#detectiveposting

[micahdotgov]

[staypuff]

i need to post my garys. messing around with him.

[cluepoke-archive]

Number 1 forensics fan Barry Allen

[badlydrawndavepeta]

How goes the trickster search?

@badlydrawnrose

B33 < after pawndering on it all serious like in a dark alley for a few hours i think this case is basically cracked

B33 < purrception altering substance fucks people up then they do things they wouldnt normally do like allegedly macking on their crush or speaking in multicolored text

B33 < hashtag unconfurmed hashtag allegedly hashtag i aint s33n shit

B33 < all i n33d for meow is a way to find and contain the candy to k33p it from latching on to new unsuspecting targets

B33 < thats really gonna be the dangerous part

B33 < not getting effected by the candy when i s33k it out

B33 < and figuring out where its even gone to now

[squishysphealgirl]

Were you to look @ the backlog of posts, asks and answers regarding our little mystery here you notice how consistently inconsistent my asks are. Formatting, phrasing, fuckability and such vary wildly

-vga

I have, and it being deliberate does make sense of it! Thanks for the information.

You have, though, not actually answered my question. Allow me to rephrase. From your very first ask, sent before you had even been dubbed with that identifier you sign your messages with, sent as a one-off message about an amusing thought you had about me. From that ask, how long did it take you to begin to vary your writing style? Do I even need to ask you, or can I see for myself?

because as the widely-renowned vore girl, i am well and truly up to the task of hunting you down!

do you think you're fooling me with this mirage of perfection in stealth? because you're not

Rest assured I will track you down sooner or later. My honour depends on it.

[twink-between-worlds]

???

SIX HOURS AGO???

[staypuff]

... hiii... im an artist who loves horror, scifi and funny guys. i have so many funny guys i dont exactly know what to do with them. and i should probably post them more often

If you're an artist and are having trouble building followers, especially if you're new on tumblr or back after leaving, reblog this with some of your art. It will be visible to everyone checking the notes. Everyone keep checking the notes and follow whoever puts their cool art in them. People keep telling me I'm Tumblr famous so maybe this helps!

[micahdotgov]

[onewomancitadel]

Oh also we finished the rewatch of True Detective season one... yeah, I really think it sticks the landing, which is the most important and hardest thing to do. "We have a debt." One of my biggest takeaways was that the resolution of the case and the Yellow King was not merely a conduit for Rust's ego (literally - it's Jungian), that is, its metaphor overwhelms its literal representation, but it really was all about those women and children; it really was about those victims; it really was about justice; it really was about trying to find that justice in the dirt, when everybody's a criminal, the corpses are long cold, and the darkness seems overwhelming. Who will pay that debt?

Yeah yeah yeah, I love the bit where Rust is wandering through the labyrinth detached from his Shadow and hunting his false self (persona), and only in killing this nihilistic worst expression, what he thinks he is or what people think he could be (the detectives suspecting him!) and what he fears most, and in being saved by the actual darkness of his soul does he touch his anima* and find peace with the world.

*His daughter is literally named Sophia, the highest awareness of the anima, the feminine part of God in Gnosticism. So psychologically the relationship here is between his disillusionment at having lost his daughter, literally lost her, lost himself - part of him has been dead - and cut off from letting himself live in the world, which itself mirrors the fall of the Sophia.

Marty's character improved a lot for me as well: the violence and simple evil of his character is really potent in this story where he is, in a small way, made more human and responsible in his partnership with Rust; it's incomplete and imperfect, but it's there, and I prefer that type of complexity over flatly rejecting him. If you did, you wouldn't get Rust's development - and frankly I find it more cathartic and realistic. This is the dark simple part of himself (man) and the dark simple part Rust doesn't really want to witness. A man who hits his wife and his daughter, philanderer, drunkard, hypocrite; mean, small, cruel. He's more human than Rust but in some ways Rust is more human than him. The scene where drunk Marty come to beat up his affair partner's date runs over the child's bike... like how Sophia was killed. Oh that really hurt.

I think one of the reasons Rust touches me as a character because he's a character who is profoundly cynical but embodies actual idealistic behaviour; he marks where the idealism falls short, wounded by it; cares for the prostituted women without condescension, patronisation, ego, cares for the children (even under threat of life), cares for the poor, cares for the disillusioned and the downtrodden. Which is at total odds with the way he seemingly presents himself - especially the way he speaks of the preacher - yet he comes to the preacher at his darkest hour, when he's left the church, drinking and pained, having tried to do the right thing, much like Rust, and been punished for it and left to the silence of God. The irony of course is that Rust is pretty much implicitly portrayed like Jesus Christ (he becomes a homicide detective to witness suffering!) - to a point where Doubting Thomas pokes his fingers through the bullet holes of Rust's jacket he used when he was undercover as Crash -

such that Jesus Christ literally visits the preacher in said darkest hour.

