#Originally i was gonna try doing an animatic as well...

[leohnoz]

Punishment Game

"Punishment game, buts its a total plot twist!"

Just some deputies having fun ;) Video, extra, and @'s below!

TW for flashing, flickering, and eyestrain!

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Top Left - Fennelwater from @duskclangen

Top Middle - Foxspeckle from @sporeclan

Top Right - Basseye from @cricketclan

Bottom Left - Moorsnow from @splinterclan (she won)

Bottom Middle - Tanglevalley from @hushedclan

Bottom Right - Snakevalley from @vespidclan

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[feelo-fick]

Au where eating the demons desire makes Laios immortal

Demons Curse

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WHYYYYY WHY WOULD YOU SAY THIS TO MEEEEEEE WHYYYY SNIFF SNIFF IM SO SAD. IMS O SAD. I DREW THIS WHILE FALLING APART AT THE SEAMS. uaogh okay let me get my thoughts out about this

i originally was sorta happy in a bittersweet way cause i thought, well at least marcille has company, they have eachother to lean on now!

...but then i realized marcille isnt immortal. shes gonna live LONG, but shes not immortal. AND I GOT SO EXTREMELY SAD

can you imagine, trying to convince your friend not to extend everyones lifespans to a scarily long degree. and then having to help her deal with that fear and grief of losing her loved ones. AND THEN REALIZING YOURE IMMORTAL AND OUTLIVING ALL OF YOUR LOVED ONES INCLUDING HER. imagine being marcille as she gets older watching laios experience the same exact fear and grief she knows so well and knowing she cant do anything other than reassure him itll be alright. imagine being so scared to die and now suddenly you know someone who CANT die and realizing thats SO MUCH WORSE paces in circles. AAAAAAUGH

additional thought of this au, what if this was part of the demons curse to never allow laios' greatest desire to be granted? i mean laios is a very simple guy with simple wants, he wants to be loved, to eat good food, to study monsters, to be around his friends, and generally just live a normal life. being immortal would definitely complicate things... he'll be able to see and experience so many things but he wont be able to do it with his loved ones, not for long.

and also, being king, he'd probably be in that position for a long long time - maybe he'd willingly retire at some point but even after that where would he go then? what would he do? he cant go and find monsters to study, they all avoid him. i guess, explore the rest of the world? watch everything move on without him?

speaking of, imagine if he lived up until a time like modern day. so many years so many friends (gained and lost) and so many changes... that would be insane. THIS IS SPIRALLING INTO ME JUST GOING "WOULDNT IT BE FUCKED UP TO BE IMMORTAL" AJDNSJXBAH

anyways, final note, im reminded too of this "hand my my shovel, im going in!" animatic that haunts my mind forever AUGH its so good, and captures my immortality thoughts perfectly

[musicalmoritz]

I saw your post about giving tbhk characters songs and I noticed a bunch of them were musical theater and they fit so fucking well??

Like waving through a window for Sousuke and dead mom for Kou?? Unlikely lovers?? Music of the night??? Your mind omg.

I was wondering if you had more musical theater to tbhk characters stuff because id definitely like to hear them lol. It's totally fine if you don't have more, in case not, you could give more non musical stuff.

I’ve been behind on my asks so I’m trying to get caught up and this seems like the best one to start with, musicals have been rotting my brain since the eighth grade. I’m gonna be honest, I don’t remember every song I listed in the original post so I apologize if some of these are repeats!!

TW: Brief mention of suicide ideation for one of the songs/characters

• Idk how much you’d count this one as a musical song but Once Upon A Dream from Sleeping Beauty makes me think of Mitsukou/Soukou (especially in the context of the new timeline)

• I have to apply Dentist! from Little Shop Of Horrors to every sadist character so it’s going to Teru, maybe he can do that if he ever smartens up and quits exorcism (I would give it to Kou but Teru is like. wayyyy more upfront abt his sadism lol)

• Tango: Maureen from Rent except every character in TBHK besides Mitsuba and Mei is lowkey bisexual so there are so many ways it could go. Hanako and Aoi about Nene. Teru and Aoi about Akane. Mitsuba and Nene about Kou. The possibilities are endless

• Popular from Wicked with Aoi and Nene…because yk we always see Aoi giving Nene popular girl advice. I am aware her character goes deeper than that I’m just being silly

• Love Me For What I Am from In Trousers with Nene but just for the “I met a man in a can” line. She did, in fact, meet her boyfriend in a bathroom

• Helpless from Hamilton with AoiAoi and then Satisfied with Terukane. I think I’ve seen an animatic for this but there are a lot of Hamilton animatics for different fandoms so I could be mistaken

• Alyssa Greene from The Prom with Aoi

• And on that note, The Lady’s Improving with Yako or Sumire (Sumire bcuz you can add in Hakubo for the romantic context). Quite honestly I love The Prom sm, it’s very overhated imo bcuz the songs are all bangers

• Portrait Of A Girl from Bare: A Pop Opera with Aoi and Akane before their development

• More with Bare because I love queer musicals, Role Of A Lifetime with Mitsuba in the context of Mitsukou. They can’t be together forever and Mitsuba knows that so he’s confused on what Kou wants…see the vision

• Seventeen from Heathers with HanaNene but bonus points if it’s Picture Perfect Amanene when they tried to run away together

• There’s A Fine, Fine Line from Avenue Q with Nene…possibly after Nakahara rejected her

• I feel like the concept of She Used To Be Mine from Waitress could be applicable to so many female characters because context aside, it has major theme of going from girlhood to womanhood + overcoming a lot of trauma, so it’s hard for me to nail down just one. Perhaps yorishiro Sumire? Could also apply to Nene

• You Gotta Die Sometime from Falsettos with Mei (my sister and I quote the opening line to each other every time one of us is sick…but also oof this song hurts me)

• This one is a bit nonsensical but I like to imagine The Worst Pies In London with Teru and Akane since yk Teru is terrible at cooking. Or with Ghost Hotel Kou and Nene (not in a ship way tho)

• The Ballad Of Jane Doe from Ride the Cyclone loosely makes me think of Katakuri bcuz of the whole deal with the kannagi losing their memories

• In the Same Boat from the Lightning Thief demo with any of the trios tbh, mainly the Broadcasting Crew because Sakuhiko fit the Percabeth dynamic so well and Tsukasa as Grover is just yes (in the context of this song specifically lol). For the others tho it would be Terukane as Percabeth and Aoi as Grover, then HanaKou as Percabeth and Nene as Grover…or HanaNene as Percabeth and Kou as Grover. Another one with lots of options

• Red And Black from Les Misérables with Teru and Akane bcuz of the whole Enjolras caring abt war and Marius being all head-in-the-clouds about Cosette…very Akane coded in general

• Meet the Plastics from Mean Girls with Teru as Regina, Akane as Gretchen, and Aoi as Karen

• On that same note, WORLD BURN WITH TERU. HEAR ME OUT.

