#Alex: do you like-

[gruesomejack]

"Or what?" Vi reddened and put on a pout. Nothing about how they met or what they did had been... lewd. Even if the fantasy had crossed his mind afterwards, their meeting had been completely innocent. Watching Alex pause the recording, he shot him a knowing glance and shrugged. "I've been to rehab. You're going to be hard pressed to find a musician that hasn't at least dabbled in crisis." He said, "That's just what we do. Music is as much as an outlet as it is an artform." Vi smiled again though, his thoughts trailing back to Charlie. "He looked really good. Tired, but he was in one piece." He said, "He was wearing a goofy t-shirt and his house was cluttered with dog toys. He seemed... normal. Like a regular guy."

Leaning back against the couch, he hummed softly. "I don't know why he said yes to me..." He trailed, "Off the record; I was coming home from a party when I messaged him. I was drunk out of my mind, and that's the only reason I had the confidence to do it." Vi laughed and played with one of his earrings, his face still warm. "One of his songs had come up on my playlist in the car and I'd hit send before I registered what I'd done." He said, "I remember waking up, seeing that he'd answered, and nearly shitting myself. I was terrified I'd said something stupid, but it was mostly just... affectionate babble. And he was so polite about it, I was stunned." Grinning, he shrugged again and gave a teasing bat of his lashes. "I'm just so charming, it's impossible to deny me." He said, "But honestly... I think maybe it was because I didn't ask about... everything. I just wanted to talk to him."

Eyes on Alex, he quieted for a moment. "I'm fucked big time." He whined, "He was so down to earth! And his cheeks- Plus he's got that stupid dog and his voice is so warm." Dragging his hands over his face, he scowled at himself. "I mean like? I thought he was cute before, but now I'm daydreaming about how much of his dick I can fit in my mouth. And I have a big mouth." Vi frowned and folded his arms across his chest in a frustrated huff. "And he hasn't messaged me back since then. I don't want to beg him for attention, but I'm suffering over it." He said, "I don't even know if he likes men. He doesn't need to-- He just needs to like me."

Victory checked his phone again, opening the messaging app and confirming for the hundredth time this was the right spot. He'd pulled off some kind of miracle in the last month, not only getting in contact with one of his favorite artists, but managing to keep it going almost regularly. And now he was standing outside of an unfamiliar building on an unfamiliar street in the middle of Appalachian nowhere, getting ready to meet him in person.

He'd dressed down for the occasion, mostly for his own sake, but for Charlie's too. His own success was leading to more and more people clocking him while he was out, and he doubted dressing like Elton John would help him blend in in a place like this. The bleached hair he'd been sporting recently was tucked nicely under a baseball cap, his extensive ink work covered by a baggy sweatshirt. He'd even taken his earrings out in a rush, storing them in his pocket when he realized he'd forgotten to leave them in his hotel room. The last thing Charlie needed was to be bombarded because he agreed to meet him.

In the middle of using his phone screen as a mirror, his eyes widened as it lit up with a text. Vi quickly shoved it in his pocket and gave a quick sweep of the area. He frowned for a moment, but before he could pull out his phone again, his eyes landed on a familiar face, his own quickly brightening into a grin. Bouncing on his feet, he laughed as he waved his arms to usher his pen pal over.

Charlie Reimes. Cane Corso had been a staple on his playlists for years, and here was the frontman in the flesh. -- All because he'd gotten drunk and too bold, sending him what was an embarrassing DM expressing his admiration. It was a testament to maybe not all of his questionable choices led to questionable outcomes.

Beaming, he practically hopped the rest of the way over to him, his smile toothy, cheeks pink, and his eyes crinkled. "I can't believe it! I don't think you understand how massive this is to me." He said, babbling a little in his excitement. "I can't even begin to thank you. You've been such an inspiration to me forever and-" Oh! Oh, shit. Face flooding with color, he lifted his hands to wave off the starstruck gibberish, and instead offered him his palm. "I-I'm Vi." He managed, "It's nice to see you in person."

