#idk. i was just drawing him and i was thinking and i figured id put my thoughts into a post because i think its neat

[romanticallyghosting]

there's probably other posts out there talking about this, or maybe its just obvious so no one actually thinks it needs to be pointed out but i'm insane about how differently monty acts when he's around esther vs. edwin

because the only time i can think of where monty's genuinely smiling in a scene with esther is the very first one where he's just been turned into a boy. other than that he's quiet, reserved, and kind of snarky around her, which i've always assumed to be a defense mechanism. the moment he has any positive feelings, like a crush on edwin? esther's immediately scolding him and he has to reassure her that he's loyal. so he clearly learned quickly that he has to hide who he really is from her

but with everyone else? he's so genuinely happy. like he seems like he's having a great day all the time, and even when he does something that seems a little rude like with his first meeting with charles, he does so with a smile on his face. this, of course, makes him do better at having the agency members trust him, which is his job, but he seems so happy in an almost child-like sense, where he's giggling and saying a little "whee!" when he pushes himself off on the swings

but when edwin rejects him, he loses all of that. he starts treating everyone else with the same snarky coldness that he used for esther. and its so interesting to me when he tells esther he's been found out in ep7. because he genuinely faces it with such a lack of fear. he doesn't hesitate or anything, and its because there's nothing for him as a boy. he knows esther's full strength, but he knows that nothing can hurt him more than being a crow-turned-boy with feelings that everyone hates him for and nowhere to go to.

[blighted-lights]

do you ship ravage and drift? you draw them a lot and they're always so touchy lol

nah. they're really touchy amicas, tho. probably because im always touchy with my friends and it just kinda rubs off on my art. ravage is my Me character so i do end up giving him traits i have. one of those is being touchy with people he cares about 🤷‍♂️. he's especially touchy with drift as when they were grouped together in the dead end (which is where they met in my brain), ravage spent a lot of hours curled up in drift's car alt with laserbeak and buzzsaw for shelter. that touchy aspect never really left their dynamic.

and besides,

drift/deadlock's candle has always been lit for someone else.

(plus an extra doodle of them)

[arolesbianism]

Thinking abt Sif Odile duo looping au again and I wanna be able to plot everything out more coherently but act 5 eternally looms overhead and boy I do not wanna look up

[sanguineterrain]

Hiii, discovered your fics on AO3 and they’re very my jam! If you’re still taking requests, could I suggest something where Jason rescues you, an angsty hurt/comfort? Maybe they’re pining for each-other and maybe confront/confess their feelings, or are already together, up to you.

No worries if not 😊😊 Thanks for the good words ❤️🖤

Hey I know you! Thanks for leaving nice comments over yonder 🥰 Idk if I really delivered on this prompt but I hope you like it anyway lol 😅 I combined this prompt with another I received about Jason and the reader fighting before the reader is hurt/kidnapped.

jason todd x fem!reader. tw: creepy men, crime alley, injured reader, jason shoots people (🎶whatta mighty good man🎶)

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"If you don't know who this is, you shouldn't be fucking calling. Leave a message after the beep or whatever."

Beeeep!

"Jay, it's me. Can we please talk? You can't ignore me forever. I want us to fix this. I—" You swallow hard. "I miss you."

You sigh, rubbing your forehead as you think of what to say. You've already left three unanswered messages. There's no more for you to say. You just want things to be fixed.

You want your best friend back.

"Okay. Call me when you can."

You hang up and pocket your phone.

The fight was stupid. Jason doesn't respond well to being pushed, but you pushed him anyway. You wanted to know where he disappeared to at night. You were sick of the secrets, of always feeling like you were three steps behind, left in the dark.

If you really cared about me, you would tell me where you go.

Jason had stilled, expression cold.

I don't owe you anything.

Your voice had turned wobbly then.

Jay, don't I mean anything to you? I want you to trust me, I want this to be a normal friendship!

He'd put on his jacket and collected the few things he left in your apartment.

You're right. You deserve normal.

You haven't spoken since. At first, you thought Jason left for a few hours to cool down. So you gave him space.

But then hours turned to days, and now it's been a full week and a half since you'd fought. Last night, you broke down and cried. This is it. You've lost him for good.

Part of you fears the reality is darker than him just leaving. You've long suspected that whatever Jason goes out to do is probably illegal since he's always out at night.

What if you're called down to the police station to identify a body?

All those things left unsaid. Jason will never know you love him.

Screw this. You're going to his apartment.

It's late. It's really late, and this is actually not the best idea to carry out at eight o'clock at night in Crime Alley. There's a reason Jason always insists on hanging out at your apartment or at a cafe.

A man whistles at you down the street. "Goin' somewhere, girlie?"

This was a bad idea. Jason might be the one who has to ID a body tonight.

