#but it’s past midnight and i am Tired

[yourlocaltiredartist]

just smth based on that panel in the latest cass apocalypse au update bc i thought it was cool. au is by @somerandomdudelmao go check it out it’s great /g

[hinamie]

so just know, I'm healing / even though it don't feel like it

insp

[iced-souls]

Uhm, possible spoilers i think for Marble Sky [made by @somerandomdudelmao in which you should go and check out if you haven’t read rn cause they be very cool very cool and very cool]

but—OMG I LOVE THIS BIRB AUUUHGHGHHGUGHUHURHUEHGI—

IN WHICH THEY ARE PERFECTLY FINE AND WE SEE SO SO MUCH OF THEM NYYYGUUH—

Guys guys guys — please trust meee she is A-OK and she is gonna be a teacher to Oscar as they make a pacifist alien befriending club

I am not in denial i have no clue what you’re talking about—

I ain’t got a clue what these so called ‘jars’ even look like yet but i sketched a thing out immediately and then at that point my intrigueness started to fade, and then the ref came out and for some reason that boosted my interest even further. But i know what a bird’s brain looks like now so thats something.

I just think she seems very cool

I may have also did some other doodles a week or 2 ago that i didn’t post cause the social of anxiety was kickin in high those days but I’ll put them under the cut if thou wishes to see

That is all ok buh byyeeee go see marble skiessssss

[100-yardstare]

I was watching that new King Candy video on YouTube by Randomalistic and it got me thinking a lot about Wreck-It Ralph again, specifically about some background lore of the universe and the entire concept of the code and what it means to be alive in the arcade.

In this scene specifically, we are literally shown that code equals what is going on in the game. In the entire movie, "the code" is referenced like a god. You follow the code, you will be okay. If not, well... that could mean the end to either yourself or your world.

It's interesting to note that by dying outside your game you don't regenerate, yet manipulating the code itself like King Candy did didn't "delete" Vanellope. She was just made a glitch, which seems like a reasonable consequence of trying to delete her code. Perhaps it could explain why she couldn't leave the game Sugar Rush itself because her code was unstable, so the world's natural instruction to preserve her and itself would be to not allow her to leave.

But going beyond rules of the world of Wreck-It Ralph for a second, this is a cool reference to basic programing, which is essentially designing data into a sequence that a computer can interpret and execute. While the characters in Wreck-It Ralph are very much programs, they are also meant to be alive, and so, as this smart guy named Podolsky once said, "[there is a] counterpart for every element of the physical world." I don't remember where I read this part, but there were scientists talking about subatomic theory and how everything existing or anything that has existed is in some sort of quantum blueprint, parallel and expressing you, me, and that dog pissing on your tree outside into existence.

I AM GETTING TO MY POINT NOW

So my theory is that while a character may die and be unable to regenerate if something happens to them while they are outside their game, this doesn't necessarily mean that their code still doesn't exist.

Vanellope's code was attempted to be destroyed by King Candy, but that plot was a failure. He couldn't even modify existing code, like possibly changing the color of the salmon room or redesign Vanellope's kart because that's just what the code dictates. It's there and its permanent.

King Candy being an invader to Sugar Rush makes him not part of the game, and thus even though he was able to create an insert Sugar Rush character for himself to inhabit or essentially a "skin" to wear if you wanna be creepy about it, at the end of the movie he is gone. Dead as a door nail. He has no original code to refer back to because Turbo Time was unplugged, so he doesn't even have a source code that even remembers him as an individual. It's like a second death.

[bisexualcherdegre]

D:BH Rarepairsweek 7 | @dbhrarepairs

Day 4 - Kara/Luther

[the-lonelyshepherd]

may we have some lottienat kissing with bloody mouths pleek

im deleting this in the morning.

[awesome-shoes-with-wings]

@hedgehodgy Another Barney sketch for yoouu! He desires the olives, please.

From the wonderful Percy Jackson Modern AU Family fic living in my brain, and lovingly eating my available art file space.

[whyamiawakes]

The fact that Colin and Nate are such narrative foils for eachother. The amount of psychological damage they’ve done to eachother because of their own insecurities that they were projecting on the other.

Colin bullying Nate because Nate was perceived as “weak” and not fitting in with the traditionally masculine environment of football (while he himself did that to fit in with the very toxic environment that was the team at the beginning with Jamie leading the charge - and I could write an essay on the insecurities of Jamie Tartt) vs. Nate bullying Colin because he is not as skilled as other players on the team, he is not the name people recognize when talking about Richmond, he is not the star (while Nate feels like the least important member of the coaching team, he is constantly told by his dad that he will never amount to nothing even tho he is having a successful career at the club, he feels put aside by Ted after the arrival of Roy in the coaching staff to the point he snaps and goes to the dark side, joins Rupert at west ham, not seeing he is just the newest toy for Rupert to manipulate and eventually discard, falling into the trap of a narcissist just to feel valued, not realizing that Rupert does not value him, just the amount of damage he can do to Richmond by taking him away from there).

