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heheheh I need to make art of my favorite ship, no it's not just nuzi
I'm over here reblogging all the adorable nuvzi/dapper trio propaganda after the finale, but I'm here for thnuzi/triscuit shipping
#it's hard being a multi shipper with some art block#this is kinda just a art block complaint#lilywily post#murder drones#serial designation n#uzi doorman#serial designation v#MD thad
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Hello!
I'm Cyan (or anything you wanna call me) this blog started as just a stash for Dungeon Meshi extras and worldbuilding details but expanded as people asked questions and I did my best to answer! Hope you find it as useful as I do. I try my best to categorize my posts so they're easy to find but sometimes I forget.
If you'd like to share something you compiled yourself feel free to send it to me and I'll reblog it! You can also send a submission if you'd prefer. The main goal is to share Dungeon Meshi information :3
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Tag list under the cut
Types of post
For referencing - Canon things and other information you might want to go back to. Now I'm also using art reference when relevant
Compilation - Posts where I compile lots of canon art/sketches about a specific subject.
Dunmeshi thoughts - My own non canon thoughts. I also use the tag speculation when relevant
Dunmeshi complaint - Tag for more negative subjects/discourse in case you wanna block that. I usually go back and delete the ones that don't seem productive
Asks - Since I post quite a lot of asks I decided to divide them into some tags so they're easier to filter: Lore ask | Character ask | Meta ask | About Cyan
Parties
Laio's Party: Laios Touden | Marcille Donato | Chilchuck Tims | Senshi of Izganda | Izutsumi | Falin Touden
Kabru's Party: Kabru of Utaya, Diamond of Sadena, Mickbell Tomas, Kuro, Rinsha Fana, Holm Kranom
Tansu's Party: Tansu Floke, Yarn Floke, Kiki Floke, Kaka Floke, Namari of Kahka Brud
Shuro's Party: Shuro (Toshiro Nakamoto), Hien, Benichidori, Maizuro, Inutade
Canaries: Mithrun, Pattadol, Lycion, Fleki, Otta, Cithis
Races:
Tallman
Dwarf
Elf
Gnome
Half-Foot
Ogre
Demi humans
Orc
Kobold
Sources (<- check this if you're confused where the extras come from):
Adventurers Bible
Daydream Hour
Monster Tidbits
Bluray
Other tags:
Worldbuilding
Maps
Magic System
Post Canon (Extras about the story after the story)
Clothing (Details about character's clothes and in world fashion)
Dunmeshi Extra (extra comics that aren't in the main story)
Rooms
Modern Clothing
Dunmeshi anime vs manga (comparisons or panels missing from the anime)
Monsters:
Red Dragon
Chimera Falin
Mermaid
I'll be updating as I add posts/figure out how to tag stuff
About me: Cyan - Adult - She/He - Brazilian
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ummm all of them 😅
OKAY OKAY THISLL BE LONG BUT ILL TRY
the character everyone gets wrong : Alnst Luka. LIKE I GET THAT PEOPLE DONT LIKE HIM BUT HE ISNT THE VILLAIN. THE ALIENS ARE THE FUCKING VILLAINS. Like I lowkey feel like he doesn’t understand that what he’s doing is wrong. Like he wants to survive. Thats how the alien taught him too. DONT GET ME STARTED ILL RAMBLE WAY TOO FUCKIN MUCH
a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom: uhhh my fav is Aventurine and I see him as a switch sooooo….idk 🥲🥲🥲🥲.
screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr : uuuuuuh idk sorry
what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person? : idk if it counts but like I had a friend I vented to her and told her I $h and she started to insult me and yea I was having a panic attack and blocked her
worst discord server and why : I��m never on discord so idk
which ship fans are the most annoying? Not all of them (I sometimes ship it too) but aventio/ratiorine/call them what u want idc. Like. There are ratiorine shippers who are like "OOOOHOOHH AVENTURINE IS SUCH A HORNY BOTTOM WHOREEE AND RATIO IS A HORNY DOM EUZKZKALALAL" and then they go and ruin the entire fucking characters. Like I like the ship when it’s done right. When they respect the fuckin characters. Not when they ship them out of pure horniness. BUT NOT ALL OF THEM. Oh and it’s the same for Ruikasa (pjsk) shippers.
what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them? : I used to hate Ratio. Because of the weird ratiorine shippers.
common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about : THAT LUKA FROM
ALNST IS THE VILLAIN
worst part of canon : idkidkkdk
worst part of fanon : idk too sorry im shit at ask games
number of fandom-related words you've filtered : none
the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them : Alnst Luka. Again with him. HES SUCH A FUCKIN INTERESTING AND COMPLEX CHARACTER ILOVE HIM
worst blorboficiation : the fuck is that?
that one thing you see in fics all the time : in x reader like "you have blue eyes and black hair" THEN NO THATS NOT AN X READER
that one thing you see in fanart all the time: aaaaaahh idkk I see way too much fanarts everyday
you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc) : Hyuna x Luka. I don’t understand. They’re so toxic like
there should be more of this type of fic/art: anyone comforting aventurine. My baby needs comfort. I love him. I want to hug him
it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on... : i don’t think people have been sleeping on but idk she still doesn’t get enough credit everyone go read @aventurineswife ‘s fics they’re so fuckin good.
you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like... : those x reader fics that are written out of straight up horniness. They be having the most obscene and devious devilish things.
part of canon you found tedious or boring : the whole xianzhou luofu quest ig. Expect for Tingyun I love her. But like idk I was kinda bored in it. Maybe it’s just me idk
part of canon you think is overhyped : Himekos death in csm. Like I saw people being super sad but like…idk. I didnt feel sad for her. I felt bad for Aki since he was sad yeah. But Himeko like her death didn’t do anything for me.
your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores : AAAAAAAH IDK IM SORRY
ship you've unwillingly come around to : Ratiorine, I used to hate it. Now I like it. (I’m not sure I understood the question lmao)
topic that brings up the most rancid discourse : The hospital scene in the End of Evangelion. I don’t have to explain. I think just no one should talk about it.
common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing : "Denji is a dumb pervert."
OK FINALLY FINISHED I TOOK WAY TOO FUCKIN LONG TO ANSWER THIS
I’m shit at ask games sorry lmao
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Brutally honest thoughts on each character?
...*Each* character???? bruh thats so many, okay ill keep this short cuz im waiting for a haircut rn
well start with the vks cuz thats easy
Mal-started off strong and then just became...THE WORST, love hate relationship for her. shes my art block fix but also i hate her
Jay-i dont have strong opinions on him, he actually never stuck out to me other than 'obligatory jock dude of the friend group.' i wish i liked him more but im more attached to his fandom self over canon Jay
Evie-got boring after D1, i wish they let her keep her chemistry stuff, love her vibe but shes kinda boring to me. SHOULD'VE BEEN THE MC OVER MAL!!
Carlos- lots of lost potential with his tech stuff from the first book and movie. easily could've been an engineer or inventor but they just made him an animal lover and i got bored of that real quick.
Uma-my queen, my idol, can do no wrong i love her so much i WILL kill for her.
Harry-i love his dumbass so much YALL DONY EVEN KNOW I WANNA BITE HIM SO BAD
Gil-one of the few characters i felt actually...grew up? idk but hes one of the few characters were it actually feels like time passed for.
Dizzy-oooooooh honey, honey honey, sunshine baby, please, put the glue gun down.
Celia- they should've gone with her trailer persona. Her outfits are so bad and i wish she got better writing and designs, so much lost potential, also she should've been Jays pick.
Smee twins- why the fuck are they even here they had one line and no significance. also they should've had a Harry scene.
Aks
Ben-puppy boy, deserved to have doberman energy. got turned into a doormat by the writers and is unfairly hated.
Audrey-bitch queen, shes not a nice person and thats okay~ girlboss.
Chad- should've been the D3 villan they had that all set up in D2 with his weird ass attitude over Ben getting kidnapped on the isle.
Doug -....honestly gives me the ick, especially in D3, i HATE the long hair his actor had/has. gold is NOT his color and neither is pastel purple or green. he looked good in D1 but ICK for 2 and 3.
Jane- bby gurl, blue bird sweetheart. yeah she did some fucked up shit in D1 but she was an insecure 14 year old girl who got manipulated by Mal and other aks!!!
Lonnie- deserved so much better, shes Chinese why is she getting Japanese style stuff?!?! her plot in D2 didnt even do anything it just happened and no one cared and Jay just shoved his problems of girls playing roar onto her.
Beast- *inhale* i wanna kick his ass, and i could, lemme at him. how dare he force an entire kingdom on Ben at 16 when he didnt become king when he was 28(when he married Belle)
Belle- they took away her backbone, shes not Disney princess book worm and independent Belle. she just, lost the spark
FG- they turned her into a preschool teacher, GIVE ME MY OL COOKY FAIRY LADY BACK
Leah- *seething rage*
vk parents
Maleficent- fuckin love her, shes such a manipulative bitch and feels like a gone crazy version of a Maleficent made for kids. def not the mistress of all Evil but i love her nonetheless
EQ- shouldve been the head villain, SHE WAS THE FIRST DISNEY VILLAIN CMON! def not the same character from the animated movie but shes dramatic and sassy and i adore her.
Jafar- haha funny characature~ i wish he was more menacing like he had been. Jafar is not one of my fav villains so descendants jafar didnt exactly translate for me well.
Cruella- yeah they nailed her, no complaints about her. good design, good dialogue, good acting.
Hades- LEMME KICK HIS DEAD BEAT ASS, fucking 'daddy issues made you stronger' my butt. i hate his hair and honestly he doesnt fit the washed up punk design, he didnt deserve the speech at the end and didnt deserve to be forgiven by Mal.
