#bc it’s on my brain 24/7

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

One day I’m going to make a Marbit yap for every single notebook song and then I’m going to compile it into chronological order

[ruporas]

trigunned the hades or hadesed the trigun (id in alt)

[bean-spring]

Jayvik Modern AUs are hilarious to me because my boy Jayce is NOT playing any sports. He is NOT a jock. He is a gymbro nerd who tries to get his rich sister to play DnD with him, spends his days at the chemistry lab, plays chess and one day he suddenly needs to help the football team covering for someone because people think he must like sports. He doesn't even get along with everyone. He tries, of course, but he isn't the golden boy until the extremely rich and popular girl, president of the student-council, goes all "Popular! You're gonna be popular!" Glinda on him until he becomes popular thinking he's doing something good for the school when he isn't and he's getting carried away by fame and parties when all he truly wants is being with his lab partner Viktor. At the end of the day, Arcane truly was just like High School tbh.

[scribbled-anecdotes]

You know, I have a lot to say about Untamed Canon, but they really did get it right with Song Lan's character introduction. Just him and Xingchen gazing longingly at each other while holding Xue Yang at knife point. 10/10 peak character introduction.

[yeetushaitus]

MORE ace attorney sketches oooo beware of spoilers ooooo

i might like her a little bit

i came up with like 90% of these while i was half asleep so theyre not very funny but whatever

anwyas calisto yew brainrot!! tbh i like her more when shes yew like idk... as shih-na shes kinda boring ngl and shes not NEARLY as funny in the present even when she does reveal that theyre the same person

the stupid sunglasses gag with lang is hilarious though like what are those 💀

no but actually shes hysterical and her laughter is infectious she literally never fails to make me laugh with her

also i love that it seems to be genuine?? like its not the typical "mwhahahahaha im evil" or "hehehe im planning something devious" like shes actually laughing at edgeworth whatever she finds funny because she genuinely thinks its absurd or hilarious or whatever and i LOVE that as a character quirk

i havent gone back to aai1 let alone i-4 in SO LONGG tbh might get the collection to play aai again(or maybe not.... idk if i can get through i-3 without throwing myself out of a window)

in conclusion bring her back capcom you cowards /j

[stevens-pastrami-sandwich]

screenshot redraw YIPPEE 🐁🐁

We NEEDED to see more of the monkey sidekick having duo 💔 It's okay though, im not angry about this. *my nails dig into my fists*

[wanderingchocolateeclair]

Small low quality doodle of Them™️ because I miss my boys and they help cure all stress

[rbr4c1ng]

Hii! I was wondering if you could maybe explain the bus bros fallout or p2p gate or pretty much all of the McLaughlin-Newgarden lore to me since I'm only getting in to IndyCar now and I want to be caught up before the 500. I understand this is a big ask but I've seen that youve posted about it and I just NEED to know. Any links to other pieces of lore would also be much apreciated. Completely understand if you don't want to write anything though so thank you so much I advance!! <3

YES ABSOLUTELY I WILL EXPLAIN! this is my special interest dw i could write an 18 page essay about their lore.

SO basically scott came into indycar from supercars in 2020-2021 ish and him a josef started getting along like super well, which is honestly a bit odd bc josef is known to not really let people get so close to him, so scotty is a bit of an outlier in that respect.

eventually! they make bus bros!!! wooooo everyone loves it etc etc they have fun making it…. until they don’t! leading up to their breakup there were QUITE a few clues that they knew it was gonna end in flames like scott talked about it on off track (see audio excerpt below) and on hot seats with hinch if i remember correctly?

there’s also a fair share of articles that mention it. they basically knew it was inevitable but i don’t think anyone thought it was gonna happen so quickly??

