#skim

[storgicdealer]

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[meteor752]

It’s very humorous that both of Mumbo’s children ended up being some flavor of evil

Mumbo Jumbo has the vibe of Stede Bonnet, in the way that he tries to be this nice gentleman but he accidentally kills like five people while doing it

It’s only natural that his offspring would have murder in their eyes

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[ketchupwafflez]

these are a bit old but i still love him soo much so may i share sporf with the world

[chronic-pessimistic]

I woke up today like 2 times and fell asleep listening and audio from my boyfriend. Now I’m in the bus going to the pool and then the library to read comics and books, a few hours of silence!!! I really enjoy being in a quiet place.

Would you please recommend me some books/comics?

I read Lore Olympus, Solitaire, Heartstopper(all), this winter, In, Gender queer: a memoir, Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me, skim, through the woods, milk and honey, the sculptor, dragonslippers and some more.

[twistedtummies2]

I saw another anon asking for your Predator Gods in maid outfits, and that was hilarious XD Also it raised a different question: how would the gods react if, instead, were their champions in maid outfits?

Baan: Awwwww! Sweetheart, you look adorable in that costume!

Seala: (shrugs) I mean...I don't feel uncomfortable in it, myself. Hey, maybe next Halloween, you can be the butler and I can be the maid for a murder mystery dinner party! Baan: Hmmmm...let me swallow the victim to "dispose of the evidence," and you've got a deal. ;) Seala: (blushes) You say that like I'd refuse...

Prax: (smirks and puts his hands on his hips) Heh heh...so, who's laughing now, huh, Mike?

Mike: If you tell Skim about this, I swear-

Skim: (takes a picture on his phone)Honey, he doesn't have to tell me ANYTHING.

Mike: WHEN DID YOU GET HERE?!

Bela: Mmmmm...(smirks and approaches Kepp with hungry eyes, brushing a hand across his pt's face)...now THIS, I feel, is more like it...you look cute enough to eat...

Kepp: (flustered noises)

[duccnguyen]

Il Cantasogni, 2021 by Skim Very large work was painted during a concert streaming on Facebook with the singer Lorenzo Baglioni to whom Skim painted the guitar. Represents a dreamer who plays together with his guitar and everything is correlated to his dreams around him. Full of details both on the guitar and in the background #IlikeItaly #Tuscany #Italy #DiscoverTuscany #mytuscany #InstaTuscany #VisitTuscany #visitflorence #destinationflorence #FeelFlorenceOfficial #PalazzoMediciRiccardi #GalleriaDelleCarrozze #FrancescoForconi #Skim #artist #madeinflorence #incolorwetrust (at Galleria Delle Carrozze) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpTbtjAr5m8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[makrostil]

skim 2015

[paul-zoller]

Kite ∣ wind, floats and gliders

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[wizard-of-interesting-failure]

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[bedsheetghost413]

Ghost rants about Mariko Tamaki's "Skim."

Honestly, the Mariko Tamaki hate is kinda deserved because "I am Not Starfire" is a shitty self insert, and "Skim" has a literal teacher-student romance that isn't ever shown as really bad or illegal. But I think people ignore her other work that is actually kinda good. I grew up reading her comics in middle school, and they felt important and like they had something profound to say. Probably because I was a gay tween trying to figure out myself, but it still shows that they still had an effect on me. Particularly "This One Summer" and "Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me."

It's also kinda weird how the only people I've seen actually review her work are "comics/media is getting too woke now!!1!1!!!11" types. Like, it feels like they're just hating on her without trying to understand why certain artistic choices were made or if there was any meaning behind a character's actions. I remember that the art teacher did tell Skim she wanted to end things, idk if it was when Skim came to her house after she left the school or another thing, but every review I've seen skips over that. I feel like with the inclusion of that part, the story becomes more of a "teacher takes advantage of a student who feels lonely and isolated, feels guilty and bad about it, student still doesn't understand because she isn't mature enough to realize what happened was wrong" story. The art teacher feeling bad doesn't do anything to make the situation better or absolve her of her actions. She was the adult, and she should have kept things professional and legal. But it changes how the reader can interpret the story. I still don't understand why it was included, though. It could've just been a "gets a first girlfriend and then she breaks up with me for no reason" romance instead, maybe even make the girlfriend her friend's older sister (but still within an acceptable age range) to imply that the girlfriend broke up with Skim because she felt bad about dating her little sister's friend.

I always thought of "Skim" as being about a high school girl who's angsty and shitty. We're getting a small glimpse of her life and what happens in that time frame. We see how there's a tragedy at her school that she sees the response to as being "over dramatic." Which is ironic because Skim herself is just as dramatic, not how she thinks her classmates are being, but in the way a kid on a TV show goes through an edgy phase. I think people forget that a protagonist can be an asshole because that's another complaint I see brought up all the time. Skim is an ass. You don't have to like her, she doesn't care if you do, but she also does because she wants to be liked. She's a teenager, anyone who's recently been a teen, one that was an outcast like Skim and had an edgy phase, can relate to that. You want to be cool, but not like the popular kids are cool, so you go too far in the other direction, and you feel like everyone else doesn't like you, so now you feel like an outcast.

