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I had a mean thought and did a bad thing and two hours later I "yes and"-ed myself into a sort of unfinished, fic(ish) series of words.
(Mac misses a phone call. And misses a phone call. And misses a phone call)
Mac grunts, squeezing his eyes shut and pressing his face harder into his pillow. The material beneath his cheek is damp. He flops onto his back, huffing as his stiffened muscles protest the action, and rubbing a hand over his mouth. He must have been drooling.
Reaching over, he fumbles for his phone on the bedside table, squinting through the darkness and winces at the sudden light when he successfully wakes the screen. Itâs early enough that the blackout curtains arenât the only thing keeping the room dark, almost an hour before sunrise. He drops his phone on the bed beside him.Â
A distinctive guitar riff blasts through speakers on the other side of the house, loud enough, surprising enough that Mac flinches at the sound.Â
Everyone gives him grief for getting up early or staying up too late and making too much noise with a drill or revamping a can opener but anyone else in the house can blast music before the sun is up. And run the mixer. And⌠is that the blender?Â
With a huff of frustration he untangles himself from his sheets and stumbles out of bed heading for the kitchen.Â
Lounging with her feet hanging over the armrest of the couch, Riley sips on a smoothie. The deep purple color in her glass matches the workout gear Desi wears as she attacks the heavybag hanging in the corner of the living room.
The waffle maker beeps. Bozer flips open the lid and the waffles onto a plate.Â
âHey! Just in time, waffles are done,â Bozer says as he notices Mac standing in the doorway.Â
Desi wipes her face with a towel. She ruffles a gentle hand through Macâs hair as she passes. âYou okay, sleepyhead?â Sheâs more affectionate now than she was when they were dating. She grabs a glass from the cupboard and pours the remainder of the smoothie from the blender.Â
Mac scrubs a hand through his ruffled hair to smooth it into a semblance of order. âFine.â He croaks and clears his throat. âSlept hard.âÂ
âYou almost missed waffles,â Riley teases as she swings herself off the sofa, heading for the kitchen and catches her toe on the leg of the coffee table. âOw! Oof.âÂ
âYou okay?â Bozer rests his arms on the counter, leaning forward to peer into the living room.
âYeah, caught my stupid toe on the stupid table,â Riley hisses and limps a few paces. âYou okay, Mac?â she asks, stopping in front of him, canting her head with concern. âYou kind of look like a teenager on the first day of school after summer break.âÂ
He gives her a small smile and rolls his eyes. It sounds like something Jack would say.Â
"I was going to say I'm good, but that was before the implication that you wouldn't wake me for waffles."
"With waffles, it's every man for himself." Riley ducks around him, scooping up the plate on the counter. ----
The charging cord is draped over the bedside table, the end unattached. Mac pats the pockets of his cargo pants, coming up empty. The sweatpants he wore for sleep are bunched on the floor beside his bed, too light when he picks them up, and pockets confirmed empty when he searches. He shakes out the rumpled sheets. His phone tumbles free, bouncing on the floor and skittering under the bed, forcing Mac to chase after it with a grunt, pushing aside an old pair of boots before his fingers close around his phone and he shoves it into his pocket.Â
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On the top corner of the screen, a small icon shows he missed a call. He thumbs open the log and sees a number that while he doesnât recognize, looks familiar. As he punches in his voicemail passcode, he rifles through his brain. An international number. Not the country code for Australia or Puerto Rico.Â
He doesnât want to hope. They donât have plans for a check in. Mac has tried not to let that bother him. Not to take it personally or feed into what feels like a growing rift. He has still made contact occasionally. Hasnât let it go too long between calls.Â
âHey, hoss.â
Macâs body seizes. He canât stop the small gasp at the familiar voice. His eyes slam shut, prickling behind closed lids. Itâs him. Itâs him. The greeting sluices over him like a healing balm over a raw wound.Â
âSorry I missed you. Guess itâs still pretty early over there. âCourse you might not even be home. Sorry I missed the last few check ins. Things have beenâ well, you know how it can get.â
He does know. He gets it. He remembers watching the hands of his watch march on when he was supposed to give Bozer an update on his work trip to Cincinnati and wondering what kind of story he should make up this time. Hoping that Bozer will forgive him, again, for being forgetful and not calling when the plane landed.Â
Being on the other side, watching the clock as it moves five minutes past their planned check in, thirty minutes, three hours, hurts. Knowing that the window of opportunity closed and not knowing when it will open again makes him angry.Â
Maybe missing their call isnât Jackâs fault and there was nothing he could do to prevent it. But isnât this whole thing Jackâs fault? Breaking his promise, leaving and leaving Mac behind and he canât even pick up a phone andâ
âListen, Iâ uh, I just wanted to talk to you. Hear your voice. Iâve missed you. Missed having you around.â
Macâs jaw tightens. He swallows the emotions threatening to surface.
âI might need your help with somethingââ
Jackâs voice gets lower, softer.
