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beanghostprincess · 4 months

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Bughawk is soooo underrated and it makes me so sad. Please tell me you see how grand this vision is

I am personally more of a Shuggy/Crocobug shipper but that's mainly because Mihawk isn't doing it for me much?? I love him and his gold autistic eyes staring into my soul and his classy attitude and vampiric looking aesthetic, but I wish he had more screentime to figure out his personality better and enjoy him more. But I do like him! I swear! And tbh one of my favorite ships is Cross Guild, like, the three of them together, even if I have a bit of a preference inside of the trio. I do love them and tbh I think Mihawk and Buggy's relationship would be really funny to explore. Especially within the fanon portrayals of the characters because god forbid Oda gives the cool edgy swordsman more than three minutes of screentime and more than five words per episode.

Okay, so doing a mix between fanon and canon and "whatever the fuck I want to see these characters as because I am the princess of this blog and I can do whatever I want": I think their relationship is fucking hilarious.

Unlike with Crocodile, Buggy doesn't really know what to do with Mihawk. Crocodile at least is easy to read and he's usually the one to make the first move, but what the fuck is Buggy supposed to do with the swordsman sitting in front of him, legs crossed and staring into his soul like he's about to bite his neck and suck him dry. Scary. And also very hot. But mostly scary. But turns out Mihawk is like, way more peaceful than what he thought. He likes reading. And classical music. And swords in a very weird obsessive way that the clown should not speak about. And not much, honestly. Cooking, too, apparently. Buggy keeps learning new things about him every day and the guy opens up little by little, because even if he's quiet, the very few words he says speak a lot for himself. He's also a fucking sadist and loves teasing Buggy all the time to the point of making him cry of frustration, but, well, when he's good he's really nice to be around <3

They both have history with Shanks. You know the movie "The other woman"? The one about this girl who discovers her boyfriend is married and then becomes besties with the wife and start hating him together? That's the energy I'm getting from this triangle. Stop making Mihawk cry over Shanks not loving him and a past love!! Make him go "Oh. Yes. Red Hair and I had something. Pretty sure he still felt something for you, clown, so I am not happy about that" / "What?! Why would you be angry at me for Shanks' shitty feelings that have absolutely nothing to do with me, by the way, our thing ended years ago when his stupid-" / "No, no. I am referring to him. Moron. I like you" / "You do???'' / "Sometimes. Sort of. Maybe. Your existence confuses me". And then they start dating because nobody can tell me Cross Guild isn't just a poly relationship doing business together.

I think Mihawk likes Buggy because it gives excitement to his boring life and also he's fun to bully. Besides, he's more than what he looks like and he actually has a dream and pirate spirit, so maybe he's not as useless as he used to think. He's still annoying, yes, but oddly comforting. Mihawk can't quite figure out what he wants with this clown, so he just sticks around with him. Buggy is like a chihuahua. A very loud chihuahua. Mihawk is definitely a black cat. They don't match. At all. Not in the slightest. And yet, Mihawk likes his company. And Buggy actually loves seeing all the soft and interesting sides of Mihawk and realize that he's not as scary as he looks like. I mean, he could slice him in half if he wanted to and he's still scary and hot but, y'know, he has a very domestic side that Buggy likes.

Thinking about them being established is pretty sweet because I think Mihawk would like reading out loud to him and Buggy would make the funniest comments about the story. And they would cuddle. And it would be so uncharacteristically soft of them and it's something they only do in private. Crocodile stares at them from the corner of the room and,,, He likes having them there. He's not alone and it's kind of sweet.

Also overprotective Mihawk with Buggy my beloved. In the sense of: He cooks for him because his eating habits suck. He makes him go on walks and do a bit of exercise. He makes him read, too. Listen to music that it's not only commercial pop or circus music or musical/Broadway tunes. He takes care of the clown when he's not bullying him. I think Mihawk treats Buggy like Sharpay Evans treats her dog.

And following the Shanks thing to end this post: Bughawk is really cool because I think it would break Shanks' heart and I love angst.

#yayyy cross guild asks make my day #i love them i love them i love them #sorry for saying mihawk wasn't doing it for me i realized while writing that i absolutely love him too #i just wish he had more content #one piece #dracule mihawk #buggy the clown #bughawk #cross guild

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bassguitarinablackt-shirt · 2 months

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you should

info dump abt your oc's while I write about mine:D

:o THALIA ILY.

okay okay im gonna talk more about the wip melian and silas are from :3

yada yada advanced steampunk city known as keross with a supply of "magical energy" at the heart of the city

magical energy is a bit weird to explain because it can basically do anything that doesnt completely break space and time, i like to think of it as paint, the user as the artist, and the world as a really sturdy canvas

keross's supply of magical energy is large but ultimately finite, it had lasted thousands of years but eventually it will run out, which is why the use of magical energy is limited to the nobility and researchers

SPEAKING OF RESEARCHERS, keross has a large and esteemed academy where researchers from all over the world go to study, most of the characters study or did study there

OKAY OKAY NOW FOR....THE CHARACTERS!!!!!

Antoine Villeneuve (he/him)

a nobleman who, following the death of his parents, decided to integrate into normal society. this endeavor is proving to be...difficult. its hard for him to unlearn the way he was raised and hes overly formal to the point where it loops right back around to extremely socially awkward.

Vixen Valentine (whatever pronouns make the bit the funniest)

vixen is an...eccentric fellow. they're the local chatty, overly dramatic goth. she seems to have alot of friends yet most of those friends cant seem to stand him, also xe dated melian for a few months and still crashes melian and silas's house and raids their fridge. melian cant stand them, silas doesn't know what to make of them. they have some sort of feelings for antoine but decide to leave those feelings alone.

Celestine Maxwell (they/fae/she)

proof all you need in life is a transfem inventor girl. proudly aromantic and pansexual, also rather eccentric but slightly more normal than vixen. fae refuses to take others shit and has a reputation for being rude, however what any of her friends will tell you is that they're actually really nice so long as you dont piss her off. has a friends with benefits thing going on with vixen but otherwise cant stand him, going through the crisis of being attracted to antoine but knowing hed faint if he found out about casual sex

Arden Clayborne (he/xe/they)

the friend whos always there with kind words, jokes, and hot chocolate if you need a lighthearted escape from the cruelty of the world. arden is autistic, dyslexic, and tired of being infantilized by others for it. xe's in a casual open relationship with vixen and had something vaguely gay going on with celestine despite fae being aro and him being ace.

theres also the sword lesbians but lets start with these guys for now :3

#asher answers #ashers writing rambles

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santacarlatourism · 1 year

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kiss me once 'cause you know i had a long night

listen, if you didn’t know, bret easton ellis has said that a contemporary patrick bateman would be a taylor swift fan. it is perhaps the funniest fact in the world to me, and so i have to confess that i will probably write about this again in the future. writing pat x reader is already kind of amusingly absurd in and of itself. the song prompt of choice for this entry is taylor swift’s “paper rings.” Rating: 13+ Pairing: patrick bateman x reader Warnings: Discussions of true crime, recreational drug use, I mean I don’t think anything here should be entirely unexpected given the source material Word Count: 1.6k Other entries in this series:

[Kevin Khatchadourian]

Kiss me once 'cause you know I had a long night Kiss me twice 'cause it's gonna be alright

You have to admit: You hadn’t thought you’d actually like Patrick Bateman, but the guy was growing on you.

