#complete body check

[uncanny-tranny]

Basically, my philosophy around disability fakers is: I would rather a thousand people fake a disability than have one disabled person suffer without care, aids, compassion, or any help.

[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[tinyavenuesailor]

Crack Fic! Where Everyone thinks Merlin is the reasonable one.

Everyone loves Merlin and thinks he’s the sweetest person, who couldn’t hurt a fly. So, they’re all annoyed when they see how Arthur treats him. The King is constantly overloading his manservant with work, ordering him to do massive tasks and coming up with ridiculous excuses to keep Merlin from taking a break. So, the knights and others constantly try to find ways to pull Merlin away from Arthur’s side and give him a break but Arthur always finds a way to mess up their plans.

Gwen and the other maids sometimes try to help Merlin with his chores

Gwen: Arthur you can’t actually expect Merlin to clean the entire throne room by himself

Arthur: *shrugs* Yes. I’m hardly asking him much

Gwen: It usually takes five maids to thoroughly clean the throne room. It’s ridiculous to ask one person to do so much work and then, to place Lancelot as a guard to make sure none of us can help him. 

Arthur: Lancelot wouldn’t have to guard anything if you all weren’t so ready to disobey my orders. I said Merlin will clean the throne room ALONE and that is final

Gwen: I never knew you could be such a cruel person and to Merlin of all people

*Gwen storms off*

Gwaine, Leon, Percival, Elyan and some of the other knights try to steal Merlin away to the tavern to relax

Gwaine: Come on Princess. I’m sure you can survive one night without Merlin 

*Gwaine tries to pull Merlin to their side but Arthur grabs hold of Merlin and pulls him back*

Arthur: Need I remind you, Merlin is my manservant and doesn’t have time to play around. He still has very important duties to complete

Elyan: What could he possibly have to do at this time? Most servants have gone home for the day?

Arthur: Well Merlin is the King’s manservant as I keep reminding you and still have very important things to do

Gwaine: Like what?

Arthur: *pauses* For one, he needs to clean the mess he made in the closet

The knights: *trying to process the bullshit Arthur just told them* 

Arthur: *crossing his arms, 100% serious, daring them to challenge him*

Merlin: It’s fine guys really, probably next time *pulling Arthur and himself back into Arthur’s chambers and locking the door*

Or when something terrible happens to Merlin like the time he got kidnapped and everyone went into full panic

Arthur: *staring hard at Lance* Merlin’s been kidnapped?

Elyan: They ambushed us out of nowhere and before we knew it they were off with him.

Leon: Don’t worry sire, I’ll gather a search party immediately to have him found.

Gwaine: We’ll make them sorry they ever thought to mess with our Merlin

Arthur: *holding up a finger and turning to Lance again* Merlin’s been kidnapped?

Lance: ..... That is the story

Gwaine: Princess, have you not been listening. We need to hurry every second counts. 

Arthur: I heard, just wondering why he couldn’t have chosen a better day to get himself kidnapped

*Everyone gawks at Arthur in disbelief*

Basically, everyone thinks that Arthur doesn’t appreciate Merlin and that their cinnamon roll deserves better and formed a protection squad to help Merlin get the treatment he deserves.

Meanwhile in Reality....

Arthur knows about Merlin’s magic. He is fully aware of how powerful Merlin is and finally sees that his manservant isn’t an idiot. He’s just a bloody madman.

===In the throne room=== 

*Arthur and Merlin both staring at a dark purple swirling vortex on the floor*

Arthur: *takes a deep breath* Merlin, why is there a hole in my throne room?

Merlin: Well, it's not a hole. It’s a sort of gateway to the dark dimension.

Arthur: Oh, okay. Why is there a gateway to the dark dimension in my throne room?

Merlin: ..... I can fix it

Lancelot: Arthur, I heard you- *looks down at the menacing purple gateway on the floor and then back to Arthur and Merlin* 

Lancelot: Should I go guard the door?

