#pepper's tag

[vmeemo]

Cosmic Treats

When it came to baking, Pepper was pretty good at it. Especially given her size and the amount of proportions she makes at a time alone. But even she has creative slumps. It probably doesn't help that Pepper has been baking for a few days now, since she was hired as a freelance baker for a festival coming up in a few days. But even with all of her cookies, cakes, and all that ready to go Pepper didn't feel like it was enough to stand out amongst the others there. As the giant sheep rests on the couch, half eaten meal in front of her, she looks at a tiny potion bottle sitting beside the plate. The colour inside was purple, though it was interesting in that spots of varying colours would also show up. It mesmerized her.

When Pepper was out looking for inspiration she came across a little shop that sold potions. While using potions isn't generally something she does (as it messes with the composition of whatever she is baking at times) she needed something to at least help her sleep what with all the baking she's done. Fortunately it didn't seem to be busy so she could take her time trying to squeeze through the door. After looking around the person at the front recommended the pink potion, saying that it will help make sure she is well rested. While rest was what Pepper wanted and considered buying it the person stopped, and properly looked at her. They then placed a different potion on the counter and offered it instead. When asked why they said;

"You look like you need something stronger. And I recognize you, mostly from around the festival. It can get tiring, so I will offer you this one for half."

While Pepper was touched at this in hindsight the sheep wonders if she was swindled because she was too mentally exhausted to catch the cues.

With it being nightfall and much more to do tomorrow Pepper hopes that the potion she bought wasn't a dud. Picking the tiny bottle up she uncorks it and downs the whole thing. The drink doesn't take effect right away, not that Pepper expected it to. Being as big as she is most potions are aren't medical based tend to have a delayed effect. Nonetheless she makes herself comfortable on the couch before reaching a hand to her right, picking up a book that was managed to be sized to her. Moving the plate of half eaten food onto her lap she takes a small bite as she flips to the part the sheep was at before. As Pepper munches on her remaining food and flipping a page every now and then her body starts to feel sluggish, barely able to turn to the next page before she feels everything go dark.

Morning comes and Pepper grunts as she feels her body wake up. Grunting at this she looks down at her body, seeing the plate still on her lap, though the book has fallen to the floor, the page not marked.

"Man…" Pepper sighs, "Now I need to remember what page I'm on and mark it."

Moving the plate to the coffee table she starts to stand up, feeling her whole body react to this, her bones popping at the joints.

"Oof, couch bed did not agree with my body this time…" Letting out more air Pepper looks over at her kitchen before shaking her head. "Eat out today. Don't want to be in the kitchen right now."

Giving her body a stretch Pepper sees that she was still in the clothes she wore yesterday. Despite it not being in good form the sheep could care less at the moment. She needs to eat. Exiting her carriage Pepper takes the steps down and heads towards the town of Afigato and does her best to look for a place that's open at this time. As she is walking through however she found the town… Strangely lacking in people somehow. Especially considering how there's supposed to be a festival coming up that she's apart of.

"Something isn't right…" She thinks to herself. Her stomach growls before she could do much more, forcing the thought of what happened to the people for later. When she approaches a diner and looks in it she is confused at how there are no people inside it. What she does smell however, are pancakes inside the diner. A massive stack no less, easily around 30 pancakes in total just sitting there waiting to be eaten. Even though no one is around Pepper felt guilty at the idea of eating them before her stomach grumbles.

"Ahhh… You know what," Pepper says, "I'm sure they wouldn't mind. I'll pay for them and they get a bit of money. Sure that my payment from being in the festival should cover the debt…"

Looking around to see if anyone was around Pepper squeezes herself into the diner and shuffles her way towards the delicious stacks of pancakes. Since the stacks were just sitting on the counter it wasn't long before Pepper reached them, and the sheep can feel her mouth salivate as she sees that they're decorated with fruit and syrup, basically nearly everything Pepper would put on her stacks if she were gorging that day. Nonetheless makes it to the counter and gets herself seated. On the floor anyway, she would just utterly destroy the actual seats if she sat on them. Nonetheless picking up the fork and knife that were there as well, Pepper starts digging into the many pancakes that she is having for breakfast.

What she doesn't notice is that with each pancake stack eaten her size balloons outwards little by little. She grows a bit taller, her butt expands outwards, her belly grows just a little bit larger, and her chest strains against the shirt for the briefest moment before seemingly resizing itself to conform to Pepper's new size and height. This moment continues unbeknownst to the sheep girl, who is just happily munching on pancakes as this is happening. It wasn't long before the pancakes ran out, and so the growth stopped as a result as she pats her belly.

