#i mean bug in the least technical definition!

[kabr0ztrousers]

Loved the portal pussy. Could we maybe do one with a tentacle type? Maybe grocery shopping or she falls asleep and forgets it's on or something. Whatever you want. Thank you!!!!

Kabr0z Writes episode 86: Shopping Trip

Find the rest of the Kabr0z Writes anthology here!

CWs: portal sex; public sex; freeuse; exhibitionism; excessive cum; cumulation; tentacles; cervical penetration

A/N: This story references a previous one, Episode 53: Hornyposting - it's not required reading, but it's one I really enjoyed writing, and I think you'll enjoy reading

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Another fruitful day of scrolling your favourite forums. You'd had such success last time, even if it did get you thrown out of a chain coffee shop. This time you'd found something very interesting indeed: apparently your portal could be tuned between channels, technically it's a bug, but if done just right you can set yourself as a wildcard of sorts. If you tune it just right, you can intercept a session and instead of tuning to the expected recipient, they get you.

At least, that's the theory. All the forums had to go off was a notice from the manufacturer asking people not to try it, and a dozen or so posts from other forum members telling you to do it anyway. It's worth it.

There's no way of knowing when someone would tune in, that's part of the thrill. You walked in to the supermarket, pushing a trolley ahead if you when you hit the button. Normally nothing would happen until someone else connected, this time it felt strange, like a warm fizzing static humming against your folds. It wasn't unpleasant, quite the opposite, but it definitely wasn't the usual experience.

You were turning onto the tins aisle when something started happening. The buzzing intensified for a moment, the sudden increase in sensation making you gasp a little. Something wet parted your lips, tracing a cold line towards your clit, rising back out before it reached your button. You shuddered, anticipation rising in you. Did this person know you're not who they meant to get? Were they tuned between channels like you, looking to see what they'd get?

The tip came back, accompanied by another now. You dropped a can of beans into your trolley, maybe a little harder than you meant to. Nobody seems to have noticed. The tips found your clit, one slipping dexterously under the hood as it explored you. You leant on the trolley, subconsciously pushing your ass out as you pushed it onwards. You'd worn leggings, the tight Spandex pair that left nothing to the imagination, along with the shortest miniskirt you owned. You could feel the spreading wetness starting to leak around your knickers, darkening the fabric around them. It wouldn't be long until you're showing off to the rest of the store.

You hurried up. Grabbing canned goods almost at random before entering the next aisle, frozen. Something was testing you, circling the entrance to your cunt, gently probing into you every now and then, just a little, but getting bolder as it went. Whoever this is, they knew how to get you going. Light touches on your lips, long drawn-out licks of your clit, and the incessant probing-flicking teasing of your hole.

You couldn't help it. A hand shot to your mouth. The wetness spread further as you clenched your other hand around the trolley handle. You tried to make it look like a yawn, but the half-crossing of your legs and the blissful expression on your face weren't helping. A couple of people looked at you with sideways glances. You reddened, they had to know, right?

Either way, you hurried on. The motion rubbing the tapering ends between the folds of your nethers, coating them even more with your moisture. This only emboldened the one in your entrance, letting it push in a few inches, then a few more, a few more. Before you'd left the aisle you were full, the appendage wriggling within your cunt. It was so long, and thin enough to almost coil in your pussy. That didn't mean it was going easy on you. It squirmed around, the whole length of it moving so powerfully against every part of you. It's getting hard to hide. Every sliding motion of the tentacle inside you made you blush, your breath catching and pulse quickening as you reached a second peak. The tendril rubbed your g-spot, right as one on the outside of you circled your clit just right. The wave that hit you bowled you off your feet. You dropped to your knees, wetness visibly staining the hot pink leggings, threatening to drip in lewd-smelling strands onto the floor were your hand not clasped over it as you gasped and whined.

Your quivering form could barely stay balanced, planting your feet, holding your legs open to lean on them. There's no way people didn't see. No way they couldn't smell it. The growing dark patch on your panties showed off what you were doing. The first tentacle was joined by another, then another. Whatever it was looking for, it was getting impatient to find. Three? Four tentacles writhed inside you, spiralling against each other, sliding past them. Each movement brought fresh whines from you.

Someone approached, asking if you were alright. You couldn't look at him, let alone drink. Your glazed vision was blurring from the force of your cunt twitching and squeezing. Your ears rang with a tinnitus screech as your heart raced. You could see more people approaching, standing around you as you twitched and wriggled on the tile floor.

The tentacles found their mark. A thinner tendril slipped through the mass of slick flesh working at your walls. You gasped as it pressed against the pinhole entrance to your cervix, the gasp turning to a moan as it oozed a hot liquid intk your womb, relaxing the muscular neck just enough to slip in.

The thin tendril pumped fluids into you, thin at first, then thinking to a viscous gel. You could feel it filling you as the tip of the tendril expanded, becoming a sort of reverse-catheter, stopping you up so it could force the thick, sticky fluid into you. The skin of your belly stretched, you looked bloated, then pregnant. Still it pumped into you, until the seal wasn't enough to hold the sheer volume back, cum squirting back out, oozing past the plug of tentacles, lubricating their still writhing masses before oozing out all over your legs. The hot, musky smell of fresh cum radiated from the floor where you sat. Disgusted noises emanated from the surrounding crowd as the stinking seed collected in a growing puddle beneath you.

At last the tendril finished. The end popping off to stick in your womb, plugging the entrance. You stayed a moment, feeling the tentacles slip out of you one by one, rubbing deliciously against your insides as they vacated your swollen, red pussy.

The last one slipped around your cunt, like a lover spreading their seed over your entrance, marking you as their own.

The panties cut off with a soft click. You stayed a few more moments, lying in the middle of s crowd of people too disgusted to look, but too intrigued to look away. A minute passed before you were strong enough to peel yourself off the floor, legs sticking together with a film of still fluid, still very thick cum.

You hobbled out of the store, trolley abandoned, looking like you've been carrying triplets for last 6 months. Slowly, carefully, you picked your way home, opening the forum on your phone as you walked.

"10/10, would exploit bugs again"

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Damn, I hate daylight savings time. It's now 2:33 am!

If you have anything you want to see, more portals or otherwise, drop an ask and I'll see what I can do!

[reagent-leon]

wait, what do you mean we gotta suspend disbelief about franco's height? what for?

Franco is much taller in-game than he is in the comic. In fact, he's the same height as every other ex-pop or prime asset, since only the giant ex-pops get any special treatment.

Honestly, it really bugs me that his height is supposed to be a defining trait, but in-game, it just doesn’t matter. I get that it would’ve required entirely new motion captures, but still, wouldn’t it add so much to his character if he visibly struggled with things like reaching into barrels or dragging out reagents? I think he would’ve been worth the extra effort, but whatever, I guess that just means they never planned to include any other short characters.

With Coyle and Gooseberry, we never see them close enough to others to make solid height comparisons. But with Franco, there’s plenty of evidence that he’s short. For example, from what we see of Clyde Perry in the comic, he’s not a tall guy, and Franco is clearly shorter than him.

Even with the odd angles and keeping perspective in mind, Franco is a lil guy.

I think he is, or at least was supposed to exhibit some level of medical dwarfism, but either there was a change of heart or technical limitations stopped Red Barrels from running with it... or, as I said, we're just supposed to suspend our disbelief. His facial features resemble those of someone with Pfeiffer Syndrome (type one), so maybe it was a fear of demonising or infantilising people with disabilities that kept them from implementing his proper height. But that seems like an odd line to draw, considering the stuff they pull in the rest of The Trials.

I think Franco's outfit adds to his bulky appearance in-game, and I reckon he was given that suit at Sinyala. Because the fact is, on the outside, the Barbis were rich enough to afford proper clothes tailoring, which would have made Franco look far more proportional. I think they deliberately put him in an oversized suit to make him seem more childish, despite how big they made him in-game.

It's good character design, and it works regardless of how big or small a character is. Putting someone in oversized clothing is usually a reliable way to make them seem more childlike. It's why, at nearly 30, I can still get a child ticket for the bus, because I am height-deficient and I live in oversized hoodies.

Furthermore, everyone in the game describes him as short. I'm not combing through every single line of dialogue, since it's all very well documented on the wiki, but both Coyle and Gooseberry reference Franco’s short stature constantly in their Prime Time dialogue.

Mother Gooseberry calls Franco "little man" in the majority of her lines, as well as "dapper little fellow," which I thought was incredibly cute.

Coyle, on the other hand, is much less flattering but definitely more descriptive. He calls Franco things like "runt of the litter," "half-sized pile of shit," "s'like somebody cut a man in half," and so on.

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Unrelated, but since this is a Coyle blog, I think I'll add this at the tail end. For as much as people depict Coyle as tall, I really don't think he would be. Partially because nobody comments on it in any way. If we were supposed to read Coyle as tall, I think Gooseberry would probably have called him "tall, dark, and handsome," or something similar. If he were 6'0 or over, he would be considered tall.

5'8 was the average height for a man during the 1950s, and we should remember that this guy grew up during the Great Depression, which ended when he was roughly 16, so it's quite possible he didn't reach his full adolescent potential due to malnourishment. Frankly, I think the only reason he manages to lift that prisoner with one hand the way he does is because he's off his tits on whatever drugs Murkoff gives them. He certainly doesn't look strong enough to do it without a little enhancement.

But that's just my hypothesis, people can obviously enjoy him and depict him however they like, I'm not the fun police. I just like to gather evidence and show it to everyone like some sort of academic magpie. This is all in good fun

[zarvasace]

Can we hear a little about Pathfinder Changeling Time? And what it means to resist the Call? (I have no knowledge of Pathfinder, FYI)

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Hello friend :D

So in Pathfinder lore, hags are monsters that generally appear as creepy old women (supposedly to prey upon fear of aging)—from aonprd:

Malevolent crones who lurk at the edges of civilization, hags use their deceptive, magical abilities to prey upon humanoids, manipulating and corrupting them. ... They are hateful entities whose greatest joy lies in the corruption and ultimate destruction of anything good and virtuous.