Your friend had wanted to set you up on a blind double date with one of her boyfriend’s friends, in which the four of you would all go out together. You are fairly certain that it was just because she enjoys the idea of double dates. They are cute and Instagram worthy, and allow an opportunity for her to brag about what a wonderful couple her and her beau are. You don’t begrudge her for it, though. They do seem like a happy enough couple.

The date, however, had sounded tedious from the start. You know this friend from being roommates in your college dormitory, where you had been a scholarship student and she was a legacy. While she has always been kind to you, the way she navigates the world is so far detached from the way you live that it’s often proven hard to get her to understand certain things about your life. For example, the fact that the average person does not have a myriad of formal wear for dinner reservations in their closet, ready to go. You are grateful that she took you out to buy something for the date, but hope that she isn’t going to want to do this sort of thing every time.

You’re exhausted from the moment you walk in the door of the fancy restaurant. She mentioned the name of it a thousand times in the car, but you still can’t quite recall it– Archer? Avalon? Something European sounding that starts with an “A.” It’s all hustle and bustle and it’s too many people crowded in too tiny of a place, something that’s both become familiar during your time in the city, and that you’ve also grown to loathe .

Your friend’s boyfriend waves as you approach, and he introduces the man you’ll be sitting beside for the evening, Patrick Bateman. The two across from you swiftly excuse themselves to “get some air.” Considering you only just arrived, it’s rather obvious that the air they plan on getting is cocaine. It is silent for a moment. “Do you want to know what I do?” Patrick asks you.

You’re about to respond with a partly indifferent but affirmative answer, but before you can do so the waiter comes by and fills you and your friend’s glass with sauvignon blanc. “Do we know what we’d like to– shit!” He accidentally knocks over one of the water glasses.

Although it doesn’t get on either you or Patrick, he apologizes profusely and cleans it up before disappearing once again. Patrick has fallen quiet and seems quite tense, not focusing on you. You sigh and take a sip from the wine glass– maybe he’s just nervous about the potential for a first date to go wrong. Not that you would want to admit it, but a touch of your attitude is also the result of nerves (though plenty of it was, as your friend would say, your innate bitchiness). So you try and be a bit more open and friendly for him.“I don’t bite,” you crack a joke.

“Excuse me?” He asks, snapping back to, as if he’d been lost in some very interesting day dream.

“I don’t bite,” you repeat yourself. “Hard,” A teasing grin appears across your lips. “What’s on your mind?”

You weren’t exactly prepared for the answer that comes forth from this man. “Well, did you know that H. H. Holmes paid to have the flesh from his first victim’s corpse removed after attempting to skin her like a rabbit, and sold her skeleton to a medical school?” He says it almost with an almost desperate, defeated chuckle as he brings his wine glass to his lips and takes a sip.

For a moment you say nothing because you’re unsure if this is actually the thought that was preoccupying his mind moments ago. And you’re also unsure what kind of response he expects from this particular bit of knowledge. And, now that he’s actually made eye contact with you, you notice that he has this distinctly blank look behind his eyes. He clenches his jaw in the silence. It’s becoming awkward. You finally respond: “Oh, so you’re into those true crime books?” You ask.

He swallows thickly; it’s surprisingly audible considering there was nothing in his mouth and the sound of goings on in the restaurant around you– Arcadia, that’s the name. “Pardon me?”

“True crime books. They aren’t my cup of tea, but they’re growing quite popular. The first book in the genre to win the Pulitzer Prize was The Executioner’s Song back in ‘79, so I think people are starting to view it more as actual literature and less as an extended tabloid piece. My library’s been getting an increasing number of books in the ghe genre” You comment. “Though I suppose that depends on the author’s approach. What else do you like to read?”

He stutters for a moment, and it’s sort of cute. So you smile.

After dinner, as you’re leaving the restaurant, your friend departs with her boyfriend. She suggests that you can have Patrick take you home, or that you could go home with him. She winks at you and laughs as her boyfriend’s car is pulled up by the valet and the two get in, disappearing into the night, leaving you alone with a man you’ve only known for a couple of hours. And while you have found his oddities somewhat charming, he’s still the next best thing to a stranger. His car pulls around and when the chauffeur gets the door, you hesitate only a moment before getting in. “Where do you live?” Patrick asks.

You respond with the address and name of your apartment complex. Patrick stares at you blankly in response, but the driver seems to be aware of where that is because he pulls out and heads in that direction. “I haven’t heard of that building,” He finally says, breaking the quiet that had fallen over the backseat.

“Well, that’s all right,” You say, with a good natured smile. But you are mildly confused as to why he seems so surprised. New York City had a lot of apartment buildings, you doubted anyone knew the names of them all.

Patrick is very clearly struggling to initiate conversation, you notice. He’s already talked about his work (you still aren’t clear of what his work day consists of, though), high end fashion (you do think the way he eviscerated the suit of the other man at the table was kind of funny), his interest in true crime (though you never got it out of him what other things he reads, you can infer he probably devours GQ), music (the man is beholden to the Billboard Hot 100, and you decide if this goes any further you’ll have to expand his tastes), and other places to get food and drinks besides Arcadia (places you could not afford– you couldn’t have afforded tonight if, since he was technically your date, Patrick had paid your bill).

You frown a little, studying him for a moment, and wonder if dinner reservations and suits and work and who-wore-what-and-when-and-where is where Patrick Bateman ends. It’s a shame, because based off your dinner conversation you had thought you may have found someone you could enjoy talking about your love of literature with outside of work.

“What do you do?” Patrick says, as if he’s only just realized that the question is something he can ask, and that he has not asked it all night. “You’re on the library board, I recall, I once was with a girl who worked with the ACLU–” He’s cut off by your chuckling, laughter, and his expression tenses up. Darkens a bit. “What?”

“Oh, I’m sorry, Patrick, you’re just mistaken, that’s all.” You smile at him, leaning a little closer. You put a hand in his lap. “I’m very flattered you think I serve on the library board, but I don’t.”

Patrick frowns and furrows his brows together and you resist the urge to laugh, again, at the way you can see the gears in his brain turning. “Then why are you going to the library?”

“Patrick, I work there.”

“You work there.”

You nod. “My current job title is library assistant, but I’m hoping to go back to school once I’ve saved up and get a masters in library science. Then I can actually become a librari-an,” you explain, “There’s a bit of a difference in job responsibilities, and of course pay. Right now I check books in and out, shelve them and organize them, help people look through the newspaper archives– I feel like I’ve lost you,” You say.

“No– I mean– I just didn’t expect that a library would… pay so well,” He states, looking over your outfit.

“It doesn’t. My friend got me this for the date tonight,” You say with a teasing smile, as the car pulls up in front of your building. You feel a twinge of guilt. While you hoped your date wasn’t the sort of rich asshole to toss you aside when he realized you weren’t a trust fund baby, you hadn’t intended to deceive him or anything.

“Do you want to come up?” You ask him. It’s later than you would usually have stayed out, and you’re not sure if Patrick is as tired as you are, but you still want to ask. “I know it’s been a bit of a long night, but… And you’re not going to get me to put Genesis on, but I could manage some Bowie,” You offer.

