#well this aspect is canon

[superiorsuicide]

there is something so alluring about yaoi where one guy asks the other to sacrifice himself for a cause

[codenameregnar]

Not to be too gushy and take silly gay aliens too seriously, but the fact that I get to type the phrase 'canon Garashir' is so powerful. Especially after decades of two very clearly queer characters being denied their personhood and forced to fit into a heteronormative mold that was so clearly ill fitting, all for the sake of the comfort of bigots. It's such a win and it is more gratifying than I can put to words. And the fact that they're allowed to be happy and comfortable and get to contribute in such meaningful ways withing their lives. It really does feel like every queer and neuro-divergent person who ever saw themselves in such rich and complex characters is now getting told "We really do see all of you. And you deserve a happy ending too."

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I love about Leo is that, canonically, he IS capable of cooking, he’s just completely incapable of using a toaster. He’s banned from the kitchen not out of an inability to make edible food, but because being within six feet of a toaster causes the poor appliance to spontaneously combust.

[lunarharp]

:')

[aprilblossomgirl]

Dangerous Romance (2023) Episode 6

How are you holding up? Are you feeling any better? I am. I can move my leg perfectly now. I'm not asking about your leg. I'm asking about your heart. Is it feeling better? Look at your puffy eyes. You've been crying, haven't you? Are you Detective Conan or something? You're really good at noticing. Well, I was once a teenager. I’ve been through it all. I don’t know what’s troubling your heart. But… You’ve got my support here.

[carlyraejepsans]

Do you enjoy underfell? I thought you disliked aus /genq

i don't dislike the concept of AUs itself, I'm just not a fan of like... the subculture that spawned around them in the UT fandom specifically and how it eventually took over almost all canon content (especially when it limits itself to the bros)

i like aus visually! i am an artist at heart after all. it's just that, if I'm going to care about them as stories and not just fun design ideas, my bar is uhh almost impossibly high the further you move from canon lolol.

[strawglicks]

huge fan of the idea that flint cant handle what he dishes out.

they are too shy to be confrontational so as a result they let ppl walk all over them which i imagine results in pent up anger that they release thru talking shit behind ppls back .

and i get this impression from this exchange right here:

flint talking poorly of the satellites, followed by "oh no i shouldnt have said that" implies he KNOWS he shouldnt be saying it and will get confronted for it, further implying hes done it before. cosmo's rant also implies this is a common occurrence that, tbh, he is rightfully angry for. and most of the things he points out abt flint in said rant arent wrong at all.

flint can talk big all they want, but never to someone's face bc they cant handle the confrontation that comes with it. it's cowardly, there's no self-respect to be had there. its just flints attempt to feel confident/better abt themselves. and i really hope to see more of this aspect of his character, ESPECIALLY in canon since, apparently, this 1.3 blogpost isnt explicitly canon (which saddens me every time i think about it.)

btw i feel the need to add on that i dont think flint's wrong or lying abt the satellites. What I'm condemning them for is the fact they're talking shit but then cant handle the consequences. If ur gonna talk behind peoples backs and stir the pot, you should be able to say the same shit to their face as well. Cosmo certainly doesnt appreciate how flint views his boys, but i feel like even HE would have a little more respect if flint just had enough courage to say it to his face.

But they dont, because they look up to Cosmo and dont want to be on his bad side, making it even more difficult for Flint to be confrontational . he has no desire to start problems with cosmo HIMSELF, just the satellites. (ppl forget this and treat it like flint has issues with cosmo, but thats not true . flint admires cosmo, likely due to his confidence and leadership skills since its smth flint craves having for himself, and erasing that aspect is a HUGE injustice to a really fun and interesting dynamic !)

i feel like the detail that flint likes drama ALSO plays a part in all this. enjoys drama, probably watches it from afar, but the moment it involves him, hes a total coward lmao

[getyinyusedtoit]

canon divergence in which feng xin, after wandering for many months trying to choose a place to settle and what he wants for his life post being sent away by both xie lian and jian lan, happens upon a newly constructed temple. he is shocked, frustrated, annoyed, and maybe a little relieved to discover it's dedicated to mu qing. he hangs in the vicinity of the temple, doing whatever odd work he can and sustaining himself, just because having something close by that takes him back to a time where he wasn't so alone soothes something within him and he hopes that less restlessness will lead to a clear mind capable of making the decision he needs to make.

