#our scrungys

[neon-junkie]

i respect the attraction to Thrawn, but that could never be me

anyway, heres 500 posts dedicated to Crosshair

[belligerentbagel]

submitting my transfer request for the warlock track

[ancient-cats-unite]

When Vigler asks where all the drugs he confiscated went.

[endawn]

caress !  gently  caress  my  muse’s  face .

 soft sunlight trickled in through the gaps of drawn curtains, licking exposed skin. it felt as if standing too close to a bonfire, but he paid it little mind. instead, he watched the gentle stirring of @skysaved laying next to him in the shared bed of her chambers. the sound of her breaths and heartbeat rising as she slipped from the lull of sleep. head dipped to greet the end of her slumber with cool lips pressed to the warm flesh above her brow. sharpened teeth dug ever so slightly into the back of his own lips, reminding him of the sight she’d wake to. apprehension gripped silent heart but dissolved almost as quickly as it latched on. no, she has seen you at your worst. this is not your most monstrous self. so, there he lingered to savor her taste however briefly before pulling away and settling in close; indulging himself in the warmth of her. intoxicating blood aroma filling his nares. an aroma tinged with ozone and charcoal. a storm in repose.

 how idyllic a moment. responsibilities and duties seemed a distant murmur. it was them and only them as time hung above and marched on almost as languidly. wrap him in this oblivion and he'd be a happy man indeed. it almost seemed a shame, really, they could not stay this way for eternity. with his clawed hands -- the skin of it holding a deathly pallor contrasting harshly -- brushing mussed, wine red hair from the rest of her features as his eyes looked upon her in adoration; veneration. the glow of them flickering with each blink in the dim light as if a candle threatening to be snuffed at the mercy of a strong gust.

  ❝ good morrow, ❞ came a soft mumble, now thinking of all these moments he missed and causing him to shudder ever so briefly at his own perceived weakness. the admittance of a deep, unfounded ( unfounded when it came to her ) fear and overcoming it little by little. oh, how did i stand to ever miss the moments waking to her golden, penetrating gaze ? a gaze tempered by the cusps of languor ? regrets halted within mind as tender hand pressed against the sharp edge of gaunt cheek. leaning into her touch, the feathered tickle left a trail of comfort across algid flesh and he did not dare to interrupt by holding it with his own. instead, pax welcomed her fond caress with no reluctance; only whispers, ❝ i stayed, cor meum. i stayed. ❞

[bizarrelittlemew]

[thelordofgifs]

Obscure Tolkien Blorbo: Round 1

Viznak vs Ælfwine

Viznak:

Goblin! Lives in an awful Mordor swamp after getting kicked out for not taking orders very well (Lord of the Rings Online character)

little goblin guy who's been living in the world's most fucked up swamp in mordor. got kicked out for not following orders well enough. makes friends with any random stranger who doesn't try to kill him immediately and also can make you an antidote for aforementioned awful swamp and all its diseases. you can get a title called 'goblin-friend' from him. i love him So much

he's literally just a silly little guy. in the questline you meet him at he raided your camp and stole your provisions, but he ends up saving your ranger friend from dying to a horrible fungus plague and you're all best friends after that!! he's like your fellowship's weird goblin son. he has horrible ideas but somehow they keep working?? he's scrungy! the other orcs and goblins hate him! and after the residents of Agarnaith leave to go besiege some place (it's not important), he takes up residence in the empty fortress of Seregost and declares himself king of Agarnaith. ALL HAIL KING VIZNAK, OUR WEIRD GOBLIN SON

Ælfwine:

One of the narrators of the legendarium in early drafts, an Anglo-Saxon Man who found the Straight Road.

The first guy who reached Tol Eressëa and got to listen to all the stories told by the elves ❤️

Round 1 masterpost

[httyd-art-requests]

Hi! I love your most recent dragon post of Hussar. Do you wanna talk a little more about how you came to envision them? Like, why you chose the colors you did and stuff?

Omg yes of course! (Pretend I didn't forget to check the inbox and answered this when it first came in. Okay thank you)

Hussar is my Fury-sona, and suffers from chronic The-only-color-I-like-is-brown Syndrome, where I forget that every other color exists whenever I'm coming up with a new design. They use he/they pronouns (unless I forget about it) and they're also my pfp from my 150 followers Thank You Post <3

They're somewhat based on bearded vultures, but it's mostly only visible on his facial markings and eye color. Specifically the white skull marking combined with the dark tear tracks, I love using it in creature designs.

