#this is a reference to my last me talking post

[libertarianbean-plz-dont-step-sh]

Initial disclaimer: didn't read anything you wrote in response to the others in this reblog chain because I was honestly supposed to be in bed an hour ago, so I just can't, man.

I mean I agree with what you said in your response to my point?

I know everything is chemicals, I'm studying chemistry in uni amongst other courses, so I am quite aware of the mechanics of... Life? So, for example, if I said I put sodium hydrogen carbonate in the cake I made you, you'd probably be reconsidering the pros and cons of eating a slice. But that's just baking soda. Not as scary sounding.

Fun fact! That example was brought to you (and me) by Ann Reardon! I have been subscribed to her channels for at least 6 years by now, and I watch all her videos, the one you attached included! So, again, yeah, I am aware and I agree.

I think the misunderstanding in this was caused by me talking about those "evil chemicals", when I was just paraphrasing things I've heard for years that I was criticising.

You then said that it's not correct to say that Europe bans harmful ingredients while the US allows them. But you kinda contradict yourself with your next paragraph?

Correct me if I interpreted what you wrote wrong, but the jist of it is that Europe tends to ban more things, even if it's not 100% sure they are harmful, because it tends to err on the side of caution, while the US strategy is different.

Now, I'm not here to argue who is more correct in its approach because I'm not qualified to do so, nor am I claiming that this way the EU has absolutely banned everything that is harmful. But it does imply that they certainly do so more than the US, who has a more lax approach.

I think a good example of the difference between the US and EU is your radioactive-looking, red-orange Fanta and our pale-orange/yellow, orange juice-colored Fanta, and how it's essentially waterdowned, carbonated, sweetened orange juice.

And for the last point about sugar. Yes, I also agree with that. Obviously. That's just how that works. [That would be the job of the parents, rather than the government, as it can't force parents not to make their kids drink coke (it CAN force them not to snort it though. Isn't that weird?) ]

But the word sugar as we commonly use it refers to sucrose, which is in the same family as fructose, glucose, lactose. So using less or no high-fructose corn syrup IS using less sugar.

Again, not a food scientist. I'm not nearly qualified enough to propose what to use instead.

But my point in my post was never to suggest an alternative, nor, as a matter of fact, to claim that one approach is better than the other. As you said, the US does better in some aspects and the EU in others.

All I was doing was fucking tweaking about having to hear whining for YEARS about how the US is supposed to be more like Europe, only for those same people to whine AGAIN when it does just that.

I don't care who's right or wrong, I care about inconsistencies.

I think being coherent is maybe even more important than being right about a certain aspect.

Because it's incredibly difficult to be right about something, and if you are completely honest to yourself, you will never truly know if you are right about a certain topic, it's basically impossibile. But what you CAN be certain of, is if your logic is consistent or not. That is something you can know

(that means you can be consistently wrong, but still, it's better than being inconstant AND wrong)

I can think of a hundred things we could do to improve our collective health a hundred fold more than replacing sugar with a slightly different sugar that breaks down to be the same sugar in our bodies.

Free cancer screenings.

Eliminating food deserts.

Free vaccines.

Free birth control.

Drug treatment.

Naloxone to anyone who wants it.

Okay, I am too tired to do one hundred. But I'm sure I could.

[pureshadough]

crk reread - prologue

(long post with lots of images under the cut!)

why the fuck are the prologue cutscenes so low quality and bitcrunched?

are the ancients ever referred to as just The Five anywhere else in game? i think it's literally just in this single instance. very strange

soul jam's nature was so Dubious during prelaunch. are they unique to the virtue holders specifically, or a universal concept given a title and Emphasis for these exceptionally strong instances of them? we have soul stones which are described as having their essence, but its never been particularly clear if each individual cookie has a soul stone as like, their actual SOUL or not, and if souljam is moreover supposed to be synonymous in this use-case. i think devsis probably didn't really know themselves until a bit of a ways in. interesting to look back on

i have a deep appreciation for how all of the ancients get crowns & diagrams of their kingdoms behind them EXCEPT for lily

and if you didnt manage to catch on to the fact she was the odd one out of the group, this quad shot spells it out even clearer

do we ever see the flags for hb and gc's kingdoms outside of this cutscene? can't remember. surely we do

I still have no fucking idea how she's here for this.

god damn kim has been putting her heart into every single pv line since day one. i need more people to listen to the korean voice acting for this game the delivery is genuinely so fucking excellent across the board

the use of eternity in this sentence is. Interesting.

