#u know what i mean lol

[human-aoxreader]

can u do a marshapple oneshot ?? :0

I'll try. Remember I like writing things short (no size joke intended...or is there?), I'll see what I can do. Marshy will be a humanoid alien in this (considering that they are alien in canon).

Note: since there's continuity errors ab LA being illiterate (he used to read comics! They did him so dirty 😔) I hc that he has prescription glasses that look like sunglasses.

"Whooof, its done." Little Apple was finally done re-labling his monster truck, from "midget" to "little". Even after he was called the correct label, LA's vehicle still had it written on. It was bothering him for a good while.

But now, after lots of spray paint (and spelling mistakes), he was finished..and exhausted. Little Apple let out a long sigh and leaped into his truck (he's been training to jump really high for personal reasons), hitting the floor of it with an "oof!". After grabbing his sunglasses (actually prescription glasses), LA sat in the driver's seat, pulled out a comic book and leftover burrito, and...something was missi-

"Little Apple! Hiii~!" A small voice squeaked from outside, Marshy. They climbed into the truck (Noone know how they did) and crawled next to their companion. "What are you reading?" They asked. "Aquaman!" Little Apple replied, taking a bite outta his burrito, not taking his eyes of the page, not even when he felt a certain squishy body pressed into his side. Marshmellow then snuggled in even closer, "You look tired, did Orange come by?" They asked.

LA gave a chuckle, "No, he's making another gaming video. Another "Grimace shake" one." He then gave a silent Thank Boedigheimer for keeping Orange busy enough to leave Little A alone today. "Jus renamed my monster truck and it took a while, is all." Took another bite of his burrito. Marshy squeaked "I saw," then paused and wore a guilty expression as if they were to blame, "you...spelled "Little" wrong.".

Little A choked on his burrito, "WHAT?!" He turned to Marshmellow in disbelief, "again?! Whats it say?". They replied "It says "Lit Le"." The guilt turned to their trademark radiant smile "Oh! But- I think that's better!". LA calmed down a bit, "Y'think so? It does sound cooler..".

"Yeah! It has a sort of flare, like when you put rainbow sprinkles on cupcakes!"

Little Apple let out a sigh of relief and relaxed, "well anyways, it took a while and I'm exhausted." He looked at his best friend with a smile, Thanking Dane once again. This time, for giving him such a sweet and loving partner.

"Wanna join me?" Little A said, watching their face somehow light up even more. "Sure!"

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Not perfect, rushed. But fun to make! Hope you enjoy!

[featherlouise]

"Father, i counted 10 guards last week and there's now 15, not counting Dryya."

".. Go talk to your mother"

Pfffffft

The only one they could reliably get rid of is Dryya (and even then she’ll be replaced) but she’s the only one they ACTUALLY enjoy the company of

OH ok what if the guards start off as regular people and Hollow SOMEHOW manages to charm their socks off and endear themselves to them, so they at least have a professional friendship

BUT PK gets paranoid and replaces them with kingsmoulds

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[hajihiko]

Thunderclouds 🌩

[maxcuntstappen]

F1 via The Interwebs™️ (x)

[brawlmetaknight]

so obviously bosses are programmed to know generally where the player is, but something i really love about meta knight boss fights in particular is that he is literally always one step behind you. his movements are not erratic, they're directly tied to yours. even if you're on the other side of the stage, he will catch up to your last point of action. it's so cool.

[cerealmonster15]

cursed au y/n?? Muppets au where Jamil is the token human lol

bad dream(?)

EDIT [3/4/24 hi] bc i was lookin thru art the other day and. i fear i might have been subconsciously remembering this post when i drew this fkdsjlfjkdslj ;A;??? i think i was actively thinking about those posts on tumblr that go around sometimes that are like "if [whatever media] was remade by the muppets, who would be the token human?" and that's what sparked me to be like "haha what if twst was muppets, who would be the straight man human, jamil would be funny" and led to me drawing this,,, but then when i found that post again the other day i was like oh god,,, the similarities... and i def saw that post in the past so it's possible there was influence and i just Forgot The Origin... WHOOPS AND OOPS IT WASNT INTENTIONAL ;;;A;;;. . . .. . ...