• I want to bring up Spring Awakening just to bring up Spring Awakening tbh so Don’t Do Sadness/Blue Wind with Aoi and Akane (?) or Teru maybe. Tbh I’m struggling on who could do Ilse’s part but Aoi fits Moritz (my boyyyyy) very well with how she wants to “go somewhere far away” aka take her own life due to the pressure she’s under. Could also be with Mitsuba or Amane as Moritz but NOT Kou because we all know Kou isn’t actively suicidal right?? We’re all on the same page abt that?? Good

• I could also picture Those You’ve Known with Kou and his dead ghost friends at the end of the manga. Specifically Hanako as Moritz and Nene as Wendla but you could substitute either of them for Mitsuba if you want

• I feel like Wait For It from Hamilton could fit Tsuchigomori

• No Me Diga from In the Heights makes me think of Aoi and Nene and their rumors. Bonus points if Akane is the one Nene teases Aoi about with the “just wanted to see what you’d say” part

• Mister Cellophane from Chicago with Mitsuba

• Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from Phantom Of The Opera with Teru mourning his mom…we don’t really get to see him talk abt her in canon so it’s a cool concept

• More with Teru, I’m Not That Girl from Wicked. I’m thinking within the context of TeruAoi but feel free to apply it to Terukane

• When He Sees Me from Waitress with AoiAoi or Mitsukou…Aoi and Mitsuba singing ofc

• I’m Breaking Down with Aoi during the Confession Tree chapter when Akane started dating Lemon

Okay I’m capping myself off there, hope you liked this!! And thank you for the ask :)

[angryplebianart]

I don’t wanna sound rude at all but I am genuinely curious as to why you ship 2doc? I’m not trying to like target you in particular or anything I’m just wondering in general why do people like it

This is gonna be a long one lmao

A little backstory: When I first got into Gorillaz I really hated Murdoc. My sister showed me a playlist of all the videos in order. The whole playlist I kept going on about how I didn't like Murdoc and my sister was like "well, just wait." By Lost Chord I was a bit sympathetic and beginning to like Murdoc, I loved seeing that he was helping everyone else escape before he did and I really liked seeing 2D save him despite everything.

I've always been a sucker for relationships with drama(even platonic relationships), for one, for two I love when characters have chemistry (even platonic chemistry) because of what they've been through together if that makes sense.

This was before I really knew much about the band at all besides what was shown in the videos and the first time I heard about 2doc I was confused and kind of weirded out that people would ship such a toxic and dysfunctional couple. As I learned more about the band and the characters, though, and as I dug into the lore, I found Murdoc to be a much more sympathetic character than I had originally seen. A flawed character, deeply flawed, but sympathetic nonetheless and with the inkling of a redemption arc forming. I also found it interesting that even after all that had happened, 2D and Murdoc still had this indescribable bond (that a lot of people label as Stockholm syndrome but I do not).

I was on twitter one day and stumbled across a discussion about the song Souk Eye and heard that in the live shows, every time the line "I will always think about you" was sung, Murdoc's face was up on the screen. I dug into the lore for TNN album and became even more intrigued with the ship. I saw a Souk Eye animatic that depicted 2D having these battling emotions over Murdoc being gone. That he really missed him but still resented him as well and by this point you could say I was dipping my toes into the 2doc waters.

I started looking for other signs that maybe it was implied to be a canon thing and found so much stuff thanks to a couple "2doc Daily" accounts on twitter (that really just regurgitated the same things the other account said, to the point that I didn't realize it was two different accounts for a couple months lol) that only posted canon evidence.

Maybe it's silly and a lot of people don't like it, but I really do like it. It's so fun to headcanon about the ship and their dynamic.

It really seems like 2doc has been somewhat implied since the beginning in the lore and some interviews, and even some of Jamie's art (them wearing each other's clothes, 2D with Murdoc's monogrammed razor hooked on his necklace, them sharing accessories like the little crown necklace and them sharing hats on PB, the original storyboard for the newspaper comic in Do Ya Thing, there's more examples but those are the ones off the top of my head rn).

Regardless of the ship's popularity, I've come to really like it and it just adds another layer of enjoyment to my love for the band! 🩵💚☺️💚🩵

Thanks for the ask! Sorry if this is rambly or doesn't make a lot of sense, I'm writing this right before bed lol

Edits: I separated this long ass wall of text into digestible paragraphs 😛

[coolingrosa]

Hi omg hi I don't know if this is too long sorry I'm gonna rant but: Ur RoseVerse is literally so inspiring u urself are literally so insanely inspiring. I'm sugarcoating it when I say what you're doing in RoseVerse is revolutionary for this community, I love every single bit of it so much, and you've inspired me to expand and change things for the better with my own upcoming utmv series for an original multiverse. Haha ok now on to an actual question: Was Killer aware of the Multiverse before Nightmare brought him in? It kind of seems like it since at one point he complains about how Nightmare tells him about the date/time, like it's obvious how you don't use a mortal system for it, or how when they first met Killer was all like "I know you're a killer, you're a bad person" etc etc.

