#doki doki poems

[liminal-spaced-out]

One of my favorite games

#poem cred: Doki Doki Literature Club. lol #art #artist #artwork #the beginners guide #beginner's guide #the beginner's guide

[just-qonika]

i had a small acnh phase a while back...hear me out.

ddlc girls but animal crossing style.

#i wanna draw just them in the anch style right #but making them their own acnh animal inspired avatars could also be fun OOOO #if you guys have any animal suggestions for a certain doki id like to hear it #qonikas poems #ddlc #doki doki literature club

[iris-drawing-stuff]

Sometimes I just get the most nonsensical crossover ideas.

Doki Doki Literature Club! Milgram Edition

Does this make sense? No.

Was it fun to draw? Yes!

And that's what's important!

#milgram #mikoto kayano #haruka sakurai #shidou kirisaki #fuuta kajiyama #doki doki literature club au #i think this might be the first time i've properly drawn shidou #the reason it's only the boys is because i wanted to make a separate version for the girls #sorry for the lack of kazui there's only 4 characters in ddlc #minus the protagonist but nobody cares about him #fun fact! shidou's shoes are the same purple as his prisoner color while everyone else's is blue #just like how monika's shoes are different from everyone else's #fuuta ties his jacket around waist to emulate his Bring It On knight outfit (i really hope his T3 outfit does this) #i wanted to fuck his tie up (to imply he doesn't know how to tie a tie) but then realized that he'd probably be the type of person to #watch a tutorial to tie it once and then just loosen it to remove it and never untie the knot #this was originally a sketch but i got a bit carried away and colored it #I wonder how obvious my struggle with haruka's pose is #his upper legs look off but i don't want to keep changing it over and over again #random thought! Natsuki's first 2 poems actually sort of fit Fuuta I think #i can imagine him writing Eagles Can Fly #Both Sayori and Mikoto are also people pleasers and depressed so yeah #and Shidou gives me a Monika vibes IDK why

[verysleepyfrog]

Things I Like About Papa (Doki Doki Literature Club! special poem) // Gomenne Gomenne (Kikuo)

#i swear these two pieces of writing are besties #i often wonder if natsuki (and this poem in particular) was inspired by gomenne gomenne #what with the implications of abuse and the childlike writing style/voice #both of these make me emotional #doki doki literature club #ddlc #gomenne gomenne #gomen ne gomen ne #i’m sorry i’m sorry #kikuo #web weaving #i love seeing similarities in things that are entirely disconnected <3 it is what i live for #natsuki #vocaloid

[timefospookies]

<3

#monika ddlc #sayori ddlc #yuri ddlc #natsuki ddlc #ddlc #doki doki literature club #spook’s art #love poems ddlc #natsuri #sayonika #yurika #sayuri #monisuki #sayosuki #Spotify

[magicalmayhemz]

sayori u will always be my number 1..

#ddlc #sayori #ddlcpoem #poem #doki doki literature club #monika #yuri #natsuki #literature club

[doki-doki-lesbians-club]

as someone who’s entire poetry style is based on a mix of natsuki and yuri’s, PLEASE ANALYZE THE POEMS TOO! ANALYZE THE HELL OUT OF EVERYTHING!!

You had me at “poetry” 😊

Okay, everyone! In this post, we’ll be analyzing Natsuki’s poetry in Doki Doki Literature Club! because she’s gay and i can prove it dammit

Well only be going over the poems that have a profound affect on reading her character, namely “Amy Likes Spiders” and “I’ll Be Your Beach”, and maybe touching on “The Best Place in the World” if I feel like it by the end of the post.

(Links to read the poems for yourself!)

｢Amy Likes Spiders｣

Let’s talk spiders… er, poetry! So to summarize, we are introduced to a hypothetical character named Amy, who likes spiders. We are shown that she is a normal person with a normal life, except the narrator of the poem refuses to be friends with her because she likes spiders. Simple, right? Spiders are gross!

Well, not that simple. The climax of the piece is a stanza towards the end that reads: “It doesn’t matter if she has other hobbies. It doesn’t matter if she keeps it private. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t hurt anyone.”

Oof, yikes, kinda harsh, don’t you think? It keeps going.

