#spike thorn

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[just-animaxiz]

About 11 years ago, McSatchlé came out and the Punk Bots first appeared there!

They mean the world to me and they’re some of the most underrated villais ever!

[gemisbored]

Bittersweet memory

artfight attack for @dairyfreenugget :3

some traditional sketches I made before starting the digital piece. the second one has some finnish text I translated. yeah that whole page is upside down compared to the rest of my sketchbook. whoops

[justarandombrit]

The fact that these two characters have essentially the same backstory is way too funny to me.

[luff2]

THEM THEM THEM!!! (btw I’m gonna start doing more non-tkl art) BUT DW ILL STILL BE POSTING SFW T-COMMUNITY STUFF!!

ALSO IN MY HC THEY ARE WEARING SWEATERS :33

[sualne]

some of the portraits ive made for my kingmaker games

[front-facing-pokemon]

[the-phoenix-heart]

You know if Thomas watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer he would be SO in his feelings about Spuffy

[zopharooni]

"Fading"

A DMAU story, part 2/4 (start / previous / next)

Rain. The normally pleasant atmosphere and calming sounds...

Turned sour.

Why... Why are things always like this?

Why can things never stay nice?

Why can't people... live forever...

Gideon... He went missing a month ago. He said he would be right back, that relations with the local cultists were the best they have ever been. But gods... are never satisfied with what is. That's all they do. Take, and take, and take, until there's nothing left. Damned bishops...

Cliff and Spike returned from a raid a week ago. We need food, and we need those cultists gone. They attacked in the night, leaving no survivors of that cult. Not all of them were guilty, but our needs come first. However... They were infected with something terrible while out there. Our guess is a blight from the Bishop of this land.

Poor Cliff... He has been bedridden for the whole week. He doesn't even know his own name, let alone recognize us. Something is wrong in his head. Something... that we can't fix.

Spike also caught something, but it's different. Fatigue, fever, and he's getting skinnier by the day. What most concerns me is... when he coughs. He keeps a rag to cough into, as to not spread anything...

It's covered in blood.

They won't survive. If I stay... I won't survive either. I can't live like this. The bishops need to pay. I've heard rumors of cults worshipping chaos. I need that power, and I refuse to work under the other bishops. If I can get the attention of their god, I've heard that some followers are rewarded with a fraction of divinity. I can take the fight to the bishops and the followers that wronged us. Wronged me.

Damn Famine for our hunger and starvation, damn War for the fighting, damn Death for taking away everything we love, and Pestilence... for taking my family. When all is lost, Chaos reigns. This I know.

I pack my bag in secret. I can't let Spike know. He'll try to stop me. I grab any spare rations from the raid, as well as Gideon's old greataxe. I need these more. I take our only map, and leave in the middle of the night.

The rain feels almost... patronizing. As if trying to guilt trip me. It doesn't matter. I quietly stalk away from the cabin, the rain covering my sound. I take one look back, and...

Spike is there. Waiting at the door. Staring. He is leaning against the frame, looking disappointed. Sad, even.

No. You can't stop me. Not now.

But he doesn't. He simply turns back inside. Closing the door behind him.

I feel my throat start to constrict. Any tears rolling from my eyes invisible with the rainfall. Guilt.

I can't stay here. They will die anyways, and I'll be alone. Staying is meaningless. I repeat these words in my mind, as I journey through Ombros. Trying to convince myself.

The chaos worshippers are rumored to be in Rotwood. I use the map, waterproofed with tree resin, to find my way. I hack through the underbrush, it's beauty fading in my mind. Ombros. My home...

Not anymore... I can't stay.

After a week I find myself at the foot of Rotwood. The trees covered in moss, a fog always seeming to obscure the periphery. Moving forward, the ground feels vastly different than Ombros. The stench of decay seeming to perpetuate the air here.

After a day of stalking through, I start to lose whatever hope I had left, not for me, but my revenge. Then a cultist in green robes jumps from the bushes, pointing a dagger at me.

"You! Your sacrifice will nourish the god of chaos!"

Ah. Perfect.

I quickly spin my greataxe from my back, and ready for their attack. Then suddenly, they turn and try to run.

Coward.

My axe splits the back of their skull, putting them down instantly. So is that what it takes to be a worshipper? Just kill in the name of chaos? Easy enough. I quickly steal the robes from the cultist, their body very quickly withering into the ground. The hood is split and covered in blood, but I don't like hoods anyways, and I rip it off.

I rifle around the pockets, and find a small map, showing where this cultist's origin lies. I begin to make my way through Rotwood, with renewed vigor. Things are looking up! Any doubts in my mind are washed away, and any thoughts of them... obscured with my own malice.

After a day or two, I start hearing commotion. I think I've made it. The cult of chaos, indicated by the map. I stand up straight, and walk confidently into the cult, weapon at the ready.

Is this the first step of my journey? Was it the step I took outside from the cabin? Or was this all simply fate?

Ha... Fate.

A cruel mistress.

[destiny-in-the-universe]

Imagine if I said I worked on this fanfic all night, holy shit. I was dead-set on getting it out — trying to push myself to a different style of one-shot and it worked; I’m almost certain this has to be longest one-shot yet and I am not complaining.

The idea isn’t inherently my own and I wrote it as a request/gift for @just-animaxiz but holy shit, Rebels on the Road was such a fun ride!

To summarize, this is set in an alternate post-canon setting- months following the defeat of the Sorcerer and due to time shenanigans, the main cast are all in their junior year of high school and one of them, our title lead Randy, has gotten his driver’s license. Shenanigans ensue when he ends up in a silly, little situation and well, it gets a lot more crazier from there!

