#but let me know what you think!

[pangur-and-grim]

what do people think of these colours, for the deepsea beasties? 

[t1meslayer]

S07~E78 | A Stitch In Time

Welcome back to @pokepocketzine week!

Leftover sales for PokePocket, a tiny zine about tinier Pokemon, are officially open. If you haven't jumped on the fun, you can still do so until July 31! So, hurry up!! What are you waiting for?!?

Today's fic is about a mystery that definitely isn't given away by the featured image on this post. Can you figure out who (or what) is responsible for the rash of vandalisms in Alola and beyond? This story is available in print through PokePocket — Volume Two.

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Fandom: Pokemon

Tiny Pokus Focus: Mimikyu!

Summary: "You're listening to The PokeMystery Hour, where we try to catch all the dark corners of this great, big world. In today's episode, our team investigates a rash of vandalism reports out of the Alola region that may point to the existence of a new Pokemon — with a penchant for stolen fabric."

And, of course, look out for all the other amazing artists and writers who are showing off their work! So much love went into this project, and I'm incredibly proud to be a part of it.

[dxntloseurhead]

okay, i’m thinking of finally setting up the loser bracket for the pink and green bracket, but i’m having trouble with deciding who all to include

[raelle-writing]

Chapter four is live! 🩸 we’re really getting into it now... 👀

[moonflre]

You’ve just finished moving the last of the boxes into your new apartment. This will be a fresh start for you, a chance to do everything over, new town, new you, thats the saying right? You stick your head out the window and get a deep breath of fresh air, looking down at the town below. This is it, a real chance to be a new person, live a life full of excitement and intreage, and most of all, to make some real friends! There’s just one problem: Your heart begins to leap again as you see all the “people” below you. You’ve been trying not to freak out about it this whole time but….

All of your neighbors, they’re all… Monsters!?

The streets below you are filled with all kinds of creatures. Jagged, horned lumbring 9 foot beast, scittering clicking and chittering octopeds, you think that lady down there might just be a series of interconnected rings and eyes? Ah this is too much! You know you said you wanted to start over but you didn’t think it’d be so scary! You slump against the wall and slide to the floor. *sigh* How are you supposed to make any new friends now? When everyone is so? Intimidating! Much cooler than you! And might also be incredibly deadlyl!

You spend at least an hour or two in that sad state before mustering another scrap of confidence. No! You’ve come too far to back down now! There has to be someone here who’s befriendable. Someone approachable, preferably who’s power level is in the single didigts. You open your door a crack and begin to scout out potential friend targets, retreating inside if anyone gets too close, lest you risk making direct eye contact.

At last, you spot someone! She doesn’t seem too scary, and she lives right next door! The perfect target! Your dip into the kitchen and, using 3 apples, some wheat and a small campfire you constructed out of the remains of your moving boxes, you craft a pie! The perfect housewarming gift, that is aside from a cardboard campfire apparently.

Before you know it you're knocking on her door, hands trembling with excitement and fear. After a few moments she opens the door and you get your first good look at her.

The figure before you is a medium height, and is at least mostly human shaped. But the similarities stop there as the entirety of her body is made of, churning, bright, greenish blue slime.

–Monster Info–

Name: Sips

Lvl: 3

Species: Slimegirl

Sips is almost illuminated from within, as you can see bubbles and particles rising within her, dancing in her plump shape. Everything from the tip of her fingers to the strands of her hair are rounded with soft edges, the latter looking more like large globs of jello, purposely shaped to imitate hair that frame her face on both sides.

And speaking of which she's staring at you and oh God have you been staring at her this whole time?? It doesn't matter!! There's a glint in her eye and a peppy smile on her face, and that is the face of someone who's more than ready to be your new friend!

You think,

You hope.

Either way there's no turning back now!

FRIENDSHIP: START !!

