#LITTLE SCRUNGLIES FOR REAL!!!
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i’m easy. you tell me shadow the hedgehog is getting new content and i perk up and suddenly all my pain and anguish is lifted for about 10 minutes
#saltcat text#if his writing is slightly improved i will do a little dance in real life and you can count on it#BUT MY LITTLE GUY IS COMING BACK MY BELOVED#SCRUNGLY BUNGLY MUNGLY!!!#JFJDJSOIFKSMMFOOWN STIMMING HARD
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hehe the scrunglys
I want OTH to be real
#off the hook#um this was inspired by what if off the hook in nsr because I am mentally ill#Marina ida#pearl houzuki#neon j#doodle was inspired by a friend#marina neonj friendship real?#marina my little scrungly
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Creatur. Babies.
#throwing this out here so dissapointed that rito babies aren't scrungly ugly puffballs that are 90% mouth#please baby ritos that are just as ugly as real baby birds please#knife's art#doodles#traditional art#loz#the legend of zelda#legend of zelda#blegh. little tiny things
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Update on the Duran/Koren fic
Koren on finding out Duran has moved past his obsession and that he's no longer the centre of Duran's entire world: >:(
#you don't know what you've had until you've lost it#now you've gotta try and like#be a real person??? wtf is this#korenposting#i'm sorry he's such a fun little scrungly man#seiken densetsu 3#trials of mana#yes i'm using the old names#as absolutely hysterical as brian is#in this household that shit ain't canon#i do not respect this man in the slightest and even i would not do that to him
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thinking quite heavily ab that god awful fake beard they put in one episode of macgyver
#he looks good when he has real facial hair!! idk how they did him so dirty w the beard#even tho it looks scrungly i do love it a little#but it also looks so wrong
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I have too many Thoughts re: bug angels so heres some of them in no particular order
TL;DR: endoparasitic, eusocial insects with a caste system. Demons are a close relative that predates on Angels — similar to the relationship between Bees and Wasps
• Angels undergo double-complete metamorphosis — which is a term now bc i said so — which goes Eggs -> Larvae -> Pupae -> Adult 1 -> Injected Larvae -> Pupae -> Adult 2 (think Xenomorphs — Adult 1 is a Facehugger, while Adult 2 is the actual Xenomorph)
• names vary based on who you're talking to — Adult 1s are called 'Cherubs' by Angels, 'Gnats' or 'Angel Fleas' by Demons, and 'Cherubic Flies' or 'Chicanery's Blowfly' by Hunters (im personally fond of Cherubs/Cherubic Flies). Adult 2s are commonly called 'Angels', 'Grubs', and 'Deific Roundworms', respectively
• completing the metamorphosis is an active choice. most Angels never grow past Cherub.
• Cherubs resemble flies w stingers, Angels resemble a chimera of mole crickets and large grubs. both have incredibly transparent wings with a structure similar to those of earwigs:
• earwig wings are beautiful. that isn't strictly about bug angels but it's true anyway
• Cherubs defend themselves with a violently hallucinogenic sting! That's where the name 'Chicanery's Blowfly' comes from
• their bite allows them to crudely direct human decisions, as well. It's how most people encounter them — Cherubs acting as damage control n keeping humans out of Angel business
• while Angels are Bug People in intelligence, Cherubs are a lot harder to pin down. They're not children as we know them, but they do demonstrate some behaviors we associate with young (ex: sounds of distress that are specifically designed to call adult Angels). But also they're fully formed animals that can find their own food?? They can carry out some very complicated orders, but they don't make many decisions on their own. But maybe they could???? It's Complicated
• as most Cherubs stay cherubic for life, Angels use them to carry messages, spy on people, influence populations, and basically anything else you would think to use a fly-sized drone for.
• the caste system is mostly based on development and age: Cherubs are at the bottom, Angels progress up the castes as they get older/stronger. But at the very top—
• —is the Angel Queen. most groups call them 'Gods'.
