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"an adventure in a teapot"
art for 🫖 The Trouble with Truffle Tea 🍵
#more tea anyone?#the tea is sex tea#ignore the perspective on these rings pls#i did not have great refs#but i had a vision#and that's what counts#sketch#my art#my fic#both are slightly unhinged#like my rook#emmrich volkarin#da4 emmrich#dragon age emmrich#emmrich the necromancer#emmrich romance#emmrich x rook#emmrook#datv fanart#dav fanart#emmrich fanart#emmrich fanfic#emmrich fic#emmrich smut
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The concept of not being able to be near the people you care about and having the only people around you be ones you can’t stand. Hm. Definitely don’t know that one (I’m exaggerating shhh).
#art#artist#gay#fanart#malevolent#hit podcast malevolent#Fun fact this is based on an actual real life photo of me and my father!#Don’t worry my father and I have a great relationship/gen#Also I have never drowned in a bathtub.#vent art disguised as malevolent fanart why can’t it be both#isolation or whatever haha#this is not my best work BECAUSE I did it in like fifteen minutes because drawing from photo ref makes me itchy
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This is probably just full programmer projection but how pissed do you think Turbo was when fifth gen games started rolling into the arcade? Guy takes all this time to learn code and learn the different assembly languages like z80 and 6502 and maybe even m68k and he's probably reaching a point where he thinks he has it all figured out.
And then around the mid-ish 90s games along the same vein as Sugar Rush start coming out.
And now not only are they running on an assembly language Turbo had probably not seen before (MIPS), but they're also being programmed mostly in C, a completely different language that he will be learning for the first time without the help of any book or reference cards.
And so now he's almost worse off, because not only does he have to juggle figuring out which MIPS opcodes are the same and which opcodes are different from the previous assembly languages he learned (and handling 32 bit architecture) but now he's also gotta learn what inline embedding is and how to do it in a language he is only now encountering.
Oh to be a fly on the wall (or bug in the code lmao) when he was dealing with that.
#wreck it ralph#turbo wir#headcanons#full projection at this point but I'm having fun lol#bc Turbo canonically knowing how to code will never not be fun for me#there's just so much I can add onto him from that angle it's great#especially the idea of Turbo fucking up the opcodes with the different assemblers#bc they can be really close and then you'll get to the one part where it diverges and not realize it#and that's even with the ref cards within reach. this guy had none of that how many mistakes did he make?#I wanna audit the code he wrote
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OTHER DESIGNS: Baby bunny Trucy, Uendo lizard, Prosecutors, Aura Blackquill, Clay Terran, Bobby Fulbright, Skye Sisters, Valant Gramarye, Iris Wilson, Datz Are'bel, Mael Stronghart, Enoch Drebber, Satoru Hosonaga, Wocky Kitaki
AUXILIARY POSTS: modpoppy's Uendo, okartichoke's Caracalvier, Iris 1.0
Compiled here is almost every single design sketch I've done for this... AU? It's my nonsense, take it or leave it! The tag for it is "#The Great Detective's Animal Attorney", but the prefix is mostly for filtering, I just call it "Animal Attorney".
I must disclaim that this is not meant to "compete" with any other AUs or designs! They're all real and I hope my dognix can be friends with yours.
The below post has my designs for the Gavin brothers, Maya, Franziska, Phoenix, Athena, Sholmes, Lord van Zieks, aaand a teeny Harebrayne. Sadly, no Apollo this time, all his art is doodles and I hit image limit anyways! Him and Trucy may get their own post soon, however!
These were all done with my non-dominant hand, and Athena was done on a Magma board, if that explains the anything.
The Gavins are the first ones I really did, and they're both caracals! I've kinda wanted to go back and change Klavier a bit in regards to an insane headcanon, but caracalvier is too iconic like this, I just can't do it
Putting Maya and Fran together, cause they're both kitties! If Maya was a specific breed, then I forgot, but Fransizka (and her dad, by extension) are both oriental longhairs. If I weren't presently injured, I'd draw a scrungly Manfred, but alas your mind's eye will have to do the work.
Phoenix is a puppy dog! Very very nearly made him a hyena... But I couldn't. I couldn't reconcile it with Ryunosuke. I have a Yeenix in the back, for any interested parties
LASTLY for my main-series designs is Athena! She's a seal. I don't think I had a specific reason besides not being able to get ears to fit with that ponytail... Might change her to a sea lion, though!
