#towering pines

[dfl-inc]

AI image generation

[plantsonplutoart]

here’s Wolfstar being a couple of menaces and driving James up the wall while he’s trying to study (he’s only “studying” in the library in attempt to impress lily, so no harm done)

I’ve been hoarding a bunch of Marauders scribbles I’ll probably never clean up so expect more incoherent chaos

[hkthatgffan]

Alongside the interview, Alex Hirsch also sent me and Hana each a personalized Gravity Falls drawing made and signed by him. This was mine.

I can now say that Dipper and Mabel have visited Canada and specifically, my home town of Toronto.

Thank you so much, Alex ❤️

I'll probably never own Journal 3 Special Edition. But this imo is even better. There's a pretty funny story that happened regarding this drawing that I'll be sharing in the behind the scenes video I got coming on the channel next month on just how we got this interview to happen.

I also made a scan of it so I have a digital version too!

Be sure to check out me and @fordtato's interview with Alex if you've not yet.

[eyeofthebrainstorm]

YOU GUYS THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL

ROBBIE OMG that love declaration was insane. How did he do that?!

I want to thank Liam for making just an excellent little gay man. I'm so grateful that he decided to make a tiny precious homo.

BUT MATT CRYING. THAT GOT ME.

[rirururu]

I'm so happy they added an extra gay pining Khun scene in the anime

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

ok i DON'T think the tower princes actually had sex, nor do i want them to, but i DO find them conceptually hilarious as a sexual dynamic. like. what if your rebound girl accidentally said the wrong name during sex. but you couldn't be too mad about it because you did too. also both of you said the same name. because you are rebounding from the same girl. who neither of you actually dated. what would you do.

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Phantom stared at the monitor with baited breath. He had been alerted by the computers beeping and came to see what was going on.

Could this really be happening? After all this time alone in his lair, waiting, hoping for any sign that his last remaining friend was still out there, his ecto-signature finally showed up on his radar.

This had to be a trap.

But...what if it wasn't? What if Robin was really there? What if he was hurt and waiting for Phantom to come rescue him? The thought made his stomach drop. He knew what his birdy had gone through when he was still alive and he would rather feed himself to a pool of ghost piranhas than let Robin believe for a second that he had been abandoned again.

Grabbing the essentials and shoving them into a bag he rushed out of his lair. It had been years since he had seen his birdy and even longer since he had been in Amity Park or any other variation of the Living Realms. But this was for his best friend. For him he would do anything.

...

Which apparently included fighting his besties adoptive dad in the streets while he was in a full Gothic fursuit-Robin what the heck- Robin himself wasn't helping, he was just cheering Phantom on from the sidelines and giving him tips.

Phantom managed to get away from the bat and his other birds- how many did he have???- and had an emotional reunion with his best friend which included a lot of tears, mostly from him.

Okay, entirely from him. He was worried out of his mind for his birdy, sue him. Robin was mostly confused, saying he didn't remember disappearing, only that he felt more and more strange before he just...blanked. The next this he knew he was standing over this prone figure of a guy with a leather jacket and a full faced red helmet. Batman looked at him odd and Robin didn't hesitate to mock the man he once viewed as a father.

They fought for a bit with the younger vigilante using all the powers Phantom taught him along with his furry training to beat up the man who abandoned him to the mercy of one of his rogues.

Speaking of which. The very next thing Jason did was find the Joker and do everything the deranged clown did to him. Karma. It was on one of his later confrontations that Phantom appeared. Now the darker dynamic duo are running around Gotham being ghostly and more or less doing whatever they want.

Bruce was spiraling mentally. His second son lay in the batcaves infirmary stuck on life support because somehow, some way, his soul was knocked out of his body.

They needed to find some way to put it back in before that other teen "took him home" and Bruce really hoped that didn't mean what he thinks it means.

[huginsmemory]

Just. percolating thoughts about Bill, denial and his lies are lies. Bill as a character I'd say is characterized by deep deep denial. He's a character that's both aware and immediately not aware of his feelings and his situation; it's all very doublethink. It's about denying everything and drowning it all out (yeahhhhh big partier? Alcohol and drug abuse? Totally a result of being healthy; not to mention the dissociative episodes he APPARENTLY GETS???).

Because essentially, hes constantly warping his perception of everything occurring around this glass tower he's built of who he is, a ruthless, unfeeling tyrant of a monster, akin to a god (and beloved by humans when he deigns to charm them). This persona is something that he's made in response to his own belief that he's a monster, his own deep insecurities for being a freak and wanting to have proper connection, care and vulnerability with someone that he's lacked. It's a persona built upon self destructive tendencies, denial and the pursuit of pleasure for the purpose of drowning out anything uncomfortable, that he's practiced for trillions of years. And at the same time these insecurities that built this persona are all deeply denied in the way he'll deny that Ford meant everything to him but also when asked if Ford meant nothing to him, backtrack. He's both aware and not aware; he'll never have a thought of 'oh I loved Ford' because that is IMMEDIATELY repressed. He can't even admit that. It doesn't fit who he's supposed to be, it's vulnerable, and we can't have that. This triangle is more repressed than a fucking gay Catholic priest. He's both emotionally literate and completely illiterate because any emotions or situations that don't fit his fictional self gets immediately suppressed/skewed in perspective.