"That hit the spot! They sure do know how to make good pancakes." Shuffling on the floor Pepper digs into her clothes to find a bag of coins to pay for it, only to come up dry. "…Maybe they won't notice…"

Though the idea of a dine and dash appalled her she didn't really have much of a choice given how much of a ghost town the diner was. So Pepper shuffles around to face the double doors getting stuck on her way out oddly before popping out.

"Swear that it wasn't that tight before…" Rubbing her side Pepper looks out in front of her, only for her attention to be immediately grabbed by the crowd of people suddenly outside. Many of which were getting flowers ready for the festival in addition to the banners. Pepper was confused since it was a ghost town before but puts it in the back of her mind, regarding it as woke up before the morning rush and was too preoccupied eating pancakes.

In any case with the crowds moving Pepper figures to take another look around town and see how things are going. As she strolls down the road two people are carrying a planter filled with flowers gets placed in a spot, the two wiping their brows. Wanting to see the flowers better Pepper approaches the flower bed and smells them. After said smell the flowers react to this, spraying pollen all over her face.

"Gah! Pleh!" Pepper stumbles back and wipes her face of the pollen while the two people laugh.

"Sorry 'bout that missy!" One of them says, "The sneezing flowers must've just just ripe enough to cough it out! It won't do any harm to you but it is rather annoying!"

They continue to laugh as Pepper tries to wipe the pollen off her face, unaware that she is growing again as a result of the spores. Once the sheep finally wipes the pollen off her face she walks off, not taking another chance with those flowers.

"Ugh think I got some of it in my mouth…" She grumbles as she wipes her lips. When she got as much as she could out Pepper continues her walk, staying away from the flower beds as she does so. Soon she reaches a road with little stands set up for the festival. Which seems to be under way much to Pepper's surprise. She thought it wasn't for another day or two. As much as she wants to go back to her carriage, bring it into town and set up the sheep figures that it can wait for a moment. Eying the stands to see which one she should check out first Pepper's eye catches a stand with a little globe spinning around on a stand. Interested in what that little stand has to offer Pepper approaches it, where it is manned by a lightly robed figure who saw her coming.

"Ah hello there! Interesting in the globe of mystery?"

While Pepper is certain that this is just the fake seller voice but plays along since it seems to be festival time. "Yeah what's the deal with the globe?"

If Pepper could see their face it would be one of amusement, "Well the globe is whatever you want it to be. And since the festival just started I'll let you have first go for free."

Pepper smiles at this, allowing the figure to explain the globe, "First, place your hand on the globe like so." She places her hand on the sphere as they continue, "Now empty your mind and allow the mystery to show you inspiration. Fair warning, it may also show a future event yet to come, but do not be alarmed! It cannot hurt you. Focus, and let it consume you…"

The sheep closes her eyes and allows her mind to empty. In the void of her mind she stands on a slightly bumpy surface. In the void Pepper opens her eyes, seeing blackness and twinkles all around her. The surface now that she has gotten a good look at it is a solid yellow. While the ground was interesting she didn't have the time to process it as Pepper is thrown off her feet, landing as the surface she stands on moves towards a vast hole in the black sky.

"Woah wait wait wait!"

The void gets closer and closer, and before the darkness of the void could consume her Pepper snaps out of it, the light of the sun shining into her eyes. "Ugh… What?"

The figure chuckles at this and leans forward, "Well then, it seems that you dear, will have an out of this world experience and inspiration. May the vision guide you to better prospects."

"Um. Sure. I guess?"

Pepper walks away though not before the figure calls out from behind. "Oh and by the way miss. You may want to watch your step. It seems that big things are in store for you. Hehehe…"

She frowns as she hears this before noticing that her strides are a lot longer then they usually are. When Pepper looks down does she finally notice the ground being much further then usual. "Woah! How did- When did-"

If she weren't in a big crowd of people the sheep could run her hands over her curves, since despite seemingly being scaled to her height as well they were so much bigger then they were before. Piercing her lips Pepper hopes that she stops growing, though given that no one else really seems to be noticing her new height maybe it might be fine?

"Well… May as well make the most of it I guess?" She asks herself. "Maybe I can help out more around the festival. Yeah perfect, I'll do that."

Despite this idea in mind Pepper looks around and sees that the festival itself was going at aa moderate pace when it comes to set up. And the sheep sadly has noticed that she is still growing. If she were to take a guess she is now approaching 40 feet tall and may still be growing. So that wasn't great. Nonetheless Pepper is at a festival, and she may as well do her best to enjoy it. That's when another event caught her eye, one involving a stage and a magician with a comically large box on it. Asumed at this Pepper walks up, making sure to watch where she steps as most of the ground is obscured by her assets.

