#okaY bOOM

[pontevoix]

it had been difficult seeing carla again for the first time in this life. they had nodded at each other & made their recognition vague & made their meeting awkward in the way that promised that i wish we could have met under better circumstances. she had embraced him in greeting. if they had met in any other way, he would have felt like crying. instead, he stood on front stoop & toed off his boots & felt drained already, felt foreboding, felt that he had been justified in his anticipation of the end of days.

across two lives, eren had been hesitant to talk about his family. armin hadn’t realized it at the time, but after the first wall fell — it was rare that any of them spoke of family outside of grisha & the inheritance he left dangling around eren’s neck. they never spoke of their loss; they never spoke of the ways that they had chosen to survive. after carla’s death, her name was only ever raised in fits of severe nostalgia or an ultimatum. armin seldom chose mention his grandfather’s name after he had been lost. & mikasa had always been quiet. armin ever only heard about the fate of mikasa’s family after the walls had fallen when they had to follow local mandates for all survivors to go to the offices to forge fresh documentation that legitimized their right to rations & their right to future. armin thinks that mikasa told him about how she & eren had met because she felt that it was inevitable that he find out.

back then, it felt like they shared everything. back then, they bit their tongues in indignation & made memory reticent.

in this life, their tongues are loosened enough but not free. they know enough of one another. eren knows that armin sees his parents two times, three times a year — that his parents like to travel, that they work remotely, that they don’t have a permanent residence in the country. he hangs on the phone sometimes with them, & they all turn distracted & never know what to say. in turn, armin knows that grisha sets professional & personal expectations on eren that push him too close to invisibility & too close to inadequacy. it makes it hard to feel free to talk about carla. inadequacy makes it too easy to feel as though he should have been better for her too.

but even so, eren admires her. his tone always turns a little reverent when he speaks of her, when he had hinted to armin that he wanted to introduce them.

i wish we could have met under better circumstances. it would have been nice to meet when they didn’t have to contextualize their familiarity in remembrance. when they could have been awkward in the way that made sense of a mother meeting her son’s partner. it would have been nice not to have to meet with old secrets rebuilding personal walls, without feeling that she is meeting him now because of who he had been & not because he is learning to think of the future.

otherwise they would have met over dinner. otherwise, they would have met while eren accidentally swore over dinner & presented levi’s pastries as a gift. they would have met over polite inquisitions of habit & circumstance that made armin work for carla’s approval rather than guarding himself so that there are things she never knows unless eren wishes it.

to her credit, she doesn’t ask about the way things are. she waves a goodbye at him when eren walks him to the door the next day, tells him that he’s always welcome.armin coughs & says that he’ll come back over later in the day.

to her credit, eren spends the day & the following day sitting with her in the living room rather than maybe a tomb of a childhood bedroom. she takes days of work & calls it a shared sick day & she doesn’t still ask.

there turns out to be a lot of logistics in coming back to life. armin keeps visiting, keeps thinking about meeting under better circumstances. eren’s skin is still too grey, & his appetite is thin. but he indulges armin, anyway, when armin tries to make things light by making requests to see old pictures, old yearbook pictures, anything. there turns out to be a lot of logistics in coming back to life. phone calls, negotiations on the phone about plans to returning back to work, & temporary arrangements.

it’s agreed that eren will stay with armin for a few days, at least. that it will be a slow transition back into old life, back into a smaller apartment with paint splattered against woodfloors & cracking walls, with pieces of old life tucked into corners & hidden spaces. it’s agreed that once that transition comes, armin will stay with eren for a few days too in that apartment

it’s a display & promise of domesticity that would have been nice under better circumstances. armin likes eren’s apartment better, anyway. he likes having an arrangement between them that means that they have set plans for a shared tube of toothpaste, that they have enough clothes to last the week without returning to the other partment, that they come to an agreement about meals ahead of time.

they had stolen days together before, & eren had made space in one of his drawers before — but it had been a shy indulgence, had been the beginnings of a promise. it had also made armin ill, sometimes, to think about promises made when only he remembered & when he wasn’t sure if he wanted eren to have to remember.

under better circumstances, these planned days might have been a first. it might have been something to celebrate.

regardless, the circumstances are what they are. the circumstances are making habits that are hard to break. it’s harder now than it had been to put space between them; it’s harder now than it had been to imagine minutes unshared. it’s easy to remember how easily they sink into warped rituals & routines & how easy it is to hate separation.

sometimes the proximity means sharper words & overwhelmed senses. it means boundaries broken & self-deprecation & ruin.

