I Just Think Luffy Is Really Cool ☀️

SISYPHUS GETS A 9 TO 5

[spoilers for all of severance season 1. words by northernlion, brain worms by me]

not a dream

my birthday is on the 16th

big 31

after two months, almost 50 hours of work in total, it is finally here!!!!

my part of harrykim art trade with dear @lisqotch! i hope you all enjoy 🧡💚

during the process, i searched and tried a lot different techniques to render it exactly as i intended, redrew it many times, and i am very glad that it turned out the way it is!

i swear, absolutely every 49.5 hours of work was worth it, i enjoyed spending time with it so much that i would repeat it from this moment on.

i was comforted by so many people while working on this, thank you sooo much! this is for all of you, from 0039pf with lots of love 🪩🕺

song: cobra man - everybody party tonight

the way disco elysium plays with and ultimately shatters the concept of "camaraderie" in the police and the military truly is So. Good.

it introduces you to kim who is this ideal of the Brother in Arms - you meet him and you know. he'd lay it all down for you.

you then proceed to realize this is a kim thing, not a cop thing, despite the skill that informs you about it being The Cop Camaraderie skill

the rest of the cops are not just unhelpful, they're cruel. they're a boys' club of toxic masculinity, homophobia and joking about how they abuse their power, like when jean stole mustard from a homeless man. if harry begs them for help, the greatest kindness the operator can do for him is pretend he didn't hear and cut the connection to save harry's pride. the more you put into this skill, the more the rancid underbelly of policing and policemen as individuals in this system comes to light.

and that's before we get into the plot-relevant stuff, how martinaise was abandoned by jean and co because jean was too damn busy trying to make a point to harry than do his fucking job.

then there's the bond between the paramilitary squad. unlike the cops, they're tight, a family to each other, and it makes them completely immune to reason the moment the Head of their hierarchy gets murdered. and this head of theirs, the most rational, most charismatic of them all, their leader, still was a monster who, for His Men and their Morale, saw kidnapping some poor girl and offering her like a human sacrifice to the pit of animals that was his squadron as a Rational course of action.

maybe there's love there, in a way, but it's the kind of love that wholly depends on seeing your circle as the only people deserving of life, and the rest of the world as insects.

and i think abt how so many other stories that try to be cop or military critical still fall into that trap of believing that the people in these environs are a Family doing their Best, that they got each others back and thats all that they need to get through this!(whatever plot event is happening)

and not that its like. a cesspool of keeping each other in Check or maintaining that Family only by Othering the rest of the world

Psst, the script for the deleted Conclave scenes just leaked 🙌

“Are we living a life that is safe from harm?

Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question.

The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?”

-Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

Goodnight Hawkins, Goodnight

I wanted to draw marcille getting some hugs 🫂

woah. jonathan.