#yes i did LOL

[darrx-moon]

Artwork Analysis time!

I went though the P5R design works book and uhhh I already thought there was a lot to analyze about the cover art, and after seeing the scrapped design it made me want to analyze it again^^

P5R spoilers ahead:

Joker

• Him being the only one sitting in both versions kinda feels like he’s comfortable with where he’s at in life, a good balance between Akechi and Maruki’s views, but closer to Akechi.

• Joker’s actual shadow being hidden (probably there because that’s how light works but I wouldn’t know cause I’m terrible at knowing where shadows go-) made me think of P4 and that he’s come to terms with repressed parts of himself basically.

• One hand reaching up to his glasses and the other in his pocket in comparison to the scrapped version where both hands are out, tells me 2 things-

That the one in his pocket parallels with Maruki who also has his hand in his pocket, probably about how the two of them have a past that isn’t shared with others (for Joker it was shared with Sojiro, Sae, and the PT by his own choice, the rest of it being shared with all of Shujin outside his control), and that they’d rather keep it to themselves. For Joker, it’s not like it’s kept to himself out of shame or guilt, but more so that his past didn’t really need to control his life and thus doesn’t need to constantly be brought up to anyone.

And secondly, the hand reaching up alludes to the ending where Joker takes off his glasses (and mask in the reflection of the bullet train window). It also keeps Joker looking confident while also adding a deeper meaning compared to the original design of his pose for the cover art.

Akechi

• In the scrapped version he appears more sinister (mostly thanks to the shading choice and tilt of his head), though the decision to have him look confident but in a calm(?) sort of way could indicate the more nuanced Akechi seen in Royal as opposed to the more antagonistic force seen in Vanilla.

• His shadow is most likely behind him and thus can’t be scene, and it’s also due to the fact that his face has the most focus while the rest of him is less seen compared to everyone else. I’d like to think it’s because you only need to see his face and positioning on the stairs to understand that he’s made his decision to be in control of his life and not making any exceptions, so there’s no insight into potential uncertainty in his pose or hands since they aren’t in frame.

• It’s also very fitting that he’s the furthest away from Maruki, seeing as he wholeheartedly rejected the Maruki’s ideals.

Sumire

• She’s the only one actively walking on the stairs, signifying both her deliberation over the decision she has to make in third semester and perhaps a false sense of moving forward. It could be that when she made the decision to ask Maruki for her to become Kasumi, as well as when she actually thought she was Kasumi, that she believed she was moving forward in life, getting better. But going up the steps would lead her to where Maruki is, actually running away instead.

• The difference in Sumi’s literal shadow in the 2 versions is drastic and tells a bigger story in the final version imao. The shadow can be seen as her repressed self again, or as the actual Kasumi, reaching out to either catch up with Sumi or to try and keep her back where she was near Joker. Where Sumi is looking tells that she would only be able to see it in her peripheral at most, also connecting to the fact that part of her was aware what she was running away but she didn’t want to admit it.

• I take her staring in the same direction as Akechi and Joker to just mean that she’s unintentionally fooling the audience, unintentional because she thinks of herself as Kasumi most of the game, and fooling because she’s giving the impression of like “yeah this is me!” sort of thing.

Maruki

• He’s both the furthest away and the only one whose eye’s aren’t visible, his head turned to face elsewhere too- all of which signify the emotional distance he keeps from everyone.

• In the scrapped art, his pose is almost similar but is a lot more carefree and slightly more open with the hand behind his head. In the finalized one, he keeps up the unbothered pose while subtly keeping to himself with not just distance but with his ankle crossing over the other, still having a hand in the pocket, and drinking apple juice with the arm closer to him instead of up-

• Which leads me to the apple juice, immediately thinking of the fact that he likes the drink but also that it could illustrate drowning out sorrows like one can choose to do with alcohol (he’s done it before). It’s just an apple juice here because uhh apple juice and also because it signifies the pure bond he had with Rumi seen with his talk about sweet and salty snacks with her from his past- just 2 lovebirds ^^

• Not only does him being at the top of the stairs provide him with distance, but it also parallels to the fact that Joker and the PT have to climb a staircase to get to Maruki to fight him. This also connects back to Sumi going up the stairs and how Joker had to fight her and save her.

• As for his shadow, it’s not too far away from him but just enough to indicate that while he’s steadfast in his ideals, he hasn’t come to terms with his inner self and past yet due to never taking a proper moment to settle with himself and stop running from the past.

