#purposefuleating

[dapper-lil-arts]

I'm not the kind of person that's like "Here let me fix the canon" usually but like holy crap gen 5 implied a lot of messed up shit about our hero Twilight Sparkle lmao

[concrete-at-least-15-ft-thick]

I cannot believe that I forgor to post this here ever

[ivi-prism]

He did do a collab at least semi-recently hold on

Oh yeah i saw it... but I mean.. i want.. I want him to do more.. like a series and do lore :'3 Man has a knack for really good roleplay when he wants

[torridturncoat]

sofihandwriting from the sofimind pleaseee

[blue-rhapsody]

This trend is so dead, but they’re not

[not-souleaterpost]

10 thousand years of heaven

Actually wrote another fic (well started as an unrelated short-story idea in my head before falling asleep but then I realised that I can actually connect it quite well) Still posting it here cause I'm not sure if people who only care about the comic feel about these. Anyways, back to work on the iceberg, just neated a little creative break.

[carb0n-m0n0xide]

@accidental-will-wood-reference

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

No it’s

[tomathomatommy]

i wanna curl up and go to bed,,, but i also dont want to be kneed, elbowed, and my hair stepped on for 7 hours straight

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Look at my fucked up son boy, I made him an actual ref sheet

Including the lineart separately because I'm really happy with how it turned out and the color hides a lot of detail

That being said I actually put some more thought into the colors (man I sure wonder if there's any incredibly obvious symbolism in them) and tweaked a few details to make them more purposefull and way harder to draw lmao

[3cosmicfrogs]

THE PRIZE WAS AWARDED TO SCIENTISTS NOT COMMERCIAL "AI" TECH BROS DID YOU READ NOTHING BUT THE HEADLINE

(Source)

[asteriass]

Till & smoke bomb parallels ++ Ivan & cameras flowers parallels!!

Based on this tweet by xivering on twitter pointing out the the similaries

[Because I think there are legitimate parallels that can be drawn from this. I don’t think it’s a pure coincidence (ESPECIALLY not in Till’s case which is a literal exact one to one). I’ll explain!!]

Part 1: Till and the grenade

The grenade was a smoke grenade. It acted as a barrier - it produced a smoke screen, allowing Mizi to trick the Alien and act sneakily (To get in)

The grenade shares eyes with Till, Till was also similarly anxious, sweating as his face was gently held in Mizi’s hands, and staring back at her

And then Mizi pulled the trigger on the grenade, forcing a smoke screen that tricks the Alien and conceals what’s actually going on from view. Same with Till! Till’s hand going limp is perhaps a narrative smoke screen!! To trick the aliens, to conceal whats actually going on between them

AFTERALL, we see her tell him something, but we don’t know what. She holds him gently and is perhaps forcing him to action, even a small one, to trick the audience. So that his faintly beating heartbeat goes unnoticed under their increasingly loud cheers.

The louder they’ll cheer in excitement about the finale, the more it shows how much increasingly preoccupied in their bliss they are to properly notice the trickery happening right under their noses (Just like Mizi’s earlier trick)

Part 2: Ivan & the Anakt Garden flowers

The concept of character eyes being similar to alien eyes which then together serve a greater narrative parallel extends to Ivan too. Thus further strengthening the notion that it means SOMETHING!

Ivan was always observing others closely (in particular Till), just like the flowers observe the Anakt children.

[I remember the first time me and my friend were talking about the flowers possibly being for observation we talked about in it alongside Ivan’s eyes, & also his tendency to observe and stare lol, because the flowers’ eyes specifically drawn to be very similar to Ivan’s when they are recording. (And then 2 weeks later we were proven right hahahhaha ahem…)]

(Anyway) And yet from what we know of the information the flowers have gathered on the children, a lot of it is pretty surface level, it's never able to observe or record things like a person's true mindset. It only sees what the children are outwardly showcasing. It will never understand what goes on deep within these children’s minds, their true thoughts and opinions. Just like Ivan was never able to truly observe and gather his impact on Till and what he truly viewed Ivan as in his mind. Ivan thought to Till he wouldn’t matter.