His neckpiece is a combination of golden braided cords we use to decorate hussar* uniforms, and a hungarian flag rosette we wear on special occasions (like March 15th, which is a national rememberance day).

*They're named after hussars ("huszár") which used to be our cavalry back in Ye Olden Days.

I'm not a huge patriot, but I like sneaking in little easter eggs and references to my home country here and there hehe

(Also they're doing a scrungy cat face in literally every drawing that exists of them. They're silly like that)

[latenightsushi]

We had a great time at the cat cafe, I can't wait until we can get our own scrungy friend 🐈‍⬛

X

[foxyfanz]

...me when I joined the FNaF fanbase-

Just when you thought life couldn't get any worse, you wanna kiss the fox man.

[rosiebaybie]

Hello, my loyal Tumblrians—Rosie and Emily Stirling-Baybie here with another edition of #foodiewithanf/o! And for the first time, my two little scrungies AEG Thomas and Bruno are joining me for a very sweet and strange Christmas movie recipe—Buddy’s sugary spaghetti dish from Warner Brother’s Elf! It won’t be exactly like the movie, but it’ll still be fun to make.

To start off, we need—you guessed it—spaghetti! We used the Barilla brand, but you can use Buitoni, Ronzoni, La Molisana, or you can make your own pasta.

Next, we’re going to add crushed chocolate bars and Skittles in place of the M&M’s. We won’t be using marshmallows due to sensory issues, but that’s the only thing we’ll be omitting.

Now, we’ll add maple syrup and chocolate sauce. We used Hershey’s chocolate sauce and Morning Delight syrup, but you can use any brand of either one. 

We don’t have any chocolate pop-tarts, so we’re going to use a couple Oreo cookies instead to mimic the crunchiness and chocolatiness of the pop tarts as close as possible

And there you have it—Buddy the Elf’s dietary reconstruction of our favorite pasta dish! It was definitely an interesting concoction, but it was still fun to make. Until next time, Merry Christmas from the Stirling-Baybie family!

[jellybeanium124]

I gotta be honest I was rooting for an Izzy redemption arc. as fun and funny as a villain breakdown would've been, I always leaned towards "Izzy gets better." I think the best show of all time is The Good Place, of course that's how I feel. the thesis of that show is: “people improve when they get external love and support. how can we hold it against them, when they don’t?” Izzy finding himself and community should be great.

The problem is they didn't fucking bother to write the damn thing.

Idc about how dinghies are portals in this show. or why Anne and Mary were on this random island Ed was dropped off at. or how Buttons knows what country a "wee black dot" is from. or how Ed and Stede have magical healing abilities. because none of those things fuck with the internal logic of the characters. but Izzy's sudden behavior does fuck with the character writing!!! they fucking replaced him!!! they replaced my little garbage rat man with a new guy and thought I wouldn't notice!! I feel like my dog died while I was off at sleep-away camp and my parents got me a new dog and thought I wouldn't be able to tell!! this isn't my scrungy little bastard! it's a different guy!!!

And it's not like I'm opposed to s2 Izzy, just, in general. I'd be fine if he logically got here! Izzy crying when receiving a gift from the crew should be a big deal but it isn't because I still don't know why they bothered to make it. I've literally read fics where Izzy getting gifts gave me a bigger emotional reaction because the writer bothered to write how Izzy softened up a bit. Izzy confessing his love for Ed should be a big deal but I don't fucking know how he realized it!!!

Part of me is hoping/wishing for some kind of flashback later on. We've all caught that there's a shot in the trailer from the kraken era that hasn't happened yet. But I really don't think we will. I think the writers were happy to just give us this imperfect Izzy clone that's similar enough to feel like the same guy, more or less, but is very clearly different.

Our Flag feels like fanfic in a lot of ways. The anachronisms, several of the plot points, the way characters speak with 21st century slang. And that's fine! It's funny! It's whatever! But I don't want it to feel like fanfic, when "feeling like fanfic" means "replacing a character with a different guy."

It didn't bother me one ounce when they gave up on explaining how Stede got everyone to the republic of pirates. That's not character writing. But when you give up on character writing? Man, that hurts. It's not good. You can't make giving up on character writing good.

[irkimatsu]

I don't know if this question has already been asked so I apologize in advance for the inconvenience! how did you find out about Hazbin hotel? and what charmed you about husky ? :3

Nope, hasn't been asked before! There's actually a long process on this one! Story time!

