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directdogman · 10 days

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Each Dialtown cast member shares their favourite Muppet!

Idea: Characters from the cast of Dialtown are asked to share their favourite characters from The Muppets, in order to get the Muppets fandom on board with DT, which winds up being a largely fruitless ordeal.

Gingi insists that Grover and Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street are Muppets when asked, and takes it badly when Gingi is instead asked to name a character FROM The Muppet Show. The ensuing discussion that follows is much too rancid to be published online, making the time spent trying to calm Gingi down entirely in vain.

Karen's comments are not published as she refuses to do ANYTHING other than vent frustrations about Kermit the Frog, making her comments unusable as they would undoubtedly piss off a large section of the Muppets fandom, who largely venerate Kermit the Frog.

Randy tries to make an argument for Scooter being the 'best one', feeling that he, himself, is the scooter of the Dialtown cast, and thus, must stick up for one of his ilk. This answer is NOT published because the internet would tear him to shreds for playing devil's advocate for the worst Muppet.

Randy is then given another opportunity to pick a favourite Muppet, provided he selects a different Muppet. Randy picks Pepe the Prawn. When asked why Pepe is his favourite, tears well on his screen and he asks if he can leave to get a glass of water. Upon leaving the room, Randy never comes back. The answer isn't included in the article, as it's impossible to discern whether Randy feels that Pepe the Prawn is truly a kindred soul or if he was simply put on the spot and felt pressured to simply name the first Muppet he thought of.

Oliver answers by explaining Gonzo is his favourite but every time he's given an opportunity to explain why, his explanation inevitably transitions into a rambling endorsement of anarchism. Each time, after he's been given an opportunity to explain himself, Oliver is asked to rephrase his answer to be less political and he accepts, apologizing for his mistake and swearing that he understands what the blog is looking for now. Oliver then proceeds to somehow transition back into an endorsement of anarchism until the interviewer gives up and decides to leave him out of the article.

We're not actually sure who Norm likes the best from the Muppets cast because before we could get to Norm, Gingi (irate that Grover/Oscar the Grouch were rejected as its answer) told Norm about Big Bird dying in the Challenger explosion (which happened in DT's timeline), prompting Norm to get really upset and leave before his turn came up. Norm's favourite character is PROBABLY Sam Eagle, but now, we'll never get to know for sure. Thanks, Gingi.

Mingus, when asked, declined to answer out of sheer disinterest. Upon being shown a photo of the extended Muppet cast, she arbitrarily pointed to Robin the Frog and said "That one, I guess." Upon being asked why she would pick Kermit's nephew of all characters, her response was: "It's no business of mine who this frog is related to. Nobody is well-connected enough to ensure they'll live if I deem them a threat to my success." After being reminded that Robin is canonically a child, Mingus retorted by pointing out that Robin is, in fact, a fictional frog puppet. Not sure what to do with this answer, but we certainly can't include it.

Stabby + Shooty are asked for their favourites and they pick Statler and Waldorf respectively. When asked why, they explain it's because they're cool, wear suits, deliver CUTTING jabs, and each hang out with their best bro all day, not unlike themselves. The blog operator remarks: "Oh. I figured it was because, like you guys, they're kinda interchangeable and are pretty much overlooked by everyone", causing Stabby to angrily flip a table and storm out of the room. Shooty apologies meekly for his outburst and leaves to calm his companion down. The answer is not published as the interviewer had no clue which was Stabby and which was Shooty, thus being unable to accurately attribute the answers to either of them.

Bigfoot's favourite character turns out to be Animal, and this is the only answer that ends up being published.

Here's the finished article:

DIALTOWN ARTICLE, EACH OF THE CAST'S FAVOURITE MUPPETS: BIGFOOT'S IS ANIMAL.

The article only gets 3 likes.

#dialtown #the muppets #muppets #kermit the frog

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misteria247 · 8 months

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So a little bit of the Muppets concept for Welcome Home that I've come up with so far. Please bare with me as I can't actually write, write anything for this little au but I can ramble so hopefully it'll make sense-

The reader (you) are a tired, struggling adult just trying to get by in life. You've kinda forgotten about how wonderful the world can be, because of all the responsibilities and such that comes with growing up. You just live a mundane existence, go to work and just exist. And you're content somewhat, though not really.

You ended up getting the puppets from a local town auction house. The person who'd owned the home previously had passed away, leaving behind their precious treasures. Since they didn't have anyone in their will to inherit their prized possessions, the town council had decided to do any auction house to get rid of everything within it. You don't know exactly why you'd decided to stop by. Perhaps it was to try and change up your routine, or perhaps fate had a hand in it. Whatever it was you soon find yourself inside the vast, old red home surrounded by other potential buyers and looking through all the knickknacks that were being sold off.

You stumble over all sorts of things, from old records to folders full of drawings and designs. Old musty costumes and a lot of older merchandise that came from the 70s. You noticed that a lot of said merchandise was apart of one of those older shows, like the Muppets and Sesame Street, called Welcome Home. An old 70s children's show that had ended up being canceled due to the loss of funding and such before its existence faded into obscurity. It's while you're looking around that you caught sight of a puppet off to the side. That puppet would be Wally.

You go over and look at him and find seven other puppets, all of them in somewhat mint condition, save for a few rips and tears that you can easily fix. You don't know why these puppets of all colors and sizes caught your attention, but you did know this. You wanted to take them home with you. You'd hunted down the auctioneer who was holding the event and asked him for prices and such like their names. Unfortunately you didn't have enough money for all of them but the auctioneer decided to give you an offer, stating that if no one else showed any interest in the puppets by the end of the auction, he'd give them to you for the price you tried to offer.

Two weeks later you get a call, and soon you're bringing them to your home. Once they're settled in you're a bit reluctant about the situation, seeing how some of the puppets are bigger than you. However seeing them in their somewhat saddened states made your reluctance disappear. If anything these puppets would at least give you a project to do to spice up your normal, mundane routine. And so that's how it started. Every time you had spare time, you'd get out your sewing kit and begin to repair the rips and tears in the old soft felt puppets. You had to visit the seamstress store to get some materials and had to order some too, using what spare money you put back to cover the costs of all of it. This was how you spent a lot of your time whenever you weren't working or doing other things.

However during all of this you'd also began to notice rather strange occurrences. You find that sometimes your things go missing, such as your house keys or parts of your uniform whenever you'd have to get ready for work. Things were being moved around, and even a bit of food had started to go missing. Not only that but the puppets you were fixing up and taking care of began to pop up in random places that you didn't put them before you'd left the house or room. Soon you find yourself wondering if perhaps a stranger was secretly living in your house, and it made you incredibly uneasy. However nothing could have prepared you for the actual reasons as to why all the strange things had been happening.

You'd been let out of work earlier than usual, your boss having no need for you to be there. And after getting a few things from the store you'd made your way home and took out the key to unlock it. Only to hear someone on the other side of the door talking. Going deathly silent, you slowly open your front door, glancing around for the source of the voice. Grabbing a nearby vase to defend yourself, you slowly made your way towards the direction of the voice, raising the vase to be ready only to come face to face with Barnaby B. Beagle.

Let's just say that you used that vase and by God did it do it's job. You also may have screamed and ended up making the other puppets come running which may have freaked you out a little bit more. Once they'd managed to calm you down from your panic attack and you began to question if you were finally losing your mind cuz puppets can't talk??? Much less walk and eat????? Yet here they were, doing exactly that and watching you with borderline concern. It was a very strange and awkward day for you after that. But little did you know that these puppets would become some of the most important people within your life.

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beardedmrbean · 3 months

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Nunya it’s zoomer Huey, so as you know that Elmo was choked by Larry David on live tv.

Now I hearing that Elmo is a black 3 and half year old child

Now I know Sesame Street was created mostly as a way for inner cities kids can get knowledge as the places their in several lack the resources to let them to learn

Jeez almost like most cities planners never thought about kids and such

But anyways can you look up the idea that Elmo is meant to represent a black boy? Of course Elmo represents all kids now. But I find it interesting as that group of kids are often forgotten.

Perhaps I’m sound weird as I just got off my shift as I wrote this

You're fine I saw that whole thing.

I don't believe that Elmo was put in as a substitute for a black kid, just on the basis that it's Sesame Street and they don't do things like that, or they didn't.

No dancing around things there, the first lesson on death I had was Big Bird bringing a picture he'd drawn of Mr Hooper to him to show him, but Mr Hooper had died.

And Sesame Street handled that in a honest and age appropriate way that made death real but not scary, so if they'd wanted to introduce a black kid Muppet they'd make em a black kid.

All that and I remember Elmo from when I was a kid, before he became "ELMO" and there was nothing like that there either to my memory.

And we had human performers of all kinds even then, back when everyone was supposed to be wanting to treat everyone equally regardless of external factors, which apparently is racist now.

I could be wrong though, so I'll look and regardless of what I see I'm leaving that top bit.

Go easy first.

Elmo Monster is a red Muppet character on the children's television show Sesame Street.[3] A furry red monster who speaks in a high-pitched falsetto voice and frequently refers to himself in the third person, he hosts the last full five-minute segment (fifteen minutes prior to 2017) on Sesame Street, "Elmo's World", which is aimed at toddlers. He was most often puppeteered by Kevin Clash, but since his resignation in late 2012, he has been puppeteered by Ryan Dillon.

However, in 1985, Hunt was so frustrated with the puppet, he squeezed it and threw it at Kevin Clash, who then performed Elmo. Clash said that Elmo should be a character who is kind and loving. Sans says of Clash, "one day in 1985, Kevin Clash, a talented puppeteer, raised him up and brought energy and life into Elmo and from that day forward we would all write for Elmo." Modern Elmo debuted with the Season 17 premiere of Sesame Street, episode 2096 (first aired November 18, 1985, following the release of the Sesame Street film Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird). In the episode, Big Bird is tired of the adults refusing to believe him about Snuffy, so he decides to arrange for them to come to his nest and meet Snuffy, and Elmo offers to help. Snuffy returns, then tells Elmo he had better go home and brush his fur to prepare for the grown-ups' arrival, but Elmo holds on to his snuffle so he cannot go; as such, the adults meet Snuffy for the first time ever. Clash cites a moment later in season 17 (from Episode 2215 in which Elmo packs for an imaginary vacation) as the moment when he "found his voice" as Elmo, and by 1987, he became added to various episodes and product lines. __________________

There's lots more but nothing to indicate he was supposed to be any kind of stand in for a black child, people may be projecting because the guy playing him was a black dude, but didn't start that way so not looking good for that theory.

Before moving on, we'll get to that elephant in the room about the guy that does the voice.

Since this is the dude doing it now, and there would be hell to pay somewhere if he was actually supposed to be black. _______________

Not gonna vouch for facts DOT net, but with a URL like that I think it's likely they're going to know what they're talking about even if it is obviously a clickbait site.

OOP maybe this is something

That's Roosevelt Franklin, not Elmo. So there's another nope.

But as I've said if Sesame Street wanted a black character they wouldn't have used a red monster.

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They'd have made a black human(ish) Muppet. _____________

Sesame Street was created so there could be a quality educational program for kids of all walks of life, it was set where it was set for reasons I don't know but could look up if I felt like it, but likely convenience since that's a easy enough place to see everything that's there with all the shops and stands and what not, gotta be in a urban area for that to work.

Again I could be wrong, but either way.

Elmo isn't black and wasn't meant to be seen as a stand in for a black kid to the best of my knowledge, which now includes the stuff here as well as about 8 other sites I skimmed through.

I think people might be trying to make something bigger than a joke out of a Jewish man having a laugh by attacking a Muppet, wonder if there's anything going on in the world that might be generating that kind of need to misdirect people and make something like that out to be something it's not. ______________________

And finally, I gotta say thank you Elmo.

When you sent that tweet out there you weren't expecting to get the level of truth and honesty you got, but you and the rest of the gang really stepped it up and brought the conversation front in center.

In the most absurd way I can think of.

And even us old's are gonna get some good out of it by revisiting our friends at Sesame Street I think.

#zoomer huey anon

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one-more-offbeat-anthem · 3 years

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Dean wakes up to the sound of a very insistent five-year-old saying, in a poorly concealed whisper, “Papa. Papa! Wake up!”

Despite the fact that it’s probably six in the morning and Dean’s supposed to be asleep right now (long weeks at the auto shop always knock him out), he pulls himself out of bed and pads around to the other side of his bed, where Jack is standing, poking Cas’ face.

Dean crouches down to Jack’s level. “Papa’s sick, remember?”

Jack looks down at his feet. “He has the flu.”

