#the scrungle effect...

[poorlydrawntorbek]

i myself have never played dnd but I want to and all the player character ideas i've come up with are bugbears..... i wonder why.... i wonder what could possibly be having that effect on me.... a mystery i will never solve...

[hotvintagepoll]

Trying to get more into old movies because of this blog (I only know about half of these people and feel like a poser) do you have good recommendations on where to start or is it just a situation where you watch stuff and find what you like as you go?

you are not a poser <3 i myself am just here for the hotties.

here is my quick and dirty list of fun films to start with if you're new to old movies. and of course if you like one of these, do try to find more stuff as you go! there's no bad way to try out old movies.

(this list is not official and is SUPER quick. i'm tagging for content warnings where I can, but if I forgot something let me know.)

"I want to watch something SILLY!"

The Court Jester (Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone)—everyone in this movie is hot. everyone is in fancy medieval dress, which makes them hotter. everyone here is very silly. You can stream this on Hoopla, last time i checked, so you might be able to stream it through your library!

Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang (Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Frobe)—some people hate this movie and to them I say What Is Wrong With You. dick van dyke is a hot absent minded inventor who lives in a windmill with his two adorable children, his gorgeous sheepdog, and a grandfather who is categorically useless. it feels like the two films mary poppins (1964) and willy wonka (1971) had a baby and that baby was born on roller skates singing an old broadway showtune. this one has been showing up in some odd places lately—I think you can catch it on Tubi or Hoopla? It's definitely around.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Jane Powell, Julie Newmar, Howard Keel, Russ Tamblyn)—my problematic fave. everytime i watch this i change my mind whether it's a sexist pile of garbage or a feminist paean, and fellas, today we're on the feminist paean bandwagon!! jane powell's millie is truly the star of the movie, she is the hero she drives the plot the narrative is on her side, and besides all that there are seven very hot men dancing next to her and six beautiful ladies making me bisexual. (on Tubi last I checked.)

The Duke Is Tops (Lena Horne, Laurence Criner)—I get a huge kick out of watching Laurence Criner and Ralph Cooper swindle everybody while also trying to put on a show; there's just something silly and sincere here, plus you get a ~musical extravaganza~ at the end when all is right as rain again. Free on YouTube I think?

"I want to watch something DRAMATIC that may make me FEEL SOMETHING."

Witness for the Prosecution (Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Elsa Lanchester)—I love a campy twisty turny mystery, don't you? :) I'm not going to talk about this one much because it's better to go in blind, but if you like Agatha Christie stories you'll probably like this.

To Be Or Not To Be (Carole Lombard, Jack Benny)—always relevant, always makes me laugh, also makes me cry. this takes place in poland during wwii so big tw for nazi imagery and mentions. (don't worry. this movie fucking hates nazis.)

Seven Samurai (Toshiro Mifune)—this one is Great Cinema™™™™™™™™™™™ for a goddamned reason

"I want to watch some stuff with the scrungles in it!"

Mr. Washington Goes to Town (Mantan Moreland)—I've been checking out more of Mantan Moreland's stuff because every time I see him in something I think he's delightful, and I really enjoyed this silly-spooky comedy. Does this story have a brain cell? No. Are the special effects and goofy slapstick fun? Yes. This is a fun example of an all-Black cast in a film that was made for Black audiences, and is a striking counterpoint to the stereotypical representation Black actors were given in white-targeted films, showing the enormous amount of talent and artistry the racist studios missed out on by excluding these actors. This is not A Great Film™ but it's still A Fun Time,™ with a goofy Laurel and Hardy type vibe. (It's free on Youtube.)

The Red Shoes (Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, Marius Goring)—hey kid, you wanna watch something fucked up? This movie is so fucked up. It's about ballet, it's about art, it's about technicolor, it's about dance and toxic relationships and making theatre and nightmares and ambition and death. A lot of these recs tend on the silly side (because I tend on the silly side) but this one is actually Serious Film and will definitely help you chat up Martin Scorsese should you ever meet him. Big content warning if you can't handle dark themes right now—this movie's pretty dark, not in the gore way but in the Haunting Creepy Image way. (it's also free on Tubi and Kanopy most of the time.)

