#captain fancypants

[scribbledbyhand]

Another proof that Susan and Jackson survived! The true end! 💖💗💕

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

It's Gonna Be A Long Night • Zoloft • Transdermal Celebration • Among His Tribe • So Many People In The Neighborhood • Tried And True • Happy Colored Marbles • Hey There Fancypants • Captain • Chocolate Town • I Don't Want It • The Fucked Jam • Alcan Road • The Argus • If You Could Save Yourself (You'd Save Us All)

The cover art of this album is a parody of the 3M paper game Thorns.

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[pis3update]

Betty Buttercup from The Sims 2 for Console! by William Fancypants

"As someone who has never played the Sims (any of them) on console, I've often had to rely on the Sims Wiki to get to know who some sims are. In fact, I made a story about Bella Goth's life entirely based upon the Sims Wiki and the Sims 2, nothing more. But that's off topic. One of the Sims I found was this lady, Betty, she owns a yacht, she has a humongous crush on Captain Longfellow, and she's crazy rich from, what I like to think, were pink flamengogo dancers, from the Sims 1. Here's some more personal information of her's:

...continued on MTS"

More Info + Download @MTS.

[scienceoftheidiot]

🌸 and ☁️please? (I know you have pets so I am absolutely asking for pet pics. Am willing to send cat pics in exchange, just say the word)

🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

OF COURSE I HAVE PETS AND OF COURSE I WANT TO SEE CAT PICS GIMME ALL THE KITTIES 😻

First Sanga

Don't be fooled he collapsed this old tent I had hung out to dry on purpose so he could nap on it. Life's easy when you're a 45kg grandpa.

Next these two are pets indeed. I do not take explanations that they're not pets. They would jump on the couch with us if they could. Now they are couches themselves so no need. Expensive silly and anxious couches. With bonus orange boy 🍊 and menacing selfie.

☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?

I have three that I use regularly here so:

scienceoftheidiot : I was already a scientist back then albeit a baby scientist so this fit, I'm also very dumb at times, and I'm a Green Day fan and they had this line in one of their song, so it was perfect for me.

@dr-fancy-pants (my art blog) : I actually waited to be an actual doctor to change my username to this one. The fancy pants part comes from Ripper Street where one of my favourite characters once got called Captain Fancypants.

Pikkulef (AO3) : LEF is actually my oldest nickname, which I won't explain for mystery ✨ and because it's the dumbest when explained, and that's how I sign my art. Added the Pikku when I came back from Finland. Pikku means Little in Finnish and I'm not exactly tall at all.

Thank you so much for asking 🥰❤️

Now. Gimme the cat pics. Gimme gimme. 👀

[bleachbleachbleach]

I'm curious, what are both of your thoughts on Eikichiro Saido? He's such a minor character, and yet he was added in to one of the most pivotal arcs/moments in the series for Ichigo and Rukia, and gets a cameo in the Fake Karakura Town Arc.

Were it not for the fact that Bleach has so many wonderful characters, Joe Shinigami would be our favorite character. (“Joe Shinigami” being the gender-inclusive catchall for any unnamed or functionally unnamed shinigami doing whatever or, usually, dying however.) But Joe Shinigami’s beauty lies in his placement in the frame—which is to say, not at the center of it. His is the beauty of the margin, doing things the audience usually doesn’t see, or isn’t focused on; the beauty of NPCitude. I love Joe Shinigami who have their own lives to live, and that tell us more about what it’s like to live and die as a normal shinigami; or more about who our fancypants shinigami are, or how they come across to people they either don’t know well or who just occupy a completely different positionality within the world than they do.

When we got this ask I texted my coblogger like, “Is that that freakin’ third wheel guy.”

Yes. Yes, it is that third-wheel guy!

Sorry if you’re a fan, OP, we are not. XD

Ungenerous reading of this man below the cut:

He doesn’t really do any of the aforementioned things, and seems aggressively committed to in fact existing as the opposite. Whenever we watch those episodes, we’re always like, SHE DOESN’T EVEN GO HERE. Why is he here? How is this improving things?

Does he:

… provide the shinigami perspective? I mean, I guess, but Rukia’s right there. She’s doing that.

… a different shinigami perspective, though? Byakuya and Renji will do a pretty good job of that, imminently! Also, we have plenty of perspective at home??? Ichigo’s and Rukia’s are the only ones that matter in this scene??

