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[honeydots]

YOU REBLOGGED SO MUCH FFXV STUFF THAT I WAS LIKE "hah, you have a PS5, why don't u give it a shot, it looks up my alley" AND NOW I'M OBSESSED AND SPENT THE LAST TWO WEEKS THAT I WAS OFF WORK PLAYING IT. WHY DID YOU DO THIS

(jk, ly, thx for showing me a kick ass game :))

FFXV IS ONE OF MY FAAAAAAAVES IM SO GLAD UR ENJOYING IT inflicting the fuckeeing boys upon ye

[dotstronaut]

A gift 🤲

Ahhhh thank you for drawing my silly fluffy eldritch beasts!

[mashleverse]

THERE'S A COLLAB WITH MASHLE X BEARD PAPA IN THE US I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT!! https://www.beardpapas.com/mashle

I HAD NO IDEA one of the maid cafe maids pinged me to let me know they didn't have my husband (lol)

Time to make a trip????

Thank you so much for the information! We missed this amazing collaboration info so we appreciate letting us know about it!

The dream collaboration is finally here! Starting from January 15th, Beard Papa's in USA is collaborating with Mashle and is releasing special cream puffs featuring the main five characters!

You can also get various exclusive merchandises for every purchase of the special cream puffs, some of which are available at a certain date!

If you live in USA, be sure to check your local Beard Papa's stores, don't miss the long-awaited collaboration! Check the official website at the source link (or at the ask) for more information and for availability!

[sun-e-chips]

Hi! Me again! So, just out of curiosity, would you happen to have a general floor plan or site plan of the overall waterpark and maybe the hotel? (I saw the floor plan for the hotel room and started wondering how the hotel connects to the waterpark). Also, are Sun and Moon only in charge of the waterpark portion?

@agent-darkfest you asked this question in May! I can’t believe it took me this long to actually illustrate a general layout but here it is!!!

Every room gets a waterpark view :D

“On either side of the atrium, connected to the lobby, there are corridors leading into the park’s resort rooms. From what you remember the resort circles half the park, sort of like a C-shape enclosing the front section.”

And to answer your other question, Sun and Moon are in charge of the entire resort and park! (but they did not when Waterspark Bay first opened)

[therealraewest]

A friend and I were watching Little Shop of Horrors on a website frequented by sailors under a black flag but anyway we were nearing the end of the movie and Audrey was dying and I was like huh I thought she survived and my friend was also very confused like "hey this isn't how the scene is supposed to go" but I remembered reading about a second, apocalypse ending of the movie that was different from the theatrical release, which somehow we had stumbled upon by pure accident

So we both watched on in increasing distress and disbelief as Audrey II proceeded to eat Audrey, then Seymour, then be sold as a million tiny Aubrey II's that proceeded to have extended monster-movie montages of taking over various cities and landmarks and fighting the military

And at least I had some sort of knowledge this was a thing that existed but my friend just stumbled into watching the existential horror version of a beloved childhood favorite.

[howlonomy]

If Star is a lizard/some sort of reptile, does he have slit eyes like a snake? Is that why he hides his eyes with his big nerd glasses and hat? So that no one can see his eyes?

starlo eye reveal

[saintsenara]

Do you reread the books at all? Or has your knowledge of them reached such level of encyclopedical that you can just recite them from memory? It's genuinely amazing

thank you very much, anon! i re-read them a lot - although mostly in snippets when i'm looking for particular things - but the real mvp behind this operation is potter search dot com:

[basilpaste]

can we boop looping isa?

so i like. misunderstood this a little bit when i first read it and by the time i realized i was in too deep. but. osisa boop.

[dotstronaut]

Will you be doing an OFMD calendar for 2024?

Sorry I missed this ask!

The 2023 pin-up calendar was a collab between many artists for charity, and one that we had a lot of fun making. It was a lot of work but totally worth it - we ended selling more physical copies than I ever thought we would and raised $750 for Rainbow Railroad!

As far as I know, there were never any firm plans to do another one for 2024.

I was so busy at the end of last year that I didn't even think about it... I bought a house in December, so that whole process consumed ALL of my brainpower for months beforehand haha.