AAAAND TGAA BONUSES... Aka the Barokorn Cinematic Universe
Sholmes is a lion (with his sad little low testosterone mane)! He was easily the hardest, as I went back and forth... Alot. He was a pigeon at first! I contemplated rabbit..? But I tried to steer away from the mascot designs, generally. I'm happy with the decision of lion, however, mostly cause it gives him fun symbolism with the whole Professor thing.
The van Zieks-es are unicorns, and Bunnybrain is a pony! I could go more in-depth, buuut that's kinda spoilery
Ryunosuke and Kazuma (not pictured) are both puppy dogs, and I think I settled on bunny for Susato?? To make her pops a bunny also? I also have some sketches of her as a sugar glider, but I don't really like most of their art 👎 so there's a couple gaps here
If anyone wants to (??!?!?!!) you can use these designs for pretty much anything you want (and feel free to extrapolate upon the rest of their designs, most of these are very limited), just make sure to tag me, partially for credit, but also because I'd just REAAAALLY want to see... They are my babies, my world, I think I might break down into tears (/pos) BUT ANYWAYS I LOVE YOU ALL. THANK YOU FOR STICKING WITH ME AND I HOPE THIS MAYBE MOTIVATES YOU TO DRAW SOME SILLY ANIMAL ATTORNEYS OF YOUR OWN!!
#aka watch my injuredness + skill in my left hand fluctuate LOL#I'M SO SORRY ARTICHOKE I HOPE IT'S WORTH THE WAIT#IF the reception continues to be positive‚ I'll make more posts with more doodles and designs!#and that last little bit is a lie partially. i actually made a full ref sheet for dogzuma BUT I'M TOO SHY TO POST IT LOL#The Great Detective's Animal Attorney#for sitting through my madness YOU GET EDGEWORTH LORE cause i didn't like the art i did for him way back#he's a borzoi / collie mix‚ but since he was raised around cats‚ his grasp on dog body language is questionable#he thinks tail ''flicks'' (wags) = mental stimulation so he thinks he's soooo subtle and nobody knows what he's thinking#wait i do actually have a sketch of that#LMK AND I'LL DROP IT#and please any questions / comments on anything here ARE APPRECIATED... I'M SO CRAZY !!!!!!!!#ace attorney#the great ace attorney#i... dont wanna tag everyone. that feels greedy#if you have any requests for fuller designs / designs for other characters LMK and ill see what i can do!! >:]#the deduction of art
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Concept: instead of making a mid design for a whole new kingdom cookie that borrows a trope another cookie in ovenbreak already has, you could just make a mid costume for the ovenbreak cookie and add her to kingdom instead
#my art#Idgi like actually this is exactly what they did for cream puff w great results#and walnut really would fit in kingdom now. she wouldnt have 3 yrs ago but she really does now#anyway. i kept the briefcase but the refs to linzer cookies in the design i replaced w mince pies
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well, you can see it!
#art#my art#artists on tumblr#digital art#pink space#practicing... [melts away]#no i did not reference the shading in the actual ref. 'why not' dude i actually do not know lmaoo - it's pretty lazy but that's#practice babyyyy :33#//it's also 4 a.m. rn isn't that neat hghfsh#i fell asleep at like 7 or 8 and then got woken up around 10 or 11 so i guess i just don't sleep anymore lolll#ay but i finished this so that's :D !#i just need a full front ref for this thing and i KNOW i can do this i knowww itttt hbhhfsv#glammed her up because she deserves it. look at her :33#this Did take me like 2 hours i am not great at details hfhhfhsv#no i'm not going to use half of them (lord i hope not) but it was nice anyway :D#it's nice both turning off my brain but also having to use it to full capacity to be sure i'm not missing like an entire wheel before i#start colouring Lmaooo <3#this Was fun though and i like how it's turned out! maybe i'll do more vehicle studies at some point. did one for a 67 pontiac the other da#and that was fun :D those old boxy cars are sooo nice to draw hfsh#//anyway. [jiggles away into the fog]
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next time i sit down to draw something bc 'it'll be a nice challenge' i need to ask myself do i want a challenge rn?
