#mysterious musings

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Maternophobia

I could use our bone boi getting stepped on, head cruelly cocked back so he can't see dem panties. Part of me wanted the image to be them all tied with with Nami hilariously giving Jinbei shit because he's supposed to be able to handle things. But no. Boney get a "whiteout" panel and that makes this a true red-letter day. This is subtle, but it is exactly what I wanted to see out of Brook & Gunko. He seems to recognize something about her. He's able to learn she's a fan. So even given this tense situation, he's very polite in his rejection to be a music slave. But specifically highlighting how Luffy gave him a new lease on life.

We've established the idea that Gunko might be somewhat a victim in the sense of never really knowing she had a choice. Brook is providing proof that circumstances can change and relationships can change them. Do you know how badly I wanted Brook to have a moment like this with Kiku? Obviously Gunko is an antagonist and that makes things very different in a lot of ways, but I love how even the framing here and following that bit from Nami serve to highlight what we talked about last time. Brook is getting a chance to show where his specific experience and wisdom can do what Jinbei cannot. And that is something very cool and very hard to express so I want to highlight it and admire it when it happens.

With that out of the way...iconic. You know what? No. It's peak "Wife Bad" Boomer Humor™ but it works because it is so unabashedly peak Boomer Humor™ and doesn't feel like it needs to put on pretentious airs of justifying itself. This is hilarious. The real monsters have awoken from the children's dreams...THEIR MOTHERS!!!

Fuck it, based. I have mother issues, stopped being scared of a pathetic drunk as I got older but when I was a kid that shit was terrifying. I don't think these giant moms are that bad, but they sure seem strict and imposing. A serious challenge indeed. We also have Spooky Gregg back hanging around a few panels so that's nice. It seems our eulogy was premature. But he is already a ghost so it's never fully inaccurate to honor his memory.

Jokes and personal trauma aside, there's a bit more thematic harmony with this gag than just lol scary moms. A land like Elbaph is now where kids are well behaved and focused on education kinda sounds like a land of strict, strong moms keeping them in line. Not a huge deal, the gag is good on its own, if they were actually Dorry/Brogy's wives I'd be on their side because you better not have run of on a 100yr duel if you're married. But it does connect more to what's going on than just being a silly goof.

Speaking of cool, very impressive Collun. He's jumped up to the front of the line and willingly got involved in the compulsion to follow the arrow just for a chance to help and keep things calm. Down below with Ripley & Scopper finding this out is hilarious...and kinda feeds back into that point about parents. Gaban's all like, hell yeah that's mah boy. Ripley's not having it and demanding he go save the kid. Hilarious and they're cute together.

And it leads to the cool part at the end! Sure there's a former Roger Pirate heavyweight jumping into the fray but they have angered the Devil Child and that is not a smart thing to do if you like things like being alive. I will never ever ever not love the series treating Robin like a core threat on the Straw Hats rather than a smart pawn to try and capture. Show Saul how far you've come by showing how fiercely you'll protect the friends you've found girl.

[corvidaeconundrum]

"Eleutheromania" - The great desire for freedom

[lucabyte]

iqmaxxing

[shisasan]

un an déjà Ph. Sonia Chabas

[ace-culture-is]

Asexual bird lover culture is having to hear a surprising amount of sexual jokes, puns, and innuendos in bird fact videos.

What is it about birds that invites jokes about that?

[dyinggirldied]

A funny dream that I have as follow:

Kim Dokja and Han Yoojin: "Hyung, we are pregnant!"

Cale, befuddled: "???"

[magicalmonthlyprompts]

The Smuttening - June 2025

It's a dice roll prompt game! Each column has five prompts, with 6 being a free choice (so if you roll a 6, you get to choose whichever prompt you want)

Each chart comes with 5 categories: location, kink (two BDSM ones included), item (based on the monthly theme), a line of dialogue, and one of the five senses

You roll the dice for every category, leaving you with five prompts altogether to create something steamy.

How you interpret your prompts is totally up to you! Fic, art, dojin, moodboard, you choose the medium that's best for you.

Open to any and all fandoms, as long as the characters involved are 18+.

Use #smuttening or tag the page if you post it on Tumblr!

