bonus post-crash:
The neurodivergent urge to do this
Been doodling this concept alot
Honestly thought this was a life series post.
if half life is so good then why isn’t there a half life 2? oh there is? well then if half life 2 is so good why isn’t there a half life 2 2? oh there is? ok well if half life 2 episode 2 is so good then why does it allow evil to exist in the world?
Posting all of the pills that make you green comics here now, enjoy? I guess?
regret rates
proof
talking points
you problem
owned
modern invention
unethical experiments
typology
think of the children
side effects
facts
making sense
rushing
drawings
research
this rocks
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Cannibalism as a metaphor for killing and eating people
eat drink sleep play
suitcase is literally me frfr
after watching several povs, there's something so striking about the way mumbo died.
he dies at home, first of all, which is notable in its own right because so much of his time was spent running about, usually in pursuit of kills. he dies with grian, too— to a thing grian created, no less, but it isn't actually grian's fault for once.
mumbo dies in that tall tower and when lightning strikes, from all across the server, everyone looks. their eyes land on that tower, and everyone is watching. even in grian's perspective, you can see everyone at renwood mound, lined up and staring. those at the bamlands looked on too.
they didn't see mumbo die, but they saw grian's grief. grian, who, throughout this season, has seemed cruel and untouchable to those outside of his circle due to his involvement with and knowledge of the wild cards. they watch grian immediately crumble under the weight of mumbo's death; several of them even explicitly comment, "look at grian, he's grieving, he's in mourning."
i like to think that, until that moment, grian was almost god-like in their minds; now, though, he's the quintessential concept of humanity. grief can be religious if you do it right, after all. even beyond the grian aspect though, isn't this just the most despairing omen of what's to come?
i mean, there's something about this image of a man fallen from grace, crying out as he holds the mangled corpse of his friend in the home they made together, high in the sky, on display for all the world to bear witness to. and the world did bear witness, be it with pity, horror, joy... it doesn't matter, because they saw.
the canary curse has been broken, but this was a fittingly foreboding, tone-setting image that did a stunning job filling its shoes