#delightful to have y’all!!

[asaltysquid]

“He’s a Harry Dubois kin so you know he’s experiencing the narrative in such a mentally ill way.” Review by a friend.

🔅New People so New Pinned🔅

Hey y’all, welcome to the space.

I’m a queer creature that answers to Scott, El, or Squid. Married, poly, and happily in a pack running through the forests of BC. I’m a son of the woods and keep reptiles and isopods. (I do not TW my pets!)

I’m an illustrator and storyteller currently working on a queer 80s camp creature comic and a trans masc/fem demon nun erotica! Updates will be released under #squidsriptide and I need a hashtag for the other.

My other stories you will see frequently are Hicks, Trigger Happy, Godtier, and Oddities. All co owned with my husband @stuttermutt

Most of my work rotates around horror, transness, and the queer experience and as such can dabble in dark themes. I will always try to trigger warn accordingly.

The true loves of my life in order of hyperfixation are:

Greek Mythology/Disco Elysium/X-Men/Breaking Bad/Treasure Planet/Malcolm in the Middle/IT/Gravity Falls/Texas Chainsaw Massacre/Scott Pilgrim/Knives Out/Old West History

🪬DNI🪬

Trus-cum/T3rfs/Exclusion-ists/Anti-semites/Bigots of any kind. I will not interact with you. I will not respond to you. I will not engage with you in any shape or form. You will simply be blocked.

Hard aligned antis/proshippers. I believe both sides are flawed and there’s a lot more nuance within the conversation that neither is willing to have.

Lore Olympus blogs. Hey it's my rules and I get to make em.

If you’d like to see a lot more of my art including my furry stuff as well as Female presenting nipples and other Nsfw consider checking out my Patreon!

https://href.li/?https://www.patreon.com/Asaltysquid

[stealingyourbones]

Gotta love when folks write Superman incredibly anti-clone even though he had good reason in the beginning to Not Like Superboy (HES A WINDOW INTO WHAT CLARK WOULD HAVE BEEN WITHOUT THE KENTS) and decide that forever on he’ll be spiteful towards clones even though he literally Does Not Care if you’re a clone unless you’re Superboy.

[seekingskywhales]

Bonk bonk give me your stuff

[angele-midnight]

I’m rewatching Tiny Heist and y’all

I won’t lump on anyone’s bumps, if you don’t like it you don’t like it - but I think the majority of criticism it gets is because people forget the most important rule of D&D: to have fun playing. And while the McElroys style of play isn’t what a lot of fans are used to, you can absolutely tell everyone around that table (especially Brennan) is having the time of their lives. The joy on Brennan’s face when Justin points out the bomb, everyone losing it about Diggensaurus Rick doing x-rated kids entertainment in the first ep, the excitement and pride all the players feel during the car chase, literally everything about The Incredible Dantes, it’s so obvious everyone in that campaign is having a ton of fun that you forget it’s not as well paced or cohesive as other Dimension 20 campaigns. That’s what makes it such a joy to watch in my opinion, and why it’s gonna forever be one of my favorite side quests.

[katieshook02]

Dear NHL teams who acquire the marvelous one and only Anthony Beauvillier,

STOP TRADING HIM TO FUCKASS TEAMS

sincerely, an islanders fan who misses him dearly.

[some-stars]

every time i rewatch deadpool 2 my need to write the fixit fic where i drag it back into continuity kicking and screaming grows stronger…i just gotta level up enough to get the confidence to start it

like it’s really wild how much the fundamental emotional premise of the third movie seems designed to actively spit in the second movie’s face. i really want to know what they were thinking, it feels way too specific to be an accident. it feels calculated. they literally heavily emphasize the word “belong” in both movies’ emotional arcs for fuck’s sake. they make a whole Thing in 3 of wade’s love for his weird little family but they erased the most important people from it. deadpool 2 was literally ABOUT family, what the FUCK, im going to rip kevin feige’s spine out and jump rope with it on top of his fucking corpse.

[fluffypotatey]

Shadowpeach's reaction to believing the other is dating again

ANON I AM SO SORRY T^T i meant to reply to this the moment I read it then got distracted and now it’s almost 1am (edit: it is now 1:30 lmao)

anyway,

you have come to ask me, a girlie who is a sucker for unhealthy shadowpeach and long time lover of the jealousy & possessive tropes, about shadowpeach’s hypothetical reactions of the two monkeys believing the other is back in the dating scene?

well, obviously, they would be completely fine. absolutely no negative reactions or breakdowns or obsessive thoughts hindering their ability to function and be mentally healthy. of course.