Happy creating! ~Muse of Mystery

[letmeinnnnn]

 I feel the plot with Muse progressed far too quickly. I HOPE this is not the end and is them starting to lean into his more inhuman elements? IDK. Perhaps wishful thinking... The show seems to have taken on a more cliche, standard serial-killer type role for Muse, as opposed to what I have seen of his personality and such in the comics.

I thought we were getting a long buildup to a really good villain/hero relationship, but they just.... did a really kind of in-your-face information/backstory dump, then that was the end of that and he got killed off.

Very, very disappointing.

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

SDV Farmer Design

It's been brought to my attention by few people that my Stardew Valley Farmer design is rather similar to @mynqzo's OC Ophelia. Mynqzo was nice enough to contact me and we have since talked the matter out.

The design similarities are accidental, however I have no desire of making anyone uncomfortable or confused over this so for now I'll halt drawing my farmer - if not completely then until I can figure out a redesign for her. This is a decision I'm gladly making of my own volition as to not muddy the matter further.

Thanks for everyone who politely pointed the design similarities out. In the meanwhile, please go check Mynqzo's blog out - they were very wonderful with bringing the issue up and are a talented artist whose works deserve lots of love.

[basedkikuenjoyer]

Unravelling

Hehe, this is such a cute scene you forget it's absolute bedlam up above. The gang with Loki are tending to the giant's wounds, Luffy is trying to help, he makes things worse. Classic. But then he gets this cheeky lil thumbs up from Gerd for his efforts which makes it all so much better.

We'll get to the main concept from this part of the chapter in a moment but for now I just want to comment on how weird it is in the grand scheme of things. Elbaf has really shown itself to be a stranger One Piece arc in terms of story structure. We're on an island we've long awaited and have friendly relations established before getting there. Everything is going crazy in the boughs above due to interlopers in God's Knights. Meanwhile Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and for the first time since Dressrosa a Grand Fleet crew are down below...having the normal stuff for a One Piece arc. Unpacking someone with dubious motives and connections to the wider world.

Look, just because you like Fleetwood Mac doesn't mean you're some old soul who's smarter and more evolved than everyone around you. Your parents just had a few winners in their era, it's easy for the old days to sound good when they're winnowed down to the greatest hits. The 70s also had to put up with Air Supply...

Sorry, tangent. Once again, I am having trouble understanding why so many people are just deadset on the idea Loki is secretly this unequivocally good guy. Idolizing Rocks just adds to the pile of things that make me think the point here is that an affable villain throws a big curveball at Luffy's usual MO meeting the island's designated weirdo. Especially when he have such a good weirdo up above!

Onward Colon Pirates! We get back up above and see a lot of things that could be summed up as people getting a hand on the situation. Especially Oyabun coming in clutch putting out the fires! I love how Jinbei casually changes the _____ Current Shoulder Throw if he's using a different liquid. Cloud isn't as funny as Tea Current but it's always nice to see.

But this is where it gets interesting. We also have our other mystery figure in the arc. Like Loki, we've taken the time to introduce shades of gray with Gunko. We know so much about how the WG operates now through Caramel's story it's entirely possible Gunko's someone who had little choice in life. It'd certainly track with her power. There's a reason we take time to humanize her before jumping into what we have now. Which is also interesting because Brook is here, how Gunko going to react to that?

Regardless of any direct connection, to me this is exactly what the subtleties around Kiku & Yamato were all about. And it feels like this chapter is really setting it up right now both above and below. People are complex, you don't always know what they really want. You never know what hidden sides there are. If Gunko starts fangirling and seeming like an ally, can we really trust that? I wouldn't put it past our pied piper to be persuasive and a distraction is all you need here. Loki's still teetering in that space between trustworthy and not. Whichever way that breaks I feel like we'll see it in the next batch of chapters, but sadly we'll have to wait an extra week for that.

[cruel-hiraeth]

yuuta is tailor-made for a gothic period romance…

those who don’t know him call him “gloomy” simply because he has eyes that appear to have witnessed horrors beyond human comprehension. he’s quiet, polite, and well-respected in the community, although there are murmurings about his late wife; the murky circumstances surrounding rika’s death follow him wherever he goes. some even say that her ghost still haunts him.

to you, however, he’s simply your new employer.

