#Have this keysmash instead it shall tell you of my feels

[mushangaa]

oh daaayum i kinda missed this yesterday bc for some reason I get notfied for literally everything else but not if people tag me/reply to me I think I fucked up some settings lol.

Anyway nahh bruh Thank you for the food. I love pictures that have a lot of details and are generally busy but there is order behind it and thought about placement like, me thinks all rules in art are generally there to be broken anyway but the rule of guiding the viewers eye is one of the most impactful things you can either build into a drawing or break willfully to lead the eye somewhere else (like.. on a double spread guiding the eye to the lower corner to make the viewer want to turn the page quick for example)

And in this day and age having the viewer focus longer on an image is what you wanna achieve and I am still in awe about how this is executed here because literally everything in this image leads me back front and center like I said, even the window colours, the dark red ones that draw the eye lead you back to the center and this is amazing too. I also love busy pics like this specifically because it makes my brain go "ohhhh brrr figure out the logic behind the construction of this piece there is so much going on and oh, oh there is the guding line through it there is order in first glance chaos there is thought and planning" and then my hindbrain purrs like a cat basically. This piece made me go purrr a lot because it is just this clever idk what to say without flaying my hands around a lot to convey how genius I think this was done.

And yeh it was apparent that their mindmeld had them switch bodies even without the added ninpo hints but to be fair for people who are not familiar with how you draw them in general this is a good way of driving the point home. But nah I just adore how you did their expressions bc it is both lovely to see their deep connection going as far as trading bodies to mess someone up and play with their twins abilities and also a bit uncanny like I said and like you confirmed, having these two tagteam their abilities with their skillsets and respective strenghts behind it makes them a powerhouse that nobody should wanna mess with. Ever.

Also the whole concept just fucks in general because when you are good at something and used to do this particular thing a certain way for a long time you sometimes do not think about other possibilities other ways to utilize it - so having the twins switch around opens up so many new ideas how to use their abilities in ways the other would've never thought of be it practical or really out of the box. A fresh eye to figure out new avenues and I just revel at the implications. The things they could do.

This is getting long whoops haha but yeh I really adore this piece of work a lot if you can believe it not just on a technical level but also emotionally bc they are such twins here, the connection here fucks me up to be this close to trust each other this deeply to pull this feat off there is just so much story in this epic drawing rahhh

Bruh I just woke up and @mushangaa/@havethetouch wrote me a whole ass buffet. Like hot dayum that essay barely fits in my screen, how can I not call it out X'DDD

I dunno how many times I've read it (and the other comments, bless you all amazing godsends) and like.... omfg they get it |DD And it makes me so giddy, like hell yeah Leo and Dee would be an absolute menace because (okay totally responding to mushangaa's comments now) they're right Dee's creation skills with Leo's strategy and spontaneous thinking and both being able to pop around the battlefield no probo. And omg you read the expressions perfectly and I'm so glad you could tell they more or less switched bodies for a moment for the expressions I was worried the opposite ninpo on the eyes wouldn't be enough to convey that and HHHHHHHHH thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for all the comments and compliments and pointing things out I'm so happy I'mma flail my not so lil hands TT7TT

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Princess Tutu episodes 14-end

I watched the entire second half of the series in one day because I make good life choices

Previously on Princess Tutu Watch:

Okay I can get back to Tokyo Mew Mew now

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It was a lie, I could NOT

EPISODE, UH, FUCK……… 14! - The Raven

asdklsdhflhdl (google docs stop capitalizing my keysmashes) they’re bringing back “once upon a time there was a man who died”!!!!!! Honestly that might be one of my favorite lines in this whole show

Gotta love the sarcasm in “and they lived happily ever after”

The theme song…… it’s so good

Oh nooooooooooooooo

This scene is literally just the “I’ve got a headache that comes and goes” meme

Fakir you complete dork. You’re all dorks

“Princess Tutu and a crocodile are totally different” you tell ‘im, Mytho

Duck speaks so much more regularly than the other main characters? I mean, there’s Fakir over there like “Shall we go?” and Duck saying things like “I’m gonna be late!” and using “like” and “stuff”... I mean, I know this is the dub, but