“Yeah, he has the flu.” Dean holds out his arms. “But Daddy can play with you instead.”

Jack sighs and lets himself be picked up.

Dean knows that he can't quite replicate Cas and Jack’s special Saturday mornings together, but he can sure as hell try. The two of them always watch Plaza Sésamo, the Spanish version of Sesame Street, together, because language learning needs to start at a young age, Dean, and Jack has a mug of warm milk so he can be just like his Papa with coffee.

(Leave it to Dean to marry an elementary school librarian.)

Then, they make pancakes, which usually gets Dean to actually wake up and join them. After that, they go to the farmer’s market.

And every Saturday is perfect.

But two days ago, after spending eight hours with snotty-nosed kids, Cas came home more exhausted than usual and then promptly passed out on the couch. One trip to the doctor later and it was confirmed--Cas had the flu.

Which means that Dean’s gotta figure this whole “morning thing” out.

"What do you want to watch, Jack?” he asks, and Jack shakes his head.

“I wanna color.”

“Alright.” Less time in front of the television is totally cool with Dean. He sets them up at the kitchen table, rummaging around on the bookshelf next to it until he finds the stack of recycled paper that they use for Jack to color and the box of crayons and markers.

While Jack sets about drawing (there are several of his drawings from school stuck to the fridge--studies in crayon with Daddy and Papa and also Uncle Sam and Aunt Eileen and Grandma written on them in Jack’s kindergarten teacher’s neat handwriting), Dean makes coffee, and then decides to also make Cas some tea for whenever he actually wakes up and also to heat up some milk for Jack.

By the time he gets back to the table, Muppets in Space mug with warm milk in it in one hand and his coffee in a mug shaped like a spark plug that Cas got him because he thought it was funny in the other, Jack has used several sheets of paper, and Dean bends over him.

“Whatcha drawing?” Dean asks, and Jack tries to hide the paper with his tiny arms.

“It’s a secret,” he says. “You have to wait ‘til I'm finished.”

“Okay, okay.” Dean sets the milk down and then sits next to Jack, grabbing a piece of paper of his own. He’s halfway through drawing some sorta-realistic flowers (Cas has a big garden in their backyard that he loves to work in when he’s not, you know, actively dying of the flu), Jack is finished and poking Dean’s arm.

“Look,” Jack says, shoving his drawing at Dean. “I’m just like you, Daddy!”

It’s a drawing of a car, with two stick figures holding clumsily drawn wrenches standing next to it.

“It’s you and me,” Jack adds. “We’re gonna fix the car.” He studies Dean’s face. “Do you like it?”

“I love it, kiddo.” Dean mashes Jack into a hug until Jack wiggles in protest, and then Dean tickles him, getting a laugh out of his son.

Later, while Jack is occupied with choosing between strawberries and blueberries for pancakes, Dean heads upstairs with the aforementioned mug of tea. Cas is sitting up when he gets to their room, with the comforters bunched around him, and he lets out a feeble cough.

“How’s Jack?” Cas asks, gratefully accepting the tea and taking a sip.

“He’s great. We colored.”

“Oh good.” Cas coughs again. “Can you make sure to--”

“Get kale at the farmer’s market? Already on the list.”

“And more honey from--”

“The Turners?”

Cas smiles at him tiredly. “Hopefully later I can--”

“You can sleep later is what you can do. I’ve got this under control.” Dean presses a kiss to his husband’s forehead and turns to leave. “Although Jack and I will bring you breakfast in bed.”

“Can I put in a vote for strawberries?” Cas asks.

“I’ll see what the boss says.” Dean grins and then heads out, gently shutting the door behind him.

So maybe he’s not a morning person, and this isn’t a usual Saturday in the Winchester household.

But sometimes, unusual can be kind of nice.

#DID I RIP OFF THE PLAZA SÉSAMO PART FROM CHILDHOOD MEMORIES WITH MY DAD???? ABSOLUTELY!!! WE DID THAT EVERY SATURDAY MORNING #userstarry #cillabee #flowersforcastag #usershey #offbeatwrites

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twistedtummies2 · 3 years

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Count-Down: Number 31

Welcome to Count-Down! Hello everyone! Welcome to Count-Down! All throughout the month of October, I’ll be counting down my Top 31 favorite portrayals and reimaginings of the King of the Vampires, Count Dracula! Our Count-Down now begins in earnest, and fittingly, our first version may not TECHNICALLY be Dracula, but he certainly knows what counts. Number 31 is…The Count, from Sesame Street.

This is the only Dracula Pastiche character who will make it onto the actual list and not just as an Honorable Mention. By which I mean, he’s obviously a parody of Dracula, but he doesn’t have Dracula’s name or lore or anything like that: he’s really his own unique character, just with a sort of Dracula motif. I struggled for a long time with whether or not I would include him in the main countdown: I didn’t include the Muppet version of Sherlock Holmes, for instance, on my Sherlock Holmes list. I ultimately just decided that I loved the character too much for me to leave him out completely…but, for fairness’ sake to the ACTUAL Draculas who will dominate this list from here on out, he is ONLY taking the bottom spot. Having said that, alongside Count Chocula (and maybe Scooby-Doo and related cartoons), I think it’s fair to say most kids come to learn about the concept of Dracula, vampires, and spooky stuff in general thanks to this fellow. Count Von Count – more often simply referred to as “The Count” – is Sesame Street’s resident friendly neighborhood vampire. And yes, for the record, it has been stated directly by the Count HIMSELF that he IS a vampire, but in his own words: “a ‘wampire’ with an unquenchable thirst for numbers!” It’s not entirely clear how long he’s been on Sesame Street, or how he got his old Transylvania Castle there, or why he moved there to begin with…but children around the world are just glad he’s hanging about. The Count was created to help teach basic arithmetic; the title was born out of a simple pun. Count Von Count, you see, suffers from arithmomania: he is obsessed – clinically, dementedly OBSESSED – with counting. Counting what, you may ask? EVERYTHING. If he’s on an elevator, he’ll count the floors passing by. If he’s out grocery shopping, he’ll count the potatoes in the basket. If he gets a phone call, he’ll be so busy counting the rings he’ll forget to answer the telephone. If he finds himself locked out of his own castle, he’ll be so busy knocking for fun he’ll forget about the rain pouring down and soaking his perm. In his own words, “when he’s alone, he’ll count himself.” The more he counts, the more excited he gets.

Fun Fact: arithmomania was actually a thing for REAL vampires. No joke! Just like with fairies and some other supernatural beings, it was said in folklore, in some places in the world, that if you were being pursued by a vampire, you should throw a handful of rice or beads at his feet: he would not be able to keep chasing you till he had counted every last solitary kernel. While it's highly unlikely this idea was in mind with the creation of The Count, it's still kind of fascinating that this element of vampire lore has a place in pop culture, accidental or not. No one on Sesame Street seems to fear the Count; they just accept his spooky side as part of who he is, and while a few specials and episodes have played on the ideas of fear his CASTLE can put in people, the Count, himself, has always been a figure of fun. In the early days, he was a little more villainous: an almost bullying Muppet who was so wrapped up in his counting he was nothing but a nuisance to the others. However, the character very quickly softened up to become a sort of fun-loving uncle to many of the other Muppet characters: a local eccentric who everyone thinks fondly of, but whose obsessions are, at times, maddening. However, it’s NEVER the Count’s fangs or strange powers that make others feel bothered by him: simply the fact the guy doesn’t know when to quit when it comes to counting! If he could learn better self-control, there would never be a problem at all…but then, of course, things wouldn’t be nearly as much fun as they are. The Count was always my favorite character on Sesame Street as a kid, and that hasn’t changed as an adult. I think he’s one of the few Sesame Street characters where his skits and songs remain just as strong today for me as they were when I was younger; I like them for different reasons nowadays, but it’s still just a lot of fun to see him at work. The character was played for many, MANY years by the late, great Jerry Nelson; since his passing, Matt Vogel has tackled the character, and he’s done a magnificent job at stepping into Nelson’s shiny Muppet shoes. The Count may not be the most serious Dracula interpretation of all time – again, he’s not even TECHNICALLY an interpretation of Dracula AT ALL – but he’s a character very close to my heart and the hearts of many others. So he’s more than worthy of starting us off on this Count-Down. Tomorrow, we continue with my 30th Favorite Dracula, who, yes, will be an ACTUAL Dracula. Hint: He’s from a real Monster Mash.

#count-down #top 31 draculas #count dracula #dracula #halloween advent calendar #october special #the count #count von count #sesame street #number 31

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elliebartlets · 4 years

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5.16 Eppur Si Muove

Episode:

• aka Ellie and Sesame Street

• I remember a lot of this episode actually

• Carol can you just...shut up about Ben.

• “I’d pretty much do anything to avoid using the words “Mr. President” and “your daughter” in the same sentence.”

• what do you mean “the press doesn’t know what to do with the First Lady” ??? leave her alone perhaps?? I mean skipping the board of regents meeting wasn’t a good move (also why is she on that board?? isn’t that a board that oversees colleges/universities?) but like she’s volunteering at a clinic, oh no!

• oh god is this when CJ thinks Ben wants a relationship and he’s like uuuhhh....that’s not what I meant oh god

• Leo: Josh don’t do this thing

Josh: I’m gonna do this thing

• “Didn’t lists go out with Joe McCarthy and hula hoops?

I’m sorry that made me laugh

• oh so Ellie contacted them

• “Can we really justify spending $800,000 on “a bio cultural approach to the study of female sexual fantasy and genital arousal?”

“How can we afford not to?”

• I love how excited Debbie is about the Muppets coming

“Ma’am, will Fozzie Bear be in the house ?”

• “Ryan’s still missing by the way.”

oh my fucking gad, he fuckin dead

• wait the congresswoman actually said she “doesn’t approve of HIV being spread through sexual contact” ??? she says that like she has a choice in how HIV is spread. “No it’s only allowed to spread through blood” aldjahajs bitch I’m-

• I love how Abbey refers to CJ as “our CJ”

• why is the headline on the news showing the weather for Omaha, Nebraska when they’re filming Ellie at Johns Hopkins? Who tf cares what the weather is in Omaha!

• poor Ellie

• ohhh isn’t Russell’s wife somehow involved in this? Like she wants a study funded and/or knew Ellie’s was on the list and Russell knew his wife was involved and Will’s like yo you gotta tell the president and Russell’s like nah

• Ellie flat out saying no to making a public statement is the most relatable thing

• oh my god this Congresswoman Layton plays Elisabeth Moss’s mom in the Handmaid’s Tale!!

• When she said to Toby “A lot of people that care about this issue. A lot of prominent people on both sides of the aisle” I’m pretty sure that was a hint about Russell’s wife

• wait so was Will involved with the list or was he just covering for Russell?

• “Mrs. Doctor Abbey First Lady Doctor.”

• “Wait a minute. Didn’t you give up your medical license?”

Elmo is a savage. That can’t have been scripted. I don’t think Abbey would’ve gone for it.

• “This laughing is not filling Elmo with confidence.”

• ohh a judge died that means the next episode is the supremes!

• yes ok Russell’s wife is on the same board as the congresswoman and Will was asking Russell if it was possible his wife shared...the list?

The only explanation I’m thinking is that Will made the list or got the list from the WH, and somehow Russell got a hold of list, shared it with his wife (or his wife got the list, although I don’t see how’d she do that) who then shared the info with Layton. But my question is how did they know Ellie was a researcher on one of the studies?

Also Will knows Russell leaked the list and just...does nothing about it? Yikes. And then Will tells Russell that he needs to tell the President cause the list is out there and I guess people will make connections to his wife being part of a board with Layton...

oh my god I need to stop over analyzing this show

• Ellie just quoted Thomas Jefferson. If this were shot today people would be like “you’re quoting a sLaVe OwNeR?!” (don’t get me wrong Jefferson was not a good dude but the fact that my mind automatically goes to what people would say today is not good)

• this episode wasn’t terrible (I’m not one of those people who hates season 5 or dislikes it as much as a lot of people do) but it was very confusing.

Podcast:

• The credits should’ve appeared after they showed Ellie in the lab, not after Toby and CJ were talking about it and Toby saying Ellie’s being targeted.

• So Bartlet earmarked $2 billion for HIV/AIDS and that’s where the list of studies came from, including the one that Ellie’s working on.

• “She [the congresswoman] also says in that scene, I’m on the authorizing committee for that money. How does that work? If she’s on the authorizing committee for that money, why would there be any surprise that she knows where that money went? She’s on the authorizing committee, and if she has problems with it, why’d you authorize it?”

