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brother-emperors · 4 months

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BROTHERS

The river Weser ran between the Roman and Cheruscan forces. Arminius came to the bank and halted with his fellow chieftains:— "Had the Caesar come?" he inquired. On receiving the reply that he was in presence, he asked to be allowed to speak with his brother. That brother, Flavus by name, was serving in the army, a conspicuous figure both from his loyalty and from the loss of an eye through a wound received some few years before during Tiberius' term of command. Leave was granted, and Stertinius took him down to the river. Walking forward, he was greeted by Arminius; who, dismissing his own escort, demanded that the archers posted along our side of the stream should be also withdrawn. When these had retired, he asked his brother, whence the disfigurement of his face? On being told the place and battle, he inquired what reward he had received. Flavus mentioned his increased pay, the chain, the crown, and other military decorations; Arminius scoffed at the cheap rewards of servitude.

They now began to argue from their opposite points of view. Flavus insisted on "Roman greatness, the power of the Caesar; the heavy penalties for the vanquished; the mercy always waiting for him who submitted himself. Even Arminius' wife and child were not treated as enemies." His brother urged "the sacred call of their country; their ancestral liberty; the gods of their German hearths; and their mother, who prayed, with himself, that he would not choose the title of renegade and traitor to his kindred, to the kindred of his wife, to the whole of his race in fact, before that of their liberator." From this point they drifted, little by little, into recriminations; and not even the intervening river would have prevented a duel, had not Stertinius run up and laid a restraining hand on Flavus, who in the fullness of his anger was calling for his weapons and his horse. On the other side Arminius was visible, shouting threats and challenging to battle: for he kept interjecting much in Latin, as he had seen service in the Roman camp as a captain of native auxiliaries.

Tacitus Annals 2.10-11

there's a lot going on in there! Arminius switching to Latin is a detail that always makes me feel a deep kind of sadness, especially with how it's preceded by mention of their mother. I wonder what she thought of what became of her sons, on opposite sides of everything but still, inescapably, brothers. even when they want to kill each other. there sure are a lot of fucked up and unhappy brothers around. and Arminius asking about Flavus' injury............I also had a whole thing typed out about the horror of imperialism and colonization and the trauma of assimilation but I think this sets the tone better

Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest, Adrian Murdoch

and also this, just for fun

(ibid)

this post is already a mile long, so lets add another mile to it: a little scene at the start of their conversation! tfw you go in for a hug and your younger brother who also ended up being taller starts roasting your hair style

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara.app⭐ko-fi

#long post #SO LONG #roman empire tag #tbh im not jazzed about using that tag when rome is not actually the setting here but i do not have a good era tag for this yet #i'll figure it out later eurhghghesuerhgh #komiks tag #arminius & flavus #idk. maybe also #eye trauma cw #anyway it's all very 'he's my brother and i need a shovel to love him' kind of deal #this (wheezing) this is an idea i had LAST YEAR but it was a solo illustration #i had it posted for about ten minutes before i decided it sucked ass and needed to be revisited as a comic #FINALLY. the idea is complete. im free. it's been bothering me to have it unfinished while the original idea was haunting my drafts #as a reminder to get it done. and now i can delete it. au revoir illustration you will not be missed

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arttsuka · 8 days

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Octavius and Jed but merman AU. Maybe they're tiny mermen who live inside an aquarium 😂

How did they end up in there?

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serrybluesoul · 7 months

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after frontiers.

sonic tries to keep his energy and cyber corruption in check with the help of tails, since it didn't seem to have left him after the final strike against the end. the bracelets around his wrists and legs are built from the fox which should keep it down as good as possible.

but even that isn't enough sometimes.

his tamper became way shorter and he acts more aggressive. i wonder why ...

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sonic frontiers #sonic frontiers spoilers #cyber sonic #sonic au #???? maybe an actual au idk yet #serryart #yes im obsessed with cyber sonic what do u mean #also my csp died coloring this along with my graphic tablet. i'm suffering over here with my pc KJFHKJSDD #post!frontiers au

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whollyjoly · 4 months

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hi just thinking about how in s9e9 (taking the fifth) hawkeye gets a response to his bulletin for a night of bordeaux in the supply tent thats literally says "i really love good wine, and i think it would be fun to share a few belts with you. signed, chastity"

are we supposed to believe that's not implied to be mulcahy?? sir???

