#talkin' things

[twixtandshout]

Not to get too Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons, but I think Ruby Gillman  Teenage Kraken should get to meet and be friends with Meilin Turning Red and Luca and Alberto Luca.

Admittedly there would have to be some time shenanigans to bring the Luca crowd in, but come on. Teenage (non-mutant) undercover sea monsters. (You could bring the Ninja Turtles in if you really wanted to, they’ve certainly got appropriate parallels, but that is not this post.) Ruby and Luca bond over math and their respective years in hiding. Alberto is seethingly jealous for a hot minute over Ruby’s size and powers and More people invading the friend group, but Ruby is too sweet to hate and also is totally enthralled by his stories and swimming skills, so that helps. Ruby, for her part, is tearfully thrilled to have found some Actual super seafolk besties. Connor and Giulia bond over being left behind on land but loving this new relationship with the sea, and also their respective Wheeled Sports Vehicles tm. Maybe there’s a mutual “Ruby/Connor’s gonna leave me for this person/these people who’re more like her/him,” which after the requisite teenage miscommunication angsting and shenanigans obviously gets debunked because come on, they Clearly like you, it’s just nice to have someone who Gets It. These new people aren’t Romantic Competition, they’re your new wingpeople!!

Meanwhile on the Turning Red side, obviously Margot, Trevin, and Bliss get along wonderfully with Miriam, Priya, and Abby. Abby cracks her knuckles and begins the business of badgering another shut-in into having fun. Ruby and Meilin bond over maybe being a little too anxious to tell their friends to chill out with the merchandising – look, the support is nice, but sometimes it feels a little too supportive, you know? I’m still me, even if I Am a giant creature sometimes. Much fun is had with the “We’re just Canadian!” joke. Margot and Priya go on double dates with their respective five-second girlfriends. Bliss quickly becomes Priya and her girlfriend’s third (and is advised to take anxiety medication). Trevin and Miriam have some friction at first, cause he’s a Redditor and she’s a tumblrina, but Ruby is Very tumblrcore so Trevin clearly can’t mind That much and also we are all holding hands and smooching these days. Anyway I think Miriam should introduce him to gender and crack her egg.

#ruby gillman teenage kraken #luca movie #turning red #dreamworks #pixar #talkin' things

[madalenadrops]

Both. Both is good.

♥️ 🧡 💛 💙

#welcome home #welcome home project #welcome home art #wh #whrp wally #whrp #wally #wh wally darling #wally darling #welcome home restoration project #they be talkin #wonder what they talkin about tho #AAAAAHHH #its been ageeessss #but know that I'm trying my best to be active #other thing is that it's not working lol #anyway #i love ya all #so wonderful you are #yes you #you especially #thank you #no really #im happy you're there #💕💕💕💕 #oh #amd i absolutely adore them both equally #love to imagine concept Wally as a sneaky little gremlin who talks a lot of given the chance #art

[heartofaspen]

while you were fucking that old man i was befriending him. we were frolicking in the wilderness. going to get ice cream. playing board games. we are not the same

#talkin #don't take this as a shaming ppl thing i'm just asexual 😭 #and yes. this is about 12

[possessedpasm]

I feel like making art digitally has helped project this undue stress on ppl that art Needs to look perfect. (Whether it be shared or not). Because making art on a computer can pressure its users into making art that should look As Clean and flawless as possible, with even the smallest mistakes being such a dreaded thing. It feels more akin to a task sometimes than creating. And these mindests start to bleed out into other mediums as well.

I love art in all its uniqueness. The human-ness in it. I love when I can see someone's penmanship. Sketchy lines. Coloring Outside the lines. Thought processes. It's personality...

And not to mention; art has been so capitalized on, more and more, as perfectionism becomes industry and social media standard. It is a harmful, capitalistic ideal that is based in profitability and marketability. And I dunno, I think that's pretty soul-crushing imo!

