#raygun rambles

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Me and Mojo go on dates to Home Depot 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[yjhgvf]

Btw the Troublemakers redesign has finished, I just didn't really feel like posting (also I have this AU for the redesigns where Big Trouble is kinda serious and "tanky" and Little Trouble is a gremlin who loves chaos and I didn't post it sooner because I thought people wouldn't like it. And I forgot their glasses)

Oooh they look really cool! I love the way you drew their expressions!!!

[mewos-laptop]

Let me be evil in peace ffs

Bitches hate me for being evil and then try to "fix" me like Jesus CHRISTTTTT

I'm an evil alien furry cat who experiments on humans and hates that little motherfucker Spud. There's nothing else. I have no tragic backstory. My tragic backstory is go kick rocks.

Signed your local Gnarpy fictionkin

listen all i'm gonna say is that maybe gnarpy is just a prick that doesn't regret anything xey've ever done. maybe xey didn't have a "Super Tragic Backstory™" and xey were a nepo baby and kills for fun. Maybe xey aren't your uwu baby that did all xey did bc they were forced to. maybe they wanted to do allat. ok bye i'm a hater thats the moral of this story

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[transbeamrooikat]

some killjoy hcs/rambles :3

big fan of the HC that Ghoul has hearing loss like. look at that fella and tell me he has any sense of safety precautions

i also think he knows how to shoot his raygun and obviously has his explosives but if a fight ever becomes close range she just starts Biting

and that fucker can bite HARD he has dogshit dental heath (but that's pretty much a given if you live in the zones, i think) but his bite is so strong he often would rather use his teeth than scissors

also playing around (like. considering) with the hc of him being bigender? idk, thinking about that

cause i hc him as being raised in the zones + his crew died when he was young, i think he doesn't really have like. a strong idea of binary sex/gender/sexuality? like, i feel like labeling people is mostly a City concept, and killjoys just do whatever (although some killjoys do label themselves, it's just not an often occurrence)

SPEAKING OF THE CITY!!! i think Party and Kobra where both raised there and escaped together

Party realized they were NB and probably some flavor of queer when they were pretty young and tried to repress it at first, but that's obviously not health so it lead to them having really shit metal health/had a mental health crisis, but eventually they told Kobra and he tries to give them advice/ just be someone for Party to talk too

i also think they stopped talking their pills pretty young (like, i think Party stopped around puberty? so 10ish) and Kobra stopped a bit before Party came out to him (which is why he didn't report them and was able to help them)

Party's queerness is kinda what led to them leaving the city (i think there also may have been a confrontation with their parents that narrowed down their options to either running away or getting turned over for "reprogramming" but hey ho)

i think they would've met Jet Star and his crew pretty soon after them leaving the city, and they helped them to get to Dr. D

Jet couldn't convince the crew to let Party and Kobra stay any longer so they parted ways there

i actually don't have many Jet specific hcs other than that his eye patch is probably either due to an accident Ghoul caused or due to a clap with a drac

i think about a year after meeting Party & Kobra he leaves his own crew to go form his own/traverse the desert

which kinda leads to a general killjoy hc that they tend to be in crew with their families till they leave to form/find their own at around 15-20 (although some killjoys do stay in their original family crew)

there's probably zone-wide gatherings/parties where a tone of killjoys meet up to relax and have a good time

i flip flop between Party and Ghoul meeting at one of these and them meeting in some abandoned area while Party's doing a supply run

Ghoul speaks Afrikaans because i said so :3 (don't ask how it makes sense in canon - it doesn't really)

He reverts back to speaking it when angry/feeling very strong emotions (although it tends to be very choppy cause although speaking afrikaans is like his coping mechanism, he wasn't taught much of it by his family before they died)

I think she'd try to teach the other killjoys at some point cause it'd make communication easier, but Party's the only one who's remotely good at it cause they're the only other person in the group who can roll their r's

