#and it ain't pretty

[virgo-writer]

This is more head cannon than fic/drabble and was about to expire in my Ao3 drafts so might as well have a home here on tumblr.

Fandom: MIOBI Genre: Head cannon Words: 243

Austin wasn't really surprised to hear that Max had been blackballed from every gym in the country.

Austin had warned him - he'd fuckin' warned him - that there would be consequences. He'd told Max that he couldn't play games with Payson - that if he wasn't serious about Payson that it would only end badly. And Max had either disregarded every one of his warnings or thought that the consequences and bad endings he was worried about were for Payson.

I mean, sure Payson was pretty upset about things and letting them get to her gymnastics in a very un-Payson way. But she'd be over it eventually. Max Spencer was no great loss.

Max, on the other hand, had completely fucked himself.

And Austin had told him, dammit? He'd told him not to make Payson cry.

And what did he do? He made Payson cry.

Twice.

And maybe it was the fact that he'd gotten away with it the first time that made Max think the consequences didn't apply to him. Or maybe Max was too stupid to realise his own dumb luck.

"It doesn't even make sense," Max complained. "How can every gym in the country be full?"

If Max didn't get it then Austin wasn't going to explain it to him.

Gymnastics was a small world, especially Men's gymnastics. And if Max was stupid enough to piss off Sasha Belov - twice - then maybe he deserved a little of what was coming to him.

[nenoname]

It's still interesting that TBoB called more attention to Stan's control over his mindscape (And if you go with the interpretation that the lost pages are partial truths that are heavily influenced by Bill, then he's the one insisting that only someone with training should be able to have that much control over the mind.)

Meanwhile we have a memory!Stan. Someone who apparently knows too much and is rather aware for being a simple memory.

From the Wheel of Shame, we know Bill was able dig up all kinds of dirt on Stan but... that wasn't why he was there in the first place, was it?

Bill couldn't find the code immediately despite a memory of Stan opening the safe being a few hours old at most and decided to have Mabel try find it for him (The original concept of the ep had it far more hidden but this was likely cut because of time constraints)

Ford did experiments on Stan's mind which likely meant using Project Mentem and actually looking around his mindscape, and his only reaction was to comment on his jokes-- despite what little we the audience know being enough to render us sobbing wrecks

(yes I refuse to shut up about this part cos the book's intro is extremely underrated)

Stan was able to replace his memories of Ford with the swingset instead and managed to hide Ford in his Bar Mitzvah memory. And that's not even mentioning the lack of visible Portal and Stan o' War which noticeably show up in Ford's dreamscape (the broken swingset manifesting anyway pains me tho)

He subconsciously has misdirects for his secrets that are both silly and manages to disturb everyone too

And while Bill-as-Soos being bored by the vending machine memory is a joke that's basically the crew's way of going "hey remember the thing way back in the first ep that's going to show up in the next one?" and in-universe appears to be Stan slipping up, it's interesting that they had Stan input the wrong code when it's consistent literally every other time its inputted (especially when it shows up correctly in the very next episode)

It's even possible that the safe code that Bill found could have been a misdirect too but we'll never know since the safe got blown open by dynamite.

Stan was able to buy time by making his mind blank despite being genuinely terrified when Bill enters his mind (to the point that he breaks character and uses his own voice to yell), and could conjure up his living room (in colour opposed to his mind's regular greyscale) to make sure Bill didn't have enough room to flee, slamming the door in his face before the effects of the memory gun kicked in.

(EDIT: Random door analysis here)

And maybe the twins eventually told him that Bill had already been inside his mind after their W3 reunion, but all we know was that his conscious self was left in the dark for ages and wasn't really aware of Bill until Weirdmageddon.

TBoB showing McGucket's dreamscape also brings up the idea of the effects of the memory gun manifesting differently to each person. To Stan's mindscape, the memory wipe manifests as blue flames which immediately brings to mind Bill's powers but it's a far lighter shade (maybe to more closely match the memory gun and its eventual fade to white?)

