#this was a lot of fun to answer

[seiya-starsniper]

Could I ask for n.5 from the Love Your Fandom Asks please. 😊

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5. something you see in fics a lot and love

Devotion. I think that's a part of the reason why I like Sandman shipping as much as I do, because there's just so much room for devotion to be built into literally any ship! The popular one, of course is Dreamling with their centennial meetings and Hob waiting an extra 33+ years around for Dream to come back around. But then there's also Morphienne with Lucienne's unyielding devotion to the idea that Dream would come back to the Dreaming, back to his kingdom, back to her. In Corintheus, there's a twisted sense of a devotion, Dream wanting so much more for the Corinthian than the Corinthian was able to give, and vice versa. There's devotion in the fact that Dream built the Corinthian piece by piece and called him his masterpiece, his little dream. There's broken devotion and heartbreak in the way Calliope and Dream interact, and yet even with all that nasty history, he still came for her, helped her, listened to her when she asked. And that's just in the first season of the Netflix show! I am so very excited to see what comes in season 2.

Ofc, also have to give a nod to Corinthiel, since I am talking to THE Corinthiel shipper 😄🥰 The devotion present in fics of that ship alone are ✨peak✨ vibes for me.

[samssims]

Hello 👋 I really love your wordless NSB and I was wondering if you had any tips on making a narrative less story? I hope your having a wonderful day/night.

What an awesome question! I'd love to answer this!

Tips and Tricks for a narrative-less story:

Use gameplay as plot! - This might seem obvious but just play your game. The reason I am continuously so invested in my NSB is because I use it to explore parts of the game I haven't before (IE Uni when it came out and then Batuu and then Get Famous). That kept me interested and I just had my sims do the actions in game to see what was even available. Then I take photos and I make a story around that. A lot of Armie/Ruby's Uni dates are mostly in game animations or centered around the Uni prompted events. And then I just use poses around it to tell a bigger story.

Embrace the weird! - Did your sim sleep with an alien and has a werewolf boyfriend on the side? Sims is wonky! It's funny and that's what makes it fun and the plots a little crazy. Honestly embrace whatever your game gives you. It's free plot.

Have a base storyline! - Have some goals or somewhere to go. Using legacy rules is the best way to do this. Find a legacy you like and sort of mold the basic storyline around it. I promise the game will give you free plot as you play. Don’t be afraid to deviate from the rules if your story idea or your sims go out of the box.

Scale down! - Natural writers are going to want to make an even bigger story as you get to know your sim and their world. But if the concept is too complicated that you need dialogue, then you gotta scale back. Make it simpler. This is what is keeping me away from finishing Raia's story. I am working on scaling it down to a more easy to understand without words story. If it's too complicated, scrap it. Move on.

Feel free to go out of order! - And by this I mean, let's say something fun happens while you are playing but you didn't get any good shots of it/the game animations weren't what you wanted. Go back and reshoot it using poses. Or if you have a very specific bit in mind, use poses! Feel free to do a mix of gameplay and poses. it keeps it looking a little more natural in game.

Don't overuse speech bubbles! - Honestly the game expressions can oftentimes speak for themselves. Sims make some truly amazing faces. And using speech bubbles with icons can limit what your audience gets from that post. Everyone will interpret it a little differently and that's part of what makes it so accessible to people of all languages.

And of course, have fun with it! Find a sim you really like and then go ham. That's what I did with Armie. I fell in love with her face and here we are now 3 gens in :') And I have some plans for the future of her family and cannot wait to do them!

Thank you for asking this question! I really loved thinking about this! I hope it helps and feel free to ask any more questions.

If you make a story like this, I'd love to see it! Drop it in my ask box so I can read it all!

[aluvian]

Pastel green, seafoam, spring, please and thank you!

Thank you as always for sending in asks, lovely 💙

Pastel green: What top things always help calm you?

