#everything is wrong and breaking

[color-ns]

Sometimes tweeter people know their stuff- this is the right kind of toxic angst I want to read.

[bullsandthebones]

vent post 😝

I'm always extra depressed around my birthday bc I don't feel like I deserve to be alive and that's so fun and quirky!! like wow why am I even here, I am not contributing to society at all and I'm so stupid!! I think it's bc I grew up believing I was only worth something if I was contributing in some way- and that's still a very deeply ingrained thing that I have not unlearned yet

[invertedmoth]

listening to the magnus archives and theyre mean to jon for something he literally can’t control

[ggarbagee]

if you'd had been there, if you'd had seen it, i'd bet you you would have done the same!

[b6d11f]

at my best, I'm a sacrificial lamb at my best, I am something you could handle

[tapeworrmart]

"something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why" 🪓

[fraudulent-cheese]

So i extracted some more assets out of the "Oh No U Di’n’t" World Tour Flash Game

(SPECIFICALLY assets that weren't in these posts)

These are exclusively going to be from the quiz buttons, since most of the body assets are also available on the comic maker. Well, except one at the very end. you'll see.

First, here are some of the buttons for when you hover over them!

...I don't know why half of these look like they're in pain. I don't think the gossip is worth that much cringe...

Next, here are some of the buttons when you get the question right!

Bunch of happy little guys! Don't ask why Duncan's looks so much weirder than the others.

And now, arguably the reason i went out of my way to even extract these assets and the reason i even made this post: the buttons for when you get the answer wrong without the dark filter!

No your eyes aren't deceiving you, Owen doesn't have any eyebrows in this one image. for some reason.

I thought about editing a couple of these images to remove the coloring issues inherent to the way they made these sprites, but since there doesn't seem to be an easy way to view them online, i decided to just not do that!

Oh, and here's the only body image i saved. Specifically because it's not on the comic maker. Enjoy weird face Harold

[impactrueno]

[so-much-history-in-these-streets]

Thea "I won't speak to you in mixed company" vs Cat's "can you point to the Raven in the room?" says all I need to say about why I dont like Muldani for Kevin

[gio-goose]

I‘m too depressed about my art so have this very sad unfinished sin that is (probably) never gonna see the light of day again because I am too sad to draw properly

[shouldprobablybereading]

I feel quite mean when I say that I want Lift to feel very guilty about what happened to Gavinor. Because that’s putting an unproportional amount of blame on her

But I really do wish that she does. Her actions during day two where irresponsible and childish to a degree that she is way too old to be able to excuse. And unlike most other instances of Lifts funny shenanigans of refusing to do what she is told, this time it had severe life altering consequences that can never be fixed

And I really hope that this is the turning point for her of finally accepting change and growing up to a degree. Because wether you like it or not, when you’re not the youngest, when there is someone looking up to you and you let yourself be in that position. You have a responsibility to a degree and can’t just run off and break the rules whoever you want or give dangerous advice

[antiquepearlss]

I actually really want Eugene to officiate the Varigo wedding because one, it’s not a very official or proper wedding. If anything, it’s something Rapunzel and Varian put together in one week and is essentially just a giant party where they blow stuff up and eat cake. Varian totally asks Eugene thirty minutes beforehand if he will officiate and after five minutes of sobbing, he agrees.

And two, because I want him to say this line-

“It has been a joy to watch your distracting childish rivalry turn into a distracting childish courtship, which will undoubtedly turn into a distracting childish marriage.”

[spectacledraws]

i made some relaxing and messy watercolor sketches of OCs :)

[inky-rosepanda]

If it's not obvious by now, MCD Aaron is very special to me

I know not a popular sentiment but stay with me

Just imagine, you have a wife, a son, a village, a beautiful life despite the hardships and duties that come with being a lord.

Then, one day, it's all ripped away from you. An act of protection-contorted in to one of dammation. An instant less than a blink of an eye, everything is gone.

The life you painstakingly cultivated snuffed out like a flickering candle left to the wims of the unforgiving wind.

You have to bury not only your family but friends. Your people - the very ones you swore to protect.

In response, you dedicate the rest of your life to revenge. Trying to take down the one man who destroyed your life. You don't even try to dispell the rumors that float about you, that condemn you for the cruelest actions and as such the cruelest fate. They are inconsequential to who you are now.

You vow to never become close to anyone again lest they be taken from you. Yet you still save some pieces of yourself- your not nice, you were never that, but you were a protector, and you still serve as one.

Saving those you see as innocent and in need of help.

In what is both a stroke of luck and your own dedication paying off you get the opportunity you've been waiting for. You don't get to kill the man but it's close to it, and the best you'll get for now. Still has it is now there's nothing left for you to do, nothing to live for now that your objective is semi-complete.

You kinda just drift and in doing so you are given a new purpose. Or at least something to do. Still you try to keep to you distance, refrain from getting to attached so that it does not harm you or them.

It doesn't work.

