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[s0dabeach]

i drew more grunkles :3

+ closeups from the grunkle page below (i changed the mullet stan and flustered(?) stan a little after taking the pic of the full page)

[bobmckenzie]

Dance With Me

word count: 1.4k blurb: caitie asks milton a question, and... well, he's never been any good at holding back the truth. author's note: posting my first milton fic on international tea day...!! now that's serendipity ❤️🍵 (serendipiTEA 😏)

Milton's lab was quiet as he and Caitlin tidied up, save for the low sound of the Tony Bennett song coming from the record player. He was ready to call it a night, though it was only late afternoon—he'd been working hard lately, and all he really wanted was to have dinner with Caitlin, to spend time with her. 

It was obvious she was wanting the same—she’d stopped by his lab not long ago, poking her head in to see if it would be another late night. When he'd told her he planned to get out of there soon, she wasted no time in helping him clean up. “It’ll go faster with the two of us,” she’d said, making his heart do that almost painful, wonderful kind of ache he wasn’t sure he’d ever get used to. He couldn’t remember the last time anyone had been so eager to spend time with him.

“I thought I might never hear music again,” Cait said softly as she collected several empty tea cups and mugs from around the lab. Though she missed her own playlists more than she could say, she always enjoyed what Milton picked out from Woodbury’s small selection. More often than not it was classical, or something he’d grown up listening to in his grandparents’ home: Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Nat King Cole. Cait thought he was more of a romantic than he even knew.

It was hard to believe just months ago, she was on her own and near death. Now she had shelter, warm food, music… Milton. She could survive without the rest of it again if she had to, she was sure. But not without him, not anymore.

“I gave the Governor a list of some of your favorite music,” he said simply, neatly stacking the papers strewn atop his desk. “The next time they’re looting near that old thrift store, they’ll take a look.”

Her smile was as warm and natural as the blush dusting her cheeks. Milton had visited her while she was working one morning, tending to one of the new tomato plants in the garden and humming to herself. He’d startled her a little when he spoke behind her— “That sounds nice,” he’d said. She wasn’t aware that three simple words could give her so many butterflies.

He asked what the song was, and they had a short conversation about music before he had to return to his duties. It seemed as though no matter what she told him about herself, he managed to remember it. It was an unfamiliarity she was still getting used to.

Setting down the cups in her hands, she walked over and placed a soft kiss against his cheek. “Thank you. That’s so sweet.”

“Well.” Milton was the one who was blushing now. He shrugged his shoulders. “I just hope they can find at least a few of them. The Governor did say it was picked pretty clean in there last time.”

“Doesn’t matter,” she murmured, unable to resist leaning in for another kiss against his soft skin. “It’s sweet either way.”

As the next song began Milton set down his stack of papers, adjusting them needlessly, lining them up perfectly with the folders beside them. It was a gesture of half habit, half nerves.

“C'mere.” Cait said, taking his hand and tugging him towards her. He wouldn't dream of resisting the affection, even as he stiffened up as she said, “Dance with me.”

“I… I don't know how,” he admitted, trying to remember to breathe as her arms looped over his shoulders, around his neck. 

His own hands found the dip of her waist, settling there with the lightest touch, still in disbelief that they got to hold her like this.

“Me neither,” she laughed softly, gently moving side to side. “Just sway with me then.”

He followed her movements, matching the slow rhythm of the music. For one short song, they were silent, simply enjoying the nearness. It was one thing he appreciated about her so much, that she didn’t seem to mind the quiet moments, didn’t always try to fill them. It wasn’t that he didn’t love talking to her, but that it was so rare in his life to find someone he could just be silent with. 

As another song began, neither made any move to pull away. 

“Milton…” Cait smiled softly as they swayed, bemused by the unnecessary question she was about to ask, and unable to stop herself from asking it anyway, no matter how useless of a question it was. “If things were different… if all this never happened, and we’d still met somehow…” She shrugged, feigning casualty, as if his answer didn’t have the potential to break her heart. “Do you think you still would’ve liked me?”

“Yes.” Milton’s answer came quickly, no pondering necessary. But it wasn’t the full truth. “I think…” he held her gaze, swallowing over the nervous lump in his throat, “that I would love you even if we’d never met.”

He felt the hitch in her breath as she stilled, her eyes searching his face as the music played on around them. 

Should he not have said that? It was too soon, of course it was too soon. But when death was looming over them every day, breathing down their necks, how could he be expected to keep something like that to himself? She was the only thing that seemed to make sense anymore, her and his love for her.

“You love me?” she asked softly, watching a pretty blush color his cheeks.

He nodded. “Yes. I do.” He fought the urge to ask “Is that okay?” It wasn't as if he could change it, no matter the answer.

She slipped her arms from around his shoulders and dread washed over him—she was disturbed enough by the confession that she was moving away. But then her hands were on his face, her lips pressing gently against his.

When she pulled back, his face still in her hands, her voice was dreamy as she said, “I love you too.”

