#also de blob is this

[ambulonalive-theory]

Obsessing over really niche and obscure media is such a bizarre experience because the whole time you’re like “THIS IS SO GOOD!!! HOW DOES NO ONE ELSE TALK ABOUT THIS!!!” and people on the outside probably thinking “are you talking about your ocs”

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 252

“Sir, we’ve… There’s been an encounter with a Reaper class entity.” 

There were several classifications for ecto-entities. Several ways the Ghost Investigation Ward classified each. Several common ones that they could easily destroy, easily study. Others however… others were dangerous. Incredibly dangerous. 

There’d only been two other Reaper-class entities confirmed before- both contained but barely. RP-1, a large knight-like entity seemingly made from shadows, and RP-2, a child-like creature that could near perfectly mimic a human. 

And now, there was a third. A third entity that could- and judging from the reports coming in had- killed. Had done so several times even. Which meant it needed to be contained yesterday. 

“Send out the teams- I want this thing in Site X Now!” 

[kallousness]

[charcarts]

eeby...😴

[ascorian]

mafuyu brainrot

[saturday-byte]

Transfem Cosmica send post

[grugspro]

Therapist: de Blob 2 Toxic Brittany Spears isn't real, it can't hurt you

de Blob 2 Toxic Brittany Spears:

[raydianbluesandhues]

do you still draw de Blob?

Navi here!

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yeah! I just. don’t post them here (mostly because my designs for all the characters keep changing)

however

a treat for everyone here today:

[pkbeamgamma]

discovering de blob and de blob 2 on steam

[blanccolacannery]

You could read this as just normal conversation however in mind I had the hivemind idea I wrote about and posted before this. The scientist already knows how the other feels because they are all the same mind. The spikey is alive because there are more than one and once again it is all the same person. Think of all the inky conversations and such as how your concious may work (personally my concious is loud and very talkative, it bickers too, the inkys may work the same)

[pyreball]

Redoing my old INKT draw of all the Inkies but with way more this time. ⅔s done. Just the DS bois and some outliers left. That is until I find more Inkies I want to add

[tiodolma]

Fellas, is it gay...

Fair knight, he said, my name is Sir Launcelot du Lake.

Alas, said Sir Tristram, what have I done! for ye are the man in the world that I love best.

Fair knight, said Sir Launcelot, tell me your name?

Truly, said he, my name is Sir Tristram de Liones.

O Jesu, said Sir Launcelot, what adventure is befallen me!

And therewith Sir Launcelot kneeled down and yielded him up his sword. And therewith Sir Tristram kneeled adown, and yielded him up his sword. And so either gave other the degree.

And then they both forthwithal went to the stone, and set them down upon it, and took off their helms to cool them,

and either kissed other an hundred times.

.....

good for them lol

[teatime-tangents-and-toys]

Interesting Monster High design things that are never explicitly stated:

* Unlicensed vampires are all some type of pink-skinned for some reason, including related species like the manananggal

* Clawdeen, and by extension, other werewolves, never wear silver metals, because that weakens them. The Wolfs only wear gold jewelry and accents.

* Lagoona's sporty theme aligns with the use of mesh fabrics to make a pun about fishnets

* Wydowna Spider's hairline is a widow's peak and one of her hands is in Spider-Man's web-slinging shape

* Twyla's eyes glow in the dark on most editions--common knowledge, but Mattel has never told buyers about it on her boxes!

* Twyla is a boogeyman and her costume designs all feature antique architectural details and imagery of things that might be in a scary bedroom at night, like wallpaper patterns, doorknobs, bugs, and beds, while her outfits often resemble pajamas

* The two G1 pop star characters are a witch and a black cat, and a witch and cat were also a Create-A-Monster duo

* The Grant sisters' monster twist on genies is to make them plated like desert scorpions

* Elissabat's face is deliberately highly similar to Draculaura's, but their sculpts have been determined to be different--this when MH has used shared sculpts for more distant-looking and disparate pairs of characters!

* The Blob and Ice Girls are a Create-A-Monster duo because freezing was the one weakness of the Blob monster

* Deuce and Cleo as a couple invoke the synergy of snakes and Egyptian culture, the famous Cleopatra being Greek, and Cleopatra being stated in legend to have died by snakebite--similar reasons a mummy and Gorgon were paired in the Create-A-Monster sets

* Operetta is from New Orleans because it's a uniquely French area of the USA, tying her into the original setting of the Phantom of the Opera

* The manufacturing code on the back of Skelita Calaveras' original head mold is a custom sequence made to depict the name "KATRINA".

This refers to the tradition of carving a name of honor into a Dia de Muertos sugar skull, and may also reflect La Catrina, the iconic Mexican skeleton woman in the wide hat often seen in the holiday's imagery. Other dolls have these stamps on the backs of their heads with meaningless sequences of letters and numbers which are never meant to be seen, but Skelita's stamp was used for a purpose. I've checked her dolls after G1 (starting with her first collector doll in 2016), and they have a generic code stamped in and have lost this detail.

