#I FORGOT TO TAG THIS INTO MY ART TAG... anyway...

[cosmiconix]

OOOH! Thank you for tagging me @whimsicalwordsmith53 , I always love a good tag game!!! Especially when I'm stuck with an art block. 😭

Anyways, I REALLY wanna go with a polar bear because they sound so super cool & they live in the snow, but I think I'll go with a jaguar on this one. They're spectacular swimmers, can disappear into thin air, climb trees, & deliver the most powerful bite of all the big cats. They are truly a fascinating animal to be, not to mention gorgeous! 😄

Okay, your turn besties!!! 😆✨️✨️✨️

@heyhopperart @sp00kies @batatadoce666 @discordix1031 @the-phony-king-of-england @eksentrismi @assortedvillainvault

Update: OH MY GOSH I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO ADD RIVER!!! I'M SO SO SUPER SORRY!!! IT WAS FOUR IN THE MORNING & MY BRAIN WAS DYING!!! 😭😭😭

@bread-bastard

if you had to be any animal what would it be

I’ll go first: I’ll be a wolf

@pessimisticbreadslice @vileviale @bestbeeking @shortgaything @melda0m3 @circus-mcgurkus@savburns @lostlosersclub @return-me-to-the-moss @gently-decaying-flowers@bassguitarinablackt-shirt @definitely-not-a-plant @allusionssss @myorgansaremelting

[bread-is-my-life]

Fem stainmight 🔥🔥🔥

And some newer sketches lol

[funkycrabturtle]

meow meow mf, kitty cat regret. miku in the house

she's definitely doing this for more profit from her concerts (..maybe even opening up a pop-up cafe at HC Icecream too)

pros ➟ every time someone throws a tomato at her, she'll just eat it instead (mm, yummy in my tummy!! :p)

..helicopter helicopter tail mode activate

cons ➟ eww pickles. SHE HATES EVERYTHING INCLUDING ONIONS, LOUD MUSIC & WILL SCRATCH YOU IF SHE HAS TO!!!!!!

also she'll just straight up start yapping like "i am sitting on your bed cus i'm a cat in minecraaaaft" but she's just basically speaks like a minecraft cat now..

also, great news! HIT IT CUZZ (a thousand miles instrumental starts playing) 🎹🎼

Making my way downtown,

With my Mac,

STAT & miku comics are gonna be out the hat!!

DUDUDUDUN DUDUDUDUDUD-

[muninnhuginn]

Mun!!! :0 I wanted to ask if you watched the new Link Click op and if so, what are your thoughts on it? And also for season 3 in general if you have any expectations for it

Hi! I've seen it, yes. Managed to watch before work, but not had the chance to properly sit down and digest it all before now. Going to put my thoughts on it all below.

Some things to keep in mind: I've watched the opening and I've skimmed the Tumblr tag a few times since then, but I've not gone deep dive or anything. So if I say something that's been said loads already that's probably because I've not seen everyone else saying it yet. The other thing is that I may comment on the lyrics of the song, but not in relation to potential foreshadowing, given bai sha jaws have been pretty clear they're not really privy to any more info than we are as the audience.

With that out of the way, let's go.

We start with the focus on the camera, which transitions to the basketball court. The use of the feather to carry the transition is one of those "which could mean nothing" details, because the use of feathers is pretty prominent in some of the official art pieces.

Next, Cheng Xiaoshi takes Lu Guang's hand and pulls his past self onto the court. The implications of this are pretty obvious (the 'current' Lu Guang is left unsaturated as his past and Cheng Xiaoshi are held in soft light; Lu Guang doesn't feel like he belongs in this treasured past), but I like the extra little aspect of the basketball pitch being the setting because it means the fencing acts as prison framing. And the prison framing is perfect for the line "trapped in a rewind".

Lonely road, long shadow, it's the heat of the summer and he's small against the backdrop of the street. Stick a pin in this one because we'll return to it later.

And over to fake London and its red doubledeckers. Xia Fei looking out when something (someone?) catches his attention. We're then shown Lu Guang in front of one of Xia Fei's posters, but my instinct is that what Xia Fei is looking at/for is unrelated. Anyway, Lu Guang still desaturated, still not fitting in.

Heh. No comment. (Although, tangent time! I've not been able to pause fast enough to catch the 'afternoon tea' sign but I feel the need to point out something after skimming past some posts that have mentioned it. 'Afternoon tea' isn't a drink. It's more a meal? An event? Say, sometime between lunchtime and dinnertime (I won't confuse things further by referring to the latter as teatime here) it'd be a get together where people would have scones and hot drinks and cake, etc. It's honestly low-key posh so it's far from a daily thing for most people, but it's the sort of thing you'd do for an extended family get together.)

Onto Liu Xiao reading some more Shakespeare. My Shakespeare knowledge is limited to Othello and Romeo and Juliet so... I'll leave this one to other people.

