#bearsuit

[foreverssims]

mari's still in her bear phase btw (and she gets super upset when she's not allowed to wear her suit...)

[myreputatioooon]

he can"t even get into character 😭😭😭

[pixelatedquarter]

Everything's chill with "bear (patrick) in mind" until you find out the Luke Chueh painting Pete started vagueing Folie A Deux with is called "Bear In Mind"

[bearsuitrecords]

Eamon The Destroyer session for Majem Radio Listen again here: https://majjem.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawG4AZhleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbS74mWWYswATWFkXCLq5Nc9FNuc-nRPgv6QVjokirUHro3MXzFVyei0xg_aem_2idw324YP73cHjD5tLLHXA

[myleslaneart]

gonna start doing portraits for studies as well - i think this is okay for the first one but i need to work on fur rendering this was really a struggle

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you please; what is your Tolberone theory of knowledge?

My theory, which I thought up a few weeks ago while sick with covid, is that all knowledge is a form of art, and that there are very broadly three basic types of knowledge arts: physical arts, philosophical arts, and scientific arts, and that pretty much all academic, artistic and practical disciplines exist somewhere in that triangle spectrum.

Physical arts are knowledges of how to actually, physically do things. The purest front of physical arts are things like dance and navigation.

Scientific arts are knowledges of things that can be tested and proven. Computer programming and Quilting are both scientific arts: they work, or they don't.

Philosophical Arts are knowledges of things which while not objectively provable, are still very real. History and Being A Good Listener are philosophical arts.

Nearly every discipline of knowledge is some combination of all three. Cooking is largely applied chemistry, a scientific art, but it's also a philosophical art because flavor is extremely cultural and contextual, and a physical art because you have to know how to hold the damn knife and heat when it's done.

The first part of toblerone theory is that, like how each piece has three sides, any given project needs at least one person who has a good grasp of each of the underlying arts involved or it's going to go sideways at best. For example:

Physical and Scientific arts, no philosophy: Jurassic Park. They need someone to point out that, while very possible, it's not necessarily a good idea.

Philosophy and Science, no physical: that dril tweet about the forum debate locked by a mod after 12,000 pages of heated debate. They need someone to drag them away from the keyboard and actually do something.

Philosophy and Physical, no science: that cult in midsommar that put a guy in a bearsuit. Without the ability to engage measurably with the world, they give into fear and behave like reactive animals. Also the "rare chicken steak" phenomenon.

You can have differing ratios of each type- Jurassic Park really only needed two philosophers: one animal behaviorist and an OSHA inspector, and 98% of the issues would have been avoided- but you do need at least ONE of each underlying art to check each other's work.

The second part of toblerone theory is that, like how the toblerone is made of many triangle pieces, there are poles to the triangle spectrum. Practical vs Esoteric arts. Short term and long term arts. High stakes vs for funsies arts.

While you have have different ratios and levels of expertise in each of the arts, you do all need them to be on the same piece of the bar, or they won't take each other seriously. A UN Diplomat and a climate scientist aren't going to take the advice of physical artist my uncle Bobby the plumber re: global warming, but they will take the advice of physical artist my Aunt Cheryl the civil engineer, a world expert in getting shit done.

The same applies for the other end of the spectrum. Aunt Cheryl the civil engineer isn't going to get much milage with the local high school student council and principal Waley when the problem at hand is "what are we going to do for this year's prom theme?"

I gotta go to therapy now, pictures later.

[wqsteria]

Liliana Lookbook ⋅˚₊‧ ୨୧ ‧₊˚ ⋅

Look 1 - Bodysuit | Hair bow | Shoes

Look 2 - Cardigan | Tights | Pacifier | Shoes

Look 3 - Bearsuit | Pacifier | Slippers

Look 4 - Onsie | Hair bow | Socks

Thank you to all the creators 𓏲 ๋࣭ ࣪ ˖⤹ @lynxsimz @theseprettylittlepixels @nightigalesims @beto-ae0 @bbygyal123 @ebonixsims @simnasimsworld @aira-cc @madlensims @camuflajesims !

