#swap!ponk

[corvidco]

day 81 of drawing ponk until hes added to the qsmp

i need to write a fic or sum

[kay-then-i-guess]

for your roleshift au, who is everyone swapping with? i’m very curious…

I try to keep it a secret (for funsies), especially if it hasn't been guessed already, but I can give a list of those that are already known! If you want to know more about my process of selecting all of these and figuring it out, check out this post and some of my character design sheets (linked in my pinned post on my blog).

Sam is in the role of Tommy!

Techno is in the role of Wilbur!

Quackity is in the role of Tubbo!

Connor is in the role of Eret!

Foolish is in the role of Dream!

Ant is in the role of George!

Skeppy is in the role of Punz!

Wilbur is the role of Sapnap!

Tommy is in the role of Fundy!

Fundy is in the role of Jack!

Jack is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Ranboo is in the role of Niki!

Schlatt is in the role of Quackity!

Hannah is in the role of Schlatt!

Tubbo is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Aimsey is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Niki is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Dream is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Ponk is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

George is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Aaaaand that's everyone that's shown up so far! Feel free to make any guesses, though most that haven't been guessed haven't had any major events that would clue you in really, so I'd really be surprised if you got it right haha

Anyways, thanks for enjoying the comic! I'm continuing to work on the election arc, and hopefully that'll be done soon.

(^This is me going insane figuring out the election arc, btw)

[a-moth-called-mof]

Throughback Thursday aka I go over my mains during the dsmp

Many of my followers might not know this but i have swapped through multiple "mains". I still wouldn't say I have a dsmp "main", because I've always had phases and even when I did, I've always tried to follow people who "mained" characters I didn't follow as much so I knew what was up. My original "main" was actually C! Fundy. I fucking adored him. I was a big C! Fundywastaken shipper and if you look through my fundywastaken tag you can see the whole ass wedding canonicity saga. I loved C! Fundy so much from late season 1 (when I joined the fandom) (aka before November 16th) to early season 2 (aka post November 16th) and I was really hoping he'd get to be in a spot light for a bit with Ghostbur. I also really likes C! Niki and C! Bad around this time.

After that, I orbited C! Tubbo a lot (although I've always kept up with C! Clingy to some degree) as well C! Ranboo, C! Eret and C! Puffy (IM STILL MAD ABOUT CC! PUFFY RETCONING HER CHARACTER BEING A MOM BECAUSE THE FANDOM FORCED HER INTO THE STEREOTYPICAL MOM ROLE. i really likes c! Puffy as a mom because even though she was a maternal figure. She had such wine aunt energy and felt like such a fleshed out person to me) (also got really into c! Puffychu for a bit)

And then exile happened and C! Tommy maining began (<- FUN FACT I USED TO FUCKING **HATE** C! WILBUR 😭 I thought he was pretty abusive during Pogtopia and I still do think that C! Tommy scape goated C! Techno a bit because he didn't wanna acknowledge how badly Wilbur missed him up <- that being said even though i didnt like c! Wilbur. I was still always of the opinion, he had the potential to get better and i always felt like he'd come back later eventually).

After exile, I became a pretty big C! Techno main and (c! Emerald enjoyer) even if I didn't always agree with what he was doing (<- tbf I've always watched C! Techno, probably helped he didn't stream as much as the others). Around this time and after Doomsday, I got pretty into C! Sam and Ponk as well. And post C! Tommy dying and lore slowing down, I got really into C! Quackity (although I've always been attached to him because a close friend of mine at the time basically mained him). And then the C! Wilbur revival happened and I started getting more into him and I think he was my last proper "main" before the lore dropped off and the CC! Dream stuff started coming out

Overall all the dsmp characters hold a special space in my heart because I was pretty into almost all of then at some point (I didn't mention this because I don't consider this long enough to be a phase but I did have a week or two where I fixated a lot on C! George and C! Hannah). And idk, all of them hold a place in my heart and I also think half of them suck ass as people but I think that's the appeal for me

[2021medeservedbetter]

Intro/name swaps+ design details

Every once and a while I'll remember the dsmp and how much of... a thing that was, and one of my favorite ocs is from that fandom. So, I'm just reclaiming the whole thing bc my au is already separated enough from the c! storyline.

Canon characters:

~ DreamisTaken- Cain, a glowsquid with scene elements

~ GeorgeNotFound- Micah, a fae who nobody can tell if he's being genuine or not

~ Callahan- Cameron, some deer guy who shows up to raise an eyebrow at everyone

~ Sapnap - Austin, a longhorn with some gemstone elements

~ Awesamdude - Soren, a creeper alchemist

~ Ponk - Pyre, a strider doctor

~ BadBoyHalo - Dallas, a southern belle longhorn

~ TommyInnit - Oliver/Ollie, a crow elytran

~ Tubbo - Theodore/Theo McCallum, a satyr

~ Fundy - Forrest, a kingfisher elytran

~ Punz - Ace, some alien person

~ Purpled - Comet, some alien person

~ JSchlatt - Walter McCallum, a satyr peepaw

~ Skeppy - Almas, a diamond person

~ Eret - Alice, a nymph

~ Wilbur Soot - Elio, a peacock elytran

~ Jack Manifold - Callum, a robot dude

~ Niki Nihachu - Willow, a hummingbird elytran who bakes things with lots of sugar in it

