#those demons are doing something to me

[leaffiii]

Playing Doom Eternal again and this game is activating my neurons in an indescribable way

#those demons are doing something to me #leafy speaks

[clownsuu]

Small detour of what I usually post, but I absolutely wish (other) clown the best of luck during these confusing and almost hopeless times- nobody knows how to deal with such amount of attention in such short amount of time- a blessing and a curse to behold

#Seeing their posts absolutely shattered me #I may never be able to relate to how he’s going through rn but at least I can relate to the fear of living in absolute fear #the fear of unable to be yourself in your own home with creative and personal freedom #The fear of being terrified that the thing that gives you the most innocent happiness will be heavily demonized and threatened #The fear of getting caught doing something you love and being yourself with your found identity #The fear of destruction #I relate heavily to this and to feel you are going to be caught doing anything that isn’t a crime hurts #I wish him safety and love during these stressful days #He’s brought so much joy to my life that I must keep private irl too #Whatever he decides for the fandom I will fully support it #I will still continue posting of course unless he wishes otherwise #If he sees this (which I doubt) hey other clown lmao- you are loved and not alone #It may be scary but you are not alone- you will never be alone #There will always be people out there who love you and there will always be those who are not even worth giving time of day #The internet is both a blessing and a cruel cruel unforgiving place #I hope it doesn’t deter you from doing what you love and hold dear #I hope you have anyone you can be with online or in irl that can give you the comfort you need #You deserve peace and security #Do what you feel is best #Welcome home

[yellowsubiesdance]

i think i’ve learned a lot when it comes to not applying my own values to the media i consume

for my script analysis class yesterday, we discussed two gentleman from verona, and nearly every classmate of mine was up in arms about how sexist the story is.

and i'm not saying it's not, or that it's not infuriating to read. but i'm also not putting my energy into getting upset about something written 500 or so years ago. and i'm not about to put my own beliefs onto these characters that are not me. i'm going to let their choices speak for themselves, and interpret it in the context of the story.

all that said, this now brings me to the point of alastor in episode 5, and how viscerally people are responding to it. those of you up in arms about the choices he’s making, and the violent threat he gave husk, you’re missing the entire point of his character, of this place they’re in, of the story being told. he’s an overlord, and he became an overlord by killing much bigger overlords and broadcasting their deaths over the radio.

HE IS NOT A GOOD PERSON.

if you started this show with the belief that every character working the hotel is a good person, you’re in the wrong place. watch the good place if you’re looking for a good wholesome story about getting dead sinners into heaven, because that’s not what this show is about.

you’re more than welcome to hate him after seeing the way he exerted power over a being whose soul he owns, but you’re doing the media you’re watching a disservice by writing it off so quickly. if you don’t like to be uncomfortable watching media, watch something else. this is an uncomfortable show, it handles uncomfortable topics, and it’s going to be an uncomfortable ride, and if you’re not up for something like that, then you should take a break from it and pick up something else. you don’t have to get online and defend your own ideals while you watch a show that goes against your ideals.

#hazbin hotel spoilers #that’s not even touching on the fact that husk was an overlord too #he also owned souls that he used as currency to supply his gambling addiction #he’s also not a good person!! #the majority of these characters are in hell for a reason: they’re not good people #i quite frankly love the way this show blurs the lines between good and evil #our heroes are sinners and overlords and demons. while the enemies are angels. but that doesn’t mean our heroes are good people. #you HAAAVE to come to terms with that!! you have to stop seeing the world in black and white or you’re not going to survive this world #if you’re upset because alastor was cruel to husk fine! be upset! but explore why you’re taking yourself out of that world. #in this world sinners own other people. there’s no ifs ands or buts #‘oh alastor is a poc why would he own people’ he was a serial killer when he was alive do you really think you can apply your values to that #(and this is me speaking as a poc. specifically a mixed race poc.) #i cannot speak to who vivzie is as a person. but i’m interested in the message she’s writing and thus far i’m finding it compelling #it’s a similar story as the good place but it’s going the distance to explore even worse people than those in the good place #i don’t think it’s responsible to write something off just because unsavory things happen in it. #and she’s giving us so many different types of representation that don’t involve race (although we’re also getting a lot of hispanic rep) #just like cool your jets and maybe process some of the anger you’re feeling. and maybe nothing will change. #but if you act. instead of react. if you understand why you’re feeling some type of way and then make a choice. #that’s so much stronger and more responsible than reacting and not thinking anything through #hazbin hotel #alastor #husk #hazbin alastor #hazbin husk #anyway let me get off my soapbox #long post

[doodleodds]

A quick xanlow comm for @honeydots! :) Laslow stop that, he's trying to concentrate!! Those notes are important!!

