#quohotos

[transgender-chiroptera]

May I politely request the Jamaican Flower bat?

Of course! Enjoy :)

[fablepatron]

Halo art request:

The pilot playing on a Gameboy

How did he get that thing that should be in a museum!

[quohotos]

So how long do you think it would take to water board those pronouns out of you?

What are you? A cop?

In reality it's more like when you have all your friends over and they're really good at cooking, like they're all chefs in this analogy, but you're a total bachelor(possibly et) who can't cook to save your life, so you serve them fucking reheated instant hamburgers but then you add your "secret sauce" so you technically cooked something rather than just reheating it.

Now, it's just mustard and mixed together with only a tiny bit of mayo, but you say "it's a secret" so you can maintain the vineer of being a chef like everyone else here.

I mean these people are nice, they like you, but they also make so many posts on their socials about how people who can't cook are pathetic and boring. You know they weren't talking about you when they wrote that, but maybe they were just a little bit? You can't be sure and you don't want to find out so... Secret sauce on the burgers everyone!

And hey, you're not a chef and you can't cook, and you'd never tell anyone you can... but sometimes it's fun when people think that you are and you just take your time correcting them.

Yeah you'd basically have to torture me as much as I tortured that metaphor

[yesthefandomfreakblr]

Steamboat Willie can now legally be a character in the Underland. Do with this as you will.

THIS IS MY NIBBLER OC EUCLID (name credits to @quohotos))

HE HAS A GOOFY HAT!!

He helps with inventory shipping across water, he's a great sailor and strategist for traveling. Did I mention he's a huge asshole? No one likes sailing with him but he's good at his job and he sings well.

[victrabarca]

December Book Club

(art by @quohotos)

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

While babysitting his little sister, Gregor follows her down a hole in their apartment building’s laundry room and winds up going on an adventure in an underground realm filled with giant creatures. First book in series that Collins wrote before The Hunger Games. It is interesting because it deals with similar themes to THG but for a younger audience and is fantasy instead of sci-fi. (1st in a 5 book series.)

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

This one is a Christmas book! A television writer who's going through a rough patch in her marriage decides to not go with her husband and their kids to their relatives for Christmas because she feels like she needs to work. While her family is away, she discovers an old phone that lets her call her husband in the past, during the time when they were first dating.

The Pearl that Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

Half contemporary fiction and half historical fiction. It is the story of girl in Afghanistan who is a bacha posh, a girl who lives as a boy for a while for her family's benefit and then has to adjust to becoming a woman and losing the freedom she had as a boy. It is also the story of one of her ancestors who had some similar experiences.

Starsight by Brandon Sanderson

The second book in the Skyward series. I haven't read it, so I don't know if it's good. I have it, though, so you can borrow it.

[trekwiz]

@thatswhatheavenfeelslike tagged me to post 5 songs I've been listening to lately:

This one isn't fair because you can't listen to it until early November, but: Rainbow Sea (Bold and Free). Commissioned by me!

First Boy by Evan Greer

Hùg Air A' Bhonaid Mhòir by Julie Fowlis

Paddle Me Own Canoe by Waxies Dargle

Temperature of Revenge by Julia Ecklar

I tag @shard-of-life @thelightninghunter @constructionpirate @quohotos @epicscizor @werechicken if you'd like to play at well.

[paksenarrion-dorthansdotter]

a certain someone keeps reblogging the scene where Gregor is looking at his scars, and it makes me want to rave about one of my characters. but I can’t, because spoilers. UGH

[paksenarrion-dorthansdotter]

@quohotos did you know that you are the header on the #galidor tag right now?

[paksenarrion-dorthansdotter]

very happy today because I got @quohotos to read the little story they wrote me out loud at craft night. they do the best voices! i need a professional recording lol

[paksenarrion-dorthansdotter]

i've said before that getting art from my friends is the best thing in the world

today i got one of the most important presents of my whole life. @quohotos wrote a little vignette and turned it into a booklet. i will never be able to express how much it means to me.

[paksenarrion-dorthansdotter]

i drew things today at craft night! but they are somebody else's character, and also not finished yet. i wish i had more time to learn to draw better

[paksenarrion-dorthansdotter]

the urge to keep making asks for doodles is strong but I must resist the temptation. mustn’t overuse this privilege

[paksenarrion-dorthansdotter]

alternatively, the kind of friendship where you hang out on the video call and egg them on to making digital art ranging from shitposts to actually amazing paintings, because listening to them rant about their favorite media while they draw it makes you feel all bubbly because ART and FRIENDSHIP and STORIES

[quohotos]

trans pride bat!

Managed to get it done for the last day of transgender awareness week

[quohotos]

draw the bird who bats

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean specifically a chimney swift?

Or do you mean just any generic Bird that is currently trying to Bat?

[quohotos]

Man, I really feel bad for the Dinotopia guys. They built this whole intricate, creative, enrapturing world, and it was going to be the next big thing. It was gonna be the next franchise. They got George Fucking LUCAS to make a screen adaptation of it. Yeah, the starwars guy. Then midway through production he realizes how much he loves making movies and decides to ditch your project and make the prequels instead. They say there's no bad blood but... man it would fucking kill me to go to the theater and see Naboo and think "Fuck, that coulda been waterfall city"

There still was a franchise. They did eventually make spinoff paperback novels and video games and there were even a couple screen adaptations, but they were done by Lifetime and Hallmark. The lifetime one is actually surprisingly good given its budget. It tells a story that mirrors the structure of the original picture book, two brothers get marooned on Dinotopia, one of them rides a pterosaur and then they have to stop a dude named Krab from stealing a crystal that he needs to make an ancient machine get him off the island... but it's not a reboot or anything, it's the same continuity as the books. I guess guys named Krab really do be stealing crystals every generation or so. It's not really that bad of a series but damn it could have been George Lucas!

I dunno, I just find myself thinking about it. It was a uniquely artistic and non-violent series for its time. All of the dinosaurs and people live in harmony. There used to be a steampunk cyber empire of capitalists who tried to replace dinosaurs with the coolest looking robots you could imagine, but then there was a revolution and they all live in communistic harmony with no real currency. Each according to their need, each to their own ability. All that Jazz.

I'm certainly more normal about it than I am say The Underland Chronicles but I still find myself thinking about those gorgeous communist dinosaur picture books. In another reality, Battleborn won over Overwatch, Galidor never got its budget cut and was actually a smash success, Warner bros actually did something with the TUC film rights, and Kids in the 00s grew up with Dinotopia instead of the Starwars prequels.