@a-hell-of-a-time from x.
"HMM, REALLY. no amount of gaudy trappings can make up for your complete and frankly abysmal lack of style."
though his detestable tormentor-in-law is not ... wrong about his feathers, he is a peacock after all, and they're meant to be the most ostentatious of the family, stunning, even. it's just that his complete lack of modesty ruins any semblance of beauty and splendour he might lay claim to. as white as pure snow, the grossly haughty marquis couldn't be further from its symbolic meaning.
perhaps, under different circumstances, they may had even gotten along as eccentric birds of a feather - but his ill-fated marriage to stella and his own ... withdrawn disposition had taken a toll on most of his relationships among the goetia. it is a fastidious thought that he dismisses with a miffed click of his beak, replacing it instantly with a cut-throat smile and a vague flourish of his taloned hand, lest his annoyance be exposed and stella's precious soirée soured, which would lead to more screeching about his marital indifference.
"--but please, do enjoy yourself at the party. I'm sure there are many guests here who are willing to watch you unnecessarily flaunt."
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the juxtaposition between Jess and everyone else is so so funny to me. they’re all good hearted, typical well meaning people who are unlucky enough to have to be the ones to step up. a peaceable inventor, a few passionate scholars, a couple devoted soldiers, an obscurist just trying to live her life, coming from mostly normal homes. and then there’s their street savvy prince of the smuggling underworld guy who just goes around doing illegal things to help out, stealing things casually, being immoral, a whole different shady life and experiences and he’s somehow also part of the family. it’s beautiful <3
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When I first decided on doing these super short Bugsnax fics based on the Flooftober prompts and a randomly generated character, I was going to limit to to characters Floofty canonically knows, but actually it's more interesting to shove all sixteen characters with dialogue in there as possibilities.
By which I mean for day 22, I rolled Jamfoot as the character for Floofty to interact with. Prompt is zombie!
(Prompt list)
Title: Cessation of involuntary activity
Summary: Jamfoot approaches Floofty with a proposition.
(Also on AO3)
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A stranger sat down opposite Floofty. "I understand you are in the market for a rare book?"
Floofty looked up from their triple butterscotch caramel latte with whipped cream, for just long enough to confirm that they didn't know the black-furred Grumpus in front of them. "I believe you have the wrong table."
"Oh, I think you'll find you're exactly who I want to talk to, Mx…" The stranger shuffled some paper. "Fizzlebean. Your repeated reservations of Beyond The Cranium: Studies in Cellular Memory have been… duly noted."
Oh. He worked in the university library. Obviously this was too urgent to just leave a message. "Has the library acquired an extra copy?" said Floofty, excited. "I was under the impression that the waiting list was near three years long." They'd learned a lot about body memory lately, but it was mostly centred on Snakmatter, and they needed to integrate it with the existing scholarship.
"Yeah, our hold system needs a serious overhaul," said the librarian quickly. "But for you… I've read your work, Mx Fizzlebean. You have quite the productive brain, don't you?"
Floofty took a big, sugary sip, and said "Yes, I suppose you could say that." Finally. It had taken long enough for get any recognition around here.
"Now, I have my own copy of this book, but I'm afraid it's… in use," said the librarian. "I suppose I could part with it for a time, once my research has concluded, of course… However, I have hit a snag. You see, I myself am not much of a biologist, and my research… It concerns whether other parts of the body can be induced to continue to think, after a fashion, long after brain death. I-I'm sure you can imagine the implications."
Floofty could, probably better than this librarian. Depending on the kind of cognition that could be performed outside the brain, and the amount, it might even be possible to give a dead Grumpus new life. They could be the Grumpus who discovered how to reverse death. "Are you requesting assistance with this matter…? I will gladly give it." Even without the additional temptation of a rare book.
"Ah, superb," said the librarian, and laughed.
Floofty laughed as well. They couldn't stop thinking about the possibilities.
"We'll be in touch," said the librarian. "So, uh, you know, make sure all your information's up to date."
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I haven't actually drawn ross in different outfits in a while so um doodle with this cool new shirt I bought that definitely fits me and also definitely doesn't have a back made entirely of mesh (and hypothetically if the back was made of mesh I. definitely knew about that before I bought it)
max has seen him in a grand total of 3 or 4 outfits so he thought ross had swapped with someone, but he wasn't totally sure who. he might have guessed ered just because of the style, but there was still a very anxious and non-cool vibe about ross so it couldn't have been her. ross is just trying to have a night out for once
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