even fear is gentle here

i like the way these tattoos always seem to turn people's lifestyles against them. the artist loses themselves trying to design the perfect painting. the exhumation worker gets drawn in by an unburied corpse. the influencer falls prey to the toxic nature of their content. always horrifying, always fitting.

still tying to decide which was worse. the painful slang of influencer tea videos or the accompanying sitcom sound effects. filing a complaint against both as we speak.

anyway gwen continues to live in her own little world where girlboss gaslight gatekeep is more important than t h e h o r r o r s somehow—

the silver lining of all this trauma is alice, sam, and celia being forced to place their love triangle aside and instead form a circle of comfort - a win is a win !!!

yeah no i'm going to need the timeline of how and why ink5oul has an extended history of digging up graves and using tattoos to alter perceptions of reality or bend laws of anatomy.....

okay so we've got some sort of reverse sergey ushanka parallel where, instead of a human struggling to survive inside the internet (the angles cut him when he tried to think), the internet struggles to survive inside a human (the views cut her when she tried to speak) ??

newall and sims really saw us creating goth alice content, giggled to themselves, and sent us a case about a goth who gets caught up in The Horrors. and dies. horrifically. it's brutal out here :(

abruptly switched from being annoyed by the Influencer Vibes ™ to being guilty about that judgement, and i just feel like we've been tricked into speedrunning the internet drama (horror edition) experience ?

forget the episode, that hello jon of a dedication was the real horror,,