#goblin answers asks

[welcometohellfilm]

Hi! I loved W2H2 part 1 - I wanted to ask if there's a timeframe planned for the next part? Are you looking for additional guest animators?

Sometime next year hopefully! And I'm definitely open to guest animators/clean-up artists! But I also can't really afford to compensate a professional, reasonable wage. So far, any help I've had has been people offering to work pro bono, which is incredibly generous and I'm grateful for that, but I can't reasonably in good conscience ask people to help out for free. I am willing to work out some sort of payment, but it's... just... gonna' be embarrassing, y'know? I absolutely can't pay anyone what they're worth. BUT! If that's not an issue for people, it's a discussion I'm willing to have! If you (or anyone else) wants to guest animate some shots, send me a reel or some of your work and we can talk about it!

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

How did you come up with Goblin KC’s name?

I think I used a fantasy name generator and mashed two names together that fit the abbreviation "K.C." >w<

[skyscrapergods]

Also not to be gross, but you KNOW giving birth to flurry heart was easy as hell for Cadence. That thing just slipped and slid on out of there

What makes you think flurry heart was born the size of a mortal newborn?

[timbit-robin-art]

could i request a madelyne doodle? whatever outfit you’d like <3 no pressure though of course, tysm for the silly art <33

Google search: telepaths who serve cunt.

[mypunkpansexualtwin]

So I was listening to Within You from Labyrinth and uh

I had some thoughts.

[lily-alphonse]

For the rare pair challenge: my favorite one is Sam/Alex!

unfffff I love this one how HOT would that be 🥵

My brain is scrambled tho because I have shipped them both with Sebastian as the openly gay one to even out the dynamic. I interpret Alex as closeted and Sam as bi/pan but skewing more towards women. Like he's not opposed to getting with a guy if he liked them but hasn't really thought about it kind of thing.

So how would they end up getting together?

Ok, I think I want Alex to be coming back from college. He lost his sports scholarship due to bad grades and was forced to come home, leaving his secret fling in the city at the same time. He's heartbroken, he's dejected, he's wallowing.

A couple of weeks after coming back, Haley decides she's had enough of his moping and they are going to a bar in the little town nearby to see some people from their high school perform. They're in a band now, and getting some minor success playing gigs at local venues.

Alex is totally plastered by the time Goblin Destroyer comes on stage. That must be why time slows when he sees Sam. Why his smile makes him feel warm and his heart race.

"Holy shit," he murmurs to himself. The scrawny class clown he knew in high school looks so different.

Haley eyes him knowingly. "No. Nuhuh. Not him. When I said we were getting you laid tonight I didn't mean one of the few people from Pelican Town!"

"But he's gotten SO hot."

"He's got a mullet, Lexie."

"Mullets can be hot," he pouts.

And then they begin their set, and Alex is certain he must be drunk as hell because he doesn't even like this kind of music but he's dancing along to it and having the best time. He's amazed that Sam can play the guitar and sing at the same time. He's amazed by Sam's voice, the rasp in it seriously fucking with his inhibition. And even when he stops singing, and just shreds a guitar solo, Alex is still awe-struck.

They hadn't been sure they would stay for the whole performance, but then Alex is cheering along with the crowd after their final song, cheeks flushed with exertion and heart racing.

He hasn't thought about his ex in hours. He hasn't thought about how royally fucked up his life is. And he doesn't want it to end. But Sam disappears.

Suddenly the crowd is too stifling. He needs to get outside. He needs to breathe. Haley seems to be having the time of her life pressed up against a wall with a man she met fifteen minutes ago. Alex texts her that he will be outside, and pushes his way to the exit.

It's cold, instant relief. It's quiet too, just a group of smokers chatting in the parking lot. He turns to walk the opposite direction from them, when someone bumps into him.

"Alex?"

Sam.

Teehee this is my most cliffhanger one yet I was really getting into that one. I might actually write it for real. If you'd be interested in being tagged if/when I post the fic, reblog or comment letting me know! (What are we naming this ship??)

UPDATE: I decided to give this a full fic, you can read that now on AO3 it is live as of Oct 3rd "Suckered (Alex x Sam)"

Send me any Stardew Valley rarepair and I will tell you how I would make them work! (Even non-marriage npcs) If youre lucky you may get a mini fic out of it. Check the list below to see if Ive already answered yours

Rarepair Masterlist

[ask-the-turnabout-terror]

Were there allegations about you dating Edgeworth before you guys even got romantically involved

P.S. sorry about the gang of roof goblins trying to ruin your marriage

“Multiple times. Almost the entirety of his side thought I was his boyfriend when we met- even though we hadn’t even officially come out to each other yet.”

[not-poignant]

The latest UtR update on AO3 got me hooked and I could no longer constrain myself and had to read the other chapters on Patreon. Now I need to know: does Lucien have any redeeming character traits in the series or can I add him straight to the list of characters that deserve the worst? That attitude of his towards Faber made me so mad lmao

Hi anon!