So, bad guys, very few redeemable traits (though if I was writing them in a fiction setting, I'd write them as more nuanced.) I write them as fey, they're technically fiends (demons), whatever, they're like evil fairies from fairy tales. They're very magically powerful. Different kinds of hags have different powers, but at least one kind can see the future.

Hags propagate by "cavorting" with mortals, usually humans, and leave the children with groups who will take care of them through childhood and adolescence, though sometimes that doesn't go so well, as changeling children like that have unnatural heterochromia and are sometimes abandoned due to it. When the children get to a certain age, they experience a very powerful psychic Call to become hags (or skelms, perhaps, if they're men) themselves. The description is vague but I'd write it as a strong, clearly foreign desire.

One of Time's ancestry feats is Called, meaning that he has and sometimes still does experience that, but he's resisted, which means his mental barriers are stronger for it. I gave him one gray eye, though I don't recall at this moment whether I made him a child of an iron hag or a storm hag. Probably storm?

Anyway :) hoping to do more with it!! Lots of these boys have so many good whumpy hooks, and this is definitely one of them. Is the Call painful? Does it come back at inopportune moments? Has he ever accidentally given in, like scratching a bug bite? >:)

[basilsbestpainting]

I wasn't going to make this post then I realized that no, this is bugging me a enough to make a fool of myself publicly.

I just read this ap new article about the CEO murder and I'm a bit peeved about a lot of things, so I'll take it in order. This is going to be very long so.

1st off, some experts (according to this article) are starting to call this domestic terrorism. I'm sorry but that's a fucking stretch if I've ever heard one. Let's look at the definition of domestic terrorism within the US legal system (U.S. Code at 18 U.S.C. 2331(5)) according to the FBI's Domestic Terrorism: Definitions, Terminology, and Methology

"Involving acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;

-Appearing to be intended to:

1. Influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion; or

2. Affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping;

-And occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States."

This crime did not attempt to affect the US government in any way. At least, not in any way that has been released publicly. It was premeditated murder. Means, motive, opportunity.

2nd, another article I saw mentioned that the finger prints and bullets have already been matched. Which, I very much doubt has gone through all the proper channels. My degree is in forensics so I know exactly what this process is like. Matching prints and bullets/casing/guns are some of the most time-consuming disciplines in the field. Most pieces you get are in awful shape. So, assuming the scientists were told to put all other work aside and focus solely on this case (which I'm apt to believe at this point), they received the evidence 6, 7 days ago. They'll have worked on it and gotten preliminary findings.

Luigi is arrested on the 9th, so then the gun and finger prints are received. They'll have to repeat this process with the new evidence, approaching it as if it's completely separate to help avoid bias. Then any findings need to be reviewed by a second analyst (depending on the department it might just be matches that need this). Any report also need both a technical and safety review. This all takes a lot longer than one or two days if you want my opinion (though I haven't been employed in a lab yet).

3rd point: we all seem to vaguely forgetting one of the main points of the American criminal justice system that makes it different than a lot of others. Everyone is innocent unless proven guilty by a jury of their peers beyond a shadow of a doubt. Luigi is NOT the shooter until after sentencing, legally speaking. And if he isn't sentenced all this press is going to destroy his life like a lot of other people erroneous arrested and charged.

One last thing: clown too hard here or call me a cop for my degree and your getting blocked

[judasgot-it]

I’m in love with your writing like omg🩷could i request what kind of lovers are Dazai, tecchou and Nikolai?

(english is not my mother tongue so i dont mean cheat btw…)

IVE BEEN WANTING TO GET TO THIS ASK FOR A WHILE BUT I HAD TO TAKE A BREAK AND AAAAAA

I have SO many headcannons about these fools oh lord. Also hoping I got what you meant cuz I won't lie I am a bit SILLY.

Headcannons: what kind of lovers are they? Dazai, Tecchou, Nikolai

Dazai

He sees his own misery inside of you, which he thinks is romantic. He thinks its beautiful that the two of you can understand each other's suffering in a way no one else can.

I don't think I need to state that while this is romantic in a literary sense, it's a major red flag

Dude would 100% want to do things that he thinks are "romantic" for couples to do together.

For example - murder-suicide, robbing stores together, double-suicide, arson, planning each other's funerals-

Man has a sick sense of romance and death

But he can be romantic!! Sometimes.

Despite being young he knows how to actually take care of his lover - at least in technicality

What he really enjoys, however, he has to suppress

That cold cold sick heart of his wants to isolate them, keep them away from everyone - but he knows that isn't really a human thing to do

So the type of lover he really is the kind of guy who can really only bond over either sex or when you're drunk/sad over the past

dude wouldn't even be able to have sex without crying or would have to do it in the dark, like he just gets too emotional and insecure

100% obsesses over your own trauma and will take any time he can to talk about it - but never his own

sorry dude has red flags ALL over in my mind, I just don't think he would do happy stuff because he would think it's very fake

He can't enjoy any happy occasion, especially dates

definitely thinks weed, deftones, and sex is a good date

Don't date this man if you try to break up with him he will come to your doorstep whimpering and crying telling you that he's gonna kill himself and that you're the only one for him even though he cheated on you

he just strikes me as a messy kind of person

Tecchou

Wants to be your hero. He knows your strong - but he wants to be strong for you. You deserve to be protected from the dangers of the world.

He believes in justice and is a MASSIVE dweeb for "playing the hero"

Man has good intentions that are EXTREME

So yea, he is a bit of an extreme lover

If he can, he'll protect you from anything. It's just his thing

He will try to eradicate all of your fears. Scared of the dark? Your house is brighter than the sun. Scared of bugs? sad, but he will chase them away.

Does this mean he's good at romance? Not really. He'll do anything you tell him too though

Literally anything. Almost. He wouldn't kill someone, but yea that man would 100% try a lot of weird and freaky shit.

would also not care if you weren't into sex. pretty sure that if he likes someone he is just LOYAL lol

although tbh he doesn't strike me as the horny type he just is too dedicated to his job like I'd give it 20/80

idk if he's a freak either like he's probably seen some weird nasty shit so he either is the most vanilla man to walk this earth or is into some weird ass shit.

(I bet it's cake sitting or some food shit. He and Ranpo are too similar, they would both be into weird food shit)

ANYWAY Tecchou is one of those guys who would do cute shit like open the door for his partner everywhere and hold their bags

It's very sweet. Bro 100% lifts.

probably calls while at work which is terrifying and horrible cause you'll hear gunfire but he'll pretend it's normal

Man is also technically property of the state so just know that if you're in a relationship with him you will always have someone stalking you, as you are now a threat to national security

but it's worth it for Tecchou <3

also, he has a huge bank account I bet but would buy either useless gifts or upgrade everything his partner owns cuz he probably only wears his military uniforms and compression shirts.

What's he gonna spend his money on, really?

Nikolai

The world is cruel and predictable, especially with people like him. He hates someone having control over him, so he would only love someone if he chose to - which is fickle at best.

AHHHH omg he's so hard to pin down because Nikolai 100% would be the worst person to have as a lover (jk)

Hot and Cold by Katy Perry esq

Like, 100% if he loves them he LOVES them but if he hates them? he HATES them

but I don't think he really changes his emotions that much, he's sensitive but not so drastically

Definitely is an interesting person to love - would do crazy and weird shit for his lover

doesn't do normal dates. he's a magician, everything is a trick with him

probably gives riddles and doesn't wait for them to be solved - they just lead up to silly dates or gifts. The gifts are probably tame like a drink they like or like, flowers. Maybe some random fingers if he saw that a server was rude.

Does the bottle up his ass trick a lot. or says "do you like magic in bed?" and then never pulls his pants down he just shows every single magic trick he knows.

Listen. that man is WAITING for an audience he will take any chance he can. He'll even pull out some tricks while in the middle of doing it. Let him show you his magic tricks, he practices very hard on some of them.

ranking him as the type to be an exhibitionist and a bit of a freak - how much? idk but he has his coat so who knows what kind of stuff he has on him.

also don't get into a philosophical convo with him this guy will start to talk all sorts of crazy

or political

unless ofc there's common ground then CONGRATS

also I feel like he would be a gentleman. Would probably bring his lover flowers and shit.

once brought oranges though. never explained why.

sorry about the NSFW but I needed the giggles. I did in fact giggle

[serinemisc]

@youzicha trimming a bunch of reblogs from Pointlessly Nonliteral Translation.

But I still don't like the two examples in my post above. It's admirable when somebody solves a difficult problem in a creative way, but producing "could mankind really be on the verge" is not difficult, you just look at the words in front of you. What made Woolsey so sure that what he writes is better than what the original author wrote? I guess what bugs me about this is that it is disrespectful, in the sense that he only does this because he doesn't respect the source text. If he was given a highbrow novel to translate he surely would not rewrite it, but he thinks this is schlock that doesn't matter. And yet, the game sold millions of copies, and we are still talking about it 30 years later—maybe it was not so insignificant after all.

I think the thing is the thing where you gotta unfocus your eyes and look at the big picture and not the sentences and words, you know?

I just got to a point in Honkai Star Rail where a guy is like "as a senior in the field, I'll give you some free advice" where something like "as the more experienced one" would have worked a lot better. This is the sort of thing that happens when you get too fixated on how to translate sempai (technically the Chinese xianbei but same thing).

I do understand that your point is "you can do a translation without adding in your own interpretation" but my point is that it's actually really hard to do that without making it sound awkward.

