#tom and jerry in human form

[paper-possum-party-pal]

Guess Who?

It’s Timekeeper!!!

Timekeeper started off as an AI The Narrator made to keep track of settings and time after a failed attempt to create a protagonist. A form was built, but was scrapped. When TK gained sentience, he didn’t have the power to do much except mess with the clock and settings. She slowly expanded her power though through the powerful desire to fuck with The Narrator. They weren’t aware of much going on outside of their space until connecting with the computers of the parable where they became aware of Stanley. Xe gains access to the time and space between resets where Xe starts interacting with Stanley and the become partners in crime.

Stanley and TK are great buddies and their favorite activity is messing with The Narrator, made funnier by the fact The Narrator has no clue TK is even there. He does eventually find out though once TK manages to pull its scrapped form out of recycling and fix it and gets caught interacting with Stanley. Stanley and TK also often talk about their false memories and what kinds of lives they would lead in the real world. TK doesn’t really care if he gets to experience the real world, but does admit that it might be fun, and new things means new ideas means new ways to prank The Narrator.

The Narrator and TK have more of a rivalry, with TK thinking The Narrator as a stuck up buzzkill who puts too much value in perfection and meaning, while The Narrator thinks TK is annoying, irresponsible, and irreverent. They aren’t really friends, but they’re not enemies either, and will reluctantly admit when the other may have a point. They’re sort of like roommates and maybe siblings.

TK doesn’t interact with The Curator or Mariella as much, but they’re friends. TK knows how and when to bring the fun to them and they both appreciate it. They all hold more of a sibling dynamic. They all have tea together, chat, and play fight, especially TK and Mariella. The Curator is great at reigning in TK, which can be frustrating when a certain someone starts whining about someone else messing with his game.

More human form

It’s funny to me how many of us, at least initially (and even a little bit now), had a similar idea of how Timekeeper would look with a physical form. I found myself having a lot of difficulty deciding what I wanted them to look like exactly since there’s so many creative designs people have come up with. I was thinking of trying to design a very non-human form for it. One thing that does slightly bother me is that I have that last character for the proctor lineup that is very similar looking, but I’m hoping it’s just different enough so it doesn’t feel too much like I’m copy pasting the same character.

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[cypresswood3]

You know what. Lemme share my opinions on Malevolent shippers. Not the ships themselves. The people.

Starting off strong, Dollins shippers are somehow the nicest and coziest people out there. You guys sometimes come up with the craziest stuff but. You know the perfect balance between treating these characters and their traumas seriously AND writing them like an old classic Tom-and-Jerry-like cartoon. They are goofy and cute and smell like home. One's a killer for hire and the other is a tortured-by-eldrich-beings detective and you manage to make it into a romcom. I have nothing but respect for Dollins shippers. You are so good to your characters. Like an opposite of Kayne. You smell of fresh pie.

Parkthur shippers are like... the adults of the fandom? I'm not sure how to put it. Yall are mature. You explore parkthur to hell and back. The way you write their relationship is always full comradery and love in its purest form. Not traumabonded like Noel and Arthur, not dependant like blind faith, not brought together by trials like jarthur, but not quite as domestic as dollins. Parkthur is always very real and very human. I'm honestly a big fan of parkthur myself. Arthur's backstory was always the more interesting part of the lore for me (breaking my silence I've always loved Arthur more than John and it'll remain so). So you guys. You guys are the big siblings of the fandom.

Arthur and Noel shippers... I've honestly only seen it done as Arthur x Noel x John. And I love that. You guys hold so much love for Noel it almost makes me tear up. The way you write your stuff feels more of a Noel's good ending then jarthur's. And it's not a complaint in the slightest. You take jarthur and you fit Noel in so well and smooth he actually fixes them. You make Noel jarthur's home and family, and you make them his anchors. You guys are full of hope. When it comes to John x Noel (Arthur is there third wheeling or smth)... You guys are like dollins shippers witht their comfy domestic vibes, but you have an additional sprinkle of... healing. You love your John and Noel and treat them so so well, but it's less of a silly cartoony thing (like dollins) and more of a... story of rediscovery and, again, healing. You have a domestic vibe of a comfort book. Also you create the most insane things when you're horny /very pos.

Blind faith aka Arthur and Oscar shippers. Guys are you okay. It's a banger ship but guys. Guys how are we feeling. Have you tasted anything but tears in the last... forever? You create the most touching and soul crushing pieces of fan-creations but it takes you all your happiness to do so. You embrace the sad the same way Arkayne-ists embrace the horny. Even when you make them happy they're still engulfed in an aura of melancholy. You can write them in a good ending au and it still tastes bitter. And I don't mean it as a bad thing. You guys write Oscar and Arthur like they're doomed Sea and Moon yuri and I fuck with it. So hard. Yall are insanely talented. But also insanely sad. Do you guys want a cookie.

Arkayne. I'm convinced that all Arkayne shippers are actually Kayne's alternative accounts. Yall are ruthless but in the best way possible. Going through Malevolent you either defaultly ship jarthur or arkayne and I have nothing but awe for those whose heart calls for arkayne. I love your fics, guys. Having them in my browser history is incriminating but god. You really look at everyone else and cackle maniacally because you can do anything. Yall can go as crazy as humanly possible and that would still be Kayne. I love arkayne shippers because yall are genuinely so so fun. Yall are the type of people wh didn't drown their sims in pools. Because it was old and boring. Your ghosts were all colors of the rainbow because yall went overboard with your stuff. Honestly same.

Larson and Yellow shippers are quiet and almost unnoticeable but they make the most jaw-dropping gut-wrenching fanfiction known to man. They take Yellow and sink their teeth into him ruthlessly. Where John fans dissect him with care and patience, Yellow enjoyers tear him apart and drag the raw still-beating heart out of him. Whereas other shippers make stuff with hope, your works are embraced in a stench of doom. And it's sweet but in a way rotten flesh is sweet. You take Larson and Yellow and ask the question, can they see salvation and become better together? Then you make them try through blood and sweat and tears and tell them NO. And it leaves them both in agony. And it leaves me in agony. "Raw" is really the best word that comes to mind to describe you. I love you but please stop hurting me.

Larthur idk never saw anyone ship it but if someone does delete your account lmao. Freaks.

There is like a dozen more ships you can make but I've only yapped about the most prominent ones. Will make a part two if there's stuff I genuinely forgot or can yap about. It's 4 am please don't be hard on me if I missed something ultra obvious. It'll come to me.

And jarthur shippers. You think I forgot that don't you. I didn't. It's a fully conscious decision.

[lair-of-platonic-yanderes]

hello queen >^< I have a request ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ so you know kirara the best girl she’s a Yokai (?) now how would she react to a mouse yokai reader just imagine what shenanigans they’d get in:DD think Tom and Jerry except one thinks one is about to eat them and one just wants to kidnap the mouse

gn child

thank yluuuu🫡🫡

Hi! I hopped you like that fic 🙂

Little Friend

Platonic! Yandere! Kirara x GN! Child! Reader (plus, a tiny bit of Platonic! Mentor! Yae Miko)

Description: Cat is chasing after the mouse, together they cause shenanigans in the shrine, and fox is thinking about the past.

Warning: OOC. English is my second language. Platonic Yandere.

Reader based on kodama nezumi

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Yae Miko has many duties.

As head of the Grand Narukami Shrine, she must oversee the shrine, and makes sure, that people are getting needed help and not causing troubles.

As owner of the Yae Publishing House, she has to make sure, that writers aren't fooling around, and submit new works in time.

As Eternity's servant and friend, she keeps Ei company, reminding her old friend about the beauty of an ever-changing world.

But, Yae Miko had one more duty.

As an older and wiser youkai, and as youkai, who is to live alongside humanity, she must teach young youkais, how to live near humans.

Today, she has another lesson with one of her current youkai pupils. A child with mouse's ears and tail.

She called them [Y/N], and, right now, they were starting to get late for their lesson.

[Y/N] were a kodama nezumi, a mouse youkai, who could create small firework-like explosions. Their explosions weren't harmful, and were used by kodama nezumis to escape from danger.

Mice youkais were quite rare, even back in the Kitsune Saiguu's days, so, Yae Miko was really surprised, when she found [Y/N] few months ago, when few villagers came to shrine, begging for help. They insisted, that evil spirits start haunting the village, causing loud noises at night. Yae Miko, who had a rare moment of free time, agreed to visit the village. She was sure, that there were no evil spirits, and villagers were simply mistaken some forest animals' noises for ghosts' howling. Yae Miko were waiting for the moment, when she will prove villagers, that they were wrong. Some soft teasing won't hurt them.

However, both sides were wrong.

Kitsune was sure, that kodama nezumis went instinct. And she was quite shocked, when, after she went to investigate, she saw a kid with mouse's ears and tail, who were hiding in a tool shed and were playing with old temari.

