#[ the askbox mourns ]

[crowtoed]

(English Memento Mori Ring, c. 1680. Engraved inside is "Never Lost But Gone Before") Mourn Watchers, come and get yer Grave Gold! Send me an ask with Ears, Head, Hands, Arms, Neck, or Other and I'll send you a piece of historical gold jewelry with attribution info (and source museum if available).

[itsnotmourn]

Dexter Erotoph pretty please? Either in the STP or the Dungeon Meshi AU would be super cool!! :D

dexter shenanigans feat. radford !!

[pianokantzart]

Yes. I love angst... you all know this... but I'm also a big ol' sucker for happy endings where everyone gets to talk it through and hug it out.

I think if something happened to Mario– if he was presumed dead, even for only a few moments– Luigi would take up the mantel.

He'd do it with quivering hands and tears in his eyes, but he'd do it determined to honor his brother's memory in every way possible, even it means pushing himself beyond his limitations.

[emily-mooon]

Just know I'm always booping you in spirit <3

AHHHHH THANK YOU ME TOO <33333

Here’s a boop right now (x100)

[historiavn]

          @dancedfacades    said;         〝 UMBRELLA :  for one muse to share their umbrella with the other on a rainy day 〞⠀⠀︱ ⠀⠀Agatha⠀⠀!

╰►    SOURCE:      a comprehensive list of scenarios

AGATHA COULD USE HER MAGIC TO STOP THE THUNDERSTORM — but why in Oz’s name would she, when her companion was ever so kind as to offer her his umbrella? The chivalrous gentleman standing beside her was rewarded for his efforts with a small smile, and her gratitude was GENUINE. For all that Agatha enjoyed watching a good thunderstorm, it was never a pleasant experience to be drenched by the accompanying onslaught of pouring rain.

        “Thank you kindly, Mister …” Agatha began, only to then trail off upon realizing that she did not know this gentleman’s name. This necessary detail, however, was recalled moments later. “—oh!” She exclaimed, RECOGNITION flickering across her visage. “You’re the new transfer student, right? Fiyero Tiggular?” It would be most unfortunate if she were wrong; however, this boy perfectly matched the physical description that her mother had given her at breakfast that morning. “My mother told me that you’d be arriving today. I’m Agatha Morrible, Assistant Teacher of Sorcery here at Shiz.”

[kaerinio]

The amount of ship potential George added for Jhogo and Dany?? He was the first of her khas to pledge himself to her and make himself ko! That moment in Qarth? When he pulled her onto his horse and kept his arm around her waist? When he was smiling and whispering in her ear during the magic show, making her smile and laugh? When he told her that those who hide behind walls are already defeated and they're the cowards, not her. 😭 When he stepped in front of her, begging her not to touch or help a dying man because he had the bloody flux/could make her sick, and if he died and she touched him, she would be cursed. When he stared at her aghast as she skirted around him and did exactly what he begged her not to do? And he even relented and helped? When she handed him over as a hostage to the Yunkai'i  during the peace talks, along with Daario, her paramour, and Groleo, her Lord Admiral...and Barristan notes that Jhogo is incredibly dear to Dany. He even says that they pretty much have to get Jhogo back and that Daario can perish for all he cares. I JUST!!

[critterbitter]

What do you know- I'm trying out the askbox *eyes*

anyway I just wanted to say that high-key I think I'd follow any content you make at this point bc your art brings me so much joy. That doesn't tend to happen super often since i am,,,, very much so a hyperfixation-focused person HAHA

regardless I'm not exactly quiet about it but I adore your art and I look forward to each new time you post :D

I WISH i had the capability of pumping out art like you do bc man while I love to draw and have so many ideas all the time picking up the pencil is Hard Dude.

Also! In a recent post you mentioned the whole Twin Dragons AU and HC that people love to have- I'd be super curious as to your opinion on it!

-( ╹▽╹ )

I SEE YOUR TAGS AND IM.

