#SotS-adjacent

[thegreenleavesofspring]

iiiiiit's Talk Shop Tuesday! *flops down on the floor* This week I don't have any specific question, so tell me whatever you want to about Sons of the Star or Annaáuchiwee! What've you been chewing on or rotating in your brain? What do you do you want to talk about in regards to them?

(This ask also serves as your weekly pester for the SotS Girl Scout cookies story XD)

The next chapter will come, we're both just... swamped in real life right now, and it needs to undergo some pretty intensive editing that we just don't have time for at the moment.

(Other than that I've just been too tired to think recently. 🙇‍♀️)

[thegreenleavesofspring]

I actually rather enjoyed this, though it's basically non-stop violence, so if you're sensitive to that I don't recommend it.

[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)

[cheylouwho]

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

[thegreenleavesofspring]

I'm not sure who in the world prevailed upon the two of them to put on cozy sweaters. XD They look sort of young here, so maybe they're trying to assuage Smol!Allan's concerns.

Now they’re both cozy.

[thegreenleavesofspring]

Trinity Anon needs this:

https://youtu.be/KQLfgaUoQCw?si=gLXIM7qRAugN1Vnu

I'm not actually sure how relevant this is to the discussion but I'm going to go ahead and publish this anyway because of how OVER-POWERINGLY the heckling twins made me think of Russ and Red (middle-aged.)

[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

[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]

@awwyeah107 @afaroffsong @hwestalas <3 <3 <3

✨Having someone who is invested in your story and discusses it with you is like a solid half of the fun of writing. I'm not even kidding.✨

[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!

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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)

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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

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

[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!

[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

[thegreenleavesofspring]

I know from the context of this blog that they mean crow as in a black bird with wings that says caw and has an affinity for shiny objects but my SotS-rotted mind goes "Crow woman? 👀 Nikki? Billie? Crow woman?"

[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

[nightmaremybeloved]

if legit the only dream adjacent sot clip in the highlight video is from cyan coyotes mcc17 i am simply not going to finish watching it

[twitchesandstitches]

aw dagnabbit i was doing a post explaining more power ideas but i accidentally hit inspect and i lost the post; for some reason they reset when you do that

suffice to say the premise of what i MEANT is as such:

i really like powers that require creativity to employ, so the vibe i have for Tia’s object transformation powers is that she has a big focus on hyper specialization. she CAN transform things without consuming or adapting herself to something around her (such as say, a wheel, a slice of cake, an airfryer or a sword), but doing so is awkward, difficult to do, and time consuming. while she COULD use her powers, while not equipped with anything door adjacent, to make a door in a wall, it’ll take a while and take a LOT out of her and its usually faster to just smash a hole in it.

much like Tia can impose mutations on herself and others as a basic aesthetic side effect of her powers, she can weaponize this against materials and transform them, but doing so deliberately has its problems. she can sort of get around this by focusing her powers so that for a while, she can EITHER transform things more freely, alter the substance or its strength (making something seemingly weak super strong, for instance) or alter what its made of, but she can’t do more than one during a limited time, and changing what she has ‘enabled’ requires time to do action that reinforce the idea of ‘making stuff’ for her powers.

so she can get around this by consuming materials and objects; this allows her to transform things and transform them into the sot of things she’s eaten, or give them new attributes based on what those things DO. For instance, if she’s eaten cake, she can turn things INTO cake, making a wall a lot easier to bust down. A wheel lets her turn things INTO wheels, or make things move around even if there’s no means for them to do so. A sword will made things edged, turn them into actual swords (even if made of weird materials, like grass or a big bug she found) or simply allow them to cut with a touch.

now, I think her actual limit for ‘equipping’ things she’s eaten is limitless. She can reflexively equip anything she’s eaten within a reasonable time frame (a few hours or a few days), though once she wants to unequip something, she consumes the power it gave her to give her a boost of strength, so she can become temporarily stronger in exchange for versatility.

However, once she equips something, she MUST apply it to her transformations. She can’t, normally, pick and choose what to apply, so that can end up with its own weird limits! (For instance, if food items have been equipped, they work great for debuffing enemies or navigating puzzles, not so much making something to fight an enemy.) In this situation, Tia must either use what she has as creatively as possible, or digest it in hopes of using the added power to overcome with brute force, but there’s no promise that’ll work or if its worse sacrificing some of the advantages she had