~ Quackity - Dante, a kingfisher elytran who was in elio’s band at some point and they’re exes

~ Karl Jacobs - Jasper, a funky little elf thing who just showed up

~ Technoblade - Atticus, a red hawk elytran who’s comedically tired atp

~ Ph1lza - Conan, a crow elytran

~ Captain Puffy - Eris, a sheep pirate lady

~ Ranboo - Valentine, an enderman thing

~ FoolishGamers- Neptune, a funny shark demigod

~ Hannahxxrose - Seraphina, a dryad

~ Slimecicle- probably still Charlie?

~ Eryn - Finn

- Aimsey - Jasmine “Jazz”

- Kristen- Claudia, a raven elytran

Ocs-

Irene- a peregrine falcon elytran who’s a girlfailure cottagecore anarchist lesbian

Tui- an osprey elytran who’s comedically buff

Othnal- a peacock elytran, the creator deity

Still trying to figure out the god names, so.. yep

[dreamsclock]

oh! dsmp arcane stuff oh! i have. thought about this before haha

vi - sam

caitlyn - ponk

jinx - dream

silco - quackity

sevika - foolish

jayce - quackity

mel - schlatt

viktor - george

sky - karl

vander - bad :(

grayson - philza

ekko - punz

marcus - eret

heimemdinger - callahan

mylo - sapnap

claggor - eryn

OOOHHHH INTERESTING..... im kinda obsessed with this ngl :D

i saw an anon of mine from ages ago swap punz and sapnap around and i'm VERY inclined to do the same but also. stagedduo besties to rivals. is very tempting. alternatively, techno takes on the role. all three are cool :]

[felidaefighter]

Because Love Is Unforgiving

This was an Awesamponk prompt I almost made for a fic exchange a while ago, before swapping to a different one. Angst with a happy hopeful ending!

Merry Christmas @ufuckingpastry! I hope you like it!!! ;w;”

"I don't need you to forgive me," Sam says, twisting his hands together, "I wouldn't… expect you to."

    Ponk sighs. How many times do they have to go through this? But his heart still yearns endlessly for Sam, even after everything. They've both hurt eachother. It's not exactly a perfect relationship.

"That's good," He decides to say, "Because I don't forgive you."

    Sam winces. Sam is allowed to wince. He's allowed to want it even if he understands he can't have it-- but does that have to be the same for love? For what they had?

    Ponk hesitates. He doesn't want to say it, because he doesn't want it to be true, but this isn't some world of magic where you speak things into existence. It's already true. And maybe Sam doesn't deserve to know, per se, but Ponk deserves to have to himself that aired grievance.

"But that doesn't mean…" 

    Ponk grits his teeth. Sam is looking at him, pleading with soft and pitiful eyes, and those are the eyes Ponk remembers. Those are the eyes that helped Ponk nurture his lemon tree time and time again, that flirted with him in bygone days, that offered to help tie his fishing line as they swapped cultures sitting together at the edge of the community house, before its foundations gained walls and it was no more than a communal dock with bedrolls and blankets. Ponk wishes Sam could keep those eyes forever. 

    "That doesn't mean I don't still love you," Ponk whispers. He looks down at the ground, expecting some self-absorbed comment, expecting-- expecting The Warden, he supposes, not so much Sam. Seconds go by. Ponk is still braced, waiting for something that doesn't seem to come. He un-braces as time moves on and seconds becomes a full minute, overrun with confusion.

He looks up, ready to react with anger, to snap "Well?" because that's it? Sam isn't going to say anything to that? 

    Ponk's breath hitches. It's an unusual sight. It's been a long time since he's seen this, a long time since Sam allowed himself to be vulnerable and a person rather than his job.

    The creeper hybrid is crying, tears streaming hot down his face, matting his fur and threatening to stain the wood they're standing on with their heat. "I love you too," He says, quietly, choked-out and with the hints of stress-hiss underneath. "But I don't know if I deserve to."

    "Don't-- don't cry--" Ponk really doesn't know how to handle this, frankly. "Well, you don't deserve to. You have to earn that. Do you think you can earn that, Sam?"

    Sam looks pathetic, and frankly, if Ponk’s going to be blunt-- which he is, he’s been long done with pussyfooting around Sam’s bullshit-- he’s acting pathetic too. “I don’t know how,” Sam says quietly.

    “You could start by taking some responsibility for your actions,” Ponk says, “Instead of pretending you’re free of consequences because you had “good intentions” or some fuckshit. Good intentions my ass! Intentions don’t matter, Sam! What you do matters. What you did matters. And what you’re going to do next matters. You can’t play pretend and act like you didn’t hurt me or anyone else in your big righteous quest. Because you did. And you have to acknowledge that.”