In conclusion? Probably overanalyzed all this tbh-

Ya’ll can ask me what to analyze next…I love focusing on all the little details!

[saltcxrcle]

YESYESYES IM A FIRM BELIEVER THAT SAM USES UR TATAS AS STRESS BALLS!!! LIKE IDK I CAN JS SEE HIM LIKE SQUEEZING THEM N STUFF, ESPECIALLY S1 SAM LIKE YEAH

also i feel like one of the things sam does with his partner is they js lay shirtless, like totally sfw but it’s js a way like when u guys r tired from a hunt but what that skin-on-skin contact u guys js cuddle with no shirts on and like he’ll js look at them and he tries no to but i feel like he’s js so mesmerised by boobs like in his head he’s js like “how r boobs so pretty” like i feel like it comes from him looking in a porn mag that belonged to dean or john and like that was the first thing he saw and yeah he js loves them tbh idk how to explain it, but he especially loves urs bc like they’re part of u and he loves u

also then like i feel like if u guys had a kid (ik none of us want kids but like id have a kid with sam but it’ll never happen bc he’s not real so im not having a kid lmao) but he’d js have a completely new found appreciation for boobs like he’s like “not only r they pretty, not only do they belong to the loml, but they’re keeping our kid alive” and he’s js amazed like “wow” fucking starstruck type shi

also posted a hc on mari’s blog (idk if it was her current one or old one) abt sam tryna outsass a cat if he had one, idk if i mentioned this bit but the cat would most certainly make biscuits on ur chest and he’d try outsass the cat in them moments and if he had his head on ur chest the cat would make biscuits on his face and you’d just laugh but he’d get very invested in a sass battle with the cat

ALSO I LOVE POKEMON GO IM GONNA COOK SOME HCS TO DO WITH THAT

-💽

UGHH YESS HE WOULD DO IT UNCONSCIOUSLY TOO

like he would always move his hand to grasp at least one of them and in the morning he has his hand cupping one of them and just holding it and squeezing it occasionally as he sleeps.

ACK YES I LOVE THIS HEADCANON!! needing to have skin-to-skin contact with sam is very intimate and most of the time its not sexual, he just needs to feel your warmth and your skin is so soft so he likes to nuzzle the skin there. and yeah he would admire your boobs and just kinda play with them (non sexual ofc) and yeah loves them a lot hehe

ughh yes he would be amazed at what your body can do and it literally grew your kid so he is just looks at you with awe and love being like wow this is the loml and she grew and carried our kid and i just can't help but worship her LOL

OMG YES IM SUCH A SAM CAT LOVER TRUTHER ARGHH (ik hes canonically a dog lover but like come on he's so cat coded its insane) but even though i feel like this is a dean move but comeon like sam would get jealous at your cat getting all of the attention and move them off of you and nuzzle your boobs and the cat just tries to paw at his face/nose to move and it would end up being a bit of a fight and playing around with each other before you guys settled for bed and makes you laugh at the 6'4 man fighting with an animal a quarter of his size

(also i had a headcanon he would have a maine coon to match the size of him because they are huge cats and i want one so bad T_T)

[allwaswell16]

Hii

Can you maybe be so kind and link the fic love hate & Clickbait? I searched for it on ao3 but couldn’t find it and it sounds really interesting!:)

Hi, anon! So Love, Hate & Clickbait isn't a fan fic, it's a published novel. Here's the link to it, if you want to check it out!

Edited to add: Anon, just so you know I TOTALLY looked through ao3 for the fic before I figured out it was a novel lol.

[bloodbending]

can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bootlickers, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

[faggot-md]

It's been 20 years today since David Shore looked at all the weirdos, cripples and faggots in the world and went pspspspsps

[leghorned]

[Savior Faire: Challenging] Bust a sick fucking move.

