#noodle talk

[glass-noodle]

What would a role reversed merman AU scenario be like? And most impotant, what kind of fish species would Hank be? (Not meant as a drawing request or super elaborate essay or anything, I just love reading your ideas ✨️)

I know you said this isn't a drawing/essay request but HOW COULD I RESIST!!!

I am not a fish expert but I like to think of Hank being either a dwarf gourami (for that good ol' in-game symbolism hehe) or a tiger shark, because stripes and big teeth and bad temper. Or maybe he could be some sort of tropical fish that's super vibrant and colourful, yet also deadly (poisonous fin spikes?). Marine biologists please weigh in!!!

Some half-formed unofficial notes:

Hank is more outwardly aggressive towards Kamski and the scientists in comparison to Connor’s cold-shoulder approach. They went through their entire tranquilizer supply in the first few months just to get a handle on the roaring, thrashing beast of a merman, and he’s caused more than a few major injuries amongst their team. Just like Connor, he bares his teeth and resists every time they come to take him for experiments; they have to sedate him from a greater distance and with a much heavier dose than they use for Connor, however.

Hank is a little less malnourished than Connor, but only because he doesn't refuse to eat. He's still thinner and weaker than he would be normally

Connor works the night shift. Not sure if it’s because he has another job during the daytime or if he’s going to school, but either way he manages to catch up on sleep during his breaks. He sacrifices this sleep once he and Hank start growing closer, however.

Hank takes much longer to warm up to Connor than the reverse. He snarls and snaps his teeth whenever Connor gets too close; it takes weeks for Connor to be able to approach the edge of the tank. He has to leave the fresh fish on the deck and back away before Hank will even look at it, ice-blue eyes narrowed with suspicion.

Connor is a bit more hesitant to get close to Hank, but that's only because he's always taken his job seriously and he doesn't like breaking the rules. He can't help but stare in awe whenever the large merman swims by, however, vibrant fins flashing and his muscled body cutting powerfully through the water. It's only when Connor starts noticing the scientists taking Hank away - and his glimpses of Hank's violent resistance - that his curiosity and empathy override his sense of obedience and his desire to make a good first impression.

Because Hank doesn't talk, Connor is given even more of an opportunity than usual to run his mouth. He blabbers away, asking question after question as if Hank could answer, sometimes philosophizing and sometimes talking about nothing at all. Hank tries to tune him out as he eats, but the human is annoyingly persistent. Eventually he grows used to the babble, but only after he starts begrudgingly warming up to the kid.

Because Connor talks so damn much, it's alarming when he goes quiet. Hank initiates contact for the first time by taking off his glasses when he has his breakdown. It's the first time Hank has ever been so close to him.

I think that Hank would still have lost Cole when he was a baby mer; possibly to humans and their trapping practices, giving him even more of a reason to hate them. I'm torn on what Connor's backstory should be, though. Perhaps he lost Nines (to an ocean storm?)? Or maybe it’s post-fight with Amanda and he’s feeling directionless in life, suffocating under the weight of his family’s expectations and feeling like he’s a burden and a disappointment despite everything that he’s achieved? Maybe it’s just a good ol’ panic attack because I love forcing anxiety onto human!Connor (no I’m not projecting what do u mean)

Hank's power and girth take on a whole new light after they’ve grown close. Connor is more distracted during their time together, his stream of chatter faltering uncharacteristically whenever Hank shifts a certain way or rips into a fish easily with his powerful jaws. He swallows when he imagines the full strength of the merman pressing him down against the deck, of Hank dragging him into the water and grazing those razor-sharp teeth along his skin, tail wrapped around his body like a serpent and trapping him in place.

Hank could hold the skinny human down with one hand. He knows he could. He imagines wide dark eyes staring up at him, skin flushed prettily and neat brown hair dripping, wordless for once in his life, and nearly loses his self-control. If they were both mermen, he'd be courting the kid to the ends of the ocean. Or...maybe Connor would be the one wooing him. He's certainly brought him enough fish and stared at his chest and arms enough that any merperson worth their salt would consider it mate-like behaviour. It's a weird cognitive dissonance to be feeling this way about a human, but Connor is — Connor is different. Hank likes Connor; he likes him so much that it's stupid.

#noodle talk #lab merman au #hankcon #dbh #detroit become human #hank x connor #dbh fanart #detroit become human fanart #dbh connor #dbh hank #mermay #glass art #noodle art #i toyed with the idea of making Connor one of the scientists but #that’s a whole other au I think :) #thank you so much for your question I have so many thoughts and I’m glad you like reading about them 😭

[drowninnoodles]

Love you noodle boi.

Mm I'm a boy now? Good to know xD

#love ya too #noodle talk

[obscure-noodle]

youre back????

