#*im on my final braincells

[cashmere-caveman]

read a post about there being next to no record abt the historic edward little again (we dont even know what he looked like!!!) and now im thinking a lot about how he died in uniform again.

hes far from the only character to die in uniform (the marines die in uniform! franklin dies in uniform!) and he isn't even the only lieutenant to do so (gore, under his slops, was in uniform; fairholme, too presumably; irving famously wore his coat that hickey steals later; george wore something that used to be his uniform when he got eaten but imo atp he did not wear it as A Uniform anymore that were just the clothes that he had on if that makes sense) but at the end, he is the only one where i still felt that it was an active choice to wear it.

almost everyone else sheds their layers along the way or turns into something else, but ned starts in uniform and he stays in uniform and that's it.

fitzjames famously sheds his vanity and dies in his shirtsleeves, without any of the pomp and pizzazz of his uniform.

jopson, another character who is to me really connected with a certain mindset of holding up appearances, dies in his shirtsleeves, believing himself abandoned by the very person that was his reason to even wear a uniform at all.

goodsir as a doctor/assistant surgeon doesn't really have a uniform in quite the same sense as many others but when he dresses himself before his suicide it is not as an affirmation of his role, or at least not a positive one. he has sworn to do no harm, but he was forced to do it anyway and now he will add a final evil to his toll of sins in the hopes to balance the scales at least somewhat and for that to work, he must wear his outfit as always. he ends up with all pretenses stripped bare anyway.

tozer, a man so proud of his uniform in the beginning, again, dies in his shirtsleeves, no rank left, betrayed by someone who had convinced him to give up everything and yet! reduced to nothing but an ordinary man, he tries again where before he had given up. he cooperates, he coordinates, he even calls crozier captain again, he tries very hard to do the right thing in what looks like a no win scenario from the get go!! and he fails, of course, but he tried.

almost everyone else also ends up either dressed down (bridgens, armitage, dundy, des voeux etc) or somehow transformed (blanky, to some extend silna with her patched and bloody furs) or in hickeys case, both (iconic underwear & greatcoat combo). little never changes. he sometimes has a little scarf, theres the bandage for his headwound for a bit, he sometimes wears the full parade uniform with epaulettes and sometimes just the regular one, there are at least two different uniform hats and ofc you can tell that he loses weight by the way his shape chages under all that wool but he is always. in. uniform.

and maybe this is just my mind making up dots to connect but i think he might even be the last character that crozier ever gives an order to in his official function as a captain (in the tuunbaq seduction/boss fight scene he has been stripped of his rank, at least according to e.c.).

before his final scene, all we get is little arguing over the orders they are given, and how to interpret them. and he is still wearing his uniform!!! wait hold on im not gonna check but maybe he might only wear a jumper in the tent where dundy lauches his soft mutiny actually, so maybe this whole post is crumbling like a domino line but!!! ignoring this. moving on. (even if it is a jumper i remember him wearing sth dark blue aka Uniform Colour so im claiming it doesnt even matter bc spiritually that hypothetical jumper still is a uniform. im not going to let anything like "accuracy" and "real details" fuck up my post smh 🙄. im joking. however! Moving On as i said)

he doesnt even dress up for carnivale! the only other characters that are not in costume are jopson and crozier and they were literally too busy keeping crozier from dying to even begin thinking about joining the communal arts and crafts session! little is atp the acting no2 of the expedition so u might say he was busy but fitzjames has the overall command and still finds time to have a little gender moment in private and the imperialism-approved version of it for the Big Crowd!! (u could ofc argue that fitzy Always has time for a gender moment and who would i be to argue but my point is: i have no doubt that man was fucking busy preparing carnivale & beginning to prepare the walkout and there still was time to Express Some Character!! so how come ned didn't do anything?)

the one other scene we get where we can catch a small glimpse of characters out of their element before it all unravels (pre tuunbaq attack on the camp) is the scene at night when morfin gets shot. it shows lots of characters in various states of undress (silna big blanket burrito i love you) that allows us to see them differently, like their costumes at carnivale did, but in an entirely opposite direction. while carnivale was about putting on masks, this scene is about taking them off. and it drives me insane because i know that little must be there. he is somewhere in the crowd when morfin gets shot but so far i havent been able to make him out and i need to know what he is wearing so bad. it is actually for science (my own curiosity) ! i really need to know. and i cant help but feel that maybe it is intentional that he is just ~somewhere~ instead of In Front of the Fucking Camera because, well. that would be just ned little, wouldnt it? and we dont even know who that is.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

oop, idiot doodles alert-

[strawmeli]

Babygirl

[just-illegal]

this is probably my favorite image. just in general

[actual-changeling]

