#(be nice and act pretty)

[metamatronic]

okay so obviously there was a little time-skip from the last time (since arnold is in captain now) but i had to get this out. am i insane?? doesn’t this make sense???

[frickerdoodle]

Mild act 2 Durge spoilies

My Dark Urge has been vehemently denying any thoughts of bloodlust to their companions and has hiddentheir evil deeds whenever possible (threw a certain body in the river and played dumb about where they went, for example) so imagine my shock when everyone knew about his deep dark secret after the most harrowing night of his life.

[octylish]

who's this freak

[chimerafeathers]

i know we love to rag on Siffrin for feeling so miserably guilty and manipulative for the crime of [checks notes] “doing nice things for their friends so that they’ll be happy and care about him even if it’s not perfectly sincere on his end”

but like. in context i don’t think that thought process is anywhere near as nonsensical as it always sounds written out like that

i’m sure i’m just stating the obvious here but it’s not really about the “crime” of making people happy. it’s about what he’s not doing, which is anything that would allow their friends to have any real knowledge or agency over the situation they’re all in.

it’s about never acting according to his real feelings in the moment and letting them see the messier version of him that exists now, never allowing their relationships to evolve or develop meaningfully beyond the “safest” iteration, the thing that is Known and produces the Correct Results, because anything else has the possibility of leading to negative emotions towards Siffrin.

Siffrin knows he’s not really doing all this for their benefit, not entirely, because the “right” thing to do would give them the full context to choose how they feel and what to do about it. they’re happy, but in a way they don’t get to keep. they’re happy, but in a way that keeps Siffrin safe from anything more complex and real. they’re happy, but only because some Siffrin in the past said the right things once, and this new, bitter, lonely, desperate version wouldn’t know how to get the “correct result” without a script to follow. they’re happy, and it was real once, it meant something once, but not anymore.

they cared about that Siffrin, yes, but would they still care about this one, if they knew? if Siffrin ever allowed them to know? (he won’t, he can’t, he refuses.)

and there’s something that could have been said in favor of Siffrin allowing himself this “selfishness” if it made him happy anyway, if it could be a genuine source of comfort in a difficult situation—but it doesn’t! not really! because that guilt is there, because that fear is there, because of how flimsy it all inevitably feels.

so they’re not doing it for their family’s benefit, because that happiness is predicated on lies and ignorance. he’s barely doing it for his own benefit, because they’re torturing themself by revealing things they no longer want to reveal, concealing things they no longer want to conceal, acting out of fear of rejection rather than genuine desire for connection. who benefits from this hollow “kindness,” really?

that’s why the last loop had to be the ugliest one. Siffrin had to see that the worst could happen and there could still be love and connection on the other side. that even when the party sees the worst of him, when they have the agency he’s been knowingly denying them, they will still choose to love him.

[somegrumpynerd]

Ah yes, very mature indeed

I love these two getting far enough into their truce to annoy each other playfully, Dream is great at it immediately but it's good to see Nightmare starting to take part too

And don't worry, Dream did get revenge

[saintjasperira]

bullying is abuse but also like a lot of people who think they’re being bullied kind of are not. like. to be honest. if you’re overly sensitive to being told no and being criticized, i think you maybe need to consider that you may not be being bullied. if you just don’t like it when people set boundaries or call you on something you did wrong, you’re definitely not being bullied. i’m really kind of tired of this culture of being super duper so so nice to everyone all the time and softening and sugar coating your words and watering yourself down because if you hurt someone’s feelings you’re some horrible evil abuser. like it’s just dumb. everyone should not be walking on fucking eggshells all of the fucking time

[afoxdoeswrite]

I tend to listen to music when I'm going on walks, but Spotify recommended me that Dracula Daily audiobook version, so I figured I've have a listen. Dracula's pretty cool and all, but I always remember it being super long and kinda hard to read through in anything more than little bits, so I figured 'hey, a daily mini thing might be neat to try'.

It is incredible how that team is able to make things scary. I was walking around in broad daylight on a main road, there were dozens of people all over the place, and somehow I felt so alone listening to it that I got chills. Genuinely brilliant, I'm really impressed and this is definitely going to be my background audio for going on walks for a while now.

[hermitage420]

“You were all I had”

“Damn thats crazy”

[dseval]

I had this huge, ambitious plan two weeks ago that I am going to create designs for genderbend versions of Nightmare's Gang (+Cross), was halfway through Killer's then I just forgot I had the ambition in the first place LMAO im sorry

Anyway, forget I have plans. Here are small concept doodles of Fem Horror and Fem Dust.

My focus is actually asking the question "If they were girls, what would they wear?" And then answering them. Simply to avoid having to draw ecto bodies. (And to avoid using the 'simply add boobs to genderbend a character' hack)

Bonuses, since, well, I did drew headshots for these two, these kinda date back to a month ago though (I actually hate the designs rn, either way...)

[ @unlikelyluxbeloved this is for you fam ✊✊]

Horror Sans by SourAppleStudios (and the very briefly mentioned Farm Sans by Guinongtale_AU)

Dust Sans by Ask-Dusttale

Killer Sans by Rahafwabas

Cross Sans by Jakei

[neuropteran]

robbies for whenever gay thoughts overwhelm you so bad you malfunction a little bit [x]

[hplonesomeart]

We have the first person audio retelling/documented account of THE event guys—from the instigator himself. The full inside scoop 👁👁 (delusional)

[galedekarios]

if you are genuinely out there claiming that gale "succeeded" in everything he "wanted" by becoming a god and that's why it's a good ending for him, you truly are a testament to the slow and steady death of media literacy congrats lmao

[too-many-rooks]

Done with the Jack Lowden Calibre gifs (at least for now 👀) but thought I'd share some of my favourite screenshots in case they're interesting/useful to anyone for inspo/fic collages/memes/whatever

[ashipiko]

misukazu save me

[dariusaurs]

is yas injured again????

[djbluefire]

I could fight off the brain rot no longer, now my brain is mush and this show is torturing me