#the salsa au

[colfy-wolfy]

im branching out, trying out some anthro designs for a modern au I've been brewing in my head.

it wasn't that hard tbh. it's basically just how I normally draw slugcats but longer and with slightly more humanoid proportions.

I've been obsessing over specifically survivor and monk's family lately. they just have so much potential.

[short-wooloo]

Because I like to imagine that Ruby is half Latina (on Summer's side, she's Jewish-Chinese on Tai's) in modern aus, I am now picturing Weiss learning the salsa to impress Ruby (and win over Summer, even though it's unnecessary and Summer already likes her, Weiss is a tryhard perfectionist) and I can't decide I'd Weiss is either really good because she accepts nothing less, or if Weiss is really bad because cringefail queen

[bluegekk0]

Please

yeah 👍

[fullscoreshenanigans]

What sort of occupation do you think Norman would like?

Because I 100% agree he should not be a CEO

[Offshoot of this post]

I'm very biased by @officersnickers and @salsae and either see him as a doctor of some sort (default to pediatrician) or a university professor/researcher. Something that can incorporate his affinity for mathematics and science, provide him with mental stimulation and challenges, and allow him to achieve recognition on a global stage if he so desires without throwing away his empathy and humanity.

(Chapter 85 Bonus Comic | Mystic Code Book Chapter 7 Q&A)

I feel like that last element is a big thing for a lot of people given what he went through at Lambda. The worst year and some odds month of his life had him isolated away from his family in a cage, alone, and he suffered greatly for it.

It's an idea that's illustrated so poignantly in the chapter 128 cover art. Ray has become so much warmer and devoted to his friends and family after being afforded the chance to hope "for a future that is like a dream" and to care for them openly under Emma's tutelage, heart a wellspring of love and empathy. They're all shaping each other while he's left to wither, and the cunning and ruthlessness that save him almost lead him to a point irrevocable (by the narrative's standards; for some, he passes it).

(Chapter 181.4)

It's hard to ascertain what capacity a CEO operates in in this future, what ethical standards there are and what boundaries he sets for himself on top of the vast range of industries they dabble in, but that he's tied up in it at all with all the negative connotations surrounding the role and potential exploitation involved after overturning fate itself and restructuring a world order leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, even with the simplicity and flexibility it affords in explaining away financial woes.

With a doctor, teacher, or any career without that level of baggage, there's the opportunity for him to incorporate his interests and be met with engaging challenges while simultaneously tempering that ruthlessness via establishing interpersonal relationships and working toward a collective, communal good. The possibilities for him are endless, but that's what I like for him since he holds Emma as his guiding star.

(Chapter 14)

For Emma, I've seen multiple instances of her being a teacher, especially one who works with young children due to how wonderful she is at understanding and empathizing with people, but she also has the tenacity to become a political activist or some other role of leadership.

(salsae's to have and to hold and these hands could hold the world)

Like Norman, anything that gets her actively involved in the wider world for a communal or societal good and allows her to flourish works for me.

For Ray, I have such a big soft spot for him being a librarian and rekindling his childhood love of reading under kinder circumstances and sharing it with future generations, but with his aptitude for science that Shirai mentions in the mystic code book and we see crop up throughout the story

(Chapter 140)

there's a lot of possibilities for him too, though out of the trio I feel he'd be the least likely one to entertain the spotlight.

(Chapter 181.4)

But maybe an architect who blends art and science together to construct a community given one of the things he wanted to do in the human world with his family was see the Sagrada Família (another one influenced by Snickers).

Interestingly, I've yet to stumble across any fanfics or headcanons where he becomes a professional chef, and I wonder how much of that is a shared sentiment of viewing cooking as part of his love language that he'd rather stay personal, something he only does for his friends and family rather than making a career out of it.

(banana_slug_army's The Language of Cooking)

While also unlearning bit by bit the idea etched into his psyche after years as Isabella's spy that love is always transactional.

[sillypicklz]

an assortment of mom 3 + au doodles

[jackobbit]

Came back to this Magma pic of Sunspot to clear it out of my drafts just to open it and see that I captioned it with just the word ‘shart.’