so then the winter break leading into the 2024 szn happened! this is about when i started getting really into bus bros and was honestly pretty present for some of this shit (i was at the daytona 24 and st pete so i’ve got some first hand evidence but we will get to that later)… anyways so the rumors start going around that bus bros is over around?? st pete time i think??? a little bit earlier. which is odd given that they seemed okay with each other at the daytona 24, even though i thought it was strange that they weren’t both on tower motorsports anymore cause josef switched to penske porsche but GENERALLY it seemed okay (although based on this pic idk their relationship seems a little charged atp but it’s all speculation really)

then after the rumors come out i think it was jenna fryer’s article that did it in? (idk it has a paywall on it for me right now and i don’t care enough to find it here but there’s definitely excerpts floating around) now i do recommend to take anything jenna fryer says with a grain of salt bc she is essentially a gossip columnist for all intents and purposes. but the article basically said that josef and scotty were done and scott wouldn’t answer any questions about it and was only saying that they’re fine or to ask josef about it (tea from todays 100 days to indy episode actually…). they promptly took down the bus bros merch site and have been relatively quiet since then. at st pete they talked on the podium and didn’t seem too bad but i’ve seen other clips where they won’t even sit next to each other or speak to each other so take that as you will. podiums are pretty much just publicity, cameras everywhere, you’d probably want to seem at least cordial with your teammate.

(pic 1 is mine, pic 2 is a pic of my tv from todays episode LMFAO)

so heres where most of the speculative stuff comes in. Josef dissolved his media company, unfollowed everyone, and cancelled bus bros leading into the 2024 season because he wanted to “get rid of distractions”, and really we could leave it at that, but i find it hard to believe that that’s the only thing that happened.

Josef is the dictionary definition of Penske Perfect, you won’t get any closer to it than him. he’s fucking OBSESSED with this idea of being perfect. perfect season, perfect body, perfect car, perfect team. obviously this isn’t feasible, but scotty seemed to have broken through that block in his little Penske Perfect brain and got him to LIGHTEN UP A BIT. and then the 2023 season happened. sure, josef won the indy 500 but it was one of his worst season finishes in a while and, to make matters worse, scott BEAT him. little scotty mac, supercars champion transplant from 2021 beat josef newgarden at his own fucking game after breaking down his walls and making him soft. i can see how that scared josef honestly. so he ended it. Scott doesn’t see things on a plane of winning/losing imo, everything is just experience for him. hell, he didn’t even know if he would end up in indycar and he sure as hell didn’t think he’d win races so soon AND beat his teammate. to josef, it’s JUST winning/losing. if he’s losing, he needs to be better. and he lost sight of that for the 2023 season. that’s why he had to come back and put an end to the shenanigans bc he knows scott makes him soft.

but that’s just my speculation!!!!! literally could just be nothing. maybe it is to josef, but i know for a FACT it isn’t to scott.

OH and with the p2pgate stuff! basically they had a component in their car that. was not supposed to be there! that prevented race control from turning off their push to pass like normal. (marshall pruitt has a rlly good article explaining it all here) and they were caught in long beach when race control forgot to turn on the push to pass during the sunday warm up and HMMMMM why do the penske cars still have it???? when has this happened before??? oh ok st pete! now they’re disqualified. josef used 9 seconds of p2p when it was not enabled and scotty only used 1.9 and will used none. so i’m led to believe that it was a josef-centered choice IF it was intentional to use the p2p when it was supposed to be inactive.

now josef really laid down the water works for that press conference at barber to the point that i was having a VERY hard time watching it. i felt bad for the guy. he seemed really fucking upset and i almost believe that it WASNT on purpose but. it’s just too good to be true right?

honestly i think this all could tie back to the downfall of bus bros in that scott maybe didn’t want to do the p2p thing but josef was willing to? and maybe that caused some sort of divide between them bc then again for josef it’s about Winning No Matter What, and yes scott wants to win but cheating isn’t the way for him. idk.

for more of their lore when they WERE friends, watch bus bros (duh), admit one, 100 days to indy, scott learns america: nashville, hot seats with hinch, and listen to scott’s episode on off track with hinch and rossi! also there are some very brief interactions between them on some older penske games videos before bus bros was even a thing but it’s not much. there are more but i can’t think of them rn…

sorry for rambling, if you have any more qs feel free to ask!!! i’m always available for brain picking :)

[akimojo]

is it too niche if i say i can't stop thinking about how hope is a pretty major character in lightning returns and yet he doesn't have his own official lr theme? and how i'm 100% interpreting that as a nod to how his grasp on himself/reality was so muddled up as a result of the torture bhunivelze put him through that trying to define his lr character with a theme would've been fruitless bc of the blank slate he had been turned into?

