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i love when ppl say “that’s so you” it feels good to know i exist and have a vibe

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post-posting clarity idk why i said all that

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You know what I think would be an interesting duo? Cold and Contrarian.

Think about it: They're basically different ends of the same spectrum. Neither are inclined to do what the Narrator said. Neither care about the consequences of your actions. Neither of them take the situation seriously. Neither of them get along with the other voices. The only difference is that Cold does it out of apathy, while Contrarian does in the name of resistance.

I wish we could've had a chapter where it's just them, because the dynamic would be great, and the Narrator would be driven up the wall.

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Found a new way to enjoy Slay the Princess: pretend to be a fictional character of my choice and roleplay them by picking the options I think they’ll pick. Its fun.

*grabbing blorbo by the collar* what if YOU had to slay a princess??

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have we tried sitting completely still in a dark room, my liege?

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legitimately my first feminist awakening as a ten year old child was realizing that girls were expected to respect “boy stuff” but boys were never expected to respect “girl stuff”

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Man oh man, here’s a big Regia collage after like a month of not posting. Regia is a long time and fave OC of mine, but I haven’t ever really drawn parts of her story/past, so here it is!!

Close-ups under cut!

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the official art where Anemone gives a peony to Tamarin 🪷 >>>

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i like that we see ^_^ as a smile even though its mouth is totally straight. Its happiness is so radiant it need not smile to let us know!

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to me this is what slay the princess is really all about. not about grand concepts of life and death, not about some distant cosmic concepts, it's about a very specific thing about our lives and how we deal with them.

it's about the fear that the things that happened to you shaped you in a way that made you worse and you need to fix and undo them, the fear that if this bad thing didn't happen to you, you would be better, and how, no: there is no judgement to be made on your experiences or how they shaped you. your experience do not worsen or better you, they just change you, and that change is important and good because it makes you more complete and fleshed out as a person.

you can bring such a huge variety of difference princesses to the shifting mound, parts of her who have experienced a huge range of emotions and events, from tragedy and pain to happiness and love and everything in between, princesses with a huge range of personalities and character, and she sees value in every single one of them. no matter how dark, painful, horrible a chapter it is, no matter what awful things have happened to them, no matter what kind of princess it is or how cruel or horrible she is or what she's done, she can find value in them, because they add to her, and complete her.

she can find beauty and meaning and substance in the vicious razor, appreciate her joyfulness, she sees the vengeful and petty witch as righteous because her bitterness from the betrayal she experiences formed in her an idea of right and wrong, she describes the terrifying nightmare as tender because she sees her inner sadness and sensitivity, she describes the vicious and vengeful wraith as 'driven' because she sees her power of will and determination.

she does not make any moral judgements on either the 'good' or 'bad' princesses, she sees their experiences and the traits and understanding of the world they add to her.

the important thing to her is to have experiences and perspectives that flesh her out and add to her, they let her grow and gain substance and understanding. she has nothing bad to say about any of them, and the only 'bad' thing she has to say isnt a bad thing it all, it's not having much to say at all about a damsel who has little experiences and little to offer her, and it's not a sentiment she ever expresses on her own.

and i mean, it says it right here at the start of the game right, 'there are no wrong decisions, there are only fresh perspectives and new beginnings'. and then this line from the ending where you return to th stranger:

this applies to TLQ too. tlq is stillness so he doesnt change as the shifting mound does, but he also has parts of himself and his character as represented by the voices, and all of them serve their purpose. all of them have value. they are not bad or good, they are not better or worse, they just are.

and like, to me where this actively applies to real life isn't this that you should seek out negative or bad experiences, or that you should actively suffer to build character or anything so extreme. it's a way to understand the bad things that already did happen and the pain and trauma you did experience, and a way to understand the pain and trauma that sometimes is inevitable as just a part of any life experience, because the most important and valuable thing to a person is to have any kinds of life experiences, positive or negative. and in the case of the negative, you are shaped and changed by it, but you are not worsened, you just become more. it carve texture around your heart.

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slay the princess au where all of the voices and ch2 vessels are normal people living together in a dingy rundown apartment complex, and one day, their grouchy, obnoxious landlord is found dead in his home. it happened overnight, when the building was locked up tight so noone could get in without being let in - so everybody living in the complex is a suspect now, and each of them had some sort of hostility or vendetta against the landlord, so more or less everyone has SOME kind of motive

so now it's up to private investigators skeptic & prisoner to figure out who killed mr the narrator (if that's even his real name...)

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Can't be sincerely dark without being called edgy, can't be sincerely emotional without being called melodramatic, can't be sincerely silly without being called stupid. They're gonna hate every emotion you put in your art no matter what so make it anyway and be as sincere as you can be

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this is your daily reminder that people with schizophrenia are bodily human beings who are the same species as you and deserve the same amount of respect as you do. we are not inherently lesser than anyone, especially not neurotypicals.

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Love the word "also". I have more things to say

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one of the most fucked up aspects of being an adult is really how life-goes-on everything is. like you can be dealing with the most fucked up trauma-drama-grief and still have to sleep and eat food to survive and like. poop. pooping while you're really sad shouldn't be a thing but it is. we don't have a say in the matter. life goes on