#SOZ FOR RAMBLING i like design

[astronnova]

I just wanted to gush about how much I looooove your team rwby designs. I’m so disenchanted with the show but I can never let it go because every time I see some great au art and designs that speak to beacon era I go crazy!! Weiss and Blake’s outfits especially go crazy I love the pants on Blake and the red on Weiss’s coat and how thin her ponytail is. I hate the braid I hate it I love Weiss with long, sleek, thin hair (or a bob or pixie cut). And I love the body type variety you gave the team they all just look so wonderful and the designs truly speak to the spirit of their original designs. Thank you for creating art and sharing it!!

WAH!!!! WAAAH!!!!! WOW!!! thank you so much!!!!!! this means a lot to me haha :,DD <33

honestly i've lost that lovely spark that the show gave me way back when, i feel you, but its so weirdly difficult to let rwby go. hbomberguy said it best, the show teases you with genuinely good moments and then nose dives back into the swamp. the beacon era is my fav era, i loved the battle school trope when i first go into rwby and i was excited to see all the school related adventures that would happen only for uh. v4+ to happennn.... yaaaaaaaay

i did my best designing those outfits to stick to the red, white, black, and yellow concept that the first outfits were designed with. those outfits were PEAK and i wanted 2 try and follow them up in a nice way. i was trying to think of how i could make my designs feel kinda like a natural progression from the first ones? and some of the choices ended up being things like "ruby wears a shirt and a dress instead of a one piece dress" and "blake wears bellbottoms now", while other choices had more thought like weiss switching to wearing more business-themed attire instead of princess-y things to show she's distancing herself from the status the schnee name brings. yang is uh. yang. yang's hard to design for especially cus her first outfit is booty butt bad

i'm so happy you noticed the different body types!!! i wanted ruby to feel more round and plump especially becus of her shorter height. round makes her friendly :) . also since she's related to yang, i wanted them to have similar body types. only difference is yang is more shredded. and tall HAHA. both yang and ruby are meant to be on the thicker side of athletic. blake is lanky, cus to me that feels cat like, and she also has wider hips. weiss is also lanky but in an overall super skinny way. she's got that ice skater build.

also YES haha i absolutely hate weiss' braid. its ugly, it makes no sense, and it's modeled terribly!!!!! weiss looks best with the long, thin, ponytail or with shorter cut hair!! absolutely!!! (i have her hair get cut in my own au :3 !!)

its such high praise hearing you think my designs shape up to the original's spirit. thats so sweet of you <33333 thank u so much!!!!

#SOZ FOR RAMBLING i like design #✉ mailbox #THANK U SO MUCH ANON I LO VE U

[junotter]

are we still in the trenches of taako design discourse or like....

#honestly not even about gv design discourse just like taako designs discourse #cause like idk taako seems like both the most varied design but also everyone has very strong opinions on it #like i fully understand hella of the discourse but i also wish to draw taako how i want #not to say anyone is literally stopping me but man were those some trenches #taz balance #taako #taako design #idk i personally enjoy drawing elves with a quote unquote feminine appearance but i get why people don't like that #especially for taako #also i think almost everyone projects themselves onto taako designs which is great!!! love it #hhhhhhhh decisions #also didnt expect the adventure zone fandom to still be as active cause it took barely a day to get 100 notes on my taako drawing #thank youuuuuuuuuuuu guys #its not a ton but still didnt expect it in that time frame yk ? #soz for the rambles in tags

[theplantqueer]

A little something for the emo kids on here (most of Famous Last Words by MCR)

Warning! Flashing lights esp at the end!

(I saw my chem tonight and belted out the lyrics with tens of thousands of other queers while gerard way did their little gay writhing onstage. very good.)

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[Video description: An arena from high up and off to the side a little and almost completely full. The recording starts at the line "So many bright lights they cast a shadow" and the performance is high energy and earnest! There's two screens on either side showing closeups of all the band members and some shots of the audience singing along adoringly, and the various lights are whirling around and changing colours a bunch to add to the atmosphere and energy. The audience can be heard singing almost every word of the song! /end ID]

#this was the sydney sunday show! #😭🥰😍 sums it up #there were so many incredible outfits #it was like a fashion show all in itself just to be on the train or in line to leave lol #my chemical romance #image described #also i neeeeever go to these huge shows but it was still so good and immersive from that high up. well done whoever designed that experience #me #ramble #flashing lights #(lol soz i accidentally called it Dead initially - even after saying to my companion the song before that I wanted to hear FLW too lol)

