#an absolute TRADGEDY

[vaulthuntersmybeloved]

Firstly, HBOMB FINALLY GETS TO PLAY DECKED OUT ON HERMITCRAFT HOLY SHIT!!!!!

Secondly, I made a meme for it

(Thirdly, in case y’all don’t know that BB9 was the start of H’s hermit adoption arc AND the fact that Ren and H got on so well that Ren invited him to join Iskall’s Vault Hunters SMP where he proceeded to be adopted by even more Hermits and show his talent for dungeon crawling minecraft games. Not to mention him repeatedly asking to be allowed on Hermitcraft to play Decked Out 1 and now it’s finally happening!!!)

[f0x-gl0ves]

I spent absolutely way to long drawing this very serious drawing of very serious characters from a very serious podcast

[melit0n]

Anytime I see people who say 'Erik should have gotten Christine!' I always let out such a loud sigh because they are completely missing the point of the book.

The tradgedy is not, and never has been, the fact that The Phantom didn't get Christine, it's the fact that he never got to be human.

Erik, as a character, is so insanely full of love and yearning and that is exactly what leads people to sympathise with him; to lead them to the point of 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. He's poetic with his suffering and expresses his truama in a obsessive and borderline psychopathic way in order to deal with it and get what he wants. To have what he never had; real affection. To be kissed without his masked chucked at his face.

To be looked at with fondness instead of fear.

Leroux's whole point with the character of The Phantom isn't that he's another man who deserved the girl, his point was how real life literature Others are treated. Erik is both The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Quasimodo and Jane Eyre's Bertha Mason. Both, of which, despite the fact they don't conform to societal standards, still deserve to be treated as humans.

Erik deserves to be treated like a human despite his deformity, despite his otherness that has literally forced him into the basement of an Opera House he helped build; to be loved like any human wants love. Everybody in that book demonises him for such a human feeling and that is the point. That is the metaphorical kick to the chest.

Further, rounding back around to the 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. If Erik got Christine, he wouldn't learn that the fact he murdered multiple people to get there, that he threatened to blow up half of Paris, that he tricked a young girl into believing he was her dead father, was wrong. If he got what he wanted, with no consequences, then it wouldn't teach Erik anything, because he would never learn what real affection would be like.

That's why, at the end of the book, where Christine shows him genuine love, willingly, he absolutely crumbles because he realises that is what it means to be human. To feel human; pure love given of someone's own accord.

To love is to be changed, as the poets' say, and that's exactly what it does to him.

[gillyeowalters]

Jade shadows was...rough for me.

I am not going to talk about how it is a bit off that Jade did not get a single voice line, other people have pointed that out before.

But it is so clichéd when it comes to its themes.

Edgy dude has pure and literally angelic girlfriend. Girlfriend/wife gets pregnant, everyone is happy, then tradgedy strikes. Girlfriend/wife has to sacrifice herself for the plot to go on and character development of edgy dude to happen.

Edgy dude is now the sole caretaker of a child, and the child is the only person besides the girlfriend/wife edgy dude ever interacts positively with. Edgy dude reveals his softer side for his child.

I am aware that it is not the first time in Warframe that a woman becomes a sacrifice, but Lotus is a fully-fledged character. Jade is an incubator. Not because she is pregnant (being pregnant and wanting to have kids is an absolutely valid choice), but because she is never *shown* as anything else. Storytelling-wise her role is "die for drama, make baby for story".

The only other bit we get is her protecting Stalker for a split second, but that scene is frozen. She does not really do much, just float there, we learn nothing about her.

She does not only not talk, but she does not show any emotions or reactions .

When Lotus died, she was angry, disappointed, she died for what she thought was right. Reaction wise, Jade does a reenactment of the 'This is fine' dog meme.

In the end, I think describing the theme of the quest as 'motherhood' is incorrect. We do not get to see her be a mother. Her role ends before that.

It would have had much more impact if she herself would have walked the way to the shuttle at the end of the quest, to then collapse and die. Show her being a mother, show her protecting her child. Show her make the active decision. Show her doing *anything*.

It fits the theme of an angel perfectly, a symbol, a herald with no agenda of their own, but it makes for a lack-luster character.