âBut I donât want to do this in a message.â
Mac pushes the phone harder against his ear to hear.Â
âYou take care of yourself, okay, bud?âÂ
âYou have no more new messages. To delete this message press seven.â
âNo! No, Jack,â Mac growls in frustration. âWell, that wasnât cryptic at all.â He scrolls back to the missed call log and stares at the number. The call must have come just minutes after he got up this morning. He could kick himself for not taking his phone with him when he left his bedroom.Â
He debates returning the call now. Doesnât want a mistimed ring to put Jack in danger. But Jackâs a professional and would have turned off the phone if he was heading out. Might even be a private burner phone heâs got hidden from the rest of his team so heâd definitely have that secured somewhere safe and silenced.Â
Mac hits the button, beginning the call, and as predicted it goes to voicemail.Â
âHey, itâs me,â Mac begins. Jack didnât use names so Mac doesnât either. And even after all these years, Jack will still know Macâs number. And his voice. âJust give me a call back. Anytime. Day or night. Iâ I miss you too.â
He ends the call, staring at the blinking number on the screen until it goes dark.
Why didnât he check for a missed call this morning? He always checks. Almost paranoid about it because he never knows when heâll get called in for a mission. And today, when it mattered, he just didnât. Before returning the phone to his pocket he makes sure the ringer is turned all the way up and activates vibrate for good measure. He is not missing Jackâs next call.Â
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Heâs in the lab with Bozer, working on Sparky, arguing about something inconsequential. Laughing at his friendâs antics.Â
The laugh catches in his throat as the door to the lab opens and Matty walks in. Sheâs involved in all the day to day operations of the Phoenix, she knows where anyone can be located at a momentâs notice, but she doesnât come down to the lab unless heâs forgotten his phone or thereâs something important. Life changing important. And, Mac glances down at the lab table next to him, his phone is sitting right there.Â
The world seems to slow, like a cinematic decision Bozer would have made for one of his movies.Â
âMatty?â Mac swallows back the last of his laughter while Bozer tries to get his giggles under control.Â
She runs an appraising eye over him. Studying him.Â
Sheâs one of the few⌠maybe only authority figures heâs had in his life that doesnât measure him and find him wanting.Â
He hopes thatâs still the case, but the longer she studies him, the more nervous he becomes, rubbing lightly at the back of his neckÂ
âWhat did you do, Mac?â Bozer whispers, shifting uncomfortably by the strength of her gaze but attempting to inject some levity. âWhatever it was, I think Mac acted alone.â
âMac, sit down.â Her voice is as strong as itâs ever been, betraying nothing. And yet...
He shakes his head. He doesnât want to. No one is ever told to sit down if there is good news. He drops into the chair anyway because he knows. He knows. He knows.Â
âMatty?â Bozerâs voice is quiet, all teasing gone as he moves to stand just behind Macâs shoulder. A protective move. Different from middle school when Bozer would jump in front of him and take on a bully. A supportive move. A Jack move. Offering Mac strength to lean on while he fights his own battles.Â
Macâs pulse roars in his ears. Itâs not quite enough to drown out the words he doesnât want to hear.
âThere was a bomb.âÂ
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Bozer takes him home. He doesnât want to go home but he doesnât say that. He doesnât want to stay in the lab either. Or at The Phoenix. He follows Bozer through the halls which are miraculously empty. He doesnât remember getting in the car. Doesnât remember the drive from the Phoenix though heâs pretty sure heâs been staring out the window the whole time. While he knows every twist and turn of these roads, theyâre unfamiliar as they flash past the window. Itâs like heâs never seen them before.Â
âRiley?â Mac croaks as he pulls his gaze away from the window to look at Bozer.
Bozer quickly brushes a hand over his cheeks, dashing away the wet tracks.. âYeah, yeah, Desi is with her. Gonna bring her back to the house.â
Mac nods and turns back to the window.Â
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âHe called.â The room is dark. Bozer didnât bother with the lights on their way to the bedroom and Mac never opened the blackout curtains this morning. Even so, Mac canât lift his gaze to meet Bozerâs.Â
He doesnât want to know what heâll see there if he does.Â
The pause lingers as though Bozer isnât sure how to respond.Â
âJack?â Bozer finally questions gently. Carefully.Â
Mac nods, not sure if Bozer can see it.Â
Thereâs another pause.Â
âWhen?â
Mac gives a bitter laugh. âThis morning. Iâ I missed it. I tried calling back as soon as I saw butâŚâ He can hear the questions that Bozer hasnât yet voiced, unsure of what to ask or how. Of what to say that could possibly help. Thereâs nothing. âIt was the last time Iâ and I missed it.âÂ
Macâs chest feels tight. Like a hole with jagged edges is pushing out from his core, squeezing his lungs from the inside
Bozer tugs him forward, wrapping him in a hug so tight it feels like it will bruise. Mac buries his face against Bozerâs chest. The soft, short breaths pressing against his cheek reveal Bozerâs silent tears.Â
Mac wishes his own would fall.Â
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Mac squeezes his eyes tightly shut, unwilling to face a new day. Not even allowed a second of reprieve from the twisting knot in his chest. The knowledge that Jack is gone. The sun rises on a world where Jack no longer lives.Â
The pillow is damp beneath his cheek. Tears only overflowed to the surface once he slept. He pushes his face hard into the material stifling a heaving gasp that comes from somewhere so deep within his core it startles him. Itâs raw and feral. Grief and anger and burbling emotions he canât identify and doesnât want to examine.Â
His whole body aches.Â
He flops onto his back, gasping for air like heâs drowning. Like thereâs a hole in his chest and his life is hemorrhaging out. Only this time there is no one there to save him. No one whose fingers burn into his flesh, holding onto to life for him while itâs dripping out. No one to breathe for him when he canât.
Jack needed him. Needed his help as much as Mac did on that beach in Italy. Reached out to him, and Mac wasnât there.Â
He flinches, violently, when a guitar riff blasts through the house.Â
The blender whirs.
