#reality in motion

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

So I was scrolling along and accidentally clicked on a tag of some post. But it opened with this as the banner and I thought it was perfect. 🧡

SUCK IS DICK SUNDAY

[bumblydumbly]

i think that if kabru saw that “laios meeting falin for the first time” strip he’d be sobbing uncontrollably

[echoes-in-echoclan]

And thus this moon is over...

Quillpaw belongs to @blazingmicah-wc

Moon 0 

Moon 44.3 - Moon 45

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[ridefordie]

I didn't walk to anyone, I ran to you

[melnonny]

one thing i hope double exposure does is keep the creep factor of lis 1. because as someone who knew nothing walking into the game, i was surprised at how casually unnerving everything felt and it totally sucked me in.

[painted-bees]

reading through your hinote tags it was interesting to learn that Raf still likes preforming and even misses playing large shows, but avoids getting sucked back into it. As an adult, you'd think he could just return to preforming on his own terms and play any stage he wants. Does a fear of success keeps him away from it? Sorry if this was already explained somewhere and I missed it.

Sssorta haha! He doesn't want to gain too much traction and attract media attention, because it'll inevitably liken his current career/his current self to his past...And almost none of the things he had said about himself, very few of the views he presented in interviews and such, none of it was really him, what he believed, what he liked, or how he, himself, wanted to be perceived. He likes playing the character on stage, but hates the notion of that character following him and being projected onto him in day to day life. On one hand, he doesn't want random people to see him and know him accurately--which is why the stage persona is so great. But on the other hand, the media personality his mother curated is too far removed from his own tastes and sensibilities, that it feels like an ill-fitting skin and makes him physically uncomfortable to be identified as and associated with it. Increased visibility as a performer would kinda force him to contend with that in a way he really would rather not. It's not worth it for him. AND he does not want to attract his family's attention. He doesn't want them contacting him about his career. He wants to be as tiny and invisible to them as possible.

Secondly, and more acutely, though--his symptoms after a show--any show--really suck. He gets nervous leading up to a performance, but it's usually perfectly manageable. He's normally in relatively good spirits about it. Then on stage, he gets a nice little thrill and the feeling of "man, yeah! I need to let myself do this more often!" But then, once the show is over, he's in the backstage bathroom vomiting, and spends the next week struggling to recover from a depressed hangover with 0 motivation, energy, or excitement for anything. He hasn't...figured out how to avoid this extremely consistent pattern. It's weird, because he feels fine during the performance, even if there's a break in between or some such. But as soon as it's properly over, the nerves hit him hard--and once the anxiety passes, he's just an exhausted, deflated, apathetic husk with a very, very low mood about it. That's what kinda keeps him off the stage, and prevents him from doing shows on any kind of consistent basis. He can only really commit to doing them if he's feeling really good about things--and if he can afford the inevitable "crash" week that always follows. If that were less of an ailment for him, he might be more inclined to at least humor the idea of reinventing his persona and returning to musical performance on a more serious/professional/consistent basis. Alas.

[noosphe-re]

From a new rhythmic-form, a new movement-form. From a new movement-form, a new thought-form. From a new thought-form, a new material-form.

Ahmed Salman

[fluffypotatey]

If wukong told (lied) to macaque that he never cared about him, do you think that would make macaque even more aggresive or like shut down/be the final straw that finally makes macaque let go of wukong

so, just like my answer for whether macky would willingly erase swk from his life, I think this answer also depends on when in the show swk told macky this, and what better way to explain this than by going through each outcome per season :)

UNO

looking at s1, we meet a Macaroni who is very hellbent on killing (or at the very least, heavily damaging) SWK because he feels like the guy never truly gave a shit about him (<- my interpretation). thus, it is safe to assume that if Wukong were to laugh off Marnolo's hurt and anger and tell the guy that he never cared, Mac&cheese will only feel that his current assumptions of SWK are correct and that the guy only cares about himself and his image.

would he feel hurt about it? oh absolutely. maybe punch a wall, destroy the "dojo" he allegedly lives in in an outburst of power and anger. maybe scream and cry but be mad at his own tears (begin to wipe them away but is too hash so he scars himself and then can't stop bc he's very self-destructive)

DOS

technically, Wukong is MIA so this would never happen. BUT! have you considered!!! Wukong telling MK that Macdonalds was just some guy from his past, nobody super important, basically a nobody he wronged in his long list of enemies. which MK might possibly parrot back to Macadoo in 2x07

heavens above Marconi would be pissed.

forget trying to be a dick to MK and "teaching" him that his path of emulating Wukong has already made him forget his friends (untrue, but this is what i assume was Macky's interpretation of MK's actions since the guy didn't actively search for his missing friends, who MK thought left him on purpose).

nah, Macky is hunting SWK down. he is out for blood because "did i serious mean so little to you? were our nights under that tree sharing secrets, dreams, peaches fucking nothing to you?" (and idk....maybe after the air clears out, possibly, macky would realize SWK's true reason for being MIA and....help out???? mayhaps???....yeah, yeah, i know only in my dreams T^T)

TRES

ok, so we could technically say this sort of happened in ep1 when Sun Wukong said, "i thought it was someone important," and, "so what, you're her puppet now? i mean, makes sense. you always did have a sidekick kind of vibe."

and that is basically Wukong implying that he viewed his relationship with Macaque as one where he didn't consider Macky to be important to him, or someone he saw as a close friend. however, this is also a tactic Wukong uses against nearly every villain he interacts with, simply to get a rise out of them. so, pin that down as Wukong being observant enough to know which words to use to hurt.

