#this is so silly but i think it would be funny having a parody of richmens through Nightmare 😭

[bisexualmcqueen]

may i offer this thought for the feral racers hc

racecars are like loyal little guard dogs (not little at all. those are metal beasts) with the people they love. they just kinda like. imprint on people and its like an immediate switch to feral mode when they perceive threat and danger to loved one. and they do that thing where they try and make themselves bigger to intimidate enemies.

idk if its something similar like this has posted about or discussed before but uh yeah. the feral racers hc just kinda read to me as racecars being like dogs. wolves. instinctually wild animals. i like how strip and doc being particularly old veterans translates into them being Extra Dangerous or Extra Feral, something like that. though i dont even think racecars get normaller the newer/younger. i think the next gens are just a different flavor of freak (i.e. chewing, zoomies) like they're domesticated sort of in a way

YES YES exactly

ok many thoughts. lets see here

so ive been thinking about this and. the thing is. that part of what makes this headcanon so fun is that theres actually canon precedent, in a way.

Lightning for example. is crazy protective. like instantaneously. zero forethought, action only, putting himself between the Danger and the Friend.

some examples:

in cars TVG, Chick hires the DRH to rob Mack so Lightning will be without supplies for the upcoming race. when Lightning hears that Mack was very upset about it from Sheriff, he gets so pissed off he takes to the streets, tracks the DRH down, and proceeds to spend all night chasing and beating the shit out of them until they drop his stuff. not because he was Robbed, but because they Upset Mack.

i think its funny that Sheriff doesnt say Anything. he just nods in agreement. ...not that i think Sheriff could have stopped him though. Lightning is sort of Insane about Mack. Mack is the greatest. [two quality versions. one oldschool for nostalgia and one more HD]

in the comics (admittedly ive only read in sections), Mater was beefing with Bubba, Lightning also started to get pissed off at Bubba being rude + protective of Mater:

i dont know if Lightning would be good at fighting or get his ass beat terribly. either way, i want to watch.

next up is my favorite example: the thunder hollow crazy 8 race. Lightning LEAPS in to help Cruz several times. it is my fucking Favorite.

HERDS HER BACK OUT ONTO THE TRACK

and then he jumps in front of a speeding attack-bus and takes a metal sawblade to the drivewheel for her. NO thoughts, head empty, protect Cruz. love this man. apparently, type-c school busses can be between 10-20,000 pounds. crunch.

and my last example on this topic: the radiator springs 500 1/2:

these racers show up in town looking for trouble. its supposed to be a silly little western parody, but in terms of this headcanon it comes off as territorial as hell imo. wdym other racecars show up at his house to fight him. hello. and then they insult Stanley, which deeply upsets Lizzie:

cue getting their asses kicked by mcqueen. that is HIS freaky old woman.

[i love this short]

so yeah. my terrible guard-dog-horse-thing-car.

Doc is largely The Same:

14 billion KEEP OUT signs. shooing Lightning away from his friends family because he is A Perceived Danger. another racecar standing in his lawn barking. yeah. you territorial old wet rag.

I agree with what you said its very in line with the vibes of the headcanon yes. true and real. def like dogs/wolves, and i personally try to throw some cat/horse stuff in there too. again, i blame being an x-men/wolverine fan.

a few other tidbits from source material for funsies:

^that ones wallpaper, apparently. for like a Room. in a house. my cars wallpaper merch thats 2018 xrs drag racing diecast merchandise.

Doc was so amped to do racecar stuff again he wakes Lightning up in the middle of the fucking night to run around in circles with him the moment he shows back up in town.

they lost Guido in the fucking sand.

Cars Origins: Struck By Lightning quick aside: "everyone's going to think something is wrong with me" Lightning these are not mentally stable thoughts im so sorry.

second topic: generational/evolutionary differences.

first of all i would like to point out that my basis for strip especially being some sort of craazzy toothy freak is entirely the headcanon of @youhavehitawall that i adopted out of coolness. non has some lore about the weathers that explains it, but basically it boils down to a repeated expression of racecar genes getting more pronounced the more generations it travels down (so long as its an expressed gene).

now for the nextgens (funny calling them that in 2025. theyre all in their 30's lmfao. not saying thats 'old', but they arent rookies anymore, damn does time fly). [disclaimer: dont quote me on this, my knowledge is an approximation] in real life NASCAR, they used very old technologies right up until about 2012. carburetors, leaded gasoline, 4-gear h-box frontend transaxles, reticulating ball steering, etc. most of these things vanished from the dealership road cars between the 60's and the 90's. Meanwhile cars like Lightning and Cal are still running this stuff in the mid-aughts. so when the nextgens came along, they showed up with fuel injection, e85 15% ethanol fuel, 5-speed sequential rear-mounted transaxels, rack-and-pinion steering, bigger aluminum wheels, bigger calipers, and less ground clearance/more areo, there was a very sudden and massive shift in what sort of technology was being run in the piston cup. tech-wise, Lightning +co were very similar to cars like Chick and even Strip. the change in tech could be a good marker for other genetic shifts too. cars change much, muuuch faster generation-to-generation than mammals. its Moore's Law in a way: theyre machines. add that to the incredible 12-week turnaround in which every team booted their driver and replaced them with a 'nextgen', and ive had to spend some time wondering Why? why??? thats brutal! Doc certainly warned us, but goddamn. imagine if that happened mid-season in any real sport! holy shit! (i still want to know more about the fan's reactions to this...) in the context of this headcanon, i Also wonder about what you said, the nextgens being feral in a little bit of a 'different' way. maybe theyve got easier-to-handle temperaments; an added bonus to their overall higher speeds+better track times. uhm. Jackson being the temperament-outlier here, maybe.

to be fair, he did get fired after throwing too many fits.

