That's A Mood

My father is watching this!! 💀

Went into The Penguin after seeing the trailer expecting Sofia Falcone to be some crazy minor antagonist who exists to just get in the way (*cue Gotham flashbacks*) and instead got a very powerful (and honestly quite justified) rendition of feminine rage motivated by betrayal, societal misogyny, gaslighting and isolation. It's very overt messaging, too. Her family, her coworkers, her friends, her city, even her therapist have all used her for their own means. You get to a point where you see that genuinely everyone in her life has fucked her over and she's not going to play by their rules anymore. And fuck, man, of course she doesn't take the high road but the one she goes down is not only satisfying but borderline righteous for the character and the audience.

On top of that, I truly cannot exaggerate how delighted I am that the show gave reasons to root for AND against both her and Oz. Neither of them are particularly good people but you completely understand where they're coming from and you find yourself wanting for them to succeed, even though one's success very much might mean the downfall of the other!! They have kind qualities alongside their cruel ones which work very well to humanize them.

With Oz, you understand what kind of person he is after only a few scenes. He will lie and schmooze his way to the top however he has to. He plays every side which puts him on the edge of danger and power constantly. Every time he's called out for not having a plan he doubles down on his confidence and acts scandalized even though he's absolutely talking out of his ass. He also takes care of his ailing mother and has spent his entire life being talked down to by anyone and everyone.

Sofia on the other hand, takes a while to unravel. And I love it. The point of her is that she's a mystery. A wild card. Slowly, you learn that she has ambitions, that she has suffered at the hands of others, that she has caused suffering with her own hands and that her family will never see her as anything but a problem. Visually, she is contrasted with Oz as smaller, frailer, younger. The narrative, like her own family, almost leads you to underestimate her. But with episode 4, the painting finally comes together. You see an ambitious young woman sharpened down into a jagged weapon and know that there is only one path left for her. You come away from the episode not feeling like she's an antagonist or a villain, but more like she's a secondary protagonist in a show that already has a fairly strong one.

tl;dr this show kinda fucks. The quality has surprised me in all the best ways possible and I'm genuinely excited to see more.

NOOOOOOOO

Can I hide behind you? @soggythecereal is very mean to me… He's calling me a lesbian… But I am not a lesbian… And he insists I am… Like why the flip would I spend 2 entire days drawing a slutty male in a corset? That ain't because I am lesbian, right? Right??

I thought you said you didn’t have a gender

Look at the hand! GATDAM!- I was so obsessed with it until I saw loadings design and realized he had fingerless gloves on… so it wouldn't show the knuckles as much as it did in the colored drawing…

Ok so… I drew Loading x Draven fanart..

I drew it on paper first but then I realized I had a drawing tab so I traced it. When I saw the kissing Loading and Draven I was like… 'Me too' and so I drew this. Then 2 days later (this was during my testweek) I saw the post where cervimards had different kind of noses than humans… BUT I ORIGINALLY MADE THIS DRAWING TO BE LOADING AND DRAVEN, so just suck it up and accept the fact I drew this (with human noses). I couldn't just wipe the whole idea off my mind and draw it differently. Um… yeah. Yaoi.

I got lazy and drew no eyes and shaded really badly. Forgive me for that, too… ^^"

WAAAA THANK YOU SOMMUCH

Bad things/violence sf has surprisingly not experienced (a compulsive list I made)

cigarette burns

tortured in a chair (but has been tied to one)

impaled

gagged (but has been muted in other ways)

tortured with pliers, nails, screws, drills or other tools (but he has been tortured with saws)

attacked by fully feral animals (but he has been mauled by intelligent feral/anthro characters)

experimented on/used as a test subject

stitched/sewn incorrectly

exposed nerves (but he has nerve damage)

struck by a vehicle

cooked/been prepared as food (but has been treated like food and eaten raw/alive)

sacrificed

probably other things I can’t think of right now

Me rn:

I got corona on top of all this. It's no fun at all.

:(

y’all, imagine getting SA’d by someone as minor, and the person is also a minor whose been SA’d multiple times and is severely depressed and you can’t leave because they’re already living dangerously and might actually kill themselves if you do despite having genuine care for them.

GUGES GUEHS GUESG FYESS GEUSS GUESS WHO? PEOPLE GUUES GUESS WHO-

do you ever love a character so much that you’re physically incapable of ever showing it in a coherent way so you just

BLUEBERRY

CAN I GIVE YOU A BANANA BESTIE

YES

If you look at it now it's just very obvious

But wouldn't SF, the scaredy cat, be too scared to commit anything? He's already scared of everything. Just a shaking bunch of hopelessness. :( (Unless there's hope we don't know of? Maybe visiting a PTSD clinic?)

I saw your stream, and I have a theory, does Bloodmoss think SF is gonna kill himself or something and that’s why she holds on to him so much? Or is she like really attached to him to the point of feeling hope less without him? Idk im just theorizing.

you’re not safe

COWARD! LITTLE COWARD! YOURE A COWARD!