#elmo talks

[suskiss]

the dsmp was so reflective of quarantine solidifying everybody's need for belonging, to be needed to be a part of something, and the fandom followed that track just the same - in some form, some way, everybody just wanted a place to call home. and i swear to god every time I think back to how I felt and what the impact was of this server I get this weird pit in my stomach that could almost be called nostalgia, but I truly think I will carry it with me for the rest of my life somehow, so it can't be that anyway. Almost

[quiveringdeer]

[silly-stings]

sorta lazy wally doodle but i pictured him being all silly and giddy when he said this

[todayisyourturntolose]

count von count moments that make me giggle and go teehee

[cleolinda]

Babysitting instructions

I just remembered a Spooky Season-themed piece I wrote for The Toast, uh, ten years ago. Hopefully it's okay if I repost/archive it here. On the site itself, it was stylized as an image with a handwriting font to look like an actual written note, if you want to see that; I had imagined it as something typed and signed. The working title was "Don't Worry, Julie."

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Julie --

Thanks so much for watching little Lucy for us! Her big brother is sleeping over at a friend's house, so you won't have to worry about him! :)

I'm leaving the key to the attic on the kitchen table in case you need it, but I'm sure you won't. The noise up there is just the bats that sometimes get in--they won't bother you! There's no reason for you to go up there at all. 

And don't go into the master bedroom--I don't want you to see how messy we are! Who knows what kind of dust bunnies are under the bed!! Definitely do not look under there. Oh, and there's a leak in the master bath, so if you see water dripping through the ceiling in the den, don't worry about that. I know it kind of looks like blood, but it's just rust from the pipes. Sometimes it runs down the walls, too! It's so funny how freaked out people get about that! I mean, what makes more sense--voices moaning in the walls, or just the pipes groaning? I know you're a lot more level-headed than that. 

I trust you, so it goes without saying not to have any friends over while we're gone--I know you wouldn't! (You don't have a boyfriend, do you? Ever?) We've got a great home theater setup so you'll have plenty of scaaaary movies to watch! It needs to be just you there. Just you. 

Sometimes the power goes out, just for a minute, so we keep candles on the side table. But don't light the red candles. IT IS NOT TIME TO LIGHT THE RED CANDLES. 

Oh, and the cat's been gone a few days. He should come back pretty soon. He'll come in through the pet door. He always comes back.

If someone's at the door, don't answer it. Our neighbors are so terrible, always trying to poach our babysitters! >:(

And Lucy shouldn't be any trouble at all--just leave her in the crib with Talking Elmo and she'll be fine. (The dolls stay in the den with you, though.) And she loves the big clown statue--it really is supposed to be there! Ha ha! Don't worry about the stars on the walls, we'll clean that up later (she's our little artist!). Just keep all the curtains closed and don't answer the landline, and I'm sure everything will go just great. :) :) :) 

P.S. We're trying to get Lucy to sleep through the night, so even if she starts crying, do not feed her after midnight. DO NOT DO THAT.

Rosemary

[inkandpaintleopard]

Unrelated but today I was looking into Elmo’s extended family and discovered he has several identical cousins. So far my favorite is his rootin tootin western cousin Elmer

Drawing based on this beautiful monstrosity collection

[swtorpadawan]

[impostorsshow]

I'm actually so obsessed with him it's not even funny if i'm not listening to a TikTok or music directly related to him I can't focus free me free me

This is @/cherubpuppet's OC for a object show [au? pitch? wip show? How do I categorize this] and I've been destroyed by the fact that ruler art is infinitely superior [and 10x longer] and i don't have a good enough grasp on lip gloss's personality to make fanfiction so I am frozen in "want make fanart but fanart takes effort :["

[widowshill]

the collinsport sartorial society, social club, and murder consortium.

a present for @devilagent ! based on the original ponyo comic by @millionfish.

[ddeadly-succubus]

Does anyone remember when Elmo consistently had beef with a fucking pet rock on Sesame Street?