Speaking of Honkai Star Rail, it just translated " 'Kindness' is my pronoun" to " 'Kindness' is my middle name". I actually really like that one (Chinese doesn't have middle names). Uh, that wasn't relevant, I'm just playing Honkai Star Rail right now.

To be clear this was just an exercise for learning Japanese, it's not advice about how to do professional translation. But if you try, for most prose text I think it's quite possible to follow these rules and produce something that still sounds like natural English. I think that's a realistic standard to compare other translations against.

I presume you've read a translated light novel? Those read noticeably more awkwardly because they're usually closer or more literal translations. I would assume that avoiding that is the main reason most other translations take more liberties.

I think translated light novels are probably somewhere around the amount of literalism you prefer, so I just want to point out that I at least find them annoying to read in English, and that probably says something about general preferences.

(Why is a translated light novel more literal? My guess is because in a game, the thing you want to preserve is the plot, while in a book, )

To be clear, I definitely don't think that translating literally is obligatory or is an end in itself. I post about the virtues of literalism, but that's because I think the overall discourse is too one-sided and everyone takes it for granted that "literal is bad".

When I watch anime with friends, I like to infodump about the differences between the Japanese and the English subtitles, but usually, if I dislike something, it's usually an attempt to translate a word that could have better been done with a rephrase ("sempai" to "senior", very commonly). So while I agree that both extremes are bad, that informs which side I'm generally pushing for.

I think you sometimes overestimate how much impact the lack of a common ancestor language has, when something is maybe explained by a particular grammatical feature in isolation.

I mean, this is just my experience, finding sentence-for-sentence translations flow a lot better between Spanish and English, than between Japanese and English.

But yeah I dunno, it's not out of the question that my highest fluencies being in English/Japanese/Chinese makes me assume that something like English/German are more similar than they actually are. But I still feel like I'm right. Like, what PIE language would have a chart like this?

[unholydeukae]

Just imagine being between Handong's legs as she looks down at you all mean and her pants straining a lot on the front.

Maybe Gahyeon has been a little brat, so now she's naked with a collar around her throat and the leash in Handong's hand. She expects to be fucked hard, but Dongie will just make her suck her off and no matter how much she whines and grinds against her shoe, she will threaten her with putting her in a chastity belt...

=)

Hello hello :) I assume you're referring to this picture? (Even if not, it definitely fits your idea)

Not gonna lie, Gahyun naked and only in a collar... Holy shit. Do you know these heart-chain-collars? She'd look all pretty in that, looking expectantly up to Dongie, unaware that she's not the one who's gonna get it tonight. I think Dongie is really into being worshipped so I could see her command Gahyun to tell her what a perfect Mistress she is for her, how much she loves being her sub, how she would do anything for her. Probably also some physical worship, making her plant kisses and stuff up her legs and thighs (even over the pants) but not yet allowing her to touch her crotch.

I bet Gahyun is even pretty eager to please, at least in the beginning, because she hopes that if she's good, Dongie will fuck her extra nicely (jokes on her, she won't get fucked at all, but she doesn't know that yet). Dongie, obviously, experiences quite a rush from seeing Gahyun so obediently on her knees and doesn't tell her that all her efforts are pretty much useless.

Once she's satisfied with Gahyun's doings, she makes her pull off her pants (maybe she'd make her use her teeth, just for her personal entertainment) and repeat the whole "I worship your legs" process. At this point, Gahyun is probably already a bit annoyed that she has to be obedient for such a long time without getting any kind of stimulation herself but she's not yet far enough to actually complain. Dongie is obviously aware of that and pushes Gahyun further, allowing her to place kisses and little licks on her balls - she knows that sucking dick is maybe not the girl's favourite thing to do but she likes it nonetheless and especially when she thinks it's beneficial for her own pleasure. So of course, Gahyun is visibly bugged by not even being allowed to blow her. She might even complain but there's always the silent threat of a chastity belt, so she tries her best to stay silent.

Every time Gahyun (accidentally) licks Dongie's shaft instead of her balls, she receives a hard pull on the collar, making her choke and immediately remember her place. I feel like sometimes, Dongie enjoys demonstrating the superiority and power she has over Gahyun even more than actual stimulation. So it probably takes until her dick is leaking precum constantly and nearly touches her abs because it's so hard for her to finally let Gahyun touch it (or lick it. No hands allowed. Actually, maybe Gahyun's hands are tied behind her back 👀). Also, she definitely makes her lick off the precum from her stomach before she lets her take her dick in her mouth.

I bet Gahyun is so desperate at this point that she moans as soon as she takes Dongie in her mouth. Since she's pretty big, it's hard (read: technically impossible) for the younger girl to take her completely in her mouth, also because of the angle, but it's not like Dongie would care about that. More like the opposite, whenever Gahyun bobs her head down and doesn't go down as far as Dongie wants her to, she pulls the leash and even though tears spring to her eyes, the girl does her best to force more of the dick down her throat.

It only happens once or twice that Gahyun tries to let the cock completely out of her mouth to get a full breather but Dongie doesn't see that happening. As soon as the girl moves too far up, a heel digs into her back and forces her back down. Dongie likes passively edging herself by playing with her sub but at some point, even she is close. A bit before she's too close to hold back, she grabs Gahyun's hair with her gloved hand (the leash is in the other) and gives her one single command "breathe in" before she pushes her head as far down on her cock as possible without making the girl throw up. She clearly feels how she's deep inside her throat, how tight it is and when she pulls the leash (for testing purposes only, obviously) she can feel how it slightly presses against her through Gahyun's throat.

Of course, she only holds this for about ten seconds; she might be a strict and fierce Mistress, but she's not cruel. Still, Gahyun wheezes and coughs when she's let up to get air back into her lungs. Dongie enjoys seeing her in such a state, the puffy lips, tear stained eyes, make up smeared across her face - there's only one thing that would make her face even prettier. "Jerk me off." is the next command (she even opens the handcuffs for that) and Gahyun obeys, too shaken by what she went through just now and too hopeful that she'll still get fucked afterwards.

Dongie grips her hair again when Gahyun wraps her hand around her dick and makes sure that she can't move her head anymore. It doesn't take long for the mistress to cum and she purposely positioned Gahyun's head in a way that every drop of her semen lands on her pretty face. Satisfied, she pushes her head away from her to have a better look at the work of art she created.

Gahyun is a whimpering mess now, her wetness has probably spread to her inner thighs already and she wishes for nothing more than her mistress's dick deep inside her pussy. Since she's often more generous after she came, the girl decides to try it with some puppy-eyed begging, pleading to be fucked or at least gotten off in any other way. Dongie pretends to think about it, tilts her head and taps her chin before she says, "alright. You were obedient enough today, so I'll grant you one orgasm. I allow you to hump my shoe to get off. You have five minutes. Starting now."

I think we all hear the disappointed gasp that Gahyun lets out but she knows there's no other chance for her to get off - especially because Dongie tends to say "oh, you didn't want to use this opportunity? I guess you don't need orgasms that much at all then, I'll remember to not give you as many chances anymore then" and she definitely does not want to risk that :) and it's not the first time she has to make work with such a dishonourable way of getting off after all...

[o0anapher0o]

Okay, I know I’m late to the party and this has probably been discussed to death, but I have thoughts and they need out.

I’ve been a Star Trek fan all my life so I’m very familiar with writers on a show going “You know what would be a cool idea? A surprise reveal that retroactively changes everything. Plot holes? What do you mean plot holes? It’s called texture.” But even with that background the Iris is Carlos’ secret wife plot was one of the dumbest, least well thought out reveals I have ever seen and that includes Spock getting a surprise secret sibling twice.

It’s just created this weird Discworld-logic phenomenon where Carlos in season 4 has been married to Iris for nearly ten years, but they definitely weren’t married last season (or at least in 1&2). And here’s the thing that bugs me so much: I understand why they wrote it and it works for the characters, it just makes absolutely no sense within the established canon of the show. Like, do I believe Carlos is the type who would get hetero married to his best friend to placate his parents and then not tell his boyfriend about it until he absolutely had to? I love Carlos, but yes, 100% he would do that. Unfortunately we have absolutely no indication that he so much as met Iris before 4x01. The way Carlos story had been told before it makes no sense narratively or emotionally.

In season one Carlos is introduced explicitly as Michelle’s friend and it’s heavily implied they only met through the investigation of her sister’s disappearance. While that is never explicitly stated and I’m willing to suspend my disbelieve here, the fact is that Carlos is involved in and contributes significantly to the investigation, an investigation he wouldn’t get anywhere near if he was Iris’ husband, in fact he would likely be a main suspect (from a police perspective the situation is that a (white) woman, married to her (latino) husband disappeared after a fight with her boyfriend. Once she was presumed dead the most likely scenario is that either the boyfriend or the husband did it).

But even if we neglect realism in proceedings (which, fair in a show that has a fucking volcano in the middle of Austin), Carlos being best friends and married to Iris would have had a different emotional impact. For one thing his relationship with Michelle would be different. As we see him, Carlos is a friend to Michelle, supporting her in her loss, but there is no indication that they share that loss. And if Iris had been Carlos best friend you cannot tell me Michelle wouldn’t have thrown that in his face everytime he tried to get her to accept that Iris might be dead. Michelle is not one to refrain from a little guilt tripping if it gets her what she wants. But she is also an empathetic person, who would have told her friend when they found Iris alive. (Technically the hospital would have probably called him that they had his wife but) there should have at least been an attempt to contact him when she does find her. As it is we don’t even see Carlos find out about Iris being alive and Michelle literally tells Owen before she even considers telling Carlos (literally she doesn’t even look at him when he comes to the firehouse to pick up TK).