And that's how he's both good and terrible at manipulation, because he knows how to play people and can be very good at it, but his denial gets in the way. That's why you see him not talking about his dimension unravelling to Ford to ask him to make the Portal, instead of pulling the rug out under Ford; because it's vulnerable, it doesn't fit 'him as a monster' and even if it would get his way he can't do that. He mentally cannot even conceive of asking that and can't even in a way to himself accept that his dimension is unravelling and he can't do anything prevent it, can only take over earth instead. And he assumes that Ford will simply just bow to his will because that's what's supposed to happen, right? And it's the same as his lies about all the people he contacted over human history that were annoyed by him; he's too far in denial to even acknowledge that they didn't like him because hes supposed to be loved by all he tries to charm, that's why he puts the pages in to TBOB because he thinks it makes him look good, even if anyone looking at that goes 'yeah that's not what's happening'.

And this is all the most obvious with what he did with his dimension, his guilt around it because if pressed he will never admit those feelings, and he doesn't even admit it too himself; in fact when it's brought up by others such as time baby he gets angry, because his denial over the situation becomes questioned. And it's only ever one instance, that you see Bill admit to vulnerability, to admit to being actually aware of any of all these underlying feelings, and that's the moment that he shares unprompted about Euclydia with Ford, in response to Ford's own vulnerability... in which he indirectly calling himself a monster.

And it's all so fascinating, because if his denial is ever properly cracked enough, oh BABY you know that glass tower is going to shatter, everything is going to come down like a house of cards, and Bill will be left in the wake of everything that he's done, with nothing to shield him emotionally. And so isn't it better to be in denial? To deny he killed his dimension? Doesn't it hurt less than to admit all along it was guilt, it was insecurity, and that after his dimension burned, he's razed civilizations to the ground in denial and self-destruction?

post previous to this (similar vein)

[emily-the-fae]

Tav x Rolan little HC:

• Tav staying in Baldur’s Gate and frequenting Ramazith’s Tower to help go through and sort the vast library.

• Tav slowly growing closer with Rolan, over book disputes and late dinners with wine.

• Tav becoming way too frequent a visitor in the tower and the sundries.

•Rolan beeing absolutely in love but not sure if it’s reciprocated or how he should proceed

• Cal and Lia noticing their older brother’s attraction to Tav. Making bets how long it’s going to take for that nerd to do something about it.

• Tav showing up at the tower for the tenth time in the week.

•Inviting Rolan (and the siblings) to go out with her and the crew for another tavern night.

• Rolan: - Oh it is very sweet of you to think of us. I’m sure Cal and Lia would be happy to join.

Tav(clearly hopeful): - And you?

Rolan(distracted by a book): - If I find the time…

Tav: - But I’m sure the dashing master of Ramazith’s Tower will be able to have one evening off

Rolan, feigning confidence violently blushing: - Well if the charming hero of the realm insists…

• Lia, to Cal watching the interaction continue:

- I cannot take another week of those two verbally edging each other. This has to be the night they fuck!

[yourfatherjustinmcelroy]

This is the first piece of gravity falls fanart I’ve ever made including when I was a fan of the show as a kid. So of course it’s a shitty doodle

[irfrenchfries]

(Before I get to the description, thanks to everyone who included stuff that rogues do in the tags when you reblogged the poll post for this au- I've never played a rogue (my main for D&D is usually a cleric) so I benefited from y'all's excitement!)

@forduary week 4 Fantasy AU. Ford has returned home and he and Stan are their final forms. I don’t have too much plot dreamed up for this. I committed to Ford being a beardo pretty early though.

In this AU I envision that Stan and Ford never really argued or fought at any point, but they just kind of grew apart, since their interests are so different- like they were both in training and Ford probably traveled to go find a mage mentor and was away from home anyway, and Stan was in fighter training till he was like “heck with this Imma steal stuff instead”. And then when Ford disappeared for 30 years they were already apart so Stan was just like “dang sure haven’t seen Ford in a while wonder where he is” and maybe traveled around trying to find him. I did have the idea that they team up to fight some BigBad together, but in this AU I hadn't figured Bill. I figured maaaaybe Stan angered someone powerful enough that it would warrant Ford's wizardly powers. Maybe he goes on a quest? I do not have the answers. I just draw the pictures.

[dingo-doodles]

[unicorn-cookieprincess]

THEY HIT THE WHAT?!??!?!

[jellazticious]

All hail small paper squares!

[thinkingabout-girls]

WELL THAT WAS FUN, GOODBYE!

[zerothegoblin]

I be thinkabiur them causse j love them so much❤️