[adachimoe]

summary of the persona 4 golden anime audio drama: boo!

Adachi is in this one. Thank god. I put this under a read more cause there's quite a bit to describe.

This one takes place before Naoto joins the Investigation Team so no one knows she's a girl yet. At Junes, the gang are telling Marie about their class trip to Tatsumi Port Island: Visiting Gekkokan, going window shopping, going to Club Escapade (Yukiko has no fucking clue what happened at Club Escapade and Chie tells her its for the best lol).

Marie also wants to make memories, so Rise suggests they figure out something to do with her. But they already went to the beach, the shrine festival is already over, there were fireworks, etc. Rise wants to go to an onsen, but Yosuke is a bit too overly enthusiastic about the idea, and Chie vetos it because "it's too hot out" (I'm fairly sure the implication is that Chie actually vetoes it because of Yosuke's reaction to the idea of seeing Rise at an onsen as Chie is still in her "compare herself to every girl" arc, but she just says it's cause of the weather).

Yukiko's suggestion of something cool and hot is a test of courage, which everyone except Chie is on-board with. Yu suggests they do it at Tatsuhime Shrine. The group recounts how there's been reports a woman in a white kimono, the cries of a fox, and bugs, but the shrine gets rejected cause of how narrow it is. Teddie wants to do it at Junes, but Yosuke refuses. Chie tries to get out of it by saying they don't have a place to do it, but Yukiko then suggests the school. Since Marie is willing to go, Chie gives up and agrees.

At school the next day, Yu tries to invite Naoto, but Naoto is busy due to the case with Kubo. When Naoto asks why Yu even asked, Yu replies that it would be fun if Naoto came along too.

At night, Yu explains that Naoto isn't coming (Kanji is disappointed). Yukiko thinks that Yosuke is going to lockpick the school gate open, like in spy movies. But Mass Destruction starts playing, and it turns out that Yosuke left it open earlier during the school day, referencing what Junpei does when SEES finds Fuuka in Tartarus in Persona 3. Yu begins to call Yosuke, "Brilliant!" a la Mitsuru, but he gets cut off by Yukiko going "Normal", as she and the others were hoping for the spy movie route. No one is impressed by Yosuke except Yu, who now quotes Akihiko, telling him "Good job" lol. (Yu is quoting what Mitsuru and Akihiko say this to Junpei in P3 when he leaves the door open. I think English put C'est magnifique for Mitsuru and Oui good job for Aki?)

For the test of courage, the group will split into pairs, visit all 3 levels of Yasogami High, and stick talismans at the ends of each hallway. They get paired up as Rise and Yosuke (Rise wanted to be with Yu, Yosuke is psyched), Chie and Teddie, Yukiko and Kanji (Yukiko tells him they're going to discover the Mysteries of Yaso High, and Kanji is like "wtf"), and Yu and Marie. Each group takes turns entering the school, 5mins after the last.

Yosuke and Rise enter, and Yosuke is hoping that Rise will cling to him (like, "kyaa sempai i'm scared >w<!!!"), but Rise is totally chill with this as she once filmed something at a school at night time for a program and it seemed haunted/cursed. Yosuke assumes it was just a set, not a real thing, and Rise gets upset he doesn't believe her. Meanwhile, Chie is terrified walking around with Teddie, and wants to go back to the entrance. Teddie messes with her / scares her by saying that if she goes outside and waits for the others, she'll be all alone, and ermmm insert a lot of muffled unintelligible screaming during which Chie gets afraid and tries to get into Teddie's bearsuit but I can barely make out the dialogue over the two of them yelling at each other lol.

!!!!!!!!!! ADACHI ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!! ADACHI UN-ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!