IVE NEVER NOTICED THAT THEY BOTH START TO CRUMBLE DURING THIS??? dark moon magic is some wild shit my dude

these early early game (practically prototype) cutscenes are SO strange looking by comparison to today. lily looks like shes from a newgrounds flash animation from 2008 here. wet cat

ever wondered why the vanilla kingdom is permanently airborne?

Yeah

it wasn't always airborne

you can also briefly catch the souljams scattering across earthbread in that shot!

small detail people often forget about: while many cookies have indeed escaped the witches grasp after being baked before, im of the understanding here that gingerbrave is uniquely the only cookie to have ever escaped from inside the oven itself, mid-baking process. the kid also manages to avoid most every hazard for the unknowable amount of time he was running before he at last passed out from exhaustion after attacking a wolf. King shit

corporate wants you to find the difference between these two images

oh what the fuck i COMPLETELY forgot about this. all of them knew each other pre-game! what! sure!

okay now This.

are we ever gonna come back around to this one devsis because What the fuck are you talking about. Why. Does this not completely undercut everything going on with white lily. In the first 15 minutes of playtime. WHY DOES STRAWBERRY PROCEED TO NEVER BRING THIS UP AGAIN. GINGERBRAVE DOESNT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THIUS AT ALL IN THE MOMENT???? ITS SO DARK IN HERE

the sugar gnomes immediately approaching three Actual Children when they happen to congregate within the ruins of the old kingdom they lived at and going REBUILD SOCIETY is so fucking funny to me

i know the intentions of most of this is near-exclusively to teach the player the base game mechanics but the concept of cookie cutters as they function in the gacha being a Real Thing in this universe is so. ????!?!??!?!?!??!?

i recall wizard gets disproven here a few chapters later but Man even the game cant decide on which variation of its lore to go with

SUMMONING BEACON

ahhh yes good old chili pepper and her singular personality trait of Is A Thief. i will be skipping most of her dialogue henceforth

will we EVER elaborate on what this fucking power from "The Legends" is supposed to be. Ever. We are so far removed from this initial plot at this point. devsis has the opportunity to bring back the funniest chekhovs gun in all of fiction

custard cookie's korean performance makes him INFINITELY more tolerable to listen to. dare i say its Cute, Even. he's just a little guy.

thats about it for prologue besides a bunch of really short & unvoiced tutorial cutscenes. I am forever haunted by the fact like 70% of the details established in this like 45 minute stretch have been pretty much completely abandoned in the modern day. GOD I WISH THEY DID ANYTHING WITH STRAWBERRY SEEING A COOKIE GET EATEN. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. i remembered she had *a* scene involving a witch encounter but not whatever the hell they were trying to do with THIS. The missed potential for her to have the most insane possible conversations with DE/lily. A literal nine year old coped better with seeing god consume its own creation than her. Fuck.

[cirqosmos]

GAME OF LOVE, DEATH, AND DEMONS: HOW TO CAPTURE THE BLACK LOTUS? | P. SH

🎮 PREVIEW : after trashing the ending of the novel 'catching demon' with every vocabulary you got in your dictionary, you found yourself in this world of horror and demons— bearing the visage of the second female lead; the filthy rich, and young villainess who conspires in ruining the leading couple's relationship just because she, too, desires the male lead for herself. talk about a soap drama! now the game is giving you an impossible mission where you have to make the second male lead—the infamous protective siscon, a yandere one at that; the black lotus himself to fall for you or else—you can say goodbye to your head and your old life!

GENRE : transmigration into a novel game, romance, comedy, yandere, thriller, horror, set in a partially accurate historical chinese dynasty.

NOTES : 1. to stay true to the source material/universe, i'll still keep the family name 'Mu' since well, this is set in a CH dynasty even if partially accurate. 2. Sunghoon will be referred to as 'Mu Hun', and his courtesy name will be 'Sunghoon'. This is incredibly important since our protagonist will be the only one who can call him his courtesy name, the symbol of their growing bond.

WARNING : slight profanity, and more to be listed in the future.

SCHEDULE RELEASE : 3 EPISODES will be posted in bulk with my other projects in AUG-SEPT.

