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Art Fight! I’m finally joining the race with my character Matt.

I’m team Crystals, btw

Here’s hoping I’ll be posting more soon with all the attacks I want to do!

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i forgot that the journal confirmed that this deleted scene is still canon

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𝙸 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚋𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏.

Snippet snippet . Getting closer to the end, one more to go !

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Big Balatro poster I did (all 150 jokers included!)

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Swansea 🪓💧

4/5

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Mabel and Dipper!

I drew Bill up in the tree branches inspired by one of the old drafts for the Book Of Bill book covers.

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always watching 👁️🦋

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Observations from the mouthwashing fandom

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𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝚛𝚎𝚜-𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚒-𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝, 𝚑𝚞𝚑 ?

Once again, snippet from a bigger thing i'm working on - more to come :)

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elaborating on this hc

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In Mouthwashing, each character serves a different purpose to the meaning of the game.

[[Cw: mentions of suicide]]

I’ve been noticing as I write about the characters that each one is different mainly in terms of their innocence.

The most obvious one here is Jimbo, he’s obviously the least innocent because he is the aggressor. He’s supposed to be a manipulator and is the abuser in the story.

Then, there’s Anya. Anya is the victim. She gets forced into a situation and does everything she can to stop her abuser from hurting her more. She is a victim even in death, not because she is murdered but because she takes her own life to escape from her abuse.

Curly isn’t an abuser or a monster, but he is an enabler. He has no blood directly on his hands, but rather is manipulated himself into making decisions that worsen the situation. His inactivity when Anya needed his help is the reason everything went so badly in the first place. He’s not innocent, exactly, but he is both a victim and a part of the cycle of abuse.

Daisuke is pretty clear cut here too. He’s the uninformed innocent. He isn’t even on the ship before this haul. He just joined, he’s trying to get along with everyone on board, and he doesn’t know about the situation. If he did know about Anya’s suffering, he still would have no power to do anything about it.

Swansea is harder to place. I can’t say for certain that he knew about Anya’s situation early enough to do something, and even so, there wasn’t much he could have done other than react violently. But the fact of the matter is, he makes a few pretty bad decisions and we know that he is informed later on and still can do nothing. I would consider him an informed innocent, a mirror of Daisuke, but with more control and more information. He’s been here a while, and has respect on the ship, but he isn’t directly involved.

Anyway, those are my thoughts on each character! Mouthwashing has a lot of very interesting parallels and symbolisms between the characters, and I’m definitely gonna talk about it more soon.

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"I didn't even want to be here."

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All three of them are insufferable

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dysmorphia