#for multiple reasons I'm sure

[ericcartmn]

Craigman is real

[sykloni]

Dannymay 2023

15. Full Hazmat AU & 23. Rogue Gallery

[liauditore]

how many belts and buckles does she need someone save me.

[kurah]

My entry for @cosmos-kitty's DTIYS competition :)

See this post for more details!

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

I don't know if I'll ever actually write this, but I have a vague idea for a fic that's like, Sam, Jan, and Jamie vs the AFC Richmond Charity Gala that's set in early season 2 and basically explains what happened to the charity gala in 1x04 that's implied to be an annual tradition but that we never see again. The premise is as follows:

After the Dubai Air protest, Sam feels bad that he didn't look into the company he agreed to promote beforehand and decides to be more proactive in his activism. Which is why, when Ted announces the gala is coming up and Jan Maas (who obviously wasn't there for the last one) is like, "isn't it exploitative and dehumanizing to auction off players?" Sam decides he's going to Do Something About It and tries to rally the team to petition Rebecca to change the event, with mixed results.

Jamie, meanwhile, is having a... weird time. He's still nervous about his place on the team, especially now that Roy is back and at the height of his refusing-to-coach-Jamie era, and while there's not as much outright animosity from the other players, they're also not really friends. He's trying to be on his best behaviour, but the upcoming gala is making him nervous and Sam and Jan going around talking about like. consent and bodily autonomy and all that is dredging up some feelings that he's been repressing — mostly about Amsterdam but also about Lust Conquers All (I don't know a ton about reality TV production but it sounds pretty brutal on the contestants, and Jamie would not have been in a great frame of mind going in).

So when Sam and Jan go to talk to him, he doesn't want to turn them down because he's trying to make up for how he treated Sam last year, but he also doesn't want to get on the bad side of the rest of the team if they like the gala, and also also if auctioning off players is wrong then what happened to him in Amsterdam was definitely wrong, and he's not ready to confront that. But of course Sam is a sweetheart and realizes pretty quickly that Something Bad happened here and is like. okay now we really can't have the gala.

Anyway they make a 50-slide Powerpoint that they rehearse a bunch of times and go to present it to Rebecca in full Isaac-approved suits and everything, and then only get like. one slide in before Rebecca's like, "you're right, that is creepy. We'll come up with something new for this year." Also Roy apologizes for joking about Jamie having to sleep with that woman. The end 😊

[formerlyashkatom]

today was my first day back on ADHD meds after being off them for probably two years and it's amazing how much I attributed to being intractably broken that is in fact amazingly tractable. I'm surprised by this every time I go on and off meds because I'm god's most moronic soldier.

[deoidesign]

Look at these stickers my brain is literally so huge. God. I love them so much.

I hadn't tried to do a sticker sheet at home before because I knew it would be difficult, and I was right! Getting the cut lines to line up with the print was super hard and there were many failed attempts, but it was so worth it I'm so happy with them!!!

This sticker sheet is for my patrons this month ^^

[returnflame]

(1/3) Art fight attacks from this year! Had a lot of fun working with pen + marker after ages, definitely want to draw traditionally more!

L to R, top down: Katja (@yarrow-leaf), Corvin (jules_the_mayfly), Xovin (@neonbutchery), Ophelia (@hydroflorix), Macaw (Pretzelmintz), Circinus (cyfix), Cain (crying_apple), Finlay (@elviragrey), Eel (@desktopmermaid)

+ Shura (@baellielurk), Sölveig (butchlee), Lady Khal ( @hnk-art), Uriel @crouteann), Vesipuisto (@mountainfucker69), and King Wolfgang (@ravenbirde)

[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

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[sysig]

Wake up somewhere better, maybe (Patreon)

[wiredalienvampire]

Since you guys seem to really like dollop n licorice,I'd figure I tell you guys some more stuff about them, mostly regarding random facts.

🎂 Dollop 🎂

Despite having an immense knowledge about how pastries/baked goods are made and manufactured, he can't cook nor bake to save his life, even something as simple as baking cookies with pre-made dough can result in them lighting fires in the kitchen.

At cartel confectionery, he had a large wardrobe composing of many different confectionery themed / lolita fashion inspired outfits, but whenever he'd get dressed for filming a commercial or doing a photo shoot for advertisements, or just starting their day in general, because dollop is the Most Indecisive Mud Ever, he takes a long while to choose an outfit. Often times he'd just get yelled at to make up his mind by the managers.