Cars Origins: Storm Chasing

But yes... racecars!! they are a lottt to handle. the driver AND the incredibly powerful machine mashed into one?? hooo boy. honestly i am a bit fearful of racecars irl. very loud, very fast, smell bad, they breathe fire, etc. why not reconcile that by making the talking ones into Beasts. theyre already crazy, already quadruped, my brain just starts assigning horse/wolf to them. and some of it comes down to me loving logan-wolverine tropes. protective growly little guy with pointy teeth. yeah can i get 5 more of these little fanged bitches.

ok i have to stop yapping now this turned out quite long, but i still have Things to Say about this headcanon/worldbuilding. i didnt even get into the amazing bonds racecars seem to have with their teams/families (the 'imprinting' thing you mentioned!). very fun!!

thanks for the ask!!

[buubonita]

I'd love a version of Nightmare that hangs out with monsters and mortals, I mean, he's probably one of the biggest drivers of the capitalist system and playing a rich corporate jerk who suffocates others with tedious bureaucracies sounds like a funny way for him to spread negativity to the entire world.

You got Nightmare the landowner? Bring in the evil, exploitative rich man too!!

"Making the world a worse place one penny at a time" and some bullshit motto. Can you imagine him owning apple farms?

Plus if Dream is there as the head of the HR department.

[oh-no-its-bird]

Ok so, thinking about this post, specifically the "dumb au where the Uchiha just really like Kakashi for some reason (clan stuff??)" part, and it got me thinking;

AU where the Hatake's have a reputation for being "good luck charm" to the point where some clans view them as genuine symbols of prosperity, and marrying one / getting one to join your family in some way is supposed to bless you, your family, and your fields for as long as they remain yours

Maybe their white chakra specifically is actually some sort of good luck thing? Idk, but like, there's that abstract idea.

"The Hatake, with their steely hair and blessed white chakra said to bless any fortunate enough to see it"

Could totally mash this in with the Sexyman Sakumo agenda and say part of his insane popularity was bc of the rumors about how his bloodline limit is supposed to give fortune to any who might tie him down

Oooo what if after his mission gone wrong, the rumors and reputation twists and suddenly people are saying no, they got it opposite, the Hatake's bring bad luck

Then Sakumo offs himself and Kakashi suddenly has to live with the reputation of being a bad luck charm

Could be fun.

Anyways, rewinding:

Gonna think ab the warring states with this idea first.

So, half Hatake Tobirama, right? Senju Butsama marrying a Hatake woman would be such a power move for him,,,

Oh my god wait ok: Something about the Senju clan and their planty stuff, then marrying a Hatake woman said to bring prosperity to their "clan and crops" is so good.

And then she also goes and proves it right by popping out the first mokuton baby in forever

So fun !!

I like the idea that their luck is said to specifically be in their white chakra, so like. None of the Senju boys being born with white chakra and their dad being upset by it bc that means the luck wasn't passed down. But Tobirama, being an albino, looks pretty Hatake so maybe some of the charm passed onto him...?

(It hadn't, but there's some fun to be had in the belief that it had.)

Tobirama never marries in part because he has no interest in it, and in part because many of those who approached him only wanted him for his supposed 'Hatake Luck'

You could so easily turn this into sort of a parody to a blessed eyes au by rolling with Tobirama having the social flex of being a Hatake, a good luck charm in human form.

Skipping back ahead to Kohona back to Kakashi— umm supposed "bad luck" Hatake Kakashi (to the general population of Kohona) being fuckin pspsps'ed at by the older clans who know Hatake's are good luck and are so trying to get him to join their clan (and bring them luck)

He's an orphan now!!! That means he's free realestate!!! Pspsps cmere little boy come let the nice old clan people adopt you teehee <3

This was meant to be a funny silly lighthearted thing but I can see several ugly paths to take with that actually. Let's stick to lighthearted fun for now tho

Ummm Obito actually survives the rock fall bc of Kakashi's Hatake luck, pass it on. He so should have died but he didn't and it's bc of Kakashi taking him as his "best friend" and suddenly boom, luck.

Ooo maybe when they swap eyes, uh, yk, Kakashi's eye has a bit of white chakra in it and now it's in Obito.

So now Obito suddenly has this double conundrum of "physically has a Hatake's white chakra in him (in his eye, even, which is a culturally and spiritually significant body part to highlight)

And he's considered family by Kakashi, who Kakashi thinks of (and unknowingly sends good luck towards) every day,,,,

Obito's plans keep going so well even when he does a half assed job at them bc of the fucking Hatake blessing Kakashi unknowingly placed on him, pass it on

Alternativley: silly fluffy 'everythings good and nothing hurts' au that's just older Kakashi being aggressively pursued by people both bc hes hot and also the Hatake luck.

Mothers want to adopt him to get him into their clan and fathers want to fuc—

Sorry what was I saying?

Anyways

Good luck charm Kohona sexy man Sakumo and his son Kakashi who grows up into a good luck charm Kohona sexyman himself....

Hatake good luck charm au. Make it happen. I believe in us

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Malibut

Debut: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

SCIENCE FACT! ⬆️ that's not a fish

Can you tell what you're looking at here? I feel like this sprite is rather busy. Well, it is a red cartoony octopus, wearing a blue nightcap and a brown eyemask, lying on a pillow, with a snot bubble on the top of its big lips. If you encountered this for the first time and got confused, hoping that its name would clear things up... Nope! I'm sorry! This gets a name implying Evil Flatfish!

I don't think about flatfish nearly as much as I should! They are so awesome and silly! To them, they are normal, though! A halibut will look at a human and recoil in disgust, for what self-respecting creature keeps its eyes in one place its whole life? It's unethical to not let them explore! Malibut's design has absolutely nothing to do with halibuts, but I can Halibut Headcanon. Its sleeping mask is brown and mottled, and can be easily interpreted as a halibut itself! A flatfish as a sleeping mask sounds like something a semi-parody mermaid would have on Cartoon Network. I think it is something a funny octopus could do, too!

