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ITS UR BDAY ?!? HAPPY BIRTHDAY WREN!!!!! SEEING YOU IN MY REBLOGS ALWAYS MAKES ME SO HAPPY UR SO SEEET ILYSM HAVE GOOD BDAY HUGS AND PLATONIC KISSES â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸đđđđđŞ
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AHHH THANK YOU!
I hope you know seeing your art comics makes me feel the same way! Even if it's sad! Because your style is just so wonderful! I could stare at it all day!
Thank you so much for the birthday wishes and thank you for sharing your beautiful art and comics! I always get excited when I see it!
#wren askbox#wren birthday#your art style is like a fun summers day you had as a kid#the perfect full of fun and laughs and good food#or maybe it rained but you still had an amazing time inside <3
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CW: Gender neutral reader, pure fluff with a little bit of angst! Hope you like it đ¤ !!
⧠Living alongside Gregory is like watching a cat warm up to you slowly, he will start interacting more, showing you his art and explaining them in detail (trusting that you won't make fun of it)
⧠At first, he will be a bit anxious about showing his face without makeup and being without his hood since they're both like a protective layer for him. But, little by little he will notice that you if you stare at him, it's to admire his beauty, and not because you're picking apart his features
⧠He is a quiet and pleasant company, always has a random comment here and there that might be entertaining or a little off-pocket (probably both)
⧠He will be happy to help with chores, even though he might not have a lot of experience (considering he is a rich kid and probably had a maid do it for him lol)
⧠Definitely more active in the night, he will like to stare out of the window while drinking a cup of tea, observing how the sky changes its hue as the time goes on, especially when it's raining, rain comforts him
⧠In dark stormy nights, before you sleepâ heâll shine a flashlight on his face and tell you horror stories, smirking when you shriek at a particular grim moment
⧠He is mostly dressed in hoodies, sweaters and sweatpants, even though he values style, comfort is also a must for him
⧠Once he warms up to you, he will let you paint his nails while ranting about the weights of his job as prefect, and you'll be happy to comfort him
⧠In the summer, he is way more vocal since the weather feels like death to him, he will feel dizzy when he gets home after being out in the sun for hours and sometimes you worry that he will faint right in front of you. Thankfully, he has you to check up on him
⧠Alternatively, winter and autumn (especially, since he loves Halloween) are his favorites, since he can wear his favorite outfits that cover more of his body and the weather is not aggravating to him. It's often that you'll see him wrapped up in a blanket like a burrito while drawingâ quite a cute scene
⧠You take care of him and check up on him a lot because of his weak constitution. But, when you're the one feeling sick, he is way more worried than you, fretting about how you need to eat well and rest. He might even take a day off school to take care of you
⧠The funniest part of the day is when he walks behind you with light steps, not even making any effort in spooking you (a common occurrence)..only to wrap his cold hands around your waist, and you can notice that he is smiling from the way his usual monotone tone changes
⧠He will definitely leave little doodles around on post-its and on the refrigerator, either to just joke around, show a new doodle or just reminders
⧠Unfortunately, nightmares are a common occurrence for him and sometimes he will wake up sobbing. He will try telling you he is okay and that itâs nothingâ but once you wrap your arms around him, you can feel him slowly hug back, clutching on you like you're his lifeline as the tears fall down on the crook of your arm
⧠Life with him is comfortable, fun and full of surprises, even though he is quiet, he will always listen to your problems and give good advice (particularly blunt ones). He is someone you can count on during tough times, even if he doesn't show it in his face, it's clear he truly loves you
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Introducing Rosemary Month 2023, all throughout October!
You can submit art, fanfics, music, cosplays, meta analysis, shitposts, etc, for the prompts!! Iâll be keeping track of the tags: #rosemary and #rosemary month2023 for submissions!! Or you can simply just @ this acc so I donât skip over yours by accident!
Prompts:
Day 1: From The Start
Imagine rosemary at their very beginning of their dynamic or at the first step of their romantic relationship!
Day 2: Turtle Consorts
Rose and Kanaya hanging around Roseâs consorts wouldâve been pretty cute!
Day 3: Meteorstuck
Imagine any Meteorstuck shenanigans Rose and Kanaya got into together!
Day 4: Hurt/Comfort
Obligatory sadstuck day, but with added comfort for safety measure!
Day 5: First Kiss
Either imagine Pre-Retcon Rose and Kanayaâs first kiss, or the unseen post-retcon kiss! Or maybe you want to explore a different way they couldâve had their first kiss?
Day 6: Quadrants
Time for some rosemary quadrant smearing!
Day 7: Birthdays
How neat would it be to see Rose and Kanaya celebrating each otherâs birthdays?
Day 8: Cats
Imagine Rose and Kanaya playing with a bunch of cats!
Day 9: Rain
Rose and Kanaya going through rainy weather, or just explore anything you want to do with rain.
Day 10: Rays
After the rain, Kanaya and Rose finally get some sunshine.
Day 11: Game Over
Explore the absolute heartbreak that is Rose and Kanayaâs deaths, either during the catastrophe or the aftermath within the dreambubbles.
Day 12: AUs
Any AU you want!! Been thinking about a MLP AU lately? A Little Prince AU?
Day 13: Family
Explore either Rose and Kanaya with their own little family, or just them with the other Strilondes/Maryams! Or both!!
Day 14: Alpha Timeline
Imagine either Alpha Rose x Beforus Kanaya, or post-retcon rosemary! Whichever one you like best!
Day 15: Tropes
Explore your favorite rosemary tropes!! Or a trope youâd love to see with rosemary!
Day 16: Scars
Rose and Kanaya bonding over their shared scars, either literal or metaphorical.
Day 17: Flowers
Either Kanaya simply infodumping about her botanic skills to Rose, or just pretty flower art, you decide whatever!
Day 18: Stars
Perhaps Rose and Kanaya stargazing, or aesthetic pieces! Go crazy!
Day 19: Date Night
Imagine Rose and Kanaya finally going on a somewhat decent date this time around.
Day 20: Robots
Assigned meat rosemary day, or just do whatever you wish with robots and rosemary!
Day 21: Double Date
Imagine rosemary going on a double date with another ship you like!
Day 22: Dreambubbles
Either Rose and Kanaya having dreambubble fun times, or perhaps more Game Over angst?
Day 23: Domestic
Explore Rose and Kanayaâs sweet domestic life, as they deserve!
Day 24: Strider Third Wheeler
It wouldnât be Rosemary without Dave trying to tag along like heâs their five year old son, right?
Day 25: Proposal
Who do you think proposed? Rose or Kanaya?
Day 26: Wedding Anniversary
Rose and Kanaya celebrating their marriage!!
Day 27: Snow
Imagine Rose and Kanaya undergoing snowy weather!
Day 28: Fnaf Day
Exactly what it says. Happy Fnaf Movie month
Day 29: Beach Episode
Imagine Rose and Kanaya just having some beach summer fun times
Day 30: Clothes/Style Swap
A good olâ fashioned clothing/style swap between Rose and Kanaya!
Day 31: Halloween
Happy Halloween!! Are Rose and Kanaya trick or treating? Passing out candy? Going to a party?Scaring little kids to death maybe?? Do whatever halloween fun you want with these two!
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Guten tag! I was just wondering, in your clexa auâs minus the canon one, what are each of Clarke and Lexas lockscreen?
Ooo German that's so fun đ I always think it's so mind blowing finding out where people are from all over the world. It's surreal, in a wonderful way đ
Ok so, I thought a lot about this
MBFW: depends on when you were to look at it. If we're talking Lexa in the friendship era, generally it's a picture of whatever was the last time they were together, so generally a holiday photo or a pic of them on some beach: heads pressed together and sunglasses perfectly dipped to "make it fashionđ
". Maybe the occasional stolen pic of Clarke napping on her chest. Ya know. Totally normal friend things... If we're talking marriage era, then it's always a family picture. A selfie style shot with Clarke and the kids flaked out on the couch for movie night in the background. A Griffin-Woods gang lineup of them hanging out by the pool on a summer day. Everybody in matching reindeer pajamas, standing in front of their Christmas tree loaded with presents. A very bizarre tablue of characters depicting everyone dressed up for trick-or-treating. That kind of thing. Lexa loves keeping stuff like that as her lockscreen cuz not only can she look at them any time she has to travel, but it's an excellent excuse to show off her little family so easily đ
For Clarke, it is always Lexa. Always. Friendship era, family era, whatever. It's Lexa in some shape or form. Their kids always have a place on her homescreen, but Lexa has her lockscreen all to her own. That's her wife and her best friend in the entire world, always has been. That's her other half, and she had to spend an obnoxiously long time waiting for her, so she's damn well gonna look at that face any time she feels like it đ¤
AWTR: Lexa had a flip phone because she was an 85 year old woman stuck in a 23 year old's body đĽ´
Clarke keeps one of their wedding reception photos as it for a long while. A candid moment Monty had snapped when Clarke was laughing at something just out of frame, but all Lexa had eyes for was her. She looked happy. And very much in love with Clarke, for some inexplicable reason. They have classier ones from that day, but Clarke liked that one in particular a lot. For awhile after that it was the picture Raven took of them together that night when they'd hung out with the delinquents, when Lexa had held her and kissed her neck as a tipsy Clarke just relished in the closeness. Breathing in the way Lexa's hair smelled like shampoo and autumn bonfire smoke. Clarke liked that one too, enough that it gets framed and hung up in her house wherever she goes. But as time goes on she does evenly decide it's ok to choose other things. Pictures of art pieces that move her mostly, sometimes snapshots from her travels.
Demon au: Canot stress enough how little neither of them would care lol. If anything, Lexa would put something entirely inappropriate and private enough to have a once-human Clarke turning 10 shades of red. But as it is, Clarke would just find her ridiculous girlfriend funny and just so fucking Lexa, and thus try to give her something sinfully new to change it too next đ
Cruel Intentions: they're disgusting. It's all very sappy. Always pictures of them kissing, if them wrapped up in each other's arms, of them draped over each other in bed. They have no filter and no fucks to give. But that's also how Clarke always knows if Lexa is annoyed with her about something and just not talking about it. Because if she sees her wife has replaced her with that godless chicken she pretends is a cat, she knows she's fucked up somewhere.