▶ DIRECTOR's CUT, a love letter to my all time favourite cdrama and couple miaoqi!! genuinely can't move on from them, and so why not write about this universe one more time but in my writing style? there are stuffs i LOVEE respectively from the drama and the novel; parts that i wished were longer or shorter so i'll be able to do that in this version!! for example, the drama's choice of totally changing ziqi's character in the last ep completely ruined it for me and i will only accept the novel ziqi LOLLL. imma just pretend that the last ep doesn't exist haha but nevertheless it's still my fave, and miaoqi a day makes me freakin happy. sunghoon won the poll, and now that i look at it—him and the ml does have the same vibes so here we go!

🪷

〘SYSTEM〙: Dear player, please do your best to conquer the character [Mu Hun] to avoid the plot where he eliminates your family. Make him fall in love with you, complete the wedding night, and divert the route of eternal torment.

H-huh? C-capture? What's with that. . monotone robotic voice? In a daze, as if you were momentarily drunk—you blinked twice, rubbing your eyelid as your vision clears—sparkles and glimmers greeting your perspective.

Hm? Curtain beads? What's up with this over the top eastern theme room? A bed with a curtain—a canopy? Eh? Such a weird dream—you halted.

The youthful face gazing back at you from inside the glass mirror. She's so pretty—hold on—you inched closer, such a bold and heavy makeup—wait, what the hell are you doing here wearing such an extravagant vermillion dress? This exquisite headdress that glints as you turn your head around, and a weird floral print on your forehead? It somerhow looks familiar for some reason. . Almost like—

The world of Catching Demons.

〘SYSTEM 〙: Welcome, dear player— to the world of Catching Demons.

You pushed yourself up swiftly—the chair creaked.

“W-wait!”

You exclaimed, this chest of yours deepens as you struggle to take it in. You've only ever known about this whole goddamn transmigration thing from novels, heck, you were even obsessed with this trope that you'd lost ten days of sleep, but! This can't be real! You laughed, no, you let out an exaggerated laugh—splayed fingers over your face with overblown eyes as you proceeded to roam around the place—in frantic steps.

〘SYSTEM〙: Dear player, the beginner tutorial will begin soon. Please refrain from stepping out of the boundary as it will trigger an immediate reset.

Fuck, fuck, fuck! You’ve never cursed this bad, if your mother ever heard you like this—she’d slap you back to reality and for god’s sake you’re actually truly, truly, praying for her divine hands right now!

“I am not built for this!”

You ran off, praying with utmost desperation that your useless knowledge of the Backrooms theory of clipping back to reality works wonders—you leaped over the flight of stairs, with the wall as your goal, accompanied by the crackles and roar of thunder.

“Argh!”

Electricity surged through your veins and you dropped to your knees. You swore you heard the ending theme of the game playing in the background for a decent duration, followed by a bunch of glitches surrounding your body—and you find yourself back to the same spot. Back on the chair, in front of the damn mirror.

No, no, no!

Pages. Illustrations. Faces of characters smirking and smiling. A group photo. The novel game of Catching Demons. The horrible ending where all of them kills each other. You let out a long, long gasp as reality creeps slowly—dawning on your face.

No, this face, this is not your face, it's the face of that filthy rich villainess! If anything, why can't you be in the female lead's body instead? Why in this body, why her?!

What do you mean capture him? Make him fall in love with you? No fucking way—there’s no way you could ever make him—the young noble who enunciate the word ‘sister’ with dripping affection—to fall for you!

A siscon, and a yandere one at that, and don’t even get me started with his temper! Nothing could put him down except a word from his beloved sister. One look, he’d cut your soul into eternal doom—say goodbye to any changes of reincarnation.

This moron of a system—you clenched your fist in a death grip. Making him fall in love with you was already completely impossible, and now even in this villainess’ body—he would never look your way, nor change his perception of you.

And he can go to hell!

Sure, sure, sure! Such a devoted and loyal young man is alluring and tempting in the online world. You’d even at some point beg for one, questioning the deities above when you’d find a real true love that's only truly obsessed with you. But that was before, because now that you're truly in deep into this terrible situation, who the heck would seriously get into a relationship with an unhinged, psychotic man like that?!

You've gotta be insane!

“Miss [Name],” Distasteful eyes pierces your soul as his thumb wipes—no, it grazes the corner of your lower lip—you tremble before his facade of a gentleman. “You look like you ate a child.”

