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boycott dandys world

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AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok

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Croquette Cookie!

he/him

he was supposed to be like a newspaper delivery boy but then his outfit kind of went 70s so idk man

ill be following my old pattern and making ocs according to cookie run kingdom stats, dialogue, etc

any additional details rn, i have no fucken clue

i tried my damnedest to follow the perceived cookie run design rules i have in my head

more to come

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how any of yall mfs draw cookie run characters in a bitmap/raster program. this shit is infinitely harder than it was in a vector program. firealpaca is splendid but it was not made for drawing cookie run characters

that being said, i am trying my damnedest to whip up sum cookie run ocs for the first time in 76 eons. first up will be croquette cookie! i wanted to make some cookie run ocs based on basque foods since i have a handful of basque heritage, and a croquette was one of the simplest ones i could think of so thats where im starting.

ill try and whip up a post for the cookie run characters music tastes according to some guy series later today

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cookie run characters music tastes according to some guy PART 1

Gingerbrave

jumpscare

so, gingerbrave is the protagonist of both cookie run ovenbreak and cookie run kingdom. he's the first cookie to have escaped the oven. pretty generic protag stuff. very brave, occasionally cannot read the room. but he is very morally upstanding and a beam of positivity.

this one is so fucking easy man. gingerbrave, that boy unironically listens to imagine dragons. ESPECIALLY on his workout playlist, if he has one. he is so empowered by the corporate rock.

"i am a believer!" ahh. he would say that shit with his whole chest after hearing an imagine dragons song.

bro also probably listens to coldplay and any other generic corporate music with any sort of emotion, but mainly imagine dragons.

at least he enjoys himself ig.

(maybe i will come up with a better format for these posts later)

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cookie run characters music tastes according to some guy (introduction)

hello and welcome to my newest series. time to lay down some expectations real quick.

i will be going over every cookie, with the exceptions of the "special" rarity cookies (BTS, sonic and tails, hello kitty, and cookiedroid) because ???? (the remaining ones seem to be original so they can stay i suppose?)

ill be going in the order that they are in on the crob and crk wikis respectively, starting with crob, and of course i will not repeat cookies that appear in both games.

i will give a brief rundown of what each cookie is like and, if applicable, how i came to the conclusion that they most likely listen to whatever they listen to.

im absolutely open to suggestions/criticism. i do not have an infinite music knowledge, so maybe theres a certain vibe i couldnt really capture because i didnt know about a handful of artists. theres a pretty good chance you can change my mind about many of these flimsy opinions. im just here to fuck around.

with all that being said, first post will be gingerbrave

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new series of less effort than the sorting of over 1000 music genres into a tiermaker

i will still be doing the 1300+ genres series, but this will be a series where the posts take less effort to make

it seems i am afflicted with Cookie Run-itis

so i think i will make an incredibly biased and possibly incorrect analysis of every single cookie run character's music taste i think 👴

i think ill make it one cookie per post for now. idk man. i zoned out super fucking hard today before during and after my work meeting and had this idea so i'll give it a shot i think

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ranking 1300+ music genres: PART 1

so, i have added enough images (162) that i can start ranking music and continuously add onto the near endless musical alphabet i have going on. this is the tierlist

feel free to "erm, akshually..." me, i know fuckall about most of these genres! im here to learn!

with that being said, lets start this, quite frankly, probably multi-year journey.

(learned how to add a read more tag so that you guys arent in scrolling hell.)

(1) Absolute Music

According to Wikipedia, Absolute Music is music that "is not explicitly about anything". Dawg that is so vague. Does something become Absolute Music if i can't pick a meaning out of it? What if the lyrics are distorted, in a language I don't understand, or not there at all?

I could not find anything to narrow down what this is on Spotify, I think people just add music to playlists called "Absolute Music" that they think is awesome or really touching. I'm sure real Absolute Music is neat, but unfortunately I could not find anything to concretely or even guess that I can call Absolute Music, so this is going in a new tier: "Too vague for me to rank/could not find any examples on Spotify"

Absolute Music song recs

none, because Read Above

(2) Abstract Hip Hop

I listened to this one in the previous unfinished series, but I will give it another listen. This also means I will give you new song recs! But do go check out my original set of song recs for this though. They're good.

Anyway, this feels like gen Z stoner music on my second listen. Make of that what you will. This music reminds me of what an old friend of mine would listen to often. He has made some dookie choices but listening to Abstract Hip Hop is one of the better choices he made.

That being said, I think I ranked Abstract Hip Hop too highly last time. Don't get me wrong, its good, but it did NOT need to be in the second tier from the top. Going in "Acceptable" tier.

Abstract Hip Hop song recs

(3) A'Capella

I don't have much to add to my previous review of A'Capella to be honest. Still impressive but also still not something I would regularly listen to, so its going in "Plausible".

