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Hey y'all I will be participating in art fight this year! If you're a mutual and I haven't followed you over there please send me your art fight, sometimes I forget to follow y'all.

heres the link to my art fight. can't wait to participate >:]

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Shit doodle instead of studying

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okay I know I'm super late to this but I still wanna do it!

Favorite color: Orange! I've loved orange for a long time but recently i've also been a big fan of greens.

Currently reading: the last book I read was probably this plushie making book! i've been reading through the whole thing before I actually start making anything with it. though I don't how much I would count that as reading as it's all in Japanese

Last Song: Last song that got added to my playlist was Static by Flavor Foley. Very good song I love me some vocaloid.

Last Film: I think it was Sinners? I have the worst memory but I'm pretty sure it would have been that movie since I don't watch too many movies.

Last Series: Revolutionary Girl Utena!!! it's so pretty!! I really need to finish it.

Sweet//Salty//Savory: big fan of savory things! though I'm not opposed to something sweet

Tea or Coffee?: Tea! specifically Chai lattes, coffee is good but it makes me too jittery.

Working on: Currently been working on writing for a game I'm working on but also been drawing some of my friends oc's for them.

I'm gonna tag @celestialpaperhaze , @ooftale, @dappledpaintbrush, @year2000electronics, and @72wasup! Anyone else feel free to join in and if you got tagged don't feel like you gotta do it.

also sorry Kat for taking so long to respond! always feel free to message me it's great to hear from you :] been loving seeing Jasper on my dash they're so cute!

People I Wish I Knew Better

i was tagged by both @sappedsoliloquist and @quartzitedeca!! thank you so much for the tag, y'all are wonderful!!

Favorite Colour: blue!! i flip-flopped between colors for years but blue's been the favorite for 3 years now so i've gotta go with that!! it's the color of the ocean and the blue sky and the night; it's just such a pretty color <3

Currently Reading: it's been a minute since i've had time to sit down and read a story; but i was reading a friend's story the last time i did!! i hope to get back to reading stories at some point though; i miss it!! most things i've been reading these days are wikipedia articles/reviews of stuff LOL

Last Song: "around the world (la la la)" by ATC (a touch of class)!! absolutely a bop i listened to in my childhood and i rediscovered it recently and i'm hooked on it again <3

Last Film: i believe it was wicked!! i enjoyed it a lot!! it was worth the 2 hours and it was very engaging to me!! i'm excited for part 2 when it comes out this year

Last Series: i was just watching an episode of star wars: the clone wars, as i've been watching the show in its entirety!! though sadly i might have to watch it again tomorrow as my browser just refreshed the tab 😔 it's been fun to watch all the episodes though

Sweet//Salty//Savory: i'd say all of them, but sweet's gotta be my favorite!! i love all sorts of candies and desserts and cakes <3

Tea or Coffee?: i gave this one some thought and honestly i'd say i'm more of a tea fan? i love sweet tea and boba tea a lot!! i also love lipton citrus green tea, as well as half tea/half lemonade too! Working On: i just finished up an updated ref for my hatchling OC jasper; and now i'm trying to think of what i want to work on now!! i might make another jasper piece, or i could potentially open up art trades at some point as i've been wanting to practice arts more.. we'll see where things go from here!! i'm tagging @kyanite-shards @shiningsapph1re @r0swells @tacos-goku @iamtheeternalbread and you if you'd like!! i mainly tagged people i wish to get to know better as that's the name of the game; but if you want to participate and do this too - then go for it!!

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It’s been a while since I’ve made any SPM content

Idk who the og meme belongs to. I found the base on Pinterest 💔. Also my Bleck and (human) Tippi designs are very much a WIP

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after all, i want to be wanted

is that so wrong?

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team bleck x mario kart world

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bill/ford, shadow milk/pure vanilla and dimentio/luigi all exist on a sliding scale to me. the “we are bonded together because you, hero, have something i want, and to get it i will attempt to sway you to my side” scale. bill and ford being the most homoerotic and dimentio and luigi being the least. but at the same time. there’s a little bit of it there still.

