#callsign gremlin checking in

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Do you have any gerame/ameger thoughts you’d like to share? 🎤🎤🎤

It’s a solid rizz ‘em with the ‘tism from both sides. They’re both nerds. Engineers but different flavors. Two archaeologists if you’re like me and so inclined. Special interests galore. You can distract two birds with one Wikipedia rabbit hole stone. Just give them the page for concrete and it’s going to be the most focused you see either of them. They will attempt to engineer their way out of many things, sometimes literally.

Ludwig is also the hood to the falcon that is Alfred; he has the steadfast nature to keep that dreamer from flying away, or merely too high. But falcons are strong, able to bear things much heavier than they into the air. Alfred has that easy personable confidence that can drag Ludwig out of the house and out of the shell. I’d like to think there’s some admiration on both sides. “How does he make interaction look so easy?” vs. “How does that guy manage to stay so focused?” Despite Alfred being older, y’know, it’s Lud that’s got the itinerary for everything while the other tries to get him to be loose and wing it. They can balance each other. It helps that they’re both young yet still and contain a lot of energy.

Also autism be damned but both of my boys can GRILL. Maybe this is just me bringing my own Texas history and heritage into it, but we find that many barbecue techniques here stem from our history of German immigrants and settlement (though of course that’s not the only source). Lud and Al are also just peak dad fashion couple, I fear. Give them both a lawnmower and the white Reeboks, your grass will be cut in no time.

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>> spends a few hours drawing

>> gets excited because it's finished

>> realizes it definitely cannot be posted to tumblr

the great dilemma

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this man should not be trusted with anything explosive on account of him enjoying it far too much

Where does your Russia fall on the Russia compass?

(loosely based on banjunky's england scale)

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u have to draw Alfred or Ivan doing a watermelon thigh crush sometime

he might need help with clean up guys

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okay but fellow tank nerds concerned about logistics, consider: the leopard and the abrams are equipped with the same gun. theoretically their ammunition should be interchangeable. one less problem in theory. but never a guarantee.

but yeah i mean the training for all the differing interfaces and :skull: bruh all one can hope is that support equipment for the vehicles is sent alongside them.

also word on the wind is that the leopards being sent may be 2a6s. and many are predicting that ukraine may be receiving m1a2s from the us.

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If they could somehow manage to make the B-52 space flight-optimal, I’d pay actual fucking money from my pocket to see that

“Captain, a human starship has shown up on scanners.” “What is it’s designation?” “They call it a B-52” “Isnt that a plane from 200 years ago?” “Yes”

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Good morning, state and country that wants to kill me and run itself into the ground, respectively

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The benefit of Alfred having his own decently-sized ranch (“My land, my rules.”) is that no one has to be subject to seeing him wear a star-spangled bikini top & daisy dukes when he grills. Unless he has guests I suppose. He does have the audacity. And the confidence. Can’t stand this man.

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not only was this made to torture specific individuals (you know who you are), i am tired of receiving "why do u give russia a beard," so i'm here to give the people what they apparently want.

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They win a very difficult game and he whips out the hardest card trick he knows just to blow their minds. Send tweet.

okay but consider...consider,,, he teaches all the kiddos basic bat tricks when coaching baseball/softball. like as a reward for a good practice.

abso-fucking-lutely

I also can see Al really being into like basic magic and card tricks so like not only is he teaching bat tricks, he's just whipping out a deck of cards and going "Good game! wanna see something cool?" and blowing all of their little minds

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Why are you drawing Alfred as native that’s so racist considering his connection to England in the show

Hey, crackhead, would you care to pass what you’re currently smoking?

If you’re referencing the Horizon drawings posted last night specifically, not only is that a video game crossover post and by no means serious, it is fictional. I have drawn Alfred—yes, my Alfred, who is POC—in the garb of an entirely fictitious tribal society set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future where these humans have made their own unique societies from the ashes of ours, but they hunt AI-driven machines and survive off the land otherwise. The Tenakth literally worship the wasting frames of fighter jets from the “Old Ones”. If you have an issue with the designs of Horizon’s factions, then that is something you can take to the devs, Guerrilla Games, if you are that concerned.

If you are referring to my Alfred in general, then I apologize that my headcanon and interpretation differ so highly from yours. I see both Matthew and Alfred as being either biracial or mixed ethnicity, which is why I draw them how I do. This, to me, creates a commentary on the effects of European colonialism on the New World. What their European caretakers did to mold them into the Eurocentric standards that they forcibly raised them in, so as to remove what people on the European stage at the time likely considered “savage” and “uncivilized”. To marvel at the success of the European powers. How they have either removed themselves from or have attempted to reconnect with their roots, if at all, because for some that is a choice that they make of their own accord. It also becomes interesting in the roles they have taken through history, whether optionally or by force, and how I see them acting in the modern day. I cannot understand what mental gymnastics it takes to see my interpretations of them and call it erasure, but I also realize I may speak from the wrong lens, and for that I then apologize again. I will try to be more sensitive in the future if this is the case.

Sure, I do not make much serious art nor posts, at least not like I used to. But that is how I choose to engage in this fandom as of lately. I am here for my own fun and not for your entertainment. If I make your experience lesser, then you do not have to engage with me. So please leave. If you do not agree, then please stymie your apparent urge to belittle someone else’s interpretation and enjoyment.

I will not engage you further and I hope your 2025 is wonderful. Thank you kindly. Have a great Wednesday.

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If you ever hear Alfred say he doesn’t like Dolly Parton, that’s an imposter. Destroy it immediately and by any means necessary.

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Hi guys :)

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Crying. You’re so right bagsgsggs listen man listen…I am but a little average height creature. I am 5’5, but all of my close friends except one are at least 6’2. I’m surrounded by tall. It is what I know. I am but a squirrel on the forest floor.

@a-flying-fortress l thought of you. And Ivan.

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ngl alfred probably still trick-or-treats even at his big age

i know it's a few minutes late for halloween but i agree

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I triple-dog dare you to put that silly lil Russian man in a skirt

he lost a bet