#SotS-adjacent

[thegreenleavesofspring]

Look For The Star

One foot in front of the other, red dust puffing up at each step. A harsh sun glaring down on the unforgiving world below, scouring away impurities. The toddler on her back – a fraction of the weight he should be, she knows – gone silent hours ago. She hopes he’s sleeping, not dead. The infant in her arms listless and dull-eyed but breathing.

The wanderer had told her of a settlement out here. A city, rebuilt from ashes and dust, run by a man with hair like flame and a temper to match, an iron rule over the city. A place where she could be safe, where no one would rip her children from her, where they would not be sold into slavery or taken for unspeakable uses that make her skin crawl to think of.

It is a bleak world, a harsh world, and a cruel world, now. The weak die or are preyed on. A city where a lone woman and her children can be safe sounds like a dream, a fantasy, a fading memory of days past. It is every manjack for himself out here, and predators survive while prey dies.

But the wanderer had promised. Had given her detailed directions. Maybe it was a prank. A cruel joke from the man brave and stupid enough to take on these trackless wastes alone. Send her and her children out to die in the desert, chasing an empty hope. But even an empty hope, a fool’s hope, was better than no hope, which is what she’d had before.

He had promised. Had told her to look for the black flag with the white star, had turned to show her the back of his jacket. Look for the star. He’s under the star. You’ll be safe there.

She squinted against the shimmering mirage waves over the sand and dirt. A dark blotch on the distant horizon. Right where the wanderer had said the city would be. Look for the star.

Another weary step. A small scour of dust on a rag-wrapped ankle. Another step. Another. Closer. Look for the star. Look for the black banner with the white star. Look for the star…

[thegreenleavesofspring]

RISER

FREAKING

WAY

(in the voice of a guy that will defy fate to save you) i don't care

[thegreenleavesofspring]

.

So I was informed by CPS today that my pending-ex-husband is almost done with their requirements and that I need to be arranging supervised visitation. Well I've had B.A.C.A on the mind recently for no apparent reason and on the way home from court the other day I saw a billboard for them and, anyway, I've learned to listen to these quiet niggling little prompts and I reached out to them today to see if maybe they'll supervise the visitation and the one I'm talking to goes by Starman and honestly I'm about to choke on the irony.

[riacte]

It’s kinda sad that Ren thinks he wants to join MCC but might not get in because there’s more players now and he hasn’t played in a long time 🥺 (False did suggest for him to sign up)

It’s even more so that someone like Ren— for fun, endlessly appreciative, just happy to be there, best cheerleader, optimistic— would contribute immensely to the current MCC landscape. Especially when H might take a break, so someone as loudly supportive as he is would be really nice. And MCC Reddit has realized that the balance between for fun / more competitive players has been OFF and we should probably try to fix it. Having Ren be back would inject some nice positivity into MCC.

(Although my personal concern is that Ren teams could be hard to balance considering his old teams consist of friends and hermits (+adjacent). Duos like Ren + False and Ren + Cub could be hard to balance now— we’ve been getting more “solo hermit” teams (sometimes with an Empires/Traffic person) and hermit duos like False + Cub tend to be balanced with an OP duo with a S tier. But then again I do think if all ten teams are less OP, it’ll all be okay.)

TLDR: Ren being back would be absolutely great for the MCC climate. Everyone’s been missing him and hallucinating his voice in SoT.

Ren’s words himself from Twitch chat: “Not sure if they'd have me back a this point, so many players and I've been away too long I think :***(“

(From False’s stream around a week ago, 1:18:55)

[declawedwildcat]

For the ao3 ask. 13 and 27? 💜

13. What’s your longest work of the year?

We Sail Together, no surprises there! I am surprised though that its spinoff Maiden's Voyage came out as my second-longest, it was not supposed to be that big and I still think it feels way too rushed for what it was trying to achieve, haha.

