#forward memory

[nearzeroblog]

Life Is Memory Forward

David Hofstadter, in I Am a Strange Loop, asks whether a mosquito uses signs. The question struck me as absurd—not because it’s silly, but because it misunderstands something fundamental. Mosquitoes don’t need signs; they have object orientation. They are oriented toward a world built into them by nature. In a way, they are memory in motion. Life doesn’t need to “recall” in the way a human does…

[pvtpunsart]

Splinter and Leo go to an escape room and Splinter surprises Leo by having booked a MAGIC-THEMED ESCAPE ROOM. Leo is DELIGHTED.

Leo has a blast solving all the puzzles and doing stage magic and they solve the room with a minute remaining and get to take fun selfies of WINNING

[b6d11f]

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

[forgetful-nerd]

God help 2012! Raph or MM! Raph if they ever had to deal with 2003! Leo because I’m pretty sure, out of all the Leo’s, he would be the least able to take them seriously.

Not because he doesn’t see them as capable fighters.

But because all he sees is cute, miniature versions of his hotheaded brother.

Any insults/temper flares would just be met with a little chuckle and a head pat as 2003! Leo reminisces all the times his Raph’s temper got the better of him.

Also I think 2003! Leo would appreciate having a Raph that’s smaller than him. Especially after 2003! Raph sprouted up after TMNT Fast Forward.

[equill]

Reuniting with a distorted past.

Extra:(New personality tested gone wrong)

wanted to play with rin living in the aftermath aus aswell and had these drawings laying around to share so yay

Panel 1: Was buried alive.

Comic 1: Who are you supposed to be?

new friends

Comic 2: Misguided protection.

obito still sensing the warning signs of rin losing her temper. anyways they proceeded to be dragged into the ocean by rin like some sea monster

Comic 3: Finding out (Now what will you do?)

obito is harshly brought back from his delusions because now its not just kushina but rin too who he needs to ripped out the tail beast from

[somnimagus]

My page for @kairizine. It was such a huge honor to be part of this wonderful book with everyone, I had so much fun!

[id in alt!]

[blondebrainpowered]

The Clock Store - Silly Symphony, 1937

[bedupolker]

I don't know if you ever read any of the redwall series, but with how good your art style is you could do a graphic novel in that world and do it amazing justice.

I'm sure it's a great series but when I was in the target demographic age, rats were my favorite animal, and younger-me just couldn't get over that anti-rat propaganda. Older me just doesn't enjoy "sentient fantasy race is always inherently evil" as a trope.

[varilien]

wednesday was the 1000th day since the fateful afternoon my roommate asked to see the space cowboy show i apparently used to talk about a lot and i wanted to do a big illustrated piece to celebrate but my job keeps me from drawing anything at all !!!!!!!

anyways i've been missing vash so so so so so bad u guys can anybody hear me it's so dark in here.

lines also cuz i really like how his hair turned out :3 reminds me of the couple shoujo manga i read as a kid teehee

[mobius-m-mobius]

-Julio Cortázar, from "Bolero" (trans. John Joseph Lyons)

Loki S2 Anniversary x Episode 2 - “Breaking Brad”

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Toy Box

[rhiangalaxy]

Gosh I love your baby plant au so much excitedly awaiting the next part.

Doodle ask: Binghe using his dream powers to cheer up Gongyi Xiao/ remind himself and xiao what the outside world looks like to give them both a reason to keep going (Kinda sounds more angst now that I’m writing it out then it was in my head :p)

For the XiaoBingYuan truthers o7 Thanks for the rq!! :D

[ID: A Scum Villain Doodle. Plant!Shen Yuan sits crosslegged between Luo Binghe and Gongyi Xiao. He has a bright closed eye smile as if he's chatting/laughing. On the left is LBH who is sitting on his knees and looking at SY with a smile and flushed cheeks. On the right, Gongyi Xiao is leaning against SY's shoulder with his back as he holds SY's butterfly on one of his hands, looking down at it in amazement. End ID]

[tangledinink]

Swanatello's memory problems hurt me way more than they should Like wtf I read CAS and LFLS I thought I was more immune to this But no tears are streaming down my face at Swanatello not fully remembering his bros aUgh

I offer you-- the first time Swanatello was able to recognize one of his brothers. And, in the same vein, the first time that Swanatello realized that something was wrong.

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[cent-scratchnsniff]

doodles and stuff. struggled with painting until i gave up

[soapdish290]

Jiao is so obviously a feature of the narrative throughout 1000xRESIST.

She is part of Iris' backstory. Iris treats her like part of her backstory. As something that isn't TRULY real. The poor little girl that was in love with her. The F-O-B girl she was mean to. A skeleton in her closet. A moral lesson, maybe?

Whatever Iris is supposed to see Jiao as, we're introduced to Jiao as symbol/object more than person. Jiao's picture. Candles and incense. Past Tense. The subject of the memory. What can we learn from you, Jiao?

Later Jiao remains a symbol, a sin, a servant-caste. She is so many things. She is so rarely allowed agency. The Iris clones are seen as unique individuals. They are themselves first, clones second. The Jiao clones are Jiao first, themselves only in secret. Even their names. They're forced to fit in the symbolic framework. They're not even the REAL Jiao first, but just the backstory Jiao. They're Jiao-as-seen-through-Iris-as-seen-through-Youngest. Layers and layers removed from a real person.

