#answer my niche questions

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Why did fairytales always have magical little tricksters looking for your firstborn? Like why specifically the first kid? What if I’ve already got one kid and he’s 17 and called Steven do you want him? What if I’m a mother of six coming to you for riches to feed my family will you take the inevitable seventh? Like what’s the protocol here?

[mammalsofaction]

since you've compiled moments where heinz is the possessive one... could we possibly get ones of perry being the jealous/possessive one? 👀

OH NONNIE I GIGGLED

Let's start with the basics 🙏🏼🙏🏼:

Their entire B-Plot in About Time:

Including their legendary first break up song where Perry started staring into puddles like a disney princess with a falshback montage:

(Here's an extended Alt):

Which led to Perry getting pissed off whenever Heinz is in Seattle without telling him (Meapless in Seattle):

And eventually Perry getting pissed off when Heinz got kidnapped by Peter's situationship and rushing to go save him in Seattle again. (Lost in Danville) (Yes, Perry is not the hugest fan of Seattle)

Heinz ended giving Mystery relationship advice and Peter got to meet Mystery's parents :)

Im running out of the picture limit. I can't find the one where Perry got upset when Heinz brought up the babe Inator, but here is Perry getting upset when Mono's speculating about Heinz's new date:

Perry being an overprotective asshole who won't let Heinz do missions during OWCA files:

Some fucking merch content of all things:

Perry being really sad and reaching for Heinz during their SECOND break up arc in Milo Murphy's Law:

Sending a card that was probably his equivalent to falling on knees grovelling:

Damn did I forget to tell you Perry takes pictures, edits, and keeps a whole stash of his photos with Doof in his wallet? Must've slipped my mind:

Anyway. The misunderstanding in MML was because Perry ends up being Time Industries' (Heinz future business endeavor as the Founder of Time Travelling) first and largest shareholder. He cashes in every penny made in overtime for Heinz to build his company back up.

Dan Povenmire stitched this chibi shorts episode as one SPECIFICALLY MADE FOR A "Specific subset of the Phineas and Ferb fandom" spoiler alert: apparently Perry's less upset about Heinz going around kissing people when it's Perry he's kissing.

Here's a short where Perry is apparently less cool about Heinz getting beat up when its someone else beating him up:

And here's a lil bonus Perry getting upset by a fake platypus Baljeet made when he went missing:

This is a very, VERY limited list, including moments of Perry being Fucking Whipped. I have carefully redacted moments of:

-Perry being sweet

-Perry being supportive

-Them being domestic

-Perry being so, so, so incredibly fond of Heinz

-Perry trusting Heinz with his life.

-Perry being sure Heinz doesn't have a life outside of him, anyway.

And in fact i am sure i have missed a lot more out of canon content. Perry being codependent, possessive, protective and jealous is common knowledge at this point. I've made a post before where Perry the Second Dimension proves that Perry has control Issues and an insecurity of being easily replaced by his loved ones, excaberted by Francis' frequent threats of relocating him at the drop of a hat.

Tldr: Perry suffers from down bad-ism and if you look at Heinz too long he is liable to commit violence ♥️♥️♥️

[pitconfirm]

😁😁😁 hehe

20. part of canon you found tedious or boring

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

me answering one of these ask game asks every like 3 days. maybe i’ll be done eventually 😭 but anyways hehe

20. part of canon you found tedious or boring

My answer is an rpf answer so it’s not *canon* but it’s like, canon compliant. Which is that I personally don’t care much for Galex…. even though it’s one of the closest ships to canon that there is LOL. Idk why but it just does nothing to me 😔 I wish it did because there’s so much there to dig your teeth into, but alas… like many things, it only compels me if they’re sharing Lance’s hole

22. your favourite part of canon that everyone else ignores

This is a small thing but I think the Lance + Charles + Pierre friendship is underrated and a lot of people don’t recognise that Lance is pretty good friends with those two. And also I would like to see the threesome (again, sharing Lance’s hole).