CoA: Clarke is functionally allergic to caring about her phone. She's busy, she works on computers a decent amount and spends her days with tiny patients, so when she's home she just wants to be home. Her phone is like... a tool in her mind. It's just the square in her pocket that she googles actors names on and that Raven uses to harrass her through text messages and that she can use to track down her wife around the hospital to see of she's free to go to lunch. So it's pretty much the same picture of them together on her couch (and the one of Lexa stretched out naked and asleep in their bed as the wallpaper) for several years until the women in her life start giving her shit for never changing it, and then it gets replaced by a new one of Lexa or both of them. Rinse and repeat every few years when she gets bored of hearing about it.
Lexa changes hers too often to narrow it down. Anything that feels fun in the moment. A pretty landscape. Clarke's face. A waterfall they saw on vacation. Clarke's face. A piece of architecture or art that makes her feel something. Clarke's face and a tasteful hint of her breasts. Her interests vary, you understand. She contains multitudes.
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Answer and then tag three or more creators to keep the game going!
Thank you @popjunkie42 @jsmelodies @whyisaravenlike-awritingdesk @moodymelanist @witch-and-her-witcher for tagging me <3 <3 Love you all <3
1. How many words did you publish on AO3 in 2024?
81,805 đłđ
2. How many fics did you complete this year?
So far only 6 one-shots! The rest of my multi-chapter fics are still ongoing.
3. How many in progress or ongoing fics did you start this year?
This is my first year writing ACOTAR fics so I started 4 ongoing fics!
4. What was your favorite thing you wrote?
This is like picking a favorite kid haha, but Flying Changes has definitely change my life for the better. It just started off from a simple idea I posted and the reaction I got was explosive in the best way possible.
I rode for eight years when I was younger before I had to give it up for a lot of reasons. One day I would love to return to it, but for right now I'm reconnecting to it through my favorite couple <3
5. What piece was your most experimental or different from your usual style?
So two pieces I think best fit this question which is The Joker and the Queen and Labyrinth of the Night.
The Joker and the Queen is a fluff rom-com piece for the Acotar Gift Exchange and it's different my usual smut and or angsty fics, but in the best ways! It's such a fun piece to write and make Nessian be idiots in love.
I also chose Labyrinth of the Night as it's my only feysand fic (for now đ). I'm a Nessian writer so writing outside my main ship is always a bit hard. I haven't always been a fan of feysand but I've read a few feysand fics that I just loved that I wanted to take a swing.
6. Did any fics surprise you - either while writing or their reception?
Honestly, The Blood on your Hands. I was mad about HOFAS once again, so I wrote a small fic of Cassian beating the brakes off Rhys for his reaction to Nesta (don't worry, Rhys is fine. Maybe I'll write a sequel where Feyre plays doctor xD).
I wrote this fic getting out my feelings and before I knew it the reception was huge. It's my most popular one-shot to date.
7. Do you have a fic you wrote and loved that went under the radar? (This is your sign to reblog/repost it!)
Probably Keeping the Summer Nights Away. It's a small fluff piece for Nessian week, and it's just very simple, but I honestly just loved writing Nessian doing a self-care night together haha.
8. Who is an artist that inspired you?
Oh jeez so many but to name a few - @dustjacketdraws madschofield (instagram), llibiarts (instagram), @jmoonjones, @janearts, @vivictory-draws.
These artists amazing at what they do and their art always makes my jaw drop!
9. Who is an author that inspired you?
Oh my goodness, again a lot of people but to name the ones who really convinced me (literally just by their writing alone) to jump head first back into writing fanfcition - @c-e-d-dreamer @kale-theteaqueen @separatist-apologist @moodymelanist to name a few.
I read ACOTAR back in 2020 so a little a before it really blew up, and eventually I ended up on Tumblr again seeking actoar content when Twitter got too toxic for me.
I was fanfic reader for the longest time. I did write for other fandoms when I was younger, but I either deleted or orphaned my works as I grew out of said fandoms. So for about four years, I just read fanfiction from the ACOTAR fandom. It was too the point that I tried to read whatever new Nessian fic was uploaded daily haha.
I wanna shout out one of the first Nessian fics I read, A Favor. It was the first fanfic that really spoke to me that I wasn't alone in how I felt about Nesta and her treatment with Cassian/the IC and vise versa. Come to find out years later, it's a classic for a lot of Nessian stans.
10. Who is a new author you discovered?
Ahhh you gotta check them out - @jsmelodies @littedidyouknow @beesays @wishcamper @whyisaravenlike-awritingdesk @unhealthyfanobsession @foundress0fnothing
11. Did you do any collaborations? How did it start?
Not at the moment
12. What accomplishments are you proudest of?
Taking a chance at writing again <3
13. What did you learn about writing or creating this year?
That I should be kinder to myself, and it's probably best to start off small. I started a fic back in March/April of this year with Eris/OC and I think the concept was good, but there was so much thought I was putting into, that I just ended up bored. It was going to be a heavy plot story about Rhysand's daughter that he had with Amarantha that featured dragons and a ton of OCs, but it just honestly back fired lol.
It was way too complicated and I didn't have the spoons for it. And you know, it happens lol. I have since deleted the fic because I don't plan to work on it.
14. What is your advice?
It's the most basic writing advice, but write what you know. If you go too far out of your comfort zone, it may be more damning for you in the long run.
Also if you can, use a text-to-speech service to help hear your story before you post it. I use the immersive reader on Outlook (I don't send my fics anywhere lol, but immersive reader is available for drafts). It's not perfect, but it helps give me a second pair eyes when I'm tired of visually editing.
15. What are your creative goals for 2025?
Finish at least two if not three of my ongoing fics! Participate in more character and ship weeks/weekends. Maybe finally get enough money to get a commission done for one of my fics.
No pressure but @foundress0fnothing @beesays, @velarisdusk. If you've already done this, no worries <3
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Next up for Cartoon Network era of shows, who is your favorite character from each of the mid-late 2010s Dimensional era (shame they didn't get the best treatment and exposure on the channel, being the point when Cartoon Network was overplaying Teen Titans Go and pushing most other shows to the side) shows you've seen like:Â We Bare Bears, The Powerpuff Girls 2016, Mighty Magiswords, Ben 10 2017, OK KO Let's Be Heroes, Apple & Onion, Craig of the Creek, and Summer Camp Island?
We Bare Bears: Ice Bear though I loved them all. And as for thoughts, I really need to go back and watch all of this show as it was really good. Relaly solid. I think I just was in that hole of "If the status quo dosen't change I dont like it" which is still mostly true, it is kinda annoying to have a series long arc of someone wants to get a girlfriend with panda and not.. doing anything with that. But it's very clearly mostly slice of life shenanigans. ALso seems to have ended well
PPG: SIlico as he seems neat.. but I watched maybe one episode of this. I wasn't intrested, everything I heard was bad and looking back it seems half assed.
Mighty Magiswords: Yet another one from this era (and the last) I need to go back to, a true classic. Character wise I love Porhias for his voice and whole vibe. Though Vambre's legs will always have a place in my heart... moving on.
Ben 10 Reboot: Kevin having a bootleg omnitrix. This one I didn't see much of and while I may watch it some day for completions sake... it seems mid. Not as messy as ultimate or omniverse with some growth and really intresting ideas, but not nearly as intresting as the og or alien force seasons 1 and 2. It's firmly in the middle: trying hard to be funnier, inoffensive, but as bad as omniverse could get in it's worst moments... it had ambition. 2016 takes a much needed fresh start and just kinda... does a weaker version of the first show without the charm or real stakes or neat jack kirby-esque art style.
OK KO Let's Be Heroes: It's like asking me to pick my children you monster. But i'd have to go with Professor Venemous. He's a compelling villian, and while I feel we coudl've gotten more post shadowy figure takeover out of him (and may give him just that some day), he's an intresting villian whose bisexual as hell, clever and whose motivatoin and history with characters is great. The cast as a whole is though as this is the best show of the bunch here, though it has close compettition and you can probably guess who. It's fun, has well done character arcs, great action at a time Cartoon Network hated doing acction scnees (it's why SU got the shit end of the stick for a while and why this show ultimately did not last) and ended on one hell of a final episode (The actual climax is mixed but still pretty good given the time constraints). An all time classic and one of the best show's cn's put out and certainly one of my faviorites.
Apple and Onion: Onion, though ti's bittersweet given the whole Grahm Lihean thing. God dammit richard. A great show I wish i'd watched more of, really sweet and chill and like most of these as you pointed out , given the short end of the stick for teen titans not for me.
Craig of the Creek: Another all time faviorite and one I need to watch more of including the full story arc. But what i've seen of the story arc is excellent and the show as a whole is great, the recess successor I didn't know I wanted. It's still largely i'ts own thing but it's hard not ot see "Kids in their own elabroate clicks with terriotirY" and not think recess, but going way bigger than it's more grounded cousin. It's still clear most fantasy stuff is just the kids imaginations, but it dosen't hold back a fantastic show with a stacked roster of characters, a truly great world that just gets better and better, and a lot of nice character growth and moments. I'm not ready for it to end and boo HBO MAx for not wanting one of thier most succesful shows to go on. Favorite is JP. Eaisly. he's the boy.
Summer Camp Island: I"ve barely seen any of it I hear it's great and once again they screwed it over badly.
#cartoon network#we bare bears#powerpuff girls#mighty magiswords#ben 10#ok ko let's be heroes#apple and onion#craig of the creek#summer camp island
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Start your year with DCLA!
Is there a better way to start your year? From January 1st-January 31st, one prompt each day, will be focused on DCLA. While some will be focused on new years or january themes, some days will just be more generic.
These prompts can be used for writing, but also for art, or whatever you wanna do!
Now, here are the prompts. I struggled so much with making a good poster, and my first version was really ugly with just a white background and black text. And I figured, no, I need to fix this. So, I made something more decent looking.
I figured the importance is the prompts, not the style of the poster :) But I still wanted SOMETHING nice.
Day 1: Waking up after New Years Eve. What happened last night at New Years Eve? Did they have a wild party? Was there drama or was it a wonderful night? Whatâs happening now? How do the characters spend their first day of the new year?