Petting my dog and the cats and goats at the farm. It's no secret that I adore animals more than anything, and they've been a constant source of comfort for me my entire life. Just the simple act of running my hand along Merlin's back or scratching the head of one of the cats or under the chins of the goats has an immediate soothing effect on me. I'd be a mess without them. Being near, in, or on the ocean never fails to calm me down either. I love the endless vastness, and I take great comfort in the sounds of the waves and the knowledge that the best creatures to ever exist live below them. I am a true thalassaphile.

Seafoam: Do you have a lucky item? If so, what is it?

Not really, but I do feel pretty lucky to have a Teru Vash plushie, lol. Oh! And he's another thing that helps calm me down.

Spring: List 3 things you love about nature

Animals: I can literally walk outside right now and see an animal in less than 10 seconds. There are straight up just little guys everywhere for me to see and enjoy constantly. For FREE. My personal favorite is that I get to see alligators on a daily basis. Just a couple minutes walk and BOOM. Swamp puppies.

The ocean: I could wax poetic about the ocean for 84 years, but I know that many people are genuinely terrified of it, so I will try to be brief. I went to school for marine biology, and that should explain everything, lol. And when I eventually pass away, I want to either be buried at sea (so my body can nourish the sea life that brought me so much joy) or to have my ashes put into a reef ball (so that I may become a permanent part of something so important to me).

Trees: I have fantasies about walking through the giant redwood forests, with a fine mist still hovering above the ground and listening to the sounds of the local wildlife. Of taking a stroll through an autumnal forest, surrounded by bright reds, golds, oranges, and yellows, while the leaves crunch under my feet and there's a delightful chill in the air. And of experiencing the joy of seeing cherry blossom trees in full bloom in Japan and getting to enjoy Hanami.

Send me some color themed asks

[chalkrub]

strange fellas

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

[canisalbus]

have you ever drawn a deer?

Yeah occasionally! I like reindeer/caribou in particular, their antlers have such unusual and interesting shapes.

[egophiliac]

Okay so I've been wanting to tell you that you're literally my favourite twst artist 😭🩷

So my question is, how do you manage to come up with these funny comics? CUZ I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

(P.s: Lovin' the art style ✨)

oh geeze, thanks! 💚💚💚 I'm really glad people enjoy my stupid sense of humor; mostly I just draw things to make myself laugh, and if it makes other people laugh too, then bonus points! usually it's just one joke or mental image that gets stuck in my head (every time I saw Fellow spin his cane, all I could think about was him go-go-gadgeting away on it...) and in my quest to justify it, it picks up other jokes and bits along the way and usually doesn't even end up as the main focus anymore. entire narrative arcs have spun out just so I could use a single bad pun in a throwaway line. this is a terrible way to explain it but I'm not sure how else to put it into words!

and sometimes it's just "weird things my sister has said that I make fun of her for"

[novakiart]

it's not exactly your prompt but that's only because wade & peter start hooking up Long before spider-man and deadpool do

🕷️ written by me & nevi

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This was home.

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[simplydnp]

be honest with me. what are the chances of a hard launch in june

anon this question goes back years. and the thing is. we have been right once before.

you ask me this this time last year? fuck no. i might even quip that dapg would come back before dnp would hard launch. well. look at us now.

and even then, you look back on the content they started with in the revival--it honestly kind of felt exactly like where we left off, only a lot more explicitly queer (we stan). and then... trying to see without my glasses 2. and bang, spooky week happened. and that shifted the balance. we suddenly got slo-mo replays of handholds. day, after day, after day, finishing with the absolute masterpiece of halloween baking cinnamon rolls. in all honesty it was so much more than i'd've ever expected from them. truly another post-baking universe.