[necrotic-nephilim]

Sorry if this might be a rude question but why don’t you just make a seperate account for your nsfw fics?

not rude, it's a valid question! tbh it's a combination of a couple reasons.

i started posting anonymous dead dove batcest fics long before i had the balls to make a tumblr. at first i was content to just leave them unassociated with each other because i didn't really care about them being tied to me. i made this blog to actually show solidarity to my partner who wanted to make a sideblog for Sandman comic stuff so we could cheerlead each other and be brave together, since i've wanted to make a batcest sideblog but i've been nervous about actually having to get it going. (mal ik you're reading this go be brave and actually make your blog so i can cheerlead you damnit-) only did it dawn on me then that i should probably mention the fics i've written on the blog after like, three of them were posted anonymously. and it would've annoyed me to have half of them anonymous and half of them not, because notifications for them would've gone in different places. i could go back and take my fics off anon if i wanted to, but i can't switch the account they're on without taking them down entirely and that'd fuck over people who have them bookmarked already.

which, ties into my second reason, if i made an entire second ao3 account it'd be harder for me to see notifications, reply to stuff, and post things for both accounts because i'd have to constantly switch. and honestly i'd be terrified of accidentally posting on the wrong one on a brain fog day. posting fics is always the most tedious part of writing them for me lol. it's easier for me to stay logged into one account and have all of my stuff in one place for me and just use the anonymous collection when i feel like it. if ao3 pseuds worked like tumblr blogs, where you can't see all my side blogs but i can, i would've used pseuds, but since you can see all pseuds on an ao3, i felt it was a moot point.

and the last reason is i just feel more comfortable being anonymous on ao3 because of the rise in anti culture. on tumblr it's very easy for me to just filter that out and find the people i want to follow and block the people i don't. i don't mind getting hate, on tumblr or on ao3. but i think, for whatever reason you want to blame it on, there's been a massive boom of antis on ao3 who are very entitled about how they read on ao3. i tag extensively, but i just feel safer from getting targeted attacks if everything i write on ao3 isn't attached to one profile. if people like a fic i wrote, want to find more i always link my tumblr in the notes, but if an anti wants to get huffy with me, they can't easily track down my other things. they definitely could if they wanted to, but being anonymous on ao3 just makes me feel more secluded, in a weird way. it's like saying "if you want you can come find me but on here i'm just a weird faceless guy throwing stuff in the void". i've used ao3's anon feature a lot, actually, i used to be a hydra trash party dumpster kid back when that was in it's prime.

i also used to be vaguely popular on a different tumblr blog and my main ao3 and while i think it'd definitely be cool if i got a decent chunk of followers on this blog too, i don't really miss having fanfiction do so well i got targetted hate on all of my fics from the same people, i had my fics stolen, etc. it was really exhausting for me. i have 120+ works on ao3, not counting what's anonymous, and that level of exposure tires me, even when i use my main ao3 to post things that aren't trashy. it's just a weird feeling knowing so many people are subscribed to you on ao3 and what if you post something they won't like because you jumped fandoms again, or you're posting something niche, or you don't think it fills enough fandom tropes to be well-liked. i used to obsessively think like that, and it made me not write the things i wanted to because i cared about numbers. and i don't want to slide back into that hole. writing on anonymous is mostly to remind myself i wrote this for me, and if other people like it, they can come find me, but i don't have to perform like that anymore. if i get a really weird fucked up idea, i can write the really weird fucked up idea. at the end of the day, just makes me more comfortable! but i get it's a super confusing set up from an outsider perspective so, i really don't mind the question, thank you for asking!!

[daddy-ul]

Apparently, I am that kind of fan, bc when Lars was taking any changing set lists and that woman asked for Clover on her show, Lars answered that Clover is not such a deep cut anymore and

Discaimer under the cut if you feel offended

No, I'm not making fun of you, I am making fun of US djskkdmkxcv

And yes, the last button is for the confused and mr. Ulrich.

Sorry for the typos, btw.

[nerdpiggy]

isat fans watching revue starlight for the first time: lol is that an isat reference. huh was that also an isat reference? wait a second, is THAT an isat reference????? HOLY SHIT IS THAT AN ISAT REFERENCE!!??

[darkacademiaarchivist]

might make a conspiracy board to connect all the Kersting Gier books lore because honestly Silber and Vergiss Mein Nicht could be set in the same universe... Because Cassian mentioned weird dream stuff so that could fit into Silber (and maybe wolkenschloss because it's very ambiguous if magic is real? i think it was implied the hotel is haunted but not completely obvious)

[waitineedaname]

9, 20, and 23 for the music asks!! :)

9. A song that makes you happy

feels like an odd choice, but Katamari Mambo from the Katamari soundtrack! im not very good at this game but the soundtrack is always a delight

20. A song that has many meanings to you

Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants! is this song about a nightlight? is it about a guardian angel? is it a weird metaphor for friendship? if they might be giants has answered any of these questions I do not care ❤ also this is the first time i've watched the music video and now I'm even more confused

23. A song that you think everybody should listen to

ooooo you wanna listen to Smile by M.A.G.S. so bad oooooo !! i saw M.A.G.S. open for The Happy Fits a few years back and he was SUCH a good performer and so now I'm dedicated to trying to get people to listen to his stuff ldksjflksdj

