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[r0semultiverse]

Small indie artists in need of support for moving out by September!

💜 These lovely folks [@QuinsCurse (they/them) & @sswitchblade03 (xe/xem and he/him)] are part of a small queer-owned Youtube community I'm in. 💖

💖 If you could lend a helping hand by reblogging & queueing this post up until the start of September, I'd greatly appreciate it & I'm sure these fine folks would too! 💜

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"Hi everyone! Requests are officially closed as I am opening emergency commissions! Please consider supporting me as we are getting kicked out and have managed to find a place that’s affordable but need to save up 5k by the end of the month! Anything helps! I also have a dontations page if you are willing to help do that! All the money received from commissions will be going to the deposit! https://ko-fi.com/quinscurse/commissions https://ko-fi.com/quinscurse/goal?g=32"

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"https://ko-fi.com/sswitchblade03/commissions https://ko-fi.com/sswitchblade03/goal?g=0 EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS!! My roommate ‪@QuinsCurse‬and I are needing about $5000CAD for a down payment on a new place as we need to be out of our current place by September! Every bit counts! My goal is to be set to $3000CAD. I will draw anything (coloured and rendered) for $5 CAD each! If you are willing to give more it will be appreciated. Examples of my work below!"

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[neversetyoufree]

So while I've seen a thousand jokes about this scene and Noé slapping a snapchat filter over the rat bastard in his memories, I do think it's worth analyzing what goes on here, because it's just a really well-executed example of how memories change with time and fondness.

Most of the posts I've seen have contrasted this shot of Vanitas to this one from chapter 1:

and that makes sense! They're both similar shots of him standing at the top of the steps in front of the windows, and they're also the faces that make for the biggest contrast between the two versions of the scene.

However! If you look at the actual dialogue, this super-romanticized shot of Vani isn't entirely from Noé's memory of Vanitas's speech on the podium. It's more complicated than that. Just like what often happens with real memories, when Noé recollects Vanitas's request to use his strength, he blends it with other memories of the same scene.

In the original version of this conversation, the "lend me your strength" line comes while Vanitas and Noé are still standing on the same level. This is the moment that the dialogue from the romanticized memory comes from,

and you can see immediately before and after this moment that Noé and Vanitas are still together on the lower church floor.

Vanitas only heads up the stairs to the windows/podium once he's well into his final "I will save you whether you like it or not" speech, which is what he's saying in that especially manic/bloody panel that I posted above.

When this moment flashes through Noé's mind at the start of chapter 52, he blurs the whole thing together rather than pulling any accurate memory. He puts Vanitas on top of the stairs by the window, the most dramatic and memorable staging from that scene, and has him say his "be my shield" line, the part where he's reaching out to Noé personally. Beyond the romanticized snapchat filter aesthetic of the memory, the very basics of the words and staging of the scene betray how Noé misremembers that moment.

In chapter 1, Noé reacts to "lend me your strength" with flat disinterest and "I will save you without fail" with borderline horror. In 52, however, memory Noé reacts to the blended mix of those two moments with tender admiration, showing how he's now come to view Vanitas.

Every single thing about those two pages of flashback works to show how Noé's view of Vanitas has changed. (And also to provide a contrast to the violence that immediately follows it, lol).

It's just a really well-executed example of how romanticized memories actually work in people's heads. Everything blurs together until only the best and grandest parts of the moment are left, and only then does it get the fluffy beautiful filter. And this treatment tells us so much about Noé's feelings on Vanitas at the time.

