#Lazy realism

[your-local-terror]

Love this guy. The budge. Ignore my fucked up desk im planning to clean it soon (Under cut for no text)

Got ultra moon and this was the first pokemon I got after my starter and he's really cool. His name is Bubby.

[piratedllama-art]

Marinetober day 11: common octopus

markers + acrylic pens

[enthyrea]

bradshaw family doodles <3

[weerawatanabe]

WIP, btw my boi looks kinda like a slut tho.

Either way, I'm probably not gonna finish this so... Here ya go.

[cha-lii]

in my rewatch of stranger things i’ve noticed that jonathan’s plans pretty much never work - he searches for will and can’t find him, he and nancy don’t manage to kill the demagorgan, he fails to fight or kill the monster at the hospital, he isn’t able to get the worm thing out of el’s leg, he can’t get the car started to get them away from billy, i’m not on s4 yet but i’m sure he doesn’t get a win then either… so can we just see jonathan win in s5? please, just one win for jonathan personally, that would be so swell

[tikister]

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Muriel: Crowley, what's happening to us

Crowley: Idk, Idc, at least you're not lookin' like a fukin grape

Muriel: We need to find a way to fix this!!!

Crowley: Say Muriel, where's Aziraphale?

Aziraphale: What's up everypony?

I saw a version of this on twt and wanted to recreate it to see how my different art styles look like next to eachother lol

[mothcula]

have this one too bc looking at it again i LOVE the way she looks here

[thekingofspin]

[sorebelflower]

DRAWINGS OF JENGA BECAUSE I- I- UHM... 😍😳

idk why i just randomly know how to draw rats but i do because ig i used to in 5th grade?? idk

anyways borgor and tf2 man awooga

[russenoire]

in response to this post:

ONE-sensei is a bit of a troll, not gonna lie.

but... i actually like this ending, at least for comedy's sake. the stark juxtaposition of

'boy gets hit by a truck and his unexamined jungian shadow self flattens a city before he finally makes peace with it'

with

'and everything was just fine six months later'

is funnier than spelling out exactly how we get from point A to point B, because we KNOW — as the audience — that it wasn't 'just fine'. after everything we saw, how could it be?

subverted expectations underpin a lot of comedy, even dark comedy, especially absurdist comedy. MP100 is practically built on both. this story wrings a lot of humor out of sad, if not tragic, situations: witness shigeo's 'who told you you could pass out?!' after his home has been reduced to kindling. or ritsu's admission that he only recently stopped crying himself to sleep at night over his inability to bend spoons like his big brother. while he's letting shigeo know just how much he supposedly hates him in that alley.

not expanding upon the real-life consequences of said city-flattening is funny precisely because dropping 'i wrecked my hometown after nearly dying in a car accident on the way to ask out my crush when i was a teenager' in a conversation and just... leaving it there? would be fucking horrifying in real life. here, in the elastic magical-realist context of MP100, it's more darkly absurd than anything else...

more to your point, OP: in this particular series, ONE-sensei tells so much of this story by implication. the answers to some of your questions are in the text, only... alluded to.

this might get long. bear with me:

the fact that joseph from the government exists? and that he's an esper working in secret? implies that the knowledge of destructive espers might need to be concealed from the public at large, perhaps to prevent wide-scale panic or ostracism of espers themselves. i doubt the government was forthright with its citizens about the confession arc disaster or the actual cause, for the same reasons.

that suzuki's broadcast-hijacking world domination announcement is met with public disdain and ridicule, especially over social media? outside of our cast, no one actually takes his threat seriously until it happens. reigen's trash-talking claw's seventh division down to earth also shows how little respect espers who don't make themselves useful to society actually get here. he is, after all, just another member of the public.

that reigen agrees to take on haruaki amakusa as a client after the world domination arc in part because he's worried about losing business? people have begun to move away from seasoning city in the aftermath; whatever the threat amakusa's hyakki present, neutralizing them as soon as possible is best for reigen's continued financial health. i can see even more residents deciding they've had enough and leaving after shigeo's last brush with death. would you stay?

