#look what you've made me do!

[dribs-and-drabbles]

Let's talk about... Mhok's Fart Proudly t-shirt

Let's be honest here, this IS a ridiculous shirt. But it is just so Director Aof to put one of his characters in such a ridiculous shirt during a poignant scene.

This is Baseball Mom 2.0

And I say that not only because it's ridiculous but because, just like Baseball Mom, it also has a deeper meaning connected to the narrative - as is Aof's style - and it's what I adore about his work, that he puts so much attention to detail into the characters' wardrobe.

But on to the shirt.

If we can get past the loudness of the "FART PROUDLY" we can see the rest of the text reads approximately as thus:

I believe a fart is a healthy, natural thing - and is nothing to be embarrassed about. I have pledged myself to changing society's attitude towards farts by showing that I am not afraid to release my farts freely - wherever, whenever - and without shame.

And yes, it's about farts BUT the underlying messages here are the parts I have highlighted.

Throughout ep 2, Mhok tries to encourage Day to get out of his room, to "open his eyes" to things, to remind him the rest of his body still 'works' ("Your hands are available" / "You can still hear"), to try things before dismissing them. He learns that Day is scared of how he is perceived by others and tells Aon there's nothing to be embarrassed about. He asks Day why he cares what people think...all the while knowing to some capacity what it's like to to be judged on face-value. And Mhok is able to let that judgement roll off him, it seems he's able to meet his challenges without shame.

After Mhok gets fired, he uses this confidence to spend time in the market blindfolded. He's not afraid to feel uncomfortable and vulnerable in order to understand Day and what he's experiencing. He proudly endeavours to navigate through the space and to eat without his sight regardless of what others may think of him. He feels the fear, but does it anyway. He has no qualms about doing more than necessary - after all he could have just walked away and not thought about Day again. But, as the wardrobe choices tell us as well, the best never rest. And Mhok is one of the best.

Day used to be "a guy with confidence", and Mhok is trying to give that back to him. The t-shirt also asks "Can I count on you, now, to stand behind me?" which, in the context of the farting, could be 'are you willing to endure my farts?' or 'will you join me in farting freely', but with Mhok and Day it's 'are you with me? Can you be brave enough to not be embarrassed? To say fuck it and live your life regardless of others?' and/or 'will you let me help and protect you?'.

Mhok cares a lot. Not about what others think of him - he had no hesitation to get naked and let people watch when Day asked ('do this and I'll forgive you' -> 'how brave are you? how brave can you be for me?') - but about Day and the other people in his life. And Day is also starting to care - he not only left his house to see Mhok but agreed to let a relative stranger take him to a very crowded and, having been shut in his room for a year, what must have been a very scary place. Which makes Day's t-shit in this scene equally fitting. "Capacity Intensive Care".

It may be small now - their care and affection for each other - but it will soon grow, even if they don't see it yet. But they'll both be getting "more care, more often, right where [they] live".

#last twilight #last twilight series #*shakes fist at aof* #look what you've made me do! #I'm back to analysing t-shirts slogans #but I will defend them all to my last breath #yes they're ridiculous but they are also RIDICULOUSLY BRILLIANT #I can't wait for more of them #edited to change a typo

[mblue-art]

so like... teeth... fangs, even.........

(silly) xtra under the cut

smfh tfw ur trying to joke but friend snitches you tf out

#utmv #cross!sans #killer!sans #self insert #mblue art #posting this on oreo's bday bc yes :) #10/10 #happy birthday idiot what did you do to me /lh #you've stayed in my head for more than a year #made me feel so many feels #it is insane how many (AU) scenarios ive thought of with him guys #(but i will only share a couple to the public bc i am shy u_u;;) #(and they r very very self-indulgent;;) #(also HHEEELLLPPP KILLER IS SUCH AN ASS !!! (affectionate)) #(you're lucky you're skrunkly meow meow status i made u look good in the first panel 😤😤😤) #CM

[vaguely-concerned]

Thinking about the symbolic weight of smoking in the TLT universe that comes to the fore in The Unwanted Guest -- the way it moves through from person to person: Pyrrha smoked, and Augustine wanted to impress her in all her stone cold fox MILF James Bond glory (and tbf who wouldn't) so he started too. and even though as far as he knows she's been gone for a myriad and is never coming back, he keeps the habit. Ianthe sees something in the hollowed-out Faberge eggshell of Augustine that resonates with her, all that gilded eloquent emptiness and disdain through the ages, so she picked it up from him to try to emulate it. She picked it up so hard that Palamedes -- the exact spiritual antithesis of the 'smoking! on a space station! what a powermove' ennui Ianthe so admired -- spontaneously unnerded enough to even known how to, simply from a sort of contact contamination of the soul.

