#not sure what that’s about

[max--phillips]

I was sitting there while my truck was broken down and this hit me like a fucking train. Enjoy

[image ID: a screenshot of a tumblr post with the original usernames removed, replaced with pictures of Santiago Garcia, Benny Miller, and Frankie Morales from Triple Frontier. It reads:

Santiago: does covid fuck up your gag reflex

Benny: are you having trouble in the men’s room

Santiago: I’m eating sausages and they’re just sliding down there whole like never before

Frankie: can we meet up

/end ID]

[madbard]

[quibbs126]

Here’s just something I’ve been drawing

So I just like the idea of Dark Choco, Caramel Arrow and Crunchy Chip all being close when they were younger and sort of like siblings. This here is just supposed to be Dark Choco leading them on an adventure or quest, Caramel Arrow, still a new soldier, eagerly following her prince, and Crunchy Chip trying to catch up because they accidentally left him behind

I don’t…really have much else to say

[windowsandfeelings]

What I’ve discovered on this vacation is that I’m good at doing the solo traveler thing until about 6pm and then I have no clue what to do with myself (unless I’m going to a Taylor Swift concert).

I did still do a fair amount of sightseeing today (and walked 14k steps) for having slept in and returned early, but…feels kinda lame to just chill in my hotel room.

[cb-writes-stuff]

Ugh. My head hurts.

[javiscigarette]

Bad news is that I just picked up FIVE (5) textbooks all for the same class and the semester starts tomorrow.

Good news is that I just bought a new cart and I found a 4k word WIP with the sweetest fluffiest Joel smut I’ve ever created so I actually might have something posted soon :))

God works in mysterious ways!!

[beautiful-songbird]

Hey yo what the hell 😫

[sanguinifex]

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[marypsue]

Keep seeing that post where OP starts like 'Thinking about...grieving the undead' and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.

All respect, that's an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read 'grieving the undead'.

[funkbun]

go play bugsnax

[quibbs126]

So during chem lab today I tried to come up with concepts for this character that’s been an idea in my head for a while now

I should probably transcribe the notes on the sketch, since I doubt you can read them, I’m aware my handwriting is hard to read

So back when I made my hypothesis of the Strawberry Jam Sword being a corrupted Soul Jam, I basically integrated that into my headcanon. However, as a consequence of that, Blueberry Ice Cream didn’t really work as a character anymore, since now the sword has completely different origins that he doesn’t cleanly fit into. In this new origin, the SJS was first found/possibly created by a young Cookie with good intentions, however they were supposed to lose the Soul Jam far too early and it instead ended up constantly shifting hands between greedy and evil Cookies who wanted its immense power for their own gain, which ultimately ended up corrupting it. And BIC doesn’t really fit into this narrative. Sure, he could be the person who first found the red gem, but his design doesn’t really match it at all, with him being blue/purple while the gem is red. They don’t look like they fit together. Yes that was partially the point originally, but here that doesn’t work, as he doesn’t change into something more befitting it in this scenario. He’d only work if I radically change his design, and in doing so likely his name, and at that point he wouldn’t even be the same character anymore. So I decided to just make a completely new character to be the gem’s original wielder

The character I made was Jam Drop Cookie. During my search for things to make Cookies, I had found thumbprint cookies, which I thought was a weird name, but I kept it anyways. I looked up other names for thumbprint cookies and found jam drops were a name for them, and thought that was a perfect name, especially for a cookie related to jam or even the Strawberry Jam Sword. So when I needed to make a new character, I chose to do that. I was considering if Jam Drop was too on the nose, since the other Soul Jam wielders don’t have names that relate to their jam or even their (likely) flavor, but I liked the name Jam Drop so I decided to stick with it

Might as well show what jam drops are, they’re basically just cookies with jam in the middle

Anyways back to him, so he’s supposed to have found the gem, like I said, and basically he just wants to help people around him. He’s a good boy. Tragically however he never makes it past his teenage years, as he is crumbled for his Soul Jam after only a few years of having it, from others who want its power. I think I explained his personality a bit better in the notes. Another little thing, with the “accidentally hitting people with lightning”, I imagine a little scenario where he’s excited and accidentally strikes someone in the background with lightning, and he turns around and yells “OH WITCHES I AM SO SORRY” and then immediately goes to help them, feeling very bad the entire way through. I know I said it, but I want to draw it out as well. Only I can’t because I don���t have a design for him yet. Oh also, he’s from the Bloody Jam Mountains

But honestly, the biggest problem has been his design. I cannot for the life of me figure it out. I made those notes so I could have a guideline for what I wanted. I planned to draw more sketches, but I was busy with the lab and didn’t have time to draw more. I also made this sketch this morning to try and get across his personality. Also try and figure out his design, but I couldn’t do that. I’m also not sure the pose or body type look right

As said in the notes, I want his hair to be jam (I tried to incorporate the jam drop shape in the hair but it didn’t look right, I’ll incorporate it into the outfit), and I’m thinking it’s orange. I’m also going to give him dark red eyes, since I notice that aside from White Lily (which is probably intentional), all the Ancients have their eye colors (or one in the case of Pure Vanilla) the same color as their Soul Jam, though different in specific shade

I’m also not entirely sure where the gem is supposed to be on him. I don’t want to repeat a placement from the other wielders, so I needed to come up with something new. My plan was to put it on one of his hands, probably his left, and thus like the notes say, a gauntlet. I don’t want it as a sword because my idea is that the Strawberry Jam Sword as a sword only happened later on with other wielders, it was not its original use. Basically my idea is he could like, lift his hand and lightning is summoned to strike his enemies. But also, he could maybe use it to cast some sort of lightning shield, like what Lemon Cookie has. But I want to keep the lightning

Other ideas I had was a hammer, because you know, Thor, and also we don’t have hammers for the Ancients. Also possibly a bow, though mostly just because other ideas. But I’m not sure on them since I don’t necessarily want the gem to be used strictly for violence. Gauntlet is the one I stick with the most, but there’s also the logistics problem of making that work, since Cookie hands are a bit too small to put one of those gems on. I’m using Wildberry as a reference

Also just another thing, but I feel like Jam Drop is also a name that would work for someone that’s like, the first ever Soul Jam wielder, given jam drops are literally just basic cookies that have jam in them. Like if anything works for a Cookie that first wielded a Soul Jam, it would be this. And plus, the jam is in the shape of a circle, and I feel like a circle would work as the first Soul Jam, given circles are like, the most basic shape. Perfect for the first one. And I mean, technically Jam Drop did wield a Soul Jam before the Ancients (he’s from around 10,000 years before the main story, just like Blueberry Ice Cream was), but he doesn’t necessarily fit that bill. But ah well, I still like the name for him

Anyways yeah, just wanted to talk about him and air out my problems with designing him, maybe in the hopes someone can help. I just think he’s neat, I hope you like

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

[askingtroybarnes]

Flashlight coughed up a hairball

[anbaisai]

I was today years old when I learned that Kalim's headband thingy does not, in fact, tie into a bow

(thank you @fell-fell for informing me)