#HE HAS HAD ACCIDENTS BEFORE

[bluerosefox]

Of Godsons, Fruitloops, and Lois 'I will drag all secrets out into the sun' Lane

Danny loses his parents due to their own lack of safety in the lab (death? Coma? People finally putting their foot down about the Fenton's endangering their kids? Idk pick). Jazz can't take him in due to being in college and living on its campus (and he didnt want to force her into an apartment just to keep him, he saw the prices and knows she'll have to work to make rent) and Danny fears the only place he can go to is... Vlad. (Sam's parents would never let him live with her and Tucker's place doesn't have the room)

Vlad's been lording it over Danny, smug about it all, after all he IS Danny's godfather and he has the space and money to provide for the boy in his time of need.

Only, when digging into Danny's files, his social worker discovers Vlad isn't Danny's godfather, he was meant to be but the Fenton's forgot to send/sign in the final paperwork (even if those documents were the only contact they had with Vlad over the years before the reunion)

No Danny's godparent, the person to take him should anything happen to the Fenton's is....

Lois Lane.

His mom's childhood friend.

[frutavel]

We make OCs out of cannon fodder races in this house ‼️‼️‼️💯💯💯

Garmorai the Pathfinder is a magnataur originally hailing from the Borean Tundra. One of the many sons of Gammothra the Tormentor, Garm has made a mostly peaceful living for himself wandering the frozen wilds of Northrend and generally minding his own business as magnataur tend to do - until the Scourge came, that is...

[daintydoilypon]

Came back to our blind cat coughing up loogies. Silo thought it was kitty allergies, but last week, I noticed Bubba looked way worse, so I put my foot down & told Silo to schedule an appointment.

So, our vet got bought out, & they charged me $750 for a single xray, an "xray description fee", 2 shots, an appointment fee, & bloodwork, which they didn't give us the results to. They just sent an email saying "he has a high white blood cell count, so he's fighting an infection (they said it was bronchitis during the visit) or he has KITTY COVID, it's DEADLY & will KILL ALL YOUR CATS, so come back in 2 weeks when the shots wear off or else >:3c"

Also, my car is making a popping noise in the back, so I had to schedule an appointment for that to be addressed //weeps

I feel like this scene from Jojo where they're all kicking that guy.

[just-honey-dewd]

A Small Discrepancy about Cheng Xiaoshi's powers

I think I'm gonna go insane. I just realized something. Lu Guang actually got the wrong conclusion on what triggers Cheng Xiaoshi's ability (it's reasonable why he gets it wrong, but it still pisses me off 😭)

The trigger for Cheng Xiaoshi's powers isn't for the photo to be in his sight. Not strictly.

Otherwise, he shouldn't have been able to dive out from point A to point B.

From what we've seen from this intro, the only photo that would thematically make sense for Cheng Xiaoshi to have dived into and out from would be this photo. And it would have never been in Cheng Xiaoshi's line of sight.

And the actual scene where Cheng Xiaoshi "activates" his ability for the first time actually doubles down on this. (I watched this slow-mo. Cheng Xiaoshi closes his eyes at the same moment he claps).

And even then Cheng Xiaoshi was never looking at the photo, he was looking at Lu Guang. Lu Guang had let his guard down and never would've been able to confirm what exactly Cheng Xiaoshi was doing before the clap. You could argue it was in his line of sight but if multiple photos were in his line of sight, which photo would theoretically make the most sense for Cheng Xiaoshi to dive into?

Would it be far-fetched to consider that during this sequence from season 1, Cheng Xiaoshi had subconsciously took advantage of the unrealized truth that his ability's trigger is more multi-faceted than simply being sight-based?

Also considering that he's the one that does the manual process of developing these photos, it's almost poetic that his connection to them is cemented in his memories of these snapshots. Sight simply assists in snapping it into his immediate thoughts.

So, when Lu Guang gets Cheng Xiaoshi to recreate the sequence of events, Cheng Xiaoshi fixates too hard on the photo and blatantly stares at it. So, Lu Guang would understandably come to the observed conclusion that it's triggered by sight and a clap.

You can't necessarily disprove that it's from simply thinking of the photo, because just looking at a photo will count as thinking of the photo. So, Cheng Xiaoshi's true ability is jumping into photos he immediately thinks of. He'd probably need a good recollection of the photo for it to work without seeing it.

This is why Cheng Xiaoshi was able to dive from seemingly nothing in Yingdu episode 1.