This is technically written as a sort of sequel to “Escape from Scrap City”, but not entirely! Though trust me - you are going to have a blast with this, literally /lh

The word count has my tail thumping up and down. Also credit goes to the lovely @just-animaxiz for this. They designed me a flyer based on the event Randy attends in the fanfic! Unfortunately, Ao3 decided to be a butt and not properly upload the image so we had to resort to this instead, I’m afraid

[grapecaseschoices]

i was like idk who i will romance first but out of spite ima romance bellara and davrin first. i will literally shoehorn my PCs personality to work with them. it probs wont be do anything for the stats but ugh, yall suck roflmao.

[just-animaxiz]

Tomorrow is the day when McSatchlé premiered... October 26, 2013....

The plot's irrelevant -

BUT ITS ALSO THEIR BIRTHDAYS AND ITS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.

I will create art for this and I hope others may do the same cuz the Punk Bots are underrated!

[whmp]

thoughts on a thorn collar (or crown??)

my thoughts: yes!!! very good. assuming this is about the game, i've just added them! i am what you call "tumblr ask motivated". : ) and if it's not about the game, too bad, you're getting thorny accessories in it anyway.

(i've included a screenshot of the thorny collar on its own, since it might be easier to see that way. looks pretty painful ngl.)

taglist below: (let me know if you want to be added or if i messed up and somehow haven't included you!)

@whumpinthepot @andithewhumper @pigeonwhumps @monarchthefirst @scp-1296 @whumpedydump @screenys-whump-corner @whumpshaped @bloodsweatandpotato @burning-and-remembering @thealmightyconeoftruth @whimpity-whumpity

[moxie-girl]

several hours into my attempts to give as many clones mando’a names as possible and I can proudly say: 1) I know literally nothing about english grammar much less mando’a grammar and 2) I have made up so many new mando’a words. so many.

[baltears]

idk how else to describe this like i think the kind of traditionalist/hyperliteral read of buffy not catching feelings for spike until late s5/s6 just misses the level of iron grip buffy keeps on her feelings. apropos of nothing other than seeing this read one too many times and im not up on my buffy meta scholarship so forgive me if im making the same points everyone and their mother has been making for the past two decades

keeping tight control over her feelings is not something buffy started doing after a certain point, it's a behavior she has coming into the pilot bc we see that at that point there's already a level of emotional distance between her and joyce (not only re the slayer stuff and the later retconned-in betrayal & invalidation trauma from being thrown in an institution when she tried to tell her parents the truth, but also for instance the intensity of buffy's distress over the divorce). she already has a home life consisting of not voicing most of her difficult and 'close to the chest' emotions. when she tries to be genuine in a way that asks for space for her frustration or anger or more 'selfish' feelings, this is often not met with understanding (worth mentioning that giles does a MUCH better job on this than joyce for the most part, but other characters including willow and xander respond poorly a substantial number of times). as a result she is well practiced at suppressing emotions that are too inconvenient or complicated to feel acceptable to verbalize, so she tends to just kind of whistle past things that feel hard to tackle until she reaches a point where she can no longer bear to ignore them. this is a core part of her canon characterization that is also visible at many points in buffy's relationship with angel (s3 comes to mind, when she spends a good chunk of the season operating under the convenient belief that they're in a functional platonic friendship when she subconsciously knows they are still too hung up on each other for that to be feasible). so like we know this is something buffy does. it is not at all unusual for her to feel things that she keeps beneath her conscious awareness + does not allow herself to process and admit to having felt until well after the fact.

this takes me to the oft cited point that from the first time she interacts with spike, there is a different vibe happening than is typical for buffy and vamps. it just feels very obvious to me that from basically minute one (or maybe more accurately from their first fight, when she isn't so much on the back foot) she registers him on some level as a person who happens to be really interesting and hot, but has a fairly easy time of it keeping this feeling out of her conscious awareness bc 1) he's also an unsouled vamp, meaning she can choose to dismiss his personhood as nonexistent and his personality as mere performance or game-playing (ie he is not a 'real' person, therefore the relationship need not be acknowledged as 'real' either – taken to extremes in s6 when she has to actively abuse him and continually reaffirm his lack of humanity and lack of worth in order to sustain the self-told belief that she doesnt see or experience his personhood and doesnt feel a human connection with him), 2) they're mortal enemies, 3) he likes to be really annoying on purpose + as a vampire also has a baseline level of generally acting like a bit of a creep, and 4) for much of their relationship she has other romantic objects on whom she can more acceptably focus her attention (insert reference to spuffy being a queer coded relationship here).

i think this state of noticing-slash-not-noticing persists from 2.03 through s3&4 and into season 5. by then she is so good at studiously ignoring how weird and flirtatious and intense their dynamic has always been that the revelation that spike is now acting very obviously like hes in love with her, to the extent that someone else could notice, takes her totally by surprise. getting more specific idk how else one could possibly explain how her ass was acting in something blue pre-spell, like i absolutely canNOT see buffy behaving like that around any other vamp literally ever. they were both being so unceasingly annoying with their creepy little flirty back and forth that both giles and willow were completely over it and just wanted them to shut up and stop paying so much attention to each other. ig the point im getting at is i think it's weird and dont get it when ppl seem to read buffy's character as if shes basically just saying the things she feels and vice versa rather than like regularly and even habitually lying to herself, bc i just don't think that's in line with the character that we're shown. buffy SAYS for a very long time that she doesnt care about spike and basically says and does everything possible to deny that she has any attachment to him at all, but frankly i think the level of aggression and frequency with which she expresses variations on that sentiment in and of itself gives the lie to that idea. anyways i think she was down bad pretty much immediately and just took a very long time to let herself notice