#kinda need Mario

[turquoisephoenix]

"Say Gonzales...wut's yer blood type? Don't give me such a look, son: I'm just curious. By the way, didja know enterin' the Glitz Pit counts as crossin' a threshold? Hyuk hyuk hyuk hyuk hyuk-"

Happy Halloween! It's just a sports drink, honest.

[bowserphobia]

aww their first dance, look at em go

[palskippah]

Hi!

Mario’s distaste for mushrooms is so funny and it gives material to draw stuff like this hehe

(Based over a fic I read years ago where the guy craved a fruit that literally every single person in that world hated and so he ate it shamefully ajksdjsad here Mario just eats angrily bc he hates it)

Also I say that at any inconvenience regarding the pregnancy Mario goes >:c to his belly, like he’s mad at the babies asdlaskd and Peach plays along.

(Also- sorry to people that actually speak italian, I did translate what Mario’s saying in google akjdjksdak he’s saying btw “how dare you two? To betray your own mother...”)

[hplonesomeart]

I can’t think of any funny quips to put as description for this one so uh- suppose this time around I’ll just let the art speak for itself lol

Enjoy the daily dose of fanart while it lasts because I can’t quite guarantee I’ll be able to keep up this speed throughout the upcoming month. But I’ll sure try to! Thank you all for the support <3

[mariocraft31]

hey guys! guess whos learning how to mod switch ttyd

[sol-lar-bink]

Sooo I started playing Paper Mario Thousand Year Door... still basically at the beginning. But its so weird that... this is my first og Paper Mario experience, and all I can do is be like 'Oh I know this mechanic from Bug Fables'

And now I kinda wanna go and play Bug Fables xDD

I've played Super Paper Mario and Origami King- and honestly I consider those two games pretty good and fun.

And Bug Fables is GREAT, so I'm super excited to see how TTYD goes, especially with some of the unique battle mechanics.

It's a game that even tho I've been around since its original release on gamecube, I have NEVER watched a lets play, never looked into the details. All I've ever known is that Vivian and Goombella are two of the most popular Paper Mario characters, and that the game is one of the best Mario games, like, ever.

[forevercr1nge]

Hey, let's go!!!!! 📺

[wholegrainporkndbeans]

Saw a post about it kinda but since I just finished ttyd the other day I just wanted to say: do I think it's better than spm? No actually, do I think spm is better than TTYD?: also no

Like I went into ttyd trying to figure out if it "really was better" than spm but I kinda realized you just can't compare them, like, at all

Sure they're both paper mario games but the gameplay for them is so drastically different that you really can't just say "oh yeah spm's gameplay is so awful compared to ttyd" when they shouldn't even be compared in the first place, 99% of ppl I see complaining about spm can't criticize it just as it's own thing they always come back to comparing to ttyd

And I'm not saying spm doesn't have its issues, of course it does, but so does ttyd: as I went into it for the first time I genuinely couldn't connect with, like, any of the characters except for maybe one or two, and honestly I think that's a BIG issue, maybe I'm alone in this but I still think it's something worth bringing up, especially in an rpg. I did eventually warm up to the characters, but not until chapter 4 heck, maybe even chapter 5, there was just something about them that wasn't doing it for me, i had the complete opposite opinion of the spm cast, I immediately fell in love with them,

And I'm not trying to hate on ttyd when I say this either, I just feel like ppl hate on spm so much and praise ttyd that ppl look over spm's positives and look past ttyd's negatives

Both are amazing games with fun battles, great music and overall entertaining dialogue and characters, I enjoyed both of them very much and I wish everyone would please just separate them a little

[turquoisephoenix]

You mentioned that you think after Grubba gets out of jail he has an uneasy friendship with Prince Mush. Do you think you could elaborate on that some? Like what do their interactions look like? Just curious as to how you think a murderer and a revived victim of his would act as friends

Okay, this one might be a little long, takes a bit of setting up, and involves some headcanons.

And I will emphasize that the relationship is "uneasy" and they're not exactly inviting each other to watch movies or anything. Grubba should be thankful that Prince Mush even wants to speak to him and give him occasional updates on how the Glitz Pit is running, at his request, while he's sitting in jail and later under house arrest (albeit a cozy house arrest at his tacky rodeo clown of a home, but he has to do it all with an ankle monitor).

Prince Mush is just something of a saint, very mellow, and extremely forgiving. He's just a bit of a wide-eyed shonen protagonist fueled by the power of friendship.

To explain why Prince Mush is so understanding where Grubba was coming from with his most terrible actions, both Prince Mush and Grubba have similar backstories - they were originally from poor backgrounds but then climbed their way to the top to become champion fighters.

This leads me to believe that Prince Mush grew up as a fan of Grubba. Especially since I made Grubba the type of fighter that had a LOT of merchandising and star appeal thanks to some rather aggressive contracts by his fight promoter/agent, who swooped in and saw a business opportunity. Prince Mush had secondhand toys of Grubba that they found in the local Rogueport goodwill because the store shelves were just flooded with them. Prince Mush bought some of his T-shirts and had a few of his toys.