For what it's worth, the 2023 calendar (and all of the beautiful art inside) is available to download for free in my shop!

[daily-grian]

A boy I drew for a au I'm working on

(Feel better sooooon!<3)

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[bokettochild]

For context, I have included a brief explanation of all of these stories below the cut :)

Opera House AU:

Hyrule Centric

Main plot but some side drama for the cast as well

Follows Hyrule going from homeless to (maybe) a superstar

Probably pretty trope-heavy <3

Downall Duo centric

Modern AU

Unabashed musical references and theatre crap from a kid who acted all of once in her life

probably unrealistic but girls just wanna have fun

Crown Amidst Courage:

Legend centric

Prince Legend

crack fic mostly, but knowing me we'll have some drama too

follow the chain finding out individually that Legend's a prince and all assuming they're the only one who knows

copious fluff and shenanigans

probably will end up resembling Feathered in some ways ngl

Probably some Dad Sky content

Copious Legend love

Legend & Everyone bonding

How I Met Your Princess:

Chain centric

the chain get separated and paired seemingly randomly with each others' princesses

Getting To Know You shenanigans

exploring the various princesses of Hyrule

heck ton of new dynamics

I have no clue what's happening but neither do they :D

Badass girlies

Confused boys

Served A Slice of Life (working title but I'm not too attached):

Legend centric

as advertised, it is slice of life

Legend learns to be a hylian boy instead of a hero

Malon content

Talon content

Parental Time I Promise

Post-LU, everyone gets stuck together on Lon Lon

Metal Health heavy but nothing too dark

Team As Family in every possible way

A Stitch In Time:

Semi Warriors-centric

"Wars isn't canon" fic

Angst/Fluff fic

Wars gets a factory reset because he was never supposed to be a hero. The boys meet him as a normal guy after watching him essentially die while traveling with them. He has no memory of them (or does he?)

Copious Taylor family headcannons

Warriors in Customer Service Hell

Slice of Life on one side and tragedy on the other

Lots of Legend & Warriors with other dynamics to be determined

Magic shenanigans

Sort of memory loss AU, sort of not

[shanastoryteller]

Happy lovers season Shana! I'm very excited for the upcoming prompts! 😀 Can I please request some more Enola Holmes or Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries? 💚 If not please feel free to do a dealer's choice. I love all that you write and it fills me with joy to see new updates from you 😊

set in the same universe as Here is Your Home Country

Dot doesn’t want a big wedding, doesn’t want a lot of fuss. Married at her church, and then Prudence has offered to have the reception in her garden. Probably more at Jane’s insistence than anything else, but considering Mr. Butler has already insisted on handling the catering and logistics and anything else she might need assistance with, she might as well.

It’s sweet of him, really. She knows that he’s worried about her sisters that disapprove and her mother that disapproves and her brothers that had been apocalyptic at the news, and how that means she’ll be planning this wedding without them. She’s not worried. They’d never cared about her life or her happiness until it was something that would embarrass them.

The less said about what her friends from church think, the better. But she hasn’t headed their gossip for years, not since she started working for Miss Fisher.

Jack’s a good man and doesn’t deserve their ire. She won’t tolerate it.

~

“You’re really doing it, huh?”

Dot looks up and feels first pleasure then wariness that settles on a gut rolling mixture of the two. “Hello, Nell.”

Her older sister is standing over her, blocking her light, but she just closes her notebook and uses her foot to nudge the chair opposite her. The waiter should be by again soon.

She looks different out of the heavy makeup and light clothes of the club. Wearing a sweater and long skirt, she looks like the sister Dot remembers. “Mum called me. Me.”

Dot winces. “You’re invited, of course, I just wasn’t sure where to send the invite.”

Nell leans back in her chair, raising an eyebrow and reaching into her purse for a cigarette. Dot wishes she wouldn’t. She hates the smell. “I didn’t really get that impression from you two.”

“We were just colleagues then,” she says, which isn’t completely accurate, but neither is friends. Or perhaps it is. They knew one another then, and respected each other, and were kind to one another. But she’d had Hugh, and Jack’s eyes had been on Miss Fisher, and – they hadn’t known, then, where they would end up.

It’s nice.

