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vimbry · 3 months

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it's sad how many reviews and stuff around tmbg seem to centre linnell as the sole dark and creepy writer of the band, never really crediting flansburgh too. do "hide away folk family," "dirt bike," "rabid child," "black ops," "cloisonné" mean nothing to them, smh.

#tmbg #this rigid dichotomy they tend to get forced into even tho linnell has written some happier songs and flansburgh plenty horrific ones #I'll be honest tho. I fully went into tmbw-interp-tab conspiracy when I first heard ''sleeping in the flowers'' lmao #I thought that song was about somebody getting murdered #the title seemed like a euphemism to me #it's actually. according to flansburgh. just about getting high in central park #and it's inspired by itchycoo park by the small faces which I knew and loved before and it's GREAT go listen to that. it's '60s psychedelia #so the lyrics are prob fantasising about spending time with the crush and essentially playfully talking sweet nothings together #bc they're stoned and in love #but honestly I thought ''you proclaim that you're an island. I proclaim that I'm one too''#''I declare that I am england. you declare that I have drowned''#sounded to me like someone trying to get away and be alone but the other person not getting the hint #esp bc the narrator introduces themself as not wanting to be ''known as the creep''#the part about getting a ride home with a drunk guy ''who showed me how to spin my head round and round''#sounded like the driver helping them get their story straight/take their mind off it #and the narrator feels they came across as ungrateful about their advice in their shocked state #plus the way the instrumental between the verses and chorus changes from fuzzy and gritty to lighthearted brass #like it's catching you off-guard #but it's not about any of that it's about being high #anyway none of that is an example of a genuinely creepy flansburgh song but

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larabar · 2 months

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putting him through it again

#listening to the idle monologues again houghghh..#im curious if the cyber corruption (once it got super bad) allowed him to be able to communicate with the koco #the way that the others could #if so i imagine an atla nightmares and daydreams situation.#the koco try to help him but hes NEVER heard them Speak Words so it catches him super off guard #appa voice youve got to take care of yourself. you cant go on like this #man i love that ep #anyway #sth #doodles #sonic frontiers spoilers

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valeriefauxnom · 27 days

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Dragalia Lost With A Distinct Lack of Context:

(Honestly all of Chitose's lines in this story qualify but I digress)

(Honestly, part two, all of Mym's stories are a goldmine for this and I actively have to restrain myself from showing all of it)

#Dragalia Lost #...was a very serious game. Uh-huh. Incredibly.#They just put on their crazy hat twice a month to channel utter crack into their translations and art.#And we all rejoiced.#For Dragalia fans: aside from some of the classics here I hope I could catch you off guard at least once!#...For any non-fans: Yes the game was just Like This approximately 50% of the time. The other half was royal drama and identity crises!#out of context

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chitinleg · 1 year

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"Mister Bashir, what a pleasure it is to finally meet you."

Julian, why in god's name would you invite him to play the villain?

#my art #ds9 #julian bashir #elim garak #star trek deep space nine #garashir #image desc in alt text #pencil #ok so on the outset it may look to some viewers as though julian invited garak to play the villain to get dommed by the scary lizard #this is not the case. not in my heart #in my heart julian felt a burst of something funny when Garak asked him ''what if you'd killed me''#and he responded ''what makes you think i wasn't trying'' and garaks face blooms into a sudden understanding and respect. ooh.#That's that heady shit. catching garak off guard. ooooh. that's that High Quality Endorphins Happening. but. gotta pack that up for later #(he will not unpack that later) because garak also just threatened to kill 5 of his friends who are STILL IN DANGER. NO TIME FOR THIS.#so after everything. and MONTHS after OMB. he invites garak to something like a playful rematch. sort of.#after all theres only so long that garak can stomach being a sidekick u know? he needs to be able to do his own machinations.#so they make a character for him thats a villain. a little more cerebral than falcon. a little more ambiguous in his motivations.#now there's also. a secret game at play here (there are always games. doctor) and its actually between garak and his own self #you see garak Also wants bashir to defeat his character. he also wants to be shocked. challenged. a little dismantled even (state forbid!)#and because garak wants that for himself? hes going to fight tooth and fucking nail to make sure it doesn't happen.#that Gayle clip from ''COMPANY IS COMING'' but its garak yelling ''WE CAN'T LET THEM KNOW WE [WANT]!!!''#and its a horrible idea for both of them but. oh so so exciting #you understand.#these rituals arent intricate so much as they are transparent but all encompassing. a fish doesnt know its swimming in water until its out #you understand? you understand.#thank you to anyone who found the time to read these tags i hope you enjoyed yourself and/or found what you were looking for #also garak is dressed so boring bc hes hiding himself u know how it is