27. What do you listen to while writing?

I can't really listen to music while I write. I almost always have an ambient mix of fireplace and rain sounds, or on rare occasion this SoT beach ambience. For writing-adjacent tasks and other projects I just flip on random spotify playlists, this year a lot of my WST soundtrack and @/whatthebodygraspsnot's Behind the Sea playlist!

{AO3 Wrapped asks}

[thegreenleavesofspring]

If Ken was a cat.

No thank you anthropomorphic cat in a spiky jacket I don't really want those

[cheylouwho]

the power that The Oh Hellos has on SOT and SOT adjacent art is just. immeasurable 

[thegreenleavesofspring]

By the way, y'all are sleeping on Sea Battle. Sons of the Star but chivalrous pirates, come on people.

Also Riser steals a kiss (and does not get slapped for it, mostly because she does not have time.)

[kiyrian]

Thanks @veikkoalen <3

nine things

Last Song: You Don't Know How Lucky You Are by Keaton Henson (got back to listening to him this winter and I had some good taste at 13)

Favorite Color: red probably (I don't wear anything red but most of my poster have red accents)

Last Movie/TV Show: Twin Peaks (I am in the middle of season 2 but got distracted)

Sweet/Savory/Spicy: spicy for sure

Last Thing I Googled: fun answer? male body sexy clothing (it was yesterday tho) real answer? Collective self-esteem "group symbols" google scholar (which was a minute ago)

Current Obsession: stories in general, Alan Wake and the rest of Remedyverse in particular

Last Book: S. or The Ship of Theseus - still reading it, was hoping for something more House of Leaves adjacent but yeah if I want more HoL i should read HoL, SoT is more straight forward

Last Fic: my Alan as the FBC Director AU, still finishing up the last two chapters since the story changed so much with the rewrites I have to completely change the original draft (and isn't this ironic)

Looking Forward To: maybe heat death of the universe or smth, I don't know, I am too caught up in holding up deadlines and spinning my guys in my brain to think about the future

[thegreenleavesofspring]

Hang on, hang on, lemme just...

Riser handed Songbird a beer and cracked his own. "You know," he began in complete non-sequitur, "I am fascinated by how dislocate seems to be a word used almost exclusively anatomically. Strictly used to refer to body parts out of place. You don't, for instance, say," he gestured vaguely with his can, "I dislocated my keys, even though that is a perfectly correct and coherent sentence."

Birdie snickered into his drink and Riser continued, "On the other hand, it would be really funny to say 'I mislocated my shoulder' to announce a devastating injury." He pointed to the other side of the room with a droll expression, miming clutching his collarbone around his can. "It went that way."

"Don't," Max grunted from the kitchen.

Cary, slumped on the couch, spoke without looking up from here he was scrolling on his phone. "It's because the dis- prefix in English carries a strong sense of undoing or reversal, whereas mis- means to do badly. So if my keys are misplaced that means I put them in the wrong spot, but if they are displaced it means someone else moved them from where they were supposed to be."

He turned his head briefly to cough into his shoulder, impervious to or merely unaware of the daggers being glared at the back of his head by his two immediately older brothers. "There's a lot of dis- words for body parts! Dislocate, dismember, disarticulate - if a corpse is disarticulated that means it's all jumbled up and torn apart. If it's misarticulated you put it together wrong in the first place. Maybe don't be putting bodies back together, though." He looked up at last with a vague sort of frown. "....a better minimal pair would have been disassembled (taken apart) vs misassembled (put together wrong), wouldn't it."

A momentary silence descended over the house following this exposition. Riser wore a look of flat distaste and took a long and pointed slurp of his beer. Birdie merely looked pained.

Ken, fidgeting with some doohickey of metal and wire, was the first to break the silence. "The existence of the word misadventure - that is, an unfortunate event happening to you, typically of your own doing - implies the existence of disadventure, that is, an unfortunate event of someone else's doing. And I'll be bringing this into my vocabulary for situations where other people's mistakes have become my problem." A deeply pointed look at the armchair where Red was sitting perched on the arm and Russ was dangling off the seat with his feet up on the back.

