#squash talks

[asquashinsocks]

its surely 90% due to a combination of nostalgia and the difference inhow theyre portrayed but smth that is endlessly funny to me is how i genuinely despise edwin murray as a man more than W.Afton.

imo the writing of W.Afton is arguably more fleshed out atp but i prefer my admittedly mostly-headcanon idea of W.Afton's motivation as being like, dude whose first kill mightve been accidental but he enjoyed it and now fears hell due to knowing hes irredeemable. whereas Edwin is a whiny fucking shit who never listens to his wife and mourns her death in a very unemotional way.

Replaced her with a fucking robot that did household chores but in her voice but kept none of her actual personality. edwin is literally never portrayed in SoTM as like, actually loving his wife LMAO she fucking dies and edwin goes "MY life is ruined, you werent even supposed to go" bro?????? me when i blame my dead wife for dying and now i actually need to take some fraction of responsibility for my kid

And honestly I think one of the best most disrespectful details is the birthday cakes. Fiona makes circular, multi-tiered cakes for her son's birthday, whereas M1 makes a simple, likely singular box cake mix literally because edwin is as robotic as the M1. the cake becomes the most default, generic cake possible because to BOTH edwin and M1, the idea is "birthday parties need a cake" instead of "i love my son im going to make something special for my special birthday boy"

OF COURSE i am aware that W.Afton obviously also doesnt gaf about his kids at all (and wife is literally not mentioned at all within the series except maybe possibly through the existence of ballora) but the difference in seeing W.Afton's actions and moreso results of said actions as opposed to edwins words being his main form of sharing his story i think changes a lot for me in how i percieve it.

like the absolute horror of murdering children for your shitty excuse for science is i guess easier to digest due to being more far-fetched. still terrifying and what drew me into the series in the first place when I myself was a lost child but like Steel Wool really did a good job makin sure I fuckin HAAAAAAATE edwin's bitchass. whatever.

[roguecampingrainstorm]

Lmao yesterday I mentioned that I’d been getting a lot of porn bots following me as opposed to real people and now real people are following me, thank you everyone

[saab0]

honestly everyone’s goin wild over zoro smiling but i know who the real star of this chapter is

that’s right

it’s usopp’s toad friend

[asquashinsocks]

Yellow and Red are both Aware in very different ways in the new DHMIS.

Red seems to remember the cycles as he did the first season, with how he says "we live in an actual NIGHTMARE" and is DESPERATE to leave the house. he also gets angry at the pattern of the show that they watch on their television. he's the one to disrupt the song to remember to go to Duck's funeral.

Yellow, while later BECOMING aware of the cycle and the creator, Lesley, is the one to break the fourth wall and ask thw audience questions as a kid's show usually would. additionally he makes note of the phone numbers. while he frequently sees his Other Self and has weird moments, he is the one to address the camera and audience directly.

and Duck is...?

[asquashinsocks]

something I haven't seen anyone talk about in skinamarink is the mother. i personally interpreted that shes out of the picture before the film even begins. between the kids only calling for dad, the doll hanging above moms side of the bed, the cartoon showing a birds funeral around the time mom was mentioned, and kaylee seeing mom but not telling kevin. asking about dad and (i think it was kevin) saying "do you think he went with mom" "i dont wanna talk about mom" kaylee replies. i think mom is dead or possibly away for mental health before the movie even starts.

thats how I took those elements at least. curious what other people think

[asquashinsocks]

is the same as

[asquashinsocks]

something about the "beautiful blond devil himself and his black-haired angel"

[asquashinsocks]

artists that draw reigen arataka in such a jerma-esque manner... giving u the craziest e-sloppy rn.