At Shiroku Pub, Dojima is drunk as hell and bitching about Naoto, saying that Naoto should be in school instead of helping the police. Adachi gets a bit "well, ahkstually" and brings up how Naoto literally goes to Yasogami High, and Dojima gets pissed lmao and is like no you dipshit why is Naoto allowed to work on a murder case despite being a high schooler. Adachi brings up how Naoto is this super genius and they might not have caught Kubo without their help, which reaaaaally just pisses off Dojima even more. He tries to pour himself another beer, and ends up spilling it. Adachi tries to spin this into a positive, saying that they will have free time. Except "free time" also pisses off Dojima, so Adachi pivots into how he can spend his free time with Nanako. But instead of talking about Nanako, Dojima invites Adachi to come over for dinner, Yu will cook, etc. He begins to say something like, "the four of us..." before passing out (fairly sure Dojima was trying to say "can be a family"). Adachi then gets a call from someone about a "suspicious person at Yasogami High". He attempts to get Dojima to investigate this, but Dojima is out cold. Adachi finds this all giga annoying, as Adachi always does, but he suddenly gets the bright idea to pawn this off on someone else.

Back at Yasogami High, Yukiko and Kanji are near the music room, and Yukiko asks if they can go in so she can "confirm something". Kanji's brain turns into a romance anime and he's very excited at the idea that Yukiko might confess to him. However, it turns out she wanted to go into the music room to see if one of the Seven Mysteries of Yasogami High -- the one about Mozart having shining eyes in the music room (see: the portraits on the wall in P4 Arena) -- was true or not, and Kanji is like, "...oh". She then tries to see if the other mystery about the Midnight Piano, a self-playing piano, is true or not, when she taps a key on the piano to see if it plays back. Kanji says the word "kanji" (meaning feeling), and this causes Yukiko to do her hyena laugh because "Kanji said kanji", and she presses random piano keys while cackling. The two hear someone outside of the music room, but when they open the door, no one is there. Kanji thinks it was nothing, but Yukiko chases after this person, and Kanji loses track of her.

Lastly, Marie has no idea what's so great about this, so Yu decides to show her.

Yosuke and Rise are hanging their final talisman when Yu suddenly calls Yosuke. Yosuke asks what's up, but Yu doesn't reply and does mouthy breathing over the phone while telling them "b-e-h-i-n-d-y-o-u", then Marie suddenly comes from behind and spooks both Rise and Yosuke, and they start screaming. Marie instantly understands why this is fun, and Yu takes her to scare the shit out of Teddie and Chie next.

Teddie and Chie are "walking" around with Chie clinging to Teddie. They hear footsteps, but Chie doesn't think it's the others cause they don't hear any voices. Marie spooks them by going "I curse--", and Chie begins screaming. Yu calms down Chie, and Marie complains about not getting to finish her sentence ("I curse you"). Yu suggests Chie finally let go of Teddie. Now free from Chie's grip, Teddie reports on how Chie's warmth caused him to see the pearly gates.

Kanji is still looking for Yukiko, but instead finds Marie who moves around a skeleton and goes "I'M A SKELETOOOON", and Kanji is like, completely unphased by this. (Yu thought it was a good idea, but it just didn't have impact.) Kanji asks them if they've seen Yukiko, who ran off chasing a shadow. Yu goes with Kanji to look for her and sends Marie to go wait with the others.

Before returning, Marie begins composing a poem:

You are a reaper who harvested my heart then vanished into the darkness. I am an artist who wanders through purgatory in search of my stolen heart. A ghost, as happy as she is sad. If I must wander forever, then so be it. I'll climb these infinite 13 flights of stairs and dance an endless waltz. You embrace me with eternal darkness itself. And so I sleep in your arms, as a Forever Dreamer.

(The "embrace" is "arm/arms", but it seemed too repetitious for poetry to puts arms on 2 consecutive lines? Also the 13 stairs is most likely because of the superstition about "13 steps to the gallows".)

After, Marie hears someone near her, and thinks Yu might be eavesdropping on her. She gets embarrassed and begins chewing him out by calling him a stupidshittyassholejerkface ghost and telling him to go climb some endlessly looping 13 stairs himself lol. But when Marie goes and investigates, she finds........

Elsewhere, Yu and Kanji have found Yukiko when they hear Marie yelling for someone. The three run over to her, and find Marie and an unconscious Naoto.