And Prince Mush and Grubba got along for a good several years! Prince Mush had a very cushy Champion's life and his family got to see all of his matches and he was very comfortable! Grubba made sure to NOT treat Prince Mush the way he was treated in the past. Prince Mush had health benefits and vacation plans. Everything was good! Grubba was a good maybe-a-father-figure, maybe-just-an-older-friend type of cool old dude.

Until, one night, Prince Mush alerted Grubba to a strange machine that he found underneath the Glitz Pit Arena while he was training late one night. After Grubba asked him if he told anyone else (Prince Mush thankfully said no, so no killing spree for Grub), Prince Mush lead him to the strange machine and asked him "who could do such a thing?"

Grubba responded by hitting him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. They didn't even have an epic battle between champion and monster; instead Grubba panicked, acted like a cornered rat, and then immediately had to cover up the resulting disappearance.

Cut to a few more years later where Prince Mush is suddenly waking up in the Glitz Pit Arena and his own sister is telling him how he straight up died and his blood was on Grubba's hands, all while a little Italian plumber is waving at him and going "wahoo".

So in short, Prince Mush doesn't remember his own death and has to get all of his information secondhand from other people who were way way more traumatized about the events.

And Mush, being Mush...can't bring himself to hate Grubba.

At least, not totally.

Jolene hates Grubba with every fiber of her being and is very much a "if I see you outside of prison, it's on sight, mfer" type of person. Rawk Hawk has really mixed feelings about Grubba and oscillates between rage-filled hatred and survivor's guilt where he second-guesses all the nice things Grubba ever did for him, knowing that he could've been drained and shoved in a dirty old attic. He even visited Grubba in jail and had a shouting match with him as both of them had to unpack a lot of mental baggage. Rawk Hawk's change of heart is fueled by the fact that Rawk Hawk has grown self-conscious and scared of becoming as lost as his mentor.

Prince Mush? When he pieces the story together - the young star exploited at a young age so afraid of aging, so afraid of giving up his own business, that he'll use a magic demon artifact to render himself immortal at the cost of his own humanity and becomes a paranoid monster that can't get close to anyone without hurting or killing them...

He just finds Grubba sad.

And when he tells Grubba to his face while he's sitting in the prison cell, Grubba wishes he got the anger instead.

Having his whole empire crumble and having to live with the consequences of his actions just renders him a pathetic, broken man. He needed wellness checks during his first week of prison just to make sure he didn't do anything drastic. (being away from the Crystal Star that made him young and strong for the first time in 40 years and realizing that he was gonna wither and turn into an old man made him just a touch suicidal for a little while)

On top of all of this, once it becomes more common knowledge that the Crystal Stars were connected to the Shadow Queen, Grubba isn't even sure how much of his actions were his own or if he was Corrupted By the Amulet. Everyone - including him - believes he was mostly in control, but it sure doesn't feel good either way having to second-guess just how much of the past few decades were of your own free will and how much of it was demonic influence and you were just Golluming your way into murder because the shiny rock needed more blood for the blood god.

TTYD is very much a game that ends on the idea of forgiveness for the villains. I'm not going to have Prince Mush stay with Grubba ala Vivian hanging out with her shitty sister Beldam, but Prince Mush seems like a cool enough dude to at least extend a hand and say "yeah you killed me, but now you're in a position where you can't harm anyone else ever again and since you're a paranoid and have like 60 mental illnesses, I'm not going to kick you while you're down and instead tell you that the Glitz Pit isn't on fire and that my sister Jolene is doing a GREAT job".

And eventually Grubba...feels more at peace with himself than he's been in over 40 years.

TL;DR, Prince Mush forges a shaky relationship with his own murderer because his murderer's mental health was impacted by both demonic magic and the exploitation of Hollywood stardom but things are actually kinda looking up? Prince Mush actually wants Grubba to get better, Jolene wants Grubba to choke and perish, and Rawk Hawk is unsure whether he sides with Mush or Jolene.

[cozylittleartblog]

two shop posts today but mattel slapped me for my barbie keychains and now i would like to be rid of them. you can either order them directly thru me on paypal ($12 and free shipping but US only) or you can just ask for one for ✨free✨in any $20 order on etsy. both get the matching sticker as well, also for free

get these out me house

[x-naut-fortress]

tec xx humanoid robot design(look at the tags for the rambling of a very normal man)

[camprell-art]

possible angst idea-- Dimmy waxing poetry for someone, perhaps Mimi or O'Chunks, but it's just Dim reciting pre-existing poetry ((or it's inspired by pre-existing poetry)) it's all a show, and the words aren't his, but oh does he make them sound pretty~ ((your design of Dimmy has infected my silly brain, he's too pretty for his own good.))

He just wishes he knew what these dreams mean

more commentary about this in the tags because I'm dumb

[peaches2217]

I have so many varied and fun WIPs I could work on but my brain continues to scream “BE WEIRD ABOUT CHILDBIRTH! SURELY YOU WON’T WEIRD ANYONE OUT IF YOU KEEP WRITING ABOUT CHILDBIRTH!” and I’d like it to sTOP

[yourdrugisafartbreaker]

So I finished RTGame’s Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door video and oh my god how did I fall in love with a green capitalist rat

[drawingwiffmoochi]

Hey wow

I’m on a lot of different grinds rn

so

take my and my besties super Mario self inserts

and

and

a few other self inserts

☠️