#even if i think it'd be neat

[snakedevour]

also find it interesting that kabura has goat eyes? as far as i know goats and snakes don't really have any connection except maybe like. in imagery of baphomet. are the knights templar here

#this is a joke fwiw #even if i think it'd be neat #snakes can eat goats i suppose. maybe kabura is also someone eventually ruined by yumeko

[x-i-l-verify]

Something that I've noticed ever since the Smiling Critters were introduced is that they can so easily be paired off into complementary duos, ones that are specifically designed to teach children fundamental lessons about life and self-care from two different angles. It's really interesting to me.

Like obviously you have Dogday and Catnap, with their sun/moon, dog/cat dichotomy, that stress how important it is to have fun and get things done during the day, but also that it's important to wind down, relax, and get a good night's sleep.

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Bubba Bubbaphant and Craftycorn were introduced as a duo in the Smiling Critter show's intro, and their dichotomy is quite obvious. They are basically the right and left sides of the brain personified. Bubba is the left side of the brain, logical, analytical, focused on math and science. Craftycorn is the right side of the brain, creative and imaginative, focused on the arts and self-expression. They represent learning and academia in all its forms, the different ways people engage with and understand the world.

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Hoppy Hopscotch and Kickin' Chicken form the sportsmanship duo. They are both portrayed as enjoying sports and the outdoors, but in different ways that highlight the different ways sports can be played and enjoyed and also what it entails to be successful at them. Hoppy Hopscotch may be loud and impatient, but she is also a team player, shown in her willingness to slow down her fast pace to make sure none of her friends are left behind. Kickin' Chicken, on the other hand, is laid-back, relaxed, and chill, the described "cool kid" of the group, but he's also described as having a ton of perseverance, more of a "slow and steady wins the race" type of person.

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This leaves Bobby Bearhug and Picky Piggy as the last pair. Fittingly, these two are all about how to meet the fundamental needs of yourself and others. Bobby teaches children how to nourish themselves emotionally through showing and receiving care from others, while Picky teaches them how good food is important to nourish the body and soul. Depriving oneself of either of these things only makes oneself and therefore everyone around one miserable, because those fundamental needs are no longer being met.

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Like fr, this is some pretty genius marketing right here. You have enough characters that every kid will have their favorite, but not so many that any would get lost in the shuffle, because the lessons each one of them would teach would be integral to the group as a whole. It really makes me that much sadder we saw basically nothing of the Smiling Critters during the game itself, because Mob Games struck gold with this concept, only to ultimately do nothing with it. :/

But I guess that's what fandom is for, eh?

#poppy playtime #poppy playtime chapter 3 #smiling critters #dogday #catnap #picky piggy #kickin chicken #hoppy hopscotch #bobby bearhug #craftycorn #bubba bubbaphant #xi writes #tbh that 'slow and steady wins the race' comment makes me really wish Kickin' Chicken was a turtle instead #just to drive home that parallel even further #ngl i've been thinking about making this post for ages but i finally got off my butt and did it #me holding the Smiling Critters like Marge Simpson holding a potato: I just think they're neat! #it'd be a shame if the game company that came up with them never DID anything with them HUH MOB GAMES? #mob games don't walk away from me #MOB GAMES GET BACK HERE I HAVE THOUGHTS-

[oflgtfol]

quick like 3 hour thing to sate my desire to see Narinder But As A Bishop. i tried to emulate the game style as much as possible, and i used shamura and heket as the primary references for the robe design

#shakes him like a squeaky toy. fucked up cat !!! #art #cult of the lamb #narinder cotl #so interesting thing i noticed while looking at the other bishops #so heket is the only one out of her shamura and kallamar that has the horizontal line through the red pupil #but LESHY. while he has his eye covered in this form of his . if you look at his eldritch form with the blindfold off. he also has the #horizontal thing in his pupil then #i thought maybe its the eldritch forms only then but no. even shamura and kallamar's eldritch forms dont have it #so it is strictly a leshy and heket thing #dont know what it means but whatever. thought it'd be neat to include for narinder as well. <3 #WAIT SORRY almost forgot to add what was the actual deciding factor to that rather than just whatever: #narinder's eldritch form does in fact have the horizontal lines in his pupils as well #so that was what made me say whatever to also adding it to his non eldritch bishop form here. <3 #anyway literally boring ass stock pose against a white bg but i just wanted to focus on the design + copying the game style as much as #possible which im actually really happy with. obv i cant do 1:1 but i think i got pretty close. so. :3

[moongothic]

You know, I would love it if we could see Mihawk just. Get slightly fucked up by someone, have his sword stolen and watch him figure out how to fight with some random ass sword instead

I just think. It'd be neat.

