#tag for my own reference lol

[jakubdobes]

I started reading the severance au and i love it a lot, i love your writing style, but ive never seen severance and i feel like maybe id enjoy a lot more if i actually had the reference so uhm if you have any suggestions of like moments i should look up or smth pls tell me 😓

otherwise it’s probably gonna be wikipedia fest for a small resume.

I’m really looking forward to understanding better tho, cause the way you write is sooo captivating and beautiful and like i really really really wanna be able to enjoy the fic to its actual worth 😔 even tho i still love it so far even in my sometimes confusion

in short, severance is about a corporation that offers a procedure that splits the consciousness of its employees using a chip in their brain. when they’re in the outside world, they resume life as normal as “outies”, with their memories up to that point. but when they’re at work, the chip switches them over to a different “innie” consciousness that only exists in a specific place. this other consciousness only remembers what happens to it when the chip is activated, and has none of the outside personality’s memories. they’re essentially “born” one day at their workplace and have to learn on the fly how to survive in that context and what’s expected of them.

in my fic, the place where the innies manifest is a subterranean floor underneath the bell center, complete with ice rink and other facilities (don’t think about the logistics too hard). so any time marty goes down the elevator to that level of the building, his consciousness goes dormant for a while and martin (i separate marty from his innie as a character by referring to him only by his full name) takes the wheel. martin does not know anything about marty and has no idea what his motivations are for severing himself. severed players have their outie’s names hidden from them, and go only by their jersey numbers. the only reason they let martin know his name and had him stop going by “26” is because he’s a coach now, and they need for him to have a status symbol over the player innies that he’s supposed to be directing. he’s the only innie with a name besides his jersey number. monty’s innie is named 35, doby’s is named 75, cole’s was 22 before it was changed to 13 without his consent, etc..

to better understand the show references i’m making in the first chapter, i recommend watching these clips:

in this, the characters featured are innies. normally innies are tasked with waking up other innies using an new employee orientation book. the point is to ask them questions including “who are you?”, “name a US state”, “what are is the color of your mother’s eyes” to test that they really don’t remember who they are. because martin was already oriented as a player and this is not his first time waking up, his orientation was done by a lumon employee who skipped the vast majority of the contents when martin proved right off the bat that he did not remember anything other than his memories as an innie with Tampa Bay.

this scene illustrates how the chip turns off and on depending on where the person is located. when inside the severed floor, helly does not remember her memories of outside or why she’s there. when she enters the stairwell, she shifts into her outie, who has all of her usual memories. i show this at the end of the first scene, when 26/martin goes down the elevator screaming and banging his fists. by the time he gets to the top floor he’s marty st. louis again, and has no idea why he was just punching the doors hard enough to make himself bleed.

this scene illustrates how innies are punished by lumon for disobedience. they can’t be injured physically, because their outies can’t be asking questions about where bruises or scars came from, so they’re subjected to psychological torture. this scene also shows how the innies experience every day as a continual loop— the don’t have a clear delineation from day to day besides trips to the elevators, and because they’re at work during the day they never get the chance to sleep. the outies sleep for them. the outies are generally oblivious to how the innies are treated, and are told by lumon that they’re essentially a simple-minded version of themselves that doesn’t mind being forced to do their jobs for them all day. pro hockey players generally elect to sever because they think it’s the only way they’ll ever be allowed into the league— lumon target short guys, marginal talents, and dudes with mental health problems or injuries most heavily. they have a high incentive to not think too hard about what their innies might be going through.

the innies are basically the same people as their outies, but without memory to form an identity around. because of that there are some differences in personality. martin is more depressed than marty obviously, but also more weak-willed and submissive. he feels a lot of contempt with himself for that because it goes against his innate personality, which is to be tenacious, confident, and willful like marty is on the outside. a lot of the fic is going to be about the innies getting back in touch with the parts of themselves that have been suppressed.

sorry this is kind of long, i decided to use this as a springboard to make a primer of sorts for the fic for people who haven’t seen the show, i can see how it would be confusing otherwise lol

[neorhythm]

AAAAAHH Merry Christmas!! this gift is for @meli-mouse!!

hello hello, i was your souyo secret santa this year!! i drew yosuke and narukami baking together. they are trying to make teddie-shaped cookies with (varying) levels of success. wishing you all the best this holiday season 🎄☃️✨

Special thanks to @souyoweek2020 for hosting!!!!

