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#grifter#con man#snake oil salesman#republican assholes#never trump#charlatan#carnival barker#traitor trump#crooked donald#republican party#corporate greed
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Look at this face.
Via Jabari Jones
#donald trump#maga#criminal#grifter#republicans#gop#carnival barker#fraud#vote democrat#vote blue#joe biden#biden harris 2024#save democracy#america#lock him up!
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various doodles of all my current cog ocs (minus frostbite) done on mobile
#Doodles#Guz art#Oc art#Pokerface#Tony trapezoid dama#Crowley cents#Collin dama#Bright spark#Stagehand#Websurfer#Jack of all trades#Carnival barker#Ridge costline
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Commission for NovaTheFox13 on FA of their delightful carnival owner, C! Always a pleasure to work with you and your amazing characters.
C (c) NovaTheFox13
Art (c) Me
#art#furry#anthro#digital art#male#wolf#commission#furry art#fox#dog#furry commissions#anthro art#carnival barker#ringmaster#cane#top hat#jackal
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When my Carnival Barker side comes out while at my retail job and dummkopf customers down know how to stand in the fucking line
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actually delighted by @cidandy's swap au. i had to draw
#cider looks like a carnival barker (/pos) and dandy is the worlds saddest wettest salaryman#chris art#chipspeech
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Thank you for making my dream of Bautista punching me a reality. 10/10
Congratulations, vitriolic Bautistamancers -- Bautista punching YOU can now be a reality!!
#greenasks#said in an old timey carnival barker voice#this is not the first nor the last time bautista has punched you in the head
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do you remember when they said you needed sexual tension to be a barker…
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Saw this image of Soap and Ghost enjoying the spoils of a carnival/fair and my brain immediately went instead to Actually They Are Both Carnies AU.
(I am going to preface this by saying I am much more familiar with American traveling carnie lifestyles rather than the UK [do they... even do those over there?] or anywhere else, so that's what I'm basing this on. This is set vaguely late 80s-early 90s in my mind.)
Ghost has been working as a carnie for a very long time. He basically grew up on the fair circuit, helping his dad as soon as he was old enough to carry things and count out change (and do a little pick-pocketing on the side).
Old Man Riley runs a ring toss booth, though not well. He's constantly on the bad side of the man that owns the ring toss trailer but they keep him on the job because, when he's sober, he's charming enough to pull people in and keep them playing. Problem is, he's increasingly not sober. Simon's tall for his age though, so, as soon as they can pass him off as 14 (he's about 9 or 10), the lead has a few of the other barkers teach him how to draw people in. Look charming, smile wide, get them to see you as a friend, play the part and get paid. Simon hates it, but he does what he's told because it keeps his mom and Tommy housed and fed.
(Lead's wife is pretty good about keeping odd jobs set aside for Simon's mom at any time of day she needs to escape. Lead's wife can't interfere every time, but she and a couple of the other carnies do try to minimize the abuse by offering legitimate ways to get away for a short time.)
As Simon and Tommy grow, Old Man Riley steps back more and more. He's almost never sober anymore and rarely seen anywhere near the booth-fronts. He's a terror in the back lots, and burns through a lot of the goodwill the rest of the family manages to generate among their fellows. Tommy starts being trained up taking tickets at a fun house, and he's good at it. He's not as conventionally pretty as Simon, but he's flirtier, more attuned to crowd moods, and much more willing to bark, so he does well pulling.
As soon as Simon's 18, he joins the Army. He's always liked the travel aspect of carnie life, but he hates that it's seasonal work and the months and months of downtime. He never grew to enjoy having to put on the charming mask to draw in customers. Instead, he leaves with the lead's grudging blessing and a promise to his mom and Tommy to catch them up at whatever stop they're at whenever he has leave.
The Army is... nice. It's not necessarily a life he wants to live forever, but for now it's different and yet still enough like what he left behind to satisfy. He ends up having to take an extended leave right after basic to sort Tommy out, though. Drugs have always been passed around pretty openly around the booths and caravans, the the Riley boys had never partaken. His mum had sent a letter that Tommy had been getting into them and not handling it well. She doesn't say it outright, but Simon blames the old man.
He finds an unexpected ally in Beth, the daughter of the man widely acknowledged to be taking over as lead when the current one finally retires. It's not exactly an advantageous match for Beth's family, but she's stubborn and has made up her mind. She wants Tommy and she's going to have him so long as he wants her back. Together they get him clean and Simon gives the pair of them his blessing and a good chunk of the money he's saved over the years.
(Tommy uses it to buy his own caravan so he and Beth aren't imposing on their parents. They both agree Mrs Riley can stay whenever she needs. The old man has been getting worse the more he sinks into the drugs and drink. He'll need to be left behind soon, but no one can agree on where. There are a lot of jokes about ditches and empty fields. [A good number of them aren't jokes.])
Simon heads back to the Army with a lighter heart, ready to do his duty knowing his family is once again as safe and happy as he can make them. They exchange postcards and letters when they can, e-mails when they manage to find somewhere to send one from. Simon doesn't make it home in time for Joseph's birth, but he sees him as often as the leave schedule allows. Everything is good for a few years.
Then. Roba.
