#switch!andy

[trashyswitch]

Day 19: Secret

It's Avantris & Chill, and the members of Legends of Avantris are answering questions. When one question comes up that scares Andy, Mikey decides to read it out and enlighten the fans on a little secret about the man.

More Legends of Avantris! This time, it's somewhat behind the scenes! Hope you enjoy!

The crew of Legends of Avantris had just done an entire session of D&D, and were now in the rest-mode of the session: The Avantris & Chill. All 7 players were answering questions brought up by the live chat. 

“Hi everyone, I loved today’s session today. A question for Mace: Of everyone in the group, who makes you laugh the most?” Richie read out loud. 

“Oh god…” Mace sighed and thought for a moment. “Well…It depends on the circumstance. During D&D, it’s usually Mikey or Derek that make me laugh the most. But off-screen, Richie and I have a lot of inside jokes that make me lose it each time. So…” Mace thought for a moment. “I’d say it’s either Mikie or Richie.” Mace replied. 

Mikey smiled brightly. “Oh Gideon, you were always soooo sentimental~” He said in his Chuckles voice. 

Mace threw his head back and laughed at Mikey’s Chuckles character. 

And his laughter would only increase when Derek spoke up with his Bitsy character. “You wanna say that to my face, motha-fucker?!” Bitsy (Derek) yelled back at him. 

This made Mace wheeze and lose it with even more laughter. 

“Alright, alright. We get it, you two. Let’s not fight over it.” Richie told them. 

Derek chuckled and nodded. “Okay.” 

“Rats…Foiled again…” Chuckles (Mikey) said, before laughing and dropping the act. “I’m done now, I promise.” Mikey reassured them. 

“Alright. Andy?” Richie asked. “Sure.” Andy looked at the live chat. “Amazing session as usual. I have a small question for Derek about Morning Frost:” Andy read out loud. 

“Oh? Do tell.” Derek encouraged. 

“They said “With Frost being a Tabaxi, does Frost act like a cat too?”.” Andy asked. 

“Oh, of course!” Derek replied. “I base a few of Morning Frost’s shenanigans on my own experiences with my cats Tiny and Mr. Sir. I’ve also watched a lot of orange cat videos because…Let’s face it: Orange cats have a personality of their own.” Derek explained. 

“So does that mean Frost would jump and run if a toaster popped?” Mikey asked. 

“Uhhh…Yeah, probably as a kitten.” Derek replied. 

“What about knocking over things?” Nikkie asked. 

“Again yeah, probably as a kitten.” Derek replied. “Unless someone were to piss him off enough. Only then, would he purposefully-” Derek mimicked the action of pushing the pencil off the desk. This made everyone laugh while Derek picked up the pencil and held it up. “Pretend this pencil is Gricko’s carving knife or something.” Derek told them. 

Mikey gasped and let out a disappointed “Awwww…” in Gricko’s voice. “Frosty…Again?” Mikey kept up the voice. 

“Keep this up Gricko…And your ocarina will be next.” Derek warned in Frost’s voice. 

The whole crew cheered and freaked out in response to the threat! Mikey had dropped his jaw before yelling “FROSTY!” at him, once again in Gricko’s voice before dropping the act. 

“Wow!” Andy reacted, turning to the laptop. “Okay…” Andy read through the comments and started to read one. “Seeing your notifications makes me jump for joy. I feel like a child waiting patiently for more content. You guys all rock.” Andy read out loud. 

“Thank you!” Mace cheered. 

“Glad to hear it.” Richie replied, pointing to the camera. 

“I have a question for Andy:” Andy smiled a bit. “Alright.” He kept going. “Is…” He paused his words, and reread the question. “Uhh…” He stared at the question. “Oh…” 

“What’s wrong?” Mikey asked. 

“Uh…” Andy looked to the others and awkwardly cleared his throat. “I think I’m gonna just…skip that one.” Andy muttered, scrolling down on the touchpad. 

“Wait wait, what was it?” Mikey asked. 

“Was it not safe?” Mace asked.

