#dug up even

[viro-lil-goat]

my art improvement

5th of may 2018 VS October 1st 2023

If someone showed 10 year old me my current art she would most likely be confused as thats not what I expected my art to become.

March 2021 VS September 2023

I'm really proud with this comparison, this is the same character. But i dont usually draw that much detail tbh

And lastly

Fall 2021

VS

Fall 2023

With this last comparison, i cant help but feel i regressed :( but maybe its just that i put more work when i drew the older ones.

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[hinamie]

cursed kids v2 ⚠️👹

i've been a jjk first years stan since day one and have been wanting to redraw the first art i did featuring the three of them

[itscherryterry-again]

yea

[barksbog]

i'll never get tired of this beast

[reonnex]

Wylan is overworked and overwhelmed with the merchant council to the point of near exhaustion

Kaz is bored out of his mind, making tunnels to get through the day.

Or. Wylan agrees to let Kaz help him with paperwork from the merchant council for a much needed break, just as long as he doesnt sign off on anything new

[bigfatbreak]

#and also blackmail authority figures trying to get in his way of his investigations lol

lol but who is he blackmailing??

The Mayor. :D

[madwomansapologist]

once again thinking about how satosugu was used in death.

suguru, someone that turned into a curse user to ensure sorcerers wouldn’t die for a foolish reason, having his body used by a curse user to ensure sorcerers would kill each other in a death game.

satoru, someone that believed in the youth and endless times gambled with his own life to protect them, having his body used by a student in the hopes of overcoming this wretched thing walking freely.

how said student was the one to ultimately defeat suguru because he was willing to die for his friends. how yuta didn’t care about any foolish lie the sorcerers (aka suguru and kento) told themselves and fully accepted that dying for love was the right thing to do.

suguru's family deciding to follow or not kenjaku based on their love for geto. satoru's student doing the only thing the strongest couldn’t

[windcarvedlyre]

I've been following @druidposting's DR2 playthrough on discord and we just had a really good discussion about DR's Closing Arguments. Specifically the way the murderer is depicted as grey and featureless, which until now I found a bit annoying.

In Danganronpa it's repeatedly the case that we don't have the full picture until the talking actually stops- which always goes beyond the end of the trial. We generally vote first and come to understand what the murderer's actual motive was, sometimes filling in important pieces of the timeline in the process, afterwards.

But none of that matters for the killing game because characters' emotions aren't directly relevant to who was the 'blackened'- the only thing that matters to Monokuma- so it comes out afterwards and does nothing to change their execution. It doesn't matter how sympathetic they are (basically everyone) or whether other people share responsibility for the situation (eg. Hanamura, Pekoyama, Momota) or whether they intended to murder at all (Nanami). They objectively pulled the trigger and nothing else matters. Nothing about them as a person matters.

The Closing Argument mechanic might illustrate that problem- literally. They're a dramatic, conclusive summary of the entire case... constructed before the vote even happens, before we know if we're actually right, and they're missing something really important:

The actual perpetrator.

We quite literally don't even begin to see the real person behind the crime, any real exploration of their mental state, anything besides the cold, hard facts of the murder that are necessary to convict them, until the comic finishes and the protagonist makes their final accusation- replacing the grey figure with their real appearance in a shot that's often intensely emotional.

And these comics lack crucial parts of the case's timeline and sometimes important parts of the very scenes they depict that we only find out about afterwards. And those are what we know; characters may die with some pieces of the truth and prevent us from ever learning them. These aren't objective depictions of the murder, they're the protagonist's subjective attempt to connect the facts they have. A join-the-dots portrait of someone with missing dots and no colour.

Even characters' expressions may not match how they truly feel, with the grey placeholder potentially looking way more confident and sinister than they were in reality. Pasting Falter's commentary here since they put it well.

For obvious reasons this could especially be a problem for characters that die before the trial- the ones we never get a post-vote testimony from. DR1 chapter 4 really highlighted that in the way Asahina's huge misinterpretation of Oogami's feelings took up a lot of the post-trial discussion, only for Monokuma to reveal Oogami's real suicide note and recontextualise everything.

