#I dunno they’re duo name

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“What’s one duo no one talks about?” Let me introduce you to Carlos and Daniel;

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I thought of making this artwork after reading @imgonzoingrightnow’s graveyard revue AU and watching videos of the live shows, Beetlejuice’s Graveyard Revue and Beetlejuice’s Graveyard Mashup, which were already retired in the USA branches of Universal Studios theme parks and still alive in Universal Studios Japan. I wish I could see it so bad but they’re gone so here’s my artwork of Beetlejuice with the monsters in every show versions. I dunno if Lydia Deetz might approve about being dragged into Beetlejuice’s escapades with the band, but he needs someone to keep him in line.

The costumes of the main monsters, The Frankenstein Monster and The Bride of Frankenstein, Count Dracula, the Wolfman, and Phantom of the Opera are a combination of the different designs with some enhancements like the frankenmonsters’ lightning bolt shaped accessories, Dracula’s jabot tie, and Erik the Phantom of the Opera’s violet vest. I kinda drew the Wolfman as an anthropomorphic wolf instead of his usual design because I’m used to drawing werewolves as literal furries.

I kinda made Hip and Hop’s designs to be separate pairs of dancers. The duo retaining their original looks and combined it with their USJ design elements while I made the cheerleader designs as separate characters, named Bette and Jesse. Unlike Hip and Hop, whom I designed as banshees, the two are zombies but both duos act as backup dancers/singers for the main band, alongside the dancing ghosts, who aren’t shown here.

The mummy character in the show is called Cleo in the 2014 edition of the show in Universal Studios Florida but I decided to call her Neferu instead, which means beauty in the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Neferu is an ancient Egyptian queen and a diva who became the new recruit in the group because of her love for singing and musical talents but she is also a skilled polyglot, has fondness for anything luxurious like gold, gemstones, and makeup, and can translate different languages. Despite her diva-like charm, all the luxury wouldn’t stop her from lending a hand for her bandmates, such as extending her mummy wrappings, and charm animals like snakes or other animals that are sacred to the Egyptian gods to using her glass breaking scream and casting curses to protect them from the villains or to correct them whenever any one of them misbehaves or cause trouble. Being the oldest member of the group, I can see Neferu as the regal, tough-as-nails type of fashionista.

I kinda see the Gillman from the Black Lagoon and the Invisible Man joining the group later on but I dunno what should they look like when they get their rockstar makeover from Beetlejuice like the other monsters.

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One Undead To Another (Chapter 16)

(Trigger warnings for graphic depictions of injury/dying, blood, nightmares)

Gus tips the delivery person and walks back into the main room of the office with two still-steaming burritos in a bag. Shawn feels the memory of salivating at that same smell– god, not even a week ago. Somehow it feels like it’s been years since he woke up cold and starving, but at the same time it’s been seconds. Is that a vampire thing, an ADHD thing, or a trauma thing? Is it worth figuring out? Not right now.

His mouth is bone-dry as he accepts the burrito. It smells good, great, and the way the warmth of it seeps through the tinfoil into his hands is heavenly. He feels no excitement to bite into it. 

“Alright.” Gus sits down at his desk. “Test number one– garlic.”

“I dunno about this, man. I told you I get hungry after I get hurt.”

“Shawn, we need to figure out your supernatural weaknesses before going back to taking cases.”

“I think we can consider garlic a lock!”

“Sunlight isn’t.”

“... Fair. … Fine. But only if you make some posters to hang around so we get some more private cases.”

“Why? Are you hungry again already?”

“...”

“Do I need to pull out the pencil rosary again?”

“Maybe? It’s not… bad. It’s just kind of… there. Can we just– I’m taking a bite, if I burst into flames or turn into a pile of ash just know my text about my Tears for Fears vinyls still applies.”

“Shawn.”

“Just making sure.” Shawn unwraps the burrito. It’s weird, to know something smells so delicious and know it should be making your mouth water and know you should be excited to eat it, but none of that matters. It’s like the whole experience is hitting a glass wall, clearly there, just barely out of reach to him. 

He takes a bite. Shredded pork, salsa, guac, there’s even roasted corn in this one. It’s loaded, incredible, and he can’t really enjoy it because even though it all tastes exactly like it did when he was human it doesn’t mean anything. Nothing is satisfied by it. In fact, the pang of hunger sharpens as the taste of the pork specifically floods his mouth.

It’s meat, and it’s wrong. Close, so close to what he needs, but not right.

“So?”

Shawn swallows. “Didn’t even burn.”

“Alright, garlic is a no.” Gus crosses it off his list. “We’ve gotta find some garlic flowers next and see if those do anything.”

“Garlic flowers? Don’t be silly, Gus.”

“Garlic flowers are another classic vampire ward, Shawn! They’re used in the original Dracula novel!”

“It’s a novel?” 

“We had to read it in the seventh grade, remember?!”

“Not really. I do remember watching one of those old uh, black-and-white movies with Count Dookie.”

“Count Dooku, Shawn.”

“Gus, he was one of the bad guys, let’s not sweat over his name.”

“You’re trying to distract me.”

“Am not.”

“You are! You’re deflecting again!”

“Deflecting? Please.”

“We agreed, last night, that if you got uncomfortable with focusing on the vampire stuff or the psychic stuff you’d say it outright and we’d switch gears.”

“... Alright. Alright, yes, I’m… wanting to change the subject for a while.”

“Fine. Psychic stuff still fine, or no supernatural stuff at all?”

“None at all, man, I just… let’s watch a movie or something. Least that won’t be different.”

“Alright. Hey, I think American Duos is on.”

“Really? … Wow. Their ratings must be terrible, it’s the middle of the afternoon on a weekday.”

“The guy they replaced Zappato with is kind of lacking, and they had to replace Emilina last season and she’s not great either. I think it’s only still on because the producers are afraid of telling Nigel St Nigel he’s off the air.”

“Really? It sounds awful. Let’s watch the entire season.”

“You know that’s right.”

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“Nice of you to join us today, detectives.”

They both freeze in their tracks. Lassiter turns around first, adjusting his tie nervously. “Ready to get back to work, Chief. It was just a 24 hour thing, and I’m firing on cylinders today.”

“We both are,” Jules jumps in.

“Good, because your homicide case wrapped up the other night and we need a few closing details from you both. You’ll find the paperwork on your desks–”

“Chief!” Buzz jogs over. “We just got a report on the wire, body pulled out of a lake. Looks like drowning.”

Jules makes eye contact with Lassiter. Shawn’s abilities really have evolved. 

“Oh, detectives!” Buzz grins at them both. “I’m glad you guys are feeling better today! Oh, um, Detective Lassiter, I put any remains of journals or anything we found from the mansion in a box and left it by your desk.”

The Chief turns to Lassiter with a disbelieving, you-better-explain threatening smile. “Uh, detective, when did you ask Officer McNab to do this?”

Crap. “Uh, over the phone yesterday, Chief.”

“And you heard about the mansion burning down… how?”

“... Well, uh… Spencer! Yes, Spencer called me in the middle of the night, said he had a vision. Normally I would’ve told him to screw off but I… humored, him, when he asked me to tell McNab… that.”

“You… humored… Mr. Spencer?”

“I blame the fever, Chief.”

“Well, then… I’ll blame it as well. If Mr. Spencer thinks something additionally important is in those journals, I’ll let you hold onto them for the moment, but it’s looking like this case is pretty much completely shut, at this point in time. Right now I want this drowning case to be your top priority.”

“You got it, Chief,” Jules says, giving a too-wide smile and overly enthusiastic thumbs-up. The Chief eyes her oddly for a moment, and then walks back to her office.

“Keep it together, O’Hara, you’re the one who convinced me to play along with this crap,” Lassiter whispers as they quickly walk to his desk.

“I’m trying! The bigger the secret, the harder time I have keeping it!”

“Then why in god’s name are we doing this?!”

“Because Shawn doesn’t deserve to go to jail or a mental facility for something he had no control over!”

“You do realize–”

“As soon as I said it. But Shawn’s not one of the the bad guys, Carlton. It’s different. He’s one of us.”

“... Yeah, alright.” Lassiter tries to sound unconvinced as he agrees. They reach his desk and he takes the lid off the box, frowning as he looks inside. “This is what McNab considers salvageable? He’s more off than I was before the divorce.”

“Oh, Carlton.”

“... My therapist says turning the situation into humor could help me move past it.”

“Alright… well, if you think it’s helping.”

Lassiter looks back into the box, slightly flushed with embarrassment now, and carefully looks through. “I don’t know that we’ll get anything helpful from this.”

“Well, maybe they’ll trigger some kind of… psychic revelation for Shawn.”

“We’re bringing him evidence now?”

“He’ll probably steal it out of evidence if we don’t.”

“You finally caught him doing that?”

“No, but, we both know he does.”

“... Fine. At least this way we can ask for it back. … Let’s focus on this drowning thing instead. You were lying when you said you’d call him, right?”

“No, I was not.”

“O’hara, you saw him this morning. He’s not even close to ready to work on a serious case.”

“... Fine. I’ll wait until we have evidence of foul play. If nothing suggests that, I’ll just tell him it was an accidental drowning case tomorrow.”

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Henry closes the door to the security room and gives himself a moment to chuckle, tossing his badge up once and tucking it back into his suit pocket. He forgot how much he enjoyed flashing the badge to get into places.

He pulls up the security feed from outside the store on the night in question. He scrubs through, trying to pick out any suspicious details.

There. 

Just before 3 AM, a motorcycle is caught speeding by. It’s too blurry an image to tell if it’s Shawn’s bike, but Henry’s always considered ‘confirmation bias’ to be something that applies to other people. His investigations have never suffered from such a thing.

He scrubs through some more. Cars, cars, it’s too dark and blurry on the camera to tell them apart by make or model, much less license plates. The motorcycle is all he’s getting from this. 

He stands up, straightens his suit, and leaves. Maybe he’ll get something better from a more expensive store’s security feed. 

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Shawn scoots a little further away as Gus lets out a snore and mumbles something flirtatious in his sleep. He thinks he’s getting an okay handle on the hunger thing– his throat is shot to hell again already, the temptation of Gus’s blood a little bit like that time his dad put a marshmallow on a plate and told him if he didn’t touch it for fifteen minutes he could have two. Comparisons keep drifting through his head, all the different things he can taste from having Gus so close, even when he does his best to stop breathing it in. 

Again, the movie snacks aren’t helping whatsoever. He keeps eating them anyway.

His mouth aches again. Pulses with pain in time with Gus’s heartbeat. He should really stop setting up situations where he’s alone with one or more of them.

He leans his head back on the couch and closes his eyes. The sound of the movie is sharp against his ears, just adding to the headache, getting less and less comprehensible as he slowly drifts off to sleep.

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Juliet doesn’t have Thornburg.

Juliet doesn’t have Thornburg.

So why is she dying?

Shawn is holding her hand, trying to confess, but the words are stuck in his throat. Jules is wheezing, her eyes bleeding, looking into his with a fear dulled by a thick glaze of illness. Jules is dying. Jules is dying.

Lassie doesn’t get shot in the graveyard.

Lassie doesn’t get shot in the graveyard.

So why is he dying?

Shawn is holding Lassie as he bleeds out– no, he’s holding Mary Light, no, he’s holding Lassie, no, he’s–

Lassie’s blood is spilling out of his chest. He’s looking at Shawn with a level of terror that Shawn never ever wants to see from the detective, never should see from him.

He’s holding Mary again. “Wake up, Shawn.”

Lassie is dying in Shawn’s arms.

Lassie is dying in Shawn’s arms.

Gus doesn’t fall off a cliff when he grabs onto the extreme sports murderer.

Gus doesn’t fall off a cliff when he grabs onto the extreme sports murderer. 

So why is he dying?

Shawn holds Gus at the bottom of the cliff. Gus’s blood coats the rock beneath them. His eyes are completely sightless, his mouth trying to form words that will never come, not with a head injury like this. Gus’s hand grips Shawn’s so tight it hurts, a silent plea to save him.

Gus is dying and Shawn can’t save him.

Gus is dying and Shawn can’t save him.

Henry is not the victim of a plane crash.

Henry is not the victim of a plane crash.

So why is he dying?

Shawn struggles to keep his father’s head straight with one hand as he tries to get the radio working with the other. Henry is barely awake, wheezing, mumbling incoherently. Shawn can’t make the radio work. He can’t call for help.

He looks at his dad and sees regret shining in his bloodshot eyes. Henry reaches out with one bloodied arm and grabs Shawn’s bicep. There’s a tree branch impaled through his abdomen. He looks Shawn in the eye and opens his mouth–

“Wake up!”

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Shawn sits up with a gasp! His grandmother’s voice screaming through his father’s mouth echoes in his head as he pushes off the couch and runs to the bathroom, splashing cold–

No, no, he’s colder than it is, he switches the tap and splashes warm water on his face. It’s unnatural, it’s wrong, it’s not something his skin should be anymore– the warmth shocks him into full wakefulness.

“Shawn?!” Gus’s footsteps are like hammers against his skull, his quickened heartbeat like a jackhammer. Shawn presses his hands over his ears.

“Shawn!” Gus’s hands are so warm, so warm, warm warm warm blood spilling into Shawn’s jeans from Gus’s skull at the bottom of a cliff–

“WHAT THE–!”

Shawn finds himself presses against the bathroom wall, Gus standing in the doorway with the makeshift rosary held up, wet handprints on his shirt. Gus is shaking. Shawn realizes he feels fangs poking his lip.

He gulps in a breath, pressing his hands to his torso, then his face, holding them out– he repeats until he feels like he’s in his own body again. Gus watches, poised to run.

Shawn shakes his head, trying to knock the last echoes of the nightmare out. They won’t ever go away. They won’t ever go away.

Something clicks. He looks up. “Oh, god. I didn’t–”

“You lunged right for my neck.”

“I- Gus, I’m so– I didn’t–”

“I could tell.” Gus relaxes a little. His heart is still pounding. Shawn realizes belatedly that his voice has gone raspy again. Gus keeps the rosary held up. “What was that?”

“I-I… don’t…” Shawn swallows. They agreed he’d be honest. They agree he had to be honest, at least between the two of them. “I had a nightmare.”

“... About?”

“I don’t… want to talk about it.” If he talks about it he’ll relive it, he’ll have the images take over the real world again and if that happens he’s not sure he won’t try to–

“... Okay. Okay, but– Shawn, that was terrifying.”

“Yeah.”

“And your voice is all messed up again.”

“Noticed that too.”

“... You know, when I went out with Willow–”

“You guys actually went out?”

“Yes! A couple times! Anyway, she told me about this vampire bar place for people who pretend to be vampires.”

“So?”

“So… do you think you could handle just having a little from someone, uh… consenting for their own reasons?”

Flash of white, film grain, stalking up behind the burglar, covering his mouth, sinking his aching fangs into warm soft flesh and drinking–

Shawn shudders– he wishes it was because he disliked the feeling of the memory– vision? … Memory. God, he wishes he disliked it.