[trashcreatyre]

Soooo sad that I like time eaters design more than solaris’…. Listen it’s mostly the arms thing, I don’t think first form solaris shouldn’t have arms,,, it looks weird to me so sorry gamers

#like I’m sorry but you’re gonna foreshadow solaris’ design through the entire game with bird motifs and then give it arms….? #sure why not I guess……. #n e way #im never drawing first form solaris w arms #soz #trash rambles #sonic 06 #Solaris #sonic generations #time eater #ok it’s also a little that I like the contrast of gold against the black and purple in time eater but also i like them a lot bc of the very #obvious (to me) call back to solaris in its design #I’d love to explain what I mean in depth but it would just end up looking like one of those photoshopped ghost pictures with the red arrows

[devotionbled]

soz to be a Jote liker and someone who's super into reading between the lines, being delulu, and being unable to articulate thoughts, but I keep thinking about that line from Joshua between doing my studies and ~graphic design~ for my main day job.

"Without her sword, I would not have survived my journey across the realm."

It makes me wonder how terrifying Jote actually is in the context of her own narrative and what we never got to see. Yes, she isn't an eikon, but she sure is lethal in her own human, mortal way. She was travelling with him for a long time. There must've been plenty of training in the blade beforehand. It makes me wonder how young she started her journey in wielding steel. She didn't have a childhood in my hcs; it was drenched in teachings in worship, the soil and murder. And I do like to play into the Tonberry thing, just a little, but that's a story for another time. I like that destruction is in her wake, like a tonberry--but that's something I'll discuss later and more of a crack thing that I won't touch, that and that she is a character with many blades hidden on her person. So if you asked her to strip herself of weapons, there'd probably be about 12 taken off her--

Anyways, I'm rambling. She was a child soldier. That is my headcanon and it does make it a little more tragic. And there was a recent revelation in the book. She is a bearer, unbranded. This is crucial information that was robbed in-game. It explains a lot. I like the idea that... she was taught to murder in several hundred ways, to be lethal--to learn the properties of herbs, to poison and bring the sick back to wellness--so she didn't have to call upon her own gifts. Also, Joshua forbidding her from a young age to use those gifts because hello?? Being petrified is a fate no one should go through. Anywayyys... Murder. Weapon. This sums up my Jote. I can't think but I'll touch upon this later.

This brings me to another thought for the Jills out there. Jote and Jill training, teaching each other tricks in blades. Also. For the Cliveys. Sparring session between our muses please? It's on my wishlist.

#;ooc #;wishlist #at the bottom there #let me HAVE THIS??? #i have many thoughts again. #im sorry i just love my bby girl so much and I'm in LOVE?? trust kismet to latch onto a side character #ffxvi spoilers #ff 16 spoilers #ffxvi ultimania spoilers #also #i just like girls being a weapon and having to unlearn it eventually #but its a horrifying trope for sure #because she was JUST a child and Joshua was JUST a boy and they got caught in a cult mess. no hope whatsoever #But it makes me cry bc Joshua probably would've been like ?? at the undying essentially grooming Jote into a weapon and all these awful #things to serve the cause #what would had she been if she was anything else???? #time to do an au for that.

[elijahrichardwrites]

Hiya! Happy STS~! I was reading through your blog and noticed you have a cool system of hybrid demons and the likes. Could you tell me a little bit more about that? And maybe about what inspired it ^^ from @/zonnemaagd~!

Hi @zonnemaagd, hope you're having a good day! I'll happily tell you more about those systems!

This answer is a little on the longer side so buckle up! Answer is under the cut (:

So basically, as explained in the lore post about Demons, are essentially creatures who have abilities related to fauna they have been designated to. So a good example would be the character Soz, a Mammalia (one of the four sub-types of Demons that specifically deals with the Mammal group of fauna) has been assigned the role of "Wolf" and therefore has abilities pertaining to wolves. So he's able to conjure wolves to his aid, as well as elongated his nails to use as sort of claws. He also is very good at tracking and has a keen sense smell. He also prefers working within a group rather than be alone, despite often being alone.

Demons also have a "true form" (something I don't think was mentioned in the post, not entirely sure) as the human form was once a disguise used long ago that has now become commonplace. So using Soz as an example once again, his true form is that of a giant wolf with three eyes on each side and one in the middle, as well has having fur as hard as steel. So his true form is related to wolves, same with pretty much every Demon in the universe. The only exception is those who were once something else before a Demon and Demon hybrids. Which that could be whole posts on their own but to make this only long answer short, it's because they had appearances as humans either before they became demons or born half (or less) demon, they're just unable to have "true forms".

