#banjo envy

[fallow-grove]

im really sad so iium and i are going to try and find me a banjo today because banjo makes everything better

[fallow-grove]

...

Can you play banjo???

Yeah.

[blekitnyzamek]

Illustrations from "Blue Castle"

In Poland we have 5 translations of "Blue Castle" (and in the 1st one Valancy is not named Valancy but Joanna (Joanne); and I think it's funny enough to dedicate separate post about that in the future) and one of them has such a magical illustrations, that I need to share them <3

All of them are from this edition of "The Blue Castle"/"Błękitny zamek" (which was translated by Jolanta Bartosik) and were drawn by Katarzyna Karina Chmiel. Cover too, just look at it! I love this artstyle.

I will add quotes adjacent to the illustrations above them. That one is on title-page, gorgeous<3

Valancy went home by the short-cut of Lover’s Lane. She did not often go through Lover’s Lane—but it was getting near supper-time and it would never do to be late. Lover’s Lane wound back of the village, under great elms and maples, and deserved its name. It was hard to go there at any time and not find some canoodling couple—or young girls in pairs, arms intertwined, earnestly talking over their little secrets. Valancy didn’t know which made her feel more self-conscious and uncomfortable.

She [Valancy] had flatly refused to take either Purple Pills or Redfern’s Bitters. She had announced coolly that she did not intend to answer to the name of “Doss” any longer. She had told Cousin Stickles that she wished she would give up wearing that brooch with Cousin Artemas Stickles’ hair in it. She had moved her bed in her room to the opposite corner. She had read Magic of Wings Sunday afternoon. When Cousin Stickles had rebuked her Valancy had said indifferently, “Oh, I forgot it was Sunday”—and had gone on reading it.

Cousin Stickles had seen a terrible thing—she had caught Valancy sliding down the bannister. Cousin Stickles did not tell Mrs. Frederick this—poor Amelia was worried enough as it was.

Valancy had walked out to Roaring Abel’s house on the Mistawis road under a sky of purple and amber, with a queer exhilaration and expectancy in her heart. Back there, behind her, her mother and Cousin Stickles were crying—over themselves, not over her. But here the wind was in her face, soft, dew-wet, cool, blowing along the grassy roads. Oh, she loved the wind! The robins were whistling sleepily in the firs along the way and the moist air was fragrant with the tang of balsam. Big cars went purring past in the violet dusk—the stream of summer tourists to Muskoka had already begun—but Valancy did not envy any of their occupants. Muskoka cottages might be charming, but beyond, in the sunset skies, among the spires of the firs, her Blue Castle towered. She brushed the old years and habits and inhibitions away from her like dead leaves. She would not be littered with them.

“We’ll just sit here,” said Barney, “and if we think of anything worth while saying we’ll say it. Otherwise, not. Don’t imagine you’re bound to talk to me.”

“John Foster says,” quoted Valancy, “‘If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you’ll never be and you need not waste time in trying.’”

“Evidently John Foster says a sensible thing once in a while,” conceded Barney.

“There’s our island,” he said gloatingly.

Valancy looked—and looked—and looked again. There was a diaphanous, lilac mist on the lake, shrouding the island. Through it the two enormous pine-trees that clasped hands over Barney’s shack loomed out like dark turrets. Behind them was a sky still rose-hued in the afterlight, and a pale young moon.

Valancy shivered like a tree the wind stirs suddenly. Something seemed to sweep over her soul.

“My Blue Castle!” she said. “Oh, my Blue Castle!”

Valancy and Barney turned under the mainland pines in the cool dusk of the September night for a farewell look at the Blue Castle. Mistawis was drowned in sunset lilac light, incredibly delicate and elusive. Nip and Tuck were cawing lazily in the old pines. Good Luck and Banjo were mewed and mewing in separate baskets in Barney’s new, dark-green car en route to Cousin Georgiana’s.

