#My boy has some problems

[chronicbeans]

Pirate Percy Headcanons

These have been brewing in my brain for like 12 years fellas I gotta let them free now. Plus, there's a bonus Skintaker headcanon here.

TW: Paranoia, mentions of hallucinations/mental illness, Alcohol Mention, (for the bonus Skintaker headcanon) Murder/Skinning

🕯️ At the beginning of every episode, Percy would steer his ship, singing a sea shanty vaguely related to whatever the topic of the episode would be.

🕯️ Percy prefers to have nobody in his crew. He considers himself a "lone pirate", in a way. However, when Janice showed up in Candle Cove, completely clueless of the dangers the place held, he just didn't have the heart to say no to helping her out. He planned to just take her to the nearest village and drop her off, but she showed enough potential as a pirate that he let her stay.

🕯️ He used to have a cat named Purrcy. It was a black cat with green eyes, as well as a blue collar. According to a joke the show made, Purrcy was a female cat, but Percy didn't know she was a female when he named her Purrcy. Once he found out, she had already begun responding to the name, so he just continued calling her that. She went missing a few years back. Some especially perceptive viewers, with a good memory of the show, theorize that Purrcy ended up in the Skintaker's care. They claim that during certain scenes of the Skintaker's lair, they see a cat of the same description in the background, one of the only living things in his lair.

🕯️ There have been numerous arguments on online forums about Percy and the Laughingstock. Since numerous characters are confused whenever Percy talks to the ship, and nobody else can seemingly hear it, some theorize that Percy is hallucinating, and that he might have some sort of untreated mental condition due to the time period the show might've taken place in being unable to treat or understand it. Others think that, with the Skintaker being a living skeleton with no explanation of his existence, it is simply cartoon magic that also goes unexplained. Some think it may be both, others don't care, but everybody agrees that it is odd that the creators would include a talking ship only to have one character be able to talk to it.

🕯️ Pirate Percy loves merfolk, and very specifically refers to them as "merfolk", and not "mermaids" or "sirens". Some think it might've been because the puppets for the merfolk were just marionettes with wigs and wooden fish tails, so they didn't look much like men or women, possibly causing the creators to decide to call them merfolk to let the audience use their imagination and create their own versions of them. He has cartoonish overreactions whenever they are around, and one running joke would be that he doesn't get affected by their songs the same way as other sailors. Instead of steering his ship into the rocks and sinking his boat, as the merfolk would intend him to do, he'll run and jump off the side of the Laughingstock and swim to them.

🕯️ Percy LOVES root beer, which seems to be a very obvious stand-in for alcohol. Whenever the characters drink too much of it, they begin to act like your stereotypical cartoon drunks. However, Percy would act a bit differently. Alongside the stereotypical dizziness and lightheadedness, his paranoia tended to grow when he consumed a lot of root beer, and he'd talk to the Laughingstock much more often than other times. He'd also become much more disorganized, often losing track of things right in front of him. That, and he'd become much more accusatory towards people around him, thinking they were out to get him. One moment some remember is when Horace walked up to him, disguised as a nobleman. Percy didn't recognize him, but instantly was weary, and thought that this odd nobleman was going to kill him. This prompted Horace to give up and return to the Skintaker, telling him that Percy has problems if he's going to accuse random people he meets of such things after a few root beers.

🕯️ The first time Percy ever became angry on the show was an episode where Janice decided to put up an advertisement to join Percy's crew in a nearby town. She interpreted his "lone pirate" status as him simply being too shy to ask others to join him, and with good intentions, put up posters to get people interested in joining. This made Percy more than a little upset, as he started getting people asking to join him when he walked around town. It was the one and only time Percy yelled at her out of anger, rather than anxiety, fear, or frustration. Once he calmed down, he explained how he likes being alone due to bad experiences with his past crew, and why he allowed her to join him. Nobody remembers whether or not he ever apologized for his outburst, though.

🕯️ Percy has a specific cave he goes to to try to calm down. He never enters it, but he sits outside to try to relax and ground himself, whenever he can. This is the same cave people remember Percy bringing Janice to, during the final episode.

🕯️ Some people claim to believe that Percy and the Skintaker have some correlation to one another. The evidence they use is that, in multiple scenes, Percy is shown to grind his teeth and either pick or scratch at his skin when he's anxious or afraid, which could be seen as being related to the Skintaker skinning people and grinding it with his teeth. Some also claim a similar thing goes on with Janice and Horace the Horrible, one of their similarities being that they see Percy as having problems he doesn't acknowledge. Janice assumes Percy is very lonely, while Horace has seen how bad Percy's paranoia can get, as well as his root beer consumption. It could be possible that the creators were trying to have some parallels between the protagonists and villains of the show, but with how everything we know about it is due to memories of people who watched it during the 70s, and nobody knows who made it, it could be wrong.