He’s white knuckling from gripping his fist in his lap so hard. For a moment you think that he’s going to have an aneurysm deciding whether or not to accept your invitation, and are about to tell him don’t worry about it, forget it, have a good night, when he answers. “Sure.”

You hesitate, but smile, and on a leap of faith give him a kiss, before sliding out and holding the car door open for him.

#patrick bateman x reader #post: scenario #post: fics

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t00thpasteface · 1 year

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do u have a post abt your martin/lucien headcanons and if not would you consider making one....

oh. my god. i have so many. SO MANY. so many headcanons and also so many posts about the headcanons.

i was going to link individual posts, but actually if you go to this blog search (the term "marcien shoutz") it will pull up all my marcien text posts and you can browse the whole lot at your leisure! and of course all the text posts i've posted and asks i've answered about marcien (including ask games and anon hour) are under the marcien tag just the same as the art posts ✨

that being said, a lot of my headcanons are actually kind of in a permanent state of flux depending on what i need/want for a particular drawing or fic. i'm torn between a few very specific possible setups for their relationship, and i jump between them (or blend them) as the rule of cool/funny dictates!

HoK introduces them as mutual friends: this could pan out in several different directions. there's the obvious one where they hit it off right away and are open about it, but there's also the version where they hook up secretly afterwards and don't tell the HoK. and there's even the third version where Lucien sees an opportunity and pretends like he wants to be closer friends with Martin while secretly plotting to exploit him... until he starts actually liking the guy for real. wait, isn't that just a Spongebob episode??

HoK sets them up on a date: i think this one is probably at its funniest when they don't get along right away. they agree to one or two dates mostly out of loneliness and/or curiosity, or just to humor the HoK, but then once it actually starts to pan out they're like... dammit, the HoK was actually right again.

failed love triangle: now this one's got some spicy potential for explosive drama. my HoK is a lesbian, so she really doesn't have a stake in a genuine love triangle, but another HoK who's already dating, crushing on, or (yikes!) engaged to one of the boys would have a lot more to lose. maybe it's not all sunshine and rainbows, but if you love angst, there's a lot of meat on this bone. you could also take the polycule route, but we're talking about Marcien and not Marcienhok, so i'm only interested in the illicit guilty hookups behind the HoK's back. muahahaha...

they met before the events of the game: these all have a very similar dynamic of the HoK independently & unwittingly befriending either half of an old flame that fizzled out, but they would start differently depending on what stage of his life Martin was in when he met Lucien: farm boy, prodigy guild mage, Sanguinite, or priest. there's a lot of potential for friction between how much Martin has changed over the years versus how constant Lucien would be as a lifelong member of the Brotherhood, and that would certainly color their expectations about reuniting and trying to get back together.

one of them has/wants to kill the other: obviously, this could refer to a scenario in which Lucien takes out a contract to kill Martin, but remember that Martin also holds a lot of influence and could absolutely have good reason to want to wipe out the Dark Brotherhood, or at least their influence in a specific area. there's a potential for bonus drama if the HoK is/was in the DBH, whether or not Martin knows about it. i'm always a sucker for the "i came here to kill you but i can't bring myself to do it anymore" dynamic you often see between an outlaw and their lover.

you can probably presume the sort of headcanons that would go along with each scenario but as always i'm happy to elaborate if there's one you want to hear more about. (and they're all on my To-Draw List… but so are ten million other things x_x;;)

if you're reading this, consider all thse ideas totally fair game for stealing for your own art/fic purposes. far be it from me to gatekeep a rarepair!! i've also beta-read some Marcien fic before and would be happy to do so again if anyone asks.

that's all for now!!! thanks SO much for the ask!!!!

#shebbz shoutz #marcien #ask

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ciaossu-imagines · 2 months

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Of course, as I mentioned in our dms, you and Kusakabe are very adorable and I do ship it very much, but I also can’t help but ship you with Shamal as well. I think you guys would make a very good pair, and you’re someone Shamal could let his guard and persona down for for once.

And although my brain is still stuck on khr brain rot at the moment, I can’t help but also think of Class of the Titans and I do think you and Odie work well together too.

If I remember correctly these are characters you mentioned as fictional others before (not too sure about Odie as I have bad memory sorry!) so if you’re feeling up for it I would love to know any headcanons you have for your relationship with them! But if not that’s okay! Just know in my mind these are who I ship you with ❤️

- R

Okay, but these are too cute and sweet and everything about your message, my dear R, really touches my heart! Thank you so much for sending in something to cheer me up! I really do love all of the characters you sent in and I’m really flattered that you see me working with all of these lovely guys, especially since you are right in that I do love them all and do have them all as sometimes self-ships! Not sure if they would actually like me, but I ship with all of them, and it made my heart smile to have someone else think they would 😊 Thank you for also giving me the chance to talk about some self-shipping headcanons for them all!

Kusakabe/Dee headcanons

Kusakabe is always, always my comfort ship. While I think Shamal makes me open up more, Kusakabe just makes me comfortable. He never pushes me to open up, he never makes me tell him more. He’s okay knowing that I’m scared and he treats me, at first, like the little skittish animal I am around new people. Once he’s decided he likes me, Tetsuya is so incredibly loyal that even when I feel like I’m showing him nothing but my worst, he’s still there for me and reassures me that I’m not too much. He tells me he’s proud of me and makes me want to be a better person.

Thing that gets said a lot between us, especially on video calls since we’d both unfortunately become so busy at times that we’d have periods of long distance – “Wanna see the stupid shit I bought?” The answer is always yes and sometimes both of us are showing stupid shit we bought for the other one. He’s completely into my little collections and buys me stuff to add to them and I buy him shot glasses since he has a collection of those and we’re both always trying to one up each other in the weirdest or funniest of gifts. Like, he once gets me a stuffed gonorrhea plushie while I’ll get him a shot glass shaped like a penis sort of thing.

I think that, while he doesn’t always understand it, Kusakabe would be incredibly supportive of this blog and my writing. He’s always willing to listen to all my story ideas and he’s good about giving his honest opinion on them, as well as encouraging me when I get writer’s block or aren’t sure about a scene.

Shamal/Dee headcanons

Okay, but you saying I could make Shamal drop that mask and that guard amuses me a lot, because I really feel like it would be the reverse. I have a lot of walls, in real life, that I put up with people because life has taught me not to trust so easy. Shamal’s so fucked up as a person that I feel a kinship with that…we’re two broken people just doing our best, surviving everything and continuing on and because of that, I don’t have that fear that I have, even with some of my other self-ships, that he’d judge me when I couldn’t pretend or keep up the mask and slipped up, letting my mental illness or my quirks or just how weird my life has been show. I feel like he’s probably seen just as bad and he’d take my stories, soothe me about them, and share his own. He’d go slow, make me comfortable until he could strip me naked emotionally and mentally just as much as he’d want to strip me naked physically.

Me and Shamal work because we’re both okay with poly relationships. As long as there’s open communication and respect and we’re each other’s top priorities and first partners, we’re open to sleep with other people and even date other people. We’re just not allowed to make that other person more important than our bond with each other and we’re not allowed to discuss each other’s secrets.

