#Al Bean

[panelswithoutpeople]

Dark Horse Presents No. 9: 1969

by Paul Pope

[batbabydamian]

in the guard's defense, fire ants sting 😔

[just-a-drawing-bean]

AL-AN <3

Finished my Below Zero playthrough yesterday and had to draw AL-AN or I was going to explode <3 he's so neat ough. I loved the ending of the game, very nice. I highly recommend playing Subnautica and Below Zero, the OST is really pretty.

[identifying-spacecraft-in-posts]

Armstrong, Aldrin, and an American Eagle by Al Bean, 1983

Grumman Lunar Excursion Module LM-5 Eagle

[robinsleeping]

He’s just so little. Look at the little pout.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Raven I’m reading the Tapis Rouge event on eng server and I’ve noticed this weird pattern with Ace? He was asking us if we’ve ever heard of Beautiful Queen, despite the fact that he knows we wouldn’t since we’re from another world, and he did the same thing in the Wish Upon a Star Event where he asks us “have you really never heard of Wish Upon a Star?” It’s like ??? Dude? You know I’m not from here? That stuff doesn’t exist back home. I mean, I can get staying in Twisted Wonderland long enough to hear about a few things but he acts like us knowing this stuff should be common sense to us even though he’s very well aware it’s not. 😭

To be fair to Ace, he’s not the only character that does this! For example, Lilia and Kalim are surprised that Yuu and Grim are unfamiliar with how they celebrate Halloween and that they don’t know what the Scalding Sands Fireworks Festival is. In the case of Halloween, Lilia is later pleased to hear that Yuu also has this holiday in another world. (In case you’re confused, the dialogue littered across Twst implies that it is common knowledge among NRC students and even staff that Yuu is from another world.)

It is true that Ace is frequently guilty of being surprised at Yuu not knowing about various Twisted Wonderland things. If I had to guess, he probably does it the most of the characters in the main cast. Just off the top of my head, there’s the prologue, book 2, Happy Beans Day, Wish Upon a Star, and Tapis Rouge (Red Carpet Cadets in EN).

I don’t think it’s an issue of Ace getting convenient amnesia (as this is a consistent thing in the main story too, not just events which are non-canonical) or intentionally saying it to be annoying despite knowing better. To me, it reads as Ace genuinely being ignorant + not being able to imagine what it’s like to be from another world and/or expecting them to know better. He seems to assume Yuu’s world is like Twisted Wonderland, or he expects that Yuu should be able to quickly pick up on things that are commonly known in Twisted Wonderland like he has.

To my first point, Ace is portrayed as flippant and not taking things seriously. He’s often not paying attention in class or finding ways to dodge doing work. More importantly, he’s also shown to be ignorant and to not know a lot about things beyond his own interests and narrow understanding of the world. Two major examples are in Jack’s Ceremonial Robes vignettes, in which Ace assumes that Jack, a beastman, MUST come from Sunset Savanna, and also generalizes the people of the Shaftlands (despite being a massive plot of land) as being a certain way. Riddle has to correct his dorm member. This indicates to me that Ace would make similar assumptions of what Yuu’s world is like, based heavily on his own understanding of how the world works. And if Twisted Wonderland is all Ace knows, why wouldn’t he default to that as the “norm” for Yuu’s world too?

To my second point, Ace has a particular talent for mimicry in many things. He can pick up dance moves, do vocal impressions, and has a sharp memory that allows him to relay mole language after hearing it demonstrated just once. Ace is also an opportunist, quick to adapt to a situation in order to get his way. For example, he cozies up to Leona in Endless Halloween Night so that he’d be spared from Floyd’s antics and tries to sneak snacks when he believes Vil isn’t watching. At the dame time, Ace is known to tease others (mainly Deuce) for not being able to be as quick to pick up on the situation or on new skills as he is. Considering all of these points, it’s not too far of a stretch to think that Ace would tease Yuu for similar shortcomings.

Speaking of Deuce, he mentions in Wish Upon a Star that it makes sense that Yuu wouldn’t know the holiday, since they’re from another world:

This reaction makes sense for Deuce’s character. While Deuce is equally as clueless about certain things (math, his own hometown, etc.), he’s still overall the more grounded and considerate of the Adeuce duo. On top of that, he’s having his own problems developing into the honors student ideal he aims for, so he doesn’t hold it against others when they’re not aware of something. Deuce and Ace may both be a part of Yuu’s friend circle, but they are very different people and react in different ways as a result of that.

