#let's get shadowy

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: August 18…

It’s KO’s first visit to Venomous since the revelation of him being his father, having trouble bonding, KO uses the opportunity to hunt down Shadowy Figure by tagging along with both his dad and Fink. “Let’s Get Shadowy” premiered on this day, 5 Years Ago.

[egophiliac]

A guy who just wake up from a coma -> what did i miss?

Pomefiore was the last plot i follow before real life made me forget about our silly boys. How bad has the plot become now for our gang? Also who is that Gojo looking guy?

anon, I am so sorry and I mean this in the best way, but I do think episode 5 is the absolute funniest place to have stopped following Twst because shit starts escalating SO fast after that. episode 6 literally starts with a secret government shadow agency breaking down our doors and kidnapping students. zero to a million instantly.

and like...that's not even the zaniest thing so far? Ortho's hacked into the collective human unconscious. there's time travel (sort of). "Crowley might be Malleus' long-lost father" is a serious theory. if you'd told me any of this back pre-episode 6, I would have asked for the link to this unbelievable but highly intriguing fanfic.

also, episode 7 gave us (and then immediately took away 😔) the best character in the whole story:

[perplexi]

Shadowy returns?!~😏👌🖤🫣💜✨

[cradle-of-darkness]

What have you done?

based on an idea @username8746489 had where sylvie discovered nightmare fuel for the first time on accident while getting bullied by some older kids (and pushing him further into social isolation now that he's known as "that scary kid who could summon someone's worst fear")

[mttonex]

sorry if i make too many requests, it's just i rlly love your art

Shadowy Figure leader and Topher being father and son

and hear me out yall. i think it has potential

thank uu!! it's ok i love drawing them :D

[muttgirls]

My Whiteboard doodles....hii

[razzzar]

Pondering the glorb

[technicalknockout]

rewatching carl

[scrawlingskribbles]

among the long, long list of crimes against OK KO is the fact that it didn't get to be around for the era of the Family Guy Death Pose meme because you know they absolutely would have done that lmfao

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: August 18…

It’s KO’s first visit to Venomous since the revelation of him being his father, having trouble bonding, KO uses the opportunity to hunt down Shadowy Figure by tagging along with both his dad and Fink. “Let’s Get Shadowy” premiered on this day, 4 Years Ago.

[grimm-the-tiger]

My FL main went through some really weird, organic development over the...oh god, I think it's been five years since I started playing now.

So my main is named Skadi Larkin. They are a little bastard. They started out extremely 2D; I named them after my favorite Norse goddess and the protagonist of the book I was reading at the time. I originally wanted to make them female like both of their namesakes, but the second I saw the third-gender option, I thought it was too good to pass up. This is where they got their primary base characterization as a mad scientist who wanted to Cause Problems.

Then I started the Nemesis ambition and forgot which option I'd chosen for who I was trying to avenge, so they lost both their lover and their older brother under tragic circumstances (only the lover was killed by Nemesis's antagonist, though).

Then I got an Exceptional Friendship and had to give my tragic backstory in order to gain entry to the House of Chimes. Skadi pulled said tragic backstory (orphaned in a hansom accident) more or less out of their ass, but it did establish that their parents are dead.

Somewhere down the line, I realized that technically Skadi is a linguist, since the Correspondence is a language, and I made that their profession on the Surface as well.

Around this time, I started working on character designs for my fan comic. I got really into messing around with skin tone, and somewhere along the line thought it would be fun to draw Skadi (who was originally white) with darker skin, and it stuck.

Then I abruptly realized I was taking a lot of options that increased my Melancholy, and almost all of them were based on the Surface. So now Skadi has a longing for the Surface.

I left the game for a few years, but somewhere during this stretch of time, and I don't know how this happened, but I decided Skadi was now Native American; specifically, Metis. I changed their design to incorporate a sash woven in a style characteristic of the Metis, which also added a bit of color to their design (which was mostly black or grey at this point).

During this time, I started incorporating Skadi into my fan comic. This would eventually lead me to actually flesh out their backstory in greater detail. When I started playing the game again, I also created my first alt by total accident (long story), and I decided to weave her backstory with Skadi's.

So Skadi is in the interesting position of being an Indigenous person who is what we'd probably consider Two-Spirit today but they'd just call "Bollocks to that gender crap". They never belonged on the Surface, since the Metis are in a bit of a liminal space compared to other tribes due to their interesting background (the Metis are the descendants of French settlers and Indigenous inhabitants, mostly Cree), and Skadi exists in a liminal space within that liminal space due to only being half-Metis and raised primarily in white culture, although they still maintained a connection to it through their late mother. They also never belonged because no one else on the Surface outside of the communities they already felt isolated from would ever accept them for their gender. London gave them a chance to express one of those, but not both, and despite knowing that the Surface hates them just for existing, they still long to return.

[shion2nd]

niche annoyment moment but i just saw people on tiktok complain about normies using "delulu" but then their examples of actually being "delulu" were also.. incredibly normal www

[lunar-wandering]

i hope that if they go into the scroll again to get Wukong out and bring Macaque with them that Macaque just. gets fucking possessed/controlled by the scroll. Because Wukong could very clearly break himself out of the chapter he was stuck in before, so, yknow

Wukong very clearly reacted the most to Macaque’s appearance- I mean, I Havoc in Heaven was obviously something Wukong probably kinda regrets, but I think he’d regret killing/being unable to save his best friend more...

I think the scroll knows it’s illusions won’t work on Wukong, so what better method than to use something real? 

[cakemagemaeve]

Maybe I'm just stupid and/or naive, but I honestly thought whole idea behind the social justice movement was that no one should be oppressed, that no one of any race, religion, culture, gender, sexuality, country of origin or any combination thereof deserves to be discriminated against. I thought that bigotry was always wrong no matter what, I thought rape and torture were wrong no matter what. I thought that the ultimate goal was to end the bloodshed altogether, for the end of oppression and the beginning of peace. I thought that we all wanted everyone to live and meet on equal footing, not just to switch around who's being oppressed and who's doing the oppressing. I thought it was about making a better life for everyone, not just the select groups of people whom it's popular to care about this week.

Apparently I was wrong. Apparently there are exceptions.

[cogitrot]

I got my first Making Your Name 7!

[askpropthetictko]

how's things?

"not.....so good......I have been dealing with... something I feel like I shouldn't think of but keeps lingering my mind......and....like I said...Shadowy Figure...."