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No lie, I’ve loved Lord Huron for ages so I’m a little biased, but damn does the Strange Trails album of theirs fit the Stan Twins so well at times, especially Ford but there’s a hint of Stan character themes in it, too (also Bill a bit). Mostly Portal!Ford focused on revenge, Stan working to get Ford back, Ford coming back and knowing Bill is still a threat, and some Sea Grunks vibes.
There’s even a western/acoustic guitar plus sci-fi electronic instruments vibe like the Gravity Falls soundtrack has, and the album cover has that general American outdoorsy feel (hard to describe but it’s like that same aesthetic you see on vintage state or national park signs in America).
There are romantic themes that don’t fit. But minus those it’s peak Stan twin feels.
tl;dr: for those who don’t read under the cut, at least listen to Frozen Pines by Lord Huron, I beg of you. Max Stan twin vibes. Pines because duh, the setting being a snowy night in a pine forest, two male voices singing at times, and the lyrics mY GoD.
If you like it, then listen to The World Ender, Meet Me in the Woods, and Way Out There too for some lesser but still Stan twin or Bill vibes.
Some deeper, rambling thoughts for the whole album under the cut ~
Okay, so this is what I mean with this album, song by song:
1. Love Like Ghosts - eh, one of the romantic songs I mentioned that don’t fit well. I love this song, ‘tis one of my favorites on the album, but not very Stan twin-ish. Maybe more Stan-ish because it mentions the protagonist being haunted by ghosts all the time, likely a feeling Stan had all those years after Ford had disappeared and he was trying desperately to get him back. There’s also a theme of seeing ghosts in oneself, which, since Stan looks like Ford...
2. Until the Night Turns - definitely more Ford, one because lyrics about staying up all night (Ford is allergic to sleep), and because these reasons:
“I had a vision tonight that the world was ending
Yeah, the sky was falling and time was bending
I watched the heavens collide right before my eyes
What if the world dies with the sunrise?“
“I had a visitor come from the great beyond - cOUgH Bill CoUGh
Telling me our time in the world is done
And to watch for a sign in the midnight sky
What if the world dies with the sunrise?”
“When the World Ender comes, baby, don’t close your eyes”
Definitely due to it being in major key, it’s a more happy feeling song, so this feels like a Ford during the meeting Bill and admiring him era of Ford’s life, plus some foreboding foreshadowing of how Bill is the World Ender. Though so is Ford, in a way.
There are some romantic themes but meh ignore those.
3. Dead Man’s Hand - this is a great song with both Stan and Ford lines, BUT I’d say it leans more Stan, both when he went to go see Ford before the portal accident, him taking over Ford’s life, etc.
“Yellow lines, in the dead of the night
Oh, I was heading back out West
Trying to keep my eyes open wide
I’d gone days without any rest”
I’d see this as being both Stan going to Ford before the portal accident, driving out to see him, but this can also be Ford because sleep what’s that? Also EyEES.
“You come back from a trip to the East
But you don’t come back from the dead”
More of a Stan line. He staged his death to take Ford’s identity. Could also be Ford, though, since he was also sort of “dead” to the world after he disappeared. Also, they’re both from the East coast.
“Sure as hell he was dead as they come,
He was already starting to smell eh ignore this line
Just a kid, with his hair slicked back
And a knife tucked into his belt
Was he unforgiven?
Or just tired of living a life that never felt like his?“
Stan to a T. He had his hair slicked when he was young, the knife in the belt from years of crime and/or expecting people after him, and the last two lines? Ooooooooof.
“I stared right into the endless Void
And I ain’t going back if I got any choice“
AKA I stared into the void of some interdimensional portal that I lost my brother to and I’ve decided to stay here to fix it.
There’s also a stanza about the protagonist in the song burying this dead man, but the dead man doesn’t want to stay and wants to keep roaming. It’s like Stan juggling on that tightrope of “is Ford dead, is he not, do I keep trying?”. Could also be Stan as the dead man himself, still technically alive after he’d already buried himself. Or Stan feeling like he’s having to bury his own brother mentally. GAH the possibilities are endless.
4. Hurricane (Johnnie’s Theme)
Stan to a T, at least the first stanza. The lyrics explain themselves:
“I get a thrill outta playing with fire
‘Cause you hold your life when you hold that flame
I get a kick outta thunder and lightning
And tearing through the night hollering your name
I get a laugh outta starin’ at darkness
And wondering why people live in the light
I drive fast and I rumble the hardest
I don’’t feel alive if I ain’’t in the fight”
The fire part is self-explanatory. Also I think Stan canonically had a motorcycle at one point? So huehue, that imagery is cute. The lyrics just give off a vibe of Stan’s personality overall.
