Im just a cringe individual who will never grow out of their edgy teenage phase and does art and stuff, she/they rarely he enby swag, unhinged AroAce, I have 2 many AU's, eternally trapped in hyperfixation hell , ✨👑the lord of Snatcher angst👑✨ ,unapologetically cringe ,AUTISIM, insane robot enjoyer, 16+ prefered i draw gore, truamatic/psychological themes, horror, and surreal imagery
small VERY petty gripe but i absolutely DESPISE when people say that "[insert common sense/etiquette/basic decency] is sexy/hot"
congratulations! I HATE THAT! i know that a good chunk of the population wants to be considered attractive BUT I FUCKING DON'T! AND I'M SURE I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE!
equating common sense to "being hot" is AWFUL FOR ME WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT???? I DON'T WANNA BE HOT!!! I WANNA BE THE LEAST HOT PERSON EVER!!! I PANIC AT THE MERE IDEA OF PEOPLE BEING ATTRACTED TO ME!!! NOT EVERYTHING HAS TO BE ABOUT BEING ATTRACTIVE!!! PLEASE UNLEARN ALLONORMITY I'M BEGGING YOU!!!
crying about an AU version of your OC being happier than the canon version is certainly an experience
AUUUUGGHHHHHGHGHHGUHUJUH LIGHTHOUSE BLOOM SYYYIIIIIIII
Actually as a silly I'm gonna share my other potentially controversial AroAce headcanons
Starting with the easiest to rationalize Vee and Connie from Dandy's World (yes I am a Dandy's World fan, throw rocks at me/silly/j) (idk I just think it's silly)
Peridot from SU (I'm about 80% sure this one is basically canon at this point)
Mami Tomoe from Madoka Magica (she is the only one not involved in a Yuri situationship AND she has an adopted daughter/younger sister and her friends by her side!)
Cyn from Murder Drones (the horrors that melt your bones)
Hat Kid/Adult (I don't usually headcanon children with sexualities but I feel like HK would be one of those kids who thinks romance is gross and then as she gets older she starts questioning why everyone is so obsessed with it before deciding that friends and family are all she wants)
Shmilk of crk (as much of a ShadowVanilla truther as I am, I see their dynamic as some kind of indescribable mix of romantic and platonic that can't be explained but Shmilk is definitely demiromantic)
Don Quoitxe from Limbus Company (THIS ONE WILL GET ME SMITED BUT HEAR ME OUT-) (also I'm only on canto 5 so NO SPOILERS PLEASE!1!1!)
Battat Deltarune (bro is at LEAST some flavor of demi because ik that their dynamic with Tenna is another weird indescribable potentially queer platonic situation)
Madoka Kaname (I LOVE MADOHOMU SO SO SO SO SO MUCH BUT SO FAR MADOKA IS REALLY ARO CODED AND I NEED MY CRUMBS) (ok she thinks about impressing boys but not ONCE does she show any interest in a single person and most of her relationship knowledge seems to come from the world around her) (I already sound insane but IT'S THERE TRUST)
Surge The Tenrec (another one that I will be killed for but to me Surge exists directly in-between aro/ace and lesbian and it can go either way)
Queen Deltarune (it would be so fucking funny)
Rouxls Carrd (it would be so fucking funny imagine, the climax of the bit™ with rouxls is him going "waiteh I don'te want this-" and fulfilling his destiny of being single forever/j/silly)
Angela from PM (I have yet to fully read Library of Runia's story but the vibes are there)
Turbo Wreck it Ralph (I don't even fucking know man)
TAK from Invader ZIM (her episode is literally the most anti-romance valentines day special ever and it's so peak)
I think I'm reaching the point of incomprehensibility already so I'm cutting myself off there QwQ
Actually this has been brewing in my head for YEARS and I finally have the confidence to talk about it so:
THE AROMANTIC SNATCHER ANALYSIS POST
A bit of a disclaimer: this post discusses Snatcher and The Prince's character from an aromantic lens, and so I would prefer to keep shipping discussions and tags out of the notes because of this
Also obligatory "this is just my personal interpretation of the character/story and you can interpret it however you want outside of this post" disclaimer, alongside the fact that THIS ANALYSIS IS NOT PERFECT!1! i am running on pure autism and slight projection so certain things will not be 100% canon accurate
i am simply an aroace person who is genuinely insane about snatcher and i want other people to be able to glimpse my vision
Ok so let's talk about how Gears for Breakfast accidentally created the most compelling aromantic horror story I have ever laid eyes upon
Starting with the way the storybook is set up:
A typical fairytale
Now there's a certain heteronormity and ESPECIALLY allonormity that can be inferred by the ideas of a stereotypical fairytale that can be seen directly in the story book
The Prince and Princess always fall in love and always live happily ever after, that's just how it is!
