yrrah555

[fina1gxrl]

the seam of skin and scales (little light) / patchwork girl (shelley jackson) / i saw the tv glow (jane schoenbrun) / we're all going to the world's fair (jane schoenbrun) / madotsuki’s closet (bagenzo) / some thoughts about werewolves and gender identity (sarah horrocks)

[renardtrickster]

"Irredeemable Media" lists are incredibly funny because it's typically just "[literal baby show], [literal baby show], [media I've never watched and only have it on here cause I dislike a fandom trend], and [literal baby show]"

The subject matter of who gets called Irredeemable Media is pretty interesting (especially when you ask why Steven Universe or Undertale or other implicitly or explicitly progressive stuff gets marked but not shit like Family Guy or South Park which frequently do pretty sketchy stuff), but I think I'm also fascinated with the question of why it is. 'Cos looking at stuff like that list, I think there's basically four categories for why the carrd carriers would call stuff irredeemable.

It is a Literal Baby Show or something equally milquetoast/okay/apolitical but it was made in the late '90s or early 2000s so there's something kind of sketchy in there. And instead of leaving it as a historical curiosity that you handle responsibly and critically a la "hey isn't it kind of fucked up that in early Scooby Doo you could just have the gang run into a bunch of Native Americans who wear feather caps and speak broken english that wouldn't fly today" they toss the baby out with the bathwater. Maybe poor taste acts like wine in that it festers over time and a faux pas, given enough time, turns into They Murdered My Family.

It's okay but made with the expectation that a mature audience will handle it and not a terminally anxious teenager so "here is a fucked up thing I have enough faith in you to understand that this is fucked up" gets construed as "oh my god they're just endorsing it".

A variant of 2 and 3 where it's explicitly progressive, made by and for gay people, or something similarly Really Above Board, but the terminally anxious teenager in this case operates under some sort of moon logic or has impossibly high standards but only for progressive and queer people I wonder why that lets them see "groundbreakingly progressive work of fiction that raises the bar for the entire industry and spurred a positive personal or political journey for thousands" as "nazi propaganda".

Variant of 1 and 3 where there's literally nothing here to get mad at but mind-meltinginly eldritch and esoteric discourse has caused some sort of warping to occur. This is rare I think but it's the only explanation for a Bizarre Take I once saw, where someone played Yume Nikki, did a "Madotsuki as a trans man" reading, interpreted the game as being transphobic in light of this reading, and then accused the creator of being transphobic even though 100% of that legwork was entirely on the person doing the reading.

[aniemated-steph-art-dump]

Did you know that if a girl smiles at you then teleports away she is probably flirting with you

[skyllion-uwu]

If the drinks in Yume Nikki are estrogen and the food in Yume 2kki is testosterone then what are the food and drink in .flow

[collarus]

tag dump #9 - last one i think ?? i hope. sorry for the spam!!

[issues-oclock]

My madotsuki cosplay for halloween!

This was basically my first real cosplay since my last one was a closet cosplay. I'm really happy with this one and had a ton of fun trick or treating! For this I mixed aspects of Madotsuki's appearence in Yume Nikki Dream Diary and how @scarysu draws her. Aka the general idea of a more unkept, messy Madotsuki. Oh and for this I actually made the hamsa item from Dream Diary. Sadly though no one recognized who I was dressed up as but I did get a laugh out of an old lady asking me if I was Pippy Longstocking.

[cowardlychimera]

Chimera I'm staring at u w my autistic eyes please share your theories w me

I love love Yume Nikki and Omori parallels I once read someone's comment saying "Black Space is a love letter written to Yume Nikki," which is so true to me!!!!! AGHH

ah okay!! fair warning though that this might just be me getting excited over a cool idea lol and might be wrong

okay so: 2 things I noticed that seem similar in both. windows and doors.

when someone hears the word daydreamer, the first thing they think of might be someone staring out a window, right?

and we know Madotsuki and Sunny both prefer their dreams over reality. so windows = inaction. observing, going with the flow.

this fits I think, since in omori, what's one very important window?

this.

Mari says Sunny's seen this before, when he almost drowned. he almost drowned because he gave in. he didn't believe he could do anything, so he didn't.

don't have much for yume nikki about windows tbh though, just that from what I remember Madotsuki's name might refer to windows (if there's anything I don't know of/forgot please share!)

okay now doors!! doors definitely tie these 2 games together! doors = action. choosing to do something instead of just letting things happen

Madotsuki refuses to open her door. she refuses to make the choice to leave, seeming to prefer her dreams over reality. Sunny can do the same. the front door that Kel knocks on, it's Sunny's last chance to fix things. he gets to choose.

and in white space and Madotsuki's dream room? they can leave whenever they want to, through a door! same thing with nexus/door room/whatever you wanna call it and black space! they get to choose what doors to open. they get to choose whether or not they want to accept reality. and even more in omori, the door to Basil's bedroom and his hospital room. he doesn't have to open those doors. whether he faces reality and tries to fix things is up to him. and the door to the roof too! once he walks through the door, he can't go back. he already made his choice.