Deep red smeared the tip of his thumb. It's the damn lipstick. What's up with him? You can't believe you find him attractive at some point.

〘SYSTEM〙: Favorability change detected. [Mu Hun]’s favorability towards you decreased by 50%, it is now -250%.

What the fuck?! You're now starting to think that he perceives you not as a human, but as a tool he could toss away. This won't do. You cannot live the life of the real villainess, where Mu Hun puts her in a love spell—acting on his revenge on her, ultimately destroying her agency, and her life.

When Mu Hun found his end by the hands of his sister, the real villainess—after much torment—joined him by hanging herself on a silk noose.

And that's where exactly you find yourself groaning for days at the ending, because what's the difference between this and a scam? Yes, that's how you worded your review for the book online. It sucks, it terribly sucks, the younger brother is hella obsessed with his older sister. The female lead has no sense of unity, the male lead has no guts. Everyone fucking betrays everyone—and why is it so goddamn angsty? The second female lead, the villainess herself, was better than all of them. The book would be far better called as the World of the Villainess, and so, it was a complete waste of time that blah, blah, blah!

It was a novel with a scam of an ending, who would've known that trashing it would cause you to be transmigrated to this world?! Seriously, why not an otome with those five hot guys from Love and Deepspacer on their knees for you? Why not Ikemen Sengoku? Office romance? Vampire romance?

Why demons?! And a Chinese horror one at that?!

You trembled as you remembered bits of the horrifying scenes from this novel. You're too much of a coward to play a horror game all by yourself, so you could only go for the only safe medium—a novel, yet how freaking funny was it now that you find yourself in one. What's the difference of this and a game?!

It's a thousand times, no, a millionth times worser!

“Thank you, Miss [Name] for coming all this way to deliver my medicine.” Mu Hun's older sister, Yeji—with the teardrop birthmark below her right eye was too much for you to take. Her beauty beyond the illustration exceeds your expectations, but you can't say the same for the heavy dark eyes guarding against you.

What the hell is he doing here? As far as you remember, the original plot where the villainess delivered the female lead’s medicine only consists of them two, and no one else, not even the male lead himself. Because the real villainess had planned meticulously to add a decent dosage of poison to the female lead’s medicine, therefore she can't have anyone present at that crucial moment.

So why. .? You suppressed the need to bite your lip and curse the heavens.

“That's very nice of you, Miss [Name]. Of course, we can't let your efforts go to waste.” Mu Hun inches closer, his long fingers grabbing the ceramic bowl—taking a sip for himself much to your surprise. You swore you could see the words etched all over his dark watery eyes;

I don't trust you.

But jokes on him, and jokes on the system—you actually switched the female lead’s medicine into a different, healthier tonic. To capture his heart, you definitely can't harm the object of his affection, that's just stupidly digging your grave. Plus, you can't bring yourself to do it, after all.

His eyes widened with surprise upon gulping it down his throat—you slightly grin as he kneeled down—handing it to his sister. Your heart pumps with sweet success! With this trick, you’d definitely pass this mission with flying marks!

Your smile cracks—mirroring the ceramic bowl on the floor. Wait this can't be right—you could feel your soul withering away as Yeji's weak body curled in, coughing relentlessly.

“What did you put in my sister’s medicine?!”

The tip of his sharp blade now on your neckline before you even could ask yourself what's happening. Yes, this is how he really is; hands filled with scars and calluses—soaked in both humans and demons’ blood. He doesn't care about anyone except for his precious older sister.

You cursed at the system in this very moment; that eyes of his—swirling like soft watercolor, yet tainted with wrath, lusting with downright vengeance. You're doomed. Forget about making this black lotus to fall in love with you, because you won't even get a drop of mercy from him.

“Whoever dares to hurt my sister—deserves to die!”

© CIRQOSMOS, 2022~2025.

[angeldeviloshi]

Thinking about what Denji's saying here.

I often feel like people don't give Denji enough credit to think for himself due to his hedonistic tendencies when he's simply going about things the way he knows best, moral compass included. This is interesting coming after 191-194.

Yoru already established herself as "a devil" even teaching him to play as one despite Denji's protests about her killing innocents at a whim. Denji himself recognises that Yoru is bad news as he ruminates to Pochita about her while cooking the potstickers himself.

