Latest Posts by lithospherio - Page 8

(you need to view the image or you'll just like the post)

Mental Health in Media - Lacey

The Lacey Games series is an interesting webseries, first presenting itself as a lost flash game upload, then presenting itself as a horror series, and finally showing its colors as a heartfelt piece about trauma.

*Heavy topics below, proceed with caution.*

Through mainly Lacey's Diner and Lacey's Petshop, it is shown that Lacey has suffered CSA and neglect from her uncle, starting at a young age. But this is found under a layer of 2000s-style flash games, presenting the perfect looking Lacey in a upbeat 2000s girl life. But of course, with this genre, the deeper you get into the game, the more the truth is revealed.

In other series following similar formats, this transition is used to amplify the feeling of the unexpected; taking something innocent and turning it into something horrific. But the Lacey Games series adds many more layers to this. You see, Lacey is an in-universe stand-in for the creator of the fictional games, Rocío Yani, who like Lacey, is a survivor of this trauma. In the cases of both Rocío and Lacey, they've already escaped their abusers. Lacey is a chef, a pet shop owner, and goes about her day to day life within these flash games. But despite escaping her physical situation, her past always leaks into the present. In Lacey's Petshop, she returns to the house she grew up in -- the house she was abused in. Just because she has escaped her abuse doesn't mean she's escaped her trauma or the ways that effects every other aspect of her life. And so, so many pieces of media don't recognize this.

Lacey also isn't the "perfect victim" that media likes to portray abuse survivors -- especially CSA survivors -- as. The whole climax of Lacey's Petshop is that she killed her uncle, her abuser. Not because she was actively trying to escape, but because he killed her dog. Lacey's Diner also implies that Lacey (and by extension, Rocío) deals with substance abuse, another thing that media discussion mental health loves to demonize. After she escapes her uncle, she still has these destructive habits, she still deals with self-h4rm and su1cidality. She wasn't just some innocent girl, she was a human being who had everything taken from her.

I believe the Lacey Games series can be powerful to people who have survived what Lacey has. Society and media recognize and accommodate victims until they break the mold of a "victim". Trauma doesn't go away with the situation, it persists throughout one's life and seeps into aspects that could otherwise seem normal. And the thing that makes this worse is the constant demonization of the "imperfect victim". We may not be killing our uncles or baking various health-violating items into food like Lacey does, but feeling like shit and going through shit doesn't make you a horrible person.

Thank you for reading. I wasn't quite sure how to end this, so I just did. If I got anything wrong, please make sure to tell me!

References below the cut:

Some info on long term affects of CSA

Ghosttundra's Channel

Sorry I had to use alternate letters for some words, I didn't want this getting overly flagged.

https://uquiz.com/quiz/w6OPts/what-color-are-you

The tsp brainrot is real guys. Trust me it's narrator coded just play it

Late Night Thinking..

Think about it bro

Studio Investigrave x undertale 😋

Me combining both of my special interests 😍

Vent art but it's KinitoPet and Femtanyl inspired 😞

TW: BLOOD (under the cut)

PLEASE STANLEY ONE KISS JUST ONE JUST ONE ONE KISS STANLEY JUST ONE KISS JUST ONE PLEASE STANLEY ONE PLEASE ONE KISS JUST ONE KISS ONE ONE KISS STANLEY STANLEY PLEASE JUST ONE KISS ONE KISS STANLEY STANLEY JUST STANLEY ONE KISS ONE JUST ONE KISS STANLEY JUST A KISS ONE KISS STANLEY PLEASE JUST ONE KISS STANLEY STANLEY PLEASE STANLEY PLEASE ONE KISS ONE KISS JUST ONE KISS PLEASE STANLEY JUST ONE JUST ONE STANLEY STANLEY PLEASE JUST ONE KISS

someone already made dont starve version of that dumbass video so im making tspud one enjoy

okay so I’ve seen a lot of artists,including myself, make this common mistake of coloring the palm of  a hand(and the sole of a foot) as the same color as the person’s skin tone.

but in fact ,palms and soles are a different color compare to our skin

this is due to the lack of Melanin on them

hope this helps!

"He's so silly i love him"

"They're so pretty i love them"

Song of the Sea (2014)

Director: Tomm Moore

I CAN NOT SHUT UP ABOUT DIAMOND JACK I LITERALLY WATCH IT EVERY DAY I AM GOING FERAL

Some art inspired by @yaelokre 's art and the cover for the Hayfields EP, (and this lovely masked lady is also inspired by Clémentine a little bit except she's supposed to resemble a mix between sheep and hare)

I am really proud of this lol, the hands are kinda iffy due to me STRUGGLING so hard 😭 but, I still love it a lot!! (Mainly due to it being a drawing I added detail in and it being the first time I ever drew an animal mask)

(side note before I do tags, I wish I had watercolours b/c it would've made it look so good lol but maybe one day)

Some goofy Stanley sketches I did during the school year since for me, there's 4 weeks of it left (and this week is my last orchestra concert at school so :sob: )

(two of them r from a whiteboard I did with my frend :3 )

I dont know what to do cause this isnt a normal household object AND ITS SO TALL ITS TALLER THAN ME WHERE DO I PUT THIS?????

