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@linkcharacter’s anti anya and long schlong

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Just to let you guys know that I'm participating in my first ever Artfight this year! I'm a little nervous because I don't have that many OCs to show, but I'm super stoked to attack any cool artists I come across lol. Oh and I'm Team Fossils if anyone is wondering!

Don't hold back!! >:]

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finished art is running out, so hold on to Jimmy

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mormons undoubtedly in the top 5 worst things the united states has ever invented which is really saying something

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Alone in the universe

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dead pixel

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[negative space]

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get the job done

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rough jimmy and anya profiles

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Content warning: bean abuse 😔

He’s done with beans- no more beans,,,,,

(Think this idea was inspired by Brokeback Mountain lol…)

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i hope this hurts

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cw for fish gore I guess

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Interviews

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Was thinking about how Mouthwashing deliberately uses its retro-futurism aesthetic to highlight the nihilism inherent to its setting. I love reto-futurism, I love seeing flying cars that still play cassette tapes, but usually that is couched in amused hindsight. Look how they thought the future would look, isn't that charming?

In Mouthwashing, we see a flavor of retro-futurism that is explicitly hostile. Ship navigational screens that are monochrome. Passwords for essential functions hidden behind UV scanners. Food dispensers require flipping through a recipe book to use. When you have to cut back some of the fire foam, you don't get some high tech laser or saw, you get a classic fireman's axe. The message that the crew is being laid off is delivered by fax machine. There's not even any tech that allows you to communicate with someone on the other side of the ship, all the conversations have to happen person to person. There is next to no technology that eases the burden of the crew. It is a future where innovation is nakedly obsessed with serving corporate interests at the expense of all others.

This becomes increasingly apparent when you think about the eponymous cargo of the Tulpar. Yes, the game is quick to point out the absurdity of a spaceship loaded with nothing but mouthwash. But that acknowledgement actually buries the greater absurdity: that this is a universe where interplanetary travel is possible, and we are still bottling mouthwash with single-use plastics.

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Haven't Mouthwashing posted in a while but, I love Anya fancanons and fanart because I HATE that we never get to see the true her in the game. Anya isn't and hasn't ever been a shy, quiet, timid woman. She went to medical school 8 goddamn times!!!!! She is not a quitter!!!!!!! She took a job as a NURSE on a fucking SPACE FREIGHTER after failing medical school 8 times because she was CONFUDENT in her own ability!!!!!!! Everyone in the crew absolutely ADORES her!!!!! She takes care of their mental health, their health in general, she's perceptive enough to prevent 4/5 people on the freighter from going insane!!!! She's charismatic and kind and confident!!!!

We see her how she is in the game because the player character is her damn rapist. And when we play as Curly, she's talking about him and being IGNORED!! (Curly when I catch you Curly)

The whole game she's staring at a guy who CRASHED THE SHIP trying to kill everyone who could implicate his crimes. And she doesn't know this, but she knows that he's dangerous enough that she hid the weapons from him. That she BEGGED Curly to hide the weapons from him because she was afraid for her LIFE. She spends the entire game getting talked down to, berated, and abused by this man. It's safe to say her actions are those of someone who's afraid or someone who's been broken down so much over months that she lost who she was, or a little bit of both.

I think the truest we see Anya is right before her death. In that moment, she's joyous. She talks highly of herself. She makes little jabs at Jimmy, knowing he won't be able to hurt her anymore. Because as much as he screams at her and pounds on the door, the medical room door is the only door with a lock on it. And if nobody else will defend her, that damn door will.