#i overthink too much probably

[deeisace]

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[sunny1927]

“No matter what happens to us… we’ll always be brothers to the end…”- Mickey or Oswald

[kitxi-official]

I have too many thoughts on the new digital circus episode. So here they are because I need to get them out

One thing that really stood out to me from this episode was the cinematography and writing. Somehow the episode felt super uncanny and I couldn't understand why... until it came to me.

It wasn't a big adventure.

It's literally just them, in a fast food joint, working. Somehow, the other wacky, fantastical adventures made the one semi-realistic feel... wrong. I kept expecting some kind of build up into something bigger, but outside of gangle's descent and release, it was tame.

In regards to filmmaking, some ideas have to be dramatized to become interesting to the audience. For example, a healthy relationship won't be as interesting to viewers as a dramatic one that has to be built upon. So for me, this episode being so... simple, was such a fascinating writing choice. Normally this kind of writing choice in media is bad, it can lead to an uninterested audience. But in this episode, it really showed how disconnected the circus is from reality. Caine's adventures are built as stories; they have a quest, a build up, a peak, and then a return. The lack of campaign, quest, objective, was really put into perspective for me, "Oh right, I forget that this is what reality would be like." Not only is the main cast disconnected from reality, the audience is too

[kissingarthurclaus]

This time I'm really gonna do it!!!! (finish my fucking animatic)

[charlotte-family-apologist]

Happy new year!! My new year's resolution is to finish my kensuchin au fic :)

[immortalsins]

potentially got invited to the pub by the people i met last night, not sure if that's on but i'll be paralysed with stress until i know

[lieutenantselnia]

Imagine crawling under the Horned King's robe to cuddle with him ... It doesn't necessarily have to be a sexual situation (though it could possibly lead to that if you're both up to it - I mean does he even wear anything else underneath there?👀), but could also simply be a tender moment of both physical and emotional closeness.

Author's note: This was originally supposed to be an imagine at best or simply just me yelling out my thoughts about the Horned King, but somehow it kind of accidentally turned into a short story. Things you do at 5am I guess. This man probably has to much control over my mind at this point (not that I'm complaining).

The Horned King x Reader - Cuddling under his robe

It's cold this evening, though this is not something particularly unusual. The wind is howling around the walls of the castle, and you're snuggling a little closer to the Horned King as you're resting in your shared bed together. You feel his grip around your waist tighten ever so slightly, when suddenly an idea sparks up in your mind. Maybe there is an even better way to escape the cold than just pressing yourself up against him ...

He tilts his head, but doesn't say anything yet when you wriggle yourself out of his embrace and crawl towards the foot of the bed. You hesitate for a moment, but eventually decide to lift the hem of his robe.

"What are you doing, my dear?"

You can hear mild confusion in his voice, and stop in your motion for a moment, one of your hands pulling up the fabric a little while the other is resting on his calf.

"Just trying to escape the cold ..."

With that, you lean forwards and start crawling under the king's robe. The thick fabric holds off any light, so you let your hands follow the contours of his body as you move upwards, careful not to put your weight onto him in an uncomfortable way. You can feel a smile forming on your face as you finally stick your head through the collar - which luckily is wide enough to fit both of you.

"I thought it might be warmer underneath here, and I have to say that I'm not disappointed. But I also just wanted to be close to you ..."

The Horned King's gaze turns soft - over time you've learned to read his more subtle facial expressions - , and when you lean forwards a little to press a kiss onto his lipless mouth, you can feel him eagerly reciprocate the motion, to the best of his abilities at least. He lets out a content sigh as you rub your nose against his cheek and wraps his arms around you, resting his hands on your back. You allow your body to relax completely as you lay down on top of his own, and although he's not giving off any body warmth, you relish the feeling of being pressed up against his bare skin.

"This is perfect ..."

You mumble as you're nuzzling your face into his neck. Your eyelids are starting to get heavier as he gently rubs your back, and a yawn escapes you.

"Rest now, my dear."

Your king's soothing voice still reaches you as your consciousness starts to drift off into the shadows.

"Rest well. I will not be going anywhere right now ..."

[lucky-clover-gazette]

vent

did not expect kissing and realizing i’m lowkey dating a guy to send me down an existential spiral of reminding me that i have only one life to live and then i am going to die without living any other different lives

[little-red-fool]

I’m sticking with the idea that DS2 themes are going to be the inversion of the themes in the first game so here are some of my predictions for characters in the game:

Sam — becomes more self-oriented i.e. more absorbed in his own personal quest rather than duties given to him by other people, his ‘neglect’ of other people could start bringing America apart again, he also draws more away from his companions and the living in favour of chasing ‘ghosts’ i.e. Lou and becomes more drawn to the dead.