I’ll have to slow down at some point on that Submas Grind, but the hyperfixation throes are REAL. Thank you for inhabiting the tunnels with me! People that tag and cheer artists on are the real mvps of the art economy.

As for twin dragon aus!

I’ve always seen Emmet as more zekrom esque, and Ingo more reshiram esque. Is it cause the typing matches their starters? Maybe, hehe.

Ultimately though, the guys are too multifaceted for me to easily split them into truth and ideals.

I also see the legendaries as Eldritch Abominations Beyond Understanding, so having the dragons in my iteration become the twins would, uh, have consequences. The funny goofy story would dip into horror territory instead. (Reshiram demands only truths, and anything not Absolute will burn. And zekrom’s ideals are beyond human understanding, and trying to understand the mad tangle of thunder would drive somebody insane.)

(I’m a huge tma fan. Can you see it? Man.)

((Also N’s a scary mofo for summoning reshiram. I’m digging directly into the whole “twin heroes have a civil war and it destroyed unova” backstory that pokemon set up, and the more I think about it the stronger my dread mounts at the idea of Zekrom OR Reshiram casually flying overhead.

But this is also just how I see the legendaries of the pokemon world! Lugia sinks islands. Groudon covers towns. Arceus loves the mortal world, and mourns because its immortality only brings grief. Giritina hates, because it’s the ghostly remains of every one of Arceus’s mistakes given drive, banished into the distortion realm. Normal stuff!)

You sly dog, you got me monologing! But here’s the tldr: Not sure i’ll ever make my own serious Dragon AU that follows my internal world building for pokemon. I’m too attached to my favorite trope: “the smallest people can still initiate the biggest of changes”, and I’m too attached to my other favorite trope: “legendaries are actually gods and you Should Be Frightened.”

So that’s why, in this essay, if the trio gets turned into pokemon, I’d make them route 1 run of the mill rats. Because rats can do whatever they want.

(Plus, patrats and pachirisu aren’t banned from the subway battles last I checked.)

If i had to make a goofy crack dragon au though, I think this would be the result:

The whole story would just be the trio and historians trying to figure out what the hell the twins got turned into, and concerns of other people becoming pokemon as well. So far, people are convinced they’re a paradox version of an archen. (I mean…)

(Alternate take of THAT, where elesa gets turned into a victini.)

[yugsly]

Hello there

For about three weeks now I have Ben starring at viscera objectica afraid to open and read it… but when I finally summoned the courage I was blown away. The feelings are communicated through the art fantastically, and I found myself weeping when I reached the final page. I had a doll named Heidi who I loved I took her with me everywhere like Vito dose Theu. I shared similar feelings for her that he does in your book.

One day I brought her to the redwood forest to go camping with me, and while I was holding her, Heidi’s face just shattered. I don’t know why it did. We had not Ben rough I was always soft with her. It just did. So I wrapped her up to fix her when I returned home, she never made it home. the bag I had put her in for safe keeping fell into the river and was swept away.

I always thought it was foolish to mourn for her.

But reading your book I did, and I didn’t have to be alone doing so.

So from the bottom of my heart thank you for righting this beautiful book. thank you for filling it with so many wonderful pictures emotions and memories.

And thank you for the safe place in your last panel to curl up and cry and understand that my loss was real.

Reading it was just as difficult as I thought it would be emotionally. But it was the most worth while story I have read in years.

Keep being wonderful

Love

-Me

Hello anon, I've been keeping your message tucked in my askbox for months now... I remember back when I first read it, I had to cry for a very long time. I can't recall the last time I've had such a strong reaction to anything.

Why did I cry so much? Well, because it means the world to me that you'd share such a personal memory like this with me, because my obscurely themed comic touched you so much... this was one of the first few messages I received about my comic, and I was so blown away, I was like:

It was worth it. It was worth it to make a comic like this, to bare my soul in such a way, to make something so different than everyone is used to from me. I didn't think anyone would care. But it was worth it...

