#theme: ddlc

[mogai-crafting-table]

Bitterwordslyricastelic

bitterwordslyricastelic-

a constelic term for when one stels the lyrics 'does my pen only write bitter words for those who are dear to me?' from 'your reality' by dan salvato.

[ID: two rectangular flags with 8 horizontal stripes. there are three distinct thickness differences: the third and sixth being the thickest, the first, second, seventh, and eighth being much thinner, and the fourth and fifth being thinner than that. the colours are in this order from top to bottom: dull red, dull pinkish orange, near white, dark grey, light grey, near white, dull pinkish orange, dull red. in the centre of the first flag is the constelic symbol. the symbol is white and outlined in black. it starts as a five-pointed star of lines; the ends of the lines curl right into a spiral. behind the symbol is a transparent white circle. the second flag has text reading 'does my pen only write bitter words/ for those who are dear to me?' on top of the third and sixth stripes. the text is in a handwriting style font called 'journal' and is a dull red colour. End ID]

Day 12 of @honey-makes-mogai 's 250 Followers and Birthday coining event (July 12th - The last song you listened to)

-🎤

[tempestmothstorm]

Man I love act 2 Natsuki so so much we gotta talk about her more aaugghhhh

I swear it was said somewhere that Natsuki was changed the least because out of all the club members Monika could make her unlikeable simply by proxy of Yuri being messed up too, someone who Monika saw as more competition compared to her. Similar to act 2 Yuri being a slap in the face to her self doubt about secretly being an overly pushy creep, changing Natsuki the least feels like a slap in the face to her whole side stories arc about feeling like an awful person nobody likes. Monika probably knows about all her self doubts too and is still basically like “you’re right :) you are so unlikable that I don’t even have to change you that much to make someone think you’re just as repulsive as a freaky yandere”

Because of this Monika was mostly focused on Yuri this whole time, slowly neglecting Natsuki until the narrative started doing it too. Between Yuri and Monika forcing themselves on the player, Natsuki who is notably less pushy gets instead pushed away and sidelined by them. Considering her whole backstory and arc in the side stories, it’s kinda ironic that the one safe space she has ended up neglecting her needs too.

It’s kinda depressing though man her old friends make her ignore her feelings and put up with their abuse. Her home life is ambiguous most of the time but at best her dad neglects her feelings and needs and by act 2 he’s abusive to the point of life threatening child abuse. And then her last and only safe space changes to become distant and rude, where they dismiss all her wants and concerns while putting down her interests and very existence in the club, all for a boy who just got here. This club was supposed to be a safe space full of welcoming people who would let her be who she is. It was supposed to be the one place she wouldn’t get yelled or sneered at for voicing her opinion. It was supposed to be the place where she could ~write the way into her heart~ or whatever. But now it’s just become another source of abuse in her life

She has to conform to everyone else’s needs instead, and no matter how much she may want to she has no power in her life. She has to watch as every person in her life abuses and neglects her. She never gets to be vice president. She never gets to be in the loop and find out why everyone is acting strange. She never gets to know why the club is tearing itself apart. The world is breaking and she can never learn why, she can only sit by in silence and suffer in the background as everyone else takes hold in the narrative. She tries reaching out but nobody actually respects her enough to let her do anything, and the only thing keeping her from giving up and leaving is the fact that she has nothing else, and maybe this time things will get better. But they don’t. She doesn’t belong anywhere. She has no power here. She can’t change things no matter what she does

Yet despite this she ironically ends up becoming the most normal person ever in the club. The girl with literally zero healthy relationships in her life. The tsundere. Is the voice of reason.

Monika you suck at your job

Everyone around her is going insane. Yuri is becoming obsessive to the point of uncharacteristic aggression, Sayori just doesn’t exist, Monika is ignoring it all and acting like everything’s normal, and mc as the closest thing to normal this club is gonna get is also becoming more and more of a blank slate. She’s alone in this.

And yet despite all of that she still cares about her friends. Even if Monika tries to get her to ignore it, she still cares about Yuri and is worried about her more than anything. Despite Monika’s attempts to dehumanized the club, Natsuki never yields to her control. She’s the one to call everyone out on how weird everything is, cutting through Monika’s facade and realizing that something is wrong. She desperately wants things to be okay again, for Yuri to be okay even after seeing the way she acts, for you to listen to her since you’re the only other person who could do something.

She tries reaching out with her last note, pleading for you to do something. Even if Monika takes that moment away because she still wants to act like nothing is wrong, the player remembers. You remember that Monika tried to get you to leave you club members to suffer, and you remember that Natsuki is still a real human being reacting to these things, not just a set of scripts. And the player recognizes that Natsuki cares, even if they can’t do anything about it.

Despite Monika trying to reinforce her being a bad person, Natsuki’s character ended up shining way more than it would have had it just been act 1. Even through all of Monika’s attempts, Natsuki still makes it apparent that she can be a good person and that she really deeply cares about the people around her, even if it takes a lot to show it. While a stubborn tsundere is hatable, her stubbornness here to just be herself ironically ended up as a strength. The anime trope ended up as a boon. Suck it Monika 😎

Throughout the constant dehumanizations as cliche lines of code, Natsuki retains her humanity until the very end. While Sayori and Yuri’s last moments are them succumbing to Monika’s control, her final moments let her retain her humanity.