“If it wasn’t safe, the question would’ve been removed by the moderator.” Richie told him.  

“It was fine, but…” Andy bit his lip.

Mikey gently pulled the laptop closer to himself and scrolled back up to the same comment. “Let’s see…” Mikey looked at it. “Da da da…makes me jump for joy…You guys all rock…” Mikey read the question and laughed a bit. 

“See?” Andy told him. 

Mikey looked at Andy with a rather smug look on his face. “Dude…”

“What?” Andy asked. 

“The question was: Is Andy ticklish? If so, how ticklish?” Mikey read aloud. 

The whole crew had a large collection of reactions. Mace’s eyes had widened as he snickered and covered his mouth. Derek raised his eyebrows and smirked rather mischievously. Nikkie bursted out laughing and covered her face with her blanket, while Richie tittered and hid his lips. But of all of them, Mikey had the look of infectious excitement on his face while Andy looked all nervous and embarrassed. 

“Of all the people to be asked that!” Nikkie laughed.

“What a wonderful question!” Derek declared. “Where ARE you ticklish, Andy?” Derek asked him. 

“No, no, I am not falling for that.” Andy warned. 

“Falling for what?” Derek asked. 

“Your evil schemes.” Andy warned. 

“Oh, don’t worry.” Derek looked at Mikey. “It’s not me you’ll have to worry about.” Derek told him, staring right at Mikey. 

Mikey giggled and wiggled his fingers at him. “But me on the other hand…” Mikey teased. 

“And this is where I take my leave-” Andy yelped as the back of his shirt was grabbed by Mikey’s hand. 

“And where do you think you’re going?” Mikey asked, before gently pulling him back into his chair. 

“Now HOLDON-” Andy flopped into the chair, and widened his eyes as his arm was lifted up by Mike’s left hand. “Mike, NO!” He warned. 

“Is Andy ticklish?” Mikey danced his fingers against his now-exposed side. 

“NonoNO- GAHA!” He guffawed and curled his body in, trying to get away from his hand. “aaAAAAH!” Andy squealed and kicked his feet a little bit. “AAAH-STAHAPIT!” He shouted. 

“Oh wow!” Mikey reacted. 

Derek straightened himself and pretended to hold a microphone to his own mouth. “As you can see, Andy appears to be quite ticklish.” Derek said in an old-fashioned baseball-narrating voice. “Through the masterful technique of holding his arm hostage, the calculated Mikey has confidently turned Andy into a puddle of laughter.” Derek narrated. 

Mace wheezed and laughed, loving the narration and the absolute tomfoolery that this already turned into. 

“So true, narrator.” Mikey reacted in his Gary Goodberry voice. “But there appears to be one question the viewers want to know: where else is he ticklish?” He asked. 

“SHUHUHUT UHUP!” Andy yelled at them. 

“Indeed, that is the question.” Derek continued. “Will Gary Goodberry find a new tickle spot on the wildly entertaining head honcho?” Derek asked. 

“Well let’s see here:” Mikey went up to his armpit for a moment to see what that did. And sure enough, Andy squeaked and tugged on his hand. “eEEEAAAAH! NAAAAAHAHAAAAHAAA!” Andy’s deafening, yet unique laughter filled the room, leaving everyone erupting with laughter and cheers of their own! 

“And you say MY laugh is loud?!” Mace reacted. 

“Holy shit!” Richie reacted, pure shock on his face. 

“Goodness me! In yet another feat by the world-famous Gary, Andy has found himself unable to hide the growing redness on his dimple-filled cheeks! Leaving the comment section to wonder: Is Andy blushing? Or does Andy secretly wear makeup on stream?” Derek continued to narrate, giving the camera a little wink. 

“IHIHO’M GONNA KIHILL YOHOHOUUU!” Andy shouted at them. 

“Dear me, I’d like to take a moment to apologize for any damages we may have caused to your speakers. Though Andy’s laughter is well-known around the world-wide-web, we will not be held responsible for your impending hearing loss.” Derek continued to narrate. 