Hello!! This is one of the sweetest messages I’ve ever gotten, and please don’t ever apologize for the length! I LIVE for asks ns every time I get one, no matter the size, I get giddy. Messages like this motivate me to push through the monster that is chapter four! (I’m trying my best to get it out fast, but that thing is 20k words rn and only at the climax, so it’s gonna take a little bit longer! But I swear to you all you’re gonna love it! I’ve been putting my college writing classes to work, and I’m already preparing the accompanying animatics to go along with it!)

I’m so glad my work can inspire you to create and make wonderful things, as I believe that the Undertale multiverse is something so fun to mold into whatever you want. My friend Null, the official VA for Orchid Frisk (who will be used in memes and promotional material), has equally amazing multiverse and the ideas spanning in that is awesome.

Don’t ever give up on your creation, as I’m sure it’s going to be other people’s comfort someday too. People out there may read your fics on a bad day and feel utterly warm. I had that with FTFOS, and now I, glad to hear I can do that with others with my own content.

As For Your Question….

Killer was unaware that the theories of a multiverse existing was true. He had heard his father speak about it, and also dug into some of the studies he did, but he never got to have the standard lab experience most Sans’s do since he was so young. Therefore, he never got to dive too deep into the findings and make his own theories. However, Killer isn’t stupid. He’s only seen as the least smart in the gang because he is the youngest with the least experience in school. The others have college level knowledge while he only has highschool, so naturally, he’s unable to be as aware as the others. He is incredibly emotionally smart and perceptive, tho. He plays his own game that will be covered more in chapter four, and once Nightmare brought him in, he could put two and two together that Nightmare being gentle towards a mass murderer didn’t bode well for his own past. People like that don’t look such dark individuals in the eyes with confidence unless they have blood on their hands too.

As for the time and date, Killer was more annoyed that they didn’t HAVE that system. He understands why they don’t, and it makes sense given what they have to work with, but he’s still peeved about it because he’s peeved about EVERYTHING at fifteen LOL! He’s bored out of his skull and a rebel teenager! Give him at least a solid clock to track his days for Fate’s sake!

[mgfanfilm]

Welcome!

Welcome to the official Tumblr blog for the Mean Girls fanfilm!

"What is this?"

MEAN GIRLS is a fan-made film adaptation of the Broadway musical by Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond, and Nell Benjamin, based on the 2004 film by Tina Fey.

"Why?

The people behind this project are huge fans of the MEAN GIRLS musical, and we wanted to pay tribute to the show that we love.

"Wait, wasn't there already a MEAN GIRLS musical movie? It released just this year."

Yes, and that's currently my fourth favorite movie of all time. That being said, however, it does make a lot of changes from the musical it's based on, so we wanted to make a version that's a bit closer to the stage musical. This includes restoring songs like 'Stupid With Love' and 'I See Stars' to their original musical versions, as well as bringing back cut songs like 'Where Do You Belong?' and 'More Is Better'.

"So you think you can do better than the 2024 movie?"

Oh, absolutely not, and we're not really trying to. This fanfilm isn't meant to replace the 2024 film or discredit the magnificent work done by everyone involved in its creation. As I mentioned earlier, I absolutely adore that movie. We just wanted to see what a version that resembled the stage musical a bit more could look like. I think the two can co-exist as two different takes on the same source material (with one being a big-budget Hollywood picture and the other being a fan film by a bunch of students).

"Is this just going to be an animated version of the Broadway script then?"

Also no. While the primary inspiration for this film is the Broadway show, we're also bringing in aspects of the original 2004 film, the 2024 film, the West End production, and a few original ideas of our own. This fanfilm is a love letter to every version of the story.

"Wait a minute, your artstyle feels a bit familiar. Aren't you the person behind Beetlejuice & Lydia?"

Yes I am. And don't worry, that fanfilm isn't going anywhere. I know there haven't been many updates lately, but we're working steadily behind the scenes. In fact, we're gearing up for the release of our first voiced animatic of a scene from that movie!

So don't worry, MEAN GIRLS isn't going to replace Beetlejuice & Lydia or anything. The two are gonna be worked on side by side.

"Are you seriously going to try juggling two fanfilms based on Broadway musicals at once?"

Yes and no. Beetlejuice & Lydia is a project I'm leading myself, as I wrote the screenplay and will be directing the movie myself. However, for MEAN GIRLS, partly due to the fact that I'm already taking on another fanfilm, this movie will be co-directed by a very good friend of mine, Cass! (@thetheatergremlin) She is one of the coolest people I know and the person who got me into Mean Girls in the first place, so there's no one else I'd be happier to share my directorial duties on this fanfilm with.

Beetlejuice & Lydia and MEAN GIRLS are both being developed by Showtime Studios, a group me, Cass, and two other friends of ours, Carrie (@hollowisthyname) and Alex (@ticklemewiggly), have formed to develop fanmade adaptations of beloved stage shows. There's so much more we want to do if our two current projects are received well, so we hope you'll stick around to see what we do next!

So with all that being said, I hope you're all looking forward to MEAN GIRLS! We already have a finished script and some cast members we're excited to announce soon, so I hope you'll stick around for more updates as we bring this wonderful story of Art Freaks and Plastics to you all!

Happy October 3rd!

[thisisahyperfixationnow]

What about Bones?

So sometimes I think about AOS vs TOS, and the biggest thing is that in TOS, Mcspirk is basically cannon. You cannot tell me those boys don’t love each other, it makes me crazy.

But in AOS, it’s just Spirk. Don’t get me wrong, I was a Spirk fan waaaaaay before I noticed Mcspirk in TOS, but I try to see the tension between anyone in shows I watch, I Jim and Bones just seemed like brothers. On the surface, this is just interesting, but what about Prime!Spock? (I’m gonna call him Selek)

Because he knew Jim and Leonard since his 30s. In this scenario, he dated them, basically married them. Hell, he’s t’hy’la with one and shared his katra with the other. He knows them. It’s the three of them.

So do you think he gets whiplash sometimes?

I bet he visits Jim and Spock, sometimes, especially after they start dating. And I wonder if one time they’re talking, and Bones walks in, and he’s expecting him to join in. To meld into the pair like his Leonard did. But instead he stands apart, like the friend that he is. I bet it’s heartbreaking, another reminder of what Selek’s lost.

Not only that, but what about Bones?