And it continues in season two. If Carlos was married to Iris (and his parents canonically know about it, which is of course the point) then his relationship with his parents in season 2 doesn’t make any sense.

Carlos is estranged from his parents because he believes they don’t accept him being gay and them not having talked about it since he came out to them means they’re still hoping it was just a phase and he would change his mind. The thing is if Carlos came out as gay to his parents at 17 and then married a woman 2-3 years later that hope/opinion would be entirely justified because to them that would have been exactly what happened. Even if they know the marriage is basically over, he still married a woman after he told them he never would so he must have changed his mind, right? How are they supposed to know the marriage was the error and not the coming out, especially if they never talked about it. There is a huge difference between ‘I don’t want to rub their noses in [something they might not like me for]’ and ‘they think I’m not actually gay because I went so far as to marry a woman to make them happy’. One is not advertising your queerness were you think it’s not welcomed the other is deliberately stepping back in the closet. In the latter case it makes no sense for Carlos parents to accept his sexuality and relationship with TK without at least asking about Iris and confusion at meeting Carlos ‘friend from work’ would have been justified.

Tl:dr Carlos being best friends with and married to Iris doesn’t make sense with anything established in seasons 1 and 2. It doesn’t work for his relationships with the people who would have known about it and it doesn’t work from a purely practical this-is-how-the-world-works standpoint either. Carlos in the early seasons did not know Iris and had no relationship with her beyond her being his friend’s missing sister.

[buckevantommy]

Arranged marriage and online friends au! 😊

Buck realises after two months of emailing back and forth that he doesn't actually know what Tommy looks like. And it's bugging him.

It's not like he wasn't aware of it before; Tommy has been a faceless presence across the digital void, features interchangeable with B-role actors and strangers on the street until Buck had given up trying to put someone else's likeness to someone unlike anyone he's ever met. Still technically hasn't.

After this long, he considers Tommy a friend. Buck just wishes he could put a face to the words.

There have been context clues helping piece together an image of what he might look like - brown hair (at least no one noticed the mud in my hair. I'll have to make sure to schedule time for a shower next time I want to take Annie for a jog in the park before a work event), defined muscles (not that lugging around spare car parts isn't its own workout, but I do have a standing appointment with my trainer to get to. I'm sorry I have to cut this short), tall (Granted, it's easier to get a good look at an engine when you have the height to bend over and not lose your footing) - but no descriptions and definitely no photos (unless you count the pics of his rescue dog Annie and a cameo appearance of his sneakers, which Buck wants to but they don't exactly fill in the blanks).

It probably doesn't matter. It's not like they're ever going to meet in person - Buck is on the west coast and Tommy's on eastern time. They can't just casually meet up for coffee when there's a dozen states between them.

He's not sure Tommy would even want to. Because while Tommy has tossed a few crumbs of his appearance Buck's way over the past eight and a half weeks, Tommy doesn't have to wonder about Buck in return. Because Buck had linked his insta account in his second email. It was the quickest way to show Tommy the state of his beloved Wrangler Renegade given he was at work and it was currently taking up space in Eddie's yard. Tommy sure knows his engines, even from photos that likely didn't show the whole story. With Bobby and Eddie's help (and with Chris being more help than Eddie) they managed to pinpoint the problem thanks to Tommy - something multiple mechanics couldn't nail down let alone fix, instead giving Buck the same excuse of how an old engine with that many miles was bound to give up the ghost sooner or later.

Buck took the jeep up the coast for the first time on his recent 48 off - the first time since his cross-country tour led him to the 118 and a few weeks in she'd stalled out and hadn't been the same since. But there was no sputtering, no chugging fits, no weird noises. Just miles of highway being eaten up under her wheels.

And he couldn't even picture the face of the person he wanted to thank. Maybe it was silly, or petty, but Buck couldn't shake his annoyance at Tommy having never sent him a photo of himself. He totally gets the anonymity of the internet, especially with forums, but he really thought they were becoming friends. Thought they'd keep emailing even if they managed to fix the Renegade.

He also hadn't heard from Tommy in over a week, so maybe that was adding to his irritation. And worry. As soon as they got her running smoothly, Buck posted a video of the jeep to insta and sent Tommy the link. He posted a few more pics of her on the road north and thanked him in the caption:

couldn't have done it without your help T 🌅🚙💻🛠️

Tommy knows how much this jeep means to him, and the more Buck thinks about it the more certain he is that the radio silence isn't like Tommy. He was looking forward to an update! It was the last thing he wrote: Keep me updated!, exclamation mark and all. Maybe he had to go away suddenly for work. Or his computer died. Or his email got hacked. Maybe something happened to him - he could be hurt, or sick, or worse. Maybe he read your emails and saw your posts and knows he fixed the problem so now he's done with you.

Buck stews in that thought longer than he should. It's not impossible, it just. Hurts. He likes Tommy. And screw distance - he wants to keep emailing and getting to know each other. Maybe Buck will get called out east for a nautral disaster (okay, not a great reason) or some kind of specialty training program. Or Tommy will travel out west for work.

Work which he's been pretty vague about, come to think of it. Buck doesn't actually know what he does - some kind of office-type job, going by the mentions of suits and gladhanding. Tommy knows Buck is a firefighter in L.A., but the nature of Tommy's work has been left mostly up to Buck's imagination. Maybe he's a special agent. Or a criminal. Or in witness protection. Or maybe the thought of a secretive existence helps soothe the ache of his abandonment issues; Tommy would reach out if he could but extenuating cirumstances are stopping him.

It happens to be a q-word shift which means no calls to distract him. Pocketing his phone, Buck sinks into the couch and turns on the tv desperate for something to take his mind off Tommy. Taylor Kelly is reporting from the studio these days, no longer chasing stories with a cameraman in a shady white van.

"..And now to political news. Vice President Kinard today announced the long-awaited engagement of his son to the eldest daughter of prominent Senator Olivia Ortiz. Thomas Kinard is the Vice President's only child, and the union is expected to strengthen ties.."

As Taylor talks, photos overlay on-screen: a professional family portrait complete with closed-mouth smiles; a young man - Thomas Kinard - in a khaki flightsuit standing in front of a military chopper; a college graduation gown.

"..Thomas Kinard minored in Mechanical Engineering.."

Another image: tall and broad and now with a mop of brown curls competing in a marathon and helping someone cross the finish line with their arm slung over his shoulders.

It's a minor detail. He doesn't even know why he notices. But Buck's eyes are drawn to his sneakers: Thomas is wearing a black pair with white half-trim and a reflective trapezoid on the heel. Not anything unusual, except that the guy he's helping is wearing a neon yellow pair that somehow didn't catch Buck's attention.

The next image shows an animal shelter and a small crowd of volunteers in candid and posed photos. In one of the candid shots, Thomas can be seen crouching to pet a familiar looking dog.. Annie.

No fucking way.

"..Tommy?"

doing this thing

[bucketofbugz]

new TPOT episode!!! y'know what that means!!!!

LIVE BUGZ REACTION

under the cut of course. for spoilers.

(okay to be completely honest I'm not typing this as I'm watching the episode because. tumble down. but these are the screenshots I took while watching and my actual reactions to the scenes so it's the closest you can get to a live reaction without it actually being a live reaction)

bro is NOT happy right now. once again, so happy with added depth to Pen's character, especially since it's expanding on his initial reaction to being by himself in BFB 1.

joy and whimsy in the world

pain and torment in the world

already loving the humor in this episode idk what it is but I am digging it

also BOTTLE HOSTING??? inch resting. Was kinda excited to see the return of Donut hosting but I love Bottle so it's okay.

creatures

Bottle doesn't usually get to talk this much. Realizing I actually really love her voice. Or at least the way her lines are delivered. silly

THANK GOD PENCIL AND GOLF BALL ARE SAFE okay they're the only two I cared about the others can all die /j

"oh well! this team was kind of a trainwreck anyway" you were like half the cause for that

NO MORE LIMBS FOR YELLOWFACE!!!! hopefully Donut can get those arms back

his elimination was kinda horrifying though lol

Two..... buddy......

ONE IN THE WHITEBOARD HI ONE!!!! HIIII!!!!

Bottle is such a mess of a host but I genuinely kinda love it. can we keep this

Pen's trying so hard to revive his friendship with Snowball this is painful

SO THE FOURSE IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ENTITY???? okay

Bottle. You put PRICE TAG in an EATING CHALLENGE??? girlie they have eno mouth

why is the dialogue this episode so good I'm giggling so hard right now

new favorite character

"we can hear you!" "duh, I wasn't whispering" HAVE I MENTIONED HOW MUCH I LIKE THE DIALOGUE THIS EPISODE

idk if it's just how much I hyper-analyze line delivery (because of Voice Acting) but like. the way the voice actors are delivering some of these lines is. I love it. it's so wonderful.

Tree you constantly losing that token is not helping with all the people that kept saying you didn't deserve it

ONE!!!! HI ONE!!!! HIII!!!!

:C

Tree not prioritizing TV because he's. technically not LIVING. is. wow. I don't think I like that.

in-character for Tree that's definitely something he'd think but AUGHGHHSH it's only proving all the things the Mechanical Minds have been talking about. y'know how they say they don't feel appreciated by the non-mechanical objects.

"surrounded by cheaters"

okay well. Winner can canonically taste stuff they absorb, so I feel like that should still count as Eating? and I don't think what Black Hole is doing counts as cheating either. it's mostly Bottle's fault for putting him in the eating contest

Price Tag selling things is definitely cheating but also they don't have a mouth. they kinda gotta do whatever they can here

girlie NO that's gonna get SO STICKYYYY

Black Hole just wanting to support Liy </333333 god I wish people on this show understood how much he cares about everyone.

would probably help if he stopped accidentally killing people though.

the girls are fightinnggggg

When Fanny says she hates someone it's no big deal. she hates EVERYONE. nobody cares.

