#Keep in mind: manipulation

[skettchyartendevours]

I fixated on the indie game Keep In Mind sometime during 2020, and as a result I've got a whole boatload of drawings that I haven't shared here yet (mostly because I didn't have my blog at that point)

Hell, I've got tons of drawings in general that I haven't shared yet! I should really remember to post some more of 'em from time to time

---------------------------- [Also, I have a bit of additional yapping for this post]

I was gonna write a whole curated rant about how part of me looks back fondly at these and the other part wants to violently cringe at how I combined a bunch of goofy jokes with amateur attempts at covering serious subject matter... but honestly, this isn't so bad in the grand scheme of cringey mid-teens' artworks. Whichever way you slice it, I was having fun playing around with these little guys that I thought looked neat. And as an added bonus, I think most of these drawings hold up pretty well by my standards today!

[batpersik-art]

[cringefailvox]

alastor is such an insidious dealmaker because he's so reasonable. he doesn't ask for anything outlandish, especially not right out of the gate—he agrees to make a commercial so long as he's never asked to engage with anything tv-related again. he turns down charlie's soul and readily concedes to the stipulation that her favor doesn't have to hurt anyone. from the way husk describes their deal ("when you're down on your luck, you turn to anything to keep you afloat"), it heavily implies to me that husk went to alastor, not the other way around. alastor gets his foot in the door by making himself freely available, and by making it easy to tell him no the first dozen times he nonchalantly offers a deal, so by the time he starts angling for a deal he actually does want, you're less likely to notice immediately how predatory he's being, or how he's backed you into an inescapable corner. he makes himself an inevitability. you know he's a monster, you know that he's manipulating you—but he's also become your only choice, and so you don't even get the consolation of being able to say he tricked you, because you chose it

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Do you think it is possible for the other trolls to gaslight Eridan into do the murder for the right cause? E.g. not like the murderstuck in the canon but guiding his murderous direction to align with the purpose, using him as a disposable glass cannon and a cannon fodder to take down enemies? but not easily disposable due to seadweller's physical strength and his fighting skills. Not the optimal way to handle him but given that he needs some presence of others how will this scenario go?

no because i believe eridan is the specific type of idiot that you can't actually manipulate because he doesn't listen to people. god bless 🫡

[bunnieswithknives]

The sillies!! Might gonna change Demon Laios' design later and I still need a name for whatever this AU is

[pepperpixel]

SAID HE LIKES CRAZY GIRLS,

BUT HE HATES WHEN I ACT CRAZY,

IT TAKES TWO TO TOXIC!

FINALLY!!! Finished these pics of jinx I’ve been working on!!!!! HOLY SHIT, these took so long…. But finally… they’re done… pls enjoy this art of my beautiful princess w a disorder. Featuring alternate colors for the big pic and also a closeup! Cuz I rlly like how both the lines and coloring on her face turned out… like the pink gradients w her eye… her deer in headlights expression,, like uve just startled a raccoon digging thru ur trashcan and r two seconds away from getting mauled.. m proud of it!

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

I see your "falling in love redeems the villain" and raise you "falling in love corrupts the hero"

[cryptke]

This 🙏🏻🙏🏻 I do not necessarily agree in the advocating of keeping abuse a secret from a partner. But it's true that disclosure isn't always best. If you make someone aware that you've been treated bad in past relationships, and that you've accepted it and put up with it and stayed in the relationship, then you are setting the bar (and it is a low one) to your new partner of things that can be and have been done to you with no consequence. Your experience is your own power and you need to make sure that you are bringing to light the right things to the right people

[skettchyartendevours]

Here's the second instalment of Keep In Mind drawings! I will likely post more at some point, because I found a few more stray drawings today while sifting through old papers (and I know I still have more than that in my sketchbooks)

Also, an extra little bit of yapping for one person who was curious:

The "curated rant" I mentioned that I almost put in the previous Keep In Mind post went something along the lines of this:

"I have two main emotional responses when looking back at these. Part of me wants to violently cringe at how I inter-cut a bunch of goofy meme-based jokes in with my amateur attempts at covering serious subject matter I had no personal experience with... and the other part of me looks back so fondly at how I was just unabashedly playing around with these little guys I thought were neat. But I guess I should cut myself some slack, I was in my mid teens at the time."

