#jellyfish out

[seventhstar]

was listening to a podcast about gomens queerbaiting discourse and one thing that wasn't addressed but that i think is important is that pretty much every romantic moment between aziraphale and crowley in the show is exclusive to the show. none of that stuff is in the original source material. if you're going to analyze neil gaiman's comments about the show i think that context is important.

crowley miracling away the stain on aziraphale's shirt after he pouts about it? show-only

crowley shoving aziraphale against a wall because he called him nice? show-only

the entire pre-opening montage of aziraphale and crowley throughout history? show-only babey!

both the break up scenes--gazebo and the shouting at each other in the street--are, you guessed it, show only

crowley running into aziraphale's burning bookshop is indeed book canon. however, book!crowley walks out of the bookshop, gets into his car, and uses aziraphale's notes to drive to tadfield to stop the apocalypse out of sheer rage. show!crowley, on the other hand, goes to a bar and starts drinking himself to death, and only rouses himself to go to tadfield when aziraphale astral projects in to tell him to

"do something or i'll never talk to you again!" show only!

the entire body-swapping sequence was added onto the show, in the book neither heaven nor hell attempt any retribution

[kaogens]

jellyfishe miku. le fishe

[shakingparadigm]

NOBODY is allowed to be happy and EVERYONE is doomed

[crow-n-tell]

Why is it that scratches, cracks and divots are so much fun? They are so simple to do but whenever I add them to a background i immediately feel like I’ve peaked as an artist

Anyway, some moodlighting and perspective practice with future tiding over stuff

[nine-thousand-rats]

What the fuck ououuuuugh

WHAT THE FUCK

The jellyfish life cycle is giving me some kind of psychological event

Like what the fuckkkkkkkkk

[beatriceportinari]

Origami jellyfish, one square sheet of elephant hide paper. Colors are inspired by Thysanostoma loriferum. Zoom in to see the glitter!

[industrations]

@alarainai and i played stardew and this is pretty much the dynamic ksjdhfnf fen is on the left and i’m on the right 🤍

[niinnyu]

Stupid bideogaem making me wanna draw backgrounds and shit 🤢🤮

[astrelle]

been super busy with work so i havent rly had time to finish anything that isn't convention work so heres a wip (?) dump <3

[faoluoo]

as if nothing happened

[seventhstar]

anyways i disagree with the "bing/jiu was supposed to be canon in pidw" theory.

Here's the part of the text i always see quoted as evidence for canon bing/jiu:

Shang Qinghua raised his arms high. “Cucumber-bro,” he said, impassioned, “if the System hadn’t selected you, a loyal and die-hard reader, I’m afraid the plot would never have been distorted to this extent, right back to the outline I discarded. I wasn’t able to withstand the loneliness in real life and caved to financial pressure, so I chose to finish Proud Immortal Demon Way in accordance with others’ tastes. However, thanks to you, everything that I wanted to write has already played out before me. Cucumber-bro!” He clapped Shen Qingqiu’s shoulder solemnly, filled with deep emotion. “You are the chosen one, and my career is at last wiped clear of regrets!”

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 3 (pp. 345-346). Seven Seas Entertainment. Kindle Edition.

The argument is that Shang Qinghua means his original outline contained a romance between Binghe and Shen Qingqiu. I disagree with this reading of this line! For one, no discussion of the original PIDW outline ever mentions Binghe being gay, bing/jiu, etc. Here's what Shang Qinghua says about the original PIDW:

the original outline had Tianlang-jun as the final boss as a cooler, more powerful version of Binghe. Binghe would have won in the end, but Shang Qinghua never worked out all the details of their final fight.

Binghe had no romance plotline. He was destined to "fade away alone and unaging".

Shen Qingqiu and Yue Qingyuan's backstory was entirely cut because readers preferred a straightforwardly evil villain, rather than Shang Qinghua's conception of Shen Jiu as someone who was complex and had "a not-scummy side".

We get to see Binghe and Shen Qingqiu interact from Shang Qinghua's point of view both during and post-canon. If he'd planned and cut a secret Bing/jiu plotline, you would expect him to mention it then, right?

