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understandableparadox · 3 months

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a comprehensive list of everything wrong with hazbin hotel.

quick note before i lose myself in madness, my standards for helluvaboss are non existent because its a free show on youtube. also i kinda like helluvaboss and i will indulge in any bias i damn well please.

oh and spoilers. i guess.

the greater narrative of the entire season is "White lady civilize inner city hoodlum". ex: The blind side. rich girl, affluent family yadda yadda.

the story is set up to be like amphibia, owl house, svtfoe, steven universe, that being starting as something episodic then transforming into story driven narrative. why? because we know the benefits and drawbacks, episodic starts allows us to wander the world, it allows us to understand the dynamics, we are not forced to reckon with anything because there is no deadline. characters are allowed to bloom and shine and the audience can actually get attached.

the source material is Vary Clearly formed from remnants of something out of a middle school edgelord narrative. the usage of transformation, the big spooky grins, the "and then i smile as my eyes glow and-"-isms which in most cases i don't mind because in some instances but in a vary Particular case its astoundingly annoying and that annoyance is like a mold, shit spreads quick.

the color Red. as a lover of homestuck cherubs and karkat and aradia, as someone who fucking loves the color red, it is so painful to say but holy shit tone it the fuck down, i know its hell but their are so many other colors that you can use, its everywhere, the streets, the air, the windows, the screens, the characters, i know the pride ring is represented with red but change up the palates every so often for backgrounds

the rush, this ties into the second point made but i think the story itself is rushed. we know everything way to early. i know way to much and it makes it hard to care about anything because im still trying to digest the last chunk of info. "oh ok, so they clear out hell once a year. oh hell has a heaven embassy? ok. oh that adam the angel, i though he wou- oh its every 6 months now. wait the exterminators die a lot? then why is everyone sca- people in hell already have weapons that can kill angels? w- oh we are in heaven now, ok ma- no one in heaven except for the elites know the exterminations occur? how do-" and its that, just this incessant rush to explain everything to you. notably that's just the god damn spark notes, we need to know everything about the characters now, every single bit of their story, their insecurities, what charlie needs to fix, how she can fix them, the major bad guys, everything. you are never allowed to dwell on a character because we need to rush towards something else. it almost feels like this should have been like... season three, it would have been a fantastic season three if you dropped the introductions honestly.

the concept of redemption. for a story of redemption to work you need to look at three things. What is there crime, Do they want to change, What is preventing them from changeing? there is only one single character that has a notable path of redemption, angel dust, but if you look through their story it feels off. What Exactly is he guilty of? he has sex, does drugs and drinks. his apparent nymphomania is tied to his sad backstory as someone forced into the sex industry so how is that their fault? then if you think about it you start to spiral and notice "hey why are most of these people in hell?" like sure some of them may deserve punishment but then you see the fucking dichotomy and its like "I was a inventor in england and died of the fucking plague, i may have made evil little contraption hoohoohoo" vs "I was a cannibal, a full on cannibal, i fucking killed people and ate them and then someone shot me". ONE OF THESE THINGS ARE A LITTLE MORE FUCKING EXTREME. i'm going to go fucking nuts, the thing they went to heaven with when presenting a case to angels on the idea that redemption and becoming a better person is actually real was angel dust not drinking at a party and not having sex with consenting adults and i want to go fucking insane. WHAT IS THE CRIME, WHO IS THROWING THE BOOK, WHAT DOES THE BOOK INTEL, ARE WE ON GOOD PLACE RULES?! half the cast dont Need redemption they need fucking help, and the other half of the cast do need redemption but they do not seek it making the point moot. sir pentious acts like he has the brain of a hyper intelligent toddler tossing about toys, its almost like he did his one bad thing of spying and then got caught, sank his little diddy about forgiveness and second chances and become a null point through out the rest of the series, sure their was Some weight to him sacrificing himself, he was a decently funny character and he had good moments but him popping up in heaven felt like a fore gone conclusion, he didn't deserve to be in hell so why do i care that he is suddenly in heaven? because its working on the concept the good place already made. no one actually deserves eternal punishment they just need help processing what makes them a dick, but instead of looking at all the parts of the afterlife that make it bad, inefficient and then creating and trying ideas to see if it work instead over a few seasons, we crash dick first into all the major plot points in regards to that and say "tada, we fixed it.".

having a sub-plot about sexual assault and its victims then having multiple sexual assault related gag ruins your point.

don't make a bunch of stereotypically jewish characters into cannibals, that was a big thing, really shouldn't have to say it.

if you are going to make a character black, make them black, you can say alastor was black but sweet seren-fucking-dippity that's not a black man.

pot meet kettle but yeah the cursing could be a little less liberal. maybe just blue hair or the pronouns, not both.

there is a very distinctive art deco/jazz aesthetic which normally i love but i feel as though it is not used to its full extent and in some cases really hurts the character design in and of itself.

this is a vary obvious bit but the story is a million times more interested in gay men then it is of lesbians, which culminates in this insane thing where the writers clearly have more talent or perhaps it would be more abt to say practice writing male gay pining then they are with lesbian pining. which i personally think is hilarious because i did not know you could min max fujoshi-ism that hard.

this next section is more to do with each character on a fundamental level, for the sake of brevity whatever there is left, i'm just doing ones with speaking roles.

13. Charlie:

(see what i mean about that red thing?)

as originally stated charlie fits rather comfortably into every white saviour narrative, though that seems to be part of her joke. though i'm not entirely sure how much of a joke it can be when its rewarded and expected to advance the plot.

her character design says nothing, it has the motif of old puppets or dolls, she wears something vaguely similar to service suits, her demonic form is just some extra horns.not to say every character needs to have their life on a clothes rack but some more snake and goat imagery would be nice

its not the chol design of charlie with snake hair, not an actual problem but its a problem to me, damn you @cholvoq for ruining my ability to look at any of the characters without wishing i was seeing your designs instead.

character wise aside from the white savoir bit, i'm having a bit of trouble understanding what the arc of the character is. she is shown to be naive, someone who doesn't understand how the world works but everytime she says something its something astoundingly clear like "people can actually get better". and its treated like someone demanded faygo in every water fountain. is the joke that the world around her to cynical or is so to naive? please pick one or the other.

now if you know me, you know i fucking hate overpowered characters with a blinding passion, one that would set alit the god damn abyss but in this one special instance, i feel like its warranted, she's the direct descendant of fucking God, she can swing her weight around a little, i mean god damn. she in so many instances looks like shes cowering so often, why would the daughter of lucifer get backed down by some rando pimp? why wasn't she the one to fight adam? sure you can say she is young but how young? her parents were there since pre-abrahamic times, most of the characters showed up in hell in the 1900s, some of them showed up in the 1600s, how old is charlie??? how long does it take for her to learn how to be strong? The story does not suffer if charlie is strong and knows she is strong. it can easily be a case of "i don't believe in violence to a weird degree". fit it into her apparent naivety about the world to believe that violence is never the answer even when dealing with a being that is unilaterally horrible and abusive and monstrous.

she ga- no im kidding, i do think her romance was waysided a bit, it would have been fine to have more scenes of them togather and in love you know?

14. Vaggie

why did you name the lesbian vaggie...? Don't do that maybe?

I like how her design is almost moth like but again i feel as though you could have amped that up.

she feels as though someone tried to combine undyne and pearl from steven universe, same story beats and design elements. it makes it hard to really distinguish her as a character.

i honestly dont have much to say about her. she is fine.

christ kill me, lets just get the big one out of the way

15. Alastor.

God Damn

where to start.

