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I just realized that in Rook's upcoming Savannahclaw card, he is in his room, his bed has Neige themed bed sheets

At least, it looks like he is crouching on a bed?

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[JP] NRC Master Chef: Rice to Meet You

From April 26th, 16:00 - May 10th, 14:59 (JST)

Event Info

Send the boys on expeditions to gather ingredients and cook to receive Chef Medals.

The last 2 ingredient spots unlock by collecting 100 and 300 Chef Medals, respectively.

Apprentice Chef SR Azul and Ortho have drop bonus of 20%, so take them with you if you have them.

There’s 3 quality types for ingredients: Gold > Silver > Bronze. The higher the ingredient quality, the better the score you’ll receive when cooking. It’s better to start cooking with low rate ingredients first, to build up skill.

Expedition durations are: 20, 60, 150 and 360 minutes. The only thing that changes is the quantity of ingredients you get, quality isn’t affected.

Recipes, Missions, Shops, and Skip Timer Info under the cut

Recipes Info

Remember to start cooking with bronze ingredients (to level up your dish skill) and gradually add in silver and gold ones.

Missions Info

Shop Info

The newest pieces for the Guest Room are the two Foregrounds.

The Master Chef SR Key can be used to exchange for either Apprentice Chef SR Azul or Apprentice Chef SR Ortho. The cards can also be obtained on the gacha event banner.

In addition, there is an Ingredients Shop that provides Bronze ingredients for 20 Master Chef medals each.

Skip Timers

Skip Timers can be obtained from event missions and also purchased in the usual Gem Shop (not the event shop). When you come to this screen of the Ingredient Procurement screen, you’ll see two golden buttons.

The middle left gold button will give you the option to spend a certain amount of Skip Timers to lower the time necessary to procure ingredients.

The middle right gold button will give you the option to spend gems to completely skip the procurement time.

Skip Timers will stay in your inventory after the event is over and can be used for future Master Chef events!

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Taking their Left Hand: A Deal with the Devil

I find it fascinating that now with the release of Crowley’s card and his groovy art, the “extending of the hand” theme has become even stronger. But now that I am looking at Crowley, Malleus, and the hand in the mirror, I noticed they are all extending their left hand!

In traditional superstitions, left handed people were associated with the Devil or just overall bad luck and clumsiness (sad to hear as a lefty myself 🤣). It is to the point that in the past, and in some cases in the present, that left handed children were forced to learn how to write with their right hand through the use of physical punishments or straight up tying their left hand down so they couldn’t use it. But where does this malicious association come from?

It varies from both culture and religion, but this book from 1891 covers the basics of it. Greek and Latin translations of “left” has several negative connotations related to clumsiness, ill omens, and in Latin it directly means “sinister.” Some lore also mentions that the left road is “the road to ruin,” and Scottish folklore even say that it is an ill omen to meet a left handed person when setting out on your journey. …Let’s put a pin on this particular note and return to it soon 👀

You may notice that in Christian iconography, God is often depicted with significance to his right hand- the “right hand of God” being his favored hand, and his left hand is the hand of judgment (The Archangel Gabriel is also known as “God’s left hand”). This is seen most clearly in the parable of sheep and goats, where the sheep are on his right side will “inherit the kingdom of god,” and the goats on his left are the fallen souls who will “depart from me… in everlasting fire.” The “right hand of God” is also used as a metaphor for his omnipotence.

This is where the Devil being associated with the left hand begins to grow. You’ll often see in art (such as cartoon or in movie cinematography) of an angel and Devil being on someone’s shoulder- and the devil is nearly always on the left- because it was believed evil spirits and even the Devil himself watched over one from the left shoulder. Some believed in the 17th century that the Devil “baptized” his followers with his left hand. And in the infamous statue of “Le Génie du Mal” (The Genius of Evil or the Spirit of Evil), Lucifer is depicted crying from his left eye, and holding a broken scepter and crown in his left hand. Notice the bitten apple below his feet, and how his left hand is also chained!