Russ tipped his head thoughtfully, a rather odd sight considering his current upside down position. "So if I make an unprofitable choice and have nobody to blame for it but myself, it's misadvantageous?" he queried generally.

Red answered obligingly. "I would say that misadvantageous is more something that is advantageous, just not for you. Someone would benefit, but you are not that someone."

"None of us benefit from the two of you," Riser said snarkily, crumpling his beer can up to wing it at the twins before taking to his heels to avoid their yelling retribution.

~~~~~~~~~~~~

All credit for quotes to everyone in this thread, obviously! 😅

fascinated by how "dislocate" seems to be a word used almost exclusively to refer to the misalignment of bodies, or parts of the body, from their proper place. it's distinctly anatomical. you don't say "i dislocated my keys" for instance, even though that's technically a correct and coherent sentence.

[joyhandsep]

China, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos cooperated with multiple parties to launch special activities to combat gambling fraud

(2) Thailand The first is to explain why a comprehensive coordination center for special operations was established in Chiang Mai, Thailand. According to official news, at this kick-off meeting, China, Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos decided to jointly establish a comprehensive coordination center for special operations in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Later, the Thai media responded, explaining the reason for establishing a comprehensive coordination center for special operations in Chiang Mai: Thailand and Myanmar are geographically adjacent, with long borders and geographical dispersion, making it difficult to attack. Thailand has not only become a source of trafficking targets, but also a transit point for human trafficking from all over the world. The Mekong River separates Thailand's Mae Sot region from Myanmar's Myawaddy. Establishing the coordination center in Thailand will facilitate rapid response to combat crime dens. The second is to express that they will make every effort to ensure the safety of Chinese tourists traveling in Thailand. On March 23, a statement issued by the Thai Embassy in China mentioned that Thailand attaches great importance to the quality, safety and good impression of Chinese tourists on Thailand. In response to tourists' concerns about safety issues, relevant Thai agencies attach great importance to this issue and will also take corresponding measures to fully maintain and ensure the safety of tourists. The third is to call on all countries to cooperate to solve the problem of human trafficking at the border. In addition, Thai officials also urge people not to travel to the Mae Sot area in Thailand. Since Mae Sot in Thailand and Myawaddy in Myanmar are only separated by the Mekong River, Thai police statistics show that about 70,000 Chinese are trafficked from Thailand to Myanmar every year. Myawaddy Town. In March, Thailand's Minister of Social Development and Human Security Wattana Mongsu said: "Human trafficking is not just a national problem, it is a transnational crime. Despite the best efforts of the Thai government, we still need the Mekong region The full cooperation and participation of all countries internally and all countries outside the region.”

[thegreenleavesofspring]

The brainrot is so bad. Walk into the dentist office and they're playing Carry On My Wayward Son and my immediate thought is "Max!"

[south-park-fanart-archive]

Welcome! + Faq, Tags

The main mission behind this blog is to gather as much old, tumblr-based south park fanart as possible and give it a conventional, easily searchable home. While tumblr’s general search system may falter, or google may hide old blogs targeted by the faulty nsfw filters, this blog will be navigable by various tags. 

This blog was started on December 31st, 2021, starting out using the resources found on op’s old sideblog that has been collecting fanart since 2014. Many of these blogs are either no longer active, disabled, or were deleted by the mass banning in 2018 (sp fandom used to be full of p0//rn artists!), so the timestamps may not be accurate as some are no longer viable to pull from. Most posts are tagged directly by year (example, “2014″), while others may have a tag like "2014 or older”. This means that the post is at the maximum from 2014, but I don’t have an exact date, only the date I reblogged it. There are also some posts that were sourced and credited but were reposts (not posted by the original artist to tumblr) and those are tagged with “repost” and my best guess on the username of the original artist and the date.