Once she stands at the very back of the crowd, and only seeing it get smaller due to her still growing body, the person up front is doing a callout according to her point of view. While she couldn't hear what they were saying eventually a green light shined on her chest, small due to her size. "And how about you tall sheep? Ready to go into the Wonder Box?"

Pepper for the lack of a better word was not really up for being on the stage, not since her hoof alone could probably crush that stage. But at the same time with all eyes on her the sheep felt like she doesn't have much of a choice. Taking slow deliberate steps towards the stage Pepper stands beside it instead of breaking the stage itself. The announcer seems to get the gist of it and doesn't seem to care that there is a near 43 foot tall and still growing sheep girl standing beside the stage as they gesture to her. "You there tall one! Would you like to see something beyond your wildest dreams? An experience you could never get otherwise? Then the Wonder Box is the right thing for you? It can do just about anything, change shape, transform, anything you can think of, it can do! And thanks to our volunteer she will be the first to go in! Are you ready miss?"

"Um-" Seeing all the eyes on her does not help her at all but before Pepper could respond, she starts to be enveloped by the comically large box. "No wait I didn't agree to this!"

"Now then," The magician laughs, "let us see what the box desires today!"

From inside the box Pepper is unsure of what is happening outside. While she can hear everything it's becoming more and more faint as she grows ever larger. The box however does not seem to agree with this, keeping her massive form contained even as her head bumps against it. She lets out a 'hggh' sound as her form is compressing against the box, preventing her from hearing what's going on outside. When the crowd simmers down after the last bit of applause Pepper heard the voice again.

"It seems that the box wants to send our resident sheep on an adventure of cosmic proportions!" They shout as the box reacts to this, rumbling as Pepper was being squeezed more into the box. Her chest, belly, butt, and her wool were filling up the box, pressing against the walls as she grows larger and larger. Due to the box surrounding her she was not able to see how much she has grown, not that the box was comfy in any way what-so-ever what with her entire body starting to be suffocating due to all the wool.

"Ngh… Come on-" Pepper struggles more and more as the box continues to tighten around her. When she feels the box finally strain against her girth the sheep is happy about this, pushing against the box as hard as she can. "Free me already you stupid box!"

With one final surge of growth Pepper breaks out of the box, feeling so much better from not being confined in that thing anymore. She lets out a sigh at not being confined anymore, though when she looks down she freezes up at how she is now floating in the middle of nowhere, looking left and seeing what appears to be the moon beside her and an even larger globe floating nearby. And judging by the landmasses present on said larger globe, that was Pepper's planet, her home.

"Ooooh noooo…" Pepper quietly says as she stares at her home in disbelief as it floats in front of her. As the moon moves further away from her and she floats there in silence does the sheep girl laugh, as if something in her mind finally clicked for her.

"This is a dream. Isn't it?" Pepper asks herself. "I mean it has to be. No one has been able to even actually make it up to the stars yet, if such a thing is even possible. We have telescopes that show us that there's more out there but no possible way of getting to them." She lets out a small 'heh' at this realization before laughing a bit louder. "And here I was getting worried over nothing! Well that's a lie, I was pretty worried… But now that I know its all fake…"

Pepper feels something build up in her throat before it comes out as another chuckle. "Well then I have nothing to worry about. I can breathe out here after all. But…" The sheep looks around her surroundings, making note of the blackness with distant stars twinkling in the void. "What now?"

As Pepper floats in place something drifts by her, almost unnoticeable at first. But as it comes back around Pepper sees that it is a gumball. A large yellow gumball orbiting around her, about the size. The sheep chuckles at the coincidence of it, given that the colour was the same as the one from her vision back when she was small. "Guess when you're 'mortal' most things are like planets to regular sized people. Speaking of which…" Pepper plucks the ball from its orbit, holding it in between her hooves, eyeing the gumball before smirking and popping it into her mouth.

"Oooo lemon flavoured." The moon-sized sheep said as she chews on it, "I like it."

As Pepper chews on it it softens in her mouth. The consistency of it made her realize this isn't one of those fancy breath freshener gums either, it was a bonafide bubble gum gumball. Now more giddy at this Pepper starts to chew it a little bit faster to get it enough to stretch the gum over her tongue. Once able to do that she starts blowing herself a bubble, figuring to make it as big as possible.