"alastor is mixed race" mixed with fucking what? concrete? there is not a single black feature on that creature, now im not saying you have to make him a png of louie armstrong but it wouldn't hurt to add a curl to the hair maybe? make it a tiny bit more wavy? Something? a crumb i beg of thee?

his symbolism is all over the god damn place, native american monsters (you know the one), voodoo, radio, puppets, stitches, circuses??? and Tentacles i guess. two of those are from closed religions so if you dumped those you would actually get a more concise character focused on the concept of vox populi as a means of societal control and influence as we see in his first song. but again that gets drowned out repeatedly by all the other random toy box bits shoved into him.

tumblr sexy man bait

he serves no purpose in the story. he does spooky stuff, pretends to do things and then goes back to sitting around looking spooky. i understand that his motif is supposed to be aloof mastermind but maybe have him do more mastermindy things? if you remove most of alastors scenes, bar the songs, it doesn't change all to much. husk and nifity can still be at the hotel, they could be looking for outs in their contracts the same as angel dust. hell it even helps with the one scene where he dose some spooky shit, asking charlie for a favor in exchange for his help in the fight with the angels instead of asking him about angel weapons which should have remained a strictly vaggie scene.

his presence in a way delegitimize the story, as I noted in in the section regarding redemption, the three parts are "what is the crime, do they want to change, what is stopping them?" and alastor kinda just spits in the face of that. he is a serial killer cannibal that has no qualms about how evil he is and apparently must continue being evil due to being under the control under someone legitimately called the Root Of All Evil. show him take a slight interest in the idea that maybe shit for him could be better, make him Want Change at the bare fucking minimum or dont have him at the hotel.

his stupid little fucking horns, big shot the troll liker wants characters to have big fucking horns, make them noticeable or dont have them.

he looks more like a dog boy, which could have been an interesting thing with the collar motif but fuck me i guess.

personal pet peeve but i fucking hate characters that have a million plus powers, stick to a set number, be creative.

im getting more petty as i go on so last point: he could have been in less episodes, he didn't need to be in dad beat dad, that should have been just a lucifer and charlie episode. inverse the red and black and i think he would be fucking great color wise, his body type is the same as ten different characters, he isnt radio enough, aside from the voice and and staff if you told me he was the fucking Cat Demon i would have been just as convinced.

16. Angel Dust

what the fuck, gay spider? its hard to actully articulate all the thoughts i have on angel dust, not in the sense that he is a deeply thought provoking character but in the fact that there is not much meat on the bones.

all around i think angel dust is kinda middling. he has a decent enough romance with husk, he has a decent enough story line that revolves around battling addiction and removing yourself from an abuser (which the story tries to brand as "Redemption???")

I dont like that most of his jokes would qualify as sexual harassment, i don't mind him being sexual as a character but continuing on when clearly someone doesn't like the jokes hurts the character.

not a critique but he is pink, which honestly ill fucking take at point, as long as its not more fucking red.

i think his design is an improvement over some of the old vivzie designs but it feels like it could have done with going a few more rounds of design changes.

same thing with alastor, charlie and vaggie, there is not enough of the animal that they are supposed to be. You could have told me angel dust was a fucking bee or something and i would have had to believe you. nothing about angel dust initially says spider, hell he dosent even have enough limps to be a fucking spider.

17. Carmilla carmine

are... are you supposed to be a rabbit...?

Big Yoai Hands

ballet fighting style, could have been cool, wish she fought more like sanji or chun li.

A single mom that works to hard, who loves her kids and never stops-

her song was decent, not great, decent. it feels as though the actress has experience singing but not in the way they tried to make her sing during her two songs. they have a obvious mexican influence, honestly just let her sing in spanish in the english dub. go listen to the spanish dub, "out for love" sounds great in spanish.

i wish i had more thoughts on them, fucking rip.

18. cherri bomb

that's not a punk aesthetic that's 2010s alt

decent character, they showed up once or twice i guess, no real thoughts.

19. egg boiz

absolutely perfect, i have not notes on them, these are perfect creatures.

20. Emily

im so fucking happy to see a singular blue character

does the naive dreamer bit better then charlie

We really shouldnt have seen her until the end of season two or middle of three.

good contrast with the other angels on screen.

Wait she is supposed to be black??? Where???

21. Husk

keith david you absolute delight, Why on gods green earth did they only give you one singing part?

one of the few charecters where its clear husk is a cat, i do like the kinda... marquee design, he is a magic cat, thats neat. i still think you can toss the wings and eyebrows and still have just as good of a charecter.

has a deeply intresting story of someone who died as a nobody, became the fat cat of hell and then was forced back to the bottom by their own vices, not used at fucking all.

huge potential, little pay off.

22. lillith

I know nothing about her except she ditched her kid and husband to vacation in heaven and i think thats kinda funny.

alot of werid things floating around her, again she shouldnt have been shown in the show at all until next season.

23. lucifer morningstar

no notes, funniest charecter, did a song based on friend like me.

few notes: i do like the idea that the immortal symbol of pride is a constant emotional wreckage constantly seeking approval through grand showmanship and manic energy that threatens to take over anything they touch.

would have liked more snake stuff on him, maybe some more goat things like horns.

that is such a stupid fucking staff lmao.

24. Adam.

alex brightman you absolute fucking delight, you should have had more songs.

I wish his design was more focused on the idea of him being a glam rock wash up

I fucking hate his mask

We shouldn't have met him until the end of the season.

25. Niffty

again she is supposed to be a bug or cockroach but nothing about her points to that.

token straight

keeps rocketing back and fourth between sexulization and infantilization

you had kimiko glenn but didnt give her a single fucking song?

26. Sir Pentious

the secret season one redeemed.

the pilot version of him felt more like someone that could do a season one redemption arc, a megalomaniac constantly attempting territory grabs, there is something you can work with, actual character flaws to work through.

essentially a child after the first episode.

actually a snake which i appreciate.

no where near steampunky enough.

27. the villians of the show dont make much sense, each one feels like they should be season long deals on their own instead of a bunch of team rocket esque idiots that show up on occasion, do a bad thing and then leave.

28. Valentino

gOD THERE IS SO MUCH RED

only a moth some of the time.

sucks as a villain, maybe they need more screen time to show why they suck in a more substantial way aside from being told that he sucks.

it is interesting that angel dust is only under his magical control when in the studio, it shows that angel dust has to make a conscious choice to return, which in turn can be made to show how abusers can draw back their victims. I do not think it was done well in this circumstance as it shows him to be cartoonishly evil, constantly flying back and fourth between sweet and utter psycho, there is no actual reason for angel dust to ever actually go back to the studio, he just does so every so often.

29. Vox

legit who cares? the only thing about him that is in any way substantial is all the dope ass fan art we get.

propaganda machine angle that is not explored at all, just hinted at. no actual barring on the story whatsoever.

why didn't he try to do the same shit as alastor by the way? he knows its bad if alastor gets in good with charlie so shouldn't it be a ass kissing race?

same body shape as literally every other male character.

tumblr sexy man version of pyrocynicals fursona.

