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I've said this all before but I just go crazy every time this scene comes on and it's in the first ten minutes of the whole show who allowed this to happen, I--
first of all: Nix is just waiting there for Dick and there's no introduction, no greetings, just straight into boring, best friend banter that establishes for the audience that oh! these two have rapport! they know each other enough to joke! and the conversation keeps going, quips about happy hour and civilized places for civilized men and then they pull this shit--
"Should've been born earlier, Nix." // "And what? Give up all this?"
what the fuck, what the fuck--
this fucking look, man, like. you can already tell from the conversation they just had that lewis might be someone who never takes things seriously, who uses jokes to protect himself and has this reputation of being nonchalant about everything (despite feeling so so much, as we'll learn later on), and so at first we think that this is a joke and it is a joke! but then dick turns around and gives him that look and lewis' sardonic expression falls and there's this silent exchange and you get this feeling that dick knows that even jokes are half meant and this one, especially, has an undercurrent of truth in it so goddamn heavy that it hits hard enough for dick to turn around and smirk at nix--
--because for once, he's managed to pull the god damn honest truth and then you think, what am i missing, really? what is nix actually saying? and you realize--
he is saying; "no, i'd rather go to war than not know you."
he is saying; "i wouldn't wanna miss out on you."
he is saying; "even if i were born earlier, even if i didn't get to know you, i'd still miss you."
and he didn't fucking mean to!!! look at his face!!!!!!!
he didn't mean to say it!!!! he didn't mean to bear that much of his soul!!!!! look at him!! he's Afraid!! he's Embarrassed!! but he can't turn away fast enough, he can't take it back, because dick is Looking At Him Like That!!
quit looking at him like that, dick, it's like you're in love with him-- and maybe he is. because he read through the lines and he chose nix, in the end. instead of walking away, like he'd might've been planning to do, he walks back and takes a seat and listens as his boybestfriend tells him; "We'll go to Chicago, I'll take you there."
before turning to watch nix light up his cigarette, puff up some smoke and memorize everything he can about him. scanning his profile, and staring at his lips, dick wonders if maybe he'll one day come to love the flavor of nicotine, so long as his first taste of it came from lewis' mouth.
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While working on my wip i realized something about the scene where Babe and Spina try to wake Eugene during the shelling when Harry got hit.
Eugene has a one man foxhole, it's big (or rather small) only for one man. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but amongst the rest of easy company, there would be at least two guys in one foxhole (I can think of Dike being alone in his foxhole as well, but I'm not counting him okay lol). And I'm thinking how it once again represents Gene distancing himself from the rest of the guys. (Or maybe I'm just looking too much into it lol but-)
Then Babe and Spina come running in and those two are the only two guys that Eugene actually bonds with, like I know he cares for all of the easy company men, but with these two it's different. With Spina, he talks about his life outside of the war, he talks about his grandma, and with the way Spina had asked about the cajun healers, I think they had talked about this before. And Babe, well, do I even have to say anything? Their relationship is just something else.
Spina and Babe just went "we know you're trying to put a wall around yourself but let me ask you about your people and let be ask you to call me by my really weird nickname, let us find you and help you get up when you're struggling, even if you didn't want that let us be there for you like you're there for us" and I think that's beautiful.
#can you tell i need to sleep#i also need to stop watching ep6 over and over#ralph spina#babe heffron#eugene roe#band of brothers#bob#does this count as bob meta?#bob meta
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it's more obvious in my hanahaki au but lewis nixon waits his whole life for Something. maybe even Someone. to give him a sense of self that's greater than what was given to him by his family name-- he's greedy like that. so when dick winters comes along and they cease to become dick winters. lewis nixon. only to turn into dick winters AND lewis nixon, it's not too much of a leap for lewis to come to the conclusion that This is what he was meant for. he is meant to lift dick up. his obverse. his counterpart. and if he has to die for it, then so fucking be it.
... i've been thinking too much about this, can you tell?
I admit I read 'hanahaki au' and blacked out for a moment because that shits my guilty pleasure and now I NEED it (and I'm honestly surprised there isn't more of it floating around here, these guys are primed for it).
