hiii happi!!! brainrot goes crazy so… grant and terry for the ship ask game perhaps…
Oak. Takes you gently by the shoulders and kisses you on the forehead /p. You are so real for this brainrot <333
Ship It / Don't Ship It
What made you ship it?
Actually, I started shipping these two while I was still making my way through s1! In circumstances when I would be too sleepy to pay attention while listening, I would comb through the dndads tag on ao3 in chronological order (so I didn't spoil myself) and came across a one-sided s1 Grant/Terry fic. I thought the dynamic was so sweet and really adored the idea of these two caring for each other, even if things were to be tragic or unrequited. And then, s2 happened, and. Well. Things certainly got a lot more tragic, didn't they?
What are your favorite things about the ship?
I'm sure this is going to be a common denominator for nearly all of these asks, but as previously stated, I really enjoy the dynamic of these two. By the end of s1, we see Terry become one of the most emotionally mature of the kids, while Grant has become deeply depressed and almost numb to anything outside of violence. I think that that dichotomy between those two extremes really lends itself well to shipping them - and whether it becomes something healthy or more toxic is equally intriguing to me!
Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?
Hm. Honestly, I don't know enough about Popular Opinions of this pairing to say any of my opinions on them are completely unpopular. That said, I feel like the potential for them as part of a poly dynamic could be interesting - with either or both of their current spouses or with someone else!
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Today is Dungeons & Daddies’s 5th Anniversary!
I haven’t been listening for nearly that long but the podcast and all its characters means a lot to me. Happy Anniversary!!!
Throwing the cropped sections under the cut because there’s a lot of stuff going on and I know Tumblr likes to throw half the pixel quality out the window. And also so I can ramble a bit about this piece!!!
This piece has been months in the making, possibly an entire year. And by that I mean I’ve had a sketch of the comp scribbled on my whiteboard for ages because I wanted to save this specifically for 5th anni art. Now onto design stuff!
(First off a random thought: I really love how the garlic knot came out, I kind of want it as an enamel pin.)
I knew I wanted to make this a stained glass piece since the beginning, but I was also going to add flowers at one point but quickly dropped the idea. It felt like too much and I also didn’t want to fuss over flower language assignments for everyone. I was also going to add Doodler tentacles, but also dropped that idea pretty early. Kind of on accident, right at the end, I figured out how to make it even more stained glass-like but taking a duplicated lineart underneath the regular layer and turning the brightness all the way down, then setting it to overlay and adding a guassian blur. It’s very subtle but it adds that tiny bit of depth that makes it look more real. As for shading on the lineart/gold, I tried adding more highlight on the characters who died but once I evened everything out it wasn’t as noticeable anymore so I’m throwing that thought here so the attempt at least known lol.
The order of characters only changed a little bit from my original comp, I flipped the Wilsons and the Oaks so the rainbow could work. As for the anchors, specifically in season 2, I lined them up to the teens since the season 1 anchors lined up with each dad:
Tony —> Scary: his death was the beginning of Scary’s betrayal arc and also Willy killed him.
Guitar Pick —> Taylor: it’s not really aligned with Taylor at all, but the anchor was with Glenn so I put it next to his blunt.
Scroll —> Normal: was only because it was the last left to give him, but there’s the whole scene of him and Hermie in the Green Room so it still works!
Garlic Knot —> Link: one of two that he broke, but the more significant of the two with him telling Grant he never wants to see him again.
Small notes on the season 1 anchors: I put the layer of mold in the overnight oats but you can’t really tell with the overlay. And to make the supper bowl more interesting I added the fantasy sodas mix they dumped into it. The lure of actually drawn before so I just traced my own art lol.
As for the other smaller triangles, it took me a bit to figure out what I wanted to put there. I didn’t even think of adding the vehicles until two days ago but I’m so glad I did. I don’t really have my own take on the mascot version of the Doodler (yet?) so I borrowed the design from one of the stickers in their merch shop. Teeny was terrifying as just a front facing head so I made him cute again.
In the outer circles, I put what I felt was the most significant quotes for each family. I really wanted to use “It’s okay to be angry, it’s not okay to be cruel” but it was just a little too long.
That’s all I can think of! If you read all the way through, thank you for indulging me in my excitement to gush over this piece.
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