[nights-flying-fox]

TMNT STORY AU COMP COMPETITORS MASTERLIST (@tmntstorycomp )

☆ Danny Phantom ROTTMNT Crossover by @chasingrabbits-art

☆ Love me, Love my Dog. by @tothefiniteyou

☆ We're not babysitters by @theawesomeninja-xd

☆ (Too Many Leos) Put One Back by  @beeceit

☆ Mitosis = duplication and separation by @varianlikescheese

☆ The Loyal Remain by @daboyau

☆ Monster Inside the Man by @keepsdrifting

☆ A Tear in my Eye by @cartoonhostage

☆ ERICA by @13runningsomething

☆ Captainx2 by @veearrifarrariboom

☆ Black and brown fur AU by @haro0o

☆ Set a Course for Home by @los-ninos-tortugas

☆ Catch You AU by @mudlarkspur

☆ Same Story Different Font by @tmnt-obsessed-ace

☆ Saviors of the Yokai by @mostlyvoid-partiallyturtles

☆ Everything Stays by @oddpocalypse

☆ Twin-Sync (More Than You Think) by @little-banjo-frog 

☆ Dimension Hopper Leo AU by @nights-flying-fox

☆ Inverted Confrontation by @boots-with-the-fur-club

☆ Cardinal Rules by @m0ths-wanderings / @dluebirb

☆ Manhatten: TMNT FARGO AU by @jxstacey [au masterpost]

☆ Universal Mayhem by @trixanimations

☆ Reminiscing that Old Time by @misshowdoyoudo

☆ Old Soul au by @delicatechildwitch

☆ Prime Leo AU by @darth-sonny

☆ TMNT: Broken Trifecta by @genderfluid-envy / @ask-broken-trifecta-turtles

☆ Body Horror Baby by @bambiraptorx

☆ Tiny Lil Fruit Turtles by @mochi-myles

☆ Through Your Hollow Bones au by @idiot-mushroom

☆ One Turtle Short of a Lair by @bucketofbugz

☆ Kitty's TMNT-Verse by @kittynumyum

☆ Shattered Pieces Of The Same Mirror by @xcometstarx

☆ Soulmates (Evil) AU by @error-core-animations

☆ Oh Hades, Let Me Have This by @faggotdonnie

☆ Empathy is Learned by @alicat54c

☆ Teenage Mutant Beetle Turtles by @beetleviolet

☆ Wouldn't it be Easier by @14muffinz

☆ Teenage Turtle Ninja Mutants (ttnm) by @idiot-mushroom

☆ The Birds & the Bees

☆ Two Nardos one dream Sequence by @tinytinyturttlesoup

☆ Sub-Zero AU by @noxvee6

☆ An OC, Echo! by @smol-bean-boi13 & @percy-eats-souls

☆ It's a Complicated Equation by @leilanising-vault-of-knowledge

☆ Good Genes by @lordshroom

☆ A Ghost of the Ninja I Used to Be by @robin-with-a-pen

☆ Sanctuary by @aquietwritingcorner

[allyssl]

TMNT AU Comp Preliminary Links

this is long

@tmntaucompetition

Snapdragon - bluesgras

But First They Must Catch You - mudlarkspur (+ao3)

Sorry I’m Late - GeminiForest

Lone Turtle and Hunter - midnightcreator12 (+ao3)

Happily Ever After - Phykoha

Kendratello Childhood AU - zeawesomeness

The Mutation Situation - Indieyuugre

Quilt AU - Cokoweee

I’m sorry teenage mutant what now? - tangledinink

Good Genes - lordshroom

Twin-Sync (More than you Think) - little-banjo-frog

Mama’s Boys - honey_rye

Warrior’s Heart - peanutrat20

Rabbit’s Broach - pigeonsgrame2

UPRISING: A Rise Dystopia AU - alexthenerdbird

Down with the Stockholm - devotedtosadpoetry

Broken Trifecta - genderfluid-envy

TMNT Chicago Style - its-captain-sir

Tiz Sep AU - Tizeline

Please Don’t Leave I Need You - fowlaroundtown (ao3)

Sewer Punks - kettle-bird

Grown Apart - Chiscribbs

Leaves from the Vine - Cheetochild989

TMNT Shen and the League of Lesbians - genderfluid-envy

The Unicorn paradox - Mushangaa

Snapper Lou AU - Kittynomore

Sep Leo AU - dianagj-art

The Rise Hunger Games AU - daboyau

Honor Bound - terrazooid

Universes - XxLea-nardoxX

Minecraft Isekai - Songdrop/Caleb at calebscornerofart

Raised by the Capybara AU - Rubies-tmnt-aus

Dee-Evolution AU - cnwolf-brainrot

Welcome to Mutinis - mutiniau (ao3)