Both of their arcs so far have been about how their insecurities are influencing their lives, so I really hope we can see it evolve into them learning to manage them, learning to not be consumed by them, and to really grow away from them, with Colin fully being comfortable in his sexuality and Nate learning to see the worth in himself and coming back to the “light side” aka getting away from Rupert’s influence (and back to an healthy environment)

Basically I just want them both to have a happy ending (and to apologize to eachother about the nasty shit they have done)

[coolfireguy73]

It is now, 0:35 on the 1st of October in France right now.

As such I can now proclaim this one statement until midnight tonight:

It my birthday :)

[hana-bobo-finch]

GOURDIEEEEEEEE MY BELOVED OOOOOO yeah that’s right it’s Gourdie time. Pretty surprised it took this long for it to be her turn to get a Long Winding Ramble, but she has won the most recent poll (I was very convinced she’d win the before the one she just won but I guess not) so, HERE IT IS (I’ll try to avoid retreading things I’ve already said but it Will happen, it is inevitable)

Uurughhhghi love her…..…ironic, considering the character from the source material she was bastardized into is. heh. let’s just say my least favorite character and I would gladly throw her in a dumpster. But yeah thankfully I don’t hate Gourdie so uhhhh anyhoo, luckily for you (or unluckily depending on how you see it) she has more lore than some of the previous fellas I’ve discussed so this one will be a bit longer than average. But that also means I might forget some stuff and some aspects of her are still kinda messy, whoops!!! But yes Gourdie….love her,..,my favorite stubborn little hopeless romantic….

SAY IT WITH ME FOLKS not much is known about her earlier years!! Unsurprisingly!! She was born in Dagestan (some real life locations do exist but they lack any real life historical details, they merely share the same general geographical climate and certain cultural aspects. Does that kind of not make sense because certain countries’ culture can be heavily influenced by historical events? Absolutely. Do I care? Sort of but it’s not relevant enough for me to worry about it too much). Her original name was Ite, usually nicknamed Knight, though I’ll just keep calling her Gourdie for clarity. She was raised by a single father, Lukeres Wisp (name not final, I came up with it on the spot cough cough moving on), who was very dear to her. Where her mom is, who knows? She never really questioned it. She has a suspicion she’s adopted, which is probably true, but she never got any concrete answer and it doesn’t really matter to her anyway, she sees her father as her dad whether he’s her biological father or not. Lukeres was heavily into mythology and history and such, especially that of royal history and the myth of the fabled “brush your teeth fairy” (gee I hope that thing doesn’t actually exist!) and most of these interests heavily influenced Gourdie. He held off on ever telling Gourdie about TBYTF, though.

Gourdie was a STRAIGHT A STUDENT and EXCELLENT AT EVERYTHING and I’m LYING she was a total mess at everything. Her competitiveness and cockiness definitely did not match her actual abilities. Barely got through school, though was still somewhat popular. She excelled more in physical activities and was a semi-decent songwriter. She wasn’t the greatest at playing instruments, but would often sing over her father playing. Her father’s…interesting taste in music certainly shaped her own musical tastes later in life, that being messier melodies and instruments that seemingly clash in tones (what do you MEAN a didgeridoo and an electric guitar won’t go well together :( )

She has mild achromatopsia (vision condition where you can only see colors very dimly if not in complete greyscale), something that became known surprisingly late in her childhood. Somehow nobody noticed that she couldn’t see any color, and she didn’t notice cause hey, that’s just how the world looks like right? She has some vision issues because of it—she needs dark tinted glasses for her light sensitivity and is very farsighted and thusly bumps into stuff a lot, but rarely wears them because ewww, I don’t need those (YES YOU DO). She’s too stubborn to accept the fact that she needs…anything, really. But she eventually caved in and got contact lenses (FINALLY) (THANK YOU GOURDIE)

She would spend a lot of time by a small creek with a whole buncha fish!! She loved her fish!! Technically they weren’t HERS, but she saw them as her friends. Whether the fish shared the sentiment is unclear. But she loved her fishy friends!! Although she sometimes had trouble discerning the differences between kinds of fish because of her colorblindness. She’d bring some fish to her room in a tank and admire them as they swum around. She just overall loved the FISHY AESTHETIC!!! She made herself FISH SHOULDER-PADS whatever those would look like. Point is, she likes fish!!

As she grew older, she developed an interest in boxing, and was adamant she’d create a career out of it. Her father was a bit more skeptical, gently advising her against it (or at least Gourdie would insist it went like that, he more so outright told her not to but she views him in rose tinted glasses and cannot accept that he was a human being with flaws) but she was, as is expected of her from her stubborn nature, adamant she’d become a boxer.

