#they’re kinda giving propaganda poster

[sealhaus]

Don’t have any words for this one, made it while listening to a playlist from middle school

[fohatic]

(manip by me, original poster by art chantry)

welp there's a (short!) fic now 😏

for the "kink: condoms are fun!" square of my @cap-ironman stony bingo round 2 card, 1.5k, rated E:

Like so many 21st-century notions that most modern folks took for granted, getting Steve Rogers onboard with the idea of condoms for gay sex was yet another concept that required some getting used to. As ever, Tony was more than willing to help him adjust to it -- was particularly eager, in fact, to demonstrate it for him. 

So he took Steve’s hesitant objections in stride. Though he conceded that STDs weren't actually an issue between them, Tony still felt obligated to get Steve up-to-date on one of the primary functions of using protection. He didn’t blame the poor guy for assuming that “VD” was only something that men contracted from women, given how the sex-ed propaganda of Steve’s time pointedly ignored the existence of homosexuals at every turn (yes, Tony had become quite the WWII-era culture buff ever since he and Steve got together). “Rubbers,” ergo, were only used to prevent pregnancy and war effort-undermining cooties from ‘loose women,’ as far as Steve was concerned.

He hadn’t yet learned about the AIDS epidemic. He hadn’t learned anything at all, really, about homosexuality, aside from what little he’d gleaned from his limited exposure to different cultures and social norms during his stint as a soldier. Just getting him to come out of his internalized-homophobic shell even a little bit after Tony had finally figured out that the tension between them stemmed from a sex thing rather than the other kind of dick-versus-asshole thing was a huge challenge all on its own; one which Tony had only persevered through because he was already way too far-gone on the guy by then to consider giving up. 

But now— after way too much dithering and denial and a gradually-dawning acceptance of the earth-shattering truth of the matter— they were finally fucking each other. Enthusiastically, and often. Tony’s patience had won out big time, and his rewards just kept on coming. And coming. And coming.

Turns out, Steve has a refractory period that’s basically non-existent. One of the many benefits of being serum-enhanced. Truly, Tony has no complaints on that score, considering his own notoriously rabid sex drive. Match made in heaven, in all honesty. It would seem that Steve is intent on making up for lost time, and Tony is only too happy to oblige him at every opportunity—

—which is where the condom thing comes in. Tony doesn’t mind that they’re fucking like rabbits now. It’s great! Amazing! Best thing that’s ever happened to him, really! But honestly— it can get kinda messy, given how Steve seems determined to fuck on every conceivable surface he can think of -- and often during moments that might not be entirely convenient, such as in the immediate aftermath of a mission; be that during touchdown at SHIELD headquarters when he and Tony are still suited up, or even on the freshly-vacated Quinjet on a number of occasions... -- occasions which their teammates definitely weren’t as oblivious to as Steve had been quick to assume in his lust-clouded fever (Tony had seen Nat’s knowing look after Steve had asserted his captain’s voice to tell him, “Stark: hang back a moment. There’s something I need to discuss with you in private.”) He was so disastrously conspicuous sometimes, but Tony wasn't bothered by it. He just found it ridiculously charming. 

So Tony’s started carrying condoms around with him at all times now, knowing that Steve’s delightfully unhinged libido could strike at any moment. It's his privilege to always be ready for him. 

The first time Tony fished one of these out of his pocket and pressed it against Steve’s big, warm chest during a heated make-out session in the locker room, Steve frowned down at the little packet with the most adorably confused expression Tony had ever seen on a full-grown human. 

“...A rubber?”

“Uh huh,” Tony had breathed out, eagerly rolling his hips against the massive thigh still shoved between his legs. 

“What for?”

It was actually really funny, just how nonplussed his face looked in that moment. Tony bit back his reaction to laugh, though, knowing how sensitive Steve could be when he thought Tony was laughing at him. 

“For sex,” Tony grinned, deliberately pressing his hard-on against the larger man and feeling a little giddy with how much he wanted exactly that, pronto. “What else?”

“We’re both fellas, though,” Steve needlessly pointed out, getting that deep furrow between his brows as a particularly splotchy flush spread over his face -- Tony knew by now that these together were more of an indication of embarrassment than arousal. Uh oh. 

It was sometimes a bit of a tightrope walk, maintaining a modern homosexual relationship with a man as complicated as Steve Rogers. Tony was still learning how to navigate his changeable moods and specific triggers, but it was a task he was surprised to find himself more than willing to put up with. It was actually kind of thrilling, the way he was always keeping Tony on his toes.

So that first, clumsy attempt in the locker room hadn’t convinced Steve that condoms were a convenient means of mitigating the messier aspects of assfucking, which in retrospect was Tony’s bad: Steve wasn’t wrong when he'd pointed out that the showers were right there.

Then later that week, when Tony tried again by attempting to argue that condoms were actually “fun,” Steve had gotten a bit petulant when he'd mistakenly jumped to the very erroneous conclusion that Tony didn’t actually like getting pumped full of an unholy amount of hot supersoldier jizz on the regular. On the contrary, it was something he often enjoyed with a zeal that bordered on some kind of perversion… Only, there was a time and place for indulging in what basically amounted to a serious cum-inflation kink, which—in his modest opinion—was best enjoyed in the comfort of an actual bedroom. 

Later, ensconced in the privacy of said bedroom, he explained this to Steve. In so much detail. He made sure to be very clear about what he liked and when/where he liked it, ensuring that there would be no doubt as to how sincerely he meant it by encouraging Steve to properly fill him up right there on his oversized bed. Then—just because Steve seemed to really appreciate these sorts of practical demonstrations—Tony made it very clear what occurred afterwards, illustrating this by strutting naked around the bedroom and letting Steve’s jizz drip down between his legs while he continued to elaborate on the pros and cons of letting Steve put him in such a state while out in public. He definitely had Steve’s rapt attention, this time.

Still, he didn’t fully sell his argument until the following weekend, when they’d been out together at that gala all night in their well-tailored formalwear, making eyes at each other in between all the endless schmoozing and sipping from champagne flutes and munching on canapes. 

Steve found a little secluded balcony that wasn’t in use, because of course he did. Say what you will about him being a late bloomer; there was no denying that the guy had quite the aptitude for arranging semi-covert assignations at a moment’s notice. 

He wasn’t wearing his utility belt, though, which meant that he didn’t have his handy dandy lube tube that he’d taken to carrying around these days. So when Tony caught him trying to spit on his fingers after getting a hand down Tony's pants and squeezing Tony’s ass in a signal he’d come to recognize as Steve’s signature “I wanna fuck you right now” move, he intercepted him just in time to demonstrate the magic of 21st-century lubricated condoms.

Getting to bend Tony over the railing like that and have at him at the drop of his $3000 pants with no prep required—then coming profusely into Tony’s grateful ass without spilling a single drop of superspunk on either of their very nice garments—was something of an eye-opening experience for Steve Rogers. 

He could admit, afterwards— as they righted their clothing and kissed like they’d been waiting all night to get their mouths on each other in order to finally breathe properly— that Tony might’ve actually had a point about the “rubbers.” 

“They’re fun, aren’t they?” Tony smirked as he smoothed his hands down the fine weave of Steve’s black dinner jacket, continually enamored with the way that all that broadness narrowed down to such a grabbable little waist. “...Anytime, anywhere.”

“Yeah,” Steve agreed, looking at Tony with a fondness that couldn’t possibly have just been about the whole condom thing. Sometimes when Steve looked at him like that, it felt like his insides were melting; like Steve could reduce him to literal goo with just a look. Quite the superpower, that one. 

Steve’s eyes did that funny thing where they grew impossibly warmer as he reached to fix Tony’s hair with gentle fingers, telling him, “I think I’m coming around to the idea.”

♡

[lemonmatronics]

THE POPPY PLAYTIME CHAPTER 3 TRAILER IS SOOO!,?!.?.!.

What a great treat to wake up to—Excuse me while I go insane and spill some thoughts, reactions, theories, and predictions below please

ahem

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

SO LIKE FIRST OFF this chapter is gonna fuck, like this looks SO good holy shit

The setting and environment looks amazing but also the new hands mechanic along with the mask ohhhh this is gonna be FUN

Okay rambling about screenshots I took time

First off the environments look great, holy wow

The house itself looks kinda small so idk if that is the orphanage itself or some kind of set. Cause you can see fake sky walls around it, but like this is Playtime Co they would definitely do that to the orphanage also to give an illusion of outside. Either way it looks GREAT and I’m really excited to explore this setting

Just a nice shot of all the critters

I’m really curious if all the critters are gonna be utilized somehow. We know about Catnap and Dogday already, especially after the trailer itself. Though there was also the footage of Bobby running down the hall, looking like a normal plushie, and possibly seeing Hoppy in the trailer too. (I’ll touch on that later)

New Poster

Definitely looks like some company propaganda to try and keep kids from being afraid of CatNap. Judging by the files we got before looks like the results were a mixed bag. Considering the gas is there in the poster it’s definitely a company only poster, not something they could sell outside. They manipulated this kids so bad man :(

A CLEANER LOOK OF THIS THING,,,

THATS A SKELETON COMING OUT OF PUGAPILLAR’S MOUTH…Like that’s just straight up human remains.

I don’t think we’ve ever seen that before in this game. Like blood yeah plenty but BONES? They’re definitely amping things up for this chapter and I’m 100% here for it.

Besides that there’s a ton of plushies and such stabbed onto this weird thing. Is it a shrine? It doesn’t look like it could really move tbh, and if it was meant to be alive those parts aren’t doing anything to help it.

This poor mf

I’ve seen a lot of people speculate this is DogDay, which is a valid guess, but tbh my first thought was Hoppy. You can tell they have long droopy ears, which lines up with both candidates to me. Though I think the ears look a bit slimmer than what Dog Day’d would be, plus the angle on the head looks more like they’re dropping from the top of the head rather than the sides. I feel like if this was DogDay the whole head silhouette would be different because of the ears, which makes me lean towards Hoppy more.

I know her toy gives her long pointed up ears, but going off art and animation her ears can definitely fold

So I don’t think it’s out of the question that as a Bigger Bodies being her ears could fold over like that, especially while stuck like this.

Now I could be the one wrong here but I really think this is Hoppy. Won’t know until the game itself though so, I won’t treat either as divinities yet. It could just as easily be the case everyone else is right and it is DogDay, there’s evidence for that as well (Again, I’ll touch on that later).

So much happened here where do I even start

Obvious out the bat I guess, Kissy Missy is back!! And looks like Poppy isn’t ditching us alone either! Man I cannot tell it Poppy is good or not at this point, gray area? Trailer dialogue definitely sounded like she was supporting us.

“We’re coming! Just hold on!”

It’s really nice seeing Kissy back, really excited to see how she’s gonna help and play into this. I’ve been on the stance that she’s good ever since she helped in chapter 2 so this is really cathartic for me lmao.

As for what Poppy says here I found it interesting, like really interesting. Like, hearing it the first time made me think she casually confirmed something massive interesting. Granted, actually thinking about it longer, it could mean something else entirely. But was that the whole point?

“What’s happening down here is bigger than all of us. I need you. So we can revenge on those monsters who’ve tortured you, who’ve tortured us.”

“Those monsters who’ve tortured you”

Now, once I thought about it this is most likely referring to the literal monsters in the factory. Huggy, Mommy, CatNap, so on and such. But that’s not what my initial assumption was.

When Poppy referred to “monsters”, by first thought was the people working at the factory. I thought she said people at the factory tortured us.

I thought she confirmed that we’re a toy.

Once I thought about it longer, it doesn’t actually confirm that. But what if that’s the entire point? A double meaning line?

Now the player being a toy theory is something that’s been around since chapter 1, a theory I’ve fully stood by since then and still do. I like to think that’s why our character is completely silent, we’re a toy that can’t speak. Mute toys is something we’ve seen plenty of in the factory, more so than toys that actually talk. (Unless you count stuff like the Smiling Critters cartoon or the cardboard cutouts, but I’m talking purely living beings here.)

So while this doesn’t confirm the theory, this line is definitely throwing wood into the fire for me.

DogDay

Wether or not the chained Bigger Body above us DogDay or Hoppy, we have it confirmed here that DogDay is featured heavily in this chapter as an enemy. Again, I really wonder if the other Smiling Critters will show up as threats as well. Maybe a mixed bag of good and bad critters. If the chained up Bigger Body is DogDay, I wonder why he chases us after we assumingely set him free.

One note I’ll give that is to evidence for the chained bigger body being DogDay is that in the thumbnail you can see a shackle on his wrist

His arms are also long and lanky, which is why I won’t completely rule out it possibly being him there. It’s just as possible that it is him, both feel very plausible to me.

Though looking at the game footage, I’m not sure if can can see anything on his wrists. Additionally his arms look much wider than the one in thumbnail.

Additionally, the DogDay in the thumbnail looks so much like a…mascot suit? You can see seams and stitches all over him. Even other Bigger Bodies don’t look like that. Which is something I wanna give its own post to to figure deeper on.

So is this even the same DogDay at all?

It’s not completely out of the question there could be multiple DogDays, though that begs the question, what about other Smiling Critters? What about other toys as a whole?

Here’s my prediction on it. One Bigger Bodies experiment, and then there’s smaller ones approximately the size of their normal toys.

I think the DogDay in the thumbnail is a result of the Bigger Bodies testing, and the one actually chasing us is just a smaller more “normal” DogDay.

But if that’s true then it begs the question, what about other critters? We’ve seen a smaller Bobby before, does she also have a Bigger Bodies version?

Do they all have a Bigger Bodies equivalent?

Is there still a normal CatNap?

Again, all speculation but this chapter especially is really tickling my brain.

And finally we’ve got the man of the hour

Man he is so much lankier than I thought he would be. That definitely explains why his face was so high up on that one cam footage though. Here I was thinking he’d be bulky!

There isn’t too much to say here other than CatNap is definitely gonna be an imposing threat, and I’m very excited to see him in game. So far we’ve mainly seen him through silhouettes, and light peeks at small portions of his design. Seeing him better is game is gonna be a thrill and I’m so ready for it!

