bom doodles cuz i wanna play elder mckinely my beloved

🎵 We're only gettin' older, baby

And I've been thinkin' about it lately

Does it ever drive you crazy

Just how fast the night changes?

Everything that you've ever dreamed of

Disappearing when you wake up

But there's nothing to be afraid of

Even when the night changes

It will never change me and you 🎵

Gonna kick the hornets nest here, but the file from the most recent episode of The Magnus Protocol was incredibly underwhelming. It didn’t take into account at all anything that actually makes snakes scary, little to no foreshadowing, and basically attempted to jumpscare the audience with a reveal that reads more like a parody of a horror story than an actual one.

I might look like an idiot or a fool when everything all strings together later than the line, but I’m questioning so much about this episode.

Parasites are scary. Worms, and insects and mold and rot. Decay, possession. Spiders are scary because they’re hard to see, hard to pinpoint and they move fast, plus the connections with webs related to control, and manipulation. So yeah, a worm lady, sure, a person filled with spiderwebs, also sure. But the only connection between snakes and parasitism could be a joke about ‘shedding your skin’ or how disturbing that one scene in Harry Potter was.

Snakes are scary for two reasons:

1) the same reason bears and tigers all that are scary. Hunt style being hurt, and killed, and eaten. Simple.

B) uncanny valley reasons. Snakes don’t blink. They don’t have facial expressions. The way they move and eat and exist is totally different from humans and mammals. They’re often described as alien and cold.

My questions:

a) why rodent control? why was he even actually brought in? His walls are FULL OF SNAKES. It wouldn’t have lasted five minutes. It doesn’t make any sense even if you know he was concerned about parasites. Snakes don’t give a shit about other snakes. To call someone a snake is to literally call them callous and prone to betrayal. A snake eats the rodent, so you kill the snake. Plus a snake store would have access to medications to kill mites and deal with snake illness? Why call the guy at all?

b) the foreshadowing on the owner is terrible. You could have mentioned his skin needed moisturising. That it seemed dry, flaky. Scaly. But just. A red rash? A rash? Are you saying being full of snakes is an infectious disease? That’s what he said at the end, right? That his throat itches. It was swelling. You can just?? Grow your own snakes?? Is that the implication?

No uncanny valley mention on the owner either at all. He didn’t move weird, being full of snakes? Didn’t sway or limp as he walked, didn’t move sluggishly? Bad hearing, didn’t know what to do with his hands? No? Just a short tempered customer. Okay.

c) You lost me at the thousands of snakes. THOUSANDS? What is this, a clown car? A snake clown car in some random guys skin, who explodes because he was mad a customer walked out.

Look, I’m Australian. And when I ask my friends ‘hey, how big do you normally picture a snake being?’ we picture snakes about 1.5m long. Dinner table length is pretty common for all of our common brown, tiger snakes, red bellies, and even longer for our common carpet pythons. But even if I adjust to like, other countries’ grass snakes, thousands?

The throwaway line at the end was plot relevant I’m sure, but I’m all around confused, and totally not even a little bit scared.

The only praise I have is that the description of the crickets was very creepy, and I loved the visual of them moving around like a shuddering wave of pixels on a screen, only really perceived by their screaming.

But yeah. The setup, the foreshadowing, the coherent theming and consistency all just fell totally flat for me. The only thing I learnt was that this guy applied to the institute and was rejected, and that snakes can’t do dishes.

“Heart is NOT and UwU boy!!! Soul is not batshit crazy!!! Mind is not the only cunt!!!”

The whole CCCC album is meant to be up to the interpretation of the listener???? Don’t get me wrong, I agree with all the things I just listed, but we don’t know if that’s true for sure.

Some of you all need to take a teeny-tiny chill pill…

Slow writers of tumblr: has anyone figured out The Key to not comparing yourself to your peers who hit massive word counts daily? Or is this something we all struggle with together?