Then her father fucking CROAKED!!! And not in a frog way! whoops! Yeah so he died when Gourdie was around 17, I’ve been referring to him in the past tense for a reason. It was quite a sudden death, no signs of it coming whatsoever. He had decided to tell her about TBYTF, one of his main areas of research, but he hardly got a word out before he suddenly keeled over dead for seemingly no reason. I mean, you can probably guess that TBYTF had something to do with it. Which would be a correct assumption to make. But Gourdie didn’t know that. The interesting thing with him is that TBYTF scarcely ever kills anyone directly—perhaps he was already ill in some way and what would’ve been non lethal to anyone else was lethal to him. Maybe he knew something nobody else did and a simple illusion wouldn’t be able to shut him up. Maybe a mix of both. Either way, my man was DEAD. Gourdie was, as one would be, quite distressed! She was essentially just told “hey I gotta tell you something really important—“ and then BAM death! She dealt with this quite maturely and I’M LYING AGAIN she did not deal with it well at all. She booked it. Didn’t notify the authorities or anything, just up and left, leaving her old life completely behind to start anew, vowing to make it her life goal to figure out what the hell TBYTF was.

And so, she fled to some weird-ass island owned by some total nobody named Toprumo. She got into boxing, a sport quite popular on the island, despite her father’s wishes for her not to. She was decent, not becoming particularly famous but scraping up enough money to carve out a life for herself. But above all else, she spent her time trying in vain to find any sort of information on TBYTF. None of her efforts were bearing fruit and she was….going a little bit mad from sleep deprivation and stress! It got to the point she was banned from most establishments because she would pester every person there on if they knew anything. Her career was already falling off from her constant exhaustion and she was known more so as “that one girl who gets the police called on her for harassing minimum wage employees about some weird mythical fairy”. But eventually, luck was on her side for once. She went to a drink joint, and in her sleep deprived haze she accidentally answered “the brush your teeth fairy” when asked what she wanted. She expected to get kicked out as by then her reputation preceded her, but she was instead handed a slip of paper with coordinates in it. How bizarre!!!! How mysterious!!!!! She didn’t know what the fuck was going on but decided to roll with it because she had no other leads.

She trudged her way to the coordinates, a secluded building in a mountainous area in the northwest. She was pretty sure she was about to get murdered or something but again, eh, may as well see what happens. She was met by a. very strange trio of people. A pair who she vaguely recognized as the sole descendants of a disgraced royalty (Mole and Bingo), and also just some dumbass who was around her age. The dumbass, who was apparently the leader, explained this was a small operation dedicated to studying TBYTF. She had heard the dumbass be introduced as “pumpkin daddy” so she was like “oh shit we doin funny names huh?” and panicked and introduced herself as Captain Hoop before backtracking and saying her name was Ite. The nickname somewhat stuck though despite her hatred of it. Not a good first impression though! Gourdie was not as impressed with the whole gourd head thing as pumpkin daddy hoped she would be. She just found it disturbing. What do you MEAN a pumpkin infection isn’t awesome :( Gourdie also made a joke about King Arthur and the knights of the round table which she did Not realize was apparently to pumpkin daddy the single scariest thing in the world and he started crying and she just sat there like “can we start researching now or something”

ANYHOO despite her reservations, she agreed to join the group as she really had no other choice. She got all the information they had on TBYTF, which honestly wasn’t much other than that it was believed to be in the north of the island. She shared the information she knew which, again, really wasn’t much. Just that Something happened and then her dad died. Although their initial meeting was…less than stellar, they ended up being the closest of the group as they both kinda agreed, “yeah these other guys are nuts” (as if they themselves aren’t!!!). Which I mean, they were right, mole and bingo were kind of nuts, but point is she and pumpkin daddy were pretty much doing all the work. Turns out they were both pretty kindred spirits, they had a shared crippling fear of the passage of time and in general shared a lotta interests. ALAS! Gourdie is a complete hopeless romantic sappy mess, and she fell for the gourd man (COME ON GIRL WHY HIM!!!). The feeling was mutual and they started dating. Disgusting, they were! A truly overly affectionate couple. Like guys please calm down!! But it gave Gourdie a fresh start in life so good for her I guess.

Getting a cut of the funds of the group, she decided to go to college in between her TBYTF research. She attempted to become a psychologist, as her father wanted. She didn’t see any issues with it, I mean, helping people is good right? She wanted to help people. buuuut as per usual for her in any academic setting she completely flunked everything and had no idea what she was doing. She usually delegated a lot of the work to others to figure out for her, and the work she did do she just blindly guessed. What actually got her through college, though, was review fraud. A crime that she invented. You could just call it bribery, but she did it so often that a new crime was invented just for her. Instead of doing any actual work, she’d just leave gushing, downright propagandistic reviews for all of her professors, and they would pass her. Like this went on for a ridiculous amount of time, she had a real knack for it. She never got in any severe trouble for it, and ended up becoming a therapist! For a very short amount of time! Despite her good intentions she was NOT the therapist type and would usually end up going on her own tangents or trying to “compete” with her patients to see who had the most trauma. She was genuinely trying to help and that makes it even worse, somehow. She didn’t even notice at first when she got her license taken away. She was pissed, but accepted it, and her career as a psychologist came to a quick and probably-for-the-best end.