Get sloppy with it

#talkin pasm #text post #idunno I'm just feeling things lately #art discussion #I've never been able to make perfectly clean art and I've tormented myself over it #fuck the industry get sloppy!!! #addition: STOP APOLOGIZING FOR HOW YOUR ART LOOKS!!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

years later someone buys the plot, turns on the lights and is suddenly worshipped as a sun god by a bunch of puppets falling apart at the seams

pov you break into the spooky abandoned Playfellow Studios building for shits and giggles

#lore tidbit! the plot is not available for purchase #the building is only Technically abandoned. its still very much Owned private property! #actually ive been thinking about the Other side of this au. the people's perspective #cause in this au at least they all Knew the puppets were alive #many employees - especially the ones working 'closest' to the puppets - put up a huge fight when the show got canceled #but it was either Disassemble (kill) Them or Lock Them Away #and honestly? killing the neighbors would've been somewhat of a mercy #but the employees had no way of knowing just how Bad things would get #wh lights out au #scribble salad #and i mean. the building's electricity bill remains paid. #the employees that felt really bad kept it paid over the years - devoting a bit of their income each to it #thinking the puppets would a) be awake & b) be able to figure it out #yeah that's actually a lil fun tragic tidbit as well - if any of the puppets had found the breaker.... #or found it and Messed with it a lil... flipped the right switch... #they would've gotten the lights back on no problem #but yeah anyway ive been Thinking about the employees' side of things a lot #might tie that in with act two. it'd make sense considering the shit that happens #well either they'd help the puppets out or they'd get shoved into one of the sinkholes by barnaby. so. #bc if we're talkin seriously here. the puppets are more likely to kill a person than worship them for any reason #they'd go full 'THREAT!! THREAT!! ELIMINATE THE THREAT!!! WE'RE NOT LOSING ANYONE ELSE!!!' mode

[ruushes]

you know i really expected to feel differently about gortash playing as the dark urge from what i'd seen of their relationship but i had the same gut reaction to meeting him at the coronation as last time i.e. an instant and urgent desire to beat his ass. conversely the first time around i didn't much care for orin but now. that's my baby sister. and she's never done anything wrong in her life including lobotomizing me. that's just sibling things.

#it's annoying that she steals one of your companions for basically the whole act but what is being annoying if not just sibling things #orin the red #enver gortash #nox #talkin #bg3

[tunabesimpin]

Me when the anxiety fights back

#i had to call someone back and i had to put my anxiety armor #its the simplest of things that can trigger a reaction #tuna be talkin #twst #twisted wonderland #twst oc #twst tuna #twst lilia #lilia vanrouge #twst fanart

[todayisafridaynight]

#iw spoilers #i GUESS ???? #rgg #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza series #like a dragon infinite wealth #daigo dojima #taiga saejima #goro majima #snap sketches #majima jumpscare AH #this stupid thing finally made me make my saejima ref sheet and i didnt even really need it #anyway this isnt what i was talkin bout when i said i wanted to draw a daigo comic #ill prob draw that other thing later but i have to go to class soon so. lol

[canonkiller]

art tip the best way to get people to care about your ocs is to talk about them like everyone already knows about them. bring the same energy to the table as you would when talking about blorbo from your shows. make aus of your own works. you don't have to be humble or shy about how much you love something just because you're the person who made it. indulge

#i know im a broken record talkin about this kind of thing buf i dont care! i love it so you will hear about it #not art

[kazehita]

thumbnail sketches

#kazedoodl #ShepsHermitDesign23 #i wanted to try this mystical “thumbnail sketches” thing to get better at character design #so i did some gems for week 1 #tooootlally not latw what are u talkin about #my art #geminitay #hermitcraft gem #newlife gem #(the druid one is VAGUELY bee-inspired) #anyway my conclusion is that thumbnail sketches are great! Muchh MUCH better for itterations

[twixtandshout]

I can't wait for Ingo to get back and be the more unhinged twin.

Emmet: Oh no. Team Plasma is attempting to take over the subway again.

Ingo: Correct me if I'm mistaken, but wasn't that train retired some years ago?