This actually reminds me of the ask I got recently about how awful Augus is as a character and how it's impossible to consider him through a positive light after reading Falling Falling Stars. Because that's how he seems if you've never read him in anything else of mine!

My narrators are unreliable, anon. We only ever see Lucien very briefly through the jealous eyes of an insecure man.

(Spoilers for a future brief verbal encounter between Lucien and Faber in Underline the Red).

Lucien is an extremely vulnerable omega who is in an institution that has temporary custody of him. They control what he eats, what he does, whether he leaves or not (i.e. he's functionally imprisoned), who fucks him, if he gets to see anyone else, if he can talk to his partner and family back home and how often. He has significant psychiatric issues around his own insecurities re: jealously and his partner, and he clocks Faber as being in love with Caleb, and he's right.

And that's incredibly unethical of Faber, honestly, to not have disclosed any of this to Dr Gary (like Dr Gary will be right to consider firing him over this in the future). It puts Lucien's mental health in direct and severe jeopardy, and is ironically likely what causes his relapse that causes Caleb to suggest domestic discipline in the first place (oh, Faber, the irony).

Because Lucien's there to learn that actually a lot of his jealousy and insecurity is unfounded. Instead, he learns the opposite, that no matter who he bonds with, someone else is there loving his potential partner while he perceives himself as having very little control (and in the case of Hillview - this is true, all he has are his words).

He's a chronically disabled omega who needs a disability aid (walking stick) to get around, he's a second class citizen, he's agreed with his partner to stay at Hillview because they both recognise how sick he's getting.

Faber is not a mental health patient/omega like Lucien is. He's a staff member who is nursing unrequited loved to an alpha companion, that he's refused to disclose, while still interacting with Caleb and his omegas. Imho, while Lucien is very good at lashing out, he's not wrong to, and that's why Faber fully acknowledges what Lucien is saying and listens to him, and basically never interacts with him again, and avoids Caleb where possible.

Lucien's mean about it, but Lucien is right re: Faber trying to hide his feelings because he knows what will happen if people find out, and that it's also wrong/unfair to put Lucien in that position.

And Faber knows that.

So yeah. The reader is meant to hate Lucien on a surface level, in the same way that Faber does.

But consider that Faber also sometimes seems to hate all omegas. He finds the smell of their heats disgusting. It's actually pretty normal for people to go through a phase of rejecting the thing that they are, if that's something hated in society. Faber's oscillating mixed feelings of bitterness, resentment and cutting attitude is actually mirrored in Lucien.

Faber has thought extremely savage, scathing and unforgiving things himself to the people around him (and himself). Lucien responds to Faber like Faber is an omega (something Faber doesn't recognise yet), because Faber...kind of acts like one in moments like that. (Efnisien also picks up on this, Faber is not great to him in the beginning of Underline the Black, in a very specific way designed for Efnisien to pick up on, and for Gary to miss. Faber behaves jealously, and constantly suggests to Gary that he should get rid of Efnisien, before he finally adjusts to the absence of Gary in his life. Faber is possessive and manipulative!)

Lucien ultimately doesn't need any redeeming characteristics because he's a victim who is at Hillview to heal and Faber is jeopardising that. We can hate him, but that's just the fact. He didn't try to kill Kadek when he arrived at Hillview, he hasn't tried to destroy memories of James, things Efnisien has done even though we love him all the same (ideally). Lucien felt understandably jealous/insecure (literally the thing he's at Hillview to be treated for, safe from people who will be in love with his lover until Faber) and he lashed out meanly.

If a staff member of Hillview can't handle some rude words, they shouldn't work there.

But yeah, I like the Lucien and Faber encounter because they are both extremely similar people in some ways. They are both bitter, jealous, resentful people capable of very scathing thoughts (and words). The only difference is that in that moment, Faber is the recipient and we feel bad for him. I mean, I do feel bad for him. Faber is in a bad place psychologically, it's a horrible thing for him to experience.

If we were getting Lucien's story from his perspective, and saw the panic attacks he had afterwards, and the regression he went through, etc. it might be different. But it doesn't have to be! Lucien in that moment functions as a reality check for Faber, and a very effective one at that. We're meant to hate him, but also meant to understand that Faber's love for Caleb is not as subtle as he thinks it is in the sense that - omegas can see it for what it is.

I personally like the one moment where we see that Lucien might have a heart when Faber admits his parents are dead, and we can see that he doesn't react with savage satisfaction, but like Faber broke the narrative he'd built for himself in his own insecure, jealous, scared mind.