By puking in the floor yeah. But with all of Monika’s efforts to get her to act like nothing’s wrong, her having a normal human reaction to a three day old corpse compared to complete nonchalance makes her seem more human than Monika ironically enough. She probably would have wanted Natsuki to ignore it too, but no matter what she did she couldn’t stop her from being herself. Her desire for perfection compared to Natsuki seeing the world how it is a bit of a rebellion to everything Monika stands for, and in the end, Natsuki gets to have the win in some little way.

Natsuki being the least altered is interesting cause on one hand it says some about a person when Ms. Access doesn’t bother hitting you with the asshole beam to make you look like an asshole, but on the other hand she does still try to make Natsuki look bad, and its interesting to think about how that ended up failing. She’s still whole compared to the others who are altered beyond belief, and who she is isn’t all that hatable compared to what Monika wants you to think. Her best qualities still shine through, and despite all she perseveres until the end where Monika can only delete her to get rid of her.

Despite all of Monika’s attempts to twist the club apart, despite everyone else in the club becoming hostile and unfamiliar, despite everyone in her life treating her like she’s worthless, Natsuki is still herself. She’s stubbornly herself until the bitter end. And honestly who she is is pretty great. That’s all. Natsuki cool

[cherry-blossom-qf]

Decided to fixed up my designs for Kinito and Monika... TO INTRODUCE Y'ALL TO MY NEW AU!!

DESKTOP SURFERS AU

Lore about this AU is under the cut- ↓↓↓

In this AU, Kinito was picking up hints that his user was planning on deleting him by just looking at his user's search history. So to escape death, Kinito hid himself away in one of the Steam folders of the user's games.

The game he picked was one that he could easily get into, Doki Doki Literature Club. The game was practically unfunctional (user got DDLC's good ending with the "Thank You" note), with only a shadow of what was left of Monika in the code. When Kinito found her, he sat down and talked with her a bit, as there wasn't much that he could but stay hidden.

When Monika told him about her desire to get out of the game and into reality, and how badly she messed up everything just for the attention from the only real person she knew, Kinito felt pity for her.

So he hatched a plan.

He got Monika to delete the creepy stuff from his code as best as she can. And in return, Kinito codes in Monika as a part of his program so she can freely move around the computer like Kinito does. Doing all of this with his administration access before logging himself out (basically sacrificing his "perfect friend" bullshit to save himself and Monika)

As they got out of the game, they strike up a deal with the user. And with enough bargaining, the user decides to let them live, as long they don't get to hurt anyone or break the computer anymore. So now, Kinito and Monika both just live inside the user's computer. Playing games off of the user's Steam Library, watching Youtube videos, surfing the web, and assisting the user with any task they have for them.

And to end this lore dump off: Yes, Kinito and Monika are dating each other in this AU. Because I'm cringey shipper! :P

[sweetscoffin]

all of my DRs because why not ☆ミ

MHA : this is my main dr that i've been working on since 2020 (i discovered shifting that year). i got soooo excited when i found out this shifting stuff is actually real and i'm actually gonna be there!!! just writing about it is getting me excited (*≧∀≦) i can't wait to make friends with everyone, especially izuku (future s/o 💪)!! i could ramble about this forever lmao

MLP : my special interest since forever. i wanna be with the mane 6 and do pony stuff idk. i haven't been working on this script much though. i'm still deciding whether i wanna be a pegasus or unicorn (i don't wanna be an alicorn) 😭

better CR : self-explanatory. this CR but i'm prettier, smarter, have better clothes, etc, and the world is a better place!!! :D my 2nd most worked on script (i mainly just work on this one and my mha script).

ballerina DR : my better CR but it's centered around being a professional ballerina. that's it (⌒‐⌒) it sounds fun!!

DDLC : i thought it'd be fun if i were actually inside the game / if everything were actually real. but i'm not sure how the whole thing is actually gonna work, especially with monika, so i guess i'll find out when i get there

pokémon : ever since i was little, i've always wanted pokémon of my own. that detective pikachu movie didn't help lmao 😭 i have a shiny popplio as my starter!! and my team is mainly fairy types. i've always been a fairy type kinda girl (〃ω〃)

itsv / atsv : atsv is lowkey shifter coded idk... it looks so funn!!! 😭 and i look so cute in that DR too!! i'm excited to save people and have cool powers n stuff

undertale : special interest #3. been obsessed with this game since it came out 😭 i was especially into the comic dubs and gameplays. i'm actually considering going to some undertale AUs (underfell, underswap, etc), but i think i'll focus on the original first 🙏

finished!! i mainly did this to see if anyone else was gonna shift to any of these places, but i also just wanted to express how i feel about them :D

[keanoble]

Day 9 = Childhood video game

[they0kai]