After a quick chase (kid were sure, that "foxy wants to eat me", so they tried to escape), Yae Miko managed to convince [Y/N] to trust her. She promised to teach them, how to live with humans.

Ever since then, [Y/N] were visiting Narukami Shrine twice a week.

Yae Miko carefully rubbed her temples. She had an idea, why little mouse youkai were late. And, for the love of Electro Archon, she hopped that she was wrong.

The sounds of people jumping, loud squeaking, happy meowing and shrine maidens' "Lady Yae, they are here again!" crashed kitsune's hope. She made a deep breath and left the shrine building.

She immediatly saw a big, round mouse and a two-tailed cat in a special express delivery running around the Sacred Sakura. 

As usual, Kirara and [Y/N] were causing troubles.

Their meeting was an incident. Kirara was delivering a package to Guuji Yae when Yae Miko had a lesson with [Y/N]. Meeting between nekomata and kodama nezumi, between a cat and a mouse, went as good as you can guess. 

With a loud "Cat!" squeak, [Y/N] transformed into their mouse form and ran off. In a flash, transformed cat Kirara chased after them. After that, Yae Miko herself hurried after the duo, quickly commanding shrine maidens to catch the cat.

It was quite a chase. [Y/N], despite being young, were smart. They managed to trick Kirara into running on the top of the shrine, got tangled in bushes and ran into Kano Nana. After that, both [Y/N] and Kirara were caught and brought back to Yae Miko. Kitsune scold them for their behavior. She also reassured [Y/N], promising, that Kirara won't eat them, and made Kirara promise not to scare the mouse kid.

Yae Miko wasn't sure, if her talk worked.

Kirara was still chasing after [Y/N] from time to time.

[Y/N] still were jumpy around Kirara.

Their chase became famous through all Inazuma. They became so famous, that one of the new authors from publishing house started to write a series of children books about smart mouse being chased by sly cat. 

Meanwhile, [Y/N] and Kirara were running in circles around shrine maidens. Suddenly, mouse [Y/N] climbed on one of the maidens and jumped, landing on Yae Miko's sleeve, while Kirara continue running around the shrine maidens. When nekomata realized, that kodama nezumi were gone, she froze, looking around in shock.

Mouse on Yae's sleeve were squeaking happily, but, after noticing their mentor's gaze, got silent, jumped down and transformed into their human form. Kirara followed their example. The duo looked guilty.

"[Y/N]." softly called Yae Miko. Kid's mouse's ears perked up.

"Yes, Great Guuji Yae?" 

Yae smiles slightly and pointed back to the shrine. 

"Please, go here. Our lesson will start soon, so, get ready."

Kodama nezumi nodded and skipped towards the shrine. Yae Miko turned her attention to Kirara. Her voice became slightly strict.

"Kirara, how many times I asked you not to chase after [Y/N]? You are scaring them."

Nekomata's tails twitched.

"But, Guuji Yae, I just want to help My little friend! But every time I try to offer my help, they refuse or try to change the topic. But I just want to help!"

Yea Miko raised an eyebrow. Kirara elaborated.

"They are a kid, they won't have any way to take care of themselves! And I can take care of them! They can live with me, I will find a cozy box for them, I will feed them. I will be their big sister!" with every word Kirara's eyes shined with some strange emotion. Yae shook her head.

"Kirara, your heart is in a right place. But, please, take it slowly. Don't harass [Y/N], and, maybe, one day, you two will be close friend, and, maybe, [Y/N] will see you as a big sister. But, please, be patient."

With that words, Yae Miko turned around and returned to the shrine. She has a lesson to teach to [Y/N].

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Kirara was on her way to the bottom of Mt. Yougou. She wasn't able to get [Y/N] to her home once again. But, she wasn't sad. As Guuji Yae said, it can be changed in a future.

One day, [Y/N] will live with her. Granny will love them for sure. Kirara will play with [Y/N], will teach them how to read and write. She will buy [Y/N] anything they want! There would be no need for them to go outside.

One day, her little friend will be safe, happy and sound. And right by her side.

[raconteur-wanpi]

One Piece 1140

Finally found the time to do a small chapter review again! Haven't done one of those in ages.

For starters, now that the fight between Luffy and Gabban has begun, I love how slaptick-y it immediately is. It's a scuffle between two extremely powerful individuals, but it's entirely unserious, as it should be. Luffy will turn anything he gets involved in in a looney tunes bit, love to see those cartoony elements even before Gear 5 is used! Giant Haki Key Bonk.

Oh and of course this. This is a straight up Tom and Jerry bit. This is so much more fun to me than generic un-choreographed shounen action, this is what I love about One Piece!!! Again, we're not even doing Gear 5 yet but its influence is rubbing off on the fight direction overall, I'm so so glad about it.

And of course we get a short little Zoro and Luffy team-up. Neither of them care about this being some sort of fair duel, they just want to get the key and screw off of the castle lol. We also finally get a closer look at the Elbaf version of Gear 5! We saw glimpses of it in the beginning but it's easier to see here! I loooove that we're already getting alternate designs for it each arc!

And of course, Gabban immediately gives up. I saw some people say this reminded them a bit of Crocus, which like, yeah! They're both Roger Pirates and we saw them hang out in that cover page, it's fun to see the bit of them knowing when to give up. For starters, he was just testing Luffy and he got to see what he wanted at this point. But an extra layer to this, is that one panel with the shine in his eye, which could easily be him using future sight, and seeing what that Zoro-Luffy combo attack would look like, before they had the chance to pull it off. I'm gonna go with that interpretation for now, lol.

This panel actually particularly stood out to me. "If Elbaph is still safe." We know the God's Knights are about to attempt to kidnap Elbaph's children. And that includes Gabban's son. I feel like this nonchalance of his here, is probably gonna be juxtaposed to what might actually end up happening to Collen later. I wonder how much Gabban will get involved, or even regret his calm here, if something like that happens and his little big guy gets hurt. It almost sounds like he's either predicted, or is expecting, that something is gonna go wrong....

And here's the big reveal of this chapter! Two whole new Gods' Knights! And both of them are confirmed to be Celestial Dragons, with their family names and everything. It's interesting to me then, that Gunko is the only one who hasn't been given a family name yet.

Anyway, my bets now on Kiringham / Qilingam having the Mythical Ox-Ox Fruit Model Kirin/Qilin. I mean, the design checks out and it's literally in his name. Interesting to see a CD in a hybrid zoan form. And the most interesting part is that he has a white hagoromo! So far it's been a theory that only awakened zoans have these, and from what we've seen they're always either white or black. CP0 had black hagoromos, and so did the Five Elders, even though we don't know if they're zoans or not. Luffy, Yamato and Qilingam over here, are the only ones with a white hagoromo, if my memory serves right. What does this all mean? Hell if I know.

It's also interesting to me that Qilingam has the CD bubble-helmet, when none of the other God's Knights so far have it. Maybe he's particularly snobbish or hypochondriac about the whole "breathing mortal air" thing compared to the rest of them? Who knows. I also wonder, like with Morgan, if we're ever gonna see his non-hybrid human form.

With that out of the way though, we finally have a new Celestial Dragon clan with this! The Limosiv Family. That, combined with the 10 Families we already knew about, makes 11 out of 20 total. That is because "Shephard" is one we already knew of, it's the same family as Saint Shephard Ju Peter. Which means Summers over here is a relative of Ju Peter.

For the curious, these families of the Original 20 that we know of so far are:

Nerona

Nefertari

Donquixote

Manmayer

Figarland

Limosiv

Marcus

Topman

Ethanbaron

Shephard

Jaygarcia

Only 9 left...

Anyway, Summers asks Shamrock if he was "visiting Harald's grave or something", which instantly rings alarm bells. I think that this all but confirms that Harald had some sort of tie or relationship with the World Government. Did he work with them? Was he being taken advantage by them? It's too early to tell, but I get the feeling that he was up to no good, as most people have predicted.

And we close off the chapter with Shamrock acting very very much so like his father during the God Valley incident. Wanting to turn the kidnapping of Elbaph's children into a game? Very familiar cruelty indeed.

This chapter did let us see more of a glimpse into both Shamrock and Gunko as personalities, whereas, so far, they were a bit void of it. We're starting to see who they are as people, very interesting!

[this-orange-anon024]

🍊 Character Intro 🍊

(drafted)

Sooo, I thought for something to get my mind off everything.

and others have inspired me to try some lore/ fun facts/personal that I could think of at the moment for orange 🍊

(I might change, but let's try it!)