and sliding glass doors? I'm not 100% about these yet, but sliding glass doors could represent a choice they might want to make, but are hesitant to for whatever reason. they're like a combination of windows and doors! in omori, they're shown in both reality and black space/after finding the photo where Sunny pushed Mari. they're Sunny's want and choice to face reality and accept it, attempting to fix things. but in yume nikki? Madotsuki wants to escape. there's 2 events (I've only triggered one of these 2 so far, so info on one might be incorrect!) where Madotsuki can fly away, and unfortunately fall, the witch event and the spaceship + spaceship event. one has her flying through the clouds, and falling from the sky, while the other has her flying through the stars, also falling from the sky (if you manage to trigger the event, that is). Madotsuki wants to fly away. the sliding door could represent her want, and her choice to escape reality.

okay okay I'm almost done lmao hang in there

now, closets! (once again, I haven't explored any closet stuff in yume nikki yet lol so I might be wrong about stuff) first, in omori! it's obvious Sunny doesn't want to acknowledge the closet is broken violin is hidden in, going far enough for it to even disappear for him! the closet represents something he's hiding. there is a phrase, "skeleton in the closet", that refers to a secret someone wants to hide. so this theory fits the closet in omori! it might also fit the closets found in yume nikki.

Madotsuki doesn't want to find herself.

(also final thing: these things probably do represent more than just this. this is just stuff I noticed seems connected to both games so far! also also I haven't finished yume nikki yet lol so once again feel free to correct me if anything's wrong)

[fatherfigurefusion]

Mashiro Kurata Headcanons

(Happy Birthday, Mashiro Kurata!)

1- Physical appearance headcanons: plushy tummy mixed with thin arms and legs, poliosis located near their bangs (although it is barely noticeable, given their natural hair color), partially visually impaired (used to wear an eyepatch at one point in their life, resulting in their chuunibyou phase) and often wears prescription glasses

2- Some kins they have: Yuta Togashi (Chuunibyou), Madotsuki (Yume Nikki), Midori Asakusa (Eizouken)

3- (closeted) Agender, uses any pronouns (but only around the other Morfonica members), and recently learned about and wishes to use neopronouns. They are also the king (/gn) of discreet gender hoarding.

4- I headcanon them to be AuDHD (with a SpIn/hyperfixation on animation, picture books, and mascot characters) and a maladaptive daydreamer (just look at Morfonication), in addition to having social anxiety.

5- Mashiro loves going out on nature walks and just letting their imagination run wild, allowing for Mashiro to get inspired by whatever they happen to encounter, both in their imaginary world and the real world.

6- They are good friends with Misaki, Lisa, and Rinko as fellow craftspeople. Lisa and Mashiro specialize in knitting, Rinko specializes in sewing, and Misaki specializes in felting, and they all help show the ropes of each other's crafts.

7- Even after the Sakura Party event, Mashiro was always unnerved around the steely-eyed Yukina. That is, until they happened to encounter her, while carrying a stuffed cat they recently won from the arcade, which Yukina believed was a real cat and tried to pet, in her cat-induced stupor.

8- While Mashiro is normally insecure in their general skills, if there is one thing that they're confident in, it's crane games. It's as if Mashiro has this innate knowledge of where to strategically lower the crane hand, in order to get even the most hidden of stuffed prizes. Ako and Rokka can always count on Mashiro to successful get whatever prize any of them desire.

9- Mashiro loves to draw, but has never had the confidence to do anything more with it. They have a bunch of elaborate doodles stuffed in their bedroom drawers, doomed to never see the light of day. That is, until Touko and Nanami found the doodles, while hanging out in their room. From that point on, the three became drawing buddies.

10- Even before attending Tsukinomori, Mashiro always struggled with feeling average, and sometimes wished to die their hair or pierce their ears, but always feeling too self-conscious (or scared, in the case of ear-piercing) to ever go through with it. Mashiro sometimes goes around to different clothing stores, only to leave either unsatisfied or embarrassed with the options of styles at hand.

[possqueen]

been watching a lot of yume nikki analysis ever since nitro rad's video dropped. i think madotsuki is a horribly dysphoric closeted trans person

[djungelskogbear]

just played thru Madotsuki's closet

[minmocat]

painting over yume nikki screencaps

[fina1gxrl]

the seam of skin and scales (little light) // Some Thoughts About Werewolves and Gender Identity (Sarah Horrocks) // Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett) // the joy of transformation! (pityboy) // We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (Jane Schoenbrun) // Madotsuki’s Closet (Bagenzo)

[oryst]

[badwatervideos2009]

just played a yume nikki fangame based around the trans madotsuki theory that resonated with me so hard i Cried

[skyllion-uwu]

I'm gonna play Dreaming Bad and then I'm gonna replay madotsuki's closet and try not to cry

[thestrifeisrife]

Did this one as a request last year. I take requests btw.