Portal Baby - QuarterGremlin

Wouldn’t It Be Easier - 14Muffinz (+ao3)

Twinpathy - twinpathy

Live Life - centerofleesmind

August’s AU - star-sparkler

No Fun in Fungus - boots-with-the-fur-club

At my Worst - teainthesnow (+ao3)

Ktech - dontfindmeimscared

Camp Hamato - P0t3n1al

Even more of a Disaster - 3lectricinsomnia and teaableu (main blog evenmoreofadisaster)

No Crime only Brooches - Olliethescribe (+ao3)

DNAngel - blye-flower

Finding home - sad-leon

Causa scienta - urlocalllama (ao3)

TMNT 04 - koolaidashley

Is this right? - cruitly-ink

Turtles all the way down - pommigranite

Firefight au - remedyturtles (remrose - ao3)

Death wish - remedyturtles (remrose - ao3)

Ghost AU - Melliedoodles

Mama’s Wishes - Bucketofbugz (+askblog)

Forgive Me - reagi-df

Eclipse - G0LD_Tea (Twitter)

Magic AU - vaudeville-moggie

Mitosis - Varian_dislikes_cheese (ao3)

Vengeance is yours - that-one-dork (+ao3)

The likeness of mirrored souls - enthblaze and omgselinabeckendorf

The employees - theemployees

Hello, Clairvoyant? - cogentsummonor (ao3)

Sidelined au - Dandylovesturtles

100 feet and a world away - Dandylovesturtles

Villain leo - Villianleoau

Bloom from oblivion - Aliteraladhdmess

Soulmates (evil) - error-core-animations (Oofiescreams - ao3)

The somber sunrise - xmochaccinox (ao3)

Snapdonnie - onejellyfishplease

Ōnryo leo - aquariumgirls (ao3)

Lost in the pink mist - lost-in-the-pink-mist

The Lonely Buzz in Blue - overthinkingbluesparks (+ao3)

The Blood Orange Multiverse - Jade-Clementine (Mylenapony11 + Cherry-blossom-consumer)

Teenage turtle ninja mutants - idiot-mushroom

Revelations Timeline AU - idk_im_just_here_now (ao3)

Two Souls - virgilsspidey (+ao3)

[maikaluvitsa]

Country based full moon fucking; sports of the few. I console, I seek so much, I roll around like the fool I want to be. New chum flat, more chaos left, worst place seen, delicate pussy yarn. It’s first and foremost, but I leave it to the last minute. It’s tendril, but in my head I make it a big deal. It’s majority of you because it can sense your angst, but there’s no pressure to address it. Love under country moon. Love undertow. Love breaches my blood clots.

I experience suffocation so frequently, my sense of smell and my awareness of others strangles me. Listening to a radio, “Jehovah was just a jealous desert demiurge”, I continue, to myself, “drag on, drag on.” Country Victoria is grounds for sensation that’s clean, it’s sticks and mud but not the dirty type. There are true answers here, “if you listen close enough,” they say about the trees. Letting cuts get infected, letting them turn pink because it’s cute.

I rolled sight of hand, to tickle the fleshy doors at the bottom of the hull. Unzipping a tent only to see a cow grazing. What my eye saw what different to what my heart saw. Tears spot graze, they inky like that. Banjos should come in pairs, they fly like that. Men, eat so much they don’t leave me anything. Men, like beads on an abacus, slide off and gather in a fruit bowl.

My, I’m stuffing my socks into my mouth in my tent by myself for my pleasure.

Endo chat, enby envy, no one chooses wrath as their sin. The day has passed over now, we spent the afternoon at the bend where the water was deeper. We reminisced a lot as a group of 6. We grew up together, me and these boys who are not boys anymore. I wonder if I should ask them if they think I’m a woman now. My toes are really dirty, someone needs to inhale them. My skin is darker and I’ve put on more weight this summer.