You can't remember which of these apartments is his. But you can't call him. He can't know you're here, not yet.

"You shouldn't be here, lady!" a kid shouts at you from a fire escape. "He don't like new people on his turf!"

You don't take the time to figure out who the kid means. Crime Alley is known for, well, crime. The sooner you can locate Jason's apartment, the better.

A group of men light cigarettes down the road. You pause and turn around. In the process, you stumble over a garbage can.

That instantly draws their attention.

"Well, what have we here?" one jeers. "You lost, sweetie?"

You run.

You don't care if it makes you look afraid—you are afraid, and you're beyond caring. You shouldn't have come here.

You turn abruptly. You have no idea where you're going, but maybe if you act like you do, you'll throw them off. You take another turn, then another, and you look behind you to check if—

Wham!

You crash into a body. A muscled body, one that forces you backwards.

White, glowing eyes that smolder inside a red helmet meet your own.

Jason's never warned you about the Red Hood. He just tells you to stay away from the area altogether. You don't really need to be warned about Hood anyway. You know what he's about. You know you've probably just sealed your fate tonight.

"What the fuck?" he asks, modulated voice rough.

"I'm sorry," you babble. "Please don't hurt m—"

Gunshots ring out, and you realize you've just stumbled into an active gunfight. With Red Hood.

Fuck your luck.

The gunmen have spotted you, and they take great pleasure in using you as a distraction; they fire at you instead of Hood.

He shields you with his body, blocking the bullets. It works until a flash grenade is thrown, and you're separated from Hood, ears ringing. You hit the ground hard from the impact, scraping your hands and arms.

Someone's arm wraps around your neck, and you're suddenly dragged backward. You scream, scratching at the arm, and a fist thumps your head. You blink at the pain, too dazed to keep fighting.

"We had a deal, Hood!" your captor shouts, arm tightening around your neck. "Let us go or she dies!"

"Negation's over," Red Hood snarls, and shoots all four men.

You cry as the shot echoes too close to your face and for a moment, you fear you've been shot too. The now dead man slips off of you, collapsing in a heap on the ground.

Your ankle protests when you step on it. In the chaos of the fight, you hadn't realized you sprained it. You trip and fall on your butt, scrambling away from the pooling blood.

"What are you doing here?" Hood growls at you, stalking closer.

You start to cry, edging backward.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt your fight, please d-don't kill me—"

You press down hard on your wrist and that hurts more than your ankle. You cry harder at the pain, grabbing your wrist.

Red Hood gets closer, and you try to scramble away with one arm and one leg. He kneels down and holds your good arm in place so you can't move.

"I'm sorry!" you say again, tears thick on your lashes.

"Fuck," Hood says roughly, and unlocks his helmet.

Your eyes widen as he pulls it off.

"J—"

"I told you to never come to this area, and you come alone, in the fucking dark, without a weapon? What the hell is wrong with you?" Jason snarls.

"Please don't yell at me," you whisper, covering your face with your hands.

You're shaking, adrenaline turning your stomach. A moment later, you throw up.

"Shit," Jason says and puts a hand on your stomach to help you sit back up. "Shit, I'm an asshole. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell."

"I thought you died," you say, daring to look at him. "You weren't answering my calls, and you only go out at night. I thought..."

Jason immediately looks avalanched by guilt. He cradles you to his chest.

"Fuck. I'm sorry. I should've—I thought it would be better, leaving."

"I didn't want you to leave," you cry, arms curling around his neck. "I love you so much, Jay. I was so scared. Don't leave me again."

Jason's breath hitches. You freeze, suddenly sure you've screwed it all up.

"Jay—"

"Y'love me?" he asks, cupping your cheek.

You nod emphatically.

"Even though I'm..." He gestures to the helmet.

"I'm just happy you're alive," you say. "I missed you so much, Jason."

His arms tighten around you. "God, I missed you too, baby. I was going crazy not talking to you. I'm sorry I ignored you. Wasn't right of me. But don't ever do this again, okay? If I hadn't been here—"

He takes a shuddering breath and kisses your neck. You nod against his shoulder.

"I promise. Just don't shut me out again, please."

Jason's quiet for a moment. You can feel him thinking.

"This isn't gonna be normal," he says. "If-if we do this. This is part of me. Who I am."

"I don't care," you say. "I love you, Jay. Every part. Whatever that entails."

[basil-does-arttt]

hold on wait a second i had a thought

in the DLC prolouge cutscene for DMC 5, when Vergil is in that stone passageway area, he says "its nearly time" (in reference to him splitting himself in half).

We know what day it happens, april 30th. The date is shown in Nero's flashback scene. This is of course assuming Vergil did all that on the same day, which i think is what happened. (He could open a portal to his house to travel, and why would he wait any longer and risk dying first?)