The scent of waffles wafts through the house.
Anger flares.Â
Theyâre just going about their day, same as any other.Â
And he understands, better than anyone, that desire, the action of shoving his emotions into a box and burying them in some deep, hidden place so he doesnât have to acknowledge them but today. Today he canât. Today he wants to hurt.Â
He whips back his blanket, lurching from his bed, staggering through the hall.Â
In the corner of the room Riley sips on a deep purple smoothie, laughing and joking as Desi attacks the heavybag hanging in the corner wearing the same monochromatic workout set she wore yesterday.
âMac? You okay?â Bozer asks, flipping a waffle onto a plate.
âWhat are you doing?âÂ
âBreakfast,â Bozerâs voice raises with uncertainty as he holds out the plate to Mac. âFigured itâd be a good day for wafflesââ
Waffles are a fix-it food, always have been.
â-- since weâre just in the lab today.â
âYouâreâ youâre going into work?â He figured heâd have to fight to be allowed back through the Phoenix doors again.
âYeah, weâve got that update weâre going to run on Sparky.âÂ
Mac blinks. That wasâ they were supposed to do that yesterday. They did do that yesterday. Or started to. Until. Are they all in denial? Somehow able to pretend it didnât happen?Â
âYou okay, sleepyhead?â Desi asks as she swipes a hand through Macâs hair as she passes. A hurt look crosses her face when he flinches.Â
âIâmââ he canât say fine. Heâs not fine. Itâs not her touch, or itâs not just her touch that has him flinching. His eyes narrow as he takes in the waffles on the counter. The half-finished smoothie in the blender. Something is wrong. More wrong than just waking up the morning after Jackâ
âOw! Oof,â Riley limps, hopping around the coffee table with a grimace.Â
âYou okay?â Bozer rests his arms on the counter, leaning forward to peer into the living room.
âYeah, caught my stupid toe on the stupid table,â Riley hisses. She limps a few more steps, stopping in front of Mac and canting her head with concern. âAre you okay, Mac? You look like the rest of us would if we were doing algebra in our heads.â
âYeah,â Mac says slowly. âYeah, just⌠weird dream, I guess.â
It wasnât a dream.Â
Was it a dream?Â
âWaffles are good for weird dreams too,â Bozer pushes the plate closer.Â
âJust give me a second,â Mac says, turning toward his bedroom. âI forgot my phone.â
He can hear the concerned murmur behind him as he hurries down the hall.Â
In the still dark bedroom, his fingers slip as he reaches for his phone. It hits the floor hard. Sliding beneath the bed. Mac shifts on his feet, staring at the glow emanating from under the bedâs frame. Itâs not that weird. He drops his phone a lot. With a sharp exhale, Mac drops to his knees, fishing his phone out from where it landed behind a pair of boots. The screen illuminated with a time and date.Â
Yesterdayâs date and time.
Mac sits back on his heels, scrubbing a hand through his hair.Â
Or⌠todayâs?
Itâs not the first time a dream has felt real. Not the first time heâs lived his worst fears while asleep. But this felt different. Feels different.Â
Yesterday was so real. So devastatingly real.Â
A small icon on the top corner catches his eye.Â
He feels his pulse beat faster.
He opens the phone log. Sees the missed call. The only recent missed call. And the voicemail notification.Â
This time recognizing Croatiaâs country code.Â
It canât be. It doesnât make sense. Is it some sort of cruel joke? An enemy coming to gloat. But that doesnât explain Bozer, or Riley, or Desi.Â
He swallows hard, mouth and throat suddenly dry.Â
Slowly he punches in his code, leaving fingerprints against the screen, and raises the phone to his ear.Â
âHey, hoss.âÂ
i continue to live through my own "groundhog day" moment as I once again have not finished the time loop fic that I swear I'll have finished for next year
#honestly i'm not sure if I'll finish it (I pretty much don't do touch anything that has to do with season 4-5 in general or 5x05)#and I'm not sure how I'd solve it#I probably wouldn't usually share this either#but what can i say? I am a clown#macgyver#spoilers for 5x05#this was not the time loop fic that I had in mind folks
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me: finally im able to cope with how much i hate totk and can fuel that energy into other things :)
nintendy: the shiekah tech just dissappeared and no one knows why or cares enough to investigate it lol. lmao. its gone bc the calamity is gone or something even tho it literally isnt bc ganondorf is right there haha lol, stop asking, why do you care. just forget it existed and look at that sexy goatman and glue instead!! glue! isnt that wild?? also its totally a direct, 100% same universe and exact same characters, despite them act totally out of character, sequel to botw-
#ganondoodles talks#ganondoodles rants#zelda#totk#im just fucking!!!! at my limit!!!!#what the fuck do you mean#the calamity is the equivalent of ganondorfs farts trying to wake himself up and you say lololo is gone so the techs gone#then why do some parts still exist huh???????#fuyking clowns#all the threads leading organically into another game WOOOP NOPE CUT THEM ALL WE DIDNT MEAN TO GIVE IT MEANING LOL#what is ancient energy and whys there a big concetration under these regions including hyrule castle? oh my god is it bc gan is there an-#NOPE forget we ever said that haha lol lmao even#can you really blame me for feeling like im being laughed at#like totk is mocking me bc i care about botw and thought theyd take up the interesting things they set up in it to expand upon???#and no instead they backpedal like oh no we accidentally made it seem interesting quick get the iron out we need to FLATTEN this bitch#and they keep making it WORSE by insisting that its totally 1000% a direct sequel#just fucking say its some alternative bullshit again#i am begging them to let soemone else direct the next game#bc when the guy makes accidentally good lore he needs to immedaitely flatten all the good stuff when it comes to a sequel apparently