Ursula- we only saw her tentacle and one line but she seemed spot on so yeah
Lady Tremaine- why the fuck was she nice in D3??? bitch is the EVIL stepmother.
Smee- spot on, i have words for his sons designs becuaee hes old not naturally white haired but hes chill, makes sense hed be a good parent, he never felt evil to me, just compliant
Facilier- such a vibe, his actor got him spot on, would've changed up his suit design but hes chill and i can see him being a family man(ignoring wicked world).
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Artschool Dropout
I made a thread about how and why I became an artschool dropout, and want to share it here too. Storytime! It's mainly a highlight of parts I despite in the art worlds; capitalism and superiority. My experience was affected by the environment, and hell was a bad environment
Back in the distance year of 2019 I went to an(community) art college in like the *fancy* part of my area. I lived across the lake on the countryside, so I was not prepared for this environment. Rich people cosplaying poor is the best description. Fancy clothing made to look dirty and no-one wore shoes. It was very networking-vibe, with "omg we HAVE to talk more later" but never doing so. Like nurses energy. To be fair I became more and more non-approachable as time went on.
A good note is that Swedish education is normally free, even uni degrees, but this one cost money. It was that was never addressed or mentioned when I applied; that's on me maybe, but the few friends I had didn't know either. A lot was beaten around the bush when it came to expenses. A big draw for the school was a trip they made to Berlin during a film festival. Once the time came around they mentioned the cost for the trip (which was not mentioned before, I thought it was included) and kinda of shamed people if they wouldn't pay and go. Saying how its a highlight of the education and the few staying behind just watch movies for a week. In addition, the film festival wasn't included in the price, and we would have to pay extra to go. It was supposed to be a week, but two days was for travelling by train.
The price was something I would rather use for a private Berlin trip. It wasn't a lot, but I refused to do it, mainly for how indirect they were with everything. A friend and I said we wouldn't go and a staff complained how they would have to keep the school open just for us.
My classmates weren't an issue, it was the teachers and system, which all just felt like a money laundering scheme. One day we travelled to Stockholm, and we were tasked to go four hours alone, sit and stare at an object and think what it made is feel. Those were the instructions.
Four hours. Alone. Then home.
I and one other instead went to grab a coffee and trash talk. Once the time was up, I just made up on the spot "what it made me feel" and he gave me a job well done. I understand the assignment, but the execution from the teacher was all wrong.
It wasn't my crowd tho, I came from a gaming development High school while these people were like, social studies. I'm used to a nerdy crowd, is what I'm trying to say.
I have two funny examples:
I was talking to some guy during a break the ice get together with the whole school (very small school) and I explained I studied video game development before, and he said "omg that's so cool!!" And I answered, "yeah! Do you play?" And he said "yes, the piano :)"
And other time we were talking about painters, and when they asked me who my favourite was, I thought I would joke and said "oh, donatello :) because I love purple" and NO ONE got my tmnt ref and instead thought some Italian Renaissance was my favourite artist.
But back to the main issue, it was the school: First day our teacher handed us supplies from a closet and I was like "wow! Thank you! When these run out (BECAUSE WE'RE FKN ARTISTS) can we grab new ones in the closet?" And she said "no :) this is for the two years you are here" Like eight different hardness pens and a block of paper.
My worse experience was that every Tuesday was lecture day (although we didn't have grades nor exams) and all students gathered in a dark room to look at a PowerPoint about culture and people.
Fun in theory, but again executed so badly. My last lecture one teacher said "oh, and we gotten complaint not everyone can take notes during the presentation, so we thought one from each class could take notes and share with everyone else later :)! Any volunteer?"
Like ??? What? I raised my hand and said "you have a PowerPoint there? Why can't just share the presentation with everyone if they want to go back later?" AND SHE ANSWERED "that is a great idea, but unfortunately that would take weeks. So this is a better alternative:)"
TO THIS DAY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE MEANT BY THAT
Smaller details ; expensive lunch, creepy teacher keeping images of women's privates on screen (and I'm an artist I don't mind nudity) pointless activities and little progression. I can't give it a fair judgement, I only lasted three weeks but jumped in the opportunity to leave.
Cherry on top was I had communicated in private with my mentor about quitting and the day it was decided I had to go back to get my stuff and have one last day and the teacher (not my mentor) exclaimed in the shadiest way "Sophie? I thought you quit" I hadn't told my friends yet.
Last day I replaced all my supplies with new from the fancy closet, and me and my friends stole coffee from the cafeteria during lunch (it was only included if you bought food) to celebrate my time. We all hated the system of the school, but all of us loved art.
My experience is mainly the environment the school was located in; upper-class pretending not to be. The people were alright and i got a few friends before quitting. It was also traditional, general art when I prefer digital art. The school, system, and teacher were hell, which is a shame because it took something I loved and turned it into all the things I hate. i don't regret going and I don't regret quitting when I did. Best thing to come out of it was my literal label Artschool Dropout
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A little rant about social media, art and community.
So i started commissions, it took me a lot of time but I finish to set up everything and that, I first upload them into a discord server im in.
It made me realize how much artist use instagram and how little space there is for artist now a day to upload art without the site being hostile to them.
I have a big beef with Insta, it block me for no reason whatsoever, while trying to open an Instagram account so I keep low contact with it, later they make it harder for people to get income for their content that they upload in the app.
My last straw was when they decided to feed ia with posts created on instagram, the complaint form that was created to try to avoid/complain that Insta did the ia thing, was not available in my country... you couldn't complain in latin america.
I have always had problems with instagram I never liked or got used to the app in the first place.
But as a person who wants to participate in community I am moderately obliged to start uploading on that site.
So I decide to get glaze or nightshade to protect my art.
What do I find, my PC can't handle it, it doesn't has enough memory or cpu.... I feel worst, but the thought that the only most accesible way for us to protect us from ia is an ibistpaint filter(you need premium for it but it actually not pricy at all...., ibis is a really good program)it's kinda heart broken.
Artist truly needs to keep or backs together right know, artist need a better site and more protection but will survive.
I like tumblr it has a great form for me to upload art and made this my place, i dont really want fame in social media i just want to share my art with the word and interact with my comunity, it's has his faults but I love it a lot and at least it has not force to feed ia so, I won't be leaving any time soon
If intrested this is my insta
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I saw your post about incest and i understand where you're coming from as someone who is also very uncomfortable with discussions of incest, but it doesn't seem productive or healthy for the fandom to put your complaints in the tag when you could just block the people yourself. What's the point of virtue signalling when we're talking about a source material full of incest?
Hi. I see where you're coming from and usually that's my method. So firstly I'm specifically talking about shipping incest, not just incest in general. I know the source material has incest in it, and obviously the subject is going to come up in discussions about Mordred which is totally fine. But it's unambiguously framed as a bad thing, which shipping is not, and that's where I'm having troubles. Tumblr doesn't block a person's entire account, only individual blogs. So I block one blog and then one of their side blogs still pops up in suggestions with the same content on it. Not everyone discloses their related blogs so even when I look to see if I can block them all, I can't find them until they find me. :^/
I've also recently had people willfully breaking the rules in my server, that is, sharing incest minor/adult shipping art, which is frankly kinda violating. My intention isn't virtue signaling, I would never tell someone they couldn't engage with whatever media they want or create art or writing with those themes if that's what they wanna do. It would be really hypocritical to do that especially considering I include Mordred's incest storyline in my books and I love the vulgate which is where that whole plot originated. But I acknowledge how my post can come off advocating for censorship or holier-than-thou, even if that wasn't my intention. It's just upsetting when a boundary is set and then it's crossed. It's one thing to discuss the themes of the medieval literature or the retellings that draw on it, it's another to post art of an infant held by an older brother who later in the story have a predatory incestuous relationship and then treat them like a cute couple in a place that has a specific rule against it. I just don't wanna see that in my space if I can help it.
However anon I do agree it was rash to put the post in the tags. Tagging was so automatic I didn't even stop to think what a dick move that is. It was impulsive and uncool of me, so for that I apologize. I've gone ahead and removed the tags from the post. Thanks for calling me out on stuff like this and I'll try to do better in future. Take care.
