#extremely funny this was the page I forgot to post

[spotted-owl-sketches]

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[norrizzandpia]

Edits (CL16)

Summary: When Carlos exposes Y/n watching edits of her boyfriend on Instagram. She’s incredibly embarrassed, but after an interesting conversation with the man himself, should she really be?

Warnings: nothing i dont think lmk tho

"Bye, baby! I'll see you in a little." Charles smiled down at his girlfriend as his thumb caressed the side of her face.

She smiled up at him, accepting the kiss he planted on her lips, before letting out a small "bye" and watching him walk out the door.

"I am not going to lie, Y/n. You are pretty cute together." Carlos said as he watched his partner walk out.

Y/n laughed before looking at her boyfriend's best friend, "Thank you? Did you not think that before?"

"Yes, I did. I just realized I never told you." He said, his accent bleeding into his voice and the smirk on his face deepening. Carlos had known how 'cute' they were from the start. He had endured the long rants from Charles about Y/n and how pretty she was. It had taken Charles so long to ask the girl out and when he finally had, Carlos almost threw his hands up and rejoiced. The poor monegasque had spent months pining over the girl and it was obvious she liked him too, but neither party took the chance. Until Charles did. Since then, the two had fallen in love, moved into together, and practically gotten engaged with how much they talked about their future together.

Y/n shook her head, a big smile evident on her face, as she took out her phone, prepared to waste an hour or two on her phone while she waited for her boyfriend to come back. After about 30 minutes on Instagram, she moved to TikTok. It was no secret Y/n found her boyfriend extremely attractive considering the multiple times she had shamelessly checked him out or said outloud how hot he was, however, the girl's 'For You Page' was something of another nature. Endless scrolling to find that the only videos were edits of Charles. She wouldn't ever like them, trying to keep a low profile, but she would move them to her favorites. Whenever Charles was away or they had a busy day and they hadn't seen each other, she would open that page of favorites and scroll for hours, reliving everything her boyfriend was and is. When she opened the app, she always tried to be alone, knowing what lied within the app's algorithm for her. Although, she had completely forgotten about Carlos who had moved to sit behind her at a table while they rested in Charles' racer suite. So, when the Spanish racer caught a glance of what his friend's girlfriend was watching over her shoulder, he had to hold in his laugh. Immediately, and with absolutely no hesitation, Carlos whipped out his phone and opened to his camera app. Taking a few second video of F1's favorite girlfriend watching thirst trap edits about her boyfriend was something he knew would be extremely funny and something that would go viral.

Clearly, Carlos could care less about the embarrassment Y/n would later hold.

Which she did. After a few minutes of Carlos having posted the video on his Instagram story, thousands had saw it and reposted it. Y/n was quick to turn around in her seat and see the mischievous grin laid out on the Spaniard.

"CARLOS!" She yelped, her phone waving around in her hand. He didn't say anything back, he just began to laugh. Hard.

The y/h/c haired girl's cheeks flushed as she groaned, knowing how much the rest of the paddock would tease her for this. Before either of them could say anything, the man of the hour strolled through the door.

"Hey, guys!" His smile melted Y/n's heart and she almost forgot all about the TikTok situation. Almost.

Charles' smile dropped as he saw the worry etched into the face of his girlfriend.

"What's wrong?" He said, his eyes frantically searching over her body.

"Charles, give me your phone." "Look at your Instagram." Both Y/n and Carlos said at the same time, making Charles eyes dart towards Carlos. Y/n glared at the man whose number was 55 and she silently pleaded, with her hands out, for Charles to give her his phone. She didn't know what she was going to do if he gave it to her, but it sounded something like deleting every app off his phone.

Charles gave a confused look to the two before his phone dinged. Y/n watched in horror and Carlos watched in amusement as Charles scrolled through his notifications before clickling his screen a few times and pausing, his warm smile being replaced by that toothy grin he gave Y/n when he thought she was cute as he looked at her through his lashes. Y/n hid her face in her hands before Charles broke the silence.

"Are you- Are you watching edits of me?" He said it in disbelief as he moved closer to her, giving Carlos a shooing motion which they both knew was him telling Carlos to get out of the room. Carlos listened, Y/n hearing shuffling as he exited the room. She felt Charles' warmth radiating towards her as he began to stand over her, slowly taking her hands in his and lowering them to her sides. When he could see her beautiful face, as he loved to call it, he brought her into his arms and kissed her forehead.

"Don't be embarrassed, ma chérie, it's cute. Plus, it's not like I don't do it too." Y/n's face scrunched up in confusion as she met his eyes that were already focused on her.

"You watch edits of yourself?" Charles only laughed at this before tightening his hold on her, pulling her flush against him.

"No, gioia mia, I watch edits of you." Her face was overtaken by more confusion.

There were edits of her?

"Yes, of course. People aren't blind, mon amour." It took her a second to understand that what she had thought in her head had come out of her mouth as well, but when she did, Charles was already taking out his phone and opening TikTok. She watched as he slid through the app to find his page of favorites. She scanned the rows of videos and found that they were all of her. She couldn't help the smile that began to find its way on her face as he continued to scroll down and proved that every video was of her.

He leaned down and kissed her, pulling away to look her in the eye as he said,

"What do you think I do when I'm away on my work trips?"

[aliciavance4228]

The Odyssey: Funny Moments

Most of you liked my "The Iliad: Funny Moments" post, so I decided to make this one as well.

1. When Telemachus asks Odysseus what kind of help they have for taking down the suitors, Odysseus basically says, "We've got Zeus and Athena on our side. Are you sure that'll be enough?"

2. "Brother, who blinded you?" "Nobody! Nobody did!" "...Then we're going to go back to sleep."

Taken to the logical extreme in a comic book adaptation where Odysseus and his men gave him fake names:

"Brother, who blinded you?"

"Nobody! Idontknow! Idontcare! Or maybe... Idontremember!"

"So that's why they called him Polyfool."

3. After his crew opened the bag of winds thinking it had treasure and caused a huge storm, Odysseus briefly considers suicide as valid as an option to preserving through hardship.

4. The sheer, mind-boggling, testicle-shriveling amount of crap that Odysseus and his crew get put through when trying to get back to Ithaca can be viewed as hilarious in a cringe comedy kind of way. By the time Odysseus gets home and realizes that his wife has been badgered and harangued by suitors for a decade one could be forgiven for thinking that his wanton slaughter of them all was less about their violation of guest rights and more just blowing off some steam on a morally unambiguous target.