this only lasts so long, though, and the days very rapidly become turbulent and uncertain once again as feng xin remains paralyzed by a lack of clear decision and conflicted feelings surrounding what sort of life he is allowed to want. in a moment of desperation, or perhaps weakness maybe even madness, he finds himself glaring up at the statue of mu qing seated behind the altar in the temple and bitterly asking him what his secret is, how he's so capable of making decisions with such finality and perceived certainty. feng xin asks what the fuck he's supposed to do now. it isn't a prayer, not really, and though mu qing hears it he doesn't take it as one. something (or someone) else does, however, and the next day feng xin finds himself unceremoniously ascending to heaven as a middle court official, tasked with filling out the sparse numbers in the recently established palace of xuan zhen.

neither feng xin nor mu qing are particularly happy with this, for all the obvious reasons, but there is nothing they can do except grudgingly work out a clumsy sort of dynamic that is both brand new and same as it always was. in spite of what is unspoken between them and the fallout it brings, feng xin finds himself oddly at peace in a position that is so familiar to him. and though he would refuse to admit it, perhaps he is at ease here. once again in the orbit of someone who knows him, as fraught as their dynamic may be.

and then one day feng xin ascends to godhood and everything changes again.

[chai-berries]

patrols with abby were easy. you knew she had your back, being the best of the best in isaac’s eyes. you started training with her to go on missions in the first place so you both created an almost dance while on a mission. you talked, whispered, laughed. you packed your extra bags with his trash/her treasure bits and bobs you found in decrepit buildings, teetering on 2x4s like a gymnast. abby was currently obsessed with the olympics, the last one being in 2012. she found a bunch of magazines about it on her last trip and had delicately packed them in her bag, planning on reading them as soon as she got back. “did you know that…” lined your conversations for several patrols. your personal favorite fact that it was the first olympics where every nation had a woman representing.

she later admitted, when you had officially been together for just over a week, that you were the last person to still be interested in what she was talking about. even nora tapped out after an hour-long spew about the shoes track and field athletes wear. manny tapped out after 5 minutes, during which he thought abby was joking around the whole time.

the point is you guys had it down to a tee. and yet, neither of you saw it coming. one second abby is laughing at something you said, turning around to respond, and the next second she’s pointing a gun over your shoulder. you freeze, back tensed up. an arm that is neither yours nor abby’s wraps around your neck and pulls you against a chest. the breath you let out from the action is sucked back into your lungs when you feel the cold metal of the gun tap against your temple. your mind shuts down on you, your fear overshadowing all you know about self-defense. your eyes stay locked on abby’s face. if you’re going to die, you want the last thing you see to be her.

“let. her. go.” abby bites out. her hand is steady, the gun pointed at whoever had you in a chokehold. “and i’ll think about letting you live.”

the man, who you assume is a man, tugs you closer to their body. you hear them wet their lips before speaking through a smile.

“now, i don’t want to hurt either of you,” it is a man. and his nonchalant response makes your stomach turn. “i don’t hurt young ladies like yourself,” he continues lewdly. his hold tightens on you again but this time he moves you so your body is pressed tight against his. abby continues to stare him down, her finger itching to fire a shot right in his head for touching you.

you bring both hands around his arm and sneak them between it and your neck. abby clocks your shift and switches her focus to the smug son of a bitch on the other side of her gun. she barely blinks before firing one clean shot in his shoulder, causing him to jump back and let you go. you dive near abby’s feet and move to stand behind her.

the man is moaning loudly. “now why did you do that?” he cries, holding his shoulder.

“c’mon man, if i have to explain it to you, you really are better off dead.” abby steps towards the man, who scuttles away on the floor. with you behind her, abby let’s go of the breath she’d been holding. she kneels over the curled up man, the hand on his shoulder stained red.

“who are you? are you alone?”

“ya think im gonna tell you?” the man croaks out.

abby kicks the gun away. “if you want to live i’d suggest talking. you’re in wolf territory.”

he freezes at the last sentence and abby tenses up again.

you freeze as well and call for abby. “c’mon. abby, we — we should go. ab—”

“no! we heard about a group moving in. they killed austin and half their group,” she says to you, her attention still on the man. “was that you?” she asks him. when he doesn’t say anything, abby knows her answer. she thinks back to what issac told her. that anyone in that group needs to be eliminated. no matter what. and you being on patrol wasn’t an exception in anyone’s eyes but abby’s.

“step back,” she nods her head at you. you immediately comply, taking several steps back as abby stands back up.

