#<- new tag yay yippee...

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

CHILDHOOD FRIEND JOHN IS SUCH AN INTERESTING AU!!!

you gave me ammunition, and I'm gonna use it on you

First thing that comes to my mind - the idiots met when they were Children.

We know how adult Arthur goes about authority, imagine what newly-orphaned angry and depressed teenager Arthur was like. I bet he was so so so much worse about having a demanding voice in his head. Acting out just because he could and needed to, And because he has to rival this voice in his head.

This AU makes John go through such an interesting arc from being someone who has to take care of child, while being unprepared and irresponsible himself (does this remind you of anyone. Does It?) to being cared for right back. This single thought makes me go insane.

It would also be very interesting for the entire Arthur and Saltzmans' story? Cause one of the reasons John doesn't want Arthur close to people is that he knows they have a target on their backs, and he doesn't like them or Arthur getting hurt. However Arthur's romance with Bella happened, it was very likely against John's entire... everything. I think he was fighting tooth and nail to keep it from evolving any further.

Also, Daniel! Who is the (1) authority figure Arthur recognises. That would absolutely drive John mad xD

(btw I'm not trying to be mean to John, it's just this is the only feasible way I can see him reacting to this, and I view it as a... big longterm fight the boys had. not John trying to be mean, or denying Arthur other connections, he was just overly cautions and in a situation where Arthur utterly ignored his wishes and denied agency, so he was..understandably upset about this.

which leads me to my personal conclusion, that in this au, John would have taken Arthur's position in that bar. aka, I think John would have gone for trying to jump ship over the whole marriage disaster. And then Arthur did the most stupid and mature thing he has ever done, and came back to the hospital to get Faroe handed to him. (then the idiots get injected with high dose of paternal love and it's all fine now)

this is just a personal variation tho, I had a wonderful time reading your vision and I adore what you've shared in that oneshot. thank you for the gift of childhood john friend. I'm gonna be microwave-spinning him for a while.

YES!! YES YES YES!!! (for some (unfortunately minimal) context childhood friend john is the au from this fic, tl;dr arthur picks up john as a kid/young teen and they go through basically the whole show together pre-america/bella/faroe)

oh god yes they made each other SO miserable for the first like, several years of their partnership lmao. i sort of gesture at this vaguely in the fic but like, they were both so scared and lost and angry all the time with no ability to regulate those feelings and just so happened to have an unwilling participant to take all of them out on who literally couldn't get away. it was Not Fun For Anyone. arthur hated having to listen to him, john had zero patience for his Moods™, neither of them had a single thing outside the other to escape to, it was a real problem. relatedly the whole "soul learning to walk" thing kinda gets real funny in this 'verse bc arthur is. also still very young. it gets real "wait why are YOU ordering me around i'm OLDER" "NO you are NOT I'M OLDER" slapfight lmao.

but! yknow! they still both can't survive without cooperating so they kinda had no choice but to figure their shit out regardless.

...actually re: their childhood together, one thing i have been thinking about is that like. i did say the events of the show were gonna be edited pretty heavily to fit the timeline, and one part of it is i don't think the dreamlands or yellow were ever a thing? BUT. what i was thinking MIGHT be fun, is if they learn early on what john is/comes from, and he goes through a period of wanting to go back to being the king (but ultimately changes his mind before actually getting presented with the chance.) and also it takes a while for them to get to The Events that lead to him getting named john, i think. so i think for a while there arthur was calling him yellow. (then post-their equiv. of the s2 finale he goes back to just "friend" for a bit, due to lack of better options, until they pick "john" up)

oh yeah the fucking... Everything with bella was something john was very against and tried to stop and got steamrolled over about, it was all very fucked up. bc like, i think atp he and arthur are on better terms, but arthur was also so isolated and insanely desperate for human connection that it made him. very irrational. john could probably also tell that he didn't actually love bella, and maybe that bella wasn't all that crazy about him either, and whatever they were getting from each other was not a foundation for anything serious or long-lasting, so was trying to pull him away on that grounds, too. like, on top of the paranoia, he was also like "you don't even want this, i think you're half just using it to hurt yourself for not measuring up to some social standard and that's not fair to you OR her." but. again. arthur was not doing a very good job of Listening.

i actually think there's like, a solid 50/50 chance, dependent mostly on how character arcs play out, that john is the one advocating for jumping ship vs. him being the one to go "no you made your choices, i gave you every chance to stop, now we're going to have to take responsibility for the consequences." either way that convo goes... probably better than the one with james in canon. just bc they know each other well enough to know what will actually get through without just sending them on a guilt/doom spiral. more "regardless of how we feel, we can't just run away from this" and much less "wtf is wrong with you, you're fundamentally broken and unlovable for not feeling the way you're Supposed To." yknow.

...and yeah, then they actually pick up faroe for the first time and all of that goes instantly out the window. cancel everything else no more personal crises no time for that we have discovered the one (1) thing that actually matters in our life.