Thankfully that wasn’t really her main area of interest, anyway. She wanted more so to continue with her boxing career, which she was able to continue with thanks to her reinvigorated spirit. She climbed the ranks pretty quickly, and her competitive nature was FINALLY put to an actual competition and not a therapy session. She never reached the number one spot, but was quite popular in the boxing world, especially due to an injury she sustained in the ring where her hoop earring was violently ripped out, permanently damaging her earlobe. Everyone found it badass so she just rolled with it and it got her a lot of admirers. It didn’t pay the bills though, so she took on a dead end job writing reviews for random products. Not a good career for someone with a track record like her, but it was something.

Around this time she also FOUND A ROACH!!! yeah that’s right there was a minor roach infestation of the group’s headquarters and she found a roach who was semi-evolved. The roach had little red boots and a disco ball in its pocket and would play music and dance. Gourdie LOVED that little gal. Unfortunately, roaches don’t live long, and her precious roach friend died. But she was never forgotten, and influenced and inspired Gourdie for the rest of her life.

And then woah! Marriage! Yeah she didn’t feel like waiting to get married. Waiting is for losers! So she proposed fairly early into the relationship, about a year or so in. The proposal went pretty terribly (apparently it’s not “romantic” to jump off a cliff with a parachute that says ‘MARRY ME’ on it, because it “just looked like you were jumping off a cliff for no reason” and “I seriously thought you were about to die please don’t do that ever again” or whatever. God forbid women have hobbies) BUT despite the messy proposal, pumpkin daddy accepted and they got married. Yippee. She was ecstatic, but alas as we all know this marriage will not last, so enjoy it while it lasts. She changed her name from Ite to Gourdie at this time, as marriage is a common time to choose your new name. You’re already changing the last, may as well change the first too. So yeah she was no longer Ite, she was now Gourdie. Which, if it isn’t obvious enough already, is a terrible name!! Seriously it is just gourd and ie slapped together. I mean, the canon explanation for the name makes sense, yknow she’s married to a guy nicknamed pumpkin daddy so may as well keep up the trend of gourdish names. But the actual reason behind the name is as simple as “I did not want to call her by her actual name and I thought “uhhhh I’m calling this pumpkin daddy’s book club may as well give her a gourd name. I dunno. Gourdie. I’ll change it once I think of something better””. I did not ever think of anything better. More accurately I grew attached to the shitty name and now even if I thought of something absolutely genius, I still wouldn’t change it.

For a while, everything was peachy keen. She got a wedding gift from a friend, that gift being a little puppy. She adored this mutt, naming her Putters and loving her dearly. Putters was an interesting case—on one hand she seemed entirely clueless of the world around her and had no qualms with purposefully disobeying orders and destroying countless pairs of shoes, but oh the other she was a total expert in areas dogs should not be able to be experts in. Putters also burrowed in the floorboards. But Gourdie loved Putters nonetheless. Pumpkin daddy, on the other hand….not so much. He was terrified of Putters, so Gourdie attempted to keep Putters as far away from him as possible. Putters was an incredible golfer, and Gourdie attracted minor fame from taking Putters to tournaments. Tragically, Putters was hit by a car and died. Although, she didn’t, that was a trick and Putters faked her own death, but Gourdie didn’t know that.

Aside from that, though, everything was going rather well for her. Pumpkin daddy had a tragic accident, sure, but he was fiiiiine. She was concerned, yeah, but that turned out relatively fine. Buuuut that “accident” led to a lotta new research being done on TBYTF. Yeah so this was the major point of contention. Shortly after his marriage, pumpkin gave the ownership to his tbytf-research group to Mole and he and Gourdie did more independent research. This research led to some not so great discoveries, eeeyikes!! The prevailing opinion up until then was that TBYTF was a kind being, one not to be feared, one that wants the best for everyone. Spoiler alert this was wrong!! Pumpkin daddy was the one to discover it. It was a slow discovery, it wasn’t a sudden “oh this thing is evil”, it was more so a culmination of suspicions. He tried to tell Gourdie, but by that point she was an avid follower of TBYTF, and was enamored by its powers and its overall existence. Despite having no real evidence to prove her point, she was adamant in her position and refused to hear anything otherwise. This caused a lot of tension in the relationship as one could imagine, but yknow blah blah blah true love prevails and stuff.