#the continuing saga of “em watches mash for the first time and has fallen in love with hawkahy”#i cant believe ive fallen on the hawkahy train but here we are #i continue to think theyre neat okay #can you imagine either an ep au where hawk takes “chastity” up on the offer???#or maybe a scene after the ep where a upset mulcahy is a little salty at hawkeye for not choosing him???#the POTENTIAL #im kinda obsessed with them your honor #...this would be a good fic idea actually #👀👀👀#hawkahy #idk if im sold yet on this tag but #otp: button up your overcoat / you belong to me #father mulcahy #francis mulcahy #hawkeye pierce #em starts mashposting #mashposting #m*a*s*h

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phant0municorn · 11 months

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goodbaye 2 dinobot(uninspired) haelooo lucifer<3

#beast wars #transformers #dinoprimal #optimus primal #dinobot #doop #im gonna dump about this au since like excluding the 1-3 and last 2 images like alot of this is almost from like a year ago by now so uh #if ur a FRIEND who has NOT finished beast wars do NOT read im literally gonna ruin some shit 4 u DONT do it. i SWEAR. ok ily bye #maximals and predacons crash land on earth yadda yadda except its 10 times worse they crash land on the wrong time where most of humanity #has already evolved lets say they crash land around 15-16 century or so. idk yet exactly maybe we may never know just know au is gothic #mostly kinda yeah u see op hes a bat and shit but when he was scanning a lifeform while being barely alive because wehn they crashed both #sides almost went up in flames literally and when op was scanning a lifeform he did scan a bat but it was full of parasites and he ended #up scanning those as well. hes like yeah hes a vampire but like not an actual one but just as scary since energon isnt as abundant as time #goes on on earth and its scarce op needs more of it or else he goes feral he has 2 eat the protoforms kinda. lucifer doesnt defect immediat #ely uhh idk if i might make this like a visual novel or something one day if i have the time or energy after a project im alredy working on #well see ok thanks bye #i also wanted 2 redesign db because it always kinda bothered me how like its just him in some western get up. i wanna commit more 2 it and #now hes a diamondback rattle snake(not sure if i want 2 specify eastern or western idk if it matters really) and op kinda like has more of #flea mouth but rins mouth is canon 2 they can coexist<3 ok now byebye #oops made it up on the spot last minute i hate doing refs but the top of lucifers head is his snake skull #i keep forgetting sm shit but also why do they fight whats the point. in the crash both golden discs were destroyed. theyre pissed off as #hell if im going down im taking u with me

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opalescentdreamscape · 6 days

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Omg Simon's part of the Stardew Valley crossover is so wholesome! But ngl I have an angst worm wriggling..

What if our dear farmer toggled the Shrine of Challenge and wanted to test their prowess on their own? Maybe Simon wanted to relax that day but doesn't restrict the farmer from conquering the mines alone. Or maybe he wanted to try out the dangerous mines with the farmer but got caught up with something out of his control and they had to go without him?

Either way, Simon gets worried the farmer hasn't returned at the set time they both agreed on, and he trudges down into the caves only to find his partner (in crime) laying face down and some of their valuable loot lost? They clearly have been bested, and Simon huffs in frustration, both at himself for letting them go alone and at them for not knowing when to bail, as he carries the limp farmer back home to safety.

I'm gonna stop there so this doesn't get super long, but I wanted to share the brainrot ejfjrjfdjsj

- Biscuits 🌺

DUUUUUUDE!!!

He was definitely with the farmer when they discovered the shrine, but they both had so many questions and so little time to do anything about those questions that they just shrugged and left the mines, promising each other that they'd go back soon and figure out what it did. Then they ended up having several days in a row where they were so busy with the farm that neither of them even thought about it until one day when the farmer was paying Marlon a visit to sell some old gear of Simon's. Naturally, the farmer asked Marlon what it was, and got SO excited by his answer that they nearly forgot to sell the gear in their haste to leave and tell Simon about it.

Simon was a little more reserved about the whole thing, but agreed it would be worth experimenting on. Except that he really didn't have the energy or the desire to go see right that minute, but the farmer did. So the farmer decides to go by themselves, with his knowledge and the promise to be home by 11pm that night. It was already 6, they clearly wouldn't be able to be gone for too long, and this was bothering them enough that he knew neither of them would have any peace until they got to the bottom of it (literally and figuratively).

He can't help having this nagging feeling that he should've gone with, though. And after about two hours, he's anxious enough that he can't stand still anymore, and he decides to go check on things only to not be able to find his farmer. He vaguely notices some of the weird stuff in the mine (glowing green ore??), but is so focused on getting to them that none of it even registers, and then he finds the farmer: bloodied, bruised, barely breathing. Their weapon is still locked tightly in their grip, but other than that the farmer show no signs of life, and Simon's heart drops into his stomach at the sight of them like this. (He barely notices the things that spilled out of their pockets and bag when they fell, but when they bring it up afterwards he just tells them that the loot wasn't his priority and they hush up about it.) He's quick to scoop them up into one arm, holding their battered body closely, and practically sprints to Harvey's clinic, desperate to get you fixed up and conscious so he can yell at you for scaring him like that.