But instead here's Shang Qinghua's response to Shen Qingqiu and disciple Binghe interacting, before he knows about Shen Yuan:

This scene featuring Shen Qingqiu as the ever-attentive teacher and Luo Binghe as the clingiest hanger-on—what the hell was this?!  Don’t fucking tell me Shen Qingqiu really did go to Bai Zhan Peak and mess with people just to avenge Luo Binghe! This benevolent father and filial son act—no, no, no, it was more like “lifting one’s tray to eyebrow level”—no, no, no, “treating each other as honored guests”!8 This was even more fantastical than Shen Qingqiu and Liu Qingge’s harmonious spar. If things kept going on like this, maybe there really would be a day when they exchanged flirtatious banter. Pah, if that day really came, he’d eat three kilos of shit! After “Great Master” Airplane finished swearing, he had a rare moment of careful thought. He had never quite used classical idioms properly, and he had hauled out his limited supply to describe Liu Mingyan’s beauty. The ones he used with the highest frequency were “soft bosoms trembling” and “as delicate as the finest gossamer.” To use “treating each other as honored guests” was

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 4 (p. 213). Seven Seas Entertainment. Kindle Edition.

As well as:

He’s lost his memory. He definitely fell into a qi deviation and lost his memory. If this Shen Qingqiu and Liu Qingge were playing out a scene of a friendly senior and his respectful junior, full of harmonious fraternal love between fellow sect members—oh, heavens, maybe in a few days, Shen Qingqiu and Luo Binghe would be striking up flirtatious banter! The second after this frightful vision flashed through Shang Qinghua’s mind, a white shadow darted toward them, and something sticky and clingy suddenly threw itself into Shen Qingqiu’s arms. That soft little lump called out, “Shizun!” Shen Qingqiu was nearly knocked on his back. He swayed, then grabbed on to a thick bamboo stalk and finally managed to regain his footing. He noticed Shang Qinghua detachedly observing the scene, expressionless. You couldn’t fault Shang Qinghua for his frozen expression. At the sight of that little wee little lady-killer, with his two arms encircling Shen Qingqiu’s waist like a steel hoop, the name “Bing-ge” had nearly escaped his mouth!

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 4 (pp. 208-209). Seven Seas Entertainment. Kindle Edition.

And here's his reaction to post-canon Binghe and Shen Qingqiu's cottagecore honeymoon:

Luo Binghe, wearing a light black robe, his sleeves rolled high and expression severe, was currently silently…kneading dough. He was all grim concentration, with two patches of white on his face and a bit of flour on his eyelashes, like what he was pinching and pulling in his hands wasn’t a ball of dough, but a scroll containing his grand ambitions to unite all the realms! No, no, no, no, no— Shang Qinghua felt like his guts were splitting open in dismay. The protagonist he had created, the Bing-ge who emanated pure tyranny as he conquered the multitudes of stallion male protags— He was kneading dough! Making noodles! Noodles, noodles, noodles (ad infinitum)… This really was an indescribable fright!

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong (Novel) Vol. 4 (pp. 253-254). Seven Seas Entertainment. Kindle Edition.

Shang Qinghua consistently seems very confused and disappointed about Binghe's deviation from the Bingge of PIDW. I've seen it argued that Shang Qinghua's statement to Shen Qingqiu about gay protagonists at the end of Vol. 3 is proof that Binghe was meant to be gay all along, but I would argue that Shang Qinghua's reaction to the reality of Binghe being gay suggests otherwise.

Frankly, from the way Shang Qinghua describes the writing process of PIDW--his readers wanting Binghe to push down all the ladies and kill all his enemies, Shang Qinghua constantly starting plot threads and then dropping them--it seems that the conflict between the PIDW he wanted to write and the PIDW that exists had nothing to do with the specifics of Binghe's love interests. Add on that PIDW apparently has an unusual amount of harem drama for the genre, and it seems like what Shang Qinghua wanted to write and was unable to was meatier conflicts and interpersonal drama--not gay romance.