“I can’t sleep when there’s something to do - like staying up trying to get your brother back
“You spend your whole life dreaming, and you wake up dead”
This death imagery, man. Stan, going along trying get rich quick and con schemes, dreaming up fame, only to have to fake his death to take Ford’s place?
The rest of the lyrics of this one aren’t too applicable to Gravity Falls/Stan, besides the part about being an illusion (’cause he ain’t Ford, but he stole Ford’s name and looks like him, so Stan is an illusion of Ford of sorts). Also the mentions of eyes everywhere...
5. La Belle Fleur Sauvage -
So this song is technically about a woman, so eh, not really applicable. Could be seen as a metaphor for Ford reaching for the paranormal not knowing how dangerous it is, in some parts at least. Or Ford having a thing for Jheselbraum/The Oracle, if you’re into that headcanon.
6. Fool for Love -
Another goopy love song, so not as applicable once again. But these lyrics...
“I stare into the endless sky
And the sorry tale of my life goes by
I drift into the great unknown
And I really don’t know where I’m going...”
Ford to a T.
7. The World Ender -
Okay, HERE’S where the songs start hitting Stan twin stuff hard. There’s also Bill in this one, especially so if you also believe in the theory that Stan is a reincarnation of Bill in some way. So this song is majorly Stan + Bill-ish, but I can see it as a song that slaps for Ford, too (because A. he technically almost ended the world and is a World Ender, B. came back from the “dead” when he returned from the portal and sought revenge on Bill for decades).
“I had a name but they took it from me
I was the man I wanted to be
I had a place to lay my head
But they burned it to the ground, and the sky turned red
I had a life and a place in the world
I had a sweet-talking wife and a beautiful girl
I know I’m never gonna see ‘em again
Gonna tear up the world ‘til I have my revenge
They took my life but it isn’t the end
Oh, they put me in the ground, but I’m back from the dead
Oh, I’m a world ender baby and I’m comin’ for them.
You hear me howl by the light of the moon
That’s how you know that I’m comin’ for you
Gonna find you alone in the dark of night
Oh when the world ender comes, baby, run for your life
I never bleed and I won’t ever age
I’ll never feel the embrace of the grave
Oh the fair and the brave and the good must die
I’ve seen the other side of livin’ I know heaven’s a lie
I tear through the night and I raise some hell
‘Cause I’m a world ender baby and I’m back from the dead
“Lord knows I should be pushin’ daisies
I was six feet down until somethin’ raised me up
Sent back before I lift my curse
I’m gonna get me a taste of some chaos, first
Untied, I’m gonna get a little wild
Screamin’ through the night like a demon child
Close your eyes now the light is fading
And the noise in the night is gonna get a little louder, baby
They can run for their lives, but they cannot be saved
I’m a world ender baby and I’m comin’ for them.”
So this feels Bill mostly to me. Firstly, Bill isn’t his actual name, as apparently his real one is too much for humans to comprehend without going insane. Based on his backstory, he was from a dimension that was burned completely (implied to have been his own fault) and all his loved ones died. The Axolotl prophecy implies that he misses them dearly, even though he pretends not to. So from that anger he seeks chaos and wants to destroy realities.
The second stanza is almost like when he came after Ford, coming in the dark of night while Ford is all paranoid and sleepless. And the third stanza makes perfect sense, because Bill doesn’t have a body, he doesn’t bleed or die. The last few lines, well... now he wants revenge. He’s a demon child and is going to end the world.
It also feels Stan though, because of the name swap thing again, his fire “death” at the end of the series and recovering from it, and the world ending with Weirdmageddon. Also if you believe in the Bill = Stan theory, well... yeah, as Stan, Bill really is back from the dead.
BUT it’s also a great Ford song, because he “died” to the world when he disappeared. He roamed the multiverse for decades and spent that long making sure he did everything he could to get revenge on Bill. Ford being “dead” and coming back is almost like his return from the dead, and he doesn’t ever deny his role in helping Bill bring the end of the world. So he proudly is like, “I’m the world ender and I’m coming for revenge”. Kind of a badass Portal!Ford to his return in NWHS song. And at the end, he’s just about to take the shot at Bill with his quantum destabilizer, but then the portal opens up and he gets pulled away from his revenge... and now he’s back from the “dead”. Hence “Sent back before I lift my curse”...
Seriously this song SCREAMS Stan twins and Bill.
8. Meet Me in the Woods -
Ford. Ford ALL THE WAY, specifically post portal return. I don’t even have to explain it.