[alechans-cutetickles]

🇺🇸:look what i found on pinteres O//△//O

🇮🇹:Guardate cosa ho trovato su pinteres O//△//O

[time-and-spuds]

Currently dying of a Fever but that won't Stop me from drawing this silly Triangle

[the-3merald-butterfly]

I decided to make this funny thing :)

Once again experimenting on designs and stuff, especially on their outfits. Definitely giving them touch ups later on, I wanted to stay true to Rayman's Adventures outfit because, to an extent, I am kinda fusing Legends and Adventures for my AU. But for now, have some silliness

Here are the designs! + a silly drawing

[andy-clutterbuck]

𝙰𝚗𝚍𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙶𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚐𝚘𝚠 (𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟷𝚝𝚑) 𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 Cold Water 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚜.

[avoyagetoarcturus]

Greaseball and Dinah inspired by Jojo Siwa 🤭☕

[panelswithoutpeople]

Dark Horse Presents No. 9: 1969

by Paul Pope

[bop-y]

Peitha cookie with meemaw phone version @moth-tea-merchant

[ilovedagain]

A short story about the different wounds Damian Wayne has sustained.

tw: graphic description of injuries.

There are many wounds that Damian Wayne sustained in his short life. And if he were asked, and if he must reply, he would rank the wounds he sustained.

A head wound is the least painful, and the hardest to recover from. He loses his grip on consciousness, and reality slips like oil between his fingers. It's hard to worry about that when he's delirious. But in the aftermath, when recovery begins and time starts ticking, measuring how long it takes him to put himself back together—that is when head trauma becomes excruciating.

Muscle memory is all you have because your muscles have atrophied in your rest and your memory is stuttering back to life. He can't trust his mind to keep him safe and conceal his secrets—his tongue is loosened and speaks before he tells it. Green eyes watch him and count the days it takes him to recover.

And all shall pass, until a day comes when he's stabbed in the chest and the knife nicks his lungs. Suddenly, he's pooling blood into his lungs with each inhale, and the chest wound in his side sucks in air with him in nasty, wheezing sounds that haunt him.

The silver lining is how effective first aid measures are for a sucking chest wound. A little square of silver foil covers the wound, and the blood is sucked from his lungs with a tube. Blue eyes watch him and count the ways he could have avoided nicking his lungs.

And all shall pass, they say. But Damian would add, 'unless you've had a broken back and a doctor screws it in place with a metal rod.' It's a slow crawl up two steps in a staircase. Sweat beading his forehead when he sits up in bed. A hand clutching the railing, or palm splayed on the walls, or fingers gripping someone's elbows, hanging on.

It's a small distance to fall from your feet to your knees, but it ricochets up the metal rods in his back like a hail of bullets. Blue eyes watch with concern and Damian counts the new wrinkles around them.

And all shall pass, again. When you're ashes, dust to dust, bones and metal in a casket, these physical wounds will be reduced to bad memories.

Which is why, if Damian were asked, and if Damian must reply, he would rank these physical wounds as child's play compared to the sucking chest wound in his heart. Sharp words stabbed it and didn't even leave the knife to stop his blood from going everywhere. No, they took their knife and left.

This wound in his chest heaved in breaths that taste like blood and sound like ghosts hissing their hurts. Blue eyes, green eyes, teal eyes, brown eyes—he counts them all as they turn away one by one by one.

And when he's ashes, dust and metal in a casket, these wounds in his spirit will be more than bad memories.

On a cold night like any night in Gotham, when patrol is cut short and Damian is rushed to the med-bay, he lays in a white bed and catalogues his hurts. The heart monitor is worried and insistent, but Damian has never felt so calm. There's a bullet in his chest, so what?

There's a blurry edge to Drake's face, and Todd's voice is muffled behind cotton in his ears, and a white halo is above Richard's head—the operation lights, the back of his mind says—and Alfred's hands are a magical blue—surgical gloves—and Father is...Father is here, looking Damian in the eye, mouth moving in silent words. Damian nudges his mind, shakes it like a bag dispensing dog food, tries to get it to read Father's lips.

There's a bullet in my chest, he wants to tell them. It's okay, he wants to tell them. The bullet is still in there, so the blood is not going everywhere, and you should take care of that because he can't feel his arms, but. But most importantly. It's a physical wound, and. And everyone is here, like a little silver square of foil that will close his sucking chest wound and make the horrible wheezing go away.

It's okay, because they stayed and made sure this wound would only be a physical one.

Stay with me, Father's lips say before Damian is out cold.

[cornley-amateur-drama-society]

It would be so fucking funny if one day shields came forward and was like, “Yeah, so anyways, the Bean family get on super well and Celia and Raymond love Chris and support him so much in his acting endeavours, and they watch Peep Show reruns together on the weekend.”

[robinsleeping]

*gives warm fluffy towel*