'Heh. Able to blow bubbles out here huh.' She thinks to herself in amusement. 'Lets see how big I can blow it. Been awhile since I've chewed gum so I might be rusty.'

Taking a deep breath Pepper starts blowing a bubble and getting to be a decent size. However due to the reality of this likely being a dream she keeps going with the bubble, making it as large as her head before blowing to make it even bigger. As the bubble kept growing bigger and bigger with every breath of air Pepper grew only more amused with her bubble blowing skills with a small bit of concern with how big it is getting.

'Hmm… It should pop by now right?' Pepper thinks to herself as she keeps up the effort of blowing the bubble. It started to grow to the size of her body, and despite the original moon coming towards her to complete its orbit. The moon had to have popped it once it connects right? Despite this thought however once the moon of her home collided with the large bubble it didn't pop the bubble. Instead once it made contact it got sucked into it instead like a hard slime when you stick your finger in it. And whether because the gum was deceptively durable on the inside or if it was because of Pepper's own mass but the moon inside the bubble ceased to move any longer.

'That's… Not good I think.'

Regardless of this thought Pepper kept on blowing the bubble, making contact with the planet as it still grew. While Pepper knew that this was all likely a dream in the end now it still doesn't make her feel good to potentially destroy it. And yet the sheep was also curious just how far she could go with it. Her question was soon answered however, as the bubble started to shake. At first Pepper was thinking that it was about to pop.

Instead what happened was the giant bubble imploded on itself, all of the 'air' that was blown into the bubble sucks back into Pepper's body, resulting in very rapid growth while the planet and moon that were absorbed inside the bubble were sealed inside, trapping all air inside and much to Pepper's shock doesn't move the moon closer to the planet in any way. Not like the sheep is able to see it as due to the bubble imploding her growth skyrocketed, her breasts knocking the gum sealed planet out of sight. Thankfully it doesn't hit the sun but that's not helpful given that her entire growing body is knocking countless planets out of alignment due to her growth.

"How big am I going to get?!" She yells as her body continues to grow, knocking more and more planets out of the way. Even the sun her belly bumped into only hurt as much as a ball could if it was on fire. Which to say not very much. Pepper despite it knowing it might be a bad idea plucks the sun from where it was, watching it shrink in her hold. The sheep then decides to open her mouth, and toss the flaming ball into her mouth. There was spice to it as she chewed it, but overall? Surprisingly not bad.

"Huh… Well that is something." Pepper says as she continues to grow. As everything continues to shrink smaller and smaller Pepper plucks more and more of the dwindling planets around her and tosses them into her mouth. They were crunchy, but with a nice hot center in each of them. Even the ones where they were mostly cloudy still had a unique taste to them though the ones that were liquid not so much. The liquids evaporate when touching the hot spicy core so all she tasted was the center, which isn't very fun.

As Pepper consumes more planets despite their dwindling size her growth only gets faster. When it becomes clear that even the 'biggest' of these things is gets destroyed by her very presence whether by being bumped into by her body or otherwise she lets out some air. "Well now what?"

Her answer comes in the form of a beautiful sight soon afterwards; Bright clouds of dust show up around her, the sight utterly mesmerizing. "Woah…" The galactic swirls around her spin slowly in place, the sight of which causes a spark in the mind of the sheep. "That's it. That's what I've been missing. This colourful dust out here in this black void by all means should not look as good as it does. And yet-"

Pepper feels a smile form on her face. Her inspiration was coming back, the ideas from this sight alone is enough to make dozens of sweets for her to make. She gets internally giddy before it becomes outward joy. "It just does. I can bake again and I have that odd potion person to thank. Could've been better about it but no rest for the wicked I guess."

As ideas for new treat designs and creations flow into Pepper's head, the body of the sheep rumbles and before she knows it her growth spikes once more, turning the beautiful cosmic dust into nothing as it is leveled and ruined by her massive chest. As bummed as Pepper was about this the spike in growth was just as concerning, turning countess arrays of colourful dust into actual dust. Even if Pepper can't feel them the dust was collecting in her wool, getting smaller and smaller. Just when Pepper was wondering when it might end her head bumps into something. Something invisible but still there. She struggles to make room, destroying countless things in her efforts to give herself space.

Before the cosmic sheep could attempt to do anything else, she heard a loud noise, indecipherable, but present. If there was a comparison Pepper could compare it to, it would be a very loud pop. Like a… Balloon? A bunch of them?