They have a pet meep named C.C! Executives requested a meep that would by dyed pink to be included in billboard advertisements for their at the time latest product release, "Cavity-Causing Cotton Candy". Dollop was a very young kid during that time, I'd day around his preteen years, and he had never seen a meep before at that point, and a baby meep he was in a photo shoot with was the one he got extremely attached to. The company was originally intending to send them back to the farm they were borrowed from, but reluctantly the higher ups let Dollop keep C.C as a pet after a long while of begging with puppy eyes. Ft. Some art of this concept ^_^

He has little scars around his body due to physical mistreatment from his peers, often happening whenever he steps out of line while doing their job.

He smells like strawberries and taffy.

the little fruits and frosting on his head are fake, with the frosting being deco frosting and the fruits and heart candies being plastic. His hair cuts ( or. Feather cuts?) Were usually done by a hair stylist at cartel confectionery, but at one point in his life he tried to do his feathers himself using fresh fruits and icing he stole from a kitchen. His feathers ended up being sticky for the rest of the day and it took forever for the juices from the fruits and melted icing to wash off, needless he regretted that decision.

Dollop never knew about licorice personally, but he was a slig that stood out to him, mostly because of the many scars and stitches he has compared to other sligs. And when his room began being guarded by said slig because of an incident during a photo shoot, to him, it felt like an opportunity despite his scary situation, it took him a while to get licorice to reply, but his curiosity fueled questions got him to deny the order not to talk to dollop. And after he helped him escape the factory, he knew in his heart that there was something special with that slig. He named him licorice because to him, licorice can be sweet as much as it can be bitter, and he had a feeling that there was a sweetness to licorice that he knew was there, and he wanted to unlock that sweetness. He didn't really have that many friends back at cartel confectionery, most of the people he spoke to were his managers and higher ranking employees,he had friends in his youth, but when he was promoted he never got to see or talk to them that often due to his restricted schedule. Licorice was someone he felt like understood him more than the higher ups he worked with and made him feel like he was more than a puppet for an evil company, and because he knew about the horrors of the world more than he did, dollop viewed him as a slig of wisdom of some kind and developed a strong attachment to him. He couldn't help but fall in love with licorice.

☠️ Licorice ☠️

He isn't very used to physical affection and is very touch starved, he either freezes up or recoils whenever someone tries to be physically affectionate to him, which is more apparent because dollop is a very touchy person compared to licorice, often hugging him or grabbing his arm, which always leaves him a blushing, flustered and befuddled mess.

As a security officer back at cartel confectionery, while he does patrol around the factory sometimes, he often kept to himself in the surveillance room, since it was the only place that he felt safe in.

Due to his short-tempered demeanor, he tends to punch or kick anything around him, this more or less leads to something in thr factory breaking or getting slightly damaged, which got licorice in a lot of trouble.

Secretly a drone slig but doesn't realize it yet.

While he got his wounds stitched up by a nurse whenever he got into fights with other sligs, he stitched up and fixed his mask by himself because there weren't any other masks available for the poor guy at the time.

Absolute insomniac, someone please give this poor sod some zzzquill. Ft. A doodle I did in under 20 minutes

Before he properly met dollop, he was somewhat indifferent to him as a person, albeit a bit annoyed by him. But when he started to know him on a more personal level, both while he guarded his cell and escaped the factory with him, he felt a sense of warmth grow in his chest. Now he usually didn't like showing his softer side, aside from the fact that he would get punished for it, but because it made him feel like this delicate aspect of himself was pathetic or weak. But with dollop being as curious and friendly as he is (albeit to a tedious degree) it made him feel less afraid to be vulnerable, even if he hated it. He doesn't want admit that he cares so much about dollop, even though he most certainly does. This grew to a point where licorice has essentially fallen in love with dollop, but is absolutely terrified of confessing his feelings to him, and even if he wanted to he feels as thought it wouldn't matter because he has convinced himself it's a one sided love, Or so he thinks...

