#though Stanman's also gonna be there

[tspstuff]

no paratober art today, mb guys but have the little silly

(Walter from @lexumpysfunland )

[kestalsblog]

Stan's Birthday (A Stanman Drabble)

So, I didn't have time to make anything amazing, but I couldn't NOT to do a little Stanman something for Stan's birthday. Here's a quick little sugary-sweet drabble 🍭🙈🥰 Happy birthday, Stan 🍰

Warnings for extreme sweetness 🙊 And just a bit of crude language and mention of sex because this is Cartman LOL.

Stan's half-remembered dream, something about a black sky and bird wings, was interrupted by dozens of soft pressures across his cheeks and nose. When he opened his eyes, Eric's face was centimeters from his. "Mornin', birthday boy," said Eric breathily when their gazes connected. Yesterday, he'd sported a nice chin's worth of stubble, but he must have gotten up early and shaved because his skin was smooth now with only a few apparent red nicks here and there.

"Please nothing major, Eric," Stan complained sleepily. His boyfriend had a habit of going way over the top, and the only thing Stan hated worse than going over the top was being the centre of everyone's attention. Apprehensions over a surprise birthday party or big adventure had been chewing at his mind all week.

"The day itself is major enough. The day you were born. What could be more monumental than that?" Eric told him with his effortless charm, lifting Stan's hand to kiss in between the knuckles. Stan felt his face's temperature grow. Sometimes it was hard to believe this endearing, gentle man in front of him was the same Eric Cartman from his childhood, but then again, Eric was perpetually reminding him that what he'd needed all along was someone levelheaded like Stan to bring him down to Earth.

"I have the day all planned out," announced Eric, instigating a new pinching fear in the back of Stan's head. Knowing Eric, they would be halfway around the world by noon. And though on one hand Stan loved his boyfriend's thrill-seeking nature, sometimes he just wanted . . .

"First off, I found this awesome new recipe for vegan ginger pumpkin bread," Eric interrupted Stan's thoughts, already searching through his phone for the saved screenshot.

Stan blinked twice. "A recipe?" he repeated.

"Yeah, looks really good too. After that we're gonna sit on the porch like two romantic old geezers for a while cuz I bought this huge bag of bird seed that I just know will attract the prettiest ones. Expensive, good shit, man. Those feathered fuckers are lucky I'm such a provider. Then it's movie time, naturally. Your pick," he rattled on, swiping through his notes app to examine his list. "Gonna end it all with a homemade dinner, courtesy of moi, and some pumpkin carving to top it off. Also, Stan, beloved, there's this autumn bath bomb I've been dying to try with you, so please give it a shot. I'll even put flower petals in the bath to make it all romantic n'shit if you want." He looked up from his phone with surprising innocence spotlighted through his caramel-colored eyes. "Call me a basic white bitch, but I'd be delightful as fuck walking around with a pumpkin spice latte scented trail following me, and we all know it." A half-smile curved his lips.

Stan had only just sat up in bed, and already he felt his eyes threatening tears. Birthdays had been miserable, lonely affairs for as long as he could remember. The mere idea of them exhausted him and evoked such overpowering, compressing dread that he liked to pretend they weren't even happening.

Eric had managed to schedule what sounded like such a quiet, perfect day, a day Stan wished he could live over and over. "How does that sound?" Eric asked, a touch of anxiety introducing itself to his tone against Stan's silence.

"Too good. It sounds too good. Eric, really. I'm." Stan couldn't finish his thoughts, instead opting to grope at the back of Eric's neck to tug him closer. His fingers stroked at the small, soft hairs that grew there while he coaxed Eric's mouth toward his. A scent of aftershave and Eric's new cinnamon toothpaste - a flavor he'd purchased solely because Stan liked it - tingled his nostrils as their lips roamed slowly together, touching gently as if for the first time.

When Stan pulled back, Eric waited a moment to open his eyes and look at him. Cinnamon and maybe a hint of clove lingered on Stan's mouth as he tried to regulate his blushing.

Surely some day he'd grow used to this and stop reacting like a virgin teenager every time they touched each other, but then again, maybe that would mean one day it would stop being special. And Stan was willing to be embarrassed for life if he could hold onto this brilliant sensation forever, a feeling like being young and discovering a new, beautiful flower or the fact that the universe stretched on for infinite lightyears. Something so massively tender and incredible, his mind had no frame big enough to contain it.

"I love you," murmured Stan while Eric flicked playfully at a lock of his hair that had been roughed up from their kissing.

"Yeah, yeah. Save the sap for trees, Marsh," he joked, but Stan saw the fiendishly euphoric glimmer illuminating his eyes. "That pumpkin bread isn't going to bake itself, and you're gonna need to eat a hearty loaf, got it? You need like quadruple the energy today because if you think birthday sex is off the table, you're quite literally ridiculous. Hm." He lifted a finger to his lips do an overly exaggerated thinking pose. "Maybe the birthday sex should even be on the table?"

Normally, Stan would slap him with a pillow. Today he went in for another kiss, uttering, "Thanks for this, Eric," into his waiting mouth. The vibrations of Eric's deep laughter greeted him, followed by Eric's warm arms around him.

"Happy birthday, Stan."

[kennys-parka-jacket]

Stichael, dip, stanman, and candy

Gonna keep it brief-ish.

Sticheal- Turning goth and listening to edgy music is not therapy. But there are a number of reasons why someone may not go to therapy, and these guys feel like they understand each other. Also it's cool that Micheal still hung out with Stan even after he stopped being fully gothic. Micheal absolutely jams out to Crimson Dawn at 2am.

