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🍓If I open wide, one of us may get lost inside 💫

pavlova and sugar fly dancing a pas de deux

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Her Radiance and the War General.

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created, loved, discarded

(close-ups below the cut bc we know how much tumblr loves crunching the quality)

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so who was dark choco's other parent anyway

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bonding over guilt and remorse or whatever

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licorice has a Realisation™️

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yk with all the goldensmoke propaganda i’ve been rbing I haven’t posted much of my own. need to fix that rq

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their greed sickens me

bs doesnt actually care about this stupid sheep he just wants to beef with gc and piss her off😭

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lady shmilk I always believed in u

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The beasts say in unison

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Shit posts, Beast slander, Ancients x Beasts, and Shadow Milk breakdown. I got it all!

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the eternal/goldie and shmilk/lily parallels make me insane

need to mention how goldie and sugar both trapped their citizens/followers in a "paradise" (although goldie had way more understandable reasons) and how shmilk and lily are the only ones (not counting dark enchantress) who know the truth abt why they were made

reworked some stuff, I reckon golden cheese and Eternal sugar are the least like each other out of the ancients. Won't know until silent Salt comes out though lol

Anyways so a few people misunderstood what I was getting at, I think the beasts had the wrong souljams, not the ancients. Not throwing shade just clarifying!

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Affogato's Invitation

feel like we as a fandom don't explore this potential dynamic enough

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Affogato's Invitation

feel like we as a fandom don't explore this potential dynamic enough

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*stumbles into the room covered in blood, now with a brand new sideblog* SO THAT ESC UPDATE. HUH

The Eternal Sugar Follow-Up: Buried, Corruption and Possibly Lonely

Remember the days when I had to wrack my brain just to come up with one singular TMA fear to assign to Eternal Sugar? A lot can change in a couple months, I guess.

Obviously everything I said about the Web still holds up, I'd say even more than before. I consider that her primary Fear, and if I was forced to pick one it'd probably be that. But as we all know, the lines dividing the different Fears are hazy at best. They all blend in some way.

So let's get the easy stuff out of the way first, because the Buried now has tangible evidence and is no longer a stretch! Yay!

We've found out that Sugar keeps some members of her Garden imprisoned in jars, in which they enter an eternal slumber. She seems to view this as giving them a well-earned rest, and not - you know - trapping them in enclosed spaces and placing them into a coma. We will be revisiting that point later.

Going back to the metaphorical side of things, if I didn't mention Sugar encouraging her denizens to "bury" their true nature, I definitely should have, and now we have even more substantial examples of this. Specifically in Sugarfly and Pavlova. Sugarfly's wings are literally buried under layers of syrup, encased like a sticky chrysalis and unable to be used, and Pavlova buries his true self as well, trapped in an 'innocent' childlike form and not being allowed to grow up.

I think that's enough to qualify the Buried, so... what of the Corruption?

The answer to that is the Corruption fits so perfectly with Eternal Sugar's whole deal that I cannot believe I didn't notice it before. I'd say it fits her more than Mystic Flour.

Let's break this down:

The Corruption is frequently characterised as unhealthy, codependent and/or controlling love. A type of love that can and will destroy a person, something wonderful becoming a destructive force. This is exactly the kind of twisted love that Sugar feels for her denizens - her prisoners. She truly believed she's keeping them safe by locking them away from the outside world, from danger, from pain, as long as she keeps them beside her.

Speaking of something wonderful turning destructive, let's talk about Sugarfly's wish, and how Eternal Sugar allows one's worst qualities to blossom. Sugarfly is implied to be deeply insecure, believing her old wings to be dull and ugly, and herself unlovable as a result - and instead of helping her overcome this insecurity, Eternal Sugar gives her the wings she thought she wanted, robbing her of the gift of flight she had. Sugar turned this innocent wish for beauty and love into an active detriment - something about that feels very Corruption to me.

The overlap between the Corruption and the Web is one I find super interesting, and as I view it, the main thing that exists in that overlap is the concept of hive-minds. Mind controlling spores and such things. And since the "sweet scent" in the air of the Garden that sticks to you and attracts monsters when you try to leave is also literally confirmed to control people's minds, I'm counting that for both Web and Corruption.

On the subject of the literal, the whole design of the Garden fits in with the Corruption's theme pretty well imo. Appearing idyllic and beautiful at a glance, but the closer you look, the more uncanny/unsettling details you notice. I'm also counting that for the Stranger, as the uncanny is what it's all about (though it is more of a motif).

And finally, I present a question.

Is she an Avatar of the Lonely... or is she just lonely?

Because "Don't leave" is very clearly a desperate plea not to be alone. Sugar is terrified of the loss of control, of course, but it's more than that - she's terrified of the things she loves leaving her behind, not needing her. Choosing the danger and risk of reality over her flawless paradise. She doesn't want to be alone, and when this becomes close to reality and her calm facade has shattered, she is willing to destroy her perfect paradise and herself along with it.

BUT

I don't think she embodies the Lonely. In order to embody a Fear, you have to spread it - not just experience it. And Eternal Sugar is attempting to eradicate her own loneliness, exactly the opposite. She pushes it away, pushes it down, clings to all her beloved denizens so tightly it's suffocating.

I think she's just lonely. Lowercase L.

Oh - real quick before I close out this post. The way Sugar describes the other Beasts while trying to convince Hollyberry to stay is fascinating to me - but specifically one line stick out for the purposes of this post.

"In the end, only silence will remain."

...Hmm. Putting a pin in that until October.

because my brain won’t ever ever ever let me enjoy something without linking it to something else:

crk nation what do we think. I am ready + willing to explain all of these placements