#the supernormals

[pockycigar]

first comic done! woohoo!!

[bathylychnops]

(jett) jennifer at the gymmm ilove 2 draw my. original characters. in cute outfits i find on pinterestt

jennys favorite color is blue, alot of blue clothing + Sonar suit is blue an white, but when he switched sides and became a villain his radar suit is green and black and only recently hes like. wait WAIT i miss blue alot so jett got a newww villain suit

[mythicalmeowz]

geiger for my pal @bathylychnops that’s his awesome character geiger

[wigglybug]

its OOPSY-DAISY !!!!

[bongwalter10]

kanamafu explosion

[1n7mm]

[dreamdancerdotfile]

WHEN IT TAKES ME

I FEEL LIKE I WON

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[lunadreamscaper]

this poll might be hard to vote on if you arent familiar with either projects but thats okay

if people are curious i could ramble about either or both so people get a better understanding

i still dont have an official name for the Timothy Casket comic yet lol

i'll probably talk aboit them more on my alt @pie-resurgence

[pliablehead]

i asked @hellkitepriest their top 5 jonathan higgs vocals and now I've been asked to reciprocate and of course I will

leave the engine room. i. you're speaking to tumblr user (and twitter and geniuslyrics and twitch.tv and--) pliablehead, and this song is so stupidly important to my whole. T h i n g, and jon's vocal on it, specifically the original vanilla man alive album version, is 99% why. if I'm ever not deeply and cripplingly obsessed with the stupid artful nuance and deliberate decisions he makes flipping back and forth between chest voice and head voice/falsetto on this track then you will know it is because I have been taken over by body snatchers. (he doesn't quiiitte do it like this anymore though because he's a Different Performer Now and i respect that things have changed and i'm alo--) but like any and every version that exists he sings "walking hope" slightly differently and every single time it makes me want to SCREAM

good shot good soldier!!!!!!!!!!! here's a certified Pli Hot Take is that I think AFD is the album on which his vocals sound the most beautiful and exquisite as a whole. idk what was cooking in the studio but just every track hits so good, and good shot....... the bit where the music drops out and it's Just Him Singing and he's just SOARING up there.... put me in the ground . i have a video of him doing this Live In Front Of My Face and I still get chills watching it aaaaaaAAAAA

on that note: i'm also going to pick Desire. I think, of his Big Loud Yelling Songs, in his classic jonathan milieu of "i'm going to sing as high and loud as i possibly can because I think it sounds fucking cool," that Desire like,, exemplifies the successful execution of that as a concept. and he sounds so fucking good and I love the shit out of it. and obviously it's not sustainable at length live, and i definitely never saw him do it live as well as he hits it on the album in the 3 afd tour shows i caught, but man. can I tELL YOU THAT I'M EEEMMMPTTYYYYY

what C said about software greatman is genuinely how I Also Feel about software greatman it's just such a fucking good tune and all the choices he's making are so good and it does feel like a bit disingenuous because a lot of what Makes It is the production side but it's also. fucking good. as much as I think AFD wins best overall there are some CHOICE little moments scattered all across RDF that are stellar on their ownnnn and if jennifer on the album hit half as hard as jennifer live does it would be appearing on this list as well for sure

i have sooooaur many more that i could pick....,oughhh i'm so vocalist-pilled.....,,, ok can I give 5th place to a tie between your money my summer (Current Jon Vocal Decisions Era and it's soooo fucking stupid and sexy good live i encourage you to find legit any live version he does some truly heinous things) and the No.6 orchestral version of The Mariana because there is literally nothing so fucking satisfying as Jonathan Higgs reaching out for an extraordinary high note and just absolutely sticking the landing as if it's nothing. my dude. never imply that you're not actually a good singer ever again or I'll kill you <3

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Hmmm.... chewing on the parallels between Miquella and Ralsei.

They're both childlike princes who are in part associated with dreams - Miquella through St. Trina, and Ralsei through the dreamlike Dark Worlds - and both are beloved figures, though in the latter's case it's more out-of-universe than in-universe. But what's causing my brain to go brrrr about it is the concept of eternal childhood and how their eternally-nascent natures might serve to "compel" affection.

This is long, so it's going under a read more!

As social creatures, we humans are predisposed to fawn over infants, not just of our own species but those of many animals. We associate early childhood with innocence, naivety and purity, Hearing a crying baby is particularly distressing to us, and in many people instills a compulsion to attempt to soothe, look after and protect these helpless creatures.