More Lu Guang being out of place.

Someone having tea (the drink) followed by a cipher I'm pretty sure people have already cracked:

Then onto this character:

Not gonna speculate too heavily at this point, but I know people are guessing she's either related to Xia Fei or *is* Xia Fei, given the shared eye and hair colour. I lean towards the former being more likely given the whole thing on the bus where Xia Fei's attention was seemingly caught by something/someone outside. Also, flower in the forefront, not 100% sure here but looks a bit like a yellow daffodil. Possibly a bit out of season for them if this is summer, but we don't care about that. We care about the meaning of a daffodil which is rebirth/new beginnings/all that jazz.

And back again to Lu Guang, who immediately reminds me of something I thought was cool earlier but forgot to mention. Lu Guang is entirely desaturated in this opening, yes, aside from the use of red. Is it original? No. Is it effective? Yes.

Puddle of blood and we meet again, dear white feather:

(The puddle of blood is actually completely still until the feather hits it, at which point *everything* in the scene lifts up).

And we're into full colour (light pouring in from the window) as we see photos (memories) fly around:

And these scenes focus on both Qiao Ling and Cheng Xiaoshi. First, them interacting with each other, then with the unseen narrator (presumably Lu Guang). They both brighten his world.

Lyrics of "there will be a fire when it all unfolds". Liking the 'unfolds' maybe callback there to op 1 Vortex and also the snow/ash/fire thing reminds me... so, like I said, not gonna use the lyrics themselves as foreshadowing, but the backdrop in the next section is fair game and there's a pretty clear fire there. I know it doesn't *have* to be a literal fire, but it was pretty striking so I think it's more likely than not there'll be some fire in Yingdu itself?

Flash through Lu Guang against different backgrounds. Won't spam them all, but we start with the photo studio transition through various Yingdu related backdrops then the clock backdrop (which ofc takes my mind straight back to Madoka) and back to the studio (this time ft. gun in gloved hand (possibly same gloved hand as the teacup earlier - possibly possibly vein, idc to speculate too hard on that point) and finally! We're back to the start of the opening and the basketball court. The whole scene is now washed out and Lu Guang matches it as he wipes his tears, before Cheng Xiaoshi grabs his arm and the colour floods back in.

(Also tangent again but "we fought the tides" as another lyrical callback to the season two ending, nice nice)

And speaking of returning to earlier in the opening, here's the road again:

All three of them running forwards as we pan up to the light in the sky.

And those are my thoughts. There's a lot I skimmed over either because it doesn't much interest me or because I'm pretty sure others'll have written essays already but yeah. Solid opening. Time to jettison my hopes before they get too high.

In terms of the second question, I've not been counting Yingdu as season three in my head, but I'm still genuinely unsure whether it "officially" counts or not. That said, my thoughts on a season three after Yingdu are so murky that I'm going to treat your question as though Yingdu is season three because then I can actually provide some kind of answer.

Basically, I've been thinking of Yingdu as something adjacent to Madoka episode eight - there to provide extra context but technically extraneous to the overall series. This is partly because of the different production layout behind the scenes, with a different studio and directing setup than the 'main' series. I'm basically expecting this arc to help raise the emotional stakes on Lu Guang's side of the situation without actually providing a resolution to the overarching plot.

[plant-cell-park]

the recursive nature of fractals typically means it's bound to get crowded when you're the pattern

[monkesupreme]

ref

a satisfactory answer for Selina

[mroddmod]

i'm not exaggerating when i say he's on my mind 24/7

[hugs-and-stabbies]

The self-awareness on this guy 😞 someone pls send him an "are you bi?" quiz STAT

[slushglow]

the price of your mercy

[buttercupshands]

repost because I deleted the original post accidentally haha

if you think you already saw it? it was because I'm paranoid and thought it was the scheduled one! haha happy anniversary!!!!!

[daeyumi]

i keep forgetting to post this but here’s the piece i drew last year for the twisted wonderland planner~

i’m really happy i was able to include so many characters 💙

[wheatormeat]

I started this around September 2023 anticipating to finish it for dunmeshi's finale! But things got hectic! Here is the finished product to celebrate anime airing day; 2024 is truly the year of dunmeshi!

[horseonvhs]

normally susan loves all the funny orange comics but there's something about this new direction she finds off-putting stupid fanart for susan taxpayer by the homie @punkitt-is-here go play her Fweakin video game

[cobaltfluff]

sasuga my ace detective mind-reading soulmate, I knew I could trust you

[kayberrie]

broke: Ahsoka and Rex swap outfits and it’s horribly obvious plus fits badly

woke: Ahsoka and Rex swap outfits and look absolutely amazing in their new fits

[kryobug]

Closing Night Spoilers 😇

hai tumblr I havent posted in one billion trillion years this is me coming back because Closing Night gave me a dopamine rush and I crunched tjis stupid meme in like 3 hours ok Bye..