Josh stop you’re making me even more confused!! Jk I’m glad he’s just as confused as I am

• This whole thing started with Will doing opposition research for Russell for his upcoming campaign. He made a list of healthcare causes the Bartlet administration has supported to try and see if the Vice President could get hurt by that. Russell leaked the list to his wife who leaked it to Layton. And somewhere along the way they found out Ellie was working on one of the studies and used that to their advantage. I don’t think Ellie was the initial target. They just used her to call more attention to the studies they disapproved of.

• also Josh seems to think it was a secret that Ellie was doing research for the federal government, but I wasn’t under that impression. Like I think it’d common knowledge. She works at Johns Hopkins, a very prestigious well known university, and plus it’d be kinda hard to hide the secret service, no?

• The Traditional Values Alliance, the religious, far right organization that Toby thinks gave Layton the list, is a stand in for the the real organization called the Traditional Values Coalition, which is deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

• The website thelordhateshomos.org is an actual domain on the internet. When you go to it, it redirects you to the Warner Bros website. The domain was registered in February 2004, two months before the episode aired. They most likely registered it so no one else would and do something vile with it and have it be associated with the show/episode.

• “I bristle a little at the First Lady saying, “You have a handsome man in your doorway.”

• “I think Elmo killed in this episode.”

• “There are a couple moments when our heroes don’t seem to understand that these are puppets.”

“Right? I think it’s Rosita who compliments Donna’s hair and Donna responds as if she’s face value talking to a puppet.”

• Bartlet has such a 180° reaction to the news about Ellie. At first he’s furious the press would go after her, yelling about how his daughters didn’t choose the public life, wanting to revoke press passes etc, and then later in the residence he calmly tells her “I think you need to make a press conference.” But I think the reason he does that is because science is being attacked and, like Galileo, she needs to defend science to the church (aka Congresswoman Layton.)

#the west wing #eppur si muove #tww #the west wing weekly #tww weekly #rewatching tww

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kirby-the-gorb · 4 years

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reply roundup!

on [worm]:

@virovac added the following image and said: Lost relatives?

[image description: a photo of an orange and yellow worm muppet on the edge of a blue trash can in front of a wooden fence. it is slimey from sesame street. end description.]

yeah! that’s what I thought too!! (that’s part of why I love it so much lol)

@the-halo-of-my-memory said: fuzzy worm???? :o i want one now lol

it is an extremely good worm. highly recommend.

on [squish]:

@the-halo-of-my-memory said: my face whenever i see a new kirbo post. i love him, precious gumdrop babby

he’s just so good

on [melt]:

@the-halo-of-my-memory said: me just yesterday. it was terrible!! im just a sweet northern girl who prefers the cold pls and ty. can kirby melt? i like to think he can achieve all three states of matter including plasma. he's talented like that

true. he is an extremely talented baby. (and I’m sooo looking forward to fall/winter lol)

on [flowers]:

@audacyti said: so little.. so sweet..

small kirb. small flowers. big heart.

@bubblesthesanddragon said: kirby + flowers = good

strongly agree, he deserves flowers and also loves to give them!

on [flailing]: (specifically in response to my tag “I don’t know what he’s doing lol”)

@epsilonnot said: communing with birds (source: personal experience)

@swiggity-switchface said: #i don't know what he's doing - HIS BEST

@soimafangirl2341 said: He looks like he's doing some stretches lol

@bubblesthesanddragon said: he is vibing

you are all so valid lol (for real these all make me laugh)

on [wheel]:

@swiggity-switchface said: If it lands on a color he gets a hug

good thing grey and white are also colors! (kirby will always get a hug :> )

on [french]:

@insertusername77 said: Oui oui Croissant (I never studied french) lol

100% valid lol (there’s a flight of the conchords song where the whole premise is “1 semester of french” and we actually listened to it in class, this reminds me of that)

@aarenjwrites said: He's gonna need a LOT of loaves omg 😆😍🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖🥖

true, those baguettes won’t last long!

@bubblesthesanddragon said: I WANT TO EAT THIS FRESH BAKED BREAD

he finally found a good spot to sit and eat!

@tylerblackbvrn said: kirby valjean

pursued to the ends of the earth by kirbvert (I guess that would just be a green kirby?)

on [bap]:

@baekko said: HELLO LITTLE GUY!!!

@your-local-neighbourhood-kat said: And a bap to you too, good sir 👋

@grimlocks-dad said: i gave him a high five, it's not nice to leave him hanging

these tags make me so happy :’) everyone’s so nice to kirby I love it

on [heart]:

@bubblesthesanddragon said: this bad boy can fit so many love in him

stuffed to the gills with love and still got room for more!

on [overload]:

@the-halo-of-my-memory said: its getting hotter over here too, i will never leave my house. the cool blankets will protect me. and like several cups of peach yogurts. and my stuffed animal fwen. and of course the kirbs. love the little guy so much

aw man I want peach yogurt (we do have raspberry though, which is almost as good). and summer’s almost over, you’ve almost made it! unless you are in the southern hemisphere I guess.

#reply roundup #text #long post #readmore #title text #virovac #the-halo-of-my-memory #audacyti #bubblesthesanddragon #epsilonnot #swiggity-switchface #soimafangirl2341 #insertusername77 #aarenjwrites #tylerblackbvrn #baekko #your-local-neighbourhood-kat #grimlocks-dad

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okaybutlikeimagine · 5 years

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(A little fic where Billy and Steve are dating and they’re toting Max and Lucas off to a date in their own separate cars)

“You nervous?” Steve asks, shifting his eyes over to look at the boy sitting next to him.

One Lucas Sinclair is currently sitting in the passenger side of Steve’s BMW, rolling his eyes at the older boy. They’re en route to The Hawk -seeing as the mall was destroyed by some otherworldly creature brought about by the government and the Russians that of course Steve knows nothing about- for Lucas to go see Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mad Max herself.

It makes Steve smile just thinking about two of the little twerps having a date like this.

“No.” Lucas says on a scoff. “I’ve been out with Max before.”

“Yeah, but this time you two are gonna be alone. In the dark.” He lays it on real thick, enjoying picking on Lucas- maybe a little too much.

Steve isn’t blind to the blush that pushes past the boy’s dark skin.

“Uh huh, while badass dudes beat each other up. So romantic.”

Steve laughs.

“C’mon, this is Max we’re talking about. Billy’s sister? She probably loves all that rough-em up stuff as much as Billy does.”

Steve could go on, but doesn’t think doing that with a 14 year old is the best decision here. Sometimes he forgets he has to pick his words carefully when he’s around the lot of them. His filter has had quite the work-out in the past year.

Lucas’ face twists into a rather intense look of confusion.

“What… Billy likes to watch people get beat up? Or Billy likes to... get beat up?”

And now it’s Steve’s turn to blush. Hard. His filter is blaring sirens at him, making sure he doesn’t give the boy any more information than he needs to know. In fact, Steve thinks he doesn’t need to know any more information at all.

Change the subject change the subject-

“Be careful.” Steve blurts out, his mind racing through what he’s trying to say but his mouth not following quite as fast. Lucas gives him another weird glance before he can explain. “No funny business, alright?”

“Yeah, yeah. I don’t want your boyfriend getting mad.” Lucas says with more boredom in his voice than irritation. The words confuse Steve though and he looks over to Lucas for a second before turning his attention back on the road.

“Huh? Billy?”

Lucas nods in response, looking at Steve like he’s dumb for even having to question it.

“I’d be more worried about Max if I were you.” Steve admits. “She might rip your arm off if you try something she doesn’t want you to.”

Steve had dated a girl like Max in the past. Back at the end of Freshman year. She was a Sophomore and after she broke up with him 3 weeks after they became official, Steve had the thought that she might have done it just to take pity on him. Or maybe as some kind of dare.

But either way, when they went to the movies and he tried to reach his arm around her shoulders, she pulled on it so hard she almost dislocated it.

Steve shivers at the memory.

“Seriously?” Lucas asks. It sounds like he doesn’t believe Steve even for a second. “But Billy is like, shredded.”

“Yeah…” And if they get into a car crash or something, Lucas can thank himself for putting the image of a shirtless Billy Hargrove into Steve’s head. All that soft, tan, flawless skin. Those toned pecs, the healthy layer of fat that just covers his gorgeous abs, that wicked V of his hip bones as they reach down to... he has to shake the images off before he gets too far away from his current position. “But Billy won’t know anything unless you get caught. Max, on the other hand, can fend for herself. I’ve seen her put you in a headlock at least twice before.”

“Max wouldn’t actually hurt me though!” Lucas is adamant. It’s pretty cute.

“Sure, maybe not. Still, though, I’d rather have an angry Billy than an angry Max on my hands.”

“Yeah, but that’s because you’re-”

Lucas cuts himself off and when Steve looks over at him, there’s an even deeper red tint pushing through his dark complexion. Steve can’t help but smirk at the boy’s extreme discomfort. It’s endlessly hilarious to both him and Billy that the kids are so terrified of talking about the idea of them having sex. Lucas just clears his throat, shifting in discomfort.

“Kissing him.”

Steve guffaws, laughing even harder when he sees Lucas pouting and huffing.

They pull up outside of The Hawk and see Billy and Max on the corner, clearly getting under each other’s skin. Steve parks and sighs at the sight.

“Already going at it.” He says with a shake of his head.

He loves Billy. They talk about it late at night. And after they fuck. And when they get drunk, and when they get high, and when they’re at the quarry and the sun is setting and things are soft and special. And he loves his fighting spirit too. He can understand being irritated to hell and back because of these kids. But sometimes, when Billy is still complaining about El scratching his new record in her excitement to play her favorite song, or Will scuffing his boots while running through the house, or Max being ungrateful for Billy driving her everywhere, all while Steve is licking at his neck in an attempt to turn him on? Sometimes Steve just wants him to calm down for a second. Especially to let him get his dick up.

They step out of the car, walking up to the bickering siblings. Billy is bent down a bit to get more on Max’s level as he speaks to her heatedly. Steve can just barely make out the words Billy is saying:

“-touches you, hell if he so much as looks at you wrong, you tell me. Alright? And I’ll kill him.”

Steve and Lucas stop next to them and Max is able to roll her eyes before the two even notice their dates have arrived.

Billy’s eyes slide over to Steve, who just gives him an unamused look. Billy straightens his back and clears his throat.

“And it’ll be a quick and painless death.”

There’s an almost nervous look that falls across Billy’s face at being caught threatening the boy. Bless him. Max, on the other hand, has her arms crossed with what Steve is pretty sure is the biggest shit-eating grin on the planet right now. It’s kind of funny, especially next to her semi-nervous brother.

“What was that you were saying, Billy?” Max asks, looking up at him with a smug smirk.

“I was sa-”

“Does that same thing apply with Steve?” She turns her mischief-glinted eyes over to the new boy in question. “Sorry Steve, but you can’t touch him and if you look at him wrong, I’m going to have to kill you.”

Steve is chuckling at the girl and her guts.

“You’re a little shit.” Billy grumbles at his sister, smacking the top knot she’s bundled her hair into. She smacks his arm soundly in response.

“Why don’t you and Steve go run off into the sunset already? We have a movie to catch and I don’t wanna be around when you two start sucking face.”

“Shut up, you brat.” Billy hisses. “Steve and I can do what we want. Just because you guys are so immature you can’t handle that we fuc-”

“Ugh! Gag me with a spoon.” Max covers her face with her hands. “You’re so gross, it’s embarrassing!”

“Embarrassing, huh?” Billy asks, placing his hands on his hips and letting a devious smirk fall across his lips.

Uh oh. Steve knows this isn’t going to be good.

“You know, Lucas…” Billy starts, voice sickly sweet and eyes promising nothing but poison. “I have a lot of dirt on Max, if you ever wanna know some real embarrassing shit.”

Oh no.

“Billy,” Max’s tone of warning is low and threatening. “Do not-”

“Max is obsessed with the Muppets.”

Here we go.

“Billy!” Max looks up at her brother, scandalized.

“She still watches Sesame Street every morning.”

That one almost gets Steve. He smiles a bit at hearing it but keeps his chuckle down.

“Holy shit, stop!” Max is yelling now, looking like she’s about to punch him.

Billy is clearly getting enjoyment out of this, smiling a thousand watt smile at a very nervous and confused looking Lucas.

“She gets combination pizza but takes everything off of it because she likes the taste it leaves behind without actually eating all of the mushrooms and peppers.”

“Billy is allergic to bananas!” Max blurts out immediately.

