#craydl

[reversedumbrella]

a boy and his father Max a boy and his only friend CRAYDL

[sexybagels-masa]

Thad and Craydl listen'in to their favorite

Thad and his girl

[peacerisendove]

Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #7

You know when I say that Craydl is Thad's paternal figure? I mean it so seriously. I bet Craydl absolutely influenced Thad's taste in music. Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Thad's most likely a rock and alt rock kind of guy thanks to Craydl.

[radioactive-earthshine]

Like father...

Impulse (1995) #52

Like son...

Impulse (1995) #51

[brown-little-robin]

the them...

[dementedspeedster]

Hilarious Craydl-related Thoughts from my Brain:

Craydl is the closest thing to a parental figure Thad has (He did the raising and most of Thad's socialization I'm sure of it), so that means he gets to give the shovel talk to Thad's romantic partners.

Imagine this glob of neon green goo, who was once subdued by Bart shoving him in a bottle, threatening Thad's potential partner/s and making sure they treat his son well.

[cryptocism]

love that Thad interprets inertia to mean continuing at all costs and Three takes it to mean stagnancy, bc theyre both right!! objects in motion saty in motion objects at rest stay at rest just like newton said

exactly yeah! because i knew i wanted Thad to reclaim the name for himself (with the whole "it means what i say it means" mantra) it needed to mean more to him than just a representation of Thawne Legacy Kill The Allens etc.

a reoccurring thing in Frequency that i liked to lean into was this idea of Good Inertia and Bad Impulses (bc Bart and Thad as narrative foils continues to rotate in my brain forever). i think Bart's solo does a cool exploration of both good and bad impulses throughout the run, it's kind of the central conflict of the whole thing, but it's usually in regards to Bart either unwittingly getting himself into trouble or accidentally solving problems by just leaping into everything without thinking twice. but the concept of inertia is pretty exclusively portrayed as negative. which is fair, the phrase "coasting on inertia" is in the lexicon for a reason. but i think it deserved a fair shot - the concept of continuing in spite of everything can actually be a really good instinct when you're in a bad situation. keeping up that momentum, moving forward no matter what, there's definitely something inspirational there that appeals to me.

and an aspect of impulses that didnt get as much spotlight in Bart's solo was the kinds of impulses that recoil at the thought of unpleasantness. the impulse to hide from responsibility, the impulse to distract from pain, to avoid discomfort, etc. (big part of that is because in Bart's solo, most of the worst moments of his life hadn't happened to him yet) so i wanted to explore it a little in Frequency

anyway yeah, Bad Impulses and Good Inertia. which was kinda in conversation with Bart and Thad's dispositions, and how they run counter to typical hero/villain narratives. (Bart doesn't really get people, goes his own way, has pretty emotionally selfish and sometimes violent tendencies when he's pissed off. Thad's much more of a people person, lives for praise and pleasing others, seems to forget to do violence when he's supposed to i.e. that time he put Bart in VR jail even though Bart was completely incapacitated and by Thawne logic Thad should've just killed him. it just... doesn't occur to him as a thing he should do lmao)

[plutonicbees]

24 years ago thaddeus thawne made his first appearance as this mysterious evil hooded figure in impulse #50

happy birthday u little freak <3 (his comically evil tendencies and cringefail behavior hath bewitched me)

[bxrningblack]

⚠ do thad! @dementedspeedster

bad powerpoints - Still accepting @kryptonianclone / @dementedspeedster <3

[resistancetochange]

What

the

fuck.

Why is this what we're learning about the Joker???

[ghostlandtoo]

i made copies of @cryptocism's fic frequency for a friend as a gift! (with author permission, thank you so much!) this was a very simple project that i made extremely complicated, but i'm very pleased with the final results! quarter(ish) bind with bookcloth on the spines and paper on the bookboards. i recreated the typography for the fic title from cryptocism's artwork, and really ran with the circuit board theme. so many glamor shots follow:

volume one has chapters 1-10. the colors and design of the cover are the same as bart's costume! i also wanted there to be some design elements that tied the two volumes together, which is why the titles are both in gold with the matching circuit pattern.

volume 2 has chapters 11-22, and i was worried about spine well (for both volumes) but there actually wasn't much! the colors are to match thad's inertia suit.

i sewed the headbands with embroidery thread, and am getting a little better at it. the bookcloth was made from cotton fabric, wheatpaste, and kozo paper as backing.

i originally intended on tipping in the artwork cryptocism made, about one piece per chapter and several comics, and had several textblocks with the art included but it unfortunately created a lot of spine swell (because i made it way more complicated). and then i ran out of this white paper and didn't want to reorder more for matching volumes. an example of what it looked like in one textblock:

also, i tried my best to sand the edges but it's only 20lb paper so they just kept fraying and fraying, so i bought a guillotine. life has been bliss since then.

[fonts used: jersey sharp for the chapter titles and POV titles. garamond premier for the body text, pixel operator for chapter subtitles (and i also used it for craydl's dialogue!), and lightning bolt for the section breaks which thankfully included a the flash bolt.]

[reversedumbrella]

a boy and his only friend CRAYDL

[isfjmel-phleg]

(Impulse #56, 65)

Bart-as-Thad, Thad-as-Bart.

One of these impersonations is the result of eons of intensive study, analysis, and preparation...and the other is a spur-of-the-moment plan thrown together with newly-acquired sewing skills, a wig, and memories of a single encounter with the person being portrayed.

Thad had to have known that Bart impersonated him once to fool CRAYDL and that (shockingly!) it worked, right? He would not have been happy about that, no doubt.

Can we also appreciate that these issues have the reverse digits of each other.

[peacerisendove]

Sometimes you just have to flex that you’re the pretty twin when you’re hanging out with your brother and his friends in your grandparents’ basement.

But seriously, I redrew this screenshot of Kelso from That 70′s Show because I thought, ‘You know who would say this incredibly pettily? Thad Thawne.’

[radioactive-earthshine]

Impulse (1995)

💀

[brown-little-robin]

ok I'm normal about CRAYDL again