Can you apply the penal code to demons?

The Persona Series, Dai Gyakuten Saiban, and whatever else I want to post about and reblog here. Warning for potential spoilers.

[bluesandfilms]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

Marahuyo Project (2024)

Monster (2023)

Not Me (2021)

See Your Love (2024)

The New Employee (2022)

Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)

The Warp Effect (2022)

Like in the Movies (2020)

Plus & Minus (2022)

Gameboys: The Movie (2021)

The Eighth Sense (2023)

Girl Rules (2026)

Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island (2025)

Khemjira (2025)

Light on Me (2021)

Therapy Game (2025)

Kill to Love (2025)

Your Name Engraved Herein (2020)

Kieta Hatsukoi (2021)

Ball Boy Tactics (2025)

Fragrance of the First Flower (2021)

Wandee Goodday (2024)

Cutie Pie (2022)

Happy PRIDE to all my dearest LGBTQIA+ friends. Wishing a joyful Pride Month to everyone, whether you identify somewhere on the sexuality spectrum or prefer not to define your sexuality or gender identity. Happiest Pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and you are seen. I hope this month will only be filled with joy, happiness, love and celebration. Not just this month but every day to come. I hope we can all wake up to a brighter, more open minded, compassionate and safe future. Happy Pride Month. Love without limits.

These were just some of my memorable moments in queer media 🌈

Bad Prosecutor (2022)

[cicadahead]

young wickerbottom you will always be famous to me

[chaaistheanswer]

Jousting at the festival to impress your lady love!!!

[karmaartz]

WELL, WELL, WELL…

It seems as though it is not only TGS Monday… BUT IT IS PRIDE MONTH TOO!

MY QUEERS LET US UNITE!

Tw guts insides heart disturbing

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I am slowly but surely rendering it, got a jump on it last night!

[worldbeyondtheworld]

Holy moly!!!! <3 <3

[moth-without-a-pencil]

figuring things out!!!!

[lutheban]

Grace goes swimming! Rocky is not thrilled.

Eridians cant "hold their breath" like humans do, their vents dont close completly so water can still get in, if they fall in water they drown and die. safe to say rocky is not a fan of when grace does it for fun xD

(i got the inspo for this from this fic: Enrichment by alatarmaia4, please check it out it is so funny)

[worldbeyondtheworld]

@inkyrainstorms

[creatingblackcharacters]

THE LONG-AWAITED WEBSITE!!!!

It's not perfect- Strawpage's design tools are... not great- but I did my best to bring you all a Tumblr-free transcription of all my lessons. This is probably the most labor-intensive thing I've done for this page (next to the character polls). Four months of blood, sweat, and tears... and now, she LIVES!!!!

Some Notes:

I created it with the intent of Desktop use, so Mobile might have some issues. If it's not working on your phone, try desktop.

Out of the multiple browsers tested (Firefox, Google, Edge, Brave, Safari), Firefox had some issues sporadically.

I'm still going to post lessons on here, first. This page is priority to me, and the website is more of an archive.

The fonts are normal past this opening page.

I will be adding a portion to send funds soon, if'n you are feeling kind and generous.

Thank you all for your patience while I worked on this. It was a labor of love and I hope that it shows. 🙏🏾 Happy scrolling!

[itsdappleagain]

[itsdappleagain]

people in my replies arguing for their fav white guy???

[itsdappleagain]

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS:

1. Do you think a post pointing out an issue with fandom racism and misogyny is an appropriate place to bring up your favorite white male character? Why or why not?

2. Did this post call you racist for relating to a white male character? If you thought or think so, consider why you got defensive.

3. Think about the disproportionate amount of art and writing about white male characters in fandom spaces. Do you think this is, across all boards, due to them being written better or more relatably than the POC protagonist?

a. If so, consider why you notice the writing of white male characters more often. Are white male characters written "better" than the POC protagonist, or do you have an internalized fear of relating to non-white characters that you need to work through?

b. If not, consider what ingrained biases might lead to this phenomenon in fandom spaces.

c. If you read a. and thought that white male characters literally just are usually or always written better than the POC and/or female protagonist, accept you are wrong and consider some self reflection.