!!!!!!!!! ADACHI ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!

Back at Shiroku Pub, Adachi receives another phone call, and we learn that Adachi is an asshole who tricked Naoto into going to Yasogami High alone at night by saying the report about the "suspicious person" was possibly related to the murder case. Adachi tells the other person on the phone that he'll be going over to the school shortly, and hangs up after replying with a bunch of "Yep, uh-huh, yes, sure, yep, yeeep", calling all of this shit annoying. Instead of going to the school, he orders another beer from Shiroku.

!!!!!!!!! ADACHI UN-ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!

Back at Yasogami High, everyone apologizes to Naoto who calls them a bunch of morons. (In JP fandom, this is Naoto's popular line from the King's Game part. Akechi even gets to say it in Royal lol.)

Naoto recaps to why they came to the school: After receiving a call about a suspicious person at the school, Naoto was walking around while waiting for Adachi, but LOL Adachi was drinking and he never showed. But Naoto heard Yukiko playing the piano, and thought it might be one of the Seven Mysteries of Yaso High about the Midnight Piano (this was the funniest fucking thing to me cause it means that Yukiko didn't just make up the seven mysteries shit, it was actually a real thing lmao. I thought from Kanji's reaction that it wasn't a real urban legend in town or w/e).

Naoto tried to convince themselves that this needs to be ahem scientifically investigated, but then Yukiko started laughing, and Naoto ran the hell away, meaning that Yukiko really did hear someone moving around earlier. Then Yu and Marie began scaring people, and Naoto heard all of them screaming while trying to convince themselves that there's absolutely no way there are ghosts or spirits at the school. Finally, Naoto heard parts of Marie's poem: "...reaper... darkness... purgatory... sad... ghost..." Naoto thinks it's the voice of some deceased person, and that there really is a spirit there. Then, Naoto hears Marie again: "wander forever... 13 stairs... eternal darkness... sleep... forever..." Following this, Naoto can't take it anymore, and collapses.

Back in the present time, Chie tries to play it off as hey everyone's okay, so it's fine, and Naoto is like, NO??? NO IT IS NOT FINE??? Seeing how livid and pissed Naoto is, this just confirms for Yu that they reaaally need to get Naoto to join in on whatever they do next time.

[mikustan27]

persona 4 is a good a good game but it’s even better when you can understand how centered it is on TV. now a days, TV is such a dead medium and im pretty sure thats why some personafans mark it as having the worst story, when it doesn’t ! it just has a story that doesn’t hold up in the modern day. you have to think about how reliant we used to be on tv when persona 4 originally came out. a big celebrity announcement ? TV or magazine ! breaking news ? TV or news paper ! wanna buy somethign but not imperson ? TV !!!!!!! its all television !

((persona 4 rambles under cut !!!!!

each arc is based off one or more tv trope (yukiko - gameshow/childrens media, kanji - gay stereotypes, rise - soft core corn, ect ect) !!!! and what makes kubo such a great plot point is how his dungeon is so out of place from the rest. instead of being based off tv, his is based off older video games ! it’s an immediate telling that something’s different ! its not TV !!!!

teddie is the most blatent television archetype, being both a classic mascot and the flirtatious dream boy seen mostly in anime (see tamaki suoh from ouran high school host club and pre-mob teru from mob psycho 100) (i didn’t understand this during my first playthrough and thought it was random as shit that there was a twink inside the bearsuit) ughhrhrhhhhhrhrhhrhh i love teddie

so much of personal 4 is based on TV, and this js where the other major theme of persona 4 comes in. reaching out to the truth !!! as stated before, we used to be so much more reliant on tv, and its easy to take whats said on tv as truth when so many lies and rumors are spread through the medium. kids beleived the midnight channel showed their soulmates, when that is a lie !!!!! all of the red herrings in p4 r important to the theme !!!! do u see !!!!!

this is why i hope a persona 4 remake does not happen. no ones gonna get it if we dont watch tv man . i think at its core persona 4 is abt media literacy (thats a point idk where else 2 put sorrgy) maybe none of this made sense…, i just NEEDED to get my thoughts out man it was killing me

pls keep in mind that i am fairly young and tv wasnt a big part of my life for much of the time i canremeber !!!!!! it could be fairly obvious to older folks but not me ,,