Violet Town, Porepunkah, Buckland river, Button man, sour men.

[delicatechildwitch]

You've just been glitter-bombed by Cabin 15! Mwhahaha! 👹✨

Comic by @justalittleobsessed and amazing art by @belleyellsaboutturtles

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

Unfortunately, they're a little paranoid about gifts and spent the science fair checking it for pranks ...

They did find another use for it though.

Context

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion

Cabin 8 (if you wanna respond, no pressure <3):

@usernameneon

@autumnmoon15

@its-captain-sir

@evenmoreofadisaster

@genderfluid-envy

@liya4kar

@little-banjo-frog

[cjkie22]

A non-exhaustive list of why you should listen to hit dirtbag boyband Bears in Trees:

their music is really amazing. you'll love it.

especially if your Spotify wrapped was on the pov: indie side of things

and even if it wasn't.

songs for every emotion

absolutely beautiful lyrics

sometimes these lyrics make sense. sometimes they don't. that's part of the fun.

songs about platonic love !!!!!

songs for the queers! the aros! the aces! the enbies! the trans community!

my dad likes them. doesn't sound like a lot, but it's an achievement.

(more underneath the break)

iain (bass/vox/lyrics) has "ginger" tattooed on the back of their head. if that isn't iconic I don't know what is.

on the note of iain, they were the first person i was aware of that used they as a pronoun, and that changed my life

they have a discord server! it's a really lovely community. i am not biased in the slightest. (discord.gg/sandbox) (https://discord.com/invite/thesandbox) (i will personally send you an invite i don't actually know what the link is)

they should DEFINITELY be on the heartstopper soundtrack

if I'm remembering correctly in the tiktok where they said they should be on the heartstopper soundtrack, they also said 3 out of 4 of them were in some way queer. seems like a good thing to me.

they opened for you me at six earlier this year. it was my first time seeing them live. and WOW.

I met some of my best friends through this band. I'm not joking; big shout out to the mojo dojo castle house, I'll never forget that weekend.

they're hilarious on the internet

you might cry at several of their songs for a million different reasons

BearBerry records

they have a tumblr blog @/bearsintreesofficial (iirc). I'm not gonna tag them but

BiT gigs are a safe space. I may have almost fainted at my last one (new cross inn, August 2023) but I've never met so many kind strangers and genuinely lovely people

merch is super comfy and really cute.

it gives stardew valley and animal crossing (trust me I'm right)

after the new cross gig (sweatiest gig in the world), despite surely being exhausted, callum (uke/keys/vox) took my bereal and i got my mini lesbian flag signed by them all

I turned out not to be a lesbian, which possibly makes it funnier, but the flag is stuck on my wall still

cryptids would LOVE their band

dash.

there's also a community minecraft server for discord members

BiT postcards !!!!

gosh and the bit stickers

they covered stick season on an Instagram live

they also do the funniest twitch streams

iain and the mountain

the raccoon email address

george (drums/production) is elite. the drum fills in doing this again? iconic. also has a specific really cool shirt I want to steal

wedding. dress. tiktok.

callum doesn't wear shoes on stage. apparently this was common knowledge but it sure surprised me at new cross.

the austrian soft drinks advert

iain make up looks

callum plays the flute. I want to say classically trained flautist but i may be wrong.

none of them have EVER bribed any members of law enforcement

their songs are very tattooable

talking of tattoos, nick (lyrics/guitar/saw him play the uke on stage once) has L + R tattooed on his forearms (iirc). absolute genius and I am stealing it when I get more of my patchwork sleeve done

iain releases solo music to under the name pet yeti. it's ethereal. callum also plays flute on one of them.

trumpet joe

the four of them never look like they are dressed for the same event

someone once edited the bears in trees wiki page to say that Ryan Ross was in their band

silly geese

that time we got singing? poetry? performance art? of THAT harry potter fanfiction

according to tiktok, iain and nick once had to sneak into their own show because they were underage

nurby

I have a video in the depths of my camera roll of them covering Mama by My Chemical Romance on a twitch stream

sonick

all of them give me gender envy at different times

their newest single (bart's bike) features banjo

patreon content

yelling it gets better with a room full of people was a healing experience.

