#(verbose disease)

[fox-guardian]

[ID: A nine-page digital comic featuring Jimmy and Curly from Mouthwashing. They're out of uniform, wearing casual clothes. The comic is done in sepia tones, with the only colors being the blue of Curly's eyes and the green of Jimmy's speech bubbles. There are also four featureless people representing their other friends.

The group of friends are gathered while Jimmy sits away from them.

Friend 1: He doesn't like sweets.... Friend 2: So what should we do for a cake then? Jimmy, attempting to light a cigarette: Why don't we just make it out of his fuckin' whey protein powder? You know Curly just LOVES that chalky crap. Friends pause, staring at him, before getting excited: (all caps) That's a great idea, Jimmy!

Jimmy then chokes on his cigarette and looks around at them all, momentarily shocked.

Friends: That's so smart! It'll be SO funny! He'll LOVE that! Jimmy, holding his limp cigarette and smiling smugly: heheh. guess I am pretty clever.

There is then a montage of him baking the cake with the whey powder, including him absently dropping cigarette ash into the batter with an "oops". Then they all wait in the dark, party decorations up with a shadow cast under the room's door.

Friends: Shh!! He's coming! Jimmy: (all caps) Shut the fuck up!! Curly, opening the door: Hullo? Friends: SURPRISE!

Curly flinches and yelps before he takes in the scene and smiles. Jimmy is holding the warped cake and smiling and everyone is wearing party hats and laughing.

Friends: Happy birthday Curly!

Two of them go up to Curly, putting a hat on him and patting his back.

Friend: Hope you like the cake!

Curly goes to cut the cake with everyone watching. He is smiling, while Jimmy stands next to him, staring blankly. As soon as the knife hits, the cake collapses in a poof of powder with a long fart noise. Curly's eyes bulge and Jimmy's eyes widen before they both burst out laughing, Curly pushing the cake away as he leans over the table, wheezing, while Jimmy throws his head back to cackle.

Curly, looking up at him: (all caps) What kind of cake is this?! Jimmy, holding up an "ok" hand: Choco-caramel whey, budd-o.

Curly wheezes, tears in his eyes. He then passes out cake and speaks indistinctly before sitting down.

Curly, smiling at Jimmy: -- sounds pretty brilliant, yeah?

Jimmy looks at him sideways, anticipating, as Curly raises his fork to his mouth. He keeps leaning closer as a shadow forms over his face. Curly takes a bite, smiling. Pauses for a moment. And then releases a huge cloud of whey powder, at which Jimmy starts cackling again.

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every time i think about that cursed whey powder cake from curly's fondest memories, i just imagine a re-enactment of the cinnamon challenge but with whey protein powder.

so here's a NINE PAGE COMIC leading up to that <3

[kwillow]

regarding romance involving your characters, im aware you've talked about how you likely wont engage in making content surrounding that topic (WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY FINE obviously), but do you mind if others do? i personally find a lot of enjoyment in those kinds of scenarios and itd be good to know if thats something you're fine with when it comes to your own creations. (im sure you get enough asks about romance already, apologies!!)

and related to this, are there any strict boundaries or hard lines youd prefer not to be crossed when it comes to fan content of them? even anything that just makes you uncomfortable; if youre alright with sharing, that is <:-} i would really like to know just to be certain

Hi there! This is a very kind and conscientious message; thank you for that. ^^

Short answer: sure, I don't mind if people want to make romantic-themed art or writing with my characters. It's flattering!

I don't really have much in the way of hard limits when it comes to depictions of my characters (not counting nsfw/kink art, where I'm also pretty permissive but want to be communicated with in advance), but here are some personal boundaries when it comes to how people treat me, the human:

My characters aren't able to be "claimed" by people for exclusive shipping purposes (either with other characters or for self-shipping). When people get jealous of either other people who want to ship themselves or their characters with mine, or jealous of the characters' in-story love interests, it creates a highly uncomfortable situation for me.