[foreverssims]

they're having fun... until Mari entered her bear suit phase (that can happen!???) but all is well ends well

+ unless you're chloe and you like to feign innocence by crying alongside mari who has no idea you destroyed the dollhouse

[wouldntyou-liketoknow]

Comparing Killers

I sent an ask to my buddy @insane4fandoms a few days ago, and in their reply, they mentioned potentially doing a character analysis for both MadPat and my very own fanmade cannibal EgoPat Caliban in the future.

(This stemmed from one of their latest drawings. Again, thanks so much for remembering my scrunglies, friendo ❤️)

SO, being the way I am, I took some random inspiration and now I'm going through with that exact analysis myself! Just following my instincts as a writer and all that stuff.

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MadPat:

Now, just to get this out of the way because I have a sneaking suspicion that someone’s gonna read this and automatically assume I’m being stuck-up: I really like Mad as a character. Matt has done an amazing job portraying him. . .though, Matt just has a knack for unhinged characters in general, lol.

And thanks to Matt's acting skills, Mad is an enjoyable villain. He’s cluster of chaotic problems shaped like a man in his thirties, and we all love him for it. (Honestly, I kinda see Mad’s behavior as similar to that of The Actor from all of Mark’s projects. Comedically evil with a tendency to throw tantrums when things don’t go his way.)

The FNAF Musicals have made many slight tweaks to the lore of the games to not completely plagiarize the story. So, of course, Mad is a slightly-tweaked version of William Afton: it’s made very clear that his crimes include murdering kids. On top of that, he has no problem playing long-cons with pizzeria employees before eventually killing them, too.

We’ve seen plenty of times that Mad is pretty much never afraid to get violent. Oh sure, he tries to put a mask on when he needs to, but it’s easy to see all his urges beneath that mask. (And again, much like Actor!Mark, Mad ain’t too shy about being callous and hostile to almost everyone around him.) He’s very quick to anger. To make things worse, he’s also quick to desperation.

While Mad is too smart for everyone else’s good, he’s still pretty damn impulsive/irresponsible. His crimes were all concentrated on the pizzeria; it didn’t take very long at all for the disappearances to pile up and gain unwanted attention. Now, a bunch of missing-person-cases are one thing, but leaving evidence is quite another.

Hell, in the beginning scene of Web of Lies, the wacko-in-a-bearsuit himself literally said, “Every INCH of this place is INCRIMINATING! Ten minutes of poking around this place and they’ll discover what I did. . !”

If Mad were to hear of Caliban's work, he'd probably be impressed at first and automatically assume that Caliban is just like him, just with more people-eating. However, if Mad were to actually meet Caliban and get a better read on his personality, Mad would likely end up insulting him one way or another. He'd see Caliban's professionalism as tedious.

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Caliban Crawford:

Though I've made it pretty obvious that he's my special boi, Caliban is an objectively bad person. He may be insane, but he’s not delusional enough to deny that. Whenever his and/or Murdock's targets happen to be alive when they’re dragged to his den, he can be very, VERY sadistic throughout the butchering process. (Especially if the target has done something to personally affect him, Azalea, or any of his other peers.)

Sure, he doesn’t complain about working with dead bodies, but having a live meal is quite a special occasion. In such cases, he enjoys watching the unfortunate soul in question squirm and listening to them scream/beg. Taunting, dragging things out, making morbid puns all over the place, the works.

Despite all this, I’ve specifically crafted Caliban to be an extremely morally-gray character. (To be honest, the only fanmade ego of mine who’s full-on evil is LeviathanPat.) He’s still able to be logical/rational when he needs to. He takes pride in his self-control; yes, he has cravings for human flesh, but he knows he can’t afford to just attack any person he sees whenever he gets hungry. He knows he has to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL in order to keep his business away from the authorities. So, he only eats those he and his peers (Murdock, Azalea, etc.) are hired/paid to bump off.

