#leslie answers

[franconianmenace]

birfdey cheemse 🤤🏳️‍🌈

I need it

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[zivazivc]

Has Hed seen quadrupedal Funk troll loafing like cats, considering he grew up in Vibe City?

i needed a minute to get what loafing means, but what an absolutely cute visual!

had a go at designing Kymani, Hed's favorite uncle who is a reggae troll.

and in regards to Hed growing up in Vibe City... since he got there so young, everything regarding funk trolls and funk customs became the norm to him. Till they started traveling around as a band, he knew very little about rock trolls aside from what he felt instinctively, and funk trolls stayed the "default troll" in his head for a long time when it came to him comparing himself to what's average/normal.

bonus: the two tried to imitate

[martyrbat]

batman: shadow of the bat #0

[ID: a flashback of the outside of Wayne Manor at night. A narration box (unrelated to the scene) reads, “Ya think he's got a guardian angel, or somethin'?” Inside the manor, Leslie Thompkins and Alfred Pennyworth are talking in regards of young Bruce Wayne. They sit in a magnificent library at a small table as Bruce sits at his own desk that's across the room and has his face buried in a book. Alfred reassures her, “— Worried about him, Doctor Thompkins? I can assure you there's no need! Master Bruce has the manor to live in — myself to look after him — the best education money can buy—”. Leslie cuts Alfred off before he can continue rambling out more examples. She tells him, “It's what he doesn't have that bothers me, Alfred. Friends — hobbies — the kind of life a normal teenager looks forward to. He spends all his time in the gym, or here reading. I don't think he ever recovered from his parents' death.” We're shown Bruce, now in a close-up and able to see the book he's reading is titled ‘Lip Reading For Beginners’. Bruce peers over the book intensely as Leslie continues to express her rightful concern, “He almost seems obsessed!” END ID]

[righthandedleftturn]

Ghostbusters: Answer the Call

[saliosis]

yap about something idc how long or if it is something I don't know about just yap 🫵🫵🫵

YOU WANT ME TO YAP? I CAN YAP 😍 I CAN YAP ON FOREVER‼️‼️‼️��️

i've got a fully fleshed au and a few people asking me questions about it, so i might as well use this as an excuse to go nuts about it soo...

here's me rambling about my wordgirl teenager/high school/future teenager au!!

SAL'S W✪RDGIRL FUTURE AU 💭🌟

...i'd come up with a better name for it but y'know my ass is not doing that 😍 my au is set about 5-6 years after the original show. there are a lot of changes in fair city, but the most important gags and details are still the same. i'm very loose with the exact year, but i've said before it's the early 2010s. an exact year frame would be 2011-2013. i think 2012 is probably the most accurate year.

the kids are juniors at woodview high, aged about 16-17. to be more specific: becky is 17, tobey is 16 1/2, scoops is 16, and violet is 17.

becky's still wordgirl ofc. she's not as energetic as she was before since being a high schooler and superhero is not an amazing combination. but she's still doing very well for herself! i've also had a bit of conflict as to whether or not i want bob to be dead (i love monkeys so this is a hard decision)... but i'm currently leaning on the "bob's dead, becky has to do things on her own now" thing 💔 if i write more tobecky stuff, i'll probably make this part of the story

but he would definitely be alive at the beginning. i believe he would just slowly be getting older and older, unable to accompany becky as CHF. it would be a defining, hard to navigate moment for her as it would take a hard blow on her mental health.

although becky would go through many struggles in this. i know a lot of people don't care for violet and her friendship with becky, but i believe their friendship only strengthened through middle school. this means scoops, violet, and becky's friendship becomes unbreakable. this makes it hard for both of them when violet begins to take dual-enrollment classes... aka college work and high school. sometimes she doesn't have time to hang out. scoops probably plans to go to college as well -- and yeah, most teens struggle with deciding on a path for the future, but becky struggles most. she wants to go to college (possibly in another city), but she thinks she'll find it harder because she's a superhero. how could she leave fair city? even if she does go to college, how will she find excuses to leave to stop crime? it's just too much.

and at this point, she'd have no huggy to talk to ���️ so she feels just sort of lonely at times.

alongside tobey, becky is in the speech & debate elective. violet is in fine arts, scoops is in writing.... don't ask me about eileen and victoria because i honestly haven't thought much about what electives they'd pick 😭 rose is also in writing

it wouldn't be wordgirl without villains!!! ☝🏼 so ofc we still have our favorite top villains (dr 2brains, the butcher, chuck, etc.). some might have advanced rankings, some actually might be slowly backing away from the scene. realistically there would probably be new villains too but you'll never catch me writing out a new wordgirl villain..... i was struggling to make a villain oc because coming up with a clever one that seemlessly fits in the show is so hard.

for example, tobey is the best example of someone who starts to slowly exit the villain scene. i explained this in a reply, but puberty hits tobey like a train. he spent his younger years being reckless and irresponsible -- so now his body is betraying him. if you ask me why my tobey has curly hair, it's because it's hit him during puberty. his hair texture just... poof bitch 🌬️ changed. another example is motion sickness. tobey spent his childhood standing on top of giant moving robots? sorry bitch. MOTION SICKNESS 👻👻👻👻

so he gradually starts playing a bit nicer, not committing as much crime at the beginning of the au. if he does, he'll be hiding away with a remote control from a distance like......