tilly

modern baseball and fall out boy adjacent in my brain

if you like bears in trees you're automatically hot and really cool

they did a song with noahfinnce and its really super good

callum also featured on a myriad song which is also really super good

bit songs feel like coming home. they feel like hot chocolate and a blanket on a cold night. they feel like a warm hug. they feel like surviving and falling in love with life again and overcoming the worst things. they feel like victory, because you didn't think you'd make it to adulthood. but I'm 20 now. and I'm still here. I've almost graduated uni. and that's what bears in trees feels like.

all of their songs!!!! amazing!!!!

please feel free to add to this list. I'm taking suggestions.

[tmnt-fandom-family-reunion]

The New List: Sector Four

Moderator: @nights-flying-fox

Cabin Seven:

@curlyquest

@hitwiththetmnt

@actuallynobutwhynot

@xxsociallyunacceptablepuppetxx

@rav3nsk0ll

@bluefeather-tmnt

@sarahthewhat

Cabin Eight:

@genderfluid-envy / @ask-broken-trifecta-turtles

@liya4kar

@3lectricinsomnia & @teaableu

@its-captain-sir

@little-banjo-frog

@autumnmoon15

@usernameneon

Sector Four, welcome your newbie, autumnmoon15!

Members old and new, if you are able, please join the discord server! It makes things just that much easier for everyone!

- Moth

[red-balloon12]

Phantom Headcanons!

(Note that all of my versions of the Battle Egos….and basically all egos in general, aren’t inherently related in any aspect. They are they’re own individual creations. Also these H/Cs are self indulgent as hell so warning-)

General H/Cs

Name: Phantom

Age: 30 (Yes, I’m making him younger than Mare-)

Species: Incubus

Sexuality/Romantic Orientation: Pansexual/Biromantic/Demiromantic

Specific H/Cs

Dramatic af

Theater nerd (his favorite musical is Hade’s Town)

Phantom likes classical music but he’s a SLUT for electro-swing/punk-swing

He doesn’t actually do deals all that often and the ones he DOES do are performance related deals.

His powers comes from himself and his cane is really just to hone in his abilities (like Thor)

His cane is still his prized possession. He doesn’t let many people touch it and he goes almost everywhere with it.

Phantom hand writes all of his contracts with an ink feather for the aesthetic.

Phantom doesn’t actually take pleasure in soul stealing. It’s mostly a means to an end for him. But he WILL take pleasure in it if he can’t stand the client.

He DOES find a lot of his clients as well as the process of deal making amusing as it shows the length humans go through to fulfill their dreams.

When he’s not soul stealing and making contracts, he often likes to do sorcery or perform at his bar.

He’s good at playing the violin.

Dude HATES the sound of the banjo. (He doesn’t like country music in general.)

Phantom has a big and yet very fragile ego and he flaunts himself as a defense mechanism.

At first he found Natemare’s “hatred” of him adorable. He always taunted him about it which made Mare frustrated, to Phan’s amusement. Over time though, Mare started to work on himself and no worry about Phantom which in turn made Phantom uneasy. So he started to show off more which eventually made Mare fuss over him again.

The reasons why Phantom was uneasy when Mare stopped worrying about him was because he’s not used to people not fawning over him so suddenly, it makes him actually doubt his performance skills and he both admires and envy Mare’s want to make a name for himself because Phantom had already subconsciously accepted all of the labels people have pushed onto him. He feels…useless if he’s not making people scream for him and he HATES that Mare doesn’t need his validation to make him happy. (….they both has self worth issues-)

Phantom knows Mare has a crush on him. He finds it amusing when Mare acts like a tsundere and those feelings may or may not be reciprocated-

Despite him having a crush on Mare he does find Jackaboy hot af

Him and Actor!Mark are bitter exes tho

Phantom, Janus Sanders and Wilford Warfstash are all good friends.

He has a soft spot for the Bendy franchise.

His favorite animals are snakes and cats (specifically bombay/black cats).

At some point in his life he took one pole dance class and never looked back.

And these are all of my Phantom head canons for now. If you guys want me to do an spicy version of the bois’s list I’ll gladly make it. Otherwise my next list will either be a PhantoMare ship h/c list or an h/c list for Pumpkin.