• Angel Queens are not deities!!! yes they have supernatural powers and yes they are v powerful but they are NOT Literal Gods. this is the core motivation behind Bug Angels: less power creep. (and more weird bugs)
• Queens are HUGE, ranging from people-sized to TRUCKS. they squish down impossibly into their host body n can "unfold" to scare away Most Rational Beings
•unclear how Queens develop. Chuck/God isn't willing to explain it. He doesn't want competition forming in his territory. (or within his colony)
• Lucifer is actually a sibling Queen to God but We Don't Talk About Lucifer.
• speaking of development, God's colony is so huge that he has his eggs moved into satellite nests referred to as "Nurseries". They're usually houses with a basement. One or two Angels in the area choose to become caretakers, monitoring the young's health, feeding them, acting on God's decisions to let one become an Angel, ect. ect.
• as the larve become Cherubs, their caretaker(s) basically approve or deny all requests for Cherubic use within an area. Some Nurseries have a very strict policy about when to lend them out, others will toss you a jar of Cherubs and mark em as 'dead'. This further muddies the "Cherub = Children" debate
• i really like how weird Cherubs are
• anyways Demons like to raid Nurseries and eat Angel larvae + their caretakers,
#supernatural#bug angels#insects tw#my poor little botflies... my little scrunglys......#i don't remember enough about SPN to pick an Angel to inflict w Demon Related PTSD#it'll probably be Cas tho let's be real
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Late night surprise
Written for the @steddieholidaydrabbles, day 12
Prompt: Only one bed
Rated: G
CW: Aftermath of trauma
Tags: Fuff; Humor; Post Vecna; Established relationship; Platonic Stobin supremacy; There may be several beds, but only one of them has Steve in it
Notes: Another collab with the incredible @house-of-the-moving-image, the art is here! They're all so cute and scrungly and eepy, look at them!!!
The neon letters of the alarm clock read 01:57 when Eddie is startled by the sound of frustrated tossing and turning.
“Grmph?” he makes and sluggishly turns over.
“Hey,” Steve interrupts his wrestling match with the pillow and smiles sheepishly. “Sorry, didn’t mean to wake you.”
“‘s okay,” Eddie mutters, scooting closer into Steve’s warmth, linking their fingers. Steve lets him in willingly, sighs when Eddie kisses his knuckles. “Have you slept at all?”
Steve shrugs, even though it ends up as more of a weird, one-shouldered twitch, all mushed together under the covers as they are. Eddie frowns, squeezes his fingers a little tighter.
“Bad night?”
“Not really,” Steve smiles. “Just … y’know when you’re real tired, but your brain won’t shut the fuck up?”
Eddie huffs. “Sure do.”
They just lie for a while, exploring the shape of each other’s hands, the rise and fall of each other’s chests.
“You ever tried warm milk with honey?” Eddie asks. In the dim glow of the alarm clock, Steve’s brow furrows. “Wayne used to make it for me when I was a kid. Call it the placebo effect, but it always knocked me right out. I can fix you one?”
Even in the dark, he can see how Steve’s eyes light up. “You would?”
Eddie softly kisses the tip of his nose before peeling himself from the sheets. “Sure thing, sweetheart. Anything for you.”
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Nothing will ever quite make up for your home being cleft in half by an interdimensional rift, but Eddie must admit that the house that came with the government hush money has its perks. One of them being two bedrooms, so he doesn’t have to worry about waking up Wayne as he bustles around in the kitchen.
He stirs the milk in its pot to keep it from burning and watches the little bubbles rising to the top.
Nights used to be terrifying, right after … everything. For the longest time, he thought he'd never be able to sleep without nightmares again. It was only after weeks, when he passed out against Steve's shoulder during a movie, that Steve told him it was the same for him. For Buckley and Wheeler and most of the others, too. That he didn’t have to suffer through this alone. (“You’re one of us now, Eds. And we take care of each other.”)