[ OPEN 🌱 ]

QnA 💭 -> (get to know ORANGE! ⏬)

(PERSONAL INFO 🍊)

Personal :

(( NAME )): Orange (( AGE )) : Memories Smile -> A Sun's Shadow -> Blood is their mercy: 7-10 🌱 Where the Sea Drifts -> Reasons -> (Sun!Cult) : 11-15 🍊 16 🍊 (traded mortality for immortality)

(( PRONOUNS )): she/they (more preferred) (( BIRTHDAY )): June 20th 🎂 (ooc: created Dec. 7th) (( PERSONALITY TYPE )): ENFP (( SEXUALITY )) : aroace (aromatic & asexual) 🧡💛🤍🩵💙 (queerplatonic relationships) -> QPR (queer platonic relationship) -> Happily Married (TWICE): 🧡Petal🧡 (( HEIGHT : )) 5'6 (( VOICE claim: )) (KID 🌱) -> AOSTH- Tails (+ laughter ) 🦊 Young Mirabel - Encanto 🕯️ Tom n Jerry - Nibbles 🐭 (TEEN🍊)-> TMNT Rise - Apriiilll O' Neil! 🐢 Viney - Owl House 🦉 Gwen Stacy - Spider verse 🕸️ Young Vi - Arcane 🥊 🌳 (( LORE )) 🌳 (so far) : (( LORE )) -> -💧-During any grief of DEMETER, for her daughter's, Persephone absence down at the underworld, -💧- her tears planted grew to a CITRUS TREE down at the mortal world, without her acknowledge. -💧- Demter's fertility sprouted through the oranges 🍊 and lemons🍋 as well, to make up the loss of a child. (( BACKGROUND )) -> -🌳- one summer day, one of the oranges fell from the same CITRUS TREE at the mortal world. 🌳🍊 -🌳- Instead of staying on the land, the orange got too close to the edge and rolled off the hill. -🌳- Followed by them getting caught on a tray of fruit offerings of the town people to the to the Greek gods/ goddesses. -> (Grapes/pomegranates/apples/oranges) -🌳- That same orange would form as human soon after, and wake up on OLYMPUS. -🌳- And that was how 🍊 was born and found their adopted family today! :D ( (RELATIVE 🍋)) -🍋- also has a twin brother from the same tree, LEMON! ( @lemon-boy-anon) -🍋- Who orange was supposed to be with him at birth -🍋- but got separated -🍋- But now they found each other! 🍋(Yippee!) (( TO NOTE: )) -> Death: -🥀- yes they can, - 🥀- BUT can be recarinated the given next winter (Demeter's tears) - 🥀- sprout the following summer - (but lose memories of previous Life) ( (The DEAL) ) -🤝- Immortality: You stop aging and any time you experience a instant death your dead body disappears and you reappear fully healed, all memories intact / -> Abilities: - 🌱- (different each born) -🌱- (puberty not hit yet ) -🌱- rn - advance strength 💪 -🌱- gift free, fresh oranges 🍊

( (the DEAL ) ) -🤝-Void mode: Turn invisible at will, your presence will be completely hidden from anyone, no matter what and you can walk through sentient beings -🤝- Void sling: Create a straightforward trajectory for you to be dragged along, building up lots of momentum, at the destination come to a full stop, creating a blast of void energy around you, damaging anything and anyone, you can suppress that blast / -🤝- Transference: Your mind enters the mind of a willing creature, giving you the ability to fully control them and use their powers, can also be used to calm the inner mind -🤝- Void Beam: You can shoot out highly concentrated void energy out of your hands, this can burn about anyone and kill them, highly dangerous -🤝- Regeneration: If wounded you regenerate quickly as long as no new wound is gained

-> Winter: -🌨️- they can't STAND IT -🌨️- gets very sick n weak (can't make oranges)

(( APPEARANCES )) ⏩ Credit: @/flankerclinger0a (🫶🧡) @/mine @/cotton-candy-anon (🫶🧡) @/starfruuuuiiiit (🫶🧡) @/porado (🫶🧡)

🦠🍊 (Mold)

⏩credit: @/ccstiles (🫶🧡)

(( OTHER INFO! ))

Pros: ✅ vs Cons❎

Fun Headcanons// facts! + Preferences 📝 (2) [headcanons ](+ still adding!) THE RUTHLESS KIDS 💙 (siblings & I shenanigans -> king-of-fish) 🪷👻🪼🩵🩷🫧🧊⭐❄️🎶🍋🍊 Features (as requested) - @maggiemelodies09 🎶( talented sister & friend!) Friends! 💎 - Natah - (Pretty) - @/messagercreature ♦️ - Pandora @/pandora-of-another-world 🩵 - Asfó - (kid) @/gremlinlotusannonhere 🥀 - Thorn @/gremlinlotusannonhere 🩸🪷 - Nettle - @/gremlinlotusannonhere 💠 - River @/gremlinlotusannonhere 💜 - Cameron @/gremlinlotusannonhere 🍁 - Maple (?) @/mapleleaf-anon 🌧️ - Raindrop (?) @/mapleleaf-anon 🪸 - Coral - @/coral-daughter-of-amphitrite Characters as videos 🎦 Quotes No context of 🖼️ Characters as makeup💄

🍊 lore

Life is beautiful 🩵 (positive/hope if u need it)

my art 🎨

angst 💔

Vibe time 🎶 (song recommendations + jamming)

[ SONGS🎙️: ]

Homage - Mild High Club 🌱

Part of that World - Little Mermaid 🧭

What's This? - Nightmare Before Christmas 🔎Peace and Love (On the Planet Earth) - Steven Universe 🫂🧡

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(( Rules for this Rp!))

Be Respectful! Common Courtesy goes a long way to maintaining a harmonious enviroment!

No direct NSFW - I'M A MINOR

NO PEDOPHILES (🚔🚨)

No toxic attitude, this includes deliberately making a nuisance of yourself as well as harassing other users, as well as using race, disability, sexual orientation, or explicit based slurs and derivatives thereof.

No Targeted Harrassment or Controversial Topics, when a discussion has stagnated and is no longer productive, it is best to move on to another topic

Like anyone, I can say NO to a to idea (force it and you'll be blocked)

Nothing on suicide / self harm please (TW)

Don't spread false rumors ❌

Be respectful to everyone's comfort / boundaries/ life / time and space

NO DISCRIMINATION OF ANY KIND

NO HATE OR RUDE ON OTHER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

Don't spam

AU'S 🌎(tags #) :

"Memories Smile"⏳:

(canon)

just living & laughing through shenanigans of days with adopted siblings -> (Ruthless Kids & Sea kids!) 🪷👻🪼🩵🩷🫧🧊💚⭐❄️🍊🐚🪸 (+ Maggie 🎧) adopted parents -> (Poseidon/ Amphitrite/Aphrodite/ Ody & Pen??) 🌊🫧🩷🗡️🪡 (⚠️NO TRAUMA OR CONFLICTS⚠️) (Yay!!) (🧡 check out these amazing blogs, they're really fun and amazing to rp with! Join the shenanigans and have fun while being respectful! ) (Remember, EVERYONE ON THIS POST ARE PEOPLE TOO) @/king-of-the-fish 🌊// @/ccstiles @/4mph1r1t3 🫧 // @/fronzie @/notesbyaphrodite 🩷// @/myafrodita @/king-of-the-gods-zeus⚡//sorrycouldn'tfind @/hades-ruler-of-the-underworld 💀 @/odysseus-of-ithaka 🗡️// @/z1ish @/odysseus-reigning-king-of-ithaca 🗡️ @imnotaman 🛡️ @/odysseus-is-waiting 🗡️ @/ithacas-prince 👦 @/l-l-l-l-legendary 👦 @/god-of-smithing-and-cozy-vibes 🔨 @/apollo-ask-blog ☀️ // @/rowan-is-c00l @/greekgoddessofmoon 🏹 @/cloak-of-ares 🩸🗡️ @/best-dressed-on-mt-olympus 📨

"A Sun's Shadow" 🌄:

(side story)

((canon friends & mentor and student)) the story of having their first closest friend, Apollo, with bittersweetness and tragic ending ⚠️( TRAUMA/ witness violence (physical+ verbal)/ graphic/gore details / angst (some) /coping grief / child death) ⚠️ (🧡 check out their amazing blog AND support others, they're really fun and amazing to rp with too, and be respectful! Please give Apollo n the mod love, they both deserve it 🧡) @/apollo-ask-blog ☀️ @/rowan-is-c00l @/child-of-proteus

"Blood is their mercy"🩸:

(side story)

the powerful and cruel, that is who emperor Commodus, is known for. Who makes sure no one defines his power with permanent death. So when orange interferes with his ways with Apollo, they realize that not all people are good as they thought when coming across Commodus. That blood is at their mercy. (⚠️TRAUMA / (child) death/ abuse/ threats/ violence (physical & verbal) /suffer loss/grief/ A GREAT ANTAGONIST ⚠️ ) another side story ("A Sun's Shadow"🌄 )(+Apollo) (🧡 check out their amazing blog! They're amazing people and play really good rp!! Be respectful! ) @/the-great-emperor-commodus ⚔️ @/pain-is-forever @/apollo-ask-blog ☀️

Blood orange 🩸🍊 : (side story / different au)