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i've been playing synergy over the past few days and it's been interesting
first of all: nice art style!! very moebius inspired clearly. aside from that, it is funny to think about how uniform the theming is for city-builder games. you're still making zones, you're still satisfying needs, you're still feeding your entire colony with like five farmers plucking three fruit bushes. i really never will get over that now
i don't really want to say anything definitive about how the game plays b/c their most recent update, a month ago, is labeled 0.4 and it (apparently) radically changed all of the gameplay mechanics. so it's kind of a work in progress. i did enjoy the plant management, tho (as is the usual complaint for me) it seemed pretty limited. gaining the ability to directly plant plants is maybe a third of the way up the tech tree, & that's the point when you can actually start mixing and matching requirements.
short version: to satisfy your inhabitant's desires, their house block needs to get points in 4 different categories (well-being, social, cultural, and knowledge). these are actually split up into a dizzying array of subcategories, but more on that later. some of these points come, directly or indirectly, from plants: shade is a well-being stat, and it comes from bigger trees or from manual constructions. several plants just flat-out have a vegetation well-being stat, and a few have a smelly stat that reduces well-being. so there's a certain amount of plant interpenetration with your city.
at the beginning you mostly have to make do with what's there, but over time as you unlock the ability to know a plant's local impact and growth requirements, and also start bringing back new plants from expeditions, you can start to mix-and-match and food/resources become not really an issue. seeds being fungible/the seed-sowing labor mostly existing to get you more seeds is a little weird though
the desire stuff gets pretty confusing though. there are three tiers for each, and they're separated into non-overlapping categories. so to get tier 1 well-being filled up, you need 1. shade, 2. an infirmary, which both give +5 tier 1 well-being. two shade or two infirmaries won't get you to +10, only both in concert. but vegetation gives you +5 tier 2 well-being, which will be used to satisfy tier 1 if necessary. meanwhile, tier 1 culture is just entirely from benches. knowledge tier 1 is from an explorer hut (+5) and a field laboratory (+5). the specific labels aren't surfaced when you try looking at the views & it can get a little confusing trying to remember all, like, 10 contributions to max tiers 1 & 2 for all categories (shade, infirmary, benches, flags, statues, fountains, tea, canteen, weather forecaster)
anyway the reason i bring all that up is b/c plants work in a similar fashion, only (thankfully) a little simpler. they care about temperature, humidity, organic material, and mineral content. these values have a base value based on the map, and they're then impacted by all the relevant objects in range (so there's no real 'simulation'; mineral-depleting plants just have a -5 malus in their range, rather than progressively depleting). this leads to a fairly simple situation that's made slightly more complicated by how plenty of plants will spread autonomiously. this is mostly relevant for the invasive ones that kill off all other plants. but it is neat to be planting whip gourds by the water plants so the humidity makes them grow bigger & in a wider area. there are a few clearly intended companion-planted situations, & there are plenty others that just arrive from the interaction between the plant impact/growth mechanics, so, that's kinda neat. roughly half the plant impacts are binary on/off things like shade, and half are actually stackable, and it's not super clear which is which. w/e it's fine.
anyway it's another city-builder and it's pretty limited in scope but it's been entertaining enough so far
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Tooning In 19. Ken Mitcherony part 1 of 4 (maybe, or alternatively about a half of Ken)
DL:So I ask you, who are you,what do you do, and what you're best known for?
KM:Ken Mitchroney, Carbon based unit. I do a lot of things but let's boil it down too, animation studio swiss army knife and comic book artist. Best known for Teenage Mutant ninja Turtles Adventures comic books and numerous animated features and TV shows. None of my skills include proof reading as we will see here.😄
DL:Lol! So growing up, how was your childhood?
KM: Middle class, Florida upbringing. No complaints.
DL:So, what were your favorite cartoons growing up?
KM:Warner Brothers and Tom and Jerry cartoons mostly. Some of the Hanna Barbera tv cartoons as well.
DL:So when did you decide you wanted to become an animator?
KM:Once I found out what they were.I think I was like, ten?
DL:So did you practice drawing? Like trying to draw the characters you see on Tv? Like how do they work?
KM:Constantly. And comic books and comic strips. Just trying to crack the code back then. It's how you learn.
DL:Yeah, kinda me too! It's just so hard. Until I found a book called How to Draw Animated Cartoons. That book taught me how to draw cartoons and design them.
KM:Yeah. Preston Blair's book on animation was the turning point. Found it in an art supply store in Lake Worth and it changed everything.That and getting a 16mm camera and learning how film works and is put together.
DL:I know, he just made everything look so easy! Especially character construction!
KM:The building blocks.
DL:Yeah! So,how was high school?
KM: had a different kind of high school experience than most. A friend of my fathers, Archie Di Bacco started a private school that had its own way of teaching and also focusing heavily on the arts. Being that I'm highly dyslexic, I was struggling in regular school because no one catered to this back then, so my folks sent me to Di Bacco School.I flourished there being a visual thinker.I learned film making, animation ,photography, broadcasting art and art theory and a ton of other skills. What a great place.Saved my life and loaded my gun for the careers I had coming.I was also in communication with Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, Mel Blanc and Friz Freling by this time. Great mentors 3000 miles away.And they were very kind with their time on the rare times I would come out.
DL:So how did you enter the industry after school? Was it hard? Because you didnt work in animation until 1988.
KM:Yeah, It was frustrating. Friz offered me a job at DFE but, I told him I wanted to finish my last year of high school and I would be back. The industry changed from cartoons to more realistic superhero shows and my portfolio didn't reflect the change so, even though I knew people, I could not get hired so I went back home, Licked my wounds and started to work in Comics and film until something broke.And it did. I was at comic con in San Diego promoting my book, Space Ark and Jerry Beck came by my table. " Sody Clampett has been trying to get a hold of you. They are doing a new Beany and Cecil television show and the family wants you to come in and Interview." My wife flew back to Florida. I took the train to Burbank and got the job. God bless Bob Clampett and the family.From then on it was animation, comic books and live action film.
DL:So,I want to ask you something.
KM:Why I'm here😄
DL:So are you a furry? According to your WikiFur page?
KM:Actually no. Space Ark was the first real funny animal comic book out there in the early 80's. I was not aware of the furry movement then but it was embraced by them and I think that's where all this came from. I have some friends who were into all that and I was happy to drop a few Space Ark drawings in fanzines as favors but that was about it. Guilt by association.
DL:Like Mike Kazaleh and Marc Schrimster?They were your colleagues right?'
KM:And friends, yeah. Good guys and very talented artists.
DL:I know! I have one of Mike's Captain Jack books!
KM:Yeah. Mike's books came after Cutie Bunny and Space Ark hit the stands. I wish more people remembered what we did back then. That self publishing time back in the early 80's was something else. A lot of talented guys and gals followed us and they and their books are sadly forgotten now.
DL:Yeah, I mean the most known funny animal comic now is Cerbus the Aardvark!
KM:I got a very nice write up in one of the Cerbus editorials back then when we all met up for the Comic Book Creator Rights Conference in North Hampton that my old pals Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird put on.Talking about how funny animal comic book artist are the Rodney Dangerfield of the industry.😄 But I digress.
DL:Haha! So back on track, Beany and Cecil for DiC, Bob Clampett Productions and ABC.
KM:Yup!
DL:How was working on it as a layout artist?
KM:It was fine. John.K was very demanding about what he needed and kept us all on our toes. I learned a lot about TV production, schedules and studio politics and made friends with guys who would ask me to go on to be life long trench buddies in the business. It was a shame it ended so quickly.
DL:From an interview from DiC vice president Robby London, said it was a nightmare in production. especially John K, as he would draw stuff in the episode nobody would see.
KM:Being a mindless production drone at the time, we didn't really hear about that until the day we all got cut.So I went back to Florida again and then got the call to come back out and work on Tiny Toons so, it all worked out.
DL:So who called you? Tom Ruegger?
KM:Eddie Fitzgerald. He wanted to get the old Beany band back together again.So we all just migrated back there. And Mike Kazaleh graciously let me sleep on the couch in his living room.
DL:What a nice guy!
KM:Indeed.
DL:So what is a layout artist? Is he the guy who draws the poses for the in-betweener to draw, creating motion?
KM:You do key pose drawings for the overseas animators based on the storyboard. A lot like what an animation director would do back in the old days. This also included background keys from time to time. I was also doing storyboard revision and clean up by this time.
DL:Ah, so what did you think of doing a Muppet Babies version of the Looney Tunes?
KM:They were their own thing so I didn't have a problem with it at all. The fact we got to draw the real Loony Tunes guys from time to time was a real treat.And we got to work with some of the old WB mid timers. What an education. For me anyway.
DL:cool! Were you a caricature in Tiny Toons?
This is a splash page of all of the crew who worked on tiny toons circa 1990. Notice the guy with the derp stare and big forehead on the right, yeah that’s Bruce Timm, creator of Batman: the Animated Series.
This was all the crew on the show.
KM:Bruce Time taught himself how to do caricatures and he went nuts during production. Funny stuff. I'm right in front of Jeff Pidgeon in this one.
DL:Yeah, you were so tiny in that one!Did Bruce Timm really have a big forehead?
KM:Yeah. Both of us did in his drawings.😄
DL:Ah ok.
KM:Some amazingly talented folks in that one.
DL:I thought he wore glasses?This was a caricature of himself in Batman.
This is the character Ted Dymer, the main antagonist of the Batman:TAS episode, Beware the Grey Ghost. Who is also modeled after and voiced by Bruce Timm. notice the glasses and blonde hair?
Did he wear glasses later?
KM:We all did. Thanks animation.
DL:Yeah. So Taz Mania for FOX as a layout artist?
KM:I was a story artist by that time and was doing development with Jeff Pidgeon on Taz Mania. Jeff left to work on the Simpsons and then a little commercial house up north called Pixar. I went back home to Florida and got called back to do story on Taz once it got greenlit.
DL:So how was working there? with Bill Kopp and Mike Milo and some guy who's first name is Art
KM:Same old same old.Bill and I are certifiable and should not be left unsupervised. Hahaha!!!
DL:Lol!So you left WB in 1991, why did you?
KM:They would not let me move up to director so I followed Art Leonardi over to Universal to get their animation studio up and running. Being that I was a live action guy and understood his film language, Steven had me come back and re-board the mine chase in the Tiny Toons summer vacation special. I never received credit for that one but hey, it was for Steven and I love that guy's work. But yeah. I did a lot of development pitch art and storyboards for things like The Munsters and Oswald the Magical Rabbit. We also did work for Shelly Duvall's Bedtime Stories and whatever needed bandaids over there.
DL:Can you tell me what was the Oswald reboot?This was pre Disney/Walter Lantz ownership of the character.
KM:They found out they owned it and wanted to see if there was anything to it. Five boards of concept art and an outline was all it got.
DL:Oh ok. So that's what it was.
KM:Yeah. It just died.
DL:Sadly nobody uses Oswald after 1952, he wasn't brung back until 2006 with Epic Mickey, the video game.What was the Munsters cartoon?