[preciadosbass]

20/8/24 [4X DIYS — draft from yesterday, key + significant photos at end]

nobody asked, but regarding yesterdays journal - i actually went to sleep at 3 because i got distracted with patrick stump gifs. i was supposed to just be looking for a few blue coloured ones [raa having a colour themed blog is so annoying // there’s so many cute gifs of musicians that aren’t blue/black and i cant change the colour and therefor cant use them =(] but lost track of time. meaning i was absolutely exhausted when i woke up [8:30]

after waking up, i went outside to say goodmorning to boris and scrolled on scenemo/alt diy tiktoks until i got a message from N ‘apologising’ for yesterday. i say ‘apologising’ because i know they didn’t mean it, and they also said they deleted the photos of me immediately. which isn’t true as i saw them press the send button and then put their phone away. they wouldn’t have had time to delete them before whoever saw them, saw them. this means my mum has told her mum, which i’m super embarrassed about. i don’t like people knowing i’m upset about anything they’ve done/someone they know has done. i’m just still worried about it because i know those photos looked so bad and they sent them to so many people. and now, it dosent matter if they get rid of them because whoever those people were have already seen them. i’m so humiliated.

anyway, i carried on scrolling on scenemo/alt diytok until 10:40 when i finally got dressed while listening to my sleeping with sirens live cd. today i wore my purple asking alexandria shirt, a pair of striped purple and black tights, blue ripped shorts, knee high converse, my my chemical romance [danger days] zip up hoodie, my can tab bracelet, a falling in reverse bracelet, and dark blue skull bracelet, a two row studded cuff, diy kandi + elastic bracelet, sleeping with sirens and panic! at the disco bracelet, and last but not least a spiked kandi cuff. [photos at end]. i haven’t made kandi jewellery in a while because i’ve run out of beads, but once i start seeing my other prevision again, i’ll buy some more. today i’m going to reptile experience/possibly going on a long car ride with my dad so i can listen to music full blast without worrying about anyone hearing.

i couldn’t stop thinking about the fact that there’s stupid photos/videos of me going around to strangers. i know it seems like i’m overreacting, but having photos taken of me is such a big deal in my mind and this whole situation makes me feel like the world is ending. i hate seeing my own face and knowing that other people do aswell. the thought itself disgusts me, i only like pictures of my outfit and sometimes that’s too much. after getting dressed, i did my hair and then went outside with boris at 11:20. the weather was being weird and one second it was boiling hot, and the other freezing. but that’s just the uk for you.

i stayed with him until 11:50 when me and my mum left to go out. boris has started meowing everytime i come out to see him and it’s really really cute. i also took a few videos of him before getting in the car. on the way to reptile experience, i listened to early fall out boy + american beauty/american psycho fall out boy, and a little bit of letterbox tradgedy. when we arrived, everyone was having their lunch so i went into the reptile room and said hi to boris #2 [the bearded dragon] and the other visible animals. i also took a few photos of various animals to put in this journal/this weeks recap [photos at end]. along with observing all the other stuff in the room, like the stuff for the horses/ponies.

once everyone in the other room had finished their food, me and my mum went out to the kitchen/sofa area where the rodents live. S [the lead crew member, she’s lovely], put out some ripped up pieces of newspaper and treats for rat enrichment and set all 4 on the table everyone was sat around. we were told not to pick them up [i think it’s because everyone apart from me was really young and rough with the animals], and just let them come to you. i watched as they had their snacks and scurried around the table and sofa that was just by where i was sat.

three came up to me all at once and hoarded around my bracelets. S said it was due to the shininess of the can tab one, and maybe the smell. i let the rats crawl over my arm/lap/wrist and took a few photos. while doing so one in particular kept on sniffing my phone camera lens so the videos look really silly XD — i took a few bits of the newspaper for an upcoming collage as i found a few paragraphs of writing about true crime and that’s one of my interests. [this feels weird to write, i just find the psychology aspect of it interesting]. once the rats were put away and the enrichment was cleaned up, S & A [the other crew member, the one that makes me feel sick of jealousy due to his looks etc] took out pinecones, some lard, and some birdseed.