Plus we’re already offered POVs of the world around this moment with the Grand Fisher in such trenchant, beautiful ways! Via the frame of the Kurosaki family grave visit, re: Isshin, Karin, and Yuzu; and via Orihime and Tatsuki, elsewhere. Heck, even in Kon. We do not need this man.

…is he practically useful, though? No! He is useless!

…does he change the relational landscape of the original scene in interesting ways? No! He is in the way! How do these scenes benefit from Mr. Third Wheel? Ichigo and Rukia and the Grand Fisher are having a moment. If there are elephants in the room, its name is Grief, not Eikichirou. Or Masaki or Kaien.

We’re just like… why is he here... Our best guess is that this whole narrative arc was too good and the anime fears perfection. (Or, more diplomatically, it felt too heavy and someone decided it needed “comic relief,” here synonymous with That One Key That’s Out of Tune on this Piano Haha Guys I’m Quirky Right?)

We’re not interested in having Ekichirou recuperated for us. There’s literally so many other things that are already cooler than him, and not world enough nor time for them. Like New Third Captain Amagai! Or my best Playing Card Man, Inaba! Or Nagakiso Shuutetsu! Or any actual, bonafide Joe Shinigami!

[streetlites]

Shelby thinks. Me and Captain Fancypants get along! He's got nice hair! Why not???

Because he has no romance options, Shelby.

[dr-fancy-pants]

It's when I change my profile pic that you know the brainrot is that severe 🙃

Sorry good old Captain Fancypants. You were a good Captain. But I've flown through ranks now and I got a Colonel instead. So long 🫡

[corpyburd]

Sackson arguing - again

[mrrookidee]

I drew him,, the boy @twizzlebuzz

[kaptkookiekrunch]

An art I did for an art trade with @frappsundies. Harold in this AU be kinda rude tho 😔

[scribbledbyhand]

This sunburn is a source of inspiration 😁

[rancid-butter]

Okay so I fell madly in love with this song yesterday and it must be the 15th time I’m listening to it. I know it’s a song by The Georgia Satellites but Volbeat’s take on it is so damn cool.

This is what I think about when I listen to it. Sorry not sorry.

[hypahfixations]

So something I haven't heard other people talk about for Our Flag Means Death, and it's entirely possible I totally just missed it in the vast expanse that is fandom on tumblr, but I find it interesting who of the Revenge Ed specifically chooses in the end.

((So here's your spoiler warning if you haven't watched the show yet))

Anywhoozle it's been lingering in the back of my brain why, when Ed transforms himself into The Kraken and is literally throwing away everything tied to Stede including the crew, he had specific interactions with Lucius, Jim and Frenchie.

Lucius is the easiest one, right? Sure, he was snarky and defiant, not the best prospect for an underling, but he was also a fair bit cowardly when facing infliction of pain or death.

The problem was that Lucius knew too much. He could read and write and sketch - gotta keep in mind that literacy and documentation is a huge pull of power in this vaguely historical adjacent world to be sure. But more than anything Lucius was Stede's confidant, Ed's confidant; he can usually see right through anyone he has laid eyes on. Not only that but he is beloved by both crews (aside from Izzy) for both being charming and his skills.

And if the Kraken is Blackbeard's fiercest form, that simply would not do. No, having someone who would boldly remind him, and everyone else, of his soft heart would be bad for his renewed image. So overboard the boy must go.

Next we see Jim being summoned to the stripped and darkened captains quarters. Jim is world's away the strongest combatant of the Revenge, and frankly the most competent person on the ship. They have a history of and impulse for violence, disguise, and theft. All trappings of an extraordinary pirate that, as Blackbeard mentions, would be worth watching and recruiting.

But I don't think he's fully aware of the layers that Jim has. He knows that Olu adores Jim, of course, why else would be be sure to separate the pair before seeking them out, but I doubt he knows it runs both ways. And even if he did know they finally got together, misery breeds misery; Why should Ed be the only one to have found love and then have it ripped away from him with no reasons to be found?

So the Kraken decides to take the next most powerful player off the board. If Lucius is the suite of Hearts and Jim the Ace, that makes Frenchie the Wild Card.

Frenchie can't read or write or fight. He's superstitious and gullible but specifically not stupid. He can blend into the background or hold the spotlight to execute the roles required of him. He's likeable and reliable in a way that is similar to Oluwande but where they diverge is self preservation and I feel like that makes a huge difference.

But Blackbeard isn't thinking about all that. All he asks is if Frenchie can sew.

