#and deeply question what I was doing

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[fuumiku]

Demon AU (krkb)

+ bonus Kuro

Kurokabuuu!! If Kabru gets to be naked then so does Kuro, equality for all 🔥Not to break the mystique but in that intro comic Kuro isn't flexing he's just pushing Mickbell away bc he about to be in business mode gdbdg. Was weird trying to make Kuro look more demony, did not work very well except for making him buffer but hey...! A black dog demon yeah yeah yeah...!

I have accidentally recreated Howl's Moving Castle... NOW HEAR ME OUT- The base concept for my satyr Kabru AU (the initial idea was the sketch where he has no horns haha) now turned demon AU was materializing Kabru's fear of anything monster, particularly his insecurity as a kid of being an incubus('s child and that making him a monster), and helping him work through it so he can love himself and others and the world better, but everything started clicking only after thinking about Kuro's role in the setting more. He's this feared dude with a witchy reputation and a lil rhyme about how everyone should stay away from him for their own sake etc etc, but he's not a demon just a dog dude really. The setting in this AU is much like Dunmeshi, but all monsters are called "demons" instead and tied with this concept of demonic not just monstrous, there's special generalized fear in them being kinda fundamentally evil. But they're just beasts, and sometimes just demihuman races, like Kuro. Magic does exist though, and curses, and yeah just a folk kinda vibe!

Kabru because he's become supernatural knows how to speak Kuro's tongue now too, or maybe he's always known it idk... But Kabru sought Kuro out because he's The demon guy around, thought if anyone around would know how to do anything about his having become a monster it'd be him- Mickbell is there too ig like waaa this innocent-looking (def isn't) human loves this demon and lives with him, alone but peaceful as hermits in the woods? Wah wild. Wah we can still have love?? Wah we can fall in love together and live happy monster lives even if ostracized??! Wah wait I'm not even a monster it was just my own latent magical powers cursing myself because I worried and believed myself to be a demon so intensely for so long?!! Wah we can truly have it all...... Growth feels so nice. Except Mickbell, that grown ass man is not finding inner peace yet. Still he's chill here since he's a side char not a main one

It's how Kuro's confident in himself despite everything being stacked against him, it's how he still trusts and likes himself, it's how he just wants a simple happy life and pursues what he wants, it's how he takes things simply... Self-critical Kabru always neglecting himself over obsessing about the greater good could learn from him........ Kuro is the only one after his transformation that unconditionally welcomes him and shows him compassion and it's all so confusing to him, especially since at first Kabru wouldn't even offer that same humanization to Kuro, only risked it out of necessity for his own circumstances, but he gradually becomes able to see the humanity in him despite his appearance, mannerisms, way of life and ideals, until he sees the humanity in him and himself too despite their appearances, until he finds there's nothing wrong in this routine and life of theirs in this isolated magical little place, until........... Just about accepting all of those fuzzy inbetween ways to be that are unclean and hard to understand from the outside, and growing comfortable in them and loving himself and kuro and the life they've made together.......!!!!!! What if through humanizing you I humanized myself... What if through growing a understanding for each other wevalidated ourselves, love as self-love...

I love including Rin into things, for a more plotty story it'd be neat if she tried and followed Kabru... He up and disappeared and she's a capable mage and she doesn't know what his plan was because he never tells her anything so she goes out and pursues him- Could even be the main antagonist besides just idk self-hate and townspeople lol, like she thinks Kuro is keeping him prisoner or something and also because she kinda represents the same kinda social trauma Kabru has, where she's strict about conforming and being an irreproachable undeniable human so she kind of wants to drag him back to that state he was in of anxiety over acting and being human enough...... But of course in the ultimate confrontation when she has her staff pointed at Kuro and they talk, she's hurt by him not confiding in her and thinking of her as someone who wouldn't help, but she understands and stops and yay happy ending :> And if we want them to be in this Holm and Dia may be allies I feel 🤔Like maybe they help out Kabru when they see him, help him escape their human village at one point or something, Holm is quite nice and cares for spirits and Dia's fled her home too so they kinda get it in a way, it'd contrast Rin... This isn't about the Laios party lol. Rin & Mickbell shenanigans would lowkey be fun like maybe Mickbell tricks Rin into thinking Kabru IS there against his will so she can take him away and the status quo of Mickbell not having to share Kuro with anyone is preserved, or maybe they just shittalk and grumble together. Gbdgd this is a plotline about accepting change and these two are noooot happy about it