“Not doing that, Gus. First of all that’s not my kind of kinky business–”

“Eugh! I was trying not to say it outright, Shawn!”

“I know you were, that’s why I did. Anyway, second, that’s… too, vampire. Way too vampire.”

“... I could see if someone there is willing to donate blood.”

“Gus. You’ll pass out just trying to get the bag here.”

“I can handle it.”

“You don’t want to.”

“It’s that or you drinking me!”

“I won’t drink you!” Shawn doesn’t mean for it to come out panicked– but the way Gus tenses and raises the cross a bit more shows it did, in a bad way. Shawn shakes his head again, looking down and trying to regain some composure. “You– you just shouldn’t have to do that, buddy.”

“You shouldn’t have to be undead. It’s not a fair situation to any of us, Shawn.”

Jules, Lassie, Gus, Henry, bleeding bleeding bleeding dying dying dying Dying And Leaving Shawn Along FOREVER–

“I’m going.” Shawn is snapped out of it by Gus digging his car keys out of his pocket. “You just zoned out again and started shaking. If you don’t get blood, one of us is going to be in big trouble, and either way it goes it’ll be bad.”

“Gus–”

“I’ll just close my eyes or something! I’m putting this in front of the door on my way out, I’ll be back as soon as I can. And I’m letting Lassie and Jules know what I’m doing.”

“... Could you uh, leave out the–”

“Don’t even have to ask. Just… try to relax a little while I’m gone, okay?”

Shawn doesn’t agree or disagree. Gus leaves, and Shawn splashes his face a few more times before going back to the couch. He sits in the spot Gus had fallen asleep in. Maybe he’s imagining it because he’s so cold, but the spot still feels a little warm.

His cell rings a moment later. Crap. He lets it go to voicemail.

“Shawn, call me back, would you? What’s the point of these damn things if you just ignore it all the time? Look, I got a letter about your bike insurance and they’re raising the monthly payments. You put the damn bike on my card so I think I’m entitled to know how well you’re taking care of the thing if I’m going to keep paying for it.”

Shawn groans. He tosses his phone to the other side of the couch. He’ll reply later– or maybe never. 

Henry wheezing, staring with dull bloodshot eyes, reaching out–

…

He’ll reply later.

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Episode 49 Notes-

Heheheh I had a snow day so I got to listen early!!!!!!!!!!!

THE INTRO SONG OMG

We are winning with the dndads music lately hehehe

“Like there’s a Druid in my mind saying it’s gonna be oak” SOBBING

Oak this is a bop actually

Holy shit there were so many things bad that happened to normal lately 😭 

They’re in the past!!!!!! Oh my goddddddd

Taylor’s Teen Fact: Taylor was the runner up of the Teen High Teen of the Year award (which Margarita Pizza won). Taylor is a very good cup stacker (third place in a competition)

We forget that Taylor is canonically the most popular kid 

Freddie’s facts are always the craziest of all time. I love it

Linc’s Teen Fact: Linc had to do things other than soccer playing so Marco and Grant got him into artsy stuff. Of course he only would pain/sculpt soccer type things. So he decided to start selling them on Next Door (with an account called Foot King). Marco and Grant took him off of the app. He’s a good painter basically

Normal’s Teen Fact: Normal always keeps his hot glue gun on him

Scary’s Teen Fact: Scary doesn’t have a New Years Resolution because she decided it was too resolute (too firm, too definite). She wants to be able to choose whether or not to do something 

Daddy Fact: Anthony’s goal is to write a porn thing and he was reached out to by a porn website to write for them. He was gifted a care package (picture as you will)

He’s already written the script 😭 

OH SHIT TAYLOR AND SCARY AREN’T WITH THEM

Ooohh AU where they ARE the four horseman of the apocalypse 

THE DOLPHIN CULT YAYYYYYYYYYYAGAJAHHSJDND

Sitcom staring the Porpy and Flippy: Cop sidekicks

NO DOOD HAS DOODLERIZED EVERYONEEEEEE

Well Willy did but whatever

Screw Willy

Grill Master the Dolphin!!!!!!! Ayyyyyy

Dang Willy is God

They’re in a five person (well four person now) marriage don’t judge the dolphins!!!!

Awww they’re only like. Fifteen. 

Heh Glenn Close/Jodie Foster (a good guy) in charge of Hell, Willy Stampler (a bad guy) in charge of Heaven

Yoooo wait the FBI is apart of the Hell now 

Lark still hates Henry omg

Sparrow!!! Omg 

Normal and Scary are so similar omg omg omg

Damn Good Omens much

What is it with Willy getting at the Oaks?

OH IS IT BECAUSE THEY HAVE PART OF DOOD IN THEM!?!?!?

“Brother” AYYY THEYRE BACK

The codependents of all time

HENRY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This dumb spell my goodness I love their debate

Why are they so set on killing Henry 😭 

Oh only 49 damage that’s not that bad 

TAYLOR BREAKS LARKS ANCLE OMG

Scary noooooooo

SPIDER BOIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Scary’s gonna die 😭 😭 😭 😭 

Taylors such an ass omg

Scary got 44 damage 

“I say no once in six years of podcasting” 

TEHYRE ON FUREEEEEBSJAJAHIWIW

SCARY AND HENRY A DUO I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED

Lark and Sparrow make me so unwell omg

NO LARK LETS GO OF SPARROW NOOOO

Begging for Lark to have a whole thing about Sparrow with Normal

No one catches Lark 😭 

Taylor is so funny omg

TAYLOR WITH SPARROW OMG

They seriously are having season one vibes I missed this so much omg

Nooo that was such a good transition 

Taylor having his own mini adventure is because they played a Taylor Swift song for their intro

CASSANDRA OH NO

TAYLOR JS GOING TO KILL WILLY IF HE DOES ANYTHING ELSE TO HIS MOM

This whole Taylor thing is giving off BIG Leviathan Fabian vibes with Chungle Down Bim

YOOO THE MARRIAGE THING OMG STRIKES AGAIN

Please say this works 

Roll high

Ohh a 12

LINC JUST PRAYED TO WILLY

Voicemail box 😭 

Of course Taylor is going to find his name 

OMG WAIT FREDDIE’S PLAN WAS LITERALLY OREDICTED BY SOMEONE ON TUMBLR I SWEAR

I DUNNO WHO

BUT MAY APPOLO’S VISION BE UPON YOU OR WHATEVER

Nooooo and it’d be easier for Taylor too because HIS MOM MARRIED WILLY OMG OMG

HIS LAST NAME TECHNICALLY COULD BE STAMPLER MUCH EASIER NOW BECAUSE OF THAT

SCARYA ND HENRY YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYSGHAHWHSHSHSHSVSAHWJHAHSB

Henry stopppppppp you’re messing with Scary :cccccccc

Nooo scary still has the hat omg oh dear

Oh dear Willy’s God now he could probably control someone’s mind through their sleepppp

Oh god I hate Barry so much. He sucked so much I hate him

AHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHSHHAHSHHSHSH SCARY BEING A SOCCER OEROSN OMG OSBAKAJSH

Taylor squints so hard that someone dies 😭 

AYYY THATS CANON

I wonder if he’s gonna get the original daddies as well as the Kiddads 

Scary’s pulling what Riz did with Biz ayyyy

Aww that would’ve been sick if he believed her

NO NO DONT TELL HER SHE WAS LIKE YOU FUCK YOU WILLY

FUCKING GET HIM SCARY GET HIS ASS GET EM

Scary just wants attention :ccccc

“Good luck” ANTHONY THAT HAD NO BUSINESS BEING SO OMINOUS OMG

Noooo remembering the thing with the cheese :ccc

I miss early season two

NO THATS WHERE EVERYRHING WITH HERMIE HAPPENED AYLGHHHHHHSVSHHSHS

“YOU BITCH” omg normal 😭 

“Give me an L” “You’ve had enough Ls” “I’ll give you one of mine”

No the way it fits the intro

AHHH NORMAL USING HIS CHEER TO CHEER UP LINC

This episode is making me giddy omg /pos

Linc is getting so sad this is worryinggggg. He’s acting like Grantttttt

This whole eye thing is seriously the math questions on my tests 

A happy normal is something I’ve missed so so much

I think literally all of these kids (except maybe Taylor) have a guilt complex (Scary/Willy, Normal/Code Purple, Linc/im not quite sure)

DARRYL AUYYYYYAYAYAYYAYAHAHABBSHSJSJS

JODIE AND GLENN YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYABSJAHWH

Omg Jodie and Glenn together 😭 

WIAT WAIT OKG WAIT

THE THING THAT MAKES THEM BELIEVE JN SHIT

THE WHOLE THING WITH THE CLOSE FAMILY DID THAT FOR TAYLOR

AND HE GOT THE PERSUASION THING

DOES THAT MEAN THATLL HAPPEN FOR THE OTHER TEENS WHEN THEYRE THING IS COMPLETED

ITS LIKE WHEN IN FH THEY GIT TO REROLL A STAT AFTER SOOHMORE YEAR

Scary looks like Larry!!

Omg Freddie is genuinely so smart omg

HAMILTON AYYYYYYYY

Yam ya

I’m gonna use that

He had a flying spell wowwww

REVERSE GRAVITY AUAGAHHAJAHAHHAHAHJW

OhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHH

Will and me both man

Larry is so cool omg

Dood nooooooo 

RONNNNAHGAHAHAHAHHSHS

FUCK YOU WILLY

FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOUHAGSJSHHAHAAHAHS

Mfer admits that Ron posed a threatttttt

Honey badger waits for no one 

I’m gonna start using that too

GO BETH OMG 

Willy likes the science kid oh my god I’m gonna sob

Larry gives off church camp vibes

Willy’s doing the spaghetti thing 😭 

OMG OMG

WILLY TAYLOR IS GOING TO KILL YOU IF YOI HURY CASSANDRA PIOE THAT HOLY SHIT

“You’d be a lot prettier if you smiled Cassandra” GET HIS ASS TAYLOR GET. HIS. ASS.

You know I hated Willy before 

But this is a whole new fucking level 

Awww that’s so sweet at the end <33

AHHAHAHAHHAHA THIS EPISODE MAN

I don’t know how I’m gonna be able to wait for the next episode ahhh

IVE LISTENED TO THE ALBUM BUT OMG IM SO EXCITED TO HEAR THE ONE THEYRE RELEASING TO ADVERTISE IT

I’m betting it’s either the Potatoe one or Dead and Gone

Hmmmmm

January 30th!!

Oh screw off siri

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAIT IS DEAD AND GONE

YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAAYAYAYYAYAYYA

THIS EPISODE IS MT ABSOKUTE FAVORUTE THIS SEASON

[quibbs126]

I still have some lingering thoughts about their designs, but might as well post them now

So yeah, the Cookie versions of Choco Drop and Cheese Drop (also I’m still not sure if I want to change her name to Cheese Drop Cookie or not)

I just realized I forgot the sketches. Ah well

So I decided to keep the hair bits on both, as you can see. I drew them on another layer with the lineart, changing back and forth, and I thought they looked incomplete without the hair. So maybe it’s representative of their original forms, I dunno

Also not too sure on the colors on Choco Drop, tell me if they look weird or if I should pick something different

Also I got their eye colors from their Magnetic Bonus eyes, since I recently realized that the colors are different for different Pets. I think I might keep that theme with future ones if they don’t have a clear eye color, though there’d probably be exceptions

Anyways, so Choco Drop and Cheeseberry are basically just protagonists in their own story, just a duo of kids going out into the world. Choco Drop is probably the sweeter and nicer of the two, while Cheeseberry is the more headstrong one. Also, I imagine Cheeseberry to be a hoarder, like she just picks up whatever she finds on the ground and throws it in her bag. That backpack is just full of random stuff she finds. I don’t have much on Choco Drop though, he’s pretty simple

In relation to Gingerbrave and Gingerbright, I imagine these two to look up to them as like cooler older kids, and sort of their inspiration to go on adventures

Sorry for it being really basic, but there’s only so much I can do with these two, considering they’re the basic Pets

If I had to give them a plot, I’d say they’re going on a quest to find and meet Wave Drop, a young Legendary Cookie said to be at the Tower of Frozen Waves. Honestly it’s really only because Wave Drop is the only other “drop” Pet, and I thought it’d be neat to tie them all together somehow

But yeah, that’s Choco Drop Cookie and Cheeseberry Cookie. Hope you like them!

[peterxwade24]

Bugs and Katten

For Maribat March 2021 day 26 prompt Not Soulmates.

This is only over 21 months late, sorry? I dunno man. I just kinda fell out of love with writing. Anyways, I hope you like this 1196 word long fic featuring basically just Marinette and Adrien.

This is just a self-indulgent found family/chosen family fic about Marinette and Adrien being a chaotic sibling duo.

Kattendame is supposedly Dutch for Cat lady.

Okay, I've rambled enough. On with the story.

Marinette and Adrien had been superheroes — vigilantes Marinette’s brain would traitorously supply — for just a few months when a girl in their class, Alya Cesaire, came across them on patrol and her face lit up with glee.

“I didn’t know Paris had superheroes!” Her voice rose with every word, causing Marinette – Kattendame – to flinch away.

Adrien – Monsieur Punaise – clenched his teeth before clearing his throat. “Ma’am we are citizens, just like you. We may don masks and super suits, but that doesn’t make us not people.”

His whole speech seemed to go in one ear and out the other as Alya took a picture of the way they were standing, Monsieur Punaise in front of Kattendame. “Oh my gosh! Are you two together? Are you dating?”

“No.” Monsieur Punaise stared at Alya with disbelief. “Kattendame and I are simply colleagues, like the members of the Justice League” – Monsieur Punaise watched Kattendame flinch at the mention of the Justice League and filed that information away for later – “and nothing more.”

Kattendame nodded her agreement before her eyes flicked over Monsieur Punaise’s shoulder. “There’s an Akuma in the ninth arrondissement. We’ve gotta go.” Kattendame didn’t spare Alya a glance as she lept from rooftop to rooftop.

Monsieur Punaise offered Alya a soft smile and an uttered, “get home safe”, before he followed his partner over the rooftops.

Alya’s face grew into a sneaky grin, “they are so soulmates.”

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It had been just under two weeks – twelve days, nineteen hours, forty-seven minutes, and a handful of seconds – since Alya had put a post on her blog about how Mr. Bug and Chatte Noir – where Alya had gotten those names Marinette (and Adrien) didn’t know – were soulmates and were secretly dating.The blog post had nearly two million hits, and climbing, and someone had started a comment thread about how obvious the supposed couple was.

Marinette couldn’t believe her eyes, she was sure she and Adrien had kept their relationship professional. She could have sworn that she had kept her distance from Adrien while they were in their suits, unless it was time to fist bump. She kept refreshing the page, hoping it was just a trick of the lighting, but no matter what she did she just kept seeing the same picture of her and Adrien in a compromising position.