I don't think Shang Qinghua is thanking Shen Qingqiu for having a romantic relationship with the protagonist. I think he's thanking him for making his cut Tianlang-jun plotline happen and for averting the entire harem-building plot of PIDW. (And maybe, perhaps, for writing a happier ending than Shang Qinghua was capable of creating.)

[starsillys]

HUMANOIDs humanoids sdesigns for the silly’s SILLY

anyway a little (🤏) little more detailed description of their fits below the cut,,, no big deal if you read them hhaha (PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEAPELEASPLE)

sam wears those Hawaiian shirts and wears mismatched socks (brightly colored) with sandals with brightly coloured yellow rubber gloves!!!!! He always wants to start cleaning but just,,, never gets around to it he’s so lasy lol (so much so he procrastinates on taking off the gloves as well wtf) , jade is kind of insane and is so cheery happy she loves pins and tags and stickers and stuffs and she always zooms around with her crazy skates with different colour wheels (everytime she zooms there’s a little rainbow trail coming from her shoes) she has her iconic pink bow obv and can pull out literally anything in her overall dress pocket… like pencils, lollipops, comically large hammers,,, it’s very silly!! KINITO he is not so flashy he’s kind of plain,, usually wears a tank top and shorts yk,,, or sometimes like formal dress shirts and ties when he’s getting slash srs!! He wears jammas,, absolutely dripped out when it’s the sleeps time,, got the epper fit with the candle and hat and nightgown, everything!!! He wears his glasses a lot,,, not just for reading (he has very bad vision overall)

[vimbry]

sometimes a theme tune composed for a show aimed at little kids is far better than it needs to be, when honestly any vaguely catchy or obnoxiously ear-grabbing formula would do just fine nobody would really care, and then you look up the composer and it's always some like. former member of an alternative rock group or experimental new wave keyboardist and you go ah yeah it makes sense now.

[emry-stars-art]

sorry to bother you, but….

if statled jelly!niel stings, does sleeping jelly!niel sting? Because it seems to be a conscious effort for niel to not sting? Or did I misunderstand this?

what are the scientific implications of sleepy jelly cuddles?

Great question! Thank you for letting me put on my more beach-appropriate baseball cap and do more mer research hehe

So I asked the shark and he told me to mind my business I think.

Unfortunately for him, the manta ray will spill just about anything in exchange for pretty human stuff and I am great at taking notes.

Basically? It seems to me like it’s expected touch vs unexpected, combined with the jelly’s maturing self-awareness. When it’s younger, a jelly mer will start getting control of its sting by ‘turning it off’ consciously. As they get older, it can become closer to “will not sting unless actively startled or for good reason” as the jelly chooses! Think of the sting response like a knee-jerk, throwing-elbows response. Anything less startling isn't worth the effort. Or in jellyneil's case, maybe more of a nervous person's flinch response.

So at this age when jellyneil is awake, it generally won’t sting unless really startled - unfortunately for most mers, the poor thing is a little jumpy and most unexpected touches are startling 🥲

When jellyneil is asleep, there’s more of a “base state” idea happening - however it goes to sleep is how it’ll peacefully stay. So if it falls sleep with someone else touching it, no stings! If it falls sleep in traditional jelly fashion (wedged between rocks or otherwise anchored down) the tentacles and stingers are instinctively in defense mode and I cannot advise getting too close.

If it gets startled awake though? I can only assume it would sting then as well but I can't tell you for sure because the whale and the one shark twin are usually very good about not letting that happen.

There’s some point to be made here about the fact that the stinging is only ‘turned off’ while cuddling/sleeping on other mers - clearly, brushing up against rocks doesn’t desensitize the stingers to other outside stimuli. In open water, the sleeping jelly knows to fend for itself. The presence of another mer seems to be instinctively calming.

But I am not here to wax poetic about it, that’s your job, I just provide the research 🤲

Find the mer au masterpost here 💕

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Jellyfish Prince 💙

[pacifyai]

not my highest quality post but here r some of my magma doodles from last night in the kinitocord!!! u guys will be fed more kinito art soon dont worry