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[jellypawss]

I have a major issue. My computer just completely gave up.

[leslie057]

@we-love-jancy event day 3: pragma (mature love)

adoption is hard :(

love is easy

[soadscrawl]

i personally think lances drip is insane however being from the future will never save a fictional character from 2016 from the fate of this jacket. i know he got that shit from forever21

[stardestroyer81]

🥪 Introducing... Door2Door! 🥪

Door2Door stars twenty year old possum Gigi Dempster, who lives in a rather ramshackle, podunk town in Vermont called Bendersville. After sending numerous job applications all over town with no word back, she finally lands herself a delivery driver position at an unassuming locally-owned sandwich restaurant named Dine 'n Dash. With no prior experience in the art of crafting a mighty fine sandwich or running a delivery route, Gigi is strapped in to experience the whirlwind of a first time food service job firsthand, and in an unpredictable town like Bendersville, quite literally anything can happen.

(For more information on what Door2Door is— as well as a handful of progress images— please consider checking underneath the cut!)

At last, witness unveiling of my latest project I've spent the last month conceptualizing, Door2Door! What once came about as a silly idea of basing a project after an inner-city delivery driver inspired after a certain gameplay section in Spongebob Squarepants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman, it has since blossomed into one of my dearest passion projects yet!

Though, before I get into any further detail behind Door2Door and its creation, I must stress— none of the above five images hail from a lost late nineties/early 2000s Cartoon Network show, and if by chance any of them were enough to fool you into thinking they were, then that just means I achieved what I set out for! 💙✨

Now, about a month ago, I'd been watching a retrospective on the critically un-acclaimed Spongebob Squarepants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman, a game I had growing up. It's important for me to mention that I had seen and personally played the aforementioned gameplay section before, though for some reason seeing it again struck me with a brilliant project idea.

Anyone who's been following me for at least a year knows that I've designed a cavalcade of candied characters for my own arcade game concept, Rascal, and initially my idea for Door2Door— which I also called Project JJ (In reference to the sandwich chain Jimmy John's)— was to give it a plot simple enough to translate into an arcade game.

The idea was that you played as a plucky delivery driver who rides through the streets of a seedy city to deliver a food order to the... er, order-ee. But your progress would be impeded by a fiendish gang of mobster alley cats who are after your sandwiches, so there would have definitely been a large cartoony element to the gameplay loop.

I drew concept art for Door2Door's protagonist, then known as Marcy, though I really wasn't vibing with either drawing. For one, making the protagonist a cat seemed a bit overdone, and I already have a cat character who's name rhymes with Marcy, so that had to go. More so, I also couldn't settle on a good spriting style, which prompted me to rethink the whole project.

Well, there is a general aura of cartooniness to Door2Door, I thought, why not just embrace that vibe whole-heartedly and reshape the project into a long-lost late nineties cartoon?

I did like the idea of having an excuse to drawing more animation cels, though if I was going to make Door2Door into something resembling a cel-animated cartoon, I was prepared to go the full distance in nailing that aesthetic, in the form of how characters are designed and the way I go about drawing each screenshot.

For those unfamiliar with cel animation, essentially it can be described as a traditional form of animation and involves objects— usually characters— being hand-inked and painted on clear celluloid sheets and placed over painted backgrounds.

Above, I've provided a visual for what a standalone 'cel' from Door2Door would look like, coupled with a hand-painted background. When overlaid on top of one another...

... you would get this! This is exactly how cartoons were animated up until the era of digital inking and coloring... but that begs the question. How am I achieving a hand-drawn and painted aesthetic if everything I've shown so far has been drawn digitally?

I have my ways! It involves a lot of studying how individual cels of animation look, and taking note of recurring hallmarks; grainy textures, paint blemishes, drop shadows, etc. Above, I've assembled a small gif of my process in composing a screenshot for Door2Door, from lineart to final product!

So, that all should loosely explain it; Door2Door is what would happen if I were in charge of a late nineties Cartoon Network show, and what you've seen here is merely the beginning. Going forward, I will be posting art of Door2Door's main cast with some additional character information and concept art for each one, though for the time being, enjoy all five art pieces I've supplied for this post— they are perhaps the biggest works of mine yet this year! 💙🏳️‍⚧️✨

[that-butch-archivist]

1 out of 4 accelerated summer courses finished today. Next to go is Chem.