“It’s gross. She’s gross. The world is better off without spider lovers.

And I’m gonna tell everyone.”

Woahhh okay, took a bit of an intense turn from enjoying arachnids, huh?

This should be the first clue that the true meaning of the poem isn’t surface-level. Lines that seem intensely out of place or out of character are most likely intended to point you to a deeper content, such as I believe is happening here.

The entire poem, Natsuki has shown us in detail Amy, her life, and how this narrator treats her in response to her “liking spiders”. The narrator refuses to enjoy Amy’s singing, won’t let Amy touch her to help her when she’s hurt, and even fears that Amy might cause her friends to start liking spiders too.

So, what’s going on here? Why such a strong reaction to Amy’s interests? Well, this becomes more clear when reading with a queer lens.

Go through the entire poem (or at least the key parts) and replace “spiders” with “girls”. You get such lines as: “I tried not to let her touch me. She likes girls, so her hands are probably gross.”

“I always see her talking to people. She probably talks about girls. What if her friends start to like girls too?”

“It’s gross. She’s gross. The world is better off without girl lovers.”

Reads totally different, right? But it also makes a little more sense, doesn’t it?

In this context, Amy is a lesbian. Someone (the narrator) found out, and is being entirely homophobic about it, even if it doesn’t affect them at all. This makes the end of the poem more ominous and borderline horrifying.

“The world is better off without spider lovers.

And I’m gonna tell everyone.”

This can also be used to support a trans reading of Natsuki, as all of these same things can be applied to being transgender (though maybe in a more distantly metaphorical way than the easy spiders/girls swap).

Stylistically, it’s a very simple rhythm, no rhyme, with the repeating line “That’s why I’m not friends with her.” This simple repetition of pattern and phrase makes the changeup with “It doesn’t matter if…” all the more prominent, because it breaks that pattern.

｢I’ll Be Your Beach｣

Ahh the beach. Not my vacation of choice, but many find it refreshing, rejuvenating, and relaxing. That’s certainly what Natsuki seemed to have in mind for her poem she wrote from the one word prompt “beach”.

This piece is longer, though still keeps Natsuki’s tried-and-true simple format, four-line stanzas, and repetition not too dissimilar to common music patterns. The scene is of two people walking along a beach, basking in the warm sunlight, and letting the seawater wash their worries away. Natsuki can even be seen fantasizing about a kiss between these two~!

Though I don’t believe Natsuki to be the first person narrator of “Amy Likes Spiders”, I do think she is the narrator of this poem, as she then assumes the role of one of the two on the beach. Which means Natsuki is actually writing about her kissing this person! How intriguing~

Now, we are lead to believe in DDLC that the romantic poems written by Yuri and Natsuki are directed at the MC. However, that would be an odd assumption for this poem, given some of the things Natsuki mentions…

“Your mind is so full of troubles and fears” “The walls in your mind will melt away” “Let’s bury your heavy thoughts in the sand” “Wash your insecurities in the salty sea” “You’ll learn to love yourself again.”

By show of hands, how many of you lovely readers thought about MC when you read those lines? I hope none of you, because he doesn’t express these sentiments at all, let alone to Natsuki.

But how many of you maybe thought about Yuri? Or even Sayori? Ahh, a different story.

Natsuki is clearly imagining a time where she can comfort this person and remind them of “the reasons [they’re] wonderful” and even kiss them. This person clearly means a lot to Natsuki, and seeing them happier is obviously a goal. Now who does Natsuki say this is about explicitly…

Oh, of course, Yuri.

In Act 2, Natsuki gives MC a note that mentions she always wanted to be better friends with Yuri, and is concerned for her wellbeing (as we all were in Act 2). This seems to be a similar theme to the therapeutic scene in “I’ll Be Your Beach”, not to mention that the “beach” prompt was an assignment with Yuri! They were supposed to write from the same prompt, and Natsuki wrote this while Yuri wrote her poem, “Beach”. Wouldn’t it make sense that Natsuki might write some of these feelings she has for/about Yuri in a poem that was surely going to be read to her?

In conclusion, Natsuki’s simplistic style is excellent at throwing in emotional and/or sudden endings that really provoke thought about the poem itself, and its deeper meaning. This also allows for some thicker metaphors, since everything is encouraged to be taken at face value. I hope my breakdowns here have shown you just a little bit of a queer reading of Natsuki’s character through poetry! (Not to mention everything she does and says!)

