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If I ever crocheted dazai I would treat him the same way people treat their plushies

I'd even take it a step further and try my hardest to recreate this Kunikida Fantasy™ because it's actually so unhinged:

Screamer vs Rumble >:3

Though the air commander fought impressively, it was ultimately bested in psychic combat by the crafty cassette! Oof! Better luck next time, Screamy!

the point of art is not to be great but to make it transparently obvious that there is something wrong with you

I know low - extreme ride intensity is all pretty subjective so just answer however related to however you feel about it! 🎢

(And feel free to put your number and additional thoughts in the tags if you're curious about your mutuals' amusement park thoughts 👀)

They should invent a me that isn't tried

Anyways uhhhh fukin

Making content I guess??

"I did it!" Brighid cried, breathless as she presented a horned, porcelain seashell painted with stripes of mauve and deepest pink. After seeing the pearls Argus had idly gathered from the seabed to occupy himself, Brighid had made up her mind to bring an ocean trinket of her own to the surface.

She had marched into the surf, only to realize--in her peculiar way--that she no longer possessed the watertight circuitry and plasteel certainty of a service android. She had let out an involuntary yelp the instant the water was deep enough for her feet to leave the sandy floor and her corporeal instincts urged her to swim. Argus had watched her eyes go wide as shock turned to panic, and panic turned to gridlock. The waves knocked her off balance and she floundered, sputtering and gasping like...well...a human woman who had spent the last 40,000 years in the body of a machine.

Argus was there in seconds, grasping her beneath the arms and lifting her head above the water in one effortless motion.

She gasped for a moment, clinging to his massive hands like a wet sheet, before she collected herself.

"I'm fine," she had said, scraping chunks of curly red hair away from her eyes. "I just have to try again."

Argus remained silent as, over the next hour, she reacquainted herself with the water.

"I want to try diving," she declared, looking up towards where Argus stood in the surf a few feet away. "Will you show me?"

"This isn't the best location," Argus replied slowly.

"Where did you find those pearls?" she gestured with her head to the tiny pile on the beach behind.

"There's a small reef by those stones," said the Space Marine. "Can you swim that far?"

Brighid squinted at a ridge of mossy grey rock nearly 500 feet away, the bridge of her nose crinkling in consideration.

"I think so," she declared, planting her hands on her hips.

Argus pursed his lips incredulously, warping the scars at the corner of his mouth.

"I will be close by," he said, knowing that she would attempt the feat no matter what his opinion on the matter was.

"I know," she said, grinning, and held out her hand.

Sparkling beads of seawater fell from her pale fingertips like drops of starlight, and as Argus reached out, he suddenly found himself following the curve of her arm to her freckled shoulder. The beginning stages of a sunburn was beginning to pinken her arms, back and cheeks. His stare lingered, taking in the way that the water and the sunlight turned the ripples of her hair into spun copper, like sheets of fine chainmail set alight. Her eyes, creased in a smile, were cut from the ocean itself and set into the alabaster mask of her face the way a silversmith would present a masterpiece.

The sleeveless white tank she wore clung to her skin, and Argus found himself transfixed by every delicate curve made by her body. She had always looked like a doll to him--something fragile that he needed to protect lest she shatter on a stone floor Argus hadn't been aware of.

Now, she appeared as something softer than that, something more like a snowflake or the new petals of a rose. A soap bubble cast in the shape of a woman, the whisper of daylight on linen sheets.

Suddenly, the gap between subspecies had never seemed wider, and Argus felt every bit like the brutal, ugly, rough creature that he was made to be.

-O-

More 40kRenegade content, featuring Argus and Brighid, an OC by @icantbelieveitsnotwormstm and I cannot stop drawing these two morons they don't even know they're in love

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Alright, OP, as someone who has heard you say that, that one's a little too real

I'm not entirely sure it needs a lot of discussion, I think you've made yourself pretty clear, but I'll discuss if I must.

Being technically correct is a lot of fun for someone like me, who has an intense need to be correct at all times. When I'm arguing with someone and I'm able to find evidence that I'm technically correct, and I get to see their reaction to that in one way or another, it's one of the most gratifying things in the world.

But goddamn, as someone who can technically say he's okay, I am in hell at all times. If you define "okay" as surviving and breathing and being able to work without too much trouble, then by all technicalities listed, I am completely fine. I am "technically okay". But that leaves out all the ways I am not okay. It leaves out my cornucopia of mental health issues. It leaves out my struggles with being organized. It leaves out my intense state of being lost. It leaves out all these little things that are all banding together to have a significant effect on my life right now. But by the technicalities listed, I am okay.

So, yeah, OP, you're right and you should say it.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct, but technically okay is the worst kind of okay. Discuss.

son. my son

Chapter 9 (Identity and Fatherhood) of Everyone Goes Feral in Hisui

Summary: Zorua ponders her place in the world. Ingo fights a steelix.

atp im just having fun

Look me in the eyes.

Your boots are clunky and don't match the rest of your outfit. The big nose looks silly.

You WISH your frames had the cohesive design mine do.

look me in the eyes and say that again

also you dont get to talk about ugly with the pink abomination in your profile

You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended

Punch him in the face!

All of this^^^

This got way too long, but whatever. SPOILERS for World's Beyond Number up to the end of Arc 3. One of my favorite parts about the world of Umora is its portrayal of institutions. This is also, unsurprisingly, one of the biggest sources of discourse around the series. With the completion of Arc 3, we are presented with two very distinct sides of a conflict: The Citadel vs The Man in Black. In general, though, a pretty clear motif has been The Citadel vs The Other (ostensibly spirits and nature) so I would argue that this categorization has existed long before lines were clearly drawn during the coven. Sadly, and unsurprisingly, this has led to a lot of takes that operate only from this binary. "Citadel Bad" is the pretty common sentiment as yes obviously the Citadel is not a good institution. What is interesting, is seeing the perspective that "Spirits Good". This is by no means as common a thing to see as the Citadel Bad posting, but the fact I still see it around, even post arc 3, is a testament to how nuanced the institutions of Umora are, and how commonly that nuance is missed.

