#kay's replies

[dawnbreakersgaze]

The way I'm cry rn

I don't feel like I deserve this but I'm gonna do my best to make you proud 🥲🥲🥲🥲

[the-axe-and-flail]

Was was was, was is is? Was was was but now was is is so is is now was and was was was but now is so in conclusion was is is and was is still was but was is also is while is is still is and was.

Anon I apologize I'm too God damned stupid to be smart enough for this 🥴🤣

[the-vegetarian-artist]

"HES GONNA TAKE HIS EYE!" I scream as I'm being dragged off to the padded room

although the chance are slim let these bitches be messy when their inevitable fight happens in season 3

Tagging @goldendaydna cause they be my biggest supporter in my angst 😌

[dawnbreakersgaze]

booping you here too, because i can ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Im buried under the weight of all these boops ♡♡

[dawnbreakersgaze]

Hahaha okay but I just read this to him and he blushes HARD and goes “Oh we have more kids now (referring to @spiderlilypetals lol)? I mean I guess if it’s with you~” 😂😂😌🥰

He’s so precious I just

I'm still getting over hearing a mutual absolutely fawning over her husband

"You're a little bit of a himbo *giggle*"

"...Yeah."

My parenttttssssssssss

@dawnbreakersgaze

[hwanwooyoung]

the never-ending fairy saga [18/?]

↪ huening kai + 'lo$er=lo♡︎er' / 'moa diary'

[st-just]

as someone who mostly doesn’t read any fiction by sociology majors or queer people who like to construct things, I want to know more of what you think about Cobra Kai. It’s interesting to see someone with a more “academic” relationship to fiction watch and talk about silly pulp stuff that I like.

I admit it’s utterly corny and “non-prestigious” for lack of a better word, but it does somehow speak to me in it’s shameless ‘80s-ness, and I want to know about what this says about me.

(I do like more intelligent fiction as well, but mostly artsy movies. Prestige tv or literary fiction has historically been too much of a time commitment to stay philosophically focused the whole time. I was a voracious reader as a kid, and I’m trying to read Anna Karenina, but the internet has rotted my attention span. I can do a 100 minute art movie, but reading a book chunks at a time is somehow hard to stay engaged with.)

Sorry this has taken so long to answer - was waiting to finish season five and then just forgot

I mean mostly I think it's entertaining trash with some enjoyably scenery-chewing performances and surprisingly good fight choreography? I also respect the utter commitment to the bit, in this world where 'karate' is a pan-Asian marital art that does legitimately give low-level superpowers and also guns don't really seem to exist. The shameless '80s nostalgia bait clashing with the modern setting is also done with enough effort and self-awareness to mostly be really fun. But it's honestly more background noise than anything I'm actually watching with analytical intent.

That said the show's conception of and preoccupation with masculinity is just fascinating for how deeply held and also unselfaware it seems to be?

Like Johny is clearly a comic, pathetic figure, right? Especially in season one, he's a failure of what mature masculinity is supposed to be (deadbeat dad, shitty insecury housing, no steady work or marketable skills, embarrassing piece of shit car, neither a long term relationship nor success when he tries for something casual). His fetishistic attachment to the outward signifiers of '80s machismo is presented as something to laugh at, both because of how outdated they are and because he can't live up to them. But! The show also presents him as having a kind of Quixote-esque nobility about him, and the next five seasons of tv are a long sequence of him basically achieving all the things he was pathetic for lacking in the premier.

More broadly, the show has a very, very clear thesis that the vital core of being a Good Man is a) being able to deploy incredibly violence through personal strength and skill b) but choosing not to do so as a demonstration of restraint and virtue c) unless it's for a just cause or someone is really asking for it. Like, literally every male character with an arc is good at karate! Even the MIT-bound dweeb who was introduced to get shoved into lockers and the annoying brat Ipad baby younger son! The show simply does not care to waste screentime on a guy who can't punch you into a coma.

(There's something almost like, chivalric about the plot beat in season 5 where Daniel has dutifully chosen to give up his vendetta against Silver because protecting his wife and children is more important than abstract principle or glory, and then his wife needs to cajole and convince him to get back in the fight with her blessing. Warrior-aristocrat-ass gender role enactment

(Because it's the 2020s, a select number of women can be warriors too. As long as they're incredibly conventionally attractive, and also never defeat/emasculate any of the really important men. I did actually laugh when the only non-supermodel-hot major female character was written off between seasons with like a single line of explanation))

Besides all that - I mean it's kind of hilarious how the show is so studiously colorblind is filling its supporting cast and has a few relatively prominent asian characters whose race is just literally never important in any way, and then also portrays The Orient like it's 1980 and the closest anyone involved has ever come to Asia is watching a couple horribly dubbed wire-fu movies.

[the-axe-and-flail]

Yesss I love these ones! I splurged and got the resin version of Gyomei and it's just 😙👌👌👌 he's MASSIVE and God so perfect. Compared to my other PVC's he's a monster 🤣

I want the Yoriichi in resin soooo bad. Cheng Studios needs to hurry and release the Kyojuro and Mitsuri ones already 😤

Since I already got 2 Rengoku figures in my living room. I thought I treat myself with 2 other hot dudes...

They are so fucking BIG?! Like they are over 30 cm! But the details are amazing and I am just so in love 🥹

Kokushibo is frigging ripped that I have always the urge to scrap with my nails on his abs which creates LITERALLY ripped noises and I am kdljflskjdf

[dawnbreakersgaze]

thank you 💜

You're so so welcome 🥺

[the-axe-and-flail]

Just wanted to say

Hi to you back ☺️

[dawnbreakersgaze]

I was thinking, if you don't mind, that I could get you sprawled out on your couch?

I've got this terrible, awful desire to hear you say "draw me like one of your French girls" while draped across a couch in the afternoon sun of your big bay windows.