Like we kinda know how The World's Greatest Swordsman fights with his itty bitty knife, we know what kind of damage he can do with his iconic Yoru

I just think it'd be fun to see him fight with a regular katana and try to get his stolen sword back or summin' IDK

#Moon posting #Cross Guild #Mihawk #OP Spoilers #OP Meta #IDK something something Cross Guild can't pay for Garp's bounty so Blackbeard's crew goes and attacks them #Kidnaps Crocodile and Buggy to steal their abilities and takes Mihawk as captive to see if he'll join BB or not #Steal his sword in the meantime to give to his crew as a toy to play with or something #I don't know there's something about this scenario that facinates me #Also if Luffy and co went to save Garp from Blackbeard I could imagine a scenario where the crew find CG in the prison #And free them. And could you imagine Mihawk asking Zoro to borrow one of his swords while he goes gets his back or summin #I JUST THINK IT'D BE NEAT #This scenario facinates me. I would love to see it #Especially since we didn't really get to see that much of Zoro and Mihawk interacting so like. It'd be cute #Also like GENERALLY SPEAKING I would just love to see Mihawk in a 1v1 duel with someone OTHER THAN ZORO #(Or Shanks) #I dunno I think Mihawk is just Neat but we barely get to see him Do Things so it'd be so fun to see him Do Things #Break Week is hitting hard. It's been So Many Months and we still have no idea where the CG subplot is going #I can only speculate and make 50 different suggestions for where the story could go from here #(I say ''break week is hitting hard'' on the Friday evening after 1101 was released unofficially) #(This week is gonna be rough y'all lmao)

[minecraft-sideblog-tm]

I get so much joy from hearing Scar talk about how Scarland is a roundabout way of him getting to do his dream job after his health kind of made it impossible to pursue the real-life version of it. Like, it's funny how things can end up working out differently than you expect like that.

You can just tell from the knowledge he has on how theme parks work (mainly Disney but still) and the behind the scenes stuff, plus how much thought and detail he puts into each element he builds, just how much he's enjoying making Scarland and idk it's just very cool to get to see

#I think his enthusiasm for Scarland is like half of why it's my favorite base #Like even if he just thought a theme park would be cool and decided to build it just for that #it'd still probably be a really neat build #but all the fun facts and background stuff he knows about theme parks #and the excitement toward all these little details he gets to add and talk about #just makes it SO much fun #You know? #goodtimeswithscar #hermitcraft #lee speaks

[tsuyoiqueen]

hot take: i need spideypool and lokius to go on a double date.

#you guys don't understand #i need to see these four together like i need to see lokius with aziracrow #loki and deadpool bickering across the table #mobius and spider-man shaking their heads fondly #getting heart eyes when their partners are getting excited about something #loki realizing he has a lot of things in common with deadpool #that they've both been seen as villains #that they haven't been dealt the best hands in the game #i mean wade was a mercenary before he even became deadpool for a reason #and loki was ostracized by his father and other people around him his whole life #loki was ripped off his timeline and wade was ripped off his autonomy after the mutation #but in the end they got to meet people who believed in them when no one else did #mobius saw a good person in loki even though he knew him the best #meanwhile spider-man did the same for deadpool after getting over his preconceptions and knowing him #this is canon btw google spider-man/deadpool comics #they've found comfort in each other through the pain #and anyway. i just think it'd be really neat #more than that i need loki to be in deadpool 3 #deadpool #loki #spider-man #wade wilson #peter parker #loki laufeyson #mobius #mobius m. mobius #lokius #spideypool #deadpool 3

[raayllum]

Those you hold close

But you’re just as devoted, and you don’t have to kill anyone or possibly leave to get killed. Sometimes helping others requires great feats of strength, Rayla. But you are right. Sometimes an act of caring is as simple as being there when it feels like no one else is. Both are necessary. 