There's honestly more I could talk about Demons in general but I'll spare you for now haha. As for what inspired them, I'm honestly not sure! I've always been fascinated with demonology and about the demons mentioned in the bible. As well as how demons are perceived in different types of media. Originally, the demons in this universe were somewhat stereotypical but it was actually the creation of the characters Soz and Micrathena that completely changed that, becoming what it is today!

Thank you so much for ask! Sorry I kind of went on and rambled haha. I hope I was able to give you some of the insight you were looking for!

#my asks #storyteller saturday #sts #nite & daye demons

[bow-wow-wark-wark]

26. About your favorite Division - why do you love them?

Dhjdjd jejeje ok so I'm going to do all 3 again bc I like rambling.

I had mentioned matenro a bit before so hopefully this will be short. Well I like how nice they're, lol they all just want a good life and to chill and hang out and have fun, that's sweet. I find the religious motifs super interesting and that weird idea they seem to have with like repenting and owing people a lot of things. Lol is a little unhealthy so I find it super interesting. I like how supportive hifumi and jakurai are of doppo and how encouraging they are with each other. They have a lot of trust and I like how on board hifumi is about murdering doppos boss lol.

I love mtc bc I just love all of them, their personalities are all so funny, I like how their all so like fighty, like even if jyuto and rio seem more tame they're always down for the brawl, they're just really similar while being super different. I like how they just seem to understand each other well, their motivations and the values they carry, they respect that. How good friends they are and how much they value that friendship and each others happiness, they are very willing to take that L for each other. They are so caring and worry for the other so much!!! Even if it's on that subtle off hand way you can very much tell. Their songs are good, they're silly and I like how they're like "oooooh were so tough" I find it super funny, and it's also really cool. Yes you are so tough ooooo. I like how since samatoki and rio are more similar they bring way more trouble to jyuto lol, and I like how despite how much jyuto complains he really loves mtc and sticks with them anyways. Good friends over all.

Bat: they mean so much to me!! I like how strong willed they all are. They're so willing to get over grudges just like matenro lol, and like bettering themselves and being stronger. Also how they're just a tight knit family :) they're the epitome of found family for reals. I like how hitoya is like tsk pesky kids but would do anything for them!! Their songs are all bomb and they have some of the nicest voices in all of hypmic.

27. Drop a headcanon for your favorite Division.

Would anyone mind if I dropped a headcanon for each divi, no? No? Ok, 1st every single hypmic characther is neurodivergent, I'm saying this now so it doesnt get repetitive lol I'm also not specifying bc theres some I'm not that sure about and yeah.

BB: we all know I headcanon BB as Puerto Rican so another one is that they're all nonbinary!! I think it would be hilarious if ichiro was like a huge kuuko stan and bought like merch of him just like how people say other charas would do, like jiro and saburo would own ichiro merch. I'm aware it's not a Puerto Rican food but since BB likes curry so much I think they would like hilachas (rice with tomato sauce, meat and some vegetables) last I think they would all run like a Yahoo answers forum type of thing: ichiro probs about like anime, like giving recks and over all discussion , jiro anime too but he could also do music or football, saburo would go into any forum he has any knowledge of and school people that say shit wrong.

Mtc: they have like a designated person for each task that the others cant do, jyuto drives and rio and samatoki cook. Jyuto tries to get into a cook off with samatoki (just so they can impress rio) and he cooks so badly they get food poisoning. They're all transmasc. Samatoki doesnt like fish.

I dont have any fp headcanos pls dont kill me!! Except they're all nonbinary and use neo pronouns but after that not really lol.... soz

Matenro: jakurai doesnt like fish (something he shares with samatoki), hifumis sister had a raccoon tail haircut and bc doppo probably loved her and looked up to her he also got a raccoon tail haircut. I think I didnt say it when I talked about hifumi headcanos but he's also latino. Jakurai has a photo of hifumi and doppo on his office and some people confuse them for his sons. The real matenro icon is the virgencita plis.

Bat: since both kuuko and jyushi have painted nails I think it would be fun if they also painted hitoyas. I know it makes no sense with canon timeline but I like the idea that kuuko and hitoya somehow kept in contact after the trial thing bc how else would kuuko now about his whole jakurai shtick? Also since they keep in contact (could also be in canon timeline) for Ichiros bday he asks hitoya to buy him an exclusive pokemon card to give it to him. (If it's on canon timeline is their make up gift) jyushi is also in those Yahoo forum things and that's where he meets jiro and they become friends!!

Dotsuhon: sasara is my latino icon!!! Rei is also puerto rican since hes is bbs father and all that, so then when all of dotsuhon go out drinking rei and sasara have this bad tendency of speaking only in spanish to each other and rosho gets very pissed bc he doesnt understand anything. With that and the fact that I said dotsuhon matenro line up would be fun, but hifumi sasara and rei all talk in spanish while jakurai, doppo and rosho sit there like 😶😐🧍🏽‍♂️(I'm sorry for side lining them but this is so funny)The real reason why dotsuhon lost is bc they do a pelea de canchinflines fight to decide the winner and since Rosho has never done that it doesnt go too well. Rei banda song when? Sasara does one of those queres ser mi novio? Mariachi and sign things on roshos. Sasara has comedy skits in Spanish that he does with Rei. (They can actually be a comedic trio now)

28. Do you follow any of the seiyuu outside of HypMic?

No lol.... I do know that some of them voice other charas of stuff I've watched or want to watch but actually follow no, I barely know their names lol 😅

29. Did you pay attention during the livestreams/radio shows? Have you learned anything about (J)hiphop culture?

I've never seen any 😭😭😭 so no not really lmao...

This got super long so here's that

#ramble post #long post #brrr i dropped such good headcanons #nobody sees this so my ideas are safe

[waitingtobeimpressed]

The Silent Serpent Part 1

Chapter 1 - South Side High

Sweetpea x OC

Part 1

Warnings: maybe a lil bit a violence but that’s life for you.

Word count: quite a bit.

The picture is mine and I did, in fact, create it. And umm if you didn't notice it can kind of only be used for my story because it has the title of the book and my name in it Sooooooo......

I also did not create Riverdale but some people get salty about not making that clear. However, I did create the character of Maeble Mikaelson/ Forgarty and all the relationships she forms. So. Yeh.

Yes her name is Maeble Mikaelson. For a bit of context, her mothers maiden name is Mary Mikaelson and her Fathers name was Fish Forgarty  (It's complicated), She prefers to use Forgarty as her last name because to put it lightly she hates her mother with a passion…

She doesn’t remember her father because he was given life in prison when she was still a baby. We might see more of him in the future though...

I’m still new to the whole Tumblr thing so just give a chance and hopefully, I will figure it out. 

Car pollution and second-hand smoke filled Maeble Forgartys lungs as she and fangs pulled into South Side High car park. It hadn’t been the first time she had been here even though this was the first time she was actually attending the school.

Maeble spent every summer she could remember on the south side. Her father, who was brothers with fangs’ dad, was a serpent so she knew the majority of the people she saw here. Her mother didn’t really approve of gang lifestyle and shipped her off to England where she attended a prestigious school for ‘Troubled Young Ladies’. Maeble laughed to herself every time that place happened to come up in conversation because she was hardly a rebellious child. She was quite the opposite actually as she didn’t even like socializing, let alone cause any trouble.

Fangs jumped off of the bike and gave Mae a huge grin. She, in return, gave him an eye roll.

“Why are you happy?, if anything I’m going to embarrass you…” She said sliding off a taking a wary glance at her immediate surroundings. Looking to the school she noticed the hoards of students around the entrance, taking turns in tormenting the people who attempted to make their way inside. To her left, she spotted the large row of motorbikes, a line in which they were also sat. Fangs noticed this and smirked with pride.

“Can’t I just be happy that the closest thing I have to a sister is going to be going to the same school as me?” Fangs continued to smile to the point it was starting to make mae feel uneasy. Almost like he was planning something.

“Shut up, Do all of these bikes belong to serpents?” Maeble questioned with a bit of amazement, already knowing the answer.

“Yeh, but this one,” he said and patted the bike they had just ridden in on. “Is the coolest” he stated. Maeble raised her eyebrows and nodded her head. “I dunno Fangs, that one is pretty impressive.” mae said and began to walk to one that had caught her eye. It was completely black except the sliver handlebars and rims of the wheels.

“You would fucking say that wouldn’t you?” Fangs huffed in defeat. “That’s Peas”. Maeble and Sweet Pea had met a few years back when she came to stay with her aunt and fangs for the summer when she was nine. He had immediately taken a liking to her and it quickly became obvious that he wanted to make her life as hard as possible.

Death by cheesy pickup lines…

So whenever she came to stay in the future Maeble would do anything in her power to stay away from him. Not in a cruel way, just as a way of self-preservation for his influence.