[liauditore]

Equally Invalid

[emero0]

One of my favorite things i hate about project sekai is that they keep making detailed cool stories within stories AND THEY ARENT FRICKEN REAL

Rio and his quest to save his dying mother, the heartbreak and pain of thinking you need to kill someone youve grown close to, the relief knowing theres another way? NOT REAL

A shy pianist who with the help of forest creatures, like a fairy tale princess, learns to overcome his fears to face his dreams? NOT REAL

A play about a man contemplating suicide and then learning about the world with the help of others and eventually changing his mind—based a on “Kiichiro Kajiwara's The Pomegranate” YEAH GUESS WHAT ALSO • NOT • REAL

I hate this how dare they write such compelling stories within stories how dare they not give me a full version with fleshed out dialogue

[mblue-art]

"—matsukawa, quit pushing me down, asshat!" "nah." "i will kick your shins bro do not test me—"

alt. ver. before the redraw (bc i still kinda like this 😔)

[meltypancake]

fe3h fashion studies

[captn3]

fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw

og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more

[atompalace-official]

Precure Season Detailed Opinion Chart 🌈⭐️💕✨

please feel free to fill this in!!! the blank hearts can be used however you like (watched checkbox, ranking, tier category, etc!) 💗

[electroniccollectiondonut]

I have not been in this fandom long enough to reasonably judge others' takes however. "EPIC fans are so silly to characterize odysseus as feeling guilty for his actions don't you know he's a war criminal" is definitely a wild one. like first of all to each their own so settle down and let people enjoy things ok. and secondly making choices with a bad outcome, even knowingly and deliberately, does not exclude the possibility of feeling bad about it later. in fact it makes for a much more in depth character because then you get to explore what he does or doesn't feel guilt over, and why, and if that guilt ever edges into regret or not.

[deelovesbooks]

[hplonesomeart]

Whoops hand slipped here’s some TADC character fanart. Apologies for the severe lack of Pomni in this one idk where she went off to…maybe she got lost on her way to find the exit. The lines are incredibly choppy & rushed, I know, but it was still fun art practice! I don’t draw these guys nearly enough anyways so this is a nice change of pace. Support indie animation :3

[joelletwo]

reading thru the The Final utsuro fight visuals with the vocabulary i gained while liveblogging gintama

[VD: the section of the fight that has gintoki and utsuro-in-takasugi's-body slide through reanimated flashbacks to past scenes of the series that cast them as past versions of themselves, shouyou, and takasugi]

bc the maths is insanes

the initial flashback is to their immediately previous silver soul fight - the casting of the conflict as unending, progressless, in utsuro's favor. have either of them appreciably changed since then? is anything different? what is initially an incomplete brief flash - with utsuro still inhabiting takasugi - solidifies when he regresses to his original body and begins to more effectively counter gintoki. utsuro remains on the right throughout.

direct cut from there pulled further back in time to gintoki's immediately previous fight with takasugi's body in shogun assassination - takasugi on the right, giving utsuro in his body the power of Unconscionable Violence (senseless, gleeful, and knowing you well enough to perpetrate it) (joelletwo tags on squeaky toy video, 2023, repeated endlessly every day since)

but it's mutual - gintoki also knows you well enough to turn the tables and get the upper hand back

(not that this meaningfully stops you for long).

direct cut from there slightly forward in time to gintoki's first fight with utsuro in the immediately following farewell shinsengumi, where the revelations overwhelm him and reduce him to being fueled by the pure instinctual anger of The Demonic, a state of losing yourself and your ability to fight effectively (reductionisms, 2023),

conditions where it's all you can do to hold out against an enemy that represents something so big in your psyche,

which he knows about, since he's been that for you before. back in time again to the first (onscreen) takasugi confrontation, right before taking advantage of your precarious mental state to punch you out of the plotline (kraniumet tags on yamameta post addition, 2022)

but utsuro keeps a vice grip on control of the story, surfacing back into the present to stop and reverse his fall mid-air so he can stay anchored in the battle with gintoki,

meaning he remains vulnerable to the weaknesses of the body he's in, which only ever exists anymore in one memory - you're unable to move, only to witness. a third figure is introduced, who is more you than you here, while gintoki remains himself.