#turns out it did not#drawing a character i'm not confident drawing yet as part of a multi character pose DANGLING UPSIDEDOWN???#with ref im working off of having some less then clear anatomy??#kons also there and he looks great already#i will come back to it but things were not working and forcing it was not going to help
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my art from the na vs art party!! took me a lil bit cuz i wanted to color it and that meant cleaning up the sketches and then i wanted to shade them and hajsksldhaflk
the characters from left to right:
Quinn Teeling - @sunsrefuge
Ambrose Wolfsbane - @commander-gloryforge
Finnegän - @pinecone-enthusiast
Astrëllä - @ohpollenpowder
#vsartparty#gw2#guild wars 2#others ocs#my art#also!!! please let me know if i got any of the names or tumblrs wrong!! especially ambrose cuz i didn’t get the name in my ref screenshot#i did go thru the art party tag to find the character i drew and i’m like 99% sure it’s ambrose but if it’s not him i’m SO SORRY#ahhh i hope people like them ajhsjalakf#like i know that getting art of ur oc is usually great no matter what but i get anxious lol#also i used a new shading technique and idk how i feel about it#like i like how i blended out the edges and stuff#but i might have to play with using different colors in different areas instead of just using the same purple lol#really happy with how i did the hair this time tho!! i feel like i usually like hair better in the sketching phase#cuz it’s all loose and rough and messy#i just feel like i get the shape and idk vibe? of the hair better then#and when i get to lines or shading i feel like i end up making the hair too solid? like i lose the flowy-ness of the hair and stuff#anyway i think i did pretty good with it this time tho!! i liked adding the highlights a lot :)#…i actually kinda was referencing an old how to draw manga book i got when i was 11#listen. it was one of the good ones and had actually good tips and info#and the way it showed shading hair kinda influenced me here and i think it worked!#oh wow i really rambled in the tags this time#there’s a reason my personal texts posts (at least on my main) are tagged as ‘regan rambles’
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[Image description: a digital drawing of Thomas and Varian from Transatlantic in sepia tones. Thomas is sitting on a sofa smoking, one leg bent and resting on the couch. In his right hand he has an open book and in his left he's holding Varian's glasses. He seems to have just looked up from his book at a new arrival. Varian is lying on the couch, his head on Thomas's thigh, and sleeping while covered by a cardigan. End description.]
that awkward moment when you boyfriend said he'd just lie down for a second and totally wouldn't fall asleep (he has so much work to do, he can't take naps), but now he's been sleeping for an hour and your leg is cramping so badly but you don't have the heart to wake him because he's been exhausted for weeks
#transatlantic#lovefry#thomas lovegrove#varian fry#transatlantic varian fry#transatlantic 2023#varian took his outer clothes off bcs he didnt want to wrinkle them bcs theres no time to get them ironed#but he forgot to take off his glasses and now thomas has just been holding them bcs the nightstand is on varian's side#as always hello to the rest of the family of 5 (our fandom)#i always get extra excited to share stuff bcs ik yall will see it and be excited too#anywayy i felt kinda bad today so i went onto the balcony and just sketched a bunch of ideas#that have been on my mind for ages#this wasnt one of them but as i did my warmup i just ended up drawing them fully in my style no refs#and it came out kinda cute so i did it digital to fix it bcs digital canvases can rly easily be adjusted unlike sketchbooks lol#the ideas that have been haunting me since i watched ta is something to do w how they met (lovefry i mean)#and just a couple varian pieces bcs all the chars are great but i love him especially so so much#i watched julia drawfee's class on poster design and now i also write down words that come to my mind lol#its v fun#i considered shading this piece but it started getting muddy immediately so i just left it as is#dan draws
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i’m a bit late to the party but i’m on artfight hi let’s throw rocks (drawings) at each other and have so much fun okay? yay!