Anyway. Thats not my point, my point is: did he choose to do it on this day on purpose? Is this date special?

Im overanalyzing here so this may be a stretch, but: Could that be the day Eva died? Think about it. Him splitting himself was a "rebirth" of sorts: discarding his humanity to become a full demon in search of ultimate power.

Vergil being stabbed by those demons the day Eva died could also be counted as a kind of rebirthing for him: In the span of a few hours, he lost everything. His family, his life. And maybe even, his full humanity, as he gained his DT form in that moment too (shown by him having the same triggered-style eyes Dante uses when threatening V toward the start, also (half)triggered.) No longer was he a mere human boy, but now half a devil - the things that killed his family - too.

Knowing Vergil, it could make sense. In DMC 3 he's quite proper and a bit sentimental, much more so than Dante and i can see him caring more for these kinds of niche details in his life a lot more than Dante too. I also think he may have still been in that mindset when coming out of the Nelo Angelo body (however that happened), in a way that he hasnt really grown or matured while he was Nelo Angelo due to all the mind-fuckery performed thanks to Mundus.

(Could also be clarification for the reason Vergil still looks so young, quote "because of how much time he's spent in the underworld compared to Dante". He didnt live there, certainly not by choice. But he was captured and tortured by Mundus for 10 years. My thoughts is that he's technically still in his teenage body, as becoming Nelo Angelo and being in the underworld for so long thanks to Mundus halted (or at least very significantly slowed) the aging process. Time could move slower in hell but thats a rant for another time, ive gone off track.)

As such, him choosing such a special (traumatic) date to essential commit suicide on doesnt seem like much of a reach to me. Vergil has always been methodic. He doesn't do things hap-hazardly and never has, even as Nelo Angelo when he invites Dante outside to set up a proper fight rather than just taking the opportunity and attacking in the bedroom.

Of course you can argue it was coincidence, and he just stumbled across Nero by chance and decided to do it right then and there. He had to have found Nero first of all, figured out his plan of attack (probably so he wouldnt draw unwanted attention and possibly be stopped), then actually put it into motion. He couldnt exactly control the date Nero happened to be in the right place at the right time and gave him an opening. Im not trying to convince or anything, just sharing ideas, But wouldn't it just be so in character for april 30th to be a special date for him??

Overall i at least think the reason he chose to do it at the house was intentional for reasons stated above. If it wasnt, then why didn't he just... idk, find an alleyway or something and split himself there?

Those are my thoughts. Id love to hear other people's theories and such on this too.

(EDIT: I REALIZED THE MOMENT HE SPLITS HIMSELF ALSO PROBABLY HAPPENS AT A SPECIFIC TIME AS WELL, NAMELY 6:00 PM.

It mustve taken him some time to get back to the house. Not hours, but not seconds. 15 minutes seems like a good amount of travel time for someone who can teleport using portals alongside a bit of walking. If he got there early he could've just waited too.

A specific date, april 30th, and at (likely) exactly 6:00pm. In VOV while it is black and white, i assume the attack happened late into the evening, since the sky is dark when he gets back to the house a bit later. Idk how he would've known that it was exactly 6:00 but... anyway, Mundus also seems like the type of guy to plan shit, especially an attack like he did to Eva and the twins, if that whole "eva died on april 30th" thing was true.)

[magicalgirlartist]

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I finally drew the Toa Nuva as magical girls, as promised! I'm really happy with some of them. Some of them were easy to figure out and others were a struggle (Pohatu I'm looking at you lmao). Like I've said these aren't going to be in the Bionicle Sports Anime proper but I just like drawing cute dresses so here we are lol. Most poses are referenced from @adorkastock except Kopaka's and Onua's.

[Commissions open!]

Design notes under the cut!

I really wanted to commit to everyone having skirts or dresses, but for Lewa I figured maybe it was better to give him shorts so he's not flashing everyone while soaring through the treetops lol. Which is too bad because he would rock a skirt. JUST HIM THOUGH everyone else MUST wear a dress. This is not optional (I also wanted to avoid making anyone look embarrassed or upset to avoid the "haha man in skirt uncomfortable with it" thing because. Yeah)

This is also our first time seeing everyone next to each other with relative heights! Tahu, Kopaka, and Gali are all approximately the same height, Onua is a short king, and Pohatu and Lewa are the tallest. I base human Bionicle heights on vibes almost exclusively.

I didn't set out to give everyone white gloves and shoes, it just sort of happened. Initially no one was going to have white in their outfit except Kopaka, but it's a good neutral colour if used sparingly that helps break up some of the otherwise very monochromatic look I've given them. I also gave Pohatu a couple of orange accents because I felt like it :P

Each of them has their Nuva symbol in a different place on their outfit, like Tahu's boots and Lewa's earrings. I meant to give them each their elemental symbol as well, but the only ones who wound up with it anywhere are Tahu (chest and hair clip) and Onua (gloves and boots).