TOBEY, through the speaker of his robot: "Wordgirl! There you are! I was wondering how long it take you to show up."

WORDGIRL: "Tobey!"

(WORDGIRL looks around for Tobey, confused)

WORDGIRL: "Uh..."

(TOBEY sits at home, in front of a screen. He points at the robot's chest, where the speaker is.)

TOBEY: "Eh... Right. I'm-.... The speaker. Right here."

WORDGIRL, looking around: "What?"

TOBEY: "No, no, no! I'm not physically there-- I-- Uggggh. Turn around! Turn around!!"

WORDGIRL turns around again, facing the robot: "I still don't see you."

TOBEY, annoyed: "Look up!"

(WORDGIRL looks up at the robot's chest, where she finds the speaker. She instantly realizes he's not even there in person and is instead controlling his robots from home. There is three beats of silence before she sneers and teases him.)

WORDGIRL, snorting: "What? Too lazy to get out of bed today?"

TOBEY, embarrassed: "Wha- No!"

and eventually he starts becoming lactose intolerant so it's really #tobeover for this guy. i like bullying him 😛

also on tobey... he fully stops villainy, as mentioned in my latest fic "Some School Dance or Whatever" (which you should totally read if you think i'm cooking). i don't wanna say too much about the specifics on it because i'll eventually write more on them....... but it's something he chose to do. it's part of a promise to becky made before they started dating. he doesn't know she's wordgirl but oh boy, will he figure out in a bit. it will be. um. messy 😍 he has stopped though and that's (probably?) the biggest "i'm going straight!" thing with any of the wg villains

while they are dating, tobey makes smaller-scale robots. or just tinkers with new types of things that can satisfy that itch in his brain that makes him want to build things

victoria plays an important role in this as well. i don't mention it much, but i distantly enjoy becktoria. i also like angst. sorry victoria, but i think she won't act the happiest when those repressed gay feelings come out when becky gets with tobey 💔💔 hashtag onesided

on a happier note, here's some fun little tidbits i wrote out last year for it:

pretty princess and magic pony power hour is still going. strong. very strong. it probably ends in her senior year. think of it as being like the mlp of the time

and yes, becky is STILL the biggest fan. where do you think all her money is going? #merchcollector

granny may is alive.

tj is 14, moody, and going through the roughest emo phase becky has ever seen. she's like "wtf happened to you"

gender crisis is beating scoops' ass (it's the early 2010s. horrible time to be having one.)

exposition guy and his wife have two kids

rose and scoops are having the craziest (friendly) writer's rivalry bond going on. it's scary.

violet likes to draw and play

captain tangent, who everyone doubted to take crime seriously, begins to rise ranks

THIS IS MY FAVORITE GAG. glen comes back but no longer as a dr 2brains fan and it kinda pisses dr 2brains off. glen's comeback is centered around being the butcher's #1 fan. they both argue anongst each other and the butcher is standing between them like "um how did i get in the middle of this 😰"

THIS IS MY SECOND FAVORITE GAG. yes, chuck is still villain-ing it out (he's my favorite villain 🫶🏼). still going through some serious brother issues, chuck tries to compete with brent. it's the strangest move he has ever made in his whole villain career.... but he introduces a new product. think of it as villain merchandise. "no bread, just crust."

it flops.

bigslie wedding that happens early into the au. wordgirl is baffled but she's invited to it.

more on that one... mr big's fuckass self is thinking "you know. there will be a lot of people at my wedding. how about i mind control them 😍 maybe if it works, i can both get married AND rule the city with her 😍😍 let's make it a surprise for her 😍😍😍" (what's wrong with him)

leslie is not at all surprised, disappointed, or sad when mr. big pulls out the ray when they're reading vows... and when it fails, she just says "this is what happens when you don't consult me about your crimes, sheldon"

but it's okay because the villains happily celebrate their marriage in jail (wordgirl stops by too ofc)

that's all i'll say for now but just know that i love love love LOOOVE talking ab my au. feel free flood my asks or notifs with questions, comments, and or ideas 👍🏼

[throwawayhey]

The meme where you push all the main characters aside and point at one of the side ones

Give Leslie some love!!! Her cover art for Avery Chase by swc’s artist is super cool and her face portrait in-game is so pretty :((

Imagine humans could like disguise themselves as demons so they aren’t jumped by demons

In that scenario though people still jump Leslie because “OH MY GOD ARE YOU EPIPHANY OXBLOOD FROM DYING PETALS?????”