But BOOK? Someone who's spent her entire time in the game sitting back and letting people walk all over her? Someone who had ONE big conflict with someone that only ended up making that problem of hers WORSE? And especially someone who Pencil once saw as a FRIEND?? oh yeah that's gotta hurt.

hehe I love evil numbers

oh my god I'm only halfway through the epsiode

SIX!!!! SIX!!!! HIIII! oh my god six. six my beloved. six you are okay

FIANLY AN EXPLANATION TO THEM SEEING SIX IN ONE OF THE DOORS

me when

WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THEM EAT BUGS. LIVING. LIVING BUGS. you couldn't have at least killed them first????

loving the MUSIC HELLO???

what the heck is happening with Tree. bestie you good?

I <33 love <33 evil <33 numbers <33

One is literally that "are you tired of being nice" meme right now and I'm living for it.

YESSS YOU GO DONUT

HELLO?????????

again. loving the voice acting <33

One finally showing off how absolutely Awful she is. living for it. slay.

..

:C

sniff sniff,,,

WHAT IS IT WITH THE LIMB REMOVAL TODAY???

..Pencil mentioning Needle when talking about the people she cares about being gone/unavailable,,, I see you.

ough,,,,

BOING

also "busy with school" are children canon in bfdi

"okay, we haven't had any yet, but don't let this be our first" have I mentioned the writing of this episode yet. have I. I don't think I have. I love the writing of this episode

ooo

"Freesmart means nothing to me" OUGH,, OUCH,, OWIE,,,,,,,

"can I have them"

Golf Ball. what.

WHY DO YOU WANT THEM???

PAIN AND WHIMSY IN THE WORLD

I hope Pencil was listening. genuinely.

btw Pencil if you choose anyone to be friends with :3333 Golf Ball's right there :333333 please I need this

NOOOO TEAM 2 :((((( I love everyone on Team Two you can't do this to me,,,,

[mildlyannoyedscoundrel-blog]

Share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have fewer) and tag ten people.

ty for the tag @hollow-lime-green!!!!

Glycerin

Katsuki’s first memory was the sound of an explosion. It was a sound that he’d get used to over the years. A sound that would follow him around with more consistency than his shadow. The deep reverberations through his bones would become a feeling so integral to himself that he didn’t feel complete without them, but at the time it was none of those things. At the time it was loud. And scary. And it hurt his ears.

Baby Katsuki my beloved. It's crazy to think that I wrote this when I was... 16? And I'm still working on this fic as a senior in college (no promises but it looks like there might be a new chapter or two on the way by the end of summer)

(More under the cut)

2. Two Weeks

Keith didn’t understand when he suddenly became the emotional support beacon of the group. By all accounts, it didn’t make sense. Hunk was friendlier, Shiro was better at connecting with people, Pidge was… okay, maybe he was a better option than Pidge. At some point, everyone had started coming to him with their emotional problems, and as much as it made him happy to know that his teammates trusted him; it didn’t mean he liked to be the one stuck with the job of talking to Lance.

I think this was the first long fic I wrote, and it definitely shows with the opening line but that's okay.

3. Improvement, In All Things

Let it be on the record that Satoru is something of a party game aficionado. As a homeschooled clan heir with exactly zero friends for most of his adolescence, he’d spent a frankly embarrassing amount of time as a kid daydreaming about playing Truth or Dare and Never Have I Ever with his large group of adoring friends. So naturally, as soon as he’d had a large group of (mostly) adoring friends, he was dead set on making his dreams a reality. Thus, the Semi Triannual Tokyo-Kyoto Sister School Goodwill Exchange Event Game Night was born, aka the three best nights of the year. 

I love writing silly loser homeschooled Satoru so much. This fic was so incredibly half assed and rushed, but it's still fun.

4. In the Garden

Suguru has only been at Tokyo Technical College for three days, but he’s already found his favorite napping spot. It’s out in the garden, just past the window to his room. The soil is soft and the sun is bright and the bugs that crawl into his uniform and hair and ear on one unfortunate occasion never bother him much because he has much worse things living inside him. At least the ants never whisper to him when he’s trying to sleep.

This is probably one of my favorite openings I've written. I think it really nails the vibe of the fic as a whole.

5. Glycerol

Mitsuki’s first memory of him was the sound of his crying. It was a sound she’d get used to over the years. A sound that would follow her around like a shadow for years to come, but she never minded.  Not until it was gone, at least.

Baby Mitsuki, also my beloved. I've had Mitsuki's backstory in my head since the beginning of Glycerin so it was so so so fun to finally get it out there. Also the parallels between the opening of this fic and the opening of Glycerin is *chefs kiss* if I do say so myself. (I also may or may not be working on adding a couple more chapters to this bad boy)

6. Fuckery

“You really want to do this?” Suguru says, violet eyes lifting up to meet his own, as if in challenge. “Why not?” Satoru drawls. “Fulfill a teenage fantasy, blow off some steam, give a big old fuck you to the higher ups all in one go? I don’t see any downside.” Suguru cocks his head to the side, as if considering. “You used to fantasize about me when we were teenagers?”

Fuckery my whatever the opposite of a beloved is. I have such a love-hate relationship with this fic, but I have to admit I really like the opening.

7. Hands like Mine, Heart like His

It’s not that Daisuke hated his job. He didn’t. He got great benefits, Sundays off, and was usually home in time to enjoy a nice dinner with his wife, but his job could be a bit… difficult at times. It was his own fault. He was the one who had decided he wanted to save the world, but since he could only affect those who had recently developed their quirks, being a hero wasn’t exactly an option. Surprisingly, not many villains are under the age of six.

I honestly miss this fic so much T.T I had such big plans for it, but I'm such a slow writer that I had to prioritize one long fic and Glycerin took the win. Every once in a while I'll still go back and add a couple lines here and there

8. Something in Between

“Hey, I heard Die Harder: The Hardening came out on streaming last night. Do you wanna watch?” Kirishima is sprawled across his bed, phone in hand and kicking his legs up like a twelve year old girl at a slumber party as Bakugou sits at the desk, face buried in notes for their upcoming math exam. Not that he’s paying much attention to them. He’s already been studying for three hours and it’s gotten to the point where his brain feels like it’s full of more cotton candy than grey matter. 

Another one with not the strongest opening, but I still love this fic. "Die Harder: The Hardening" always makes me laugh

9. hug me, love me, protect me

“I need a favor,” Bakugou says, bursting into Kirishima’s quarters with all the grace of an elephant. “And you’re not allowed to say no because you’re my guard and you have to do everything I say, so really, it’s not a favor, it’s an order.” Kirishima smirks as he goes back to sharpening his sword. “You and I both know that’s not how that works, dude.”

This fic was soooo far out of my comfort zone, but I think it ended up really cute.

10. Please Just Give Me One Last Kiss

He hates it. Hates his wife.  Hates his life. Hates having to pretend to be someone he isn't every single day.

Max? Writing Bakugou angst? No.

Also as a bonus, some WIP first lines in no particular order

It becomes something of a routine, after that. Three or four times a week, Suguru will find himself nodding off in the garden as Gojo rambles on about whatever topics come to mind.

Mitsuki’s flight leaves in two hours and she still hasn’t left yet. She should have. Hell, she should have left an hour ago but Katsuki had been crying and some stupid maternal instinct simply would not let her leave him alone.

Color danced in Satoru’s vision as he tried to look for Shoko amongst the crowd of people, but he couldn’t tell if it came from the flashing lights above the dance floor or the cursed energy seeping out from the hundreds of non-sorcerers packed into the club. Normally it would be easy to pick her out in a crowd, but Satoru was drunk and so were the Six Eyes. Instead of efficiently scanning all the cursed energies in the room, they drifted lazily from one patron to another.

Toshiro Kageyama. That was the name of the man who ruined Satoru’s life.

It was over quickly, at the very least.  Not that there was ever really a good way for a child to die, but Caitlyn thought it was better that it was quick. At the very least, the poor girl didn’t have to suffer any more than she already had with a guardian like that.

I definitely don't have 10 people to tag so I'm just gonna say @kbstories and anyone else who wants to go for it

[moth-wizard]

Being myself a person who has been severely depressed for the majority of my life, I have three pieces of advice that I have accumulated over the years for anyone going through it.

I can't and wouldn't promise that it will fix everything, but it will help with the ennui at least a little, I promise. And when you've got the weight of the world on your shoulders, any little piece of help can potentially mean everything. Im not saying this stuff is a substitute for like, therapy and ritalin, but these things have definitely helped me get out of bed instead of stewing in sadness on more than one occasion.

1. Become More Curious

See a cool bug or weird food or anything at all you aren't sure about? See if you can figure out what it's called! Go down a Wikipedia rabbit hole!

Go out of your way to learn a thing or optimize a process you do regularly daily! Make little tweaks to recipes - enough to possibly improve it but not so much you run the risk of ruining the meal unless you're in a place to handle that.

Outside a classroom context (and even sometimes inside), learning about shit you're interested in feels amazing, as does perfecting something according to your own personal taste. For example, I've recently discovered that iced hibiscus tea with a dash of orange bitters is very good, and now I have a new little treat in my repertoire for when I need it.

2. Outside good

Unless it would put you in physical danger to do so, spending some time outside regularly (preferably not using any device more technical than an mp3 player, but ymmv) is unfortunately as helpful as people say.

You dont have to make it exercise or anything, but just sitting on the stoop and unplugging for a bit can help knock you out of spirals and help you appreciate life just a little more.

Doing this also gives you a good opportunity to spot things you want to learn more about! I've been trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to make myself open an e-book or Wikipedia instead of social media when I sit outside and fail to resist the siren call of my phone.