In western esotericism, there is a concept of the “left-hand path” and “right-hand path.” Right-hand path magic is light magic and associated with good and the right hand. Whereas the left-hand path is black magic, associated with evil, “amorality,” and the left hand. (Important to Note: Although the left-hand path is highly associated with black magic, it is not the same as what the left-hand path is. Many occultists critique this definition, some saying these paths don’t necessarily refers to good or bad magic. It is more the idea of amorality and seeking power and freedom through breaking constrictions, whereas true right-hand path has stricter moral codes and believe in the idea of karma/judgement)

It was even believed that witches greeted the Devil with their left hand. Women who were left handed or even had natural markings on the left side of the body were accused off being a witch during the time of the Salem Witch trials, and burned alive for it.

Now that we’ve went over this, what does this ACTUALLY mean for Crowley, Malleus, and the hand in the mirror? Returning to the pin I left earlier, meeting this left handed person is an ill omen, a road to ruin. Crowley and the hand in the mirror are the FIRST scene in the game, with Crowley even saying to take the hand in the mirror. This phrase of his is repeated throughout trailers and the manga.

Malleus is technically never the “first” person we really meet. He is notably absent at the opening ceremony, and even though he makes mysterious appearances at Ramshackle, it’s never really the “first” 🤔 BUT when we look back at Book 7, Malleus is essentially making everyone reborn into a new world without sorrow. And this scene is also where he says to take his hand. With Malleus recreating the world, he is the “first” to introduce you to it, and by taking his hand, it is the beginning of a new journey. Notice how his live 2D model has him using his left hand for magic in these scenes as well!

Crowley’s opening ceremony where he unlocks the coffins to wake everyone up feels very much like a parallel to Malleus being the orchestrator of the dreams- everyone is asleep and can only wake up by his command. We don’t yet know the identity of the hand in the mirror, but I do think it’s interesting that the Dark Mirror is the one who states that the nature of Yuu’s soul is shapeless and colorless.

And and, in official art, Malleus is frequently the one front in center, sometimes directly associated with the hand in the mirror. In this art above, there’s is the idea of the true “happily ever after,” where a crow with a key (Crowley’s symbol) is in front of the Dark Mirror, right above Malleus. All three of them are directly connected with a column of light 🤔

And and and, in Malleus’ Glorious Masquerade card and Crowley’s Raven Jacket groovy, don’t they look like they’re reaching out as a gesture of salvation? The way the light is always above on them only as they reach their hand out to you…and in Crowley’s card, the perspective is taken from inside the coffin- likes he’s leading you out/waking you from your death or something- even though he looks a bit sinister in his art🤔

Now, this is not to say that I think Crowley and Malleus are evil characters (*ﾟ▽ﾟ*) I do think there is purposeful symbolism with their left hand being an “ill omen” and associated with Devil imagery, but when I think about the left-hand path vs right-hand path, it feels like taking their hand symbolizes both freedom AND the road to ruin. Remember Crowley’s lines in the prologue- they are all running out of time, and Malleus in book 7 is looking for the happy ending. I think the story of Twisted Wonderland is inevitably a story that goes down the road to ruin, but these characters are looking for some hope in this darkness 🤔 Crowley has hope in Yuu and Grim in that they can change everything- and this change will indeed bring a lot of necessary suffering to it for the good of everyone.

I hope what I’m trying to say makes sense! 🤣 I think these parallels are really interesting, but in the end I don’t really know what they mean 🤣 I’d like to hear everyone’s thoughts on this pattern and your interpretation of things- there’s a lot of possibilities that I have never thought of! \(//∇//)\

I’d also appreciate any insight/needed correction for the biblical texts 🤔 I am not religious- so there’s possibly things I missed (*ﾟ▽ﾟ*) I have actually considered reading the full text of some sections of the Bible and such religious texts tho for Twisted Wonderland just because I’ve made several theories by now connecting to biblical lore 😭 One day perhaps- anything for my Crowley theories 🤣 I’d like to cover connections to Faust, Paradise Lost and maybe Dante’s Inferno too one day, so…my reading list is stacking up! 🤣

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I haven't been so broke since forever

He felt the threat and decided to steal everything just to prove a point

And threw SSR Trey under the bus

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Challenge! Draw ur yuu + grim like this

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I'm just saying, if I get Crowley's card and it doesn't have some earth-shattering lore crumbs, I will make him run laps in PE for all eternity❤

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Thoughts/Analysis on TWSTs Manga Promotional Video

Haha, I know this just dropped basically, but I already had a lot of thoughts on this video! Here’s a link in case you haven’t seen it yet. The video is absolutely gorgeous, and I love the animations done with the manga panels!!