The good part? At least Harvey doesn't have to get you evac'd to the nearest city hospital! Just barely though. Still, Simon doesn't let you out of his sight for 2 weeks, and he sure as hell never lets you go to the mines alone again.

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But like actually what a great concept, like the angst potential is absolutely there and I can see it going sooo many ways more poorly for Simon and his farmer. Thanks for sharing your idea with me!!! (Also sorry it wasn't *more* angsty, I haven't written angst in ages and I'm rusty lol.)

#mikah's musings #fanwork #angst #gender neutral reader #stardew valley au #cod au #drabble #answering asks #maybe I'll write some angst stuff in the future but idk yet #it was honestly out of character for me to even write what I've been writing lately lol #i don't actually write any more but it has been lowkey cathartic lately #anywhomst #this was Good Stuff #simon 'ghost' riley x reader #simon riley x reader

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cloud-the-forgotten · 8 months

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Imagine if Galacta Knight wasn't sealed away because he was evil/too strong. Imagine it was because he couldn't control his strength. He becomes so strong that if he isn't consciously dialing it back he could seriously hurt someone just by trying to give them a high-five.

It gets so bad that after defeating/sealing Void, he begs the Ancients to seal him away because killing one of his species is incredibly hard and dangerous to the people around them, and he doesn't want to hurt anyone. His time spent sealed away puts him in a state of consciousness and unconsciousness where he trains himself to dial back his strength.

Moments when he's taken out of his seal to fight are moments when Galactic Nova is controlling him, because the Clockwork Star knows Galacta Knight would refuse to fight if he had the decision. Unfortunately, Galacta Knight is completely conscious when this happens, and he hates how he feels both distraught because of the situation, and excitement from the thrill of the fight.

#I'm angsting him. and bringing a new idea to the table (maybe. idk if someone thought of this yet >w<)#idk if this counts as woobifying but uh. just think of this as a 'what if' scenario since I don't hc this :3 #this is just an idea that popped up in my head :3 #my wording is weird now that I look at it. oh well >w<#cloud does a ramble :3 #blorbo tag <3 #cloud's 12am thoughts #<except it's not 12am it's actually 7pm I'm just really tired #kirby #galacta knight #galactic nova #<since it's mentioned #kirby series #kirby fandom #kirby au #<technically? probably won't go any further with this idea though :3

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hartxstarr-art · 1 month

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i like to think that before Wild Horses, the last time spike saw doohan was three years ago.

#doodles #fanart #cowboy bebop #pokemon #trainer bebop #ambipom #spike spiegel #doohan #this actually applies to the pokemon au as well as my own canon:#after leaving the syndicate spike crashed at the shop for a while #he mostly. uh. slept.#yknow. the injury + depression naps.#hes known doohan since he was a kid but theyve never Talked talked #so doohan mostly left him be #...after a while he did get increasingly concerned #but.#it basically manifested in a hardy ‘’its time to get up son’’ and it kind of woke spike up enough that #he managed to drag himself around for a while before eventually disappearing one night.#anyways. ambipom doesnt have a name yet but he is doohans partner.#a thought i had earlier today is maybe he has the elemental monkies too…but im not sure. idk.#ambipom for sure. hes always had an ambipom. to me.

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do-rey-me · 2 months

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tbis is probably sooo niche but can u imagine laios dungeon meshi in crown of candys calorum? hed eat houses, mountains even

#my posts #laios touden #laios dungeon meshi #a crown of candy #bc of her magic #acoc #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi #more than that hed def eat people. but also he may have done that in the manga no food folk required idk i havent finished yet #paladin of the hungry one #(probs actually just a fighter but idk maybe pal)#idk where hed be from. maybe carn bc meat? but i also like picturing him as a lil cheese fella :]#d20 a crown of candy #d20 acoc #dimension 20 #chilchuk could be a lil beer guy from the grain place whatever its called #ceresia i think?#marcilles from there too. or maybe the border of that and candia #as for senshi idk. maybe he traveled so much hes got aspects of all the nations? or he a mushroom guy like from ravening war #fuck when did this turn into a qhole au

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druidshollow · 8 months

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theyre MY characters and ill make a cringe offshoot self indulgent au for them if i WANT to