9. The Yawning Grave -
This song is more subtle than Meet Me in the Woods, but this could be both a Bill and a Ford song. Either Bill coming after Ford post dream warning in TLM, or Ford going for Bill when Weirdmageddon hits (hence the “reckoning” mentioned).
10. Frozen Pines -
Well, besides the obvious ‘Pines’ thing, and frozen pines because Ford went missing on a snowy night deep in the cold winter, and the fact that two male voices echo each other on the track at times... and symbolically the Pines are frozen because both Stan and Ford had to pause their own lives the moment Ford was lost, like they and their relationship has been frozen in time since the night of their fight...
This gives me both Stan and Ford vibes. Like a song that fits both of them as they wonder where the other is, however, certain stanzas fit one twin more than the other. To me, this is THE ultimate song for their relationship on this album, as well as any other song I’ve ever heard besides maybe Always Gold by Radical Face. To the point that I’m surprised that I’ve never heard anyone else mention this song in the fandom (maybe they have, I’ve been gone a long while..)?
Anyways, lyrics that hit hard:
“Deep into the night
With the moonlight as my guide
I go wander through the pines and make my
Way to nature’s shrine
And I look up to the sky
And I know you’re still alive
But I wonder where you are, I call your name into the dark
I wake up in the morning, oh, and I don’t know where I’ve been
All alone on a mountainside and I’m huddled in the wind
And it feels like I’ve been away for an era but nothing has changed at all
And it feels like I’ve been with you, oh, but what did we do and where have you gone.”
FORD x1000. Portal!Ford specifically, alone in the universe, wandering. I picture a snowy planet, and he sees pines (or some similar alien plant) and thinks of his family/brother. He looks up at the sky, wondering where Stan has been. Is he still alive back home? He decides to believe that he is, only if to keep himself going. He has a nightmare of Stan running away from him and meeting a bad end, and he calls his name in the dream.
He wakes up in the morning as the nightmare ends, cold, wind-blown, surprised he survived the night. He’s been gone in the portal for decades. And that last line, OUCH: what did he and Stan do? Was his childhood with Stan even real, because it feels so far away, now. Why did they even fight? It’s the biggest regret of Ford’s life.
Alright, now Stan’s turn:
“On the night you disappeared
Oh, if I had seen it clear
But a strange light in the sky was shining right into my eyes
There was no one else in sight
Just the endless frozen pines
But I wonder all they know 'cause they don't die and they don't grow.”
Yeah, this is Stan the night Ford was lost. A cold, wintry night in a pine forest. The bright light of a portal. Ford disappearing. Etc.
The last line specifically is both Stan and Ford. They are ‘frozen Pines’, stuck in time and left regretting that night forever, not dead, but not growing beyond it, either. It also reminds me of Mabel’s line in the Lost Legends comic, about how they’re both big kids that need to take care of each other. Like Stan and Ford just stopped growing after they were separated and need the Stan-O-War II adventures to regain lost time they spent apart.
“I am ready to follow you even though I don't know where
I will wait in the night until you decide to take me there.”
Stan’s loyalty to getting Ford back, of course, working diligently every night to do so.
'Cause I know I don't wanna stay here forever, it's time to be movin’ on
Oh I don't want to be the only one living when all of my friends are gone.”
Both Stan and Ford. Stan and Ford both don’t want to be where they are forever, either lost in the portal, or back home with Ford lost forever. Also, the ‘moving on’ is the repairing of their relationship. And they don’t want to be the only twin still alive. :’0
“I will be waiting for you, on the other side of the frozen pines
I'm gonna find a way through, there's another life beyond the line
I will be waiting for you, on the other side of the frozen pines
I'm gonna find a way through, there's another life beyond the line.”
A lot to unpack here. Overall, thematically, the ‘frozen Pines’ are both metaphorically them as Pines brothers whose relationship was frozen in time after their fight, the rift in their relationship, and the literal portal that keeps them apart. Ford and Stan are waiting for the other, wanting to cross the rift in their relationship to see each other again. There’s another life in their sibling relationship waiting on the other side, if they could just forgive each other. Also the symbolism of them both being “dead”, either by faking their death or disappearing, then regaining their life upon Ford’s return, both as who they were originally.
JUSt... NO ONE CAN TELL ME THAT THIS IS THE STAN TWIN SONG. FITE ME. Like I said before, though, special mention to Always Gold by Radical Face.
11. Cursed - meh, skip this one for Stan twin feels. Unless you take the relationship part out, and translate the “she” into Bill. Then maybe it works.
12. Way Out There - Ford 100%, yeah. Doesn’t even need explaining. Though I wanna highlight the lyric line, “if you don’t know my name you know it now”. Huehue.