BUT YES. JESUS. Nix has been so disconnected, so disillusioned, for so much of his life, but with Dick? Suddenly life makes sense to him again. There's a sense of belonging he's lacked all of his life. What WOULDN'T he give to keep that? What wouldn't he give to play his part right for once?
And Nix is the type to absolutely draw those classical comparisons, to look through time and mythology at counterparts who complete and exist for each other. To believe that there is always one in any pair that cannot stand alone, and that this is him.
#look he might not be my babygirl the way hes yours but i do want to shake him between my teeth and then wrap him in a blanket#band of brothers#bob meta#winnix#lewis nixon#anyway brb im off to overthink abt hanahaki aus
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no, because - famous person starts dating less famous person and is then gradually overshadowed is a trope. a trope often used to bring external conflict into stories. but jack and bitty are carefully constructed as the opposite of that, and I'm fucking feral over it.
we joke about how jack will eventually be bitty's trophy husband and be thrilled about it, but it definitely has a giant grain of truth in it. it's how they're characterized. bitty is an extrovert; jack is an introvert. bitty reached out and built himself an online audience to deal with his trauma; jack shut himself out and started avoiding the public to deal with his.
bitty finds comfort in being able to talk to others and (as seen in spotlight on eric bittle) considers being a public figure a sort of healing experience: coming out and being a public person (in every manner of speaking, not just sexuality wise) and putting himself in the limelight is such an important part of his journey because he sees it as a way of helping others who were in his situation.
jack grew up in the spotlight as the only son of two prominent figures. he grew up as a child with anxiety with the media's eyes on him as he was compared to his father. he grew up as an overweight teen featuring in trashy gossip columns as he was compared to his mother. he got into rehab in part because of this attention and it only attracted more attention to him. a lot of jack's anxiety stems from the notion of people looking at him and thinking about him and talking about him and judging him, and it's unfortunate because jack's dream is to play hockey, and that comes with even more attention.
but that's the thing: jack and bitty's story is (once again) a demonstration of two people making each other's lives better.
jack's fame thrusts bitty into the spotlight post-cup, and it's a giant push forward in helping him reach a bigger audience and thus grow his independent fame. bitty's growing fame slowly overshadows jack, to the point where ngozi says they'll one day be Eric Bittle and his Athlete Husband. and that means jack gets to play hockey, and win cups, and achieve fame in his own field, but the media's attention slides off him to his husband, and the fans on the street gradually approach bitty more than him, and jack is free to have his success with less of the personal scrutiny.
it's not that jack becomes less important than bitty. it's that bitty gets to stand in front of the direct sun and flourish as a result, while jack gets to stand in the shade bitty creates and flourish as a result. it's symbiosis. it's beautiful.
#omgcp#omgcheckplease#zimbits#watch me write this post as the into to my three part essay series:#Enough Talking About Bad Bob; Let's Talk About Growing Up As A Conventionally Unattractive Child Of A Model/Actress#I genuinely don't understand how ugly baby jack and fat teen jack aren't talked about more#do NOT tell me fatphobia did not affect jack's childhood. I simply do not believe it for a second#anyway zimbits are the true love blueprint they invented healthy relationships etc. etc.#meta#text
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a while ago i saw a post by @sideblogdotjpeg about how the cycles in c3 seem a lot more personal/familial. and i kind of went insane in the tags at the time and i’ve been thinking about it a lot since because like…
you have the heroic cycles that the band of boobs parallel/break on this large scale. the idea of these broken trios of adventurers is there throughout the campaign, but they really start to engage with it towards the end— with the divine hearts, and thiala, and the wheel of suffering/wheel of joy idea. the thing hardwon says as he takes the divine heart, that no matter what anybody chooses from then on it’s with love in their hearts, i feel is very relevant to how they break the cycle. they love each other, and they choose over and over to hold each other tighter rather than be driven apart.
