#Tarantula Trio

[twistedwonderlandobsession]

Ace: I can see what's happening

Deuce: What?

Ace: And they don't have a clue

Deuce: Who?

Ace: They'll fall in love and here's the bottom line, our trio's down to two

Deuce: Oh

Ace: The sweet caress of tWiLiGHt, there's MaGIc everywhere and with all this romantic atmosphere, DISASTERS in the air....

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*Cut scenes of Ace and Deuce trying to drop A TARANTULA on Yuu's crush while they are on their first date, putting ants in their picnic basket on their second date, spilling drinks on Yuu's crush, setting a forest on fire so their crush cant ask them to prom there, stealing the Crush's phone and sending mean messeges, and spreading rumors about their crush along with sending Yuu unflattering pictures of them*

[mad-scientist-showdown]

Welcome to the

Mad Scientist Showdown!

[ID: a 32-contestants tournament bracket titled "Mad Scientist Showdown⚡️". Confettis are covering the screen, highlighting the winners: the trio consisting of Doofenshmirtz, Megamind, and Princess Bubblegum. The list of all contestants is written below. End ID]

The tournament is over! Congrats to the winners: Doofenshmirtz, Megamind and Princess Bubblegum! Love wins

Unofficially Donatello is their nephew and all 4 of them form a chaotic family together btw

bonus (unofficial) 4-way poll between the finalists

information masterpost (useful tags, q&a,...)

round 1 masterpost

round 2 masterpost

round 3 masterpost

semi-finals masterpost

finals

bonus (unofficial) 4-way poll between the finalists <- active!

important democracy polls masterpost

revival poll a (ended)

revival poll b (ended)

third (decisive) revival poll (ended -> Olivia Octavius)

Contestants

Left half:

Reagan Ridley vs Franken Stein

Hanji Zoe vs Wilson P. Higgsbury

Olivia Octavius (aka Doc Ock) vs Donatello

Professor Venomous vs Enoch Drebber

Tarantulas vs Strawbery Crepe Cookie

Hatsume Mei vs Raphaella La Cognizi

Professor Membrane vs Floofty Fizzlebean

Okabe Rintarou vs Stanford Pines

Right half:

Newton Geiszler vs Colress

Medic vs Dr. Robotnik (aka Eggman)

Herbert West vs Dr. Two-Brains

Emmett Brown vs Doofenshmirtz

Megamind vs Entrapta

Dr. Horrible vs Princess Bubblegum

Frank-N-Furter vs Rick Sanchez

W.D. Gaster vs Test Tube

Thank you for this fun time!

(yes the placement of the contestants has changed between round 1 and round 2. unfortunately i can't edit past polls to make it consistant..)

[frostiecake]

Have some poorly drawn monster ASS trio!!

We got Fire Monster Sam, Crow Harpy Abby, and Tarantula Seb!

Some lore on the fire monsters! In their natural state, they lack facial feature, but lately younger generations have started mimicking expressions with paler flames! This means if their focus of making facial expressions is broken, whether that be intense emotion, focusing on something else, or simply forgetting, their face will distort and eventually disappear until redone, since it’s done manually. Also no bones

With Sam himself, I imagine human Sam has heterochromia, and I decided to translate this into fire terms by making some of his flames blue!

I don’t really have much lore for spider monsters or harpies, but if anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated!

You can use these designs/interpretations, or take inspiration from them as long as you tag me in the post!

[transingthoseformers]

Your hcs for Tarnmasaurus n Overtarapan family domestic or other stuff?

Tarn and Overlord still have beef, and their partners have opinions of varying breeds on this.

Imagining Tarn wakes up often with both Pharma and Deathsaurus on top of him and he feels so squished. It's like a picture of that cat all snaggled up while two other cats are cuddled close with it

Overlord and Trepan enable their spider husband's atrocities against science

Overlord's glad someone (well two someones) finally want/wants him

They're neighbors. To me, the two trios are neighbors who both don't get along and get along a little too well, and occasionally babysit for each other.

We've established that Inferno exists as a tarasaurus child, so I suggest Tarantulas and Deathsaurus are amiable exes (or as close to that we get when it comes to these fuckers)

Baby Predaking is a sweetheart who got the love growing up canon predders never got.

We know Overlord is the godfather of Predaking (probably)

Tarantulas is somehow the least bad influence of them all, as he's the best with kids.

Overtarapan worked together with Springer to somehow a "Cybertron's #1 deadbeat dad" mug to Prowl. He was not amused.

I'm torn between them all having a rocky (mostly empty) moon to themselves or them eventually moving to Cybertron, which would be Such An Event, and concern so many people

Primus help anyone that dares to threaten any of them

Pharma tinkers with science experiments too, though his are (usually) more focused on medical science and (usually) are more ethical than Tarantulas's

The rest of the DJD live separately from the trios, but they still visit and they are the uncles. Some of Deathsaurus's mecha are also considered honorary uncles or aunts.

I'm taking the "sparklings turn out small and squishy" approach because that's kinda kinda what we see in canon (slightly kinda)

And that's all I have for now!

[notjosieyouremy]

alkalent trinity day 37

eating like marilyn monroe part quatre (le four)

added cinnamon and nutmeg to my hot milk/egg abomination, just to break up the monotony

my dog throws a literal tantrum if i don’t share my carrots with him. marilyn said “i must be part rabbit; i never get bored with raw carrots.” maybe dobby was mm in a past life

i ate like 5 of my bf’s fries. because i was hungry and i am weak

total 1,212 cal

tuck me in with the tarantulas

i wanna let em in my mouth and down my throat to lay their eggs

[noxexistant]

Please I beg of you good hcs 😭😭😭 I Need feel goods 😭😭😭

everyone in the manhattan lodging house knows there’s an open invitation to the penthouse.

it’s jack and crutchie’s place, sure, they’re the only ones who sleep up there every night - mostly because nobody else is crazy enough to - but specs has taught them all how to get up there, and jack always leaves the one window to the fire escape cracked open. every time he heads up there at night, he tosses, “‘m’in the penthouse ‘f’you need me,” over his shoulder, before he helps crutchie up the ladder - an invitation that anyone can go up there and seek him and crutchie out. that it’s not private.

the newsies take him up on it when they need it. race most frequently, because, okay, he misses his brothers and sometimes gets jealous that they’ve got their own private little place that doesn’t include him - which, yes, they only do because he’s refused every offer to join them, insisting he’d much rather sleep under a roof in a bed if there’s both going, thank you very much - but it’s the principle of it all. so, some nights he’ll clamber up the steps after his brothers and make them drag their beds together so he can clamber into the middle, and they can all spend the night like they did when they all first met. just kids tucked up together, safe in their trio, talking endlessly and learning everything about each other. there isn’t much to learn anymore, they know each other backwards and forwards, but that just means race has to come up with stupider questions to cover - like whether they’d rather fight a hundred tarantulas or a hundred rats, and if they heard the latest gossip fresh out of brooklyn, and if they wanna hear how he swindled some asshole outside the races.

