#i'm a fixer

[wittymumbledon]

When you take a break from drawing GF fanart...by drawing more GF fanart

I've actually wanted to draw these two for ages but couldn't come up with an excuse to do it but I'VE FINALLY GOT IT--and I thought of it BEFORE summerhalloween was over instead of AFTER--

Seriously though this was so fun--I even tweaked the way I draw Ford a bit to fit Spooky's style better :]

the FixerUpperAU, the human bill design, and the post that inspired all of this all belong to @1spooky2me <3

(original post:)

Link to the post itself lol

[slugpup2]

some rolang and angola doodles

[animezinglife]

Headcanon

Once everything's said and done and the Inquisitor and Cullen finally have some time to settle, their friends get them late wedding/housewarming gifts.

One is particularly amusing: a box from Leliana labeled, "Kindling."

Cullen is not allowed to use it as such until his wife has read every single one of the ridiculous Orlesian marriage inquiries/proposals it contains. On occasion, she finds a particularly good or forward one and reads it aloud, leaving him flustered and grumbling.

[player-1]

Oh boy, I sure can't wait for Intervallo 7.5, where the bus goes on yet another wacky roadtrip while the gang goes to Hong Lu's home district and learn about his extremely complex family dynamic and the many many references to the original novel, it's multiple remakes, and/or the series adaptation.

The next Walpurgis is most likely the Safety Team with Netzach as the next Announcer; and the next LobCorp IDs might connect to Abnormalities of denial, blissful ignorance, or the constricting force of family (Queen of Hatred, Queen Bee, Void Dream).

Even if the Sinners adjust to the fact that one of their members is a Second Kindred Bloodfiend, everyone keeps eyeing Outis just in case she tries to kill Don mentally or physically. She's still salty about the "betrayal" of having a definite threat in their ranks and were possibly waiting to backstab them at any moment (...Did something happen with Eurylochus, Outis?).

And even if she's also adjusting to a modernish life without the fanatic belief in Fixers, Don Sancho Quixote the Second reads them the riot act on their multiple attempts to prove she's a "real vampire" and committing elder abuse: shining light in her eyes or putting her in direct sunlight, putting garlic in her food, Dead Butterfly's coffin and Hundred Sins cross mace in her face cause Christian symbol or possible vamp bed, chasing her with a water bottle or spray bottle, so much water, so much water...

[curse-of-dming-strahd]

man, imagine reading the Ruins of Berez chapter but not knowing about Baba Yaga folklore; how wild is it to have all this gothic horror and then suddenly you run into a weird old witch with a skull-shaped hoverboard and a walking treehouse that are barely explained.

[blorbologist]

Sorry there wasn't much in the way of liveblogging this morning; I had a hunch they weren't going to... really stick the landing, so I watched it through first then went back to grab caps of moments I had Thoughts on.

I don't think I even wanna list my Issues with this as I did for episodes 7-9. It feels like too much but also too little (because it feels so little happened in these three episodes, and it was mostly stretched out sequences only focusing on 1-3 characters of the same groups the party's already been split into).

The idea of a show-constraint rewrite (keeping the same goals they had, limiting number of scenes / internal POV thoughts and episode numbers) coincidentally sounds like a fun challenge now, though... there's so much good in this season, so much love, and I can see where the team wanted to go. But I can also see better ways of getting there, and want to prove it's possible - that this story can be told in television. That it's not Campaign 1's fault, but a lack of clear direction, setup and good pacing.

[gaminegay]

never give your 100% at work, people will remember and ask for it again

[fountainpenguin]

Silly snippet that I scrapped from something I actually did post because it was a tangent, but I can't stop thinking about it.

What is UP with Gary and Betty stopping people from eating tempting food in a building we later learn is:

A) Owned by magical beings who lure people into contracts without disclosing the fine print?

B) Already home to one person who's been trapped for 60 years when the building itself has only existed for a little over 10 years?

I don't like that at all!!

We know the Learn-a-torium has only existed for a decade at most, because we know Flappy Bob is 37 during the Musical and that H.P. gave him the blueprints the day he graduated Harvard as a lawyer:

We know Pops has been trapped in the Learn-A-Torium for 60 years ("Baby Face")...

I've always written that off as an inconsistency, but in our world's lore, don't people get trapped in the fairy world - where time moves differently - if they eat fairy food?

I mean, Gary and Betty did say they would "be friends forever" with Timmy if Vicky never came back... Like, they just skipped over the part about his parents possibly picking him up. That's kinda weird.

Are Gary and Betty interfering - i.e. refusing to let kids eat the delicious-looking ice cream and cookies the Learn-a-torium inexplicably offers - because they don't want other kids to get locked into some Pixie contract?

Like... This place is owned by Pixies. Their name is literally on the wall (or at least on a wall phone that's confirmed to be a direct line to Sanderson), so it's not like it's a secret-

Parents send their kids here... Are they absentmindedly signing papers that secretly lock them into surrendering their child if the child eats sweets there??

That's not outside the realm of possibility. We know Pixies are scummy and slip things into the tiny fine print you need a microscope to read... sometimes even a VERY powerful microscope:

And we know Gary and Betty were very insistent that the kids in their care eat things like soy and broccoli, not the premade ice cream and cookies. Betty even feeds the babies in the daycare room soy, and she seems to like it herself since she volunteered to eat the soy cubes Gary offered to Timmy.

It's probable their own diet consists of soy, veggies, bread, water, tofu, granola, and sugar-free powder drinks- Things on the list of stuff they charge parents for during the "Get Flappy" song, which implies that's the food they're giving kids:

Kinda weird they have ice cream sundaes and chocolate chip cookies just there in the Learnatorium, but they'll switch them out for soy before kids touch them...

Alternatively, did Gary stop Betty from giving Timmy ice cream and cookies because they're fighting over which of THEM can abduct more children? She did put it in Timmy's lap before Gary snatched it away, which is a bold move for someone who didn't want him to eat it.

If they were on the same page that ice cream and cookies are bad, why would they go through the effort of preparing that and give it to Timmy in the first place? That's sus, Betty...

This place is so dang cursed.

[eclaire-went-bam]

anyone else listen to any cluster b coded song and get really internally defensive over it because there's no way anybody else relates to it as viscerally as you do. like people listen to it because it's cool, or to cheer up from a break-up, or to pump themselves up before some event, and you're here like

"no actually at all times i have the need to start shit to stave off the ever-consuming boredom. no actually at all times i Am better than everyone in this room. no the egotypicals cannot relate to my entire life being constantly this song. no you don't get it you can't even confidently ask for a ketchup packet. I Am Going To Light A Fire."

[idonthaveacontract]

I know I'm being annoying at this point but I really just feel like I literally watched a different show when so many people apparently walked away from mad men thinking Don was like one of television's all time worst villains

[i-love-tubbs-the-cat]

going to clean my house and try to exterminate the various bugs living here now 💁‍♀️ wish me the best of luck i'm scared out of my mind

[throughpatchesofviolet]

Hehe ... another post under the cut because I'm about to be silly and gush about him ... he's making me so happy ~

Look at hiiiiiiim ...! When I first saw he was the ID we got for collecting event currency, I literally started going "memememememe" over and over for a good 5 seconds--yes, I started stimming because of this man. He's so cute and I love him so much--

He's just!! Augh!! I have no words!! (Proceeds to collect her thoughts and structure a rational post in the following paragraphs.)

I of course did the sensible thing and got him to Uptie IV immediately. And this ID story ... mind you, I haven't read one of these since I Uptied the Wuthering Heights IDs, so this was just a full treat for me. Heathcliff being all self-conscious will never not be adorable to me.

ALSO THIS. I love that this tidbit was dropped right after Aster, Hellbat, and I went on a little adventure to find the "comfort food" menu for the Sinners that HamHamPangPang had a while back ... he does love fish and chips ... agh. He was refusing to go out to eat this whole story scene, and I was just thinking, "A Heathcliff who doesn't want to go out for food? MADNESS!" /lh

The fact he's replacing his body with so many prosthetics, though ... sir ... it's okay, though, because I'm already brainstorming a little meet-cute for this Heathcliff and Sherry, because of course I am.

Also he's so bored in this Mirror World ...

Not to mention he's still got his reckless nature. Man really has no sense of self-preservation, regardless of the Mirror World.

There's a few more screenshots of him being bored, even with violence, which usually brings him joy, but I certainly am plastering this whole post with images--

(Proceeds to add them anyway.) Anyway!! The last image I wanted to add was this one:

Oh, Mr. Heathcliff ... I know a lass who could make a big splash in your uneventful life ... Miss Sherlock Holmes ~

AND BEFORE I END. HE HAS SO MANY CUTE VOICE LINES.

I know these are just screenshots and the lines themselves are unimpressive, but listen to me. Guys. Guuuuuysss. He yawns. Actually yawns. And you can hear his voice changing as he stretches, too, and just. I used to have to imagine what he'd sound like doing those things, and now I have an ID I can pull up and listen to whenever I want--

He also has four arms ... all the more to hug Sherry with. /lh

In summary ... uh ... they made another Heathcliff ID just for me ~

[alpineshift]

number 1 please!!! Maybe in the ‘the fixer’ verse? (mr motorbike - second in command to his mother’s empire jackie is 🔥)

the concept of powerful/brutal/ruthless/cold!Jack to everyone but his beloved Nico occupies serious real estate in my head. it's ridiculous! for context, here's 'the fixer'.

1. “Okay, maybe I have a crush on you! So what?” 

