#i guess i have to come up with tags?

[21-cassie]

Hello!

I am a lost twitter refugee looking for my moots :(

I have no idea how tumblr works, I can barely spell it correctly lol but i will try my best 💪

Stuff about me!

I use she/they/he/it

I like blockgame 👍

specifically hermitcraft and the life series

I occasionally make art

What i watch!

i watch most hermits but mostly

Etho, Bdubs, Scar, Grian, Mumbo, Xisuma, Pearl, Gem, Impulse, Tango, Cleo

jeez, that's a lot but it's basically all the people I watch every video from

also outside of hermitcraft I watch

Joel, Lizzie, Jimmy, Martyn, Scott

outside of mcyts in general

Ranboo, Aimsey, Phil

(though i haven't watched any streams in a while)

I am also very much a team canada enjoyer!! (like seriously i've watch the montages way too many times help)

[wardingshout]

apple season

[buttered-toasty]

Ignore the half-assed background, it’s not actually supposed to Be the background, I just wanted to post this in case I never finish the second half (maglor)

I have thoughts about them. Many thoughts.

[deoidesign]

Thinking about vampires, death, life, and the space they occupy in between

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TRASH 🚮 Speedpaint | Alt under cut:

[bacchuschucklefuck]

pygmalion and galatea for aroace people

you should tell your friends what I look like, riz gukgak.

[wickjump]

lvl20 cross is my no.1 enemy btw. if i see him there will be an unspecified lethal weapon in my paws and it will be pointed in his general location

[kaiserouo]

Machines wearing clothes is another level of sexiness.

Bonus:

[therealcallmekd]

And On Next.... The Weather!

doubt any of you woulda expected this one did ya!

[dammjamboy]

forgot to ever post this here but i had the most fucked dream the other night and i had to draw it

[memen18-m5r3]

hello surviving centricide fandom...I bring you some wacky food

(i'm also animating a small portion of Centricide 3.5 but since I can't tell how much more time it's gonna take I'll show you some sneak peeks! :3)

((since I'm a certified yapper, I added some additional info + translations to all the images descriptions! not sure if it qualifies as ID so feel free to add upon it if necessary))

[evenmoreacid]

About Nendo's Thoughts (theory?)

Nendo is "stupid" ... but he actually isn't just "so stupid that he doesn't think [at all]" (contrary to what most of the fandom seems to believe?)

He just thinks incredibly fast! you could argue that maybe he's rather the impulsive type who doesn't really stop to speculate before saying things, he just says them. Saiki calls him "freakishly idiotic" but Saiki is biased and unreliable as a narrator sometimes. (Taking Saiki at his word 100% is the first step to misunderstanding the whole manga, imo)

My theory is that Nendo is simply very laid back. He's no overthinker, and maybe he's not a thinker in general. He just does whatever he feels like doing, and this is evident in the way he acts. Saiki on the contrary is a guy who spends most of the manga:

Obsessed over "being normal" as a standard to achieve (Overthinking!)

Obfuscating things for the audience, to the point where he convinces himself of things that aren't true to protect his ego (And maybe his privacy, but that's a whole different matter worth analyzing on its own.) (Overthinking it!)

Being too busy saving people in his day to day life, and also repeating the same year on loop for about 4(?) years to save the country (Definitely something he has carefully thought about on many occassions, on top of being stressful as hell.)

Nendo is the complete opposite of this. He's a chill guy who doesn't appear to have many worries in life. Saiki explains that in this universe people actually think faster and thus can have entire internal monologues while something is happening. Maybe Nendo is just an exceptionally fast thinker on top of being easy-going.

To put it another way: Saiki has lived a life of near-constant stress since forever. (Given that he has growing powers to control, a dogshit obsessive brother, a country to save, and a reputation to uphold... and his eternal obsession with being a Normal Boy despite being everything but.)

Saiki's overthinking has always been first and foremost a survival tool for him. Thinking is something he values highly. So of course he'd see someone so unbothered and carefree who doesn't have readable thoughts as stupid. Nendo just lives life as-is with no inner monologue. Saiki sees this as lesser, but that is just Saiki's personal opinion.

TLDR: My theory is that it is highly likely that Nendo DOES THINK, he just does it VERY FAST because he's IMPULSIVE and GENERALLY UNBOTHERED BY LIFE, which is the complete opposite of Saiki's MO. Saiki always carefully thinks over everything he does to keep a facade of normalcy and to keep the people around him safe. So Saiki calling him a huge idiot with no thoughts might be inaccurate. He could just be a regular guy with below-average book smarts who happens to personally piss Saiki off because of how different they are.

[egophiliac]

I always though Mal's mom was meant to be like "Eleanor" but they stuck an M at the start honestly, Sobbing Emoji. But "Maleanor" also makes me feel less insane since in that scene where she's just handed egg Malleus to Lilia and went to battle, it sounds more like Lilia is saying "Maleanor" than "Meleanor" (Japanese accent pending). Mayhaps they went more with what it sounded like the characters were saying :0 (we don't talk about Doodle Suit to Paint The Roses)

the transliteration of her name is Marenoa (マレノア), which is what all the voice lines are saying! all the Draconias' names start with マレ (Malleus' grandma is Maleficia/マレフィシア) as a nod to Maleficent. :D it's almost certainly a take on Eleanor, which is Erenoa (エレノア), but her name is written in English at a couple points, and I was pretty surprised to see it was Mel instead of Mal!

and, like, that's fine, it wouldn't be first Twst romanization that's tripped me up (like Keito for Cater, I know that's something to do with the loanword specific to playing cards(?) but it's just not how my brain wants to read it). but now Eng has given us Maleanor! and someone else said it was spelled inconsistently between Maleanor and Maeleanor??????? so WHO KNOWS it's a SPELLING FREE-FOR-ALL

