Oh, d'arvit

@paulkins-week alternate: roleswap

it's still paulkins week for another hour (or so) in my timezone! I'm glad I got at least one prompt finished before it officially ended.

paulkins week day seven - deity

they call these "devotion episodes". his brain was partially assimilated, he can't control it

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day 154 - @paulkins-week day seven; adopt

paulkins week day one - coffee

sleep deprived from studying and ur boyf makes u coffee...

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paulkins week day two - free day

it's my own au <3 Emma and the shadow beast she found in the woods (what Paul became when he died eight years ago)

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paulkins week day three - movie

Emma instructing Paul in the glorious art of hate-watching <3

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paulkins week day four - roleswap

Emma would be ready to vault over that counter and throttle him if he kept singing

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paulkins week day five - past

AKA cringe-ass teens <3

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Wow she's like his origin story

@paulkins-week day 5 - past

EMMAAAA!! she’s a stoat because I love stoats and I love emma perkins.

A SOUND THAT FLOWS INTO MY MIND

OF EVERYTHING THAT IS ALIVE IN MY BLUE WORLD 🦋

other versions under readmore (tw flashing lights and strobing)

It’s been too long since I drew anything for @fencecollapsed‘s awesome fic What the Darkness Does. Shadow!Paul gives me life, and skull faces are delightful. It was an interesting challenge to try and blend wolf and human skulls. I might go a bit further on these but right now I wanna sleep.

I’m back at it again with remaking my old starkid fanart

thinking about how the monster of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals isn't aliens, or some higher god, it's conformity. Thinking about how TGWDLM illustrates the many ways that society asks us to conform --- toxic positivity, workplace culture, the threat of force, the threat of authoritarianism. I'm thinking about how so many of us have that fear of inevitability, how many of us are told we will "understand" and appreciate the cruelties of our society as we grow older. I'm thinking about how conformity presents as a sort of death of personality, of something fundamentally human being erased. I'm thinking about how the hivemind forced Mr. Davidson to forget his desires for his wife because it recognized they made Paul uncomfortable. I'm thinking about how Paul ultimately defended those desires to the hivemind because he recognized that they were fundamentally human. I'm thinking about the way that conformity invites us and promises deeper connections with others, connections that characters like Charlotte and Bill both wanted and were ultimately betrayed by via the hive. I'm thinking about the way that the characters in the play treated the hive like they would a B movie monster, and ultimately failed to destroy it, because they only destroyed a meteor and that's never where the hive originated. Like how the threat of Black Friday was "made in America", the hive was made from our culture.

thinking about how both emma and paula are fundamentally normal people and yet they still evaded the monster that is conformity the longest. they are the perfect protagonists for this musical because they as participants in society still choose to remain authentic. Emma does a literal song and dance for her job, but she never gives this impression that it's voluntary for her or that she's enjoying it. Paul doesn't even hesitate to disclose that Brigadoon was the reason he hates musicals, and it's not some hate filled confession. The fact that Paul hates musicals is treated as a positive trait. It's his "whole thing"; the thing that for all intents and purposes literally and figuratively characterize him as human. Losing that is death.

Paul is "just a guy" and Emma was just a normal person that is why they are both the perfect protagonists.

Prophets AU

gay people

murderers!