Question another sign of the apocalypse

this surely is another sign of the apocalypse
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although Jade would love it and would instruct Ayla to buy it for her

It's beautiful.

Kettlekorn wrote: It's beautiful.

... Yet terrifying.

Cuteness at overwhelming levels, pink energy overloading.

Jericho, prepare to kill it with fire... or at least nausea-inducing paint job. There has to be balance in the force.

Polk Kitsune wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: It's beautiful.

... Yet terrifying.

Cuteness at overwhelming levels, pink energy overloading.

Jericho, prepare to kill it with fire... or at least nausea-inducing paint job. There has to be balance in the force.

are you crazy? If you're lucky it will only be a purple and black checkerboard pattern.

mhalpern wrote:

Polk Kitsune wrote:

Kettlekorn wrote: It's beautiful.

... Yet terrifying.

Cuteness at overwhelming levels, pink energy overloading.

Jericho, prepare to kill it with fire... or at least nausea-inducing paint job. There has to be balance in the force.

are you crazy? If you're lucky it will only be a purple and black checkerboard pattern.

Let Jericho on that train in one of his outfits, the universe would be doomed as the cute and anti-cute levels that meet would cause an antimatter explosion and take out everything.

Technically, Jericho's style is anti-fashion, not anti-cute. Cuteness is distinguished by causing observers to feel protective; it is charming and innocent. True anti-cute requires inverting the innocence aspect, not just the charming aspect. Think Marilyn Manson. Jericho's stylistic opposite would be Poise.

While I'm on the topic, though Jericho's style isn't anti-cute, neither is this train's nor Wondercute's style cute. They're cutesy, which is a different thing. Cutesy is sort of a shallow mockery of cute. Note that most people react to Wondercute with a cringe or even revulsion, not affection. What it really boils down to is that humans don't like fakers. Cuteness exists to encourage us to protect and care for little children. When we notice somebody trying to seem more cute than they actually are, our subconscious interprets that as an attempt to exploit our instincts to manipulate us into helping and protecting a person who doesn't actually need it. As a result, we react with emotions that are closer to disgust than protectiveness. While the individual members of Wondercute are more or less cute when left to their own devices, when they get together as Wondercute, they start playing it up and emphasizing it in such a way that their cuteness takes on an artificial cast and becomes cutesy instead.

That said, Jericho and Wondercute are opposites in a sense. The one looks garish on purpose by abusing his knowledge of fashion. The other looks garish by accident due to ignorance of fashion.

There's even a decent argument for the opposite of pastel pinks and blues to be khaki and olive drab:


. . . as demonstrated by the Player 2/Other Color Oliver Kirkland and his canon Hetalia counterpart Arthur Kirkland.

Or that one time Arthur paid attention to fashion tips:
All in all, maybe "trying too hard" is just another cheap ticket to Uncanny Valley.

I still think that train's counterpart should be "missing texture" has Jericho worn "missing texture" yet?

mhalpern wrote: I still think that train's counterpart should be "missing texture" has Jericho worn "missing texture" yet?

He has a T-shirt that has 'Missing Texture' printed infinitely in a diagonal pattern, does that count?

As far as Signs of the Apocalypse, well, Parent's Day is coming...

Note that Jericho HAS worn Hello Kitty stuff on occasion... whenever he could uncoordinate it with other stuff for maximum revulsion. I think there's a story in which he actually talks to Jade asking for her "line on Hello Kitty stuff."

E. E. Nalley wrote:

mhalpern wrote: I still think that train's counterpart should be "missing texture" has Jericho worn "missing texture" yet?

He has a T-shirt that has 'Missing Texture' printed infinitely in a diagonal pattern, does that count?

As far as Signs of the Apocalypse, well, Parent's Day is coming...

ah right Evil Incarnate gets to learn Apocalyptic Evil is still alive, and that Chibi Evil already knows, they might even have to call in Plain Evil (my nickname for the middle sister whom isn't a mutant as far as we know)....

It’s really real