He had thought of the photo depicting the trio after commemorating Lu Guang joining the studio -- of course it's significant enough of a memory that Cheng Xiaoshi would reliably be able to recall it.

[If anyone happens to know if this photo definitively depicts Cheng Xiaoshi with the bandages from his head injury, I would be so grateful]

This version of Cheng Xiaoshi might have learned the actual trigger behind his powers. And either Lu Guang has never figured this out himself, or is careful not to let Cheng Xiaoshi learn the extent of his abilities until the "right" moments.

It also kinda fits with Lu Guang's limitations. Lu Guang activates his powers while looking at a photos to gain its memories. Cheng Xiaoshi can use his memories of photos to enhance the utility of his powers.

There's probably more to Lu Guang's ability than meets the eye, but I haven't cracked that case yet.

[catstar91]

“Average portal to hell requires human sacrifice” actually statistical error. Fenton Works, who’s killed 2 people in portal related accidents and the only ones to make an artificial portal to hell,

[splynter]

Bill Cipher sobbing for Ford and calling for his mom while blackout drunk is going to inhabit my brain forever I think

[synthshenanigans]

Is this ur evil twin? /j

Oh no. That is my close best buddy. I use to play Saxophone so me & Sax Shenanigans go WAY back

This fucker however-

[timothyslucy]

you guys wanna hear a wild theory that just came to me?????

[floridagirlboy]

i think marine corps got his license suspended a few years ago by gov himself for horrible reckless driving. im talking like

like that. has rammed his shitty ford fiesta directly into gov's house at least twice and only one of them was an accident. and now navy has to fucking drive him everywhere. you can't ever Just talk to marine because navy is usually right around the corner because he had to fucking drive him there. and navy always has to give his opinions on anything you're talking about. worst duo ever

[clamsjams]

if u make a one piece college au and u don’t make all of the strawhats students then u r a fucking coward

[hersweetrevenge]

rohan campbell as corey cunningham [X]

[doodliver]

[volfoss]

Long time no faceup...

Under the cut cause my number 1 hobby with doll faceups is to talk 700 years about the process and well. I was talking a LOT this time around lol

I am so kind of notoriously bad at not finishing a doll. Like ridiculously so. In my defense with this doll- his face sculpt was SO ridiculously out of my comfort zone (I usually have more cartoonish dolls > realistic) and he was massive (and his body had a lot of mods that I in turn wanted to modify) (on top of my pain increasing a lot which caused me to not be able to work on projects often the last year or two). I would have kept his faceup if it wasn't scratched badly in certain places but, here's the before (blank, I am NOT showing how bad my previous faceup attempts are..it's bad) and then I'll get into processes and such!

[ID: A large ball jointed doll sitting up. His face is blank with no eyes or wig and his body has multiple sculpted blue sections on it. A cat is sniffing his shoulder. /End ID]

The mod work was easy (thankfully! Pin that says I ❤️ my dremel) but I am not done with that so I will be focusing on his face! I watched a lot of realistic faceup tutorials and came away with a few takeaways:

1. Watercolors and a skinny nail brush WILL be your best friend. Also water in general to fix the mistakes

2. Take your time <- you'd think this was obvious but I'm soooo bad at rushing a faceup ok. I'm so bad at slowing down

3. Pastel before watercolor makes it go on smoother (the vid recommended using white which worked well bc this boy is very pale lmao)

4. Be brave and get the worst bit done first so if you fuck it up it's no big deal

So, with that knowledge I began sealing the head (was doing him along w 2 other heads Ive been putting off) and that was when the trouble started. I use sponge on sealant (liquitex matte varnish. Works like a dream always and no respiratory gear or weather conditions needed) but it was applying glossy. I assumed it was too cold in my room and after a few layers of hoping that would fix it, it didn't! Thankfully it had happened to me before and I shook it up VERY aggressively (like 1-2 minutes of shaking) and it went on fine minus some exaggerated texture on the resin from the few bad layers. Now this is one of the issues w this method, the other is it can trap dust/hair or whatever in there (you can easily pick it out if you notice it before it dries tho). These are both pros for me, I like when the doll looks more textured skin wise (realistic) and if I'm getting a little too lost on what direction to take the head, the dust or hair can make moles, freckles, or even scars! Prefacing all of that with the sealant was kicking my ASS and I was fighting for my life, which wasn't giving me much hope when this was a faceup style greatly out of my comfort zone and skill set, so it was just really a bad start. Also important to note that I did like absolutely no mockups for this which I usually do. I did a very vague basic realistic faceup and that was it, which was not really setting myself up for success, one may say.

