#like. 1am or something

[timethehobo]

His cute expression when Rook first started flirting tho…

[c0rpsedemon]

i love having to run errands after work i love walking 30 minutes home and then having to walk another 15 and then another 15 i love getting out of work at 6 and not being able to rest until 7 i love preparing to awkwardly ask my site coordinator to let me go early so i don't get home at 7

[dotted-clouds]

Happy 2 Years of Kingdom Hearts 4 trailer was revealed

[xxplastic-cubexx]

you open my Super Important Documents and its just pictures of charles xavier

[lazylittledragon]

do any other artists feel like. yeah you're a 'good artist' because you draw things that look nice, but like. TECHNICALLY? you're really not great

i really hate that i can recognise that yes, my art is good, but is it VARIED? is it dynamic?? is my anatomy good? is it full of texture and colour theory? do i know how to do This? can i do That? no, not really. and that's quite painful actually

[catdile]

I’m so sad about Loop and the thought of them disappearing/never getting to see their party again devastates me to an astronomical degree so

Au where Loop gets ‘here we go again’-ed back to their timeline and everything is normal, except for the fact that the loops are still happening (supposedly, they haven’t looped back yet they don’t know I don’t know what are you a cop) and they’re still. Very much visibly a star.

They are obviously, very scared. Because their party doesn’t recognize them and there’s this whole thing where one member of the party REALLY has to look at them until they realize that ‘Siffrin’ really is, a WHOLE STAR NOW.

I HAD A WHOLE FUCKINH VISUAL FOR THIS. BECAUSE I BASED IT OFF OF THAT ONE MOOMIN EPISODE WHERE MOOMIN TURNS INTO A SWEET LITTLE BEAST AND HIS MOM IS THE ONLY ONE OUT OF ALL OF THEM TO JUST LOOK AT HIM AND GO ‘oh shit yeah that’s my baby’

Obviously there will be changes in dynamic and scenario, and it might be more than just one party member to do this, but the idea of a person looking at their unrecognizable friend and then being able to tell it’s them just from how they look at them makes me so ill.

Anyway since Loop knows damn well not telling their party shit will just get them in deeper shit they just like. Soppily start explaining everything, they cannot string two sentences together they’ve been crying nonstop since they saw their party give them a break. Obviously the party believes them because holy shit if you’re a whole fucking star and you’re also crying? Your eyes out? There are no tears, then why the hell would you lie about this?

It just ends in a lot of tears and Loop is. So sad

But also happy because…’yay !!! My party !!! I have my party AND I know how to break the loops now !!! Awesome !!! That was so easy !!!’

Yeah it only took losing yourself and accidentally changing your body into something you don’t recognize so you can leave your self made torment only to be stripped away from the ones you love and put into some other fucking fella’s timeline so that THEY can have their happy ending instead yeah Loop that was SO EASY.

IS THIS ANYTHING????????

[strwbrryfire]

now i'm the one going ahead

from little women (1994)

[prismatiger]

Chimerasif inspired by @startagainaprologue

[felikatze]

paces in a circle. following the story bit by bit is actually great for contemplating it. i know the splitting chapters into parts is a TL thing but pacing in circles after 120.1 and now reading 120.2. hooh.

like okay fucking call me the metanarrative guy but i've been contemplating the beginning of the story. kim soleum loves horror stories. he does. but he never says this. never outwardly expresses it. but he must.

because he keeps reading them.

he says he's terrified, and he is, but he keeps coming back for more. He even wrote some himself. He loves these stories, and he loves the Dark Records universe.

The nightmare high school is an amazing case study of this, actually, mirroring the story he wrote. And his story was about understanding the scenario through the eyes of the monster. That the monster is hunted, too, that it's scared, too. He mentions that people left lore hints in the previous records of this Darkness, but he was the one to tie them all together into a narrative.

all the Darknesses are like escape rooms because what he loves about these stories is trying to figure out what makes them tick. he wants to know their rules. how to survive them. it's a very specific sort of interest in horror that can only really apply to something like SCP because there need to be rules like this for a collaborative universe.