* Viperine Gorgon has distinct visual hallmarks of both human and serpent albinism, and her use of sunglasses could correspond with sensitive eyes from the condition, though she's never stated to have the condition in any material.

* Great Scarrier Reef's transformations: Electric-powered Frankie became an electric eel, Draculaura became a vampire squid, and tigerlike Toralei became a lionfish. I've heard Clawdeen was based on a wolffish, but can't be sure that was actually clear. Gil turning into a ray may be a pun with manta and manster? No idea if Lagoona was based on a specific fish or not. Nor why she even had to transform in her native territory for any reason beyond making a new doll.

* Bonita Femur's color palette is based on the rosy maple moth, which is as implausibly candy-colored as Bonita. Luna Mothews is absolutely not actually a luna moth, but could be loosely based on the cecropia moth, the largest in North America and found in regions that could include New Jersey where she's from (or West Virginia, where the Mothman is from). Her yellow exoskeleton also loosely resembles the hornet moth, but may not intentionally be based on it.

* Mouscedes King, Luna Mothews, and Elle Eedee are a primary yellow/red/blue trio but also a past/present/future trio based on an old fairy tale, a current cryptid legend, and a speculative idea of future tech

* Headmistress Bloodgood's first name was eventually revealed to be Nora, an iconically Irish name that may have been chosen to liken Bloodgood to the Irish folklore of the dullahan, another "headless rider" monster.

* River Styxx is a young-adolescent Grim Reaper ghost who is partially translucent, revealing bones in her limbs and having a more opaque face that looks like thin skin over a bony structure. This creates a fun possible worldbuilding idea that reapers start as ghosts with skin and it fades as they develop, becoming full skeletons in classic Death style when mature.

* Peri and Pearl are conjoined Hydra sisters, obviously reflecting a rare human scenario of conjoined twins through the Hydra monster concept, but also possibly being influenced by the animal phenomenon of snakes being born with two heads in an even Y-shaped structure.

* Elle has a separate sculpted panel on her hip where her factory stamp is placed, canonizing the real-world manufacturing artifact as a real/literal/diegetic feature on the manufactured robot character.

* Corazón Marikit's red fringe blends the two halves of her outfit, but also stands in for the gorier imagery of dangling intestines and entrails when the manananggal monster's body splits at the waist. She does have a spine coming out of her upper torso as the peg that clicks her pieces together, but the dolls aren't brutally gory, so her costume alludes to the folklore's more extreme imagery in a graceful way.

* Scary Sweet Birthday Cupid is the only doll in the SSB collection whose cage element is under her skirt rather than on top of it.

This placement and its rectangular silhouette make the cage functional rather than decorative, replicating an old-fashioned crinoline frame used to internally shape big skirts, and its wide boxy shape matches some rococo skirt silhouettes, suiting the other elements Cupid has drawn from the rococo aesthetic, even before G3. Victorian-steampunk Robecca Steam has also worn cage elements that invoke a crinoline without a skirt to be shaped by it.

[radiance1]

inspired by this wonderful art made by @puppetmaster13u

So, Danny, cemented king and practically father of the Blob Ghosts and certified little shit.

Has found something new to play with.

For you see, despite his various kidnappings by the GIW Danny was never aware of there being a League of Earth's mightiest heroes at all. He off-handily mentioned them to Henry, who was now genuinely jobless because even though he never got told he knew he was jobless for helping Danny escape and Henry?

Henry did not want any part of this, he's just a civilian he doesn't want to meet the Justice League of all people!

Sadly, Danny did not care at all in the slightest.

Henry was then reminded of why Danny was valued by the GIW and why he also king class ghost entity (the only other known king class was the Ghost King who they barely have any information of). Because he easily, cleared the distance between Amity Park and Metropolis.

Henry, unfortunately, was not used to traveling at such speeds and was left hanging limply in Danny's arm as everything started spinning and thinking he might puke.

Danny, being the child that he is at heart, immediately starts calling out Superman's name. Superman, predictably and unsurprisingly, hears this and comes over questioning who was calling him.

Danny decides to be even more of a little shit by speaking in ghost speak even though just earlier he called out Superman's name in clear English. Henry, the de-facto translator, is out of commission right now so Superman is really just left guessing here.

Unless, you go with the fact that Kyrptonian is a dead language, and since Superman can speak and knows Kyrptonian, Danny's ghost speak is automatically translated to Kyrptonian.

Superman is, understandably, stumped by this occurrence and he may or may not form the idea that Danny might be a Kyrptonian.

Danny then gently places Henry down on the roof, pats him on the head, tells a few blob ghosts to keep an eye on their new littlest sibling while Dad has fun.

