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mandareeboo · 2 years

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Okay, okay, Dog in Space prompt number 2!! I really like the idea of Ed being like an uncle to Nomi, like the fun uncle that teaches her how to lock-pick and how to 'case a joint' (is that the phrase?), much to Stella's chagrin. Maybe you can do something with that? Maybe Stella catches Ed teaching Nomi how to crack a safe or something like that lol... Or something fluffy where Nomi calls him uncle Ed and he reacts to it. I kinda like the idea that his mind just halts because being a friend is one thing, but family is so different... how did he get to this moment in his life? ... This is so long and rambly, sorry, i just love this show and its characters

It really is a damn shame that the humans got puppies involved in all of this. Nomi is a spunky little thing, Ed knows, but she's still a puppy. Being here means long hours, near-death experiences, and a lot of trauma.

For Nomi, it's the long hours Ed worries about most. Nomi can tear herself out of the guts of an alien with her teeth and come out with little mental scarring. But bedtimes are important for kids, or so he’s been told, and after slamming into multiple asteroids because she was “just rubbing her eyes, geez” Ed thinks they might have a point.

“Alright,” he decided, picking her up by her wiggling midsection. “Bed time.”

“What? C’mon!” Nomi whined. “You’re supposed to be the cool Uncle!”

Ed feels something warm in his chest. It’d been an unspoken agreement on board to keep the atmosphere as family oriented as possible when they first met Nomi- hoping to give her the puppyhood that genetic experimentation tends to squash out like a bug- and it was nice to see it was working.

(It also makes it easier to snag a few expensive items from Nomi’s room, but that’s a problem for well-rested Ed and an equally well-rested and homicidal Stella.)

Ed casually pressed the auto-pilot button. They weren’t far from the Embark anyway. “Can’t be cool Uncle with a concussion, kiddo.”

“But I don’t wanna! I like looking at the stars!”

“Can do,” he said, flopping back into his own chair. Ed tended to sleep in his chair anyway. All of them did. Going from adrenaline to safety tended to conk anyone out for a couple of hours. Holding Nomi just had the added benefit of a puppy-shaped blanket.

Nomi sighed, defeated, and curled up in his lap like a human child. Of all of them, Nomi clearly showed the least connection to her dog side. Side effect of being a puppy, he supposed. Sometimes it was easy to forget she wasn’t just some human child with fake ears.

“Wake me up in five minutes?” she prompted, already slurring.

“Of course,” Ed promised, having no intentions of doing so. “G’night, kiddo.”

“Night night...” Her little head drooped. “...Uncle Ed.”

#Ask #Anon #Question Mandar #Drabble Prompts #Dogs in Space #Nomi #Ed DIS

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lavandulalurker · 1 month

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Iwatex charas as pokemon trainers because I have lost control of my life

Anemone:

Main focus on fighting types, vague sports theme, and also kingdra because anemone has scales and is named after a sea animal so a sea dragon seemed fitting

Cal:

I tried to use some more bulky and defensive pokemon, and I wanted to include at least one dragon type because of socks

Dys:

Ghost and dark types of course for dys. Additional lunatone because it's ruby pokedex entry says that people speculate it comes from space.

Marz:

I didn't really go for any typing theme, just pretty pokemon. Also if you don't know, minior has a different form with a colorful core. I imagine marz's minior has a blue/teal core.

Nomi:

Mostly normal types, and I tried to give them mostly unevolved pokemon. Obviously I had to give them an eevee, and galarian ponyta because of unicorn.

Tammy:

Tangent:

There were less psychic pokemon than I thought so I did what I could

Rex:

dogs. (I really didn't know what else to do for his team)

Vace:

Sym:

If you are not familiar with pokemon lore, clefable, beheeyem, and poipole are basically pokemon aliens. Also I tried not to give any characters legendaries/mythicals/whatever but I think sym can have an ultra beast as a treat (poipole).

