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feat. Egoshipping for the writing meme I reblogged yesterday, and dear GOD this got away from me. Cutting it off now before it becomes a full fucking story (complete with fucking!) but maybe if enough of the Onion Jersey server likes this I'll flesh it out.
cw: alcohol, mentions of sex
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"Well, come on," and there's that smirk she saw a hundred times as a child. "Let's hear it."
Misty takes a drink of her margarita, sits up in her chair, and puts on her best 'I fight ten year olds for a living' grin.
"Honey, you've got a big storm coming."
Gary bursts into laughter; genuine delight, miles different from the mocking cackles of his youth. Misty is too surprised to retaliate for a beat. The hot flush in her cheeks is from the tequila they've been drinking, nothing else.
"What?" she demands, leaning across the table at him, aware of Janine and the Lieutenant beside her like someone is aware of the couch on the other side of the room. "Like you don't have cheesy one-liners you use during battles."
"Yeah, but that's like-- boring levels of cheese."
"Boring?!"
Misty leaps - stumbles, actually - off of her barstool, knocking it over in the process.
"That's it," and she snaps her fingers as she points at him. "Outside. Battle. Now."
Gary oozes off his own seat, grabbing the table for balance. "Did you even bring Monsters out with you?"
She did, but only the one. That's why she steps in close to the Leader slash Champion slash Professor slash Absolute Asshole and grabs him by the belt. Dark brown eyes widen, and she can feel his breath on her cheeks, see the faint sheen of sweat on his forehead. For a crucial moment, she forgets what she's doing.
It's been a while since she was this close to Gary Oak. He grew into his good looks, which she refuses to admit to anyone, and he's probably her favorite of the Leaders who come to this monthly informal bar crawl across Cinnabar. Brock would be, if he came, or Erika, but it's this brilliant little thorn in her side who she comes all the way out here to see. He even has the audacity to tan instead of burn and freckle and burn again. That's probably why his eyes are searching her face so closely; trying to count all the little splotches of color on her cheeks.
Someone whistles, snapping her out of her trance. Right.
Misty yanks two Pokéballs off Gary's belt and releases him, her heart pounding and her legs weak. Reaches blindly backwards for her glass of water and takes two pulls of the Lieutenant's beer before she realizes her mistake, splutters, and finally breaks eye contact to locate her drink.
"Just fuck already," Faulkner laments.
It probably doesn't help their case that she and Gary both whip around and snap "no!" at the same time.
Misty finishes her water but she still feels dizzy-drunk, heat in the pit of her stomach and a ringing in her ears. Gary's undone a couple more buttons in his shirt, leaving it loose halfway down his ribcage like a slut, and two can play at that game. She gathers up the hem of her t-shirt, twists it, and tucks it through the collar so it hugs her bra and bares her stomach.
"Arceus," someone mutters, "I'm too old for this shit."
Gary gets up in her space again, herding her towards the exit. "Give those Balls back," he declares, "you don't even know which ones you grabbed."
"I don't need to know, I'll find out when I throw them!"
He's got her backed against the wall in the entryway, hands sliding down her arms as he tries to reclaim his Pokémon. "You have no brain for tactics, do you?" he taunts. Something clatters and rolls across the floor.
Misty spins him around and traps him against the same wall, his wrists on either side of his head. "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard," she retorts. He lets out a choked noise.
"Are they always like this?" Bugsy asks.
"Yes," come multiple replies.
"Oh. Um."
Gary attempts to sneer at her. "That's not even the right anecdote for the situation, Storm Girl." The effect is somewhat ruined by the light dancing in his eyes. He thinks she's funny. And he should, she's hilarious, so she presses a little harder and he makes another sound.
"Fuck you," but she's smiling too, much as she hates it, and--
FFFSSSHHHHHHH!
Icy cold water blasts the pair of them, soaking them to the bone. Misty jumps backwards with a screech, and Gary curses violently. Both of them stare at Misty's Tatsugiri, who is glaring up at them with much more condemnation than should be able to fit in such a small, floppy body. Its Pokéball, painted in the lovely blue shades of a Dive Ball, sits open on the floor.
Well, shit.
"Tatsu!" it demands, and Misty wipes water off her goose-pebbled skin.