#It's been so many years since I last thought of xanlow but you know what?? I missed them. i did #ooo 'quick comm' yeah sophia ok. uh huh #my damn perfectionism is acting up again. anyway these are taking me juuust a little longer than intended to do as a result xD #also brief Ferdinand update for those interested: he is at +7 currently!!! I'm getting there >:)))) #anyway!! hope this is something like what you were looking for lol :) thank you again for your support!! #also also: are you the laslow lead in feh who added me? your build is bonkers!!!! spd demon laslow my beloved

[vehemourn]

Not even breaking a sweat!

#this one is ALSO very cute :3 #its the first one where gabe gets to Show Off to dusty like this i think #i think dusty is not surprised that he can do it but he IS surprised at how Easy it is for him #i think dusty often assumes / feels like he and gabe are a lot closer in strength than they are #especially because gabe is usually so controlled and shows so much restraint and grace in how he interacts with the world and people around #him #:3 #so then he does something like this and dustys like "OH YEAH. #“this guy goes to the gym constantly and is a machine that turns a plant-based diet into pure meat and muscle” #“he's So Intentionally SO VERY STRONG!” #i think its cute :3 #especially because gabe doesnt often get to show off to him <3 its cute :3. maybe i will do more #PLUS it taught me more about drawing muscles GROWLES it was so hard #PUT THOSE SHITS AWAY!!! (he cant. hes made of them.) #anyways tag time #k #my art #myoc #my ocs #my oc #dusty #gabe #gabriel von kiesling #dusty sterling #friends oc #friends ocs #demon #imp #werewolf #serval

[gingerbreadmonsters]

5+1 headcanons 👀

tagged by the glorious @romirola for a dose of headcanon this evening - i'm very happy to oblige! as always you may consider this an open tag from me if you'd like to join in on the fun, and we'll do a few no-pressure tags too: @zozo-01 @halscafe @autisticempathydaemon @thicchaco @mr-laveau @penncilkid mind if i pick your brain for a bit?? 💕💕

rules: share 5 redactedverse headcanons you hold, plus 1 headcanon you're still working on!

hcs under the cut!

william and vincent may not actually be biologically related [EDITOR: insert ‘blood relatives’ joke here], but they look similar enough that people often think they are.

this is not so much a headcanon as just my refusal to accept canon, but gavin coalesced LONG before 1990 - it was actually somewhere around the mid-1700s, although he only chose the name ‘gavin’ for himself in approximately the mid-1900s, not long after the end of WW2.

gavin and vincent are very good friends - they get on extremely well, and the double dates with freelancer and lovely are legendary, for several reasons.

the prime and imperium universe are not entirely separate from each other - sometimes, they bleed into each other without anybody really realising. it’s nothing too serious - a strange feeling of deja vu, or a weird dream, or a turn of phrase that just feels… right.

as beings of emotion, demons don’t naturally express themselves physically, making facial expressions and body language very difficult for them to both interpret and perform accurately without a lot of practice. because they aren’t designed to have physical bodies, they lack an innate sense of outwardly expressing and responding to emotional stimuli.

(well, +1) gavin might never admit it out loud, but he secretly daydreams a lot about being able to transform freelancer into a demon like him. even though he knows it’s never been done before, and may not even be possible, he doesn’t ever want to be apart from them and he wants so much more time with them than their human lifespan could allow.

#redacted asmr #redacted audio #romi beloved <3 #ooh a game! #i did not include chinese vincent or the echo gavin theory here #just bc i have talked about those quite extensively already so in thought i would do smth new #i have a LOT of thoughts about demons and their relationship to physicality #it is so important to me #and its something that i have to imagine shapes almost all interactions demons have on the human plane #being poured into a physical shape when they are not naturally designed to manipulate one #when they have no natural instincts to help them to manoeuvre it or to tell them what feels right or wrong in a social sense #chefs kiss. fascinating to me

[velvetjune]

technically alan wake 2 final draft (spoilers ahead) is a Happy ending for the characters, but the spiral writers room video calling his enlightened self a possible demiurge or demon unsettled me far more than the original ending. that version, by his nature, already existing and overlapping with past loops, influencing and manipulating things without known reasons (to us and the Alan we play). it really makes that Alan out to be something else entirely through ascension and that this is inevitable. this could partially be because I kept seeing people say that the final draft was the happy end with a happy resolution for everyone, but I can’t stop thinking about what this means for Alan—and Alice!—going forward. That, along with the direct parallels to Yötön Yö playing out. It’s SO much to unpack