Emmet: Team Plasma, New New New New Team Plasma, whatever. We will have to reroute our schedules to clear the tracks. Verrrrrry annoying.

Ingo, cracking his knuckles: Very well. If they refuse to depart the station, perhaps some persuasion may be in order.

Emmet: Ingo????

Ingo: ...ah. Violence against passengers, even unruly ones who refuse to follow station guidelines, is prohibited in this time.

Emmet: We are Subway Bosses. That does not mean we do not have to follow the rules.

#emmet: were it not for the laws of this land i would absolutely love to watch my brother slaughter you #ingo: [blushing in mortification] please don't exaggerate. it would be a black eye at most #emmet: nope! killing. ingo: no!!!! emmet: killing and violence and murder! ingo: no!!!!!! #submas #pokémon #talkin' things #i love them your honor

[strangersteddierthings]

Shovel Talk(s) Final Part

Part One 🦇Part Two🦇Part Three🦇Part Four

Steve starts with Dustin. Not for any particular reason. Dustin is just the first person he ends up seeing after an entire weekend spent at Eddie's house. They'd redone their date in Indy on Saturday, getting back into Hawkins late, so Steve stayed the night. He had a morning shift at Family Video but it was Robin's day off so he didn't see her.

Dustin called at 11:00am on Monday to ask for Steve's assistance with his bike's flat tire. He needs a ride to Melvald's for a new tire tube and pump, and since Steve's shift doesn't start until 2:00pm he agrees.

Steve picks him up and listens to him ramble about his weekend and how he the tube got a hole in it. He stays in the car while Dustin runs inside to make his purchases, and then they're back at Dustin's house. Dustin knows how to change out the tube on his bike; he's been raised by a single mother for longer than Steve's known him so he's pretty self-sufficient, but Steve still offers to do it and Dustin lets him.

It's little moments like these that really let Steve feel like Dustin's brother. Which is what makes it easier for Steve to say, as he is peeling the tube from inside the tire out, "hey, do you remember a week or so ago, when you said we were happy for Eddie and me?"

"Yeah," Dustin says as he's ripping open the package the new tube is in.

"You also told me to not hurt him. I- why'd you say that?" Steve halts his progress on peeling the tube out to look up at Dustin.

He watches as Dustin turns sheepish, "I. Well, mostly I said it so that when I talk to Eddie, I might feel less bad about threatening him."

"What? Why did you threaten him?"

Dustin finishes freeing the new tube from its prison before finally looking back at Steve, "I haven't yet. Mike was talking about how Nancy gave you a shovel talk a while ago, as Eddie's 'best friend'," he makes air quotes around the words, "and I'm your best friend, so I have to give Eddie one. But Eddie's also my friend, so I had to say something to you, too."

"That's so-" Steve cuts off, because he was going to say that's so childish but Dustin should be allowed to be childish just a little longer. Part of his childhood was stolen by monsters and Steve can give him a little bit back, "that's a nice thought but please don't shovel talk Eddie. Besides, Erica beat you to it."

"Shit!"

"Language."

"Well, since Erica did it there's really no point in me doing it. She's terrifying when she wants to be."

Steve laughs because Erica can be terrifying. "Give me the tube, or do you want to finish this?"

"No, continue," Dustin thrusts the tube at Steve, who takes it with a grin and gets back to work.

Robin and he are closing on a Wednesday night, so it's been slow all day, and while Steve wants to talk to Robin, he doesn't want to be interrupted. So, they go about their shift like normal and it's only once he's locked the door and flipped the open sign to closed that he seeks out Robin in the back room, where she's counting down the till.

"Can you pause after that? I need to talk," Steve says and feels his stomach churn. He's never.... he and Robin have never had a fight, never really had any issues that required a talk. Not about anything between them anyway. Robin's always just understood him, in the same way he's understood Robin. They've never been the source of each other's pains until now.

"Yeah, of course," Robin finished the coins, marking down the amounts on a piece of paper before shifting to give Steve her full attention. "Are you ready to talk about it?"

"It?"