(Just a note: I don’t normally do this but if you liked this list then please check out my Natemare Headcanon list since there’s lore there that connects to Phantom’s lore)

[magicaltalkingpony]

If someone was gonna do commission art of Banjo and Kazooie... what would be the charge for it? Most artists charge per character in the scene, but Kazooie is just kinda hanging out in Banjo's backpack most of the time. Would it be a full character plus a halfbody? A character plus a charge for some kinda fancy accessory or pet? If it's the last one I don't envy whoever has to explain to Kazooie she qualified as a Pet instead of her own person. Even if it is a "all children are under 5 if they eat for free" scenario. I'm not looking to commission art right now, this just popped into my mind last night and now it's been eating at me.

[fallow-grove]

guys help i have banjo envy

[fallow-grove]

hey wait i just came back from yardwork does ahno have a fucking banjo

Idk why banjo is the thing that did it for me but I might be just a little bit in love now

[hummingbird-hunter]

@fallow-grove 's Banjo Envy vs my Banjo Lust

[mmepastel]

Nouveauté de Claire Fuller, autrice britannique que j’avais déjà appréciée avec L’été des oranges amères.

Ici, c’est un roman très différent, même si on retrouve son goût pour les personnages décalés, abîmés, marginaux.

Julius et Jeanie sont des jumeaux de 51 ans, vivant dans un vieux cottage miteux avec leur mère, quelque part dans la campagne anglaise. Ils vivotent, vendent des légumes, font des petits boulots, ne savent pas vraiment lire ni écrire. Jouent du piano et du banjo. Pas trop malheureux, finalement.

Lorsque Dot, leur mère meurt brusquement, la survie devient plus complexe, leur précarité leur saute à la figure, d’autant que les secrets de Dot secouent leurs certitudes et mettent en péril leur avenir.

Le roman devient alors un genre de thriller dont l’enjeu est social : réussiront-ils à garder un toit sur leur tête ? À trouver de quoi dîner le lendemain ? Avouez que c’est original. Le récit est à la fois haletant et cruel, car on a du mal à ne pas souffrir avec eux de cette situation si insensée et pourtant tellement banale. On ne peut pas repousser le suspense aux frontières du quotidien, il est là, dans le livre comme sous notre nez. La pauvreté n’est pas exotique au point de rester à l’entrée du monde littéraire, de la fiction.

Au fur et à mesure du récit, on assiste à un défilé de galerie de personnages, majoritairement pauvres, ou modestes, plus ou moins concerné par leur sort, plus ou moins sympas ou mal intentionnés.

Ce qui est génial, c’est l’écriture, précise, tranchante. Qui brasse les sentiments de Jeanie, qui se démène pour faire face, et de Julius dont on devine qu’il rêverait bien d’autre chose. Qui raconte le quotidien et les efforts à fournir pour accomplir des tâches qui peuvent sembler dérisoires mais sur lesquelles repose la survie des jumeaux. La psychologie est juste, l’inquiétude palpable même si jamais on ne tombe dans le pathos. Jeanie n’est pas du genre sentimentale. Mais elle doit gérer le deuil, le risque d’expropriation, et n’a envie de rien devoir à quiconque.

L’air de rien, beaucoup de choses sont rendues sensibles grâce à ce récit, l’attachement familial, la compréhension non verbale, les habitudes, la nature profonde des êtres, l’irrésistible envie de vivre, le besoin de solidarité, la défaillance des aides sociales, les manipulations quasi inconscientes intra familiales, la rudesse du réel, la loyauté d’un chien.

J’ai été très touchée par leur histoire, j’ai eu l’impression de connaître ces personnages. Ils vont me manquer.

[eldritchan0maly]

Lol made a helluva boss oc named Artaxa Leviyatan. They are afab nonbinary hybrid who is from the envy ring. They are in a band called Poisoned Well that plays rock and gothic country. They can play bass, banjo, and fiddle. They are 5'4" and have a rather reserved personality when in private but in public they keep up their rockstar front. They have a cult following for their band that consist of imps, hybrids, and hellhounds.