#welcome to my TWISTED MIND!!!!!!!!

[joepelling]

“WHY ARE YOUR TAGS LIKE THAT?” OR: RED GUY DUCK AND YELLOW GUY ARE THE EGO SUPEREGO AND ID TO THE ENLIGHTENED MIND, A MASTERPOST

BASICALLY: the ego, superego, and id are freudian concepts of how the mind works in psychoanalytic theory. i match up the three protagonists of don’t hug me i’m scared with these concepts. here’s my insane person, long-winded explanation as to why.

THE EGO: rational, realistic, practical. the true self, the mediator between the other two. very concerned with self-preservation.

THE SUPEREGO: idealistic, critical, perfectionist. the judge, jury, and executioner.

THE ID: impulsive, childish, emotional. pure desire. associated with sexuality and romance.

the characters have been described by joe pelling as “the middleman” “cynical and fussy” and “optimistic and idiotic” respectively

RED GUY: is CONSTANTLY the mediator between yellow and duck. the only one seen in the “real world,” and the ego is the self presented to the outside world. the “worm in his brain” has to do with outward appearance.

DUCK: famously hostile and judgmental, constantly associated with the military (authority figures), even becomes a dictator in the scrapped pilot. his aggression is often targeted towards yellow, who he deems too emotional and sensitive and deserving of it the most. the “worm in his brain” has to do with morality.

YELLOW GUY: while he is often read as asexual and aromantic (which i agree with!), he has multiple “love interests,” even if none of them are played straight. his brain friends are all very emotional and have nothing resembling a voice of reason, and no way of handling warren (who can be interpreted as an intrusive thought) without enabling him. the “worm in his brain” has to do with relationships.

MISC DYNAMIC THOUGHTS: when yellow claims “grolton is the dog,” red corrects him gently and politely and duck swiftly shuts him down and tells him to shut up (there’s a lot of instances of red gently correcting yellow and duck doing it harshly, but to my memory this is the only time they do it with the exact same thing). during the friendship fight, red implies he’s told duck to stop being so harsh on yellow. duck has to intervene to remove warren (again, here a symbol of intrusive thoughts) as yellow is physically incapable of doing so on his own.

CLOSING THOUGHTS: do i think this theory is the key to understanding what dhmis is about? not at all! i personally believe that dhmis is just made for fun and with no deeper meaning than “becky and joe made something fun to make each other laugh.” do i as a psychology enthusiast think it’s an interesting way to interpret the text? yeah. my theory is flawed, for sure- yellow is concerned with keeping harmony and is usually nonviolent despite the id’s association with aggression, duck is the least likely to go along with the teachers (authority figures, when the superego gets its moral system directly from them), red often doesn’t care about the other two, among other things, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun for me to think about!

if you’ve made it this far, thank you so much for reading! feel free to ask any questions and i would be very happy to answer them, as i’m very passionate about this theory and love to discuss it. love you!

[dailykrusie]

Day 1

[quarkfancam]

its my first day at ds9 high school hope they dont notice im straight

[pencilscratchins]

to everyone asking when i’m gonna post art again… hey guys i recently acquired six incredibly large clown paintings so i’m sort of booked at the moment

[bogdoom]

Better luck next time

[five5sixers]

fontaine rewired my brain chemistry

[vulcanette]

[j0celynh0rr0r]

@ my man

[writingbluerose]

Ace : Why do you always keep that portrait in your room?

Deuce : Not that we'd judge you Yuu, but we're just curious

Yuu : ...hm, I mean I don't know but... It kind of makes me feel safe

Ace : Huh

later that night

Yuu : *fell asleep at their desk, studying*

Skully : *happily humming a tune while putting a blanket on them* Sleep well my dear friend

[shepscapades]

Is there a world in which we can see the old beesuma and new beesuma panel side by side?

There sure is!

I think these are all of the beesumas I’ve posted, so here are all of the updated drawings I did! It mostly bothered me how inconsistently I had drawn the armor, and as time has gone on I’ve had… ideas… about some things I want the Bee Armor to imply and such, so consolidating the design and making it consistent across the times he’s come up seemed like the best thing to do, since every beesuma appearance has seemed to carry a bit of weight, y’know?

Since it’s the most detailed, the drawing from Children of the Machine was my biggest concern to update and fix! And actually, I was originally just going to redraw the armor and call it done, but when I sat down to look at it again, I wasn't super happy with the general vibe of it I think, and the more I made adjustments to his face the more I realized I just wanted to redraw the whole thing. The posture and expression and everything just didn’t feel right for him—Realistically, s7 Xisuma is still Xisuma, and I don’t think he’d be so animated-looking even when talking project he’d be super excited about. I’ve also drawn his face a lot more over the years (in private mostly dnfbcfhgbbdghn), and so I really think the new drawing is a much better representation of him overall :D <3

The other two (from the Big Shot and Bee Shtick Comic posts, respectively) are much smaller changes. By the time I did the bee shtick comic, I had mostly kinda figured out what I wanted the bee armor to look like, so not much to fix there, and the Big Shot Xisuma is just a bust, so easy fixing there too! The hex-shaped shoulder pad I had originally put on him ended up being moved to his helmet, so yeah :D

[voidwelt]

mr yang is pregnant

[syllogical]

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[merry-fagoland]

yeah

[areyouscaredyet]

so im assembling a team….

[commandermilf]

The Clone Wars (2008) - S7:E1 "The Bad Batch" 00:14:00:00