#tiny webweave for them

[mangofanarts]

Sources:

My Heart Is The Ocean by Alexandra Vasiliu / Limited Life - episode 7: The Family Goes To WAR! by GoodTimeswithScar / TIME THAT IS OWED - Minecraft Limited Life #4 by Inthelittlewood / My Heart Is The Ocean by Alexandra Vasiliu / TIME THAT IS OWED - Minecraft Limited Life #4 by Inthelittlewood / I KIDNAPPED SOMEONE FOR THE BAD BOYS!! | Limited Life | #4 by Solidarity / My Heart Is The Ocean by Alexandra Vasiliu / SLAY THEM WITH YOUR WORDS - Minecraft Limited Life #5 by Inthelittlewood / TIME’S UP! - Limited Life Episode 08 by ImpulseSV / Quote from Catherynne M. Valente, in Deathless / The Biggest Betrayal… - Limited Life - Ep.8 by Dangthatsalotname / The tragic way of saying quote

[mellowwhumps]

hello!! name’s mello, local timeloop, sci-fi setting and non-human fanatic, and i go by they/them pronouns! been in this community for a fair while actually, just realised that it’s a little disorganized to have both fandom and whump posts together sdfhkshfdkjs

i’ve done content mostly for ocs here (both whump and not), though i want to maybe make some prompts as well as some webweaves? who knows whatever goes! local descriptive writer, trying to figure out dialogue more this year^^

i also want to interact with more people!! in my other blog i mostly just stuck with tags (very shy i fear) but i love yapping in reblogs heh

oh and i draw on occasion 💥

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misc. links!

toyhouse for ocs!!! (you can find my oc masterlist here, all up for asks !) (more of my writing is also here because i always forget to upload them on tumblr)

my other blog: @melodxi

my stuff tag: #mellowwhumps

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what do i like? i made a tierlist quite recently!! username may be a little misleading i do like the not so mellow stuff too sometimes

might be inaccuracies here my interests spontaneously change

⭐️ tiny side note: you may sometimes find minor whump (mostly emotional) here !! i love dysfunctional platonic/found family dynamics in whump — although i have a fair share of older characters too

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and that’s all! i absolutely love whump and all its little sidetropes; feel free to send asks or really just talk about anything !!!

OC MASTERLIST BELOW THE CUT:

June of Doom

Whumperless Whump Event

scuffed oc introductions (to be reworked and added onto !!)

asks: dynamics with haley

asks: theoretical tattoos

asks: silly hair lore post

asks: how are my whumpers addressed

non-whump writing: ida & yuuto au

cicadas’ chime - full oc masterpost

caretaker prompts i like (not ocs but i’ll put it here anyway)

non-whump writing: haley and verrill, witch/fantasy AU, partial character study

october updates

non-whump writing: some other life ft. loraven ocs

one two three four five — strike 3, timeloop whump (likely won't be finished)

[marrow-and-bone]

a friend of mine got really into decorating kpop-style photocards recently, which it turns out is all of the fun parts of collage combined with the supreme satisfaction of placing a million tiny stickers with a pair of tweezers. it's webweave energy on top of trading card energy, so of course I had to make cards for c!Quackity and c!Schlatt, my favorite pair of DSMP shitheads, best beloved thank god for them.

[skitskatdacat63]

catie omg. new header and pfp gorgeous.... i need more bmw seb in my life....... and the blue/gold suits you!!

vettonso webweave..... there were so many parallels already before aston but it's like everythings lining up even more now?????? like nano's following exactly in sebs footsteps even though theoretically he came first...... also definitely suzuka 2023. that was the turning point for me for vettonso i think sob sobbbbb

also also !!!! happy new year, sending hugs and lots of loveeeeeee

Thank you thank you I'm very happy with it 🥹

BMW seb makes me feel like a feral animal, he's so perfect and pretty and small, like how are these pics(small selection) real???

