#lots of little easter eggs

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[mayaskribbles]

happy birthday, little brother

[lilybug-02]

Eimmet High...temmiE high. OMG!

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Next update may take...much longer! I have finals and an internship and not to mention I have to draw- A LOT :')

[deep-space-lines]

in case anyone was wondering where I disappeared to for the past few days, i've been going insane again. fun fact staring at stained glass windows for hours on end will not turn you catholic (source: i stared at so many stained glass windows to make this bc i really wanted to go for a realistic church window sort of vibe)

tumblr is a coward and won't let me upload the full size images so you can look at them and zoom in to your heart's content (please look at them. please) [1] [2]

Prints of this are available on my Society6 (both versions cuz I'm indecisive) (it may take a little while for them to actually appear on the site)

Details:

Timelapse under the cut!

my favorite part of this is when I'm trying to get the pose down and I keep flipping the canvas and it looks like they're doing a silly little dance :)

[nosnexus]

Mentopolis's favorite Journalist!

[yardsards]

do people who have listened to taz balance but not graduation Know that it was HEAVILY IMPLIED that lup and barry eventually adopted a lil sorcerer child who got disowned by his family for his natural necromancy magic, and they taught him how to use his powers for good and were overall great parents that he looks back on fondly

(and said child grew up to be a dimension-hopping lich, caretaker of the dead, and very sweet adoptive father of a major npc)

[notmoreflippingelves]

[potatobugz]

*picks you up and dips u in a vat of acid*

[mickedy]

in the mood for something spooky

i was thinking, the other night, "what if mickey made the blot because he was trying to create a replica of himself?" and it brought a lot more things together than i expected

i dont think the blot is truly evil, just an unfinished toon with a hunger for a Heart and universal adoration. but there is some baggage in that, from creator to creation.

[thesquidkid]

riproswell day 1: rest in pieces (darkness and shadows, a town with a dark secret)

reference image under the cut

I didn't do the rest of the street due to time, and I have no idea how to even make the light up signs in Lego/blender, so I simply ignored all of that 😂

Lego build of the Crashdown (partly complete, I will try and build the whole diner at some point, but it takes time) made on Mecabricks (if you click the link you should be able to see the set)

All Lego pieces were taken from Mecabricks, all setup, lighting, editing was done on Blender

[soaps-mohawk]

like, brother eugh imagining the person who put in the cameras using it for porn almost twists my heart a bit more, as someone who’s unfortunately been there and done that.

But it makes me feel better, imagining the scorched earth and raised hell that the boys will bring on whoever was involved with those cameras.

But on the other hand, once they realize Omega didn’t tell them of the cameras I’m sending it will be a massive shift in the pack dynamic, almost to square one.

I just want to say you’re so good at including these tiny details that make my brain hyperfixate and double think on everything.

Ugh that would be so gross and intrusive. (I'm so sorry that happened to you. It's just ugh makes my skin crawl thinking about it).

Yeah...they're not going to be happy I'll say that much. That's the only spoiler I can give.

Thank you, though, I've been hinting a lot since chapter one even lol. Makes me happy that some people are paying attention 🤭

[mxthbladed]

Vaggie has many habits- one of many is that on Friday, before the end of the work day, she cleans and sharpens her spear. It was something ingrained in her from her military training. So, if anyone needs her, well, she's in the lobby with her spear across her lap, carefully sharpening it.

A clean, sharp weapon is a good weapon.

[dailydemonspotlight]

Alright we have some of her Skeleton Granddads, but what about Alice herself?

Alice - Day 67 (Request)

Race: Fiend

Arcana: Death

Alignment: Neutral

July 9th, 2024

Demons are plentiful in the series, many with bizarre origins, but Alice herself is a rare case for the series, and as such, I'll have to make this DDS a bit different as well. Based primarily off of a multitude of sources, Alice is less of a concrete character from a myth or fairy tale, nor an urban legend- no, she's a conglomerate of what can be presumed to be Kaneko's imagination. So, today's Demon Spotlight will be less of a statement of her backstory- it'll instead be a descent into the many mixed fates of this young girl.