#This is by vibe alone #I literally dont know anything about the pokemon meta #but i do like pokemon #As much time as I put into this i definitely feel like theres some better choices I could have made #I think sol would have a musharna and xatu #but I couldn't come up with a full team for them #i was a teenage exocolonist #iwatex #pokemon #???#I still never know how to tag things lmao #not art

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writingfandomsandthings · 1 month

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Rex pays little mind to the strange dreams he's had all his life, even as they get more intense when he gets older and older.

They're dreams, he really shouldn't mind them so much.

(Something deep within him whines in fear because he knows in his heart of hearts he's putting off something he shouldn't)

He goes through life again.

And again.

Sometimes it goes well, sometimes not so much.

Sometimes there is music and love and a chance and sometimes there are broken boards and blood in his mouth and a planet devouring.

Eventually, Rex reaches a point where he is tired. So tired.

He tells people. He does things. He nudges.

It takes him awhile to figure out what he could do.

(There are times when he plays the military brat better than Vace and those dreams itch so much)

(Rex doesn't like to remember them beyond wild nightmares)

(Because what does that mean about him that he was a trained dog?)

Rex reaches out to Vace earlier - it doesn't always work - with kindness and empathy and decidedly a soft soldierness Vace never quite learns how to react to.

In the timelines Vace does take his hand, instead of batting it away or shattering his arm, Vace finds someone to ground him and Rex finds someone to guide.

(A guide, a righthand man, a leader with smiles and grins in the dark)

Vace needs help to temper his tongue and his knuckles. Rex needs help steeling his teeth and dressing his heart.

(Nomi-Nomi is perplexed, but they're still friends...right?)

There is a tether binding Rex and Vace (not a leash, never a leash, they learned to give and give) all the way to the surface of Vertumna. Rex smiles and grins and turns on the charm - Vace smirks and poses and breaks all the records.

Vace is a model soldier as the wormhole approaches.

Rex is a model advisor, growing a tactical mind, even as the nightmares return.

The Stratos colony is limping and hurting below them. Vace and Rex are still space kids in space.

And space - is crushing them, because Helios is burning.

Vace is thriving. He is no longer just a model soldier, but a leader and a warrior commanding the troops through a crisis. Rex finds ways to protect and hide and enable courage in the civilians.

The chain of command is dead.

Baculum was getting lead of the ship.

How was Lum the one left???

Lum. Arrogant, sniveling, bad at leading Lum. He was a poster boy for everything Rex hated on the ship.

(Rex felt something churn and burn in his gut with the ship)

Lum barked orders, yelled as people broke fingers.

He wasn't going to save Helios.

(Except, sometimes, he took credit against all odds)

Vace was mired in leading and saving the ship.

Nomi-Nomi was mired in fixing the ship as the wormhole broke it.

Rex faced Lum. Lum faced Rex.

(Rex will never never talk about what happened next)

Lum did not survive the crash.

Lum did not survive the crash but Rex did. Vace did. And Nomi-Nomi did.

They find a limping and broken Stratos, a hostile Vertumna.

They build and rebuild and fight and break and Vace kills the Array.

(Rex ties his heart tighter)

Nomi-Nomi helps craft the city of their dreams, and Marz leads the way even when Vace bites at her Stratos hands.

(Rex will not talk about the Helios crash)

"I know what you did," Vace says as an old man. "It was the right decision."

(Rex tastes ash in his mouth)

"I know what you did," Nomi-Nomi says, wringing their hands in their middle years as Rex begins to decline. "We can talk about it, if you want."

(Lum's eyes had been wide as the door caved in)

Rex builds the colony of their dreams on a dead Array on a dead poster boy on a dead dream and death follows until he goes into the night.

(And he ignores and forgets as he is reborn and dreams because he can)

(Just like he could kill Lum for Helios)

Cross-posted on ao3 and pillowfort

#i was a teenage exocolonist #rex (iwatex)#au #fanfiction #my fanfiction #iwatex #death cw #I started tammy's first but rex slid in and won the race haha #we'll see how long tammy's takes #my commentary in tags

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starmeadowsystem · 10 months

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Hi, we're the Starmeadow System! We're an autistic transfem system who kinda just exists and also draws things sometimes.