“But I--” Sam protests, and Ponk shuts him down immediately.

“No buts!” Ponk snaps, “You did what you did and you can’t take it back. You can only be better in the future.”

“...Okay,” Sam says quietly.

    Ponk will not have a bleeding heart for the man who took so much from him, but it’s also the man he loved. The man he still loves in spite of everything. Isn’t it funny, how love can last? Like a hardy plant. Ponk wishes their lemon tree could have been hardy, instead of this love.

    “And if you want to do better,” Ponk breathes, because they can’t help it, they want to see Sam do better even if things are never the same, “You have to stop being The Warden. Look at how much that job took from you! Look at how much you took from other people, being that! It’s not worth it, Sam. You don’t have anything else left to guard.”

“...Okay,” Sam says again quietly, still crying, still a person instead of The Warden. “You’re right. Ponk, you’ve always been right. I’ll try.”

    And just for now, that’s enough. Trying is enough in this moment. It’s the biggest step forward Sam’s ever taken in the time Ponk has known him. It’s an effort, it’s a want to get better, it’s the acknowledgement that he was in the wrong that Sam has denied from Ponk for so long. And finally, finally, he says he’s going to try.

    “I’m gonna hold you to that, Sam,” Ponk says, and for a moment they’re back to the days of sunshine and fishing, for a moment there’s love in Ponk’s voice and love in Sam’s eyes and they both understand that what Ponk means is I want you to get better, please get better.

“Thank you,” Sam replies with a hiccup, the tears finally coming to a halt, “I hope you do.”

     It’s far from perfect. It’s far from over. It’s far from being the last hurt they’ll ever cause one another, the last grievance or pain or betrayal or heartbreak. But it’s the first stitch on an open wound, and maybe, just maybe, they can stitch it up piece by piece until it’s nothing but a faded scar.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

SPEAKING OF THE DS DANCESTORS i swapped their blood colours bc in homestuck the alpha trolls are all supposed to be genetically made from the beta trolls right?? like the beta trolls were their ancestors first. so i made the ds dancestors and swapped their blood so you can see whose genetics were combined to make who. basically i'm saying ponk and foolish have two horrible green-blooded children and have no idea how their genetics were combined to make these assholes

[respiteresponse]

You can come up with new Niki and ponk designs? It's more work probably tho.. but then you can make side by side comparison with the clothes swap

i think im gonna do this ! ! i tend to follow trends that characters have in fandom designs iykwim but i like adding my own twists and spins so i think i wanna try brainstorming before i line and color the sketch : ))) ty ! ! ! ! ! !

[silvermuffins]

Pokemon Scarlet Livblog! Part 7!

I have a goal of accomplishing three objectives in one part. Also the war with my E ky ragees on.

We lft off at thee Levincia lighthouse! oh tumblr is glitching.

A random trainer battle was like "Hey! Wanna buy this?" and I felt sure I was about to b faced with a poke-mlm scheme or a cryptobro.

Anyway, Rolycoly. Gonna name you Lizard. I actually want to complete the dex in this game, it's insane. Chank the Cufant. Plyfon the Voltorb. Oh! A Varoom! You'r Ponk now.

Picnic....which of cours mans naptime. Oh my gosh Pebbles sleeps on top of her hammer. She also now gets mad if I try to clean it. Today w are making a fruit bonanza sandwich, with lots of banana, and also...strawberry, apple, kiwi, pineapple. And whipped cream, marmelade, jam, and butter. Barely held together, the game was glitching graphically, and i lost a berry, but i got it!

special fire tera kirlia! with volt absorb...oooh. Now how to catch without killing...fuck i need to hope. OKay I broke tera. Crit capture! Okay! You're Palermo!

heey Arven tell me about the local Beast. oh hey he's being nicr about Koraidon. Okay, i found an exit (there is a cave too step to walk into)...there's a distinct Area in front of m and supposeedly thre's an amazing pokemon here but my marker's a ways west...

Well. I definitely see whre the herb hollow is gonna be. ?!?! Holy shit, shooting stars?!

one break for some christmas shopping latr, w're back! And I think I found the titan. Man from up on the watchtower this whole area is caves. Orthworm?! Don't mind Jupe oneshotting it. Twice.

Okay! Time to be sad again! As pr usual Koraidon want snac. Arven is getting less angy. Ooh! I get More Jump, thank god! So the remaining two are "climb stuff" and "glide", neat.

HELP ARVEN IS SO CUTE once again sada how do you know. Actually how does Arven keeep knowing when I'm somewhere near a titan? Nemona is stalking m and Cassiopeia has a tracker in my phone, but Arven and Sada...

Excellent, got into a battle with an Orthworm. Your name is Nood. Excellent, Ankles is volving, can swap out for Chonkster. FOUND GOOMY. Finoo.