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merakiui · 5 months

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thinking,,,,,,,, darling who has a cryptic pregnancy....... [insert twst character here] reacting to it,,, maybe you and floyd and you're both a little dense because neither of you could have ever guessed. T_T

"what do you mean you were pregnant this whole time???? i thought shrimpy just got softer. :D" - floyb mindset.

in floyd's defense, he has no idea how human pregnancies work. he slept through that part of land boot camp!!! fell asleep the minute the professor started droning on about how humans don't lay eggs like mers do. jade can only chuckle (maybe he knew, but in classic jade fashion he won't tell because it's much more entertaining to sit back and watch everyone slowly figure it out) and azul is shaking his head in disbelief. had he known, he would have prepared well in advance to lend a helping hand. and you're just so amazed because maybe you were told you're unable to get pregnant, but somehow it happened and you had no idea all this time.

thank you to floyd and his mer virility for doing what was thought to be the impossible!!!!!! <3

#meraki mumbles #tw: pregnancy #conversely this happens with rollo and he's convinced it's a gift from god LOL he feels very blessed <3 #OOOOO THIS CONCEPT WITH CATER #i need to write something with cater....... he gives me many thoughts but i never write any of them >_<#WAIT. CATER BEING SOMETHING OF A CRINGEFAIL #he kinda sorta sucks at adulting but he's trying and you're his roommate and you're not in a relationship but you fuck #and cater's okay with it because it's easier when he's not attached #but then cryptic pregnancy happens and now he's hit with the weight of: 'wow..... i'm going to be a father'#cater definitely goes to trey for advice #omg cater inviting riddle and trey to breakfast and being like 'sooooo what if i said cay-cay's gonna be a dad? :3'#he catches both of them so off guard...#AAAAAA SORRY FOR RAMBLING IN TAGS OTL

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clownsuu · 11 months

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I wonder what Frank's reaction would be to Howdy's visiting cousin... especially since Howdy would talk about his family, but now the rest of the neighbors get to see a relative? I can only imagine the antics bwaha!

(A silly thing, for you!)

AWEEE MY BB BOYO ;;;;; more for frank to absolutely obsess over got d a m-

#Frank gonn have to watch his back tho #Robbie has a primal instinct to catch anyone off guard and headbutt them into the air HSGDHDJJ #Aka angry horned beetles when they fight-#Gave howdy a few dotted scars in his back back in the day LMAO #however now that howdy is taller and stronger than him he can easily just grab onto his horns #Robbie just goes “awe poo”#I just realized that if howdy was to have a giant family get-together in the neighborhood #Frank would absolutely lose it-#Gets ascended into the heavens HZHDHDHHD #ALSO #My god howdy family ocs has got to be one of my favorite genders dawg #It's like he has so much family that technically all of the ocs made as siblings and such could be canon LMAO #Love love love AAAAAA #ALSO ANYWAY ENOUGH WITH ME RAMBLING GAH #YOU DRAW HIM SO CUTE DAMN IT XHHXJDJDJJDHDHDJ #HES JUST EXISTIN ;;;;;;;

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my1oves · 18 days

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imagine randomly pulling down chilchuck's neck warmer thingy and giving him a peck on the base of his neck just to see him squirm hehe

#he nearly shrieks every. single. time.#catches him off guard so bad #and when everyone turns around bc ?? what happened ???#you act all nonchalant like 'i dunno. chil are you okay?'#and he has to (with a very visibly flushed face) pretend like everything's fine #hehe >:3 #gotta love making chil suffer #chilchuck x reader

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crabsnpersimmons · 1 month

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Do you sketch in pencil or do you just go straight to pen?

thanks for the question! it depends on what i'm drawing!

if i'm just doodling without any plans, i may go straight in with a pen. it's a habit i developed from my school days because i didn't like the feeling of pencil on paper. these are examples of when i just went straight in with pen:

the first two i drew with felt tip pen and ballpoint pen respectively and left the sketch as the lineart. the third one, i sketched with a ballpoint pen, liked it, and decided to clean it up with white out and add cleaner lineart on top.

now, if i know i'm going to draw something complicated or something i know want to clean up later, i'll usually start with a coloured pencil sketch and then... decide if it's a lines first day or colours first day. you'll usually notice some stray sketch lines because i honestly don't care to clean them all up perfectly. Some examples here:

usually, i do lines first because that's what i'm used to. also because getting the lines done gets me closer to a finished drawing (a bad habit of mine is stopping once the lines are done). but recently, i've been being too precious about doing lines, so i decided to switch things up and colour first, which has been helping me to not overthink my lines too much.