Steve knew that. But it’s the look that Billy gives her- a terrified glare with the promise of murder running through it -that leads Steve to believe there’s something more to this story.

Max is holding her own, though. She’s staring up at Billy as he glares daggers, eye contact in lock with utter commitment.

“He’s known since he was a kid but he wanted to impress a boy so much that he shoved a whole fucking banana down his throat at the boardwalk and then immediately broke out into hives.”

Holy shit. Steve didn’t know that.

“Wait, really?” Steve can’t help but butt in here, because he hasn’t heard this story before. Billy looks over at Steve like he’s simultaneously begging for mercy and promising slaughter. “How old were you?”

“15.” Max supplies the answer. “He was babysitting me when it happened.”

“You’re so fucking dead.” Billy’s voice is gruff.

“He knows all the words to every song on that ABBA album with the helicopter.”

Steve is going to burst from holding in his laughter. He knows Billy likes ABBA but wow...

“I will murder you.” Another promise.

“I caught him singing Dancing Queen into his hairspray bottle a month ago.”

Steve’s heart pulls a little at how cute that one is. And how hysterical the image is.

“Max makes out with her poster of Ralph Macchio.” Billy spits back.

It sounds like Lucas is silently choking.

“Billy tried to do the Risky Business slide and broke his nose on the ground.”

Oh my God.

Steve doesn’t know what to do with himself. The siblings start to argue like it’s what’s pumping oxygen through their lungs. Steve is still trying to wrap his head around Billy dressed like Tom Cruise sliding around on his socks and dancing around in his underwear. He himself attempted that when he first saw the movie. He split his chin on the ground.

I wonder if he’ll get upset if I ask him for an encore performance…

Steve comes to when he feels someone smacking his arm. He turns to see Lucas, who is looking at him with extreme concern on his face.

“Uh…?” Lucas starts, looking back at the bickering siblings who are now yelling about… peanut butter and jelly sandwiches?

“Uhhhh…” Steve mirrors. Eloquence incarnate, that’s what Steve Harrington is.

“Max?” Lucas tries to call out.

It feels like whatever they say at this point will fall on deaf ears. There are a lot of rolling eyes and exasperated groans in between pretty heavy sibling bickering. Steve’s not even sure what they could still be mad about at this point.

Steve gives a semi-terrified look to Lucas, who mirrors it back. With a raise of an eyebrow on both of their parts, they come to a silent conclusion before both looking towards their dates.

“Billy?” Steve calls at the same time that Lucas calls out “Max?”

“What?!” Comes the synchronized response.

And who says they’re not similar?

“I love you.” Lucas and Steve chorus together, looking at their respective partners.

It’s then that a rather hearty blush falls over the once arguing pair. The two of them fall silent, their scrunched up faces falling into shock, mouths open and eyes a little wide and cheeks so pink it’s adorable.

Look at his sweet face-

The moment is over in an instant, however. There’s a flash of red hair as Max rushes forward, smacking Lucas’ shoulder with little force, but still threatening enough.

“What the hell! Why are you getting all sappy on me when I’m obviously in the middle of a fight?” She yells into Lucas’ unassuming face.

Steve would be worried if he didn’t have his own problems to face. Namely one blue eyed, blond haired problem that is descending upon him like a tornado.

“Shut the fuck up Steve this isn’t the time!” Billy is yelling, grabbing at Steve’s shirt. Steve throws his hands up into the air immediately, submitting to the rage of his boyfriend. He knows this isn’t the time to pick a fight.

“Alright, alright!” Steve is exasperated. In a second he’s being pulled away, watching Max drag Lucas into the theater by the front of his shirt, grumbling about how they’re “going to be late for the damn movie” and “you better buy me popcorn after this” and “my brother gave me money for the tickets, shut up, Sinclair.”

Steve tunes into his own boyfriend now, who’s also still grumbling about his “stupid boyfriend” who “butts his head into my business” and “you’re real damn lucky you’re so pretty, Harrington.”

And in a flash, Steve is being pushed bodily against Billy’s blue Camaro. His vision is a little swirly as he watches Billy check their surroundings before shoving their lips together in a kiss that makes his knees go weak. A couple seconds later he’s being shoved into the car and Billy is in the driver’s seat and they’re speeding off to some undisclosed location, hopefully to fuck on the hood of the car.

(find it on AO3 here)

#harringrove #lumax #billy hargrove #steve harrington #lucas sinclair #max mayfield #stranger things #stranger things fix it #stranger things 3 fix it #humor #funny #fic #btw #lumax is a dumb ship name #sorry huns ♥#they're cute but wow the name is awful

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lovemesomesurveys · 4 years

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5,000 questions survey series–part forty-two

These surveys always take me so long to get through, hence why I took such a long break from them. The questions are just too much at times and some are just plain annoying. But, I’ll try and finish it eventually. A couple of you have been taking it lately, so I figured I’d start up again.

4001. How would you rate your sex drive? It’s been non-existent the past few years, honestly. 4002. You are sitting alone with a stack of videos and a vcr. Of the following which are you most likely to puut on (1 is most, 10 is least) I’m just gonna bold which one I’d likely watch out of all of ‘em...

The good the bad and the ugly, dracula, slc punk, twin peaks fire walk with me, jerry springer too hot for tv, singing in the rain, flash gordon, the matrix, blade runner, the muppet movie 4003. Are you more likley to get or send random instant messages? I receive nice messages more often than I receive random ones. I got a rude one recently; however, about how I’m still a 31 year old virgin. Does it affect their life? No. So, don’t worry about it. *eye roll* I do get a lot of random comments on my surveys from su*ar da**ies, though... super annoying. 4004. If you were writing an ad telling people to come to your town what would you say about it? I wouldn’t write such an ad. My town sucks. 4005. What part of your body can you not stand to get an itch on? One that’s hard to reach.

4006. How many people do you suppose have stolen that System of a Down album called 'steal this album'? I haven’t heard anything about that, I’m not even familiar with that album of theirs. I’m there were people who tried/did. 4007. Name a band you like: Linkin Park. What are/were this band's roots and influences? Zeppelin, Run DMC, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Depeche Mode. 4008. would you rather have a poster of john lennon or a cute fuzzy black cat? Cute fuzzy black cat. 4009. make a public service announcement: Wear a mask! 4010. What makes you feel the need to escape? Just the need for a change of scenery and to help take my mind off things a bit for a little while. I’m sad I couldn’t go to the beach at all this summer because that’s my one place where I’m able to relax at all and just zone out. 4011. You and your signifigant other, crush, interest etc...who is the ernie and who is the bert? I don’t have any of those. 4012. When was the last time you did something and later asked yourself 'did I do the right thing?'? I hate when I forget if I took my medicine or not. I end up taking it, questioning and hoping that I didn’t already take it. I feel so robotic at times and like I’m just living life on autopilot, so things like that tend to happen. 4013. What do you find it hard to say goodbye to? I have a hard time getting rid of things because of my emotional attachment to them. 4014. What is your fantasy valentine's day like? I’ll admit it, it would be nice to experience a Valentine’s Day with someone and actually do something. It’s always been just another day for me. 4015. If you had to have a color for a name, what color would it be? Jade. 4016. Should preference be given to minority students during the college admission process? I think everyone should have the same opportunity. 4017. Sweet wine, fresh crisp appples, bagles with creme cheese and lox...what is the most incredibly luxurious food? I don’t know about those options, but if I were to think of luxurious foods I’d think of like expensive wine, cheeses, fresh fruits, and seafood like caviar and lobster and whatnot. I’m picky so I personally don’t care for fancy foods. 4018. Is there really anything to fear in communism? I don’t know enough about communism and socialism and all that to speak on it. 4019. Best sesame street character: Uhh, Big Bird. most annoying sesame street character: Elmo can be a little annoying sometimes. 4020. feast or famine? I don’t need to overindulge and have excess, I just would like to be able to have food. 4021. Write a poem right here in five minutes or less: Nah. 4022. Do you stay and help clean up after a party? I usually was one to leave early. 4023. Why was the teddy bear named after teddy roosevelt? His name was Theodore, Teddy for short, and apparently while out on a hunting trip he refused to kill a bear and someone dedicated a bear stuffed animal to him and called it Teddy’s Bear. Then it was just called a teddy bear and the rest was history. 4024. What are you the prince or princess of? Uhhh. 4025. Some people think that Christmas should be taken off of public school calanders because it is politically incorrect. What aould you say to this? I say no. It can still be winter break for those who don’t celebrate. 4026. Would you rather go to an excorcism or a step aerobics class? Uh, I think an aerobics class sounds a lot better than an exorcism. I wouldn’t be able to participate in a step aerobics class, though. I’d have to do something else. 4027. Do you believe in spells and curses? No. 4028. What tv show does your family watch together? There isn’t really one all 4 of us watch, but there’s several that 2 or 3 of us watch together. I guess Family Guy or American Dad could be one all 4 of us could watch, although I don’t really care for either one much. 4029. What's on your calander this year? Nothing. 4030. Is anything ruining your life? It has felt that way with my health issues. 4031. How was life meant to be lived? “We were meant to live for so much moreeee.” 🎶

4032. What is your usual breakfast? I rarely have breakfast, but I like breakfast foods like eggs and hash browns. And country gravy, yum. 4033. If you had kids, would you worry about what they did online? Of course. 4034. Will you be maxin and relaxin this weekend? Sure. If not, what are your weekened plans? 4035. Who has the most interesting story to tell: someone who used to fly to asia as a drug trader the ceo of Nike a nyc homeless person a preacher's wife

^^^They all would. 4036. What do you have a bad feeling about? The future regarding this virus. 4037. Do you have a lot to say? No. 4038. If a smallpox vaccine was offered to you, would you take it? Wasn’t that one of the ones given as a baby or child? I should mention I live in the US. 4039. Would you ever work at a kissing booth? No. how about a dunking booth? No. 4040. There is a woman who paints by stripping naked, rolling around in paint and then pressing her body against the canvas. What do you think of her art? I’ve never seen it, but hey do your thing. 4041. Have you ever bought something you saw on tv? Yeah, I mean that’s what commercials are intended to do. However, I’ve never called the number for a product advertisement to order something that way. Like those as seen on TV products. There have been some of those products sold in actual stores, though, that I’ve got like the Snuggie and that Finishing Touch Flawless Razor. 4042. Name a relative: that relative dies unexpectedly. On the same day 9/11 happens. You can either bring back your relative or bring back 1/2 the people who dies on 9/11. What do you do? I don’t like these type of questions. 4043. Have you gone mental? I’ve definitely felt like that. 4044. What do you think of jews for jesus? You word this like it’s the name of a group or something. Okay, so I Googled it and see that it’s an organization. 4045. Has anyone ever tried to 'save' you? Yes. 4046. Quick! picture santa clause in your head... ...Okay. Was he black or white when you pictured him? White. That’s just how I’ve often seen him portrayed. 4047. Would you ever buy a black santa clause? Sure. Santa isn’t real, you can make him look any way you want. 4048. or take your kids to vist a black santa clause? Yeah? why or why not? Santa is Santa. 4049. What do you smell like? I just smell my clothes laundry detergent scent. 4050. What kind of soup do you eat? I’m a ramen girl all the way. 4051. What have you heard about the next Harry Potter book? Will you pre-order it? I know this is old, but I haven’t read any of the Harry Potter books. 4052. Would you rather go out or stay in? I’m a hermit crab. 4053. What's your favorite song to hear on halloween? I like the classics like Monster Mash. Oh, and the Halloween movie theme music for spooky vibes. 4054. What song makes you feel all tingly like you want to laugh and scream and cry? Uhh I don’t feel that way about any song. 4055. If you were starting a website that was not about you, what Would it be about? Nah. 4056. Do you ever take the long way just for fun? I don’t drive. 4057. '..and god said let there be ____and there I was.' Fill in the blank, as if if you were talking about yourself. ‘...and God said let there be Stephanie and there I was.’ 4058. What do you think of when you hear the word 'mill'? A million. 4059. What do you think of when you hear the name: weird al? Parodies. bob dylan? Music. michael jackson? Moon dance. henry rollins? billy idol? White wedding. gary numan? will smith? Fresh Prince of Bel Air. paul mcartney? Black Bird. alice cooper? Rock and roll. J Lo? Jenny from the Block. 4060. What is one social disater you have had? It was really embarrassing getting sick in front of everyone at my party 7 years ago aka the last time I drank alcohol. I just threw up on myself in front of everyone and sat there and my friend had to help clean me up. What really messes me up is that I don’t remember drinking that much, so I don’t know how I got so drunk. 4061. Can you moonwalk? No. 4062. If a presidential candidate went on late night tv, picked up a guitar and rocked out on it and could really play, would that influence you to like/respect them more? I’d probably be like wow that’s cool, but no I wouldn’t let that influence my vote. Them being able to play an instrument doesn’t say shit about their policies or whether they’d make a good fit for the job. 4064. If it was possible for people to instantly change from one sex to another, would everyone be straight in the end? Uhh just cause they could switch their gender it doesn’t change their brain/sexual preference. Would you change your sex? No. 4065. Finish the sentance: nobody broke your heart, if you're alone... I don’t know. 4066. Would you rather have a best friend OR a boyfriend/girlfriend on a Friday night? I’d rather stay at home and do my own thing, ha. 4067. Would a woman rather be complimented about her intelligence OR her looks? Depends on the individual. 4068. Do you tend to think of the right thing to say after the moment is gone? Always. Super annoying. 4069. Would you rather a potential mate have nice hair OR nice legs? Nice hair out of the two. 4070. Okay,…. nice hair OR a nice rack/bulge? I don’t look for a “nice bulge” when I look at guys. 4071. What is one thing you thought you would enjoy, but actually didn’t? Hmm. I’m blanking at the moment. 4072. Be in the spotlight OR in the shadows? In the shadows. 4073. What is your favorite part of the newspaper? I haven’t read a newspaper in several years. When I was a kid I loved the comics, though. 4074. What in your life has been an “acquired taste” for you? Alcohol. I never really cared for it, honestly. I drank because my friends were and felt like that’s what people in their early 20s liked to do. And because it was fun sometimes, though I more often just felt like crap. It’s been 7 years since I last drank and I truly haven’t missed it. 4075. Do you find sunlight makes you happier? No. 4076. If you could conquer one fear, it would be...? I’d take care of some health related things. 4077. What's the dumbest thing you've ever seen someone do or heard anyone has done? There’s been a lot of things. 4078. How do you feel about the fact that J-Lo earns 37 million dollars a year? Is that actually true? This survey is also like a decade or so old. Do you buy anything that contributes to her salary? I haven’t bought any JLO related in several years. Is J Lo the ultimate ideal of what a woman should be? To some people. 4079. What is unforgettable beauty? I don’t know. 4080. Worst fashion mistake EVER: I don’t know or care. 4081. What is your advice to someone on their first date? Ha, I’m definitely not one to ask for dating advice. 4082. Is there a musical performer more ridiculous than Avril Lavigne (I don't think there is)? I didn’t think she was ridiculous. 4083. What is the best: daytime talk show? Dr. Phil. late night talk show? I don’t watch any anymore. 4084. Are you afraid of total freedom? What would that mean? 4085. Do you live in an invisible prison? I feel that way with my mind and health. 4086. Who do you feel distant from, that you used to be close to? I’m not close to anyone anymore outside of my immediate family. 4087. Rate the following song lyrics (1 = you like it the most, 9 = you like it the least). Nah, I really hate the rating questions. Maybe you shouldn't care/throw away those dreams/& dare Eden lets me in/I find the seeds of love/And climb upon the highwire/I kiss and tell all my fears I know the pressure is on/In a race for the life of endless love/If it seems to much/Remember/All these things are endless I see the wind, oh I see the trees/Everything is clear in my heart/I see the clouds, oh I see the sky/Everything is clear in our world Inflatable doll/Lover ungrateful/I blew up your body/But you blew my mind Well I jumped into the river/too many times to make it home/I'm out here on my own/drifting all alone/and if it doesn't show/ give it time/to read between the lines The very thought of you makes/My heart sing/Like an April breeze/On the wings of spring/And you appear in all your splendor/My one and only love now I've had lots of girls/most of them from other worlds/but lookin through the galaxey/the valley girls are the ones for me I'm the dandy highwayman so sick of easy fashion/the clumsy boots, peek-a-boo roots that people think so dashing/so what's the point of robbery when nothing is worth taking?/it's kind of tough to tell a scruff the big mistake he's making 4088. Can you name any of the nine bands/songs above? I didn’t even read any of the lyrics. 4089. What would your reaction be if a total stranger called to say s/he loved you and told you that you were to pass the message on to others in a telephone call you make yourself? Uh, I wouldn’t answer a call from a total stranger first of all and even if I actually did, I would be like wtf and hang up. 4090. Would you like to take a journey to jupiter? No. I have no desire to take any trip to outer space. 4091. Can you crack nuts in your bare hands? I’ve never tried, but I’m going to assume that I couldn’t. 4092. Do you take walks at night? No. Or ever. 4093. Beavis and Butthead or daria? Neither. 4094. Cow or chicken? Chicken. 4095. Do you think you will visit China in this life? I don’t see that happening, but who knows. 4096. Are you having a happy day? No. 4097. When was or will be your 'golden birthday' (when your age is the same as your birthdate, like turning 17 on the 17th)? My golden birthday was 3 years ago. 4098. Enlighten everyone with something profound: Nah. 4099. When has the third time been the charm for you? Hmm. 4100. What is kinda sick, but fun? Uhhh.

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sharpnothashtag · 4 years

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The Good Ship CrushWay, Chapter 29

Naomi is on a shuttle with Greskrendtregk. She looks up at him nervously. He smiles back warmly.

Naomi: Father, I don’t remember much of my experience as a Borg. Why must I go to Mars and talk about it with your class? Greskrendtregk: (gently) Because, Naomi, you went through a very bad thing. You need to talk about it, whether you realize it or not. Naomi: But I’m fine! Greskrendtregk: I know, and I’m glad you are. This is just to ensure that you stay that way. Plus, you’re also going to be learning about what some of the other Borg children went through. These are people that would be coming to your camp--don’t you want to know how to help them, too? Naomi: I do, Father! I do. Greskrendtregk: (grabs her hand, squeeze) I know you do. You are your mother’s daughter.

In the class with DeAnna

DeAnna: In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, there was a television program, kind of like a non-interactive holonovel, called Sesame Street. It was geared toward children, and a number of times, the muppets-- Naomi: Muppets? DeAnna: It’s a combination of a marionette and a puppet. It’s hard to explain, but they looked like this: (shows this picture)

Naomi: Aww! They look like fun characters. DeAnna: (smiling warmly) Yes, they do. As I was saying, these characters were often used to explain difficult things to children. One that I think directly applies to our ideals (if not our initial subject matter) is their inclusion of a character in foster care. Here’s a portion of the episode: (she shows this video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF2w5qdn1-o

KJ is getting dressed. She brushes her hair, and Bev hugs her from behind.

Bev: Hey. Did you ever get back to sleep? KJ: Not really. I was having nightmares. Bev: You could have woken me up--I would have held you. KJ: I know, but you needed the sleep. I went and talked to DeAnna. Bev: ...you did? KJ: Yeah. I asked if I could be a volunteer patient for the counselors she’s training. Bev: Are you sure you’re ready to talk about it? KJ: I have to. Keeping it inside is more than I can take. Bev: (cupping KJ’s face in her hands) I will be here for you. I will not move. I will not leave. I will never give up. KJ: (brushing Bev’s hair out of her face) I know. (kiss) You need to head on down. Seven will come up here to bring you down there. Don’t test her on that one. Bev: Oh, I wouldn’t put that past her. (pulling her close one more time) Please, take care of yourself. I love you. KJ: I love you.

KJ waits outside of the counseling classroom DeAnna exits with a Klingon woman, Biquv.

DeAnna: I’m so glad to see you in a more hospitable hour, Kathryn. KJ: I cannot apologize enough for that, DeAnna. DeAnna: Nonsense. I’m glad I could be there for you when you needed me. Kathryn, this is Biquv. Talking to both of you makes me think you two are a good match. KJ: It’s good to meet you, Biquv. Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam. Biquv: Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam. Your Klingon is very impressive. KJ: Thank you! Biquv: Shall we go to an office? KJ: I think that’s a good idea.

Sitting down in an office, Biquv takes a cup of tea from the replicator.

Biquv: May I offer you some moHbogh? KJ: (making the grossed out face) No thank you. Biquv: (laughing) I’ve never met a human who likes it. In fact, I’m sure sure I know a Klingon who actually likes it either. It’s a tradition, though, to take it before trying to purge our feelings and all weakness. KJ: Yeah, purging basically anything is what it’s good for. Biquv: (smiling) What is it that you need help with, Kathryn? KJ: I lost my sister recently. She...she killed herself. Biquv: Is this the Phoebe Janeway? KJ: Yes? How did you know her? Biquv: Oh, I never met her. I was familiar with her work, though. My brother once commissioned her to sculpt a bust of Kahless. She is--was extremely talented. KJ: Yes, she was. Biquv: Did you get the chance to tell her goodbye? KJ: Yes. When she did finally drift off, she was peaceful. Biquv: How do you feel about her death? KJ: I feel like I’m not enough. (Biquv cocks her head) She threw herself off a bridge because she couldn’t deal with never seeing me again. The doctors kept her alive in a terrible state until I came home so I could say goodbye. She told me she gave up because the pain of losing me was too much. Biquv...am I responsible for her death? Because I kept my ship lost in the Delta Quadrant, the universe lost an amazing artist. Would it have been better to stay at home? Biquv: What is the name of the race of beings you saved? KJ: The Ocampans. Biquv: And the Borg. Her name is? KJ: Seven of Nine. BIquv: No, the other one. KJ: Erin Hansen. Seven’s mother. Biquv: It seems to me that the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few. KJ: But she was MY few. Biquv: And you’re angry with her. KJ: She couldn’t wait for me make it home. Biquv: Voyager was declared lost--your whole crew was assumed to be dead. She had no hope left, Kathryn. KJ: Why couldn’t she have fought a little longer? I did. I fought to get home to her...to mom. To Mark. She was so selfish to have done this. Biquv: I guarantee you she felt like a burden. The most selfless thing she could have done in her mind was to take herself out of the equation. KJ: But without her, the equation doesn’t equate. It doesn’t make sense. It means nothing. Biquv: She couldn’t have known that. KJ: I”m angry. I am sad. I’m confused. I feel betrayed. I feel abandoned. I just feel so many things. I feel like I need to purge them. To feel them, one by one, and then let them go. Biquv: I might have something that can help with that. KJ: It’s not that tea, is it? Biquv: (chuckling in spite of herself) No. I’ve got something a bit...louder. Do you have a picture of her? KJ: Yes, in my quarters. Biquv: Ok. Go get it, and meet me back here at 20:15. (KJ nods and exits)

Bev is in her quarters reading. KJ walks in.

Bev: Hi. How’d your session go? KJ: It’s not over. I’m supposed to bring a picture of Phoebe to my counselor in a few minutes. Bev: Who is your counselor? KJ: She’s a Klingon woman named Biquv. Bev: Do you like her? KJ: She has made some good points already. I’m interested to see what she wants me to do with Phoebe’s picture. Bev: I am, too. KJ: What if she tells me to get rid of it? Bev: You don’t have to do that. KJ: But I need to have her help to move on. Bev: Yes, but you don’t have to throw away memories. Her job is to help you cope with your memories, not rid you of them. Do you want me to come with you tonight? KJ: Yes. That would be really helpful. Bev: (takes her hand) Let’s go.

They go to meet Biquv. Biquv takes them to an outdoor section of the station.

Biquv: In ancient Klingon tradition, when a warrior falls in battle, the nearest Klingon goes to this warrior, opens their eyes, and then screams to Sto-vo-kor to look out--a warrior is coming their way. I know Phoebe was very special to you. In ancient human traditions, there were people who decided to scream when they stopped understanding what was going on, or when they had a lot of emotions to deal with. That’s what I want you to do. KJ: You want me to scream? Biquv: Scream for the loss of your sister. Scream for your anger. Scream for your confusion. Scream for sadness. Scream for your betrayal. Scream for your abandonment. Scream for the loss of one you love so much.

KJ walks to the center of the room. She lays Phoebe’s photo on the ground. She looks deep into her sister’s eyes. She lifts her head, and screams. The pain seems to ooze from her. She continues bellowing without words. She stops for a minute to take a breath. Bev laces her fingers through KJ’s, and she begins to yell, too. Biquv takes hold of KJ’s other hand, and the three women scream until they no longer can. KJ collapses from exhaustion. Biquv and Bev help carry her to the room, where she sleeps. PJ appears in KJ’s dream again.

PJ: Katie, I know you love me. I will always love you. I’m not physically here anymore, no, but I will never leave you. There is nothing that could keep me away from my sister--not even death itself. Now, let’s rest. (She puts her arms around KJ and holds her as they rest. PJ fades out, and in her place in the bed is Bev, holding KJ as Bev herself drifts off as well.)

