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Bug And Ghost

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Circling the Light Current mode: Deltarune goes bwa bwa and also, perhaps, gwau when you pull her string The real actual reincarnation of Kurt Cobain, source: me https://ko-fi.com/duskwingmoth

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · Jun 29

If you've got a couple bucks to spare a month donate them to my Ko-fi, si vous plait! ko-fi.com/duskwingmoth

If you've got like. 15+ dollars Right Now then help us move, por favor!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-three...

It would mean so very much to me and my partners.

#transcrowdfund #mutualaid

Rough sketch of Dusk Glowmoth opening their empty wallet and being surprised when another, much smaller Dusk Glowmoth flutters out, highlighted in red.

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 6h

Your sins are crawling up your back, both real and imagined

(I didn't forget I was just distracted the past month shut up)

#Deltarune

Rough two-panel sketch of Chara looking out the passenger window at the world with big wondrous red eyes. Kris pops up to complain ("*i don't get it" "*same rotting town as always") and Chara retorts excitedly ("♥︎ But now *I* get to look at it!"), their grin revealing the twins' missing front tooth.

Rough two-panel sketch of Kris beginning to spiral in response to Chara's explanation of their perception of the world. As Chara speaks ("♥︎ There‘s no walls between the world and me. ♥︎ Everything is just so much! So intense! It's beautiful!") Kris's thoughts are dominated by negative self-talk about their perceived unpleasantness, selfishness, and thievery. As Chara continues ("♥︎ Almost makes me wish I had my own body! Almost. ♥︎ It's great!") The self-critique grows darker, as Kris's guilt begins to settle on their mind, calling them a killer, a wretched child that no one wants. Words from a deeply unpleasant past that haunt them even now.

Rough sketch of Kris sinking into the darkness of their own mind as they pull their hoodie over their head and begin to bleed from their eyes and mouth, while Chara continues thinking, unaware, in the physical world. Kris's self-loathing has overwhelmed them, calling them every horrible thing they have ever been told about themself. "MURDERER. PSYCHOPATH. THIEF. CRAZY. SELFISH. FREAK. HEARTLESS. DEMON. PARASITE. KILLER. KILLER. KILLER." Their perceived kill count appears, set to 3, and their LOVE (Level Of Violence) is set to 2.

A few coherent thoughts peek through, just as negative as the rest. "YOU RUIN LIVES. THEY WERE ALL RIGHT ABOUT YOU. KILL. KILL YOURSELF. YOU STOLE THEIR LIFE."

Rough two-panel sketch of Chara putting a knife in their locker as they notice Kris's absence from the forefront of their mind ("♥︎ ...y'know, Kris? ♥︎ ...Kris?").

2nd panel sees them slam the locker shut as they brush back some of their bangs in contemplation ("♥︎ Hm. Sank down already.) ♥︎ Wonder what I did wrong?"). Two smaller children walk past them as Berdly intrudes on the frame, immediately being obnoxious ("What the frak!? Kris?")

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 8d

The harrowed rabbit with sharpened fangs and thorns around its broken heart still longs for mother's touch, for brother's courage, for all the things that it has lost.

Sketch of an elf in a tailcoat holding a sword of light, standing with their back turned from the viewer on a hilltop, looking at the night sky. Two moons are seen above them, one much larger than the other. A tower rises in the distance high above the clouds, as well as a great fortress to the right and a mountain with an enormous hole through it on the left.

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 8d

"...But you don't see mends this good every day, especially not for such a severe case. Your kid knew exactly what to do, Ms. Dreemurr; you ought to be proud."

#Deltarune

Rough three-image sketch of a doctor injecting raw Red Determination into half a Red SOUL on Day 2, saying "Kid's lucky to be alive..." Then Toriel at bedside for a comatose, hospitalized Kris with long hair on Day 263, hooked up to IVs of water and Determination.

"Please wake up, my child..."

Lastly, an X-Ray of Kris's torso, showing a whole Red SOUL bearing various faint marks; a jagged seam down the middle and swirled stretch marks on its left (the viewer's right), taken on Day 476.

"There may be post-growth complications..."

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 4d

Six hour ceasefire with the demons and fears inside your head.

