#EggShaped

[retops]

Egge

[sciderman]

red heads have more fun!

[sputnikodin]

i love shitty scifi aesthetics so much whether they're the goofy technicolor polyester jumpsuits from ds9 or the dull metal architecture of mass effect it's all ambrosia to me. It sucks. i love it

[dragontamer05]

*vibrates* I figured out the magic circle

[bonkarskya]

day 2 self insert.

[teawithhazel]

A Witch's Quick Guide to Bittersweet

With the leaves falling this bright red berry is easy to spot in wooded areas.

Name: American Bittersweet (Celastrus scandens) or Chinese Bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus). Please note that there are several plants called bittersweet in the nightshade family that I'm not referring to in this post.

Native Range: North America or China (depending on the species)

Identifying Traits: Bittersweet is a woody vine with 5 petaled, white, flowers and bright red fruits that can be seen in the late fall/ early winter. Each fruit has a 3 lobed capsule that opens when the fruit ripens. American Bittersweet has oranges capsules while Chinese Bittersweet has yellow.

Edible Parts: Warning! All Parts of these plants are toxic to people and pets.

Lookalikes: Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) looks somewhat similar, but have larger, purple, flowers and the berries are eggshaped with no capsule over it.

Magical Properties: When gathered in silence the root can be used in wards against evil or malicious magic.

Some folklore states that if you bind a witch in bittersweet they will be unable to use their magic.

Wreaths can be made from the vines and hung in the home, particularly in windows and doors, for protection.

Other Important Info: American Bittersweet is considered to be a protected species and in the US it is illegal to harvest in some states. Chinese bittersweet is highly invasive and should not be planted outside of its native range, but can be harvested.

Always remember to do your research when identifying plants. If you're not sure, don't eat it!

[asksonicfreedomfighters]

Knothole Message: 09-18-3228

[A flash of white and slowly, through static and blurred vision.]

Sally: "-zzzt- Testing -zzzt- Testing! -brrrrrzzzz- Hey! It works! Thank you miss Rosie! Thank you miss Julayla!"

Julayla: [Off Camera] "Of course, but please be careful with it Sally."

Sally: "Oh, we will! Ahem- loyal and lovely people of Mobius- I hope this finds... someone! My name is princess Sally Ac-"

[Without warning, the camera is snatched and taken to a whole other room in a matter of seconds.]

Sally: "HEY-"

Sonic: "Heya people! I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog! You don't know me, but ya do now! I don't mean to brag, but I'm kinda like the coolest guy, and not just cool! I'm the world's fastest hedgehog! Heck, I'm the world's fastest period! In fact-!"

Sally: "Sonic! Give that back!"

[It is snatched back by Sally.]

Sally: "This isn't a toy, it's a camera, and I'm trying to get information down for the current and future people of this world!"

Sonic: "Ah, Sally, you can't deprive the people of ME! I mean... just look at me!"

Sally: "UGH! Fine, you can stay, but please be quiet and let me speak!"

Sonic: "Right! Got it! No talking! Absolute silence! Understand! No words from this hedge-"

Sally: "Right... anyway, my name is Sally Acorn, I am 10 years old and I am the princess of Mobotropolis within the Kingdom of Acorn- at least... I was. Three years ago, after the Great War, my father's top Warlord, Ivo Robotnik, took over... he sent me with some other children from the kingdom to keep us safe... I haven't heard from him since."

[Sonic scratches behind his ear and looks away, clearly uncomfortable with all this... emotion.]

Sally: "But... that's okay. We have not given hope, and neither should you! Let me introduce you to my friends!"

Sonic: "Ah-ahem!"

Sally: ".... Fine, but be fast!"

Sonic: "You kidding? Fast is MY middle name!"

[Sonic snatches the camera back and gives a cocky fanged grin.]

Sonic: "Name's Sonic, but I already said that! I'm 10 years o-"

Sally: "You're 9½, Sonic!"

Sonic: "Close enough! I lived way outta town before I came here a few months ago. I lived with my uncles, and they were the coolest dudes! But one day, I got bored. Nothing to do out there, so me and some friends went out to find our own adventure, following every rainbow we came across. But, things got kinda ruined when I was caught by Robt- Robuh- Robb- Ugh! That eggshaped creep man. I don't remember what happened after, but I guess I ran so fast I ended up here! It ain't that bad though~ good food, Rosie's super cool, and I've met one of my best buddies ever!"