I already wrote about this in my ch.194 thread, but I see ch.194 onwards as Denji's attempt to "tame" Yoru the way he did in stopping Makima's regeneration through his cooking and eating of her as well as his raising of Nayuta to convince her she doesn't have to be antagonistic towards humans.

(ch.194 analysis for reference)

Denji redoing the potstickers his way to show her what love can look like through the love he knows. He'll let her shoot, but within bounds. And maybe Yoru would understand the weight of that love and be less trigger-happy. Make her less of a devil.

But Yoru establishes that this is not her. She's War! The manifestation of human destruction. Denji can't project the women he loved onto her in believing she'll be altered by his love nor can he bet on her having even Fumiko's marginal empathy as a redeeming trait. She's "the only woman he needs."

Expanding on this continuing from my post about toxic masculinity gender subversion in my post (on bsky) yesterday, Denji being in the position to "soften" Yoru, encouraging Asa to take on a less bleak outlook on life. His own thinking paused to humour Yoru even being reduced to a sexual object/trophy.

It's also kinda apt that the last panel focuses on Chimerasaw Man. The virtuous foil to Denji's Chainsaw Man as the representation of justice. Denji's upset with Yoru for righteous reasons just as Denji was being questioned by Chimerasaw Man about his heroism in who he thinks is worth saving.

(that post from yesterday on bsky under cut)

I think I've posted about it before but I kinda view fjmt's fetish for csm in particular to be more about the men being pathetic sad guys than it is about femdom women, at least it has the vibe of the women serving to enhance the eroticism of male sub dynamic/behaviour. But that's coming from me. Essentially ch. 193 but Denji isn't the vehicle for fjmt, Yoru is. Like is this not the fluctuations of tension and progression throughout p2's arcs described here? The carrot and the stick.

Idk it's just like the appeal of seemingly strong powerful intimidating men not being infallible bc they are those things, nor is it exclusive to them bc they're men. Their vulnerability being exposed while their wounds are pressed on by the women who can be those things too couched in male gaze. Pinned against the wall with the blade of their toxic masculinity wielded and pressed against their neck, the pain a harsh reminder that they too are only soft and pliable flesh.

[psilliguykai]

Welcome to the completed tracklist and summarized story of William’s Wanton Weary Wiles!

I want to keep this project manageable and fun for me, while still being able to release the full story. Hence posting this, rather than each cover’s lyrics individually (what I initially intended :)). Most of what’s described here is what would be depicted in each song, though some events would only be implied/have happened outside of the actual “lyrics". These will be put in square brackets.

Basically everything under the cut!

Names and pronouns (Note: these will be used interchangeably. You may use whatever pronouns you want for any of them, these are just what I’ll be using/what feels right to me personally ^^ ref sheets are hyperlinked):

The Heart/Jimmy/Vestal/The Moon - He/it

The Mind/Laplace/Al/Marsha/The Sun - He/she

The Soul/Mr. Capgras/Cotard/The Stars - He/it

Whole/Will/William Racheal McSprout - He/Him

Warnings for: alcohol, abuse of psychiatry, manipulation, suicide attempt, discussions of mortality, and mental health issues. Also very long post + not written in entirely complete/gramatically correct sentences (my futile attempt to keep things concise /lh.)

Without further ado…

-iSH/Ryan I Wonder (Outro from Wanhope)

Opening song! Cotard pondering. Going back and forth between hopeful/determined and tired/giving up. Remembers every time they’ve been through this before - hopes it will go better this time but is losing faith.

2012 (Intro to Warray)

Sorta like Mucka Blucka - each character introduces themselves + a bit of the dynamics are shown. Welcome to the loop and endless suffering, babyy!

I think of “2012” here referring to the past loops. Heart/Mind don’t remember them, but they heard (from Soul) the world would turn to hell! /ref 

“Did you lose yourself? It’s always in the last place that you’d check!” referring (mostly) to them splitting. “Losing” Wholeness. Do with that what you Will (ahahah)

The Song with Five Names, a​.​k​.​a. Soapbox Tao, a​.​k​.​a. Checkmate Atheists! a​.​k​.​a. Neospace Government, a​.​k​.​a. You Can Never Know

Similar to 2012 in the “introduction” sense. A little more of the trio each getting some time in the spotlight + sharing their thoughts.