30. Valvette

the actual poster child of the shows huge problem of "Show me, don't tell me".

apparently the glue that holds the villains together. never shown.

apparently the one that makes the love potions that valentino is famous for. had to learn about that in the fuckin wiki trivias

we know so much about her from things outside of the show.

was there to call carmilla a coward, that's her plot contribution. she shows up every now and again but its never anything substantial and serves to more around take up run time for people We Don't Need To Know Yet.

im not trying to be mean, animation is animation, we need smaller studios to have success in the industry so that other indie studios can have that success, felling a tree makes it easier for others to follow. showing that its possible to number brain rot exacs helps all animators.

but this show has so much bullshit attached to it, it has so much fucking potential that it fries my brain with unyielding frustration.

this took a bit to write, im tired, thanks for reading.

#hazbin hotel

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g0ingb4tty · 4 months

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I was gonna put this in the tags but they went to too long so take an ask

Dexter is probably the most morally complex character in Spooky Month atm, and honestly his whole concept is FASCINATING

He's a guy who knows he's fucked up, but has taken steps to prevent himself from spiraling even further, and probably would have been fine (for lack of a better word) had it not been for the one-two of Moloch and the doll

And he had morals?? To a degree?? I always go back to his toy chest ramblings from the DS ARG, that note where it's just "I can't kill them they're kids" over and over until he finally breaks and it's "I HAVE TO KILL THEM"

He's an awful person, but sympathetic, in a way. I want to put him under a microscope and dissect him like Patty is dissecting his body

THIS!!

I could go on and on about the ARG and my theories, headcanons, interpretations etc

He's such an amazing character for such a bad person too which is probably one of the reasons I like him so much

He's fucked up and self aware about it so it could lead for some awesome character development in future episodes, especially with him being confirmed to be back in SM6 and most likely episodes after that!!

I seriously can't wait 'til we get more Dex content to analyze (and hopefully a better fanon 🥲)

#batbox📬🦇#batthoughts💭#spooky month #dexter sm #dexter erotoph #dexter spooky month #spooky month theory #character analysis

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grimgummies · 2 months

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Again, don't have twitter so I can't say anything on that front, BUT I do have AO3 and I agree that there is definitely... far less activity there than I expected?

I remember the SM AO3 tag BUZZING with fics for a while after TT released, but for HS there isn't... much of that? Especially with how the episode ended you'd THINK there'd be fics about the episode or the aftermath of it, but in the couple of pages I've only been able to find a few fics directly addressing the episode at all -- oddly enough, the first fic updated after HS was a Candy Dealer/OC one shot collection. Not really relevant, but I thought it was interesting in comparison, lol

Idk I need sleep

Ah so it's not just Twitter then. I kinda get the feeling that it has to do with the tone of the episode? Because up until now Spooky Month has been relatively light-hearted. Even Tender Treats was super silly. Sure there was a genuine threat present in the episode, but Hollow Sorrows was much more serious and was starting to show where we could expect future episodes to go in regards to the tone of the story. It started dealing with the various issues the characters went through (such as Skid and Pump dealing with dead/absent parents, Lila's stress and how it affects herself and Skid, etc). No previous episodes really explored these concepts on a deeper level. And... maybe people don't know what to do with that?

Or maybe it's because we didn't get another character to obsess over like Bob and Streber cough cough

Also GO GET SOME SLEEP SILLY!!

#Grim answers #spooky month

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autumnalwalker · 11 months

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Writeblr Intro v3

Updating the pinned intro now that it's been a year and my (now previously) main WIP is complete as it's going to be.

Me:

I write as a hobby. It's something I do for fun and first and foremost for myself. But if other people happen to actually like what I write, that's pretty cool too.

I try to keep this main blog primarily writing-focused. I've set up the side-blog @traversedmiscellany for reblogging/posting any other random stuff that happens to catch my interest.

I tend to prefer to keep my online and offline lives separate so I rarely say much about personal details aside from what inevitably winds up leaking into talking about my writing.

I am open to tag games and ask games. Or just general writing-related asks.

If anyone would like to be added to a tag list (whether for WIP updates or tag games), please feel free to send me a message or reply to this post, specifying what you want to be on the tag list for.

My WIPs:

Completed (Is it still a "WIP" at this point? Either way, it's fully online and available to read for free.):

The Archivist's Journal:

A slice-of-life story about waking up on a fantasy tropical island told over the course of a year in the form of daily journal updates. Mostly fairly chill, just living life one day at a time, but with some occasional angst, social anxiety, and supernatural spookiness.

The whole story (just over 330,000 words) is posted on my side blog @thearchivistsjournal. Or if you want to read from the beginning, here's the chronological posting. Or if you prefer to read in a format other than Tumblr posts, it's mirrored over on my ScribbleHub.

Also, here's the post I made when the project was completed for some more meta background on it and what I mean when I call it "complete."

I may eventually make additional scattered journal entries as a sort of periodic epilogue, but Day 380 should be considered the end of the "main story," so to speak.

Ongoing:

Empty Names:

My current main project. Also freely available to read in full as chapters go up.

A bit of an episodic urban fantasy moster-of-the-week sort of deal that's mostly an excuse to have a cast of OCs that I like interact with eachother. The basic premise is a world-hopping adventurer attempts to set up a sword-and-sorcery style adventurer's guild in a modern world where "adventurer" isn't considered a legitimate profession. Has what I suppose one might call "genre-typical violence" with fighting monsters and such, and individual chapters are tagged with more specific content warnings where necessary.

Here's the masterpost for it with links to chapters and to several standalone side stories set in the same world/setting.

I'm much more casual with my update schedule on this project, but it seems to be coming out to posting weekly chapter updates for a month or two at a time and then taking a month or two off from posting while I rebuild my buffer queue for the next batch of chapters.

Also, while it's not exactly a focus, the five characters of the core cast are all some flavor or another of LGBTA+, if that's a selling point for you.

The Witches' Testaments:

A prequel to the currently-hiatused "Solarpunk Witch Story" below that I wrote the loose framework and beginnings of in a sudden fit of inspiration that I may return to sporadically.

The idea was to focus a bit more on the "punk" side of Solarpunk and paint a picture of the effort and rebellion that went into how that world transitioned from Cyberpunk dystopia to Solarpunk... well, not utopia exactly, but something better than it was and striving toward that dream.

And because that sort of thing is bigger than any one person and I had multiple worldbuilding concepts I wanted to touch on, I landed on the idea of writing it in the form of a series of interviews with various characters who lived through that period of change.

Here's the masterpost for it.

Indefinite Hiatus:

Untitled Solarpunk Witch Story:

A project that I absolutely intend to return to one day once Empty Names is finished, but that's going to be a good long while yet.

The story of a freshly-minted "witch" and her AI familiar traveling from town to town in an ecologically-recovering post-capitalism future, providing highly-specialized tech support and environmental consulting wrapped up in enough mysticism and aesthetics to blur the line between what's purely technology and what might possibly be some kind of magic. I only ever wrote a prologue and five chapters worth of an initial arc/town/problem to solve, but I liked what I wrote well enough to share all that online. Ultimately this project going on hold was a matter of it being one project too many for me to handle simultaneously on the time combined with a desire to get more experience at traditional prose writing (as opposed to the epistolary format of The Archivist's Journal) so that I could better do the concept justice when I do one day revisit it.

In the meantime, those initial rough chapter drafts are all up online here: Solarpunk Witch Masterpost

Miscellaneous other writing:

On most Thursdays I'll post small (couple hundred words at most) pieces based on various interesting dreams that I've had. Being based on dreams, the content is a mixed bag. Those are tagged under #my dreams. These now have a compilation Masterpost that I'll do my best to keep updated.