But, somehow, the first layer was ok! I put white pastel down under the eye, around the eyebrow placement and then after some mishaps with the watercolor on the brows, I went to my old tactic. Usually with brows, I lay a layer or two down of pastel (FAR lighter than I want the brows to be) to kind of carve a rough shape out because I'm so atrocious at getting them even (like to a comical level. The amount of times I've had to redo a full brow to match the other makes this be my default method bc I'm SO bad at them).

I did one layer of that, and then decided I would try again with the watercolor. I don't want him to have super obvious eyeliner or anything (statements I've never said before. I have dolls where the liner covers the entire eyelid, I love a big eyeliner) so I just did the top waterline in a dark brown watercolor on a skinny nail art brush. This went... Suspiciously well? To the point where I just decided hey, we're going in and doing the eyelashes on the same layer.

Eyelashes are another point I'm so bad at, to the point where of all of my dolls I've painted, I've done bottom eyelashes 2x like ever. 3 at most. I remembered the tips from the video (not too much water but not too much paint, steady your hand, take it slow, and not doing just straight lines (hard to do that because I default to that often lol)) and just dove in.

The first eye went so well that I just went right into the second one and it was so much less bad than I thought it would be. It's crazy that practice and research helps? After that dried, I mixed pink and peach acrylic paints together to paint the lower waterline, and after THAT dried, I covered the bottom lashes with the same white pastel. It muted it a lot but the main thing I've learned working with this sealant method is that it WILL take stuff off. So in theory, I hoped that it would take the white pastel off and not fade my very painstakingly painted eyelashes.

Somehow it did work (thank you makeup knowledge or something) and the first layer was done. It felt SO wrong to have a first layer with NO blush???? Like absolutely makes no sense to my brain but it was so relieving to be done with the worst parts (minus the brows. I was not looking forward to those).

[ID: A three quarter view of the doll head shown above. Instead of being blank, it has very faint blonde eyebrows and dark brown lower eyelashes. /End ID]

This is the time in which I admit that I was wrong that it was so bad to do a realistic faceup (which could easily change when I do the blushing, you do not want to see the 80s blush situation I had on the first faceup attempt), as having the brow bones so prominent made the painting so much easier. I was very mad about this as this is my first proper* attempt at this sort of faceup and it was going so well (* proper meaning I actually attempted to adapt my style to the sculpt instead of putting my usual methods to use here on a head of a different style). Honestly I just kind of locked into the brows, and since my brush is a nail brush, there's a little ball stylus (I think that's what it's called? Dotting tool may also be what it's called) so when I messed up, I got that wet and very gently cleaned it up, dabbing the excess water/paint with my finger. This was SO much less painful than using acrylic paint on brows (that is MISERABLE to remove if you fuck up with black acrylic. That does not budge ever) or using watercolor pencils (like with doing my own eyeliner, I do much better with a brush than pencil).

Genuinely never will go back to using a different material for doing the brow strokes, this was such a breeze. Even getting it even wasn't too bad, I just cleaned the brows up with that same technique until I got it close enough. While I was waiting for that to dry, I used the same dark brown (I have a very small watercolor palette and no clue how to blend it lol, so I just used the same color this whole faceup so far) and same brush to add some paint to the eye crease to add some more dimension to the face. While that was drying, it started to bother me that all the dust was just not covered up, because my brain is used to when I break the paint out, I'm nearly done with the faceup, so it should be covered and cleaner by now. Which honestly I'm glad I did! It looks a lot better with most of it covered, although I do still.plan on doing a scar from the left eyebrow up to the forehead as well as others on the forehead but those are 3d sculpt projects and not flat paint projects (I use Elmer's glue to build it up and then blush/paint over top) so it is not my problem now lol.

[ID: A front facing picture of the head above. The head has dark brown curved eyebrows, moles dotted at random around the face, and the eye crease is filled in with dark brown. /End ID]

As if this project wasn't driving me crazy with stress enough, when I powdered the brows, one of them just didn't get as powdered as the other and so when I applied the sealant, about half the brow came away with it! Absolutely devastating but it is just the nature of water colors and liquid sealant! The next layer now had to include a patch job on the brow, as well as blushing (or if I was a little smarter, one layer for the brow repair, seal again, and a layer for the blushing so I didn't mess it up again!). It was such an incredibly frustrating set back especially with how long it took me to do the brows initially.