And that allonormitive mindset bleeds into the entire genre to the point where WE as the audience see 2 people with crowns holding hands surrounded by hearts and we instantly assume we know what's going on here
But we don't
AHiT subverts the allonormitive fairytale narrative for something much darker, something that paints an idyllic fairytale romance as a nightmare scenario
And that's the important part to me:
Romance as a nightmare scenario and love as horror
Even if we don't know everything about The Prince and Vanessa's relationship we can infer one thing:
That Vanessa's feelings were FAR stronger than The Prince's were
Think about it: the only perspective we get from The Prince is a single letter and the act of buying flowers, THAT'S IT! while almost anytime we see Vanessa she's going on about how obsessed she is with The Prince
She bans bacon because he likes it
She cuts his hair without his consent
She fantasizes about locking him in the cellar
It's clear as day that what Vanessa feels for the Prince is far stronger than what he feels for her and that it's possible he can't even properly reciprocate her "love" for him
And while these actions are 100% abusive and not healthy in the slightest for ANY kind of relationship, it can still be interpreted as whatever type of "love" she feels for him not being the same as the love he feels for her, which is a common struggle and even fear for some aromantic people!
I do not speak for the entire aromantic community but the idea of someone developing feelings for me is genuinely terrifying and my inability to reciprocate said feelings resulting in a one-sided obsession is even more terrifying!
No matter how much he "loves" her back, The Prince will never be able to "love" Vanessa the way she "loves" him, and that's what destroys Subcon!
and the final nail in the coffin was a bouquet of flowers... a traditionally romantic gift...
Now let's talk about the cellar and how it ties into all of this (this might get a bit dark so be weary)
We can tell from the diary pages that Vanessa didn't just choose to throw The Prince down there on a whim, this was a PLANNED punishment that she fantasized about doing to him before the incident even happened
it obvious she wanted to completely remove his agency by literally chaining him to a wall, making him into a decoration to gawk at NOT A PERSON
now there's a VERY SPECIFIC thing this could be a metaphor of but for the sake of not stretching too much and keeping this post "safe" im not going to make that connection
what i AM gonna talk about is how being aromantic means certain people dehumanize you because in their eyes if you cant reciprocate their idea of "love" then you are less than human, something to isolate and mock
almost like being locked in a cellar...
Vanessa's treatment of The Prince removes his agency in the "relationship" and invalidates his "love" for her as "not being enough!" which is something that many aromantic people stuck in toxic relationships can relate to!
her "love" for him is so intense and volatile and suffocating that nothing he can do even compares to what she feel towards him and she gets upset when he cant properly "love" her the way she wants him to!
and it kills him
she leaves him down in the cellar to die and it kills him
but this is just the beginning...
OH BOY TIME TO TALK ABOUT
SNATCHER
oh boy where do i even start with this guy-
seriously how do i even BEGIN talking about the aroace swag this ghost possesses????
they ditched their horrid ex, took over the woods, acquired an army of children loyal minions, and is just living their afterlife chilling in the woods without any need or want for another partner!
sure sometimes he reminisces about her but does he plan on going back?
HELL NO!!!
he has all he could ever want! he doesn't need her! he doesn't need anyone!!! except his kids ofc
seriously this ghost is living my dream rn
"but what about the soulmate comment from deathwish!" DO YOU THINK HE WANTS TO GO BACK???? im pretty sure that was just nostalgia (which does not equal actually wanting to be with her again)
its clear that they're much happier spending their afterlife without the need for love than they were when they were alive and chained to Vanessa
AND I LOVE THAT!1!!1!1! I LOVE SEEING CHARACTERS REALIZE THAT THEY DON'T NEED A SIGNIFICANT OTHER TO MAKE THEM HAPPY!1!1!1! I LOVE SEEING SNATCHER BE FREE FROM HIS PREVIOUSLY ALLONORMATIVE RELATIONSHIP!1!1!1!
