#anywho much to think about

[sunny-knight]

THIS IS HOME

@forgettable-au Fan-Animatic ⭐️

The stars welcome him with open arms…

Work and Progress + Analysis below!

You can find the work in progress things here! because I wanna show the sketch animatic and you can only upload one video…

The entire idea was inspired off of THIS lovely little qna written a bit ago! havnt forgotten about it since! Despite what the AU might have you believe And recently I decided I could just draw out the fun part instead of go through the pain of storyboarding and cleaning up a nearly 4 minute long song 👍👍👍

Thats the idea though, theres no real plot, so no real context I can give other than the things the comic itself already provides. “This Is Home” just works incredibly well for this poor childs trauma, and it was a great opportunity to practice my composition and storytelling!!

Onto the deep analysis of every frame individually!!! (this is normal. this happens every time.)

The idea that Wingdings just eventually- gave up. Trying to connect with anyone. HURTS ME DEEPLY. I’m not sure if thats specifically because he just couldn’t get the font thing down, but I imagine that was a big contributing factor. But thats what specifically stops him here. He eventually slams his keys down on the board and says “IM DONE” and throws himself into a thing he can purely enjoy on his own- science. Even at a young age, I feel he only had 2 lives. One with Sans, and one with science. Then when those worlds combined when he became the royal scientist uhhh- I imagine it got worse.

Speaking of his young age, In these shots he’s also notably a tad older than the later depictions of his younger self with the scarf. Less full of joy and whimsy

“His mind is in a different place” is taken a tad more negatively than in the context of the song I feel, as he’s more or less isolated himself from everyone (but Sans) now in this “giving up” phase of his childhood. I wonder how Sans noticed/took that and if he tried to convince him otherwise, but in this case he just thinks he needs some time to himself.

Also let it be known that the words being crammed in at the “Give him a little bit of space” bit is on PURPOSE and a SILLY LITTLE JOKE/VISUAL GAG GIVEN THE LINE. I AM SO FUNNY.

The colors are also notably dark blues, that get greyer when Wingdings has given up. The light that Sans lets in ((looks into the camera, tearing up)) is still pretty cold despite it being brighter.

The berating is also in uppercase to show most of this is from Wingdings’ pov- I know he speaks in proper casing at this time, but I NEED SOME SORT OF INDICATOR, WORK WITH ME HERE. His main issue was his own self consciousness and desire to communicate properly, since it was said before on the blog that no one really picked on him for his inability to talk to them.

Then we have Papyrus!! The colors are similarly blue, but a lot brighter and a touch purpler and greener. Its from the same world, but not the same person. Also he’s wearing a yellow vest which is the complimentary color to blue ☝️

Papyrus is more heavily associated with warm colors in contrast to Wingdings, but this takes place very early on when he was very confused where his place was (or at least I assume thats what happened). He’s associating with warm colors (yellow) but is somewhat weary about it and still subconsciously clutching onto the comfort in familiarity.

The scene ofc depicts Papyrus being incredibly uncomfortable about any photos of himself as a child. It still definitely…looooks… like him. it just feels really wrong.

Similar thing to last time with the fonts as well, uppercase, Papyrus’ pov, he just wants to know who/WHAT he is.

I enjoy the colors in the photo and how they reallly stand out from the rest of the shot, just another emphasis that the photo feels otherworldly to Papyrus.

This is the part where I start weeping pitifully. The tiny Wingdings to Gaster comparison- it’s just so upsetting, I want to know what this poor child would think if he saw what he ends up as 😭

Wingdings enjoyed dreaming about the real stars he MIGHT get to see one day with Sans. The scene is dark, as it still hasnt happened yet, but still bright and hopeful as he stares up at the light! Its always a possibility. But then we have Gaster, who finally did it. He reached the stars, he gets to look up and say “wow…. I really did it”. Staring up at the void before him. Without Sans…I feel he wouldn’t ponder on it much, and consciously he doesn’t see anything bad about his circumstances, but the crack going down his eye that elludes to a tear says otherwise in the suppressed emotions.

The world Wingdings lived in when he was small, seemed so endless…Despite the underground being small compared to the real world, his imagination was endless. He could dream, he could imagine, and create things, get and give new ideas! But now as an adult that just so happens to be a lovecraftian entity, everything is much more simple and straightforward. At least from his perspective…Gaster may be able to DO way more than he ever could as a small child, but his mind is pretty one track at this point.

I wonder how Gaster feels…Now that they’ve gotten to the surface. without him

Im not sure how Papyrus in the game or even in the comic feels about stars, but Sans for one doesnt have to daydream anymore. They’ve also “done it” just like Gaster, but the hug insinuates less of that and more a “we WON”. They share in this moment together more emotionally than anything.

