#tmp despair

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TRIVIA MURDER PARTY!

I decided to show you the full images of the characters in TMP

And here is the evil form of the presenter

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[INTERACTIVE POST]

Sometimes I wonder, why Despair is with the deadly sins in TMP1 when they is not one? Tell me your theories/facts

(And dw, I will soon upload the drawings of the dynamics, I just haven't been well emotionally these days)

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TMP GOOFS PRESENTS….

Despair asks Jester for a joke (and nothing goes wrong!) (lying)

Been reposting my art cause I accidentally deleted my previous tumblr 😭

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Project: TMP3

So in 2022 (I believe), I had a little project in mind to make a TMP3, and this was a sponsor card:

While I was digging through my old drawings, I discovered this and decided to remake it. So now, it looks like this:

(EDIT: Forgot to add Nerd. I’m so stupid.) Whaddaya think of my designs now? I’ll post the four characters that look unfamiliar probably soon. IDK LOL

[shittymurderparty]

"Great party! Can't wait to tell my therapist about it when I'm older. Bye!"

- despair, trying to find excuses to escape the hotel

(Source: Louie, DuckTales (2017), "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!")

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Despair Doll: "Personally, I don't like being killed."

[biorazz]

more alien au art i like this tbh

[neokatt]

have some more creatures!

[majestydeerakuma]

DESPAIR

I find myself here again

I can feel it now, I can no longer pretend

This smile is fake and filled with lies

The flower shrivel, wilts and dies

Bleeding delicate petals of crimson red

I can feel my body, it’s finally dead

While I walk and talk, I am no longer here

It doesn’t matter, I was never dear

And once again, I slowly rot

And I’m alone, no one connected a dot

I cannot cry, my body will refuse

I look like a fool as my smile begins to snooze

All I can do now is apologize for my sins

So, I’m sorry that I cried for help, I’m sorry that I tried to find a way out of this mess

No matter, my pleas fall silent and I’m alone

I want to be loved and cared for…but I don’t deserve it

I’m sorry

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Despair

crawls out of looking at my old discord messages covered in blood

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MORE ART ON TMP!!!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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The Magnus Protocol and The End of History

In episode 21 of TMP, Leonardo Kennings, co-treasurer of the Magnus Institute, debates the Institute’s plan to participate in the London Millennium Exhibition.  

The calculations provided by Dr Welling and his team presuppose that any outputs from the site will be broadly balanced; that as a symbol of the future it captures both optimism and despair – the belief in a better world and the terror that a new millennium will bring nothing except new ways to suffer. It is my belief, however, that the actual balance of energies involved will be profoundly skewed towards the fearful and despairing[��]

This modern social and political order, following the fall of the USSR, has taken root in the popular imagination as a natural and final state of society with an emergent and inherent stability. The turning of the millennium is therefore felt as an “end of history” to borrow a term, and in this context the Dome may be seen as a monument to this order. A full stop. 

I’ve been hearing a lot about The End of History lately and wanted to share some information for those who are unfamiliar. Note that this is based on secondary sources like Philosophy Tube and the podcast If Books Could Kill, because I’m not about to read 400+ pages of a neoconservative being deeply wrong about everything.

In 1992, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote The End of History and The Last Man. In it, he makes a pretty bold claim: Western liberal democracy is the final stage of society. After the recent collapse of the Soviet Union, people worldwide would accept capitalism and American-style democracy as the objectively superior way of life. 

Once every country adopted liberal democracy, there would be no real need for major social change. Small events would continue to happen, but the overall shape of history is an arc that ends with liberal democracy. Everything else would just be minor adjustments. That’s it, guys, we won. History is canceled!

Admittedly the word end can be a bit deceptive. On one level, Fukuyama was describing liberal democracy as the final destination of society. But he was also using end in the sense of a goal, borrowing from the works of Hegel. 

I don’t need to tell you that Fukuyama was full of shit. Every major event since 9/11 has been a massive callout post for him specifically. To be fair, he wasn’t alone in his bullshit. Plenty of Western political scientists assumed the fall of the Soviet Union would lead to mass adoption of liberal democracy. 

There was a lot of misplaced optimism at the end of the Millennium. Take, for instance, the Millennium Dome in London.

A massive undertaking, this 48-acre building would cost £789 million and be the ninth largest building in the world. Tony Blair, the Prime Minister at the time, declared confidently that it would be "a triumph of confidence over cynicism, boldness over blandness, excellence over mediocrity." Critics called it a Museum of Toxic Waste, based on the site’s history as a gasworks. 

The Dome contained 14 zones aiming to depict modern British life. There was a concert by Peter Gabriel. There were daily acrobatic shows, and a special Blackadder film.

In the statement, Kenning asks the foreman how long the Dome will last. He went quiet for a moment, then told me he wasn’t sure. “Could be there forever!” he said, with an odd manic edge to his voice. “Or it could be gone in a year. You just… never know. Do you? You never know what’s coming.” 

Organizers predicted the Dome would bring in 12 million visitors per year. They got just over half that. It was closed after a year, and even then, it cost over £1 million per month to maintain. The government couldn’t even sell the damn thing, because who needs the world’s ninth largest building? It ruined a fair number of careers. To quote the Sunday Times: 

At worst it is a millennial metaphor for the twentieth century. An age in which all things, like the Dome itself, became disposable. A century in which forest and cities, marriages, animal species, races, religions and even the Earth itself, became ephemeral. What more cynical monument can there be for this totalitarian cocksure fragile age than a vast temporary plastic bowl, erected from the aggregate contribution of the poor through the National Lottery. Despite the spin, it remains a massive pantheon to the human ego, the Ozymandias of its time.

Kennings describes the Dome as “almost uniquely dangerous to our work as a place of power, adding, “It is my firm belief that not only is this site already on its own journey to become a decidedly hostile locus, but that the future it represents, and that we are being pushed to incorporate into our grand ritual, is unfit being so profoundly and irrevocably poisoned.”

The Magnus Institute burned down on December 24th, 1999. The Dome was officially opened to the public on December 31, 1999. It appears Kennings was right about one thing: the Dome was a very bad idea for the Magnus Institute.

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What Anime Do I Watch?

An immediate return to anime polling - but only because I know I'm gonna catch up Spy x Family in one day. If this is your first time seeing one of these: I am terrible at finishing series, starting series, and making choices, so I let Tumblr decide what I watch.

Propaganda* (*my thoughts and stuff) below the poll. You are all welcome - encouraged, even - to reblog and recruit (bully) your followers to your cause.

Propaganda:

Haikyuu - I said what I said. Look, I know three of their names 2 seasons in. Kenma, because he's the best. Hinata, because idk how you avoid learning that when he's our main-est character. And Kiyoko, because I respect her but still had to look up if it was spelled like that or "Kyoko."

Horimiya: The Missing Pieces - More of my adorable lil romance anime <3. I can't prove it and it's not confirmed/canon but go watch season 1 and try to tell me that this show doesn't have strong "everyone is bi" vibes.

Zombie Land Saga + Revenge - We love ladies and hate TERFs <3

Jujutsu Kaisen - Like, I get the appeal of Gojo, Geto, and Nanami, but I want to understand the appeal of Gojo, Geto, and Nanami, you know? I have only seen pictures of these people and anime tiktokers simping for them. I want to understand.

Sk8 - I say this unbiasedly for the voters, but, like, y'all have been 2nd in every poll so far - you need a win.

Terror in Resonance - I'm gonna make y'all mad when I say this but I'm sorry I have to: "So it's like Danganronpa 3: Despair Arc but with a reasonable motive?" Thank you. I'm sorry.

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Despair