Day 2: Summer vacation from On Beat Studio. We follow the Violetta characters for about half a year every season. But what are they doing in january, on their summer vacation? Letâs find out!
Day 3: Summer vacation from Blake South College. We follow the Soy Luna characters through their school year. But what are they doing on their summer vacation in january? Letâs find out!
Day 4: Summer vacation from school. This is the Bia day, and sadly it just says âschoolâ as we donât know their schoolâs name (since we never see them there). Still, are the characters doing something fun on their summer vacation in january? Letâs find out!
Day 5: A January in the past. When the characters were younger, they had some things happen in january. What? Thatâs up to you to decide!
Day 6: New Years resolutions - do they keep them? Well, pretty self explanatory. What new years resolutions do the characters have, and have they managed to keep them this far?
Day 7: Bia canon couple on a date
Day 8: Violetta canon couple on a date
Day 9: Soy Luna canon couple on a date
Day 10: On vacation in the northern hemisphere. Itâs summer time in the southern hemisphere, but what if they decided to visit the northern hemisphere, where itâs currently snowy and cold (well, I guess unless you go to vacation in California or something). How is it?
Day 11: Someoneâs January birthday. SOMEONE must have a birthday in january and you can decide who.
Day 12: Soy Luna non-canon couple on a date
Day 13: Bia non-canon couple on a date
Day 14: Violetta non-canon couple on a date
Day 15: How has the new year been so far? More or less half of january has passed. How are they doing? This day is kind of generic and can help to maybe write a follow-up to a previous day you wanted to write a sequel to.
Day 16: A January in the future. How far in the future is up to you. Are we dealing with the teens now being adults, and being parents? Or even further into the future, are they grandparents?
Day 17: Soy Luna friendship hangout. Just a day where a couple of friends, anything from only being two of them to a whole big group, go and hang out together.
Day 18: Violetta friendship hangout. The same explanation as the one above
Day 19: Bia friendship hangout. The same explanation as the one above.
Day 20: A January deep talk. Some people have a talk that just gets very deep and real. Some angst might be involved, or it might just be a deep talk about something silly.
Day 21: An evening of singing and dancing. If there is anything the DCLA characters love, itâs singing and dancing! How does it go when they meet up in the evening to sing and dance?
Day 22: Summer job. You know, itâs likely someone has a summer job. What do they work with?
Day 23: Violetta family hangout. Any family in Violetta hanging out for the day. Could be any family from the show, and could also be a family hanging out in the past, maybe little Violetta with her parents and aunt, or a family constellation in the future. Maybe your favorite characterâs family with their future kids. Or just a family hangout in the present time. Up to you.
Day 24: Bia family hangout. Any family in Bia hanging out for the day. Could be any family from the show, and could also be a family hanging out in the past, maybe little Bia with her parents and sister, or a family constellation in the future. Maybe your favorite characterâs family with their future kids. Or just a family hangout in the present time. Up to you.
Day 25: Soy Luna family hangout. Any family in Soy Luna hanging out for the day. Could be any family from the show, and could also be a family hanging out in the past, maybe Luna back when she was Sol with her parents, or Ămbar as a kid (or why not an AU where her and Luna grew up together? đ) or a family constellation in the future. Maybe your favorite characterâs family with their future kids. Or just a family hangout in the present time. Up to you.
Day 26: D+LA day. Any D+LA show and something the characters are up to in january.
Day 27: Alternate universe in January. Go wild! Do any kind of AU of your choice. Does everyone have magical powers? Does it take place in another time period? Is it similar to the original universe but there are some key differences?
Day 28: A January dinner party. Someone is having a dinner party. How does it go? Do they have it inside or outside? Who are invited? Is there drama involved?
Day 29: A day at the beach. They go to the beach and they have some fun there!
Day 30: Summer fling. Is there a pairing you'd like to explore, but you don't see them as fully dating or last very long? Well, maybe they had a summer fling!
Day 31: Planning the rest of the year. What's the plans for the rest of the year for these characters? I wonder if their plans will hold.
If you want to make something, make sure to tag it "dcla january event 2024" and tag this blog!
Hope to see some of you there ;)
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cyrus appreciation day!! mainly because of boredom but also iâve just been feeling this urge to make these lol.
first and foremost, big thanks to you man. weâve been friends for likeâŚ.almost 2 years? 3? iâve lost count lolâ and i really have appreciated your friendship. youâre always willing to listen to me and my silly little rants whilst also giving me some advice which for meâŚitâs a little weird for me because iâm not used to being able to rant to people, i usually much rather listen to others ranting. did i mention iâm the complete definition of a hypocrite lmao-
but yea i really am grateful for your time and ability to give such incredible advice, be it actual or just little jokes. quite literally you are the dad figure in our friendship lol. and like an older brother i never had (in this scenario my cousin brother doesnât count lol-) you are genuinely one of the sweetest, kindest and most optimistic person i know and oh my gosh your art <333 to die for. i love your style and just the way you draw !! and your roleplayâŚand knowledgeâŚand theoriesâŚand canon explanations and basically just everything about you lmao- thank you once again and hereâs to making more memories in the future (ykâŚwhen iâm not burdened with exams and losing my mind lol) <33
gift ;;
AHDHSIGWKZHAIAGHSVZKDGAISGA SHRIIIIIIII OMG THIS IS BEAUTIFUL THANK YOU SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I LITERALLY LOVE THIS SO MUCH ITâS SO PRETTY IM IMMEDIATELY SAVING IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA YOUâRE THE BEST THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL HOLY MOLY ITâS AMAZING ARE YOU KIDDING ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Shri this was legitimately the best thing I could ever wake up toâyouâre such a kind person and youâve been really toughing it out for school and youâve been doing such a good job!!!! Way to go on your exams btw!!! I know how hard you work for school, and youâre really going to go far!!!!!!!! Also, Iâm always happy to just listen to you rant because honestly we all need someone to listen to us every now and then and Iâm also super hard on myself when it comes to school and exams and stuff and your little tidbits about your school days are sometimes really funny or theyâre just downright shockingâitâs always really fun to see whatâs going on with you because thereâs days where youâre just like âtoday something CRAZY happened and I HATE itâ or âtoday something CRAZY happened and we got McDonaldsâ and itâs always the best ahahahaha!
I canât believe weâve been friends for so long already!!! Honestly where the heck did the time go???? But also itâs so nice knowing you because youâre such an awesome person and you make REALLY PRETTY MOOD BOARDS I SWEAR LIKE THIS IS GOING RIGHT NEXT TO MY XANTHOUS ONE REAL!!!!!! And you always have such aesthetic writing and you make really cool stuff! I canât wait for when it becomes like officially summer and you get to relax and just do fun things again like write and roleplay and stuff and RELAX BECAUSE YOU WORK SO HARD DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR!!!!
Aaaaaaaaaa youâre so nice and kind Shri this is gonna make me cryyyyyyy!!! Itâs literally everything I could have ever wanted this is amazing Iâm keeping it forever and ever!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you times a million đđ!!!
Also uno reverse and shoutout to you for always being super fun to message and share stories with because youâre literally one of the best people ever!!! This post has contained more exclamation marks than Iâve ever used before but Iâm just super excited and also super grateful youâre so awesome and sweet!! Hereâs to many more years of being friends and listening to your wild stories about how schoolâs going AJDGKAGAJAGSJAA!!! Youâre the best! Seriously thoooo!!! Thank youuuuu!!!!
#THANK YOU SO MUCH AAAAAAAAAA#YOURE AMAZING#AND THE BEST#THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO START MY DAY YOU HAVE NO IDEAAAAAA
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Best Underrated Anime Group E Round 2: #E5 vs #E8
#E5: Magic kid travels in a quest to end all âevilâ
#E8: Lesbian vampire & human go on road trip to escape the horrors
Details and poll under the cut!
#E5: Radiant
Summary:
Nemesesâpowerful and mysterious demonic entities that fall from the sky and vaporize anything they touch. The only ones who can combat these creatures are Sorcerers, those who have survived an encounter with a Nemesis but were infected in the process.
Seth, a Sorcerer from Pompo Hills, sets out on an adventure to exterminate all these Nemeses. Accompanying him are Doc and MĂŠlie, fellow Sorcerers who share his ideal. Their main objective is to bring about a world where Sorcerers are no longer persecuted for being infected, and to that end, desire to destroy the source of the Nemeses themselves: the mythical Radiant.
Propaganda:
Radiant is adorable: the main duo are a perfect combination of airheads with good intentions.
The story is a pretty clear stand against notions of prejudice / racism / xenophobia, and since the original comic is French, you know itâs not just fiction.
Aside from that, the series is a delight to watch: itâs colorful, soft, the designs are fantastical. Still surprised Tumblr didnât find Grimm and turned him into a sexyman.
Trigger Warnings: Animal Cruelty or Death, Child Abuse, Racism.
Magicians suffer prejudice and sometimes are physically and verbally assaulted. Nemeses are animal-like creatures and are hunted.
#E8: Vampire in the Garden
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Summary:
During a winter long ago, near-immortal vampires began plaguing the world. As their population grew at an astounding rate, they promptly threw humanity off its place at the top of the food chain. Desperate to avoid extinction, the surviving humans concentrated in their last safe havenâa small city surrounded by an enormous wall. There, they have waged war against the vampires for many years.
In the midst of a particularly brutal attack by the vampires, a human soldier named Momo encounters Fiine, the queen of their enemies. After seeing her try to save Momo's best friend from a rampaging vampire, Momo follows Fiine back to her house. It is there Momo connects with Fiine over their love for music and desire to escape the fighting.
Pursuing that goal of escape, the two decide to journey toward a supposed paradise where humans and vampires coexistâdespite being uncertain of its existence. However, Momo and Fiine are being targeted by both races, who they must first evade if they hope to reach their destination in one piece.
