#it fills me with glee

[peteisfanatic]

Wade fell first but Logan fell harder

[weirdenbyferret]

Pool dunk clowns!

so after seeing a meme that was like the words Clown caviar on an image of a bowl full of orbeez, i went what if clowns but mermaids? (Perfect since its mermay)

Instantly went looking to see if there was like any clowns that performed underwater or something, and then I remembered the pool dunk game! Personally ive never seen one but i have definitely seen images of them, including ones with clowns in them, which has now lead to a whole bunch of lore and info lmao

Putting yhe story behind pool dunk clowns and some tips on how to take care of them under here 👇!

Pool dunk clowns are derpy mermaid-like clowns who have adapted for life in water.

Unfortunately, they have a long history of abuse.

They have their names because centuries back they were a part of the pool dunk game at carnivals. Many people would fail at it, meaning they would get little water in a day, and only the gills at the end of their tails would be in the water until they got drunked, making it so that they would just barely survive each day.

They couldn't squeeze through the platform and the walls of the container, as the space was always too small.

It is now illegal to do this and it is usually a human instead.

Their eggs were also often a delicacy to humans, and many pool dunk clowns would have their eggs taken from them. Thankfully, that is now also illegal!

Unfortunately, no pool dunk clown is ready for the wild. These sweet creatures need to be able to have things to play with at all times or their mental state will not be great, and unlike dolphins they dont have the heart to mess with other creatures.

They can be quite expensive to keep as pets, as they need a pool and several pool toys! Most babies can usually be kept in a bathtub, as they are usually small enough to fit with plenty space, but as they grow they will need a pool.

It is also recommended to constantly get new toys for your pool dunk clown.

You should also be really careful with their gills. They adore being pet, and you can pet their gills, but you need to be really careful, if you are too rough about it you could harm them.

If you were planning on getting one, or if you are now, hope these tips and such helped!

[kikolagito]

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[naranjapetrificada]

when I find fandom in times of trouble

funny meta comes to me

speaking of words of wisdom:

Straight Izzy

[merrysithmas]

the ultimate zukaang KO in the atlaverse is the line in TLOK when Korra tells old!Zuko in front of everyone's salad that he knew Aang better than anyone

[ratatatastic]

IM SORRY THE MATTHEW TKACHUK CARDBOARD STANDEE THEY HAD IN THE BG WAS ACTUALLY ORIGINALLY PLACED AT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE AS A PORCH DECORATION IM GONNA SCREAM

[assortedvillainvault]

Hello! Can I request Starscream with a reader who loves video games, especially older "retro" ones please?

Anon you have waited so long, please accept this humble word train of inconveivale proportions, becuase this went from 'haha Screamy vs tetris' to 'holy shit I can't stop typing-'

Starscream x RetroGamer!Reader

HA!

Such primitive, meagre entertainment. How can you engage in something barely even fit for newsparks??

Yeah, Starscream is waving his ‘technological-race superiority’ around again. You’ve long since learned to roll your eyes, tune him out and turn the tinny volume on your console to maximum just to annoy him.

For all that he snorts and rolls his optics and waxes lyrical about how his games were played in high-speed roulette 5D stratospheric-chess - or whatever - you don’t fail to smugly notice how his wings twitch in time with the music. (Don’t bring it up or he’ll screech about how he can’t get the bouncy little tunes out of his head at 3am. It’s not worth your eardrums.)

And when he DOES pay attention, he’s the kind to aggressively backseat drive.

What’s worse, is that after breathing down your neck and screeching at you to “Jump HIGHER-” (Mario Bros is a relationship tester), he’ll cluck his tongue and smarmily coo at your game over screen until you finally snap and shove the comparatively tiny controller in his face.

The affronted shock lasts a millisecond before he huffs and says such childish little things are beneath him. Obviously.

Your petty revenge is to chat obnoxiously loud to Knockout and spread a rumour on the Nemesis that the Mighty Commander Starscream is too outdated to try anything new, clearly, I mean he’s just so old-

- much screeching shouting and scratched paintjobs later, you find out that he’s simply downloaded the games into his brain and fully intended to not breathe a word to you about it apparently until you died. Prideful bastard.

He HAD intended to tell you, but only after he had gotten an impossibly high score to beat so he could rub it in your cute squishy face.

In a beautifully ironic twist of fate, being as advanced as cybertronians are, the highly simple nature of most retro games actually renders them incompatible, like trying to run a floppy disk through a hadron collider. So while yes Star can play tetris on his break, he cannot simply blitz the levels as expected and call it a day, because the old games have such simple parameters in comparison to how he usually operates.

So he has to actually play.

With no instructions because of course this high strung high maintenance metal bird could not possibly deign to ask you how to play first. That would be demeaning. And he won’t google it either.