There’s an animatic somewhere on YouTube of Everything Stays where it compared AOS and TOS, and it pointed out to me that in the Kelvin timeline, there’s no nurse Chapel, and it got me thinking.

Not only do we not see Nurse Chapel, but I don’t remember there being a Doctor M’Benga either. So he has none of his original work friends in the sickbay. Well, he still has Jim and Spock, to an extent.

But what about Joanna?

We hear about Jocelyn in the shuttle, how his wife took the whole damned planet in the divorce, but does that include his daughter? The crew are significantly younger in AOS, does he even have her? Just how lonely is Bones?

I think about Leonard McCoy a lot.

[rebelrenee36]

hi! im a lil confused abt what some of these meant bc im an idiot who doesnt use his brain-

Music: like them listening to music?

Friends: brain no compute

University? like them in uni?

seasons: wut

little confused on wat to do for worldbuilding (bc everything is alr so amazingly built ofc)

and lastly the free day bc i dont know how to exist with freedom

SORRY IM SUCH AN IDIOT OTAY BYE-

And I am here to answer! You're not an idiot at all I promise

For music, that is an option! So could choosing song lyrics and drawing/writing based on that. Ariana Griande (Grian's drag persona) is another possibility. I'm personally trying to make my first ever animatic for that day if I can!

For friends I've answered that in this ask here!

University mainly refers to Grian and Scar's place of work. Originally the prompt was gonna be teachers, but we decided to open it up a bit more, so Grian's University days are another good option as well!

Seasons is just anything spring, summer, fall, or winter themed! Fun fact is that November is gonna be spring for the characters in DDVAU!

And worldbuilding I just went into further detail in this ask!

And for free day, I'm personally planning on drawing all the wonderful mods of the DDVAU discord to show some appreciation for them as well! Feel free to maybe pick a DDVAU Character you haven't drawn/written about yet before as practice!

[phlurrii]

Okay, so I had this thought back at the little animatic thingie from almost a week ago, trying to figure out why Noe was angry/bitter/jealous/whatever. There was more to it, but I want to focus on the "what if Giratina created Noe, not Meau or Areus" idea I had then.

Looking back at the the ask where you said that Noe is a Ghost-type as well as the family tree ask, they both show that Missingno has a kind of glitchy effect, a kind of distortion effect. Maybe, after Giratina's banishment (as recounted by Meau), Giratina made an ancient Mew in Meau's image (but slightly different, with the design differences). I know that Noe isn't a Distortion World counterpart to Meau because of this ask, but if instead of Arceus creating him, if Giratina made him, either to help populate the desolate Distortion World that he has to inhabit alone, or just for a familiar comfort (since Meau had a fond memory with Giratina, maybe it goes both ways. If Noe's origins are in the Distortion World, he might not be able to have a physical form outside of Meau's shadow (with a nice little parallel of Giratina being called Arceus' Shadow and the Pokémon of Shadow on Bulbapedia). Either way, we get half of an ancient Mew. Maybe, being created in the Distortion World limits what one can do outside of the Distortion World. Even Giratina himself had an origin outside of it.

Also this is just cool as heck so I wanna post it, I was gonna save it for later… but later really far away XD I LOVVVEEEE these theories, way too much, I hate that I can’t say anything regarding it. Cuz sometimes you get super close, but the wrong ball park, or the completely wrong idea, with details DEAD on. Also the crediting and sourcing is, muah, fabulous.

[modern-inheritance]

WIP Game Response

Buckle up buttercups!

@demiaseranmage tagged me in the game below, and I didn't want to clutter up the thread it was in so I've plopped it all here. And when I said it's gonna be messy, I just meant there would be a lot. It's actually really a good thing for me to scroll through everything and see what's been left on the backburner! So thank you for the tag!

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPS.

Here we go. In NO particular order, but grouped by the variety of docs I contain them all in…

Shorts 2:

Denial (requires a better title but I enjoy thinking about Egypt when I tinker with it)

“We’re finding workarounds, focusing on healing things to the state they are now rather than a full renewal. That’s not caused problems yet, but it’s…trial and error.” “Oh?” “...He thought he killed me the first try. Both of us had a bit of a breakdown.”

Short Shorts:

Again! (a frequently revisited concept that has never born actual full stories or shorts)

Voluntary Recall

Vanir

Nerves (kinda abandoned ages ago)

Standalones/Standalone documents w/ a single concept:

AXF First True (the spicy!) DONE!

Wardbreakers

Invaders Story Bits (the animatic which had to be abandoned due to file loss!)

EXA Attempts (continuously revisited as the fancy strikes)

For a Future Story

Debrief

Escape pt 2

MIC Gil'ead Bits (frequently revisited, where I keep all the actual Gil'ead stuff and concepts rather than the flashbacks and Recall episodes)

Short (this is just a random collection of bits and pieces of the time directly before Arya leaves, drawing in Brom, Oromis and Glaedr and later Rhunön to the family drama)

The Meadow (I’m not sure I like the direction this was going now that I’ve looked at Arya and Fäolin’s relationship again, but it’s a concept I will revisit I’m sure)

Fireside (holy shit I forgot about this one it’s just bits and pieces of dialogue from what I wanted to do for the MIC version of the fireside chat Eragon and Arya have in Brisingr surrounding Fäolin, her experiences in Gilead, etc. and I’mma have to look at this again later.)

Things not yet in a document:

Arya vs Unkie KiKi

The origin of Arya’s stomach scar, and the potential issues it brings up with a LOT of things but I need to do more biology and healing research

The joke of how Arya got her eyebrow scar, because hell if I know where she got it, and she ain’t tellin’ ME either!

Glenwing’s encounter with the Forsworn trained group that left him his facial scars

Eragon’s first facial scar and him wanting to keep it

Haircuts. Soooo many haircuts. 

What happened in Thornwell/Brom’s rages

So. Many. Magic system. Concepts!

