#tho I have when necessary

[llycaons]

I wish I could teleport to all my mutual's rooms and gently yet efficiently remove the bugs for them 😭😭😭 I love you all you shouldn't suffer

[askblueandviolet]

I need to see the spider demons please 😭🙏

[andy-clutterbuck]

4x02 | Infected

[mdverse]

oopsies my hand slipped and i drew brittana kissing again

[ckret2]

What is the equivalent of the phrase "Oh my God" that Bill uses? Is he mentioning some god figure from his home dimension or is he using “Oh my me” or “Oh my Axolotl”?

He doesn't use anything.

Have you ever heard an atheist say "oh my big bang" instead of "oh my god"? In common usage, the word "god" in "oh my god" is merely part of a stock phrase and not a declaration of belief. In fact, changing "god" to another term would instantly make it more religious, since if you just say "oh my god" it's like "well maybe they believe in a god or maybe they're just using the phrase," but if you say "oh my [something else]" it's like "they DEFINITELY believe in [something else] so passionately that they changed the phrase just to emphasize how much they believe in it."

If Bill ever used the phrase, he would use it like a foreign word pronounced omaigohd that's just an exclamation that communicates a specific emotional meaning to English-speakers (anger, shock, excitement)—and he's not going to get all cutesy while speaking a foreign language to draw attention to something irrelevant. This exclamation isn't an avenue to announce his religious beliefs.

There ARE issues he feels passionately enough about that he'd break away from common English. Unless he's in "pretending to be human" mode, at any place where a human would naturally refer to themself as "a person," "a woman/man," "female/male," "she/he," Bill will refer to himself as "a shape," "a triangle," "triangular," "it," even in contexts where that sounds weird to the humans. His gender is triangle and that matters to him. Religion does not.

At any rate, there's no [something else] he could fill into the phrase. He knows for a fact that there are figures powerful enough to alter reality—he is one. He suspects on good evidence that there are even more powerful figures that can conjure an entire universe from nothing—he is not one. He considers "power" and "divinity" to be separate things, he doesn't think powerful figures are divine, and he doesn't think the divine is real. He thinks "god" is an artificial social label, like "king," that only exists when enough people concur that it's real and stops existing when enough people stop respecting it. He thinks "god" is what the weak call the powerful when they've been fooled into thinking the powerful deserve worship. He thinks he's one of the powerful that fools the weak. He doesn't think he's a god—except when he's lying to himself very well—but he loves how it feels when other people call him a god, so he encourages it. He doesn't consider anybody god, he doesn't obey or respect any authority, and generally the more powerful a being is, the more he dislikes them on principle. One trillion years ago, the beliefs he was raised with were the sort a white American boomer experiencing a religious crisis would insist are "spiritual but not religious." He briefly thought gods might be real in his youth, but never worshiped any.

But all that aside—his vocabulary simply doesn't include the phrase "oh my god." He doesn't want to imply he even might worship something—he's too proud and that pride is too fragile. If he has to make an exclamation, it'll be something entirely different—"Oh boy." "Oh, come on!" "You're kidding me." "Seriously?" "Whoa!" "Wow!" "No way," maybe hysterical laughter—whatever's fitting in a given situation. Several times in the fic I've had to go find a different phrase where if he was another character I could've just put "omigosh".

[furba]

The star of the re-lashing tutorial, Rex, next to its freshly washed and brushed skin. 😊💕

Rexy will be naked for a while, it needs several repairs done and it's less for me to forget if it just stays on the desk in pieces haha..

It came to me a bit dirty, mute, and with some battery corrosion that I've already tended to. Also need to do something about the lever that moves the eyelids having hardened and worn down over time, it can't quite grip them anymore. I'm thinking very thin craft foam.. I'll have to take the eyes out again.. 😩

[todayisafridaynight]

matrophobia

[nguyenfinity]

Every time I draw Mamagi it does AoE damage (I am also in the area of effect)

Lighthearted bonus:

[b4kuch1n]

Your swsh art always makes me want to replay the game because i love it and its my favorite pokemon game and every time i play another pokemon game i think of it how i miss certain elements from swsh. Then i boot up the game and im once again caught in the 1 hour 40 minutes hand held intro and im like ah- now i remember why i have been playing other pokemon games instead of this one. Happy (late?) birthday!

you don't want to listen to hop? you don't want to hear him teach you about type matchups? you don't wanna let him cheer u on...? 🥺 waa....?