“MIKEHEHEEEY! HAAAHAAHAHAAA! EHENOHOHOUGH! NOHOHO MOOOORE! PLEEEHEEEHEEEEASE!” Andy shouted. 

“And this folks, is what happens when Avantris & Chill turns into Avantris & Mayhem.” Derek concluded his narration before stopping his act. 

Mikey stopped his act as well, stopping his onslaught and letting Andy go. “Well, there’s your answer!” Mikey replied. 

The group were all still laughing at Andy’s reactions, while also cheering for Derek and Mikey’s amazing improv skills. Meanwhile Andy was sitting there, letting himself take in some much-needed breath. “You guys…ahare…so mean.” Andy muttered at them. 

“Oh, we know…” Derek replied. 

Andy took in one last deep breath, before sitting himself up. “Well, now that THAT’S done and over with…” Andy turned to Mikey. “Are you ticklish?” He asked him. 

Mikey’s little smug look quickly faded from his face. “Uhhhh…” He mumbled. “......No comment.” Mikey somewhat whispered. 

Andy sighed and looked to Richie for help. “Where is Mikey ticklish?” He asked. 

Richie stared at Andy, before looking at his twin brother. “His neck, belly, hips, knees-” 

“Wha- HEY!” Mikey shouted. 

“Am I wrong?” Richie asked him. 

“I-” Mikey muttered. 

“If you want to hear that classic dolphin sound, go for the back of his neck.” Derek spoke up. 

“DEREK!” Mikey pushed Derek’s shoulder. 

Derek laughed a bit as he was pushed. “If you draw a finger up his spine, you’ll get it instantaneously.” He added. 

…And so the tickling continued for a little longer than expected…And even though Andy was heavily embarrassed at first, he did get a chance to get Mikey back. So…maybe it’s not so bad in hinge sight? 

[orphanbychoice]

atp i genuinely doooon’t care if the old guard two is the worst thing put to film i just want to see the best character of all time (andromache the scythian) and her loser henchmen and everyone’s favorite girl nile freeman again

[ryllen]

miscellaneous

[vagueeyes]

S: All of this stuff here where we're wilfully cutting people's heads off - we just loved all that, didn't we? R: Yeah, it was a happy accident of that one positioning of that camera in that booth. S: Because we spent ages trying to find just the right frames, because we knew as soon as we committed to it on Day 1, that was it - we were stuck with it.

INSIDE NO. 9 | S2E4 "Cold Comfort" Directed by Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith

[lizasweetling]

Klaus really completely clocked Martellus in less than a minute, and that's before we even consider what just happened to the dog guys

Klaus, I love you, but sweet jesus I understand why everybody's scared of you.

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[themarvelproject]

Marvel house ad for The West Coast Avengers and The Vision and the Scarlet Witch Limited Series. In 1985, the House of Ideas did a great of job weaving together the Timely Comics era with the modern Marvel age in an epic saga that ran in the pages of these two titles.

[raeemar]

Ok but just fucking IMAGINE in ouaw episode 26 (the one where Gideon falls in love with Kremy and Kremy is an aladrin)

Imagine if Richie had rolled what Andy got and couldn’t not tell lies but he was still like Kremy so his not so secret crush is now in love with him and he can’t say anything about it bc he can’t not lie.

Gideon: man I am so glad we’re married.

Kremy(sweating):I’m starting to regret talking during the ceremony.

[zombiewilder]

day 36: anon suggestion!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠) here's a messy sketch dump of some of the ideas I had

[lilacflowersss]

[walkingstackofbooks]

Perfectionist brain is now trying to tell me that the comment I've written, in which I've quoted back a dozen or so of my favourite parts, still hasn't properly conveyed how deeply and utterly this fic has cut me and that I need to write something more insightful about the themes of the story rather than just squeeing throughout and gah, BRAIN, stop it!! You keep doing this, and you know that's the type of thinking that ends up leaving no comment at all! I'm pretty certain the several hundred words you've left is a fairly clear sign that you loved the story, even if it doesn't live up to your ever-reachingly high standards of being able to tell them *everything* you loved and felt about it which - may I remind you, Andi - is impossible!