the younger newsies climb up there pretty frequently too. splasher especially - he’s restless, and he likes to climb, though once he’s up there he gets in trouble with jack for clambering too close to the edges. he ends up all but pinned in jack’s arms, and only ever manages to giggle and fight for a few minutes before he’s out like a light. jojo likes to stand at the ledge and seek out the light of the churches, finding comfort in the fact that they’re there.

finch likes to sit and whistle out to the night, an endless wandering lilt of tunes and songs all blending into one another, hazy and soothing. he often can’t sleep indoors, needs the familiarity of the fresh air and the chill. albert likes to shoot finch or crutchie’s slingshot out at passers-by trying to get home in the dark, and loves that he doesn’t even have to hide because there’s no light on the edge of the roof for them to see him in. specs will sit at the edge of crutchie and jack’s beds and just talk, the types of talks that they don’t often get to have with all the kids around - honest and more serious. grown-up talks. which usually dissolve into hushed laughter and gossiping anyway, cracking jokes and sharing rumours they’d never get away with in front of the kids.

les begs davey and their parents for weeks to be allowed to have their first sleepover on the roof too. he’s enthralled by jack’s penthouse right from the first moment he sees it, where davey thinks jack is insane. davey’s never slept outside in his life, can’t imagine the appeal, but then it’s a warm evening and les is still begging and jack’s got that warm, amused look on his face, and davey finally says that, yes, okay, sure, they can go home and ask their folks and then, if they’re allowed, come back for a sleepover.

les and davey’s blankets that they bring are a lot softer and cleaner than jack’s and crutchie’s, but they’re added to the pile on the floor without hesitation. all four of them - the two pairs of brothers - all lay together in the mess, les and crutchie whispering amongst themselves, so it’s just jack and davey on the other side. and davey maybe finally understands the appeal, feeling the warm summer breeze on his face as he just looks at jack, silhouetted in the darkness but lit hazily on the one side in weak golden lamplight. he’s in just his trousers and undershirt, and his hair is untidy, and he looks as in his element as he does when he’s selling or painting. he looks peaceful.

davey forgets to sleep for a long while. he’s more interested in staring at jack. but then jack, half-stirring, makes a sound and opens his deep brown eyes just the slightest sliver, and reaches out discontentedly to where davey is sat at what he’d hoped was a respectable distance, a little too anxious to lay down. half afraid that it’d break the spell of jack like this. jack’s warm hand finds his forearm and pulls him closer none too gently, and suddenly davey finds himself lay on the confusing feeling of soft duvet on hard concrete, feeling jack’s hair tickle his cheek and smelling his skin, and jack makes another sound - a much more content one this time.

he and les have a lot more sleepovers at the lodging house after that. les is always delighted to get to spend the night chattering with crutchie until they fall asleep in a chaotic tangle.

[driedupeyeballs]

Hi! So! Remember Spider? Yeah? Did you know he’s… not my only… Yuu… OC…

Fox! Fox Peterson! What a dude! Uh! Yeah!

Yeah! So them and spider grew up together, and despite being pretty different in most things they’re practically inseparable. They met when they were both around 7-ish because they lived in the same neighborhood, eventually Fox moved to a different state but they kept in touch and never drifted apart. They got isekai’d into Twst on the same day once when Fox was visiting. Fox had come down to where spider lived because a band they both liked was playing a concert in the area, and the carriages came when they’d gotten split up before the show started. It took them a while to find each other in tw but once they did they made a promise that when they finally got out of tw, they’d see that band in concert someday

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They have a lot of pets! Idk if I’ve mentioned this but Spider has a gray cat named Smoke in his homeland, and a tarantula named Willow that he has in tw and keeps in his dorm. Fox has three dogs and two cats in their homeland, the dogs are Solar (Golden Retriever), Cielo (German Shepard), and Wisp (Husky), and the cats are Sophie (Russian blue) and Howl (Himalayan)

Fox joined the fencing club at Royal sword academy as they’ve always had an interest in sword fighting and similar things, they have a small sword collection in their homeland.

Fox is trilingual, they speak English, Spanish, and Japanese. They speak a little bit of French but isn’t fluent

They befriended neige fairly quickly, as well as a few of my rsa OCs, namely Dove (twisted from prince Florian) and Elis (twisted from Alice.) Jasper (Jasmine) takes a liking to Fox fairly quickly, but Jasper has a tendency to take a liking to everybody and has gotten into some bullshit bcuz of it, so his vice housewarden is a bit (VERY) protective of who he hangs around with. Che’nya likes messing with Fox cuz he knows they’re too nice to bite back.

Speaking of that, generally Fox is too nice to bite back. They’re extremely logical, calm, and collected in any given situation, which is one of the reasons they work well with Spider, given that Spider has a very short temper and tends to blow a fuse at a lot of things, so Fox can always mediate. There are very few occasions where Fox would ever raise their voice, they always try to be a voice of reason in every situation.

Fox is an ENFJ, which is almost the complete opposite of Spider’s INTP. Also, in the subtlest of Nice moments I could possibly add, Fox’s birthday is exactly 69 days after Spider’s birthday.

I have a third Twst OC who isn’t a Yuu, but he’s an NRC student that spider and Fox befriend, making my main Twst OC trio. Also that oc’s birthday is 69 days BEFORE spider’s birthday (so his is April 7th). Can you tell I’m bad at coming up w birthdays 😔 anyway third little shit is Calliope Mavros (he/she/they), they’re twisted from the hydra from Hercules. Theyre Ignihyde’s sole jock

Floyd’s nickname for them is Garibaldi, which is this funky guy. He calls them any variation of it, but usually “Gari-chan” or “Lil’ Garibaldi.” Unlike Spider, Fox loves their Floyd-chosen name and actually has a little garibaldi plushie that they sewed because of it. Spider is jsut salty he didn’t get called a shark and is instead stuck as Little Koifishie lmao (also shoutout to person from discord server for coming up w Garibaldi for them I could not figure out a good Floyd name for them)

Rook had a hard time coming up with a nickname for Fox bcuz there’s rlly no gender nuetral anything in French so monsieur doesn’t have a neutral equivalent, he ended up just landing on maître des lames, which, if google translate isn’t failing me, is Master of blades.