[lucabyte]

Happy PMD Red is on NSO day. Sadly I don't think King the Skitty and Muse the Cyndaquil will be returning to finish up their adventure regardless.

[aimportantdragoncollector]

Random thought of the day: I enjoy stories with a smart detective chasing a deadly serial killer. But you know what would also be very funny? A black comedy TV show about an incredibly stupid serial killer vs. a lazy, willfully incompetent, and stupid police force. Every single episode is about the serial killer (I will call him Dumbo) giving himself away while the police still manage to fumble the case.

Episode 1: Dumbo accidentally leaves a corpse on his lawn. All the neighbors complain. The sheriff shows up hours later because he needed to eat his donut before responding. The corpse is still there. The sheriff fines Dumbo for having an ugly lawn gnome.

Episode 2: Dumbo gets pulled over by the deputy for speeding. There is someone banging from inside his trunk. The deputy also gives Dumbo a ticket for driving with a loud exhaust system.

Episode 3: After Dumbo flushes body parts down his toilet, it gets clogged. He calls a plumber to fix the issue. The plumber reports him for murder. The police dismiss it as a prank call.

Episode 4: Dumbo hires a prostitute planning to murder her. Instead she beats him up. The police show up and arrest the prostitute.

Episode 5: Dumbo's dream is to impale a skull on top of city hall, but he slips and falls while climbing and breaks his collarbone. He gets a fine for climbing city property but no one bothers to search his backpack.

Episode 6: Seeking true love and partnership, Dumbo tries online dating. He gets catfished by someone living on another continent who pretends to be a fellow serial killer. The scammer fakes wanting to be murder partners, then steals Dumbo's life savings. Dumbo reports this to the police. Their chats include detailed confessions of all of Dumbo's crimes. However, nothing happens because the police never bother to investigate.

Episode 7: After Dumbo failed to find love with a fellow serial killer, instead he decides to pursue one of those classic enemies-with-sexual-tension relationships with the Deputy. Alas, the Deputy is incapable of reading signals even though Dumbo's idea of subtle is writing his name in blood. Dumbo sends the Deputy a human heart in a box. But the Deputy tosses anything that is not a donut. (The Deputy, holding up the bleeding box: "Is this a jelly donut? Eh, it smells bad, I'd better throw it out in case it's rotten.") The package had Dumbo's real name on it.

Episode 8: By this point in the show, it's a running gag that everyone in Dumbo's neighborhood knows that he is a serial killer. They have made repeated calls to the police and finally gave up. Instead the neighborhood is trying to get Dumbo to murder to head of the local Home Owner's Association, because she is a very mean and vicious Karen who keeps fining everyone. Dumbo has tried to murder her repeatedly but her skull is so thick that even if he hits her over the head, she is fine.

Episode 9: Dumbo attempts to kidnap the Deputy by drugging him at a bar. Since Dumbo miscalculates the dosage, he just gets the Deputy a bit tipsy. The Deputy thinks "Oh, no, I accidentally took drugs! I must do what any police officer would do in my place and frame someone else for my crime." Deputy arrests Dumbo as the nearest person around. The next morning, the Deputy lets Dumbo out of the cell on the condition that they never talk about this again.

Episode 10: I am going to use the trope of "a neighbor who knows there is a serial killer in the neighborhood, investigates, only to end up as the one suspected." The person who investigates is the neighborhood Karen, who has gotten suspicious of the sheer number of times Dumbo got red paint where it shouldn't be. The police devote all their efforts to staking out her house trying to catch her, which does distract her from bothering her neighbors.

Episode 11: Dumbo purchases a bunch of torture equipment. He is fined for jaywalking with all of it sticking out of his backpack. Meanwhile, a mafia kingpin moves into this town because he heard they had the most stupidly incompetent police force. His drug-running operations are all very smooth. However, the police arrest him for speeding. He wasn't speeding. The sheriff just needed to make a ticket quota. The mafia boss protested that he wasn't speeding so the sheriff threw a bunch of fake charges at him. The mafia boss was humiliated before all his peers that he got arrested by the legendary incompetent police force.