The Wolfcats/Squaddies and the adventures Arya has learning to adapt like the humans do

Arya, Squaddies and The Tank

Sabotage Runs/No Man's Land Hauntings

A subset of dwarf music that is musically similar to our Bluegrass but with a bit more rough Appalachian style (thinking ‘Devil Wears a Suit and Tie by Colter Wall) and the pop of a lil bit of rough swing (‘Old man of the mountain’ by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy) and instead of being called ‘Bluegrass’ it’s a genre called ‘Slate.’ Because blue slate, bluegrass, slate is commonplace in some metamorphosed areas in the mountains…. Look I have a geology degree, I need to use it for bad jokes sometimes, and I’d love to see if this wild mix of styles would fit together musically one day.

So many interactions between Arya + Fírnen and Murtagh + Thorn. 

JEsus chrIST, Arya’s buried self hatred and guilt issues, especially surrounding Selena’s boys and their dragons

Brom’s own feelings of guilt around Arya’s imprisonment despite both of them knowing full well that he couldn’t have done anything but put himself, Eragon adn Saphira in danger if the ‘rescue’ went any other way.

‘Suffering’ from EPIC the Musical being inspiration for Arya having an induced and influenced hallucination by Durza ending with a similar vein of ‘[Arya] Fine, but only if you answer a question or two/ [Durza!Glen-Fäolin mix]: of course!/  [Arya, with a bared tooth smile] What’s my name?’

THERE ARE SO MANY MORE I PROBABLY CAN’T EVEN REMEMBER I HAD

There is so, so much of MIC that is never shown to y’all because it is never developed past the concept or in-the-brain stage, or it just falls apart, or I hit a wall, or the mojo disappears and i’ve lost the spark for that idea and can’t bring myself to just word vomit it out into the blog because I had/have a decent story set up and waiting. 

I don’t really have anyone to tag really. Not right now, but I’m definitely saving this for a new thread one day to ask all my friendly chatty people. Y’all can ask me about these, literally ANY of them. Because if you don’t there’s a fair chance they won’t ever be completed lmao.

[aninklingof]

Okay so I’ve been trying to take a nap for the past 15 minutes but for some reason my brain has been hyperfixating on theorizing @covenofwives ‘s God-Sibling AU, so I’m gonna share my personal theories on it so my head will finally shut up.

Specifically these theories are focused around what happened to PunzOP and who or what Lanky Chompers is. I am convinced the two are connected, and my reasoning for that is simply Punz. So here are my theories:

A) Lanky Chompers is the Warden or related to the skulk in one way or another. My evidence for this is this drawing that Coven made, Lanky Chompers has the distinct cyan glow that the skulk also has, as well as his horns look suspiciously like the Warden’s frill-things. Either Lanky Chompers comes from the original dimension the skulk and Warden does or he is the Warden.

B) PunzOP’s dimension that he watches over is the Aether (the glowstone framed water like portal that was a mod in the early years of Minecraft and people thought it was an actual thing in the game. It wasn’t.) Evidence here is PunzOP’s color palette and wing-motif, as the Aether is basically heaven like the Nether is hell.

C) PunzOP was killed or captured by Lanky Chompers. Pretty self-explanatory, my only evidence to back this theory up is how both entities are related to Punz.

D) PunzOP IS Lanky Chompers. This one is a bit far-fetched, since I think that LC is related to Skulk and PunzOP is god of the Aether. But maybe he was like possessed or corrupted by the skulk like how the catalysts spread it when a mob dies near one in the game. This would explain LC’s connection with Punz though.

E) Lanky Chompers is just a spooky demon manipulating Punz and has nothing to do with anything I just said and I’m simply leaning into my crazy conspiracy theorist tendencies.

F) 4K knows more about PunzOP’s disappearance than we as the audience are currently aware of. Evidence here is this animation Coven did to the Doki Doki Literature Club song, when the lyric “I wonder where Sayori is” (PunzOP was effectively Sayori in the animatic) the picture of 4K with a glitch effect and a censor bar over his eyes is shown.

—I think that’s it now for my theories, I’d love for y’all to share your own (If that’s alright with Coven ofc) and… yeah!

Thanks for listening to my crackpot theories and don’t forget to blow a kiss to Lanky Chompy on your way out! 😂❤️

[ghostenluvs]

secrets in stone

Chapter 2.1: the first of many such occasions

more shorter bits between major plot events! i love writing these i might just make an animatic bout some of these. :3

warnings: drowning, child endangerment, [not for very long and not violently]

The monkeys had been told to watch the kid.

And it was going great.

They’d already gotten to do so much more cool stuff than usual! Like the monkeys mostly let him practice doing somersaults without watching him like a hawk the whole time, so when he fell sideways instead there wasn’t someone right in front of him to see it.

And he learned stuff from them, too!

Like how the monkeys would hang upside down on treebranches!

He didn’t have a tail, but he had feets and hands and he could make do with that for now. He’d seen his gege change shapes all the time, so he could figure out how to do that later. Tails looked fun to have, and he wanted to be able to get back at the bigger monkey for all the times he picked them up with his tail and held them upside down.

One of these days… I'll be the one to flip HIM upside down. It’s gonna be so great.

But right now he didn’t have a tail, and he had a mission.

He slowly clambered up a tree that bent over lower to the ground than the others. [technically the ground underneath this tree was a pond, but whatever. Water is just wiggly ground anyways.] He used the many knots of the base of the tree to climb up onto the main sideways branch.

There were two younger monkeys in the leaves on the end of the big branch, one hung upside down by their tail.

He waved at the upside down monkey, and sat down on the branch, making sure his knees hooked securely-ish on the branch.

Deep breath in.. and-

He flips upside down, making eye contact with themself in the water below. 

“Yes! Take that, not having a tail! Wheee!” they celebrate, flailing their arms about in triumph.

The momentum sends him a bit too far backwards though, as his legs unhook from the rough bark and he plummets for all of 0.5 seconds into the pond.

The splash hurts his eyes and he sinks like a stone. The water is colder than he thought it would be. He flails continually under the surface the way he’d seen the other monkeys doing, but to no avail. 

He knows you’re not supposed to open your mouth underwater, but they slip on a stone in the sand and they gasp.

This is bad. He thinks, tears welling up and escaping into the water around him.