and on the other hand, you have duck team’s refusal of fate vs their family’s resignation to it. look at swag working with mothership, oliana’s contrition, and the stuff that is currently ongoing with gowan. you know— sol is a version of swag who fully rejected mothership and found his friends instead. callie refused to be a part of her family’s business, and her love for the wild and the serpents is giving the world a chance. calder, when he makes the deal with ultrus, telling callie and sol that he trusts them to save him. and now calder is refusing to sit back and let gowan handle things in the ice knife.
it's not that duck team aren't trying to save the world. they are. and it's not that the boobs didn't have a personal connection to the cycles they were breaking. they did. but it's like... well... how do i put this into words. right--
the song melora's boon plays when the boobs arrive at the heart of the world and speak to melora. when she talks to beverly about duty, shows him the places he faltered and how at the last second, he gets back up. (later, when they face thiala, bev doesn't go unconscious once. at one point, he's the only one standing.)
for sol, this is the song that plays when he expresses his fear of going down again. when he admits to callie that he's scared of the day that she and calder are down and he's the one that needs to stand up alone. when callie says she's not afraid of that day, and sol finds himself empowered by the mushroom in his chest. the moment that sets up sol's long death monk ability, where he's able to refuse to go down and keep on fighting.
melora’s boon is also the song that plays for moonshine’s boon at the heart of the world. there are actually two songs in this scene, hardwon’s is different, and the transition back happens when melora says there’s a part of herself that moonshine hasn’t embraced. when she speaks to moonshine leading her people to a better future like an alpha wolf leading her pack.
for callie, it plays when she tells hardwon and sol that she’s a liability and she needs to change— to embrace winter— in order to get calder back, even as they reassure her that she doesn’t. it also plays when callie asks the others to help her protect honeysuckle while he’s weakened. when they promise to lead honeysuckle home and free him from his connections to gromdal.
the writing on the wall plays when the boobs reach the court of gods. there's the wall of prayers there, and they hear the prayers of the people of bahumia, reaching out to them. prayers of protection-- for and by them. prayers that put the future of bahumia in their hands.
for callie, this is the song that plays when she sees aryox's carving of her reaching the cave. when she realizes her mother acted the way she did because she could see what was coming in the future. when she realizes her mother was leaving the world in her hands.
the songs that the boobs first encounter at the end— when they’re basically demigods stepping up to face thiala— return for duck team in these personal moments. when sol finds the strength to refuse death. when callie talks about embracing winter, her mother’s season, something she eventually finds strength in, to save her friend. when callie asks the others to help honeysuckle, one of the serpents that she’s promised to protect partially due to the harm her family caused to the wild. and when callie realizes her mother saw the future and acted as she did because of it, pushing callie to walk the path she’s walking now.
anyway. this was a post about naddpod music.
#naddpod#ba2mia#naddmusic tag#sorry to leave calder out his story is too ongoing to fit yet#(and we haven’t had any songs that fit in his arc either)#if we get a late stage bahumia song during this arc#for calder and gowan im gonna fucking. die.#truly just going insane over here anyway#like obviously on a meta level the reason the songs were never used for the bob#before the endgame is bc they weren’t written yet#but like. when you start to think about it#it kind of fits that it happens like this#there’s also more examples like i just want to know you’re taken care of#which is used in c1e91 for moonshine and paw paw’s convo#being used for callie and foster in ep10#of c3#specifically in the context of callie’s love and her fear of loving big#(contrasted against moonshine resigning herself to hell and her fear of that future)#anyway if i keep talking abt this i’ll explode so#enjoy? i guess?#hanbles
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Bob’s Burgers is one of my favorite shows ever. It’s one of my comfort shows. So often adult animations rely on being crude and offensive to be entertaining. Or they lean heavily on abusive family dynamics. After a time, it becomes tiresome. I’m someone who enjoys the kindness in others, not their cruelty. That’s not a revolutionary thing to say, I know. But a lot of adult animation and it’s fans want that offensive stuff, wants to see families rip each other apart whether that be emotionally or physically. But Bob’s Burgers is different.
For so long adult animation pertained to the bad dad trope. We had the Peter Griffins and the South Park dads, for example. But Bob Belcher is a breath of fresh air. It’s been stated that Bob did not have a good childhood. We do know some of the extent of why it was bad. Bad enough that he feels viscerally uncomfortable with his father’s presence. However, Bob didn’t pull a Hank Hill where he just shut down his emotions. He made the decision to be emotionally present.
