#but its super unhealthy so

[hajihiko]

Violent Impulses

[vristrogen]

something about people calling vrisrezi "toxic yuri" always puts me off. i understand the lack of words to really put their dynamic but like you know theyre in a relationship thats largely good for them right. they arent dating because "it sucks but it would be worse without each other" they genuinely really love each other a lot

[constantvariations]

"Ruby wouldn't be angry at Jaune because she would understand it was Penny's choice" as if grief over losing a close friend again after going through so much to save her again wouldn't manifest in absolute rage that blocks out suicide fetish logic. The writers refused Ruby her anger not only to protect their precious Jaune, but because they think certain emotions are evil

I'm constantly thinking about Blake in V5 attributing spite to Adam as if it's a bad thing. Spite is the emotional version of "hold my beer," and is responsible for some incredible things

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a spiteful response to The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne, a story with the same premise of several middle class English boys being stranded on an island. Where Ballantyne has the boys having "wonderful adventures" such as... saving women and children from being killed and eaten by the native Polynesians, Golding depicts the boys falling into savagery as time and isolation grows their paranoia to the point where they start killing each other. Golding was pissed at the saccharine portrayal of English boys as the height of humanity because he was a teacher who taught that exact demographic and damn well knew better

After a teacher said he wasn't smart enough to get into college, Huey P. Newton taught himself how to read and got into law school. When the college committees were more into intellectual talk than action, he said, "Fuck this, I'm gonna make my own group," and he did! It became an international organization that had the FBI shitting themselves! That's the power of spite, baby!!

The writers are using emotions as a shorthand for a character’s morality, which is why Ruby can't be mad at Jaune without losing her status as a hero and why Adam's anger at injustice makes him irredeemable from day one. Ruby's ptsd disappears with a triumphant smile and musical number while Ironwood's vilifies and dehumanizes him even after his death

The writers have tied "negative" emotions to evil and "positive" to good when they're neither. Emotions are a body's response to stimuli, similar to goosebumps and crying. Think of it as a "check engine" light on your car's dashboard. What someone does because of their emotions can be good or bad, but emotions in and of themselves are morally neutral

Really wish people would learn that

[lucigraves]

I love this webbed site but got damn! If you continually talk about hating yourself or how you aren't deserving of kindness or how you're doing (sometimes less than) the bare minimum for your mental health, guess what your brain will do! It'll believe that, and it'll justify continuing to do the bare minimum! Some of you mfers need to learn better self care, methinks!

[aq2003]

there comes a beautiful time in life where i have to ask myselg th question, "did i accidentally project too hard onto the character that i only relate to a little bit and in doing so hugely missed this one entire aspect/interpretation of the characters . am i stupid"

[snixx]

i wish there was a way to filter all amatonormative bullshit off my dash

[rose022]

me rn. also most of the time. oh the horrors.

[defness]

→ drawing the same pose over and over again and feels cringe

→ realizes that these drawings are simply pre-ref drawings to figure out one's design so I can Draw Them

→ no longer feels cringe

[yellowocaballero]

this entire chapter was a joy to read but I gotta say I 100% understand knives’ fear of brad—the opening scene was one of the most strangely fear inducing things I’ve ever read. kudos and 10/10 for making me feel nauseous over what turns out to be a very funny scene of knives getting murder-grounded

Love this ask. Love asks about experiences that surprise me a lot, in a good way - part of me is always like 'write a dialectical essay on why you think so???' and the other part is 'the picture and vibes you've painted is incredibly funny and I love it'. Thank you for the ask anyway. Get to talk about Brad and Luida FINALLY.

I'm deciding that this is a victory, because it gave you a great insight into exactly how Knives felt LMFAOOO. He has spent literally this entire story acting superior, holier-than-thou, won't shut up about how he's physiologically and mentally leagues ahead of you puny humans, you're so lame and pathetic and Millions "Genius Cool Guy Surgeon" Knives is soooo much better than you. And then the minute he goes home and sees his foster parents he is suddenly the goodest little boy who you would both introduce to your parents and give a doggy treat. They are two geriatric astronauts and Millions Knives is pants-shittingly terrified of them.

I was legitimately a bit worried that I wrote Brad as too harsh in the flashback scene, or uncomfortable-in-a-bad-way in the beginning scene. I was really careful with both. How Brad and Luida raised Knives is absolutely not a great method of parenting, lmfao. But they weren't really raising a child - they were taming a tiger. I think you can safely assume that Knives was not given a single inch his entire adolescence. He didn't get away with shit. That's how behavioral conditioning works. I really can't stress enough that, although Knives is a pretty good guy in the present, he is still the literal actual Millions Knives. And what 14yo Knives here got up to wasn't all that different from what canonical 14yo Knives was getting up to. The difference is Brad and Luida - and they knew exactly what they were trying to prevent. They knew they couldn't fuck up. They knew what would happen if Knives didn't change. It must have been a lot of pressure.