Duck why are you using Fakir’s dumb excuses omg

Lilie is just the personification of my negative thoughts

BUT WHAT DID MYTHO TELL FAKIR

Awwwwwwww Duck, no

They’re in a terrifying Raven Dimension with like, ominous music and people wailing in the background and meanwhile Kraehe and the Raven are just having like, a normal conversation

Also, are the white feathers supposed to be like, what’s trapping the Raven there?

Duck please

Wait, Princess Tutu transformed on her own!

Episode 15 - Coppelia

Also, watching Fakir try and fail to stop Mytho from jumping out the window is Pain

Lilie you are a Strange Child

STEALTH DUCK RETURNS!

Oh no?? Fakir doesn’t want to get Mytho in trouble???

alsdfksfh the entire student population is Here For The Drama

Duck don’t yell in the library

Fakir just doesn’t make good decisions

Oooh that doesn’t look good

Sad Kraehe Theme Alert

You “just happened” to do a lot of things, Lilie

Omg Lilie “Want to just happen to go see?”

Rue just shows up to trash talk Fakir for a minute and then leaves

I say as if I’m not in So Much Pain

Yeah! Every single time Princess Tutu transformed in the first season, it was because Drosselmeyer said something, but now she’s transforming on her own!

Oh no Mytho

Also I like how Tutu doesn’t just flat-out say “you don’t actually love him” and instead is just like “how about you try doing things you enjoy with the guy you like instead of giving him Your Actual Heart”

Episode 16 - The Maiden’s Prayer

Wait is Angry Narrator back or did the other narrator just regain the heart shard of Withering Scorn?

Lilie isn’t even interested in the love triangle, she just wants Duck and Pike to fight

Is that Goatette

“So pretty…. What? Oh yeah I meant the flowers of course haha” Duck

Such a serious child

“Love only me, hate everyone else”/“The prince who loves me and me alone”

This child is amazing

It was such a good decision to give Fakir a little sister. A good decision for everyone involved

aslfsdjhklgdlghdjghfdklkdkalh Kraehe told him that Duck would suffer if she knew what was happening with Mytho so Fakir isn’t going to tell herrrrrrrrrr Fakir please don’t internalize that!! You are breaking my heart sir

Oh my god it wasn’t Goatette it was the sloth

*The Can Can plays loudly over a sloth just kinda hangin out*

Episode 17 - Crime and Punishment

This may or may not have been the last episode I watched the first time I watched this show?

“Eyes of truth” huh?

This dumbass child

Femio, from the other side of the school grounds: “DID SOMEBODY SAY ‘PRINCE’????”

What the Fuck are you doing with your hands, kid

Why are you a cow

Honestly as over-the-top as Femio is he is also simultaneously the most realistic middle-schooler in this entire show

Oh my god he’s on probation

I’m sorry I’m just talking about Femio but he’s hilarious

Truly a Grade A Idiot

What is he even doing with his life

I’ve become Lilie

These characters have emotional crises over people saying the stupidest things and tbh I relate to that

Oh dear!

The thing is, Femio would be really annoying in real life, but in a tv show he’s just amusing

Rue’s FACE, she’s so done

I like how Duck can tell which building Rue’s in just by the amount of crows around it

Tbh all the students probably have noticed what’s going on, they just think it’s some kind of weird performance art thing. Wouldn’t be out of character for this school

Fakir and Uzura really are siblings, I love this

The best part about this episode is it’s this completely ridiculous person unintentionally getting in the middle of everybody’s emotional issues

“I feel kinda like something happened, and kinda like it didn’t” Duck you are absolutely correct

And of course the Aquarium is good once again

Episode 18 - The Wandering Knight

Incidentally, how old are these kiddos? We know Mytho is older than Duck, so Fakir and Rue probably are too?? But like, probably only by a year? Who even knows what their actual ages are

I mean, Duck is a duck so

It’s! The trees from the opening!

