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[troncelliti]

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Monogamy

Today we are gathered all in celebration of the finality of monogamy. He, they, him, his one obstacle to being faithful without getting caught.

[aroace-polyshow]

its 2024 if you make any post finishing it with anything along the lines of ‘reblog this or you are a bad evil person’ i’m just straight up killing you

[blondeaxolotl]

Sorry to bother, but I just really really need to share a thought.

I feel like Malleus would be thoroughly entertained and entranced by a car wash. A car wash to him is more magical to him than actual magic.

The car wash is his special interest

[gingersn4pp]

What's wrong, little one? Did you friend leave you alone? Let's get you out of this rain.

Happy 4th anniversary LN2!!

[queen0fm0nsterz]

I really like how Little Nightmares explores masculinity and femininity.

The experience of a female presenting LN protagonist (and even character, if you want to extend to the antagonists, notably the Pretender) is generally one of survival induced solitude, where companionship can be sought but ultimately denied due to circumstance - especially among each other. Six, Noone, Alone and Raincoat Girl all display different degrees of longing for someone to understand them - Six being an extreme on the side of isolation with the occasional source of comfort (the Nomes), Alone being a comfortable middle where she is indipendent and curious while also having a companion, and Raincoat Girl being the other end, an helpful force who seems to desire companionship. In Little Nightmares 1 especially femininity is displayed as the painful experience it can be. It's raw, visceral, and worst of all it's isolating both when you conform to it until it destroys you, like the Lady does, and when you reject the standard of what is expected of someone like you, like Six.

The pain you feel, physical and emotional, doesn't seem to be as important no matter how deep it cuts you. Noone's tumor being hidden and neglected, her headaches being dismissed... and of course Six's hunger, unforgettable in how much it hinders her, but I could also point to her monster form and the physical and mental toll the entire ordeal in the Tower has left on her.

The conflict between Six and the Lady becomes especially poignant under the lens of this argument because it is a confrontation of the two opposing sides of the spectrum, metaphorically. It's a little girl who has yet to experience the devastation of conformity performed as a means of survival facing a woman who lived all her life so set on following these rules that anything outside of them is perceived as a threat.

(One can't ignore the more obvious point of the class difference with Six being at the very bottom of the chain and the Lady being at the top, which certainly influences the dynamic, but I digress.)

Femininity is hyperindependance in the Little Nightmares world. It's the desire to be left alone while also longing for understanding. It's ambition and curiosity, but it's also the loss of identity both in the pursuit of it and in defiance of it. You end up being alienated either way; you can't really win.

On the other hand, I find that generally, masculine Little Nights protagonists tend to be driven by sentimentalisms and emotion. They are often defined by what community surrounds them, be it a single friend, family member or group; the most lampant example of this are, of course, Mono and the Thin Man, but the same argument can be made for the Runaway, whose story ends up leading him into finding a genuine community with the Nomes, something that no female protagonist experiences. You could argue it was clever foreshadowing, and it was! But does it make the observation any less valid? Personally I don't think so. Low also seems to be pretty set on keeping Alone by his side, although it might be too early to tell; however we do know he's a dreamer who dreams of a future where he and Alone can escape the Nowhere. You could call him a romantic.

Masculinity in this world can be care and fortitude, but it's also singlemindedness. It's the ability to find companionship and meaning while also letting one's own hubris destroy it.

Otto himself is an incredibly interesting example of this because we can hear how his desires, his emotions, are eventually what ends up driving Noone into the arms of the Ferryman. It's a prime example of how masculinity and femininity clash with one another -how his emotional wounds and eventual loss of clarity caused a little girl to fall prey to that hyperindependance where she refuses to be helped by him even when he does mean it.

(Along with his vaguely misogynistic remarks, but again, I digress...)

This singleminded focus on one's own emotions is what I think makes the Thin Man and Mono as relatable to many as they are. His is an endless cycle of violence caused by his own hand; by his own inability to process his emotions in a way that can allow him to progress and move forward. It's not a justification of Six, whose eventual exhaustion was what caused her to react the way she did, but rather it is an observation through again metaphorical lens.

