#and i dont want to interrupt

[irrealisms]

i was going to put this in the replies but then it got long lmao. anyway: yes!!!!! this is part of why i recommend tgcf to people who enjoyed mdzs/mdzs to people who enjoyed tgcf (my recommendation of svsss to anyone is much, much more qualified, but i do recommend it to people who are interested in mxtx novels generally speaking, because of the interesting commonalities there and how you can see her first forays into writing about the same themes she will return to again & again)--i'm going to use this post to expound on svsss a bit because it's haunting me it's the one you're not reading--just look at this quote from svsss:

“That said, demons are naturally gifted with spiritual strength, far more so than humans,” he said. “If their strength could be used for good and was dedicated to the righteous path—to the common people—then how could that not be a good thing?”

this is not actually a central recurring thing in svsss but it stands out to me so starkly because it's--so clearly the groundwork for the themes of both mdzs and tgcf?

and then ofc there's the thing of like. all three of her protagonists get canceled on twitter* and mob mentality/the way a crowd idealizes and demonizes someone in turn is a central theme of all three books. another svsss quote:

He’d done nothing at all to warrant a fall from grace like unto a hundred-floor skyscraper toppling in a single night, nothing to warrant being chased down and beaten by the masses. But everything was different now. The problem was that all of the indistinct smears on his reputation had massed together. [...] As things that seem to be perfectly aligned by pure coincidence accumulate, people no longer take them to be coincidental.

which is! very much the same sort of thing you could say about wwx or jgy! and while #xielianisoverparty is a bit different in terms of vibes it's still clearly the same sort of thing. i mean, look at that metaphor: a fall from grace like unto a hundred-floor skyscraper toppling in a single night.

there's also more general things-- all three books are very concerned with homophobia, with toxic masculinity, with cycles of revenge and abuse, with the ultimate emptiness of revenge, with scapegoating, with abuse both on the micro/interpersonal level and on the macro level of societal structures that enable it, with suicidality and self-hatred, with gay love as a positive (even salvific) force, with the way that suffering and ~oppression makes people worse out of fear and desperation; svsss is imo somewhat less concerned with class and war than the other two but "less" is not "zero" and tgcf and mdzs are very much about classism and the horrors of war; etc!!

it's also interesting to look at the differences--they're all concerned with different types of abuse (mdzs is largely about familial abuse, svsss is largely about sexual abuse, tgcf is about a secret third thing), they all do some level of slash-typical feminizing of male characters but they have very different things to say about it, mdzs and tgcf are engaging with the specter of the sexually predatory gay man in a very different (and imo less ~problematic) way than svsss does--but the differences in how they look at and handle certain themes are particularly interesting to me bc they are so fundamentally concerned w the same themes. reading more than one of them is rly fun and interesting imo bc you really do get a sense for what things mxtx is broadly concerned with and keeps coming back to, what her opinions are, what she has to say through her fiction. it's really good i really like mxtx novels :D you handshake me (loves to juxtapose)

It is in fact really really interesting how many of the things TGCF is macerating on are the same things that MDZS is, and from what ik abt SVSSS things that's also interested in. MXTX is truly writing for herself her dick and the six specific thematic narratives that haunt her

[orchidsinthespr1ng]

i was not born to have a full time employment, i'm angelic, and tortured, and was brought onto earth to be a muse

[quirkedupkicks]

Iida, bro, you Gotta remember to knock first ...

[sparklejumpropequeen1949]

[enden-k]

im feeling so sick guys im unwell fr R7 till vs luka is going to fucking kill me, ill be deader than ivan

IS MY BABY CRYING OR SWEATING I CANT IC ANNTNNN

theyre making luka listen to his own heartbeat (not to mention it looks ?? not normal????) - hes going to hear his own heart stop beating, isnt he

[sigsfigs]

it's just the two of us, or that's what we swore

anyone else feeling a little crazy abt them? no? just me? alright

[rookflower]

thinking about the character again (cinderpelt) and it's likely unintentional and a result of either her shifting narrative role from young go getter to wise mentor or a shift in how the books display their own politics but i find something really tragic in-universe in how she develops from a character who will actively and willingly break the warrior code when it conflicts with her own morals (immediately lying to cover for graystripe and silverstream, acting in direct defiance of her leadership to nurse littlecloud and whitethroat back to health) but overtime through her role she gradually grows more god-fearing and pious and embodies somewhat of a "starclan is always right, even when they are cruel, and we need to accept that" position

[cent-scratchnsniff]

it was just going to be a few warmup doodles but then she infected the rest of the page like the ever eternal and spreading spores. hod!!! hod. hod :)

[girlllsoconfusingg]

being the left out friend in the trio <<<<<

[aroaceleovaldez]

Hi i've read some posts of you about Tsats and it seems like you didn't like the book.