[manofthepipis]

I was rereading chapter 12 of system rebooting please standby and I found it just a little sweet that spamton was excited to see Kris (even tho it wasn’t them lol). tho he mostly was hoping for Kris to save his hide, I also think he was just happy to see his friend since he’s so lonely at that point

im rlly glad you liked that bit!! :D spamton will always have his more selfish motivations, and i've tried writing him so that if he ever does want/need something from someone else he goes into salesman mode, playing nice and innocent enough to get what he wants. But like they're his friend!! his buddy!! :D!! they're a puppet just like him and they helped to free him even if it was obvious he was up to no good in the first place! someone like that to return to him in his extreme loneliness and confusion would be a godsend, but he doesn't get those often. so whoops it had to be an addison lmao

I'd imagine if kris were to return, he'd be hanging around them and their friends to the point where it got annoying but only because he genuinely cares now and they've given him a new purpose in the world he's forever fated for. Though it would genuinely surprise me if he appeared again in canon (i think he's just gonna get the jevil treatment and be a quiet close-to-nonliving item in your inventory), but in this au hed be harder than hell to get rid of (akin to actual spam) hfjsksksk.

[the-kipsabian]

i bought 30€ worth of yarn when i was asked to make two pairs of socks im

[guinevereslancelot]

i should be able to call in sleepy to work

[sukibenders]

I ultimately wish Bridgerton had just scrapped the idea of racism and racial prejudice from their world and just had a world where that, really, wasn't an issue. Like that within itself would have been perfect because, not only, would it allow poc viewers to see themselves in a show without having to explain or justify how they got there (because whenever poc are in historical fantasies all of a sudden we have to face oppression or else it's not accurate 🙄) but also because...the introduction that racism did exist in their world was very...messily added, to say the least.

[skwangly-fingers]

au where instead of hiring Delia to be Lydia’s life coach, Charles hires Lizzie from DFD

Lizzie grew up with Drop Dead Fred, so she knows all about chaotic beings that only you can see. Granted, she might assume Beetlejuice is just Lydia’s imaginary friend at first, but at least she wouldn’t delegitimize her experience (especially if she learns about Barbara and Adam).

Note: in this au, Fred is still with Lizzie because I said so. Also, I am basing this on Beetlejuice: The Musical.

I feel like Fred would be able to see all of the ghosts, mostly because I think the shenanigans would be funny. But also, for a slightly more “logical” explanation, he’s an imaginary friend, so there’s no reason he would have to be constrained by the usual rules for seeing ghosts.

I’m undecided on if the ghosts can see Fred. On the one hand, very funny if they can’t but Fred is still able to mess with them. On the other hand, I think Barbara and Adam would be exasperated to have another chaotic entity bothering them, and Fred’s and Beetlejuice’s energy is so similar in my mind that I feel like there’s too much potential that would be left on the table if they can’t see him. My current solution to this would be to just have them not be able to see him at first, but eventually they are? I don’t have a logical explanation for this—I just want to have my cake and eat it too.

Can the girls see each other’s gremlins? I’m leaning towards a similar situation with the ghosts, although because both Lydia and Lizzie are able to see one or more entities no one else can (ghosts/demons and imaginary friends respectively), maybe they would both be able to see both entities right away? My current idea here is that Lydia can see Fred, but he kinda keeps out of her sight at first. Meanwhile, Lizzie can’t see Beetlejuice (or the other ghosts) until Lydia and/or Fred tell her about them.

so, just to recap:

Lydia = can see Fred from the start, but at first he mostly causes his mischief where she can’t see

Lizzie = cannot see the ghosts at first but is later able to

Fred = can see everyone from the start

The Ghosts (Beetlejuice, Barbara, Adam) = cannot see Fred at first but are later able to

Charles = cannot see Fred or the ghosts

Delia is just…not in the picture in this au. This is not a slight against her, she’s great, she just can’t be in the picture for this to work. I’m imagining Lizzie is around the same age she is at the end of Drop Dead Fred though, so she and Charles are not romantic with each other. (also bc I ship Lizzie x Fred. No I don’t take constructive criticism on this, but whether or not they’re romantic in this au can be up to your interpretation)

I feel like it makes the most sense if Charles and Lydia are already moved into the house (even if only briefly) before Charles hires Lizzie. That way Lydia can already be acquainted with the ghosts and then there can be shenanigans with her (likely with the ghosts’ help) trying to scare Lizzie off while Fred also causes his own mayhem.

Anyways yeah, that’s kinda all my ramblings on this au atm. Not sure what made this come to mind, I just randomly had the thought that Fred and Beetlejuice had the same vibes and my thoughts spiraled from there. Feel free to add your own thoughts if you have any, or ask me questions if you want to make me spiral further into insanity considering this.

thank you for coming to my TEDTalk.

[carpisuns]

sometimes I kinda wish tumblr had something akin to a twitter circle or Instagram close friends list. bc sometimes I kinda wanna say something but not necessarily to Everyone. i feel like tags are almost equivalent bc they’re like the Secret Whisper-Rant Place except anyone can see them. Which adds some fun flavor I suppose. Tumblr close friends circle except it’s whichever of ur followers cares to read your tinytext ramblings

[nexus-nebulae]

love watching weather science videos but like. why am i 1000x more interested in tornadoes over hurricanes. they're both spinning air