"W-We're not going to b-battle now, in soaking clothes, s-so get that idea out of your head," she chides the violence-hungry little fish, bending over to grab the Ball. Behind her, Gary makes his third strangled sound of the night and mutters something that might have been "stop it" to himself. "We're going to the C-center for towels."
"Seemed fine battling wet a minute ago," Surge hoots from across the bar, and Misty flips him off.
A flash of red light and another squeal of diminutive rage, and the Tatsugiri is withdrawn. Gary has stepped fully outside and is wringing out his shirt onto the sidewalk, so he doesn't see her when she approaches and jabs him in the side with stiff fingers.
"Fuck!" he yelps, and isn't it nice that his hair looks less stupid when it's dripping wet around his face? "What now, Red?"
"Towels. You're not flying home like that. You'll get sick." Misty jerks her head to the side, gesturing for him to follow, and starts walking.
"I'll be fine," but she can hear him follow her anyway, the wet slap of two sets of shoes walking downtown.
It's warmer outside than in the bar, even at night. Her denim shorts are starting to chafe against her skin already, but Misty doesn't let that or the occasional curious look of other people slow her down.
"You ever think we should?" asks Gary, tone light.
Misty glances at him over her shoulder. He's thrown his shirt back on like a jacket, loose and clinging, and he's not chiseled or anything but it's-- well--
"Think we should what?"
One shoulder twitches in a poor imitation of a casual shrug. "You know. Have sex."
Misty stumbles, recovers, and keeps walking with her eyes on the sidewalk ahead, lit in a hundred directions by a hundred different lights. "Nope."
"Oh, good, me neither."
The answer isn't nearly that simple.
Gary has been a part of her life for a little too long for something like a hookup to be easy; they're friends, finally, after years of bitter rivalry in defense of Ash and he's-- fun. She can pick on him and he can dig at her, a full scale assault of childish insults and slapping hands, and it fills the void her sisters left behind when they moved to Unova. She likes him. And crossing that line of intimacy and messing it up... scares her.
She's not drunk anymore. They're not even looking at each other. There's not excuse for the thought that tumbles it's way out of her mouth.
"You know, hotels would have towels, too."
"Yeah," he agrees, "yeah they would. Closer too, probably."
The hotel and the Pokémon Center are right next to each other, to be honest, and Misty still can't look at him as she turns right instead of left. But the door behind her doesn't close, caught instead by another hand, and side by side they walk into the lobby.
#egoshipping#Misty x Gary#Saro's writing#this is STUPID and I had SO MUCH FUN#love me some good old UST with additional themes of knowing someone for a little too long#also me out here pushing the Girls Who Top agenda#anyway I have a whole fucking plot now and I'm LIVID but here have this for now#I gotta go do my job and then make mochi for taco night
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They're just like traffic lights fr fr
#sonic#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#silver the hedgehog#sonic series#sth#i probably spent too much time on this lol#but i had fun tbh#so whatever#it started as a stupid doodle i made during class and somehow evolved into this#sonic shitpost#getting back to posting is the worst i was doing so well last year
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average hilson argument
#THE CAPTION IS SO STUPID SORRY#HILSON SMOOCHIN G!!!!! IN THEIR JAMMIES 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#Normal roommate activities.......... oh mein gott they were roommat es .. . ...................................#I dont think this is very good but i had fun making it and it made me happy................................#i just think of soft hilson very much and it makes me very sad#johan's scrapbook#house md fanart#hilson#house md
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Vash the (stupid babygirl) Stampede
#trigun stampede#trigun#vash the stampede#vash#tristamp#i had so much fun doing this#i laughed at my own gifs lmao#the first one was a pain in the ass to do#stupid birds#these were some of the few moments vash was allowed to be a dumbass#then everything went to shit#I LOVE THIS BOY SO MUCH ALSJDALSKDJALSDAd#trigun edit#please dont look very closely to the masks#im a lazy ass#my gifs: itachanta
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RadioApple Week - Day 7: Day Out
Finally made it to the end of the week! (a few weeks late!!) thank you all for your patience, and thank you @radioappleweek for hosting the event!