Additionally, just for the sake of adding on, we’ve seen these posters apparently from overseas get spread around lately

Both of these definitely look like they’re meant to be company only posters, ones you’d find in the schooling and orphanage areas.

The left poster telling kids to go inside right away when recess is up, nothing super deep here. Just a peek at the schooling that had here, and that these kids had their lives completely contained within the factory.

The second poster is CatNap telling Huggy to go to sleep, another attempt at convincing children CatNap isn’t dangerous. If Huggy is fine they will be too, right?

Anyways that’s my initial thoughts and reactions right after watching the trailer. VERY excited about this game, it’s been awhile since I’ve been able to brainstorm on my own over a game like this so I’m really looking forward to what this chapter has to give.

[mischiefmnged]

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝟎      !     /    sentence starters pulled callmekevins playthrough of mile 0 , prequel to road 96.   change whatever you want to suit your character interactions .

 oh my god , what has he taken ?

now, lets hop in a strangers car.

your dog die or something ?

i might play video games instead. that’s how i escape my problems.

aha ! i found an escape.

i’m not really one for tourism in a country run by a dictator.

i feel a little on edge here.

i’m taking that threat at face value.

i need some chaos, everything has been too organized.

now we’re talking, explosives ! let’s get in there.

oh god, he’s very upset.

does he have that type of power, though ?

then the manger came out and said i was the best escapist they’ve ever seen.

yeah, tony hawk move there.

we’re killing a lot of people, this is great.

oh my god , you don’t know anything about personal space.

i will kill you immediately , that’s what friends are for - murdering each other.

i want it to seem like someone died in here.

that looks kind of crappy, to be honest.

what the hell is yours supposed to mean ?

yeah, they’re both equally good.

i don’t even know who said that, a ghost perhaps ?

i’m just so obnoxious.

can i just throw them in the trash ?

i don’t really wanna do this job , i just wanna get the credit for doing it.

forty seven people injured in town square, read all about it in tomorrows paper.

oh, i didn’t see you there.

ah ! oh , sorry... the corner scared me.

can you just give me a second ? i’m trying to rob you.

my kd ratio is insane.

i have been destroying the place with no reasoning just because i can get away with it.

maybe the government are lying.

we’ve been truman show’d !

if you didn’t believe the government didn’t engage in propaganda here, you’d be pretty fucking stupid.

i do ! i just agreed with everything you said !

annoying poster guy in the park is my favourite hobby. also , he’s dead.

i forgot to update you , i killed him earlier.

that is the lamest dare i’ve ever heard.

i dare you to jump off the building.

pretty ironic to say i found it in the dumpster.

i jump in trash and then he quits , like yeah i’m done with that one.

push him. push him off the seat so he falls into the mud.

you’ve probably never even seen your father.

look at his little stupid face about to go down in the mud !

yeah , sucks to be you kiddo.

he looks like a guy who a kid could just sneak by into our house.

oh my god , how did you run so fast ?

that is the creepiest thing you could’ve said.

i need the worlds gnarliest rumba that’ll just shred everything on the floor.

i kinda like this dude, he’s just so naive.

i’m just causing so much chaos all the time no matter where i am.

i feel a little bad.

he almost had another kill on his belt !

jesus , what a neighbourhood.

he’s a lunatic.

now what , are you going to try and eat me ?

i like the dramatized version.

tell me this secret of yours or i’ll push you off the building.

oh, look ! it’s the square where i murdered everyone , good times.

stop trying to force me to talk about things i don’t want to talk about.

i’m going to snap my own neck.

i don’t think it’s about whether the government did it or not.

i just always assume the government are up to shenanigans to be honest. 

that’s not how i thought he would sound for some reason.

that’s his memory of it ... then he’s also like and i was doing some sick kick flips and jumping over ramps while the explosions were going off.

was that not enough ?!

WHAAA - oh wait , i already knew that.

oh no, i’m going to get pulled into this aren’t i ?

no it sounds complicated for you. i don’t want to get involved in this.

yeah , she seems like a big fan.

she’s still waving , she’s still there.

he sounds pretty pissed off.

can i just walk away ?

i don’t think he’d make an announcement about that.

okay that was unnecessary , that was just demeaning. 

this is getting weirder and weirder.

this is getting a little bit stressful now.

i'm playing to win , i am not a good loser. actually no , i'm a very good loser  -  i'm not a graceful loser is what im saying... i'm a sore loser.

stop distracting me , i'm winning.

did you make a whole scale model of his house ?

seems reasonable , yeah lets risk our lives for this.

the cops are closing in , you're in now so we got to get this done tonight.

mom will help , don't worry.

i just think cops are so cool , those guys are really cool.

please let me go now.

anyway, time to go straight to ( name's ) house and break in.

i managed to ditch my parents, i'm ready for the revolution.

i play the triangle, i never said i was a singer.

your eyes aren't as wonky as your posters would suggest. 

my mixtape ! how could i forget my mixtape. 

do i actually want to help him ? i don’t want to.

these past twelve hours have been good to you.

why is he holding onto the receipt ... are they going to business expense it ? 

the problem is ... i know the file wont be there when i get up there.

i’ve seen enough loony  toons back in the city to know that’s a fake.

god the standards are pretty low here.

is this my entry test ?

y’know , personal revenge and all that.

i want to take the gun and just shoot him.

is this how he sees it ? well , no wonder he's pissed off.

we’re all new comers to this behaviour.

that was a bit stupid, wasn’t it ?

yeah , it is kinda lame actually.

what ? you abandoned me !

[angelsaxis]

Propaganda's kinda funny cause everyone thinks they see it, and because of that everyone thinks they're immune to it. Even the people who always say they themselves aren't immune to propaganda sometimes think they're immune to at least some of it. But defs lots of people think propaganda is like massive WW2/red scare era posters on the sides of buildings with like "ComMiEs WiLl EaT yOuR ChIlDrEn" or something else embarrassingly upfront and not like. "Ethnic-coded sci Fi/fantasy people are completely overrun and/or led by Definitely White protagonists and this is completely justified by the narrative". Or "this evil organization wants to rule the world and is working under cover and they control all the money and one or two suspiciously have hooked noses and Accents™". Or even "Black or otherwise nonwhite character exists solely for the purpose of helping the white MC"

And then in non-fiction it's pictures of US soldiers in the SWANA/MENA (middle eastern) region handing out bottles of water to children and giving them medicine and maybe even accepting flowers! Isn't that so cute! And also every headline that's like "here's how women are SUFFERING in the middle east/all of Africa/the global south in general" and then the article goes on to talk about how the US needs to be there for the women even tho the women here aren't being taken care of very well either. Every single ad trying to continue you to join the military.

[foryouthegays]

also if anyone wants me to transcribe a clip pls send an ask :) or find something :)

good laugh times: 00:40:10, 00:44:44, 00:54:30, 00:55:47 00:58:37

sellout timer: 00:30:40, 01:26:00

other things: (00:10:00 biiiiiig stretch!!!) (00:39:55 that was the most ‘skeppy tried to troll me but i trolled him first’ scream ive heard in a while a;lskdjfadl) (01:23:00 TECHNOSNEEZE TECHNOSNEEZE)

summary:

Technoblade starts the stream and finds an infinity room (a room covered in white item frames and backed with glowstone or sea lanterns, making it look like there is just Void and no end) covering his house. he removes the grief and continues his intro. While waiting for Tommy to join his VC, he finds a Zombie villager, cures it, and reads donations.

Techno and Tommy go to New L’manburg and fix one of Technos propaganda posters. They find Fundy and Ranboo and tell them that if Techno gets his sword back, he’ll help them fight the wither he’s going to spawn. He spawns the wither and runs around while Ranboo and Fundy try to kill it. He doesn’t get his sword back until a few minutes into the battle. Ranboo gives him both his sword and his axe after the Wither is killed by Punz and Fundy.

Fundy gets the Wither Star, and Techno decides that it’s rightfully owned by him. Tommy and Techno start torturing Fundy into giving them the Star. After Techno gets the star back, Tommy starts trying to get his disks back. Techno tells Tommy he’s going too far, and Fundy starts crying, and eventually dies.

Tommy and Techno start to move back to their house, and Tommy gets distracted with the idea of blowing up the community house. Techno convinces him otherwise, and eventually comes clean with his intentions and goals to destroy L’manburg. He asks Tommy to join him, and Tommy accepts.

They go to the wolf army and breed the dogs. While underground, they’re almost caught, but they run away before anyone can catch them.

Techno and Tommy talk about an eventual SBI meetup, make a beacon, and then end the stream.

loud startin the stream today!!!!! :D!!!!!! 10 sec in

oh hes actually loud today this is great his voice gets so nice when hes louder

00:00:30 ‘i’ve made a severe and continuous lapse in judgement” s;ladjfkald

00:00:50 diD HE MAKE AN INFINITY ROOM OR???? IS HE JUST????? WH AT???

oH MY GOD IT IS AN INFINITY ROOM AKSDFJALSDF IS THAT IN THE ACTUAL SMP OR????

aa;lskdfjasd someone mADE AN INFINITY ROOM A;LSDKFJASDF WHO????

00:03:00 i love how even minecraft g o d s cant remember fence gate/fence crafting recipes akdjhfald

00:04:45 ‘gUYS DON’T STAY IN SCHOOL!!!’ ‘n- no you should stay in school’ yeah, sure techno ‘collage dropout’ blade

00:05:17 ‘tommy, is this your credit card? let me read the numbers aloud, tommy’ -technos impression of tommys mom

zombie villager pog!

LISTEN TO HOW HE SAYS CONVENIENT AT 5:45 AHHH I LOVE HIM

00:07:35 why does,,,why does techno say disorientating instead of disorienting??? he says disorientating and i just,,,,,techno,,,,techno thats not the American way of saying it. also i didnt capitalize american bc of Being A Country i did it bc of Emphasis a;lksdfal

he stretch!!!!!! ten mins in

techno ate breakfast pog!!!! 00:10:30

13:00 a;lksdjfal

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STOP MAKING TECHNO GOOD AT CHESS IN GAME HES SAID SEVERAL TIMES THAT HE IS NOT I AM GOING TO SCREAM more proof: 00:14:40 also he calls the chess board ‘the map’ and im akjsdfhkljasd

00:15:40 “i don’t think that dumb people become Minecraft youtubers, I think it’s that being a Minecraft youtuber makes you dumber.”

00:15:50 ‘i was a smart child, I was doing well in school--I mean I wasn’t doing my homework or anything but I was doing well on the tests,” a;lsdkfja

“it do be doing that” -technoblade 2021

WHY DOES HE JUST RANDOMLY KNOW CHESS OPENING NAMES IM SICK OF HIM WHY IS HE LIKE THIS  I HATE IT HERE AALSDKFJASF 00:17:45 its so funny he just reads wikipedia for fun and also same

‘YOURE TALKING SOUNDS’ -tommyinnit, 19:40

00:20:05 ‘tommy, tommy, you’re speaking words, but the only universal language is sounds.’

00:23:24 “we’re going to go threaten....some certain government agents...in minecraft, since I know the FBI is listenin in on my phone right now [techno gets further from his mic and some thuds can be heard] let me just toss that over there...there we go, now they can only listen through my laptop”

00:32:17 mmmm technoyell

fundy n ranboo!!!! 00:33:50

god could u imagine knowing that technos doin a plot stream nd he joins ur call w tommy and they just???? start talking abt the canonical status of ants and new york????? such is the life of ranboo nd fundy a;lksdfjals

WITHER POG WITHER POG WITHER POG WITHER POG 00:39:20

00:39:55 how does he make that sound im crying

HE LAUGH!!!!!!

a;lkdsfjasd ranboo bullying time 00:44:00

god could u imagine being a fan of the dream smp, joining and ur surrounded by all these people uve looked up too, and then they start bulling you?? such is the life of ranboo

torture time!!! 00:46:15, its to get back the star :D

00:50:45 its lowkey terrifying how techno calls torturing fundy to tears ‘the good times’ and laughs while tommy interrogates him. i love it, but also im scared of him. still an apologist. he needs his stuff back!

also like,,,,,techno telling tommy he went too far? terrifying. if techno says you went too far, thats saying something

HE LAUGH!!!!

HE LAUGH AGAIN!!!

my favorite part of techno tommy interactions is how technoll say like, a metaphor or smthin nd tommy just,,,,,,,, ‘yeAHHH BITCH’ its so funny. a good example is 00:56:00:

techno: if you want to make an omlette, you’ve gotta break a few eggs

tommy: yeaaahhhh!! break eggs and bitch!

techno: ....what?

its so funny to me ak;dfjlasjf

and like, their rambles are COMPLETELY different. techno does most of his hopping around in his head and talks about it once he’s figured out what he should do, and tommy just says things out loud without thinking its hilarious

and like, in game, techno is a LOT more calculated than people think. when tommy tries to get techno to blow up the community house, techno has to rein him back in because ‘i’m all for violence, but we need a plan.’ and ‘how would blowing up the community house get your discs back??’ he’s a lot more organized than most of his teammates nd i love it

but like,,,sometimes techno just Says things and its great.  00:57:20 ‘the only dirt we have on dream is his dirt shack, amirite? [claps] gottem. he’s homeless!! eyyyy. lmao.’

00:58:20 is good. also skyblock is canon now.