SHE KILLS FOR YOU: she looks down at the man and fires a single shot. you squeeze your eyes shut at the sound and don’t open them until you feel abby’s hand on your cheek. you blink up at her as she scans your face. you know you probably look a mess. sweat and dirt covering your face no matter how hard you try to keep it clean.

“you okay?” she asks, brows furrowed.

you nod. “yeah. not my first time witnessing a death, unfortunately. but i’m okay.” you lean into her hand, pressing a kiss to her palm. after a minute of scanning you for any tiny scratches, she lets you go and readjusts her backpack, slipping her gun into the holster.

“c’mon, let’s go back early. we need to report this to the group.”

you’re quick to follow her, taking the hand she gives to guide you over a giant fallen tree. she does it automatically, her free hand reaching to steady you if needed. the shift from laughing and joking to whispers is felt. but thankfully the love is still as loud as ever.

SHE DOESN’T KILL FOR YOU: “get up!” abby watches the man struggle to stand. he stumbles and abby uses her free hand to hold him up. when he’s stable, she steps back. “if i was alone you’d be dead by now. you’re lucky. go back to your group and tell them to stay out of this area. this is your only warning. now go!” the man stutters for a second before he staggers away. you take a step towards abby.

“abs — abby?” she keeps facing the direction the man went but doesn’t shy away from your touch. you run your hand up her arm and to the nape of her neck. “you okay?”

“yeah,” she sighs. she turns to look at you. your eyes are glassy and wide. she reaches up to wipe a tear from the corner of your eye. “c’mon we need to head back. one of the survivors said they had a big crew and isaac needs to know what happened before tomorrow’s patrol.”

you’re quick to follow her, taking the hand she gives to guide you over a giant fallen tree. she does it automatically, her free hand reaching to steady you if needed. the shift from laughing and joking to whispers is felt. but thankfully the love is still as loud as ever.

[aquato-family-circus]

[alcoholism cw]

a hc I like to turn around in my hand like a marble is the idea Bob knew about his potential addictive tendencies (without the like fancy medical terms for it) from his own falling into alcoholism in some inbetween part of his life from his mom dying to the gang getting together. It wasn't as all encompassingly bad as it gets post-deluge but he was what you might call the "functioning alcoholic" type

he never ever got professional help about it, he felt equal parts like it was uncessessary and shameful, but then there was a moment when the group was really filling out where the issues it was causing got too serious.

Like I imagine some time where it was maybe like, 5 of the 7 where Bob reached a tipping point where he’d been getting overwhelmed by all the new people he had to mask and be cool and normal around, and he felt like being a little buzzed helped bc we see some hints that like in “moderation” Bob’s kind of a party guy when he’s drunk.

But he’s increasingly miserable, and the others noticed, and brought him back from the brink of getting way worse mentally & emotionally. and it really brought him closer to them bc of it.

he ended up cleaning/sobering up a fair bit afterwards because his friends were concerned about him and had like a hodge podge of advice and help for him.

all this to say he had a pretty good support system, all things considered.

so when it all fell apart it made the relapse back into alcoholism snap like a rubber band.

he hated Truman suggesting the professional help not only bc it was during getting fired, but also bc no he never needed that when he cleaned up before. he had done it himself, he thinks, and he had Friends. If he can’t do it now it’s because he’s an unlovable friendless loser and not bc it’s a “medical problem” that a doctor would “know things about”.

[aliusfrater]

[ganondoodle]

the struggle of wanting to use more canon designs for characters in my comic so theres at least something recognizably zelda in there VS me wanting to redesign every single creature bc im just like that (ò-ó)

[saturnniidae]

I think we should have more httyd or rotbtd horror

[mortellanarts]

Hmm... Akane witch design courtesy of Umineko brainrot anyone? 😳

[deadbeandrop]

i can for sure imagine lumpus as being Old and it even feels more "right" to me but it also frustrates me a little bit while trying to figure stuff out... a few ramblings about this under the cut

there's genuinely just no way for me to make it work with stuff like him being childhood friends at camp with slinkman without making them AND jane (!) the same/similar old age... which i Could very well do! but i'd probably cap it at like 50 and i already have important dates organized and even designs made according to the timeline i already had, so it'd kind of overhaul... everything. i think it'd leave me with some stuff that actually makes more sense, and even more that makes less sense... but. i'd have to write things out and think about them. and the thing is that i can probably see slinkman being in his late 40's as well, but jane, on the other hand, not so much... and their history together is important to things to me too! so it's like i'm being tugged in a few directions and if i were to alter something at this point in time it would likely end in a sacrifice. so i would make lumpus a bit older if i could but all of this is the most important thing to me...