(As a sidenote, even for archival purposes, I will not be posting any explicit nsfw to this blog to avoid any issues with tumblr’s flagging system. Any naughty-adjacent jokes will be tagged with “nsfw-ish”. There is also a tag “flashing gif” because there’s a couple of those for people who may have photosensitivity. There may also be art that has problematic elements, but anything too bad will be tagged as necessary.)

I tried to tag posts with both the artists current (or the last username they used before being disabled) username and a more recognizable username. Some may have been missed, so if you’re looking for someone specific, search the more recognizable name and then after finding it, plug the newer username into your search.

This blog is not just compiling old art, but art created recently in the sp tag. That way, we are creating the most comprehensive place to search for art, and once I’m done going through my old blog, it will have a good record all the way through the present. This way, in the future, if someone wants to look back at 2021 art, the resource is there!

-

Some tags to try and search:

https://south-park-fanart-archive.tumblr.com/tagged/[insert from below]

[year, ex. 2014]

[character, ex. Kenny] **NOTE: Tolkien is tagged as “Token” on this blog, as the archive was started before his name spelling was changed in canon. For consistency with what was already set up, this is how to find his fanart :)

[group, ex. Craig’s Gang; main 4 ;girls; group shot]

[au, ex. sot; fbw; coon and friends; general “au” tag]

[artist, ex. preoprix]

[ship, ex. creek]

[Season, ex “s18″] (this means the content was published in direct response to an episode from a specific season, or in preparation/hype for the new season)

-

Specific links:

https://south-park-fanart-archive.tumblr.com/tagged/askblog because remember those? There were a lot!

https://south-park-fanart-archive.tumblr.com/tagged/fandom%20history for posts that I feel are very relevant in some way to sp tumblr history. Either being very well known or infamous, or I feel are a fun retrospect.

https://south-park-fanart-archive.tumblr.com/tagged/the%20creekening speaking of fandom history, this is all the art that came directly before (much of the joke art submissions) and immediately following the airing of TxC.

https://south-park-fanart-archive.tumblr.com/tagged/memes vintage humor! [Also try the long leg craig meme specifically!]

https://south-park-fanart-archive.tumblr.com/tagged/fandom%20critique for art that critiqued or made fun of popular fanon or headcanons.

https://south-park-fanart-archive.tumblr.com/tagged/crossover see what people liked to mix sp with! (Homestuck. The answer is homestuck.)

https://south-park-fanart-archive.tumblr.com/tagged/op's%20favorite for art that I love in particular and I likely reblogged multiple times during my fandom experience <3

-

If all else fails, try the /search function, which will likely bring up something similar to what you’re looking for!

[literaphobe]

ok tina recently sort of revised it and on her stream the other day was just talking about wanting to only team with people she’s really close with so that she feels less bad when she isn’t doing well or when she’s raging or getting upset in call. which like yeah i would feel uncomfortable like screaming about being mad in call with people i just met so i get her on wanting to only team with people she’s friends with!! anyways 2 me this would mean she’s open to teaming with like any of the munchymcers or their adjacent circle that she hangs out with. like tina stop writing down foosh and take up like punz or dream or ant on offers to team!! bc foosh only keeps getting better which means it’s going to get harder to balance him on decent teams. and also she brought up not really wanting to sign up any more SOMEONE TELL HER ITS NOT HER FAULT!!! SHE HAS BEEN DESTINED TO FAIL THE ENTIRE TIME BC SHE HAS NEVER BEEN PUT ON A TEAM WITH A CHANCE!! this is all Scott’s fault btw he destined her for failure by putting her on a team intended to be a nerf from the very beginning .

i mean she did take up dream’s offer on teaming in mcc23 but for some reason scott decided the perfect 4th member to their team just HAD to be connor whose average placement was like the same as tina almost. like i did like the team but they were never making dodgebolt and there was no SoT

[efterjoes]

A (critical) love letter to the Mint Maids!

Alright obviously I'm disappointed in how low the mint maids placed especially with all of the predictions putting them in 9th BUT regardless of their result they were SUCH a fun team...

