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(ac alikuarso)
some charts because I find them really fun. I've already posted the shadowvanilla one, but I didn't like the art on it, and I wanted to update a bit of it since the trailer
Y'all we got matching outfits unintentionally-
Since I'm one of the few players that came back(and became active af), I'm still loyal to my dear forgotten guild.
(I had fun changing PV's dialogues when I found out I sat next to Smilk)
Since I'm one of the few players that came back(and became active af), I'm still loyal to my dear forgotten guild.
(I had fun changing PV's dialogues when I found out I sat next to Smilk)
So I speedran through chapter 8. Conclusion, it made me smile and giggle like a maniac the whole time. Anyways, beware of spoilers(about PV and Smilk) down there
*fangirl screaming*
this one did numbers on tt
Mkay last post before logging off. Featuring silly pixel art I made w/ my mouse.
This chart was actually made out of pure self-indulgent a while back with no intention of being posted, I ended up scribbling(?) all over the thing. Hopefully it's readable when zoomed in.
It's "my ship in 5 minutes" but I can make it 30 if you want. WARNING: Tons of sappy yapping+pixel art download under cut.
About "tropes": The trope is called Angel-Devil shipping, oh but I don't think PV is an angel. He's more like a God for SM (at least that's my preference)⊠Thinking at all the possible tropes that suits them make me really wonder why some people consider Shadowvanilla a crack/pro ship. Enemies to lovers or villain/hero ships have been pretty archetypal since the day of olds. Compared to all the ships I've encountered in the past⊠Shadowvanilla is more or less the "slightly out of the norm" on the "problematic ships scale" <- typing this out make me feel like an old fandom veteran haha
About "how it happens": I have no idea where to put PV on that chart. He's the one who approached first, but not out of romantic intents, him falling for SM is as unexpected as can be. SM fell first and slowly, and in 'slow' I meant decades upon decades. It's inevitable, painfully so, spending all those years watching over this cookie who's so perfect in his imperfections, how could one not feel something? Of course it's not so simple, that 'something' is a horrid mixture of disgust, envy, hatred, understanding, both the need to preserve and destroy⊠And maybeee the tiniest crumb of affection? SM realized something around the first couple hundredth years mark, he then spends the next thousands in denial of it. No matter. Whether it's PV or the Soul jam, his birth-given rights. SM knows what he wants and he WILL get what he wants. (He's wrong on both fronts. And somewhere in the back of his mind, SM knows that. But he'll never admit it. He'll never ever admit anything. Until it's too late. In a way, the same goes for PV)
About a certain someone who's not clingy, but would die for attention: I think PV gets lonely easily. As he's hyper-aware of himself and considerate of others, appearing clingy is the last thing PV wants. So PV would put extra efforts in taking care of those around him, be it cookies, animals or the greenery in his garden. A healer is always busy, always helpful. If he's always needed by others then he would never be afraid of being alone. Ironically enough, this ended up making PV come off as a little overbearing. As of late, the only ones able to see through the facade are Hollyberry cookie and you-know-who.
Other scattered thoughts: These two are completely different yet can't be more similar, on the various sliding scales they're either stuck to one another or are flung to both ends. On another note, honestly I can't see these two doing anything domestic together, the most I can see is cooking, which is basically the same as magic in the cookie world. Anyways, are they in "love"? Are they dating? Not really, no. It's more of a a parasitic-turned-symbiotic-soulbond, a will-they-won't-they-destroy-the-world situationship (iykyk) I do enjoy relationships that's hard to put into words. Their feelings are somehow romantic, somewhat deranged and something much, much deeper.