One of the hardest things for me when designing magical girls is shoes. Shoes are hard in general because I never think about them ever, but especially magical girl shoes. Gali's are based on one of Lagoona's sets from Monster High, and Pohatu's are inspired by the shoes and socks in Idol x Heroine Miracle Tunes. The other thing I have a hard time with is hairstyles and I just kept them the same for this lmao I really didn't want to make magical girl versions of all these hairstyles. In hindsight I do wish I'd put some braids or beads or something into Onua's beard.

I figure they all have their own callout when they transform, like at the end of his sequence Tahu would say something like "the raging flames of the inferno! Toa Tahu!" and Kopaka says like "the silent fury of the blizzard...Toa Kopaka." or some shit lol. And then once they've all transformed and said their piece they pose and go "Unity! Duty! Destiny! We are the Toa Nuva!" idk maybe it's the PreCure talking lol but yeah I do love a team callout

[alittlefanatic]

hello! would it be alright to request something for a reader who really looks up to howdt as a sort of father figure?

idk man, i collect fictional parental figures like pokemon, welcome home happens to be my latest obsession, and YOU happen to be my favorite fan writer for said obsession, so i figured id ask- no pressure though! college is rough, and i want you to take care of yourself!

I'm going to cry qwq THANK YOU SO MUCH! That means the world to me that I'm your favorite! I never thought that I'd be someone's favorite writer awawawaw.

🐛 Howdy Father Figure Headcanons! 🐛

Child Version

🐛 Howdy LOVES to hold you and pick you up! You are just so tiny and small!

🐛 He would love to give you head pats and even ruffle your hair! (If you are ok with it of course)

🐛 Got a boo boo? He will be right there by your side like a frantic parent! "Are you hurt? I have cute little butterfly bandages! Let's get you cleaned up!"

🐛 He will hang all of your crayon drawings throughout his Bugdega! He wants to show off how creative and how proud he is of you!

🐛 If you knock over a stand at his Bugdega: "It's alright bug! Are you hurt? No? Ok good.. mistakes happen, don't be upset! What do we do when we make a mistake? We clean it up! See? It's better! Mistakes make us feel bad but they don't define us!"

Teenage Version

🐛 He would have you work in his store! "It helps build character and understand responsibility better!"

🐛 With that being said though, he also helps you define your boundaries!

🐛 "You don't want to work on Saturdays and Sundays? Do you need the day off to rest and work on things? That's ok! Thank you for telling me! Let's work things out if we need to~"

🐛 If you are wanting to sell anything, he will help you put up a little stand in his store! He's your biggest supporter and will personally send out your work to other neighbors to get them interested to buy!

🐛 This man has absolutely no idea how to drive a car (mainly because he cannot fit in many, nonetheless drive) but he will try and guide you nonetheless! That is until he gets one of the other neighbors to help. He would get you a little 'beetle' car purely for the name.

Adult Version

🐛 He would absolutely cry at the thought of you moving out but he would help you 'spread your wings' if you did want to move, or at least have a place of your own nearby!

🐛 "My little bug is all grown up! I can't believe how fast it flew by...I'm so proud of you! Know you can always come back to your ol' pops ok? I may be getting older but I still have all these arms to hug you!"

🐛 He would let you take over the Bugdega if you wanted it! He would feel like you would do a phenomenal job.

🐛 If you don't though, he will be your number one supporter and will send you baked goods in the morning for your work as a courtesy gift!

🐛 If you move away, he would send you letters every week updating you about what's going on in the neighborhood and how he misses you and loves you, and that he's proud of you every day!

🐛 He is a very sentimental man, keeping every letter you write to him, or anything you've ever given him. Don't you ever think it wasn't appreciated, because he has a little area in his room dedicated to things from you.

I felt so bad that I haven't been able to write, I got a few more personal things to do then I'm completely free so expect more soon I promise! I'm so happy to finally be able to write more content for this fandom soon it brings me joy Be sure to get some water and a snack neighbor! Howdy would like you to take care of yourself 🐛

[rjalker]

hii i have recently been reading your flatland posts and i think theyre pretty interesting and fun!! idk if you have mentioned or talked about this before but im curious to know what you think flatlander food looks like. Ive always assumed it probably looks like dots but im curious to see what you think

I think it could look like pretty much anything, depending on what kind of things you want them to eat.

For one of the things I wrote, I had the characters eating a hastily-thrown together meal made of geletin and bits of diced fruit, based on the kind of things people used to throw together on war rations, since the characters providing the food were Isosceles, who don't have much to work with. I also decided they do have their own forms of alcohol, since that seems to be a staple of civilizations everywhere. People like getting drunk for some reason, so they'd figure it out somehow even in 2D.

