#messages from the other side

[maecoearthart]

Messages from the other side

[single-bliss-blog]

Free research call. https://Connectingtotheotherside.as.me/?appointmentType=19589497

[whatisamildopinion]

sorry but I just KNOW Riz and Penny have the most unhinged text chain known to man happening off screen

[xxplastic-cubexx]

when you draw erik in glasses i just go sobbing

erik and his grandpa glasses are incredibly important to me i dont think i can stress this enough..

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I have been following your work since the beginning. At first I just really liked your sense of humour and analysis of MDZS, but with time I started to really enjoy watch your progress in this drawing journey. I just watched your animatic and just wanted to say that I'm really happy for you, you're a really inspirational person.

I usually don't comment in anything and it's just because I'm really awkward about commenting. But I'm always accompanying your posts and seeing your notifications always make me smile, please continue with your good work!

(English isn't my first language, sorry for any mistakes)

Thank you very much! I've seen you around for a long while; I sincerely appreciate your support, no matter what form it takes!

[hoarderheart]

Okay, I know that “it’s actually originally meant to show the passage of time instead of being bi colors” and all that…disregarding how that’s such a vibrant pink and a harsh, rigid, and very linear gradient for a supposed sunset, and that it’s already night (not sunset or twilight) at the crypt, whatever.

But regardless, I think putting a suspiciously bi-colored gradient behind cross-shaped bars, in the climax scene of the arc where Angel of the Lord Castiel’s heavenly biological family—who considers his deep connection with a man named Dean Winchester to be “corrupt,” as it is something that pulls him away from Heaven and is therefore forbidden and punishable under their rules—brainwashes him into detaching himself away from and almost killing said man, after they have chosen to introduce a new, very clinical set design for Heaven in this season for the sole purpose of having it go along with the lobotomies that they repeatedly have Cas go through for the said brainwashing, and all of this being done with the intention of having it be Dean’s CONFESSION and Cas’ LOVE for him that breaks the brainwashing and saves both of them, is—to be quite frankly—crazy, crazy work. Certainly a choice A Series of Fascinating Choices if you will.

[littlemissmanga]

I just saw a take on Sunrise on the Reaping that basically boiled down to the OP being disappointed in the book's main message, that being propaganda.

Their take is that SotR boils it down to "propaganda is lies and that's bad" and the book fails to develop that depth. They then point to the careers as being "high school jocks" rather than nuanced characters as evidence.

I have a much different take. (Spoilers for SotR below)

We clearly see how the Careers absolutely drank the koolaid. They're not dumb high school jocks - they're the oppressed class with the most to lose AND a lifetime's worth of misinformation telling them they're better then the other districts, they're more Capitol.

They believe it because they have to. It's easy to accept, but also dangerous to reject. No one in their district works in the coal mines or fields under heavy peacekeeper watch. They have the veneer of stability, which means they are less likely to risk revolution. That leaves compliance as their only way to improve their station/lives.

In fact, we know this propaganda is so successful it's become a problem by the 50th games. After the interviews, Plutarch tells the D12 tributes that Capitol citizens are worried district people could get in, particularly those from 1 and 2, like Sejanus' family did.

If Capitol citizens are worried about being overrun by filthy immigrants looking for a better life, then you can bet the narrative in the Career districts is similar - win the hunger games or rise in prominence in your field, maybe marry a high ranking peacekeeper as an extra, and you could make it to the peak of privilege.

AND THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. This opportunity is not available to ALL districts. It's not even really available to the Careers. It's a vague possibility as far fetched as most Americans becoming a billionaire is.

But the promise is enough to set Careers apart - both in their own mind and in the minds of the other districts.

Propaganda isn't just lies. It's how a government intentionally divides communities that have common interest. It's how it gives you the false hope of improvement while still keeping you on the set path.

Why do you think Silka SCREAMS "I will be the one to bring honor to the Capitol?" when she attacks Haymitch?

Not Panem, the country. But the Capitol, the elite in whose eyes she is desperate to prove herself.

Because she cannot conceive of a reality where that propaganda is fake, and she has been raised as a sacrifice or meal ticket by her community from day 1. That, though her odds were better than Lou Lou's, they were never in her favor. They were in the Capitol's favor.

That is an incredibly painful realization, and most people cannot come to that earth-shattering, identify-crushing, ethically repugnant realization on their own.

Certainly not by the time of the 50th Hunger Games. We see in the 10th that it's very Capitol vs District. But by 50, districts 1, 2 and 4 have very much bought into the propaganda of "we can survive if we play by these rules. After all we're not THOSE districts."

And you even see how NOT every Career buys into this. Mariette kills the gamemakers without hesitation. Silka's reaction reconfirms her indoctrination. She yells at her ally "They'll never let us win now."

SotR does show Careers as victims. Imperfect ones. Not fierce rebels, not doe-eyed innocent kids too young for this, but as the almost adults that they are, forced to either accept in the worst way how they've been lied to or to dive deeper into the depravity to uphold their fragile and unfair worldview.

Careers are the privileged minority, so close to success they can taste it but never touch it. And their acceptance of the propaganda, their support of fascism so long as they're not at the bottom, of not making their children aware of it (very starkly contrasting District 13) is their undoing.

[zincbot]

i'm a huge huge fan of the dynamics and story that's present in the dreemur's divorce in deltarune. what a core for a story to be built around.

[demadogs]

we are the glitch. the glitch in the matrix.

Dark 1.01 | 3.01

[clumsypuppy]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[macchiatosdumptruck]

Me: I'm over CK. It can't hurt me anymore.

