#tools for garage

[whereifindsanity]

[turtle-tanks-biggest-fan]

Bros be workin' on their hobbies side by side

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Yk I had a thought around the time Nine Tailed Travel Guide Through The Multiverse was a thing, just never posted abt it. A fic basically about Nine sort of like, crash landing into the SCU in the time frame after the second movie with shenanigans ensuing

Didn't really plant out or thought through any major details but so far the basics are; something goes a little bit to the left when Nine was cruising through the Shatterverse after discovering the Grim, and he ends up crashing into scu Green Hills around dusk, sustaining a couple injuries with the Shatterdrive getting totaled but not completely unsalvageable.

So while Nine goes to scout out the situation, looking for ways to repair his ship and find something to treat his wounds, he stumbles into a nearby veterinary clinic where he, unbeknownst to either of them, almost gets caught by Maddie who was about to clock out but returned cuz she forgot to lock the back door. (This has an au within an au offshoot where Maddie does catch him and locks him up for questioning, but in this version Nine can already understand English well enough for banter with her but more on the language barrier later)

Unfortunately by the time Nine gets back to his ship it has already attracted the curious local town's folk and worst of all, Sonic and the gang who immediately suspect Nine's location, since he left a very faint blood trail. Fortunately for him, their investigation eventually grows cold. Afterwards the Shatterdrive gets police taped, but because everyone's experiences with aliens in this town no one is really too rattled or pressed to make big news about it, so I don't have to think about Gun being a problem for now.

It just so happens Nine is really good at navigating around security systems and people completely unseen even in near broad daylight, (courtesy of growing up under New Yoke's nonstop and overbearing surveillance system) so for a couple weeks he becomes this cryptid that everyone in town swears has stolen at least one part off their car but there's little to no evidence or pattern to pin it to one specific person or even a thing, best that can is blame the weird alien ship in the woods. Except for Crazy Carl swearing up and down he's "caught a fox stealing from his barn that looked suspiciously like you lot" while pointing at Tails. Speaking of the alien ship, during their first investigation Knuckles and Tails recognized some of the Not Earth alphabet used in the Shatterdrive so they're inclined to somewhat believe him, later coming up with a theory that perhaps another Mobian has escaped to Earth for whatever reason and is hiding out similarly to the way Sonic has. It's also really weird Tails could swear the ship was engineered in an uncanny familiar manner, like something he would've made. Sonic makes searching for this unseen thief a little competition game and while getting close a couple times, Nine still somehow remains elusive.

Until he's eventually forced to break into the Wachowski's house for Something (I was thinking like, the Shard the gang took from the Shatterdrive and stored in their house for 'safekeeping' but that has Implications I haven't thought through yet) and gets caught by Tails staying up late tinkering in the garage which Nine chose as an unfortunate point of entry.

Extra shenanigans ensue because who woulda thunk not all aliens speak perfect English immediately so there's a language barrier only Tails and Knuckles can somewhat get through since they're the most familiar with the dialect Nine knows, unfortunately Nine doesn't like either of them based on principle so he just stays quiet in protest, threatens Tails, nearly injures him in the process, and in the commotion disappears again.

Ofc now that the Catalizator Thief Cryptid has a face, it seems easier to search for him and whaddya know, Sonic does what Sonic does best and that is making Nine's life worse by winning the abandoned competition once he finds him in the woods in a makeshift workshop the fox set up as a means to slowly repair the Shatterdrive (Tails being the first one to properly see him in light technically doesn't count because he wasn't Actively Searching for Nine, or so Sonic says)

A quick questionnaire reveals the language barrier is still a problem but through Nine's broken English which he's managed to absorb over time in the town and Sonic's broken Mobian language he's mostly forgotten since he rarely spoke it once getting to Earth, they eventually settle why the fuck did Nine almost take Tails' head off in the garage, why did he break into their house in the first place, why he steals parts of machines and electronics instead of just going to to the hardware store like a normal person, how he got here and how he wants to leave as soon as possible.