It can also help with my next point:

3. Don't forget community

People, even strangers, really aren't as bad as they're made out to be. Make small talk with cashiers (if they ain't too busy), carry bubbles or something with you to gift to people who could use some whimsy. Allow yourself to be cringe, or a character, or a weirdo - they're the ones having fun after all, and stressing about "fitting in" hasn't helped much, has it?

More so than going outside or learning, if you integrate one thing into your daily routine from this, I want it to be this:

Make at least one other person smile every day.

It's one of the most gratifying, validating, joy-increasing things you can do. We are all suffering in this world, no adult and few minors are wholly without trauma or pressure, and easing other people's loads, even by a little, can mean more than you knew. If you interact with even one other person that day, even if it's just for a minute while you buy something or whatever, you can easily improve their day with a kind word or smile of your own.

If you read all this, thanks. I hope this helps someone. Remember, you are always worth it.

[end0parasitic]

What are your headcanons for, let’s say…. Cynte, Pravi, Karis, and Luce? (U can add more characters or not answer for one/some of them if you’d like)

Just general headcanons bc i can’t think of specific kinds lmao

i am honestly bad at headcanons lol, most of them r solely visual. but! i definitely have some for all of these characters (and a bonus one!)

cynte: first of all insomniac, that’s a headcanon a lot of people seem to share. i feel like it flared up after karis left him, following a period of almost constant sleep and being withdrawn. i once saw a headcanon of him having heterochromia, and i think that it has potential. also, i like to think that he has a few cybernetic modifications, maybe as a religious thing like eve (the protagonist of wrought flesh). oh, also a strict upbringing! if not at least a very stressful one. i do not think that he was pressured to succeed, but i do think that he desperately wanted to escape something and already grew up in a very religious environment that prioritized success through intelligence and hard work.

praví: my boy has a very small role in game, so i think he’s mostly headcanon for me lol. i had a few back in the day, like he had a major sweet tooth. knit sweaters was also one (still like this one). one specific to me i think was that he used to take q-melanin (thing in wrought flesh that the villagers take cuz it allows them to photosynthesize) when he was child and used to live on a majorly desert planet as a poor colonist. also i like the idea that he’s very technically smart but can’t solve puzzles (projecting lol), while cynte can do both if a little forgetful of some advanced things and protocol. i like the idea of him not having a god/goddess he’s devoted to.

luce: first of all, surrounded by butterfly imagery since this post lives in my head rent free. i drew this luce on a whim and this is honestly how i see her in my head, this might be my fav design of her i’ve ever done even though it’s pretty simple. i like to think that in her childhood, she was seen as kind of a bad omen by the people around her, if a very kind one. like a lot of bad stuff happened around her, and she seemed to be at the center of it, but she really was just a kind person trying her best. the isolation and constant suspicion and harshness got to her and it all culminated in the parasites taking notice of her. doomed by the narrative vibes. also, i think she’s very familiar with tools from computers to scalpels to guns.

karis: oh this man has been hurt before. i wouldn’t be surprised if he had a long term relationship with someone a lot more wild and magnetic than he was and then got his heart ripped out by them, and then moved on to cynte, and then left him too. i get the vibe that he was born on a very carefree planet, a metropolis with a good government, and the people were generally very wild and hedonistic, but he never was. only drinks socially, never smokes. he was definitely a lot kinder to luce than praví and cynte were, maybe they were friends. i think of him as not only smart enough to be a scientist, but also smart enough to know how to talk his way into things, whereas cynte gets by on sheer devotion.

eve (my nickname for the protagonist of wrought flesh): i think her cult generally goes by burn bright and fast, meaning they tank all of the damage they get and die young and gloriously, and that’s what she’s primed to do. i like to think she’s very accomplished and already kind of ascended to hero status, but not truly godlike. she’s looking for something that has been watching her like the way you watch a bug crawl too close and move to shove it away. she’s like an ideal warrior cultist.

in conclusion: i’m normal abt them. trust me bro.

[itsdeathofabachelor]

Okay so I’ve recently got invited to a game of manhunt by the kids in my trailer park so I’ve decided to make this:

How the Stardust Crusaders would play man tracker!

(With some other headcannons sprinkled in)

Kid game rules:

- You have to say you’re ‘it’ if asked

- No climbing trees or drainpipes

- Can’t hide on property not every else is allowed on

- No ‘T’ (time out) while getting chased

Kid Jotaro

- pretty neutral at first and expects to get disinterested and leave early but never does

- He’s not the one who starts the game but is always the secondary recruiter for finding other kids to play

- The fastest runner

- Could easily leave everyone in the dust the moment they get ambushed

- But he doesn’t because he’s stubborn and thinks it’s sissy shit to leave everyone else and then run off by yourself

- The most fun he has all week

- The fastest and strongest but gets hungry and thirsty the most

- Will ignore it to keep playing

- Has gotten sunstroke at least ten times

- Holly starts implementing rules because of it (drink two bottles of water before lunch, granola bars in his shorts pocket that have to be wrappers by the time he comes back between games where she’ll give him two more, etc or else she’ll call him inside and not let him play the next week)

- Still doesn’t finish all the granola because Holly overestimates how much he can eat

- Will share his snacks

- Polneraff is the one who bugs him the most for them

Kid Kakyoin

- Blown away he’s being asked to play at all

- Like, nervous

- He’s excited at first, but then he gets so nervous it’s all a joke and everyone’s actually pranking him that he gets sick to his stomach and has to sit out for the first game

- So kid Jotaro sits out with him because he’s been playing all morning and needed to drink two bottles of water before lunch anyway

- Then he feels better and Jotaro does most of the talking for him back in the group (“No, take him out from getting picked. It’s his first time playing so it’s not fair if he has to be it”)

- Then after a couple games spanning the day he turns into the kid who does all the planning and strategy

- Then after a couple weeks of meeting up and hanging out, he becomes: “Guys guys guys shhhhh I saw them over there by that house. . . So that means they could come out from behind it or at its sides— or circle to the front— and cage us in! Guys guys are you listening to me? Come on! C’mon, c’mon!”

- Can be weirdly aggressive when it comes to the rules

- Him and Polneraff butt heads the most over rules, because Polneraff will come out with some ‘Well technically because you didn’t say you were it—’ ‘I did!! But I did!!’ ‘Well I didn’t hear you, so it doesn’t count’ and it will make Kakyoin genuinely upset

- Kakyoin has never been around kids his age enough to become genuinely upset, he doesn’t know how to process it or how to regulate himself

- He’s definitely the kid who gets overwhelmed and has to go home early

- Jotaro walks with him

- He doesn’t know what to say so he usually walks silently beside

- After around a month or two of summer break Kakyoin started holding his hand as they walked (he had seen his cousin and her friend do it all the time, and he hadn’t had a friend to understand what the difference between girl-friendships and boy-friendships were, so he assumed he could hold Jotaro’s hand)

- It helped him feel better

- After that, when they were hiding in the game and Kakyoin was whispering fun facts to Jotaro wherever they were hiding, Jotaro would seek out his hand and hold it

- Eventually Polneraff stopped overwhelming Kak on purpose because when he left Jotaro usually went home too and then the whole gang dispersed

- Kakyoin and Polneraff are usaully the ones with the most scratches and bruises because they take the game the most seriously, and therefore run the fastest and take the most risks in order not to get caught

- The rule ‘No climbing up drain pipes or trees’ was made because of Kakyoin

- Him and Jotaro stick together the most because Jotaro, after first introducing Kak and speaking up for him, now has Kak speaking for him

- Which is great and Kakyoin knows a lot of cool stuff so he just sort of listens as him and Kakyoin hide in some insane place like under Joseph’s truck in the driveway

- Whispering, “and the starfish too, I like those. There’s a lot of colors, too. There’s ones that change color because of camouflage. And the different var. . . Var-ee. . .” “Variants.” “Yeah. And the different variants—”

- Gets caught mostly because Polneraff learnt to listen for Kakyoin’s voice

- Polneraff told him to shut up once and Jotaro yelled at him

- Which scared him genuinely shitless because Jotaro had never raised his voice

- He did the little kid looking around and clearing throat thing like ‘don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry don’t cry’

Kid Avdol

- really independent kid

- Took care of himself and his parents sometimes

- The oldest out of the group

- Polneraff scouted him first, and he’s known Polneraff the longest

- Got pulled in by Polneraff’s direct nature (“So you’re from India?” “Cairo, it’s in Egypt.” “So, like, is that near India? My dad says Indians are crooks. And lie a lot. Do you lie a lot?” “I don’t think so.” “Are you lying?” “Uh, no.” “Okay. I like your hair, why does it look like that?”)

- He’s not used to actual transparent curiosity when in a predominantly white neighborhood who toe around his race in conversation

- Polneraff also acted the same way towards Jotaro when he moved in a year or so after

- Kakyoin was the only one somewhat spared from it (“Another Jotaro? Why are you so short? Jotaro isn’t short. Are you sure you’re Japanese?” “Yeah, he is. He’s never played before.” “Oh okay. Are you gonna play with us? Can you run fast?”)

- Because he’s so independent from such a young age, he’s never really known how to be a kid

- So really, in the long run, Polneraff being so immature while being close to his own age was a real eye opener for him

- A refreshing one

- He’s queit, but not as quiet as Jotaro

- He’s more, ‘I’m thinking’ quiet

- But Polneraff is always searching for affirmation so he’s sort of come out of his silence in that way

- He came to realize it was actually really fun to just talk for the sake of talking

- His parents mention he’s been a bit of a blabber mouth since meeting that kid down the street with the dirty sneakers and perpetual sunburn, but his mother smiles behind her hand when Advol lights up and jogs over to meet him

- He’s mostly Polneraff’s support but he doesn’t really take any of it seriously

- He doesn’t tell Polneraff that though

- Him and Kakyoin get along too, but he compared him and Polneraff’s similarities together once so they both avoided him for a whole game until Polneraff finally said he was mad at him

- If he and Jotaro were left in a room together for two years they’d probably exchange two words (“Hey.” And “Bye.”)

