#i went viral lol

[cracklewink]

Science-themed mermay day 3: Parasite (Sea Trout + Tongue-eating Louse)

Shoutout to @moose__chan on twitter/insta for helping me double check the ASL!

Bonus:

[gachagon]

Love your Eden’s Garden analyses my dude. Seriously, you’ve tackled aspects of certain characters I hadn’t even considered. I agree about Eloise being one of the blackened, girl is hiding nerves of steel behind a thin layer of shyness. I also think she’s gonna be connected to Desmond as the thing he guards and trusts the most (in reference to what was described in his blackmail). Upon further analysis, Desmond strikes me as someone who wants people to trust him, but has issues trusting others, outside of maybe Eloise. In a nutshell, he wants people to trust him without him putting his trust in other people. That’s his hypocrisy, in my mind at least.

I’m also gonna keep an eye on Grace in the chapter(s) going forward, in addition to Diana and Kai. Her silence after Eva’s execution speaks volumes. Mayhaps she’ll be going through a character arc? I feel like even SHE thought that execution was way too cruel.

On to my questions though! Out of curiosity, with what you’ve said about students’ deaths being linked to their hypocrisies, who do you think is the least hypocritical in the cast? By extension, who do you think is most likely to survive and/or die, at least within the next chapter or two?

Thanks so much lol I'm glad people ave enjoyed my thoughts so far and I've loved hearing everyone else's opinions and theories as well this whole week!

As to answer your question, I've got to say I think the "least" Hypocritical student so far is actually a controversial opinion of mine since I've noticed lots of people don't like his character T_T

It's Kai Monteago. (Note: I have NOT done everyone's FTE's yet but I'm gonna watch each one for this update soon!)

Now, this does not mean I don't think Kai lies or is a hypocrite, just that I think out of everyone on the cast so far he's the one who's the most honest about how he actually feels.

If Wolfgang is the most Hypocritical person because he hides everything he's feeling and doesn't let anyone know what he's actually thinking, then I think Kai is the least hypocritical out of the student body (minus Damon & Diana bc I think they're both being set up obviously as the protag and antag) because he's so honest about everything about himself and doesn't actually feel the need to hide his own insecurities, worries, fears, and anxieties.

Whenever anything goes remotely bad, Kai is always the first out of the cast to admit he didn't actually trust anyone, he's also the only one who's outwardly always wary of others and nervous. He just doesn't like thinking about the potential for someone murdering him or someone winding up dead. But it's pretty clear just from how he acts in his FTE's, trial, and body discovery that he not only doesn't trust anyone there but that he's not afraid to admit that openly when shit hits the fan.

For Kai, it seems like he's fully aware of the situation and thus knows that just agreeing with whatever the rest of the cast is talking about will keep him safe. He obviously is still a bit of a hypocrite because he's judging the ones who openly admit to not trusting other people, but he's also the first of the cast to always admit he had reservations about trusting them to begin with.

In a way, I can't exactly say Kai is a bad person because of his hypocrisy. He's only been an Ultimate for like 1-2 years, which is way less time than most of the student body. All of this is very new to him, he reminds me of Makoto in that sense where he was someone who would've never thought they'd be an Ultimate, or someone who became one by chance. Even the story he shares of how he became The Ultimate Influencer makes me believe that it really was just dumb luck that he got his title.

And he's only really falling in line because he obviously sees the way everyone treats you when you don't agree with the majority opinion, even if that majority opinion is rooted in rationality. In a way, it makes sense that Kai would act this way because he's an Influencer and has to deal with widespread groupthink about himself daily lol Any small action he did in the outside world was scrutinized and judged by an invisible audience, so now when he's in a situation like this he just goes with whatever will make the most people like him.

Though I can definitely see Kai breaking out of that kind of mindset the more he becomes friends with other people, and now that Wolfgang is gone, I definitely think the rest of them will act more freely instead of looking towards a leader of sorts. This is also why I think Kai will be the "support" character for Damon that we thought Eva would be. Kai is the one person left now who's wholly honest about himself, meaning he and Damon can become friends quicker that way and potentially work on investigations.

Also the two of them have very similar talents in the sense that "anyone could do this". But their ideas about their talents are swapped. Someone mentioned earlier that they think Damon might hate being a Debater or that he has some kind of insecurity rooted in the fact that he's a Debater. And I kind of agree. Where as Kai is wholly proud of his title as the Ultimate Influencer, Damon is very insecure about being seen as the Ultimate Debater and makes up for it with a big ego.

