#just thinking thoughts...

[birdmenmanga]

after spending YEARS being into niche-ass shit like Devotion and SCP and Pathologic and now BIRDMEN it’s ALWAYS weird as hell to me that I can see my dcmk blorbos just. On Things.

get outta there that’s my detergent what are my blorbos doing on my detergent

[candledburns]

you know who i’m considering also. raven.

[velvet-games]

Y’know, I used to be confused as to why I get so much more upset at Hannibal’s gaslighting and manipulation than the fact that he...literally kills and eats people.

I thought it was just because I never really got to know most of his victims when it came to murder, but I did when it came to gaslighting/manipulation, and while that’s definitely a part of it, I actually think it’s reasonable even on an intellectual level. 

Cause like...gaslighting can literally make you go insane. Manipulation takes away parts of your identity. 

Killing is honest. Pain is honest. Cannibalism could even be argued to be helpful. 

But when it comes to people like Will or Margot or Alana, Hannibal...makes you forget who you are. He takes apart the foundations of what you believe and leaves you with nothing but a pile of scraps to put together. He steals who you could’ve been and what you could’ve had and you’re left to suffer for his curiosity. You’re suffering and you can’t even tell where it’s coming from to try and fix it.

[birdmenmanga]

casting a spell of protection upon all queer folk protecting them from all manners of discourse this pride month

[birdmenmanga]

U totally should read ajin btw. I found birdmen and ajin the same day and I kept up with them for YEARS side-by-side. Theyre twins to me. Kei and Eishi are sooooo similar but their arcs are in 2 different directions <3

this is so funny. I could fix him vs I could make him worse

[birdmenmanga]

live footage of me losing my mind over birdmen

edit: update

[birdmenmanga]

protagonist diagram

[birdmenmanga]

"suletta's too cute to be a gundam pilot" well clearly you're not ready for the new era of women's wrongs that g-witch is ushering in

[birdmenmanga]

I've come out as trans to the more perceptive of the two guys I'm befriending (the motorcycle guy if you even care) but I think the other guy (the vegetarian) probably barely even knows what transgender people are. tomorrow we're going to go see some art and I can't wait to drop vaguely transgender statements and have the vegetarian guy nod and agree while interpreting my statements with the most cishet of lenses while the motorcycle guy stands in the corner going "he doesn't even know soh is trans"

[birdmenmanga]

it's like a bit in the series that Tatsume can't become a birdman but like. actually. it's so deeply tragic. generation that missed the train to happiness. and such

[birdmenmanga]

excellent point!!

Prompt Week - 7 days, 14 simple prompts (2 per day). you know the drill. general is just going to be about the series at large, ship-focused is probably going to be takaeishi week electric boogaloo

Collaboration (Artswap) - Participants are paired up randomly in order to work on a single creation together. Traditionally it's a single illustration in which one person does the lines and the other does the colors, but you could also do other things like "one person scripts and colors a comic, and the other person does the linework" or "two writers pass a single google doc between them like a hot potato and they write alternating paragraphs" etc.

Podfic Challenge - A podfic is essentially an audiobook of a fanfiction. Either write and podfic a birdmen fanfiction, or ask for an author's permission to podfic (a portion of) a fic. You can get fancy, like adding sound effects or backing music, or just keep it simple and record something on your phone. Nice because it doesn't require you to create something in the traditional sense and is also a way to show appreciation to past fic writers. Not nice depending on how self-conscious you are about your voice.

Not My Medium Challenge - Create a fanwork in a medium you've never worked with extensively. For example, for myself, I'd consider illustrations, sequential art, meta essays, fanfiction, and music videos as mediums that I've worked in extensively, so I'd focus on other things such as meme compilations, music compositions, podfics, video essays, gifsets and edits, among infinite possibilities.

Draw A Comic Month - 4-week event with one week dedicated to scripting, storyboarding, linework, and colors/toning each. A comic can be as simple as a 2-panel comic to something as complex as a 30-page manga. This is one time where my comics advice is going to be ENTIRELY FREE OF CHARGE. I am going to sit in the birdmen discord at regular times throughout this event and do my best to make the comic of your dreams happen (guy who is obsessed with sequential art voice)

the collaboration is a COMMITMENT whereas the rest are things you can opt in and out at any moment. ok now go hog wild with the votes and let me know your bonus thoughts in the tags

[birdmenmanga]

The world is something you take from within yourself.

[birdmenmanga]

...captures the platonic ideal of what the series was meant to be without any editorial interference as her magnum opus and then never draws manga ever again

[birdmenmanga]

TIPS ON CONSIDERING DIVORCENESS

Haters will say that you can't divorce without marrying but there's a plethora of reasons why two characters would be unwilling or unable to get married in canon. What we're evaluating the FEELING that two people are divorced. The "died and came back wrong" of relationships, if you will.

A suggested mental exercise for measuring a pair's divorced energy is picturing yourself overhearing them converse at a restaurant, cafe, or other public space, and imagining how long it takes for the thought "What are they? Divorced or something?" to occur to you.

Additionally, reflect on the reality of their relationship, including how others would react to it, how much these characters would prioritize it, how dedicated these characters are to maintaining contact after the conceptual divorce, as well as the characters' shared past history.

Consider individuals such as Tatsume or Sanders, who radiate immense divorcee energy. They have been excluded from this poll, as the other party in their divorce is unnamed in canon. This is, ultimately, a group project, and both parties have to pull their weight in projecting their collective divorceness.

There are many other flavors of long-term, emotionally complex relationships that aren't divorce, including "co-conspirators who cannot betray each other lest they suffer mutually assured destruction" or "members of Broadway's Phantom of the Opera orchestra", among others. Think carefully on the nature of the characters' fraught relationship. Are they married, divorced, or a secret third thing?

Good luck, have fun! If you don't remember some of these characters, might I humbly suggest a reread of the series?

[birdmenmanga]

guy i am so insane about

[birdmenmanga]

not in love or just friends but a secret third thing: none of your fucking business