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Malleus sketches for Faebruary 💚🖤💜

This is my first time drawing him (or anyone from Twst). Might line and color these later.

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i hate babies and infants with a burning passion, they make me so fucking mad. but THIS.

THIS IS THE ONLY GOOD BABY IN THE WORLD.

you don't get to argue with me because i am correct. i don't give a SHHHIITTT about other babies, i don't care if one of you people are like 30 and have a baby and you go "but my baby is specia-"

YOUR BABY IS FUCKING UGLY.

this one is the only good one. i rest my case.

So I’ve made a few references to Steve being an Excel guy as an adult (because someone had to be in charge of Steve and Eddie’s money and it certainly wasn’t going to be Eddie).

He’s got the classic spreadsheets – monthly budget, college savings projections, income tracking because he and Eddie both work jobs with variable incomes (Steve is a counselor and Eddie is an author), the whole nine yards.

Steve also has some “extracurricular” spreadsheets. I’ve talked about how Steve has a spreadsheet tracking the combinations of Mario Kart racers/vehicles he tries out (there’s a ranking system involved, it’s very complex). He’s got one for his fantasy football league, obviously, and he and Moe put money on their March Madness brackets so there’s a spreadsheet for that too.

Eddie’s personal favorite is the one comparing monthly expenses by kid, which isn’t exactly a necessary metric per se, but from it stems a game Steve and Eddie secretly play: who is the most expensive Harrington daughter?

The winner tends to rotate throughout the year, but Hazel is usually their least expensive child in the long run. She does ballet, which isn’t too bad when she’s little but then she graduates to pointe shoes, and Steve had no idea that not only do pointe shoes set you back $100 minimum, they also wear out ridiculously fast, and, as he’s been told many times, you can’t wear the dead ones.

Moe usually takes that top spot in the winter – elite basketball teams aren’t cheap by any stretch of the imagination, and then in high school she gets into snowboarding, which is somehow even more expensive. She’s also consistently the reason they hit their health insurance deductible every year. 

Robbie is their overall most expensive kid by a mile. She drove up their car insurance by getting into an accident a month after she got her driver's license, had braces for five years, and the prescription on her glasses has changed every eighteen months since she was seven. She’s notorious for breaking her phone, so she racks up quite a tab in that regard too (the one year they got a protection plan was also the one year she had no phone-related incidents, so they didn’t even bother renewing it – they just make her suffer with a cracked screen for a few months before they finally drag her to the mall to get it fixed). There’s also the year Eddie bought her an electric violin which was, naturally, not cheap (Eddie argues it shouldn’t count because he was the brains behind that operation).

Tank Fact

Tank is actually a huge book reader, they really like reading a good paper back curled up on the couch.

He highlights and writes and marks down pages, Tank leaves his marks in their books in a way they never did physically. Honestly if you picked up a book from Tanks bookshelf, you’d learn a lot just from reading his notes

Hunters Lullaby🎻

Raine had to get a baby carrier because they couldn’t figure out how to wrap Adrian’s baby sling.

theremin update: i can now produce recognisable melodies, albeit with a lot of mistakes, and have begun tentatively turning down the pitch corrector. i am struggling with leaps (that is, jumping rapidly between high and low notes). i imagine it's similar to playing the harp, except i've got no visual cue and pretty much have to guess at where the next note is - and it's made more challenging by how sharp and decisive my movements have to be, to avoid the sliding sound of my hand going up the scale. i guess at this point it's all about building muscle memory? i've also looked up a couple of tutorials and found that i am absolutely not using the right finger technique (be quiet), so that's something i'll need to get to grips with at some point. but it's good i'm having fun :-)

they spent the first half of the episode making it absolutely clear that Haruka and Michiru were being chill and looking after baby Hotaru and her dad, so them showing up on the top of the ruins, Michiru playing the fucking violin, and then provoking Usagi and the other girls into a fight is sooooo fucking hilarious

because they knew Usagi was right at this point. They knew she was the messiah, and they knew they were gonna leave this fight by basically swearing allegiance to her. they weren't even bothered by it, it seemed. they had like fully accepted all of this and were ok with it.

but FIRST they were gonna show up and be dramatic haters one last time

Music moments I’m obsessed with that literally live rent free in my head since Hazbin Hotel eps have dropped, in no particular order :

Spoiler warning ahead for eps 1 to 6.

Just the entirety of Whatever it takes. Especially the French Canadian version, brings me back to a time I can’t figure out but I just know I LOVE IT. AND IM NOT ASHAMED TO SAY ITS MY FAVOURITE ONE.

Adam singing with Lute that Hell is forever (you know the moment) both in episode 6 and the first oneee it’s lovely)

Adam going on with his “fake” guitar solo thingy. Lovely.

Angel’s first sentence singing in Loser, baby. It’s PERFFF.

Lucifer’s violin solo. I’m obsessed. Add on it when Alastor starts with the piano. Just that but I could listen on and on (…I have. Thanks TikTok.)

CHARLIE AND EM SINGING TOGETHER TO THE ANGELS IM. MWAH. CHEFS KISS.

I’m also growing quite fond of Stayed Gone. Vox and Alastor just ‘arguing’ in that singing way- it’s great.

I think that’s all for now :> Will add on as episodes drop!!

when you’re being mean to me, this is who you’re being mean to. if you even care

a gift.... to all the anna ulanova fans out there ....

the eventbrite page for my violin teacher's show says dress like it's 2008 so naturally i am going all out. zebra print skirt i actually wore in middle school. black paramore shirt with a skeleton on it. black nail polish. i feel So Alive

I made a playlist of some of Everly's favorite music that she likes to play on her violin(s), but also for the other MCs who picked the violin hobby. I'll probably be adding to it as time goes on as well. Romeo and Juliet is on there specially for the author of The Fernweh Saga (@lacunafiction) because of what they said about the JR route on their Patreon. ✧٩(•́⌄•́๑) Also, a shameless plug while I'm at it! Go read The Fernweh Saga! It's a FANTASTIC interactive fiction! Well worth a few dozen reads!

Fear not. My Wrathion's toxic unhealthy dynamic is with his CHAMPIONS