i already knew what was coming so i moved my bracelets further up my arm and tied bits of string to a few secreted pinecones. we were then told that we were making bird feeders. i covered the pinecones in lard and then rolled it in a sunflower seed based mix as it had the darkest colours. i made five as S said i could make two for the farmer’s gate and three to take home, yipee // once i was done, i looked at a few of the drawings on the wall. a lot of them were illustrations of five nights at freddy’s animatronics. which gave me an idea to also draw animatronics on small bits of card and line them wherever there’s an empty part of my wall. at 1:40, we walked round to the farmer’s gate and hung the pinecones around the wood. [picture at end] S gave me two that had already been made by various people attending, so when we went back round to the buildings and it was time to leave i got to take home the five that id made!! we headed for home at 2:11 after thanking all the workers. on the way back i stopped off to get low cal boba [photo at end cuz it looks just as good as it was]

in the car, i sorted through the photos taken there into an instagram collage to add to the end of this journal + my weekly recap. [photo collages at end]. i also listened to quite a lot of panic! at the disco’s vices and virtues. we [me and my mum] arrived home at 3:20. i didn’t end up doing for the drive with my dad because it would’ve been around 7 hours in the car, and that’s too long for me to be away from boris in the car unless i’m going away. and even that’s a stretch. i stayed outside with boris until 3:50 when i decided i’m going to put up my bird feeder. i took the pinecones outside and called my mum out to try and work out where i should hang them/what i should hang them from. my mum spawned this plant holder thingy and asked me if it’d be any good. i didn’t have another option and it was an alright improvisation so i went into my room to work out what part of the garden’s bank i can see from through my window.

once i’d worked out a suitable place for it to go, i brought it up to the bank and supported the legs with a few bits of scrap wood planks. then i hung the five pinecones along the frame of the flowerpot part. [photo at end] i finished within -10 minutes and then went back inside to my room. when i first got in, i took my stuff out of my bag to give my dad his battery pack and accidentally got scrap bits of purple-like wood all over my bed. id snapped them up yesterday while at the creek for an idea i had. i thought i might aswell make it now, so collected them off my blanket and got my hot glue gun ready. the idea was to glue them around the metal tin that a candle rests in. which is stupid, because this particular wood is the most flammable in the uk so i most likely wouldn’t even be able to burn it. anyway, i collected a few more bits of stick from the garden and lined them around the tin. i finished at 4:30 and took a few pictures of the finished product. [photo at end]

once again, something else useless i settled on making, but at least it looks cute. i watched two youtube videos :[the rest of ‘Q&A time !!! :D’ by nico vamp, ‘a day in the life | fake 🩸 + pictures’ by maya malice, and then almost two more videos from the same youtuber [[‘a day in the life + randumness :3’, & ‘my problem with scenecore’.]] while listening to the last video listed, i made a collage with receipts from charity shopping on thursday + the bits of newspaper i collected today. i hid a secret message in there [its just ‘meow’, photo at the end] and put together the word ‘empierces.’ which means to pierce. get it? like pierce the veil? anyone?? [photo at end — finished at 6:35]

then i listened to the entirety of falling in reverse’s new album [again] — while doing so, i drew lolbit, RWQFSFASXC, and the puppet from five nights at freddy’s on some card. i put it along the side of my doorframe beside pictures of kellin quinn and pete wentz. [theyre so bad you don’t get a photo] then i went outside with boris at 7:35. he was being his usual polite and cute self and i could also tell he was very happy because he was dribbling at ton xp // he let himself in at 7:50 so i didn’t get to spend much time with him on the driveway, but i followed him inside, checked he had food, and wrote 4 paragraphs from this journal. after finishing that little bit of writing, i saw frank iero’s new instagram post + story like WTF IS GOING ON I FREAKED OUT. LIKE WHATS HAPPENING AT MIDNIGHT FRANK?? i went to see him [boris] again at 10 after looking through scenemo/alt tiktok and letting my phone charge a little.

he stayed out with him my for barely any time before he let himself inside to eat. i came inside with him, and during this one of my cousins pulled up to our house as he got me some of my safe food because otherwise i won’t have anything at all to eat tomorrow and it’ll be really easy to faint if the weather isn’t perfect. him and my mum spoke about the holiday that me and my immediate + extended family are going to. he left at 10:45 and then i had a bath. i usually don’t mention washing [etc] as it’s a boring thing to write about/the same everytime. its not like with the questions about boris or when i wake up because that changes. i’m just mentioning it today as there’s nothing i can fill in the spaces of this journal with.

then i collected a few green day [billie joe armstrong] gifs and went up to my sisters room because i swore she was playing the hello zepp saw themetune on keyboard. it turned out she was, i watched her play it and then came back downstairs again. while i was on the sofa, she started playing something else and asked me if i recognised it. it was numb by linkin park, but i got it to confused with another song of theirs that sounds similar at the start. i went up because she wanted me to watch her play it and she followed on the song with ‘centuries’ by fall out boy.

after she’d finished, i went back downstairs to get myself some icy water, speak to boris, and then do my teeth before having a nap. i put on a timer for 10 minutes because i said i’d check up on him every once in a while but when i woke up it was bright outside and my phone was in the same place i left it before my nap. it turned out i never woke up and never got to say goodnight to boris so i freaked out when i realised. i would’ve gone to sleep at 1.

🗝️ — boris/my cat, prevision/keyworker i have to see instead of being taken back into mainstream education, questions about boris/i ask my parents questions about my cat to verify he's okay + will be okay in the morning. its a compulsive thing and i'm hopefully going to be tested for OCD in the future.

[caressthosecheekbones]

the very thought of eating pancakes with fresh strawberries: lovely, what a joy, makes my heart dance, heaven even

the very fact of having to cook them first: bold, unacceptable, a farce, absolute tradgedy. tragity. targdiddy. tarttiddy

[defaultnaming]

WARNING: COULD BE CONSIDERED CRITICAL OR ANTI. DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T LIKE DW CRITIQUE

First thoughts:

I'll be honest, I went into the episode a bit biased, 10 is nowhere close to a good doctor for me and I dislike the RTD era. But open minds and all that.

I DON'T like the mcu logo. MCUification of DW on main.

I need an in-depth explaination on what regeneration energy does after that ep. Like, how does it make a suit and long coat, ties, a new sonic screwdriver, perfectly fitting glasses and a judges wig (he didn't know he would need it so he would have to have it on him so... how??)

Okay, why the big exposition cold open if you're going to exposit the info in conversation, feels a bit like you wasted time there I'll be honest. Could've went to solving the ep problem cause that was rushed.

The old doctor is back.... and apparently has a personality like at least a couple thousand years haven't passed... okay....

The part about 'Why does everything have to be a big goodbye?' I mean, it seemed really wierd that he would refuse coming for a cuppa because he CAN do that. We've seen it over 15 years, the doctor has developed to do that stuff. Also, bar a few phrases, didn't really see much of 13's personality there and it's shame. DT is a good actor, he could pull it off (I mean, he also could've pulled off the outfit but....), you didn't need to do 10 on repeat .

I like rose! But is she 15 cause.... no? Also, how to tell your trans character is written by cis people: 'DiD YOu jUsT AssUMe tHEIr ProNOUnS!?'

Love the starting her business, didn't like that they made Donna a mum who doesn't respect boundaries but still the support and the plushies were cute and I guess being nosy is in character for her.

Meep was cute! Feel like the meep was suitably menacing and it was peak cheese. Also, Miriam Margoles was perfect for the voice. I also love the bit where the meep was clinging to Donna, brilliant. Also, tactically landing in a steel mill and not being really contrived was good! I also loved that 'living sun' hypnosis, it made sense to me. I also loved the cheesy bug things, they we cute as well and I love that they took the time to explain why the cab never got hit properly cause I was wondering.

Also, Sylvia wanting to KO the doctor on site to keep him from seeing Donna... accurate, funny and I wanted her to do it I'll be honest. Saun temple, absolute king, just drinking respsct wife juice. Like, if my partner gave away that much money I'd divource but he's just better than me.

I love UNIT as this alien first responder force, that was neat. I love that they were inclusive to disabilities and the characters were still suitably badass.

I love the (albiet clumsy) trans positivity in the episode. But let's not give them too much credit, the doctor has been trans and trans positive (with timelords mind) since about 2014.

Didn't like the implication that transmascs are inherently more dim/stupid than transfemmes. Also, that is literally what they said because the text was literally 'if you were female (still a woman) presenting, you'd understand'. I won't lie, as a transmasc person, it kind of hurt. I feel like we should be past the feminism that drags men instead of uplifting women but yeah.

I feel like they undercut the tradgedy of Donna's sacrifice by having her just... be alive. I get she... shared?... the metacrisis but it kind of ruins why Donna was such a tragic figure in DW. Also, gee DoctorDonna, why didn't you just think 'get rid of it' before? Could've saved a lot of trouble. The cracks through London just kind of disappearing when the ship was stopped was wierd but I get it, they need to move onto other things and that would be too big of a distraction.

Also, they're going to visit Wilf yay! Why did the TARDIS redecorate? Why did you then give a workable reason why she would need to reconfigure immediately afterward? I love the design, very retro but again, felt a bit contrived.

All in all, a cheesy, old nu!who episode vibes (I clarify, not my thing) that has some great building blocks and despite the problems, I am looking forward to new episodes to come!

[an-occasional-gabe]

black white grey only! something something colour theory something something values (idk i learnt all the art terms from watching drawfee)

Day 7 - tradgedy (found his armour, lost his skirt)

never ask for just black/white/grey again, this was an absolute pain

[c0tards--s0luti0n]

absolutely insane about orpheus and eurydice because however you choose to interpret the reason he looked back it is and always will be a story of love . we all know how it ends but that doesnt stop us from retelling it over and over because maybe itll all work out this time but we know it wont . its about a tradgedy everyone knew was coming . idk

[plethora-of-words]

Camera Roll

My favorite photos are all with you. I try and blame it on the other aspects that factor into taking the perfect picture. 'The light hit the lens at the ideal angle' or 'the camera was held in a flattering position' or 'the phone had better quality than the rest.' The excuses are endless and desperate- a bone thrown to an impatient dog, or a fishing rod thrust fruitlessly into deep water. They are merely a last ditch attempt to continuously deny the painful, stark, obvious truth- it was with you that I felt the most like myself. There is a noticeable pattern to the photos- my arms are almost always wrapped around your waist, as if I'm fighting to hold onto you for as long as possible. There was something about the way my head perfectly slotted into the crook of your neck, the way your hands would settle comfortably on top of mine, and the way holding you sent a trail of warmth throughout my entire body until I felt like I was on fire. The way that the first time I felt that feeling, I felt like I had hit the jackpot in life, like I was luckier than any man who had ever won the lottery- for how could those cold green slips of paper triumph over the absolute blinding joy of your hand carressing mine? My smile is always the size of a half moon on a clear night. It's not the kind of smile that is rehearsed in the mirror before picture day, or falsely plastered on for the perfect instagram story. It's the kind of smile born from you playfully hitting my arm before the shutter clicks, or from you whispering a book reference in my ear right before I stare at the camera. It's the kind of smile that is built over months of your affectionate glances and thoughtful gifts and typo-ridden love letters, all just so I would wear that smile for a few extra minutes. My eyes are always bright with sheer delight. Despite the constant sleep deprivation school brings and the eye bags underneath my eyelids, there's an unmistakable joy. It's that of a child when they're presented with an ice cream cone, or their favorite toy; a small gesture enough to light up their entire world, even if only for a day. You knew the way to hold the phone so that it always captured my best side, and I was always blinded by the shock of the fact that there was someone in my life who had that ability. Someone in my life who had the ability to identify my insecurities and twist them into something I hardly noticed, all with the way you skillfully positioned the camera.   As my finger continues to flit through the camera roll, it becomes more and more glaringly evident that you seeped an unknown magic into all of my pictures, solely by standing behind the lens. I think it will forever be an enormous tradgedy that we weren't everlasting. Alas, you had the midas touch in my life, while somebody else had it in yours.

[sanjismuskyarmpits]

U have no idea tha absolute hilarity of my mind being clouded with different asriel theories and im panicking which tradgedy will befall the dreemurr children and then just.

"I think he is a goat"

Comedic gold i wish i could broadcast my mind to everyone in that moment so everyone could feel what i felt

FIRST THING I THOUGHT OF BOSS 🫡

[bunnysuitconman]

How does your glitchtrap differ from the baseline character? Like what headcanons do you have for him, if any? Gen just curious, you draw him so much, and I wanna know what he's like. <3

honestly like any sane FNAF fan i have my own laissez faire attitude to whats happening in the games and such and live in my own joyus headcanon. big focking read more as i ramble about things