Also their dynamic with Jade is very silly!!! I shall ramble about them for a moment. Spider works at mostro lounge so Fox and Calliope were chilling there one day, and it was one of Fox’s first times at NRC, and their first time at Octavinelle. Spider warned them to steer clear of the leech twins, but Fox is one of those ppl that can literally make friends with anyone so they often don’t heed such warnings. Spider had to go do some work and told Calliope to make sure Azul n the twins don’t rope Fox into anything. Fox is a bit gullible, but they’re still logical, so Calliope didn’t think it would be a massive deal for her to leave Fox unattended. It’s not like they’re a child. So Calliope went to grab some stuff from his dorm that they’d forgotten, leaving Fox alone. Didn’t take long for Floyd to sniff out the fresh meat, and Floyd was already messing with them from the bat. But Fox wasn’t getting annoyed by his attempts at getting under their skin, they were just doing their thing of being way entirely too nice. Now, Fox is also a big fan of mushrooms, and Floyd noticed the fact they were wearing mushroom earrings and he somehow verbally rolled his eyes, groaning abt how he didn’t need more mushroom lunatics in his life. As if summoned by some godly force, Jade materialized behind Floyd and complimented Fox’s earrings, to which the two began discussing mushrooms and Floyd immediately left the room, groaning as loud as he possibly could. And through the power of fungi and mostro discounts Jade managed to accidentally win over this idiot, then he ends up falling head first soon enough

Thanks for dealing with my rambling

[drechastory]

The silly Pete’s gang ladies and gents. I’ve never seen much art for these guys. And I will make comic strips of the, as well with the Amanda the Adventurer comic.

These are my head cannons for them.

Pete: Pete is the mouse for those who don’t know. (The bunny is known as Dottie and the beagle is named Finn.)

Pete is my favorite of the trio of animatronics. He is typically a degrading character but usually means his comments as jokes, but his tone confuses his comrades. He is the only one who holds something from the outside world. The packet watch BTW. He usually starts fights with his siblings, and starts trouble with the janitor(Oscar Willis). In the trio, he is technically the oldest brother, since he’s the first model for silly Pete’s.

Dottie: she is the only girl in the establishment, she is the nicest one in the establishment. Except on her “time of the month”. I have no idea what went through their bosses mind when he writes this code into her, but thanks to that, she is given a week off of work, due to her violent mood swings, and uncontrollable cussing at this time. She is the only bot with medical knowledge, and in her posters is seen wearing a nurse hat. She also has a pet tarantula, that she had captured when she first arrived at the establishment, called Mr. Cobs.

Finn: is the youngest member, and the closest to Oscar, he is very playful, and gets bored very easily. When interacts with kids, his first instinct is to play games with his trusty “stick”, which is actually a plastic sword since he’s a pirate. He’s a cuddler when he takes naps. He has a malfunction that’s acts like dissociative identity disorder, his second persona is known as Fergie. He tends to mimic the environment around him, which can be calm, or violent depending on the day. The way to tell the difference is very subtle, but Finn wears his top cloth like a pirate does and wears his bandana like a scarf I guess, meanwhile Fergie folds the top cloth like a sailors hat, and adjusts his scarf to resemble Pete’s bow tie. He is also very overprotective of his siblings, and is the first their boss blames for issues. Poor, poor beagle.

Oscar: he doesn’t actually a name in the Aga comic, but I gave him a name and a better role. He has two jobs, he either works as a janitor, or an extra mascot during the fall, called pumper pumpkin. He usually stays after hours to make sure the trio of siblings don’t mark each other before the show. To the animatronics, he’s more of a parental figure than their actual “dad”(the boss). He doesn’t trust Dottie or Pete to be near him when working, as they usually cause him trouble. But Finn is different, since the most he’ll do that stalls his work is asking him to play with him, after like five minutes, Finn leaves him be. He is also afraid of spiders, another reason he stays away from Dottie.

[covecornerarchive]

corbinthemysterypirate asked:

I wanna know, since it seems that most people don't really realize this but, are there any other kids in candle cove. And if so has Janice ever met them, how does she react to others?

Ok, I can only really speak for my au, not other people's, but yes there are other kids in candle cove besides Janice, it's just that she's the only one there from our world.

I know on the wiki Nathan is mentioned as another kid member of the Laughingstock Crew who was Janice's neighbor in the real world, but because I think that's kind of distracting and takes away from Janice being the focus of the story (and creates a HUGE plot hole for my au's world building) in my version he's also a puppet like everyone else. He's also a little older than Janice in my version, about 13 (just to make sense out of why Calvary seems more chill with him being on the crew than Janice at first), and while he and Janice are pretty close friends and can come to each other as kids about stuff in a way they can't with the other adults I also cut the tid-bit about them having a crush on each other out cuz, again I made him older and it felt like another distracting thing.

There's also Auburn! I don't nearly talk about her as much as I should considering how much she rots my brain (again just referring to her in my own au not the wiki). In my version Thade and Lillian aren't her biological parents, but rather she was a stowaway on the Tarantula ship (for reasons I'll get into later) and was just sort of...adopted by the crew over time? Lillian did practically become her mom and while it's more difficult to discern what relationship she had with Thade, since I hesitate to call him a dad sometimes because they feel like a more terrorizing little sister and very tired older brother duo, they were all family none the less. This also means Auburn was there for Red Mary's attack on the crew though, and along with Thade and Percy, was the only survivor (though the other two aren't aware of this and presumed her to be dead since they were separated).

I can't really get into her too much since I also have a big sequel au where the good guys and bad guys team up to defeat Red Mary and Auburn is involved in a big way, but the basic gist is after the attack she was just on a hellbent path for revenge which ended up getting her involved in a bunch of magic stuff, as well as hurting others and herself. In the same au she does end up joining the team and by this time both her and Janice are a bit older, Janice 14 and Auburn 16, but they actually get along great. Much like how Janice has Thade parallels in her characterization and story arc, Auburn has a lot of parallels to Lillian in the same way, so the two of them have a similary dynamic personality wise. Janice honestly just thinks Auburn is super cool and learns much more about magic and abyssians through her, and Janice helps Auburn give herself a break and move past some of the survivors guilt from the attack on the crew and how she was never able to avenge her mother on her own. I think they may also bond over losing their moms at young ages and having to live without them.

I've always loved to imagine Janice, Nathan, and Auburn just being this super chaotic trio of rag tag kids doing pirate crimes and getting into trouble. Auburn is usually the one to start chaos, Nathan tries to stop her, and while Janice helps her with it she's also usually the one to get them all out of it. It's their thing :] They should have like....a "Traumatized pirate kids who have been through some shit" therapy group they all need it.