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Tadaannn!! Here is my personal design for Timpani! Little wifey wifey butterfly lady

I placed the butterfly wrong on the rendered piece on the right btw ignore that, the left is what it rlly looks like

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I love Mario Tumblr so much btw. Like everyone knows of everyone even if they don't interact directly. We rotate the same 3 posts in the span of 24 hours. We are all mentally ill about the same 3 games-

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SPM BIRTHDAY POST 🎉

Happy birthday to Super Paper Mario! Not long ago I joked that I'd write an essay about the Chaos Heart and The Void being tied to each other as a way to allude to Greek Mythology. Well, today that joke becomes reality!

(Very long piece of work beneath the cut).

A RECAP OF CANON. First, I have to talk about the Chaos Heart and The Void in canon. If you're reading this, you've probably already played SPM and know the basics: the Chaos Heart is a dark object that allows the one who possesses it to call forth The Void, which is a giant dimensional hole that consumes all worlds.

In the original Japanese translation of Super Paper Mario, the Chaos Heart is called "Love Power of Chaos." I'll get into this a little later, but this name seems to support the idea that the Chaos Heart is made up of a corrupted, chaotic form of love (an idea also supported by the fact that the Purity Heart is its counterpart).

Meanwhile, The Void is referred to as a "Dimensional Hole," which isn't really anything new.

And then of course, there's the World of Nothing (in Japanese, "The World Without Anything"), the blank slate that remains after The Void consumes a world. The World of Nothing can be thought of as an abstract, it's less of what happens when a world is sucked into The Void, and more of what happens when The Void overtakes a world. There's visual evidence supporting the idea that this nothingness is contained within The Void itself, which could suggest The Void is a bit like a storm with the emptiness at its eye. (Although Castle Bleck is also at one point stated to be in the center of The Void, so this interpretation may not be entirely accurate).

So to summarize that word dump: The Chaos Heart, referred to in Japanese as "Love Power of Chaos," is implied to be made up of a chaotic form of love. The Void is a dimensional hole that consumes the worlds until all that remains is a World of Nothing, a blank slate. Can this blank slate be built upon, constructed into a new, perfect world? That is open for interpretation.

NOW ABOUT ANCIENT GREECE.

Moving on, how do these things tie into Greek Mythology—or rather, Greek Cosmology? Well the most important thing: The word "Chaos" (Khaos) in Ancient Greek means Void, or Abyss. Chaos was said to be the state of being that lay in the absence of existence. Brittanica describes it as "the primeval emptiness of the universe" and Wikipedia as "the cosmological void state preceding the creation of the universe"

Basically, Chaos was The Void, the nonexistence preceding existence in the endless cycle of endings and beginnings. Now, I'm not necessarily saying that the writers of SPM intentionally pulled from this mythos for this parallel, but given the amount of other references to Greek Mythology in the game (most notably those found in the Underwhere), it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

So to summarize that word dump, in Ancient Greek the word "Chaos" means Void, and describes the emptiness that rests in the absence of existence.

INTERPRETING THE TWO.

How can this parallel be applied to Super Paper Mario?

The word "Chaos" in Greek seems to describe what in SPM would be the World of Nothing: a still and silent blanket of infinite, formless space. If we're literal with this interpretation, then the World of Nothing could essentially be seen as what the universe looked like before the worlds formed—which would imply that, yes, new worlds could be built atop the ones destroyed by The Void.

Because the word "Chaos" literally means "Void," the Chaos Heart could be seen as the heart of this nothingness and the core of The Void itself. Or with its literal name, Love Power of Chaos, the Chaos Heart could refer to the power of The Void itself—essentially, if we take it very literal, we could translate the name of the artifact to something like Void Heart, Love Power of Void, Love Power of Abyss, and so on...)

I think this actually backs up the idea of what the Chaos Heart is made up of. Chaotic love is love with a hollowness at its center, love that is not built of stability or purity. A forced marriage (Bowser x Peach), a deep insecurity from the need to loved by others (Luigi perhaps), grief that may have once been love but has since given way to a selfish mission (Count Bleck).