Pepper's eyes shot open once she hears balloons popping from outside her carriage, the suddenness of the event surprising the sheep as she lands on the floor with a loud thud. "Ow… What a way to wake up huh…"

Pushing herself off she looks outside her window, seeing balloons floating around and up. Walking closer to the window Pepper sees large balloons being popped outside, and judging by how some of them are trying to fill them with air magic they're doing it too fast. Taking the quick and lazy way according to Pepper. Nonetheless now that she knows what was the cause of her abrupt awakening she thinks back to her dream and how beautiful the sights were.

That is when Pepper remembers what happened. How the sights gave her inspiration, how the planets in the black void had that spicy center. It all came back to her. And thus she heads over to her kitchen to see what she has ingredient wise in order to make something that recaptured that sensation from her dream. Looking at everything she has Pepper feels excited, because she can make something that would be similar to the experience she had in her dream. "Let's get to work then."

Cracking her bones to wake up Pepper starts doing two things: Firstly, make herself something to eat. Baking on empty stomachs suck. Secondly, get started on making ideas for what the core could be. From her dream they were very hot, so some cinnamon might do the trick. Some won't have it if they want a more cool flavour so mint will do as an option. Next was the outer shell. Should she make it a cake or should she go with hard candy? After some deliberation Pepper ultimately decides on hard candy. She already has made cookies and cake for the festival so something different will be good.

Tough as it was Pepper got to work making the hard candy along with her breakfast. Fortunately she was making things simple by having some waffles so that she can spend more time getting the hard candy right. Doing designs was not out of the question for the sheep but its typically not something she does often. This however is a good challenge and thus she will go all out in order to achieve the look of the planets.

Hours pass by and Pepper wipes the sweet off her brow. "Finally…" She says with exhaustion, yet a bit if satisfaction, "The hard candy is done."

When Pepper looks at the finished product she is proud of herself. The detail on the planets is excellent to her, some of the ones sporting clouds like the planets she ate in the dream, others look like if someone didn't tell you that if they were made of candy they could pass as part of a solar array in a museum.

Needless to say Pepper was patting herself on the back for the job well done. And she deserved it as well. Even if the method getting there was questionable given the shady person and potion, Pepper was glad that she was able to reinvigorate her creativity again. Looking at one of the small spare ones, one that Pepper dressed up like their moon, she chuckles.

"Just like in the dream huh. Have to taste it anyway so." Picking up the moon coloured hard candy Pepper inspects it before tossing it in her mouth. She sucks on it for a bit, feeling the flavouring melt in her mouth before eventually she reaches the minty center.

"Hm!" Pepper exclaims as she sucks on it, "This worked out brilliantly!"

With the mint now melting in her mouth Pepper looks at the others. There wasn't many but she figures that she can pass them off as a specialty candy. Not for the hardest part: Naming the things.

Pepper hums as she looks at all of the hard candies, arranged all neatly. Remembering her dream an idea starts to form.

"Cosmic Wonders. That's what I'll call them." Content with the name Pepper carefully starts moving them to the side so that they don't get damaged in any way. She smiles as she does so and looks in the direction of her pantry.

"Maybe some pudding this time. Replicate the stars and the void they were shining in." The sheep feels excited, another idea formed once again and takes a deep breath. "Seems that I'll be going above and beyond for my work."

She walks to her pantry, throwing the door open as she looks inside for pudding ingredients, "And I wouldn't have it any other way."

[idrils]

blazing these pics of pepper (moustache) and sweet potato (pastel no moustache) please enjoy 🧡

[yippee-optimistically]

so ii16 huh

[clarissasbakery]

some stuff for you all

[ebi-noodle-doodles]

doktor bebber

(pls buy me dr pepper cus why is dr pepper so hard to pricey)

[ask-fantublings]

Wait who are the kids god parents??? Red 40 mentioned having a favourite one

the kids and their godparents!! ❤️💚🧡

[beatlesmenrock]

hi guys

[ladybugkisses]

Lackasona Q&A part four - it could've been worse?

thank you so much for the question, @btonbybton! 💐

[pepper-makes-art]

pls tell me that no one has done this yet right

edit: we won so hard but WE LOST SO HARD TOO 😭😭😭

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[halflifebutawesome]

BEHOLD! FOR THE SECOND TIME, THE GBVRAI LINEUP! now with another weird old dude!

waves my hands around vaguely I wanted to make a nicer looking lineup and more coherent post actually explaining the au. I've now made 2 gbvrai lineups but never a plain old hlvrai lineup. Whatever.

There's a complete AU explanation and individual character profiles (?) under the cut! check it out! ASK ME ABOUT IT !!! SMILES!!!!!