This is my favorite image ever I think

so I'm writing about how gerard is utterly in love with frank and his face, how would you describe frank?(don't feel pressured)

@fruityfroggyfelon So i’ve been trying to figure out in like what capacity you’re asking this? like how would i describe frank to someone or like how id describe frank in writing…so i just went with how i’d describe frank in writing. and feel free to do whatever with this, use it to whatever degree you want, hate it, love it, whatever. also idfk why im so nervous posting this lmfao i don’t think i should be but fuck dude.

also, i’ve never written gee so i’m not gonna attempt their speech patterns, so ig it’s a like you pov of frank. but any way, here we go.~🎃

The way the afternoon sun hit Frank’s face always had you in awe. The way it brought out the flecks of gold in his eyes, the warmth and depth it brought to his beautiful brown hair. He was fucking stunning, there was no other way to describe it. Your favorite thing was the way his entire face scrunched up when you said something that that really got him laughing. That uneven giggle of his always had you laughing with him every single time. You loved watching him work, the absolute focus visible on his face was nothing short of endearing. His eyebrows drawn together, lips pressed together and quirked to one side, almost a scowl. You loved the perfect slope of his nose and the way his jawline led into his adorable slightly crooked chin. The little scar on the bridge of his nose from what you always assumed to be from chicken pox as a child, and the small nearly closed up holes of where his nose and lip rings used to be— you could stare at him forever just mapping out all of the small features that you fall in love with all over again every time you see him.

ranpoe but they both become flustered idiots when the other makes a move

btw todd’s reluctance to join the dps because he doesn’t want to read (which is then accommodated for) and is scared to put himself out there (which is also worked through) being read as todd not wanting to go AT ALL, and thus neil making the proper accommodations (“todd anderson, who prefers not to read, will keep the minutes of the meetings”) and encouraging him to step out of the box that stifles him being seen as ‘forceful’ or like he can’t take no for an answer makes me insane with rage

On today’s episode of: “ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LOSING IT”

i need to know your thoughts on the sunshine court coming out this month. i am personally unhealthily obsessed w denim jean moreau and i’m gnawing at the bars of my enclosure to finally get real jeremy knox/jean moreau content (it’ll also get rid of those weirdos that ship jean w renee like sir that is a lesbian)

i am being so so so brave about new content i am not scared fear is the mind killer

[First photo: three jack o lanterns next to my front door. The first has a jolly smiling face carved traditionally. The second has a cut out of The Hollow Knight with The Radiance bursting out. The third has a witch riding a broomstick with stars and moons on her dress and a raven on the broomstick handle. 

Second photo: The digital sketch for The Hollow Knight pumpkin.] 

Yes I know Halloween was months ago but shhhhhhh. It’s always spooky time here. 

(AKA: this was sitting in my drafts for months because I forgot to add this to my queue.) 

I love that the bg3 guys are all written to have this intense adoration of karlach and lae’zel’s abilities to absolutely eviscerate their enemies. they’ve all got the same taste in women, which is “she could gut the big scary man chasing me, and then princess carry me to safety in her blood spattered arms.” and I respect and relate to that, as a bisexual man myself.

“Oh you watch One Piece? Who are your crushes!? Let me guess…Luffy, Zoro, Law, Sanji, Mihawk, Shanks, Ace, Smoker, Usopp, Sabo, Kid, Corazon, at least one of them is on your crush list right?”

Me : yeah ur right! (All of them are)

Also me : *hiding some character crushes that-people-might-be-concerned-that-I’m-crushing-on behind my back because it happened before*

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sorry to be a sicko freak, but if they do something like have the rest (or some) of our main crew have their own vecna visions, I kind of really really want some aspect of will’s and/or mike’s to be like. either warped memories or just false visions where they’re especially homophobic and nasty to each other. I want one of them to have a vision that starts off maybe kind of sort of like a confession, and then turns into the other being totally disgusted. I want that horrible dread and fear of being rejected for who you love to be front and center. because oh how good would it be for them to have to face that fear and internalized shame and fight against it, assuring each other that the hatred is all a lie