#the best of all of us

[biographydivider]

Birthday Cakes in Different Dimensions

Happy birthday @acewithapaintbrush! You are an absolute gem of a person and I’m so happy we met. This will have to do until I can give you your actual gift (wink) 💕 💕 💕

Leo is baking a cake. It slopes heavily on one side; weighted down by thick buttercream icing from a tub, so sugary-sweet it sends zips of electricty up his spine with every heaped spoonful he shovels into his mouth. The layers are uneven, because he used his ōdachi to cut it. In mid-air. He attempts to pipe the delicate, decorative swirls Mikey spent an hour teaching him how to do, but they come out uneven; one is perfect, the rest look like half-melted snowmen. He places half a strawberry on each one and hopes it isn’t too noticable.

He spears the sponge with two sparklers and sets them alight, presenting the cake with a flourish so theatrical, it almost sets the dish cloth slung over his shoulder on fire. It’s chaotic. It’s flashy. It’s ridiculous. It’s the first special occasion since the Krang, so of course he’s going to go all out. Raph - the birthday boy, sitting on the floor surrounded by shreds of wrapping paper and his doting, fussing, bickering family, trying not to well up and failing miserably - wouldn’t have it any other way.

“Thanks, bro. For everything.”

...

The bridge is quiet; except for the yowl of a cat somewhere in the brush below. Shane isn’t heavy footed - weird for someone with his gangly height - but he can hear every creak of the wooden boards under his shoes.

“Uh, hey,” he says into the darkness, tupperware box in hand. “Goatman? You here, buddy? It’s me. Shane. Your landlord, I guess; since I own this bridge, an’ all.” He squats down on the bridge - bringing his height to about that of the average Ryan Bergara - and places the tupperware on the ground. “So I dunno how time works for you, but it’s six years this year since we last talked. More than half a decade. A lot has changed since then, y’know? And I think a lotta what’s come our way is, in part, because of our funny little japes together on this bridge. We’re pretty popular on the old Youtubes. Do you know what that is? Probably not. So I thought I’d...oh, what the hell.”

He takes the cupcake out of the tupperware, places it on the boards, and lights the tiny candle. Ryan would kill him if he found out about this. That, or bust a gut laughing.

“I broughtcha a little something, is all. You got anything to say about that?”

The bridge is quiet.

“Didn’t think so.”

...

You’ve never seen a birthday party ‘til you’ve seen a Madrigal birthday party.

Flowers and music and food and dancing, shouting and laughing and singing. Colours and fireworks and kisses smushed into cheeks, gifts upon gifts, aguardiente and happy, drunken tears. Hours and hours of non-stop celebration for the Children of the Miracle. But as the clock strikes midnight on a birthday they never thought they’d share, the only people awake are the triplets themselves. Let the community enjoy the party to come. This is just for them. The cake in front of them is small, but no-one minds. Right now, there are no children, no pets, no husbands or mothers or townsfolk demanding their share. They sit together around the dinnertable, the only light in the room coming from a flickering candle - a lovely, ordinary, cheap candle from the store that smells of clean smoke instead of life-altering magic - leaning on each other, heads touching, hands intertwined, whispering to each other like a prayer.

Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday.

[hinamie]

10 years later

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[halorvic]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[chloesimaginationthings]

Cassidy loves to scare the FNAF night guards..

[hussyknee]

Not surprised but also

TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE MURDERED FOR THIS.

"We made an oopsie while shooting at all the other unarmed people trying to run away."

[nionom-art]

First drafts for Bee!Kagami and Turtle!Luka

You have no idea how hard the Bee!Kagami was to design… I’m still not 100% satisfied with it.

I thought it would be funny if Kagami’s bee hero name was a real Japanese name just like Ryuko is. Hachimitsu means honey bee so it was perfect.

Turtle!Luka (or Terrapin as I decided to call him) was actually a surprisingly easy design. I’ll probably just tweak a couple of things here and there.

[ionomycin]

heartblood

[cosmosnout]

The most doomed siblings ever

[swampybogg]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[nenoname]

Cute wholesome fics where Stan teaches Soos or Wendy how to drive were always so funny to me because...

And while he insists that everyone in town has ran over McGucket before, we also know he ran over Toby too and absolutely did not give a shit (understandable in that case)

But then again...

Also bless Mr Honeypants

And another detail I love is that his car is casually filled with parking tickets

How many tickets are in Ford's name...

[violent138]

It would be hilarious if Dick (recently dumped) and Jason (perpetually uninterested) were discussing their lack of dating prospects and Tim asks what they're talking about and Dick explains before going, "High five Timmy" and Tim's like "Yeah no thanks, I've got [bitches]." And both Jason and Dick are stunned.