Nothing else, no commentary on the picture, no thought process behind it or anything clever, just:

Shart.

So you know what? I’m gonna let it stay lmao

Sunspot belongs to @/venomous-qwille, and is a character from the Ghost in the Machine Au, which you can read the fanfic of: here!

[ID: A full body Magma drawing of Sunspot from the Ghost in the Machine Au sitting on the floor with crossed legs. Sunspot is a sun varient that takes the form of an android. He has curly pink hair, a large red jesters ruff around his neck, a pink shirt with a cat on the front, grey jeans, sun-rays that surround his head in a band, blue eyes, and red tennis shoes. Sunspot looks off to the side, sweat rolling down his face, his lips are pulled into a thin line. In his right hand, he holds four playing cards, two UNO cards, and two Yu-Gi-Oh cards. His left hand is placed on his knee. The background is white, with only a few light gray lines indicating where the floor is. /End ID]

[strawberry-salsa]

you feel the breeze

[warrior-cats-project-otd]

The Warrior Cats project of the day is Living Dead Cats! by Raccoon Salsa. This was requested by mapalssyrup. A great start to the Halloween season, this is an AU of the first arc, where a blood moon causes Tigerstar and every subsequent dead cat to be reanimated as a zombie. It's really gory and quite cool, and the zombie designs (particularly Scourge's) are pretty awesome. Brightheart's death particularily hurt. Luckily (or not, depending on your view) one apprentice manages to escape and lives as a kittypet alongside Smudge...

[lillymakesart]

SALSA DANCER MIZU ARE YOU KIDDING ME DO YOU WANT ME DEAD OMG????? i love how you draw her sm!!!!

THANK U im so happy you like!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

fun fact i went to college in socal and did latin social dancing for 4 years! i even performed at LASBF one year (i blacked out during the entire performance bc i was so nervous LOL)

my favorite was the bachata breaks the dj would give once in a while after like 5 fast paced salsa songs in a row lmao

[khayalli]

[clears my throat] fashion icon, slay.✨️ /genuine

also, a deranged thought I had, since I scrolled past this pic I took while retyping this and thought I'd seek your opinion because it's made of gold and I'm a greedy leprechaun. (ᇴ‿ฺᇴ)

i saw this dress at the shops and it made me think of euclidean line bc of the jellyfish look but also made me think of something you could wear while dancing with rise leo (like,,, a tango or rumba something)

thoughts? (◕‿◕✿)

SCREECHIN

i think he'd go mental seeing you in his colour. You could absolutely (if it was rise) do a red eye shadow/liner moment as well to allude to his eye markings.

[colfy-wolfy]

more anthro AU but it's on wb

(I have campaign name headcanons for unnamed slugcats)

some more info yapping about the AU under cut

This is an anthro and modern AU and mainly focused on the slugcats

Still figuring things out about this au so maybe I could write a few fun oneshots of it in the future. suggestions and ideas are welcome.

Ages AT THE EARLIEST;

Residual (3rd sib) is 2

Monk is 10

Survivor is 11

Coral (pink dad) is 32

Ivory (white dad) is 34

Gourmand is 46

Hunter is 22

more slugcats will come soon

(this au has different timelines so depending on the event, they can all be older. listed ages are the ages in the beginning of the au and are just so you can get an idea of all their ages compared to one a other)

Schools aren't stupid in this au, there are no grades or tests. you just go to the building and choose whatever classes you wanna go to whenever you want (within the teachers' schedule). that doesn't stop the kids from comparing their skills with eachother though. I did this because school was a very horrible experience for me growing up but I didn't wanna completely eradicate education in this au.

Gourmand is a Culinary teacher and Monk is their best student. Monk is a vegetarian by choice (in the sense that they do not eat most meats. they still enjoy other animal products and insects) and has interests in cooking and creatures. They're very social and makes friends with almost anyone.

I don't have any ideas for hunter. don't ask why they have a suit, I just wanted to draw them dapper lol

Not sure how I can implement iterators into this au if I even should in the first place.