Party & Kobra r very shocked when they learn that other languages is a thing like. at all. cause growing up in the city they wouldn't have been taught that other languages r like. a thing ++ they would kinda also be taught at the same time that "everyone only speaking english is better cause then there's no error in communication ^_^" or something like that

idk whether or not i want Ghoul to be the reason they find this out… it'd definitely make for a good fic idea

like I said, I hc Ghoul as having bad dental health, but I think that also applies to Jet

Party and Kobra's good dental health is actually pretty unusual -- people tend to be able to tell they're from the city because of it

I also think they all have some kinda acne/acne scarring

for Party (and to a lesser extent, Kobra) it was a (bad) way to cope with the stress and anxiety of living in the city, and it became a habit that's still very hard for them to break

for Ghoul and Jet i think it's more a background thing they've never thought too hard on? like, oh there's red spots on my face now and some of them hurt? slay /pos

[rottingurbrainz]

My Tags!

Do be warned I have a LOT!

General/Aesthetics

🦖~ “Mecore” Things

🦖🧪~ “Mecore” Things but specifically Sci-Fi/Toxiccore/Atompunk/Raygun Gothic/Etc

🦖☠️~ “Mecore” Things but specifically Olderbrothercore

🧬🧪 ~ Science Fiction Stuff

🖤☠️ ~ Olderbrothercore Stuff

🛼☎️ ~ 50s Stuff

🎞️📺 ~ General cool old/“vintage” stuff

📠⚙️ ~ Tech/Robots (Real)

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Fandom Tags

🍫🎩 ~ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

🥜💬 ~ Peanuts

🤖📞~ My Life as a Teenage Robot

🌲📚~ Gravity Falls

❓🐕~ Scooby Doo

🪄💭~ Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends

🟠🏡~ The Loud House

🪲👻 ~ Beetlejuice 1988

Selfshipping

💕~ F/O or Selfshipping Related

🤖💕 ~ Jenny Wakeman

🪓💕 ~ Wendy Corduroy

🎧💕 ~ Luna Loud

🖇️💕 ~ Frankie Foster

🔎💕 ~ Velma Dinkley

🔬💕 ~ Maru

🤖🦖 ~ Virus Alert (one of my selfships)

Misc characters I really like

⚾️☣️ ~ Peppermint Patty

🎸☣️~ Rodrick Heffley

🌀☣️~ Violet Beuregarde

💾☣️ ~ Smile Dog

📸☣️ ~ The Maitlands

Misc

Jerry Draws ~ My Art

Jerry Rambles ~ Rants/Rambles

[penguin-cracker]

Hello hello this is pretty much the dump blog of @crowsvoice ! (⁠◠⁠‿⁠・⁠)⁠—⁠☆

Expect this blog to be CLUTTERED and full of words. (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠) Though, I'll organize my posts through the #ramblings (yap walls) and #doodlings (art) tags. The art I post here are just things that I don't feel like posting on main hehehe, it can vary !

As usual, I don't mind reposts/personal use as long as they have proper credit. What I *do* mind is using any of my work to train AI. I will zap you with my alien raygun!!! ┗⁠(⁠•⁠ˇ⁠_⁠ˇ⁠•⁠)⁠―⁠→

[rottingurbrainz]

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OOOOOOH YEAH I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY!!! i was kinda nervous to post this but whateva!! Also I should definitely note that I am a minor… I am NOT some fucking weird ass adult who selfships with minor characters 😭 also ignore any typos i typed this so fast bc i got excited LMAO Anyways with that important thing noted ramble under the cut!!😝

My darling cutie patootie sci-fi retro-futuristic raygun-gothic robot pookie bear ❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕💕 SHE’S SO FREAKING CUTE OH MY GOD her smile she’s so sillyyyyy💕💕💕 i have nothing but lesbian feelings about her… Jebny wakeman 💕💕💕💕 my goofy goober 💕💕💕💕