Propaganda:
This anime came out a year ago, but I literally never heard of it until earlier this summer because Netflix had it. You guys are SLEEPING on such a good seriesâitâs 6 episodes so itâs short, but it feels like a whole single film. The voice acting is so fun, the music slaps, the animation goes HARD during fight scenes, and itâs just so so good. The art style is pretty, and the scenery makes me lose my mind, itâs SO pretty. I need to write an essay one day about how VitG uses music to carry the story because wow that is đđđ Also thereâs a goofy looking dog named Connie that continuously appears and serves no purpose in the plot. Love that
Trigger Warnings: Child Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Graphic Depictions of Cruelty/Violence/Gore, Racism, Self-Harm.
Child abuse & emotional abuse for Momoâs complicated relationship with her mother. Also emotional abuse for Fineâs past traumas and current strained relationship with other vampires.
This is a vampire anime, so thereâs a lot of blood and fighting. Thereâs also a drug introduced in ep1 that mutates a vampire horribly.
Racism is human-versus-vampire shenanigans.
Self-harm for a scene where a human attempts to feed a vampire and for drug usage as mentioned above.
When reblogging and adding your own propaganda, please tag me @best-underrated-anime so that Iâll be sure to see it.
If you want to criticize one of the shows above to give the one youâre rooting for an advantage, then do so constructively. I do not tolerate groundless hate or slander on this blog. If I catch you doing such a thing in the notes, be it in the tags or reblogs, I will block you.
Know one of the shows above and not satisfied with how theyâre presented in this tournament? Just fill up this form, where you can submit revisions for taglines, propaganda, trigger warnings, and/or video.
#anime#best underrated anime#polls#poll tournament#tournament#anime tournament#animation#group stage#group stage round 2#tournament polls#group e#radiant#radiant anime#vampire in the garden
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Harley Hua ~ Task Thirteen: Short and Sweet
What is your favorite book from childhood? I was just talking to Elliot about this the other day, but I loved Watchmen. I know it's not really for children, but my parents didn't. I also had a more age-appropriate book I loved, because the art was so beautiful in it. I remember it took place in the woods, but not what it was called or what the plot was. But it was so detailed, and colorful, and had a unique art style.
Do you own an item that comforts you when youâre sad? Do my art supplies count?
What makes you happy? I seem to have a one-track mind tonight but after a long day I love to go home, take off my cochlear implants, light a candle, and spend hours painting. I do my best work in the middle of the night when everyone else is asleep. What are three things you like about yourself? I like almost everything about myself. That sounds like a cop-out, but it took me a really long time to learn self confidence. So maybe that's the first thing I like - that I'm a confident person. I also like the discipline I have to eat right and work out every day so that I can have the body I always dreamed of. And I love my sense of fashion. It's so much fun to dress up for all the events we have here in Merrock.
Which season is your favorite? Summer, easily! I love the heat, getting to spend a lot of my free time at the beach, and how much brighter everything feels; literally and emotionally.
Do you believe in the supernatural? What are we defining as supernatural? Ghosts and witches? Or are more religious symbols such as Gods, angels and demons also supernatural? Being raised both Jewish and Chinese, I got a lot of mixed messages as a kid. Parts of my Chinese culture are clearly against Jewish law. But I didn't grow up orthodox, so I've always taken it with a grain of salt on both sides anyways. I was generally discouraged from things like magic, or ghosts and demons, unless it was coming from a Chinese family member. I think my parents disagreed with how to raise us in that regard and tried to compromise, but it just made any of it being taboo feel nonsensical. Anyways, both cultures say not to mess with ghosts but I really want to go ghost hunting one day. Name a song that has a deeper meaning to you You've activated my Deaf card. What do you think about social media? I think it's great! Obviously, there are some drawbacks. But it allows people to connect in a way we couldn't have just a couple decades ago, and connects vulnerable people to resources that they need. How many queer communities have thrived on websites like tumblr? I remember being a teenager and seeing people like myself online when I didn't know there was anyone else like me in Merrock. It was lifechanging! What would be your dream job? Illustrator. Specifically, illustrating comic books but I also really want to do childrens books too. Name three things you donât leave the house without My keys, obviously. And my phone. Normally I have my wallet or my cochlear implants on me, but not always. With so many places having tap-to-pay now, you really only need those two things. What is your favorite comfort food? My grandma is an amazing cook and she does this delicious lamb hot pot. It's a good thing she lives so far away, because I could not stick to my nutrition goals if I had the opportunity to eat that every week. Are you an active person? / What do you do to stay active? Is water wet? Technically not, but that's not the point. When I'm not painting or instructing a class, I'm almost always on the move. I try to spend two hours at the gym every day, although that's not always realistic with my busy schedule. I get a lot of steps in, walking around and giving tours at From Brush to Canvas. And I grew up doing gymnastics and cheerleading and try to practice so I don't lose my ability to do some of those stunts. Even as I've transitioned, I've managed to keep a lot of the flexibility I grew up with. I also live in the ocean in the summer, whether I'm surfing or swimming. Name your three biggest inspirations (people-wise) My brother and my grandma are easily my first two. Leaving my family for the third one, I think Gerda Wegener was amazing and pushed boundaries on sexuality and gender with her art in a way I really admire. What is currently your favorite airing show? I don't watch a lot of TV. When I'm at home, I like to take off my cochlear implants and enjoy the silence. And after a long day, the last thing I want to do is read captions for an hour straight. But I'm really excited for Echo to come out in a couple months. If you had to go anywhere right now, where would you go? If I had to? A warm, tropical beach that has complimentary cocktails and crystal-clear water.
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hi! i was wondering if i could get event matchup for spiderverse?
i'm new follower but i already love your blog! your theme is so pretty and your writing brings me sooo much joy!
i'm 20 y.o woman, my pronouns are she/her
i'm demisexual panromantic
i'm enfp 7w8, leo
i'm 6'0 and have amber eyes, long gold blond curly hair and hourglass figure
i'm positive and upbeat person, i try to see the bright side in most situations
i'm friendly, energetic, confident, sarcastic, responsible, maybe a bit chaotic, cheerful and bubbly
i care about my friends and family a lot, and go out of my way to show it
i enjoy having fun and living life to the fullest
i'm very competitive and passionate person
i really like puzzles, riddles and crosswords
i love making people smile
i have morbid, dark sense of humor
sometimes i randomly say a weird obscure fact in the middle of conversation
i can play on violin, cello, piano, guitar, saxophone, harp and drums, i'm currently learning how to play on trumpet
i like poetry and sometimes i write a poem or two, also i'm writing my book
i'm ballet dancer since i was a kid and i love performing
i'm working on my own cartoon
i never quite grew out of the fantasy phase, and i'm still enamored with tales of changelings and witches
i work as illustrator for fantasy books and books for kids
i'm kinda struggling with taking rest, doing nothing, because there is always something to do, something new to learn, etc.
i'm afraid of stagnation
i overuse this kind of emojisâ(â ăâ Ďâ ăâ )
my style is something between whimsigothic and cryptidcore
i love: found family trope, summer, sunflowers, collecting things, colors yellow, maroon, blue and green, astronomy, tea, making and watching movies, forests, making jewelry, cooking, baking, d&d, horrors, animals, plants, gardening, traveling, art, history, world mythologies, works of J.R.R Tolkien, learning new things, psychology, handicraft
ideal type: someone who truly understands me. someone who i can go on and have deep talks with them. i want this magical â¨connectionâ¨
sorry if it's too chaotic
i hope you have a fantastic day (â ââ â˘â á´â â˘â ââ )
HONEYMOON MATCHUP WITH : MILES MORALES
â honeymoon
â miles is not exactly sure how the two of you met â the one thing he vividly remembers about the first time he had seen your face though was the one time he bumped into you in the school hallwayâ you were carrying a stack of papers and he tripped over his own feet and the two of you fell to the ground â he apologized profusely while helping you gather your papers â he was a mess, blushing and stumbling over his own words and you laughed and he paused â the sound was like music to his ears. you'd smiled at him and told him that it was okay and he shouldn't worry about it â he might've said something along the lines of "uh, uhuh, yeah, i'm so sorry." because he truly couldn't manage anything else out, too awe-struck by you â you could say he literally fell for you.
â you became close friends quickly after miles found out the two of you share art class â by heart, he was an artist, so it was no surprise when you found sketches of yourself in his sketchbook and teased him about it, it was all good fun with the two of you laughing and then comfortable silence fell over the two of you after, and almost as if on instinct, miles leaned in, pressing his lips to yours in a soft peck â it was like he was drawn to your lips ( actually, he always has been ) and he pulled himself towards the attraction instead of resisting it, it was only to his surprise when you kissed him back.
â and then, when it was summertime and you were sitting atop a roof and miles swung right besides you â laughing at how you yelped in surprise before taking off his spider-man mask and handing you a bouquet of sunflowers he had handpicked for you himself, grinning at how happy you looked, you were laughing as you inhaled in the scent of the flowers, before hugging him tightly and thanking him, he laughed â his heart skipping beats in his chest as he leaned in to kiss you, to savor your sweet taste that matched the sweet words you always spoke to him, and he couldn't help but think about just how lucky he was.
â what's on the radio : stop the world cause i wanna get off with you, the arctic monkeys
a/n : this man is literally so dhuwhjdsh i love him so much, ty for the request <33
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The Pines Files
After the events of Weirdmaggeddon, Dipper and Mabel are contacted by the SCP foundation and join the ranks. The adventure never ended, it just took a different turn. And now, years later, they're back to Gravity Falls, aka SCP-ââââ. And it is up to them to investigate the ever-growing mystery behind the town and protect the most dangerous and important SCPs there are and face their past.
Chapter One: Deal With The Devil
Dr. Mason Pines stared at himself in the mirror, hands gripping the sink, and wondered what his life had become. Sure, he knew what heâd signed up for, but still. He hated this. The near constant testing, the things that went on in this place. The dark circles under his eyes were as bad as they had ever been, and he was pretty sure he had gray hairs. Working where he did could do that to a guy. Mason let the water drip from his face before getting some paper towels and drying himself off, leaving his birthmark exposed. It felt like just yesterday he was a little kid.