I'm happy for people to enjoy their romantic fantasies with my characters, but I am not included in that bargain. Liking my character does not mean one knows or is in any kind of relationship with me, platonic or otherwise (especially not otherwise).

Likewise, I probably won't reciprocate a lot of self-shipping or Your OCxMy OC type stuff. Of course I'll comment and appreciate the effort and the expression of being interested in my silly stories! But I won't necessarily make a lot of ship art in return or trade head-canons or what have you (again, I just am not super into shipping and I have my own story stuff I already don't have time to draw orz).

My characters aren't made to be boyfriend material. I also have not drawn/written/shown every part of their awful personalities or actions. In the future, I might reveal something about them that makes them unappealing or unsexy. People can ignore the unpleasant qualities I give my characters in their fantasies/fics, but I won't change how I write or draw the character to make them better suited to someone's tastes (yes this is something people have asked me to do).

I feel like stating some of these things makes me look a bit neurotic, like "oh come on, that's not going to happen," but unfortunately all of these things have happened to me before when people got, I guess, a liiiittle too romantically invested in my characters.

So really, I don't have many boundaries in the way of content. Go forth and write or draw or just imagine what pleases you (general you). Write them getting married, having unrequited crushes, being one of the last survivors of the Titanic and sacrificing themselves so that the other character can live her best life beyond their doomed romance, etcetera.

All I ask is that the appreciation is centered on the character as an imaginary being, and I, the real and very boring human woman, am largely ignored in the equation and not pulled in to do matchmaking, officiate any weddings, or act as a conduit to manifest a tulpa.

[starlit1daydream]

am i just a zahhak blog now? like is that my purpose? i promise you guys i care about other aspects of the comic that aren't just the zahhaks i swear

working on the next classpect post by the way. mage:seer analysis will be out by the end of this week - probably gonna start schedeuling them weekly actually because otherwise i'll burn myself out within days

this one should be easier for me at least because i've got my fair share of experience with seers (casually double-seering over here. thank you sovereignstuck for helping me realise that by the way. everyone should go and read about the voidlife & doomlight in sovstuck right now)

[temperamentalaquarius]

any thoughts on batman: black mirror? i really enjoyed it (as a non-batfamily fan) but i'm wondering if there is a difference of opinion with people who are actually acquainted with the context behind black mirror, i guess. which parts did you find the strongest + which parts did you find the weakest?

anyways, im a huge fan of your comics-posting (which is both, in the best way, entertaining and insightful). have a great day!

Ahhh thank u!! I'm glad I'm not the only one having fun 😁!!!

Thank you so much for sending this, I loved the dick!bats era and I liked The Black Mirror!!

I thought it was a decent Dick story, and I loved that it had Babs and Tim as the supporting cast. It was good to see them back(mostly) in their 90s early 2000s element.

I thought that the A plot was better than the serial killer B plot-; it had a lot of personal connection for Dick without being about the Graysons and orcas(which are some of the most vicious and borderline cruel predators that terrify me to my core and it was really cool to see them get some use)- even if I didn't find the ending super satisfying.

I thought James was interesting, and his story was more linear but the addition of the Joker into the situation was kind of just...messy and not entirely necessary? It kind of killed it for me. Idk I might just have Joker fatigue. I did like the coloring and a good portion of the art better in that part of the story, tho. I thought the mood they set was really cool and a little scary.

My high points were all (unsurprisingly) character based:

I loved the way Tim saving Dick from his own shit here

Kinda paralleled this scene in NW 96

But more mature. Watching them go from Dick mentoring Tim to them having a much more balanced relationship where Tim can fully have Dick's back has always been super satisfying and seeing it making a come back after their little fallout was cool

I also like the attention paid to the differences in Bruce and Dick's philosophy (specifically here:

