#but i do like this cowboy

[missescalientee]

Oooh! 🤩 How would Niccolo and Gryffin moving to Lonesome Flats affect the events of Trolls World Tour?

The performance of the most important songs in all of music were suddenly interrupted by two darts shooting off Poppy and Branch's sunglasses. The two trolls are shocked-surprised, then their attention is brought to the sheriff's deputy holstering his gun with flare.

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Niccolo is Delta Dawns deputy sheriff, he's also a sharp shooter tho obviously his gun doesn't shoot bullets. His gun is a play on nerf guns and pellet guns, so he can fire darts with one, and interchangeable "pellets" with the other (he uses any small object that fits in the chamber, like seeds or perhaps gumdrops :] ). He also has one that's one of those trick comedy guns, the ones that usually just shoot out a flag that says bang! His has the flag and a flower that he can swap out.

As for his role in world tour I think he'd be the one to release Poppy and Co from the jail cell instead of Hickory, or he goes to speak with them and is there when Hickory frees them. He decides to tag along because he feels a responsibility to try and stop the rock apocalypse as a half rock troll. Delta is not a fan of his betrayal but allows him to leave. (This would circumvent the chase scene with them leaving in a hurry either to beat Barb to Vibe City, or because they notice Barb arriving)

It could also be that he joins and during the chase scene is when he shout explains his plan to Delta.

Either way he's on the trip.

If the fall from the cliff scene happens, he uses his wings to slow his and one other person's descent, most likely Poppy or Branch. He agrees with Branch when it comes to mistrusting Hickory. Branch would be only slightly less wary of Niccolo due to his earnestness with his heritage and believing in him when he says something off with Hickory. Niccolo did grow up in Lonesome Flats after all, he knows everyone there, so some random country troll he doesn't recognize showing up out of nowhere is a red flag for him.

During the raft segment, idk fully, I thought itd be funny for him and Hickory to have some kind of rivalry, one upping each other. Hickory builds the raft, so Niccolo is the one to kick Chaz off the boat by shooting his clarinet with gumdrops which clog up the tone holes on impact. It could still be Hickory kicking him that gets him fully away, idk, or Chaz just leaves cuz his instrument is ruined. But that would lead to Niccolo marking up the tally 1 to 1 on who is the most reliable "country" troll.

The Vibe City encounter also goes pretty much the same as the movie, when the bubbles descend everyone freaks out, Niccolo trying to shoot the bubbles and failing. Like Poppy he'd be one of the trolls not tossed around but his is thanks to his wings.

When Rock attacks Niccolo is in a bubble with Hickory but isn't there when Poppy and Hickory meet up later, Hickory having knocked him out before searching for Poppy. Which then leads to Niccolo showing up later when Barb is about to leave with Poppy, allowing him to sneak onto their critters so he can be there at the concert.

At the concert he does initially search for Poppy but gets distracted when he sees his dad in the audience, having been kidnapped with the rest of the country trolls and put into the rock section. So Niccolo has to make a choice between trying to help Poppy or being with his father. He chooses to go be with his father, apologizing for just up and abandoning him in Lonesome Flats.

The rest plays out like in the movie, Niccolo getting a shout out for being not just one genre which probably would've been a thing Poppy pointed out to King Quincy and Queen Essence when trying to be like "We're all the same!!" But they're not.

And I think he'd sing along through Delta's part in Just Sing with his dad.

Anyway those are just my thoughts since receiving this ask which was like a day or two ago lol so it's a bit messy.

I just know that Niccolo gets to have a gun and dress up like if Clint Eastwood and Oliver Peck had a baby

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

[catmask]

okay i think i am learning.... something

[bixels]

(walks in dazed with mystery blood dripping down my forehead and past my eyes and cheeks) honey! i'm home!