5. When briefly visiting the Underworld, Persephone allows Odysseus to talk with his mother and other dead people. Odysseus is absolutely terrified of her and dreads staying too long and incurring her wrath, running back to his ship fearful that she'll sic Medusa's head on him.

6. One of Odysseus's crew randomly dies by falling off a roof after a night of heavy drinking. Everyone else gets to be killed by horrible monsters and the wrath of the gods, but he instead gets to be a posthumous reminder about the dangers of alcoholism. Even better, after his death he berates Odysseus for not burying him properly when our hero goes to Hades!

7. On the way back to Ithaca, Telemachus asks a favor of Nestor's son Pisistratus, and proceeds to invoke two generations of friendship to get some help dodging Nestor's aggressive hospitality.

8. Penelope asks a disguised Odysseus to interpret a dream she had. It turns out that during the dream, one of its characters explicitly explained what it all represented, and Odysseus just repeats it back to her.

9. While disguised as a human, Athena goes to the trouble of giving a plausible explanation for her departure... then promptly blows her cover by turning into a bird and flying away in front of a boggling Nestor and Telemachus.

10. Penelope's tricks against the suitors, of which the two best known are:

At one point, she told the suitors she'd choose her next husband after she'd finish weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's father Laërtes... And every night, she'd undo her work. She strung them along for three years and would have continued had an unfaithful maid not exposed her.

On page we see her daring them to replicate one of Odysseus's feats: she put twelve axes on the ground so that the rings in the handle would align and gave them Odysseus' unstrung bow and arrows, and told them that whoever could use that bow toshoot an arrow through all the rings would be her next husband.She also forgot to tell them it was a recurve bow that the suitors wouldn't even recognize when at rest, let alone string.

A lesser-known ploy is when she calls out the suitors for freeloading off her husband's estate instead of courting her with lavish gifts. They rush to present her with gifts, while the disguised Odysseus watches with delight.

11. Athena's response when Odysseus fails to recognize her in disguise and tells her a backstory he came up with on the spot is essentially "That's my liar! There he is!"

Credits: TV Tropes

[fatratinatophat]

The New Craft Page 4

Scraps develops mental illness: the au

Idk why I came up with this idea but whatever I wanted to get this done and on schedule so have this weird and extremely cringe idea, who cares anymore wails cries

I’m sup[rised nobody’s pointed out yet that Goob has normal arms in the doodles but yknow, it’s obvious here, so.

Masterpost | Cover | P3

Ur pagely doodle

It’s a reference to some meme, I forgot tho, I think it was a Tumblr post I don’t remember, I’m not funny if you can’t tell

Comic planning and whatever, changed a bit of dialogue

The original concept before I changed it, it had FAR too much yapping and I was very unhappy with it (I’m still unhappy but less)

Your shpeedpaint

[jackalproject]

Good afternoon everyone! It is time once again for another update post. Are you excited? I hope so. Sorry for dropping it so late, I forgot to download my files and. Yeah. So there’s not much here, other than the once’s I needed. Oopsie.

I’d like to open this post by introducing my new collaborator, @bat-luun He has been helping me a TON with the backgrounds, and is a complete life saver, as well as an extremely talented artist. I’m so happy to have him, both as a friend and as an artist. He has done the Bonus Content banner for the post, when it goes up tomorrow. Go show him some love!!

On a somewhat related note, we now have a twitter account for the project! I personally have not used twitter in heaven knows how long, so I’m realering the ropes haha. The @ is jcklproject, in case you want to give it a follow there.

Before I get into the juicy details, I’d like to thank you all for your patience with me, and request that you hang on just a liiiitle longer. I am participating in the Sonic Big Bang, which I have just entered crunch time in. The project is SIGNIFICANTLY longer than I anticipated, and I have until the 25th to get it done. I am working hard on it, and if it comes to it, I may have to put this project on a little bit of a hold to finish it. Only until the 25th, though, and I will still be working on it! Keep an eye open on my main account for the project in June, when all of the works go up. I’m very excited, and while its not jackal related, I think it will be a ton of fun ;)

Anyway, lets get on to the good stuff.

TEST COMICS: Scripts complete, Issues in progress

PART ONE: Script complete, final concept art in progress

PART TWO: Scripts begun

PART THREE: Storyboard in progress

SCHEDULED RELEASES: Test Comic Issue Two, late May.

This coming test comic is a little beefier than the previous one, rounding out at about 7 pages total, and with a whole two pages worth of scripting! I once again remind you all that progress will go much quicker in the summer, as I will have my own computer at that point, more free time, and my portion of the Big Bang will be over with! Thanks for your patience <3

(Also, this issue ain’t SHIT compared to what’s coming down the line. Weeps.)

Here, have a frame! And a link to a silly post I made that you may have missed!

Sorry for the brief update, again, so heres a bit of a cut concept! In part two, Finn was supposed to break into Gadget’s house later in the story to request assistance with… something :). And this is how that was supposed to play out.

Your honor they’re really funny. But it was cut in favor of something arguably even funnier, and you’ll all know it when you see it, as it takes place right after the introductory issues lol

Niko out <3

If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an ask.

[yujeong]

For a fic prompt, I’d love to read something about Pete being sick or hurt and needing care that isn’t related to aftercare post-sex. I’ve found a fair few fics centered on Vegas dealing with being sick and cared for (and Pete basically bullying Vegas into letting him care for Vegas), but haven’t found nearly as many focused on Pete in a non-sexual context. I think that would be interesting and lends itself to your style of writing (at least from what I’ve read of your writing, which is just the VegasPete posted on AO3). I love your work, btw! Thanks for being a fandom author-y’all never get enough credit ❤️

