#this was fun to deconstruct

[toneelspeelster]

marsad aurangzeb

[demonkinguwu]

Stp doodles :p

[meme-loving-stuck]

tumblr sees it first, Rainbones. the first in a series

Song is of course "Jade Sylph" by Frank Haught

[missescalientee]

My designs for past rulers made for this au they've only been mentioned and haven't made an official appearance yet, but one of them might :]

The colored one is Protea, named after the flower, I think on the canon comics line of rulers she would be Pippy (her nickname in my lore) her son is King Peppy, and ofc her granddaughters are Queen Poppy and Princess Viva!

[anethiawoods]

playing slay the princess as intended (watching your friend stream it and then roleplaying as improvised ocs for each of ur runs)

[da-janela-lateral]

I'm extremely sure Undertale fans have to watch Mob Psycho 100 and Mob Psycho 100 fans have to play Undertale. I'm being serious right now. These are sibling works do you understand.

[pyxehastoomanyinterests]

thinking of the damsel route where the princess turns into an anime girl. thinking about how the mere act of questioning her autonomy made her lose it. because viewing her as brainless made her so. because our perceptions shape who she is, and by not believing her simple want we are not believing her existence as an original person. thinking about how she's a person until we decide she's not being "person enough"

[tangled-wires-and-a-dead-heart]

Haven't really had the energy to draw any full pieces but I still want to draw stuff so enjoy these assorted sketches of various princesses (+ the shifting mound up in the corner)

[anthurak]

“I can handle this one. You know, if you’re not up to it.”

I feel like there’s something INTERESTING about the framing and demeanor of Loona here.

First there is the fact that Loona is volunteering to go slaughter a sweet, innocent, picturesque family. A family that Blitzo even starts seeing himself, Stolas and their daughters in.

But also the fact that Loona isn’t completely oblivious to Blitzo’s discomfort here like you might normally expect in a scene like this. You know, like how Blitzo was completely oblivious and even belittling of Moxxie’s discomfort back in Murder Family.

Indeed, Loona seems PARTICULARLY aware of and tuned into Blitzo’s discomfort and is offering to spare him that. Like she gets that murdering this family is pretty messed up and uncomfortable for Blitzo.

Which I feel really gives this interaction the vibe of something we might see in a very grim horror or war story where a character has to do something very dark and reprehensible, like murdering an innocent family, only for one of their friends/comrades to sympathetically offer to do it themself and spare that character the horror. Sometimes because the friend/comrade has done similarly dark things themselves in the past. A very ‘let me pull the trigger and spare you the guilt’ moment.

Maybe this is more because of the posts I’ve recently done on Loona’s fucked-up backstory, but I can’t help but wonder if this might be HINTING at said fucked-up-backstory.

As in, is this Loona basically going ‘I know this is fucked up because I’ve done this before’…?

[icarrymany]

the mh comics open up such an interesting narrative for our few surviving characters. to them, what happened in the videos was real, but to everyone else its a cool creative web series. when all of that is viewed as fiction, fans have a freedom to speculate about and invade the lives and privacy of real people. and that would be so uncomfortable and terrifying. imagine someone irl having headcanons about YOU. writing fan fiction about you and your real friends. assuming things about you PUBLICLY ! IN MASS!

wouldnt it be so cool to see a character grapple with that in like a self-reflective way? fans asking questions the muse is too afraid to ask themselves. of course, theyre the only person the answer matters to.

[communistkenobi]

decolonial scholarship has some of the funniest citational practices of any discipline ive been exposed to

[clownakai]

Today’s a pleasant Saturday, and after having a good laugh at the "The reviews are in" post, I thought I’d dive into an intersting theory about the possible connection between Gin and Mary :)

Shared Phrases (?) Both Gin and Mary are the only characters to say, “It’s like encountering a demon in the darkness.” Similarly, Tsutomu and Shuichi are the only ones who’ve said, “The fault is 50/50.” I mean.. it's pretty obivious from just here already.

Appearance In terms of appearance, Mary, Sera, Akai, and Gin share two notable features: green eyes and distinct lines under their lower eyelids. Mary also has platinum hair, much like Gin’s.

