#Dog's Life spoilers

[fountainpenguin]

Apparently everyone wants me for both my super niche Etho/SnifferMyFeet content and my equally niche Grian/Bdubs content... Not the combination I expected to be known for, but it is what it is.

Congrats on your newfound tastes; I will make you all a meal.

[fountainpenguin]

Jumping on this post to show my followers my favorite scene in Dog's Life (Chapter 9):

The room goes quiet. Etho keeps tapping at the keyboard. He adjusts three more little bits of code, then writes a line from scratch. Joel's fingers are looking lovely, though the thumb needs another tweak. Thumbs are hard. "Etho?" "Yeppers?" "Am I, like… going to live?" You know what? Thumbs are easy. I've decided. He doesn't turn around. "Yeah, don't worry about Grian dragging his feet. He's a real pest, but he's got good hearts. Even if he had to bail tonight, he'll get your file in the system." "Not that," says Sniff. "Why did you really go through all that effort to unthread me?" Thumbs are incredibly fun. "I needed a close model of Joel and Pig said 'No.' You were the next person who came to mind." "Why is a model so important?" "Because everyone's body is different. Yours is pretty close to his on at least one side." That's one good-looking thumb. Maybe I should redo MY thumbs… Although I guess you need to see someone else for that. Not so easy to fix your own. Sniff's breathing gets a little faster. "If Joel had been too far gone to repair and- and time was running out before he gets kicked back to the soul spawner… Would you have considered dumping his soul inside my vessel?" Etho's fingers stop moving. All ten of his hearts thunk down to mental zero. Just fling him at the respawn screen right now. His breaths cut off. He doesn't say anything. For a long time. You can't be accused of telling lies if you don't speak up at all. Maybe you'll look suspicious or aloof. Maybe you're hiding the truth or stretching it in painful ways. But you are not lying. "The thought never crossed my mind," Etho lies.

I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.

[str1wberry7thyme]

//NAME MC SPOILERS!!

I can’t believe Ren used the last of his power to fuse them together like you could’ve just said you miss him like a normal person

[sasmeo-bisaster]

Is this how the finale went right?

[eristarlight]

I really liked this moment from episode 5, and I'm very glad that I managed to finish it in a week ^^

Jokingly I call these four Big Dogs, because they are both the Duo of Jimmy and Martin, and Ren and Bigb

I like that this season everyone has individual looks, it's cool

[fountainpenguin]

Non-human character I'm writing made multiple attempts to eat a person and then got slapped with sensitivity training for an unrelated opinion he voiced several chapters earlier. He was SHOOK <3

a technique i really enjoy in horror fiction is the intrusion of the mundane or even comical into the horrifying. when done right it's so jarringly effective at emphasising the humanity of the people the horrifying is happening to, and how cruel and unusual their situation is. and even if the creator overshoots it, there's something charming about seeing human nature override even the darkest moments and provoking an 'inappropriate' reaction. because yeah. sometimes the killer IS also just a silly guy and if they tripped and crumpled like a looney toon while chasing you with a chainsaw you WOULD laugh. you wouldn't be able to help it.

[meelkiewee]

ok last one for now, we'll see next week for more maybe

[lunarcrown]

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[150en-main]

Etho: "There's a zombie horse!" // Joel: "Etho, follow! C'mon!" // Etho: "Coming, uh sorry, distracted by green horse."

Traps and Trial Chambers! | Wild Life | Ep.6 [27:34]

So they're all in on it then, the puppy thing. What. I can already imagine Etho whipping his head around, ears up, and following with his tail wagging.

[freyadragonlord]

Some people seem surprised that Chuuya managed to fool Fyodor about being a vampire for less than 30 minutes, but you gotta remember that when he and Dazai first met, Chuuya succesfully hid that he was Arahabaki for two or three days, all while Dazai was specifically investigating Arahabaki.

Chuuya has always been an extremely good liar, and he is kryptonite to people like Fyodor or Dazai (or at least Fifteen's Dazai, he learned from that experience) because he looks brash and impulsive and ""simple"", but actually Chuuya has been lying about who he is for most of his life, and nobody knows how to be a mindless monster better than him.

[rattlung]

again idk if this has been said before but i love the lucanis approval when you're going after zara and illario meets you half way. lucanis is trying to get him to fuck off but illario ignores him and addresses rook, flirts w them, tells them that they should let him give them a tour. and when they also tell him to fuck off cause their honey said so, lucanis likes it. he follows up with "this isn't your job, there's no one you can charm into dropping their guard". and idk it kind of reminds me of the comment lucanis makes during the coffee date cutscene where he says smth along the lines of "even before i was captured, most things were determined for me" and adding that w the implication of illario absolutely hating when attention isn't on him paired with his resentment toward lucanis for being their grandmother's favorite AND lucanis telling emmerich that he "doesn't have illario's gift for flirting" like idk i imagine illario poaching any person he sensed lucanis had even a passing interest in just cause he's a spiteful mf

so here "there's no one you can charm" = "this one is mine, they won't fall for it"

i just think the mutual possessiveness is neat :)

[fountainpenguin]

I love writing the Bdubs/Grian scenes in Dog's Life... Their incredibly bizarre and hyperspecific drama fascinates and amuses me.

#trafficshipping excerpt under the cut

“Hey. Now that we’re dating, are you going to invite me to your Clocker family dinners?” Grian catches his palm on Bdubs’ chest, nudging him back a step. Not really towards a wall. There aren’t any walls in this too-open space. “Yeah, yeah… I track your guys’ logouts! I know what you get up to over there.”

It’s Bdubs’ turn to feel his pixels flip. He’s prob’ly turning blue, and bluer still by the grin that leaks across Grian’s face. How could it not? Family dinner, it’s- “That’s not for you.”

“I’m not stupid, Bdubs,” he says, and spits the word. “Mumsy and Dad will want to see me if we start getting serious. Make sure I’m good for you. That’s what they say to Scar. He told me all about it last week.” Grian’s eyes glitter with a thousand stolen secrets (Good grief). “Nobody said anything about you. Are you the ‘good’ son?”

Bdubs shoves Grian off, his whole face exploding as Grian thumps back on the bed. “That’s- You’re not coming to that!”

“I’m not vanilla,” Grian pushes back. “I mean, it sounds right up my alley- Pinned to the dinner table in the middle of a crowd? That’s exactly what I’m into. You must be too if it’s something you guys have talked about, right?”

“Yeah, with Impulse or my wife! You and me’ve only been on one date! Hey, on the list of people I’ll eat alive on the Clocker dinner table, you don’t even rank Top 3!”

Chapter 46 - "Scatter By Sunset"

[pickastitch]

sapphic relationships are fucked. wdym the only time gem was reasonable to pearl was when she literally couldn't speak

[lyrelock]

LOST CAUSE

[sasmeo-bisaster]

I love how ren calls martren the power of friendship when literally everyone else is in horror at his grief and willingness to bring martyn in any way to the finale

[k-martins]

ITAFUSHI AT THE END OF THE MANGA BECAUSE I CAN'T STAND THE IDEA OF ONE OF THEM DYING.