#THE CRAB IS HUGE

[untitled-vitamin]

The fruit crab invasion is finally over.

That fucking building sized crab nearly wrecked the place though.

If I see another fruit crab, I think I'm going to puke.

I can finally rest for now.

We have a lot of cleanup to do before we reopen, but I'll work on it tomorrow.

Mom is going out to explore the Outskirts and hopefully find that lab we heard Hisono talk about in that one transmission.

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

as newspapers today dont tend to hire children, a modern day Tintin would run a clickbait YouTube channel, except the clickbait is 100% real every single time

he starts off as an irritating conservative pundit at 14, meets Chang then leaves the think tank paying him and launches his own independent channel and blows up shortly after. Chang helps with video editing and managing his socials and they often chat on video calls between adventures. Haddock, his foster dad, has absolutely no knowledge of his earlier videos.

[orcboxer]

best wishes to everyone who will be affected by the results of the us election in the coming year. may you find the strength to survive anyway.

[chimeride]

Lernean Crab, the 245th Known One.

[piratedllama-art]

Marinetober day 8: japanese spider crab

[done in procreate]

[crehador]

mulled it over for a while and ultimately decided i'm really digging this arajin-matakara fight, because like

the whole series has set up arajin as a piece of shit fuckhead (and i LOVE that for him) but this whole lying to matakara about wanting to be a honki people thing... is like the one thing he did not actually do

i get real rambly under the cut but tl;dr the way matakara treats arajin is the way arajin treats mahoro and that is suuuch a juicy parallel to me

throughout the whole series arajin has been not at all subtly trying to get away from these fights

could he have been more direct about that with matakara? sure maybe! but matakara was really ignoring all the signs that arajin is not who he thinks he is

which is such a delicious parallel to how arajin willfully ignores all the signs that mahoro is not into him

like. matakara built this version of arajin up in his head, with all these unreasonable, unrealistic, and honestly unfair? expectations based off some past foolishness from when they were very small children. he's clinging to this version of arajin that only exists in his head and has basically shown zero evidence of existing in real life

(yes arajin shows crumbs of courage but i think the scales are tipped pretty heavily towards his I DO NOT WANT ANY PART OF THIS moments)

this fight between them was like if arajin were to blow up at mahoro like "you've been leading me on this whole time!" when obviously. lol. no she has not

she did initially! just like tiny arajin as a child had those honki people ambitions! his ambitions may have been genuine, while mahoro feigned interest in him with malicious intent, but they're same in the sense that after that initial story beat, they have consistently demonstrated that actually no what happened back then no longer applies (whether because they grew out of it, in arajin's case, or they were faking interest in the first place, in mahoro's case)

but arajin is blinded by what he wants (mahoro) and ignores the reality of mahoro snubbing him at every turn, and matakara does the same, ignoring the reality of arajin really just... being extremely reluctant to have anything at all to do with him

anyway that's the main thing i'm chewing on and loving here, but ALSO i think the story paints this parallel in such an interesting way because like

matakara is just a big sweet ouppy dog of a boy! it's so so so easy to feel sorry for him, to root for him, to think the best of him. which i still do btw, in fact this episode made me like him more than i already did

because matakara is so uwu angelboy perfect, and arajin is such a dickhead, it's easy to instinctively think oh matakara must be completely right to be hurt and arajin must have hurt him. even if that isn't the case! this doesn't make arajin any less of a dickhead, but he's a dickhead mainly for other reasons

the fact that they've been set up as the perfect epitome of the Pure Boy and the Pervy Boy tropes is just such clever framing for this parallel between them, because i imagine a lot of viewers, if told what mataakara is doing to arajin is what arajin is doing to mahoro, would be like omg wtf no my pure angel baby is nothing like that disgusting freak?

except in this case! he literally is!! which is brilliant!!! i think it adds nuance to both matakara's character and arajin's character at the same time, making it so it's not just one of them is Perfect and one of them is Wrong All The Time

what's even better is that this made sense for matakara, like his reaction breaks him out of the Pure Angel mold but doesn't feel out of character. his emotions are already running high with what happened to his brother, plus akutaro is malewife mansplain manipulating him behind the scenes, so of course he feels like he's driven towards this emotional high that leads to this blowup

the groundwork was already laid out, and it wasn't even subtle. it was right on the surface! but this episode really highlighted how matakara's way of treating arajin is so much like arajin's way of treating mahoro and how inevitable it was that things would reach this point