Mary’s shrinking instead of being killed Mary’s shrinking, rather than being executed by BO, is particularly strange. After all, BO is notorious for ruthless efficiency—why use APTX 4869 instead of simply shooting her? The idea of sparing an enemy with a “golden medicine” that took years of research feels uncharacteristically merciful for BO. Their usual motto of “leave no trace” makes this decision seem odd and deliberate.

The boss’s decision to let Mary live seems to be a carefully calculated trap. It’s confirmed that Sherry’s mother and Mary are biological sisters (as the author has stated that Akai and Sherry are cousins). This means Mary and Sherry share familial genes as aunt and niece, making their bodies react similarly to the drug. I believe Gin may have known early on that Sherry was alive and was aware of Kudo's survival as well. Therefore, Gin and the boss know that Mary will survive this drug as well. Gin likely hinted this to the boss and orchestrated events to leave Mary alive. Why? They will use Mary as a bait to retrieve the antidote.

If BO were to capture Sherry, she’d likely refuse to cooperate. If they killed her, they’d lose their only chance at the antidote. Raising Sherry, funding her studies abroad, and investing years in her research suggests how vital she is to the boss’s plans. Killing Kudo would also be out of the question—Sherry’s guilt over Kudo’s predicament is what drives her to work on the antidote. If Kudo were killed, Sherry might even commit suicide, leaving BO without their much needed antiodote.

Mary’s shrinking seems to be a part of the boss’s larger scheme to manipulate Sherry. By targeting Mary, someone closely tied to Sherry and the silver bullet Akai, the boss ensures that all roads lead back to Sherry. This clever and cost-effective strategy leverages Mary’s condition to force Sherry’s hand, ensuring she stays within BO’s reach. In the process, it draws in powerful agencies like the FBI, CIA, and MI6, all of whom may unwittingly aid the boss’s agenda. In the end, the trap wasn’t just for Mary—it was a strategic move to draw out Sherry and secure BO’s ultimate goal: the antidote. This theory further supports the idea that Mary and Gin might be related, potentially as mother and son. Otherwise she wouldn't have been alive until now.

Hello anon! Just so you know this was a delightful surprise to find in my inbox today :3 I think I reread the whole thing like four times before even thinking of doing anything else djsjfsk I love theories so much💥💥💥

(Everything else is under the cut because I ended up yapping too much. I'm so sorry)

I really like this theory, especially since it indirectly covers for the fact that Masumi (partly due to Mary's orders as she's getting more and more impatient) hasn't exactly been subtle in her attempts to get the temporary antidote and has generally been very liberal with the information she has about Conan and Haibara's identities, talking about it in public and even getting overheard (granted, Subaru isn't the issue here, and it's not a guarantee that she's being tailed 24/7 as that would be a bit of a hassle to keep up, but still). One would think that they'd have been found out by now, given that the BO is now fully certain of Masumi's existence and relations (Vermouth on the Mystery Train my beloved & beloathed... Girl why r u so evil) and, as minimal as it is, she does represent a threat, but nothing has happened to either of them yet.

I do think that the point about the BO's decision to use the poison is a little shaky, seeing as it's been explicitly stated to leave no trace on the body— which actually fits pretty well with their motto, and we do glimpse a pretty long list of people it's been used on a few times throughout the manga (we only see a few names, but it's speculated to be much longer than what is shown), so it would seem that the BO has been using it semi-regularly when they wanted more down-low executions.

There was also no guarantee that Mary would react the same way to the APTX even with a possible genetic advantage observed in Shiho (and without knowing exactly what they were looking for, I'm fairly sure trying to compare the two's DNA in order to confirm their theory would be really difficult if not outright impossible in such a short timespan, and that's if you don't consider the absence of the person who knows the most about the APTX in the first place and could have sped things up if she was there). <- sidenote: I feel like I may have misread this point of the theory, so my interpretation and objection could be completely off bc it's not what you were talking about djsnfns

That said, I find the point about ensuring a direct line to Sherry through familial relations very interesting, in the sense that it made me stop and ask myself how she would react upon finding out that she has more living family still, but over half of them are people who she may see as having caused her grief/major discomfort at best. Would her wish to connect to her family be stronger than her self-preservation (along with the fact that she doesn't really know these people and therefore has no emotional attachment to them, not even as abstract idealized family)? I'm genuinely not sure, but the BO banking on this, possibly because having essentially groomed her they know her weaknesses best, is very juicy.