01:06:50 SBI MEETUP SBI MEETUP

also ‘i dont know about smiling, but’ a;ldkfjadls;fjasf

i love tommy nd techno just kinda vibing

01:16:30 ‘mmmm audience retention rate....mmmm ants’ aldkfja this stream is so dumb i love it

dID TECHNO USE THEY/THEM FOR ERET AT 01:20:55 OR WAS THAT A GENERAL ‘EVERYONE ELSE’ THEY

1:23:00ish TECHNOSNEEZE

A;LSDKFJAS LIKE AN HOUR AFTER GETTING HIS SWORD BACK HE REALZIES HE HAS IT BACK HES SUCH A NERD 01:24:45

he sounds V tired rn a;lsdkfjkasdf

STREAM TOMORROW TOO??? P O G

[neutinya]

In my journey of spreading Kuroiwa propaganda, I've decided to draw even more of them + some write some headcanons!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩 I'm so happy I've got so many of y'all into them because I genuinely love them so much??? Like help, but yes, have tiny grumpy beefcake and tol lanky cat stick

Please click keep reading

These two dated in their last year of highschool 🤩 They met by complete chance on two occasions!! It was only the second did they exchange contact numbers;;

Kuroo was surprisingly super nervous about asking Hajime for his number, Hajime kinda figured and gave him his number before Kuroo could even speak 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

They text a lot about surprisingly odd things fhjsjd, Kuroo often texts Hajime photos of random Godzilla related stuff he finds while shopping or something, even posters etc

Hajime on the opposite end responds with photos of random Godzilla merch he owns + briefly telling Kuroo where he got them. Kuroo found it really cute lmao

I feel like comparatively their dynamic is quite different Oiiwa or Kuroken? Yes, Kuroo might have a teasing/childish side but I feel like he's actually really mature and responsible most of the time you know? And well, Hajime is quite self explanatory?? He's just so sweet and honestly just a great person to be around?

But yeah, I think even in canon they'd get along really well being the almost parental figures of their team, they often talk about their teammates too and stupid antics they get up to

I feel the more they talk the greater the desire for them to physically be there for each other?? I mean, long distance and all;; Also being in their third year of highschool, it was really hard to actually find the time to meet up :((

That being said!! I feel like Iwa would kinda surprise Kuroo by watching his Nekoma's game against Karasuno?? When they finally get to meet again they exchange a big hug hrjdhd

They managed to talk a bit before the actual match, and just Iwa silently cheering on Nekoma because hell yeah

JFJDJDJ timeskip because I want to focus on the fluff parts, but my headcanon is that they get together in their first year of uni!! They actually end up studying in universities close by and hang out a lot more irl fjsjd

I think pining wise, these two are idiots and don't really know how to sit down and talk about their feelings >:( They give each other hints everyone and then but for the most part they don't say anything explicit >:(

But!! Eventually Kuroo caves and just blurts out this long ass confession after a study session together, and of course Hajime reciprocates 🤩🤩🤩

So yes, much fluff, they are super cuddly I think, also I feel like they really have their shit together as a couple because they knew their priorities and as much as they wanted to be with each other, they'd take breaks to focus on their assignments fhsjs

And when those were over, they'd spend hours at one of their places and just cuddle and watch stuff, with Kuroo occasionally dramatically asking for Hajime to dance with him and Hajime rolling his eyes but doing it anyway

Also when they're sleepy just mutual little forehead kisses, Kuroo lovingly stroking Hajime's cheek and Hajime tenderly brushing kuroo's fringe.

Side tracked but the first time they slept in the same bed Hajime was extremely concerned with how Kuroo slept lmao, the whole night he was constantly making sure his boyfriend was breathing 😔😔

Also this ideas goes to Ali!! But the two of them take turns making meals for each other!! They absolutely love each other's cookings and sometimes even cook together, although it usually ends up with them making out on the counter or something so 😳

Kuroo would also most definitely call Hajime babe and baby 😔😔 he just seems like the type 🤩🤩 Hajime hated it at first but now when Kuroo does call him that he becomes all fuzzy and warm;;; Hajime usually calls Kuroo Tetsu or just tetsurou fjsjjd

Also I don't why but something Hajime does a lot with Kuroo is make Kuroo feel how cold his hands were for no reason, sometimes they're just vibin and Hajime suddenly perks up and says "Feel how cold my hands are." and then intertwined them with Kuroo's!! Tetsu knows it's Hajime own way of asking to hold his hand and has honestly no compliant because it was really cute

Also last idea I had!! one of the harder things Kuroo had to talk about was probably his family in general, he doesn't know why since he usually has no issues with it but when he had to bring it up to Hajime it was like his throat decided to fail him.

But Hajime was just so, so patient, cuddling him as he quietly told him. Yeah, Kuroo was taller but Hajime definitely had more muscle on him;; the quieter Kuroo got the tighter Haji would embrace him and make sure he was okay (he made sure not to hurt him of course fjsjjd)

And it might not have meant a lot to most people but that was probably the point which really solidified Kuroo's feelings for iwa?? Just that patience and warmth he didn't think he ever felt ;((

But yes, spiky boys in love, I love them 🤩🤩

for the headcanons!!

[portugalisinsa]

In my desperate attempt to sleep I ended up thinking about copaganda and how the term as been abused and misused, so let me rant about it for a little bit

So “copaganda” means a specific thing, namely, a piece of media that pushes propaganda for the police, implying that the police is Great, Actually, and Don’t Worry Your Pretty Little Head About It. Cops is an example of that. Blue Bloods is the poster child.

However, as it always happens, a specific term that is actually Important enters the mainstream and loses its meaning because of people, and now it’s being used by many as “movie and/or show that’s about the police and/or has a police character that isn’t a total dick, which obviously means that the movie and/or show is bad”.

That’s obviously bullshit, and I will show that with Edgar Wright’s great masterpiece Hot Fuzz.

On the surface, a complete dumbass would say that Hot Fuzz is copaganda. Nicholas Angel is shown as good! The final act is a big shooting! Of course it is, right?!

Wrong.

Alright, so, Hot Fuzz begins by showing us Nicholas Angel and how fucking awesome he is. There’s what you would expect (urban pacification, riot control, resolution of “Operation Crackdown”, highest arrest) but, most notably, there’s a degree in Politics and Sociology, and they specifically mention popularity within the community. In fact, in the rest of the movie, that is what he mostly does- community work. He checks the traffic, patrols, gets minors out of a pub, and tries to find a duck for a member of the public.

So Nicholas Angel is awesome, and he’s the best cop. it would naturally follow that the rest of the police would love him. That’s what we want- if you’re good, you meet your objectives, and do your best, you will fit in the police and make the world a better place!

But no, the others fucking hate him. His superiors are shipping him off because he’s too good. He’s making the others look bad, and the idea of, you know, holding everybody at a higher standard doesn’t touch them. No, Nicholas Angel makes them look bad, and looking good matters more than all the results he gets.

Now, it would be easy to make it look like it’s just a higher up problem. The higher up are lazy and image obsessed, but the common officers, the ones we all meet, they’re good and appreciate him. “Don’t worry, public, we’ll protect you even though our superiors are dicks.“

Nope, they fucking hate him too.

So already, not a glowing endorsement of the police. But hey! It could still be copaganda! Maybe, I don’t know, it’s just those city cops, and the country cops are actually the good guys!

Ahah lol, actually? The country cops fucking hate Angel too. Angel is a “city cop” who thinks too highly of himself and is there to show them how it’s done.

If you’re reading this, you may remember that Angel kinda never did anything other than, you know, be a by-the-book officer. The country cops don’t like him for completely bullshit reasons that can be summarized as “you’re new and also you’re trying to make us feel bad for not being as awesome as you by being that awesome and we don’t trust you go away”. Danny likes him, admittedly mostly because he’s a sweetie pie, but partly for the bad reasons- he wants soldier cop.

All of this is, needless to say, not a glowing endorsement of the police.

Eventually, we find out what made Angel want to become a police officer; his uncle was one. He admired him, and wanted to be like him. Now, Edgar Wright could have left it at that, and we would have had a nice, traditional “amazing cop comes from long, noble line of cops” story, but instead, we instantly find out that, actually, his uncle was corrupt, and that’s bad, and Angel is disappointed in him.

So, to recap- we’re basically halfway through the movie, and the only good cop is Angel. (Danny isn’t bad, but like... he’s not exactly good either, at least as a police officer)

The movie continues, and murders start to happen. Angel is literally the only one who thinks anything is wrong. A long, long string of “accidents” is happening, and none of the cops has even the slightest inkling that something is wrong. They’re just like “Angel, you nipped scarf, you’re a paranoid dum-dum“, and what little they do, they do after a lot of arm-twisting and with extreme disgruntlement.

Once again, not a glowing endorsement.

On and on we go, two thirds into the movie, with only Danny liking Angel and showing any kind of improvement as an officer, until we finally get to the revelation that the council is killing people for the greater good (the greater good)... Oh, and btw, who is also part of the council?

The Frank Butterman, AKA The Police Inspector, AKA THE FUCKING LEADER OF THE POLICE IN THIS TOWN.

So, to recap, by the final act of the movie, we find out that the higher ups are corrupt and the main body of the police are ineffectual.

Okay. Cool.

Nicholas Angel then proceeds to pack up for the final showdown. I see lots of people making the argument that this is an example of soldier cop, fixing everything with violence. Me, I think that’s bullshit. In real life, the problem isn’t that cops have riot gear, the problem is that they use it for everything. Riot gear is something you use only when strictly necessary, and I would argue that “murderous council that’s packing” is one of those times when it is.

So the riot gear and packing up is fine. But what about the violence, I hear you cry?

Well, here’s the thing- the man is responding with the appropriate amount of force. Everybody is trying to actually murder him, and he never, ever shoot to kill. He shoots to incapacitate.

Look at the final body count, people. You think Bad Boys would have ended such a show up with none dead, lots low-to-medium injured apart from one guy who was badly injured but did it himself by tripping on a pointy thing? Fuck, even outside of copaganda, what was the last action movie that had such a body count?

Also, the rest of the country police come around, after initially responding AGAINST Angel, and only thanks to Danny mediation. Which... I mean, good, it’s good, I’m very proud of them, but like, once again, this isn’t exactly glowing endorsement. This doesn’t scream “see, audience?!?! Cops may look ineffectual, but when push comes to shove, they’ll save you!” to me, this screams “yo, they’re finally doing the bare minimum”.

Anyway, the end comes. The London police wants Nicholas Angel to come back because now they look bad, but Angel wants to actually rebuild and direct the police here in the town. They all do paperwork, because that’s what the rules say and rules are important and cops should follow the rules, and more stuff happens but it’s not important for the purpose of this so, here, the end.

At the end, we get the song. The choice of music is important for a movie, it means stuff. Even a mediocre director knows that, and Edgar Wright is a goddamn master of the craft. Have  you seen The World’s End? Check that soundtrack. It’s perfect. Hell, the man directed Baby Driver, which, you know, was half soundtrack. Edgar Wright cares about music in his movies and he chooses it carefully, is the point, okay?

So, keeping in mind that, what do we end Hot Fuzz with? Some bombastic “bad boys bad boys, whatchu gonna do, whatchu gonna do when they come for you”? Something that pumps you up, that makes you go “FUCK YEAH”?

We end it with “Caught by the Fuzz”, by Supergrass. Which, yes, slaps, it slaps my whole bod, and yes, it does pump you up, but, once again, is not a glowing endorsement of the police. It’s a song from the point of view of a scared teen having been arrested by the police who is thinking “fuck I should have stayed at home fuck”.

So what am I trying to say with this? Well, let’s start with what I’m not trying to say; I don’t think Hot Fuzz is an indictment of the police. Please don’t take all of this as me saying that Edgar Wright intended Hot Fuzz as a giant ACAB. That is what in the field we call a reach. Hot Fuzz isn’t an indictment of the police, and that’s fine, because it’s not trying to be. It’s showing the police as a highly flawed institution, and sure, it’s not showing it as flawed as it actually is, but that’s fine, because it’s not trying to be The Wire. What it is trying to be is a fun action movie, which it is, and it is so amazingly.

What I am trying to show is that it’s not copaganda. It’s a movie with a police officer as a main character, a main character who is awesome, but it isn’t copaganda. It’s not endorsing the police. It’s not whitewashing it. It isn’t saying “look at the police, aren’t they great? Aren’t we glad the police are around? Aren’t we better because of the police? Don’t you want to become a police officer? Don’t you think that what they do is excusable, at the end of the day, since they deal with so much?”

But what does this have to do with copaganda? So, look. I get that it’s very nice to tell other people that their favourite shows and/or movie is bad AND wrong, and to feel like you have the moral high ground while doing so. I also get that words change and at the end of the day who gives a shit about it. I really do get that- I will never, ever give a shit about ‘literally’ being used as an intensive and not just to mean ‘literally’, for example.

BUT, some words are actually important, because they do mean a very, very specific thing they are best at describing. And “copaganda” is important, because you read it, you hear it, and you instantly know what it means; it’s something that’s also cop propaganda. Got it.

Which means it’s a word that is important to try and keep for as long as possible, because, you know... the cops aren’t always great. And it’d be best if we weren’t constantly told they are.

I understand that it feels bad to have so many bad things happening around us, and so little power to stop it. But you do have a little bit of power. You have the power to call a spade a spade, and to say ‘that isn’t cool’.

Calling a spade a spade, however, means that you don’t go around calling everything a spade. If you call everything a spade, it creates confusion, and dilutes a message.

So please. Please.

Instead of just pointing at something that has a cop in it and say “copaganda!”, use your critical skills and, like I just did with Hot Fuzz, try to find out if it actually is copaganda before saying it is so.

[ask-ciaphas-cain]

A Comprehensive Cain Cover Art Ranking

Idea and categories by @thesilentinquisitor​, compilation by me, commentary by both.

Traitors Hand

Evren-mun: Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword! +1 for classic memery, -1 for apparently being set in a giant bowl of Cheetos Beauty: ★★★☆☆ I can’t really see his face, but it looks alright

Sexiness: ★★☆☆☆

Heroism: ★★★★★

Hat Size: ★★★☆☆ Average size hat. A normal human being’s hat.

Biceps: ★★★☆☆ Perfectly normal human biceps. Very good.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★★★★ It won’t come off any time soon

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★★☆☆ It looks like it’s shooting lava, but it’s a good size. Evren-mun: Every weapon is spewing fire, regardless of its actual ammunition

Kissability:★☆☆☆☆ Not with that face.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence:★★★★★ There he is!!! The lad! Right there front and center!