Because Shamal is a doctor, and I’m currently studying up to take an extra course through work when it becomes available this summer, a sort of internship that would allow me to boost my skills and the duties I can perform, I’ve been picturing Shamal a lot lately, actually. With my studying, I love picturing talking to him about all these things, him helping me and encouraging me. We work on mnemonics together, make up ways for me to remember all the different controlled substances and what control schedule they fall under, to remember all the carcinogenics, stuff like that. He quizzes me and I get kisses whenever I succeed.

Odie/Dee headcanons

Okay, but the one thing I can say about me is that I truly do find intelligence to be one of the sexiest things in a person, right alongside a good sense of humour. Odie has both and that’s part of what really draws me to him. I’m not someone who shies away from talking about the big, heavy stuff and I really do sometimes just picture us chilling on the couch, cuddling, and debating with each other. He makes valid points, as do I, and we both come away feeling like we’ve learned something, not only about the topic but also about each other.

I’m not great at games myself. I play visual novels a lot and a lot of nostalgic gaming like Super Mario. I love imagining this game loving dork as the Luigi to my Mario, playing coop together on Super Marios Bros. 1 & 3, seeing how fast we can speedrun it. I also get to, after long days at work, come home and relax on the couch, curled up in his lap with his arms around me, holding the controller a bit further away from him than he would normally be comfy with but it’s something he puts up with for me, and getting to watch him play all these games that I am so interested in, but just am not good enough at games to play myself.

I like picturing us taking long rides on his scooter, just tooling around the town, and stopping in at any places that look fun. I think that Odie would be just as into comic shops, board game cafes, and places like that as I am. I also think he’d be fond enough of me and open-minded enough to be willing to check out places that he normally wouldn’t with me because I love them, like all my mysticism shops where I buy altar supplies, candles, and crystals.

#admin chatter #self-shipping

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DHMIS Review: TV Episode 3, Family

This review has admittedly taken a while, just because I will fully admit this is not an episode I tend to rewatch much. It’s still entertaining, but something about it just makes it a little hard to come back to, personally.

But, I’m happy to be back and talk about another episode of one of my favorite shows, so let’s get to it:

I think the variant verse of this episode’s opening amuses me a little too much with the way they avoid the more obvious rhyme scheme of tall-bald-small, in favor of having Yellow Guy just claim that he’s going bald as well after Duck claims that he’s going bald. Especially with the way that Yellow’s hair literally looks like two halves of his hair split up and went on separate sides of his head just to give him a stereotypical balding look.

A small detail I never noticed until now: there’s a picture of the trio - the same one as their “Missing” poster in the “Love” short, from the looks of it, on the back of a milk carton as Red and Yellow are watching TV. Apparently nobody ever bothered to report them as found.

I can’t deny loving how Duck takes the whole “three guesses” thing so seriously, though I imagine he mostly did it as an ego thing? Like, he wanted to prove he could outsmart his friends, so when Red guessed the answer with only his second guess, Duck just acted like he “won” because his friend didn’t get the answer in the “correct” number of guesses. Also, the ‘warm lasagna” flavor for the Chuddle Dollops isn’t really as odd as I initially thought, considering there’s pizza-flavored chips and the flavor profiles would be similar in what’s basically chip form.

I also just realized that the lasagna flavor is probably a nod to the first episode, since they were having lasagna for lunch during the work day break.

The way Yellow Guy actually questions when Duck mentions that “People are dying to know what your third guess would have been” is really interesting to me, especially in light of the sixth episode. Maybe even when he’s not fully charged he’s a little more...aware of things than he normally seems to be? At least enough to question when his friends say something that seems to be hinting at something more.

Kind of wondering if it could also be a slight nod to theories that the original web series was a show within a show of sorts, with the characters being actors. Duck just kind of broke the fourth wall...and his friends either ignore what he said or just question what he’s talking about. Because whatever’s going on in that house, it doesn’t seem to be just something happening for an in-universe show.

So, what happened to the Apple teacher was basically just like, a more violent version of when Colin interrupted what was apparently going to be Gilbert’s lesson, right?

Roy getting thrown in the trash is correct, but not because he’s “just a dad” and not a family; but because of the whole reveal that he’s apparently been horrible to Yellow and wanted to punish him for apparently being ignorant and rude - things we’ve never really seen. Unless Roy’s somehow mixed up his actual son with Duck, who apparently does have quite an ego.

Please tell me I’m not the only one who wonders if the Lillie and Todney puppets having...lazy eyes is an intentional design choice, or if the puppets broke as they were filming and they decided to keep it in because, honestly, it just adds to the unsettling nature of the characters?

I love Todney’s outburst when Duck says family is “just a word” - both because he just says his family “likes” him, and his epic jump and flail in anger. Still not a fan of the pee jokes, which is probably another reason why I don’t particularly like this episode, since it’s got two - though one is pretty subtle, during the song.

Speaking of the song, I do like it - not one of the best, but still pretty good. Even if the funniest part is just when Duck lampshades the fact that after a certain point, they just gave up spelling “Family” and just made up a word. I honestly didn’t even notice when first watching, because I was distracted by the imagery. Also, apparently almost nobody has a family anymore, if landline phones are a requirement.

Love how when the twins do their little “on the count of fifteen” bit, Lillie actually is shown moving like she’s walking, while apparently whoever was puppeting Todney decided the boy was just skipping leg day and made it look like he was just like, gliding across the floor.

The way they have the twins try to talk in unison but have them be just slightly off so it ends up being like one is the other’s echo is just so unsettling, but obviously it works perfectly for the series? Really, these two are just the classic “Creepy Twins” trope turned up to eleven.

Man, Red Guy just really hates the other two in this episode, doesn’t he? He’s very quick to say he wants to get away from them because they’re not his family, and dismisses any sort of suggestion that they’re even friends. It really does seem like the only reason he hangs around them is because something prevents him from actually leaving for good.

I do wonder if there’s any particular reason why Duck didn’t seem to be at all effected by whatever it was that Lillie and Todney were doing to the others? It’s especially strange since, in the shorts, Red Guy was usually the one who didn’t want to go along with anything, while Duck was usually pretty much up for anything. But here, Red Guy seems the most eager to learn about families while Duck just wants to leave almost immediately.

Only now did I notice the possible foreshadowing with the plan to force Yellow into the role of the Mother of the family, with the way he was allowed to use the mother’s game piece despite the grandmother later freaking out when Duck touches it, and the twins saying that the mother’s game piece could only be used by “Mother”.

I really do wonder what’s up with the Twins and their family. The ending makes it clear they’re some kind of monster, and stuff like them being able to send Duck back to the House indicates they have some kind of powers that might be comparable to the Teachers. But are they actually Teachers? I don’t actually know if I’m supposed to count them or not.

The whole thing with Red Guy noticing that the pictures were all framed feels like it was supposed to be treated as a bait and switch...but what were we supposed to assume he was noticing before the punchline? Honestly, my biggest issue with the episode so far is it does feel like it’s got too few jokes that really land for how creepy the horror aspects are? And they’re not even like “fun-creepy” like the best shorts and episodes tend to be.

