#others. and thats a very good and nice thing to do

[sunny-knight]

What Kind Of Monster Was He?

A @forgettable-au fan (colored) animatic

MINOR BLOOD WARNING!

*Was he the kind to do too much, or not enough?

…OK, SO WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS-

I had planned to finish this into a full fledged animation, but a lot of the parts I did end up finishing just didnt live up to what I imagined…I waited for more motivation to happen, but it just didnt so HERES THE COLORED ANIMATIC CAUSE IM REALLLY HAPPY WITH WHAT I HAVE and ive sat on posting this for like a 2 weeks 😭 which is an eternity in my time

Im gonna post the unfinished “finished” part on my side account @o-sunny-day though! and probably have people yell at me cause it actually isnt that bad AND IT TOTALLY ISNT I just… art. You get it. ENOUGH YAPPING! ITS TIME TO YAP!

except not yet, MORE BACKGROUND INFO HUCDHUC- but its background info on explaining the lore…

The explaining is much less expansive than in Dear My Dear just because I didnt work on it long enough to think every bit of it through. This is just a clean, nicer looking, and colored version of the very first storyboard.

I usually think about and put more effort into the little stuff while making the FINISHED bits since ive had so much more time to think about that in all the preppin n sketching.

BUT I liked the explaining format I did for Dear My Dear so im sticking with it!

The main idea for this was to do a study of Wingdings’ character from what we’ve been given, mainly focusing in on the expectations he puts on himself because holy shit the lyrics for this works so stupidly well it makes me mad LOOK AT THIS???

its ridiculous. i love it. I didnt know Jack Stauber helped write Forgettable AU???? woww!!! ANYWHO thats the gist of it, not much context is needed past that. Onto the sillies!!!! (per usual excuse the shitty quality of the pngs idk why Tumblr does that-)

Did you know love? Will you rest in peace?

Wingdings and Sans holding hands as kids, before turning to a casket like appearance for adult WD. The flowers hes holding are pretty important too, Marigolds to represent grief, Lilys, new life, and Forget Me Nots for this lovely little line I found when looking up good flowers to use-

“a promise to always remember” ….stop that.

That actually also has a double meaning in this case too. 1, ofc the forgetting of Wingdings. But ALSO Wingdings forgetting something himself. Forgetting who he is. Almost like a Zuko ATLA situation.

Did you have a family?

Who knows where theyre parents are, but this is HAPPY TIME and we’re gonna assume they were so awesome and very kind but had to leave or went to a farm in the sky for whatever reason.

The colors here I had a lot of fun with. Their parents had warm colors but the boys have cold, still with warm accents. Its said they more or less raised each other being very independent as shown in the second part with them running out the door by themselves.

How was the view from the shelf? Did you ever believe in yourself?

Before, we started with the beginnings. The good things, the only thing Wingdings cares to even recall. Now we’re seeing his life really start to turn upside down- making first contact with The Player :D

He’s hesitant to reach out, but is intrigued, before getting a rushing revelation of his reality and how it isnt “real”

Rather than feeling crushing existential dread, he more feels pressured to be BETTER, to figure a solution, to do something. Thats what white represents here

WHAT KIND OF MILK WERE YOU?

We then switch to more examples of how Wingdings is taking this pressure (not well) The soft tones of yellow that were shown before, turn to way brighter, intensifying that feeling that he should be fine, he should be happy, drowning in success of being the Royal Scientist.

But he just desperately wants to just go back to a time of nice coldness.

The warm vs cold tones in this I had so much fun with, coldness is supposed to represent hostility usually, while warm is nice and happy. (same with Black and white. Scary, relieving,) But these points often contradict each other, its hard to tell what you’re feeling vs what you’re supposed to be feeling. Just like Wingdings!

WHAT KIND OF LIFE DID YOU LIVE THROUGH?

The white lab coats, the expectations, theyre on all of them. But Wingdings has essentially become his expectations.

He questions what life he wants to live, one being himself and alone (speaking in wingdings) or not himself and with company (speaking in a “normal” font) Still, he frames it in past tense as he believes theres no going back now, based on what he knows.

“One of the last happy moments they had together” stop that. (i cant find a link to when that was said but I know it was once, about them taking a photo together….)