Anon, sincerely, thank you for sharing this memory, I'm sorry it took me so long to respond, I just wanted to hold onto it for a while...

Maybe others reading this will be as touched as I am. Thank you!

[melmedarda]

Do you think this is the end of MelJay?

I really wished they had at least a scene in ep 9 of Mel searching for Jayce/mourning him... everything seemed to shift in favor of the relationship between Jayce and Victor, and they didn't even had them turn romantic 💀Why then even gut MelJay like that? Was their last scene supposed to be a break up? Because it didn't feel like it?? Idk why they didn't even let them share a last hug/kiss...

I just feel so stupid and bitter 😭😭😭

The ending seems to hint at them being reunited once more because of Swain raven finding the stone where Jayce and Viktor got sucked in and Mel going back to Noxus but... I'm not going to delude myself anymore, no high expectations, I've been hurt enough lol

Sorry for the rant, I have no else to talk about it with 🥹 Hope you have a lovely day 💖

Oh darling feel free to rant in the askbox any time!!

Meljay in Act 3 does not exist to me personally. Arcane Act 3 can't hurt me because it doesn't exist. But also. What the writers did with Meljay was very cheap and quite frankly disappointing. I don't think Meljay are broken up at all. But I feel like all the ships suffered from this (Caitvi's I'm so sorry they would ever do this to you) cheapening of relationships with little regard to like... apologies or emotions (I personally don't believe Vi should have gotten back with Caitlyn, because Caitlyn has not groveled enough imo). So many character choices come off as OOC to me this season. I'm not sure how but there was a ball dropped here. I'll not dwell to much on this because I get angry just thinking about it.

I will say that in my wonderful mind world, Meljay end up together in every universe Viktor hasn't ruined. They are together and they are happy and they COMMUNICATE. They have four kids, and one of their children is a daughter named Ximena and another of their children is a son named Kino. Thank you.

[tinfoil-jones]

For Your Own Good: Masterpost (Story Complete)

Askbox? Closed

If you don't know what this post is about, "For Your Own Good" or tagged as "Early Amnesia AU" on tumblr is a dialogue-only Gravity Falls fanfiction, that I wrote as a writing exercise after not writing fanfiction for a few years.

The basic rundown of the plot is that Stan has his mind mysteriously wiped thirty some odd years early, in a scenario where Ford doesn't build the portal.

Ford happens across Stan in Gravity Falls, a few months after what would have been the Portal Incident, and quickly realizes that Stan (who believes his name is Stan Malone) has no memories of his true identity, or anything from before he was kicked out, in fact his memories have only been clear for the past year. So Ford does the only reasonable thing a man in his position would do, and immediately kidnaps him. And later drags Fiddleford into his shenanigans.

This story is a Dramedy. Yeah, the focus is Ford and Stan's relationship and the drama of holding a grudge against someone who straight up doesn't know who you are, while also trying to help them. But there's a lot of jokes and banter because the scenario isn't going to pretend like it isn't off the wall. Before the AU was called 'early amnesia' some of the askers referred to it as 'the kidnapped Stan fic'.

Also, there's Fiddlestan in the background. Bill is also there, but he isn't a malevolent figure. He's more like an enigmatic instigator and chaotic entity who strives to raise Fords blood pressure, he's entirely too busy simping to actually be evil. Bill and Fords relationship isn't intended to have them be a couple, because Ford's is portrayed as Asexual, but if you want to read Ford and Bill as a romantic but not sexual couple, I wouldn't fault you.

It's also loosely based on the "Mystery Trio" concept. In this case, you can boil Fiddleford, Ford, and Stan down to: Done, Extra AF, and Cartoon Logic, respectively.