Could also be a Stan song, since he’s a hero that saved the world, “there are many more flames when mine is gone" + “they will build me no shrines and sing me no songs” lines, since no one outside of his family even knows that Stan is a world saver. The irony that Ford is a world ender and Stan is a world saver but if he’s reincarnated Bill then...
Could also be a Bill song. Depends on how you read it.
Could also be a combined Stan and Ford song about the decision to go on the Stan-O-War II trip. Or a Sea Grunks song about them reflecting on their lives, complete with them on the ship on an eerie, foggy night for full dramatic vibes.
Also, can I mention the very Gravity Falls feel of this track with the mix of warpy/sci-fi-ish elements with acoustic guitars? Yes, inject it into my veins.
13. Louisa - sort of Stan vibes in the first stanza, but the rest of the song is a love song, so meh:
“Good for nothing is the name they'll remember me by
Done nothin' with my life for no one, I'm just waitin' to die
I turned my back on the world”
It could also be a Sea Grunks song if you take out the romantic mush, especially since Ford’s return is like them both coming back from death, and it talks about not wanting to die but wander the world with someone again, but meh once again.
14. The Night We Met -
Sea Grunks all the way. Minus the actual night they met, because, well, that was as babies. Maybe metaphorically as their older selves meeting each other again after the Weirdmageddon stuff calmed down? Also take out the few romantic lines, of course.
#gravity falls#stanford pines#stanley pines#bill cipher#sea grunks#at least a little bit here and there#gravity falls music#my stan twin hyperfixation is a never ending train going full steam ahead at this point
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rewatched trials and tribble-ations, and they should've let Jadzia flirt with these two !! but they knew she would be too powerful and she would change the timeline for good smh
#mccoy should be here too!! i just got lazy#trials and tribble-ations#trouble with tribbles#star trek#star trek fanart#star trek ds9#star trek the original series#ds9#star trek deep space 9#fanart#art#jadzia dax#spock#nyota uhura#tribbles#drawing jadzia without her spots simply doesn't feel right but i had to be at least a little bit accurate to this episode smh
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joonie living up to tradition and spoiling bits of jikook's travel show
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❝ just you wait, florian... ❞
how we coping tonight, kieran nation?
#i didn't mean to make my first fanart of kieran be so intense but here we are#i'll make up for it with my next drawings bc i need to see this kid happy at least a lil bit#he also kinda ended up looking a little similar to allister... which make sense i'm pretty sure take designed both of them#also if any of you fuckers make yandere comments on this post it's on sight#pokemon#pokemon scarlet and violet#pkmn scarvi#pkmn scarvio#the teal mask#pokemon kieran#kieran#rival kieran#💕 : comfort characters#🎨 : mj draws#scarvio spoilers#sv dlc spoilers#sv spoilers
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got a fun idea just in time!
so i drew it quickly before i have to go for the day ahaha
One of them is helping more than the other for preparations </3 thats the sibling law
#submas#subway boss emmet#subway boss ingo#pokemon#a little bias with emmet's pokemons here AHAHA but at least its something with both emmet and ingo !#anyways its a bit wonky but i wanted to have something drawn for the festivities at least once ! its fun to do silly fluffy art like that#everytime theres a fun holiday i tell myself i'd draw something and i dont.... this is my redemption!!!
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there's no way the bathroom at peppino's pizza is actually that big but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . hey ummm anyway.... i care them...... anyway there's a lil ramble on my take on fake pep's like psyche or whatever in tags on the og post if ur into that kinda thing :y
hey! it's a series! fake peppino world tour: [noise] [noisette] [peppino]<- u are here [gustavo] [gerome] [noisette again]
#ramble after realtags yeag. shoutout to serrangelic btw suggesting the silhouettes thing bc i would have Died otherwise#pizza tower#peppino spaghetti#fake peppino#gustavo and brick#arting#pizzaposting#so anyway i think fake peppino has like. a general awareness that he is supposed to Be Peppino and that he was Made to do that#and likewise he does generally try to...do that. the thing he does NOT realize is hes like really goddamn bad at it#not to be mean but like...c'mon. they are pretty distinctly different kinds of guys even beyond the physiology yknow.#he's neither on-brand nor fooling anyone dsjdsjjkgfsd. BUT!#since the rest of the cast generally likes him [at least as I play it] he thinks hes doing just fine#he's like 'oh they r happy with me so i must be getting a good grade in being peppino :)'#so getting told that 'yeah you actually really suck at that but that was never the reason people liked you'#and told that by og model peppino no less--yknow THE guy he's supposed to be living up to#who's already a bit intimidating for that and who ALSO totally wrecked him TWICE in the tower#making him acutely familiar with just how formidable the guy is and how much there IS to live up to....#it's a Moment for sure. not really a sad or hurt one though. just... contemplative.#thinking abt people liking him for being the guy he's already naturally been being even though that guy is Not Peppino#i don't think he's gonna be super broken up about realizing he has a bad grade in peppino given everything else hes got now#nor do i really think he cares enough to go like reinvent himself or whatever after the fact#he seems to b pretty clearly having fun with it already so i think he just keeps doing that#and in some cases he still has the pre-installed peppino traits/instincts like to cooka da pizza. and that's fine#is this projection. yes. but if youve been following me awhile you know most of my character writing is ghdhfdgf#gonna kinda expand on all this in the gerome one which is...one after next. itll be a bit but man.#anyway peppino will never admit to anyone and especially not himself that he's gotten a little attached to the guy. hee hoo#pep tends to be kinda surly but he certainly has his ways of showing he cares. all of which are on display here#''that thing is not my son'' says man currently watching thing's antics with the 'bemused dad' arms crossed pose. yeah ok buddy.#gus is totally onto him already but hes not gonna say anything.#if u read all this ur prize is not having to go decode fp's rot13. his lines are ''meant to be you...?'' and ''wrong question.''