He doesn't let anyone look down on him for being an internet personality, and doesn't let lies about his past or things people wouldn't know about anyways (like the scandal he mentions in his FTE) get to him. But Damon flounders when someone even remotely challenges the idea of his talent being "useless" to society. In truth, the both of them are like foils and will probably be paired more often especially since they share a room together.

[rosie-kairi]

"Oh you saw right through me, didn't you? Your senses are screaming "This isn't a human!" Well, I'm getting better, and sooner or later you'll open the door"

me when I'm normal.

[adorablegorilla]

GET IT, MASHIRO

[3416]

re: your Mitch mustache point, yes 100% agree - weird thing to fixate on and just keep commenting on. I also feel like this about Auston’s hair and the ‘balding’ jokes; like, bro, what a thing to comment on about someone else’s appearance.

i get both sides of it to SOME degree in a jokey fandomy space but sometimes it feels like that's all anyone has to say for like days at a time or. i guess bc i make gifs/posts sometimes that's all the tags or comments are. and then i'll post a vid or pics on twt and THAT'S all anyone has to say to try to make an unfunny joke that's been made 4932842 times beforre. and i'm like. damn is anyone actually funny or insightful or is that all there is these days, like lmfao. i already really make it a habit with myself to not negatively comment on appearances irl or online bc i just think it seeps into the way you think about and treat people whether you mean it or not. and i get that these guys are untouchable millionaires and aren't gonna read all these "jokes" but they end up feeling so vapid and tasteless and shallow. i just have bigger beef with the general trends in society and the hyperfixation on pure aesthetics, no substance, and so to see it reflected even in mild forms in fandom spaces just over n over n over like. odd and dull.

[bigweldindustries]

have I ever shown u guys big juicy he's my fucking beloved my dad sat on him today

[silverpiwon]

Ever since that “the little boy from p1harmony” tweet people have been calling Jongseob this nickname on all platforms and it’s so cute 😭

[hyunjilicious]

I finally made a friend irl that listens to kpop and I just found out she's one of those toxic fans that believes all bands except her favourite suck, that everyone else is not talented or hardworking enough... AND her best friend hates stray kids because they won something against her fav band...

WE'RE ADULTS, WE'RE IN OUR MID 20s CAN'T WE JUST ENJOY THESE BANDS AND THEIR MUSIC??? Why does everything have to be a competition??? 😭

[wolfchans]

I went to sleep last night and now the notifications on my main are a mess 😭

[roscoehamiltons]

these tags...truer words have never been spoken

as an este-stan who has unfortunately experienced the trials and tribulations of fernando's fickle nature i know that he may be chill for now but as soon as franco poses a threat to him he's shifting back to "fuck them kids" mode

lol absolutely and even though he is being nice rn, i can't help but think there's some kind of ulterior motive behind it 😭

[grungekitty-77]

Alright folks, it's been fun. Back to my regularly scheduled obscurity!

[vjonk]

i havent really been drawing at all for a bit now, but i have been crafting :)

lots of photos under the cut vvvvv

gnomes:

continued my marionette fursona project from last year:

(i still need to make the wooden cross thingy and string the doll up)

linocut:

crochet bunnies:

[oodlyenough]

have just looked it up, the ABBA post currently has 168,634 notes lollll

LMAO oh god... my legacy...

I had a lot of DW takes go viral as well but I doubt they were able to breach that.

[artigas]

I'm not the same person who sent you that anon but would be ok sharing your paper with more than one person? I'm curious about it, too!

Absolutely! Just message me privately, either via messages or an ask so that I can send you the link -- I'd share the link publicly, but I might actually try to get the paper published this summer and also i'm a lil traumatized because somebody plagiarized a reddit post I made about Catcher in the Rye a couple of months ago lmaooo so I try to be a bit more intentional about where i share my papers, esp bc that's kinda like ... my literal job now!!

[polaristhelight]

This was actually about the black girl from Invincible

yeah we put your girl in the fandom and they villainized her beyond comprehension. yeah sorry they took out all the nuance and made the argument completely black and white. yeah my bad. we can’t reverse it. sorry.

[lannisterdaddyissues]

NOOOOOOOOOO THEY SHOWED THAT TIKTOK MY CLASSMATE ASKED ME TO DO WITH HER TO MY TEACHER 😭😭😭😭😭 I HAVE TO DIE NOW