The sheer balls on the guy who walks up to Millions Knives and just goes, "Okay, asshole. Kill me. Do it.". So insane that it gaslights Knives into believing that Brad and Luida are the only superior lifeforms to himself.

But at the end of the day, what that scene still conveys is - it's a farce. Their family is a social contract: Brad and Luida will give Knives what he wants (a meaning to his life, and on a deeper level he won't acknowledge, a family), and in return Knives politely pretends that they are remotely capable of controlling him. A handcuff is an insanely restrictive method of grounding somebody - and obviously Knives could have gotten outb of it any time. But Knives lets them do it, because if he doesn't then it would break the keyfabe, the farce. And that would destroy Knives' only path towards becoming a good person. Because Brad and Luida told him that they are the only path towards becoming a good person. And if you aren't a good person you have no reason to exist btw. Also we don't love you anymore.

Kinda fucked up if Knives was, like, a regular child? Yes. Only sensible thing to do if the child was Millions Knives? Yes. It's complicated but that's why I really love it. Also for the insane funniness of Knives experiencing fear.

TL;DR Handcuffing your child to its bed is only okay if the child has bad vibes and is unfun to be around.

[hajihiko]

sorry if I phrase this wrong, I have a bad habit of doing that lol

First of all, UR THE BEST!!!! I love love love ur art so much and it makes me so many mushy ways and makes me ooper happy and whenever I’m having a bad day I look at ur art and I feel better. The way u draw is so… yay.

anyway, with that out if the way, I have a itty bitty question. I’ve noticed that a lot of the time you e drawn post game Mikan with a flatter chest. I was wondering if you have a specific head canon about that or if that’s just the way you like to draw her? Might be a weird question, but I was thinking abt it and didn’t see any harm in asking.

have a lovely day!!!

no i just legit think about women without a bra most of the time. If you don't wear a bra, your chest is gonna be way less pronounced. I like to imagine the ppl on the island being comfortable enough that they dot bother with that kind of thing

[sophomoreslvmp]

i need to stop feeling guilty for eating tho

[acaciapines]

oh boy making some BIG changes to toh daemon au fjkdg

like good changes. part of the editing process is chopping things up and incorporating ideas i had later down the line but this is changing a super huge aspect of the fic (what luzmari originally settles as) and while it is the right choice there is still a part of me like. damn.

but me writing this fic spanned through like, two other daemon aus (at least. probably more honestly but i think two big ones). and ive come away from them with a lot more ideas on daemons and what i want to say with them, and like...cmon. cmon. i HAVE to.

[pigeonwit]

*slaps the roof of my davey jacobs* this bad boy can fit SO much autistic projecting

[capfalcon]

so im a cynic and i hate love and marriage so what im about to say is probably offensive and i dont really care:

i hate how the justification for literally anything in a relationship is "well, they seem happy" or "etc, this person seems happy" like motherfucker i have been SO happy while making epic mistakes in my life it is not a good justification for shit relationships

[percabeth4life]

Hearing how the s*langelo book is going is only making me cry

[bastardbvby]

It may be selfish of me to say, but thank you for sticking around. Everyone seemed to have such a reactionary stance as soon as it happened (and totally not blaming anyone, you should step back when you need to), but I want to still be able to enjoy mcyt, MCC, and even dream team content. seeing other people that took a few days to take in what was going on and evaluating that they could still interact with the content makes me feel better and lets me hope that maybe some people will find their way back to the community as time goes on.

i think this past week has been a very strange time for everyone and i cant say enough how much i respect and understand anyone who has left the community whether that be a step back from mcyt content as a whole or specifically from dream team like there was an overwhelming amount of information that came out last weekend and so i do get where people are coming from,,

gawd i said i wasnt gonna write a Statement™ and i dont think i can write my thoughts as elegantly as jan did but allowing myself to talk through the situation with irls and even some friends on here in dms really allowed me to get a better grasp of my own thoughts on everything that's gone down,, this past week has felt super divided with there being two strong opposing stances with no room for those whose thoughts fell in a more middle ground which is mostly where i've been hanging,, i think one of the most important take aways people, including myself, got from this is that we were Way too emotionally and mentally reliant on this community and its creators. like i've seen so many people talk about how good they feel without having to constantly be on top of every single moment of content and i think thats really important. like i'll say it right now, i still plan to interact with dteam's content on some level, But it will definitely be different from before which i think is something many of you can relate to ! i respect and love anyone who wants to unfollow or block if they dont want to eventually see this type of content on dash <3