[whump-in-the-closet]

If you are still doing the prompts:

“I just want to go home.”

sorry this ask took me so long! Anyway I used some of my newer ocs wooo

cw: female whumpee, forced to fight, blood, possibly broken wrist, training to the point of exhaustion, a pretty fucked up training facility

Leslie escaped from the training hall with a hollowed-out exhaustion. She sat down at a bench in the back of the locker room and let the fluorescent lighting gloss over the worst of the bruises. Slowly, she began to unwind the tape around her hands, wincing when it peeled back blood and patchy cuts with the white fabric. 

The few moments of quiet, with the ventilator humming softly, did not last long. 

Kaspian, the trainer, stormed into the locker room. His face was lined and etched with layerings of scars but his uniform was always pristine. 

“You!”

Leslie stood upright, the tape around her hands hanging half unwrapped. 

“Get back in there. I don’t remember permitting you to leave.” Kaspian pointed from her to the door. 

“I didn’t ask,” muttered Leslie as she walked past him. 

“What was that?” 

“Nothing,” said Leslie. 

Kaspian shook his head. “Wrap your hands back up. You have another match.” 

Great. 

As Leslie headed back to the hall, Kaspian following her, she retied the tape– now less white and more bloodstained– biting it off to tie it. 

The training room was loud, with red-glare lighting, filled with nervous energy and stained practice weapons.

Kaspian waved her towards the ring in the back of the room. Her opponent bounced in the corner, stretching their arms and grinning.

Grinning. 

Who grinned like that? 

Their hair was tied in an intricate braid and they had a twisting scar from their bottom lip to their collar bone. That was bad. They were also far taller than Leslie. That was worse. 

Leslie shot Kaspian a look. You have got to be kidding me. 

He wasn’t. He folded his arms, the message clear.

Leslie cursed in one long breath. Then ducked under the ropes. The lights were brighter, casting blood-red shadows over the ring. It enhanced the stains already on the floor. 

Her opponent’s eyes glowed when the bell rang. 

Leslie landed one punch. 

Only one. Her wrist made a snapping sound as it connected with her opponent’s face. 

And they didn’t even flinch. 

“Fuck–” 

Leslie was knocked backward onto the floor. All her breath was knocked out with it. Her vision swam with sudden, sharp tears, and through pieces of hair, she could make out Kaspian’s disappointed expression. 

The world spinning, she pushed herself to her hands and knees. Blood gushed from her nose in a steady stream. She wiped at it, more out of surprise than pain. 

Then her opponent kneed her. 

Leslie hit the floor with a dull thud. Her breathing picked up, shallow and through a clenched jaw. 

Faster and faster and faster. 

They kicked her one last time, with a laugh. They grabbed a handful of hair and twisted her head upwards until she cried out. 

The light burned brilliantly, spiraling into thin curls of color. She could see two of her opponent, then four. 

“Say you surrender.” 

Leslie did not. “Fuck…fuck off.” 

Her opponent sneered. With a shrugged “Fine then,” they kicked her in the mouth. They dropped her head and left the ring. 

Leslie cupped her mouth with both hands, curling up on the canvas. Blood pooled over her hands and onto the gritty texture of the floor. 

White pounded in her vision, ripping through her. It twisted through every nerve, alive and eating away– fading to red.

Kaspian pulled her to her feet. “You have so much work to do,” he said as she stumbled down the stairs.

Leslie kept a hand over her mouth, trying to contain the vicious aching to only one part of her body. “I…I just want to go home.” 

“Never say that again,” said Kaspian with a sudden intensity. “If Liege Sage catches you saying that, I won’t be able to help out.” 

Home. 

“This is your home, now.” 

Everything ached.

[answerthesecondcall]

Presenting Dr Jillian Holtzmann’s equipment bag.

[pocketslook]

Leslie x David Rodriguez mayhaps 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[wordup2007]

leslian

[trekkele]

About your post about Red Hood being more welcome than Bats, can you please elaborate? <3

I have conflicting feelings about Jason, too, but people talking about him negatively like this is kind of rare. I mean, with giving examples lol. There are a lot of people who don't like him, I know, but nobody goes on a ramble. I want some amazing rambles, you have no idea. But I guess I do get it, some Jason fan might come into your inbox and try to fight about him. Kind of like a divorced parent about their kid :/

"divorced parent defending their kid" is such a funny way to frame the kind of fans that climb into your inbox and get mad about it thank you I love it. Also to be clear, y'all (general) are getting one chance. I get something nasty in my inbox and it's getting deleted and anon is going off. Don't fuck this up for everyone.

Unfortunately my feelings about Jason boil down to: I don't believe in the death penalty as a way to fix society, and I certainly don't believe in it just because some snotty nineteen year old is like, really passionate about it.