[wayward-banana]

New Year New Takumi, happy 2025 y'all!

[yeloenk]

Hi! I thought I should probably make an announcement about this, but I am changing my social media handle!

I have decided to no longer go by Inkblott/Inkblottz/Inkblottzz, because frankly, Inkblott is too common of a username. Originally, my username was simply supposed to JUST be inkblott, without extra z's. It began to frustrate me to have to add z's all the time, especially since I wanted it to be clean and simple.

So, my social media handle going forward will be Yeloenk! It's more unique & recognizable, and that is what I'm personally looking for in a username (especially since I table at art conventions)!! My signature will be changing as well to accommodate to this update. But yeah,, just wanted to let you guys know!

Fun fact; it's a play on yellow + ink, my two favorite things!! 💛

[just-bee-lieve]

SKETCH COMMS ARE NOW $20 +$5 FOR AN ADDITIONAL CHARACTER TO HELP MY BOYFRIEND!!!!

hiii gonna post a new comms sheet bc my art has improved/changed!! (i hope.)

my commissions are open!! they run about $60 for one rendered character with a background!! additional characters are about +$10. i love to draw mp100, fnaf, and d&d characters!!!

sketch pages are about $30 with refs :3c a bit more if you are looking for a totally original design!! dm for examples if needed!

i will do nsf w stuff as well!! dm for examples!!

[badly-drawn-bbu]

IT’S BEEN A YEAR ALREADY?!?!

BDBBU is older than this blog, but this blog has been around for a year now it seems!! How exciting!! What’s even more exciting is that today also just so happens to be the day that the BDBBU admins move in with eachother… what the heck…

Thank you all for a very sillyfun year!! Look forward to more badly drawn shenanigans from us in the near future! Love, Admins Buck and Emmaah <3

[starfishir]

Kinito animatic wip ( ͈ര ̫ര ͈) ⊹`𓈒

A little nibble, a little snack

Genuine question: should I color it bc I am kinda lazy to go back and fill it out

SONG NAME: hello world (by Louie Zong) ⊹₊⟡⋆

LYRICS:

oh, creator, please don’t leave me waiting-

[ufodogg]

Hello!! 🛸

This is my first post on Tumblr. You all can call me UFO, or Milo, after my sona I’ll be posting later!

I’m very excited to be putting my art somewhere again. I had an account on Instagram and Twitter, but I decided to fully uproot based off of the AI scalping stuff and no really reliable way to opt out. I ended up running off to Bluesky and Tumblr, which I’ve never used before. I’m still learning!

But all that out of the way, I love to create art! And not all of my following wants to see anthropomorphic dogs.

So here we are! an account SPECIFICALLY for anthropomorphic dogs! (…Or whatever animal I decide to draw in that day, lol.)

I hope you all enjoy my shenanigans! :)

[basyacriptid]

FOUND A WHOLE FUCKING WOOD BURNING MACHONE AT THE DUMPSTA

First attempt, flowas and bubtrfly :D!!!!!!!!

[workplacecomedian]

there's unlimited potential for what The Archivist/Error looks like, but focusing on the umbrella that gives it a fuckton of glowing eyes all over its form- i can't help but imagine there's one eye in the center of its chest that sits vertically. Unlike all the other unblinking eyes, this one is constantly squinting, struggling to stay open, a viscous fluid slowly dripping from it in parody of tears, the pupil unfocused. or maybe the eye is on the middle of its back! i guess it'd depend on what else you headcanon :)

[lesbiangiratina]

Funny as hell. Yeah theyre doing great

[mystiqmemory]

WIP/TEST !

[fredbydawn]

Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle…

[krabokot]

INTRO POST!☣️

Hi!💣

I am a trans guy from Poland, I can speak English and Polish.

My pronouns are he/him [I don't mind it if you use they/it on me]

You can call me Karl/Karol, but I'll also react to Krab, Stu, Roach, Bell, or Diler [I just enjoy silly nicknames people make up for me]

I am a minor!🪳

I am a self taught artist, so expect lazily drawn, low quality doodles from me...

My current* interests are: slasher horror movies, cod, F1, sharks and most games I play [too many to name each individual one..]

I enjoy a lot of music bands as well, like Hollywood Undead, Oomph!, 3OH!3, Ice nine kills and many more!!!

BYI⚠️

Please, keep in mind that there's always a chance I might include some slight gore in my art. I'll always try to put a warning on it, but beware if it triggers you!

DNI⚠️

Transphobes and homophobes, actual creeps and predators, people who ship illegal stuff, mean people.

MY STRAWPAGE!!!

END OF INTRO POST PLS BEFRIEND ME...

[kordbot]

I'm very insane about our sillyguys so I drew a thing. patches belongs to @hackingmachine , steven is mine [though he's just a hand and bloody puddle on the floor] the song is photographic memories by steam powered giraffe !!