Adrien sunk down in the seat next to Marinette, his eyes skimming the blog post before looking over the class. “So, who do you think trusts it explicitly?”

“We know Alya does, for sure, and maybe Rose. Because she loves romance. I’m not sure about anyone else, I haven’t heard anyone else talking about it.” Marinette frowned before switching tabs. The other tab she had pulled up was the live feed of a Wayne Enterprises press conference, Adrien settled against her side and kept a running commentary of wether or not everyone’s outfit was red carpet worthy.

Marinette still couldn’t believe that she and Adrien were going to attend the New York Fashion week with Nathalie and Gabriel. She was hoping that while they were there she’d be able to get in contact with a member of the Justice League, as much as she dislikes the organization she hoped one of them could help them take on Hawkmoth.

Adrien nudged Marinette and pointed to where the class was gathered around Alya. “Do you see how they’re gathered around her like some sort of queen bee?”

Marinette nodded against his arm. “Who do you think believes the rumor the most?”

“Mylène, Rose, Sabrina and Kim seem to be the most into the rumor. Nathaniel seems to be  on the fence about it, almost as if he wishes it isn’t so.” Adrien brushed the hair off of Marinette’s forehead and let out a chuckle. “If only my father could see you now. He would disinvite you from our trip.”

“Gabriel loves me more than he loves you-”

“-ain’t that the truth-”

“-and he would never disinvite me.” Marinette laughed at the face Adrien made. “You know it’s the truth.”

“Just because he’s scared that your mom would break in and steal his precious design book.” Adrien nudged Marinette, “class is about to start back up.”

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Kattendame and Monsieur Punaise stood side by side in front of Nadja Chamack, smiles across their faces.

“So, tell me, are the rumors about the two of you true? Is what the LadyBlog posting about the two of you being soulmates true?”

Kattendame looked at Monsieur Punaise, the Batman to her Catwoman, before frowning at Nadja. “Monsieur Punaise and I are just friends. He’s like my annoying twin brother, and I love him so much more than any of those rumors are saying.”

“Kattendame is definitely the younger twin of this duo.” Monsieur Punaise smirked before ruffling Kattendame’s hair.

Nadja smiled at the duo and how they acted with one another. “How did you go from your first suits to these?”

Kattendame’s hand went up in the air immediately. “It was my idea! I took the idea from, well, Batman-” here she gestured to Monsieur Punaise’s suit “- and Catwoman.” The ears atop her head seemed to twitch. “However, unlike the inspiration for our suits, we’re strictly friends.”

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Marinette scrolled through the article Nadja wrote about the heroes of Paris. She smiled at the screen before she nudged Adrien’s leg with her foot. “Hey, hey, listen to this.” She cleared her throat and straightened up. “‘Monsieur Punaise and Kattendame, not Mr. Bug and Chatte Noir like some sources would have you believe, are not soulmates, at least not romantic soulmates. This reporter was given an exclusive interview with the hero duo and can confirm that the duo is the most sibling duo this reporter has ever seen. Their suits are inspired by Gotham city’s masked duo of Batman and Catwoman, however unlike Gotham’s masked duo Paris’ masked duo interacts like most sibling duos we all know in person. While Kattendame is more soft spoken and Monsieur Punaise is definitely the figure head, they both fill every possible role on their team and could use our help. I implor you, my fellow Parisians, to do the best you can to help our heroes take down Hawkmoth.’”

“Wow. She’s on our side. Most adults aren’t on our side.” Adrien hummed before changing the topic. “Are you excited for our trip?”

“Yeah. It’ll be fun.” Marinette smiled at her friend – brother in all but blood – before looking around his room, where they were hanging out that day because they usually tried to avoid her house – and as much as they joke about it Gabriel actually seems to like Marinette – and her father and step-mother. “Hey, we should hang at mine before patrol tomorrow.”

Plagg and Tikki, who were playing foosball, looked up at the suggestion.

“Why?” Adrien asked before looking at the kwamii who had fallen over. “How does the ball always get you? You can fly.”

“I want to make us some new clothes to wear, Papa G and Nathalie too.”

“Please don’t call him Papa G.” Adrien groaned.

“Anyways, you and I are the only ones with changing measurements. I’ll get Papa G and Nathalie’s measurements from Nathalie.”

@maribatmarch-2k21

[posebean]

Summer Rain: Storm-Given Flu 2

Writer: Beanosei

Season: Spring

Characters: Rinne, Himeru, Kohaku, Niki

Rinne: Ugh fine! Everyone is against Amagi Rinne, I see how it is. Majority rules in this harsh, cruel system~

Rinne: “His eyes are like oceans, and his hair is so luscious.”

Rinne: “He’s quiet and timid like a mouse, but his laughter is like a melody to my ears.”

Rinne: “Ah, I want to get to know him. What’s his name? What does he like?”

Rinne: “But he keeps slipping away as soon as the rain lets up, refusing to take my umbrella anymore~”

Rinne: “He runs off as soon as he can, scared, afraid.”

Himeru: “...You’re obsessed.”

Kohaku: “Please, spare us. If I have to hear anything more about this mysterious rain person that you’re basically stalking, I’ll throw myself off a cliff.”

Rinne: …

Rinne: Kohaku-chan! That’s not the right lines?

Rinne: Director-san, sorry. These guys are really difficult~

Rinne: Huh? You’re going to keep it in? It’s perfect?

Himeru: For a guy that’s skill listed in his official introduction is ad-lib, it’s kind of amusing that Amagi doesn’t know of ad-lib in movies.

Kohaku: Thank you, Director-san ♪ I learned a thing or two from my seniors that helped me rehearse.

Kohaku: It does help that these are my exact feelings, no acting necessary. Kohkohkoh.

Rinne: Oi what do you mean by that?

Niki: (Nahaha, they’re certainly into it.)

Niki: (Kohaku-chan and Himeru-kun play the friends of Rinne’s character. The ones that have to listen to all his gross rambling.)

Niki: (I’m on standby for now because this is just a scene between them.)

Niki:...

Rinne: What? But it’s off-script! And isn’t that a lil’ mean to poor old character-kun~

Himeru: Amagi, it’s only you that wants to reshoot it. Oukawa’s ad-lib was perfect.

Himeru: Look, everyone laughed. Director-san gave their immediate OK, too.

Rinne: But-

Kohaku: Rinne-han, when making a movie, what matters isn’t getting everything perfect.

Kohaku: What matters is that we make the audience enjoy what they’re watching. Take the filming crew for example.

Kohaku: Some of them barely can keep their laughter in~ Doesn’t that mean it’s exciting?

Himeru: We’re entertainers, Amagi. You may be the star, but these are professionals. 

Himeru: They know what they’re doing.

Rinne: All at the expense of my poor character-kun…

Niki: (covers his mouth and laughs a bit)

Niki: (Nahaha~ They’re all really into it.)

Niki: (Kohaku-chan is obviously having fun. I saw him reading his script often during break.)

Niki: (Himeru-kun too. He’s smiling. Is he enjoying himself?)

Niki: (But…The one that’s having the most fun…)

Rinne: Ugh fine! Everyone is against Amagi Rinne, I see how it is. Majority rules in this harsh, cruel system~

Niki: (He says that yet he’s smiling~)

Rinne: Hey Niki you bastard, don’t think you’re not part of this conversation because you don’t have anything to do!

Rinne: You’re at least on my side, right? Right? (smiles and holds up a fist)

Niki: I dunno, Rinne-kun. Kohaku-chan’s ad-lib definitely was in character.