G1deon and Augustine sharing a jittery smoke after their near-Harrow experience during soup night, and it's the closest thing to any real sense of brotherhood that remains between them. Pyrrha going ten thousand years dying both literally and for a smoke (and then Camilla sold her fucking cigarettes (for a third of what they were worth, probably Pyrrha's own good, and also more importantly grocery money). what an entirely haunted time to be alive etc.). Augustine and Mercy trading a cigarette back and forth in the middle of their collusion over the love and murder of god.

An act of small and measured self-destruction in the name of something a little bit like connection when you're stuck somewhere in yourself where love itself dares not or cannot tread (ritualized, transmissible)..........

#the unwanted guest #the unwanted guest spoilers #the locked tomb #ianthe tridentarius #augustine the first #pyrrha dve #palamedes sextus #this series is going to make me lose my mind completely one day (affectionate) #the locked tomb meta #the fact that ianthe seems to have had some genuine admiration for augustine makes my head spin. of course though. #of course she sees the person who looks the most like he's successfully made himself impervious to the world #utterly untouchable and impossible to hurt because he isn't even really there #and she believes it! even after seeing the john mercy augustine mess at the end! because it's such a seductive idea #when you've stuck yourself in an inevitable ocean of pain to think you could make yourself numb enough that it doesn't matter #it's the emotional equivalent of 'oh there's water all around? well I just won't breathe in then. easy lmao get on my level' #she holds on to that thing from him even when it's been proved to be both impossible and ultimately untrue even in him #because uh. oh I'm about to be kind of sad for ianthe what the fuck is going on. he might actually have been the closest thing #to parental and especially paternal affection she's ever known. certainly known enough to try to model herself after #IMAGINE how fucked up the nine houses must be when augustine the first registers for anyone as a model of psychological survival #ianthe do you really want to be yourself completely so much that you're willing to be nothing. I mean yeah probably but. oh my god #gaining nothing at the cost of everything

[fudgelling-away]

It's one of those days

Sans.

Sans.

sans sans sans

I wake up, mind foggy and disoriented. I go about my morning routine on autopilot. Empty eyes. Blank expression. Mind far away.

Sans.

Sans squirms under the covers, nuzzling into the warmth of my body.

I brush my teeth, unseeing eyes locked onto a random spot on the sink.

Sans lets out a low grunt and I growl, clenching my teeth on the toothbrush, foam all over my mouth.

How fitting.

I wash my face with shaky hands while Sans arches against my body in the most delicious way.

My hands trace his lumbar vertebrae, edges rounded and soft. He's such a gentle, non-threatening creature. Nothing about his body is harsh to the touch. No sharp angles. Nothing to attack with. No armour. Just inviting softness.

He is so human in that regard.

I rub the intervertebral discs with the tips of my fingers and feel the jelly-like surface yield under the careful pressure. His breath hitches and he whispers my name.

I sigh and start making tea, walking around the kitchen in a haze. My shift at work starts in 10 minutes.

Sans whines ever so softly as my hand reaches inside his hollow ribcage, caressing, massaging the warm bones.

I stop in the middle of the kitchen, spilled tea trickling down my arm onto the floor.

I watch the droplets fall.

Smooth bones shiver under my fingers.

I put the glass back on the counter and turn around lethargically to get some paper towels.

Teeth pressed against my lips. Ragged breath.

Sugar. I need to get a soap. Or the floor is going to be sticky.

"please, just... please"

The floor tiles are cold and smooth when I kneel down.

I can't see my kitchen anymore.

Sans leans into my hand needily as I wipe the sweat off his forehead.

It's going to be a torturously long day.