Dip- I've seen a lot of fan art depict Pip as this happy sunshine child who sees the beauty in everything paired with Damian an aggressive pessimist who thinks that everything sucks. I can get behind that dynamic. I also like any version where Pip fucking snaps and goes ape shit. It also checks a few boxes in the classic teopes category: angel x demon, light hair x dark hair, etc. It's a rare ship that I prefer them as children just cuz they're so cute that way. (You'd never know I have thoughts about them though cuz I never reblog posts about them lol. I should fix that. Some day.)

Stanman- TBH I prefer stanman as a part of poly main 4 (+ butters). I think all of them have kissed each other due to party games, dares, drunken compulsions, and genuine attraction. As for stanman on its own, I don't have a ton to say. In canon Eric's mentioned having affection for Stan, and a few moments prove this. Stan gets along with him well enough. Yeah, that's about all I got.

Candy- Rivals ships just aren't my thing. I'm gonna leave it at that.

[dusksmote]

As a fanfic writer, how does the events of any new SP episode/special impact the way you write your stories?

the show is so long you really have to pick and choose episodes you want to focus on as your base, especially because south park has a tendency to change characters’ personalities and is riddled with continuity errors. this is actually what keeps the show fresh for me when i write new stuff, i get to explore different versions of the characters and their lives.

tweek is a good example, because i mainly focus on how he’s characterized in certain episodes but not others. when i need to remind myself about how he acts, i rewatch ‘free hat’, gameplay of the fractured but whole, and early season episodes where he’s wacked out on drugs. BUT i also change this up to keep things interesting. i’m working on a crimson dawn au fic rn that uses his piano skills from ‘put it down’. in a creek oneshot i’m posting after WTSAU he’s a skilled thespian because of what we saw in ‘tweek x craig’. in my ABO fic he’s almost completely different from how i normally write him but the characterization still makes sense if you’re looking at other isolated instances of canon and not others. instead of a crazy tweaker he’s a drug-free spiritualist (who’s also prone to conspiracy theories).

there’s so much canon material to choose from you can’t possibly cram it all in, so you have to pick and choose what aspects of the characters you want to show. i’m also working on a cartman-centric fic right now and going through this process of nailed down what kind of personality he’s going to have because he’s one of the least consistent throughout the show. it’s easy to fall into the trap of Cartman’s entire character being ‘exterminate the jews!’, when he’s been moving away from that since ‘jewpacabra’. the two recent specials are really forefront in my mind when i’m working on it, because they show cartman being caring and considerate of others--something that’s not shown in earlier seasons.

so ultimately, whatever new stuff happens in canon doesn’t always influence what i write, because a lot of my interpretation is based on older content. i’m very familiar with seasons 1-15 since i watched them all back in 2010 and again now, so they’re what’s had the biggest impact on my idea of how the characters operate. i still like to use elements from the newer episodes, like the farm, because they make for interesting plot elements. stan and kyle’s relationship is almost always based on earlier episodes where they’re a united front, instead of the post-’ass burgers’ seasons where they always seem to be at odds. conversely, cartman and butters’ relationship is based more on the later episodes where they’re on more even footing with each other, and appear to genuinely like each other rather than earlier when cartman was just keeping him around to play cruel jokes on him.

there are also certain episodes i don’t consider part of the metanarrative when i’m writing a fic. the biggest example is ‘you’re getting older’ and ‘ass burgers’. i can’t physically watch these episodes, they make me depressed, ergo i don’t consider them part of ‘my canon’ per say. the vaccine special will probably fall under this realm too. it’s fine if you like these episodes, they’re just never going to be ones on my radar when i’m looking for references of how to depict the guys and their relationships. alcoholic, depressed stan just makes me depressed, and there’s enough content of him in fanfic already i don’t feel like i have anything to add to it. instead i focus on how he acts in other episodes like ‘whale whores’, ‘fun with veal’, and ‘fantastic easter special’ (to name a few).

one thing i will say about the new specials though is that they completely changed my idea of stan and cartman’s relationship. i’m not gonna turn into a stanman shipper, but i’m realizing just how much they can get along.

[cartmanbrahofficial]

(muse question) is this gonna be a stanman blog? even if it’s not, i still but for this blog 😩😩

OOC: There are two muns running this blog. One’s favorite muse to play is Stan and one’s favorite is Cartman so that’s why these two were chosen. You’ll have to wait and see what ships are endgame though- no spoilers. :) Also we’re not really sure by your phrasing whether you were hoping for stanman or not haha- Mod Skull (Eric)

[kestalsblog]

What are your thoughts on Craigman?

And for the headcanons thing, I love to think they would bond over music! They've both shown to be very into it and I love the idea of them bonding over it :3 ❤️

(Like, think of them becoming a duo? Stan writes their songs, Eric is the main singer, and they both play? They become super popular, travel the world touring and live their happily ever after 🥹💙

There seriously needs to be more AUs with these two... :( )

Ooh, Craigman! 🌶️ Honestly, I think I could see Cartman with anyone if I squinted hard enough. I love that ridiculous, dominant guy LOL. They'd have an interesting dynamic to explore, considering Eric's huge, boisterous personality and Craig's subdued stoicism. A good blend 👀 You can also share your thoughts on the ship!

Actually, Craig is one of my faves. I am perpetually trying to figure out fics about him.

Omg! I love the Stanman band 😭 Eric has some serious musical talents. He's gonna end up singing some crazy gushy stuff with sweetheart Stan writing their music, but it's the price he has to pay. Them traveling the world as the most iconic duo, I love it! 😍 Eric would get really jealous of Stan's fans though.

The Stanman tag is seriously skimpy 😔 I live for the rare moments when someone makes fanart of them.

Thanks for the ask! 🫶This was fun!! You and others feel free to send more! I really like receiving them 😊