She knew him and liked him and cared about him before she loved him. It makes her feel like she can trust him, that he won’t surprise her in a way she doesn’t like.

Nell hums, then says, “She wants to know if you’re having money troubles.”

Dot stares, wishing she knew her mother a little less well and didn’t understand exactly what she was saying. “She thinks I’m marrying Jack for his money because I have gambling debts?”

She shrugs. “You know what she sees at the church.”

She’s not going to get angry. Getting angry won’t do her any good. “I’m marrying him because I love him.”

“You loved Hugh,” she says. “He was cute. Your age. He even converted.”

Part of her wonders who was keeping Nell updated on the gossip of her life. The rest of her doesn’t care. “He didn’t love me right.”

“There’s a wrong way?” she asks, too lightly.

“Yes,” she says, biting the inside of her cheek to keep from scowling. “And I can’t love anyone right who loves me wrong. Hugh and I would have been miserable, in the end. We were in love with people that didn’t exist.”

She’d wanted someone who would love her through all of her changes.

Hugh had wanted someone who would never change.

Even in her bitterest moments, she can’t truly blame him. She had been a static woman when they’d met. She was the one that changed and she was the one that had wanted someone who would love her anyway and she was the one that had ended their engagement when she’d realized that someone wasn’t him.

Nell leans forward to steal her half-drunk cup of coffee, leaning back as she gulps it down in three long swallows. “Okay. I’ll tell Mum to back off, yeah? Not that it’ll do any good. She never listens to me anyway.”

“Oh,” Dot says, startled, and then Nell is getting to her feet and waving as she melts back into the crowd of the street.

~

Bert and Cec are in their room, sleeping after working through the night. Jack is over, but he’s never not known, and these days they don’t even bother to shove their twin beds apart when he's here.

She’s seated on her knees at the coffee table, Jack sitting behind her on the couch, nose buried in a case file that she’s going to look over herself as soon as she figures out this seating chart.

Jack clears his throat and she leans back, pressing her back to his knees and looking up. The file has been discarded and he’s looking at her with a sort of warm softness that has her reaching out her hand and letting him haul her upright just enough so that she can fall into his lap, seated sideways so her legs are stretched out over the couch.

His arms come around her waist and his lips quirk up in an almost smile. She smooths out the line between his eyebrows with her thumb, almost asks, but know it’s a waste when he’s nearly there already.

Sure enough, he looks at the space over her head and asks, “Do you want us to get a new house?”

She blinks. She hadn’t considered it, really, had assumed that she’d move into the house Jack has now. She’s been there. It’s a very nice house. A little empty feeling, perhaps, but she figured they’d solve that quickly enough. Instead of saying any of that, she asks, “Do you want me to want us to get a new house?”

He looks at her then, exasperated, and she smiles, shifting her hand lower to trace his bottom lip. He licks his lips, his tongue barely brushing her fingertip, and her breath hitches, but he says, “Rosie picked it.”

It makes sense that his first wife helped pick the house, and Dot has never tiptoed her way around Rosie, but that’s not quite what he’s saying.

Rosie picked it.

“Do you like it?” she asks.

Jack shrugs, looking away from her again. “She made a good choice.”

“Yes,” Dot agrees. It really is a very nice house, in a good area. “But do you like it?”

He shifts beneath her, meeting her gaze when he admits, “I let her pick what she wanted. I thought things would be okay, if I could give her what she wanted.”

And now it reminds him of how much that didn’t work, how she left that house and him both. He’d offered her the house in the divorce, but she hadn’t wanted it, for her own reasons.

“Why don’t we pick something we both want?” she asks, because no matter how nice the house is, she doesn’t want what he doesn’t’. “I bet Mac has some good leads on houses that are going to be on the market. She knows so many useful things like that.”

“Yeah?” he asks, relief making his whole body relax even as his arms tighten, tugging her that much closer against him.

“Yeah,” she echoes, then dips down her head for a kiss he’s eager to give her.