At some point I plan to figure out designs for a bunch of plants for Flatland including the kind that produce edible fruit, but for the drawing I originally did I was trying to keep it simple so the fruit peices are just little grey dots lol.

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[ID: An MS Paint drawing of three Flatland characters seen from above, against a dark grey background, outlined in black. In the center of the room is a table with rounded edges, where an Equilateral triangle whose angle is marked 60 degrees is sitting in front of a long flat bowl, picking out small grey circles with his long cillia, and throwing them back over his shoulder, thinking, "Who puts pineapple in pudding???". Inside his visible stomach, we see that he's eaten two pieces of the pineapple, and other assorted pieces of food in different shades of grey, mostly the light grey in the bowl, and a darker grey from an empty bottle of alcohol that's on its side on the table. The rest of his insides are different shades of purple and blue. Across from him is an Isosceles with an angle of 3 degrees, and above a Line with 0 degrees, both of whom share the same thought bubble of, "There goes all our rations for the month...". End ID.]

But yeah, I think they'd have lots of different kinds of food, in all different shapes and sizes. The only limit is imagination :)

I think they'd have fun with monkey bread lol

[persephoneprice]

srry to hear ab ur day, so i wanted to send a pippa ask to cheer u up <3

i have this headcanon of modern!pippa wanting to become a primary/secondary school teacher, idk why but it just always made sense to me. she js has that aura of friendliness and enough care to want to make a difference in the lives of young kids, possibly bc she never got that when she was younger.

i also headcanon that she (along with the other mentors) grew up very rich and went to private schools, so her dad wanted her to have a job that he hand-selected for her (hc that he put her through dance as a kid, which she really enjoyed, but once her father put it as an actual career option for her she didn't like the idea) so when she wants to become a teacher he's not very happy about it, considering she wants to work in normal nurseries and schools compared to being a college teacher / a private tutor which he would probably respect a bit more.

she goes ahead with her father's wishes of pursuing dance, which is a hobby she used to love but isn't enjoying because it's not a hobby anymore, it's her life. but she also pursues being a TA on the side without her father knowing, just to test out how it is.

she starts to get really stressed out from constant rehearsal and trying to keep a social life too, that she almost considers quitting her job as a part time TA.

on the day she thinks she's gonna quit, mizzen comes to her office just to sit because he feels overwhelmed at the school. he draws starfish and they end up striking up a conversation about the beach (hc that pippa was raised going to the beach all the time, and mizzen grew up in a seaside town in ireland). mizzen starts to open up about why he feels overwhelmed and the things pippa says to him really seem to sink in and just seeing his face light up makes pippa know that this job is worth it. anyway she decides not to quit, because mizzen, as a kid with an undiagnosed learning disability (hc he has undiagnosed audhd, totally not me projecting here) would need breaks and talks like these so he could get through lessons and such, and she wanted to make him feel safe in the new school (a thing that she never felt as a kid)

anyway it was just a thing rotating around in my brain, you don't have to respond or anything i just figured id share my pippa hc w you since ur the pippa CEO!!

hope ur feeling better lily 💓

omg bel?? wtf YOURE ALSO having a bad day and yet you still sent me this to cheer me up 😭 what’s it like to be an angel fr?

persephone would be so good with children!! she would make such a good teacher. she’s the teacher that everyone wants to go back and visit once they get older.

alas, in every universe it seems like she puts her fathers wishes above her own 😔 but at least this time she’s got her little side hustle without him knowing!

AND THE PART WITH MIZZEN? i just stopped crying but i might fr just start again. that’s fucking precious omg

thank you so much for sharing this you’re an angel 😭

[puppyluver256]

[Image Description: The Pale King from Hollow Knight, as seen from the back. He is standing at the edge of the Abyss, his arms up in a defensive manner that suggest confusion or fear. In front of him are countless Shades left over from all the Vessels he has created, joined with several Void Tendrils and riding along a massive wave of literal Void that is on the path to collide with him. End ID.]

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GET HIS ASS! GET! HIS! ASS!!! Soooo yeah, this hypothetical popped into my head a while back as a result of remembering something completely unrelated in both property and tonal mood, and I guess I just wanted to see the Vessels get some well-earned cathartic retribution over their terrible father. I'm thinking maybe I should've had the light source at PK's back rather than his front due to the nature of Void, but this felt more natural even while dealing with a substance that doesn't seem to follow the rules of nature hehe. Also I kinda threw things at the wall to see what stuck with regards to PK's outfit alterations in order to give him a pose that involved arms, but I feel like it didn't work quite as well as I thought it would. If anyone wants to throw some pointers about my minor alterations feel free, though idk if I'd wanna draw him often enough to justify putting together a proper reference XD

...as for what the inspiration was, it was this specific moment from the Decemberween special of Teen Girl Squad that I have been singing to myself the entire time I've been working on this thing:

[Image Description: A screenshot from Teen Girl Squad, a stick-figure comic drawn crudely on notebook paper by Strong Bad in the internet cartoon Homestar Runner. The character What's-Her-Face is standing with her hands in her pockets beside a three-legged lion, who appears satisfied with its tongue and a stick figure leg sticking out of its mouth. A vast tidal wave formed entirely from human infants is advancing from the right side of the panel, and poking up from the bottom is a Hawaiian man wearing a floral shirt and playing a ukulele as he sings "wave o' babies!" End ID.]

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[oetscop]

thinking abt that a lot actually. i rly used to just DETEST children. the few i babysat were chill (except. the one that tried to flush my headphones down the toilet 👎) but generally i hated kids. it wasnt until i started rly thinking abt my childhood and processing my own trauma that i realized i rly dont actually hate them.

idk people can be so cruel to kids. ive seen so many customers just verbally abusing their kids. i literally saw this kids grandpa call him a failure bc he didnt tie off the bag of fruit when putting it on the belt??? another lady bitching to me about how stupid she thinks her son is bc he works cleaning out barns to get money for fortnite skins or whatever. i dont get it. theyre not even doing anything wrong theyre just being kids.

so i try to be really nice to kids. esp if theyre clearly restless and the parent is annoyed by them. ill let them spin the bag thing or ill give them the gun to scan the big heavy stuff. if the parent is having card issues i try to keep them preoccupied so they can focus on figuring it out. bc theyre not being loud or nosy out of malice, theyre still learning how the world works and social norms or whatever. standing in one spot is boring as fuck when youre a kid cut em some slack.

i just always think abt how awful it felt to be in those situations when i was little. how mean adults could be. and i was a quiet kid! i rarely cried in public, and when i did id always see at least SOMEONE glaring at me. id show someone a drawing and i did and they wouldnt give a fuck or tell me to go away. id get snapped at for singing to myself to keep busy. theyd talk to me like im stupid for asking "obvious" questions. i dont ever wanna make a kid feel like that.

[natsmagi]

(future au anon) OKAY BE READY BC IT'S VERY ANGSTY me and my friend loves angst wayy too much lol

So uh first of all tw suicide :')

Yeah hum i guess you can guess where it went with that

Basically Tsumugi unalived himself yeah-

Which traumatized Natsume and their daughter, Marisa (i was the one who made her!) pretty hard and now they're suuuper overprotective of eachother in fear anything happens to the others like calling each other VERY often Marisa would even get late to practice sometimes (bc ofc most kids are idols too and with time we decided ES accepted girls and other genders too) and Marisa often sleep at home too instead of the ES dorms and like if Anything remotely bad happens to his daughter Natsume would go MAD

It also affected Marisa personality a lot since she was pretty young when that happened so now she's SUPER parano and anxious about her loved ones wellbeing and like she would cling to her friends a lot and always ask them if they're okay bc she always worries they ever..you know. Do what Tsumugi did

Also Marisa is a big nerd (is that the term) she's super into books, animes/mangas, games and such and also a looot into the magic stuff her dad does teehee she also likes drawing and i like to imagine she's the one designing her unit clothes

ANYWAY but its time i actually explain why Tsumugi did what he did. So uh very basically me and my friend decided Eichi died of his illness to give the Wataei family angst which well ended with ES in a MESS since Eichi is like. An important figure in it yk. And so Tsumugi as he now became President of NewDi OR WHATEVER YOU CALL IT got super stressed and pressured with stuff (also grief of Eichi dying) and also with time the idol industry became much more strict and uh. Overworking? Idk how to explain but uh yeah all that was just too much for poor Mugi

It might be ooc idk,,but i decided to not have any mercy to the Eccentrics in this au (i mean do we have mercy on anyone really) and so uh oopsies Natsume i took ur husband away

Damn i ended up rambling a lot sorry i got excited,,i love this au i lot i would love to tell u more if ur ever interested?? :')

IM ??????? WELL THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING THATS FOR SURE

BUT IT IS A REALLY INTERESTING PREMISE........ im not the angstiest guy myself sorry im a big fan of happiness and joy and love but id say this is a very good foundation for the story ur telling from what im hearing !! and given the circumstances of everything i can see these events taking place....... BUT I CANT STOP THINKING ABT THE EMOTIONAL TURMOIL NATSUME WOULD GO THROUGH. like given everything theyve been through, all their promises together, baby tsumugi vowing "lets become happy together, you and me" to natsume-chan when they were kids, now even forming a family together, thinking theyve gotten their happy ending, only for the man he loves to then take his own life due to stress and anguish. im very fixated on the feeling of "i wasnt enough/i didnt do enough" natsume would be suffering through. the amount of regret he'd face. maybe wishing he'd been nicer to tsumugi. had put in more effort. given him a stronger sense of love and security while he had the chance, but now hes gone and the only memory he has left of him is marisa. This au sure is getting the brain juices pumping THATS FOR SURE