In Miquella's case, it could be that his eternally youthful state preys upon this instinct in people, and they are drawn to serve and protect him despite his standing as an Empyrean. Indeed, it's possible that he has learned to weaponise it, placing himself beyond reproach as a platonic ideal of purity and innocence, which he could potentially use as a veil to commit some questionable actions. And I think there's something to be said for applying this view to Ralsei, as well.

While the Prince from the Dark is assumed to be a teenager, and around the same age as Kris and Susie, a lot of Ralsei's characteristics are more typically childlike - his very large eyes in proportion to his head (accentuated by the huge lenses of his glasses); his general naivety of the greater world, the people in it, and even himself to a degree; his relentless optimism that no-one needs to be hurt or killed, not even the most monstrous of foes; and above all, his overwhelming need and desire for companionship, manifesting in an almost-religious devotion to people he considers his friends. It's clear that these traits are designed to play on those instincts to nurture and protect, in us players if not necessarily the characters in-universe. This isn't even going into the potential nostalgia of his associations with and connections to Undertale's version of Asriel.

I have often considered Ralsei to be a prime example of a "supernormal" stimulus - an extreme over-exaggeration of certain traits that provoke an equally extreme instinctual response in creatures susceptible to it. Think of herring-gull chicks who will prefer to peck at a bright red spot on the bill of a dummy adult, rather than an actual live adult with a less-bright red spot. Whether because he was designed that way, or because he's deliberately cultivating that impression, Ralsei's playing-at-childhood-innocence has a similar effect, serving to "compel" affection from players in a like fashion to how Miquella is able to "compel" the affection of characters in Elden Ring.

Where this gets REALLY interesting is when we take Undertale and Deltarune's incorporation of meta elements in their game universes into consideration. There is a compelling case to be made that Ralsei's main target for his affection, Kris, is actually just a proxy to his real goal - us. Considering all of the above regarding his childlike traits, it's hard not to think that at the very least, Toby and his team are trying to engender this strange pseudo-reciprocity of affection between us and Ralsei, even if the character himself is not actively trying to achieve that in-game. And it is when we look at Miquella, who serves as a template for how such affection can be compelled, that we can see just how Ralsei has managed to achieve such a vast and devoted following, despite his seeming lack of depth as a character and his being a literal expy of Asriel from another game.

Of course, since we don't currently have all the information to hand, we don't know to what end this potential angle could take us. But I find it extremely fascinating to consider that there is actually quite a strong case that we are being groomed by Ralsei - or his creator - in some way. Especially when you consider what Miquella actually ends up doing with his abilities, it raises some pretty interesting possibilities that just might make us consider our favourite fluffy little cinnamon roll in a more nuanced light, as opposed to the false binary of "uwu baby" and "diabolical villain".

Thanks for reading! This wound up being much longer than I'd initially planned for, and it's just a jumbled assortment of thoughts I had upon learning about Miquella in Elden Ring, and how the nature of his being might transpose onto Ralsei. Hopefully this made you think a little bit about that too!

[b1zarr3vel]

[pockycigar]

i kind of want to make a full color illustration of the supernormals

[bathylychnops]

its like 105° outside andhes been in his garden forlike 4 hours hesgoing to get heat stroke

stephens sitting in a lawn chair during this in a bathrobe and sunglasses and drinking a mimosa watching jett inthr garden like hes stephens poolguy and stephens a cougar orsomething

[obsidiantheghostfaced]

My second font - this time done entirely by hand on mechanical pencil. I present to you Ascendant Two - a handwritten font from a dead universe.

This is the written version of Ascendant Glyphs, which would have been used to write just about anything in SCP 9187's home universe.

As the only survivor of its destruction, 9187 uses this now dead script to write secret documents for him and his Mobile Task Force known as Sephiroth-03 a.k.a. the Carpet Sharks.

(I'll be uploading more 9187-themed SCP art pretty soon - including our MTF logo, our unit logo, and other wallpapers to download for free!)

Feel free to ask me anything about this or any other stuff on my page. All questions are welcome! Keep shining, you exploding supernova...

KEEP ALL EYES OPEN

I AM SCP 9187

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

I CAN GIVE YOU THAT POWER

BUT ONLY...IF YOU ARE READY

[wigglybug]

drawing these guys as dating sim romanceable characters because i thought that was a funny idea

[lambragu]

i keep thinking about rubledev's answers to "what's your biggest wish for each other". daniil said that he wanted andrey to be happier and andrey immediately started to talk about slams and wins. it pains my heart to see how andrey's behaviour on court still relates to self-harm. and it's concerning not just because this has being going on for years, but also 'cause he is player whose motto is "play for the kids". i don't know how this condute is any healthy for the future tennis generation watching his matches. i truly, just like daniil, hope andrey can learn to be happy outside and inside the court.