Oh no! All my exclaimation points have woken it up, and it checked the clock, and it has to be up for work in seven minutes, and that's not enough time to fall back asleep and rest anymore. And boy is it mad! I should compliment it to make it feel better. First of all, I like the purple star on its pillow. Very nice. But most of all, Malibut actually has a good Japanese name! It is named after a sea urchin. I swear it works!

This is the Japanese sea biscuit, whose common name is Tako no Makura, meaning Octopus's Pillow. How whimsical! It is the pillow an octopus would rest its bulbous, squishy mantle upon. Is it unethical to use a living creature as a pillow? Well, keep in mind I headcanon this octopus to also wear a halibut on its face all night. It's rude! It puts the Mal in Malibut!

[muldermuse]

yo!! pussywhipped butcher anon here. im STILL ovulating so i got some more juicy ideas about daddy billy :> this is long im genuinely feral for him ehdhebebd

making sex tapes with this man would be so fun. it could either be with an actual video camera or just on an iphone like those twt vids

if its the former you probably try to parody that kim k video for shits and giggles but hes having none of that; bro just wants to drain his balls in you fr fr. like imagine the camera set up where you could see him just absolutely going ballistic when putting you in mating press shsjshxje

the phone videos are great in that they look a lot more personal—which, they kinda are since theyre literally on his phone lol—but he gets to have all these great angles, especially since its from his pov. AND, when hes feeling bored or lonely late at night in the office he could just whip his phone out and jerk off to the videos (and pictures!) of him railing you

Now i do wonder if he'd do any of the fun roleplay shit, i think it'd be on the more silly, cheesy 2000s porn side. after all, its for his eyes only. it'd be so funny to think of him doing any type of roleplay since hell would have to freeze over in order to convince him to do it lmao

anyway this was just my garbage horny stream of consciousness lol enjoy

HE JUST WANTS TO DRAIN HIS BALLS IN YOU??????!!!!??? I LOVE YOU

tbh with the roleplay, I think if you wear a revealing outfit- he’ll fucking do anything you want. especially one that shows off your ass and curves. LIKE A SECRETARY ONE?? he’s bending you over the desk, slapping your ass until it’s covered with his red handprints

he’s zooming the camera in on how your pussy grips his fat cock

[midnight1nk]

So, this week's episode...

[Spoilers below cut]

Past Ink: Guys, it's fine. This isn't a serious episode, it would be too soon for another arc. It's just gonna be another silly Saturday.

Current Ink: ....

(the following is my live reaction:)

[*unholy screaming*] FOUR NOOOOOOOOOOOO

WOW WHAT A GREAT START TO THIS EPISODE, SCRATCH EVERYTHING THAT I SAID ABOUT THIS BEING A "NORMAL" EPISODE

NOPE I NEED TO PAUSE, I NEED TO TAKE A WALK BC I'M NOT GONNA GET OVER IT, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS COULD LEAD

they're not gonna do it in this episode BUT the fact that goop!4 is being acknowledged in every way possible, we might just have a sequel in our hands

NO NO NO CUT THE INTRO, I HAVEN'T EVEN FINISHED THE EPISODE YET AND YOU WANT ME TO MAKE A THEORY ON IT ALREADY? HOLD YOUR FUCKIN HORSES, I'LL GET THERE GEEZ

anyway, we have to press play...

I'm pretty sure someone already has done a pirate au (no I'm not over what I just watched) and anyway, artists: here's pirate SMG4

Four, you should've read the file name before downloading it [*shakes head*]

Wait, is this going to be a parody of computer buddies? That's actually pretty fun..... OH NO NO NO

Ah, so we are doing computer buddies

Actually, yeah, can we have Mario as president please

love how it says "no one even compares to mario. especially smg4 who sucks booty cheeks [or ass] and mario doesn't"

Observe as the SMG4 fandom gets terrified of the word "perfect" [*screams*]

MARIO MARIO NO NO NO HE DIDN'T SAVE

I felt that in my core omg

as a graphic designer, this hurts

apparently, there's a whole new dimension in our computers, Only in the SMG4 Universe [*cheesy thumbs up*]

We really are getting all the computer buddies, huh? I wonder if KinitoPET will appear

[*silver the hedgehog voice*] It's no use!

BRITISH SMG3

wow what a funny bit... WAIT HOLD UP WAIT A MINUTE, LOOK AT THE MEDIA BOX

the eyes....

w̷̹̓e̷̼̽ ̸̯́n̴̩͆e̵̝̓v̴̼͑ë̵̤r̴͓͛ ̷̭͝l̵̦̎e̴̞͗f̵͉̐ṯ̴͗

and the left eye too... oh god, the EYE OF RA— [*gets shot*]

honestly, Four, you improved your aim ever since Western Spaghetti (ik you also did for PV but that's not the point)

I knew they were gonna bring in buff Luigi again

I'M SCREAMING

THERE IS NO WAY THE TEAM JUST DROPPED THAT ON US, THIS CAN'T BE REAL

ok first off, the fact that Four has a folder labeled "Super SECRET Spicy Memes" is giving "totally homework" folder energy (and I don't want to even think more about that)

hey, Four did say that Three brings some spice into his life (yeah, "rosemary to my bread" and all that jazz)

SECOND, the fact he has an image of SMG3 with him saying "whats the matter smg4 kun?"

THEN the "I know what you are" audio clip...

Four, buddy, you're down bad aren't you?

like "woah smg4's bisexual, I didn't know that", the closet is out of GLASS so we been knew but I DID NOT expect this

having Three be a tsundere is one thing, but FOUR....

