#FAT EDD AND TOM!!!!!!

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

HI SORRY IM PROBABLY GOING TO MASS RB FROM YOU IN A BIT IF I REMEMBER BUT IM GOING CRAAAAZY !! YOU GOT RANDOMLY RECOMMENDED TO ME ON MY DASH AND I LOVE YOUR POLYWORLD SO MUCH.... YOU HAVE IT SO RIGHT.... AND YOUR DESIGNS FOR THEM!!!! FAT EDD AND TOM ‼️‼️‼️ TORDS STUPID ASS SHIRTS !!! BLACK TOM !!!!! THE RELATINSHIP/HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT EACH OTHER DRAWINGS !!!! SORRY I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I ADORE YOUR ART SM SM SM ♥️

I AM ALSO NOT NORMAL ABOUT THEN!!!! ALSO DO NOT APOLOGIZE!!!!! I LIVE FOR THESE KINDS OF COMMENTS!!!!!

[eddsworldrus]

whispers I'm pleading Draw the boys fat /chubby/varied builds more often

[nonbinary-arsonists]

ehehehehe i found more old eddsworld art from my main...

more polyworld sketches

[magewolf-the-artist]

Sum Domestic K-9 Thoughts

Nobody knows what date it is, and oftentimes they don’t even know what time of day it is. They just sleep when they’re tired. Edd and Molly have a better sense of the time just because they go outside and can tell what season it is, but they don’t really know how many years have passed either

While the time of day problem can be solved by going to the breakroom, it also depends on how close you are to it and how bothered you can be to make the trek. Something I want y’all to know is that the K-9 Facility is BIG

The Main Hall is 100 x 45 feet

The animatronic storage area is the size of my backyard, which is 52 x 28 feet. This isn’t the norm, the reason it’s so big is because part of the maintenance check is testing the walking feature

Rocket sometimes loafs like a cat. It’s very cute

Susan paces when she’s anxious/thinking

Rocket sets up elaborate home alone style traps for Bon. Bon hates these but the one time he got upset and threw them against the wall, he got the shit beaten out of him by the adults

On her really bad days, Rosemary doesn’t allow Rocket to leave her line of sight. This stems from a fear of losing them again. They begrudgingly put up with this, if for nothing else than to not make their mom upset

The moving company has a single day to move everything, which is why there’s so many unpacked boxes

When the people who did the first maintenance checks complained to Felix about there being giant holes in the animatronic’s chests, he told them that the movers must’ve been in such a rush that they accidentally damaged them. He made this big show of forgiving them and giving them a bonus for their hard work to earn some good will from the community after the disaster that was Bon’s Burgers

Charles loves the song “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Queen. He likes Queen a lot, but it was the last song he ever heard and it’s been stuck in his head ever since

Rosemary draws everything her children bring her. She’s drawn a lot of rocks and feathers. So. Many. Rocks and feathers.

Bon can actually play piano really well

Bon LOVES Tom Lehrer. If he had a piano, he’d constantly be playing “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park” and “The Hunting Song”

Whenever she can be bothered to do something, Ashley likes to play on the pinball machine

Brian sucks at pinball. Ashley tried to teach him when he existed but he never got better

Charles was the one who fixed up the pinball and skeeball machines because he was in charge of fixing the arcade machines when Bon’s Burgers was open

[pragmatic-and-eepy]

ok since four people wanted it, headcanons! for the main four, I'll probably do more for the other characters later.

Edd! Full name, Edward "Edd" G. Sworld

A silly guy! He was born human, though he doesn't count himself as one anymore after the dose of his neighbors' weird satellite. He's still got powers, though it takes a while for them to properly return and he isn't the best at controlling him.

5'11/~180 cm and fat, but he loves himself. Big bear man.

Aroace spec, he's demiromantic and biromantic, but he's just asexual.

His main source of income is from commissions as he never actually went to an art school and has trouble getting full-time work. He does have a secret account for his little hero work when his powers start working and sometimes gets money from people who admire him.

He was the proper start of the friendgroup and the only reason the others stay together.

Did I hear someone say heterochromia? He used to only have pale brown eyes, but now a light green ring is around his pupils due to his powers.

Closest reference I have to how he looks in my mind: @/thepolysworldau has the best reference IMO. He just feels right.

Matt! Full name, Matthew "Matt" Doll

He wasn't always stupid, he just lost it for a while after being bit by a vampire :sob:. He didn't have a consistent source of blood intake and that's what made him a bit airheaded.

6'6/~198 cm, stringbean ahh looking fucker. He looks like he could be broken in half like dry pasta.

He's pan through and through, though he prefers the colors on the bi flag. Still, he feels pan is a better label for him so he sticks with it.

Went through the gender exploration phase after he got bit by the vampire but ultimately realized that yeah, he's a man, just fairly nonconforming at times with his style and he really likes makeup.

This man has freckles!!! There more prominent due to his skin not having as much pigment to it anymore, but he likes them so he's not upset.

He also used to have heterochromia! One eye was green, the other was blue, but now they're both red because of the whole vampire thing. His hair's also a slightly more red color now, he just dyes it to be more orange like it used to be.

Closest reference to how he looks in my mind: @/starrixle's Matt design is PEAK (all different images except for the last two words)

Tom! Full name, Thomas "Tom" Bromel

Monster Tom my beloved, but I do NOT vibe with the canon monster design, it's so ugly :sob:. I vibe more with @/albi-finch-blog's design. It can go between the bigger and smaller forms, fully depends on how well he's doing mentally.

The only transgender in the group, he's also a demiboy (he/they/it pronouns, am i projecting a bit maybe i am)

The shortest in the group at 5'3/~160 cm. It doesn't help that they keep slouching. Also definitely on the heavier side.

Its eyes are because of its monster heritage, which came from their mother's side. His dad is just French.

Is he unhealthily attached to Susan? Yes, yes he is. In his defense, Susan was part of his major teenage rebellion phase before he left to live with his friends.

Bisexual, preference for men though.

Closest reference to how he looks in my mind: For his half-shifted form, i feel @/battyratzz's works the best, but for him just being human? I feel @/422kit's design works best.

Tord! Full name, Tord Lorison.

The only human of the group. Debatably so later on but shhhh.

For a while he was around 6'/~183 cm, but after his return he was like, freakishly tall (taller than Matt) and he just kept getting taller until WTFuture timeline (there is a reason for this i promise).