and it never really slowed down. suddenly we had cat prom photos, catboy butlers, catboy dan w/ phil photography credit, theyre 'wrestling' --running us full throttle into gamingmas, the first since 2017. and every day we had a new thing to freak out over: standing close. golf jokes. and then... pinof reacts. i don't know what compelled them to do it but i do have speculations. genuinely, i think they wanted to defang a lot of their history. we treated pinof 1, especially, with this... reverance. and it wasn't talked about too publicly--and dnp didnt do it either. so if they really wanted to move on, to bring down the walls, open the floodgates, define this new era: they had to throw the first stone. and they did. quite heartily too. suddenly this almost taboo part of their history--almost too intimate to be perceived--was on the table. and we were talking about it. joking about it. giving clear signals of 'we see it, it's okay.' and suddenly we existed in a post-pinof reacts world. of anything, i would've never predicted they would've done that. absolutely wild. follow that with it takes two being so chill and fond. incohearant being so blatant and heartfelt. trombone champ being unhinged and chaotic. the genuine and sweet complimenting of each other in the red carpet video. devan wedding... happilyphoreverafter... we crashed forward in time. never knowing what would be next. where is the line? how far will they go.

they teased us with japhan honeymoon and we knew 2024 would be wild. but we didn't know how much. from wdapteo 2023, to specific reminiscing about japan w/ devan, WAD happening, and phil playing a huge role in it all--from the orange carpet hosting, to 'ive been in *sex noises* with phil from the start!', to 'remote crisis manager phil lester', to dan saying he can stay during the thank you.

one of the biggest videos so far this year was the tiktok likes one. i will be forever haunted by the dog eating cheeseburger and willy wonka tiktoks--theres some things i was never meant to know. and yet. they tell us. explicitly.

every single video on amazingphil since the return of dapg has mentioned or featured dan. there's been a palpable shift in the way they interact. have you seen the way phil has been glowing in videos lately? this guy is on cloud nine all the time. it's really not hard to see why.

the energy of keep or yeet w/ dan... the absolute Lack of pretense of it all. phan twitter... watch your step baby girl...

dan and phil fucking crafts. talk about an unexpected return. legacy defining, one might even say. we're still in this tailspin of what everything means and they drop this insanely iconic video on us. from the storytelling to the production to the aesthetic--and its all capped off by explicit handholding. yes, it was part of the sacrifice. but hand in hand, the heart dan ripped from phils chest in one, and the knife that did it in the other... oh boy. we're really in it now. and then they put it on fucking merch. genius. truly no one does it like them.

and the foot has been on the accelerator since. dan and phil connections, shuffleboard & mocktails, getting deep slumber party, acknowledgement & approval of fics (yes previously given but never like this)--hell, even the sims today was wild for 'is their love language horrible banter 👀'.

you didn't ask for an essay but i gave you one. all of this to say, they've been moving the line. quite intentionally so. they intentionally revived their joint branding. they are 'dan and phil' again, and seem happier than ever about it, and i think that means something. they're saying things they never would have before--out of the closet or not.

as for june... 5 years since coming out is a big deal. so is this year being 15 years of dnp. hell, so is this year for being the first out pride month where they're explicitly a duo and regularly making content together. they're sentimental, there will be something.

my craziest idea is reacting to their coming out videos ✌️😔 --but i don't think it'll actually happen. as for more realistic, i could see pride merch. and however that goes will be significant, in my opinion. i'm excited and curious.

i don't know if they'll hard launch. it's hard to put all of the implications, complications, and speculations back into the box once it's opened. dan's talked about it before--wanting to be able to fuck up and not be publically executed, instead, being able to learn and grow and work it out. i think that's a very understandable stance to have. very grounded. we'd have to ask him if tour/dapg has changed that now. i do think he's had some sort of life epiphany--whether it's about that specifically, only he can say. but i think it's there.

even if i portray a lot of level-headedness, i wear my clown nose with pride. sometimes the only option is to go with whatever is funniest at the time. they're both jokesters, so they could commit to a bit like that. but it's also like, it can be too serious for them to want to joke about. i don't know. i think we're in this almost beautiful state right now--the we know you know of it all. there's no expectations, no demands to be met, no obligations of types of content. they're happy. we're happy. it depends on if they feel ready. if they want to. we'll be here, always.