[profounddestinyrebel]

Pretty much my ideal dcxdp coexisting world

Danny had all his canon happen before Bruce and the JL started their vigilante careers

Before Bruce was born or Martha and Thomas even got married

Phantom Planet never happened and the world never realized that they were almost dead in the first place (I apologize for mentioning it)

Danny retires after blowing up the portal and designing a new system of gov for the Infinite Realms (why the hell is that a monarchy anyway? Fighting being a way of communicating AND the way of determining a ruler does not make sense so I'll choose the better one)

Danny still visits the Infinite Realms but mostly lives his life

He still has interesting things happen to him but more because he apparently has a curse placed on him than anything else 'may you live in interesting times'

Danny manipulates the curse by getting into situations on purpose and then resolving them without getting attention drawn to his civilian id and normal life

He keeps track of immortals and big names that deal with death magic so as to lower the chances of being summoned

The more powerful the Realm Being the more powerful the summoner has to be to summon them and with how powerful Danny is there aren't many he has to keep an eye on

Ra's has been losing Lazarus water at a steady rate for over a decade but only now has it become a noticeable loss. The day the that he notices is a Very Bad Day for the League of Assassins (the day Danny lets himself get caught satisfies his curse for 2 whole months)

Danny hasn't aged much at all since he left Amity at 17. He's still short but mimics the effects of age with stage makeup and other tools used by actors to look older they actually are. This is how he meets a certain Alfred P. who remains a good friend even though they never really meet in person.

His parents blow themselves up and wipe their house off the map when tinkering with a device designed to lure realm beings to them. Danny isn't really sorry they're gone. He finds out after leaving Amity that he wasn't really their kid and he wasn't even adopted. They made him in their lab while distracted from their obsession with ghosts then completely forgot they had done so when they refocused on ghosts. His growth chamber (terrible name) was coated in ecto which allowed the device to reactivate and allow Danny to finish incubating into a toddler then (suspicious) it mysteriously popped him out before his the fentons noticed the growth chambers success.

His parents never took any notes on the clone experiment out of the house due to it being a (perceived) failure. After going back to their ghost obsession they completely forgot about it so no one knows. Jazz only found after Danny told her and he only found out after growing older and continuing to look less and less like either of his parents.

Danny finds the notes and that's what inspires him to leave Amity, to start looking for his bio parent. The Fenton's had no clue that the clone they grew was Danny. They dismantled the growth chamber when Danny was four (actually two) and never realized that the toddler they adopted was the clone of wonder woman they made. They never said anything to anyone about Danny being adopted so Vlad has no idea that Danny isn't Maddie's child.

Vlad starts to age drastically after the portals are destroyed and Danny figures out that Vlad isn't a halfa after all. He's just a normal ghost who can prey on people like spectra but with an obsession directed at Maddie originally and then Danny. Afterwards Vlad gets shunted off into Walker's prison because of all the toxic and human crimes he's committed among them brainwashing, mind control and mind wiping various wealthy and not so wealthy individuals into giving Vlad their money and companies.

Ellie has to explore the Infinite Realms (literally Infinite though so she's not confined) only because she can't really produce her own ecto. She has to absorb it from her surroundings so she can wander safely all over the Infinite Realms (so long as she calls for help when she gets in over her head) but not the human realms unless she takes a buddy who can produce a steady stream of ecto for her.

Vlad makes Danny his heir so now he's rich enough to travel even after giving all the people Vlad stole from their money back. It turns out that Vlad was good with making more money once he had it.

just Danny being a crptoid for the entire magical community and them being unable to talk about it if they even know of him

while danny runs a NASA and space account where he talks about NASA's recent achievements, newly discovered stars, planets and new alien races that Earth has been in contact with

[daincrediblegg]

THE LONG AWAITED LADY TERROR BIO

Full name: Genevieve Sinclair

DOB: February 12th,  1816 Baptism: April 16th, 1816 Birthplace: London, England Eyes: Brown Hair: Dark Brown Sexual Orientation: Queer Disposition: Enigmatic. In some circumstances quiet, thoughtful, introverted, in others, charming, charismatic and even boisterous Build: Full-figured, somewhat corpulent.

Genevieve “Lady Terror” Sinclair was born to Captain Charles Sinclair, a 2nd generation French/Italian immigrant who rose to captaincy during the napoleonic wars, and his lawful wife Ms. Marie Sinclair (nee. Bennet) after his return to London. Though he would never receive medals or great honor for the commencement of battle during the wars, he was recognized by the Royal Navy for his rescue efforts in recovering several stranded crews from the wrecks of many naval battles that commenced in French-controlled waters. Several years after his daughter was born, Charles found his funds running short to support his wife and child, and elected to take up the merchant’s trade to deliver and receive goods from the Americas and Russia, forming good relationships with the Hudson Bay Company and other exporters to be recognized as a business partner in full.

