#cranky old men

[sharpace]

Hi! Can you please enlighten me about the divorce era in crank it universe? Will they have a divorce and reunion there? And if yes, will you draw it?

Hello!! Yes, I can!

ABOUT THE DIVORCE ERA

The short of it is it’s meant to reflect the canon “Divorce Era” between Jayce and Viktor but… like ridiculous and sad.

The long of it, Jayce and Viktor grow in their success and eventually turn their little computer building and gaming (mostly gaming channel) into a company proper. With the new resources and sudden stress, their relationship slowly chipped away until all that was left was resentment and moving through the motions and… a really explosive fight that lead to the separation. But for the sake of comedy, they live across the hall from each other and refuse to be the one who signs for the divorce so they never sign but keep instigating paperwork at one another.

WILL THEY REUNITE?

They will reunite! I think the divorce era was the result of realizing you got together quickly and young and then proceeded to spend over a decade 24/7 together without ever hashing out what “helping kids like we were” truly definitively meant. So the time apart was needed to create an individual identity and untangle their life goals from one another. But the relationship would look a lot different than it looks in Crank It since one of my “rules” for writing Crank It is they “love each other no matter what” with the intent that they’re entwined in each other 24/7 even when only one appears. Whereas I think the reunion era would be more blunt, mature, and generally like two individuals coexisting instead of two people existing as one.

WILL YOU DRAW IT?

Oh ho! A tricky question. Yes and no. So I do really love microwaving the Divorce Era (and I love draw them as old cranky men) and I have some written pieces and comics BUT Crank It is such a safe space for so many people, that I wouldn’t want to cross them over and jettison everyone into weekly angst.

However!

Any comics I’ve made, are available to members on my Ko-Fi and I am working on an illustrated timeline of the divorce era going through the major moments starting from their wedding day all the way to their reunion. This will also go up on my Ko-Fi. I’m debating on how I want to release it so 👀 I’d recommend keeping an eye out for when that official announcement rolls through.

And some old men for you! Thanks!

[fashionredalert]

I wrote a thing for the Butsutaji week!!

Catch me in the storage closet sweating since i finally decided to crawl out of my shell and actually participate in an event for once.

Thanks @butsutaji-week for the opportunity to participate!

A special thanks to @doeinstinct for being by Beta!

[wishchip106]

they’ve reached the age where they judge anyone they pass on the street

cackling to each other in their minds

“Charles, that dress does nothing for her”

“People used to have modesty…”

side eyeing everyone 😭

[king-mera]

I really used to cosplay and RP as Phoebe and borderline kinned her but it was so fucking awkward because most of the GB fandom only seemed interested in shipping the old men. So I basically had nothing to do because I couldn’t interact with anybody.

Then Frozen Empire rolls around and Phoebe is finally popular but only because everyone thinks she’s depressed and in love with a dead chick. What the Hell. Now I STILL can’t do anything because my interpretation of the character is different from everyone including the writers. FML.

[mintyeve322]

im losing my fucking mind at work so have... whatever this is.

do my two favorite characters say a lot about me? probably, mind your business.

i may or may not make this digital later. that also may or may not improve the quality. ALSO IGNORE MY SHITTY HANDWRITING IM TIRED AND MY HEAD HURTS

[xavalav]

would you guys call me crazy if i said greg house has trans swag?

[plausible-fabulist]

Favorite Yiddish fairytale? I had a book of folktales collected by Isaac Beshevis Singer as a kid, my favorite was Mazel and Schlimazel.

I think it would have to be one of the tales of the Wise Men of Chelm, maybe the one where the tzedakah box gets robbed so they put it on the ceiling of the shul out of reach, then they notice it's out of reach and no one can use it, so they build a ladder to it? I mean I don't know if that quite qualifies as a fairy tale as opposed to a folktale, since it's not supernatural. My favorite supernatural Jewish story is not in Yiddish but in Aramaic -- it's the aftermath to the Oven of Akhnai story, Hi in Bava Metzia 59b, which Rivka tells the protagonist about in the first chapter of The Ghost and the Golem. My favorite Yiddish fairy tale I haven't read, but only read about, is the Bove Mayse, the wildly popular 1507 chivalric romance, adapted into Yiddish by Elijah Levita from the goyish chivalric romance "Buovo d'Antonia", keeping the magic sword, magic horse, and becoming-king happy ending but giving the protagonist a tallis and tefillin, from which the Yiddish word for fairy tale, "bubbeh-mayse", derives. (Which is also an example of my favorite kind of multiple-root etymology, where "bubbeh"=grandmother replaces "Bove"=Bevis of Hampton, Italianized and then Yiddishized.)

[skunkes]

i need more AC and Magicians Quest life sim "clones" in the way of like

I don't need realistic graphics!!! Just a simple cute player character and lots and lots of clothes (easier to put on simple characters!) and furniture...and I also think life sims with dating Now are kinda polarizing wrt art styles and (lack of) diversity which is why I do actually wish u cld date in AC and such (well not anymore since the franchise has gotten a bit sour to me)...

this isn't even just me "being a furry" since a lot of characters in magician's quest are like. living objects. i was dating a TV when I last played 😭 but ykwim...it's less about being a furry or w/e and more it's much easier to project traits onto "Universal" cute designs and silhouettes than hoping that 1. the art style for the human characters is pleasing to you 2. hoping there's a character that's your type 2a. picking between potentially samefaced characters 3. why's there always just one non white person 4. where are all the fat and old people 5. -

[sethdomain]

ok

[havanelo-hatake]

ミックが笑っている絵を描きたい、だがタバコを吸ってサングラスかけた不機嫌なミックが出来上がる不思議

[citylighten]

The first thing I do on my computer? Design a love interest for Franco 🙈

[sageofjustice]

"I'm beginning to get the distinct feeling you have all but forgotten about me~"

[kimberlylikescherries]

Someone is in an Errormare mood /pos /lh

I crave cranky old gays

[cosmogenous]

can i swear at the elderly at my job?

[steelthroat]

I think I gave away all my health points for my luck and improvisation stats. I upgraded my character wrong :/

[lighthouseas]

bobby nash is literally such a babygirl. love him