A'Capella song recs

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no context ❤️

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so sorry, i have returned from the abyss. i will continue yapping

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I've been formulating my Dandy's World AU a little bit more and I finally have a name for it! Say hello to

Mundane Aftermath!

I'll have to get the energy to work on a proper presentation of it like other AUs out there, but is the first part of the details, which I'll put under a readmore so it doesn't flood the tags (THIS IS REALLY LONG, I RECOMMEND TO OPEN IT IN A NEW TAB IF YOU'RE USING DESKTOP/LAPTOP):

The designs I use to draw toons are how they look in the AU, both in the show and outside of it!

The AU is divided into two primary parts, Mundane Prelude and Mundane Aftermath. Prelude focuses on what happened in Gardenview from its inception to its closure, while Aftermath focuses on what happens decades later, which is when the ichor operation of canon!DW happens in this AU.

The main theme of this AU, as the title would suggest, is a certain mundane reasoning behind everything that happens in the story. Ichor in this setting doesn't have supernatural properties, nor was anyone working on the toons deliberately evil, and the downfall of Gardenview happened much more akin to how similar companies shut down IRL.

The worldbuilding surrounding toons and ichor is also a lot more, well, mundane, and less geared towards horror. The toons are definitely still little weird abominations, but they're their own persons, and in this AU, they are treated less like property and more like employees of Gardenview, and after the museum closes they have to set out into the real world and make lives of their own, just like their human coworkers.

There will definitely still be drama, action, and a little bit of horror, but my AU is much more oriented to a slice-of-life comedy. Most everyone in the AU will have a happy ending after a lot of suffering!

The following details lay the general setting and the three "main" characters in the Prelude section of the AU!

Gardenview Before the Toons:

In this AU, Gardenview started out as the Gardenview Chemical Research Center, a laboratory which specialized in the development of polymers (the chemicals that are the basis of plastics).

Gardenview has areas that are above ground, as well as several underground floors. They don't bore deep into the Earth, though, at most there's 10 floors, excluding undeground parking. This is due to the fact the laboratory was built to take as little space as possible above ground.

Unlike canon!Gardenview, the common areas and most offices of Gardenview are NOT underground. Before the toons, the lower floors of Gardenview had a select few offices, laboratories, computer server rooms and several storage areas.

A certain someone worked as one of the lead researchers among the staff...

Delilah Keen:

Before elaborating, I must preface that the designs that I made for both Delilah and Arthur were made before we had a confirmation of their canonical appearances. In this AU, Delilah is the older person, while Arthur is the younger one!

Delilah is a brilliant chemist with a penchant for developing inorganic chemicals that have bizarre properties.

Unlike what's implied of her canon counterpart, Delilah in this AU is NOT evil. She never worked on the toon project with the express purpose of trying to play god or anything of the sort, and she never abused the toons.

She is, however, very bad at giving out necessary warnings and reading between the lines of someone's true intentions. She is also not very emotive and typically speaks with a flat affect. Despite this, she's diligent and fundamentally a kind person.

She developed an odd, intergenerational friendship with Arthur after they both met at a local arts and crafts festival and interacted further through their city's usenet group.

Speaking of...

Arthur Walton:

Arthur is an animator turned director. The young man responsible for the creation of Dandy's World.

He worked as an animator in the late 80's, and got a lucky break when the pitch for DW was greenlit for (at the moment) only one season.

He's a bit naive and very emotional, but just like Delilah, his kindness is genuine and so is his optimism (and eventually, his will to make things right after it all goes to shit).

Even before the toons were brought to life, he loved each and everyone of the characters he created. Especially a certain rainbow flower.

One fateful day, his friend Delilah invited him to her workplace, wanting to show him something as a birthday gift.

Ichor:

Ichor in this AU is a liquid plastic made out of synthetic polymers. In its natural state it's an almost-black dark brown thick liquid (think of the consistency of honey or really thick ink). It's safe for handling for humans (as it has similar properties to PET plastic), and technically safe for toons to handle (though for them lab equipment is extremely recommended).

Its most outstanding feature is not the fact its a liquid at room temperature, but the fact that it has the unexplained quality of creating synthetic life.

How did Delilah discover this? IDK, she just did, don't think too hard about it (it's funnier that way).

Can only cause the iconic infection when an extremely large amount of raw ichor enters a toon's body via a wound/excessive ingestion.

Despite its life-creating properties (with the right equipment), ichor didn't have a lot of other practical uses, so when Gardenview closed down most of it just sat in storage tanks abandoned.

The Printer:

Delilah also has plenty of engineering knowledge, and created the Printer, a device about two-three times as large as the typical office copy machine.