So yeah he hates being a monster that's the schtick!! Won't a cool dog man pleaseeee turn me human again. Surely he can do that right. So he goes to live with this feared coolass magicky guy and that guy's little guy at his weird home and through making connections and self-love the curse you actually unknowingly put on yourself gradually lessens and disappears, but you don't care anymore because that's the point 😌 Which is why I call it a Howl's Moving Castle recolor gdbd

Kabru is usually the voice of reason within kurokabu so it's really fun switching the roles in that way. If you're just stumbling into this and are sooo confused first of all congrats on getting so far second I can't overstate how unironic this is + if you want more explanation about the ship I made a brainstormy manifesto here <3 Like, did you know Kuro's name is actually Yodan? He was likely called Kuro by Mickbell due to the language barrier. In this AU it's because no one's interested in him as a person so people just give him an ominous title that means black. But Kabru learning his name and Kuro willingly giving away that information and Kabru feeling the weight of it because he really thinks this'd allow him to control him (he can't actually control bc he's not a demon! No one's a demon yay! Just weirdo humans who get otherized)......

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Other vers because I 1) really like it and 2) am very indecisive. I overthink every single slight color change I stg lol

Sigh....... Like bro what if we were both so so far away from home and we knew we can't really go back and we've made our peace with that but man I miss not having been ripped away from my homeland and we are both so so isolated in our own ways in our presents and with a small yet gigantic gesture of compassion and of seeing each other we can learn and grow together with secret study dates where I teach you how to communicate the same way you're teaching me your language, we are both reaching across to each other we are both finding in one another a presence and humanity that feels so rare anywhere else. A sliver of warmth a sliver of home but also a sliver of the new, and embracing that things are changing and that we've changed and wow the animality within humanity and the humanity within animality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey bro your humanity I am only now fully grasping and coming to terms with is so hot bro............ What if your beastly features ended up making me more comfortable in my own stinky human animal flawedness bro........ What if we could just be together reassured through each other that we're human enough no matter what and that's all we need to just be and wahhhhh aughhhhh

Kurokabu is Kuro needing to choose between Kuro and Yodan. Kurokabu is needing to feel comfortable in animality within humanity. What if we stopped repressing ourselves 🫶

[vaguely-concerned]

the only thing that brings me more joy than emmrich being SO endearingly peevishly unimpressed with ingellvar pulling watcher 101 platitudes on him as a 'get out of emotional vulnerability free' card is rook's utter cheerful lack of repentance or pretence about doing it

[maryymaruu]

Hi, Three Signals! What’s your favorite song? (If you have one)

TS: [ I HAVE HUNDREDS OF SONGS AND COMPOSITIONS IN MY MEMORY BANK, ALL INCREDIBLY PRECIOUS. HOWEVER, IF I HAD TO CHOOSE ONE, IT'D BE THIS ONE. ]

TS: [ COMPOSED BY MY CITIZENS, LONG TIME AGO. BALLADING THEIR LIFE, ACCEPTANCE OF THE ENDLESS, OF THE CARNAL AND OF THE SIMPLE. ]

TS: [ ...IT WAS NOT WELL RECEIVED OUTSIDE OF MY CITY, DUE TO IMPLIED CRITICISM OF THEIR RELIGION, CALLING IT A WASTE OF TIME AND IMPRISONMENT. AS WELL AS SUSPECTED MESSAGE URGING TO ABANDON PRAYER, TO ABANDON STRIVING FOR ACSENSION ALTOGETHER, IMPLYING IT TO BE POINTLESS. ]

TS: [ THEY PICKED THIS SONG APART... TO BE HONEST, I'M NOT EVEN SURE IF I SEE THEIR ARGUMENTS. SONGS ARE SUBJECTIVE, AND THEY WERE EAGER TO SEE THE WORST IN US... ]

