#[ that's just human nature I GUESS ]

[bunnieswithknives]

hey in ur peri animatic: (https://youtu.be/OCqlRuDaXYU?si=K52WDu_vw9rg7chz) that I have been permanently obsessed over since today and have watched about 20 times by now so much that I have drawn & posted stuff based on it what was that partial bug form peri had?

I haven’t watched either of the show btw so if it’s explained in the show please tell me plsssss

OK, SO the bug thing is not technically canon to the series. It's based on my own headcanons for fairy biology, but i do have justifications for it!! Fairies have very strong shape-shifting abilities, so it would make sense that the form they show to humans isn't necessarily their true form(not to mention extreme that mimicry is very common in insects). And you want to know the visible traits almost every fairy has in common? Being very small with Insect-like wings.

The fact that their humanoid form isn't their true form in actually confirmed in the show! Cosmo and Wanda are revealed to look like biblically accurate pseudo-angels in the museum episode. (I say pseudo angels because the Flaming Sword of Eden is only debatably sentient and I don't think is considered an angel. Ophanim are also debatably not angels because they don't have wings (sorry for the angel tangent I like angels))

So wouldn't their true forms be angelic then? Well, yes. But I like bugs so. Also I have more headcanons to justify myself. I like to think that they have both a true-true form (incomprehensible to the human brain, probably exists mostly in a dimension invisible to us, that looks how we imagine biblically accurate angels), and a fairy form (which is visible to humans but is naturally very insect like and tends to scare people). So, in order to interact with humans, they have to learn to shapeshift into a humanoid form but will occasionally slip if they get too relaxed/aren't careful, hence the mandibles coming out when he yawns!

The reason they struggle so much more with human forms than the animals or objects they typically turn into is that, well, they aren't trying to convince those animals or objects. The more human they try to look, the harder it is to keep up convincingly. If you turn into a really uncanny squirrel, only other squirrels will notice. If you turn into a really uncanny human, they form a lynch mob and burn you at the stake.

[foxx-queen]

i keep thinking about the datamined conversation between halsin and minthara and what gets me about it is that if you side with halsin and turn minthara away, thats objectively the bad choice.

like at this point, you've rescued minthara from moonrise. you know now that she was being controlled to act against her will. you've gone to the trouble of rescuing her from her tormentors, and you've experienced what it felt like as they tried to destroy her mind. you know what will happen to her if you turn her away. and if you do, you're willingly condemning her to that fate. you've essentially allowed her to experience freedom, to regain her sense of self, only to tear that away from her again.

whereas if you side with minthara, and halsin leaves, that's the only consequence he experiences. that he's not a companion anymore. at this point, we've saved the grove, we've saved him, and we've lifted the shadow curse. we've helped him achieve what hes been hoping to do for over a century. leaving your party won't see him lose his free will. he can return to the grove and live his life.

the choice is essentially either condemn someone to a fate worse than death, knowing exactly what that entails vs not letting someone travel with you anymore. its pretty clear cut to me.

its just interesting to me that they've switched the morality of it around given that minthara is considered the 'evil' companion by so many.

[zer0point5ive]

something about lawrence thinking he’s a little past it, looking at adam and feeling a strange mix of envy and insecurity creep in alongside the fondness, wondering what adam sees in him and then .. well then there’s adam. love hearts in the air, cartoon eyes popping out, hammer on head looney tunes style, the whole deal just. absolutely head over heels over lawrence’s whole .. everything at all times, going cuckoo if lawrence’s shirt buttons strain slightly, grabbing a handful whenever lawrence bends over, burying his face in lawrence’s chest at random intervals because, hey, he never claimed to be gods strongest soldier and boy oh boy. man oh man, lawrence gordon md will do that to a guy. lawrence is just trying to get changed? well you better believe adam’s getting a front row seat to that show and. if lawrence happens to let it slip that he’s been feeling a little inadequate? yeah, adam is absolutely taking that as a challenge. good for them both

[internetgiraffekid1673]

I have a question for everyone. Does anyone else just find the human face inherently pretty? Like, I have never met someone that I thought was ugly. I've met some people who were more or less conventionally attractive or had a more or less immediately pleasing face than others, but I've never met someone that I wouldn't describe as pretty. IDK guys, I just think humanity and human faces in all their variation and entirety are really really nice to look at. Is this just me? Anyone else feel this? Does me being aroace have anything to do with this? Seriously, I've never met another person in any capacity who just thought that all human faces were inherently pretty. I need to know if this is just a me thing or not!

[i3utterflyeffect]

Does selkie Alan ever tease SC like "when you were an infant you would get so mad when I became a stick figure because you didn't recognize me" and ruffle its hair?

oh absolutely, he teases the kids a lot about silly things they used to do i think. that's just a parent thing! he tries not to embarrass them too much though. he does tell King stories about them while the two of them are catching up though :]

[deus-ex-mona]

sometimes, i think about how crazy the meoto plotline is

[gentaroukisaragi]

Mirrorman Episode 13 (1972) / Chojyuu Sentai Liveman ED - Ashita Ni Ikiru Ze! (1988) / Kamen Rider Black Episode 50 (1988) / Kamen Rider Fourze Episode 2 (2011)

To fight for this world means to love it.

