#thats what the mask is

[zoteboateveryday]

Drawing Zote every day until we get Zoteboat: Day 33

@silksongeveryday October prompt list-Day 22: mask

[did-someone-say-aliens]

i didn’t know what to post today so i just made this 😅

[karokawwo]

working on my obscura vespie

[kiruyeen]

"does anyone else feel like theyre being watched?"

the surreptitious ghostface:

[buggachat]

adrien is acespec, autistic, genderqueer, and arguably not human (sentibeing). he does not realize any of these facts, however, because that would require knowing himself. which he does not

[redbean-nom]

Mand'alor and Fett

also a plain color and lineart version

(seriously every generation with a named Fett features at least one of them being the Mand'alor's best friend or family)

[softcenteregg]

The best Di$ney princess- ❤️💛 (And Logan knows it.) Text in the alt, loves. 😘

[coronangelic1]

"the point. the point is" the mask is. thats what the mask is.

[help-i-need-a-cool-username]

We've talked about the batkids ending up on Bruce's zoom calls with JL and WE. And they are all amazing. But heres something i haven't seen: the batfam ending up on each other's hero team zoom calls

Dick trying to look a responsible and dignified leader only for Damian and Steph to crash through the room trying to kill each other for the last cookie. Tim trying to stay composed as Jason does a sequence of the most horrible dance moves known to man in the background. Dick slapping a mask on to interrupt Damian's call to ask something super embarrassing. Bruce trying to use which ever kid is on the call as a human shield while another kid comes in shooting a water gun

[artuurle]

doodlepage and then a bunch of pre godhood lovestory. gramps keeps hanging on so he can get it.

[cinnamonyup]

starting a thread of pics like this

[chimerical-daydreams]

Will Loop ever tell or will there be a Plot that makes the King know who he could have been? Makes everyone else know his alternate history? Where is Loop from? In the end, I don't think they'll ever volunteer

Elaborating on my answers to a similar question, Loop is absolutely not telling anyone by their own will.

they are halfway decent at keeping their mask up while sif is around, but. uh. its starts to wear down after a while. they slip up and mention things they shouldn't, start acting kind of weird all of a sudden, and then Something happens (i havent decided what exactly what, but I have a list of options), and they just Fully Lose Their Shit. act 6 secret bossfight style. the truth abou loop comes out in a explosive manner, and they're fully ready to just Exile Themselves Forever or to just. Die. but as always, their family welcomes them back with open arms and a new understanding of them as a person.

But, as time goes by, and they find more of their family, it gets harder and harder to hide that they Know something that everyone else does not. By the time they cave and get Siffrin into the group, everyone is at least aware that Something is up, but no one is sure what, as Loop always finds a way to deflect if they ask about their past.

(Nille's theory is that their transformation into a star was physically destructive, and that it killed their family that was in the vicinity, and they haven't forgiven themselves for it. Odile's is that they have some kind of foresight or other impossible source of knowledge, and that they're calloused from knowing the death of those around them).

Much closer at the end of their travel, while the party is taking a stop in a small town, King goes off by himself, and Loop follows behind. They find him at the foot of the tallest tree, carefully sorting through the leaves. When he perks up, one shiny leaf in hand, Loop understands what he's doing. This is a Favor Tree. He's going to make a wish. They cannot, under any circumstances, let that happen.

Loop snap forward, grabbing the King by his forearm, and asking him what he thinks he's doing. A bit shaken by their sudden appearance, he explains that he wanted to make a wish, that their journey is coming to an end, and he wanted everything to go right on this last stretch of the way. They won't allow it, they can't. He asks why? What's wrong with what he's doing, and they just wish he'd just understand why-

King slumps forward, unconscious. Loop catches him. Oh no, that wasn't what they wanted, that's not what they meant, why did they have to phrase it like that, please oh no no no-

Meanwhile, the King is having a Very Bad Time, his mind sent to go meet the other version of himself. He, of course, gets frozen in time, forced to watch as a band of very familiar faces go against the monster that wears his face. They all fall before him in one fell swoop and all he can do is watch in horror as Vaugarde succumbs to static, only broken by the sound of sobbing from his other self.

Loop is pacing back and forth under the Favor Tree when the King wakes up, hyperventilating and clearly scared. They sit next to him, and after he calms down enough to talk, explains what he saw. Loop winces at the recollection. When he finishes, after a moment of silence, they ask if now he understands why they don't trust him around wishes. He says yes. They linger under the tree, embracing the quiet for now.