The whole “Uncle Terry died”, “He went on fire” joke might be one of the best examples of comedic timing. Like, they had just a long enough pause after Yellow’s innocent question and Lillie and Todney’s response to genuinely make me laugh a little.

Gotta love Duck just casually burning a child alive in front of their parent and then just walking away and singing a song about how much he’s in denial about wanting a family. No, literally, that’s basically what happened - he put the Bread Slice, a child of the Bread Loaf into the toaster, and while the mother was screaming in horror, he just walks away and starts his song? That’s dark but might be one of the funniest moments in this whole episode.

I have to admit, I don’t feel like there’s much to say about the episode for a while after Red Guy leaves the Twins’ house? It’s kind of just...creepy stuff happening with the Twins and Yellow Guy, and another reminder that, despite Red Guy’s instance that he wants to be with his family that looks like him....he really doesn’t fit in with other Red Guys, both in terms of personality and just him apparently being a nudist.

This really is the most convoluted and creepy solution to a problem like this I’ve ever seen, them forcing Yellow to be the “Mother” so they can get a “Family Pack” meal. I do wonder if they actually couldn’t order the meal or if they were just so focused on what they thought a “family” was that they never bothered trying?

Okay, the actual funniest moment in the episode is Yellow learning who the Father of the Family is....but I don’t know if the reason why it’s so funny is intentional? Because the humor doesn’t just come from his reaction....It comes from the fact that his voice actor completely drops his usual way of speaking for Yellow, where he’s obviously meant to sound....not super bright. Making it sound like the voice actor was also unaware of the reveal and got so surprised they messed up the delivery slightly and Becky and Joe just kept it.

Or maybe Yellow was just so shocked by what he learned that his batteries got enough charge to have his voice start to “sound smart” for a moment. Who knows?

I like how Roy showing up at the end can either be seen as solely him wanting a meal....or possibly a bit of hypocritical heartwarming, with him shoving Yellow away and letting him leave before he starts eating. Obviously Roy is a horrible father, but I think it is plausible to view this as him kind of being like “I’m the only one allowed to mess with my son”. Again, still horrible, but kind of hard to say what the idea is supposed to be.

Okay, the joke at the end of them finally being able to open the Family Pack of Dollaps because I guess now they realize they basically are a family...only for there to only be two pieces in the whole bag, and Duck immediately screaming he wants both when Red even starts to suggest they share...That got a chuckle of out me.

Yeah, overall, not my favorite episode. A couple jokes/moments made me chuckle, but a lot of it was just....disturbing and not in an entertaining way.

#Don't Hug Me I'm Scared #DHMIS #DHMIS TV Show #DHMIS Review #DHMIS Episode 3 #DHMIS Family

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Been thinkin about the Star Allies waves. I like the idea of them each being pretty tight-knit groups of friends.

Wave 3 especially. Lately I’ve been rotating a headcanon in my mind that Susie stays with Taranza in Floralia for a bit post-Robobot before she has a way home and is able to restart the company. She’s put with him both because no-one in Dreamland is really comfortable having her around (fair!) but also because Kirby knows they have similar trauma. I think it’d take a bit for them to open up to one another— with there just being an obligatory, detached politeness between them at first, but eventually they’d learn about what was Going On with each other and very quickly pack bond over their experiences.

I think they’d be very protective over one another, with Taranza seeing Susie as someone vulnerable— someone he doesn’t want to fail like his last vulnerable friend, and Susie seeing Taranza as a little bit of a wimp but a good guy who she’ll aim a gun at you for if you dare make fun of him.

Magolor would, in part, come into this equation to help Susie build a new way home (she refuses to take the Lor Starcutter on the principal of rejecting ‘handouts’), but also in part just because he’s lonely. I think he’d catch wind of the other two ‘ex-villains’ hanging out and be like “you know who’s ALSO an ex-villain turned goodboy? MEEEEEE :3c”

At first they’d both be sort of annoyed by him, but eventually they’d realize he’s legitimately fun to talk to and knows a lot of interesting things about both magic and technology. His infodumps are a good distraction from the more upsetting elements of their lives. And so he just kind of becomes part of the group.

Eventually Susie is able to go home, but they keep in close contact, and when Star Allies rolls around they’re like “OMGGGG. Villain squad REUNITED 💕💕”

Magolor keeps trying to get Marx inducted into the group, but he’s a little Much for both Susie and Taranza. Marx thinks this is because they’re used to “being the only internet clown and court jester around,” respectively.

Speaking of Marx, though, I thought it’d actually be really funny and cute if he was also buddy-buddy with his wave. So I ended up coming up with the headcanon that post-Milky Way Wishes he actually crash-landed on Popstar, where the Animal Friends and Gooey found him and nursed him back to health, not knowing he was Kirby’s enemy at the time. He’s still like, a selfish lunatic, but he has a soft spot for them because of it— especially Gooey, who he thinks is the funniest person on the planet,

At first Kirby doesn’t know but eventually he catches Gooey going out to meet with Marx and instead of being upset he’s just really, really jealous. He’s like “WHY IS EVERYONE FRIENDS WITH THE EVIL CLOWN BUT ME? 😭”

It’s okay, Kirby. I’m sure your time will come eventually.

Then as for Wave 2, I can’t really imagine them knowing each other before Star Allies, but can envision them becoming close during it. I like to think, as the only group who aren’t initially besties, they’d feel like the odd ones out at first and Adeline and Daroach— sociable-types, would instantly want to get to know each other and become buddies to one-up all the other groups. Cue Adeline becoming an honorary Squeak

Dark Meta Knight would be a little more distant at first— having no interest in this ‘nonsense,’ but eventually even he would get roped into it via their unwavering pestering of him. Adeline draws him a portrait and he’s like 🥺. He’s SOLD on this whole friendship thing, even if he’d never admit it. He and Daroach talk about robbing people while Adeline draws on his mask with magic marker.

I DO like to think DMK was the one who corrupted Sectonia, albeit not intentionally. I think it’d be fun if his resentment and hateful vibes just kind of warped her. It’s not something he feels particularly strongly about, but I think after bonding with the Wave 2 gang he’d be a little worried about potentially doing something like that to them. However, they’d reassure him everything would be alright, with Adeline telling him she’s sure things will be okay as long as he lets go of the hatred in his heart and Daroach bragging he “can’t get worse than he already is.”

It’s fun. They’re good. They love friendship :)

#kirby #star allies #i am not tagging everyone here #just had some thoughts hehe

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I may have had a tiny but important epiphany for what it is I struggle with about writing so much.

I can't really feel out situations because I'm way too focused on the characters. (Also cause I'm kinda socially stunted but that's whatever.) I need to pull back a bit, cause how am I supposed to figure out what a character would do if I don't know what sort of tools they have access to? What's the setting? What sort of things would be implicit in it? And how can they be interacted with an interesting way?

I need to think more broadly in general and indepth in environment.

Like I've normally had a setting but typically in a more nebulous sense. An empty room with a coat of paint essentially.

These little epiphanies are coming to me in the form of reddit stories. And people just being helpful and kind.

This one was specific brought about from the story of the guy who thought his steak was too raw, but didn't wanna upset the host (his wife's boss). She went to the kitchen. He noticed the window was open and decided 'okay, perfect fix'. And throws at said steak at out the window. But it was closed.