He of course came from Norway but his parents divorced early on and he spent time between the UK and Norway (like, every few months he'd switch places) until his father won full custody of him and he stayed in the UK from when he was around 7 to his early 20s, when he left.

He hasn't picked a label for himself and he doesn't really want to, he just knows he likes men and women and maybe other people it really just depends on their aesthetic.

LONG GREASY HAIR AHH WASH YOUR GODDAMN HAIR BRO UGH. Also naturally very dark-haired, but he dyed it a more caramel color for a while until after he got a bit blown up.

He's OBSESSED with inventing things, has been since he was a kid. Little science kid but engineering was his calling and he's been building for a long time.

Closest reference to how he looks in my mind: To me his style came in eras. He looked like @/pond-child-edd's design for a while until his 20s, became @/anonymousjackalope's design from when he left to a bit after he got explodicated, and then ended up as @/lexisgayok's design but with dark hair and a mask.

EXTRA EXTRA! EXTRA HEADCANONS, SOME MISC AND SOME WITH HOW THEY INTERACT BELOW THE CUT WAHOO! HERE BE SHIPPING, YOU ARE WARNED!

Tord and Edd dated when they were younger, from around 14 to 16 I think. They ended up realizing it just wouldn't work so they broke it off but stayed friends.

Matt was the one who bought the house they all lived in because his parents were actually loaded and didn't care about how he used the money since he was normal enough to avoid some danger.

Tom did not join the friendgroup willingly, he got dragged in kicking and screaming by Edd and never escaped.

Tord ALSO didn't join entirely willingly, but Edd was the only kid who talked to him when he first started living part-time in the UK and he didn't like being alone.

Matt's been crushing on Edd since they were ten and was HELLA JEALOUS of Tord. He still is, but he's let it go enough.

Tom would regularly bite Tord for various reasons up until he moved out. They nearly bit him again when he moved back in.

Tom's bad at emotions, especially handling attraction. His first relationship was with Laurel but they weren't the best at being a couple, his second was with Bully (yknow, from the beach episode) (it was very unhealthy but he thought it was fun), and his last relationship came years after with Tord (it'd been sitting on unresolved feelings for a long time and only really realized after Bully that the feelings he felt for Tord were attraction).

Once Ringo got out of the house while Tord was home alone and Edd was supposed to be gone for a week visiting family, so Tord literally built a fake Ringo from scratch before finding her literal hours before Edd came back. Now there are two Ringos and Tord kept the robo-Ringo when he left.

Edd and Matt ended up starting a relationship not long before the proper start of the WTFuture timeline happened, they were walking to where they would've had a date when the Red Army invaded.

Tom was home alone with Ringo when it happened. She'd been sick and he took the day off work to watch her. Both Tom and Ringo got taken by the Red Army early on.

[glowstick-art]

Eddsworld headcannons!!! 💚💙🧡💔

REMEMBER!!! im not talking about the real life people. these are just the characters.

EDD:

still wears the cola necklace chain

bisexual

loves to doodle cats

fat, but not obese

very trusting. maybe too trusting

MATT

will wear a jacket over a hoodie even if its 200 degrees

has freckles all over his body

will unironicaly wear a golden hello kitty nacklace

favorite food is lobster

has vampire fangs (just wanna specify that i dont think he is a vampire, he just has the teeth)

straight

TOM

bipolar

drinks alcohal like water

refuses to smoke ever

gay

loves checkered paterns

TORD

is a better artist than edd but refuses to show anyone his art

pansexual

accidently turned in hentai for an english assignment in highschool

sometimes his norweigen accent is so strong you cant even understand what he said

when paul and pat go on dates, tord third wheels.

alright besties thats all! sorry i havent made any edd head content in a while.

[eddsverse]

Eddsverse is an AU created by @the-starprince. Eddsverse or "EV" is short for "Edd's Universe."

Tord Herm left his home in Norway to get away from his overbearing mother. He moved to England and is renting a house where he spends most of his time. He doesn’t hardly leave, scamming random men on the internet into giving him money. Tord has acne all over his face, neck, and shoulders due to his greasy nature. He often smells bad since he neglects his hygiene needs to work on other projects that aren’t nearly as important. He forgets to eat, and makes himself stay up. He sometimes goes days without sleep, causing him to be agitated a little easier and that leads to emotional meltdowns.

Tom came from an entire galaxy away and is unable to speak. He chooses not to make any sounds unless he’s agitated or upset. He understands English and can communicate through writing if he wants to, he just chooses not to. Tom’s behavior pattern is similar to Earthly Felines. He sleeps all day and is more active during the night. He gets very agitated easily and often takes out any pent up energy by scratching up the curtains or the couch. He’s very fond of Edd and Matt, spending most of his time around them. Tom also has a strange addiction to cheese, often raiding the fridge, taking the cheese, and hiding it somewhere so no one else can have it.

Matt is a very sensitive creature. He’s a selective mute and has a harder time understanding English and has picked up a bit of Norwegian from Tord. He spends a lot of his time around Tord, often following him around like a lost puppy. Matt likes Tord a lot and often sleeps on the floor in Tord’s room when he gets lonely. Tord has made Matt a special jacket that cushions his claws so he doesn’t hurt anyone. Matt often only eats the blood left over from any meat Tord cooks, even if he doesn’t like it. He hates normal food and prefers blood over anything else, even if it is cold, store bought meat blood. If he does eat ‘normal’ food, he’ll consume raw pork or beef.

Edd is a larger creature built to withstand below freezing temperatures. He has a lot of fur so he has to get trimmed regularly. He’s heavier and doesn’t need to eat as often since his body stores fat for energy. Edd portrays feline-like behaviors like Tom does. He found an interest in doing art to pass the time while he’s in Tord’s home. He’s learned English from watching TV and loves drinking Cola more than anything else. He willingly wears clothes to try and fit in, and he finds Hoodies to be the most comfortable.

All art is made by Grimothy @the-starprince. Go follow them if you wish ^^

[riseofthespacecats]

An Eddsworld Fan-Script: Part 15

Interior - STEVE'S APARTMENT

SUPERLAD hangs his head out the window, eyes wide.

SUPERLAD Hey! Look outside, there's-

STEVE What? What could be so important-

STEVE (SuperGuy) is midway through a complex CROCHET ART. The entire apartment has CROCHET decorations.