) and the difficulty that Batman presents Dick because of it. Part of the appeal of Dick being Batman is the reluctance and the chunk of flesh it takes out of him and I think this story really got the tone of that right. He's making mistakes that he wouldn't normally, he's not sleeping; you can really tell that everything is getting to him. He feels like the walls are closing in on him with no way out (sometimes literally) and it makes the whole story kind of..weary? It's as much man vs man as it is man vs self. Love that many of the action sequences in the book happen in enclosed places that have an unstoppable deadly force converging on him with no way out and how that emphasizes the theme

OH and my absolute favorite analogy for the mindset that dick operates w/ is in this book

And how that works with his parents rules for survival

There's like... a debate on whether Dick plans or if he acts on instinct and I like the way that this breaks it down to: yes, he's planning from the start and if it seems like he isn't it's because that's what he wants you to think- but he understands that leaving space to bob and weave is a part of that process. Ultimate planner that is liable to start behaving erratically as fuck at any moment is such a fun look

Favorite fight was probably the horror forward snap at the auction, with honorarable mentions going to Dick v.s the compactor, Dick v.s. the orca, and of course Dick v.s. The bends

Worst was by far this one:

There is no way he should've been able to waltz into Babs' hideout without her knowing I'm so sorry it's just not realistic, like, that's Barbara Gordon???

[invinciblerodent]

If you had to pick a song for Iona, Arvid, Petyr, and Mara each-what would they be? And why, if there’s a significant reason.

ooh, thank you for asking!

i was gonna say that I have pretty long playlists for each of them, but yeah, condensing it into just one song is harder than I thought...

If I can only pick ONE, right now I'd go with-

Petyr

.... which is to say, "yeah, I may have failed to live up to everyone's expectations of me, but, have you considered that maybe I'm an arrogant prick for a fucking reason."

this is one of the few non-instrumental songs on his playlist, and it just feels like his entire Thing, crystallized lol.

(.... the lyrics fit too. I mean he did also kinda cut off his family. Or at least hasn't spoken to them in a few years.)

Arvid

This one just really fits my little uncertain cleric boy, holding onto his faith with white-knuckled fists. (A lot of songs on his playlist are either in part about Gale as well, or they're kind of more vibes-based and less literally fitting, but this one has been his theme song since like... last September lol.)

I love that first line of the chorus for him, that "I am creation, both haunted and holy, made in glory".

Iona

Even just the line "this fire eats fire, and the fire is in you" hits very much like her.

Over the months I have gone so far into her that I kinda struggle to summarize her now, but this is still a very "Iona-core" song to me, specifically for those early game, reeling parts of her, when she's kind of trying to have her whole crisis of identity without anyone noticing, and while trying to keep her head straight and not get consumed by the sudden freedom she's experiencing.

My sweet little fucked up weasel-woman, oh how I love her pretty little messed up head. <3

Mara

This one was difficult to pick- her whole playlist, I kinda tried to make work by quickly switching back and forth between the "rip and tear, cult leader, blood on my hands, killing and violence" type of songs and the softer, gentler, kind of more mournful/scared songs, which kinda reflect her more as a very adamantly resisting Dark Urge character who is kind of terrified of her own urges, and actively wants to be soft and sweet, but can't fully deny her nature.

this one might still change as I get further into her playthrough, tho

..........

and though you didn't ask, my head has been chock-full of this guy lately, so fuck it,

heeeeeeeere's Raymond

It's just. Very that "noble boy was originally willing to do what was expected of him, but was painfully aware that it isn't what he wants, and that he just let himself be carried by the waves and whims of the world, right until he was forcibly made to take responsibility for his own life and grow himself a fucking spine".

This has been sort of his theme song for the past decade, ngl. I really like Radical Face either way, but I straight-up can't listen to this song without thinking about him, lol.

head in my hands I love him so much

[vpyre]

He’s sooooo pretty princess. I NEED to dick him down this INSTANT!