I'm surprised he hasn't been my pfp yet considering how often I scour the internet for pics of him. He's my little guy, my little creacher, my baby, etc etc. So now he is in the esteemed position of: pfp. Aaahh also in the one I chose, do you see the tiny little curl of hair on his temple? It's so 🤧

I digress. Vettonso. I'll probably post it at some point, but I have this little timeline thing for them, lining up their careers. And it makes me so insane that they both ended(theoretically) at Aston. Truly the "sending out old horses to pasture" team. I already ranted abt it in your tags hahaha but the fact that Fernando's successes in 2023 are basically the combination of their mutual efforts: Seb developing the 2023 car despite suffering in 2022, and Fernando's insane skills. Something something Fernando reaping the benefits that Seb sowed. Something something passing the torch. "Please accomplish what I wasn't able to, please accomplish what I didn't have the strength or energy for anymore, please benefit off the fruits of my labor, etc." It's so funny though that Nando was like "Seb probably couldn't accomplish what I did in 2023," okay but sir how did you get such a good car hmm 🤨

I'm so glad Japan 2023 dragged you down into depths 😭😭 that is still such an insane moment for me. I think we all became vettonso shippers in that moment. I'm sure I'd be just as insane if it didn't happen, bcs im committed like that, but god it made the brainrot feel so worth it. I shan't wax poetic abt it now tho cause I've definitely done it enough already.

Happy new year!!!!! Thank you for such a nice ask, and basically soliciting a rant from me DJKFKFLF. I was gonna answer this when I woke up because it is certainly an [undisclosed hour] rn. But it's you!!! So I gotta!!! Much love <3

[sexingofthecherry]

rambles about the secret history that got too long

it's a lot better than the goldfinch from what i remember. the plot is a lot more concise, a lot more neat. what sucks is that i dont find the whole central conceit or philosophy of it that interesting. idk maybe im missing something again i havent finished it but it does seem to revolve around that whole 'look at human nature and what it can bring us to do' with the added allowance that the motivations for those actions are in of themselves pretty mundane. what i find more interesting is the way the secret history gets referenced in online circles with webweaving posts and how tied it is to the whole 'dark academia' aesthetic but when you read the book, the narrator is actively denying that level of theatrics, of purely aesthetic grandiosity. that allure is how he initially gets sucked into the novel's chain of events, he's drawn to these people even as he admits he doesn't know them quite so well as he knows the images he has constructed. he constantly monitors his self-presentation and is very self-conscious about fitting in and his attempts at fitting in. crucially the narrator, as he is writing from a future perspective (forgive me, ive forgotten the term for that i know there is one lol), recognizes the absurdity of it and his attempts. reaching adulthood and realizing how pointless the things you dwelled and angsted over as a teenager are. and it's a similar situation with the rationale behind the murders, albeit in a little less class-obsessed, more academic way. every tangent henry goes on about bacchanalia and so on, you're reminded of the banality of their motivations. bunny's murder was done on the basis that he Might say something but also the narrator lists a thousand tiny transgressions that led up to his death including that he just. makes fun of him lol. there is no grand justification, no matter what words are spoken, no matter what ancient god is invoked. now whether or not i think in the context of other parts of the novel that message is actually strongly communicated, i dont have the wherewithal to dwell on yet. and again i havent even finished the book lmfao. but it really gets me how much this book has been absorbed into that "aesthetic"

[brokenpiecesofthesky]

Is there a class for webweaving? Can I learn how to webweave? Does a tiny computer give lessons on how to find the most beautiful pieces of media which somehow flow and transition softly into each other till you can't help but be amazed by how so many humans at some point of time or the other had this thought and this exact thought and put into out into the world in some creative form? That how all pain is still pain and all emotions are still emotions and we live at such different places and different circumstances and different times but still manage to feel the same emotions, feel them at such intensity that we need to make art out of it? and where can i learn it? how can i learn it? my tiny brain whenever it sees/reads something pretty just goes "aw pretty" and moves on.

[lewyn-martell]

i guess i'm gonna use this opportunity to babble on about this since the topic has been raised in the tags... i was going to wait or maybe just not do it since i was limited to 10 gifs and this is only a fraction of the great webweaving you can do with this movie... but whatever ksjdnkjs

one thing to get out of the way... i hope we can all agree that pádraic is a grown man. colm is not out there twisting his arm to be snappy to everyone around him because of his broken heart... and when colm is shown to be considerate, it's not because pádraic is such a nice man that he can get it out of him on those moments specifically. and when pádraic is mean it's not on colm because he is supposedly oh so mean... i know this is probably not exactly what was meant, but it's an underlying feeling in that i get from discussions of this movie and i did this gifset precisely because people get way too caught up on pádraic poor nice boy and colm mean old dick.