On top of that, Caliban still has some humanity left. While he’s obviously nowhere close to a perfect angel, he’s still able to form genuine relationships and treat those in his circle with kindness/respect. Get on his good side, and you'll have quite a strong ally.

Though his morals are limited, one of the biggest differences between him and Mad is the fact that Caliban would never, NEVER stoop so low as to harm a child. In fact, he tends to avoid children altogether due to his own childhood trauma. (Totally not me projecting because I grew up in a dysfunctional family with verbal/emotional/psychological abuse.)

Getting back to the juicy stuff: Caliban is smart and efficient with his work. He prides himself on not leaving any evidence behind. (Yes, he still makes occasional mistakes, but even then, the aforementioned evidence still comes in very tiny amounts.) That's why he and Murdock became friends and started working together in the first place: since Caliban divides up which parts can be cooked/eaten and which parts can be sold on the Black Market, it really is easy for targets to just seemingly vanish into thin air.

Though my stories involving Caliban probably show him acting calm (despite his pun-addiction, lol), please, PLEASE don't be fooled. He's got just as much unhinged energy as Mad. He just happens to hide it a bit more often. But he definitely has his chaotic moments; half of the time it's out of unhinged joy, and the other half of the time it's because an enemy pissed him off enough to get their skin privileges revoked. (Basically, it's not that much of a stretch to see Caliban as a combination of The Hermit and Mack.)

Now, if you've seen @insane4fandoms artwork of him, then it's pretty clear that some inspiration was taken from Hannibal Lecter. And while I definitely appreciate references like that. . .well, that inspiration is mainly just for Caliban's appearance. I've said before that Caliban is nowhere near as arrogant as Hannibal. Even so, if Caliban were to see/hear about all of Mad's shenanigans, he'd write Mad off as being sloppy and unimpressive. If he were to actually meet Mad, his opinion would just get worse; he'd see Mad as a fair bit annoying and bratty.

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@sammys-magical-au @b-is-in-the-closet @im-a-weird0 @themarpsimp @lexusinsannus @crazy-obsessed-enby @rozeliyawashereyall @gaymingintrovert @lampsforsocks @forestcouncil @x-hotrose-x @v1rus-seal

[fictionkinfessions]

i don't have to think at all for canon takeouts honestly. want my bearsuit!!!!! get to look like myself and have my fur and paws and tail and ears!!!!!!!

would help for our theriotypes too i think. cat/eevee/red panda/etc. paws and ears and tail are different from bear ones but there's definitely simi-bear-lities!!!!!

-teddie hanamura (persona 4, #📺🧸)

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[bearsuitrecords]

New review of Eamon The Destroyer's EP, "Alternate Piranhas" from It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine:

We loved last year’s original ‘We’ll Be Piranhas’ but Eamon relistened to some of the sessions’ alternate takes and rightly surmised you’d love to hear them too. Hence, the ‘Alternate Piranhas EP. Think of them as a fly-in-the-studio look into Eamon’s creative process. Then go back and listen to the originals and decide if he got it right the first time or astutely held on to the best…until now. Hey, if it’s good enough for Marc Bolan…

Full review here: https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alternate-piranhas-ep

[kumakuma-circus]

have i ever said that i love teddie's relationships with his friends cuz i do. i love him and yosuke being brothers. i love how much he admires yu and yu caring about him so much. i love rise getting annoyed with him but also being the most worried about him when he disappears in december. i love yukiko turning him down all the time but still being besties with him. i love him and kanji being dumb together. i love how much he cares about nanako and how happy nanako always is to see him. i don't think there's a lot to say about his relationships with chie and naoto unfortunately but i just. i love teddie's friendships. love is stored in the bearsuit.

[d4isywhims]

oh oliver...🐻

click expand for a surprise!

edison came over with his bearsuit and he ended up hanging out with oliver for the rest of the evening lmao

[laintv]

i want to cos lain as well but idk what outfit.... my choices r psx bearsuit or school uniform?!?!? or a secret fourth option