“You can break a shovel when you break new ground, you dig dirt up when you dig deep down”--the more they try to form new solutions/the more times they split, the deeper they dig themselves into this metaphorical pit of dissonance.

Jimmy sings from the “sunshine is a gaslight” to “and that’s good enough to be not enough to be good enough for me!”, talking about Mind, accusing him of being fake and manipulative + claiming to be more capable and more deserving of power than her. 

Laplace’s Angel

Essentially Mind’s rebuttal to the last part of TSW5N. 

The trio are mostly equal at this point, but Laplace does have a bit more control than Jimmy.

This is essentially Laplace talking himself up + mocking Jimmy for lacking as much free will in this situation + expressing that if it were in her place, he would see her reasoning and do the same as she does.

Everything Is A Lot/Destroy To Enjoy

EiaL is mostly just Jimmy pondering/being generally unhappy. 

He comes to a decision. This is Marsha’s fault - he’s ruining them. He forces Whole to avoid doing the things he enjoys! (drinking, spending money, etc. - self destructive habits which are arguably fine in low doses but should be metered).

[Marsha keeping things under control is good, but he does so to an extreme–deprives Whole of breaks/other needs in the interest of “staying productive”/trying to reach arbitrary “perfections” (more money, more benefitting others, less enjoying life, less rest). Obligatory Nobody-here-is-the-“villian”-or-“hero”. They’re all flawed but ultimately trying to do what they think is best for Whole.]

Vestal resolves he needs to take charge.

Front Street

I imagine this song happening in a bar in Marybell. Jimmy is getting reckless and self destructive in the name of feeling “free”. Drinking excessively and smashing bottles and such. 

I’ve got the line “you say let loose, but you are lost” in my head as Marsha’s retort. Throughout the song as Jimmy tries to convince her and Cotard to “loosen up”, Marsha tries to express to him that this isn’t actually helping the Whole and is only hurting him (though the way he does so is fraught with resentment and only makes Jimmy want to ignore her).

Jimmy does not listen.

Memento Mori

Twist on the original. Instead of using inevitable death as a comfort/reason to enjoy life, Laplace is instead essentially saying “one day we’re all going to die, and with the way you’re doing things it’ll probably be your fault.”

[Laplace is making a decent point, but is largely using this as a way to put Jimmy down. More guilt-tripping/trying to emotionally manipulate him rather than actually properly communicating.]

Red Moon

Vestal singing to Cotard, trying to convince it to hand control over to him. 

“We walk the equator chasing the light” referring to the loops - they all go around in circles chasing the idea of being Whole, but it never stays and they’re stuck chasing.

Vestal says they’ll only be able to “turn around” (break the cycle) with a Red Moon (because like. Heart is moon and Soul is red yeah.)

This leaves Mr. Capgras progressively getting more annoyed/angry. He knows Vestal thinks it’s doing what’s best for William, but is also aware that it largely wants power and the ability to do what it wants with no oversight. He’s pissed that Jimmy thinks he could be manipulated so easily and is exhausted with both his and Marsha’s vies for power

[Capgras is also frightened of both of them, even if he doesn’t show it. He’s worried about Laplace working/depriving Will to death, and he’s worried about Jimmy getting too reckless and over-indulging to the point where it gets them all killed. While CCCC’s Soul prioritizes ending the loops by any means necessary, Cotard is a lot more concerned with keeping Whole alive, regardless of how many times they have to go through Cacophony/Warray to ensure that, and regardless of how much suffering they're in.]

Jimmy Mushrooms’ Last Drink: Bedtime in Wayne, NJ

Jimmy!! Is Not Happy with the trio’s situation, and Laplace/Cotard’s halfhearted attempts at convincing him to keep going (“Jimmy, you’re fine”/”keep trucking it’s all in your mind”) don’t help. 

Hitting a low point after a few days of self-destructive euphoria (see Front Street), and giving up on the idea that they could ever be whole. 

Will is driving home from the bar (yes, very drunk. Don't drink and drive /srs) and Jimmy decides to try and end all their suffering, attempting to take control of Will and crash the car (“gaining speed, wrapping trees”). 

BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA

[The crash didn’t work. Marsha jumped in, physically tearing Vestal away from the wheel.]