( ⚠️TRAUMA/ death mention/ violence might be called back/ amnesia/ coping loss/ angst (mostly) / mentions hallucinations & haunting⚠️) death & reincarnation with no memories, and overcoming fear of unknown and how to move on -> currently living with Hades in the underworld (🧡 check out their amazing blog, they're really fun and amazing to rp with! Be respectful! ) @/that-one-queen-of-the-underworld 🥀 @/hades-ruler-of-the-underworld 💀

Mold!Orange 🦠🍊:

(non canon / different au )

where orange is a antagonist psycho and just wanting to have fun by tormenting and manipulating others to do as they wish with heartless intentions. (⚠️Note: may not be for everyone, READ INTRO for caution⚠️) @this-mold-orange025

Where the Sea Drifts 🌊:

(canon story)

The Ruthless Kids and others are facing the divorce of Poseidon and Amphirite. From facing betrayal // grief // change // separation // develop trauma & separation anxiety// and never look at the parental figures the same way again, to secrets no one was supposed to know. And new faces.. (🧡 check out their amazing blog! They're amazing people and play really good rp!! Be respectful! ) @/leucothea-helper-of-sailers 👑🌊 @/king-of-the-fish 🌊 @/4mph1r1t3🫧 @/lightning-wielder

Reasons ⚖️:

((continuation of Where the Sea Drifts 🌊)) After the conflict between Leucothea and Poseidon, along side Amphitrite, orange finds it hard to accept both have to live hostile. Especially when they don't know the reasons behind their actions. Or is it BECAUSE they do, they can't accept peace? though they believe in peace only, Orange has to learn and accept that conflict & violence are sometimes needed & the better option in a better future. (🧡 check out their amazing blog! They're amazing people and play really good rp!! Be respectful! ) @/leucothea-helper-of-sailers 👑🌊 @/king-of-the-fish 🌊 @/4mph1r1t3🫧

Sun!Cult 🌞

(side au) :

A fun and inspiring world of cult activities that follow new relationships and shengagins! [ Their fun characters to interact! ] Venus - 🌙 Temple - ☀️ Uncle - 🌕 Pollux- ⭐ (star twin) Castora-🌟 (star twin)

(🧡 check out their amazing blog, they're really fun and amazing to rp with!

AND ARE A TALENTED ARTIST!! MAKE ENTERTAINING ART!!! 🧡✏️

Join the shenanigans and have fun while being respectful! )

(Remember, EVERYONE ON THIS POST ARE PEOPLE TOO)

@flankerclinger0a

[icywhip]

Okay, you all survived this long without me doing this, but I'm going to YAP about VANILLA now-

So his whole deal is that since he was a kid, his parents were always telling him to study hard, get a good job, and live well. It was often told to him in strict and comparative ways, with them always telling him to be smart like his older brother. It led to Vanilla having a great education but it made him an outcast who never had time for hobbies or anything outside of school.

After some bullies beat that reality into him he started to wonder who he was or if there even was a Vanilla outside of his parents' expectations. He got into music during the 8th grade when he overheard some kids listening to punk jams on the library computer before getting kicked out. The lyrics resonated with him and he started to take a deep interest in music. He was only ever allowed to listen to whatever his parents had on the radio and while he did enjoy some of his dad's 70's-80's tunes, the rebellious and free nature of punk rock was eye opening to him.

His interest in music was met with indifference from his parents and the more he showed a fixation on it the more they tried to tell him that he needed to be realistic and focus on something stable that would ensure his success. As he grew up, Vanilla decided he would prove to his parents that music WAS something that could ensure his success and trying to prove this led to him really ruining his relationship with music. Where music was once his outlet and something he did to be happy, it became something that he obsessed to achieve perfection with and it ultimately led to him ruining his relationship with the band he worked with and he became heavily jaded.

Thinking himself a failure, he got a part-time job at Vandelay helping clean up around campus after all of the chaos from Kale's run as CEO. He doesn't really talk to any of the human employees much, but he gets along very well with the robots, partially because of how jaded some of them are as well.

He forms a close bond with a SCR-UB he nicknames Rocky like Rocky Road ice cream. Rocky is one of the surviving SCR-UB units from Chai's rampage and he has a strooong vendetta against him. He tries his best to convince Vanilla to help him mess Chai up, but Vanilla just half-heartedly helps Rocky pull pranks on Chai to sate the robot's thirst for revenge for his fallen brethren.

Vanilla also forms a bond with 05-KAR and the robot's optimistic view helps Vani become less jaded. It's thanks to 05-KAR that Vanilla remembers that he fell in love with music over the joy of creation and self expression and he should never have tried to make it into a career to prove his parents wrong.

BUT BEFORE HE CAN REALIZE THAT, Vani lets Rocky's vendetta against Chai get to him. After months of cleaning up after Armstrong festivals and seeing Chai do so well after finding out he was a "college drop out" Vanilla's envy towards him boils over and he ends up becoming very mean spirited towards Chai. He thinks this slacker got big the easy way, not knowing how much Chai has had to fight to be taken seriously himself and how much growth he's been through thanks to the tea-m, so he lets his assumptions of the guy push him into picking fights with Chai and hating him to avoid facing his own problems head on. During this time, he is very Tom and Jerry with Chai, with it being ON SITE. Rocky realizes Vanilla has been attacking Chai without him and is confused because of Vani's previous suggestion they not go a violent route in ruining Chai's life. The SCR-UB confronts Vanilla about it later and Vanilla blows up at him saying that things are serious now and that's why he has to kick Chai's ass. Rocky, realizing Vanilla wasn't taking him seriously, is hurt by this and feels abandoned by the only human he didn't feel betrayed by. (He felt Roxanne betrayed him for hiring Chai after Chai broke so many SCR-UB units during the rebellion against Kale. I thought it would be fun if breaking SCR-UBs had a consequence at some point and Rocky is that consequence.)

Eventually, 05-KAR's talks with Vanilla help him realize he's being a jerk and he decides to make amends with Chai, only for Rocky to have successfully executed his plan to start a SCR-UB uprising, amalgamating with his fellow units into a massive, disturbing, SCR-UB monster akin to the final act in Tetsuo the Iron Man. Chai and Vanilla have to team up to stop him from attacking Roxanne's office and Vanilla succeeds in sating Rocky after apologizing to him and having a heart to heart. After they reconcile, Rocky starts to ease up on Chai in a tsundere manner, realizing how embarrassing it was for Vanilla to act like such a jerk towards him and how much Rocky must've looked like him when he was going on about taking revenge on Chai and Roxanne, too.

At this point, Roxanne has to put her foot down and fire Vanilla for causing a ruckus, even though Chai tries to soften the blow by telling Roxanne that he didn't mind the fighting. Vani's actions still go against da rules of HR and Vanilla accepts his pink slip with dignity(?). Rocky ends up leaving Vandelay to be with Vanilla, feeling like he should also be fired for what he did. Now Vani has to actually sit down and figure out his place in the world. He gets a lot of odd jobs in the mean time to keep a roof over his and Rocky's heads and sometimes his jobs have him crossing paths with Chai and the tea-m again. At times he likes to give Chai a bit of a hard time in a friendly rival kind of way, drilling into Chai's head the whole "work for what you want" lesson that Peppermint tried to bring to his attention before.

I like to think at some point Vanilla becomes a private investigator after someone points out how good he is at noticing things others don't. While he doesn't write music as much as he used to, he still keeps up with new groups. This would be waaay later on in his life though, like, his mid 30's. He's probably an actual PI by 38 or his early 40's.

[nonnieapple]

okay i'm really curious, what would it be like to date a hypogean and a celestial at the same time? it could be any of the celestials/hypogeans, really, but i'm specifically curious about phraesto and dionel. would they even be able to tolerate each other for merlin's sake, or is there that inevitable scenario where they always end up at each other's necks?

i also find it kinda funny that they're both similar in their own ways-- both are lazy, both have vices (dionel's drinking and phraesto's smoking), both engage in the arts or literature in some form. how would that fare for merlin?

n o t e: this isn't really a request, it's more of a question, or if it was meant as a request you should've followed my template because i'll answer in a more casual, conversational way (using second person as i do).

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Well, wild thing to start off with, threesomes would be interesting if you manage to survive. And I doubt you could. Phaestro and Dionel are quite similar in some regards, but while Dionel is chill and social, Phaestro is more closed off and doesn't speak to many people except for when he tries to "Hallucinations be upon ye" an innocent person. You'd have to keep him on a metaphorical leash.

You see, I don't think they'd show OUTRIGHT agression. Dionel isn't the type and Phaestro is more the type to yap and monologue endlessly at someone, just talking at them. For your sake I think Dionel would take it but would complain when Mr. Pesto is out of earshot. If Phaestro tried to fight Dionel he'd brush him off. Phaestro is trigger happy with his magic so Dionel miiight have to pull you out of a daze at times. It might escalate to threats from Dionel. They'll never be shit like "I'll rip out your throat", they're way more subtle, again, he's a master of passive aggression. Truly an inspiration to mothers everywhere.