[emily-mooon]

Last night the ST fire emblem au brainworms came back so to help feed them, here’s my ideas on what classes I think the characters would be

Mike: Lord (he’s essentially the blue haired lord in my head, can become a paladin later)

Will: Mage or Cleric (going more with mage cause they get pointy hats while clerics don’t)

Lucas: Archer

Dustin: Bard (yes this is a class in this game but only in like two and the older ones)

El: idk either mage or she’s manakete (dragon person)

Max: Pegasus knight

Nancy: Mage (with a proficiency in bows)

Jonathan: Thief (might change later idk)

Steve: Red Cavalier

Barb: Cleric or Mage (I was also thinking Pegasus knight to do the whole Pegasus trio trope in many of the games)

Robin: Green Cavalier

Argyle: Apothecary (like Jonathan, might change later)

Vickie: Pegasus knight

Eddie: Mercenary (the hellfire club is his mercenary group, leaning towards the trickster class as well)

Chrissy: Dancer (it’s the cheerleader class of this game)

Hopper: Knight (don’t know which kind yet)

Joyce: Axe Fighter (might change too but might not cause AXE)

Murray is the hubba tester/rainbow sage character (aka the relationship fortune teller mechanic that’s in awakening and fates respectfully) he can also be playable. Idk what his class is yet

[lesbianraskolnikov]

Showed some friends nina they hated it. Fuck my entire LIFE

[braisedhoney]

please tell me about the pigments i would love nothing more than to hear you talk about that one shade of red you like and the process it took too recreate it

... oh, op. you have no idea what you've unleashed.

alright. here we go.

OKAY SO THE RED PIGMENT. pr206. my beloved. my dearest friend. it was an absolute bastard to find because there are so many of these. however many you think there are, there are MORE, and that's only if you don't count the many many scenarios where colors are known to be multi-pigment mixes, usually varying in tone/shade/intensity depending on the brand and manufacturing style. some colors are more consistent than others, but there are situations where a color can be named the same and contain the same pigments and STILL look wildly different depending on the ratio, binder, and paper you use. and that's not accounting for the way the pigment is processed. some pigments (like pv19 for example) can come in so many shades it's frankly kind of ridiculous.

anyway, my quest begins when i am, admittedly, in an edgier phase. i want a blood red, but not specifically because of that—no, i want it because it is THE IDEAL COLOR (to me) for a perfect, warm, slightly muted but still intense shade to add to a muted autumn watercolor palette. and... if you look at my whole theme, you probably know how much i love warm colors. i want to paint mushrooms. i want to dim down some of the brighter greens to make them autumnal. i want the perfect red to put as an undertone.

the search starts in earnest.

the immediate issue is this: reds (and purples and pinks) have horrifically bad lightfastness. not all of them, mind, but many are NOTORIOUS for fading under uv light, which means they will also fade if exposed to sunlight even in passing should it happen often enough. and—in especially bad cases where they're essentially working with dye and not pigment—they can even fade inside your notebook. inside of a drawer.

so not only are we working with an unfortunate pigment base (i'm simplifying here, there's way more nuance to this but shh) but we are working with one that skews heavily toward floral pinks or oranges. the red i'm searching for is warm, but not orange. dries dark but not brown. is transparent, not opaque. that last part is agonizing, because i also desperately do not want a color that will fade on me or generally destabilize, and most of the stable dark red pigments are EARTH pigments like red ochre (pr101) or the like. which, while fascinating because of their historical usage in things like pottery and even cave paintings that last to the modern day, are VERY OPAQUE. this is an issue with my preferred style of watercolor painting specifically, because opaque pigments tend to lift easier off the page and limit layering.

the search continues. pigment after pigment breaks my heart for one reason or another, drying too close to the cooler purpleish-red tint of wine at best. i think i find it in perylene maroon, but the drying shift (the difference between how a color looks wet vs after it dries on the paper) is so extreme that it loses the luminosity AND it's more opaque than most. i languish.

for a while my search turns to creation. i try and mix as many of my single pigment colors as i can into something that vaguely resembles what i'm looking for—so i take quinacridones and mix them with napthols, with nickel azos, with dashes of ultramarines and burnt sienna. everything turns out either just a bit too opaque, just a bit too muddy (that happens with multi-pigment mixtures, and is why so many people swear by single pigment colors. it's personal preference, really, great art can be made either way.)