—

Macaque has been keeping tabs on the goings on of flower fruit mountain more lately, keeping a metaphorical and literal ear out for anything that sounds like wukong trying something stupid.

He might also be a little bit curious about the kid, sue him.

He’s sort of zoning out, as he places his macaroni spirals in the boiling water. The sounds of various locales filtering in and out of his attention.

Then he hears something that could not possibly be good.

“Wheee-ACK-!” *splash.*

From FFM.

Of course it is.

When the splashing continues for a moment without signs of wukong interrupting, he drops through his shadow to check it out covertly.

He weaves around trees and cliffs, quickly reaching the origin of the noises, he pops his head out of the shadows of a bent tree.

Of course this kid would fall into water, of all things.

He takes a second to entertain the thought of being a horrible person like usual, making eye contact with a monkey on the aforementioned tree and deciding resolutely against it.

He pops fully out of the shadows and into the water, not even up to his waist, grabbing the child under the shoulders and bringing them up to safety.

The kid is coughing immediately, and also crying. Heck. 

How do you calm down a half drowned, soaked kid? Oh crap right-

He adjusts his hold on them, patting their back hard to get the remaining water out. They hadn’t been in there too long right? Just like ten-fifteen seconds? Ish???

They cough out what seems to be the last of the pondwater, immediately clinging onto his torso for dear life, still shaking and hiccupping.

Ok, this is no longer my territory. This kid is Wukong's problem. Wait- where is wukong? Shouldn’t he be here? He cannot seriously expect this kid not to die stupidly if left alone right?

He makes his way out of the chilly pond, shaking himself off a little before dropping back into the shadows, holding the child securely to himself. [not that the kid wasn’t doing half that work on their own.]

He deposits them both outside wukong’s shabby ramshackle cabin, walking up the stairs resolutely and proceeding to kick the door clean off with one foot, face in a very intentionally unimpressed glare.

Wukong yelps and falls out of the rafters. Like a startled ferret.

He spots macaque holding the newly-aware-of-mortality child and immediately straightens up from his spot on his back on the floor.

“WHAT- *ahem* What are you doing here? What- why do you have him?! You-”

Macaque puts a hand up, glaring still. Wukong shuts up for the moment.

“I’m gonna stop you there, were you aware that your kid was outside alone? Because if you were, I'm gonna consider giving magic CPS a call.”

“Eugh… well- there is a good reason. But first, why is he soaking wet?! What happened to him, did you punt him through the waterfall or something?!”

Once more, the unimpressed glare.

“He was alone outside, and he fell into a pond. I, merciful paragon of ethics that I am, made sure they don’t drown for you. You’re welcome. Don’t leave a baby alone outside. You peachbrained dipstick.”

“Oh.”

Wukong buffered for a second.

“Well in my defence I told the monkeys to watch him.”

“They watched him, all right. Watched him inhale a fishtank.”

Macaque semi-pried the shivering kid off himself, holding him out to the king, who stepped forward and took him, looking him over for injuries and holding them close.

“Now why, pray tell, would you leave them outside, alone-ish, next to a pond, on the edge of a mountain? I wanna see you talk your way out of this hole.”

“Well, i may or may not have… slightly misplaced a flamethrower somewhere around here and didn’t want him getting his little hands on that just yet, but yeah i see that the pond might have been maybe not the 100% best option but it’s where the most monkeys were when i put them down there.”

“A flamethrower? Seriously? Why is that even near your shack thing?”

“Well it’s one cave, there’s going to be some misplacement of stuff in the wrong places sometimes.”

“Well if you’re misplacing flamethrowers into your silverware drawers little what’s-their-name here is gonna have a rough childhood.”

“Hey! I’ll have you know, mr paragon of annoyance, that little what’s-their-name here’s childhood is going amazingly. Wonderfully, swimmingly even.”

Macaque raises an eyebrow.

“Okay so not that last one then, but still great. Isn’t it bud?” he gestures to the kid, who has been silent this whole conversation.

“I’m cold.” he whines.

“Fair enough.” wukong moves quickly to grab a blanket from the couch and wraps the kid in it like a bona-fide soaked toddler burrito, setting them on the couch and turning back to macaque.

“You should probably check the kid for a cold or something, I dunno what mortals do with cold water. I’m going home. Tell what’s-his-name not to do it again.”

He turns to leave, before stopping in the doorframe and turning back.

“What is this kid’s name, anyways, ‘little what’s-their-name’ is too many syllables.”

Wukong blinks.

“What?”

He blinks again, looking towards the kid again, seeming to realize something.

“What, you don’t trust the paragon of not letting babies drown to know the kid’s name? Wow.”

Wukong clears his throat.

“Yep, yeah that. I mean, you’re not planning on attending his kindergarten graduation or anything so I don't see why you’d need to know that.” he says quickly, crossing his arms.

I’m too tired for whatever he’s doing here. I just wanna go home and eat stupid processed pasta.

“Okay, yeah, you enjoy whatever it is you’re doing after this. And you know you can find the dumb flamethrower with your gold vision right?”

Wukong blinks.

“Ugh.”

Macaque drops through the shadows to go back to his dojo.

He pops back out of the ground in front of his oven, looks to check the timer-

That he forgot to set. Dangit.

Upon further inspection, the pasta is mush now. Oh well.

Guess I'm ordering noodles.

—

Wukong leans over the couch, watching the newly dried off kid as they downed their hot chocolate.

How on earth did he forget to name the dang baby?

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[theabominableblogger]

All right, this is gonna be a long one... 1, 5, 10, 14, 15, 20, 25, 30, 32, and 37 for the CR questions.

Legit the first words out of my mouth were "oh Jesus!"

Here we go! CR time bay-beee! I've only been in the fandom for about a year and a half but I'm raring to go!

1- Character you don’t particularly like, but will defend vehemently when people dislike them for the wrong reasons.