#I am struggling #send Sans #send help #you've just made me finish that piece of writing with your yummy art #yes you #you know who you are and I bet you feel guilty now #'cause you should #look what you've done #GIVE ME THE SQUISHY CHUBBY BABY BOY #ALERT: feral Fudge on the loose #DO NOT APPROACH while wearing a blue hoodie and/or pink slippers #but if she sees you: #RUN #sansnomaly #sans x reader #sans x self insert #suggestive #cw suggestive #my writing

[lilacjunimo]

saw someone on twitter imply that one king of queens promo photo would be tech and phee and so now we have this

#tbb tech #tbb phee #tech bad batch #phee genoa #techphee #the bad batch #tbb fanart #the bad batch fanart #pls be gentle #im closing my eyes as i press post now for this one #which is crazy because ive literally posted drawings before #idk why this ones given me so many nerves #very odd #but its done!! #if you've seen previous renditions of this drawing no u didn't #ok ok time for the positives #i love how i made her shift his goggles with her thumb #from the start i knew i was gonna make phee do that #and i wanted to just use two colors for the whole drawing #and i did at first #tech blue phee red #and then i added a little red to tech and a little blue to phee and i was so AAAAA about that #the background also has a purposeful purple tint to it which i love #ok ok and also i love phee's hair #and her foot that's sticking outwards #woah this is a lot more rambly than i anticipated #oh well #that's what tumblr's for #also as i look at it now its very pixely which leaves me ???? but that's that and thats how its gonna be i suppose just dont try to zoom #ok thnx bye

[vse-kar-vem]

"i love you, i love you, i love you." (fanart for @fruitybashir's holidate!!! <333)

#bojan cvjetićanin #kris guštin #IM SORRY IF THE ANATOMY IS WACK I MADE IT UP ☹️☹️☹️ #bokris #if you're a bokrisser and you've never read this. what are you doing. #i have a lottt of stuff lined up to draw which i promise i WILL get to but holidate ending really shot this to the top of my todo 🥹🥹🥹 #holidate sundays i'll miss you!!!! (tearfully waving handkerchief) #my art #no but genuinely 💞💞💞 i love this fic its brought me so much joy #this was gonna be a diptych of sorts with the drawing above and the morning after w bojan looking at kris 🥹🥹 but then i got tired so #imagine that's there as well <33333 #ouagh

[arttsuka]

Jed and Oct need a bigger tank- who put them in such a small tank???

I like to think Larry was like "I'll go buy a big tank tomorrow for you to stay until we figure out how to turn you back" (because the shops wouldn't be open at night) and then he put them in two glasses of water. Jed had a panic attack (almost dying in a hourglass will leave some trauma behind) so Larry just went to his house, found an old fishbowl he had (for decorative reasons, filled with little rocks etc) and brought that back to the museum.

#look what you've done #you made me care about this au #:') #jk of course #not about caring for this au thought (I love mermaid aus) #also sorry this is a completely random drawing and it has almost nothing to do with your ask #I just wanted to share it (surprisingly I drew it before I received your ask somehow) #ask #answered #I love it when I draw a character and someone with that character as their pfp likes the post (or leave comments or asks) #night at the museum #natm octavius #natm jedediah #natm #jedtavius #jedediah and octavius #mermaid au #mermay #fanart #art #traditional art #maybe I'll share the designs I originally wanted to go with (basically Jed with gloves and Octavius as an octopus) #love me some good angst (don't judge me) #did anyone notice the detail on the water on jed's glass? it's shaking. that's it. that's the detail

[feluka]

😔

#i've been so so good at not messing with my face and #it's been the most normal it's ever looked in YEARS lately and #nobody has stopped me to ask me questions in several months and everything was fine #and today i undid all that effort by scratching my face absolutely bloody #it looks atrocious my parents keep asking me if i ran into a wall or got punched #jfc i will never take my gloves off ever again i am very demoralized i was doing so well! #i hope it heals quickly. and that i don't mess up all over again when it does. #i hate the looks and questions i get #my mother especially gets very insensitive about it and says #'you've made yourself absolutely hideous because you can't practise any self control' #and she keeps going on about how horrifying i look. thanks mom that's what i was going for! #yes absolutely i can stop any time but yet i choose to look like this thanks for your support^_^ #sarcasm.