Hello, my dear anon! Thank you so, so much for your kind words and your gorgeous prompt ❤️ Generally, Vegas taking care of Pete is one of my favorite concepts. We got crumbs in the show, crumbs, and I desperately need more of that. Thank you for giving me the incentive to do it myself, though I have dipped my toes into it a little bit before with the things you can(not) change, which had Vegas taking care of Pete emotionally. Btw, I'm very sorry for being late in replying to this, but I had a bit of trouble coming up with an idea for it until I got hit with some very specific feels, and now here I am, with 5 whole ass pages of words that made me decide to turn this concept into a proper fic. Looking forward to posting it in 2025 lmao. Here's a part of it: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pete woke up laying on his bed, with no recollection of how he got there. The last thing he remembered was going to the kitchen for some water and the noise coming out of Macau's room. It was probably because of that new game he bought last week that he wanted to play so much. His whining suggested he wasn't very good at it. Pete didn't know what happened after that. He was feeling disoriented, floaty. His head was throbbing. There was bile stuck at the back of his throat, which he couldn't swallow. His mouth was dry. His body was heavy, restricting his movements. He tried opening his eyes, but he got dizzy by the light coming in from outside. He closed them again. "Why didn't you tell me you were sick?" Fuck. When did Vegas come back? Where was Macau? Pete took in a shallow breath, trying to quiet down his heartbeat. He didn't open his eyes. Vegas sounded angry. He had to calm him down, somehow. "Vegas..." "Macau called me in a panic, because he found you unconscious in the kitchen. He thought you died. I did too, when I saw you."

Vegas was holding back tears, Pete could tell; there was a certain way his voice hitched when he spoke like that, vulnerability leaking from his tongue. He sounded small, too, like when he used to do comparisons that led him nowhere. Pete didn't like it when Vegas was talking like that. The fact that he reverted to that state because of him made it even worse. "I'm sorry." "Don't-" He didn't conclude what he was going to say. Pete could hear sniffing, but nothing else. Not looking at Vegas' face was killing him. He opened his eyes with extreme difficulty and found Vegas staring at him, with red smeared across the edges of his own eyes and sweat gathered on his forehead. He was too far away. He wasn't touching him. "Vegas," Pete said, lifting his arm in Vegas' direction, despite how much he couldn't. Vegas widened his eyes and dropped his gaze. He held back a sob. He didn't take Pete's hand. "You look the same as back then." Pete let his arm fall on the bed, stunned by Vegas' words. How could he be so stupid? He completely forgot. He didn't know why. Maybe because everything that had happened at the safehouse had always seemed like a weird dream to him, one that he never really woke up from. Pete didn't have any words of comfort to give. His stomach started acting funny. He hoped it wouldn't lead to vomiting. He hadn't done that since his adolescent days, which had been filled with boxing and violence. "It's not your fault I'm sick," was all he could offer in the end. "I should have been here, taking care of you-" "You had an important meeting with Porsche," Pete reminded him. "Fuck Porsche." He had thought about it once. How it would feel to have sex with Porsche. Pete imagined it'd be simple. Uncomplicated. Fun, even. Now, it sounded painful, more so than all the things Vegas did to him. Perhaps Vegas was right getting concerned about Pete's health after all. He felt a hand touching his forehead. It was cold and sweaty. Pete wished it could get glued there. "Shit, your fever is high. Have you eaten anything?" "No." He felt Vegas suck in a breath, before he heard it. "I'm cooking you something to eat." He tried to get up, but Pete caught him before he could escape. A low, whining sound scratched his sore throat. "Sleep with me. You look tired." "Pete," Vegas warned. "You're burning up and you need to eat." "Just for a little while. It'll help." Vegas sighed. The sound came out unsteady. His bottom lip quivered, or Pete thought it did. His vision was too blurry to be sure. "Fine, but you're taking something for the fever first." Pete smiled tiredly at him. He didn't thank him. He would hate that.

[beesmygod]

So in like novel writing circles (the ones I jerk in at least) the advice is to just cut the "boring" stuff as much as possible if you can't make it ya know not the boring bit- even if you just fill it with fun character interactions or something- BUT obviously webcomics are a different medium and one known for its ability to go on very long times and (at its best at least) use that sorta allowance to explore a lot of a world etc etc, so after seeing your posts about people maybe not liking the AGS "boring bits" (note: I've never particularly felt AGS had them if only on the basis of like filling it with fun character stuff etc) what you think about that in terms of structure and pacing and such in webcomics

its a relief to hear that people arent bored stiff by a comic that started out as a "monster of the week" type and has drastically changed into slice of life with criminal conspiracy or whatever it is now. it has a point, i swear. it took me some time to see it forming in the ingredients i laid out but i see it clearly now

the slow drip-line nature of webcomics is what makes the medium truly uniquely exhilarating and also uniquely frustrating lol. most webcomics update a single page at a time, right? and you have to keep in mind while making your longform story-driven webcomic that you're juggling entertaining two different readers: the archival reader and the per-update reader. these readers are, by the nature of the medium, going to have wildly different experiences with the text. what is quick and breezy for the archival reader can be prolonged torture for the per-update one. the per-update reader might have been waiting to finally pay off for literal years, building a type of tension that the archival reader will never be able to experience themselves.

a comic a week is a breakneck speed for people doing all the lifting themselves, but only ("only") equals out to 52 pages a year. i do 2 a week so for me its approx 104 and its been 10 irl years to get to this point in the story. i also make my money "per page" because i think i should only be paid for work i actually do. so each individual page has a literal dollar amount attached to it that hovers over my head like the axe i mentioned earlier. it is extremely hard to try to make every page "worth" what people pay for it, knowing how precious money is when times are tough. and also just, you know, because people going out of their way to click on my page should see something worth seeing.

i spend more time with these pages than anyone so i get sick of looking at and thinking about them long before anyone else even sees them. one problem ive noticed is that i will come up with what i think is a funny joke and by the time the page is done, its not funny anymore and i struggle to imagine other people laughing at it. then i think "i dont want to read this, why would anyone want to read this. this sucks."

recently i had to re-read my own old pages, something i dread having to do, and was dismayed by how it read in the archival sense. in my attempt to make every page "worth reading/making" every page ended with a punchline and developed a monotonous rhythm i've been trying and failing to get out of. iambic pentameter ass comic.

i forgot my point. uhhhh san dimas high school football RULES

[rontra]

