Re: the ‘wondering why my YGO followers specifically followed me’ thing, I know I JUST got here, but the thing that made me follow was the milkposting. I’m not sure how to say this elegantly, but there’s a very particular brand of Weird that I like but have a difficult time finding or describing; that’s like, “the weird of the mundane”, or something. No twee, overblown ~oooo isn’t that sooo wacky, isn’t that sooo strange, oooo~ performing from an author or artist trying desperately to convince me as the viewer that they’re a visionary eccentric; just Mundane objects or materials or whatever behaving/presenting/being invoked in a distinctly NON-mundane way, thus prompting the impulse to look again and linger and marvel in a way one usually wouldn’t. I also like it when this particular flavor is presented in a way that’s just kind of like ‘so yeah, this is happening, this is the baseline being established within the bounds of this particular work, and no, it doesn’t need an explanation; it just Is. Roll with it.’
In sum, I saw a milkpost, and was essentially like ‘I don’t know what all we’re doing at this table just yet, but I sure am going to pull up a chair.’
milkposting…damn…really would’ve thought i’d lose followers for that rather than gain them lol
for some amount of context for milkposting (bc i don’t remember if i mentioned it during said milkposting) the whole milk thing is actually from an as-of-yet-unposted chapter of nitet, which is basically just me fucking around with vessel-based body horror. not sure if that really counts as something mundane presented as non-mundane? but.
idk i guess i do kinda just pick a thing and make it body horror when i get bored sometimes. never thought about it as making the mundane weird!