Literally obsessed with the thought of The Narrator being able to manifest physically, and so if Stanley misbehaves he can just

GET HIM

4/27 ARTWORK

HAPPY 4/27! god, i can't believe I forgot to post this earlier, when I made it! anyways yes, today is a good day for all parables. i should make a reference sheet for my guys soon, that'll have to come during 4/32 i suppose idk. anyways HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY TO TSPUD AND HAPPY STANLEY DAY !!!

silly stankeeper mini comics

and a lil doodl of what happens after they have a fight

stan with my friend's TK, @thechaotichorselord

and thats it, ima take a small nap and then make a drawing for 4/27

METANOIA- DreamScape Skating Rink & Arcade

1/6

$ H 1 F T ¥

(Or just Shifty)

(Info about Metanoia: It's an Oc project idea I've had for 3 years now since 2022. But, due to the Fundamental Paper Education gaining popularity, I've decided and got inspired to work on Metanoia again. I plan to actually make a coherent lore for it and when I do I might make an Animated series on YouTube for it, or a web-comic. This is something I'm really passionate about and, it's something I want to try doing because I want to challenge my creativity! So, I hope by the time I'm 18 or 21 I'll have a coherent lore for everything!! DreamScape Skating Rink & Arcade is one of the many places in Metanoia! When I get done drawing all the characters for DreamScape, I'll draw the rest of the characters.)

Mines would be...

ahnskane

(i have no clue how to pronounce that 🙏🙏)

YOUR DRAGON NAME

last two letters of your first name

middle two letters of your last name

first two letters of your mother’s name

last letter of your father’s name

mine would be Urlelan. Reblog and tag this with yours!

I'M NOT DEAD I SWEAR!!!

But I drew GJ b/c he's a goofy dude

(also art improvement after 50000 months goes hard I swear 🙏🙏)

We love you too!! :D

I have 2 friends that are trans as well lol

Reblog if you’d be okay if your friend came out as transgender

let’s see how many transphobics we can weed out

What if Jack is missing because he’s trapped in Wonderland?

As we know from Eva, you don’t have to be dead to access Wonderland

When he shows up in Spectacle, it seems like he’s in Wonderland now that we know what it looks like:

How he ended up there, whether he was trapped by Bon, or something happened that we can’t even comprehend yet - I don’t know. But the way he is shown to be still “around” is very similar to how people/entities show up through analog all throughout the series.

Some examples from previous episodes under the read more

We know from Lucky You that if you’re in Wonderland, you’re able to use analog to communicate with the outside world.

And that’s exactly how Jack keeps showing up to signify that he’s still “here”.

The first instance is in Little Bon’s Neighborhood, which is shown on video tape:

He also shows up on Tape #1 several times in Relocate Project:

Then on the Technical Support tape:

I think even more instances of him showing up as a distorted figure specifically in video tapes can be found in the episodes (eg. at the end of Bunnyfarm when he’s leaving the voicemail) or in other miscellaneous medias, if anyone can think of any lmk!

On top of his appearance in Spectacle, it’s been heavily implied by Martin that Jack is still alive unlike all the other “missing” people.

He also attempts to communicate a lot more frequently through analog than any of the others who are in Wonderland, which makes sense if he’s wanting to be found.

Maybe if he really is there, he had found Edd and Molly so they’re not alone at least :(

Why does TSP have so much subtle anticapitalism in it. Like. Stanley's office job is literally mind control. All the scrawls in the meeting room are about getting more money. Stanley's job is the epitome of David Graeber's theory of Bullshit Jobs. 432 too had a Bullshit Job, and because he literally couldn't do it and everyone fucking hated him, he lost his mind (and fused to the fabric of the universe about it). The Parable is an infinite loop where the Narrator wants you to go back into the loop to do the exact same thing again. When Stanley gets to the Mind Control Facility, the Narrator says Stanley wonders the only reason he ever liked his boring job was because of the mind control. Literally the office is only functional and people are only employed there because of fucking mind control. TSPUD pretty much looks directly into the camera and says "Making more sequels for the sake of sequels, for the sake of the franchise, for the sake of money, instead of because you had genuine reasons for the art to continue, for the art to say more, is a bad thing actually" and pretty much completely dissected why so many sequels and remakes suck- because they're not made for art, they're made for money (or in the narrator's case bc he's a fuckin people pleaser dnjkfksjdnfkjds). Pair this with Kevan Brighting's one tweet abt Stanley telling a cop to fuck off and die and holy shit man TSP is based as fuck

Reblog to kill it faster

i rushed this REEEEALLY hard. also now my entire arm is cramping up .

i think there should be more bugbo art on this website