===After Gwaine, Elyan and Percival tried to take Merlin out for drinks===

Merlin: You know we both could use a break. I am a bit hungry. Been a while since I had a drink too

Arthur: Well maybe, we can join them after you explain why my Uncle is tied up in my closet

*Arthur opens his closet doors revealing a tied-up and gagged Agravaine making muffled noise*

Merlin: You told me to get evidence that he was working with Morgana

Arthur: And your solution to that was to kidnap him?

Merlin: What better way to hear it than from the man himself? 

Arthur: What’s going to happen when people realize he’s missing

Merlin: Don’t worry, one memory wipe spell and he’ll be back tomorrow in his chambers like nothing ever happened

Arthur: You told me those spells were dangerous

Merlin: *laughs* Well, yeah, I’m not using it on us

Agravaine: *making muffled and panicked pleads to Arthur*

Lancelot: Sorry, Arthur, Gaius told me that Merlin needed m- *sees a tied-up Agravaine* 

Lancelot: *nods* I’ll go stand guard

=== Arthur, the first to find Merlin after his “kidnapping” ===

Arthur: *folds his arms and looks behind his manservant to see a trail of bodies* Kidnapped?

Merlin: Well they did try to kidnap me. I just decided not to resist. 

Arthur: *sighs* Is everyone dead?

Merlin: I was supposed to leave someone alive?

Arthur: *rolls his eyes* Come before I have to explain how my “innocent”, “weak” manservant took out a group of mercenaries.

Lancelot: *already standing guard* 

[spockandawe]

Oh man. Guys, I'm obsessed with 'I Became A God In A Horror Game.' I'm so into it that I'm having trouble catching up to the translation, because I'm so tense with the stakes and afraid for it to be over. Honestly, I opened it expecting some mindless power leveling fun, and instead it's just STUFFED with layers and memorable imagery, all with a protagonist with such a fun personality to fit into one of these infinite flow plots. And an INCREDIBLY aesthetic love interest, my god.

Now, the question of how to pitch this book without spoiling it is something I've been wrestling with, without a good answer. The plot is essentially that Bai Liu is a laid off horror video game developer, and when he stops caring about life or death as a result, he enters the game world, where competitors enter horror video game scenarios and fight to win, or just survive. Bai Liu's job gives him an edge, and his calculating, risk tolerant personality gives him more! The love interest makes an appearance in the first of these scenarios, a game that's almost a cross between shadow over innsmouth and the weeping angels, and at first I worried he would be... an accessory to the plot, not really linked to the STORY. I was extremely wrong! But it's hard to say more, and around 140 chapters in, I started losing my MIND for reasons I definitely won't spoil.

But BOY is it fun to draw art for him. I thought about finishing the rose arc to see if there were any more references I could fit in, but I think that would be pushing it with teeny details in the low light, hahaha. I've got to have that pieta, that's very obvious, and the siren king is here. The state of their bodies could be more of a focus in a different piece of art, but I'm still adapting to procreate, and I already had a concept here. The doll was a must, I realized that the scattered pages were PERFECT to fill the water below, and the last little detail that occurred to me was to fit a hint of fire into their reflections below. This was very fun! If this is what entices me to draw again, oh boy, expect to see more of it. And read this book, it's so, so good!!

[potionbarrel]

playing with colors and lines :o)

[puppetmaster13u]

More Possessed Doll Au (the au was created by @phoenixcatch7 so go check them out they do great stuff!)

Honestly this would be early-ish I am thinking into Bruce doing his vigilante work with the doll body. Or he just straight up has thick eyeliner/raccoon makeup lol.

[mechazushi]

Please (for the love of GOD) read Godaigo Daigo!!!! {A Spoiler Free Review} [I think?]

So I just read all 19 available chapters (that I've found free online) of Godaigo Daigo and I just have one major thing to say.

ITS. FLIPPING. ADORABLE!!!!!! I'm dead serious, there were several moments where I caught myself audibly squealing over something in the story.