how many people know shigeo is connected to reigen, apart from the people they both know? out of his own inflated and fragile ego, reigen presents himself as a sole proprietor on his website; it doesn't seem his business or its reputation would be directly affected at all.

and the injuries caused? possible deaths? we get a taste: early on in chapter 100, several people are trapped and unable to move in a 地盤沈下 (jibánchinka, literally: 'land subsidence', which can apply to a sinkhole, a landslide...) shigeo has left in his wake. we only find out because a cop is being briefed on this and its cause while trying to detain the suspect for questioning.

but like all other bodily harm caused in this story, we aren't treated to the fallout. did the elderly ishiguro survive shou plowing him into the earth? did miyagawa die after teruki flipped his barrier onto him and broiled him in his own flames? did those high school bully boys live after shigeo cracked their heads open on the pavement like eggs? like, these are good questions. (i'm inclined to believe that all these people died, but many would call me harsh for saying that about an otherwise kind story. we never see them again, either way.)

shigeo actually has a healing factor of sorts; his jungian shadow self keeps plucking him from death's arms. we have no way of knowing if this is true for anyone else, because that isn't the story ONE wanted to tell. if nothing else, the mangaka's lack of desire to engage with this question of lethal consequences is at least consistent across MP100.

any questions that aren't answered either directly or that can't be answered by easy extrapolation can foster continued engagement with the material.

for example: we don't know what shigeo's parents think about much of anything in this story, besides how little they expect from him and how ritsu sets a standard they feel shigeo should live up to. this boy goes through hell multiple times and is never shown to confide in either of his parents about it, instead suffering in silence for some time until he finds someone he feels safe enough to talk to. all this gives me the distinct impression that shigeo just isn't that close to his mother or his father. i can understand why. it's actually kind of sad, even as readers' frustrated expectations of real-life parental involvement with — and confusion over — his and his brother's shenanigans also generate some dark humor.

this also establishes a precedent: since we never check in with them, by the time the confession arc rolls around, their opinion hardly matters. (but i'm sure someone has written a fic fleshing that out! i'm somewhat curious myself.)

[fantarain]

I want them to kiss so bad (they’ve never interacted or been in the same room before)

[bigbunbirdy]

Popee the performer Kedamono

[loupy-mongoose]

WARNING: This one may be an uncomfortable read for some...

...They... They did something to her... To the fetus...

I... I don't know what, exactly... Some kind of gene manipulation, like with the Original Mewtwo...

It was about a month into the pregnancy... They brushed it off as tests... I didn't want to believe they'd do something like that to her... I chose not to believe it...

After... After they... A-altered the baby, it... It needed more energy to grow... More than Akoya's body could supply...

As time went on, she... She got weaker...

There came a point where she couldn't use telepathy anymore.

I... I was...

I was close to asking for the baby to be removed... However possible, whatever might... h-happen to it... I just wanted Akoya to be saved.

But then, she went into labor... It was too early...

...despite that, the baby was much larger than it should've been.

Between the energy imbalance and the strenuous birth... Akoya went into a coma.

I... I consider it nothing short of a miracle that she pulled through at all...

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This is a watered down version of these events. But hopefully it's enough to understand what Randy and Akoya may be feeling as they prepare for her second child...

And I want to specify, the only reason Randy is referring to Lav as "it" is to differentiate between her and Akoya. It would be very confusing for them both to be her in this.

This is the biggest hurdle I wanted to jump before I can fully focus on baby stuff! :)

@kioku-blue @violetjazz25

[nat-20s]

*takes a looooonnnggg drag from my candy cigarette* campiness is built into superhero's DNA. To deny anything colorful or absurd or over the top means stripping life and story possibilities from the genre. *bites the candy cigarette* while that's not to say that no superhero stories can be down to earth or dark but if gritty realism is the main goal and driving force of your story, perhaps sci-fi/fantasy/speculative fictions wackier younger cousin won't always be the ideal genre for you.

[urmomisgayl]

Gift for @clownpalette :)))))))

[faelapis]

i'm alright with flounders design, mostly because i never liked his design in the original. sorry but animated flounder was kinda ugly and the worst of 80s-early 90s "cute cartoon animal" designs. i'll take the photorealistic fish. i love fishies :)