[s0fter-sin]

soap and ghost, after months of flirting, of having each other’s backs and saving each other’s lives, of knowing the other better than they know themselves, finally getting together

ghost letting himself free fall onto the bed, soap following, always following his lead. they barely pull apart enough to get their shirts over their heads, hands running over muscles and scars and holding close

soap kisses every new scar that’s revealed to him, from the thick keloid divot over his ribs from some kind of puncture to the innumerable slashes and stitch wounds holding his torso together until he’s mouthing over his collarbones; the tips of his fingers lightly caressing the edges of his mask

ghost who’s been so quiet, so overwhelmed by soap’s touch that all he can do is sink into him, panting gasping breaths, finally pushes out, “don’t ask me. please…”

soap freezes, mouth hovering over his skin. “ghost…?”

ghost’s face is tilted away, eyes held so tightly shut they tremor while the rest of his body stays lax beneath his. desperate. resigned. “please don’t ask me, johnny.”

soap lets his hand fall from the mask, coming to run soothing circles over his clothed hip. “why?”

“because i’ll say yes,” he confesses and it’s great and terrible; a warning and a relinquishment laid at soap’s feet. “i’ll always say yes to you.”

for a long moment, there’s nothing but their shared breaths, nothing but their hearts beating for the other. until soap finally leans down to press a kiss to the corner of his hidden mouth; his lips meeting faint raised scar tissue he might never see

“i’ll never ask.”

ghost’s eyes drift open and they catch on soap’s; on a sea of promise and fierce protection

“i swear… i’ll never ask, ghost.”

[shoezuki]

Thinkin bout Sampo Koski rn as like. His character n what we get of him in honkai star rail and he fucking. He confuses me like. There has to be So Much more to him like

The general vibes of him and especially how other characters treat him is that of comic relief, a punching bag, a goof, just a slick conman causing trouble. It's genuinely difficult NOT to insult him n treat him badly with dialogue options and any time he's even mentioned March 7th hisses at him. He's literally a cryptid in belobog. He's a joke.

But. But. There's his light cone. It makes me insane. It contradicts all of that.

In it he's competent. He's badass. He's omnipotent. He's able to somehow know a sniper from however far away is locked on him and address them specifically.

And even like... in the entire plot of jarilo-vi he's spoken of like he's not much. He's a 4 star character. But he's practically as present as bronya and seele and Gepard and his involvement in the story is ASTRONOMICAL. He has a part in every major event. He's the one who drags the Trailblazers and bronya into the Underworld. He's the one who takes you to svarog, to the overworld again. He gets Natasha and saves you from svarog. He's the first character you ever meet on jarilo.

And he seems to just vanish before you confront cocolia. But no. Sampo is the one who has the last word and wraps up the entire mission on jarilo-vi. He fucking breaks the forth wall. Jarilo-vi both begins and ends with Sampo.

He calls himself shadowy comic relief yet he seemingly orchestrated everything. What is he. What the fuck is he doing. What else is up with him and when will we get more of him. I want to bite into him and tear him apart.

[bleue-flora]

(I may have… gotten a little carried away sooo…. I don’t how y’all do this so concisely… ooof XD)

Ah so many good thoughts… this topic in general is very interesting and actually timeline of c!Dream’s mask is something that has always bothered me (probably something to do with my affinity for canon and not having a concrete explanation… lol XD). Because in lore when does he have it? I like the idea of c!Tommy ripping it off in staged finale (and yo that does line up for the helmet application) but then are we saying it’s gone in prison? Did c!Tommy destroy it (c!Dream destroyed his stuff in exile so it’d make sense)? Or does he get it back somehow? If we are saying it’s a sacred kind of respect then, I feel like he wouldn’t be facing the server in the prison break without it… then again maybe not… but if it is detrimental, does c!Techno bring him one for the prison break? Before the genuine finale, I had the idea that c!Bad put the mask in his inventory on purpose so c!Dream would get it back when he lost the fight and also that maybe c!Dream put a strong unbreaking enchantment on it so they couldn’t break it but not binding because he assumed people would have enough respect to not take it off… but he was wrong because c!Tommy took it off in the staged finale… anyways lots of things to consider, like does he have multiple masks? Has he ever removed it at all? Was it never removed until in the genuine finale?… I don’t know it’s hard to determine what makes the most sense and it’s one of the things that irks me because no matter where/when we choose to believe he has it there are inconsistencies…