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collab #2 with @xenole i was given a chibi yakumo and i.. i...... turned it into thiS
#I AM SO SORRY I DREW YAKUMO AGAIN ADFSJEIADKS LOOK OK so xenole gives me the tiny crying yakumo.#says DO WHATEVER YOU WANT and THUS i get to thinking#my immediate thought was#i'm going to make oli breast boobily while comforting him#bc i was determined to draw xenole's fave this time. i swore it to myself. i WILL stop being so self indulgent#but the chibi on chibi comforting scene didn't sit right with me. it was too straightforward. not something i would draw normally#it was hhhh as u say.... not on brand.? it did not inspire me. idea benched....#so days pass and i'm still pondering ideas on what to do to the sad spaghetti.#configurations of clan members danced in my head. some defending yaku. some comforting. some bullying#the ideas usually involved at least oli or kuya bc once again. xenole bias#then while i'm in the shower i got frustrated with my lack of ideas and thought#i'll jujst eat.him. just. chew on him. i'm tired of him#AND THE IMAGE OF KUYA EATING YAKUMO FOR BREAKFAST POPPED INTO MY MIND#originally it was going to be kuya eating yakuflakes and oli giving him serious side eye but then the brain went#WHAT IF IT'S YAKUMO WATCHING KUYA EAT YAKUMO. THAT IS FUNNY. IT MUMST HAPPEEN#BUT I REFUSED at first. i was angry at myself. this is not a competition to see how you can STILL sHOVE YAKUMO into a drawing.#plus the composition would shrink xenole's chibi down! i would take over so much space by comparison! THE DISRESPECT! TO THE COLLAB PROCESS#but once i get fixated on smth...well. i ended up doing the idea and just praying xenole wouldnt eviscerate me for it#i'm sorry my liege. my grip on the reins was weak. the goofy clown horses went stampeding#so idk now it's the two of em having a peaceful breakfast in kuya's cabin but only kuya is at peace and yakumo's this close to a breakdown#i feel like there should be something in the space between them. a speech bubble or something . something mean is being said#yakuya#nu carnival yakumo#nu carnival kuya
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while we're airing grievances for fun and profit, it remains fucking wild to me that "read theory challenge" was used as a bizarre gotcha for so much of the campaign by people who almost certainly could not have won that challenge if they'd been called on it.
like yeah, you're suuuuch a superior intellectual decolonialist scholar. tell me more about how your only reading suggestions are a vague "foucault", the communist manifesto, and ursula le guin's wikiquote page.
#there MIGHT have been a fanon reference. but telling that I've never once seen these people mention said#one of the funniest things my professor has said this quarter was clowning on people who cite foucault willy nilly#he was correct#foucault's crime is he is actually just readable enough that people can quote him out of context to sound clever and intellectual#while having no actual understanding of what the fuck they're saying#you try to quote one line of derrida (or god forbid: deleuze) and you have to qualify it with seven other lines just to sound coherent#density in academia is actually a spell cast against spineless nihilists quoting you to bulk up their leftist street cred#me just snidely remembering that one guy in persepolis. if you know the book you know who I'm talking about lmao.#anyway thinking about this cuz I have not succeeded in reading fiction but I am on like. book 6 or 7 of theory for the year#depends on if you count understanding comics as a book of theory. which I do lmao
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i'm starting to sense a certain pattern here...
#and no it's not that i like to take pictures at a certain angleâ˘#the angle⢠just... scratches my brain alright? alright.#it's a certain type of pixel girlie that just makes me go off my fragile hinges and howl into the moon at night#i also realised that like 80% of my caps from Odyssey that ain't scenery are low-key like Kassandra's bicep appreciation#what can i say.#đ¤Ąđ¤Ąđ¤Ą#i'm a clown for women. but especially the very hench ones. as you can probaby see following me here...#i become less hinged about it with each passing year.#which... sometimes makes me think if i'm as bi as i think i am.#oh well. that's another pickle for another day to evaluate. i guess.#irregular tag ramble#lady's screencaps
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i know astrology is fake but i'm not too keen on how a lot of people on this website seem to be clowning on it as a hobby a bit too hard. i swear the woman who thinks it's neat how she and her friends with the same sun sign are all similar isn't trying to say that you are who you are born as and there is nothing you can do to change it. it's a hobby. an interest. what happened to finding meaning and joy in the small things. does it affect you if someone enjoys tarot reading or crystals. does it make you upset someone has interests that they enjoy.