The Last Ditch

Evren-mun: Dark! Moody! A little pouty! Very ornate! Is that a soul patch or a shadow? The second most kissable because he's already puckering up a little

Beauty: ★★★☆☆ 3 stars for cheekbones, 0 stars for everything else. This seems to be the start of the trend of not actually seeing his face.

Sexiness: ★★★☆☆ Where is his face? I can’t tell.

Heroism: ★★★★★ Broodily pouting in front of charging orkz? Can’t get braver than posing in front of imminent death!

Hat Size: ★★★☆☆ Excellent normal hat.

Biceps:★☆☆☆☆ Is this even a Cain book cover if we can’t see them???

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★★★★

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★★★☆ Look at that ornate filigree!

Kissability: ★★☆☆☆ He’s pouty, but that’s not really doing him any favors.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆ WHERE IS HE

Saviour of the Imperium version 1

Evren-mun: 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔 🥔

NO. ZERO STARS, -∞, CAUSES PSYCHIC DAMAGE UPON VIEWING

Saviour of the Imperium version 2

Evren-mun: Stumpylegs McGee How does he lift up a chainsword longer than his own torso and half his legs?

Beauty: ★★☆☆☆ I’m taking off a star because his legs seem to have been taken off a squat and pasted under his belt.

Sexiness:★★★☆☆ It would have been higher if, again, he didn’t look like the illustration of Horus standing on a table.

Heroism: ★★★☆☆ He’s just kind of... standing there, shooting at the ground. Well posed though.

Hat Size: ★★☆☆☆ it looks like it shrunk a little in the wash

Biceps: ★★★☆☆ This is a swole man.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★★☆☆ Very tight, but it looks like its holding on for now.

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★☆☆☆ It’s a gun!

Kissability: ★★☆☆☆ He looks very stern here. Not approachable.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆ Well he sure ain’t here.

Old Soldiers Never Die version 1

Evren-mun: Very nice. Not as tense or horrific as the old cover, though

Beauty: ★★★★★ Now this is more like it! Rosy skin, subtle smirk, this is a pretty pretty man!

Sexiness:★★★★★ That swagger! That confidence! He is unbothered by the zombies behind him and I like that.

Heroism: ★★☆☆☆ He’s posing, not fighting. It’s like the zombies are a green screen background.

Hat Size: ★★★★☆ Oversized, but not ridiculous, this is a good hat

Biceps: ★★☆☆☆ How dare they be proportional to his body

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★★★★ Holy crap an actually illustrated uniform I can use for reference? GW what happened

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★☆☆☆ This is a very reasonable gun.

Kissability: ★★★★★ Look at that goddamn smirk, you wanna smooch it off.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆ None! Boooo! Especially as he’s kind of the hero of this story. Booooo.

Old Soldiers Never Die version 2

Evren-mun: Shades of the Walking Dead Not very sexy or kissable but very heroic

Beauty: ★★★☆☆ He’s a little busy! But I can see it under the hat.

Sexiness:★★★☆☆ Again, he’s a little busy right now.

Heroism: ★★★★★ I am convinced that he’s about to be buried in zombies, but he’s still fighting them off. Incredible.

Hat Size: ★★★☆☆

Biceps: ★★★☆☆ I can’t really see them but they look pretty nice.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★★★★ He might actually be protected from a few bites before they all start gnawing.

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★☆☆☆ This gun is useful and it’s actively firing. Not a prop.

Kissability: ★☆☆☆☆ Not after he’s been near the zombies, sorry

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆ Where! is! my stinky mans!

Hero of the Imperium

Evren-mun: Very bicep, not very sexy or kissable

Low hat size

Very high hero score

Beauty: ★☆☆☆☆ If he’s beautiful, I can’t see it under his hat.

Sexiness: ★☆☆☆☆ Again, cannot see his face to determine.

Heroism: ★★★★☆ Well, he is posing, but he just capped an ork Nob. Very nice.

Hat Size: ★★☆☆☆ How IS his face hiding under that little hat??

Biceps: ★★★★☆ He’s smuggling some fruit in them sleeves.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★★★★

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★★★☆ His hands had to grow to accommodate that hefty chunk of gun.

Kissability: ★☆☆☆☆ Why is his head so damn small

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆

The Greater Good

Evren-mun: Small hat, high heroism, -1 for sword that could get on Disneyland rides by itself

+1 for painted-on trousers

Hey, I’ve seen this one! This is just the Savior of the Imperium cover again, but with a Tau on it!

For The Emperor

Evren-mun: Very ornate uniform Much bedroom eyes wow

Beauty: ★★★★☆ This is my favorite of the “old” Cain covers and the first one I used as a face reference.

Sexiness: ★★★★☆ He’s giving you bedroom eyes on the battlefield. Damn. I’m ace and I feel it.

Heroism: ★★★☆☆ I’m taking a star away just because it’s clearly posing in front of a green screen, but I love the flag.

Hat Size: ★★★★☆ This is a good hat! It accents his head and doesn’t overwhelm it.

Biceps: ★★★★☆ You can see them, but they’re not fit to burst from his coat. Very good.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★★★★ Looks battleworn but in a good way. Comfy leather.

Gun Ridiculousness: ★☆☆☆☆ This is the most reasonable gun I’ve seen so far! How dare they give him a reasonable gun.

Kissability: ★★★★★ He holsters the gun and sweeps you into a kiss while still holding his banner. The entire regiment applauds.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆ I forgive them because it’s clearly a propaganda poster.

The Emperor’s Finest

Evren-mun: 10/10 for cheekbones Not very kissable. The corpse paint makes him look sinister. The chain looks like a nipple piercing. Vacuum sealed for freshness.

Beauty: ★★☆☆☆ He’d be prettier if he didn’t look so damn emaciated in the face. He’s somehow simultaneously really pretty and really ugly on this one.

Sexiness: ★★☆☆☆ Great body, really confusing face.

Heroism: ★★★☆☆ If you’re being BACKED by Space Marines, you’re pretty damn heroic.

Hat Size: ★★★★☆ That is a very pointy hat.

Biceps: ★★☆☆☆ Myeeeehhh they’re unimpressive compared to his titties.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★☆☆☆ You could lick your finger and rub the uniform off.

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★★☆☆ It fits in his hand but that is a FAT, FAT boi

Kissability: ★★☆☆☆ His lips are simultaneously nice and look like fist lips. I’m confused.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆

Duty Calls

Evren-mun: Very heroic, not very sexy because I can't see him. Very topheavy. Muscles like a turtle's shell

*squints* Honestly, I have this up on my large monitor and I still can’t see anything. Gun big, hat big, but that’s it.

Death or Glory

Evren-mun: Duel-wielding guns he probably doesn't even own. How has he not broken both arms by now?

Beauty: ★★☆☆☆ He looks kinda like scared Rambo?

Sexiness: ★★☆☆☆ He’d be sexier if he didn’t look like a Rambo parody. I like muscles, but not like this.

Heroism: ★★★★★ He is actively dual wielding bolters, standing on an ork corpse that he stabbed, with a banner strapped to his back. This is the platonic ideal heroic Cain.

Hat Size: ★★☆☆☆ It’s a normal sized, fine hat, which does not fit the aura of this picture at all.

Biceps: ★★★★★ LOOK AT THOSE MELONS! This Cain lives on plain chicken breasts and pumping iron every night. No wonder his sleeves didn’t make it.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★☆☆☆☆ Evren-mun: Flexed so hard the sleeves exploded.

And the rest of it is painted on!

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★★★☆ They’re big, they’re chunky, they’re smoking and filigreed.

Kissability: ★★☆☆☆ He’s a little busy at the moment.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆

Choose Your Enemies

Evren-mun: Jurgen Presence, now with hat - 8/10

Beauty: ★★★★★ Model Cain is back and I love him. Look at that smug knifecat face.

Sexiness: ★★★★★ He’s got the confidence and swagger, and the draped coat. Excellent.

Heroism: ★★☆☆☆ He’s posing while Jurgen and Colonel Kasteen are looking at him like he’s lost his fucking mind. Not very heroic.

Hat Size: ★★★★☆ It is a nice size, but still balanced to his head.

Biceps: ★★☆☆☆ Normal human biceps.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★★★★ What a lovely, made of cloth uniform.

Gun Ridiculousness: ★☆☆☆☆ I can’t really see it well enough to make a good judgement on it.

Kissability: ★★★★☆ If he weren’t so DAMN SMUG he’d be very smoochable.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ★★★★★ He’s here and he’s actively judging Cain. This is a very good Jurgen. Excellent.

Caves of Ice

Evren-mun: A very Present Jurgen

+2 sexy for the fur coat

Which appears to be on fire

Beauty: ★★★★☆ He looks very lovely, but he’s really clenching his teeth.

Sexiness: ★★★☆☆ The tight fur coat is very nice I can see his abs through it.

Heroism: ★★★★☆ He’s actively in battle and waving a sword. Among his regiment. Very good.

Hat Size: ★★★★☆ Another large but well fitting hat.

Biceps: ★★★☆☆ They’re there but not overwhelming.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★☆☆☆ It’s thin and shows off his figure but it’s still clearly made of fabric rather than paint.

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★★☆☆ Chunky but still holdable and functional.

Kissability: ★★☆☆☆ He looks very bitey.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ★★★★★ THERE HE IS. THE SMELLY MANS!! WHERE HE SHOULD BE

Cain’s Last Stand

Evren-mun: Very heroic, but the corpse paint makes a reappearance

Beauty: ★★☆☆☆ He’s got some hints of nice features but they’re either under the hat or hidden by his grimace.

Sexiness: ★★☆☆☆ He’s being very heroic and shooty, which is nice but not arousing.

Heroism: ★★★★★ He’s carrying a wounded man and walking through enemy fire while firing back! A hero to the core.

Hat Size: ★★★★★ This is a very pointy, big hat.

Biceps: ★★★★☆ I can’t see them but at the same time look at how thick his gun arm is. He’s definitely swole here.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★☆☆☆ It’s very thin again, but there’s an actual cloth collar?

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★★☆☆ That sure is a square with fire coming out of it.

Kissability: ★☆☆☆☆ He looks like he’d poke your eye out with that nose.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆ Aaaaand he’s gone again.

Defender of the Imperium

Evren-mun: Very low Uniform Integrity Very high biceps High sexy for the pose and torn-out boob window

Beauty: ★★★☆☆ He’s pretty but very austere

Sexiness: ★★★★★ Mmmyess, that artfully torn uniform. The pose to show off all the good bits. Very nice.

Heroism: ★★★☆☆ He’s just killed a tyranid and now he’s posing on it. It’s good.

Hat Size: ★★★★★ The biggest, pointiest hat!!!

Biceps: ★★★★★ He hasn’t quite burst out of them but he’s ripped them, probably by flexing.

Uniform Structural Integrity: ★★☆☆☆ It’s very thin cloth again, probably designed to rip upon a flex and to show off muscles.

Gun Ridiculousness: ★★★★☆ It’s like a book with a handle on it. It looks so unwieldy.

Kissability: ★☆☆☆☆ There’s the pointy nose again. He looks too stern for kissing.

(Bonus) Jurgen Presence: ☆☆☆☆☆

[nitewrighter]

Hey :) i kinda miss your prefall Gency fic... Do you think you can write some more ? Take care ♥

I’m still thinking about the canonical existence of Overwatch Propaganda Cartoons that we saw in that preview of Hero of Numbani.

...can you tell I watched old GI Joe opening theme songs specifically for this fic?

Also credit goes to @apocryphist for coming up with “underhand” which really should be the only name for villains in the Overwatch universe.

-----

Genji drummed his fingers on the conference room table as he rested his chin in his other hand. Mercy sat to his left, nonchalantly tapping out some correspondence on her tablet as they waited. On his other side, Tracer was bouncing her knee with her fingers interlaced on the table in front of her, doing her best to at least put forward the semblance of a strike team leader despite her fidgeting. Winston sat stiffly next to her, apparently trying to scroll through lab results on his own tablet but clearly too nervous to stay focused. It was a bright and slightly breezy afternoon in Zurich, and normally Genji would have been gracefully slashing his way through the training grounds at this time, but instead they were all here.

“I can’t stand it when they don’t say what the meetings are about,” mumbled Winston. 

“It’s probably a top secret mission!” said Tracer.

“’Secret?’” said Winston, sounding even more nervous, “I’m... I’m not exactly good at ‘secret.’”

“Is it unrealistic to hope we got more intel from Doomfist?” said Genji, glancing at Mercy.

“I wish,” huffed Mercy, “But from what debriefings I could get my hands on, he hasn’t given us anything useful.”

“How is that possible?” said Genji, “After all the internal damage he did to Talon’s internal power structure, shouldn’t they be scrambling without him? Shouldn’t there be a power vacuum?”

“I don’t know any more than you do...” said Winston, readjusting his glasses. 

“Honestly I thought you’d know more about it, what with the Blackwatch stuff,” said Tracer.

“Still benched,” said Genji, folding his arms.

“Officially,” said Mercy with a slight side-eye.

Genji gave her an amused “Hmph,” before saying, “Either way, Reyes pushed me out of the loop now that I’m on your strike team... not that I paid that much attention to the loop befo---”

The door opened and everyone perked up at the sight of Jack Morrison and Sojourn walking into the room. Jack seemed uneasy, but honestly Mercy couldn’t really recall the last time he seemed at ease.

“Okay, before we start, I want all of you to keep an open mind with this,” he said, looking across all of them.

“...Very encouraging, Strike Commander,” said Sojourn, with slightly sardonic amusement. She put her hands on her hips and turned to face Tracer’s strike team, “As you all know, when you’re recruited into Overwatch, you sign a waiver allowing us to use your image in... all sorts of stuff. Press releases, scientific publications, training videos for new recruits---”

“Posters,” said Mercy, already skeptical.

“Posters, too,” said Sojourn with a smile, “However, back during Omnic Crisis Reconstruction, we were using the images of heroes for a lot more.”