The vision will make sense when I'm done, you just have to trust me on this one.

I promise I'll let you keep the piece for your private collection, of course. Your comfort is my utmost priority.

Hey Rafa, I'm working on a new piece, thinking about doing a figure study. Interested in posing for me, since your figure seems to be so very worth the study? I thought maybe the artist might like to be the art for a change 🤭

Something tells me you're up to something.

Buuuut, it's an... Interesting change to be someone's muse.

Sure, why not. What poses do you want?

[gayestcowboy]

one of the reasons i hate generative AI is that i have a chronic injury that makes me unable to write by hand for longer than a few sentences and therefore i need a keyboard in order to write essays for classes, and i’m a bit worried that professors won’t allow me to type essays as a result of potential AI use, even though i have a perfectly valid medical reason to need a keyboard. i’ve seen a few posts online saying that the only way to prevent students from relying on AI is to make them write by hand, and while i understand the sentiment and don’t even necessarily disagree with the general point, the matter of accessibility still needs to be addressed somehow, and it’s just a bit frustrating on a personal level as someone who has had to fight with teachers and professors in order for my needs to be met even before the era of chatgpt

[lumpawaroospaceprincess]

Going through the Kay Vess tag on this website and seeing every other post being about shipping Kay, a lesbian, with men? So disappointing tbh. Like does it have to be actually spelled out for you that she’s a lesbian or can you not pick up on the least subtle context clues ever.

I still don’t get how people can play hours and hours of Kay, flirting with women and not being interested at all with romance with men, and come away from that thinking she’s not gay?

I just think it’s weird that some people on this website are still incapable of engaging with media that is about women without making it about men but that’s just me I guess

[panomiels-box]

【project eden's garden rambles ≫ spoilers! ⚠︎】

so eva's name (and her murdering in chapter 1) is without a doubt a reference to the biblical figure eve.

and damon, which has its own resonance with the name adam, also has symbolism connecting him to the latter: the apple that falls into his hand in the op (probably reaching here but his hair/ahoge also loosely resembles the shape of an apple, at least to me), the snake on his tie.....

but i wonder if damon's name (and character) could also be a reference to the greek mythological figure damon from the story "damon and pythias"

interestingly, this greek legend exemplifies the ideal bond of friendship with sacrifice as a central theme. to quickly summarise it;

pythias is sentenced to death by the tyrannical dionysius i of syracuse for allegedly plotting against him. before getting executed, pythias requested settling some of his affairs first, which dionysius only agreed to because damon, pythias's friend, offered himself as a hostage during his absence. it was decided that if pythias didn't return in time for his execution, damon would be killed in his stead. the story has a good end as pythias does indeed return in time, and pleased by their formidable friendship, dionysius forgave and freed the two men.

now, to come back to p:eg - what i find super interesting with this is that it could foreshadow a crucial aspect of damon's character development. as we know, damon is an arrogant and direct person, but he still has a very real softness deep down within him. in fact, it's clearly shown to us that there isn't a need to dig much for it to shine through. his bond with the other characters is still rather surface level and not on good terms, but at some point, i do see him making allies/friends.

so knowing that about damon thus far, i can also see him eventually sacrificing himself in one way or another (not necessarily by dying) for one (or multiple) of his friends, like the greek mythology damon did.

personally, i think the friend he'd do that for is kai, but i'm biased lol. pythias doesn't resemble any of the other characters' names after all, so that's just me theorising away. therefore kai it is! (also i can't forget about that detail in the op...it has to be some kind of foreshadowing) however, it doesn't mean that act of sacrifice will end as miraculously well as the mythological story. there's just no way it can unfortunately - this is a danganronpa fangame at the end of the day :,)

something else regarding the damon and pythias story i also want to talk about, is the closeness between diana's and dionysius's names. not the closest match, but still interesting to note i think. it's fairly certain that diana will play an important role in the future, one that could potentially be antagonistic too.

perhaps similarly to dionysius, diana will give damon an ultimatum of sorts in which she has the upper hand. it'll be the reason for damon choosing to sacrifice himself and, depending on how things go, diana will either spare or kill him (or someone close to him). i say kill, but it doesn't necessarily have to be to that extent - betrayal is the key theme here.

let's also not forget that diana is the name of the roman goddess of the hunt (and lots of other things like childbirth, crossroads, the night, the moon..) equivalent to the goddess artemis of greek mythology. considering diana's last name venicia is of italian origin further enhances that relation too. plus, hunting being the goddess' original main association could imply that diana will 'hunt' someone eventually.

or, it could refer to how she could just be used for someone else's 'hunt' (which eva did) since the goddess diana is often viewed as a lucky symbol for hunters.

and, just to throw it out there - with desmond being the ultimate marksman and all (not to mention he has arrows on his back just like diana/artemis is almost always depicted with) if he becomes a blackened, it's possible diana will also play a key role in that murder case, whether passively or actively. i can see some kind of alliance (good or bad) forming between those two at some point - but hey, what do i know!

all in all, there're definitely hints to links and parallels between biblical/mythological figures and some characters of the p:eg's cast. i'm probably very, very off, especially since it's highly likely the devs will strive away from taking too much direct inspiration from biblical/mythological/animal motif stuff otherwise things could get too predictable. still, i think it's okay to point these things out and just have fun discussing it!

[dawnbreakersgaze]

My love language is not talking to anyone for weeks and then busting into your inbox with edits of your F/O as an apology bc I love you 🥺🥰

Let me just aggressively smash my face into your face via the astral plane like some kind of weird cat lol

how i'm doing after @dawnbreakersgaze sends me presents

[purplepixel]

Jay has lost his marbles

His marbles are lost

Truly. They got left behind on the other half of the Bounty