#no rhythm

[coralsgrimes]

Benny Boy relieving his constipation live at The Masturbadour | part iii

[fuckitwhenifeelit]

Shuri was gonna [redacted] herself in the riverbank. The water. Where her mother said to sit and heal. Where Namor was.

And for her... the place where peace could find her [redacted].

Got emboldened to post this snippet:

Shuri, in a large bathtub filled to the brim with water,

contemplating, and then immersing her whole body

and she doesn't come up for air

for so long that Griot has sent alerts to General Ayo and the nearest Dora.

She has succumbed to a death sleep.

-

Princess Shuri has been trying to [redacted] herself for some time now.

The last member of the Golden Tribe. The Black Panther.

She was the queen who abdicated, the daughter who was now orphaned.

She just wanted to see it for herself. Her family... on the other side.

It was either the ancestral plane or the end of this grief.

She thought of only those two choices. There is no losing.

-

Nakia arrives. A boy with her.

Shuri never permitted to be awoken.

So she doesn't see.

-

Namor arrives. An army with him.

She was just stuck in an empty, black plane. It was infinity.

She doesn't see.

-

Then she returns.

She's awake when the terror of nightmares comes to her.

Namor sits on the throne and he is not alone.

Now she sees, the boy standing tall... Finally.

-

Shuri doesn't know how long yet, but it already felt to her like forever.

She had morphed into someone physically weak. Limp limbs, taut and swollen skin.

Her hair had grown past her shoulders, because she had slept too long.

While Prince T'Challa, son of King T'Challa, turned ten.

[themilkcrate]

Vivek used to go by Da Vek. He to have a side hustle where he considered himself a "libertarian rapper." Footage is at the top of the page, through the link.

[pht-fb-01]

[passingloves]

gave me my first sweet taste of nectar

then took it away

and im still here a year later

though it seems like a day to me

and a decade to you

did you ever really feel it?

was any of it real?

was i even your friend?

was i just something to play with?

why didn't you try?

am i that easy to forget?

[shmushes]

Ringside

[longleggedshrimpy]

You should know I'm a monster

If you need someone to blame, give me a call.

Write your teacher a letter, say I ate your papers.

Point to me when she asks what went wrong.

Say it was the monster.

It's been there forever. Do you have a remedy? One that won't hurt I mean.

It was the monster that stole my clothes.

They washed the whites with the colors. They surgically removed my worth. I asked nicely to have it back, they said you had it.

It was the monster that stole your daughter from your hands.

[catmask]

does anyone have like an anti aesthetic. like something you look at and can recognize as a complete fashion/interior design/artistic movement and understand it but it makes you shudder seeing it. i am not talking like “its morally bad” “its poorly structured” like just sheerly devoid of joy for you actually invites a repulse response.

[catsauce-1]

ik its like about 1 am (est) but yesterday was my bday and i think i forgot to say that because my bday didnt feel very bday like

[thefuturerules]

[amethystsoda]

This video has not left my mind since I saw it… thank u tiktok user golblinforeva 🤲🩵

[poki-art]

a small kitty playing an arcade chunithm

[samairuart]

🌊

[hnzflps]

You🫵wouldn't❌down⬇️load🛜a🅰️car🚗

[bixels]

It's crazy how Dungeon Meshi's manga can feel more cinematic and emotional than the anime to me, even when they're practically the same. Compared to the anime, this moment is such a heartbreaking gut-drop. The way Kui uses negative space and flat compositions to create a sense of horrific stillness is so key.

The way the text (Senshi's monologue) is sequestered to an empty corner of a panel or huddled away from the edge of its text box is not only a great way of showing Senshi's headspace (fearful, isolated, dissociating), but creates a visual representation of pause, as if you hold your breathe after each line. The first panel puts us directly in Senshi's perspective too (compared to in the anime, which puts us as an outside observer over Senshi's shoulder). The detail of the door and bricks so effectively implies that he stared at it for so long, waiting and hoping, that its image is burned in his memory. The wood grain, the brick arch, the number of rivets. The lack of dialogue in the second panel shows a moment of realization too –– "he's dead" (also a great example of the Kuleshov effect). And it's that pause that creates a beat and sets a great rhythm to his headspace, like a music rest: "He never came back." (oh god.) "I'm all alone." Finally, the third panel's negative space, cropping Senshi, shows how truly alone he feels. Without his family, the world ceases to exists. Under shock, he traps himself in a 1-foot radius, too scared to even perceive a world outside its boundaries; a world that can hurt him, kill him, make him disappear with it. There is only his body, the stone beneath his feet and against his back, his thoughts, and that awful bowl of soup.

Even though they're a series of flat images, there's an implicit reading of silence in Senshi's realization and horror. Kui influences your experience to slow down and take your time.

Compare this to the anime, which fills every shot with dialogue. The pacing is fast; we never get to sit in silence like we do with the manga. The horizontal frame allowed the boarders to add Senshi, turning the composition into an over-the-shoulder shot, which takes us out of Senshi's POV. They also added a zoom-out in shot one, which adds unnecessary energy to a very somber scene. The tightening on Senshi as a close-up reaction shot also dulls the moment. In the original panel, Senshi stares ahead at the empty space to his left as a shadow surrounds his mind. It not only shows how Senshi's senses are dulling and his world is shrinking (setting up panel three), but shows how terrified Senshi is of what's in front of him, how the air itself becomes pitch black and opaque, how Senshi is surrendering himself to fear. The pacing is understandable and necessary; this episode packed a lot of story content together. It's just a shame because it really (imo) deflated one of the most nauseating moments in Dungeon Meshi.

[passingloves]

i wash my hair

and tell myself not to think of you

i stand in the sun

and think of the poems i'll write about you