“Heroes?” Genji repeated quietly as Sojourn produced a remote control from the pocket of her jacket and hit a button. The venetian blinds tilted to shut out the sunlight and the lights of the room dimmed as the wallscreen lit up behind Sojourn. The screen lit up in bright colors and red and yellow explosions as a trumpeting fanfare started playing. Tracer’s face lit up as a young cartoon version of Jack Morrison appeared on the screen, pumping his fist in the air. 

“The world needs heroes!” said the cartoon Jack Morrison, “Are you with us?” 

Genji glanced at Jack who was very clearly cringing at his cartoon self.

“Oh yes!” said Tracer, her eyes bright, “It’s been years since I’ve watched this! You guys know the song, right?” she said looking at her teammates, “..No?”

The theme song was already playing, and Tracer was singing along with it eagerly.

There’s no need to fear

Overwatch is here!

Saving all we hold dear!

Mercy made a ‘I really hope this meeting isn’t going the way I think it’s going,’ face at Genji and Genji suppressed a chuckle, but Tracer seemed absolutely thrilled and even Winston was humming along with the theme song. The theme song kept playing and even introduced different members of the old Overwatch Strike team. One of the animators clearly had fun lavishing a lot of attention on Ana Amari’s hair whipping around from the force of an explosion behind her. A still-blonde cartoon Reinhardt brawled fist-to-fist with some kind of black and neon green robot. Cartoon Morrison jumped a motorcycle off of an aircraft carrier with cartoon Reyes wielding a missile launcher in the sidecar. Torbjörn and Liao were working side by side in a lab before the camera panned out to reveal they were in a bright blue tank-like vehicle Genji safely assumed was entirely made up to sell toys, firing off RPG’s with even more explosions. Sojourn chuckled watching her cartoon self fire two submachine guns at black and neon green helicopters while parachuting out of an exploding jet. There was, all in all, a frankly ridiculous amount of explosions. It finally ended with one last massive explosion and fanfare and cartoon versions of Sojourn and the entire original strike team all pumping their fists in the air with Morrison in the center. 

Sojourn hit another button on her remote, the wall screen blipped off, the venetian blinds opened and the lights came on, leaving everyone sitting at the conference table blankly.

“Ahh! Still just as good as when I was a kid!” said Tracer, excitedly.

“Now, I know what you’re going to say--” Morrison started.

“Propaganda,” said Mercy, “You want to put us in propaganda.”

“You’re already in propaganda,” said Sojourn, flatly.

“This is propaganda aimed at children!” said Mercy.

“Do you know how young Talon is recruiting?” said Sojourn.

“That doesn’t mean we should stoop to their level!” said Mercy.

“Wars aren’t just won by strategy and firepower, they’re also won by ideology, by public support,” Winston suggested.

Mercy remembered something Moira said and it sent a shiver down her spine. 

The true struggle is for the superiority of ideas.

“Thank you, Winston,” said Jack, “It’s not necessarily about convincing them to join, it’s about convincing people that we have their best interests in mind. Which...” Jack gestured, “We do.”

“Those bad guys didn’t look like Talon,” said Genji.

“Oh, it wasn’t Talon!” said Tracer excitedly, before dropping into a dramatic narrator voice, “Underhand is a Ruthless Criminal Organization determined to rule the world!”

“Uh--Underhand?” said Winston. Jack said nothing but somehow managed to look more dead inside.

“...Overwatch and Underhand...” Mercy repeated incredulously.

“So--we’re going to be in a cartoon?” said Genji. For some reason, his armor seemed to feel tighter, pinching, constricting around him.

“Well, we did some polling after the Doomfist fight and ran some algorithms through a handful of popular forums and social media,” Sojourn explained, “It turns out you’re all very popular with the younger crowd. Winston and Tracer pull the biggest numbers, but you, Genji, are incredibly popular with boys aged 6 to 14.”

“I...I am?” said Genji.

“Shining armor,” said Mercy, smiling at him, and steam vented from his shoulders.

“And Mercy has a death-grip on the ‘Girls aged 3 to 11′ demographic,” said Sojourn.

“So... more girls are getting into STEM?” said Mercy.

“I’m.. not sure about that, but they seem to really like the fact that you’re pretty and you can fly,” said Sojourn, flipping through the report on her own tablet. 

Mercy’s face dropped and she shook her head. She pursed her lips and thought for a few moments. “I’m not sure about this...”

“If we’re all over the news already, it could help to put stuff out there that gives us more control over our image,” said Winston, he scratched the side of his head, “It... would be nice to show people I’m more than just a gorilla...”

“Genji?” said Mercy, looking over at him. Genji was running his thumb over the knuckles of his prosthetic hand and he seemed to snap out of some particularly stressful train of thought.

“Oh...um... well... it would give you a chance to talk more about Overwatch as a peacekeeping organization?” said Genji, “And if you’re talking about it to children...” 

“They might be less inclined to carry on the conflicts of previous generations!” said Mercy, her eyes brightening.

“Like we said, ideologies,” said Jack.

Mercy inhaled thoughtfully. “If--if we’re going to do this, I want my likeness used responsibly. I don’t want to advocate for violence in any form.”

“...yeah I figured you’d say that,” said Jack.

“And, even if we’re going through fictional conflicts, I don’t want it... glamorized and sensationalized like the old cartoon. We don’t need all those explosions---”

“You did pull Genji out of that explosion a few weeks ago though,” said Tracer.

“Well that’s different--! That’s--!” Mercy huffed, “I think we should push more of Overwatch’s scientific and humanitarian efforts. Show that making the world a better place is more complicated than just.. shooting at bad guys.”

“We could have a science corner!” Winston chimed in, “’Winston’s Science Corner!’”

“Ooh! And maybe I should say something about friendship and teamwork at the end!” said Tracer.

Genji was shrinking a little where he was sitting, unconsciously sliding his wrist plate back and forth.

“What do you think? Edu-tainment?” said Sojourn, glancing back at Jack.

“Could go over easier than a purely fictionalized narrative,” murmured Jack.

“Aw, I wanna fight Underhand, though!” said Tracer.

“Well in any case, you can expect more correspondence from our PR department as we move forward in this project,” said Sojourn. 

“You might not be fighting Talon in some far-flung corner of the world, but make no mistake: this is an important part of the fight,” said Jack.

“And who knows,” said Sojourn as an assistant hurried in with a cardboard box and set it on the conference table, “You could end up some kid’s best friend.”

Tracer and her strike team all stood up from their seats to look into the box.

“Oh commander...!” Tracer looked about to burst with excitement as she reached into the box and pulled out an action figure of herself, “I love it!” She turned over the action figure in her hands and saw a button on the back. She pressed it.

“Cheers love! The Cavalry’s here!” said the Tracer action figure.

“That’s my line!” said Tracer, delighted.

“It’s quite a stunning likeness,” said Winston, taking his own action figure out of the box. He pressed a button on the back of his action figure. 

“Primal Punch!” declared the Winston action figure and Winston chuckled.

Mercy took both the Genji and the Mercy action figures out of the box and chuckled a little. 

“Yours is so pretty, Doc! They even got the wings!” said Tracer as Mercy fiddled around with the action figure’s wings.

“Yes, ‘pretty and flies’ indeed.’ I might be more inclined if she comes with a lab coat accessory,” said Mercy, giving a skeptical glance to her action figure’s bust size. She pressed a button between her action figure’s wings and scoffed a little as the action figure said, “Heroes never die!” 

She held Genji’s action figure out to him and he hesitantly took it. “What do you think?”

Genji turned the action figure over in his hand and looked at the button on the back. He pressed it, but the figure said nothing.

“Oh we um... didn’t really have a ‘catchphrase’ for you yet,” said Sojourn as Genji gingerly ran the finger of his prosthetic hand up the blade of the action figure’s sword clasped in his little plastic hand, “We were hoping you could put in a word for it. These are just mock-ups, really.” 

You’re incredibly popular with boys age 6 to 14...

Genji moved the arm of the action figure up and down, the figure striking downward with its sword, and he thought of young boys playing with this miniature him. Running with the action figure clutched in little hands with white knuckles, playing out battles, having the action figure swing its sword at all those foes, imitating his own swordsmanship, fighting their brothers with sticks, punching each other, kicking each other---

“No,” Genji said on reflex.

“What?” said Sojourn, glancing up from Tracer chattering about her own action figure.

“I--I said no. I shouldn’t have an action figure. I shouldn’t be in the show,” said Genji. His voice was tight.

“Genji...” Mercy started.

“...is it about how you look?” said Sojourn, “Because Genji, I can tell you, seeing people like us on the screen means the world to kids with prosthetics---”

“No--” Genji was stammering, “It’s not about that, it’s--”

“Genji, you’re a part of the team,” Tracer tried to reassure him, “It wouldn’t be the same without you--”

“Children shouldn’t want to be like me!” Genji blurted out, and there was a small plasticky snap. Genji glanced down and saw that he had unthinkingly broken the arm off of his own action figure. The entire room had gone silent, staring at him. He set both the action figure and its broken-off arm on the table and exhaled. “I’m-- I need to think about it,” he said, pushing up from the table and walking briskly out of the room.

“Genji, wait--” said Mercy, standing up. Her eyes flicked to the broken Genji action figure on the table and she picked it up, tucking both the figure and the broken off arm in the pocket of her lab coat. The door slid shut behind Genji but she quickly walked after him, leaving Morrison, Sojourn, Tracer, and Winston alone in the room. A long quiet pause passed between the four of them.

“Maybe just web shorts?” said Winston, “Just.. um... just the science corner?”

“Winston--” Tracer huffed.

“Right--sorry,” said Winston.

“...well, they did keep an open mind,” said Jack, “Mostly.”

“Don’t make me break out your action figure, Jack,” said Sojourn.

----

It was a known fact that if you broke visual contact on Genji, you had a pretty low probability of finding him again unless he wanted to be found. Still Mercy spent more of the remainder of the afternoon looking for him than she was readily willing to admit. The fact that he was able to disappear from the hallway that quickly made her assume he had taken the window (very mature, by the way, Genji, she thought with an eye roll) but she checked all of his usual spots and even went to his room before finally huffing and returning to her lab.

It was about 11 at night when the door slid open.

“Genji, we’re beholden to the UN. I know that was an uncomfortable situation, but... there are still protocols,” said Mercy, not even looking up from her screen.

“I know,” his cybernetically reverberative voice hummed from the other side of the room.

“I don’t know how... informally Reyes maintained his meetings, but we can’t--” Mercy looked up from her screen and read his posture and expression. Her shoulders slumped. She pushed up from her desk and walked across the lab over to him.

“I’m sorry, I know. I just shut down,” said Genji as she closed the distance between them, “I don’t even know where it came from, ever since I joined Tracer’s strike team, I thought I’ve been getting better but--” he cut himself off as she hugged him. He stood there for a few seconds before returning the embrace. A part of him wanted to take his faceplate off, breathe in the smell of her hair and the smell of coffee on her, but he tamped that down. They had embraced before, after Gérard Lacroix’s death, and had broken out of it, both of them muttering about it being inappropriate and messy, but after missions together on Tracer’s strike team, there was no such shame in taking comfort in each other like this. She loosened the hug slightly to look at him.

“What you said... about you and children...”  she trailed off.

“I...” Genji sighed, “I’m an assassin.”

“You’re an agent,” said Mercy.

“Whose skills all come from the fact that he was raised to be an assassin,” said Genji, “What I went through as a child---I don’t want another child to go through it. And I don’t want children to think that’s what they want because it’s not.”

“They won’t have to,” said Mercy, putting her hands on his shoulders, “The Shimada Clan’s practically collapsed! You get to decide who you are, not them! You get to choose what you do with your skills,” one of her hands trailed down his arm and clasped his organic hand, “And you choose good. You’ve been choosing to do good.”

“...kids shouldn’t want to be like me when I don’t even know what the hell I am,” muttered Genji.

Mercy gave a helpless chuckle, “Join the club. ‘Mercy’ is easier to be than Angela. People listen to ‘Mercy,’ except not really, because she’s just pretty and she flies and at the end of the day, she’s just a bloody idea, so no one actually listens to her because she’s not real---”  she caught herself, “God, they’re really going to turn us into cartoon characters, aren’t they?” she said, pushing her bangs back from her face, “As if things weren’t already weird enough.”

“Cyborg ninja. Angel doctor. Time traveler. Gorilla from the moon. It really makes no difference at this point,” said Genji with a shrug, looking over her shoulder, he noticed a small figure on her desk. “Is that---?” he broke out of the embrace and walked over to the desk to see his action figure standing there. The arm had been glued back on, the seam of the break barely visible. He picked up the action figure. “You fixed me? It--It-- I mean it. You fixed it?” he said glancing over his shoulder at her.

“Well I couldn’t just leave you like that,” said Mercy, chuckling a little. 

“’You’ve rescued me again, Doctor Ziegler!’” said Genji, making the action figure bob with his words. They both snickered. “Maybe that can be my catchphrase,” said Genji, a smirk in his voice.

“Absolutely not,” said Mercy, giggling.

[feeling--pink]

Are y’all ever just reading a fanfiction and then you want to draw something from said fanfiction but then the characters are aged up in the fanfic so you have to design their age ups?? Yeah me too.

Okay okay okay but I have explanations for like 90% of my choices but I didn't want to take up any more space on your dash so those are under the cut if your interested!! :D

~

By the way it took me an entire day and then some to make these, can you believe that?

I don’t know why I’m asking it’s true

Onto the actual thing!!!!

Right off the bat they ALL have friendship bracelets because they're all friends!! 

Those who weren't at the sleepover got their’s at some point 

idk it’s important to me that they're all friends :(

Also fun fact I totally unintentionally drew almost all of these to scale

And by that I mean when I hold them up to one another, the people I think of as shorter are actually shorter!! It’s very interesting

Well at least to me 

I think there’s a better word than scale but I can’t think of one so therefore I'm just going to keep using it!

More on that in the individual ones

Huey

Look I’m soft for the idea of Huey in a sweater vest

Also he stole this look directly from Webby

Except for the skirt

Because “Skirts are for special occasions” -Huey Duck, at some point

Am I implying that Huey would wear a skirt? 