jk i lied: THEY WOULD BE SO HORRIBLE LMAO

however, i feel like swk would be more subtle about it. like maybe he hears something out of context said by MK or Mei or Tang or Red Son or Sandy (who might have also jumped to the same conclusion) and is like “oh……” and then is oddly quiet for maybe a month, freaking out MK

also, SWK would have his own internal battle of wanting to see Macky to confirm but also not wanting to see Macackle because the confirmation would break him. but he would make so many excuses to see Macaroon by visiting Pigsy’s noodle shop then chicken out when the time does come (the funny part of me says that Pigsy is the only one aware of SWK’s true intentions and is very annoyed about it)

the anger doesn’t really come until SWK feels fed up with Macaroni’s “mixed signals,” meaning Macky’s very bad attempts at being civil/flirting. because “if Macky thinks he can just use my feelings while being in a relationship he can think again!” (despite Macky never being in a relationship but Wukong never confirmed this so is mad for the sake of this hypothetical SO and himself while struggling with his own very messy feelings. because he likes it when Mac has his attention on him, he likes it when Mac tries to woo him the same way he had tried when they were younger and ignorant, he likes it when Mac cannot help but look at Wukong, he likes it when he makes Mac forget all about that stupid significant other because Wukong and Mac used to be something and could still be that something if Mac just gave Wukong a chance or if they had never ended their old relationship like the way they did. if only, if only, if only, if only, if only—

with Macky, ahahahaaaaaaa hoo boy.

not subtle. very unsubtle. like, yes, even Wukong can see and notice Macky’s very unsubtle and unstable self but unlike everybody else who is aware of the reason, Wukong would just be confused on why Macky is always weirdly snappy and grabby and always feel the need to mention Wukong’s love life????

anyway, Macky would not react well. 1) because it feeds into his angry theory that Wukong found their relationship to be superficial and temporary 2) he has been revived for, uh, *checks watch* not very long, so imagine going through a severe break up and dying them being resurrected and trying to enact revenge on your ex (of whom the feelings are still too raw) but you’ve been out of time for so long that you cannot process shit 3) it is my belief that Macky had nobody else as close to him as Wukong was

so, Macky hearing through the very botched grapevine that Wukong is back in the dating scene? man’s is not handling it well. house/apartment/whatever establishment he was staying in is trashed. he replans his revenge against Wukong. he stalks Wukong obsessively bc he has to see that bastard in the act because maybe then he’ll be free. he would sabotage any and all attempts of demons, humans, whoever that whispers about pursuing Wukong because….reasons

(obviously the reasons are not the fact that Wukong moving on terrifies him, the fact that he can be so easily replaced hurts, the fact that he cannot let go despite everything, the fact that Wukong still smiles the same, that Wukong still laughs the same but it’s so much lighter, that he understood what it was like to be loved and cared about by Wukong. to have all of his attention on Macky, to hold him so gently even though these same hands could break him (and have), to be treasured and desired by someone so powerful. how could Mackarell give up something so precious? he is still selfish and has been deprived for f that love for too long. why on earth would he ever wish for someone else to have a piece of what he once had?)

so yeah i’d say they would be coping sO well :)

[landfilloftrash]

Hello I am so very on board with your Gregory/von Karma art thank you for feeding us we have been starving in the desert for so long,,, welcome to the old man hell! (affectionate)

hold your local old man gently like an enraged cat

[novelconcepts]

When I say I’m irrationally jealous in the best way that the cast and crew of Yellowjackets is working on the next season. Dude. They all get to watch the story unfold first! That is the sickest thing imaginable!

[aheathen-conceivably]

not an ask! just wanted to say that your story is lovely and one of the most beautifully captured and told i have ever seen! the way you depict and write your characters just brings them to life and i can't wait to see each and every post that comes from you <3

Just, ahem, excuse me while I crumple into a tiny little ball and cry in happiness…

This ~especially~ hits because your Hayes were one of the stories that inspired me to start this lil blog way back when I did so I am just 😩

But whew, all my tears dried (maybe? not really…) thank you so very much. I sometimes think maybe I’ve gone a touch too far in turning everyone into an emotional wreck but hey, look at me, what would you expect? 😅

[gods-favorite-autistic]

The feeling of finding out one of my favorite authors is pro palestine

[carefulfears]

thinking about how truly frantic scully gets when she becomes convinced that jackson is the only person who could protect or save mulder. like she spends 16 years suffering resigning herself to never even contacting her child and making sure he’s hidden and no one could find him and then like 1 dream that makes her feel like mulder needs it, and she’s like, well! guess i’m tracking him down today!

[flickeringflame216]

ow.

[aprill-99]

I’m in a cafe sitting next to two girls talking about a TV show and I know you’re not supposed to eavesdrop but good goddamn I am Invested now.

Update:

Have discovered it’s called the Legend of Vox Machina. Anyone know what this is?