First time I heard about Hazbin Hotel was when the pilot came out; Twitter was buzzing about it, and that already might have drawn me in, because "dark musical comedy with fantasy elements and themes of forgiveness and redemption" is already right up my alley and I could feel the Jhonen Vasquez inspiration radiating off the character designs. But what really tipped me off was a friend of mine, Lauri; she was particularly excited about it, and I trust her taste, so I jumped in. (Helps that her favorite is Alastor, who reminds me a lot of another character we bonded over back in the day. Seems we have a "she likes a sadistic bastard and I like the guy held emotionally captive by him" thing going on.) And I loved it! Wasn't super invested just yet, but I did really hope it'd be a full series someday. Don't think I really noticed Husk at this point. I was still deep in Osomatsu-san brainrot, so if anything I probably just went "haha cranky cat, it's like Ichimatsu" and then moved on from him. Favorite at this point was actually Charlie, and she's still a close second. Loved and wanted more of Charlie from day one. She has such magical girl vibes, I love her

Helluva Boss pilot dropped, what, a month later? Watched that because I liked Hazbin and holy shit is that Richard Horvitz. Richard Horvitz said fuck. Okay clearly I need to keep up with this one. And so I did! Avoided its presence on the Internet like the plague, though, because it's a fucking dumpster fire in there and I didn't feel like writing multiple well-sourced essays defending myself for liking a web cartoon that says fuck and makes jokes about murder. Watched it in secret, basically, aside from the occasional fanart reblog. It wasn't a hyperfixation yet, just a fun thing to watch every time a new episode dropped. Catchy music, Moxxie and Blitzo are my boys, it's a fun little side hobby, hey what if the Matsuno brothers started an assassination business in hell-

(Somewhere in here I watched "The Good Place" from start to finish, which isn't super relevant, just that the reason I started watching it was because I thought, hey, isn't that show about redeeming sinners? That's what Hazbin's about! I think I really like that concept, so I'll check it out! Two very different shows, but they're both dear to me because god I need forgiveness narratives, especially in today's social hellscape.)

2024, and I find out that the Hazbin series is finally out because Twitter won't shut the fuck up about how "Poison" is homophobic and victim-blaming or whatever. My main thought is, of course, "oh shit, that's finally out! time to watch it!", not believing any of the criticisms because I already decided years ago that the Internet is fucking stupid about this franchise. First four episodes were up at this point. Watched it fully expecting to enjoy it, but not really expecting to get too invested, still assuming I'll never talk about it online because I just do not need to deal with that shit. Still love Charlie, and the rest of the cast charms me quickly - especially Husk, because in the main series he quickly proves to have more to him here than the pilot let on. Hazbin really said, here, have a scrungy old cat with emotional trauma. I gobbled that shit up immediately.

And then " Loser, Baby" happened. Husk's dancing. Husk's singing voice. Husk's attitude of "yep, shit sucks, we screwed up, there's no use denying it or downplaying it but we're not getting anywhere if we wallow alone in our own misery", that theme of redemption and hope I wanted from this show from the start, here he was exemplifying it. I watched that scene on YouTube constantly, fully expecting to fall in love with Huskerdust. I did, for about five minutes.

And then I realized, fuck, I'm not actually in love with this ship, I'm in love with Husk. So much so that despite my misgivings, I couldn't just keep my mouth shut about how much I love this show, especially how much I love Husk. But no way in hell am I saying that on Twitter, people suck over there, and besides, the character limit isn't enough for all the rambling I wanted to do. So I dusted off my Tumblr blog and quickly became unhinged.

And now I'm here!

[acecasinova]

Hi there!! :D fear, secret and wound for the ask meme for Lazarus + another OC who you want to talk about? :D

My scrungy boy!!! I'll also answer some for Fion, another scrungy boy currently in my head lol~

fear: What is your OC's greatest fear? What do they do when confronted with it? Are they open with their fear, or do they hide it away?

Lazarus: His greatest fear is being weak and powerless- feeling small and ineffectual (Like when Strahd forced him to turn into a newborn kitten, or when he couldn't hurt Kindness at all, even when he knew he landed a blow). It freaks him the F-CK out when it happens but his base instinct is always survival, so he'll bend to whatever force seems to be on top. (It's very fun when the loud, abrasive, and aggressive guy goes still and quiet~ but laying low and NOT fighting back when the odds are garbage have gotten him a lot farther than insulting someone much stronger to their face) ....And on that note it's not THAT hard to see when he's afraid- he's a terrible liar and you can definitely see the deference in his posture.

Fion: His biggest fear is rejection! Fion wants to please and be accepted sooooo so bad and he definitely ends up fawning when faced with people who are mad at him. He'll test the waters a little, but if he gets pushback, he'll retreat and agree and probably walk on eggshells around that person for a while. He doesn't openly talk about it, but it's behavioral so it's not impossible to pick up on.

secret: What's one secret your OC never wants anyone to know about them?

