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Bones and Dirt Gang

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As the shadowpuppet CEO, do you plan to make another shadowpuppet week? in near or distant future?

Oooooooo probably! Might be fun to make another prompt list just to be silly. Perhaps somewhere in September again when I did it last year.

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I mean this post probably answers the first question. I can't imagine that there's anything more. My brain is too small to come up with anything else at the moment, that's for sure.

And gee... More headcanons...

Hm.

The Killing Kind (by Marianas Trench).

I'm not sure what side of the bed the Mayor sleeps on, but it's always the same spot, in the same coffin position. Macaque sleeps every and anywhere else on the mattress.

That's it. I can't think of a third.

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New BAV Fic about Spider Queen

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66542890

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And in case you were wondering what caused this incident (a poor excuse of an argument):

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i got curious

In your animatic "The Killing Kind",what exactly were they argue in this frame?

It's a scene from Chapter 19 in Winter Mornings, Summer nights (Blue and Violet) but here's the general jist of it (fore-warning, I rambled quite a bit):

Macaque wants Blue to admit that Lady Bone Demon isn't perfect, that she is flawed in her logic. He doesn't care if Blue still loves Lady Bone Demon, he knows that's something he can't change. All he cared about is wanting Blue to stop being so narrow minded and blindly following Lady Bone Demon's logic (when even they themselves are contradicting it day by day). He is so sick and tired of listening and watching Blue live out their existence, watching them change ever so slowly and yet their brain can't even identify what's happening to them because they're stuck in the past. Macaque, desperately, just wants Blue to wake up.

As it stood then, during and prior to that argument, Blue believed that their Lady's destiny was absolute, and yet they believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinions. A contradictory statement. Macaque wants Blue to not only admit that they are a hypocrite, but why.

On Lán's side of things, they refused to believe that the Lady Bone Demon is imperfect. They don't want to believe Macaque's words (which they know he only says in order to "win" the argument) any more than they didn't want to believe their Lady's words. For centuries, they had believed Lady Bone Demon knows all. She is the supreme judge. Her opinion is final and can never be argued against. And they owe her everything.

So how could they let a traitor tell them otherwise? It's ridiculous. Centuries of beliefs can't go away just because they know deep down how manipulative she is- they love her unconditionally. Centuries of admiration and genuine good memories with her can't make them think any differently of her. In truth, Lán can't just forgo the very basis of their beliefs- thinking of Lady Bone Demon as the highest supreme being who knows all and knows right is one of the last things they know is the purpose of their existence because time and time again their Lady had praised them for simply existing and complying to her directive and orders to the best of their ability- regardless of how they aren't perfect because the one thing they are good at and always have been good at is listening to her.

I think at its very core, the argument is more or less about how there's a difference between loving someone, and devoting yourself to someone blindly.

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Do you think there are any mannerisms that Mac and mayor adopted around eachother

Things they started to do because of the other person

MK and all of his friends will be skeptical to report to you that Macaque has begun... smiling more. Grinning. Passive aggressively. Snarky. More than he usually does (because he did it quite a bit already beforehand)- he did it a lot already but it's become evident it's become a different kind of instinct. He's not happy by any means (though frankly, he does laugh a little easier now than he usually did).

Macaque will never admit this. He'll tell you he doesn't, and he's grinning painfully while he does it.

The Mayor... climbs on things. They put their feet on tables and crouch down (as much as their dress pants can let them without ripping). They'll observe city life from the tops of buildings and belittle pedestrians below mindlessly. They've grown a dramatic flair, so they know how to put on a performance (however they have yet to learn how to control when and how to be genuine. Macaque has not mastered this skill either so both of them are sitting ducks in this department) and how to over-exaggerate mundane things.

The Mayor is more susceptible to learning mannerisms from other people. But I'm sure if you give Macaque some more time with the Mayor, he'll gain some fashion sense too.

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Original painting below the cut

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Are their things that Lan and macaque do to fuck with eachother?

There's the classic "Lán. usually stands/sits in Macaque's blind spot to fuck with him as a strategic maneuver to toy with his disability and mindset around it, being an active and constant trigger in order get on Macaque's nerves and keep him at a perpetual state of being set off". You can't get anymore fucked up than that on a casual basis, I think.

But I guess we have to mention Macaque stealing and taking things from Lán's apartment. He stops doing it after he realises the Mayor doesn't actually care too much (they do but, not nearly as much as Macaque would have hoped). So he just settles for eating their food and reorganising their apartment in a way that suits him better. That pisses them off a bit more.

Stalking is also, something. You'd think if they were both stalkers, they'd cancel each other out somehow but, no. No. Absolutely not.

Macaque has also learned that the most optimal place to shower is in the Mayor's apartment. Did he ever shower before? Not any more frequent than a once every few months. But now he does it every other day. Why? Because his hair clogs up the Mayor's shower drain, and he's not cleaning it up (he also enjoys getting more privileges to be clingy when he is clean, but it's not like he'll admit that). He'll pin the blame on Lán, who unfortunately also technically has dark hair and so, the Mayor is unable to pin all the blame onto him.

Lán is the one with constant Wi-Fi in their residence because they actually pay their monthly bills for electricity + internet and such. They will constantly change the password because Macaque wants to exploit it. As much as they want this to cause Macaque to pled for the password at some point, they're not actually very good at making passwords. Nonetheless, Macaque is still annoyed that he has to go the extra length every few days just to connect to his Youtube (or Youtube equivalent. He can't handle the Spotify equivalent. All those ads, ridiculous) so he can listen to his white noises (he doesn't know how to download tracks).

There's more. Probably. I'm sure they'll keep inventing new ways to stress the other out for all eterntiy. It won't end with these two. I'm just afraid their level of shenanigans goes past the lengths my brain is able to even think about.

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Draw circe.

Pls.

Odysseus, I think you need to hurry up. Circe's dinner plans are already underway.

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Convention Haul

All the LMK stuff is from @/keyshakitty on Instagram and Bluesky!!! Go check them out :DDD

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I wonder if anybody has made an LMK Star Wars AU yet

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Who's the music teacher in the high school au?

Ah, I hadn't really thought about it.

Nobody seems to fit the role in the LMK cast. Not anybody I can think of, so the position is open.

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Chi... Chiikawa Shadowpuppet...

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Can we see Macaque and Mayor's kaiju forms interacting? :>

Here's an old sketch I did of them.

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Them

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Hey !! Noticed you haven't been posting a lot of art and it's mostly writing (which is still great I love any sort of content) buuut are you okay?

Also since you have comms open now, does that mean you won't be taking random drawing reqs anymore?

Oh yeah lol I'm a-okay XDDD! Thank you for the concern! Don't worry, I've just been quite busy irl and, uh, because of that its been a lot like this lately:

Responding to asks and writing things tends to be a quicker way to make it clear I'm not dead every few days or so, haha!

Drawing requests are open! I've uh, never officially stated that they're open. I think. I can't remember. But you're all more than welcome to make a request (I stare at two in my inbox that I'll get to at some point)! But there's a key difference between comms and requests

Quality is guaranteed if you request a commission. I'll work to the best of my ability to make it good and the way you want it to be (cough cough my comms are very much open because nobody has asked for anything yet lmaoooo so hey hey if any of you are interested you can check out my artistree- cough cough)

Drawing requests through the tumblr inbox always has and will be a gamble. How something in my inbox gets responded to is always up to me :))).