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

okay but what are the three nhthcth songs tho

So it’s important to note that Songs for me don’t always have a perfect correlation or fit with lyrics matching the story and is more based on the overall Vibe somehow clicking with what I want the story to be.

1. Bad Habits by The Federal Empire

This was the original Song and it was the background for the vast majority of plot creation. I listened to it so many times that skewed my Spotify wrapped to a ridiculous degree. It specifically became the Song because of Daisy and Jon’s relationship in nhthcth.

Like, when I build a plot, there’s a lot of jumping around and figuring out how it all fits together. It’s always a fun, pleasant surprise when my brain knits together the very separate parts and tells me how we get there. Which gives me a very distorted perspective of the story, because the order I get information in tends to be very different than the order y’all get information in.

nhthcth loosely went: initial Tommy bradstaff confrontation-> daisy and Jon buddy cop adventures-> horrible devastatingly sad backstory that got us there-> ohmygodisthatDannystoker-> rest of it

Bad Habits really had sort of off the cuff, mildly ill-advised and self-destructive, chaotic dynamic I wanted between Daisy and Jon. Like, I knew I wanted them to be really messy in this, because they were supposed to live in this sort of in-between in canon characterisations for them. They’d never had the buried, but they had to be past the point of “Daisy is hunt mad and wants to kill Jon in the woods.” They had to exist in this space where neither of them had progressed to the same point as they did in season 4 to stop feeding entirely and were in this sort of half-measure where they were trying to ignore the reality of their situation and make it work as best they can—and, you know, save the world while they went.

Like, I loved them so much. They committed so many crimes. Pov you’re spooky and you get brutalised in the woods by woman who looks like she kills people for the mob and man in cardigan who looks like he died last week. They were morally ambiguous and fucking hilarious. They weren’t allowed in France anymore. Dream team buddy cop between deeply violent woman and utterly exhausted man. I was obsessed. It was so fun and zany in my head.

Then I came up with the devastatingly sad parts and devastatingly sad ended up being the tone y’all got instead of fun and zany but it was too late the Song was set. Yes, Jon’s horrible traumatic past was created while listening to this fairly upbeat song. We get One Song per story it’s the rules of my brain.

But then it became so convoluted that it ended up getting more Songs, which was unprecedented.

2. Two Birds by Regina Spektor

The second song nhthcth, and I can’t say what part of the story it belongs to because we haven’t gotten to that part yet. I will say that it is a Song that belongs to Jon & Gerry.

3. Never Forget You by Noisettes

This is actually young Jon & Gerry’s Song. I really liked the fit for them because it sounds so upbeat and energetic with lyrics that are a little bittersweet.

Like, I can’t emphasize enough that Jon and Gerry were happy together. When they ran, they were genuinely happy kids who were glad to be alive for the first time in their own memories. They loved each other, they loved each and every adventure they went on, and even though they were in a completely shit situation, it was the happiest they had ever been. And even when they lost it, that period of their lives was always a sort of light they never let go of—and never stopped trying to get back.

This Song really had the jaunty, fun vibe that I wanted Gerry and Jon to have when they ran together, and there’s this overarching yearning and bittersweet reflection that I thought echoed how it ultimately would end in them being dragged back in the most painful way possible. It sort of acknowledged that it didn’t work out the way they hoped but it doesn’t diminish the joy and love that they had before it was lost.

[optimistpax]

[ID: a reply from @thefairyinthebackyard saying “name sommmeee” End ID]

Thank you for encouraging me to talk about comics, one of my all time favourite things to talk about!

I can’t think of a better way to wrap up pride month than to share a few of my favourite queer comics:

Motor Crush

A sci-fi with bi/wlw main characters :)

O, Human Star

A sci-fi with mlm/trans characters

Across a Field of Starlight

A sci-fi (NOT a romance) featuring queer/nb/trans characters

Bitch Planet

Sci-fi with trans characters

On a Sunbeam

A sci-fi with wlw/nb characters

Cosmoknights

A sci-fi with wlw main characters

Snapdragon

A fantasy with wlw/trans characters

Beetle and the Hollowbones

A fantasy with nb/trans/wlw characters

Shadow Life

A fantasy with wlw main characters

Witch boy

A queer fantasy

Nimona

A queer fantasy with a gay main character

The Prince and the Dress Maker

Queer historical fiction

Boys Run the Riot

Contemporary fiction with a trans main character

The Magic Fish

Contemporary fiction featuring a gay boy

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Contemporary fiction with queer and wlw characters

The Third Person

A memoire by Emma Grove (a trans woman)

They Called us Enemy

A memoire by George Takei (a gay man)

Spinning

A memoire by Tillie Walden (a lesbian woman)

Honourable mention:

Special Topics in Being a Human: a Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself.

A queer self help/advice book that is half comics half prose.