#i do be rambling about trolls

[ohposhers]

My favorite thing is how lowkey uncomfortable Branch's brothers look when they find out Branch highkey replaced them with a new band/found family after they left LOLOL

JD and Clay being quick to crack incredibly forced jokes to cover up the awkwardness of the situation ooo And you KNOW the Kismet trolls probably think so fucking lowly of all of them too if Branch confided in them over everything that happened throughout the years rrrrr I think the brothers would definitely take personal issue with particular members too uh ohh the girls are fightingg

and they know they have no right to be mad cause they are the ones who walked out and never came back but they're gonna be bitter anyway <333 i love troll drama

[keitorinrose]

My day be so fine and then boom i think about branch's past

[lnkedmyheart]

This one is in response to @fizzytastic asking

"I would LOVE to know what you mean regarding the light novels."

Dazai in the light novels has been down BAD since the day he met Chuuya.

I know the whole "must be because I love you" can be viewed as a joke but my man actually "whispered with a look of regret" at being shot down.

He also proceeded to cheat during the game by tampering with the machine to ensure Chuuya would lose the bet and become his dog. He was also stated as being in awe of Chuuya's fighting ability, repeatedly refering to him as "incredible". Dazai also flat out admits to wanting to try out living because "Chuuya convinced" him.

He is even described as having forgotten how to breathe watching Chuuya fight.

Moving on to the events of Stormbringer, Dazai spends too long exposing his obsession with Chuuya, telling the big bad that he spends all his "days and nights thinking about ways to annoy Chuuya".

He further proceeds to insist that Chuuya is human because of how strongly he hates Chuuya and due to a specific word it can be viewed as him saying Chuuya would hate him less if he wasnt human as was stated in the stage play of the same.

Furthermore at the end of Stormbringer he offers to come up with a new plan to give Chuuya an out if he needs one when he has to use corruption as a last resort. And he fully intends on coming up with a new plan within 2 minutes.

In general Dazai does a lot of staring at Chuuya throughout the light novels. On a lighter note Dazai jokes about wanting Chuuya as his personal maid at one point and demands that Chuuya let Dazai look inside his head and know everything there is to know about him.

But then we move onto the dragon head conflict as mentioned in Dead Apple where after making light of an executive's death and getting punched in the face by Chuuya, Dazai is so shaken up by Chuuya implying he's inhuman, he actually pulls strings to try and bring the conflict to an end. He also stops corruption by touching his cheek and pulls Chuuya's head into his lap while he is unconscious after his fight with Shibusawa. The following is from the manga.

Now everyone knows about the whole Snow White and Prince reference but in the light novel its clarified that Chuuya's ability was not affected by the fog and Dazai knew this but he still forces his head down. Even more telling is that Dazai cradles Chuuya's face for no real reason because Corruption had already been nullified when Chuuya made skin to skin contact when punching him in the face.

And of course that was how their expressions are drawn in the manga panel

Then we move to the present day and you have Dazai saying this to Sigma about Chuuya

But then his comment about Gide has him claim the exact same behaviour is romantic in his messed up troll brain

Basically Dazai has a history of staring at Chuuya in awe since 15, "jokingly" confessed at 15 and then got somewhat upset about the rejection, cheated to be able to keep Chuuya as his, repeatedly makes remarks that imply he is vaguely obsessed with him at 16, tends to let Chuuya rest his head in his lap post corruption, has nullified him twice that we have seen by touching his cheek (as per the movie and once as per the ln). Is actively affected by how Chuuya views him (which was shocking to me).

Aside from that he has also talked about Chuuya to the ADA off screen because Yosano knew about Chuuya and his ability (though this could just be a random update about the membera of the mafia to watch out for during meetings) and I heard he talked about Chuuya to Oda in The Day I Picked Up Dazai ln.

This is not counting any of the seriously insane amount of wan content because I dont view it as canon or atleast entirely canon but there Dazai admits to keeping 27 journals detailing things about Chuuya and its an exaggeration of the canon fact that Dazai prides himself in being a Chuuya Nakahara Encyclopedia. It also plays with how close they both actually are with several character refering to them as besties, Chuuya being forced to admit he doesnt actually hate Dazai.

(Oh and this is not even considering just how much Dazai touches Chuuya, like in the manga there is a part where Dazai keeps tugging at Chuuya's hair and refusing to let go while complaining about how much he doesnt want to touch him. Just let go dude...)

So yea, I would not be surprised if Dazai has his vows prepared by the time the last pre defection ln drops. Ofcourse this is mostly a lighthearted joke about Dazai being down bad but in all seriousness, Dazai genuinely cared about and still cares about Chuuya and its made extremely obvious throughout the novels. Its actually worth noting that it was actually Chuuya who seemed to be more vitriolic towards him until the end of Stormbringer where Dazai actually gives Chuuya a choice and shows open concern for Chuuya's needs. Hell Dazai was also the one insisting on Chuuya's autonomy, while he keeps insisting Chuuya is his dog, he hates the idea of people using him like a tool, its why he always gives Chuuya a choice. Chuuya always actively chooses to go rescue Dazai in Dazai's plans of getting kidnapped. Chuuya can always go, "nah, I dont wanna use corruption" but he doesnt because he knows since the events of stormbringer that Dazai will always give him a choice even if corruption seems like a last resort.