#rayllum #rayllumedit #book quotes #tales of xadia #bloodmoon huntress #every separation is a link #multi #arc 1 #arc 2 #parallel phrasing my beloved #parallels #thinking about rayla's 'i have to be strong' 'maybe the fastest & strongest of any of us' 'rayla is selfless strong & caring' #the way rayllum seamlessly embodies the both are necessary not only as a couple but having the capacity for both within themselves #even if one probs leans more than the other #LET THEM DOOM AND THEN SAVE THE WORLD TOGETHER I THINK IT'D BE NEAT #my edits #graphics

[vargaslovinghours]

Todd is baby, so - Baby Todd

#💟 #Doodles #Art #Edgar #Scriabin #Todd #Shmee #Baby Todd AU #These are scribbly and largely unfinished because I had A Lot of ideas and I needed them out of my head as quickly as possible lol #Normally I'd save these for the sketchdump but a) there's too many lol and b) I'm too excited about them #I just wanted to draw cute stuff that's my explanation lol #This is just my ultimate form of making Todd extra tiny and hold that was my justification and goal all along lol #I love these kinds of domestic AUs and the Vargases already have a kid! Now he's just a bit younger haha #Details details - Todd would be at around 8-9 months here #Able to hold his head up and sit on his own but not quite to walking and talking fully - more than a little human blob but not a child yet #He just shows up in a little basket on Edgar's doorstep lol is that how it works - it'd be so much worse if it was Nny's doorstep #Edgar gets a call in the middle of the night like ''Uh...........so I think there's a baby'' ''What do you mean there's a baby'' #How could they have a baby they haven't even gone on a date- #I also thought a neat way to differentiate (because I always draw Todd as a tiny little chibi baby lol) would be Shmee #Since Nny slices him up when Todd's a kid - would he do the same to a baby's bear? Is Shmee even Shmee in there?? Hmm hmm #And more thoughts of ages - is Edgar 8&1/2 years younger? Probably not right?? But that would set Todd's birth year way later! #It's fine just don't think about it too hard lol #Or do I mean I have lol #It's all just for cutes and being a good and Definitely flustered but also Definitely father and dad to a baby ♥ #It is honestly really fun to draw him so so so tiny hehehe ♪♫

[bionicbore]

Constantly thinking about Marcus and how non-robotic he was. Seems like most people enjoy/roll with that but. Idk I genuinely would’ve enjoyed a much more uncanny Marcus. He’s got hyper intelligent AI but he is very much Not  Human and doesn’t think like one

Marcus not knowing who Leo was for so long despite being in the same classes because he has built-in tunnel vision. Unless you’re directly relevant to his mission, be it as an obstacle, a target, or just necessary to maintain his cover, he Will Not remember you

Marcus not actually leaving any fingerprints on his guitar

Adam helping Marcus up for whatever reason and commenting that this kid is way heavier than he looks

Yet he somehow manages to get around without Chase hearing him

Marcus just randomly going blank while he processes new information/situations and how he’s supposed to react. From an outside perspective, this kid’s personality literally just... turns off for like half a second before he’s back to normal like nothing happened

He’s blank around Douglas a lot because he doesn’t actually need to deceive anyone, and his outward personality pretty much only turns on when he’s being interacted with. Creeps Douglas out big time whenever he actually notices it

Marcus doesn’t exactly process that he’s an android for the same reason a smart appliance isn’t self-aware. You don’t program a GPS to know it’s a GPS, let alone that you’ll replace it the minute it breaks. So despite all the additional maintenance, Marcus views himself as no different than the Rats

The extent of his programming involving the Rats is Douglas’s kids, in the same way that he is Douglas’s son. Douglas didn’t think to program anything about Marcus viewing them as his siblings

Marcus not following the plan in Bionic Showdown because, as shown multiple times, hyper intelligent AI does not mesh well with objective programming

Marcus having no qualms about throwing Chase into a meat grinder on account of his logic being “Dad wants his three bionic kids. If I kill you, he’ll still have me. That still makes three”

Douglas actually being horrified by this ‘cause he has been projecting so hard onto this android and nothing shatters those rose tinted glasses like watching it try to kill your kid

