the-true-tulpar-captain

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

jimmy only love me when he wanna get high

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

i think that the phenomenon of people ignoring / leaving out swansea should be studied because there is a LOT of implicit fatphobia and ageism in that that people don't realize.

and even when people do include him in posts, he often gets boiled down to just being a father figure, which is yet another product of ageism- he's not really that fatherly in the game at all, but the only way that some people can really see an older man like him is as a father, so that's what he gets reduced to.

again, it's all implicit and subconscious more often than not, so it isn't like people are actively trying to be harmful in the way that they perceive him and exclude him, but it's important to recognize these schools of thought and call them out for what they are to nip them in the bud in order to seriously engage with the game on a critical level.

it can also manifest in actual explicitly fat-related jokes, which in and of themselves aren't necessarily indicative of anything, but when people are both dismissive of him as a character, dismissing his impact on the story and reducing him down to what they think an older man should be WHILE making these jokes, it's very clear that there are some very harmful biases at play.

i've been thinking of making this post for a while but what really pushed me to was a conversation i had in a server with someone who would not engage with the idea of swansea as a character outside of making jokes about him being fat, and when i pointed this out, they said theyd say it about anyone, that it wasn't because he was the only fat character, and then later that they couldn't be assed to understand what i meant when i explained how they and a good handful of people see him is really weird. this on top of a few artists i've seen who would draw every character MINUS swansea in a piece. these sorts of conversations need to be held! people will do and say these things without realizing the subconscious thought processes that motivate their actions, so it needs to be said that there ARE these biases and this DOES happen so that people can, at the very least, be aware of it.

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

It isn't that bad but Curly loved it so I hate it and want it gone.

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

Two fawning fawns. 🦌🐺

I haven't drawn any big digital art pieces in months 😅 But then I played Mouthwashing back in November, and it kinda changed my life. It's been rotating in my brain constantly since.

But after like 2 weeks of on and off work I finished my first fanart piece 🙏

I recognized that these two showed fawning trauma response signs when I read their dialogue, so I did my best to portray that dynamic between the characters in a metaphorical sense using animals.

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

"Doesn't sound like you're very sorry-" [He sniffed, continuing to drag her. He didn't really have any intent of using the airlock, they got docked for that after all, but she didn't have to know that.]

*approaches and flops on the floor*

- @responsible-intern

"........ I'll drag you to the airlock if you stay down there you know. The floors are filthy dude."

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

"Watch me-" Jimmy grumbled, padding over and grabbing her ankle with startling strength, dragging her over.

*approaches and flops on the floor*

- @responsible-intern

"........ I'll drag you to the airlock if you stay down there you know. The floors are filthy dude."

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

hi Jimmy!! is your refrigerator running?

"I don't think it can, it's literally bolted to the floor and the wall."

"...." "Wait you meant- ah. Yeah, it's fine."

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

*approaches and flops on the floor*

- @responsible-intern

"........ I'll drag you to the airlock if you stay down there you know. The floors are filthy dude."

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

grips you hamster style stop tagging injured curly as body horror. stop tagging injured curly as body horror. stop tagging injured curly as body horror. lost limbs/intense injury isn't body horror, it's a genuine thing that happens to people all the time and it's intensely disrespectful to do such a thing. if you really wanna trigger tag, trigger tag with "injury tw" or "blood tw" or shit like that. stop using body horror in reference to injured curly. it is used as a horror element, and it is horrific within itself, but ultimately, it is not body horror in such a way that such a tag would be anything but disrespectful. I have a lot of thoughts about this but I'm keeping this short so people actually read it, so.

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

"Firstly, no, I never get jealous thank you. And secondly, even if I did, which I would never because that's fucking silly, I think I would be justified. But I'm not, and I'm still justified."

"... Curly. Why did you replace Grey and I with a rock. Again." [ @the-true-tulpar-captain ] [ thought I sent this earlier, head in hands]

You haven't been replaced! Darcy and Darlene are their own individuals who happen to share positions on the Tulpar with you both!