Season Finale: Dumbo is very excited that he is about to make enough kills to be officially declared a serial killer. He wants his next kill to be something special and very spectacular. He wants a Hannibal style display.

Meanwhile, the mayor told the police "it's reelection time and I'm running on the claim that I lowered crime. I need you to make the murder rate go down." As a result, the entire force teams up to classify all deaths as accidental so that the murder rate appears lower. No matter how obvious the murder was, they will still deny it.

Sheriff: Whoa, that man slipped and fell on a pair antlers.

Deputy: Yes, sir, it's amazing how he accidentally slipped and fell on antlers that somehow got hung on a traffic light.

The entire episode is about Dumbo murdering people in increasingly creative ways but no matter how hard he tries, he can't get a single death classified as murder.

As an aside, it took Dumbo so long to get classified as a serial killer because he's very bad at it. He regularly fails to kill people. It's just that sometimes he meets people who are even stupider than him. His usual strategy for murdering people is that he posts ads on Craigslist promising free stuff if they pick it up at his house. Then when they show up at his house, he asks them to go downstairs to his basement. His basement is openly creepy. There are bloodstains on the handle. The vast majority of people leave at this point, but there is always one person in a hundred who will go into the basement. His other attempts include:

-Putting a sign in dark alley that says "free drugs" and waiting with a hammer to see who shows up.

-Drugging people's drinks at bars (but he is very cheap so he always uses such a small dosage he can't knock anyone out. He's also very unsubtle so anyone smarter than the Deputy notices. He's gotten banned from every bar in town.)

-Trying to convince people to come to his house via online dating. (He was rejected by everyone.)

-Sending people fake messages claiming that he took their loved ones hostage and ordering them to come to his house. Yes, he gives away his real address every time. The calls are so fake that most people dismiss them as spam. Some people have reported them to the police, but the local police force is uninterested unless someone is trying to steal a donut. Once Dumbo started crying on the phone because he couldn't get anyone to believe him so the guy on the other end mailed him a check for one dollar out of pity.

Dumbo can barely manage to subdue even someone he can lure into his basement. Once his victim successfully escaped the basement, then died running headfirst into a wall. Frequently Dumbo looks more beaten up than his victims. Most of his victims died tripping over the junk in his basement.

Returning to Season Two of Dumbo the Serial Killer:

Episode 1: Meet the new characters! An elite FBI team gets called in to catch the serial killer since the local cops haven't been up to the job. The viewers get five seconds to fantasize these agents might be halfway competent before they open their mouths. The FBI team is:

Rambo: He believes that he is living in a TV show. Spouts out dramatic lines. Often "goes rogue" to follow his hunches. This is just a fancy way of saying he breaks the law with impunity.

Racist: He is determined to blame the crime on the closest person of color.

AI-for-brains: She is supposed to be their scientific expert, but she feeds every question into Chat GTP and unconditionally believes the answers.

In the first episode, Sheriff and Deputy are resentful that the FBI has been called in, so they deliberately withhold what they consider the best information. Their best information is all junk, of course. The rest of the evidence all very obviously points at Dumbo.

AI-for-brains asks Chat GTP to identify Dumbo's fingerprints (which it can't do), gets confused by the answer, and declares Dumbo to be innocent. Rambo says that the culprit couldn't possibly be the most obvious person.

Episode 2: Racist is convinced a Mexican immigrant must have committed the murders. However this is a small town in northern United States and he can't find a single immigrant. Believing the culprit must have fled to Mexico, he leaves in pursuit. With his poor sense of direction, he illegally crosses the border to Canada instead. To be more exact, he ends up in Quebec where everyone speaks French. Racist cannot tell French from Spanish and shouts slurs at the confused residents.

Racist gets arrested for crossing the border without going through customs. At his trial, he keeps shouting that he is not illegal, he is a US citizen.

Judge: Yes, we know. You're in trouble because you entered Canada illegally.

Racist: This is Mexico!

Judge: We're in Canada. But even if you were in Mexico, you would also be an illegal resident because you crossed the border without following procedures.

Racist: I'm a US citizen, not a foreigner!