About us (individually)

Stella (she/they/kit): Kittygirl host. Shows up the most often. Loud and outspoken about a lot of things. Makes up the most things and kisses the most girls. Wants to do more things for her headmates.

Apple (she/her): The red panda gremlin who manages to be a bigger lesbian than Stella (when adjusting for the resource gap). She also has a sister in our partner system.

Pizza (they/them): Fictive from Chicory: A Colorful Tale. They are very silly and cute. Very pettable as well.

Cupcake (she/her): Really cute dog. Also one of Stella's several exes.

Ezekiel (he/they/ze): Green bird who lurks and says "computer" sometimes. Has the voice of a 90s text to speech program.

Volo (he/him): Fictive from Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Memelord who announces his presence with his theme. Approves his source's Near MB post we think.

Artemis (she/her): Fictive from Deltafauna, a series we tried to develop once. Acts and speaks in a very deadpan fashion.

Crystal (she/ice): Pretty glaceon with a southern accent. One of Stella's kids somehow.

Amethyst (she/her): Fictive from Steven Universe. Lurks. Says things sometimes.

Technoblade (he/him): A mix between his "real life" and "dream SMP (my behated)" self. Also kind of a memelord. Claims to get along with Volo well.

Rich (he/him): Factive of a guy we worked for once until we got laid off. Hasn't shown up in a while. Don't know what he was about tbh.

Nomi (she/her): Fictive from Dogs in Space. Just as chaotic as her source, and is also probably very very gay. Pettable.

V1 (he/him): Fictive from Ultrakill. Very violent. Claims he's a gopro. Even more enthusiastic about killing transphobes and cops than most of the system.

Sox (he/him): Fictive from Lightyear. Acts as a therapist who remains unaffiliated with the psychiactric system. Very pettable.

Doris (she/her): System member who briefly showed up based on the person-sized dinosuar plushie we have. Kissable.

Bluey (she/they): Fictive from Bluey. Small, adorable dog child. I (stella) would kill for her. And do the dishes for her too.

Rocket Raccoon (he/him): Fictive from Guardians of the Galaxy. I'm a little gremlin who likes shooting shit. Hope you understand.

Fandoms

Listed in alphabetical order. Non-exhaustive.

Animal Crossing

Beastieball

Bluey

Breaking Bad

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

Celeste

Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Deltarune

Dogworld (2021)

Grapple Dog

Hollow Knight

The Hunger Games

Kirby

The Legend of Zelda

Pix and Bit

Pokemon

Preeny Has To Repeat 6th Grade

Rain World

Sonic the Hedgehog

Super Cat Tales

Super Mario Bros.

Squid Game

If you notice there's a pattern: yes, we're furry gamers lmao especially Stella

Shit we do

We post things, reblog furry women and Very Fun Political Things Going On, and sometimes maybe work on some projects.

Stella's the main person who manages things about "Pure of Heart" characters on tumblr, and posts about it when she feels like it. She has also made a 100(DEC36)-point moral scale for evaluating fictional characters. Discussion around this is encouraged.

Independently of that, kit's also planning Souls of the Broken Warrens, an adult interactive comment-driven dark fantasy quest about genocide, cute rabbits, and love and companionship in the darkest of times.

Pix and Bit Save the Galaxy is a fanfic I sometimes write for on AO3. It's about a couple trans lesbians fighting one of their dads and his army for the fate of the Galaxy. You know, normal shenanigans n shit.

These plans are about as liquid and malleable as life itself, of course, so uh. Yeah.

Cool people you should also follow

@rougewitchfox - Our partner system. Very very pretty and cute and kissable. Minors aren't allowed on her account. She's also agreed to proofread for Souls of the Broken Warrens so that Stella doesn't accidentally end up harming marginalized people, given the sensitive nature of the game's subject matter.

@autisticsupervillain - cool guy who happens to often talk about Magnificent Bastards, Complete Monsters, and pitting fictional characters in fights to the death and seeing who wins with better logic than Death Battle. We consider him a good friend of ours.

