#how to response to reviews

[mobblespsycho100]

kabru as a pwnpd headcanon is genuinely so iconic that man rlly is odysseus' hubristic tendencies made manifest tbh . . .

[curiosity-killed]

Can I just take the rest of the day off because I want to throw tomatoes at certain coworkers

[boycritter]

if i dont get into [college redacted] im straight up dropping physics. that school is the only reason im taking this secret layer of hell disguised as a class. i am not gonna put myself through another semester of this bullshit if i dont have to.

[lemonisntreal]

heyo! Just found your blog and I was scrolling through your stuff and noticed your AU tone deaf. And I haven't found anything about what it is or what your idea is behind it. So I wanted to ask if you could give me an introduction to your AU!

Oh! And I absolutely love your artstyle and how you draw Buster! Anyway, hope you drink enough water and have a good day/night! ;)

Dear god this has been in my drafts for a while-

Hiya! Sorry for that lack of info lol, I'd been inactive for a long time, and the time that I actually WAS posting consistently was back when things were still being sorta fleshed out. But I've got a pretty good idea of how every single part moves at this point, so sure :D I'll give a not-so-brief summary lol [under a cut because I couldn't not dump multiple paragraphs teehee ~_~]

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Tone Deaf is like a dystopian version of Sing, if I were to put it super duper simply. One where Buster's issues get more emotional focus, and we get actual bonds with the cast because the movie forgot to do that.

Buster is, also, a lot more unhinged, fair warning. This fic's gonna contain violence and tackle some darker subjects [adjacent to grief and denial more specifically] so if it feels like I jumped a lot of sharks, it's because I 100% did.

It kinda started with me noticing how, in the actual movies btw, smaller characters like Buster and Mike had more difficulty getting around places. This led me to ask myself about how species differences could lead to struggles for certain animals since the city just isn't built for everyone [this is NOT Zootopia]. Ash's quills, and Meena's towering size were things I noticed too that would be massive problems, realistically. So after a lot of pondering, now we're here.

The world of Tone Deaf in present day is in a post-war period that's lasted about 50 years now [Crawly is actually a veteran from this war- which was more like complete and total anarchy if I'm being real, since there weren't really any sides until near the end...]

Long story short, the wealthy capitalized off of the war and taking people prisoner- so they purposefully kept it going. A resistance ended up forming to stand against this [Miss Crawly being one of the generals, with that classic missing eye] and after their army stormed the unsuspecting stronghold, the war finally began to conclude. It still took around a year after that to release all of the prisoners of war, and by the end of it all, the damage that had been done to some races was permanent. Even extinction-level in some cases- some animals just straight up don't exist anymore because of it.

Back to Calatonia. Laws that are in place to protect animals from tearing eachother apart are still relatively new, and the criminal underbelly of Calatonia is kinda out of control. Animals get kidnapped/poached, smaller animals are at a huge disadvantage and have basically no power [politically or otherwise], endangered species are a very real thing, poverty is a huge issue for most of the population- and in the middle of all this is Buster Moon.

He's gonna be the main perspective. And the story will also serve as a slight character study on him, mixed with my own grittier and batshit insane changes/headcanons/alternate universe ideas on his backstory. He's a ray of sunshine with a lot of bottled-up feelings that will kinda really take control of the story.

Buster has been arrested multiple times. He's been put in unsuccessful therapy. He's still grieving his dad. He's committing crime and compulsively lying about those illegal actions too. He has emotional difficulties that he hasn't dared try touching on in years, and he has issues with letting go- which, is kinda how all of his new problems come to be.

The threat of his theater being repossessed if his show isn't a success gets a LOT more emphasis too.

But on top of that is the added threat of Buster getting sent out of the city if he can't get his business up and running. Remember how I mentioned endangered animals?? Well Koalas are one of them. One of the big ones, actually. He's the only Koala in a city of almost five hundred thousand, and it's been that way for almost half a decade now. It's been causing issues for the people in charge for half a decade now. Koalas have government-protected settlements far away from here due to their numbers being so few, so if Buster loses the theater? That's the next step for him.