I thought of this paragraph at least a day or two before making the post, and then I changed my mind by the time I properly started writing it out. I did hit most of the same beats in the final post though, so I guess it doesn't matter all that much in the end ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyway, have a lovely morning/afternoon/evening/night!

[itstwoamandimcursingyourname]

whenever Aleksander and Alina are doing ~things~ in the trilogy(winter fete make out scene in s&b, dream make out scene in s&s, name reveal in r&r) they're BOTH always in a physical position where it would be impossible to lie about/hide how much they want each other even without the presence of their otherworldly paranormal soulmatecore tether. If Aleksander were a thousand year old well practiced seducer who only wanted to manipulate Alina, wouldn't he AT LEAST move himself out of that revealing position instead of manuevering himself to the point where it's impossible to LIE abt wanting her even if he wanted to. In this essay I will-

[cunty-rex]

In Defense Of Anakin Skywalker

I came across some "anti anakin" blogs today and the main thing I noticed was how they all failed to mention Palpatine's role in everything. While yes Anakin did some pretty horrible things (like killing an entire tribe of tusken raiders) all his actions as Vader are a result of him being groomed. Does that abstain him from all guilt? No, of course not, but it's quite telling that their argument centers around how Anakin is just "such an awful person" and doesn't deserve his redemption arc when in reality his redemption arc is the only one that works for him. Anakin killed Sidious, the man who'd groomed him and turned him into his puppet and coerced him into doing terrible things. It feels quite intentional how these blogs neglect Sidious while simultaneously putting all the blame onto Anakin when in reality he's merely another pawn in Sidious's grand plan.

There's also the fact that Darth Vader isn't the same man as Anakin Skywalker, a distinction made both by Sidious and Vader himself. Anakin was - and is - the young boy from Tatooine that dreamed of being a Jedi knight someday. Vader is person that Sidious groomed him to be for over ten years. The only time we truly see Anakin during the OT is when he kills Sidious and saves his son, breaking free of the control that Sidious had over him for so many years. Vader dies when Sidious dies, and Anakin goes on to live as a force ghost. There's no better ending than this for Anakin, nothing more fitting.

[samuraifics]

at the wee age of like 12 i found out that the word assassin comes from hashish and had the idea of altair growing up in a murder cult where it was normal to sacrifice yourself with a leap of faith & being encouraged to get high on weed to deal with that sort of madness

ever since then all i want is a psychological horror-esque fic about altair getting high and murdering people on command. is that too much to ask. how do i even start writing that myself

(I mean it’s basically canon but i NEVER could find a fic like that)

[moeblob]

OC again gomen ... (her name is Yuma)

[worstloki]

Time loop fic but it’s just Thor stuck confronting Loki during Avengers 1 except Loki is actually evil this time and wants Thor dead so Thor just. keeps dying. He tries not to hurt Loki the first few loops but keeps getting killed and starts taking it personally so he steps up his game to actually try to win/kill Loki back but he still keeps losing.

[jingledbells]

ok I’ve been vagueposting about this a lot but fuck it honestly. ive noticed that the ship between fidds and stan has gotten more popular and I personally don’t ship it but there’s nothing wrong with it it’s a decent ship and people can ship what they want. however. I don’t know if it’s just me but I’ve seen a few people use this pairing to demonize ford. like saying stuff like ‘oh ford was such a terrible person to fiddleford he deserves way better’ and ‘Stan would treat him soooo much better’ and idk. that just really rubs me the wrong way lol. like guys. please.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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