Mae’s eyes widened with annoyance “Well, in that case, you’re right, your old, rusty piece of crap is the coolest.” Fangs smiled with satisfaction not letting her words hit him too hard. He Swung his tanned muscled arm around her pale shoulders and guided her towards the entrance of the school. As they walked up the steps of South Side High she could feel the burning glare of at least half of the student body as they quickly ascended. Once they were through the doors Fangs removed his arm and took Mae’s bag and deposited it into a little grey tray and continued to guide her through the metal detector. On the other side, Fangs grabbed the bag again and handed to her

“Well, that was quite the experience.” She mumbled sarcastically (Sounding extremely Britsh making her cringe), pushing her thick, blonde coils of hair out of her face and back into place. Maeble’s hair had always been unruly, but it was only recently that she had become hyper-aware of what it was doing. Mae grabbed a black hairband for her wrist that was already cutting off the circulation to her hand. She attempted to grab all of her wavy curls with one hand and successfully managed a half decent messy bun with minimal effort. Smiling at her self she looked up to see what fangs were doing.

“That was a sight…” he grinned at her playfully.

Maeble rolled her eyes and jabbed him in the ribs. “ you have No idea how much practice and still was needed to pull that off, dear, sweet, baby cousin.” Fangs started to walk away without any explanation. Only looking back to see if she was following. When he saw that she wasn’t he quickly made a hand gesture and she casually followed, trying not to look threatened as a row of greasy Goulies hit their fists against the battered lockers and wolf whistled in her direction. “FRESH MEAT” A voice boomed and echoed through the corridor as almost everyone stopped what they were doing to look. Fangs came to meet her halfway and swung his arm over her shoulder again, glaring at everyone who dared make eye contact with him.

“She’s spoken for, shes with the Serpents” Fangs shouted and they continued around a corner until they were out of sight. 

“Shit, Shit. Shit. Fuck” Fangs rambled as his pace slowed, pulling his free hand through his gelled hair. He looked panicked, not his usual state. Fangs had always had a laid-back demeanour, even when he was being scolded. The Serpent institution was an absolute breeze for him.

“What?” Mae asked, genuinely confused and only slightly insulted that she was being treated like today's entertainment.

“Well, darling Cousin. I pretty much just told the whole school you have aligned yourself with us, which puts an even bigger target on your back that if were still a sheep… so it's not great.“ he said.rubbing the back of his head

Suddenly an ear-piercing ringing noise filled the already bustling halls and everyone started to file into the designated classroom. “ Shit, where the fuck is…” Mae Paused to pull her class schedule from her black denim jean pocket. “ B10? History, I think?” Mae looked up, either hoping that Fangs would be in the same class or at least he would be close by.

Fangs’ bad mood jumped off of his face and an evil grin appeared. “Ohhh, unlucky… Soz Cuz, looks like you have Mr Stevens, or over wise know as ‘Brass Balls’”.

“I’m not even gonna ask” Mae sighed and followed Fangs into the classroom. He motioned for her to enter and as soon as she did her bright blue eyes locked with a certain tall Serpent she was hoping to avoid like the plague. He smiled a sickly sweet grin and Maeble turned oh her heal and left, bumping into a hard chest just outside of the room.

“Fangs!” She exclaimed as she hit him lightly. “You arse. You knew he was in there didn’t you?”.

Fangs pretended to look innocent but Maeble knew they had set is up. Those assholes, she thought. Fangs spun her around and pushed her back into the classroom. “I had no idea he would be here, honest, scouts honour, And you cant be skipping on the first day, you're giving the serpents a bad name,” he muttered as he quickly ran back out of the room smirking, leaving her to stand awkwardly at the front. Maeble’s eyes scanned the room hoping to find a seat that was as far away from Sweet Pea as possible. She found one relatively close to the front and as soon as she sat she hear her name being called out from the back.

“Mae Mike? Is that you?” Maeble smiled recognising the voice and the nickname instantly. She turned in her seat to see Toni grinning wildly.

“Toni, God Damned, Topaz!” Toni jumped out of her seat and ran to the front of the classroom, engulfing mae with a soft hug. When they broke apart Mae took the time to see how much her best and only friend had changed over the past year. Toni had defiantly grown into her body, looking absolutely stunning in a black pair of waist-high shorts and a red flannel shirt tied off around her hips. Her long wavy hair was somehow longer and sporting pink stripes that highlighted the structure of her slender face.

“ What the hell are you doing here?” she asked, kicking the kid out of the seat in front of me so she could face me.