Sally: "You done?"

Sonic: "Ehhhh, for now! I'm gonna go on a run!"

Sally: "Remember to stay inside the vill-!"

[Before she can finish, Sonic is gone.]

Sally: "-age... Well- okay. Let me introduce the rest of my ACTUAL friends."

[She walks into another room, pointing the camera at a dull purple (almost blue) walrus tinkering on a toaster.]

Sally: "This is Rotor! He's our resident smart guy!"

Rotor: "Oh, heya Sally! What's that?"

Sally: "It's a camera! I'm hoping to reach the outside world! Anywho, what're you working on?"

Rotor: "Cool! Well, this is a toaster that pre-butters your toast!"

Sally: "Oh... okay. Would you like to introduce yourself to the potential people?"

Rotor: "Sure! Well, my name's Rotor, I'm 11! I'm from a small village in Artika and I came here when my father came to fight in the Great War, and he was always so cool in all his stories, so I wanted to help join the cause!"

Sally: "That's really sweet Rotor... can I ask a question?"

Rotor: "Shoot!"

Sally: "...Why are you making a self-buttering toaster?"

[Rotor goes to respond but he goes silent, going deep into thought before the toaster starts to smoke.]

Rotor: "O-OH! Fish paste!"

Sally: "Right, you're busy, I'll leave you be!"

[She quickly runs out of the room and goes into the next room, and there stands a small coyote boy.]

Sally: "So, this is-"

Antoine: "Eek! P-princez! Pléase, non camairas! Ai 'avé not even doné mon 'air!"

Sally: "Your air?"

Antoine: "Non, not 'air'! 'air! La 'air on top of mon 'ead!"

Sally: "OH! Your HAIR! Got it! Wait... don't you wear a wig?"

Antoine: "Princez! You can notice?!"

Sally: "... No? No, of course I don't notice... um, anyway, this is an introduction to us for peoeple outside of the village."

Antoine: "Ootside the- mon princez, why would you went to leave le veehlaje? We aré safe from robotnik et 'is vairy evil et scary robots!"

Sally: "Relax, Antoine. We're not leaving, I just want people who aren't here to know hope exists. Is there anything you'd like to say about yourself?"

Antoine: "Well… Ai suppose eet wouldn't be bad to let people know abut mé! Ai am Entoiné D'couletté, ze nair-lee 12 yair uld royal protéctair and futuair keng of ze Kengdom of Acairn!"

Sally: "Not princess approved!"

Antoine: "Please, princéz. Ai am speakng! Ai am la son of gréat jénairal Armand D'couletté and wondairful code breakair Marie Depardieu! Ai am quite le great jenairal lik mon fathair, if ai do sai zo mysélf! And-"

Sally: "Okay, I think that's enough."

Antoine: "But ai 'ave mairé to sai!"

Sally: "Um... well, you can't waste all your great stories on this, what about your diary?"

Antoine: "Eet eez a memoir, but you're right! Ai must savé eet pairsonally!"

[Sally rolls her eyes and leaves the room, running across the rooms to a smaller room where a woodchuck woman is sitting in a chair watching over a fox boy running around the room.]

Sally: "This is my nanny, Rosie Woodchuck! And this little guy is Miles! As you can see, he was born with a whole extra tail, but he doesn't let that get him down!"

Rosie: "Hello, Sally."

Miles: "Hiii, auntie Sally!"

Sally: "Miles, I'm not your auntie-"

Rosie: "Leave him be, Sally. He's only just turned four, and he looks up to you. Well, you and-"

[In a flash, a blue streak passes by, scooping Tails up.]

Sonic: "Hey little dude!"

Miles: "Sonic!"

Sonic: "Yo Tails! How's it going?"

Sally: "Sonic! Don't call him that! It's mean!"

Sonic: "It's not mean, it's a nickname! I call him that cause he has two tails. Watch, I'll call you Sal!"

Sally: "Don't call me Sal!"

Sonic: "Why not? It's shorter!"

Sally: "I have a name, use it! I swear, you're so immature! Anyway, Rosie, where did Julayla go? I want to include her in this!"

