#so again. 40 years

[stellacendia]

As a former employee of American Girl who was there for Courtney's launch I am greatly enjoying everyone's reactions to it this much time after it. If it helps absolutely no one in my store liked Courtney for anything except a couple of her outfits. I think the only reason she was successful as a character was because nostalgia for the 80s is so strong people will buy and consume objectively bad stuff for that reason only.

Oh by the way, my favorite fact about Courtney? If you look at the years of most of the other historical characters, each of their years ends in a 4 (1774, 1784, 1824, 1864, 1904, 1914, 1934, 1944, 1954, etc.) Except for Courtney and Nanea. Nanea's was 1941 because her story is all about Pearl Harbor. You know why Courtney's year is 1986? Because that's the year American Girl (Pleasant Company at the time) was founded. And that's part of Courtney's story. She relates a lot to Molly. They made a new Molly mini doll for her and everything.

Yeah, that's right, American Girl went "Hm, what significant stuff happened in the 80s? Oh yeah, us!!"

(I know the Challenger launch is important too but trust me that is not the reason the story is set in 86 lmao)

Hey, does anyone want to feel really old right about now?

[creativesplat]

absolutely 100% inspired by @mr-jack-letterman's post on young Stan.

[alien-girl-21]

Filthy dog experience:

[sideblogdotjpeg]

*crawling out of the ground* hello guys I made an animatic

[gravityfallsrenaissance]

pacific!falls au

Stan and Ford were drift compatible (maybe all twins in universe get tested on the off chance?) and Ford wants to study the rifts that form around the kaiju while Stan just likes a good fight.

Together, they make a really good drift team.

However, Ford starts to make big progress with his study of the rifts and how he wants to shut them down. So much progress in fact, that there’s talk of decommissioning them as a drift team since Ford is more valuable by himself than he is paired with Stan in a mech.

Stan is upset by this and accidentally breaks something on Ford’s lab before being kicked out of the program. Ford is also kicked out of the program for not being able to prove his theories about the rifts and its considered a waste of resources.

Stan drifts around the world after that, becoming closer to a normal civilian and dealing with the fear of living while there are constant kaiju threats.

Ford begins having dreams about the rifts and wants to test a theory but needs help constructing something (the portal).

Fiddleford is one of the technicians who upgrades the mechs and agrees to help Ford construct his portal during his leave (instead of visiting his family).

We know how this ends. The Bill equivalent of this universe is sending the kaiju through the portals and wants Ford and Fiddleford to construct one he can pass through. Fiddleford catches on, Ford summons Stan and ends up on the other side of the portal.

Thirty years later, Mabel and Dipper are drift compatible and sent to live with their Grunkle to talk about the process of drifting and to learn from him.

He teaches them about drifting, lets them pilot a mini mech as practice.

When they get Ford back there is an understanding that he and Stan will need to work together to defeat Bill, but they’re working under the impression they’re no longer drift compatible.

By defeating Bill, the kaiju incursions stop but at the cost of Stan’s memories.

To regain Stan’s memories, Ford finds out they’re still drift compatible and enters their shared mindscape to get his brother back.

[thecaptainstevie]

So @intotheelliwoods there's more.

May he regret adopting them? Perhaps. He still loves em tho. Probably.

Continuation of this. Next part is here.

[secretly-a-trekkie]

I just remembered I don't know how to draw cities. brb gonna pirate some art books 👍

in other news... coruscant in survivor

[lillymakesart]

my new OC: cempaka!

she is based on the story/universe that my friend @haydardotjpg's OCs indra and yuwei exist in! pls go checkout haydar's art he is amazing!! his ocs can be found more easily on his ig but if you're lazy this is his oc indra (cempaka's one-sided love interest) and yuwei (indra's fated lover)

also, cempaka means "magnolia" in malay!! (she gets a flower name bc my name is lilly which is also flower c:)

bonus first iteration under the cut!

i accidentally had "poinsettia" flower in mind when i did this iteration instead of an actual magnolia, hence the color scheme. but yeah, this is as self-insert as it gets LOL like she's literally MEEEEEE but still very different and i love her as she is <3

[empoart]

Unfinished pages from an unfinished Eurovision 2023 comic

[thresholdbb]

I've come back to Time and Again... it's a threshold day miracle!