Also his fans can be really fucking annoying. (<- not exclusive to Jason however)

As a character he's interesting, because most of the time he's a straight up villain! He didn't come back wrong, he came back and decided to become wrong, because the world didn't greive him the way he thought was right. He's selfish and stubborn and self righteous, he's only half serious about fixing Gotham at all and mostly interested in consolidating power in a way that looks like he's helping, if you tilt your head and squint real hard, he kills people because he thinks crime can make you irredeemable while insisting if Batman truly cared he would do the same, all while ignoring the fact that he would be one of the first to die, by his own criteria.

He has good intentions, sometimes, maybe, if you blink and it's Tuesday and the writer wants to do something "different" but mostly he cares more about some convoluted revenge plot that is doomed to failure then he does about following through, and he is his own worst enemy because of it.

He decided he could buy the moral high ground with blood and now he's up to his knees and drowning in it.

But specifically "Batman would be more welcome then Red Hood"? I'm referring to the fact that Batman beats you up and puts you in prison, and then WE or a related subsidiary is willing to hire you when you get out. There are multiple canon examples of Batman/Bruce offering ex-goons/henchmen positions at WE, including health care and chances to move up. Red Hood offers you a bullet to the back of your skull, or a chance to be a henchman for him. The options he offers you are die a criminal or, sometimes, join his gang.

I think the choices between the two are obvious.

[zivazivc]

So I was watching this short and I couldn't help but think about trolls using milkweed floss for stuff that should otherwise need wool or silk.

What do you think, Ziva?

Oh yeah I think they use what's available to them in their environment and to their tiny size. Plant fibers are definitely a good resource for making textile. I mean even cotton and many other fabrics come from plants. And people used to weave straw or blades of grass, in some places they still do that.

Also since the trolls are too small to be able to raise animals like sheep, I imagine them raising woolly caterpillars or other fuzzy insects for "wool". They also herd bumble bees to meadows for honey and I think they could shear those too since they're fluffy. :P

As for silk... I think they would still make silk the way we do, it would, again, just look a lot like herding big animals. Silk comes from silkworm cocoons so they'd probably raise the larvae and then gently shear the cocoons without hurting the pupa.

I imagine the Classical Trolls would be big is the silk business.

Silkworm moths are tiny and have that "Classical" aesthetic so I think they would even keep them as pets in their moth form. Like how people used to have chickens as pets.

Also here's a cropped image of woolly bear caterpillars from a collection of drawings i'm making about the area around Les and Hed's rural hometown. That area is full of farms that raise these guys for wool and food.

Tho for some reason I imagine this species being pretty big compared to silkworms.

[thebibi]

The weirdest Klinger did was how towards the end of the book he starts going off on long tangents in his annotations about “Oh, CLEARLY Dracula ISN’T dead” and "Mina MUST be in an unhappy marriage".

Lines up with the 1000 sequels about Somehow Dracula Has Returned and Mina and Jonathan not loving each other.

Yeah Klinger actually flip flops on this. Like he annotates Dracula as if its presenting a factual, real case. This is why everything is up for suspect, like Van Helsing speaking German instead of Dutch, or Quincey accidentally firing a gun inside of Jack's asylum because he secretly aligns with Dracula (instead of the obvious answer he was aiming at a flying bat that moved). But at the same time, when he reviewed the "official" sequel by Dacre Stoker, he said there's no way this is a real sequel when the book so adamantly gives closure for everyone (he still liked it though which is wild).

SPOILERS FOR PEOPLE DOING DRACULA DAILY 2023

There's another thing that Klinger totally misses from the epilogue that even stumped me for a while. Basically, Jonathan ends the novel saying "to the happiness of some of us" that they now have a son. Klinger points out "to the happiness of some" means someone from the main cast isn't happy. Since Jonathan is doing all the talking, it must mean Mina.

But that's not what Jonathan means. Its a coded language to explain that the Harkers have had kids while other characters have not. In Cambridge Dictionary I found that "the happy event" also is a euphemism for having a child. Its like when a parent asks their married son or daughter for "any good news" -- they aren't asking about geniune good news but about pregnancy. Klinger hasn't realized that you couldn't have Mina herself be like "I am happy to announce I gave birth", because it was still seen as a bit too intimate for the time. So yeah, weirdly enough despite Klinger's wealth of knowledge in other parts, he completely doesn't realize this. Alas.

[jack-kellys]

David and Les for the Barbie drawing prompt I beg you

@endlesslesbianabyss and @scattered-winter and also another anon pls get ur bag

send me barbie and ken pairs that are NOT: spot+race, davey+les, oscar+morris <3

something akin to this happened

[thelassoway]

Ted Lasso S01E06 Two Aces || Ted Lasso S03E06 Sunflowers