'niceness' and the lack of it are tied very closely with mental health in this movie. the Before for these characters involves: pádraic being a 'nice' 'happy' lad even if dull, i.e. (in this context), shallow of thought: will never do introspection. thinks these bad things should be just pushed down for the sake of appearances and cordiality. we are men who meet at 2 o'clock to go to the pub and talk about nothing. we don't read sad books else we might get sad and discover a thing or two about ourselves that could be unpleasant. he is basically the epitome of the this is fine dog meme.

colm is an older man who we soon learn has been wallowing in despair and now dealing with the fact that his life is nearing its end. he is an artist (also described as a 'thinker') and that probably feels like the only thing he is good at (or good for) when his head is as messed up as it is. he lives on a tiny boring island filled with "nice" judgy people who have no qualms about whispering about each other's business (especially if it's bad stuff) while at the same time covering up things too hard to look in the face in the name of the social and personal order of the everything is fine agenda.

i understand why people might think colm just woke up and decided to spring up to pádraic the end of their friendship since we're watching the movie from pádraic's perspective. but it becomes clear throughout the movie that colm cares and feels for him and is not acting on a mindless whim. the audience has to then imagine what kind of things go on his head to drive him to such drastic choices. we don't ever have a full end-all-be-all explanation, but he makes a few things on his mind known and we can draw some conclusions: he doesn't feel at peace in his normal routine and has even been talking to the priest about this despair that is getting worse while his life dwindles. he considers composing music his last line of defense against the seemingly meaningless pit his life will have amounted to, because if people can't see his heart now, maybe he can buy himself more metaphorical time by leaving something for the ones who come later. maybe for them to enjoy and connect to, same as it is for him and old musicians. this is a man at the end of his rope dealing with one hell of a depression.

and while colm takes his anguish and tries to separate himself from people to deal with it, pádraic is so unequipped to deal with his own sadness and loneliness he blows it up to everyone around him. he was still (and might've even stayed there forever, if it wasn't for this incident) on the stage of denying it's there at all. i think colm might even have underestimated both how much pádraic feels for him and how far he is willing to take things because of it. the loneliness it brings forth ends up being too overwhelming for him to do what he usually does.

and the even better thing about this movie is: it's not simply one man's misery rubbing off on the other. colm's own way of dealing with it evolves - or devolves, however you choose to see it - the more pádraic's touches him back and the more he realizes his initial decision was no magic fix. because there is a difference colm had no way of knowing and regulating between facing his own sadness and allowing it to fully take over. we realize music isn't working when he threatens to cut his fingers off (another situation in which colm chooses to harm himself rather than anyone else btw. not all altruistic, of course, but an example of how his decision making works). it ends up being a relief to him, because i think he was putting way too much pressure on himself and chasing the wrong solutions.

but they are way past any return point. because pádraic has realized niceness is one of the first casualties when you are in the middle of despair, if you're not mature enough or don't have energy enough to prevent it. and here i mean both the, uh, duty of keeping up appearances - in a less cynical way, having the emotional space to be pleasant to others without letting your misery leak, as is expected in this context - and the more earnest interpretation it's also there of choosing or being able to cultivate friendship and see Good Meaning in human connection, with all its flaws and complications.

so pádraic's been chasing his fix of getting colm back in his life again, and he slowly grows into the notion that he has to be not truthful, not vulnerable, but harsh. in his mind, the only path he has is channeling his sadness into anger and turn whatever they have left dragging on behind them into some toxic morph of love and hate and resentment and, honestly, some kind of pure entertainment to not lose their damn minds. pádraic takes a look at colm digging his own abyss and decides that he'll show him what an abyss truly is by smashing theirs together until it doesn't even matter how it started. we are never getting out. he can't allow himself to be the oblivious happy lad, he has been forced to face what he's been always pushing down and because of what colm said, he can't afford to be dull. it's not a fully coherent thought, but in his mind, this is the way for them to connect now and he will make sure that this bond is never severed since it seems more sturdy and steady than the complicated vulnerable position of simply dealing with love in its positive sense. and colm eats it up, of course, because it was his insanity with pádraic that was filling his days and even giving him the feeling needed to write music. it was their miseries touching each other that started to give him a better answer: it was human connection after all. while before pádraic and him were mismatched, now they are on the same page and they both see each other better.

in a way, simplifying the themes, i also see this movie as one man rushing to catch up with the other, but running so hard and fast he takes them both past any kind of happy middle, that was a nearly impossible concept with them living when and where they do anyway. and it ends up being miserable but also born out of a mixed-up desire and necessity to face difficult and ugly things. and sure, it's not dealt with in any healthy sense, but it's also not gone. two fucked up men make their situation even more fucked up in order not to lose each other. and they might be just entertaining themselves until comes the inevitable, but isn't that what we all do on this earth anyways.

You used to be nice. Or did you never used to be? Oh God. Maybe you never used to be.

THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (2022) dir. Martin McDonagh