[littleyarngoblin]

Wait better as a an ask. Recipe for molasses cookies plz and thanks

Hello! Great Gram would be so happy her recipe is being shared. Fun fact: the original recipe called for oleo instead of vegetable oil, and did not include a yield or bake temperature & time. Or any directions, I’ll be honest. Classic Great Gram.

Great Gram’s Molasses Cookies

1 2/3 c. sugar

1 1/4 c. Veg oil

1/2 c. Light molasses

2 eggs

4 c. All purpose Flour (this recipe also works with gluten free flour—I prefer King Arthur)

4 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. Cinnamon

1 tsp. salt

1. Mix together sugar, veg oil, molasses, and eggs

2. Mix together the flour, soda, cinnamon, and salt. Add wet to dry and mix together until fully combined.

3. Form into 1” balls and roll in sugar.

4. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

NOTE: THIS MAKES ABOUT 100 COOKIES. DO NOT MAKE MY MISTAKES AND DOUBLE IT WITHOUT THINKING. Unless you’ve got a ton of people to foist them off on, I guess.

I’d love to hear how these go, if you make them :)

[deoidesign]

What’s your favorite animal?

goblin shark

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

Does Lunar ever have Night terrors about KC or the Blood Twins?

they are the reason he has them, so yes

[zaldritzosrose]

Choke on a dick and mind your business fucker

Good morning to you too nonnie, what pit did you crawl out of to bless my blog?

I'll cover the first part of your lovely message...do I get to choose the dick or is it pre chosen and I just wait to choke...? Because I have preferences.

Secondly, I barely give enough shits about my own business on any given day, nevermind anyone else's (outside the people who know who they are) so what makes you think I give a shit about yours?

Thanks for the lovely wake up this morning, I needed a good laugh!

[distort-opia]

It's very funny to do my planned absence report from the PhD program with motivation being 'personal reasons' when I'm actually desperate to have a week off so I can nosedive into all the comics I haven't been able to catch up on. Like sure, I need to figure out my future project, but whatever the hell Zdarsky is doing with Batjokes is keeping me up at night!!

And also I want to write. Fucked up the resolution of updating FTS once a month but maybe there's hope... how does one manage work-life balance in goddamn academia?? Will I need to take time off to write my stupid little fanfics every time or will I learn how NOT to be a workaholic?? Who will win, drowning out existential dread via working or drowning out existential dread via daydreaming about fictional men kissing?? Stay tuned--

[apple-spider-vinegar]

Please feel free to explain your reasoning! Bonus points: specify which version of the Spider-Man you're most familiar with (Raimi, TASM, comics, cartoons, Insomniac games) and if that influences your answer. I'm dying to know what people think.

[elderlyfish]

I don't often see 616 octogoblin fans, so I must ask: May I trouble you for some personal headcanons?

Yes!!! I've been waiting for an opportunity to share, I even have character sheets :3

Possible trigger warning for mention of self harm and abuse!!!

Along with old men in their underwear

•Norman and Otto are engaged but every time they try to plan a wedding they get into a fight and try to kill the other then they get flattered by how well they know the other and end up making out mid-fight

•Otto loves kidnapping Norman for no reason other than that he wants him all to himself

•Norman has minor vitiligo but it's more noticeable now after bonding with carnage

•In gay man terms, Otto is a bear and Norman is a muscle daddy

•Norman struggles with self-harm

*feeling he deserves it and manic episodes

*Guilt from being the Goblin

•Otto and Norman go back and forth buying coffee for each other

•Norman has freckles since he's a stupid ginger, but he tries to cover the ones on his face with makeup

•Otto has stretch marks and is embarrassed of his body but pretends not to care so he doesn't seem weak for having insecurities

•Norman adores Otto's body and may or may not have a thing for his weight (self-projecting😔)

•Otto likes how thin yet strong Norman is but fantasies snapping his limbs or tearing him apart (lovingly)

•Norman LOVES rats, they brought him crumbs when his dad locked him away as a kid, and now every time lab rats are brought in he steals them

•After Otto's accident he stalked Norman for a long time

•Norman knew but he liked that he wasn't alone

•Otto will get flustered so easily, that his whole face will tint pink and sweat more but he doesn't show an expression

•Norman buys Otto sweaters every year on his birthday even after they stopped talking

•Otto's got big brown eyes

•Norman's eye color changes according to his mood as an after-effect of the Goblin serum

(Blue=neutral/calm/happy)

(Brown=sad/stressed/irritated)

(Green=angry/delusional/psychotic)

• Otto's voice claim is Michael Dorn (specifically Battle Beast from Invincible)

•Norman sounds like Slade from the original Teen Titans show

Yell at me and maybe I'll make Doc Ock and Goblin designs

[ask-the-turnabout-terror]

How would things have been different if Apollo had been with Trucy when you adopted her? Could you have handled raising both? Especially considering Apollo likely wouldn’t have been as open to it as Trucy was.

“.. I think I would have been more open to Miles’ help.”