#march is his month

[aengelren]

it’s Eren’s birthday soon

[ailabyuwu]

*cough* i mightve uh.... i mightve gotten too obsessed with @the-b1ah's AU and needed to draw danny (AND HIS SUPER DUPER CUTE JACKET LIKE OMG???? i want it so bad) bc i couldn't think of anything else jaskjdflasdfks;af

[buglaur]

wanted to make a render to get back into the hang of things

[yupuffin]

I think the aspect of the 2.7 story that felt most impactful to me was something that was previously addressed in the Penacony main story, but was reemphasized and expanded upon with Sunday being the narrative focus of this update:

Sunday is scared.

His motivation to protect the people and things important to him -- Robin is an excellent example -- manifests as a desire for control, to eliminate potential dangers. This motivation is based in fear; he's afraid to lose what he has to factors beyond his control, like the bullet that nearly took his sister's life.

And part of the "true paradise" he longs for involves preventing the sense of powerlessness that accompanies that fear. He believes that humanity sleeps because "we are afraid to awaken from our dreams." Indeed, the appeal of the "sweet dream" of Penacony is freedom from the uncontrollable and inevitable tragedies of the waking world.

It's part of what made him such an effective villain in the Penacony arc; even though you may disagree vehemently with his actions, you can understand with and sympathize the rationale behind them. In his mind, absolute control over the Dreamscape -- the elimination of frightening unknowns -- is the most effective way to keep everyone safe and happy. However, this undermines the real freedom and autonomy of the affected populace, many of whom are unaware of the Dreamscape's true nature.

In the 2.7 update, Sunday is "nerfed after turning into a good guy," to use March's words. Previously, he enjoyed immense social status as the head of the Oak Family -- and as the imposing, invulnerable, "final boss"-style antagonist. Now, his role is effectively reversed; he's a fugitive who has to disguise himself to evade the potential consequences of simply being seen.

He's an incredibly vulnerable position.

Not just physically -- as the audience, we also get intimate insights into his feelings and thought processes. Now he recognizes the scope of the harm he was previously willing to cause in the name of absolute control, and shoulders the responsibility of dealing with the repercussions.

His newly evident guilt and shame is emotionally moving on its own...

...and becomes even more poignant when you realize that guilt and shame and vulnerability has been a crucial aspect of his character from the very beginning. After all, so much of his deep-seated fear of the unknown stemmed from him blaming himself -- his lack of control over the situation -- for Robin's unforeseen injury.

I found the scene at the Dream's Edge the most touching in this update. Sunday's conversation with Robin is a bit of a paradox: he is deeply sincere and vulnerable in speaking to his own sister, yet guarded because he must avoid revealing his true identity. And Robin, in turn, directly provides an alternate outlook on Sunday's character, describing him as though to someone who's never met him, as though he isn't there.

And Robin's perspective reaffirms that Sunday's apparent invulnerability was essentially a facade. He may have been the head of the Oak Family, and the imposing final boss, but at the same time, on the inside, he was continually paralyzed by fear.

Sunday has always been vulnerable. He has always been scared.

And I think what makes the conclusion to the 2.7 story so satisfying and triumphant is that Sunday begins to properly address his fear, his persistent guilt and shame. He moves beyond simply acknowledging it, and recognizes not just how indulging his fear can bring further harm, but also what good things (that otherwise wouldn't occur) can happen when he overcomes it -- as it were, when he doesn't let his fear control him.

I'm going to be real, I probably had an intelligent-sounding conclusion for this, but... it took me several weeks to write this and I've forgotten any idea i might have had previously, so let's just say he definitely hit me right in the feels. 🤣

[diathadevil]

I'm SO ready for Fields of Mistria coming out y'all and I WILL be smooching the tsundere blacksmith you mark my words.

Edit: Here's some close ups underneath!

[reineydraws]

wanted: marine hunter takanome mihawk

[themmatennant]

the ides of march

The roman senate really took one look at this dude and said, "lets make a ceaser salad" 😭

[nokk0]

i have been thinking if i should do something for Fal's "birthday" (i say birthday with quotation marks because that's the birthday of the original Fal)... Should i do something to commemorate that day...?

[lilliganart]

Original sketch by Horikoshi, colouring by me

[whoophoney]

"I run the local supermarché. Drop in and see me sometime; my discounts are criminal. Catch me later!"

TIMOTHY DALTON as SIMON SKINNER in HOT FUZZ

[astriiformes]

Annoying that I am in such a writing slump lately, because almost no one is writing the gen Laios whump I want so badly to read, and every time I have the thought "I should fix this" my brain absolutely bluescreens

[rooolt]

I will use Demetri and Eli’s progress in the college admissions process to puzzle out the baffling timeline of Cobra Kai season 6 and YOU CANT STOP ME

[pancakeke]

I have to manage the forecast for one customer because their salesperson is to stupid or negligent to handle it. This is 100% salesperson work and not my job but alas. While working on a new component forecast file back in March I noticed components that the customer no longer used were still being forecasted.

I dug into this, figured out the root cause, and then emailed the salesperson like "hey you are entering forecasts for old revisions of this customer's BOMs. this means the components I'm pulling for us to purchase are not correct. Here are the incorrect BOMs you have forecasted per month, as well as the correct BOMs you need to swap them out with. Until you correct this we can't know the customer's actual component needs."

This turned into a 3 month back-and-forth telling this guy the same thing over and over for some reason. Finally last week the salesperson said he fixed everything and needed a new component forecast file. I made one without double checking if he was telling the truth and sent it over.

Today the customer has CC'd me on a reply asking why a bunch of parts they no longer use are forecasted. The salesperson did not actually fix a fucking thing. Even with everything he needed listed out for him.

[benzgarfield]

Benzalert IG Story April 28 2024

[random-kido]

I think I'm out of posting jail so before I go to bed I just wanted to say that I'm being normal about Dez losing his mind over some guy™️ (see cliff or au krk)

[deadandphilgames]

oversharing in the tags time :)