I don’t know if I’ve asked this before, but why does Fakir have a horse?

Oh my god Lilie

Can everybody STOP picking on Fakir for being afraid to die? He is 14, leave him alone

Ahiru is trying so hard to be helpful, give her a chance Fakir

Once again Rue shows up to get in a burn on Fakir and then leave

I swear every time the Aquarium plays in this show

Oh noooooooo Ruuuuueeeeeeee

Literally Protect All Of These Characters

Save These Children From Their Own Emotional Issues

FAKIR PLEASE

Pride is absolutely the worst feeling Mytho could get back right now?

“There’s something sinister going on that I’m not a part of!” And that really gets to you doesn’t it Dross. I bet it’s really… grinding your gears!!!

(why do I feel so proud of insulting a fictional character)

Episode 19 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Wow we really are starting this one off on a sinister note (it’s Drosselmeyer’s revenge on me for that pun)

Of course he can’t tell you, he doesn’t fuckin know what’s going on

Fakir please stop basing your entire identity around being a knight

Oh no, Mytho’s regained the heart shard of Basing Your Entire Identity Around Upholding A Role

I wonder if Hermia being tall is like, a meta Shakespeare joke, cause in the play Helena’s really tall and Hermia’s really short, but in every production I’ve seen it was the other way around

Rue stop projecting your insecurities onto your boyfriend

Ohhhhhhhh dear

Finally someone tells all the crows hanging around to shut up

Oh my god she really is super tall

Or Ahiru’s just super short

I am learning so much about ballet mimes

Cool bird shadows

Whoa, different raven background. And the Raven isn’t speaking with him this time? What does it mean

On no, Tutu

Hahaha oh no

Aaahaha they’re the same

THEY EVEN DO THE SAME ARM-FLAILY THING

Episode 20 - The Forgotten Story

ALRIGHT, TIME FOR THE FAKIR’S SAD BACKSTORY EPISODE

Raetzel: *walks in*

Uzura: And where do you fit in the shipping chart, ma’am

THIS is a High Quality Directatorial Decision

Oh no Duck. oh no she’s so earnest nooooo

It is just Extremely Wrong to see Mytho dancing to something besides Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

Mr. Cat can hear the word “wedding” from three floors up

Oh my GOD they put broken heart stickers on the window

I mean, I say they but we all know it was Lilie

Again, Duck knows exactly where shit’s going down just because that’s where all the crows are

Oh no!

Everybody needs to stop giving Fakir shit Right Now. Everybody needs to stop thinking it’s a bad thing that Fakir didn’t fucking Die, and that includes Fakir OKAY????

I’ve been thinking… Raven Mytho keeps saying things like “people only want love because they want to be loved” and I wonder… if that was sort of his experience as a prince. Or maybe I’m just getting this mixed up with Utena lol. But it does seem like a genuine issue he has as opposed to just something he says to manipulate people. Hm.

Episode 21 - The Spinners

Every time the narrator says “once upon a time there was a man who died” I Will Flip

Duck tries to lean nonchalantly against a door, it goes about how you’d expect

Duck that’s not how writing works (ughgfjdghskjkgf my pain)

AW NO

Oh no Duck is too relatable

UUAAAAAA TREE GHOST TREE GHOST

“Follow my every order and be prepared to die if you should fail” it’s almost like you WANT me to hate you. FAKIR DOESN’T NEED THIS

See Duck agrees with me

PETITION FOR PEOPLE TO LEAVE FAKIR THE FUCK ALONE THAT MEANS YOU TREE GHOST

Ohshit it’s that old guy from the bookshop???

Uzura is NOT “unrelated”, obviously she is Fakir’s baby sister

“I’m just watching again” oh no Duck

Autor what the Fresh Heck are you doing to Fakir

YOU ARE NOT FINE?????????