This is how it started. Late night calls after nightmares. Eddie sneaking into Steve’s house in the dark to crawl into bed with him - more often than not to find Robin or one of the kids already there. Steve coming over to Eddie’s if he was too shaken to drive. Holding the memories and the monsters at bay through shared warmth and touch, the feeling of a familiar body close by, the rise and fall of another chest.
At some point, they stopped going to their separate houses to sleep. At some point, the touches became intentional rather than fleeting, turned into entwined fingers, into hands carding softly through hair, into lingering kisses and whispered confessions. Even the nightmares are slowly starting to fade.
They've come a long way, he guesses.
He hums to himself while he stirs a generous amount of honey into the mug of warm milk, then pops the spoon into his mouth while he shuffles back to his room.
“Voilà, ‘ere iz your order, monsieur,” he announces, pushing the door open and slipping into the silly French chef persona that always makes Steve roll his eyes and giggle adorably. “One cup of our finest ‘omemade- what the fuck?”
The room is still dark.
Steve is still in bed.
Only now he's fast asleep.
He also isn't alone.
There's another person sprawled half on top of him in a heap of gangly limbs. A person with a bird's nest of dirty blonde hair, wearing a checkered pair of boxers and Steve's faded swim team shirt.
“What the hell, Buckley?” Eddie mutters.
Robin snores.
“Aw, c'mon,” Eddie grouses. He sets the mug down on the nightstand and crouches down so that he can poke her. “I was gone for what? Five minutes? When did you even- ow, son of a …”
Because Robin has thrown out a flailing arm, and he just caught an elbow to the face. Eddie cradles his stinging nose and watches how she snuggles closer to Steve with a satisfied huff. Steve sighs and smiles in his sleep.
“Seriously now,” Eddie grunts, tries to wiggle into what little space is still unoccupied on the mattress. “That's my boyfriend, Bucks. Not to mention my bed. At least lemme- woah!”
A bony knee hits him in the stomach. He slips and lands square on his ass on the cold floor, taking the comforter with him.
“Eds,” Steve grumbles. “Don't steal the covers.”
Eddie flies to his feet, snarky remark ready on his tongue-
-and stops.
Because Steve and Robin look … well, they look funking adorable, okay? What kind of guy would he be to wake them? It would be like frightening a cuddle pile of cute little puppies, and contrary to what the general public may think, Eddie isn't the type who harms puppies. Or tears pretty boys who have finally fallen asleep apart from their platonic soulmates.
Eddie sighs and drapes the comforter back over the pair, leaning over Robin's limp form so that he can drop an awkwardly angled kiss to Steve’s temple.
“Sleep well, you dumbasses. See ya tomorrow.”
He grabs an afghan from the desk chair, makes for the door, then turns back and takes the mug of warm milk with him. If he's gonna sleep on the couch, he might as well get cozy.
He may have to invest in a larger bed.
All my holiday drabbles
#steddie#steve harrington x eddie munson#steve x eddie#steddie brainrot#steddie fanfic#fanfiction writer#fanfiction#fanfic#my writing#steddie holiday drabbles#steddieholidaydrabbles#hype's holiday drabbles
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The reason why so many writers fail to write those Tough Edgy Cool Dude Overpowered Badass Protagonists is that the key to writing them is that they aren't supposed to be actually cool. Sure, the character's design is badass, he's got awesome powers and and he manages to look cool in individual scenes taken out of context, but if you scrape off that thin veneer of "holy shit did you see that gun flip?" this guy is just a skittish, scrungly little loser full of false bravado.
Like yeah sure he could split a fucking planet in half and look cool doing so, but the reason he did that was in an attempt to try to get his ex back, but she's already moved on and is dating someone better who actually has a real job. And doesn't have an overwhelming porn addiction.
And a key element to making characters like this lovable is making a split between the characters who actually buy that bravado bullshit, and the ones who see right through it. You can't write a Cool Tragic Protagonist Who's Hated By Everyone For No Reason, that's not realistic and emotionally mature people don't relate to that, nor can you write a Cool Tragic Protagonist Who Is Adored And Admired By Everyone, that's just mortifying and cringe. But you can write one that can fool some people sometimes, but also makes someone else facepalm and go "I can't believe those people actually think that my loser brother is cool."