the you more you than you accepts death while you watch it approach with helpless despair and terror.

the collapse of utsuro back into the body he inhabits in present invites a re-examining of the series of flashbacks thus far - where the perspective of who controls the focal memory seems to flip from utsuro to gintoki back to utsuro here, does it? the farewell shins->festival transition is 1:1 substitutional, working out so that utsuro-as-takasugi winds back up on the right.

but it isn't utsuro borrowing a strength of his like Violence here - it's, just like in the execution, succumbing to one of his weaknesses. flipping between the two scenes, takasugi's derailing fear of gintoki as a figure becomes gintoki's of utsuro. there's a double elision of takasugi (missing from farewell shins due to his fight with gintoki) so that utsuro becomes both gintokis - making him both the one who looms large, and the one who is destabilized by.

gintoki signifies something huge to utsuro, after all.

he takes up the role he had back then, the one you assigned him from the start, because half of his time always exists in that one moment now as well.

being the one who acts on the story and moves it forward, brings it to an end.

the regression through history continues to child against unbeatable teacher, again the question of if either of you has grown since you met. gintoki becomes the underdog challenger on the right.

the refusal to give up an unwinnable fight, no matter how many times it's tried, the even-back-then way that gintoki becomes a shouyou figure for others, fluidly shifts you forward in time.

the reverse shot, the perspective flip - the identity lines cross.

he drags you through time with him, until you're someone he knows how to beat.

(because, again, you know each other so well as to be losslessly interchangeable, for two opposing souls in the process of finding themselves - conquering themselves - to become indivisible.) (reductionisms translation, 2024) (yamameta ouroboros poem, 2023)

and even when you win - earn by ceaseless trial and effort the right to play his trick back on him and dethrone/defang him by pushing him literally out of frame - ...

he learns from you as well and pulls himself back in by your anchor.

[glindaupland]

Past promotional videos for EMK's (Yeston & Kopit) Phantom 🌹

I'm sure there's going to be plenty of new promotional videos and content of both the returning and new cast for the 10th anniversary. However, if anyone's curious about old content of some of the returning cast, here are some videos:

(2021) 전동석 Jeon Dongseok | 그 어디에 (Where in the World) MV

2nd run (2016-17), 4th run (2021) His time in 2021 was cut short after he got COVID. His final performance was unfortunately months earlier than it was supposed to be. 🥲

(2018-19) 카이 Kai | 그 어디에 (Where in the World) MV

1st run (2015), 3rd run (2018-19), 4th run (2021)

(2018-19) 카이 Kai + 이지혜 Lee Jihye | 내 고향 (Home) MV

Lee Jihye: 2nd run (2016-17), 3rd run (2018-19), 4th run (2021)

(2021) 카이 Kai | 이렇게 그대 그의 품에 (What Will I Do?) 'Replay' Video

'Replay' videos are EMK's officially recorded dress rehearsal clips for their shows. Kai performed this song for a press call in 2018 as well.

The rest of the Christines are new to the show. Even though 박효신 Park Hyoshin was in the 1st and 2nd runs of Phantom, he does not have any official promotional video like this (that I know of at least).

[hearts4pearlescentmoon]

*throws this at you and runs*

sorry it’s been taking me so long to put out art lol. Motivation has been down the drain lately.

[bonetrousledbones]

ok so. i was cleaning out my pictures folder today. and i happened to come across a sketch from 2021 that may or may not be related to the same concept as this. but like a. darker, edgier version. if you catch my drift.

but the thing is i do NOT see myself finishing it, seeing as it's already been nearly 4 years since i sketched it out and i'm still fighting the burnout demons from hell and all that. but it IS very silly to me and frankly very good timing for me to have found this sketch right now

so basically what i'm wondering is would any of y'all be interested in like a dtiys / open collab type of thing with underfell papyrus as shadow the hedgehog

here's a hint of the sketch if it helps

i've admittedly already tweaked it a good bit & i'd probably clean it up a lil more just for clarity if i actually go through with this but for now i just wanna see if i can rope anyone else into being insane with me. its actually pretty fun messing with the design & proportions to try and fit the silhouette of a very cartoonish hedgehog and i'd love to see other ppl's takes on it

[trashcreatyre]

Da charms r are here :3