But, to help this poor dude through all the stress of life is the found-family he develops with the cast he hired. He helps them for a lot of the first act, and then they give back his kindness in the second. They connect through their similar experiences, as well as their shared passion for music and performance. And by the end, maybe Buster's okay. Or maybe he's had a complete downward spiral [not gonna speak of act three 🥰]

Other characters have also had a shift in their dynamics. Things in the story have changed. Like for instance- Gunter already knew Buster and was a close friend of him and Eddie before the show, Judith is now the mayor and a main character, Pete has been put in place of the banker in charge of Buster's accounts, Buster unfortunately gets involved in politics, Mike actually gets to bond with the cast- actually the cast gets to bond with the cast point blank period [idc what you say, this just straight up doesn't happen in the canon movies], and to top it all of is a generous helping of angst with a few acts of violence sprinkled in 🤭

The actual Act I summary is this right now:

Buster had been in tight situations before-- suffocating situations, even. He’d been in every kind of trouble imaginable, he thought. With family, friends, local businesses, the law. But he'd always wormed his way out, either through loopholes or by charm. Or usually just by stacking another lie on top of his already crumbling facade. But this time it's gonna take more than a cover-up to fix this. ‏‏‎ Buster’s dishonesty takes him too far once again, a simple typo causing him to unintentionally land himself in a wager that could cost his very life. He has two months to fix this- to ACTUALLY fix this. And the worst part is that he hadn't even meant to lie this time. ‏‏‎ The First Act of Tone Deaf.

TLDR; Buster learns to love again after experiencing the horrors of animalkind firsthand and being healed by theater kids LMFAO

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

should i sleep for a hundred million years or purposefully stop sleeping just to see what happens

[liesonthefloordramatically]

Forward, backward, take three steps Shimmy to the right, witness the void Void's got style, void can dance Void wears tearaway pants The void consumes all realities Which includes up 'till now 7 billion belinis But if you're too scared to dance Don't worry, just relax Close your eyes, open your mind Brace yourself and clap three times

[lunarlegend]

i think i accidentally got someone in trouble in real life and i feel sort of bad about it

[shameboree]

“ive never had a hyperfixation ever in my life” i say having been neurotically obsessed w prions and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies since i was actually for real 6 years old. i think about protein misfolding once a day at MINIMUM. blorbos come and go but prions are Literally forever

[this-doesnt-endd]

Kinda screwed myself w studying for my exam tomorrow i shouldve started earlier like a day or so ago but its not till 2 tomorrow and like i do work but once my coworker gets there theyll let me study more then my other coworker gets there so i wont have to do anything and like i took the practice test cold no preperation just to see where i stood and i only got like 8 wrong out of 30 which isnt great but for taking it cold and not having watched 3 of the unit videos id say thats pretty good.

[im-on-your-side-always]

paul marks

[theood]

you wanna talk about the House Hen? Lets talk about the House!

It has been 10 months and it doesnt stop I keep reading this fucking thing and connecting more dots

YEAAAAH I need need need to finish it. Everyone pray tomorrow I'm taken over by a beast again. There's so much to SAY about the chunk I read. The thoughts I have about Navidson and his relationship to the house, how it changed, Johnny's slipping of reality, lying, forgetting, omitting, forgetting he didn't say, what's even real anymore? Or, how when Navidson was assuming he was already dead (I mean, of course he is. Who witnesses his own death), his blabbering went right to his brother. Where is Tom? Is this where you ended up? Don't look down. Always the funny one. Always the self-sacrifice. Whisked away. He was his brother's keeper. Of course it was followed with Karen. And you can't count the ramblings of a man facing his own death but also. Doomed from the start. Always. The text was warning us. RAUGH. Those two made me think of another pair of siblings in different media

[softness-and-shattering]

Im 20something hours into bg3 but I might need to restart. I didnt realise there was a toggleable option to allow multiclassing so I cannot multiclass myself or anyone else. In dnd I tend to multiclass a lot. And im really struggling w party composition only being four, everyone only really has one specialty and I never know am I going into combat or somewhere trapped do I need arcana or beast speech. Level four and no multiclassing, Im getting the itch.

Im inexperienced in this size of game, Ive never put 20+ hours into something and then restarted completely. So its intimidating. But Im also playing warlock which I chose because Im not super familiar with it, but I am struggling with how to play it. Picked up a decent sword and make it my pact weapon but dont have hp to tank, dont have enough spells to do big damage or good support. I like a charisma/dex build but maybe I go rogue or paladin (idk if dex paladin works in the game) or Ive never played a bard, they have a lot more spells.

Also not that many subclass options but I get it the games already huge. (Like I wanted to diguise self as thr goblin prisoner and waltz into the goblin camp but nope cant be a specific person, only a "masc or femme" of a race. Like thats still a binary. I guess they could be trans and we'd never know but like. Its like how some games (this one?) just swaps the word gender for style) (also let me play a fat character boo)..

I think thats the extent of ny ramble/infodump atm

[thestitchesart-chive]

on another note I am scouring all of idw2 and screenshotting all of the panels containing cyclonus and ghost co so I can figure out their dynamics and I find it funny how they just spend most of their time arguing in the back of cyclonus's head

[themyscirah]

This week's Outsiders fucked heavily imo

[thespoonisvictory]

lowkey 7 hour videos essays r embarrassing to me... to be coherent is to be concise! I didn’t have time to write you a short letter so I wrote you a long one!