[epiphainie]

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[annabelle--cane]

look, guys, this may seem ironic coming from a person with Verbose Disease, but I'm about to tell you the secret to winning social media: shutting the fuck up. you have a controversial discourse opinion? shut the fuck up and no one will know. can't participate in a boycott for various reasons? shut the fuck up and no one will know. you think or do something Problematic that has no bearing on anyone but yourself? shut the fuck up and no one will know. you haven't been keeping up on a pressing social issue? shut the fuck up and no one will know. your mind is a wonderful place where you can have all the bad takes in the world and they're all perfectly insulated from everyone and everything unless you try to excise them on a grand scale. you can take the mental L all by yourself without using a public platform as a confession booth and face zero repercussions and it'll be just fine. open up a damn diary and explain yourself there.

[dailymatian]

the pervasiveness of P-names for dalmatians because of Disney results in a larger serial number for Disney dogs within a single year. Perdita, Pongo, Penny, Patch, Patches, Pepper. I like to see the number get bigger but in 2024 I took a break from getting new dalmatians to very slowly and poorly work on cataloging my collection which at that time was about ~200 dals. My current favorite is PD-09-23 which is P(atch)D(isney)-of 9-2023. my serial number system is dumb but I like writing it because it feels nice on my paws.

This is what PD-09-23 looks like. He's produced by Canasa, who was an outsourced company that produced Disney plushes circa 1960-1991 (when Canasa went out of business/ the last proof of existence I found of them was from 1991). His eye patch is actually not sewn on at all and is only held in place by his eye button. I'm not certain which toy line he came from as I bought him from an ebay bundle of like 50 dals and whoever owned him first cut off all identifying tags.

[crypticdesire]

sometimes life feels like the truman show, especially when it comes to wearing masks. like most places, the majority of the people in my city don’t wear masks, and i encounter so many people who become uncomfortable or even irritated/hostile when they see someone who is.

i was volunteering and met the coordinator for the first time in person and she was like “look at you being good and wearing your mask. i really need to get better about it” 🧍we both know those are empty words bc if she really cared about the importance of wearing a mask, she would be wearing one….

[fox-guardian]

In your zombie au, how do Anya, Swansea, and Daisuke become infected? Also will they ever find a cure?

Originally I was gonna have the infections mirror the events of the game more, but I decided I like anya too much to "kill" her off first And Also I'm Removing Her Motive For Offing Herself because No <3

So first to get infected is daisuke <3 basically the truck is stopped (getting gas or some shit) the gang is resting, and jimmy and daisuke are outside doing the task and keeping watch. It quickly becomes apparent that there's a lot of zombies around. Too many to fight off, even if they did wake up the others (read: literally just swansea) so jimmy hatches an escape plan.

Daisuke will distract and lead the zombies away while jimmy starts the truck, and he'll pull around a particular building and pick daisuke up there. Daisuke doesn't have much faith in this plan, but he has his bat to defend himself and jimmy has faith in him. If- when it works, daisuke will even be a hero. It'll be fine.

It is not fine. They did not anticipate more zombies on the other side of said building, and daisuke is overwhelmed. He even manages to lose his grip on his bat, flinging it too far away from him to reach. When jimmy pulls around, he sees a hoard of zombies grabbing at a screaming Daisuke. There's too many to fight off. He picks up Daisuke's dropped bat. Gets back in the truck. And tries to ignore Daisuke's desperate pleading.

Swansea ends up waking up in the trailer and getting on the walkie talkies, asking jimmy what the hell is going on out there, was that Daisuke, etc. All jimmy can say is that they can't help him, and he keeps driving.

Jimmy ends up modifying Daisuke's bat, and this becomes his weapon of choice.

Later on, the gang is elsewhere and they meet another hoard. Swansea has his axe, jimmy has the bat, and anya is trying desperately to keep the trailer doors shut to keep the zombies out of their supplies. Swansea goes to axe a zombie in the head, and doesn't notice until he's halfway through the downswing that the zombie in question is.... Daisuke. Who now has an axe stuck in his face and.... rollerskates??