He closely observed Till, but he was never able to fully gather what goes in Till’s mind. He wasnt able to gather Till’s true mindset, his views, his opinions (on Ivan). Till outwardly showcases apprehension at times, so it was easy for Ivan to gather and observe that, but he wasn’t able to see that Till did internally consider eachother “close”, that Ivan will have an impact on him.

And just as the flower was crushed while serving its duty, having observed what it did but never beyond it Ivan too was "crushed" while “”serving his duty”” (saving till), but he never got to observe how much of an effect his death would actually have on Till.

And so… i truly do think that making these eyes the same exact colors were purposefull. And thus supports the notion that Mizi (& Till) are “””tricking””” the aliens (and thus the viewer) too. That they’ve purposely put up a “smoke screen”….

[samberrybay]

On has suprisingly a lot of similarities with Cale and this is some of my thinking about it.

Beforehand wanna make it clear that i don't say that Raon or Hong doesn't! Raon is literally the small version of Cale and Hong smiles and picks more and more talking habits from him as well.

But i want to especially emphasize the similarities On had with Cale even without his influence on her life. Or would be better to say with Kim Rok Soo.

Unlike the other two kids, On is much calmer, collected and rational. She is still a kid, but just the one that had to mature much earlier.

It is also always implied that she understands Cale's intentions or thoughts faster and better than any other people and On, as Cale usually does, doesn't correct them if they are wrong.

Besides everything above, On also lost her parents at a young age and then was neglected or abused by other tribe members until she ran away and began to live on her own.

Does it maybe reminds you of a certain someone?

Kim Rok Soo also lost his parents very young, was neglected and abused by his uncle, lived for a bit in orphanage and then started to live on his own, studying and working part time job.

Both On and KRS wary of people at first and they both had quite a lot on their plates for such a young age.

The biggest difference is in Hong.

KRS never had anyone close enough to him because of the WS's curse. They wouldn't usually die, but there was always something that kept him apart from people. And even when, after a long time, he did, finally, found very dear to his heart people (aka LSH and CJS)... KRS eventually lost them as well.

This created a big wall for all the future relationships in Rok Soo's life plus gave him massive PTSD.

On's situation is a bit different because she had never parted with her younger brother ever since she was three. There was always someone at her side.

Someone to protect, to take care of and to fight for.

And trefore that, their motivation differ.

If Kim Rok Soo matured faster for his age because he felt like he can't rely on anyone but himself.

On matured faster because she is the older sister that Hong is relying on a lot.

Was it made on purpose? Do i look too much into this?

No matter what the answer is, i really love this purposefull-or-not parallel between the two.

[streets-in-paradise]

Actually, some uses of repetition on the Troy (2004) script regarding the familiar relation aren't useless, or just there to "no homo" Achilles and Patroclus.

Best example is this one :

"Odysseus: Even if your cousin doesn't come, I hope you'll join us, Patroclus. We could use a strong arm like yours.

Achilles: Play your tricks on me, but not on my cousin. "

Odysseus is trying to persuade Patroclus because he guessed Achilles would do as he wants if he convinces the boy. For this, the discursive use is very clever.

He sees already that Patroclus has his head full of epic tales and craves so badly to live his own adventure. The lad wants to follow the footsteps of his teacher, making a name for himself. Noticing he is used to be " the cousin of Achilles", Odysseus sweet talks him doing an inversion of this logic where he remains at the shadow. He could have said " Even if Achilles doesn't come", but instead cleverly chose to adress the famous hero as " your cousin". The cousin of Patroclus, sentence where Achilles is the relative behind the name.

Again, feeding the crave for glory of the young boy.

The reply of Achilles reestablishes the order in the dynamic while warning the king of ithaca that he is crossing dangerous territory. " Play your tricks on me, but not on my cousin " implies once more that he is the name of the duo. In this case not out of protagonism seeking, but protectiveness.

Phrasing has a purposefull meaning, the intentionality shows things about the characters. There are a few other moments where the placing of "cousin" says more than what people want to read, but I will get in another topic.

One can also argue the script keeps a similar insistence in pointing out Hector and Paris are brothers. The repetition is as constant as in the case of Achilles and Patroclus, yet it never gets scrutinized (for obvious reasons).