4. Have you researched how to write and draw characters that are non-white and/or non-male? If not, does this limitation lead you to gravitate towards characters you feel "qualified" to make content about, therefore inflating the issue?

5. If people are telling you to reconsider your point of view in my replies section, did you stop to consider what they said apart from your human instinct to be defensive? Have you considered that arguing against those trying to educate you about fandom racism and misogyny, which can be difficult to see in yourself, in the notes of a post talking about fandom racism and misogyny, might be short-sighted and counterproductive?

6. If you are inclined to defend your favorite white male character, pause. Are all of your other favorite characters also majority white? Are they majority male? Are they either of these and NOT the main character of the show, movie, or game they originate from?

a. If not, this comic is not for you. Please move on and give it a reblog if you're feeling generous.

b. If so, consider this pattern. If you want to break it, ask someone for a reccomendation for characters or media similar to your favorites. Expand your horizons, and engage with your community rather than fighting against them.

[theaceofwords]

Why Tumblr Has Rolled Out ID Verification

UK legislation: Online Safety Act 2023

Brazil legislation: Digital Statute For Children And Adolescents

Apple App Store Age Verification

These are not tumblr specific policies. Tumblr is implementing age verification in response to legislative moves that were made months ago.

Tumblr is a failing social media site that has escaped death multiple times already; they do not have the social cachet to defy state regulatory agencies. We know they won't say no to Apple, either--the porn ban on tumblr was in response to Apple's crackdown on explicit content.

If you did not know this was happening, you were behind the curve. That is fine. You're caught up now. The next step is to link up with people in your country who are working to preserve privacy, to roll back these laws where they exist, and to prevent their passage where they do not. In the US the organization you want is Stop KOSA--in the EU you can start with Fight Chat Control.

Repealing ID verification and blocking chat control will help everyone, especially the most vulnerable. We can push this back, but we cannot get it done through the Feedback form. We have to get it done at the legislative level and lock it down so it cannot be forced upon us. I see lots of anger out there. Good. Put it to use.

[most-adoptable-grown-man-contest]

Most Adoptable Grown Man Contest - Round 1, Poll 37

Which grown man is more adoptable?

Gregory Eddie - Abbott Elementary

Mr. Game and Watch - Game and Watch/Super Smash Bros

Voting ended onMay 30

[justjellis]

Mr. Eddie is THE most adoptable man. Bring him home, and give him a plot of land. He will clean and he will tend a garden. He can communicate with you completely through his eyes. He will get excited about the things you’re excited about.

[worldbeyondtheworld]

Please vote Mr. Eddie!!

[quietwingsinthesky]

the draw of arranged marriage AUs to me is really the way the dubcon of it all binds them together. neither of them have a choice in being here, something else is foisting this upon them whether that’s their parents or the political situation around them or expectation or something else, but the point is that they don’t get that one choice. so they have to make a choice somewhere else, that now that they’re here, they’re going to make it work. they’re each other’s only allies, in this cage built around them. they may have been coerced into swearing to stand by each other through anything, but they did swear.

[worldbeyondtheworld]

Not an AU, but canon to The Glass Scientists comic (warning for spoilers) under the dashes:

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This here is Everly Solanki and Robert Lanyon. There's no romantic love between them. There's love and friendship and closeness and intimacy between them.

@inkyrainstorms

@afkphorabit

[mortalityplays]

remember like 15 years ago when black bloggers were talking about this exact shit, 'digital blackface', white internet users appropriating images and clips of black people and using them as cartoonish exaggerated expressions of absurdity or high emotion. straight line from minstrelsy to your reaction gifs and nobody fucking cares any more. white people just decided not to acknowledge it and it went away, just like every other time black users have ever tried to criticise any aspect of online culture.