I had never even heard of this magician woman before you started making art of her but I am oddly invested in your art of this funky little woman, she seems silly and goofy

no i know right. i had the same experience i was like "who the hell is this magician woman theyve got standing next to the justice league" and my partner was like oh Zatanna Zatara? everybody knows her (and she's IN the justice league)

shook me to my core. there was a sillygoofy magician the whole time i had never once heard of... now i'm so invested in her goofy shit. i'm glad my art is becoming a secondary source of infection ❤

optional: here's some things ive learned over the past 3 months

she was introduced as a weirdo in 1964. she's been weird and strange for 59 years and counting! next year will be her 60th anniversary #Hag

her whole gimmick is that she's a famous stage magician who also happens to be a real magician, which i think is very good

i think she joined the justice league in like 1978 or smthg shes Been Around

before i had the magician disease: no matter how much someone tried to explain her character to me, i couldn't grasp her. and now that i have first-hand magician disease: no matter how much i try to explain her to my partner, they can't grasp her. i think there's something aberrant about her. like she demands hands-on interaction to be truly perceived. but watch out for the spores

????

for a while she used to drag her Normal Manager around for magic adventures. his name was Jeff and i suppose he just took the constant near-death peril as part of the "managing a stage magician" job

some website once ranked her among the top 5 sexiest comic women, making her the highest-ranking DC character on the list #LetsGo #MagicianSweep

she's quite beloved and a pretty consistent feature but she doesn't get a ton of solo stuff 😔✌ but theyre reprinting her comic from 2010 next year woohoo happy 60th bitch

they forgot to really give her a power ceiling and her magic can pretty much do anything she can think of, so she's a consistent pain in DC's neck whenever she has to intersect with other characters and Big Serious Plots—but it's not like they can just leave her on the shelf entirely either

(i think powerscaling is fake & that "who would win a fight between x and y" is a fake question that depends on so much more than hard numbers, especially in a medium like comics. but i also think DC itself quite visibly feels a pressure to manage her + i think this quirk about her is extremely funny and i LOVE to see them try so hard to nerf their pesky magician)

in 2004 they made her part of a The Gang Commits Atrocities plot without really justifying Why she would do all that, and her next several years are Fascinating to watch as writers try to come up with various ways to make new sense of her character in light of it. until the whole dc comics continuity was wiped and relaunched in 2011, solving the problem by erasing the whole thing from canon (along with everything else)

the real crime of that whole incident? the '04 comic that started it wasn't even very good

she's listed on the DC Wiki category page for "Eldritch Blast"

currently serving time in the Justice League Dark branch department, which is where we keep all the weird grimy magic stuff so it doesn't get all over everything

for a second and not too long ago, the big leaguers exploded and died for a bit (long story also they got better) including zee. and they put a gigantic scary moving painting of her in the basement as a memorial. i think this is exactly what she would have wanted to be honest

this post

they should put her in the rwby crossovers more. she was in dc/rwby for a second but i want her in the damn movies. i think it'd be funny

i love her. that's what i've learned in the past 3 months

[sagesilentfire]

it's so weird I personally never saw/considered toffee as evil???? and had no idea that people hated him??????? I thought it was universally agreed he was the best and most tragic thing to happen in the series?????????

even after the rollercoaster that was comet I'm more inclined to believe he DIDN'T murder her (tbf she had it coming)

Oh, I agree with you. I don't think he's evil. But unfortunately, that doesn't erase how the writers, and a section of the fans, treated him. Maybe they were a vocal minority, but if so they were extremely vocal. Here's the breakdown:

The writers: I've explained at length how the writers screwed over Toffee. They change his motives from petty to deep depending on who they're talking to, they ignore all the mystery boxes they created regarding him, and if there's any way they want us to feel about his pointless, horrible death, it's either relief or a dull sadness that the magic wasn't destroyed right then. Not horror or righteous indignation. He isn't explicitly a tragic victim, he's barely even mentioned after, and never in a way that implies Star should feel guilty for murdering him. Explicitly, he's a faceless obstacle to be knocked over by Star after she levels up, and it's totally fine she literally melted him, it's fine! We shouldn't question the morality of our white savior protagonist, it's fine!

But the big one, and the one you were likely referring to, is the fandom. And when I made that analysis, I do admit to one cop-out: the fandom isn't like that now. Nowadays it's mostly dead, with the odd stubborn holdout (like me) posting in the tag now and then. A lot of us are Toffee fans, still posting because we liked the potential the show had and so we're imagining him as a character and not the plot equivalent of a bowling pin. But Back In The Day, when the show was still running, people celebrated Toffee's death. It was so cool that Star Vs. had the guts to graphically murder a character onscreen! Star was so cool, and here you thought this show was for kids! Her butterfly form is so cool! Yeah, so much better than that loser Steven Universe, who just talks about his feelings to the villains and solves problems with love and friendship! Never mind that there's a reason other shows don't do this, and that's because it sends a horrible message. Star should've taken a page out of Steven's book honestly.

But surely after the shock of this super cool and edgy death wore out, people started to see the tragedy inherent in Toffee's character? Nope! I mean, there were some popular analysis posts and such, but the fandom mostly forgot about Toffee, along with the writers. And while we were forgetting about that, Morningmark happened. I've talked about him before, but he's always been both a good barometer for the fandom's opinion of a character as well as a shaper of it. When he rarely goes against the fandom's majority opinion, the fandom seems to bend over backwards to make his headcanon everyone's headcanon. Even when it involves dubious characterization. I have already talked about why Morningmark is overrated, but... he just does not get Toffee, even after the show ended with Toffee kind of acknowledged as being right, even after the fandom slowly began to die. In his urge to make everything haha funny he just made it really flat and made Toffee stupid, boring, and evul, and since his comics were the only thing getting notes in the quickly-dying fandom, it made it very annoying to be a fan of depth and tragedy in svtfoe. Then he stopped making svtfoe comics and moved to making Belos stupid and other The Owl House-related crimes, and at least I don't have to worry about his dreadful takes on Toffee anymore, so that's great. 

And from there it was a short hop to the fandom we have today, where only people who got something important out of svtfoe still make content. Now, and only now, do we have the majority thinking Toffee's story, or at least what we saw of it, was the best thing to come out of svtfoe. 

Also, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Mina killed Comet and blamed Toffee. That would be a much better twist than the whole Moon bs.

[squish--squash]

Thanks for answering my ask......If you don't mind me asking (again), what are your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series)? Why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before......Thanks....

lol hello again, ty for asking me this! I promise I'll give you more than 7 answers this time lol

Tian Guan Ci Fu/tgcf (book series, donghua) - I stumbled upon this randomly back in 2021 through its brand new donghua and I've loved it ever since. I adore the characters and the plot is both extremely complex and absolutely wild. it's roughly 750,000 words but I was able to read it in a week despite having school because I was so invested in it!