I think that the big and most dominant thing would be that i much prefer the idea that Glitchtrap is William Aftons spirit and he sort of knows he's doomed by the narritive. in help wanted's it's said that the previous games are their own self contained universe and that it was part of a disinformation campaign to fictionalise william and his crimes and i really liked that because it gives you the space to retell the story but more cohesively. So in a twisted way he got the immortality that the fictional games said he wanted so much, because seemingly it's just him and Cassidy duking it out, and i really love the idea that in order to resolve this it isn't that you have to beat william as he's the villian it's trying get Cassidy to come to terms with her death and the anger she feels over not being able to live a full life, Cassidy unlike William being only a child isn't reasoned with easily and things are often shaped to her desire for revenge and for more life experiance even if it's abstract, she wants to be a hero! i don't think she knows what she's doing but i think she believes that william has just gotten loose again and she needs to stop him. the other children have moved on and it's a lonely existance. In the same breath william might be a little more put together than Cassidy in that he's an adult with way more life experiance and being able to maintain parts of his personhood, he kind of knows that his immortality is based around Cassidy and he can't exist without her. So he's willing to play into it. i sometimes think that the relationship between William Afton and his own company is something sorely missed out on as it's got to be horrifyingly bad for a ghost who i believe can't really remember much of his original life as so much as he can feel it. coming back into a world where you're nolonger a person but a fictional being who's an absolute monster you're left to pick out what crimes you actually did and what was made up to hype up sales. being unable to decern where you begin and when product ends means that sometimes he has to consider what he's done even without a complete set of information. I also think that there is something very haunting in help wanted one in particular in that glitchtrap is surrounded by the fictional worlds in which are surrounded by death, both ones his been hurt by and ones the's comitted, being such a focal point to him it's kind of a fitting prison to just have these lonely constant reminders of empty game space.

I'm personally in the camp of "William Afton regards his family fondly but only because he misses the normalcy of it" in that before he went off the deep end he was trying to keep up the picture of being a successful and having a perfect family while the reality was that he was a guy suffering from masses of repression and subscribed to toxic ideals that he suffered under as a child. i love alot of mundane parts in my evil, and there is a tradgedy in thinking that he's an unfortunately common father who's children suffered under him and who's wife sacrificed for him in ways he could never apprechate. All while he's obsessed with Henry and his life and i can't help wonder if he just lusted after Henry's thin veneer of perfection. the ideas of perfectionisim combined with the freedom of masks and constructed worlds, i do think of william as someone who was kind of a theater kid growing up before he "had to put down childish things" and try his best to reframe his wants. He has a real attachment to springbonnie and the glitchtrap suit, he thinks of it likely as the "truer" version of himself. Having a silly rabbit to project your wants onto and live vicariously though along with your best friend who is represented by a big yellow bear would probably come crashing down when your youngest child gets his head caved by said bear and your family life shortly falling apart. Wanting to inflict the same pain william feels onto Henry who's growing distant and discovering that his child is haunting the machines you created driving him to the missing children incident. i think another part where i greatly differ is that i think it's much more interesting that because william was never caught for the MCI or the death of Charlie somewhere in his unravelling Henry cut him short as an act of vigilante justice and stuffed him in springbonnie all without the knowledge that it would make him haunt that springsuit. and he comes back as a monster that he technically made and feels guilt over it. even more contraversially i think that while pizza sim sort of happened like that i don't like the idea that henry died like he did in pizza sim, henry being way more morally grey and continuing to keep fazcorp going and bring it to the success it has today (or atleast partially until his own natural death) kind of brings the ugly corperate of them both and expands into how it wasn't just william who was a bad person in a business but it's run though with cruelly capitalist design that sacrifices peoples dignity and seeks to sanitize real crimes. With all of that in williams original crimes there is significant distance between who he was then and who he is now, because there isn't anyone left, he's repeating his crimes because it's the only thing he knows, i've mentioned before in passing but the idea of touch for a ghost is complicated, senses are dulled to non existant, the humanity felt in intergreating oneself with another is intoxicating, being able to be "human" again would be amazing for him even if all of his gut senses are telling him to murder. he's very much a shambling being that likes to play at power dispite having to manipulate and rely everyone else to further his plans. he is a mess, but he's an interesting mess to me, my silly little rabbit <3

then again i also think of him as a bisexual with a dumptruck ass who would jump at the oppertunity to fuck another version of himself for way less serious reasons.

[yanzinator]

Often, Jews will argue that people are ignoring other bad things around the world that are worse and only focus on Palestine because of anti-Semitism. The argument against this is that you shouldn't divert attention from one bad thing just because it's not the only bad thing. It's the logical falacy of what-aboutism.

to that I say, you're absolutely right. When you see people mourning something bad, you should never try to divert the conversation to an irrelevant bad thing. You shouldn't see a news article about a tradgedy and immediately say "but what about other tradgedy". This is something you should never do...