[phenomenologically]

On the contemporary internet, things have been turned inside out. Exchanges that have historically taken place in the underground of black social spaces are now vulnerable to exposure, if not already exposed. The call-and-response creativity of Black Twitter is overheard and echoed by White Twitter, and viral dance phenomena like the whip are seized on by the likes of Hillary and Ellen. Together these objects — and the countless others in circulation, literally countless — create widespread visibility for blackness online. Blackness once again takes up its longstanding role as the engine of American popular culture, so that we find ourselves where we were in the 1920s with jazz, in the 1950s with rock ‘n’ roll, in the ’80s with both house and hip-hop — in a time loop wherein black people innovate only to see their forms snaked away, value siphoned off by white hands.

All the creative labor of the black collective being aside, there is a palpable blackness to much of this viral content — especially memes — that circulates independently from actual black people. This depersonalized blackness is shifty and hard to pin down — as is the blackness of any object or subject, really. It makes itself known through language, through an aggressive use of maneuvers associated with black vernacular speech, explicated in Manuel Arturo Abreu’s “Online Imagined Black English.” One finds captions littered with “bruh,” “fam,” “lit,” and, of course, “nigga.” This blackness is also signaled vaguely through the presence of black subjects. Athletes like Michael Jordan, rappers like Lil Mama and Birdman, and actresses like Skai Jackson have become vessels for affects extending beyond their own individual capabilities.

[...]

Memes move like blackness itself, and the meme’s tactical similarity to historical black cultural forms makes them — predictably — vulnerable to appropriation and capture. The meme is a form that allows for a sense of collective ownership among those who come into contact with it — black or nonblack. The meme seems open to appropriation and interpretation by whoever possesses it for a moment, echoing Fred Moten’s description of blackness as being only what we hold in our outstretched hands.

When we say that the internet extends and exacerbates the same old offline relations, we mean it. In keeping with historical precedent, the cultural and affective labor of black individuals online largely goes unrecognized and un(der)compensated. Compare the nonexistent returns seen by black teens for introducing the whip to the lifetime supply of Vans shoes gifted to the Damn Daniel kid or the nearly half–million dollars worth of swag that Chewbacca Mom received for her most abject display of consumerist bliss.

[...]

“Rather than capital ‘incorporating’ from the outside the authentic fruits of the collective imagination,” Tiziana Terranova argues in “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy,” “it seems more reasonable to think of cultural flows as originating within a field that is always and already capitalism.” Likewise, memes — even when produced by black users — cannot be viewed as objects that once authentically circulated in black circles for the enjoyment of the black collective but instead are always already compromised by the looming presence of the corporate, the capitalist. As such, the meme will probably never manifest blackness in a traceable form such that it might be fully claimed by the black cultural body. The internet, which was advertised as a way to free us from our bodies, has merely confused our limits and identifications, providing just enough flexibility to, in artist Keith Townsend Obadike’s words, “make the same old burnt cork blackface routine easier.”

Aria Dean, "Poor Meme, Rich Meme"

[worldbeyondtheworld]

Tthinking and headcanoning about TGS Lanyon.

[nxa-404]

Don’t be shy share with the class

[worldbeyondtheworld]

also @afkphorabit

I'll be rereading the comic to be sure, so take this one with a big grain of salt. But I think there are several reasons why Lanyon didn't like to interact with the Lodgers:

a) Aside from taught and learned bias, Mad / Rogue Science is unpredictable, and that unsettles him because of his control issues.

b) The Society members are passionate and open about their passions. Lanyon secretly envies how unashamed they are about showing that. A reflexive reaction. One he's unwilling to reflect and change his mind on because of fear of letting new people in or showing vulnerability. And because he fears facing the part of himself he's been suppressing, the one who's honest about why he's envious. The one who wants to be open about who he is.

c) He knows his 'uncaring' attitude makes him unpopular. He's also a hypocrite, because it doesn't stop him from feeling a bit bitter at their dislike of him. Deep down, he'd like to connect.

d) Jekyll's running himself ragged to keep the Society alive, which he hides from the Lodgers, but not from him.

e) It's because Jekyll's hiding how much he struggles to fund the Society, and hiding himself, but the Lodgers don't realize the amount of work and money needed to keep everything running. Their assumptions about him as well as ignorance frustrate Lanyon.

f) While distant and resenting them to a degree, he doesn't want the Lodgers to get into trouble. Their experiments worry him, because they could attract the wrong kind of attention.