He and Mabel had only been thirteen when theyâd been approached. It was any other September day. The air was turning colder, they had started to settle into their school routine, and they were walking home together as they always had. He was listening to her talk all about her art class, where she had drawn some bits of a fun dream she had, but made a few modifications of course. âThose colors arenât really possible in pencil, ya know! So I made up for it by putting on lots of glitters! Ms. Walker said I had a lot of imagination! But she also told me Iâll probably have to tone it down for the style units. I donât think Iâll need to though.â
Heâd been nodding along as she talked, writing down a little bit in his pocket journal. He was listening of course, but he also needed to keep track of all of his own little discoveries and theories. However, he was quickly pulled out of both Mabelâs retelling of events and his writings when they turned a corner. Right there, at their house, was a black van, âMabel. Mabel!â He tugged on her sweater sleeve a little bit.
âI wonder if I should start drawing-â she stopped dead when he pulled on her sleeves and brought her attention to that van. Her eyes widened as she looked at Dipper, âI thought Great Uncle Ford wiped all those government guysâ memories with the mind eraser thingy.â
Dipper gripped the straps of his backpack, telling Mabel, âMaybe itâs not them. Maybe Mom and Dad are working on with some clients.â But even back then, he knew that was just something he said to comfort his sister. âCome on, letâs just head inside. Itâs not like we can avoid them forever.â
And so they walked into their house, Dipper calling out, âMom? Dad? You guys home?â before the two dropped their backpacks and headed into the living room. And their parents were certainly there, but they werenât the only ones. Sitting on the couch, drinking coffee, were two people. Both were men, one was wearing a suit, sunglasses, and an earpiece. The other was dressed in a sweater and khakis, staring at Waddles as the pot-bellied pig sniffed him.
Their mother waved them over, telling them, âMabel, Dipper, your father and I were just talking about you and your great uncles to Agent Young and Dr. Gordon. About what happened last summer. They wanted to talk to you.â Her eyes darted between her children and the armed agent taking a sip of his coffee.
Before either twin could answer, Dr. Gordon was up, approaching the two children with a flashlight, their father telling him, âHey wait! We told you our children arenât anomalies or whatever! Theyâre just kids!â
As Dr. Gordon shined a light in Dipperâs ear, he retorted with, âYes, I know what you said. But you never know with twins! Especially not after that incident.â He then turned off the flashlight and inspected Mabelâs eyes, holding one of them open. âDid you have any sugar today Miss Pines?â
âY-yeah! I mean no! I mean- Why do you wanna know?â The poor girl was sweating already.
Dr. Grant, completely ignoring her terror, told her, âSo thatâs a yes.â He went to sit back down, the agent with him nodding towards the other couch. âLetâs get to business then. Have a seat. Your parents filled us in on the situation, but we want to hear from you two.â
âAnd what situation would that be, exactly?â Dipper was clenching and unclenching his fists. Not sure if he should run away or be honest as he headed onto the couch and sat down, Mabel fidgeting with her hands a little bit as she joined him.
The agent spoke this time, telling the two, âWell, our biggest concern is how you managed to stop an apocalypse-level threat at only twelve years old. And the other is the location of Stanford and Stanely Pines. We want all the details of what happened.â
Dipper, having learned to not trust government agents, asked, âDepends, why do you want to know? And who are you guys anyway?â Mabel was beckoning Waddles over, not wanting him too close to Dr. Gordon.
Agent Young put his coffee down on the table and looked directly at Dipper, telling him, âSmart kid, making sure you know who youâre dealing with. Weâre not government if thatâs what youâre wondering. Weâre from an independent organization that tracks, studies, and contains anomalies. Your uncle, or, I suppose, uncles, have been on our radar for a long long time. And that incident you stopped, well, you wouldnât expect that kind of work from civilians, let alone children. Minimal casualties, clean termination. Our question is how two preteens and a couple of madmen did that.â
Mabel spoke up, asking, âHow do we know youâre not gonna take us to jail after this?â
Dr. Gordon told the kids, âYou have our word. Also, Agent Young can give you his handcuffs.â
âWhat?â
âJust go with it, Young.â
Agent Young hesitated, but he handed his cuffs over to Mabel, who held onto them as if her life depended on it. âOk, so, Bill possessed Blendin and told me he could make a time bubble to make summer last longer because me and Dipper had a fight and I didnât wanna grow up so I gave him a weird globe thing that turned out to be a space rift so Dipper and our friends Wendy and Soos had to get me out of a prison Bill put me in and I realized growing up wouldnât be so bad so we went back to the shack and met up with Grunkle Stan and some of our other friends and made the shack into a big mecha and went to attack Bill and save Great Uncle Ford though that didnât stop him we got into his pyramid anyways and managed to distract him and Grunkle Stan and Ford came up with the idea to switch places cause theyâre identical twins and Bill wouldnât be able to tell the difference and once Bill went into Grunkle Stanâs mind Great Uncle Ford wiped his mind and that killed Bill and we had to fix Grunkle Stanâs memories and now theyâre on a boat but we donât know where!â
The agent and the scientist both blinked, Mabel finally taking a breath and still gripping those handcuffs with all the strength in her little hands. Agent Young looked to Dipper and asked, âMind filling in the gaps, son?â
Dipper considered lying, he considered refusing to elaborate. He really did. But something told him theyâd just find out. They found out where his family lived, they had known about Stan and Ford. How did he know that they wouldnât just already know about what had happened? So, he told the truth, about Bill, Blendin, everything. He watched them nod along and his parents cringe at the messier details. He knew that they thought it was all imagination on Mabelâs end. Heâd hoped it would stay like that.
Dr. Gordon had been writing this down the whole time and when Dipper was done, he closed his notebook. âThat should finish up the incident report. Now, onto business. The big reason weâre here is that you managed to take down the threat. We had operatives in Gravity Falls at the time, and yet, you fixed it. And, as Young said, there werenât any civilian casualties, aside from your uncleâs memories. However, your uncles are still responsible for all this. In normal circumstances, weâd be interrogating you for their location. However, seeing as theyâve left the site and are a minimal threat, we want to make you an offer.â
âWhen you kids are older, we want you to be a part of our foundation. We could use people like you on the payroll. And in exchange for your cooperation, weâd be willing to let your uncles go. Weâd be willing to pay for your education on top of that, as long as itâs relevant to the foundation.â
Dipper squinted. They were offering⌠a job? To teenagers? âWhatâs the catch?â
âSmart kid. The catch is that once you take this offer, thereâs no turning back. If you reject the offer or leave, weâll have to arrest your uncles if we encounter them. Weâd wipe your memory of not just us, but that whole summer. You would be completely safe, but itâll be as if the summer never happened. And as if you never met your uncles. So, the choice is yours.â
âAre you fucking kidding me? Youâre telling me that my kids, who are thirteen, mind you, have to join your weird organization, or else youâre going to arrest our uncles? Do you know how insane that sounds? What makes you think you can blackmail them, anyway?â Dipperâs blood ran cold at that moment. Heâd never heard his father swear like that before.
And then Mrs. Pines chimed in. âAlex is absolutely right, youâre not doing this to our kids! And weâre not just going to let you arrest my husbandâs uncles either! He JUST got his uncle Ford back! Honestly, we should just call the police on you. I donât care if you supposedly have authority, y-.â And then their parents went down, hitting the carpeted floor as the twins yelled out in horror, Waddles squealed. Agent Young was holding a gun.
âRelax, theyâre not dead, they were hit with a sedative and amnestic. Theyâll wake up and wonât remember a thing about us coming to your home.â And indeed. Their parents were still breathing. Instead of bullet holes, there were small darts. Only noticeable now that it was pointed out.
âW-why would you knock them out and make them forget?â Dipperâs voice cracked as he said it. Dr. Gordon pushed his glasses up, trying to lure Waddles out from his hiding spot under the couch.
âSimple, this isnât their decision, itâs yours. Youâre only thirteen, that much is true, but youâre also already thirteen. A lot of kids donât get to live that long because of anomalies, like the ones you stopped. Some get to your age and end up suffering in ways you could never conceive of. Imagine what you can do when youâre eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty. The kids just like you who youâd save. Not to mention the huge favor you would be doing for your uncles. Wouldnât it be nice to do them a favor? To save them the way they saved you?â
Mabel and Dipper looked at each other. These guys had a point. They couldnât just let their uncles get arrested. And they certainly didnât want to forget the summer. But, this was also a shadowy organization. Dipper knew that they were thinking the same thing. âCan we think on it a little bit? Before we make the decision?â
âNot overnight,â Young said, knowing exactly what they were thinking. âYour parents will wake up within the hour, so you have a little less than that to decide.â
To that, the twins got up from the couch, heading up to their room. Waddles came out from under the couch to follow them, though it was a tight squeeze for him. When they got to their room, Dipper set out to look for anything that looked bugged, and Mabel turned her stuffed animals away. âI donât trust them, Dipper.â
âYeah, neither do I! Mabel, they knocked out Mom and Dad! Honestly, how do we even know that they havenât been poisoned?â He made sure the window was closed and checked the charge on his phone.
âBecause theyâd either have to kidnap us or deal with CPS?â Waddles had climbed up onto Mabelâs bed after she sat on it and she was scratching his ears.
âThatâs a good point.â Dipper started to pace then, thinking over their options. âObviously, weâre not gonna let them arrest Grunkle Stan and Great Uncle Ford. But we canât just do what they want! Theyâre weirdos!â
âTotal weirdos.â "
But at the same time, that was the best summer of our lives! We canât just forget that!â Mabel nodded along, watching Dipper pace ever more fretfully. âItâs like itâs a trap! Work for someplace we donât even know about or let them ruin our lives!â
Mabel wasnât sitting idly by as she pet Waddles, of course. As she watched the pig wiggle happily, she was having her own thoughts on the matter. Dipperâs verbalizations laying it out for her. âMaybe we can ask them to do stuff for us? Make sure theyâre not evil?â
âYou mean we should negotiate?â Dipper stopped his pacing and looked over at her. â
Yeah!â She slipped off her bed and headed to her drawer, pulling out some pink, strawberry-scented, lined paper and two gel pens. âWe can tell them stuff we wonât do if we join them!â
âOf course! Mabel, youâre a genius!â He took a gel pen and a sheet of paper before he lay belly down on the floor. Mabel joined him, and they came up with negotiation points together.