so, its really itching my brain right now just due to the Shape of my thoughts, which isn't a good way to go about things, but its sort of become apart of my process and i have to sort of just... deal with it. (most of the time it helps me decide on things and overall has me more satisfied with it, but at other times, it's really not based on anything and ends in situations like this...)

in a way, there's almost like two different versions of things i could go with:

1. lumpus and slinkman meet as adults, with lumpus being a good deal older than him, and lumpus is stuck working the job because nothing else will take him + weird power trip + he comes from a line of scoutmasters.

i can see myself thinking about this version of events too cus i do think it's perfectly solid on its own and fits the more casual tone of the actual show. i might even like how this one is "shaped" a bit more. if i wanted, i could have this be how i view the show's canon timeline (which would include a lot more of the episodes than i personally do) so i can at least have/explore those ideas somewhere as well...

(additionally, chris had some alternative ideas for how dead bean drop could still work with that, and i can imagine playing with that to some degree)

but then there's 2. my version of things in my own version of the show, where lumpus and slinkman (and jane!) attend camp as kids, and there isn't anything like lumpus' family history of scoutmasters.

i think this in itself sort of lends everything to be very character driven, where things like history over time and the characters' general psychology and motivation contribute to themes and more complexity in the stories that wouldn't work as well with the base source material. in my version of everything, i am aiming a bit higher than the average person, after all, to imagine something that's more than only building off of the source material. the main difference of what drives them all back to camp ends up more tied up in those sorts of things, where lumpus is mostly here of his own volition despite hating everything (+ the weird power trip stuff). there's a lot more there to dig into which is more interesting and fun to me personally, and his relationship and close with slinkman i feel almost hinges on this sort of set-up because of how everything ends up tying together, as discussed here. for what i'm doing, it all simply hits harder with the emotional backing if i have it like this, and because of how things are already set up, that means i do still have to make some decisions like the topic of today's post where lumpus is a bit younger than i'd imagine him to be as well

while the first option is perfectly suitable for the actual show, a lot of the elements just don't work for what i'm trying to accomplish, and that's okay. i gotta be okay with that! and to allow myself to do More than one thing if i want, because "canon" is being made subjective and malleable here anyway. we are all just playing around and i'm allowed to play around in multiple ways if i want to as well

end the end, i don't think i even use any lore from episodes like the bean tree in the first place, but, it is sort of crazy when you think about it that its equally as canon that we went from "teenagers at camp 15 years ago" in dead bean drop to slinkman implying lumpus is like way older in the bean tree, but i guess there's really something for everyone here depending on how you want to go about it

[rui-drawsbox]

May I ask how ruri feels about crushing on Jamie?? I know for many Jamie MCs this is a cause for much panic 👀✨

KJGLDHSGDF it's complicated, mainly because the lack of content for summer and fall so far (i dont like following games that are in Demo state for this reason but keyframes grabbed me by the neck ever since the otojam ;;)

i plan to make Ruri realize her crush around late summer/early fall. No big moment or anything, just her having a really sweet dream being cute with Jamie and waking up like "Fuck" and go on with her day lololol

She is definitely Not happy (not sad or angry either but def not happy) about that, not because she sees herself at the same level of his groupies, but uh,,, because Jamie has a few turnoffs that she would rather not deal with (might go back to sweden after his fourth year, being in the same group of friends, whatever the hell his fanclub has going on). She wouldn't be conflicted if he didn't had that stuff going on, but then that wouldn't be the Jamie she likes, right?

I mean, she's conflicted because she finally found someone she likes again but also out of all the people. him??? She thought she learned something from her last relationship but it seems like she didn't learned shit/hj

I'll make her more or less conflicted depending on how painfully obvious Jamie is when he starts crushing. He's the type to walk into walls for being distracted when crushing! didya know that? At this point of the timeline, Ruri already went to her fair share of dates and knows when someone is flirting with/interested on her, so at least knowing that it's not one-sided can help her a little with being more forward about her feelings.

she learned from the best after all!

In the worst case where Jamie isn't really that obvious or doesn't try to make a move at all, Ruri would probably put a polite little distance between them and let her feelings just lay there until she inevitably moves on (how much it'll take? idk man give it a few months after graduation)

Thinking about this is really funny because her only past crush was sir Baxter Alexander Ward and we all know how it went LOL. Comparing Step 3 Baxter vs Jamie's romance is like comparing a speedrun with a slowburn and i find that really funny