[mint-ty]

omg can you please elaborate a little on your tag about your history prof's quote? it's a very curious thought, i've always thought the opposite actually (that if all things fit perfectly into a puzzle, then the story makes sense). like not even in terms of bojere here, just in general it's an interesting take. i wonder what he meant by that 👀🔎

Sure! 💕 Basically what we were tought is that any social sciences: history, politics, economy, international relations, etc.. anything that deals with human behaviour can't have a clear answer to a question, because inherintly humans are not rational decision makers 😂 So if a question for example is "why did this country start a war?" - an answer "because people were poor and angry" would only be a part of the big picture that didn't address country's location, it's neighbours, cultural norms, etc. So for complicated questions you might have several correct answers, but all those answers have to be debatable and you always have to ask yourself if this is really correct?

And if a complicated question or a big problem has a simple straightforward answer that explains everything, for example "big pharma makes people sick so they can sell more medicine" - then it's a conspiracy theory :D

The logic behind it is that social sciences have too many variables and it's impossible to 100% accurately group everything under one theory or one answer. That answer might not be incorrect for a specific case, but it also might as easily mislead the reader.

Basically nothing ever is so simple in life 😂 And I find myself picking on it when reading fiction too. It's a bit of a pet peeve for me if characters resolve all their conflicts by the end of the story. Like, really? None of you are salty? All those years of hurt and arguments and now you just love each other and will never fall on past behaviours?.. Hmmm 🤔 Maybe it's just me but I enjoy slightly unfinished stories, it makes me feel like their lives will continue even if I, a reader, will stop here. 😁

[greycatbird]

Time lapse/season progression thingy I did with a tree back in 2022. Tried to stand in the same spot once a month, took about 170 pictures total, and stitched together my 6 favorites at the end. The final 12 (one from each month) that I chose from are under the cut😊

[panuccispizza]

on one hand I think we need radical degendering of every human & we HAVE TO start with cis people. but the way we talk about and treat men (ALL.) is really unhealthy for everyone involved and the only people benefitting from gender is like. radfems and conservatives who want "traditional family values"

[sea-buns]

in the process of writing a little theory/meta about gorgug that was supposed to be on the side of critique but i think ive accidentally made it an appreciation post. you cant write a post about gorgug without appreciating gorgug. its impossible. but its really gone off the rails over here and i cant bring myself to try and reel it in

[thebramblewood]

My own intro post on here only got a handful of notes, and it made me feel like such a small fish in such a huge pond for a long time! That's why I think it's important to interact with new Simblr posts when you come across them. I see a huge difference in notes between "aesthetic" intro posts and those that are on the simpler side, and while I get that this is a visual website, it sometimes makes me sad to think how many Simblrs might never really get off the ground for that reason.

[bunnihearted]

i've also realized that there is no therapy that can fix what's broken inside of me

[storytellering]

Love your art and I'm generally curious as to what the appeal of Dante/Vergil is to you? Do you have any hc that you're drawing from or is it just personal preference? I struggle to imagine the right conditions for them to be involved in that way and would like to know what inspires you.

I will premise this by saying, that I’m actually not a MASSIVE fan of just DV for its own sake, if Nero isn’t also included (or like, with the assumption he will, 100%, be included once he’s in the picture). To me it’s kind of a baseline pairing?

As in, I don’t even have to think about it. Of course they’re in love, of course they’re together, of course they’re fucking. It’s almost an afterthought to me, the way the married parent couple of the protagonist in a story inherently are. It doesn’t necessarily interest me by itself, that fact, it’s just a certainty, it just is. I guess, for me, the interest in DV specifically comes more out of what other people make of it, because for me I’m almost always approaching first from the perspective of Nero being there also, haha.

There’s also the fact that I have a lot of hc about just like, the way demons function as a species, I guess. I took a lot of things dmc canon gave me and went like, “alright, time to project this into the most self indulgent, non-human society but humanoid looking species I can think up in my brainhead”. To me a lot of the appeal comes from it being not necessarily a predestined thing as much as like, a biological inevitability - (going to speak in definitives about my own hc from here on, so not making any statement about canon dmc lol) demons mate with their kin, and with whoever deems worthy - and twins from the same litter would inevitably end up being the other’s first partner, their first choice, their other half. In a sense, to me, they’re soulmates - though honestly I prefer to think of it more as two halves of the same soul, following the implications in 3 and the 3 manga that them being twins comes from the spawn of Sparda being too powerful to just be born in one body. That might sound like I’m just saying they’re soulmates in a different way, but not really - to me, if I had to go the soulmate route, Nero would be both of their soulmate - because the two of them make one single soul, and the match to that would be Nero’s.

I kind of just go off of the assumption that they are in love and have been since they were in the womb, you know?

That colors the way I see their every interaction. To me, in their fighting, their squabbles and their feuds, there’s always love at the source. Familial, yes, but romantic and sexual as well - and to me, when I think about them, it’s all one and the same. To love each other like family is to be intwined, is to be mated, is to be a pack and is to be one.

That’s the more deep thoughts I have about it, I have more shallow/surface thoughts (and specifically ship dynamic thoughts about like, what appeals to me about them sexually lol) but if I had to quickly sum it up that’s what I would say, I think. 

[monards]

i know hoyo is setting up rhine to have good intent and whatever in her trying to 'save' khaneri'ah or whatever; but i REALLY hope they stay with the cruel persona thats been built up for her. because it would be so wonderful to see a character who had good intent in the beginning just get absolutely corrupted; with the inability to ever go back to that prior state purely because of what had happened. also because there is NO way in her turning back after all that shit

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

obsessed with their different reactions to being called starcrossed lovers