TS: [ ... I THINK IT'S SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL. WHEN I PLAY IT LOUD ENOUGH, THE HEARTBEAT ALMOST FEELS LIKE MY OWN... ]

[impmansloot]

reading an article on narcissus and goldmund and thinking "this is way too focused on jungian archetypes and not queer enough. also not batshit crazy enough"

[tvckerwash]

watching people discover the fucked up science guy part of viktor's lore and then being like "we need to acknowledge that he's a fucked up science guy 😔" is so funny. like yeah, he is a fucked up science guy who thinks ethics committees are bullshit because in his mind having rights temporarily violated is perfectly fine if it means saving lives—especially when the ones condemning his beliefs don't offer what they consider to be an ethical alternative to fix the problem and simply let it continue to exist.

and yeah, he's a fucked up science guy who experimented on himself following a, quote: traumatic period of introspection. he had a mental breakdown, fell into a major depressive episode, and spending this horrible time of his life "alone in the depths" reinforced and radicalized his previous beliefs, and to showcase his beliefs (and to try and get rid of his emotions because of how overwhelming they were) he turned himself into a cyborg (and did in fact make himself worse in certain ways but ehh who cares /j).

and yeah, he's a fucked up science guy who gave a kid back alley anti anxiety meds so he could face down his bullies, but he did so after making him a cozy beverage, teaching him about the dangers of propaganda and baseless rumors, and having him scream into a megaphone to freak out said bullies because it was funny (not that he'd admit to finding it funny because then he'd have to admit to having emotions, and well he can't do that, no sir).

so yes, viktor is a fucked up science guy, but that's half his charm! he cares so much about helping people, but he's a weirdo and freak about it! though to be fair, in the city that also has a chemically enhanced werewolf (warwick), a sentient blob of goo (zac), a wind and water goddess (janna), and a literal war criminal who invented chemical warfare (singed), among many other wacky individuals, he's pretty normal all things considered! fucked up science is just a part of life in zaun, my dudes!

[sidesteppostinghours]

ok. question.

ortega ended up hallucinating sidestep after they "died", but sidestep doesnt know about that. they know it got bad, but never the full extent of how their death affected them. so if your sidestep Did learn, if they found out ortega looked for them in every little piece they could, would that change anything for your sidesteps? would their relationship with ortega be any different?

[ducktracy]

compilation of my villagers bullying me. this will be a growing collection. these are all from today alone.

[dailypokemoncrochet]

Hello. I've been following your blog for a short while now, and I really love all your work. And dedication. Your crocheted Pokémon look all very nice.

Now, I know you said not to ask you for patterns, but I do enjoy crocheting myself a lot, and while I will not be asking you for a pattern, I thought I could try asking you for advice on creating my own patterns. I'd really appreciate it if you could provide some tips and tricks as you inspired me to wanting to create my own patterns as well.

Again, I highly love your work here, even if you can't help me! I hope you have a great day!

Hi! Thanks! :D

I've posted some stuff in the past under the tag #crochet tips.

But off the top of my head some more stuff that I don't know if I've said before... Really understand how crocheting in the round works. This still comes down to personal preference, but generally you don't chain and join between rounds because it makes a visible line running down the piece. Also note that continuous rows are not laid on top of each other evenly parallel like lego rows; they spiral like if you peeled a potato really nicely in one go, which affects stuff like where your starting stitch will be and how everything will look kind of slanted. Look at the piece as a whole after every row or few so you can make sure stuff still looks reasonably straight and not skewed, or if you need to adjust something.

Math is important. A lot of stable increases throughout rounds will be in multiples of 6 or 8. A good chunk of mine start off 6 12 18 (regular size ball shape). I like to start with 6 because it makes for some nice number sequences like 6 12 16 20 (more ovoid) or 6 9 12 15 (kind of pinhead).