[mad-hunts]

#GRAND TRAGEDY: aesthetics. #alright but... imagine barton pulling up to the function wearing a mask made up of his deceased father's face. what do you do? #JSJSJ I'm just joking y'all i swear LOLLL but this is honestly kind of a jumpscare ngl #so forgive me if this seemed very sudden but THIS is how he looks in his mask. #and doesn't he just look like the most handsome guy you've ever seen with those noticeably rotted pieces of flesh over his face? 😍 / j #BAHAHAH okay i've got to stop making jokes about it but i... hope y'all like this one...? idk what to say in response to this 🤣 ;; #WE DON'T TREAT HIM LIKE THE COMMON RUBBISH WE'RE USED TO: visage.

[leblancsvoleur]

You know, for all that Kaito gets compared to Arsène Lupin because of Kaitou KID... Toichi is actually a much more fitting Lupin-expy than Kaito.

Toichi has:

fallen in love with a stranger, thief woman ✅

kissed her out of nowhere after they just met ✅

became a dramatic, fancy thiefman✅

escaped/faked his death ✅

abandoned his son ✅

...which are things that Lupin has ALSO done.

From this angle, Magic Kaito can be seen as the story of the child of a "Lupin", left to deal with the aftermath of their father's impulsive, criminal life.

#magic kaito #this post is partially a joke since we don't actually know that much about Toichi in canon #don't take it too seriously #also i made this post to cope with the terrifying realization that i could've been down bad for cringefail babygirl Toichi #if mk was about him instead of Kaito #oh lupin look what you've done to me #do NOT read Arslup you'll only come out with bad taste in men #kuroba kaito #kuroba toichi #mk #.txt #mine

[boxwinebaddie]

UNCLE NINNAA ITS EARLY AS SHIT WHERE I AM RN AND IM CRYINGGG OVER THAT THAT WAS SO FUCKING CUTE OMFF FUCK YOU MY FACE IS WET AND THEY ARE SO SWWEETTTT

ahahaha!!! happy mother's day, darling! my gift to you xx

because i know not all of us have a strong mother figure in our lives, so at least you can rest easy knowing you have two super cool dads again and, in that sense, are no longer children of divorce! <3 :') EEE!

-uncle nina, single mom of two gaywads, doin gods work

#everyone wake up uncle nina undivorced ravesey #i wanna know when uncle day is smh #but i'm glad you enjoyed it they are very cute to me #i have no idea what compelled me to do that ask #but idk you've been tortured by me long enough it was burning a hole through me and i wanted to share it with yall #i was just worried that i would not do the loveliness of the exchange justice but this made me feel better abt it <3 tysm #i'm not ALL evil i promise you guys i told you they were fine #sorry i wanted to say more in this ask and go into more detail but i did not sleep well and my eyes look like gunshot wounds #thank you for regularly supporting me and enduring my psychosis as a reward jersey kyle can now say i love you #happy mothers day from ur favorite uncle #i remarried ur dads #ur welc <3

[generalsmemories]

i can have a normal day and suddenly at 3 AM while I wait for melatonin to kick in i get another epiphany but I'm also left groveling on the ground cause of said epiphany

#narus' corner #man.... #jing yuan man.... #much thoughts. #what flavor of mentally deranged shall i be when i wake up from my slumber #i dont know BUT LORD ITS NOT LOOKING GOOD #**pokes jing yuan** do smth about this #Have a surprise appearance next patch #grant me ur companion quest so i can haul u over to yhe express #you've had 4 cameos on different companion quests humor me #lemme see u #LEMME TALK TO U MORE U EEPY LION #or stuff u into a casket myself like i think that works too #listen what if we were made to make a pitstop at luofu by elio cause he knew shit would go down at penacony with the family #have y'all seen that description of them #straight up cult vibes i think we gonna be sacrificed #manipulation 101 with ur local pastor WHEEEZE #but then theres other sources saying its cartoon inspired and then i get more confused #manipulation by silly cartoons making silly noises #and thej somrone slams a giant hammer on us with an OH-HOY #AND WHO GONNA SAVE US SINCE WE CARRYING THAT JADE ABACUS #JING YUAN BABY SO TRUE MY LIEGE HE SHALL COME TO OUR RESCUE #but how the hell would that realistically work if the express always wormholes to reach other destinations #how fast is the luofu going if they have to derail of their path to stop at penacony likr

[mariyekos]

One day I'm going to finish my FFXVI mega essay, but for now I think my thoughts on the game can be summarized like this:

When making FFXVI, the developers sure knew what they wanted to do, and by god were they going to do it.