I never left!!! I just haven't been able to draw as much as I've wanted to because of ~adulting~

but I am always here to scream about stuff haha. whether it be SaM, LO, etc!

#noodle talk #flashback to 4 years ago when I could pick up a tablet every day ;u; #granted i was procrastinating on literally all of my assignments #but oh well #it be like that #just a lot less time to be on here nowadays

[volatilechemicalz]

"work on your wip" ICANT IM IN A BOOP WAR

#noodle talks #not art #🔋

[illufinch]

at the aquarium

#my art #pixel #imagine glow in the dark whalesharks #i put too much soy sauce in my fried noodles i feel sick #the finch tag experience is mostly just me talking about what food i just ate

[noodles-and-tea]

I keep alternating between your tiktok and tumblr just to ensure I don’t miss any of your Merlín art!!

Awww 🥹🥹🥹🥹

#YOU GUYS ARE SO SWEET ARGH #making art of this guy in particular is really keeping me sane at #the moment so knowing you guys are all enjoying it is just #!!!!! #thank you!!!!! #my art #ask #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin emrys #noodles talks

[that-fruitier-emo]

Important author question

#tfe rambles #noodles talks #tfe polls #noodles does polls #tfe writes #writers on tumblr #writeblr #writerscommunity

[nose-coffee]

you know what i DO want to talk about? that scene on top of the truck where nona’s arguing w varun, and varun asks “do you love?” and nona says, “yes - no yes. i don’t know what it means. i say it, but i dont know what it means. did i ever know what it meant?” which is truly heartbreaking to hear from a character who’s spent the entire book up until now loving most everything she lays her eyes on with nearly reckless abandon.

and fifty pages later - after paul’s birth (pyrrha saying, “it’s not love, what you’re about to do. it’s a mistake.” being almost immediately replied to with, “the perfect friendship, the perfect love.”/”life is too short, and love is too long.”), and kiriona’s interrogation (”okay. different question -- do you love her?”), a near constant barrage of “what does love really mean?” and “what is love?” and “what would love make you do?” “what lengths would you go to for love?” when she’s already struggling with the idea of knowing if she’s felt love at all - she very nearly gives in to that despair, the lack of certainty that she knows what her feelings mean and that she’s allowed to feel them. she’s mourning, and she’s not able to reach pyrrha through her grief, and everyone else she’s with is more broken than she’s ever seen them before. but then paul reminds her of noodle. and nona, in a moment of lurching panic, decides to live, if only just to save noodle.

to me, that’s a devastating moment of raw, human love. it’s like that moment in alien (1979) where ripley’s about to abandon ship, and then goes back when she realises jones (the ship cat) is still on board. nona was ready to let them all die, hopless and lost and sad, every one of them-- but noodle, a sweet yet unimportant pet, is what brings her back.

and i think that’s what make’s paul’s statement of, “it’s done, it’s finished. you can’t take loved away.” hit as hard as it does. she’s just had this crisis of faith in her own personal belief system of loving-things-for-the-sake-of-loving-them, only to have it reaffirmed, and is now facing the abyss of personhood, facing returning to a self who was hurt and was deeply angry, going so far as to say, “i’ll be different...and palamedes -- i won’t love him...i won’t love anything, i won’t know how.”

paul says, “don’t worry,” (even though she just explained why she was worried), “we loved you too,” because maybe nona’s right and she won’t know how to love anymore, but she needs to know that she did. she did love, and she was loved, and there was never a doubt in anyone elses mind that she loved them fully and completely and genuinely. maybe she thought she was faking it, maybe she thought she was just making it up, but it was real, and now it’s done, and no one can take it away. no one.

#i get so upset thinking about how she wasnt quite sure at the end there if it was real #like no babygirl!! it was!! you loved!!! you were loved!!!!! #ntn #nona the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb #the locked tomb spoilers #tlt spoilers #nona the ninth spoilers #ntn spoilers #nona tlt #paul tlt #kiriona gaia #pyrrha dve #fuck off lou #my post #long post #noodle tlt #i dont think people talk about that convo w varun enough #making her face the truth of her identity while asking why she'd protect people who essentially murdered her #i cry #essay #sort of #this has been sitting in my brain for a long time #esp the alien (1979) comparison #this is kind of meandery but i know what i meant to say

[hello-eeveev]

Essek and Caleb both learn the Maze spell and cast it on each other as Wizard Enrichment™. They get sent into a labyrinth with the goal of ‘escape’, and if they can’t get out in 10 minutes, they just get popped back out. No harm, no foul.

It starts out as a fun little activity, but then they start getting competitive about it. First, it’s basic races—who can get the fastest time getting out of a maze. But then, they get into a discussion about how the mazes are generated. Is it random? Is there some pattern to the various layouts? And if so, is there a style of maze that is more advantageous? Does the maze creator have any influence over the design of the maze?