STEVE -That you have to interrupt me? Huh? SUPERLAD ...It's just- STEVE Just what? Is it worth missing a stitch for?

SUPERLAD mumbles.

STEVE Speak up, I didn't hear you. SUPERLAD Yes you did! You always can!

STEVE takes a breath.

STEVE I'm not having this fight. Sit down, and get back to your sourdough. SUPERLAD But it's still proving!

STEVE glares at him.

SUPERLAD Fine.

SUPERLAD sighs and takes the dough out of the proving draw. He zaps it with his eyes, and it expands to full size.

Through the WINDOW, SPACESHIPS appear.

OUTSIDE - THE RUINS

CAT SPACESHIPS descend down, green light illuminating the ruined city.

RINGO Dis is all my fault. EDD No, Ringo. Don't say that. It was also Tords. RINGO Twue. But... I weally let evewyone down. EDD That's my fault. I couldn't let you do what you were doing. RINGO But it wasn't just da king and da commandew. I awso let you down. And worst of aww, myself. I shoulda wistened to my heart. EDD Well, I guess you must have, like, two of them right? That's got to be confusing. RINGO Six, actuawy. EDD Oh. Which one did you need to listen to? RINGO Usuawy it's a clawmbination of one and three, but dis time I fink my fifth heart was da wight one. EDD Why? What does it say? RINGO It says... I didn't want dis. I didn't want any of dis. Dewe was so much pwessure fwom Commandew Woden that I had to do something. Dose fat cats onwy cawed about wesults! But I don't want da power or reward fwom defeating our owdest enemy. I just wanted to stay hewe and wive a small wife, with you. EDD Oh, Ringo. You should have just told me all of this earlier. Actually, no, if you'd said anything before all this I would have freaked out. RINGO Yeah, da wast time I said anyfing I had to bwame it on Matt.

MATT gasps.

MATT So you're the one who made the shorts comment! RINGO Dey were a swutty cut, what can I say? EDD Uh. Anyway. It's too late to worry about the past, what we need to focus on is the now. Ringo.

EDD puts a hand on RINGO'S shoulder.

EDD You said you needed to listen to your, uh, fifth heart. Well I named you after one of the bravest hearts I know, Ringo Wallace. RINGO I fought my name was Ringo Wingo Prigle Tingle Fwoofy Woofy Smoochy Smooshy Baby Waby Kitty Witty Beanie Weanie Pawsie Wawsies.

MATT and TOM raise their eyebrows. EDD looks embarrassed.

EDD What? No, I've never said that! RINGO But the only other thing you call me is Stinky! EDD You're a stinky cat! RINGO And pwoud. EDD Right. But my point still stands. When the Cat King and all his soldiers come here, we can tell him...

EDD is under a spotlight, music swelling.

EDD He may take our lives... But he can never take our freedom!

EDD punches his hand in the air.

MATT I don't want him to take our lives. I only just got this second chance! TOM Yeah, I'm with Matt. He can take my life from my cold, dead hands. EDD Oh. Yeah. Fair enough. TOM I need a drink.

TOM pulls his FLASK from inside his damaged suit and lifts it so his mouth. A DROPLET falls from a HOLE in the bottom.

TOM Oh, son of a-

[lovelornronnie]

I thought about what each of the boys humors woukd be like so heres this lil ramble

Personally i think Edd has a mix of tumblr and newgrounds kind of humor, occassionally a bit dark but its mostly just corny dad joke shit with the puns n all. Also contains dumb childish shit like screaming and loud noises (e.g. sir pelo, smiling friends, etc.) I feel like Edd grew up watching Adult Swim and it severely influenced him to laugh at the most random obnoxious shit and well thought out witty timely jokes (no inbetween). He also likes asdf humor, because he just does.

Tord is just full on edgy and toxic, like if you mix 4chan, reddit, and newgrounds kind of humor. Its like being a noob in a cod match with him would unleash all his pent up anger and hed hurl slurs and insults at you with a bass boosted mic. Although he doesnt actually mean the shit he says and that its 100% sarcastic and entirely meant to piss you off. Probably has a very liberal mindset and well aware of peoples sensitivity but simply just doesnt care enough, or maybe the exact opposite, both are equally plausible and funny to me

Matt likes very corny shit, i think hed have a millenial-like humor relatively close to Edd's. I also think Matt would unironically like brain rot because it makes him feel young and very 'hip with the kids' cuz he keeps up with the times. He knows that its cringy but he likes it and doesnt care about beinf called cringy. I also think smthn about Matt has that kpop stan twt humor kinda shit going on?? Like he seems like the type to go "onika = burgers 🎀" just to call someone fat as a mean joke

Tom would also be a bit edgy like Tord but hed be hurling the insults to himself as a way to cope and make himself laugh when its just corncerning to everyone else lmao. So mostly just has twitter humor which is just a blend of most of these i guess just very depressing. Also Tom would deffo like brain rot ironically, he knows Matt likes it genuinely so he doesnt go outright to make fun of him. I also think he ironically finds facebook memes funny and would send them in their gc only to be ghosted cuz the rest of them cant tell if he genuinely likes them or out of sarcasm

[supercherrydraws]

Edd and a little comic lol

For context, in the comic, Edd is using himself as a reference for his drawing, so he is posing and taking a picture so he can use it and then Tord appears at his room, see it and go tell Tom so they can make fun of him. :)

Its very hard to draw Edd being chubby because there are very low fat guys references in different poses on the internet. I had to look and understand how fat worked to draw him either way skinny body references. So maybe it’s wrong, I’m still learning, so I’m sorry for that.

[teary-eyed-tiaras]

Slug boy

Tom's best friend had been acting weird, his speech was slurring, his voice was getting wonky, and his once fun and jokey personality started to disappear more ans more with each new school day. Eventually, despite Edd denying he was sick over and over again, Edd's parents pulled him out of school althogether, claiming he was simply too sick to even attend classes anymore. Feeling very worried for their friend, Matt and Tom decided to pay a Edd a visit to cheer him up, and hopefully find out what the problem was.

Walking through the garden and to the back door, Matt glanced back at Edd's parents, who were busy stomping on what seemed like a never ending supply of pesky gross garden slugs, barely even noticing the boys were there. Matt felt particularly bad for Edd in that moment, since he knew that secretly Edd had always been a little afraid of slugs, ever since Eduardo would try to sneak them in his food or in his backpack as pranks when they were kids. He figured that even if Edd had to stay at home sick all day now, at least he wouldn't have to go outside and see the slugs too much.