"Whatever's hurting you," she says. "I don't know what it is, but I knew you'd come to me when you were ready."

"It's been heard to try and talk about," Steve confesses, "because it's never. It was never you that I've been- I still don't know what to say but I know I don't want to be..." he trails off, waving his hands as he grapples for the words he wants.

"Oh," Robin whispers, standing from the desk to approach. "I hurt you. Tell me what I did, so I can properly apologize."

"When you told me to be careful with Eddie," Steve says, "after I told you about our first date. I don't understand why you'd say that me."

Robin looks pained and swallows before she says, "I'm so sorry, Steve. I shouldn't have said that. And I don't- I don't even have a good reason why I did. I know you'd never hurt Eddie. I know you and what I said wasn't even about you. Not the real you, anyway."

"So, why'd you say it, then?"

Robin frowns and looks away from him, shuffling her feet before she says to a point at the wall, "I was friends, or friendly, with a lot of the girls you were with in high school. A lot of one and done dates that I had to hear about, while they cried in the bathroom or on their bedroom floors, wondering what they'd done wrong, why you didn't stay or-" Steve winces as the reminder of who he'd been in high school comes easily out of Robin, but not for the usual reason he winces. It's not because Robin's reminding him he used to be a douche; she's reminding him of all the people he hurt and never cared that he'd done it. He never apologized, and now it's far too late even if all those girls deserve to hear it.

Robin is still speaking, "or whatever. But that doesn't matter now. You aren't that guy anymore; haven't been the entire time I've actually known you and it wasn't fair for me to say what I said. I just- you took Eddie out, and the part of me that spent years of high school consoling friends who felt used by you just spoke. I-I need to work on filtering the words that come out of my mouth, because if I'd waited like, four more seconds to process your words and settle in the fact you went on a date we both thought you'd never be brave enough to ask for, then I never would have said it. I'm so sorry, Steve. I know you and I should have known better."

Steve swallows thickly, because it hurt to hear but he also knows she's sorry and that's enough. He steps forward and sweeps her into a hug, crushing her against him. She squeezes back just as hard.

Steve has never felt really hurt about Wayne's shovel talk. It was the first, and the only one he'd say he deserved. Not because Steve deserved to have a shovel talk given to him, but because Wayne should get to have the honor of giving one. Eddie's never had a boyfriend before, and Wayne had spent so long worried about how this town would treat Eddie if they knew he was gay.

So, when Steve sees Wayne again, he just smiles at the man, and gets a genuine smile back. He and Wayne are ok.

He and Jeff apologize to each other next time they cross paths on a Hellfire night. Steve apologizes for being snappy and rude. Jeff apologizes for automatically assuming the worst of Steve. They agree to a truce and a start over.

Steve's convinced he can win over Eddie's friends eventually.

Steve can't talk to Nancy. There's too much left unsaid between them for him to feel comfortable with telling her she hurt him. But it's okay. He and Nancy aren't close friends, and she's leaving for Boston in a few weeks for college. He's sure that the distance, and not seeing her weekly for Lunch Date Day, will help.

So, he's a bit surprised to answer the knocking on his front door to see Nancy. It's an exact recreation of the day she shovel talked him and immediately Steve tenses.

"Uh, hi," he says.

Nancy takes a deep breath and says, "I'm sorry. I thought I was being funny when I gave you that shovel talk, but I- someone made it clear to me that we aren't friends enough to be able to make jokes like that. That's my fault, too. For everything I've done and never apologized for. So, I want to say that I'm sorry."

Steve's a little stumped, a bit perplexed even, so he speaks on autopilot, "It's fine, Nance. We're good."

Nancy squares her jaw and narrows her eyes and says, "no."

"No?"

"No. Don't forgive me. Not yet. Make me earn it."

Steve don't respond right away. He wants to just forgive Nancy, but when he thinks about it, he just wants to do that so Nancy will quit looking so defensive. He's not sure he does forgive her. "You're right. I- we'll work on that, then. Being friends one day."