And he extends a lot of empathy to the monsters as well, re: the story he wrote, seeing through their eyes. But there's other things, like pressing the button for his double in the elevator. Like endulging the blue dragon mascots that want to play with him. A lot of it is politeness born of terror but it is politeness nonetheless. He's trying to see their point and purpose.

Assimilation. A dangerous tactic.

There's this running thread of them trying to draw him in. Keep him in this world. And yes the most obvious example of that is Braun right now of course questioning whether Kim Soleum wants to go home in the first place. But there's also the blue dragon mascots and the cabin's contract and those tattoos. There is a Repeating Pattern of him delving into the stories just a little bit too far and strungling not to survive them but to untangle himself from them. Most evident in his friendship with Braun. And also everything else.

And I think about how the entire story starts. With Kim Soleum getting a funny little fake ID badge for Daydream Inc. and he is so deeply embarrassed about it. He is so deeply embarrassed to be at the pop-up store to begin with, to be seen indulging when he is a grown man with a job. This is teen stuff. He's not supposed to be here. Not supposed to be in this story.

But he's still here. Why? Because he loves this world. Loves the community behind it. Loves these stories.

Something abt sincerity I dunno man. It's a pattern. The entire world of Dark Exploration Records has drawn him in and refuses to let go because he loves it beyond the horror and sees so much more in every facet of it. There's something to be said about looking beyond the surface of a story and trying to gauge its intent and its message and its rules, and I'm thinking about the train to Tamra, and how it's a cesspit of misery and endless torture yet he still draws a purpose out of it from the bits and bobs whatever original author of it laid out.

He just meets every story where it's standing. A man after my own heart, really. Of course the stories don't want to let him go. Of course they love him back.

[kindred-spirit-93]

its muffin time!!

had an idea a while back for a digital hear me out cake tag chain with da moots & peeps for shits and giggles, so here we are!

grab a muffin (or a dozen), feel more than free to drag your friends too, pls have fun, dont hold back & have a happy nearly new year :D

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aight so!

if you have been tagged & want to participate: pls choose as many things as u want (yes things. ive seen stuff okay)

if u havent been tagged & want to participate: GO RIGHT AHEAD!

preferrably in a list of ur choice, like from tamest to most unhinged, chronolgical, in no particular order...

be as unhinged as u want. genuinely go wild and make me laugh/ take a break from the internet/ call the fbi/ all of the above ;)

specify whatever direction u wish pls (platonic hear me outs, awakenings, crushes, who u would defend to the death etc.)

nothing nsfw pls. keep this pg-13 and safe for everyone

write essays. or drop bombshells and dont elaborate. its up to u

i dont want to see a single conventionally attractive person i need ur most embarassing controversial wildest options okay (if ur comfortable with it. again this is all for laughs dont force urself)

remember to be respectful at all times esp if choosing irl people. everyone has their own taste and preferences. bullying & rude or mean comments of any kind etc will earn u a block.

so dont put yourself or others in weird situations pls and ty

if u dont want to participate: no problem! feel free to tag someone else hehe

ill go first so feel free to use it as a template! happy shenaniganing :D

[marciaillust]

oh boy i did not start this year on a good note, 4 days in and im a ghost on my dead tired legs begging for rest

[kentuckyfriedmegumi]

that itafushi angst

[yogubog]

ouuughh im turning this into a lock screen wallpaper :3

[affluent-havoc]

I dunno. They're weird.

[rui-drawsbox]

comm-comic for @fidorance! accepted the request to see if i should make it another option for comms but i am nOt doing stuff like this again sorry i dont enjoy it enough to do it for other people besides me ajdkjfjsa

[kalashnikovlobotomy]

rus who feels like him and ame Deserve any kind of crazy mutual death scenario they get in but above all else feels he's Earned Ame☺️ earned himself an ame to deliver consequences for his wrongs and an ame to warm his hands on. and they're the same ame. feels entitled to ame the way a person who's been trekking through a snowy forest deserves a place at your campfire. don't ask what they're doing this far into the woods. they earned that spot by making it this far.