[thedreadvampy]

lmao it is undeniably true that I am Depressi Spaghetti but you know. fuck it we continue.

[racetrackmybeloved]

i should rewatch newsies

[kandicon]

When I first read "This Little Piggy" I was absolutely convinced Dr. Capelli was Dr. Carmilla and frankly I don't care if this is untrue, it is a concept I will adore forever and ever.

Please imagine Carmilla bringing back P1-NOC-10 (one of the little pigs prototypes) to the Aurora and loudly declaring to the mechs that it's their new sibling. And they just have to accept that until it dies naturally.

[spacerockband]

everybody get hype its oc time

[ferrocyan]

reflection

crescenza told him to take walks.

it'll help him get used to his new body, he said. so tart did, and he didn't make it to the pub before having to return home and keel over from chest pains. he lays crumpled on the lounge sofa. watching the birds of falcon's nest fly under the cover of clouds. behind, father prepares dinner and crescenza brews tea.

the viera man walks over to place a cup before tart. "i didn't mean to say that you should go out today," he says with a soft laugh. "my apologies, young master."

"he should have known better," father says helpfully. tart opens his mouth to reply with a scathing yet witty remark, but all that comes out is a long, drawn out groan.

he opts for the tea instead. crescenza put it just out of reach--when tart extends his arm for it, the pain returns. it travels down the scar on his right shoulder to his chest and into his heart. right where odin had cut him down years ago. he curses, grips the table, and he could swear he hears crescenza laugh again. the bastard.

it was by his magic that tart has gotten a new body. a new face, or rather, his new old face. this is what the boy named orhtus would have grown up to become, had he not chosen to be... tart. or so crescenza assured him. tart wouldn't know the difference, anyhow.

the difference that stuck out, however, was the lack of scars. the magically altered body was pristine. free of the wounds earned from years of adventuring, of hard battles, grave injuries and deaths. it was... unrecognizable. even as he looked at it in the mirror, the body didn't feel like his own.

"i could impose your memories of the scars onto your body, if you'd like," crescenza offered then, "but that means reliving those memories until they take shape. are you certain you want that?"

tart said yes, and he doesn't regret it. but fuck if reopening his scars doesn't hurt like the seventh hell. the tea helps, though. crescenza tends to the herbs himself, enhancing their medicinal effects. tart feels the throbbing in his chest subside.

"thought to visit the see today. wanted to call jandelaine," he said, sulking as he couldn't manage it.

"the hairstylist? do you want a trim?"

"a shave." he'd been thinking of growing his hair out, but the idea suddenly feels insufferable. he wants nothing more than to take a razor and cut it himself, if that wasn't liable to end in more injuries. "'s a real bother now."

"in that case, the master can do it for you," crescenza suggests. "surely you know of his aptitude with the razor!"

tart and father turn to glare at him at the same time, which earns them an innocent beaming smile. father sighs and returns to his cooking. "i don't see why not," he says, and tart is too tired to argue. he says nothing, curling up in the seat until dinner is called.

they eat without much conversation. after the meal tart waits in the washroom while father grabs his tools. he comes with a set of scissors and many razor blades of different sizes.

a question occurs to tart. "do you ever go to a barber?"

"it isn't possible for me to visit one as much as i'd prefer," answers father. "i can manage on my own, there is no need to concern yourself."

tart stops feeling bad for him. "am not."

"how would you have me cut it?"

"short."

"this much?"