#im not saying astrology/tarot/crystals/etc. get clowned on so much bc theyre hobbies mostly enjoyed by women But....#i saw a post about some astrology study and made the mistake of opening the notes on that bad boy#not fun. and that reminded me of that old post that was basically like ''liking astrology is transphobic''#anyways idk maybe its just that my bestie is very much a ''crystal girl'' but like. stuff like that are such neat hobbies#she makes some cute little jars with pretty rocks and they make her feel better bc if you believe in something you can make it happen#when it comes to small things#like yeah if you pick up a stone that's like ''this can help you be more open with your emotions'' and you are like ''oh hell yea!''#ofc that will be on your mind and the item will be a constant reminder and actually help you with your goals#and its like. ok what really stuck with me was when i was talking with my bff and i was like ''i think all this stuff is interesting but i#feel bad bc i am superstitious and believe in some signs like lucky numbers but i know that logically its just. if i pick a lucky number of#i pay extra attention to it but i want to believe its lucky but i know how human brains work in that aspect''#and she was just like. ''so? those things dont have to exclude each other'' and it clicked#if i have a little tigers eye with me it does not make me feel more grounded magically#but if i decide (or believe) it's grounding then it will b bc it's a reminder for me to calm down#and stuff#like. ah idk how to put my thoughts into words#but i just think its unfair that a few rotten apples have ruined the perception of fun hobbies for a lot#not every astrology enjoyer is trying to sell you mlm essential oils or genuinely believe peoples entire lives are dictated upon the stars#or something#idk i just feel like these things are v misunderstood even tho im not personally like super into them myself#but ppl super mean about that stuff arent invited to look at my medieval themed fortune telling cards#idkk im sleepy and cant articulate my points someone else say this but better#leevi talks#im just saying. i dont think its bioessentialism to decide to believe you personally have a season for growth when the stars are in a#certain position or whatever
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VALENYA TARGARYEN and her dragon, MYSTRUNNER
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#oc insp: Valenya#*clown shoes squeaking* yeah I did it#told myself I wasnât gonna and here I am#got worn down by the concept of a dragon rider oc#sheâs team black. gonna give her a team green gf I think. for double the lesbian drama.#also gotta love me running through the v*kings v*lhalla cast for fcs. what can I say theyâre all hot.#edits#e: Valenya
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Do you think bara bara no mi is good fruit? I feel like buggy is not using it in the best way?âŚ
I can think of a few ways I am sure he uses the fruit and they are soooo wrong in the best way
#i am. so sorry for this one#bad jokes bad joke i slept 3 hours today#but i genuinely do not know how he could use it better?#not bc i can't see it bc i can definitely see the fruit having wayyy more potential than the one shown#but bc i have. 0 imagination for fights#like genuinely i do not know what to say to this one i leave it for the people hi people respond to this if you want#one piece#buggy the clown#ask-bean!
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i love your bard! riz au so much. he is so tragic as a character for all the reasons of what living in constant danger fear does to your mind. can i ask about his relationship with the other bad kids and the major differences vs canon?
hey I'm glad ur enjoying what's goin on here! I don't have a Lot of it clear in my mind yet bc it is a full class swap of the entire party so some stuff will just. not play out until they do yknow? it is how it is. but I think from the beginning riz's motivation is decently different so he'll just get into it on an entirely different path - he did Not start out a very kind kid. he would be extremely conflict avoidant, he's got the Actor feat, he's stocked up on Disguise Self, he's ready to disappear mid-conversation, anyone who looks like troubles he's steering Clear of. he goes to aguefort not because he wants to be an adventurer but because sklonda was like "this works for you?" and he was like "yeah 's all good :]" (he is about to throw up bc that's where penny went missing)
I'd say he runs into fabian (rogue) first very briefly and they'd mutually be like oh. a guy. and immediately forget each other once they get out of the same like locked classroom they accidentally both hid in. and then during the corn cutie fight fabian would see the way riz react and Not Like It (haha whoa. like looking in a mirror amirite) and go actually I'd rather be a hero (derogatory) than whatever that is that guy's got going on. great surprise for him when they got out and registration's closed and the mirror is now one of his partners in the career-long group project :]
kristen (sorcerer) would be an Insane encounter at first for riz like this is someone who is extremely powerful, not very controlled, and so fucking starved for people to be nice at. riz is cordial to her on the way and she is like Fuck Yeah Friend! please go do paperwork with me I don't know shit from fuck I haven't had proper paperwork since I was like twelve and gay. do you like candies? she then throws ragh through a window for trying to bully gorgug and netting her and gorgug the detention (riz is of course immediately someone else while this is happening) (he shows up again right after like haha sorry that was scary! resolutely not looking at how kristen's face falls at the idea of someone being scared of her again)
riz and gorgug (cleric) get on like house on fire at first in the sense that they're at that point both fake bitches and they know this about each other and acknowledge this with each other implicitly and they're like I'm not poking at what's going on with you if you don't poke at what's going on with me. and then gorgug dies and sees that the god he's been feeding his anger to isn't real (yet) and has his realization that he's been indoctrinated into a cult through the support group he's been to and starts on deprogramming and in that process he starts poking at riz's deal just by proxy of dealing with his own. riz gets vicious about this a bit into it but after the arcade he kinda comes around again. it helps that at the end of sophomore year gorgug becomes the saint of the Inbetween and riz is very much in need of that stop on his way right then
fig (barbarian) on the other hand does Not like riz off the bat (her whole thing is leaning into rage to live her truth without fear) but then being as perceptive as she is soon she's like ohhhh you're just scared. like Really scared and it's ruining your life. and after that she's like I'll just protect you then :] (this is her solution to most things her friends go through) this does not help at first bc riz has picked up the pattern that is if you're protective of him bad things will happen to you. he will have a breakdown about this in sophomore year but it'll get better from there
adaine (artificer) on the Other other hand just straight up doesn't like riz until after the arcade lol. he's on the prep side, he's not socially awkward and he doesn't use that power for anything but being a coward, he lets biz talk at him in the AV club and that means biz never stops fucking talking, and every time adaine raises a complaint all he does is being like "sorry :[" and changing nothing. it's fucked up between them riz tries to appease her by doing nice things but he doesn't address the things she actually complains about so she doesn't take it. she's the person who outright calls him out for not having the backbone to stand up for himself or his party. despite this she never thinks of throwing him out of the party and he does pick up on this. they get better after the arcade and riz apologizing and by junior year adaine's the one handling the tech end of riz's freelance publication
all of this is subjected to change of course I'm mostly keeping things mobile that's where all the fun is hehe. the world is constantly in motion etc but this is kinda how I'm coming into my art atm we'll simply see!