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this is not a comprehensive list
#in order from left to right (with explanations):#k on#(self explanatory. definition of moe.)#a place further than the universe#(theyre at least a little insane for going all the way to antarctica for funsies)#bocchi the rock#(good mix of insane and sweet. most of the insane parts come from bocchi herself)#nichijou#(literally so much happened all the time)#and asobi asobase#(they did do arson)#i haven't seen azumanga daioh or yuru camp and i never finished lucky star#but based on what i know abt the first two id put it... azumanga between bocchi and nichijou. and yuru camp with or after k on#and from what i remember abt lucky star its also just after k on#a bit quirkier but nothing ever really happens in it. as far as i watched. which is why i stopped watching LOL#but thats all assumptions and second hand knowledge so i figured i shouldnt actually include them unless i was SURE#i also thought abt putting asteroid in love in here too but that one is a bit more niche so i left it out#i also excluded any idol shows bc that feels like a different category. and would make this too long#sorry zombieland saga and love live....#i also excluded straight up yuri. this is more abt Hanging Out than romance. but some is allowed as long as its not the focal point#like kita in btr. shes very yuri but the show isnt about that#you could probably also put is the order a rabbit on here but idr much from that. i think i watched like 3 episodes umm 100 years ago#i also thought abt putting the highschool girls segments from daily lives of highschool boys here. but they arent in most of the show#tho theyd probably go between nichijou and asobi asobase. or maybe on par w nichijou#that one girl did almost kill the other two with a rock as im sure youve all seen
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Todaaaaaaays the daaaaaaay 😁
Come have fun with me!
And finally see my nipples lol
Xoxox 💋🩷🧈
#me#todays the day!#tomorrows my birthday 🥳#ahhhhh you guys this is scary lmao#nervous nelly over here#🥺👉🏼👈🏼 I hope you like my stuff#I have posts queued for at least the next three weeks and it’s already been posting a little bit for the past couple#so sure it’s new but it’s not EMPTY so that’s cool right#2023#spicy links
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refused to let myself rest until i finished making this
#loz#legend of zelda#twilight princess#midna#ocarina of time#ganondorf#phantom hourglass#linebeck#skyward sword#ghirahim#minish cap#vaati#i thought about adding totk rauru? but hes just polite hes not quite a man whos a fancy lady#this is my opinion but tbh yeah. idc that twili midna looks like that we all saw her in imp form shes 100% a girl whos a gross dude#linebeck and ghirahim were going to be in this from the start but i really had to think abt who else to add#i like how its like. 3 major villains and then the companions with the best arcs#ganondorf ended up being so close to linebeck bc i ran out of room and also bc im gay about them#also i used linebeck's model instead of that one bit of official art bc in the art his coat is incorrect (missing bottom stripe) so. model.#also you get his gay little pose with the model so win#listen vaati is the one im the least sure about here but its fine#anyways. loz polycule from hell#my post#dying over how fucking similar ghirahim and oot ganondorf's poses are tho#TBH MIDNA AND LINEBECK ARE SIMILAR TOO#vaati is left out damn
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we both lost because we couldn't find each other
(objectober day 26: lose)
#dandy's doodles#bfdi#battle for dream island#bfdi leafy#bfdi firey#winner? loser? is that a jellyaibo and cdmodule reference??? /silly#anyway. um. did anybody ever realize how somebody that i used to know is kinda these two in song form#at least a little bit#that song is really good. i was gonna put lyrics of that here but i think it makes the whole 'losing' symbol hazy#as that particular phrasing is not used in the song at all#whatever :)#i'm in the middle of watching the new tpot right this moment!!! wawa#objectober
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Happy Valentines, Akira.