Listening to the fireside chat for Episode 33, the cast discussed the portrayal of the Citadel versus that of the Coven of Elders and The Man in Black. I'm paraphrasing, but essentially they say that since the cast has advocates for the Citadel as part of the core narrative, the Citadel has to get a lot more critical shit flung at it. On the flip side, the Coven of Elders and The Man in Black are obviously messed up, so they do not need as much attention thrown their way to prove that.

This was fascinating given that it seems that there is an opposite effect happening from what I have experienced. I think it ties into the whole paranoia around Steel being another Brennan(tm) twist villain. Because the cast are so carefully portraying the nuances of the Citadel, which thematically is heavily evil colonial empire, Ghibli industrialization allegory coded, in order to try and balance both having clear decent people as a part of it while it also being a massive, out of control, hierarchical institution has ironically led to many people losing the trees for the forest.

Since its getting so much nuance thrown its way, in actuality it has to be fundamentally bad cause otherwise I as the viewer would have to engage with complicated questions like considering how good can exist within the confines of an obviously not good institution. That little trickster Brennan has to be tricking us, its a common gaff! Brennan "I hate Elon Musk with every fiber of my being" Lee "Fuck capitalism" Mulligan cannot possibly be asking us to consider that pure violence is not the best way to handle a corrupt system, no this has to be a trick!

On the flip side, this willingness to ignore that the Citadel probably shouldn't just plain be destroyed because its fantasy praxis also seems to lead to their being an opposite view of the other institutions we have seen. I saw a take that the cast must be on the side of the Coven of Elders ooc since they aren't as critical of them as they are of the Citadel and since the cast are all leftists outside of the game, they clearly are positioning the citadel as the objectively bad capitalist allegory while the witches are the Ghibli nature allegory and thus must be ultimately good!

Obviously, this is deranged and not a dominant take amongst viewers (I assume) but it still goes to show how easily the casts attempt to carefully portray the various institutions of Umora can be and are misinterpreted. A further point to this is I think Brennan does too good of a job of showing the temptation of these institutions, which is a common and incredibly dangerous aspect of powerful institutions in real life.

The Citadel is grand and powerful and efficient and any academic's dream. It has beauty and incredible innovation as well as common and familiar urban trappings. It has incredible coffee shops, delicious snack stands, and abundant resources. Wizard stans are of course going to fall in love with it. I think this leads to a reactionary sentiment though of, "Oh, I like this thing, but this thing is bad, therefore me liking this thing is bad, so I must hate this thing to rectify my mistake of liking this thing". Everything good about the Citadel must actually be a bad thing as otherwise I can't categorically despise the Citadel.

On the other side the Coven of Elders is composed of quite literally the most attractive person the cast are going to meet, the scariest person the cast are going to meet, the mysterious tragic goth blorbo, and activated gammie. The Coven of Elders is the embodiment of "God forbid a woman do anything". They are all so unbelievably cool and interesting, its hard not to get caught up in the trappings of it all. But they are all also clearly deeply flawed, if not in general monstrous individuals who wield vast amounts of power they probably (definitely) should not have.

Its so easy to look at the Coven and think "they can commit a bit of war as a treat" because they are so literally enticing. It also helps that the Coven is more easily viewable as a bunch of individuals rather then a faceless conglomerate of domination. I think its easy to not even consider them an institution since they are so easily recognizable as people. Yet it seems incredibly important that we do need to consider them as such because they too, like the Citadel, are kinda not very good.

Hakea, the literal founder of the Coven, is so far removed from common decency that she does view the war as just a little treat. Potential millions of lives lost is no sweat off her back, and due to her immortality she can easily hold that position. Yes she is gammie and I love her, but she is also an incredibly powerful individual who has spent the last centuries doing nothing but going through the motions with that said power with no regard, even to he other sisters. If Ame had not awoken her, she would have let her die, and Mirara with her too. Its doubtful she would have done anything about Indri until it was too late.

I don't even know if I have to say anything about The Man in Black. He is so obviously bad to the bone that if you are an unironic apologist I don't even know what to say. If you are an ironic apologist though you are valid and I get you. I think if there is any truly, uncompromisingly evil force in Umora, it is him. The fact that he is literally wielding an enemy faction of the Citadel like weapon is pretty clear indication he is bad news and is not some radical revolutionary.

All of this is to say, Brennan very clearly knows this about his institutions. They are meant to be enticing and grand and glorious simply because that's how many institutions paint themselves. It would be disingenuous and just straight bad storytelling for the citadel to be all smog and slave labor. It would be bad for the witches to all be well intentioned but misguided or the Man in Black to just be the fantasy liberator. Both sides are vectors of violence and oppression. Both sides have good aspects and bad. They are fantastically layered and nuanced and that's a great strength to the show, but it also leads to a lot of really binary and reactionary takes.

Part Three of the Kendratello AU comic

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There may be one more part, or I’ll give an update on Donnie’s emotional state in simpler sketches.

Like I’ve said, I still have ideas for this AU, but we’ve now seen Kendra’s fate. There’s no way she’s surviving in the middle of the desert with no supplies. So that ends this plot thread, and we’ll be back to hopping around a bit, just based on what I feel like lol!

did i really just post the same thing twice :/ #embarrassing