#ask the crab #crab art #traditional art #bright colours #basically i just do whatever #i change things up often because like #that's how i beat my art block #by switching things up and catching it off guard #haHA YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD RUIN MY DAY #I'LL COLOUR FIRST THEN #I'VE LEARNED A WHOLE NEW ART MEDIUM TAKE THAT ART BLOCK #ART BLOCK IS DEAD #I PIXEL ART NOW #i should pixel art again sometime

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milf-harrington · 2 years

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i keep seeing people say "oh eddie would be x in a modern au" "eddie would be y in a modern au" and im ???

a modern day eddie would still be a metalhead dnd player who's probably read the LoTR triology more than once; he'd just also own all the movies and know a bunch of useless trivia about the actual filming and production.

he'd probably still be a drug dealer, still gets held back a year in high school, probably has a second hand phone with a cracked screen that he only uses to listen to music, skips class because his teachers don't like him, runs a dnd club either in the drama room or the art room, either forges notes to get out of phys ed or just doesn't show up, he strikes me as someone who enjoys the process of burning music onto cd's so he probably has a bunch of mixtapes in his glove box and steve would hate driving with him bc his car wouldn't have an AUX port or anything so he'd either have to listen to the radio or eddie's music

a modern day eddie would still be eddie, he'd just have the luck of getting to experience all the nerdy shit that comes out after the 80's and also modern technology

#it just always catches me off guard bc i guess i just don't understand why people think he'd be any different??#things that still exist today: metalheads + dungeons & dragons + kids getting bullied for being weird #eddie munson #he probably gets dragged into ZiNG ever weekend by the kids and he acts all put out about it but he always leaves w new dnd stuff #idk what the american equivalent of ZiNG is so you get the australian pop culture nerd store instead fjkdh #i can imagine him working somewhere like Sanity (another australian store; this one sells music/movies/books about music/boardgames)#he'd still smoke and play guitar and sew patches onto his battle vest and wear his hair long #idk why im so fixated on this but just!! you don't have to completely change a character to adapt them to a modern setting

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beeheevs · 9 months

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sometimes, I'll be reading an atsv fic and come across one word or way of phrasing or encounter, and all of a sudden just know the author is black. on the flipside, sometimes writers will write in a certain way that makes it obvious they're decidedly not 💀

#i once read a fic that describe hobie as “styling” his hair in wicks #which is like #not necessary wrong #it was like “his hair was in wicks a style he usually liked to put his hair in”#a sentence that implies you can just take your hair out of wicks??? like they're braids???#another fic described blm as a movement that got really popular “recently” because alot of black people were being killed by cops #which is not necessarily...wrong but is so far from it's actual messaging and what it truly stands for #like blm at the root is not a new thing #idk i mean no judgment because i know it isn’t on purpose it's just always catches me off guard cuz...what #atsv #hobie brown #flowerpunk #punkprowler #flowerbyte #prowlerbyte #idk im just naming these ships cause ik y'all get it 💀#miles morales #margo kess #miles g morales #spiderverse #punkflower

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awkwardrocker · 8 days

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I think my big issue with the Lance/Ricciardo crash during the Chinese GP is that Lance doubled down that it absolutely was not his fault. He fucked up. He didn't brake and launched Danny into the air. That's just the facts.

He ruined his race, Danny's race, Hulkenberg's race, and Piastri's race. And he can't be bothered to take responsibility. Accidents happen. But for goodness sake, you've gotta own up to it my dude.

#just like piastri said #he complained that everyone else braked #when that should've been what was expected #all safety car restarts involve some slowing down and bunching up #and then the lead driver just punching it trying to catch the field off guard #that's like #the whole point of the strategy on that restart #to not even be looking in front of you is unacceptable #but even then #at least admit you fucked up #don't blame everyone else #if everyone else is braking and you know you cannot overtake in that moment you should too #formula 1 #f1 #formula one #lance stroll

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demi-pixellated · 6 months

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*insert angsty Act 1-esque dialogue because i don't have the bandwidth to script it properly + this mostly expression practice anyway*