The Invisible Man (Claude Rains)—my favorite of the vintage horror flicks and a great introduction to Most Dunked On Hot Vintage Man of All Time, Claude Rains. (it helps that you barely ever see him!) Very very silly but the special effects are just plain fun. (I think this is on Internet Archive in full?)

"Can I just get more hot people please?"

Flower Drum Song (James Shigeta, Nancy Kwan, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo)—there are so many unbelievably hot people in this movie which is somehow very good (thanks to its cast) and also incredibly, horrifically bad (thanks to its white team of writers, directors, and producers). on the one hand, it's a mostly Asian cast in a big budget, beautifully designed MGM style musical! there's dream sequences, lots of fun dancing, crooning Rogers & Hammerstein cabaret moments, and just charm galore. it is also freighted with so. many orientalist assumptions and stereotypes, absolutely ridiculous shit that the writers ABSOLUTELY should have known better about in the 60s and nonetheless carried into this. this is a hard one to recommend because I loved this cast, and I loved seeing them in a context beyond the usual stereotypical bit parts so many of them frequently were limited to—yet the movie itself perpetuates so many stereotypes on its own it can be a hard one to watch, and I totally understand if it does not work for most people. tl;dr watch for Shigeta, Kwan, Umeki, and the others, but content warnings galore for one (really bad) case of yellowface casting, orientalist tropes, extremely stereotypical character types, etc. (On Tubi/Kanopy last I checked.)

Charade (Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn)—this movie feels like a Hitchcock movie except I had a ton of fun watching it, which I can't always say for a Hitch film. (I told you my taste was bad.) This one is free on YouTube and thank god because Audrey wears a lot of Givenchy, Cary Grant wears spectacles and keeps almost dying, it's very exciting and thrilling and funny and sexy. I don't think there are any content warnings but it's been a minute since I watched it. (I should go watch it right now.)

The Big Sleep (Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall)—they're so hot askjdljhjghladkghjksahkhgslkahgshskjhgsalhgsahgjh. i like this one a lot :)

[this is NOT A FULL LIST of all the hot vintage movies to start with but it might give you some starting places! i banged this out as quick as I could at 2 am, so apologies that it's sloppy and not perfect.]

[mecha--maniac]

Giving the scrungles chao saga

Mephiles's? Sweet babyangel service chao; if they did races Meph would definitely be dancemom manipulative of the other chao handlers just to make them fight, with the chao being none the wiser.

Metal's starts off as a feral little shit that loves to bite; but biting is not very effective on Metal, so oops bro, looks like you have been government assigned a chao (Who eventually warms up to him with the correct combination of ignoring their shenanigans and manhandling them into being socialized. No, we are having a nice day at the beach, you may not go and bite small children)

The third one is for an unpictured different Metal. This one was a rescue and is very shy, but their mommy is very scary with a resting murder face which gives them some more confidence as they grow up. Anyone who messes with this chao would wind up mysteriously missing.

If these were in the game...

Meph's chao would operate like a chaos chao, except it needs higher stats in power and flight.

Metal chao 1 would be neutral/speed/flight with a disproportionate amount of kangaroos and/or bug animals givin to it.

Metal chao 2 would be dark/power/flying, raised primarily on drives and dragons.