The thing is, Maze only requires a DC 20 Intelligence check to escape. That’s nothing to these guys, and they crack it open pretty quick. So then they ask themselves, can we make it harder?

Their previous toyings with Maze RNG become full on experiments and deep dives to see if they can add increased difficulty. They start adding multiple levels, doors that require you to solve a puzzle to unlock, fetch quests, etc. They come up with the most difficult maps and challenge each other to get their times lower and lower and lower.

They become Maze spell speedrunners and modders is what I’m saying.

#they drag Yussa into their little club as well #and it eventually becomes an official sport in Nicodranas #Yussa is somewhere between ‘I am the greatest gamer of all time non can defeat me’ #and ‘if I’m not suffering am I really gaming?’ #every time I think about spell noodling for fic purposes I keep coming back to this #I don’t know much science but I do know video games #shadowgast #caleb widogast #essek thelyss #critical role #eve talks #late night wizard posting

[glass-noodle]

Consider this a thread for sharing your DBH songs!!! I’m a sucker for hankcon but it can be anything related to DBH. Character studies, shippy songs, general dbh vibes. I’ll add mine later as I go (when I’m not running late for work, lol) 🎵

#detroit become human #dbh #hankcon #noodle talk

[drowninnoodles]

Update to my situation where I move earth sky and time and space

I searched boxes full of games from my childhood and the games I REMEMBER apparently don't exist or are somewhere in the depths of hell

I found a lot of cursed things I don't remember, but not the ones I remember

Also the game I was traumatized by turned out to be destroyed so I'll probably have to spend money to buy it again 🙄

#noodle talk #IDK #ITS IMPORTANT FOR ME XD

[acnologias-ass]

I can see doing the airplane bit with a piece of iron when feeding the twins

After the last chapter, I'm convinced Gajeel would let his kids gnaw on iron at least once 😂

#*sees people complaining about gajevy talking about their kid again* #*posts more domestic stuff* #levy mcgarden #gajeel redfox #gajevy #fairy tail #gajevy twins #trouble twins #shutora redfox #yajeh redfox #yaje redfox #doodles noodles

[volatilechemicalz]

"what's wrong with you" do you want The List™️

#noodle talks #not art #💻 #mecore

[nibbelraz]

Perfect Couple

They need to be right beside each other or they'll die

#svsss #moshang #shang Qinghua #mobei jun #sqh #mbj #scum villains self saving system #scum villain self saving system #the scum villain's self saving system #scum villans self saving system #scum villian self saving system #Mobei juns trying his best making Shang Qinghua his noodles ok #can you look Mobei in the eyes and say you wont eat what he made??? #no #Shang Qinghua cant either #thats why he WILL down that charcoal that was ones noodles #how did it get like that??? no one but Mobei knows #also Mobei trying to handle court alone without Qinghua means hes gonna be WAYYY more irritated at stupid demons #he'd think about how Qinghua could deal with all the court work EASY and then hea ignoring the demons talking to him to go hunt down his #husband to hold him and not let him go for an hour #ahh theyre so #💕💕💕💕 #nibbelraz #my art

[naughtynoodle056]

Being a fat fetish artist is weird sometimes cuz I truly genuinely want to explore topics related to fatnesss and weight gain that aren't necessarily in a kinky context but rather vent pieces/think pieces I guess? But I always feel like I fundamentally Have to only post it in fat fetish circles because I feel like if a Normie™ found out I have a Silly Goofy Feedism Kink they'll disregard anything I have to say about fatphobia and society cuz I'm like, too cumbrained to have any good takes, I guess xD. I have a thing I've been sitting on for a while that's kind of a "Feedism being the savior from an impending ED" sort of thing but I'm kind of scared to post it given it's so heavy compared to my usual subject matter but also,,, I'm a Feedist Artist with a pretty distinct artstyle I think? So if I post it outside of NSFW circles I might get chased off with pitchforks and shit because I'm not a Normie™, too.

I may be a feedist that is barely 100 pounds and can still fit a size 1 but I'm not like.... Oblivious, lol. It's not lost on me how gaining can negatively affect someone's self esteem, especially in a world that is still viciously fatphobic, and I wanna explore those things in my art cuz I have explored heavier themes in the past, I guess I'll just tag it with like 45 warnings if I do post it ☠️

#noodle talks #rambles

[noodles-and-tea]

i assume your favorite mario character is princess peach? 😂

Not to be basic but It’s actually Mario

#and my favourite princess is actually daisy 😭😭😭 #not that I don’t ADORE peach #ofc she is definitely super special and important to me #she’s probably my favourite to draw for sure #I love all the pinks I can use ugh #and her dress and hair #she’s so prettyyyy #my art #ask #noodles talks #princess peach #Mario #super Mario #super Mario bros