Honestly Fakir needs to get in touch with his emotions, not get sleep deprived and hallucinate in a field

This tree is saying things Edel said??? Was Edel made from the wood of this tree?????? Oh my god???????????

Anyway that was Intense

Listen, Raven Mytho has real issues and you can fight me on this

Ah, I see Dross is practicing the time-honored authorial tradition of “If the Story Isn’t Working, Hit It With a Wrench”

Episode 22 - Crown of Stone

But who’s going to protect Fakir huh? Answer me that, Duck

One big-ish happy familyyyyyyyyy

I needed this life advice tbh

Aaaaaah Uzura’s talking to Rue!

“Are you the Rue we’re worried about?” I love how she just included herself in that

Autor, I’m……. not sure you want the tree ghost cult to acknowledge you

Uhm, I’m pretty sure Autor doesn’t fit into the shipping chart and I think Uzura would agree with me

Ah fuck!!! Fakir turn around

Wait it’s an owl on a grandfather clock?? Is that actually a thing? These watchnotes are coming full circle

“I want people to love me, but is it okay to just be loved?” yep, the prince is having issues

Autor, I’m pretty sure Ahiru is figuring all that out right now

And like, the Book Men totally know it too, so

HOLY CRAP THIS SEQUENCE

AND THE MUSIC THE MUSIC IS PERFECT

SKLAFDJKVHFJK;JKLSdf;DSLKJFAKSDAKFJHFKLJJFGKLHGJFHSDLJ

I love this show

EPISODE 23 - Marionette

OH! OH! IT’S THE MUSIC EDEL ALWAYS PLAYED BUT SPED UP! That’s actually kinda creepy!

Anyway now I know why I’m so protective of Fakir, we’re both writers who can’t write anything

Oh noooooooooooo Rue

Oooooooooooh don’t like that

Ruuueeeeeeeeee please don’t stab your boyfriend we’ve been over this

Incidentally, hulu needs to quit it with these bogus commercial placements

Drosselmeyer: How dare you try to resolve your emotional problems!

Dross that’s called character development

Hahahaha joke’s on you Dross!

aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I! LOVE! THEM!

No of course your heart is lovey-dovey Uzura! Your heart is the lovey-dovey-est!!!

Incidentally, Autor is That Guy who says just because you haven’t finished/published anything you’re not a Real Writer. And he is Wrong

Episode 24 - The Prince and the Raven

Okay, just from this title I know I won’t be able to handle this

THIS ISN’T EVEN THE PENULTIMATE EPISODE

YOU ARE HITTING ME WITH ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A MAN WHO DIED RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE I CANNOT BELIEVE

Okay but and then this story explains all of Raven Mytho’s emotional issues as well???

*sigh* Autor……. Fakir literally just told you his motivation is to protect people and you’re still going on about controlling the fates of all mankind… are you sure you’re not Drosselmeyer’s direct descendent?

Rue don’t go into the crow building

Honestly I’m still dying over the fact that you can tell where things are happening purely based on which building all the crows are at today

Tiny Rue is breaking my heart

UUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAA TINY RUE IS DOING BALLET

Omg Rue in the beginner’s class!

Oh noooo Uzura’s saaaaad

I KNOW I’ve heard this songgggggggg

THAT WAS A BIT OF THE FOSSILS FROM CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS???

Okayokayokay so it’s not Carnival of the Animals but DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS it’s another piece by Saint-Saens and DO YOU KNOW what that piece is called????? fuckin Danse Macabre!!!!! I am immediately filled with a sense of foreboding!!!

The music choices in this show are going to destroy me one day

HOLY CRAP????

I can’t believe so goddamn much happened in this episode???

Episode 25 - The Dying Swan

I’m not rrrrrrrrreadyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Not even the narrator’s obvious disappointment in Drosselmeyer can give me solace

Oh my god so is the Drosselmeyer we know just a character in Dead Drosselmeyer’s story?