🫵🏳️‍🌈⁉️

"they're dating behind the scenes" at this point, yeah

we have to keep going... [*secretly puts this clip on the fridge*]

I hate this so much /silly

[*chaos ensues*] [*sips my coffee*] just another tuesday saturday

GOTTA GO FAST GOTTA GO FAST— [*gets tazed*] i can never catch a break c'mon man

oh hey Swag!

four dollars is four dollars, you got yourself a deal

ok, I'm gonna need everyone to see Four's cute little hops here:

look at him go, my silly little goober :) oh, now you have? then let's keep going

holy shit, this fight scene is so well animated!!! LET'S GOOOO

never thought I'd see the day of seeing biblically accurate bonzi in an SMG4 episode and yet here we are.

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP

THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I'VE SEEN IN MY LIFE, I'M ASCENDING

"...but they hugged before" NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

A normal hug, where two people cross each other and are unable to see the other's face since it's over their shoulder, is just as it is: a normal hug. It can be seen as platonic and/or romantic.

THIS is a lot more intimate. 3 and 4's heads touch while they hold each other by the hand. This type of hug is reserved more for romantic partners when the situation leads them to a devasting end, where they face each other to look at and remember what their partner looked like, one last time before they die.

In this case, it makes sense as the computer is collapsing within itself.

"It's not actually them tho." Yes, they're digital copies of 3 and 4 but that's the thing: they're COPIES, acting on what 3 and 4 would actually do

SMG34 shippers, we are eating GOOD today yum yum

but then, that begs the question: would there be a moment where 3 and 4 would reveal their feelings for each other at the worst possible time?

(you guys are not going to be ready for my next episode concepts) What, who said that?

uh anyway them 💙💜 gotta put it on the fridge

I feel for you, Four, but I have a horrible feeling about this

...

Foreshadowing is a literary device—

no seriously, I feel like this could be part of a future arc where a past villain would ruin everything Four has and would offer up a deal when Four would be the most desperate. There's always a catch. Hmm, why does that seem familiar...?

Your life's work or your friends, it's your call, SMG4

:)

HELL YEAH FOUR, THROW IT AWAY (omg just like how he chose Three over the USB, I'm crying dude)

also congrats to Ourstor08954957 for the lovely art in the end credits 🎉 such cute doodles ❤️

.・-: ✧ :--: ✧ :-・.

Oh boy, what an episode. I feel like I'm in another plane of existence right now. Everything was absolutely incredible, great job Team!!

Everyone, say THANK YOU to whoever put the SMG34 crumbs in there, we shall treasure it for the rest of our lives. I'm gonna put those moments on my fridge. OH I would love to see the artists draw the SMG34 hug or pirate Four!

Love the fighting scene right by the end and the little details they have added in there. I guess it's "Torture Ink with the Idea that Goop!4 May Happen" day but hey, I'm so normal about it (no I'm not). I've been a bit stressed since finals are coming up so I'm thankful for anything this episode for me.

(If anyone is curious, the WOTFI website is still up and yes, I am logging its status just in case.)

I'm sure everyone is going crazy over this...

"They gay fr :3" [BenJoJoGV, Twitter]

🧍

BEN YOU CAN'T JUST SAY THESE THINGS—

[sweet-star-sketches]

Sketches + Colour from December 9th-11th, 2024 oops! new blorbos unlocked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

listen December is Dread Month™ for me so I take whatever my brain can get to survive it emotionally, so in this instance it's joining my buddy @eleanorose123 in her current hyperfixation like I have for the past while :D So while she is still my "target audience" so to speak because she loves Yu-Gi-Oh and I like making art for friends, these are for me too :] (like all of my art is, really. I would not spend this much time on it if it wasn't at least partially for me!) I'm more or less a "fandom tourist" at this point; I don't officially go here but a friend does so I'm here visiting to have a good time, and whatever "souvenirs" I get are all the funny scenes and funky little guys that live in my head rent free now! Yippee :D I have more doodles that are actually older than this set, but I want to do a little more with them so I'll post those later :]

I have a lot to say so I'll put the rest under the cut! (apologies in advance for my verbosity but also this is my blog lol)

I have no reasoning behind why my brain arrived at the idea of Kirby crossover art that parodies an iCarly meme but do I really need it??? Naaaaaaaah :] Two of my funny space creatures together <3 I enjoy the idea of Saiou just carrying him around like "yep you're mine now :)" Ponder the orb (and buy him a smoothie) Unironically this is some of the best art I've made all year, like it turned out so absurdly well that I took it to clean lines and colour/shading, and that too came out well! They both have their respective anime colours, but with some additional highlights and coloured line art because my boys deserve it <3333

This is honestly the most fun I've had with art in a while too, though I know fan art tends to do that for an artist! Don't get me wrong, I've loved everything I've put out for my own projects and commissions this year, as I am not predominantly a fan artist despite how many things I love in that regard.

But considering I've been largely unable to actually let myself do this kind of art as frequently as I used to (the ever-looming anxiety of not getting enough commission work to live or personal project work done to tell my stories is a strong one) I really needed this, even if it was born out of necessity to survive Dread Month than anything else. That's as good a reason as any, I suppose! Might be an odd thing to reflect on for such silly/lighthearted art such as this, but I think that's the point.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that no artistic endeavour is ever truly wasted, even if you don't know how or when it'll come back to you! I actually got some really good analysis of my own art journey and style during my adventures in exploring the Yu-Gi-Oh art style here, which was as unexpected as the rest of this, honestly!