KM:The Munsters was great fun and all mine to develop. I was in heaven because I loved the show so much. The studio shut down just before our pitch. It would have been great fun.The only thing that came of the whole Universal Animation studio effort was Stunt Dawgs for Hal Needham. Once Universal pulled the plug on its animation effort, that was sent over to DIC. I did all the character designs but didn't get the gig working on the show. That's Hollywood.
DL:Who is Hal Needham?
KM:Hal Needhan was king of the stuntmen and a very popular movie director at the time.
DL:Ah. You also worked on Back to the Future:the Animated Series?
KM:One of the great take aways from working at Universal. It's also the show where I met John Stevenson who went on to direct Kung Fu Panda when I was at Dreamworks and years later, he and I were working on and just finished Max and the Midknights at Nickelodeon.
DL:Wow! Friends to the end,eh?
KM:Yes sir!
DL:So you opened an independent studio with Mike Kazaleh in 1992 right in orlando?
KM:In Deland Florida, yeah. I was not getting what I wanted out of Hollywood and was sick of being away from your wife eight months of the year, sleeping on floors and couches all over the valley so I left. My last interview was with John K to come work with the old gang on Ren and Stimpy. I had a feeling it was going to be a train wreck so I thanked John, waved bye to all my pals over at Spumco and went home to start my own studio. Everyone said I was nuts but I was able to keep it going for seven years. We did a lot of productions for Hollywood, local commercials, comic books and anything that came through our doors. Bob Ross came by and had us develop a show for him before he died. Happy trees. Happy animated trees. Hahaha!!!
DL:Wow! So do you remember any projects you did back then at your studio?
KM:We did more Back to the Future and boarded a lot of stuff. The Ninja Turtle thing was hitting then so I did a lot of art and comics for Mirage and Archie. I'm so glad I did because all that is hot again and it's saving my neck between productions nowadays. Cowabunga!Then Jeff Pidgeon contacted me about a story gig at Pixar and the world changed again.
DL:What was Santa's Magic Book?
KM:Our last production. Yeah.
DL:I was baffled by that, and I had to ask.
KM:Yeah. Some local businessmen wanted to do a show.
DL:Go on?
KM:And that was it. Just another thing to keep the studio lights on- barely.
DL:And did it air on local TV?
KM:I guess? We delivered it, I shut down the studio and moved to the bay area by then.
DL:Ok. And you said goodbye to Orlando?
KM:Deland, Florida actuality. We still have our property there but yeah, I love the bay area. And always have.
#animation#animation interview#tooning in.#warner bros animation#tiny toon adventures#fox kids#tom ruegger#90s cartoons#taz mania#back to the future#universal studios#Ken Mitcherony#beany and Cecil#john kricfalusi#space ark#furry
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It's 15 days early, but in celebration for a certain silent bean's birthday. Time for more Headcanons... of the Hap Birf variety.
So it's Sunny's Birthday. A wonderful time for all, honestly it should be an International Holiday. Especially since the gang uses this day as an excuse (not that they really need it) to tickle him to pieces.
Honestly they do this for everyone's birthday, no one is safe from the Birthday Tickles. It's just Sunny's time to be adorably murdered.
It doesn't help that the biggest tickle monster in town, nay the World, sleeps right beside him. So here he was strolling around his dreamworld of colors and rainbows only to be snapped awake in a fit of laughter. Sunny would be annoyed that he was awoken from his dreams but he's too busy laughing to file a formal complaint to Mari. So he settled for an out of breath form of the silent treatment, which lasted for about 10 seconds until Mari promised to make him Birthday Cookies. Then he immediately started talking to her again.
So after the first wave, the second attack came almost immediately after the sibling duo got ready for the day. Because outside the door was Kel, eager and ready to serve up his Birthday Tickles. So, naturally Sunny ran away. Not to escape really because he knows there's no escape with Kel, but he wanted at least a comfortable place to lay down and die from tickles. So he ran into the living room to quote-unquote 'hide' on the couch until Kel caught up and started the onslaught.
Next up on the Tickle Attack Chart is Aubrey, and out of everyone in the friend group Sunny feared her tickle prowess the most. He'd argue that she was as close to being on par with Mari herself, mainly due to her innate ability to find an opening even with Sunny trying to block her evil tickling hands. It also didn't help that she's super quick on the draw, so every time Sunny would try to protect a spot she would quickly focus on another part. Realizing that there was no hope in trying to stop her Sunny just let her tickle him freely. Much to the ribbon girl's delight.
Anyway that should be all-- No wait Basil is coming in with his fabled technique... the Tickle Hug. A Tickle Dark Art that is practiced by a select few people, and Basil is a master at it. It's his bread and butter, and Sunny should have realized that this was all a trap. But he was loopy from the giggles and could never turn down a Basil Hug. Until... the betrayal. As Basil dug his fingers into Sunny's stomach he realized that he's caught in a vice grip of laughter and comfort with no hope of escape. It didn't help that Basil is... kinda strong. Mans carries bags of fertilizer semi-regularly for his gardens so once you're in his hug, there's no escape until he says so.
Now it's time for Hero, and he takes a more... vocal approach. He may not be as strong, or capable of doing endurance chases, or has as optimal hand-eye coordination as the others... but what he makes up for is talking. Talking and teasing and using that endearingly smug smile that Sunny both loves and hates!
Hero has like an thesaurus built into his brain or something, because he never repeats a tease. Ever. 'Will you stop squirming so much?' 'Why are you hiding, huh?' 'Not here? Hmm... nah. I wanna tickle here some more'. Even if Sunny was able to speak properly through all the laughing he would still not be able to articulate a proper rebuttal against all of that. Hero knows this too, which is why he's always last when it comes to Sunny Birthday Tickles.
But either way... that's it. All 5 of them got their tickles in. The sacred ritual has been compleee-- Why is Mari coming back for more? What is this? This is unprecedented!
Mari is just straight up saying 'Frick the rules, I have Sibling Perks', and is coming back for a second wind. Makes sense since she's an established practitioner of the Tickle Dark Arts. While Basil has only masted one of the techniques, Mari has mastered all of them. From the Tickle Hug, to Verbal Teases, to Ghost Tickles a technique she created herself, to even stealing Sunny's Sneak Attack technique. Such an expansive repertoire of moves earns her the right to the title of 'Tickle Monster' and she flexes that title often... mostly on poor Sunny.
And it was at that moment where Sunny realized that the tickle attack from this morning was just an appetizer. A sneak peek for the wreckoning he was facing. As he was held down by his big sister... who asked "Any last words?" He had one, and it was to stick his tongue out at her. She took that challenge in kind, as Sunny's laughter echoed throughout the neighborhood.
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Aaaaah, birthday tickles is such a great trope, in my opinion! It is teasy, silly, playful and also very fun to see! To think of Sunny having a day full of giggles and laughter and not minding it at all is so heartwarming. My bruh is just having the time of his life with his friends and family during his b-day and it's very adorable to see. Also ahwcgwvwhwvw Mari being such a tickle monster is basically Canon for me xDDD
#the 'any last words?' and Sunny choosing to be a Brat is greaaaaat#they are So Silly#Basil mastering the tickle hug and Kel the Tickle Chase like heck yeah lets gooooo#<333#Kanene's askys#Ticklish!Sunny#Lee!Sunny#<3#Ler!Kel#Ler!Basil#Ler!Hero#Ler!Mari#Ler!Aubrey#happiness and laughter is what they deserve#omori tickles#omori tickling#omori tickle headcanons#starstorm2112 is precious
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Kuu no Mori Review
Hello welcome on my „Playing BL games no one ever heard of” game journey. Kuu no Mori was recommended by a friend who didn’t play the game themself (lol). Apart from the obvious yaoi-core art of the early 2000s the story had me interested. So, I decided to give it a try and I’m glad I did because I did enjoy it. There will be spoiler but they will be in an extra part, in case someone actually wants to play it (don’t believe it but just in case).
18+ you know the deal
Story
Basically the main character Yukimura Takashi is on his way to his grandpa’s (great grandpa’s?) funeral, but on his way his car breaks down in a storm in the middle of a forest. Luckily for him he finds a mansion nearby and is invited to stay by the butler until the road, that is blocked by the storm is clear again. Of course, this is not a normal mansion and soon mysterious things begin to happen….
So, in this game basically all characters have a route. There is the butler, the maid, the son of the owner, his cousin, the gardener, the doctor and a mysterious route with a character you won’t see until you pretty much played all routes.
The game has bad, normal, spiral, brute, dream, good and best ends, you need to play at least one end until you can play the best end.
One bad end in ever route is just MC returning home, which is something I don’t count as a “bad” end but ok. The brute ends are usually the “true” bad ends of the game. Spiral ends always end with MC dying and him returning to the part where he just arrived at the mansion.
Also, the game can have MC as bottom or top depending on the route. Or both.
Characters
Yukimura Takashi
(Poor bitch, always ends in the bdsm basement)
The main character was actually alright, he wasn’t stupid and could think for himself, he also didn’t mind falling for a guy and for a 2004 stone age bl game that alone is impressive. He could also be an asshole, especially when he was top, but usually he was kind. My only complaint would be that he was falling way too fast for the LI. The LI would lick his finger and this idiot would dream 3 days about it.
Sakuraba Hayato
(Yes I had to use that face)
The cousin I played first because he has Miki Shinichiro’s va cough cough. I don’t usually like the playboy characters, but he was alright, I guess? He did sexual harassed the MC but nothing too bad. Of course, he had the “tragic backstory” what else did I expect? But overall, an ok route.
