#OKAY! geez.........

[echoesdistant]

head 1968 is so scary like you are in a dark box in a box in a box in a box in a box chained and locked and sinking into the ocean and nobody on shore is doing a thing about it they just watch in assured silence because you will be back you ALWAYS come back the light of the sun can reach hundreds of feet down into the water and it will always shine on you

[cutter-kirby]

come on simon

[katherynefromphilly]

Me: Wow that was a good story

Me: *presses kudo*

AO3: You have already left kudos here.

Me: Huh. I guess… I read this already? I better save it-

Me: *presses bookmark*

AO3: You have already bookmarked this story.

Me: THE FUCK YOU SAY.

[rosesradio]

define a fictional ship that’s illegal. no, that dynamic is illegal in real life. no, that dynamic is illegal in real life. no, that dynamic is frowned upon in real li—

if certain ships were actually illegal to talk about or make content of, so many blogs on here would be taken down and/or faced with legal consequences.

if you think that should be the case—as in, select ships and dynamics would be considered illegal (either by law and/or enforced by a Board of Regulators) to make content of (the selectivity of which would be subjective to any given plot point or preference), then that take is ridiculously stupid at best or cop-like at worst.

[allimili]

Being all knowing also has its downfalls.

[betweenblackberrybranches]

Please have mercy on me

I am so sorry, please avert your eyes

this is 18+ i think... im pretty damn sure

[shinigamichan]

your name it bleeds so endlessly

you’ll always be a part of me (x)

raincode ship week day four: flowers | memories

I have successfully made one (1) piece of art for the week I can rest happy now. kokogami good. read oreyome. like and subscribe. im never kokogaming again (lie) they make me too sad . everyone go check out @raincodeshipweek everyone’s making cute stuff !!!! 🩷��

bonus doodle: shinigami, somewhere

I like to think they’ll reunite. I can’t imagine yuma seeing the book of death and not being curious about the deity who helped him so much. and espec with how much shini loves her master, id be sad if she never gets to see him again. wah. wahhhh. please read oreyome it fixes and breaks and fixes my heart !

[feketeribizli]

i wish i had one billion trillion dollars to give to the williams mechanics right now

[skyartworkzzz]

Your lamb looks like he’d be voiced by Emperor Kuzco

BAAHAHAHAHAHIJSDKMDMDKMKL!!!!!!!!

THIS IS THE SECOND TIME MY LAMB HAS BEEN COMPARED TO KUZCO HELP u guys are just BEGGING for me to headcanon him as their voice right-

[hplonesomeart]

Hey!! So turns out a video I made between a certain “well beloved but highly sensitive/emotionally reactive T.V” and an “orange haired inkling-turned-human” has managed to sweep my YouTube channel and accumulate 100k VIEWS!! THAT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE ACTUALLY?? My most widely viewed video EVER to exist in this moment in time?? AAAAA?? Not even mentioning the various comments and staggering increase in subs! It’s so much more then what I expected or even prepared for—might even be the most impactful thing to happen for me this year <3

…aside from graduating high school + the social connections I’ve been fortunate to make lol

BUT THE POINT IS I’d been closely monitoring the YouTube growth through the entirety of October. It’s make me smile like a dork, gawk in astonishment, dance frantically in my room from the energy boosts, and grow courage to stop being so selective/self-conscious with what I wish to share with the world! It’s kept my ambitions going!

I needed to find some way to celebrate the occasion and express my thanks—because I can’t NOT acknowledge this milestone jksjskp. Typically I try to avoid getting tunnel visioned focusing on the metrics/numbers. Mr. Puzzles had already demonstrated how much those things can mess with the minds of creatives. Caring too much about chasing views or placing your artistic value in attention seeking gets damaging. But at same time…it’s hard to deny the sense of pride the 100k achievement has filled me with. I understand that reaching 100k views doesn’t immediately make me any “better” or “worse” then I was before. I’m still just me! It only helps me feel seen by others—and that’s all I really needed. To hear some nice words & receive reminders that my ideas are cared about. So thank you SMG4 fandom for that, seriously thank you.

