#neighborhood show

[invaderhogtwopointohno]

Wind Breaker and Trauma

Hey, you should go watch Wind Breaker right the fuck now because I have not seen a slice-of-life anime that has done such a good job depicting what it is like to live and deal with ongoing trauma in such a beautiful way. Just for context:

Our main character naturally has two different eye colors and that is actually his natural hair. His parents constantly told him to dye his hair to make him look like a "normal person" and everyone he ever met judged him based solely on his hair and eye color. While this kind of look stands out in anime, the story actually does a great job of weaponizing his differences to make him a piraha.

Because he was a young impressionable boy, he started fighting because he didn't know how to deal with his ongoing and continuous verbal and emotional abuse from just about everyone he had ever met. Sakura spends his entire life literally just fighting everyone he meets and he values strength of a person above all else because he considers that the only trait worth noting in a person. This is deeply rooted in his inability to form any kind of positive human connections with everyone and he genuinely doesn't trust or bond with anyone he meets.

So he heads to an infamous high school that is known for its fighting and decides that he wants to be the top dog there because he can only value his own self-worth through the use of violence. But when he gets there, he finds out that the town is actually protected by the kids of the school- the leader of the school has turned the entire neighborhood around and the people love them, they are revered as heroes and protect the citizens. Without even knowing that, he ends up protecting a woman who is getting harassed by a group of guys and even gets stabbed defending her. When she shows that she is grateful and actually provides him with a meal- he is genuinely confused. He doesn't understand why she isn't shunning him like everyone he has ever known. And it turns out the entire town is like this, they think that he is a good kid and he helps out the neighborhood but he has such deep seeded trust issues that he is confused by actual kindess.

He even meets other kids that he keeps at arms length because he is so certain based off of the abuse that he has suffered his entire life applies to everyone he meets. Which is ironic and the show calls him out for this train of thought as being exactly the kind of thinking that the people who mistreated him had.

It so well done and his issues don't just go away overnight because he suddenly is shown kindness- he is still suffering from his trauma and has issues with trust and actually forming real genuine friendships with people, which I really like because the anime isn't pretending that his deep trauma is going to be magically cured because he forms a few relationships with people. The real story is about his fight to the be the best- but what does that mean exactly? What does he actually want? The show does a fantastic job of exploring that. Please watch it, it is so good

[wombywoo]

more retirement doodles 💕

[atticwindowatdawn]

sprucewood records: an obligatory record store in evergreen harbor + the only employee

it's also a hangout spot for the skaters

[meanids]

They are not beating the homosexual allegations

Pete's taking an 'Am I gay' quiz btw

[geosb]

Me when I realized who Lonnie was:

[forgrtashes-blog]

A lil W.I.P but I think it looks pretty cool rn!

[pleading-the5th]

ok i need to find the people obsessed with puppets WHERE ARE YOU BITCHES

im talking The Muppets, Fraggle Rock, Welcome Home, My Friendly Neighborhood, etc WHERE IS THE FANDOM REVEAL YOURSELVES

[hamletthedane]

Middle Earth map mural is complete! Definitely the coolest thing in my house right now.

…and it only took ten paint pens and three seasons of the West Wing to finish 😅

(“But what about the resale value??” my relative asked me when I started this project. Look, I do not make an ungodly mortgage payment every month just to treat my house like a rental. That’s what they invented primer and paint for :))

Before/afters under the cut:

[moonbear-from-space]

I LOVE BIG BEAUTIFUL BUTCH WOMEN!! 🗣🗣🗣💥💥💥

btw this is Mila Masaryk or Unicorn from Your Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man

[crookedghosts]

so I binged yfnsm in a day, caught the parksborn brainworm again, and then decided the only way to get through the wait for s2 was rewatching msm and doing some redraws. bonus for getting peter out of that arthur fit too

[gmilkyway]

-I'm so glad to see you, neighbor!

-H-hello, neighbor… Welcome...

Actor Wally belongs to @frillsand

[oswaldthehero]

[kaymarie-bell]

This is so funny 😭😭😭

Main Story spoilers

Riddle: Do you want to join my band?

Cater: sure! I can play the guitar and Leona can play the drums

things I love so far

Riddle is in a band with Chen'ya (it's only the two of them so far because people keep quitting due to "musical differences")

he only seems to know Trey, so everyone else introduces themselves

he asks us to join his band, no experience required (😭)

Riddle calls him Cay-kun and freaks him out (even though Cater told him to call him that)

Leona did not like being told to play the drums lmao

[atticwindowatdawn]

Since I'm on my cc-free building spree at the moment, I decided to recreate this apartment I built a year ago, but as a version with no custom content. I loved that build so so much but unfortunately I have lost it due to me being new to ts4 and not knowing that you should treasure your tray folder and not randomly delete it lmao 🤦‍♀️ So here's this if someone would like to have it!

Gallery ID: atticwindow

tray files (sfs)

Floor plan under the cut, enjoy! ♥

shared it as a room, please add doors where needed :D located at 20 culpepper house

[dspectar]

Well I’ve been learning since, but it doesn’t mean I’ll float…

[luvsscribblez]

I’ve been thinking about an AU I have that features various horror media involving puppets so I have some incorrect quote redraws.

More under the cut

They’re so sillay