I have reached Zapapico! Gonna take down Atticus soon....once I decide which Pokemon to use for that. Poison, so I want steel and ground... Town explored, found Torkoal! Kettelmint. What's this? Glimmet? You'll b Dohrts. Aaaa so many caves around here! Where am I now?'

sir if your baby is due any day now WHY AR YOU IN A HOLE OKAY i think I'v xplord almost vry hol in the ground. Now then. Atticus. I mean, Pebbles is a must, Sotero is a shoe-in, too. Daya hasn't done much in a while and will have levels if nothing else.

oh yah Clive is here. Kind of wish these cutscenes didn't move me, I am lost again. Love that you can se the trees all graffiti'd up. Oh goddammit you're a Zorua? I thought you were an Impidimp! Oh well. Oh fuck you the Oranguru is a Zorua too??? Okay YOU'RE a real Impidimp! Hraivin! And a real Oranguru, running into a wall for some reason. you're Galatz.

Found the base! Oh no, there's a kid. Listen to the kid, my guy, he seems to know what's up. ...awww this is the gamer base? KID WHO ARE YOU. ???? HY CLIVE NO I want in on the chitchat!

Navi squad....playing video games.... They totally named themselves after a certain fairy, didn't they. Ooh, atticus designed their outfits? And he's a bit of a maverick...

Oh my god this nerd. Oh my god he's in fucking cosplay. And now the car. ...wait h actually sent out a Pokmon it's not JUST the car this time? It's clearly the same Pokemon that's ON th car...maybe this is a bug. Or is that just...a diffrent Revavroom? Bc now Muk...okay yah it was a different Revavroom. This is a war of attrition.

oh....that's what h looks like under there. What a handsome fellow. such pretty eyes.....and of course, he was bullied. I LOVE THESE KIDS......i want to protect them.

ok no seriously can i just defeat all five bases and be the new boss and take over the world i don't want to destroy their safe space

so Team Star made it so a lot of bullied kids could go back to school... No big boss means no tam star means no good going back to school. Nobody has actually sen or met the big boss? Cassiopeia grows more and more sus.

A bullied recluse. Penny???

yeah mr director you're pretty out of touch

i am Hurting

Yes, Cassiopeia. Enlighten me. What are we aiming to achieve? Take down the big boss, okay, I could have guessed that. There has to be more to this. OKAY everything is good now Penny is here!

Taking the big boss down will protect Penny's treasure...

Alright. Next....i ascend the peak, tackle the ghost gym, then had south for the psychic. Then I'll do the desert titan and Eri's squad...then it's just ice, fairy, and dragon, thn the capstones to each plot.

Okay I have consulted the Nebula and I am gonna approach Icefuck Mountain from the west. Which is Medali. i have the correct west this time. Once we download an update.

Found a Cetoddle oh my gosh look at it. Baby. ...o.o okay so i just watched the baby eat a vigoroth. So, your name will be Slotheater.

ah heck that's probably my worst sandwich yet...oh this is not where I'm meant to be. OH I FOUND A DITTO. You'll be Fred. Okay now we are properly en route to the ghost gym! I have also been advised to do Ortega before Eri so we're doing it that way now. TOEDSCOOL i am not going to kill it this time! You're gonna be Hogus.

Got it~ Okay and then we go up icefuck mountain, because it just isn't an rpg without at least one icefuck mountain. Chonkstr finally evolved, we'll get a level on Vani before we swap out. Next we need...sunkern, kricketot, and rookidee, then happiny, since som of those will happen real quick. Bob is only here to fill my dex so I'm using a sun stone right away. The rookidee is going to take a while, though...okay that's the cricket, so it'll be Happiny next.

There's Sunny's evolution! Now just gotta befriend this brat and level up and she'll evolve again. ...oh that was fast, turns out three baths and a yummy sammich will do it. So Azurill is next! Let's try the same techniqu for friendship....

I JUST FOUND SIX EGGS IN MY BASKET AT ONCE?

Okay Balto has evolved once, and Orb will be an Azumarill in no time....if it ver warms up to me. Hm. Happiny went much faster. THERE we go. One more level and Azumarill. doot! I don't hav a Surskit, never went back for on, so nxt is Buizel. And I think i'll actually start heading up Icefuck Mountain now.

OKAY up th airy mountain down th rushy glen! Nanze the.....first ice typ Jupe dosn't murdr. Snover. Mechalli the Sneasel. Koeagal the Cubchoo. Havdy the Bergmite. Camdycor the Snorunt. Tachulca the Delibird.

Oh, sure, THAT'S a safe place to be (on a narrow cliff, over about a million foot drop, in a blizzard, cornred by a floatzel)

aaaaaaa this cliff doesn't go anywhere

[ALL SCREAMING]

it's fine we're fine

AAAAAAA I FELL OFF A DIFFERENT CLIFF

what is tatsugiri it's strong wait is that th psudo

im gonna name you Maya. Ooh and here's a boy to name Tatsuya, because I am An Nerd. I think this is yt anothr version? nope it is not. Oh but THIS is! This on can b Lisa.

wherever th hll I am is th prettiest picnic spot. One horrifically spicy sammich later...

there is a cav hre...what's inside? Pokemon. Frigibax. You can be Zartd. Oops nvermind, you faintd and thre isn't another here. Ah! Mermert volved! Swapped for Psyduck. Whoa, hello Hawlucha! Annnd it died. Found anothr one you can b Rhumbacho.