#i intended to do a redraw of the cover art for deco27's Vampire but then i couldn't figure out how to put a mask on a furry.#so. i did my best.#my previous attempts at artfight didn't go super great becauseof THINGS Happening every july but i'm determined this year >:)#i should make more refs of my ocs i have so many but they live in my head and they're all almost for Books so like#their designs aren't? necessarily always eye-catching the way primarily visual ocs are??#they also aren't necessarily super concrete like a lot of finer details are up in the air because they're not important to Writing#so when i DO make oc refs. i have to balance making them interesting while staying true to what's in my head while also solidifying those#more nebulous details. and it's A Lot it's very time consuming and exhausting#anyway#doodles
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Getting back into comics is fun. Minus the Getting Back Into Comics part of it all
#ramblings of a lunatic#fascinating opinions from everyone. truly every death threat over characterization is in proportion and within reason#sorry just. I've seen things#i think dc tumblr might be one of the only fandoms I've seen where it's equally as toxic as it's twitter counterpart#but on the other hand. funny and pretty drawings <3#I'm generally taking a ''its not that deep unless i feel like it'' approach to comics#not everything needs to be high art and i can excuse work where i maybe don't agree with certain aspects or portrayals#as long as i can find some kind of value in it#which i think you genuinely can in most comics#i think maybe we should all just drink some water. y'know?#anyway i read stargirl: the lost children (was very good! i didn't get most of the golden age refs-#-and also i. didn't know i had to read the sprinbreak special but! besides that! i enjoyed it!-#-todd naucks art is great (i have yj98 stockholm syndrome for it <3) and i like courtney and emiko being friends!-#-also SECRET MENTION WOOOOO GRETA HAYES STANS STAY WINNING(???do we???)#uhhh what else#ooh i read truth & justice no.6 which was a fun story w/ Damian and the batfam!#characterization was off but in a ''we're playing things fast and loose for comedy's sake'' plus they did great work w/ damian#i definitely get why some ppl are sad he's losing some of his surly and more formal edge in his character voice#but i think I'm cool with it tho I'd like if it was maybe casually addressed in story as part of his character development#he's let his guard down. he talks like a shitty teen and not an 18th century warlord now. he's picked up some nightwingisms#he's not crushingly insecure and by consequence violent and vicious anymore#but like again I'd like it acknowledged slightly but that's just me. i at least appreciate all the affection his current writer-#-Joshua Williamson has for damian. like i read adam glass' teen titans run (bad. btw <3) you don't know how comforting this is to me#he called Damian his little babyman on a podcast and i nearly jumped out of my seat thinking ''HES JUST LIKE ME FOR REAL!!!''#he clearly bases most of his work with damian off of tomasi's work with the character which is comforting i think#where was i going with this#anyway yeah. comics tumblr is WILD there is no way you guys are ever getting me to go there full time ever again#once I figure out how to draw dc characters (again... it's been so long) then it's OVER for you bitches
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Looped Wrecking Ball by Mother Mother for three hours and now there’s guys
#just me#look I drew a thing#ballad brothers#Kyrie Ballad#(x5)#Alonzo Ballad#(x4)#Ari Finch#(x4 again)#fun fact the finch family portrait is reffed off of my great great grandparents and my little sister#Alonzo diagnosed guy who’s so low-level pissed off all the time but has the biggest wettest eyes imaginable#I don’t have anything to say about Kyrie I just think it’s Neat when women have stubble#did I already post this#I thought I posted it last night but I can’t find it
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those pks killed me
#wwc23#ausfra#australia v france#wwc 23#wwc2023#wwc 2023#vicki becho i love you don’t let this last missed shot male you think you played a bad world cup#you did great#also i have beef with the ref she was soooo playing for the australians#they kicked le sommer in the nose they tried to break karchaoui's ankle twice they kicked renard in the forehead#not to talk about the hand by an australian player that should have given france a pk but oh well#or about the cancelled goal.
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and we go right back at it !!
#just me hi#redoing the refs i Did last finish for ats+artfight because there were some parts i didn't like and i want to add little bonus outfits :D#//btw do NOT drink a lot of liquids if you don't like the Repercussions. they're. Repercussing#i have had a lot of tea today and ououuhrrghhhhhhhh [<- dying dramatically]#//also i keep tweaking character designs lmao--#oath + aura's last refs are pretty much up to date but kira + hid's are old compared to that and will just Not do hhfhsv#/OUh just sneezed so hard rn#//oh it may not be clear but i'm not up at 3 a.m. hfsh#Yet#it only turned twelve some something minutes ago so we survive for now :3👍#//YE but i gotta get on it now if i wanna be anywhere by tomorrow lol-#i think i'll watch the tomorrow people while i do that#i found the other day it has three seasons?? here i am thinking 'i'm almost done :)' Dude... hfbvsh#it Is interesting though i like it for that :3 really good for my background watching lol#the Saint is great and i haven't finished that either but it was getting stale and i would like to enjoy it hfhs#//anywho off and about now#toodles :3
