#if i'm gonna be obsessed with computers i might as well commit to it

[fishymom-art]

cinema is when a man lashes out at his computer and to show the irony of it they do THIS to remind you that yes, this lunatic is screaming at a machine like it's a human being

[tophattrio]

TOP HAT TRIO ARCHIVES: Part 1

Warden: Look at all this lovely art of us! We could fill a museum! Professor: There's so much it seems like we can't keep up... Once-ler: ..... Y'kno what guys? I'm gonna take a break...

((A small fraction of my old old old trio art, most of which has never seen the light of tumblr (under the cut)! None of this is colored. Some of this is pre-blog or just... REALLY early-era Trio art, so some of it is... dated. Also, as indicated by the top, this is part 1. Meaning there will probably be more, LOL...))

((I hope it's okay if I ramble some fun facts in the middle of this!))

We're gonna start off with this silly lil doodle of the lads! This was drawn during the era where I did my silly crossover drawings, before I mustered the courage to turn them into an askblog.

Based on the date, I must've drawn this next one while I was in the process of actually making the blog... potentially their original "profile" images? Or just a doodle I did to get me hyped...

As you can see, all the drawings so far are pencil and ink... that's because (if I remember correctly) this is when I was VERY new to computer tablets! I felt more confident in my traditional art so I would slap quick colors onto the back of a bunch of ink-drawn replies and make minor adjustments with the tablet. I remember being hesitant to switch to a fully digital style since I felt the sketchiness was almost part of the style of trio? But I've come to accept change is good! Everything post-Greed M!A is all (or mostly) digitally lined (with the occasional trad sketch), but if you look closely at the trio in this (and many other) early-day responses, you can definitely see the pencil marks!

Unposted Thneedville High Trio!!! I was SO obsessed with the Once-ler Askblog AU's back in the Once-ler Fandom's hayday... they were a lot of fun to observe on the side and I wanted to be part of that in my small way, but unfortunately, I was a coward so I never did LOL... I'm thinking this was drawn in February or March 2013...

And, something I drew on the same page, Truffula Flu Trio!!!! I think I briefly thought about making it (and thneedville high) a sideblog but I felt like I couldn't commit for multiple reasons: (1) AU hype was dying down a little, (2) It was a bit too serious a concept for Trio; I wanted to keep them lighthearted and silly (covers bad end with a hand). And (3) I was still doubting whether or not my blog counted as a Once-ler blog (being only 1/3 once-ler) and whether I was valid to participate in events. Eventually I got over that fear when I joined Camp Weehawken and participated in the fandom revival of 2015, but the fear was definitely there at the very beginning and I hesitated to jump in on some stuff because of it!!

These were some of my earliest (unanswered) asks! I think for a while I thought I accidentally deleted the Pinkie Pie one, but it mysteriously came back one day?? I don't plan to finish these but might as well get some closure since I already drew them. I had to look up which troll typing was the one being used here so I might be wrong, I know nothing about homestuck except chapter 1 and 2 and whatever I osmosis from my mutuals LOL...

Peacock was drawn before I knew anything about Skullgirls...... within the past few years I recently watched her gameplay/storyline! She's defs a fun character. Trio are probs neutral about her. I'm not confident enough to do anything major with her, but I would love to cameo her more!

I got a few asks / M!A's about genderbent versions of the trio back in early 2013 and these were my doodles for that. The designs were based off of different designs floating around tumblr at the time that I liked. I'm not interested in doing this M!A anymore, but the dresses are cute!

Some glasses shenanigans I never posted for some reason?? (For reference: (1) (2) (3) (4).) It's silly stuff like this that make me realize Trio!Professor is a little bit like "Cheerful Mystery" Professor but like... waaaaay more tame HAHA (I never read the manga back then because I was upset they made Layton OOC, but from what I've seen he's... a lot more chaotic there). Which, ykno, good chance explains why Trio!Professor stays sane around Once-ler and Warden and their wacky selves.