We are going to fly back to Glaseado's Grasp bc otherwise im stuck here...thr's a wild flaron just chillin here....oops i killd it. Gonna ned this lady snorunt. Zaleet.

How the hell do I gt where I'm going??? Oh well. This femal Glaceon could be my tickt to more eeveelutions. You'll thusly b Mamedar

I MADE IT. Oooh, hypr training is back? oh! this sushi place has an xclusiv menu! Whether or not I accomplish my third objcetive today depends entirly one the gym test.

[corvidco]

Day 80 of drawing ponk until my friends actually read homestuck or he gets added to the qsmp… we all know which is happening first

this swap au has my brain in a chokehold… more au info under the cut

MY COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN

okok the swaps are

sam - ponk

george - sapnap

Ranboo - dream (yes I changed it.)

Quackity - purpled

wilbur - schlatt

fundy - tubbo

bad - skeppy

techno - phil

who else?

The lore brainstorming I have so far is:

schlatt dies after reclaiming manberg from wilbur, asking techno to kill him, tubbo is left to resent the innocent ghost of his dad

wilbur takes over manberg and asks Phil to make an example of Fundy for snitching, phil complies out of fear for what his son would do, fundy grows up resenting his father and the memory of his old life and marries Dream and they raise Yogurt together

ponk loses his eye to ranboo after being locked in his own penitentiary, mimicking his friend Purpled who lost the same eye to Philza

ponk cuts off and eats sam’s arm, the circumstances are slightly different, but still essentially a keycard fight where Sam dies and then gets spawn trapped

sam builds himself a prosthetic arm and inhales/consumes way too much redstone, especially after the wound on his arm reopens and he gets more redstone in the wound removing the prosthetic. The redstone in his blood drives him crazy

lotus penitentiary gets infested with egg and ponk lets it drive him crazy and hurts the people around him to keep ranboo in prison

[candyblob]

Lemon moobloom ponkiee

[cryptid-brainrot-o7]

new au just dropped y’all

[frombeyondtheblackhole]

Hermit DSMP Swap AU: Part 12.8

Foolish stared at the others, holding his breath and listening to Doc move around in the room above. His whole body ached and throbed as the adrenalin wore off and his injuries began to make themselves known. 

Ponk looked back at him “You look like shit.” He hissed.

Punz handed him a golden apple without a word before squeezing past them to the front of the group.

Foolish nodded and muttered a thanks as he bit into the apple. He felt the warm tingle soak into his bloodstream and the worst of the damage healed. He could feel the pain numbing, it was only temporary he knew. He would be really sore later. 

He felt Schlatt give him a little shove from behind. “Fucking useless.” Schlatt muttered.

Foolish bristled but hurried after Ponk and Punz. It was several minutes later that they came out of the tunnel into the open. Foolish hurried his pace to catch up with Punz. 

“So what now?” he asked. 

Punz glanced at him “I’m going to need to talk to Schlatt to see if he has any useful information. But as far as you're concerned, as soon as we get back, you need to tend to your injuries.”

Foolish huffed in frustration but nodded in agreement. He knew he needed to heal up before he could be useful again. He might be a god but that didn’t make him invincible. Punz would keep him informed. In the meantime he could take care of Genesis. He felt bad for having to leave her alone like this. When this was all over he would take his entire family to some seaside beach location far away from the DSMP and they could build a new life together. 

—

Doc growled as he exited the house, Gem flinched as he yanked what was left of his prosthetic arm free “Der gone.” He hissed. 

“Are- are you ok, maybe you should sit down,” Gem stammered. 

Doc turned to her, his scowl melting away when he saw the look of concern on her face. He sighed and tucked his badly mangled prosthetic under his good arm rubbing his hand down his face. “I’m fine… it’s mostly just d’ arm,” He sighed. “It’s going to be a pain to fix but I’ll manage,” 

“What happened?” Impulse asked as he came out of his house. Gem spun around to see him. He looked fine.

“Impulse! Are you ok?” She said going over to meet him.

“Yeah,” he grinned sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head, “I just respawned. I’m ok, that caught me by surprise. I didn’t expect them to have help. 

“Where’s Scar, and Bdubs? I hope they're ok.” Gem said, looking around.

“I’m fine! I’m fine,” Scar called as he jogged over from his house, only slightly out of breath. “Oh boy, that felt strange,” he laughed, slowing down as he reached the group. 

“You sure you're feeling ok?” Gem insisted. 

Skar nodded “Oh, definitely,” He giggled “It tickled for sure but I'm perfectly fine now, and that’s a Scar promise.” 

“I-I should be heading back- you know, Bdubs- make sure he’s ok,” Keralis stammered. 

