#lil gruesome

[soapkaars]

Sometimes you get possessed and you draw a 25+ panel comic about a Boardwalk-empire style alternate universe take on the wacky races where most of the races are bootleggers, moonshiners, and mobsters, with two lost WW1 ace pilots participating and trying (and failing) to not get on the wrong side of their fellow participants.

Note 1: Lil' Gruesome is a blatant Peter Lorre ripoff because in the show his voice actor does a Peter Lorre impression. Lorre being a film noir actor who liked playing terrible people is being honoured here by being cast as a terrifying Gyp Rosetti stand-in, with some Hungarian flair delivered with the help of @faustiandevil

Note 2: Don't worry about Red Max, he'll be fine

Note 3: 'Piroska' refers to Little Red Riding Hood, 'Most, biztos jól össeszartad, nemde?' means 'you just shit yourself, didn't you?' (sorry if I made any spelling mistakes!)

Note 4: Really, don't worry about him. He's fine, everything's fine.

Featuring: Dick Dastardly in a not-so hidden romantic relation with Red Max, Professor Pat Pending, Penelope Pitstop, Lil' Gruesome, and Big Gruesome silently looking on

[luck-of-the-drawings]

POOR GABRIEL MONTEZ! YOU NEVER SAW THIS COMING DID YOU? ALL YOU WANTED WAS POWER. SECURITY. SAFETY. & THATS EXACTLY WHAT YOU GOT! JUST IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR BODY. LETS JUST HOPE NO ONE FUCKS THIS UP. LETS JUST HOPE YOU WONT HAVE TO CLEAN UP THE MESS.

[faustiandevil]

More marker drawings and it’s time for the Gruesome Twosome.

So in Wacky Races Lil’ and Big Gruesome are more or less expys of Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff respectively, with a bit of Béla Lugosi thrown into the mix with Lil’, so I just built more upon that in the Prohibition AU. Big Gruesome or Károly Groszmann (Károly as that was the closest name I could come up that was similar to Karloff, and fyi if you say that y at the end as an i you are saying it wrong, honey) is looking more like a Frankenstein’s monster, the drawing was also based on T. Wyatt Nelson’s of Karloff as the monster, because I really liked the hair. Lil’ Gruesome or Béla Groszmann was drawn based on an old photo of my very real papa in his military uniform, only Lil’ was part of the flamethrower unit in WWI. I’m still deciding on his rank and proper backstory.

And lastly the colored drawings is a very layered joke that combines the monsters from the cereal commercials and that one gag from Wacky Races ep two where the Gruesome brothers are the only one unimpressed by ghosts. I also did a last minute decision to add a scar to Károly’s cheek as a nod to another Gruesome Twosome from Arsenic.

If you’d like to see not Lorre and Karloff be fucked up criminal brothers then maybe consider reading my fic~ //twirls hair//

[thyhauntedmansion]

‼️RESIDENT LOVER LORE DROP SPOILERS‼️

The chart ALONE😭 I CANT

[cult-of-dollbabies]

@silvershewolf247 is this a therapeutic exercise?

ref:

[nicosraf]

i've spent most of my writing break just laying and staring at the wall but i think i Needed This..... maybe ill watch paddington....

[ashotofogdensoldfirewhiskey]

April 10: Scream

Day 10 of @hinnymicrofic TW: blood!

The scream is ripped forcefully from her lungs.

“Harry!”

She can still hear the sickening crack of the bludger against his skull, watches in horror, helpless as Harry slumps over and slips off his broom, plummeting to the earth. She can see a sickening streak of red, and his head doesn’t look quite right.

It isn’t until Peakes and Coote catch him that it occurs to Ginny she could have dived, could have tried to do something other than swallow the bile in her mouth.

Ginny has always fancied herself brave, but when she flies closer she has to look away. There’s so much blood, and his head is wrong, crushed or something, and he’s limp and pale. It’s horrible. Grotesque.

She goes to the hospital wing after they lose the match, and it isn’t until he asks what happened that Ginny remembers Ron is there. It’s a good excuse, that she went there to talk to her brother; it’s what she’ll tell Dean later.

She steals glances at Harry, slowly breathing in the reassurance that his chest is rising, the color is back in his cheeks, his head is wrapped in bandages but looks like it’s been put right. It’s the right shape, anyway, not the horrible bloody mess it had been.

It isn’t until she rows with Dean later about it that she realizes most people found it comical. Slapstick. But they hadn’t seen him, they hadn’t seen the crimson red pooling in his hair, they hadn’t been close enough to hear the sharp crack of his skull. They didn’t seem to care much that Harry had looked like he was dead.

Or perhaps such a thought didn’t suck the air from their lungs and carve a jagged hole in their chest, the way it had her.

[astyr-art]

oh SHIT mermays almost over, fuckin uhhhhhhhh *mermifies fav oc*

hes an electric eel ofc, and instead of his cybernetic limbs+eye theyre ~magic~ ooooh

[morporkian-cryptid]

🇯🇵Elliott's Japan Trivia Corner🇯🇵

Today we're gonna talk DISEMBOWELMENT! 😃👍

Just kidding. I'm actually going to talk more about the cultural stuff that goes around seppuku, not the actual swish-swish. (Still, CW for suicide and graphic description of death)

For those who aren't aware, seppuku (or hara-kiri) refers to the act of cutting open your stomach, then having someone behead you to shorten your suffering 👍 It was a ritual suicide practiced (mostly) by the samurai, from the Kamakura period (12th century) up until 1991. Yup, you read that right. Seppuku was officially outlawed in 19-fucking-91.