I think it’s a testament to this story’s power that I’m having so many emotions about it even though I know what’s going to happen? Like, some stories, reading the summary is pretty much the same as hearing the story, but Princess Tutu is not one of those stories

Like I just overcame my social anxiety to ask my roommate to be quieter, that’s how good this story is

Aaaaaagh Rue’s change from saying “you love me” to saying “I love you” my HEART

Oh shoot! Mytho’s angry! I thought one of the gate heart shards might be anger

Oh my god Autor literally no one cares what TEA Drosselmeyer drank look at Fakir he’s so done

Aaaaaaaa ohno

EVISCERATE HIM FAKIR

Holyshitholyshitholyshit

Okay but see the lake is outside the city so Dross just took some random normal duck and plunked her down in his fairytale town and that’s why like, a cat teacher seems weird to her because she’s not from inside the story

OH NO THEY’RE PLAYING THE SWAN BUT THIS TIME IT’S RUE

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr fuck OFFFFFF

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh it’s the sword birds

excUSE you Dross, the knight has NOT “long been useless”

Episode 26 - Finale

I can’t believe after 9 years I’m finally going to finish watching this show

Okay it’s happening

It begins and ends with “once upon a time, there was a man who died”, the absolute most perfect first line in the history of first lines and you can fight me on this

Okay I’m already almost crying just from the theme song, like the Tchaikovsky fits perfectly into it? I’m gonna sing it

I’m just screaming???? They’re all in distress

BUT DUCK IS NOT GOING TO GIVE IN TO DISTRESS

RUE IS THE SWAN

DUCK DECIDES TO WRITE HER OWN STORY AND THE MUSIC FROM THE END OF THE THEME SONG STARTS PLAYING MY HEART

I’M ACTUALLY CRYING

IT’S ALL THE PEOPLE SHE HELPED

THEY ARE PLAYING THE THEME THAT PLAYS WHEN DUCK IS HAPPY

FUCKING -- AND YOU HIT ME WITH ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A MAN WHO DIED NOW

LOOK! LOOK THE SCENERY OUTSIDE THE TOWN FADES IN

I watched it.

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reading hamlet for the first time (act 2 scene 2)

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people at my school are saying that the world is supposed to end, like, today, which only confirms my suspicion that this scene is gonna be the beginning of the end

on that uplifting note, let’s begin!

“KING CLAUDIUS: Hamlet’s transformation; so call it,” oh damn. i don’t like that word. ‘transformation.’ i don’t like it one bit

“KING CLAUDIUS: so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather, So much as from occasion you may glean, Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus, That, open’d, lies within our remedy.” what is it with powerful men in denmark avoiding communication with the young adults under their care

“QUEEN GERTRUDE: And sure I am two men there are not living, To whom he more adheres.” u rite, there’s only one man and his name is horatio

rosencrantz: just order us you cowards guildenstern: shut the fuck up

king claud: thank you, oh wonderful guilderstern and…  rosencrantz mcidiot

“QUEEN GERTRUDE: Go, some of you, And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.” yeah, where IS hamlet and is he okay

“LORD POLONIUS: Give first admittance to the ambassadors; My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.” fuck you lord pony, you cheap bitch

(thanks, no fear shakespeare for informing me that polack means poland)

“VOLTIMAND:That it might please you to give quiet pass Through your dominions for this enterprise, On such regards of safety and allowance As therein are set down.” that is such a shady fucking request. so shady. “oh yeah lol my rebellious nephew lied to me abt invading poland so he could invade u instead, but then he gave me his WORD he wouldnt so i was so happy i let him actually invade poland but he still needs to go through ur country is that okay lol”

“KING CLAUDIUS: yes nothing could go wrong. excellent. i’ll allow it”

“LORD POLONIUS: brevity is the soul of wit” two things: one, isn’t that the quote AO3 gives you when you leave an empty comment box? two, isn’t wit slang for dick? brevity is the sould of  D I C K

“LORD POLONIUS: I will be brief: your noble son is mad.” yes he’s mad and he’s angry and WHERE IS HE

hey it’s impossible to overstate how fucking sad that letter makes me. it’s going in the currently hypothetical shrine.