DID YOUR LIFE RUN RICH WITH CALCIUM?

Calcium….bonesss :3 Hehehehdhehfhehehheheheh still dont know why he has holes in his hands so we’re movin on

DID THEY LAUGH AT YOU OR DID YOU LAUGH AT THEM?

Compared to the childhood Wingdings remembered, heres the sadder, bleaker, more realistic version. He always thought they were laughing at him but… maybe they werent.

DAIRY BELOVED. YOUR DAYS ARE GONE,

It doesnt matter now though. Because in the NOW, Wingdings has become consumed by his expectations of himself, seeing this has the “only option” to do the only thing that he feels will give his life meaning and purpose, establishing connection with THE PLAYER

But the grocery list goes on…

And yet life continues on without him, and his room is transformed into a more livable space now that someone is…living in it. Always hurts so much making the differences between Wingdings and Papyrus’ room. It feels like making something out of the man Wingdings COULD HAVE been. Because honestly thats just what Papyrus is,

Thank you to my bestie @fruitytrip for helping me with all of my art in general but especially the storyboarding on this :3 <3

[apuff]

Earlier on tumblr i saw another one of those memes comparing bullets, revenge, tbp, and danger days, essentially stating that the previous 3 are serious and about death in different ways, while danger days is fun japanese dance party. Now i understand where this is coming from but i really don't think it's an accurate interpretation.

My main point with this is that the first 3 are legitimately concerned with death as an existential threat and a primary way through which the conflict of the story happens, and danger days is NOT those things, however danger days is no less serious and philosophically motivated, and has a comparable amount of death. 

In bullets & revenge, it's easy to see. The demo lovers are constantly up against danger, violence, and fighting. Furthermore i feel like the major conflict of bullets is with the vampires & vampirism, which relates to the concept of death in an obvious way. They fight as hard as they can against the vampires, but eventually fail, joining their ranks. They achieve "immortality" but not at the cost of "never dying"- i interpret this to mean they don't age or experience senescence (cause they're undead obv) but they can indeed die through external means (which they proceed to do). 

Revenge is centered around death as well. Demo lover (M) has died and has come back to life at some point, as well as that his girlfriend has died and is dead throughout most of the story. To solve this "dead gf" issue, demo lover (M) engages with death and violence even more, by killing 1,000 evil men. 

(Off topic, but this brings me to a point i've thought about before, that the "revenge" in tcfs"r" is not actually revenge. It's redemption. The biblical kind. Paying for something, especially a person's life held hostage, with a price, usually the price of another life. As far as i'm aware those 1k evil men did not personally slight the demo lovers-that would constitute literal revenge.)

Anyways, what i think is the canon interpretation of the ending is that demo lover (M) realizes after killing 999 evil men, that he's so far debased himself for his ends that he has become the last evil man he must kill, so he commits suicide and his girlfriend comes back. This is a bit depressing, but my ending has him staying alive and his girlfriend dying, so any way you slice it someone stays dead. 

My point is to say, obviously the theme of death, undeath, and killing is philosophically important to tcfsr. The demo lovers are literally dead on the album cover. 

Now I'm sure i don't need to explain why TBP is about death. TBP starts with death ends with death and is about it on nearly every point in the middle barring, like, teenagers and the sharpest lives??

The one interesting thing i DO have to add is this. In bullets & revenge, the conflict centers around death in the way that in nearly every song, they're fighting AGAINST death in some way. They are trying desperately to fight their way back to life and safety. TBP is different. Because it centers SOO heavily on mortality as a theme, death is simply the backdrop, the given, the immutable fact of life. Our main characters aren't dead and supernaturally trying to fight their way back to life, they are a.) going to die as a forgone conclusion, and b.) already a ghost with zero ways to return to life. The conflict centers not around trying to beat death back with knives, but DEALING with its reality, not with it itself, but different perspectives on it and what it means battling it out. 

Regardless, very much about death.

What about danger days?

You'd be correct to say that, unlike those 3, death & mortality aren't a central philosophical pillar of the themes & conflict. It's not even top 5 ngl. I'd say the conflict is more of freedom vs. control. The forces of control (BLI) and of freedom (killjoys) are literally and metaphorically battling each other. But i wouldn't say that every song exactly has this conflict. Some only show the side of killjoy freedom and make no mention of bli control. And i think that's where this misconception that danger days is just fun and not serious comes from. 