She’s such a goofball and lowkey kinda a dorky loser but I like my women a little dorky and a little bit of a loser /affectionate,,,She’s so pretty i’m sorry the bullies in this show are WRONG she’s AWESOME AND BEAUTIFUL 💔💔💔 we r so butch x femme,,, so moon x sun,,, black cat x golden retriever i could go on we are SO YURI

(us,,, im the edgy gay dork on the right,,,)

fun factoid she’s the f/o I’ve had the longest as i’ve been crushing on her since i was 12 and if I knew what selfshipping was at that age i’d DEFINITELY be selfshipping with her ngl

anyways that’s it but heres a little photo dump 😝

i love my cartoon gf 🙏

GUSH ABOUT YOUR F/O IN THE REBLOGS TO ME AND I WILL ACTUALLY LISTEN AND RESPOND TO THEM ACCORDINGLY BECAUSE YOU 🫵 DEAR READER DESERVE TO HAVE YOUR INTERESTS TREATED WITH RESPECT AND NOT JUST GET A "wow that's neat"

doubles and proshippers dni! Doubles you also deserve respect I'm just not very good at sharing I'm so sorry!

[rabid-raygun]

I should sleep but I kinda wanna write bc I'm past the halfway point in my story but I kinda wanna draw bc my new tablet-pen came in so I can draw again but I...

[cherrikisser]

how have i never noticed how long rayguns actually are?? obv party has this one in the holster but like. right under their hip to almost their knee???? i feel like i’m losing my mind a little bit bc of this picture

[ourangeloftrash]

in that gif I thought maybe grant wasn't actually touching him with the gun bc it all looked so smooth like there was no resistance or hitch when it touched his skin so maybe it didn't, maybe it just looked so close because of the angle, but if you watch Gerard's face you can see him like clench his teeth or something the exact second it happens which I think was a reaction to the physical sensation and doesn't seem like something he'd do in character which makes me think he wasn't expecting it

ooohhh thoughts many many thoughts

[cr0wprince]

Okay, but like I’m so excited to finally get to cosplay Goro’s Crow outfit. Not sure if anyone could tell.

[cherry-bomb-ships]

Hrmm.

I'm gonna give R. Marie a gun

[alloverthegaf]

my supervillain origin story is this year, when the commonwealth games singlehandedly ruined any birthday plans I could possibly have

[killjoyhistory]

The Mystery of DD

Since a lot of newer fans weren’t around to experience the mystery of the DD era as it was unfolding, I wanted to try to describe it so people can understand what it was like to be an MCR fan in 2010.

A Bizarre Mystery

It all began on September 4th, 2010, when MCR’s website suddenly disappeared and was replaced with a mysterious transmitter. No one had any idea this was coming, and no explanation was offered. You could click the dials to see different screens (test patterns, a nuclear fallout symbol, etc.), and hear distorted sounds. At one point, fans believed that they could hear an unreleased MCR song on one of the stations, buried under static and distortion. Later on, the transmitter started playing mysterious videos that hinted at a post-apocalyptic universe.

Not long after the transmitter appeared, the DrDeathDefying Twitter account was discovered after he tweeted a fan. NewsAGoGo and AgentCherriCola were discovered soon after, with the rest of the accounts coming later. The accounts posted a bizarre mixture of strange pictures, futuristic slang, references to apocalyptic events, fan interactions, and eerie ramblings. You could determine a loose background and storyline from the Twitter accounts, but they were so vague that no one was quite sure what was going on. All we knew was that the characters seemed to be part of a nightmarish, post-apocalyptic universe that took place in the near future. But we had no idea how this related to MCR, or why they’d gone in this direction for their next album.

The Return of MCR.com

The website did return on September 8th, with a new photo and blog post from Frank. But the blog post offered no explanation, and the speculation was far from over. The transmitter was still accessible on a separate page on MCR’s website. As the Twitter accounts continued to post their bizarre ramblings, people made connections to everything from movies to past MCR eras to the supposed “2012 Mayan Apocalypse.” At that point, their next album could have been about anything.

