#this came to me on the walk home

[mouton-e]

witch hat atelier ! modern headcanon

easthies is a fan of shopping. but his way of shopping is as follows:

- have a detailed list of what is desired - whether in mental or physical form the list is clear as DAY and not subject to change

- head to the stores. buy the goods. leave with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

- bonus (1): “browsing” comes in the form of one sweep through each aisle because easthies does not believe in dillydallying. if nothing catches his eye, he’s leaving (note: this only applies to his own shopping habits. if he’s accompanying luluci for example, who shops like a normal person, he’ll be patient as needed)

- bonus (2): utowin is the assigned bag carrier if he comes along. eas will buy what he needs, thrust the bags at utowin, then head straight to the next store to ensure maximum efficiency (utowin follows through it all with endearment)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

An unbothered queen has entered, and subsequently left.

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Something that I've noticed ever since the Smiling Critters were introduced is that they can so easily be paired off into complementary duos, ones that are specifically designed to teach children fundamental lessons about life and self-care from two different angles. It's really interesting to me.

Like obviously you have Dogday and Catnap, with their sun/moon, dog/cat dichotomy, that stress how important it is to have fun and get things done during the day, but also that it's important to wind down, relax, and get a good night's sleep.

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Bubba Bubbaphant and Craftycorn were introduced as a duo in the Smiling Critter show's intro, and their dichotomy is quite obvious. They are basically the right and left sides of the brain personified. Bubba is the left side of the brain, logical, analytical, focused on math and science. Craftycorn is the right side of the brain, creative and imaginative, focused on the arts and self-expression. They represent learning and academia in all its forms, the different ways people engage with and understand the world.

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Hoppy Hopscotch and Kickin' Chicken form the sportsmanship duo. They are both portrayed as enjoying sports and the outdoors, but in different ways that highlight the different ways sports can be played and enjoyed and also what it entails to be successful at them. Hoppy Hopscotch may be loud and impatient, but she is also a team player, shown in her willingness to slow down her fast pace to make sure none of her friends are left behind. Kickin' Chicken, on the other hand, is laid-back, relaxed, and chill, the described "cool kid" of the group, but he's also described as having a ton of perseverance, more of a "slow and steady wins the race" type of person.

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This leaves Bobby Bearhug and Picky Piggy as the last pair. Fittingly, these two are all about how to meet the fundamental needs of yourself and others. Bobby teaches children how to nourish themselves emotionally through showing and receiving care from others, while Picky teaches them how good food is important to nourish the body and soul. Depriving oneself of either of these things only makes oneself and therefore everyone around one miserable, because those fundamental needs are no longer being met.

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Like fr, this is some pretty genius marketing right here. You have enough characters that every kid will have their favorite, but not so many that any would get lost in the shuffle, because the lessons each one of them would teach would be integral to the group as a whole. It really makes me that much sadder we saw basically nothing of the Smiling Critters during the game itself, because Mob Games struck gold with this concept, only to ultimately do nothing with it. :/

But I guess that's what fandom is for, eh?

[nobleriver]

The Walking Dead // The Ones Who Live

After I left here, why did you come after me? You know why...You're the love of my life. I couldn't just let you go.

[fizzytoo]

the next location on the sibling-bonding roadtrip takes us to an airbnb campsite in plumbite cove, copperdale!

[moonchild-in-blue]

The Group Photo feat. Sam and Adam 🥹💙

All of my fav boys in one place 🥹

[misterinfodump]

i hope logan sanders knows i love him i hope he knows so many people love him i hope he knows Thomas loves him i hope he knows his coworkers love him. i hope he knows he's perfect i hope he knows his efforts are seen and admired i hope he knows he's allowed to feel things i hope he knows he's better for it. i hope he knows he's inspiring i hope he knows he's beloved worldwide i hope he knows thomas thinks he is beautiful. i need him to know so bad. logan sanders i love you

[vaguely-concerned]

so for obvious reasons, rye is not generally all that popular with most of the senior watchers. however. I think there is a certain type of younger watcher to whom he is The ultimate hot badboy icon and fantasy. (we're talking about a group of extreme indoor kid goth nerds who've barely been outside. it doesn't take a lot ot achieve bad boy status in this context and the only thing in this world that lasts forever is a bad reputation in a small insular group like the watchers.) it's SO funny because rye thinks of himself as such a disappointing fuckup of a son of the grand necropolis. and meanwhile there are novices kicking their feet and giggling as they're like

'Ingellvar is so cool. no one knows where he's from he was found down here as a baby. mysterious orphan appeal. he could be a secret dalish prince or something for all we know. (*annoyed extra nerd watcher novice voice*: umm actually the dalish don't have princes, merrivar?? read a real book sometime maybe???) he's a rebel. he doesn't care what the senior watchers think no time for politics he just gets the job done. (*small sad rye voice* I care a lot what the senior watchers think actually. a pathetic amount, in fact. it just rarely seems like it helps anything at all) I heard he graduated almost top of his class even though he spent all his time as a student partying up in the city and having a torrid affair with the son of a noble family. sometimes in his spare time he wears a cool punk leather jacket but like the fantasy version of that. he has tattoos apparently but no one's seen them for years. yuh-uh it's true too, I know someone who knows someone he dated once. they say he saw a knife fight once. like, in a bar brawl, with living people. all that, and he's even sneakily emotionally unavailable. *starry-eyed sigh* what a dreamboat'.