This divide also happens in the audience - splitting them into the adoring and naive who genuinely buy into the whole Thin Veneer Of Awesome Badass, and the ones who can see right through it and still love this unfathomably pathethic wretched little creature whose only tangible achievement is managing to look hot in a trenchcoat.
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Been a super busy day today (at the hospital with my bubbe again), but I promise I'll get to asks as soon as I can. In the meantime, have a quick update on my sweet snakes!
Just like clockwork, Miriam's shed finished up. Check her out in her fresh new clothes!
Can't believe my sweet little girl is getting so big!! Ignore how scrungly the shed looks lol, it was a perfect shed but she always rolls them up in a little ball for me to find so they inevitably get ripped.
We got Hobie's x-rays in, confirming his spinal kinks shouldn't cause any issues with digestion, so he's finally cleared to eat appropriately-sized rats for his weight! 🎉🎉
He was absolutely delighted to get his first medium-sized rat; he had a bit of trouble figuring out how to get such a big rat down but he figured it out! He stretched up real tall to help it down and nearly capsized backwards.
Pictured: a very full, very satisfied young man
Sirius doesn't have much going on today but he does look a bit grumpy. Sucks not being the center of attention for once I guess
#not a rating#my snakes#constrictors really make you unroll their sheds like a condom huh#miriam#hobie#sirius
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❤ ENEMIES TO LOVERS W/ MIRIO TOGATA FT. SHORT READER ❤
Repost of the fic because my dumb ass DELETED IT :((
WARNINGS: swearing, slight suggestibe themes. bickering and general bullfuckery with my scrungly <3
You absolutely despised how positive this man was, why is he so loud all the time? why does he tell lame jokes? how is he always so smiley? isn’t it tiring?
You scoffed whenever he entered the room, you rolled your eyes when he addressed you and did all sorts of rude things just to get a rise out of him.
Of course he noticed all the stank faces you threw at him for just breathing in your general direction. And quite frankly he’s had enough.
That’s perfectly fine, two can play that game.
“Ey Mirio, you got the notes to the class? Your fucking lamp post of a body was blocking my view from the board.”
“Bold of you to assume I was even taking notes, Lord Farquad.”
After that its CONSTANT BICKERINGGGG. The both of you keep trying to find some way or the other to get on the others nerves.
Very entertaining to see you two fight, “Better than Love Island” quotes Tamaki.
“You have the personality equivalent to a wet sock covered in glitter”
“Real.”
“Talking with you feels like putting on an itchy sweater that’s six sizes too small.”
“Fells like I’m pouring straight bleach into my eyes when I look at you.”
“FUCK YOU, GO TO HELL”
“Noted. Savin’ u a seat, you want the kiddie size or are you big enough to sit in the regular ones?”
Does the stupidest things to get your attention, takes out all your pen cartridges, blunts your sharpener, flicks erasers at you, messes with ur binder notes mixing subjects, sending u pictures of minion tic tacts saying “Look its you <3”, vandalizing your textbooks ect ect.
Unrelated but he’s got u saved as “Fucky Faced Chihuahua” cause he heard you got him saved as “Sentient Shitstain”
He’ll shove his hand to cover your entire face to silence you.
“Ah pupupupuh shut.”
Favourite past time is commenting on your height and watching you get all huffy and red about it. Constantly using your head as an arm rest, putting your favourite mug on the top shelf and hiding the stool you use loves seeing you jump to get it and snatching stuff from your desk which you left unattended dangling it over your head. He is fully entertained when you bark at him.
He’s normally un-phased at your snarky comments and playfully goes along but one rare occasions he’ll let you have it.
“God help you if you interrupt me one more time for I am going to pour cement into your ears”
“YOU LYING, CHEATING, DUSTY LITTLE FUCK TRUMPET-”
“Your smooth brain cant even recall what a participant phrase is, let alone you being able to comprehend the concept itself.”