I'm already an introspective person to begin with, but the end of the year makes me reflect on things even more than usual, so thanks for reading this far! If nothing else, I hope you enjoyed the sillies :]

[mothknight42]

the reason the ending felt so unsatisfying to me, even beyond the glaring issue that it resolved no one's arcs and provided absolutely no closure and honestly felt extremely OOC at moments, is that meta jokes just aren't that funny. sorry! if the best joke you can come up with for the finale is a wink wink to the camera that "hey! this is a finale! we better get it right! we know the fans will complain no matter what tho! lol!" then you should put down the pen and consider a new career. the writers very clearly had no fucking clue what to do with the final episode after a meandering and quite frankly exhausting season, and decided to go for the lowest hanging fruit. just felt lazy!

and it is a shame, because i do think the film parodies were funny. rosemary's baby was ridiculous but it was neat to see everyone be creepy as all get out, and they FINALLY let kristen schaal shine after seasons of underutilizing her immense talent. they were fun! they were silly! and a better writers room would have set them up properly (we KNOW Nandor loves watching old films for example, they could have weaved that into this) but i digress.

it is just bad and lazy and uninteresting writing for your finale of a beloved comedy series to boil down to a stretched out meta joke to the audience that hey, this is the finale!! i'm not going to laugh and clap like a seal because you pointed out the obvious and broke the fourth wall. who cares. who caresssss

[newapocalyptia]

How do you name your characters? All your names ooz character and charm and perfectly fit the vibe of both the character and the setting and I have to know how you do it

oh, fun question! my general naming philosophy for apocalyptia character is "make everyone sound like the kind of alias a 14 year old trying to come up with a cool name would end up with", but it depends on the character!

Misery Marian is a Mad Max parody. The Mad Hen's central character concept is "vaccines can be incubated in chicken eggs, what would someone who is using that to make medicine after the apocalypse be called". Whiskey Sour sounds edgy but a little silly, and "Rye" is a pun. I thought a chef with Cannibal in their name was funny, so I picked a common name that sounded punchy for Cannibal Jack. Mutiny, Riot, and Cricket are all things kids would think are cool to pick as names. "Nashville" sounds like "gnashing" but it's also a stupid thing to name somebody so she's the goofier sister, while "Killjoy" just sounded badass.

[dipplinduo]

Giving back and showing up for people is where I get a lot of my meaning during hard times, and I know the US elections is a particular Big Thing™ right now.

I'm grateful and moved by all the people who engage with my writing. If I can help you get a bit of an emotional escape in my next update, I'm happy to show up for you in a way that makes the most sense right now. So here are the potential vibes:

Sweet & Sour Dipplins

- Themes of angst but particularly in an enemies to lovers romantic tension kind of way between Kieran and Juliana. Some psychological themes with Kieran. Friendship stuff and some plot otherwise.

Sweet & Sour Dipplins Abridged

- Complete silly humor that's supposed to make you laugh cringe because its a parody. We'd likely focus on a parody version of Chapter 2 and 3 of S&S D

Bet You'll Fall In Love With Me

- This is a funny and romantic/intimate connection tension charged chapter. It redefines a lot of what it means to build a connection that we have mixed feelings about, especially when we're feeling insecure about ourselves. (Obv Carmine and Drayton focused, some friendship comedy & girl talk moments as they talk about the dynamic)

Lemme know your thoughts. Thinking of all of you. 💛

with love,

dipplinduo

[okthatsgreat]

actually i have a funny story to share. so back in middle school when i lived in florida i had a pretty terrible drama teacher who loved to a) make everything a musical and b) make everything about herself. she was constantly making our class perform musicals/choir/cabarets even though this was supposed to be just an acting class and there were only a few people who did the school musicals and were comfortable singing. idk i think she wanted to prove she was capable of directing the school musicals or maybe she just had a bit of an ego about her voice both can be true.. there was a CHOIR CLASS that people could have chose instead of this. but one year during a "christmas cabaret" (where a bunch of performing arts classes would get up and perform something, this was mainly for the dancers) my middle school drama teacher INSISTED we sing. JUST sing. i think we performed a white christmas medley or maybe that was the year we did the phantom of the opera medley who knows. a lot of medleys. i didnt really mind because i was one of those musical theatre kids and i liked singing a lot so it was whatever.

during this cabaret however, my middle school teacher decided (nobody asked her to do this i want to make this clear) that she would be the emcee and dress up as an elf character to introduce all of the acts in a silly voice. never happened before and it was grating but ok fine im sure there are kids here who would like that. but then, during final dress rehearsals as she was explaining this to us, she told us that after we (the drama class) performed our song (that had no acting), we all needed to "sit down on stage where we were and stare at her with childlike wonder and glee". that was our acting moment and that was what "we were going to be graded on". because she had decided that this show, which was exclusively put on so PARENTS could see the progress THEIR KIDS were making in class, was when she would debut her christmas parody of "walking in a winter wonderland", titled "walking in the florida sunny sand". so not only did we have to perform a song none of us signed up for, we also had to sit down on stage for an additional five minutes to listen to our drama teacher put on a funny accent and perform a song she wrote herself. to an exhausted hall of parents that didnt find it as funny as she did

oh and halfway through she forgot the lyrics. to her own parody. to her own parody called "walking in the florida sunny sand"

[acheronist]

ok its after 8pm time for my nightly gladman point skeleton posting power hour. welcome to speculation city

june 1845 - sept 1845, henry making idle notes about how the expedition's going because well. yes. of course

1846 - henry gets really into bullet journaling in the first winter wherein the ships are docked in devon harbor/beechey island. also it's cold as fuck and he's starting to realize it's gonna be cold as fuck for a long while yet, and after recently rekindling a relationship Of Some Kind with tom armitage, he starts getting nostalgic about partying in venezuela when he was 23 which is funny because on one hand we have very hard ground to heave on the morrow (gravedigging, hauling to the cairn, etc) but also omgggg do you remember stuart the shipcat he was the best. that party ruled does anyone else remember how fun that nye party was!!!

