#ghoul culture

[vampirecatprince]

All the Dungeon Meshi stuff I've been seeing is just making me wanna write headcanons for Ghoulish foods and food culture and the regional and elemental differences and stuff...

[surprisebitch]

megan thee stallion has the power of god and anime on her side

[jonnywaistcoat]

hey jonny, i just thought you'd want to know that character.ai has an ai-generated imitation of your voice and i'm not sure what other websites might have it or where it originated :(

Yeah, it's a fucking garbage state of affairs but, as a somewhat well-known performer with a pretty distinctive voice it doesn't exactly shock me. Needless to say I think anyone who used this is a mediocre waste of skin and if they ever tell me in person they've used it then 50/50 I punch them in the teeth.

I can't wait for a couple of years when it all collapses just like every other niche-but-interesting-technology-with-limited-use-cases-sold-as-a-universal-panacea-to-gormless-CEOs grift (blockchain being the best example). Because the thing is, none of these things actually make any money and cost a vast amount, so as soon as all the dumb venture capital funding dries up and AI is required to actually start paying for itself, the bubble bursts and the whole industry is fucked.

That said, it's gonna be rough when it happens - a lot of companies have invested very heavily in AI and they're going to be hurting badly. I know of more than one media company whose idiot executives invested ridiculous amounts into NFTs and ended up laying off massive swathes of workers when that obvious fucking scam collapsed. I suspect the AI crash is gonna be even worse than that. And by then it will have drowned the Internet in slop. We'll see, I guess.

Anyway, anyone who uses AI is a soulless fucking husk of a person who cannot tell half-digested vomit from culture, and I would pity them if they weren't making the world such a measurably worse place to exist.

[hakucho-art]

TOKYO GHOUL MIKU

[crashbangprophet]

@ ALL CRASHQUEENS AND KILLJOYS!

i've been in this fandom since 2016, so i've seen headcanons and zone culture and terminology of all kinds.

with that said, i'd like to present the official (unofficial) danger days dictionary.

includes everything from zone culture, slang, battery city locations, phoenix witch, even down to bad luck beads and the dust bowl.

for the nitpickers out there, the comics are mainly discarded in this— due to how overwhelming it would be to throw in even MORE overlapping terms and such. some comic characters have been slipped into the regular timeline / universe, just for funsies and a honorary mention. don't come at me, thanks!

REBLOGS RECOMMENDED.

EDIT: i'm glad everyone's enjoying this! my askbox is open for any questions or suggestions, etc. headcanons/requests are also welcome :)

[rotten-gal13]

Zone culture is just one big year long pride parade with ray guns

[cookiesandcantarella-art]

My fav shots from my PMV (link), on tumblr so you can see them for more than 2 seconds.

[ID: 6 still shots of Princess Tutu characters.

Image 1: a swan with Duck's pendant flaps her wings on a starry lake.

Image 2: Princess Tutu dressed up as an aerial hoop performer, complete with a feathery tail. She hangs in a loose, almost fetal position.

Image 3: A focus on Mytho's eye as the hands of Rue, Fakir, and Duck touch his face.

Image 4: Duck and Rue on the ground together. Duck is sitting up while Rue lays down. Both are nude with their eyes closed.

Image 5: Rue in a shot styled after one of the movie posters for Chicago. Rue (as herself) stands in a black space filled with mirrors and reflections, looking into many different reflections of Kraehe.

Image 6: Grayscale image of Mytho and Fakir in a tango pose. Fakir stands upright, holding Mytho in place, while Mytho falls backwards, leg around Fakir's waist. Both are nude with eyes closed and the Prince's sword pierces both their chests, angled from behind Mytho.

End ID]

[vampirecatprince]

Thinking more about this and I need to do some more sketches for the traditional clothing from themore extreme areas of Hell (like clothes to handle the harsh hurricane force winds of Lust or the frozen solid areas of the Betrayal layer) or how some or how some subcultures have adaptations to accommodate their elemental differences (ex: the traditional robes from water ghoul packs open in the front to accommodate easy removal for swimming and are belted low on the hips to avoid pressure on their torso gills)

Headcanon Ideas about traditional Ghoul clothing, feat. Phantom and Dew

[milk-crafting]

Laz's ghoul Winona 💕🥺

She deserves so much better than him

[yesandpeeps]

Ghoul field notes: Grave digging.