Keeping track of how many sc are in each round is especially helpful for me determining the size of the following rounds. For example, most of my crochets have a max stitch count of 30 in a row because I want the whole thing to end up around 5" tall (palm of my hand sized) and over time that's just what I've learned is the limit for the way I crochet (gauge, yarn size, hook size, etc). If the biggest width is going to be midway around the body, and I'm only halfway through making a head, and the row stitch count is already 30, then I know the piece is going to end up way bigger than expected because I should've been building up to 30 more slowly. Like, in general if I look at stitch counts for rows I can guess the shape if the increases were happening evenly throughout. For a regular ball, the count is going to be something like steady increases for a few rows, smaller increases to the max width, max width rows for length, then reverse. 6 12 18 24 26 28 30 30 28 26 24 18 12 6.

Hope that helps! Don't forget to check the #crochet tips tag for more tips!

[soracities]

People are wild lol rap does actually take a certain level of skill to both perform and understand, it takes five seconds of research to see that theres decent lyricism going on there. Lots of rappers are actually great at english, they dont all know the official terms for the things they practice but rapping is like a form of poetry really.

ofc there are subgenres that i personally do not like such as mumble rap (a conversation for another time i digress) but if you take for example kendrick's latest diss tracks to drake, its something that has to literally be studied and broken down by a bunch of people lol and once you break it down and understand the refrences you see that its not just a bunch of words and a beat. of course white people will think something they dont understand is ghetto trash what else is new lol they're the kings of ostricizing and devaluing what they dont understand. They did it to jazz they did it to metal and alternative music and they do it to rap.

At the end of the day, culture is a thing that will be understood by those who are meant to understand it. You dont have to like rap to acknowledge that its an art, but calling it trash and refusing to see it from any point of view but your own speaks for itself.

And for the record, im not a rap fan lol its a genre i hardly listen to in fact, but what i am is an artist, and i can acknowledge art when i see it.

i'll be honest, i don't think lack of understanding is solely what comes into it, if at all. the genres that get the most aggressive pushback are also ones that threaten a cultural hegdemony in their respective societies (white, male, christian etc) and that's not a coincidence. rap gets the worst of this and ultimately i don't think it has ever boiled down to not knowing what GOAT means and a lot more to do with overt and tacit hostility towards black people making outspoken art on their own terms in a deeply racist society.

but otherwise i completely agree with you! the lyrical complexity, rhyming schemes and dexterity at play in a good rap song is second to none and you could absolutely teach a literature class on it. it is as much a poetic medium as anything else while also encompassing its own deeply layered, complex and distinct sensibilities--just like, literally, every other art form on earth! to pretend otherwise is just ludicrous at this point.

[unicornachos2]

The way Thymara keeps referring to having sex as "mating" is definitely a conscious choice by Robin Hobb to tell us how Thymara's been socialised to think about sex as only one thing, but gOD it's starting to grate on me

I think this device would work better if the way dragons were written as mirroring the humans in their "mating rituals" wasn't so cis and hetero but it IS. All of the cultures so far (animal, dragon, and human) in ROTE are obsessed with cisheteronormativity and this is presented as normal and natural.

The canon queer characters we see who do get to exist in this world, still exist within gendered stereotypes (Carson and Sedric) or are written has having duplicitous characteristics (Beloved and Hest).

And the female characters who sleep around are either survivors of sexual assualt who become whole by having a child (Althea and Starling), or are represented as irresponsible by our main POV characters (Starling, Jerd).

It's frustrating when the author dives so deep into POVs that when you do get ample space as a reader to draw your own conclusions and counter the narratives of POV characters, your critical readings of their unreliableness as narrators is thwarted by the very rules and themes of the world and stories the author has constructed :')

[mikodrawnnarratives]

Dragon!Maggie/Princess Evie and Prince Max my beloved

the concept has my heart, has no backing in canon, and i don't care

He's her treasure hiss go away insert cat growling noises

[apoloniaspiegelgold]

"What we need is evidence. From now on, we stick to them like glue. On the bus, at school, after school. Everywhere they go, we're there. Either we'll find some evidence, or they get so fed up with us they have to start talking. Agreed?"

- Shannon Kelly, professional stalker

[ouroborosorder]

there's nothing worse than having to re-read the starter guides on a hobby you picked up a few years back but stopped doing for some reason. like yeah i know all of this. actually i don't but i did once. but now i don't. fuck you, man