Swansea is distressed and lets go of the axe. Apparently the hit didn't go too deep, since Daisuke just. Pulls it out of his face with his one good arm (the other is limp and twitches occasionally) and just. Smiles up at him. Hisses out a rough breath of a "boss!" out of his rotted throat. And Swansea kind of. Cracks a bit. Daisuke's alive. Aware. He recognizes him. He put on rollerskates to catch up to the truck. He's trying to talk to him. Zombies don't talk. Zombies are still all around them.

Swansea asks if he's going to eat him. He shakes his head. Swansea asks if he wants help. Daisuke gives an affirmative, and smiles when Swansea mentions anya taking care of him alongside curly. Swansea asked what even happened to him. He points at jimmy and huffs out "bait".

Jimmy doesn't even notice what's going on until this point, at which he somehow manages to drag Swansea back to the truck. They can't fight off the rest of the zombies like this, is he trying to infected, etc. The axe, and daisuke, are left behind.

Soon, they have to make another supply run. Swansea finds a bottle of mouthwash. He sneaks it with him. Later that day, he gets on the walkie talkie and starts talking to jimmy, reveals to anya and curly what happened with daisuke, and calls jimmy a selfish coward. Then he chugs the mouthwash to anya and curly's horror, and worse, throws open the trailer doors and falls out of the back of the moving truck. Anya begs over the walkie talkie to stop the truck, but jimmy insists that if he didn't want to be there, he wasn't going to help him. She manages to shut the doors herself.

Later on, jimmy checks the mess in the back. No mouthwash to clean out, swansea just drank it, no damaged supplies. He left his keyring tho. There's a little multitool on it. Could come in handy. curly and anya both get moved to the truck's cabin so jimmy can "keep an eye on them".

(Daisuke is still following the truck. He finds an infected swansea, who is alive but badly injured, but still happy to see him. He gives him a rollerskate. They skate on as one after the truck, neither entirely sure what the end goal is. Revenge or rescue. Doesn't matter.)

The quarters are much closer now in the cabin. Did you know long haul trucks have beds? Jimmy drives, anya sits shotgun, while curly rots in the only actual bed. He's in a real state. Things are tense. It's getting cold outside. Maybe anyas hands are dry and cracked, maybe she got hurt trying to keep the doors shut before. Maybe she just got a papercut. It all ends the same.

Jimmy's mood is the worst it's been yet. He complains about the axe being left behind. Rants about swansea's recklessness, saying he's the only one with any sense left. Anya doesn't feel safe anymore, hasn't for a while. Stuck in the cabin with jimmy, it's worse than ever.

He makes a brief pitstop at the side of the road. Tells anya not to do anything stupid as he steps out. She chooses relative safety, and stays still.

Curly doesn't.

He pants and heaves, starts dragging himself up and out of the bed. Anya thinks he needs to step out himself, before she sees him eyeing the steering wheel. She doesn't have time to get her gloves on before he plops down in the driver's seat and tries to drive off, leaving jimmy behind. She begs him to stop, he's in no state to drive, they're gonna crash. She reaches over, trying to at least steady the wheel. He's sweating, heaving, the rot has reached the outside of him. Her hands come back wet and burning slightly from where they touched his skin. She doesn't care right now. She manages to get his foot off the gas and the truck slows to a crooked stop. She's just about to disinfect her hands when the passenger door swings open.

Jimmy pulls her out of the cabin and throws her to the ground. He doesn't even look back before blaming her for trying to steal the truck. He tells her she's more trouble than she's worth and turns back to climb back inside. She tries to explain, but the wind was knocked out of her and she can't speak. And the truck leaves without her.

(Jimmy took a pair of her gloves before throwing curly into the passenger seat. He's sure he can take care of him just fine without her.)

She walks down the road, having no other options, and slowly realizes her hands are still burning and turning blue.

She hopes her immune response to the infection is weak. She hopes it ends her quick.

As for a cure? I wasn't planning on having one. But dw, jimmy still gets what's coming to him eventually <3

[lucas-koh]

What's your favourite song to write to at the moment?

This is a great question. It’s never one particular song to me, as I tend to like playlists or selections of songs!! While writing Apple of Discord, I played a lot of dramatic, sexy music like Two Feet and Billie Eilish. Also ‘Shameless’ by Camila Cabello came up a lot!

Right now one of the things I’m writing is Christmas themed so I’ve got a Christmas playlist on repeat. All the classics. Discord friends will know I wrote a charged kiss while the Pentatonix cover of ‘Mary, Did You Know?’ was playing, and that was hilarious.

And I’m gonna throw in ‘Fall In Love Again’ by P1Harmony because I’ve been putting that on first when I start writing before picking more specific playlists!

[fowlofprey]

Dragon dad?

It... bit you? And you bit it back? You might want to see a doctor and make sure you don't get an infection, Chirsk.

Hmm... Brothers being noisy seems to be one of those universal constants, whether they're related to us or not. We may need to conduct some more research here, and uncover the true secret of what makes brothers in particular so loud.

I don't think anyone likes being stared at, so it's understandable that he'd make you uncomfortable. Have you asked him to stop staring?

Chirsk it is, then.

Words can be hard, indeed. I'd say you're doing a good job with them, though.

New friends are very nice. Make sure to handle your new friend with care, though; wild rats can carry some... unsavory germs. Best to wash your hands after touching them.

It was quiet for me too, until it wasn't. I managed to get some work done before my brothers came home from school, though, so there's that. It's half past five, anyway, might as well call it a day.

[zukkaoru]

HOW TO DEAL WITH THE SUICIDE OF YOUR CRIME LORD SITUATIONSHIP: a guide by Edogawa Ranpo

You knew it was coming.

or: a tale of grief, secrets, love, and healing. told in three parts.

🖤 ~8.5k words || beast souheki, ranpo-centric 🖤 written for an exchange in the suffering from verbose disease discord server

[b-skarsgard]

When Hutter throws open Orlok's coffin in the IF.W.] Murnau version, that was a legitimate jump scare in 1922 - seeing the putrid corpse must have been really terrifying,' muses Robert Eggers of the original Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, the eerie silent masterpiece that gorged on the blood of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Eggers frowns under his cap. 'So how do we do that now?'

It's a good question, especially given the deluge of vampire movies since - there are more than 170 film versions of Dracula alone.

'Also, we've gone all the way to Edward Cullen, where vampires are not scary,' adds Eggers. 'So how do we go in the complete opposite direction of that? Vampires were scary enough that people used to dig up corpses and chop them into bits and set them on fire.'

Well, Eggers' Nosferatu is scary as hell, with Bill Skarsgård's Count Orlok proving fully believable as a force that could decimate entire communities. Skarsgård worked with an opera coach to lower his voice by an octave, and shed a serious amount of weight (I think we deserve a scary, smelly corpse again,' smiles Eggers). Looking, sounding and feeling the part, the actor summons a ferocity that is genuinely terrifying.

The story, should you need reminding, has young estate agent Thomas Hutter (Nicholas Hoult) travel to Orlok's Transylvanian castle to gather the Count's signature on some property deeds. This foul yet oddly magnetic recluse is moving to the German city of Wisborg, which is ravaged by plague upon his arrival. Against this backdrop of death and disease, Hutter's fiancée Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) is targeted to become the companion of Orlok, whose sulphurous spell holds her in thrall.

Eggers' version, a verbose and full-blooded Gothic melodrama, fleshes out the character of Ellen and accentuates the 'love' story. This aspect might remind some viewers of Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula, a movie that Eggers watched many times as a child... but with a key difference.

'[Dracula] has this extreme love story with Mina - their relationship is quite lovely,' says Eggers of Coppola's 1992 movie. 'Whereas the stuff I was looking to for this film was all demon-lover stories. Stuff like Wuthering Heights. The Laurence Olivier version has contaminated everyone's thinking about Wuthering Heights, but in the novel, Heathcliff is a fucking asshole psychopath. And as much as he loves Cathy, he's obsessed with her and he wants to destroy her. Ellen's relationship with Orlok is incredibly toxic.' In this post-#MeToo age, such a take will surely chime with viewers? 'I presume so,' shrugs Eggers. 'I'm not trying to make something with a message, but I don't live in a vacuum, and the things that are around are going to come out in the film.'