AND Macky's reaction to it is him jumping out of his cool-ass looking jet and body-slamming the monkey king to the floor. so, uh, it is safe to assume that Macky was pissed off at Wukong's comment.

THUS! with that in mind, we can say that in this context, Macackle will be upset enough to fight him; however, if we were to consider the end of s3 (like Samadhi Fire ritual to the end) i would go with the option of Mackarell shutting down and feeling like that comment is the nail in the coffin for their relationship.

CUATRO

in s4? absolutely not. he would be dragging Wukong by the ear, demanding that he repeat what he said, ordering Wukong to try and convince himself that their past meant nothing while Macky still lives and breathes. and especially after the s4 special.

you could argue that Macky could shut down in the beginning of s4, but i think he'd probably laugh it off because he knows now that Wukong is lying. he's being his old deflective self and probably doesn't know where to place Macanoli in his head now that they're technically on better terms with LBD done with.

but after all the drama of going through SWK's memories? nuh uh, Wukong can't get out of this, nope. you handed iMac a chocolate peach popsicle. it is too late for you turn back and lie about your feelings. you can dig your grave and lie about it, but he's just gonna hit you right back with your own medicine and make you understand that if y'all truly want to reconcile, you cannot continue lying to yourself that you don't care.

not anymore.

so, anyway, i hope this answers your question, anon! i had a lot of fun running this question around in me braincage :3

[arcsin27]

Third semester shuake super paper Mario au

[cherubchoirs]

Do you have anything for V2 loosing its arm the first battle? Reactions the thought process…or even a frantic confusion, if it was by mistake in a fleeing frenzy or even getting hit with its own arm by V1? I’m OBSESSED with your brain you smart person

aaaaa thank you!! and i do definitely have ideas about v2's reaction to that first battle and the loss of its arm which, in a word, are hard for it to properly process. v2, as i mentioned before, is a being caught in a dream - it dreams of its potential and what could have been if only it had gotten its chance to bring peace like everyone told it it would. its confrontation with v1 is a part of its dream and in fact may be one of the most important factors in it as v1 is war, it is the only tangible thing v2 can destroy to achieve a symbolic victory if not a real one. because it knows the world it belongs to now has run past it but it knows too that v1 will see its utter and complete collapse if it is left to roam. so v2 engages it with confidence...but something is very wrong from the start. v1 moves and behaves oddly, its code has clearly deteriorated and while v2 initially believes this offers it the advantage, it quickly comes to realize whatever v1's done to its software has turned it into something far beyond what the v series was meant to be. and, importantly to v2's survival, it sees just when v1 gets the idea to harvest its arm for itself - this should be blocked in its programming, but v2 uses the error to escape in a split second of distraction. and the retreat leaves it on a precipice.

it has survived, but now it's badly damaged and has lost an arm. that loss had gained it a tactical retreat, but it looms in its mind far beyond the damage that was caused - in the moment, it barely had time to process what had occurred even if it understood each step and responded with the best course of action. that was survival, to almost allow v1 the opening it needed to rip the arm off right there so v2 could flee while its attention was diverted for mere seconds. it couldn't let that window go by and it used it...but now what can it do? what does this loss precipitate? it obsesses over the recording of the fight, it attempts desperately to understand the patterns of v1's tactics, but nothing yields. and only two emotions can grow from its fruitless efforts: a deep, gnawing fear with a burning, bitter anger.

anxiety winds around v1's presence, its bizarre mannerisms and unorthodox way of engagement leaving it indecipherable to the extent that it would be foolish at best to confront it a second time. but v2 can do nothing else. it is drawn into it, because beyond anything else, v2 must preserve the dream that it's in or nothing matters. it is aware the world is dying, that it can't change course and humanity has passed, but its potential can still be salvaged. the first loss to v1 threatens that promise, and the loss of its arm is the concrete manifestation of that threat, almost an omen - an arm made specifically for v2, one that complements how it must fight, unique, special, stolen. its mind teeters, it feels the brink it's reached but it cannot despair, it cannot run or give up or change anything. it lets anger devour its fear instead, driven in one defining goal that will make or break everything that it is and everything that it believes. it will tear apart other machines, barely seeing them as it harvests their parts for the whiplash to move ever faster toward its inevitable end.

but v2 stays on that threshold, and it determines that it will try over and over and over if that's what it takes. it will never stop finding v1 and facing off against it because it can face dozens of losses if it must - it only takes one win to realize its dream. because v1 will never run, it will win or it will die. and that's what matters, that's how it can still save its dream because the only way it truly shatters is if v2 dies. so in the time between these two fights, v2 is wholly locked into a liminal mental state in which it must actively achieve its potential and its mind loops on nothing but its rematch with v1. it cannot exist outside of that, nor will it until it secures a victory against its predecessor, or dies trying.

[the-way-astray]

i must be the only (kind of) unironic aldella shipper in this entire fandom.

(ranting in the tags)

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❤️‍🔥

[blurrymango]

Yet another let night MS Paint. This time the Creed siblings as. Vaguely puppety? Cartoony?

It's titled "creed siblings if they slayed" on my computer so.

Also the symbols have to do with the gods they are vessels of. Time for Ty, Space for Charlie, "Void" for Blitz.

[laliwilde]

Sylvio in his many forms 🖤 from Episode 8 of Captain Earthquake