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if re6 gets a remake i hope they use leon's newer game face model
the engine the used made him look like hell sometimes, absolutely loved his face there tho, and he's such a snack and a hella dilf and AHHH
edit: i dont think i got my point across in my happy rambles but i personally did not like the look of re6 in general? the visual effects. imo, not that it should matter, there were ugly face moments? it felt awkward, idk. (art doesn't have to be sexy all the time tho!! shouldn't have to be!! everyone can look feral and unhinged as hell)
#re6#i did enjoy re6 a lot honestly#at least leon and chris' campaigns#unfortunately jake/sherry and ada's were a nightmare i was so irritated#chris/piers was annoying too but easier and i wish they were boyfriends and piers lived#leon/helena i loved they had a great partnership imo???#leon was a grouchy bitch but he had reason to be#helena was cool and fucking tragic#but they seemed like they worked well with each other and very good friends#i hope they friends afterwards i would honestly like to see her return#also i have a hard time seeing leon as genuinely flirty towards her or anyone really abgshdgbfghs i stand by that#in my head he don't know how to socialize very well and comes across as flirty#also platonic f/m relationships are dope#this is simply sparked by the urge to draw dilf leon with a headband/hair clips#also i think he counts as a dilf since he had that guardian relationship with sherry#i love refrigerators (old meme ref + using it as a 'wow i am passionate about hyperfixation)
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i did wrestling in middle school. on one hand, i was actually quite good at it, which was nice. being good at any sport was a new achievement for me. on the other hand, i was bi, and i was trying very hard not to notice that i was bi, and getting folded into knots by very kind, very muscular dorks made that task somewhat difficult.
adding fire to the problem was that my parents and my grandparents wanted to watch my matches, because they were very proud that their Gangly Nerd Son was actually Sporting, and they wanted to cheer me on. which would've been sweet and all, but if there are four people you do not want there during a key part of your Burgeoning Sexual Awakening, it is your mom and your dad and your grandma and your grandpa.
right? i mean, imagine some guy's got your head in his armpit, and you're going you know, old sweat smells bad, but fresh sweat has a sort of and then you make eye contact with your grandpa in the stands and you remember you're swearing spandex so if you pop a boner people aren't just going to be able to see the outline, they're going to be able to count the veins, and the only way you will be able to restore your family's honor after that would be by moving to siberia and renouncing joy, forever. that, or lift your entire body up by your kneck then twist 180 degrees without paralyzing yourself.
it’s a lot of pressure, is what i’m saying.
still it did motivate me to win my matches really fast. because i was so tall and skinny, i was stupidly good at the double leg takedown, and then once someone was knocked down, i'd just do the half nelson and kind of flip em over for the pin. then the ref would count to three and i’d win. EZPZ.
i had one match where that went great. won in the first ten seconds, sat back down, and prepared myself for a good hour or two of doing fuck all. didn't even feel bad the parents/grandparents were gonna be bored. the matches went up from me in 5 pound increments (i was in the 115 lbs division) and it was going great until we got to the 145 lbs division. the other school's wrestler stepped onto the mat, and she turned out to be a girl so our guy flipped, because for straight guys, wrestling a girl is not a pleasant experience.
i'm not entirely unsympathetic. my experience wrestling dudes was definitely a little traumatic. but also, i dealt. guy could've dealt too. instead, he refused to wrestle, and the coach went - fine. not even worth fighting over.
so he went to the 140 pounder, and that guy said, nosir, my mom said mormons can't wrestle girls. next guy down, 135 pounder, now he knew he could pull the same card and thus did. 130 pounder, 125, both tapped out. he got to the 120 guy, and that guy was catholic, but he said he was considering being mormon, and thus would have to pass. as a precaution.
coach blew up a little at that. he said "is there anyone - anyone - on this entire goddamn team that is willing to wrestle a girl?" and then he pointed at me and said "YOU. MAT. GO."
and i'll be real, if i'd been paying more attention, i'd have pulled the mormon card too, but i'd just been putting all that audio into a buffer file because i was reading, so i was halfway across the mat before i even processed what had been said and by then it was too late to turn back.
still i had a plan. and my plan - my beautiful, perfect plan - was to do what i'd always done. tackle, flip, pin, win. sit down. read. bore my family to death. move on.
i got the first part right. she was bigger than me, but she wasn't taller. just an incredibly stout woman. god built me like a snake with glasses, just as he built her like a combat cube. the problem was the half nelson. soon as she was down, i tried hooking my arm under hers from behind and for both genders, the defense for this move is just clamping your arms really fucking tight against your sides. if you're a guy, that's whatever, but if you're a girl - especially if you're god's chosen combat cube - that pins your opponents hand right against your boob.