[cyancees]

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

[akanemnon]

We didn't even get an answer, and we never will (at least it's not determination)

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[fr3sh-c0rn]

bitches will be like "oh yeah your heart beats really hard and you breathe faster, and you get, like, butterflies in your stomach" when you ask them what a crush is like no fam that is a panic attack

[anna-scribbles]

last one i promise(<—lie)

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

Hot take maybe but I think Bertie would be FAR more likely to survive the first two months of Dracula than Jeeves would be. Bertie has a healthy sense of self-preservation. Jeeves consistently underestimates how dangerous a situation might get (Steeple Bumpleigh, the club book) because he’s overconfident about his level of control over any given situation. He'd handle Dracula masterfully if they faced off in England, but on Dracula's home turf? Much more doubtful.

I realize this might be a tough sell, so I will explain further (or it's not a tough sell, and I'm going to explain further because I want to). (criteria taken from @canyourfavesurvivecastledracula) Without further ado.

Would Jeeves and Wooster survive Castle Dracula?

Jeeves

Jeeves' survival will depend on how long Dracula finds him more entertaining than irritating. On that basis, I don't think he's long for this world. On the one hand, he has a huge wealth of knowledge about English society and culture that he can recite perfectly from memory. That should buy him at least a little time with noted teaboo Dracula.

On the other hand, he would be absolutely no fun as a vampire plaything. Jeeves cannot be got. Sneaking up on him while he's shaving will yield zero reaction (though that's at least good for his short-term survival--given that, although he DID take the crucifix from the old woman out of politeness, he certainly isn't going to wear it. The rules of fashion don't go out the window just because you're in a spooky castle). Then, although managing the whims of rich jerks is not an insignificant part of a valet's job, Jeeves usually does this by bending his employers to his will. Dracula is not the sort of employer this will work on. It'll just add insult to injury when on top of being impossible to scare, NOW Jeeves is telling Dracula that his favorite cloak is several centuries out of fashion and he's not allowed to wear it anymore.

Jeeves will 100% go exploring in the areas he was told not to go-- though to be fair, he MIGHT actually get away with this, what with his superpower of appearing in rooms without being seen or heard. Said superpower might save him from the brides as well (though this is by no means guaranteed). Since I find it doubtful that Dracula would come to rescue his annoying ass, not being noticed is his best defense.

There are a couple other things working in Jeeves's favor; the question is just whether they'll be enough to save him.

He DOES know shorthand, and could try to send coded letters. He might even have the foresight to squirrel away some extra stationary where Dracula can't find it. But could he get them posted? Would it even do him any good?

He certainly has enough cultural literacy to figure out what his new boss is pretty quickly. If he didn't chuck the crucifix out the carriage window, he might start carrying it around in his pocket.

Psychology of the individual, sure, but the individual in question is a 400-year-old vampire who lives in an isolated castle in a foreign country and is regarded as a terrifying mythological figure in the surrounding villages. Jeeves has never come up against anything this alien before, he's cut off from his normal resources, and opportunities to play people against each other are limited.

He probably has enough upper body strength from all that shrimping and fishing to climb the wall, so he COULD escape if he wanted to, if he survived long enough. It's just, again, that overconfidence, and also Dracula has a vast library full of rare old books that are entirely at his disposal. He's keeping his eyes and ears alert for potential escape strategies, of course, but I don't see him being as desperate to get out as Jonathan was.

There are just a lot of "depends on"s here, and I'm not convinced that luck would shake out in Jeeves's favor, all things considered.

Bertie

Bertie is so perfect for the job of Castle Dracula Prisoner it's like it was made for him. Think about it. Being held against his will in big manor houses comes more naturally to him than breathing. He's afraid of things that are scary. A lifetime of dealing with Aunt Agatha has made him the world's preeminent expert in "curl[ing] up in a ball in the hope that a meek subservience [will] enable [him] to get off lightly." He will NEVER go exploring in places he's been warned away from if nobody is forcing him to (Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's office notwithstanding. There were biscuits in there). He's both fun to talk to and easy to toy with (and extremely English). A+ prisoner. Dracula adores him.