Niki: (Hides behind Himeru, sticking out his tongue)

Himeru: (Steps out of the way)

Himeru: Himeru wants no part of this marriage dispute.

Rinne: Thanks MeruMeru~ Let me teach my wife a lesson~ (Grabs Niki by his hair)

Niki: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Niki: I’m not your wife! And will never be! Leave me alo-MPHGHG (gets his mouth covered)

Rinne: Niki~Kyun~ Even Merumeru says that we’re basically a married couple. All we gotta do is get married~

Niki: (muffled groans)

Rinne:Kohaku-chan, Merumeru, please give us your blessings~

Niki: (All things aside…)

Niki: (Rinne-kun is really happy to be doing this. Genuinely.)

Niki: (Isn’t it funny, Rinne-kun? I never thought we’d come so far.)

Niki: (Up here, actors for a movie, when all we were before was a small duo with no name, no fame.)

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[vespertin-y]

liveblog time - here’s the first part of the third trial! OH BOY

-monokuma spends a long time insisting that he does NOT lie about motives and that the dead can be revived, but *only in the ultimate academy*. this...still doesn’t tell us how exactly they’re being revived (character backstory put into a new body VS the og person being put back into the simulation), but it’s at least interesting!

-”i dunno about tenko, but i’m pretty fuckin’ sure kiyo murdered angie!” miu calling the murderer themselves but then proceeding to be completely wrong about *how* the murder happened happens in nearly every trial and it’s always hilarious. love u queen.

-”you mean one of those *two* people! cuz a robot ain’t people, jack!” MIU! after all that maintenence together!?

-again with the ‘no-one could have opened that door but kokichi’! i get why it was written like this, but it’s still such a stupid assumption for the characters to make. they don’t even ASK if the others can lockpick, let alone consider that’s something easily lied about.

-”yeah, i did it. i killed angie.” [...hm.] HPDSHDDGHSGD SHUICHI YOU COULD AT LEAST *PRETEND* TO CONSIDER IT YOU’RE GONNA HURT HIS FEELINGS!! he even pulls out his blank, serious face for this one!!

-can irouma be normal. for FIVE MINUTES-

-”silence, outsider! only the Suspect Rangers are allowed to speak!” HPRGGDGDGDGFHFH. go go suspect rangers cartoon when...

-”it’s not meaningless!” [himiko?] “tenko’s death was meaningless? how dare you! poor tenko...how could you do this to her!?” “h-himiko...” “himiko, stop it with your crappy lies.” “lies...?” “everything you said is total bs. you didn’t give two shits about tenko when she was alive...but now you’re like, “oh no! poor tenko!” after she’s dead. c’mon, really?” “kokichi! enough!” ok first of all the voice acting here is so fucking good. himiko’s first shout before she dissolves into tears made me flinch in my seat, and kokichi is so low and cold and vicious. it’s also personally satisfying to me that’s it’s *gonta* who tells kokichi to stfu here, and that kokichi *listens* - he won’t bring this up again until after the trial, when he’s significantly gentler about it.

-”alright! i’ll put a silencing curse on whoever calls tenko’s death meaningless! the name of the curse is...Death Curse!” “i, um...suppose being dead would silence someone pretty good.” himiko and tsumugi r such a funny duo, they should’ve been besties

-”no, even if it was a different culprit, we need to know how tenko died. if we don’t find out who killed her, we won’t be able to work together. not now, not ever.” kaito is correct here however pls consider: me and tsumugi would really enjoy the paranoia and angst of knowing one of the group is a blackened!!

-”finally, you noticed! geez, you’re so slow...” “huh? did kokichi want us to notice-” FUCK now i really wish i transcribed it, but there was a bit early on in the trial where shuichi proves miu wrong and she claims she was just doing a bit to lead them to the right answer, and gonta says that’s really smart of her - he’s clearly applying the same concept here, and it makes me wonder how often he does so. tracking the thought processes of v3 characters is always so fascinating...

-”let us talk about tenko’s case, then. perhaps that will provide us a clue.” “y-yeah, maybe...” [i don’t mind going over tenko’s case, but...that was an abrupt change of topic. was that...intentional...?] HOLY SHIT WE ARE HALF AN HOUR INTO A FOUR HOUR TRIAL AND SHUICHI’S ALREADY CAUGHT ON. the serial killer backstory is definitely bullshit, kiyo literally cannot hide a murder to save his life.

-”well, that’s probably just a coinky-dink. the most suspicious out of us four is really...kiyo!” i’m starting to feel bad for the guy this is so embarrassing 😭

-”kehehe...it’s appearing before me...ooooh! i can see it clearly! the true identity of tenko’s killer!” bro you are laying it on WAY TOO THICK

-”maybe the floor and the hole have nothing to do with this case.” ”then why was floorboard under tenko lined up funny? gonta think that was so culprit could stab tenko from under floor...” “ooohh! nice observation, gonta! are you finally getting used to the class trials?” “uh-huh. thank you.” no offense but v3′s resident clown act obliterated me and then had a picnic on my grave i would simply quit murder.

-the entire rebuttal showdown is just miu correctly singling out kiyo - again - but being completely wrong about the method, so you have to disprove her. i’m in TEARS.

[we-dont-talk-about-potato-nonono]

002 | Makki

002 | Send me a ship and I will tell you:

• When I started shipping them:

uhh I don’t really ship campers together in the show (plus they’re 10 years old…..). David x Gwen however, is my otp though!

• My thoughts:

I personally do not ship them romantically but the chemistry between them has so much potential. you’ve got the manipulative schemer named Max and the wild child named Nikki who come together and make a nice controlled yet chaotic combo. chaotic besties!

• What makes me happy about them:

for one, they’re both troublemakers - one cunning and scheming, the other wild and chaotic. they make for a good dynamic duo!

• What makes me sad about them:

dunno but what I’m sad is that this show got cancelled / no continuity

• Things done in fanfic that annoys me:

the kids shipped with adults 🤮

• Things I look for in fanfic:

nothing!

• My wishlist:

Camp Camp season 5 (i know it won’t happen but a comic would be nice)

• Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:

don’t care as long it’s not offensive or abusive ship.

• My happily ever after for them:

they did not forget each other, still in contact and remain friends.

[sanaetheunicorn]

Found these flowers on a field. And GOD I hate them! I think they’re like, some sorta lily. I dunno. I just like looking at them, I always forget the names.

They remind me of that STUPID Tohu Hakurei from that STUPID NU METAL DUO! I HATE THEM! I hope they croak and decease.

[rachirodehills]

Random-Island | The MayeFlowe Twins~ Reintroduction

Introduction Oh look who’s there, Ladies and Gentleman, The Mayeflowe Twins! The Lovely Lady Plant Sister Duo that’s always here to put a smile on anyone’s face! Adored by lot’s of people, and they adore them back. Though they like meeting new people they don’t know as well.