*Spoiler part*
So, the MC mentioned often how he looks sad when he talk about love and we later learn that the woman he loved drowned in a pond near the mansion when they wanted to run away and now she is basically haunting him and doesn’t want him to leave her (ghost?). In all best ends and some other ends after the LI and MC get together, the mansion suddenly catches fire, so they have to flew. In one of his bad ends his ghost girlfriend blocks him from leaving lmao ok. In the best end they successfully escape with the dead girlfriend’s blessing and live together, also the mansion basically vanishes, and they later find out that no one knew the mansion or the people who lived there actually existed.
Nanase Mao
(Thats actually a pretty CG)
The maid, yes this is a guy, and he is not even hiding it lol. He basically sleeps with everyone in the mansion and loves cute dresses. His route was also ok, not my type of character because no matter how much I know he is a man my brain thinks instantly “woman” when I see him. MC was kinda a dickhead in his route, but he apologized so it’s alright. He had the “prettiest” CGs in the game.
*Spoiler part*
The reason he always wears cute dresses is because his mother would only pay attention to him when he wore them because yes, she wanted a girl, so he got used to wearing them. And the reason why he sleeps around is because he likes it when people love his body the way it is and not because he wears cute dresses. So actually, I liked his good end way more than the best end, because in the good end he cuts his hair and starts wearing man clothes and only sometimes wears his dresses. Rather than just liking cute dresses I felt like he was wearing them in a way to deal with not being accepted by his mother, so him starting to reject this felt more like he started to finally get over this. In the best end he lives with MC as basically a girl and works at a cosplay café.
Takahama Kengo
(Mmh sexy sharp quality pic, I’m sorry the game is so old you can’t even play fullscreen)
Oh god how do I even start….This man is trash, his only goal is to sexual harass the MC and he uses all chances he gets. He even tried it in other routes. Oh, also did I mentioned I don’t like doctor characters? Because being a doctor is their only personality and their reason for becoming a doc is always “I lost someone important to me bla bla” zzzz.
Dear reader it’s time to scarify another victim to the trash pile. Hooray hooray!
*Spoiler part*
Doc became doc for sick brother, brother dead, he sad now needs to sexual harass MC. MC srupid idiot can’t escape his “great” finger work bla bla, they escape bla bla doc is some beast in bed pfffff whatever get this man away from me.
Onoda Seiichirou
(Look at the small hamster on his shoulder (∗´ ᨔ `∗) )
The gardener and my personal favourite. He only shows up to introduce himself in other routes and you won’t see him until you play his route. He looks intimidating but he is such a sweetheart. Him and MC spend the whole route talking about flowers, he is like a Disney princess but instead of animals the plants love him. He also has a cute hamster that lives in the forest and comes to sit on his shoulder sometimes?? How cute is that??Also him being bottom in the good end had me very surprised.
*Spoiler Part*
In his good end MC stays together with him in the mansion and they live happy after buuuut, in his best end after he and MC escape the burning mansion and pass through the forest it turns out that he is actually a part of a tree that grows in the greenhouse, that took the form of a human and because he is connected to the mansion he can’t existed outside it. So, he starts to turn back into a tree but not before telling the MC, that he loves and is glad to have met him. After the tree turns into sand and MC fully devastated brings the sand back home and plants it, from which a red rose grows that in flower language means “I love you”. Honestly? What a great end, I love different ending than the usual “they lived happy ever after” kind of endings, the story was really cute, and they had great chemistry and yes, I’m a little sad over the end but I think letting it end this way made it more special.
Kishiwada Shounosuke
(His head looks like an avocado)
The butler of the mansion. From the very beginning this man was scary and always felt like he hidden side to him, and as expected I didn’t enjoy his route, his polite way of talking just freaks me out and his good and best end were not eh how should I say it “enjoyable”. The only good part about his route is that you will find out more about the mansion. To play his best end you have to play the best end of the former four characters.
*Spoiler part*
There is no “good end” in his route, he is evil and wants to get rid of the MC because he is too close to the mansion owner’s son. Good end and best end have no difference they both end with MC being locked up in the bdsm basement. The normal end is maybe would I consider a “good” end where MC stays with him (without ending in the bdsm basement) but it’s hinted that he plans on killing him later on, also he can be bottom in the normal end. The more important part is that in his route we find out that the former owner who lived in the Meiji period (1868-1912) killer his adoptive son, who he had a sexual relationship with and his son’s lover who he tried to run away with because the pedo father kept his son locked up in the mansion, and then put a curse on the mansion. Alrighty then.
Ayasegawa Yuuri
(My friend said his eyes make him look like a bug HAHAAHAHA)
The son of the mansion owner and what I consider the “true route” of the game. He is very cold to the MC in the beginning and always tells him to leave. His good end is unlocked from the beginning, but I recommend doing the other characters first. Not my kind of character but he had all the keys to the mystery of the mansion, so it was still interesting to play, and he had the most ends, which took forever to complete.
*Spoiler Part*
Let’s get straight to the point, Yuri’s father, the mansion’s owner moved with his wife in the mansion after it was abandoned for a few year. There his wife had Yuuri but died a while later after giving birth to him and his father was so in grieve that he promised to always protect Yuuri and never let him leave the masion.
From what I understand the curse of the mansion made him go crazy and one day when he Yuuri tried to run away he killed him and after realising what he had done he set fire to the mansion that killed everyone in it. But probably through that curse the mansion and the forest surrounding it were thrown into a time loop that always end with Yuuri dying and the mansion being burning down. (This is where the name of the game, “Kuu no Mori” meaning “empty forest” comes from)
Yuuri is the only one who has the memory of the time loops, his father on the other hand, had being unconscious since the first time-loop, so even without his father doings Yuuri just randomly dies at some point and the mansion burns down.
This is where the MC comes into the story. At some point Yuuri starts having dreams about MC and his life. Which ended with MC being able to enter the time loop. After he tells the MC about it, they try to escape the mansion, that is burning yet again. (MC disturbing the time loop so now it can burn without Yuuri having to die first). Of course, they are stopped by the evil butler (what a surprise) who tries to get Yuuri back.
At some point it was also revealed that MC and Yuuri each had an amulet that belongs to Yuri’s father and MC’s great grandfather who were friends and had it made so they always could always remember each other when they were apart. (Just normal bros having friendship amulets, no homo) These amulets got close to each other during the fight with the butler the energy kinda released the spirit of MC’s great grandpa (who’s funeral MC was heading to) who tells the butler to stop, and then we learn that the soul of the butler and the father got mixed at some point and he start doing all this shit because of his obsession with Yuuri. So, after MC great grandfather menages to convince him to let Yuuri go they can finally escape (yay).
And here is a different between the good end and the best end. In the good end Yuri can’t exist in the world outside the time loop because he died long ago, but in the best end he can for some reason and there was no explanation why he could suddenly, but consider how the other characters could also leave the time-loop without dying it’s fine I guess? So anyways they escape, the time loop is finally broken, and the souls of the other characters are finally released and MC and Yuuri live happy ever after.
…The end right ? Nope
Dio
(Ah yes great I love furry )
Welcome to the locked route of the game and yes you see correctly, that’s a wolf…. This whole route felt like the developer finished the game, celebrated by having a weed party, got too high and wrote an extra route. But don’t worry we suddenly didn’t turn from boys love to bestiality love, he also has a more “human” version in the appearance of an gorilla HAHAHAHAHA (kill me).
(The zoo called they want their gorilla back)
*Spoiler part*
Dio, whose full name is Diosdor*ze¥*fi&ctle$#& (no this is not a joke) is some kind of…. I have no idea honestly, God? Spirit? Yokai? Whatever he is stuck in the time-loop, and nothing is really explained because he doesn’t really speak like a normal human. MC becomes besties with him talks with him for like 2 day plays rock-scissors-stone with him and gets his ass ripped and it ends with Dio finally being free and taking him up the sky or some shit to show him where he came from??? ……..I have no words, the hell?
Anyways let’s pretend that route never happened.
Art and Musik
Lmao yes beautiful yaoi faces they had, I had a good laugh from it, some CGs where not too bad if they didn’t show their giant chins. But overall, it wasn’t too bad in my eyes, I can ignore the artwork if the story is enjoyable. Every character had its own background music, so instead of different music for different scenes the music of the character you were talking with was playing.
Conclusion
Would I recommend the game? Yes, sure why not, I had fun. With such old games I can’t go around judging too hard, why should I complain about something so old, it’s just how games where back them and honestly compared to some newer trash I played *coughdystopianooucough* I rather take this game. Of course the romance development maybe felt a little fast but the route where rather short, and honestly I didn’t care about the romance in the game I just wanted to know what was wrong with the mansion. Overall the whole game didn’t felt rushed at all. There was less rape (outside the bad ends) than expected (only 1 scene I think?) and the characters were fun and MC not stupid (god bless). Also I skipped all H-scenes HAHAHAHA. So yeah I had fun and I will look into some older game now more often.
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For the violence ask game - 1, 17, 25
1. the character everyone gets wrong
honestly i think theres a few but i feel like jimmy is just. so incorrectly characterised all the time.