#Lab Rats #Marcus Davenport #Listen. I have very specific tastes when it comes to robots #The more human it LOOKS the less human I want it to ACT #Unless them being indistinguishable is a deliberate part of the narrative #But if you give me a human-looking machine I find it way more engaging when there are very distinct differences #This can be for the sake of the android character OR for the sake of OTHER characters #And Marcus feels like he could've impacted OTHER characters a lot more. That's all I want. I want him being a robot to MEAN something #... Also better fuel for my Marcus Revival AU #But EVEN IF HE STAYED DEAD #I think it'd be neat to explore him being so objectively Not Human #And how everyone else would react/recover from that

[welcometogrouchland]

"lol they should make Steph spoiler again she's basically not even a Batgirl" look I'm not too jazzed about the current state of Batgirl lore either rn but if I have to suffer through another decade of terrible babsgirl content PLEASE AT LEAST LET ME HAVE BATGIRL STEPH, IF ONLY IN NAME

#ramblings of a lunatic #dc comics #stephanie brown #ideally we'd have no babsgirls and Steph and Cass co-existing as two different types of batgirls both together and separate #since even beyond personality the types of heroes they were- how they fought what they fought their thinking their approach etc- #-was all very different from each other #and in calling back to their respective eras as Batgirl we'd get a steph who feels more like batgirl and less like n52 spoiler #but unfortunately dc hates me and insists on shoving babs into a role better occupied by steph and cass #leaving neither girl to really be able to flourish as batgirl #< this was inspired by me seeing ppl. not quite gloating. that's mean. but they were celebrating- #-about some steph concept art (NEW STUFF WITH STEPH WOO) being labeled ''batgirl/spoiler'' #like i don't think it's a reflection of story progression (bc it wouldn't be progression. it'd be regression. batgirl was forward for steph) #i think it's a reflection of the fact that editorial feels bullied and strong armed by fans into acknowledging steph (and cass) as batgirls #sips juice. anyway #i lowkey think it'd be cool to have steph and cass be batgirls in different cities. cass already had bludhaven let steph take a stab at it #if we're insistent on keeping babs in bludhaven then let her oracle for steph ala bg 2009 #it'd be neat! we could finally explore the tensions and parallels between dick and steph! #and you wouldn't have to remove steph from gotham either considering dicks there constantly too #you lose lich rally nothing and gain so much #but really I'm happy we get anything with steph considering she's only been getting cameos for nearly a year now #steph nation winning despite it all

[lesamis]

📠

one thing i like about the new job is that public service really drives home how diverse and interesting any random sample of people actually is. you kind of can't keep thinking that there's one single way in which ordinary life typically goes when you're dropped into the middle of other people's lives on a daily basis. like within two weeks at a public service job in the most boring town imaginable someone will come in and be like hi i'm blind, can i have some adjustments for my advanced degree. hi my grandmother died, can i have an extension. hi i moved here from taiwan literally two months ago and misunderstood some instructions, can i repeat this process. hi i'm competing at the olympics, can i put my studies on hold.

there's just this certain kind of rhetoric that wants to make you belive that A Normal Person is this or that and their life goes this or that way, when really there's no limit to the chaos of human experience or to the endlessly new-shuffled variations of Circumstances and i'd defy anyone who believes otherwise to keep believing it after one day in public service

#the reason this is on my mind sm is bc i've lately been encountering the ''who is this even for'' argument a lot #from people who think certain adjustments are for ''fringe groups'' or whatever #that they believe don't really involve anyone of any note and aren't a good use of public resources #& before this job i never realized that statements like that are someone showing you their shitty qualifications? #like ok you don't know people then. you've never bothered to encounter People As People. you're in a deliberate bubble. cool #that's all i need to know abt your suitedness to comment on public interests lol #it'd be so convenient for them too. sooo easy to believe that ppl fit into neat little groups of The Rule and The Exception respectively #and therefore groups they can consider worthy of their service and groups that aren't #like i know that as a conservative you want to think of a theology student and a trans student as separate entities. #however over here in reality that's the same guy :') cope ig. hope this helps #it's about think of others by mahmoud darwish. you guys get it

[frankensteined]

she should have been recruitable if you sacked the grove

#it makes sense! doing so costs you two party members upfront (not even counting halsin!)! #so you shoulda had at least one more character join your party besides minthara! #and consider this: i love sazza #(i did not side with the goblins on this playthrough mind you. i just think that it'd be neat) #anyways finally got that sazza achievement!! #court vs bg3 #sazza

[stardestroyer81]

Y'all wanna watch Star TV?