Yes. Yes I am. 

I hope y’all read that in Phineas’s voice 

Speaking of Phineas, what if I do another crossover thing?? 

Okay that’s off topic I’ll move on 

Older Sibling Culture is being shorter than your younger siblings (I would know)

So naturally Huey’s the shortest of the Duck triplets haha

Dewey 

Also known as Dewey “My hair poof technically makes me taller than you” Duck

But on his own he’s the tallest Duck triplet if I’m following my scale 

Which I am!!

I don’t have much to say here I like the idea that he has the jacket tied around his waist

Plus it has ✨Pockets✨

What’s in there?? It’s a ~mystery~

Nah it’s just a granola bar 

Oh yeah and I wasn’t feeling the vibrant blue that's on his shirt for his younger self

So I made his jacket a more navy blue instead

I meant to give him like converse or something too but then I forgot- 

Louie

I found this outfit on an outfit meme!! 

I thought it was cool and had no ideas for Louie so he got this one

Louie needs an interphase of business casual before y’all give him a suit jacket as an adult, this is my compromise!! 

Also I see y’all with giving older Louie Scrooge’s check tufts

I’m not immune to propaganda, so he gets a little fluff there for now!! 

hahaha propaganda I know I could word that better but it’s funny

Also before you ask I don’t know what his pose is either

I don't choose the pose they just come out that way

Webby

Not gonna lie shes kinda wearing my dream outfit

I don’t know what to tell y’all suspenders and skirts are my favorite things on the planet

Not that I have any suspenders (sigh)

Also I like the idea of long hair Webby!!

I’ll draw her and Violet with their hair down eventually :P

Oh yeah she’s a little off scale

By that I mean 13 year old Webby is a little too short

Sigh, what can you do?

She’s also taller than Huey by the way hehe

But she’s shorter than Louie so she’s still short

Lena

My goal was plain and simple: Make Lena look like a Giant Lesbian 

I hope I succeeded!! 

I don’t know how much more Lesbian I can go since I already have a hawaiian style shirt, cuffed jeans, and stompy boots

Also she gets one more hair wave to show that Time Has Passed

I have said this before but there no WAY Lena doesn’t draw and paint and stuff I get way too many vibes

So she gets a paint splatter thing on her jeans :)

I was just going to keep the pink hair originally but then I realized I didn’t have enough of that nice turquoise 

So I put it in her hair

You can still see a little bit of pink though!!

Therefore her hair makes up half of a trans flag

Do what you will with that 

She’s the second tallest but that’s only because she’s older

It’s Dewey’s personal goal to grow taller than her as fast as humanly (duckly??) possible 

Yeah she’s actually pretty short by standard though

Speaking of age,

I KNOW the rest jump up in age by three (3) years

But writing that Lena would technically be 18 was cursed so we’re going to pretend the birthdays work out so she’s still 17

Can I check if the birthdays actually work out? Of course. Am I going to? No I’m busy drawing and making terrible jokes.

Boyd

Wait a second

We’ve established that Huey is coming for Webby’s style

Now Boyd has an oversized sweater over a dress shirt.......

Boyd is coming for Lena’s style :0

Oh and he kinda looks like Blathers too

I guess you could say he’s hitting two birds with one stone :DD

(Please laugh I tried so hard with that joke)

Another dream outfit tbh

Listen I just want to look like a giant nerd 

That’s off topic again

Boyd is the actual shortest of the group!!

But not by a lot

Huey says Boyd doesn't count because he’s younger

Speaking of age (part 2)

Technically speaking Boyd isn’t 14 years old

What I really mean by that is that he appears to be 14 years old

I don't know, robot logic

Violet

I had no plans so I just went for Librarian vibes

I know that the way Violet’s outfit in the show is presented so that the colors match up with the colors on a Violet Sabrewing hummingbird

But I really didn’t want to make her skirt black so heck that

She’s also officially the tallest of the group!!

Dewey also wants to overtake her in height (but he won't hehe)

I just get tall vibes from her I don't know what to tell y'all 

Gosalyn 

This is my second time ever drawing Gosalyn and my first time on paper

So that’s fun

Anyways, gave our girl the bisexual haircut

And I didn’t give Lena any flannel so we carried that over to Gosalyn 

Also converse just cause 

She’s in-between Louie and Dewey for height by the way!

As for the regular outfit

On the poster I can't really see how the neckline works for her jacket so I just make it look like a letterman jacket

I thought about making it a hoodie but I already gave her older self a hoodie so I didn’t :P

Ugh what a terrible note to leave this on but I don't have anything else for her

That’s it!! Hope some of you found it interesting or something!! 

[grimm-rific]

Stars In the Sky (A Jake x Briar Fanfic)

requested by @gayunclejake

Daphne sat on the floor of the bedroom, watching her uncle Jake comb his hair.

“Since when do you comb your hair, Uncle Jake?” she teased.

Jake grinned. “Promise you won’t tell?”

Daphne nodded.

“I’ve got a date tonight... with Briar.” He paused and looked at Daphne in the mirror. Her eyes were as wide as saucers and she was biting down on the palm of her hand. “Snow’s gonna drop her off any minute. But don’t tell anyone, alright? If word gets out we’re dating, her godmothers are gonna kill me.”

“Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!” she squealed. She ran to the closet and started sifting through clothes excitedly. 

“What’re you doing there, kid?” asked Jake, amused. “You gonna give me a makeover or somethin’?”

“Yes,” Daphne answered affirmatively, and pulled out a green tie. “Perfect!”

She tossed it to Jake. “Here, wear this.”

He stifled his laughter. “Under my overcoat?”

Daphne nodded in response and he reluctantly put it on. Just then, the doorbell rang. 

“That’s gotta be her,” he said nervously. He walked downstairs, past Daphne, who was hopping excitedly up and down on one leg, and past Sabrina and Puck, who were squabbling loudly on the couch. He was planning a surprise for Briar after dinner, and he was anxious to see how it would play out.

Jake opened the front door to find Briar wearing a black dress. He immediately forgot how to speak English.

“I, uh..,” he stammered. “You’re... you look...”

Briar giggled and pointed to the necktie he was wearing. “You look nice, too.”

She had the prettiest laugh of any Everafter-- no, any person that Jake had ever met.

“Youse goin’ on a date?” called out Puck from the couch. Sabrina looked livid.

“Ignore him, he’s been watching old gangster movies all day,” she said, rolling her eyes.

“Don’t listen to that dame,” said Puck. “She’s loony.”

“Um, no, we’re not on a date,” Jake lied. “Briar’s car broke down and I’m taking her home.”

Relda smiled knowingly. “Ok, leibling, just don’t stay out all night.”

“You got it,” said Jake, as he and Briar began to leave.

“Seeya later, toots,” said Puck with a flick of his wrist. Jake closed the door just before Sabrina lunged at him.

It was so silent outside compared to the rowdiness of the house. Jake exhaled into the cold air. “Sorry,” he said, chuckling. “Kids.”

“It’s no problem,” Briar replied, smiling. “I love children.”

“Er, yeah, um... me too.”

They both got in the car, and Jake began to drive. “So waddya wanna eat? I know this great Indian place a few blocks from here.”

“Ooh,” said Briar. “I’ve never had Indian before.”

“What? And you’ve been alive how long?” Jake teased. Briar giggled. 

After they ordered, Jake asked for it to-go, and Briar looked at him with surprise.

“Don’t worry,” he said, grinning. “I have a plan.”

They walked out to the parking lot with their bags of food, and Jake extracted a wand from his overcoat. “Okay, watch this.”

With a wave of the wand, they were transported to miles above the ground, suspended by an invisible platform. Briar yelped at first and held onto him, but then let go once she felt that the floor was solid. 

“Jacob Grimm,” she laughed. “You really are something.”

“That’s one thing everyone can agree on,” he said coolly, putting the wand back in his pocket. On the inside, he was so relieved that it had gone well. They ate their food amongst the stars, looking down at the quiet city below. 

“Wanna ask each other questions?” asked Briar, chewing on a samosa. 

“Sure,” said Jake. 

“You first, then.”

Jake thought. “How’s the coffee business treatin’ ya?” he asked finally.

Briar shrugged. “To be honest, my godmothers do most of the work. Someday, I want a business of my own.” She sat with her arms wrapped around her legs, looking up at the stars.

“What kind?”

“Maybe a rescue facility for magical creatures. I really like animals and getting to nurse them back to health would be really cool.”

“What’s your favorite magical creature?”

“I dunno, I really like dragons.”

Jake was taken aback. “I wasn’t expecting that. You must be fearless!”

“I just think they’re misunderstood!” said Briar, pushing him playfully. “And I thought it was my turn to ask you a question?”

“Oh yeah,” said Jake. “I’m boring, though!”

“Well, we’ll see about that.” She thought for a moment. “Hmm... oh! Any exes?” she grinned mischievously. 

“Nope,” said Jake with a coy smile.

“What! No way!”

“Hank was the one who got dates-- that’s what we call Henry, by the way.”

“Ooh, did he date any Everafters?”

Jake’s smile faded slightly. He didn’t know if he should tell her.

“Um, yeah.”

“...What’s wrong?” asked Briar, noticing his change in demeanor. 

Jake took a deep breath. “Hank dated Goldilocks for a while.”

Briar was stunned. “Goldie? But I thought she escaped.”

“Yeah,” said Jake glumly. “... Because of me.”

He then told her the whole story about how he disabled the barrier to set Hank’s girlfriend free, inadvertently unleashing the Jabberwocky and killing his father in the process. By the end of it, he was sure she would want to go home and never see him again.

Briar was silent when he finished. Then, she gave him a hug. “You didn’t kill him, Jake. It wasn’t your fault.”

They stayed like that for a while, and all Jake could think about was how badly he had screwed up the vibes. He had to think of something else to talk about, fast. Then he got an idea.

“Wanna drive around and magic some graffiti on Charming’s campaign posters?”

“God, yes.”

And that’s what they did for the rest of the night. Every time they saw one of Charming’s propaganda posters campaign ads, Briar would whisper something vulgar to Jake and he would use his magic to make it appear in big black letters over Charming’s smug face. They were laughing so hard while doing it that they could barely talk. 

When Jake finally drove her home, he walked her to the door.

“I was having a bad day before this, Jake. Thank you so much,” said Briar softly.

Jake scratched his neck sheepishly. “It doesn’t make me immature that I basically wrecked your ex-husband’s posters all night?”

Briar laughed. “No Jake,” she said happily. She then planted a kiss on his cheek. “It makes you my hero.”

Jake’s cheeks flushed as he stood there, dumbfounded. Suddenly, the lights in Briar’s home clicked on. 

“Oh crap, that’s my godmothers,” said Briar. “They can’t know you’re here. They don’t even know where I’ve been all night. You have to run, like, now.”

Jake scrambled back to his car, calling out “Love you”s and “I’ll call you”s. Briar smiled fondly and opened the door to go inside.

As Jake drove home, he felt a warm and fuzzy feeling in his chest. Something he hadn’t felt in a long time. 

When he entered the house, he found that everyone had stayed up.

“Hi Uncle Jake!” called out Daphne happily. “How was your date with Briar?”

Jake put his finger over his lips, but it was too late. Everyone looked at her, and then at him, grinning.

“Whoops,” Daphne said sheepishly. “I forgot.”

sorry i made this one kinda long but I hope u guys like it haha

[dead-inside-mcgee]

Beyond that door- Chapter 1

Twisted Justice

@griffin-tortures-schneep

There’s a prologue to this story, though it’s not necessary to read. 

Summary:   Chase sighed. “You are really stupid if you think I don’t wanna help you take down a huge conspiracy like this.”

Word count: 2128

Every city has secrets. If you look in the right place, at the right time, on the right day, you will find a pair of doors that look like they lead to a cellar or some place like that. 

  If you tap the right code on the doors, they will open, reliveling a staircase. That is where you’ll find Marvin. Local witch, cryptid, and drug dealer according to the police. 

  While on a technical since, the things he sold were drugs, he didn’t sell magic crack or meth like some people thought. 

  He sold potions. Stuff that can make you fly or read people's thoughts, stuff that could make your skin turn blue and make your hair to fall out, and things that could cloak someones inhuman parts. 

  Marvin was staring towards the stairs, fidgeting and looking nervous. Like he was expecting someone. 

  He relaxed once he saw Chase, looking slightly annoyed. Only slightly, which Chase saw as progress. 

  The two have been friends for a while now. But ever since Marin went underground, literally and figuratively, Marvin has felt… distant. Every time Chase asks if something is up Marvin just brushes it off. 

  Even if he says he’s fine, Chase has made it a regular thing to come by and say hello. But today wasn’t a regular visit, Chase needed something.

  “Are you sure about this,” Marvin asked, starting to brew up what Chase wanted. “If you were caught you could go to jail for a very long time.”

  “At least jail would be better than living on the streets,” Chase replied.

  When Chase was young he got into a car crash. He didn’t remember all the details, all he remembered was waking up in a hospital with a robotic eye and arm. 

  At first Chase thought it was cool, but he learned quickly that people don’t like anything that’s even slightly different. What he needed was a mask, something that would make him seem to normal to say an employer. 

  “Just making sure.” Marvin said, shifting his large witchy hat back so it didn’t fall into his face. “I just want to double check with you. You’re absolutely sure about this.” 

  “Since when are you one to turn down a customer.” He was glad to know he meant something to the witch, but now wasn’t the time to be sintamental.

  “Alright, alright. Just sit over there and don’t touching anything.” 

  Chase did as told, staring at his reflection in his mechanical arm. His right eye was orange. Technically he could change its color, but that was one of the few things he kinda liked about being a Cyborg. 

  There was a loud creak coming from upstairs. Marvin gasped, dropping the book he was holding. 

  “You have to hide!”

  “Why?” 

  “Hurry!” Marvin shoved Chase into a large, empty trunk. 

  Chase peeked out and was shocked to see JackieBoyMan, local superhero and huge stuck up. 