Also, even though in my version she never actually makes it to the cove itself, me and a few friends on discord have come up with this sort of spin off story focusing on Melrose and what's happening back in Ohio after Janice goes missing that has more of that og candle cove cursed tv show feel than the main candle cove story I have where the feel is more aligned with grimm fairytales.

It's basically Melrose, who's going through guilt hell after Janice goes missing, seeing her sister in candle cove on the TV one day, basically the actual candle cove show described in the og creepypasta. Because everyone else only sees static though, she feels like she's going crazy, until one day a kid from school tells her "I saw your sister on TV too." From there Mel and a few other kids who have also witnessed the show (all oc's I'll share later) form this little group aiming to figure out what the hell's going on and to hopefully get Janice back from where ever she went. It sort of has that 80's horror movie vibe with the group of kids banding together over weird shit happening to them and having to solve a mystery or face off against something evil before it's too late. It's fun, it'll be fun I'm definitely not going to drag them all through trauma.

(April 12, 2022)

[hi-my-name-is-cosmopathy]

Hello I just wanted to say that I made a third faction in my Transformers AU called "Sideliners"

Basic Explanation: Cybertronians who aren't officially in the Autobots or the Decepticons.

The third faction was non-existent until a trio consisting of an Autobot, a Decepticon and an ordinary civilian created a refugee camp for survivors in the war. Although they were main runners of the area and had accidentally created a community, none of them claimed position as leaders and simply treated everyone normally, whether they're Autobot or Decepticon.

But they decided to create a faction after seeing the damage taking sides in the war has caused. Unfortunately, one of the bots in the trio, the one who wasn't in any side, died in an attack on the camp by Decepticons who were in a fight with the Autobots.

They were creating the insignia but it was left unfinished as a last request from the mech so that "everyone can create it to their liking", which may have further reinforced the main thing about being a Sideliner: freedom and normalcy.

This faction was viewed poorly in the optics of the two other faction, both calling them cowards for not choosing sides. Sideliners were a very obscure faction, but if we're following a continuity were the Autobots and the Decepticons have to go to Earth, that's when they became more known. But mainly for hiding among humans (or making secret friendships with them) and adjusting to life on Earth instead of fighting.

Here's some of the characters who are Sideliners in my AU (this may change overtime)

Dreadwing

Knockout

Brainstorm

Whirl

Cyclonus

Tailgate

Swindle

Tarantulas

Ok thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

[dylanndr]

Izzy Hands Jams

I finally got my contributor copies for the Songs for 2022 playlist zine, organized by @koricomics! The prompt was to illustrate a playlist of songs that encapsulated some aspect of 2022 for each of us.

Of course, my playlist is all about Izzy.

And look, I set up the playlist in Spotify so you can actually listen to it at your leisure!

I think a lot of these will be fairly obvious, but if you are curious to know more about why I included each song, read on:

AC/DC - "Problem Child"

Izzy's attitude in general. I specifically included AC/DC as an homage to the AC/DC t-shirt Con O'Neill was wearing when they all did their renewal announcements.

Alkaline Trio - "Tuck Me In"

In part about Izzy's internalization of toxic culture ("Tuck me in with the tarantulas, I want to let 'em in my mouth and down my throat to lay their eggs."), but also "tuck me into bed with snakes" as a reference to Blackbeard's snake tattoo, wink wink. I included this song before I knew Izzy's pet of choice would be a snake, but hey. It works.

In This Moment - "Adrenalize"

A song about kink from the POV of the sub, it opens with a negotiation/boundary statement ("Let me tell you how I want it before we begin"). So this is more aspirational for Izzy rather than a description of how he currently operates, but I do think chasing the adrenaline surge is a part of what drives him.

Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen in Love"

By bisexual singer/songwriter Pete Shelley, this song is specifically about a messy queer relationship with a man he lived with for several years.

The Birthday Massacre - "Cold Lights"

A general vibe of unrequited romantic yearning tainted by deception. "Face of fire" evokes the Blackbeard persona Izzy is lusting after. Also references to the various lies Izzy told, thinking he was protecting his interests, only to watch things spiral out of control.

Judas Priest - "A Touch of Evil"

Another song about kink from the POV of the sub, this time sung by a gay man (though, fun fact, Rob Halford is vanilla IRL; he says he doesn't tend to write autobiographical lyrics). Obvious references to the toe scene, and how it was a positive transformative moment for Izzy.

Joan Jett - "I Hate Myself for Loving You"

Partially about unrequited love, partially about continually trying to leave this person and not being able to, and a general air of self-loathing over the whole proceedings.

Rammstein - "Tattoo"

The title is a pretty obvious surface-level reference, but the song is more specifically about enjoying the pain of being tattooed. I have a headcanon that Izzy has so few tattoos relative to his age and experience because he's extremely particular about who gets to tattoo him. He gets too, erm, excited by the proceedings, and can't tolerate handing that kind of power over him to just anyone.

The GazettE - "Devouring One Another"

Well, now, a song that uses cannibalism as a sexualized metaphor for a toxic relationship. Gosh, how could that be relevant to our Iz. BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE. The line "Is it not allowed to betray God?" could serve as a reference to Izzy's full name, "Israel" meaning "one who struggles with god," where Blackbeard/Edward = god. Whomst he betrays. Screaming "shut up, dammit!" on repeat is just gravy.

Dolly Parton - "Jolene" (Lil Nas X cover for max gay)

The Lil Nas X version is, AFAIK, only available on YouTube, but either version works. Stede's eyes aren't emerald green, and his hair is a bit light for auburn, but still.

The Stooges - "I Wanna Be Your Dog"

Pretty obvious reference to "love of a pet," and to the submissive nature of Izzy's relationship to Edward.

[bloodmoon24]

List your cartoon crushes

(If you want, and if you can remember, you can list them in chronological order)

Slade (Teen Titans)

Raymond (Ok Ko)

Chris Kratt (Wild Kratts)

Red Action (Ok Ko (sometimes))

Striker, Blitz, Stolas (most of the time), Asmodeus, Fizzarolli, Octavia (sometimes), Sallie-May, Andrealphus (even though he hasn’t been shown, but still) (Helluva Boss)

XLR8, Upgrade, HeatBlast, Big Chill (Ben Ten (believe or not, the reboot))

Twilight, Sunset Shimmer, Luna (pony) (MLP)

Garnet, Pearl, Lapis (Steven Universe)

Hawkodile (Unikitty!)