Zero chill during sparring session. none at all.
Oh you think you’re besting him bc you manages to land a singular punch on him? bet, he’ll body slam you further asserting how small you are compared to the absolute giant he is.
Somewhere along the lines the bickering and taunting turns into passive aggressive flirting and its just glorious.
“I am going to smother you with a pillow shut the fuck up”
“BET, who’s dorm?”
“That is the ugliest fucking shirt i have ever seen you wear.”
“take it off then if you have a problem with it??”
“…”
“...wAIT-”
#mirio togata#mirio#mirio togata x reader#mirio x reader#mirio togara x y/n#mirio x you#mirio togata x you#mirio x y/n#mha mirio togata#mha fanfiction#mirio togata headcanons#mirio headcanons#mirio togata fanfiction#mha x reader#bhna x reader
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TF2 ships and i think have chemistry and why
(note : i don't personally ship any of the mercs together, except maybe heavy and medic)
Heavy + Medic
a classic! needs no explanation. they're besties, your honor. they work well in battle, and they mesh well outside of it, so they'd obviously make a good couple.
Medic + Scout
for this one, i feel like scout would physically appeal to medic since he's the youngest and also very fit and in quite good health. subsequently, scout would get some fucked up sexual awakenings from medic's "inspections"
Scout + Sniper
lively young spud full of energy + scrungly sad wet cat of a man dynamic i find very cute. also the interesting dynamic between scout's submissiveness and easy bashfulness despite a tough exterior, and sniper's predatory nature and dominance despite a quiet exterior.
Demoman + Soldier
this one also needs little explanation. this applies to specifically red + blu. they were canonical best friends, could very well be somethin more.
Medic + Engineer
these two do some pretty cool stuff when they put their smart little heads together, shown extensively in expiration date. all that time spent alone together in a lab could get a little devious.. engineer also seems to have a habit of lobbing his own limbs off without much thought, so medic is required.
Spy + Sniper
classic enemies to lovers. they're natural rivals in gameplay, so it'd be real silly if they were a couple in non-gameplay. they share a very quiet and reserved nature i think they'd like in each other.
Pyro + Engineer
this "ship" i see as more platonic. the other mercs really fear pyro and avoid them mostly, while engineer's gentle nature allows him to show kindness to them. this, in turn, lets pyro show their sweetness to him freely and have it reciprocated.
#team fortress 2#tf2#tf2 headcanons#tf2 demoman#tf2 medic#tf2 pyro#tf2 sniper#tf2 soldier#tf2 engineer#tf2 heavy#tf2 ship#heavy x medic#medic x scout#scout x sniper#demoman x soldier#medic x engineer#spy x sniper#engineer x pyro
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I’m still rather busy but. You can tell he’s real excited to be here (he however cannot tell). built with lots of love but might not be aware 🤔
Bonus scrungly Cali doodles. He’s pathetic but he’s a little lovely 🤏 might compress him into molecules later idk
#wttt#welcome to the table#welcome to the statehouse#ben brainard#wttt fan art#wttt fanart#wttt headcanons#wttt alaska#wttsh#wttsh fanart#wttt california#wttsh california#wttsh alaska#wttsh art
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This is riding off the language stuff in sagau but I just cant get it out of my head a reader who uses tumblr slang every once in a while. like they meet the Traveller and they're like "Omg I'm so cheesed to meet you!!" And the Traveller is just like "???" meanwhile Paimon integrates that into her vocabulary. And then maybe at some point, if the reader has a vision they're like "MAIMING AND BITING YOU" "THAT'S IT! I'M SENDING YOU TO EEBY DEEBY!" while their poor teammates are so confused. Just imagine going over to ppl like Razor, Klee, Chongyun and going "Awwww my lil scrunglos"
Just a very chaotic reader in general lmao
HEY WASSUP ANON
MY BRO THIS IS SO OLD BY NOW IM SO SORRY LMAO- SO ANYWAY HELLO!!! A DESSERT FOR UR PATIENCE 🍨🍧🛐
FOR WAITING SO LONG HERE IS SUM ASS WRITINF MY FRIEND HOPE U GET SMTH OUTTA IT
Bro imma be honest i missed out on some slang on tumblr bc i was off of it for awhile before i refreshed this old blog
So my reaction to these slang words (except for scrunglies/scrunglos ik that one) is just as confused but also its rlly funny that im in the same situation as them LMAO 😭
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I would think honestly, even if ur doin it on purpose,
I feel like some slang or refs r too ingrained into my soul to not make
So i would just accidentally use slang/memes, esp around funny ppl like Kaeya or Beidou, and then just give up eventually 💀
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So i stg everytime Xiao shows up in a event or smth it surprises me everytime lol
With his teleporting ability i would guess that if ur just chillin around Liyue anytime, Xiao just… shows up lol
Tea with Zhongli? Oh jesus Xiao’s here now.