Alternatively, if you just want to browse semi-random excerpts and snippets from the above works, I post a lot of that under #tag game.

Some Standalone Short Stories:

(Stories that were either written to be standalone pieces, or appear within something else but worked well enough by themselves that I gave them their own separate posts.)

The Tale of the Merchant and the Blacksmith's Daughter: A sapphic fairy tale (and, in retrospect after writing, possible trans allegory).

The Melts: An attempt to shift what would normally be body horror into the genre of slice-of-life. "What if your body slowly melting over the course of the day were treated as no more serious than the common cold and you still had to go to work?"

Kindly Basilisk: A human mech pilot who wants to be a machine, an AI who wants to be human, and the relationship they form.

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noangeleither · 6 months

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"About the Blogger" Meme

Thanks for tag @bioloyg <3

Star Sign(s): Scorpio Sun (I literally never remember my other ones, I should probably memorize them)

Favorite Holidays: Christmas and Halloween. even tho i find it harder to feel the holiday spirit up until the very last minute i love christmas so much. and not even to be corny but its true that when you grow up you start to care less about the presents and more about the memories with family and friends.

i grew up in a religous family so my parents didnt let me celebrate halloween but i still love it with my whole heart. im a november baby so i love fall and all things eerie and spooky.

Last Meal: McDonalad's snack wrap and one of those new fruit splash drinks. its exam season so ofc im eating like shit. will probably eat some ice cream when i get home after my physiology exam in 30 minutes. so yay to junk food

Current Favorite Musician: currently ive been really enjoying pinkpantheress. her new album is literally 10/10. she has such a knack for melodies, and her lyrics are very eerie and poetic while maintaining a cutesy 2000s vibe. shes also a sampling queen.

honoarble mentions: ive been listening to a lot of janet, rosalia and red velvet these days too.

Last Music Listened To: feedback by janet Jackson. bro istg you have to clear the area when this comes on, i cant help but dance

Last Movie Watched: last movie i watched was bride wars. honestly a classic movie, so funny and i love wedding movies so i reccomend it. that was a month ago tho, which is crazy.

Last TV Show Watched: like the wonderful person who tagged me i watched the bear last. i just rewatched s02e01. ive been doing this thing where i'll either rewatch episodes for research, boredom or just because i get sucked in rewatching a specific clip that makes me want to rewatch the whole episode.

Last Book/Fic Finished: last fic i finished was keeping up with the berzattos by chefskiss40 on ao3. ive reread it like 3 or 4 times now and im patiently waiting for an update. its just so good, i love the domestic vibes. im not a fan of seeing my ships start families in canon but in fic? oh i could read that forever

Last Book/Fic Abandoned: not really abandoned but sorta modified? the sydcarmy high school au i started in the summer was a good concept but i didnt really have a concrete idea where the overall story would go. BUT im planning on maybe doing a series which is just a collection of one shots of them in HS? OR i plan on doing a multi-chapter shorter story that is an AU that also takes place in a high school setting but with a twist that i dont want to reveal bc that would mean i would have to commit to it. lol

Currently Reading: nothing. unless you count all these articles/research papers I've been reading for my health research studies course (think i aced the exam yesterday so maybe all the pain was worth it)

Last Thing Researched for Art/Writing/Hyperfixation: doesnt really count as research but basically i was on pinterest creating boards for 3 different fics. was researching wedding dresses for a nat & syd fic where they go wedding dress shopping (will be finishing after my last exam). also just creating two other boards to inspire myself to start the au i teased above and my bones and all AU/retelling i talked about last month. i want to watch some more cannibalism media and maybe research about 80s pop culture and politics before i dive into that one fully.

Favorite Online Fandom Memory: ummmm probably just being a menace on twitter with my friends that i made through being a reveluv. we talk every single day, and they are some of the best people i know. maybe the times we used to get up early or stay up late for comeback season, watch the kcharts being updated hourly and crack jokes about group we liked and didnt like

Favorite Old Fandom You Wish Would Drag You Back In/Have A Resurgence: technically THG is having a resurgence right now but im way too into the bear to really get back into it and also i havent seen the new movie. im excited to once exam season is done but i feel like the hype is already dying so i dont see myself getting too into it.

Favorite Thing You Enjoy That Never Had an Active or Big "Fandom" but You Wish It Did: uhhhh cant think of one tbh.

Tempting Project You're Trying to Rein In/Don't Have Time For: honestly every sydcarmy fic idea i have that would take multi chapters to flesh out. one shots are very safe for me. but im praying i'll commit to it. esp the bones and all AU lol

this was fun

tagging some ppl to do this too, only if you want!

@amieraisposting @chefkids @sennenrose @sydneys-adamu @sydneyscarm @happylikeasadsong @chansoooo1-blog

#about meme #ask to tag #fun distraction from this exam #wish me luck

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simpin-shark · 8 months

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Another Spooky Month Husbando of the day goes to Darth Maul from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and The Clone Wars!

I had the biggest crush on Darth Maul the first time I saw him. I was sad he didn’t have more appearances in the movies, but I did get to enjoy him in some of the cartoon versions and comics.

It’s so sad how his father died after his conception and his mom tried her best to keep him safe. She trusted Darth Sidious to take care of him and get him away from their home world so he wouldn’t be a slave to the Nightsisters. Darth Sidious never really cared about him, neither did Plagueis, they just thought of him as expendable.

I feel so sorry for him. He never had love growing up after he left his mom…I just want to hug him, I want to tell him it’s ok and he matters…the sad part is, I don’t even think it would matter to him…

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mdhwrites · 9 months

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Monster Month for Amphibia?

I give no promises but like I've done a Lumity monster week back in 2022, I just like doing monster girl stories. Or stories with monsters in general. I floated the idea of being given ideas a little bit ago to my Discord but thought I'd ask here now: Any monster/character combinations you'd like to see me do something with? Some thoughts I've considered over the couple days I've considered it: Marcy as a ghost: Anne and Sasha, challenging each other to be brave, find a haunted house and have to deal with a ghost whispering in their ears until finally they scream at the ghost to just kill them, at which point Marcy shows up to explain that she's not that sort of ghost. She was just trying to tell them neat things, answer their questions and warn them about the faulty parts of the house. She's just kind of shy, especially because they're both so pretty. Werewolf Sasha: Starting with Sasha gaining the werewolf curse, she faces potentially the ultimate sacrifice of her control as she has to face being powerless against the curse. Worse yet, Anne, the one she always thought her second in command, is now pushing back against her. Info from Marcy though helps her start seeing the joy of the egghead's gushing. Ends with the girls helping Sasha find peace with her wolf side by not pushing her away when Grime shows them her in her full wolf form.

Fr-Anne-kenstein: This is admittedly mostly a Marcy story despite the name. Marcy is a starving artist and researcher, pushed to desperation as she steals for food, then for laboratory pieces and then bodies for her anatomy research. With how everyone treats her though, it pushes her to make a friend. When she sees Anne's innocent eyes, the most beautiful things she's ever seen, she runs off, believing herself unworthy of ANYONE, let alone that. She had hoped them being a monster would make it okay but it does not. Anne sees the effort in making a party for her Marcy put together and after talking to Marcy who put herself in a grave, they decide to both give Marcy a chance. Possibly ends with Sasha getting made as a joke towards the Bride of Frankenstein.