[hellsitegenetics]

Hello hellsitegenetics! I gotta tell you, you are my favourite blog in this digital jungle and your work really brings a smile to my face (: it's very cool, keep it up! Every time I see the phrase "string identified" i imagine a robot voice saying that (as a lead up to an output) which makes it very funny when it appears in a reblog - just wanted to tell you that. Anyways, I actually have a real question for you: What's your favourite "string identified" so far?

Greetings from a biology nerd!

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Closest match: Neoneuromus ignobilis isolate Gutianshan chromosome 5 Common name: Dobsonfly

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[turtleblogatlast]

Leo frowns at his phone.

Or more specifically, at the test on his phone.

Around him, he hears the sound of his brothers tapping their own devices, much faster than he is. Looking up just makes Leo feel worse about his own progress - or lack-thereof.

Mikey’s the fastest, speeding through the test like nobody’s business. He’d been the one to make them all do this stupid test in the first place, so it makes sense that he’s having a blast.

Raph’s slower than Mikey is, but he’s still clearly answering the questions at a steady pace. Sometimes he looks unsure, but he powers through anyway.

Donnie often looks frustrated, which relieves Leo somewhat because at least someone is struggling like him. But that “struggle” isn’t nearly as big as his own, considering that Donnie is answering about as fast as Raph is.

Leo turns his gaze back down to his own test. He’s still near the beginning, he thinks.

He’d put the same answer for the past seven questions - the middle of the road answer, neither a “yes” or a “no.” Then, whenever he does come across one that is more one direction than the other, he second guesses himself and restarts the test!

Sure, there are a few he could definitely give a yes or a no to, but…never the “strongly agree” or “strongly disagree” that the test seemed to want from him.

He eyes his twin sitting nearby, the softshell absorbed in the test. Maybe Leo should copy what Donnie put for some of these…

“DONE!” Mikey’s shout makes Leo freeze in place just as he started to lean over.

“What?” Donnie squawks, “No way you’re already finished, you must’ve been cheating!”

“It’s a personality test, Dee!” Mikey stuck his tongue out, “You can’t cheat at those!”

…

Leo settles back into his seat.

Ignoring Donnie’s mutterings about how it was “just because it’s not an academic test” that he didn’t finish first, Raph smiles encouragingly at Mikey.

“Hey, good job! So what’d you get, Mike?”

Mikey looks back down at his test, reading aloud, “Says that I got the “Campaigner”!”

“What’s that mean?” Leo asks, his phone screen going dark.

“Apparently, I’m an “enthusiastic, creative, and sociable free-spirit”.” Mikey reads, smiling at them, “You think it fits?”

“Oh, to a T, bro!” Leo laughs, giving Mikey a thumbs up, making Mikey’s smile grow larger.

Inside, Leo was feeling a lot more mixed about this. He has no idea how Mikey knew himself so well. Maybe Donnie was right and Mikey did cheat, because how could he answer those questions so easily?

Leo’s phone burns in his hand. He keeps it locked.

“Wow, that really is you.” Raph says, his eyes flitting back and forth between his own test and Mikey, “Do you think it fits?”

“I guess? It’s fun to see at least!” Mikey shrugs with a grin.

“Hold on, I think…” Raph makes a noise of satisfaction, “Okay, done!”

“Sigh, now I’m relegated to the straggler group.” Donnie grumbles, his thumbs moving faster as he tries rushing through the questions.

“Ooh, what’d you get Raph?” Mikey asks, practically bouncing in curiosity.

“Says, uh…I got something called the “Consul”?” He squints his eyes to read more, “Uh, “caring, social, and community-minded.””

“Sounds about right to me.” Leo nods. Can’t be more “community-minded” than being a hero.

“Yeah, no one’s more caring than you, Raphie!” Mikey says, moving to lean across Raph’s shell.

“You do put the community in mind, that’s for sure.” Donnie states, not looking up.

Raph chuckles, a bit embarrassed, “Aw, thanks. It’s just some test, but it feels kinda good to hear that.”