You start to come to genuinely appreciate this woman who is kinda the reason for your revenge, her and her crew. Her guards who are fiercely loyal and dangerous and in love with her, but that's not your business. Her acquired demonic travel compain who you do not train but come close to it. Then, the sporadic researcher who is more of a liability than anything. And a dog and more.

A new purpose a new start. So you help build a village and raise a daughter, having been the only person to really have any experience in both of these things.

In doing so, you start to care, mayhaps even fall for this woman, whom you see so much of yourself in, by nature of your occupation, of course, but there's more.

You see a similar struggle and appreciation and pain, not the same but close enough; it is one of lost, of a entire future being ripped away by the selfishness of one man the same man.

You get along just fine, more than fine, and you start to think maybe you could live life a little.

But just as you see the same pain, you also see the same stubbornness. The same drive and need to reciprocate what was lost, but this time for her it's more attainable. More dangerous.

More to lose

So you take it upon yourself to do what she cannot, what very well may kill her- kill you. Isn't that what you promised yourself, that you would never fail anyone else, yourself again?

This time, it's different. You had a new lease on life, and this time, you used it not as an act of revenge but one of protection. Doing what you could not do before, taking care of the people you love. Protecting your child and her mother.

A worthy, damning, heartbreaking sacrifice.

Then after it's all said and done you're not even allowed to move on to the afterlife- to see your people, your wife and child because you are being used as a vessel, as weapon against the very person you gave your life for.

Now imagine all of that, then imagine some 14 year old complaining about not liking you because "You ruined their ship"...

Lol, someone give this man a break.

TLDR;

This man is tragedy personified and the fandom reaction to him is kind of funny in that aspect

[lovelylixie]

this is pretty long and might be a little ramble-y but it's like 1:30 rn and i've been writing this since like 11pm as i rewatched the movie for the 7th time... i've been getting sidetracked as well but that's not the point.

anyways, here's a speculative/opinionated essay on k-pop demon hunters for no reason except that i'm autistic, hyperfixated and opinionated!! this isn't meant to come off as aggressive or rude, i'm just extremely blunt when it comes to my opinions 😭 so please keep that in mind. i'm not trying to invalidate anyone's opinions or headcanons!! hopefully i'm not just entirely preaching to the choir here lmao. my credentials? i've watched the movie 8 times.

i truly believe rumi's patterns and her hiding them are a metaphor for talking about your feelings. when she talks to jinu, her voice gets better. the patterns seem to recede a little. it's a subtle way of saying that you have to talk about your feelings or have some kind of actual outlet to function properly. you also need to take breaks—it's a commentary on korea's intense work culture. you can't just work work work and then be shocked when you physically/mentally can't anymore. the lines "i tried to hide, but something broke" and "we can't fix it if we never face it" in the song free support this.

the doctor guy also says that "to heal/treat the part, you have to understand the whole". he also says that "focusing on one part leads to ignoring other parts, making you separated, isolated". zoey follows up by saying "emotionally closed off?" and the doctor enthusiastically agrees. mira calls her a workaholic and says she doesn't know how to relax (she launched golden immediately after their tour when they were supposed to take a break i mean come on 😭/lh). while the doctor is kind of a fraud, he does make an extremely valid point.

rumi also seems to be pretty depressed and suicidal. it's most evident when she goes to celine and asks her to "do what she should've done a long time ago". there's also the "i've been a mistake since the moment i was born" thing. and the way she sings "a demon with no feelings don't deserve to live" on the train—she looks so sad and self-loathing. she acts like she's fine and that's part of the problem. she's holding it all in and it's tearing her apart.

another quote that stands out to me is from zoey when she says "how can we be together when we can't tell your lies from your truths, rumi?". speaking from experience, it can be a little difficult to be friends with someone when you can't tell if they're lying to you or not, especially if you're only trying to help but they just lie that they're fine. it might be easier in the moment to pretend to be fine, but it's not good for anyone in the long run. as seen in the movie, it can easily ruin relationships. celine taught rumi to hide how she feels all the time and that ended up ruining their relationship as well. she tells rumi that "our faults and fears must never be seen. it's the only only way to protect the honmoon." which is awfully similar to "hide your feelings so you don't burden others".

this post is about rumi's patterns specifically. based off of what happens in the movie, this doesn't seem to fully apply to a human-turned-demon's patterns (like jinu's). while it can be a similar case for one of those kinds of demons, it does seem to be fundamentally different. their patterns are not inherently the same kind of metaphor, but the human-turned-demon patterns can definitely be a metaphor for working on, for example, jealousy before it consumes you.

this is long enough and i'm way too tired to break 'this is what it sounds like' down so i'm just... not gonna 😭😭 have a great day HRMCUDJ i'm going to bed (definitely not i'm actually gonna watch dandadan 🤫)

(please read the tags as well)

[toadminako]

So I'm deep in the Cold Boys back catalogue now, and goodness gracious, Evil Jopson in Spotless really is an Experience isn't he?