My desire to ship these two comes from the desire to see them grow beyound their archetypes. Being with PV does give SM the chance to be horrible as can be, yeah, but I'd like to think SM does have a personality outside of being a villainous tormentor. He spends so long observing others, and now for the first time he's being seen. Now SM have met someone who can see right through him, who can glimpse into those dammed vulnerabilities of his. Being with SM does let us see PV in his darkest moments, but it's at the same time the moments where PV can shine the most, to prove SM that his ideals isn't naïveté or simple platitudes. In canon, SM+PV works well as enemies, but it is the many contradictions born when romance is added into the mix that got me shipping. They simultaneously break down and bolster one another's greatest traits. Like binary stars, they orbit around the other, so close yet so far apart, lest they collide. They could've been so perfect for each other. But not in this life, or the next, or the next...
Pixel art time! I have way too much fun w/ Smilk's many faces, his and PV's combined came to around 22 expressions. These are quick to made due to their small size (25x25 px). Zip file includes both the og and 75x75 sizes. I don't mind if any Vanilla milkshakers might use these, just please remember to read the my art terms and conditions first! (which can be found in my About)
Some disclaimer: some images may have different names. This is the first time I'm using Getuploader so sorry if something broke.
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"How revolting, it's as if I'm looking at a mirror."
They said love is blind
Different level of moral support
VS
Which one option would you choose?
Oh no he eat children on breakfast oh no-
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SORRY I'm a real jerk to joke like this (I swear to God I tried my best not to do this, but-)
Especially I stand on my kness with apologies to native speakers or just people who learns Chinese I have been using Google translator during writing a calligraphy
Translation will be in comments
I just remembered about "place your lips" thing and couldn't get pass it
HARK! Math doodles be upon ye
(The AskBird will be from ESY! au- which I am still working on, never fear! Colouring comic panels is just taking a long time)
When Jambound so good I gotta whiteboard it....
I've been cooking..... Click for better quality!
I plan to make a comic on a separate ask-blog to explain how Shadow Milk got stuck in Pure Vanilla's Orchid Staff, and from there draw little doodles detailing silly slice-of-life moments based on asks! (There will also be plot in the comic-style, but spread out far between because I cannot colour very fast-)
So stay tuned for that if it interests you! <3
drops this and runs click for better quality! <3
Made a Pure Vanilla Cookie doodle to match my previous Shadow Milk !
smik (oh, and an actual doodle i guess) From whiteboard with my wife @handfulofmoss <3
Truthless Recluse doodles! Click for better quality <3
Doodle from my whiteboard with the lovely @mcfleurry "Tactical rizz" - Fleur <3
âHes having homosexual thoughtsâ - anonymous friend
Peak-a-Boo! Click for better quality, as always :>
they're waiting for their train and sage got eepy -0- zZ (dont ask where their hats are i am NOT drawing those fuckass things) this is tagged as a ship but it can be taken as platonic or not hshshfhrjshdbr
Sot and tr sketch since chap 2 of the comic is taking so long :p
Sorry if anyones actually waiting on that đ
I love these sillies!!!
"The room is Warm"
-Jambound 13/04/25
sincere,
"Two sides of the same coin".
Ay bitter choco decoration. I love them dearly.They're so silly.
I can't help but wonder...
What if I got him by my side?
Oh, cookie angst. This duo is everything to me, the themes, the contrast, the parallels, the colors đđ I don't know how to properly describe it, like they are meant to be together, as foes, as friends, as companions. I felt this since Shadow Milk got introduced; but with chapters 7 and 8, this feeling got stronger.
...I would have gotten to drawing this if I wasn't busy with college.
But anyway, since you decided to read whatever I wrote here, can I comment on the legendary costumes' story?
It's a post-corruption/didn't fully became a beast SMilk, not his pre-corrupted form. His whole conversation with Truthless Recluse, I admit, got my head spinning. He talked about everyone having their truth, noting that TR's is "to protect others from anguish". He also mentioned that he went through the same despair as TR (continuing the canon of SM seeing himself in PV).
I wondered if the story shed some light into how Shadow Milk turned into a Beast. It is already known that he turned to deceit because of cookies around him choosing it as well and there's no further elaboration.