"shorter. shorter. yes, that."

tart set himself up across from the mirror in the washroom, and now he watches father's hands on the reflection as he works. starting from the sides, then the back. tart feels him trim the hair thinner towards the nape. he closes his eyes, waits in silence, until the scissors stop.

tart opens his eyes. the job is done, his hair has been mostly shaved off. quite well, at that. but father says nothing. he just stares at his handiwork with an unreadable expression on his face.

"what, something wrong?" tart tilts his head to look up at him.

father says in a low voice, "you look just like he did on the day we met." he says a name, which tart cannot remember long enough to hear. he doesn't need to.

tart inhales shakily, as if the air has been punched out of him. he looks at his own face. if he focuses on one feature at a time, he can see it--but all he sees is father. they have the same eyes, sharp with bright green irises; the same lips, bowed and thin. they look so similar, tart thinks. it's impossible to recall, does he look like dad at all? maybe he would be able to tell if he could see the forest instead of the trees. tart wrenches his eyes closed. how do you see a forest for more than the color green?

father places a hand on the dome of his head, softly petting his hair. "you have his nose," small, upturned, "his jaw," square, "your ears are longer, however. ah, but that reminds me." tart exhales and opens his eyes, just as father procures a bottle of dye from his bag of tools. "it's miqo'te custom to dye the tips of the ears black."

"dad tell you why?"

he snorts. "sure--in his words: 'cause it looks cool, duh!" tart does remember dad's voice, and he does a creepy yet accurate impression of it. he bursts out laughing.

after father applies the dye onto the outer sides of his ears, tart examines his reflection, flicking his ears back and forth. "this does look cool," he concludes, satisfied.

father hands the bottle to him. "keep it. i take it norvrandt doesn't have goods like these?"

"not... really," tart says. "right, i'm going back there."

"you should ask crescenza for his tinctures before you leave, in case anything happens. it wouldn't hurt to be safe."

"yes," tart says, thinking of looking for crescenza right then. he must have pulled a muscle, the pain in his heart is back. "tomorrow, then."

"of course." father has finished putting back his razors, and starts to clean the floor of hair. tart grabs a broom and helps, the two of them working together in silence.

tart curses himself. obviously things wouldn't change in a day. he's never offered to stay, and father would never ask him to do so. he puts away the tools and sighs. has to be you, he thinks. before father leaves the room, tart calls out to him, "papa, tha.. thank you. it's, um. it's great," he says, turning his eyes to the mirror. he doesn't see father's face then, but sees him bow and take his leave.

tart groans as he plants his face to the wall. maybe when he says he doesn't feel well enough to leave tomorrow, it won't have to be a lie.

[atoriv-art]

I really like your nejisasuneji fanart!I think the similarity between Neji and Sasuke in Naruto is worth exploring. Both of them come from the pupil aristocracy, and their strength is about the same (the early Byakugan and Sharingan are both very strong), and both of them are rebels. Regardless of whether it was fate or the system, both people failed in the end. Neji still failed to escape fate and became a scapegoat. Sasuke finally compromised to the old system and ran around in order to maintain the status quo. It is very appropriate to use one sentence to evaluate the two people: "Those who try to control their destiny end up being controlled by destiny."It will be interesting for the sasuneji two to help each other: Sasuke helps Neji reform the Hyuga clan and break the curse seal of the caged bird. At the same time, the reform of the Hyuga clan becomes the beginning of the reform of the old system of the ninja world. Neji, who is no longer controlled by the caged bird, becomes Sasuke's right-hand man.

yesssss this is what drew me to them! i find it very interesting they are both clan prodigies with Baggage and both come from prestigious clans no less. remember when the sharingan and byakugan were compared to each other and it meant anything ever that was FUN.