Happy Valentines, Asshole.
If you can’t read what Akechi’s secondary inner-dialogue says cause I obscured it too much behind his regular dialogue, here’s a transcription in panel order:
Hello, you fucking-
Ah- Hello, Akira!
Fuck off, why should I tell you-
Just a soda- there’s a new flavor.
I don’t want your shitty gift.
Oh- haha! You’re so sweet.
I hope I choke.
They’re lovely, thank you.
Like hell.
Likewise.
There’s no way it’s just a coincidence.
Still though, it’s a funny coincidence.
#p5#akeshu#akechi goro#kurusu akira#wow- me?? posting a valentines comic... actually on?? valentines????? wack. absolutely wack#it's a short one! I purposefully tried to keep it short. it was a challenge and it still ended up being 3 pages. but i blame my canvas size#also in case u can't see what akira is holding out to akechi: theyre chocolate covered strawberries on sticks!#i saw them irl and was like oh god i want those. i am going to project that feeling on my favorite characters so help me god#and now! here we are! but my shitty-ass coloring & line quality make it hard to discern them so. sorry about that lmaooooo#ANYWAY i don't do enough post-maruki stuff so. i made this one a little bittersweet. :)#why did i put akechi's scarf in a bow? honestly i dont know! i think i saw some art a while ago that did that too and i thought it was cute#well. plus i guess there's the symbolism of 'akechi being alive and reciprocating your feelings (however involuntarily) IS a gift' part#hence that hes wrapped up in a bow. like a present. :)#also god. the first panel is supposed to be akechi's reflection in a vending machine window. I could NOT get it to look right#so for reference!!! just so you guys understand!!!!!! thats what that panel is supposed to be!!! he is NOT in fact a ghost. (sigh)#hope you enjoyed and had a lovely valentines!! for my part i have eaten nothing but sweets today and hoo boy will that have been a mistake#ALSO in terms of the audience-participation comic...hopefully coming soon. if i can ever gain the will to draw it.#but at least tumblr has polls now so i can do the audience-choose-y bit without needing to use a separate website! so thats good i guess#anyway anyway anway thanks for listening to me ramble if you made it this far! have a lovely rest of your day and hopefully see u again soon
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#demifiendcruithne this one is for you. i don't even know if this is your favorite pokémon but when i see it i think of you bc of your icon#lordy this blog is getting more and more difficult as time goes on. apparently we've exited the era of models Just Working for me and now#i have to spend hours tinkering with them just to get the eyes to show up and even then they don't look nearly as good as they used to#when they Just Worked#the alolan forms are kicking my ass. and i even tried to use the swsh models for these guys since i assumed those would work#but now i'm finding out that the Entirety of gen 8 is going to be even more difficult on me#dunno how much longer i can keep up This act unless i find some way to make this easier on me#alolan meowth#update from the future: incredible thanks to jodie-blend here on tumblr for her endless kindness in helping me figure out how to do#this at least a little bit easier. they'll still look a little bit different but at least this has me covered for gen 9#but for cases like alolan rattata and raticate i'm still fucked. also gen 8 i'm still fucked#but. the complaining above is now a little bit more bearable
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i do think the fact that shane is dressed like a supervillain in the announcement is really funny. when he betrays his audience he goes all out at least.
(credit to reddit user Icy_Arrival4510 on r/WatcherSnark for pointing this out)
#im disappointed and saddened but at least it's a little funny...#the SMIRK. no WAY this man didn't know what he was doing a lil bit. at least he's committing to the bit here ig#people are pointing out that a LOT of the blame is going to steven and its getting kind of scapegoat-y (and borderline racist apparently??)#while i'm not a fan of him like i was (since HS) of S/R and i don't trust people who own teslas (hate musk hate his company)#yeah i dont think that he's solely the blame here/deserves to get all the hate. they clearly all made this decision#i think shane in particular may know this is his Villain Arc and he's just embracing it. he looks like he knows theyre gonna hate him 4 it#sorry im just. saaaddd#watcher#watcher entertainment#shane madej#ryan bergara#steven lim#ghost files#mystery files#puppet history#buzzfeed unsolved
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The idle hum of the fluorescent lights is all that resonates in his sensitive ears.
Distantly, he recognizes that he's been sitting in the same position for too long. Long enough that the light seeping through the window somewhere to his right isn't as warm and golden in its hue anymore. He realizes that night time has fallen upon the bustling city of Station Square and perhaps it's late enough for everyone to be leaving for their homes and settling in for sleep after a nice warm meal.
