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I'm asking you politely to watch this show when it releases internationally on Nov 14

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I feel like your art would tast like oranges, maybe chocolate, depending on which drawing we're talking about here

im taking this as a compliment lmao

also if were talking chocolate, then it better be dark chocolate, the best one out there 🗣

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always fucking crazy when i see someone i recognize from here out in the wild on twitter

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fuck you if you voted for him

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IMtober days 10 and 11

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SUPER DUPER IMPORTANT PSA!!!!

Many may not know, but this show (👇👇) is going to be releasing on netflix on NOVEMBER 14TH!!!

I need everyone that follows me and has access to a netflix account to stream it so a season 2 gets greenlit! I NEED A SECOND SEASON OR I DIE!!!! DO YOU WANT ME TO DIE? NO? THEN STREAM IT LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT CAUSE IT DOES!!

get hypnotized 🌀🌀 oooo you want to watch the fairly oddparents so bad oooo🌀🌀

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Imtober days 8 & 9

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IMtober days 6 and 7

(ignore how late they are ive been busy 💀)

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IMtober days 4 and 5; Machine and gear.

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this would've been Alice @ Cuphead if she had been present when the colly divorce arc happened

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gonna post IMtober day 4 tomorrow, got out of work late and i dont have the energy to do anything today

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IMtober day 3: letter

Our favorite mailman, here to deliver your letter at the speed of sound

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IMtober day 2: Past

My favorite guy from past times 👴

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IMtober day 1: Grave

based on chapter 234, felt like the scene fit the prompt well enough

also sort of rushed, but shush

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LETS GOOO!!! 🏃🏃

A drawing a day with word prompts for the month of October!

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this got me all sorts of fucked up, bravo op you cooked with this one ✍️

PぇあせたーLSぼいTくPぢっRSぎおなーふぇあろFへーっPぇあぜPーえあZDーえっせ I forgot to change language but, PLEASE talk about cups irrational fear of help/therapy, I love your long ass essays plz🔥🔥

This is the thing - IM!Cup is very closed-minded when it comes to new things; change has never been a benevolent mistress to him, after all. Which is understandable - you close off from the things that hurt you so they can't happen again, and while that's a survival tactic and fine on its own, the goal of therapy is to work on yourself and find a way to live life the best you can manage. And Cuphead is not living, but surviving. There's a difference. He's constantly paranoid, looking over his shoulder in case him and Mugs need to run immediately, he's in vigil 24/7 (does this man fucking sleep? Maybe, remains to be seen) so nobody can sneak up on them, even if they have money from the Devil (and it doesn't sound like a negligible amount either) he doesn't seem keen on spending it - probably 'cuz that's all they have in terms of monetary gain. He's been trained into these instincts and second-nature acts that he performs like a ritual every day - have you seen him relaxed? - and these things take a toll on you; there's a reason being on "survival mode" for prolonged periods of time is fucking dangerous - our bodies ain't made for that. He's also just. Scared of spilling his guts out, of being vulnerable and being taken advantage of - "that's happened already three times, who's to say it won't happen many more?" - as he seeks help; this is a learning curve, understanding that one needs help and that they're in a comfortable enough position to seek it out and get it ain't gonna come naturally to a lotta folks, especially if they've been doing the shit he's been doing for the past decade.

When he looks in the mirror he doesn't see what we see: in our eyes, Cuphead is a victim of sorts - a victim turned victimizer, but a victim nonetheless - who's hand has been forced for a decade into all sorts of nefarious acts and activities, who wakes up only to try and keep on going for his brother's sake. We think of Cuphead as a brave yet vulnerable man, somebody who's been beaten to the ground day in and day out, loyal to a fault, a golden heart who, given the chance, wouldn't hurt anybody who didn't raise their hand against him first. When he looks in the mirror, all he sees is a monster. And typically, people don't like monsters.

People don't help monsters, the undesirables, the unworthy - in his mind therapy isn't for "somebody like him" and it ain't hard to see what that means to him: a villain, a monster, a killer and maybe, just maybe, someone worse than the Devil. He doesn't think himself worthy of help, because all he sees in his eyes is the flash of demon-blood red, in his hands the blood he's spilled, in his face a perpetually furrowed brow and pursed lip - and he's forgotten that those features are a mask. When he looks in the mirror he sees what the Devil has sharpened him into, and not what he actually is. Everybody is deserving of help and improvement, yet Cup doesn't want it because for it he needs to be vulnerable - he isn't that, not anymore. He's quick on the uptake and knows how to learn his lessons, so he wouldn't let himself be deconstructed like a frog on science class - he isn't some shrink's little lab rat, he won't be metaphorically (but it ain't gonna feel all that metaphorical) vivisected for what he would probably percieve as the entertainment of anybody. He's not stupid, he's not blind - yet he is paranoid and overly carefull, he needs to be, and these things get in the way of him getting help. He doesn't fully recognize that he's got people on his corner - for the longest time it had been only him and Mugs, and he's the protector, the muscle of their little duo. He's the one to defend Mugs, to keep his hands as clean from the carnage as their situation would allow; he's the intimidating one, the brother willing to be the villain so the other can sleep semi-peacefully at night - after all, if Mugs isn't happy, is Cup doing his job correctly?

He's never had somebody go to bat for him, so therapy is an even stranger concept - and y'know that paranoia has people seeing demons in the bushes and witches in the trees.