#turboputt03

[shepscapades]

SHEP. SHEP YOUVE DEVASTATED ME ONCE AGAIN.

Bigshot as Andriod 24....you're so right. It so encapsulates what 24 thinks of Xisuma

"You're always just a bit shy following behind/I think you've spent enough time singing the same lines" <- 24's resentment toward Xisuma, perhaps? Or a desire for something more, something better?

"I'm screaming for a life that I cannot have" AAAUUUGHHH perishing. throwing up. rolling over in agony. When the music cuts out and it's raw vocals really adds to the effect

And the oh's at the end, the screaming. I love Jhariah's music so much and I feel like it showcases the rawness of 24's emotions that us, from the perspective of Xisuma, don't get to see often.

AND the transition into FIRE4FUN feels like if 24 spiraled into slight insanity.

Anyways I'm a huge Jhariah fan and will now be thinking of every song in the context of dbhc (especially Russian Doll as Etho post-destruction).

RAHHHHHHH YES!!!!! oh my god yes absolutely all of this!!! There's so much i could freaking say about this song, and If you'll indulge me a slight ramble: i think so much of it is like, this double meaning with lyrics. Like, yes, BIG SHOT. 24 hates Xisuma so much (for some reason, later to be explored, but hinted at a little bit in the spotify wrapped art), he sneeringly calls X a bigshot, because X must think he's so big and powerful and important, but this song also feels like. almost like 24 is beating up on himself? Like, "oh, you think you're a big shot, huh? Think you're so big and strong and powerful despite how small you feel?" and that sense of fighting to overcome his sense of inadequacy and shame and anger is just SO infuriating that it fuels him even more.

Lyrics like "You're always just a bit shy, following behind" AGAIN, could totally be 24 sneering at Xisuma, because X isn't the most outwardly outgoing person, and from 24's perspective, it's like ohhhhh, you're putting up this shy guy front, you must think you're so smart! BUT ALSO. "a bit shy" as in, coming up just short of a goal, always falling short, and that as a double meaning for both 24 and Xisuma is just so. passes out. I could go on like this for like every lyric i need to eat glass OH AND!!! FIRE4FUN is actually on Cub's playlist >:3 god so many songs from the TRUST CEREMONY album are on various dbhc playlists, but primarily 24 and hels. Xisuma has one and cub has one, but that's it (i think).

[silverskye13]

(Ramblings of a history major ahead)

I'm doing reading on the Black Death for class and knights came up!! Turns out with the fall of nobility ('Cause they all died), old nobles wanted to preserve their identity. This was done through knights.

While previously they acted as the guard/army, post-Black Death they now encompassed chivalry. Tournaments became less deadly as they were now celebrations, and plate armor was adopted over chain armor.

So yeah! Just thought it was neat to see why there was a shift to "modern" knights. Thought you might get a kick out of this!!

That's awesome! If you wouldn't mind sharing your sources [you can DM if you don't wanna send another ask] I would love to read up on all that :O sounds super intriguing!

I feel like it goes without saying that the Black Death had a big impact on chivalric values and how that manifests. Of course people guarded life more jealously now that they'd seen so much of it end so quickly. But it's definitely not something I ever considered, and it's not something I've really been touched on in a major way in any of my reading?

Most of my knowledge on chivalry comes from books written during the... We'll call it the Glory Days? Things written after the first wave of crusades, where people were starting to look back and idolize. The way the perception shifts in those books reminds me a lot of spaghetti/pulp westerns. People like Louis L'Amour heard their grandfathers talking about the honor and glory of the conquest of the Western US, and turned it all into noble cowboys on loyal horses who, regardless of personal faults, always charged in to save the day, even if they were demonstrably criminals.

Then I read things like "A Knight's Own Guide to Chivalry" where the author was heralded by the French King as so chivalrous, he was worthy of carrying the Holy Standard into battle [everything to do with the King is holy] but his actual career was mostly defeats, and being ransomed, and being on house arrest, and going to battle, and being defeated again, and I can see where history turns in its tight little circles, letting humanity glimpse itself over and over, backwards through time.

Anyway! Knights!

[floweroflaurelin]

Ayyyyy saw your art

Ayyyy I made that!! :D

[gtwscar-as-couches]

logically I know that your description states that you use he/him pronouns, but some silly little part of my brain thinks the couches use he/him pronouns

the Couches canonically use scar's pronouns since He is Them, but dont let that stop you from hc'ing them . have fun w it gamer

[shepscapades]

So I checked tumblr at the coffee shop

(links added to turboputt03’s submission: x | x | x )

[silverskye13]

been playing a game called "Blasphemous" which has a ton of religious imagery and you play as a knight-like character and everytime I play I go "Man this reminds me of Silver, my favorite knight blogger"

(Fun fact there's also the motif of gold as corruption and I lowkey relate that to RnS Welsknight)

Oh gosh Blasphemous! I've seen so many cool things about that game. I wish I was better at Metroidvanias, I really want to play it, but I worry I might get too exasperated with it XD

I've seen a couple playthroughs on YouTube though! And one of the Elden Ring video essayists I watch did a video essay on Blasphemous that now I kinda wanna rewatch. I can't remember what it was about now.

Lol always love the fact that I'm "the knight blogger" now.

[silverskye13]

Love your writing! It destroys me every time :D

Don't worry! It destroys me too!

[silverskye13]

what do you use for your art? it seems like pen and im curious how you go about it. is there a pencil sketch or do you just go for it? (sorry for all the questions I just love your art style)

There is always a base sketch! If its a pencil sketch I tend to get rid of it before or during the process of inking [kneaded erasers my beloveds]. I am unfortunately not talented enough to freehand ink things. Its something I would love to do, but haven't had the time to seriously practice.

I've been using micron pens for the past,,, I want to say two years now? But before that I used faber castelle. I'm really enjoying the switch so far! Faber castelle are nice, especially the thicker black brush pens that are good for filling in large areas of dark [I haven't found a good micron pen for that specifically yet]. However their more fine tip pens [.5 and smaller] break down super quickly. The nibs just... stop giving ink after only a handful of uses, especially on my rougher watercolor papers, which is what I primarily used them on until recently.