[anamdreams69]

*spongebob boo-woomp sound effect*

they are two scrungly scrungles i lav these twoo togheter <33

[chthonicarcher]

whatre your favorite parts abt writing/drawing davekat (either in conjunction or separately)? i rlly enjoy writing daves speaking cadence + drawing karkat to both look very cute and very tired/gremlin-y. the scrungle effect, if you will.

oh I’m a BIG fan of the scrungle effect :]

as for Dave, you might be able to guess this by looking at my drawings, but I looove taking his shades off/making him show his pretty pretty eyes, lol.

and as far as writing goes—for both of them, I really like getting into their thoughts and, like, exploring their emotional depths? which again, you can probably tell just by reading my fic haha. I tend to have a lot of thinking, emotion, introspection, as opposed to like, fast-paced “plots” where “stuff happens” LOL.

for writing Dave specifically, there’s no greater feeling than nailing a really great rambling tangent, either in a pesterlog or spoken dialogue. not saying it’s one of my *strengths* or anything, but hey, when one of those clicks into place? it just makes you feel GREAT.

[spookyeagling]

I love language so much I love the kiki and booba effect I love when someone points at a weird cat and says "scrungle" and everyone is like yes look at that scrungly fucker I love how we make silly sounds at our friends to make them laugh or gentle and musical sounds to make them feel better it's so sweet

[lilaczx]

Live Blogging TMAGP Ep 31, Compartmentalising

We are so back!!!!

I just got home my friend who is also a single Mom and her Boyfriend and the baby got the flu so I dropped off some supplies for them since most of the house is some level sick.

Oh Colin is dead dead

Oh the server racks yearns for human flesh.

So real as a person who works in IT.

Oh it's giving binary.

This one is going to be slower because long one and people I rent my room from Cat is needs of her daily pets.

Fuck the police!

The police are mentioned: Alice Daisy Donner has entered the chat.

Did the hand move?!?!

Did the server racks eat the hand.

A statement?!?!

Chester/The Archivist is back after a machine of knowledge and spy of the eye eats the person most likely to threaten it's reign: yippee the horrors!!!

Wait is this statement is about Colin's death what the fuck fuck???!

Oh the server rack just zapped him/absorbed him.

Wait Gwen call the server rack Freddie

Oh shit they are F U C K E D !

Wait the archivist, like ours or an archivist?

Wait are the archivists multipying?

I want to give Sam a warm Blanket, hug, and some curry.

He just wanted to be the Dad who stepped up!

Sam is so Scrungle right now.

I love that Celia is a good Mom.

Did Jack get attached to Sam?!?!

You know Celia is right, probably hopefully.

WAit does Celia like Alice?!?

Wait we get to see Georgie later!!

What if Georgie and Melanie become Aunites.

Oh shit it can use the photo copier?

Does Gwen know about Jack?

Oh are they wolves.

Oh that person was tortured by the stranger weren't they?

Spreadsheet lighting on fire! Oh my GOD!!!

Aww Auntie Georgie!!!

Georgie?!?!?

She's back!!!

WOOOOOOOO.

So this is life post fearverse

YOoo Gertrude!!!

Wait that's based on the paperwork stress fear Alex has.

Portal tm

Alice is so real for that!

Nooo don't wait!!!

Not the power already going to Gwen's head.

That email ate Colin.

Alice isn't wrong

The True British way

Yoo severance

I mean Celia is Sam's girlfriend.

Wait I understand that reference!!!!!!

Oh new Tape recorder

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

That's such a good monologue

Punters? (Googled it was Rugby)

Oh a surveillance state theme statement

I love the phrase Crimson fear

Oh so people turned on each other

Oh the horror of knowing you were responsible for hurting people

Also love cracked but unbroken world

Imagine being a therapist trying to work after the apocalypse

Oh so the Eye is going to win again

I am glad Hedi is going down swinging.

Also I like the whispering effects.

Oh I get the title now, Colin was compartmentalised by the server rack and the eye, so was Hedi, and Sam..

Any way the reason this took so long:

[abemusedwayfarer]

Weird DND spells I thought of.

Scrungle

2nd-level transmutation

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 30 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: Instantaneous

You physically distort an object. Choose one nonmagical object you can see within range. That object twists, and changes in seemingly impossible ways. Targeted objects are not damaged by this process, but become incredibly difficult to use. Doors become trapped in their frames, weapons become bent and unbalanced, and armor becomes near impossible to wear. An object that has been scrungled requires a successful DC 10 Dexterity check to use. Scrungled items can be returned to their normal form via Dispel Magic, or other similar effects.

Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock

Subclasses: Trickery Cleric

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Greater Enscrungultion

9th-level transmutation

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 120 feet

Components: V, S, M (A small clay effigy of the target)

Duration: Instantaneous

You magically reshape your target in a horrifying fashion. Choose one creature, or nonmagical object you can see within range. The target must make a saving throw against your spellcasting modifier, or be twisted, bent, stretched, or squashed to your liking. Objects become completely unusable, their physical forms being nearly unrecognizable. Creatures affected by this spell take no damage, but have their abilities severely impaired in a variety of ways of your choosing:

Suggested effects:

Arms stretched: target has disadvantage on all dexterity saving throws

Legs stretched: target must make a successful Dexterity saving throw at the start of each turn, or fall prone

Saucer eyes: target gains the Sunlight Sensitivity trait, and vulnerability to Radiant damage.

Skwunched: target it squashed near flat, and suffers disadvantage on all rolls, but does not provoke attacks of opportunity when passing hostile creatures.

The effects of this spell last until removed via Remove Curse, or other magic.

You are encouraged to work with your DM to come up with your own amusingly creative and/or horrifying applications for this spell.

Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock.

Subclasses: Conquest Paladin

[bug-crimes]

3, 15 and 32 + F for Jazzy >:3

3) How do they put themselves to bed at night (reading, singing, thinking?)

Assuming Jazzy makes it to bed at night, he's usually just laying there thinking in silence (or some sort of white noise) for a long while! He's got a lot of thoughts to sort through and when he properly lays down for bed it usually becomes "time to sift through every little thing that happened today" hours. If he doesn't make it to bed, usually it's because he's been lulled to sleep by something he was listening to/watching! Busy background noise is very effective at shutting his thoughts off, so he will often fall asleep quicker when he's not particularly trying to than when he actually chooses to go to bed.

15) How do they speak? Is what they say usually thought of on the spot, or do they rehearse it in their mind first?

He likes to be careful, if he feels he needs to. Jasmine has the propensity for overthinking near everything, and it's not uncommon for him to pause for abnormally long periods in a conversation just to sort out his thoughts and speak properly. If he gets worked up, whether positive or negative, he is more likely to speak freely, and this is the time when he will most often give his quick, snarky remarks he has always been known for amongst his friends! When he's chilling, though, he tends to be rather slow and methodical. It can make his quick comebacks really come as a surprise sometimes!

32) Do they have a go-to story in conversation? Or a joke? 

He has less of a go-to story and more of pre-programmed responses if certain topics do come up. He likes to talk about things that are more relevant, whether it be a recent funny encounter at work, or something neat he saw in turf wars! He's not the sort to enjoy reminiscing on the past, nor is he the sort to tell cheesy jokes, so he generally tends to go with the flow of the conversation instead of relying on icebreakers. He does, however, have his facts about himself kept neatly in order in his head, so if he does have to obscure the truth a bit, he can do so without accidentally contradicting himself or sounding too much like he's lying. That's really the closest he has to go-to anything in conversations!

F) What do you feel when you think of your OC?

i wish to scrungle him, your honour

he's one of those characters i just fuckin l oveee to rotate around in my head, i don't have intelligent thoughts and emotions about him he is just there so i can teehee and put him in Situations

[gucciorchid]

>w<!

hes not used to the face touchies

[www-girl]

[ID: A self described "scrungled" edit of the in-game photo of Mr. House's Screen projection from Fallout: New Vegas. It has a water effect with static, and colored in blues, purples, greens, and reds. /END ID]

nightmare capitalist blunt rotation

[hotvintagepoll]

Ray Bolger (The Wizard of Oz)—It's me, the person who wanted to fuck the scarecrow last time. I still want to fuck the scarecrow. You don't know what he means to me. If I could humiliate myself in front of my entire class with an in depth power point slide presentation on ""why ray bolger is a great dancer"" (translation: I Want To Fuck The Scarecrow) then you can help me in preaching his gospel on the internet.