Did you know that, in the Edo era, so many samurai were doing seppuku after the death of their lord, that the government had to ban the practice for that specific case? Fun times.

🤔 So, when can you perform 🗡seppuku🗡 ?

The short answer is: any fucking time you have a problem! 🥳 Boss died? Seppuku! Disagree with landlord? Seppuku! Bowed to someone at the wrong angle and embarrassed yourself? SE-FUCKING-PPUKU!

This form of ritual suicide is meant to either avoid dishonor, or regain lost honor. And in the Edo era you lost your honor like you lost a spare sock.

👉 Originally it was mostly done by warriors in battle to avoid being captured by the enemy.

During the Edo era, after the constant internal wars of the Sengoku period had ended, samurai found themselves without a good reason to show how metal they were by slitting their own stomachs open, and so they invented a bunch of excuses to do it anyway.

👉 As mentioned above, it could be when your lord died and you became a rōnin (a master-less wandering samurai), which apparently wasn't as cool as it is shown in anime, and kinda sucked.

(see the famous story of Lord Asano and the Fourty Seven Ronin)

👉 You could also commit seppuku to formally state your disagreement to your lord. Yes, samurai in the Edo era really went "I recognize the council has made a decision, but given as it is a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to KILL MYSELF ABOUT IT."

That specific practice sometimes even involved taping up your stomach wound, going to see your lord, telling him (respectfully) how much his decision sucked ass, and then un-taping your wound and bleeding out all over his tatami floor.

👉 Seppuku wasn't always exactly a suicide. In fact, most of the people who committed seppuku in the Edo era where condemned to do it in punishment for an offense. It was considered a way for the samurai in question to redeem himself. In fact, sometimes the "cutting your stomach" part was skipped altogether, the knife was replaced with a symbolic fan, and the guy was just beheaded. That was especially the case for court-ordered seppuku, because you don't really want to give a knife to a criminal you're about to execute.

Speaking of 🔥Honor🔥, you know who else could be dishonored forever? The guy cutting off the samurai's head to shorten his suffering! If he did it wrong, he would bring dishonor on himself AND his family for the rest of his life.

That part of seppuku required great swordsmanship, as you were supposed to sever the spinal cord but leave a small strip of skin so the head would remain attached to the body (hello morbid details my old friends...). Because when you order your enemy to commit ritual suicide, the last thing you want is to be assaulted by his flying head. 👹

A little vocabulary clear-up: you've probably heard it called "hara-kiri" more often than "seppuku". In fact, both words mean "cutting the stomach" and refer to the same ritual practice, but seppuku is a formal word used mostly in writing, while hara-kiri is more familiar and used orally.

And to conclude, I am legally obligated to say: DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME! If you have a problem with your boss, resolve it like a mature adult by replacing all their pens with crayons.

[urmumhaha]

Sometimes I think the most universal tumby experience butch/femme users have on here is when u make a cute lil post abt some intimacy or ritual that’s quintessential to u know butch/femme thingz and then not even a week later some fandom blog tags it with the straightest most cisgender characters u could possibly invent

[soapkaars]

A drawing of Lil’ Gruesome from the Boardwalk Empire-style alternate universe of the Wacky Races @faustiandevil and I have been concocting (him more than me now, but still)

Also a bonus rough sketch of Dick Dastardly in 20s flapper drag

[roffitoucan]

working on the comic and my thumb already fucking hurts

thats how you know this shit is gonna be a ton i am having too much fun with this UAGHH

[faustiandevil]

Based on the conversation with @soapkaars from our last movie night, because I got obsessed with George E. Stone and kept sending him pics of him and going “Look at my latest little guy!!”. Anyway Willy/Zippy is going to be based on him, and it was hilarious to find out that the shortest member of the Ant Hill Mob is still one cm taller than Lil’ Gruesome. Man is a fucking gremlin. The heights are based off of the actual heights of their IRL inspo or whoever I chose for them in the fancast. I’m on a hunt to find the shortest men in gangster movies and add them into the Wacky Races AU.

The fancast and how it looks so far is under the cut along with my reasoning.

Dick Dastardly – Terry-Thomas (This one is obvious, Dick was based off of the man.)

Red Max – Thorley Walters (I just really liked his stupid energy in Carlton-Browne of the F.O. and how he played off of Terry-Thomas.)

Lil’ Gruesome – Peter Lorre (Again obvious reasons, Lil’ is yet another Peter Lorre expy.)

Clyde – Edward G. Robinson (Again expy.)

Danny/Yak Yak – James Cagney (It’s the vibes. If you’ve seen Smart Money you know.)

Willy/Zippy – Gorge E. Stone (Man was in a lot of gangster movies and worked in a number of them together with Edward G. Robinson. Honestly I just think he is cute and Willy was my fave in TPoPP, so he gets special privileges of being a cute little guy.)

[orcelito]

Scenic path on a sunny day

[gurorori]

i wona write

[dollelujah]

suddenly remembered the huge long cedar chest we had as a kid where we kept all my grandma's quilts and my moms crocheted afghans and had to cry a little