#alternate universe probably lmao

[ryuki-draws]

Oh the train boys 😭

What a meet cute (NOT a train NOT clickbait!!!)

[white-weasel]

If the Saw XI delay rumors (postponed to 2026) are true, I’ll start pitching spin offs to Twisted Pictures myself idec

[lemonisntreal]

heyo! Just found your blog and I was scrolling through your stuff and noticed your AU tone deaf. And I haven't found anything about what it is or what your idea is behind it. So I wanted to ask if you could give me an introduction to your AU!

Oh! And I absolutely love your artstyle and how you draw Buster! Anyway, hope you drink enough water and have a good day/night! ;)

Dear god this has been in my drafts for a while-

Hiya! Sorry for that lack of info lol, I'd been inactive for a long time, and the time that I actually WAS posting consistently was back when things were still being sorta fleshed out. But I've got a pretty good idea of how every single part moves at this point, so sure :D I'll give a not-so-brief summary lol [under a cut because I couldn't not dump multiple paragraphs teehee ~_~]

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Tone Deaf is like a dystopian version of Sing, if I were to put it super duper simply. One where Buster's issues get more emotional focus, and we get actual bonds with the cast because the movie forgot to do that.

Buster is, also, a lot more unhinged, fair warning. This fic's gonna contain violence and tackle some darker subjects [adjacent to grief and denial more specifically] so if it feels like I jumped a lot of sharks, it's because I 100% did.

It kinda started with me noticing how, in the actual movies btw, smaller characters like Buster and Mike had more difficulty getting around places. This led me to ask myself about how species differences could lead to struggles for certain animals since the city just isn't built for everyone [this is NOT Zootopia]. Ash's quills, and Meena's towering size were things I noticed too that would be massive problems, realistically. So after a lot of pondering, now we're here.

The world of Tone Deaf in present day is in a post-war period that's lasted about 50 years now [Crawly is actually a veteran from this war- which was more like complete and total anarchy if I'm being real, since there weren't really any sides until near the end...]

Long story short, the wealthy capitalized off of the war and taking people prisoner- so they purposefully kept it going. A resistance ended up forming to stand against this [Miss Crawly being one of the generals, with that classic missing eye] and after their army stormed the unsuspecting stronghold, the war finally began to conclude. It still took around a year after that to release all of the prisoners of war, and by the end of it all, the damage that had been done to some races was permanent. Even extinction-level in some cases- some animals just straight up don't exist anymore because of it.

Back to Calatonia. Laws that are in place to protect animals from tearing eachother apart are still relatively new, and the criminal underbelly of Calatonia is kinda out of control. Animals get kidnapped/poached, smaller animals are at a huge disadvantage and have basically no power [politically or otherwise], endangered species are a very real thing, poverty is a huge issue for most of the population- and in the middle of all this is Buster Moon.

He's gonna be the main perspective. And the story will also serve as a slight character study on him, mixed with my own grittier and batshit insane changes/headcanons/alternate universe ideas on his backstory. He's a ray of sunshine with a lot of bottled-up feelings that will kinda really take control of the story.

Buster has been arrested multiple times. He's been put in unsuccessful therapy. He's still grieving his dad. He's committing crime and compulsively lying about those illegal actions too. He has emotional difficulties that he hasn't dared try touching on in years, and he has issues with letting go- which, is kinda how all of his new problems come to be.

The threat of his theater being repossessed if his show isn't a success gets a LOT more emphasis too.

But on top of that is the added threat of Buster getting sent out of the city if he can't get his business up and running. Remember how I mentioned endangered animals?? Well Koalas are one of them. One of the big ones, actually. He's the only Koala in a city of almost five hundred thousand, and it's been that way for almost half a decade now. It's been causing issues for the people in charge for half a decade now. Koalas have government-protected settlements far away from here due to their numbers being so few, so if Buster loses the theater? That's the next step for him.

But, to help this poor dude through all the stress of life is the found-family he develops with the cast he hired. He helps them for a lot of the first act, and then they give back his kindness in the second. They connect through their similar experiences, as well as their shared passion for music and performance. And by the end, maybe Buster's okay. Or maybe he's had a complete downward spiral [not gonna speak of act three 🥰]

Other characters have also had a shift in their dynamics. Things in the story have changed. Like for instance- Gunter already knew Buster and was a close friend of him and Eddie before the show, Judith is now the mayor and a main character, Pete has been put in place of the banker in charge of Buster's accounts, Buster unfortunately gets involved in politics, Mike actually gets to bond with the cast- actually the cast gets to bond with the cast point blank period [idc what you say, this just straight up doesn't happen in the canon movies], and to top it all of is a generous helping of angst with a few acts of violence sprinkled in 🤭

The actual Act I summary is this right now:

Buster had been in tight situations before-- suffocating situations, even. He’d been in every kind of trouble imaginable, he thought. With family, friends, local businesses, the law. But he'd always wormed his way out, either through loopholes or by charm. Or usually just by stacking another lie on top of his already crumbling facade. But this time it's gonna take more than a cover-up to fix this. ‏‏‎ Buster’s dishonesty takes him too far once again, a simple typo causing him to unintentionally land himself in a wager that could cost his very life. He has two months to fix this- to ACTUALLY fix this. And the worst part is that he hadn't even meant to lie this time. ‏‏‎ The First Act of Tone Deaf.

