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cringe father son moments on the tulpar 🫶

before you think "will there actually be a next time :(" yes there absolutely will be because this is in my au where jimmy gets fired early on before he does irreversible damage which means i can have all the wholesome found family shenanigans i want on this gatdang ship without threat of The Horrors. yes this is how i cope.

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Take a slice

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betrayal

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A captain and his crew

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i love being weird i love being full of love

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useless ray of goddamn sunshine

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I love the way that Mouthwashing uses Jimmy and Curly taking turns as the perspective character to make their actions not just parallel to each other, but hopelessly, disgustingly inseperable. The clear picture it paints us of how Curly enables Jimmy and how Jimmy guilts Curly into further enabling him. They both avoid responsibility when it really counts-- Curly through shows of appeasement and Jimmy through shifting the blame to someone else.

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Gimme all the Mouthwashing content you have

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Mouthwashing

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EMERGENCY

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I hope this hurts

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🍴🥩

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smthing about mouthwashing's game design that makes me so crazy (goodway) is that the perspective we have of anya's personality is determined by how willing the player is to believe jimmy about her. in order to really get to know anya you have to deliberately talk to her, look for the little contradictions in the way she acts vs how jimmy regards her.... and the fact that her and polle's text colors are the same color ONLY when jimmy is imagining polle. and how differently polle acts in jimmy's imagination to how we see anya act in front of him... it makes the line about cartoon horses a little more prickly...

the game requires you to fight against jimmy's dehumanization of her to get to know her. i think polle's ending monologue is meant to be the true way she felt about jimmy... in trying to know anya beyond jimmy's dismissal of her, you're meant to do what curly fails to - push past just smoothing over the surface information and actually dig a little more...

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horrible art burnout so it’s 4 am and I’m scribbling Mouthwashing <3

they make my brain tired

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some moments last forever,

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I think it's super interesting how Jimmy's fear of Anya and the baby manifests in his mind as the Pony Express mascot.

Unlike every other character, Anya ISN'T in Jimmy's guilt/regret hallucinations near the end. He sees Daisuke walk towards the dark, he sees Swansea chase him through a cemetery, he sees Curly on fire in front of him but ANYA? Anya isn't given that kind of treatment. No, instead, we see a hallucination of the baby, a tiny horse in a womb that has no face attached to it (Anya's face specifically, all he sees is the womb), turning into a deformed monster that hunts him down the moment it's born.

Polle (the baby) is seen as a danger in Jimmy's head in the beginning of the game too, after he walks out of the cockpit. The more he walks, the louder the baby noises get and the more deformed Polle looks when he runs into it!

Jimmy doesn't give a damn about Anya, nor does he regret anything he did to her, but he is scared of that baby and what it means. The living proof of what he did to Anya, manifesting as a monster that hunts him down throughout the game.