#<- i guess thats going to be my tag for this stuff

[bacchuschucklefuck]

doing chibi is a good design exercise bc it forces u to think on shapes n essential details, essentially thumbnailing ur designs. its also a terrible design exercise bc it ends up looking cute no matter what

[acekindaneat]

I don't want this to end.

A cute little date scene that I really liked from the fic The Big Woo by @tinkertoysdamn !!!!!

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri

[p1ctur3]

Can't believe it has been a full year since I starting posting AvA/M fanart

so I redrew my first piece of fanart :]

[last-defense-academy]

There's a Hundred Line AI Generated Slop Strategy Guide!

Note that it was published on April 8th, before the game properly released. A few choice bits from the free sample:

[snakes-on-skates]

is this anything

(clarification for the "freedom" thing: they arent helping free others out of the goodness of their hearts, either doing so by proxy when completing their goal or using them to help complete said goal. they are still going about it in a selfish way and i dont mean to imply they actually care about the people and/or creatures being freed.)

[art-from-the-juice-box]

gen loss dump part 2 :]

i have a gen loss playlist so the last two was me hitting randomize and drawing a pic based on the song before it finished. the second one technically isn’t that cause charlie’s inferno isn’t on apple music cause they hate me so it’s way more of the song out of spite because they wouldn’t give it to me.

[habibisagi]

shoujo isagi........................... almost maybe.......................

[guesst]

temeraire wizard au.......

[elliebell77]

sorry i havent been posting i think im burnt out rn

[sweetevoltrap]

Sylus reclaiming Little Bomb as a teasing nickname...

[gay-pidgeons]

Penny fur some elaboration on Voirrey & Ginger

ok so heres the thing. voirreys husband/gingers dad, joseph (name intentional) (voirrey IS a variation of mary but specifically its from the 13 year old girl involved in this) is like. Absent. Hes for all legal and technical purposes still involved with the family but fundamentally he was not raising those kids. Hes in the pictures but he does not know half their names. Hes got problems but idgaf about him this is voirrey time. SO: voirrey rosa, basically from the start of it all, was raising seven fucking children more or less on her own while also having a Job and Mental Illness and Loathing This Whole Motherhood Thing. this also means she is the primary influence on her childrens life, not that joe would really help but its still worth noting

voirrey and the rosas in general are, crucially, a very conservative catholic family. or like the fantasyish equivalent? im unclear sorry.krillverse universe at large is generally fairly good about that kind of stuff but it varies somewhat and the rosas are very staunchly on the Oh No side of that ok. voirrey was also raised in this environment but like less so, her own personal beliefs were very much influenced by seeing her mother mauled to death, her best friend she had a big gay thing for (HI MAYBERRY) be led by rotgod into killing her dad in quick succession after trying to kiss said friend age 13

so like imagine you are 13 year old catholic girl in the 70s who just had a gay tjing (failed, even) and then immediately her mother was killed mysteriously and her crush did something so horribly evil that the sweetsunns were socially ostracized for like. a year. Like. You would draw conclusions no

so she has whatever that is with paul and then boots him and marries joseph because she has this looming threat of the dangers of being anything but wonderfully heterosexual and housewifey and she has seven children and she fucking hates being a mother, again, and shes mostly doing this all on her own and shes just sort of aimlessly unsatisfied and disgusted with her stay at home mom life and cant pin down why and shes trying to like impart beliefs and shit so none of her kids

the actual meat of this finally comes into play with ginger. by the time gingers like 8 his oldest sibling has left the nest and also transitioned and cut most ties because, Yeah, and voirrey is terrified because she dipped her toes into dykery and people around her immediately started dying and being evil so she just goes even more insanely fucking ham on the gender roles for ginger. like. slightly to the point of ignoring her other kids a BIT ginger is not her favorite but hes her focus and that is bad. im not gonna go into detail about tje specific gender roleing she puts upon ginger but . ginger rosa has like very bad self image issues okay. Loathign his body was not caused by vampirism it was just very much accentuated

and then ginger gets horribly horribly sick (due to normal reasons trust me 👍) a little before he turns 13 (ugh) and the only way to save him is by vamping him because like. Hes Gonna Die. we can put him back though ^_^ he will be fucked up afterwards but he will be alive. Ish . And in fantasy catholicism undeath is a sin and technicallt the correct response to this is to let the daughter youve put just SO much effort into die in horrible pain but voirreys not going to fucking do that. Holy shit. so she lets the kid be vampired but does not tell anybody that , including GINGER and obviously that.doesnt work out considering that its really really hard to keep someones soul tethered to their body if you are not fulfilling the minimum requirement of like let him eat the single thing he needs to eat. but still. Its a sin