And this post by @short-and-ugly which stuck me with some questions. Nothing really about the post itself, but self questions you know. Specifically the line, "My rule for writing Zim with this trait in mind is just, basically. Do whatever you think would be funniest." And the question of how. How do I funny in writing? How do I write the unexpected? These characters are from a comedy so why can't I even begin to think of being funny with them?

It's not just a setting thing though. Its thinking more broadly in general. Like Zim's an invader, he's got (likely out dated) the equipment an invader would have filling his base. So what's an invader's actual job entail? Study a planet for weakness. We know it's a lab, but what might fill it? You know? (Not the best example, but still.) That kinda shit.

It's real obvious shit. Writing advice I've heard countless times. That I just wasn't ready/capable to digest yet or simply wasn't explained in a way I could. Sometimes the obvious shit is the hardest to get though. In my experience anyway. (Not gonna think about that fact too much right now.)

Probably the most difficult thing about teaching is not knowing if your student truly has the foundation for what you're talking about. You can say something basic, but if they don't know why or how it's implemented it's just noise.

Straights vs. curves is great art advice, but I disregarded for the longest time, because it didn't make sense to me. I could try to use it but it wouldn't work cause I didn't know how to use it. Then I'm going through my course after years of having this concept floating in my orbit and it's explain in a way I can get the idea behind it. Even if I can't really verbalize it.

Now I'm just gonna say this is totally a me problem, not a teaching or advice problem. I obviously need a bit more structure in learning things then I've been reaching for in the past fucking decade (or two.)

I probably need to see about taking a creative writing course or something. The art course I've got is giving me immediately noticable improvement. But then again this all could be since I'm finally managing to rebound from my compounded burn out.

Anyway, I'm very happy right now! I appreciate the advice I've gotten! And am thrilled I'm breaking through a road block.

#probably need to draw a skoodge soon #refriedramblings #self notes

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drabbles-mc · 2 years

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okay im giving you homework fr with this one . juice: 1, 5, 16, 27. angel: 3, 24, 30. AND because we've been talking about it, carm: 23, 26 & 5 (but in a.. what sort of OC would you put him with way). snorting because this is so much so dont feel like you have to answer all of them LMAO <3

Ohhh the way we are snatching up blorbos from every universe. We love to see it. 😌

1.) First impression of them?: The way I just instantly wanted to put Juice in my pocket and take him home with me. I stood no chance. I was doomed from the start.

5.) My favorite ship of them?: Juice x Happiness 😭 Lmaooo no but in all seriousness, I've got a couple OC ideas bouncing around in my brain for him that I've grown very attached to. Someone also randomly got me thinking about Juice x Happy Lowman and I must admit, I think about it frequently.

16.) A childhood headcanon: Juice was deeeeeefinitely the type to be immersed in comic books. I also personally have an HC that he liked to draw and was actually good at it. But I can easily see him with his nose buried in comics whenever he got the chance. 🥺

27.) If they could meet a character from another show/movie/etc. who would be the most fun for them to meet?: The way I COOOOONSTANTLY think about him meeting the Mayans guys. It would be so good, MJ. It would be so fucking good I'm weeping.

3.) A song that reminds me of them: okay this is 110% because I've been thinking about writing a fic inspired by it butttt I've been listening to the 1 by Taylor Swift and the way it's been putting me in my Reyes feelings is...unreal and unacceptable lmao

24.) What do you think is a secret that they have never told anyone?: I think that there have been a lot of things in life that Angel has tried to do or be because of how much he always feels he's falling short. But if it doesn't work out right away he bails on the idea, and then he just never fucking tells anyone because he doesn't want it to be another thing added to the list of what he's not good enough for. (pardon me choosing violence with this I'm just in that mode apparently lmao)

30.) Funniest scene they had?: Oh man. Angel has had so many golden moments??? But what we were just talking about the other day, all that shit with the Swole Boys, is always going to be some top-tier shit. Like it just doesn't get better than that lmao

23.) Future headcanon: They way I know that the money from the end of the season is going to push the restaurant into a new era. And it's going to be great. And things are going to be going well. But I think that Carmy is going to get so wrapped up in all of that, that all of his trauma and all of that is going to get put on the backburner all over again. Because he's going to think that he's going to be fine because other things are fine. And that's not going to be the case. Like obviously there is still going to be chaos in the restaurant because it's a fucking restaurant but I really can't wait to get deeper into all the shit with Carmy and his brother. I can't wait to watch him rip those old scars open RAHHHHHH I'm losing my mind.

26.) When do you think they were being themselves the most?: I feel like his dynamic with Richie is really and truly what brings out some of the realest Carmy. Like not necessarily when they're screaming at each other (but that too) but also just. The jokes and the banter and the snark and the laughs. Like fuck, man, those two knew each other before all of the grief and they still have each other now and I think that's about as real as it gets.

5.) My favorite ship of them?: I've been thinking a lot about what kind of OC I would put with him. (Because I have...ideas. Like the way I'm lowkey waiting for Whumptober to be over so I can invest more of my brainspace into my Thoughts about him and this mystery OC in my head). But he can't be with someone that's a pushover. Which I feel like putting him with someone soft and all that is a nice thought but he's got some bite and I think he needs to be with someone who can match that. Someone funny, and witty, and definitely someone with their own damage. He can't be with someone who is going into the relationship with the intent to "fix him" because that's gonna drive them to an early grave. He needs someone who is kind and loving but will also call him out on his bullshit because he gets so far into his own head and up his own ass sometimes that he gets lost. He needs someone who is going to pull him out of that. The way I'm rotating through careers in my head trying to see which one fits for a potential partner for him. Someone in the restaurant business, maybe, because they'd have that in common. But I also think that if his partner was someone in a completely different field, he could learn a lot from them and I think that he would appreciate that a lot too. Fuck me I've rambled for so long I'm so sorry 😂😂

MJ I'm kissing you on the mouth this was so cathartic.

Send me a character and some numbers!

#ask #asks #bellinitini

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sizzlingpatrolfox · 2 years

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Hi! What did you think of Jungkook’s answer in the perilla leaf and shrimp peeling discussion in their latest MBTI video?

Hii! Honestly, Sort of confused????

Just like a lot of people I assume, I don't understand what's the big deal of the perilla leaf debate. I think seeing my partner helping out someone who's struggling would actually make me love them more for it, for being attentive towards someone I care about like a friend. Assuming it's a really close friend. But that's just me. Maybe because it's kind of uncommon these days but I like when men open doors for people, or they are helpful. They spent enough centuries being a baggage, modern men be helpful for once!!!! Pretty much what Namjoon, Yoongi and Jin said here, this is what I think too:

I was also remembered of the whole discussion on whether Jungkook is a jealous type of guy and I said he definitely has moments of jealousy. Feeling jealousy now and then doesn't make someone a toxic jealous person or partner, it just makes them human. They are people too and most importantly they are men. I'm not surprised or confused that he feels jealousy, but I'm confused that he feels jealousy over this.