Pablo Alvarez Rubio (Dracula)—it’s fucking craaaazy he plays renfield but it’s like if you took dwight frye’s renfield (already 4 inches tall and bisexual and mentally ill) and crumpled him up and badly flattened him back out again. he’s in a permanent flop sweat he has eyeliner he has a heap of curly greasy black hair he’s got a big cute nose and big sad brown eyes. it’s such a good role if you like a guy who whimpers. he’s sooo scrumply but in real life pablo was a boxer so like. how did he crumple himself up into that sad sopping wet tragic floor puppy so effectively

This is round 3 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you’re confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Pablo Alvarez Rubio:

"make sure you’re on the 4th video at this link (Dracula (Spanish)) then you’ll want the scene starting at 37:30 . i’m sorry it’s in spanish but in short he talks about being a lawyer and then gets distracted by needing to catch a fly."

[editor's note: please watch the link above. it is truly exemplary.]

Ray Bolger:

An absolutely adorable icon! With his rubber-faced expression, and fantastic dancing skills, he is always a delight to watch.

[emperornero]

the terraria wiki is incomprehensible if youve never played the game itself. you click on an article about a weapon that looks nice and the description will be something like "the slayer of titans is a pre-bingus summoning weapon unlocked post-scrungle. its base summon damage is 43. using it activates the scimblo status effect which increases your yoinky stat. its eeby deeby counterpart is the legendary fuck-upper. it has a 1/16 (6,25%) chance of dropping by defeating Michael."

[cerastes]

The same niece that you saved from saying she wrote fanfic with her friends out loud?

Different one! Update on Fanfic Niece: I tease her about it and her face scrungles as if she just chomped into a lemon raw because she finds her old behavior Incredibly Cringe, now that she's older. All in good fun, of course. One time I jokingly told her I'd tell her boyfriend and I saw the MK Ultra superassassin protocols activate in her eyes for a brief eternal seconds.

Death Metal (tentative) Niece is a different one, I took her out for lunch today because she got a haircut and she's Very Happy about it, and on the way to the place, I was like "yeah I'll put on some music" but just hit play without checking what I had in there and it was this

and I'm like Oh Shit! Let Me Find Something Else! But she tells me to leave it on and is jamming out to it (less surprising than you think when you consider my brother (her father) and I are metalheads and so our taste in music has had an effect on her) so I'm like Hell Yeah Ok, but then the track ends and it's something else that's Not death metal, and she's like I WANT MORE, so fuck, ok, I pull up this Mongolian death metal band I like, Ayasiin Salkhi, and put it on

and She's Jamming Out Again. Now, nothing wrong with some death metal but I also don't want her to scream her lungs out at home (she loves singing) because then my brother and my mother have to deal with that, so I tried to dampen a little by giving her some regular Mongolian metal next, excellent band The HU

and I have this theory that if you don't feel something primal, something viscerally right burn within you as you listen to Wolf Totem, then I think you are not a real human being and in fact are something sinister in the shape of a human, but yeah she loves this one too, but she said she'd still look more into "the songs before this one" at home so sorry brother and sorry mom.

[askintermissionfandom]

What are some of your favorite felt head canons if you don't mind, and is your intermission discord server still active?

Oh yeah psh the server is defo active. We talk there every day and we had a group vc like just yesterday! Feel free to join! Even if you’re going to lurk we got good fanarts being made like every other day! https://discord.gg/VMtTxQj

NOW TO THE INFODUMPING! Sry not sry you asked for this I’m just gunna go full ham. (I figured out how to add a read more link! hah!)

OK SO! I’ve got so many! Top fav is my ones for Crowbar of course. I love making his juju a sentient being and having it effect him negatively by applying sensitivity for timeline shenanigans on him. This also means Crowbar is weak against temporal movement like teleportation. He’s fine for the most part if the Doc teleports him with green sun magic but if Droog does it, it gets him sick and dizzy for a bit.