[inkskinned]

one of the things that's the most fucking frustrating for me about arguing with climate change deniers is the sheer fucking scope of how much it matters. sweating in my father's car, thinking about how it's the "hottest summer so far," every summer. and there's this deep, roiling rage that comes over me, every time.

the stakes are wrong, is the thing. that's part of what makes it not an actual debate: the other side isn't coming to the table with anything to fucking lose.

like okay. i am obviously pro gun control. but there is a basic human part of me that can understand and empathize with someone who says, "i'm worried that would lead to the law-abiding citizens being punished while criminals now essentially have a superpower." i don't agree, but i can tell the stakes for them are also very high.

but let's say the science is wrong and i'm wrong and the visible reality is wrong and every climate disaster refugee is wrong. let's say you're right, humans aren't causing it or it's not happening or whatever else. let's just say that, for fun.

so we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making the earth cleaner, and then it turns out we didn't need to do that. oops! we cleaned the earth. our children grow up with skies full of more butterflies and bees. lawns are taken over with rich local biodiversity. we don't cry over our electric bills anymore. and, if you're staunchly capitalist and i need to speak ROI with you - we've created so many jobs in developing sectors and we have exciting new investment opportunities.

i am reminded of kodak, and how they did not make "the switch" to digital photography; how within 20 years kodak was no longer a household brand. do we, as a nation, feel comfortable watching as the world makes "the switch" while we ride the laurels of oil? this boggles me. i have heard so much propaganda about how america cannot "fall behind" other countries, but in this crucial sector - the one that could actually influence our own monopolies - suddenly we turn the other cheek. but maybe you're right! maybe it will collapse like just another silicone valley dream. but isn't that the crux of capitalism? that some economies will peter out eventually?

but let's say you're right, and i'm wrong, and we stopped fracking for no good reason. that they re-seed quarries. that we tear down unused corporate-owned buildings or at least repurpose them for communities. that we make an effort, and that effort doesn't really help. what happens then? what are the stakes. what have we lost, and what have we gained?

sometimes we take our cars through a car wash and then later, it rains. "oh," we laugh to ourselves. we gripe about it over coffee with our coworkers. what a shame! but we are also aware: the car is cleaner. is that what you are worried about? that you'll make the effort but things will resolve naturally? that it will just be "a waste"?

and what i'm right. what if we're already seeing people lose their houses and their lives. what if it is happening everywhere, not just in coastal towns or equatorial countries you don't care about. what if i'm right and you're wrong but you're yelling and rich and powerful. so we ignore all of the bellwethers and all of the indicators and all of the sirens. what if we say - well, if it happens, it's fate.

nevermind. you wouldn't even wear a mask, anyway. i know what happens when you see disaster. you think the disaster will flinch if you just shout louder. that you can toss enough lives into the storm for the storm to recognize your sacrifice and balk. you argue because it feels good to stand up against "the liberals" even when the situation should not be political. you are busy crying for jesus with a bullhorn while i am trying to usher people into a shelter. you've already locked the doors, even on the church.

the stakes are skewed. you think this is some intellectual "debate" to win, some funny banter. you fuel up your huge unmuddied truck and say suck it to every citizen of that shitbird state california. serves them right for voting blue!

and the rest of us are terrified of the entire fucking environment collapsing.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Year of the Snake!

[numberonetribble]

Guess who finally heard what Knockout said to Optimus in TFP ?!!?! (me)

[mizandria]

so the occurrence that almost every woman was sexually harrassed by a man at some point in her life is just a cluster of a few individual experiences that you cannot formulate any general conclusions based on BUT a few reddit porn addicted losers not having a girlfriend assigned to them as soon as they're born or being rejected by three girls in middle school is a world scale epidemic that gets its own name, psychologists and media and useless video essayists devoted to finding out what its causes are and to figuring out how to solve it, and every woman is now responsible for solving it. i love living in this world i am totally not chewing on my arm right now!

[thapunqueen]

SO I SADDLE UP MY HORSE AND I RIDE INTO THE CITAAYY !!!!!

[itsthatlake]

“The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver.

HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY ACE!!

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[yashley]

It’s about this time, another voice pushes into your head, like a bat out of hell. 

[spleenthecat]

"ooohhh fiddauthor so sad so cute theyre so yaoi" you are all overlooking a very very important detail here. FIDDLEFORD HAD AND WORE FULL ASS COWBOY BOOTS IN COLLEGE.

[tapeworrmart]

Red Dead Revenge (low honor Arthur)

[konoharfts]

A quick Wild West AU but with my favourite old men :) We’ve got outlaw Kakashi and rancher Gai (also a rough as hell lil bonus comic :))

@kindatiredtho gave me cowboy AU brainworms with their amazing cowboy Genma art, and @alternitavely infected me with KakaGai thoughts so blame them 🤷‍♀️

[kagoutiss]

junimo sight

[stil-lindigo]

the sunset.

a comic about two outlaws who loved each other, despite everything.

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