ATOMIC DOG

caved and bought glitchtrap today even though i was planning on never getting any more funko pops coz they're ugly. glitchtrap is one of my main f/os actually lol, i jist dont really post about anyone other than swan. ive been eyeing him for months at the local comic store i frequent. funko pops are 17 freaking bucks now btw. jesus. which makes it all the more tooth-grinding that his stitching wasnt painted at all. so i painted it. and gave him pupils and yellowed his teeth. planning on redoing his pupils to be larger later tonight since the current ones look a bit out of place.

update

(surrounded by beautiful women) "so by the fact that winslow suffers and ultimately dies from meeting swan when it first seemed like the path to bliss, and how swan fits the age and experience motif better, it could be said to be more accurate to see swan as faust and winslow as gretchen, rather than winslow as faust and swan as mephistopheles. furthermore phoenix survives the ordeal an-

and of course im not saying that the more common reading wasnt ALSO intended. i definitely think it was. its just that winslow, though based on faust, fulfills the role of gretchen best in potp as a retelling of goethe's faust. i'm planning on doing an essay about this so i dont feel the need to go too deep into it here. also phoenix really only fits into the gretchen role due to being the romantic interest. she doesn't really share any personality traits with gretchen at all, and (tbh thankfully) doesnt suffer in the way gretchen does, and not because of winslow.

Swans