“QUEEN GERTRUDE: the poor wretch…” (keysmash)

“LORD POLONIUS: Do you know me, my lord? HAMLET: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.” (louder keysmash)

you know what im not gonna make those into actual keysmashes. everyone who reads this gets to ‘enjoy’ the notebook experience along with me.

“HAMLET: MAGGOTS ON DEAD DOGS! oh and also here’s a vaguely prophetic warning tone about your daughter having a baby.”

“LORD POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: words you fucking idiot”

HAMLET SAID THE WORD ‘HAMS’ I REPEAT HE SAI–

“LORD POLONIUS: Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET: Into my grave. hamlet h hamlet. hamlet hamlet hamlet, no. hamlet, no.

“HAMLET: You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.” why did he repeat that thrice. words, words, words; except my life, except my life, except my life.

“GUILDENSTERN: My honoured lord! ROSENCRANTZ: My most dear lord!” suckups

HAMLET: Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours? GUILDENSTERN: 'Faith, her privates we. HAMLET: In the secret parts of fortune? why are we talking about fortune’s private parts

the fucking ‘prison of the world’ talk is,,,, it’s definitley got that mystical feeling about it. like he’s only got one foot stood in reality.

“HAMLET: ...were it not that I have bad dreams.” the ‘bad dreams’ part. god. how long has he been like this?

he’s talking like what he’s experienced isn’t possible to be described without metaphor, like english just doesn’t have the words for it.

oh god. hamlet. hamlet hamlet hamlet hamlet. oh god. my guy. hhhhhhhhhh

also. hamlet is confirmed bi. lovely.

js i feel like shakespeare’s @ing someone with this talk of child actors or w/e, i can feel the salt through the script

“HAMLET: I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” ONLY when the wind is southerly? i just hope he’s not going birdfeeding any time soon

“HAMLET: ...that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.” HE CALLED LORD PONY A BABY IN DIAPERS <incomprehensible scribbling>

Hamlet is being such a pain in the ass i love it

“LORD POLONIUS: The actors are come hither, my lord. HAMLET: Buz, buz!” lord pony is such a fucking buzz-buzz kill

“HAMLET: O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!” “NFS: Jephthahunwittingly sacrifices his daughter by making a vow too hastily.” this is pinpoint fucking accuracy

ooooh there’s a PLAY-CEPTION going on!!!

hamlet just reciting this speech from memory reminds me of my latin teacher going on a bit of a rant about how humans kinda forgot how to memorize long texts and how most educated men in rome could just start reciting parts of the aenid or w/e just out of the blue and how nobody memorizes literature anymore (cue me reciting the first part of ts eliot’s the hollow men, causing one of my friends to drag the trashcan near my desk and tell me to get in) and then she ended it by laughing at how old she sounded and mimicking a crochety old guy and saying ‘kids these days just dont recite homer like they used to’ and it became a class meme

“LORD POLONIUS: This is too long. HAMLET: It shall to the barber's, with your beard.” god hamlet just. does not give a shit anymore.

MONOLOGUE!

i’ve been wondering what he’s been thinking

NO mr teacher i will NOT put my phone away im done with my worksheet and im understanding this fucking monologue with only minimal NFS!!

okay so after reading that, a few things...

damn the whole what’s hecuba to him and he to hecuba is pretty powerful of a line, honestly, and its sorta getting to me

god poor hamlet honestly, just. poor hamlet.

also, like, i know that this is even just a preliminary plan but, really hamlet? put on a play and see how king claud reacts? okay. okay.

GOOD JOB HAMLET DONT TRUST KING BOO HE’S TAKING ADVANTAGE OF YOU

god that isnt gonna last tho is it

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hamlet why do u have to do this to me

god. okay. 3rd act up next. im very scared.

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