Looking back at Danger Days now, it’s pretty clear what was going on. But at the time, we had no idea where this era was heading. Keep in mind that our only sources of information were the Twitter accounts and the transmitter–no comics, no music videos, no interviews. The era could have been about anything. For this reason, fans scrutinized every scrap of information–pictures, tweets, transmissions–down to the smallest detail.

A World of Theories

The blog girlautomatic is a great place to read the old theories. Here’s an example from one of her posts:

Here’s my new theory:

Dr. Death Defying is part of a group called the Philly Jackals, likely a gang that either travels around on motorcycles or cars or both. Whether the group actually comes out of Philadelphia, assuming Philadelphia (or even the other states) still even exists as we know them to exist, is debatable.

The name Dr. Death Defying is an alias s/he either adopted or was given upon joining up with the Philly Jackals.

Slaughtermatic Sounds is both their logo and their motto.

The car in the picture Frank posted and the raygun Dr. Death Defying tweeted a picture of belong to him/her.

Which could possibly mean that the Lady referred to in this tweet is said car. It also probably means that last night’s tweet about being low on batteries is also about his car, but that might be a bit of a stretch. Also? I’m not sure I’d want to get on the Doctor’s bad side, if this is all correct. Motor gangs are serious business. It at least casts this tweet in a different light, though, and really makes me wonder if this tweet about nitro is referring to the dangers of drag racing, and if this tweet is about traveling on the open road.

This might look strange to fans today, but at the time, no scrap of information was insignificant. Whole blog posts were written about one or two tweets. People studied the blank transmitter screen, trying to see vague shadows or reflections in the image. They traced pictures posted on Twitter to their original sources, then studied the sources. To fans, it was basically a giant puzzle–but we had no idea where it was heading, or if there were even a solution to find.

People also tried to figure out who ran these Twitter accounts. We know now that Shaun Simon ran most of them, with Gerard Way and Jon Rivera handling DrDeathDefying. But at the time, several fans (including me) just kind of assumed that the members of MCR ran the accounts. A popular theory was that Gerard ran DrDeathDefying and Frank ran NewsAGoGo (a few tweets shared Frank’s typing style.) However, some people did suspect that Shaun Simon was involved, as the characters tended to tweet about things that he mentioned on his personal Twitter.

The End of an Era

Eventually the “Art Is The Weapon“ video was released, and the interviews and music videos that followed cleared up a lot of the mystery. But the characters continued to tweet, some of them posting well into 2013. We’re now familiar with the Danger Days universe, but the hint of mystery and intrigue still lingers. Many questions were never answered, while some concepts and ideas were scrapped altogether. Even if we get more content in the future, parts of DD will always remain a mystery to us–and I think that’s one reason that it continues to capture people’s imaginations.

An interesting note–thinking back on the transmitter and the Twitter accounts, it felt like we’d analyzed these pieces of information for months. But while I was researching this blog post, I realized that MCR’s website returned after only four days, and "Art Is The Weapon” was released only a few weeks later. I guess the analysis and scrutiny was so in-depth that it seemed to last much longer!

[knifesxedge]

hi love im deep in ur art blog for reasons and im SO in love with the fact that ur ghoul has his OWN nickname tattooed on him in party's writing they are SO 🥺 was wondering if you wanted to talk a bit more abt ghouls tattoos??? theyre just SO gorgeous and intricately laid out

HI i LOVE u i am KISSING u i would love love love to talk about ghoul’s tattoos 🥺❤️

