#you delightful duck

[nonexistentbees]

i did my last 3 exams in one fell swoop yesterday and threw myself a finishing mt neverrest drawing party to celebrate 💪💪💪 this whole eps so fun but i LOOOVE the avalanche sequence so much ive been so excited to get to this one. everybody had better watch out now that my semesters over

[sciderman]

thank you for the ducks, me and my home country also really love Donald Duck and other ducks and Don Rosa is a celebrity to us

i'm so bummed that the ducks aren't very big here in the uk! the rest of europe has it right. the ducks deserve to be beloved. whenever i travel to other european countries i gather all the duck i can find. i have so many books in different languages just because i physically can't resist a book filled with ducks.

the first scrooge book i ever scored on an english bookshelf was don rosa's life and times of scrooge mcduck and it's one of my favourite books i own. i just fell in love with scrooge. i love him so much, he feels like family to me. i love his family, and i love how funny and weirdly honest the familial relationships are. i just... augh. i want to hug every duck book i own. they literally are like serotonin on a page, for me. life can't be so bad, if i have ducks.

i think the thing that makes me love the ducks so much vs a lot of other media is that donald and scrooge especially are just. so. they're defined by their flaws. scrooge is stingy. donald is quick-to-temper. those are their defining characteristics but they're still the guys we love and we root for even though their defining characteristic should make them unlikeable. but we LOVE them. and they're at each other's throats but we loooove them we looove them we love them. they're jerks to each other but we LOOOOVE them...

i think i remember reading something about the success of donald duck overseas vs the success of mickey mouse being that - mickey is the poster child and kind of has to be sweet and sanitised, but donald can get messy and that's why we love him. and i love him.

love a little cutey ducky with anger issues from birth

sighs.. family...

[bubbysmith]

HE MADE IT HIMSELF.

ON THE COMPUTER.

[graythegreyt]

GRAY I'M QUACKING AT YOU I LOVE YOU

QUACKS AT YOU BACK I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU SUNNY!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️💞💞💞💝💞💕💕💞💖❤️❤️❤️

[paperclipninja]

When I tell you that nothing brings me delight in a show quite like a recurring gag, Crowley's duck references are up there as an absolutely fave

And the general duck-related pondering just gets me

It's not only the absolute joy that the randomness of it being ducks brings, it's the way it's part of a delayed thought process

That throughout whatever conversations Crowley's been engaged in, their brain has been mulling and searching for the epiphany that eventually comes and it's completely out of context for whoever Crowley's talking to

And while not strictly Crowley, gotta admit this was a pretty darn delightful touch:

SO. MUCH. DELIGHT

EDIT: I've just seen that there was another duck appreciation post that is put together much more nicely here and is the source of some of the fab duck gifs

[fate-defiant]

There is a Duckling,, LOOSE in the archives

[aryomengrande]

Rara.

you are so talented, beautiful, and just so sweet, I am so glad I commissioned you and I promise I will get more after my minfushiu one because the way you draw is just so homey and I feel the love you put in your pieces, I hope you know that tumblr would not be the same without you!!!!

hello minx i hope both sides of your pillow is always cold and that your bank account is always full and that you and mr. minx are always happy and healthy dskheuuuhhh huhuhu heahhuaheeughhh

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 15

“Over Yet" by Hayley Williams

[leonstamatis]

💌 !!!

mason!!!! hello!!

i feel like you have such a longlasting and deep, dear appreciation for things. like the media and characters that you love get put in the little mason pouch to be carried around and admired forever, and i just think that’s so lovely and nice. whenever you talk about one of your guys (tm) it brings me such joy bc i know how long you’ve had them in your heart and how much you love them, and seeing that just! makes me happy!

[dhmis-autism]

NEED the transcript of the fight at the end of the friendship episode so fucking bad... been watching fan translations like a mfer CHANNEL 4 HOOK ME UP PLEASE....

[tj-crochets]

I had this stuffed(?) duck as a kid but it was more like a duck shaped sack you could shove things in through the mouth

I think about him all the time and it's probably been 20 years.

oh I definitely want to make this, it's like the perfect intersection of adorable and slightly unsettling (that might just be me though, I always find button eyes slightly unsettling lol) Do you have any color preferences for the duck if I end up trying to make one?

[aduckwithears]

Ok the important question. Assuming that there is a season 3 of good omens, and assuming that our ineffables figure their shit out enough to stop it (or at least not get in the way of those doing the actual stopping), what are we going to be calling the failed 2nd coming/rapture?

[hunsa-jars]

José Carioca kept me sane throughout this week, if I pass the exam, it's thanks to him

[batshit-auspol]

For those that aren't in Australia right now, we have the funniest scandal going on.

Firstly let us introduce you to the eye of the storm: Sam Kerr. Sam is a women's soccer player who has in the last year become one of the most famous and beloved athletes in Australia. Captain of the women's national team, Sam became something of a cult figure after the last Women's Soccer World Cup became a complete unpredicted sensation in Australia, with the whole country getting behind the team.

Sam, up until now, has had probably one of the most squeaky clean images in sport. Generally in Australia it is not uncommon for our sports stars to be caught up in scandals involving drugs:

violence:

drinking their own urine:

or if you're cricket legend Shane Warne, probably all three at once.

Contrasting all this, Sam's image as the squeaky clean saviour for sport made it all the more shocking this last week, when it was announced that Kerr was to face trial after having been charged by the UK police of a "racially aggravated offence" involving a taxi driver.

This was shocking news. Nobody knew what to make of it. Sam was a model for young girls everywhere and a national treasure. "This is why we can't have nice things" screamed the nation. It seemed like all hope was lost.

That is, until, yesterday, when the UK police finally revealed the full details of the case, in which Sam Kerr, sporting legend, was arrested for vomiting in a cab, and then telling an intervening police officer that he was a “stupid white bastard”.

Now we probably don't need to point out that in Australia, vomiting in a taxi and then calling a cop a bastard is about as close to a national culture as we have.

You could not have come up with a better headline to make someone a national hero.

Needless to say, Sam in now being hailed down under as the greatest legend that ever lived, and a petition has already been started to have her picture added to the $5 note.

The tide has swung so far that not one, but TWO, state Premiers have spoken out in support of Kerr, and the Prime Minister has even gone on the record describing her as "a delight".

And so ends the racial abuse saga of our greatest sports hero of all time, and the very first reverse milkshake duck to ever exist.

[fate-defiant]

wips are going great

[thestuffedalligator]

The toadstools grew in a perfect ring the width of a child’s hula hoop.

They were upside down and clinging to the ceiling like stalactites.

“I have concerns,” she said.

“So do I,” they said. “If I step under it, does it count as stepping into a fairy circle? I mean, if a plane flies over a fairy circle it doesn’t count as stepping into it, but do the same rules apply if you’re walking under a fairy circle?”

“Right.”

“Actually, what is the area of effect for a fairy circle? Is it like a sphere that has the same circumference of the circle, so if I just duck underneath it I’ll be fine? Or is it a cylinder? How far up does the cylinder go? Or down, in this case.”

“Right.”

“Some of the many mysteries of the fey we may wonder about forever.”

They continued to stare up at the ring of toadstools. Thoughtful seconds ticked by.

“See, my concerns are mostly about how much moisture you have in your room.”

“Sorry?”

“You have mushrooms growing out of your ceiling.”

“Oh.”

She patted their back with sympathetic pity. “I appreciate that you live in a world of whimsy and delight, and I don’t want to squash that because I love you, but I also really don’t want you to die of black mold.”

“She’s right, you know,” said the goblin sitting upside down in the circle.