☠️ The Skintaker, during the same episode he explained why his jaw moves side to side to Janice, also told her that he wears skins because he is jealous of humans. According to him, he dreams of having flesh, organs and skin, but settles on just wearing skins, because trying to wear someone's flesh and organs would be too messy. When she asked if he ever used to have those things, he said no. He is just jealous that others do, and feels incomplete, because all the other "skeletons" have them. Some think it implies that he views humans as skeletons, just with the fleshy parts he lacks, and is why he feels relatively unbothered by killing them for their skin. While he is clearly aware that he is killing the human by skinning them, he may still see it as on the same level of evil as stealing someone's nice coat or suit, and not as maiming them.

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[u3pxx]

KIM KITSURAGI - “Is that. My kineema.”

COMPOSURE [Medium: Success] - Something in him is about to break, *big time*.

EMPATHY - And it’s not going to be pretty, do something!

- DRAMA [Formidable] - Everything is fine!

- “Sure is.”

DRAMA [Formidable: Failure] - Surely he’s aware that he’s not the *only* person in the world who owns a Kineema?

YOU - “Is it really *yours*? I mean, plenty of people have their own Kineemas, right? Like working men, government offices, uh, firefighters I guess, maybe even animal control people? Exactly! A million different people who could’ve driven it into the uh…”

DRAMA - Pause, my liege! Ixnay on the Ineemakay!

YOU - “It could even be our *mysterious* joyrider!”

KIM KITSURAGI - Your frenzied babbling falls deaf to the lieutenant's ears. Instead, he approaches the broken vehicle, sunken in the ice. He moves with a caution and gentleness you haven’t seen him display before.

INLAND EMPIRE - It must be cold and lonely down there, in the icy water. Maybe he could sense its sorrow, calling to him…

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - His hands, which are always stiffly placed behind his back, are trembling.

ENDURANCE - This is the shuffle of a tired, tired man.

HALF LIGHT - He’s going to do something drastic because of you. Oh god, terrible! You’re a terrible liar! You can’t look at this, you just can’t!

VOLITION [Formidable: Success] - It's not *you* who drove his kineema into the sea. You have plenty of faults, but this one is decidedly not yours.

KIM KITSURAGI - He kneels down with his head bowed, casting his face in shadow. He plants a hand on the ice to stabilize himself, squinting to get a better view of the motor carriage. “Detective, it says ‘57’ on it.”

YOU - Sweat drips down your brow, and you feel a terrible headache coming. “Maybe our joyrider has an affinity for that number?”

LOGIC - He's not stupid, he knows that it's not that.

KIM KITSURAGI - “57.”

YOU - “What about 57?”, you brace yourself.

KIM KITSURAGI - “Precinct 57.”

YOU - You wince. “Kim, look-”

KIM KITSURAGI - “When I woke up in the Whirling-in-Rags with no memory of what happened during the days before, I've taken note that something of mine has gone missing.” He grits his teeth. "A very. Important. Something."

He runs his hands over his face, messing his already unkempt hair in the process. Regret creeps up on his features. “God. Fuck. They’re going to fire me over this, they’re not going to hear me out.”

EMPATHY - Desperation settles in the lieutenant's tone. Sadly, you find yourself in agreement, even if you don’t want it to be the truth.

YOU - “People are more valuable than machines, Kim.”

KIM KITSURAGI - “Not people like me.” He rasps.

YOU - “…”

KIM KITSURAGI - Before you can say anything more, you fail to notice the lieutenant carefully walking onto the edge of the ice. He looks over the frigid water, a dizzying blue that mirrors and distorts his exhausted face back to him.

YOU - “Kim?”

KIM KITSURAGI - Seconds pass as he looks to be contemplating something. Out of nowhere, he casually takes another step where the ice ends and the sea begins. It happens all too quick for the lieutenant to even voice a call for help— if he even wanted to — his body plunging into the cold water before your eyes.

YOU - “KIM!!!!”

uhhh bonus stuff? sorry i have swap au brainworms pfttt

(im not sure what skills kim has at the moment so rn he only has narration as his inner monologue ok whoops, i would like to keep harry as the guy who thinks in dialogue trees so im still figuring it out pfttt)

also, this was done bc i wanted to expand on these old scribbles of mine, just like an idea, i just think that he'd be having an even worse time wheezes

[writeouswriter]

Almost went to check the tumblr tag for my OC to see what he's up to, any news or discussions about him, latest update, you know, my OC I never post about that no one else really knows about

[deedala]

Ian x Debbie + just hashtag gay ginger middle children things

[cametotheshowinsd]

THE ROARING TWENTIES (1929) | Written + Directed by Taylor Swift *ALL-TALKING PICTURE* Flapper Clara falls in love. With a Princeton sophomore. Every night they spend together feels like a dream. All the social occasions, the scent of wine she tasted on his lips, dance floor reflecting broken mirrorball lights, tossing pennies in the pool, sneaking in campus, night walks around the Nassau Hall, joking about school dorms, long dinner that seems never end and sophisticated conversations. His innocence and passion. Her wide-eyed gazes. Breathes that felt too close in the dark. Finally, one day, the kid went down on his knees and pulled that damned rock out of his pocket. Will Clara say "yes"?