i particularly enjoy the idea of contrasting them because If I Wrote Naruto (said every naruto fan ever) this conflict of like. sasuke goes on to be the one who could Not bear to stay in konoha and then later turns against it, vs neji who stayed in konoha after being promised that things would change (and they didn't. funny that) would be something to be explored! especially after Both having been seen as Shitty, Angry Prodigies. but neji "calmed down" after being made promises that weren't kept and sasuke didn't let himself even consider falling for stuff like that (until the ending of naruto lmfao)

i'm a big fan of characters who contrast like that lol and i think the whole sharingan vs byakugan thing is a very fun backdrop to that. like dreams/illusions vs reality/truth? come on now.

people joke about it a lot i've seen, but literally if neji as a character were allowed to 1. exist in a meaningful way at all in shippuden lmfao 2. interact with sasuke, i do think it'd be an easy path for interesting interactions, because like. having to defend the village who's literally never helped you, against the guy who was also Never given any assistance or support growing up, AFTER the village made you countless promises that your life would get better when it literally did not? lol. lmao even

them teaming up is sincerely on the like top 5 best things that would happen If Naruto Made Any Sense to me to be honest i do think about it a lot.

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Marbit as Notebook Songs but this time I was listening to It’s Not Easy

See, the problem now was that Marcia was back. She’d turned up on his doorstep and fuck, it was just as hard to deny her now as it was before. He’d brought her in, and it was like she never left. Immediately, every feeling, hope, and dream he’d had with her was coming back in full force. Because being with her made every bad thing that happened disappear.

Then they’d slept together. Shit. And the worst part was that it was amazing. And he’d do it over again a million times if given the choice. And yes, he knew Marcia had a fiancé. And yes, it was a really shitty thing to do. But god, he couldn’t even bring himself to care. Because that night was incredible. Even after, they just held each other close and kissed like they’d needed it to live. Like they needed each other. Then he’d messed up by telling her that he loved her. Because suddenly, the next morning, he saw her standing out on the porch, the porch he’d built for them, and she was leaving.

And yeah, he’d gotten upset. Because what they had wasn’t nothing and he couldn’t understand how she could just walk away like it didn’t matter. When he’d asked her what she was doing and why, she’d told him she didn’t know. So he tried again. This time he asked her what she wanted. Not what her parents expected, not what her fiancé wanted, not what society wanted, but what did she want? She just looked down and told him she didn’t know and that it wasn’t easy to figure out. And she might as well have punched him in the gut, because that hurt. It was when it hit him that the girl he’d originally known wasn’t there anymore. The girl who laughed loudly and smiled brightly while wrapped in his jacket because she got cold too easily wasn’t the woman standing in front of him. Or at least she wouldn’t show herself to him. What happened to that girl he wondered, why won’t she open up to him? They used to tell each other everything there was to know. Now she was running from him.

He tried to tell her. He tried to grab her hand and tell her he wanted every part of her. They’d make it work. Because he loved her and he wanted their lives to intertwine so far that they weren’t even distinguishable. He looked at her, fighting every tear that threatened to well up and spill over his eyes, and told her he wanted a life with her. They could do it. He wanted a life, he wanted every messy fight and every beautiful sunset. He wanted it all because it was her. He wanted to grow old with her in this house. The house he’d made for them even after she was gone.

As he watched her inch away slowly, he pretended his heart wasn’t being shattered. He’d just back away too and told her that if she wanted that too, all she needed to do was walk back up the stairs and come onto the porch. His arms were open and waiting. If she walked back up the stairs, she could collapse into the safety of everything that was Two Bit Mathews. But her head was filled with the voice of her parents telling her how disappointed they were and the voice of her fiancé telling her how heartbroken he was now. Everything bone in her body screamed at her to run back to the arms of the boy with messy curls and intricate tattoos, but she couldn’t get her feet to move. So she turned away so he wouldn’t see the tears that fell when he’d accepted she wasn’t coming. She bit the inside of her cheek to stop him from hearing the shaking breaths that would come out when she heard the last thing he said. Goodbye Marcia. This was it wasn’t it? She made her choice. He wouldn’t keep waiting.

Once she heard the screen door slam shut, she let herself collapse and start sobbing. Because she’d done it. She let him go and that hurt worse than any pain she’d ever felt in her life.