Again, compared to Gaster and them, they enjoy the moment in their own ways- Gaster just the action of seeing the stars, and Papyrus in what the moment itself means. I feel those are the 2 wants Wingdings had and thats a lot of what Papyrus and Gaster are. 2 halfs of Wingdings’…whole…thing

Also the stars welcoming him with open arms is both in reference to Sans but also Papyrus welcoming/accepting/loving himself…

IN CONCLUSION:

…yknow ive never asked before, but if anyone has any questions or needs clarification im happy to-

[dreamyblanket]

Because i have a coupple asks for him, here's a little redesign for pre corruption sm!

there were some minor things I didn't like about his design so I changed them! It may change in the future but for now I'm happy with this //^^//

[kiwi-peep]

Ghostface is drenched coming back from a trial

[macking-cheese]

Crawling out of my art block grave to present to theee a lil something something (aka when two hyperfixations decide to become one)

Long story short I blasted 3 of my favorite little blorbos with the buginator and will do it again >:]

[anxious-chaos-art]

In honor of ep 4 dropping today here’s my page of kips!

[momentomori24]

I may just be insane about this but does this feel like foreshadowing to anyone else. In this scene we see her trying to replicate the skill of someone else (her mother) and failing to achieve the same results that they would. That feels really specific and it's driving me insane.

Like, we see this come back again in the aftermath of the trial. Diana has repeatedly voiced her admiration for Wolfgang's ability to speak and inspire those around him in the darkest of times, saying she wished she could do the same. We see her pour her heart out and give her own speech to inspire the others-- except the reaction that she receives is cold and miserable, far from the newly kindled warmth and hope Wolfgang was able to create every time.

Diana is a chameleon. Her whole thing is to reflect, to replicate and to adapt. Do you think that this small scene where she tries to make a butterfly out of her hairclips-- a butterfly, an animal associated with transformation and change-- and the end result looking nothing like what she wanted it to be is a metaphor for her future character arc? She has declared that she wants to follow in Wolfgang's footsteps, wants to become something new, but do you think that by the end she ends up being the furthest thing from him? Do you think that by the end she will be left distorted, fundamentally wrong? Do you think that if she could see what she will become in the future, the only emotion that she can muster is horror as she gazes at a stranger that's supposed to be herself? That by the end, she won't be able to recognise herself, because there's no "her" left anymore?

[galaxyspark-6e16]

My Viva gijinka design ✨🌟🌠 isn't she fantamazing!

[dolei1]

@oblique-lane hello... 👉👈

the new anomaly diversion chapter has me on the edge of my seat, the plot twist in this scene and the aftermath made me gasp in real life, i had to pace when i finished for an hour, and then i sat down and made this

in short:

[ghostlymarauder]

I feel like there's a lot of people in the Yellowjackets fandom (especially on tiktok) that don't understand the girls' trauma. I've seen so many people say the girls are 'bad people' and to me that's insane because a big part of the show is their fear of people finding out what they did in the woods because they would've been ostracized, yet that's exactly what some people do.

I feel like it goes without saying that, yes, plenty of the things they do out there in the wilderness are wrong, but that doesn't necessarily make any of them bad people, you know why? Because they were in extreme circumstances. They were teenage girls, left to their own devices, in very extreme circumstances, and I feel people don't realize that enough.

For example, Lottie is not only in a extreme situation because, well, she's stranded in the middle of nowhere, but she's also an schizophrenic child without her meds. And what people don't consider about this is that the girls are very young, but Lottie had been medicated for a while by the point their plane crashed, so perhaps she wasn't even used to having her symptoms anymore.

Another character I hate when people act like she's the devil is Shauna, because, yes, Shauna does cause a lot of her own problem but she's a TEEN, not only that, she's a TROUBLED TEEN. Like, people act as if fucking her best friend's boyfriend is just as bad as eating Jackie when the first is stupid and immoral at most and the other is a fucking crime.

So, yes, her fallout with Jackie IS her fault, but people think she doesn't know that?? Even if it deep down??? And do you know what that can do to a person?????? Knowing you not only were the reason you're best friend die but also that you betrayed them in the worst way possible and they found out right before they died. Like, if that happened to me, while also being stranded in the middle of fucking nowhere, I would've also gone berserk

Also, I don't think people take into consideration the trauma caused by losing a child and especially after hallucinating said child was alive. Like, I've had dreams that I wake up from and doubt if they're real or not, now imagine those kind of dreams while starving and with all of the stress of, then again, BEING STRANDED IN THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING NOWHERE.

Now, I also don't think people even remember the freaking bear when they talk about the cult and why everyone believed Lottie. First of all, whether there IS some supernatural entity or not, I strongly believe all of the girls were experiencing a collective psychosis, so that plays into the reason everyone decides to trust Lottie. But other than that, they all have a very valid reason—a freaking bear collapsed in front of her like it was offering itself to her.

If I'd seen that, I would've also been praying and talking to the trees with her, man.