Once again bringing up one of the definitions of Ghoul: “an evil spirit or phantom, especially one supposed to rob and feed on dead bodies.”

Less hunters, more scavengers.* They’re grave robbers, and I think free roaming ghouls would have certain vocalizations to steer prying eyes away from their meal. Packs don’t need to worry about this as much, as there’s safety in numbers.

They sob, they wail as they dig. To cover up the sounds of dirt, wood, and stone being displaced. If you hear anguished crying in a graveyard, it’s best not to disturb the mourning, right? It’s still a slightly inhuman noise, so if respect doesn’t keep unwanted visitors away, the distorted mix of weeping and hyena-like laughter should.

*Scavengers imply the existence of a main predator, not sure what yet. Maybe Death itself.

[switchbackhyperloop]

THE GHOUL IS A METAPHOR FOR THE FALSE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN COWBOY AND WESTERN EXPANSION AAAAAAARRRRG FUCK

A LIONIZED SYMBOL OF OUR MYTHOS, NOTHING BUT AN UNDEAD WALKING ABOMINATION FILLED WITH HATRED AND REGRET AAAAAAH

Excuse me, I just had to get that out. I am now normal again.

THE WESTERN IS AN UNDEAD GENRE AAAAAH

[lynettethemadscientist]

I wonder what radiation tastes like. Or maybe it’s more like a texture? Like you suck a radscorpion egg and your mouth feels like radio static

[sak-supernatural]

You know even if we do get a whole new set of ghouls (probably not) I really hope people don't just ditch era V and IV. With the current fandom culture the way it is, it's a real worry of mine that people won't write/read/draw for past eras as much. I seen it happen with people online saying things like; "I'm so sad *insert show* ended, I really liked the fandom". Coward, fool, you don't just leave a fandom because the pice of media ended!!!

This devolves into a rant about fandom culture...

Now not to gatekeep fandom but some people are just not meant to be involved in it. If you are going to complain about the weird stuff, if you are going to police what people can and cannot ship, if you are going to harass anyone over fiction, you shouldn't venture into wider fandom. Being a casual fan is a thing you can do, do that! Fandom spaces have always had a reputation for being a bit weird and freaky, growing up it was something to be kept secret, didn't dare tell anyone. Fandom breached containment during the pandemic, and honestly I hate that. People had nothing better to do than go online, and accidentally fell into fandom spaces (not through the usual 'oh my god, what was that?' kinda way) and therefore freak the fuck out when they come across something that makes them uncomfortable. Repeat after me:

Just because it makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it's dangerous; just because it's weird or dark or kinky in a way you think is wrong doesn't mean it doesn't have a right to exist or that others shouldn't enjoy it.

[crashbangprophet]

dear danger days rp i miss you. i miss the transmissions and the food trucks and the markets and the trading stories + trinkets. i miss the safety and i miss the creativity, i miss the battery city blogs and the asks littered with slang, i miss the warning of dracs down in zone 3, i miss the food and the menus of the week, the blogs that always offered a bed for your zonerunner to sleep in if things were hard

[ghoulishtomato]

You know what? I kind of like the allure of a ship not being explicitly stated as canon. I love the chase. I love wondering. I love getting to see small moments and getting to Pepe Silvia my way to an explanation about how that small moment means the ship is totally definitely canon.

The reasoning for a ship being canon being as easy as, "They said 'I love you' and kissed" will never be as enticing as having to explain why "I ain't Quittin' you" is, in fact, secret code for "I'm gay and one day we will have a bond so strong that every little moment between us means 'I love you' without us ever actually saying those words"....

...among other things.

[adhd-culture--is]

adhd culture is experiencing a constant back and forth of A Lot of to very little to no motivation over the span of (literally) 3 and a half months on a stupid joke animatic.

art is hard.