But she was growing SKEPTICAL!!! yeah what the hell is up with pumpkin daddy!!! She thought she had a pretty good grasp on that freak, she even wrote a very unprofessional psychological analysis on him (which she would later destroy) but he was acting bizarre. Quite bizarre. He would disappear for long periods of time and would return smelling like crabs. what the hell was he doing!!! he refused to give any explanation which just fueled Gourdie’s already inherent skepticism of everything. Let’s play a fun game, what would you do in this situation? Would you A) attempt to have an actual discussion B) not worry about it because everyone needs time to themselves or C) immediately assume that you are being cheated on with what, a crab person or something? and instead of processing that suspicion properly you immediately jump to write an angsty song about it. If you chose option C, congratulations, you are on the same wavelength as Gourdie because that is exactly what she did! And instead of taking the hint from Gourdie’s song that “HEY SHE IS GROWING SUSPICIOUS OF YOU”, pumpkin daddy completely missed any meaning of the song and was just like “oh that’s a nice song haha you should help me write some music sometime”. But this issue would soon be resolved. Gourdie’s childhood pet fish had died, and yet she insisted on taking it with her everywhere. It got to the point she’d hallucinate little fish on her shoulders like an angel and a devil in cartoons. What does this have to do with anything? Well, she was growing desperate. This fish was essentially all she had from her past after abandoning it all so suddenly. She needed this fish to come back. She had the “genius” idea to take it up to TBYTF and offer it up, seeing if TBYTF could grant it eternal life. And so, one night she climbed to the highest peak, one of the many areas TBYTF resided in, offered it up to TBYTF, the fish was granted new life andOH OK GOURDIE IMMEDIATELY GETS TACKLED

yeah so. turns out that’s where pumpkin daddy was all that time. hangin out in the crab restaurant up in the mountains. And turns out he just so happened to see Gourdie doing her whole fishy ritual, but he was just a bit too late to stop her. Seeing the crab restaurant, Gourdie immediately put the pieces together and was like “OH YOU WERE JUST HANGING OUT AND EATING CRABS. THATS WHAT YOUVE BEEN DOING. THAT MAKES SENSE” and was quite happy. Pumpkin daddy was not! He was incredibly pissed that she was, you know, making a demonically possessed fish! The argument got pretty heated (meanwhile there was the very first fish person—surprisingly not sushi, she comes later—coming to life in the background, about to be the most annoying character who thankfully does, by all means, nothing whatsoever), this being the first real time they got into an actual argument over the ethics of TBYTF. The fight was pretty quickly broken up by Bellona who really just wanted to eat her crab in peace. So that was an awkward first introduction. yeah sup it’s me your husband’s archenemy. can you please shut the fuck up so I can have a peaceful meal (not to mention that both she and pumpkin daddy had been actively fighting moments prior so she looked like she just got hit by a truck)

But uh. All that ended well I guess, pumpkin daddy apologized for not telling her about the crab stuff (honestly a fair thing to do, even being in the same proximity as crabs can be punishable by death so it’s best to keep that private) and Gourdie and Bellona struck up a friendship. Like an actual friendship, not the whole “I seriously am this close to killing you at any given moment I detest the ground you walk upon” kinda thing she and pumpkin daddy had goin on. After that, Gourdie would occasionally go to the crab restaurant with them. What happened to the fish? Uhhh well that first fish—she doesn’t really have an actual name—went a bit rogue. Did Gourdie regret anything, no. Did she wish things had gone differently, definitely. That fish lady, as she’s simply called, is rather annoying and does nothing but scream “bah humbug” every day except for, ironically, Christmas, in which she momentarily becomes a better, loving person. But then she reverts back to normal. Point being, original fish lady is bad news, she’s really annoying! But thankfully she didn’t bother Gourdie much, so Gourdie was able to continue her life as normal.

And Gourdie became the LEDI CHAMPION!!! what is ledi, you may ask? Yeah I’m not gonna beat around the bush, it is very literally just a Wii, and the name is just an abbreviation and/or portmanteau of Legally Distinct. Ledi is very literally just a legally distinct Wii. So. For all intents and purposes it is a Wii. She became the champion of Wii sports. Truly an…impressive accomplishment. Yeah so Gourdie has a huge interest in Wii games like Wii sports or Wii sports resort. She takes them way too seriously. But that passion ended up with her being the champion, whatever that entails, so…good for her? It’s not really relevant to the story or anything but it is an aspect of her worth mentioning. She hasn’t lost a single game. She once almost lost against pumpkin daddy, but luckily for her, he got appendicitis at the last second and couldn’t finish the game! What a relief! Her winning streak didn’t end! Also worth mentioning she tried to do an at home surgery using a knife taped to a Wii remote 🥰🥰 what a loving wife 🥰🥰🥰 (TAKE HIM TO A HOSPITAL) (PLEASE GOURDIE JUST TAKE HIM TO A HOSPITAL PUT DOWN THE WII REMOTE).

Moving on! Bam! Child! Yyyup my boy Extra came into existence when Gourdie was around 25ish? “That’s pretty young to become a mom” EXCELLENT OBSERVATION this girl has ZERO patience and was speed running life along with pumpkin daddy. They are a match made in HELL they have NO concept of waiting. But anyway. I’ve rambled a lot about Extra before so I won’t get into him too much here, but point is, Gourdie was a pretty good mom. She faced much less of the brunt of Extra’s bitterness, and shockingly was much more nurturing and motherly than one would expect. I mean, she failed miserably at being a therapist, the idea of her being kind to children seems a bit far fetched but nah she was a good parent. Everyone was happy, everything was going well. She ended up stopping her boxing career due to the physical toll motherhood took on her, but she didn’t mind it too much.