At THIS point, I was so relieved I had done a mockup digitally (even if not super accurate to what I ended up going with) because thinking of doing the blushing the next layer did make me want to cry a little bit for a couple reasons (on top of the already immense frustrations that sealing the brows on the start of day 2 brought).

As I said earlier, very different head type than what I usually do (usually can just slap some pink on the cheeks, brown elsewhere etc), but the bigger issue was how pale he is. I find it a billion times easier to paint a yellowed doll or a doll with darker resin (I am SO excited to get to my Dong next (his resin is so pretty (and has been really fun to work on while I was in white boy shading hell)) than a white unyellowed doll. If you know color theory or like any makeup at all, paler skin makes things show up so much brighter, which is a pain in the ass when you're trying to make a doll not look like they have clown makeup on with the blush alone. And with how sculpted his face is, I had to place the blush just right to get it to look ok, as well as somehow get the shading to look clean and decent.

I used a combination of a brush directly against the pastel and shavings and slowly built up some flush to the cheeks and shading around the nose.

[ID: The same doll head as above, but with a more peach color to the lips and cheeks, with slight definition around the sides of the nose bridge. /End ID]

I added the tiniest bit more blushing (my favorite hobby is procrastinating sealing. #1 thing ever) and then felt really unsure if I was somewhat close to being done or not, so decided to try it on his body with random eyes and wig to see what else needed to be there, which confirmed a couple things!

[ID: The same head as before, now shown on a seated large ball jointed doll body. He has a long lilac center part straight wig on and dark eyes. There is a doll to the left and right of him./End ID]

The first thing was somehow ALL of the messy forehead was covered by the wig, which was such a relief in of itself. The second thing was all of the blushing looked really good and natural which was such a big relief honestly.

He really just looked like some guy which was very funny as I really um don't have any dolls in my collection that have a normal faceup (guy addicted to getting too silly with it voice: Well surely getting MORE goofy won't hurt! I think the closest to a normal guy would be Theo? Cordelia perhaps too but she's also so pink lmao) and look like just a guy that you could find at a gas station. This will probably not last as I wanted to turn the forehead marks into silvery scars (I feel we could get a little silly with it and have it be magical or something like that, provides the scars look ok lmao. Future me's problem). I definitely need to add some more shading under his eyes (under eye bags are PERFECT when his eye bags are actually sculpted, I'm not used to that on a sculpt lol), accents to the lips (MAY do lip lines. May just add more color. No one ever knows what my go to is with lips because I hate doing them), add highlights (and maybe use some pearl x powder on the eyelid area... I kind of want him to look MOSTLY natural but I cannot lie, the lure of men with eyeshadow. It's a slippery slope) and mess with his eyes a bit as he looks really good with that purple wig, so I'd like to use colors that coordinate with that if possible (same with the eyes probably?). All in all, this was a lot of work for a low energy day and I feel I'm entering the home stretch a bit!

Day three, and despite how horrendous I was feeling like the entire day, I locked in and got a lot done!

[ID: The same head as above, with silver scarring on the forehead and nose and slightly more pigment on the lips. /end ID]

In pictures the scars look a LOT like leeches to me but it's ok or something. I wanted to do silver as I felt it would be fun to do a more magical twist with the characters and having some funky colored scars would work with that! I started with a layer of light grey paint and Elmer's glue mixed together, then added layers of a silver paint with the glue until it was more pronounced from the resin, how a scar would be, and then shaded with watercolors (before then adding the blushing to make it look like actual scars instead of weird metal globs). Honestly I really liked how the eyebrow and nose ones came out but the forehead ones were more of a cover up job rather than where I wanted to place them, so they may get adjusted later.

Other than that, I started work on his eyes (and most of the day was laying in bed in pain so I didn't get a ton done sadly)! It's not very visible in photos but I also used a glittery powder (pearl ex) on the eyelids to add some sparkle.

All that was left is a bit of scar work, figuring out if I'm going to do lines on the lips (my worst debate always tbh, I feel they rarely look good with my faceup style and are often a pain in my ass), finish the eyes (admittedly this is just because I'm very slow with it as I don't really like working with the resin a ton), and gloss the areas that need it. There is definitely a chance I remove the forehead scarring (the great part about it all being glue is well. It removes easily) and do something different there that's a bit bigger and less small blobs but that is tomorrow's problem. Honestly really excited about the eyes, they look REALLY good from when I've tried them in!