#ask#not art#fh class quangle#there are Some stuff Ive got in mind for riz and the honorary bad kids too like. he managed to slip being noticed by ragh until he gets on#the taping crew for the bloodrush games and ragh kinda latches onto him as like emotional support and riz has Absolutely no idea what to do#he Notices ragh's crush on dayne. he is fully out of his depth. absolutely not his circus but if he doesn't say anything its gonna become#his clown real fast#hes like I should. I should tell fabian and gorgug abt this. theyre the ones playing WHY am I the one he latched onto#(fabian knows the whole time and is like no this is good for ragh and awful for riz it's perfect. let it happen)#(gorgug is fucking busy learning anger management strategies via sport)#and then. theres also baron lmao#like bard!riz is a writer. his thing is narratives and finding meanings in patterns. if he makes up a gf in canada that person would have#a full fledged character sheet with three notebooks worth of backstory lmao#I think bard!riz's flavour of aroace is ''I'm not having a crush on anyone because I'm already in a picture perfect romance story#with a partner that matches my high standards''#and then that partner becomes ''real'' and it's Still a horror story for him. because he doesn't actually want that!#in my mind baron manifests through letters and notes rather than mirrors here bc riz made up that they're his childhood penpal#who he's only gotten to met once in a summer years back and it's beautiful and super cute (he generated this like a learning algorithm)#and then a letter comes in the mail one day like ''hii riz I'm so excited I'm moving to elmville soon! I can't wait to see you again''#canon baron is so beautiful and elegant as a haunting like that is a Metaphor. that is Art#class swap baron in my brain is just straight up like distressing lmao. its Just Bad. riz gukgak's evil school year of paranoia and dread#lmao u can imagine why he looks like he has never slept in his life in the sophomore year design#man my brane is so full... its fun to think abt this :]
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me if uhhhh me if you uh if you reblog my art and give me love and attention
#hi welcome to chilis#Im like drunk-tired or something#im feckin exhausted m8#i need to slep#but my brain hates me sigh#(me who desperately wants to do something creative but doesnât have the time or energy)#anyway uhhhhh points tho my art tag ->#complaintsconcepts#might delete later because i am a sad little creature who just really likes when people like my things#i wish i made better art that people would think is cool like all these cool amazing artists that can actually draw good things#(says the guy with the lowest self confidence on the planet)#anyway Iâm drawing an updated persona because i finally figured out what I want the design to be#yes it is the halloween clown version of my slimesona#because i love it#(unfortunately what colours to useâ i do not know)
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sighhhhhh this beautiful sound
this shit's how we've been feeling. like the instruments, that floaty numb cold feeling but still PAINFULLY borderline aware but unable to like yknow ENJOY?
all we've got left is media. and even that's starting to stop doing anything.
but what the fuck can we do, yknow?
each time this happens it's just so god awful.
and it just keeps happening, over and over and over, with less and less breaks between.
what if one day I can't get out of it?
what if one day we're just stuck numb and cold forever?
what if one day all we'll feel is this numbness and the sadness and the rage?
what then? will anyone be there?
will anyone care?
will we just be alone?
why would we stick around then, huh?
we're already basically friendless.
who's gonna wanna be friends when we have no personality, hell, no existence or REALITY left?
who's gonna wanna be in our fucking vicinity when we're nothing anymore?
that feeling like drowning.
we're ALWAYS drowning.
just brought up for air to get plunged back into the ice cold water for another round.
how long until we don't get brought back up?
#welcome to the island of misfit toys#you say the whole world ended. honey it already did.#Patrick posting#the clowns are rambling instead of dancing#random posts#mental health vent#vent post#sorry for venting#it's just... happening again. yayyy..#and yknow all of you can say you care you can mean it. but I'll still fear for us the day we have nothing left to give#the day we can't be just... this anymore#i guess we'll just try to treasure whatever we have left while we still do. yknow. before the last bit of us dies#i hate my role here. sure i exist for a reason. wanna know what it fucking is?#I'm a sponge. I'm a fucking SPONGE. I'm only here to absorb all of that NEGATIVE SHIT that we can't handle.#it just FEEDS into my own mental health. and then I feel like the prick for what the fucking BRAIN created me to DO.#I'M IN HELL. and I'm there FOREVER because it's all I EXIST to do. I exist to SUFFER FOR EVERYONE ELSE.#and i dont blame the others. it isn't their fault.#but GOD am i tired of fucking venting. I'm tired of making these posts. I'm tired of these feelings.#I'm tired of being the sponge for this fucking mess. i just wanna be happier for like... yknow a week. nothing crazy.#just some time where we feel GOOD. really GENUINELY good. not fake good. not masking. REAL good. REAL joy.#mlandersen0 fictive#sorry for being depressing#sorry for the vent
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I always found it slightly awkward how media makes siblings or people who see each other as siblings call each other brother/sister all the time as in real life you almost never see people do that with their own siblings (maybe someone out there like that)
In the case of Arkham Shadows I see why they did though because Bruce quite literally tells Harvey he loves him and Harvey says it back. Can't have the audience think Batman is in love with the DA.
