirmed my opinion. That was amazing lol

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Art from the last meme

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This was funnier in my head

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I wanted to try doing one of those screenshot redraws

Any critiques welcome cause I think the faces ended up looking weird

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Absolutely criminal lack of yandere Kalim fics