To compare it to Kaiju Number Eight would be a disservice just on the grounds that they're both stories about a Middle Aged Man fighting in a government position dedicated to fighting the weekly? onslaught of Kaiju disturbances, but I can admit they do have similar themes surrounding their respective main characters.

Kafka Hibino and Godaigo Daigo (Yes the series is named after it's main character. Though now that I think about it, so is kn8 technically... in a sense?...) Are both types of classified as old by their piers (they're both around 30. That was wrong, I don't know where I got the idea that Godaigo is 30, he's actually 50 but still -> everyone else is a rude bastard) And their main personality strength lies in their ability to bring hope to the hopeless and can immediately change the outcome of a situation just by showing up. They're both jolly, caring, smart, and are often looked down upon due to their appearances. What separates Kafka from Godaigo is mainly how they're presented visually. Kafka is a little taller than average height compared to his fellow Defense Force members. Godaigo is a giant... literally.

HE STAYS THAT SIZE! ITS A RECURRING AND CONSISTENTLY SOLVED PROBLEM. And they even address different aspects and problems of having to take care of something of that size!

I might be getting a little ahead of myself, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. Kaiju Number Eight focuses on the struggles of being in stressful situations and what people take on as their weight of different types of expectations. Its vibe is still on the hopeful side, while still in a whitewash layer of a darker tone helped by its not-shying-away of blood and guts. Godaigo is more so about what it means to care about others throughout different situations. Both characters are emotionally validating to others and do double duty as therapists unintentionally as they are needed. Kaiju Number Eight shines more in the mental health care as one is going through a traumatising situation together while Godaigo is more so about a man who has gone around the block in his job description so many times for so long to the point now where anyone he meets now benefits from talking to him or taking advice on how they should continue through life. To be more specific, his advice is more so catered to other fellow giant hero people he works with, but I'm sure given the chance, he seems like he could give out some stellar generic life advice.

Kaiju Number Eight focuses on basic Shonen tropes like fighting and leveling up in power as well as showcasing through more fights how they've leveled up since the last fight with world building information being handed out on an as-needed basis or being explained as an afterthought in side stories. The world building in Godaigo Daigo is practically tied into the story it almost can't continue without a small exposition of lore. Thankfully, this aspect does not detract from the story telling in the slightest. As one of those people that kinda got a little upset when KN8 sorta stopped giving out lore bits with the story and decided to shove most of it into side stories, reading a small little lore tidbit with almost every chapter is a wonderful feeling! It doesn't hold back the story at all and the writer has done a masterful job so far as letting the fights and the lore stagger off of each other in the name of setting a good reading pace.

Between the world building, the casual and consistent dropping of secrets that eventually get satisfyingly explained as they are needed, the overall lack of overly tense situations due to having (mostly) no blood or gore, and the visual concepts of giant people being heroes to smaller people and seeing how they (literally) handle them gives the story and overall adorable and mostly stress free feeling! Yes, there are dark secrets that have and will probably be revealed down the line, and they have shown that they will get serious about a situation should they feel like it, but at this point the author is in no hurry to get to that point any time soon. I could actually do an entire separate commentary about how the first arc perfectly sets up what I believe the main feel of the whole story is going to look like, but that's getting into major spoiler territory and I think I'll save that when more people have heard of Godaigo Daigo.

For now I'm going to leave you with a picture of Pro Wrestler Godaigo that, had Kafka not already altered my brain chemistry, I probably wouldn't be drooling over this as much as I do when I see it.

