#No Convenient Apocalypse

[senorboombastic]

This One Song… Pissed Jeans on Junktime

Tell you what – we love hearing from artists when things go right. We equally love hearing from artists when things go dreadfully wrong. A song that was a piece of piss, written in 20 minutes? Or years in the making and a bastard to write? Whether it’s a song that came together through great duress or one that was smashed out in a short amount of time, we’re getting the lowdown from some of our…

[tblsomedoodles]

Some Apocalypse Seer twins,

Also the first of my January Speedpaints (Aka make-up work for my missed december speedpaint. I will be doing a second one mid-January.)

Was suggested by @soniclozdplove a few weeks ago. (the suggestion was technically just "seer twins" but i went the apocalypse boys route. I felt the need to draw a billowing cape lol.)

i kinda want to rant about some shit, particularly to do with Donnie's cloak, like how it's darkened over the years, and how between the dark cloak and the fact that if Donnie "rescues" someone they either come back dead or soon to be dead (compared to Leo who's rescues always live), he ends up with a Grim Reaper sort of reputation. But, then again, that's really it on the subject and i'm pretty exhausted rn.

anyways, video link will be up once it's available.

Edit: Speedpaint Link

[bardicious]

Sudden thought, I wonder if Erik is actually not aware of Charles’ limitations. Erik meets Charles as the latter jumps into the ocean to save him. Charles is calm all through out. Seemingly not afraid to sacrifice OR knows he will not need to sacrifice anything to meet Erik down below.

Charles tells Erik he knows everything about him. To some extent maybe, but not really. Charles gets the gist of people around him. Goes in enough to know who’s a threat, who can be trusted, but he asks Erik’s permission in finding that sweet memory of Erik and his mom. Charles didn’t know about it beforehand.

Erik didn’t even think Charles would feel Shaw’s death, nor the people on the boats. He assumes Charles has the option to not feel it, presumably. Or doesn’t know how bad it could be.

Erik leaves Charles on the beach before Charles learns he can’t feel his legs, he doesn’t see Charles’ breakdown and Charles keeps himself together admirably beforehand. Reigning in what must be extreme amounts of pain.

When Erik sees Charles again, Erik presumes that Charles could and would use his powers on Erik, stop him whenever he wants, because they’re enemies now. When he realizes Charles can’t do that, it is still unfathomable to him. And on the plane it all suddenly makes sense. Charles valued his ability to walk more than his powers, Charles chose to remove his powers. Charles abandoned them all to pretend at being normal.

Not for a second does Erik believe Charles is anything but all put together, all knowing. Presumably naive, Erik knows better how cruel the world is. Has experienced real hardship while Charles, as much as Erik loves him, lived a pampered one. It makes sense to Erik that Charles would pick being human.

Not once does Erik think Charles may have been abused by a step father and a step brother. Suffered an alcoholic mother who possibly drank herself to death long before 1962. Charles simply doesn’t say anything and quite honestly prefers to move on from them, because they don’t matter. Raven and Erik matter tho. His little team of mutants mattered, and every single one he’s met at first year of school and through cerebro matter.

Charles is strong enough to help the mutants in need, guide them, and if he were just willing to see Erik’s point of view, fight the good fight against the humans. Because Charles doesn’t make mistakes, Charles doesn’t have failures, but he fails the rest of them.

Charles, unfortunately, isn’t seen as a fallible person to even Erik. More akin to a god, that Erik needs to protect his mind from, because otherwise, his god will exact judgment and punishment. Take his free will away from him because Erik has disobeyed him. To Erik, while Charles and him are equals, both god figures in their own right, with his helmet he levels out a playing field Charles doesn’t even see.

Of course, this is not unlike everyone else in Charles’ life, though where Erik sees a godly figure, everyone else sees Charles as a parent figure, placing him on a similar high pedestal. Seemingly everyone will tend to ignore Charles’ possible emotional instability or fallibility, the way a child might expect their parent to be all knowing. Charles’ wrongs become grander because surely he knows better. So why did Charles’ let this, whatever this is, happen?