Stepping into the den, they found Edd curled up on his living room sofa, wearing a protective face mask and cusping his hands over his mouth. Edd tried to mumble out a panicked "Leab bme ah-lone-uh." but neither Matt nor Tom could hear his desperate plea. They demanded Edd give them some kind of explanation and tell them what was wrong, but quickly regretted it the moment Edd slipped down the face mask. A slimy fat garden slug emerged from Edd's open mouth, having replaced Edd's tongue and mindlessly moving around like some kind of awful parasite.

It oozed slime everywhere, mixing with the terrified boys saliva, at one point even slamming itself onto his eye, leaving a slime trail as it wriggled around. Edd could do little more than scream a "Helmp meeee!" but his words were ignored again, drowned out by his friends screams. Tom and Matt ran as fast and far away as they could, vowing to never go back to Edd's house or even speak about Edd ever again. They only heard about what happened next from Edd's parents, and even then, they tried not to really think about it because it was just too awful.

Appearantly Edd's parents attempted to cut off the slug multiple times, but every time the slug would just grow back even bigger and wrigglier than before. When they were finally at their wits end and out of options, they even attempted to have Edd bathe in salt. He slumped over in the tub, eventually disappearing under neath the salt entirely, and when his parents hoplessly tried to fish him back out, all they found was his disembodied head and his empty pajamas.

His father dropped him out of shock, his mouth forcing itself open as it hit the bathroom floor. The slug emerged once again, dragging itself and Edd's head out the back door. The slug is still there till this day, masquerading as a snail in their backyard, carrying the formerly lively and independent teenage boys head on it's back like a shell. Some even say that if you get too close to it, the shell will open it's eyes, and give you a sad, helpless glare...

This is an eddsworld au for the comic slug girl by junji ito. GO READ IT. IT'S GREAT, THE ART IS AMAZING.

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

Slow and Safe

Content warning: partial nudity, suggestive

prev - next

so it turns out when you try to improve pacing you end up making comics that are 2.5x the length you expected them to be.

...

the next one will be on my nsfw blog

[tobythesudriantram]

sharting with fingle and mriends: shart (A.K.A. my excuse to make a shitpost) [CW: Quite a bit of swearing, death, dark humor and random sex jokes.]

*mingle wakes up at 6:09 AM on a thursday night on the 26th of January 2023 in the Pirate's Den RV Resort and Marina in the state of Colorado, United States... A.K.A. fancy people talk for "her house" and walks downstairs (even though she lives in a one-floor house i'm pretty sure) to go talk to her friends dingle and donk.*

mingle: hey guys its me mingle i just sharted in my pants

donk: shut the fuck up im listening to crazy frog

*mingle puts on some nerd glasses* mingle: uhhmhmh actually crazy frog isnt the name of the song its the name of the band 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

donk: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *fucking explodes*

dingle: mingle i want to go outside to play with boyfriend but im dummy thicc so my fat ass and thighs get stuck in the doorway!!1!1

mingle: just fucking jump out the window lol its not going to hurt you

dingle: oh yay!!!! *he proceeds to jump out the window only to smash his head against the concrete and get concussed lol*

*mingle walks outside* mingle: holy crap lois dingle is fucking dead i think

*boyfriend appears* bf: beep bap bo boo bpe shart

mingle: hey boyfriend!11!1!!

bf: i just fukcing sharted

mingle: SAME BESTIE!!!1!1!1!

bf: beep bop boop hey you wanna fuck in the back of a hot topic or smth lol

mingle: ayyyyy yes!1!1!

eduardo: well well well

mingle: holy shit its eduardo from fnf!!1!!1

eduardo: bitch im from edwuud the fuck are you talkin bout

mingle: stfu you are from fnf now

eduardo: ok

bf: beep bop boop i found a gun *shoots eduardo*

eduardo: ACK BITCH YOU JUST FUCKING KILLED ME ack am dying...... tell jon..... his ass is flat....... *dies*

mingle: rip eduardo

bf: anyway uhhhh beep boop skdoop beep lets go have sex in the hot topic now lol

mingle: ok lol

dingle: GUYS I AM ALIVE AGAIN!!!!!

donk: i am too because yes

mingle: ayyyy guys your alive again!

dingle: you're*

mingle: dingle shut the fuck up

donk: lets go have a orgy at the back of the hot topic

dingle: and lets also go make crack

mingle: yes

bf: beep boop shart

azerbaijani spongebob:

Credits:

@friendlyfox34 - The OG Mingle and Friends (I'm sorry for this).

Edd Gould / The Eddsworld Crew - Eduardo.

JerryWannaRat/The Basement Show Team - The WB Splatter Tom sprite in the title card.

And, unfortunately, me - Bringing this nightmare into a reality.

(I'm genuinely sorry for this nightmare... But at the same time i'm sorta not lol).