It took 20 minutes total to think of everything they needed, and when they came downstairs, Agent Young had placed Mr. and Mrs. Pines on the couch and was currently trying to maneuver them. Probably trying to make it look like they had fallen asleep after a long day of coding and repairs. He was the one to notice that they each held a paper in their hands. âI suppose our terms werenât enough for you?â
Dipper nodded, telling him, âWe have a list of assurances, demands, that sort of thing. Just to make sure that weâre not gonna get black bagged and murdered by some weird agents. For all we know, your organization isnât even real.â
Agent Young raised an eyebrow. âYouâre not exactly in a position to make demands kid.â
âYouâre the one who said we were valuable,â Dipper retorted. âAnd that means you want us working for you when we grow up more than you want to arrest our uncles.â
âHeâs got you there,â Dr. Gordon pointed out. He was still sitting around. Not wanting to help his colleague with the heavy lifting. âLay it on us kids.â
âFirst of all, we want to know exactly what you guys do and who you work for. We donât even know who you are. For all we know, this is a trap from those government agents getting their memories back.â He passes his paper to Agent Young.
âAnd we want a promise that if we say no, you wonât get rid of our memories of our grunkles or the summer. We know you can get rid of only some memories. You canât take the best summer of our lives, and itâs not like EVERYTHING that summer was weird,â Mabel added as she passed her own list of demands to Dr. Gordon. Their grunkles would at least appreciate knowing someone remembered them, especially after all that time they were ignored.
As the agent and the doctor looked over the negotiation points, they both knew the kids had a point. Dipper could see it in their faces. Agent Young told them, âWeâre from the SCP foundation. It stands for Secure, Contain, Protect. We track down anomalies and capture them, keeping them from harming the populace. We work with governments but not for any government. We are beholden to no law enforcement agency. Essentially, weâre humanityâs best defense against the supernatural.â Dipper and Mabel listened to that explanation and it did not calm them down. Some weird secret foundation? A bad time all around. But they were smart kids. They kept quiet during the explanation.
âAlright then, letâs get down to business then, youâll find our negotiation points are very clear.â
Both agent and Dr. looked at the lists properly and made the same face of confusion. âThe right to maintain a supernatural Youtube channel?â
âNo uniforms?â
âWhat kind of demands are these?â
âSimple ones. You guys are obviously a secret organization. Youâre going to want to control our free time to make sure we donât spill everything. I want assurance that you wonât shut me down if I do ghost hunting in my free time.â
âAnd I donât wanna wear a uniform! Iâve never worn one before and Iâm not gonna start just cause Iâm working for a secret monster jail!â Gordon and Young thought for a moment.
âYou can have your YouTube, but itâs gotta be fake or just things that the Foundation would never bother with.â
âThe best I can do is to let you be able to customize your armor if you join the Mobile Task Force. Stickers, decals, that sort of thing.â
âAnd our summer?â Dipper crossed his arms.
âYouâd really let your great uncles get arrested after making all these demands?â
âNo, we just want to know that you wonât make us forget our own family if it turns out you're, like, super evil or something.â
The agent and the doctor looked at each other, clearly thinking the same thing as they looked back at the twins. âWe can do this. The terms just need to be looked at by higher-ups.â
The twins nodded, those conditions were amenable. And after going over the rest of the negotiation points, it was settled.
âWeâll see you again in five years. Your parents will wake up and wonât remember a thing about us. I expect that youâll want to tell your uncles, but I recommend that you avoid doing that. We donât want those two on us.â And with that, both agent and doctor left, and the fates of the two children had been sealed. Because thatâs what they had been, children.
Did they save the world? Sure they had, and now they had done it multiple times. But who makes two kids join an organization like this? Who threatens two kids into compliance like this? And then, there was a knock at the door.
âDr. Pines, come back. The test next test is about to start.â
Mason groaned, and he grabbed a paper towel to dry his face. âRight, right.â And then, he left the bathroom. âHas the D-class been given 2107 yet?â
âYes, heâs been given the variant.â
âAlright, letâs go then.â Just what he needed, to watch a man be haunted by category-10 ghosts that came from a can.
As he walked into the testing room and picked up his clipboard, Mason couldnât help but sigh, his supervisor telling him, âDonât be like that Pines, youâve dealt with ghosts before.â
âYeah, yeah,â he approached the two-way glass, watching as the D-class just sort of sat there. The diet ghost hasnât set in yet it seemed. He wondered what took so long to test this new variant though. A âclassicâ flavor was bound to be stronger based on non-anomalous soda trends.
And then, it started, the guy got up and started looking around in confusion. Another scientist stated out loud for the recording, â15 minutes in, the subject has started to experience auditory hallucinations.â
The poor guy started to pace around, getting up from his chair and pacing, telling the ghost that was haunting him, âShut up! Shut up!â
âThe subject has started to show signs of distress, pacing, trying to make the voices stop.â Mason wondered where this D-class had come from. Was he a murderer? A political prisoner? He wrote down that the guy was getting scared.
And then, the real effects started to set in. The nearby video feed started to go out and the recording was starting to break, they were reliant on the two-way mirror now. âElectronics are now going out. The ghost is now affecting the subjectâs surroundings.â
Did they really have to go to 270ml so fast? They had barely gotten the last guy out of the room by the time they got this guy in. And then, it started. The walls started to drip something before the flow got stronger and stronger. It was red. The guy screamed.
âThe testing area has started to release a red liquid, tests will be run after the procedure is finished.â
Mason wrote down that the walls were bleeding. There was no way that wasnât blood. This wasnât a horror movie; that wasnât red corn syrup. It certainly didnât help that despite the lack of a microphone and the soundproofing, he could now hear the ghosts chanting, âMurderer, murderer, murderer!â He wrote that down. âThe subject is now bleeding! I repeat the subject is now bleeding!â
From his eyes specifically, the man screamed in pain before he started to cough up blood as well. Guards began to move towards the door, knowing what was about to happen. Mason headed toward the drawer and got the ipecac. "Doctor Pines, what are you doing?"
The room was starting to look like The Shining. Blood was all over the floor from all walls. He strode right in with the agents, almost slipping on the floor as he went up to the D-class. âCome on, man, youâve gotta take this.â He uncapped the syrup and tried to offer it to the D-class. But it was no use, as Mason tried to pour the liquid into the D-class's mouth, he just coughed up more blood, some even got on his face. There was no way they would be able to get the diet ghost out of his system. All they could do was watch, the agents taking out their mirrors in case they needed to catch the ghosts. But they found that when the D-class stopped coughing and his eyes stopped dripping, the walls stopped bleeding; the chant of âmurderer,â stopped.
âThe subject has expired, cause of death, blood loss. Take the day everyone.â Mason just knelt there for a bit before getting up, the body being dragged away. And to think he was having a bad day before this. He tried to wipe his face but just found that he smeared more blood on himself. Great.
He heard footsteps from behind as he got up, and heard his supervisorâs voice âDr. Pines, you need to report to decontamination. D-57351 was due for his monthly blood test.â On top of the ghostly blood.
âYeah, yeah, Iâll go do that. Just give me a minute.â He turned to look at his supervisor. A short woman in her 50âs. Despite her height, she always had an air of intimidation to her.
âThere was nothing you could have done. You know that right?â
âYeah, I know. Itâs just a lot. Didnât expect to see a guy bleed out through his eyes and mouth.â
âYes, well, you heard the ghosts. He wasnât exactly a good person, donât beat yourself over it.â She patted his shoulder, and he had to resist the urge to not let her touch him. At least he could go ahead and get clean before going home. Just as he was about to clock out though, there was a call over the Speakers. âDr. Pines, report to Dr. Casperâs office. I repeat, report to Dr. Casperâs office.â He groaned and headed straight to there anyways.
Dr. Casper was a no-nonsense kind of woman, despite being head of spectral anomalies with a name like hers. Mason sometimes wondered if she got into ghosts because of her name or if it was a coincidence. She stopped her writing when he came in, her Newtonâs cradle going clack clack clack on her desk. âAh, Dr. Pines, you made it. Please, sit.â She gestured to one of the chairs.
As Mason sat down, he asked, âIs this about the incident with the test? I just followed the procedure. I thought heâd be able to drink the syrup, honest.â It wasnât his fault the poor guy choked so much. âHe would have expelled the diet ghost if it wasnât for the choking-â
She raises her hand, telling him, âYouâre not in trouble for that. We may not be short of D-class, but thatâs no way for anyone to go. You did what procedure says you should and just couldnât get it to work, thatâs all. No, youâre here because I have an assignment for you.â
âAn assignment?â
Dr. Casper nodded, telling him, âYes. You see, I think you would benefit from some fieldwork. In the five years youâve worked at the foundation, youâve shown exceptional professionalism and excellent results. And in the two years youâve worked in my department, youâve been extremely diligent, handling ghosts about as well as people whoâve worked here for fifteen years. However, I donât think youâre a good fit for lab work or this department.â
âWhat?â
âDonât worry, Iâm not demoting you. Goodness no. I want you out there in the field. And I want you to focus on living anomalies. Iâve seen you run around in those videos you make, and your first incident report shows you have the quick thinking and the instincts to do more than work in just one area. Especially with your doctorate credentials.â
âRight, so, youâre saying I need to get out there and actually look for anomalies. â
âNot exactly,â she folded her hands on top of her desk. âLook, Iâve read your contract, I know youâre not going to leave any time soon. But I want you to succeed, not just be held hostage like a D-class. As I said, youâve already been approved.â She reached into her files and pulled out some forms. âAll you need to do is agree.â
Mason looked them over, reading very carefully. You didnât survive long in this industry without knowing exactly what you were getting into. His eyes widened once he realized what site he was sent to. Because it wasnât just any site, it was an entire SCP. Codename: Weirdest Town In America. âYouâre sending me to Gravity Falls?â
âIâm not. Iâm guessing the director thought youâd do best there.â Mason thought he was being pranked at this point. This was too good to be true. But there it was. Dr. Casperâs signature was right on the line, and Dr. Brightâs signature was right on the line that said: âDirectorâs signature here.â And the handwriting indicating his transfer to Gravity Falls sure wasnât in Dr. Casperâs.
âSo I just sign here right?â Dr. Casper nodded and Dipper did not hesitate to sign his name. Dr. Mason Pines, Ph.D. in anomalies. He was going home.