Watching Xinyan and Yunjin play? Hes on the roof.
Picking ingredients with Xiangling to help her cook yall some amazing food?
Hes in the tree u were just picking Sunsettias in-
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So ur in Mondstadt, and ur like,
“oh well no Xiao here, huh kinda feels weird now”
eventually ur dumbass trips over nothing and goes tumbling down a hill, u know, as u do
Ur at the bottom like, 💀
And its kinda hot and ur tired, and r selfaware of ur own goofiness so u just-
“I can see the end of the horizon, is this an internal dialouge-”
Xiao comes around the hill ur splayed at the bottom of.
UR STARTLED BC WTF MONDSTADT?? XIAO??? SO U JUST
“HATSUNE MIKU-”
CRYING-
AND XIAOS LIKE-
“??? No. It’s me. Xiao. The Yaksha Adeptus, my liege?”
HAHFLAHHAHA
AND HE KEEPS ASKING U WHO HATSUNE MIKU IS THE WHOLE WAY BACK TO THE CITY AS HE ESCORTS U LFMAO
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U see those scary ruin machines the ones with the fucking legs in Sumeru,
Cyno is ur bodyguard for the day,
And at first he doesn’t see it, like its behind him, but it just like came around a corner, so it hasnt locked in on yall yet
(i headcanon that even if u r the Creator, these are machines, and dont have the sentience to even be self-aware let alone process wtf u are, ig if Khaeynriah made hella AI that is aware maybe it could fathom u)
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And u try to warn him but not scare him, so
“CYNO.
CYNO, THE HORSE IS HERE-”
Cue Cyno like
“A horse??? In the desert, Greatest Lord what the fu-”
Almost gets stomped on 😭 rip.
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U see Scara for the first time and u befriend him
Ur the only god besides Nahida he’s ok with aw
and one day he’s bodyguarding u around Sumeru
He gets a little too into it and goes ham on several ruin machines
Like full on elmo burning anarchy meme, he's literally cackling floating above the pile of flaming metal-
And ur just clapping like: “that’s my skrunkly :) <3"
He literally interrupts his own cackle, its the most expressive youve ever seen him
😶 😑 😶 ?????¿¿¿??¡¡?!!
HE WILL NOT STOP HARASSING U ABOUT WHAT IT MEANT LMAO
U usually define the words/memes as best u can but u specifically just call him that and never explain LOL
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🎵 HI. ITS ME. IM THE PROBLEM ITS ME. 🎵
SO SORRY ANON MY BEAUTY- I HOPE U CAN FORGIVE ME FOR TAKING SO LONG 🙏
I dont even mean just replying with a real thing^
I probably couldve posted ur ask w/o even adding onto it tbh
I dont think its anywhere near as chaotic as what u described but ya boy isnt the good at writing 😔
so i just focused on the memes 🤲
Have a good week anon :O !!