The thing is, life with Jack by his side has always meant that Nico has someone he can lean on, someone he could always turn to, and, on occasions, someone who just...makes all the bad stuff go away. It doesn't matter who. It doesn't matter what. Somehow, Jack just. Fixes things.

In the past, Nico may have felt uneasy about it. There's an uncomfortable passing thought that he's taking advantage of Jack's generosity and time somehow, but over the years Jack's made it abundantly clear that he takes care of Nico because he wants to. It's that simple.

But lately, after the whole drama with getting rid of his terrible cheating ex (or lack of drama, considering Jack just made that asshole disappear from Nico's life overnight), Nico's getting a different kind of vibe from his friend.

You know. Clocking the subtle stares, noticing the soft lingering touches, keeping track of the unsubtle doting bestowed upon him, and only him. That kind of vibe.

Nico is ninety-nine-point-nine percent sure Jack likes him. Maybe more than likes him, because Nico's seen the way Jack treats the people he hates, people he tolerates, and the few people he likes. And everything that's happened since he evicted Stefan's poisonous existence from Nico's life transcends a simple like. Actually, Nico's ninety-nine-point-nine-nine percent sure Jack's in love with him at this point.

But Jack has never acted on it. Never hinted at it. Doesn't seem like he's ever going to acknowledge it.

Not that it stops him from pulling all the stops, treating Nico with care and adoration. Everything short of laying him out and kissing him senseless on the bed is fair game apparently.

Like: surprising Nico with dinner reservations at a five-star skyscraper restaurant with Quinn's longstanding MVP credentials. Getting dirt and dust all over himself cleaning out Nico's garage after finding out Stefan had promised for months to do it but never did. Picking Nico up from an interview on his motorcycle, with an extra helmet in Nico's size. An utterly spontaneous trip to the crystal clear waters in Malta simply because Nico was looking 'too gloomy' cooped up at home. Never mind that Nico's got plenty of his own fun money after those decent years with the NHL under his belt.

It's fucking ridiculous. And Nico says as much, the one evening they're hanging out in Jack's penthouse instead, Succession playing on mute in the background while they mess around with some thousand-dollar whiskey Luke sent over. Jack nearly spilled the whole bottle on his counter, uncharacteristically flustered as Nico presses him for an explanation, because he's losing his god damn mind over this little dance they've got going on and he wants answers, now.

"Okay, maybe I have a crush on you! So what?" Jack finally shouts, throwing his hands up. "Do you want me to be the sleazy dirtbag that tries to make a move on his friend that's fresh out of a shitty relationship? Swoop in like a vulture, and you're a piece of meat? Like you're some toy to get passed around? Fuck you for thinking I'd do that, Nico, I swear--I can't have you, it's not--I can't--"

"But what if I want you?" Nico asks, and watches the myriad of expressions flash across Jack's face. Shock. Disbelief. Hope. Need. "What if I want you to be mine? What if I'm the one who wants to keep you?"

The whiskey sits abandoned on the counter for a long while after that.

send me a jacknico prompt!

[countessofbiscuit]

Using any member of Delta Squad as Space!Mengele's right-hand-man is confusing and narratively lazy to say the least. However, if they were determined to do it, why Sev wasn't chosen for Hemlock's henchman is baffling to me.

Bringing back a fan-favorite clone commando who has been canonically "missing" for twenty years is a cheap nostalgia win. Right out of Filoni's playbook.

If the fan-theory that CX-whatever is Tech proves correct, Sev would have established a subtle precedent that the Empire has "saved" MIA/KIA clones before and reconditioned them for their own ends. The foreshadowing would have been extremely satisfying in hindsight.

For those familiar with the game, he'd be an interesting surly sniper parallel for Crosshair.

He was never the comedic relief (unlike Scorch), he always wanted to prove himself, and he got left for dead by his squad on Kashyyyk: Sev's motivations for stoically carrying out Hemlock’s orders would be marginally less difficult to invent.

[starlit-parades]

"If that's how it's going to be, dance a dance Until it all goes gray Make some noise, change, change Until you fall into dreamland"

versions without filter & background only, click for better quality bc i imagine tumblr will kill it

[wildfaeworld]

i'm in diy hell 😭 trying to rip out my bathroom vanity (hiding mold behind it, rotted to hell and back) and install a new one and ohhhh my god

this thing is landlord special caulked everywhere. for a ramshackle assemblage of rotted plywood and rusty nails it is hanging on something FIERCE. it's 1pm and i've gotten the doors, kickboard, and part of the front frame off and loosened the counter some.

a new problem rears its head: the water hookup appears to be a permanent part of the vanity back?? instead of having a hole in the back for the water hookup like most modern vanities, this one said 'fuck it they can't evict me if i chain myself to the wall'

look at this shit! what am i supposed to do with that?