Countless examples show this, so I'll list only a few:

" Paris: Do you love me, brother? Would you protect me against any enemy?"

" Paris: I have no trouble sleeping on the seas, brother. Athena sings lullabies to me. "

" Hector * grabbing Paris' face* : Paris, you are my brother and i love you, but if you do anything to endanger Troy I will rip your pretty face from your pretty skull. "

" Achilles *to Hector, about the widows in Troy*: Perhaps your brother can comfort them. I heard he is good at charming other men's wives. "

And perhaps the most important

" Menelaus*threatening a trembling Paris who is embracing his brother's knees*: Stand back, Prince Hector! I will kill him at your feet, I don't care!

Hector: He is my brother."

Because it creates a devastating contrast with this

"They were cousins " and " they were brothers" work as parallels, fixation on remarking it goes both ways and it serves the story.

[odusseus-xvi]

Wanted to talk about q!Forever and his presidency seen from the pov of someone who mostly experience it from outside percepctive as I'm incapable of understanding Brazilian. SAYING IT RIGHT NOW I'm not here to say q!Forever is wrong or evil (as I'm convinced he is not, no need to come and tell me), this is not what's it's about, this is about how lost he seems when you are looking from the exterior.

So I know drama is brewing because people are fighting over who's right and who's an evil virus of satan, and I don't care, I'm not interested in this. I want to talk about the characters I love, because I love q!Forever, and his story makes me so sad.

I want to explain to those who wouldn't know, I'm a mostly french viewers, I follow Etoiles, Baghz, Antoine, Aypierre and Phil (mostly, I try to follow everyone's storyline and povs), the last two are not important here as Philza doesn't interact with the president storyline at all and Aypierre's involvement can be resumed to "I don't care who's in power and what they do, I'll be nice to them because I want power". But basically what the Forever Presidency feels like is not evil, or corrupted, it feels WEIRD :

Because obviously he is kindhearted, he has saved the eggs multiple times, he has done a lot for the island, and has said multiple times he wants to help everyone, and I believe that. But then in some of his actions and speeches, there is so much stuff that we are weirded out about. First how he told Baghera how he wanted to make everyone vote etc. That's okay, but like she said herself "Well that was my campaign idea..." And that's true, and that was also a thing Him and Cellbit used as way to descend her campaign, so that felt like a light knife in the back. But that's the least worrying thing.

There was then the whole deal where from what I understood he felt betrayed by Baghera and Bad as they didn't share everything and witheld information. And from Baghz pov that felt like it came out of nowhere because... Well she didn't ! That was simply miscommunication. And ensued the whole deal where he talked about how he felt about the arrival of the new people, and how he didn't trust them and didn't want to help them unless they had an egg. That was a weird thing in itself, he is supposed to be the president of the island and he is the one least willing to welcome new people.

There was also the nerfing armor stuff. At first we thought he said that as a joke you know, he is just not saying no to Quackity because that'd be rude. But who in their right mind would do that right ? Right... ? And then yestedray he asks Etoiles to do a debate with Quackity to discuss it and everyone went "Wait, he's actually considering it ?" And that was weird because... Well Forever spends most of his time in his base. Isolated. And when you watch Etoiles you know that even with the strongest suit of armor in the game you CAN die everyday. Is... Is Forever asking for a death sentence ? Has he been living under a rock ?

The last thing was yesterday, when Etoiles wanted to ask him a few things, he arrived when Forever was having a secret discussion with Cucurucho, and he ordered the construction of a prison he would have access to. And THAT was so WEIRD, everyone in chat and in reaction were like "WHAT !!??? WH... WHY ??", and then followed by "could I have a gun to defend myself ?" and everyone went "Oh. He... He doesn't trust us !!!", Etoiles himself went *raises eyebrow*. There is something REALLY going bad with q!Forever. And then he immediatly follows by taking in consideration Etoiles' request to allow Dark Metal for his fight against the code, so he's not evil, he's not corrupted... And that's where I realised what it felt like, it feels like he is lost.