Then pumpkin daddy had to go be an idiot and buy the island. Yeah. There was already a ton of boiling tension between them, but that decision was enough to push it all over the edge. Why it ticked Gourdie off so much, who knows? Probably just that it’s a prime example of his impulsiveness. Whatever the reason, they split. Which wasn’t a decision Gourdie made with any enthusiasm, mind you, she was completely heart broken that things weren’t working out. Absolutely soul crushingly heart broken. And so what do you do when you’re heartbroken? You make another fish person!! And out of spite, you create an entire clan based around fish people!

Yup Gourdie then founded the fish clan out of pure spite. She didn’t go to TBYTF directly to make fish people, no—she wouldnt admit to it, but she had a feeling she shouldn’t go back to TBYTF for her fish business after what happened last time—so she instead went to JS. JS is just some guy who happened to become a literal god. Her going to JS was…an incredibly bad decision for a variety of reasons, but he accepted her request and gave human life to all the fish in a small area of the surrounding oceans, and to Gourdie’s current pet archerfish named Sushi (which, unlike before, this one was still alive at the time). And so, Sushi was given human life, and Gourdie was ecstatic, and OH SHIT HOW DO YOU TAKE CARE OF A FISH PERSON. Gourdie panicked, realizing that oh, wait, sushi can’t breathe properly, what the hell do I do. In her panic, she brought sushi to tbytf where she once again bumped into pumpkin daddy who was hangin out up there as he so often did. Gee, I wonder where I’ve heard all this before. This time however pumpkin daddy didn’t start screaming at her (though he was certainly pissed) and instead helped her out by keeping sushi alive long enough for Gourdie to think of something to do. Which, she actually did, developing a sort of water pump to keep sushi breathing (kinda like the opposite of an oxygen tank) so good job Gourdie I guess!!

She actually loved sushi quite a bit, even if she kinda almost left her for dead in her panic at first. Her precious archerfish child. Sushi was a bit of a handful sometimes, especially while simultaneously dealing with extra being angsty and wanting to move out, but Gourdie and sushi were generally rather similar in demeanor, making it easy for them to get along. Gourdie made one big mistake though while raising sushi—she instilled a deep sense of patriotism for the fish clan. Constant reminders that the fish clan would reign supreme, it would have eternal glory, etc etc, and sushi would someday be the leader of it. In all honesty sushi probably took her words a bit too deeply to heart, Gourdie could be a bit hyperbolic, but sushi didn’t realize this and took it all at face value: her entire purpose was the fish clan, without the fish clan she was nothing. So uh. Good job there Gourdie, I’m sure this won’t bite you in the ass later on!

Fortunately for Gourdie, but unfortunately for sushi, the time they spent apart left Gourdie and pumpkin daddy yearning for each other. True love or some shit like that. Point is that pumpkin daddy attempted to win back Gourdie with the COOLEST the HOTTEST the GREATEST thing to ever exist:

A GIANT, DRIVEABLE VERSION OF A HESS FIRETRUCK TOY FROM THE YEAR 2000 BABYYYYYY 🦅🦅🦅💥💥💥💥 this for whatever reason won over Gourdie and all marital issues went out the window because THAT TRUCK IS SO COOL!!! Cmon you wouldn’t be able to resist either. just look at it.

But uh. Yeah. They reconnected after spending a few years apart, and nearly instantly clicked again. Gourdie was introduced to all the nonsense pumpkin daddy had been doing, like the hybrids, the alcoves, and she found it all incredible. Pumpkin daddy was a bit less enthusiastic about the fish people stuff, but he didn’t complain. They still would go off an on in their relationship, but for the most part they were on decent terms. He and Gourdie would spend a lot of time in the alcoves. She eventually abandoned the fish clan entirely, switching to the co-leader of the pumpkin clan, which left Sushi beyond pissed, because she was still in the mindset that the fish clan was the only thing that mattered in life. So sushi developed some resentment towards Gourdie, whoops!!

As I said in some previous rambles, not a whole lot happened around this time in terms of plot. There were a lotta random events, sure, but nothing extremely important to the plot itself. A brief respite from everything. But that would not last because NOOOOO POLITICAL TENSION!!! People wanted pumpkin daddy dead. And Gourdie was very against this. She infiltrated a group known as the “mischief flock”, a group that while wasn’t directly planning his demise, it was certainly likely they’d be involved if it did happen. Calling the mischief flock an actual group makes it sound like it had some sort of structure. It did not. At all. But some of the people involved had stake in the political tension, so it was important to keep an eye on them while pumpkin daddy tried in vain to patch everything up and keep the system running. Wheezer was the only pumpkin clan enthusiast of the group, so she tended to gravitate towards him. Though she…may have deafened him by screaming at him with a megaphone but that’s neither here nor there. The biggest threat was MB. remember her? no? Yeah she’s not really that relevant. Kurt’s mom. She was out for BLOOD. So gourdie did what any loving wife would do and killed her wait what