But as a silly Crowley theorist, I was squinting at some of the details put in this video 👀🐦‍⬛ Forgive if some of the screenshots look odd lmaoo, some scenes I had to raise the lighting to see it properly.

At first, the opening shot just looks surrounded by fog. But a closer look at it clearly places it in the mirror chamber- or specifically from the way Crowley sees it in the opening prologue where he ominously speaks to the Dark Mirror.

I know this is such a reach LMAO but I’m just scrambling my thoughts. I found it interesting how Malleus had the clearest shot of his head in the little mirror previews. I feel like it parallels both his countdown art image and Crowley’s as well- but I’ll get to that later. I like how his art faded away to NRC logo and the raven wings.

But HERES what I was side-eyeing when I saw it. The manga Yuu’s are presented like cards, with the three Yuu’s we’ve seen so far getting their art, and the other four obscured. The words roughly translate to “This is the tale of Yuu.” From this, we can conclude that the Yuu’s are represented by cards. I wonder if this is a hint of the Yuu’s being a “card” up Crowley’s sleeve for the late game events?

With this conclusion in mind…WHAT IS THIS OMINOUS SHOT??!? “And the story of you.” There’s a clear distinction between Yuu and us as a player…There’s so many cards floating in the air. And instead of being numbered like the previous ones, these say “UNKNOWN.” If the Yuu’s are represented with cards…how many Yuu’s have been summoned to this world? Is this a hint at the time loop theory or different universes? I’d love to hear y’all’s thoughts on this, I find it so fascinating that the cards are labeled UNKNOWN instead of being numbered. I immediately thought that the cards also resembled the floating coffins in the mirror chamber?

It’s also interesting that the word “Yuu” was colored in gold, and “you” was colored in purple. Gold like the eyes of Crowley’s mask, and the purple of Crowley’s lips? And if you look back up at the colored manga page, the usage of purple and gold is also quite prominent. What makes me side-eye the purple is how immediately right after the ominous floating cards, Crowley smiling (notably without his mask as he speaks to the Dark Mirror!!) is shown, before the trailer ends.

There has also repeatedly been white fog/miasma all over the trailer, especially in the beginning in the mirror chamber, and now the end with TWSTs logo. It reminds me of both Crowley’s countdown art, and this line from Book 6. Blot, although it resembles black ink, can contaminate and eventually drain the colors of its surroundings.

Also, Crowley’s countdown art is the only one to break several patterns: No streak/pop of color, a white background instead of black, and the usage of gold. I wonder if the gold and purple in this trailer is meant to hint at Crowley’s control over Yuu? Or how he summoned them here for a purpose, to be his “card up his sleeve?”

I don’t know…I have so many questions haha, but I feel like this trailer was dropping some hints about something, even if I can’t say concretely what it is…🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

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He's an ugly crier, but we love him for it

Lilia is one of the characters who I cannot and will not ship my MC with. He's just so parent/grandpa coded to me. It feels wrong at worst and like a crack ship at best

Also Malleus is so cat-shaped. Big sack of attitude and beans

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PSA! sweet dreams and good night, twisted wonderland!🐉✨

happy overblot release, tsunotarou‼️✨ starting the year of the dragon strong..😌💕✨💕✨🐉

it always cracks me up how mad other overblots was, while malleus is just ~very calm~ ~very content~ ~very accommodating~, his battle voiceline are just him telling you to go to sleep 😭 tucking us into the bed after obliterating our cards that we worked hard to build fr 😔✨‼️💖

also yk that nrc is a fake college because what kind of college student would turn down a thousand year sleep skdhkshdkx

og tweet

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this was funnier in my head tbh

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Happy New Year everyone! Just in time for celebrations, here are the Platinum Jacket (Disney 100 Year Anniversary) SSR backgrounds!

These ones were MUCH easier to clean up than they looked! And now, for everyone that needs them, here are the Disney 100 Anniversary Platinum Jacket SSR blanks!