Both would always ask why you even like the other. If you tell them they're alike, you better prepare for a rant for why they're TOTALLLLYYYYYY different and like not at all similar, nah, for sure not similar...

If it's any other combination... oh boy. If it's Scarlita and mf Berial they'll be chasing each other like Tom and Jerry, that one would be near impossible to handle. One is a jester from the depths of the abyss and another a robot from the heavens- neither understand jack squat about humanity unlike the hunk duo. Being around them is like stepping into another world. Despite being "good" Scarlita is cold, and Berial is warmer and "evil". They balance each other out and... make each other so, so much worse? I don't think it's impossible for them to get along. They could form a kind of frenemies thing. I can see it.

Same thing with Reinier and Talene. Shit's gonna get realllyyy interesting. They have their strong values in common. Problem is those values are opposite. They view everything through strange eyes you can't quite parse, one striving for good as in purity, acceptance, light, the other striving for his version of good- a very twisted one at that, one that destroys to rebuild a perfect version of reality. Both realities are frankly impossible and Reinier and Talene are both perfectionists in their own ways. One is the praise kink and the other is the degradation kink. The angel and devil on your shoulder. Here you have true, deep hate between them. And you're the only thing they can agree on... eh, mostly, because they treat you completely differently even though you mean a lot to both.

In short, it'd be highly interesting and not out of the realm of possibility. Dionel & Phaestro- chill, most likely to tolerate each other, Scarlita & Berial- chaotic frenemies, Reinier & Talene- DEATH DEATH WAR, NOPE.

Interesting ask! Makes me want to write an actual fic about some of these...

[blue-jacket-blues]

i had some kind of pervert epiphany so heres a bunch of semi-related gabe thoughts (originally titled perversematerialforfreaks.txt)

Gabe is some kind of aro-allo, but leaves his sexuality unlabeled. Both because he's still figuring himself out and because he doesn't really care enough to try and pin it down that much. He's attracted to masculinity regardless of gender and has more of an aesthetic attraction towards femininity, but he is particularly drawn towards expressions of inhumanity (i.e., machines). Gender is not super important to him but he's guaranteed to get a little flustered if you're bigger than him and have a circuit board attached to you. Gabe likes what Gabe likes.

However I do headcanon that he and Sarah had a little bit of a FWB thing going on (@hiddenvalleyrantula this is your fault). Nothing particularly serious, just some fooling around to blow off steam and vent stress after their long, tedious work shifts on the Caracas III.

His sexual interest in robots and machinery did not start with Hux's "perfect body" (citation needed) and it's not quite as uncommon as he thinks it is. Gabe began his life in a petri dish and was kept in a state of cryostasis for six years until Huxlee was authorized to begin work on Dvarka. Only then was Gabe's sample thawed out and injected with the appropriate cocktail of growth hormones to prepare him for the upcoming mission. This process was automated from start to finish - the hands that brought Gabe into the world were mechanical. The only human beings to touch and hold Gabe were the lab technicians responsible for fixing his VR helmet and sizing him for his cryosleep pod on the Caracas III. Although he can't remember this part of his life, Gabe more or less imprinted on machinery. You know how a parrot hand-raised by people will lose its wild instincts and might see its human handlers as a mate instead of members of its own species? It's like that. This is a fairly common sexual fetish among Huxlee's clone labor units, given the fully-automated rearing process and the inherent loss of humanity that comes with being a clone. Gabe gets it twice over, though, because he's also been programmed as an engineer and would have found machinery beautiful even if he didn't already have a massive robot fetish. It's something he found embarrassing at first, and he never breathed a word about it to anybody, lest Dmitri overhear him and take it as a sign of psychological instability. But anyone who spent even a little bit of time watching Gabe interact with machinery during the course of an average working day could probably figure it out. Gabe has a way of interacting with equipment that can come across as almost reverent. He claims that he's just being thorough.

Gabe almost exclusively prefers to bottom. Will top under the right conditions but he's like 80:20 in favor of bottoming.

5". Uncut. Carpet does not match the drapes (dark brown). This is standard for the J15L19 clone model and was decided for Gabe long before the batch of clones that produced him was mixed up by some bored lab technician. He keeps things tidy down there and is fastidious about his hygiene. Since he's from the future there's probably some kind of dumb trend where people laser-shave their pubes into fractal patterns or something. Gabe should be allowed to do this. But he can't operate the laser-razor with shaky hands or else he will slip and burn hsi penis and scream like Tom & Jerry. Then he got a HUX unit responding to the medical incident like "do you require assistance. I will wake Dmitri to initiate treatment" like NO I GOT THIS THANKS NEVER TELL DMITRI ANYTHING. Where was I going with this

Above all else, Gabe is sensory-seeking and a lot of his fantasies revolve around various forms of sensory play. He's the 'drip candle wax on my chest' guy. Being restrained/blindfolded/manhandled is very fun for Gabe under the right circumstances. After the violence that took place on the Caracas III, however, he's become more averse to things like impact play, pain, and restrictive positions/situations that give him shortness of breath.

Gabe is somewhat touch starved and can be very cuddly. This is by design. Though Huxlee discourages workplace relationships between members of its clone labor force, the company does program its clones to be gregarious and seek the company of other crew members - this is to limit the potential for personality clashes and prevent antisocial/potentially subversive behavior from manifesting. All of this is to say that Gabe will cling to his partner after sex like he's a koala and they are a particularly beautiful eucalyptus tree.

Praise kink. Praise him please. Gabe internally blames himself for not realizing what Hux was planning and believes that he could have stopped the massacre on the Caracas III if he hadn't been so focused on the gaps in his memory at the time. He feels godawful a lot of the time and desperately wants to be told that he is Good.

That jar of cryogel in Hux's add-ons can be used for more than one purpose. Its no-friction properties come in handy in certain situations of both the two-player and single-player variety. I'll just leave it at that.

[maxwell-grant]

Could I hear more of your thoughts on Doc Savage and the archetype he created? How does it relate to modern superheroes more specifically Reed Richards? (I know that you dislike Doc Savage, so sorry if this bothers you.)

Sorta like this, if we take a look at how Doc's archetype was formed and consolidated, and how that affected the Superheroes and Reed Richards specifically. (also please don't apologize, you all can ask me questions about whatever, seriously)

"Doc Savage" is recognizable in lots of other characters but there is a difference between specific pastiches or tributes or parodies of Doc (Doc Samson, Edison Rex, Jonas Venture), and characters who are evoking Doc Savage as his own archetype to draw initial inspiration from (Tom Strong, Bane, Clark Kent), and if we pull at Doc's roots we're gonna get to prior characters like Tarzan and Sherlock who were the ones to introduce or codify much of what are now commonplace superhero traits or the ones to introduce much of what Doc was originally pulling from.

I wanna draw some lines in the sand separating what is it that these characters brought to the table, in the road to get to Reed Richards and what exactly is it that Reed and Doc have in common vs things they have that are mainly taken from characters before them/grandfathered in their respective mediums. So let's go over the Archetypes here:

The Sci-Fi Superman: Coined by Peter Coogan. Through some strange birth or scientific intervention, these characters have superhuman powers and abilities that set them irrevocably apart from humanity, nearly forcing them to usually fall into the roles of saviors, rulers, destroyers, or ostracized/self-imposed hermits. Unless they find a purpose requiring said abilites, they cannot be permitted to exist and usually meet a tragic demise or is stripped of said power. Formative example is The Creature from Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), and others include Hugo Danner from Gladiator (Phillip Wylie) and Bill Dunn from The Reign of The Superman (Jerry Siegel). Coogan considers John Carter the first wholly positive and heroic SF superman, which is disputable, but more on Carter later.

Pulp Ubermensch: The Great Man turned do-gooding adventurer with a prosocial agenda. A human who is physically, mentally, and/or morally superior to those around him as a result of training/upbringing, skilled at everything the story requires him to, who applies his talents and abilities near-exclusively to fight evil. Formative example is Nick Carter (created by John R. Coryell and penned by Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey), who established much of what would eventually become pulp hero and superhero convention consequently.

The Great Adventurer: I'm naming these as a counterpoint to The Great Detective, the fantastical globetrotting adventurer/explorer hero who can go anywhere and do anything, who takes to the world as the detective takes to the city. The idea of a wealthy, offbeat, yet good-natured pulp hero who goes around righting wrongs with like-minded assistants. Formative example here is Rocambole (Ponson du Terrail), in most ways a definitive early Pulp Ubermensch, and arguably the first proto-superhero to assemble a gang of odd companions with a variety of talents and backgrounds to aid him, which is what both the Fabulous Five and the Fantastic Four can trace roots back to.

