#basically alex

[moeblob]

I genuinely have a "hear me out" for Alex/Shane and have in fact told someone (who doesn't play SDV) and they said it was a pretty convincing argument so I think I'm onto something.

[paradoxbeta]

Who wants a bit of Minecraft spec bio?

In my headcanon for Minecraft the majority of mobs share a very recent common ancestor with a slime-mold adjacent organism called the "root node," meaning most mobs (villagers, illagers, skeletons, zombies, mooshrooms, others) are fungoid/plantoid-appearing creatures.

Villagers are among the most complex of them all, boasting an intricate method of expression through extendable facial "petals" (thin, mostly transparent membranes) that shift in color, pattern, and intensity to express a vast and dynamic field of emotions. The protrusions on their head resembling eyebrows and a nose light up in patterns to convey information. Conversation is occasionally emphasized by vocal cues (the iconic "hrms").

While impossible to translate standard villager conversation into something intelligible to humans without advanced technology, Steve is the most "fluent in villager," with a baseline understanding of what different colors mean on a villager's petals and even dyed paper cards to replicate the expressions himself. He also has established a rudimentary sign language with the nearby village.

Steve works with a certain villager he's nicknamed The Language Guy, or "TLG," to propose new signs or revise existing ones. TLG distributes language updates to the village when they happen. TLG is the most "fluent in human," so they are the village's Steve equivalent when it comes to diplomacy with humans. They are also working on writing a book with every established sign and its definition. Since villagers don't have a written language yet, it consists of easily interpreted pictograms.

Humans and villagers have rather shallow avenues of communication due to their complete lack of intuition about each other's natures. However, due to their frequent interactions, TLG and Steve are very close friends for creatures with a compatibility gap bigger than the Grand Canyon.

Alex would really like to learn about all of this, but she's not quite got the hang of it yet.

[direpunk]

more sketches of varying quality. still trying to figure out how to draw everyone. thus concludes sketchbook #24

[yrsonpurpose]

It’s unpredictable and it’s intoxicating and it’s fun, because Alex has never met a challenge he didn’t love, and he—well, Henry is a challenge, head to toe, beginning to end.

[noisyghost]

i've never drawn a complete ref sheet for alex and he's been swirling around in my brain a bunch lately so i committed way too much time to actually making one for him lol.

Alexander is Cheslov's older brother and resident anti-social nightmare man. He is devastatingly quiet and forcefully stunts his own emotions, so he usually comes off as pretty deadpan and uninterested. But the dragon he's basically merged bodies with once burned an entire city to the ground so. It's no surprise that he's kind of agoraphobic :')

[screamingfrenchfries]

anyways i cant belive ford CANONICALLY was in a Love Triangle with fiddleford and....... ironically.... a Triangle

[lizluzz]

Just Alex Horne things

[smiuffzo]

Selfish.

[repmet]

@rwrbsource & @rwrbmovie’s rwrb appreciation month bingo: alex

[insp] [Henry]

[maxz-b]

I am forcibly accumulating you into my red bull found family in part 43/???

[rubywingsracing]

I present to you my most ambitious project yet:

I love yall the mostest so you get it firstest 🥰

[alexturntable]

He's always playing games on his phone

[henfox]

—i’m sorry.

[meraki-yao]

listening to this RWRB video essay podcast and this:

"And once they dance, this is the happiest that we see Alex in the entire movie. And I would say his smile here is the biggest, broadest smile we see from any character in the whole movie. Because, I would say this is where Alex is getting exactly what he wanted all along, which is for Henry to let him inside."

Me: WATCH ME FUCKING SOB

(^^^the smile in question)

[theolderguards]

RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE FirstPrince TayNick moments - flipped

[watkinsglen]

As some of you may or may not know, I recently left my job as a reporter at a major newspaper to sell out (go corporate lol). In honor of my time in news (7 years) and with all my newfound creative energy now that I’m not writing 24/7 for work, here’s a teaser of a galex newsroom au

After midnight, the lights in the newsroom turn off if they don’t sense movement.

So when Alex is plunged into darkness -- the only light coming from the sickly gleam of Adobe Premiere on his desktop and the Times Square billboards through the office windows -- he just sighs.

Alex sticks his arms over his head, waving like a car dealership blow-up man. That always does the trick.

As the lights click back on, Carlos, a video strategist, peeks his head out from the miniscule glass-walled pod he was occupying a few rows down, balancing his tiny Macbook in one hand. It was hard not to be jealous as Alex’s behemoth of a video-editing desktop whirs. Covered in dust, one desk over, a particularly cheerful trout grins from the fish-of-the-day calendar Logan left behind.

Carlos scrubs his hand across his face, flexing his jaw. “Ay, how’s the edit coming? How did it get so late?”

Alex huffs. The strategy guys have no respect for the process. All they care about is how big they can make arrows on thumbnails, and then telling the bureau chiefs that that’s what made Alex’s mini-doc get 2 million views on YouTube.

The edit was, actually, coming. Kinda.

It hadn’t started until 4:00pm -- even though Alex had gotten to the office at 9:58am, sliding straight into the clump of reporters in the back of the 10:00am daily news briefing unnoticed.

His executive producer James had surreptitiously waved his phone from his seat up front next to the other chiefs, and Alex dutifully pulled up Slack on his phone.

10:02am:

James Vowles (EP): Looking like they want a video on the new tariff ruling to run tomorrow morning.

Alex Albon: lol

Alex Albon: but like what about the ruling

Alex Albon: like a legal explainer or a political rundown or what

James Vowles (EP): Christian’s pushing for a markets explainer on the international trade implications.

Alex holds back a groan. Susie, the London Bureau Chief, is in the middle of talking up her reporter Dorianne’s article on the food supply in Gaza, clearly trying to get the headline bumped higher on the paper’s home page. Unfortunately, the room in New York was entirely focused on a less-worthy but more clickable story: this morning, a national trade court had invalidated a bunch of tariffs. Because they just couldn’t do it after Alex had his morning coffee.

Alex Albon: crying-sunglasses-cowboy

Alex Albon: but horner hates working with us

Alex Albon: dont tell me they want max to be the interview

James Vowles (EP): Yup. More visibility for their big story on it tomorrow, I guess.

Alex Albon: kk well i cant start drafting the video script until max has his article drafted

Alex Albon: i guess ill ping him about it

James thumbs-upped his message, leaving Alex to deal with the Econ desk alone.

When Alex had g-chatted Max about it -- some particularly uppity reporters insisted on it for the 24-hour-message deletion, worrying they’d be held to whatever verbiage they used yesterday -- Max had brushed him off.

10:12am

alexander.albon@thetimes.com: hey max! Just wondering when you can share the draft of your story for tomorrow. I’m producing a video on it that we’re trying to get published tonight

maximilian.verstappen@thetimes.com: i’ll send when it’s finished

alexander.albon@thetimes.com: any idea when that’ll be? We’d like to get you on camera to be interviewed for it after

10:20am:

alexander.albon@thetimes.com: hey! Bumping this

maximilian.verstappen@thetimes.com: 2p maybe

alexander.albon@thetimes.com: okay just a reminder that we don’t need the article to be complete to start drafting the script! Could we get a copy by 12?

10:45am:

alexander.albon@thetimes.com: hey, just checking in on this!

11:23am:

alexander.albon@thetimes.com: hey max, any chance we could get that draft?

Anyway, Alex didn’t get his cameras rolling until 2:30pm, didn’t get the transcript of Max’s interview until 3:00pm, and didn’t have the script locked until 4:00pm.

But the real work didn’t start until after the rest of the team had gone home -- the cameraman Patrick slapping Alex on the back in solidarity as he left to catch the train -- because, of course, Max and Christian and the econ guys had forgotten their desk wasn’t the center of the universe, and still had to run their article by Standards.

Every newspaper worth reading had a Standards desk, of course, but their overwhelming reach and power at The Times still blew Alex away, even though he’d been at the paper for three years. Their job was to read the most important stories, the stories that could move markets -- and make sure every word was so phenomenally buttoned-up that the paper could never, ever, be accused of falsehood.

So while James reviewed Alex’s latest cut of the video, AA_2025_tariffs_boogaloo.mp4, he decided to take a jaunt across the newsroom to the Standards desk and see George.