Tina is awkward and deals with an ever-present loneliness. She feels like an outsider in the world. Constantly voicing her feelings and her frustrations that she doesn’t have true friends outside of her siblings. Rather than just brush her aside, Bob is constantly trying to build her confidence. Bob was an awkward kid who didn’t have true friends. He understands and empathizes with Tina. At one point, he tells her that he would have been lucky to have had her as a friend when he was her age. He shows her the kindness that he never got as a kid.
Gene is a colorful weirdo who dreams big. He’s this bubbly boy who expresses himself however he wants. His passion in life is his very odd and strange music. Bob doesn’t understand it, quite frankly. But rather than react in hostility due to his confusion, Bob looks at his son with wonder. And so many times he tries to reach out to Gene. It works, there are a lot of episodes where they spend time together. Bob, again, doesn’t really understand what Gene does or is interested in, but he tries to. He actively encourages his son’s creativity and loves how strange he is. He’s shows him the acceptance that he needed as a kid.
Louise is quite different from those around her. She’s not one to just run around and ask to be friends with others. Unlike Tina, she’s fine with this. But she still has insecurities that many of us have. She worries about how others view her. Her arc in the movie is all about that. But, with the help of Linda, Bob is able to reassure Louise. Louise takes Bob’s words to heart. He’s not only her dad, he’s her best friend. They joke and banter with the knowledge that they still love one another. He gave her the companionship that he needed as a kid.
The reason Bob’s Burgers and the Belchers stand out amongst the adult animation field is that it proves something. It proves that you don’t need to be cruel and vicious to succeed. You can have an emphasis on kindness. There were notes that the writers got that the Belchers quote “liked each other too much.” But that’s part of the enjoyment for many of us. It can get exhausting watching shows like American Dad and modern Family Guy where there’s little to no love between the families. Bob’s Burgers is the opposite of those shows. It’s a damn good show and a lot of that has to do with the fact that Bob is a damn good dad.
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Jason Todd DGAF that Bruce Wayne doesn’t like guns.
That has never been a part of his beef with Bruce, I stg, how are people on this website SO CONFIDENT and yet SO WRONG???
Oh yeah also you goobers, Jason designed his Red Hood persona in part to TORMENT BRUCE SPECIFICALLY. Do you…not understand…that using guns…was a part of that???
I stg I complain about narration in comics being SO on the nose but apparently some people need information spoon fed into their brains or else they literally cannot comprehend it.
#Jason Todd#Red Hood#Bruce Wayne#Batman#character meta#fuckin goobers being SO WRONG on the internet.#have you mfers even READ Jason content???#or are you just going off of ‘feels’ from OTHER BAD TAKES???#got spunch Bob yellin
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Did this favourite character bingo but it's with my beloved crushes –w–
Your free to try it out if you want!
Characters in order (left to right)
Zavok (Sonic The Hedgehog)
Stocking Anarchy (Panty and Stocking)
Ragdoll (DC/The Batman 2004 Series)
Vulture (Spectacular Spider Man)
Question (DC)
Paimon (Helluva Boss)
Doc Ock (Spectacular Spider Man)
Caine (The Amazing Digital Circus)
Freaky Fred (Courage The Cowardly Dog)
Mario.EXE (Mario's Madness)
Sub Zero (Mortal Kombat)
Dr Strangeglove (Moshi Monsters)
Meta Knight (Kirby)
Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)
Neo Cortex (Crash Bandicoot)
Katz (Courage The Cowardly Dog)
Jafar (Aladdin)
Zurg (Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command)
MX (Mario 85)
NOS-4-A2 (Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command)
Scarecrow (DC)
Bob Velseb (Spooky Month)
Mad Hatter (BTAS)
HIM (Powerpuff Girls)
#self ship#f/o#self shipping#romantic f/o#zavok#stocking anarchy#dc ragdoll#tssm vulture#the question#helluva boss paimon#tssm doc ock#caine#freaky fred#mario.exe#sub zero#dr strangeglove#meta knight#alastor#neo cortex#katz#jafar#zurg#mx mario#dc scarecrow#nos 4 a2#ppg him#bob velseb#btas mad hatter#favourite character bingo
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I was just rereading the NME of A Wizard Alone, probably one of my favorites in the NME versions due to one of the characters being autistic (I’m on the spectrum as well). One thing I never understood was how Mr. Millman knew wizards existed and how Nita was put in contact with him? Did the Powers that Be arrange that? I’d love to find out more about Mr. Millman’s connection to wizardry and the wizards he knows.
