#Rusty lake Mary

[edelweiss313]

Don't you just love it when your dead uncle's naked corpse suddenly drops by the house via the ceiling to visit for the holidays and further ruins the innocence of your already traumatized children

[seagullcharmer]

family tree

[the-great-anteater]

Putting Rusty Lake women on The Spectrum™

[karakuli-by-ds]

№2: Mary Vanderboom

Well, a classic Victorian look. The difference with the game is already higher. The dog is for your mood.

[candledel]

I find it fun to draw these pictures in a series. I still haven’t decided in which period of the timeline to draw them, so keep the mix)

[thelakesuite]

i had a point originally but i lost it. uhhh falling in love with this man like a puppy in a box on the side of the road

[wuakdd]

william’s dead body: just fell out of a clock, thus destroying it (probably that made a lot of noise, right?)

james: zzzzzzz……. mary……. ❤️

actually he’s so real for that i would’ve done the same

[tomatosoupyes]

The lovers.

[rustylakeappreciation]

Vanderboom Appreciation Month Starts JANUARY 1ST!!

Hey everybody! So I bit the bullet and did it. This blog is dedicated to the appreciation of, and hosting events for, the indie game series Rusty Lake!! This blog is by no means official or affiliated with the series' creators.

January 2024 is Vanderboom Appreciation Month! See the list of prompts here! Feel free to check out my blog or hit up my ask box if you have questions!!

PLEASE reblog this post to spread the word!!

Cheers, and I hope to see you there!

[escapetothelake]

Samuel and Ida for the ship asks :3

hi anteater!! hope you enjoy :)

tw: albert mention lol (but its not too angsty dw)

who made the first move: when samuel saw the poster of ida announcing her arrival at rusty lake, he was almost immediately infatuated. he went down to visit her and help set up, and then he brought her lunch after, which they ate in the grass in front of her newly-built tent.

who kissed who first: samuel was taught to be a gentleman by his mother, so he always thought to ask before a kiss. ida made him flustered though. she caught on immediately, and kissed him first. when he came home dumbstruck with red lipstick smeared on his lips, mary smiled and emma just laughed.

who started the relationship: there was a point when they both realized that they were pretty much spending every day together. emma teased samuel about it a lot, and told him to work up the courage to ask to officially court her. mary told him that it was improper to continue the way they were, and samuel's a huge mama's boy, so he listened. the next time he went to visit ida, he went with a bouquet of wildflowers in hand. emma is samuel's best friend, so she was the first one to know about it.

who remembers things: i'd say both of them, but mostly ida.

nicknames for each other: ida - "darling", "my love", and variants of the name "samuel" ("sam", etc); samuel - "doll", "my treasure", and "i" or "da". he also sometimes teasingly calls her "reiziger". on occasion, he calls her "my rose" for her beautiful red hair, and she always gives him a knowing look.

who is more likely to pay for dinner: samuel. ida gets the princess treatment, always.

who normally cooks: kind of a cop-out answer, but mary does most of the family's cooking. she taught samuel how to cook, and he enjoys it too. every once in a while, however, ida will cook a new romani dish for the family. they are always greatly enjoyed.

who remembers anniversaries: ida has an impeccable memory, so she obviously remembers something as important to the relationship as an anniversary. samuel remembers too, and he gets ida an anniversary present without fail. he tells her that her existence in his life is enough of a gift to him.

what would they get each other for gifts: samuel always buys ida jewelry when they go out. otherwise, it's usually flowers he's picked or a little trinket he carved. ida often does readings for him

most trivial thing they fight over: they honestly don't fight much??? the only thing i can think of though is that sometimes ida can be very cryptic and nonchalant, leading to samuel stressing because he thinks she knows something he doesn't, especially about the future. being around ida has 100% turned him into a believer, and sometimes he gets anxious looking at her crystal ball.

how often do they fight: like i said, not often.

who uses all the hot water: samuel. definitely.

who calls up the super/landlord when the heat’s not working: nobody! samuel can fix it himself 💪

who leaves their stuff around: samuel has a habit of bringing his carpentry tools into the house. it drives mary and emma crazy, if anything, but ida doesn't mind.

who remembers to buy the milk: this one's difficult because it's hard to know how the vanderbooms get groceries from the outside world. it's possible they have a cow??—in which case samuel would milk it—or they even get it delivered. i'd love to see them have a little old neighbor who's like "hmm they never go out so i'll just bring them groceries" and he becomes a family friend whom they have over for dinner often until one day he hasn't heard from the vanderbooms in a while and he rows over and albert's standing on the dock wearing a mask and he's like "your services are no longer required here, old man" and the dude rows away apprehensively, staring at albert who doesn't move an inch until the little boat is out of sight and AHH i'm getting carried away. the answer is probably samuel.