Lots of assumptions here but let's assume he and Jimin are partners. Jungkook says it would be too much of Jimin helping out with the perilla leaf if JK is there, but Jungkook doesn't think it's too much of him to sit on his friend's lap while his partner (Jimin) is there, giving a speech? He thinks it's too much and his partner Jimin holding someone's salad for a second could lead to falling in love and marriage, but Jungkook himself says other men are "his" while -supposedly- being in a relationship? Is it okay for you to do things that you would feel betrayed if your partner did? Now that would make him a toxic jealous partner. I won't even get into Mijoo. Like how is holding one's food more intimate or romantic than all of that.

I think this is for me one of those "Jungkook is single vibes" moments, only because it makes no sense to me that he would care so much about eating and not real, more obvious acts of intimacy that he himself has with Jimin's friends (the other members).

So yeah, it's confusing and kinda crazy to me ngl that he would feel bothered by that and not by other definite and unmistakable acts of intimacy, I could make a list and it would be endless.

Besides they all feed each other literally all the time like????? Using the same spoon? Passing their own plates to the member next to them?? We've even seen them do wraps and feeding each other on camera. Are they okay with that only because it's on camera? Like I know at this point they're more family than friends but I don't think anyone would've expected any BTS member to get jealous over something food related lmao. Not even in an hypothetical situation. The funniest thing is that I can even imagine Jungkook helping out someone with their food like that. Most of his other answer he gave about friends and acquaintances he was actually quite understanding and tolerant.

It also made me think again that Jungkook and Taehyung are similar in some personality traits, and how their idea of romance and relationships is very fairy tale drama like, with the slow motion and the hands touching and meeting eyes and falling in love because you both reached for the popcorn at the same time. Very much idealistic and totally not real.

Anyways it's all very silly to me tbh 😳 anyone feel free to contribute with your own opinions 👀

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chamaleonsoul · 2 years

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Now that the tour is over I feel like I can say I think you totally won this tour. Your show was the best. Biggest show on the tour. Calum in that suit with the mesh shirt. Ashton quite literally glowing like he had been blessed by some rock entity. Michael on his knees with that pink shirt. Luke with the mm&i suit. First live performance of mm&i. You got talk fast, beside you AND lover of mine. Calum calling everyone hot in Spanish. Also that clip of him throwing the bear. Amazing. I have a live stream of that show saved that i catch myself watching sometimes cuz it was just that good. That's all I wanted to say.

Anna, ,,,,,

dude, I,

are you trying to make me cry. i'm about to.

and now i'm about to go on a ramble so bear with me.

*loud sigh* yeah, okay. Yes. I, of course, agree with you. and you bringing up this after just a couple of days ago i got terribly sentimental about it.... yeah. I think it was during the weekend while I was making breakfast when my brain went HEY *SLAP* remember this? And it was when the vocalist of the opening act (Bruses) was telling us how they got to the show, how 5sos were interested in having someone local, and how she was living in some small appartment just a few months ago, trying to make the music thing work, and now (so, the day of the show) they were playing to 18k people, and she couldn't believe it. And then everyone started chanting "sí se pudo" (there's no direct translation with the same meaning, but that would be smth like "you made it"), and it got pretty emotional, even when, i'm sure, many of us heard of them for the first time that same day. They gave a very good show, with an ode to the chorus of Helena by MCR at the end, which my emo ass appreciated a lot, thanked us for being a supportive crowd and then left us ready for 5sos.

Naturally, that got me thinking of the whole show and going through my ig post and all the shaky videos i took. And honestly u mentioning all these pivotal points of the show has me very

because, yeah, Ash was glowing that night and i still can hear his voice crystal clear in my head, just like Luke's angelic vocals and Calum's accent while talking in spanish [insert multiple smiley crying emojis here]. And Talk Fast 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 it sounds so dramatic but if i had died without listening to talk fast live and in person at least once, i'd have haunted the earth forever. (But i won't have to!! bc i got to hear it🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰) And the bear you mention, the funniest part is that it wasn't a bear, it's actually a Dr. Simi jsdjjssjsjhd Farmacias Similares is a pharmacy chain that has it's own 'pet', which is our dear Mr. Dr. Simi here:

and it's become sort of a tradition over the last few years to bring these little guys to concerts, with different styles and costumes and throw them to bands during shows (it's happened with MCR, Gorillaz, Coldplay, etc). and i'm sure several got thrown at 5sos<3 jsjs

anyways, the show was incredible, the boys kill it in every way possible and even though we were all squished together in pit during the first half of the show, i'm sure everyone had the time of their lives. And when we were leaving the venue, someone started singing the chorus of yb and we all started singing along and honestly dude🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 i fucking love human connection over music. I can't wait to see them live again.

I'll go cry a bit now, if you excuse me

#thank you anna this was so sweet and so 🥺🥺😭😭😭🤍🤍🤍#i'm so emo #take my hand tour #my show #asks #anna<33

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ive honestly been building up the courage for this for a good while now, lets just hope i dont forget i actually sent it afterwards

its always really interesting to see other ithaqua fictives (and doublws for any of my other sources (multifictive)) because its cool seeing how we all sort of came from the same thing but are also really different . because people are different obviously - dumb wording, im not the best with speaking, but i hope you get what i mean.

the shared alva love surprised me for a second but i think its silly, (/pos) that old man is great isnt he лол. and the whole thing with not seeing morningstar as your/myself (wasnt sure which to use) too, like... that is a Whole Other Guy isnt he! haha

now as much as id like to study you like some poor specimen and just ask a shit ton of questions because i am very talkative and curious and nosy about every tiny little difference, i dont think thatd be a very good idea, so ill refrain.

- 🪷, if youd like to keep track of me, because i might just start taking frequent visits back

Hey actually this ask is very interesting! I'm always open to meet other Ithaqua doubles (outside the system, it's taken forever for me to accept the ones just within our system)

My DMs are open but the funniest thing of all, the weirdest thing about all of this is the emoji you use for your tag because- well perhaps I can explain sometime.

But honestly it's also nice to have a genuine conversation as well when nobody else has truly been interacting like I'd hoped.

Thank you for giving me hope on the matter.

#ask box #anon asks #anon #fictive #night watch fictive

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kinetic-elaboration · 1 year

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March 18: Finish Three Men in a Boat

I finished Three Men in a Boat yesterday and I really enjoyed it! At the beginning, it was such a major change from Tinker Tailor, and I was so invested in going back to another Smiley novel ASAP, that I was looking forward to it mostly being a quick and easy read, but now that I’ve finished I already miss the guys. And the dog. I’m probably going to continue on to On the Bummel, even though I anticipate it won’t be as good, for a variety of reasons including that I’m assuming Montmorency has gone to doggy heaven by now.

The most striking part to me, as I mentioned before, is that the humor is SO Classic that it really barely ages at all. There’s something rather heartening about that: people have always been people and annoyances have always been annoyances. I also think there’s a real cleverness to the type of self-deprecating (and friend-deprecating) humor of the book, the way that J. talks himself up in such a way that it’s clearly actually an insult to himself, and it reads as him being supremely un-self-aware, and yet the joke could only exist as a result of a clear-headed and un-self-conscious self-awareness. And there’s no meanness in it. He’s laughing at himself, so it’s okay to laugh at him, too. Similarly, even the insulting things said about his friends never read as anything other than an extension of their friendship, a shared joke, a type of humor they’ve all signed off on. I’m so glad that even though the dog was not real, the three men were, because I feel like I get a sense of their friendship, even so long after their deaths, and I’m glad to know about it.