  He couldn’t help but scoff whenever he saw that over exaggerated smile on a billboard or on TV. Sure, thanks to him there’s a whole lot less crime, but there were also plenty of Supervillains that did a good job at making up for that. 

  In conclusion, this is the single last place Chase ever thought he’d see said superhero. 

  Marvin smiled, nervously fidgeting. Chase has never seen him like that. 

  “You have what I ordered?” Jackie asked, that cheesy smile replaced with a sneer. 

  “Of course!” Marvin ran over and pulled out a little box and handing to him. Chase wished he could see what was in it. 

  Jackie opened it, nodded, and left. 

  A few moments passed. Chase could hear the doors creaking shut and Marvin said he could come out. 

 “I'm sure you have questions.” He sounded disappointed in himself for some reason. 

 “Uh, yeah! What was that!?” Chase popped out of the trunk 

 “There’s a reason I haven’t been caught yet.” He glances at the cloudren, noticing it was smoking. “I think your brew is done. It’s on the house.” 

  ***

It’s been a few weeks since that interaction and Chase hasn’t been able to find Marvin since. He wasn’t completely sure how the doors worked, but he felt like Marvin was avoiding him. 

  He wasn’t even sure if he’d done something wrong. Marvin didn’t even answer any of his questions about Jackie and what he was doing there, he just kicked him out after giving him the potion. 

  The potion worked. At least Chase was able to get a pretty good job, though he’s had to stop himself from tearing down those Anti-Cyborg and other anti-nonhuman posters. 

  He tried not to think too much about Marvin and Jackie and all the other terrible things, but there was one terrible thing he couldn’t escape, politics. 

  The election for a new mayor was soon and so everywhere he went there was bright, flashy, propaganda. 

  There was one candidate that Chase actually liked. And that was Jameson Jackson. While Chase didn’t agree with all of his views, he was the lesser of the twelve or so evils. 

  There was something very odd about hat guy though. He always wore black and white and he had ghostly pale skin, making him look like he came straight out of and old black-and-white film. It made it kind of disorienting to see him in person when it came to how bright and colorful everything else in the city was. 

  Still he was the only one with half decent morals so Chase was inclined to support him. 

  While zoning out, Chase found himself in the alleyway where Marvin’s hideout usually was. Now was around when the entrance would show up, but it wasn’t there. 

  He sighed. Turning around to head home, but something wooshed overhead. 

  He ducked behind the dumpster, peeking out to see Jackie strutting down the alleyway. 

  “Have you just been waiting here for me?” Jackie asks. 

  Marvin was standing there, holding a box. He makes eye contact with Chase for a second, a slightly nods. Chase got the message and held still. 

  “Yes. I thought it'd be quicker to hand deliver them to you so you can get back to fighting crime and whatever else you do.” He holds out the box. 

  Jackie nods, peeks inside, and disappears. 

  A few tense moments pass. 

  “Okay you can come out now.” 

  Chase jumps up, wiping the grime off his clothes. “Is that just a weekly meeting?” 

  “Yes.” Marvin holds out his hand, revealing a small map of the town and a glowing green dot. “But today you’re going to help me find out why.” 

  “Works for me!” Chase said, fixing up his baseball cap. 

***

The tracker lead the two to an old abandoned building. 

  “So what exactly were the potions you gave him?” Chase asked. 

  “Most were healing based. One was a sleep aid.” Marvin answered. “Quick, duck.”

  They hid in the blushes to see Jackie fly out of the building. 

  “The dot is still moving.” Chase committed. 

  “Which means there’s someone else in there. Come on.” 

  They ran up the first three flights of stairs until they heard a loud creak of a door shutting and footsteps. They hide in a room, peeking out of a crack. 

  They see a man in black skinny jeans and a black shirt walking down the hall. They hold their breath for what feels like half an hour until they’re sure he’s gone. 

  “I know him.” Chase whispers. 

  “What?”

  “I know him.” He says louder. “I work with him. His name is Anti, he’s a chill guy. What’s going on?” 

  “I don’t know.” Marvin holds up the map, showing the dot is still here. “Wanna find out?” 

  The dot leads to a door. Chase tried to open it. 

  “Locked.” 

  He pulls off the tip of his finger, revealing a Phillips head screwdriver.  

  Marvin raised an eyebrow. “Useful.” 

  It only took a few moments for Chase to pick the lock. What they found inside was the last thing they ever would’ve guessed. 

  The room looked brand new. It was small, with carpeted floors and no windows. There was a bookshelf and a large bed.

  Chase snooped around, finding a nightstand with a bottle of soda. He opened up the first drawer, finding a colorful box. 

  “That’d be it.” Marvin opened it, pulling out a small, glowing beetle and crushing it. 

  Chase pulled the covers off the bed and jumped back. 

  There was a man curled up in bed. He blinks his eyes open and slowly sittings up, giving the two a bleary eyed, blank look, before lying back down and snoring softly. 

  Chase let out a breath he’d been holding. “Is that…?” He didn’t need to finish. 

  Marvin nodded, pulling the blanket back over the man. “And he appears to be drugged, or highly intoxicated.” 

  “Well… What do we do?”

  “Take him with us.” 

  “Take him with us!?” Chase shouted, before slapping his hand over his mouth. “Are you fucking crazy?” 

  “A little maybe.” Marvin waved his hand and the curled up man begin floating. 

  “We should just call the police, get out of here, and never mention this again.” Chase pulled out his phone, only to have it fly out of his hand and smash against a wall. 

  “I’ll buy you a new one.” Marvin said before Chase could shout. “But I can’t have you call the police.” 

  “What’s gotten into you?” 

  “Did you not hear what I said earlier? About this man clearly being drugged or intoxicated? And remember that other guy we saw walking down the hall?”

  He nods, not liking where this is going.

  “So I think this goes further than just us happening to stumble across a villains base. Especially since we got here by following our local superhero. So…” He trails off, a distant look in his eyes. 

  “So?”  

  “So I’m taking him with me. And getting to the bottom of whatever's happening here.” Marvin slowly starts making his way out of the building, the man floating behind him. “You don’t have to help me with this. Just promise you won’t say anything.” 

  Chase sighed. “You are really stupid if you think I don’t wanna help you take down a huge conspiracy like this.” 

  Marvin smiles, a soft, genuine smile. Something Chase has missed. 

  “Come on then.” The witch snaps his fingers and a pair of cellar doors appear. 

  “Wait, you can just summon the entrance wherever you want?” 

***

Everyone who’s lived in Septic City for more than a week, or watched the news at least once, knew the name Henrik Von Schneeplestein. 

  From friendly doctor to mad scientist, attractive and tragic enough to star in many true crime TV shows, nightmares, a strange fantasies, this man had it all. 

  And now he was passed out, locked in a trunk while Marvin and Chase contemplated what to do. 

  They could turn him in and make a fortune. But then they’d have their names all over this, and they’d have to answer questions on how they found him and all of that, and someone would definitely come after them. 

  Even if they dropped him off somewhere and left an anonymous tip, it could still be tracked back to them. There was no win in this situation. 

  “Alright, let’s start simple. What do we know?” Marvin pulled out a whiteboard and marker. 

  “We know that JackieBoyMan has been giving healing and sleep potions to a guy named Anti, who I work with.” 

  Marvin writes that down. “And we know that a dangerous criminal is now locked in my trunk. What else.”

  “Umm... Those sleeping potions! You pointed out Scneeplestein looked drugged, maybe the potions are being used on him.” 

  “Chase, you are a genius.” Marvin scribbled that down too. “Do we know anything else.” 

  He grinned softly at that, before frowning again. “I don’t think so.”

  “Well it may not be much-” 

  “It isn’t much.” 

  “But at least it’s something.” Marvin glares at him. “Since when are you cynical?” 

  “I’m not trying to be.” He puts his hands up in defence. “I’m just nervous.”

  “That’s… understandable.You still don’t have to be a part of this if you don’t want.” Marvin said, expression shifting. 

  “I do want!”

  As if on cue, there was a thump and a soft yelp from the trunk. 

  The two men stare at each other. 

  “Should we let him out, maybe try and get some answers from him?” Chase suggests. 

  Marvin thinks for a moment. “It seems cruel to leave him in there, even if he is a criminal, or we think he’s a criminal.” He glowers, before tossing him some rope. “Tie him to a chair and we’ll figure out what we’re doing from there.”

  “Will do boss.” Chase says in a silly, mobster voice. 

  Marvin rolls his eyes endearingly. 

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

Museum of Mayhem Art Analysis

ahhh it’s finally here and it’s AWESOME. Lots of credit to @ifalnasminiatures for bringing this to my attention! Also credit to Hayder Hype for providing (nat zero six on gearbox forums) sources (Ashley Landry on twitter) in the description of his video because oh man it’s a lot

you can view most of these art pieces on the borderlands instagram as well

lots to talk about especially regarding the calypso twins so let us dive right in

tl;dr: tyreen has a weird red marking on her face in some old designs. i think troy used to be blind and missing his metal plates. more proof for my elpis/chemical sludge/lost legion theory that the twins are using said chemical sludge to give their followers psuedo-siren powers bc a dahl pumping station (hyperion pumping stations on pandora) but dahl had a presence on the moon

one of my favorites, it reminds me a lot of the Mask of Mayhem, but for villains.

Punk Girl is shown again twice, probably further proving she’s tied in with the CoV somehow

we also got some crazy looking villains such as

baby face. which is all kinds of extremely fucked up

this dude who looks like he could be a miniboss with the glasgow smile and the cool goggles

this guy who i legitimately thought was dr zed for a hot second there

could it be

the evilest brother?? pfft nahhh

this girl who seems like she could be a unique character with a baseball cap. wondering if maybe she’s related to Punk Girl in any way. What’s the verdict on the other band members? 🤔

uhh let’s give it a solid maybe and move on

this piece! very interesting to me

so, the very first thing i noticed is zane’s eye patch being on the other eye lol

amara’s tattoos are also gone, however that might’ve been for reasons similar to the japanese cover art of the game. 

most interestingly is a point @ifalnasminiatures made and it’s that the calypso twins are actually palette swapped! you can see Troy is the one with the white hair and Ty is the one with the darker hair. which I think mayyy play into a few things we see later about the twins

we also see a tiny ship in the background. i can’t tell if that’s sanctuary-iii or the blue/yellow ship, it all blends together a lot due to the quality of the pic. but it is next to the calypso twins, which makes me want to believe it’s the blue/yellow ship we see with red markings all over it. you know this one from the mural of mayhem wallpapers

you can see the reddish markings on the back right next to the engines

then we have ummm

this cover art

😬

thanks for not using this one gearbox cuz 

oh my god

she just reminds me of suicide squad, that’s not a good image you wanna dredge up from the deep recesses of your fans’ brains

she might be a unique character given the clothes/hair? cuz you don’t normally see psychos with stilettos on. or yknow, shoes in general. the hair also seems way to clean and neat to be a psycho/cultist

i just feel uncomfortable looking at this, so moving on

a different logo. also not my favorite cover art, but at least im not physically uncomfortable looking at this. that poor girl’s pelvis... anyway

lots of silhouettes

interestingly, i feel like the roses might have been a thing they just put in for the new cover art. haven’t seen hide nor hair of them across any of the pictures i’ve seen.

we got a lot of figures. out of them i most definitely recognized amara, salvador, maya, another salvador?, zer0, moze (maybe?), and axton. i thiiink one of them is maya as well, but im not 100% on that. 

i can guess why they didn’t pick this one: it’s hard to tell who’s who. a lot of these poses make the silhouettes kinda hard to see and the merging together at the bottom makes things even worse. i do think it’s interesting there are some bl2 characters on here as well, but hayder hype mentioned they very well could be placeholders, and given that i can’t make out fl4k or zane, im inclined to believe him.

this art which was used during the promo for this event

rip elpis i guess LMAO

a better look at the psycho himself from the promo released by the borderlands twitter.

there’s a new red planet which hasn’t been shown off before, looks like a gassy planet kinda like jupiter, but interestingly it has this green crack in the side?

very reminiscent of pandora’s eridium scar. i am wondering if this is because this planet had a vault opened, or if it is tied to the Eridians at all. be interesting if it was their homeworld.

also i have no idea what the symbolism is in the homeworld destroying another planet but maybe we shouldn’t think about it too hard e_e

the other planet that’s being destroyed... idk fellas

it doesn’t match up to me but like, this is only one shot

i don’t know 🤔 if you really squint, maybe you can see that hint of purple at the bottom there?

here

tbh, i thought this was elpis the first time i saw it due to the cracks, but i figured elpis doesn’t have like continents across its surface, just craters. and wayyy more cracks.

so it’s probably not pandora and it’s probably not elpis.

huh...

i do think the actual shot is suspended above promethea, you can see the familiar asteroid belt surrounding it

there’s also a planet in the background,

which i imagine isn’t pandora bc no eridian scar

could be elpis or eden-6, or the 5th planet we don’t know about. i kinda get the feeling the 5th planet may be that gaseous red planet tho. which is probably going to be super weird to traverse now that i think about it. they said oz kits weren’t coming back, right? i wonder how that would work. hmmmm

there’s also this redder planet here which i actually DO think is Pandora. if you squint real hard u can see the purple from the eridian scar. plus the color matches up pretty well with the pictures provided above.

there’s also these two bodies over in the corner where the light is coming from. i can’t tell what they’re supposed to be

there are also these little dudes in the top right

i assume they’re maliwan? they remind me a lot of the maliwan drop ship things that fly overhead when you enter promethea

YESSS okay this is the start of some PRETTY WILD twin stuff

troy: missing his tattoos, blind in one eye, has a weird mark above his eyebrow. also, no metal bits!