The security that washed over him, the fulfilment, was almost too much to bear. He wanted to say something romantic, but could only manage a smile and a shaky, relieved sigh as he leaned into her touch, his eyes closing as his cheek rested against her hand. 

It’d been a long time since he’d accepted he’d never hear words like that from somebody. At his age, without so much as an inkling of romance in all his life, it was easy to believe it would never happen. God, he was glad to be wrong. And god, he was glad it was her. 

When he opened his eyes again, she had a look on her face that was almost… guilty. Milton tilted his head, eyebrows furrowing. His voice was soft as he prodded, “What is it?”

“Nothing.” She bit her bottom lip nervously as he kept looking at her with those pretty, curious eyes. 

With a heavy swallow, she relented. “I just can’t stop thinking lately that if all of this is what it took for us to meet…” It took her a moment to continue, to admit what she was so ashamed of. “Then I’m glad it happened.” Honesty and shame were clear in her voice as her eyes brimmed with tears. “I can’t help being grateful for it. I know that makes me selfish, I know how terrible it sounds… But I’ve never been so happy.”

Terrible wasn’t at all the word that Milton would’ve used to describe the confession. It was undoubtedly the most romantic sentiment he’d ever heard in his life.

“Then… I suppose we’re both selfish,” he assured her, the words falling from his lips with ease. If he could wish away this plague, reverse time so it never happened and never would… he wouldn’t. Not if it meant losing her.

He watched the shame on her face melt away into a smile, felt her body relax in his hold before she pulled him closer, moving so her chin was resting against his shoulder while they danced. His hold on her tightened as he nuzzled against her hair, enveloping himself in the soft and familiar scent of her. They stayed that way, swaying and holding each other close, until there was nothing left to dance to but the gentle static of the finished record continuing to spin. 

[egginfroggin]

Sketches of the Pine Nut

Baby............. ;-;

Transcription/notes: Pg. 1

wanted to test out a fit idea; also gave him goggles. Don't. don't ask how those'll work with his glasses. maybe they're really big or something

awkward teenage smile (it gives Mabel life)

he SPOOKED oh NO

Pg. 2

gave him a gun to reload (what me avoiding complex items like crossbows? never) - shoulder holster under coat - bag strapped to thigh/hip (arrow) "gathered sleeves" (arrow) "fingerless gloves" give this boy explosives

(arrow) "Oh noes help him he too smol/tired to pull heself up "also gravity's prolly weird here"

[zero-is-nebulous]

KNUCKLES!!!

I love himb

[jitterbugjive]

Live Action Dumbo

So I saw the Tim Burton Dumbo in theaters recently and I thought I’d save everyone the pain of watching it by pasting my summary of it here. I wish I was making this shit up but this movie is exaggerated so far beyond the cartoon that everything about it is less believable than the flying elephant it’s about.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

So, basically the plot revolves around 3 people, 2 personality'less kids, one girl who's personality is "I like science but the only way I show that is by saying I like it and acting like no one understands me while all my lines are delivered like i'm smart but traumatized to have no emotions because my mom is dead" while the brother's only defining line is "I can stand on my head for ten seconds" basically to show he's a talentless useless nothing. which he remains throughout the whole film. Then there's the dad, the only really decent character of the three, a war veterin who lost an arm and used to ride horses in the circus, reduced to tending to the elephants because it was the only job he had so the circus is going out of business and the ringleader sold all the horses because no one was around to perform with them any more, and he buys a pregnant asian elephant from fuck knows where because he wants to market the baby baby is born, he gets mad that the baby is a mutated hideous freak and insists it wont sell

there's also a shitty guy taking care of the elephants who abuses them for no damn reason other than to be a bad guy anyway circus leader tells the dad to hide the ears, and they decide to put him in a weird baby hat that tucks his ears in now the kids just for some reason decide to blow a feather at him and he likes playing blow the feather with them, but he snorts the feather up his nose, sneezes, and flies for a moment but for some stupid reason they think it was him eating a peanut that did it so they cant convince him to fly again but now he's addicted to snorting feathers i guess because he snorts one off a lady;'s hat when he';s being paraded around as a baby, and he sneezes, ears come loose, but he doesn;t fly the ENTIRE circus starts laughing at himn and throwing food at him the other elephants spook because he's scary i guess??? his mom gets antagonized by asshole going "hur hur they laughing at your ugly baby" she gets mad, comes out to defend him, dad calms her down, asshole runs out screaming MAD ELEPHANT and pisses her off again so she tears the circus down on accident and kills the asshole circus leader lies to the cops i guess so they can keep the elephant locked in a mad elephant cage, the circus troupe for some reason sing baby mine together then circus leader decides "i was ripped off, i'm gonna sell her back to the guy but keep the freak baby as a clown because people laughed at him" the kids meanwhile try to comfort him by dumping peanuts on him but he's too depressed to eat, and then a feather just happens to get in so once again he snorts it up like a coke addict and sneezes and flies and starts flying all over the place and snorting the feather over and over until just snorting the feather and not sneezing lets him fly i guess