[staffs-secret-blog]

Why do we hate John Winchester for literally being a Vietnam war vet with just heaps of trauma on top of his trauma with trauma sauce, who didn't do a great job as a dad for sure. Still he did the best he could with the cards he was dealt.... yet we forgive Sam who literally went to Stanford and spent 15 seasons bitching and moaning about how life's not fair. To his brother who literally spent what felt like lifetimes being tortured in hell to save his sorry ass, lost everyone he ever loved, had a shot at the family of his dreams and had to give it up to keep them safe, AND kept a good attitude about the whole thing?

Honestly? Fuck Sam Winchester right in the bellybutton.

Leave me alone why did you send me this

[wu-does-art]

au where mike narrowly escapes the upsidedown while on patrol and gets an obscure curse to be a catboy for a month. this is amusing to everyone but mike.

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

au where, upon weirdmaggedon starting, stan is one of the first to notice and just grabs his family and takes off out of town

dipper: he’s turning people into statues!

stan, buckling him into the back seat of soos’ truck: which is why you’re not staying here, kid

stan: alright, now we’ve just gotta find mabel and ford

dipper, pointing: you think she might be in that bubble up there? it’s got the same symbol as her favorite sweater

stan: worth a check. stay here, don’t move, i’ll be right back

stan (a little while later), walking back covered in glitter and carrying mabel: okay, we’ve got the kids, we’ve got soos, we’ve got wendy and one of her brothers, we’ve got that weird old guy that smells like possums, now we just need…ah fuck

stan, seeing ford on his way to the top of the bell tower and grabbing him by the back of his coat: nope, you’re coming with us

ford: wh- stan-

stan, shoving him into the back seat and taking off: alright where we heading first

ford:

[betweenlands]

fifth horsemen

[prismatica-the-strange]

Look, spoiler alert, but Ada fucking dies at one point. Like properly dies.

She only gets to come back because Hector gets to the Forge before it's destroyed. Ada's mind isn't as old or as full as James Delos's and that's why it works.

Now, you may be asking me, 'But Prisma! It takes ages to design and make a host so how-'

This is why I left Lee alive! Haha! When Hector was being glitchy after Ada couldn't come to the park, Lee started working on a host replication of her to get him to work properly.

He knew her real person wasn't long for this world, so he was waiting for her to die before he put the host in rotation. So yeah, Delos just happened to have a vacant Adeline Rooney bot ready for her.

[toreodere]

Ough after several weeks I have finally managed to sleep through the night properly!

I had to go through a handful of extremely slow and boring dreams to do it but I feel vaguely like I've gotten over a massive hurdle now that I've woken up at a time long preceding noon.

[senorboombastic]

Editor’s Picks: Top 50 songs of 2023 – Part Two

In classic fashion, my personal favourite record from 2023 came out a year ago. Eagle-eyed Instagram followers might’ve noticed too that when it came to the big Spotify Wrapped reveals, my number one song (and quite a few within the top five) were from an album that came out seven years ago! As our reviews man Ben Forrester likes to say though – don’t get it twisted! We bleed new music through…

[leonsrightarm]

[tblsomedoodles]

Apocalypse Seer Twins comic (title tbd) part 1

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Anyways, welcome to the start of "Donnie has a waking vision in the middle of the apocalypse for the first time while they're on mission" comic. I'm not sure how long this will be but it will probably go through Leo yelling at Donnie once he wakes up, so it will at least be that long.

the only reason this took so long to come out was b/c i got stuck on the stupid krang monster at the end. I have since given up on drawing them properly so have a pink krang-like blob instead.

(masterpost for the curious)

[dinosaur-mayonnaise]

HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON

In the bsd s5 finale when Bram gets his body back he goes up to Aya and he's like 'I'm your loyal knight now".

And then later, right at the end of the episode, Akutagawa (possibly one from a different book dimension or from a different time) comes along wearing a knight's outfit.

Was Akutagawa sent by Bram in a different universe to help save the world? Did he come from the past? Is time travel a thing now? I have no idea but I'm telling you guys, there's a connection there.

[decks-on-fire]

The amount of magicians blatantly using AI imagery in their marketing/promo materials is putting the battle for legitimacy back significantly, ngl

If you want people to think that magic is Art, and that you as a magician are an Artist of any sort, then having fundamentally no solidarity for your fellow Artists is only going to turn them against you

And we need the endorsement of Artists if we're going to be seen as legitimate, as anything but light entertainment

I get it's easy to use AI. That doesn't mean you should use it.