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sauntered-vaguely-downward · 5 years

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Irrational Fears. Sam Winchester x Reader

There was a reason the Winchesters kept you around. You were badass, trustworthy, intelligent beyond belief and fearless… well, they thought you were fearless but you knew otherwise.

You rounded the corner of the library, heaving the noise of the small telly. Dean was watching one of the old westerns he loved, but by the time you took a seat in between the boys, the film was drawing to a close.

“My turn to pick the next film,” Sam smiled, moving from the sofa to choose one of the videotapes in front of him. It has been a long time since you’d had a movie days with the boys so were more than happy to watch the action-filled films they were likely to pick. Sam, as usual, was taking forever to pick a film so you decided to go and get snacks from the kitchen.

When you came back Sam was placing the video in the VHS player. You settled back down in your space between the boys, snacks in your lap. Dean instantly grabbed for the bag of chips, making you chuckle. As Sam sat back down beside you, opening his arms out so you could do your usual of snuggling close to him, the film began to play. The familiar opening tune made you sit upright, a slight shudder running through you.

Now much like your boyfriend and his brother, you were a hunter. There was a reason the boys kept you around and it wasn’t just because you were a pretty face. You were fierce, smart, and hella badass. You’d gone face to face with most monsters people thought only came from their nightmares. Demons, werewolves, vampires, and even the Devil himself, just a handful of the dangerous beings you had gone face to face with and yet as the owl swooped across the screen, you couldn’t help the slight irrational fear that coursed through you.

You knew it was silly, this was technically a children's film, but you decided that your best bet was to simply snuggle into Sam, close your eyes and just listen to the film when it got to the bit you dreaded the most.

Sam felt the way you tensed as the film started. While usually yes you would snuggle close to him when you watched films, today you seemed to get considerably closer than usual, hiding your face in his chest as though you were hiding.

“I haven’t seen this film in ages,” Dean smiled. “It's such a good film. The Labyrinth is a classic.” You would disagree, mostly because this film was filled with the one thing you hated. Puppets. You hated them, everything about them freaked you out. The fake voices, the way they looked lifelike yet lacked the ability to express more than one facial expression, their beady little eyes. Puppets freaked you out since you were a child so this film was essentially a nightmare for you. However, even if the little soulless demons scared you more than they should have, you couldn’t tell Sam.

Since you had gotten together around six months ago, Sam hadn’t really seen you express any vulnerabilities. You were a badass hunter in his eyes. Sure, behind closed doors you were sweet and caring but he hadn’t ever seen you be vulnerable before. Plus, if you told Sam to turn off the film now, you wouldn’t just be telling him about your irrational fear, but also Dean, who would never let you hear the end of it, just like he did with Sams fear of clowns. So rather than bring it up you decided to just suck it up and shut your eyes for the majority of the film, starting when the creepy little goblin fucks came on to the screen.

The film played on, you enjoyed just listening but any time you opened your eyes you were met with the face of a puppet, causing you to flinch and shut your eyes again, cuddling more into Sams side. Sam, of course, noticed, Dean would have noticed too had he not fallen asleep. Sam couldn’t help but worry a little bit but when he asked if you were okay you just nodded, keeping your eyes closed.

When the film had finished you were relieved. Looking at the clock you saw it was late, so you and Sam decided to go to bed, leaving Dean snoozing softly on the sofa.

You’d put the film behind you, grateful you could just close your eyes and pretend there weren’t puppets on the screen.

Sam could still sense the slight tension as you slipped into the bed beside him, cuddling into him again. He knew you well enough to know something was wrong.

“Y/N, babe,” he sat up, pulling you with him so he could look at your face. “Why did you have your eyes shut during the film? Did you not enjoy it?”

“Oh no, it's not that,” you mumbled. Clearly, you hadn’t been as discreet about blocking out the film as you thought.

“Was it David Bowie’s bulge? I can understand why you wouldn’t wanna look at that,” he chuckled a deep chesty chuckle. You couldn’t help but giggle. Sam had a way of making you smile even when you didn’t want too. You sighed, taking a deep breath before muttering out,

“Ihaveafearofpuppets.” You said it so quickly Sam didn’t quite catch it.

“What did you say, babe?”

“I have a fear of puppets,” you mumbled again, just a little louder this time so he could hear it. Sam was honestly a little stunned by this. Sam hadn’t ever seen you show fear, not even the toughest cases you worked, so for you to tell him you had a fear of something like this was very surprising to hear.

You couldn’t help but feel a little bit embarrassed by this, especially seeing the look of shock on his face.

“Why didn’t you say, baby?” Sam could see the embarrassment along your cheeks so pulled you in for a hug. “We could have picked something else.” “Dean was there, and come on, he's a bit of a dick when it comes to other peoples weaknesses,” Sam laughed, his chest jumping making your head bounce.

“That’s true. Why didn’t you tell me this before babe, had I known I would have never put the film on.”

“Because I’m a hunter. We’re not meant to have silly little fears like that.”

“I’m scared of clowns.” “Yeah, but a clown could actually kill you.”

“Thanks babe, lovely reminder of why I fear them,” he chuckled.

“Sorry,” you giggled back, “but you know what I mean. Clowns are alive, all things alive have the potential to be dangerous. Puppets on the other hand, well they can’t do anything to me so it’s kind of stupid to fear them.” Sam placed a gentle kiss on your lips, pulling you closer.

“Babe, sometimes fears aren’t rational, but that doesn’t mean you can’t fear them,” he smiled, pulling back and taking your cheeks in his hands. “Thank you for telling me this, because now I can protect you from the puppets.”

“And I'll protect you from the clowns,” you pulled him back in for a kiss, gently tugging him down to lay with you in the bed. Even if at that moment when you told him you had felt more vulnerable than ever, you had to admit it was nice opening up to him, especially knowing that he would protect you if you ever did come head to head with one of the fuzzy bastards.

So this fic is one that I thought of not long ago.

I have a fear of puppets so I thought I’d make a fluffy fic about it. (Please don’t judge me, also the muppets and sesame street are fine its just every other puppet that freaks me out, in particular, Bagpuss). I have plenty of irrational fears (this being the worst one) but here are a couple other silly fears I have alongside the puppets.

Rats/Mice in any form of animation (the mice in Coraline or the rat king in Hilda are perfect examples of this irrational fear of mine. THE WORST ARE THE SINGING MICE IN BAGPUSS BECAUSE THEY FREAKY FUCKS AND PUPPETS)

Stop motion animation films, particularly if they involve clay (I can't watch Coraline or nightmare before Christmas because they literally fill me with so much dread I feel like I need to die)

Last weird one I will share with you is my fear of windows at night... this came from a scary story I read online one where someone said they saw a face behind them in the window... now I'm scared of dark windows. Also mirrors at night.

ANYWAY BACK TO BEING A NORMAL PERSON I HOPE YOU LIKED MY FIC AND WON’T JUDGE ME TO HARD FOR BEING SCARED OF SO MANY THINGS!!!!

#Sam #sam winchester #sam x reader #sam winchester x reader #supernatural #supernatural fanfiction #supernatural x reader #supernatural fan fic #supernatual reader insert #supernatural fanfic #reader #reader insert #dean #dean winchester #dean x reader #dean winchester x reader

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tonystarkbingo · 5 years

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Week Two fills! We have a TON of them again, so please click on the readmore to see what amazing things your fellow creators came up with this past week!

Title: The Ups and Downs of Dadhood Collaborator: rebelmeg Link: AO3 Square Filled: T5 - bathing/showering together Ship: Pepperony Rating: Gen Major Tags: fluff Summary: Tony has absolutely got this dad thing handled. One way or another. Word Count: 1415

Title: Hospitality is Overrated Collaborator: schroedingersfox Link: AO3 Square Filled: Square S2 - Snowed In Ship: Loki and Tony Rating: Gen Major Tags: canon divergence, hunting related animal death Summary: For the briefest of moments halfway between seconds, Tony was able to contemplate that, perhaps, this wasn't the smartest thing he had ever done. Ahead of him, among the trees a short distance away, a bewildered man stood staring. The man adjusted the body of a small deer on one shoulder and stepped closer. “Stark,” Loki said. His mouth quirked. “To what do I have the honor?” Word Count: 1660

Title: Tony Stark BINGO Fills Collaborator: StrangeMischief Link: AO3 Square Filled: ALL SQUARES FILLED! Ship: IronStrange Rating: Teen Major Tags: drabbles Summary: All my Tony Stark BINGO fills in one spot. Word Count: 2586

Title: I'd Thought You'd Never Ask Collaborator: yourselenite Link: AO3 Square Filled: S4 - meeting alternate universe counterparts Ship: WinterIron Rating: Gen Major Tags: dimension travel Summary: Somehow Tony jumps dimensions, but he gets to meet someone special Word Count: 514

Title: Vampires and Teenagers Have a Lot in Common Collaborator: tisfan Link: AO3 Square Filled: A5 - Writing Format: Diaries & Journals Ship: Tony Stark and Janet Van Dyne Rating: Gen Major Tags: Fluff Summary: someone appears in a vampire outfit and the others have to seriously figure out if they have actually been turned into a vampire or not Word Count: 852

Title: Inhale, Ex-sail Collaborator: justanotherpipedream Link: AO3 Square Filled: K1 - AU: Steampunk Ship: Stony Rating: Teen Major Tags: steampunk AU Summary: "Rich pirates decked out in top-of-the-line black market gear,” grumbled Tony, ”why don’t I have the budget to make those again?’ Rhodey inched back so that he and Tony were back-to-back. “We’re apparently law abiding citizens now, which means having to pay taxes.” Tony scowled. “Urg, right. Remind me why I wanted to do that again?” Rhodey rolled his eyes. “What was it you called him last time? Your sweet tart? Your apple pie in the sky? The wind beneath your wings? Hopefully he’ll fly here fast enough so we don’t get killed. Or worse, mugged.” Word Count: 1826

Title: Demon in a Bottle Collaborator: rebelmeg Link: Tumblr Square Filled: T4 - image of Tony raising his glass “to peace” in Afghanistan Ship: None Rating: Teen Major Tags: Alcoholism Summary: Moodboard for Tony and his alcoholism

Title: With Your Hands Collaborator: rebelmeg Link: Tumblr Square Filled: R3 - image of IM1 Tony wielding the Iron Man gauntlet Ship: None Rating: None Major Tags: None Summary: Moodboard for Tony and his hands

Title: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Collaborator: FreyaS Link: AO3 Square Filled: S4 - De-Aging (Any) Ship: Stony Rating: Explicit Major Tags: Underage, explicit sexual content, high school AU Summary: “Gentlemen, might I remind you this is the library?” A voice interrupted. Tony jerked and fell backwards out of Steve’s lap and they both turned to look into the less than amused face of the librarian, Mr Coulson. “Please for the love of God, leave before I have to explain to Principal Fury why the school’s football star and resident genius both got detention,” Mr Coulson said. He had a hand over his face, as if trying to block the sight in front of him. (Or: Steve and Tony can't keep their hands off each other and everyone else suffers the consequences. Also known as that inevitable high school AU.) Word Count: 11428

Title: Just About Perfect Collaborator: 27dragons Link: AO3 Square Filled: T4 - Kink: Cock Rings Ship: WinterIron Rating: Explicit Major Tags: explicit sexual content, bondage Summary: Bucky thinks Tony can come while wearing a cock ring. Tony’s not so sure. (100% pure PWP smut) Word Count: 841

Collaborator: monobuu Link: Tumblr Square Filled: T2 - takeout/pizza Ship: None/WinterIron Rating: Gen Major Tags: Fluff, art Summary: Tiny Tony and Bucky with a chinese takeout container

Title: Browse With Confidence Collaborator: James Link: AO3 Square Filled: T5 Lost Their Powers Ship: IronStrange Rating: Gen Major Tags: none Summary: Tony might have lost his genius - or at least his computer. Word Count: 1609

Title: Tinker With That Collaborator: rebelmeg Link: AO3 Square Filled: K3 - nightmares Ship: Pepperony Rating: Gen Major Tags: nightmares, PTSD Summary: The missing scene after Tony's PTSD nightmare in IM3. Word Count: 637

Title: Lab Buddies Collaborator: darthbloodorange Link: AO3 Square Filled: K5 - Science Bros Ship: Science Bros Rating: Gen Major Tags: art Summary: Tony and Bruce are working together on a project in Bruce's lab. Tony gets himself a lab coat. Bruce... is a little less than impressed.