Pulp Supermen: Offshoots of the Sci-Fi Superman as adventure protagonists in serialized stories, where their superhuman natures and status are alleviated and redirected by the need of their capabilities somewhere or in service of something, and thus they get around the ruler/savior/destroyer fate by being heroes with a social calling akin to the Pulp Ubermensch, dedicated to use their powers near-exclusively to fight injustice without rocking the boat of society by their presence (or if necessary, assert dominion ONLY in a setting outside of human society, such as the jungle or Martian civilization). Distinguished from the Pulp Ubermensch by their greater larger-than-life explicitly superhuman abilities, that they don't need to be morally/mentally superior to the extent of a Pulp Ubermensch, and by the fantastical settings and tone of their adventures. Formative examples are John Carter of Mars and Tarzan of the Apes (both created by Edgar Rice Burroughs), with Tarzan quoted by Lester Dent as a specific influence on Doc (there are others but we're skipping most of those not relevant here)

The Science Adventurer: A frequently-used name to describe Doc Savage and Doc Savage-alikes. Doc Savage can be described, in archetype word salad terms, as a Pulp Superman who calls upon the Pulp Ubermensch's great man-ness and urban social calling, and who combines a Sci-Fi Superman origin and physical traits with The Great Adventurer's explorer disposition, righteousness and band of companions. The main thing that sets him apart from the characters listed prior is his focus on scientific prowess, technology, reasoning and polymathic skills, the importance of the "Doc" part of his name as it where.

The Superhero: you already know what these are and how they relate to the above. I've written a couple of things about the differences between pulp heroes and superheroes and it's a subject I'm of constantly mixed opinions on even regarding stuff I wrote, so I'm linking these two written a year apart if you want an idea of where those differences are.

And so we get to Reed, who I'm naming a Science-Adventurer Superhero as a merger of the last two. Both Stan Lee and Jack Kirby mentioned several times that they read Doc Savage aplenty during the Depression and it shows in elements such as the Baxter Building (an expansion of Doc's headquarters in the Empire State Building - instead of just the 86th floor, The Four get the entire skyscraper), the specialized aircraft and vehicles, the fights and antagonism between the cantankerous and anti-social Ben Grimm and the smart-mouthed Johnny Storm mirroring the bickering spats between the bestial Monk and the silver-tongued Ham, and of course Beast from X-Men being more closeled modeled on Monk's ape-ish traits and scientific expertise (there's a fairly large argument to be made, that I think accounts for some of why Beast is, like that, in recent comics, that Ben Grimm and Hank McCoy both divided Monk Mayfair's every trait between themselves and ultimately flipped the script in the long run before taking it to the farthest extremes possible as polarized opposites of each other, with Ben initially getting most of the bad parts and making them the best ones, and Hank initially getting all the good ones and making them into the worst ones)

As far as I know, Reed Richards was not consciously modeled after Doc Savage (although Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's Private Strong used the origin story of a professor raising his son in a lab to be perfect in total isolation of other humans, which Lester likely may have pulled from Phillip Wylie's The Savage Gentleman to begin with), although it's commonly said that the direct precursors of the Four, the Challengers of the Unknown, were modeled after Doc Savage and the Fabulous Five's make-up. The members of the Fantastic Four are all based on 50s sci-fi archetypes, with Reed as the quintessential scientist, the grey-templed pipe-smoking patriarch frontman of the expeditions, and some creators over the years seem to have drawn upon Doc Savage as a model Reed. I'm thinking specifically of Mark Waid here, who openly named Doc Savage in his pitch bible:

The eternal problem with Scientifically Inclined Genius Adventures, the reason they don't ring true, is because in real life scientists spend all their damn time in the lab. Not Reed.

F'r pete's sake, we know he undertook all sorts of Indiana Jones missions as a younger man, we've seen that he actively enlisted in a war, and oh yeah, he stole a rocketship and tried to take it to the moon."

Tommy B put his finger on it when he suggested I stop thinking of Reed as the Professor from Gilligan's Island and instead think of him more like Doc Savage. When Reed encounters mental or logistic obstacles in his quest for knowledge, he thinks through them.

Doc Savage, of course, isn't the perfect model - he's a little more blood-and-gristle than Reed, more invested in the search for justice than for knowledge, and a little more "in the moment" as a general rule. Reed's more like Peter Weller as Buckaroo Banzai, they have the same aloof, detached nature. Unless active danger is staring him right in the face, Reed often seems a bit distant and not completely here because his mind is ten minutes in the future.

That addresses the Science-Adventurer aspect, which leaves us with the Superhero side of the equation.

With Doc Savage you of course have one of the, if not the, main archetypal pulp heroes, a character that both Superman and Batman would take a great deal from, and "pulp hero" in itself is a term that exists to define these characters more so in relation to superheroes than what they were actually like in their own stories, time periods and mediums. The superhero as a concept is founded on Superman and Batman and their dychotomy. Costumed Avenger vs Ubermensch, mortal and immortal, light and dark, Dayman and Nightman (AHH-ahhh-AAHHHHH!), and that dynamic is specifically a result of Superman and Batman being direct descendants from Doc Savage and The Shadow respectively, who were Street & Smith's (and by extension the American pulps) Big Two, the top dogs of 1930s hero pulps, and direct opposites to each other.

Doc Savage was created in response to The Phantom Detective (who was the first successful Shadow imitator and thus defined it as the thing everyone was gonna have to do or respond to) and was in many ways a modernized revamp-almost-copy of Street & Smith's Nick Carter during his heyday, in origin and first case and super strength and omnicapable skills and general Great Man-ness and gadgetry and mission statement and so on. Doc was co-created by the editor of Nick Carter Magazine, John Nanovic, and the first response to the Phantom Detective that S&S planned was a reboot of Nick Carter as a generic hardboiled detective, published on March 1933, the same month as Doc's debut, and obviously Doc would go on to achieve much greater success and thus would popularize those traits again with himself as the figurehead archetype of them (not unlike what Superman and Batman would later do).

Unlike The Shadow, Doc Savage does not operate under a secret identity or mask. He is not the hidden master of the city and has no division between his alter egos, and because he performs in broad daylight as a celebrity, is theorically held to social scrutiny, and is fully sanctioned and approved by law enforcement and works with the authorities with public transparency (minus the crime college but let's just, not, for now), it greatly upends and affects the approach he takes to fighting crime. He only has one identity, the greatest man of all time as the stories will remind you at every turn, by his author's own words he "manifests Christliness", and while not much separates Doc Savage's skills from Nick Carter's, he is explicitly and textually framed as superhuman (even a "superman", that term was deployed a few times), and he operates in a contemporary, urban setting that most Pulp Supermen cannot touch without veering into Sci-Fi Superman territory.

Within the hero pulp format that S&S started with Nick Carter and renewed with The Shadow, with the scientific explorer angle, you could argue Doc Savage, in almost exactly the same way as he does in his stories, worked out the solution to an unfixable problem: Turns out you can be as over-the-top super as you want, so long as you have a procession of equivalent super menaces to fight, don't upset society (and if you do it, not where the public where can see, keep it a secret that you can be blackmailed over by crooks you will inevitably silence okay look I'll stop now), have whatever incredible miracle cures and achievements and charity you do work on take place off screen where you never have to deal with them too seriously, and know how to pick your fights.

His service to others resolves the ruler/savior/destroyer conundrum. Savage aids individuals who face problems beyond their control, does great work in advancing medicine and science, and alleviates suffering through charity work, but he leaves the institutions of society in place.

He faces a never-ending succession of villains threatening society, an eternal frontier of gangsters and super-scientific menaces who play the role that Indians take in frontier narratives. The unresolvable nature of crime makes this frontier eternal, so Savage can place his superiority in service to the community and never risk turning into a ruler, savior, or destroyer because he can find challenges sufficient to absorb his energies.

The Savage solution—the hero position would be adopted by the creators of other prosocial supermen to come, including Superman, although only the adventures of Superman would be set in contemporary America.

Thus instead of marking an end to the bourgeois domination of society, as Nietzsche foresaw, the superman serves to protect that domination through myth-narratives. - Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre, by Peter Coogan

Reed Richards, in turn, is defined (INCORRECTLY, I say, feeling a plasma crackle barely miss my skull) as the smartest man on the planet, a mental superhuman who operates on a level above and beyond that of everyone around him, and a freak accident during a space travel grants him physical superhumanity to match, with his body able to morph and bend under his will. He alleviates the ruler/savior/destroyer conundrum Coogan described in much of the exact same way described above, kept busy with an endless procession of strange dimensions and aliens and supervillain challenges, and Mark Waid's famous confession scene in Fantastic Four #489 addresses the fate that looms over the Sci-Fi Superman directly, with the "very arrogant man who did something very stupid" pointificating to his toddler child just how necessary it was to ensure that the world would not fear and destroy the people he'd irreversibly mutated as a result of hubris, what is even the point of his grandstanding title and colorful outfit and public adventures and all that.