Sonic obviously ends up thinking Nine is the coolest motherfucker on planet Earth, (right after himself ofc) those tails make him look like Doc Ock! And Nine decks him in the face because he doesn't want anything to do with "doctors" and tells him to leave him alone already.

Sonic promises to keep Nine's location a secret but manages that only about two days before he accidentally spills the beans to Knuckles and Tails who want to know What's Up with that guy in the woods and why does he look so much like Tails and so the lovely family bonding Nine never asked for begins.

Nine really really just wants to gtfo of this planet, but unfortunately all the snacks and music and casual company and the care make it really hard to focus on the singular goal of leaving it all behind and once Maddie and Tom find out about him, it's jover (he needs to get back to his Sonic and his perfect world in the Grim. These people don't matter)

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Aaand that's abt all I have. If anybody wants to turn this into a fic or expand this plot further go right on ahead!!! (Just link it back to this post if you will and also tag me I wanna see what you make pretty olese)

[rebouks]

Hey there! Hope you’re doing well! Just looking for some Becca advice. Just curious if you have tips on cluttering and landscaping so places feel home-y and not like picture perfect magazine spreads. Everything I find on Pinterest is just too pretty ya know?

I guess my biggest tip is just to take inspo from real life, and from your sims! Like.. we're often busy and don't put things back where they belong straight away, maybe the remote inexplicably ends up in the kitchen now and then, or that take out you got last night didn't quite make it to the bin and remains strewn across the coffee table. That box in the corner is still taunting you, even tho you moved in over a year ago! Your attic is full of shit you keep meaning to sort out but never do, and you never quite manage to round up all your discarded clothes until you've nothing left to wear. You should totally take your sims into account too, their personalities, habits and their hobbies etc will dictate what's laying around the house! Oscar's house for example is usually a mess, esp since Cookie's a slob and he's always busy 😆 It's always dusty cos everyone forgets to vacuum, no one ever picks up the mail, there's shoes and bobbles and hair pins everywhere, the attic is full of shite, the kids leave all their activity stuff everywhere and school bags and books and trash and whatever the shit else, they both collect random things and there's plants EVERYWHERE it's just them but.. visually, in a house idk lmao.. maybe just make a perfect room and then move everything around and add random crap until it looks lived in 🤔

[thegikitiki]

Home Workshop, 1960

[deargravity]

one of the many things that bothers me about goku luck is the fact that they have kenta (a minor) in a penitentiary full of adult convicts. where was the juvenile welfare officer and why are they not doing their job. hope they’re fired

[thewaythatimlivingiskillingme]

my therapist five months ago: i'm pretty sure you have some type of adhd, we should run some tests.

my therapist months later after talking about my dad's...quirks: well, you two are way too similar! maybe he's the one you got your adhd from.

me tonight watching my dad fix the fuckin lawnmower at fucking 23:58pm: lol... she was right.

[sportsandlaughs]

[moonlitcoyote]

Exterior piece complete! I beat the leather! Woo.

This is probably the nicest thing I’ve ever tooled- and it’s been years since I picked it up.

Interior is in progress. The scary part is the sewing part… that’s when it could all go to hell.

This is not a wallet- but a little notebook cover for a tiny little sketchbook/field notes book. Something I can toss in my purse when I go to vendor meetings / in person meetings for work.

Pattern came from Don Gonzales Saddlery!

[blackmapmedia]

.dad's shop.

[mechanicalriddle]

minimalists in my life love to comment on my "borderline hoarder tendencies" & i do genuinely resent it because I AM LITERALLY NOT

[princesssarcastia]

every time someone writes a man doing carpentry and home repairs as some kind of shorthand for said male character living out a common masculine ideal i find it really disconcerting because that's the thing my mom does in her spare time.

it's very much a, I know exactly what you're doing BECAUSE it is not having the intended effect on my conclusions/assumptions about this character as a reader, sort of dissonance

[orcelito]

My first garage #MyFirstGarage

Ft my car lol

Im very happy about this

[dramas-vs-novels]

I need to learn how to build things, because this is in House Flipper (in various sizes, one has a coat rack), but I want the coat rack version IRL.

[poeaxtry]

Me currently

[sportsandlaughs]