[accirax]

so... exciting announcement... i was hired to work on Reality Resort as a storyboard artist!

for those of you who haven't heard, Reality Resort is a Total Drama-inspired show on YouTube, produced by Cove and animated by Odd Nation Cartoons. its pilot episode just dropped a few hours ago!

to be clear, i didn't contribute at all to the first episode-- i was only hired about a week ago to contribute on episode 2 and beyond. speaking of, it'll be a lot easier for us to make episode 2 and beyond with more support for the show, so please consider checking out the pilot if the show sounds up your ally. the team is super cool and welcoming, and i've had a ton of fun with what i've worked on so far.

as for this blog, given that i'm now part of the show's staff, i won't be making any sorts of speculative content about Reality Resort or any of the other planned shows in the Reality Gauntlet. this is obviously because i know things the average viewer doesn't, and because i wouldn't want anything i was genuinely blindly speculating on to be interpreted as fact/a hint. however, Disventure Camp content (as well as all of the usual stuff) will continue as normal! (other than that i now have a bit less free time :,) )

anyways, i hope any of you who do decide to check it out will enjoy! as Cove has said in the comments, the first episode isn't perfect, and there are still plenty of quirks to iron out in the future. but, i think that the future of the show is looking bright, and i and the rest of the team appreciate any support you're willing to give. :)

[steakout-05]

something that had always been really frustrating for me when i was still in math classes in school was trying to watch the teacher actually work the problem out on the board and still not understanding wtf was happening. for some context, i heavily suspect that i have some form of dyscalculia because math and numbers literally do not compute properly in my brain. it'd be too long to explain the full extent of my possible dyscalculia here but math literally does the mental equivalent of maxing out the CPU power and memory of a computer to the point where it freezes and lags to my brain.

math class was always stressful for me because no matter what i did and how much progress i made, there was always a lack of understanding i had when it came to trying to work any math problem out long term and remembering anything. it felt like there was always something i was missing, so when the time came for the teacher to explain and go through a math problem step-by-step on the whiteboard, i made sure i paid as much attention to it as humanly possible as child-to-teenager me could muster and even then i still did not understand how the fuck they solved it, all because of one thing: the teacher pulling a random number completely out of their ass that happened to be the key to solving the problem.

like. i don't think i can illustrate how frustrating and isolating this was to experience with words alone. here i was, paying as much attention as i physically could, trying my damned hardest to memorise each individual step and calculation in order to understand how to get from point A to point B. everything made perfect sense up until the teacher suddenly stops for a second and writes a seemingly completely unrelated number there with no context as to why it's there in the first place, and then, in that singular moment, everything immediately comes crumbling down and i'm left completely confused. and somehow, everyone else around me perfectly understands it except me. like. imagine sitting there, giving the teacher all the attention you possibly could, literally watching and studying their hand movements just to understand every single step, only to be even more confused than your classmates, who you're pretty sure were half-asleep during the explanation, who also say they understand how the teacher came to that conclusion. what. the actual fuck.

when i try to explain how infinitely confusing and irritating this was for me, i'm reminded of a quote from that video Patricia Taxxon made about DHMIS: "The rug is pulled again ... There was never any hope of following the thread, understanding is impossible.". even when i was literally trying my best to possibly follow anything that was happening, the rug still gets pulled out from under my feet and i'm sent all the way back to square one of not understanding a single thing and being confused again. all because the teacher didn't explicitly explain how they got that random number that was apparently singlehandedly necessary for solving the equation and where they got it from, apart from that place being from literally fucking nowhere.

it's really no wonder that i eventually stopped giving a shit about paying attention in math class, because even when i was, it was still daunting and incomprehensible as always. why bother trying anymore when trying still gets you nowhere? trying to ask the teacher where they got that number from was an impossible to understand task as well, as their either snapped back with a "well you should have been paying attention" (even though i WAS but whatever) or they do explain that they added the first two numbers from the equation together or something, but now i'm wondering why they didn't just explain that in the first place like they did with everything else instead of seemingly just assuming everyone would know to do that.

by the way, if i had to give an estimate, my math ability is probably still at like. a 5th grader's level at best. so uh. yeah it's not good. still, it is kinda funny to me though, not only because i do find a bit of humour in the situation, but also because some people are often so quick to judge someone's intelligence purely based on their mathematical abilities alone. like. the idea of someone calling me dumb for still needing to do addition with my fingers despite the fact that my reading and language levels are considered above average is really funny to me lmaooo

[numberoneanika]

Honestly the roleplay blogs are stronger than I am because if I saw a post where people were saying my blog was annoying and calling me corny I would jump in a large pit and rot away

[manasurge]

1/3 of the way done of this last page, then I can finally post it all o|-<

[thresholdbb]

"They didn't talk about the Dominion War enough on Voyager"

Yeah well, they never mention Voyager's miraculous reappearance on DS9 either