#I'm okay btw thanks for asking

[sf3uuf]

I've been thinking about JJBA again...

[thekittyokat]

Hi! Please please please, could you tell me more about your coffin chain ideas?/nf

I am obsessed but barely anybody has jumped onto the ship yet and I am VERY new to the fandom so I wanna wait with making it myself until I know more lol. You are lowkey fueling this entire operations and I wanna thank you for that either way.

(rubs my paws together) you have no idea what you've unleashed anon i've been holding onto this ask specifically bc i've been sapping dopamine from it like a little leech waiting until i had time to hastily doodle up a little dynamics timeline for different stages of the ot4

i REALLY hope this makes sense . i feel the need to say this every time i post abt coffinchain but my ideas are rly specific and i've had time for them to infect my brain like mold so i'm defo ready to accept this all being rly niche and really just for me and like 3 other people

buuut if this little peek into my mind speaks to ANY of y'all i absolutely encourage implore and beg you to send me asks and ideas and whatnot about these 4 bastards literally whenever you want!!

TL;DR one half of the trauma bonded couple reaches out and forms an immediate kinship with the big scary guy that no one likes & convinces his petty boyfriend to let him fw them. then he starts bringing his deranged fbi otter around they start double-dating only for it to become a situationship and then the worst polycule ever

[eightyuh]

How do you come up with such interesting characters?

other recommendations:

I personally like to design as-if for TV animation!!! characters should be easy to draw repeatedly. this includes keeping their outfits, details, and color palettes simple. at the same time, what details are included should be memorable enough to develop an accurate first-impression, keep the viewers attention, and distinguish them at a glance against the rest of the cast.

incorporate asymmetry if possible! makes them look more dynamic, interesting, and natural. (from a former adventure time animator, can't find source :C they used marcelline's outfits as reference!)

mindset: put more focus on the character's volume than their shape. for ex: with an hourglass-figure, focus more on the individual curves and tucks than the "shape" of an hourglass. ( ^ same source)

every piece in your lineart is one of 2 options: curvy or straight. Lean into this with intention. (from Lauren Faust, mentioned during a Them's Fightin' Herds development stream)

have a crush on your characters!! "... You think of your absolute favorite movie and it was probably full of characters that felt like they were someone's favourite thing to wake up and play with. Like someone went to work and said 'I'm gonna make everyone love this f***er as much as I do." (Kelly Turnbull)

write around their personality flaws! providing the character's challenges up front presents a better lense for character growth, but it can also make them more endearing if their imperfection resonates with the audience. i would much rather watch a character actively clash with their struggle than eventually one day find out 'their weakness' (ahem shounen anime does this a lot).

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thank u so much for this ask!! i'm very flattered :"""D hope this helps!

[bread-is-my-life]

I'm an advocate for Stainmight. I love them so much and have been trying to convince others just how much sense they make as a ship. Stain would absolutely do anything for Toshi. He'd reform himself and become the best version of himself if Toshi asked it of him.

They deserve the world 🥹😭

HI HI NICE TO MEET YA!!! :3 You are so real for that... Also HE ABSOLUTELY WOULD!!!

Also let me give you those weird school doodles of em :3 ignore how their height makes no sense in every pic and other mistakes lol I did those instead of studying ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ I PROMISE THAT I WILL COOK SMTH SOON!!!

(btw on the second pic Toshi forgot his scarf and Stain forced him to wear his but then they just decided to share it :D I might redraw it later and fix all the mistakes like Toshi's height LMAO)

ANYWAYS I LOVE ALL STAINMIGHT SHIPPERS GUYS PLEASE I WANT TO HUG YOU ALL AND SHAKE YOUR HANDS AND AND *explodes*

[violinist-rachel]

Here you go, you can have this! *hands over a flower*

"Ahah..." "Ahahaha...."

Rachel tries to wipe her tears away as she laughs weakly.

"P-Please excuse me... I don't know why I'm..."

Stuck somewhere between laughing and crying, she's takes a moment to take a couple deep breaths before trying again.

"I'm so sorry about this. I don't usually... -sniff-...." "This week... It's been a little rough on me. This is so lovely... Thank you. It's beautiful."

[mylittleredgirl]

they recently had us switch to a new organization and calendar system at work (including some new software but mostly “this is how you should organize your entire life and you will know peace and never miss a task again!!”). at least half of the system is just a digital version of what i was already doing, and other parts of it are better, so i have no idea why it took me out at the knees. i had been riding a long sweet wave of low anxiety and now i'm trapped in a byzantine maze of highly doable tasks and shaking like a shelter dog in a crate—the exact opposite of what the system is supposed to do.

and the craziest part is that somehow... i can't seem to go back to my old system anymore either?? it's only been a few weeks! i used that for five years!! it’s like i have forgotten how to do the most basic parts of my job or make decisions. my brain turned into a stack of marbles and now they’re all over the floor.

like damn, apparently those crayola markers and glitter stickers were a load-bearing structural element of my professional competence. how do i explain that to regular people.