[Marsha generally presents himself as a sort of therapist/psychiatrist in occupation, though he has no one–aside from Jimmy who’s not paying for shit--to “treat”. Despite there being no real business, she has an office in Marybell and does extensive paperwork {which IS necessary because it gets Will to do his own work but that's a Whole Other Thing}. This is where Jimmy is locked in as both as punishment and a safety measure–equivalent of Apathy from CCCC. Room resembles the one at the end of the love me normally video.]

The first part of the song would be Laplace recounting “the Jimmy incident” (attempted crash). She goes on to basically torment Jimmy with overcomplicated medical terms and underhanded insults veiled by psychiatric jargon. She considers this both justified punishment, as well as the only way to get Vestal to improve or at the very least, cease to be a threat.

TLDR: Laplace maliciously and aggressively provides unhelpful psychiatric service to a very overwhelmed and trapped Jimmy.

Outliars and Hyppocrates: a fun fact about apples

Marsha is partially ranting about/mocking Vestal to Cotard, and partially continuing to mess with Jimmy to his face. “I doubt that you would even if you could change, the things that make you special are what make you strange!”

Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer’s Prosopagnosia​/​Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus)

Soul steps in. Could be very literally breaking down the door to Jimmy’s therapy room and getting between the two. Up for interpretation!

Think “You seem to forget you answer to me…” in terms of the themes/vibes.

Dr. Sunshine is Dead

Mr. Capgras is tired of both H/M’s pathetic attempts at manipulation. He doesn’t want himself or Will to “be” either of them (“I am not the sunshine, I am not the moon at night”)

Being earnest and trying to explain how he feels + reflecting on the loops and his identity.

He ends the song essentially saying “I could run the Whole on my own, but I want to give you two a chance to reconcile. I’ll wait.” (“I will be my sunshine, I will be my moon at night, I'm nowhere now, here's no one now to be. And if dreams can come true, what does that say about nightmares? I'll stay awake tonight…”)

Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones)

Vestal and Laplace take a shot at reconciliation. Jimmy starts by expressing how he feels and asking Mind to do the same - “show me your bones” and “Mind unweave again” as metaphors for opening up emotionally.

Love, Me Normally

And he does! Open up! Wow!

Marsha begins to genuinely share his emotions. He expresses fears about Jimmy/the dangers he puts them all in with its recklessness. Admits that he does wish he could “loosen up”/encourage Will to enjoy himself. However, Laplace feels Vestal does it to such an extreme that she needs to over-correct (depriving Will of his wants/needs to keep up appearances/focus on responsibilities).

Falling up

Think of this as a sort of Variations on a Cloud equivalent - one last song together before they become whole

I honestly don’t have a very thorough plan for this at the moment - might elaborate later

White Noise (Outro From Warray)

This is basically them combining. Some final contemplation/reflection from the three as separate entities, but it fades into Whole. Gonna leave this one mostly up for interpretation/to you all’s imagination.

Half Decade Hangover (Intro to Waltz)

Will is recovering from/sorry for what happened while he was split (though he doesn’t know that’s what it was, as he’s not aware of HMS. For him and everyone else in the “real world” it was just a general mental health episode). 

Honestly the meaning doesn’t change that much from the original :’)

…And If I Did, You Deserved It

Completely implausible. Chonny would never cover this one /silly

This would be the CJ version with some lyrics altered to make it less about dealing with “fame” and more about day-to-day relationships.

The Main Character

Possibly one of the most accurately reflective of Will’s personality. The perfect(ly dysfunctional) mix of self absorbed, self loathing, and self destructive.

Um, It’s Kind Of A Lot

Not gonna say this is canon, but I think it would be really funny to change it from being afraid to being pissed off at everything. “I love you so much, it scares me half to death makes me really fucking angry”

This would be about LI.

Against The Kitchen Floor

Mostly directed at LI + somewhat aimed at other people in his life.

He’s sorry! He promises he’s doing his best! He just. Hasn’t learned how to be human as you are yet. /lyr

Yeah I’m not even sure if I’d change any lyrics for this one. Meaning stays the same, man this guy sucks [/aff]

Willard!

Will finds and befriends a rat in his house during a depressive period. He names it Ben (Willard movie reference yayay), cleans it up, and essentially adopts it. Ben appears in Cotard's house after this. He takes care of him (w/ some help from Marsha/Jimmy) and his physical health reflects Will’s health. Very sweet.

