#cause DEPTH

[sketchy-tour]

I need him to bury me in affection right now

#more dca doodles as stress relief cause I am!!! a mess rn!!!! #I mean im fine but aaa woo boy #anYWHOMST! idk why my brain is dragging sun and moon out of the depths of my mind and into the front #After not drawing them for ages I suddenly wanna give them attention again #poor fellas gotta share my attention with WH tho lmao #dca fanart #dca fandom #daycare attendant #fnaf dca #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf security breach #fnaf sun #my art #sketches #self insert x canon #dont tell moon that sun is my favorite im sorry moon i love you too so much i promise

[ywraa]

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#yura.art #not r1999 art this time cause my mlp interest just resurface recently hdfkhjfdgkksf #mlp #my little pony #mlp fim #mlp g4 #thorax #changeling #queen chrysalis #wish that the show would go more detail abt her relationship with pre-reformed changeling #i always wonder if she noticed him being different than other and give him different treatment but the show already ended long ago oh well- #also it be cool if the show could go more in depth abt thorax's trauma and maybe his life at the crystal empire up till s6 finale #i always hc that thorax would see cadance and other as his second family :) #anw i need to practice drawing pony more-

[cupidle]

zazie

#trigun #zazie #zazie the beast #taps mic anyone here cares abt zazie. is it crickets. #i’ve been sooo interested in zazie and their lore/significance to the story since reading trimax #i feel like adding another variable to the conflict would have been rly interesting and that variable being the native species #on no mans land would have added more nuance to the story #and there was an attempt to discuss that but nothing rly came of it #cause of THE MENACE OF SOCIETY escaping his damn ward cell #i want more worm involvement #in a story so heavily focused on the survivability of one’s species and abuse of power i just think. looking more in depth at the hosts #of the planet would have been cool. #guy in chair rocking back and forth manically #and i love bugs also #cupidle

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Resurrected the lab au for a second to make Lab Cesar look worse

#the mandela catalogue #mandela catalogue #tmc #tmc labrats au #patient 02 (cesar) #face horror #gore tw #eye contact tw #shmorps art #Sory for neglecting this au. I remembered it today and was like. “Oh yeah I should draw the characters again huh” #Anyway uh he looks older now! cause he's. 33 as of 2007. #Plus I just wanted the fungus to look worse and. be obviously. tearing apart his skin. #I should probably draw the other characters but I don't know how long my mind will focus on this au #before. throwing it into the depths once again.

[semisolidmind]

So I agree about not shipping the bigger bodies one (my personal opinion there anyhow). But how do you feel on their cartoon counterparts and cartoon aus thenv with them being shipped?

....honestly don't care for it. just let them be best friends, is all.

primarily because i have a thing about characters being shipped when they're meant to be best friends. i know it's such a thing to go from friends to lovers and so on, and it can be really sweet, but the fact that romantic love is what folks generally immediately jump to when they see two close friends is disconcerting for me. as an asexual person who has a ton of platonic loves in my life (one such being my best friend who i dearly love), the idea of the sweet, platonic loving gestures shared between myself and my friends (hugging, holding hands, cuddling, hanging out overall) being taken as romantic is so uncomfortable for me. like...that's essentially my family??

so when i see two characters that i see specifically as best friends and best friends only (where romantic love isn't even on the table or suggested or even outright mocked, ie mei and mk in lmk), i get a little irked. it's one thing if their relationship changes canonically, but if they don't show any chemistry beyond friendship, i usually don't care for it.

especially when people don't tag their art as shipping when it's clearly meant to be? it's not that hard. but some artists just don't seem to think it's necessary. blocking a tag only works if people tag in the first place.

anyways, no, i don't ship any version of these two characters together. just can't.

#ill save anyone who doesnt want to see the in depth reasoning the trouble #cause surface level is surface level and it generally doesnt go deeper than that #just dont see em that way

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

thinking about puppet tattoo parlors. A wall covered in so many different thread colors to choose from - swatches of different types of stitch for different textures / effects. modified handheld sewing machines for tattooing with multiple settings for the different stitches. individual needles + embroidery thread as stick n pokes...