Leaving the Powers out of the reckoning for the moment—though the "all is done for each" principle described here and there in the books may well have been operating—something that hasn't had a lot of emphasis on it in the series so far is the issue of how very many wizardry-adjacent people are running around in that world.
Most wizards in Earth's sevarfrith cultures keep quiet about the business of errantry with most of the people they know because it's simpler, and allows them to do their work more effectively. But, like many other human beings, many wizards have people around them whom they'd trust even with such sensitive data: relatives, close friends, other intimates.
My guess is that Millman has met more than one wizard over the course of his life and/or his professional career; has been told something about what wizards' practice is like—and maybe has even seen some wizardry done. Being someone who understands the ethics of confidentiality, he's had no problem keeping what he knows to himself except when it's appropriate to do otherwise. (And such behavior usually leads to the person holding the data confidential having more shared with them over time, as their trustworthiness manifests itself.)
Is Millman's presence where and when Nita needs him coincidental? Almost certainly not, in the broad sense; the phrase "There are no coincidences" turns up often enough in the text. Is it fortuitous? No question. And there are probably a lot of people scattered around our world who similarly find themselves in a position to be helpful to wizards besides the ones they know personally—just as one person's trusted friend may be able or willing to help somebody else out, in the normal conduct of life.
Are we likely to find out more about Millman's history with wizards? Difficult to say. I can think of a couple of places in upcoming work where something like this could be slotted in. The question is whether that'd best serve the plots. And as a matter of course, the question of what best makes a plot work routinely trumps the concept of just putting something into it for fun.
...It's an interesting thought, though. Thanks for the question. :)
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These are all from October 2022, all of them were from SMG4Tober, I just wanted to select the pieces I made that I really liked from it.
#smg4#smg4 art#smg4 fanart#smg4 smg3#smg4 smg2#smg4 smg1#smg4 smg0#smg4 niles#smg4 meggy#smg4 saiko#smg4 mario#smg4 spudnick#smg4 melony#smg4 characters#smg4 bob#smg4 boopkins#smg4 fred#smg4 tari#meta runner#meta runner fanart#sunset paradise fanart#sunset paradise#art#character art#my art#digital fanart#digital art#procreate
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How's 4 doing? Are you guys checking up on him?
"Hey guys I'm back! when I was thinking about all of that...stuff I ran into some of the others!"
"Hello."
"Hii!"
"Sup."
"Hello!"
"Heya!"
":D"
#smg4#smg4 au#smg4 fanart#smg4 smg3#smg3#smg3 fanart#smg4 mario#meggy spletzer#smg4 meggy#smg4 melony#melony smg4#smg4 tari#meta runner#tari smg4#fishy boopkins#smg4 boopkins#fishy boopkins smg4#bob bobowski#bob smg4#SMG1#SMG2
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ok, I'm sure somebody else has said this before but it just clicked for me now.
this scene:
is the precursor to these scenes:
don malarkey is the keeper of the dead. he has been from the very beginning. again and again, he is handed things that the dead have left behind in place of a body.
meehan and evans blew up with their plane. hoob was carted away, to be buried in a mass grave away from the line. skip and penkala were literally obliterated by that mortar. in all instances, there isn't a body to mourn. but there is laundry. there is a luger. there is a piece of a rosary.
and as long as these things exist, donald malarkey will gather them into his hands and he will keep them. because that is all he can have.