Starting things off with a bang (hehe), I'm gonna go with Scanlan. A lot of people overlook him as the archetypal horny bard, which is the point of the character. His growth is subtle and doesn't really become extremely noticeable until he leaves in "A Bard's Lament." He's saved Vox Machina's butt on countless occasions and yet the team still kinda pushes him aside. They touched on this a little bit too in the first season of TLOVM with this little teases of foreshadowing and shots of him looking disappointed and I thought that was really cool. Also the clutch counterspell at 8th Lvl against Vecna is just *chef's kiss*

5- Meta you would write if you did not fear people would be SUPER weird about it. This is also an invitation to write that meta and block the haters.

I feel like a bunch of meta I've thought about has already been talked about. I've seen a bunch of phenomenal posts by many Critters on this site, including @captainofthetidesbreath and it's very intriguing and sometimes refreshing to get different perspectives on things that happen. One of my favorites I've read was a breakdown on the infamous Trent dinner scene in C2 which IMO is VERY reminiscent of the dinner sequence in Curse of Strahd. Matt defintely takes elements from well known DnD campaigns and salt bae sprinkles them into Exandria.

10- Favorite and least favorite Matt Mercer Original Subclass.

Super easy. Favorite is the Blighted Druid from Taldorei Reborn mainly because of its AoE in higher levels and addition to AC. Least favorite is the Blood Magic Wizard because as a piddly widdle wizard, your hit die is A D6. And you want your wizard to WILLINGLY cause damage to themselves?!? Hard pass.

14- Describe the art you would most like to create or commission if talent/money were no object.

God, there's so many things I wanna create. Right now I'm working on the Callowmoore supercut (which sits right now at about 35 min) and a few attempts at animatics here and there. The main two animatics I wanna try my hand at are Fearne and Ashton's fireside chat in C3 and Capeleb in C2.

Cosplay is also a thing I wanna get more into. I did a few CR casual cosplays this year (Imogen and Vax) for a ren faire and GenCon and I was so surprised by everyone's compliments on them.

15- Favorite one-on-one conversation (can be between two PCs, or a PC and NPC).

Oh God. So far Fjord and Essek's conversation after Molly's failed return made me bawl like a baby and so did Orym telling Will he couldn't stay in C3. Also for the Mighty Nein Reunited, Essek stopping by. 10/10 will die happily.

20. What non-D&D TTRPG would you most like to see Critical Role run a one shot in?

Arkham Horror would be pretty cool, I'm not gonna lie. Or Dresden Files. Or Balikbayan: Returning Home

25. What class do you most want to see Matt play if he is in a future EXU campaign as a new (not Dariax) PC?

Matt sure does love his spellcasters so let's mix it up. I wanna see him as an absolute madman of a paladin.

30. What is your favorite theory or headcanon that has absolutely no bearing on the plot and isn’t important at all, but which is completely compliant with canon?

I still think Caleb and Essek would have tried to go back for that freaking necrotic gem that Caleb almost got nuked trying to get. That whole scenario is freaking hilarious.

32. If the CR main cast were to play the original 7 tombtakers per The Nine Eyes of Lucien (Brevyn, Cree, Jurrell, Lucien, Otis, Tyffial, and Zoren) in a one shot, who should play whom? Assume Matt DMs, but you do not need to have Taliesin play Lucien.

Oh absolutely Matt plays Lucien. I would have Ashley be Brevyn (because it only makes sense given the connection), Zoren be Liam, Sam be Otis (because karma is a god), Cree be Laura actually, Travis be Jurrell, and Marisha be Tyffial. Have Taliesin switch out with Matt sometimes when Matt comes in as Vess DeRogna. Double DM!

37. You have to take a 16 hour road trip with one NPC from each campaign (all at once, ie, three other people). The NPCs cannot shorten the road trip in any way and the road trip must be via driving but you can do it in two 8 hour days and share a motel room if you’d like. Who do you pick?

Oh geez. Probably Gilmore and Essek and Weva and I'll explain. Essek would be the person I would talk to for small talk and get along with (and talk about how exhausting it is to just be) and Gilmore to absolutely come in and be like "I got the music!" and slams on the soundtrack from Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Weva would also be the one who tells really extravagant stories because she has to be some sort of death cleric who has stories from being a magical mortician.

[spacebubblehomebase]

Well, the above animatic is definitely cancelled.

Sorry, guys. Ya boi sillied too hard. This was nothing too serious anyways, BUT the animatic I'll be making for my AU definitely is! YES. You read that right! My #HHStargazersAU will now include an ANIMATIC that I'll be posting one day; when we reach that particular turning point of the story. I've been working on that right now instead of the next update, but I'll get to that soon as well when my break starts! Basically, my situation is like this...

😅 Teacher really said, "Update your AU! People have waited long enough." LMAO. This is what I get for saying "I have to focus on Finals, guys. Not now." SOOO many times and now it's ACTUALLY a part of my Finals too! Haha. My biggest concern is that this may be shown to my classmates by the end of the week if our schedules work out according to my teacher. How am I to explain this AU if someone asked??? This Hazbin Hotel Chaggie & Radioapple centered AU??? To the ENTIRE class!?? Why of all things, did my teacher choose THAT one out of my other simpler song animatic options? Prof, ya weren't actually supposed to do that. TvT That scene was just gonna be in comic form originally. Now I have to try my hand at sound design too. All I wanted was some LOLs and got served Ls. Ah well. Get ready for a feast, everyone. Because those who patiently still holds hope for my story will be eating good, I swear. (Not like I can do anything to escape it now. It's major grades! XD)

-Bubbly💙

Sorry I've been gone awhile guys, but I randomly decided to start a stupidly useless animatic no that one asked for at GODKNOWSWHAT time in the morning while I have my Finals kicking my arse. (And the fact that I'm an animation student means that most of my school-works are also animatic or storyboard based on top of my papers & presentations. WHYYY-) So yeah. Drawing for my #HHStargazersAU has been in the back burner for bit, but NOT abandoned!!! I assure you! For now, I'm fleshing out the lore of it more while I give ya'll a sneak peek of my current project as compensation. Something to look forward to I guess:

P.S. Vox is surprisingly REALLY easy to draw for me as this was my first try and I didn't even sketch! His expression is really fun for me.