sometimes the proximity means that they remember that circumstances could be worse, that better circumstances aren’t out of reach.

in the midst of their proximity, eren skirts his paints. so many of his paintings had been based on memories that he could wave aside. so many of his paintings were reflections of the cursed, of demons, of grief that cried rage. now that he remembers, he asks what’s the point ?

armin rambled how the art still mattered, how it doesn’t need to have a point. but he hadn’t had a good answer. he still doesn’t talk about his own memories, anyway. he doesn’t know the point of talking about them, anyway. but he offers eren his forearm as a canvas, tells him to paint on him because he likes the way that eren sees color, anyway.

wet paint dries against his skin & makes him itch, but he stays still. the hair on his forearms stand on edge, & he stays still.

‘ it’s interesting sometimes though - seeing how you remember things. it doesn’t always look like the way i remember things. i guess we can remember things differently, ‘ armin murmurs. he had been getting tired so his voice started to slur

they have the chance to remember things differently. this is their second life, & so their story has not ended. they can reshape it just enough. they remember that circumstances could be worse, that better circumstances aren’t out of reach.

eren didn’t answer. armin watched him wet a rag with water & dish soap & drag it over the paint before it set. it stains armin’s skin & erased an old picture.

it’s weeks later though, that armin recognizes fresh splatters of paint against the floor. he finds eren with a paint smeared against his cheek & churning over secrets on a canvas. the floor creaks beneath armin’s step, & it’s enough to make eren glance up & shake his head at him. no. i don’t want you to look.

armin drops onto the couch opposite of him & closes his eyes. he hears scratching against canvas & the way eren jitters his knee.

it’s nothing personal he says. armin knows & keeps his eyes closed & still relishes in company. it’s just an idea, eren starts again. armin hums his acquiesce. he won’t look until he’s invited, but he prompts : tell me about it.

so eren does. about remembering things differently. & remembering a moment that they had been alone & drunk on themselves. he frames it like a scene. we were a sort of royalty, almost infallible, with a sort of magic around us, eren says.

from @chaoslulled : we were a sort of royalty, almost infallible, with a sort of magic around us. for eren and armin

it makes armin think of the library. it makes him think of something good that they had shared. it almost startles a laugh from him, almost surprises him into opening his eyes.

this is eren’s choosing what is worth remembering.

it’s a nice idea.

‘ i still feel that way sometimes, ‘ armin confesses. because it’s true. because they feel infallible. because circumstances can get better. there turns out to be a lot of logistics in coming back to life, & they’re still parsing through it.

so please keep talking.

[seasicksilver]

reading the Iliad is an experience

[mocking-the-bird]

If Tim and Steph decide that 7am is time for sibling bonding activities, it'll be so, even if the sibling they're bonding with is trying to get some goddamn sleep

[palskippah]

Hi! I give you this Stobotnik fankid I made a while ago :'y

She's Sofia --or Ivania or some other name ending in 'ia'-- Robotnik (coolest last name)

It's a compilation and also there's some Stone for practice bc I have no idea how to draw him pipipi Eggman is easier bc it's just his Sonic Boom design (I love it)

Some stuff about this universe under the cut!

(Btw if there's incongruencies is bc I can't make up my mind about the facts whwhw)

-Robotnik and Stone are married, very much married. Cartoon villains in love, I love that for them.

-["MARTHA I'M COMING HOME SWEETIE-"] Mixing up the movie things and the whatever's going on in the Sonic Boom, so Robotnik was gone for eight months and when he's back she's already born.

>Also the drawing is a reference to Icarly's "Whatcha got there?" "A smoothie" but she was clearly asking about the ostrich Spencer brought with him.

>Alternatively, Eggman's there and they go through the journey together yippiee. Choosing names, making evil parenting plans and whatever, being their idiot selves.

(After celebrating because they're good news actually) "I want a boy or a girl-" (Eggman) "Yeah me too." (Stone) "-and we should name them a single, worth of remembering name! Like... Eggette for a girl and Eggson for a boy." "I'm not letting you name them any of that, doctor..." "Okay, then how about Beyonce for a girl and-"

>They wouldn't have kids (?? maybe? I don't really know, I only know sonic boom and the movie :'U)- but she was probably the 1% the birth control warns you about. Also, Stobotnik got a very active seggsual life, and I'm imagining she came to be from a quickie over the desk, why not.

>Helpful diagram of Eggman + Stone kissing and then = baby. They were in work hours.