You can sit in smug, satisfied peace as you watch him slowly tick through several layers of frustration: wings twitching, claws tapping, optics whizzing to focus on platforms and little 8 bit enemies you can’t see.

But Starscream is still the Second in Command of the Decepticons. And the Decepticons have very stringent security measures.

Soundwave fucking manifesting outside your window one evening was enough to have you pray to every god you’ve ever heard of. Inscrutable, all knowing fucking Soundwave. You regret every conversation you’ve ever had on the Nemesis, oh god your house is probably bugged-

His face screen flickers to life. You blink, as a live stream of the Nemesis command deck appears.

You have, by dint of hanging around too much and a few close encounters with the Autobots, seen cybertronians on the battlefield before. It is nothing compared to the later levels of Pacman on the Nemesis bridge at 1 am.

Soundwaves inscrutable smiley face emoji pings your phone, almong with a simple, translated glyph.

“More? :)”

PS-

Soundwave is Pacman god. Knockout has a soft spot for the Mario games. Starscream fucking loves Galaxian and will die before he ever tells you this. Shockwave, logically, finds Tetris soothing.

Megatron plays pong on his throne sometimes when his usual brooding gives way to inevitable drug induced boredom. It spaces his eyes out to either side nearly completely. Starscream has screenshots of his gormless mug taped to his hab wall to shoot on occasion.

[stone-stars]

unparalleled podcast opening by emily axford <3

Transcript:

[8BBC theme fades out] Murph: Welcome to 8-bit book club, the only book club that makes you dumber. I'm Brian Murphy, joined as always by my life slash comedy partner Emily Axford. [Silence. Caldwell laughs.] Murph: Emily just… snorted and is now covering her face. [Emily hisses faintly.] Caldwell: Much like-- Murph: Was-- [incredulous] were you just trying to roar?? Did you just whisper roar????

[sallymew4]

notice me psycho-helmet~senpai<3!!!

sketch because i feel like it portrays the emotion i originally intended better than the final :)

[ctrl-lupin]

Someone: What’s Lupin III about?

Me: (shows this image)

[ilostmymojo]

Hello, Pikmin community, please accept my humble offering.

[mdverse]

Gless is expanding and consuming my brain

[the-starlight-project]

(pardon me putting some rambling thoughts on your blog)

Some little things we know so far, mostly about "Shadow":

Shadow seemed slow to Sonic when he showed up at the very beginning. He could still keep up pretty well, though. Air shoes!!

Sonic hit his chin when he landed, so whatever's going on here probably isn't just because of a concussion. Though, well, we didn't see how Shadow landed...

The red (paint?) on Shadow is getting everywhere all of a sudden!

Actor!Shadow immediately goes for his inhibitor rings, which means he knows Character!Shadow's lore pretty well. I'm not sure Eggman would mention that detail to some hench-hedgehog...

Shadow here seems to take "Eggman hired you? Impressive!" to mean "You're an impressive actor", which is an unusual way to interpret that. It seems more like it's Eggman's audacity that Sonic meant was impressive, not Actor!Shadow's skill at pretending to be Character!Shadow.

Come to think of it, the Shadow we know has been in some pretty scary places before, it'd be interesting to hear how Actor!Shadow would describe those past adventures. Does he believe he filmed a flashback where he watched a fake Maria fake die? Would that cylinder he was in at that time have been bad for his claustrophobia?

Shadow has apparently never seen Sonic do cool stuff in person, or believes any previous spindash thingies were effects. But this one wouldn't get special effects since it wasn't scripted, I suppose?

Come to think of it, if they were being filmed, them going off-script should be making a lot of crew panic right now. Assuming Actor!Shadow isn't the only one involved with this "filming" idea, anyway, which is apparently Sonic's current theory.

What's that damaged bot doing there? Did it get hit by the spindash, or is that damage older?

That all sure is something, though I'm not sure what that all means. Maybe we'll find out Next Time, on Project Starlight Z!

Now THESE are the kind of posts that I love to answer! A long-form question requires a long form response (as much as I can respond, anyway)!

Excellent observations on our pal "Shadow" - air shoes indeed! I have more to say on the air shoes and special effects at a later date, but I think you'll find that a least a few points you bring up are going to be touched upon in upcoming pages!

As for a hypothetical crew hypothetically panicking, I think it'd be worth reexamining "Shadow"'s response to Sonic's reaction to all of this. Perhaps it'd give you a launching point ... not that you'll have to guess for much longer.

Also, a general note on the bot in the tunnel! You may find something interesting if you look at it very closely, given that this comic takes place after the events of Forces.

Next Time on Project Starlight!!!

[caffeinewitchcraft]

You may plagiarize my work but you will never plagiarize the Weird ™️

[dipndotz]

wxson... KISSING ‼‼‼‼ (SIRENS GO OFF)

they may not have lips but robot cheeks r perfect for smooching

[dykesbat]

im not immune to cool action sequences <- guy who reads comic books