Anyways, here's links to all of the posts:

AO3 Link: FYOG

Chapters (Tumblr): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, BONUS: The Stranger, FINAL: Trivia

Nutshell Posts: 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, 21-25

Art (done by @nekobeats0): Comic #1, Comic #2, Comic #3, Comic #4, Comic #5

Other: Fiddlestan Scene (18+), Intermission, Ford in Ch.20, 20.5, Stanchez, Rick in Ch.24, Jimmy Snakes

Asks: Fords 'Denial', Stan and Kidnapping, Cereal, Filbrick, 'No One Mourns The Wicked', Jimmy, Stan the (ex)-Con man, Crimes Stan Wouldn't Commit, What to Tell Fiddleford, Does Fiddleford know about Bill?, Stan and Gangs, BIG TALK Stan, What if Stanford wasn't there in time?, Shermie, Updated Stan Lore, About: Trivia, Fords Regrets, What If: Twin Bond, What if: Stayed Dead, In Every Universe, Stayed Dead Filbrick, Fords Arc, Routine Interview, Maybe a reference

[crowtoed]

Are you still doing grave gold? If so, hands and neck please! I need design inspo

I am always doing Grave Gold. I love appreciating the craftsmanship of the folks who came before us. (Also, whoo shiny things!)

Why just have one ring when you can have a DOUBLE RING. This interesting find is a Late Roman ring (3rd-5th c. C.E.) and features two emeralds and a garnet.

This gorgeous necklace is Mixtec (est. 1325-1525 C.E.) and was made in the region that's now Oaxaca, Mexico. It's composed of gold beads made to look like jaguar teeth and little gold bells. It's located at the Met Museum in New York City.

[itsnotmourn]

could u possibly draw hatzgang having a picnic … i love your hatzgang art so so so much!!!!

three little fellas eating :3 and tysm!!

[apas-95]

could u post more abt the knockout plsssssssssssssss

I can, should, and will. Feel free to send in asks. My askbox is a bit busy, so sometimes I don't see asks, or get around to answering them.

If there's one thing I could say about it, it's that it is unabashedly and unashamedly a work celebrating the historic victory over corruption and organised crime achieved by the Communist Party of China. Any claims that the ending - the detailed trials of the criminals responsible - is incongruous or shoehorned in to appease regulators is clearly missing the substance of the show. It's common for western viewers to read in secret anti-government messages to socialist works, especially when those works deal with the difficulties and sharp edges of national development. However, The Knockout is in no way anticommunist for contrasting the past status of regional corruption to the modern status following the anti-corruption campaigns led by president Xi. I grew up in China in the 2000s, and corruption among low-level officials was real - the problems the show demonstrates, of bullying, disrupting the business and livelihoods of rural folk, exploiting impoverishment, were real problems. They were natural growing pains of the national economy as it developed, unevenly, but steadily, to a new era. However, the landscape now is completely different, and the show not only demonstrates that change but revels in it, and mourns the lives destroyed by these demons in the past. The steadfast commitment to these principles that officer An showed, sacrificing his own happiness to be a foolish old man moving mountains, is celebrated and vindicated not by his finding personal happiness at the end (though this is a bonus, it's a flower-tile, and doesn't count for his actual score) but by the proof in practice of the anti-corruption campaign, which sweeps away the previously-invincible structures of corruption. The trial and sentencing of each and every perpetrator by the state is the crescendo of his story - were it a love story, this is the kiss with fireworks. It is not just punishment, it is proof that the system is working. Low-level corruption is an intractable enemy, and for a long time it seemed impossible to defeat. The ability for low-level officials to impede their own investigation and create a safety umbrella is paradoxical. But, in reality and in The Knockout, it was defeated resoundingly, by the revolutionary vanguard party of the people of China. That is the heart of the show. Not seeing that is not seeing the work itself.

Thanks for writing in!

[pupkashi]

OH GOSH CONGRATULATIONS ON 1K!!!!