#druid babbles #i have a warriors au for my story about literal regular human beings #and i have the offstring au for the iterators as well as. maybe. a warrior cats au maybe idk id need to find a song to associate w it #usually essential to my writing process #i dont have any dune songs yet actually. need me some

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gobstoppr · 3 months

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and btw im in my hater arc rn. as time goes on the more i find a lot of 'fandom' stuff insufferable (i like art n stuff. just the way that fandom refits every media to fit a single mold and set of boring archetypes is exhausting.)

i just get really easily annoyed lately. and have been unfollowing people on a whim a lot. its not personal i promise

#fandom culture has made me actively dislike shit i was fixated on a year ago. looking at your ninja turtles #its not even like what they were doing were particularly offensive it was just exhaustingly boring #im sorry i just really dont care about ur 2 million fics about leo being a sadboy. or one million seperated aus.#theres definetly a part of the whole situation in general which has been me coming to terms with my own internalized misogny #actively re-examining my tendencys to gravity towards male characters #idk maybe its making me dislike art more. but idk. ive always analyzed why i react certain ways to certain things. this isnt new for me #anywaays. i had been following a bunch of ninja turtle blogs and they sorta kept messing around with shows like ninjago too #and at some point i was just like. i dont know if these shows are actually that good guys. i think youjust like shows for little boys #and fandoms tend to shaft female chars so it sure helps that their casts are 98% male .#maybe theyre not your blorbo maybe theyre just Guy McAverageMan. thats not inherently bad but you have to consider it.#guys rottmnt is isnt even that good . its not that good ok. its alright/pretty good. and the movie does a few neat things #i feel like ive become one of those people that turn 18 and then immediately go 'minors dni'. im not there yet but i just.#we're watching kids shows. its ok . you can say it.#you may have noticed ive been reblogging a lot of dungeon meshi stuff. i read it all over the past week.#but here's the thing. i thought it was mid/good for like 70% of it.#i think its got some really really cool worldbuilding ideas and stuff #but i think a lot of the writing was sorta. uninteresting to me.#my discord friends have been raving over izutsumi for months.#but i found her presence in the story to be weird and underdeveloped. she felt out of place and her introduction felt clumsy #i felt when the story was ramping up the manga got a lot better. because again theres some rlly cool ideas at play #all the shit with the lion? incredible. the way all the infighting led to more problems bc the elves refuse to explain anything? rlly good.#marcille landing in power? reallly good shit. (i still thought it was a lil undercooked still tho)#i cant stop thinking about laios in that climax scene. i think he shouldve been feral a lot more often #uhh. i got distracted. fandom bad and annoying.#saw a post talking about marcille realizing izutsumi is only 17 and then describing how 'omg shes a mom now' and i wanted to throw up #im done. i swear. im done talking for real. aagh #text

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touchlikethesun · 3 months

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i’ve been in an (iwa)oikage spiral since yesterday. which really shouldn’t surprise anyone. their whole dynamic is so painfully my type i’m kinda embarrassed to admit it…

#the mentor/mentee dynamic except it goes both ways #angst but like actual angst because they’ve seriously hurt each other and reconciling that… it’s so hard…#two (three) different types of emotional disregulation that clash horribly #and yet… despite or maybe because all of the struggle… there’s no one else they could conceive of being with #there’s no one else that could ever come first…#i’m not doing a good job of explaining it #i’m sorry #maybe tomorrow after i’ve finished my 5th angsty soulmate au ill be able to better articulate my thoughts #😭😭😭#oikage #iwaoikage #do they even have a ship name #idk it doesn’t really matter it’s the oikage that’s really getting to me anyways #haikyuu

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gazspookiebear · 8 days

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Hey there! How have you been doing! Just thought I'd check up on you! Hope you've been doing well! I don't really have much to say, except that you're epic and cool! Since I was sharing some of the ideas I've had today, I wanted to ask you if you'd be willing to do the same? :> You don't have to, but I'm just curious! Also, out of curiosity, have you ever received requests on this blog? :o Not that you have to write them, of course! Either way, I hope you have a nice day! :>

I'm doing well, I just got home and ate some cucumber slices! (and chugged like 2 full bottles of water lmao)

I have a ton of writing ideas rn. Like- I think there are 100+ vague ideas written in my notes app, and at least 30 active wips. I keep switching back and forth between them, chipping away at each one slowly but surely 🫡 (gonna end up finishing all of them at once or smt, idk)

Some of the ones that I've been working on the most are:

Bartender reader x Gaz after a bad breakup (it's gonna end up being like 5 parts if I ever decide to post it, shit goes crazy in that one)

Firefighter Valeria (I finally got it started instead of letting it rot in my head 🙌 I don't even know how many parts that would end up being)

Transmasc cbf Gaz x transmasc reader (really don't know where I'm going with this one)

I also have a handful of platonic and romantic Ghost x reader ficlets floating around, might finish some of those up at some point.