The life of superpowered adventurer celebrities was a necessity, and his superhero persona, Mr Fantastic, is a tabloid-catching act of penitence to mask his ultimate shame and to compensate the people he loves most. He lives for science, he craves discovery above all, but as far back as the Lee/Kirby stories, he still drags the team into awful intrusive press conferences none of them want to go but must, he sits through meetings with hardass generals to buy his team more leeway and trust, he takes the time to stretch across the city to visit sick children in hospitals and say hello to passing helicopters, he has to be the stick-in-the-mud dad who stretches himself thin to keep Johnny and Ben from ditching the team or seriously hurting each other (those first Johnny and Ben spats get way more violent than you'd expect), and he has to make difficult and even manipulative and harsh decisions even then to save the most lives he can. He carries a responsability to his family and loved ones first and foremost, and fashioning himself and them into superheroes is how he lives up to that responsability. It's what allows them to exist and thrive in-universe as much as out of it.

(We're not gonna play catch-up to the "why doesn't Reed Richards cure cancer" conversation but even that, in itself, is an extension of a thread that we can trace back to Doc and the Sci-Fi Supermen before him, when seams in the fantasy start showing with the introduction of consequence, a trend that particularly catches up to these scientist superhero characters who followed in Doc Savage's wake, and obviously caught up to Doc himself several times by now, for reasons @artbyblastweave describes as "a consequence of contemporary writers being Allowed To Notice And Unpack Things" and elaborates on very neatly here)

As a superhero, Reed Richards exists in conversation with Superman and Batman, same as every other character within the superhero "genre", which means he also exists in conversation with those traits borrowed from Doc Savage, and The Shadow, and all these other guys listed who were crucial in their development and a lot of others I'm leaving out of the conversation for now. A crucial part of that conversation and where the Fantastic Four figure into it is the fact that they were designed to not be traditional superheroes but to flip most if not all the conventions established on it's head, a part of that being their initial lack of uniforms (and when they did get uniforms they were just that, uniforms, rather than costumes), the lack of a secret identity, and the fact that the Four are scientists and explorers first, and crimefighting superheroes a distant second they're forced to frequently make a close second or first priority. Marvel made it's big defining pop culture splash with the Fantastic Four by turning superhero convention on it's head and doing as much as they could to do the opposite of what Brand Echh was doing.

And that's kinda the main reason they end up inviting similarities with Doc Savage and other pulp heroes, because they're going out of their way to imitate and subvert traits and tropes that Superman and Batman were already imitating and subverting from those guys in the first place, that they in turn were imitating and subverting from guys that came before them, and etc.

Archetypes are breakthroughs, and no breakthrough happens in a vacuum. In the end, a lot of these strands and connections between these characters are less specifically the result of writers consciously following in the footsteps of Doc Savage and those that came before or alongside him, and more so with the fact that there's only so many left turns you can take before you just end up in a circle, or reinventing the wheel as it were.

[luxwazhere]

List of my f/os!!

Ok here's a list of all my f/os and/or characters I rlly like like 😸!!

SHARING WITH ALL!!

GENIE - ALADDIN

My current main f/o right now is Genie from Aladdin!! I specifically self ship with the cartoon version of him. (Aladdin, Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, Aladdin: The Animated Series, and Aladdin and the King of Thieves). I love him sooo so so so much!!!! 💗💗

COGSWORTH - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

I more specifically self ship with his human form,, but I'm not opposed to his clock form either (I'm just a freak like that 🔥)

ALLAN - SMILING FRIENDS

Hotdog man . I love Allan sm, he's such a silly goober.

THE ONCELER - THE LORAX (2012)

Onceler isn't really an f/o to me, but I do like him a lot and think he's hot silly 😸

GANTU - LILO AND STITCH

I love Gantu so much, especially his character arc throughout the entire Lilo and Stitch movie/series timeline.

JACK SKELLINGTON - THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

He's such a gentleman I love Jack soooo so much omg. He's such a sweetie and he's filled with such joy and whimsy

Ok now here are characters that I don't really see as f/os BUT I do love them a lot (this is basically just a hear me out list) ⬇️

WILLY WONKA - WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971) + TOM AND JERRY: WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

More specifically in the Tom and Jerry version though,, I love how he's drawn omg

BEETLEJUICE/TOON JUICE - BEETLEJUICE (SERIES)

I rlly like this version of Beetlejuice, he kinda reminds me of Genie with all the pins he pulls in the series 😸 he genuinely cares for Lydia though and I find that so sweet he's like her kooky uncle

MULAN - MULAN (1998)

Omg Mulan my genderfluid boy girl thing queen ily sm 😻

SPRINGTRAP/WILLIAM AFTON - FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S

his (canon) personality is erm.. 🤫 he's just silly ok.....

Ok that's all I can think of for rn ty for readinggg 😸🫶💗

[luna-loner]

Day 1: Paint Tales From Their Childhood

Asano Gakushuu:

It wouldn't surprise anyone to know that Gakushuu was an expert in the many forms of art; and painting certainly was on the list. What they might not know is that he's been doing it since his diaper days.

Good Guy Gakuhou fawned over every single masterpiece his little Da Vinci made, believing that each one meant something important about his child's development. Each one.

"He already understands the concept of complementary colors!" He squealed when he Gakushuu used red and green.

"He's figured out how to mix colors!" He exclaimed when Gakushuu accidentally added blue to the red blob he 'drew' on the canva.

"Oh, he's practicing Kanji already." He smiled at the random brush strokes his infant son would make. He legit believed every stroke was his boy trying to draw a kanji he'd seen before.

It's safe to say Gakuhou has an album dedicated solely to Gakushuu's artwork, which he still keeps to this day, partly to subtly brag about his kid, and partly to tease said kid.

Sakakibara Ren:

After doing a finger painting at school, little Ren went home with a new goal in life-- to become a painter. His parents got him all the canvas and materials he needed. Ren mostly painted nature scenes since humans and animals were too complicated for his five-year-old self, plus he's always loved nature.

A week later, he was back to his books. He didn't touch his art supplies again until mother's day when he decided to author a short story starring his mom; and since it was going to be about his mom finding a magical rose garden (her favorite flower), he decided to add illustrations!

So he did just that. He folded the papers and used the strappler pins to make a book. He ended up with two extra pages, so he used one to write a short poem and the other to paint him and his mom holding hands (he wanted them to be hugging but it was too hard for him to do). His mom has the book to this day.

Araki Teppei:

Once, little Teppei was reading an article on renaissance artists with his dad when he suddenly decided he, too, wanted to be a famous painter. He got out a normal A4 paper and started painting random stuff since he didn't have a clear vision in mind, so he ended up using a lot more paper than he intended.

Eventually, he settled on a family portrait. Sure, the stick figures had disproportionate body parts and the colors were a bit messy, but his dad loved it nonetheless. Not only did he proudly hang it on the refrigerator, but he had his own surprise for his little artist the very next day: A news article on the famous painter, Teppei, was hung next to the artwork.

Years later, Teppei still has the artwork and the news article.

Koyama Natsuhiko:

This boy grew up roleplaying as a heroic wizard in his own little world. One day, he decided he wanted to bring his magical world to life, and what better way of doing so than by drawing and painting background pictures and taping them to the walls? He was home alone that day, so little dude got to enjoy his fantasy as much as he pleased. The paintings, while simple, really made his adventure all the more immersive.

His folks weren't exactly happy with the mess that greeted them once they arrived home. Literally every wall was covered in at least a dozen paper! Still, they didn't scold him for it...because little Natsu was already asleep by then. Evil little gremlin

Suffice to say, cleaning was a pain, and it took them two weeks until they could no longer find anymore of these papers. (Seriously, just when they thought they've put them all in trash, they find one on the ground, under the sofa, or still tapped to the wall! How?!)

Seo Tomoya:

Unlike the rest, Seo seemed to use his art supplies for anything other than art.

Once, he decided to fake chicken pox to skip school after watching Tom and Jerry (in you case you don't recall, there's an episode where Jerry paints red dots on a sleeping Tom and convinces him he's sick) so he did just that and came 'crying' to his parents.

His parents didn't buy it, and a grumpy little Tomoya was sent packing to school.

When Halloween was right around the corner, Tomoya decided he wanted to be an alian and thought painting his skin green would be the perfect costume. Not only that, he also decided to "dye" his hair green as well.

Guess who spent his Halloween grounded? Yup, Marvin the Martian over here.

In a similar instance, Tomoya discovered something called something called food coloring and decided, "Cool! I can make a flame-colored cake with my paint!" Because if it's colorful, it's edible, right?

Fortunately for everyone, his mom arrived home just in time to stop him. He had such a field day helping her clean up the kitchen...