#Baldur's Gate 3 #BG3 #tavstarion #Astarion #Tav #Anotos Storm-Touched #Fanart #MSPaint Draw #//tryna get back into the 'drawing for self' groove after a particularly intensive assignment at work #based around some dialogue options back in act 1 where you tell him 'he's safe with you' and he goes off at you #i just thought the response he gives is interesting like the caution is warranted but it makes out like he's tryna scare you off #and i really liked the idea of Anotos responding with an immediate conviction - that's only a lil scary - and it catches him off guard #smth like 'cazador will kill you without a second thought' 'then he has to kill me' +#'--what?' 'Then he has to Kill Me - He doesn't get you without a fight'#idk idk it's a little nebulous - the last panel tho would be a mumbling mess of 'fine. whatever. get yourself killed for me. see if i care.

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ufolvr · 9 months

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Fellow selfshippers I know the thought of doing everyday mundane things with your f/o Especially a task/activity ur currently doing sounds cute but beware this siren call.

If you start thinking like this its far too late and they have consumed your heart entirely! Watch out! Your heart is theirs and so is their heart yours!

Pro/comship dni

#gnawing at my hand when i catch myself thinking those depraved thoughts (fo in bed with me playing viddy game #this is a joke btw. its just that it caught me so off guard i was like oh jesus youre here ro stay arent you.#self insert #selfshipping #📡 incoming transmission 📡#self ship #selfship #self insert community

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destinywillowleaf · 2 months

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so i had Some Thoughts like... a month or go at this point, i think, it's just taken time to work on Other Things and also sit down to do this

but i think it'd be fun if there was like. a pirate special costume event. specifically with day one characters that haven't gotten any additional sync partners yet because they deserve it.

obviously roark was going to be here because i am Predictable, so... pirate roark and his partner archeops! everyone thinks he's partnered with chatot since that's the perfect companion for a pirate, but Tot is more of a pet than a battle buddy (i can and will elaborate if asked). Puppy on the other hand is very much a dino who likes to battle when given the chance.

i have no idea what his EX colors would be considering he's already running with a shiny and chatot's colors also really aren't all that different. maybe moving closer to the actual shiny coloration??? i just didn't want them to blend together too much in the dino hug :/

#pokemon #pokemon masters ex #pokemas #gym leader roark #roark pokemon #chatot #archeops #puppy the archeops #also briefly featuring #rampardos #trainer ryuki #pokemon ryuki #the earring is more of a leftover from when he was just gonna be partnered with chatot. i still think it's a fun idea =)#puppy's name is also a bit of misdirection in battle and that little bit of catching someone off-guard can make all the difference #the levels are moreso what level i think they'd roughly be if this wasn't masters??? like in normal game stuff. you know what i mean right #...not gonna lie part of the reason why puppy is shiny is to differentiate her from emmet's because i straight-up forgot he had an archeops #also part of the entire point of this was the cloak. i realize it's not in most images but that's just cause i needed to figure out The Res

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jattendschaton · 1 year

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You ever read the way someone writes a character and think 'oh yeah, you definitely wrote for x fandom before this' and then one step further do you ever go back and get reinvested in a previous hyperfixation and realize you are writing your current blorbos in a distinctly fandom x-ish way?? Do I even have new blorbos or all they all just slight variations of the same bitch

#bean talks #directly inspired by rereading a previous hyperfixation from middle school #that i didnt even write fanfic for but i reread that first book well enough to recite it #and now i'm like. oh wow. i am writing adrien agreste in such a distinctly previous fixation way...#i didnt even remember this old blorbo was so similar to him ???#and now i'm like. do other people read my writing and think 'oh yeah you were definitely influenced by internet craze of 2009'#because appARENTLY they'd be right and i didnt even realize it #i kinda love that though. our previous interests all bring us to where we are today. even if it was cringe or whatever i dont care #our creativity is all wrapped up in everything we've ever loved and hated and experienced and thought about #and i like that even if it catches me off guard. nothing ever really leaves you because it's shaped the way you think about the world

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sotc · 9 months

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It's my bg3 wizard, Emyr, done by the lovely @plushchimera who surprised me with this gift for my birthday!! Thank you so much 😭😭💙💜

#*baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #*emyr #art for me #i am SO BLESSED to see these wonderful gifts makin my lad all smirky #spikey hair and horns too like hehehe <333 #THANK YOU SO MUCH ANYA #you keep surprising me and every time it catches me off guard like the pikachu face meme #LOVE U <333 #every time im like you can't keep getting away with it and every time you do #LOL

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