Also, yes I know Frankenstein is the scientist but Anne as a scientist... I guess KIND OF happens eventually but mostly no. XD

Maddie the Witch: This one is a fun one for me meta wise as well as concept just because the idea is to actually use the frogs in a human AU like the Halloween Amphibia episode. Maddie has a problem. Sprig is a ball of sunshine who doesn't seem to live horror, creepy things, etc. like that. Even at 11 years old, Halloween to him is more about Trick or Treating than spooky costumes and movies. This is the boy Maddie, lady of the occult and master witch, has fallen for and is TERRIFIED of just being rejected outright if he knows the truth. Maybe if she wears her witch garb while they go door to door for candy, she can feel things out with him, even if she's surprised he was even willing to have her go out with him for this.

Like I said: I REALLY like me monster stuff, possibly because I like playing with their unique traits, the fear of being other, how they can contrast against humanity, etc. Hell, this actually wouldn't be the first time I've done this sort of thing for Amphibia since I did a one off for Cutetanuki's werewolf AU a good long while ago now. Three if you count when I had Marcy create a sculpted Sasha and when I made Marcy a clockwork creation (which I would like to still get back to someday).

But yeah, consider this an open call for concepts, monsters, etc. to play around with so I can try to use October as an excuse to tell myself to breathe and play around with that which lurks in the dark.

#amphibia fanfic #Amphibia #marcy wu #sasha waybright #anne boonchuy #Amphibia Maddi

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glitch-the-artist · 1 month

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SPOOKY MONTH: DROWNING MISTAKES

Spooky month x Benle the rabbit concept post.

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The episode starts with a shot from the woods looking towards a street. A figure slowly enters into frame, being 89. The camera cuts to a close up of their face, slowly zooming closer as it says one word, that being “hungry”.

right after this, it’s cuts to a office with a shadowy man behind the desk. A person enters the room, the man being hawkin sharp. The shadowy person tells hawkin that there has been sighting of a tall creature that resembles one of oxels old experiments, it instructs them To find this thing in a nearby town and exterminate them. Afterwards, sharp leaves the office, and sets off to find 89.

It cuts back to 89, now it’s their pov. They enter a garage of somebody in search of food, and start to look. turns out it was actually skids garage, skid and pump were watching some tv until Lila ask skid to bring some stuff into their garage. Skid goes ahead and does this, while pump follows behind, and finds 89 about to eat a raccoon at the other end of the garage.

Skid and pump instantly get hyped up from seeing this mess up being, and realizes that it is acting weird (and by weird I mean ABOUT TO EAT THEM.). pump assumes that it’s probably hungry, so skid runs inside quickly to get something for it, running pass Lila, getting a bit of left overs, and running back to throw them into 89’s mouth. It instantly just cuts it out and starts to sit down front of them. Skid and pump then instantly assume that they are their friend now, so skid yells to Lila that he is heading out with them, while lila is completely unaware of what is happening in the garage.

The scene then cuts to sharp entering the town, and instantly asking the residents about if they saw this creature. And while he is asking one of the residents, skid, pump, and 89 just run past them while he was completely unaware of them. Then the scene just changed perspectives to skid pump and 89 doing a bunch of stuff in town around town, causing shenanigans and what not.

Meanwhile Lila finishes up what she was doing, and hears a knock on the door. Turns out it was mr. Sharp checking if they saw anything, Lila of course says that they didn’t, but sharp ask them about their garage door being broken though. They then went to see what was going on inside, before sharp finds out that 89’s ink was all over the floor. Lila instantly figures out that skid and his friend were with this thing and freaks out, fearing the worst. They then leave to find out where they went, while sharp tells her that this thing is a killing machine that must be contained.

anyways the next scene is skid pump and 89 playing at a arcade, they proceed to do more goofy stuff before mr sharp spots them from afar. Then he starts going after 89, but the thing was a little to fast, carrying skid and pin along. So he takes a car and just chases after them, the chase ends with 89 stoping at a river while sharp kept going straight at them, attempting to push them into the river with the car. When 89 realizes this, he then pushes the kids away so they didn’t get hurt and gets hit with the car, falling into the river. Then 89 basically melts down into a puddle of ink after hitting the water, while skid and pump started complaining at Mr sharp on why they did that.

mr sharp then explains that the thing would have tried to kill them eventually, which the kids didn’t believe. Then a big ass hand of ink comes out of the river, and 89 comes back out completely messed up. Basically the next scene is sharp taking care of 89, and finally containing them at last. The episode ends with skid asking Lila at home if 89 was going to be back to play again. And Lila basically tells skid that they will eventually (she is lying of course). And the episode ends with skid and pump drawing in the living room, and having the camera looking at a picture of 89 and them.

also there is multiple times that 89 kills something or someone because he was hungry, while skid and pump were busy with something else.

(I was going to make more art as examples for this post, but i got lazy. Sorry y’all.)

#89 #the leviathan #hawkin sharp #Benle the rabbit #spooky month

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flower-gothic · 2 years

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walk among us (eddie munson x fem!reader)

summary: it's been seven months since you lost Eddie in the upside-down. tonight is halloween, his favorite holiday, and it seems that your past has come back to haunt you...

cw: mentions of death, very slight mentions of gore/injuries, angst, supernatural shit?? idk

a/n: wow, I've been writing like crazy lately! as usual, I'm so so appreciative to everyone who's been giving my little fics some love. this one came to me after rewatching the Halloween episodes of AHS: Murder House and the concept is based off of that. love you all and please enjoy!!

You used to love Halloween. The entire month of October was often spent celebrating the holiday, chock-full of horror movies and haunted houses and pumpkin-flavored treats. You reveled in the ritual of designing your costume each year, never deterred by the judgments of those who thought it childish. You even loved the excuse to gorge yourself on fun-sized candies.

The keyword, however, was used to. Because Halloween was also Eddie’s favorite time of year; it had been before he left, anyway. You still struggled with the d-word that most accurately described his current and eternal state.

Eddie adored Halloween as much as you, if not more. He often coordinated a costume with you and pulled out his Misfits cassettes for the entire month to set the spooky tone of the season. With the most wickedly ravenous sweet tooth you’d ever seen on a human, Eddie consumed even more Halloween candy than you. You found it endearing when, each year, he groaned to you about the bellyache that ensued, making you promise not to let him eat so much candy next time, but Eddie never learned that lesson.

It had been seven months, now, since that fateful day in the upside-down. It had been seven months since the hordes of demobats tore the love of your life to shreds, leaving behind only a broken and bloodied shell. You still had nightmares about his final words, the blood dripping from his mouth as you and Dustin held his fading body in your laps. And in the end, what hurt the most was that you simply had to leave him there: your sweet, vibrant Eddie lying lifelessly in the cold and merciless expanse of the upside-down for the rest of time, all because he had to be the hero.

There was a part of you, however ashamed you were of it, that was angry with him for sacrificing himself. Did he ever think of what this would do to you? You felt selfish for it; Eddie had died for something greater than your relationship. But sometimes, when you cried yourself to sleep at night, you wondered if anything was truly greater than the love you had for the scruffy metalhead.