Another thing I don't get people complaining about is the diary format and how it's "too disjointed." It's a diary. Is it supposed to be like reading a day by day basis of what happened and how and where and when? No! A diary is meant to be a collection of thoughts, feelings, and other shit you want to get off your chest. Does it always work? No. Does it mean it's a bad format? No. I feel like it fits with what "Skim" is going for. It just may not have been executed well.

I think I might re-read all the books of hers I read as a kid to see if they still hold up as much as I felt they did. It's been a good few years since I've read any of Mariko Tamaki's books, so maybe I'll interpret things differently now. I based all of the above on what I remember thinking and how I interpreted the book when I read it in middle school.

[meteor752]

Can we please learn more about the Lizzie-Skizz-Mumbo kids

You all are making it really hard not to get attached to these kids

But yes, you can learn more about them

Zee Lady-Man

In their designs I made Zee and Skim kinda enderman hybrid ish because of TL!Skizz’ skin, and I’m sticking to that

Total Daddy’s girl, she just to followed him around like a tail as a bab

A complete Himbo, there is not a thought behind his eyes, but damn he swole

Has trouble bonding with her mom since they have very little in common in terms of interests, but they try

(Lizzie and Joel bond over being awkwardly bad parents)

Has a real soft spot for love, so he likes to hang out by the ranch and nowhere else because love is dead

In the PolyAU, he would encourage her siblings weird interests, but he would also just carry them away from whatever danger they put themselves into

Surprisingly good farmer

Would have stayed with Gem on the empires server, and the Christmas village on Hermitcraft

#TeamEmpires

Mummy Jumbo

Non ironically love this Doofenshmirtz like dude, he’s my favorite

Momma’s boy, she whole heartedly encourages his evil plans and schemes. Mumbo is wondering what the hell is going on most of the time

Would see himself as Liana’s (Fly Guy’s) nemesis, while she would forget his name most of the time

Spends hours every night practicing his evil laugh

Absolutely horrible at redstone, one of his biggest insecurities

Still likes to sit by the side and watch his dad work. It’s their favorite bonding activity

Sidekick absolutely hates him, but in a Tsundere type of way

PolyAU, he has tried to kill his siblings multiple time in very elaborate schemes but he’s very bad at it

Would have stayed with Lizzie on the Empires server and Cub on Hermitcraft

#TeamEmpires

Skim Jumbo

In their designs I made Zee and Skim kinda enderman hybrid ish because of TL!Skizz’ skin, and I’m sticking to that

Feral and autistic, the best of both worlds

They get along great with both of their dads, but they have more in common with Mumbo

Enderman + Jumbo genes = one incredibly tall lanky individual. They looks like an actual stalk of bamboo

Has not looked presentable in years. The only part of them that is actually well taken care of is their mustache, everything else is a mess

They used to wear a matching suit to their dads, but then they just never washed it, let multiple seams rip, lost the jacket, and had been attacked multiple times. Their outfit is fully unsalvageable

People make them nervous, so they talk to nobody ever

Has the backbone of a chocolate eclair. They will agree to anything you say, but they will be grumpy about it later

Redstone fanatic, they dream of one day breaking a server with just a single contraption

PolyAU, they have many plans on how to kill both their siblings, but hasn’t had the balls to execute them yet

Would have stayed by themselves on Empires, and by themselves on Hermitcraft

#TeamHermits

One day I might give these three proper names, but today is not that day

[islandoffthecoastofsomesexdreams]

I got some shots at the beach. I love this spot.

[tofixtheshadows]

I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.

Meals are the privilege of the living.

[waywordsstudio]

Review: "Skim" by Mariko Tamaki -

Tamaki's adolescent struggles are as much everyone's, the jaded and vulnerable ways we seek love, the conflicting and private ways the world responds. A marvelous and sensitive story!

[twistedtummies2]

Another weird question for the World of Predator Gods: how would the Gods, their Champions and Bela's daughter react if they were gender swapped? So if someone turned males into females and viceversa. And how would Skim act towards Prax and Mike when suddenly seeing them as girls?

Well, I imagine literally all of them would be massively freaked out, just for a start. XD As for Skim...he'd probably be very disappointed, since he's homosexual, and now his cute roommate and the drop-dead gorgeous hunk of a God upstairs are ladies. Where's the fun in that?! Well...either that, or Skim will suddenly be questioning his sexuality, since he'll suddenly realize he likes them this way, as well. With him, who can say which is more likely? ;)