[cf56]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it just occured to me that Yakko's the least "personal" one among the three Warners. I'm mostly referring to the 90s version, but we see glimpses of Wakko's daily life without his siblings several time in the show (ten short films about Wakko Warner, bingo, ups & downs, etc) and Dot has her little poetry corner and songs about herself (I'm cute, Dot's quiet time, etc). Meanwhile, it's as if Yakko never drops his "persona": he never sings about himself, we never see him alone unless it's for an educational song or a sketch where he's speaking to the "camera". The only exceptions are his therapy sessions with Scratchy, but even then, those typically end with him introducing the next cartoon. Am I missing some moments? (I know this is probably to highlight he's the "spokeperson" of the group, but it feeds into the fanon idea that he never lets his guard down)

You're very right! This plays a big part in where that fanon idea comes from- you never feel like you're seeing the real Yakko, at least not all of him. His entire life seems to just be his siblings and his show. He talks a lot, but it's always about others, rarely revealing anything about himself or his inner thoughts. I don't recall a time in the original show where we saw any of his personal hobbies, except like, playing paddleball? Meanwhile, like you alluded to, we know Wakko and Dot's hobbies pretty well. This leads to his characterization in fan works as being someone who puts almost all of his time into his "work"- writing songs and taking care of the sibs.

He didn't really have any individual segments in the original show, as you said. I guess because he was already seen as the face of the show, the one who got the most focus by default, so they didn't feel the need to carve out time to specifically focus on him. There is one personal activity I'm remembering right now- sometimes we see him reading newspapers by himself. That's about it.

Yakko is also a very social creature. He probably has a hard time having fun if there's no one around to enjoy it with. Wakko and Dot have solitary activities they do, but he always prefers to spend time with his siblings, or pick on some stranger, because silent alone time is probably boring for him. This is why he can sometimes be portrayed as clingy or overly protective of his sibs- without them constantly around, he doesn't see much fun in life. Besides the fact that he canonically deeply loves them, of course.

We get a more personal glimpse of Yakko in Wakko's Wish. Even then, his life pretty much just seems to revolve around caring for his siblings. So yeah. That's pretty much just how he is. In the reboot he still watches the news and also watches very long educational documentaries by himself.

You could pretty much say that when it comes to his rare alone time, he prefers to consume chill content that makes him learn something. That's about it.

I enjoyed thinking about this ask, thank you!

[viktors-sternomastoid]

Please see a mental health specialist. You're obviously mentally ill.

Because I enjoy dissecting and appreciating a fictional character in my spare time/on the Internet?

Which doesn’t, in any way, shape, or form, interfere with my real life?

Buddy, get educated on mental illnesses before you speak.

You know nothing about my life~

[dot-rvt]

Hi dot!!!! Do you have any idea why members of any one pokemon species all look so similar? Humans all look really different, and we're kinda a pokemon species of our own!

honestly, no, I'm not really sure.. I've spend ages researching online, trying to find out, but all I've gotten is that it's still mostly a mystery to even the greatest Pokémon researchers

I guess Pokemon of the same species could just have extremely close genetics, like how certain human families do.. Take Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny for examples, they all look nearly identical, but there's not enough evidence to say this for certain

I know some Pokémon like Spinda will never have the same patterns on them twice, although aside from those markings they still all look pretty much the same and there's twenty known patterns Vivillon's wings can have depending on their location... then there's differently coloured pokemon, or shiny Pokémon as they were recently named, like the black Rayquaza

I did some research on shinies after we first saw Lucius's Rayquaza, no one's quite sure why these Pokémon are a different colour to the majority of their species, some researchers think it's a sign Pokemon will eventually develop the ability to each have more individualized opinions while others believe it could be from an evolutionary throwback to an ancient form of said Pokemon who was that different colour

but doesn't it really make you wonder?

I really want to find out the reason behind this someday!

[lunarleonardo]

I wanted to experiment with stronger colours to contrast the white room art but I think o just made it a bit boring lol

The text is uh

The bottom bit here

I've got to go now but the latest chapter was amazing!!!!!!

😮 OOOOOOHH!!! OMGGGG

Words cannot describe how much I LOOOVE this type of art <33 You always capture emotion so WELL it amazes me every damn time (*＞∇＜)ﾉ

The strong colors work SO so well for this!! UWAGHH his Expression and the way the lineart and shadows are done ♡w♡ !!! suffer you tragic little homosexual...may your despair be expressed through artistic abstraction.....