[sforzesco]

the king and queen from aucassin and nicolette! french medieval texts have a lot of fun with gender. generally, medieval texts are having fun a lot of fun with gender, and I am having a lot of fun reading them! I did an illustration in the same vein about medieval priests and translation awhile back, and completely forgot I meant to follow it up with this lmao

edit: INCREDIBLE I used the signature for my other blog with this illustration. alas! I'm not going back into photoshop to format it a second time

Medieval Trans Lives in Anamorphosis: Looking Back and Seeing Differently, Blake Gutt

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[the-nation-of-today]

And in the end we found our stage We gave these words of strength

[rogdona]

we were finally getting some progress on the group thing AND SHE DELETES EVERYTHING BUT THE INTRODUCTIONNNNNN💔💔💔💔

[redysetdare]

Got hit in the face with amatonormativity today when my coworker was talking abt romance with a customer and said "Life is not meant to be spent alone" and in my head I was like... maybe YOU can't be happy alone but I sure am!

And b4 anyone goes commenting this, this was in explicit reference to having a romantic partner. don't come on here being like "but she's right because friendship and family!" you know that's not what this is about.

[butterflysonnets]

all i can imagine right now is teenage theo’s stupid gay ass listening to the 2004 re-release of mr. brightside by the killers (because, yknow, vegas) on repeat while bitching about kotku in his stupider gayer journal and then having an internal crisis wondering why mr. brightside speaks to him so viscerally

[yago-undertale]

uh... hello guys, how are you? I hope so because... personally I'm not doing very well... at the moment I'm very... overwhelmed with everything that's going on in my life this month, even though the month is just starting haha, but it's a fact that I don't have answered questions in the meantime, given the fact that I don't have time... look, it may seem silly but let me explain, imagine this... you spend the whole day at school from 6am to 4pm and I still have to do some tasks at home and after that you have to do a presentation project worth 7 points but you still have to draw so you don't worry about annoying the people who follow you and then making you more worried and agitated for fear of you not doing a good job thus making you truly do a bad job due to total nervousness! and when you realize...

...

You realize that it's been 5 hours and you haven't been able to rest, much less make any kind of progress on the things that haven't made you rest for the same reason that you're exhausted, but instead of sleeping and resting, you're guided only by your emotions , you decide to stay up until 2 or 3 am leaving you with a total of 3 hours of sleep, you understand what I'm getting at, right? I'm not saying that I don't like drawing or anything like that, I'm just saying that at the moment I'm very overwhelmed... and I can't think straight about drawings, of course, that doesn't happen. It doesn't mean I'm going to leave Tumblr or anything like that, I'm just saying that until things calm down I won't post many drawings here, I can still post some training animations or simple doddles, but at the moment these drawings are all worked with dt and a responding scenario questions will be left aside I apologize for not wanting to disappoint you I promise..! but this is necessary for my physical... and mental health... forgive me...i really dont wanted to..

In the momment i just want to talk with someone..

-Yago Undertale, aka the creator of Au

[screwpinecaprice]

So sleepy, having RLS, having some 3 am thoughts.

What if monster Steven is his body literally splitting apart due to how mentally and physically unstable he's gotten, and the scales are holograms.

[bloomingsalma]

i think one of the most disappointing things is to see that your childhood friends have grown up to represent the kind of people you're disappointed in

[lemonhemlock]

not to be a hater on main but i just stumbled on a tik tok claiming that tsh both takes itself too seriously and could use more absurd comedy and it nearly made me punch a wall

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[melting-sugar-cubes]

♡Textless/clean edit of the color spread page for TGR, Case 18♡

{Please like or reblog rather than reposting, thank you~♡}

[retributory]

i have to prevent myself from jumping in and saying something when people who haven't finished 2ha non-jokingly call mo ran stupid or cruel and so forth because it's like. they don't know they haven't finished it they don't know what i do. but also leave my princess alone don't spread these lies about him he is actually a sweet and genuine and kind young man the mo ran that plucks worms up and places them in the grass so they don't dry up in the sun is the real mo ran. someone that is very boundlessly kind towards life even the most virtuous of people might find worthless. don't let me catch you slandering him again

[kintatsujo]

don't make fun of people who bold or italicize the emphasized words in posts like a western style comic

it's a reading aid.

some people do it because they need it, to follow text more easily.

[co5oo]

close your eyes, keep your mouth shut in this, our world!!