so, i got the hook in, she clamped, my whole arm pressed against something soft, my coach was yelling THE HALF NELSON. BABYLON! JUST FINISH IT! FINISH THE HALF NELSON! and i was just trying to press hard enough to finish, when then my brain went
...oh.
and i flipped out. of course i flipped out. i like girls, and touching a boob is an elemental experience, and i was not ready. i was not prepared. i had not committed the sacred rites. i recoiled like i'd just brushed my arm against the surface of the sun, stood up, and backed away. nobody in the room knew why i'd given up. all they saw was me, right about to win, suddenly flailing around and scrambling. so everyone started screaming at me to just get the half nelson again, and i couldn't really yell back there's a fuckin' boob in the way and it was very distressing, and the only way i could think of to make them stop was just doing it over again the right way.
so i did.
i hunkered down and prepared myself for Wrasslin' Attempt #2: The Sequel.
i knocked her down again, EZPZ. i went for the half nelson again, but she knew what i was about to do so she super clamped, and i knew she was gonna super clamp, so i wound my arm back like a pop-eye cartoon punch before swinging my arm through the gap between her bicep and her side, but the amount of time i spent winding back super signalled what i was about to to do, which gave her time to clamp even harder, which somehow redirected the entire force of the popeye punch to the bottom of her bra.
it spat out a single boob the same way an action hero might spit out one single tooth after getting a solid crack across the jaw. as if to say:
*ptooie.* "that all you got?"
i did not actually see this. my experience was that first there was an arm, then there was a bit of boob, but i was braced, i was ready, forward at all costs, tatakae motherfuckers, and then the boob went away, and i didn't know where it went but my team, and the audience, and everyone who was in front of me, they all gasped like i just kicked them in the stomach. except for my coach. he was behind me, and thus one of the four people in the room who did not see the boob. now my mom, my dad, my grandma, and my grandpa, they all got flashed but nooooooo, coach thunderbutt was behind me, and he didn't see shit so he was still yelling NOOOOOO BABYLON WHAT ARE YOU DOING JUST FINISH THE NELSON! GO FOR THE KILL! BABYLON! BABYLON!
but i did not go for the kill. i stood up and she stuffed her boob back real fast, and we just kind of circled each other awkwardly until time ran out and i won on points. that's not technically allowed, but the ref had some mercy on me.
my coach did not.
i barely had time to sit down before he strode over to the bench to chew me out.
"babylon," he said, in that very calm way people get when they're too pissed to yell. "why didn't you pin?"
and i didn't know how to say well coach, i tried, but there was a boob, and it kept getting in the way, and my mom was watching, and so was my dad, and so was his dad, and his mom, and god (like bible god) and that's a can of worms because i'm pretty sure he was already mad at me, and i'm wearing spandex, and i think i might have to move to siberia, so instead i said
"i uh. i forgot how to do the half nelson."
which is actually impossible. forgetting how to do the half nelson is like forgetting how to swallow your spit.
and he looked at me, like i was the dumbest person in the entire world, and i looked through him like i'd just survived my 250th day in a trench at verdun, and he said: fine.
fine.
but we're all going to practice it for an hour tomorrow because you forgot.
and then he left.
and my buddies had the gall to be salty about it. i got so many comments saying "dude, why didn't you just tell him the truth?" and i said "you can if you care so damn much. you could've wrestled the girl too. maybe someone else should do the hard thing today."
but they didn't. so the next day, we did an hour of half nelson drills, and i spent a decent amount of time getting thrown around the mat, and it was pleasant in exactly the way that i hated and the year after that, to the surprise of everyone but myself, i quit wrestling and joined the trivia team.
and if you want more reasons to love my mom, my grandpa joked after the match that i might have to talk to my bishop about it, and my mom told him he would be allowed to make jokes after he stood in front of a crowd of 110 people in spandex underpants while wrestling a woman that was not his wife.
he paused for almost five seconds after that. then he said: aw. hell. sorry babylon.
and i'd have preferred my apology from god, but getting it from him was pretty good too.
#whew boy this make me anxious just typing it#wrestling#middle school#the dread#i feel like i have to write some stories about my grandpa not being a dick#because he was actually an amazing grandpa#he just had a few goofs are very comedic moments#and you know if you're gonna have a goof making it comedic is a virtue in itself#he was there for me more than a lot of my classmates dads were#and i dont want that undervalued#yeah#babylon-lore
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