I might add “The Best Place in the World” as a reblog later, Tumblr mobile is fucking with my formatting ahaha! Thanks for the ask~! I might do this for some of the other poems too if people are interested!

#doki doki lesbians club #mailbox #doki doki literature club #ddlc #ddlc natsuki #natsuki ddlc #ddlc poems

[ddlcsprite]

DDLC | Sayori’s last poem | poem

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Get out of my head before I do what I know is best for you. Get out of my head before I listen to everything she said to me. Get out of my head before I show you how much I love you. Get out of my head before I finish writing this poem.

But a poem is never actually finished. It just stops moving.

#ddlc #ddlc sprites #doki doki literature club #file #sayori #poem #Txt

[lavendorii]

#i cant even think of a caption for this its just hits me so hard #my favorite poem in the game is the one that couldn't be written #txt #ddlc #doki doki literature club #ddlc+

[rainc0at]

Yuri's Wheel poem appreciation post. Everytime I think of this I go a bit mad.

#ddlc #rain rambles #yuri #yuri ddlc #doki doki literature club #doki doki yuri #poems #ddlc poem #ddlc act 2 #act 2 #spins around yells claws at the walls takes my shoe off and throws it chases after it cuts off a chunk of my hair and eats it yells again

[casper-spills]

But a poem is never actually finished. It just stops moving.

Sayori in Doki Doki Literature Club

#spilled ink #writing #quotes #spilled thoughts #poem #doki doki literature club #sayori #doki doki sayori #spilled poetry #writeblr #confessional poetry #love #casper spills

[just-qonika]

GUYS NEW DDLC MERCH DROP OHH EMEMEMEM GGGGEGEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

im SOO getting that varsity jacket and monka n yuris socks the designs are EVERYTHINGGG OMGGGGG

please lmk ur guys thoughts on these cuz i luuvvuuv them AAA💖💖💖

#ddlc #doki doki literature club #doki doki monika #doki doki natsuki #doki doki yuri #doki doki sayori #monika #natsuki #sayori #yuri #ddlc merch #qonikas poems #IM TWEAKIN #monika ddlc #yuri ddlc #natsuki ddlc #sayori ddlc

[feeldeeplyfeeltenderly]

Lactose Intolerant

I don’t think I was meant for wanting. It makes me sick. My body rejects it like spoiled milk. My stomach churns at the thought of my hands in your hair.

It’s overwhelming. You are overwhelming. I was always the one gifting. Never poured into. Til now. I joked once that my cup runneth dry. Now you hand me a mug full to the brim with chocolate milk and I choke down every sip.

Hunger and shame are synonymous. Are these butterfly wings or hornet wings beating against the lining of my stomach? One sting and I lose everything. I tread lightly. Praying for butterflies.

The blanket you wrap around me is a soft cocoon. I can’t breathe. The air is too hot. My hands are too cold. I’ll always be too much of the wrong thing and too little of the right thing. I study your hand pouring the syrup into my milk, into my tea. How much is too sweet for you? But what amount is not enough?

My friend told me I look like I’m lactose intolerant. I didn’t know what they meant. I wonder now. Can they see that my body rejects what is good for me? Can they see that I chose to relish in it every time anyways? It’s warm and sickly sweet. I’m soft and spoiled and unable to breathe.

I think once more of my hands in your hair. My stomach churns. I’ll try again tomorrow.

#a dreamer's thoughts #a dreamer’s art #art #my writing #poetry #poem #my poem #my poetey #lactose intolerance #lactose intolerant #wanting #yearning #writing #love #love poem #okie dokie

[yurissecret]

A sliver of the old brushes the new

Lips touch

I dream of you

#yuri #ddlc #doki doki literature club #poem #poetry

[timefospookies]

All the Dokis are in love and dating btw. If you even care

MC’s there too

#/pos #ddlc #love poems #ddlc poly #spooky talk #doki doki literature club

[hollykittyfan]

#made by me #ddlc kin #doki doki literature club #ddlc yuri #poems #“I want to write a poem about this feeling”