#COME TO MY WINDOW . ask?

[s0fter-sin]

thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage

you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out

"i'm calling shepherd"

his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books: to go up the chain. that goes against everything we've seen him do. he bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns

he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer. there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends

nothing's happened yet

it doesn't have to go this way

but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy

he doesn't hesitate

it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from

only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat

and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for

"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"

he's learned the price of trust

just like ghost did

but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath

"good advice, It"

[fruityindividual]

hiiii there! i'm curious if u have a fave fancast for remus :)

sure! narrowed it down to two <33

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Wangxian goes to horse jail for their crimes against equines.

[zarla-s]

Do/for you have to make references for any other characters in Handplates? Like the mouse or pterofractal? The same goes for the characters that have canon designs in Undertale. Did you ever need a ref for them?

Honestly I like never make reference sheets until something forces me, haha. With the mouse I just go back to the first comic he appeared in and just ref off of those. I might have mentioned this before, I forget, but originally that mouse was supposed to be the mole in the MTT comedy club but then I looked up their speech pattern and it didn't fit, so instead I made them a Rathbone cameo from The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain. :B

I had to improvise his lower body so I just gave him big wading pants lol.

As for Pterofractal, Jaz gave me this!

I do have a folder for canon refs, mostly screenshots I've taken to get colors and layouts for certain areas in the Underground, haha. And some sprite sheets if I need them.

Nothing really official or purposeful though, just screencaps and snips from other files I end up reusing.

[kittydoremi]

gotta follow for the Sonamy slander 🙏🙏🙏🙏 SonElise 🤝🤝 Sonadow Sonamy completely backtracks Amys character development (shows she was always a love interest for Sonic and nothing else) AND makes Sonic completely OOC (why would he fall for her after YEARS of saying no??)

Pretty much

SonElise doesn't need to make Sonic ooc for it to work in 06. You can make the ooc argument for Sonadow in some cases tbh (like in some fanfics and Prime), but at least it's not infuriating like Sonamy is.

But yeah, it would feel like regression for Amy a bit if she just got what she wanted after being so entitled about Sonic's love and chasing him, and acting like a spoiled brat at times in the past (even getting physically violent). It would be similar energy to someone throwing a tantrum until they get what they want.

It would also be ooc for Sonic. Yes he can like someone, but he won't ever truly settle down or be in a committed relationship. He's canonically single and likely to stay that way. Sonamy is marketed heavily, but it's because it's a popular ship. In actual canon Sonic is single and Amy's girlfriend status is self proclaimed

It's clear Sonic and Amy have different ideas of romance, and that Amy desires a certain amount of commitment from him that she just won't ever get from an in character Sonic.

Also recent attempts of idw's shipbait with sonamy have just felt super ooc. Sonic isn't one to casually accept hugs, especially from Amy. Amy makes Sonic uncomfortable. Sonic is nervous by her displays of affection and her glomping him. This has been shown time after time in the games. It's a sudden dynamic change that came out of nowhere and is just there for shipteasing and nothing else.

It would be one thing if how Amy acted in the past was acknowledged and she grew from it, and Sonic grew to be more accepting of her affection, but it just... happened. It feels cheap, like SEGA just wants to completely change Amy's character and her dynamic with Sonic out of the blue.

[ask-the-curtis-gang]

uh…hey Darry. Sorry that I gave the boys cascarones. Here’s a dollar and uh…a pretty leaf!

Glory God almighty. I'm beginnin to think I need to cut yall off for a while. Between the general bad influence yall are, this, n the drag races I- (yknow about that?) (Soda I literally picked you n Steve up when it got busted) (OH. Oh. Right. Yeah) (Sodapop Patrick Curtis. You got somethin you wanna tell me?) (Huh? noo. no. Well yes. That you always were my favorite brother.) (SODA.)

[equalperson]

people mostly talk about splitting as literally all-or-nothing--"I love you" or "I hate you"--but I personally experience an in-between point sometimes.

I don't know what I'd call it other than "thin-ice devaluation" or something along those lines.

like, yes I devalued you recently and I realize now that I was being irrational, BUT if you say something even slightly suspicious, hurtful, or incorrect, I'm going to assume that you're evil and/or useless again much faster than I would have before.