The Thin Man is stuck in a dark room that gets progressively smaller because his inability to understand his wrongs causes it to shrink. He's locked in a bubble that is not entirely of his own making, but it is his responsibility to burst. But how can you burst it when you have no conscience of the fact that the room has been getting smaller to begin with? How can you care, when all you can think about is the emotional hurt that brings out the worst of you, the part that you don't even realize is the worst of you?

Masculinity can be just as isolating as femininity not because it's visceral but because it's fragile. It's unaware of itself while also being incredibly concentrated on the self. It's based entirely on how one is perceived and treated and thus easily destroyed once one is left alone to their own devices, which is why it requires community. Once that community is taken from you, it shatters, and leaves one without the tools to rebuild it.

I suppose the true difference here is that, at their worst, while one is self aware to the point it is actively damaging to the self and everyone around you, the other is so out of touch with itself that it can cause unintentional hurt to the self and others which can't be processed properly.

At their worst, they're monsters that help make each other, you could say. At their best, they're companions who help each other.

(This is in no way an attempt to diminish one or the other, by the way, nor does this reading apply to every single character. Both social constructs have their good sides and bad sides. The main quartet of Six, Lady, Thin Man and Mono are very strong cases, but I was simply making a general observation.)

[chulippi]

They’re having a moment, dude.

This image calls to me like the green goblin mask

[shynetyme06]

Small doodle of ink and pj at different points in time holding hands with their babies <3

Ink belongs to comyet, pj by 7goodangel, and mono by skoopskoop :3

[spectatingcat]

Monophia My sweet little dove

Info on the drawing - I changed the TV's look to match the in-game model and changed the mono's appearance to match my interpretation of the TV boy (such as scars, bandages on his feet, a bite mark from six, and mono the rash). Added dead doves (Mourning doves Mixed with bleeding heart doves) and eggs from the easter egg room in Very Little Nightmares.

I like the idea that Mono is slumped over the TV as if he fell onto it, so I mimicked that Idea with the doves to make it seem that they died on impact.

Credit goes to @anime-grimmy-art of course!

Extra - Here is my entry for Grimmy's FTIYS challenge, I'm not truly interested in winning any of the prizes - I just wanted to use this challenge as an exercise

I have other entries that are unfinished that will likely be posted after the contest ends (But like I said before, I'm not too interested in the prizes lol)

This was super fun and I hope to do more in the future, also Grimmy is an amazing artist and I'm so glad to be a part of this contest/experience.

[moullyy]

probably the last phone doodles i can post 4 a while

[aroace-polyshow]

hey can i vent real quick

[blondeaxolotl]

I saw the comic and I question....since Ace didn't use the Ace house would it be hilarious that Floyd would use it? Or Rook before he was pomefiore?

He uses it and never asked for permission to use it in the first place

[olgipolgi]

Little Nightmares II

[monochromeia]

ok so we werent exaggerating about a fucking curly straw starting the war cool

[kaijukebox]

[kicks in door with flowers] okay so kim, who often thinks of himself as pretty jaded when it comes to romanticism, secretly likes getting flowers. I imagine flowers being such a luxury, difficult to grow and pointless to sell to the poor districts that have no use for such a thing. So when Harry stumbles in one day with a fist full of buttercups he uprooted from the lawn of some house in Grand Couron, gleefully showing off the darker orange ones (“they match your jacket!”), Kim immediately finds a mug to house the little flowers and places them where he can stare at them all day.

So, (not so) fun fact, I was not alerted to this message and I just happened upon it last night…please forgive me 🥺

YOU. I need you to know that you have a beautiful, brilliant mind, and I want to make a home in it and live there forever!!💕!!✨ This made my whole month, and I am declaring it as canon, no one can stop me…how SWEET! I had to draw something to go along the lines of this, I hope you don’t mind hrnghfhdfh

[majosullivan]

Thinking about how Mono was in the middle of telling Galoo she wouldn’t mind if she stayed the night, only for Worm to swim directly into her and the two of them needing to rush off to everything that’s happening with the flyfin and boys. Like can you imagine something like that happening to you on a date?

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[moullyy]

it's 8:21 last post of the year 👊

anywyas here's the drawings separately, also the delirious + terroriser drawing is MONTHS old i just reused it HELP,,,,,