In my opinion, Bertie is at Castle Dracula either because Aunt Agatha got some wires seriously crossed and thinks he’s going to meet an eligible potential bride (I mean, there are certainly brides there), or because Dracula has something Aunt Dahlia wants him to steal (far less likely, given that one of Dracula’s THINGS is famously not owning anything silver). Either way, he's shown himself entirely willing and able to escape down drainpipes if a sitch gets too scaly.

He DOES take the crucifix, and DOES wear it (which is what will save him during the shaving scene, because you KNOW he's going to jump a foot and cut himself like the dickens). He's read enough supernatural goosefleshers to be genre savvy about terrified old women cryptically pushing crucifixes into one's hands. I also think his sunny disposish endeared him to the villagers, and they were particularly vehement about urging him not to go. He doesn't speak German or Romanian, but he's empathetic enough to recognize Pure Terror. So by the time he actually gets to the castle, his imagination is already running wild and he's plenty aware that he is in imminent danger.

I think the biggest risk to Bertie will be the brides; whether or not he's susceptible to trances, if he thinks they're trying to marry him, it's against the code of the Woosters to turn them down. But that only becomes an issue if he comes face to face with them, which, luckily, I think is unlikely on account of the aforementioned "won't go exploring" (and if he did, Dracula would definitely rescue him).

I'm inclined to say due to his drainpipe-escape habits that he WOULD be able to climb the wall and MAY attempt to sneak into Dracula's room to look for the keys if his desperation grows to outweigh his fear. Whether he does or not, though, he does NOT have the stomach to attempt shovel murder, and therefore won't get magic brain fever, and may very well simply walk out the front doors when the people come to take the boxes away. OR he climbs his way out like Jonathan did. Either way.

When Bertie tells this story at the Drones later, Tuppy will say that no doubt it's been greatly exaggerated and all that probably happened was that he spent a couple months in an oldish house entertaining a weird loner.

[worm-on-a-blog]

woahh 2024! cheers!

happy new year. worms are rooting for you to have your best year yet.

[egophiliac]

YOU MANIFESTED THE TWEEL CARDS CONGRATS

YOU'RE WELCOME EVERYBODY!

seriously though I was probably like. 60-80% thinking we'd get at least one tweel for chapter 10. but I was NOT expecting it so soon! both of 'em! in August! a shame we're not getting a Coral Sea event after all...but I guess I can be resigned to that and ALSO excited for getting shiny sparkly glowing(!!!!) mertwins along with Azul fighting his inner demons and going right for the eyes! AHHHH I CAN'T WAIT

(also heeeey I recognize that rowboat... 👀)

[humbuns]

pieced together till they're no longer broken apart

[introspectivememories]

was it casual when i sat in your lap in public? was it casual when i said "recently my heart is crying because you're leaving"? was it casual when we decided how your last name would fit with mine? ("yuki tsunoda-gasly" / "no tsunoda, only gasly" / "yuki gasly?") was it casual when we sang adele's "someone like you" together at your going away party? was it casual when i knew it was you just by touching your ass? was it casual when i knew it was you by smell alone? was it casual when "will you miss me?" / "for 2-3 minutes maybe" / "i'll take that. even if it's just 2-3 minutes, i'll take that"? was it casual when that bus was completely empty and we still sat right next to each other, all the way in the back? was it casual when i picked you up multiple times so you could dunk a basketball? was it casual when i begged to come over to your house multiple time and then you finally let me and we cooked fried rice together? was it casual when we played christmas twister together and i said "your big eggplant is touching my ass"? was it casual when we were pressed up against each other on a scooter going two miles per hour? was it casual when-

[puppyeared]

horrible truth bomb dropped on my head 20 min ago

[liverpepper]

a (little) liverpepper sora comic, for rainy-sunshine days ☔️💛