[corens-relisten]

MAG 26 A Distortion

SASHA JAMES?? OMG HELLO MY LOVE <33 HOW I MISSED YOU. i love how she immediately goes "yeah. if prentiss was that dangerous, martin would be dead. if hes survived, i figure id be fine" lol i love her

OMG SPOILERS!

GOOD LORD ITS MICHAEL DISTORTION!! HIIII HELLO OMG ((: i have so many drawings of this dude <33

so yes! its the Spiral! bc my love the Distortion is here (: yeah i mean michaels right that sasha doesnt rly know whats going on. plus obv some Corruption

huh what are they doing at a Corruption place though?

sasha: yeah we should really just quit lolz

oh if only they knew (:

spoilers donee

ah yes a creepy monster? i think the best method of proceeding is to stalk it! OO TIM LIKES ROBERT SMIRK? FORGOT ABT THAT THATS SO COOL!

i love the imagery of the blond seeming normal, but in reflections hes weird. just generally off-putting. love that sm (: love him so much (: YES MICHAEL. THATS NOT YOUR NAME BUT IT IS!! creepy sharp hands ((:

oo creepy Michael bringing her to a creepy worm place

i really dont remember this one. like. at all. dont recall it either. i thought creepy michael was introduced in a different ep! i wonder if i just accidentally skipped this one? its really weird. especially that i really like this ep! i dont think id just forget it

anyway, i dont think i have much else to say! so heres my offering of ml michael

i actually kinda love how he turned out ((: idk if it looks like him in glass in the background (its supposed to be a sort of reflection in the coffee shop (ik thats not how reflections work lol))

have a beautiful day!

[termagax]

11 for each of the main characters from blh

11 - what do they have in common with you? how are they different? would you get along with them?

kasey is not very much like me at all, but she's definetly cut from a similar cloth. weird, clumsy outcast kid. shes someone i would've loved to be friends with, and a lot of the characters that inspired her (mabel pines and star butterfly, most notably) were girls who i wanted to be so bad. unapologetically weird but still outgoing and friendly. if idve gone to high school with her idve wanted to be her best friend

aja is just like me for real for real, but at this point i try to treat her more as a time capsule of the me that i was when i made her with little changes here and there, so shes very much "a character i would have gone crazy over at 15" because well when i made her at 15 i DID go crazy over her. i have like six sketchbooks from a two year stretch where she was ALL i would draw its only aja in there. i do think id get along with her although if you put me in a room alone w her we're [redacted] so hard the [bleep]

hutch i also think is a lot like me, but definetly the kind of person i try to be more nowadays. again a lot of the characters they take influence from (greg universe, jake the dog, and other assorted "slightly deadbeat but extremely loving and kind father figure" character archetypes) are things i modled myself after for a lot of my teenagehood and i like to use them to emphasize the mellow and low-key and chill and unbothered nature i strive for but never seem able to actually pull off, as well as a lot of the insecurities that make that persona kind of difficult to maintain namely a lot of anxieties and poor self-perception. again i think we'd get along great, theyre a kind of person i find extremely warm and comfortable to be around.

victor. well i try not to be like victor but idk. reclusive and forgetful of the world around him and abrasive and also consumed by the Rot. my rot is not so literal but dont tell my ocd that. i would like to be smartbrained like him but i never seem to achieve it. i do think we could theoretically get along but i also think he'd bring out the worst in me #meancunts

nishka is a very specific kind of agonies which is ambiguously "fragile" child is simultaneously sheltered and neglected while craving the cool and interesting things shes not allowed to do. shes like. my childhood power fantasy of running away from my dad and going somewhere where theyd let me take karate and join a roller derby team and ecetera. so yeah we do have that in common although i think shes genuinely a lot cooler than i ever was or will be. whenever i bemoan not having a particular active hobby i just slap it on her as wish fulfillment. this is why shes a skateboarder.

ummmm arkangel. i definetly relate to her need for control i was the kid who was so bad at playing that i had to play alone and pretend to be 3 different people taking turns so everyone did exactly what i wanted. so i understand her need to just pick.people up and move them so they do exactly what she wants them to do exactly how she wants them to do it. i try not to indulge in this craving very often i think it makes me seem unpleasant but this is why im such a shit roleplayer 😔 i would.not like her very much i hate the way she wants things done and i would like to do it my way instead.