“I moved in with Fangs Last weekend… Mum was getting to be a bit much and I got kicked out of the third boarding school she sent me to…”  Mae said, smiling when she saw the impact her words had on Toni’s face.

Toni stood up and held her hand out, offering it for Mae to take.

“wha-?” Maeble started but she was yanked out of her seat and being dragged to the back of the classroom, to where the Serpents sat, to where SP sat. “you can’t sit down there, you’re an honorary Serpent, which means No Ghoulies” mae was confused but she noticed Toni’s line of gaze no longer matched hers. Mae followed it to see a slim, bleach blonde girl twiddling a piece of her hair in between her fingers as she flirted with a boy who was sat in front of her. The boy, that was, being Sweet Pea was straddling his seat so he could face her. “Scram Brit” Toni finished, glaring at the girl until she finally collected her stuff and strutted her the seat Mae was just sat in. Mae slid uncomfortably into the warm seat, feeling Sweet peas eyes gaze over her facial features. He didn’t turn around, but then again Mae didn’t think he would.

“Female Forgarty, always a pleasure,” He said as he leaned in even closer, so he could rest his elbows on the table.

“Not for me.” Mae rolled her eyes, Let the torture begin, She thought.  

#sweet pea #sweet pea riverdale #riverdale #sweet pea imagine #silent serpent #part 1 #riverdale imagines

[sweetnestor]

12 Days | Chapter 8.2

Two guys that lowkey hate each other are forced to walk in each other’s shoes in order to learn a lesson.

***in collaboration with @themarkiplierexperience

lmao soz its not actually x reader we’re just desperate for attention haaaa

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“I want to ask what the origin story behind this is, but I think I’m better off not knowing,” Tom typed. He attached a “selfie” wearing a bright blue shirt with the word “Wowie” printed on it in a strange fashion. Then, he sent the whole thing to Ethan.

He did see the other texts from the boy that he received the evening before, but Tom was dying to show this to him now. He finally had a look at what Ethan’s “merch” was like. To say he was not expecting “wowie” on a t-shirt was an understatement. Why “wowie”?

Halfway through editing this video, Tom kind of despised Ethan… and he definitely hated the word “Wowie” with a burning passion. It wasn’t all bad, though. Tom had spent the day with a funny pair of people: Parker and Andrew. He didn’t have to consciously act like Ethan to get along with the pair. They were so graciously weird that seeing their friend act out of character was considered normal for them… if that made any sense. The three of them, along with Amy, made a video together that was about this awful blue t-shirt. A promotional video, and instead of having a whole filming crew complete with camera men and editors, it was all self made. It was impressive, don’t get him wrong, but Tom only thrived when he was on camera, not behind the scenes.

It was a minute and a half long video, yet it was taking ages for him to put it all together. Not to mention, Tom was awaiting an update from Ethan about Zendaya. Earlier, he had said that she wanted to talk, and god knows what that was supposed to mean. On top of that, Bella was getting a little harder to handle.

Tom had invited her to come along to shoot the video, but she had gotten immensely sheepish and timid when she heard about the people who would be joining them. She made an excuse about having emails to answer and business Skype meetings to have. She only returned to his apartment after hearing that Parker, Andrew, and Amy had left for the day, and even then she just stayed in the living room while Tom finished the video. Weird, but whatever.

A few hours later, Tom could say he was proud of what he had created. The video was very sarcastic, and kind of funny, but it got the message across: “Buy this ugly ass shirt.” Really, he didn’t see the appeal, but Ethan’s fans sure did. The shirt had been on sale on Ethan’s merch store all month, and as of today, there were only ten days left to buy it. Tom learned all of this through Parker, who had a hand in running the store. Thank god he wasn’t left in completely in the dark.

Thing is, Tom easily learned about different aspects of this kid’s life. He knew the girlfriend, a good amount of the friends, and just enough about his personality to get by. The hard part was the YouTube stuff, because everyone around him assumed that he knew what he was doing. They all assumed he was Ethan. How bizarre would it be if Ethan just suddenly asked for help on the basics of editing a simple video? How long would it be for someone to figure that this wasn’t Ethan, that it was somebody else? What would they do, besides throw him in an asylum?

A knock on the bedroom door snapped Tom out of his thoughts. He pulled off his headphones and granted access.

Bella came in, an unreadable expression on her face. “Hey…”

“Hi, love,” Tom greeted, turning in his chair to face her.

She stepped in, looking around the room as she tangled her fingers together. “I don’t mean to interrupt you, I’m just…” She sighed. “This is really stupid, like really stupid…”

“Oh, how bad could it be?” he asked, putting on a kind smile, despite how nervous the sudden tension made him.