#THINKING SO HARD ABOUT THIS #wouldnt this be cool though??? #cause i was thinking fondly of tattoos and went 'hm. how would a puppet do this?' #cause ink can bleed in fabric. it can scrub out. the lines wouldnt be as clean and i just dont think it would really Stick? #but EMBROIDERY! STITCHES! COOL SEWING GUNS INSTEAD OF TATTOO MACHINES!!! #and now im wondering Could They Remove Their Tattoos? #it would probably be pretty invasive! #hold on im doing research real quick #yeah looks like they'd need to lift their felt/fleece/skin to get at the back of the stitches #then sew the skin back together afterwards... #so to them tattoos would be just as permanent as they are to Us! because who wants to go through That! #im having a grand ol time imagining the Range their tattoos would have #textures! endless colors! glitter thread! metallic thread! wool! cotton! polyester! glow in the dark! scratch n sniff! #that last one was a joke. #imagining someone with an entire detailed forest scene carpeting their back... it has Depth... #absolutely unprompted #puppets #sundown summer is getting a motherfuckin tattoo if its the last thing i do #resisting the urge to just litter every puppet that i know of with this idea #YOU get a tattoo and YOU get a tattoo and YOU-

[unknownarmageddon]

Grief and anger hand in hand

Dust belongs to Ask-Dusttale Death’s Doorstep (this band AU) belongs to me

Lyrics from I Am My Own Muse by Fall Out Boy

#Hehe. lore and such #Very very happy with this one I tried some different stuff and I think it worked well #Armageddon art #death’s doorstep #dust sans #dust!sans #dusttale sans #Undertale AU #sans AU #AU sans #utmv #Murder sans #This is when he’s in high school. Right after his brother died #I could write something more in depth but I am Tired #essentially he’s got a lotta shit going on and he #impulsively ran out to his garage and destroyed his guitar right there #cause so much was out of his control and he fucking hated it #And he was mad at too many things. And he was going through it he wasn’t thinking #idk how to explain it without it sounding stupid my brain is half dead /nsrs #also this. Like I said. Takes place several years before the “main” plot of the DD stuff #so I know this guitar looks like the one I usually draw him with #and that’s cause I fucked up with my last highschool-era piece and gave him the same guitar as the present #so let’s say he destroys this one first. Goes through two more. Then eventually ends up with another that looks just like this one #idk if that made sense. Hopefully #OKAY shutting up now my bad #Eye strain #tw eye strain #cw eye strain

[thatsrightice]

Someone write a fic about Iceman and Slider kidnapping all of the flyboys and taking them to the million-dollar Kazansky family house in Hawaii that they never got rid of for a well-deserved vacation because they really need it. And then cue all the drunken shenanigans and party games and angst and skinny dipping and all those tropes fanfic writers love, but sprinkled throughout is def some unresolved trauma (and sexual tension). Like they kinda know each other but don’t really know each other, so there’s revelations about Ice and Slider being in the shitty dads club and Mav just being Mav. Maybe they run into a boy Ice was best friends with for the several years he lived in Hawaii at the grocery story and the guy is jacked and def flirting with Ice but Ice is oblivious which makes Mav insanely jealous. Maybe Ice’s dad tracks him down and has a chat with him before vanishing and it leaves Ice messed up mentally or physically.

Basically just shove them all into a beach house in Hawaii and the rest will flow naturally.

#It could literally go so many directions like infinite possibilities #Hawaiian Iceman #but also #military brat iceman #icemav #poly!flyboys #could literally be anything #I just need all the angst to be bottled up in one house until it explodes #but why not a beach house cause depth of lore #top gun #tom kazansky #iceman #top gun iceman #top gun maverick #pete mitchell #my boys #ron kerner #tom iceman kazansky #ron slider kerner #pete maverick mitchell #rick hollywood neven #just a little thing i wrote #sam merlin wells #leonard wolfman wolfe #top gun 1986 #flyboys #top gun wolfman #top gun Hollywood #fits literally all ships #iceman angst

[greensaplinggrace]

the darkling says “fine, make me your villain” because he is. what’s not clicking