@imsobadatnicknames2 - Interesting fella who runs Brave Little Mouse, a cyoa with Mausritter rules. Has a Ko-Fi. I cant buy him one rn though :(

Anyway that's it we think, have fun dealing with us lol

#pinned post #starmeadowsystem

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historyhermann · 1 year

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Kiff Review

Kiff is a musical comedy animated series by Lucy Heavens and Nic Smal. They are known for their work in the animation industry, either script writing, storyboarding, or voice acting. This post will have spoilers.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs and Wayback Machine. This was the twenty-seventh article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on March 27, 2023.

The plot of Kiff focuses on a young flying squirrel named Kiff Chatterley (voiced by Kimiko Glenn), who is friends with a mellow bunny named Barry Buns (H. Michael Croner) in a magical land, within the mountains, known as Table Town. Both go on adventures in and around the town.

Like other Disney series airing this year, Kiff is aimed at kids and families. This is clear from the format, similar to many episodes of Amphibia, Milo Murphy's Law, and Phineas and Ferb. Each 22-minute episode is divided into two 11-minute segments. In typical Disney fashion, there is a musical number in almost every episode.

Apart from the animating powerhouse of Disney Television Animation, a well-known animation studio, Titmouse, is producing the series. The same studio is known for series such as Cleopatra in Space, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Midnight Gospel, Q-Force, Inside Job, Pantheon, My Dad the Bounty Hunter, The Legend of Vox Machina, Fairfax, and Chicago Party Aunt.

Many of the voice actors in Kiff are well-experienced. Glenn previously voiced Paperstar in Carmen Sandiego, Katherine-Alice in Welcome to the Wayne, Tomiko in Elena of Avalor, and Nomi in Dogs in Space, to name a few roles. Deedee Magno Hall, who voices Deer Teacher in the series, is best known for voicing Pearl in Steven Universe. Furthermore, James Monroe Iglehart and Lauren Ash, who voice Kiff's parents, prominently voiced characters in series such as Tangled, Helluva Boss, Elena of Avalor, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

Keen listeners might recognize Rachel House, voice of Barry's mother, or Nichole Sakura, voice of Barry's sister. Both had prominent voice roles in Moana and OK K.O.!: Let's Be Heroes. Personally, I was familiar with voice actors Katie Crown and Rhys Darby because they voiced characters in Cleopatra in Space. The former also voiced Ivy in Amphibia. Furthermore, Darby voiced a variety of characters in Milo Murphy's Law, We Bare Bears, Welcome to the Wayne, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, and Infinity Train. It was great to hear Vella Vowell, who voices Candle Fox, again. I remembered her impressive voice acting as Princess Mermista in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and as the No Tattoo Barista (which later turned into a CBD Monster) in the lesser-known Magical Girl Friendship Squad.

Kiff snagged the well-regarded Eric Bauza and Tom Kenny. From my years of watching animated series, I was familiar with Bauza as Scoops in Ollie & Scoops, as well as Kenny for two roles: Ice King in Adventure Time and Yancy Fry in Futurama. In this series, Bauza voices Reggie and a scrupulous TV producer named Roy Fox, while Kenny voices multiple characters in the series. A stand-up comedian named Josh Johnson also voices Barry's brother, Harry.

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The show's animation is expressive and colorful. However, it pales in comparison to Amphibia, The Owl House, or Adventure Time. In some ways, Phineas and Ferb is put together better, as is Milo Murphy's Law. All in all, the show is a bit funny, but not laugh-out-loud funny. Drama is more a strong suit for the series than comedy.

The first twelve episodes of the series are double-episodes. They introduce viewers to the characters, allowing you to get a feeling for their lives. More than anything, they make it clear that Kiff is not serialized like Steven Universe, Tangled, or Milo Murphy's Law (especially the second season). Instead, each episode seems in its own world, without being connected to another. If some rumors are correct about upcoming Hailey's On It! and Iwaju, it appears that Disney series are moving in this direction. This is evidenced by the fact that the recently aired Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur uses serialized storytelling.