#final draft spoilers #alan wake 2 spoilers #alan wake 2 #I’m repeating myself in my aw2 posts about the ending but I reeeeaally love the first ending #and I’ve come around to liking the final draft but trying to wrap my head around it #and would love to know if anyone has specific thoughts on the yötön yö callbacks or master of worlds/demon thing #I’ve seen some interpretations that alice literally is the bullet of light coexisting with alan. or that maybe he’ll become an antagonist #but idk if I agree with those. but there’s a lot that the final draft opens up #and it is a Little funny to me that it’s considered the more positive or conclusive ends #apart from Logan answering the call—everything else leaves far more to question #the first end is very ‘Alan is stuck in a spiral and needs to ascend w the help of saga and Alice’ #but the final draft. all the worlds are Alan’s oyster. who is he and what will he do. i have no idea #and all the ascension and becoming something else while playing the roles of yötön yö still make the entire thing feel slightly off #in a way that’s good btw. i like that the final draft is less clear and not a generic happy end than I assumed from all the buzz around it #like maybe aw3 or control 2 will roll around and he’ll just be like Mr Door and he’s just more aware of his powers #but for now I enjoy the questionable aspects of this happy end for alan and alice #😃 <- me after discussing the endings of aw2 extensively over multiple posts #also feel like i should say that I don’t think alan will be. evil or anything #it’s just the aw2 of identity and change that fascinates me with what ascension means for alan :’)

[the-girl-with-too-many-ideas]

Does anyone else get the feeling that at their core, all of mxtx's works are about cycles of abuses.

#idea dump #ramblings of a sleep deprived girl #heaven official's blessing #tian guan ci fu #scum villian self saving system #mao dao zu shi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #cycle of abuse #I don't only mean the passing down of trauma #I also mean the abuses of an established corrupt system #that systematically hurts people that are less fortunate than those who actively benefit from it #to me this one is more prevalent in mdzs and why jin guangyao downfall is so upsetting to me #because he was coming close to breaking the cycle of abuse of both the system and of his family #but unfortunately it was his past actions in service of perpetuating it that doomed him #if he had realized a lot sooner that his father was not worth it #and started pursuing his own interests from the beginning instead of his father's approval he could have changed everything for the better #not to mention that unlike his father he actually treats his spouse with respect and doesn't intentionally hurt her #emphasis on the 'intentional' part (if you know you know) #just like Jin Guangyao became the new wei wuxian Nie Huaisang became the new Jin Guangyao #so i'm of the firm belief that since the system is still in place the cycle will repeat again #and Nie Huaisang will replace Wei Wuxian as someone else becomes his Jin Guangyao #sorry for this long ass essay in the tags lol #it's 3am so I'll probably do the other two another time #also let it be known that I'm only running on spoilers/fanfictions/wiki when it comes to svsss and mdzs #so if anyone bothers to read my essay tags be free to correct anything if I get something wrong #side note why wasn't mdzs about breaking cycles??? #why didn't yanli become sect leader. Jiang cheng remain coreless. or Jin Zixuan marry into the Jiangs to show worth outside the norms #you can be a strong woman without being cruel. cultivation doesn't equal worth. and powerful women are beautiful and should be respected

[rithmeres]

genuinely these panels are going to make me ugly cry

#i'm not back for real yet i think i want to stay away longer. i'm just here to put more things in the queue and answer messages #i really enjoyed trimax vol 4 idk something about it was less miserable than 1-3 #might have been the first volume that i wasn't grimacing the entire time i read it. or maybe i'm just desensitized now. #unironically this prayer is soooo beautiful to me. give us this day our daily bread. not bread for the week not bread for a year #just enough for today. #lately when i've been praying it just looks like #please for the love of god please please please please please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPL #things are not looking good for the community house.. lots bureaucracy with the city. and the church that funded us is falling apart #i don't know what i'm going to do if we get shut down it's the one thing in my life that's worth anything #all those kids... where are they going to go. who is going to help them. where is the neighborhood going to get their food. #in two days it will be the anniversary of [REDACTED] and i am so so so scared #just sat in my room today and fruitlessly scrolled thru jobs im not qualified for & tried not to think about thinking about killing myself #i don't WANT to kill myself i don't want to think about it i hate thinking about killing myself i will never ever kill myself or even try #but there is a demon or perhaps a ghost or evil wizard that tells me there's an easy way everything can go away. and it's A STUPID. BITCH. #please do not reply to this post i know you all mean well but i just don't think i can handle it. #talking about it i mean. and hearing people say nice but empty things. #i just wish i had someone to sit next to me. #personal #i don't want to go to church tomorrow :( it all feels so fake and i do not ever feel fed.