In the black parade, when you'd have a song that doesn't directly touch on the conflict and is just a fun bombastic rock song (teenagers), there's still a bit of themes in it (violence- it's related to the patient's and parader's arcs). When you'd have an off-topic song in revenge, it'd be about teen angst (a far cry from murder, killing, and satan). In bullets, the off-topic is about gerard way and 9/11 which is so far from vampires i don't even need to explain. 

When a bombastic party song like those appears in danger days, it actually relates to the themes much more closely. Think of party poison, the origin of the misconception in that meme. It's about having a crazy wild self destructive party. Relates back to the themes quite closely, considering that "kill[ing] the party" and "leav[ing] the party" are also actually metaphors for BLI and society in planetary (GO!). 

Not to mention the japanese lyrics (iirc) are about wanting to be famous, another theme that fits into vampire money and even BLI to some extent. And the fact that it's such a wild party that ends in destruction kinda fits into a thought i've had about danger days earlier: since the killjoys represent individuality and freedom, everything they do exists on this spectrum from being just very principled activists to kind of just unhinged rebels without a cause killing whoever they want because of the adrenaline rush. 

My other gripe with this idea is like…….ALL THE FAB FOUR DIE AT THE END. all of them get shot rescuing the girl. Danger days isn't ABOUT death, but it HAPPENS. In the only hope for me is you, the speaker says, "there, covered in glass, covered in ash, covered in all my friends- i still think of the bombs they built." That's not just some vapid party. This character is mourning their friends while recalling the memory of being covered in the viscera of their bodies. It's kind of silly to act like this album isn't serious just because it sounds more poppy. 

I'd say something that's much more threatening than bodily death for the killjoys is draculoid-ification. Becoming a vampire in bullets means losing your human ability to age and weird undead behavior changes, but becoming a draculoid is more similar to a zombie, or a robot. Anyways, THIS is an existential threat for a killjoy. They lose their souls and simply become mindless puppets for BLI to enact control and violence upon people. Note that this is simply an exaggerated version of how BLI treats PEOPLE, as identical parts of a machine that need to have their individuality and souls erased so they can be better citizens. 

Anyways, rant over. I love danger days & it truly has deep philosophical currents throughout it. The fact that they have crazy dance parties is simply a reflection of the theme of freedom and isn't devoid of meaning.

I NEED TO DO MY MATH BUT I CANT STOP WRITIGN ABOUT MCR

[icewindandboringhorror]

Pages from trying to keep a little sketchbook-scrapbook type thing going for two weeks lol. I gave myself specific rules in hopes they might all end up more cohesive/consistent seeming, but alas, scribbly chaos reigns, it seems

[boxwinebaddie]

rip in honor of an anon who asked me to have ravenstan and jerseykyle write them something cute ( smh jk )

this never fails to be funny to me

[moeblob]

Ananza realizing that Deacon's mom was a devoted follower of hers THEREFORE that's her son now, too! And she will dote on him and love him and never pick on him like all the other deities tend to do. That's her precious little boy who lives in another city and rarely gets to see her!

[suffarustuffaru]

What If Julius and Subaru both met when Julius was a commoner and Subaru got transported Sooner

fun stuff im sure !! but haah okay given julius was a kid when he was a commoner - yeah theyre both kids here!! not sure how old but definitely somewhere before the age of ten. and i think theyd be up to some shenanigans together im sure!! theyre both very mischevious kids (or from what little we know of little kid julius, given iirc tappei hasnt specified just How Much of a "delinquent" little kid julius is okay. but hes definitely the type to sneak out past curfew or something. stay up late reading too, probably. that sort of thing). and also subarus a kid and no way he ISNT missing home poor guy T^TT getting ripped away from home like that is bad enough at seventeen, getting ripped away from home when you are like. no more than eight or something is Bad. but luckily!! im assuming subaru gets found by the juukuliuses (julius's parents probably?) and thats how julius and subaru form their friendship / long-term yearning for each other (if you so desire that) (okay but no way subaru ISNT gonna form long-term yearning for julius flajsdlf). but yes i think julius and subaru would be silly happy kids together and julius's parents would be like oh no this other kid is so lost where is he from :(( but hes so loved by julius already too... well we got another kid under our roof now.