(Whatta man, whatta man, whatta man, whatta mighty good man - Amen Salt-n-Pepa)

[the-great-papyru]

maybe i'd like asriel reincarnation more if asriel's first reaction was less "holy crap i'm good now" and more "holy crap I have limbs"

[hinamie]

it happens every now and then but it's always such a pleasant surprise when i realize i'm actually rly happy with my art and where i am skill-wise

[1sickpuppyy]

helloooo gay people in my phone 🐶

tip the puppy | watch the fun

[roboticutie]

It's a side-mission that I don't think many end up doing, at least from the lack of talking about it I see, but still. The figurines. If you succeed a check in the pawn shop, you can take a figurine of a headless soldier on a horse. If you've done that, when you inspect the stained glass Dolores Dei you can get the task to give her any and all figurines you can find. Perhaps you can one day. Even when you get this task, though, it feels odd- it confuses your Logic because Dei has long since passed, but... Maybe you can give her these gifts somehow? You can find another figurine in the unplayable Wirral expansion pack (I only found it bc I didn't know you couldn't play Wirral w Kim). There are only these 2, according to the wiki, and I have not found more.

This task is another moment where the writers really manage to emulate that feeling of not only loss, but lost-ness that you get a few times in the game. When I did this task I thought it would be something extraordinary, maybe vaguely supernatural as there are a few things confirmed to be unexplainable happening with and around Harry, y'know? I had hope and intrigue and didn't even realize how strange and rare it must be to get this task on accident bc after typing it out I realized the starting parameters were VERY specific and easy to miss, actually. And I was so excited to find who to give it to, maybe a lost shrine, or someone reaching through a spot of pale and time, maybe when I found 3 or 5 I could lay them at her shattered feet and look behind the glass, something odd and unexplainable.

Then I met her in the dream. And just before it ended I was reminded that I'm supposed to give Dei the figurines. And that's when it dawned on me what Harry had forgotten, and I knew what he'd done to his memory of Dora by combining the two, and... It was so sobering and desolate. It felt the same way the end of a party feels, when you're the last to leave. The balloons are still up, but there's streamers on the floor, crumbs on the plates, bowls of snacks emptied, walls that held and echoed laughter are silent. The after image of something amazing, left only with the memory and the knowledge that that moment will never, ever happen the same way again.

You fulfill this task by giving all found figurines to Dora in the final dream.

And it does nothing. It doesn't work. Nothing will work. She would have liked them once, but like Dei, that Dora is dead. She died years ago and the Dora that remains is far, far away now.

Just like when I had no idea the carriage was Harry's until Kim spelled it out for us 2 hours later after chatting and whistling and relaxing; the figurines made what Harry was feeling and going through dawn on me so personally. I can't explain it in words well enough. I was so disappointed the figurines weren't some greater purpose, I was sad this was all we were holding onto them for, I was disappointed in Harry for trying to use trinkets to win her back, I was upset that they didn't do anything good, she didn't even want them; and I knew that's what Harry felt in that moment, too.

It's a level of "Show, don't tell," that not many writers set themselves up to be able to achieve. Even in this game there are only a handful of moments that are able to put you into Harry's headspace so precisely, and all of them are very specific and rely heavily on context given or lost on the player. It's impressive. I think about those figurines a lot.

[meezer]

I got so scared earlier like omg I'm getting all these notes on my posts about my crush because I've made everyone believe he looks like alex but what if I'm wrong and he only looks like alex to me and if anyone else were to see him they'd be like yeah I don't know what you're talking about. and then I looked at pics of him and I was like noooooooo he doesn't look like him at all I'm a fraud. but then I saw the shaved head alex pics and genuinely got jumpscared for a second. so I don't know.

[twinsfawn]

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[jaynovz]

Luke Arnold did not put his entire psyche and pussy into John Silver to the detriment of his own health for yall to say Silver is a mastermind liar and not a fucking repressed bisexual MESS

[willowfey]

starting to think maybe waking up with an anxiety stomachache every single morning and then needing to spend the entire day trying to get rid of said anxiety just to maybe have a few minutes in the evening of feeling relaxed before going to bed is perhaps not normal

[mod2amaryllis]

maaaaaan! Sarge died :(( he was fine this morning, then just now went down and he was gone... parameters are ok so idk, it could've been classic random betta death. (i do have a weird theory after looking at his body but it's so hard to know...)

I'm just so sad...i made him his beautiful 10g and he never ever got to live in it. swim in peace little dude i wish I'd known you longer :'(