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #sab #aleksander morozova #the darkling #pro darkling #sab meta #‘he acts like he isn’t the villain’ like yeah I guess if you want to examine it without any deeper analysis #when the statement itself is actually fascinating to put into a narrative context and analyze the means by which certain steadfast roles #are enacted throughout the books #and the larger implications of character want/desire and leading goal vs world state and perceived morality #largely due to prejudice and war time sentiments #as well as the individual harm caused and the way it’s significance becomes questionable when placed in stark contrast #to the broader political and socioeconomic climate #which doesn’t even take into consideration individual character roles and the doylist analysis of their relative functions as ideas #instead of entire personalities with depth #when you give an idealistic character a goal larger than life with a tactical relevance over a moral one #within a story that also centers around a broader goal of ‘saving the world’ as well as personal trauma #and attempt to liken both to the same moral equivalence and significance #then try to pit them against each other #especially when your narratively condemned villain desires more than anything to protect the masses and be loved for it #showing a fascinating level of genre unawareness. yet displaying a relative awareness to the role he has been unwillingly cast as #because he is both at odds with the genre but not with the general moral tone of the story and it's discordant messages #that rely on the pov of a character that fundamentally cannot understand him #because of his place in the story #and cannot understand the world state #because of her place in the story #you are going to get statements like this #sure yes. he ‘says it like he isn’t the villain’ #but come on. we can do better

[xxprincess1x]

Izzy when Ed is signing the Act of Grace document:

"Think about what you're doing, Ed. Do you really want to lick the King's boots?"

Meanwhile Izzy literally earlier that week:

Plotting with the English Navy (essentially the sea police) to get Stede killed just so he can have Ed handed over to him, in exchange for his services to the King.

I'm sorry to break it to you Iggy, but isn't that also licking the King's boots? But for an entirely selfish reason that disregards the feelings of the person you're supposedly doing it for?

#i just rewatched this episode and i just cant deal with Izzy's logic #if i was better at meta analysis i could probably write more in depth on this #but truely he was just thinking of himself here and didn't give a flying fuck what it would do to Ed #imagine if Stede had been killed by firing squad #izzy gets what he wants and Ed just has to go on living a life he was already hating and fantasising about ending #izzy critical #<cause im not about getting into a fight over this im just recording whats there #ofmd #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet

[astrababyy]

am i the only one who doesn’t think helion and lucien are gonna be best buds and helion’s gonna be a DILF or whatever or that lucien is gonna love having him as a father? cause i think about their two characters and all i can imagine in my head is that them discovering the truth would be absolute chaos and not in a good way

#acotar #lucien vanserra #helion #astrababyy #like i need someone to #give me an in depth analysis as to why these two would become family to each other #cause i just do not see it #and i actually like both of their characters #i adore lucien and helion #but i can’t see them being family to each other

[sasudou]

dazais speech was so embarrassing it unvamped chuuya

#he’s not showing his face cause he’s embarrassed #chuuya: shit was so corny it dragged me out of the depths of hell #bsd manga spoilers #bsd spoilers #bsd #nakahara chuuya #dazai osamu #soukoku

[sir-fluffbutts]

Can we see muffin chiffon and lattes mom or is that a no

i think calling her "mom" would be bit far off as she was a surrogate mother who was never in the axolotl brothers lives, but

her name is lucy,

we don't talk about her

#ask #askart #not that she's some mysterious or evil being #but cause she don't really have a in depth story #she probably won't be a full on 'character'

[imminent-danger-came]

Eldritch Abomination MK Theory

OKAY. @the-punning-ubus

I just want to say reading these tags are SO validating, because I have my little "MK was an eldritch abomination thing pre-hatching from stone" theory and seeing someone else come to pretty much the same conclusion feels good.

I've been meaning to write a proper theory post on this for a while, so now is as good of a time as any!

Obviously we have Wukong's "Not just anyone can wield my staff, but you did" from A Hero is Born and "The staff's just a big 'ol stick bud! It takes someone special to wield it" from 3x03, but there's also something in 1x09 Macaque:

Macaque: "Your staff kinda gives you away dude, not just anyone can wield that thing."

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Macaque: "Ohohoh no, can't you hold the magic staff anymore? Well, you know what that means—there really isn't anything special about you. You're just a kid with a heavy stick."

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The sweet irony of "There really isn't anything special about you. You're just a kid with a heavy stick!" followed immediately by MK lifting the staff again is not lost on me.

So, from s1 it was pretty obvious that Wukong didn't "give" MK any form of power, but we knew that already with MK being a monkey demon and all. I just think it's particularly intriguing that all of this was laid out in the same episode where MK proclaims "I am the weapon!". In all honestly, he probably was/is.

One of the main questions coming out of s4 is "why was MK created?"—Monkey King's stone was used to form another, but for what purpose? To what end? What reason was MK at the center of all these stories?

Well, here's my current theory:

MK was something in a past life, and that something needed to be contained—and so, to put a stop to past life eldritch abomination MK, he was then sealed away in the stone.

I think this scene in particular raises some alarm bells:

The stone cracks open, bursts with light, and then it closes—like something was put inside it. The scene could of course just be an aesthetic choice, or chosen to be this way for another reason we don't know yet, but it just feels so deliberate. A ball of light appearing from the stone, then another ball of light in the mystery woman's hands being revealed to hold a monkey, and then the stone reforming around the ball of light. I just can't help but feel there's something there.

Next I want to discuss the two key things that make me feel this theory has merit:

1.) MK has made a habit of breaking out of things he shouldn't be able to (the calabash in 1x05, the trigram furnace in 2x00, the scroll in 4x07, Destiny itself in 3x14) and the stone would be no exception.

2.) Every antagonist in this show has been sealed away in some form, then being released to resume their plans from before being sealed. Here's a list:

DBK was sealed under the mountain, and after being released continued his plan of world domination.

Spider Queen was metaphorically trapped in her fallen empire, and after being given the chance to rule the above world once again, immediately takes it.

The Lady Bone Demon was imprisoned in her tomb, and after being released prematurely (before learning the error of her ways), she continued her plan to destroy the world and create a new one.

Azure Lion was imprisoned in the scroll, and upon being released (by an unknown 3rd party), immediately worked to free his friends and then end the Jade Emperor's reign.

Now, I love foils, so MK breaking out of the stone he was sealed in, yet coming out an actually changed being unlike everyone else in this show, would be DELICIOUS:

Lady Bone Demon: ”No backup and no weapon? So, you’re plan is to fist fight a child?” Sun Wukong: “We both know that’s not what you are.”

(3x11 This Imperfect World)

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Lady Bone Demon: "STOP! Have you forgotten? Destroy me and you destroy the host! Have you become so desperate to end me that you would sacrifice this blameless innocent child?" Sun Wukong: "You're giving me no choice! All the time you spent locked away, and you haven't changed a bit! I'm going to finish you, like I should have done a long time ago! I told you—you should have stayed buried."

(3x11 This Imperfect World)

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Subodhi: "I have not brought you to your master. Although this is the stone from which Sun Wukong once sprung, it appears overtime, it was used to form another. A simple creature, with no past, no family, and no name. There is a reason you were at the center of these stories—a reason you can harness the power of the Monkey King himself!"

(4x06 Show Me the Monster)

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(If you want extra fodder for this, please see this parallels post :3)

So, if MK were to hatch out of the stone—where *he* was sealed away—and he actually came out of it a "blameless innocent child" with "no past, no family, and no name", it would work exceedingly well. Wukong's not above giving people second chances, but if you use that second chance to try and destroy the world, you force his hand.

(Side note: it could also be the case that the stone was used to "reset" whatever MK was in his past life, and Wukong was originally meant to destroy whatever came out of the stone—which could be the reason he stayed at Flower Fruit Mountain for hundreds of years. However, when an child came out, a new being without a past or the memories of what it was before—Wukong choose to let it go. He choose to let it live a normal life—or even ensuring it could live a normal life—and it then found it's way to Pigsy. This definitely gets into real crack theory territory, but I did want to bring it up.)

Now, none of this is even mentioning the suspiciously MK shaped figure in the mural from 3x13:

Now, the figure in this mural is only shown when MK is also on screen, which is framing that drives me insane. Perhaps this is when they first caught MK's past life, then finally able to subdue him and seal him in the stone.

And so, if MK really was this terrible chaos driven abomination in his past life, what does that mean ✨thematically✨?

Well,

Sun Wukong: “Point is, mistakes happen, but so long as you leave the world in better shape than you found it, then it’s all good. Right?”

(4x01 Familiar Tales)

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SWK: “ENOUGH! I’ve never let anyone dictate my destiny in the past, and I’m not about to start now. None of us are! We can’t change who we were yesterday or in a past life, or a hundred life times ago! We live with the choices we’ve made, for what matter is the choices we make RIGHT NOW! Only we decide who we are and what we do with the power we have.”

(4x07 Pitiful Creatures)

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MK can't change who he was in a past life. He can't change that the roads all lead to pain. But you know what he can do? He can try. He can try and get a little bit better every day. He can try and help people. He can try and make the world better than he found it.

Maybe in a past life, MK caused just as must chaos and destruction as Wukong did in his past. Maybe he caused even more problems then he has as the Monkie Kid. But that also doesn't undo the good he's doing now.

Anyways, that's my "MK was an eldritch abomination thing pre-hatching from stone" theory. Hope you enjoyed

#wish I could be normal about anything ever #instead I write an in-depth theory post on why I think MK was fucked up in his past life #COME ON s4 SPECIAL. PROVE ME RIGHT #GIVE ME CRUMBS #THIS WOULD SLAP SO HARD #DO IT FOR ME #lmk theory #lmk #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk MK #this ain't even mentioning the god damn curse #Cause like bro. The curse reacting to MK (being a part of MK?) the way it does is so fucking weird #Why did MK get a flash of it in 4x03. Why #''harbinger of chaos'' WELL MAYBE HE WAS ONE. MAYBE HE WAS. #eamk theory

[iunpackmyadjectives]

Okay hear me out

What if Skybound, but Jay was the one who opened the teapot in the first place, so that he could wish for Nya to be in love with him

#Obviously it doesn’t work because no wishing for love so the rest of the season plays out fairly similarly #But this would mean that him wishing to go back to before the teapot was opened is him realizing how selfish he was #Also that would fix his last wish being two wishes #And #he would then feel like he needed to fight on nadakhan’s ship because he caused this problem in the first place #Like even more than in the original season #I just feel like it would add depth to his character #And begin to fix some issues I have with the season #ninjago jay #jay walker #ninjago #ninjago skybound #ninjago jaya #jaya #ninjago nya #nya smith #Yk I really wanna rewrite Skybound at some point… #Because I love the idea of it but I have so many issues with the season #hmmmm #maybe someday

[suja-janee]

Given that bi han canonically has said “you turned Kuai Liang against me” he would no doubt say some edgy shit like

“YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER”

#bi han 🤝 anakin- being my favorite edgelords #if only bi Hans writing was as good as anakins #they made anakin edgy but gave him depth and personality #they just need to give bi han a LITTLE bit of that and he’d be actually perfect #can you tell he’s my favorite yet? #he’s got so much potential I just hope they don’t squander it #he’d look SICK in anakins revenge of the sith outfit #hmmmmm #I might doodle but I doubt it #I always say I’m gonna do something and then I either forget or don’t wanna do it #such is the way of the artist #sucks really cause I got some wicked ideas #some that I don’t know if you all could handle #YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH #aha just kidding #or am I #who knows #WAIT OMG #THEY BOTH GOT BURNED IN A WAY AND BROUGHT “’BACK’ AGAINST THEIR WILLS #TO A DARK MASTER WITH MAGIC HANDS #OMG THEYRE PARALLELS #IM CALLING IT #BI HAN IS MK ANAKIN #LIKE DAMN OKAY #AND BOTH OF THEIR OUTFITS ARE COMPLETELY BLACK WHEN THEYRE BROUGHT BACK #LIKE #do you get what I’m getting at here #SHEEEEESH