Gourdie accidentally killed MB while trying to prevent her from causing any problems. It was an honest mistake, they were in a secluded part of the forest and gourdie simply threw a rock at her in defense, but her aim was a bit too good and she got a perfect shot right at MB’s skull. Gourdie was HORRIFIED, as killing is one of the few things that are completely unacceptable. In a panic she hid the corpse and continued on in the mischief flock like nothing happened. “What happened to MB” “oh I dunno lol she was here a second ago”. The body was eventually recovered and the blame was pinned on an apparent bear attack, which led to a nationwide fear of bears. If bears can conk you in the head with rocks, who knows what else they’re capable of? Gourdie took this secret to the grave, she didn’t tell anyone about what actually happened. But it continued to weigh on her conscience.

Speaking of death, then Kurt died! And wouldn’t you know it, it was sushi who did it! Yikes! Sushi also attempted to kill Gourdie, but gourdie managed to get the hell outta there along with pumpkin daddy. But that incident absolutely destroyed their marriage!! Again!! Despite their relationship being the best it had been in years, the war’s beginning shook them both up so much they blamed each other and went back to hating each other. whoops!!! Skipping ahead a bit just because I don’t want to have to go every little detail and also it’s getting late and I REALLY don’t want to stay up all night writing this uh. ANYWAY the negotiations were set to happen, which Gourdie was to attend, being the co-leader of the pumpkin clan.

But as you all know, the negotiations went horribly. She didn’t realize Extra would be there and brought her pet dogs, leading to him having an allergic reaction, leading to Gourdie and pumpkin daddy having yet another argument. She attempted to give him a gift to smooth things over but uh. Wheezer ended up creating an eldritch horror with it but that’s a story for another day. But pumpkin daddy did accept her apology, and agreed arguing over what sushi did was pointless. But the day is not saved because where the hell did pumpkin daddy go. While pumpkin daddy was missing, Gourdie busied herself by…getting into a ton of fights. Especially with wheezer. Like full on brawls. Extra was much more concerned with pumpkin daddy’s disappearance, but gourdie was awfully chill about it, kinda just shrugging it off cause eh he just be like that sometimes (HE IS ACTIVELY DYING). The Ramsay clan was, as usual, trying to screw things up, but when Gourdie attempted to prevent them from causing any problems, she ran into a whole bunch of squirrels. I’ve talked about this in the Fina ramble already but uh yup. HERE COME THE SQUIRRELS!!! Gourdie (who was already somewhat skeptical of Fina, but had her suspicions confirmed by Extra, making her a prime target) was carried off by Fina’s squirrel army, and was brutally attacked by them. She survived due to medical care being immediately available (“why was there medical care on site” BECAUSE THERE WAS A FIGHT CLUB BEING CREATED) but ended up losing both arms. she was provided prosthetics shortly after, but she found them incredibly hard to adjust to.

She was just….overall Very confused the entire time, as was everyone. Nobody really knew what the hell was going on at any point during the negotiations. Pumpkin daddy was eventually tracked down and uh. She kinda ended up ruining his life!! His life was in shambles anyway, but she prevented extra from telling him about the whole “hey Fina is trying to kill you” thing because awww that would hurt his feelings!! Obviously that backfired instantly when Fina did, in fact, try to kill him. Fina didn’t succeed, of course, but uhhhhh well ermmm yknow everything kinda gets wacky and everything explodes and shit and uhhhh quick look it’s a Hess fire truck toy from the year 2000!!!

that oughta satiate you while I try to figure out what the hell happened at this point in the story because it gets so confusing and everyone in the story is confused and I’m confused and you’re probably confused and uh. Well, pumpkin daddy disappeared off the face of the earth with only a cryptic email in his wake, so she was put in charge of the pumpkin clan. She ended up voting to dissolve the clans entirely, bringing an end to the war. To add insult to injury, his (alleged) death happened on December 25, which is her birthday. happy birthday Gourdie you get depression!!

AIGHT. Luckily for you guys, Gourdie actually has a somewhat coherent ending. Yup. That last section was confusing nonsense, but thankfully things get a bit more sensible in the ending. The ending is pretty much Gourdie’s time to shine. Uh. Sort of. She’s certainly the main part of the ending but my girl is NOT shining.

She was not doing well!!! Not at all. Since pumpkin daddy had completely disappeared and was presumed dead, everything was changing and Gourdie did NOT approve. Everyone was moving on WAY too fast for her to handle. The culture was shifting away from the preexisting traditions, everything just felt wrong. On a more positive note, she reconnected with Sushi and removed the fishiness from her as a way to help sushi start a new life, but Gourdie herself? SUFFERING!!! Her life was in shambles, she lost a ton of people close to her, and everyone she did have left were growing tired of her constant downcast attitude. Everyone was practically begging her to just READ THE EMAIL. Gourdie refused to read a single word of the cryptic email left by pumpkin daddy, because if she did, she would have nothing more of him left. So may as well prolong reading the email so he can never die, right?? (THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS GOURDIE!!!) it was becoming increasingly obvious that while everyone else was slowly moving on, she wasn’t. At all. To the point she couldn’t even stand Sushi’s wedding and stormed out halfway through.

