#I-240

[theheadlesshearseman]

[ministarfruit]

pleased to announce that I have finished omori and feel very normal about siblings right now

[linferry]

They got kidnapped. Again.

[dailyscug]

[sufroyo]

ak jason with longer hair.....as a treat.......cause i wish there had been a scene w/o his helmet that wasnt a flashback 💔

[barrenclan]

i think rainhaze is one of my favorites characters ever genuinely, issue 37 was AMAZING and i really loved how rainhazes arc finally ended. I feel rlly happy bc this was a very poingant way of putting that rabid dog down but also i mean. I am a little sad. I pity rainhaze but in a way you pity a cocroach or something... He had it coming, his death was soooo well executed!! rain and all of defiance see killing as a divine right, and seeing that turn on rainhaze was very cathartic.

The casual way he spoke about asphodels murder was genuinely sickening. As if it was all a favor to HER, instead of rainhazes cowardice and trauma and brainwashing and selfishness making him kill his niece im cold blood. The way his own death dragged on and on, how painful and terryfying and gruesome it was - this is what asphodelpaw went through. Her death was not like falling asleep and neither was his. It was scary and painful and cold. So cold.

The way this comic completely subverted audience expectations with rainhazes character is sooo so good... At first he was just a chilli dead guy. then he turned into a classic winter solider type - morally dubious but still symphatetic, a 'poor little meow meow' who was stuck in a horrible situation he had no way of leaving. and then he killed asphodelpaw in cold blood. That moment, when he chose to embrace the violence, the damned coward, was such a delicious and twisted reaveal - forcing the reader to reconsider the whole story and character from an entirely new perspective.

i think we as people well versed in fandom tend to woobify and water down characters like rainhaze and make them into 'poor little meow meows' - removing their agency in the situation entirely to make them more personable and toned down - and rain feels to me like a purposful dissection of that. he IS sympathetic, to a degree. the shit he want through was undeniably awful - and it broke him and molded him into a monster.

rainhazes character was always about choice, i think. about decisions you make and the decisions made for you, and how you respond to the latter... about the question of autonomy. where does your choices end and other peoples influence begin? and does it really matter, in the end? does it matter whether or not rainhaze did what he did out of his own will or under rangers influence? he still did it. even if he were sorry, and hes not, would that matter? he killed her. there is no bringing her back and he had to deal with the consequences himself. abandoned by his family and his tormentor alike.

his death was pathetic and slow and pitiful, and above all disturbing - just like rainhaze himself. i think thats the word that describes him best - pathetic. rest in pieces, you cold bastard. ill miss you.

sorry this is so long..... i tried to put my thoughts into words here and i still fell short, i hope at least some of it makes sense

So, so many people have wonderful, intricate and moving thoughts about Rainhaze in my inbox, and I want to share them all with you. So here is the first one.

Rainhaze really did make for a great deconstruction of the "poor little guy" trope that I was interested in exploring. Shellspring also did, to an extent, but with Rainhaze I wanted to get really deep into it. How much of this is his fault? What could he have done differently? Is his death cathartic, satisfying, triumphant, painful, tragic, or anything else? It was a lot of fun to write and I'm glad so many people seem to have enjoyed it.

[mimleaf]

Cleaned the bg 👀

[one-bunny-a-day]

28/08/2023

today's bunny is... its uhm.... its..........

[quillium]

DEBUT OR DIE NOVEL SPOILERS.

List of traumas Park Moondae has canonically given Keun Sejin:

Called him + forced him to drive his unconscious body to the hospital after he got kidnapped and nearly murdered

Imparted Keun Sejin (and Bae Sejin) with the fact that said kidnap and near-murder was done by an actual A-list celebrity who they couldn’t do anything about and swore them to secrecy

Nearly died in front of Keun Sejin

Immediately planned an activity with his kidnapper and near-murderer after waking up from the coma he was in after nearly dying in front of Keun Sejin

Ways that Keun Sejin responded to this:

Repression (his stupid no-complaining attribute is so strong bruh)

Researching surgery + constantly visiting the hospital

Eating issues

Crying

Moondae when Sejin shows the slightest hint of worry: Is he mad because he thinks I’m trying to make a solo debut???

[pillowspace]

One of the most frustrating things is having the sincerest desire to participate in a hobby, and having none of the means necessary to do so. I am going to eat drywall

[boinin]

I'M LAUGHING MY ASS OFF

[theheadlesshearseman]

[rosabienfuerte]

[doctorsiren]

OKAY Y’ALL I LISTENED TO DEATH SHROUD TODAY AND I ALSO IMMEDIATELY WROTE A SONG BASED OFF OF IT, SO I’M GONNA TRY AND GET THAT RECORDED AND OUT AS SOON AS I CAN BECAUSE MY BRAIN HAS BEEN CONSUMED BY THIS

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 240

so heres the thing. i have never tried pixel art

but for a first (and second, and third) attempt i am not mad at these!

[meatexe]

those color ask games but ur only option r littlest pet shops i had as a kid