#hazbin hotel#my art#hazbin hotel fanart#radioapple#hazbin hotel alastor#hazbin hotel lucifer#appleradio#radioapple week#i had so much fun doing the stupid shop puns i hope you enjoy them too
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obsessive
#did i put more effort into this than i needed to? yes. did i put myself through unnecessary pain drawing fighting scenes? yes#but i learned how to outline my strokes so maybe i won after all#i thought about it and i think it turned out ok drawing the eyes differently. like the way i usually draw em#although i dont know if that says much since i change my art style every couple weeks but eh#had fun playing with grayscale and limited palette. i want to do that more often dhghdg#although idk whens the next time i will have enough energy to commit to the bit and do.. this#theyre fucking stupid your honor. for every art we get of them acting dramatic and yearning (/pos) i make dumb shit like this#equivalent exchange girlies!#lego monkie kid#lmk#monkie kid#lmk shadowpeach#shadowpeach#lmk sun wukong#lmk swk#sun wukong#lmk macaque#lmk six eared macaque#six eared macaque#liu er mihou#my art#myart#doodles#comic#lmk monkey king#lmk fanart
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Oh, help me God, this hellboy got me coming back for more
reblogs super appreciated !!! close-ups under the cut !
#south park#south park fanart#stan marsh#shroomer's art !#shroomer's archives: south park#artists on tumblr#my ramblings + thought process starts here (warning. its a lot) vvvvvvvvvvvvvv#"heyyyyy shadowww. its mee. da devil.#the amount of eyestrain i went through while rendering this#gradient maps!!! are so fun!!! (they are not i hate them so much)#lots to improve on still. but that's for next time!#the process of making this was so arduous.... but i learned a lot i feel#(and also if i had spent any more time working on this i would have actually lost it)#BUT YIPPEEEEE HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAN MARSH THE LOSER BOY I CANT BELIEVE I FINISHED THIS ON TIME#2 days in advance too by the time the queue uploads it#anyways.... stupid loser boy stan marsh..... i found out his birthday was coming up soon#and i had this idea sitting in my head for like.... 2 weeks i think#popped up when i was listening to lexie liu's album the happy star and the song diablo came up#and i thought wait.... doesnt stan get possessed by satan at some point#and so here we are!!#I ACTUALLY RECENTLY WATCHED THE EPISODE TOO AND THE THEME OF THE SONG FIT THE THEME OF THE EPISODE CRAZY WELL AS WELL#sometimes my genius is almost frightening#anyways this emotionally sensitive animal lover boy has really grown on me over the course of the series <3#i still havent.... finished cartman's sheet.....#the self designated deadline i gave myself of 2 weeks is coming up soon and erm. guh.#dies#this took so much effort and brainpower that needed to be allocated to my assignments.......#but its ok!!! im gonna sell this as a print!!! so its kind of!! productive!!#guh i hope this one performs well sob theres this nagging feeling i have that its not gonna do well at all#try painting some funky lighting + greyscale painting she said. it'll be fun she said.
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swanatello
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#swanatello#rottmnt#rottmnt au#rottmnt donatello#rottmnt donnie#rise of the tmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#tmnt#tmnt 2018#rise donnie#rise donatello#rottmnt disaster twins#rise disaster twins#rottmnt fanart#rottmnt comic#fidgetwing#i had so much fun drawing this stupid ninja turtle dancing in a fucking hoodie#jfc
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DAY 101 (103): do it for Them
#codacheetah#isat#loop isat#isat spoilers#artfight#oh my gyooood i hate drawing lightning. swagever#sorry loop for using your possessed face but i think of this stupid meme every time i see it#i'm actually soooo pissed off about the themes this year. because seafoam is true to my aesthetic to my Thing to my Me#but........for loop..............................#i'm on team stardust idk i might switch teams at some point. whatevar#anyways i might go light on posting this month for artfight. i didnt really plan for day 100 to line up with the start of artfight#but it works out i guess !#my plan for a while was to stop altogether at day 100 but i've had too much fun to stop now. but i really do need a break#i havent drawn characters who are not loop or sometimes siffrin in so long. lol#anyways this day marking system is stupid but i couldn't think of anything better sooooooo. swagever once more
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Inspired by @treebark-but-its-random-objects 's posts, i went to look around my house and found (a surprising amount of) random red&green objects...
We got:
lamps
fuzzy rugs
fruits (ba-dum tss)
stripy socks
two near-identical vintage dresses
some bracelets i made ages ago (the green one even has a hand-shaped charm on it!!!!!!)
poofy-sleeved collared shirts
phones????
markers
and bottlecaps (the green one even has a red paw-print on it.... its perfect.........)