Honestly i'm with you in this 'cause i find it problematic on so many levels (characterizations, inconsistencies, ableism) but apparently there's gonna be a sequel???? What do you think about it?

i think i can pretty concisely summarize my thoughts about the sequel with:

Longer version: It just feels wholly unnecessary. There's no continuation to use for a sequel, really. The first TSATS was unnecessary to begin with but it was so focused on leaving no stone unturned that it functionally left no loose ends to tie up. There's just nowhere to go with it unless they do even MORE retconning and warping characters OOC to string some kind of plot out of, but even that wouldn't reasonably give them enough to make a full novel's worth of plot out of anyways, which means if this sequel is novel-length like the last then it will drag on SO. MUCH. TSATS1 already had horrible pacing problems. There's no way this won't be worse.

[sparkl3-jumprop3qu33n]

who wants to be my friend? please yall

[spaciebabie]

this picture isnt real its all happening in twilights head and she's listening ta this as she's having her bi horse fantasies

un blurred below the cut as well as the lineart with flats cuz i want ta show it off sue me

edit: ignore that the images changed slightly i noticed a shading error i missed and it was bothering me 💀

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 774: Kiji, coming!!

Pag 1

1: Welcome, to the Emperor's throne!!

My aim is the double crown!!

Pag 2

4: Ahhh... you're fast, the two of you

I thought I could catch you for sure at 2km left

Pag 3

1: But it took me until “1km left”, yon!!

Pag 4

3: Ah!?

He

4: caught up!? Who....

Pag 5

1: who the hell are you!?

2: The two people in the lead are taking the curve and passing the sign that says that there's 1km left until the sprint line.....

Pag 6

1: No, it's three people!!

Three people passed the “1km left” sign!!

2: There's more people!? Since when!?

Wasn't it two people!?

What happened!? Who's that? That jersey-

At the last curve, suddenly-

3: It's not “who are you”....!!

Dammit!! I know!! This guy!!

Pag 7

1: There's one more person who we need to pay special attention to

2: Gunma Ryousei's third year, Kiji Kyuui

3: Ohh, Kiji? Who's that

Oi, I already told you about this in advance, Manami!! Come on, at the sea

Is that so?

4: What's your data about him?

5: There's basically no record of him in road racing

6: He's an..... “assassin” from the MTB world, huh

7: Is he aiming for the goal?

8: Yeah.... the goal...

That's right....

We should be glad

Pag 8

1: That he's only aiming for the goal

2: Hayaaaa!!

3: Dammit!! The first result.... so you're aiming for the sprint too!?

4: Since they said you were aiming for the goal I thought you were a climber like Manami!!

Pag 9

1: Let's speed up, Orange!! He'll catch up!!

2: I've seen it before!! This guy's jersey

3: That day.... he appeared suddenly on that bike with the thick tires

Pag 10

1: It's the guy who chased Onoda-san and the Hakogaku guy with the bouncy hair!!

2: Before that, Onoda-san said they were friends and that he's “strong”!!

3: He's coming to catch up to

4: mine and San-na's battle

Pag 11

1: He really is strong!!

Let's switch, I'll pull!!

Pag 12

1: Orange!!

3: They're in tune

You have amazing judgment and explosive power!!

4: When I caught up at the last curve

5: Even though they could have also accepted me and made me join them

Without making eye contact or calling out to each other, in an instant at the same time they made the decision

6: that they would “cooperate” to leave me behind!! Yon!!

You're really....

Pag 13

4: What's that

He's lowering his stance and pushing on the handles like he's about to dance....!!

5: Hayaaaa

Pag 14

1: You're really close friends!!

Pag 15

4: He lined up to us in one go!?

Pag 16

1: This guy!! Was it an optical illusion? Just now, I saw something like a cloud of dust behind me

2: Takadajou told us this

Be careful

3: I've been told that the power that a MTB rider can produce in a short time

4: is 1.5 times that of a road racing cyclist

5: This guy can match this top speed!?

8: Ah!?

9: Huh!?

Pag 17

2: In between!?

He came in between!?

Ah!?

3: You bastard, usually when one catches up he joins in the back

Pag 18

1: It's road racing theory!!

4: This guy doesn't know the theory?

5: 800m left until the sprint line!!

6: 1

Pag 19

1: 2

What's this- San-na, did this guy suddenly started counting

2: What's this

The sign for an attack?

3: 3

Pag 20

2: Alright, I recovered

5: Well then, I'll go

Pag 21

1: Ahead, yon

2: So it really was a sign for attacking!!

Who's that guy!!

[girlloverose]

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[triglycercule]

horror is so BLESSED he's the only one out of the murder time trio that has actual good people trying to influence his story 💔💔 dust and killer were both driven to INSANITY because of the choices of their respective humans but horror??? every time without FAIL the polls for horrortale's plotline have always ended in a good place for aliza (either by bettering her relationships/reputation or for her to just. not DIE)

horrortale's potential alternate timelines my beLOVEd🙏🙏 they're SO lucky that we're being kind and benevolent hehe (≧ω≦) now where are the aus based off the possible different outcomes that could've happened in horrortale HUH???? (like how aliza couldve killed toriel or chosen horror's puzzle or gone with undyne to the core........)

[dailydegurechaff]

Today's Daily Degurechaff is… not to be interrupted.