seriously this guy is living his best afterlife single and i love that for him sm
now... why is this so important? why should this matter to you?
aro/ace characters are rare to come by in media and any sliver of representation we can get is always a welcome sight! seeing a character who was previously chained down by a relationship free himself of those chains and reclaim his (after)life for himself is a narrative that many aro/ace people can admire and relate to!
seeing so much of a focus of romance in fandom spaces can be very hostile ESPECIALLY towards those who are romance repulsed and people who are just tired of seeing it everywhere
i wrote this "essay" as a way to not only share a very underrated headcanon which ive held onto for years but to also shed light on how important stories like this can be for those on the aromantic spectrum!
i hope ive made at least a few people think about this perspective more and i hope you can respect my personal interpretation of Subcon Forest's story (you can always have your own interpretation!)
anyways thanks for reading! idk what else to say so uhhh-
OOOO GO LOOK AT LIGHTHOUSE BLOOM AND HAUNTED SCRAPYARD OOOOOO-/silly
After a very long period of trial and trying to find the right theme and motivation... SHE'S FINALLY REAL!1!1!1!
LHB SYI!1!1!1
Some facts about her!1!1!
🌟 while she does roam around the land (the first place you see her is Orie), she spends most of her time in the old abandoned LUMINOUS Carnival, which is where her boss fight happens!
🌟 aside from curing the bloom another impossible goal she wishes to achieve is to create a world where no one has to die!
🌟 she has a bit of a Don Quoitxe motif! With the idea of her claiming to be the one destined to save the world when in actuality she's only sending it further to it's doom and harming anyone who tries to stop her!
🌟 SHE DOES HAVE A SWORD! while she mostly uses her prosthetic arm to "serve justice" she does also carry a sword with her sometimes and uses it in the boss fight alongside her claws!
🌟 this version of her was heavily inspired by the song Hero by Mili!1!1 (because I am normal about it)
🌟 her carnival theming is supposed to parallel Circuit from her main story, Haunted Scrapyard!1! Circuit and Syi are characters with a LOT of similarities and similar motives that drive their actions, so since Syi doesn't have her mad scientist swag in this AU she takes Circuit's circus theme!1!1! (Hero also has a bit of a carnival motif, the instrumental for the first verse sounds like carousel music and one of the lyrics is "Merry go round, in a circle I run")
🫀: she wasn't always like this...
Alt version where her armor is made of glass under the cut!
Also OOOOO go read LHB OOOOOO @mothhue OOOOOO go look at peak!1!1!1!
After a very long period of trial and trying to find the right theme and motivation... SHE'S FINALLY REAL!1!1!1!
LHB SYI!1!1!1
Some facts about her!1!1!
🌟 while she does roam around the land (the first place you see her is Orie), she spends most of her time in the old abandoned LUMINOUS Carnival, which is where her boss fight happens!
🌟 aside from curing the bloom another impossible goal she wishes to achieve is to create a world where no one has to die!
🌟 she has a bit of a Don Quoitxe motif! With the idea of her claiming to be the one destined to save the world when in actuality she's only sending it further to it's doom and harming anyone who tries to stop her!
🌟 SHE DOES HAVE A SWORD! while she mostly uses her prosthetic arm to "serve justice" she does also carry a sword with her sometimes and uses it in the boss fight alongside her claws!
🌟 this version of her was heavily inspired by the song Hero by Mili!1!1 (because I am normal about it)
🌟 her carnival theming is supposed to parallel Circuit from her main story, Haunted Scrapyard!1! Circuit and Syi are characters with a LOT of similarities and similar motives that drive their actions, so since Syi doesn't have her mad scientist swag in this AU she takes Circuit's circus theme!1!1! (Hero also has a bit of a carnival motif, the instrumental for the first verse sounds like carousel music and one of the lyrics is "Merry go round, in a circle I run")
🫀: she wasn't always like this...
Alt version where her armor is made of glass under the cut!