Just a test. Right.

Leo unlocks his screen.

The test stares back at him.

Right. Okay. He can do this. He can.

The screen ends up going dark again.

Frustration builds up in Leo. Was he even halfway done with the test? At this rate, soon even Donnie will-

“FINISHED.”

Leo unlocks his phone.

“What’d you get, DonTon?” Leo asks as his thumb taps the top right of the screen.

Donnie puffs up proudly, a self sure grin on his face, “I got the result “Logician” which states that I, obviously, am an “innovative inventor with a thirst for knowledge.” Truly could not have described me better, if I do say so myself.”

“It is pretty accurate.” Raph agrees with a nod, “Even calls you an inventor, so extra accurate.”

“Super accurate.” Mikey jumps in, eyes shining.

“Yes, yes, almost like reading my own character synopsis.” Donnie’s grin had not dwindled since the word “innovative” had left his mouth.

Leo just nods along, eyes on his own screen as he skims the words. “Yeah, kinda creepy how close it got. Could have called you a nerd for extra accuracy, though.”

Donnie turns to him, eyes narrowing, “Have you even finished your test? I can think of a few words that’d describe you fairly well.”

“Test-y, huh?”

Before Donnie can strangle Leo, Raph cuts in.

“Ok, ok, calm it down, guys.” He rolls his eyes before turning to Leo. “But really, you’re not done yet?”

“Leo’s taking this self reflection seriously.” Mikey sports a faux intellectual expression as he gives a jokingly serious nod. “Maybe we all should’ve taken our time.”

“Says the one who sped through the whole thing in a record time.” Donnie mutters.

Leo waves them all off, “Nah, I finished it ages ago.”

He grins when Donnie immediately shoots him a suspicious glare. “Oh, you did, did you? Then what could you have possibly gotten, Nardo?”

“I’m glad you asked!” Leo clears his throat, “Neon Leon just so happens to be an “Entertainer.””

“Ah. That confirms it. This test is meaningless.” Donnie drones.

“Hey-“

“What’s an Entertainer like?” Mikey asks with a tilt of his head, still hanging off of Raph’s shell.

“Glad you asked, Miguel!” Leo exclaims, “It says that “life is never boring” around yours truly~”

He emphasizes this “result” of his by waving his phone with said “result” on screen.

It’s just an image he found of his chosen personality result, but they don’t need to know that.

Raph nods slowly, “Well, I guess that’s true…”

“”Never boring” is one way to put it.” Donnie hums.

“You are pretty fun, Leo!” Mikey says emphatically, because he’s great like that.

“Thank you, thank you, life of the party, right here.” Leo grins, pointing both thumbs at himself.

He’s careful not to go too overboard with it, or else it might tip someone off.

Not that it…really matters. It’s just a test. Like Raph said.

As the topic around him shifts to something else, jumping away from this brief activity as fast as any other among them, Leo finds himself unlocking his phone and pulling up the test again.

Unanswered questions stare at him. He knows what answers Lou Jitsu would pick. He knows what answers Jupiter Jim would pick. Hell, he knows exactly what answers his brothers would pick.

He doesn’t know what answers Leonardo would pick.

Leo stares at the test for a second longer, before he exits the site and throws himself into the conversation happening around him.

It’s just a stupid test, nothing to worry about.

Just a test…

[ryssbelle]

Just two kids who got left behind

So now we got Clay's side of the cave in!! He didnt really have time to process any of the emotions he was feeling due to having to immediately run for his life, then guide others to safety alongside Viva.

This was made mostly in response to this fun little tag by @zivazivc

I wasn't planning on drawing it up so soon but AUGH I had to, also ty I pride myself in drawing raw emotions

Btw I do read all the tags and comments I get on my posts I'm very happy to have crushed you all thoroughly 💖

[shkika]

some bracken studies!

clover creep / walk / R U N

[callisteios]

I have a new uquiz for you, go on a pilgrimage with me. discover who you are.

[megastrikeback]

based on the