Fro Nexus

This is soooo interesting to me.

Because Enroute claimed that ‘Elation is dead’, but he never understood Elation in the first place.

Aha didnt laugh because it was funny. They laughed because it was sudden, because it was random. Because in that instance they understood that beyond the futility of life, life is so overwhelmingly random. That it is uncontrolled. They laughed in the face of the futility of existence, because for all that life is futile, it is random, and that is enough to bring a smile to their face, because if life is random what does it matter that its got no meaning?

Elation is all about accepting that life has no ultimate meaning, and then throwing that away and making your own! Have fun, do what you want, do it because you can! What does it matter that existence is meaningless? You exist anyways! Make something of it, have fun, or dont, whatever!

At a first glance it looks like Asat understands the randomness of existence. After all, he’s got the whole dice thing, right?

But dice arent truly random. They are chaotic, they are unpredictable, sure, but not truly random. The face they land on is predetermined when the dice is cast- by the air, the surface, how you throw it- the chances are shifted by it’s creation, the paint on a side being heavier, tiny variations, their density.. they arent truly random, even if they seem it.

And Asat Pramad is a planner. He is a mastermind. Everything he does is apart of some plan.. even if he doesnt know what that plan is when it begins. Everything has a reason, regardless of if he knows the reason when he makes the action or afterwards.

Asat Pramad believes Elation is dead, but he never did understand what Elation truly meant.

And he isnt even aware, it seems, that he never understood Elation, and that he still doesnt.

thinking about the dynamic/parallels between Himeko and Asat Pramad.

we could say that technically, he's not the "real" Ryusuke, because he isn't, but he's the only Ryusuke that Himeko has ever known. he raised her. except, did he? if he's telling the truth, and the Himeko we know really is an imagenae, he didn't raise her at all. he raised Himeko, but not the Himeko we know. which makes Ryusuke's behavior even MORE fascinating because he still treats this Himeko like his daughter, buying all her merchandise and praising her to other people, including the other Lord Ravagers.

For starters I do wanna preface obviously the game is full of humor, no shit, it's based on old cartoons of course it would, however that doesn't take away from when it wants to be serious as it handles the subject matter of the shrews and the hate against them fucking PERFECT. I think the shrews are the perfect analogy for a minority facing oppression and hate because while in-game there's a lot of mixed stuff regarding them that's a bit puzzling if you try and compare them to any actual race. Ethnicity wise they seem to be polish with notes in clergy row pointing to this as well as the BMP hating them, at the same time John makes a remark about being kicked off buses no doubt a reference to the struggle black Americans faced as the game is set only a decade and a half before the civil rights movement within the US, and the mention and existence of shrewthicket seems to be a parallel to Chinatowns which date back to the California gold rush, but were also arising in places like New York and Boston only a few decades before Mouse P.I. takes place, all this makes for a very confusing picture on who the shrews are supposed to represent, but that's the thing

THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT A SINGULAR MINORITY

The shrews are emphasized to simply just be short, that's their main defining characteristic and Cornelius has the remarks of them being the mices "little brothers" or "short cousins"—which is odd if you know that shrews and mice aren't THAT related and in fact shrews are more closely related to hedgehogs and aren't proper rodents (as in the order Rodentia which mice are apart of)—however if you think about it in the context of a world with anthro animals and especially in mouseburg what does this really matter? Shrews are visually short long nosed mice, and in mouseburg their people like any other who want to make a living, it just so happens they look different and face hate for it, AND THAT'S THE GENIUS OF HOW IT'S WRITTEN! There's no actual reason why the shrews should be receiving hate and as we see in newspapers there have been upsets regarding shrews getting the same payment as mice and mice not liking that, but why? Because they're different, that's all really, shrews aren't any stand-in for any race because they just represent minorities in general who face prejudice for the superficial reason of being a different color, ethnicity wise I will remark that yes, they are seemingly polish but we see mice who are ethnicity wise German, Scottish, and French also, however to simplify and make the shrews represent any one race is to me just wrong and missing the point and I think frankly it's genius to just have them be a separate species who have a some pretty apparent defining physical traits and yet they have hate and prejudice pushed against them by a political party that—I'm not even gonna try and elaborate on, their Nazis, the BMP are Nazis, that's fucking obvious, and as such the nazis do not care about the fact that the shrews aren't any different from mice they do what Nazis do and hate anybody who's not like them, we see in the last level they insult Cornelius for being a literal rat because they are the big MOUSE party and as such they hate anyone who isn't a mouse, there's no real reason why they hate shrews or rats, they just do because they're Nazis and hate doesn't need a justification

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Aeon dividers, Idk.

The Lan ones are slightly based on @uzmacchiato's chalky rainbow dividers but they were a gift(?) for @kirokumiku anyway hahaha — during the Lan theme. The others just randomly spawned from my head lmao

I'm particularly protective of my dividers (especially these) so far cuz a bunch of the elements are handdrawn (namely the Lan ones). Also I'd love to see what ppl use these in hehehe. I doubt but who knows.

I already started making the Xipe & Mythus dividers but finding the resources I want is so hard so damn, hope y'all enjoy these ones for now. Hopefully there will be a follow up but Idk. We'll see.

I could totally see Jack Pepper teaching Millie and Tammy some self defense techniques.

And it would go something like this: