#somewhat of a request

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1473

Big Mean Carl has eaten or tried to eat 36 different muppets and people over the course of 25 years.

He has successfully eaten:

Sterling, Buffy, Winky, Magda, Bill the Bubble Guy, Rufus, Arthur Modell, Raymond J. Saluga the Porcupine, Hopper, Alphonso D'Abruzzo, the Pink Frackle, Mo Frackle, Albert, Niko Posey, a frog, two rats, a bunny, 12 rabbits, and Rizzo (three times).

Carl has tried to eat: Scooter, Foo-Foo, Kermit, Cee Lo Green, and a Muppets Haunted Mansion crew member.

Sources:

Muppets Tonight. Episode 101, "Michelle Pfeiffer." March 8, 1996.

———. Episode 102, "Garth Brooks." March 15, 1996.

———. Episode 105, "Cindy Crawford." April 5, 1996.

———. Episode 110, "Martin Short." July 14, 1996.

———. Episode 201, "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince." September 13, 1997.

———. Episode 204, "Pierce Brosnan." October 12, 1997.

———. Episode 206, "Paula Abdul." November 2, 1997.

———. Episode 211, "Andie MacDowell." January 4, 1998.

Muppet Wiki. "Silly jokes from an old Muppets Halloween website..." Facebook, October 30, 2013. https://www.facebook.com/muppetwiki/videos/628180303890128/. (Originally on Disney.com/hauntedholidays in 2009).

The Muppets. "Bohemian Rhapsody | Muppet Music Video | The Muppets." YouTube, November 23, 2009. https://youtu.be/tgbNymZ7vqY.

———. "Stand By Me | Muppet Music Video | The Muppets." YouTube, April 1, 2010. https://youtu.be/zCRUPWDIgYM.

CeeLo Green. "CeeLo Green Feat. The Muppets - All I Need Is Love [Official Music Video]." YouTube, November 27, 2012. https://youtu.be/zEgcLrgxUOw.

Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular. November 28, 2013.

QVC Takeover. March 16, 2014.

Disney Drive-On with The Muppets. Episode 1, "Introducing Disney Drive-On with The Muppets." August 1, 2014. (Link from YouTube reupload) https://youtu.be/G2p7yKa89VA.

———. Episode 2, "Piece of Cake," August 1, 2014. https://youtu.be/nbLgjWWOwbo.

———. Episode 3, "The 10th Old Man." August 8, 2014. https://youtu.be/Le5reH8k3h8.

———. Episode 4, "This Is Talent, Okay." August 8, 2014. https://youtu.be/WECHVTHo8Z0.

———. Episode 5, "The Legend." August 15, 2014. https://youtu.be/uEVvkj4QYRI.

———. Episode 6, "Howard's End." August 15, 2014.

Muppet Wiki. "Warburtons - The Giant Crumpet Show." YouTube, September 18, 2023. Originally aired November, 2015. https://youtu.be/fZJN4EfLE_I.

The Muppets. Episode 112, "A Tail of Two Piggies." February 8, 2016.

———. Episode 114, "Little Green Lie " February 22, 2016.

———. Episode 115, "Generally Inhospitable." February 29, 2016.

Muppets Now. Episode 103, "Getting Testy." August 14, 2020.

Disney Plus. "Blooper Reels | Muppets Haunted Mansion | Disney+." YouTube, November 21, 2021. https://youtu.be/1poH9XhJra4.

[acourtofwhatthefuck]

l want to know more about this morning fuck with Tarquin on the balcony 😩

Well okay 🫡

You would wake up before him and already be out on the balcony, watching the sunrise.

After a little while, you’d hear soft footsteps, and Tarquin would approach from behind. He’d place his hands on your waist, give a gentle squeeze, and kiss your shoulder.

You would smile and turn your head to the side to capture his lips with yours. No words are needed. That’s your “good morning”.

It’s while you’re kissing — slowly, unhurriedly — that his brilliant hands would begin roaming your body. It’s a lazy morning, and he’s taking his time with you, his fingers inching between your legs.

He would stroke over your clit with his thumb and press you against the balustrade so that when you writhe, your ass brushes up against his bare, hardened cock. The strokes, like everything else, are languid. He smiles at every little breath and gasp that you land on his mouth.

He’d make you cum at least once, maybe even twice, just from playing with your clit. And when you’re panting and gripping hard at the balcony railing — completely ready for him — he would slowly push into you.

For a moment, he would be still inside you, partly to allow you to adjust to his cock, but also because he just loves the warmth and correctness of being inside you. But you would need him to move, and a whimper is enough to tell him that. He would grasp your hips, kiss your shoulder, and begin his slow slides in and out of your cunt. He would let out a little grunt and bury his nose into the crook of your neck.

It would carry on like that pretty much the whole way through. Languid, unhurried, hushed. He would take his time fucking you and exploring your body while he does. His hand lands between your legs again, and he’s circling your clit and fucking into you until you’re coming around his cock.

The sun is rising up and up, making the crystal blue waters below sparkle. And Tarquin is close. He begins speaking guttural, filthy things into your ear, and he picks up his thrusts, his fingers digging into your hips. You rock on him, meeting him thrust for thrust, spurring him on. You want to feel him finishing inside you.

He gives a few more hard thrusts, and then he explodes inside you with a deep groan that gets muffled as he presses his face against your shoulder. His cock is twitching inside you, and he’s holding you still, drawing out every little sensation.

After a while, he pulls out of you, dragging some of his seed with him. You know you’ll be bathing together in a moment, cleaning each other up.

Tarquin presses a soft kiss to your neck, and only then does he murmur — “good morning”.

It’s a good morning, indeed.

[vcaart]

hello i just wanna say your v3 and sdv art is SOOOOO cute it makes me miss them soooo much hehehe, if you're interested could i have a tenko and kaede? or just either of them on their own even!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They work at the long bacon store together

[casscainmainly]

Cass, Names, and the Black Bat Era

With a Black Bat mention in 2025 (read Batgirl (2024) #4!!), it seems as good a time as any to look back on one of Cass' most fleeting identities. We all know why Cass took up Batgirl and Orphan, but we don't get to see the thought process behind Black Bat. I'm going to consider why Cass might have chosen Black Bat as her name, and what it means for her relationship to Bruce and the Bat symbol.

This analysis will purely consider events from the characters' perspectives, ignoring authorial intent. There is like a negative percent chance any of the connections I make here were intended, and Black Bat probably was just a name they randomly picked. This is essentially me trying to make sense of the little Cass bits we get during the Batman Reborn era.

Background: Batgirl and Orphan

Growing up nameless, Cass associates names with personhood and autonomy. Batgirl was the first (and the most important), and a large part of Batgirl (2000) showed how Cass only thinks of herself as Batgirl.

Batgirl (2000) #7

"You need to relax, Cass--sorry--Batgirl." Barbara's 'sorry' indicates that Cass' identity is purely Batgirl, disliking any other name. (For a more in-depth exploration of this moment, see renaroo's meta!). This shows how it's not just the mantle, but the name - the actual word - that matters to Cass.

A very similar thing happens in Batman & Robin Eternal #26:

Once again, Cass is extremely particular about what people call her. And once again she rejects one identity in favour of another - she struggles with being more than one thing. Whatever identity she adopts, it contains her whole self.

Which is why when she loses herself, she becomes nameless:

Batgirl (2000) #73 / Red Robin #17

In the first panel, Cass has just 'killed' Shiva and forsaken Batgirl. "She thought she was a bat. But she came to find she wasn't that either." Without the bat, she becomes a girl "named Cain." While not technically nameless, Cain is just her father's last name - she has no first name of her own. This namelessness occurs again in Red Robin. After Bruce tells Cass to give Steph Batgirl, Cass is left without the bat again - and, again, she becomes nameless. Tim gives her a bat costume, asks her what she needs, and she says "to... just... be...".

If she takes up another name, she will become something - a name is not only identification, but transformation. When she has no idea who she is or who she wants to be (as seen in the end of Batgirl (2000) and Red Robin), she chooses namelessness.

The Gift

Cass remaining nameless not only shows her lack of identity, but her rejection of Bruce and the Batfamily.

Red Robin #17

Here, Tim says it doesn't matter what Cass calls herself, they'll always be family. Cass' answer is cryptic: "But family is not always home..." If we look at Cass' history, the only times she leaves her family is when their relationship becomes unbearable. She runs from David Cain because he makes her kill; she leaves Babs because she calls her stupid; she leaves Gotham the first time because of Steph's death; she goes to Hong Kong because Bruce makes her give away Batgirl. Family isn't home for Cass only when something awful happens.

For Cass, family and names have always been linked. In my gift post, I talked about how Batgirl was presented as a gift, and how Babs says gifts are things that make you "feel[...] not alone" (Azrael: Agent of the Bat #61). Batgirl, a gift, makes Cass feel "not alone." The mantle represents her connection to the Batfamily.

In fact, Red Robin parallels the original gifting of the Batgirl suit:

Legends of the Dark Knight #120 / Red Robin #17

Tim explicitly links the gift of the Bat symbol to family: "the...family... has settled down. I thought maybe... it was time to make it all official." (This also somewhat parallels Bruce's adoption of Cass, which Tim was also there for). But Cass doesn't accept the gift this time, telling Tim that Steph is already Batgirl, and that 'family isn't always home'. She keeps the suit, but the ambivalence in her response shows her ambivalence to her family.

Batgirl and Orphan are both familial names, one linked to the Bats, one linked to David Cain. Names to Cass represent both her own identity and her relationship to other people. When Batman took Batgirl away, he was essentially revoking her place in the family (Batman R.I.P happens right after her adoption too). Though we never explicitly get Cass' feelings, her hesitance at Tim's gift says a lot.

What Was Tim's Gift Anyway?

When Tim first sees Cass, he thinks to himself:

Red Robin #17

This is a great insight into what Tim was actually offering. The first thought reveals that Tim wasn't suggesting Cass be Batgirl again, which Cass assumed. He knows Cass doesn't want to be "who she was" - he thinks she's being true to what "she wanted to become."

What does he think Cass wants to become?

Batgirl (2000) #59

In Robin/Batgirl: Fresh Blood, Cass tells Tim the "the only thing" she's ever wanted was to be Batman. This is the only thing she wants - when Tim says she's being 'true to what she wanted to become', it's likely he's thinking of this conversation. So when Tim offers the batsuit, he's offering the bat mantle. He's offering what she always wanted to be: Batman.

But Cass' conception of Batman is clearly tied to Bruce ("take over for him when he's... done"), which in turn ties the concept of Batman to Gotham. Cass does become the Bat of Hong Kong, but she doesn't take the Batman name (which she totally could, since Bruce and Dick are sharing the name; or she could be 'the bat' or whatever).

Instead, she chooses Black Bat. Both Batgirl and Orphan are taken from other people, so this is strikingly the only name Cass invented (even Kasumi was probably not her invention? It was a disguise anyway). But was Black Bat actually Cass' invention?

Tai'Darshan All Along

Batgirl (2000) #40

Black Bat is also taken from someone - from Cass' first canon love interest, the one and only Tai'Darshan. I seriously don't think DC knew they were taking the name from him, but they did and that means Tai is extremely important to understanding Cass' Black Bat era.

Because Tai doesn't just represent teenage hormones. Like Lady Shiva, Tai'Darshan was a foil to Batman, someone who opposed him in almost every aspect. He is Cass' first proper rebellion, kickstarting the downfall of Cass and Bruce's relationship in Horrocks' run; he also died because of Bruce's interference, something that Bruce himself thinks is the reason Cass doesn't trust him anymore.

Batgirl (2000) #47

Though Bruce and Cass make up in #50, there is something permanently secretive about Black Wind and Cass' relationship. Bruce says "she won't tell me what" happened, and Tai's last conversation with Cass is about secrets:

Batgirl (2000) #44

Tai'Darshan represents Cass' secret side, a side "buried" from everyone (particularly Bruce). Tai's reference to Cass' "real name" is poignant - in a way, he was the first person who liked Cass for Cass, who asked her to take off her mask and admired her face underneath. He never knew who she really was, but he loved her anyway. The 'bat' in Black Bat doesn't refer to Bruce, but to Cass. It makes sense that at a time of complete identity loss - after giving up Batgirl at Bruce's orders - Cass would turn to a nickname from someone who caused her falling out with Bruce, who represents secrets, rebellion, and a self defined outside of Batman.

Black Bat

Gates of Gotham #4

I wrote elsewhere about how Gates of Gotham, and this conversation with Dick in particular, is Cass rebelling against Bruce's (and DC's) decision to boot her from Gotham. In GoG #5, she tells Tim she's staying. Black Bat as a mantle is not really Cass becoming 'the Bat' of any place - it's something different, something new. It's a reconfiguration of the Bat symbol as something that's hers.

I think Tim bookending this Black Bat experience is important, too. He gives her the Bat symbol in Hong Kong - she comes back to Gotham to tell him she's returning permanently. Black Bat and Red Robin are syntactically similar, and Black Bat is very similar to one of Tim's name suggestions ("Black Robin"). For Tim, Red Robin was punishment made into redemption; he took the name from Jason and made it his own. Black Bat, in its own way, is Cass doing the same. By taking a nickname from Tai'Darshan, she is using the bat name/symbol without attaching it to Bruce; in fact, the memory of Tai is against Bruce. She's taking back the symbol that means so much to her and making it her own.

Conclusion

This was honestly a big excuse to remind people that Black Bat comes from Tai'Darshan. As one of 4 Tai fans on this website, I just think his role in Cass' life is really interesting and underappreciated! His storyline may be awful in every way, but I'll always have a soft spot for him as a character.

Also I was writing this before Batgirl (2024) #4 came out and it does somewhat complicate this reading. Shiva is implying that Black Bat, like Orphan (and Kasumi) are identities that Cass affects, that she's "aspiring to be somebody else". I don't think Shiva is being quite fair - Orphan, for instance, is as much in defiance of David Cain as it is an homage to him. But it's interesting that even when Cass is constructing her own identity, she consistently defaults to using other people's names. In that way Shiva is right - for Cass, names are gifts, so she never tries to name herself. She also, even in this reading, clings to the image of the bat. I'm highly interested where Brombal's investigation into Cass' identity will take her, especially in regards to superhero and legacy mantles.

[suspendingtime]

BRIDGERTON 3.01–04 ↳ servants + costumes, requested by anonymous.

[vv3spa]

haiii👋 I LOVE ur art so much!!! esp the fun cute beatle age salad bar stuff!! I cannot find ur uhhh where u take requests or if ur open to them still? if u are, would u consider a thing with old man ringo from now with the other three bein from the mid 60s fawning over him and he's all blushy happy? if ur not taking requests rn that's okay I js love that silly wonderful lil old man so much and ur beatle age art shenanigans is soso perfect <3

you are a literal GENIUS

[metukika]

I'd like to ask for #80 with a 100% Mob

100% rejection. im not used to doing a lineless style so i made sure to have lots of fun with this one! [palettes]

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

I'm genderless.

I'm full of gender.

I'm a malewife.

I'm a biblically accurate angel.

I'm a pop idol.

I'm the fourth incarnation of God.

I'm a convicted criminal.

I can never die.

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[sleepyzink]

Starluck 💜 aka my chancesona. Heh. Is shipping them with guest technically chance1337 /silly

They!!! Do not know how to cook!!! Inspired by that one headcanon/oneshot thing that someone made about guest 1337 💜 except for the fact that instead bro has NO CLUE how to cook

[rongzhi]

Translation request for @quitechile-blog

(Apologies for the quality of the translation. I'm completely unfamiliar with the source material and context)

Original video on Bilibili. English added by me :)

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I am currently taking Chinese to English video translation requests if you donate to Palestinians in need.

[surreal-duck]

newly moved in farmboy enamored by atrocious spring onion doodle on local help wanted poster

[leixo-demo]

HELLO a recent post asked for more specific requests and IG for me I'd love to see Paul experimenting with a bunch of different weapons in turf war. Also related, what weapon/s do you think he'd like if you haven't mentioned it already :0?

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my Paul hates turf war so much I think I mentioned a few times, bro likes other things but here's a comic about that!

I'm just lazy to end them all,, plus some doodles

[artsy-1diot]

i feel like its been too long since I've drawn firesetter art especially for my main,,,, more gay people art for thee,,,,,,,,,,

[duckshuffled]

@doodle-ate-my-homework YOU GET ME. also thank you for the well wishes <3 here's that guy

[waterfallofspace]

Can you do a longer wav where you make yourself sneeze and describe the tickle building up, where the tickle is inside of your nose, describing the sneezy sensations, and talking through hitches?

Sure, I can give it an attempt!~ I hope this is overall what you are looking for, this is not exaaactly my type of thing, but I gave it an attempt, so hopefully this is enjoyable!~

if there's more specific things you wanted to hear that I wasn't doing, feel free to send another request with a bit more of the specifics, and I can give that a try~ but otherwise, here you go!~

Also the magic powder only got one this time, so if you'd like another where I use that a bit more and describe the difference/attempt to get a few more, I'd be open to that too~ as always, just let me know, any requests/feedback are always welcome, thanks!~

[achillean-knight]

Desperately need Michael angst. Pretty pleaseeeeee?

The Bite of 87