@purposefully-lost

[haleyusesherwords]

Alex really said: In my first season of Dimension 20, I played the tiniest little boy who was the physical embodiment of a man’s conscience. What would be a good character to choose for my second season? Ah yes. An absolute unit of a mob boss. The logical next step.

[noodles-and-tea]

WE ARE SO BACK WE ARE SO BACK

[ryllen]

🌾 . 🍚

[mulderscully]

@rwrbmovie & @rwrbsource's rwrb appreciation month bingo: underrated moment

[thesituationship]

Underrated evidence for canon billford: They have 3 irl songs associated with them in canon. I'm your puppet, sweet dreams (are made of these), and we'll meet again. No other character or relationship gets this many songs, and if they do, it's usually a copyright-safe parody like disco girl.

Your honour, Alex Hirsch has a billford Spotify playlist there's no other explanation

[nobleriver]

DOCTOR WHO | Forest of the Dead

[yrsonpurpose]

"such a mouth on you!" 👀👄

[juvian]

Pokemon ask game!

1.What’s your favorite Pokemon ?

2.Is there a Pokémon you hate / dislike ?

3.What’s your Favorite [add a Type] pokemon ?

4.What’s your favorite pokemon from gen [add a number] / region ?

5.What’s your favorite pokemon type ?

6.What’s your least favorite pokemon type

7.What’s your favorite Type combos

8.Who’s your favorite Baby pokemon ?

9.Who’s your favorite legendary Pokémon ?

10.Who’s your favorite mythical Pokémon ?

11.Favorite Pseudo legendary ?

12.What’s your favorite Shiny Pokemon ?

13.What’s your favorite Regional bird ?

14.What’s your favorite Pikaclone ?

15.What��s your favorite regional rodent ?

16.What’s your favorite Ultra beast ?

17.What’s your favorite Eeveelution ?

18.What’s your favorite Fossil pokemon ?

19.What’s your favorite starter ?

20.What’s your least favorite starter ?

21.What’s your favorite region ?

22.What’s your favorite pokemon game ?

23.What’s your favorite regional variant / Alternate form ?

24.What’s your favorite paradox pokemon ?

25.Do you have a favorite pokeball ?

26.What’s your favorite gen ?

27.Do you have a least favorite gen ?

28.Do you have a favorite pokedex entry ?

29.Who’s your favorite character from the anime ?

30.Who’s your favorite character from any Pokémon games ?

31.If you were a trainer what are the 6 Pokémon that would be on your team?

32.If you were from the pokemon world what career would you like to have ? (Ex: Trainer, coordinator, breeder, ect)

33.What pokemon you wish had a mega evolution ?

34.What Pokémon you wish had another variant / form ? What type would it be ?

35.Who was your first Starter ever ?

36.Do you remember your first Pokémon team ? If yes, which one was it ?

37.If you could choose one Pokémon to bring to life, which one would it be ?

38.If you were a gym leader of what type would your team be ? And which Pokémon would they be ?

39.If you have to create your own pokemon (known as fakemon) what would you like to create ?

40.What’s your favorite pokemon anime opening ?

41.Ask me my opinion on anything you want specifically !

[bleed-more]

Alex’s moment of clarity as he watches Seth die in his arms

Fan art for @studentfilmyoulying’s fanfic that I am extremely unwell about

[dekusleftsock]

Yaoimation

[repmet]

@rwrbsource & @rwrbmovie’s rwrb appreciation month bingo: alex

[insp] [Henry]

[egophiliac]

is the method you use to create stained glass texture the same as the one for paper/graininess texture?

yep! it's a combination of a couple of different stone/marble textures, set to 'overlay' mode, which are doing most of the heavy lifting texture-wise! though I also like to go back in after the texture's been applied and add some extra shading and grungy scribbles, just wherever I think it could use a little more work (which, bonus, I think also helps keep it from looking too much like the texture's just been slapped on). :D like, since I suck at words, here it is with the texture layers turned off:

and then with the textures over it:

[moeblob]

Someone pointed out "Alex is the glass half full guy and Shane is the glass half empty but he's working on it guy" and so true.