- Schoolwork comes first, for everything

- Then chores

- But Polneraff is done his own school day by then

- And is sitting on the counter

- Soon, it became Polneraff sitting on the counter, Jotaro on the sofa, and Kakyoin hovering over Avdol’s shoulder, asking if he needs help with anything

- Years later in university, he wishes every instance with them all together would’ve lasted longer

Kid Polneraff

- the kid who started the game and asked everyone to join

- Thinks he’s the shit because it’s his street they’re playing on so he knows all the best hiding spots

- Is the most hard headed and thinks he knows best

- Him and Kakyoin butt heads the most

- He pulled his hair once but never did again after Kak bit him

- They barely tolerate eachother sometimes but for the most part make up instantly in that little kid way after a round of juice and cut up fruit from Jotaro’s mom

- They always go back to Holly after a game to fuel up because Avdol’s mom is out working late, Kakyoin’s wants him to get out the house to hang out with his friends more (she’s worried about him pushing away the only human connection he’s had since his cousin before they moved), and Polneraff’s needs a break between loud-ass kid Polneraff and his baby sister.

- Best paired with Advol because he knows it’s a game and doesn’t take it as seriously as Polneraff so he does whatever he says to do, even if it results in them both getting caught

- He’s also the kid who yells ‘T’ when about to get caught

- They had to make the rule of ‘no T while getting chased’ because of him

- Drove Kakyoin up a wall

Young Joseph

- First introduced to all Jotaro’s kid friends when at a family bbq at Holly’s

- Suzie Q was too busy talking with some girlfriends and Holly setting out the tables

- When all the kids come back from their third or fourth game for some fruit, he thinks ‘yeah sure why not’

- complains about his back while running around (mostly to get one of the girls attention so they could fawn over him, it will never work and has never worked. Suzie Q actually rolls her eyes at him)

- Lets Jotaro catch him when he’s it

- When he himself is it, he runs after Jotaro clutching his chest (“Damn, you’re fast Jotaro! Been practicing without me? That’s cheating you know!”)

- Does it because he thinks Jotaro trying to hide how happy his is that he’s faster than his Jiji who fought all these super cool monsters (from the stories he told him before bed when Holly told him not to because Jotaro would get too excited to sleep) is super precious

- Joseph totally notices and it nourishes his soul

- He thinks Polneraff is a little shit and pretends to lunge after him to make him scream

- Polneraff asks about his arm first, but Kakyoin is a close second after getting over his initial shyness

- He’s the one telling Joseph all these fun facts Joseph already knew, but is genuinely surprised this little kid did

- Tells him he’s smart, and to remember him when he’s a rocket scientist so he could hook him up with a private jet, and Kakyoin turns really red

- He’s not used to adults telling him he’s smart and not creepy

- Also not used to the casual touches, like Joseph reaching down to noogie his head a little, or pat him on the back

- Over the months of hanging out with everyone and playing he grows to trust and respect Joseph, and to look up to him as a parental figure

- Starts visiting Jotaro more often because of it

- Helps Joseph with his Japanese

Now what if they were the ages they were in part 3?

(Ignore everything I just said above, these guys are fucking around with man tracker for the first time)

Adult game rules:

- No stands

- No throwing rocks

- No fistfights

- No other weapons (Polneraff tried bringing a real sword because then technically it wasn’t his stand and Jotaro punched him)

- After Jotaro sees you, you have a fifteen second headstart (this only applies to Jotaro, and for good reason because otherwise the game would not last very long)

- No throwing other players (Joseph tossed Jotaro into a stream and Holly noticed the fatass bruise on his forearm)

- No cutting through backyards

- No mercy (or ‘pausing’ the game unless every agrees)

Jotaro

- “I’m not a fucking kid.”

- Gets physically defensive, arms crossed, isn’t having it

- Likely agrees only after Polneraff acts super cocky and it pisses him off (“Well, I’ll be the last one standing either way! Doesn’t matter who plays or who doesn’t.”

- Or Joseph makes a bet for a pack of cigs with him (“if you win Jotaro, next week’s beer is on me!” “I’ll make you put your money where your mouth is, old man.”)

- He sort of wanted to play anyways and if everyone had actually went on without him he’d be smoking by himself on the tailgate of Joseph’s truck feeling upset but not accepting the reason why

- still embodies that one kid who runs in circles around the slower kids

- Doesn’t take nearly as long to get used to the idea of playing as it does Kakyoin

- After one game he’s into it

- Like, fully charging

- He’s the fastest, and the rule ‘When Jotaro sees you you have a fifteen second headstart’ is a must when he’s it

- It’s terrifying

- just because Jotaro sees you, doesn’t nessisarily always mean you’ll see him

- Which adds an extra insanely terrifying layer to the game

- He’s the one everyone knows to look out for, and are constantly looking out for

- And if he’s it, everyone’s asking where he is or if anyone else in the group has seen him

- He’s like the grim reaper

- Goes for Kakyoin first because he likes being it with him the most

- Polneraff tried telling him he couldn’t just target Kakyoin but Kakyoin politely interjected saying it was fine

- He didn’t really like running around knowing Jotaro was Out There to Get Him

- When they do play, they’re likely around a street with kids already on it with their parents, and Jotaro running full speed after a bunch of other muscular guys squealing for their life ( it’s Polneraff doing all the squealing but no one mentions it) confuses the fuck out of them the first time they see it

- Then Joseph is jogging close behind laughing his ass off (“Jotaro give the guys some space to breathe will ya!”) and he lingers around talking to a family he knows (it’s his house they’re playing on the street of when Holly came to visit with Jotaro. Polneraff, Kakyoin, and Advol just happened to have nothing going on and as Joseph is cannonically fucking loaded everyone just sort of piled on a flight and came over too)

- Kakyoin is long jumping over a park fence, Polneraff is trying to clamber over it, and Avdol’s pants are caught on the chainlink all the while Jotaro is getting closer and closer and everyone is looking visibly more and more scared

- Joseph is recording and continuing his convo at the same time

Kakyoin

- took the longest to get used to playing

- The first game he felt silly, like, really embarrassed

- He never did this sort of thing as a kid, what if someone sees? A bunch of grown men running around chasing eachother? What was he doing? He should be at home cleaning or doing someone productive. Maybe he should say his stomach hurts and go home

- It’s not like he’s lying. He feels almost queasy

- He doesn’t know why

- He gets caught on purpose the first and second game so he could justify lingering behind the other person already it, but on the third he’s honestly surprised how Jotaro’s so into it

- Like, he looks up to Jotaro a little, he has a powerful stand and is the most levelheaded guy he knows

- He’s smart and quick thinking and does super cool badass shit all the time

- Kakyoin doesn’t think he’s ever seen him do anything ‘fun’ like this that wasn’t a substance before

- Looking around, he realizes everyone else is taking this seriously, and not only that, having fun

- So he does too

Avdol

- tried to sit out and watch from somewhere in the shade with a cold drink

- Joseph drags him in before he could make it to the truck cab and open the cooler

- Slips into the nostalgia pretty easily and while not taking it seriously, finds the atmosphere of youth and the company of people who aren’t aware of how stupid they all might look to onlookers refreshing

- He was the one to tell Polneraff not to throw rocks

- Then he was the one who looked despairingly at Joseph after Polneraff said he started throwing them first

- Then he didn’t really have to worry about it anymore because Jotaro picked up a treetrunk piece from the park tree line they ended up at and threw it at all of them

- He didn’t use star platinum, just raw strength

- Kakyoin is hot on their heels, and because of his insane ability to make strategies up on the fly, when Avdol is it and catches up to him and cages him in Advol genuinely has to act serious with it because Kak has the brains and the brawn to execute really amazing plans considering they’re playing a kids game

- He escaped Advol

- He nods along when Joseph pats his shoulder and thanks him for letting Kakyoin get away (“Best not to go too hard on him. Don’t want to scare the kid off.”)

- He didn’t

- He actually tried to catch him

- He’s going to talk to Kak about some more serious stand-arrow related missions he might be a good help on

Polneraff

- is so sure he’s going to crush these nerds

- Does not

- Is under constant harassment from Jotaro after his high claims of beating his ass in this ‘little kid game’

- He gets more and more serious about winning the more he loses

- Kakyoin actively avoids him, but by some twist of fate gets stuck with him more than he would’ve liked

- If not with Jotaro, he’s getting dragged around by Polneraff as he’s frantically trying to escape the earthshaking footsteps of Jotaro getting closer and closer

- Complains the most about the rules if they don’t let him cheat

- Advocates for the rules the most when they’re to his advantage

- Gets scolded by Avdol when Advol isn’t scolding Joseph for something he likely saw Polneraff do first and he decided to join in

Old Joseph

- Back does not hurt

- no faking any injuries because the second game he tried it to evade ‘it’ Kakyoin and Jotaro fully ditched him to run away

- Jotaro does not think ditching dumbasses is sissy of him, and Joseph is the dumbest of asses

- Goes full sprint all the time

- Probably has the best strategy if he actually took it seriously

- He doesn’t

- Instead he chases everyone around and just goes with the flow

- He will be the last one standing or at least the main two

- He’s the only one who can even remotely keep up with Jotaro, if just barely

- Loud, Jotaro finds him usually because of him talking to himself or the person he’s with (who is usaully shushing him because they know Jotaro’s going to hear him)

- But he’s very rarely out of breath when being chased by the other crusaders who are it

[roachliquid]

I really used to enjoy Danny Phantom as a teen, but looking back on the show - especially knowing what we now know about Butch Hartman - I really can't say that it's aged well for me. It certainly has its good points - the villain cast being one of the biggest - but there's a lot about the show that doesn't quite gel, or worse, is so distinctly Hartman that it's hard not to see his smug, manipulative, conservative Christian face all over it.