[a-gay-bloodmage]

A Qun of Two: Chapter Two

Art by the beloved @caedharlowe

(The Iron Bull & Ozol Adaar)

Ozol Adaar learned, many years ago, as he ran through the jungle arm in arm with his saarebas, that leaving the Qunari behind doesn’t make one a savage. Nor does it mean abandoning the poetry of the Qun. Now, with the dreadnaught left to wash up on a rocky shoreline, he resolves to teach the Iron Bull the same lesson.

On the Second Day, We See Ourselves

So the Ashkaari left the land of his birth, seeking out other cities and nations, looking for a people who had found wisdom enough to end hopelessness and despair. He wandered for many years through empires filled with palaces and gardens, but in every nation of the wise, the great, the mighty, he found the forgotten, the abandoned, and the poor. Finally, he came to a vast desert, a wasteland of bare rock clawing at the empty sky, where he took shelter in the shadow of a towering rock, and resolved to meditate until he found his answer or perished.

—An excerpt from The Qun, Canto 1

Read on Archive of Our Own Here!

Post-Mission Letter from Gatt on the Loss of Hissrad

It’s a good thing we didn’t ally with the Inquisition. Whatever we would’ve gained would be lost ten times over if that “Adaar” kept being their leader. We lost Hissrad. I’m sure you already know, and I’m sure that you’re surprised I didn’t turn traitor along with Hissrad. I owe him a lot, but not enough to throw my life away like that. I was loyal to Hissrad, but he’s not Hissrad any more. He’s a Tal-Vashoth, just like his own last commander, and I’m not stupid enough to try and take him down. You’ll have to find someone else to do that job. 

Adaar is a Tal-Vashoth to the core. He’s a corrupting influence. Leave it to a former arvaarad to know just how to rattle a brain and yank someone in whatever direction he wants. All those years of education just for it to be turned around on us.

Yes. I’m angry. We never should have tried to ally with an organization headed by a Tal-Vashoth. I don’t care if I’m out of line. Mark it down in my file as something to work on with the tamassrans when I get back. Hissrad was the best of us, and we let him get pulled away by some weepy former arvaarad who has the audacity to still speak Qunlat like he owns the damn thing. And a Vint. And that whole collection of undesirables Hissrad kept collecting. This is what we get for letting him leave Seheron. I know he would have died there, he would have at least died with some dignity. At least he would have died as Hisraad and not as some mad cow. 

Consider this my formal request to return to my station in Seheron.

[capricious-stars]

👀 Is my muse the type to sleep around? 👎 Would my muse ever cheat on their partner? for edge (i'm pretty sure the latter's a definite no but i can't resist potentially spicy topics)

The monster, the myth, the bitch herself...

It's actually funny you ask, because I'd been challenging myself not too long ago to see if I could write a story where Edge cheats on his partner and somehow make it make sense and be in character withOUT just using the crutch of like, "unhappy arranged marriage" or something.  Why?  I genuinely have no idea lmao, it was probably inspired by a tumblr post or smth haha

But I'll come back to that to answer these in order.  Just in general, for sleeping around, that is a hard no.  He’s pretty demi-ace, with mostly low libido, and given the climate of his underground and standings in the guard, it couldn't have been less worth the risk of putting himself in a compromising position for something he didn't even really want.

  That being said, even in a healthier atmosphere, like post surfacing or in an au where they were never underground, he actually aligns pretty closely with Rus in that...the concept of romance and sex appeals to him, but when faced with opportunities, it mostly just feels...overwhelming.

  He’s gotta form a connection with someone and really trust them before he'd even be willing to try, and even up *til that point, he wouldn't really experience the desire himself until he'd had positive experiences of that nature!

  Or at least in any healthy way.  I've explored scenarios where he’s slept around in an effort to feel needed as the result of something in his life changing drastically enough to make him feel, uh, obsolete basically?  But in those circumstances it's more a physical act like exercise than it is something he actually enjoys and does just because he wants to😔

  But back to the cheating thing.  Of course under most circumstances you're absolutely right, and he 100% would never intentionally cheat on his partner.

  I say intentionally because, unfortunately, he is also the type of person who would stay in a relationship that didn't suit entirely because he cares about his partner, knows they care about him, or simply just feels obligated to since he made the commitment of entering a relationship with them in the first place.

  He’s also a little un-self aware at times, so I think it's entirely possible he may emotionally cheat on a partner under circumstances like that, not realizing that's what he’s doing.  He’s pretty bad at recognizing and understanding romantic feelings since he’s demi-ro, too, which is coincidentally why he’d also stay with a partner regardless of if he actually loved them romantically.  He probably thinks he does.

  However!  He'd never act on it.  If he did eventually realize, he'd either cut off contact from that other person or bring it up with his partner.  Since monsters are more chill in general about all that stuff, poly relationships are a lot more common, but if his partner wasn't a fan of the idea, then it'd circle back around to option one (regardless of if he'd be happier with the other person).

  But in general, he’s a fiercely loyal person, and there'd have to be any number of odd circumstances to push him to cheat on a partner in a traditional sense.