Leo, TigerClaw, Karia (2012 TMNT)

Marceline (Adventure Time)

Raven (Teen Titans)

The Mane Five from MLP A New Generation

Lord Dominator (Wonder Over Yander)

Toffee and Star Butterfly (SVTFOE)

Trollex, Barb, Tresillo, Synth, Val, Bi-Na, Young, Min, Poppy, R&B, LowNote Jones (Trolls) (Lot of Trolls)

Calamity Trio (Amphibia)

Mr. Wolf, Diane Foxington, Ms. Tarantula, Mr. Snake (The Bad Guys)

Jinx, Echo, Silco (Arcane)

Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy (Into the Spider-Verse

These are all my cartoon crushes (it’s a lot, I know. It’s insane) Let me know what yours are

Tags: @moss-mogai-hell @xxxstarduststuiodsxxx @lasirenacanta @sparklijam @king-trollex-fan

(Don’t judge me on who my crushes were)

[aggimaginary]

The Bad Guys season 1: Our Own Story (chapter 2) - Give It A Try

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Hey guys, as promised, I got my 2nd chapter exactly 5 days after I posted my 1st chapter. I hope you like this one. This chapter is based on one of my favorite childhood shows.

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Intro

Mr. Wolf: Yeah! I'm bad!

Mr. Snake: You're bad!

Ms. Tarantula: He's bad!

Mr. Hornet: She's bad!

Mr. Piranha: We're bad!

Mr. Shark: Who's bad?

The Bad Guys: Yeah! We're the Bad Guys!

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One morning, Tarantula was tapping the keyboard of her laptop on the table, and Hornet was digging into the upper kitchen cabinet. Piranha was cooking breakfast.

The giant circular vault door opened as Snake yawned, and slithered himself out, "Hey losers, what's for breakfast?"

Tarantula rolled her eyes as she didn't take Snake's insult too personally. She knew how he was as she greeted while laughing, "Aww, good morning to you too, Mr. Grumpypants."

Hornet flew out from the cabinet while carrying a box of fruit loops cereal, "I got some sugary cereal right here."

"I thought you always eat healthy," Piranha said, who was just below the hornet.

"Yeah, well, I need some sugar. Besides, sugar isn't meat after all," Hornet chuckled.

Snake went to the fridge and opened it. He was looking for something for breakfast, but when his eyes wandered inside the fridge, what he was looking for was not there, "Wha—" He scanned through the fridge again to see if he was dreaming, but was saddened by the cold, hard reality: there was 100% no meat in the fridge, "What the—!" He pulled the upper part of the fridge open to search for more, but there was no meat at all, "Aah!" Snake screamed as he turned to his 3 friends, "We've been robbed!"

On cue, Hornet flew down, and put the box of cereal down on the counter, into the room, "Robbed."

Piranha rushed towards Snake, and in front of the fridge, "What did they take"?

Snake replied frantically, "Everything! My, my, my- my crispy bacon, my juicy succulent ham, my tasty turkey, my salty, savory salami!"

Snake opened a drawer in the middle of the fridge and gasped again, "They even took my pulled pork!" He covered his eyes with his tail to weep silently, "What kind of criminal steals a snake's pulled pork?!"

"Sounds like the work of a…'pork'ster," Piranha snickered thinking his joke was funny as Tarantula and Hornet joined in the laughter.

"That is not funny! I need to call Wolf!" Snake scowled as he slithered in the direction of Wolf's room.

Tarantula then commented, "Okay, you know, uh, try SVU! The 'Salami Victims Unit'!"

The trio broke into laughter again

"I don't know. If we wait too long, it's gonna be a cold cuts case!" Hornet added as the trio once again were laughing.

Snake, who was completely unamused, pointed at them with his tail, and said, "Whatever this is, not helping!" Just then, Wolf came out of his room, fixing up his suit, as Snake sighed in relief, "Wolf! Finally, you're here. Listen, all of the meat is gone from the fridge!"

What?" Wolf ran towards the fridge, and opened it to see if there was any meat, but there was none, "Looks like we've run out of meat."

"Good thing," Hornet mumbled smilingly.

Snake was now checking the guinea pig cage, and it was empty too, "And I don't have my guinea pig left!"

"You ate your last guinea pig 4 days ago," Wolf reminded

"I need to eat meat! I need to!" Snake hyperventilated in panic as he slithered all over the place.

Hornet followed him around the room, and fluttered in front of Snake to calm him down, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Snake, there's a lot of food here you can eat besides meat. Why don't you just eat vegetables?"

Snake groaned in disgust, "What am I? You?!"

Hornet rolled his eyes.

Then, Piranha cut in for the conversation while chopping up vegetables, "You know, Hornet has a point. As you know, I also eat vegetables."

"I thought you love to eat meat? The only thing left on your plate were bones," Tarantula pointed.

"I know. Meat is part of my diet, but I also eat plants. I mean, why else do I keep chopping these carrots, celery, and cucumbers here?" Piranha showed his half-chopped vegetables before blushing, "Well, cucumber is for my buddy!" He admitted before throwing a slice of cucumber in the air, "Think fast, Hornet!"

Hornet quickly flew towards the cucumber, and caught it with his mouth before eating it, "Thanks, bud!" Hornet flew down, and high-fived Piranha.

"Well, I'm not like you guys. Snakes only eat meat, and that is it! I guess I'll just wait until any of you would go to the grocery and buy me some meat," Snake said.

Wolf then checked the calendar at the storage room door, "Our next grocery schedule will be next week."

"Next week?! I'll starve!" Snake cried and dropped himself to the floor.

Hornet flew towards Snake, and landed on his shirt while patting him, "Sorry, Snake. Guess you have to get through the week without meat."

Snake got up and said, "You don't understand. If I go hungry like this, I'll… I'll…" He felt something that was taking over his mind and body as he tried to hold it in, but then, he could as Snake hissed loudly, and had his sharp teeth shown at Hornet, ready to attack him.

"Aaahh!" Hornet screamed as he was frozen in place, and embraced himself

"Snake, no!" Wolf, Piranha, and Tarantula yelled.

Snake immediately snapped out of it, and realized his predatory instincts were shown at Hornet, one of his friends, "Sorry, sorry. That's just instincts, not a joke," Just then, he turned to see the cat, grooming itself on his kitty bed, "Ah! Finally!"

Snake hissed, showing his sharp teeth once again, and ready to pounce at the cat.

"Snake!" Wolf hurriedly picked up the cat to protect it from Snake eating it.

"Arrgh!" Snake realized it happened again. He wanted to eat the cat, but his best friend prevented him from doing it. He then stared at the cat in Wolf's arms, and it licked his nose. Snake was uncomfortable with the cat licking his nose like that, "I think I hate you."

Hornet was still shivering in fear about Snake's predatory instincts, but Snake was still his friend, and he has no reason to be afraid of him as Hornet flew behind Snake who turned to face him, "Hey, in the meantime, why don't you try some vegetables?"