17. there should be more of this type of fic/art
im just gonna say more vintagebeef bc i check the vintagebeef & zedaph & smallishbeans tags every single day and. the beef tag is so fucking lacking. its usually theres a post like every 3 days and half the time theyre my own posts and most reccently have just been abt the tcg which yes very fucking cool and awesome but like. beef is an og mcyt like. cmon. and he still does lore things! kinda! like. hello s8???? and hes just cool and interesting and deserves more and he deserves fics abt him that are not just ship fics bc most of the time if hes involved in fics hes either background character or sometimes love interest. which yes fine at least theres something but like cmooon
25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing
scarian is too popular. like okay you make stuff that isnt that then? and if u dont wanna see it like thats way easier to block the tags for than say watchers or ykmow shit like that like its not an issue i think people just like to hate popular things sometimes
#original post tag#ask tag#the awnser for number 1. im Ignoring the misoginy bc like. they barely get anycharacterisation so like ofc its bad yknow? i went with like.#characterisation that is there and ypu can see why but ur still so very wrong#went on a rant abt beef. can u tell ive watched him since i was 13#ndbsjsjskdj#thank uuuuuuuuu#i might send u some in a bit <3#<- will probably forgor
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I SAW THE SUPER MARIO BROS MOVIE!
Overall verdict: I liked it! The art and animation are beautiful, there are SO MANY fun nods and Easter Eggs to the franchise and Nintendo's history as a whole, and it felt like the creators really wanted to do right by the series. There are some small things in it that either felt out of place or didn't quite work, but taken as a whole package, I enjoyed it. The last third of the movie especially was fantastic and had me grinning like a fool all the way to the end. If you're a fan of the series, you should definitely see it at some point, either now or when it comes to streaming. Totally worth it.
Some other thoughts with some spoilers under the cut.
-I like that they didn't try to explain or rationalize the inherent weirdness of the Mushroom Kingdom. We don't need to know how or why the blocks float, or where the powerups and prize blocks come from. They just exist, and that's how it should be. The Mario universe runs on being wacky and strange and I'm glad the movie didn't try to make it something it's not.
-I generally have a not-so-great opinion about casting celebrities to do the voice overs in animated films, because I see it as a big F-U to actual voice actors. But the cast here is fine. Jack Black's the standout as Bowser as we all pretty much knew, but the rest of the cast does a good job overall. I do not like Seth Rogan and he didn't make any effort to not sound like himself as Donkey Kong, but I was able to ignore it anyway. YMMV. I don't dislike Anya Taylor-Joy's take on Peach, but her voice feels too deep for the character.
-I laughed at the reveal that Mario doesn't like mushrooms (womp womp). Poor guy.
-The brotherly moments between Mario and Luigi were super wholesome and I loved them, especially how they hug when they're reunited.
-One of my fears about the film was what they'd do with Peach, mainly a concern that they'd turn her into a more generic Hollywood "girlboss" and strip her of her personality. Or turn her into a snarky jerk. Thankfully, that's not the case. While she is more of an action princess here than we typically see of her (and to anyone complaining about or questioning that, shut up. Peach has always been capable of platforming and kicking ass since 1988), she is still essentially Peach. She's always in her signature pink aside from when she's using a power up, she's sweet and kind and protective of her subjects, and she grows to be Mario's biggest supporter (Luigi aside).
-They also slipped in an origin story for her (kinda) which was neat. And possibly a sequel hook. And I like how this movie makes clear that she loves the toads and they love her too, something that's implied in the games but wasn't always explicitly shown.
-THE ARE SO MANY EASTER EGGS. I'm guessing it's impossible to find them all without a guide. And the references generally aren't slammed in your face but hidden in background details or in the music, which makes it even better. I think my favorite was Luigi's ringtone being the Gamecube startup jingle.
-Seriously, the art direction and animation are incredible. I hope the entire crew gets a raise. I love how the Mushroom Kingdom looks and my only complaint is that I wanted to see more of it.
-The score is incredible too. It's mind-boggling how many classic Mario themes and musical nods you can hear at different points. If you played a drinking game with it, you'd be dead of alcohol poisoning less than halfway through the movie.
-Bowser's probably the funniest character, and it does nothing to reduce how threatening he is (he's downright terrifying in the climax). But special shoutout to the Luma who spouts some of the best lines in the film. They're incredibly dark, but I love that little guy.
-Dry Bones are nightmare fuel here and I love it.
-The complaints about the pacing aren't entirely off. The movie does feel a little too brisk, but some of that I think is that early in, there's a lot of "bullet points" plot progression, where Mario and Peach are just doing X, Y and Z for the plot while we intercut with what's going on with Luigi or Bowser. There's not a ton of connective tissue between these scenes and so it feels a bit disjointed, and the result is that things happen rapid fire. It's not necessarily bad, but it is something that could've been done more smoothly.
-The third act is by far the strongest part of the film. Once the Rainbow Road sequence starts (which is a gorgeous set piece), the flow of the movie feels more natural. The strong ending does a lot to patch up some of the flaws in the middle parts.
-The final battle with Bowser is awesome. Mario and Luigi both kick the crap out of him while powered by an invincibility star, and they cap it off by spinning him by the tail a la SM64. Perfection.
-While the original score is great as I mentioned, I think some exec made them shove in some 80s pop songs and they feel quite out of place. The worst offender by far is "Take on Me" playing when Mario reaches the Kong Kingdom. It doesn't fit for either the vibe of the scene or for the movie in general. You can't tell me they couldn't have done a remix of some DKC music there instead.
-The jokes are a bit hit or miss at times. There's plenty of genuinely funny moments (Bowser's love ballad is probably the highlight), but there are some one-liners that don't land. They're too "captain obvious" to be either jokes or exposition, so they just fall flat.
-I think the complaints about the "thin plot" comes from Disney/Pixar bias that animated movies are supposed to have hidden deeper meanings and there needs to be angsty moments within the wacky hijinks. And uh...Mario's never been about that. Even the more story heavy RPGs in the series tend to run more on rule of funny rather than trying to be dramatic. If they make a Zelda movie (please), I would expect it to have some genuine pathos, but I don't need that in a Mario movie. To me, the thing that is quintessential about the series (especially the platformers) is a sense of wonder and joy. I think they ably captured that in the movie. There are two emotional through lines: a) Mario and Luigi's brotherly love and b) Mario trying to figure out who he is what he wants to do. And neither needs to be dwelt on much because the brothers are happily reunited and Mario becomes a hero over the course of the film. It's simple and it works.
-The movie is very "safe" in that it didn't take any real risks with the property, but that's OK too. Given how infamously horrible the 1993 film turned out, it's hard to blame Nintendo for wanting to stick with what they knew would work.
-THE YOSHI EGG AFTER THE CREDITS OMG!
-This really is the Mario movie I wanted back in 1993. I had to wait 30 years for it, but I think it was worth it. Bring on the Nintendo Cinematic Universe!
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About (18+ Blog)
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if you don't like it, don't follow! i post for myself and my friends! i post what i want! my writing is an escape and a way for me to process my own shit in the world i live in as well as a way to cope. if you don't like it LEAVE
i do a LOT of art and a LOT of writing. however. i forget to post it. so this blog's kinda dead!!! if you want to see more shit from me or of a specific character, don't be afraid to ask and i'll gladly share
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about me? im 23, prepping to apply for a phd program in school psychology with a bachelor's in fine arts in screenwriting. i write prose and draw pictures of my ocs with backgrounds coz i love drawing backgrounds
check out my bestie's blogs @yeenteefies for main and @honsebeasts for his really cool awesome neat ocs who i have many stories / ships with
i also play dnd! every week!!! with my super cool awesome dnd friends from college. i play a conquest paladin aasimar (that's warren). he's too much. the tag for stuff related to the party is just #yeehoes
i have bpd, autism, & adhd. if you don't like that, don't follow. i'm unmedicated, but i'm more under control these days.
I do not tag others art or the fandoms the art's from. I only tag for gore (#gore, #blood), flashing (#flashing), spiders/insects (#spiders, #insects, #bugs), or unreality (#unreality). If there's any you want me to add, lemme' know and I'll consider it (I'll probably say yes unless its SUPER specific coz i might forget).
OCS + favorite books, music, movie, etc under the cut.
Trivia: —half Romanian, half Texmex (czech/german + mexican) —fave movie is Fargo —my space sci-fi shit is largely inspired by the tv show The Expanse.
Fave Bands: —Muse (favorite songs are In Your World and Dead Star) —Linkin Park —Amigo the Devil —Nine Inch Nails —Calexico —Brown Bird —Rammstein —MCR occasionally
Fave Books: —American Gods by Neil Gaiman —We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver —Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy —maybe Pet Sematary by Stephen King who is my favorite author
Main OCS:
Vini + Quinn (#vini.png, #quinn.net, #d3m0litionl0v3rs): besties who kill together. vini's quinn's guardian angel. quinn's vini's little death. they've died for each other countless times and their bond is unbreakable. not human anymore
Elliot (#elliot.png): shitfaced. hurt. fucked. broken. pissed off at the world for the shit it's put him through. wishing he could kill them all Derek (#derek.png): strange. alienated. scared. scared of everyone for treating him like another. wishing they'd see how above them he is. Elliot + Derek (#code voltage): besties. too much. freaks. human sometimes. there's an 80s au where they're monsters Derek + Jordan (#prince.png, @/honsebeast's) (#strange&unusual): what you get when a god finds another god when the first god thought he was the last of his kind. They click. They understand each other on a completely different level. Elliot + Kalani (#kalani.png, @/hurrl's) (#chocolatestrawberries): he'll die for her. she'll kill for him. she taught him a lesson and he learned better. now he's as obsessed with her as she is with him. She loves him so much, but it's okay because he needs her love to survive.
Mars (#mars.png): rocky younger years have lead to a chiller middle-aged life. trying to gather the pieces and learn to live again. how you kill the monster? love the monster. human Mars + Danny (@/honsebeast's) (#armada): i love you when no one else will. you love me despite all my flaws. you make me human again.
Warren + Jay (#warren.png, #jay.png, #4m3r1c4nm4n14cs): the fire the flame and the burning smoldering ember. a serial killer and his priest, a god and his follower. two of the same. die for each other to live again. human unless angel.