And when it comes to the actual crazy things the do—eating Jackie, hunting Nat, letting Javi die, eating Javi, kidnapping Coach Scott, killing Coach Scott, eating Coach Scott. I think that if you really think about it, many of those things are somewhat reasonable within their context.

When they're cremating Jackie and she essentially turns into a make-shift human barbecue, they're hungry and had been for a while, they were also sleeping and most of them probably didn't even think the consequences of what they were doing until it was too late. But even then, they were starving and in the middle of the woods, completely lost and with no way to go back to civilization, so I can look past Jackie.

Then there's the Hunt with Nat, which I personally think is sadistic, but if you really think about it, they were once again hungry and probably hallucinating or at the very least in a terrible psychosis, so I can also look past that.

When it comes to Javi, I think so people might think Nat was wrong, but I want anybody who might think that to imagine you're a teenager, surrounded by other wild, feral teenagers willing to kill and eat you and then tell if you comply if they were letting other person die in your place. Because I, personally, don't think I would have the strength to be selfless enough to save Javi and put myself in danger.

The only thing I truly find disturbing about the Javi situation (once again, when I look at it with the whole context and through the lens of what they were living) is Travis biting his brother's heart. BUT. BUT. BUT, then again, if I was him and I'd seen what they did to Javi, I don't think I would've told them I wasn't going to bite my brother's heart either.

Then, there's Coach Scott, and now, this is a truly complicated situation where several people can and ARE wrong and right at the same time.

On one hand, there's Coach Scott, who makes a shit ton of mistakes from the start and loses any authority he might've had. And don't get me wrong, I'll be a Coach Scott defender till the day I die, because he was just a young man who was in the same scary situation the girls were and had just lost a leg, but did leave the girls to do as they pleased and they eventually got out of control.

Then, there's two girls I find the most relevant when it comes to Coach Scott and those are Shauna and Nat. Firstly, there's Nat, who had an idea of where Coach Scott was and decided not to tell because the other were going to want him dead, which shows that, yes, you can still your humanity out there, but I don't think that means the others were necessarily wrong for feeling angered by the thought he burned their cabin down.

Nat does everything she can to protect Ben until the end, but inevitably realizes the human thing to do is to kill him. I think she didn't want to kill him sooner is for two main reasons: to protect him and to protect the girls, because Nat knew that if she killed him, the girls would've taken the position of leader from her and that would probably cause chaos which is what inevitably ends up happening.

On the other hand, there's Shauna, and, honestly, I don't think she's evil for wanting Ben dead—she's wrong, but she's not evil. She's traumatized, and she's hurt, and she's angry, and she needs to take it out on something or someone. Is that correct? No, it isn't. Can I blame her? Nope, again, middle of the woods, a bunch of trauma, killed and ate her best friend.

Again, I am not under any circumstances saying that they were correct, just that nothing they did out there makes them bad people. And even their adult versions have solid defenses for a lot of the things they do.

Anything Shauna does can be explained on the base that she hasn't got the proper treatment for her trauma and she's basically an adult teen.

Taissa leaving Simone and Sammy is partly caused by her double personality.

Melissa faking her death, creating a new personality, and marrying the daughter of one of the victims of the cult is a whole flavor of trauma in itself.

Lottie creating a new cult was a desperate attempt to recreate the freedom yet safety she felt out there.

Travis accidentally killing himself was a desperate cry for help.

Surprisingly enough I think Misty, Van and Nat were the only one who actually don't do crazy thing for their trauma's sake. Because, I mean, yeah, Misty killed that woman in season one but I think that unrelated to her trauman.

Actually, notice how I didn't defend Misty in this post? That's because she IS insane from the get-go, and I love her for it, but I can't defend her.

So, my point is—yes, they are insane, yes they do things that are wrong. But that DOES NOT make them bad people, because they were and are in extreme situations or severely traumatized. And I don't think any of the characters get enough credit for that.

[fallen-goldfishcracker]

okay but does it ever kill you how much Wyll loves being the Blade of Frontiers? I think we tend to think of Wyll as this serious, stoic guy, but he's so ridiculously silly about his whole superhero persona. He grew up absolutely in love with storybook heros and tales of bravery and all the bard songs and legends. Look at his reaction to meeting Minsc and Boo!

He must love getting to be a figure like that for a whole new generation of kids. He loves the bard songs (even the bawdy ones!) and the title and the stories, but he just loves being someone brave and worthy and able to help. He loves being a hero!

And to add on to that, its definitely a coping mechanism for him. Perhaps a bit of a messed-up one, but hey, its working.