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4:    1842 1908 abdo able ably acce acin acru acti actu adep ages ainf ajor akes akin alis allo alls ally almo alog also amil ampl anal anat ance ands andu aneo ange anim answ ants anus aped appa appe area aren arge arki arks arly arms arou arra arsa arte arti arts ased aske atar ated ater athe atid atio ativ atom atte atty atur avit awar aybe babl back ball base bdom bear bedd behi belo betw beyo biof bitt blog bodi body bone boun boyl brat brev bsta bula burr bute call cavi ccen ccyx ceed cent ceps cept cher chiu cial cien ciet cing cles cloa clus cocc comp conn cons cont cosu cret crib crum ctio ctua ctus cula cuta dard ddar deal deed denb denc deos depo dept desc dfis died dies diet ding disp dnes does dome domi dors dula duri eaki eall ears eart ebra ecia ecre ecti ectu edda edin edis eedi eein eems efer egio ehin eing eith elat elet elop elow elvi emal emel emen emor empl emur enbo ence endi ends engt engy enhn enop enor enti entl entu enve eous epos epti eque eral eran ered eres erio erly ermi erru erse ersi erte erti erto erus escr espe esti esty etal etat eton etwe ever evic evid ewha excl exem exte extr exus eyon fami fatt fema femo femu fest fibu fied fift find firs fish form foss frac frog from furt fuse gely geme gest gica gion gird glan glue gold gona gous grea grou gyst hape have head hear heir here hert herz hese hich high hims hind hing hips hird hite hium hnac hole hoto houg hroa hume hyme hymu iall ibed ibio ibul ibut ical icep icks icky icul idea iden ideo ides idfi ienc iety ifes ifie ifth ight ilar ilia illi imag imal imil imse inal incl inde infr ings inky inse insi inst inte into ints inuo iofi ions ious irdl irst isch ishe isop ispo issu ists ites ithe itio ittl itty ivel join jori just juts kele king kink kive knee know ksch land larg larl late lati latu lden legs leng leta leto lexu liar lier life lifi litt llie llow lmos loac logi logo lond loos lope lops lowe lowi lung lusi lvic lymp lypm mage majo make male mall many mark mass mati mayb mely meno ment meru meta mewh mila mili mina mite moot mora most moun mous mple mpli mpri msel murs musc must mygo naci nads nali nalo nato nboy nclu ndee nder ndin ndne ndon ndul nect neit neou ness next nfro ngem ngth ngys nhna nima nnec nopt norm nost note noxi nsec nseq nsid nsis nste nswe ntai nter ntin ntio ntly ntri ntua nuou nusu nvel oaca obab occy ocee ocie odie oesn ofib ogic ogou oint olde olog omat omen omew omin ompr onad ondo only onne onse onsi onta onti ontr oolo oose ooth oped oper opte oral oria orit orma ormo orsa oses osit osso oste osto osty osus otal oted othe otic ough ound ount oups outs ower owin oxio oylo pare part patt pear peci pelv perl phot pica pine plex plif poin pose posi post ppar ppea ppos pred pris prob proc prop pter ptid pubi quar quea quen ques quit ract rain rang rans rapp rate rath rawr rdle real reat rect redi refe regi rela reme rent rest rete reve revi rgel rges rial ribe ribu righ ring rior rise rity rkiv rksc rmat rmit rmou roat roba roce rogs rope rost roun roup rowe rpri rran rrou rrow rruc rsal rsed rsio rstl rteb rter rthe rtic rton ruco sacr sacs sals same save sche schi scie scle scri scul secr sect seei seem self sequ shap shes side sidf simi sion sist siti sits sive size sked skel skin smal smoo soci soft some sopt sori spec spin spos sque ssor ssue stan stea ster stic stin stio stly stom stot stud styl sual subs such supp surp surr swer syno tain take talk tanc tane tars tata tead tebr tend tera tere teri term tern than that thei them ther thes they thig thin thir this thou thro thus thym tibi tica tick ticu ting tinu tiny tion tips tiss tive toma tomy tons tota toti trem trib tsid tter ttle tual tuat tudi ture turn twee tyle typi uall uart uate ubis ubst ucos udie ueak uenc uest uite ular ulat umer unde undi undn ungs unus uous uppo urin urns uros urpr urro urth uscl uscu used usio usiv usua utan utsi velo vely verr vers vert very vice vide vill vity ware ween well were wers what when whic whit whol wing with xclu xemp xiou xten xtre ygol ylou ymen ymph ymus ynos

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5:    abdom accen acing acrum actio actua adept ainfr ajori aking allow almos alogo amili ample analo anato andul aneou angem anima answe appar appea arent argel arges arkiv arksc aroun arran arsal arter artic asked atars atera ather ation ative atomy atter ature avity aware bably balls based bdome bdomi bedda behin below betwe beyon biofi bitty bodie bound boylo brate brevi bstan burro cally cavit ccent ceedi centu cepti cherz chium ciall cienc ciety cloac clusi coccy compr conne conse consi conta conti contr cosus crete cribe ction ctual cular culat cutan ddard denbo dence depos descr dfish dings dispo dness doesn domen domin dorsa dular durin eakin eally earts ebrat ecial ecret ectio ectus eddar eding edisp eedin eeing egion ehind eithe elati eleta eleto elope elops elvic emale emely ement emora empli emurs enboy endin ength engys enhna enopt enorm entio ently entua envel eposi eptid equen erans erest erior ermit erruc ersed ersio erteb ertic erton escri espec estin estio estyl etata etons etwee evers evice evide ewhat exclu exemp exten extre eyond famil fatty femal femor femur festy fibul fifth first fishe forma fosso fract frogs furth fused gemen gical girdl gland golde gonad great group gysto haped heart herto himse hnaci hough hroat humer hymen hymus ially ibiof ibula ibute icall iceps icept icula ideal idenc ideos idfis ience ifest ified ilarl iliar illie image imila imsel inali inclu indee infro insec insid inste inter inuou iofib irdle irstl ischi ishes isopt ispos issue ither ition ittle ively joint jorit kelet kinky ksche lands landu large larly later lativ latur ldenb lengt letal leton lexus lifes lifie littl llier llowi lmost loaca logic logou londo loose loped lower lowin lungs lusio lusiv lymph lypmh mages major makes marks matid matio maybe menop menti merus metat mewha milar milia minal mites mooth moral mount mplex mplif mpris mself muscl muscu mygol nacin nalis nalog natom nboyl nclus ndeed nding ndnes ndula necti neith neous nfrog ngeme ngyst nhnac nimal nnect nopte normo nosto noted noxio nsect nsequ nside nsist nstea nswer ntain ntere ntinu ntion ntrib ntuat nuous nusua nvelo obabl occyx oceed ociet odies ofibu ogica ogous oints olden ologi omati omewh omina ompri onads ondon onnec onseq onsis ontai ontin ontri oolog operl opter orial ority ormat ormou orsal ositi osits ossor oster ostot ostyl other otica ounde oundi oundn outsi owers owing oxiou oylou paren parti patte pears pecia pelvi perly photo pical plexu plifi point poses posit poste ppare ppear ppose predi prise proba proce prope ptera pubis quart queak quenc quest quite racti rainf range rathe reall rectu redis refer regio relat remel rentl resti rever revic rgely rgest ribed ribut right rkive rksch rmati rmite rmous robab rocee roper rosty round roups rower rpris rrang rroun rrowe rruco rsals rsion rstly rtebr rther rtica rticu rucos sacru scher schiu scien scles scrib scula secre seein seems seque shape sides sidfi simil sists sitio sivel skele small smoot socie somew sopte soria speci spine spose squea ssori stanc stead steri stick sting stion stoma stoti studi style suall subst suppo surpr surro swere synos tance taneo tarsa tatar tebra tendi tends teral teran teres terio termi their there thert these thigh thing third thoug throa thymu tibio tical ticks ticky ticul tinuo tions tissu tomat total totic treme tribu tside ttern tuall tuate tudie turns tween typic ually uarte uated ubsta ucosu udied ueaki uence uesti ularl ulatu umeru under undin undne unusu uppos uring urost urpri urrou urrow urthe uscle uscul usion usive usual utane utsid velop verru verse versi verte verti vicep viden video villi wered which white whole xclus xempl xious xtend xtrem ygold ymeno ynost ypica ystom zoolo    622/60466176    (622/11881376)

6:    abdome abdomi accent action actual ainfro ajorit allowi almost alogou amilia amplex analog anatom andula aneous angeme animal answer appare appear arentl argely argest arkive arksch around arrang arsals articu atarsa ateral athert ations attern bdomen bdomin beddar behind betwee beyond biofib bodies boylou brevic bstanc burrow cavity ccentu ceedin centua ceptid cially cience cloaca clusio clusiv coccyx compri connec conseq consis contai contin contri cribed ctions ctuall cularl culatu cutane denboy deposi descri dfishe dispos domina dorsal during eaking ebrate eciall ecrete ection eddard edings edispo eeding either elativ eletal eleton eloped emoral emplif enboyl ending engyst enhnac enopte enormo ention entuat envelo eposit equenc eresti ermite erruco ersion ertebr ertica escrib especi esting estion estyle etatar etween everse evicep eviden exclus exempl extend extrem famili female femora femurs festyl fibula firstl fishes format fossor fracti furthe gement girdle glands glandu golden gonads groups gystom hearts herton himsel hnacin humeru hymeno ibiofi ically icepti icular idence idfish ifesty ilarly illier images imilar imself inalis inclus indeed infrog insect inside instea intere inuous iofibu irstly ischiu isopte ispose jority keleta keleto kscher landul largel larges latera lative lature ldenbo length letons lifest lified little llowin logica logous london lowing lusion lusive majori marksc mation menopt mentio metata mewhat milarl miliar minali mplexu mplifi mprise muscle muscul mygold nacing nalogo natomy nboylo nclusi ndness ndular nectio neithe nfrogs ngemen ngysto nhnaci nnecti nopter normou nostot noxiou nseque nsists nstead nswere nteres ntinuo ntribu ntuate nusual nvelop obably oceedi ociety ofibul ogical oldenb ologic omatid omewha ominal ompris onnect onsequ onsist ontain ontinu ontrib oologi operly optera ormati ormous ositio ossori osteri ostoti ostyle otical ounder oundin oundne outsid oxious parent partic patter pecial pelvic plexus plifie points positi posits poster pparen ppears predis probab procee proper pteran quarte queaki quence questi ractio rainfr rangem rather really rectus redisp region relati remely rently restin revers revice ribute rksche rmatio rmites robabl roceed roperl rostyl rounde roundi roundn rowers rprise rrange rround rrower rrucos rtebra rtical rticul rucosu sacrum scherz schium scienc scribe scular sculat secret seeing sequen shaped sidfis simila sition sively skelet smooth societ somewh sopter sorial specia sposes squeak ssoria stance sterio sticks sticky stomat stotic studie sually substa suppos surpri surrou swered synost taneou tarsal tatars tebrat tendin terans terest terior termit therto though throat thymus tibiof ticall ticula tinuou tissue tomati totica tremel tribut tually tuated tudied typica uarter ubstan ucosus ueakin uestio ularly ulatur umerus unding undnes unusua uppose urosty urpris urroun urrowe urther uscles uscula usivel usuall utaneo utside velope velops verruc versed versio verteb vertic viceps vicept videnc videos villie xclusi xempli xtendi xtends xtreme ygolde ymenop ynosto ypical ystoma zoolog    446/2176782336    (446/308915776)

7:    abdomen abdomin accentu actuall ainfrog ajority allowin alogous amiliar amplexu analogo anatomy andular angemen answere apparen appears arently arksche arrange articul atarsal atherto bdomina beddard between biofibu brevice bstance burrowe ccentua ceeding centuat clusion clusive compris connect consequ consist contain continu contrib ctually cularly culatur cutaneo denboyl deposit describ dfishes dispose dominal ecially ections edispos eedings elative eletons emplifi enboylo engysto enhnaci enopter enormou entuate envelop eposits equence erestin ermites errucos ertebra ertical escribe especia etatars eversed eviceps evicept evidenc exclusi exempli extendi extends extreme familia femoral festyle firstly formati fossori fractio further glandul goldenb gystoma himself hnacing humerus hymenop ibiofib iceptid icularl idfishe ifestyl imilarl inclusi infrogs instead interes iofibul ischium isopter isposes keletal keleton kscherz landula largely largest lateral ldenboy lifesty llowing logical lusivel majorit marksch mations menopte mention metatar milarly minalis mplexus mplifie muscles muscula mygolde nalogou nboylou nclusio nection neither ngement ngystom nhnacin nnectio noptera normous nostoti noxious nsequen nswered nterest ntinuou ntribut ntuated nusuall nvelope nvelops oceedin ofibula oldenbo ologica omewhat ominali omprise onnecti onseque onsists ontinuo ontribu oologic opteran ormatio osition ossoria osterio ostotic oticall ounding oundnes outside parentl particu pattern peciall plified positio posteri pparent predisp probabl proceed properl pterans quarter queakin questio raction rainfro rangeme redispo relativ resting reverse revicep rkscher rmation robably roceedi roperly rostyle rounder roundin roundne rrangem rroundi rrowers rrucosu rtebrat rticula rucosus science scribed sculatu secrete sequenc sidfish similar skeleta skeleto society somewha soptera special squeaki ssorial sterior stomati stotica studied substan suppose surpris surroun synosto taneous tarsals tatarsa tebrate tending teresti termite therton tibiofi tically ticular tinuous tomatid totical tremely tribute typical ubstanc ueaking uestion ulature undness unusual urostyl urprise urround urrower uscular usculat usively usually utaneou veloped verruco version vertebr vertica vicepti vidence villier xclusiv xemplif xtendin xtremel ygolden ymenopt ynostot ystomat zoologi    297/78364164096    (297/8031810176)