-In the one where he comes back and the baby's already there, Eggman does a terrible job as a father the few first months, but then he gets the hang of it and it's not so bad.

>He gets projectile vomited on and he's immediately asking to get an abortion (the baby's already born) (he didn't give birth to her), Stone says no anyways.

>"Surprisingly, I'm a good father" he thinks one day and it's because he's still very much an orphan here with no frame of comparation or example aside from researching the matter.

-In the one where they wait for her together, he does all the research necessary in all those months, absolutely refusing in doing an average job in that matter, he's the great Ivo Robotnik c'mon. He excels at anything and he'll be a great father (jk he's terrified of fucking up).

-The Stobotnik family is an evil but loving family, like the bears in Puss in Boots whwh criminal family✨

-For the funny of it, Sonic and Eggman got a sort of relationship like in Sonic Boom, so sometime maybe our favorite boy, Tails and Knuckles had to look after their child.

-Also since Knuckles broke Stone's and Robotnik's hands with their handshake, let's have him handle the baby with the most careful grip ever, just to demonstrate that he didn't have to grab their hands that hard aksdjask

-She's a big fan of Sonic and friends (Sonic the Hedgehog, not Sonic Wachowski, the second guy hadn't done even half the things she admires him for, but no one has the heart to tell her when she's a kid). Has a bunch of merch and all the comics of Sonic the Hedgehog.

>When she's a teenager she proudly uses her Sonic backpack in the same way Deadpool uses his Hello Kitty backpack.

-BTW Sonic, Knuckles and Tails are all brothers and Maddie and Tom's kids bc that's the best idea ever made.

-ALSO I'm definitely gonna draw that scene where Knuckles was about to put the baby in the blender and Sonic shouts THE CHILI DOG NOT THE BABY. Some day, you'll see pipipi.

-SAGE was created for various reasons, to be her sister (since she wouldn't stop asking for one but neither Stone nor Robotnik were willing in raising another human kid, thanks very much), to protect her, and also to answer the tedious "why?" questions that neither father had the patience for (A+ parenting right there). Maybe she was used for the original purpose too idk (I don't know that sonic game where she debuts).

>The child's delighted about having a sister, then she grows up and SAGE doesn't, so she has a little sister.

>METAL SONIC TOO MAYBE? Perfect lil american family, the two happily married parents and their three kids (one human girl, an IA and a robot clone of their alien enemy).

-On her early months she was called Pebble, because she really was a mini Stone, Robotnik went along with it (bc he also looked at her and only saw his husband whw) until she was a little older and they started calling her by her name.

>Alternatively, since Eggman was gone, Stone waited for him to return in hopes of choosing together a name for their child, and Pebble worked as a placeholder since she was just a bebi.

>Alternatively alternatively, Eggman came up with the nickname. ROCK-ONNAISSANCE 🗣️ also yeah I know he was going crazy from the mushroom stuff, but he's not above making silly puns, he's a dad now and also he's naturally silly.

(NGL I really gotta make up my mind about how it all happened ajsdkad)

-She's a spoiled kid and also a little menace, unintentionally evil, she can't help it.

>Good-hearted too sometimes, she loves Sage and does her best to protect her back (it's not necessary but it's appreciated anyways).

-Robotnik calls himself 'daddy' way too much in the live-action movies to ignore it, so he's daddy and Stone's dad (dada when she was younger).

>"These are my daddies!" (points to what's clearly two villains -but also good fathers-)

-She has Robotnik's eyes but as big as Stone's. They're the lethal-est sad puppy eyes ever (they work wonders on both parents and other people) (both men got beautiful dark brown eyes with visible eyelashes fight me).

>Look at Eggman's silly eyelashes:

>Also, you know that picture of Lee Majdoub with the beautiful everything? I think he was wearing eyeliner so my Stone wears eyeliner too in contrast to Eggman's dark circles under his eyes JDJS😭

-She's the five-year-old that made Sonic fear them because 'they can be so cruel when they sense weakness' (she was brutally honest as any young kid is).

-Stone and Robotnik got Gomez and Morticia Addams kinda parenting. They see their child beating up someone and they're like:

"What did we do wrong?" (Stone while shaking his head in disappointment) "I know... she lacks resourcefulness." (Eggman) "Exactly, there's her baseball bat right there, why doesn't she use it?"

-Remember that Shadow said in a game that he wouldn't mind taking a candy from a baby? (fandub I think but still) This comes in handy when neither Tails, Sonic or Knuckles want to upset the kid (so Shadow does it instead).

