#bun roundtable

// not my screenshot stole off twitter

tumblr user imadcv im trying so hard to figure out what you mean by this??

like. like this?

or do you want me to like. liquify him??

is this what you want????

or maybe he's canadian??

Lol. Or unhinged anyone really. Just make 'em fucked up.

OH BOY TIME TO SHARE MY ROLESWAP AU

the ultimate sunhinged!! infodump on AU below the cut;

okay... i've said this a thousand times... but im gonna say it again;

THE BEASTS AREN'T DEAD

exhibit a; the eyes. look at smilk's new design and tell me who's eyes those are. 'but their bodies are dead' their original bodies in the tree are still there and also shadow milk has been present in a ghostly form before. yes he absorbed them, but that just means they're a part of him now. exhibit b; project directors own words about there being so much more in store for All Of The Beasts. not just shadow milk! All Of Them. there is more content coming for every beast. exhibit c; the arc we're going into is about timelines and jumping between them and seeing all the ways different timelines change. we are going to get more of the beasts in there. a LOT more of them.

and on redemption. ohh i have a lot to say on this but i will try to keep it short; there has not been nearly as much redemption set up as everyone seems to believe there was. look at the rest of the beasts in the last three episodes and tell me if any of them seem ready to walk into any kind of redemption. shadow milk especially vehemently rejects it- and well, given how everyone ever decided betraying him is a great idea, it's no wonder. shadow milk cookie has been betrayed again and again and again, he is not going to waltz into a redemption after that. would you take the hand of a man who hit you with an airship and then said he wants to understand you? i love pure vanilla. but he has royally screwed up most of his attempts to reach out, because the fact is that he just does not understand shadow milk cookie yet and keeps prodding at sore subjects (eg. loneliness) that just sends shadow milk into a rage. not to mention the other ancients have made little to no attempt at understanding, let alone redemption yet. will we get redemption later? yeah, i think so given the framework for it is there! but not right now. it is far too early and there is NOT enough build up for it.

and on my final point; shadow milk cookie has been set up for his position as arc 2's main antagonist for the last 5 years. we have had a name and a face to put to all the hints about him for just 2 years. it is a waste of a villain to redeem him now- and the rest of the beasts, too- when they've just barely gotten started. there is still so much more story to tell with them, and i dont think it can be done as effectively in a redemption arc that'd seem like it hit far too early. i need people to remember that all of this is more like framework for the beasts arcs rather than their full arcs. we are just getting started, this is just the opening number of the show!! there's still so many stages left to perform on. as shadow milk himself said; the real show is about to begin.

was searching the fount of knowledge tag today and came across your art of him and ascended. i cant quite describe it but your style of drawing specifically scratches something in my brain

?? WAUGHHG?? T HANK YOU SO MUCH <3 i genuinely just don't get many asks often, let alone any on this vein!! thank u so much u have no idea how much asks like this mean to me /gen

a fount for u!!