8:    abdomina accentua actually ainfrogs allowing amplexus analogou angement answered apparent arkscher arrangem articula atarsals atherton bdominal biofibul brevicep burrower ccentuat ceedings centuate clusivel comprise connecti conseque consists continuo contribu culature cutaneou denboylo deposits describe disposes dominali edispose emplifie enboylou engystom enhnacin enoptera enormous entuated envelope envelops eresting errucosu ertebrat escribed especial etatarsa evicepti evidence exclusiv exemplif extendin extremel familiar formatio fossoria fraction glandula goldenbo gystomat hymenopt ibiofibu icularly idfishes ifestyle imilarly inclusio interest iofibula isoptera keletons landular ldenboyl lifestyl lusively majority marksche menopter metatars mplified muscular musculat mygolden nalogous nclusion nections ngystoma nhnacing nnection nopteran nostotic nsequenc nteresti ntinuous ntribute nusually nveloped oceeding oldenboy ological ominalis onnectio onsequen ontinuou ontribut oologica opterans ormation ossorial osterior ostotica otically oundness parently particul pecially position posterio pparentl predispo probably proceedi properly queaking question rainfrog rangemen redispos relative reversed reviceps revicept rkscherz rmations roceedin rounding roundnes rrangeme rroundin rrucosus rtebrate rticular sculatur sequence sidfishe similarl skeletal skeleton somewhat sopteran speciall squeakin stomatid stotical substanc surprise surround synostot tatarsal terestin termites tibiofib ticularl toticall ubstance unusuall urostyle urroundi urrowers usculatu utaneous verrucos vertebra vertical viceptid xclusive xemplifi xtending xtremely ygoldenb ymenopte ynostoti ystomati zoologic    189/2821109907456    (189/208827064576)

9:    abdominal accentuat analogous apparentl arkscherz arrangeme articular bdominali biofibula breviceps brevicept burrowers ccentuate centuated clusively connectio consequen continuou contribut cutaneous denboylou described dominalis edisposes emplified engystoma enhnacing enopteran enveloped errucosus ertebrate especiall etatarsal eviceptid exclusive exemplifi extending extremely formation fossorial glandular goldenboy gystomati hymenopte ibiofibul inclusion interesti isopteran ldenboylo lifestyle markscher menoptera metatarsa musculatu mygoldenb ngystomat nnections nopterans nostotica nsequence nterestin oceedings oldenboyl onnection onsequenc ontinuous ontribute oological ormations ostotical particula posterior pparently predispos proceedin rainfrogs rangement redispose revicepti roceeding roundness rrangemen rrounding rticularl sculature sidfishes similarly skeletons sopterans specially squeaking stoticall substance surroundi synostoti tatarsals teresting tibiofibu ticularly totically unusually urroundin usculatur verrucosu vertebrat xclusivel xemplifie ygoldenbo ymenopter ynostotic ystomatid zoologica    112/101559956668416    (112/5429503678976)

10:    abdominali accentuate apparently arrangemen articularl bdominalis brevicepti ccentuated connection consequenc continuous contribute engystomat enopterans especially etatarsals exclusivel exemplifie formations goldenboyl gystomatid hymenopter ibiofibula interestin isopterans ldenboylou markscherz menopteran metatarsal musculatur mygoldenbo ngystomati nostotical nteresting oldenboylo onnections onsequence ostoticall particular predispose proceeding redisposes reviceptid roceedings rrangement rticularly stotically surroundin synostotic tibiofibul urrounding usculature verrucosus vertebrate xclusively xemplified ygoldenboy ymenoptera ynostotica zoological    60/3656158440062976    (60/141167095653376)

11:    abdominalis accentuated arrangement articularly breviceptid connections consequence engystomati exclusively exemplified goldenboylo hymenoptera interesting menopterans metatarsals musculature mygoldenboy ngystomatid nostoticall oldenboylou ostotically particularl predisposes proceedings surrounding synostotica tibiofibula ygoldenboyl ymenopteran ynostotical    30/131621703842267136    (30/3670344486987776)

12:    engystomatid goldenboylou hymenopteran mygoldenboyl nostotically particularly synostotical ygoldenboylo ymenopterans ynostoticall    10/4738381338321616896    (10/95428956661682176)

13:    hymenopterans mygoldenboylo synostoticall ygoldenboylou ynostotically    5/170581728179578208256    (5/2481152873203736576)

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Why are rain frogs so round? What's /inside/ of them around such an itty bitty skeleton?

So it turns out this is a really interesting question.

The first thing we must be aware of is that rainfrogs as we see them in videos of them squeaking are not quite the same shape as they are when at rest:

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But you are quite right, they are very round. This is exemplified by the skeletal photo you refer to:

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So what are we seeing?

Well, firstly, note that the body cavity in these frogs actually envelops the femurs, such that only the tibiofibula (fused in frogs) and the tarsals and metatarsals are outside the body. The arms are quite similarly enveloped, but a bit of the humerus does extend outside the body cavity too. This predisposes them to a rounder body shape.

Next, note the ilia - the U-shaped bone in the pelvic region. These in some breviceptid frogs are synostotically fused with the sacrum - that is to say, they are bound by bone-based connections to the bow-shaped vertebra at their tips. This whole joint seems to be quite smooth, and as a consequence, the back of the frog is quite smooth. The other thing we can see here is that the urostyle (i.e. the frog version of a coccyx) juts quite far beyond the ischium and pubis. This extends the body cavity beyond the hips. Note also that the pelvic girdle seems to be largely below the spine, rather than the typical position for frogs behind it and continuous with it. This makes the legs sit below the spine, rather than at its end, enhnacing the vertical roundness of the animal.

Next, let’s talk some soft tissue. Now, I’m not as familiar with soft-tissue in frogs as I am their skeletons, so you’ll have to bear with me a bit (rawr). Beddard (1908!!) studied the soft tissue of Breviceps verrucosus Rapp 1842. It seems that the majority of the body of these frogs is actually muscle. Beddard noted that muscles join the leg at the knee that extend into the body cavity, such that the inclusion of the thigh in the body cavity is further accentuated by musculature. The rectus abdominalis muscle is unusually large, extending from the lower abdomen up and around the sides of the body. Indeed, this large size appears to be the pattern with all of the major muscles, though in the throat the typical arrangement of large and small muscles is somewhat reversed. On the lateral side of the head, there is a substance that is not muscle, but appears to be loose tissue in which sits what is apparently the thymus gland.