Violetta (Violet)

This is Violet, the lovely walking frolicking flower who loves to get attention and thinks about herself a lot, the diva that likes things to go her way, even if she must do it herself. She also likes to act like a star and likes to act lovey-dovey to anyone. The Sassy lass that though she acts sassy and narcissistic, she’s also a kind soul that likes to help people, and in fact she cares for her twin sister Rosie. Oh, did I not mention she has a twin sister? Named Rosie? No? Cause she does They’re like a duo, like Mario and Luigi, SpongeBob and Patrick, Ami and Yumi,, wait, Dipper and Mabel from Gravity falls! (I dunno Rose and Via take turns being Dipper and Mabel) look, you get it. She also doesn’t back down to any problem and if anyone tries to insult and attack her… let’s just say they’ll never be heard from again…

Rosettia (Rosie)

This is Red Vio- I mean Rosie, the “ladeda” positive energetic flower who sees the bright side of things, even in the very dark times… sometimes. She likes to make friends and welcome new people… a creature in general with open arms and a freaking smile on her adorable face. She’s always the weird oddball that randomly does s-s-stuff and a random moment at a random time, not really that bright, but Violet and her friends still appreciate her for trying.  Unlike Violet, who’s more sophisticated and calmer, and more mature, Red Flo- I mean Rosie acts childish and more energetic (Kind of like Rosie is Pinkie Pie to which Violet is Rarity. Or Violet’s Yin from “Yin Yang Yo” to Rosie’s Yang… Also, from “Yin Yang Yo”), though Violet sometimes joins in with Rosie and her silliness and to be honest, they’re freaking inseparable! Can explain why it’s kind of hard figuring them apart, which ones which? Also don’t try to separate Violet from Rosie, she’ll go… insane! But she likes to hug you though!

If You guys want to see there Full Character Descpription Check it out here https://toyhou.se/20734913.rosettia-mayeflowe https://toyhou.se/20728581.violetta-mayeflowe So, yeah this...is something new...for real, I'm still remaking all my characters, but I'm putting their info on Toyhou.se, cause I want to try something out, and My Toyhou.se won't get ignored.... so...

  Rosie, Violet ~ @Rachi-RodeHills

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[delphiniumarchangelmoon]

Y’all I found a google doc. It has 34 ocs in it. These 34 people are split between children of my ships from a specific series and children made from pairs of people who killed each other in that series.

The general idea is the audience of the fic wouldn’t be told who was who. And none of the characters knew either. To some degree everyone had fake memories and there’s no way to know if your sibling even exists or if you even exist because even with children of a “love match” there’s still a 2/3 chance at least one of their parents are dead (depending on which direction I want to take post canon cause there IS a workaround)

2/3 of the cast are possibly computer generated combinations of two people, entire fake memories and backstories. 1/3 of them are real people. No one knows who is who.

And that’s like, not even close to the biggest problem. That’s not even the primary plot line. That’s just the seasoning on top.

I don’t know why I ever thought I was gonna get further than character creation but damn am I having a good time reading through it.

Here’s the highlights:

- A set of twins but one is convinced they’re actually only half sisters and that her sister’s father killers her father and took his place and it turns out that’s almost true

- a set of three half siblings who are just. Off the walls bonkers. One is a witch who can actually do shit like change the weather at will, talk to the dead, see things before they happen, etc. one is an astrologer who is the intended pov character and just. Spends all their time roasting people. And the third is a professional fencer who chooses to disregard the rules most if the time and just do stuff that looks cool. They explicitly state that they’d dad is polyamorous and collecting spouses like Pokémon cards.

- a guy whose only notes are “Is doing his best but fucks up CONSTANTLY”

- a character who is both a Murder Match and a Love Match, her parents were in love but one murdered the other, I wonder why?

- a love match child who is a robot but not because she’s parents are dead but because she’s actually just a robot. Like her parents built her. She’s a magical girl themed robot and the character above miiight fall in love with her but might fall in love with the robot’s half brother who is a jewelry maker.

I haven’t decided. It really depends on who ends up dying cause Cassie’s definitely making it to the end but I don’t know if I want Mira and Kosuke at the end or if I want to torture Cassie a bit by killing Ko. But it’s also kind of weird to just fall in love with your love interests sister after he dies but then again that is hardly even a blip on the radar of this universe as far as bad romantic decisions go I mean there’s a whole character based on that as well

- speaking of: supermodel by daylight, demon Hunter by moonlight, it’s: a traumatized child haunted by the ghost of her aunt!

And HER half brother… I dunno yet but he has to exist due to the rules of this whole thing but I didn’t even think of a name for him uhhhh… he’s definitely dying early cause I have no idea what to do with him.

And he has a half brother of his own (who isn’t related to his sister at all) who is also traumatized cause his mom is………. Violent and strange.

- a half sibling duo who are a scriptwriter and theater director team.

- a competition archer whose only other notes are “will sell you to satan for one corn chip”

[stickystarspectrumtroll-ocs]

I’ve been coming up with duo names (and trio names) for my OCs like for MCYTers and their minecraft roleplay characters. This will be a masterpost and I’ll add new ones to it as I come up with them. I’ve also begun tagging posts with the applicable duo names I have solidified. 

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DUO NAMES

Luna and Jewel: Cryptid duo

(see this post.)

Luna and Maddie T: Graffiti duo

(Maddie T does it because art, Luna does it because vandalism.)

Luna and Finley: Impostor duo

(Because as discussed in my post on how each of the OCs would play Among Us, these two would be the best at impostoring and if they were both impostors in the same game, the crewmates wouldn’t stand a chance.)

Luna and Twig: Slingshot duo

(as discussed in this post, they both use slingshots and both have deadly aim with them, i've thought about them having a contest for the heck of it and i think it would end in a tie)

Luna and Jasper: Trouble duo

(they’re the two OCs who literally just exist to cause problems on purpose.)

Jewel and Allets: Tiara duo

(might change this one due to the fact that Allie doesn’t really like tiaras, but. she does have to wear them as a princess and Jewel wears one herself all the time of her own volition.)

Jewel and Eliote: Forestduo 

(they've both lived significant portions of their lives out in the wilderness, albeit very different wildernesses and otherwise in very different circumstances)

Jewel and Penny: Bracelet duo

(Jewel for sure wears a lot of jeweled bangles. Penny always wears friendship bracelets from her friends from before the vampire bite. also, see this post.)

Jewel and Twig: Tree-climbing duo

(they. they both climb trees a lot. they're both very good at it.)

Allets and Eliote: Talent duo

(within their story, Allets is the first to know about Eliote’s Talent and vice versa. which i think is a great example of the general nature of their relationship.)

Allets and Maddie T: Kitchen duo

(see this post.)

Allets and Finley: Detective duo 

(another Among Us thing. as discussed in that post, they'd both get to be really really good at figuring out who the impostor is.) 

Eliote and Penny: Night owls

(they’re the two OCs most likely to be up at ungodly hours of the night, Eliote because insomnia and Penny because vampirism.)

Eliote and Twig: Stick sisters 

(...i mean. sticks are a whole thing with Branch. i think they might be with Eliote too. Twig probably will collect sticks a little bit when she finds one she thinks is just A Good Stick. and there was this one head scenario i made at some point where she guards a bundle of sticks for Branch while he has to take care of something else real quick, and i can see her doing that for Eliote too.) 

Eliote and C.C.: Sketchbook duo 

(they both have them. they both love to draw.) 

Maddie T and Finley: Descendants duo 

(pretty self-explanatory) 

Maddie T and Penny: Paint-stains duo 

(they both work with paints a lot and are prone to getting paint stains all over themselves) 

Maddie T and C.C.: Color Curls duo 

(maybe. i dunno. i felt like there was something there with the fact that they've both got curly tri-colored hair.) 

Finley and Penny: Potionduo 

(see this post.) 

Finley and Jasper: Fashion nerds 

(because two major things they have in common is both being huge nerds and both having an appreciation for fashion) 

Penny and Twig: Scrapbooking duo / scrapbook sisters 

(Trolls-style scrapbooking is definitely a big hobby and talent for Twig and it's something I feel like Penny would do too.) 