Title: Thinking Collaborator: darthbloodorange Link: AO3 Square Filled: R4 - robots Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: art Summary: Just a usual day in the workshop. Tony is trying to think out a problem, and Dum-E and U want to play around.

Title: Tar and Feathers Collaborator: darthbloodorange Link: AO3 Square Filled: A3 - free space Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: art Summary: It was just like in those old cartoons he used to watch as a kid. He just never thought it would happen to him though...

Title: Looking out into Space Collaborator: darthbloodorange Link: AO3 Square Filled: T2 - image of Tony in space Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: art Summary: Off all the things he thought he would and could do when he goes to space for the first time... this wasn't it. He wouldn't have chosen this to be the way he was in space either, lost and feeling alone. He wouldn't have chosen any of this.

Title: A Monument To A Hero Collaborator: darthbloodorange Link: AO3 Square Filled: S1 - graveyard Ship: none Rating: non Major Tags: art Summary: The hero Tony Stark died fighting to save the people of Earth. The people in turn constructed a monument in his image.

Title: Tame Your Demons Collaborator: SierraNovembr Link: AO3 Square Filled: S5 - Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: child abuse, violence Summary: He builds his picture of Tony one detail at a time, until the flash-blindness from Tony’s brilliance starts to ease and Bucky sees things in the shifting shadows. Tony is a man of many shadows, some old and deep. Word Count: 1841

Title: Bent, Not Broken Collaborator: ShippersList Link: AO3 Square Filled: A4 - nightmares Ship: Stony Rating: Teen Major Tags: implied/referenced child abuse Summary: A momentary loss of control is all that’s needed for Tony’s world to come crumbling down. Luckily for him, Steve is there to catch him. Word Count: 2658

Title: Can we live that real life Collaborator: cutebutpsyco Link: AO3 Square Filled: R3 - Thor Ship: Tony Stark and Thor Rating: Teen Major Tags: canon divergence Summary: Canon Divergence: Instead of the short movie of Thor in Australia during Civil War, he goes back at the Compound, just while Tony is back from Berlin to recruit Peter. Word Count: 1329

Title: K5- Workshop Troubles Collaborator: thudword Link: AO3 Square Filled: K5 - workshop troubles Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: fluff, bot feels Summary: All Tony wants is a chance to rest. But DUM-E has other ideas. Word Count: 1028

Title: A Very Muppet Conundrum Collaborator: SbiderSlut Link: AO3 Square Filled: S3 - Humour Ship: Tony Stark/Peter Parker Rating: Teen Major Tags: fluff, crack Summary: In which Tony Stark wakes up, and the world has become a Sesame Street set. Long story short: Everyone, including his fiancé, looks like a Muppet. Yes, it is as ridiculous at it sounds. Word Count: 1832

Title: Heroes for Oppy Collaborator: shadowgrl94 Link: AO3 Square Filled: A3 - Free Space Ship: WinterIron, Iron Dad and Spider Son Rating: Gen Major Tags: bot feels Summary: Peter was in the car with Happy on the way to the Avengers Compound when he heard this news. "What?!" He scrolls through Twitter. Then his facebook. Then his Tumblr and Insta. "No. No. No. No. No!" Word Count: 737

Title: Wanted: Mom Friend Collaborator: singingwithoutwords Link: AO3 Square Filled: S4 - AU: Sci-Fi/futuristic Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: none Summary: The crew of the Starlit Spear just want their human to not accidentally kill himself. Is that really so much to ask? Word Count: 1797

Title: Open Hearts, Open Doors Collaborator: mistrstank Link: AO3 Square Filled: T1 - Marriage! Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: fluff, wedding Summary: In which Tony and Bucky have a very special day, DUM-E is a regular disaster and Tony's friends are a bunch of trolls. Word Count: 6806

Title: Open Hearts, Open Doors Collaborator: TheKitteh Link: AO3 Square Filled: K3 - Never Again Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: fluff, wedding Summary: In which Tony and Bucky have a very special day, DUM-E is a regular disaster and Tony's friends are a bunch of trolls. Word Count: 6806

Title: Open Hearts, Open Doors Collaborator: FeignedSobriquet Link: AO3 Square Filled: Square K3 - Day in the Life Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: fluff, art, slightly lemon Summary: WinterIron art

Title: There's Always Next Year Collaborator: rebelmeg Link: AO3 Square Filled: R4 - Cheesy Ship: Pepperony Rating: Gen Major Tags: fluff, Valentine’s Day Summary: Five times Tony's Valentine's Day plans totally failed... and one time it all went perfectly. With a few successes from Pepper! Word Count: 5193

Title: Scandal Collaborator: katling Link: AO3 Square Filled: T4 - Past Tense Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: canon diverget, not Team Cap friendly Summary: Tony knows the return of the Rogues is going to cause a scandal, no matter what the President's polling data says, however James decides that they'll counter a scandal with a bigger, better, more shiny scandal. Tony approves. Word Count: 1433

Title: Missing You Collaborator: Ironspider Link: Tumblr Square Filled: K4 - Missing You Ship: Tony Stark/Peter Parker Rating: M Major Tags: implied underage Summary: Moodboard

Title: Sounds Like A Plan Collaborator: katling Link: AO3 Square Filled: K3: Rocket Raccoon Ship: background Pepperony Rating: Teen Major Tags: none Summary: Tony's not sure what to make of the walking, talking raccoon in his workshop but he's tired, upset and determined that Thanos has to die. Rocket agrees and a plan is formed. Word Count: 568

Title: Coffee, Curses, Kisses Collaborator: wakandan_wardog Link: AO3 Square Filled: S4: FIRST KISS Ship: WinterIron, Clintasha Rating: Gen Major Tags: fluff, flirting Summary: Tony Stark drags himself out of his workshop on a regular Thursday morning. Well, mostly a regular morning. Except for Clint Barton lying on the breakfast bar in themed underwear. The theme is new, the rest is depressingly familiar. Ok, so maybe the rose petals are new too. (What the hell, Clint?) It's enough to make a billionaire grateful for the Avengers Alarm. Wait a minute, magic too? Fuck, this is just not Tony's day. (Until it really, really is.) Word Count: 1614

Title: Take My Heart in Sweet Surrender Collaborator: shadowgrl94 Link: AO3 Square Filled: R2 - Cheesy Ship: WinterIron, Vision/Wanda, Carol/Rhodey Rating: Teen Major Tags: none Summary: 5 Times Tony and Bucky treated each other on Valentines Day and 1 time they didn't (on valentines day that is) Word Count: 2168

Title: Ice cream Castles Collaborator: lilithenaltum Link: A03 Square Filled: K2 - holding hands Ship: Tony Stark/Shuri Rating: Teen Major Tags: Hurt/Comfort, angst Summary: He didn’t deserve you,” Tony says with a vicious edge to his voice. Neither of them did, really. Word Count: 3,186

Title: The Pull of the Past Collaborator: dracusfyre Link: AO3 Square Filled: T1 - Misunderstandings Ship: Loki/Tony Stark Rating: Gen Major Tags: PTSD, panic attacks Summary: Stephen has Tony come over to fix a sink and things go very sideways. Word Count: 2149

Title: But did you do it? Collaborator: panna-acida Link: AO3 Square Filled: A3 - Free Square Ship: WinterIron Rating: Teen Major Tags: AU no powers Summary: “But did you do it?” Minute of silence stretched in the little cell, after the other man voice, James, call me Bucky, reached his ears soft and soothing like velvet. Word Count: 557

Collaborator: lbibliophile-mcu Link: Tumblr Square Filled: K1 - Arc reactor Ship: none Rating: G Major Tags: bot feels, art Summary: DUM-E knew Valentines cards were supposed to show a heart, so that’s what he drew.

Collaborator: monobuu Link: Tumblr Square Filled: A4 - Hogwarts AU Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: none Summary: Tony as the four Hogwarts Houses

Title: we can't save everyone (but we can try) Collaborator: ironspider Link: AO3 Square Filled: A4 - image of Tony zip-tied to bedframe in IM3 Ship: Tony Stark and Maya Hansen Rating: Teen Major Tags: minor character death Summary: Maya Hansen dies unable to make amends for her wrongdoings. Tony Stark watches her die. Word Count: 633

Title: Thanks Fur Everything Collaborator: calmena Link: AO3 Square Filled: S1 - Werecreatures Ship: WinterIron Rating: Mature Major Tags: shapeshifters, fluff Summary: In which Bucky begins to bond with a dog in Stark's lab, and the dog turns out to be... something else. Word Count: 2147

Title: Cold As Snow (But Just As Soft) Collaborator: Gothic_Lolita Link: AO3 Square Filled: K5: Graveyards Ship: Maria and Tony Stark, Tony Stark and Bucky Barnes Rating: Teen Major Tags: implied/referenced character death Summary: Tony hated winter and the memories that came with it. He hated visiting cold graves and dead bodies. But sometimes, it was worth the while. Word Count: 1259

Title: helluva 'vacation' Collaborator: rainbowshoes Link: AO3 Squares Filled: S1: Shipwrecked (Ch 1) R5: Desert Island (Ch 2) K3: Merpeople (Ch 3) S5: Carnival (Ch 4) A1: Arc reactor angst (Ch 5) A2: Infinity gems (Ch 6) R3: Science and Magic (Ch 7) K1: Shapeshifters (Ch 8) S2: Heat fic (Ch 9) Ship: WinterIron Rating: Explicit Major Tags: PTSD, nightmares, panic attacks, explicit sexual content Summary: Pepper and Rhodey join forces against Tony and force him to take some time away from SI after Stane and the palladium poisoning incident. So, for his vacation, Tony gets his yacht and takes it out on the open ocean all by himself. He has to get over his ‘thing’ with water, after all. Only then, there's a storm… Word Count: 19618

Title: Lights (Guiding you Home) Collaborator: mistrstank Link: AO3 Square Filled: K1 - AU: Canon Divergence Ship: IronHubands Rating: Teen Major Tags: angst, fluff, pining Summary: Rhodey's terrified of losing Tony and it seems every time he's not looking, Tony's dying or almost-dying. Or, in which the author looks at Rhodey through Tony's experiences in the MCU and cries over how many times we almost lose our boy, Tony. Word Count: 2626

Title: I’ll Show You the Darkest Parts of You Collaborator: mistrstank Link: Tumblr Square Filled: S2 - Wanda Maximoff Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: fan edit gif Summary: “Ultron can’t see the difference between saving the world and destroying it. Where do you think he gets that from?

Title: Forests and Centaurs Collaborator: ceealaina Link: AO3 Square Filled: T1 - Centaurs Ship: WinterIron Rating: Mature Major Tags: mild smut, Fluff and crack Summary: Tony’s not quite sure where he is, or how he got here. And something seems just not quite right. Word Count: 1370

Title: School Time Legends Collaborator: SyoshoHiataki Link: AO3 Square Filled: T2 - Peggy Carter Ship: none Rating: Gen Major Tags: none Summary: Peggy Carter has punched Nazis, dealt with sexist military leaders and had to teach Steven Grant Rogers how to properly throw a punch. The thing she hates more than that? Stupid rich self entitled people.... Word Count: 835

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thekoogler-blog · 5 years

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Convos

Interior Kitchen

Breakfast has already been cooked. Three still sit at the table. Two seats with empty plates are seen. One girl. Two boys.

So what you’re telling me is….

I’m telling you that what you’re saying is crazy, not just crazy, but batshit crazy.

It’s a pretty crazy notion to think up

Why is it such a crazy notion. I think it’s a great notion. A fine idea, one of my better ideas in fact.

You have the worst ideas, not just the worst ideas, but the worst batshit ideas that I’ve ever heard.

You do have pretty bad ideas, McMillan Party, 07.

A. That was not my fault. What kind of house does not have a fire extinguisher? B. It would have worked if no one had panicked. And C. That was the past, just tell me why it’s a bad idea?

Look. If I have to tell you….I have to actually explain why this would be a bad idea, then….I just don’t know. DAAAAD (Im not in it…leave me out of it)

Shouldn’t have to explain why this one is bad. Its pretty bad

Can you pull YOUR head out of HIS ass and think for yourself for once? This would work, this would totally work. I already have the supplies ready and no one is doing it. Why wouldn’t this work.

OF COURSE you have the tools. Really? I guarantee you it would not work, who would want to see this, and there’d be no money in it. And don’t curse at him, he’s got his head on straight and its right where it needs to be. You know he’ll crush you.