Lazarus: Ohhhhhh he does NOT want people to find out the extent of what Strahd did to him before leaving him out for the party to find. It wasn't even anything physical, but he's still got the looming threat to the orphanage if anyone gets it out of him. (I'll say a lil more under a readmore so that it doesn't cut off the next one but people in the game don't read it if they're not butts)

Fion: HMMM well his biggest current secret that he'd die if people found out about is very topical to where they are right now story-wise.... Some of the group have found out he uses taboo magics, but no one knows he's a bit of a serial killer. Not that he'd phrase it like that- he goes after people who've been cruel to changelings and other species that are looked down on, and got.... maybe a little idea that the church and wizards might fall under fair game now too...

wound: How does your OC handle being wounded? Are their wounds mostly physical? Mental? Emotional? What's the worst wound your OC has ever experienced? Lazarus: He usually grits his teeth and deals with it- Laz is kinda just an overgrown feral cat, if a cat could turn into vermin or a red wolf lmao~ He'll usually sulk a little, maybe b-tch about it if the party is in a dungeon and he wants to bite somebody but they haven't fought anything alive in a while, but he tends to try and hide emotional or mental wounds and just not talk about them at all ever. (Which has just resulted in Laz being VERY emotionally stunted and bad at verbalizing things) Worst physical wound was probably when he tried to grab a little statuette for our party wizard, and whoops! Uh oh! Turns out evil and/or undead things can't touch it and it nuked him with radiant damage that ALMOST killed him on the spot, but it was just shy of twice his HP total, so he was only knocked out and fried his left arm to a crisp. The mental/emotional wounds really take the cake, though- the three days he spent arrested and chained up in that too-bright room with Kindness coming in just to repeatedly near-crush his windpipe and rip his fear of her wide open again, FOLLOWED by the humiliation of the carriage ride with her to Castle Ravenloft while she just raked what remained of his self worth over the coals was definitely a doozie. He REALLY hasn't recovered from that one yet but he also haven't tALKED about it to anyone because he's a prideful piece of sh-t who can't articulate his feelings.

Fion: His magical training really just put him through the wringer,,,, His mentor believed in "show don't tell" so he has first hand experience with all the spells he knows, like having maggots summoned in his stomach to eat their way out, or having his autonomy taken away. He's pretty accustomed to taking blow after blow, and usually takes them without complaint. His worst wound was probably when he was attacked while selling healing salves. Someone tried to rob him and ended up cutting him up. He lost his left eye in the attack and the shock of it nearly killed him, but he managed to stabilize himself after getting away.

So Laz's secret.....

He's a high enough leveled monk by 5e standards to be able to use "Stillness of Mind" and shake charms and such, and Strahd has underestimated him a few times before after dismissing him as a spawn. BUT Strahd found out Lazarus ISN'T a spawn, and is actually a full vampire in his own right, but he's a weird type that feeds on OTHER vampires and.... Strahd wants that under his thumb.

So after Laz got arrested (Long story of shenanigans but he f-cked up and his prey drive kicked in on a guard while reps from all three towns AND an entourage from Ravenloft were in town) and mentally beat to all sh-t by Kindness, Strahd showed up and offered him a "deal".

Lazarus could accept the charm Strahd was going to place on him. Or, he could try to resist it (historically something Laz has NEVER done successfully) and Strahd would go burn the Valaki orphanage to the ground and kill everyone here. That's Dissy's orphanage. That's where HE 'grew' up. So obviously he accepted the charm and now Strahd has a sleeper agent in the party. He STILL DOES. Lazarus cannot attack any sentient creature FIRST- they must attack him first. If no one has, he has to simply defend himself, but he's gotten to a point where he can assist others or use things like the "Cause Fear" effect on his mace. He can't let anyone try to help get rid of the charm or try to remove it himself. He also is forbidden from SPEAKING about the charm- he can't tell anyone why he can't attack or what Strahd did, and he can't tell them what might happen if he or someone else tries to remove the charm. (What might happen is Strahd burning the orphanage) ...And last but oh so certainly not least: He MUST obey if Strahd gives him a command with the trigger "would you kindly". (He hasn't tested if someone ELSE who isn't Strahd can also force him to do things with that phrase, but it's bad enough that Strahd can, and it isn't like Charm Person where it feels like they're your friend. Laz KNOWS what's happening but he can't do anything to stop himself from obeying and that, quite frankly, is the worst part for him)

[sadistpet]

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER.

tagged by: I STOLE.

tagging: curtsies. you may steal from me

Name: frances ! i have gone by Many different names in my time though

Pronouns: she/they !