[kinokoshoujoart]

the coolest kids in forgotten valley!!☆

(…it seems there may have been a stretch of time where rock and lumina were the only kids in forgotten valley…🥲)

poseref

[unwavering-devotion]

I attempted to come in for our visit the normal way, but Dr Seward wasn't exactly pleased by the jar of beetles Martin found in my coat... 😭

Perhaps I should come to the window, instead? That might work better, I hope!

WHY WOULD YO U COME IN THE "NORMAL W AY" WITH THAT????

Yes, the window! I don't know how you'll reach me, I'm not on the main floor, but one of you has succeeded already. If you'd like, you can wait until I'm released from my cell to wander the grounds for a little, then see me. If it's unscheduled then do make sure you run fast, I don't think they'd appreciate anybody trespassing and talking with the patients.

[sacrilegioussinner]

going to become a historian hm?

such a smart boy, all that knowledge in your pretty little head

it's funny how fast i believe it'd be to reduce all that, darling

it doesn't matter how much of a clever little lamb you are, the wolf needs to eat

sure, it'll all come back eventually and you can go about your day.. but im sure the torturously slow way my fingers slipped into you while i held one of your trembling little thighs down will also have it's own place in your mind

🎱

It’s genuinely so embarrassing how dumb I get when people give me attention so to add teasing to that? I’d be absolutely brain dead, begging for your attention any time I ever ran into you. Probably neglect all of my studying just rutting against my pillows thinking about how you used my body.

[arttsuka]

Woops my hand slipped and I drew them again

[whentherewerebicycles]

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at the party someone went into the bedroom where he was sleeping and turned the lights on while he was in there and then just left them on? so when I went in to wake him up and take him home he was just sleeping in a room with all the lights on and then I felt soooooo horrifically guilty just like whoa walloped with horrible horrible guilt like what if he was in there awake and crying while I was having fun and he thought no one would come so he just had to go back to sleep in a brightly lit room??? liz has assured me that he was totally fine and they sleep with the lights on at daycare all the time but I still feel so guilty about it, especially because this is the same house where at christmas we put him in a room to sleep and turned the heat on but my friends forgot that they’d closed all the vents so when I went in to check on him the room was freezing and he was just curled up so pitifully in the corner whimpering sadly. this time was obviously not as bad and I suspect that the lights weren’t on for all that long (some people left a little early and I bet they just went in to grab their stuff and somehow didn’t notice the baby) but wow remembering the cold room thing makes me feel like a monster all over again. but he hugged me very tightly when I carried him out to the car because I guess I’m all he has!!! bad mom who doesn’t check on him enough or no!!!!! ugh I generally do a good job of not feeling guilty about minor parenting stuff but there’s something about feeling like your kid was all alone somewhere in a strange place wondering why you weren’t coming to make things better. it’s FINE though it’s fine I will just feel monstrous for a while and then it will pass.

[they-hermes]

Heard rumours that in leaks it says jazz is gonna be in tf cyberworld

that's what they said about earthspark and look what we got. squat! sorry snon but rumours are still rumours, im not gonna trust jazz will appear until i actually see my glorious king in the metal

[softquietsteadylove]

Hello love, how are you?

I know you have done a couple of this already, but may i ask for one where Thena is suffering because of her period and Gil is being a good boyfriend and taking care of her, pretty please.

Also thank you for all your works they are amazing 🩷🤍.

"Thena?"

He didn't get any response as he cracked the door open even further. Which, he wouldn't under any normal circumstance. But not only was this bathroom at an end of the school that no one ever used, he had gotten an inside tip.

"Babe, I know you're in here," he broached carefully. She wasn't in here for no reason.

"Get out."

There she was. But it didn't have her usual sharpness. Plenty of acerbic distaste, certainly, but it had a kind of morose undertone to it.

Gil pressed the door closed behind him, "come on, sweetheart. Sersi sent me."

There was a stall door between them, but he could hear the look of betrayal on her face. "That little-"

"Hey," he assuaged, pressing his palm to the painted steel. "She's at the mall with Dane--who I know damn well you wouldn't want knowing about this, too."

"Whom," she corrected him, although even that lacked her usual gusto. "And that doesn't mean you were the acceptable alternative."

"Thena," he attempted in a sweeter voice. He looked down at the feet under the stall's gap. He had some sympathy; he didn't think of it as nearly so big a deal, but there were probably few things more personal to a girl than this. "Is it bad?"

She took her sweet time answering him, and even when she did, it came out as a miserable little warble. "I can see it a little."

A little would be enough. Especially if she was wearing white jeans.

"Do you know when it started?" he asked, in he thought was a pretty calm and cool way--logical, as his girlfriend would most appreciate.

She sighed (heavily). "After, or maybe even during practice. I managed to slip away from the team."

Gil frowned. Wasn't it, like, girl code not to leave one of their own in this state of distress? "You didn't wanna ask one of them-"

"I wouldn't say I'm that close with any of them," Thena spat. He didn't think she had any real dislike for them, either. But then again, his girlfriend didn't excel at vulnerability, and maybe this was too much for her to even turn to her fellow woman.

She had texted Sersi in blind hopes that her sister was close at hand.

"Okay, here," Gil sighed, pulling up the bag he had with him. He looked up, and then down, "do these doors have hooks on the inside?"

"You think our school has the luxury of something like that?"

Okay, yeah, she had a point. He huffed, "well, I dunno, so you don't have to put your bag or purse or whatever on the floor?"

"I'm not saying it's not a good idea, Gil, but no, they don't have that."

She really was feeling like absolute shit.

"Okay," he gave in easily. He set the bag on the ground and used his foot to slide it in to her. She did snatch it away from his gaze eagerly. "Sersi didn't say which one you liked, so I got a little pack of both, and-"

"Thank you--out."

He sighed again, but there wasn't much more he could do for her at this point. "Okay, okay, but I'm gonna be right outside the door."

"You don't have to, Gil."

He made a face at the stall door again, not that she could appreciate it. "I'm not gonna leave you like this."

"You could, though."

He didn't even really have anything he could compare it to--what she must be feeling at the moment. And for someone who struggled to talk about her own discomfort like she did... "I'm sorry, Thena."

It was so, so quiet. But he caught it--the little sniffle. The telltale sign that her misery was not just mere anger or frustration.

"There's no need, Gil," she tried to dissuade him again, more genuinely and less angrily this time.

"Babe, you know I've eaten you out, right," he commented rather dryly, "it's not like I can get freaked out by your period."

"That's-!" For however strong it started, it gave way to her misery not a second later, finishing in a whimper, "different."

She was right, it was different. But he was trying! He just wanted to make her feel better.

"I'll be outside," he reaffirmed to her door, pressing himself to it as if she would know he was trying to comfort her like that. "And I'm not leaving without you, so don't even try it."

"Fine."

Gil pulled himself away from the door slowly. He lingered, in case she was going to change her mind and tell him to stay. But she made not even a sound, which wasn't even that easy to do with the crinkly plastic pharmacy bag he'd brought in.

He had even had the wherewithal to ask them to double bag it, for privacy reasons! He thought that was a pretty smart move, on his part. He had gotten both tampons and pads, which maybe was a little overkill. But he didn't want her to get stuck with one if she was more comfortable with the other. And he'd thrown in some pain meds and some chocolate, just for good measure.

Gil leaned against the wall outside the bathroom door. They were at the very end of the hall, by the door that led straight to the fields. Now that all the practices were over, no one would be down here until teachers left or cleaning staff came to do their thing.

His heart ached for his poor Thena, imagining her discovering the blood and too uncomfortable around her teammates to ask for help with it. He wasn't entirely sure where her ire with them started, or if it was for Thena reasons or something else. But the fact that she had slipped away from them to endure the misery for herself spoke to how solitary a creature she really was.

He stood up straight as the door opened and Thena emerged with the bag in the crook of her elbow. She was staring straight down at the ground. "How do you feel?"

"Humiliated."

Gil smiled down at the top of her head as she headbutted him right in the chest. He didn't mind. He wrapped his arms around her, pressing a kiss to her hair.

His first instinct was to say something to lighten her mood, maybe a joke or something. But he felt the faint but real little spots of warmth in the cotton of his t-shirt. He rubbed her back, "it's okay."

Thena had never, ever, cried in front of him. Not even when she told him about Ikaris laughing at her for being a virgin. He was still determined to kick that guy's ass one day.