Higgs — ‘the saviour’, instead of mass ‘mercy-killings’, nihilism, and attempting to tear America apart, he’s trying to preserve life and build connections (possibly switching roles with Sam—they seem to be foils in the first game) and has started to focus less on the suffering humans endure but rather that they’re resilient enough to survive it and carry on.

Fragile—twist villain, in the first game she was probably one of Sam’s biggest allies, she might not need him anymore and could possibly see him as getting in the way of her ‘true goal’ (whatever it could be) and try to get rid of him in some way, essentially becoming Higgs, the person she sought revenge against for the same thing he did to her, and in turn Higgs becomes one of Sam’s close allies.

Amelie—instead of creating a mass extinction she now wants to help preserve human life after Sam convincing her to delay the Death Stranding yet people are mistrustful of her due to past actions and push her away, further isolating her, in the first game she acted as a magnet for people and tried to bring everyone together but now she’s inadvertently pushing them further apart.

Lou—in the first game she acted as an anchor for Sam to gradually connect with other people and get more involved with their lives, here she might be the thing that tears him away from them back into isolation and closer to the dead.

[mewkwota]

I don't know if it's just me, but hearing the word "wholesome" makes me want to painfully contort. Am I even allowed to say this?

[angeart]

i have a long hhau post ready but it includes about ~3k words worth of rp snippets where some parts (multiple!!) are blatantly [REDACTED] for reasons and... i worry that might be annoying?

i know i was ultimately asked and enabled to release the teases, and that we go into this knowing there are parts i'm unwilling to share at this time, for plot/spoiler reasons but... i still kind of want to make sure that it's okay.

[desertduality]

life is wild I can just be hanging out existing and suddenly get slammed with the most intense bout of loneliness ever. like okay i'm in the middle of eating string cheese can we not do this now

[orcelito]

Yet again hindered by the "this reply is hidden because you have the user blocked" message. It has me Almost wondering whether I'd be better off not blocking so many people. So that I can freely be a nosy bitch.

Almost, but not quite. My block list is for my sanity, after all.

[hyperfixation-tangentopia]

So, I know I rambled about this a little in tags, but I want to talk about this.

The Curse acts different with MK.

So, how the Curse is said to work is it will force the people it ensnares to relive their past mistakes over and over again. And it does that. We see it with Tang, Pigsy, and Sandy in how they're trapped in their past lives and relive that (and they remember it, too, at the least), and both see the broken memories Wukong was reliving and get a direct statement from him that that's what happened. There was no Ink Tang, Ink Pigsy, or Ink Sandy. I'll talk about Ink Wukong in a second.

But when it came to MK? The only past memory that was "relived" in any sense was Ink MK (I'm going to call him MinK for simplicity, and because I like it) quoting LBD and MK's own mind filling in the blank.

The Curse shifted into MK's monkey form and talked to him, taunted him, did all of that, but only for MK, and nobody else. The only other person that it does this to is Wukong, but only when he interrupts MinK already in that form. This also seems to end after MK leaves.

Tang, Pigsy, Sandy, and Wukong all went through the "reliving their mistakes" thing Azure said it was supposed to do. But for some reason, with MK, it didn't, even though MK has no shortage of regrets to pull on.

[beatlebug987]

Being an overthinker on the internet is not for the weak

[didderd]

What’s Tic’s and Tac’s type?

hmm. that's a hard one

these mens aren't picky

Tac likes someone he can easily fluster, but if you can fluster him, he's putty in your hands. :3 (his Grillby's one of the few that can fluster him with flirts, most ppl will have to get vry sweet with him to get him all red (example: kissing his bite scares))

Tic likes a big sweetheart (and a big flirt), one of his main receiving love languages probably being words of affirmation.

physical appearance wise, they don't really care. in monster culture, it's not common to care about that, with everyone looking so different.

tho Tac might have a bit more fun teasing someone shorter than him, and both might like soft and squishy skin, and soft hair, in contrast to their bone.

(suggestive bits under th cut 👀)

ofc Tac will have plenty of fun with someone who's already easily submissive, but he might have even more fun with someone feisty, someone who plays hard to get, the challenge of getting the stubborn ones flustered/submissive being a fun and rewarding one. (and if someone manages to dominate him, i mean.. he's not complaining. 👀)

Tic does not mind a submissive partner, however he is a lot more receptive to a dominant one than Tac. He's likely to be the one in bindings. (also.. might be turned on by a more. scary/intimidating person.)