still, nothing works. failure haunts me. i sit before a pile of used up watercolor paper that is literally covered edge to edge in nothing but similar red squares with various gradients and blooms as evidence of when i tried and failed to convince myself my efforts were close enough. i admit defeat.

in the meantime i shift my focus. i try and appreciate different color palettes and profiles, experimenting with things like fully transparent palettes (personal favroite) to fully opaque ones that function more like gouache. but despite finding appreciation for it, i still think about the damn red that i could never recreate. it kills me.

and then one day, a youtube video. a pigment is being discontinued, and the watercolor community is distressed. this happens a lot, because pigments are actually not always popular because of artists—sometimes beloved colors are put out of production because larger markets like car companies no longer find them popular enough to invest in. this time, the casualty is pr206, aka brown madder, aka quinacridone burnt scarlet.

let me tell you a little about quinacridones. they are genuinely remarkable colors. they have their own cult followings because of how bright and abnormally stable they are under uv light. they're transparent. they're luminous. they come in mostly shades of red and pink and purple, though there are a couple oranges and yellows in there. (there are no quinacridone blues, as far as i'm aware, but the phthalo blues have that category covered.) they also rewet beautifully, so you can put them on your palette and let them dry and not worry about it turning into a useless little rock of color that you can't get any pigment from anymore.

quinacridone magenta (pr122) is probably the most popular of these, the most often used besides maybe quinacridone violet (pv19). a few years prior we suffered the loss of quinacridone gold (po49) and since then people have been On Alert when it comes to losing these colors. i am one of them, because i never got the chance to even see po49 in person, and now the tubes are so stupid expensive that even the student grade versions go for Ridiculously High Prices on ebay, and the professional brands are being hoarded like (ironically) gold by anyone lucky enough to have a tube left over.

but back to our main character. not me, the pigment. pr206. i have legitimately never heard of this one, which to be fair is probably because i try to limit the random colors i fixate on since the hobby can easily get VERY expensive if you aren't careful. but it's a quinacridone, and that catches my eye.

i open the video.

now, i'm sure any artist out there will be familiar with the fact that screens don't display color consistently. it depends on your device, but most can agree that something that looks cooler on one may be warmer on the other, it's just what happens. but i see this color being swatched, and my brain implodes.

it's almost a perfect match.

it could work. it could. years of thinking that same thought have left me bereft and mistrustful of this specific quest marker, but the thought refuses to leave me. probably because the 'discontinued' label flashes like a neon sign.

i resist for about six months, and then i cave. at this point i have genuinely been trying and failing to find this color for upwards of five years. i am desperate, and the color might not be available anymore soon anyway, and apparently i am weak to sales pitches. (note: the color IS now unavailable in some brands, but others bought a decent supply and should have it available for at least a little while, alongside po48 which is quinacridone burnt orange, a favorite of mine and probably one of the only oranges i use regularly. both are discontinued officially, but they'll still be on sale till those supplies run dry.)

the color arrives. i grab my favorite brush. i pull out my stash of paper that i save for special occasions.

it's almost perfect.

i mix it with quinacridone burnt orange.

the result is, i swear, a perfect match for what i have been searching for.

it's warm. it dries dark but not dark enough to look brown. it keeps its luminosity (thank you quinacridones). it's fully transparent (thank you quinacridones). i genuinely feel the urge to weep, but i don't because i am clinging at last to the dredges of my sanity and also salt makes watercolor pigments behave differently and i will not risk this glorious moment. finally, after all these years, bill cipher has a gun i found the goddamn COLOR.

i mix it with warm yellows and with my favorite blues. with the pinks, just to laugh. life is beautiful and i am painting its sunsets, and i do not care if they look ridiculously messy. i have won.

the moral of the story is to never give up. or maybe it's to remember you never actually know everything about even the fields you love the most, because this color totally blindsided me despite being much more common than i expected. or maybe it's that i seriously needed to chill out for a while.

but yes. that is the tale of one (1) of the colors that has taken up residence in my soul. i hope you don't regret asking now lmao.

[hardrockshrimp]

Snake age progression thing <3

[deathbydarkelves]

re: periods and elves, since trolls have mating cycles (according to that one female troll joke, so dunno how canon it really is lol), maybe elves do too?

Maybe I'm paranoid, but as I was writing I realized this could break containment in a very unfortunate way so I’m just saying here at the start:

THIS POST IS ABOUT DEATHBYPIXELZ’S WORLD OF WARCRAFT AU. IT IS MEANT TO BE A NEUTRAL DISCUSSION OF BIOLOGY IN FANTASY. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE.

