#our last

[melodicwriter]

[pinkravat-art]

"breakfast" a tma s5 animation thing

audio on:333

dawg can't even fry me an egg in this eyeconomy

[VD: A Magnus Archives animation done in orange and teal titled "Pusryčiai" (meaning: "breakfast"). Mellow music plays as Martin cracks two eggs into a frying pan. He turns away to throw the shells while the pan sizzles, and when he returns with a spatula, a "boom" sound effect plays as Martin recoils with comic disgust.

The egg yolks have been replaced by human eyeballs. Martin stares at them for a moment. He then pokes at the egg with the spatula, producing a squelching sound, and one of the eyes blinks with another gross wet sound. Martin goes from disgusted to comically sad and disappointed, and he fades away before the setting does. The video ends on the words "darė Skaistė" (meaning: made by Skaistė) and a quick shot of an eyeball. End VD]

ty @princess-of-purple-prose for the description, i edited it a bit too.

[keymintt]

a comic/zine about coyotes

[deltaruneinsanitycalls]

We are now Deltarune: Insanity Calls

We are going to brand away from Deltarune: The Other Puppet. This will take course over the next couple of months.

TOPIC was made when TOP was during a down period. At the time, it'd been almost a year since the last character ref (Between Seam and Toriel's specifically). And there's been no new music outside of just area tracks for a year at that point. The old Joker TOP Server was dead, when him only posting to promote his own, separate works. I made TOPIC when TOP was believed to be dead. But now it's coming back. Maybe because of me? But I don't know.

Point is, is that TOPIC was made from a place of passion for me. I saw an AU I loved dying and wanted to help it, but as time moves on, TOP actually is doing things again and I'm made to feel like a fraud, or a crook trying to steal someone else's work, even if I'm doing everything to make it unique.

I bring this all up since I still love the idea of the AU. I love the idea of this human Spamton and monster Jevil, with a weird bird thing named Dinsoda traveling the worlds, meeting weird foes like a muppet with a hero complex or a weird lizard caffeine addict. But I also love what we've added. I love the neckbeard that is Admin, I love the music we've made. I love the idea of the Knight being a overarching threat. I love the art we've made. I love the videos we've made.

I love both, and both work so well, but if TOP's back being a thing, there's no use in me trying to save it. It's been saved. And now, I want some of our stuff to be more than just TS!The Other Puppet. That's why we're going to rebrand.

Also, TOPAnon, if you're reading this, then I hope you know that I never wanted to cause you any issues. For a while, you were simply inactive and I thought this AU was dead. I wanted to make sure it lived on, but you're back and now I don't need to make sure it lives on. I wish you luck on the future of The Other Puppet. I hope I didn't leave too much of a bad taste in your mouth. You're an inspiration to me, and I'm sorry for any issues I caused for you.

Anyways, here's our current plans:

What we're changing:

TOP designs (Spamton's dark world, Noelle, Azzy, etc.)

TOP-specific story beats (which isn't very much)

We are, of course, going to continue on doing our own swaps and songs independent of TOP. It's what we've been doing already, so it's more-so here

But worst of all, we are replacing Dinsoda. It's TOPAnon's OC for The Other Puppet.

What we're not changing:

Kris' Song names, lyrics, and motifs. (Mostly due to those songs being completed already)

Any official Insanity Calls swaps (Sans is still Rouxls, for example - even if TOPAnon eventually decides to do it himself)

Any designs that are already original (Admin, Seam's, Giga Kris, etc.)

More info will come out when it's ready, but our team are already working on new designs and a Dinsoda replacement. I'm excited for everyone to see it.

By the end of it, we should be our own entity.

Here's a quick mash-up of design ideas:

(First one by Er3n F0und, second two by Kapptt Kapptt)

A lot of things are now considered not canon, but I won't remove them as they are still apart of our history. But if you're scrolling through the blog, then consider everything past this point non-canon.

Edit: I lied. We're changing Giga Kris and Kris in general. Go check out But Then They Thought-

[saltpepperbeard]

going fucking bonkers going bananas going INSANE [x]

[liveandbreathemusicals]

Gay people will be like “this is my comfort show!” And then show you the most emotionally devastating, stress-inducing, tragic piece of media you have ever witnessed

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

[chloesimaginationthings]

Will the real FNAF Helpy please stand up?..

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

[junotter]

Part 1 of my modern avatar au, the fire nation

[hbothelastofus]

[smilindesperado]

[muffinlance]

Edit: Yes, the original Sokka sexism arc is great and important. But we don't live in a world where the live action show runners decided to include it in the same form. So:

Unpopular opinion time: Sokka unlearning sexism isn't actually a large part of his character arc--it literally only takes the opening episodes. And removing it COULD be a sign that the live action is taking seriously the complaints I've seen from native fans about the original show runners deciding to make the Water Tribes that sort of sexist to begin with. Sokka's actual character arc is about gaining confidence and leadership skills, and they have the opportunity to focus on that MORE if they change the Kyoshi episode to focus on Suki as a fellow teenager forced into a leadership/protective role in her community and rocking it rather than using her as an object lesson on sexism for a male character to learn from. Whether they will ACTUALLY do that is on them, but it took me less than ten minutes to think up, so I sure hope someone in the writers' room actually cares about using the live action to expand on new angles of the characters. Big ask, I know.

Now the real question is: did they also remove Uncle Iroh's unwanted physical advances on a literally paralyzed Jun, and all of Zuko's snipes about girls? Because THOSE are the actually "iffy" sexism parts in AtLA, not Sokka's five minute arc.

[pedrohub]

It’s the last thing I’ll ever ask of you. I swear. 

Pedro Pascal as JOEL MILLER The Last of Us (2023) — 1.06 “Kin”

[pedro-pascal]

DAD® mode activated

[madootles]

dramatic eyes. dramatic lips. drama on the cheeks.

sketch