I think Alex is a finger guns kind of guy and I have nothing to support this claim but I'm gonna stand my ground on it. (Alex also just kinda lost on if the blushing or the tearing up is more important and did HE PERSONALLY mess up saying this because he sure as heck doesn't know.)

[aroaceleovaldez]

I was reading a post about CoTG and I realized: Rick has seemingly started to write every character pairing with the exact same dynamic, and he's not good at writing that dynamic and it doesn't make sense for 90% of the characters he writes it for.

It's that very specific dynamic of one half of the pair who is almost aggressive to the other party - "teasing" them constantly/insulting them, affectionately punching/judo flipping/maiming/etc, seemingly almost always exasperated with the other - and said other party usually just accepts this treatment or blanketly views it fondly, and may generally be framed as more incompetent than their partner and a little bit of a doormat (particularly relating to being insulted/teased/etc by their partner).

We start seeing this dynamic in HoO with Percy and Annabeth, as a sort of semi-inconsistent twist on their rivals-to-friends-to-lovers dynamic from the first series. Then the dynamic pattern develops further with Leo and Calypso. Then Magnus and Alex. Then Nico and Will, particularly in TSATS. And now in CoTG, it's Percy and Annabeth again but even more in this direction.

I know people have talked about Nico and Will's relationship over the series rapidly being shoehorned into Percabeth Two™, and it's extremely apparent in TSATS that Rick's doing it on purpose (including directly quoting Percabeth scenes but minorly tweaking them to be Solangelo). But recognizing it as an overarching trend in Rick's later books honestly reminds me a lot of how Rick started trying to apply the "Percy Formula" so-to-speak to nearly every protagonist in HoO (and then try to replicate similar character archetypes with Magnus and Apollo's narrations - moreso Magnus in being jaded and sarcastic, very much trying to be first series Percy. He only sounds unique because Rick failed at making him Percy 2. Apollo is more akin to later-series Percy characterization of being goofy and incompetent. Apollo [and Zeus] even got retconned to give Apollo a more similar backstory to Percy's). Rick seems to have decided that he thinks the audience wants this specific dynamic but 10 times over, except he's not good at writing it the first time because it's a bastardization of the time he did a different thing okay.

And Rick also seems aware of that too! Because he retconned Calypso and Leo at the end of TOA, probably because he realized how absolutely awful it was reading when they were written with that dynamic of Calypso just functionally hating Leo and constantly being aggressive towards him! The only time Rick's actually made the dynamic even semi-successful was with Magnus and Alex, because it actually fits within their characters, their dynamics with each other, and their environment. Alex beheading Magnus on the regular works out fine because there are no repercussions to that in Valhalla, Magnus will be fine, so it does genuinely come off as humorous. And Alex has been effectively established to be abrasive at times but have her genuine feelings shine through regularly, and that meshes well with Magnus' jaded-and-aloof-but-quietly-very-empathetic character. And Magnus has been established to, yes, not be great at combat, particularly compared to Alex. They are the only time that flavor of dynamic in that form was effective and cohesive.

Percabeth is no longer rivals-to-friends-to-lovers badasses on equal levels with shaky pasts who finally found some form of permanence with one another. Now it's super smart doting and affectionately aggressive girlfriend and her silly goofy 50%-of-the-time incompetent boyfriend who she judo flips/pushes off cliffs/etc - but affectionately~! Solangelo is trying to riff off of the early series "Poseidon & Athena are enemies" dynamic that Percabeth had but with Apollo & Hades being "opposites" but learning to accept each other, except it ends up with Will just coming off as a huge asshole and Nico being retconned to a complete doormat about it - when prior to that those characterizations would be completely contrary to their established characters (even just from TOA!). Calypso in HoO gets retconned from her PJO characterization to being snooty and aggressive, and Leo's false persona gets merged into his just normal personality except he just also becomes a doormat but more goofy than Nico with occasional haha-dark/depression-humor! Which Nico also got. Which was also a bastardized Percy trait that got redistributed.

It's exhausting. Rick write more than one relationship dynamic you can do it I promise

[ilottthepilot]

very strange how many people want to die on the hill that this is not alex's home race, simply because of the flag on his racing license... one would think dual nationality is a very simple concept for an adult to grasp