Like, they’re my buddies now. We’re all friends.

While trying to explain the book to B, I felt worried that I was describing it as, like, a bunch of cliches. I was trying to give a sense of the universal quality of the humor despite the copyright date of the book, but I felt like maybe I was just making it sound like 160 pages of jokes you’ve heard before. And in a way it is. But they’re told so well! The pacing and vocabulary and sentence structure are all really, really, good, the sort of style that looks simple but absolutely isn’t. And the familiarity in general just gives the book a warmth and softness; it is pleasant to feel like you are seen.

In addition to my belief that Jerome would do numbers on social media, I’ve also decided that he would be a great stand-up comic. I think that was the type of humor it was really reminding me of. If you took bits of it out of context, they’d do great as tweets or, because of their length, tumblr posts, but the book as a whole, or even individual chapters, really seems a precursor to the stand up tradition. He’s talking about relatable experiences; he flows from one funny story to the next, within his broad theme, in a ‘that reminds me of’ way that is really common in stand-up; a lot of his humor relies on timing and certain linguistic tricks/phraseology that I think would be the mark of a good stand-up comic; and he is extremely good at including physical humor using only words.

Some additional set pieces and jokes that I read since my last post and would like to commemorate:

Both my dad and The Guardian agree that the best part is the pineapple can opening scene. I can’t lie; this is a solid choice for funniest part.

Making the stew. How can one forget making the stew? A half-dozen unpeeled potatoes, some broken eggs, the rest of the cold mincemeat pie—and whatever else you can throw in there because that’s what so great about stew!

Harris and the swans. Presumably, this was a reaction to the stew.

The parade of people getting supplies to bring down to the boat. Again, I think the skill in making this joke really work is underrated. It’s almost a poem.

The trout. This story to me is like a prime example of a stand-up type routine because it’s a pretty standard tale but it’s taken to the next level by the timing of the ending. “That fish was plaster-of-Paris” fucking ended me.

Their abrupt decision to go home and get dinner. I was wondering how they were going to wrap up their outing so fast!

There were also a few bits that just made me laugh out loud for reasons I don’t entirely understand. Just a way of phrasing something or a particular story beat that totally destroyed me emotionally.

George practicing the banjo outside, to the ire of his neighborhood, particularly the phrase “and he was captured.” I mean obviously a major aspect of the humor of this section is that it starts out pretty believable and then becomes increasingly unbelievable—similar to the story about George waking up at 2am and thinking it was 6—but something about that phrase “and he was captured” just sent me. Captured! For playing the banjo!

The man yelling at young J. to stop rafting on his property, in particular, the joke around the phrase “I’ll teach you to make a raft.” (“As you already know how to make a raft, that seems unnecessary.”) Again, this just hit me like a sucker punch right to the face. I love linguistic humor so much.

There were probably others, but those two are what’s coming to mind, now. There are just so many jokes and so many weird little hooks and twists that it’s hard to remember or delineate them all. I’m really, I’m quite fond of this book. I hope reading the sequel will give me more time with my new buddies and not just be a disappointing experience, but either way, it’s not a long sequel, and then I’ll probably be ready for something else.

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Hello again! Today let’s ponder this: do you have any ships you like? If so, talk about them! Why do they spark joy? If not totally cool, shipping isn’t for everyone! Alternate/bonus question- what’s your favorite friendship in Pokémon? I personally love Ash and Pikachu’s friendship, but also the main character and your partner in mystery dungeon games! Or, bonus question, two characters who have the funniest mutual hatred.

Hi! Oh, I absolutely do. I love love and I'm a multishipper, so there's so many ships I like. To name a few of my favorites:

RespectShipping (Ash/Drew): my blog title was "The RespectShipping and Sickfic Guy" for like two years, and my old URL respectful-ramblings was also a reference to just how much I like this one. I got pulled into it by the fanworks, particularly the AMVs on YouTube! Like all my other rarepairs with little canon interaction, it's about the Potential. Their personalities pair together in an interesting way, I like the contrast of Ash's friendliness and open, earnest nature versus Drew being more aloof and putting on a facade a lot of the time. Plus the fact that Drew is the most traditionally romantic mofo and Ash is oblivious on that front. But at the same time, they're not without their similarities. It's also really nice aesthetically, I think. They look nice together.

I also have a lot of positive associations with it because I was hyperfixated on it when I met some of my closest friends and my life was generally taking a turn for the better after some really rough years.

OakShipping (Gary/Tracey): this one took hold of me pretty recently--I think early or mid 2021 was when I happened upon a fanfic that just. Did something to me. (The fanfic in question was Secrets Kept by MetalPrincess13 on FFNet, and I can literally pinpoint the exact moment in that fic that well and truly sold me on the ship.) And then roughly a year later I was doing Sicktember and most of my ideas were for them, and things just sort of snowballed and this is one of the ships I'm most known for being obsessed with now.

As for why I like it so much, I think it's again, about the potential and the contrast. There's a lot of opportunity for interactions beyond what's been shown onscreen since they literally live under the same roof (which makes getting them in the same place way less difficult for me than what I've been used to), and the way their personalities play off each other is fun. There's also a good range for what you can do with how their relationship progresses, from a very smooth friends-to-lovers transition to a situation where they're both well aware of how much is at risk if they pursue their feelings and things end badly, making it a really big deal when they both decide it's a risk they're willing to take.

ArroganceShipping (Drew/Gary): hands down my favorite nevermet, and I think a big part of why is because they're just so fun to write together. They're both so quick-witted the dialogue practically writes itself (the hard part is getting them to stop when I'm trying to end the fic) and I find it interesting how inverse to how the other ships I tend to gravitate towards have a "seem like polar opposites on a surface level, but are actually Not So Different" thing going on, they seem similar on a surface level but there's actually a lot of differences between them.

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Just trying to threaten our son

With his Kevorkian character who is the health director and he's exposed himself again. A lot of people went after him for that for missing relatives and had him shoot himself it's ending for this prick he comes up and he tells us his plan what are we supposed to do no no see you're a girl you're a b**** we don't do it b****** tell us you stupid b**** you tell us about it we're going to wreck you and start smiling off and said what else you got going cuz we got to take you down for your mouth and he Lisa a few things and it went and took them down. That his cloning is getting wiped out all of it the new areas the old areas bunkers under those areas all of it's leaving and keeps opening his mouth we're done this we're doing that it's all we can do is try and stop you because you just proceed anyways so not going to allow you to by killing you and he told Mac all sorts of stuff and he's yelling and screaming about money and he's telling me back other things upon departing the laundromat. You said this too you and Chris have a queer relationship and you said get the f*** out of here is in the police car take that piece of s*** and stuff a rag in his mouth perfect code Red is just not getting it so they're going ahead with all sorts of stuff to get rid of them now and that was a big incident what happened just now at the laundromat is Young and screaming about money and it's the only thing that's going to be left and Mac is looking at the idea of opening his own bank cuz the assholes are ruining this one and they're going to be gone after figures out what he has to do

Thor Freya

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