Oh! Also that Crowbar has lots of hobbies, but every single one is a benefit to his Felts. He’s incapable of doing activities selfishly and has a hard time detaching himself from his work. Expressing himself creatively? Sure! How about he gets into woodworking and architecture so he can repair walls, doors, and clocks whenever they break around the manor. Taking time off to zone out and relax? No problem! He unironically loves doing paperwork because the exactness of the wording comfort him and he can keep business flowing. (He secretly collects the small manuals that comes with most products because finding grammar mistakes in the terms and conditions amuses him.) He even has a mild special interest in car detailing and cleaning so that the getaway cars for everyone are in top condition, and so that the manor is clean and free of evidence.

Oh and that reminds me that I love to hc that the manor (I make it sentient) looooves Crowbar the most out of any member since he’s the only one that takes care of it. The manor’s architecture shifts constantly to confuse intruders and such, but for Crowbar it shifts to get him to wanted destinations faster. If Crowbar wants to get to the west wing from the east wing, only Itchy has a chance to close the distance faster than him. Ah! It’s so funny! I’m smiling about it now! Aaaa I love them!

And! And and I love to hc Crowbar being super dense in matters of love. In the server (there is rp and I am the dedicated Crowbar rper) I make sure to have him make the perfectly wrong assumption any time someone falls for him bc Cro mentally cannot comprehend someone being attracted to him- OH THAT REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER ONE! I hc that to us irl humans Crowbar is the most normal and even the sexiest felt, but in leprechaun standards Crowbar is like, the ugliest leprechaun ever. Leprechaun standards value weird shapes, weird chaotic habits, and the scrungle vibe, and Crowbar is intimately aware he doesn’t embody any of it, so it’s just like. “Um. I know damn well I don’t make an effort to strive towards beauty standards, so,,, why are you falling for me again? Surely this is a joke? This, isn’t what people are supposed to do.”

On that note though, I think Crowbar has a hard time with charms as a system. He’s effected by it and feels it occasionally, but he does much better with quadrants and carapacians in general. He doesn’t like talking about it with his men because he’s scared they are going to make fun of him for it, but they probably already know what with his little Snowman crush.

Hot take I could do with or do without Snowbar. It really depends on who I’m roleplaying with. For the most part I love it because it emphasizes the fact that Crowbar is just really fucking weird compared to other leprechauns. He’s orderly, he’s bi, he likes things to be a certain consistent way, and there’s nothing be can do about it. It just makes me feel warm inside. If my rp partner doesn’t like the ship though I loooooove to make Snowman and Cro like, slumber party pals. They engage in the tea and girl talk! Wlw and mlm! Snowy is the man’s rock and sense of reason in a sea of idiots.

Though hm, now for other Felt. I do like the idea that Itchy actually has garbage reaction time and is in a state of single focused mania a lot. My mans has trouble sleeping and knowing his environment and it can take a toll on his mind, but when he does sleep his metabolism is too fast for such a long sleep and he has to go into a hibernation state! Like a hummingbird! (That’s @naturallydark ‘shc for the Itchy they rp in the server) aaaa good stuff. Oh and I love to think Itchy is chronically bored and has big issues with being under-stimulated, which is why he is friends with most of the felt and will bother them. The company makes him happy! And when he’s not being a lil fuck, he does know how to cheer the majority of the Felt up when they are down.

On the flip side I love imagining that Doze actually has insane reaction time, his world just slows when he’s stressed, which doesn’t happen as often as folks might think. I imagine Doze’s biggest fear is getting irreversibly maimed so his powers activate during physical combat, but other than that he’s a pretty normal dude. Probably the type to catch a bunch of dishes and have everything land on the tray again cartoon style. Definitely thinks he’s the coolest guy in the room (civilized edition)

Fin is just cute. Man just, swims in the dumbest places. You can never predict when he will be in a body of water. Kinda hates when anyone dumps dead bodies in the canal and will drag them out of the water to toss to the lusi (lusus’s?) wandering the desert when he can.