#don malarkey#donald malarkey#band of brothers#everytime i watch a detail jumps out at me and i go crazy#bob meta
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Donna's Childhood and Teenhood Wounding
Donna grows up with two loving but self-involved parents. Bob has oppressive and regressive ideas about gender roles, which Donna clearly rebels against early on -- likely reflexively. Until Donna is seventeen, Midge is passive about Bob's chauvinistic attitude and treatment of her (Midge). This passivity coupled to Bob's chauvinism is Donna's first and primary model for male-female romantic relationships, the disparity in U.S. society between men and women, and a bleak vision for Donna's future since she's female.
On the show, Bob refers to Eric as "dirtying [Donna] up" because Donna and Eric have sex. He uses the word dirty in regard to Donna and other woman for enjoying and having sex.
Bob and Midge tend to neglect Donna on a regular basis. They get caught up in sexual fads, which they not only ignore Donna for but also expose Donna to inappropriately and often.
Further, Bob and Midge make Donna a witness to and arbiter of their marital problems. During season 1 and half of season 2, Donna is in a constant state of fear that her parents will divorce. They include her in their fights and use her to win those fights.
Bob writes Midge a note that calls her a bitch, one he knows Donna shouldn't see but writes in front of her anyway. Regardless that he tells Donna that this term doesn't refer to her, the fact it refers to her mother demonstrates and reinforces his lack of respect for Midge and women.
The way Donna is raised teaches her not to trust men will treat her as an equal or worthy of respect, makes her afraid of being trapped in a romantic relationship that limits her freedom and won't allow her to pursue her dreams, makes her fear that a romantic relationship can't and won't last if she's the one in it.
She's also afraid sex will ruin her relationship with Eric. She's watched her whole life how her parents' relationship to sex negatively impacts their marriage. She builds significant boundaries around and about sex in response to how her parents have none and, thus, force her to be a witness to their sex life.
Her attitude toward and choices about her relationship with Eric are consistently influenced by the state of her parents' marriage. When Bob and Midge fight, Donna pushes Eric away. After Bob and Midge renew their vows and commitment to each other, Donna feels safe enough to have sex with Eric the first time.
In reaction to her parents' neglect, she engages in self-destructive behaviors (e.g., purposely failing classes and smoking cigarettes) to get their attention. This self-destructiveness reaches its apex in season 4.
Midge leaves Bob and abandons Donna shortly after Donna and Eric break up. Bob is too overwhelmed by his own grief to be present to Donna and her grief. She essentially becomes parentless and doesn't have enough emotional support. Her lifelong fears and trauma coalesce in season four, and Donna undergoes a personality shift -- and adopts related behaviors -- to suppress her pain.
Donna's trauma is evident throughout the first half of the series. It's woven into her character through actions and dialogue. While Hyde's emotional wounds and their cause contrast are explicitly stated and explored in specific episodes, Donna's -- by contrast -- are more subtly depicted but no less influential on her. She and Hyde, in fact, bond over where their trauma overlaps.
Fleeing to California at the end of season 5 to be with her mother is necessary and healing. Unfortunately, Bob is clueless how his (in)actions and lack of emotional availability during season 4 contribute to Donna's choices. He punishes her instead when she returns home, quite harshly. He deprives her of finishing high school with her best friends, found family, and the boy she's loved since at least four-years-old.
Another trauma, but this time she has Eric to support her and allows her friends to support her, too.
#that 70s show#that '70s show#donna pinciotti#eric x donna#bob pinciotti#my meta#my essay#meta#essay#midge pinciotti
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Anyone noticed how all the ikran from Pandora born kids and Neytiri are blue in tone and flying together, and Jake is to the side with his green Bob?
#probably meaningless#but nothing is left to chance in a 3D film#atwow#avatar#jake sully#neytiri#lo'ak#neteyam#kiri#ikran#any theories?#Bob is a weirdo?#avatar the way of water#avatar meta
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS🎄✨♥️!!! I celebrated the holidays... Sick, I had an infection and I couldn't have a very good time, The good thing is that I have some drawings that I wanted to post♥️✨
#spooky month#spooky month bob#bob velseb#Kirby's Dreamland 3#kirby#deded#king dedede#meta knight#kirby oc#nintendo#fanart#my art#multifandom
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