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TRIO NAMES

Luna, Jewel, and Eliote: Orphans trio 

(Luna's adopted and never knew her birth parents, Jewel lived alone her entire life, Eliote traumatically lost her parents years ago.) 

Luna, Maddie T, and Jasper: Chaos trio 

(we already know this one.) 

Luna, Maddie T, and C.C.: Curls trio 

(i mean???? they're the three who have curly hair?????) 

Eliote, Penny, and Twig: Happiness trio

(the three of them have complex relationships with happiness that define them as characters.)

Maddie T, Finley, and Penny: Karaoke trio 

(they all really like to sing and i get the feeling they would sing together a whole lot. and they're similarly upbeat and fun-loving and lighthearted much of the time and i think this gets across that vibe.)

[arlosworld91]

I dunno what their duo name is but still, I’m No.1, I’m sorry, I love them, they’re my little sillies!!

Katherine and Jimmy are such an underrated duo, I'm so sad for y'all that their friendship is exclusively in the roblox spinoff

[umbrify]

Making my own post so I don’t write a whole essay in the tags of mcytblr confessions. Re: this post about how shipping culture in the Hermitcraft fandom is so wildly different to how it is in the Dream SMP fandom. Under a read more for if you don’t care lmao

Honestly I do think it’s quite interesting, just how different the two fandoms are. For Hermitcraft, I think it’s just that like, they’ve already fought that war. I’ve seen the great hermitshipping discourse of 2019. They’ve had enough, gone over this. They’ve fought this war already. Nowadays for HC, it’s just “make sure you tag your posts correctly and you’re all good. If you don’t like it please just don’t interact.” Plus, the general consensus for the hermits is that like, they’re all adults, and they can just not look. And they’re all fine with that arrangement as well, as far as I can tell. The hermits leave us to it, and we be respectful and not post it where they’re gonna see it. Mutual respect and a good tagging system, and we’re all good. No more discourse.

For DSMP, it’s wildly different. The culture that the DSMP fandom established very quickly was that boundaries were the highest level of importance, and they wanted to make sure they weren’t disrespecting their CC’s. With that, it became commonplace to actively seek out a CC’s boundaries regarding all sorts of things. Because of that, there’s a lot of CC’s who have actively said no to stuff like shipping, and the fandom does their best to respect that, but sometimes it gets real messy.

As someone who’s been in the DSMP fandom for like, a year and a half at this point, I’ve seen plenty of shipping discourse about it. Of course there’s the beeduo discourse, with their characters being canonically married but the CC’s playing them saying no to shipping, and then there’s stuff like the whole hellfire that was the emerald duo QPR discourse. And honestly, there’s been no conclusion, really. Eventually it just kinda passes and we don’t talk about it anymore. I think that, if the DSMP fandom sticks around long enough, we’ll probably eventually have our shipping wars and eventually settle on something? But this fandoms ability to come to any consensus doesn’t leave me hopeful for that. (We’ve got what, like, three different names for the Wilbur and Ranboo duo at this point? That still pisses me off to this day.)

Honestly, I wonder if a lot of it doesn’t come down to the simple fact that the HC fandom has been around for a long time at this point. They’ve just had their ten year anniversary, and I’m sure they’ve seen it all at this point. Like I only recently joined the HC fandom, but it is SO refreshing being here. There’s like, no discourse about anything really, everyone is chill. They’ve probably already had every discourse you could possibly have, and they’ve settled it. Like I think the most I’ve seen in my time here was the Cleo swearing thing? And honestly, as a DSMP fan, I was just laughing about the concept of THAT being what’s considered a big deal.

Over in the DSMP fandom, I swear we can’t go one week without some new thing going wrong. You can be offline for a few hours and come back and it seems like your whole fandom is on fire. I’ve been told that the DSMP fandom has the kind of energy where it seems like it’s a lot of peoples first “big” fandom? And that makes sense honestly, with all the stuff I’ve seen. I still remember when people on Twitter were being canceled by other fans for the crime of uh… livetweeting? And everyone was like “you have to censor the names so they don’t trend!!” And then we fucking trended a censored version of “Karl” and it’s just. Guys. What are you trying to prove? Like you realize that your trending page is catered to what you personally interact with right? You realize it’s Twitter..? It’s not that deep?

I dunno. I could go on and on and on, and this post is already way longer than I thought it would be tbh. I’m just rambling at this point. There’s plenty of other random stuff I could say about the differences in these fandoms, I’m sure. I guess if any of you actually read this and want me to keep rambling abt it, let me know?

Thanks for coming to my fuckin Ted talk, I guess.

[frodo-with-glasses]

For the “friendship ask” game: My favorite Middle-Earth duo, Pippin and Gandalf!

If you’re so inspired, I’d love to see your thoughts on 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, and 12 (methinks those are the right ones).

Many thanks for your time, wisdom, and humor!

Hello again, Esthelle! You're too kind, as always. =^-^= I would love to talk about Gandalf and Pippin!

1. “When I think they became friends”

I think it’s pretty clear from the book that their friendship had a rocky start. Pippin was always intrigued by Gandalf, and Gandalf was always annoyed with Pippin (in a grouchy grandfatherly sort of way), but they cared about each other from the very beginning. We can see that in Moria, when Gandalf is cross with Pippin, but—after getting over his own anger—gently tells him to go to sleep, and that he’ll keep watch instead, and Pippin falls asleep staring at the light from Gandalf’s pipe.

If I had to pin it down to one moment, I think their friendship really started to galvanize on that ride to Minas Tirith. Gandalf was finally answering Pippin’s questions, and Pippin was finally listening to him and beginning to understand, and there’s something about falling asleep against someone on a long journey that makes it impossible for any animosity to survive.

2. “My favorite scene of them”

In the movies? That part where Gandalf comforts Pippin and tells him that he doesn’t have to be afraid of death.

In the books? Definitely that part where Gandalf compliments Pippin and he loudly and vehemently denies it. Oh how the turntables—

3. “A random headcanon I have of them”

It is a life goal of Pippin’s to someday wear Gandalf’s hat.

Why? I dunno. He just thinks it’d be fun.

4. “What makes me like their friendship”

Oh, where do I start??

I think the charm of Gandalf and Pippin’s friendship really boils down to contrast: old and young, grouchy and cheerful, wise and naive, powerful and (relatively) powerless. Gandalf and Pippin are nothing alike, and the clash of their personalities is where most of the humor lies.

But also, they’re everything alike. They love their friends. They hunger for knowledge. They will do what’s right no matter what the cost. And I think that’s what bridges the gap between their differences and allows them to finally see eye-to-eye.

Pippin takes comfort in Gandalf as a familiar thing in a strange and unknown world, even as he discovers that Gandalf is a very strange thing himself. Gandalf considers Pippin his charge and his ward; an annoyance at times, but one to whom he would never see any harm come, if he can help it. Gandalf has always been something of a “Jerk with a Heart of Gold”, and nowhere is that seen more clearly than in how he warms up to Pippin.

7. “My favorite thing about their friendship”

They’re freaking hilarious LOL

10. “A song that reminds me of them”

I tried to come up with something new here, but let’s go with a tried and true favorite of mine: “Dear Fellow Traveler”, by Sea Wolf.

12. “A word to describe them”

Meandering, n.:

an act of following a winding or intricate course

an act of wandering in a leisurely or aimless manner

convoluted or undirected thought or language

Pippin’s real name, Peregrin, means “wanderer”. Gandalf is often called the Grey Wanderer. And we both know how much these two can keep taking if you let them. I think “meander” fits them quite well.

FRIENDSHIP ASK GAME!