#//ghoul speaks

[ghoulsaint]

Hello! I adore your art; do you only post on tumblr or do you post elsewhere (if willing to share ofc)?

hi anon, thank you <3

im only posting on tumblr right now - i don't have much of a reason for going to other platforms tbh

[pigeon-enthus1ast]

GIVE MOUNTAIN AND SWISS BACK THEIR CAPES. I REPEAT-

[hinamie]

every so often i have to relearn how to draw yuuji or he starts fighting me

[hakucho-art]

TOKYO GHOUL MIKU

[sickmorbiddoll]

Me when I’m reading a good fanfic and the author writes “my knuckles turned white as I clenched the sheets"

After I read that I can not bring myself to read it anymore 😭

[ghouljams]

I like when I get in my bed and get comfy and suddenly my brain is whisper words to me that I then have to share with you all or have them be lost to the void.

Gaz accidentally spears a seal while sailing and when he can't find it he goes home, only to find a wounded and frightfully pissed off( and human) beauty on his porch in the morning.

Soap makes a bet he can't pay out and so eagerly asks if there's another way he can pay that you suspect this was his plan all along.

Idk idk idk

[cupid-ghoul]

rain zoomies but he's still wet from his dip in the lake so he slips on the marble tiles and just falls onto his face

dw he's fine, his ego is bruised and his nose hurts a bit, but besides that everything is okay. he'll shake himself dry like a dog afterwards and continue scrambling around.

[sombrashe]

how come the cooper fuckers aren't talking about the way he stands up on his horse !?

[kermit-coded]

watcher alternatives

in honor of steven and the ghoul boys shitting the proverbial bed, here's some of my favorite youtube channels/podcasts with similar vibes!

michael reeves: an extremely unhinged youtuber who makes robots! he only posts once or twice a year, but his videos are super worth it!

sorta stupid: my favorite reaction channel. these guys are super chill and funny, and they are the ultimate allies (go check out their toh series if you wanna see them be huge lumity shippers!)

microwave society: they also do reactions, but they specialize in shitty kids movies (and the occasional classic like megamind or shrek). check out their veggietales videos if you want to laugh until you puke.

max0r: does unhinged video game reviews that are like crack for people with adhd.

anthpo: he's not making videos anymore, but all his stuff is up on youtube and he perfectly balances feel-good and funny.

cryptid keeper podcast: this podcast has major early-unsolved vibes and they somewhat have the skeptic/believer dynamic as well.

[p1nkcanoe]

they had to take the cape away from rain because he served so much cunt that people actually started dying

[mardyart]

young cardinal and /his/ ghoul

[atmosghoul]

[cosmicseafoam]

Rain secretly taking lessons with a kind sibling of sin to learn to speak English. Doesn't tell any of the ghouls or the papas. Mostly just wants it to have it for him, and so he can sing along to songs quietly to himself in his room.

So imagine everyone's surprise when they come off stage and he spits out "are- aren't we doing an encore?"

[bailadeluna]

there’s something so brilliant in cooper howard’s costume design - it’s so much more than just a simple blue and gold cowboy fit.

at the beginning of the show, before the bombs dropped, cooper howard was a good person - always kind to others despite the circumstances or how he was feeling in the moment.

you could say… he was exemplifying the golden rule.

this is evident in his costuming - cooper is decked out in gold even when the bombs dropped. the golden rule is still so close to his heart - i mean come on - look at how tight that bandana is around his neck.

even in certain lighting, his hat looks gold.

cooper howard being a good person and living by the golden rule is what barb probably fell in love with (she has her own interesting character analysis and thought process which i would love to discuss later). because this trait is so admired by her and those around cooper, she probably saw him as who she would hope future generations would become as they grow up in the vaults. people like him are the better future she envisions - so it’s no coincidence that the vault suit is in his colors.

what does the blue symbolize?

well, to me, i think it’s the corporate presence in the world. there’s more blue in the suit than there is gold - hinting at vaultech’s corporate greed, capitalism, and evil machinations. (there was also blue in his old cowboy costume - i.e. the presence of the studio and how they use cooper to push a mccarthyism narrative. kinda in the same way vaultech will use him)

the blue in the suit - symbolizing vaultech’s overwhelming presence and the reason for such a bleak and cruel world - does not swallow up the gold - the small semblance of humanity’s capacity to do and be good. it’s the small hint at barb’s intentions (analogous to the road to hell being paved with good intentions).

yet the man who was an inspiration for vaultech’s workers - the man who they all wished they could be like, the man who symbolized all the “do good” ideas they pass down to their children but in the end have no intention of following them (wink wink, looking at you, hank) - was in the end stripped of all his humanity by the world vaultech created (wow, would you look at that? another analogy for capitalism!)

this man, once rich in morals now robbed of them all, wanders the wasteland a ghoul. everything has been taken from him - symbolized being devoid of layers of skin.

now, he’s nothing but the ghost of the man he once was - haunted by what has been done. everything he wears as the ghoul is frayed, tattered, and dark - symbolizing that cooper howard, that kind and caring man before the bombs is dead.

but wait - is that…

you don’t see it? Ok, i’ll zoom in some more

GOLD? (perhaps even the same shirt he was wearing during the bomb drop??)

perhaps the golden rule, those values that he once held so dearly, are still there just dormant - waiting to be awaken again.

maybe cooper howard can come back… that just maybe there’s still hope for the good in humanity…

[newesthope]

This is how I see them

[ghouljams]

Do you have any headcanons for Gaz? Like every day things he does out of habit? Or maybe things he does to tf141 that annoy the hell out of them?

I do 100%

Small things:

Gaz flosses. I mean every night. That's why he's got such a perfect smile(at least that's what he tells Soap when the lad asks how he manages to remember)

Chocolate sweets guy. Specifically I think he likes those shortbread cookies with dark chocolate on them. He strikes me as someone who doesn't go for sweets so he'd like the bitterness of dark chocolate.

Played cricket in high school. Nearly takes Ghost's head off with a pitch when asked to prove it. Claims it gives him an edge with sniping, as of yet this hasn't been proven or disproven.

Medium things:

The man cannot cook. I know this is not a popular headcanon but I really think he was spoiled by his mum and never has had to cook a meal in his life. He gets takeaway if he isn't on base and excuses it as "treating himself" but really he just can't cook.

Ice over heat for pain. He'd rather find an ice pack for his back than grab a hot water bottle. That said:

Hates the cold. Did not enjoy the snow missions and was complaining to anyone that would listen about freezing his arse off.

Big things:

Gaz has a bad back, bad enough that he has constant little readjusting twitches that he tries to hide. It's usually just a sort of sore stiffness but sometimes it gets as bad as sharp shooting pain.

Gaz skips out on his physical therapy unless his back is bad. Very much a "grin and bare it" person, he doesn't want anyone thinking he's weak or can't handle his own body.

Frequently loses the key to his room so he's started keeping a spare on top of the door frame. The problem being that he forgets that's there and inevitably Price has to let him into his bunk. (Soap has been stealing his keys. Started as a prank but now he just wants to see how long it'll take Gaz to notice.)