Preference of communication: UM i have avoidant personality disorder which makes communication in general kind of super scary and hard but i like talking in tags and replies to posts and sometimes dms if i’m confortable !! same with discord

Name of muse(s): my current girlies are ivan raidenovitch raikov (this blogge) and leo kasper (ppravitas) !! my super duper scrungies

Experience/how long (months/years?): um i think 12 years unless you count pretending to be a horse on club penguin as rp

Platforms you’ve used: mainly just tumblr ! i did use skype, fb and twitter Very rarely and i’ve written on discord a few times :3

Pet peeves / dealbreakers: um generally just being a dick or bigoted. or liking weird shit or shipping minors and adults that kinda thing. like oh... naur thank you... get that away from me neow

Fluff, angst, or smut: all of the above and more PLEASE !!!! im not very used to writing smut but i would like to do it more. i love angst i always love angst even if the whole time im going NOOO SOB SOB i love it its so good. and fluff my beloved... everybody needs some sweet stuff sometimes and i love it. so ya tldr any and all and yes.

Plots or memes: looks around frightened i get supar scared plotting honestly cause i never feel like i contribute much RFHJGF but i enjoy like. setting out a general idea type thing :3 umm ask memes tend to be easier though

long or short replies: prrrrobably somewhere in the middle ?? but if i had to choose id say long because i cannot shut up ever and i also love reading long replies so grins.

Best time to write: um i dont really have one honestly ?? usually like 1am or like... the afternoon since that's when i'm mostly free but yeah :3

Are you like your muse(s): i am like raikov to a frightening degree . hes me but if i didn’t have the avpd to keep me in check . like we're both blonde haired, blue eyed, fem. we both like excessive eating, sitting in our rooms and admiring our interests, reading, being cheeky, sleeping. i am not exceedingly similar to leo BUT we are both cluster b so there’s some overlap for sure :3

[beneaththeplanetofthebatmans]

Tried out some new hair styles for Nyall. One looked ok out of context but made our little WoL look like a dick and a chump in the game. Didn’t really know why that was the case until I realized that I kept seeing scrungy hyur dudes with the same hair. After scrutinizing Urianger’s new look I’m pretty sure it’s his hair.

[unofficial-sean]

It's tragic that crows are sometimes considered pests, alongside the like of raccoons, rats, and american possums. And even so, I don't think any organism is a pest. Pest is a concept we apply to animals people don't want to co-exist with.

There is so much to each individual crow that I cannot fathom ever thinking of them as a collective anything. Some crows have partners that preen them meticulously and often, other are a bit scrungy. Others are bold and others shy. Some a vocal and some are quiet. Some are highly social and some prefer smaller numbers. And everything in-between. I've never paid attention to a crow and thought "just another crow." They all do something different, and everyone can notice it if they watch and observe.

Unsurprisingly, young crows are even wilder. They haven't had the cultural norms of their community installed and they haven't had a lot of experience; when a young crow can fly and eat on their own, the whole world is theirs to absorb and experience. A young crow who meets an a-hole who hates "rats with wings" will grow up to be a cautious crow, but a crow who grew up with someone who delicately offered them food will be comfortable being near people. They will play with objects and test the world around them. It's beautiful and amazing.

I've seen crows who flee at the sight of a dog instantly, and others who understand distance and know that there is a road or a field of grass between them and the dog, and that so long as that dog does not cross that boundary when leashed, they can keep looking for food. I use this mental model when I observe crows. I look for visual boundaries the crows can identify and keep myself there so that they don't flee.

They are truly abundant where I live and I delight in seeing all of them. I like seeing their personalities and I am interested in what they are doing.

I stop to watch crows when I walk to and from the store. I notice them quickly swooping ,and I notice them perched on the wires and poles.

I am distracted by crows when I drive (Within reason)

Just like the canada goose, they benefit greatly from human civilization. the power lines are great perches from which to watch for hazards and food, and they are immediate shelter when danger presents itelf. Our vehicles maim and kill other animals that they will clean up for us. Our open grass lawns and fields are a good hunting grounds for invertebrates and provide good sightlines with which to safely forage.

Because of the urban heat-island effect, even rural crows will seek shelter in cities during the winter, where it is undeniably warmer.

Crows are just as domestic as dogs and cats, who found a mutual benefit from co-existing with humanity.

If you like crows, and what I just mentioned made you smile, read Crow Planet; it will open up your world.