Vampire Reference In A Minor Key

It’s Will about himself in relation to LI 👍(not much to say on this one lol)

Whiny Fuck William’s Woke Pie, Weasel, and American Cheese Emporium a.k.a. “Mr. Ben is in the Macca’s again” (Feat. Cheese by Tommy McMinchin) [From “W.F.W.’s WWA: getting auto-suplexed”]

Comedic relief?

Don't look too deep into it idk what the fuck I was doing either

Cicada Days (Outro from Waltz)

This is still a little about LI, but more significantly about Will spiraling again. Very seriously/literally “losing touch”. Things get better for a time, but he still hurts people. Thing’s might’ve been better for a time, but he’s still hurt. Thing’s can get better, but it will take a lot more to “fix” him, and that’s if “fixing” is even a possibility. 

Self- (Intro to Wanhope)

Hey I mean . at least Cotard is back?

Yeah. Timeloop. I’ll leave this one up to your imagination (for now, anyways :))

[lesbians4kurt]

how it feels to gay ship men who were deeply traumatized by war

[hinamie]

theyre soft your honour

[moth-flowers]

moth-flowers #21

[svtskneecaps]

honestly foolish's character walking the slightly meta line of "oo this'll be fun content" makes him feel like that marvel immortal character who is only immortal as long as he doesn't get bored (and was played by jeff goldblum in the movies). like idk why but the more i see of foolish's rp the more solidified the comparison gets in my mind.

like it's kinda cool for a headcanon ngl and also it means i'm not really surprised pikachu-ing when, say, he flips a coin to decide whether to rat out his son-in-law, or climbs into an incubator of corruption crystals, or doesn't ENTIRELY kick owen out of the kingdom. it's not that he doesn't CARE, but..... well, wouldn't it be interesting? don't you want to know what would happen?

[danishphoner]

"Well, I'm Alex, from The Last Shadow Puppets, and I play the 'awoooo!'"

"And I'm Miles, from The Last Shadow Puppets, and I play the midnight moon"

[the-acid-pear]

mmmaybe 3c with a trio of ur choice for the poly art meme?

Well we all know I HAD to draw them.....

[twinklingwatermellon]

also I think it’s time for a little Elly Lore Update because I feel like I mention so many people on here and y’all need to understand who I’m taking about when you attend the virtual sleepovers 😌

[valiantwolf]

it is honestly a crime that i have to do my laundry every week for the rest of my life

[obsessedoverwater]

Born to draw Knuckles and Espio making out.

Forced to have shaky hands that can hardly write letters.

This may or may not be a reference to Sonic Highschool.

[cheesecake801]

Have some drawings of Emmet !!

So 1st one is based off a screenshot from the anime, I just thought he looked adorable. He looks so serious ! It was interesting to see him with that kind of expression ! (And very very cute too !)

Last one is based on a thought I had while watching the anime about the fact that Eelektross worked really hard to help the twins and the protags and I thought Emmet would definitely be bery proud of him and give him a lot of treats afterward !

Aaand that's all for today, it seems I tend to draw him a little more than Ingo. I don't have favorite tho, I'm just addicted to Emmet's smile and I absolutely love to draw it !

Btw I just found the screenshot I mentionned earlier

ISN'T HE PERFECT ?!!! I-

[silverior968]

Banban be thy gartens

This one has a really niche reference: I noticed Sheriff Toadster has stitch marks on his back, and as it so happens my great-grandfather was H.H Ussing, a renowned danish biochemist who documented how ions travel across frog skin. So I gave my design of Toadster my great-grandfather's glasses :]

[Image ID: A digital drawing of a redesign of Sheriff Toadster from Garten of Banban. He's drawn as an anthropromorphic gray-brown toad with a wide grin and yellow, rectangle-pupiled eyes. He has rounded rectangular glasses taped to his face and a too-small cowboy hat. His face and arms have darker spots clustered on them like freckles, along with darker spots resembling eyebrows on his face. His outfit consists of a yellow button-up shirt with rolled up sleeves, a dark red neck kerchief, a brown vest with a star on the left side, a brown belt with a gold-colored buckle and some sort of belt bag, brown trousers and dark brown boots molded to fit his feet. They have spurs on them. He's standing with his hands on his hips. The background is Marty Robbins Gunfighter Ballads pink. The right side of the image has an initial sketch of his design with the text "first design" and a picture of his in-game model, with the text "canon design". The artist's signature, Silverior968, is written to his left in black. / End ID]