One of the things that bugs me the most is how the show will exaggerate things to drive a certain ideological point home. Fairly Oddparents does this too, of course, but it's in a setting where the entire tone is zany and comedic, so it's easier to chalk up to Standard Cartoon Logic with a dusting of Hartman's distorted worldview.

Danny Phantom, on the other hand, tries to balance that same level of exaggerated 'comedy' with a genuine amount of drama and Cool Superhero Stuff, and it makes the placement of those exaggerations stick out like a sore thumb. Like the fact that in the first episode Sam's "ultra-recyclo-vegetarianism" means she eats literal dirt, in an episode where we're clearly being led to see vegetarianism as an unbalanced extremist position held by radical hippies who don't understand what a Balanced Diet(TM) is.

I have a lot of feelings about this episode, but they can be summarized with "Sam did nothing wrong." In fact, the only reason the school's decision to try vegetarian food is a "problem" is because they deliberately paints it as disgusting and inedible as possible, using the excuse of Sam's suspiciously vague (but assuredly extreme) dietary label to imply that She Is Really Just That Unhinged. It's a choice that comes off as ignorant as it is mean-spirited, and I'm not even a vegetarian.

Mostly, though, when it comes to delivering morals, the show sticks to a tried-and-true format: A character does something "wrong", the thing has unintended consequences that they end up having to fix, and by the time everything is set back to order they've learned a valuable lesson in why they shouldn't do that.

This is a formula that works well when the consequences of the character's actions make a modicum of sense, or are at least thematically related to the original slip-up. A classic example of this format in action would be The Sorcerer's Apprentice, which has a wizard's apprentice decide to try using magic to do his chores for him, only to learn the hard way that he doesn't have the needed expertise to actually manage the results of his master's spells.

Fairly Oddparents used this formula a lot as well, and to my recollection, it works for the same reason the shenanigans in The Sorcerer's Apprentice do: Timmy isn't just breaking rules, he's messing with reality-altering magic. Of course the consequences are exaggerated and unrealistic. But Danny Phantom tries to use this same format without the benefit of a conveniently generic supernatural plot enabler, and as such, a lot of the "consequences" feel tacked on if not entirely forced.

One of the most glaring examples is in S1E6, when Tucker's idle wish that he shared Danny's ghost powers unwittingly reaches the ears of a genie*, who then grants him exactly what he wants. He then proceeds to use his new powers to do all kinds of petty bullshit, and eventually the wish gets corrupted - not because of what he actually did, mind, but because Desiree's wish-granting just works that way - he turns into a monster and Danny ends up having to turn him back to normal. At the end, Tucker concludes that he messed up by envying Danny's powers, envy is bad, and he's not going to do that anymore.

*Sort of. She's technically a ghost, but works like a genie.

The thing is... none of this really happened because of envy. Tucker wasn't even acting on his feelings at all - he just happened to idly wish he had ghost powers in front of someone who could grant them to him. There are definitely lessons to be learned here, like how it's healthier to articulate your negative feelings than to stew on them until they bubble up and fester, but the show isn't going for any of that low-hanging fruit. No, only the most banal and straightforward Christian values deserve to get shoehorned into this plot.

But perhaps the most egregious example is the introduction of Dan Phantom, Danny's evil future self who is spawned when Danny... decides to cheat on a test. Yes, you read that right - an ordinary childhood mistake, which Danny was tempted to make due to nigh unbearable pressure to keep good grades despite spending most of his time fighting ghosts, is what causes him to start down the path of becoming the most dangerous villain the setting has faced to date.

To be fair, this wasn't delivered as "cheating on tests will send you down a slippery slope to mayhem and murder". No, the reason any of this happens is even more ridiculous: Cheating on the test causes Danny's family to be in a local restaurant during a catastrophic explosion, and wracked with grief by their death, he convinces fellow ghost halfling Vlad to basically tear out his conscience (which he happens to be able to do) and then he tears out Vlad's ghost half, merges with that, and becomes The Worstest Guy Ever, Just So Bad You Guys.

Danny fights the guy and manages to beat him (as you do), and then, scared straight by this vision of what he's capable of becoming, comes clean about having cheated on the test. If this sounds like a Fairly Oddparents plot... yeah, it is, it was a whole two-parter and everything. But more infuriatingly, this entire plot had nothing to do with the actual incident that supposedly kicked it off.

I mean, there certainly can be negative consequences to cheating on tests. For one thing, you might get caught and get in trouble (although that's arguably less a 'consequence' and more 'another person's choice in how to react'). For another, possibly more compelling reason, taking shortcuts on a test can cause you to rob yourself of valuable information that you could have learned by doing things the hard way, and which you might need for an even more crucial situation down the road. But none of those consequences involve turning into a horrible person, even in a grounded, non-cartoony sense.

And frankly... cheating on a school test is really just not that big of a deal. Standardized tests, especially of the type we started using in the wake of the No Child Left Behind act, are fucking terrible at aiding in providing a good education. Which, may I remind you, is what school is actually supposed to be for - not for rating students on how honest and hardworking they are. But, you know, whatever, Butch.

Anyway, this happens a lot. It would legitimately be faster to list the episodes that don't follow this format, at least early on. Sometimes the formula works better than others, though even when it is relatively tame, the "values" that the show keeps trying to impart often leave a bad taste in my mouth. What kid needs to be taught that if they ever hang out with the "popular" kids, they're betraying their real friends? Or that it doesn't matter what other problems they have in their life, they just need to put down the video games and apply themselves and they'll get amazing grades?

Butch Hartman, fundamentally, is a man who has convinced himself he understands children's problems despite all evidence to the contrary. Danny Phantom reflects that both in the way the show grasps at straws to generate moral crises, and the ways it distorts even real moral challenges into distorted caricatures of themselves. I'm not surprised the fanfic scene seems to be 50% fanon at this point - the version of this show that exists outside my fond teenage memories is just not good.

[kirby-the-gorb]

reply roundup!

reminder that there's actual stuff on the patreon once again, link in the pinned post :)

@capitalismdisruptedmybarbeque added an [image description] for blanket, thank you!

also thank you for all the boops, what a good website feature.

@optimus-jetpack asked: What is your favorite Kirby game? Probably asked before but I'm new to Tumblr and I love your drawings

my actual favorite is epic yarn, but if we're talking mainline only it's either crystal shards or forgotten land! I grew up with crystal shards and the design in forgotten land is super charming (as is the design in epic yarn lol). and thank you!

on [do not fuck with me] @nogoinghomegame said: roman reigns

how does it feel to be the funniest person on this website? I still think about this and it's been 2 months.

on [quicksand] @graycoin said: Yeah...that sounds like a rough day. :/ I hope all that leads to something better, at least.

thanks. I'll get the rest of the paperwork turned in this month and then we'll see I guess -n- (and thanks for all your other supportive words too)

on [pudding] @xurkitreeking said: I want to eat your art, i feel like it would make a satisfyingly cronch like one of those puffed air chip

omg that's so nice??? like puffed rice or something yeah, I can totally see what you mean

on [pudding] @ceylonsilvergirl said: I know things like spills are technically so small, but when you’re already at the end of your rope it’s fascinating how something like this can send you into a crying fit. you held it together so well for so long, and this was the straw that broke the camel’s back

ugh yeah sometimes when there's already So Much you just look at it and you're like. haven't I already been through enough. but it's like, kind of a "safe" thing to get upset about? because it's obvious to anyone there that it happened and that it's unambiguously negative, even if it is only minor, and it's also not like you're taking space away from someone else or whatever.

on [reborn] @ceylonsilvergirl said: I’m not allowed to watch any more, after I laughed so hard I gave myself an asthma attack

that's so tragic, this world is in shambles

they also did a delightful [expansion] of [outline] that's just so fun honestly, I love that every single object has the same gormless expression that kirby already had lol

on [bug] @theraphos said: me irl, literally i was about to clean the tub earlier and noticed this baby spider that was seriously just a fuckin. dot. i somehow managed to get it in a cup unharmed

whenever there's a spider in like, the shower, or the sink, I always worry so much about it going unnoticed and getting drowned until I know it's moved somewhere safer (we are a pro-spider household)

on [injection] @fakejtwelve said: I hope new meds work well for you 💜

thank you! so far I feel about as bad as usual except that my nose is finally not congested. which I guess is something. (it usually takes a couple months to really kick in so there is still grounds for hope!)

on [ghost] @11-eyed-rook said: this purple is a good purple thank you

there are many good purples in the world :)

anonymous asked: what is kirby's favorite swear word

honestly I think he's partial to "fuck", it's just got a good arrangement of consonants in it. easy to apply forcefully to a variety of scenarios.

on [eyebrows] @joekingv1 said: *asks baby what is their secret*

they definitely do not have a brown marker hidden behind their back :) don't bother checking you can trust them :)

on [pumpkin] @beardedhandstoadshark said: oh my god. Look at the lad. so round, so happy, so pumped (ha) to be here. no candles in and already glowing. happy halloween to everyone but especially this pumpkin (also as someone who can't cut circles for the life of me, let alone small ones, this seems genuinely impressive)

thanks! tbh my partner just handed me a steak knife and let me go, I smoothed it out some by just kinda like, jamming a finger in there to mush down any particularly jagged parts. it was a small pumpkin which probably helped.

@edgywithaheart asked: opinions on terminalmontages kirbo ?

excellent shape, excellent face. not all the jokes are For Me but clearly others enjoy them.