Why are you so adamant that Darcy and Darlene are out to get you? 😟 Darcy, Darlene, you guys aren't trying to replace Jimmy and Grey, right?

[.... They are rocks.]

See? They're our friends!

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

"I- I don't think they're out to get us, I just think it's a little silly to have literal chunks of granite sharing places with us. How do you even arrange shifts like that?? There's only two pilot chairs, only one intern bedroom, that seems to imply something >:c"

"... Curly. Why did you replace Grey and I with a rock. Again." [ @the-true-tulpar-captain ] [ thought I sent this earlier, head in hands]

You haven't been replaced! Darcy and Darlene are their own individuals who happen to share positions on the Tulpar with you both!

Why are you so adamant that Darcy and Darlene are out to get you? 😟 Darcy, Darlene, you guys aren't trying to replace Jimmy and Grey, right?

[.... They are rocks.]

See? They're our friends!

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

hes like if an anime girl had no redeeming qualities

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

Same perpetrator, different types of abuse...

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

DAD!

Are you aware Grant has replaced us with fucking rocks?

apparently one is a fully qualified pilot, and the other is an intern.

did space make him loopy or something??

- @responsible-intern

We're doing the rock thing again?? Fucking Curly....... I'll go talk to him I guess. And maybe, he has been looking to escape this bucket of a spaceship, so I don't doubt the possibility.

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

[skuttles in nervously] [so uh. didja miss me?]

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

[No, pop off king, fucking thank you!!!] [Me too :/]

Can you trigger tag for J*mmy please?

[,,,,,,,,, have you. have you considered that this may not be the blog for you?]

[the-true-tulpar-captain]

[I wanna highlight this part that the rb above me said: "and a lobotomized person is disabled! they have lost parts of themselves that help them function as a human being! thats called being disabled"] [This was said perfectly, I just wanna expand on it a little] [Disability is not a punishment. It is a thing that someone has to live with and accommodate around. This goes for Curly, this goes for Jimmy, this goes for anyone. Disability is not a punishment and should not be treated/enacted as such.]

[Okay, I'm done meow, thank you for the additional points OP, I just thought that was a really good piece of additional stuff]

"lobotomized jimmy art is bad and ableist" actually its. its not. no one is doing it because he's schizophrenic, we're lobotomizing him because he emotionally abused his friend, raped a woman, crashed the ship to avoid responsibility for the rape, had his bestfriend maimed and blamed his disfigured friend for it, abused his bestfriend since he makes curly groan and writhe and cause him pain which is technically physical abuse, fed said disfigured friend his own leg, literally MURDERED a man and caused the deaths of many others and ATE a man's leg.

how the fuck are you gonna say that he doesn't deserve it. his mental illness(es) dont excuse his actions, dont fucking baby or infantalize mentally ill people. his mental illness(es) dont excuse him from going through the consequences.

and also, he's a fucking fictional character. grow UP. there is no personhood to deprive him of because he is NOT a person. the more you claim he has a personality, the more you humanize him. youre falling for jimmy's manipulation in the fucking game. dont be braindead. dont berate people for making content you dont like. instead of making a fuss about it, maybe just BLOCK and SCROLL..? cause that's free too. stop acting like a moral hero for fandom, we already have enough of those.

if you hate the whole lobotomized jimmy gets fucked by curly thing then... dont view it. scroll away, it's so fucking easy. yes youre disturbed by it but is it really the creator's fault that their creation made YOU disturbed? do you suddenly have the right to say that the creator making FICTIONAL FANWORK THAT HURTS NO ONE is a disgusting person? no, you dont! youre just an entitled asshole.

you have your own right to have your own distates in fiction but dont shame said tastes and others who enjoy it. i dont like the lobotomized jimmy thing too much but i DONT shit on others for it. i dont act like its some unholy and awful thing to enjoy because its a fictional concept.