The first twelve episodes of the series is is a double-episode. They introduce viewers to the characters, allowing you to get a feeling for their lives. More than anything, it is clear that the series is not serialized similar to Steven Universe, Tangled, or Milo Murphy's Law (especially the second season). Instead, each of the episodes seems in its own world, without being connected to one another. If some rumors are correct, it appears that Disney series are moving in this direction. However, the recently aired Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur uses serialized storytelling as does the upcoming Hailey's On It! and Iwaju, if reports are correct.

Kiff has some elements reminding me of the Futurama episode openings, like fake adverts at the beginning of each episode. At the same time, the series is different than what has come before since the show creators, Heavens and Smal, who voice characters in the series, are from Cape Town, South Africa. As a result, their life-stories are undoubtedly integrated into the series itself. Furthermore, the show's directors include animators for Black Dynamite, 6Teen, and Amphibia, with this career experience enhancing the show even more.

The series emphasizes the importance of acceptance, friendship, self-worth, and notoriety. The latter is shown in the extreme by Roy Fox, who makes trashy reality shows in order to profit from people's misery. In a manner similar to the focus on education in many anime series, Kiff seems to imply that education is important to achieving your dreams and that school shouldn't be skipped, no matter what. This stands diametrically opposed to what is shown in Birdie Wing: Eve, one of the show's protagonists, is a terrible student, but remains at the premiere golf academy because she is a sports star.

There are many other themes focused in Kiff. For instance, the episode "Career Day", when Kiff and Barry get a part-time job at city hall, implies that mass records destruction is fine as long as you cut through the "red tape". This contrasts with commentary about overly technical bureaucracy in Hilda and Futurama, to name two series. Such a negative theme in "Career Day" is offset by episodes which accentuate family togetherness and honesty.

As a person who has reviewed media with libraries and librarians in pop culture since July 2020, and with a MLIS degree, it should be no surprise one of my favorite episodes of Kiff was "Club Book". In he episode, Kiff learns the value of quietness in the library after turning the library into a club scene. I thought it was interesting that the librarian, voiced by Aparna Nancherla, is made more relatable than most. Her character, Miss Moufflé, somewhat bucking stereotypes, while reinforcing them at the same time, as she shushes people but also likes souffles.

Similar to other series, the value of libraries as a place of knowledge and learning is affirmed in Kiff. In some ways, the episode reminded me of the "Quiet Riot" episode of The Replacements, in which the show's protagonist, Todd, causes the shushing librarian in charge of the school library replaced by a rockstar. However, he later regrets his decision, resulting in the original librarian returning to her job.

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Currently, Kiff is almost half-way through its series order of 30 episodes. It is hard to know where the series will go from here. Even so. I am more optimistic about this series than Hamster & Gretel, which has fallen flat, despite the fact that Dan Povenmire is the show's creator. Instead, the series has episodes somewhat mimicking absurdity and, even hilarity (to an extent), which are present in Phineas and Ferb. The latter, in fact, was recently renewed for more two seasons.

Even so, Kiff will probably never measure-up to the strength of four-season animated magical comedy powerhouse of Phineas and Ferb, a series even mentioned in an episode of Better Things, a comedy-drama by Pamela Adlon, who voiced some characters in the series. Despite this, Kiff will chart its own path, perhaps different than what has come before. After all, both creators are said to be a "brilliant creative team".

Although Disney has recently removed release dates from the upcoming Tiana and Moana series, clearly Kiff is part of a trend by the company to feature more diverse series. This year is bound to bring series such as Iwáju and Hailey's On It!, while there are others in production such as Cookies & Milk and Primos.

It is further possible that Disney is producing Molly Ostertag's Neon Galaxy, a series reportedly about a trans princess. In any case, diverse series are on the horizon for Disney, especially more than HBO Max, a network which has been struggling to find its corporate identity since David Zaslav became CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate. It is said that the streaming service has Iyanu: Child of Wonder and Lumberjanes in production.

The first 12 episodes of Kiff are currently airing on Disney+ and all twelve episodes have aired on the Disney Channel. Four new episodes will air on the Disney Channel on April 1st and later be added on Disney+.