Empty picture frames, for the characters your own OCs are inspired by/twisted from! (Two max per SSR) The frames can be placed anywhere on the image, but MUST stay behind the curtains when they're edited in. If you use the empty frame, don't forget to add a drop shadow when you add your image in!

Empty nameplates! Each SSR is themed with an emblem for the dorm the character is from. A blank + an NRC themed nameplate is provided for Ramshackle and fandorm OCs!

Additionally: the font used for the card blanks is most likely Century Gothic, stretched horizontally for a wider look. (Set inlaid to the nameplate face, applied gradient, 2pt stroke)

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Much like the rest of the blanks I make, all are free for use for whomever wants to make some for themselves too! If you’re wanting to use them, feel free to tag back to me or this source! Otherwise, I hope they bring some good to whomever wishes to use them~

|| Dorm Card Blanks: Pt 1 | Pt 2 ||

|| SR Event Cards: Pt 1 | Pt 2 | Pt 3 (Tsum) ||

|| SSR Birthday Blanks || || Birthday Union Blanks ||

|| Bloomquet Blanks ||

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my comfort characters

i see the palette similarities

when i had my old feh acc, brave!veronica was very helpful and never left my main party for a while. also, i'd love to be her friend

and kalim... i dunno. when i don't feel very good, i like to imagine him sitting through that with me

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i prefer to think of it as a crack-ship based on the relationship of loki and baldr in norse mythology, since, you know, breidablik is baldr's domain

just one of many ships i have for my summoner

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Yuria's Pomefiore uniform for Chapter 6

the first one is a normal variant to protect her from elements and magic (+blot maybe?). it's so cool their uniforms do that

the second one is customized for Yuria for the time she and Grim had to live in Pomefiore, while their dorm was being restored. the sleeves and the red headband (i'm actually not sure if i want it to be a headband or a ribbon) are supposed to reference Snow White

this is her only dorm-specific attire i drew for now. seems complicated, but i ended up liking the process

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❄️☕️

2023 Winter Art Collab

✨❄️☕️❄️☕️❄️☕️✨    

    

"𝒲𝑒𝓁𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒! 𝒲𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝓃𝓊𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝑔𝒽 𝓆𝓊𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒹𝓇𝒾𝓃𝓀𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒽𝑜𝓉 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓈, 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝒻𝓇𝓊𝒾𝓉 𝒹𝓇𝒾𝓃𝓀𝓈! ℐ𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓃'𝓉 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝒹, 𝓂𝒶𝓎 ℐ 𝓈𝓊𝑔𝑔𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝒾𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒹𝓇𝒾𝓃𝓀𝓈?"    

    

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My second art collab is up! I'm a few days late in posting this, because work and personal stuff in life 🥲 This time, the theme is winter-coffee! Jo is working part time at a local coffee shop, off NRC's campus and is ready to take your orders!     

    

💖So please feel free to insert your OC in the drawing I have provided, or draw your own scene of Jo taking your OC's order! ☕️ The link to the files are located below! If you have any questions, please let me know on here or DM!    

    

Since I'm late in posting this, I'll have this event run until the END OF DEC! ❄️💖    

    

And after that, those who participated, their names will go into a raffle, and I will be choosing two winners at random! Same prizes like last time! 💖✨💖✨ to show my appreciation for your participation! 1st winner drawn, full body + colored, featuring two characters. 2nd winner drawn, half body + colored, also featuring two characters 💕    

    

So now, let Jo get your orders in! The girl's gotta provided for Grim and buy presents for everyone! 😂    

    

    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-VGPZJPnVDBU221kDClOty28c2yC0-ox

    

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A while ago I made a dress-up doll for my MC and started drawing out her outfits. Now I think they should see the light, rather than stay in my files forever

Yuria's regular uniform has two (2) versions that can alter between each other. The skirt version is a later development, story-wise. I would place it after SDC since she has funds and it's getting warmer by that point.

She also has glasses that I usually forget to draw. My friend says she looks most like me with the glasses on.

There's more. I am doing all her school clothes as well as the events!

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A thousand?! 😭😭 I can't imagine going through that

Malleus: "What happened? You are giving up? What a shame..."

basically, I didn't get any GloMas SSRs on EN