[stray-dude]

new about me dropped lol

figured id refresh it n all before i forget, so uh, yeah, be ready for somehat of a ramble bc i dont know how bios or about mes work

name/s: miles/galaxy (host/main), stray

pronouns: they/them/themself, he/him/himself, it/its/itself, cat (used as a noun exclusively, no pronoun variation, example: "the cat says its time to eat." can be used in combination with the other pronouns)

interests: fortnite, fortnite, bomb rush cyberfunk, fortnite, cats/cat videos, basically any music that includes the same vocal samples used in iwatodai dorm, 3d modeling n stuff

dni: basic dni stuff, obviously no terfs or anything even remotely similar, anyone who claims maps/nomaps are part of the lgbt, anyone who tries to exclude anyone for being: [aro/ace, fags/dykes, xenogenders, neopronoun users, "unpleasant" gender expressions or descriptions]

uhhhhh okay now i ramble bc i dont know what else to add. idk i kinda just put anything and everything on this blog, i draw n stuff n my brain is goo, if it interests you, hey, cool. theres lots of things on here that i considered deleting, most of it from my eddsworld days, but after a while, i think i dont want to go back to that. mostly private reasons, so if you came mostly for that, sorry, i wont blame you for leaving. i do have an alt blog where i reblog any cat or cat adjacent videos i find, but i dont want it getting swarmed so if you want that, feel free to dm, its mostly untagged stuff n just pure animals, kind of a side project for serotonin boosts.

[wobspots]

here she isssss ive been trying out some new brushes and getting funkier w stylization, i rlly like this one so far!!

au explanation under the cut

what if. berserk but its one of those corny 70s/80s space race-flavoured sci-fi alien horror movies? with the whole retrofuturism aesthetic and low budget practical effects

i made griffith a woman bc yes, shes this prodigy scientist of some sort who has this uncanny ability to like predict stuff, to the point where her coworkers (other scientists at the, idk, National Extraterrestrial Defense Unit of Security and Research or wtvr) try to come up with explanations on How she can just know stuff. (its aliens. obviously.)

Caska would be one of the astronauts on her mission and really look up to griffith, the only woman in such a high-ranking position and someone who trusts and vouches for caska. She is still griffith's subaltern, and they barely see each other since they work in different sections.

Guts would start out as a mechanic, a low, manual labour position. The type the higher-up scientists would pass by when seeing the spaceships and not greet, which is exactly the situation where griffith first meets him. But!!! her spidey senses premonition thing tell her that he has this huge unfulfilled potential, and she manages to convince her superiors to transfer him to an astronaut position, since her instincts had never failed them.

The Zodd thing would be translated into a unexplainable error either in the system or infrastructure during a trial of which guts is participating (think that big spinny thing to accustom the astronauts to the g-force of takeoff!). Griffith would risk her position and her life to save him by, like, running into the breaker room and turning off the power. and ofc guts blames himself

maybe this is the event that triggers griffith's "imprisonment": she compromised the whole plant just to save one guy whos not even qualified to be an astronaut in the first place, but she can't get fired, cuz she ~knows too much~. so instead they do secret govmnt shit to her :O

or maybe this serves more like zodd's thing does in the canon: Guts feels guilty and even if griffith doesn't get [REDACTED], she still needs to regain her superiors' trust and becomes way colder and detached from the friendships she made with her coworkers to just focus on getting things done right. then guts would leave and she would do some other thing to piss her superiors off and get [REDACTED]. maybe something like finding secret aliens being studied by the government area 51 style, knowing something she shouldn't have.

still havent figured out what [REDACTED] means tho. im leaning towards smth like 'she gets captured for secret government human experiments!!!11! and gets cool powers' or 'she tries to get off the map so she doesn't get assassinated and comes in contact w aliens who r like u r the chosen one... we put you on this planet to spy on the humans for us and now its time you learn your true purpose.... cast aside your flesh and join us in destroying humanity!!!!' or like, 'she is imprisoned but they still have her work in accounting or something else where they think she'd be alienated (pun intended) but she has the Instinct and figures out where the secret aliens are stored or sabotages the mission or something' idk.

then she gets 'turned' either into a sentient all-powerful program, or an alien via parasitism, or she was just an alien all along, or as a consequence of the experiments, or she manages to contact the aliens and they do some alien transformation on her. then its guts and caska fighting in an alien apocalypse with silly rayguns :3

anyway. heres my excuse to draw office lady griffith and rugged space explorer caska+guts fixing up the ship in a grease-stained tank top 😳😳😳😳

lmk what you think!!! id love to talk more w yall :333

my berserk bingles, I think you'll be pleased to know that I drew more griffith today 🕴️

forgor to take a screenshot but I'll post my progress 2morrowww