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Cheers,
🌒🌧🌊 💀Aquarius ♒️🌌🌘
♡the beloveds♡
@karmawonders / @0rah-s / @randomnatics / @glxssynarvi / @nexylaza / @genshin-impacts-me / @wholesomey-artist
#bless u anon#srsly this couldve been a standalone ask and i coulda just been like hey guys ^^^#check it#but i wanted to try to repay u for the idea#and the wait for the reply lol#🙏 luv ya anon#genshin impact#genshin sagau#my asks#sagau#genshin imagines#genshin sagau ideas#gender neutral reader#genshin isekai#genshin god reader#genshin cyno#genshin xiao#genshin scaramouche#genshin wanderer#ask box open#genshin skrunkly#i mean what
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what's something you would want to see in an animated adaptation of the underland chronicles?
Oh BOY where to begin?
These are going to be in no particular order...
Each trailer should have the prophecy read out in a dramatic voice. The trailer for the first one will go "And eight will be left when we count up the dead" and then a quick montage of some pretty scary shit happening but the cuts are too fast to see what's actually happening. The only exception to this is the marks of secret where the fact that the song is a prophecy is a reveal (however the song plays in full in the trailer, it's just structured different from the others)
The animation should be a little edgy. Give things hard angles, stay away from the bulbous smooth (Modern) Disney look.
Really go nuts with the bat designs. Embrace the warrior cats OC-ness of it. Let all the background bats be just as vibrant and wacky as the main cast.
Everyone's bond should sorta look like them, kinda the way that dogs kinda look like their owners. Solovet's bond should look like a total villain. Euripides should look like Vikus. I mean, Aurora's got that gold thing going on which Luxa also has with the crown. The bonds gotta look like they belong together spiritually.
The nibblers need to have more of a role before the marks of secret. Have them in the background of other shots, have them actually get lines in the jungle, see if they can be more present at the council discussing the plague, write some new scenes for them, etc. I wouldn't even be against them inventing a new nibbler character and putting them on one of the earlier quests. The audience should already know and care about them before we see them being horribly brutalized in a reenactment of a real world genocide.
Ares, and all the other bats for that matter, need to have very expressive eyes. They don't always get a lot of lines so they should still have a way to have visible presence in the scene's that they're in.
Every time the bats do that thing where they detect rats and their ears shoot up it should play a musical sting
All the underland creatures/factions should have their own leitmotif. Ripred's lieitmotif should be this uncanny blending of both the rat's theme but also with hints of the Regalians and Gregor's. After Gregor think's that boots has died in the labyrinth there should be this super dramatic and gutwrenching theme, and then all the music just stops for the rest of the movie until they reunite and then the music can come back. The most you get is like a minimalist drum and base sequence, but nothing properly melodic until we know that boots is safe.
The sequence Gregor escaping with Ares and Pearlpelt from the labyrinth should be all in one take.
Every time Gregor slips into the Rager state it should be accompanied by a recognizable sound effect sting and have it's own sound effect and muscial sting. Something like glass shattering mixed with reverb and pitch shifted down. Rager sequences should be in first person and show just how much he's dissociated from the violence he's doing. The audience just sees that split vision with all the weak points highlighted and one by one they get crossed out.
I hope they cast someone appropriately nasally to play Ripred, I think he should be a little high pitched and scrungly. However, I would make an exception if they somehow got Kieth David to voice him. I would be very unsatisfied if they cast Ryan Reynolds
I hope they cast someone with a deep voice to play Ares. He needs to be big and imposing and scary. He needs to be like the big kid at the playground. The fact that there's a more pained sensitive side to him needs to be a revelation. He needs to be a bit monstrous so you can understand why everyone sees him that way, and why he's dying not to be seen that way but has basically given up and accepted how the world sees him. I would be very Unsatisfied if they cast Ryan Reynolds. It would be fucking hilarious if they cast Chris Pratt... I would hate it but it would probably work and that makes me very mad.
I don't really care how Gregor is cast. Caleb McLaughlin would be a perfect Gregor, but he's all grown up now. He could probably still voice him but it wouldn't be the same. I do not care so long as it's not Ryan Reynolds.
Please don't have anyone call Gregor "Greg"... that just feels wrong. Well maybe Ripred would do it specifically to piss him off.