Sinclair’s childhood was mostly spent just outside of London in the family’s country manor. She spent much of her childhood happily as the only child that the couple would come to bear. Under both her parent’s tutelage she would learn much not just on the ways of being a proper lady, but also she was extremely well read in literature from around the world, philosophy, and studied in sciences as well. But her passions were especially prominent in her own writing, and the illustrations that would accompany them- a talent that she would pursue for the rest of her life and a constant comfort especially in her years leading up to her womanhood.

As she began to enter womanhood, her parent’s relationship, and her relations to them in turn, became strained. With her father often away, and left at home with only her mother to care for her as consequence, resentment brewed between them for Charles, but also in turn did Marie’s resentments implode upon the young woman, as her mother took to drinking and contradicting public endless praise for a talented daughter with endless private slander of the burden of raising her alone and increasing difficulties that she would face as a woman too intelligent for her lot in life, and how important it was also that she secure herself through marriage as she did. The unsavory dynamic between mother and daughter escalated until in her early twenties, Charles, on a return trip to England, found his daughter so deep in distress that she was to afeared to leave her room, prone to fits of being unable to sleep, distress from her mother’s private demeanor and admonishments and being given laudanum for these anxieties. Charles, knowing this to be unlike his daughter and heartbroken by her deep distress, discovered in turn that on top of her increased drinking and horrific spending habits while he was away, uncovered that she had also been unfaithful during his absence. He attempted a divorce from her in 1834 but nothing much ever came of it. Instead, Charles retained the custody of his daughter and brought her with him as he purchased a separate townhouse in London for themselves and summarily brought the young woman with him on all subsequent ventures, as she had once done in her youth for a time, but her mother had put an end to. 

Over the course of the next eight years, Sinclair would span half the globe with her father while he conducted trade in its many corners. In that time, she learned much in the art of navigation, and was considered the most competent among the crew of her father’s ship-aptly named The Demeter- in this regard. Learning much and her skill also for reading charts and also re-drawing them for better navigational accuracy would have earned her any competent place on any given naval ship as a ship’s master- if not captain herself. The crew of the Demeter had been far warmer to her presence than might have been any other kind of crew one could encounter, but nonetheless took some time to warm up to the bright young woman they now had aboard. Nevertheless, Sinclair’s sharp thinking and suggestions managed to curtail many near misses, with no men lost during her tenure on the Demeter. But along with her skills in navigation also came a keen sense of business by proxy of her father’s business, and therefore became savvy in such dealings. It was always well regarded that much of her multiple talents served her well, and the culmination of these talents rose to great promise when word began to spread upon their arrival back in London after a long winter strait in Russian waters that another expedition to find the elusive Northwest Passage was underway. To secure a name for herself, with greater promise for her own self security (as her father, now in his 70’s, began to make preparations for her to inherit his entire estate and affairs upon his death, and she, wanting to be a part of such an adventure undertaken alone, put her name forward in the lots of ice masters that were to be considered for the expedition. Whilst her entry was highly unusual on account of her being a woman, she was considered highly for a secondary position as a junior in which she would assist her more tenured counterparts on Erebus and Terror with charting the unmapped territory and in navigation through the icy waters of the Arctic. It was not so much for her clear and unrivaled skill that she was eventually chosen, but moreso for her connections with merchants in the area for whom trade would be promising, and a navigator experienced in taking the route would be of great use to them once the passage had been charted. Though this fact continued to aggrieve her greatly throughout the expedition, her ability to take part in such a venture at all and as she was greatly overshadowed it, and accepted the position with gusto. However, as she would come to grapple with the incomprehensible horrors that awaited her in the arctic, she would come to regret what excitement she had once had to be a part of an exploratory mission such as this, and at the same time, consider it to be one of the best decisions she had ever made.