Ghost crawls out of his desert grave and, while the Army welcomes him back, they simply do not have a place in their ranks for a dead man. They want to forget the betrayal by one of their own and the loss of a whole unit of promising soldiers; sweep it under a rug and never speak of the shame again. Ghost gets an honorable discharge and several discreet leads to a few PMCs and even the CIA if he wants to stay fighting near the front lines. He doesn't.
Instead, he goes home. He takes what's left of his belongings, the rest of his pay, the survivor benefits in the name of Simon Riley's next of kin, and the hush money check thinly disguised as a pension and goes to find his family. He finds them happy, safe, and sound. Joseph is thriving under the attentions of both Mama Riley and Beth's parents. Tommy's in charge of a handful of booths now, and Beth is running their section of the back lots as well as any sergeant Ghost's ever known.
He gets himself a little trailer to sleep in so he's not imposing and slides back into the crew so easily it's almost as though he never left. Except now he has a mask he won't remove for anyone. The lead sets him up doing mostly setup/tear down, but supplements his time with stalking the fun houses and dark rides to make sure no one's slipped off into a corner trying to get frisky or burn the place down.
Sparks and Washington, when they show up, don't make it far into their convoluted revenge/enticement plot against Ghost. Tommy ends up losing an eye and an unlucky witness gets Sparks' knife to the ribs, but at least they'll both live. The same can't be said for the two ex-Army men.
The carnies close ranks when the authorities show up. They blame the injuries on an after hours party trick that got a little out of hand and accept medical treatment, but offer no information that would lead to any charges being filed against anyone. When they move on to the next show, they leave behind two unmarked graves that will lay undiscovered on those grounds for decades to come.
(The road out of town ends up with one of its own, and Old Man Riley is guaranteed not to bother anyone any further. The crew doesn't take lightly to rats.)
Life slowly crumbles its way back to a semblance of normal. A few stops later, they pick up a few new additions. One of them happens to be a brash Scottish man who comes highly recommended by the head of another crew named Price. Johnny "call me Soap" MacTavish immediately gets on Beth's good side (and Ghost's annoyed one, much to his chagrin).
Still, this Soap guy is kinda growing on him. Just a little.
#cod mw2#ghost cod#soap cod#soapghost#I feel like my carnie experiences have always been pretty mild#at least compared to some stories you can find online#but also I've seen weirder shit than these two on the midways#and soap would be the absolute best barker#you can't convince me otherwise#sorry for making that happy carnival picture weird and less happy#didn't really feel like getting into the scheduling#and how the group splits and reconvenes based on who works which fair etc.#gotta feel like graves is a horse boy#probably western competitions rather than jumping#but he still thinks he's better than those damn carnies
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Plush Baby: *looking outside with the biggest smile on her face*
Carnie: Heya, y’little nightmare, what are you looking at? A game of Fazerblast?
Plush Baby: No
Carnie: A lost child..?
Plush Baby: No.
Plush Baby: I set Dreadbear on fire to see what would burn.
Plush Baby: *delighted* Everything is ablaze!
#this is how the carnival REALLY caught fire#fnaf#fnaf incorrect quotes#incorrect quotes#five nights at freddy's#help wanted 2#fnaf help wanted 2#plush baby#fnaf plush baby#plush baby FNAF#dreadbear#FNAF Dreadbear#DreadBear FNAF#fnaf carnie#carnie#carnie fnaf#barker bear#FNAF barker bear#barker bear FNAF
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Hey, everyone! The shorts and films of the 1960s drag troupe The Gay Girls Riding Club are now free on kanopy!
#the gay girls riding club#drag queen#drag#drag queens#1960s#shorts#I already got the blu ray before this but I want to go all carnival barker about it#queer#queer art#queer culture
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#white Christian nationalism#Trump bibles#low class con man#carnival barker#grifter#charlatan#snake oil salesman#never trump#republican assholes#traitor trump#republican hypocrisy#crooked donald#corporate greed#maga morons#fake Christians
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warmup
#trying out doing jointed hands on cogs... ue#im abt to work more on carnival barker so i drew my girliepops first#hes being a pain to design ill be fr#oc art#stagehand#pokerface#toontown corporate clash#guz art#doodles
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WAIT. i’ve realized if anyone wants any last minute trick or treats in the inbox i can combine it with my old beanie baby assignment game…
#mhac.txt#[carnival barker voice] step right up and get a beanie baby#unless you want something else and explicitly say so.#i’ve WANTED to participate but i haven’t had any images on hand so#speak now or forever hold your peace (till next halloween)
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man... penn and teller...
#the loud obnoxious carnival barker paired with silent and long-annoyed artiste and they're both so skilled is such a great act#like not only is the magic great but the way they sell it is SO funny#rewatching the unpleasant world of p&t... man.#wise fuzz
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(enjoy Timothée Chalamet's work, but is his family-film voice and projection for "Wonka" sounding weird to anyone else? like, character at the end of a Universal Studios ride congratulating you on a "successful mission"? the delivery of his Missy Elliott-esque "scratch that and reverse it" in particular???)
#swear to God i'm not being hateful#it's reminiscent of Peter Pan if he was also a carnival barker?#just because he has a top hat doesn't mean he's a circus dude?#tell me true - do y'all hear it too or is my hearing off due to sitting in a middle school cafeteria all day?#maybe i'm just used to Wonka actors doing something specific?#he just sounds like Timmy 🤷♀️#like i know Wonka's supposed to be a goofy guy but?
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