april 1847 - after months of teaching his good friend tom armitage his letters (finally), tom manages to get a parody flirty smutty version of barry cornwall's 'the sea' written down after henry had recited it aloud from memory and henry is so proud about how quickly tom's taken to writing after 40 something years of adamantly refusing to learn, that he keeps the page in his wallet

june 1847 - sir john dies and henry decides to take some asides about the funeral speech, presumably under the impression that they'd get home again at some point and he could decipher it and make it presentable later. officers do seem to be dropping quite quickly though and the inclination that things might not be working out excellently starts around here.

july thru dec 1847 - the terror camp in cape felix is established and henry overhears calls that camp is clear over and over and over enough times that he thinks its worth writing down while doing his silly spiral doodles to pass the time in the evenings

spring 1848 - the crews abandon the ships for real this time and the fear that he's not getting out of the arctic alive starts to feel more and more real each day, and in a vague attempt to keep himself from being lost and forgotten to history, he writes down a frantic account of his navy career in his cleanest neatest most legible handwriting possible. for future searchers to be able to read. also, messages get passed between erebus camp and terror camp and the men are inventing fake addresses for the letters between camps for...... whimsy? missing london society? i dont know

end of 1848 - the Unwellnesses and the Agonies are really settling in amongst the whole crew but hey. at least he still has the brain power for poems written backwards.

early 1849 - powering thru this dismal ass expedition's survival attempts based on absolutely nothing but the desperate nostalgia of being young and sexy and warm. thank goodness tom armitage is still here to help him remember specific details about the clubs in the caribbean. and we are simply too tired to continue the backwards code, but no one's pawing through his personals anyways, it hardly matters

mid to late 1849 - henry dies from [REDACTED] and tom armitage takes it upon himself to carry henry's wallet and pages forward south with the expedition because it would be impossible to carry his actual physical corpse with them because everyone else, himself included, are too weak and sick for such a thing. theyve been leaving their dead behind since they were at beechey, what makes henry's remains so special and different? the survivors keep heading south along the coastline of king william island

spring 1850 - the expedition, lead by aglooka, camp briefly nearby some inuit families. they stay in one place for quite a while, and tom armitage decides they're so fucking cooked and never getting off this island. he doesn't have the supplies or means to write anything to add to the wallet, so he does his best at identifying himself by getting dressed in his steward uniform, some things that were relevant to being a steward, henry's wallet, henry's shirt with the ink stains on the cuff, and walks off to the ocean shoreline until he drops dead and falls face down with the wallet underneath his chest to keep it safe from the arctic elements

1859 - mcclintock's search party stumbles across his skeleton on accident while looking for a cairn and go WHOAAAAA ITS A SKELETON and lift the steward tools + henry's wallet out from his ribs and take them back to england to be archived

1973 - the 1st battalion rcr goes back to doublecheck mcclintock's notes and go WHOAAAAA ITS A SKELETON and lay what remains of tom out on a plywood board from a hardware store and snap some pics. then they pack him up and mail his bones to the national museum of man & then the museum loses his bones

2018 - amc gives this storyline to a 26 year old from the opposite ship who had no prior history with henry for some reason and also demotes it to a sub-sub-plot. i dont know. smashing my head through a wall.

2022 - doug stenton shows up and says hey ummmm should we be more concerned about the fact that the entire fucking skeleton went missing. let me do some research i guess

2024 - i show up and start connecting the dots while working on the facsimile project of the papers. henry's fate still unknown. tom's bones still missing in action. the actual papers hidden behind an unbearably steep paywall thats gonna take me a decade to afford. facsimile project kind of overshadowed by jfj cannibalism confirmation on the same day. i keep being crazed on my blog anyways.

ok yay

[fipindustries]

my joker

i already made a post where i descrived my personal favourite version of the DC trinity. now, under the light of the joker sequel apparently sucking ass (dont spoil it, i still want to see it) i decided i might as well share my personal favourite interpretation of the joker.

to start with i like to see him as a bit of a tragic figure, and very patently just a man. i have no interest in the current primordial agent of chaos, madness and anarchy that popular culture has been so infatuated with as of lately.

this is going to borrow heavily from the 90's DCAU and the old comics, before we had all this nonesense about the batgod who laughs or whatever. first of all he is a criminal, he commits crimes because they are useful to him. he has two modes, resource gathering and big project. first he steals from banks or extorts rich people or takes parts of the city hostage and demands the police or the mayor to give him money. he then uses the money for some absurd gigantic "prank" on the city. like releasing a bunch of rabid gorillas in tutus and boxing gloves, or making cats and dogs rain. is all about the stupid silly gags. i dont think having him return to silly cartoon gag comedy would necesarily make him any less horrifying since a lot of these things (dropping pianos on people, painting fake tunnels so that cars crash into them, hiding spring loaded boxing gloves in mail boxes that can genuenly kick your teeth out) are sufficiently horrifying on their own when you bring real world consequences into them. but the key thing is that he should be genuenly funny. to us. the readers, safely protected behind the fourth wall. where we can laugh at the jokes because this is fiction and these are just drawings on a page and so we can appreciate that the concept is actually clever and hilarious. i really dont like it when they make the joker commit attrocities and just because they put some smiley faces on top of it is supposed to be funny. is so lazy when the joker's plan consists on throwing a bunch of bombs but because they had the words "HAHAHA" painted on them its conceptually related to comedy. no! the pranks the joker pulls should actually work as funny pranks that people would probably actually laugh at if they saw them in a looney tunes cartoon or if noone died.