Perhaps one of my favorite aspects of Pizza Tower is the TV HUD element, which shows our portly paisano's reactions to pretty much everything that happens to him in-game (For better or for worse), and given that I've drawn myself in the game's style, I wanted to attempt making a HUD TV for myself on top of practicing Pizza Tower's trademark wiggly lineart animation! 💙🍕✨

#Star's Art #Pizza Tower #Sprite Art #Sprite Animation #Coolness #I've always wanted to be on TV... BUT NOT LIKE THIS!!! /j #Now THIS was a work of mine that I was excited to post! #I intended on posting it yesterday but opted to post something more in-line with MAR10 Day instead since I had something for it #This started out as a conceptual sketch but I thought it'd be neat to turn it into its own sprite piece! #As a bit of trivia... the TV was going to look the exact same starting out... #... but then I gave it stars... and a bow... and a CES... #Nothing is safe from me spicing it up with the Star Touch! #Something I also wanted to give the TV was its own little watermark like some channels have #This too was a placeholder but I liked the concept (And name of 'Star TV') so much that I kept it! #Lastly... it should come as a big surprise that this is even animated #I don't do a lot of sprite animations as they can be time consuming but I made an exception for this piece for one reason #The wiggly lineart style can easily be replicated by loosely redrawing a frame of something three or more times #This was the process I went about when animating myself and I think it looks quite great! 💙

[lisbonsteresa]

yeeeah that's the good kush

#just want to sit in this moment; marinate in it a bit #i just love when they talk about justice and vengeance and morality and just stare at each other a little #(them at their most two/six tbh) #it's just a very evenly matched discussion and it usually doesn't actually go anywhere - neither of them convinces the other of anything #(at least at this point) but i like that too because you still see the effect they have on each other's thinking without spelling it out #on the other hand...i don't have a lot of 'wish they-'s for this show (ok that's a lie i have many) #but one of my most....personal? niche? idk is i wish there had been some sort of jane-lisbon bottle episode #(i wish there were many jane-lisbon bottle episodes tbh i love bottle episodes) #where they're just like...stuck somewhere together and they spend the whole time debating red john and justice etc etc #idk i just think it'd be neat #(and ok yes maybe it'd be even better if they were stuck somewhere like a closet and after the debate they're left with that tension #plus the tension that naturally comes when two people who kind of want to jump each other's bones get stuck somewhere like a closet) #but anyway--- #tm #(wow i used the word ‘just’ like 17 times here huh)

[little-meowyao]

Does anyone want to talk me out of writing a trans SMS longfic

#su minshan #underestimated loyal dog #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #modao zushi #i just think it'd be neat #but i have so much to write alr #even more shade to the lans lol

[oh-meow-swirls]

haven't watched shadowside or played 4 but ngl it feels kinda pointless for summer and tate to be nate and katie's kids when nate can't even see yo-kai anymore in it and seemingly never brings that fact up-

#puppy rambles #yo-kai watch #yw4 #<- kind of #also nate and katie literally have no romantic chemistry in canon i know it was always endgame but like #why did they never actually give them anything. the crush always seems to be one-sided- #i honestly can't see them as anything more than friends and that's not just cuz of me liking other ships for them #they just. don't have any actual chemistry. nate has a crush on katie and that's literally it #there's never anything that implies katie has a crush on nate. even in the games. it's so weird #i'm sure i'd enjoy shadowside and 4 if i watched/played them but like. there's just so much weird stuff in the future era #like. whatever the fuck is going on in y-school heroes. i don't even try to figure out what that's about anymore #all i know is that future human jibanyan (jiba jinpei or something???) is apparently amy's grandson #which is neat i guess #idk i mean. there's a reason i just see the games as a trilogy #i just think it'd be more interesting if even if you do have nate not have a watch/be friends with jibbers and whisper as an adult #for him to at least bring it up??? at somepoint??? #because otherwise it just feels completely useless to have summer and tate be nate's kids- #side note but i honestly don't blame people for not using the english names for shadowside characters tate is a terrible name #do you think his full name's tathan- #like. i feel like there's probably a better english name they could've used to continue the naming scheme- #but nope. tate. what kind of name is that #shadowside is so baffling to me-