“Oh, of course,” Gem said “Go on now, don’t worry about us… are you ok though? You took a couple of hits back there.” 

Keralis nodded and smiled, “Don’t worry about me sweetcheeks.” He patted Gem on the arm before turning and heading off at a jog in the direction of the Big Eye base where Bdubs should have respawned. 

Gem watched him go.

“What now?” Impulse asked, looking around at the others. 

“Where’s Grian?” Scar started.

“He went through a portal yelling something about lightning,” Impulse said.

Scar frowned his brow furrowing with concern. “And he hasn’t come back through? I’m going over to X’s house to see if he’s there,” Scar said, without waiting for an answer he started jogging down the path towards the tunnel through the mountain to X’s base. 

“I’m sure he’s fine,” Impulse muttered. Gem got the feeling he was saying it more to convince himself than anyone else. 

Gem clapped her hands and put on a reassuring smile “Why don’t we all go inside, I can make some more tea to calm our nerves and we can do something about that arm there,” She said nodding at where Docs prosthetic used to attach to his arms, lose wires and sharp edges were all that was left attached to the shoulder plate. 

She didn’t give them time to argue, instead leading them all back inside Impulse's house. It would take a minute to clean up the mess… She brushed back some loose strands of hair that had fallen out of her braid, flower petals falling to the ground through her fingers. This really was a big mess they had gotten themselves into. 

—

Grian stumbled through his portal into X’s house, almost knocking Scar over as he did so. The other man caught him steddying him. He looked up at Scar, his heart racing, his eyes locked in a purple haze and his head throbbing. “I can’t-” He gasped, clutching desperately to Scars arms. 

X stood up from where he sat on the bed, “I got it,” He said, his eyes glazing over and going still as his mind went into the admin space.  

“Hey, it’s ok,” Scar soothed. Grian’s grip loosened and his breathing evened but his eyes were still purple. “It’s ok,” Scar assured.

“But it’s not,” Grian sobbed. “The server is dying and there isn’t anything we can do to stop it.”

Joe stood up from the couch and placed a gentle hand on Grian’s shoulder “Why don’t you sit down friend,” He said, guiding him back to the couch “X will take care of this. Scar why don’t you get something to drink out of the cabinet.”

“Like tea or spirits?” Scar asked, moving over to the cabinet.

“Spirits,” Grian interrupted.

Joe chuckled “I ment tea but that works I guess, I don’t know if X has any though.”

Scar grinned and turned around pulling a small cantine out from the inner pocket of his jacket. “Don’t worry, I’ve got just the thing,” He said tossing the canteen to Joe, who opened it and gave it a whiff. 

“Why do you have this?” Grian asked, “Not that I'm complaining.” The purple had started to fade from his eyes as he took the bottle from Joe and took a swig.

“You know,” Scar shrugged, turning back to the cabinets and starting to rummage through them for anything else of use, “For the aesthetic.”

“I-I should be getting back,” Grain said standing.

“Oh no you don’t,” Joe said, pushing him back down. “You’re way over worked, you need to rest. I don’t know exactly how all this Watcher stuff works but you, sir, are a mess and everyone and their grandmother's uncle can see it.”

“Yes, my grandmother's uncle is very concerned about your health,” Scar giggled. 

“You don’t even have a grandmother, or an uncle,” Grian scoffed.

“How do you know?” Scar said waggling his eyebrows.

Grian sighed and rubbed his eyes. “Alright, fine. I’ll rest for a minute. But after that I really do need to go help X. He’s in there all by himself.” 

“Couldn’t you just make a portal and send one of us through?” Joe suggested.

Grian shook his head “You would just die in the void. Only Watchers and… Developers, can survive the void. Besides, you wouldn’t be able to do anything without a deep understanding of magic, even if you could survive,” Grian said, taking another swig from the bottle before capping it. It probably wasn’t the best idea to drink too much before having to fly in the void.  

“Oh you wound me my friend,” Joe dramatized, pressing a shocked hand to his chest. “I pulled Cleo out of Limbo. I think I’d figure somethin’ out,”  

Grian shrugged “Doesn't matter. I need to head back now,” He said, handing Joe the canteen. The purple had only just fully faded from his eyes, to return in full force. He cut a rift through the air, flared his wings and flew through into the cold void beyond. X needed his help.

[Notes: Sorry for the long wait. I was working on some other projects and working on updating this fic to Ao3. its not all there yet but I am slowly working up updating it. I have a whole bunch more written for this too and I am very excited to share it with you all. Some of the sub plots are about to reach their climax and things are about to go down. I hope you enjoy]

[cartoonrival]

waaaaait lol you know what would be funnyyyy (read: not at all funny)? if foolish went with quackity to ponk’s valley to recruit them to las nevadas and quackity’s using his slimy tactics and they destroy part of ponk’s new home and its exactly like when ponk was possessed by the egg and led the attack on foolish’s summer home and exploded his statue

[omegafan101]

I got bored last night and realized I’d never seen a Swap AU for the Dream SMP so I decided to think one up. Just cause I was bored. Some of these swaps were way more obvious than others and some I’m still not sure about so I’d love to hear suggestions.