Please accept this Mr. Puzzle drawing as a way of sharing the happiness around. He’s so entertaining. Love him for simply existing. So glad we can all collectively be super attached to him (and the rest of the SMG4 cast of course). Can’t wait to see more incredible artworks from the fandom :)

Just incase anyone is confused by my vague description over which “animated video” I’m referring to here—hopefully this photo will help clarify lol. It’s this one!! Sorry about not outright stating the title at the start, I got carried away with writing!!

I’ve been in an odd place mentally when thinking about it. Wondering to myself if any of the attention is deserved considering it’s not even fully colored and could be dismissed as “low effort” content (despite taking several days making it). It’s easy to get into a trap of comparing yourself to others and questioning how much of the videos success is based on your skills, sheer algorithm luck, or only because you used popular characters and catered to a specific fandom. And then judging yourself by looking at other peoples videos. I’ve seen several artists post higher quality works then my own but it somehow gets less views. So why did mine succeed when others (who should have gotten just as much attention if not more) didn’t? Sometimes you feel like you’ve unfairly robbed them of that chance to be seen. However I’ve realized that I can’t ever expect views to be consistent—and comparing is pointless. So why worry about it or feel inadequate? I mean it’s pretty common for funny cat videos to go viral, so who am I to question the system lol. “Popular” YouTube videos can range from a passion project which took 7+ artists…to a clip of Toad singing Chandelier or a nonsensical Vine sketch. Anything can happen when it’s the internet! And just-so-happened my video was chosen. I should stay glad about that and get rid of all the overanalyzing. So that’s what I’ve chosen to do :)

[tired-biscuit]

the funniest thing ever to me is when little kids get angry and they go like “nobody asked you, LADY”

[ovaryacted]

When you lowkey don’t want to write anymore because people don’t give a fuck anyways and you think you’re mediocre (lie) but you know that’s just the self depreciation talking smack and taking over in your head cause you don’t know how to release that energy so you just gotta wait until you sleep it off and forget about everything tomorrow.

[bottle-of-allay]

Whenever I tune in to a stream, Ren always seems to have a cup of tea

Hermit-a-day May #31 Rendiggitydog!

Final day, I cannot believe I kept up with this challenge! Thank you so so much to hermitadaymay (aka mod luna) for organizing this event for the second year! What a wonderful charity to support and what an amazing thing to be apart of. Seeing all the submissions everyday was such a treat. Can't wait for next year!

[2hoothoots]

i was having a chuckle to myself last night about Gristol, and how his plans are basically:

Restore Ford Cruller's memory

Find Maligula

???

Profit

but then... of course they are, right? this is Gristol we're talking about. Fatherland Follies drives home again and again that he's still operating on a child's logic, a warped and reductive version of the world that he never bothered to grow out of. both of his memory vaults center on the images of his childhood, this idealized version of the past that he clings to no matter what. and that's still how he remembers Maligula, too - as this saviour figure, who rushes in to help him when he's in trouble.

[ID: Two slides from Gristol's memory vault, Glory to Grulovia! Left: Gristol clings to Maligula's back as she summons waves to sweep away his assailants. Right: Gristol and Maligula waving from a balcony as the people cheer. Gzar Theodore brandishes a dagger in the background.]

like so much else, Maligula represents a return to this idyllic childhood - to the peace and simplicity of his youth, when he was free from worries and responsibilities. in his mind, he doesn't need to make any further plans - once Maligula's back, everything will go back to normal. Maligula will make everything better.