The final straw was when she had to host the harvest festival, which had been going on for years under the strict supervision of pumpkin daddy. Having to host it like nothing had happened completely broke her and she ended up screaming at a bear on a unicycle (the bear deserved it btw). She was finally pressured into just READING THE STUPID EMAIL ALREADY to get SOME sort of closure. Nobody had been able to figure out what the email actually meant, so really the chances of Gourdie getting any sort of closure from it were slim.

But not zero!!! After sleepless nights of trying to figure out what it meant, she eventually realized it was in an extremely annoying code of his, that, when translated, was the same coordinates she had initially received while trying to study TBYTF. The original meeting place had been long destroyed by then, considering that it had blossomed into the Ramsay clan headquarters which had been bombed, but nevertheless she followed the coordinates back there and wait what the FUCK is he doing there

yeah so. he was alive, as prophesied by the stupid unicycle bear she had screamed at. At least, it appeared he was alive. Alas, it is not so cut and dry as that, as it’s just as likely that what was actually “him” was just an illusion. This was, after all, near where TBYTF roamed. Whatever the case, Gourdie too disappeared. So she either had a happy ending where she reunited with pumpkin daddy and is doing who knows what now whatever they are, or she got caught in an illusion and is now fucking Dead.

See, the funny thing is I don’t have to decide which is the truth! I can just take the cheap way out and say it’s up for interpretation, which makes it sound like it was a smart and thought out ending, which it was not. So it’s up to you to decide, she either is alive wherever she is, or she’s another name on the long list of fatalities! Yippee!

And on a completely different note, tis random trivia time…..

• She wears boots. A lot. Huge fan of platform heels. No particular reason why, she just likes them. They also add a few inches to her height which really isn’t necessary considering she’s already over 6 feet but. Eh. Go off queen

• Her online name strikes fear into the hearts of many. It is IteKnight. Beware of any users named IteKnight because she WILL leave a false review

• she is SO incredibly sweet, ik she seems a lil…interesting, but I swear on my life she is wonderful

• She’s a huge fan of sevvra the gecko psychologist!!! He’s her favorite character. Unfortunately he was ruined for her, as she went to the hybrid of him for therapy and he, instead of telling her how to deal with grief, diagnosed her with schizophrenia and then cancer of all things (as if he has any right to diagnose cancer??) thankfully she saw right through his charades and left.

• Even though pumpkin daddy is scared of King Arthur she still has an interest in such things, she even has a sword she likes to play around with but she keeps it deep in the closet so it doesn’t scare him

• Her design was all over the place for a while. She started off as a purposefully sloppy doodle while I was doing schoolwork, which I then polished up, but I then recycled most of the design for a different character, but then I changed my mind and gave the design back to Gourdie and just. yeah up until recently no two drawings of her looked the same

that is all oooughhh this was a long one I can’t believe I got this done in one night

[chiropteracupola]

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 <3

sharpe/jsamn crossover:

“Major Sharpe!” Sharpe clenched his jaw reflexively, and looked down. The lady standing before him had feathers in her hair that nodded slightly as she tilted her head up to him. Sharpe stared. “Good evening, miss,” he mumbled, after a pause too long to be polite. “Do you dance, Major?” “No,” he said with forced finality, and watched the lady’s pleasant expression turn to a moue of distaste. “Oh!” said she, and flounced off. That Sharpe did not dance had been a lie — he was left-footed to a fault, but he had danced, long ago, when he had been married for love and when his leg, only marked with one bullet-wound then, had not pained him so.

[drunkndaized]

* doesn't go on tumblr for a while because of watching ᰔ first anime *

* trying to wake up enough to go read more fic for that anime, so goes on tumblr *

* "ᰔ ouppy has made a lot of posts!! ♡ feel so bad for not seeing them, ♡ want to go through them but am too tired to think :(" *

* ... looking at these vent posts makes it hilariously obvious that ᰔ Ouppy, Doll, and ᰔself are all the same person but different flavors *

[andi-is-bored]

i’m a generally happy person, so why is it that the only music i listen to now is a sub-genre i like to called “Conan Gray breaking my fragile heart for an hour straight”

[heartbreak-sandwich]

This not being able to sleep at a decent time thing really goes against my entire vibe of waking up early to have a cup of coffee and obsess over fictional men in an effort to prepare myself for another day.

[kaytaygay]

past ten

I got a question for you people

I’m the last one

whenever it’s past ten I just stop caring and let out all my energy and last remains of my social battery plus I just get weird and say all my thoughts out loud but once I get home I’m immediately passed out in bed. Is that normal or is it just my adhd?

[zevrans-remade]