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

YOU'RE GREAT

what about Error but with vitiligo?

-anon

right away boss >;Dc <333

[skitskatdacat63]

More matador!Fernando! Ferrari this time :D (I can't help myself.....)

- facial hair

+ closeups

I really wanted the vibe of this Nando pic, I think I did pretty well??

[mewkwota]

Dracula After Meeting Simon Belmont for the First Time (Probably)

Good morning everyone, I keep forgetting not everyone has seen how I very much accurately draw Simon and his muscles but it always gets me when someone does anything like this in their tags.

[concernedbrownbread]

Hi I read your This Unbearable Tragedy and I’m having a blast! And yes please I would like to hear your thoughts on your fic

OMG thanks for asking!! Sorry for the late reply. I had so much to say that I wrote wayyy too much and then had to cut it down, lol.

(Also for those reading the fic rn, Chapter 3 is delayed to next weekend.)

So, the main things that I immediately thought of when I started planning a fix-it was "there's not enough Ben in s4" and "why would they set Allison and Reginald up to parallel each other and not follow through?" and also "that is NOT where I saw these characters going". In essence, I thought that s3 was setting up a certain narrative with all of this and then was like ???? when they went (haha) off the rails. So I'll talk about those three points below. SPOILERS for the fic and s4. It's a long post!

Before I start: one of the major points of this fic (and s4 ig) is that timelines are spilling into each other. That doesn't just mean artifacts. It means people. The Keepers get memories of other timelines. Why shouldn't Ben and Reginald?

Character Arcs

Yeah ... I think the general consensus was that the characters weren't themselves in s4. I actually had no problems with the set-up in ep 1-2, but then ... Five and Lila happened. And the narrative seemed to hate Diego, reduce Luther to a himbo and not much else, and for some reason try very hard to make Reginald a dad to Viktor. Klaus, Allison and Claire had a kind of nice sideplot but I didn't love it. It tortured Klaus for no real reason and made Allison his saviour? And for what?

Anyway, for my fic, I start off the characters the same with some subtle differences.

We don't see Diego at his job. His job is to be a dad. That's his whole thing, that's the best part of him. He's a brother and he's a father, and the narrative will reward him for that

Lila starts by screaming. Can you tell she's NOT okay? She deserves a break and a breakdown, and she'll get both I swear. She is NOT a house wife because she simply wouldn't be. She loves working. I did almost make Diego a househusband though

Side note on Lila's parents: they don't exist because why on earth would Allison think of that and not think of bringing Sissy back? It's clear her fantasy timeline is selfish.

Luther is a stripper still but again, his job is a side note. His first scenes is with Klaus (which, again, was a relationship set up in s3 and never explored??). He's trying damn hard to keep his family together and I want people to appreciate that!!

Allison's first scene is still the studio, but I wanted to expand it to include Klaus. Her story is still of love.

Also Klaus has his own place because he has goddamn agency in this narrative. He and Luther deserve to have a home of their own, and they'd make hilarious roomates imo.

Ray of course, exists

Five is interesting to me because while it makes sense for him to be in the CIA, I can't see him staying with the CIA. This will be explored in ch5. I have a really cool piece written for him.

Viktor my beloved <3 I have no notes, I just want to say I love him. I will of course not let him near Reginald unless to beat Reginald up.

Anyway, I'm going to write a whole separate post for the characters. You opened the Pandora's box anon!

Ben (and Klaus)

I gotta say ... I tried, I really tried, to like Jennifer. She's just such a non-character. We know very little about her, her trauma barely gets explored, the Squid is stupid because all it does is exist and then Ben is like "hehe I have tentacles too! Means we're connected" WHAT?

I was excited for Jennifer. Curious about the Jennifer Incident. Very vindicated when I learned Reginald killed them because lets face it, that's super in-character. But I just ... couldn't get behind Jennifer. So I scrapped her.

Look, if there was anyone that Ben was going to be soulmates with, it was Klaus (platonically).

I mean, isn't that what we learned over two seasons? That Ben and Klaus are inseparable?

(I also don't get the whole Durango thing. TUA has never been all that science-y but at least they tried, but this season they didn't care at all. They really just threw in matter/dark-matter and pretended it was something.)

Anyway, I also don't understand why the fact that Ben was DEAD in another timeline is never bought up properly. In fact, Ben is barely bought up by the siblings? After they discuss his death, they all go off on their own. Viktor's the only one who seems to care (which is fine, I love Viktor and seeing him try to reach out to Ben was nice). Five and Diego are fighting each other during their fight against Ben??? Doesn't make sense - Five saves Ben in s3, Diego hugs Ben so tightly in s2, WHERE. IS. THE. PAYOFF.

