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He is me, I am him

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Seasons for day 4 of Kyle week :]

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God it's been so long since I've finished a south park piece, i feel like im clawing at the walls of my enclosure

Anyway i think im gonna start drawing Leo like this from now on

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(2/5) Back | Start | Next

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Hello y’all, started a mini comic for part of my AU as apart of my final for class :]

(1/5) Back | Start | Next

Only the first four pages of 10 are necessary for my grade so the rest will come between my other projects that take priority (Infection AU/Don’t Shoot Me Santa) but I wanted to start posting because I’m super happy with my progress with these! Next update should be soon and then I’ll get around to the rest when I can! Also here’s the full spread of page 1 and 2~

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"And they were roommates"

"oh my god they were roommates.."

I still draw I swear, please accept my gift of old man yaoi 🙏

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What we’ve gotta understand is that “the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults” and “the modern Internet is abolishing space for children” are compatible phenomena. Neither group is being favoured: the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults (i.e., because grown-up topics aren’t advertiser friendly) and the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for children (i.e., because online communities which consist principally of people who have no money are hard to sell things to). The Internet that contemporary corporate interests are trying to build isn’t a space for anyone – it’s the digital equivalent of an Ikea showroom.

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i love you

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I feel fandom would get along a lot better if there was mutual understanding that liking a character, agreeing with a character, and thinking the character is well constructed/executed are all separate (if often overlapping) positions, each with their separate tastes and subjectivities. Also: character portrayals are intended to make the audience feel things; this is separate from (if often overlapping with) analyzing/appreciating their actions and role in the story.

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You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.

I am not exaggerating.

As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.

This is not a drill.

Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.

Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).

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thats gross man

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You want to call your House rep now and tell them Trump needs to be impeached immediately for defying a Supreme Court order (re: Kilmar Abrego Garcia), which functionally voids our constitution and means no one in America has rights anymore.

I am not exaggerating.

As of now, anybody can be disappeared, no due process, no recourse. Trump is openly disregarding a Supreme Court order and says he’ll send US citizens to El Salvador.

This is not a drill.

Call your House rep and tell them they must impeach. Tell them if they cannot bring themselves to impeach, they must resign. A more open and shut case to impeach is not possible. Trump and his administration are saying openly, in public, that anybody can be kidnapped by ICE, even in error, and disappeared permanently.

Call your senators, too, and tell them to support impeachment (it goes to them once it passes a majority House vote).

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I'll be so fr rn, I don't like that saying "this character is x-coded" has become synonymous with "I headcanon this character as x"

Please PLEASE just say you headcanon something. Not everything has to be "coded." Hell, most things are not. You just see what you want to see

Something can support your headcanon, sure, but it was likely unintentional, which would automatically make it not a ''coded'' character. "Coding" is an intentional thing

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Stan is pathetic wet dog I’m sorry

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I'm like analyzing Kyle and Stan's characters for the current Chp chapter to figure out how they'll act in a specific scene and I realized some pretty interesting stuff, i thought I'd share;

Kyle actually DOESN'T have high empathy, it's actually pretty average (though I'd argue that it's even pretty low) but what he DOES have is a very strong moral compass & conscience. Meanwhile with Stan it's the other way around; his desicions & actions are based in super high empathy (often so high that it overwhelms him, like in episodes like "Kenny Dies") but his moral compass & conscience are much weaker than Kyle's.

Whenever Kyle helps someone, it's less because he cares about the person (even if he does) and more because he thinks it's the right thing to do. Empathy and his emotions aren't generally the primary driving force behind his decisions and judgements of someone's character, unlike say Stan. A prime example of this difference between the two is s16's episode "Going Native", when after Butters insulted all of the boys, Kyle still urges Kenny to go help and stop Butters from making a mistake. Stan, however, remains pissy because of the insults and just says "After all the things he said to us he can go ahead."

This makes Kyle's desire to help someone less dependent on how he feels about that person/his current emotional state, and more conditional to whether or not he believes that he can make a change. It's no question that he cares about Stan a lot, but as soon as he sees no hope for him in "You Are Getting Old" and "Raisins" he drops him and decides to stay out of his problems to protect his own peace. However, as soon as he sees even a sliver of hope for Cartman to change, like in "Cartoon Wars", Kyle naively jumps to help.

An exception to this tendency is Ike, for whom Kyle will literally do anything for so long as he is in trouble. Probably because he sees it as his indisputable responsibility to help Ike no matter what, seeing as he is Ike's older brother.

Stan, however, when he does something to help someone it's almost never because he thinks it's the right thing to do (at least not as the primary force), but more out of feeling-based reasons or because it could serve him.

The conditions for him to step up are usually one of these:

he feels intense empathy for the person because he can relate OR because they're helpless (like animals, who cannot speak up for themselves and are helpless against humans)

he cares about a person a lot (any of the batshit insane instances he went out of his way to help Kyle, like "Smug Alert", "Biggest Douche in The Universe", "Cartmanland", "Cherokee Hair Tampons", "Ginger Cow", "Super Best Friends" and even in "Bloody Mary" when he did whatever he could to help his dad)

he likes what the action could do for his self image (like in "Butterballs", when he speaks out against bullying under the guise of helping Butters, but Kyle sees straight through him and realizes he's only doing this to help his own image)

often in combination with one of the others, but also: he hates the opponent (cults, scammers, etc; lots of Stan-centric episodes focus on his disdain for spiritual frauds, often however because of how they harm people he cares about and not because of the principle of the thing)

In "Trapped In The Closet" Stan's moral code doesn't seem to have any problem with scamming thousands of people as he leads the church of Scientology, but he changes his mind only once he sees the genuine hope and love in the eyes of all his new followers.

Stan may have a moral code and principles, but they never guide his actions as strongly as how he feels about something at the moment ever will.

I'm gonna stop yapping now because this post is already super long but I do find it interesting to analyze how this ties into Kyle having a much shorter fuse than Stan, even though Stan is arguably more feelings-oriented. Maybe because Kyle allows himself less emotional processing of events on a day-to-day basis— always prioritizing the facts and logic— that when pushed he's always easiest to snap. And also, how another thing that differentiates the two is that— despite his high empathy— Stan tends to be more selfish, meanwhile Kyle usually looks to increase the benefit for as many people as possible, rather than his own. As long as he thinks they ethically & morally deserve it, of course.