Snake groaned frustratingly, "I told you, I don't eat vegetables or any plant-based food! I just need to eat meat!"

"But you need to eat something. I'll get you something to eat. I have vegetables for you," Hornet flew to the fridge to get ingredients, and put them all in a bowl before mixing them together.

"Let me rephrase that again: Snakes really only eat meat."

"Now I hope you'll like this."

Hornet brought a bowl of vegetable salad and started singing.

Hornet: I made a veggie salad!

"No thank you, Hornet," Snake said while looking away.

Hornet: In a bowl of leafy greens!

Snake took a sniff, and commented, "Smells rather bitter."

Hornet: I made it fresh this morning!

"Very kind of you…," Snake stated.

Hornet: Topped with veggies light and lean!

"Delicious, if one likes that sort of thing, I'm sure," Snake muttered sarcastically.

Hornet: Give it a try! Why not give it a try? You gotta learn to unblock that flavor wedge If you're used to eating meat right out of the fridge!

Give it a try! And for dessert, there's apple pie! Before you say tut-tut You oughta know what?

You gotta give it a try!

Just then, Snake lost his senses again as his predatory instincts showed. He hissed at Hornet, who screamed and flew away, and Snake gave chase. Wolf, Piranha, and Tarantula chased after Snake to stop him from attempting to eat Hornet.

Later, it's Piranha's turn to give Snake something to eat without meat.

"Seems to me if the snake won't eat, you can't make him. Perhaps he can go days, maybe weeks, without food," Piranha said before Snake went all predator again, and hissed at the fish, who braced himself, but Snake was able to control himself, and backed off. Piranha then continued the song.

Piranha: Would you like a little Marraquetas? Picked it up this very morning! And can you avoid this though? To refuse a drink called Api Morado?

And then! Sopa de Maní! Mama's recipe, oh my! You oughta give it a try!

Snake's instincts were shown once again as he hissed at Piranha, and pounced at him, but Piranha ran off, and Snake gave chase across the room.

Just then, Shark came out of his room to witness the chase.

"What was that?" he asked.

"That was Snake. There's no meat left," Hornet explained.

"Oh, I know what he needs," Shark rushed to the kitchen to make his own food for Snake.

Shark: How about a little strawberry, cream cheese and tangerine sandwich?

While he was singing, Shark made a big mess around the kitchen, and Piranha was checking around, "Shark!"

Shark: Oh, what a sandwich!

"My kitchen!" Piranha yelled, but a small tangerine hit his face, knocking him backward. Shark was already finished making his sandwich.

Shark: On some very nice white bread! Did I mention it's a strawberry, cream cheese, and tangerine sandwich? On some very nice white bread? You oughta give it a try!

Piranha scoffed while holding his dish, "Hmph. If he won't eat my dish or Hornet's salad, what makes you think he'll eat that?"

"Well, Piranha, why not let him give it a try?" Hornet smiled as the trio began to sing their portions of their song in harmony.

(Hornet: Give it a try!) (Piranha: Would you like a little Marraquetas?) (Shark: How's about a little strawberry)

(Hornet: Why not give it a try?) (Piranha: Picked it up this very morning!) (Shark: cream cheese)

(Hornet: You gotta learn to unblock that flavor wedge) (Piranha: And can you avoid this though?) (Shark: and tangerine sandwich? Oh, what a sandwich!)

(Hornet: If you're used to eating meat right out of the fridge!) (Piranha: To refuse a drink called Api Morado?) (Shark: On some very nice white bread!)

(Hornet: Give it a try! And for dessert, there's apple pie!) (Piranha: And then! Sopa de Maní!) (Shark: Did I mention it's a strawberry, cream cheese, and tangerine sandwich?)

(Hornet: Before you say tut-tut. You oughta know what?) (Piranha: Mama's recipe, oh my!) (Shark: On some very nice white bread?)

Shark, Piranha & Hornet: You oughta give it a try!

"But do you have any meat?" Snake asked, but the rest of the crew shook their heads "no."

Shark, Piranha & Hornet: You oughta give it a try!

After the song, Snake got really annoyed that three of his friends forced him to try their food that he didn't like, and he still wanted to eat meat, "Oh, I appreciate your concern, friends, but I believe I shall just wait for my meat. I'll be in my room."

He slithered from the table, and headed towards his bedroom.

"Snake, come on. You need to eat something else. You need it. Please, let us help." Wolf pleaded. He just wanted to help his friends from starvation until grocery day.

"You bet I need help," Snake turned around to face Wolf, but got hallucinated when he saw Wolf as a giant steak, and showed his instincts again, "WE NEED GRAVY, AND PLENTY OF IT!"

Wolf was frozen in fear as Snake pounced at him to eat him, but Shark, Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet quickly pushed Snake away from the frozen Wolf before things could get even weirder.

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Later, 5 of the Bad Guys tied Snake on his bed with ropes to keep him still from attacking anyone in their hideout with his predatory snake instincts.

"Okay, maybe not meat. Ooh, you know what'd be fun? Let's all go out for waffles!" Snake shouted hysterically, "Hornet, you like waffles, don't you?!"

"More than life itself," Hornet admitted.

"We have to talk in private," Tarantula said.

As the rest of the boys agreed, they went out of Snake's room, and closed it without turning to handle, avoiding locking the door since Snake was the only one who can unlock the vault door.

When they were now outside, Tarantula continued her conversation, "We must help Snake."

"I can't believe I'm about to say this, but we gotta figure out a way to make Snake eat," Shark said.

"This calls for a plan," Wolf added as everyone nodded in agreement.

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At night, while Snake was still tied up, sleeping on his bed, his vault door slowly opened as Wolf, Shark, Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet snuck in very quietly with bunny ear headbands on their heads

"Exactly, why do we disguise like this?" Tarantula asked.

"We're dust bunnies, Webs," Wolf clarified.

"Snake doesn't sweep up very often, so we thought we'd fit right in," Piranha explained.

Tarantula finally understood the purpose of the disguise as she nodded, "Ooohh, right, right, right."

Hornet then shushed them to prevent them from making loud noises, "Quiet, everybody, we don't want Snake to…"

Suddenly, Snake rose up from his bed, still had his eyes closed as he was sleep-talking, "What the…? Who goes there?! Is that you, Wolf?

The rest of the Bad Guys hid behind Snake's footboard as Wolf stammered, "Um… uh, no. Nobody here but us dust bunnies."

Snake was actually falling for that trick as he groaned exhaustingly, "Oh. It must be the starvation that makes me hear dust bunnies talking. I should just… back to sleep," he yawned before falling his head back on his pillow, and fell asleep.