It might really be a problem for how Komaeda's depicted in DR2 chapter 5. While he isn't greyed out, we get panel after panel where he's either level-headed or maniacally evil, and even the depictions of his self-torture and death don't humanise him:

But we know that his real feelings were more complicated than that. We have his actual corpse to compare the last page to.

He died afraid.

If we approach the comic as Hinata's mental image of him instead of reality, he died without anyone truly understanding him. He was alarming, very hard to relate to, actively fought against people doing so, ensured even the killer didn't watch him die, and the survivors couldn't begin to understand his motive until a chapter later. The Closing Argument reflects that.

Early in DR1 Togami calls out the rest of his class for judging others by their own standards. However, he, too, is doing this, maybe more so than many other characters; his inability to view other people through anything but the cold, brutal logic of the killing game bites him in the ass in chapter 4. In DR2 chapter 2 voting without a good understanding of Pekoyama's motive or Kuzuryuu's involvement nearly got everyone killed. Komaeda's a walking embodiment of the problems with flattening people into caricatures and not empathising with them, suffered from people doing that back to him, and his case- the Closing Argument for which turned everyone else into grey placeholders- was impossible to solve with objective facts. It was only survivable because the survivors cooperated and one person tried to analyse things the way he would.

The games have always been a critique of the justice system and Japanese society and push us to care about others as individuals, not reduce them to- and judge their right to exist by- something they've done or their net impact on society. There are always consequences when someone neglects to do that, and the above might be yet another way the games explore that theme.

[bellehaspurplehair]

Gang I’ve developed a concerning obsession with my little pony in the last two weeks….

[hikaaa-bi]

calling it rn there’s gonna be an episode with an ASMR storytime where the person narrates a deeply disturbing and gorey event, real sounds included

[godsfavoritescientist]

you ever think about how bill is who the pines could have been if they didn't have any kind of support from anyone in their lives

[milkbreadtoast]

looking back at the yjh webtoon screencaps i have saved and giggling... hes so cute... moe... my pookie ^___^ 🥰🥰 poor little meow meow woof woo- *eliminated where i stand*

also these poses are sooooo... 꺄아악🖤🫣🫣🫣🫣

[phoenixtakaramono]

I want to highlight this specific part of Homelander’s origin, because it deviates from the comics whilst referencing the comic panel by Garth Ennis (with some changes) with the show’s writers paying homage to the original source material

THE BOYS S04x04

[cconfusedkat]

Kallamar after realizing shi may have hit hir absolute lowest when falling in love with a lamb who constantly bickers with hir 💔 (credits to @/DreMeMoto on twitter for the pictures sksks)

[crimeronan]

continuing to think about princess AU luz encountering a sick/dying animal. bc i know that camila would come the Second that luz called her, but in the meantime luz is by herself, which means she's with hunter. and hunter is not NEARLY as emotionally adept as camila is.

hunter being someone who's hypervigilant and constantly strung out, seeing luz spiral and being like. okay okay okay i gotta fix this. i have to calm her down and get her to relax.

completely fair! ESPECIALLY if the incident is happening outdoors or in a public part of the castle.

however. the way he chooses to address this is with a kind of bewildered, "luz, it's okay. it's okay. it's just an animal, animals die sometimes, it's Okay"

he does not know that this is like. the literal worst thing he could Possibly say. he does not know why luz is reacting this badly and is like "well, she's a kind person who has a lot of feelings. it's probably not deeper than that"

anyway. camila getting there just in time to hear luz shouting, "what if it was YOU, what if it was YOU that was hurt, you would WANT someone to help, you would want someone to take CARE of you"

and then she just kinda. collapses. bc she's crying too hard to stand up straight.

while hunter is like. well. i see i just rolled a nat 1 on persuasion. great to see you camila! sorry we keep meeting like this. uh.

.....please help.