The basic gist of this au is that the science team, are a group of ghost hunting paranormal researchers. The Ghostbusters. You mightve heard of them. This isn't a 1 for 1 au where certain characters take the role of others, it's more just. What if the science team existed in the Ghostbusters universe. They're just the Ghostbusters now.

On a particularly odd case, they bust a ghost that seems... off. It's sentient, it's talking back, and it's psychokinetic energy is off the charts.

Thinking nothing of it, they return to the firehouse and prep the trap for containment disposal. Gordon's the new guy, so he's the unlucky dude who's been assigned the job of disposing of the traps. All the while the ghost will NOT shut up. It's weirdly powerful and seems mostly unbothered. It's name is Benry, and he's a little freak.

the ghost containment unit has been unstable for a while, overfilled with ghosts, but they have to dispose of Benry somehow, so they go ahead with it.

In this AU I'm kind of combining the Resonance Cascade with the Manhattan Crossrip (the Manhattan crossrip is the big scary ghost event that happens at the end of GB1). Basically what happens is that Benrys weirdly powerful ghostly energy, combined with an unstable ghost containment unit, tears a big rip in the fabric between the ghost realm and ours, letting all sorts of ghouls and specters free.

Imagine the Resonance Cascade, with all the aliens getting out and ravaging Black Mesa, but it's a bunch of ghosts getting out and ravaging New York. Gordon and the rest of the team have to fight their way through the ghost filled streets of NYC, and close the crossrip.

Heres some closeups and more individual info/thoughts for the gang!!

GORDON FREEMAN! The new guy. Again, this is less a direct 1 for 1 swap au kind of deal, and more just putting these guys in situations. Gordon's HEV suit, tho, I wanna talk about.

In Ghostbusters canon, they DO have a weird fucked up hazard suit. It first appears in the TRGB episode "Xmas Marks The Spot", where Egon uses it to travel into the ghost realm. I know it makes another appearance in the comics, in a way that's more HEV-esque, but I never finished the comics so idk. It's real tho.

I imagine here that the ghost containment unit is more like the reactor in half life, where it's hazardous to be around for too long, probably bcos of like. I don't know. Concentrated psychokinetic energy. Sure. In any case he needs to wear the HEV to use the containment unit.

My design here is taking the chest piece, helmet, gloves and belts and modifying them to look a little more HEV-esque.

Bennyyyy. Benrey benry beny. He's a ghost, as far as they can tell. It would be more appropriate to call him an entity of sorts.

He's not a ghost simply for the fact that he wasn't ever human. He wasn't ever a living person that died. He's some pure, really powerful, concentrate entity/being that leaked through from the ghost realm. He looks like. A guy, for the most part, but he's a mimic. Something pretending to be human. He's been around for a while, and has settled into this form. He's mostly corporeal, but can phase in and out as he pleases (noclipping) Switching from corporeal/incorporeal when it's funny.

He met Tommy when they were both a lot younger, Benry being fresh out of the ghost realm, and have been bestfriends ever since. ☝️ my au my weirdly specific tommybenny dynamic. Dw about it

TOMMY & SUNKIST!!!! Tommy has grown up around ghosts his whole life, and is pretty in-tune with them. This is proven with his bond to Sunkist, who's decidedly not a real dog, and his longtime friendship with Benry.

I gave him the goggles cos. Tommy's my fave and Ray's my fave and I think they're fun. Also cos if it WAS a 1 to 1 swap I would def have Tommy as Ray. Anyway. He's been a part of the Ghostbusters since he was little, like I said he grew up with them and around them. He's really knowledgeable about ghost types and physics. He knows all the ghost rules.

Sunkist isn't like. His dead childhood dog cos that seems. Kind of sad. Instead she's kind of a church Grimm or hell hound. An entity taking the form of a big huge dog that Tommy befriended when he was a kid, and has now kind of bonded to him. She's pretty corporeal as far as ghosts go, and can interact w the physical environment pretty well.

DARNOLD ^^ my friend darnold. Darnolds not usually super involved in the actual ghostbusting, and prefers to stay behind. He's more of the research and tech kind of guy, he studies the readings and takes measurements.

He's interested in psychokinetic energy and ghost residue and all sorts of like. Ghost sciences. Why some people stay behind, why some people just seem to die and disappear, the properties of the ghost realm and the ghosts themselves. Corporeality and degradation of personhood the longer someone's been a ghost.

When the Resonance Crossrip happens, he opts to stay behind and observe the effects of the insane amounts of ghost energy on the corporeal world.