Seeing that Snake fell back to sleep, the Bad Guys sighed in relief.

"Phew! That was a close one!" Shark sighed loudly.

Piranha was startled by Shark's loud voice as he shushed him, "Sshhh!"

"Sorry, sorry, sorry," Shark apologized quietly, until he heard a loud hissing sound. He was scared as he jumped in the air, and fell on top of Piranha in fear, "Ah! What was that?"

"That was Snake," Piranha replied as he pushed Shark off of him, "Now get your big butt off me, and start looking for someplace to put our food on."

"What?" Shark asked confusingly.

Hornet facepalmed as he explained, "What Piranha means is you guys have to put your food somewhere for Snake to see and eat when he wakes up."

"Maybe that nightstand next to him would do," Tarantula pointed to the nightstand just right next to Snake. It has enough space on top other than a lamp.

"Perfect, and he could taste food air," Wolf said as 4 of his friends stared at him confusingly, "He told me that."

"Alright, I got my soup," Piranha took out a plate of his pasta dish.

"But Snake said he didn't like your soup, that's why I got my veggie salad," Hornet showed a plastic container of vegetable salad.

"He didn't eat your salad either. Hard to imagine. I say we give the reptile some sandwiches," Shark suggested while holding his sandwich.

"Oh, he'll never eat those," Piranha pointed.

"Set it in your soup," Shark snapped.

Shark, Piranha, and Hornet started to argue quietly over which food they have to put next to Snake when he woke up.

However, Wolf couldn't take that three of his friends started arguing over food as he put himself between the three of them,

"Okay, okay, you three that's enough! If you three can't sort it out, let's just put all of them here!" Wolf grabbed all three dishes, and silently placed them on Snake's nightstand, "There, happy?!" he turned to Shark, Piranha, and Hornet, who nodded in guilt, "Good, now let's get out of here before Snake finds out we're here, and let's see what will happen in the morning."

When Wolf headed straight towards the door, out of Snake's room, Tarantula followed him. Shark, Piranha, and Hornet stayed behind, only to glance in guilt at each other. They felt guilty for arguing with each other over which food Snake should eat. They only wanted to help their friend. Though they didn't wanna say it out loud, it was called "a silent apology", as they smiled at each other, gesturing that they were good, and the trio sneakily headed out of the room before closing the door.

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The next morning, the Bad Guys were now at the table, waiting for Snake to come out of his room, and possibly eat them if he didn't eat the three dishes his friends left for him.

"I'm pretty sure Snake would hate our food," Shark assumed

"Yeah, and he will eat all of us today," Hornet prepared for the worst as he showered himself with salt.

Suddenly, the handle of the vault door turned, and Snake opened the door while holding a plate of food as he took a bite, "Hey guys, what's going on?"

"Oh, we're just preparing for our fate when you eat us," Piranha said as he took a pepper milled, and showered himself with pepper. The pepper also caused him to sneeze, "Achoo!"

"Eat you? Don't be silly. I can't eat my friends. I already got food here. It's crunchy, savory, and tangy."

"Oh yes, yes, yes, I guess you…" Piranha was cut off as he looked back at Snake while he was holding and eating the food, "Wait, is that…?"

"Aren't those our food?" Hornet observed the dish Snake just ate was all three of his, Shark, and Piranha's food.

Shark gasped, "The food must have got it all mixed up," but then, he noticed Snake was eating them happily, "But, look. He likes it!"

Tarantula sighed, "Well, all I can say is thank goodness that Snake finally ate something."

Hornet smiled proudly, "Yes, Snake, good for you! You tried something new that is not meat."

"Oh, yes I did, didn't I? And you know, it wasn't so bad after all," Snake admitted. Even though Snake liked the new kind of food, he just didn't like how wrong he was that he would only eat meat, "I hate it when I'm wrong."

Wolf smirked as he thought of something good, "You know, since you finally tried meatless food, we should go to the store to buy meat again to celebrate."

The rest of the Bad Guys cheered excitingly.

"Yeah, let's go, amigos!" Piranha said as he and the crew got up from their seats, and were about to move out to the elevator.

"Not just yet, guys. I need to finish this first. It's quite good actually," Snake continued eating as he slithered to the table with the plate on his tail, and placed it on the table, "Would any of you want some?"

"No thank you!" Wolf, Shark, Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet hesitantly exclaimed.

"Oh come on. You never know until you try," Snake smirked, reminding Shark, Piranha, and Hornet's lesson.

The five just shrugged as Snake had a point about trying new things with food. All 6 Bad Guys got themselves a fork, and ate their food together. Snake didn't like sharing much as he still admitted that he didn't like it, but when it came to his friends, he loved sharing, just with them.

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Credits: Sam Rockwell - Mr. Wolf Marc Maron - Mr. Snake Craig Robinson - Mr. Shark Anthony Ramos - Mr. Piranha Awkwafina - Ms. Tarantula Rhenzy Feliz - Mr. Hornet

Author I.M. Rally

Co-Author MasterClass60

So you're a tough guy it really rough guy Just can't get enough guy Chest always so puffed guy I'm that bad type Make your mama sad type Make your girlfriend mad tight Might seduce your dad type

I'm the bad guy

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I realized that I forgot to put the credits in the first chapter, so as of this chapter, I'm putting credits after every chapter

The end credit song was the chorus of Billie Eilish, Bad Guy.

This chapter was referenced from The Book of Pooh: The Spice Of Life.

Snake went into panic for discovering there was no meat left, and Piranha, Tarantula, and Hornet teased with food puns were referenced from Raven's Home: The Big Sammich.

Snake almost attempted to eat Wolf while the rest of the Bad Guys held him back was referenced of Teen Titans: Crash

The song "Give It A Try" doesn't belong to me. The song in this chapter is a parody song from the original one. In this song, Pirnaha introduced his country's dishes. - A marraqueta, also known as pan francés is a Wheat Bread roll - Api morado (purple api) is made from purple corn. - Sopa De Mani is a peanut soup, made of ground peanuts, seasoned with vegetable broth, cooked with macaroni noodles, and topped with fried potatoes and parsley. It is one of the favorite dishes of Bolivia. It is so popular, that it can be found throughout the country.

Special thanks to MasterClass60 for suggesting for Shark's food suggestion for Snake.

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[gritsandbrits]

So I'm already immensely intrigued at the idea of Imani and Malina swapping roles in a techno-organic/spider Optimus AU and I just have to ask: do you have any other lore regarding your take on such an AU? And, potentially as a fun little thought experiment, any lore regarding a take on a techno-organic/spider Sentinel AU?