So to summarize, the Chaos Heart = the heart of The Void, and the World of Nothing = a primordial nothingness that can be built upon.

LIGHT AND DARK VS THE FORCES OF NOTHING.

The last thing I'll elaborate on is this section from my original post on the topic:

"And the fact that the Chaos Heart is tied to the abyss of nothingness rather than the cliche darkness trope supports the theme that light and dark are actually two sides of the same coin and that light and dark shouldn't war against each other but instead must come together to resist apathy."

Yes, the Chaos Heart consists of a little bit of darkness. I mean, just look at the thing. But note that the threat in Super Paper Mario isn't that the world will be overrun by darkness, as is the threat in The Thousand-Year Door. The threat is that the worlds will be completely erased. There is something bigger than the war between dark and light--in fact, existence itself consists of a constant balance between light and dark, yin and yang. The Tribe of Ancients and the Tribe of Darkness, Flipside and Flopside, the Dark Prognosticus and the Light Prognosticus. What opposes this balance is neither light nor dark: it is Void, it is Chaos, it is the obliteration of it all.

I mention apathy because I think that's the emotional equivalent of The Void. Apathy comes when you become so hardened by negative emotions that you suppress them all, positive and negative, and are left feeling helpless and numb. In this state, one might decide their purpose has been written for them, that there's no point going against it. They might submit themselves to something that goes against everything they once stood for, simply because a reality where everything is out of their control is easier to accept than one where they have a choice, and because the lack of feeling is safer than the warmth that once lived there. Sound familiar at all?

But of course, if you've spent any time analyzing this game at all, the parallels between The (literal) Void in the sky and the (metaphorical) void in Count Bleck's heart are obvious. The Void grows as the void in his heart has, it's nothing that hasn't been said before. I just find it important to mention that, like the forces driving The Void, Count Bleck's motives aren't rooted solely in his pain and grief, but his surrender. He has surrendered to forces he believes are beyond his control, to the prophecy and to the Chaos Heart. And it's not until he learns that Timpani is alive that he snaps out of this apathy, and begins to entertain the idea of fighting back.

THE END.

At this point I've been writing for around an hour, so I'm gonna stop before I start talking in circles. I hope you've enjoyed the essay, and happy birthday to this game that I truly believe can be interpreted forever!

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Happy 18th birthday to my beloved favorite game, Super Paper Mario! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🖤 I know I gush about this game a lot, but it really did change the entire trajectory of my life. Becoming an artist, finding my closest friends, everything ties back to it. Thank you, SPM. ; v ; I wasn't sure which version I liked more, so here's both! You can pick your favorite~ Also yeah, I'm back to blonde Timpani head-cannon hehe..

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happy 18th anniversary super paper mario <3

this is of blumiere & timpani sitting together upon the hill and enjoying the spring breezes!! i can’t believe this game is almost 20 years old!!

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Happyyyy 18 years to these fucking freaks 💥

s’been a while since I’ve drawn em but this game is somehow still my favorite in the decade I’ve known it and dozen times I’ve played it (it reallyy does not have that good replayability (?) I’m just weird and obsessive and have everything in the gameplay memorized atp)

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Super Paper Mario: The After Story

Where did Timpani and Blumiere go after the events of the game? Were they happy?

(this took me about 3 months)

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Super Paper Mario the movie, NOT playing! 😅

A little 80’s-inspired movie poster I made for the game’s anniversary (…as if I don’t already make art for the game all the time 😆)

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HAPPY 18TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER PAPER MARIO!!! WHAT THE EFF!

Another one bites the dust is playing as im posting this what an experience

ANYWAY this isn't. By far the only thing I wanna do

Again I'm treating this as a Super Paper Mario month almost because i want to do WAY more and sadly i lacked the time to do so for today... BUT WAIT ILL COOK UP SOMETHING MORE HOPEFULLY!! I SHOULD BE MORE FREE IN SOME DAYS! I love LOVE LOVE this game so i at least wanted to make SOMETHING for the day itself,, so here it is!!! Luigi suffering hoo boy!!