Judge: When you enter a country that is not the US, you become the foreigner. Do you understand this concept?

In the end Racist is sentenced to jail for his illegal entry to Canada and a lot of contempt of the court. Then he vanishes from the story because he's barely tolerable for one episode.

Episode 3: Rambo saw Dumbo holding his "free drugs" sign and thought it said "free hugs" so he hugged Dumbo. From that point on, Dumbo believes that Rambo has become his new enemies-to-lovers rival.

Rambo goes around breaking into random people's homes on no evidence except his hunches. Dumbo is furious that Rambo never breaks into his home. He had a nice bottle of wine and put out the golden candlesticks. (His taste in wine is awful, it is barely edible.)

Episode 4: The neighborhood is tired of Rambo busting in and destroying their property with his random searches. They convince him to target Karen next. He breaks in and destroys her glass figurines on her windowsill. She goes rabid and savages him. She escapes all consequences because she calls her congressman and harasses him until he pardons her for assaulting an FBI agent.

Episode 5: Dumbo has run out of victims because all the stupidest people in his town are dead. He goes to a neighboring town looking for new victims. He runs into the same prostitute from season 1 who has escaped jail after they left her cell unlocked. She beats him up again. Dumbo ends up in the hospital as Rambo.

Dumbo claims he was a victim of the serial killer. He describes the serial killer as astoundingly handsome and mesmerizingly charming. The whole time he is gazing longingly at Rambo. However Rambo fails to take the hint.

Episode 6: Rambo and AI-for-brains bicker in the hospital. Dumbo gets jealous and thinks they must have belligerent sexual tension. Actually they sincerely hate each other. Dumbo plots to murder AI-for-brains but always fails because his plans are too unnecessarily complicated. For example:

Dumbo: "That meddling FBI agent goes to the gym every morning. I have placed a closed sign on the gym door. She will have no choice except to go to the gym on the other side of town where I poisoned the water fountain...wait, she's just going home?"

Episode 7: The Sherriff retires. He spends the entire episode hinting at death flags by talking about how he is going to enjoy his retirement. Nothing happens. His retirement party ends without incident and everyone leaves with leftover cake.

Episode 8: A reporter shows up in town, but instead of reporting on Dumbo, makes up stories about a long string of murders over many decades because it's more interesting. Dumbo mails a letter to the police station taking credit for everything. The letter gets thrown away unread. Once again, it had his real name and address on it.

Meanwhile Rambo gets a criminal informant, except she's just a college student who he met at a bar. She keeps trying to hint that the killer could be her least favorite professor who gives too much homework. But he's too dumb to pick up on the hints. At least he buys all her drinks.

Episode 9: This episode parodies how lab results in TV shows always come back absurdly fast. AI-for-brains is under pressure to process all the old evidence around the police station within a day. She also doesn't know what she's doing. So she uses horoscopes instead. By that, I mean she gives each DNA sample taken a horoscope as if they were people. "This hair was collected and bagged on February 5? You must be an Aquarius. Your horoscope is that you will meet a mysterious stranger." Then she sends Rambo chasing after any new strangers in town.

Episode 10: Dumbo is being driven insane by the press ignoring him. He decides to go full Hannibal Lector on his next victim. He couldn't find a victim so he eats some old remains in his basement and gives himself food poisoning. The hospital contacts the police because he has a disease associated with cannibalism. AI-for-brains asks Chat GTP if Dumbo is guilty, and Chat GTP says no, so she insists it was a mistake and lets him go.

Episode 11: Rambo is less easily convinced than AI-for-brains. (Mostly because Dumbo kept making such obvious jokes about eating Rambo that even an idiot couldn't help but notice. Dumbo believes this is flirting.) Rambo tries to follow Dumbo when Dumbo leaves the hospital. They get into a car chase but it only lasts thirty seconds before both of them crash. They get carried straight back to the hospital.

Season Finale: Rambo tries to bust into Dumbo's house but gets the address wrong and busts into Karen's basement instead. Karen is keeping a series of trophies from past murders in her basement. It turns out that the reporter was onto a real crime. Karen has been a serial killer for decades, murdering everyone who disobeys Home Owner Association rules. Karen is more vicious than Dumbo but only slightly more competent. The entire neighborhood knows. In season one, the neighborhood was trying to pit Karen and Dumbo against each other in hopes the two killers would murder each other.