Moriarty the Patriot/mtp (manga, anime)- I think this is funny bc I tried watching bbc sherlock once and did NOT like it, so I just thought I wasn't into the sherlock holmes stuff. WRONG! I just had to discover this. I call this the "best sherlock holmes adaptation" for a reason (check my current pinned post, you'll find many reasons why I love mtp; I don't want to sound like a broken record so I don't plan to repeat them). I can't wait for when (or if) the manga comes out of its break/hiatus

Good Omens (book, show) - both the book and the miniseries/show are so near and dear to my heart. I always have a soft spot for watching supernatural entities fall in love (with each other and) the world around them. also, it's funny as hell

Promare (movie) - goooood I love Promare it's so neat; love the colors and the shapes and the plot is fun despite its simplicity. I could rewatch this movie every day for a month straight and not get tired of it

Arc of a Scythe trilogy (book series) - this is not something I've talked about a love, but this is one of my favorite book series! found it back around the same time I did tgcf; it's fucking insane I loooove the worldbuilding and the main cast, and by the second book every other page was like a plot twist gutting me in the best way possible; it's made me ponder about life and death on more than one occasion too

Matched trilogy (book series) - I started reading this in either 5th/6th grade but didn't really get it so I kinda forgot about it until around 2021-2022 (what? I actually had time to READ that year!) and managed to reread it and it was like a third eye opened. I really enjoyed the mystery unfolding in the trilogy! it's pretty cool imo, even tho I think (?) it was meant for teenagers to read

Not So Shoujo Love Story (webcomic) - this webcomic is so fucking funny AND it's wlw! I've been a fan for years it's so good

Bee and Puppycat/Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space (show) - a comfort show of mine (one of many); I'm in love with the atmosphere of the show and how awkwardly real the dialogue tends to be (plus I've been slowly rewatching it with my gf with is always a plus <3); I love both the og and its "reboot" equally, and would recommend people watch both

Snow White with the Red Hair (anime) - I haven't read the manga for this one, but I've seen the anime and it's another comfort show of mine. It's so sweet and cozy and the entire cast is lovable; even the "bad guy" in the first season is someone you grow to root for by the end of the second season. it's great!

Supernatural (show) - even tho I haven't finished the show and idk when/if I ever will, I still consider it a favorite media of mine. not bc I think it's great (it's good in most places, lacking in other), but bc I pretty much grew up with it. I have a core memory of watching the first handful of episodes when I was younger with my dad on the couch with the first time and being hooked on this strange show about supernatural creatures (I was that kid that enjoyed the supernatural! I read ghost story books, I binged every Goosebumps book I could get my hands on in fourth grade, I had a creepypasta phase, etc); even now in 2024 I've been sitting down with my dad to rewatch it with him before I go back to my college dorm and start back up classes. it's less so one of my favorite medias because I think it's good but because I associate it with my family <3

[lona-merc-fan]

[ ARCHIVED ]

*+:｡.｡ Welcome! ｡.｡:+*

This place is a kind of «Avalona Mercury's fan page».

　

About the blog.

　

Who is Avalona Mercury?

// for someone, this may sound funny, but i've seen people who either didn't know or forgot who she was.

Avalona Mercury – a character of the web-comic created by captainhowdie, and called "Ranfren". She first appears in the 23th lucid (chapter) of the comic. At the moment, this is her first and last appearance.

RANFREN, LUCID 23 - "THE HERMIT AND THE MOON", page 9. Avalona's first appearance.

　

Why does this blog/fan page exist?

— For fun. For entertainment. For the love of Avalona Mercury. For the love of Howdie and their art.

P.S. and to popularize Avalona in the fandom too :)

　

What things will be posted on this blog?

— fan art (made by the author of the blog)

— fan art (reblog of the works of other Tumblr artists)

— post/reblog of the any new (!!) official content with Avalona

— fanfiction/headcanons

— theories/lore facts

— Anything related to the character this blog is dedicated to!

P.S. posting some shipping content is still in question. No, i'm not against it, i'm just not sure people will like it. Maybe sometimes i will post/reblog something, but it will be rare.

　

By the way, you can send your art or ideas for posts to the "questions" section of the blog!

WARNING! Any extreme sexual content or content to target and slander a race of people, religion, etc is forbidden! It's not only my rules. These are rules that are written on the comic website.

　

Will the author of the blog post art with other Ranfren characters here?

— Yes, of course. But it won't be often. Also, this content will be mixed with other art with Avalona.

　

Is it possible to make a repost or use these arts?

— Yes, you can do this. But only with the indication of credits.

　

Why is the blog called "alextwilh"? Isn't that the nickname of the author of the blog?

— Yes, you're right. This is really my nickname. I did this in case my fixation on this comic ends (unfortunately, sooner or later it will happen someday), and then it will be easier to restart the blog and make it a regular art profile (without any losses and difficulties with links/credits).

　

Why Lumine from Genshin Impact on the pfp?

— Because.

P.S. maybe i'll change it later

　

About the author of the blog.

Name's Alex.

He/She/They (+ I/me/we/us)

eng/rus

Artist, sometimes editor

INTP-T

This is my only blog on Tumblr, but you can also find me in:

Twitter

VKontakte - page, public

Instagram - @ alsalexx

If you want to contact with me directly:

Telegram - @ twilh_sucker

Discord - AlexLeaf#4270

I rarely use discord, but if you write to me, i will try to be online there more often

If you have any questions for me, you can ask them in the "questions" section.

Thanks for attention! Hope you enjoy it~

[The post may change]

[last upd 03.05.2023]

[awiola]

Normal update, autumn??? XXIII

Okay, so I thought it would be a nice, winter quarterly update but turns out the last one was titled summer and I guess going by calendar, winter barely started so it's??? autumn??? I guess??? Last day of the year but autumn, sure, let's go with that. That being the case, I have no new year's pic for y'all cause I can't draw I was devving uhh, rly hard, let's say. Totally.

Anyway, the mushroom jam has ended and I planned to have a release update BUT THEN I DIDN'T FINISH THE GAME ON TIME YET AGAIN, who would've thought, so, like, there's nothing. I mean, something exists but yeah >_> I'll write a devlog when it finally looks presentable. Moving on...