Henry needs to have a dumb haircut, like... it has to be stupid and ostentatious.
The audience should get to see Ripred from close to Gregor's perspective often. Have the camera right over his shoulder and tilted up to see just how tall this beast is.
Let us see more of the happy times that are alluded to at the start of the marks of secret. Even if it's just a montage, let us see them being normal. Let us see Gregor and Ares play that ball game and see the kids just hanging out. Please 😭
Make Gregor more talkative. There's great moments of internal monologue that could be lost in a screen adaptation, let him talk to Ares or Luxa or even temp about it.
In the code of claw Ares should go with him to the prophecy room to learn that he's going to die. Gregor should tell him about the stone knight and it can be something they share. You can even set it up with them doing the bond handshake there while laying on the floor so that it's a visual callback later (Fuck, I just thought of that and now I'm destroyed again).
I mentioned this in another post, but I think it would be cool to have Gregor get a walkman or other battery powered music player from the museum. They can have a few tunes to bond over, but eventually they have to take the batteries out to put them into flashlights.
A huge missed opportunity in the books is how basically every single human in the Underland we see is royalty or part of the military. I think it would be cool to let us see a bit more of how the regular people live. Maybe have one or two characters who aren't royal or soldiers.
Earlier entries should try to cut away from the violence, simply showing the character's reactions to the horrible things happening around them. Later entries should stop hiding it, paralleling the loss of innocence of the characters. By the code of claw Gregor and Ares, or at the very least Ripred, should be allowed to swear. There's no way you're getting that story on screen without at least a PG 13 rating, and these people just witnessed a genocide and are about to kill a bunch of people in a war. Gregor can say "Holy shit" instead of "aww Jeez" at least once. I also just think "What's your plaaaaaaan" is great but "What's your fucking plan?" lands pretty hard as well.
Don't make the underland too visible. Don't add global illumination. Let there be darkness, let there be long shadows, let us only barely see distant things. When Gregor finally gets echolocation then make the distant things visible through a strange shader... but cut out the bit where he can echolocate heat that makes no sense.
Ms. Cormaci needs to sound exactly like how she did in the audiobook, this isn't up for debate.
When the Bane calls Gregor and Ares to battle it needs to be one of the most disturbing, blood chilling things the audience has ever heard. It needs to be loud, and painful, and monstrous. You gotta see that the pup we all loved and coddled has fully lost it and become this fascist ball of hatred and murder and violence. It should cut through the audience's core and silence everything else in the scene. Just have it hold there after he's shouted, showing them locking eyes on each-other and cutting back in between the two. Yes, the Bane has completely been subsumed as a symbol of his side, but so has Gregor. He's in the black armor, he's the figurehead as well. There are parallels, y'all.
Let the Shiners be at least 20% less awful. They're funny, but let them have their hero moment where they're redeemed in the marks of secret rather than saving it for the end of code of claw.
Old Hamnet in the flashbacks to the flooding of the garden should be hot. Flashback Ripred who was there is of course also hot. He remains so in the present as well.
The narrative that Gregor is told in the first book, that the natives just let Sandwitch have the Underland because they weren't really using it... it's heavily implied that's a lie, especially after we learn about the Diggers and how they were genocided and basically expunged from history. I think there should be a direct callback to it, make this implication an explicit part of the story.
Give my girl Aurora some more lines. She goes on all these adventures and never gets to be more than "Luxa's bat".
Oh no I hit character limit for this post... uh... I have a lot of thoughts and I probably will have more in the future 😅. Probably way more than you asked for but you opened the floodgates and this was the result.
Thank you for the ask!
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Don't have one specific favorite off the top of my head, but I love the way you draw goblins, especially grizzop's little ones. So scrungly for real.
Happy birthday! 😊 🥳🎉
thanks so much! i am very fond of these scrimbly babies
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Silly little poll :)
Also if you have some other unique/interesting dragon feel free to mention them in the tags!!! I love hearing about peoples scrunglies
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