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castletown retirement home

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continuing my pursuit of being their biggest advocate

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* I know why — climbed the mountain. It wasn’t for a very happy reason.

The nature of the first human is something that Undertale leaves to everyone’s interpretation. Since I was very touched by this part of the game, I wanted to draw my own take to their story! Some of you might disagree with me, others have probably reached very similar conclusions on their own, and that’s all fine! I hope you enjoy this comic either way.

Where It Belongs -tale of the fallen child-

parts 1 & 2 with music

Part 1: A long time ago / Part 2: Home / Part 3: The Choice / FIGHT / MERCY

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The ol’ jitterbug

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EYE OF PROVIDENCE! REVEAL TO ME YOUR MISINFORMATION!!

posting is body horror and lurking is cosmic horror, it is quite simple

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The Tarot (Major Arcana) illustrated by Joe Sparrow

Available soon as for purchase as a deck!

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i am shrunken down and brought to the gnome world and when i attempt to assimilate to their culture I use an acorn cap as a hat and they all laugh cheerfully at my silly mistake of wearing what they use as a bowl like a cap and though this is a transgression that would have humiliated me in my human life I am instead laughing alongside them at my humorous misunderstanding

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Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.

People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"

Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.

I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.

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"Liminal" means "boundary" as in "the veil is thin here"

Liminal spaces are places that feel dreamlike, fuzzy on reality. Their boundaries are unstable. A bus station at night. A long desert highway. A bridge over a river.

They do, however, have an opposite; the Proximal space. These are places that feel far too real, extremely defined, boundaries that seem to override natural forces like time or space. Large warehouses without windows, identical chain stores at disorienting hours, your home after a nap of indeterminate time.

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saying something you know will make people laugh. And they do laugh.

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Me summoning all the demons of the ninth circle of hell so I have enough people to run dnd for

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Take me from this rotting earth, let me dance with holy numbers in sweet platonic oblivion.

It's gross being made of meat but unlike some of you I understand that it would be equally gross being made of metal. the only non gross form of being is pure abstraction.

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This is basically my exact political ideology, at least in theory

In order to have good politics, I think you should want to be an anarchist. Like, yeah, we probably need a state, or something functionally much like a state, to make sure antibiotics get manufactured and the roads get paved and people have enough to eat. But you should be in perpetual unease over that fact. When institutions of power begin to overstep their bounds, you should not hesitate to make it their problem. You have to think the Man is fucking bullshit, man.

Like, I think power will probably always exist. If it isn't explicit it'll be implicit. But that doesn't mean you have to accept it, endorse it, support it. You should be putting systems of power through the wringer at every turn. Because power will be better behaved in a society where everyone is a bit of an anarchist on the inside, where we know it's all fucking bullshit.

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I have way more that I could say, but I'd need a video essay or a novel cause this post is akready way too long

So, I've been ruminating on a thought for a while now about the media discourse surrounding ideas of 'grimdark' and the new term 'noblebright'

A lot of people seem to demonize grimdark as pessimistic nihilistic garbage. And while I know that this is mostly a reaction to hollywood 'edgy' trend of everything having to be dark to be taken seriously, which really is nihilistic trite, (and thankfully seems to be going away) I still think its an ultimayely harmful idea of the types of stories that can be told.

I likke steven universe, i like lotr, i like shounen(mostly) i like stories about good people that beat bad villians and make the world better. What annoys me is when people see these stories call them 'hopeful' and assume that 'hopeless' stories like asoiaf(let's ignore the show for a sec) are inherently bad.

The truth is that hope and hopelessness are not opposites, and that pessimism does not mean nihilism. In good grimdark stories, like bersek having hope in the face of hopelessness is the whole point.

Doing something impossible (like making a big rambly post while have no followers and expecting someone to read it) has meaning, even if you fail. And I think thats the point of grimdark, good grimdark at least.

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So, I've been ruminating on a thought for a while now about the media discourse surrounding ideas of 'grimdark' and the new term 'noblebright'

A lot of people seem to demonize grimdark as pessimistic nihilistic garbage. And while I know that this is mostly a reaction to hollywood 'edgy' trend of everything having to be dark to be taken seriously, which really is nihilistic trite, (and thankfully seems to be going away) I still think its an ultimayely harmful idea of the types of stories that can be told.

I likke steven universe, i like lotr, i like shounen(mostly) i like stories about good people that beat bad villians and make the world better. What annoys me is when people see these stories call them 'hopeful' and assume that 'hopeless' stories like asoiaf(let's ignore the show for a sec) are inherently bad.

The truth is that hope and hopelessness are not opposites, and that pessimism does not mean nihilism. In good grimdark stories, like bersek having hope in the face of hopelessness is the whole point.

Doing something impossible (like making a big rambly post while have no followers and expecting someone to read it) has meaning, even if you fail. And I think thats the point of grimdark, good grimdark at least.