In her personal life, Sinclair by all was considered an odd sort of girl. Her outspoken nature earned her disdain amongst good society men and women that she encountered, but amongst the oddest lots in life she always seemed to find friends. One person in particular- author of ill repute Edgar Allan Poe had been a singularly constant companion to her and had been since their childhoods, as he attended a boarding school very near to the family home where they lived as his adoptive parents-Frances and John Allan- conducted their affairs in London. It was rumored once that there were wishes on behalf of each party to marry, but nothing came of it as time and miles parted them in their teenaged years, though up until her disappearance they remained very close friends. It is through this friend that Sinclair became acquainted with some of the other literati of the day (though Poe had burned many bridges with his scathing reviews of his peers works, a point of which Sinclair herself admired, Sinclair did not garner such a reputation herself), including the likes of Charles Dickens and Walt Whitman. In any and all such circles, she was always warmly regarded, if not well liked.

In affairs of the heart, however, Sinclair would never find herself so rich in either opportunity or prospect. Even though as a sole heiress she had been viewed as a desirable match for many gentlemen and many certainly took a chance at pursuing her in her youth, Sinclair never failed to turn them all down eventually. By her twentieth year it seemed the offers of marriage fell to the wayside both in light of her reputation and her sheer absence from such scenes where opportunity to meet potential suitors was presented, and she never took as much interest in finding a husband before spinsterhood approached her as many other ladies she had known were. Instead, she focused her efforts on making her life her own, and surpassing great obstacles in order to achieve her own independence whilst also not compromising her emotional well being.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I'm frightened of you knowing who I am but, could you possibly give me your frank frankly theories pretty please idc if you only have like 2.1 I want them regardless of how many you have.

mayhaps?

ah man i wish i had some to give! i think all of my Frank theories (at present) are tied into other theory posts! he simply doesn't have a lot to chew on yet

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[sophieswundergarten]

ramble about a character you like?

HI

WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT SAM LAMBERT??

I know I'm always talking about him, but he makes me smile so much. He's such a great character.

He loves this ridiculous rulebook that says things like "If you’re ever in a tight spot, just ask yourself, “What would Pope Boniface VIII do?” Whatever the answer is, do the opposite. Stay one step ahead of the competition." (Pryce and Carter 724)

He also is in an intense rivalry with his commanding officer, whom he does appreciate, he just can't bring himself to say so. He's snarky. He's a sympathetic crier. He loves his job more than anything. He used to play DnD over ham radio when he was a child. He was born in Oklahoma. He's in, like, less than 15% of the show running-time-wise or something. He's my favourite character. His actor did a week of live streams in-character to promote a show that he wasn't even in.

He's so far from the main character, and yet he is the one I have latched onto

ALSO

He has friends!!

Officer Fisher, doctors Hui and Fourier, and the AI autopilot Rhea are in the show for even less than he is!! And I love them all dearly too!!

Here is the very sad thing, though: Both Hui and Lambert died from Decima experimentation. Decima being a deadly virus that was being researched by their crewmate, Elias Selberg. (Guess who infected them with Decima)

[themthistles]

i think that while micro labels can seem useful and affirming ultimately they're isolating and kind of an obstacle to your understanding of self. that's because you can never find a word specific enough. there will never be a label or two labels or even ten, twenty of them to perfectly capture and describe all of your thoughts, feelings, experiences, preferences, needs, interests, identities, etc. because you learn more and more about yourself every day and then you change and your wants and needs change with you. having to hop between labels, fearing that you don't 'fit' into a label anymore (both in your own and others eyes), worrying how soon your current label will wear out, questioning if you'll ever fully fit a single one. all that causes a lot of uncertainty and anxiety which could be avoided by just picking a more general thing and molding it according to what it means to YOU. because words will always mean different things to different people, you will never be understood immediately and maybe never completely by anyone but yourself and that's fine

[queer-book-character-tournament]

Who is that in your icon? That’s not Andrew Minyard is it?

it is! the art is by @requiemofkings

[xeneric-shrooms]

BEHOLD! MY WATER FAERIE!

Freyiirtelph! It's pronouns are any non-genders ones (they/them, it/its, etc)

[cherubchoirs]

do you have a masterpost of all your ultrakill aus? id love to see all of them properly 👉👈

i should but i don't ;o; there are tags though!! rise and fall au concerns the major au of my blog, which has a summary in an ask here for background. in short, it's a canon divergent au based on gabriel becoming a fallen angel and staying with v1 while they both contend with the other archangels. i have a pretty threadbare plot in my mind, but i'm mostly interested in playing with characters and their dynamics, so there's nothing really set in stone for the narrative.

the second au is much tinier and sillier - infarmo!! it takes place in the heavenly fields, where the pasture has been abandoned by the shepherd and so the archangels must watch over the flock on their own. they're all basically just. little animal guys lol gabriel is a jacob sheep, michael is a lion, raphael is a barn owl, and uriel is a goat while v1 and v2 are "wolves" (not really, they just dress up that way as a disguise lol) and lucifer is an old dragon that lives far past the fields. this one legitimately has no plot and i just think it's cute! it's very unserious and meant for fun :]

but that's it! i've promised time and again to organize a big masterpost, i've just been much busier this year and haven't had the brain power to do it!! i still think it's at least worth it to write out a full synopsis/character profiles to collect all in one place, so hopefully i really do get around to that eventually....

