They say spring's the season of new beginnings! 🪺🏳️⚧️✨
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[Image description: Cyn wearing Tessa as a skin suit??????]
Point retained >:]
Something that stands out to be about how Murder Drones does horror, is its relationship to organic matter, especially in contrast to how machinery is portrayed.
The main characters are as the title would imply, drones- they live in a cold wasteland, trapped behind doors upon doors of mechanical creations. In a way Murder Drones establishes machinery and robots as its baseline, it's what's comfortable and familiar. Which I find interesting because we as humans are more familiar with the organic, what scares me is a future dystopia dominated by machines, where life struggles to survive.
However in Murder Drones- the moments I find the most freaky are always those where something looks.... Human... Or, alive.
This moment from episode 2 where J goes eldritch horror and Solver appears, the hand that crawls in to grab Thad looks human.
[image description: human looking hand crawling on the ground, but it's revealed to not be attached to an actual human, but instead a long mechanical wire]
This honestly was really freaky to me, because it's so... Wrong. Even when we see actual humans, it's as shadow thingies, or in the case of Tessa, completely covered up by clothing. We see skeletons too, but they're dead, which I feel doesn't really qualify for the horror of something looking... Alive.
I feel like it's mostly with Solver's portrayal that things look... Organic. For example whenever Uzi loses control of her quirky powers, a black hole thingy appears and leaves gooey flesh looking stuff- honestly very gross
[Image description: There's a hole in the wall, with the edges covered in organic looking goo, spreading across the wall. There's a black orb in the center of the hole]
It's also very apparent when comparing Solver Uzi's wing design to the disassembly drones' wing designs. Uzi's are bat-like, with tears and they look more reminiscent of something organically created.
[image description: Uzi looking silly with her bat wings]
Meanwhile Disassembly drone wings are 100% metallic and look like blades, there's a pretty big contrast. Especially when you think of how Uzi actually does start to develop average disassembly drone characteristics, like the mouth, burning in sunlight, and the X for eyes.
Might be besides the point but Uzi's wings look like hands, meanwhile the others' wings don't have that shape really built in anywhere.
Freaky little guy
Something something design language of Solver being completely different to other things in the show.
Anyways I've completely run out of brain juice, hopefully this makes sense
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Rn it's jujutsu kaisen
I got the kind of autism where I get obsessed with a new cartoon every couple of weeks. A few weeks ago it was Mob psycho 100, this week it's Murder Drones, and if I'm right I'll claw my little grippers into another cartoon universe soon enough.
No animated work is safe.
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Huh I guess we kinda figured out what was up with that ey?
Something I find interesting about Tessa's portrayal in Murder Drones is how throughout the flashbacks, her entire body is obscured, leaving only her silhouette and- the shape of her eyes. She always looks expressive, and what she feels is conveyed by the look on her face, despite there being so little.
However once we finally see her as more than a silhouette, when she finally gains texture, and color, the one thing still obscured, is her face.
Not to say she doesn't express stuff in different ways, there's still body language, and voice intonation. However I find it interesting how the one thing we were able to see previously, is now the one thing obscured.
I dunno if this means anything, I haven't connected the dots there yet, but I find it intriguing to think about!
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watched the episode this morning and it is soooo good
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i loved side order, i wish lesbians were real
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Stay🩷💚Fresh!
un-frostyfest-ified my squidmas art :>
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ATTENTION SIDE ORDERERS
IF YOU COME ACROSS A ZONE DEFENSE STAGE THAT IS RIGOROUS AND THE STAGE NAME STARTS WITH "CRUEL.SISYPHIAN"
DO NOT FUCKING PICK IT
IT IS CRUEL AND SISYPHIAN
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