"Good. Good," Nancy nods. "I'll see you are Lunch Date day, yeah? Or... or would you like me to stop coming?"

He shakes his head. "No, please keep coming. There's, what, three more before you're off to college? We can work towards friends in that time, yeah?"

"Yeah," Nancy gives him a small smile, "see you then, Steve."

"See you," Steve replies and shuts the door as she heads down the walkway back towards her car.

He wants to know if Eddie or Robin gave her the dressing down that brought her here to say sorry.

(It wasn't Robin or Eddie. It was Mike, learning what Nancy had done and telling her it wasn't her place to do that.)

There is one final shovel talk for the remainder of their relationship.

It's the final day in Steve's room at his parents house. He's moving in with Eddie and Wayne, at least until the kid's all graduate. Then he and Eddie might go off somewhere on their own.

He's finished packing up his things from the bathroom, and looks up in the mirror. He sees himself, and almost doesn't recognize the reflection staring back. He looks happy. Actually, really happy.

Eddie appears behind him in the mirror, leaning himself against the doorjam, smiling softly at Steve through the mirror.

"All done, sweetheart?"

"Yeah, babe," Steve says. "Just one more thing."

"Oh?"

Steve slides his eyes away from Eddie in the mirror, back to himself. He lifts a finger and points one accusingly finger at himself and says, "if you fuck this up, Harrington, I'll kick your ass myself."

Eddie's full belly laughter rings loudly in the bathroom and Steve just smiles.

#shovel talk(s) #steddie #my fic #SURPRISE! Bet ya didnt think id ever finish this fic #but neither did i so here we are‚ surprised together #i was talkin' with the besties about this and fell asleep thinking about it and decided i needed to finish it or it will haunt me forever #sometimes an apology doesnt need to be an apology. sometimes the explanation is enough #sometimes you need to apologize for a thing you said even if the reason you said it has solid logic behind it #and sometimes you just need to admit you were wrong and say sorry with no explanation

[chickenoptyrx]

*sittin up projecting onto the baby blorbo when I should be sleeping*

#just havin a super normal 1 #ok but i neddta tag rant #prepare for typos #but #like ok imagine you havin your first real melt down #you dont know whats happenin just that you feel like your goin insane #and instead of helpin ya #your dad- the only person ever been lookin out for ya #his solution is restrict your freedom/ cut off access to this part of you that he was praisin and encouraging before #cause yknow it scares him now #now bein strong and aggressive is bad and you needta be quiet and calm #but ay since you cant act up now problem solved right? #he can just ignore it all now #no way this sudden unexpected shift will trigger a downward spiral or anything #....anyway yes im sayin the big evil bad guy is just an uwu over stimulated smol bean #...but fr every time paragus says ' there was somethin far darker about him ' i get sad for the dumb man baby #cause man hes talkin about his kid #blah blah blah ok sleep. thats a thing i should do soon

[possessedpasm]

Hii 👋 I love your 70s actor lion so so much and I would loveee to know more about him, if there's more to know about that dude

Hiii 👋

And gladly!

He's meant to be a spoof on actor Robert Redford and-- more specifically-- the characters he plays LMAO he gained notoriety in the 70s for being generally good-looking and is an over-the-top representation of the movie genre back then (which one am I talking about, who knows)

I took a lot of inspiration from how Mad Magazine makes silly spoofs of characters from tv and film! The Lion Man, himself, is quite goofy and not meant to be serious at all but I'M GLAD PEOPLE LIKE HIM LOL

#my art #talkin pasm #i did not expect for it to gain so much traction but #if you've ever seen a movie robert redford is in... #me and my wife will sit and watch his movies together and have a counter of how many times he runs away from things or shows off his chain #addendum: i didn't use a single reference for making him btw and I don't know what that says about me

[luck-of-the-drawings]

my TWO FAVORITE THINGS IN THE WORLD, VAMPIRES N COWBOYS... deacon keller is SUCH a fun character, hes charming and funny but ALSO formidable and STRONG when he feels he needsta be. i hope him and arthur can get a chance to talk more and be better friends. l ike really good friend s. . like. like really good f. hangon i gotta go i think i hauve rabies.