Hes also a transfer over from the ghost engineers! That's a fun thing for me. I love the ghost engineers idc frozen empire gave me everything I wanted

FORZEN. Forzen is... the same thing as Benry. A mimic, something taking the form of a normal ghost to blend in or hide in plain sight.

He came through with the Resonance Crossrip, but obviously like. He knew Benry before (we WERE bestfriends..). He's not as powerful, which is why he wasn't able to sneak through when Benry did. He's also not super corporeal. He can only interact with the physical world if he's exerting a LOT of energy. Prone to flickering in and out of vision.

Upon coming thru the Crossrip, he kind of just. Decided to hang around the firehouse. Didn't wanna go much further, for fear of being ghostbusted and sent back into the containment unit. The source is the last place they'd look for him!

Darnold, who's holed up in the firehouse, is more than delighted to meet a ghost who's sentient and willing to cooperate to do some tests and experimentation to get never before documented results. They bond and they're cutesit. ☝️ DARZEN WIN. hi splash 👋

Dr Coomer and Dr Bubby are two of the three original founders of the Ghostbusters! They've been around for a looooong time. They're also married obviously but that's like a given.

They helped found the Ghostbusters, having met in college while both were studying parapsychology. I imagine their like. Parapsychology -> Ghostbusters pipeline was very in line with how GB1 starts, where they used to work in an academic environment before getting kicked out and founding the GB.

They're also both. Psychic. Because frozen empire has once again given me everything. Coomers got some like. Idk something that lines up with his self awareness in HLVRAI, maybe prophecy? Vauge visions of the future? Bubby has pyrokinesis. Duh.

and... Mr. Coolatta..... Tommy's dad...he was one of the founders along w Coomer and Bubby and at some point he. Died. And is now a reeeally really powerful ghost. maybe from the exposure to ghost energy or smth?

Now hes got gman powers and just kinda hangs around. Pretty corporeal and solid and. Present. For lack of a better word. But he IS a dead guy. Used to be human.

This is why Tommy kind of grew up around ghosts and knows alot about them :) Mr Coolatta is pretty benevolent, and mostly just kind of spooky and fucked up.

And that's. About it? I believe?? PLEAAASE ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS I have so many thoughts. I've been working on this for like 2 months now. Lol.

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Normally I wouldn't go for this but hey I got this from @sihagen as a commission a few months back of my sheep girl Pepper, now extra large!

Got our resident sheep girl being very huge surrounded by the cosmos. Hopefully she's inspired to take inspiration from them and not what the stars taste like.

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HI!!!! i made some sprout designs for some plants due to me being obssesed with the baby sunflowers in pvz3 . baby army....ATTACK‼️‼️‼️

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Ermmm. Funny little catboy? Alt and info under cut

A little design experiment inspired by a post I saw about how, the way cis calico catboys would be possible is because they'd have Klinefelter syndrome. The mental image of a tall fella like him was too captivating. Also an alt with some makeup, he was an excuse to try out some things I never really did in my designs such as this many piercings and more adventurous clothes. The tattoo thing on his arm is just shaved off, not scarred. I'll likely give him away to a friend in the near future.

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I'm a little puzzled by a few takes I've seen along the lines of, Lila was such a great wife and mother and Diego took her for granted! Because I don't think the show gave us that at all, and I think it relied heavily and lazily on societal norms to get the audience to make that leap. It also ignored previous characterisation, which is why I plan to disregard the season as a whole - because if the characters had been like this from the start, I wouldn't have fallen in love with them.

So, what I mean is: the whole time we see her as a parent, Lila is basically phoning it in. She seems to view her kids as one monolithic, sticky entity sent purely to ruin her day (distinct shades of the Handler there). They're just a list of chores - diapers, dentist, ballet, cake, piñata... And I'm not underestimating how much parenting really is a list of chores to be done - but that's all we see, no love, no fun. She's eager to get away from them, and she's only - finally - desperate to be with them when it's convenient for the plot, at which point we're supposed to buy the idea that her kids are her sole focus (not the relationship that they spent the past two seasons building up). And even then, the focus is not on the reunion with the kids, it's on all the awkwardness of the surprise love triangle. Hell, one of the kids doesn't even get a name.

