#just absolute nonsense

[glassesmcfancyhair]

I legit forgot this show gave us a fake dating to real dating, there was only one bed, these idiots didn’t know they were dating AND puns. So many puns.

I love it here.

[getting-messi]

it's especially funny because you can literally donate blood with tattoos as long as they're completely healed 😭

His fanboys just REFUSE to research or pay attention to the facts…….but are we surprised? That’s why they all ignore the fact that he’s a self admitted abuser😵‍💫

[nooling]

LOOK I JUST REALLY ENJOY THEIR FRIENDSHIP OK?? You can't tell me they wouldn't hang after their respective personal quests (spawn ending ofc)/emotional breakdowns over their own mortality

EDIT: I forgot to watermark these so now more than ever PLEASE don't repost

[wintergrofyuri]

post canon labru is so fucking peak are you kidding me. the king of melini and his most trusted advisor. his right hand man. whispering in his ear. a regal wolf and the little raven perched beside him. sneaking around the castle at night. HAND KISSING. oh my god. kabru needs to take his king's hand in his and kiss it while looking up at him through his eyelashes.

the king of melini, the devourer of all things horrible, wrapped around kabru's finger. like. this guy ate a demon and hes just like. a big dog around him. like its sick. sole survivor of his hometown and now he's got a king warming his bed at night. scratching under his chin and calling him a good boy right after a meeting.

im just. so in awe. kabru looked at laios and went "im going to whisper in his ear if its the last thing i do" and by god he did it.

[bumblingest-bee]

every day i think about that one illegal high school production of les miserables on youtube where they changed lovely ladies from being about sex workers to being about like... selling bread... but they kept all the lines about "waiting for the customers who only come at night" and "standing up or lying down or any way at all" which paints a strange and delightful picture of some kind of nighttime bread black market

[cowardlykrow]

“Not my circus, not my monkeys”… Except those are his monkeys and they are the circus

[eastofoktober]

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[pagrat]

i wish i was seeing more from the people who were Somerton Fans before all this cuz like, i feel like we're having an issue where people feel the need to have been less conned than everyone else. like wow look at me i only fell for the grift a little bit. okay congratulations i guess but theres nothing shameful about having been a fan... nobody spends that much effort interrogating the media they consume and if you think you do youre delusional. anyway having been aware of him but not an avid consumer i am so curious how people who were are taking this. is it a big fucking shock to their whole worldview? is it more of a live and learn moment? like its gotta be fucking hard right. idk if it turned out tomorrow that people i trust like abby philosophytube were the worst people ever itd be a weird ass moment u know

[fish-o-cola]

The sequence of Essek trying and failing to teleport Bells Hells to Eiselcross like four times in a row was hilarious, but may I propose:

Several days earlier: a very cold and frustrated Ludinus Da'leth stranded somewhere frozen and barren after accidentally teleporting himself straight into a snowdrift for the fifth time.

No one is immune to being made to look like a fool by the wild magic of Aeor

[balleater]

despite being more often than not a "rules as written" fan over "rule of cool", i really do love me a good "rules be damned, i'll give you this awesome moment" call. like matt giving fcg the otohan kill despite what her hp was at or brennan giving cerrit an extra mage slayer reaction attack at the end of calamity. honestly, if anything, i think the fact they mostly play by the book makes these moments even better because it really has that extra weight towards those decisions to put the rules aside.

[sforzesco]

AKHENATEN

uhhh let's see. I combined some sketches I did of Nefertiti and Akhenaten and ended up somewhere here for an Akhenaten design. in my heart, it's for a comic but there's so much visual research I'd have to do before I could even think about approaching a comic. oof.

anyway moving on: Akhenaten was a childhood obsession! and then I moved onto other things, as one does, but then a couple months ago I decided to check out some books and now I have a headache.

Akhenaten, Ronald T. Ridley

[rjavenuru]

Considering that the original versions of some fairy tales are pretty horrific to begin with Poshes horrifying additions would have to be pretty horrifying. For example: -Cinderellas step sisters chopping off parts of their foot to fit in the shoe when the prince comes calling. -Little Red Riding Hood and Grandma get eaten by the wolf. The End. -Sleeping Beauty wakes up when she gives birth to the kings child. -And for good measure, to counteract the Disney version, The Little Mermaid by H.C. Andersen ends when Ariel is asked by the prince if she will marry him and can't reply (cause she gave her voice for legs to walk on land) so he takes it as disinterest and marries another. Heartbroken she then walks into the sea and turns into foam (H.C. Andersen was an absolute fucking pathetic disaster of a man! 😅😅). But yes. I'd say all of the above. I think the whole concept of fairy tales is a very difficult concept for Poshe to grasp. The idea that people would veil lessons in these some times vague stories is mind boggling to him. He would absolutely understand the consumption of stories/media for information/knowledge, and the idea of entertainment is not lost on him, but these parables and fables and fairy tales and things make no sense. Though in modern times most of these stories have long since lost the connection to the lessons they were supposed to convey (for example that if you disobey your mother you'll "get eaten by a wolf") Spooky would absolutely tell Poshe that they are still very much valid. This, in turn, would also cause Poshe to assume various "lesson themes" to things that are meant to be entertainment and eventually mix them up with the fairy tales. Of course Spooky does nothing to discourage this. Some times Poshe would try to tell the stories in a way that make sense to him, for example from a Necrid perspective (and this could very quickly turn very dark), but this also leaves plenty of room for Spooky to entertain himself by making up weird shit these stories are supposed to teach humans (some times taking Poshes novel version of the story and just running with it and some times making up new and often contradicting versions) and invent questionable moral codes that are in effect. Usually for the purpose of getting Poshe to make an ass of himself. Again. Ultimately Poshes problem is that he is highly "mechanically" intelligent but not very insightful and his mind will run in circles trying to work out some kind of "science" in things that are by nature more "philosophical" or "mythological".