Tyreen!!! with a red stripe across her left cheek going up to her eye??? no tattoos on her left arm as far as we can see, but that might be for marketing reasons (she’s also covering up part of her bicep). she’s also missing her coat and chains and wearing a different glove.

we also have a bunch of bl2 VHs taking up space. again i think hayder hype is right in that they’re simply placeholders. not much else to say, but 

this trend of Tyreen having red markings on her face and Troy being blind in an eye (or both) actually continues through a fair amount of these posters!!!

more cover art. one of my least favorites again... i just think it looks like the psycho is puking out the VHs. also, seems to be an older version of the psycho mask.

fl4k seems to be less rendered than the rest of the cast? like they have less detail, especially on their coat

also you can see an older looking space shuttle up at the top, which reminds me a lot of the one we use in TFTBL to get to helios. except less caravanny and more rockety

the splatter also reminds me of siren powers, with the purple and the glitter. it’s cool that it’s showing a different shot than what’s behind it. maybe a hint to siren powers because it’s sort of like a portal.

more puke! 

this time troy is blind in both eyes it seems,

tyreen seems to still have a mark on the left side of her face, im wondering if this ties into her scars at all? it doesn’t seem as prominent as the previous red mark.

Zane seems to have an actual eye patch instead of his more high-tech eye patch, which reminds me a lot of the leaked character concepts from like january i wanna say

amara seems to be dual wielding lol i wonder if originally that was going to be one of her 3 skills but then they were like “wait salvador. wait. nisha. FUC-”

also fl4k is being obscured by this weird saturn-like planet. let them be free!

moze is missing, the saturn like planet shows up 2 times total, and that blue/yellow ship is seen again behind troy

as for the purple stuff? you already know my theory that the twins are going to be using the chemical sludge on elpis to empower their followers. it could also just be straight eridium/slag. you know, like the testing from the WEP with bloodwing and even krieg. we’ll have to see. it would be interesting if they tied krieg into the story through there.

i do lowkey think it’s chemical sludge though, because some of it is actually glowing blue in places, you can see it clearly below amara’s feet. maybe some tie in to siren powers cuz they glow the same blueish color. who knoooows not i

big shot of this psycho here, looks like he’s crumbling. 

i really like the 4 VHs standing at the base with the elongated shadows. very dark vibes from this tho, probably not suitable for the series as a whole. i can see why maybe they decided not to do it. 

i wonder if we’ll see this giant psycho statue somewhere on pandora. it would certainly be a sight to behold. 

also i kinda wish we had cloaks like the concept art shows. cloaks are cool

more sketchy art. this one is also kinda strange, i definitely get why they decided not to go thru with it.

possibly tie-in with the ‘mother’ imagery we get on the propaganda signs across pandora.

lmfao the foot

very bl2 like, im glad they didn’t stick with this. i like that they decided to change things up

troy seems to be blind and also missing his metal implants on his face. his jacket also looks a lot different, it looks more like tyreen’s with the spikes and stuff across it. we also can’t see his metal arm at all, tho we do see his sword! which looks a lot different, im glad they decided to revamp it to be more visually interesting lol

tyreen is more interesting to me. it looks like her right arm has like a silver coating over it? unless that is a metal arm as well. she also is wearing a different kind of glove. her tattoos are missing as well, but again, it’s probably because of the cover art. her scars also definitely seem to have reached her left cheek at some point.

zane also looks a lot different, tho amara, moze, and fl4k look about the same.

another shot of the ship, this one is definitely the blue/yellow one. there’s gotta be some significance with that, right? either we’re getting skins for sanc-iii, we’re going to be painting it a new color, or it’s a different ship.

what the HECK

maybe the twins stole sanc-ii and we’re using sanc-iii. idek. this ship is driving me up a wall lol

gun head.

not a lot to say here. i actually like this one lol it’s very mellow and straight to the point. it’s nice that the logo is right in the middle, not at the top like most of them.

game. buy it. okay? cool.

similar to the other background we did, a bit different. again, like @ifalnasminiatures pointed out, the twins are actually palette swapped here. 

Zane also has the old eyepatch on his right eye instead of his left eye, and his jacket is black instead of blue. fuckin’ edgelord.

one of my favorite ones out of all of them. it’s beautiful, i really wish they had kept it. Fl4k is missing but i assume they were meant to go next to Amara? i also think it’s interesting Moze is in the front, as I took Amara to be the leader this time around. Zane is also an older design, with the eyepatch back on his left eye again (starting to think this is an aesthetic thing lol) and a black jacket instead of blue.

We see the twins on the top. Tyreen has that mark on her face again, and Troy is the same as the last few covers.

We also see Maya, Zer0, and for some reason Brick? Which is weird to me considering we have a few other characters who initially feel much for important to the story (cough Lilith cough), but I’m not complaining. 

the purple splatters again make me think this is a tie in to eridium/slag/elpis’s chemical sludge. i also like the logo being worked into the design instead of just thrown on top, i think that’s a nice detail

i couldn’t find a great shot of this poster which is a shame because it’s one of my favorites

a lot of baddies to go around on here. i love the dude up top, he reminds me of the Anchormen from the captain scarlett dlc in bl2!

these dudes

we can see Punk Girl on the left again

and this guy who appears to be in some medieval armor

i have no idea what’s going on there but i am EXCITED

i’ve been thinking and tbh i think the multiple planets thing was just an excuse for gearbox to go absolutely ham on the character designs/settings. 

i mean why should they have to hold back all their medieval armor designs for another dlc like tiny tina’s? all their pirate/sea-fairing designs for a pirate dlc? fuck it! go WILD. i think they did, anywho

there’s also this post which... tbh i can’t make out much at all. again, seems like an older psycho mask design. it looks like there are characters in the splatter on the bottom left, but it’s very hard to tell who’s who, especially at this angle and image quality lol

if we get a better shot later on i may return to this piece and try to figure things out!

we also have this piece which is giving me huge ‘Happy Together’ vibes. very trippy

moze looks like she’s using an untextured atlas gun? dunno what’s going on with that tbh lol

i really like this one too. it’s cool. i get why maybe they wanted to go a little crazier tho, feels too simplistic for the MAYHEM vibe they’re going for.

oof! can we get an F in chat for whatever planet/moon this is

lots of pink floyd vibes going on here as well

we see a different looking blue/yellow ship flying away from the explosion. it seems to missing a lot of the parts that make sanc-iii so recognizable including the engines/wings

i like the destruction vibe they’re going for here, really sells the “universe destroying power” the twins are supposedly going to get. 

anyway, in addition to the cover art pieces, we also got a few concept art pieces as well!

this bit which looks like a gun

you see the aiming mechanism up there? you see how it’s aimed at that planet/moon? yeah i 100% timed this so you’d see the above concept art with this immediately after :P (im kidding i didn’t but hey now you don’t have to scroll)

fuck yeah babey

we also have seen something similar to this in the gameplay trailer!

i didn’t actually think it was a giant fucking GUN tho. can we get an F in chat for Promethea and/or whatever else this thing gets aimed at

yooo

i thought this was opportunity at first cuz of the bridge but it’s more likely promethea

when u go meet zer0 you can see some water surrounding the city so i would guess this is somewhere else on promethea

im mostly interested in the giant fuckin triangle in the middle of that courtyard looking area

oh also the giant trench of destruction on the right there. that’s probably important, too.

more concept art!

i think the bottom of the 4 VHs is actually what was leaked in january.

some art of the twins on the left there, tyreen is so much shorter than troy omfg

and this does indeed looks to be a younger version of angel so credit to @prettypinkdork for mentioning that on my angel post. it is nice to see those tech-y wings in action, definitely does prove it’s her.

we can also see this art of what i think is Punk Girl, which is interesting to me because she looks to be doing something with her right hand. possible siren powers? maybe! 

we also get a much cooler, bigger version of that maliwan ship people were talking about, with what look to be maliwan... eye bots? surrounding it. this is soooo fuckin awesome to me because it reminds me of a sailboat. and airships are fucking COOL

but something interesting is that i don’t think this ship was actually always maliwan

we got an A in the back here... for Atlas? i mean... you know it’s coming... the colors would match up. Yeahhhhhhh...

more interesting is that it actually looks like maliwan covered it up with their flags/tarps. i would not be surprised if this was claimed by maliwan possibly during the takeover.

a cyclone, with a whole fuckin lot of detail. just... holy shit.

not much else to say here though. i like the stuffed animal on the side, though

a better shot of jakobs manor which holy shit looks badass as fuck

big turret/observation thing on the right there? im not sure

pretty sure this is eden-6. also more tropical trees? possibly a water planet? but maybe just ocean on eden-6. also there seems to be like webbing on whatever is on the road, so maybe some spider-like wildlife?

most important to me is this

yeah i would bet that’s eridium/slag/the chemical sludge from elpis

im pretty convinced this is something on elpis mostly because the DAHL logo on the side. which again, they were on pandora yes but they were mining for iridium not eridium. if this was pandoran pumping stations, that would be hyperion.

i do think this is elpis. and i do think the twins are using the chemical sludge that mutated the lost legion into those fake siren things to give their followers superpowers.”holy holy holy” indeed.

this, plus the rakk wings on the psycho in the mask of mayhem are just convincing me more and more

that’s all for now folks. i gotta run

[jbt7493]

it irritates me when people present themselves as authorities without justification and deny any room for disagreement or discussion, even when they’re right. so when they’re wrong, and when they’re so trivially and clearly wrong, it is even more annoying to me!

and in this case, where what they’re trying to do while acting as an authority is to twist the ressentiment they feel in seeing somebody spend money on a luxury while they lack a basic need of some kind into an actual moral imperative to give them money, it’s like. idk. i find it kinda childish.

now, because im so morally principled and have so much intellectual integrity and am immune to propaganda etc etc. this doesnt really change my opinion much in the real world. and hey like, look. i think it is like, strictly false that you ‘deserve’ that money, but if you get some, that’s great for you, right? and i’m not buying into the shit about how like, homeless people are so greedy and lazy they’re just leeching off public services that’s like, pretty obviously false

it’s just like, annoying to me ig. i dislike people who act as if theyre entitled to authority and presence. like, feeling entitled to other peoples money is like, silly, right? but im considerate enough to say like well you like, aren’t actually entitled to it but it’s not like you’re hurting anybody by feeling regular human emotions. im not gonna be a dick about it, yknow. but it bugs me when people act like you should just agree with them and that you’re a bad person if you don’t instantly follow what they say

also i mean again like. you cant act like im being a dick to someone who’s just complaining cause for one i am not interacting with the post or the poster and for two im also just complainin about it

[iiarchive]

Auckland Aug 29th

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‘Props’/Opening of the Show

Starts with what they are not going to do

Mentions ‘erotic role play’

Dan as a criminal, Phil as a policeman, voiceover of implied smut

Dan and Phil ‘strip’

Truth Bombs

Dan: whats hidden in their browsing history?

A: Furry propaganda (winner), DIY your own coffin, Phil Lester smiling pics

Phil: what job would they have if youtube didn't exist?

A: A terrible weatherman (winner), an annoying receptionist, a ray of sunshine

D&P: how will they die?

A: Not enough sunlight (winner), filming PINOF 76, pecked to death by kiwis

Ball & Mystery Box

Phil threw a ball into the audience to guess what was ‘inside’ the mystery box

A poster of Gerard Way, cereal, a family of rats

Dan VS Phil

Psychic Connections - New Zealand things (Dan said Kiwis, Phil said Hobbits)

Phantastic Phacts

For Dan: What was Phil’s first ever Instagram post?

A: A sign in Florida (Dan got it wrong, he said Christmas tree)

For Phil: What annoys Dan the most in the world?

A: When Phil leaves the kitchen cupboards open (Phil got it wrong, he said when a moth flies into your screen)

Dan, Phil, or a Rat?

Picture: Dan’s winnie the pooh onesie selfie (Phil got it wrong, he said rat)

Picture: Dan in the bath with the duck (Dan got it wrong he said rat)

D&P Dilemma

For Phil: Dan is going to be trampled by a horse and to save him Phil has to make out with the horse (Phil would let Dan be trampled)

For Dan: Phil is falling off the sky tower and to save him Dan can never use the internet again (Dan said he would save Phil).

Friendship Test loser -  Phil ( 38- 36, Dan is in the lead)

Wheel of Doom

Dan was sacrificed.  

Phil shot Dan in the neck. 

Good VS Evil

Dan - 60 million bees, movie spoilers, kicking a child

Phil - The perfect sandwich, free wifi, unlimited chocolate

Getting Deep

Q: The tour is nearly over, what it your favorite thing about being on tour?

A: Dan said the meeting the audience irl and Phil said traveling

Q: I just moved to the North Island and I have no friends

A: They kinda just talked about how you can have friends on the internet who have the same interests. They also said that Interactive Introverts was a great place to meet people who had the same interests.  

Q: I have a crush but I don’t think I’m cool enough for him, will I be a lonely nerd forever?

A: Phil said ‘if they don’t love you for who you are they don’t deserve you!’ They also said ‘just find someone who you can watch Yuri!!! on Ice with at 4:30AM and then you know you've found the one.

Golden II Awards

They wore glitter suits

Give fandom awards to the audience

Phil’s Diss Track

Lyrics to Phil’s Diss Track (fan cited/not official)

Dan on Piano

Dan plays a song on the piano

Has to do with him and Phil’s origin story

Phil interrupts by returning to his diss track momentarily

Lyrics to this part of the show (fan cited/not official)

Interactive Introverts Duet

Dan and Phil sing a duet with Dan playing the piano

About how they’re ‘Interactive Introverts’

Lyrics to this part of the show (fan cited/not official)

*Bonus*

Audience was named Susan.

One of the deep talk questions was from a person named ‘Kiki’ and Phil said ‘this one’s from Kiki’ and Dan said ‘Do you love me’, in reference to the Drake song ‘In My Feelings’

Phil struggled with the balls from the ‘what’s in Dan’s box’ section when the audience returned them to him. 

They included a lot of jokes about New Zealand 

Phil said that Dan’s mom is a kiwi

Dan said he almost wrote a hobbit fanfic

*Current pre-show/intermission playlist*

Thank you to Sarah (she/her), Lucia (she/her), Mary (she/her), Ophelia Sykes, (she/her) (@/opheliasykes52), and Vic (they/them) for your submission!