Even more distantly, if that is even possible for his current almost disassociated situation, he realizes that he should be asleep too. Of course his rest doesn't have much to do with the time and the shift in the sky's colours or the quiet city just beyond these walls. He never fell into slumber with the sun, working late at nights for hours without breaks sometimes left him no opportunity for sleep at all. He doesn't mind it though, he likes working. Even if it costs him a bit of rest, he'd rather have his work done sooner than later. Maybe that's what he needs right now. Something to work on will be much better to distract his mind than the buzzing of the lights.
Unfortunately, as much as the idea entices him, he can't leave for his workshop just yet.
He doubts he'd be able to.
If his trembling legs don't give in under the weight of his body then the soul crushing grasp of something icy and sharp around his heart will certainly stop him.
So he stays where he is and listens to the buzz of the lights, of the footsteps as people walk by thin in numbers, as a clock ticks away in a distance — indicating that hours have passed but Tails can't get himself to count the ticks or look at the clock. He has worked hard to concentrate on the fluorescent lights, on their inner workings, their first discovery, their usage and why they're being used in hospital waiting rooms and everything he can think of about them on the top of his head in an attempt to ground himself but he's afraid if he looks at the time, he'll lose his progress and will be back where he begun; on the verge of curling up in a ball of fluff and crying his heart out until he passes out.
The waiting room falls deadly silent after a while — no more footsteps entertain his hearing range and Tails is afraid he's the last one left waiting for updates from the doctors.
This is a bit odd for him too, he hasn't been in this position many times aside from a few where one of their battles did get pretty out of hand but despite all of the adventures, they don't regularly show up at hospitals. Let alone sit in waiting rooms for hours on end, hoping and praying that someone will walk out of that door and tell him that everything is fine, he's fine, he's safe—
Do they even know he's here?
Probably not.
Then again, technically, he isn't supposed to be here either.
For all the doctors and nurses know, he's supposed to be asleep under the weight of all those painkillers in his hospital room.
But there's not much sleeping he can do, can he?
Not when he doesn't know if Sonic's breathing again or—
Nope. No. Okay, let's not do that. Back to the lights. There's a moth that has started bumping into it repeatedly and he briefly wonders where it got in from since the windows appear to be closed and all. Briefly, since he doesn't ponder it for long. He lets his tired eyes — exhausted, red, getting heavier with every passing second and threatening to dampen — trail the insect's movements. It bumps into the light, circles about afterwards and then tries again and keeps repeating this cycle and maybe it's enough to distract him, even for a while. He's enraptured with the small creature's naïveté.
He thinks, in a sense, he isn't that different from the moth.
He just doesn't know if the waiting room is his light or is it his brother?
He's afraid to say it's the latter.
Tails loves Sonic.
He loves his brother more than anything in this world and he's been so sure that Sonic loves him just as much if not more too because that's just who they are. They are Sonic and Tails, they're brothers not bound by blood but something stronger — an unbreakable thread binding them both. They're a cosmic truth.
Yet Tails finds himself sitting here and questioning himself of that bond.
Sonic and Tails are to each other what a moth is to a flame.
They love each other.
But Tails is starting to see the flame get too close.
They'll burn.
And Tails is okay with burning if it's for Sonic, don't get him wrong. He'll do anything for Sonic. He's burnt for Sonic before, the bandages covering half his face and his right arm should be enough proof.
He's just afraid of burning Sonic.
He's afraid they've reached that point today.
Sonic is hurt because of him.
He's supposed to be the smart one, isn't he? Three hundred IQ and he couldn't have realized this sooner? Did he really need for today to come pass to know what the unbreakable bond truly means? Could he have spared Sonic the pain?
Tears prick at his eyes but Tails doesn't think he deserves to cry.
Not after what he did today.
Not after being the reason he almost lost his brother today.
(Worst of all; he still doesn't know if Sonic is okay.)
Tails finds it difficult to breathe around the lump in his throat.
Pathetic. Cry baby.
His own voice echoes in his mind, taunting.
He takes a deep breath and steels himself. He knows the solution to the moth and flame problem but he's certain Sonic will never agree to it. Sonic is too kind, too good, too generous. It will be cruel of Tails to know how to protect his brother and not do it, Sonic doesn't deserve that.
Tails hurt Sonic.
The flame burnt the moth.
In order to not hurt Sonic anymore, Tails will simply snuff out the flame.
Even if his brother disagrees with him, Tails knows it's for the best.
(Quietly, distantly, his own heart disagrees with him too but he's too scared to listen to him.)
Another half an hour passes before a doctor walks out of the emergency room.
