#anyways back to your regularly scheduled program

[cryingoverdeadgaywizzards]

I think my favorite part of Latino James (specifically Mexican) is that he died on Halloween, which is a DAY BEFORE DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS

Aka

THE DAY OF THE DEAD.

HE DIED A DAY - O N E DAY

BEFORE THE DAY OF THE DEAD

WICH ALSO MEANS HE DIDNT GET TO SPEND THAT HOLIDAY HONORING HIS RECENTLY LOST LOVED ONES LIKE HIS PARENTS, DORCAS, MARLENE, AND REGULUS, BECAUSE HE DIED A DAY BEFORE. A SINGLE FUCKING DAY.

HE LOST THE OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE THEM BY

ONE

DAY

[helixol]

on one hand learning animation is really fun and seeing the end result is awesome

on the other hand animations aren't really zine compatible 😭

[hope-and-a2s-boywife]

oh and I just got flashed by my deadname while making an alt TikTok account! I logged in with apple but it’s literally set as ‘Xeno (last name)’ so what the fuck

[bugsandslimegal]

You ever look through your old instagram likes and think. “I COULD HAVE LIKED O2L A LITTLE LESS.” And then realize you don’t know shit about o2l.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[soybean-official]

The parts of you that support me

[glowingsand]

my cutieful :(((

[mr-avocado-man7]

did this instead of working on my past due art projects

^ this is what it’s in reference to btw please do not take this seriously 😭😭😭😭

[strawberriesatan]

I loved drawing this but I was fighting for my life with Laxus, why is he so ugly I heart him so

[cryingoverdeadgaywizzards]

Ok guys, Y’know that song called Lacy by Olivia Rodrigo that’s about someone who’s so perfect it makes you resent them from jealousy, which only makes you hate yourself more? What if I said that was Pandora about James.

[hurrakka]

Violet Mizutsune Leon and Thunderlord Chris

Every time I'm at that cutscene in RE6 all I could think of are the monster hunter turf wars and this has been eating away at my brain so uhhhh ye had to get it out of my system lol

[xx-j4nu5-c4t5-xx]

got bored and drew the flour sack

[harblkun]

anon who sent in the comms ask here! the reason I asked is because I'd absolutely love to see my mc paired with a few of the LADS boys, so probably like a couple comm, I love how you draw them so much :)

but thinking it over even more now, I love your style so much I'd jump at the chance to get a few of my own personal character done in your style too haha! no expectations here of course, but I saw your tags and figured I should reply :D I'd love to hear what others think too!

All right, I am trying to put some commission sheets together/see if I can get my Ko-Fi set up for a "test run" some time in the near future. I don't want people to have FOMO, but the first attempt will only have a few slots at first, so I don't get overwhelmed. If it goes well, I'll have more slots after.

[wornkindness]

im going to get to working on drafts here in a sec but the fact in 2025 im still seeing in people's rules that's something along the lines of i've had bad experiences with ocs so im not interacting with ocs. like either just say you don't like ocs or be more specific about the type ocs. but don't lump us all together jfc. it's insane that you only see this sorta thing with ocs, no one would say all canon characters don't interact.

[bugbxyjunk]

i deleted his Instagram off my messages. i sent one last text, i think it was just for me though. i love him still but,,if i know there's nothing left i can't keep waiting. i can't stick around and hope for the impossible.

[mumms-the-word]

Duke Belynne Stelmane and the Emperor

currently reading lore stuff about mind flayers for an upcoming deep dive and anyway here's some depressing content about how the Emperor turned Belynne Stelmane into his thrall (probably)

This is not Hot New Lore or a Brand New Theory by any stretch of the imagination, but hear me out

Remember when Wyll talks about meeting Stelmane? How he only saw her twice, but the second time she was very different? They attribute her changes to a stroke.

Wyll: I met her twice. The first time, I was a boy of seven or eight, at a banquet in the Flaming Fist's honour. One look and I was smitten. Chesnut hair that flowed behind her like willow fronds. She floated from one room to the next as if carried by clouds. The second time, Stelmane was...different. Even with the aid of a cane, each step she took was a struggle. Every word she spoke took great physical effort. 'A stroke victim?' I asked my father later. 'No,' he said. 'A stroke survivor.' Not a mere stroke, as it turns out - but the scars of her possession. Gods, what I wouldn't give to drive a dagger through the Emperor's building head. We can never let it do to us what it did to Stelmane.

The last part, the part where Wyll realizes that it was more than a stroke, is conditional upon you calling the Emperor out for possessing or messing with Stelmane, which is when the Emperor literally shows you him possessing her.

Note the glowy purple eyes and then later the mechanical movements, the fixed stares, the way Stelmane toasts the Emperor as if moved by puppet strings. Her gestures are stiff, as if she's being controlled.

Wyll and his father attribute Stelmane's movements to being part of a stroke. Slurred speech and difficulty moving parts of your body are stroke symptoms, so it's a convenient explanation for her change in behavior and her difficulty with movement and speech. But possession?

No, dear readers, I don't think the Emperor was possessing Stelmane. I think he genuinely made her a literal thrall.

(please excuse the horrible quality lol)

From Volo's Guide to Monsters on Mind Flayers:

A thrall-to-be is first rendered docile through psionic means. Using a low-power version of its Mind Blast ability, the mind flayer bombards the victim with energy that washes through its synapses like acid, clearing away its former personality and leaving it a partially empty shell. This step takes 24 hours. Over the next 48 hours, the illithids rebuild the victim's memories and personality, and the victim gains the skills and talents it needs to perform its intended function.

A Mind Blast that "washes through synapses like acid" sounds a lot like a stroke-adjacent experience to me. Strokes attack the brain, causing parts of the brain to literally die (usually due to a lack of blood flow or oxygen). It could explain Stelmane's stiff movements.

The "clearing away" of her personality and the suggestion of "rebuilding" her memories would also be extremely useful to the Emperor. Rather than exerting the mental energy to possess her all the time, constantly keeping her under concentrated surveillance, all he had to do was literally break her and then rebuild her. She becomes a Stelmane that is only partly herself, and empty shell that he can mold as he pleases.

This is veering into headcanon territory, but I imagine if it was just basic possession, she would move a little more fluidly and naturally than she does in the Emperor's memory. She wouldn't be exhibiting movements and speech that mimic stroke symptoms. That, and there is always the potential she could break free of possession.

But if she's a full-on mind flayer thrall, broken and rebuilt? An empty husk that has had her memories and personality pumped back into her, still under the control of the Emperor? That makes a ton of sense to me. There's no snapping out of that. As the Emperor says when he threatens you...she becomes a puppet.

And the fact that he keeps the threat of doing the same to you in his metaphorical back pocket at all times is honestly quite terrifying.