You had survived and mourned for seven months, and though the waves of paralyzing grief hit you more and more seldom, October 31st washed over you like a tsunami. You didn’t decorate your home, you didn’t make a costume, and you didn’t bake any of the pumpkin-flavored treats Eddie used to love so much. Instead, you made an excuse to all of your friends and holed up by yourself in your dark bedroom. Rather than a costume, you had draped your body in one of Eddie’s Hellfire t-shirts; rather than attend a party, you had rented Evil Dead 2 and picked through a big bowl filled with Milky Ways, Eddie’s favorite movie and candy. You knew this was irrational, and you tried to go about your life as normally as possible, but on a night like this, it was all you could do not to fall apart.

You had gotten about halfway through the cheesy movie that Eddie had so adored when you heard a faint rapping at your window. This caused you to jump: no one ever climbed to your second-story window. No one except Eddie.

It was a pretty sick prank for one of your friends to do this, especially on Halloween night. Anger bubbled up inside you as you prepared some choice words for whoever was on the other side of the glass. Nothing could have prepared you for who you saw peering through your window, though.

It was Eddie’s curious face looking back at you when you got there.

You let out a bloodcurdling shriek when you saw him, backing away from the window so quickly that you tripped over your bed. This was impossible; you had been there in Eddie’s final moments–had held him in your arms as he took his final breaths.

You were too terrified to look again, afraid that you were losing your mind, but afraid, as well, that it really was him. You were still cycling through these thoughts when you heard his muffled voice from outside the window: “Y/N, couldja let me in? It’s freezing out here,” you heard him say.

That voice belonged to Eddie, it was unmistakable. You heard it in your dreams most nights, and in your nightmares, too. It never left you. On shaking legs, you stumbled back over to the window and looked into the face that belonged to your late boyfriend.

“Stop starin’ and let me in already! I swear I’ll explain everything,” Eddie pleaded.

Before you could think, you were unlocking the window and weakly pulling it open. Eddie hopped through the same way he always did–shockingly graceful for his tall, lanky form. His smile was exactly the same. You were hypnotized by it until he spoke again. “Hi, pretty girl. I know this seems in-fucking-sane, but I promise I’ll explain. Oh, one other thing: don’t look down,” he instructed.

It was only a reflex that your eyes drifted downward at his statement. They landed on his torso. Eddie’s shirt was bloodstained and ripped open, revealing torn flesh in many places. “Oh, fuck!” you gasped. A wave of nausea overcame you and you found yourself sprinting to the bathroom at the sight which had haunted you for months.

As you retched into the toilet, footsteps approached. “Well, I told you not to look,” Eddie said in grim amusement. You felt his strong hands pulling your hair from your face; it made you shudder. When you had finished, you turned slowly toward him.

“How are you here? How is this possible? I…I watched you die,” you said weakly. Part of you still didn’t believe it was real. It must be a prank, something Dustin or Steve conjured up. That thought was discarded quickly; your friends would never dare be so heartless.

Eddie nodded and sank down next to you on the bathroom floor. You were careful to look only at his face this time. “Funny story,” he began with a sigh. “After I, well, died, everything went dark for a while. But then, it was like I just…woke up. Part of me thought I was alive and I recovered, that you guys had forgotten me down there, but when I realized I couldn’t move beyond my trailer and the area around it, I knew it meant something else.”

“It meant what?” you asked. Everything that had already transpired seemed so crazy that you felt you would believe anything Eddie told you.

“Well, I know this is hard to believe, but…I’m a ghost, Y/N.”

You swallowed thickly. “But how could you be a ghost? I felt you touch me a few minutes ago,” you said.

Eddie shrugged. “Y’know how I used to read a lot, right? I read some lore and some occult shit, back then, instead of reading the things I was supposed to for school. It was still gonna be my year though, dammit, if I’d only been alive to graduate.” He laughed sadly. “Anyway, I’ve read about this. In some lore, it says that ghosts are tethered to the places they died in every day of the year except one: Halloween. On October 31st each year, the dead are free to walk the earth. And apparently it’s true,” he explained.

You nodded as you processed his words. “So along with being able to be free, you regain a physical form?” you asked.

He nodded in return. “That’s right. I’m as good as human, baby. For tonight, anyway.” He grinned his signature Eddie grin at you and your heart nearly burst from the ache of how much you’d missed it.

“So can I…can I hug you?” you asked cautiously.

“I’d love nothing more. I’ve dreamt of holding you again ever since the last time I saw you,” Eddie confessed. He spread his arms open for you.

Your eyes couldn’t help but gravitate to the open wounds that still littered his chest and torso, but the thought of being safe and warm in Eddie’s arms again won out over the reluctance you felt. You came to him slowly, wrapped your arms around him cautiously, as though he might break, but Eddie’s embrace was as strong and all-consuming as it always had been. It felt like coming home.

The reluctance and the fear and the surrealness of it all no longer mattered, all that mattered was that very moment when the boy you had loved and fought for and stood beside so many times was finally able to hold you again.

You pressed your face into Eddie’s chest and the tears began to fall: tears of happiness, tears of grief, tears of anger. “Why did you do it, Eddie? Why’d you have to go and be the hero and die because of it? Didn’t you ever think of what it would do to me, to lose you?” you sobbed into him.

His arm ran soothingly up and down your back. “I know, sweet girl. I’m so, so sorry. In my dying breaths and every moment since then I’ve thought of you. The pain of being mauled by bats is nothing to the pain of losing you,” he said softly.

“I wish you could take it back. Just take it back, Eddie, take it back and stay here with me,” you pleaded through your tears.

He was quiet for a brief moment. “I can’t take it back, though. And I don’t regret it. Saving you, saving our friends, was the most important thing I could ever do.”

You looked up at him then, and the sobs racked your body even more violently. “How the fuck can you say that? I’m a mess without you.” Your face contorted into a tearful scowl as you landed a soft punch to the middle of Eddie’s chest before collapsing back into him.

His arms around you grew tighter. “I know, doll, I know. Let it out. You have every right to be furious with me. I don’t blame you for feeling this way. I’m angry with myself all the time,” he said.

You didn’t say anything more for quite a while; instead, you simply let Eddie hold you as you wept against him. Eventually, your eyes dried out and the tears subsided. Your face was red and puffy when you finally looked up at Eddie again. He tucked a strand of hair, now damp and sticky, behind your ear. You sniffled wetly.

“Oh, my poor, pretty girl. Let’s get you into bed,” he said gently. Eddie picked you up with ease, the same way he always had.

“Doesn’t it hurt? Walking around and even picking me up with all your…wounds?” you asked.

Eddie smiled fondly as he set you down on the bed. “No, not usually. Only sometimes, when I have these sort of… episodes, I guess you could call them. The pain gets me then.” He seemed to shudder at the thought.

“So, what’s it like? Being down there all the time, I mean. And being a ghost.”

Eddie’s face became grim at your question. “It’s so lonely. I don’t have much to pass the time with, save for my guitar. Things are scary there, too. Lots of weird creatures and shit. But I know they can’t do anything to me. I’m dead already, after all.” He laughed a hollow laugh. The sound caused you to grimace.

“I’m so sorry, Eddie. I-I wish I could visit you, but….” you trailed off. Nothing about returning to the upside-down was safe or logical, despite the way you yearned to cure Eddie’s sentence to eternity there.

He shook his head. “I don’t want you to think like that. It wouldn’t be safe, and I could never forgive myself if you ended up down there for all eternity with me, no matter how much the selfish part of me wishes I could have you,” he said. Then, with a thoughtful pause, he asked, “Y/N? If you aren’t too upset by my being here, could I, maybe…stay? Until I have to go when the sun comes up, I mean.”