[blushinggoku]

Been trying to read some goku x reader fanfics (because I love him and cringe culture is dead) but there's soo few out there it's insane. I'm disappointed in this fandom for not loving goku more

[scientistservant]

Rewatching Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance again mainly for skekOk but also because the show as a whole is so so good

And even five years later I just wanna say fuck Netflix for ever cancelling this show

[ickypuppi3]

it chapter two-esque scenario where they all have to meet back up because a gates opened except now the party are like mid thirties and billy and steve have to deal with this weird animosity they’ve got going on because the two of them were hooking up back in school until feelings got involved and it ended badly and billy just upped and left one day but they’re still pining for each other and steve’s divorce just got finalised and billy’s never really dealt with any of his issues and everything sucks until they kiss about it. & then maybe it gets tragic again you know how it is

[secrettastemakerland]

“Your flop era is low key serving”

Nick: *panicking in millennial* what the fuck does that even mean??

HELP 😭😭😭

HE WOULD BE LIKE "Thank you???? I think????"

Nick: *turns to Judy* "Carrots, what the fuck did he say to me"

Judy: "He said that you're ate, slay, left no crumbs, Slick"

[outfoxt]

Would love to hear about potential parallel stories/lore in judaism 👁👁👁👁💞

i realized that i actually havent thought very in depth about parallels and themes in the bible in a LONG time but let me think...

one that jumped to the forefront of my mind is something that idk if its a theme/parallel or not, but it has to do with moses. in the torah (really in the talmud i think which is a bunch of rabbi's headcanons about the torah that were then accepted as canon later on), when moses was taken in by pharaoh a test was performed to see whether moses would overthrow him, and by extension whether he was safe to keep and raise. that test was to show baby moses two pots: one of gold and riches and one of hot coals, and whichever he grabbed would be indicative as to what kind of son he'd be. so obviously, being a baby, moses starts to go for the shiny stuff. but (so the story goes) since moses has plot armor an angel (of death [?]) reached out and moved his hand to the hot coals. this is important because not only did it secure his safety to grow up under pharaoh's watch, but it burned his hand, which he then put in his mouth which permanantly burned his tongue and gave him a lisp. now the lisp isnt really talked about much more until later on, and its kind of minor so i get why its often left out, but it changes the whole feeling of the story! because of the lisp, moses gets nervous to speak in front of pharaoh's mages, and so it's aaron who does the talking when they turn their staffs into snakes. it's aaron (iirc) who speaks to the hebrews and tells them the word of god. moses is the one who speaks directly to god and does his bidding in the stories, but aaron is the one who conveys the information. and AND i just remembered this continues!! it continues to be true that moses doesnt always tell his own story!! in the scientific world it is generally accepted that there are a few different authors/compilers of the torah, but in judaism there is one main accepted truth of how it was written with two endings: moses wrote the whole thing up until the last chapter when he was on mount sinai, writing down word for word what god told him to. the ending, though, changes because at the end of the bible moses dies there is a debate over whether moses wrote his own death before it happened (since god is omnipresent blah blah blah) or whether joshua took over for him after he died. if the latter is true, that would be the second time someone tells moses' story for him!! first aaron tells the mages and the hebrews who moses is and why he was sent to save them, and then joshua tells the story of his death and his exile from the holy land! there are THEMES and MOTIFS i can SEE THEM

i have no idea if this is what you were asking for but thank you for inviting me to infodump XD <3

[theclosetedskeleton]

extremely low quality and kindof bad needful things art i made today/yesterday