She pulled away, rubbing her eyes to erase the last of her woes for herself. "Thank you."

"Of course," he frowned. Like he was doing some great thing by helping her out with this? It was pretty basic boyfriend stuff, he was pretty sure. "You know I mean that, right?"

"I know," she grumbled, and there was some of his Thena starting to emerge. She stepped away from him, her arms wrapped around herself.

"You want me to, uh," he tilted his head, "check if you're good?"

"I would rather die."

He chuckled; now that was his Thena.

"Just," she mumbled out, embarrassment written all over her. "Give me your sweater.

He did so in an instant, pulling his black hoodie off his shoulders and wrapping it around her. She extended her arms on her own, threading them through the sleeves smoothly. He made sure it sat on her shoulders and then gave the bottom a tug to verify that it did indeed cover well beyond her (cute) butt.

She looked at him as she started pushing the sleeves up.

"Lookin' good," he grinned at her with a wink.

She rolled her eyes at him, but the way she let him take her hand told him she was still feeling a little shitty about everything. "Take me home?"

"You got it," he assured as gently as he could. As much as he wanted to offer to take her out and do something fun, it wasn't about what he wanted. And if she wanted to wallow in her misery for the night he would ask and beg and plead to join her in that misery. "You know-"

Thena didn't even turn her head, just gave him one hell of a side eye.

But he smiled, braving on for the love of his young life. "As I keep reminding you, I am in this for real, babe. Like, real deal, long haul-"

"Yes, yes, you have said," she sighed, although he could see her starting to smile again.

He gave her hand a squeeze. "It's not like I was never gonna be around for...something like this."

It showed on Thena's face just how much she appreciated his delicacy with it, even after the fact.

"It's not a big deal--not to me, at least," he shrugged, hoping he was saying the right thing. All he could hope was that she was really hearing him and getting how much he meant it. "And if you ever needed help like this again--just call me, okay? Text me, email me if you have to."

She laughed at the suggestion, but all he needed to see was that cute smile, showing off her teeth. She had a cute laugh, too.

"I'll be there, Thena," he finished, pouring his heart into it. "In a heartbeat."

"I know, Gil." Well, that was the end of that. It wasn't up for discussion anymore, and he would be pushing his luck to try and continue it.

But he happily let her release his hand, only so she could wrap her arms around his one and press her face into his t-shirt sleeve. "You gonna let me carry that bag for you?"

"No."

"Okay, fine," he chuckled. Whatever she wanted--needed. Anything at all. He looked down at her as they continued down the hall, taking their good, sweet time. "Thena, I-"

"I hope," she prefaced, giving his arm an extra squeeze, "you're not about to say something I wouldn't want to hear on arguably the worst day of my life."

Okay, so not the time for an I-Love-You. Their first, he had to keep reminding himself, no matter how many times he had already imagined saying it to her.

"Yeah, no, totally," he mumbled, resigning himself to keeping it in again.

"Just-" Thena pressed herself even closer to him. "Just wait a little longer."

He looked down at the top of her head again (since she wasn't up to looking at him yet, apparently). But she didn't have to ask; he was going to wait for her until the day he died, he had already decided.

It wasn't even really up to him. Somewhere along the way, he had fallen beyond the point of no return, and he would do anything - literally anything! - for her.

Thena let him kiss her forehead as they continued shuffling along, the hum of the fluorescents and the crinkling of the bag offering a soundtrack to their quiet moment.

"Y'know, I heard baths are good for cramps. We could-"

"Not a chance, Gil."

[grossillygirl]

random man came up to my kitchen window and spoke to me at 10pm and said he's at the "wrong house". cuz i cant fucking afford curtains so everyone can just see in. people have told me to just put a random sheet up but like i dont have spare sheets either 😭 and also that just looks weird aswell and it would have to be two sheets or id have to cut it, because of the layout of the windows. so that's awesome sauce.

maybe i should just spend the like £40-50 on curtains and a rod and the little holder thingies for the rod and let myself be poorer? worth it to have privacy maybe. potentially i could just buy the curtain and nail it to the wall so theres not even a rod or holder thingies, but then theyd be immoveable and awkward

[bizlybebo]

snail season almost over :(