Me, as soon as I think about it for more than 13 seconds:

[bizarrebazaar13]

🃏 for the ask game if you like :D

Bamboo Bones by Against Me! for Twitch

I love this one for light fingers/Vela because of the transformation and reinvention themes, and it could also apply to Twitch. sometimes you have to reinvent your whole self and just keep going somehow.

ask game

[britneyshakespeare]

you know something i don't like about modern culture (and i wonder to what extent the prevalence of dating apps has to do with it) is that you're, seemingly, not supposed to ask people you just meet in real life on a date anymore? you're supposed to ask them to see you individually to hang out, and you're not supposed to call it anything...? people act like declaring intent is impolite or something.

this absolutely sucks if you're a woman on the receiving end of this kind of thing all the time, from men you don't wanna see privately that way. i've felt so much guilt about it in my life. whether i say no or yes. i know i'm giving that man hope that it's a date, that i wanna go on a date with him if i agree to see him for coffee or whatever. but if i don't wanna go on this undeclared date, i have to reject the very concept of spending time with him at all, which feels SOOO much meaner and more personal, doesn't it? it feels like that to me. and if i do go, and i don't wanna go on another one (because i never enjoyed the it-pretty-much-being-a-date element of the time), it feels like i'm crushing his hopes after puffing them up just a little bit.

and it's like. "date" is not a dirty word. we have so many expectations nowadays around things. women used to sit around and wait for a man to propose to them, and it would be basically the only decision they could make in their life. not even really the choice to marry, but to whom they get married. and obviously marriage was very serious.

as courtship continued to develop into modern dating and boyfriend/girlfriend culture, it sort of decentralized the importance or marriage and valued getting to know someone you like romantically, with the implicit assumption that you're doing it with the attempt to better choose the 'right one' by spending quality time with them. decent enough. although even the words boyfriend and girlfriend are much more serious than they used to be. they did not always imply a serious commitment like they do today, especially if you're... basically, just not a kid anymore.

people have a certain amount of expectation of what anyone over 18 should do or want to do with a "partner"—like, if this were the 1940s, i would've had several "boyfriends" in my adult life, but i never called them that, and the modern sense of that word would not be accurate. if i went on a date or two and flirted with them, that'd be enough to say "yeah i went out with a boyfriend." i'm mostly indifferent to this change of vocabulary, but the point is i have no word to describe any of those guys that i just gave a chance, never felt much for, and didn't wanna keep seeing. not bad things; it's just experience.

and if we aren't bold enough to call things dates for the sake of the atmosphere not losing the low-stakes nature... it's like, no, it doesn't do that. it's just two people spending time with the elephant in the room. perhaps that makes it feel more relaxed if both people really are doing it with the same intent, let's-just-see-if-we-get-along, figuring out if you like someone you don't really know very well yet. testing it. but like. that can be a date. that's what a lot of dates are. when you meet the person on a dating app and just grab coffee without setting higher expectations, you wouldn't hesitate to call it a date. if it's that person from your college class, that's ruder or more presumptuous, somehow?

a date doesn't have to be a candlelit dinner with the violinist standing by. a date doesn't have to be high romance. a date doesn't have to end with a kiss or lead to a commitment, if things go decently. a date certainly doesn't have to result in two people having sex. a date can be nonchalant and friendly and just trying to discover if you have any chemistry with this person who piqued your interest. why is that NOT the initial expectation anymore? why is "date" a dirty word? why?

[mannavarda]

Мы все рядом, Файвз. Все с тобой. Все до единого. Всегда. Не бойся.

We're all here, Fives. With you. Always. Don't be afraid.

[thatonecrookedsmile]

"Gaze into the space between the pixels on the screen There, you’ll see a place between the signal and the screams Feel the oscillation of the crystal in your dreams Just switch off your brain and let it sizzle in the beams"

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It took a matter of months to finish this drawing. (/j, it only took. 2 weeks? I think? maybe a little less,but that's an approximate)

It's been a while since I made a digital drawing. So far between April and now I have focused more on traditional drawings with digital coloring. These are (mostly) cool to do,but it's nice to go back to full digital every now and then. This is one of the cases where the original idea and the final result don't differ that much from each other,but there was still a certain evolution from when I conceived the drawing and how I ended up doing it. The Main Thing of the original idea is still here,I just expanded it a little.

Also,the lyrics at the beginning are from "Tune Into The Madness" by The Stupendium and Dan Bull. Great song,and one that I was listening to a lot at the time I was reading the book (and much earlier too). Because,you know. Mix of horror and TV. It made sense. (And yes,I know this song is about a totally different game,and the TV context in both stories are very different (as far as I remember, it's been a while since I played LN2) but I thought the lyrics could match the drawing anyway + it's my chance to recommend peak, so yeah) Listen to the song, it's very good! (The video do contains flashing images and lights tho,so viewer discretions is adviced)

Also,alt. versions without the text,because I thought that without the text it looks good too (+ you can now see Bendy's face)

[supercantaloupe]

wish i could give you a hug about your migraines and medication struggles. you deserve to be cared about accommodated

thank you <3 to be clear so far i haven't encountered anyone who's been uncaring or unaccommodating about it. i'm mostly just frustrated at...not necessarily myself, i guess, but at the mere fact of experiencing new existential challenges in my daily life. it's hard and scary to admit that i'm struggling, it's hard to ask for help, and it's hard to do so with the knowledge that most people have very little real way to help other than going "that's rough, buddy"