You smiled sadly at him and nodded. “Please, please stay, Eds.”

As you cuddled back under your covers and held them open for him, Eddie turned to the paused movie on your tv. “Baby, this one’s my favorite!” His eyes lit up in childlike excitement that wrenched your heart.

“I know it is. Look what else I have. Not sure if you can eat, but…” You gestured to the large bowl of fun-size Milky Way bars at the end of the bed and his eyes grew wide.

“My favorite,” he breathed. “I don’t know if I can eat, but fuck if I’m not gonna try. I haven’t eaten in seven months.” Eddie grabbed a handful of the candies and found, to his delight, that he could eat them.

The two of you laid in bed exactly the way you once had: horror movie on the tv, Eddie’s arm around you, and his chocolate-flavored lips on yours. You hadn’t been able to resist the urge to kiss your boyfriend after so many months apart; you did everything you could to resist the heat that coiled in your belly.

Much later, as you felt yourself getting sleepy and comfortable with Eddie back by your side, he spoke again. “I wish I could be here like this all the time. It’s so warm and cozy here. The upside-down is so…cold. I’m cold all the time, Y/N,” he told you sadly, and your heart broke.

“I’d keep you here for the rest of time if I could, Eds.” He held onto you a little tighter.

Though you did all that you could to fight sleep and savor the time you had with Eddie, the warm embrace of sleep was too tempting. This night had exhausted you as much as it had overjoyed you, and the familiar smell and feel and sound of Eddie nearby gently lulled you into unconsciousness.

When, through the haze of sleep, you heard that familiar voice say, “Goodnight, princess. I’ll see you next year,” you couldn’t tell if it was real or only a dream.

When your eyes cracked open to find the light of day, Eddie was no longer there. You looked around for him in a slight panic, and briefly, you wondered if it had all been a dream. There was no trace of his warmth in your bed; the scent of him was long-gone. But when you found a mess of Milky-Way wrappers arranged in the shape of a heart on your desk, you knew for certain that your Eddie had really been there–this was no dream.

Until next Halloween.

#I gotta be honest I wanted this to have a happy ish ending #so I resisted the urge to write an epilogue type thing where Eddie returns to reader's window next halloween #and she's in her room with her new boyfriend #and Eddie just watches them for a moment before leaving her in peace #but maybe reader moving on was what would let him be finally put to rest #eddie munson #eddie munson fanfic #eddie munson x fem!reader #eddie munson x y/n #stranger things fanfiction #eddie munson x female reader #stranger things

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conventionalwisdomcomic · 1 year

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Digimon Ghost Game reactions - episode 67

...no, seriously, we’ve all been watching Ghost Game Abridged for the last few episodes, haven’t we? I refuse to believe that somebody sat down and actually wrote episode 67 as it appeared on screen. This just HAS to be the frankenstein'd amalgamation of a whole stack of subplots and story ideas that were supposed to happen across multiple episodes suddenly condensed down to a few lines. I mean, that last Gulusgammamon thing... I refuse to believe any writer would willingly squeeze that in as such a rushed afterthought unless something had gone SEVERELY wrong behind the scenes.

And the worst thing is, there’s a lot of IDEAS in this last episode I really like. I’m on record as being really annoyed when an anime feels compelled to hit the reset button right at the end, so I greatly appreciate it when a season of Digimon is willing to just say “Okay, this is what the world is like now.” And that goes double for when the concepts teased by that new status quo are as compelling as what Ghost Game teases on the way out... SO IT’S TOO BAD THAT THEY DIDN’T JUST MAKE THE WHOLE SHOW ABOUT THAT. I feel like I’ve been handed a stack of episode summaries and been left to imagine what it’d be like if those stories were actually told in full. And that’s not MY job.

Look, Ghost Game is far from the worst Digimon series I’ve seen, but I don’t know if I’ve ever been frustrated in quite this specific way before. I really was willing to just go along with the whole “spooky stories but Digimon” gimmick, even if it wasn’t really what I want out of the franchise, if that was going to be all the series tried to do. But instead, after these last few episodes, I’ll never be able to look back on all of Ghost Game’s spoopy business as anything but “that dumb crap that wasted my time when I COULD have been watching a SciFi adventure in the DigiWorld.” You can’t just tease me with a taste of this stuff and expect me to not resent all the time spent on everything else.

Could the problem be Digimon Seekers? Did some executive demand the show end on a less Horror-themed note in hopes of having a more natural segue into the next project? I’ve got no idea one way or the other, I’m just struggling to make sense of all the BAFFLING decisions this show made over the past seventeen months.

But yeah, that’s it from me! I’ve got no new Digimon anime to react to! Thanks to everybody who’s stuck with these doodles and ramblings since I started doing them. If you want more, there’s always my original comics Far Out There and Conventional Wisdom for you to check out, plus weekly comics about OTHER anime debuting on Patreon. Oh, and speaking of other comics, I’ve been asked if I might start doing weekly comics on one of the older Digimon shows now that the new one’s done. That sounds fun, but I’ve got a HUGE backlog of other things I was supposed to have gotten done a long time ago, so I really ought to use this newfound bit of free time to get caught up on THOSE, not starting up a whole new project. So, no new Digi-comics from me anytime soon... unless a whole gaggle of people suddenly started donating tons of money over on Patreon and started begging and pleading for a new series. THAT would probably change my mind real quick...

#Conventional Wisdom #webcomic #Digimon Ghost Game #mine #anime

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dexter-erotoph · 1 year

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going through random dexter images i have lying around

this picture which seems to be drawn by skid of dex with a cat. the concept of dexter being right next to a cat while trapped in the h fella doll is concerning to say the least but like. they both look happy. the cat is smiling :o) maybe this was like near the very beginning of dexters possession

this frame from the rough animation of tender treats. instead of a missing person report dexters first tt cameo was originally gonna be an ad but i guess they scrapped it cuz it wouldn’t have made sense but i think it’s cute. he’s smiling n everything :o)

this official diagram of what exactly went on with dex and molochs souls at the end of sm3. i think it does a pretty good job of clearing it up but boy oh boy would it be helpful to have an updated version right now. wouldn’t it pelo. wouldn

my 2nd favourite framed photo in spooky month. idk it’s just cute and it has dexter in it and look at skid oh my god 😭😭😭

this missing poster of dex which im pretty sure is in sm4. so that’s the second time in that episode that his face appeared in the background

this . ok goodbye

#spooky month #dexter erotoph #sm dexter

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prof-ramses · 8 months

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So I talked in this post about an SM dream I had but there's actually a more recent one that I've actually thought about more since I've had it and I even came up with a tittle. So here's my fleshed out dream idea for a Spooky Month episode:

Simone Says

The basic outline is that a family with a girl around Skid and Pump's age, named Simone, moves into town and Skid gets a crush on her. Simone uses Skid's crush to drive a wedge between him and Pump so she can take advantage of Skid's friendly nature for typical bratty crap (making him do her homework and so on). Later, Pump puts his foot down and tells Skid Simone is no good and when Skid eventually realizes he's right but by then Simone and her family are ready for whatever messed up long con she was helping set up, which all leads to a traditional absurd SM climax.

The parody angle could come in the form of the plot being a sort of kiddie version of popular psychological horror, or there could be a more typical horror twist to Simone's family.

I'd love to hear some feedback on this and might expand it in the future. Also feel free to leave some of your own weird concepts alongside the feedback. Thanks for reading.