Rosie: "Sorry Sally, she stepped out for supplies."

Sally: "Oh... okay... I'll just get her next time! Well, people in the world! Don't give up hope, because me and my friends are gonna beat Robotnik! We'll bring back life to our world! We'll... we'll find my father! And never forget, don't give up hope!"

Sonic: "Cause we're the Freedom Fighters!"

Sally: "What?"

Sonic: "I don't know, thought it'd be cool! Teams have names!"

Sally: "Sonic, that's completly idiotic-"

Sonic: "Eh, whatever, Tails thinks it's cool, right kiddo?"

Tails: "The Freedom Fighters! Yay!"

Sally: "I swear, that'll never catch on- Ignore them, but... if you get this recording, send us a return, we're happy to explain or answer anything in this chaotic world. And daddy, if you see this... I -zzzt- miss -zzzt- you."

END RECORDING

[shiredwarf]

i'm HYPED AS FUCK for that game about aging those dragons omg! egg man is back and looking especially eggshaped! combat looks amazing, art style works great in gameplay, I will become INSUFFERABLE once this is out 🙌😔

[stillafanofsonic]

🥤🪐🥐

🥤recommend an author or fanfic you love

Back to the Eggshaped Future by AppendingFic

🪐name three good things going on in your life right now

Hopefully I'm getting my car back next week, it's almost June and it's my favorite time of year for multiple reasons (strawberry season, pride month, my birthday, beginning of summer) and I got some delicious ice cream in my freezer right now.

🥐 name one internet reference that will always make you laugh 

✨effervescent ✨

[soyouareandrewdobson]

A hat full of shit

Just a very short post compared to others this time. Lets start by playing a game, shall we? Can you identify the difference between these two pics of Dobson?

And no, just because they show the same douchebag, they are not the same. Cause in one pic, something important is missing!

Yeah, that's right, the hat. To be more precise, the fedora Dobson would like to draw himself with, based on the fact that at least ever since college Dobson had been a fedora wearer in real life. Likely to hide his eggshaped, bald calvaria.

Now frankly, I don't think the fedora as a hat in itself is something terrible. In fact, it is actually something of a feministic icon, originating from a headpiece a female character named "Princess Fedora Romanova" wore in a theater play called "Fedora" by the french writer Sadoun from 1882. The character even played by a highly respected actress at the time called Sarah Bernhardt. And after it got popularity via the play, it was worn mostly by women in the late half of the 19th century -particularly members of the first feministic movements- it became popular with men in the 1920s all over the world, especially in America where it was famous during the prohibition, the 40s-60s, in Hollywood movies (particularly the detetive noir ones of the time) and so on.

Nowadays however... well, we all know the memes, how the fedora is something of the first indicative piece of clothing a fake feminist or unhinged social justice warrior likes to wear.

And even Dobson, though a bit late to the party, eventually became aware of the negative association the fedora developed online, which is actually the reason why he stopped wearing the hat altogether.

As he made known in a "humourous" fashion through this dumb SYAC strip...

And would also confirm quite a few years later on twitter, when he ranted randomly about how internet creeps ruined the hat for him.

And as to be expected of Dobson, utter lack of self awareness. At all.

Cause honestly, if he thinks only male douchebags wear a fedora now... well, then he should have kept it on. After all, it fit him.

There is really not much here I can say than the following: If Dobson wanted NOT to be associated with (male) douchebaggery at all, then getting rid of his hat was not the right course of action. Cause being Dobson, it did not matter if he wore a fedora, 80s leggings, nothing, a plain white shirt or started vapping: A douchebag, is a douchebag independent of his choice of clothing.

Dobson wasn't seen as a douche because of his hat or rather a lack thereof.

He was a douche because he was condescending, creepy, acted like he was a semi authority at what "decent" and "progressive" entertainment is like/should be, despite a severe lack of actually creating stories of his own and many other reasons.

Heck, Dobson couldn't even be halfway "consistent" with the fact he abandoned his hat. After all, even in the years following that comic, he would occassionally still draw himself with the hat.

No, seriously. The comic condamning fedoras, according to the base timeline I can construct on the release date of the comics, indicate it to have come out sometime before 2014.