[it-happened-one-fic]

Salsa - A Better Partner - Strictly NRC Dancing

Author's Notes: This fic took so much research. Salsa turns out to have two main forms. Professional Salsa and Street Salsa. I recommend you watch videos of both but I don't actually have any specifics to recommend for you. I sort of explain the different in the fic, so you really don't have to worry about it. I just thought the differences were interesting. I listened to "La Bamba" by Ricky Martin while writing this fic. Just like the rest of this AU/series the reader is female for this fic. I hope you enjoy!

If you would like to read more this AU/series, the fics can be found here: Strictly NRC Dancing AU Master-list

Type: Dance AU/female reader/flirting/fluff

Word Count: 708

Ruggie had, in fact, learned to salsa quite some time ago. But what the teachers didn’t know wouldn’t hurt them and, to be fair, he’d never learned the style that was done in performances. Choreography was a new challenge, as were lifts and other such tricks used by professionals to make the performance more exciting for viewers.

But street salsa, now that was Ruggie’s style. 

Either way though, he played it safe. Fumbling a few steps throughout lessons so that none of the instructors would be any the wiser. He could manage a few lifts so long as his partner wasn’t anyone too big. Someone the size of Riddle. He could handle that easily.

And then lady luck smiled on him and he drew none other than you as his partner. The lone female dancer who Crewel and Vargas had no doubt pushed for the very best form from.

What he hadn’t been prepared for was for you to catch on to him quite so quickly during choreography. You’d smiled at him, mid-turn, completely relaxed and at ease as you kept up with him and leaned forward slightly, “So, how long have you been dancing salsa?”

It had taken all of his willpower and control not to react to your far-too amused words, “What makes you think I already knew how to dance?”

He flashed a grin at you, spinning you quickly and hoping he could throw you off, but that proved impossible when you met his gaze with sparkling eyes, “You’re like Leona was. Too confident for someone who has just learned this dance. Take myself for example, I still hesitate during certain parts even though I had two instructors dedicating their time only to me. You didn’t get one-on-one lessons and yet you’ve only hesitated when doing the few lifts that happen during our dance.”

“What if I’m just that talented?”  Ruggie couldn’t keep the grin off his face now. He was dancing, something he enjoyed. And, even though he’d been caught, he really didn’t think you were going to out him to Sam who stood off to the side frowning as he watched the two of you practice. 

After all, you’d kept up your shared little trick that you two were totally a couple and thus could definitely get the couple deals occasionally offered at Monstro Lounge and Sam’s shop. 

You were his partner in crime and partners didn’t out each other for no good reason. And judging from the grin on your face he was right, “Let’s just say it’s a hunch.”

He let out a snicker as he pushed you away from him to spin separately before rejoining you, “Just another secret for the two of us to share then. Right, Pumpkin?” 

He couldn’t keep the teasing grin of his face as he used your fake nickname before letting out his signature giggle yet again.

You rolled your eyes, but you were still smiling, “So I’m guessing we’re still keeping the couple gig up for the class too?”

He glanced Sam’s way pointedly and then back at you, “Well, of course. We’re NRC’s most successful couple after all. And you can’t deny you like the sales.” 

He winked, reveling in the way the shopkeeper rolled his eyes. But then Sam hadn’t entirely bought your act the whole time. It’s just that he also couldn’t disprove it and was thus forced to let the two of you walk out with whatever sale item he’d offered.

“I never said I didn’t,” You grinned back, spinning again before shifting back into hold, racing quickly towards the end of your choreography practice and coming ever closer to the hour of your shared performance.

“So what do you think, will I pass?” You remained silent as he braced himself, lagging only for a moment as he used the momentum of the dance to swing you into the air as he spun and then sat you back down.

“Well, you’re smooth enough…. I think you should manage,” You leaned against him, breathing slightly heavier than usual. One of the few signs that you weren’t quite as used to the salsa’s constant energy as he was.

But, he still couldn’t ask for a better partner in crime or in dance.