I also really loved the two detectives trying to investigate the crime, who function as ongoing antagonists to Rust and Marty, but they do my favourite thing which is that they're transformed from these ancillary, antagonistic, maybe even irrelevant to actual "justice" (or not pursuing it in the right direction) figures - in terms of the framing - to revealed to really be men who care for actual justice and are doing their jobs to their best capacity and rise to the occasion. The shot where they're bickering like Rust and Marty, but also not them, because they're themselves, but the idea is repeating, is really really cathartic. It wouldn't be nearly as powerful if Rust (and Marty) were merely exceptional outliers - there is change, there are others.

It's a very very powerful story. I can see why people would dismiss it as nihilistic garbage if you're not used to or don't expect the narrative to advance its ideas. And I do think it is a masculinist story (still), it's literally about two men and masculinity, but I think it's interesting when that idea is marked and not made the neuter; although I do think some of the dismissal/bias against sexual violence against men (done by other men) does really colour the scene where Maggie takes advantage of Rust when he's drunk, in so many words forcing consent (rape), which is crazy because that's the only sexual scene he's in. He basically got the female character treatment.

At the end fight, when Rust is fighting the Yellow King, I love that the symbolic representation of Goodness is left bleeding and dying on the floor and still yet lives, cradled in the lap of the common man.

It's not easy, and it never lets itself be easy - they don't get everyone in the end, systemic corruption does not end, but neither do Rust and Marty. Eventually, after a very long time, light gets in. On that note, I had been mildly paying attention to Rust's outfits: dark corduroy and black velvet jackets, so strange! - ill-fitting ties, more like a noose (BZZT! I buzz in "The Hanged Man" tarot card imagery, see post) - dark colours, grey - in contrast to Marty "his wife irons his shirts quite clearly" - and then he's a drunkard, dressed like a slob, except once he and Marty get their shit together and reconcile he's wearing this white shirt:

No noose - resurrected - well-fitted, a large easy comfortable collar, almost more cowboy than cop, not constricting, tattoos of a past life showing, a bright light colour in the dark. This is when I truly realised how powerful character costuming is visually... it had such an effect on me - I was so, so happy, like he's comfortable and becoming fully himself.

So I took a few screenshots and this was one of them (I also noticed the pollution theme more lol):

Shortly thereafter I was filling out a meme game where I had to go through my picture archive, which is not where VLC player saves images, and what do you know, what had I saved from my past computer:

This is from when I first watched it!!!! Eternal recurrence baby!!!

[cluepoke-archive]

Found this old columbo drawing I did while reorganizing my folders :) wizard

[badlydrawndavepeta]

B33 < *detective davepetas adorable detective hat s33ms to have fallen on the ground in the trickster fueled throttle*

B33 < thats another clue for me to work with

B33 < that or youre simply furry strong and im impurressed!

B33 < *davepeta carefully p33rs around a corner to p33k at all the pawstel rainbow brightness in the room*

B33 < *they have donned their investigator gear and sneakily pull out their magnifying glass to take a closer look at the trickstery amewsement taking place*

B33 < *alas! the magnifying glass does not catually give them a better view given that its not a telescope so davepeta re-pockets the magnifying glass and simply takes a gander and the candy coated craze occurring*

- @badlydrawndavepeta

(=♥ᆽ♥=) < YOU'RE NEXT

[badlydrawndavepeta]

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-Pawnon?

B33 < am i hearing things?

B33 < ...

B33 < nahhh purrobably just the wind

[twink-between-worlds]

mhm yes i love documents with nothing to go on except being titled 'battery acid' with the summary being 'lu cafe au'

who the FUCK did this come here rn and square up

[treevore]

well.....took less than 10 minutes for me to become impossibly attached to one rust cohle so like....i'm gonna be very psychologically normal

[badlydrawndavepeta]

B33 < ive s33n the same kind of memory issues in a lot of the witnesses ive interviewed fur this case

B33 < i really only have one thing im interested in since ive already figured out that trickster mode is kickstarted by trickpurr candies

B33 < do you remember anything about who gave the initial candy to mew?

B33 < *a wild detective davepeta appears in your inbox!*

B33 < good evening mr egbert we have some furry impurrtant business to discuss

B33 < im s33king information on the meowsteries of trickster candy and grimdarkness

B33 < ive received a tip that mew have b33n the central target of a lot of this tomcatfoolery

- @badlydrawndavepeta

EB: What's it to ya? lookin' for info? i might have some for ya... for a price!!

EB: bleh.

EB: i forgot how bad these taste!

EB: but to be actual serious, i don't really remember the details. a lot of sugar and horror terrors.

EB: sorry i don't know more dave peta sprite..

[brahma-and-streetpoker]

Can't wait to get married <3