(I think that is really what I hated about s4. There is no payoff to all that was built in s1-3. They bring in whole new narrative points without concluding the old ones, and then everyone dies. The end. UGH.)

Anyway, MY BEN needs his Klaus. His memories are a little janky, because timelines, but there has always been one constant. There has always been Klaus. I think even in childhood, they were close (and I'll try to explore that more in the memories). More than that though, Ben needs his FAMILY.

And he might deny that they are his family, but they are. And they will do so much to help him. Including, but not limited to, BEATING REGINALDS ASS (/j)

Allison and Reginald's choice

Okay, the final scene in s3 where we see Allison & Ray and Reginald & Abigail made me think that s4 was going to take this further. Allison and Reginald both made a selfish choice - not in resetting the timeline, but in directly going against the wishes of the loved ones they magicked into the timeline. Ray in s3 is very clear that though he loves her, and will always love her, his place is in Dallas 1963, where he has people he cares about. A life he cares about. Abigail is a bit more subtle, but I remember thinking that it was clear that she wanted to die/was content with dying. I was a pretty casual fan then so I don't know if this was true, but that was the vibes I got from s1, and I was pretty happy that s3 confirmed it just ... not in the way I wanted? I don't mind she destroyed the world because she wanted to die - it's clear Abigail and Reginald think themselves above human lives. I just wish they explored it more.

And again, this parallel was something I got from just the ending of s3. It wasn't a deepdive or anything. I feel like it was such an obvious choice for s4 to go "What happens if you can't let go of the person you love?" And then ... they don't even mention Ray properly. Damn.

I just don't understand why they didn't do it? They set it up so perfectly. UGHHHH.

The main reason Ray exists in my fic is because Allison has to reckon with the fact that she really did pull Ray out of his time, out of his life. And I want her to realise how awful a choice that was. At the same time, I want Reginald to face the exact same thing and choose to do the opposite - hold onto Abigail tighter. Chapter 3 is going to explore a bit more of Allison and Ray, while further down the line we'll see more and more of Abigail.

(ALSO OMG!!! Abigail and Five parallel each other in wayyy more interesting ways than Reginald and Five. I cannot WAIT to write that. But this is more a headcanon hehehehe.)

Other Notes

I think s1-3 set up a lot of things that I assumed was going to be explored and wasn't. I'm going to try and touch upon all of them

the Jennifer Incident felt lacking. s1-2 really were so good because there was a slight mystery to it all, and when there wasn't, there was a ton of dramatic irony - ofc we knew Viktor was the bomb, but it was interesting to see the family figure out that mystery. In the same way, ofc we know Ben is the bomb, but I really though s4 would allow the family to actively search for why and how to stop him. I'm more of a angst & fluff writer but I shall try to write some semblance of mystery here.

Marigold. I will explore. I have Thoughts. chapter 3 will answer more on why it was found by Ben in particular.

Relationships that were set up in s1 will be revisited because as the "last season" I expected it to be. Ofc, Klaus and Ben is the big one, but also Klaus-Diego, Viktor-Allison, Allison-Luther, Five-Viktor, etc. Some new ones will be there, especially with Ben who had little interactions (on account of him being a ghost) and with Lila.

Five continues to be old man on this side of crazy. Sometimes he has good advice. Other times his ideas are unhinged. Early chapters he's mellow because life is normal now but when things go to shit ... oh boy let's NOT forget how paranoid this guy is.

Lila is also a little crazy. Good for her.

Commission!Five is explained more than just a throwaway line in the Five Deli. Five Deli and the Subway is explored more too ofc.

DOLORES MENTIONED BECAUSE SHE IS GODDAMN IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTANDING FIVE. Not even as a "love story" (Five's love story is his familial one), just as a part of his psyche. She is mentioned in EVERY season. She deserves to be mentioned here.

Pogo. I will not say more.

Reginald. Is Reginald.

Anyway, I have a lot more to say but I'll stop here. Sorry this is so long! Thanks for the ask <3

[dandyshucks]

i am freeeeeeeee [collapses into a pile of dust]

[goldenpinof]

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[piningpercussionist]

ALL YOUR CHILDREN ARE POOR UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS OF SYSTEMS BEYOND THEIR CONTROL

A PLAGUE UPON YOUR IGNORANCE AND THE GRAY DESPAIR OF YOUR UGLY LIFE

Wow, been a second since I heard that one. That's like... late 60s, right? My dad's played it for me before.

How did the next part go again...?

🎵 Where did Annie go, when she went to town?