Your new prompt looks so good so i hope you dont mind me bomb your askbox with requests :P

Can i have prompt " “god you’re bleeding! how the hell did you do that?” “i was trying to cut the tomatoes!” with gojo???

thank you friend !! i hope you enjoy this little thing i put together :3 <3

join the party!

“i feel useless” satoru groans from the seat he’s taken at the kitchen bar, his chin resting in the palm of his hands as he sighs dramatically.

“you just got back from practically saving the world angel boy” you smile, glancing back your boyfriend as you take out some vegetables from the fridge. “the least i can do for you is make you some dinner,” and while your reasoning is sound, to satoru it seems completely outrageous.

“i thought living together was 50/50? why aren’t you letting me pull my own weight” he’s huffing at you and sitting back, crossing his arms over his chest and watching how expertly you’re seasoning the food you’re prepping.

“fine” satoru lights up at your voice, “you can help me cut these vegetables, im gonna go to the restroom” you point at the chopping board and the knife you’ve already set up. “just try to cut them like i did the ones in that bowl, okay?”

“yes captain!” he salutes as you walk past him, giggling when you place a kiss on his nose before heading into the restroom.

“it’s just tomatoes, what could go wrong?” he smiles, picking the knife up confidently.

a lot.

a lot could go wrong with a freshly sharpened knife and someone with poor knife handling skills like gojo satoru.

“d’you finish- oh my god you’re bleeding!” your eyes widen as you rush to your lovers side, running his hand under warm water and rushing to find the first aid kit. “how the hell did you do that? I left for three minutes!” you shriek, grabbing a bandaid and some alcohol wipes to clean the alarmingly deep wound.

“i was trying to cut the tomatoes!” he defends, holding still as you hold his hand gently, smiling a bit over how much you’re fussing over him. you’re mumbling something as you open the bandaid and gently place it over the gash, kissing it softly before moving away from your boyfriend.

“I’m banning you from the kitchen” you state, throwing away the wrappers before making your way to satoru and starting to push him away from the kitchen.

“i can just used some reversed curse technique and I’ll be fine!” his protests genuine as he continues to let you push him out, “my career is just starting don’t do this to me” dramatically crying as you shove him into the seat he was originally sat in.

“I’d rather you relax and stay cut free than using your cursed energy over some damn tomatoes” you smile, brushing his floppy hair out of his eyes and pressing a kiss to his forehead.

“sweetheart?”

“yes angel boy?” satoru only points to the stove, your eyes following his finger as you scramble away from him.

“i burnt the chicken!” you scream.

satoru doesn’t bother hiding his laughter, already ordering your favorite takeout as you mourn what could’ve been some amazing chicken.

[parkcivconfess]

I'M JUST PUTTING THIS OUT HERE. BUT LISTENING TO THE SONG NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED AND THINKING OF EVBO AS GLINDA AND EITHER SEAWATT OR PARKOUR VILLAIN AS ELPHABA "THE WICKED" IS SO TEAR JERKING. PLEASE GO TRY IT. ESPECIALLY WITH THE MOVIE VERISON-

OH MY FUCKING GOD I WILL GET YOU. PUTTING THIS IN MY ASKBOX WAS OPTIONAL!!! THIS ANGST!! THE TRAGEDY!! I NEED MOREEEEE

[historiavn]

@wickedlywonderful sent: ‘ maybe you and i exist together on a different wavelength than the rest of the world. perhaps, we are on a separate frequency. ’

“That would make sense.” Iris REALLY FREAKING HATES the idea of agreeing with Oscar, but he UNFORTUNATELY has a point here. The young woman shrugs, offering Oscar a small smile. It’s kinda NICE to talk about Earth with someone who UNDERSTANDS. “After all, we’re both from the same world, aren’t we? Granted, the early 1900’s or whenever the heck you’re from are a hell of a lot more different than 2024, but it would kinda check out if we were on the same wavelength. Now that I’m thinking ‘bout it, when exactly did that tornado bring you here to Oz in the first place?”