I keep seeing posts on social media thanking the OFMD cast and crew for their work and not mentioning Taika, and it's driving me to distraction because Taika is absolutely fundamental to the existence of this show.
There's a huge chance the show wouldn't have been picked up at all if Taika hadn't attached his name to it. And he didn't just attach his name and walk away - he played a key role in developing the show. David has said that he was looking at the history with Taika and they both went 'omg Stede and Blackbeard were fucking' and decided to centre the show around that. Taika pushed for Rhys to play Stede. Taika saw Nathan's comedy on instagram and went 'yep that's Lucius'. Taika was desperate to play Ed, and fought to play him. Taika has spoken about how much he loves playing Ed, how it made him fall in love with acting again, to the point where he wears some of Ed's jewellery and has gotten some of Ed's tattoos actually inked on him. He poured everything he has as an actor into Ed (some of the stuff he had to perform, particularly at the beginning of S2, is difficult) and the show simply wouldn't work without it. Taika directed the pilot. He loved the show enough to juggle filming S1 with post-production on Thor: Love and Thunder. When the show's budget was slashed by 40%, and could no longer afford to film in LA, Taika would have been key to moving production to New Zealand - and if that hadn't happened, S2 wouldn't have happened. When a director went off sick with Covid during S2, Taika jumped in to direct half an episode and then didn't take a director's credit on it.
You do not have to like Taika. You do not have to agree with everything he does/says. But what we are not going to do is erase the absolutely key fundamental role that Taika has played in OFMD. This show simply would not exist, probably not in any form, but certainly not in the form we see and love, if not for Taika's continuing and multi-level contribution.
You get a rotten face because you’re a prick and if you kept your mouth shut in Heaven I wouldn’t now have to do big baddie paperwork and instead I’d still be creating cute ass stars, fucking hell
Eh who’s next
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You get a cute lil snake on your face and you can move it wherever you want my little pretty starmaker…
*God calls*: Satan, are you taking the piss?
Satan: What?
God: You can’t make everyone ugly and give him a cute tattoo like he’s your favourite!
Satan: But he is my favourite :)
God: You’re suppose to be evil!!!
Satan: What if I give him snake eyes. See. Scary.
God: Are you going to blind him from seeing the stars?
shadow and rouge sparring session! in normal hand to hand combat (no skates, no flying, no chaos control, no gadgets), i think rouge could hand shadow's ass to him bc she's had more formal training lol
DUNGEON MESHI MY BELOVED, OH, THAT DND MANGA, DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON, DUNGEON IN DELICIOUS, DELICIOUS IS DRAGON, DRAGON IN DELICIOUS, DYIN' IN DUNGEON,
these sticker sheets are here in my shop until oct 17! shop will reopen next spring/summer
Happy late birthday, it was a wonderful post you made, I just gotta ask something outta the silly.
Do you think it's as cute as I do, the idea of moon having a second nightcap that's party hat coloured and he swaps that on for birthdays
@sea-menace Dream big, my friend! Why stop at 2 nightcaps...? >:}
We got some seasonal caps:
Modern day AU, where Fazbear Co. runs a content farm TikTok account; and Moon is horribly out of touch with gen alpha humour (because no one bought the animatronics internet plans 🥲) caps:
And @lavenoon's jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, amazing Accidentally Undercover fic caps! ✨
Pretend that Agent Dusk lost his original nightcap in a deadly shootout with a rival spy team and he needs to whip up a replacement PRONTO before he loses all street creds (He still won of course, but at what cost,,,,)
Funfact, that little squeak Alastor does when he's first introducing Rosie and she dusted off his sleeve is an actual noise a baby fawn. Z
YEEEESSSSS I've seen people talking about it on twitter this is the cutest little detail about him I'm gonna cry like actually
Find yourself a bestie you're so comfortable with you start making little fawn noises. They are so perfect AAAAHHHH
Also, kind of unrelated but since we're talking about Alastor noises, in the french dub he makes a little "AH" sound when Vaggie interrupts his breakfast it's very subtle but it's so cute as well so I wanted to share it
One of my favourite micro-fandoms is folks who are preoccupied with fictional apartments. Trying to draw a floor plan of Sherlock Holmes and Watson's quarters that's consistent with every description of it ever provided by Arthur Conan Doyle (and largely succeeding, in spite of the fact that Doyle is so bad about consistency that Watson's war-wound keeps wandering), or exhaustively examining Jerry Seinfeld's pad from every available camera angle and concluding that the show has managed to depict a physically impossible space in spite of being obliged to construct an actual, physical set. If I ever write something involving an apartment, I 100% hope they call me out for fucking up the placement of the bathroom.
hi @flinxypie i'm your Valentine Secret Santa! Secret Valentine? Secret Cupid? all of those!
i read your prompts and you and i both love some good ol' DCA shenanigans, and i was reminded of this wild song! so i hope you'll enjoy this little animatic of the DCA boys just trying their jest!
Happy Valentines, friends! know that you are loved dearly by your loved ones and these silly jesters!
and if you wanna read the frame-by-frame break down, i've compiled it into a google doc this time (because there's too many images for 1 Tumblr post). it's a lot less heavy this time as i went more by fun and energy, but there are still some parallels and things to note, so if you're curious: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18zydwGFFRJyHTvkG7MDqPI8GphUzzFzGsFCt6diFrsk/edit?usp=sharing
Like for real I am always one to strongly recommend wearing shit that shows off what you like and ignoring anybody who has anything to say about that, but also...you know a white cotton T-shirt and a pack of Sharpie markers are your best friends, right? And a quick trip in the dryer on high heat once you’ve drawn on the shirt will set the colours, right? If you’re feeling adventurous, you can get puff paint in many exciting neon colours. I picked up a bottle of additive to turn regular acrylic paint into fabric paint at my local dollar store, which also has a wide selection of acrylic craft paints. Heck, you can use just regular acrylic paint straight out of the bottle on heavier-duty fabrics, like denim. I have a whole bunch of hand-painted band patches made out of old pairs of jeans. Or you can paint directly on a denim jacket or a pair of pants, if you’re feeling it.
If you want replica merch and your poison of choice is a Hellfire Club shirt, go fully in-universe and paint your own. Stick it to Netflix and Hot Topic. Become ungovernable. Be your own weirdly-endearing punk little freak.