#in the great cosmos

[thunderstomm]

“Check the Threads, huh? I’m your new fairy godparent ! Kid, I’ll take you from Dev, to Dev-ine !!” 💜👑

[paper-lilypie]

*posts this unprompted* okay FINEEEEEE

[misteria247]

Whenever you take away the fronts and learned behaviors that Timmy displays sometimes, do you ever notice that like Timmy attracts others fairly quickly?

Like when you take away his random bursts of snippiness and cold moments and you see him actually let loose and be himself he makes friends like it's nobody's business. Because Timmy isn't just kind, he's endearing as well.

Sure he's mischievous and sarcastic, but these traits add to him in a way that people can't help but still like him. Like Big Daddy, Wanda's dad. Dude's a mobster who only likes his daughters and doesn't really care for anything else. But he enjoys Timmy quite a bit. Or Mama Cosma who's a bit uppity and overbearing towards Cosmo, shows a soft spot to Timmy and showers him like he's her own grandson.

Or Jorgen who's incredibly serious, however when it comes to Timmy he's more lenient towards him. Even though he wants to tear his hair out half the time. Or the alien prince who immediately grew to adore Timmy and try to be his bestie. And then there's Jimmy from the crossover episodes, who's notorious for being iffy about making friends easily. Yet with Timmy, once their differences are aired out, Jimmy gets comfortable with him and even starts a friendship with him! And fucking Chip Skylark??????? He literally befriended a fucking celebrity??????

Like Timmy Turner is special in a way where he unknowingly befriends so many people without even trying and the ironic thing is because of his home life and the universe being hellbent against him, he has no real idea just how wonderful he really is. Just how many people actually adore and love him.

But Wanda and Cosmo see it. They've always have seen it and it's one of the many reasons they love him.

Timmy Turner is a good kid, and his heart is one of gold despite the world constantly trying to tarnish it with its bullshit. I think it's one of the reasons I love his kid myself.

[an-adhd-infested-nerd]

We’ve (rightly) talked about how great Peri’s design is but we have not talked enough about Cosmo’s human design

Giving him a dad bod and a tourist fit? The Flipflops? The socks with sandals? The bowling shirt? The silly star sunglasses? The green and purple? Chefs kiss no notes

[donelywell]

November 8 2023

I don't really know what compelled me to draw Cosmo, or change her design so much. I think I really just wanted more flower design elements into her hair. Cosmo looks really cute in Sonic X (honestly, I should rewatch the 3rd season at some point).

[shpepyao]

Moth design inspired by Great Attractor

[voidfire-studios]

"Why are you crying?"

Me, inconsolable: Th-they're-*sob* they're normal fish

"What?"

They're normal fish in the picture. They were his fairy godparents. They were *hic* like his parents- and-and *sniff* they loved him so much *sob* and he loves them so much and-and- *sniff* he's never going to remember them *hic* because now he's all grown and they're normal fish in the picture

They're normal fish!

[sanchoyoscribbles]

@zexalmonth day 9: gate. I love a crossover prompt!!! instead of letting the characters interact I mostly just wanted to draw yuma and astral in cure star and cure milky's outfits tho. the color schemes... 🥺

I love the series where a blue alien partners up with a pink haired protag with the space theme. B) no, but actually these series do have a lot in common and I think anyone whose a fan of one of them should def check out the other!! 🌟

[calicobigamy]

Essence of a Babygirl (a tumblr joke essay)

Babygirl, the term has spiked in popularity, but what is a babygirl? Is the term a bit more complicated than at first glance? What is the essence of a babygirl? Today I will be answering these questions. 

Urban dictionary describes babygirl as thusly:

“A term used towards grown fictional men who have the fandom in a loving chokehold.”

A Mashable article titled The internet's 2022 horny dictionary defines babygirl as

“... a term of endearment for when a man is being cute, comfortable in his masculinity, or weak in an evocative way.”

These descriptions are wholesome. They create an avenue of masculinity that can be vulnerable and attractive at the same time. A term for a type of masculinity that creates room for a multi-dimensional character in fiction. Various fictional characters have been affectionately dubbed as “babygirls”. One of the most well known being Leon Kennedy from the Resident Evil franchise. 

However the term is also used to describe characters that are remarkably not wholesome. Characters like Izzy Hands, played by Con O’Neil from the incredible show written by David Jenkins called Our Flag Means Death and Marvel’s Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, have been called babygirls. This must indicate a spectrum of “babygirlness” that scales from wholesome to not wholesome. 

A good babygirl can be seen at a glance, but what makes these other characters part of that babygirl spectrum on the negative side? As my colleague (@robogart) and I studied the issue we realized that negative babygirlness included more nuance. 

We created a study group to determine what attributes make up a bad babygirl. Included in our study was: Izzy Hands (Our Flag Means Death), Gal Dukat (Deep Space 9), David Xanathos and Oberon (Gargoyles), Anders (DA2), Yami Bakura (Yugi-oh, 4kids Production), King of All Cosmos (Katamari), Patches (Fromsoft), Ratagin (Great Mouse Detective), and the Six Fingered Man (Princess Bride). 