Like I said, Frenchie isn't stupid. The guy knows how to be subservient in a way that is as beneficial as possible for him. But he's loyal to himself and part of that is being loyal to who he chooses to care about. He got out from under the thumb of the rich elite yet chose to join and remain in Stede's crew. To serve under a fancypants rich boy that turned out to be kinder than Frenchie thought possible for those types.

His loyalties lie with the rag tag group of the Revenge and that includes when Blackbeard was Ed.

I think that's going to be the one to crack through the Kraken's exterior in Season 2. Frenchie will play the role that Blackbeard wants him to play, treating him almost like a stand-in Lucius at times. Meanwhile, he's working with Jim on the sly, reforging an alliance with Fang and Ivan for when Blackbeard and the rest of them were actually happy, and perhaps even sowing the seeds of those memories in Ed in subtle ways.

[the-big-bad-dog]

Little is truly known about

Fiona “Jester” Fancypants, if that’s even her real name.

Some say she’s the daughter of the Ruby of the Sea. Others believe shes the daughter of a Myriad Kingpin known simply as The Gentlemen.

What we do know is that she’s the wife of the deadly Captain Tusktooth. Apparently she’s the one that decides who the Captain lets live.

Often leaving her mark before their release.

[holdmecloser-gandydancer]

Oh! Also #52 with tres horny bois lol

52- "I can’t believe we’re friends sometimes.” from this prompt list! (still accepting!)

“Okay but I still don’t understand how the plant comes into play,” Magnus says, grabbing a handful of popcorn and shoveling it in his mouth, not unlike the way one would feed a horse some grain.

Merle laughs and shifts his position on the couch. “Well, y’see Magnus, when a dwarf and an onion love each other very much –“

“So help me, if you finish that sentence, I’m going to magic missile the shit out of you,” Taako interrupts from the kitchen.

“Taako, stop being a prude!” Magnus makes a half-hearted attempt to launch popcorn at Taako from his seat on the couch.

"I'm not being a prude, the two of you are just being gross!" Taako scrunches his face up in disgust.

“Well, I thought you already went to bed anyway,” Merle reaches forward to snatch the bowl from Magnus, who frowns but lets the popcorn remain out of his grasp.

“I’m about to, I was just making a cup of cocoa before I went to bed.”

Strictly speaking, this isn’t exactly true. Taako is making cocoa, but he’s already tried to settle down to sleep for the past hour to no avail. He can’t even blame it on Pringles' snoring or other nocturnal habits this time.

Since the three of them got back from Goldcliff earlier, Taako’s felt unsettled. Seeing the effects of silverpoint, of the Gaia Sash, it was a lot. It felt strangely personal. Not to mention the weirdness in Captain Captain Bane’s office. And that Red Robe… He still can’t quite shake that. It was easy enough to make fun of the fool in the moment but Taako’s thought a little more about what he said and he’d be lying if he said it wasn’t creepy. Maybe he’s figuring out how to be afraid after all.

He's still unsure what he's meant to be afraid of. He figured the Red Robe, of course. Kinda hard to put a positive spin on creepy ghosts. But if the Red Robe is supposed to be scary, then why'd it take the time to save the three of them? Just thinking about it makes Taako's brain itch.

“Wait, we still have cocoa? I thought I used the last packet before we left!” Magnus says excitedly, standing up from the couch.

Taako’s snapped out of his rumination by this. “I don’t use packets, my man. I have some class and sophistication.”

“You think we could get some mugs of this classy drink then, fancypants?” Merle sends Taako his sweetest, most shit-eating smile.

“Nah, dudes, this is a made BTFT beverage,” Taako says haughtily.

“I thought those were pictures that were bad for the environment,” Magnus tilts his head in confusion.

"Nah, man, it's a band," Merle shakes his head as he speaks.

Taako rolls his eyes. “By Taako, For Taako.”

“How about a bargain?”

“Merle, what the fuck are you talking about?”

He shrugs casually. “If you can find the kindness in your heart to spare some cocoa for us, then I can find the kindness in my heart to not start explaining my onion exploits in graphic detail. And kid, I have a lot.”

Taako does his best to suppress a gag. “Fine, jeez. I’ll make extra for you clowns.”

Magnus and Merle let out a small cheer before making a sad attempt to high-five each other. To be fair, the attempt is only sad on Merle's part, but the whole is only as good as the sum of its parts.