Current game stuff

The spooktober game has been finished, kinda - The enmity of dead things. It, well, it works and it contains the full script and everything but lacks both art and music cause I couldn't finish it on time laziness goes brrr. Then I wanted a break and worked on other games and kinda left it like that... So that's the first item on my "Finally finish it in 2024, you stupid fuck" list. All in all it wasn't a total failure and I had fun for the most part. Committing to my bad decisions [look at the textbox] is actually the main cause the game wasn't finished on time... You live and don't learn.

The failure of the year... Or quarter at least - Mushroom game. Despite being technically published to add it to the jam, it's so unfinished I won't even link it here. And it's all my fault cause I was being lazy and, as usual, forgot I can't actually program. Yeah...

Helped with Cool Days. There's really not much of my work there, I honestly considered making a new category for games I kinda helped with but tbh the amount of work actually finished was close to zero but hey, it's still more than nothing so Check it out, it has cool graphics.

The ace teens game got shelved/postponed and it's not my fault this time but instead we're working on a fantasy kinda thing for Ace jam [and maybe also Zack jam while we're at it but that might've been said in jest]. Fortunately it's small enough I don't expect any delays. I can say it involves a golem who isn't a humanoid (灬˘╰╯˘灬)♥｡･ﾟ

Now for the big thing.

Fanfares, please.

🎉🎉🎉

IMPOSTOR SYNDROME - is a game for winter jam which also happens to be a demo cause we ran out of time but! - it will be finished soon-ish. I'll share more details in the release devlog so if the link to the game works already, that means the page's up and so is all the info. If it doesn't work, check again in a few hours but I'm assuming most people who actually read all that will do so post winter jam anyway.

Genre wise it's an otome chat sim comedy that's extremely self indulged and I'm not ashamed of that. Gotta make games for yourself and all that. Though, again, my own conribution to the development process remains minimal. I'm truly becoming the idea guy.

The "Finally finish it in 2024, you stupid fuck" list aka the stuff that should've been finished already but isn't

Umm, yeah, everything. Or, to be more specific, Mushroom game and Enmity take priority here but all the other games that needed some quality of life adjustments like making the web build work on mobile etc are also included [which is kinda funny cause a lot of them could be corrected in like an hour if I actually sat and did just that].

It's been more than three years since I released Argousze and yes, you gessed it, it's also unfinished. Which is extra funny in a pathetic way cause it was supposed to be a low effort game with, like, 2k words of wordcount. To be fair I kinda dropped it cause I couldn't design my aliens but maybe I'll actually get a good idea for once and manage to release it on its fourth anniversary. That'd be nice.

Other than that, well... That's more of a resolution than anything but I should stop constantly joining new teams and all... And either take a proper dev break or work on ye olde projects waiting for me since the beginning of HS. I'll become older than my oldest LI before I finish them at this point lol

Pariiish noootiiiceees

This year we're gonna have two new jams instead of one. Stuff happened and yeah. No links just yet cause not only are the pages not finished but there's also no planned date/duration beyond 'sometime in the later part of the year'.

The first jam is Tentacle jam which, I'm pretty sure, would bring us eroges. This was not my intention and all kind of sfw tentacles are allowed but tbh as long as there's a proper story, even a nukige would pass. Basically the rules remain like in all the previous jams I hosted.

The second jam is Insect [adjacent] jam which actually accepts all kinds of arthropods but it started as just insect jam and I wanted to keep the name. So yeah. Obviously more detailed rules of what's allowed would be written on the page when it's up properly and not in a half dead state like right now.

Incidentally, whatever the date ends up being, both of these jams would be hosted at the same time so if you wanted to make a story taking place underwater or something, you could submit it to both of these jams. Neat, right?

That's it for this year.

Over.

[teamskullkalos]

WHATS POPPIN, NUMBSKULLS?

I FORGOT TO UPDATE THIS LMAO TEAM SKULL KALOS IS LIVE BABY!! WERE AT THAT OLD ASS HOTEL SO IF YOU WANNA SIGN UP GET YOUR ASS OVER THERE. ALSO STILL CANT SPEAK KALOSIAN SO IF ANYONE WANTS TO BUY ME LESSONS ILL DROP THE PAYDAYPAL

i made a 7th blog just for the bit. im so sorry.

page will not be as active as my others but i WILL post on here! my main blog is @plasmaapologist

also it will be updated when she actually, yknow, gets to kalos. i thought it would be funny to give it a week or so

our main head girl iolana is in her mid 20s and does not always talk in full uppercase. shes just excited. she DOES always speak in green, though.

shes just as rowdy as any other skull grunt but is still considered one of the level-headed ones due to being one of the older girls

shes also, however, extremely impulsive, hince why shes moving to kalos to chase a girl start a new team skull branch.

probably dont ask about her comfey unless you want an hour long lecture on comfey genetics.

full main grunt list

this blog was made with the blessings of updates from po town 👼 ill keep to their canon 99% of the time, but miiiiiight throw in my own little sprinkles occasionally

iolana keahola: head grunt. also a bruiser

jason whittle: he/him. the responsible one. also the eldest.

charlie "chick" medina: she/her. handles the money

mirza berry: she/they. resident pokemon wrangler.

axel solis: they/them. the other bruiser

jelani osei: she/her. not ACTUALLY a grunt. just mirza's girlfriend. but like, she might as well be atp.

[theneighborhoodwatch]

Prev anon, please disregard, found the post, you did find the X

no worries, anon! while you're here, though, i gotta come clean: folks, we do not know where the V is. people have been looking for it left and right. ctrl+f has revealed nothing. my friend, dallas, who originally found the yxwvoe code, has admitted they have no idea where they got the v from because they were too excited about the secret pages and immediately forgot. it was also 1 in the morning. some people think V comes from the roman numeral for 5 because there are five other letters. others think it may be the peace sign jonesy's flashing in the restoration example on the "about us" page. i cannot stress enough how hard we're grasping at straws here.

it's extremely funny, but also i'm also so so curious: does anyone actually have any leads on where the V could have come from? if so, could you come forward with your findings? i'd love to hear all about it.