-She plays sports too because she got too much energy. In each of them she loses her patience. She grabs the football and hauls it at the nearest team member, she throws her baseball bat to the ground and starts beating up whoever threw the ball that she missed, she stomps in frustration if she loses, she's great at dodgeball (sends her classmates to the infirmary).

-Throws tantrums and stuff and overall's an annoying kid if she's upset. Eggman's like UGH WHY'S SHE LIKE THIS?? and Stone's like Because of you, doctor (terrible temperament runs in the family and also Robotnik just spoiled her too much).

-I'm kinda dressing her up in the clothes that existed in my mind that supposedly Eggman wore (the weird dress-like jacket with the big zipper in the middle). Under her jacket there's a dress in the same pattern as the original Eggman's clothes, also she wears a baby onesie like that too.

-When she's older she's definitely proud of her fathers, but she doesn't appreciate the rumors that she's prone to go power-crazy like Robotnik did. Especially because it may be true, but what do they know.

-For the irony, she can't stand drinking coffee, but loves the smell of it because it reminds her of home (omg).

-THEY HAVE A PET CAT like I read in some fics and her name is Robot and she's a lil shit and also grumpy like Robotnik.

>Maybe she brings her alive mice to experiment on all sort of stuff (like Pávlov and his dogs and the guy Skinner with his mice and cats (??))

-She gets to hang out with Sonic and friends under the condition of annoying him as much as possible. So, she complies. (She loves Sonic the Hedgehog, but she loves making her fathers happy more).

-Very smart kid but not to the level of Tails or Robotnik at that age, she's just got very good memory and learning skills and knows a lot of stuff ever since she was a little kid. More like a Matilda-kinda intelligence.

-She's a scientist when she grows up too but the kind that makes evil potions and serums and stuff aksjdk probably (chemistry things? biochem idk). She can make silly little robots for the fun of it but it's not her passion, unlike Robotnik and Stone's. PROBABLY. I'm still deciding.

-BTW LOOK (it says 'carefully crafted ploy to distract space porcupines')

>While Eggman's there with the baby and Sonic in front of him going AWWW BABY BOO and making her laugh, Stone is sneaking up on him holding a chair above his head to knock him out.

THAT'S IT THANKS FOR READING ✨✨

[ryssbelle]

The lore from this post, rip in pieces clay you will be missed.

Also featuring Jade an oc by @spjs shes the one next to John in the second to last page :D she was in one of their fics and I fell in love with her.

[giotanner]

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[kalico-of-doom]

Anyone else fall for the depressed duck king?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Let the revenge games begin.

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[caramellody]

Yall i dont think im gonna be able to stop thinking about usha and g13, actually.

Ushas an old old woman, clueless with tech. Lived long enough to develop various bonds with a LOT of people and relies on them a lot for help. In turn, shes VERY loyal to her close conpanions (a great example would be how she tends to back paula up a LOT, the way she sets up russel and paula to 'fake date' wink and all). She's very warm and very emotionally intelligent even if she's a bit clueless sometimes. Her logic is borderline incomprehensible, but it has heart.

G13 on the other hand, is a hacking prodigy. Hes young, hes sought after for his skills for better and for worse. But in turn, he's essentially lost himself in the process. He may be able to scrape nuke codes, but he'll never make a friend. He lacks any loyalty for anyone and anything except for himself and his interests, and if they dont satisfy those two points, then its worth nothing to him. His logic may be sound, but its cold.

[albaricomics]

She figured it out, u guys...

[tapakah0]

Yesss.

[kirdoodl]

I love my blorbos

[swyshie]

sibling bear hugs

[deathricedrawn]

crystal cliffs

[bookiezzz]

beel fanfic writers after making him say “im hungry.. for you..”

[demonzoro]

baratie arc sanji is sooooo. he's such a snarling dog leashed to a post except that post is a lighthouse he swore his life to guarding. and then you find out he was the one who made his own leash. everything about him is so "give a wild thing food and it'll never leave". he was a wild thing zeff fed. gin was a wild thing sanji fed. some people love with their teeth bared. some people are just all teeth and therefore just all love. everything is a cage to him btw (he makes it so). the baratie is a cage. zeff's bond is a cage. his body is a cage. four walls and a ceiling over his head - like he learnt the dictionary definition of a home and misunderstood. he's always hungry. he'll make sure you never starve. the door to the cage is open and he's looking at it ravenously, pacing just behind the threshold, never eating and always starving