Were they also going to do other things that would make those first thing better? Were they going to do other things that make a good game overall? Ehhhhh...they were going to do what they wanted to do, and invest all their time and effort into that, so surely that would be enough! Surely!

#i saw someone call FFXVI the most disappointing 8/10 game they'd ever played #and i agree 100% #it started off SO STRONG #and then. and then!!! #ffxvi #my overall rating is in fact an 8 out of 10. maybe 8.5. definitely not a 9 #i enjoyed many parts of it but by god were the lows low #some of the highs were very high too! i don't regret buying or playing the game! i'm glad i did #but yeah most disappointing 8/10 i ever played is an apt description #my opinion might be slightly impacted by my uh. mental state at the time #2023 was not a good year for me. for several months ffxvi was the only thing i had to look forward to in life #and that's really sad but that was just the place i was in. life was absolutely miserable #i played the demo and was over the moon. good things were coming! it was way better than i anticipated! #then i played the game and while i enjoyed a lot of it a lot was just tedious in a bad way #so many repeated plotlines and so much whacking you over the head with the points they wanted to make #like come on guys i am not an idiot do you really need to tell me this exact thing 18 different times #and have me go out of my way to get. reward which is just a slightly different flavor of that same thing 18 times #that's what i mean by them doing a few things very well. by god were they going to do them. and only them #graphics? beautiful. i had to stop at several points bc i was stunned by the quality. #but after you've seen a few forests and some fallen ruins it gets boring when that's it. the world was just so small and empty #yes i do support the rise up against your oppressor plotlines because that is a good thing to do but that was like. 90% of the story #(including sidequests) and it just kind of got old. why did i just spend 3 hours straight doing sidequests that gave me nothing new #made some of the sidequests feel pointless. especially because the rewards in this game sucked #uh oh i'm getting too negative so i'll end it here #ffxvi was a good game but it is not one of my faves. glad i played it but idk when i'll play it again. #erurandomness

[sysig]

Step off loser (Patreon)

#Doodles #Just Desserts #Villainsona #He's so lame lol #I mentioned this a while back with one of his comics but the Kaiein in my head is way worse than his real-life equivalent #Still bad! But just so...ineffectual lol #Honestly insulted to have made him so terrible in my head only for the real version to be so pathetic lol #I guess it's proof of growth and is still Way better than the alternative it's just funny #Those first two were a line I So Desperately wanted to use in reply to something stupid they did and I was Extremely Tempered and did not #Basically a way of saying ''Double check - even at the expense of looking stupid because guess what you already do'' #It got worked out but I was displeased lol #Then again I read everything in bad faith from this person so :P Not hard to get worked up about it lol #Still it was exceptionally stupid and also I still don't particularly believe them But Whatever lol #At least Charm gets to use it! I don't know the context but she'd silently fistpump about it later lol #Get rekt idiot #And then the latter - you've all watched the Jello ISaT highlight video now right! Savvy's redraw of the ''You're Cringe'' comic inspired me #Go away if you're just gonna talk shit >:0 #Grumpily melts about it to himself lol good seethe more #Even if it is only the Kaiein in my head that's The Worst Version - all the more reason to be pleased at this one's misery haha #Anything that drags him down to a more beatable level! That is what S2 is all about! Beat the bad guy! #Love to see reformed villains winning <3

[victorluvsalice]

VITD Sims Lookbook: Alice

And finally, with Victor and Smiler done, we finish off with some looks for our lovely Cutter, Alice!

Alice gets straight into the custom content with one of her everyday outfits, wearing the blue swatches of the 1890s Working Girl set by @vintagesimstress! And unlike the last time I showed her in this outfit, this time she has the apron overlay to go with it. XD Looks good on her AND gives her the proper working-class vibes!