Which is why the body modification by Mizora seems doubly painful- it doesn't matter that Wyll got them for noble reasons, what the horns do- (and what Wyll knows they do, because he's not an idiot and he understands the common people better than probably anyone else)- is send that whole dream crashing to the ground. He's immediately marked as other. Florrick almost completely passes over him. The tiefling refugees shrink around him. The guards at the doors of his own city don't recognize him. I think Wyll could absolutely win the people's hearts back, he's Wyll Ravengard, of course he could! But in the short term, by gods that's got to hurt.

This is at least the second time in his life he's lost everything in one fell swoop. No wonder he's miserable at the tiefling party- I would be too! It's a testament to his frankly astonishing emotional fortitude that he's barely even moping.

[haveihitanerve]

“You lost sight of the value of Roland Desmond’s life. If you need me to forgive you for that, I probably can. But it won’t mean anything until you forgive yourself. And you have no right to expect me to excuse you- for losing sight of the value of yours. You made a mistake Dick. Are you going to let it be your last?” 

-this quote was said to Dick by Bruce after he was raped by Tarantula and was acting suicidal, Bruce does not know after Tarantula(does he ever learn?? someone please share) Nightwing #117 by Devin Grayson and Brad Walker

Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow. Holy shit. This is possibly the most outright angry I love you Bruce has ever said. He is fucking terrified. He can deal with his son forgoing the mission and not being able to save a life. Even tells him that he will forgive him for it. But he can’t do it if Dick doesn't forgive himself. He understands Dick so well, he knows his opinion does not matter as long as Dick is still blaming himself.(which is exactly the opposite- Bruce’s opinion matters so much that Dick will forgive himself in order to gain Bruce’s) And angrily stomps away declaring he cant forgive his son for being as careless with his life- for losing sight of the value of it, of how much he matters and means to Bruce, that he can’t handle being near him right now without anger, that he can’t forgive him for it. Because he cant lose Dick. He can’t. But instead of it being a villain trying to take his son from him, someone Bruce could fight off with fists and smarts, its his own son. Dick is the one trying to take his own life, and it petrifies Bruce. Because that’s not an opponent he can fight. Mental issues, bruce has plenty of his own, and he knows its not an easy battle. Its not something he can fix. And that terrifies him. Because it could lose him his son. 

[toasty-owl-arts]

slamming my head into the table about them actually

[alkatart]

Guys, it's the wife and the ugly ass husband! /ref

Went kinda insane over the deus ex wifey in the new ep sooooo have the them I drew instead of studying because I love them

[phoenixwithapencil]

I think people who draw Zack a little monstrous are onto something actually. Esp if it’s a Zack lives AU.

Zack who is Changed undeniably by Crisis Core. Zack who Is A Monster and who Is Not Monstrous. Or at least does not allow it to consume him.

Zack who is a monster, like Angeal and Genesis and Sephiroth and when cloud tells Zack what sharp claws he has Zack says ‘all the better to protect you with’

Zack who doesn’t run back to Gongaga to lurk in the jungle to be hunted. Zack who gets support from the people he loves and who love him in turn because ff7 is a story that time and time again rewards that. Zack who is marked by his grief and by his tragedy and by his very DNA and has people to keep him from drowning in it all.

Zack who is not the same, but Zack who still has dreams and honor and so much love. A monster. But not monstrous.

[oosey0]

i think the concept of pregnancy secretly fascinates him to no end but he'd never admit that to anyone

[13-nothing]

Been rereading the early Inky Mystery chapters recently and I have to say I forgot how flirty Bendy was in the beginning like Idk how I forgot about that. In the beginning it's like a huge part of his character and he's just changed sooooo much.

All of them have, like Felix being a Dad to not only Bendy and Boris, but the Cup-Bros too like now it would seem out of character for him to do that cause of the whole Wiseton mess. Then there's all their banter that's more or less up and left (or literally flown off in some cases), Alice and Bendy's puns, Cups and Bendy's play fighting, Mugs and Boris being cheeky against their bros, Holly's excessive questions (like they're there it's just less and she more subdued), Holly joking w the Cup-Bros or Alice and Cala, Cup calling her Tree Princess, and Finley's jokes and little skits w Sammy (oh Finley, u adorable fox, it's been a while).

OH and then there's the "widdle wolfie" thing, my heart hurts anytime as I reread those like com'on man I can't take it. On top of it I finally reached the Group Date thing and Alice is so avoidant of a relationship w Bendy cause of culture and her parents which is killing me cause like her Mom was fine w it (love that btw) and yeah we don't know how the Upper would react but we could've avoided SOME of the heartache we have now and it just makes me wonder what would've happened if she had excepted at the time.

Overall I just miss their family dynamic and just everything before Finley died and the Dark Circus stuff!!!😭😭😭

Like it's so pure and cute and I miss it...

But alas here we are, the Quester Family torn asunder.

.....

Yeah, they were just such cuties and I love them. Unfortunately tho I love drama, angst, and the darker stuff more so I can't wait to see what's next. Anyway I must say farewell to thee my fellow existences.