Jiao only seems 'real' in the narrative in one scene. The memory of her in the hospital after the dance. She is allowed to be selfish here for her own sake, not to inform Iris' character. Jiao is allowed to beg for help, to be selfish. To beg to be allowed to live. "I… can't be a picture…like dad."

But we the player were introduced originally not to Jiao, but to Jiao's picture. She IS, literally, a picture to Iris. To the player.

Iris strips all agency from Jiao. The narrative supports this treatment. Here, at least, in the hospital, the narrative shines a light on this and explicitly condemns it also.

In the scene after the dance where Jiao is running after/away from Iris, Jiao says she tried to hard to make herself disappear, the implication being she could turn herself into whatever Iris needed

In the end I guess that's what Iris did for her. All she had to do was die first. Iris needed her to be backstory.

[burningcheese-merchant]

just watched ES’s trailers, and I wanted a second opinion. Is there anything that immediately resembled Greek mythology to you in either of the videos, because to me I mostly saw biblical stuff like the multiwinged ES.

i guess it makes sense considering her design, but I feel like we got biblical allusions with SM and I’ve gotten so used to Greek-inspired ES that id be disappointed if she wasn’t, yknow?

Yes, actually! Let's pull out the title screen they revealed to show you what I mean

First thing is that little dude on the right haha. Pavlova Cookie greatly resembles Eros (most people know him by his Roman name, Cupid), son of Greek goddess Aphrodite and god of love and sexual desire. A talented archer, he would take aim at gods and men alike and shoot them down with his arrows, causing them to fall in love with who or whatever they're looking at (Aphrodite often had him do this to specific people she told him to, to suit her own goals/purposes. She's a horrifying combination of vindictive mean girl and wannabe matchmaker. Methinks Eternal Sugar employs Pavlova in a similar way)

I know the place gives "Garden of Eden" vibes, which is fair and true (but a little lame tbh). But I personally think it looks just as much like the Garden of the Hesperides, a fabled lush garden from Greek myth where trees bearing fruit that granted immortality grew (and were guarded by the Hesperides, daughters of the titan Atlas). The fruit in question are golden apples. What's that in that little snake's clutches over there, next to Eternal Sugar? A golden apple :)

It's more apparent in another picture (see attached, in the lower right corner), but: the architectural style of the place is very much Greek. The columns are ionic, which is a column design/style created by Ionian Greeks around the 6th century BC. Ionic columns are primarily characterized by the spiral scroll pattern at the top

Eternal Sugar's dress is actually quite Greek-looking. Obviously it's not 1:1, this is a cartoony video game not a historical documentary, but that style is very Greco-Roman. Look up traditional ancient Greek tunics/chitons and other attire, especially for women, and you'll see what I mean

She's actually not holding a harp. That is a lyre, a stringed instrument that's similar to a harp. The lyre is a common and beloved instrument in Ancient Greek culture and myth, most notably played by Apollo, god of the sun and music, and Hermes, god of travelers and thieves (and a lot of other things, he's a bit of a jack of all trades). The former also gifted a golden lyre to the famous Greek hero/protagonist Orpheus, who was a master musician and used that lyre to charm Hades and Persephone into agreeing to let him lead his deceased love Eurydice out of the Underworld (if you know that story, you know how it ends...)

Again, I understand that the place bears resemblance to Eden. Which it does. But aside from that, and aside from the nod to the Garden of the Hesperides, the whole thing reminds me of the island of the Lotus Eaters, a location stumbled upon by Odysseus and co. on their journey back home from the Trojan War during Homer's Odyssey. In that place are flowers that are exceptionally beautiful and even more delicious - but they're cursed. Eating them turns you into an addict almost immediately, and they rob you of your memories and will to do anything or leave the island at all. Odysseus lost a few of his men to them. I get the impression that the foods in the Sugar Paradise are like those lotuses, and Holly and co. run the risk of becoming Lotus Eaters too

To bring up the Odyssey again, Eternal Sugar herself gave me a lot of Circe + Calypso vibes in the trailer. Both are women who fell for Odysseus upon meeting him and trapped him on their islands for a time, using magic to control and manipulate him (Circe is a goddess of sorcery, Calypso is a magic-using nymph). Other people had to intervene on Odysseus's behalf to free him from their spells; otherwise, he would've stayed stuck forever. Sugar seems a bit like them; developing an attachment to Holly (both because she wants the Soul Jam back, and out of genuine sentiment. Remember that the Ancients and Beasts are canonically soulmates) and luring her into her strange, "happy" world and trying to trap her there forever

I'm a little disappointed with the nods to Christianity ngl. I love Christian/Abrahamic lore and symbolism very much, but I didn't want that for Sugar. We already had it for Shadow Milk. I wanted Sugar to be 100% Greek, but... no, I guess lol. Gotta have Eden and those little cherub looking guys and the snake with the apple. It gets boring after a while. Christianity is the most famous religion to ever exist in the history of the world, EVERYONE knows Christian iconography to some degree, why can't we have something different for once. Mystic Flour and Burning Spice were awesome in that they leaned into cultures that don't get a lot of recognition in the West (China and India), you know? Yes, Greece is "the West" as well, but idk. I'm just tired of the same Christian imagery always being used. And I say that as a Christian myself haha

⭐ I forgot to add this lol. I suppose the Christian imagery isn't entirely out of place necessarily, because Greece actually is deeply Christian and has been for an extremely long time (Greek Orthodox. Ancient Greek is actually the first language the Bible was translated into, fun fact!). But even so. I wanted Greek mythology, not Abrahamic religion lol