There's a hint of surprise on her face upon seeing him there — since he's supposed to be resting in his room and not be here — but she quickly moulds her expression into a more professional one before she delivers the news to him.
“He's awake.”
Even though Tails smiles, his ocean eyes tired and out of tears, he doesn't visit Sonic.
He doesn't visit Sonic for a long time.
#sonic the hedgehog#miles tails prower#i wasnt originally going to participate in ruining wednesday but here i am 😔#at least theres no death in this haha (maybe)#not really angsty? but its an excerpt from a wip au :]#you dont know how insane i am about this au so enjoy a little bit of what i actually have written abt it lol#drabble
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it’s occurring to me that i have to be the Very Loud Skizz Enthusiast i want to see in the world.
so, here’s a bit of skizz character analysis for you: throughout the life serieses, when he’s presented with a license to kill, he’s torn between two competing desires: bloodlust and mercy. he mostly acts on the latter, but it’s crucial to understand that both are there.
for instance: in third life, episode 7, he got those two permakills and rushed into a doomed last stand in the crastle, but he also inadvertently spared scar and very deliberately and knowingly spared bdubs. in last life, when cleo was on red and hassling the snow fort, he acknowledged that them setting him on fire meant he could technically attack her, and continued to really want to attack her throughout her whole presence there, but decided against it. he spent last life episode 7 full of rather bloodlust and wanting to kill, but never succeeded at it.
all this is to say: skizz on yellow, with full authority to kill any green lives, could go any number of ways, and frankly any way it goes would be very fun to watch.
#skizzleman#limited life#traffic smps#i want skizz to kill! i want him to choose not to kill anyone! i want him to get revenge and be feared! i want him to be kind and respected!#life is short and he knows it and he's here to appreciate his friends!#i know he at least a little bit wants to kill; does he have what it takes to go through with it?#no matter what happens it adds so much to the series as a whole WHY IS NO ONE AS OBSESSED WITH HIM AS I AM#mcyt#analysises#a-post-lon
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yknow i didn't necessarily start my wyll origin run with the intent of romancing astarion in mind but the more i play the more i find their similarities amusing when it comes to like, the surface level personality they present to strangers in act 1.
wyll is a compulsive flirt. you see it in dialogue with shadowheart and lae'zel - he just tosses out a couple lines that clearly aren't supposed to go anywhere (asking lae'zel if she believes in love at first sight, blatantly reusing the same flirtation attempts with shadowheart) and i see this as part of his Blade of Frontiers persona. obviously a traveling vigilante would have no time for romance or relationships, but he's socially aware enough to have learned that people respond well to a certain level of rogueish charm. especially if his reputation precedes him. he can safely and positively engage in surface level flirtations with the people he interacts with because the person doing the flirting isn't real - at least not to him. he often says the Blade is his best self, but to him its an ideal he strives to achieve, not the person he really is. and i imagine that includes the ability to give discouraged people positive attention in a nonthreatening way. its safe. its superficial. he doesn't have to follow through.
this is overshadowed somewhat by astarion's tendency to flirt with anything that has a pulse, but the perspective they both have on it is pretty similar. theyre both coming from a place of not actually being interested in the recipient of their attention - whether that be through astarion's ulterior motives or wyll's lack of capacity for a relationship - but they both still put on this front because it's habitual. it's worked for them and it's gotten them through the varying degrees of social contracts they find themselves in. so they wind up trading lines easily because they've studied from the same script.
anyway what im getting at is bumping these two personalities against each other can definitely result in wyll and astarion committing to the bit so hard they accidentally wind up in a relationship. like, you're safe, you know the rules, you're speaking in a language i'm familiar with but we both understand that neither of us expect anything back on an emotional level. wait when did we start confiding our deepest secrets with one another. what do you mean you trust me.
#wyll waking up with holes in his neck like..... arent i supposed to be a monster hunter.... why did i let him do that#astarion wandering around in the woods like why tf did i bite the vigilante that was so stupid hes gonna straight up murder me#both of them return to the safety of the Meaningless Flirtation Script but something has changed#anyway i think theres a lot to explore here wrt the comedy of being mutually oblivious#crossing line after line past the superficial without really acknowledging or being aware of it#and really when you think about it wyll needs someone who doesnt... need him if you get what i mean#at least#someone who doesnt need the blade of frontiers#astarion doesnt need saving or rescuing hes a man of personal agency capable of defending and making decisions for himself and#i think being with someone like that would take the pressure off of wyll a little bit#i dont need you to protect me like so many others#i just need someone to stand by my side#idk ive just been thinking about it a lot#long post#bg3#wyll ravengard#astarion ancunin#i never know the ship names for these#wyll x astarion
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