dad gets forced to be a clown because he was ashamed of himself having 1 arm and didn't want to be seen, they do the clown scene but with a monkey at the top of the building and dumbo as a firefighter to snort water and put out the controlled fires jackass mcgee controlling the fires doesn't do his damn job and a clown throws a thing that activates a lever to make EXTREME FIRE OH NO little girl risks her life going up the ladder to make dumbo snort a feather and fly now people see him flying and basically shit themselves, the circus begins advertising their flying elephant then the BIG BAD CIRCUS catches wind and is like 'let's make a coownership contract for the elephant and i'll hire your whole troupe and give them a place to live' This guy is so obviously scummy it's not remotely subtle, down to collecting girls as trophies one said woman he claims is her queen who does the trapese obvious love interest for lonely dad because disney i guess and they decide let's make her fly ON the baby elephant for some reason figure it out in less than a week or so help me the bank is gonna fund this but only if she flies perfectly on this BABY elephant because big circus is actually secretly going bankrupt and relying on dumbo to fix it

i forgot to mention the kids promised dumbo if he performed well and earned enough money they'd buy his mom back also the girl constantly points out the obvious. constantly, at the worst times too so the performance day comes, they dont think they're ready but they gotta do it anyway cuz big bank guy is watching

We get Pink elephants but it’s people blowing bubbles that somehow come to fucking life and all Dumbo does is bob his head to the music and watch them, I guess the whole theater is tripping because everyone sees this shit going down but no one questions how in the hell bubbles are doing all this. This scene is short and it’s just dancing bubbles, for a Tim Burton movie you’d think of all scenes PINK ELEPHANTS would be trippy as balls but nah. nah it’s just bubbles and repetitive music and a baby elephant nodding his head to the beat

anyway it’s time for the performance but then jackass circus owner is like lel no nets no matter that it's illegal and puts lives in danger and may traumatize people no nets because it makes it a better show (he doesn’t get in trouble for this at all btw, just the lady getting mad at him and him like ‘hey it’s show biz hur hur’ so lady is nervous, dumbo hesitates, performance goes to shit when lady falls and barely catches a rope and dumbo almost falls off a platform but he gets a feather somehow and weee flying ppeople are like oooh aah but then he hears his mom

because APPARENTLY the big bad circus bought her and put her on display as a spooky scary elephant in nightmare island dumbo is emotionally nuzzling her, everyone follows him, everyone is there as the big bad circus guy is like GET THE BABY ELEPHANT AWAY FROM HER and no one does a damn thing no one protests they all just stare as he's taken away and then only after he;s taken away this fucking girl goes "i think that's his mom :0" big bad circus guy is pissed and goes on about how it's better to do things alone and to seperate them, and asks that the mom be killed the next day to sever the problem also bank guy is like "well the elephant was flying but not with the lady so fuck you i';m not wow'd at all you fail, get it right next time or no money" big bad circus guy then goes "oh by the way ther troupe are all useless and do what our troupe already does so i fired them, send them away" so everyone's pissed and comes up with a plan to rescue the elephants and get them out of the circus

circus freaks use their circus freaky powers to bust mama jumbo out, while dumbo and lady distract people with a performance and the dad climbs the tent to cut it open with one arm because i guess no one else in the troupe could fucking climb i guess so dumbo can fly out with the lady

they fly out and go to a control tower to open a gate for mama jumbo in a truck to be free, they restrain the lady but are too scared of the baby elephant to stop it from SWITCHING ALL THE SWITCHES AND TURNING OFF THE POWER OF THE PLACE big bad circus guy busts in to the control room knowing they are there somehow and just starts trying to flip the switches back and a dude is like "wait nooo you have to let it reboot first or it'll short circuit" \big bad circus dude doesn;t listen and goes apeshit on the controls, even whacking them with his cane until they spark whole circus catches fucking fire kids are being chased by big bad circus dude's henchman in to the burning tent dad has to ride a horse in to save them but then they all get trapped in the burning tent

dumbo is about to be reunited with his mom when he realizes o no they are in the tent and flies off to rescue them, grabbing a bunch of water in his trunk he gets them out but oh no the feather burned how can he fly i know, a dumb speech about how he doesn't need the feather and an allusion to a stupid keyt around the girl's neck from her mother which she throws in a fire to prove "i dont need it like you dont need the feather" \and he;s just okay and flies them out dad steals another horse to get out

they drive jumbo and fly dumbo to a big cargo boat where they just kinda.... walk the elephants on no questions asked to be shipped to india now the little circus is doing a new thing where they no longer have animals because they dont believe in keeping animals captive for entertainment, and everyone jsut dresses as animals instead

and mom and dumbo get united with wild elephants who foir some reason give 0 shits about a flying elephant with huge ears unlike the circus elephants which freaked out the end oh and science girl does one science thing supposedly which is making her dad a metal arm when we see her not making anything ever the entire moviue and she has her own science tent where it';s just a projector showing a video of lady flying on dumbo???? idfk it was fucking stupid groan what a piece of shit