#the illusion of memory

[lgbtlunaverse]

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

[shootingstareon]

and in that dying summer heat, you took my hand and smiled

separate and blur/textless version!

[fisheito]

(3) remaining

[hood-ex]

"For a moment, it really throws me." That part makes me so ill.

Batman: Urban Legends #10

"Someday, when I see him again, I'll tell him all about them." I'm doubly ill thinking about how Dick killed Alfred the next time he saw him.

Batman vs. Robin #3

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OOH YEAH BABY ITS THE SURGERY EPISODE BABY!!! ME AND THE HOMIES NEED SOME NEW FACES FOR OUR NEW PLAN, AND WHO BETTER TO GET THE JOB DONE THAN THE TWO MOST EVIL PEOPLE WE'VE EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF HAVING OUR LIVES VIOLATED BY? I MEAN IT WOULD BE FUNNY. IT WOULD BE FUNNY.

[rozugold]

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Nope, it isn’t. Oh Tommy…

[randomgamefan]

Hello everyone!!

Anyone who knows my past on here knows I'm a huge Super Paper Mario fan, and it was my hyperfixation for a long, long time. my longest finished fanfiction for so long was Memories and Illusions, a continuation of the story of Super Paper Mario after the events of the game.

For a long time, this fic was only fully published on Amino. However, I am offically archiving Memories and Illusions, along with all of my other Mario fanfictions, to Ao3! To celebrate, I really wanted to redraw the main image for Memories and illusions, and seeing the growth made me really happy :')

M&I will be posted one chapter a day for a week, and then the rest of my fics will be moved over one by one as I have the time! I want to thank everyone who supported me through writing it back then, and support my writing and art now. Reblogs are really appriciated, even just to show off the art ;;

Read Memories and Illusions on Ao3 here!

Old artwork and without the title below the cut!

August 2019:

June 2024

[57sfinest]

also yall we need to step back from the harryvision and understand that kim, at his core, is a loser (affectionate) like everyone else. so much out there wants to portray him as limitless patience, great cook, super organized, good handwriting, nice tasteful living quarters etc and that's fun to contrast him to harry but well i am here to RUIN that we need to take off the du bois glasses and appreciate kim for the weirdguy that he is. he has horrific fits of road rage and harry genuinely fears for his life riding along with him and witnessing the generational curses this man is capable of unleashing upon the stupid little fucks that cut him off on the 8/81. he has never had the time or space or budget to learn to cook so he lives off deli sandwiches and butter noodles and the occasional grab-and-go fruit. he writes so much so frequently with such awful handwriting that he has invented a new form of shorthand and the moralintern is contacting him to create a cipher system for them. he has no resources to furnish and maintain a nice flat so it's like a slightly gentrified r/malelivingspace but with a table for his sewing machine and there's scrap fabric and thread and half-pinned half-hemmed pants strewn about the place. there are absolutely a bunch of shitty mockups of his old wirral character in the backs of his notebooks and he hasn't played it in years but if he ever picks it back up then his minmax high int high dex definitely-not-a-self-insert sidhe artificer is READY. everyone add your weirdguy kim thoughts NOW 👇

[aroanthy]

i love how fraught and complicated discourse around various utena characters ‘dying’ is when anthy is literally stabbed to death eternally by a million swords imbued with human hatred. and then utena gets stabbed to death by them also. like. ‘death’ is incredibly interesting in rgu because most of the time it’s this ambiguous figurative thing that has interesting implications re: ohtori as a closed-off world one can escape. we are all trapped in our coffins. mamiya is the only named character with a grave. nemuro memorial hall functions as one all the same. ruka is implied to have died in the hospital— was he dead all along? who was the boy we saw for these two episodes? is this dead boy the same boy, or is this just another coincidence from the shadow girls, cutting like a knife? it’s heavily implied that akio and anthy murder kanae by poisoning her, adding to the previous implication that they were poisoning mr ohtori too, but there are no perceptible consequences of this. kanae’s absence is not felt. she’s fed an apple slice. what happens to the bodies? we know what happened to the 100 boys, but what about everyone else? and so on and so forth. ‘death’ is a tricky thing in utena, i think it’s constantly functioning on figurative and literal levels in very different ways for very different purposes. dios died. dios was dying. dios didn’t die. he grew up. etc etc

[mxnordberg]

BUT WHO ARE YOU?

[gingermintpepper]

Day 1: Apollo

Interpretation notes and trivia under the cut!

His interpretation for my work is based very much around the concept of his manifestation as the Radiant God of the String. Because of this, quite like Hecate, he’s triple-fold and occupies three major spaces; the string of Fate and therefore prophecy, the bowstring and therefore distance and destruction and the lyrestring and therefore music and order. He’s a somewhat melancholy figure all things considered - Fate and following Fate’s tennants is something that he struggled a lot with as a child and even now as a more mature deity, the only solution he’s truly found is to take things one day at a time. Very diligent and fastidious, he’s a hard worker and tends to put his everything into completing any task set before him which also tends to work to his disadvantage since he’s prone to becoming tunnel-visioned until he’s finished what he said he would finish. His family orchestrated his winter breaks because he had the nasty habit of working himself sick when he was still very young.