[monoxology]

Ok since y’all liked creatures weird eyes I GUESS I have to explain some lore oh this is such a tradgedy….😈😈😈

Ok so basically

Az likes to use a certain special neurotoxin like drug on his closer workers that is kind of based off devil’s breath where in smaller doses it basically makes them do anything he wants them to and they have barely any recollection of what happened. He only uses this on his verrrry special workers when he either doesn’t want them to remember what happened and claims he did it to ‘protect them’ from what he does which in some cases (cough creature cough) is actually true but in majority of other cases he just does it because he knows they will probably refuse to do what he asks and he can’t afford to risk that.

In larger doses it does what the small does does however it also triggers the fight or flight response which most of the time ends up being fight bc that’s how most monster brains are hardwired which comes in very handy in the ring if you’ve placed a lot of money on a fighter and want them to win lol

However if too much is used it triggers too much of a survival response and the sheer amount of adrenaline that’s produced just stops the heart so u gotta be rlly careful

Long time use of the smaller dosage has a damaging effect on the cardiovascular system as well as the central nervous system and can cause shitty stuff like hallucinations and seizures and blindness cause the drug either completely dilates the pupils or shrinks them depending on what sort of monster it’s used on. It can also cause something the dealers call a ‘void eye ’ where basically the pupil dilates so much it exploded and the whole eye turns black and usually turns the user blind and causes immense pain whenever the eye is moved so in most cases of this happening the void eye is removed

Ik that’s not realistic and would never happen but idrc bc it’s cool and also it’s fantasy 😋

It also causes the eyes to change colour due to damage to the veins in the eyes cause of excess dilation/ shrinkage which is why creature’s eyes look like that. He also has problems with depth perception and colour blindness occasionally

Creatures eyes are very similar to Cas’s eyes because she used to be a fighter Az worked with for a while. Her nickname used to be Ms Meathooks bc honestly look at the absolute gutters she has

She also has problems with her sight but some of them are just caused by old age lol

Anyways yeah that’s why their eyes are so funky but feel free to ask if u wanna know something else 😋😋😋😋🫶🫶🫶🫶

[linalavender]

[Spoilers for Chainsaw Man Episode 5 / Chapter 13] The Reveal.

Today Im rewriting an old Twitter Thread of mine that I was thinking about today when Rewatching the Chainsaw Man Anime because I think its one of the Animes biggest misses in adaptation.

Right after Denji agrees to Makimas insane request to kill the Gun Devil for her, We cut to a Flashback of Aki as a child and how he lost his family in the Gun Devil attack. I think this is adapted absolutely perfectly, no notes on that but its what comes after that I think Misses the mark quite abit. In the Manga you turn the page to this double spread:

The Gun Devil hits Japan for 26 seconds.

Death toll: 57,912

Its terrifying, Aki was so unfortunate he lost his ENTIRE family. Thats 3 people out of nearly 58 thousand. The Gun Devil did all this destruction and devestation in 26 seconds. It makes your stomach sink.

You turn the Next page and realise that was but a small fraction of the Deaths and destruction that day.

It genuinely almost seems like Japan got Lucky here. You just keep on reading the number goes up and the time just seemingly gets shorter. Akis whole world is getting torn apart infront of him surrounded by statistics of a million people dying, dwarfing his own tradgedy. I genuinely think this is one of the Scariest parts of Chainsaw Man so I was a little bit dissapointed when I saw the Anime very quickly sumarize:

(I was gonna put a clip in here but my recording software is having trouble sorry.)

I do understand that the Manga way of doing it would have maybe required a Narrator, Or atleast Makima Narating like she already does but they could have maybe done flashes on screen? Added some kind a news segment talking about the other countries? Many ways that add alot more time and effort to such a small scene maybe but its such a shame! I dont think the anime is trash or something becuase this omission but its a shame they kinda made it lose that impact I felt reading it the first time!

[somebodytolove31]

YES i absolutely agree that V for Vendetta is a tradgedy! i absolutely emplore you to read the original comic series if you like that aspect of it, film Evey and comic Evey are very different people and it goes so much more into her own trauma around the events and picking up where V left off

There's comics????

Thanks anon, gonna check them out!