And then when he made his patreon campaign video in 2015... well, I unfortunately only have a modified version of that video found online, but guess what sort of headwear shows up in the "unedit" parts.

I hope that whatever happened with his hat, it found a better use than resting on his skull. Who knows, perhaps it was donated to the homeless and is now catching more money on average, than Dobson earned via patreon

[nabs-draws]

About 10 years ago I bought a little Daruma Doll for myself. Daruma Dolls are either super big or super tiny but all have the same function. Designed after a chinese Monk named Bodhidharma, they are now typically associated with the function of bringing luck and perseverance. It's body is eggshaped. With no Arms and Legs, as a reminder that Bodhidharma was losing his limbs in his quest to reach enlightment through self-sacrifice and meditation. Daruma dolls are designed in a way that it's impossible to be tipped over and it will always swing back in its original position. This function serves as a reminder, that no matter how many times you could get knocked down, one must always endure and stand back up. In order to achieve your goal. Freely after the Motto "You fall down seven times but stand up eight" Darumas come with no eyes. The way the talisman works is by placing a wish with drawing one eye (it can be any eye but typically the left eye is) and only if you fulfill your wish or goal, you can draw the other eye. Anyway, back to my story. About 10 years ago I bought one for myself. My goal? "Becoming a professional artist and making sure that I can make a living off my art". It's a giant goal that I placed upon my little Daruma doll. A goal that almost seems unreachable but no matter what, I will keep persistant and will keep going. No matter how foolish people say it is to do, I will believe in myself. In the hope that one day I'll be able to fill the other Eye of my little Daruma doll! This was the feeling that I wanted to capture in this illustration. The contrast between me, a tiny human with a big goal. And the Daruma, that represents that seemingly unreachable goal. Do you use talismans or any other rituals that reminds you to stay persistent with your goals?

[sciderman]

song of the day (for no other reason than for the eggshaped boy)

hje is eggshaped (and he makes me happy) (ergo, happiness is eggshaped)

[enkisstories]

Caroline: "What's for breakfast?"

Gavin: "Scrambled eggs."

Caroline: "Oh. How boring."

Gavin: "Wait ‘till you take a spoonful! I coated the eggs in flour and bread crumbs and I think baking them with cheese will bring out the flavour nicely."

Caroline: "Now that sounds tasty... no, wait! You're not cooking the eggshaped fruit of our little flowers?!"

Gavin: "Ta-daa!"

Caroline: "No way I'm going to eat this! We don't even know what these fruit are called."

Gavin: "How about you, John?"

John: "Words to the effect of Ew, that's gross and a hard pass from me."

There was still some cold rabbit pie in the pantry from yesterday’s social event, that the Phillips couple now had for breakfast.

Gavin: "Still not man enough to take a bite, John?"

John: "I have a wife and daughter to look after. YOU are replaceable."

I feel this scene could have happened with Daniel just the same. He'd served the unknown fruit to the Phillips out of spite, whereas Gavin did it from his goofish nature.

[appendingfic]

after back the eggshaped future, Tails tells everyone that he destroyed the time machine (untrue) because they all kept asking him to use it for personal gain

tails actually told them it's got a 64-bit encrypted private key; in reality he used actual standard passcode design principles

[vivalasthedas]

'are you sure it was eggshaped?'

'yeah, it was oval!'

[stillafanofsonic]

Now you tell us about some of your favorite fics <3

Pretty much everything in my bookmarks. But for anyone not on ao3.

Chaos Barren by but_why_not: A Blue Devil's au that digs into why there's no Chaos Emeralds in the Sonic Boom universe.

Everything in Family loading... please wait by Humanities_Handbag, Invader_Sam

Hold on to what if? By Smash_50: a Sonic Adventure 2 au that swaps Rouge and Shadow's roles so he's a treasure hunter and she's the ultimate life form.

Back to the Eggshaped Future by Appending fic: The whipple boys are teenagers and traveling back in time with Sonic to stop Metal Sonic from killing their much younger dads

There's more but these are the ones that come to mind right away

Also, not on ao3 but please, I am begging everyone to read Secrets of the Emeralds on fanfiction.net by Judasfm. I wish the author would put it on ao3 because I'm scared ff.net will go down and I won't be able to read these fics anymore. But the world building and characters are top tier (chef's kiss).