Character swaps below-

Dream - George: Let’s get some of the obvious out of the way, DreamNotFound is too easy of a swap. Most characters switch their attire around to match their swap persona but Dream and George keep their mask and goggles respectively. Naturally it’s now called the George SMP and the infamous Dream smily face is replaced with George’s goggles.

Tommy - Tubbo: Maybe even more obvious, the Clingy Duo gets swapped. Not too much of a change, just two feral boys being their feral selves except now Tubbo’s the more bold one wearing a white shirt with green sleeves and Tommy’s his bestfriend wearing a red, button up shirt.

Bad - Skeppy: I almost swapped Bad with Ant just because of the Eggpire but then I realized that was stupid and Skeppy was standing right there.

Wilbur - Schlatt: The season 1 villains get swapped with each other, fitting with how often they were brought up together in season two. Schlatt is now the founder and 1st president of Manberg and when Wilbur takes over he changes it to L’Manberg to make it sound more Eurpeon.

Technoblade - Philza: These best buds of course get swapped, when Wilbur takes over Manberg Tubbo calls his old friend, Phil, to come help deal with his son. And Technoblade has some sort of new, past bond with Schlatt to make his arrival still impactful. And instead of an Anarchist fueled rage, Phil is driven to vengeance after Wilbur dies, believing the war caused his heart attack.

Niki - Jack Manifold: I had SO much trouble figuring out who to swap Niki with because she just had too many canidates! In the end I swapped her with Jack simply because I couldn’t think of anyone better to swap him with. I’d also add that Jack becomes close friends with Schlatt so that we can have that same mental breakdown Niki had when she saw Ghostbur but now with Jack and Glatt.

Sapnap - Quackity: I’m a little unsure about some of these next ones, I figured two of the more prominent figures in the El Rapids arc should be swapped, plus they’re still fiances.

Sam - Ponk: Recently found out AweSamPonk was a thing, plus I’ve seen Ponk and Sam in a weird game of cat and mouse for a while now so I figure this swap would work.

Punz - Purpled: I’ll be honest, I really don’t know much about these two aside from they’re both hired guns and people headcanon them as brothers, so swap it is.

Fundy - Ranboo: They might not interact much anymore but these guys had a thing going on for a while. I’m keeping relationships the same so I figure the platonic marraige of Tubbo and Ranboo just happens faster in Manberg. Plus Fundy joining right after Manberg vs Pogtopia works as a way for him to come and mourn his father who had just died of a heart attack.

Eret - Foolish: Okay I only came up with this one after all the lore that Foolish apparently knew Eret years ago. Two possibly immortal gods with a knack for building switch places.

Puffy - HBomb: Once I ruled out the Puffychu swap HBomb was sorta all I had left. But it fits! The Knights of Eret swap places, now the Knights of Foolish, plus they’ve both dressed up as maids.

Karl - Connor: I very unfortunately haven’t had time to catch up on Tales but from what I understand Connor’s been playing a role in it so I thought swapping him and Karl would work.

Alyssa - Callahan: Natural fit. Need I say more.

Vikkstar - Lazarbeam: Kinda forgot they were in the SMP but since they’re on the wiki I’ve included them.

Ant - Hannah: I ran out of ideas. I had absolutely no idea where to put either of these two and I ran out of people to swap with so they get swapped out of necessity.

Slimecicle - Mexican Dream: This was just cause it was funny AND I needed a last spot for Charlie. Plus it kinda works, hardly lore relevent, funny, green men. Though hilariously Mexican Dream is becoming much more lore relevent.

[art--harridan]

Sorry for putting the image descriptions under a read more, but it is so ridiculously long

[Image one: The first page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. It starts with them sitting at a table, Wilbur energetic while Tommy has his head in his arms. There's a deck of cards on the table and they're talking to each other. Wilbur says "you wanna play B-Brag?" and Tommy replies "no". Wilbur asks "you sure?" and Tommy tells him "fuck off". Below, Wilbur carries on with "oh come on I'll teach you" next to an image of his hand holding two cards. The first card depicts Jschlatt's death while the second depicts Wilbur's. This is accompanied by the text "first we gotta remove the jokers from the deck" and "nothing but trouble, honestly". Below there's panels of Wilbur and Tommy, Wilbur still as energetic and Tommy just as bored. Wilbur explains "I get three cards, you get three cards and we put three in the middle". The last drawing of the page is of the revival book with three ace of hearts on top of it.

Image two: The second page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. They're having another conversation, however Wilbur seems more annoyed than before. Wilbur exclaims "so the rules!" and Tommy says "I don't give a shit". Then, Wilbur replies "stop being insufferable, I'm not letting you cheat" and Tommy asks "how would I even do that??" Then, there's a panel of Dream cradling Tommy's corpse and Wilbur's reply of "some people have more cards up their sleeves than they let on". There's another panel, this time a close-up of Dream's mask and Tommy's beaten face. Wilbur carries on below, with "the game asks you to swap out one card for the best combination". He says "so you can imagine how that fucks it" and "don't cheat, I'll be pissed" above an image of Ghostbur. It ends with Tommy saying "fine, I won't - just... just tell me the rules".