Honestly, thanks to that post (and a few delightful conversations about it), I do think that making Mary and Gin related in some way would be like. Really really funny. It'd also probably piss off a lot of people, but it'd be so funny.

And, given Gosho's magic retconning powers, I have come to the conclusion that Gin being Elena and Mary's brother that nobody ever talks about for some reason would be peak comedy. It even gives the whole "Elena and her husband received an offer they couldn't say no to because it'd let them continue their research" thing a new layer of context if you consider that Gin may have been the one who brought them to the Boss's attention.

This is also brought to you by my superficial genetics liker ass who says "Tsutomu's hair is brown and Mary's is blond. Brown is a dominant gene while blond is recessive, so unless Tsutomu's genotype was heterozygous (which we unfortunately can't know without the rest of his family tree. Also Gosho only seems to care about genetics from time to time) Gin should also have brown hair".

Also it's infinitely funnier if this is all a very complicated example of what Cain's Instinct looks like. Imagine playing the long game for literal decades because you want your siblings dead but it should also wipe out the rest of the family. Insane

[fortune-maiden]

Looking at the requirements for the new Pristine Cut ending and….

other than maybe Deconstructed Damsel and Razor this route feels impossible ;w;

Edit: oh! Stranger counts for this too!

[apollokyler]

🌞ЛУЧЕЗАРНОЕ СОЛНЦЕ🌞 в твоей власти согреть меня, спалить дотла, либо, отвернувшись, превратить в лёд.

aquarius sun imagery and would you also see? crossing the sky in might and glory, the Sun lits up the earth, and It sees everything, and It guides, and It judges; it's bright when It faces you, and it's warm when It stretches Its arms towards you, and it burns when It strikes you, and it's cold when It turns away, and it's dark when It disappears, but It is there even when It's out of sight, and even then It proves Its presence with the solar wind embracing the night

posting it when it's dark already and i miss the sun… i love the sun and i also love aquarius camus and it just so happens- anyway my statement is that i think camus is supposed to be sun symbolism. both his red and teal hair colors are just like aurora borealis, referenced in his attack, which is the sun wind itself. then aurora is the roman goddess of the dawn, her greek counterpart being eos, for which you can sometimes see an iconography of her holding vases pouring out the morning dew… it's rare and i need to research it more… aside from that the solar wind spreads over the sky like wine the aquarius pours… and is so beautifully like proof that the sun is around… don't you also think it's a powermove hyoga learns it because *starts crying* this is only one aspect of it though... i will think about it more… stay tuned

[ardent-apostasy]

fun things to discover as an apostate, in no particular order:

pop music. yes, that includes artists like taylor swift and sam smith, and even songs like imagine (!!)

costumes. cute ones, scary ones, pop culture ones, historical ones, skimpy ones, modest ones. all of them.

clothing. you get to dress how you want to, irrespective of who might "stumble" or whether you fit binary gender stereotypes.

the human body. the skeletal system, the reproductive system, all of it.

october. enjoy the pumpkins. go out in public, go out shopping, and do it all without the fear of halloween.

colors. red is more than hell. orange and black are more than halloween. (rainbows are more than lgbtq+ or noah.)

boundaries. you don't have to tell every stranger your life story. you don't have to prepare to tell the truth (profess jesus) at gunpoint.

yoga. that's right, you can stretch and meditate and do all these things, and it won't get you possessed or sent to hell.

(i say "fun" because there are plenty of not-fun things.)

((if you see this and have other recs for fun things to discover as an apostate, pls share!))

[mantisgodsdomain]

Anyways, to those who have been wondering what we've been doing during our impromptu Tumblr Vacation or whatever we're calling it, we've been trying to find a playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3 that is made by someone who doesn't annoy the shit out of us, and also tormenting Karlach Cliffgate (as you do)