i like to think of the joker as someone who is a little lost in his own sauce, as someone who on a certain level doesnt get that his pranks are truly that bad. like sure, he understands its "illegal" or whatever and that people generally dont like to be blown up or poisoned. but also, seriously, what's the big deal? its funny! its all a joke! i dont think someone should go to jail for genuenly funny crimes your honor. is it really that bad is everyone is laughing at the end? and if they are not laughing, well they just didnt get the joke.

as for his relationship with batman, i always loved how they are clearly such a distinct dichotomy. batman is dark and scary but he is good. joker is funny and colorful but he is evil. its the simple irony at the core of it.

and i think this is the main obsession with him, he wants to make the batman get it. Moore already decried the killing joke as flawed and not very good, and i see where he is coming from, but one aspect of it i really take home is the joker trying to make the batman understand. trying to make him get the joke. this is the tragedy at the center of the character, he wants to connect with batman. and if there is one thing that upsets him to no end is that the batman never fucking gets it, he just comes in as a party pooper with a stick up his ass, ruins the fun, doesnt crack a joke, is all grimm and morose and scowling like a bad parody of judge dread and then goes away after putting him in jail. he is personally offended by this, he gets genuenly aggravated, how is it possible? get over yourself dude. dont you see how ridiculous you look? you are dressed like a giant bat! and im a clown! come on, you have to admit this is at least a little silly, you HAVE to at least crack a smirk!

when the first trailer for the dark knight came out there was a beat the trailer kept going back to over and over. a line that now is a popular catchphrase on every t-shirt. when i heard that line, with heath ledger's particular delivery of it, out of context (which made it sound like it was adressed to the bat directly, perhaps during their last confrontation when they are at each other's throats) i thought they got it. i thought i was going to see the joker as i had envisioned him all those years ago. because truly nothing could capture better the feeling of a man trying desperatly to make another understand its all a joke, than the pleading, growling, almost desperate question: why so serious?

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Zomboni

Debut: Plants vs. Zombies

Plants vs. Zombies is such a silly game. Silly is baked into its very code. And I love that! You know me! I live under rotting wood, eating silly and breaking it down into nutrient-rich soil! But I think Zomboni has the honor of being the silliest thing in this already-silly game!

There is no way Zomboni would exist if it weren't for the wordplay. So thank goodness for the wordplay! A zombie, on a Zamboni. Though, we are informed that it is actually "more closely related to a space ogre than a Zombie". What impeccable word choice! So it's not even actually a space ogre. Just some weird guy creature. Awesome

Zomboni drives an ice resurfacing machine, and I have no idea what the general public's knowledge level of these things is. Does the average person know the exist? I knew, but I played and hated playing hockey as a child so I got to watch the ice being resurfaced, which was the best part. Some guy who may or may not be tangentially related to space ogres will drive this machine around the ice rink, cutting down the surface and laying down fresh ice to make a nice and smooth surface, I think. Now, I may be using the generic term for this product, but commonly, there is one brand name that is used commonly, like Band-Aid or Q-Tip or Velcro, and for that we can thank...

Name: Frank J. Zamboni

Debut: Utah

Frank J. Zamboni! Hooray! What do you have to say, Frank?

Wow. So true, Frank. I'm sure this message is reaching its intended audience in this post. Anyway, ol' Ice Tank Frank made such an iconic machine that it is THE ice resurfacing machine in the public consciousness, and there is even a trademark for its iconic shape! That seems unnecessary but ok. Now, when the ghost of the Zamberino was scrying the mortal realm for references to his work in media, he came across parody in a funny video game, and OBVIOUSLY something had to be done about that!

And from then on, Zomboni's description was updated to reflect that it is NOT to be confused with a Zamboni® brand ice resurfacing machine, you silly billy, why would you think that? And they also plugged the Zamboni website in-game, so that the audience of, I must emphasize, a silly video game, would be more likely to buy an entire ice resurfacing machine, or at least its related merchandise. I really would think this would all be fine under parody law, but maybe it has to do with the shape trademark. Whatever. To the Zamboni company's credit, they have some incredible merchandise.

What a powerful item. With this, the course of a baby's life can be changed forever...

Zomboni with an O, I mean with two Os, approaches while creating a trail of freshly laid ice that cannot be planted on. The brand-ambiguous ice resurfacing machine is quite tough, but instant-kill plants are effective, as are Spikeweeds and Spikerocks, which will instantly pop its tires!

Zomboni is a considerable threat, instantly flattening any plant it reaches before its destruction, though the player should be pretty well-equipped to combat it, and the ice is laid on the right side of the screen, rather than the precious left side. Pretty manageable! But Zomboni is only the beginning, and as much delight and intrigue as I have gleaned from Zomboni's existence, it's what FOLLOWS Zomboni that is, in fact, my favorite zombie(s) in the game.

If Zomboni is allowed to create an ice trail, it will be used by Zombie Bobsled Team! Yeah, Frank got a whole "name/debut" section and these guys just get a bolded name in a sentence. You never know what I'm gonna do next! Hee hee!

Zombie Bobsled Team is exactly what it sounds like! A team of zombies, in a bobsled! So that's four zombies, with a defensive vehicle that has to be destroyed before they can be harmed! Zomboni was already over-the-top silly, and then Zombie Bobsled Team goes even higher over that top. And it's a Big Top, where they keep all the clowns. There is not much else I can say about Zombie Bobsled Team, but it really speaks for itself!

For some reason there exists official art of "Mullet Zombie", the Zomboni driver without his vehicle and hat. And for an even somer reason, they put it on the box art for the DS version! PvZ1 is simply very strange when it comes to official key art. Messed up.