Bella picked at her nails to fill the silence. But she finally asked in a soft voice, “why didn’t you ask me to be in your video?”

Honestly, Tom had been hoping she had that conversation with her real boyfriend. Even he found it weird that the “talking to women” bit from the video starred Amy. Why not Bella? It probably wasn’t something to fuss about, but the girl’s nerves radiated for miles, it made Tom himself feel like he had done something wrong. He didn’t even know how to respond.

“I mean, you and Parker came up with the video idea like what? Two weeks ago,” she rambled, “and you guys came up with the ‘talking to girls’ thing and your first thought was Amy? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I-I mean she did come up with the shirt design…”

Ah, so that was the culprit.

“I-It’s not that I wanted to slap you - uh, fake slap you for a video,” Bella went on, her voice getting shaky, “i-it’s just you didn’t think to ask me, I don’t know. Am I freaking out over nothing?”

“You freak out over everything,” Tom said without thinking. There was a small pause before he turned back to the computer.

“I know, it’s what I do,” Bella said, not seeming offended by that statement. “It probably wasn’t a big deal. I shouldn’t have bothered you, sorry.”

“Don’t worry about it. Any other thoughts, concerns?” It was half sarcastic, but she took the bait.

“I’ve been… having dreams…”

Ethan was supposed to know that tone, what that particular phrase meant. Tom, on the other hand, was clueless.

“Naughty dreams?”

“No.” Bella’s tone was serious now. She paced around the small recording space, still picking at her nails. “Bad dreams. I’ve had dreams like this before… Ethan, please don’t make me say it.”

It had been five days since the switch, five days of being this girl’s boyfriend, and Tom was getting more and more impatient.

“Don’t talk about it then,” he said with a shrug. “If it’s really that scary, or disturbing, or whatever it is... then you don’t need to speak of it.”

Again, it was silent. Tom definitely said the wrong thing, but he didn’t know how to handle a girl with anxiety. He could barely handle Zendaya, even though he hoped to fix things with her.

“You’re probably right,” Bella spoke at last. She turned on her heel towards the door. “No one wants to remember that time, especially me.” She stopped at the doorway and looked back at him. “Oh, and I just figured out why I was freaking out over Amy. It’s been almost a year since Mark left me for her.”

Whoa. What would Ethan say to that? What would Ethan think about his girlfriend mentioning her ex?

Speaking of the ex, Tom’s phone dinged on his desk. Mark had texted him. Admittedly, Tom wasn’t really texting anyone consistently apart from Ethan. He had also ignored Mark’s texts from the other day, so there was a chance he wasn’t on good terms with the boss.

“Hey look man, I don’t know what’s going on with you lately, but I need an answer. Are you going to be returning to work anytime soon? Or do we need to make a public statement that you don’t work for me anymore? I’m not trying to put pressure on you, or anything with malice. I just need to know what’s going on business wise.”

Public statement? So the fans knew Mark had editors? And there had to be something said publicly when something changed behind the scenes? Is that how YouTube works?

“I think my girlfriend is hung up on you, you’re the last person I need to see right now,” Tom typed for literally no other reason except to see if it sounded like something his other half would say. He chuckled to himself after deeming that it was too ridiculous and out of line and went to delete it…

You know when you mean to do one thing but instead do another? Yeah, Tom somehow mixed up the ‘send’ key and the ‘backspace’ key, and well…

“Fuck!” he snapped, sitting up in his chair, watching as the angry text sent. “No, no, no, no! Shit!”

Oh god, Ethan was so fired.

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Tom didn’t have the heart to tell Ethan about the wonderful conversation he had with Mark following that text. He read through the messages he received while he was editing over and over again just to avoid telling him what went down. Ethan seemed excited to be in Montreal.

“So guess I have a workout tomorrow morning? Wish me luck bc I’ll actually die.” That’ll be fun to hear about, but it didn’t settle the knot in Tom’s stomach.

“I’m almost ok with the switch if it means getting to stay in this house dude it’s so nice?? I’m never leaving.” Tom was not okay with the switch. He wanted to be in that house right now, leave Ethan with the mess that he made.

“I finished the wowie video. I hate the word wowie. Please never say it again,” he typed and sent before reading the rest of the texts. He noticed that Ethan will either be completely silent, or send multiple texts at once. No in between.