[craftingcreatures]

Spectember 2023

For this year’s Spectember I present to you the world of Earth, about 15 million years in the future, during the Ultracene epoch. This is a little project I’ve been working on on-and-off, and which I often use as a kind of “dumping ground” for spec concepts that don’t fit into any of my other projects. It’s a mixed bag of good, bad, and mediocre, and over the course of this month (weekends excluded; I do have a schedule, but it’s anyone’s guess if I can keep to it) I’ll be showing you some of my favourite concepts from this project.

DAY 1: Welcome to the Ultracene

15 million years in the future, the world has changed. The Anthropogenic mass extinction has brought an end to the Pleistocene Glaciation, and the world is now hot, wet, and verdant, much as it was in the ancient Paleocene. The deposition of massive amounts of greenhouse gases by humanity irreversibly altered atmospheric composition, and the subsequent high global temperatures melted ice sheets and caused sea levels to rise by nearly 100 meters. Vast tracts of South America, Eurasia, and Australia are now underwater. As a result of the increase in the ocean’s surface area and temperature, the atmosphere has much more water vapor in it, leading to higher precipitation across the globe; deserts like the Sahara are much wetter, sandy wastes replaced by rolling savannahs and grasslands.

The continents have changed, as well. Tectonic activity has led to the collision of western Africa with southern Europe, closing the strait of Gibraltar and raising up the Castillian Mountains where the western Mediterranean used to be. East Africa has broken away from the mainland to form a new island continent, Somalia. And Arabia has crashed into Iran, opening the strait of Suez into the Indian Ocean and pushing up the Zagros Mountains until they rival the Himalayas in height. In the western and southern Pacific Ocean, volcanic activity has led to the generation of new island chains and the enlargement of old ones. Australia has drifted north and collided with New Guinea. And so on and so forth.

The changing climate and colliding continents, combined with the action of humans in the modern era, have had serious effects on the biogeography of animal species. North America, for example, is now home to old-world pythons and monitor lizards. Descendants of the hippopotamus thrive in the swamps and coastlines of South America, and Elephants and Hyenas once again range across the palearctic, from Spain to Siberia. Humanity itself has succumbed to the ravages of time, having been devastated by mosquito-borne illnesses in the aftermath of the apocalypse; but the world they created lives on, forever bearing the indelible mark of the upright ape.

Over the next month, I will take you on an adventure through the wildlife of this strange new world. From Arctic Macaques to Arboreal Sharks, from the austere grasslands of Greenland to the stormy Argentine Sea, this world is at once intimately familiar and undeniably alien. Come with me, my friends, on this journey to the future. Welcome... to the Ultracene.

(Map modified from one created by Reddit user m4nu. I moved the continents around according to my basic understanding of tectonic plate movement speeds and directions, and added biomes where I thought they should go. Take it with a grain of salt - I study ecology, not geology or meteorology.)

[ourladyoflight]

Angel doesn't need to eat.

She can taste food, and enjoy it- but she won't feel the sensation of an empty stomach, or gnawing hunger pains. It doesn't stop her from savoring what she does have, though; food to her is a means through which care is expressed, and through which she's learned to express her own care.

But, really, she doesn't need to eat in the same way she doesn't need to sleep- her body can certainly grow weary, and her muscles can ache and strain, but she won't feel any sensation of sleepiness.

It's something she shares with her brothers, or at least a few of them. Though all relatively close in age, it isn't difficult to notice differences based on their creation order; the eldest ones have the characteristics of traditional servants, created to tirelessly serve a single purpose. Moving down the birth order means an increase in characteristics more akin to life on Earth- a need for energy, metabolisms, and benefiting from rest.

As angels, they're a spectrum- a representation of what happens when an entire group turns away from the innate purpose they were given, and towards something different. Their biology is gradually following along with them.