#jrwi fanart #jrwi show #jrwi suckening #jrwi suckening spoilers #deacon keller #arthur bennett #OOUGUGHHAAOGUguguhh i feel so cringe whenever i ship two characters. like theyre not even REAL #why cant i be more 'hyperfixated' on getting bitched or something. CHRIST. anwyay i want em to hold hands or smth. yknow. freak stuff. #SO DEACON KELLER!! HE OVERHEARD ARTHUR TALKIN ABT THIS PLACE GETTING ATTACKED.. WE SAW HIM APPROACHING #AND THEN THE WHOLE FEAST PORTION OF THE PARTY HAPPENED N HE GOT STUCK #BUT HE KNEEEWW HE OVERHEARD ARTHUR SOMEHOW!! i just think thats neat. hes dedicated to protecting his people. hes respectable!! #GOD he doesnt even have that much screen time but i LOVE HIMMM n his silly lil shadow steed named Sunshine.. like cmon.... ugh..... #hes sweet n hes funny and he CAARES about the things hes in charge of on some levels. he certainly does his best to look after his own. #god idk what else to write here other than how much hes been on my MMMIND lately. the doctors are still running diagnostiscs #i just think hes so neat... also i think its funny that hes afraid o snakes. OH YKNOW lemme just talk abt my damn art. first o all this too #SSSOOO LONG. WEEKS EVEN.IVE BEEN WORKIN ON IT SINCE EP 5 WAS ON PATREON.it was sposed to be justa buncha doodles but then it Evolved #idk man...cowboys are just so cool...especially w VAMP POWERS..fastest shot in the west for a REASON BABY...n with the red smoke #n the glowing eyes..CMOn thats so cool i hadta get my visions into reality. the eyes were inspired by the music video for RATTLESNAKE (kglw #that where the IM THE SERPENT lines come from.lyrics from tha song.ooh yeah i love kglw so much...i also have other hidden messages here #i like to hide things...ALSO ALSO. I HAD SO MUCH TROUBLE W SO MUCH O THIS. the two bits with arthur n deacon biting eachother. AGONY #POSES ARE SO HHARRDDD SAME WITH THAT doodle o arthur slammin deacons head into the ground. WEEKS to get that pose RIGHT. I BLED SO MUCH #OHH AND GUNS???COWBOYHATS?? HIS GAY LIL JACKET? W THE DANGLIES?? AGOONYYY IT TOOK SO LONG TO PERFECT IT..especialy guns. OUUUHH #i also dont draw mustaches enough... which sucks bc im weak for a good mustache... BUT i think im doing pretty well on that. #it was hard but yknow what!! i think i did good! i rly like how this all turned out!! EXCEPT FOR THA FUCKIN RIBBON BOW THING I FORGOT TODRA #IN THE TOP RIGHT... THAT I JSUT NOTICED...its fine its fine i dont care that much. this is good enough to FEAST upon so im content n happy. #anyway i gotta leave ina few hours to start TRAINING for my NEW JOB!! CHEER FOR ME!! TRUCK IS A BLACKJACK DEALER NOW!! IEAAAHHH BABYYYY!!!! #thanku for reading my weird lil scrolls i bury beneath my posts. if u leave tags i WILL absorb them. and feel joy.

[ruushes]

there are so many creative ways to approach any given situation in bg3 and i remain staunchly ignorant of all of them and do the most obvious thing possible every time. i got an achievement for beating grym without using the forge hammer and was like oh that would've been really clever, wish i'd thought of that instead of standing around it in a circle beating it with clubs until it died

#actually the first resort is always lying. if that fails? violence #another enemy! what if i hit it extremely hard with weapons #human fighter ass mindset 😔 #bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #it does kind of work ic though bc of the 'smart but not wise' thing #any plan of lux's more complicated than 'hitting' looks good on paper and invariably results in gale being knocked into a chasm #talkin