Also OOOOO go read LHB OOOOOO @mothhue OOOOOO go look at peak!1!1!1!
random little yap session but if i had the power to i would totally make the pre-story LUMINIOUS Foundation/Labs stuff a mini-series PURELY because of the "camera" angles and imagery potential
like- the biggest inspiration for most of my art is Madoka Magica and in that series there's all these really funky "camera" angles and a HUGE focus on imagery that you don't really see in most animated series
(i couldn't find the best examples on the wiki so you just have to trust QwQ)
sometimes it purposely obscures a characters face for narrative reasons or puts the "camera" in a strange position so you cant see the full scene or makes it so there's a huge amount of empty space AND I LOVE IT SM!!1!1!
this is another reason why i would KILL for an animated Limbus adaptation cuz the SHOTS IN THE ARTWORK ARE SOOOOO GOOOODDD
i apologize for the image spam on this post but ITS SO PEEAAKKK
this is the type of stuff i YEARN to achieve with my own art and animatics...
If you could be any sort of undead, like a ghost, vampire, zombie, etc, what would you choose? I'm very curious to see what people will say, hence the tag game to make it spread a bit further!
Obviously I'm satisfied with being a ghost, but I would be a vampire if given the chance!
hmm that's a good question. i guess it really depends on what kind of interpretation you're going off of for each... butttt, i'm not gna go all into it.
at first glance, probably a zombie. the generalized vision of zombies is all they do is walk around and eat people for their brains... seems pretty relatable.
i, too, have the urge to obliterate the people around me for being much smarter than i am.
I was unsure of who to tag, so I just tagged moots I’ve interacted with or see interact with me a lot. The spotlight is yours should you choose to step into it, my friends! 🫡
Actually this has been brewing in my head for YEARS and I finally have the confidence to talk about it so:
THE AROMANTIC SNATCHER ANALYSIS POST
A bit of a disclaimer: this post discusses Snatcher and The Prince's character from an aromantic lens, and so I would prefer to keep shipping discussions and tags out of the notes because of this
Also obligatory "this is just my personal interpretation of the character/story and you can interpret it however you want outside of this post" disclaimer, alongside the fact that THIS ANALYSIS IS NOT PERFECT!1! i am running on pure autism and slight projection so certain things will not be 100% canon accurate
i am simply an aroace person who is genuinely insane about snatcher and i want other people to be able to glimpse my vision
Ok so let's talk about how Gears for Breakfast accidentally created the most compelling aromantic horror story I have ever laid eyes upon
Starting with the way the storybook is set up:
A typical fairytale
Now there's a certain heteronormity and ESPECIALLY allonormity that can be inferred by the ideas of a stereotypical fairytale that can be seen directly in the story book
The Prince and Princess always fall in love and always live happily ever after, that's just how it is!
And that allonormitive mindset bleeds into the entire genre to the point where WE as the audience see 2 people with crowns holding hands surrounded by hearts and we instantly assume we know what's going on here
But we don't
AHiT subverts the allonormitive fairytale narrative for something much darker, something that paints an idyllic fairytale romance as a nightmare scenario
And that's the important part to me:
Romance as a nightmare scenario and love as horror
Even if we don't know everything about The Prince and Vanessa's relationship we can infer one thing:
That Vanessa's feelings were FAR stronger than The Prince's were
Think about it: the only perspective we get from The Prince is a single letter and the act of buying flowers, THAT'S IT! while almost anytime we see Vanessa she's going on about how obsessed she is with The Prince
She bans bacon because he likes it
She cuts his hair without his consent
She fantasizes about locking him in the cellar
It's clear as day that what Vanessa feels for the Prince is far stronger than what he feels for her and that it's possible he can't even properly reciprocate her "love" for him
And while these actions are 100% abusive and not healthy in the slightest for ANY kind of relationship, it can still be interpreted as whatever type of "love" she feels for him not being the same as the love he feels for her, which is a common struggle and even fear for some aromantic people!
I do not speak for the entire aromantic community but the idea of someone developing feelings for me is genuinely terrifying and my inability to reciprocate said feelings resulting in a one-sided obsession is even more terrifying!
No matter how much he "loves" her back, The Prince will never be able to "love" Vanessa the way she "loves" him, and that's what destroys Subcon!
and the final nail in the coffin was a bouquet of flowers... a traditionally romantic gift...
Now let's talk about the cellar and how it ties into all of this (this might get a bit dark so be weary)
We can tell from the diary pages that Vanessa didn't just choose to throw The Prince down there on a whim, this was a PLANNED punishment that she fantasized about doing to him before the incident even happened
it obvious she wanted to completely remove his agency by literally chaining him to a wall, making him into a decoration to gawk at NOT A PERSON
now there's a VERY SPECIFIC thing this could be a metaphor of but for the sake of not stretching too much and keeping this post "safe" im not going to make that connection
what i AM gonna talk about is how being aromantic means certain people dehumanize you because in their eyes if you cant reciprocate their idea of "love" then you are less than human, something to isolate and mock
almost like being locked in a cellar...