[kazumist]

cw: probably ooc gen but oh well. this is more like me experimenting on how i should write him anyway.

narumi gen is a stubborn man, no matter what he steps his foot into.

arcade dates were frequent for you both. you aren’t too surprised, but sometimes gen could get so competitive in games that he tends to forget that you’re both in the arcade to spend some quality time in the first place. (you love him nonetheless, though.)

today isn’t any different. but here’s a reminder, narumi gen is a stubborn man; and he has made it his quest to win you a cute plushie in the claw machine. despite you telling him that it’s rigged, he doesn’t really care. “gen, we could just play something else.” you said, your eyes watching the now moving claw inside the machine. gen ignores you, as his eyes are enough to tell you that he’s fully concentrated on winning you that plushie—and that you might be stuck in this area for a while.

if there’s one thing about your boyfriend, gen is a man with little to no patience. he gets frustrated easily when he doesn’t get what he wants or when he loses a game when he plays on his console. he has a huge tendency to overreact to the smallest things. so you had a hunch that he would lose his patience over this claw machine sooner or later.

…or maybe now.

you jumped at the loud noise of gen slamming his fist onto the controller. you quickly pulled him away at the poor claw machine, afraid of causing a sudden scene in such a public place. “stupid ass claw machine. why are they always rigged?” he complains, slumping. “you know, you didn’t have to waste a good quarter of your tokens just to try and get me that plushie.” you giggled, soothly rubbing his back for comfort. 

“saw you staring at it for a long while, though.” he mumbles.

“you should know that claw machines are always rigged, babe. we’re literally regulars at this place.”

“let’s go. i’ll just buy you something similar in a store.”

[pepperpixel]

SAID HE LIKES CRAZY GIRLS,

BUT HE HATES WHEN I ACT CRAZY,

IT TAKES TWO TO TOXIC!

FINALLY!!! Finished these pics of jinx I’ve been working on!!!!! HOLY SHIT, these took so long…. But finally… they’re done… pls enjoy this art of my beautiful princess w a disorder. Featuring alternate colors for the big pic and also a closeup! Cuz I rlly like how both the lines and coloring on her face turned out… like the pink gradients w her eye… her deer in headlights expression,, like uve just startled a raccoon digging thru ur trashcan and r two seconds away from getting mauled.. m proud of it!

[mossy-aro]

why do allos insist on viewing relationships in the most boring ways imaginable

[reineydraws]

this ask got me thinking about the body swap au again lol here's a wip for what is eventually going to become a sketch dump post for the au aha. whenever i finish that.

[speakofcompersion]

Still Shining - Taemin

[verdemint]

Valentino Rossi about courage in Motogp (2009)

Translation oui!

I: "And courage? You must need courage (implied: to ride a bike)..."

V: "The courage is there. Courage is very important in our sport, but I think of it as having "bonuses"... like in a deck of cards you have four jokers, so you have four jokers in a season and those four times you can risk it and risk a lot, but if u go all the time beyond your limit then ... one time it's gonna go wrong"

[inkskinned]

it is totally okay to be hurt and tired and fed up with the american schooling system but i need you to understand that we need to be better about loudly and routinely defending public education.

yes, many teachers suck, many schools utterly suck. i also got bullied and was absolutely not given the right support for my needs. i am not defending public education because it was kind to me. i am defending it because it needs to exist.

right-wing republicans do not want an educated population. they want kids to be homeschooled or in private school. there is a huge religious undertone to this.