-Bubbly💙

[mangofmoon]

wait ive never shared this on here—

this is the first animatic Ive ever posted (and im still quite proud of it? weird). The way I made it tho… is uh… probably unconventional (click the read more thing to learn how ;3)

OK SO I firstbtried using flipaclip. but after the sketches and figuring out timing I realized that exporting the video caused the audio to be offset and that bugged the shit outta me so I changed plans i screen recorded the preview in flipaclip, imported the recording to procreate, and COUNTED THE FRAMES. INDIVIDUALLY. Finally i could match the number of frames to the actual nice ones I made in procreate. sweet! i had a video! i think! then i realized: “wait how do i add audio” PANIC

then I remembered the iMovie app my brother and i used to make home movies with. That could work! (i have no computer so no actual nice software, and less features in imovie) (sad) so i put the video into imovie and added the audio it… it was off. like very off. i tried editing it but it was so bad i got tired and gave up. i forgot about it completely.

like a month later i found it again, and being less sick of looking at it, I was like: yea sure i could upload this. I asked my brother, who had a computer, to add subtitles. But the program he used made incredibly crusty subtitles and i couldn’t match them completely with the frames. oh well. i uploaded without the subtitles and carried on my day.

until a few days later I realized I could make it BETTER I went back to the timed frames and added subtitles individually to each, according to the original music video, so us english speakers could know what the lyrics are (which i wanted because the korean lyrics are mostly the reason this song resonated so strongly with my story) so I tried to edit the timing in the frames better, but in imovie it again sucked ass. so, i finally gave up, and slapped the “timed” frames in so I could split the video in imovie and cut out extra time and get the timing PERFECT! it took like 3 hours cus i didn’t know what i was doing but I did it! i sure did

anyway ask me if u wanna know any lore stuff :) ill try not to give away too much

(also apologies if this is hard to read) (probs gonna edit it for clarity later)

[thescrapbookingscientist]

Biweekly Media Roundup

- The School for Good and Evil (Movie) - So I heard some of the buzz around this movie and despite having never read the books and hearing mostly mid reviews, I thought the look of the film (and the promise of girls kissing) was nice enough to give it a try. While it’s not something I would really recommend I can’t say I disliked it, though I’m not in any hurry to watch it again. For the good points it does look very pretty, the actor choices, set design, costuming and effects were all shockingly great for the kind of movie this is, and while I thought the execution was messy I appreciated that they did in fact go into the fucked up implications of trying to classify morality as black and white. The relationship between the protagonists was also pretty good, I did genuinely feel like they cared about each other. On the Bad side though, the setup itself was not great, with the concept of a Good and Evil schools being pretty juvenile to start with and frustrating in execution. I imagine they are more complex in the novel but for the movie there were a lot of underdeveloped secondary characters who were given too basic/mean dialogue to sympathies with. I feel like with such an absurd concept they either needed to make the schools themselves come off as a bit more nuanced or needed to go for an overall more comedic tone as it was difficult to take the plot seriously. I also did not appreciate that when they started making one of the protagonists “ugly” they did so by giving her a larger nose like come on guys really. Still, If they make a sequel I’ll probably watch it if for nothing else than to see more of Charlize Theron in a suit.

- Hamilton (Musical) - Watching through animatics, what can I say the songs are still bangers even if I’m burnt  out on everything else surrounding the musical.

- Good Omens (TV) - Figured my sister would like this after Sandman so did a rewatch. My opinion didn’t change much from the first time, I like Sheen’s and Tennat’s performances a lot, The aesthetic of Heaven and Hell being the same office building but separated into the crowded musky basement and empty soulless top offices is great, and the cold open 3rd episode is an excellent show original edition, but on the other hand most of the secondary characters are pretty uninteresting, some of the subplots feel like a waste of time, and the TV format cuts out a lot of the comedy and philosophizing I liked from the novel. Still I would overall say I’m a fan and will give season 2 a chance.

- Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-Kun (Anime) - I’ve heard people say this is their favorite arc, and while I’m definitely still a fan of the show I’m not seeing it yet. I do appreciate the diverse group ups of the cast and getting to see new interactions, as well as the differing teaching methods and overall comedy of the show, but I’m a bit frustrated that at least within the class itself the girls al have passive/sex-appeal related tactics while the boys get to use cool abilities and strategies. It’s strange because that didn’t really seem like an issue before, what with Ameri being one of the physically strongest of the students, gender roles being subverted pretty often, and the casual inclusion of LGBTQ+ and Non-binary characters, but this arc has just been dropping the ball a bit there, especially when considering the extra screen time given to the horrendous Mineta-esque Owl character. I don’t know, it’s not as if I’m against having a character that uses their charisma/attractiveness to manipulate people, but A) That shouldn’t be ALL the girls, they should get as diverse talents as the boys, and B) You literally have a character name ASMODEUS who is literally a demon from the family representing lust-You’re really not gonna choose that guy for this ability?? I realize it wouldn’t match his “Gay as hell for the protagonist and aggressively uninterested in anyone else especially women” personality but if anything that would make it more interesting, we’d get to see him struggling with something for once and getting to use his intelligence in a different way. 

- Mob Psycho 100 (Anime) - Yup.

- Spy X Family (Anime) - Glad to get so much Anya school content, I find it oddly charming and enjoy it as much as the spy/assassins stuff. 

- Witch Hat Atelier (Manga) - New book on it’s way, the character designs and art of the manga take my breath away, they are so pretty.

- Breath of the Wild (Video Game) - Still working as great stress relief, the vibes of this game are immaculate.

- Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (Webnovel) - I’m getting through this very slowly but in my defense I got a lot going on right now, I am enjoying it.

I’m also keeping up with Lower Decks, Ace Attorney, Jojo’s, Last Week Tonight, Made in Abyss, Chainsaw Man, Golden Kamuy, and Monster High.

Listening to: Anti-Hero and Happiness by Taylor Swift, Something in the Orange by Zach Bryan, Lent by Autoheart, Holy Water by Michael Ray, Chocolate by The 1975, Curses by The Crane Wives, Brutal by Olivia Rodrigo, Encanto OST, Ultraluminary by Caleb Hyles, Hello My Old Heart by The Oh Hellos.