Then he turns to Superman, with the most feral, shit eating grin on his face. Cracks his knuckles, and then tells Superman that they're going to have a fight.

He wasn't asking, and before Superman could say anything he's already been punched through the air. Not that it hurt, really, mostly took him by surprise, but now Superman is now in a fight with what may or may not be a Kryptonian.

[rotting-ink]

the game that you recommended on itch.io (the bastard of camelot) was really good !! do you have any games that you would recommend ?

Oh a few! I do recommend looking on my Itch.io, I keep a collection of games I'd recommend and like on my creator page. I keep on updating it with games on Itch.io specifically.

NOW! SOME THAT STAND OUT TO ME AS THE CREME DE LA CREME!!!

Bastard of Camelot by @llamagirl28

Fucking superb. Makes me go a bit insane each time I replay. I love my Morded so much and replaying and having two saves, one for perfect times and the other for angstier ones.

We Wretched Creatures by @darkfictionjude

Ngl, I got to start playing while during a dark period I was going through and it was so so cathartic. It makes you feel like a wet blob on the floor, looking up at the world with big wet eyes and then you bit the hand that tries to help. It's amazing. I'm the worst, I'm the best, I'm TRYING to finger Imre. Emotionally. Ahem.

Wayfarer by @idrellegames

The coding alone is fucking insane. INSANE. I will never get over it on any level. It stresses me out but also the story is SO good. I can't even start to cover it.

A Tale of Crowns by @ataleofcrowns

I am TRYING to kiss Dara so hard. Honestly, it was so refreshing. I and so many others are guilty of fantasy based in Europe or America, and even if they do take place in the Middle East, they VEER right into some Orientalism bullshit like we're playing the Phantom of the Opera fanfic book. This, however? Fucking ART. It also reminded me a bit of my childhood in South Africa in a very good way. ALSO YOU TRY THAT WHITE Y/N BULLSHIT OR BEING THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS SILVER LOCKS AND BLUE EYES AND AND AND well its not working. Xelef/Xelara call me a brown eyed beauty <3 Idk, it is just done so well and written beautifully and fully SUCKS YOU IN WITHIN MOMENTS!

God Cursed by @wings-of-ink

They just have a demo out but I have a soft spot for it! The dads especially. If you can't tell I love games were God or some other such mean thing pointed at you and said "Fuck that thing". Hence BOC and WWC and God Cursed and-

Debt of Deception by @debtofdeception-if

Though it's not on Itch, I do wanna give a shout out. I get to play being the milf/dilf of my dreams and then? And then I try to kiss V Delgado. I'm aiming for a divorce babey. Because I'm terrible. BUT ANYWAY! It's really unique- I've never played a game where you play as a parent, already married and now your life is upside down! Refreshing and fun <3

THEN SOME QUICK VISUAL NOVELS I DO ENJOY:

Andromeda Six by Wanderlust Games: Really good plot, REALLY fun cast, get to kiss my body guard, amazing. I don't like a lot of Sci-Fi but I LOVE this.

Scarlet Hollow by blacktabbygames: GENUINELY gave me the spooks. You know how hard that is? Also amazing plot, fun cast, AND THE POWERS YOU GET TO PICK AT THE BEGINNING? WOWA!!! i LOVE chatting to the animals and being hot, its just like real life <3

BUT YEAH, Please, check out the What Ink Likes collection on my itchio page, it is updated whenever I find a really good game that I really enjoy and WAY more than I could talk about on here!

[rjzimmerman]

A Mouse That Swims and Dozens More Species Are Discovered in a Peruvian Jungle. (New York Times)

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

In the summer of 2022, researchers trudged into the jungles of the Alto Mayo region of Peru in search of undiscovered creatures. This remote yet populous region had experienced significant deforestation, so the team didn’t expect to find much.

During their 38-day expedition, Dr. Larsen and his team discovered 27 new species in Alto Mayo, including four mammals, eight fish, three amphibians and 10 butterflies. The team also found dozens of rare and endangered species, some not known to occur anywhere else on Earth.

A species of semiaquatic mouse belonging to the genus Daptomys in the Alto Mayo region of Peru. Credit...Ronald Diaz/Conservation International

A new species of tropical climbing salamander, which spends most of its time in low vegetation and shrubs. This species was abundant but only within a small patch of unique white sand forest in the Alto Mayo. Credit...Trond Larsen/Conservation International

A rufous-crested coquette, a rare type of hummingbird; a clearwing butterfly, one of the 218 species of butterflies observed; an arboreal opossum species under a full moon; a fer-de-lance viper, one of the most dangerous snakes in the Alto Mayo. Credit...Marlon Dag/Conservation International

A “blob-headed” fish, a type of bristlemouth armored catfish that is new to science. Credit...Robinson Olivera/Conservation International