I then proceeded to procrastinate for about a week maybe (time is odd for me rn) because I was so unsure about the forehead scarring but when I picked it back up, I did the finishing touches I planned on here and then wrapped his eyes up and he's done! 2 heads to go (sadly. I'm so scared doing them to be honest cause it's so much work always) but very happy with him!

[ID: The head shown previously, but on his body. His lips and scars are now glossy, he has eyes with a dark blue sclera and bright purple glittery iris in, and is wearing a long straight lavender wig. His body is wearing a teal and purple camo shirt that is tight fitting. The doll is sitting between two other dolls on a shelf. /End ID]

[im-totally-not-an-alien-3]

Psaro knew his mom was special, the same way all of his father's wives were special.

Dolphs mother was a famous Gladiatrix in Nadiria who had never been defeated by anyone other than their father, after which she agreed to marry him and became his first wife.

Ludos mother was a powerful elf priestess, said to be older than all of monsterkind, and perhaps would be just as powerful if she was released from her fate as someone else's prison.

Psaros mom was a princess from the human world, but that wouldn't be enough to catch his father's interest. There had to be something else, and his mother refused to talk about it, so he did what any six year old monster prince would do and just asked the various castle staff for answers.

He was in luck as some of his mothers servants knew the truth. His mother came from a long line of legendary human heroes! The oldest known one was also the most famous, some guy called Erdrick.

Psaro quickly came to love hearing stories of his human ancestors defeating evil and saving the day. Even better, his mother's servents actually grew to enjoy spending time with him so he had more playmates for himself and Ludo.

His mother was strange. She often didn't hold or play with him like Fathers other wives did with their children. Her gaze would often drift to his eyes, and she would have this funny look on her face, like a cross between sadness and...fear? But why would she be afraid of him? Or his eyes? He was often told he had his Father's eyes (and ears too!) so she couldn't dislike them, right? After all, a baby is born when a mommy and daddy love each other very much, and if she loves his father, then she should love the parts of him she sees in their son.

It wouldn't be until he was much older that he would understand the full scope of his mother's suffering, but for now, he was too innocent.

---

His mother was dying.

Slowly.

Cruelly.

This couldn't be right. His mother had kidnapped him from the castle, taking him away from everyone and everything he ever knew and wouldn't even tell him why.

And now she was abandoning him. She was going to die and leave him behind. He couldn't allow that, so he did what he could with what he had.

Monsters lived very long lives, with Psaro and his family on his father's side aging slowly until they were destined to stop aging all together once they reached a certain maturity. Naturally, to keep Miriam alive this long, his father had teathered her life force to his own, keeping her young and healthy forever.

Until he cut her off that is.

That's fine. He just needed to make a new anchor for her. In fact, why not make several? Ah, but he also needed someone to help defend himself and his mom. He might be monster royalty, but he's still just a kid, and there's only so much one can do when they're fighting the temptations of naptime.

If he's going to need someone to help them, why not bring their legendary hero ancestor himself back from the dead? Even better, the magic would force him to stay by their sides and prevent him from harming them.

So once his mother is safely tucked into bed (read:the arms of some bear monsters who cubs Psaro had befriended) inside the cave, they were taking refuge in he snuck out into the woods to proform an ancient ritual.

He took out a lock of his and his mother's hair, intricately braided together into an odd design, and began chanting the spell he had recently learned and called out for "the oldest true hero in our family line". After what felt like forever, a deep purple fog condensed into a solid person.

The figure was...taller that Psaro expected. And what were those clothes? Erdricks hair and face seemed to be the same as it was depicted in the old paintings and tapestries but he was dressed like a Neanderthal and had a beard and wielded and ax instead of the sword he was known for.

"Erdrick?" Psaro called out, hating how small his voice suddenly sounded.

The man looked confused but not hostile as he lowered onto one knee before the demon prince, "I'm afraid I do not know that name, little one. I am Ortega of Aliahan."

[ceiling-karasu]

Squirrel and Hedgehog Shipping Polls

I’m heading out to the Caribbean this weekend for a family vacation, so this poly ship should make for a warm discussion from the suggestions and prompts in the tags.

The captured Field Mouse from episode two, and his hedgehog Guards.

[cowardlybean]

if i write another reigen major character death fic people will certainly think i’m nuts!

However.