Image three: The third page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. It starts with Wilbur doing jazz hands and "Rule " "get the highest combination!". Then he says "rule... uh, that's it basically". Tommy replies: "the fuck? why bother telling me these stupid rules then?" Wilbur replies back with "because then I can tell you the combos! let's start with the lowest: high". There's a panel of him shuffling the deck of cards to the left and then he continues with "ironic, I know". After, he tells Tommy "anyway, it's a hand of shit" and then "you do it when you have no good options but if you have a table of only highs and you have an ace you can still win". This is accompanied by Tommy's discs and an image of him alone with a sword. Finally, Tommy asks "why an ace?"

Image four: The fourth page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. Wilbur tells Tommy "it's the highest card", followed by Tommy replying "huh?". Replying back, Wilbur says "I know, you'd expect the king, wouldn't you?", which is written above Dream's mask and a golden crown. To the side, there's a drawing of Tommy in exile with the line "in chase the ace,  it's the lowest" and, next to a drawing of Tommy and Tubbo after they defeated Dream, there's the line "but in this, it's the highest". Wilbur tells Tommy "neat, huh?", to which Tommy replies "yeah... sure" next to a panel of him in the prison with Dream. The explanation is carried on with "now, the next combo is: a pair" and "it's pretty self-explanatory,". There's panels of four pairs, which are as follows: Phil and Techno, Wilbur and Niki, Sam and Ponk and finally Tommy and Tubbo. The text around says "two of the same number" and "it's okay". Finally, there's an image of Phil, Ranboo and Techno walking in the snow with the line "but sometimes the third card can make".

Image five: The fifth page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. It's starts with three panels and the continuation of the line with "or break it". The first panel shows the turmoil Manberg had on Wilbur and Niki's friendship, Schlatt looming in the background. The second shows Sam and Ponk infront of the egg, eyeing each other - Ponk's eyes are red. The last one shows Dream above Tommy and Tubbo, as if a puppet master. Tommy tells Wilbur "that's stupid", replied to with "you're one to speak". After, Tommy tells Wilbur "mimimimimimi" who replies "anyway, stop interrupting and start listening". The explanation continues with "now: a flush" and "they all have the same suit; a common goal, but still kinda flimsy". There's three groups: Fundy, Ranboo, Tubbo and Quackity as the Butcher Army; Niki and Jack as Team Rocket and Tommy and Techno as the Bedrock Bois.

Image six: The sixth page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. It starts with "above that is a run: 3 cards that go in order". Wilbur explains "you can go pretty far with an ace, king and queen", accompanied by Tommy, Dream and Wilbur respectively. They're wearing their Pogtopia era clothes. Below, it says "but a better combo is a bounce" above the flag of L'manberg. The final line is "it's a flush and run combined". Underneath, are three panels. The first is Eret, the second is Wilbur and the third Techno. They are all submerged in an explosion, which covers the person more with each panel.

Image seven: The seventh page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. The starting line is "and finally, the highest combination: a prial (three of the same number)". Then, there's a conversation: Tommy begins with "I'm gonna get 3 aces every fuckin' time" and "big man shit, innit". Wilbur replies by laughing and saying "maybe you will". Next to this line there's a drawing of Tommy's hand, clenched, and three discs: Cat, Mellohi and Chirp. Below, there's four trios: Fundy, Tommy and Niki (wearing the L'manberg outfits but during the pet war); Wilbur, Tommy and Techno (Pogtopia era); Tommy, Mexican Dream and Girl Dream (during exile) and finally Tommy, Sam and Puffy (during the rescue from the Egg).

Image eight: The eighth page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. Wilbur continues with "maybe you'll get three kings". Next to this is Phil, Dream and Techno, from Doomsday. Underneath, Wilbur says "but the best prial is a prial of 3". This is accompanied by Badboyhalo, Antfrost and Punz - they're all possessed by the Egg. At the bottom, Tommy interjects "since fucking when??". Wilbur replies "dont act surprised! I mean, we play with three cards". At the bottom corner, he finishes with "so it makes sense".

Image nine: The ninth page of a digital comic centered on Wilbur and Tommy in the afterlife. Wilbur begins by asking Tommy "so: what do you think?" - Tommy says "sounds like shit". He continues "im not playing with you big dubs". He's biting at his nails and seems nervous. Wilbur's face goes blank and he replies "well tough Tommy". There's a drawing of Wilbur pulling three cards from the top of the deck. In the middle of the page, there's a big panel of Dream resurrecting Tommy, who seems very panicked. The final image shows Tommy holding three aces, one of which he's swapping out for an ace of hearts. Dream tells Tommy "you don't have a fucking choice".]