except. julius's parents die in a flood. so i mean. Hypothetically.... either julisuba survive this one first try or subaru dies for the first time. which. ohh god. oh god. oh g -

[hirokiyuu]

Heddwyn "Wyn" Caldera is a freshman from Diasomnia. He's well known in alchemical circles for multiple revolutionary breakthroughs in the world of potions, the first of which he discovered at eight years old. Though invited to NRC last year at age thirteen, he waited a year before accepting a position at the school.

here he is my baby boy......!!!! been tossing this kid around in my head a lot lately and wanted to make a profile card for him to show him off to the world. imagine me as a proud parent and ive pulled this out of my wallet.

based off the black cauldron. both the movie and like. the cauldron itself. naturally he is good at potions. since the cauldron is essentially a mcguffin wanted by everyone the idea is that he's extremely good at what he does but is also pretty vulnerable to being used. he's also very stone-faced bc he's...... made of stone............ get it.............

template is from here!

[musubiki]

It feels like it was only yesterday I read about Oscar getting a mermaid girlfriend and now there's Ikasumi. I ship it, though! I'm curious what happened to the mermaid girl. Also, I think I'm experiencing what the rest of the guild is feeling when it comes to Oscar's lovelife, like since when was this a thing I want deets 😂

FUN FACT: HE STILL HAS THE MERMAID GF TOO!!!!!!!! this is what i mean when i say oscar has that playboy streak!!!!!!! hes like "Oh we have [problem]? I know someone who can help! ^^" AND ITS ONE OF HIS EX-GIRLFRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and FOR REAL this is oscars running joke. he always has things going on that for some reason he doesnt tell anyone about and doesnt bring up?? 1) his girlfriend changes often and 2) his other running joke is hes always doing part-time work at some different job every so often. mochi and coco go outfit shopping, trying to pick clothes, mochi like "What do you think of this color on me?" and oscar, somehow working at that clothes shop, out of nowhere is like "Nice it brings out your eyes!"

mochi & lime after some magic commission exhausted in a far off town, go to get dinner and sit down and the server (oscar) is like "Hey guys! I can get you a discount since I work here!" when theyre like "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN DOING HERE???" he replies "Oh me? My uncle lives nearby and im visiting him for the weekend so i decided to help out at their diner. Pretty cool, huh?"

they go to some festival happening in town, walking around stalls and theres oscar managing one of those hacked, rip-off game booths like "Hey Mochi! We have this fluffy cat stuffed animal that looks like your style! Maybe you can solicit Lime into winning it for you! (overworld challenge noise)" (which turns into an aggressive "I'm gonna win that fucking cat." vs "I own this damn game and you're gonna empty your pockets before I let you win it.")

anyway, oscar is a psuedo-cryptid in his own right.

[starrysharks]

zeno's ultimate pokemiku tierlist ⁉️(it's all his opinion and he loves them all regardless⁉️)

[autism-corner]

they hate me for my swagger

[fadeintolight]

pont pont vesszőcske

[driftwooddestiel]

I DID MY COMEDY PERFORMANCE TODAY!!! in front of like 200 people!!! and i didnt stutter or forget what to say!!! and people laughed!!!

[reading-writing-dying]

Thinking about it and I'm pretty sure writing and posting fanfiction is one of the healthiest things I've done for myself in the last year

[orcelito]

Snow is canceled forever and ever bc it's so so scary to drive in. I don't want to drive in snow ever again. It was not even an inch though. But it was still SoScary. Unfortunately I am a Hoosier, so snow driving is inevitable.

[the0ther-side0f-dawn]

ok yknow whats oddly intimate? having a friend do your makeup.

like im v weird abt being touched not bc i hate the idea but bc its not natural to me, or something im used to, and sometimes i rly do forget how touch starved i am.

[gaarasboyfriend]

going to be as vague as possible but i was recently in a space where it was clear we were not welcomed by certain organizing members, but also we just didnt connect for another big portion of the attendees which does happen sometimes