[rotshop]

redraw of a really really old piece .................. zomg

#DONT FOLLOW ME EXPECTING CRK PLEASE . i have 0 interest in it i just needed something easy to draw #art.jpeg #cookie run #angel cookie #devil cookie #crk #cr kingdom #cookie run kingdom #edit i feel like rambling in tags to explain things the strings that are all on angels design are supposed to mimic that swirly pattern #thing going on w/ their og design because i could NOT think of anything else to do + i like throwing random lines on all of my designs #+ i wear 20 bracelets daily so everyone i draw needs to have the same amount of stuff going on on their arms #same for the strings on their waist just with dots added to mimic the dots that follow those lines ontheir og design #i dont have much to say abt devil bc its just generic Demon Things while angel is generic Cherub Things #you understand

[bmpmp3]

lemme tell you im starting to get a little sick of when im complaining about when a show or movie is writing a major female character with not as much depth as her male cohorts or she's written oddly plot device-like for a main character and people always tell me "oh but it's intentional, we're seeing her through the eyes of the male main character and he has a crush on her so he doesnt see her flaws" because like

FIRST of all yeah i get it but its hard to write that trope interestingly to me at this point without a lot of work put into subversion so intentionality doesnt make it any less boring

SECONDLY half the time people say this about ensemble cast stuff and like why is the random dude suddenly designated as the most perspective of all perspective characters when it comes to this specific woman. why dont we get to see the other characters perspectives on her too?

AND THIRDLY do people view women they have crushes on as bland plot devices without lives of their own enough irl that this is so universal in writing? isnt the point of having a crush wanting to hang out and know more about your crush, know about their likes and dislikes and all that. am i missing something here

#im gonna sound insane for what im about to say. but i grew up watching way to much harem anime for a 10 year old #and im gonna be honest. maybe that spoiled me? those things were not without their flaws but at least the 5 different magical giant #goddess demon vampire women with multicoloured hair inexplicably in love with random normal guy at least had like. inner lives #like thats why the guy is so normal and bland. because the focus is on the magical women and their pink hair and their complicated #backstories and familial lives and whatever outside of the main character #like theyre still big boobied colourful haired fantasies but at least they showed me something about em #when it comes to these other stories where a woman is treated like a plot device love interest and written like a dead wife in an #action movie but like. alive. i cant help but feel like. are you holding out on me? i want to know her. show me her LIFE i want to SEE IT #grabs writers by the collar ARE YOU HOLDING OUT ON ME??? #its nuts because sometimes you see the bones of a really cool character but the writers are more interested in what she can do for the main #male character and how he sees her than whats going on in her head. i dunno im just getting annoyed. i think u can do this trope well #like how i think you can write basically any trope well. but i see intentionality used an excuse so often so i wanna see you do #SOMETHING interesting with this trope if ur gonna do it at least. subvert it in cool ways i dunno just do ANYTHING hfjdkjfkd

[achairwithapandaonit]

by any chance does anyone have any demon slayer fic recs where nezuko is actually more of a proper character and gets development and is allowed to grow? cause honestly the further i've gotten in this manga the more disappointed in it i've been with the lack of meaningful development, especially in nezuko

#no idea if this is actually a controversial opinion on the series cause i've not come across much criticism #but i do think it falls short on every character. the concepts are great and i enjoy the characters and had a lot of fun watching and #reading this series. but i do think that it fails to do much that's actually meaningful or impactful with any of the characters #ready to be disagreed with but i feel like the only development nezuko ever got was when she went to attack those humans and had to #be restrained by tanjirou. and it falls incredibly flat when she never really has any other struggles other than at the start of the series #i thought she was meant to be a main character but she's more like a set piece #maybe i'm just missing something cause i'm still about 50 chapters from the end. but i just got so disappointed after they did nothing with #her becoming sun resistant except pull a gag that i didn't want to pick the manga up again #like that was the chance to do more with her and finally give her development and let her relationships develop! and the fact that they did #nothing kind of highlighted to me that the series really hadn't done much with any of the characters #there's beats where it feels like there's growth but i don't actually know what about the characters has grown??? apart from getting a new #power and being stronger because of it #they don't grow as characters. and supposed development only ever happens during fights or off screen #anyway i should stop criticising. i'm just very disappointed cause i really enjoyed the manga and then that happened and it was like what's #the point #criticism #demon slayer criticism #<- so you can block the tag if you don't want to see this stuff #it feels very negative for the fact that you really can't expect much from shounen. and i DID enjoy it. it's just disappointing #(the shinobu thing is also annoying. like i like that she can't decapitate demons and that she uses poison but the reason for it being that #she's weak and small is bullshit and FEELS like it's written that way because she's a woman)