“Also,,,,, fuck kinda friendship you got with Harrison? You give each other lap dances???” Ethan asked. Oh no. Oh god. “Not judging, just wish I’d known you were rejecting zendaya for ur best m8 lolol.”

Tom literally groaned out loud and palmed his forehead. Then, he frantically sent, “IT WASNOTHING WE DONT SPEAK OF IT SHUT UP.” No way he was getting into that with this guy. He wouldn’t understand.

The next message didn’t help very much. “Speaking of Daya, we talked today. She asked abot how you feel and what you thought you 2 had going on. Made it clear it was her choice what happened, but that you’re just friends? Idk man how DO you feel?”

“Anyway, the videos were good. Much better than Tyler’s first edits for sure. Good job, I’m impressed.”

“Shooting starts tomorrow so I’m off to learn everything there is to know about acting…….. By watching some movie wiht the guys, gn.”

Tom sat there for a few minutes, trying to word any of the thoughts in his head. Why couldn’t have Ethan made the Zendaya decision for him? He seems like a nice guy, he’s had a girlfriend for six months, and she didn’t seem tired of him!

“I’ll deal with her when we switch back… by the way when are we gonna switch back??? Anyway, have a good night mate, have a pint for me!”

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#crankgameplays x oc #ethan nestor x reader #tom holland x oc #tom holland x reader #sweetheart writes #sweetheart collabs #twelve days #drama? drama #it aint a fanfic without some petty ass drama #bella was patient with tom but will mark be?? #tbh idek yet idek what imma do for the next chapter #these are all made at the last minute guys pls give us attention #also the tom/harrison/we dont speak of it thing #was from a text post i saw on here one time #so i slid it to sam's dm's and was like dude #we gotta #tbh idk what they did that night #we may never know #hehehehehehehe

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Characters for lip syncing and finally choosing what audio I’m going with!

Audio

after a solid 30 minutes of sitting at my desk listening to all the clips an unhealthy amount, I picked the one about time! Why? Because the woman talking sounds like an absolute nut job and i love it. I’m actually concerned that I didn’t pick it immediately, but hey, we’re here now and that’s what’s important.

Character 1

I wanna go for an Iris Apfel and Professor Trelawney kinda vibe because I thought they best fit the kind of mad woman sound that the character in my chosen audio was giving me. This was my first sketch up accompanied by a few inspiration pictures I nicked off google images.

I’m proud of it don’t get me wrong, but I don’t think it’s the most suitable. I’m not the best at 2D digital by any means (soz, stop motion is just where my heart is at), so if I go for something this complex I know for a fact I’ll continuously put animating off because I know it’ll take me a seriously long time. I really need to go for something simple yet powerful, and this lass is not it.

So I tried again

I really like this one, and looking back on it now I’m typing this up a week later I regret not picking it?! I just had this late night breakdown that I was going too easy by just doing simple human characters so completely changed it. But anyway, here’s an evaluation of this lass.

I did some serious simplifying from my first design, took out any unnecessary details but still stuck to the base aesthetics. I can definitely see this variation being way more easy to animate with although she does look a bit younger than I was kinda aiming for?? If I didn’t have the regrettable decision to re-change my design, I think I would’ve swapped the pinafore for something that a lady with some more years would wear, I think it just looks a bit too school girl like.

Here’s the design after my breakdown about thinking my work was too boring and predictable:

I ditched the collared thing with the pinafore to try and tackle that age issue, but overall I think she’s a solid OK. I like the colours a bit more and I will admit that this design is more interesting to look at. To be honest, I’m 100% getting too into the design which is so not what the brief is about so I’ll just leave it here.

Character 2

right, so my idea is that the second character will be some kind of therapist-esk thing, but really bored and not even paying attention because he’s just had enough of this crazy lady’s ramblings.

I tried to make him as dreary looking as possible, but still fit in with the bright colours of my first character. I actually like how he turned out, I think he matches the vision in my head to a reasonable extent. With the simplicity, I’m hoping he’ll be easy to animate.

Conclusion

I have literally done the thing we were told not to do and gotten too wrapped up in the design, so sorry Kris, I’m a wild rule breaker. I think that as long as I stick to the simplicity then I should be good to go, I haven’t done 2D in absolutely ages so I need all the assistance I can give myself here.

The next step is to crack on with the animatic, I promise I won’t waste more time pointlessly drawing out designs, but saying that, I have made a style frame anyway.

Yes, I know it’s useless and yes, I do regret spending my valuable time on it, BUT it made me realise that I’m so gunna slightly blur the second character during the actual animation because I’m loving the look of depth.

#lipsync