This might be a very unpopular opinion but i really hope this sets a precedent for bringing back hermit-adjacent teams without a "carry", obviously some of the best players can be very sweet and encouraging such as pete, H, fruit and illumina, but false, ren (and co.) have proved time and time again that they are very capable - obviously this MCC wasn't the best example to show but there were some potential factors as to why they did not manage to overcome the expectations:

The maids were clearly not taking the competition aspect too seriously - martyn was promoting the charity (go donate!), not much strategy was discussed prior to each game. HITW also had a LOT of conversation even while some of the teammates were still alive.

The lack of practice - of course false had a mini practice stream the day prior but it seemed like the team had not planned out their mode of attack prior to the event and even though the team had great chemistry it seemed like most of the decisions that they made as a team were improvised/unplanned. False also MASSIVELY underperformed in HITW, the entire team in SOT, Grid Runners and Build Mart, False and Ren in TGTTOS - we've seen very strong showings from their past appearances and we know they're capable of more, even though they...

...lacked a clear leader! The leader doesn't necessarily have to be a top player, they just have to call the shots. We've seen glimpses of martyn and false showing great leadership in survival games and skybattle and that's what helped them survive and place as high as they did.

Martyn's weird monitor thing! Definitely a smaller factor as it only affected 1 of the 4

Thus, I am a firm believer that the mint maids could have done better IF they were in the right mindset to do so - from the point of view of competition, bantering about "wooo let's go 7th place pov" from the very start isn't that great, but yes obviously I love them for it. False and Ren generally struggle with confidence in MCC even if their company is very light-hearted anyway.

Someone on here made a great point about ren and false sacrificing their own individual pointage for the sake of the team which makes them fantastic team players and their low individual scores for this event are extremely misrepresentative of their value on the team. The only thing that was lacking was a working synergy with the rest of the team - in spite of everyone's great chemistry with each other, it's clear that they needed some practice as a team - Joel and Ren had never been paired in MCC before, Martyn had only teamed with FalseRen once. Refer to my lack of practice argument

Either way, it's super nice to see the senior mint maids in their prime, obviously I'm very happy to have chosen to watch them live as my POV of choice - it just was and is frustrating to see comments about them as if they had no chance at all to succeed just because they don't have fruit or pete "carrying" them. They came under 2000 points under the 8th-place team, and they obviously underperformed like hell. Team the hermits with scott and shubble maybe! Or kara and jordan! Martyn and joel 2.0! The possibilities are endless!

[sarioh]

What team do you think Etho would have in a hypothetical Hermits + Hermit adjacents non canon MCC? I was thinking him, Bdubs, Doc, and I'm not sure who the 4th person could be, maybe another Hermit or someone like Pete or H. I vaguely remember Illumina saying something about watching Etho not too long ago as well. Etho would do well as a runner in SoT for sure, I feel he'd be able to figure out some of the rooms in GR too and he'd be a mess in any movement game which I'd love to see for the chaos factor. But he would have the added element of a lot of the other players looking up to him too in addition to the general pressure of performing well, people do say Etho is your favorite MCYT'S MCYT so I'd understand why he'd want to stay away from that. If he showed interest though I think Scott would put him on the waitlist in a heartbeat

personally i don't even care if they have a good player on their team i would simply KILL to see a full NHO team (beef, doc, etho, and bdubs). it'll literally be doc babysitting the whole time and being Extremely hypercompetitive and then the other 3 just messing around and not taking anything seriously. they will LOSE horribly and be an all around mess with a lot of screaming but idc i want it

and yeah, i know what illumina clip you're talking about, it's this one! and agreed, i think team based games where u have to assess your environment really fast and make hasty decisions would be where he excels, hence why i think SOT and grid runners would be his best games

but fr tho... it would be pretty overwhelming being thrown into an environment where everyone is like surrounding you and fawning etc so i can see why it wouldn't be his thing? plus all of mcyt would be making a huge deal about it since historically he has never participated in things like this and hasnt streamed for years. but yeah