[eyndr-stories]

These were supposed to be just quick silly self indulgent warm up sketches, but then i got possessed by the entity and now two months later here we are, you know how it is fdlgkhjdfd

Couple of OCs hangin' out here! We've got Ben in the top left 'fixing' poor Sun, and Cube sporting some fashionable googly eyes :3

#it is so clear which sketches possessed me fgdjlhfdgjkd no one look at me ok #and continue to not look at me when i post the domestic drawings these sketches inspired in a bit dhglkfjkjhf #hm do i post those right away or schedule them for tomorrow?? hmmmmm #also god damn no one look too close at Moon's hands i struggled so fucking hard trying to pose the hands right #i went through several poses and then several attempts at several poses and things just werent lining up right #aaaaAAAAAAAHHHHH FUCK I JUST REALIZED I FORGOR HIS RIBBONSSSSSSS GRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #fnaf sb #fnaf security breach #fnaf moon #fnaf sun #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf dca #sundrop #moondrop #fnaf sb oc #oc marcy #oc cube #oc ben #oc demon dude #what tags am i missing grahh i know im missing someth- oh yea #eyndr does art #lmao

[finnpeach]

no new animes this fall and winter. i am regressing to full metal alchemist, Yuri on ice, and free!

#I want to go back to 2016 when yoi came out and I sat in my dorm room with my mini roast type dinner from the campus dining hall and watched #the newest yoi episode every Wednesday and got my weekly serotonin fix from history maker #and if my roommate was in the dorm then I went and watched it in the bean bag lounges on campus and ate my little roast chicken and mashed #potatoes and wedge fries and corn bread #hey guys would you read a free! makoharu fic HAHAHAHA #those were my BREAD AND BUTTER on the forum #I cosplayed female Rei once at a con and my friend did the blond one can’t remember his name #me at 16 years old walking around a con in a swimsuit and a shitty blue Amazon wig 🧍🏼‍♀️ #it wasn’t a bikini though ok it was a one piece swimsuit we had class #Not that you could pay me enough to walk around in a bikini in a con #I think we also wore shorts w it too #Imagine if I wrote a yoi fic in 2023 #oh dude if that movie ever comes out. you won’t ever see me again #I do however want to finish demon slayer and then the chainsaw one #I also really wanna rewatch that blue exorcist anime #AND I kinda wanna rewatch the one about those terrorists who like grew up in labs and were called like 9 and 12 or something. but maybe not

[takingasterix]

when wwx gets back from the burial grounds and is using demonic energy and everyone is asking why he’s not carrying a sword anymore, why does no one assume that his golden core is gone? they know that the Core-Melting Hand wen zhuliu exists, and i’m sure some people know specifically that he was present when wwx was taken, so it seems like a very reasonable conclusion to jump to. even though no one knows he gave his core up specifically for jiang cheng, i feel like people would eventually assume that it got crushed as he continues to refuse to use spiritual energy. did they acknowledge this at some point and i’m totally missing something?

#mdzs #wei wuxian #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #founder of diabolism #i don't know it just feels like a very logical assumption #specifically for those people that knew wwx before and know that he wouldn't do demonic cultivation unless he didn't have a choice #please let me know #i feel like i totally missed something

[r7inyz]

this year i am really getting back into stuff I liked when I was 8-10 what is happening.

first fnaf and slowly it's roblox. what's next.. GACHA LIFE???? NO

#it's just something I've been noticing happening a lot lately #the fnaf movie awakened some demons in me that where deeply hidden #i have no idea why im liking roblox again.. it's not just the game itself it's EVERYTHING 😭 #my most recent yt searches are all to do with roblox mysteries/lost media 😭 like how theres barely any remaining videos of 2007 roblox??? #that gacha life thing was a joke I do NOT want to be in that fandom again. #if not gacha (STAY AWAY) then it's gonna be creeoypasta to come back into my life #i have been very bored lately I'm going back into old fandoms #((and having a lot of fun)) #brutus rambles #speaking of roblox and fnaf rest in peace to those meepcity sister location parties i held in 2018 💔 you won't be missed