[tinycastleguy]

I watched the What We Do in the Shadows finale earlier. I've been a fan since day one so I'm sad to see a number of people on here are upset about how it ended. I think the past few seasons have tempered my expectations to the point where I was able to enjoy it for what it was: sort of an anti-finale that addresses the emotional whiplash of ending the show in the middle of a regular episode, with Guillermo acting as a stand-in for the viewer. It's just another day for the vampires, but this was six years of Guillermo's life and he has a hard time coping with moving on. They knew that they wouldn't be able to pull off a perfect ending that satisfies everyone so they tried to have fun with it, poking fun at series finale tropes.

That being said, I think a lot of people (myself included) got legitimately interested in where the characters were headed early on so I can understand why some feel ripped off that much was left unexplored or didn't amount to anything. As time went on I could definitely feel the show become less interested in what character development it had and lean more into "what funny scenario can we put each character in this season". Any major changes to the status quo will be reset by the next season. Characters are going to to be dumbed down. All very common pitfalls for a sitcom to fall into by very nature of being a comedy driven show.

It's because of this that I didn't expect Nandermo to become canon even despite the hints throughout the show that there might be something there. Maybe I should have expected more from a show where all the main characters are openly and casually queer, and it's possible that some of the writers pushed for it but it never came to fruition in the way that people were hoping for. Nandor falling in love with the Guide out of nowhere really cemented the ship being dead for me. If they ever meant to go in this direction I think having a Destiel confession tacked on at the very end would be a weird way to handle it. Still, I'm seeing people feel insulted by the way their relationship was handled in the finale and I'm not going to blame them for wanting a little more after seeing Guillermo come out of the closet and finally gain the respect of the one he admired the most.

I don't see the fantasy sequence where they're husbands as the writers' way of making fun of shippers for wanting that; keep in mind that it's a parody based on the Newhart finale and one of three alternate scenes filmed for the episode. But they still chose to acknowledge the ship and then play it as ambiguous which understandably rubbed folks the wrong way.

Is the message of the episode that despite everything that happened, nothing has truly changed? Maybe the contradiction of the vampires refusing to admit that they've changed was the intention? Or maybe it's just a reflection of the tone this season was going for even though it's kind of at odds with the rest of the show. Not sure about this one.

Anyway, I'll always love this silly show and especially the wonderful cast that brought it to life. It never took itself too seriously but it filled a specific campy horror comedy niche that I'm really gonna miss now that both Wellington Paranormal and this are over. I'm looking forward to eventually rewatching it so I can fall in love with it all over again :')

[homestuckreplay]

Jade Harley OSHA Violations Tally

(page 801-817)

On page 801, Jade ponders the volcano outside her window, reminiscent of WV’s actively volcanic planet on the left of p.703. Jade’s volcano has ‘been inactive for centuries’ but there is still ‘volcanic energy deep underground’, which I am sure will not be relevant or ever come up again.

The MAGIC CUE BALL ‘mak[ing] predictions with alarming precision and specificity’ but lacking a way to see this is a very good bit, but I’m more interested in the magic 8 ball. Jade has ‘tested it numerous times with certain facts [she] know[s] to be true’ but her knowledge comes from strange places. My working theory is that Skaia’s influence over Earth comes from a power source – the frog statue on Jade’s island – which she draws on just as her grandfather draws on the geothermal energy. So there’s two possibilities for the magic 8 ball – either it’s a genuinely powerful artifact that has been ‘scrambled’ by Skaia’s influence, or, it’s usually just a silly toy but becomes an actual predictive device under Skaia’s power, and it’s Jade’s knowledge that is incomplete.

Today being ‘NOT EXACTLY’ John’s birthday is on face a reference to this page being posted on October 24, not April 13 – Jade later explicitly breaks the fourth wall, so does she know this? Is it possible that John celebrates his birthday on 4/13, but wasn’t technically born then (hospital mistake, adoption, born in a different timezone so it wasn’t 4/13 in PT, etc…). Jade is always so certain she’s right even when she has no hard evidence, and the most interesting thing for her character would be having her deal with being wrong.

I hoped Jade’s fourth wall diversion would be interactive (page 812 even calls it an ‘interactive flash application’), but it’s a lucky player inside the computer who gets to play. I love Jade reacting to each click before the card is revealed, trying to give hints that the player completely ignores. It’s explicitly Jade letting the player do this, while John was completely unaware of the cursor (p.6, 19) although he did react to the wrong name on page 2. I think that in our John → Rose → Dave → Jade progression, as the characters get weirder, they also get more aware of the fourth wall.

It is very cool to see some of Jade’s inventions in practice. You can tell Jade made the cookalizer herself – anything where the settings are ‘Thaw’, ‘Cook’, ‘Irradiate’ and <large explosion> is not going to conform to health and safety guidelines. Clearly this is why Jade thinks Rose is ‘sort of hard [to] shop for’ (p.442), as Rose cares about generator safety and wouldn’t trust a weird gadget, while Jade is all about scientific experimentation at all costs.

Miscellaneous thoughts:

Is Jade calling a fursuit a ‘raggedy synthetic tufty piece of crap’ (p.802) the first time she’s really dunked on something?

Very funny that Problem Sleuth and Problem Sooth both exist in this universe. Which one is a parody of the other?

Jade’s crystal ball velvet pillow (p.803) matches Rose’s mom’s thank you note velvet pillow (p.373) in their respective text colors.

What is the DEAL with these fruits. Why won’t they settle down why are they ‘impudent’ like they’re puppets and did Jade get that word from Dave or vice versa??

No but seriously if you are a vegan or vegetarian reading this, would you eat fruits that jumped around and smiled I am genuinely curious

Rotary dials are so sexy but why is there no cheese, the most important chilled food, in Jade’s refrigerator?

‘dial up a thick T-bone steak’ (p.816) is a really good phrase that I’m going to start slipping into everyday speech. Gotta dial myself up some cheese and crackers

> Jade: Use science gadgets to drill hole in MAGIC CUE BALL.