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shower-racoon · 2 years

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All character slots have been filled! we have:

Spamton (Deltarune)

Marx (Kirby)

Zero III (Zero Escape)

Fawful (Mario & Luigi)

Claudia (Vampire Chronicles)

Bobby Barrows (Clock Tower)

Aura Bella Fiora (overlord)

Rango (Rango)

Neo (RWBY)

Fliqpy (happy tree friends)

Knight (Hollow Knight)

Dahlia Hawthorne (Ace Attorney)

Scaramouche (Genshin Impact)

Naruto (Naruto)

Nanika (Hunter X Hunter)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic)

Peridot (Steven Universe)

Gollum (Lord of the Rings)

The Kid (Cthulhu: Death May Die)

Puss in Boots (Shrek)

Nott the Brave (Critical Role)

GGG (this character is an OC belonging to @vendotlover)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

GSMZee (Homestuck)

Onnellia (this character is an OC belonging to @gracien-system)

The Collector (the owl house)

Michelangelo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012))

Lamb (Cult of the Lamb)

Ryoma (Dangenronpa 3)

Hat Kid (A Hat in Time)

Joehillstsd (they were listed alongside Grian, so I'm assuming that they're mcyt-related?)

Nomi (Dogs in Space)

list will NOT be updated further, as no more characters will be added!

#funky little guy contest

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bulletproofheartless · 6 months

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0H0! who're these?!

OH HELL YES I GET TO TALK ABOUT EXOCOLONIST!!!!

ok so basically they're characters from a game called I was a teenage exocolonist. the game has a lot of stuff but it also has romanceable characters. this got very long so I'm putting it under the cut

the main character is sol (which is why they're in all the polyamorous relationships that exist with the romanceable characters). technically they don't have a personality of their own because the whole game is about making choices as sol so it wouldn't quite work yknow.

dys is the most perfect human being in space. sym is the most perfect alien in space. usually they kinda fall in love with each other even though dys should have been aromantic and to me he is. sometimes if you manage to interact enough with both of them, they fall in love with each other and with you (so sol bc main character). I can't remember how that ending goes tbh bc I got it a long long time ago but in my head sol, dys and sym stay in love forever and live happily ever after as trees or whatever.

now rex is also the most perfect human being in space. he's part dog also, not that that's relevant. the game never says it but he's aroallo and you cannot argue with me about it because you know I'm right. he's the best romanceable character because 1 he lets you hug him every season (technically you can hug him endlessly but like you only get friendship points for hugging him once per season) and 2 not only is he up for having a casual / open relationship, he also is fine with fucking as friends (the fucking is just implied btw like fade to black sort of thing), AND you can date him like. usual dating the same way you date everyone else in that game.

now marz is the most beautiful person in space. she is also insufferable for a while but I forgive her as long as she doesn't invent capitalism (canonically she usually invents capitalism yes). I love her she's done nothing wrong except for inventing capitalism. now the thing about her is that apparently no matter what she never ends up with a fixed partner (or so I've heard) and I think that's very aromantic of her. anyways she kind of always thinks rex is hot and gets together with him BUT if you date her first or rex first (tbh idk bc I always do the same thing and date rex and leave her alone god bless) then eventually one of them asks to make the relationship include them both. thus we have sol, marz, rex.

nomi (aka nomi nomi) is rex's best friend. they are canonically nonbinary and some flavor of aroace that is unclear to me because what the fuck is demi/ace supposed to mean like. is it demiro ace? is it demiace? what. but anyways if you keep bribing them to like you (as you do with all the characters) for all of eternity eventually they fall in love with you. I think. it's been a while I can't remember. they also fall in love with rex. so then we got sol, rex and nomi.

the reason why I hate sol, rex and nomi together is that nomi is aroace to me like non partnering aroace like they are so sex repulsed and romance repulsed throughout the whole game and then suddenly they're in love with their best friend who literally says they're like siblings earlier???? cmon.

anyways yes. thank you for asking me about my blorbos who I'm very normal about.

#ask!!

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