There is a very large gap between the end of the urostyle and the anus (one fifth of the total length of the frog), in which there are almost no muscles, save for the one surrounding the lower cloaca. On either side of this area, between the posterior-most muscles of the thigh, lie two large ‘lymph-hearts’, as described by Beddard. These are between one quarter and one third of the total length of the frog. A further lypmh-sac sits between these lymph-hearts and the skin of the femoral region, and they are thus probably analogous to the femoral lymph-sacs of other frogs.

I find it interesting that Beddard (1908) did not mention any glandular formations in the dorsal region. As is evidence from many images (see below), these frogs are able to secrete a white, sticky, noxious substance from their skin (which they actually have to use during amplexus, as the male is too small relative to the female to mount her properly, and so he sticks himself to her with his glandular glue… kinky).

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These glands do not apparently take up a great deal of the cutaneous tissue, and so I suppose are of no consequence to the size of the frog, especially relative to its enormous muscles.

The diet of these frogs consists almost exclusively of hymenopterans and isopterans (ants and termites). Neither of these insect groups are particularly fatty, so it is little surprise that their bodies appear to contain no large fat deposits - fatty bodies extend from the gonads up to the lungs and heart, but these comprise only a tiny fraction of the frog’s mass, and don’t contribute to the round shape. Instead, their bodies are extremely muscular, allowing them to be adept burrowers, ideal for their fossorial lifestyle.

So TL;DR: rain frogs are little balls of muscle (maybe the largest muscle mass relative to body mass of any vertebrate? science just doesn’t know).

Ref:

Beddard, F.E. 1908. On the Musculature and other Points in the Anatomy of the Engystomatid Frog, Breviceps verrucosus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1908:11-41 [x]

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I missed drawing my Sumoworld au, slowly getting back into the groove of things

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OKAYYY UQHSISHQIWJODWJOEJSIQI3IDH :33

so to actually answer your question, my favorite before Gnarly in terms of just smiling friends characters was probably a toss up between charlie and allan (i genuinely can't pick one)

before him in terms of my previous hyperfix, there were a few, but the main three were Duncan, Ezekiel and Scott (oh boy i wonder what they're from......)

but a definitive list, as much as i can remember with explanations to couple, way way back when i was just a wee lad to now, lets go gamers

kid gohan, i was 5 and it was my first fictional crush that i can remember, so he counts as a silly

vegeta goes here too even though it was a few years until i started liking him

sonic, i had a giant crush on him (tails & knuckles too for the same reason, but tails has been more of a silly favorite than a crush)

foxy, i really liked him/had a crush on him (the animatronic) and i never stopped talking about him alsjzojw

boris & sammy lawrence, i thought boris was cute and i wanted him to be my friend, and i think i also had a crush on sammy

sans, self explanatory (SPECIFICALLY swap and fell. yeah i was that kid)

asriel, i loved his designs and i drew him constantly and used to post my drawings on musical.ly (we dont talk about my past on that app.)

the entire main cast of eddsworld, my best friend got me into eddsworld and immediately i just latched on. my favorite was tom though (ask no further questions, im very embarrassed aojxowjwid)

i was into sleepykinq/twisted-docter's characters for a bit, but i haven't kept up with the lore changes enough to be as (un)informed as i was, so its now just a vague spot on this list

ed & kinda the entire cast of ed edd n' eddy? its complicated, but this was a kinda weird starting point for my chain of hyperfixes after this? im not quite sure how else to describe it, but this was like a VERY vivid hyperfixation for me. aside from that i just liked ed, he was just the one that immediately called out to me and everyone could just fucking disappear, give me my undiagnosed neurodivergent now

^ trick question. all 3 of them are neurodivergent

it gets a little blurry here (pandemic years) but i think it was numbuh 1 & 4 from KND at this point. idk honestly, i can't remember why i liked them except just that i watched operation z.e.r.o. all the time and it just kinda was that

wander over yonder, its one of my favorite childhood shows and while i wasn't super into it, i had a small period of intense :D i like wander & sylvia ofc but i like emperor awesome cause he's funny, something the so-and-so cause he's silly looking and lord dominator cause i like her design a lot :3

dib & gaz, zim & gir. this is all i will say (some of my fandom times were very dark times) (its no longer like this but since im providing past explanations, im not gonna talk about the past jdbaishoxb)

danganronpa. we don't talk about it.

I REMEBER THIS PART THOUGH. SIGMUND THE SORCERER, fanboy & kyle. this show. was my SHIT for the majority of 2020 and 2021, and fun fact you might've already known (idk if i've talked about it), i named myself after Sigmund the Sorcerer :3 he was my absolute favorite, i changed my old discord username to sigmund which turned into using it at school and then the name just stuck and i can't change it. i've tried, hasn't worked. but yeah :3 (don't ask further questions)

friday night funkin which turned into pico's school cause it was just pico (then cassandra) that i liked pretty much. i had fat crushes on both him and cassandra, i have little to no shame

after that it was camp camp i think? (going off of disc server memories at this point) i liked the main 3 and daniel and david and a lot of characters. yknow how it is

then it was south park, i liked kenny. nothing else to it

i genuinely can't remember what came after this. i think it was korey from being ian?? emphasis on i think....... it was another one of the shows from my childhood but i actually didn't really like this one until i got back into it at this spot on the list akshzsejd (AND DID YOU KNOW, korey and ed have the same voice actor. matt hill. :3)

GORILLAZ. I LIKE MURDOC & ACE 5rv4r

after this it was ppg, the gangreen gang is always on top, and my favorite will always be Snake, free my boy

superjail, i like the twins and the warden :3 (the fanfics for the warden get actually fucking insane, its almost a surreal experience reading them)

SCREAM. I LOVE SCREAM. BILLY AND STU ARE ALWAYS MY FAVORITE MUTUAL PINERS <33

i like chop top and nubbins from the texas chainsaw massacre 1 and 2 :3

duncan, ezekiel, scott, mike, brick (except for that one episode), shawn, cody, noah, and svetlana from total drama, though yknow idk if people are really aware that i was into that show...... /s (also i haven't watched the reboot but axel looks....... pretty.... :3)

and now we're here!!!!!! this definitely isn't the end of my list, and i probably forgot a few, but its pretty much the masterlist of sillies up to now. :33

can we get sum sigmxnd lore? who was ur fav stinker before gnarley

AUFJIAHWIXBAIWOXJQOWJDIJ OKAY SO

are we talking sf characters or character from the last thing i was hyperfixed on. very important question (it doesn't really matter because i will list every character that has been my silly little guy since as far back as i can remember)