The five characteristics that we found amongst all of the babygirls we picked from various media were: being decidedly not wholesome, pathetic, emotionally unhinged and dastardly, but all in all containing some kind of charm. 

We went through and put all of our babygirls to the test with our system. The results were surprising, with Izzy Hands coming out decidedly less babygirl than we predicted and Ratagin being the epitome of babygirlness. 

What did these tests show about babygirlness on a whole? The spectrum ranges from morally good characters to bad, but all share a few common traits. However they express their vulnerabilities, either as completely unhinged or emotionally accessible, we as the audience are captivated and find “their weakness evocative”. Another aspect that is continuous through the spectrum of babygirlness, whether good or bad, is that a babygirl is secure in his masculinity however he chooses to express it. Babygirls on either end of the spectrum do end up having a “loving chokehold on their fandom”. Those people in the fandom are not necessarily of quantity, but of quality. Especially for the baby girls on the “bad” end of the spectrum. 

In conclusion a babygirl can be summed up as a fictional male character that is evocative in his vulnerability and at the same time confident in his masculinity regardless of his moral compass.

Co-Written with @robogart

THANK YOU FOR READING ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF THIS SILLY LITTLE ESSAY!

Please feel free to copy and paste the bad babygirl diagram and see where you babygirls fit!! I am excited to see your favorites!!

[superdorkcat]

Found throughout European folklore, a changeling is a substitute left when a human child has been kidnapped by a supernatural being, commonly a fairy. However, nothing is said of when a child willingly goes to the world of fairies.

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Timmy Turner is an average kid that no one understands… who lives in Dimmadelphia instead of Dimmsdale. This leaves him without the support network of AJ and Chester but with a teacher and a babysitter just as bad as Crocker and Vicky, as well as parents whose actions aren’t played for laughs like on the show.

Chloe Carmichael (who’s here both because Timmy deserves a sister and because I CAN FIX HER DAMMIT) has the opposite problem. Stuck in the shadow of her absentee activist parents, every ounce of her self-esteem is derived from helping others, which has resulted in her becoming consumed by toxic perfectionism. She’s constantly held up as an ideal child by adults who see her as nothing more than a pawn, alienating her from her peers. She may look like a little miss perfect, but in reality she’s completely alone.

Enter Cosmo and Wanda. Unlike canon, each fairy is assigned a specific godkid regardless of marital status. Meaning that Wanda is assigned as Timmy’s fairy godmother to give him the structure he needs while Cosmo becomes Chloe’s fairy godfather and helps her learn to accept making mistakes. Due to living in the same city and having fairy godparents who are a married couple, Timmy and Chloe quickly become friends. And then they find out that, after they grow up, they’ll never see Cosmo and Wanda again and won’t even have the memory to mourn their loss. So they do what any pair of broken, desperate children with the ability to make anything they wish for come true do - they wish that Cosmo and Wanda were their parents.

This wish has the unforeseen effect of making them changelings, children in a transitory state between human and fairy. Of course, the fact that fairy godparents go to miserable kids means that Timmy and Chloe aren’t the only ones that have wished for their fairies to become their parents. There’s also Remy (because of course the kid used to getting everything he wants would jump at ensuring he’ll never lose the only person who ever gave a damn about him), Molly and Dwight (the two kids who got sent to the Wishing Well with Timmy in the show), and maaaaybe a reworked version of Winston (Jorgen’s godkid in the Oh Yeah! era).

Now, the kids are enrolled in Abra Prepdabra’s designated but not always used Changeling Class in order to learn how to control their developing powers while also finding out just what trading the normal world for the magical world entails.

I could go on, but I'm gonna leave it here for now. I'm calling this the "Changeling Effect AU".

[livingforstars]

Galileo, Cassini, and the Great Red Spot - August 2nd, 1996.

"Imagine a hurricane that lasted for 300 years! Jupiter's Great Red Spot indeed seems to be a giant hurricane-like storm system rotating with the Jovian clouds. Observed in 1655 by Italian-French astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini, it is seen here over 300 years later - still going strong - in a mosaic of Galileo spacecraft images. The Great Red Spot is a cold, high pressure area 2-3 times wider than planet Earth. Its outer edge rotates in a counter-clockwise direction about once every six days. Jupiter's own rapid rotation period is a brief 10 hours."

[nalooksthrough]

Is it bad if I say these two are my two most favourite characters in the show?

[halfshellkayela]

Sometimes, I remember the fact that Cosmo and Wanda came out of retirement to be Hazel's God parents. Because they saw a child in need, and they WANTED to help. There's something so sweet to me about the fact that they just have this need/want to help children. Then Hazel still CHOSE them to be her godparents at the end to make it official. 😭 THEY CHOSE EACHOTHER.

[the-astral-express-archive]

Honkai: Star Rail | Transparent Enemy Portraits: "Harmonious Choir" The Great Septimus

[yocalio]

SHŌGUN Toda Mariko x John Blackthorne

[i-lavabean]

Tide and Bone scribbles