Apollo is generally represented by circles in my work - priests of Apollo will be marked with at least three circles on their face and usually wear triangular jewellry (typically earrings or necklace charms) to reflect the triple-nature of their god. His favoured colour is a rich, deep blue and while he typically wears elaborate eye paint, he rarely uses face powders. Wears gem-toned blues for his lips unless in mourning where he will leave himself unadorned and unpainted out of respect.

Some quick trivia: 

Was born identical to Artemis even though they were born (years) apart. Had brown hair, wolf’s ears and fangs and horns when he was a child but never manifested those features again after his penance for slaying Python. If he’s very stressed or angry, sometimes his fangs will show. The brown of his hair grew out to blond naturally as he developed and matured as a god.

Proficient in all instruments but has always especially preferred stringed instruments. Truly unmatched with a kithara but only uses it for special occasions and official meetings. Generally prefers his lyre for every day usage

Really good at sewing and braiding strings together due to the exercises he had to do while under the tutelage of the Moirai sisters. Can’t weave since Athena banned him from touching a loom but he does like watching her spin. The one time she caught him trying to replicate her patterns with a needle and thread, she complained to Zeus that he had broken his oath. He teases her about that even now.

Was the last of the Twelve to learn how to read and write because he hates letter systems and finds it too arbitrary. Prior to the collaboration that resulted in written letter systems, everyone was perfectly fine with remembering the important stuff and encoding the rest in artistic format such as tapestries, pottery, furniture and jewellry. Apollo himself has a truly formidable memory since he’s been composing and immortalising the events and histories of the world in song since he was very young. He finds written books very dull but Clio’s very insistent about written histories being important and convenient so reluctantly, he’s given permission for his songs and poems to be -gags- transcribed and written down.

Is only called Apollo by his parents, Artemis and Dionysus. Hermes rarely calls him by name in general and the others, including other siblings like Ares and Athena, have always called him Phoebus. Interestingly, Zeus usually calls him Phoebus but will call him Apollo when they are alone or when he’s being especially serious. Apollo is completely comfortable with either name but he does see Phoebus as a bit more formal than Apollo. (Despite his best efforts, both Calliope and Clio also still stubbornly call him Phoebus though he’s fairly sure it’s mostly because they know it bothers him.)

[illusion-reality-steve]

Ya probably won't see this till after the ask a thon, but I had to share this cus I wanna share it. It's funny

Regardless of canon, in a Steve Saga SMP, Memory would be the one people forget is on the server. Not because he uses his powers (they're allowed tho), but because Memory's the quiet one.

He just randomly scares them unintentionally when he speaks in chat or dies to smth (it's like a mix of them having their Steve powers, but also act like a player, so they can still die but they respawn.)

So cus of that, this is how the galaxy fam is on the SMP

Memory: the quiet one who's doing whatever and scares everyone half to death on the server when speaking/dies to smth somehow/goes to someones base (he knows where everyone is even tho nobody told him)

Time: the only serious one, having to deal with Elemental being stupid.

Elemental: "what happens if I use a stack of TNT on Illusions dirt hut?" *Elemental_theelementbender blew up* (The hut isn't even used by Illusion anymore lmao)

Illusion: following Sabre around cus he's the only one willing to help Illusion figure out what to do (somehow everyone else knew what to do as a player-like entity, but not Illusion lmao)

Galaxy: fishing til nightfall and just stays in a hole in the ground

Void: laughing at everyone accidentally dying to something (mostly Galaxy cus he just fishes all the time and gets too into it)

The mix of canon probably and noncanon. *Funny evil laugh*

I 100% agree with Memory being the quiet one that people forget is around.

btw, you have slain me with the mental image of Illusion following Sabre around. That's so precious to me. Illusion gets to learn how to play Minecraft from Sabre.

F in the chat for Elemental dying. Hopefully he gets back to his death location before all the pumpkin pies he had despawn.

Thank you for sharing!

[404-art-found]

May i have Buddy sleeping in the bunk or maybe enjoying the company of his friends. :) thank youuu

when its crew manage to get the mask on under the helmet it can more reasonably get out of the clunky suit and into some jammies. comfy

[mickeys-malarkey]

Y'know… sometimes, I think I should just share my Thoughts exclusively in drawings instead of tryna write 'em out & ending up posting analyses as long as the Empire State Building is tall… 🤔

A Love Letter to TMATM + the Rest of Bendy by Domino Effect Part 4/8:

“A Fitting Prison”

“Fatherhood”

1 • 2 • 3 • [You are here] • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8

[yesloulou]

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[incorrectstevesagaquotes]

Illusion Steve, who's bad at compliments: I like your name.

Memory Steve, who's bad at receiving compliments: Thanks, I got it for my birthday.