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April 2004
April 1, 2004
âhey heartbreaker, you'll never work in this town againâ
I think someone is impersonating me online. Could be a joke. But if you talk to someone online and they say they are me, they aren't. I don't talk to anyone online. Texas is fun. We got some sick clandestine hoodies. They've got bats on the hoods and all. Sidenote: I love nickplan. Sorry my words don't have the same weight they usually have right now. Usually they feel stuck in my throat, today it feels okay inside my skin. Oh yeah chicagoland. We want to roadtest some of our new songs so we will be playing around unannounced on shows at really small venues in the next few months. If you snooze you lose. You never know what show we may play.
April 4, 2004
âwe love lifeâ
Texas was sex. Dallas being the most amazing. Its hot down here. We played with a band called DV8, this really young band (13-15). They were rad. The bassists bass was bigger than him. Me some rad kids in arkansas, they were starry-eyed and made me tongue-tied. I've been writing a lot lately. All my old charms and curses are back in full swing. I can't wait to get home. Well take these hearts and rename them dangerous and invincible. Well make them too hard to break.
Peterpan
April 7, 2004
âa man-made monster with every human emotion (clandestine explained 1)â
So a lot of people have been asking us about these hoodies and shirt with bats on them. It is not a clothing company. It is not a new band. When I was younger I had this same nightmare over and over again- so my friend tim biedron and I made a story of it (www.timbiedron.com to check out his art). The story is finished and we are waiting on some of the illustration. You may love it or hate it but its something that was stuck inside my head for a long time. We will be selling shirts and skatedecks online soon (www.clandestineindustries.com) and the story will be available this summer. Take the time to check it out if you get a chance.
Love peter
April 10, 2004
âice age, heat wave cant complainâ
i really like the new modest mouse cd. it's called good news for people who love bad news. purchase it.
April 11, 2004
âthe moon has one third less gravity than your earth, i don't know if you can comprehend thatâ
im home. i love aqua teen hunger force. its hilarious. i wanted to let everyone know that if you haven't heard the point id suggest checking them out. a good mix of core and punk rock type stuff. i really really enjoy the hell out of them. www.thepointrock.com
still listening to modest mouse. still think you should get it. being home is nice. im full of food and really clean and im wearing my hood up. im way tired.
April 11, 2004
âI want to sleep on portraits painted as perfect as youâ
Thanks for fun on tour. For the record for those in freeport- we had a little bit of fun with you. I will not ever drink. Its not my thing. So if you think there was more than water in that beer bottle, I have a bridge you might wanna buy too.
April 12, 2004
in response to a post on our messageboard, i want to say that i eat only cocoa crispies. i dont dig any other cereals.
April 14, 2004
âin case you're keeping scoreâ
Being in a band is the ultimate friendship ruiner. Went to two shows tonight. In addition to all the smoke got to hang with: akas, beautiful mistake, dld, apo, senses fail and rufio. Being in a band is the best friendship maker. I am getting this awesome bass custom made, black with a red pick guard, no knobs, wired "on". I think it got me weird, so I dyed my hair red and black. Its sex or maybe not. I have 80 pages of lyrics to wade through. New songs soon. New love soon. Style update: I'm only gonna wear little polo tees with the collars up from now on. The clandestine webstore is almost up. I want to get "mom" tattoo for mothers day.
Peter
April 14, 2004
i just wanted to welcome the academy to the family. it's cool cause i've seen these guys go from the beginning and now we're here....
- petey
April 15, 2004
âwho dares wins.â
i have been having such a rad time at home. but i must admit i haven't gotten used to sleeping with out hearing my friends breathing in hotel rooms. my bed doesn't feel the same. we leave again today. i am excited to see old friends. i am excited to see some bands too. the full clandestine website is going to launch on april 22 at www.clandestineindustries.com - we'll have some gear at the next couple of shows.
i was gonna post some pictures of my experiments with shaving and hair dye here. but i don't know how so go on over to: www.fueledbyramen.com/journal to see em.
love peterlewiskingstonwentz
i've found that liars always sing the loudest. heart in mouth, ego on sleeve. you've always got the right girl and the right line. i swear to god, take this mic and cross my heart and hope you die. i'm singing this one just flat of the key of love. liars always sing the loudest. the act is getting old but i'm sure all the fools will follow like vermin down the hole.
April 15, 2004
hey jerks. i got bored and dyed my hair red and black- oooh scary. when i am home i only wear sweatpants and don't shave. here's a look into the life of a loser:
make me say ugh nahnahnahnah
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there's that quarterback smile we all hateÂ
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born to loseÂ
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pretty emo bro, you could use this one to score on live journalÂ
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and here's the after shaved and ready to do some stagedives. new jersey or bust.Â
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this may in fact be photo evidence that i am gayÂ
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now that we have that out of the way. the full clandestine site should launch on april 22. we'll be selling some gear at skateandsurf and at a couple of these shows on the way out. tour never ends. for real go and listen to my friend ben's band, it's called Not Enough Gold. they smoke. our tour this summer is gonna be called "believers never die" get into it. sorry for all the pictures, this ain't my space biatch, send me some.
1 2 3 L U V!
- petey
April 26, 2004
so much has been going on. my head has been moving too fast, i can't catch up. clandestineindustries.com is up.
i've got a picture from skate and surf in new jersey. we will have more soon, excuse the quality. you can see how insane this room was.
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- petey
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i'm obviously not an expert, but i don't see anybody currently capable of leading an insurgent young fascist movement. fuentes is probably the most charismatic and personable of the options (not saying much but stay with me), but he's too wedded to establishment politics (trump, the electoral system, the church)(while i think american fascism is necessarily going to be some kind of christian, fuentes' attachment to catholicism mixed with his trying-very-very-hard 'bro' persona reads as corny youth pastor to me). and while he has good PERSONAL political instincts, i think he is a little insecure about being the top dog relative to OTHERS. i say this because he surrounds himself with flame-outs and losers. at first i thought it was a way to guarantee loyalty and experience (as in, "you know how politics works so i don't have to train you, and you're such a has-been you'll be forever indebted to me for letting you back into the game"). but now i believe he's getting people who'll make him look good by comparison. i think my belief in his good political instincts made me overestimate him.
thomas rousseau from patriot front is a total void of charisma. i jokingly called groypers "the kids in high school who had rolling backpacks," but i think thomas rousseau is even more. that. he's like ben shapiro without the facial filler. but i heard him on a podcast talking about the founding fathers and he probably has the most coherent vision for american fascism. on paper he's probably the best. in that he has a personal affect made for writing books.
a successful american fascism would see fuentes strap rousseau to his shoulders ratatoille style so he could be puppetted around.
everyone else is in the distant third and fourth and fifth and sixth and seventh.
elijah shaffer is an also-ran who looks like someone deflated james somerton and kept him in a warehouse for later use. not even getting a bad dye-job dasha nekraredscare-wannabe to host a podcast with him is gonna help him get the throne. gb2garage and fix my car! you're like in your 40s (eta: he's younger than i am by two years! he LOOKS old!!!)! you have a family! why are you posting thirst traps! why are you talking about girls' "body counts"! the only 'body' you should 'count' is your wife's!
charlie kirk is not even a little bit fascistic. he's an empty suit. i don't even think he exists, not really. and all the "we have nick fuentes at home!" from the kochs and their ilk will not make kirk have genuine, organic appeal. i've said it before but i'll say it again: the only young people i've seen that have any kind of attachment to TPUSA are ones in a captive audience. homeschool kids whose parents have serious opinions on the wokeness of canned soup brands. patrick henry students who've been let out of their pens for a day of supervised summer fun.
the trs network remnants and hangers-on (njp, white art collective, ftn, handsome truth, anybody anonymous comrade collective profiled) are toothless and old by now. the pool parties may as well be at the george lincoln rockwell memorial retirement home.
anyway. i'd feel happier about this but the right still has all the power, the planet is still dying, and the left (whatever left exists) can't mount a coherent defense to any of it. knowing i can shove all these people into lockers doesn't change the fact america's still prodding its stupid hamburger fingers into the open wound of palestine, my friends can get fired at will, i can't buy a house, nobody has good healthcare, and every winter the basements on the south side overflow with nonsexual toxic sludge. they don't even let us have all the good drugs! NOT EVEN THE GOOD DRUGS! AND HAVE YOU HEARD THE MUSIC LATELY??????
man the fash were trying to make 'white boy summer [but we're saying it racistly]' happen in like 2021. it's not going to catch on if a koch bros puppet says it. maybe it'll be even LESS successful.
wait wait i have an idea. since it seems the groypers are getting turned into regular-degular republicans instead of the other way around, i think charlie kirk should start calling things based, if he hasn't already. really run a train on every meme, affectation, every post, every tic. kirk and his ilk are so void of charisma they'll make these concepts stale just by proximity.
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So over on patreon Trevor asked for my take on the Addams Family and I grew up LOVING the Addams family movies so here we are. Instead of doing a straight up style interpretation, I decided to do a full on design challenge, using the characters as bases to make a black southern gothic Addams au. I actually drew the kids first, using the character bases of Wednesday and Pugsley to create some delightful kiddos I'm calling Sunday and Blanche. I of course then redesigned Gomez and Morticia into Carlisle and Mortesha.
The Addams have a very specific high aristocratic goth aesthetic (they've got a butler and nobody really works among other things) so in this re-imagining I wanted to go with vibes that run a little more middle class/upper middle class. Â I thought it would be interesting to think about what would be considered weird and off-putting in an entirely different culture, and how being a big ol' goth is way less controversial than it used to be.
I tried to keep this short (HAHAHAHAHAHA) so I didn't spin off into an essay about villain coded families, black people in the horror genre, and normalcy as it pertains to social survival, but just...bits of that are in these designs and lore. Keep that in mind.
Also I made the kids twins because they've flip flopped in age so much in different media and also twins run in my family (i'm the daughter of one). And let's face it, I'm pulling a lot of their southern gothic traits from living as a southern goth so *shrug*.
10 thousand pounds of lore incoming loooooooooool.