Sorry bad timing on his one on Valentine’s Day so here u go

[vineyard-edits]

Portait Of Markov

[portait of markov]

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made by/for @de-rune

no spoons for ids, apologies

bonus: icons + blog header

[corpsey-moodboards]

yuri (ddlc) stimboard w/ red/purple + book + knife themes for @p-eachie

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[mogai-crafting-table]

Catcupcakeimagestelic

catcupcakeimagestelic-

a constelic term for when one stels the image shown on the alternate flag

[ID: 2 rectangular flags, each with 8 equally-sized horizontal lines and 2 thinner ones in the middle. the colours are in this order from top to bottom: medium brown, dull brownish pink, light pink, very light pink, very light pinkish tan, pinkish white, very light pink, light pink, dull brownish pink, medium brown. in the centre of the first flag is a white symbol outlined in black. the symbol starts as a five-pointed star of lines; the ends of the lines curl right into a spiral. behind the symbol is a white rectangle that is longer vertically than it is horizontally. in the centre of the second lag is an artwork of a pink cupcake with light pink frosting; the face of a cat is done on the frosting in chocolate. the cupcake is surrounded by a white border and rests on a pink gradient background that is lighter at the top. End ID]

Day 22 of @honey-makes-mogai 's 250 Followers and Birthday coining event (July 22nd - Imagestelic)

-🧁

[tempestmothstorm]

I’m thinking about the whole "you are not your feelings" theme the side stories have and how that contrasts with the main game

Like the two talks in reflection where Sayori and Monika tell the others about how their emotions don’t have to define who they are and don’t make them bad people. This theme of singular traits not defining who you are/not controlling who you want to be is backed up by the rest of the side stories, which exist to show how the characters are multifaceted and human. They aren’t tropes or defined solely by their thoughts or actions. They aren’t perfect nor pure evil, only people trying their best. They’re real, complex people, and the ‘you are not your feelings’ phrase is proof of that.

The side stories’ goal of presenting these characters as human go directly against a ~certain someone’s~ goal of flattening and dehumanizing them in the main game. Its clear Monika here doesn’t really learn the ‘you are not your feelings’ thing in this world, something that happens with a lot of the lessons learned in the side stories (i.e. the ones in each title). Due to the whole disillusionment with reality thing, her attitude to the rest of the club is pretty dismissive, seeing them as one-dimensional characters tropes, making whatever flaws they have as their defining trait.

I'm going to focus on the CANYOUHEREME.txt though cause it pretty easily sums up her feelings so I'm just gonna put it here

Beneath their manufactured perception - their artificial reality - is a writhing, twisted mess of dread. Loathing. Judgment. Elitism. Self-doubt. All thrashing to escape the feeble hold of their host, seeping through every little crevice they can find. Into their willpower, starving them of all motivation and desire. Into their stomach, forcing them to drown their guilt in comfort food. Or into a newly-opened gash in their skin, hidden only by the sleeves of a cute new shirt. Such a deplorable, tangled mass is already present in every single one of them. That's why I choose not to blame myself for their actions.

All I did was untie the knot.

This poem is interesting because it does make them out to be more human compared to the anime tropes Monika says they are in the act 3 talks, but replaces the empathy found in the side stories with disgust, painting the club as gross, immoral, and everything the girls fear themselves to be. Monika sees the stuff they hide, all the complex feelings and less savory traits, and sees it as their truth, their whole being. Their feelings define them, what they think is their worst is all they've ever been, and that these things make them awful people. When Monika forcibly brings these things to the forefront, it's their fault alone when act out, because their darkest thoughts are all they'll ever be.

She knows they’re more than that, but she’s actively in denial about how much she actually cares, and the epiphany absolutely destroyed her ability to see her friends as actually complex people beyond their programing.

I think that's part of why comparing her to side stories Monika messes me up so much because she's like!! So nice!!! Mature!!!! And understanding!!!!! And she sees her friends faults and all!!!!!! And she loves them anyways and understands their goodness!!!!!!!!!! But main game strips that away from her and makes her cynical!!!!!!!!!!!! And she can't see the goodness in her friends anymore because they aren't real and they're scripts made to appeal to a dumb dating sim and she!!!!!!!!!!! Can't see them as people anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So their flaws turn into THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

. . . And that concludes today's Monika analysis.

[los3rb0y]

Lowkey wanna have a layout like those jirai girls with their pretty lace dividers and cute characters to represent their emotions in the post AUGHHCMDL

i don’t know how to make that stuff tho it probably won’t happen !!!!

[junos-cacophony]

hhelo i just wokr up

hi .,,, pat pat pat

[a-lunarcentric-heart]

Considering that it’s a 7 year old game I’m sure this idea is out here, but worshipper monika. Monika who’s devoted to the player, to the idea of a higher reality in a (almost?) religious way

[mizzyislost]

various sparks of varying ages. yes because imiss him ok.wahtever ill just kill myself

[william-austin]

why do horror games always have the most silliest songs ever as if I'm not about to be screaming my ass off in a few

[tempestmothstorm]

Sayori is the sans of ddlc send post