I remember seeing some fan art of Sentinel becoming tfa's version of Tarantulas, also some theories that he'd be called Blackarachnel (imagine the horror j/)

But my idea for Mutant!Imani came after learning about an episode for canceled s4 where Optimus would've went back in time to try to save Elita. My interpretation happens differently: it's Sentinel who goes back in time bc he just couldn't accept her transformation, he thinks being Magnus means doing whatever the heck he wants & deeply resents Optimus for "lying." But his actions cause Optimus to be abandoned; seeing for himself the damage his selfishness cause forces Sentinel (& the bots from the regular timeline) to restore back. These events creates a whole new timeline.

So in this AU Imani gets kidnapped by disgruntled ex employee Prometheus Black. With a mix of bird, lion & goat dna he mutates her but she escapes and seeks refuge on dinobot island. Knowing how dangerous Prometheus is she vows to stop him at any costs. Through the year she becomes something of a local legend. Nobody has seen what she looks like. The only proof of her existence are claw marks through solid metal and damage seen on Sumdac properties. One night Imani discovers some strange activity thinking it's Prometheus but encounters Arachnus Prime instead.

After that misunderstanding Arachnus just wants to be left alone but Imani is just happy to find another outcast like her. She promises to help him but in the case they do find a cure she won't take it until Meltdown is stopped for good. After all she still needs her abilities to even have a fighting chance. So they work together under a tentative partnership.

I might throw in bumblebee in there as well taking over Wasp's role and becomes Goldbug. Just a trio of techno-organics fighting capitalism!

[transingthoseformers]

TFA TaraProwl Idea: Tarantulas hears his ex, that he is definitely over, died and immediately goes "I think the fuck not" and signs up to help Blackarachnia in order to get to Cybertron and steals the All Spark having betrayed her. Hears about Prowl's ghost showing up and steals his body.

Basically, on the run with Prowl's corpse, Bumblebee and Bulkhead, who can see the Prowl ghost and the All Spark to resurrect the dead. Bulkhead is deeply invested in their "romance" and gasping throughout the entire retelling, while Bumblebee refuses to believe it.

Prowl does get necromancied, though he wasn't dead-dead, more like IDW Bee Dead. Prowl keeps switching back and forth between the groups as Megatron and Optimus are both tracking him down. Optimus to save his friends and Megatron bargaining with his knowledge of the area and watching the drama going down as Sentinel didn’t trust Optimus to go alone and Blackarachnia was dragged along as it was her ship. He is like the terrible influence wine aunt who is just commenting on the disaster trios hot mess of a relationship. He is also invested in this because he has been stuck in the body of a Minicon due to Tarantulas messing with his "upgrade" and is now pocket-sized. Ratchet puts him in a cookie jar as punishment

Prowl confirms their former relationship when he comes back to life and it turns out they didn't break up so much as Prowl ran off due to the guilt of what happened with Lockdow and to avoid the draft. This left Mesothulas alone and as an odd duck. He eventually defected to the Decepticons in part to find Prowl, met Blackarachnia and got his dream bod. He also still has the protoform he'd filed paperwork for them to co-mentor and never activated, carrying them with him a la tiny Sari pod the whole time. During the ruckus the baby is born when they both (+Blitzwing who is glared down by Tarantulas and wisely steps away) touch him and tiny Springer is born.

Of course, Tara, of course.

Ghost prowl?

Ah yes, theft of an offlined frame

oh bulky

Why does that give the vibe of a Frankensteinesque scene but instead of the actual process it's essentially just defibrillating a corpse, except Allspark edition. Tara will say "iT'S ALIVE, IT'S ALIVE!!!" and Prowl just sighs.

Meggsie yES

Tara had no idea what to do until he had all the ideas

Awww yes. So he was just lugging a half baked baby around until this very moment.

[charanchula]

Pick a Pet.

So! I have a 4x45x60cm (18x18x24″) bioactive terrarium awaiting a resident.

I was initially going to get dart frogs, but I just can’t stand handling the fruit flies anymore. I can’t do it. I CAN’T!

So now I’m turning to other options.

I already have a peacock day gecko, pacman frog, three stenodactylus sthenodactylus, and a number of tarantulas. I’ll be getting some mourning geckos as well once the small terrarium is finished.

I’m planning on getting a cuban false chameleon for a second terrarium I have; this is a guy I’ll be able to handle, if I want, so the other resident doesn’t need to be handleable.

Handling isn’t that important to me, I know a lot of reptiles don’t like it.

Likewise, I’m not interested in breeding. If it happens, it happens, otherwise I’m not bothered.

Diet wise, I already feed dubia roaches and crickets to my current animals, and I’ll be getting snails for my false chameleon, so I’m not too leery about feeder insects, except for fruit flies, who are the bane of my life. NO FRUIT FLIES.

Maintenance-wise, I’ll be setting up an automatic misting system, and the terrariums will be bioactive so they’ll have clean up crews for the majority of the mess.

Nominees are:

TOKAY GECKO

Pros: top of my list, unique looking, personality, feisty, easy to feed, not too expensive

Cons: defensive/aggressive, might be hard to wrangle, nocturnal ?

I’m probably going to go with this option. Tokay’s are notorious for being unhandleable, but  handleability isn’t on my list of requirements, so I don’t care. A nice contrast to the false chameleon?

MADAGASCAN DAY GECKO

Pros: cute as hell, large and attractive, pretty, personable, curious, diurnal, very easy to feed (powder foods), can be trained to climb onto your hand

Cons: already have a day gecko, a little more costly, not handleable because they can drop their tails but also SLOUGH OFF THEIR SKIN NO NO

If I had an extra terrarium I’d get one, but dudes, the skin. THE SKIN. I can’t take it, I’d never want to hurt an animal and I can’t stand the idea of accidentally causing this. Also very similar to my existing peacock gecko

CHAHOUA GECKO

Pros: easy care, basically a big version of a crested gecko, handleable, unusual and I think they’re pretty

Cons: SO expensive, on this list by a tenuous grasp because of that, not as drawn to them as the above two, EXPENSIVE, costs money, I’m poor and this gecko is expensive, did I mention expensive?

We’re talking £300 to £500 for a pair; they’re also hard to find NOT in a pair, for some reason.

RED-EYED TREE FROG

Pros: frog!, very pretty, unique, fun to have, doesn’t eat fruit flies, sweet, appeal of another frog

Cons: small in an enclosure (I can’t remember if you can keep a pair or trio together), hides, mid-pricey, I’m not as drawn to them as the top two geckos

Close to my original dart frog idea, but they don’t need to eat fruit flies. A classic amphibian, but I’m not sure I want another one. Would it be better to keep to geckos?

Looking forward to seeing your opinions!

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