Their intent might have been to have Lila be the better parent, but like much of this season, it's all tell and no show. We're working off a couple of brief conversations from the points of view of two frustrated, tired, biased individuals who are already at odds with one another, plus the evidence of what they actually do. They show that they’re not communicating well, but they don’t show how that happened, how long this has been growing, if one of them really is more at fault. All we know is that he complains a lot, and she’s sneaking out at night to play secret agent. They tell us that she loves her children (eventually, after seven years apart), but they show her being annoyed and/or bored in every normal, non-apocalyptic interaction. They have her (and Five) tell us that Diego is a bad husband, but they show Lila sniping at his weight, his way of running a birthday party, rolling her eyes at his efforts to impress her and regain her attention - and they show him dadding at everyone (he will turn this van around, so help him), the comfortable love and affection between him and his kids, the Punjabi he learned to speak fluently to his in-laws, him looking for ways to fix his marriage...

Take the bracelet thing, for example. "You hate bracelets," says Diego. "I gave you one for Valentines and you traded it for a Dyson vacuum." I think what we're supposed to take from that is a) Lila stopped wearing the wooden bracelet (uh oh, signs the honeymoon period has worn off!), b) Diego gives thoughtless, stereotypical gifts, and c) he doesn't understand what she really wants.

But an alternative reading is this: a) Lila stopped wearing the wooden bracelet (could not be a clearer or more loaded 'fuck you' to Diego), b) Diego tried to find another way to win her affection (on his pay as a delivery driver, with a wife and three kids to support, he managed to buy a bracelet that was expensive enough to trade for a Dyson?), and c) she rejected that gift as well, without any deeper explanation than 'I hate bracelets'. She's shut down all communication between them and is not telling him what's wrong. She has shut him out so comprehensively that she's got a whole undercover life - for which she apparently has the time and energy! - and yet we're supposed to think that oh it's all on Diego. Why? Lila is not a shy and retiring flower, and she and Diego have been shown before to have some very sincere heart-to-hearts about their relationship. Something changed, okay, fine - but why would we assume it was Diego that caused that?

I think our expectations about What Women Are Like are doing a LOT of the heavy lifting in how the show wants Lila to be perceived. She's a woman, and therefore she's automatically a good wife and mother - that she's emotionally intelligent, the organiser, she'll love her children and would do anything for them, she'll tried the hardest to make her marriage work, just...because boobies, I guess. This is not how you write good parents, or good female characters, TUA! A truly astonishing amount of people actually ARE women, and they know that it doesn't automatically confer any kind of maternal or wifely abilities! These things have to be worked on!

(In real life, women are often socialised to be better at these things, this is sadly true. But an awful lot of us do not have an innate talent for it, and there's no shame in that. And, more relevantly to this post, this is not real life, and Lila is not your average person. She's not normal, and I love that about her. She was raised to be a weapon. Do we really think the Handler installed the 'homemaker' module? Lila herself said that she was scared that she wouldn't know how to be a mother, because she had no good example to base it on.)

I also think the show assumes that, when you get married and have kids, you're automatically granted a house in the suburbs, a bunch of in-laws, and enough money from just the husband's job to get by. And I think that is an incredibly privileged and blinkered assumption. Frankly, unless her parents are financing them, they should be struggling a lot more. None of that is explained, and for me it was a real gap, because these are the arguments that Lila and Diego should be having. Lila caring for the kids versus getting a job. Living with family versus striking out on their own. Diego sticking at a job that makes him miserable and difficult to live with, or taking the huge financial risk of trying to find something better. These are the real life issues they should be facing.

Listen, I think the characterisation of Lila as a parent and spouse in this season is horseshit. I think she would be so much better than they showed - of course she's going to have some low times, she's going to struggle with her own upbringing, but I think she would try her damndest to get it right, and I don't think she'd be defeated so easily. But if we're dealing with what canon actually shows us, she's, uh, kind of mediocre as a mother, and really not that great as a partner.

And yes, I'm sure Diego is no angel, either, he's obviously wrapped up in his problems, and he's probably not much fun to be around when he's fixating on, uh, *checks notes* wanting a more fulfilling job (the fiend). But honestly, he's not that far removed from the Diego we've seen all along, the one she fell in love with. It takes one conversation for him to realise how incredibly fortunate he is, and to convince him to try to work harder on his relationship and stop focusing on the unobtainable. The idea that he's the only one who is failing at this whole gig - the chief culprit in the failure of their marriage, the only one who needs to make an effort to fix things - is bizarre. And it's pretty obvious why they've done it: to justify her thing with Five later and make it all seem more palatable. But there's no real substance behind it.

tl;dr: this season was badly-written, takes some incredibly antiquated attitudes towards the role of women that are inconsistent with the characters they themselves established, and some incredibly classist attitudes towards manual labour, and just hopes that you'll either take it at face value or read the fuck into it, to better sell you a shitty romance that added nothing to the plot.

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