The Parents
From the moment he saw her he knew that there was a 50/50 chance of him either never making it out of that swamp alive or marrying the figure that was creeping out from under the distant willow tree in a black cocktail dress. The third time she found him trussed up in one of her traps, he complimented her rope work and asked if she'd like to go out sometime after his head wound stopped bleeding.
Or while it was still bleeding.
If she was into that.
Some kids and a mysteriously burnt down Piggly Wiggly later, their love is still as strong and inescapable as a bear trap in a sink hole.
Carlisle Guillermo (now Addams through marriage but I wanted to give him two first names for a name since Gomez has two last names) makes a vaguely described living practicing âlawâ around town. A loophole king, people come to him from miles around with contracts signed in blood, fights over chunks of hair buried in their rivalsâ yard, dehydrated primate hands, memories that seemed like dreams until the evidence of their happenings became too real, and other regular Legal Items asking for counsel which he is all too happy to give. For a price. Sometimes that price is a homemade pie and sometimes itâs a million dollars, depends on who you are. Whatever youâre asked to pay itâs worth that price, and if you try to scam him out of work or he just plain doesnât like you? Well. He knows how to twist a contract better than anything at the crossroads.
And he always gets his due.
He doesnât just serve the local (living)humans though, there are many things that need proper legal representation in this day and age. You wouldnât believe how many city councils try to build on sacred burial grounds even after he lets them know that his ghostly clients are totally gonna haunt the FUCK out of the ensuing shitty condos and curse their families for all eternity. At least 50% of his energy goes towards dealing with real estate bullshit.
Carl is an excitable and good natured(?) man who loves his family, cigars, dancing, and his many knife-based hobbies. People find him very charming once they get past the feeling that theyâre talking to a sultry gator badly disguising itself as a human. I didnât put a ton of deep thought into designing him, mostly I wanted to make a middle aged dude who looked like he would have been voted âmost likely to smooch the literal devilâ in high school. Tbh he probably has, but no demonic exâs can compare to his lovely wife~
Mortesha Addams(her name was already perfect so I just tweaked it)is a woman of many talents. A self proclaimed homemaker, she prides herself on a greenhouse full of Concerning Foliage, a beautiful wasp apiary, and a coop full of what are probably chickens that she keeps for what are probably eggs. Sheâs also an avid creator of the outsider art that can be seen around the estate. She has taken on the family business of selling her homemade goods in a little stall by the road just outside the swamp with her mom, and makes pretty good money doing so. A surprising amount of poison gets bought in quaint southern towns.
Speaking of poison, people who come out to the edge of the swamp to buy it are usually carrying a lot of secrets around, and Mortesha knows most of them. Itâs not like she pries the truth out of people, it just so happens that many nervous hellos eventually turn into the tragic backstory power hour if sheâs alone with a client for long enough. She supposes thatâs just how people are. Despite the fact that the Addams are very active in the community (whether the community likes it or not) she especially, as a direct descendant of the first Addams matriarch, is seen asâŚWell not an outsider because the community feels A Certain Way about outsiders and despite it all the Addams are their people, but maybe something like an exception. They feel like whatever weirdness theyâre hiding canât be weirder than any given Addams, so they get a little loose with their words.
This is amusing to her, since Addamsâ donât naturally keep the kind dramatic secrets that their surface level prim and proper neighbors do. Itâs much more fun to openly talk about those things.
Do they have a sadly decrepit yet terrifying grandma up in the attic? Yeah, like three. They got a tv, all the creepy porcelain dolls they could want, and theyâre close to family. Where do you keep your gram-grams?
Any bodies buried on the property? Yeah some, but most are thrown to the gators.
Any creeping through the balmy summer night with ill intentions? Yeah dude, everyone loves a nice family stroll.
What about dangerous forbidden love? If an adult Addams isnât incorporeal then theyâre either queer or in a torrid romance with some person/thing mysteriously drawn to that awful swamp. Sometimes both at the same time. Most times actually.
Mortesha would know.
The current head of the Addams family is just as outgoing as her husband but a lot quieter and harder to read. She never really seems to get mad about much and always has a genteel smile for everyone whether they deserve it or not. A seven foot tall human shaped âOh, bless your heartâ. A perfectly composed Lady even when sheâs, oh I dunno, burning down a Piggly Wiggly. You know. A regular southern mom. Chat her up at the hair salon for 50% off a jar of wasp honey with your next purchase of a mysterious but foreboding packet of herbs.
Designing her was pretty easy because I just drew a lankier Grace Jones and called it a day. I had some problems with her outfit simply because if we were going HARD southern gothic then sheâd probably be wearing a white/cream dress with a fuller skirt but I thought keeping the silhouette and the black was more important. Sheâs supposed to be an anti southern gothic southern gothic character anyway. A woman who looks like she has a million secrets who is actually the most open person you could meet. For better or worse. The red hair came from a coloring error that I really ended up liking (my mom had red hair her whole childhood that only darkened up in high school so I can buy that an Addams can be naturally fire engine red) and the veil was to get more of that classic Morticia silhouette in there.
The Children
Sunday and Blanche are the twin children of Carlisle and Mortesha Addams. Some say the Addams clan got their cursed homestead when a wealthy local businessman made a deal with the devil and lost, leaving his grand mansion to his least favorite maid and cutting his losses once he realized that the swamp would do everything it could to drag the house into the water and take what was owed with its horrible curse. Others say that the family has just always squatted there and no one really cares because man, fuck that particular swamp. Have you been in there? Absolute horror show.
Anyway.
Blanche is the more outgoing sibling and quite the engineer/mad scientist in the making. He started going grey at 2 weeks old but considering he was also rocking some extra fingers, toes, and a tiny tail (he takes after his dad), his parents just put it on the 'not life threatening' pile and decided not to worry about it. He's the kind of smart that teachers find utterly infuriating, less a dog eagerly learning and obeying commands and more a hyena who keeps teaching itself how to pick locks. He has a few friends in his school's robotics club (which they honestly allowed him to make so the school could contain his... creations) but mostly hangs out with his sister exploring the swamp. They find all sorts of neat things in there! wedding rings, suspiciously lumpy garbage bags, cloaked cultists who can't read private property signs, it's an adventure every day!
Blanche is all about experimentation with his creations, his look, and his tether to this mortal coil. Is lipstick a cool thing to try? Let's find out. Can he get out of a strait jacket fast enough after being pushed into the depths of the swamp by his sister? let's find out. He's not dead yet and confused local doctors can attest to the fact that he's rarely attained more than a bad bruise so he's pretty set on continuing to kiss rattlesnakes on their cute little heads and have his sister practice her knife throwing at him until that fact changes.
Blanche is very much a country goth. Cowboy boots (customized by his mom), knife, and lighter are daily accessories. He likes to wear the crusty swamp jewelry they find (the rust adds a splash of color!) and despite appearances he does try to keep himself neat. He's just got  natural Grunge Colors and a tendency to wear clothes he likes until they fall apart. Pugsley always seemed the most modernly styled to me (which might just be because little boys clothes have been the same for a long time) so I wanted Blanche to be the most purposely fashionable Addams. Everyone else is goth by nature, but he's the only one truly familiar with goth as an alternative fashion.
I got really into designing Blanche because honestly, I find Pugsley to be the most boring member of the family. And he was hard to design! I had to mess with his vibe a lot to get him looking how I wanted. I know he's supposed to evoke an " 'evil' little boy next door who's parents never reign him in", but that's just goth Dennis The Menace. Â I's 2020. We can at least go queer goth Calvin.
Sunday was much easier to design. Wednesday was my favorite as a child (of course) and I really wanted to keep the spirit of her look while adding things like billowy sleeves (it gets HOT down here), big poofy twists instead of braids, and a nice tie. She's a professional after all, been running the local pet cemetery since she was 6 and the previous groundskeeper met with an unfortunate accident after telling her that tarantulas don't have souls. Her specialty is creating beautiful naturalistic animal funerals similar to those that Maquenda (https://linktr.ee/artofmaquenda) makes, and she takes pride in creating miniature dioramas of her subjects after each burial which she uses as a kind of 3D catalog for future clients.
She really wants to try out her skills on humans one day. Well. Publicly try out her skills. Lotta random bodies float into the swamp. None of them have turned down her requests for diorama models so far. Most seem downright flattered. Plus, she usually figures out which graveyard/crime scene they floated over from and gets her parents to give them a lift back. She'll even help enact terrifying revenge from beyond the grave on whoever put them there if she's not, y'know, busy.
Besides arts, crafts, and pet based funerary arrangements, Sunday is an avid lover of archery (any ranged weapon really), books where little fantasy adventure animals die dramatic deaths, and history. She is That Kid who eagerly raises her hand when asked who Christopher Columbus was and ends up being sent out of class after 15 minutes for making 'a scene'. Her favorite party trick is just picking an item in the room and talking about how it relates to either some obscure historical figure with a buck wild life or a horrible disaster. At least one charity pancake breakfast ended with children in tears after her vivid description of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919.
Social-wise, while Wednesday is the girl that people ask to smile because they think she'd, "look so pretty", Sunday is rarely asked anything at all. People just kind of assume from her quiet nature (in between horrible history facts) that she's angry all the time and that she hates everyone. This is untrue. She hates some people but she's ambivalent to most everyone else and even downright friendly if you bother to talk to her like a person instead of a terrifying cryptid. Like, she IS a terrifying cryptid but she's also a little girl. Â
Thatâs about it for now. One day I might do the other family members but for now Iâm happy with the four Iâve redesigned. Making an au! Lurch in a family that doesnât do butlers could be interesting. Over on patreon I put forth that he could just be Moteshaâs mute little brother (similar bone structure) but Amy Crook had the nice idea of quote: â a mysterious "cousin" that "helps around the house" whose origins are both long in the past and faintly unsettling. He's good for lifting heavy things, like that tank of propane you're about to throw into the burning Piggly Wiggly... â which i now consider canon. Who's kid is he? How old is he? Not important. Anyone willing to commit arson with you is family.
Annnnyway. This challenge was a lot of fun! I love indulging in AUâs.
#long post#the addams family#Character Design#au#design challenge#i am incapable of doing a design challenge like a normal person#oh god i forgot the cut lol
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