...is what i thought, but then i remembered this line:

[Screenshot source. ID: Gristol, in Truman's body, bows on his hands and knees in front of the newly-awaked Maligula. The caption reads: "Yes, High Priestess! I am here to correct the mistakes made by my father!"]

and that's kind of interesting, right?

to be clear: this happens directly after Maligula sees Helmut-in-Gristol's-body, and recognises him. her line before this is:

"Little Gzesaravich! Have you come to pay for your father's sins?"

my first thought was that Gristol hadn't expected to still be in Truman's body by the time he managed to find Maligula, and this was him trying to placate her and buy some time until he could explain the situation. but watching the cutscene back, that's clearly not what's happening here. Gristol is answering as himself, and his response of throwing himself to his knees before her is, as far as i can tell, genuine.

so what is going on here?

in Fatherland Follies, there's this line in the ride narration that stuck out to me:

"Why didn't the Gzar help Maligula in her time of need? No one knows, but historians agree - it is Gzar Theodore's biggest failure."

other lines mention Gzar Theodore's "mistake", and it's wording Gristol himself echoes in the screencap above. evidently, he believes that his father abandoned Maligula, leaving her to her fate at the hands of the Psychonauts, and it was that mistake that lead to them being driven out of the country - that mistake which he seeks to correct. maybe he even feels like he has a debt to repay to her for his family turning their backs on her all those years ago.

the 'High Priestess' thing, though - that's kinda weird, and threw me for a loop the first time i played the game. it took me until my second playthrough to connect the dots, and remember how the room in the Lady Luctopus - Gristol's room - was full of Delugionist scribblings and symbols.

[Screenshot source. ID: left, the walls of the hidden backroom in Gristol's hotel suite, covered in scrawlings of eyeballs and Maligula's name. Right, the pinboard from the hidden backroom. On its surface are photographs and newspaper clippings connected by pieces of string.]

i mean, look at this stuff! he had a whole conspiracy board and everything!

we learn very little about the Delugionists and their beliefs as a whole during the game, but i think drawing the connection here suggests two important things. one: that Gristol was in deep with this stuff. i don't know how he linked up with them - maybe via old family connections, or just good old-fashioned digging (we know he's skilled at worming his way into peoples' good graces, after all) - but it seems likely that he's begun to internalise their ideas, maybe even warping his own memories of events. and two: the Delugionists themselves are, if you'll pardon the pun, pretty far off the deep end.

like... i understand why PN2 didn't go heavy on the "mass-murderer cult worship" aspect of things, in the end, but man this is such a tantalising glimpse into the wider mythos around Maligula. Gristol is proud and haughty and thinks himself above everyone else; the fact that his first reaction seeing Maligula is to throw himself to the ground at her feet says so much about the way he's come to see her. he's not just trying to bring back Maligula, his childhood bodyguard. he's trying to bring back Maligula, the High Priestess of the deluge, the semi-mythical figure whose supporters believe even death couldn't stop. he doesn't even flinch at the way she confronts him, and maybe it's because he's bought in so completely to this deified figurehead, this idea of Maligula; more a living force of nature than a person. and it all comes back to the same place: an abdication of responsibility, not just to the person who protected him when he was little but to this avatar of floods and destruction. Maligula will make everything better.

i'd write more about my thoughts on the Delugionists but that'd be taking a hard turn into speculation, and this is already kind of long and rambling so i'd better end it here. but what an unexpected and evocative line, right? it's some of the only stuff we have to go off of regarding the Delugionists as a whole, but i think it does such a good job of hinting at the wider story - at teasing another layer to the mythos surrounding Maligula, one whose ripples we see throughout the game but which never quite breaches the surface.

[dreamsfulblues]

OH WELL WHATEVER

HAVE SOME OFFICIAL KARAMATSU ILLUSTRATIONS I LIKE

(Part 4)

[squid-procrow]

I've wanted to draw Gale on his desk, but there are no solid references online that aren't the video itself. I figured I'd post this quick study in case others would like to have a look (No promises the layout is accurate)

If there are some edits or errors of note feel free to lmk, also if any could find a way to camera sweep the room I'd cry