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[footlongdingledong2]

a simple spell but quite unbreakable

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[sheliesshattered]

pausing the niche-interest podcast-style interview to process the bizarre connection my brain had just made was not enough

going back and re-listening to the section that had made my brain go "oh? oh." was not enough

the flurry of google and wikipedia and reddit searches to track down bits of corroborating evidence about that one innocuous background-information section of the interview was not enough

pacing around my house while I tried to grapple with this strange, possibly true, frightening-if-true bit of information was not enough

no, I needed a solid 30 minutes of mindlessly scrolling my Tumblr dash to just let that information sit, and now I might, maybe be ready to listen to the rest of the interview

[vanni-network]

william doesn't actually gaf about any of his kids he just likes lizzy a bit more in my head 😇

[dreamidoodles]

link click season 2 so good. link click season 2 so good.

[baskeigh-ball]

Well, this is new.

MM! Mikey is bored at the lair with nothing to do, so he decides to do some harmless breaking-and-entering into Donnie's lab. Maybe he feels like answering a few questions?

(yes this is temporarily becoming an ask blog. why? well i say why not)

[sanchoyoscribbles]

Happy Earth day!

This is for @dotzines Madoka Earth Love 2025 zine, which is free to download (link on their page)

It just released today, please go grab a copy to celebrate Earth day! 🌏

Speedpaint under the cut!

[loriache]

I think this little speech to Toshiro and Namari represents Kabru's backstory that has been "formed [...] into a nice little shape", like he advises Mithrun. This is a story crystallised to avoid revealing personal details and to properly convey his sincere motives and the dangers of dungeons in an easy-to-understand way.

And good for him! I just like seeing example of Kabru's powerful social skills in action. It's neat that we really see it in even the little things. Kui's really aware of how communication works, on, like, a nuts-and-bolts level, and that comes through in how we aren't just told that characters are socially adept or socially awkward. We see examples of Laois rubbing people the wrong way that don't just amount to "infodump about monsters" and we see Kabru be socially deft in ways that aren't just "compliment people" or "lie".

[clownsuu]

This is so real though obsessing over characters (especially old farts) goes a loooong way for getting through it. I had the same thing but with semi-eldrich monsters during my worst points.

Through the power of old men and medicine, be proud of how far you've come and how long you've lived because we'll be rooting for you the whole way. We're all proud of you even if we don't know what's going on (and that's okay! You don't owe anyone explanations!).

On a more silly note, may all your enemies shit their pants.

Omg that fuggin reminds me that for a good while during my rougher days, I got OBSESSED with the “Omnitome” book weapon JDHDHDJJS

like look at that grumpy lil sad guy,,,,,, my wol goober would 100% keep it moisturized and warm during trips to colder climates

[kit-screams-into-the-future]

another post for @bttfjanaury! this one's @itsthemorph's mermarty au and very predictably i got carried away with it LMAO.

yap session and bonus stuff below the cut:

once again i came up with an entire backstory for this au, and if i were a fanfiction writer i would genuinely consider writing it since it's a lot less visually comedic than the weredoc au (and comedic in general, it's played a little straighter than "man turns into dog and is thoroughly inconvenienced by it") (unfortunate [in reference to visuals] bc i enjoy drawing mermarty a great deal more than weredoc GBJKGJ) bc i really like the premise but i'm pretty bad at fleshing out a narrative in enough detail to last the whole story so bullet points it is:

doc has decided to take a break from his time-travel-related research and go on vacation! the fresh coastal air might jostle a couple ideas into place, and while he is a nuclear physicist and not a marine biologist he wouldn't mind checking out some of the local aquatic life

and by local aquatic life he meant like normal fish and stuff. a nice mollusk or two even. so when he ends up fishing an entire boy out of the water instead he's understandably very shocked

before doc can move past the "where did he come from??" thought to register his more fish-like qualities, the boy makes a run (a swim?) for it. fortunately or unfortunately for doc, he ends up being able to register the fish-like qualities after all since he gets dragged into the water along with him. the moment doesn't last too long, though, and the fish-boy is gone as soon as doc realizes the guy has a fish tail instead of legs

doc gets back on the dock (haha), thinks about the whole ordeal for a bit, and decides that the best course of action is just to assume he hallucinated the whole thing in a fit of heatstroke or something like that. he's here to relax and get his thoughts in order so he can continue working on his time machine! there's no time to investigate fairy-tale creatures or whatever supposedly living off the coast of california!

it's not shown in the comic but i imagine doc has a little portable radio next to him as he was fishing, so some time passes before he catches a glimpse of something shining in the water underneath the dock

he looks through the cracks in the dock and lo and behold, it's the same boy from earlier! doc greets him, and the boy immediately disappears under the water. doc thinks he's scared him off until a few minutes later where he pokes his head out and says hi back

they get to chatting and doc learns a couple things:

1. his name is marty!

2. he was trying to get doc to realize that he forgot to put bait on his hook but got his hand caught on it, and was trying to get his hand unstuck from the hook without ripping it open before doc ever had the chance to see him, which he obviously failed at

3. both the being seen and ripping his hand open, because in his haste to get away after being seen by doc he ended up doing that anyways. so there's like a lot of blood coming out of his hand now? but like don't worry about it. it'll be fine. he thinks.