The Printer takes three inputs (apart from the obvious which is electrical power): Ichor, VHS (and later on, also DVD) recordings of the Dandy's World show, and copious amounts of reference sheets that Arthur has created of the show's cast.

The output? At the start, only a few inanimate objects. But Delilah wanted the Printer to reach its intended production. What was that? Toons, obviously!

Although the Printer was operational by the time Delilah showcased it to Arthur, they still spent a few months adjusting both it and the input materials as making life wasn't quite as easy as both of them thought.

One fateful attempt, though, the Printer finally spitted out a certain someone...

Dandy:

The first toon to ever be printed into life. Both in canon and in this AU. However, in this AU, he was born sometime in the very early 90's.

Just a little guy! Just a little dude! The shortest of all the non-pet toons, standing at around 101cm/3.3ft.

Definitely an adult, even when he just got printed. However, at the very start he was very sweet and innocent, since his only memories at that point were the events of the show's first season.

Doesn't technically have a canon voice in this AU, but I really like to imagine he sounds a lot like Dana Synder's role as either Scratch (from The Ghost and Molly McGee) or Master Shake (from Aqua Teen Hunger Force). It's just funny, okay?

Dandy in this AU came out... a little wonky. Instead of always having his cute looks, his default facial features make him look like some cranky old man. This is due to the fact that, in their frustration trying to make the Printer work, Arthur accidentally messed up the reference art for his face, and Delilah lacked the eye for illustration to notice the mistake before feeding the information to the printer.

Delilah offered to "decommission" Dandy and redo the process, but Arthur refused since, despite the flaws, holy shit Delilah, that's his son you're suggesting to kill! His baby boy! Plus, literally everything else about Dandy was like it should be, appearance and personality wise.

Dandy eventually learned to scrunch up his face to actually look like his show counterpart, and his real face ended up being a sort of secret among key staff of Gardenview.

Dandy was surprisingly chill about the prospect of suddenly "waking up" in some mysterious facility filled with strange, giant creatures. Arthur and Delilah told him the lie of being in a hospital for a rare, paralyitic illness he somehow catched, which is how they managed to wave away his facial features. Years later, he also took the truth about being a fictional character brought to life surprisingly well.

Okay that's enough yapping for now, if you have any questions about what I've been laying out so far send a reply to this post! I'll yap more and the next parts describing this whole AU will come out Soon (TM).

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I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”

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theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

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ive labelled all the A genres... my music rating hiatus may be longer than i thought.

tiermaker makes you post your tierlist after adding 500 items before you can add more though, so once i reach 500 genres (currently at 88) i will start rating music again.

fellas... i am thinking of revamping the ranking 550+ music genres series. im learning that there are so many genres this tiermaker has missed. i will briefly go back and listen to genres that i didnt really give an accurate listen to, as well as bump in some new ones that were not on the list before. the genres i have already ranked probably wont move around too much. im making my own tiermaker for this. stay tuned.

i do have a post queued up to post about an hour from now, but after that it may be a few days before the next post as i build the tiermaker and get everything sorted.

perhaps i will even post the tiermaker here if anyone else wants to take up such a diabolically long endeavor.

i better not miss any fucking genres this time! i will explode if i do

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oh Good Lort there are nearly 1400 genres, possibly more,

fellas... i am thinking of revamping the ranking 550+ music genres series. im learning that there are so many genres this tiermaker has missed. i will briefly go back and listen to genres that i didnt really give an accurate listen to, as well as bump in some new ones that were not on the list before. the genres i have already ranked probably wont move around too much. im making my own tiermaker for this. stay tuned.

i do have a post queued up to post about an hour from now, but after that it may be a few days before the next post as i build the tiermaker and get everything sorted.

perhaps i will even post the tiermaker here if anyone else wants to take up such a diabolically long endeavor.

i better not miss any fucking genres this time! i will explode if i do

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hopefully these sources cover everything:

(and the remaining parts)

(and parts 3 and 4)

there are a couple genres, namely 8-bit, 16-bit, and 2 tone that are not mentioned in either of these as far as i can tell, so the tiermaker i have been using will also be a source as well still.

fellas... i am thinking of revamping the ranking 550+ music genres series. im learning that there are so many genres this tiermaker has missed. i will briefly go back and listen to genres that i didnt really give an accurate listen to, as well as bump in some new ones that were not on the list before. the genres i have already ranked probably wont move around too much. im making my own tiermaker for this. stay tuned.

i do have a post queued up to post about an hour from now, but after that it may be a few days before the next post as i build the tiermaker and get everything sorted.

perhaps i will even post the tiermaker here if anyone else wants to take up such a diabolically long endeavor.

i better not miss any fucking genres this time! i will explode if i do