Clover and Snowman get along really well. Like, Snowman thinks Clover is strangely charismatic, but this is almost purely because the universe loves Clover.

Anything @ontdah does with his Die makes me happy. Just. Anything. Love that angsty man.

Snowman can absolutely take damage without it effecting the rest of the universe. (I despise the fact that the prominent badass female character can’t roughhouse) like, she is a universe avatar. She can just choose to be an avatar of some useless far off planet, she just likes the power trip with being able to stop any fight she’s in by just standing there. Only the Felt know this but they keep it a safely guarded secret and they still respect the rules of it. After all she likes having star freckles when she embodies everything so she actually is in that vulnerable state most of the time. It’s like, her shitty personal version of a Russian roulette, but with the lives of every single person alive. She’s a massive troll. In the most dignified way possible. Stitch thinks she’s crazy, Crowbar finds her fascinating in her selfishness.

Stitch is one of the rarer less chaotic leprechauns, and he gets along pretty well with Crowbar. For the most part he’s the dad figure of the felt despite not being the oldest, and will let any of them silently hang out with him if the fucked up ness of their life becomes too much. The official sawbones, and less official therapist of the lads. Makes sure they have everything they need to handle any mental stuff they struggle with. He helps Itchy with his adhd, works with Matchsticks (more often) and Cro (less often) on their ptsd, helps lots of them with anxiety, rationalizes through Clover’s survivors guilt, and even has chats with Snowy when she’s feeling existential. He is incredibly emotionally intelligent and likes to use that ability for good, however gruff it comes across.

Sawbuck is the nice fuck boi of the Felt and you cannot convince me otherwise. Clover may be the most charismatic over all, but Sawbuck definitely has the most game. The guy is a dream boat, an absolute hunk. Sawbuck is the sexiest man alive and everyone in the felt (no matter how reluctantly) agrees with it.

Matchsticks is a pyromaniac and is constantly curbing his own urges to just burn everything to the ground, timeline included. He’s a REALLY nice guy, but the urges get to him sometimes. (Hc from @ontdah )He has troubles staying present at times and keeps multiple fires burning around the manor for convenience and for reminiscing. Crowbar has to tell Matchsticks when meetings will be hours or even days in advance or else he might not be able to include him. The guy just, travels a lot and is hard to find. His jokes cheer everyone up, but it’s clear he’s not always happy. Stitch and Matchsticks spend the most time with each other. Stitch has personally guided Matchsticks into being more present, but it’s a constant process.

Eggs is fantastic at retelling heists in engaging ways. If anyone wants a retelling of events, they tend to go to Eggs, even if Crowbar has the better memory. It’s more entertaining that way.

Biscuits makes food for the Felt. Without him they would all immediately starve. Some felt know how to cook, but only Biscuits knows how to portion meals to feed all of them correctly. He’s also their silent nutritionist and will give you a look of disappointment if you ever come into the manor with, ugh, FROG FORBID Store. Bought. Sweets. He has standards. Most of his free time is spent in the kitchen and he is the only Felt besides Crowbar who is allowed an allowance for groceries.

Quarters is a gun freak and gives all of them names and backstories like iron dolls. If you handle a gun incorrectly in front of him he’s going to very passive aggressively judge you until you piss him off enough to drag you back into gun training. He taught most every member how to use firearms (except for Stitch, Matchsticks, and Clover) but he has made every single one of them take a firearms course, hosted by himself of course. Snowman and Quarters have long bouts of dark humor involving weapons sometimes too. They started being friends after he taught her how to use a sniper rifle.

Cans is Crowbar’s bean bag and they are bros. They cuddle lots and talk about stuff. I imagine Cans has almost an enthusiastic butler sort of relationship with Crowbar and Crowbar can do nothing to refute this. After many, many, months and years of Cans comforting Crowbar and being there for him and helping him out of risky situations, Crowbar has succumbed to trusting the man fully. Whenever Crowbar is having troubles sleeping he will simply drag himself over to Cans’s room and nap with him. They are cute.