Anyway…

The /flirt line, for those who were unaware/don’t remember:

I actually ended up having a whole conversation with some friends of mine about this topic, and did more research into menstruation and estrus in general (despite being AFAB I just never really cared to learn more). As a result I’ve landed on what I find to be a satisfactory hc answer, which is that elves menstruate every three months or so. Three is a somewhat arbitrary number, but my reasoning is as follows:

Elves have the same amount of control over their environment as irl humans, so resources are always plentiful, so there is no ecological pressure to have a yearly cycle (i.e. one which encourages birth during spring). They can afford a more frequent one.

However, being so long-lived, there is also no pressure to be, ah… capable quite as OFTEN as humans. Humans are only fertile a couple days a month, and elves in every setting I’m aware of are famously terrible at making more elves, so them only being fertile for a quarter of the time humans are creates an easy reason why.

It’s a good middle ground between “frequent enough to be relatable” and “just way too frequent for someone who's immortal”.

Three is a nice, easy-to-remember number.

In regards to the troll /flirt… My friends (who are heavily involved in the troll side of the fandom) informed me that line has long been used as justification for kinky at best, racist at worst fan works 💀 I’m not accusing anon of anything, just saying this thing has history I was previously unaware of.

And, yeah, I don’t really treat the /flirts as canon. Like, at all. There’s just too many that break the fourth wall or are otherwise non-diegetic that I can’t in good faith give much weight to any of them. To me, that line is a symptom of the very overt racism trolls have sadly been treated with since their inception.

(Note: I’m not damning fan works that use that line as inspiration on principle. I understand that’s a kink many people have, and I say do whatever works for you, as long as you, y’know, are aware of the racism that’s kinda just baked into this specific case. Kink responsibly lol)

Also worth stating that estrus/“heat” is just a term for “advertised fertility”, at least as far as I can tell. So, like, female moths releasing pheromones to attract males, or changes in behavior. But, I dunno, to me that seems like a really fuzzy term. Even humans sometimes have increased libido during that time, or changes in vaginal discharge. Does that count as “advertisement”? It’s a slight behavioral/physical change! And it's not like humans are somehow separate from all other animals; we're just animals too. So even if I treated that /flirt line as canon, the terminology used could just mean… "horny". And that’s how I’ll choose to interpret it, because sapient/humanlike races having expressly non-humanlike biological things like "a 'heat' so extreme it's equivalent to an altered state of mind" is just… an ick of mine, if I’m being honest. It certainly can be done well, like Jay Eaton’s Avian aliens, but it just doesn’t feel right for any of the races in WoW. In my opinion.

(Note 2: While I am a zoology student, I am in no way versed in these things like a farmer or dog breeder would be, so take my “what does ‘heat’ even mean” argument with a grain of salt. My point is humans also have hormone cycles which can affect libido and bodily secretions.)

Lastly, menopause: maybe this is just something that's really variable for them. I write elves as aging similarly to humans until their bodies are in a similar state to a thirty- or forty-year old human (at least on the surface), at which point aging dramatically slows. Menopause of course occurs in an average human's forties or fifties, so elves would stop physically aging for the most part right before that. Maybe some stop menstruating right at that point, maybe some go into their hundreds or thousands before that happens, maybe some bleed every three months for their whole lives. Or maybe the cycles get longer and longer and eventually stop /shrug. For an immortal race, a concrete age or age range for it just feels... wrong to me? So something fucked and unpredictable is my compromise. That also throws in another possible obstacle to making more elves, which fits thematically.

But as a TL;DR, I’ve settled on a three month cycle for them. Considering irl menstruating primates are on a 28-45 day range, I’d assume trolls are as well, and perhaps the first elves too. But as time went on and evolution occurred, helped and/or hindered by the Well of Eternity, that lengthened to three months (give or take), with the actual fertile period remaining the same. Keeps it frequent enough to feel relatable, but still feels appropriate for a group of races that lives so long and, in my AU, even sleeps every 36-48 hours instead of every 12(-ish). Menopause happens if and when it wants lol.

[shooks-stupid-stuff]

How u got into Pokémon, Len’en, and touhou?

Is there other interests/things u like as well ?

i got into pokemon when i was in like 3rd grade, because a friend gave me some of his cards

i got into touhou in 7th grade because i had heard bad apple on a pump it up prime machine the arcade i had my birthday party at had, and was trying to find it on youtube a few months later

and i got into len'en earlier this year because i had been listening to the ost and had honestly been meaning to give it a shot for years

besides those, i'm a big fan of kirby, those games are my childhood (even more than pokemon is). most the other stuff im big into right now are niche though, like 100% orange juice and hit webcomic sparkly life of murder-chan