Cody (#cody.png): broken bruised forgotten sore, too fucked up to care anymore. that's what happens when you back a kid into a corner. he bites to kill.
Other OCs that aren't that important right now that you'll occasionally see tagged but that I won't link are as follows: Ryfraf (whore), Riymah (scary clown goth gf), Derwood (taxidermist), Blue (hacker), Pork/Porkrinds (the happiest merc you've ever seen, @/honsebeast's).
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WAHHH I SCANNED THROUGH ALL THE OTHER THREADS AND ITS ALL SO GOOD!! Op please tag me in any art u do for this I would love love love to see it
YES as someone who owns a bird, the fluff and dander and feathers are EVERYWHERE especially during moulting season. Preening sessions are so funny for the humans, especially if they aren't used to it, because suddenly there's bits of feather and keratin in ur nose. If any eggs hatch into feathered dragons it would just add to it, losing all their baby fluff and feathers all over the couches and corners of their homes..
WHICH LEADS ME TO MORE SHEDDING HCs. Obviously furred hybrids like cats or dogs, complaints of fur on the furniture and on clothes, but you know what would be freaky? Spider or reptile shed. You mention wolf spider Roier in one of the threads, and while wolf spiders generally only shed 1-2 times in their life, they're not giant spider hybrids. Eventually that fucker has to shed and it would be so hilariously horrifying to those who didn't know.
Leo has caught on to Foolish's habits and now knows every invasive species by name. I've seen a lot of humanoid/dragon designs of Leo also being a water dragon, and it's so fucking hype, them both swimming together and RAAAGHH!! Vegetta gets a little boat or something. I don't know if he'd be a hybrid or a human. Haven't decided- maybe a dog.
ETOILES AS A CUCUMBER IS SO GOOD TOO LOL !! We could say he climbs trees or vines to hide and jump down on his victims, or hides in bushes as well. Cucumbers are grown in a variety of positions. But basically, this guy finds ways to blend into his environment so well. I LOVE the golden apple hc- it's so perfect ur brain is so good
My ideas of bad vary tbh, I usually just see him as a completely black demon w white eyes but I like playing around with a variety of different things! If he does have wings, I imagine they're most like bat-type wings, y'know? He doesn't have the same expression as feathered avians, but they're pretty similar! Maybe fireproof as well! He'll bump other avians with the edge his wings as a greeting, use them as an umbrella or sun-shield- maybe even pick people up like that one picture of a jacana bird.
I also imagine him with a tail that the eggs hold on to while he's babysitting and they're walking somewhere.
Avians in general just hold the eggs under their wings. Depending on how willing they are, it looks like one of these..
Anyways! Forever.. currently inspired by my dog, does the best puppy dog expression to get things or stop people being mad at him, works the absolute best on BBH. He looks up/down at you and wags his tail and goes "Please??" and then you cave and do what he wants. I also imagine the dog side of him flares whenever he gets an injury that's either too small to warrant a gap or leftover from what healing couldn't get, in the case of a severe wound. He'll want to knaw on it and lick it. The other brazillians had to put on a protective cast to stop him, it was either that or a cone of shame. On that topic, he just likes to bite stuff, and I love the idea that Missa as a skeleton leaves Forever using all of his self control not to go crazy. Freak ♥️♥️
I've always liked the idea of mob-hybrid Mike ! Slime or creeper seem to be the most popular. I'd like to think he's both in this case. This explosive slime thing that can materialize into a human form, much like Charlie. As for Pac, I've always seen him as some sort of mammal hybrid, just not sure what! I like the bat idea a ton, though. I will have to consider this... And the same block thing is adorable LOL I imagine slimes as very clingy creatures.
On the topic of slime, my favorite idea of Charlie is that while he can solidify into a humanoid form, he's kinda bad at it. He's always leaving bits of slime wherever he goes and starts to melt during extreme emotion. He just bends and goops around all the time. His inventory may as well just be him sticking things into the slime and pulling them back out again. Endless hole of random crap.
What are your thoughts on Marianas hybrid status? I've seen majorly human ones, which I think is hilarious because it gives so much to explore with him and slime.
I love having non-human headcanons for the qsmp members, especially for silly dumb reasons
I’m just saying, the image I just got of Roier trying to do a courtship dance for Cellbit and Cellbit not knowing wtf he’s doing bc they’re totally different animals is pretty funny
Or, I’ve had this idea for a while now, all the ones with wings gently tapping on the eggs or even each other as a sign of greeting.
Example: Bad goes to see Philza and they stand side by side and lightly touch their wings together, like a handshake almost! This could be done with tails too, that’s be cute,,,
Lmao Foolish’s love language being just straight up biting, Baghera and Quackity going into water yet somehow come out fully dry, AUGH THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEAAAAA
Or all the hybrids going up to people and softly head-butting them for attention, and then the eggs pick up on it and now they’ve started gently bumping into people to get their attention ahhh,,,, this is adorable,,,
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A sticky situation
(Steve Rogers x reader)
All fluff
Word count: 3,225
Summary: For as long as you can remember, Steve’s love for you has been laced and tangled into your hair. After a bad day at work, you find yourself stuck in a sticky situation. Will Steve approve of your impromptu haircut?
Warnings: My blog is 18+ only. All minors or blogs without an age in bio will be blocked. Minors DNI.
AN: ahhh my first fic! I did my best to keep the description of the reader’s hair inclusive to all hair types. All mistakes are my own. Hope you enjoy!
When your friend, Maddie, set you up on a blind date, she was met with nothing but protests and excuses as to why you weren't ready for that kinda thing yet.
The date was tonight at 7pm sharp, and she made it very clear that showing up on time meant you had shown up late. So really, the date was at 6:50pm.
She had only told you half way through your work day on lunch break.
"Oh bitch do I have the opportunity for you" Maddie's voice rang through your phone as you were shoveling food down your throat in attempts to have some time to tidy up your classroom before a stampede of 7-8 year olds came back just to mess it up all over again.
"Yeah? And what's that?" You questioned curiously.
"A date. Tonight. Trust me when I say you do not want to miss out on this one" She presented.
"Oh trust me, I most definitely do" You practically barked out a cackle at her statement.
"No you don't. In fact, you'll be so thankful for this date that you're going to ask me to be maid of honor when you two get married" Confidence laced in her tone.
"Oh yeah? Tell me about him? What makes him so special that I'd want to do anything other than go home and eat cold pizza by myself on a Friday night?"
"First of all, that's really sad. Second of all, I happen to know you already have a crush on him. I'm not going to tell you who he is, but you'll know the second you get there. Plus he already agreed so it would be kind've rude to waste his time"
"Maddie" You threw your head back in complaint. "What do you mean I have a crush on him? You know I get out of work at 4, right?"
"Which is exactly enough time for you to go home and change before the date! Wear something casual but nice, you're meeting at that new bar on 21st street. Oh, and also you don't have a choice. I got this opportunity for you based on pure luck so if I find out you aren't going to show up, I'm coming over to your place and dragging you there myself" Maddie threatened.
"You're a pain in my ass? You know that?" You questioned with a playful tone. You knew she was only looking out for you.
"Of course I do."
You spent the whole rest of your work day empty minded while your students worked on their art projects. However, art day meant staying later to clean up the absolute mess the second graders made. They could never seem to keep their wiggly fingers to themselves which resulted in smeared paint, teeny bits and pieces of cut up construction paper stuck into the carpet and tacky Elmer's glue on the desks, and the messiest of all, glitter. Everywhere.
Clinging to your clothes, between the fibers of the rugs, flying through the air with each time a student walked through the room, and stuck to the tiny hands that hugged you goodbye every single evening.
By the time you got home at 5:45, and took a look in the mirror you knew it was rough. You looked just as tired as you felt and the clothes on you body were screaming to be washed.
You chugged a glass of coffee as a mid-day pick me up before taking a quickest shower time could possibly allow. You through on the cleanest outfit she could find, smacked on the bare minimum make up to make you look more alive, then you got to your hair.
An absolute rats nest that was once perfectly styled this morning. The day was not kind to it, and frankly there was no proper way to fix it. After one last call to Maddie letting her know that there was no way you could show up for a date in the condition you were in, you were met with empty threats once again.
There wasn't enough time to wash it and start fresh since apparently you were meeting the most punctual man on the planet, so you popped it in a sleek low bun with a few loose strands in front and prayed to whatever god would listen that he wouldn't notice the glitter that somehow found a way to reside in it.
You weren't happy about it, and honestly, it made you not want to go. It simply wasn't cooperative, keeping you humble and knocking down your confidence to the absolute bare minimum.
So when you walked into the bar feeling not the best about yourself, you looked around before your eyes landed on a lonesome man a table by himself.
The sight felt like a punch to your stomach and you cursed the coffee for contributing to the way your heart raced.
Surely, that couldn't be your date. Right?
Then, his eyes met yours and he gave you a big toothy smile before standing up to greet you.
"Y/N?" He asked just to confirm you really were the girl he had seen pictures of.
"Uh, yeah. Hi!" She slapped a smile on because holy shit Maddie set you up on a date with Captain America and you had glitter in your god damn hair.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Steve" he politely introduced himself while wrapping you in a friendly hug.
You'd like to believe that the small talk went well, but the whole time you were too focused on making sure you weren't presenting yourself as a weird obsessive fan while also letting him know that you were well aware of his job title.
Luckily your drink did wonders to calm your nerves and build up the confidence your mediocre hairstyle took from you.
"So, what do you do for work? I think Maddie mentioned something about kids?" He asked politely.
"I teach second grade" You informed him with a smile.
