#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"?

[chiropteracupola]

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

[hella1975]

it's been pointed out on here before that a lot of terf arguments are actually rooted in sexist idealology that feminists fought and died to unnormalise decades ago and that's its own kettle of fish but one thing i also find very frustrating about this so called 'radical' feminism is that it's so... defeatist? like the moment you categorically label an entire section of society as Bad and Inherently Evil then there's also the implication that nothing can be done about it, and it completely takes all accountability away. saying all men are evil is just another way of saying boys will be boys. he raped her because he's a man. he hit her because he's a man. he didn't listen because he's a man - it's almost offensively oversimplified. there's no point trying to fix this issue in society because men are just Like That, okay! so now what? it's not like they're going anywhere, so you just accept that 50% of the population are evil and will forever treat you terribly and there's nothing to be done about it bc they're biologically predisposed to it? like is that fr the argument here? you're soooo radical for that

[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!

[interstate35south]

i love when people draw all the mxtx protagonists together but i’ll be real the generic anime boy face curse is alive and well

more often than not the art itself is fantastic it just takes me like a solid minute to figure out who’s who. bonus points if lbh is robbed of his wavy hair and the only way i can tell him apart from wwx is his forehead

[frnkiebby]

gerard needs their floor time~🎃

[fuckmeyer]

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

[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

[bunnyb34r]

Something I'll never understand is how apple elitists will find ANY excuse to bring up how they have [apple product] and you have [not apple product]

Like that annoying new guy that was in the breakroom and would not shut up (I get you're bored but it's 7am and we don't care), had walked past me and saw how small my phone is. It's not SMALL but it's not like the length and width of my hand, iPhones are like at least 1.5 the size now.

Anyway he was like "damn what kinda phone is that??" (Meaning what iphone is that) *sees the big SAMSUNG on the top "oh you got samsung. But I bet you USED to have an iphone before right?"

Why would you assume that?? That's such a fucking weird thing to say like unprompted to someone. And I was like no??? I've always had androids?? (And LG before smartphones lol) And it's like they always assume you didn't have a choice, and only got an android bc you couldnt get an iphone. Like no I think iPhones are pieces of garbage, I hate the way the app store works, and the only apple products I've ever had were ipod touches. I like being able to choose where my apps go and can download "non-approved" apps and shit. Bitch I CHOSE this phone bc I LIKE it. I only got my other phone (which IS iphone size) bc this one no longer gets service from the network I use. I use this one for everything but calls and texts, and my actual phone-phone for calls, texts, and sometimes youtube. I paid like $100 max for each phone, I ain't paying more than $150 for a phone that's gonna be slowed down by the company I bought it from in a planned obsolescence scheme to get me to drop another $500-$1000+ in a year or two.

But yeah apple superior you're right 🙄

[alitgblog]

already liking that the characters are more than "the charismatic skater" and "the romantic musician" (sorry Jamal and Ryan) and I think it's probably bc they don't feel isolated from each other. like the guys have personalities that get along or clash with each other too and they show it, and it helps them feel realer than just liking the same girl or whatever

and like that's not to say they tried to give them dimensionality, like you learn about Elliot's quirks and Roberto's family and whatnot but saying something is like half of the journey. like it's cute Alex nerds out on building things but it's a whole other thing that he purposefully stays out of drama and therefore has a better relationship with Raf and also is making sure the guys don't get injured when they're jumping on the beds. like that sort of more dynamic thing is way more fun. meanwhile i couldn't tell you about any of the s6 guys' friendships other than things I've headcanoned and also marshall/ozzy (which is why I think I've started to grown to like marshall after the season is over)