So, did he just corrupt just because? No, absolutely not. I think there were two traits of the Fount of Knowledge that were at play. First, I think he was somewhat of a crowd pleaser, as the Sage, he always tries to put on a show, make something entertaining, answer any inquiries. As a Beast, sure his showmanship is to entertain himself, but his whole deceit thing is giving those cookies what they want.
Second, and most important, I'm quite sure SMilk fears/hates rejection. Turning to falsities is rejecting knowledge after all.
Shadow Milk Cookie became who he is as a way to lash out at the rejection of his knowledge, to give them the performance they wanted to see.
Tangent but, when Pure Vanilla offers him his friendship, the whole fearing rejection explains why not only he rejects it, but in such fury, leaving the whole showman act. (Image below to break monotony, I'm just proud of this little section)
I want to go back to the truths the Sage comments on, what's his that make him curse himself? Going by the Recluse's, I guess is 'to give others knowledge', but that alone couldn't give him despair. I think there has to be a second part to the statement.
At the end of the story, the Recluse is gone, and the Sage hears cookies still pursuing the truth. So, the Truthless Recluse 'complete' truth will be 'to protect others from anguish (here, the cruel truth), but there would always be cookies seeking it' And with that logic, the Fount of Knowledge is 'to give others knowledge, but there will always be cookies that will reject it'.
No matter his title, prestige or merit, not everyone will like it. Could the Fount had gone insane searching for a knowledge that will get everyone to accept him, could it be that when he reached the Peak of Truth, he felt like the universe pulled a sick joke on him.
The Sage's eureka at the comment of the Peak of Truth having nothing be his realization that what he found was technically something he already knew, but denied for so long. Laid there, not as a sick prank, but a challenge to finally shed the lie. I mean, his other theory was that someone took all there was. (Does this make sense?, I'm still doubting my read)
But yeah, that Sage of Truth overcame his despair by accepting every part of that truth and still trying to live by the first part. And can I gush about his characterization? He's so jolly and enthusiastic, open for new ideas.
And the way he describes himself, a scholar and academic, but also a performer and an artist. Is just lovely how his showy persona is not just part of the charming liar act. Though that got me thinking, was the Fount also like this?
I mean in that era, cookies sought him out, he had his Spire of Knowledge and is very hinted he is connected to the Blueberry Yogurt Academy. Then is the Sage's "Not like those academics" line.
Wouldn't it be interesting that as the Fount, his way of giving knowledge was restricted by academia, that he wasn't able to be fully himself and when he became Shadow Milk Cookie, in a way he found freedom.
If that were the case, the Sage is even a happier situation as he can do what he wants as himself. And hey, I can make a parallel to Pure Vanilla, as he forgoes his title, like PV stops being king. He is in a humbler position, no spire but talking in a town square, where he found his crowd.
Though is kind of a sad that in a way the story still implies that he has no friends. Sure, lots of cookies see him every day, but they are there for the knowledge, not the Sage himself as they don't know or want to know about him. I guess his path would only be lonely...
Unless someone who understands came his way.
Anyway, thanks for reading my very long essay, I wanted to also speak of my early prediction of SM and PV switching sides and how this costume set somewhat gives me some of that, but again this is long, so I'll just leave it there. Have a sketch of the Sage of Truth and Compassionate Pure Vanilla having a tea party.
Below the art background without effects.
And the main part isolated.
TOXIC OLD MAN YAOI
Based on this piece, Couple dancing, by Leyendecker:
WARNING: VERY SPOOPY SHADOW MILK INCOMING!
(enlarge for better experience)
sorry mobile users, hovering your finger would be betterâŠfor the most part. Hope you still enjoy!
no peeking early!
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Hiding.exe
Now that is most certainly not yours. Your interception was not received well. Now they know. Now they know who you really are.
Now that, was a really fun artwork, i was thinking to do it a little toned downâŠ(as ive been planning that for the past two weeks, but I donât think the jester would let it slide. Really, he wouldnât.
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