#special sins

[cornflakesdoesart]

Beach episode but the anime kind so nothing really goes wrong and they actually get to relax and they just have some good summer fun!

my piece for @startrekswimsuitspecial 's latest edition!! it's full of fun summery pieces, I highly reccomend getting it!! ! It's free or pay what you want and the proceeds will go to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!!

[gio-goose]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MOST SPECIALEST AWESOMESAUCE OUTSTANDING WONDEROUS BOY EVER!!! SIN KISKE MY BELOBED,!!!

[xebecdav]

this was like. an exercise in character design and also core practice for me. its so fun coming up with various core designs.

[geekgirles]

Okay, but I genuinely think it's genius how Ozzie is the only Sin we've seen so far that is associated with fire, because so is lust!

Think about it, what's a way of saying you're horny? You're hot and bothered. What's a surefire way to describe someone getting aroused and/or freaky, especially in smutty works? Things like, "she felt like she was on fire", or "he felt like the temperature of the room had gone up a thousand degrees", or "they felt the place where they'd been touched burn".

Ozzie can manipulate fire, because lust is fire.

Bra-vo!

[no-light-left-on]

A Day in the Life of Jelly, the Whaler Wolfhound

my @dishonoredgiftexchange gift for @exalok, I hope you like my take on a small peek in the life of an old, overly affectionate puppy

you can very much ignore the dialogue

[horseshoemybeloved]

More uncovered screenshots >:3

[fjordfolk]

Finally put this years' ribbon crops up with last year's, technically our last shows are this weekend but mentally I think we're both done for the season and doubt she'll place. Still can't believe she grabbed a CC at a specialty show with 85 entries tho

[trillscienceofficer]

I know I'm protective of the existence of both Jadzia and Ezri as they are on the show for entirely personal and ultimately selfish reasons but for the life of me I have yet to find another scifi narrative that captures so well the idea of Terrible Things Happening To You and Making You Different, so much so to be almost unrecognizable to the people around you, even though in a way you are the same. No, Jadzia shouldn't have died. Yet she died anyway, senselessly. Then Ezri took it upon herself to be joined to Dax to allow the symbiont to survive even it hadn't been her plan at all, and got on that space station stumbling and making mistakes left and right and still the people around her tried to make space for her even as they were still grieving Jadzia. That's such a painful but meaningful narrative to me and, idk. I will never see Ezri as a nuisance or a missed opportunity.

[biomic]

[fumifooms]

You're always so on point with your posts. On that note, it made me realize that; Considering the themes of desires in DunMeshi. It's also to say that what you think you want isn't what you actually want.

Like, Marcille thinks she wants the handsome prince from the novels she reads... But what she actually wants is someone maybe more like her father who she admired so much. Kind, virtuous, caring to a fault, a family man. Things she later finds in Chilchuck.

Because as traumatizing as it was to see her mother's spiral after her father's death; Her memories of her father itself are some of the most important to her. And it fits with her pursuit to increase her loved ones' lives, because she does want what her mother and father had.

Sipping. I do go over ‘what you think you want vs what you actually want + what you need’ in my (upcoming) Marcille & Chil arc analysis ;) It’s a part of Dunmeshi that I really like and is super fascinating, I’d honestly like to make an analysis-post on the topic: all the different threads and characters in canon that reflect that, desires vs wants and themes of idealization in Dunmeshi, but it’s one of those things that’s just so huge to make. See this is the freaking problem with doing Dunmeshi meta you start talking about the themes or a narrative and everything is so interwoven you get distracted with tangents BUT IT’S ALL COMPELLING AND RELEVANT

I know that’s something laimar does a lot too, the dad thing, with Marcille in a post-canon comic knitting beside him paralleling her parents and whatnot. I don’t know if I fully agree on the angle but there’s definitely stuff to dig at there…

Like I know that I’d like to analyze Marcille’s succubus more, it comes up in my analysis draft but it’s not the point I’m trying to make there so I focus on other stuff but… I always saw the focus of Marcille’s succubus as that she sought out an emotional connection most of all, it’s romantic and courtly in nature but more importantly there’s personality and behavior there and it’s a character she already loves and knows deeply from having read the series, so it’s not like Chil where it’s just a pretty face whose identity doesn’t matter. A friend of mine though, @room-surprise, goes with the angle that it shows she isn’t ready for a relationship and that the appeal is very self-centered, and I def think compelling points are made…

Point I was trying to make, the succubus is definitely at the crux of figuring what it is Marcille wants and craves in someone I’d say, where she’s emotionally at wether consciously or subconsciously, or how she sees herself being involved in romance at least… It’s true Marcille is enthusiastic about romance, but always someone else’s, never hers, and she seems unwilling to examine her own relationships with people. She oversteps boundaries either obliviously or carelessly and doesn’t like change…

And then there’s how complex people’s relationship to fiction can be on top of that and graaaaah