Chuuya has good reason for trusting Dazai. Its cause Dazai has in fact proven to him that he can trust him. Its why he went in to fight a dragon despite being told Dazai was possibly already dead.

(And yea I know the current arc would have people go "lol he tried to drown Chuuya, he clearly doesnt care" and you know what? That's so dumb. Dazai tried to drown Chuuya, yes. But we dont actually know what is happening with this arc rn and what he is doing or if Chuuya is in any way involved in whatever he is doing. Dazai said all those things and there was no need for him to say that but the fact that he even remembered several moments they shared, yea no, he was clearly affected by it. Maybe I am wrong and Asagiri decided to yeet out all of Dazai's characterization we saw with his behaviour towards Chuuya in 2 entire novels of his past but IDK I think I'm gonna wait till this arc ends and everything unfolds before making a conclusion about how Dazai is such an asshole he tried to drown his partner.)

Seriously, vows are like the least they could do at this point.

[hey-hey-j]

16, 22, 20

(50 random characters asks thingy)

BRANCH BRANCH BRANCH

(physically restraining myself from spamming your askbox but i love your opinions and the way you interpret the characters, it's really made them come to life for me. thank you so much for all you do for the fandom, artists like you keep it alive.)

character ask game

(pfhfgh please don't be afraid to spam my inbox I love answering these kinds of games!)

16. Deepest darkest secret they won't even admit to themselves

aghgh see with Branch I can see it going two ways: either his "darkest secret" is something Dipper Pines-level "embarrassing" like he secretly enjoys cheesy 70s disco-pop..... or it's something genuinely grim that he keeps buried deep deep down because it's harmful to him and to the people he cares about. Like the kinds of thoughts he'd have on the loneliest nights when all he could do was curl into himself in the dark recesses of his bunker and let all that pain and fear come pouring out of him as sobs or screams. Thoughts he never wants to have again.

20. Scars

realistically Branch probably has his fair share of minor scars from living that Survivalist Life for 20 years I just never draw him with any because I'm lazy, lol. Just for this ask here's a super quick speculative scar map I just whipped up in the time between paragraphs:

(also I think it would be funny if some of his scars were actually from minor construction mishaps and like, tripping and shit but he makes up more badass sounding backstories for those)

22. Best physical feature

I mean, from his own perspective he probably doesn't have any "best" or "favourite" features but if you ask Poppy, she'll say it's the little crease of his nose when he laughs. Or the lines around his eyes when he squints curiously at something. Or the way his ears perk up whenever he hears her approaching. Poetic answers like that, ya know.

and if you ask me, I'll say that I really like his color palette in Band Together. Nice soft blues, a huge improvement from the saturated mess that was his World Tour color palette whoof.

[blade-that-was-broken]

@endlesspaint

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Actually! Funny thing about Clay, from the Art Of book, the creators describe him as someone who really IS fun and the prankster of the family in his DNA, but his problem was that he didn't want to be known JUST for that, and so he tried so hard to make people see that he was capable of being other than funny that he basically accidentally trapped himself in the OPPOSITE position, where he's so insistent on being serious that he can't let himself enjoy anything fun anymore. SO long story short! This entire family needs therapy I s2g

You know, in my first draft answering your previous ask I included I thought he went to the other extreme and is rejecting the silly part of himself but I second guessed myself and deleted that bit because it wasn't confirmed in the movie and i didnt wanna sound stupidhfjjgb HELLO ART BOOK INFO I FEEL VALIDATED

Whole family deff needs therapy

Rip to Clay imagine being so silly that no one ever takes you seriously and you maybe get laughed at when you try to feel serious and you're so afraid that's gonna happen again that you take it to the other extreme when you rebuild your life and if anyone finds you silly now it feels like they're insulting you--

[oopsallwhimsy]

TFW you have to draw a character you REALLY dislike for a project but you know the second you draw them it's all over. That's your muse now.

[redeemed-wren]

Am I the only one who doesn't think that 60s era Doctor Who's trend/themes of 'protect women' isnt sexist?

Most of the complaints I see about 60s Who sexism, and the male characters of that era is largely due to the men being like 'girls stay back.' But a) there is nothing inherently sexist about that imo? Men protecting women is the most healthy masculine thing possible. And b) when the women are like 'no lol' the men are like 'okay fine let's go' and respect their decisions on the whole.

Like that isn't sexism? That's just recognising men and women are different?

[clockworkreapers]

What are the main characters canon sexuality’s?? Have they any or is it up to interpretation

Twas from a past pride month I think? Either way here u go. Canonically none of my trolls are like “straight” in the human sense lol they don’t exactly have a concept of it or like most human sexualities due to different social norms and all to them it’s like baseline everything is a valid relationship and any gender expression is also just as valid (why I tend to mark them as masc fem or enby presenting not male or female weird biology headcanon stuff yada yada they are not human) their universes Alternians are more concerned with blood anyways.