needless to say this only grows worse with the events of the game, after he takes out the formless one and rumours start to spread that he maybe killed a god or something too???? and this being nevarra, more importantly he's out there killing dragons with his sworn companions?? like a fucking fairytale prince but with that devil-may-care rebellious streak???? he's the safely unavailable first crush at a distance of many a young watcher. now imagine the reaction when he shows up home for the first time in a year after the war of the banners accompanied by The one true bad boy fantasy to rule them all: literally the sad brooding crown prince of the crows of antiva in leather pants who has WINGS and a dark tortured side of his nature that he has to constantly battle against for the sake of those he loves.

(the perception vs. reality situation for both of these characterizations is. so unspeakably hilarious needless to say. consider how much of the above lucanis characterization is accurate to the person he actually is and then you've basically found the level of distortion lens being applied to rye as well. is most of it technically true? sure. 'technically' is having to do a whole world of heavy lifting there tho fhdfska)

what I'm really saying here is that there is a subsection of this group that's been ferociously writing rye/lucanis rpf from the moment they were seen trotting down into the necropolis depths together (other pairings within the lighthouse gang as a whole, caught in tantalizing glimpses as they visit the necropolis, of course having their own devotees), and when this fandom subgroup eventually discover they were right it's with all the insane glee of a sixteen year old fanfic writer on wattpad (is that still where the kids are these days. idk i'm getting old folks) finding out that their dark mafia prince AU is basically true. varric might be gone but the legacy of friendfiction lives on after him. the king of thedas rpf being the shoulders of titans that young watchers are standing on to write fevered WILDLY inaccurate depictions of the private life of two of the most low-key domestic quietly devoted and undramatic people on the continent, one of them being varric's own poor little meow meow slash mentee, is something that can actually be so personal. rye does not end up terribly famous in the end considering the shit he manages to get done in this game, and he thanks his lucky stars for it. but to a tight-knit community of mourn watch fic writers he is blorbo from my apocalypse. it's all I could have wished for him.

(funniest possible outcome of all this: myrna gets so fucking tired of trying to understand what the novices are being so tittery about that she asks rye 'watcher ingellvar with the realization that this is a long shot and the admission that vorgoth and I have exhausted all other avenues of investigation: do you possess secret insight about what an 'x reader' is. and also 'ship war'. your name seems to come up in this context a surprising amount'. 9000000 points of incoming psychic damage about to hit the fan.)

[xskyll]

I tried resizing this a million times to Tumblr’s recommended specifications, and it just refuses to post clear, so sorry it’s blurry. =‘)

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[mic-check-stims]

Walkshipping board for that one anon from forever ago who asked about my ships

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[patrice-bergerons]

Not to be sappy on the main but this successful indefinite leave to remain application email from the Home Office has me so 🥺 because yeah....I have made the UK my home.... 🥺🥺🥺

[perilegs]

my sweet little baby man is no longer with us

[indiegame]

indiegame <- dogscircle

[neonazaleas]

new jersey dad in his mid 50s voice: Hey there Paulie how ya doing? Oh me? Never better. I hope you don't mind me stopping by right before the dinner rush. So anyways the funniest thing just happened. So Louise comes to me last night crying her eyes out. And she's sobbing uncontrollably and I'm here like what's wrong sweetheart? and she tells me that her and her future fiancé were out at an establishment last night to have a lovely evening. And she says to me, she says dad somebody called johnny a clanker last night.

Now I'm confused why anybody would do such a horrible thing to my lovely daughter so I ask her who? and she tells me it was the owner of the joint. And I'm asking her and asking her and finally she tells me which establishment.

And you see that's funny Paulie because she said it was this restaurant. That we are standing in right now and correct if I'm wrong but you own this place don't ya Paulie.

Now you know that you would never do something like that. I mean clanker please I thought to myself it's 2054. Paulie would never be a robophobe. And especially not to my future son in law. and especially not in front of my darling little girl that you've known since she was yay big. You wouldn't do that... right Paulie.

I'm going to need you to step outside.

[nina-ya]

I’m gonna go work on some more of the ficmas things to hopefully get rid of my stress 💃💃💃I’ll see yall on the other side

[crimeronan]

sometimes i think "wow, i am so anxious for no fucking reason," and then i remember i had stimulants at midnight, fucked around emailing people in ways that were probably super annoying, forgot to eat, had my pain meds wear off, and took my nighttime sleepy meds at 6:30 AM.

well. u win some u lose some.