#and i was just thinking relative to the main characters

[pb-did-nothing-wrong]

I've been thinking about Princess Bubblegum recently (shocking I know) and her giving up the rock shirt for hambo has really stuck out to me as being important for her character

Of course, it shows how much she loves Marceline, but it also does way more than that

Hambo was Marceline's most prized possession. It was a connection to Simon, to her more human self. It helped her get through the post-apocalypse. She took care of the best she could and freaked out when Ash took it away from her so much that it was the final straw that led to their break up

And still, the magic from all the emotions Marceline poured onto it was, in Maja's words, nothing compared to PB's shirt. And to me, that is very telling of how much PB cares about the people around her

Season 5 is when the show really started to give PB and her story more depth, and we began seeing a lot more of her more morally questionable actions, and things like this really help show that she doesn't do those things out of a hunger for power or control or at least that those aren't the main reasons

More than anything, she cares about and wants to help others. It's something she's been doing since the day she was born, and while her morals and worldview have been twisted by everything she's gone through before and during her reign, that core motive has kept her relatively kind through 800 years worth of betrayals, hardship and disasters

So much so that despite not understanding Marceline wanting one specific hambo doll, she still sacrifices the symbol of how much she cares just to get it back

Maybe I'm just rambling but I like to think that the shirt shows how much she cares not just about Marcy, but also about everyone close to her

[fujii-draws]

OKAY! Chatot rant in tags below! Read at your own discretion.

[kwillow]

Hello! This is really random I'm sorry. In your recent comic with the toy store shopkeeps, one of them is a bird! Inquiring bird nerds want to know, are they based on a specific species? My first thought was Canada jay but the white outer tail feathers don't match perfectly, and my boyfriend guessed they were some kind of tit! Very curious and would love to hear if you had a specific species in mind for the birdy when designing. :]

I DID! I'm pleased you asked.

Canada Jay's a great guess based on the markings, but he was indeed based on a kind of tit. A Long-Tailed Tit, to be exact!

I knew I wanted to pick a round-shaped bird with this kind of head marking (to evoke male pattern baldness haha), and just looked at different species of birds that live in colder environments until I found one I liked the look of. Not the most precise resemblance (I still need practice drawing birds), but I'm happy that I captured the look well enough that his tit-ness was recognizable.

[lancerious]

thank you for being #1 lancer fan the world needs more lancer fans

Ho ho ho, of course!! Lancer is CRIMINALLY underrated I tell you, kid deserves WAY more attention than he currently gets

Glad to see another Lancer fan pop in <3!

[dangaer]

have to admit it following that last post, if we're shipping im 9/10 times rereading the media and looking at certain parts through a ship tinted glass set. i put it on the dash sometimes rather than dms because i'm extremely nervous that i'm going to come off as too much but, you know, i'm working on that.

[navree]

no longer gonna have to see against my will absolutely dogshit dragon show takes that are the absolute pits of misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, and inability to celebrate fact from fiction for at least two more years now

[unproduciblesmackdown]

also marble hornets fun fact #92 like it's fun that for once the neurotypical agenda accidentally got a win: when in that s1 "interview" episode apparently there was no particular plan to have tim be a recurring character before a strong audience response of speculation that there must be something more going on with this guy because his fidgeting with a notebook all throughout the video was indication of Liar's Anxiety or whatever; in reality tim sutton was not making any acting choice (to serve then-nonexistent writing) but was spontaneously being someone often fidgeting with paper. then call that unfolding developments

[lunadivino]

Dark Knight Diavolo as a concept would fuck so severely and that's definitely not my bias speaking sorry I keep thinking about it

[forcedhesitation]

oh? something mizora said actually being worth listening to??

this is an interesting bit of foreshadowing to ansur being dead/wyll being the true "heart of the gate!"

[ranger-kellyn]

rewatched the serpent's pass last night to take notes for my fic, and all night right up until waking up, i just. couldn't get over how unsatisfying the sukka reunion was. even with my silly shipper goggles on, i'm just like. it didn't sell me, and I don't know how much of that is me being in all likelihood demiromantic, and how much of that was just genuinely lackluster writing :T

like, right before their near kiss, her whole “I lost someone I cared about. He didn’t die. He just went away.  I only had a few days to get to know him, but he was smart, and brave, and funny.” just...........Doesn't do it for me. it's so tonally different from what sokka had just said, and also like!!!!! you knew him for like A DAY!!!!!! you did not have NEARLY enough time to care about him like that please be real dlkjfhdkj

[bat-the-misfit]

"disappointment" is when you show a drawing of the main male character of the book you're writing to your mother and she says he's "kinda ugly" as if he had the responsability of being handsome for being the Main Male Character (tm)

[idiaa-shroxd]

YOUR WRITING IS SO PRETTY I COULD EAT IT. YOU CHARACTERIZE THE CHARACTERS SO WELL TOO!!!

thank you so much!! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ happy you think my writing is very pretty!! and also makes me happy you think my characterization was correct.

when writing for characters always take a bit of extra time to ensure they sound good? thinking about having an actual conversation with them for a minute and what they’d do! ♧ personally a big fan of viginettes since that reveals a lot of a character more than mainstory.

Σ('◉⌓◉’) mini (huge) rant within the tags of the way of my process to understand a character!!

[gamebunny-advance]

Huh.

I'm already getting a good amount of response to today's polls, and now as usual I come to realize in hindsight that my wording of the questions might be affecting how people are voting.

I've really got to be better about that.

[princeseerow]

has anyone ever written an animorphs x the goonies crossover

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than broken builds

You're more amazing than imp cards!

[beneaththebloodylake]

edgeworth is literally the least first nameable character ever to me. ill call manfred von karma by his first name, but with edgeworth it still sounds so weird