Edit in bc I forgot I wanted to mention this like an idiot: OH and I do think the Daltian Clan serves a role in the general tapestry of Dunmeshi as well, sometimes in in depth ways that Room-Surprise will tackle in their research paper way better than me I’m sure. My understanding of the importance of general Hagreus in a more general narrative sense is that he reinforces the theme of idealization/fantasy vs reality that’s super present through the manga. Beyond just Marcille’s arc and his importance to her he’s designed uncannily close to Mithrun, it parallels real elves and their very flawed military system and the broken people it cultivates vs the romanticized elves put on an aesthetic pedestral in novels, especially considering it’s "general" Hareus

To give some previews of the analysis wip: Thus the succubus targets Marcille’s wish for a perfect knight who could cherish her forevermore, someone safe and known and fantastical, just hers in a way, free to see and construct however she wants because he’s a character to interpret Dungeon Meshi is in part about resisting desires, the irrational cravings, mostly through the character of the demon. I mentioned needs earlier, and to ideals vs wants we also add vs needs, both emotional and physical. And needs alongside wants are what Dungeon Meshi wishes to promote for a healthier person. Dungeon Meshi illustrates very well with the dungeon lords that you can be a slave to your desires. Dunmeshi prones the important of balance for both a healthy body and a healthy mind, and the arc of optimism vs pessimism with Marcille & Chilchuck is one such case <3

Ouuuugh how flawed relationships with flawed people can still be made into somehing good and healthy that make the world brighter…

We’ve gone far from the topic of how her family shaped what she seeks in relationships haha, I think you put it well already though I don’t have much to add on that front Edit in 2: SIKE! I’ll add that there’s an interesting thread in the manga of Marcille maturing and becoming more like her mother, which would be interesting and fun to pair with the fatherhood of Chil. Because Marcille is sometimes a mother figure as well: she’s the mom friend. I go over it here, and since when I made that post I’ve seen more interesting analysis on the topic too, like noticing she hides behind her mother’s portrait in the nightmare chapter, perhaps the inspiration behind her more mature reserved academic persona she sometimes has. Her parents are def important to her so it’s interesting to see how all the dynamics and her own psychology fit into that….

But yeah I think what she (thinks she) wants out of romance has a lot of layers, both conscious and subconscious… I haven’t gone into the bigger picture of how fiction affects her relationships here but it’s the central topic of my Marcille & Chil arc analysis so. She idealizes the trope of the prince charming and finds it attractive but is that what she would actually latch onto… Is it fully superficial, is it more about herself than it is about her potential partner... Is it mainly because she wants to get validation, from being special that she typically gets from high academic performance… We do see she can be rather insecure and worried about others’ perspective of her, that they think she’s not useful or capable enough, especially in the mandrake chapter… Unconditional love perhaps

What is your emotional landscape Marcille. How emotionally intelligent are you. I don’t think she knows what she wants romantically. I think she has a job so she don’t really care about that rn I’m just not sure if we can figure out what she ~actually~ wants on her behalf that might be too many levels of interpretation but idk idk, thinking on it still

[gio-goose]

Silly doodles of da AU Sin since ppl like it

[aziraphalesbowtie]

obsessed with all of the references to Greek mythology and history on TTPD !!

• thanK you aIMee — “i pushed each boulder up the hill” (edit: this is referencing Sisyphus, not Theseus, oops!)

• So Long, London “my spine split from carrying us up the hill” (this is also probably Sisyphus, not Theseus… i feel so dumb lmao)

• The Prophecy (prophecies were huge in Greece, launching most every hero’s quest)

• Cassandra (the Trojan War)

• So High School — “i know Artistotle” (Greek philosopher who wrote fables; “cards on the table, mine play out like fools in a fable” from The Prophecy) + “i’m hearing voices like a madman” (Cassandra could see visions, they called her mad??)

• Peter: “the goddess of timing” (the Horae, goddesses of the seasons)

• in The Bolter, she says “the chariot is waiting” (chariot races were popular in Ancient Greece)

OTHER:

- i feel like Down Bad could be related to how a lot of the gods’ human lovers felt after being abandoned

- the lines “you sacrificed us to the gods of your bluest days” from So Long, London and “i changed into goddesses, villains, and fools” from Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus (not intentional, just interesting to see mentions of gods and goddesses)

- the fraternity mention in The Black Dog gets a call-out, too; a reach, but fraternities are a Greek thing so why not include it?

[arundolyn]

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[librademetra]

Can you feel it? This is what I feel for you

[pseudowho]

Jesus, alright. Tentacles it is.

Sorry everyone else. I lied.

It's still gonna be beautiful. I promise.

[sinspark4]

Apologies for the radio silence, been dealing with health and life issues 🫡. Here, have a WIP Sketch of BluePwnsU’s Skyrim argonian follower mod “Xelzaz”

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