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I did some art studies using @nopanamaman’s work. First one was Katya, but I started getting fatigued from drawing the same character over and over — you can tell from Attempt No. 2 somehow looking worse than Attempt No. 1. Pretty good start, but all the proportions are wrong.

The eyes are too big; the face is rounded; the lines are too solid; mouth is too low; etc. I got really close though with that first attempt of Katya is bird’s eye view though…

Fusion of Sergei and Katya. Had my friends help me by playing spot-the-difference with Attempt No. 1 then applied whatever they noticed to Attempt No. 2 (ex. how the mouth should be aligned to the jaw, and how I accidentally flattened her hair). I had alot of fun with the hair — you can’t see it well because I coloured the hair — I finally figured out how to do those open loose lines that Ferry loves so much when she’s not animating.

I just realised I made the side ponytail abit too short… Oh well!

Fusion of Sergei and Yura, had to do a boy now. I have a habit of making the faces too short… — You will see this again later on… Really tempted to give him a nose, but I forgot how to draw a nose at this angle. Really loved doing the hatching for his sweater, the tones are so cool to look at… Actually all of the black hatching is fun! — in my previous one I added shadows to the bun and seperations of the hair that weren’t in the original drawing.

I will say… The broken lines aren’t super visible on paper, whoops.

Final round, had to do the ratboy, Yura Beletsky. I wish I did this on digital now because this would’ve been a good colour study, but I just wanted to draw his face. My friend was the one who picked this picture actually. Flat hair and short face make a come back here, lol. Really happy with how I articulated the bangs and shirt’s shadows.

katya and dmitry (my beloveds), or discussing mutation motifs in texts from a biological and psychological standpoint

CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSIONS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION.

READING-THIS WARNING: I MISINTERPRET STUFF A LOT, THIS IS PURELY MY INTERPRETATION OF THE SERIES. SORRY IF I'M WRONG. :(

When I first watched through Parties are for Losers and its respective songs, my brain was already whirring. Come on. I'm a Vocaloid nerd, obviously I have to look into it, and I know something is up, which means the analysis brain begins. I really enjoyed the Evillous Chronicles, and it seemed as though this was similar. Unlike it, this was actually in English (being set in Russia), and the narrative felt inherently more understandable, although that may just be because it's only 13 songs, compared to Evillous' 82.

AND it covers topics of biology and its affects on psychology. it's perfect. why have i never heard of this before??!?!?!?

There's a lot of aspects to explore within PafL, but I want to specifically focus on Katya (KT) and Dmitry, and their mutations, taking a biological and social approach to their current mental state. I will refer to Katya by her full "name" because it feels a little more humanising, and our baby girl deserves that.

Human experimentation/mutation is a fascinating topic to explore, because it questions the essence of humanity itself - how could you do that to another human being, a child, no less? End and Save is one of my favourite webtoon comics because of this. The abilities that these children gain typically have significant disadvantages, due to the inherently unethical nature of the creation. In some ways, the mutation itself explores corruption.

Biologically, genetic mutations are a natural occurrence, resultant from selection. We are nowhere near the current level needed to cause significant mutation like that of Katya and Dmitry's, and despite what most people think, there's actually no real intention to head in that direction. Therapeutic gene editing (LITERALLY MY SPECIALISED INTEREST. LIKE I WANT TO GO INTO THIS IN THE FUTURE. THIS IS PERFECT.) strays away from eugenics, and focuses on curing genetic disease. It's a fascinating topic of research, and one I hold dear to me. CRISPR my beloved

Katya's mutant ability is directly related to stress. It causes the extensive growth of tissue when she's in a stressful situation, and she has limited control over the flesh. This then has to be cut off, leaving serious wounds to heal on her skin.

art by Ferry

Taking this biologically, it would have to be mutation related to extreme cell division in tissue - in more simple terms, it's not unlike cancer, where a cell does not consider the required markers for division, and instead rapidly divides. Katya's seems far more controlled than cancer, sticking only to particular sites, and also significantly more extreme. Considering the stress required, it may actually be related to an influx of hormonal changes during stress sequences.

As a result of this, Katya is hypersensitive to the emotion of others and can tolerate a high amount of stress, with inherent optimism. She's relatively simple, and tries her best not to let her abilities weigh her down. In the end, she resigns herself to undeserving of true kindness, suggesting she has some well-hidden low self-esteem.

Dmitry's mutant ability seems more controllable, and therefore powerful, than Katya's. He has the ability to pick up anything, with vague limitations on weight, provided he knows specific location and it is within a 15 metre radius.

art by Ferry

Telekinesis from a biological standpoint? I'm not opening that can of worms. I'm not even gonna try. Make it up yourself. I'm pretty sure A Certain Scientific Railgun couldn't even really explain Kuroko's powers, and I'm one small scrawny rat.

Dmitry suffers severe physical consequences as a result of this ability, even using it regularly - severe headaches, loss of consciousness, and dizziness, which can been seen when he attempts to save Anya. Dmitry is significantly more cautious of the outside world than Katya is, and he's somewhat more hostile, threatening Yura and Sanya when he is blackmailed. However, he's practical, likely from the skills taught to him through use of telekinesis.

Dmitry and Katya were set out to have a negative relationship, due to the power dynamics between the two of them making them inherently different people. Dmitry was used for several years as an "assistant" to test Katya's abilities, and seems to hold a grudge with her over that. They have differing opinions on the outside world, particularly due to the way Dmitry's inhumanity was repeated to him often, as the lab researchers began to fear his power. He's not so pessimistic that he acts as contrast to Katya, but the clashing elements still causes them to go their separate ways in KT's Guide.

I couldn't find any specific links between the use of GUMI as KT and Fukase as Dmitry, but I'm sure there is some when considering the different Vocaloids used as a whole. I just wish I could understand what it was, but I don't quite know enough about Vocaloid as a whole for that. Alternatively, it could just be because of gender and the fact that both sound good with the style of the song.

song i wrote this listening to (after PafL, of course): sleep thru ur alarms by Lontalius

it's been a rough night, okay? i needed this as a distraction.

thanks so much to powercoreact for the suggestion! i genuinely really enjoyed this, and you hit my secret hidden love for vocaloid right in the feels. can you believe i watched this like an hour ago??? i feel like i've known it for years.

INTRODUCTION I GUESS

Hi, I'm Headspace, I'm an lesbiab transgirl (pronouns she/her). I live in north america and I sadly only speak english (I am learning russian which is totally unrelated to my feral brainrot).

I'm very neurodivergent and tbh don't understand tumblrs formatting at all (this so weird). I'm not a minor and lack a filter to an almost dangerous degree. If you don't support LGBT rights and everything associated, please politely find the door and fuck off (deepthroat a cactus while you're at it too)

Hobbies include;

-Listening to Pafl songs on repeat because my brainrot is flucuating but ever present

-I play way too many video games, which include terraria (G.O.A.T), hollow knight, guilty gear, hsr, g*nshin, guilty queer, celeste, hades, ror2(honestly a lot of roguelikes in general)

-Thinking about fictional lesbians

-D&D (I constantly want to play my funny little guys and gays, save me)

-writing and traditional art, allegedly (when does it stop being artblock and start being I just don't draw)

-Adding little parenthesized notes at the end of every sentence (cuz every thought requires bonus content)

Current vibe is:

Not being able to stop thinking about pafl while having no content to interact with. #frothingatthemouth

katyenka..