TLDR; Buster learns to love again after experiencing the horrors of animalkind firsthand and being healed by theater kids LMFAO

[thetimelordbatgirl]

OC Halloween Challenge 2024 Day Eighteen: Beloved Pet Or Object Turned Human

Ben wasn't even sure what he expected to find when checking on Lia and Reese after hearing some pretty loud commotion from Reese's room in the palace, but an empty terraium, a sheepish looking Lia and Reese and a strange boy he had never seen before in his life? Yeah, only two of those things he didn't expect. "...Who want's to explain first?" Reese raised her hand, that sheepish smile never disappearing from her face, "We uh, decided to expierement with Lia's power's a little..." "...And I came up with an idea how to do so via seeing if I could turn say...an object or pet into something else like I did with Reese into a mermaid that time..." Lia continued the explanation. "...Okay and?" Ben asked. Both simply gestured to the mysterious boy with them, "Meet uh, Spike..." The boy named as Spike waved a little. ...Well that explained the empty terraium.

Entering Love From The Stars alternate universe that is something me and my friend, @dani-luminae , discuss a-lot, daughter of Hades!Reeae and my friend's OC, Lia Hawkins, decide to mess around a ltitle with Lia's powers...and the result is turning Reese's pet bearded dragon into a human.

[faunandfloraas]

Saw a twt thread where people were giving their suppositions about what social media they think the dudes would lurk on and the first person to mention Seungmin was like "Oh Seungmins on tumblr" and my immediate reaction was to be like don't ever put such an evil concept out into the world like that ever.... but then I remembered he's a 23 yr old Korean dude and there's no fuckin way he's perusing tumblr

[totally-original-artist]

Avi have you seen the last hnk chapter? Got me starting at the wall at 7:00

I JUST READ IT!!! I've been putting off reading it after 100 and I just binged it and

I completely forgot abt the manga ngl, thx for reminding me walp

[guess-i-do-art]

P.2 of the my cursed crossover AUs 😭

The first fandom that I really interacted with was Harry Potter I believe? And I am still hyperfixated on Warrior cats so…

Firepaw is a bright new Muggle-born Hogwarts student ready to begin his magical career! Little does he know that the man who gave him the diamond-shaped scar on his forehead, Tigerclaw, is still out there…

After receiving a prophecy that lightning alone will save GriffinClan, Silverstar (Dumbledore lmao) takes in Boltpaw, a kittypet with a suspicious tabby marking on his forehead…

I hate it but I love it so much so expect more 😭😂

[cr1ms0n4nd-ac3]

Yet an another art wip is here rn. Soooo I decided to draw Parsley,from @autisticdoodlist 's NIKKOMORI AU btw,so this will probably take long so.. ye,stay tuned for the results!

[thisisbecausepolyvoreclosed]

Concept design for Nova Hawkins in an alternate universe on my friends, @dani-luminae , fic, Stars On Earth, that we talk about at times.

The youngest child of Sarah Hawkins and younger half-sister of Jim Hawkins, Nova was born some time after her older brother mysteriously disappeared and despite having never met him, Nova already has a good idea of what her brother was like...since in all the stories she's heard about him from her mother, Nova's always found herself being compared to him, for both better and worse. Because despite her mother's attempts to keep Nova on the right path, Nova would ultimately end up on the same one her brother had been at her age: trouble, with Nova ultimately getting a list of arrests going for all the trouble she was getting into, the last one being for going into restricted areas with a home-made solar surfer. Panicked about losing Nova completely to the same thing she ultimately lost Jim too, Sarah would ground Nova until further notice, but this wouldn't stop Nova from sneaking out and by pure accident, coming across a fight between pirates from the Pleiadean Fleet, the very same fleet her brother once commanded. And despite the fact that she didn't mean to get involved in the fight...well, what else was she supposed to do when one side recognized her as definitely a Hawkins, an enemy of some of the fleet now somehow, and went after her? Though thankfully, she would end up being saved by the other side of the pirate fight led by a pirate with a cyborg arm named Silver and a lioness named Kate, both former members of Jim's crew as the chief and second in command respectfully. And after the attacking side fled and Nova was fully introduced to Silver and Kate and their crew, Nova would ultimately learn what happened to her brother at least...but much to her disappointment, they don't know where he ended up still, something they still trying to rectify, which catches Nova's interest and causes her to ultimately want to go with them so she can find this brother of hers already. And despite her mother's initial objections at first, words from Silver, the very same man that had gotten her brother off the same destructive path Nova is currently on, convinces her mother to let Nova go with the pirates and Nova is able to finally travel the stars in search of her brother.

[kuiinncedes]

what do u meannnnnnn i'm abt to be post college graduation 🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️🧍🏻‍♀️

[velvetiivenus]

They made her emo 😭😭

[atherix]

almost 3 am so here’s a random thought

if multiverse is real (and seeing as I have a canon|fanon multiverse, fun fact <3) then that means there’s a Midnight universe out there where Scar and Mumbo were already together when Grian came into the picture and slowburn just straight up wasn’t a thing <3

[manifestmerlin]

SO ANYWAYS I FINISHED DAYVHES BROKEN DIAMOND CLUB AND WOW. GOD DAMN NO ONES DOING IT LIKE UNDA HUH???

[moonsimi]

NEVER attempting to make a sim based off a real person again. she’s still cute though.

[quietwingsinthesky]

Today in fantastic conversations with my therapist: we were discussing how The Winchesters is probably going to end up being set in an alternate universe, how that didn’t make sense with Chuck destroying all the alternate universes, and he said, “Well, the kid (Jack) probably made it, then.”

We then transitioned to talking about how John & Mary have zero chemistry, and this man. this man. he goes. “Well, if it’s true that Jack made the alternate universe, that makes sense. He doesn’t know what love looks like.” SIR

[doekimakura]

I guess the reason Fate/Series stuff is so appealing to me

...Is because i feel like Nasu just cant decide on one static storyline and kept making AUs and he's just like... "hey why should i stop at 1 story. Why not I just... make 30 more AUs...but with the same characters"

And Yknow

I relate so har- I can relate. I understand. I relate tO THAT I RELATE SO HARD-