Who are all those creeps that she hangs around? 🎵

And then- I think I remember this a bit better, it stuck with me when I was younger-

🎵 All your children are poor unfortunate victims of lies you believe-

A plague upon your ignorance, that keeps the young from the truth they deserve! 🎵

*Kim grins, briefly, seeming rather pleased with herself, despite the relative scratchiness of her mumbled singing.*

Yeah, pretty sure that's how that goes. It's by... Mothers of Invention, right? Or is there a "The" in front of that?

[oculusxcaro]

🧶 — any non-writing hobbies/interests?

I know you don’t reblog this but I wanted to send ya one!

munday asks! (unprompted but still cool!)

Not a problem at all, I'm actually flattered you sent this in! Truthfully I feel like a very boring person hence not doing a lot of munday stuff but since you asked, I'd be happy to talk about the silly little things I do! There's the usual stuff like reading, cooking and walking the dog but one obscure thing I like doing? Finding stuff while out on long walks.

Here's something I actually found today while walking to town to get some pinkies for R.orschach! This poor squashy Donatello had been dropped into some leaf litter close to the bus stop so I took him home and gave him a good soaking in some warm water and washing up liquid. Cleaned up a treat after that and now I don't know what to do with him. I've found quite a few things over the years since there are a lot of touristy places and kids drop shit all the time so here's a small collection of stuff I've taken back home after such finds.

No idea who the little girl is, maybe a rubber Anna from Frozen? There's a type of seadragon thing, a Winnie the Pooh spinning head thing with a bunch of different expressions when you press his heart, a plastic mountain lion(?), a hippo with snapping jaws and what I think is a Jurassic World Mosasaurus (even has a glow in the dark skeleton inside!) So yeah, I'm a bit of a packrat and just like to bring things home - pretty rocks, feathers, flowers and cuttings and the stuff kids drop since I'm sure I could donate it to charity at some point but I just like watching the hoard grow at this point. 😅 Keep your eyes open when you go out, sometimes you'll stumble across the most unexpected things!

[euclydya]

:3!!! character bingo!!! echem!! and also munna the pokemon <3

i am normal about myself a normal amount <= would 100% date source me without question

um. what is there 2 say tbh. I am extremely biased bc I AM Electrochemistry AIAKAJSJDJDJSDJDKDK

something about The Guy Who's Main Role Is To Obtain Happiness Chemicals In Any Way Possible REALLY just. Engrained itself into our brain huh?? like. Gestures at our system. *Me being the host was not the initial idea.* We all assumed our host would've been Inland IQIAKDDKDKEKD

but yeah!! Source me is. Too relatable in a way. We r living off short term dopamine every day and it is hell but it's waht we've got y'know. Any happiness is good enough etc. etc. even if it's short term. like.

not to mention like. Addiction runs in our family*. So. the stars just aligned ig No WONDER I ended up being our Signature Skill/sys host. HFDHDJDJSJS

tl;dr: yeah. points at source!me. too damn relatable!! JCJXJSMDFKJ

MUNNA THE BEST POKEMON EVER <3 THEY SURE DO EXIST AND FOR THAT WE R SO GRATEFUL

genuinely Munna has helped us get over our fear of the dark a bit. It's still THERE but sleeping with our munna plushie nearby helps a lot!! Also Like. If pokemon were real we'd absolutely have one. and a musharna probably also! we fell in love w this lil thing cuz mom happened to get us a plushie of it from the dollar store years ago and we just..... slept with it by our face to block out the old mirror that was in our room fhdndjdjskdkdskdjfdjd back then we also believed in bloody mary** and that did Not help with our fear of the dark so knowing we had a lil plushie of a pokemon that Canonically can help with nightmares and fear just. really helped out!!

also it is cute. lookie at this thang

↑ me when I eat dreams tbh

[volcanicflowers]

hello beloved mutual i'm sending people asks today so who is your favorite character so far from fionna and cake and why?

wait this is a tough one let me think about it

listen. listen. simon has been my fav since like.. 2015 or whenever i first started watching adventure time. admittedly i feel like my simon petrikov posting makes me come off as more of an adventure time fan than i actually am because i don't think i really cared about the show that much until the episode simon and marcy, sad guy taking care of some kid he found during the apocalypse is a trope that gets me every single time i love that shit.

and its like they just keep adding to this guy, oh he's a sad old man who destroyed his life beyond recognition by continually using this cursed object? AND he adopted a demon child during the apocalypse? AND he has this unhinged gf and they're in this doomed by the narrative toxic codependent relationship and she succumbed to a different cursed object and also fused with god trying to fix him? AND he is now the only normal guy in a world he doesn't understand and that feels completely alien to him and he's now seen as such a novelty by everyone else in this world that he literally turned his life into an exhibit? AND he just found out that all the characters in his head that he's been imagining in situations to cope are all real and fucking hate him?

absolute peak of sad old pathetic man. there's so much i love rolled into this guy and i will be posting about him at least until fionna and cake is over