Poshe tells really fucked up renditions of kid's stories but its up to you to decide if it's because

A. He's just like that

B. He's got a weird grasp of human culture and language

C. Spooky told him that's exactly how they're supposed to go and everyone else is wrong

or D. All of the above

[nonbinary-catboy]

Ethersea is very very good. "our bodies are choirs and we are the songs they are singing" is a quote I saw before I started listening to it and it was 1000% better in context. I however did not expect it to be in the same episode that they establish that the character who said it has a dick that is as sharp as a knife.

[amanitacurses]

Oblivium

[catocappuccino]

*throws this thing at you and runs away*

[kelocitta]

In honor of the @rw-ship-showdown I wanted to write about Artihunter as someone who jokingly slapped them together pre-downpour and still thinks they are actually very compelling. Just not in the super soft love wins kinda way (Although I get why people like that more) And the only way I know how to do that is talking too much so heres a far too long slug essay-

Obviously the slugcats don't offer a ton of characterization but theres not nothing to work with. Their stories, whether by their roles in it or the overarching themes do provide a backbone to work with. Even gameplay itself can provide a bit. (for some more than others) Hunter, to me, is ultimately a story about selflessness. The goal is to revive Moon, which is very much an act of kindness from both Hunter and NSH. But the weight of that action is much more significant for Hunter- Hunter is deeply sick. They're on the clock, and for all their skill in combat none of that will ultimately help them to survive longer than their body can hold out. Moon is a close friend of NSH but that means little Hunter- Hunter really gets next to nothing out of helping them, and ultimately pays quiet a bit spending their limited time alive fighting to deliver that neuron so that someone else can live.

To spend ones limited days on helping another, in a game that very much stresses the unwavering cruelty of the world and nature- is pretty notable. (And you could even say that Hunter being the Hardmode of Rain World adds another layer to this)

And then we have Artificer. A storyline that very much stands out to people as more… villainous (so to speak) than the other slugcats. Artificer's story covers a lot of things. Trauma, violence, revenge, etc. Revenge is a bit of a selfish desire- That need to see someone hurt as they have hurt you. A punishment that ultimately does not fix whatever harm was done- but feels good to see because you were hurt and now those responsible share that pain.

Artificer's actions are founded in that need for revenge, their pups killed for overstepping boundaries they didn't know existed. Is it not fair for them to be angry at that, to punish the scavengers for their violence with their own? Why should the scavengers ever be forgiven when they and their pups were not? And that's how you get that loop- Harm for harm over and over.

The original action has been lost in a spiral of violence for violence. And here stands Artificer- their very spirit scarred. Not just because they sought revenge, but because they never ceased trying to scratch that itch for violence as an answer. Artificer only has two paths for their story- killing the scavenger king (Someone who, really, has little to do with the original 'crime' of the scavengers, but represents an important individual to them- as did the slugpups to Artificer), locking themselves as karma one for good and spending the rest of their life chasing creatures that no longer even fight back in a warped sense of closure- or to dissolve themselves in the acids of the void sea because they're too far gone to find any real peace.

They can't meaningfully recover from that state, not alone, twisting in on themselves. Even if they halt their actions, they've been using violence as a feeble defense against their own pain- violence that no longer has any real direction or basis. Artificer gets no real closure from killing the scavenger king. All they can do is continue the cycle, or try to scrub it away. No real peace in a prison of their own making. So you have a creature, who even with a strict timer on their life- a body that will crumble to disease, spends its last bit of time on saving another. And another who was so caught up in the pain of loss that were eaten alive by their own anger, poisoned their own soul on such a deep level even self-proclaimed gods have no solution for them. What peace can they offer each other? For Hunter, its only a fleeting moment of happiness- of selfish love, before their own body fails them. A bit of indulgence in something for themself. For Artificer, its a single, comforting thread to ground them again, something tangible to protect and care about again. But thats a thread that will ultimately be snapped under the cruel indifference of the world. Hunters timer will tick down regardless of if it takes another with it. Its a tragedy- its doomed to end badly. Whatever good it offers to either of them to find each other will only provide the fleeting comfort of a band-aid that will be ripped away too early. But all that can be worth indulging in anyway, if only for the moment. It doesn't change the ending, but the ending was never going to be happy. Its can so yuri