Initially, it's easy to pick up that Alice is based primarily off of Alice in Wonderland, the famous fairy tale told by Lewis Carroll going into the story of a young woman named Alice and her slow drifting off into boredom leading her down a quite-literal rabbit hole, ending up in a surreal fever dream-esque wonderland. However, this is only the source for her appearance, being primarily based off of contemporary depictions of the Alice in the story, being a blonde girl- specifically taking inspiration from the Disney movie based on the story.

Even with this, though, it's hard to pin down where her fates throughout the series originate. The series purports her origin as being from a Scandinavian folk tale, yet I've struggled to even pinpoint what the tale in question could even be. The closest I've been able to pin it down to is an Icelandic folk-tale recounted in this blog post.

Frankly, though, this might just be coincidence. It's incredibly hard to tell, given that the story on Alice seems to change constantly from game-to-game, compendium-to-compendium- it's even stated outright, in the Persona World compendium in the first Persona game, that she is simply an original character to the series. So, case closed, right? I'd still like to dig a bit deeper.

Original demons are rare throughout the series, especially after the first Megami Tensei, however, and I've always felt that there needs to be at least some sort of original source for every character- something you can trace the influence back to. Ideas don't just spawn from the ether, after all. And I might've found the original source, outside of simple offhand mentions from various posts and blogs about a secondary source beyond Alice in Wonderland.

Really, this is just speculation, but I believe the folk tale referred to most of the time in compendiums may actually be recollections of several different myths- namely, a conflation of La Llorona, a the ghost of a woman who lost her children and her life and spends her days roaming Mexico aimlessly, looking for children to make her own, the story mentioned earlier called 'Dear Mother, in the pen, pen,' the real world death and subsequent ghost sightings revolving around one Alice Riley, a young woman who was a former slave murdered in the 1700's, and of course, Alice in Wonderland. The behavior that La Llorona is outlined in partaking in is incredibly similar to the behavior stated in the compendiums' offhand mentions, that being that the ghost girl would kill children to gain friends in her eternal afterlife, the name Alice was likely pulled from Alice Riley as well as Alice in Wonderland, and the placing of the mythology in Scandinavian regions likely comes from the icelandic myth mentioned above.

Maybe all of this is me coming to conclusions, but I'd personally state that I think I've narrowed down some of the origins pretty well. The trope of a little ghost girl is widespread, and Alice may also simply be based on that trope, and the excuse of folklore was given to simply divvy up the waters a bit, but I digress. There could be so many different explanations for Alice out there, and while the fact that none of them fully match up is somewhat frustrating, I'd say that I think it's a waste of a good idea to simply brush her off as being just an original character loosely based on Alice in Wonderland.

Even in this spotlight, I feel the need to put a nice bow on things- overall, Alice is an incredibly complicated demon to look into, especially for those who love digging into things like me, but I managed to eventually track down that wild goose, even if it really is just a mirage. I'd be remiss to not mention her weird connections to Belial and Nebiros, as in the first Shin Megami Tensei game, she was brought back to life by those two, and they became her uncles, as referenced later in the series.

[my-name-is-markus-with-a-k]

The perfect ot3

Inspired by this post by @konami-code-ao3 :)

[fiveredlights]

I know it’s a rough time and we all are recovering from Red Bull Red Bulling but I was wondering when the last chapter of team principal DR3 would be out?

anon i wish i could give you an answer but unfortunately old habits continues its tradition of throwing something at me every single time i post…. or in other words i have a surgery scheduled very soon so i can not give you a definitive date or timeline. i apologise because i know i literally just skipped the august upload but this one is really out of my hands!

but i can say that it’ll hopefully be worth the wait. there’s like a really big interactive mechanic thing where perhaps you’ll have to find something in the fic to unlock something else that’ll advance the plot and give clues for [REDACTED]…. who can say. who can say…..

[thatuselesshuman]

How I feel naming a character 'Kian' knowing full well that the name will be mentioned once (the rest of the time going by a code name) and that no one is going to look it up and realize the significance behind it meaning 'ancient' and 'king' (the character is the oldest person alive by a long shot—634 years old—and built a country with his bare hands)