For bedtime, Alice gets a pretty nightgown -- and much like Smiler, while they're not era-appropriate, I had to give Alice the cute bunny slippers too. XD What, we know she likes white rabbits! If I remember correctly, that nightgown is a dress that comes with the Cottage Garden Fan Stuff Pack made by @plumbobteasociety -- I thought it looked nice as nightwear for her.

For that semi-formal party everyone's going to, Alice gets a Realm of Magic top and skirt that make her look at least somewhat respectable. While I think the outfit as a whole is a little pale, I really wanted to use that top on her -- I think she looks good in it. And the skirt ended up working with it pretty well (which is good, because it took me ages to find one that actually went with the top. Some of this shit is HARD to match, let me tell you!).

And for a formal occasion -- well, unlike the boy and the non-binary person, Alice doesn't need to rely on CC here. Get Famous provides a beautiful Victorian dress for her to swan around in! (Though I should probably download a few for her anyway, for variety's sake -- or at least a couple of hats that might go well with this outfit. Head looks a little naked here!) She looks ready for a day in Brightstone, doesn't she?

Okay, admittedly I didn't intend this outfit as an athletic outfit, just another everyday one (though I suppose Alice COULD wear it for working out). And this Cats & Dogs dress is probably a little too modern to fit the proper BITD vibes. But I really like it for the simple reason the patchwork skirt looks like something Alice made herself -- finding and saving up scraps of fabric so she could have something else to wear besides her iconic striped blouse and black skirt. And you can't deny, it DOES look good on her!

And finally, for those chilly days, Alice gets in on the cozy vibes with a cherries-and-flowers theme -- the sweater (and I believe the skirt) is from Cottage Living, while the hat is a recolor created by Plumbella (from "illegally downloading clothes for my sims," in this SimFileShare folder (as you might imagine, it's the one called "beret")). She looks pretty comfy -- and those boots were definitely made for stomping around the streets in the snow and rain.

And that's that! Hope you enjoyed this look at what my VITD characters would probably wear in their universe. Next time (after Valicertine's Day), we're back to the Chill Valicer save for store shenanigans and magic shenanigans! See you then!

#sims 4 #cas looks #fashion #alice liddell #valicer in the dark au #I do find it amusing that Alice's outfit selection has the most CC in it #but she DIDN'T need a CC Victorian dress thanks to Get Famous #but yeah probably should get her some more Victorian dresses at some point #the main problem is that most of them are upper class dresses and she is not an upper class person #but a few fancier formal options would be good #really like the 1890s working girl set for her though thank you Vintage Simstress #and the patchwork dress is very cute on her #though maybe if I could find a separated skirt I could pair it up with a more era-appropriate top #and you've probably guessed that cherries hat is one of my favorites for her #which is why I was shocked to discover I DIDN'T have the download link at hand while making the post #I knew it was a Plumbella creation but it took me a while to track down the video where she made it #and from the the SimFileShare link where she shared it #like sheesh what the hell me #but then again I think I downloaded it before keeping better records of what was in my game #just glad to have the link now yay #might do another one of these at some point #still thinking about doing that VITD-inspired save file #so I want to make sure they all have plenty of clothes :p #queued

[twilightarcade]

little girl from arcade I was too afraid to approach 2 give you a stuffed animal I won for you because your family was scary I hope you can forgive me

#wordstag #ACTUALLY THEYRE FUCKING HAUNTING ME. WHY WPULD IT DO THAT ??? #like. Cod. Worst case scenario they give you some weird looks. What are they going to do about it. #(NOT ! the worst case scenario but cod was I just. Hyping it up in my brain at that point) #dude she was atrocious at claw machines too. At first I thought 'oh haha yeah those are rigged' BUT NO SHE WOULD JUST. #BLATANTLY MISS THE MARK. IT HURT. she asked if I could help and I think I had go at it early on #but like. Eventually they left (there were two of them) and I got it . First try #that was so DEEPLY soul crushing you have no clue. Like I had cheated or something. #I oonly saw them as they were leaving and like . Man did I psych myself out of talking to them #scared black guy you've never seen before offers yr child a plushie. Do you accept y/n. Choose wisely. #I think it would have really fucking made their day. You know that? Like what the hell dude. #gotta do scary things sometimes.