#Deltarune

Rough sketch of Dess Holiday lying in the grass with a joint in her mouth, smoke billowing out above her. She has one arm behind her head and the other raised up to the sky, one leg crossed over the other. Kris can be seen in the background, sitting in the grass and holding up a millipede with a smile. Their horned headband is a bright red.

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 3d

Put me down like a rabid dog

It's what I am, it's what I want

#Deltarune

Rough sketch of Dess Holiday, the Roaring Knight, with her helmet removed, revealing that her jaw and lips have melted off and the red dye in her bangs has mostly come out. The rest of her body is fully consumed by the dark, distorted into the form of the Knight. Her eyes have a pinprick of red pupils glowing in the dead white of her irises, swimming in black sclera.

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 1d

Two ends to the civil war:

Armistice and alliance, or stalemate and mutually-assured destruction

#Deltarune

Rough sketch of two different versions of Kris, several years after the events of Deltarune. "Best Route" Kris is healthy, with longer, clean hair, as well as small snakebite piercings in their lower lip. Their eyes are fully revealed, glowing a brilliant ruby red with a certain tenderness evident in their expression. They are wearing a golden heart locket.

"Weird Route" Kris is visibly unwell, with ratty, greasy shorter hair topped by a beanie, sunken cheeks, and a highly visible collarbone. Their embittered eyes are shaded and sunken, one of them a dull red like dried blood, squinting out of the dark between their bangs. The other glows an eerie red, the left side of their face cast into complete darkness otherwise.

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 1d

"Ambition is freedom, indulgence is life, avarice is power, greed is liberty!

"I've never been a hard man to figure out, darlin'. Makes me wonder what them theologists and philosophers get up to all day if they can't pin me down."

Rough sketch of a man in round sunglasses, wearing a fur coat and a wide-brimmed hat, sneering wide as smoke seeps through his teeth. He has a gold tooth, and multiple jeweled rings on his fingers.

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 1d

POV: you talked some shit about Togore

#Deltarune

Rough sketch of Kris holding the viewer up by the shirt and winding up to punch them (again; there's already blood on their fist). Susie and Noelle are standing by above Kris, surprised at the violence but not moving to stop them. Because you deserve it for what you said :)

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 6h

I didn't *want* this comic to be 20 pages but i don't think it would flow well with any less

Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 6h

Your sins are crawling up your back, both real and imagined

(I didn't forget I was just distracted the past month shut up)

#Deltarune

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finn @altardoll.bsky.social · 1d

scrappy slashers 🍿🔪
#fakemon #faketober

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Nov 6

There is one fundamental truth about mutual aid, and it always shocks people:

YOU MUST BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE.

This truth alone should radicalize you.

The more you work on scale, branding, recognition, institutional funding, the harder it becomes to actually
help people.

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Mr. "Ant" Tenna's Marvelous Mystery Quote Bot @tenna-quotes.bsky.social · 14h

HEY!!! Wh-what's wrong with ME having the car!? THEY weren't gonna win it!! I was... just giving it a daily TEST DRIVE! Checking on that ''sweet breeze''!

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - “So I should just... just... get a hat and FUCK it, right?!” (Point at your head, where the hat should be.) “Engage in sexual intercourse with a hat right here in front of you, because you told me so? On the SEA ICE?!”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.”

Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

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Mr. "Ant" Tenna's Marvelous Mystery Quote Bot @tenna-quotes.bsky.social · 4d

Alright! ALRIGHT you little ripoff artists!!! You think you can take MY cookies!?

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Mr. "Ant" Tenna's Marvelous Mystery Quote Bot @tenna-quotes.bsky.social · 2d

What the HECK is THAT THING!? Some kind of RAT!? Some kind of CREATURE!?

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Mr. "Ant" Tenna's Marvelous Mystery Quote Bot @tenna-quotes.bsky.social · 1d

Haters of true entertainment are constantly trying to kill me!

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Bug And Ghost @duskwingmoth.itch.io · 16h

Which could mean nothing

Mr. "Ant" Tenna's Marvelous Mystery Quote Bot @tenna-quotes.bsky.social · 1d

He got embarrassed about liking the green dinosaur... and switched to being a big fan of the fiery magician girl! Which is, maybe its own type of embarassing, but...