[m1ckeyb3rry]

Uhhhgghgfhu bye I just realized I forgot to strike through itoshis AGAIN ok from now on if you ever see like random punctuation or symbols or marks next to the word itoshis just know I probably meant to strike through it and FORGOT hsgdksksodj I already realized there was no save ask draft button which is why I write it out separately anyways so I don’t accidentally click out and lose all progress but looks like I still forget a lot of things!!!! But hehe THANK YOUUU I’ll probably need the help when the time comes LOL

But yeah same for me if I fall off the grid for over 24 hours feel free to post something really out of pocket or eye catching because I probably also just missed it or was touching grass to an extreme extent……

Oh yeah huh that’s a good point!! Well assuming all side character enjoyers think alike I think that once we find someone who’s even just familiar with side characters we take it and run LMAOOO I’m so easy when it comes to being baited like I’ve seen a few other fics throw Karasu in as just like a side character and I’m like OMG KARASU MENTION!!!!! I’m so glad you chose to make him talk and that you chose him of all characters because usually people naturally just slap in Isagi and Bachira LMAOAOA I will say you really cooked with all of your writing like I feel like a broken record saying this but truly blessing the hashtags….like after peregrine and pi and then spiraling to cherry tree and the rest of your masterlist like I’m getting converted in the moment to characters I don’t normally care for?? Im ngl sometimes when I’m bored and the hashtags are still empty I just randomly pluck something from your list and start reading again LMAO

and yeah!! I can imagine characterizing someone in actual like writing form is really difficult so it makes sense!! It makes it harder to find Karasu writers fs though LOL especially because a lot of people just haven’t read the manga in general! Wait actually i think you’re a little too big brained wdym you wrote white butterfly purely off wiki and ln research??? That’s too impressive…..and the way you were spot on about your approach too????

BRO THE LAST EPINAGI ONE WAS LOWK SOOOO DISAPPOINTING??? I get it takes a lot of time to crank out a whole color page but they really did not try LMFAO and yeah those three do NOT need more art (Karasu/pxg spread WHEN)

OMG YONA OF THE DAWN MIRA WRITING CRUMBS??? SIGN ME UP I will eat this up as you write bfb LMAOOO

Omg team v is so shoujo coded fr….ok I’ve never watched this series and idk if you’ve seen it before but I think it’s wotakoi…? Somehow just off the bat the dude with the glasses (I assume he’s the male lead) also reminds me of zantetsu LMAOO I have no idea what the stories about so if it’s freaky/weird don’t come for me HAHAHA

I’m pretty certain that’s what people go off of for Nagi?? Like how he “just threw Reo away” and then they become like….Reo defenders like Reo does no wrong to the point that they are such Reo fans that they hate nagi…??? And I’m like do you realize how bad teenage boys are at communication also guys that’s also NOT what happened??? But also literally like did you not read the part where Nagi chose a different team to improve his soccer skills which is….yk…the POINT of bllk….? Just a consideration………..like huh??? And like you said we also get clarification from Nagi that he’s doing this to get closer to his goal with Reo??? Hello???? Also again it’s. SOCCER. oh my god these people make me wanna rip my hair out like what are you talking about?????

I’m just imagining you zooming in on one eye and taking a pic like you’re staring into their soul LMFAOOO but THAT RESPONSE???? Goodbye I think I’d accidentally leave the person on read I think you seriously just have some like 10 mile radius rizz aura??? Mira pulling the soccer team guys it was a SIGN this is so funny obviously doesn’t relate as much I guess but this reminds me of the convo we had about pi y/n liking hiori over Karasu LMFAOOOO you could fr just write fics off of your life atp (without all the really wild wtf toxic shit maybe because that dude tricking you into a date still has me reeling????)

Unrelated but I forgot to mention in some previous reply about secondary character thoughts I will get some ready for you o7 I’ll make a note (THAT I WONT DELETE!!!!! Yelling at myself rn as a reminder smh) and save it for when your list shortens a bit or else I think there’s gonna be like a pi wc worth of asks from me sitting in your inbox (unless you want them now instead LMAOO??)

IN MIRA WE TRUST dw we all know you’re gonna pop off so hard with bfb….enjoy your flight!!! Iirc it’s really soon right?? I think you said Aug 4 but as seen by my memory I could very well be hallucinating…..honestly flights are so nice in that sense because it’s like, well you can’t really do anything LMAO no internet (for the most part) and you’re stuck in the air so it’s the perfect time to get non-internet reliant work done!!!!

-Karasu anon

LMAOOO THAT’S WHAT I ASSUMED DW and yeah i wish there was a way to save drafts for asks but tbh that would probably be like a ton of code so ig it makes sense that you can’t 😩

AWW WAIT I’M FLATTERED!! glad to hear you like whatever i write even the sillier stuff…my aim is to be the kind of writer that people read regardless of character so it’s a relief that you at least think that!! and LMAOO NO FR BACHIRA AND ISAGI ARE ALWAYS THERE honestly neither of them were giving me sassy teasing mf vibes the way tabieita + hiori did so they didn’t even get mentioned (plus yk how me and isagi are)…ironically besides bachira’s mini cameo in that one isagi one shot i haven’t written him at all?? not even as a side character…i guess maybe because my favs aren’t rlly associated w him so there’s no reason for him to make appearances 🤔

LMAOOO characterization is important to me i take it v seriously and i try to stick as close to canon as possible hence the ln + wiki combo!! i think that’s why people consistently comment abt how my characterization is super different but also really close to canon and exactly how they’d picture those characters acting in certain scenarios (gotten a lot of people saying that abt how i wrote nagi sae kaiser hiori and gojo especially) 🤩 i think another reason why it might seem like i’m able to characterize well is because i rlly prioritize trying to show romance and love in ways other than physicality and i customize that to what i understand of a given character!! so w kaiser it was trusting the mc and trying to give her up before he hurt her, w sae it was him continuously finding ways to spend time w reader, etc etc ☝🏻 which maybe makes it feel more natural even when i’m not in love or super comfy w a given character ig??? idk though

the last epinagi one didn’t even feel like anything new it was just the full length panels of the ln covers 😭💔 hoping and praying for at least a tabieita + barou + nagi + chigiri color spread in the next volume though!!