And I know I mentioned a hybrid poly 141 x reader fic a while ago- that one is technically finished, but I'm not happy with it yet so I might go back and revise it

And nah, I've never received requests on this blog. Probably because I haven't posted a ton of my writing + I don't even have a pinned post so my blog is like. Impossible to navigate 💀✋️

I used to take requests on my other blog tho! I stopped after my hyperfixation on cod took over (plus I got like a shit ton of requests in one night and got intimated by it, never looked at them again)

I haven't even deleted the old requests from my inbox even tho some of them are from as far back as September. I have a couple of drafts for some of those, so I'm just holding on to them in case I randomly get motivated to write for those requests again. Probably won't happen, but who knows?

I've definitely written a lot more since I stopped taking requests tbh. Well, on this blog at least. I haven't posted any writing of my own on my main blog since January 😶

Anyways, thanks for talking to me!!! I love chatting with you lovie 💕

#I don't remember if I mentioned this #But Alejandro and Rudy are in the Firefighter au too #I think I did mention that actually #That they'd be cops #But I think I might do smt other than cops for them #Maybe paramedics? Idk #I also have a disabled reader x poly 141 Beach day fic but I haven't really started on it yet #I really want to tho #Teehee!!#answered asks

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bloom-me · 7 months

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This is my time to brainrot about something i made.

What if, by any chance, QSMP people became street racers. What if the eggs were like, their cars or some shit. What if Quackity formed a group of racers to try and win a cash prize of a really famous street race.

What if the Hermits were also in that race. What if the hermits are actually pretty good at this thing called racing. What if they think that the QSMP people were the ones who sabotaged them after their cars turn up completely destroyed.

What if my cubitos interact with my other cubitos and form an alliance to kick ass in the end.

#welcome to my brain #saw a street racing au for another one of my obsessions and thought: “I could bring my cubitos into this!”#Grian bonds with Cellbit over their shared trauma with other groups #Namely “The Watchers” and ”The Federation”#qsmp does in fact lose the race in the end #but the realest prize is /friendship/ [flutters eyelashes]#I need to write a scene where Joe and Phil interact #Havent decided on an actual name for this yet #Q-Hermit Street Racing au mayb?#qhsrau #idk maybe ill find a better name but for the time being #this weird acronym thing #QSMP #hermitcraft

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vaugarde · 6 months

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this one's just too easy. i have had vague story ideas for my violet team for ages.

#the only tweak is palafin in place of wugtrio cause i prefer it now #grafaiai (adeleine) is the main character here and idk the general plot yet #but shes best friends with miraidon (name pending) after she finds her on the beach and they defend each other #im thinking the school setting stays #and all of these guys are classmates who are collaborating on a group project #oh wait except for tinkaton. who is not part of the school but is following us at a distance cause shes down bad for holly (meowscarada)#and is too shy to actually ask to join. she copes with this by beating rocks with her hammer #and screaming her heart out #ceruledge starts as like the snobby pretentious smart kid but it turns out shes just autistic and doesnt realize she sounds like that slkdf #basically like ''omg we're in high school yay ^^ wait is the apocalypse happening''#anthro au #ok now that im done. can easily say the ones im most interested in are kanto kalos alola and paldea #echoed voice #i will do concept sketches maybe #actually designing em is gonna be the hard part

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socksandbuttons · 11 months

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Eventually ill remember to share my traditional doodles from my sketchbook again cause um

I just wfound the cutest lunar in there

#denying you all also biblically accurate lunars as well #what else is in heremany papyrus'#HAVE I SHARES POCKET YET??? I MUSTVE #anyway i do love pocket a shame i never speak of her #shes a sweety #i forgot whos kid she was actually #it was ink and someone else???? was it dream sans??? idk did i write it down #DOES BESTIE KNOW??? BESTIE DID I EVER MENTION WHO POCKETS PARENTS WERE????#i know tama basically adopts her #anyway i like to talk about what i got in here #and yet i have asks i have not answered im very sorry i do tend to take time depend on the subject #ITS NOT U ITS ME #anyway back to my perusing my sketchbook #ah yes my swap sumo pokemon au i love my guzma and plumeria design #anyway i was gonna draw undertale space may ill be around maybe #the lil bat version of her but she looked too old lady so i have to fix that #(ITS JUST CAUSE I ADDED A SHAWL.... THE GOSH DARN SHAWLLL)

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