“Man, I can’t believe we’re friends sometimes,” Taako says as he rifles through the cabinets for the cocoa, cinnamon, and vanilla extract. He had the measurements exact before the bozos wanted in on his treat.

A small twinge of anxiety picks at his gut. He squeezes the container of vanilla tight to keep him exactly where he is, not back in a dusty, hot frontier town five years ago.

He glances over at the Umbra Staff; he stashed it in the corner of the dorm’s common area, well away from the kitchen.

Can’t kill them if my magic isn’t even in the same room, he thinks to himself. He takes a deep breath before dumping more ingredients into the pot. He’s so focused on that that he doesn’t realize the silence that settled over Magnus and Merle. Taako glances up to find the two of them staring at him as though he’d grown an extra head.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Taako, did you just call us your friends?” Magnus is barely able to keep the glee out of his voice.

“I distinctly heard that, Magnus,” Merle says seriously.

“Oh, I most certainly did not, we are coworkers at best,” Taako busies himself with stirring more milk into the steaming pot.

“Taako said we’re friends!” Magnus crows triumphantly. “Thought it would never happen!”

“We’ve finally broken through his thick emotional walls!” Merle stands on the couch and does a dance that looks more like he’s convulsing.

“You two are so dumb,” Taako can’t quite find the heat behind his own words, though. And he can’t quite keep the quirk of a smile off his face. Not that this means he’s suddenly cool with being forced to make extra helpings of cocoa. He’s still pissed about that and that’s the godsdamn truth.

[recurring-polynya]

Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I am In Love with Hitori Sasori and she is probably my favourite OC side character of all time. You only spent a few paragraphs fleshing out her character (speaking of, I LOVE your writing: it takes you less words than most professional authors to write a female that actually passes the Bechtel test lol) but that little bit was enough to get me evil laughing (have I mentioned I love you’re writing?!). I’m definitely not asking for more content or something, I just wanted you to know I love and appreciate her badassery!

Thank you! I’m so glad you like her! 

I’m always torn, because I hate making OCs, but I want my world to seem very rich and full, so I generally try to make ones that I can re-use. Most of the time when I see people writing Soul Society noble characters, they are very sinister and backstabby and often hate Rukia. a) I am honestly crap at writing intrigues and b) I always feel like most people are far to wrapped up in their own selves to bother being evil, the banality of everyday selfishness is far more interesting to me. I also love the way the upper class are portrayed in Jane Austen’s novels-- people are good and bad, but they are also weird and annoying and obsessed with their hobbies or their fad diets, but they are very much *people.*

Rukia’s been around noble circles for 40 years. People may find her distastefully common, but on the other hand, she’s the sister of the Kuchiki clan head, and so I think they are going to be nice to her, whether they feel it or not. On the other hand, Rukia is quite good at reading people and is not particularly interested in noble hobnobbing, and so I thought it would be in-character for her to have acquired a stable of Weird Lesbians that she hangs out with at parties. All of them are way too into their hobbies, because they’re smart, but under-stimulated. Sasori was actually the first of these delightful ladies that I came up with. It’s extremely funny to me to name-drop characters from the anime filler arcs, so I definitely wanted someone attached to the Kasumiohji clan, the weaponsmakers from the Captain Amagai arc. Sasori is based a little bit on Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, both in the sense that she’s very embedded in her family business, and because of that sick fight where she keeps breaking weapons on Green Destiny and swaps through about ten extremely different weapons like this is just a regular Tuesday. That just seemed like a really fun person who Rukia would enjoy being friends with, and who would, in turn, admire the freedom and usefulness Rukia enjoys by being a member of the Gotei. The fact that their friend group also includes a horse girl and a woman who writes romance novels is just icing on the cake.

This wasn’t really a deliberate attempt to get my Bechdel check boxes. It’s just that on average, I care about a female characters roughly 10 times as much as male characters, and if there aren’t enough of them around, I will just make some.

You know, while writing this, it occurred to me that Sasori probably knows my other weirdly popular OC, Kuchiki Choei. I cannot decide if they would be failed-to-achieve-expected-family-roles solidarity besties or if Choei is just terrified of Sasori, doubly so, now that she is in Squad 11.

Anyway, thank you for the kind words! I worry constantly about overusing my OCs, so these kinds of reassurances are good for easing that anxiety. She’s a very useful character, especially now that she dual-classes as both a Fancypants Socialite and a Squad 11 Dirtbag, so I am sure you will see her again in the future.