They had Bruce pay for his college, pay for his campaign, pay for his surgery, pay for his therapy and had Harvey have him as his best man at his wedding. Wow..... Sugar baby Harvey is real.....
The calling sibling title thing is less common in English than in some other languages for sure- me and a couple of my siblings do it on occasion, but it's for a bit then. More common is when I call one of my close family friends "my sister" or "my nephew" when talking about them to someone else because it's faster and easier to say that than to say "my friend who I've known since she was born and lived with for a few years and consider a little sister" or "child of a close family friend who considers me an aunt" to someone who doesn't know them. Which is a lot of words to say that if they wanted to fully sell me on the brothers thing they should have either had a different bit or should have referred to the other as "my brother" when talking to an unrelated character instead.
But "oh no we have to make Bruce not look gay" has been a problem DC has struggled with more than once for many decades and it basically never works so I guess at least they didn't try to solve it this time by having Bruce pick a lady love over Harvey or cutting the holding hands thing
Because I saw that scrapbook! I know Harvey has been Bruce's sugar baby since he was ten years old! But we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him the love of his life because ok technically that's Gotham but also because gay. And we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him his best friend because they're not ten anymore and somehow that seems gay also. So brothers it is, I guess. Even if I think my brothers would bite my finger if I ever tried to pay for everything for them on that scale, guess it's different at billionaire levels
#I'm actually simultaneously a believer in grew up like brothers and absolutely down bad romantically#(and harvey as a representation of Gotham itself as a love)#like an election in two (three) positions at once#but the point remains- you can't really fully cover the care by slapping a brother label on it like dc tries to to avoid it being too gay ig#which is very funny because did you see all the bi Tim and Dick stuff in Gotham Knights- but Robin has always had more freedom than Batman#in the 'can we let anyone think he's anything other than totally straight' department#anyway now I'm thinking about how on earth-3 all the characters get a morality flip#but Two Face/Three Face is the only one i can think of who gets a gender flip as well#as if 'oh if we had just originally conceived of Dent as a woman it would have been better (morally) because then it wouldn't have ended up#looking so gay'#but no they did not explore that thread because apparently uh having love interests in the joker and riddler was more important#which you'd think should reflect back on standard issue harv eddy and clown but uh. not really no they don't want to admit it#and i suppose 'well no three face wouldn't have a thing for owlman because he's technically not a version of Bruce he's a version of b's#brother'#but like then again. if Harvey is his brother. then shouldn't something have been used there to connect it#in any way at all#but no#instead I'm left with many thoughts about Harvey as a brother as a lover as a personification of gotham and as a woman but#i am still very sleepy rn so i don't know how many of those thoughts are coherent#but all that to say#YEAH SUGAR BABY HARVEY#guess it wouldn't be comforting for Harvey to shakily ask what he is#and Bruce to answer 'you're my companion who i turn to for affection in and give you obscene amounts of money in turn'#but like. it also wouldn't have been incorrect.#... though 'sugar baby harv as part of the representation of Gotham itself' probably has something to it too#but i digress I'm sleepy#pocket talks to people#anon#* i meant 'electron' not 'election' in that earlier tag
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If Kipperlilly DOES end up betraying Porter/Jace as part of a secret other scheme she has (whether good or evil) and it has to do with saving Lucy, I just know sheâs going to be a bitch about it and pull a âsorry, I only save High Five Heroesâ before leaving her other friends to die or some shit. And then she will take her final form: Magic Betty from Adventure Time, betraying her allies and saving her frost gf at the expense of the world. It would also parallel what Ankarna is going through (âyour girlfriendâs out of town, it sucksâ, becoming a little imperialist rage machine under the influence of Porter/Sunstone but not being able to fully turn on Lucy despite going against her values and turning into a violent weirdo). This is my wish. My dream. I am manifesting it. Magic Betty Kipperlilly I believe in you.
#I am currently painting clown makeup on my face rn but this is what Iâve been rooting for from the beginning so let me dream#Come on though she HAS to have some other shit going on though right?#She was DEFINITLY in that temple when the Bad Kids said Ankarnaâs name#Brennan literally rolled#and we know she was in Porterâs office#so WHY hadnât she told him Ankarnaâs real name yet? We know he genuinely believed Fig found it#Also the BKs couldnât see who was in the window during the Wanda Childa scene#Which one of the RGs has invisibility?#HMMMM#Wanda saying âKipperlilly? Why are you doing this? Is it because youâre jealous?â before getting carried off by a fake Porter would let KP#know âokay they FULLY saw what happened after I killed Buddy and are onto usâ which would cause her to follow them to the temple#AlsoâŚif NONE of the Rat Grinders knew Ankarnaâs name then what did Lucy write on her form to change her divinity???#We KNOW it was Ankarnaâs name and not the âsymbol representing herâ because no one could see it BECAUSE the god was dead and no one alive#knew her name#Which means Lucy HAD TO HAVE KNOWN and was keeping it from the others right?#And when she died and didnât come back they were fucked because they couldnât even check the form anymore#But#Brennan also said that if Porter WASNT using Devilâs Honey and genuinely believed in Rage And Conquest goddess Ankarna instead of just her#domain then he and his ritual would (maybe) bring her back instead of killing her permenantly so he can take her domain#And idk#A powerful goddess of rage and conquest who despite everything canât be turned against her sister and ex#whoâs resurrection would mean the rune could be broken and Lucy can come back to life#One who has (or had) a personal vendetta against at least one of the bad kids#and a personal vendetta against the people who led to Lucyâs death#that sounds pretty appealing to someone as spiteful and obsessive as Kipperlilly doesnât it#especially after her best (maybe only real) friend died and didnât come back#especially if she stayed dead specifically to stop Porter#Again Iâm putting my clown makeup on but I donât want her to be secretly good or anything just unhinged and gay and a parallel to Ankarna#Please world let me have this Iâm on my knees#dimension 20
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THIS IS JUST THE REMINDER THAT LMM IS KINDA STILL YOUR HUSBAND??? KINDA??? WARRIORS LETS GOOOOO!