Man, I've kind of laughed at myself for feeling kind of guilty in the past for leaving "only" a paragraph on comment when my energy has been greatly less than my love for the fic, but that's at least understandable. Now it's getting ridiculous! "You're quoting so much so you don't have to put in the effort of writing something that engages more deeply with the story's themes and is actually meaningful--" Oh, come on, brain, can you be a bit kinder to me, please? You don't think that when you *get* a comment, do you?! You'd be delighted! So can you please just leave me alone and stop telling me I'm doing things wrong!!

[timmurleyart]

Pikachu play.⚡️⚡️⚡️💛⚡️

[andy-jam-blog]

hey andy jam what's your opinion on these new unity changed

[hyumjim]

just some of my little opinions btw

[andysbandmerch]

Tama - Logo Shirt

company producing drums and hardware that was founded in Japan in 1965. the name tama is a homophone of the Japanese word meaning jewel and was the name of the company owner's wife

many muscians use their drums including lars ulrich (metallica), mike portnoy (dream theater), charlie benante (anthrax), and stewart copeland (the police)

information on andy hurley's drum setup can be found here. generally, he uses tama drums and zildjan cymbals (more information about the cymbals [and some of his musical influences] can be found here)

website, shirt link

image source: one, two

[gregdotorg]

This Andy Warhol Big Electric Chair painting was announced and hyped as the lead lot of Christie's 20th century sale, until it was withdrawn, and Christie's deleted and edited it out of the sale.

[paigemathews]

Something that I feel a lot of fans forget when they get angry at Phoebe for refusing to help Cole in the Wasteland is that he's not just asking her to save him. Despite saying that the Source is gone, he very intentionally still asks her to be evil. That's not me being dramatic or anything either because that's very explicitly canon. Phoebe, even as a Charmed One, doesn't have the power to resurrect Cole. As a good witch, she just physically (magically?) can't; it's not something within her abilities. (Obviously, otherwise, she and Piper would've resurrected Prue.)

The only method that Cole gives her to save him is the Grimoire. Y'know, the book that requires you to be evil to even touch it, much less use it. That's not something that you can trick; she would have to become evil again to even use it. He knows that, even acknowledges it to Phoebe in the Wasteland. She literally tells him that she won't use dark magic again, acknowledging it as evil. Cole isn't like oh, forgot about that! No, he asks her if she wouldn't use it "even for us." He knows what that would entail and what that would require Phoebe to do.

That isn't even getting into what the spell itself would require. This part, admittedly, is speculation but with the Grimoire being the Grimoire and resurrection like that being so rare and difficult, I have a hard time believing that the spell or ritual wouldn't have involved killing innocents. (Personal headcanon is that the spell calls for at least one heart personally. We see with Tuatha in That Old Black Magic that she uses a human heart to disempower witches. Something much worse would logically be required for a resurrection spell.) Just asking Phoebe even retrieve the Grimoire, much less use it, is bad.

As for later, she is still planning on giving up her powers, so it's not as if she'll be able to discover some other method to save him. She won't be Charmed anymore. And while, yes, the Angel of Destiny gives them some time to make this decision, there's still a time limit on how long they can take this option. Maybe with more time, Phoebe would have been able to figure out a way to save him without the Grimoire. However, it'd have required her to stay chained to a destiny that she no longer wanted and give up the future that she, and Piper, wanted: one free of magic, pain, loss, etc. So, yeah, she simply doesn't have the time, resources, or ability to save him without the Grimoire (which still isn't an option anyways). And by the time that she and Piper decide that they want to remain as witches, Cole has already freed himself, so it's a moot point anyways.

I mean, genuinely, in this situation, what did people want Phoebe to do? She didn't refuse to save Cole; she literally could not save him from the Wasteland. (And this is without delving into the argument about if Phoebe should save him or is obligated to save Cole anyways, which is a completely different question involving their relationship, choices, and morality.)