(there are moments, even in this episode, that are in hindsight so clearly setting up this parallel! like arajin trying to talk to mahoro during lunch, mahoro CLEARLY not interested, making viewers think ugh arajin get a clue. then matakara often IMMEDIATELY coming in to try to talk to arajin, when arajin is the one who clearly isn't interested, making viewers think boo arajin be nicer to him! like i think the show deliberately set the audience up to have those emotional reactions, and this is the moment where the rug is pulled out from under us, so to speak, where it becomes even more obvious that... wait... double standard much?)

anyway. personally my only gripe with this episode is i wished they'd done more with aniki than just pseudo-fridge him, and hope they do still do more with him in the coming eps? but kind of understandable if they don't, because it is just a one-cour show after all

the actual blowup between arajin and matakara was just. mawh, chef's kiss. perfect

[irbcallmefynn]

Hi yeah I did it again but I changed all the species :3

My style has changed since the first one so I wanted to do it again but I wanted it to be different so now we get other species! I like what I did with the snake I thought it was funny. The Freebie Avali is my favorite though! Genuinely super cute >w<

[checkadii]

mfs do anything but finish their wips . like startign another, for example

[recallback-art]

Friend saw some very good crab plushies at the store. Their names are blue raspberry, ibuprofen, and degenerate.

Reminder I have comms open also! Get your own crab for 5 bucks, put a hat on it, world of opportunities.

[57sfinest]

something that’s been on my mind a lot also is like. the potential for conflict between kim and harry because of harry’s can-opening. 

kim is obviously deeply repressed and while that’s not necessarily a good thing, and he’s not necessarily happy about being that way, it’s also not up to harry to decide that he needs to be exposed. harry can be good for kim in this context if and only if it’s kim making the decision to open up. it can be good for kim if kim is like “there is no way i can ever be as openly fucked up and embarrassing as this guy. he is a freak and a disaster on a level i could never aspire to. so i guess it’s fine if we’re friends. he can know me a little bit.” then it’s great and they foil each other well and their relationship can be healthy and fulfilling for them both!

but there’s also a version of their relationship that starts out okay but goes down in flames because harry just can’t help himself. he either can’t or won’t stop the prying and kim has no inclination to let harry in. there’s a harry that will push kim’s buttons and provoke him and say or do awful things just to see how kim reacts. there is a kim that has no tolerance for harry’s behavior, no desire to play along, and not enough patience to give him more than one or two chances. and kim wouldn’t be wrong for that! kim has no obligation to give harry chances and no obligation to be vulnerable just because harry wants to know he smoked weed back in his 20s (which is a small complaint of mine. as funny as that dialogue is, i kind of wish that even passing that check didn’t actually give you a secret. kim deserves to be able to say no and doing so is way more consistent with his character.)

yes, sometimes kim NEEDS that little bit of pressure from harry so he has an excuse to do something he wants to do anyway, but that’s exactly it: it’s something he *already wants to do*. like the jackets or the dancing or the cryptid talk. harry’s blundering lack of reservations is an excuse for kim to loosen up on his own- it absolves kim of ultimate responsibility, protecting him, and that allows him to *do* things, freeing him. done this way, the dynamic can be healthy and mutually beneficial. but it’s also good to acknowledge the ways in which harry can try to expose kim in harmful ways that drive them apart.

[haveyouusedthispokemon]

Kingler can be used on your team in:

Gen 1: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow Gen 2: Gold, Silver, Crystal Gen 3: Fire Red, Leaf Green, or Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald (transfer only) Gen 4: Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold, Soul Silver Gen 5: Black, White, Black 2, White 2 Gen 6: X, Y, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire Gen 7: Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee, or Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon (transfer only) Gen 8: Sword, Shield, Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl Gen 9: Scarlet, Violet

[nat-20s]

Interacting with an artist you like is so intimidating at first. Like oh God what if I say something Wrong and they kill me with knives. It would be their right.

[plaguedocboi]

A hermit crab! Where? I wanna see. Do you have a picture of it? Those are absolutely my favorites even if I've never seen one in the wild because I live in northern Europe. They are such friend shaped ones and make funny line ups to change homes.

Behold the lad!

[smallhatlogan]

People discuss crabs in Kenshi like "they're strong but since they can't move very fast they're better as solely a settlement pet" which ignores a very simple solution

[lowpolybread]

The Guardian: Adobe drops $20bn takeover of Figma after EU and UK regulator concerns

[proxentauri]

a brief break from our regularly scheduled control fanart to draw some 2023 minecraft mob vote propaganda!!

the first of three is the CRAB, whose claw increases the player's build range. are you voting for the crab??? am i voting for the crab?? who knows??? i'll decide after drawing all three!

check out the speedpaint/timelapse of this painting!