AH! oK DONE! I have more Cro hcs of course but this has taken me ages to type and! I! Need! To go to work soon!

[betweenlands]

"abridged" version of "what if dominion members but notitg gimmicks" from me and @autisticlalna yelling at each other last night

(WARNING: a lot of these have general eye-strain inducing effects, from screen flashing intentionally, to arrows flying all over the place and/or things slamming into the foreground, to rapid flickering from something not recording at the right fps. please view responsibly!)

legundo's charts have minimal and very readable mods but their stepwork is more technical and difficult. brackets (hitting two adjacent notes with one foot on the corner) and laterals (i don't know how to explain laterals i'm sorry) and difficult patterns and the like. he also does driven drops a lot (notes losing color optional, someone else gets that one)

sneve is a mawaru or a random box -- he throws gimmicks (from other non-rhythm games) at you, Good Luck. The Heck is a really good non-mawaru chart for him though

viking's charts are . we gave him a lot of gimmicks he's a little nightmarish. probably a multi-chart boss character. sugarkill/receptor scrambling, a variant of the note obscuring from private eye (instead of it hiding one player's colors, it hides a specific color/rhythm of note), switching playfield vision (and also whatever you call this gimmick in super reactor), switching playfield vision again: peeesh edition, and weird receptor rotation. viking in general is just "better keep track of your notes buddy" (he also gets some haunted houses but i. don't fully understand what those are i just know he needs to have them because He Is A Ghost)

shadowmech is Good Luck Chunking, Asshole in specifically the screen damage way. he gets fafnir's screen slash and the screen damage from destroy. throws notes directly at your face

taneesha gets these petal effects as snow, but her main thing is clear notes/colorless notes.

mongo gets screen distortion along the lines of an "underwater" shader alongside having some simple dpads

grady gets portals and/or a rapidly moving playfield, alongside having a lot of meaner d-pads! (flashing warning on that last link, the flicker effect is busted on youtube)

jamie scrungles your notes with funky shaders and does proxy marches! she also gets daikyi wheels because they are (direct quote from leo) "emotionally similar to a Horrible D-Pad"

jamie and grady also have a couples chart. 🅱️.... TWO! (apologies for linking to a really long video/commentated upload in this one. i was unable to find literally any other upload of び)

nukeri gets proxy walls and a judgement line gimmick. basically a nicer version of this bit from golden rule. he also gets a more consistent version of the ending of hymn which is a bit hard to describe. notes in the background. notes AS the background.

joy also gets proxy walls but hers are a little bit more... scooty. a lot of scrolling and movement from them, basically

josh gets teal notes, a sentence that means nothing to most people and strikes fear into the hearts of a select few (teal notes are on odd beats, 64ths or rhythmless). his mods/shaders aren't that bad though, to make up for it

kiply is just ayaze. she's just ayaze. that does mean she has overlap with sneve but it's different because source dude just trust me (jokes aside, the difference is kiply is "forces you to read other rhythm game formats" and sneve is "forces you to do a silly little minigame or fifteen")

red hits you in the face with notes a lot at a very high bpm (HUGE FLASHING WARNING FOR THIS ONE BTW. THIS IS THE MAIN REASON THAT WARNING IS UP THERE) she's not evil though she's just got the zoomies. she also does footswitches (hitting the same note with alternating feet) and jacks (hitting the same note a bunch in a row) because again: zoomies

fixxitt has been saved for the end of this post because fix is our 19. fix is an absolute nightmare. earlier fix charts have switches from standard reading to unorthodox playfields. later fix charts have, um. so imagine the SHAME cube. but multiple shapes onscreen at once. and only one of the cubes is showing the correct playfield.

finally: we don't have much for ryan or brock because neither of us really have the Vibes yet, but brock could have this bouncy bit from JUGGLE on account of. slimes bounce.