^ yeah ghoul & party have each other’s handwriting tattooed!! for party it’s one of the only tattoos they have & it’s right over their heart (im sure ive mentioned this fact before but idk if ive explicitly noted that it says ‘sunshine’) and ghoul didn’t have the space to put his right over his heart because poison’s kj symbol is there so his is on his upper arm (they ARE soooooooo 🥺 i love them)

ghoul’s tattoos are a healthy mix of sentimental ink and things he just thought were beautiful. when he met the rest of the four he didn’t have THAT many tattoos because 1. he was 14 2. he’d only been in the zones for a little under a year and a half at that point but the ones he DID have (aka his oldest tattoos) were his knuckle tattoos (‘freed’ and ‘fuck’ what can i say he was 13), the big raven on his upper shoulder and neck (he started believing in the witch very early compared to other cityborns but yeah that tattoo was both a way of symbolizing his devotion to the witch and a way of marking himself as a killjoy/shedding his past in the city in the way that he considered clearest), the fangs on his hand, two bats on his leg, the zombie bite on the other side of his neck (i could get a little more into this but BASICALLY ghoul being an ex-crow trainee + a cityborn + being the only surviving member of his first crew had a problem with feeling inhuman and a lot of survivor’s guilt and so he really. idk he connected a lot with zombies & frankenstein’s monster and ghosts & the like when he was a runner for dr. d post-his crew’s deaths. he got better about Seeing Himself as a Person especially once kobra + the other two showed up but the fascination remained) (also not tattoo-related but that’s when he chose his name. before that he’d been called ‘sandpup’ by his old crew & he never had a chance to tell them before they passed but he really loved that they used that as a name for him especially with how much he didn’t want to associate himself with the city) (ghoul had A Lot of issues but the difference there is that he worked thru them a lot earlier than the rest of the four) and “I FORGIVE U” on the back of his neck (in remembrance of said former crew).

umm along with that kind of fascination with the undead/feeling that kind of connection are the frankenstein stitches on his wrists (tho thats more of a common hc) and he has this pretty big tattoo of abstracted bones following his vertebrae down his throat and chest that he’s gotten expanded/fixed/touched up over the years. ik i do a lot of b&w doodles but i feel like i’ve been kind of inconsistent about coloring (most of his tattoos are color). pretty sure ive mostly drawn them in green (???) but in my head they’re like a faded light blue using natural skin tone as highlights.

his more sentimental tattoos…let me see if i can outline them here. this might not be exhaustive but i will do my best to list what ive figured out at least thus far:

the two little bats on his right thigh are for his grandmother and little sister. his sister (juliet adele fujikawa, b. april 2009 d. december 2014) was killed in a car crash shortly before he left the city, and likewise, his grandmother (charlotte fujikawa [藤川 千尋] b. june 1936 d. december 2014) was “moved to retirement housing” at about the same time. that was pretty much the last straw & ghoul left battery city within the week

there’s his crewmates’ symbols on his chest (in order from his right to left: kobra, jet, party) (gotten when their crew had been together for a while. dating this one is based on a couple things: 1. ghoul had been with them for long enough that he felt secure 2. poison and ghoul were friends by this point, or else he wouldn’t have included their symbol and 3. poison’s is over his heart so you can read into that as you will)

text from the graffiti bible on his right calf, as protection for his crew & as a reminder of one of his former friends who was a droid that believed very strongly in destroya’s return

his raygun on his chest (he was pretty proud of the design! this was when he was ~15 or 16) that he had poison’s added to post-sing post-engagement pre-commitment ceremony (so. september 2023) (yes i have my handwritten timeline + my own drawings + my fics out in front of me rn cross-referencing sldkdksksbx!)

one of the girl’s childhood drawings (one she drew of him & her & the stuffed animal he made for her when she was a baby all having a tea party together) from when she’s about 5 or so on his right hip (december 2022 or so)

shooting stars on his upper right shoulder, partially because they’re pretty and blend well with his other tattoos and partially because they’re a reminder of a lot of things, including but not limited to his first night out in the zones seeing the stars for the first time, stories his grandma used to tell him, and right when he’d first joined the fab four and him & kobra sat on the roof during a meteor shower

besides the other one i already mentioned ^ he has more of poison’s handwriting on his left inner forearm — this is also one ive mentioned before but once they’ve been in a relationship for a while they get into the habit of leaving little love notes around for each other! there’s nothing particularly special specifically about the one he got tattooed, besides the fact that it reminded him of poison and they love each other. the text in full (which i don’t think ive ever put anywhere, though im pretty sure ive put fragments of it in fics and art) is as follows:

Good Morning baby <3! I needed new paints, went on a run. Kobra has the Girl @ the Crash Track, Jet’s at the station. call me when you wake up! I love you, be back soon. XO Party <3

he also has the anniversaries of when they started dating and their commitment ceremony (03•03•21 and 10•26•23 respectively) on the inside of his right wrist ^ !

he’s got a snake wrapping around his left leg that kobra picked out and a hand of cards with the ace of spades face up that jet picked out (and these ofc are because they remind him of his crewmates!!)

he has the phoenix witch tattooed on his ribs, left side, styled vaguely after catholic saints (since that imagery can still be found in the inner zones & especially where ‘joys who still practice that religion gather!)

there’s a version of the eye from the mailbox on his right shoulder, and this one is also a sort of symbol of protection/good luck, to show devotion to the witch and to help protect himself and his crew

the constellation libra on his left forearm! this one was done a little while after he started running transmissions and supplies for dr. d! he liked the connection that astrology — whether he believed in the practice or not is up for debate — gave people to the stars, and the feeling that he had a place in the universe, predestined or not

after charlie is born, he gets a portrait of her (~age 4) with her name and birthday underneath done on his left thigh! (~2036)

and on his lower back, he has a fairly simple tattoo of two crows on a wire with their beaks pressed together (aughhhhhh romance) that he gets done as an anniversary surprise for their 10-year (so. 2033)!

his non-sentimental tattoos are largely based off of images from books, either from dr. d’s collection when he was working as a runner for him or from cherri’s after he joined up with the fab four, or else they’re naturally occurring in the zones!! this includes but is not limited to: california golden poppies on the back of his left shoulder, strawberries around his left bicep (he doesn’t ever have a strawberry until he’s like 35, this one is absolutely based off of a particularly pretty illustration), a thundercloud with lightning on his left elbow, a moon on his right inner bicep, a ring of thorns around his right forearm right under the elbow, a dagger on his inner left calf, and a sun, small bat, cross, rose, ribbon (with the word ‘faith’ in script), and wing on his right forearm and hand, all picked from flash sheets

so yeah! that’s about everything i have to say about ghoul’s tattoos atm but ty ty ty sm for letting me ramble abt them i think about his tattoos so much 😔❤️

[killjoysfromyesterday]

pls i'm such a sucker for this,,,,, can i get some uhhhhh kobra whump (headcanons, drabble doesn't matter) w party being protective and scared and helping him recover 👉👈

of course!!!! here’s some headcanons

-kobra gets a Lot of injuries at the crash track because he usually races as a way to express/distract his emotions, which results in a lot of easily avoidable, self destructive crashes. poison’s always the first one there at the med tent. always. they never get mad at kobra for being stupid on the track, they just sit next to him and soothe him (usually having to entertain some rambling, concussed nonsense) while the medics work.

-poison will never stop looking at him like a kid. kobra will always be their little brother they need to protect. it doesn’t matter how many years pass

-kobra is pretty good with hand to hand combat, as seen by his karate moves, but every once in a while a drac will pack a punch that sends him sprawling off his feet. poison always freezes and holds his breath whenever he sees kobra on the ground during a firefight

-kobra’s pretty bad when it comes to hiding injuries, so he often lets raygun wounds go unattended to because he thinks the med supplies should go towards things more serious. poison rarely gets flat-out angry, but one day poison goes to wake kobra up and his shirt soaked in blood because he didn’t tell anyone he got shot. poison yelled for hours, and finally just cried, because that brief second of thinking kobra was dead had hurt more than anything they’d ever experienced in the zones.