[noornight]

Long distance besties. This definitely happened after the third movie (source: trust me bro)

Based on this

[15teal]

[inkskinned]

she had taken all of the pronouns in my poems and turned them masculine. every she was he. every her was him. i wrote about women dipping their hands into the honey of my chest and she had changed it in this stark, violent way. men now, in my work. in my ribs, i guess. how odd, to stare at it.

i write a lot about worshipping at the knees of my girl. what sapphic can resist the allure of chapel-talk, the divine nature of what is ours and ours alone. her hair in your shower. her chapstick melting in your car. when we say holy here, it is a different meaning. it is the smithing of our own haloes from mix-tape cds. no hammer to the anvil - only our own palms, skin scorching. forging every astral ray with the prayer please don't leave. our bible a history that is never taught in high school. we shape a church from the tent of her arched back. what other word for hymn but her voice. her moaning.

a poem can be stripped of its component parts, maybe, but can it still breathe? is it still the same ship? the words this woman changed, biting and spiraling up at me: my man is holy. i worship at his feet. he is the divinity of saturdays and the wheat of my communion and he is the hushed summer's glorious release.

it's common knowledge that you can say a word too-many times, and then it loses meaning. but here was something new: it wasn't that the words had lost meaning, but rather that they had shifted in the air somehow and turned radioactive to me. all of my words were otherwise unchanged, except for the unkind and glowing eye of him.

ivory-tower glowing in my aorta, i thought about talking to her on the sanctimonious and erudite level. telling her: a poem can be changed, can be erased or added to or demolished or reconfigured; but we do try to respect the original author. i would tell her i would have preferred her not change only the pronouns; that her actions felt like censorship rather than collaboration.

in front of me: you cannot cut him out of me, i was made to love him. no scrubbing, no penance. i will always come back to this house, come back to loving men.

i thought about telling her why her actions were cannibalism, not care. i would tell her about being 18 and pressured by my catholic family to accept a man as a partner; how i'd dated him for 5 years before being able to escape. how abusive he had been. how he had made me kneel in front of him - that i wasn't using the word worship idly, but rather as a reclamation. how i had to be re-taught even the concept of faith. how when i learned peace again, it was by the hand of a woman.

i thought about telling her about the wound behind it, the unceasing loneliness. i thought about telling her shape of the small and quiet hours; the fear; the endless and unpretty nature of just being queer. i thought about saying: all of my work comes from a place of pain.

i thought about telling her everything. when i finally found the words, it was only one: why? in that was the summary of all i felt: why not write her own poem? why change it so violently? and why choose my work, if she disliked it so much? why me?

i imagine she shrugged when she responded. all i got was a single sentence: "i really like your work but i want to be able to enjoy it without being made uncomfortable."

on her insta, her pinned post is of her boyfriend - now husband - proposing. they were married in 2023. congratulations. i really do hope she's happy.

i hope one day it stops hurting.

[theofficialpresidentoftheusa]

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury…………they fucked in that Honda odyssey……I rest my case thank u

[trypo-p]

The gang's all here!

[reagan-the-saunders]

The Dread Wolf's Eyes

[gludgenbell]

Hi I'm still alive btw have some disciple ver. bingyuan

found little binghe in the woodshed with a ruined hand :(

[idiotsonlyevent]

i wonder where the idea of chilchuck being a deadbeat came from when theres like. no textual evidence for it ?

he knows what all of them are up to; he still writes to flertom and she sent him his neckwarmer, so that to me implies that they at least have a somewhat positive relationship?

its more ambiguous with meijack and puckpatti, but since meijack is also a picklock, i wouldn't be surprised if he taught her himself, considering how trades are often passed down through families, and because he talks about sending people to her if he dies.

also the way he talks about puckpatti is very like... it's obvious he wants her to take things more seriously, but he's accepting, and his tone here reads more fond to me than anything else.

like, he keeps his daughters' old toys under his desk? that doesn't scream 'deadbeat' at all, it screams 'empty nester' who doesn't know how to reach out or is scared to do so

EDIT: i know a lot of the 'deadbeat dad' stuff is jokes, but some people are Not joking and genuinely think chilchuck is a bad dad. this post is not saying that you cant joke about it; it is just outlining what canon shows regarding his (clearly positive) relationship with his kids.

[the-shitpost-wizard]

Teenage boys will literally say “no homo” and then kiss each other on the mouth.

[rubyvroom]

So your Spotify Wrapped Kind of Sucked

This is probably our cosmic punishment for relying on such a shady platform. But still: I have this whole year of data? Just sitting there? I'd like to do something with it?

First the classic Stats for Spotify 

Or Instead: Obscurify

Or: Instafest

mine cuts off weirdly for some reason, but my computer is ancient so that's probably it.

Or: Iceburgify

And how about: Volt.fm

OR GET ROASTED

Go forth and make data visualizations!