Teasers article from the latest issue of Total Film

[heliphantie]

Song for little sister. Canción para hermanita.

Little headcanon/speculation for the Mirabirthday:

In the first minutes of the movie, we see Mirababy-turning-five in the nursery, getting told the story of the miracle, presumably for the first time in her life. She also gets to see and learning of the magic candle. While it’s a part of initiation for the gift receiving, it’s staged as if she gets introduced to the whole deal only now. Seemingly the magic was regarded as regular part of her family’s life up to that moment, until she learns of origin and value of it. The candle, meanwhile, is always at full display, reminding everyone of the significance of miracle and the cost of it. We also get a view of interior of nursery, the walls adorned with Mirabel’s drawings of her family members and herself as sort of fairy being, as anticipation of her own upcoming magical power. There are almost all family members depicted – Abuela, Mira’s parents, sisters, aunt, cousin, save for Félix and Camilo and, most poignant, Bruno. Well, maybe, Mira wasn’t too close to her peer cousin (boys and girls aren’t always getting along in that age, after all), and I have no ready explanation for Félix (but wait for it), and absence of Bruno just further confirms that Mira is not only having no memories of her uncle while coming of age, she didn’t even acknowledge his presence when he was around. Where I’m going with all of that? I'm getting closer to the point.

Mirabel’s eye condition, requiring the glasses to wear, is a myopia (it was confirmed by Jared Bush in the Q&A online session) she appears to share with her father. Now, regarding if the village even has practicing optometrist to identify condition this early in life, it could have been some time until it became apparent for the people to notice, along with the little kid obtaining verbosity to descript it herself. We don’t see anything before the birthday, so may it be it was detected only recently, and she’s got the glasses shortly before the events of the movie? (Also, I presume, near-sightedness is a metaphor for Mirabel, being too focused on her own worth inside of family, lacking ability to see the struggles other family members undergo with the burden of miracle, and, eventually, the issue on the larger scope, and, due her short temper and go-get attitude, missing proverbial foresight. In this regard, she even serves as dualist to Bruno for the most of the story, despite both having similar concerns for others. But this is the subject for different topic I eventually want to address. Agustín also doesn’t appear to be particularly observant about other’s feelings, or at least, able to read the room, though in his case, it may be general absent-mindedness and/or social awkwardness.)

For the reason (people sometimes picking on) why her mother not appearing to cure it for her, while “official” answer given was her not seeing eye condition as serious defect but instead a part of charm, it’s very wholesome and humanitarian explanation, but I’m going with different theory: Julieta’s ability doesn’t expand beyond inflicted injuries and diseases, she can’t fix conditions that are woven into one’s DNA and run in generations. Or maybe her powers are only helping people with increasing their own immunity and the speed of regeneration from the harm, so it doesn’t work with congenital defects either.

My assumption is, it’s even possible, the glasses were in fact a present for Mirabel for her fifth birthday, with “Abre los ojos” line referring not just to the event of getting introduced to the family’s legacy and upcoming duty to carry it, but to the simultaneous event of obtaining ability of clear sight (both literal and figurative). And for the referred above absence of imagery of Bruno in Mira’s drawings, it’s because, while she might be aware of his existence, she just didn’t have the opportunity to get clear look of him, due his general disengagement in gatherings and the growing distance from the rest of family (it also may be, as Mirabel herself, he used to avoid being caught on the camera for his own reasons – seeing himself not worthy or dismissive of his own image, so no definitive portraits of him in the house, adult ones at least). That, and her being too short to reach to that family tree picture in the dinner room.

One thing that detracts my reasoning is, on that fairy self-portrait Mira depicts herself with glasses too, but maybe, she was aware of getting them for present this day and had drawn the picture in advance while anticipating the fateful event. There are always some loophole to maintain integrity of headcanons, you see:D