they truly are crumbs of crumbs FJSKSJSK don’t expect anything crazy but at least it’s smth!! the way i spent all of today packing so i didn’t get any writing done 😔 BFB WILL BE FINISHED SOON THOUGH I SWEAR

i haven’t watched it but omg yes that guy is so zantetsu!! shu from princess jellyfish is also very zantetsu to me but him at like age 30 instead of 17/18…ugh i love him though the pretty boy himbo of all time

people either misunderstand reo completely or misunderstand nagi completely there’s very few in between 😭 like either they make reo out to be obssessed clingy and entirely dependent or they make nagi out to be toxic emotionless and cruel 😟 when it’s much more nuanced than that!! at the end of the day it truly is just soccer though like it isn’t as if nagi called an entire race of people slurs and tried to commit genocide (@ geto who everyone forgives and considers a green flag for some reason as if he’s not objectively more horrific??) he literally just. joined a diff soccer team and happened to communicate it poorly (although tbh i didn’t feel like his explanation was too bad all things considered 🫣 but i don’t hate reo for being upset abt the situation considering how precarious everything in bllk is)

LMAO THAT’S BASICALLY WHAT IT WAS i think I just responded w “why did you say that lol” because we were also just supposed to be friends…truly the soccer team predicted my bllk obsession HDKSJD they were nowhere near as good looking as hiori and karasu though sadly 💔 tbh i could write fics based on my life sometimes i’ll drop lore and be like “wow it sounds like I’m making this shit up jfc” 😭 truly that whole tricked into a date situation was insane…the way he tried to get me to let him drive me too bruh i’m so glad i insisted on driving myself so i could make a quick getaway

i will always accept your thoughts as they come 😏 it shall give me much to ponder while on the plane for seven or eight hours!! but ofc don’t feel forced or anything hehe sometimes your thoughts just give me inspiration for other things so i love reading them!!

yes it’s tmrw evening EST so aug 4th!! i do love how flights kinda force you to lock in…like all i’ve got are my downloaded songs my offline writing app and a dream 🫡 so i will be forced to get a lot done!! i really need to get this doneee so i can get to work on other stuff LMAOOO i think people think i’m on a writing hiatus because i haven’t updated anything in forever but like i’m still writing i promise…slower than usual because #vacationprep but still on the grind a bit each day 😓

[ilaiyayaya]

I LOVE LIME!!! I LOVE THE FRUIT KNOWN AS LIME!!!!!!!

MY KICKSTARTER PINS I BACKED LIKE OVER A YEAR AGO FINALLY ARRIVEDand also a book (and a rock) and patches but like the pins are the real boon I love pins I love corn!

I finally have a physical memento of the most impactful community I've been of in my life! Now when Discord FUCKING DIES and everyone I still know from there FUCKING DIES I'll still have an undeniable form of proof that I once killed a real human being for gambling too much (they were bri'ish so like, it doesn't really count they're not real, they're like phantoms. They were also pink so it was a government sanctioned killing (that's a lie they were purple but I love propaganda)). Unfortunately that also means that there's physical proof that I have an extremely minor connection to fucking chris-chan which means I will never achieve my life goal of being elected prime minister 😔

THERE I AM GARY THERE I AM!!!!! on the left not on the right i would never wear a "feel the bern" t-shirt. I don't go by Gurren anymore and haven't in like, at least a year, but like idk I think I prefer it not referring to me by what I currently go by, like it keeps this segment of my life in the past. I don't really regret or hate RFCK now like probably at least 50% of people who were there do now, despite that I also don't think I would go back if I could lol.

THERE I AM IN THE ACTUAL COMIC GARY THERE I AM IN THE ACTUAL COMIC!!!!! can you find me! can you find waldo galdo? I can't find her she's invisible all I can find is The Big Gay, and Kevin. Hi Kevin...

That's a lie I also see [[REDACTED]], and [[REDACTED]], and [[REDACTED]], and also [[REDACTED]] and also a frog but I genuinely don't know which frog because there were several notable frogs, but I don't see a car under it so I'm gonna assume it's the Frog.

Did you (the reader) find me? I found me! would you like a hint? no? well fuck you too in that case I'll just spoil exactly where I am IDIOT!!!

^there I am, that's where I am, I'm on the left :)

Godammit I forgot how much involvement chris-chan and her characters actual have in this comic I thought she just appeared at like, the end, no it's like every other page fuck ;-;. I'm so glad that one documentary barely covered RFCK and thus didn't result in wave 2 of half the people in the server almost getting doxxed by actual convicted predators god I love obsessive sonichu fans they're so cool and not actual fucking living stains :)

Aside from the parts with The Greedy Grinner (christine) I'd say it still holds up relatively well kinda almost not at all but like I wanna believe it does. I mean it's completely incomprehensible half the time unless you know exactly what it's referencing most of the time and were involved in the in-game/in-community events it's talking about but like, if you were there when those things happened and actually can understand wtf is going on, I think it kinda holds up it's not too terrible. I'm saying this after re-reading like 20 pages btw I'm not re-reading the entire thing I'd fall asleep and go honk shoo honk shoo hooooonk mimimimi after like 30 pages but like I'll give the rest of it the benefit of the doubt that it's good! I wish they referenced the dt bombing more tho I think that was a funny event honestly probably peak rfck.

Does Ben still make comics? Like not even joking I literally don't know I haven't kept up with him in years I follow him on x.net but like the only tweets I ever see from him are like, Toe Biden related, like I don't even mean that in a mean I just legit don't know if he still makes stuff other than Joe Biden Wake Up twitter posts. Actually no nevermind that's not true I completely forgot he's making a lecture on Bionicle, I know literally nothing about Bionicle but like I'm sure it'll be pretty alright, the Mega Man lecture he did like, idk probably like 2 years ago at this point, was pretty good. I believe in you Ben Saint, I believe you can win the spelling bee championship and convince the mayor not to demolish the community center!!

I did literally buy all of that stuff just for one pin btw like that's not a joke that's 100% :srs: I spent way too much money for the Cop Kriller pin it was Shrimply the easiest method to getting it. I'll also probably someday get it as a tattoo as well I, think it's a really nice design, whoever designed it did a really good job, I don't remember who it was, maybe Ben, maybe Smearg, uhhhh maybe Munchy but I don't think so, uhhhh maybe someone else I'm forgetting but whichever one of them did the Killer logo did a great job and I give them 3 slightly larger than average thumbs up!

Like it just looks good, it's just a genuinely nice looking design. I mean the Rowdy design is also alright BUT I FUCKING HATE PINK PEOPLE I FUCKING HATE CLOWNS I HOPE THEY ALL DIE AND DON'T COME BACK TO LIFE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA