#thewiglesswonder

[ckret2]

I just wanted to say that I have been loving the Akuposting that has been happening as of late. The vibes that evil tree gives off are immaculate and so are the considerations you give his character. Consider this an open invitation to share any more random bits you might want to on him and Scaramouche/Mojo/the PPGs/anybody else you like!

I got this ask while I was working on the big art post for the kage and hikaru au, but saved this for a separate post just so i could post even more, different headcanons lmao.

I'll fling out several headcanons but I'm gonna put them all in separate posts so that it's not one super long post on a dozen topics again. because i crave peer validation and maybe if they're several shorter posts more people will comment lmao. The others will be posted not long after this one.

for this post I'm giving you some thoughts about scaramouche's & aku's musical tastes. I'm sticking it under a read more but first, ✨a request for help from y'all✨:

Are any of y'all fans of free jazz/avant garde jazz/experimental jazz? Do you have any recommendations for a newbie just stepping into the genre? Preferably ones that highlight the flute? Thanks gang.

Okay so Scaramouche's flute playing & singing is pure improv; if he's got any specific musical style, it's some kind of jazz. But we never hear him performing, like... normal music.

Two possibilities: either his magic to works by hitting certain notes or intervals, so he's just trying to make the necessary sounds, not play "music"; or, you need to be so far down on the jazz music iceberg you can't even see sunlight through the water before you hit the kind of avant garde shit Scaramouche is into.

Logically, I think the first option makes a little more sense; but personally, I like making in-character "what would they like to listen to" music playlists, which means I need to have a canon basis for the character's musical tastes; so I'm rolling with "he's into experimental jazz."

(The problem is I've dug into jazz for a prior character, but it was pre-WW2 jazz & swing. Like, "We'll Meet Again is way too late for the kind of jazz we're talking about" jazz. For Scaramouche I need "We'll Meet Again is way too early for the kind of jazz we're talking about" jazz. Whiiiiich is why I'm asking for recommendations lmao.)

The group of bots Scaramouche has jam sessions with are playing jazz so free that if a recognizable melody ever dared walked into the club, they would shoot it dead on sight. Their jazz is so avant garde that should the uninitiated ever hear them play, they'd think "oh wow that's what happens when you hand robots instruments, they don't understand music at all." No. Those robots understand music better than you or I ever will. The most elite of jazz snobs walks into that club, hears them play, and begins weeping at the beauty. It's exquisite. If you're into that kind of thing.

"Okay but the ask was for headcanons about Aku, how is that relevant to Aku?" It's relevant for this reason:

Aku thinks that shit sucks balls.

Scaramouche keeps inviting Aku to listen to his band play (the band does NOT know this and would be TERRIFIED if their boss showed up), and Aku keeps turning him down, because He Does Not Want To Listen To That.

Scaramouche thinks Aku's taste in music also sucks but he's willing to give it a shot. Aku doesn't care about his opinion.

I already did a headcanon about Aku's music tastes but I'm expanding on it: we've established that he's into techno music; I asked around on reddit about what kind of genre they think the mind control rave music is, and their suggestion is psytrance, maybe forestpsy or darkpsy, so that's what I'm going with until I can really dig into the nitty-gritty on the different genres in that area.

I think he'd also be into traditional music, like, "so old the only two people on the planet who still remembers these songs are Aku and Jack" traditional music. Before I can give specifics on that I need to do some research on traditional Japanese music.

Did you know your brain is trained to understand/hear certain music as musical? If you haven't been trained on a kind of music (just,, listen to it a lot), it doesn't hit. It doesn't sound "good" because your brain doesn't know how to listen to it. It might not even sound like music to you. Anyway—all that is to say that my brain has been trained on Western music, which means I'm anticipating a lot of musical brain training & historical research before I can give any sort of nuanced opinions on traditional Japanese music beyond "that sure is traditional and Japanese all right." So I'm gonna leave that part of his tastes vague for now.

But one extra detail: I think Aku was born already knowing some songs, including some from hundreds or thousands of years before he was born. They were songs sung by mourners at the edge of the pit of hate whose loved ones had been consumed.

[chaifootsteps]

What did you think of The Substance? I watched it with my best friend and after it was done, we sat there in dead silence for probably five straight minutes afterwards.

I'm way too much of a weenie to actually watch it, but you've got to appreciate the existence of a horror movie that stresses following the damn directions on your medication.

[bhramarii]

I love your "the grotesque is a comorbidity of the macabre and the divine" shirt so much, would it be a problem if I made a patch for myself with that phrase?

Go for it I don't mind! Tag me when you finish it I wanna see!! (if you don't mind)

[serenescribe]

Fuller comment on Glaciers coming soon (in short: amazing!!!) but all I can think of with the ending to chapter 8 is that video of Steve Harvey going "YES!!! KILL!!!!!" It's very evocative, wonderful job.

end of chapter 8 be like

whfdnfhd I'M GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT!!! i've been waiting to write this moment for so, SO long!

[jaywings]

7 and 12 for the fic writer asks!

7. Your preferred writing fonts

I'm the freak who writes in comic sans because it feels more organic somehow

I just have to remember to change it to a different font when I send it to my normal beta reader because comic sans is a one-hit KO for her

12. A trope you're really into right now

Spent a while trying to think of an answer for this. I don't know if it counts as a trope, but I've gotten more interested in writing post-canon content lately? Usually my stuff tends to be prequel content or something that takes place in the midst of canon, but I'd like to explore more stories taking place after canon.

[knight-a3]

Your human design for Smokestack is so adorable. He's just a little guy.

You have no idea how much I love you right now.

Smokestack/Samson is so precious to me. I love his adult design, but so much of what I do with him is actually his child version. My sister @angelfishcake and I talk about him and his stupid little friends so much. I'll share more about the friends eventually(hint, they're based off Rumble and Frenzy). Soundwave is such a tired dad. TFP Soundwave is a separate character, and is the local cryptid.

Anyway, I have a backlog of drawings for this whole thing(AU?). I always think I'll color things, but then I never do and just end up collecting them.

[bitegore]

I appreciate the influx of the henchgoon of the decade and his slutty little waist.

i like how everyone's like "and his slutty little waist" i did not notice his waist. dude looks like he's built like a linebacker to me. however, i would also suck a linebacker's cock in a heartbeat, so...

[tj-crochets]

I had to make the little blorbo a reality

There really is no feeling quite like discovering a new song that fits your blorbo to a T. Best I can do to convey it is something like

[tachyon-omlette]

Happy Birthday!!! I hope the bike ride is fun!!

thank you !!!!!! very much looking forward to it even though I am still a lil sleeby

[hoodieimp]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Thank you!!!! 🩷💜🩷💜🩷 and OHGOD WHY DID IT MAKE THE PIC SO FUCKIN HUGE IN PREVIEW

[umaia3aurart]

Red Temptation🥀

I enjoy thinking about how they met in Wreckers: Tread and Circuits.

If you have read the comic, you know Breakdown is the commander of Security Operations in Velocitron, right? I wonder if he was chosen for the position for the Decepticon conquest of Velocitron? Or what if he was already a police officer before they met, and Knock Out corrupted him…?

I’m imagining such a story of these two. Once there was a good cop in Velocitron. His name is Breakdown. He is a somewhat slow Velocitronian, but his steady and solid working attitude gained the trust of Sec-Ops. One day, he met a stunning racer, Knock Out, and was detailed to guard him in a race. They fell in love with each other soon. Breakdown was totally addicted to him, and he thought he would give him all he wanted. One night, his ravishing red partner murmured sweet words into his ear. ‘Hey, darling, I need your help. Have you ever thought about making Velocitron belong to us? Wanna create an ideal world together…?”

And then, they executed the plan during the Speedia 500…

Even if Knock Out initially approached Breakdown for his own gain, I believe he will soon discover true love in BD’s sincere character. And I want them to think about creating a new Velocitron for just both of them. Hnnnng such a villainous couple! 😩

The original before trimming and editing!

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OMG THIS SCENARIO IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS HOPING FOR!! I WANT TO SEE HIS SPARK SWAYING WITH UNEXPECTED LOVE! YUM YUM

Thank you for sharing your idea @thewiglesswonder !! <3

[ckret2]

This question pertains to absolutely nothing, but I'm remembering something I can't find proof of on your blog: did you say, at any point, that the song "Because the Night" by Patti Smith reminds you of NOS-4-A2 from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command for no particular reason? Because I'm either majorly misremembering something or making it up wholecloth.

oh my god?? i must have said that before, because it's 100% true I do associate "Because the Night" with Nos-4-A2. I had to go dig it out of my blog, I said it almost exactly a year ago lmao.

I don't exactly remember why I associate it with him, but I'm like 60% sure it was an AMV, 40% it might've been a fanfic that used the song.

If it was an AMV, I can't find it now. So instead I offer you a different AMV with a song that I also now inextricably associate with Nos-4-A2. it's good you should watch it

If there was a Nos-4-A2 "Because the Night" AMV and it wasn't a fanfic, then either this person made it or somebody at most two steps removed from them made it. The BLoSC fan community was small and tightly-knit.

[chaifootsteps]

I just felt like you should see these. Found via a Temu ad.

Ahh, all my favorite characters: Ovary, Redman, Asbestos, and Philip Clench.

[atlantahammy]

Krang Font Download FREE on my Ko-fi ITS ROUGH BUT IT FUCKIN WORKS! AHAHAH! IT LIVES! Anyway, I just spent about 24 hours in total making this whole ass font from all the stuff I collected and glad to see it like.. works. (seriously, thank you for all the attention it fueled my ass to finish this)

You can thank @phoebepheebsphibs for faving my original post, which lead me to go onto her page and finding where she made her own Rise font, and oh god, that saved my ass in not dying while making this. (yes I payed money to make this, worth it.)

With that, a few specials @'s cause I had them in mind when doing and making this and kinda of played a big ol' role in me doing this:

@kathaynesart @somerandomdudelmao @tapakah0 @cokowiii @ewitsewwie  @thewiglesswonder @thegunnsara @indieyuugure

Enjoy yourselves~ Don't murder your hands too much.

[serenescribe]

"Peaceful" and "snarl" for the fic word guessing game!

Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

unfortunately, nothing for peaceful, but for snarl...

She bites her lip, weathering the array of stares her friends are giving her — Kristen’s face, painted in visible concern, hugging Boggy close to her chest; Fig’s lips, parted in the makings of a snarl; Gorgug’s narrowed eyes, something dark crossing them; Fabian’s scowl, mouth twisted into such blatant distaste, and Riz’s—

i sure do love long sentences huh? ahfdnghdf

[jaywings]

🌟!

I'll go with my most recent Psychonauts fic, Helping Hand. I started writing this soon after I finished PN2 for the first time because I wanted to write Raz practicing with hydrokinesis, but I didn't know where to take it so I ended up putting it to the side for a couple of years.

I finally started coming up with ideas for Raz making peace with the Hand of Galochio after so long being afraid of his own power, and tying in an interaction with Ford and Lucy, and ended up finishing it!

It was fun coming up with headcanons for what the characters might get up to post-PN2. I've spent so long writing prequels and midquels that I tend not to dwell much on post-canon material for any fandom, unless it's for crossovers.

Thanks for the prompt!