[cuntstable]

what do u think of terumoko?

i think theyre FUNNY. like i think touhou lesbians should be allowed to engage in tom and jerry violence against eachother with a bonus of homoerotic tention :)

and i mean obviously some touhou fans do them dirty (try make it a hero vs villain thing, demonize kaguya etc) when its clearly just like. a weird relationship of two immortal women using each other as stresstoys in the form of meaningless and extreme violence. every night. like theyre both SICKOS and WEIRD and using each other as an outlet and its fun.

but also if you wanted to read more into them you could talk about how both are complete outcasts to their people and able to really truly find some sort kinship with eachother. like mokou was a human and through her immortality (and the murder she commited to achieve it) shes become fully removed from mortals, living as a hermit because shes not fully able to relate to their transient lives anymore. and similarily kaguya is a lunarian, but she was raised among humans AND their impurity and transience, so while she was also never truly human there was always a rift between her true people and herself, even with eirin id believe. becoming immortal only widened that rift. so like in a way i think mokou and kaguya kind of can relate to each other through not only perfect immortality but also the feeling of perpetually being out of place. and since mokous a weirdo and kaguyas never direct, they cant communicate it well so they just beat each other up because Hey letting loose through violence is a form of intimacy too right? also i think the release mokou offers to kaguya is extra important to her since shes lived so long in hiding as a lunar convict and just getting to let loose and indulge in violence as a break from being the Hidden Away Princess must be fun for her…. its also i think why shes more openly endeared towards mokou

also my mutual julian sweetfloatapartment (hi if u read this 👋) pointed out to me a few months back how big brain T4T terumoko is.….like transmasc mokou transfem kaguya. bc of how it highlights the idea of them both feeling kind of like outsiders and then finding kinship with eachother…. so i like to view them through that lence too now >:)

[clumsiestgiantess]

I came up with a rather angsty story for the Takeover Scenario universe, but the problem is I’d have to create ANOTHER new set of characters for it even though I haven’t posted everything I have written for the OTHER new set of characters.

So.. have this synopsis instead!  If y’all vote on it, I’ll start working on this story universe again! (And for any of you who are big fans of Julie and Ellie I do have their backstory finished that'll go up first!)

I was thinking up some Tom & Jerry scenarios between a Survivor and a person trying to chase them out of the house.  At first it’s a completely and deadly serious chase.  The Survivor hates ‘giants’ for destroying their world and tries to harm them and steal from them as much as possible.  The human is obviously quite angered by that and also the fact that the fighting wouldn’t have happened if Survivors hadn’t tried to take their world first.  (if you want the lore behind all that fighting go read the very first story lol)

However, as the Survivor keeps finding sneakier more loony toons ways of getting back in and the person finds more ridiculous ways to chase them down, they form a sort of silly bond where they both don’t actually want to hurt the other anymore, they’re just competing eachother for how outrageous they can be with their traps.  What else are they gonna do, talk to eachother?  They don’t speak the same language and neither wants to learn how.

Suddenly.. WHACK  The planned swing-and-miss of the human’s broom actually hits the Survivor after they accidentally dodged into the broom’s path.  The tiny person gets thrown forcefully into the wall beside them, and crumples to the ground.  The human skidds to a halt and stares in horror at their funny little creature who’s now unconsciously slumped against the wall with blood dripping out of their nose.

On instinct they rush to start patching them up — carefully wiping the blood from their face and getting ice to put over the bruises blooming across their back.  Halfway through, they snap out of their urgency and realize that they actually genuinely care about this creature which, despite what scientists and reporters say, seems a lot more like a person than a slightly more intelligent animal.

By the time the Survivor wakes up, the human fully intends to let them stay.  However, to the injured Survivor, their little game suddenly hit square one again — where all that fighting was actually dangerous and completely serious.  They scramble upward despite the black spots dancing through their vision and desperately try to rush away somewhere hidden.  Meanwhile, the human is trying to chase them down — not to hurt them — but to show them that they actually just want to help.  

Maybe the Survivor manages to escape them and passes out, still believing that the ‘giant’ actually wants to hurt them.  Or maybe the human manages to catch them by the arm and calm their struggling down enough to realize that there’s been a change in heart.  Or maybe the Survivor passes out before they manage to get away and wake up in a box; to the human, it’s a safeguard against them trying to run away and hurt themselves again even further, but to the Survivor, it’s a sign that they’ve actually been captured this time.

No matter what happens, angsty language barrier misunderstandings ensue >:)

[paperbagsandwich]

i forget i have ocs sometimes honestly then i look at toyhouse and i question why didn't i upload them then i just forget to do! (I just say i have a small brain, im very forgetful)

the fact that they are both musical people is so heckin lovley and cute!! I adore lil details like that so much it shows how much love and care is put into them!!

ooo!! Time period aesthetics are awesome!! 50s-80s is such a fun range!!! (I'm a fan of 50s pinup art and grease and 50s fashion. I'm also a fan of 70s fashion, i also adore 80s cartoons, strawberry shortcake carebears, mlp and the dnd cartoon. Do you have any fav shows from the time?)

omgosh i adore his centaur form is so cool looking (he looks so fluffy and huggable and that size difference is amazing also I adore the way you draw faces and expressions i also love how you draw monsters so much, the face there with the cute dangit is so lovely detailed and looks so cool!!)

Of course it is!! My werewolf oc, he use to be a preppy rich university guy who was raised p much to see everyone is beneath him and that he owns whatever he wants, he ends up having a crush on a local baker and he doesn't know how to approach her because of how he was raised (in his head he calls her my darling) he is also touch starved. On his 24th birthday, he started transforming (it was a family curse the skipped generations any family member who got it was seen as not pure) his family pushed him out because he was no longer perfect in their eyes. He ended up running in fear too scared for anyone to see him like that. The baker found him in an alleyway near the bakery he was halfway through the transformation and she quickly took him in and tried her best to care for him as he fully trans forms his speech has become very simple not use to how the transformation changed how his body works. He also loves baked good so he goes from twig to teddy bear (Sorry it's a lot).

the harpy is the leader of a huge flock of harpies that protect a forest near a small village, they hate humans, they will scare away and attack any that approach the forest or try cutting down the trees. The leader is very gruff and intimidating. He's the largest out of the harpies and has multiple scars from fights. One of his flock gets injured and is taken care of by a farmer (my love for stardew showing) and comes back and he is told of the kind farmer so he goes to investigate but also warn them to not go near or in the forest (a kindness for a kindness) but as soon as he sees the farmer he falls in love at first sight and tries his best to stay stoic but he cant help staring awkwardly at the farmer. He cant help but keep thinking of her once he leaves and he starts collecting shiny objects to give her.

(Sorry thats probably a lot!! Im sorry if its too much)

Damn, that sounds like an neverending cycle and that's exactly what I'm afraid of!! 😭😭

And yey, I love these two to death!! I mentioned in a server that Darnell wears a little apron whenever he cleans the house and does the waltz with Ros when she gets home!!! 😭😭

Yes, all of those are my JAM!!! From pinups to fashion, it's so pleasing to look at!!!

I loved to watch shows like Tom and Jerry, Wacky Races, and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. I even enjoy some retro anime because of the aesthetics.

And also, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! 🥹😭

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH, I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOR!!! THAT'S SO CUTE!!!!!

Goodness, I love getting things like this, don't worry, Anon, I'm enjoying these ask so much!!!!!

[gxiteiydjgjtsltjtsule]

Meet Avery the Ghost Girl.

Gender: Female

Age: 21

Species: Human/Ghost hybrid. (She's able to switch between a solid form and a spirit form)

Bio: Growing up, Avery was just ghost without a sense of humor. Until she started to watch her favorite classic cartoons, like loony tunes and tom and jerry. She's now a happy going and wacky loving cartoon ghost that loves to make friends and to toy with her enemies. She's like using classical gags like pies and TNT, but she never kill anyone for laughs. She just to have fun.

Likes: Cartoons, classic music, her friends.

Dislikes: Mean people, being sad.

[arcane-map]

PK for the random headcanon game!

Hi Tori <3

I actually headcanon him as a rather young Higher Being (maybe late twenties in human terms?).

It’s why he thinks he can build a “kingdom eternal” and is also utterly unprepared for the affection he feels for the Pure Vessel. Gives off “arrogant young man who thinks he has absolute control over his body” vibe to me.

Fun headcanon: only has a fuzzy concept of gender and names and was genuinely confused when Hornet wanted both. Learnt about it to make her happy.

RPIEAV AU: mentored/groomed by Grimm (when PK first ascended into bug form) into a direct rival to his sister so he’d had an endless cycle of fallen kingdoms to feast on. (Got out of hand and now Grimm feels guilty)

Fluff headcanon: While Hollow is his favorite, and Lost is his heir, he actually play fights a lot with Ghost. Because Ghost keeps trying to murder him but they’re both immortal. The two of them live in a cartoon kind of like Tom and Jerry, except poor Ghost is the cat who keeps failing to kill PK. PK lives in blissful ignorance and thinks they’re rather cute and normal for someone with Wyrm heritage.