Karen kills Rambo and AI-for-brains, then vanishes. The media gives her credit for all the murders, including Dumbo's crimes. Dumbo is in shock that a middle-aged lady turned out to be a better serial killer than him, so he decides to jump off a bridge and kill himself in shame.

The episode ends showing that Dumbo jumped into knee-deep water. He is far too inept to kill himself.

The final credits of the show have Karen's excuses to the tune of Cell Block Tango. She does not consider herself a serial killer. She believes that it's completely justified to murder people who don't follow Home Owner Association Guidelines (that she entirely made up herself.) The lyrics:

You know how people have these little habits that get you down

Like Bernie

Bernie, he parked his car in front of my driveway

So, I said to him, I said

"You park me in one more time", and he did

So, I took the shotgun off the wall

And I fired two warning shots into his head

He had it coming, he had it coming

He only had himself to blame

If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen it

I betcha you would have done the same

Ezekiel moved into town about two years ago

And he told me he was gardener, and we hit it off right away

And then I found out

He planted lilies in his garden

They are deadly to my poor cat so I banned them from the neighborhood

I fixed him a drink

You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic

He had it coming, he had it coming

He took a flower in it's prime

And then he used it and he abused it

It was a murder but not a crime

Now, I have a few more reasonable guidelines

Such as no lawn flamingos

My cousin Wilbur had ten of them

And then he ran into my knife

He ran into my knife ten times

If you'd have been there, if you'd have seen those pink monstrosities

I betcha you would have done the same

Sorry, Aunt Glinda, you should have raised a smarter son

Veronica and Charlie liked to throw parties

I decreed nothing after midnight and no more than fifty guests

I counted a hundred beer cans tossed over the fence to my backyard.

Well, I was in such a state of shock, I completely blacked out

I can't remember a thing, it wasn't until later

When I was spitting out an ear in the bathroom

I even knew they were dead

They had it coming (They had it coming), they had it coming (They had it coming)

They had it coming all along (They had it coming all along)

I didn't do it (She didn't do it), but if I'd done it (But if she'd done it)

How could you tell me that I was wrong?

In the after the credits scene, we see Dumbo sprained his ankle jumping into the water. He is chasing after a victim on crutches. The same prostitute appears and beats him up.

[ace-culture-is]

hey, the blog @asexual-people-problems isn't deactivated, but i see the blog hasn't been updated since 2013, which, if i recall was the beginning of the bullying etc. Their posts are still there. I recall them being helpful. Just in case you wanted to know some relics of our history still exist on this hellsite and can be visited.

Hello "at-the-sign-of-the-fox-n-phoenix", thank you for your resource link.

[volatilemask]

muses

[magicalmonthlyprompts]

🏳️‍🌈 Fandom Pride Parade 2025 🏳️‍🌈

We are back with our multi-fandom pride event! The Fandom Pride Parade is a series of prompts based off of Baker and Segerblom’s original flag that debuted at the Gay Freedom Day Parade in SF in 1978. 

This year’s theme is "Rebellion".

Day 1: Hot Pink Meaning: Sex  Prompt: Protest

Day 2: Red Meaning: Life  Prompt: Defiance

Day 3: Orange Meaning: Healing Prompt: Adaptability 

Day 4: Yellow Meaning: Sunlight  Prompt: Endurance

Day 5: Green Meaning: Nature  Prompt: Determination 

Day 6: Turquoise Meaning: Magic and Art  Prompt: Perseverance

Day 7: Indigo Meaning: Serenity  Prompt: Resilience

Day 8: Violet Meaning: Spirit  Prompt: Curage

Any fandom is welcome, but please remember that all NSFW ships, both background and foreground, should only involve characters that are 18+. 

Don’t forget to use “fandom pride parade” in your tags, and post it to the Fandom Pride Parade Collection (FandomPrideParade2025) on Ao3. Let your rainbow flag wave and unleash your creativity!

~Muse of Mystery