I AM torn on which I want to use, because Mel just sounds so cute to me (and is what I'm used to now), but...the Mal consistency is kinda too good to pass up. alas, alas, truly these are the most difficult conundrums of our times. 😔

[bayetea]

there are many things about hazel's povs that have an intensely de-racialized vibe to them (read: divorced from the black girl experience) but I think any black person will tell you that the most obvious sign is the complete lack of attention paid to her hair

like firstly:

she's from the 1930s her hair was definitely getting permed and straightened (it was not acceptable to just wear your natural hair out back then. optics + cultural assimilation/you'll be hard pressed to find photos of black american girls with unstraightened hair in that time period unless they're from like..... harlem)

I do believe that marie was straightening it for her For A Time but then she became more neglectful and stopped so hazel had to do it herself. I'm almost positive that hazel wouldn't have even been permitted to set foot in her school building without straightening it because that's just how much of an expectation it was

ok she comes back from the dead. what's she doing to her hair now bc it's not just gonna be cutesy effortless curls falling over her shoulder no matter what the length is

how does she feel about living in a time period where natural black hair is more accepted (read: more, absolutely not fully)

there are no black people around her At All. in fact she's around a lot of white people on the argo (+nico) so that would probably be giving her some intense feelings of double consciousness (look this term up if you don't know what it means) and that would inform how she feels about her hair

theoretically she ought to be wearing her hair in braids for simplicity's sake but I think it's more likely that she would cling to what she knows (perming/straightening) because it's not easy for a 14 year old girl (PSA hazel is 14.5 in hoo not 13 btw 👍) to go from assimilating to deeply-ingrained white hair beauty standards to just proudly wearing a distinctly black hairstyle all by herself

mind you black women and girls can do whatever they want with their hair and straightening/perming it does not always/have to come from a place of self-hatred or whatever but in this particular case back then straightening one's hair was political And a survival tactic. it was as normal as brushing your teeth. it was enforced through dominant cultural messagings about the Absolute Necessity of conforming to white conventions of beauty. if you don't understand then think of it similarly to how you'd think of 1930s women needing to be perpetually dolled up and modestly dressed in order to be considered "good women" and anyways I'm just saying that this would be a lot to unpack for a 14 year old girl so hazel's probably just continuing to do this impractical thing (straightening her hair all the time) like 60% out of habit and 20% out of shame and 20% she doesn't know what else to do

something something about a missed potential character arc regarding all of this and in general there's so little mind paid to race in hazel's povs which is just ridiculous to me because a black girl from the jim crow era should have at least a few feelings about where she fits into modern society even if that society is camp jupiter. rick demonstrates his capacity to talk about how his characters feel about their race most notably in the kane chronicles so I don't think was too much to ask for. see this quote from an early son of neptune chapter:

^ like....... hazel's feelings of out-of-place-ness are There in the text and important to take note of when understanding her character (note that she's been there for like a year already and she still feels like she doesn't belong) but the emphasis is always put on her Being from a different time or Being undead and is never put on her out-of-place-ness regarding her race as a black girl from segregation times who is literally so out-of-place in this weird post-racial camp jupiter society. it feels like such an obvious thing to consider so its glaring absence really bugs me when I reread her povs and it bugs me when her hair is never talked about by extension because It Matters

you might be thinking "well she had a lot going on and she's not a superficial person maybe she just didn't care what was going on with her hair" and my response is simply that Black girls don't get to "not care" about their hair it is not the same thing as a white person going to school with bedhead it's not the same thing At All (if you aren't black then chances are you've never actually seen what untouched black hair looks like in the morning), especially when it's been beaten into your head for your entire life that your hair is ugly and you have to "do something to it" for it to be acceptable (and again...... she's from the 1930s so that feeling is magnified like 50x over). remember that perpetually dolled up modest 1930s woman I mentioned previously. picture her time traveling to camp jupiter of all places in 2010 and struggling to drop all of her makeup/hairstyling routines and internalized misogyny and conceptualizations of what women are "supposed" to be. this is the kind of fascinating character exploration that we really missed out on with hazel (and tbh regardless of her race she was never believably written as someone from the 1930s. I don't think rick even really tried to be honest)

you might also be wondering "how was rick supposed to know/attempt to portray any of that" and then my second answer is that If you're going to write a character who is not the same race as you then you should do some research and we have the internet now so research has never been easier 👍 this would be especially important to do if that person is a poc from the jim crow era I think! (he could have at least googled black hair 1930s)

anyways what I choose to believe (this is pure fanfiction) is that during hazel's first year at camp jupiter (remember that she was there for about a year before son started) nico would have helped her figure something out after observing her distress over her hair c: like they both secretly watched youtube videos on black hairstyles circa 2010 and then they got attacked by monsters for using a laptop (neither of them know how to use a laptop but he's trying his best for her) but then after killing them he helped her do her hair as something she likes that is easy to maintain <3 (I could also see reyna doing this because she surely knows a thing or two from her spa days)

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For my birthday... read my webcomic! It's literally free! (Unless you want books. Those are not free)

It's beautiful, it's gentle, it's funny, they're canonically t4t and gay... And it's about time traveling vampires solving supernatural mysteries!

I've spent thousands of hours writing and drawing it, and it's really good! I'm not biased!

It's on hiatus right now and coming back in 2 months, so it's the perfect time to get caught up

[onethousxndvoices]

took a break from my main projects to do some visdev practice. have a line up for a layton fic that'll probably never see the light of day