[suskiss]

theyre like gumball machines....

[sol-draws-sometimes]

Maybe it’s my fear of not being believed but I literally can’t do comedy where the other person isn’t being believed. Straight up, at first I would get stressed when the Human Centipede clip was going around. Like, do you know how terrifying it is to be in a wild ass date where you think you’re in danger and the waiter notices but has they have to open their mouth so now you have lie. Or the Elmo Rocko memes like, OF COURSE ELMO’S DISTRESSED! I WOULD BE TOO! LIKE EVERYONE IS TELLING YOU THIS ROCK IS REAL WHEN IT’S NOT(and like yah I’m sure there’s nuance to the situation but like COME ON).

Or Bibi from La Familia Peluche, I remember liking the show as kid and I still do but like, fuck man, the borderline emotional abuse than girl goes through IS WILD. LIKE EVERYONE FUCKING TELLING YOU THAT YOU’RE NOT NORMAL AND FEELING LIKE YOU’RE GOING CRAZY. I remember rewatching La Familia Peluche in Highschool and like fuck man, that period episode. Or to this day I remember the scene where they were serving food and she started to eat first and her family chastised her so she stops but then they make her feel back cause she already started so now she just continue to eat it and like I’ve literally been in a similar situation. And for those who haven’t watched the show, the whole shitck is that this is an absurd world where everyone works on a different level and Bibi’s the only who reacts normally to our eyes(the comedic straight man to alot of the jokes), which leads to the iconic line “Bibi porque no eres una niña normal”(Bibi why aren’t you a normal girl) that is said in every episode. Which from a dramatic irony perspective that we the audience know she’s the only normal person, makes it a funny joke, but if you think about it too hard, it’s so fucking sad, I just can’t help but not fully enjoy the show cause I just constantly feel bad for her.

Fuck even watching HALF LIFE VR BUT THE AI IS SELF AWARE FUCKS WITH ME! Like yes I very much enjoy the series! But, most of the time I’m just feeling bad for Gordon, like fuck man, I’d react the same way, wouldn’t you. Like ESPECIALLY BENRY! MAN DID HE STRESS ME OUT! I genuinely felt so bad for Gordon!

And then this slides into how I can’t enjoy alot of comedy(especially cringe humor) cause even though I understand the joke and think it funny on paper, I just end up feeling too bad for the character to actually enjoy. And it’s awful because I’ll STILL watch the shows because I’m invested in the characters not the humor if that makes sense??? (Oh, Community/The Office, the hate love relationship I have with you).

Anyway, yes I’m so fun to watch comedy with, I literally can’t be in the same room from some scenes. And yes, all my favorite characters follow the Only Sane Man trope, why’d you ask?

[treasure-goblin]

I like a sneef snorf

Sneef snorf from @recalled11, is @l3ominor sneef snorf

Words bad rn, but sneef snorf transcend disability

[glass-noodle]

I must know what they do to Connor to make him depressed afterwards :(

You will pay for making me cry so much everytime I reread your comics

The answer is probably what DIDN’T they do 😅 Connor’s the first known merman in captivity and Kamski and Co. aren’t held back by scientific or medical ethics. You can fill in the blanks :’)

I will say that Kamski’s favourite experiments are those involving Connor’s rapid healing abilities. He’s had more than a few incisions/excisions, some of which have been less…anesthetized. Just to measure stress response and its relation to healing rate, of course.

He hides his spiraling as best he can, but he’s been cracked open and violated so many times, in so many ways, that on his bad days he often feels like nothing more than an empty shell. That he has nothing left to offer; to himself, to his family, to Hank.

He hates Kamski, but he did this to himself, after all. If only he had been faster, stronger…more resilient.

[cormorant-red]

easily the hardest part of this cosplay is going to be Learning To Do A Hairstyle

[janeway-lover]

y'all they had Elmo on talk shows and shit talking about this tweet