[worldbeyondtheworld]

One of the disadvantages the comic's structure and the comparatively large cast of minor characters presents is the lack of focus on Lanyon's average day. They overshadow him.

Yes, part of the point of his character and development is: He doesn't have many close friends; his almost-obsession with Jekyll's (a white man's) well-being is a questionable source of stability in his life and mostly a distraction from his issues; AND Lanyon's spending his other time a lot with leisurely activities doesn't actually fulfill him. Because he refuses to connect emotionally with anything or get passionate.

But he's one of the main characters, and we don't almost see any of the last point, when that's an important angle how he foils and parallels Jekyll / Hyde.

We know vaguely what Lanyon's doing, but not how he acts, how he feels, how he thinks about the 'what'. Or how those things change during the 'what'. Or who he surrounds himself with and why. Or why he chooses these particular activities over others.

There is a difference between hearing about it, or have a few moments dedicated to that aspect-

Or having the story show Lanyon's days, including some work hours, leisure time for enjoyment, spending time with Everly, Rachel, or Jekyll, etc., while adding hints about his avoidance and hiding his sincerity. The audience would witness that a lot of his 'fun life' is concealing dissatisfaction, fear, and a dependency on other people's opinions.

[worldbeyondtheworld]

An addendum and edit: While Lanyon doesn't have many close friends, we also don't know whether or not he'd like or need more. The number doesn't describe the quality of his life but is something I'm speculating about.

A better description would be that, as far as we know, he doesn't have a big support network.

[worldbeyondtheworld]

One of the disadvantages the comic's structure and the comparatively large cast of minor characters presents is the lack of focus on Lanyon's average day. They overshadow him.

Yes, part of the point of his character and development is: He doesn't have many close friends; his almost-obsession with Jekyll's (a white man's) well-being is a questionable source of stability in his life and mostly a distraction from his issues; AND Lanyon's spending his other time a lot with leisurely activities doesn't actually fulfill him. Because he refuses to connect emotionally with anything or get passionate.

But he's one of the main characters, and we don't almost see any of the last point, when that's an important angle how he foils and parallels Jekyll / Hyde.

We know vaguely what Lanyon's doing, but not how he acts, how he feels, how he thinks about the 'what'. Or how those things change during the 'what'. Or who he surrounds himself with and why. Or why he chooses these particular activities over others.

There is a difference between hearing about it, or have a few moments dedicated to that aspect-

Or having the story show Lanyon's days, including some work hours, leisure time for enjoyment, spending time with Everly, Rachel, or Jekyll, etc., while adding hints about his avoidance and hiding his sincerity. The audience would witness that a lot of his 'fun life' is concealing dissatisfaction, fear, and a dependency on other people's opinions.

[lichenart]

TGS FANS OF TUMBLR

I need your help. Now, I don’t actually know if such a fic exists, but I want to read a fic where Henry actually ends up in Bethlam. I’ve looked around on AO3 and google, but I can’t find anything. If anyone knows of a fic like this, I would be very grateful.

[worldbeyondtheworld]

I know such an AU exists on AO3, but I can't remember anymore how it's called! I bet somebody here on tumblr knows, because I remember that they posted about their reactions.

[jortlordimus]

Late to tgs Monday apologies BUT more campaign art

A fffeeewwww things happened in the past two sessions nothing major I think… (lies)

Though this is my last week of school so there’s a chance there will be less art after this week apologies in advance

[worldbeyondtheworld]

The dance battle!I love your poses!!!

I wonder, where is Hyde in the last picture? At first glance I thought it was a forest. Then I realized he was touching a figment? formation? that looks like Jekyll's face. Did he see it? Did he see something else if he's so calm? Is it because of what he sees what he's calling for Jekyll? And where is Jekyll actually?

Is the face like that because of Hyde's hallucinations before the dance battle?