who controls the netflix queue: samuel loves his netflix specials.

who steals the covers at night: samuel. ida will pettily yank them sometimes, prompting samuel to wake up, and they'll both laugh.

who cusses more: samuel, but he has mary, emma, and leonard policing his behavior. the second he swears, leonard is holding a little hand out, waiting for money to add to the swear jar ida mde him.

who does most of the cleaning: kinda both of them? it's a huge house, so domestic labor is split pretty evenly.

what’s their favorite non-sexual activity: hard to say because they do so much together. they like playing games, picnics, traveling and exploring the area around the lake, cooking, and just relaxing together. sometimes they'll stay up late just talking and enjoying each other's company. ida light's samuel's pipe, and they chat until it's time for bed.

who’s the cuddler: samuel. sometimes he'll just pull ida onto the couch with him and fall asleep in her arms after a long day.

who’s the big spoon/little spoon: depends. it used to be samuel mostly, but he finds he really likes it when ida holds him. it makes him feel safe and appreciated.

who’s more dominant: we know it's ida bfr

who is the dirty talker: both. samuel also really likes it when ida speaks romani to him. this isn't dirty talking, but on a related note, he likes it when she holds him, runs her fingers through his hair, and softly says random things in romani.

what do they do when they’re away from each other: samuel does a lot of carpentry and woodworking on a daily basis, so he would just carry on as usual, especially because ida doesn't like to stick around. as for ida, if she were the one out, she'd just enjoy her travels. if it were samuel, she'd turn to her crystal ball and tarot cards.

what would they do if the other one was hurt: it would make samuel anxious to see ida sick or hurt. he would devote much of his time to caring for her and visiting her bedside. eventually, he got used to it when she was bedridden during her pregnancy with leonard, and he became much more relaxed about it. ida, on the other hand, is a very relaxed woman by nature, and she knows a thing or two about injuries since she's spent so much time on the road. she would take it on the chin, and deal with it in an appropriate manner.

a headcanon: leaving the lake was pretty normal before albert became the man of the house. however, samuel was still pretty sheltered as a boy because he didn't leave much after his father passed. ida loves traveling, and she takes him often. the first time they went together, samuel was a little dumbstruck, and in awe of the architecture especially. he spent twenty minutes staring through the window of a furniture shop, and then he finally went inside and bought like fifteen bottles of wood polish. they continued the tradition weekly, and eventually, they saw amsterdam together, and even brussels and paris.

[nowhereelsetopost]

Underrated Fictional Dogs

(In no particular order)

1. Cú from Song Of The Sea (2014) 2. Misty Palms Oasis dog from Avatar: The Last Airbender 3. Hylain Retrievers from Breath of The Wild (2017) 4. Dog and puppy from Barbie Zoom and Groom 5. Jake from the Mr Gum books 6. Benny from Toddworld 7. Mungo from Mary Mungo and Midge 8. The Dog from the Rusty Lake games 9. Dog from Barbie Baby Krissy 10. Corgi from Abyssrium/Tap Tap Fish

[the-great-anteater]

[nameshifter]

#laketober, part 1: Mother

Figured I'd start with a simple drawing of one of the earliest matriarchs in Rusty Lake - Mary Vanderboom. I haven't drawn her before this, though I intented to, just never got around to it. Overall, I like it.

[lidera-aro]

Leonard is my favorite vanderboom I just had this idea

So what if: leonard also has some sort of powers/physic(?) due to his mother?

We know that rose can speak to ghosts cus albert created her with Ida’s egg, right?

So what if leonard just know things like

Leo’s friend:*talking about visiting his family or smth*

Leo: visit them a day earlier

Friend:..why?

Leo: just.. do it

And when the friend do as they are told, they help/save one of their family members, and is very surprised about this bc if they visit their family as planned then it could NOT have happened and the said member would’ve injured badly.

And when they ask leonard how he knew but leonard’s like “idk, I just know” “tf you mean you just know-“

Like imagine frank coming out of the well, and his cousins are just talking about smth that makes totally no sense, and it somehow happens/makes sense in near future and he asks them, rose tells him nothing because well, she is rose, and leo’s like “idk I just know things” frank is freaked out, wondering tf id happening then he remembers aunt Ida.(tbh I think he would know abt rose&ida cus we see him during albert ‘creates’ rose&she has red hair that is clearly from Ida)

I think it would be rlly funny scenario where rose is just being herself& leonard&frank is thinking ‘am I the only normal one in this family?’

While leonard’s friends( let’s be honest, frank was in well for decades& rose probs didn’t interect at all) are just like “haha such a weirdos tf is wrong with them”

[eliza-fernway-art]

OUGH I’m so excited for Underground Blossom y’all

[matthew-neo]

what a nice family sure hope no one dies 😊

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