It seems he want to do good, but takes weird unnecessary decisions after weird unnecessary decisions that in most cases fucks over other islanders more than it helps, and the important thing to remember is that he is not doing that purposefully, again it seems he is lost, it feels like he doesn't know what he is doing, because of that people are more wary of him, and it leads him to become more paranoïd and he makes even more bad decisions, wich leads to more people being wary of him and it creates a vicious feedback loop that constantly raises the tension. (also having the big PRESIDENT sign next to his name creates an epidermic reaction in every french that makes us want a revolution /j) And it's so sad because the only exit I can see is for the tension to be released in an explosion, a revolution, and THAT could be interesting because for once neither side is truly evil per say. They can be misguided, but not outright evil. Like Baghera said herself "I... I don't understand where he is going."

What's terrifying is what we foresaw with the election is happening, the islanders are driving themselves apart and turning against each other. I don't think the Federation wants to avoid a revolution, I'm pretty sure they would be rooting for it.

(HOWEVER next time I see someone saying q!Forever is this perfect little guy that did nothing wrong... PLEASE. The guy was vicious during the election arc. With how much misinformation he spread on Etoiles most notably.)

[aleloo]

idk if were supposed to be figuring it out as we go along but if not

is the magnus protocol like a complete au of tma or like what? idk what sidequel means and ive seen things about gertrude succeeding in burning it all down? idk i just feel like im missing some big context and idk if thats purposefull or not

[multiversewatchpost]

Hgggg they make me crazy im so crazy for them im devoted to them i lay down my life for new information on them MOTH PLEASE…

Seeing as dust likes to crawl into the others for a sort of comfort (?) has anyone other then the trio ever SEEN this. As well as does anyone other then dust ever do it? Is it something common place and normal or would other be absolutely shocked to see this happen? Horror and killer seem used to it but is anyone else?

Horror seems quite worried for dust and killer and their dwindling level of followers (not including the fans unfortunately) what would be some extremes he would go to seeing this? It doesn’t seem like it’s going to get any better due to how everyone depicts the two. What sort of things would he do in an attempt to keep them with the power they have?

They seem quite close. The mortals don’t seem to see (they’re dumb) but do any other deities? Do they notice how close the trio seem to be? Are they suspicious of that? Does any other deities know they’re connected or do they purposely keep it hidden?

They seem to avoid other deities a lot so what is the general consensus on them from others? We know how they feel about others a lot they don’t seem to talk to too many others.

Does not caring about their followers too much ever go bad for those two? Have they ever lost a lot of followers due to a big incident because of this?

Okay okay literally foaming at the mouth I get to ramble some more

A few other have seen deities have seen dust do that. It isn't commonplace or considered normal. They'd be shocked if they saw someone else do it but general consensus amongst most deities is that dust is just weird like that and does shit without any logical reason. Most deities that dont really have direct contact with the mtt tend to underestimate how much awareness and agency dust has and think horror and killer are just keeping him as charity case or something. Killer really hates it when people imply dust cant make his own decisions, and horror is also rather annoyed by that misconception. Dust is also pretty pissed of by the fact that so many people seem to think that just because he's injured/cursed right now he suddenly apparently doesnt have autonomy anyomore.

(And yeah it's for comfort. He feels safer like like that and it helps calm him down when he's distressed)

Most of them don't understand why horror and killer allow it though, they can't imagine how that could possibly be comfortable at all.

Deities in general usually do not like getting all touchy feely with eachother. Mtt is viewed as pretty weird for just how much they're in eachothers space all the time.

Some do indeed think that closeness is rather suspicious. But it's also not really worth it to try and dig deeper into why exactly they are so close.

They've kept the bond hidden purposefully. It's definitely something that could be exploited by others which. Would not be good.

And yeah, not really caring about his followers is what got killer into this whole mess of worship of being banned in the first place. Most deities would have put a stop to that immediately before it spiraled and got this out of hand.

And dust is directly responsible for his own lack of followers. He's well known to frequently lash out at his own disciples and everyone and their grandmother knows dust worshippers pretty much always end up completely losing their minds.(though the mental deterioration isn't actually purposefull on Dust's part.)