the most common argument is that despite high costs, the "result" is not "good" enough. they point to failing schools as proof that public education is just never going to work out. there will be arguments made here that you actually agree with: that teachers can be bullies, that we taught online for 2 years and still charged the same amount of tuition, that we have no recourse for students to actually have agency or a voice, and that schools are now unsafe for kids due to risk of illness and gun violence.

these are all placing the blame in a fraudulent way, one intended to get your parents to homeschool you. the less kids in a school, the less federally-awarded funding for that school, the less any school succeeds. they will not mention the fact it is their legislation that takes away important funding opportunities, that teachers are living at or below the poverty line, that buildings are not kept up to code, that administration is overpaid and forces specific curriculums, that corporations like (my personal enemy) Pearson Education control certain classroom goals because teachers can't afford other options. they pretend to be ignorant of the gun violence and say "oh just get a gun" - but these are the same people who will be sending their child to a private school with a bulletproof backpack. they don't care if your kid dies, though. they "don't believe" in covid, but they did get their kid vaccinated, because of course they did.

it is a closed loop. conservative parents hear the fearmongering and remove children from the system. frequently these parents are also deeply religious. the kids are raised without access to other media & learn to parrot their parents. you have now created a new generation of conservatives. additionally, one of the parents/caregivers must stay home and homeschool the children, usually for free. i will give you 1 guess which parent tends to stay home to homeschool the children. these parents are encouraged to have many, many children. those children are most likely not getting access to safe sex ed.

we might laugh at fox news suggesting teachers are forcing children to use kitty litter but: first of all, there is kitty litter in the classroom. it's part of an emergency kit in case children are locked in due to a shooter. so that's fucking dystopian, and the fact they've completely reimagined the scenario to somehow make the teachers look bad when it's instead a fucking huge symbol of our failure as a country to protect our children.... it feels a little intentional.

secondly: don't just dismiss the situation. because, yeah, obviously, no teacher is encouraging kids to be a catboy. but the actual undertone that fox news is trying to sew is an outright distrust of teachers and of public education. they rely on the dehumanization of trans people as a common touchstone to hide the fact they're pushing two agendas at once. (which is ironic. because the thing they accuse teachers of. is pushing. an agenda.)

whenever someone tells you they want you to read less, you should be suspicious of that. when someone tries to separate you and your education, you should be suspicious of that. i don't even like incel rhetoric nor would i want my kids exposed to it - but i would not take away my child's (age-appropriate) access to the internet. i would just provide more educational materials, not less. the difference here is that i believe we can resolve ignorance with knowledge; whereas conservatives believe that ignorance is bliss.

they misappropriate funding and demonize teachers. they pull the same trick each time - the same thing we are seeing with anti-trans rhetoric. they do not want you to have access to safe sex ed, so they act horrified, claim sex ed teaches you how to thrust deep, claim that we have no idea what "age-appropriate" means. since the mid-nineties, the united states has spent at least 2 billion dollars on abstinence-only education, even though to quote the above link: "a preponderance of studies has found no effect of abstinence education at reducing adolescent pregnancy". conservatives want you to think less of any person struggling with addiction so they can continue their racist "war on drugs", so they spend up to $750 million dollars a year on the DARE program which has absolutely no effect. acting like teachers "must" be "grooming" children is just the same thing - so they can demand that funding either goes to their causes or the funding doesn't "exist" ("i'm not paying for our kids to learn that thing!")

and they want you to feel uncaring about this. they are aware that you will hate some parts of your school experience. pretty much everyone does. they want to lean into the parts that you hate so that you don't put up a fight about it when they take it away for not being "good enough."

i know i maybe sound like a conspiracy theorist. but truly. truly. it is beneficial for conservatives to reduce your faith in the american public schooling system.

one of the explicitly stated campaign promises of the conservative party: to axe the Department of Education in 2024.

i know we are all tired and burnt out and there is so much else wrong with their entire platform. but maybe just - pay attention to this one.

[sanjiscurlybrows]

[pigdemonart]

🙈 hehehe

Heres some pics of the lad!!!!