4. he really likes whatever it is that's playing on the radio

doc insists on patching up his hand and initially marty refuses but lets him do it eventually, and marty tells doc that for a land dweller he's actually surprisingly nice. doc says nah anyone would want to help out someone hurt, especially if they're the one's who caused it. and marty's kind of confused by that because his family's always warned him of how dangerous humans are, which he kind of never thought too hard about until now where his time off this particular coast has really proven them correct, because he's encountered a bunch of humans over the past couple weeks and they've all tried to kill him or catch him. doc's the only one who's actually bothered to say hi!

after learning that particular not-at-all-concerning tidbit, doc asks him to elaborate because there's a lot to unpack over there, but someone else walks onto the dock before marty can get a word in and he takes off

marty does not return, even once the other guy leaves, and when doc packs it up to return to the place he rented out for the vacation he overhears a conversation among a group of men about spotting something weird in the water earlier and that it kind of looked like a mermaid? and that if any of them manage to catch it they'll all be rich as thieves. and another guy in the convo goes no you're thinking of rich as kings, you're mixing it up with a different analogy. and the first guy goes no i'm not i said what i said

so now this vacation is doing anything but clearing doc's mind. he's really worried about that little fish guy

there's a couple more ideas i had but halfway through writing out this bullet list i've realized that if i were to actually write this as a fanfiction, i'd probably want to keep those a surprise. so what i just wrote out is kind of the equivalent of one chapter

edit after thinking about it a bit more: since most humans have been trying to kill him, marty really has no incentive to let a guy know that he's wasting his time fishing with a baitless hook. so a. he's still pretty optimistic that most humans aren't out to get him, even if his experience off this particular coast says otherwise, so he was trying to be nice anyway or b. (which i think is a lot funnier) he has started to pull on people's lines as a way to fuck with them. i think if i wrote this i'd change it to this one

i based mermarty off of a guppy fish! specifically this kind of guppy fish:

i was searching up kinds of fish and he just had the vibe of this thing. although now i think i should've made him a flying fish instead. for the pun

alternate ending to the mini comic:

the other one makes a little more sense since just approaching a guy whose species doesn't know about your existence unprompted is pretty stupid even for marty (and also i thought it was funny that the hook didn't have anything but doc ends up catching something anyways) but i still think this one's funny too

[aka-indulgence]

Um... are we allowed to selfship with the ravioli?

Um

YES!!!???!!?!

What do you think @llamagoddessofficial

[vicartless-bowuigi-space-au]

“What are you scared of?”

Luigi felt the Star's unease fill his every being—a child shaking in a dark alley, crowding against a corner with no escape. And with a voice that stole Luigi's breath, the Star responded.

“Her.”

[batsybat91]

When you get home from your boring office job, your boyfriend is in his "studio." Leon's studio is actually the guest bedroom of your apartment, but you rarely have people over anyway. He's got a huge 24" by 36" canvas set up on his easel, turned to be landscape style.

"Hey, baby," you say, tip-toeing carefully through the studio. You don't want to knock anything over.

"Hi!!" He takes the paintbrush out of his mouth.

"Ah- no hugs! You're covered in oil paint, Leon," you yelp.

"Sorry, baby." Leon gives you that sad puppy-dog look of his. Then, a pout decorates his face. You sigh, then get on your toes to kiss his cheek - while carefully avoiding paint.

"What are you painting?" you ask, gesturing to the canvas.

"I'm recreating the Sleeping Venus by Giorgione and Titian," he explains. "But I'm trying to make it look more realistic. More like you, too."

"That your way of saying you're painting me?" you tease, fluffing his hair.

"...no," he lies. He rubs the back of his neck - a nervous habit he developed in high school.

"Why don't you take a break?" you offer.

"I can't!" he exclaims, pointing an accusing paintbrush at the empty face of the painting. "I can't get your face right!"

"Is there something I can do to help?" you ask, pressing another cautious kiss to his cheek.

You can almost see the light bulb appear over Leon's head. He takes off his apron and hangs it up on a nearby Command hook. Then, he gently guides you out of his studio. "I think I might have an idea or two."

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[hammysamhah]

Tag Along AU pt 1

part 2

yes i’m finally doing something with this idea mwahahah!!! this is a bang together au where guy diamond joins in on the adventure and this is how it begins!!!

uh ignore the coloring error on the first few images LOL

[thesweetnessofspring]

Katniss actually said that if not for the existence of the Games and Panem's shitty state in general, that she, at 17 years old, could possibly be married and pregnant. Full-on teen mothering it with her dandelion in the spring if Panem could chill out for a sec and stop killing children. And then she proceeded to fantasize about Peeta and his child safe in the meadow. This thought alone gave her one of three nights of restful sleep without drugs post-Games during the series (the other two being when she was in Peeta's arms).

And yet when the Games did end permanently and Katniss indeed went ahead and married/committed to Peeta and had a family with him at about 30 years old, some people still did a surprise Pikachu face and complained it was out of character.

WHAT MORE DID SHE HAVE TO DO TO FORESHADOW THE ENDING?