Vanessa's treatment of The Prince removes his agency in the "relationship" and invalidates his "love" for her as "not being enough!" which is something that many aromantic people stuck in toxic relationships can relate to!
her "love" for him is so intense and volatile and suffocating that nothing he can do even compares to what she feel towards him and she gets upset when he cant properly "love" her the way she wants him to!
and it kills him
she leaves him down in the cellar to die and it kills him
but this is just the beginning...
OH BOY TIME TO TALK ABOUT
SNATCHER
oh boy where do i even start with this guy-
seriously how do i even BEGIN talking about the aroace swag this ghost possesses????
they ditched their horrid ex, took over the woods, acquired an army of children loyal minions, and is just living their afterlife chilling in the woods without any need or want for another partner!
sure sometimes he reminisces about her but does he plan on going back?
HELL NO!!!
he has all he could ever want! he doesn't need her! he doesn't need anyone!!! except his kids ofc
seriously this ghost is living my dream rn
"but what about the soulmate comment from deathwish!" DO YOU THINK HE WANTS TO GO BACK???? im pretty sure that was just nostalgia (which does not equal actually wanting to be with her again)
its clear that they're much happier spending their afterlife without the need for love than they were when they were alive and chained to Vanessa
AND I LOVE THAT!1!!1!1! I LOVE SEEING CHARACTERS REALIZE THAT THEY DON'T NEED A SIGNIFICANT OTHER TO MAKE THEM HAPPY!1!1!1! I LOVE SEEING SNATCHER BE FREE FROM HIS PREVIOUSLY ALLONORMATIVE RELATIONSHIP!1!1!1!
seriously this guy is living his best afterlife single and i love that for him sm
now... why is this so important? why should this matter to you?
aro/ace characters are rare to come by in media and any sliver of representation we can get is always a welcome sight! seeing a character who was previously chained down by a relationship free himself of those chains and reclaim his (after)life for himself is a narrative that many aro/ace people can admire and relate to!
seeing so much of a focus of romance in fandom spaces can be very hostile ESPECIALLY towards those who are romance repulsed and people who are just tired of seeing it everywhere
i wrote this "essay" as a way to not only share a very underrated headcanon which ive held onto for years but to also shed light on how important stories like this can be for those on the aromantic spectrum!
i hope ive made at least a few people think about this perspective more and i hope you can respect my personal interpretation of Subcon Forest's story (you can always have your own interpretation!)
anyways thanks for reading! idk what else to say so uhhh-
OOOO GO LOOK AT LIGHTHOUSE BLOOM AND HAUNTED SCRAPYARD OOOOOO-/silly
Kit and Manic Game-O-Verse designs that I did for fun I have yet to watch the pilot but I will soon
I went in the magical girl direction with these cuz I had the vision in my mind of a more traditional looking magical girl style dress made up of advanced technology and I thought it would look cool
(more notes under the cut)
I also wanted to make Kit look a little bit less like a cat cuz I like it when aliens/alien-esc characters are a little more ambiguous (think the Lombaxes from Ratchet and Clank)
I honestly just made Manic more Metal Sonic core because he is peak robo-doppelganger design (I mostly took aspects from Neo Metal and the limbs were inspired by Eggritos Rewrite Metal)
I wanted to keep the idea of Manic's "outfit" being more open than Kit's so she gets an open coat with a miniskirt to contrast Kit's full dress/armor (this also makes her more agile than Kit!)
Dude people misunderstood the artfight rules so bad that they had to put a "look out for misinformation" disclaimer at the bottom of an update DEBUNKING THE MISINFORMATION
Seriously am I just too autistic for my own good that I immediately understood what tracing meant and knew that people were blowing everything out of proportion? GUIDELINES AND REFERENCING HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!1!
Genuinely WHY are people trying to make tracing allowed in and ART GIFTING GAME???? I would be pissed if someone traced over a base to draw my OC in a game where points are involved and attack quality is important
Idk I thought this was stupid and overdramatic before but now I think it's REALLY stupid and overdramatic
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