[whateverthought]

House of the Dragon AU where Rhaenyra is raised as a boy, her birth kept secret for a while because she's sickly and Aemma has already lost a few miscarriages and a stillbirth and it doesn't matter too much since Aemon is Heir and Jaehaerys is still alive and Rhaenys is the one with eyes on her, but after Baelon becomes Heir everyone learns Viserys has a kid and when He dies and -another miscarriage,- Viserys becomes King he tells people he has a son, a small lie in all the chaos to smooth things over, to seem like a better prospect. At least till he gets an actual son. And then Aemma dies.

Otto proposes that his daughter, friends with the Prince already, be betrothed to Rhaenyra since betrothing her to Viserys wouldn't put his blood on the throne per se but the Prince? And he gets to override Daemon getting His blood on the throne? Que the Baby Problem(TM)

Que the Baby Problem. How do these lesbians women procure heirs for the throne? Rhaenyra's blood would have to be passed on, since any child born from Alicent wouldn't be a dragonlord but Rhaenyra being pregnant would make their hoax harder to keep up, having kids who look too different will cause rumors and if no one ever saw Alicent pregnant they'd start to wonder. That being said, I quite like them sharing the experience. And Rhaenyra has proven to be reckless and Alicent is easily swayed by her.

So we need a Hightower man and a Valyrian man. In comes Gwayne Hightower, a man in his 30s unmarried and with no children of his own in a medieval times equivalent. A man who essentially raised his nephew for his sister and cared enough about her to reassure her she was a good mother. I'm unsure who would step in for Alicent, Laenor- if he fell in love with Gwayne and had a Queers Help Queers relationship with the girls? But what would he get out of it? He couldn't be a Sworn Shield like Gwayne, Daemon? Too possessive, too power hungry, too obsessed with Viserys and hating Hightowers. Maaaybe Viserys since he does know and would do anything for Rhaenyra, and at least this way his other kids wouldn't threaten his first-born's claim to the throne and subsequently start a Succession Crisis.

Either way, when Rhaenyra is having her first child, she would have their first child so there's no confusion over who gets to be heir (if Alicent had a son first but Rhaenyra's first child was also a son it'd cause emotional problems cause they're both her sons buuut...) and Gwayne is a much easier solution to the problem. And they can hide away in Dragonstone and make excuses about Rhaenyra being overprotective because of her mother. The next would be Alicent's, to show the court that yes, Alicent is the one getting pregnant. And so on and so forth, their children would then be betrothed to each other to unite their blood.

Just Rhaenyra and Alicent, 'King and Queen' and their Sworn Shield Ser Gwayne Hightower and the other one, maybe a dragonseed who's Gwayne's lover? Wacky little medieval lesbians having a rollercoaster ride of a time making a family and running from court, the Velaryons, and Otto and Daemon.

[chiropteracupola]

lhqr outfit musings... (underlayers, everyday outfits, performance / out on the town outfits)

[b0nelessdoodles]

going out of town for a bit quick post all the espresseleine college au doodles

[residentialsinyomakai]

Hello hello!!! Guess what. Yokai art dump below the cut!! So cool and shiny wow

Its true, I do >u<

I'll try and section these and give the usual explanations below! Image ID for more drawing specific inksplanation.

Click for full image! Since a lotta these are weirdly shaped they were cut off....augh...

McKraken and Maddiman related doodlesssss they're some of my faves <3 i will always love them even if they're not my focus characters atm (well. McKraken kinda is rn but also Babblong so YAY)

Misc. Yokai and ocs! The frog is Kerosque, the guy w the swirly pompadour thing is Swiss, and the monkey is Romono (although he's a Regretevator OC from FOREVER ago, he's still my son <33)

SWISS STUFF RAUGHHHH ! inconsistent style will be APPARENT here try not to notice shuhhhhhgh

Height for main yokai in my AU/on Casp's team! (In the anime it's just primary summons then wwwww)

Some yokai practice/design hcs bc my friend asked!! I was so happy to share 🤭 LOVE YOU CHERCHERRRR

Some of my little guys once more! Rawry' prob one of my faves yokai to draw, easy and fun to do show-accurate or stylized.

OCSSSSSS. AND BADDINYAN. MY EVIL CAT <3333 the guy next to the frog in the middle is an oc idea but idk for what yet =▽=

AUGH. THERES AN IMAGE LIMIT? Well in case you're wondering it's 30....post the rest after I get tomorrow's doodles. See you then and thank you for looking at and reading about my arts!

[bayetea]

seeing non-black people critique rick's portrayal of black characters is interesting sometimes. only like 30% of the critiques I see make any sense to me to be honest

[frnkiebby]

gerard needs their floor time~🎃

[fuckmeyer]

girl please, Charlie Swan is Team Werewolf and you know it

[doomdoomofdoom]

Every now and again I wonder if maybe all trans people face roughly the same amount of bigotry and one just gets more attention, but then i have to read terf posts and.

wow.

obviously every group of trans identities faces their own struggles and unique oppression but there's this incredibly vitriolic kind of hatred reserved for transfems and its sickening.

[sammygender]

so many people can’t conceptualise emotional neglect as anything other than ‘my parents were cold and distant and never talked about feelings with me’, and this, while being just a general awful problem of course, is also what leads to so much john winchester mischaracterisation. in this essay i will

[arolesbianism]

An older and a slightly newer concept for stalien Odile