#spooky month #sm Skid #sm Pump #sm oc #spooky month oc

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illumoonated · 2 years

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Thoughts about Wednesday (the show)

I wished i liked the Wednesday show more. Truly. But...

...the writing felt half-assed. The characters felt lazy. The addams family felt not quite weird enough. It seemed to be a very safe (somewhat boring) reboot that ppl are groveling over simply bc they want winclair to be canon (which, fine do your thing -- but you're setting yourselves up for heartbreak bc these writers/showrunners give zero effs about making wednesday canonically queer). The love triangle was actually painful to watch.

There was throw-away "representation" with her being asked if she was into someone a "guy...or you know, a girl?" to get woke points. Someone else pointed it out too, but the black male mayor being told he doesn't "know what it's like to be not heard" was so incredibly tone deaf it threw me off. As well as the only real POCs having a personality being the actual Addams crew.

(The siren queen bee was cool but she like immediately became Wednesday's bestie after 2 minutes of a heart to heart at a dance? Idk she felt wasted/characterized too quickly to feel impactful when she helped in the last episode. There was no emotional "oomph" to her being on Wednesday's team.) ((Also there was the aapi vampire who smiled once and had a single line of dialogue or smth...? wish we got more from her bc that's a cool-ass concept of being stuck in a place like nevermore where ppl know you're an immortal--like I was waiting for a big reveal to be pulled from this vamp being like "hey I knew your parents when they went here, oh, that fancy book you need? I have read all the nevermore books so many times I can just rewrite it for you by memory, where's your typewriter?")) Basically none of the students "banded together" for Wednesday in a believable way. They just...did....?

And if the intent was to simply get a flavor of the month moody white boi as Wednesday's love interest -- fine, but you didn't even make them likeable (not the actors' faults, bc they were clearly given no direction other than "go and be in love w wednesday for no reason bc she's MC"). And Wednesday as a character would avoid the moody bois and possessive "nice guys" like the plague (pun not intended) and would find interest in a strange/true social outcast more. (If she's gotta be with a boy make sure it's like whatshisface in Addams Family Values who is nerdy and nervous and a true social outcast that Wednesday had a real banter/challenge with instead of gross obsession/ownership like fuccboi #1 and #2. Again, not the actors' faults.)

I am so torn as an ace person bc I want her to be aroace so badly (and I believe it would be an appropriate identity for her). I also don't want to be the ace person being like "no winclair shouldn't be canon" bc I want sapphic stories to be represented but I hate how any close platonic relationships are automatically romanticized/ran away with despite how the characters feel about the other person. Again, if this is a friends(roomates) to lovers story fine. But there's zero chance that'll happen with the writing where it's currently at (I mean, they can change this but rn I don't see it happening).

TL;DR 1. wednesday shows how thirsty we all are for true queer rep/romantic or otherwise

2. the love triangle trope (esp the cishet ones) have to be damn good in this day and age to be worthwhile (the triangles in 1899 come to mind as good, current examples involving fleshed out characters with chemistry)

3. the show is trying to earn woke points without committing,

4. the addams family is mischaracterized from the source material,

5. this reboot entry is safe, lazy, and predictable from a plot, character, and worldbuilding standpoint (I was expecting far out weird/spooky shit like the Sabrina netflix series tbh and was really disappointed in how safe this reboot played it)

6. I wish I wanted winclair to be canon but i don't and I wish I did so ppl don't think i'm being "too ace" or "anti-" bc anytime platonic relationships occur between two pretty ppl the internet loses its mind and disregards what the characters actually feel about each other (reinforcing that friendship < romance)

#wednesday #wednesday netflix #the addams family #wednesday addams

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Made another Spooky Month AU.

It's titled "Spooky Month: A Few Years Later."

Part 1: Skid and Pump, Episode 1 concept, and Summary.

TWS: TRAUMA MENTIONS, TRAUMA IMPLICATIONS, CULT MENTIONS, SUPERNATURAL OCCURENCES.

Summary: The AU takes place a few years later when Skid and Pump are in their teen years. Skid and Pump haven't had any crazy adventures for a while now, since after episode 5, they were basically forbidden to go without Lila to basically anywhere alone again. But one night, they decide to be dumb teenagers and sneak into a seemingly abandoned building, and end up stealing a suspicious key. Little do they know, for whatever reason, this key seems to be bringing them bad luck, and thus, their spooky adventures are back again. But this time, the spooky adventures are worse, and more horrifying than they used to be.

Skid: Skid has become more smug and teasing over the years, and has a rather dry sense of humor. He's currently going through kind of an emo phase, but that isn't important. Skid can go a little far with his teasing without meaning to sometimes though, and if he realizes it, he will usually apologize for it. But he is also very intelligent, and has very good survival instincts. Skid is also now skilled at the guitar, for whatever reason.. also yes, he still does love Spooky Month, just not as much anymore. He also doesn't dress in his skeleton costume 24/7 anymore either.

Pump: Pump has become more chaotic, and playful. He's very overly blunt, and will often come across as rude without meaning to. He likes going on adventures sometimes, but he's also a bit of a coward when it comes to the spooky stuff he isn't used to. He also swears like a sailor, and is very loud. He also tends to get into verbal fights with Susie a lot. And when danger comes, he will usually hide behind Skid. And yes, he too loves Spooky Month too, but not as much anymore, and doesn't dress up in his pumpkin costume 24/7 anymore.

Designs:

I also had a concept for how episode 1 would go in this au, I even made my own fan made thumbnail for it.

Basically, in this episode, Skid and Pump would decide to be teenagers, and would end up coming across this abandoned building that they heard was haunted. The two of them decided to go in(sneak in), curious to see if it was really what people said it was. The two would sneak around a bit, and would tease eachother and joke around with eachother. But then, supernatural occurrences would start to happen. Such as a figure of a ghost-like little girl peeking around the corner, ghostly voices of children, disembodied laughter, doors slamming on their own(Pump would probably get locked in on accident, and Skid would literally have to bust the door down to help him.). Pump would probably be scared out of his mind, and Skid would reassure him that they would get out of there as soon as he checked one place he didn't quite explore yet(Skid is scared too, but not as much as Pump.). Pump would probably follow behind Skid, very nervous and scared and desperate for protection. Skid would then check the room he didn't explore yet, and would find a mysterious and suspicious key laying on the ground. It looked to be harmless, so Skid would probably take it, and would lightly joke around in an attempt to cheer Pump up. But then, as the two are joking around, a mysterious and intimidating cult member shows up. Pump begins to shout scared but aggresive insults at the cult member, while Skid stands in front of him protectively while confronting the cult member. After the cult member would speak to them in an ominous and almost unhearable manner, the power would probably conveniently go out, and the cult member would begin to laugh manically while chasing after them in the dark. Skid and Pump would only manage to narrowly escape the building and the cult member, not stopping their running until they finally get back into Skids car. Skid would probably frantically drive home, saying he would report what happened to the police. Later on towards the end of the episode, the police would probably say they found no one there, and would most likely think they were pranking them, no matter how hard Skid and Pump tried to explain it. Skid and Pump would obviously be upset about this, but Skid would be more focused on comforting Pump about what happened, since he's probably traumatized now(Skid is also probably a little traumatized). The episode would end with Skid in his bedroom, holding the suspicious key in his hand while observing it, before shoving it into his drawer.

#spooky month #spooky month au #read the tws #skid and pump #pump and skid #skid spooky month #pump spooky month

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