losing my goddamn mind because literally EVERYTHING happened today: lin announced the warriors concept album, twenty one pilots posted a video about clancy world tour and we're seeing each other in a few hours and taylor tomorrow WHAT IS LIFE EVEN???
wait what do you mean KINDA
#my eyes hurt so much i can barely see after 12h at work and also i am giggling like a goddamn clown but#idk#i'm happy idk what i'm saying please forgive me i'm just so damn tired jdhdhrhrhbe#i saved every letter you wrote me*
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its finally luosty turns last but not least eh? his topic? cranky sasha đ¤Łđ¤Łđ¤Ł (whoever came up with these topics wanted to get sasha riled up oh my goddddd)
ofc the way he chooses to show off cranky sasha is through his spartan hockey huh and OF FUCKING COURSE he gets lundy to come up and help him because who else but lundy does sasha crack the good ole whip for IM DYING
he also makes sure to mime in the goal posts too so everyones on the same page that this is of course about hockey because this has turned into an improv exercise mama hes a star hes a THEATRE kid
luosty is very good at mimicing cranky sasha must have lots of time watching him get fussy with lundy huh i can imagine the only directions given to lundy here was act like yourself and somehow that makes this funnier
they absolutely both think luosty is the funniest fucker alive OH MY GOD HE GOT LUNDY TO SMILE (WHICH ISNT MUCH OF AN ACCOMPLISHMENT HES SO SMITTEN WITH HIM) BUT HE GOT MIKKSY TO GIVE A GOOD TOOTHY GRIN TOO LUOSTY WHAT POWERS DO YOU HAVE đđđđ
he has this whole couch bewitched by his antics oh my fucking god... kicking the bench...throwing the water bottle...cranky sasha indeed
THE WAGGING FINGER AT LUNDY hey man whyd you move your hand to your crotch did that incite any revelations in you do you need to cover something that had unfortunate timing huh do you understand why mikksy cant stand them do you understand now
on another episode of i genuinely dont think anyone else could do this and get sasha this giggly in the midst of it of making fun of him luosty has really charmed them all
Sasha Cup Party | 7.31.24 (x)
#eetu luostarinen#anton lundell#aleksander barkov#niko mikkola#florida panthers#luosty could absolutely get away with murder and the finns would be like noooo you didnt do it not youuuuu#he has the charm of a siren WHAT IS THIS#apparently boyish does work on sasha and all is forgiven if you have it#while i think the humour runs a little dry and sharp in the finn group which means sometimes someones gets a little bristled in the process#luosty has such joyous slapstick comedy that its impossible to feel offended even if he is teasing you#hes like a rodeo clown to me#like sometimes mikksy and sasha go a little hard while lundy runs a little sensitive and luosty is the perfect bridge between all that#does that make sense? am i making sense right now?#like luosty can end up making everyone laugh#like in the NHLWAP series while luosty made a jab at mikksys goal production it wasnt in a way that felt malicious in any wY#mikksy has tough skin but even then hes aware hes a defensive minded dman whos priority is not scoring so when luosty says âwhen you score#less goals than mikksy THEN you worryâ (in regards to his personal lack of production in the 2324 season) hes diverting the attention in#a comedic way while also kinda pointing out how ridiculous the notion is like yeah he hasnt had the same production like the previous seaso#but thats nothing to worry about personally. mikksy also giggles and goes âwhy am i suddenly being attacked?â#its just such a perfect way to jump to the next topic where no ones feathers are ruffled and everyone wins#i didnt like the q either and i wouldve answered a lot more snarkier but luosty does it with such grace and humor its really admirable#sorry this turned into a luosty splurge but i just think its important to point out#there IS a reason why he charms people so much and i feel like this and the prev thing i said is a good few reasons why
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wow! My mp3 player wonât connect to my computer, so I canât download any more songs onto it! Haha! Iâm going to
#bonemeal says silly stuff#My music :(((((#When I plug my mp3 player in it just charges itself off my computer#But when I plug it into my sisterâs it does the file dowloady thing#Why wonât it do it for me :(#What am I doing wrong :(#Why does it hate me :(#Iâve spent actually an hour on this. I havenât done any of my homework.#I went to grab my computer to start then said âoh Iâll download some music so I donât forgetâ THEN THIS SHIT HAPPENS#this is so fucked up and evil. My clown music. My Fiona Apple.#Anyways. If you know how to fix this. Um. Send help.#I suspect it MAY have been from ejecting it via trash can last time??????#But I do that all the time w/ 0 consequences. HmmmmmmâŚ#Help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me help me hel
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