(I also found: lego flowers, laundry detergent bags and some knitted v-neck sweaters, but alas, i can only put 10 pictures in one post)
#traffic life#trafficblr#trafficshipping#treebark#toniamisc#this is so stupid i had so much fun with this
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#my art#transformers#fanart#maccadam#soundwave#tf frenzy#tf rumble#me and my stupid sons#fr though i had so much fun drawing this
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Ignore my awful handwriting
#this is canon. fight me#i had to draw jenson in his ugly ass stupid ass shades#feeding more butter to everyone#because they’re my reason to live#butter#f1#jenson button#mark webber#f1 fanart#jb22#mw2#jenson button / mark webber#mark/jense#tire d art#incorrect quote/meme#funny story actually i nearly lost the file and had to redraw like half of it. art is so much fun#mw x jb
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NGL I have STRONG opinions about digital releases omitting the letters to the editor section of older comics. I feel like the letters are a part of comic history and should be aggressively preserved.
#look i was a weirdo and loved the letters so much#so much#so fucking damn much#i still to this day mourn that we don't have them#sometimes the editors would publish blatant aggressive criticism and promise to do better on some things#it was rare but it did happen in a handful of things involving stereotypes#also there is queer history in them such as in superboy and the ravers where people wrote in about hero#asking WHY he was not interested in women and this editor had to so professionally explain that he was GAY and where they stood on it#you also got to read queer readers writing in about these queer characters and the JOY in their words is priceless#also sorry but geoff's letters are fun and stupid at the same time and are a huge insight to what his hcs were#he LOVED tiny krypto so much it likely inspired him making dex starr bc he loved the idea of a small overly powered animal#not saying that was the main reason why ofc but it is interesting that he created dex after praising that mean little mutt#i say with the most love#my venting#my rambles
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POV: You’re very gay and problematic older men (affectionate) keep distracting you from the very pressing issue of figuring out how not to die from the problematic older man (derogatory) living on the experimental biochip in your head.
(I know River is not that much older than V probably but ssshhh, it counts)
Bonus:
#cyberpunk 2077#v cyberpunk#goro takemura#river ward#kerry eurodyne#male v#johnny silverhand#cyberpunk 2077 spoilers#art by me#my v#it's still a crime that goro is not a romance option xD#I had way too much fun drawing these and spent too much time on them#but I just had to get this idea out of my head xD#love my edgy son with his stupid mullet so much#he deserves all the love and happiness#nothing bad ever happens to him nope#one day I'll learn how to loosely sketchily doodle my blorbo memes#and be happy with the result#long post#vincent ezaki
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Cringetober Prompt 1: Screenshot Redraw Felt like a good opportunity to do a redraw of a scene I've been thinking about for months!
Readmore for an unshaded alternative and the reference screenshot : )
#had a lot of fun doing this :) I love this episode it is so funny they are so stupid but also I feel bad for them#tried something a bit with this vhs affect idk if it is 100% to my liking but it is better than previous attempts with it#I have such a bad habit in digital art with adding too much I get way too overstimulated with the opportunities of the programs lol#beavis and butthead#fanart#my art#moth art#cringetober#cringetober 2024
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Honestly the more I think about it the more I really think the sun and moon dew mushroom rlly should've been an amorphophallus instead
- extremely rare and take an immense amount of expertise and tedious care and special conditions to bloom (to the point where one blooming is an incredibly proud event for gardens and often publicized to draw visitors nationwide)
- on average take 5-7 years, sometimes even 10 for some varieties, to reach maturity
- human sized
- called the "corpse flower" (because it smells like rotting flesh)
- weird penis shape
- variety called amorphophallus yaoi
#prefacing this by saying i doubt teen mxtx was a big horticulture studier#and this is my own fanon exposed point or whatevr but ive always been kind of ? at how people call peerless cucumber a 'plant body'#when hes really a fungus#a fun guy even#if i had to scientifically explain id guess mushrooms were chosen because theyre decomposers#so it would make sense to feed it blood and qi. but also like everything about the growing process is very much plantlike#like they grow it from seed right ?? mushrooms dont have seeds ??#is it actually a plant thats just called a mushroom??#whatever stupid airplane stupid stallion novel logic * dies mad#svsss
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