"a slaughterhouse, an outlet mall, slot machines, fear of god"

if i didn't just write a post episode 8 fic that gave me a stomach ache while finishing it i would pounce on this y'all. craig is apparently a secret phoebe bridgers stan because this line is too fucking perfect, i am feeling inspired.

riley/david crossover trauma incoming at some point, better prepare

[a-zif]

ziffy the milfy

[milflewis]

i literally have no idea what to ask you tell me whatever

ok so i don’t remember why you sent me this but !! im going to use this to talk about lance/nando soulmate au bc ik it’ll annoy you and i’ve been having brainrot of them all day

just. nando walking into the am garage. first day of testing. and he knows lance. seen him around. ducking out from este’s driver room. grinning when seb flutters his lashes at him. he’s even raced him once or twice. he’s just. there. yet another rich kid who is only here bc of his daddy and nando has no intention of holding his hand while he loses.

he knees smth hard and metal sticking out from a table and swears loudly. the whole garage falling silent as lance curses from across the room. grabbing at his leg. “you,” fernando says and it sounds like an accusation. lance just stares at him for a moment, eyes dark and big, before laughing, half doubled over at the waist.

“absolutely not,” fernando declares at who he doesn’t know, fuck it, at the fucking universe who decided years ago that fernando would be it’s fucking jester and hasn’t let up since. “no,” he says again.

lawrence is frowning now, tall and broad over lance’s shoulder. fernando ignores him. lance just wipes at his eyes, still laughing. “don’t worry, princess. i don’t want you either.”

[spacebugarts]

I think I finally figured out what I wanna do with my ocs ahdksgsjdb THEY HAVE A HOME!!! THEY HAVE A CANON WORLD THAT THEY CAN STAY IN!!! I DON'T NEED TO KEEP SHUFFLING THROUGH GENRES UNTIL I FIND ONE I CAN WORK OFF OF!!!!!

[ca3des]

I had an awful thought.

So if Danny is half dead… does that mean that shipping him with anyone is fucking NECROPHILIA???

[reyraccoon]

Sasha: Marcy, we got to find a way to unlock our cool anime powers! What if we scream really loud?

Marcy: Sasha don’t be silly. Obviously if we do something incredibly dangerous the adrenaline will make us transform to save ourselves!

Anne: I don’t like the sound of this.

Marcy: I’m going to jump off this cliff!

Anne: nO!

Sasha: Do a flip!

Marcy: SWAN DIVE!!

[aria0fgold]

GIVE IT UP FOR MEL RAMBLING NO.5! I feel... so deranged... Like I can fight god and have em listen to me ramble about my OCs deranged. Okay, I swear, I swear this will be the last post for the day about Mel.

It'll be a short one. Basically just wanna say that most doors in Mel's house aren't the circular turning down, but the one where you push down on, with a similar design to a toilet's flushing knob thingy. Why? Cuz at first, Mel only had 1 cat, and he lived at an apartment then. He wanted to teach Ace how to open doors and so he did.

Ace liked opening doors himself that when Mel got his own house, had most of the doorknobs replaced so Ace can easily open em. The only ones with a normal doorknob were the rooms to Mel's studio and office cuz he wouldn't want the cats to mess up the fabrics and he needs to work in peace for his job.

It was all fun and games where Ace was the only one that can open the doors to suddenly all 24 can, cuz they copied Ace. So there are moments where Mel forgets to lock the door and suddenly the doorknob's turning and then bam! Cats running inside.

He especially needs to keep the door to his bedroom locked, cuz Mel sleeps with all his hair piled to one side where it's mostly on the floor (it's why he keeps his bedroom exceptionally clean). Perks of also not moving much during sleep. But whenever he forgets to lock the door, the cats are now zooming inside, jumping on him or playing at his hair. He never gets much sleep then cuz getting em all to go back out is impossible.

[un-pearable]

does dareth’s dojo have a logo. i cannot remember but i need him to so badly

[caemielilium]

howdy! was thinking about your art n characters, I remember you were going thru a rough time pretty recently - just wanted to send a note that I hope things have trended towards being kinder to you, or at least that they will soon!! 🐦‍⬛💛

Hi!!

Thank you for the message (´｡• ω •｡`)

2022-2023 have been quite the Years indeed but I'm still getting through!! I've had to pause comms due to focusing on finals ,,,

Some of my current year resolutions:

finish all these stupid finals!!! begone!!!!!

keep working on the Comic tm of our dnd campaign - need to turn blorbos from our minds into blorbos from our webcomic

get back to comms. srsly i shouldn't be drawing only mars all the time

[yasashiiku]

Wrote a lil bio for Shou.

[abyssmalice]

(love how im just nose diving into every withering zone and completely ignoring the plot)

[tchaikovskym]

I love tests and machines and organs and late night experiments I'm a night owl living my best life