#theme: desperation

[lucidloving]

@inanotherunivrse // Mary Oliver, "I Worried" // Ethel Cain, "Strangers" and @jayetart on Instagram // Veronica Roth, Insurgent // @inthearmsof // @cmpovar on Twitter // Patti Smith, "Woolgathering" // Louise Glück, "Blue Rotunda"

[everysongineverykey]

dhmis is great because imagine a series centered around three roommates living in a small incredibly isolated house in a story run by a strange omnipotent woman with unclear motivations who amuses herself by tormenting the roommates over and over again in various awful ways by dangling something new and exciting in front of their faces and then making it backfire horribly thus traumatizing them all and often maiming and killing them and they can't escape because they're nothing but puppets in her little show and they're chained to a narrative that will not let them go and one roommate is a naive kid with a sadistic father who traumatizes him horribly when he isn't neglecting him and also eats people and another roommate is almost aware of his situation but will never be able to save himself or his friends and is constantly rejected by his own kind and only wants to leave the tiny house but nothing, no one, will play along and the third roommate is caught in the middle, not a naive child but not quite meta aware, and thus is doomed to fall victim to the same traps over and over and also they're literally the only three people in their entire world besides the evil things that keep intruding in their home and terrorizing them and they can't call for help. ok and now imagine they look like this

[bixels]

Finally made cover art for Project Pacifica.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

"If PD-MDZS drew He Xuan, would he be a Man or a Fish?"

[starflungwaddledee]

so about the ship thing . . . Have you heard of a little guy called Sailor Dee? They showed up in Revenge of Meta Knight as part of Meta Knight's crew, and I think a couple other times in minigames and merch. I imagine he'd be braver than the average dee since he works for MK, so maybe they'd be able to power through the ick reaction like Bandee

hmmm... i think you might be onto something!

might be about to give bandee a run for his money, perhaps. speaking of... here's a little bonus:

[featherymainffins]

I hate to say it but I might have to admit that Redditors can be pretty based sometimes

[twinkle-art]

there is no moving on

[markantonys]

THE WHEEL OF TIME | 1x06 → 2x06 → 2x08

[gaylactic-fire]

I keep getting vaguely bummed out about TOTK which is so annoying bc I don't even dislike the game?? I'm genuinely having a blast with it. But also all the overarching but cohesive themes and meta storytelling about the reincarnation cycle and its consequences and the tragically beautiful world in BOTW?? Like what happened to all that?? That was what made me so mentally ill (/aff) in the first place!!

[clown-eating-pig]

Podcast episodes feel so short when you don’t have another one to instantly consume :(

[fallowhearth]

It's kind of interesting that four (probably more) of the lesbian space atrocities works deal with characters having multiple people inhabiting their brain.

Baru Cormorant - imagined someone so hard she needed a lobotomy and gained a split personality

The Locked Tomb - tried so hard not to absorb the soul of her homoerotic childhood rival that she got a lobotomy and also her body got puppeted by multiple other souls

A Memory Called Empire - brain implant of the personality of an ancestor

Some Desperate Glory - simultaneously herself from multiple timelines, who function like different people with different knowledge and values

What's that all about?

[kayvsworld]

sorry to be doing mcu throwback complaints again and EXTRA sorry for it to be about cacw and aou, sorry, i just am thinking again that if marvel had. in aou. committed to letting steve rogers see that captain america graffiti calling him a fascist with his own two eyes i would have forgiven many of their subsequent deeds and crimes

[imminent-danger-came]

LMK S1 OST RELEASED ON SOUNDCLOUD https://soundcloud.com/the-d-as-office/sets/lego-monkie-kid-excerpts-from-s1-underscore

I SAW

LMK composers (Anthony Ammar, David Bruggemann, Adam Gock, David Huxtable, Richard LaBrooy, Mitch Stewart, Cassie To, Dinesh Wicks) writing the s1 soundtrack:

I know I will be listening to this one in particular on loop:

(Link for anyone interested!)

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

what's your take on odasaku and dazai's idealization of him?

also any takes you want to share about bsd/bsd in general?

(If you don't mind, I'm also interested in your thoughts about verlaine if thats ok 😭) tyty

who's your fave bsd character and whose the character from bsd you want to have more screen time?

i think its another case of projecting onto someone and it fucking things up. like notably how kouyou projects her own feelings abt light & dark onto kyouka. we just dont often see it that way because what oda does is like. stereotypically good? he uses his dying words to push a friend out of the dark. a death motivating others to act and furthering their character development is classic storytelling. you go into bsd knowing dazai is on the "good guys" side (not that the ada are "bad" but obviously reading bsd as a good guys vs bad guys story is. wrong), so clearly it worked out. so you kind of overlook the surrounding events yk? plus dazais own idolization of oda hammers that in. dazai tells atsushi that "He was a friend of mine (...) He’s the reason I quit the Port Mafia and joined the agency. I’d probably still be killing people for the mafia if it wasn’t for him" in dead apple (the lightnovel. im not going to go through pulling up the movie for this fhfhtndj). and so aside from previous bias people are going to take what dazai says at face value. hes thankful oda showed him the "side that saves people" and of course we're going to agree with that. the thing is. again. projection. now i havent actually finished dark era (i am working through it) but a lot of the time it feels like oda is just shoveling off all his feelings about being "someone meant for the darkness" onto dazai when thats something thats not going to be true for. well. anyone really? and his final conversation with dazai is very influenced by that. he says "You told me if you put yourself in a world of violence and bloodshed, you might be able to find a reason to live... (...) You won’t find it (...) You should know that. Whether you’re on the side that takes lives or the side that saves them, nothing beyond your own expectations will happen. Nothing in this world can fill the hole that is your loneliness. You will wander the darkness for eternity". now the thing is this is kind of a fucked up thing to say to an 18 year old with suicidal tendencies, but odas view of dazai makes it seem like a well needed wake up call. he obviously had good intentions. hes trying to "step into that solitude" but because of his flawed view of dazai he kind of. stumbles. dazai up to this point has been clinging onto the hope that he'd find a reason to live by observing the entire human experience. now oda comes along and dazai thinks hes found someone who understands him better than anyone, and oda tells him hes not going to find that. ever. so he should become a better person and make the world a good place. and also he's dying. so dazai, as we've seen, takes these words to heart. so hes not going to find a reason to live but he should also make the world a better place. good cool got that. so i think he gets a bit too comfortable being collateral for a good cause. and hes already convinced hes not going to find anything here, so of course hes not going to find anything. does that make sense.

i dont think ive phrased anything correctly here but like anyway i think with all his other friends around he'll be able to sort things out there. i cant see bsd ending without any sort of resolution for him in this regard yk.

[junranghae]

cutie kkura 🍊

[starflungwaddledee]

Hey, Star! I have a submission for the Starstruck Starganza! What would you do if you saw Whitolor?

Personally, I think it'd be funny if Starstruck could playfully tease him, & Whitolor would act like he doesn't like it, but actually does lel.

(BTW, Hope you're having a great day!^^💚)

he doesn't even like sweets that much anyway... she can have it, this is fine....... 💦