and voirrey kind of hates ginger because she put sososo much effort into making ginger somebody who would be a wonderful wife and mother in the future and avoid horrible deathfates and she already hating being a mother but now she cant pretend her work was even worth anything. and GINGERS dealing with the fucking whiplash of the mother who lavished him with attention even if it made him sick to his stomach suddenly openly despising him and he makes weird erratic efforts to get it back but the efforts make him sicker and he still relies on her not hating him for being disabled so he can actually like, Get his fucking blood and shit, and also there are still like 5 other kids here theyre having a shit one

tl;dr its Bad, thank you for asking

[justtrashperson]

"How many times do I have to hold your dead body in my arms until it's all over?"

[foxett]

Hey guys

[comradecowplant]

*** weewoo weewoo, Severance rant incoming, avoid or gather 'round depending on your preference, weewoo weewoo***

oofda Severance went from what's gotta be the best episode in the series-- visually, emotionally, character drive, general plot development, etc.-- to probably the weakest. Dgmw, I absolutely adore Patricia Arquette's performance as this sad off-putting woman and was eager for a Cobel check-in, but back-to-back bottleneck episodes leading up the finale was a TERRIBLE pacing choice, just completely missing the mark in a season that has already been plagued with pacing issues-- I'm lookin' at you, beloved by many but meh to me bc I have never been a melly shipper & thought it was a frustrating cut-away from the previous episode's dramatic final moment, Woe's Hollow-- & did not really provide much new information/plot momentum to make up for it-- yeah yeah Cobel lifelong Kier cultist, child labor & mommy issues, groomed & exploited scientific prowess, Lumon ruining anachronistic ether-huffing towns economically & spiritually; didn't really dig deeper or meaningfully build on anything we already know of in a away that needed to be a full break-away episode for, imo. Coulda & shoulda been the b-plot to a Milchick's continued spirit breaking/background to Ms. Huang (which would have very much thematically tied together to each!) -focused episode. And considering how short the episode is compared to the rest, I kind of suspect it might have began production that way but it was changed for some reason further along, but that's purely vibes based speculation.

These pacing issues paired with the knowledge that there are only nine episodes a season in this silly era of television, I am increasingly nervous about the finale, particularly considering ms dipshit mama bear super sibling withOUT a background in neuroscience who thinks she knows better than the scientist who was already digging around inside his noggin Devon followed through and reached Cobel 🤦‍♂️ like, clearly there are cracks in Cobel's Kier worship/Lumon militancy-- I think she has an ego that 1) cannot forgive how tossed away she was, especially with the newest detail of her being the overlooked inventor of the severance technology, & 2) despite the indoctrination, she has enough self-preservation to bridge the cognitive dissonance that rationalizes Lumon's abuses now that it's HER that might get locked away in the mind wipe torture basement-- but you're watching a different show in a different universe if you think we've gotten any evidence to strongly indicate that she is actually trustworthy. As the inventor of the chip she could be the perfect person to help Mark with the final reintegration steps... or, as I suspect will be more along the lines of what will happen, she could activate any of the other "modes" that have so far been only eluded to/cause further brain damage/betray mark & ragbhari to leverage herself into a better position with lumon/whatever will benefit her in her quest for... well, besides survival & credit for her invention, I really can't say for sure what her motivations currently are, but legitimate compassion & concern for Mark/the innies certainly are not among them.

Idk, just overall I think this season has put its hands in too many plot pies, especially now that the other outies have been given more character development time, a choice I've liked overall but that has not been 😏 integrated 😏 well with the rest of the story, largely because (forgive my repeating myself) of the pacing/9 episode limit-- we've gotten the central Mark reintegration plot, then we have melly romance b-plot, dylan emotional affair with his own wife c-plot, outie irv + his relationship to the testing floor & whatever the fuck is going on with burt/his husband d & e-plot, milchick being racially micro-aggressed f-plot, ms huang & the spectre of child labor g-plot, nasty lady helena eagan & her sinister side swept blunt bang h-plot, whatever cobel's deal is i-plot, the general overarching What Evil Mysterious Schemes is Lumon Up To j to whatever plot, and finally, the most pressing plot point to me that has been frustratingly shelved until episode 7, What's Happening to Gemma plot. I don't expect nor want wrapped packages with bows, but satisfying narratives involve give and take, and I simply don't have much confidence in the real estate provided by the 49 remaining minutes of the season that we'll get much of anywhere (except mad over what bad things are likely about to happen to Gemma, that is one thing I have begrudging confidence in 😔)