However, to your first statements - Can I say neither? Neither just a symbol of influence, nor some prized procession nor c!dream’s identity. Because here’s the thing, I don’t think it’s just a cool and intimidating fashion statement noting his influence, nor a prized possession like spirit or his axe, but I’m not sure c!Dream’s mask has the same importance as cc!Dream’s mask. Or well the same as cc!Dream staying faceless to protect his identity (and to represent other things for cc! but that’s another essay lol). In this case c!Dream doesn’t have or well can’t protect his identity because he is already physically exposed, with everything he loves exposed, they know his address (until he has none XD lol), they know what the rest of him looks like. And because of that, their masks serve different purposes - cc!Dream hid his face but he hasn’t really changed who he is. On the other hand, I think there is more so some serious mask symbolism going on. From what I can tell a huge part of c!Dream’s character, isn’t people not knowing what his physical face looks like. What his nose looks like and what color his eyes are don’t play into the greater plot. C!Tommy doesn’t even compliment on how he looks or note his features in the genuine finale (that I remember), because I don’t think that’s what it is about. It is more so about him being pulled into the role as the villain. The disc finale is staged, he put on a good show and that is part of his character. As the story goes on, he starts hiding and lying more and being who they say he is instead of himself. In this way, the mask isn’t just about hiding his physical identity, it’s about hiding himself - his feelings, his passions, his reasons, his emotions… etc. So, when c!Tommy asks him to take off the mask (helmet), it isn’t about his literal face it’s about him being vulnerably and openly himself, stripped away of the many faces he wears to protect himself and his attachments. It’s about someone going - let me see you - understand you - show me who you are - what is your side of the story……

So yea to me, c!Dream isn’t hiding just his face, it’s a symbol and part of his persona. The privacy and protection of his face, narratively speaking doesn’t mean much so if it is why he wears the mask then I find that to be rather lackluster. And because I feel like it represents more than his literal face being exposed I do think that it is not the same violation to take it off as it would have been to leak pictures of cc!Dream. And I think in general cc!Dream’s mask being timed and directly connected to c!’s is certainly questionable and as you said yourself (at the bottom) the timeline is iffy and problematic and again as I said not necessarily connected in meaning and purpose.

But having said that, if we are saying it is used to protect his face from being seen, then I’m not sure I see your point that it is a higher violation than other cruelties. After all, what makes showing his face more cruel than torture or murder or intense degrading and humiliation? Honestly, I think it’s genuinely interesting that you think it is so sacred in the context of the dsmp or in general, because if so, then why? Why does he feel the need to hide his face and what about that need makes it off limits to other characters from removing it and how is that entail all of his personal respect. Because to be honest I just don’t understand how that violation is worse, more personal or on another scale to what they did to c!Dream or even other characters? Like “anything to gain”? When has c!Tommy or c!Sapnap (to name a few) done anything for gain… the gain is chaos and destructive entertainment and having a fun time… I don’t know. As you said it is subjective, so I hope I didn’t come across too abrasive. I just genuinely don’t understand, feel free to fill me in…

I mean when it comes to the cc!s’ choice in fictional ‘crimes’ I’m not sure there is too much consideration (at least not from all of the cc!’s) for which are more or less forgivable, like *jesters to Pandora’s Vault* as an example (though there are things certainly off limits just in general media)… (I’m gonna ignore the bully comment because there is a lot of bullying and many bullies in dsmp but perhaps you meant in the context of a high school setting…) But “the DSMP doesn’t work with our world’s rules: it works in the fictional world of streaming… killing, burning…etc are things commonly done there” Yes! Absolutely, not hypocritical. It does apply to its own rules. :) But “Exposing c!dream face” is akin to “stripping him naked” I mean maybe? Again I’m not sure I see that…

Regardless, about c!Quackity, this is a guy who spent days upon days torturing c!Dream doing anything he can to get the book… So no I’ll have to stop you there ain’t no way lol. I do not think it’d be out of his wheel house to do such a personal violation to get the book (or for fun and revenge…) assuming Sam didn’t take it first or he even had it anyways. Though I’m kinda dying of curiosity to know what gives you the impression c!Quackity is more respectful and honorable than c!Sam or a furious c!Tommy for that matter. Like…

So, if in the finale c!Dream’s helmet, that he takes off for c!Tommy, represents his mask, does that mean that when c!Sapnap puts on c!Dream’s armor, Nightmare, he is putting on and stealing c!Dream’s mask? - Because I’m not gonna lie that really puts a new perspective on that betrayal… Furthermore, when c!Techno brings c!Dream armor in prison, did he make him a mask and bring it to him… and then take away the mask later? - If so, again that’s kinda screwed up. Though you could argue that perhaps he made c!Dream a mask for the jailbreak so he had one to face the server with and then because they were trying to not seem like allies he took it back, knowing that c!Dream would get another one. Which also begs the question, did c!Punz make c!Dream a mask for after prison or is he simply handing over one of c!Dream’s masks?… When c!Tommy in the minecart skirmish stole c!Dream’s armor, was he taunting him with his own mask? - Because oof that’s some serious violation and disrespect…

In other words, if you think that c!Dream’s helmet in the finale represents the mask (which I’d say is implied by c!Tommy) does that same logic apply across the board or is it just for that moment? And if it does apply to rest of the lore, wow does that have some implications…

[ohimtherebabey]

i really do hope we get full cunt at wwwyf like 'died 2007, born 2024 welcome back the black parade' cunt. i want the fucking hospital bed. i want the patient to die on stage. i want the cheerleaders in gas masks. i want them to burn the stage à la famous last words when its over.