Considering quadrants everyone here is technically poly to an extent that’s literally just a cultural thing with seeking out two partners. ANYWAYS.

Sauron is gay he prefers masc romantic partners and he is demi so under the ace umbrella

Falmea is pan and aromantic

Majell is a lesbian she just prefers more fem trolls

Helstm is bi

Then Cybele and Cyrusk are both pan!

[astro-nautics]

me when i want to post fic but that requires me to actually write it

[dragonbleps]

kinda sad to see an innocent "what do you call this item?" poll and go to the op and see they deleted it because people were being casually rude as fuck and insulting and assuming they're trolling all because they don't use the same terms as the majority of people who saw it (aka mostly Americans) when it escaped their friend circle

sometimes polls are made out of curiosity and not to "win" some imaginary argument, so any mean-spirited "lol get ratio'd" type of comments are entirely unnecessary

likewise not every poll is made purely for engagement. sometimes people are looking for "Oh! I live here and I call it XYZ!" and not "You mean the fucking ABC"

for the love of god remember that your experience is not universal, and neither is theirs. the difference is, THEY realize this, which is why they made the poll! you're just being a dick!

something something "people are too comfortable being rude and mean to each other on the internet"

tumblr in particular is really weird about responding to Actual Engagement Farming polls as if they're serious, and responding to Genuinely Curious polls as if there's a right and wrong answer and they have to "win" against OP's "incorrect" opinion or whatever

[crossbackpoke-check]

Hello, im wehaveagathering from my main blog, im kind of obsessed with your hockey poetry edits and I think your blog is great! I guess I kind of have a dumb question, where do you find the images you use for your edits? Did you say Getty in your tags?? I’ve gotten into making icons recently (and i have ideas for poetry edits hrrrghhh) but it’s hard to find high res images. Thanks for your time and I hope you have a nice day :)

first of all thank you so much 🥹 and second that’s absolutely not a dumb question!! i do pull a lot of images from getty and i’ll also download pictures from sports articles (i got a lot of the hugheses pictures from online access articles, for example), or sometimes from instagram/facebook/twitter if an account is public. freely admitting that i am not technologically advanced? inclined? in the slightest here, but the image editing software that you use and how you import/export photos with it makes a difference in the quality of them as well!

if you haven’t seen them yet, i would also recommend checking out @simmyfrobby @national-hockey-lesbian @hauntedppgpaints @tapedsleeves @starscelly and @captainbradmarchand’s blogs just off the top of my head!!! they might know more places to get high res images and also i love their work 💕🫶

[tariah23]

Now he’s trying to lie when he literally tagged Princeton like 5 fucking time. White people are so evil, bro. They always know what they’re doing when they do shit like that. With the attempt to bring harm to Black people who they want to “get out of the way,” because they don’t think that we belong in the same spaces as them while at the same time, believing they should be allowed INTO our spaces and afforded hospitality and a whole red carpet rolled out. The sad thing is, she has connections to the industry because of her uncle and name so what if this was just a random Black woman who worked for Princeton without this kind of protection at all…?

[snow-and-saltea]

yesterday i spent 45 minutes of my life watching a video essay criticising the use of cheap shock values and crossing of taboos for a video game and i went from "he has a point even if he's explaining it in a really inflammatory way" to "oh umm... i can see how he thinks that way even if i don't agree" to "oh this guy's just straight up using people on tumblr as material for an audience to get mad at like other outdated people on the internet. nvm he's just an asshole"

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

Hey Homestuck mutuals, since I'm gonna be reading Homestuck soon/eventually, does anyone want to make guesses and predictions and stuff about what you think I'll think of specific characters or parts of it?

I was gonna make my own post of guesses for myself, but tbh I don't have a lot to work off of yet so I don't really have many

[icebergscrashingtogeather-10]

I am serious very elaborate troll blogs on tumblr need to be conceded and studied as performance art.

Just in and of its self you can’t see it as not performance art

Like look at people like Joseph Beuys and his social sculptures. He created these elaborate scenes for people to witness and contemplate. and while they were him act he also was creating a separate reality that comments on this one. Like his piece How To Explain A Picture To A Dead Hare He was his self in those moments but he was covered with gold leaf and had clothes that weren’t his regular and things attached to his feet. So in a way he became detached to his own work while the work also be his own body.

The people on tumblr are more less the same with their own goals in mind. They are actually creating their own realities online now to the point where people have to analyze if what they are seeing and interacting with are real. Because we know know that the internet is a thing there are some wild things that people believe and do.

But these blogs play with that knowledge and distort it. And there are conventions to the medium making it one of the only ways that you can tell reality from a fiction that someone is creating. Just like Beuys people are interacting with them having their own reactions. The comments and posts the only way we reference these pieces. Just like photographs of performance art as “remnants”. We will never know the performance as we are all in our own with our own thoughts and feelings. Watching the interplay between people and this blog. not knowing who are actors and who are real people.

But it also doesn’t matter because the blogger isn’t a genuine artist. We are all the art because with out us there would be no interaction.