The end of TBoB and the website poem also firmly reminds us about Stan's connection to fire but there's also the question if Stan himself is actually aware of it...

[foxxx-deal]

[konakoro]

Me clicking Relist for my 12+ dragons on the auction house knowing damn well nobody's gonna buy them

[rupeenotruby-comics]

Valentines!!!

I know it's June but Valentines Day is my favorite holiday so here are some belated Valentines because the best time to tell someone you love them is when you love them (or tell them you appreciate them!) (Or that you care about them!) (Tell your friends you love them!) (I do it all the time!)! I got so stuck on Warriors that I almost wasn't going to do these but then it came to me right as I was going to bed and here we are! It's a little cramped though...

[muffin-and-bagel]

The face of someone who doesn't know she's getting a annoying little brother tomorrow 🤎🤍

30/5/2025

[dallmustdie]

He is too pretty for his own good. He needs to be jailed.

[burningcheese-merchant]

Worst artist in the BurningCheese community decides to get uppity (again), makes fankid collage/group photo in celebration of us all sharing a brain cell

Left to right:

Leftmost is @stories4eve 's (1)*

Little bro being a nuisance up north is @sunny-sourzii 's (2)

To their right, and to the immediate left of the middle one, is @estarletnova 's (3)

Middle Pepper Jack, aka the best and coolest and most adorable one, is my little guy

Pepper Jack immediately to the right of mine is @ewitsewwie 's (5)

And then next to that, furthest right, is @rawaso 's (6) I'm still extremely sorry for thinking yours looked too similar to mine. What a fucking blunder honestly. I need new glasses

Bonus panel featuring my little guy's sister, titled "I Got Really Tired At The End And Just Wanted To Scribble". There are suddenly six versions of Matar Paneer's brother, at least one of them not even being a boy(?), and she is extremely confused. Either somebody explains to her what's going on or she starts stabbing the other 5 with her katar because she thinks they're evil doppelgangers of some sort

If any of the artists tagged here want the individual doodles of their kiddies just let me know. I made sure to save them all before editing them together. I'll send them to your ask box(es) or something

*I'm sorry to Eve for changing your kid's look. I honestly could not make sense of his appearance no matter how hard I tried. The other ones were difficult enough for me as they were lol. I did this for my own sake. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa

[bird-inacage]

The Heart Killers Trailer | Kantbison + UNHINGED

CURRENT CAUSE OF DEATH.

I'm sorry - they did not prepare us for this. BDSM??? A 500-Days-of-Summer DANCE NUMBER?! THESE TWO ARE GOING TO BE SO INSANELY DERANGED AND CHAOTIC, I LOVE THAT FOR THEM.

[p1ctur3]

Surprise @ornziy, I'm your secret Santa for AvA gift exchange :]. I did your third prompt: villain TSC Au

i will never give up the chance to make victim a terrible person so have some manipulative Vic

I don't think colour gang would be able to recognise TSC with how much they have changed in this AU

The bird may never fly in the sky again but it will be forever safe in the cage

@avagiftexchange

[nenoname]

cooking compilation (but does cutting up a raw cycloptopus and wrapping a bit of seaweed around it count as cooking...)

although as much as i want to bully researcher!ford for going "yes i will eat anomalies", the reminder that stan's backup plan when running out of his apocalypse stockpile of brown meat was eating gnomes.....

anyway the implied collabs of mabel and stan making ducktective themed cookies together and the mystery twins + candy and grenda making the pizza cake and cake pizza is super cute

+ dipper's evil rock sandwich

[mochabugger]

It was cute you thought you would have survived

[sparkspartart]

[screwpinecaprice]

I was trying to eat noodles neatly and for some reason I got sad midway. So I drew them messy eating a biscuit and a strawberry to combat sad noodle blues.

[abyssalhuntersnerd]

[urghblergh]

Back on my bullshit. :D

(Distant Voices S 3 E 18)

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