"Ah, that explains the glitter in your hair" He smiled while you internally groaned.
"I was hoping you wouldn't notice" You giggled awkwardly. "My job is great and I absolutely love all my students, but it certainly doesn't leave much time for good hair days. Especially for impromptu dates after work"
"Your hair looks great!" He complemented, and you could hear the sincerity. "I think the glitter really adds to the whole ensemble you have going on here. I really like it"
"Really?" You asked genuinely surprised at his kindness. "Thank you! I almost didn't come because I'm having a bad hair day."
"I'm very glad you did. I wouldn't consider this anywhere near what my bad hair days are like"
Oddly enough, his acknowledgment and complements put your mind at ease enough to actually enjoy the rest of the time you spent with him.
You ended up clicking a lot better than anyone else you've been on a date with recently, and found yourselves at that same table until the bar closed.
He walked you home like the true gentleman he was, and nervously stood at your doorstep as you fumbled your keys to unlock the creaky door.
When it finally flew open with some pressure to the rusty hinges, you found out that his nerves were because he really enjoyed the time he spent with you, and wondered if you would want to do this again someday soon.
After an enthusiastic attempt at agreeing on a time and date, and a quick kiss to his cheek in attempts to keep it classy, you finally said goodnight to each other.
As he walked away he couldn't help but to look back at you and give a final "and please show up even if you think your hair is messy"
One date turned to two, and two to four, four to eight, and in the blink of an eye, you and Steve had been going steady for almost a year.
As your relationship deepened, so did his love for your hair.
Every morning you woke up next to him, he would lovingly run his fingers through the length, gently brushing it away from your face and off his shoulder.
Whenever you were sad or scared, he held you so tight against his chest. One hand rubbing your back while the other held the back of your head. He would rest his check on the crown of your scalp and nestle it into the soft strands.
Whether you just got back from the hair salon, or had woken up from the best nap of your life with your hair flying in all sorts of directions you didn't even know was possible, he made it a point to tell you how pretty you looked.
Steve always thought you looked beautiful.
From tucking flyaways behind your ears while the two of you made love, to gathering it all at the base of your head and holding it back while you threw up from a bad case of the stomach flu, it was like his love was always entangled in your hair.
But it wasn't just your hair, it was his too.
You always loved how unique the color of his hair was. Golden blonde right on top that deepened into a rich chocolate shade on the back of his head. On the off chance he didn't get an opportunity to shave, his glorious beard was almost the same shade of brown. But oddly enough, it had deep hues of mahogany red with just a touch of a few silver strands that he credited to stress. Definitely not due to the fact that the man was well over a hundred years old.
On days he would come back from missions dirty, sweaty, and exhausted, his favorite thing in the whole world was when you would shower with him just to assist in washing his hair. There were no words to accurately describe how loved that made him feel.
Or when he would have days off of work and you'd let him fall asleep on you. His body weight crushed you deep into the cushions of the couch, his body heat combined with yours under the blanket would make your cheeks turn pink, and he claimed that your chest made the best and most comfortable pillow. What really lulled him to sleep and kept his dreams oh so sweet was the way you would massage his scalp with your fingers until it was physically impossible for you to stay awake.
Once you even called him on your lunch break during a notably awful day at school. The kids just weren't quite behaving and your headache just wasn't going away. After a kid had a tantrum and no matter what you did to calm him down, nothing eased his big feelings. The result of a one on one outside conversation was a huge wad of pink bubblegum stuck and tangled into the ends of your hair.
Steve reassured you with a quick "I'll be there in 10 minutes", and sure enough he was there with a big bag of stuff he read on the internet about how to get gum out of hair.
You sat in the back of your classroom for the whole rest of the day trying absolutely everything while the kids had a surprise visit from Captain America himself.
Of course they listened to every word he said, participated in every activity he could think of to keep them entertained, and he finally conducted his own art lesson.
While you used peanut butter, olive oil, conditioner, and ice in your hair, he was finally experiencing the utter joy of getting glitter stuck in his.
The bell rang dismissing the kids to their parents for the day, and you kissed him goodbye as he got called into a meeting.
"I'm sorry nothing got the gum out" He apologized sincerely while holding your face between his palms. "I can tell you're still upset, but when I get home from this meeting I can help you some more, alright? Maybe talk to Stark and Banner to see if they have anything to help"
"Thank you, honey" You smiled despite the defeat you were sinking into.
"These kids are so lucky to have you, you're a wonderful teacher. I know you've had a hard day, but that doesn't make it any less true." He reminded you.
"You're a wonderful teacher too. You made their whole days"
"It's the least I could do" He admitted. "I'll see you at home, alright? I love you"
"I love you more"
"Impossible"
Unfortunately, the meeting turned into a mission, and the mission to get the bubblegum out of your hair was now impossible. You had to surrender and book an emergency appointment at the hairdresser where they cut out all of the pink cementy sweetness.
Your precious hair was now a lot shorter than you ever would've chosen for yourself. In a few days full of moments of weakness, you cried about it.
Friends, colleges, and students alike all agreed that your new haircut looked good on you. Apparently it complemented the shape of your face and captured your fun and bubbly personality.
But all those days without Steve made it hard.
He loved your hair so much, and most of your anxiety relied on whether he would like it or not. As dramatic as it made you feel, you wondered if your lack of hair would equate to a lack of love from him.
A lack of attractiveness to his eyes.
If less hair was less of you.
The day he got home, you were so happy to see him but the anxiety that sputtered through your body made you everything but comfortable.
Much like your very first date when you were unhappy with your hair, you popped it in a low bun.
He walked through the door and happily greeted you like a dog being reunited with its human after days apart.
He peppered your face in kisses, told you how much he missed you, and professed how happy he was to be home.
Dropping his duffle on the floor then sinking into the couch, you approached him with a stack of haphazard paper. There were so many colors and shapes that popped out as his eyes scanned the stack, his brain couldn't even begin to process what you were trying to give him.
"What's all of this?" He sleepily questioned as he pulled you into his lap.
"They're thank you cards from my students." She told him with a smile. "It was their idea, they thought that meeting Captain America was pretty much the coolest thing in the whole world and they wanted to make sure you knew"
His whole face lit up while he took the stack from your hands into his. He rested his chin on your shoulder, and couldn't even help the smile on his face. "No way. This is the cutest thing I've ever seen! Look, at this drawing of me. It's so accurate!"
The drawing on the very first card was a stick figure. Both of his eyes were definitely two different shapes and sizes, and despite being made of sticks, he still had muscles on muscles.
"I think they really captured your essence" you agreed with a giggle while nestling your cheek into his.
The next few cards were quick. All of them were pretty straight to the point, some hearts, stars and flowers drawn with washable marker and words of thanks.
Whether they were plain construction paper, or heavy in weight with head to toe stickers and glitter glue, each one made Steve the happiest guy in the world.
‘You’re the best superhero ever!’
‘Thank you Mr. Steve’
‘You saved the day!’
‘We love you’
‘Please come back soon!’
Some of them even pulled a genuine belly laugh out of the soldier. His personal favorite was ‘I used to be scared of you, but you are not scary anymore’
Half way through the stack, a thought fought it's way through Steve's exhausted foggy brain. "Wait, Honey, how did you end up getting the bubblegum out of your hair?" He felt you immediately tense in his lap before you let out a sigh and a groan, practically hiding your face away into the side of his. "Oh no. You didn't?"
"I couldn't" You practically whispered and gently shook your head. "I'm sorry"
"Why are you sorry? Did you get a haircut?" He questioned gently.
"I had to. I'm sorry because I know you loved how my hair was before"
"Can I see it?"
You suddenly felt shyer than you ever have with him, and pulling the hair out of the elastic ponytail felt more vulnerable than letting him see you naked for the first time.
You closed your eyes that were starting to water as the hair fell and just barely grazed your shoulder.
"Sweetheart" Steve started, but your shut eyelids caused you to miss the big toothy smile that uncontrollably smeared across his face. He reached his hand up and ran his fingers through it a few times, appreciating the way it stopped way sooner than it used to. "You look absolutely beautiful! Your hair is adorable!" He beamed.
It was only when you opened your eyes again that Steve noticed the tiny pool of water collecting in your bottom lash line. "You don't like it?!" He questioned with pure disbelief.
You didn't really know how to get the right words out to properly express how you felt, and you knew the second you opened your mouth the tears would start falling.
"Surely you don't hate it, right?" He asked again. "It's absolutely gorgeous, you're gorgeous"
All you could get yourself to do was hide again, but this time your face was squished into the base of his neck and shoulder.
"I don't hate it" You mumbled with a shrug. "I was just so worried that you would"
"What? Are you kidding me? You could shave all your hair off and I'd still think you're the most perfect little thing on the planet" He admitted while prying your face out of its hiding spot with gentle force.
When you looked at him again, you tried blinking away your previous irrational fear, and it caused a single tear to fall down your cheek. Steve quickly swiped it away with his thumb before giving you a kiss.
"It's a big change, and I'm not very good at dealing with change. Especially since it wasn't really my fault to begin with" You explained. "And you loved my hair"
"Love your hair" He corrected and placed a kiss on each cheek. "Still do. I love your hair because it's attached to you, sweet girl. It's okay to be upset over a big change, and it's even okay to be upset at the kid who stuck it in your hair. This is a very sticky situation, but please, don't worry about what I think. I'll always think the whole world of you"
"It quite literally was a sticky situation" You finally giggled, the sound alone pulled a smile out of your beautiful boyfriend. "Thank you, Angel. I love you so much"
"I love you more" He happily accepted the right hug you wrapped him in.
"That's impossible" You grinned.
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