Some wardlers and layclaires!! Also a few super old things I doodled out for Lovestruck M!A part 2 (including warden being a perv and oncie being flustered and confused, LMAO) but... idk if I have the energy to commit to it at the moment... partially bc thinking about getting an influx of shippy-type asks gets me overwhelmed and idk if I can commit to another magic anon all my magic anons manage to kill the blog somehow 😭, but ykno... saving the anons in my inbox in case I change my mind... Love these guys dearly regardless,,, <3

Some doodles of Layton and his rivals!! I think someone sent a small "Descole takes over the blog" M!A (hence the itty bitty chibi head LMAOO) but (again) I don't have the energy to commit to anything but vanilla THT right now. I still thought the idea was fun enough to draw out and anticipate in advance! If I change my mind y'all will know about it...

My first drawing of Wilson from Don't Starve!! I didn't even play Don't Starve at the time, but I wanted to do research if I was going to properly execute the magic anon and I fell in love with him immediately. Unfortunately he (and his game) became my new brainrot and I still feel really bad about that LAUGHS, but hey! Was worth it! Maybe someday I'll redo trio mods for DST...

I may have him cameo again, but potentially after his character update in Don't Starve Together eventually drops, of course, :3 chants give us lore lore loRE LORE-

Aaaaaand that's all I'm gonna show for now... until next time everyone!

PART 1 (you are here!) || PART 2 (TBA) || PART 3 (TBA) || …

[steel-song]

The world contains painful diseases we haven't cured yet, and wars, and pollution, and criminals who sometimes commit really horrific crimes, and red riots, and natural disasters, and abuse and trauma, and rapists who never even get reported, and people with depression so horrible that they literally want to kill themselves.

And those are just the big things, the world also contains the thousand little annoyances of every single day - being unable to sleep because the fines on noise pollution laws aren't fucking high enough, cramped public transit where you get shoved against a wall by someone who's coughing fit to give you plague, when your computer crashes and loses something you worked hard on, when someone's rude to you at your job and you can't say anything because you don't wanna lose your job, the loneliness of not having anyone in the world who gets you and what you're going through.

Sure there are happy people, but happiness has to be fought for. Suffering is the default state of the world; if you just lie down and do nothing, you'll get hungry and lonely and miserable until you actively seek out food and friends and entertainment.

Maybe you think, well, I might have a sad kid but I also might have a happy kid and I'm willing to risk it. But you might also have a criminal kid who causes immense suffering to numerous people. Imagine if your kid was Savo, all of the victims of the Voan food crisis would be on your head. So you don't GET to risk it.

You can't consent on behalf of OTHER PEOPLE, they have to consent for themselves. And your kid doesn't consent to be born and doesn't consent to have to constantly fight for happiness, and other people don't consent to being murdered if your kid turns out to be a murderer, they don't even consent to live next door if your kid turns out to scream a lot late at night , and who are you to just decide hey I'm gonna bring a kid into the world anyway because my base obsessive baby-desire outweighs the problems my child will cause just by EXISTING in our cramped, resource-strapped world of conflicting incompatible needs.

Having a child improves one of your empty springs, but how many empty springs is your child going to have? More than one, that's for sure. So that suffering already more than cancels out your brief happiness.

And nobody ever thinks about that, they're all just incredibly selfish and their brains get taken over by an alien every spring and turned into nothing but zombies chanting MAKE MORE BABIES MAKE MORE BABIES and it's disgusting and terrifying to see people - ordinarily complex, thoughtful, restrained people - turn into those slavering Child Maximisers.

It isn't controversial that people make stupid decisions in spring. They get hastily engaged, have babies they aren't ready for, sometimes even have kids without credits and society has to deal with that. But somehow everyone's like, oh, everyone ELSE makes stupid spring decisions, but I am entirely logical and ENDORSE having a kid. But they never think it through. They never think "ok will I still want this kid if there's a risk that they're abused by a teacher, bullied in school, constantly miserable, contract a painful disease, and then commit suicide aged five saying they wish they'd never been born?" because if they thought about that they WOULDN'T HAVE KIDS.

wait. do you ~actually believe~ that babies cause net negative happiness. that's hilarious

yes that’s what I actually believe, no I’m not engaging with people who just want to laugh at me