If you would like to read more:

Previous Post

Next Post

[salsasolutions]

I LOVE YOUR ARTSTYLE???????

AAAAAAAAAA THANKS!!!!!! I try to make my art as crunchy and colorful as possible lol

[fullscoreshenanigans]

What do you think a REN wedding would be like?

I feel like there would be one! Possibly two!

REN enthusiasts have been blessed with some absolute gems of fanfics that I've adopted as my own personal canon on this topic, making me very fond of Emma learning about weddings from the books' in Grace Field's library and immediately thinking of course she and her two best friends should have one. They've been inseparable since she arrived at the house, and she can't imagine her days without either of them, so the only solution is for all three of them to marry each other.

I adore the way Ray's chapter of Between Your Fingers, Between the Lines by honeynpeaches opens when he's around six years old and Emma dropping flower crowns on the boys' heads, declaring they'll be wed that very day.

Everything about this little snapshot is perfect. Emma walking onto the scene framed in the imagery of a halo. Norman being an adorably smitten baby going on the fritz for the first few minutes of the entire conversation. Ray being an amalgam of emotions held together with a rubber band on the verge of snapping. His reaction to Emma's quick and casual defiance of whatever she deems arbitrary is a wonderful blend of comedic and heartbreaking. The pure frustration at her flippancy born out of a deep and endearing love that trumps his fear of the whatever consequences result from confronting Isabella.

But he sees how Emma and Norman smile, and he can’t deny them. He’s never been able to. Not really. Not when it matters most…He’d give anything for them, and he already knows it.

Down to the more minute gestures of Norman moving to calm Ray after he's calmed himself down in a familiar, reassuring rhythm

(Chapter 28 Bonus Comic about Chapter 14's flashback)

with the gentle placement of his hand over the other boy's, and Emma taking his other hand to move close to her heart to subconsciously convey how much it would mean to her to be able to reify their bond through such a ceremony, even if it's only pretend.

For how their play wedding goes, I love what @carnivorouswillgraham does in w.a.m.s. that I've already gushed about here

But aaah do I love the idea of the music box Emma received from Isabella as her gift being the musical accompaniment to their ceremony.

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 Q&A)

In addition to them just all being adorable little babies enjoying the chance to recreate such an important ceremony between all three of them, even if just pretend.

Baby Ray going through an existential crisis but still trying to be present for his bffs/soon-to-be spouses and genuinely finding some solace in these moments with them that will solidify his resolve to confront Isabella in just a few days.

Just continue to fucking gut me.

For adulthood, I'm half and half of whether they'd have one, but if they do and Emma regains her memories, I imagine it playing out very similar to how it does in @salsae's to have and to hold, which I've gushed about a bit already here.

All of their friends and family gathered together at one of their homes or whichever quiet venue could accommodate such a large gathering, some of their siblings walking them down the aisle as Nat plays the piano, Emma in relaxed summer attire befitting or her kind and free spirit, incorporating the paper cups as part of the vows and the galaxying braining of turning it into a REN thing rather than solely an NE one, the trio taking turns crying out of joy (because ofc they can't all cry at the same time), Ray somehow getting roped into catering his own fucking wedding…it all comes together in such a beautifully brilliant way that I can't really think of anything to be altered except Alex walking Emma down the aisle.

If Emma doesn't regain her memories, I'd still imagine something similar playing out with it being a lowkey event in someone's backyard, but there's less chance of Ray prioritizing getting NE together separate from him (for a while) because in his mind they're forever classified as a matching set that he's not a part of

(2020 Exhibition Interview)

And more of a chance of them officially getting together as a trio to start off due to both the search for Emma leading Norman and Ray to grow closer in her absence (while holding off on progressing further in a relationship until reunited with their third) and then all three of them navigating her memory loss.

[jsb-inc]

Okay last one for the day <3 Wally in my AU: Dance AU (work in progress for the name haha) Where they dance of course! Wally is a ballet/salsa dancer :3 more info will be spilled slowly as time goes on

[elijones94]

🌻 Young Pepa 🌼