You know I would crush you and it’s a bad idea. No one wants to go to a place like that

It wouldn’t be a place, it would be an experience, think about it. You roll up to the building, family in tow, wife by your side. You open the door, and BOOOOOOOM. It’s a Sesame Street themed paint ball extravaganza. Think about putting one right between Bert’s eyes just once. One time. I mean……..he was so mean to Ernie.

………………what in the name of the Black Panther God are you even talking about. This is why it won’t work, your ideas NEVER work. You take two totally separate things and mash them together like they’re just supposed to and then you look at us like WE’RE the crazy ones. I mean…..MAAAAAA (Me and your father are both dead, stop yelling at us please)

Bad ideas. Chocolate covered broccoli, May 2000.

CCB was flash forward thinking. You guys, have no vision. Absolutely none. That’s like the stuff now. Right? People wanna do things that are just unconventional and what not. Think about it. They put Thanos in Fortnite and people were trying to get Shaggy in MK. There’s a whole restaurant where they hurl insults at you. Think about the friggin IG chatter. The pictures on the Twittosphere. We would have the only place on the planet that would allow you to come and pop a shot of at that yellow fuck Big Bird (Curse in front of your sister again and you sleep in the garage)

Ooooook. We’re gonna circle back to this hate of Sesame Street you have, because that, that is weird. Who hates Big Bird? What kind of parent would bring their child to this place

Large yellow friend of mine. I don’t appreciate who you are talking about him so please refrain, lest you suffer my wrath (DO NOT THREATEN YOUR BROTHER WITH WRATH….I WILL SHOW YOU WRATH)

You never seem to get the vision I have

Because its about a dirty as a frat boy bathroom. Pick one thing and do that thing. Isn’t this your like fifth idea in 3 days. No kid wants to go and shoot Zoey between the eyes. No kid and kids that do…..we should probably keep a close eye.

Definitley not two full ones, but certainly one eye, one dedicated eye. AndI counted 7 yesterday, but to be fair I wasn’t paying attention, watching MHA, so it could be 70.

First off, you watched it without us?!?! And just wait, one day I’ll take off, and on that day, you’ll realize how wrong you were.

Fine, but until then, you’ll be the little brother with the crazy ideas, just, batshit crazy ideas. And we’ll be the ones with sense. Who wants to take a shot at Elmo? And seriously, you watched it without us. Really man?

Furry red compatriot. Laugh that could warm your heart and life lessons that you carry for eternity, what’s to hate? And shit, I’ll watch it again.

We’re going to circle back to proper etiquette, that of which you have none. How about the fact that Elmo is a terrible example for kids. Oh you’re having problems, just go down the street and get a life lesson from the tiny red monster, or the giant mutant bird, or the living breathing moss that lives in the trash. The CDC would have that man locked in a cellar somewhere in Area 51 right next to the chupacabra and the bigfoot babies.

Well…….that is a lot take in. But now you’ve got me thinking. What is going on, on that street? I mean let’s be honest, it’s a pretty weird street.

Any street that lets a giant wooly mammoth just walk down the street is a weird street

Thank you. I mean, what do you think the people on the other streets are thinking. Looking out their windows like, “Holy ass. Look at that big blue googly eyed monster eat those cookies again. He’s not getting any in his mouth. What a waste of cookies.”

Total waste of cookies, surprised no one has called him out. “Hey Eugene, you’re wasting an awful lot of cookies over there. This is why we don’t really invite you to things.”

And you’d suppose he’s not cleaning any of that up. He doesn’t look functional enough to work a broom. Just cookies, if it was a cookie broom maybe he could do something with it

I mean there has to be a gas leak on that street right? You’d figure there would be some sort of team called in to investigate that whole block. They have a living breathing vampire on the street. What’s he eating? It damn sure isn’t numbers. And why does he have that monocle?

You’d have to figure that it would be some sort of Angel situation where he’s drinking like, pigs blood, cow blood, or something to stay alive. Don’t think they’d want him out there killing those other muppets. Or kids. He probably had one or two though.

Had to have one or two you’d suppose, then he’d figure out he couldn’t bring himself to do it. The look in their eyes as he drained the last little bit of life out of them. Has to haunt a man for years you’d suppose. Every waking moment you had would be of the moment when you put someone to eternal sleep.

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……………………………………Sooooo…..smoke and a movie? You got it right?

Three nod in unison, rise from the table and file out a door to the right

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agentnico · 6 years

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The Happytime Murders (2018) Review

I wonder what Paul Thomas Anderson thinks of his wife (Maya Rudolph) starring in all these crappy comedies? The man directs arguably some of the best features put to screen, with the likes of Magnolia, Phantom Thread and There Will Be Blood, however his wife appears in films like, well, The Happytime Murders, The Nut Job, the abysmal CHiPs and many other turd bags, and it makes you wonder what Paul Thomas Anderson thinks of this. I bet he loves it!

Plot: When the puppet cast of an '90s children's TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case, which means teaming up with his ex-partner, with whom he did not leave on the best of terms.

So Sesame Street tried to sue this film for copying them to much, however I honestly don’t see why Sesame would want to have any kind of connection to this film, as this film’s main gag and pitch is that puppets swear, do drugs, have sex, and basically do anything that shouldn’t be seen by a child’s eye. You heard me, parents, this ain’t another Muppets movie. Don’t take your kids to see this one! But anyway, The Happytime Murders is the perfect way to end a summer filled with bad films. I’m sorry, unlike what many think, I think this summer has been rubbish. Yes, there were a few little gems here and there, like Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Deadpool 2 and BlackKklansman, and also Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again was way better than it had any right to be, however as a whole this summer was atrocious. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Meg, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Ocean’s 8, Mile 22, Tag, well, the list goes on, all these movies were super mediocre to terrible, and so far this year as a whole has been like that, which is why I am optimistically looking forward to awards season as our saving grace. But with The Happytime Murders, yes, it also is not a good film. It’s actually very bad, however at least it is enjoyable. And that’s more than can be said for many other dull films of this summer.

Filled with all the tired old cliches of a detective movie, many 5-10 minute periods where nothing interesting happens, a script so lazy that it only relies on using as many curse words as possible (a gag that works at first but does get tiresome by the end) and a wasted human cast with the likes of Joel McHale and Elizabeth Banks, whom I wish got more to do, though Maya Rudolph, so mis-used at the beginning of the film, gets more to do at the end with hilarious fashion, and then there is Melissa McCarthy, whom I never liked, and this film has not changed that.

Yes, this movie is bad, but not going to lie, me and my friends had a hell of a time watching it, since after a certain line is said and we all gathered what kind of film we were watching, which just allowed ourselves to be swayed into this world of foul humour, and yes, the movie is completely stupid and ridiculous, but that’s what made it enjoyable. But what else do you expect from a film that has one octopus-like puppet milking a cow muppet? So yeah, as something stupid to watch with your friends and pals, this might actually not be such a bad choice, however as a film its very badly made. Though you do have to admire the puppetry work that has gone into the film, especially when during the credits you get to see some behind the scenes work. It is impressive, no doubt, but that doesn’t make for a good film. Enjoyable nonetheless though.

Overall score: 3/10

TOP MOVIE QUOTE: “I have a severe condition of Imma.” “What’s Imma?” “Imma see it, Imma f*** it!”

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frederator-studios · 6 years

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Meet Gabe Janisz, creator of “Tyler & Co.”

Nostalgia time: I met Gabe in my second week at Frederator. I knew a Gabe was coming in to pitch, and when I went out to see if he’d arrived, I encountered a guy in pajama pants in our lobby. Now, animation is a lax industry in terms of work attire, but the notion of pitching a TV show in one’s PJs was beyond the reaches of my conception; I am too uncool. So my immediate thought was that he was a random dude who’d wandered in off the street - not that he was the guy pitching, let alone already a creator with us, of the GO! Cartoon “Tyler & Co.” No doubt he heard the question mark in my greeting of “Gaaabe?,” but he didn’t let on, because as I’ve mentioned, Gabe is cooler than me. He wears PJs to job interviews and then gets the job. He’s cooler than all of us. “Tyler & Co.” well demonstrates this, but here’s an interview with him for further proof.

Walk us down memory lane. How did you decide to make cartoons?

I guess… I don’t know if I ever decided. I headed down this road because I used to make games a lot as a kid, because that’s what my older brother and dad do.

Whaaat what’d they work on?

My dad worked on the RoboCop 2 game. My brother still works in games; he was on “Where’s My Water,” that mobile game that blew up a couple years back. The thing with me making games was, I’d spend so long on the intro cinematics and character animations, that I’d run out of steam by the time I had to think about the actual mechanics and programming. So I finally decided to focus on the stuff I actually liked, and that interests me, and that’s story and character.

Where did that interest lead you?

Well, I grew up in Buttcrack, Colorado. There weren’t any real art programs or teachers who could show me the ropes, so I had to go it alone for a long time - not the best route. But I did draw a lot of comics. It wasn’t until I started visiting colleges that someone recommended life drawing, so I took a class on it at a local community college at the end of high school. That’s when my art started improving.

What’d you do after high school?

I went to SCAD for comics and animation. At first, I was in all of these kinda useless foundation classes. So I actually went to the chair, showed him my portfolio and he was like “Well, if you think you can handle it…” and exempted me from them. The next semester was one of the hardest, maybe the hardest, of my life. I was in classes that I wasn’t prepared for, especially this one storyboarding course. Maybe the foundation classes would have prepared me, maybe not - point is, I was totally unprepared to perform at the level expected, and felt unable to make the kind of stuff I was expected to make. I was up until 8am every night. I got really close to quitting animation altogether.

Wow, that’s hectic. What changed?

After that I was in a paper animation class that dragged me out of the pit. I made some good friends who helped me improve. And my paper animation professor liked me and actually wanted me to succeed. I got more confident in my abilities. I’d always seen things in my head that I couldn’t translate onto paper, and I finally could. And I did some cool things like studying abroad in France for a semester. That was amazing because comics there are considered one of the ‘Great Arts’—they seriously respect them. Instead of flimsy paper copies, everything was hardbound and gorgeous. They have a huge range of art styles, but they all feel so unashamed, whereas stuff made in the US feels like it’s constantly apologizing to you for being a comic. I’d been applying to CalArts every year since senior year of high school - it took 3 years, 3 applications before I got in. But I was really glad to have spent time at SCAD majoring in comics, because as much as I love animation, I get so pumped about comics. It was great to do both.

Then you entered the fabled gates of CalArts - and what’d you discover?

A lot of great friends. Who also happened to be great artists I could collaborate with on projects. I was in Character Animation, and because CalArts is so picky, you’re surrounded by people you can learn from, with all different tastes and ways of doing things.

Do you seek a studio gig - or how bout - what do you most want to do with your life?

Once online a stranger told me "your art is like an awkward hug" and I've kind of tried to run with that. If I can make at least one person feel a little less lonely, then I feel like I'm doing a good thing. I’d work at a studio if it were the right project, but mostly I want to be an independent comic maker and cartoonist. As long as I’ve got stuff in the pipeline, I’ll be happy. I was hospitalized a lot as a kid (and adult) and it kinda... broke me in a lotta ways, so it’s nice that me and Frederator found each other.

How did you come to pitch to the GO! Cartoons series?

Eric (Homan, our VP Development) came to CalArts to speak and my professor introduced us. He invited me to come by Frederator and check out the place. And then when I came by he was like, “You don’t have anything to pitch?” And I was like, “No, you said I was just checking out the place.” But I plugged in my flashdrive and just looked for the first thing that was around 5 minutes I could find and showed it to him. It was my first year CalArts film about a bunch of kids making bombs. And he liked it, so we started developing it, and it actually got all the way to the stage of pitching to Sony Animation. But the Sony people definitely couldn’t get behind the bombs stuff, but they liked me I guess. So they greenlit me but not the bombs. So Eric had me go back and make something new. I’d been doing stuff with Tyler for years so I pulled him out and figured out a new idea.

Where did the idea for Tyler come from?

Well in high school, I had Crohn’s disease, so I had the right to leave class whenever. I’d just up and go wander, hang out with the janitors. And one of them loved the Muppets a lot. He hung little pictures of them all over the school and I actually never noticed them until he mentioned it. But they were everywhere. So I started watching Sesame Street and got into that aesthetic, and admired the puppeteers. I’d also had a falling out with my high school friends, which was part of why I was wandering around so much. I started devoting more time to close friends in Canada that I’d met online.

Did you meet them through gaming?

Yeah, gaming and game message boards. It was a found family. I don’t have a large family, I don’t really have that foundation to fall back on. So finding kinship online was huge for me in a time of isolation. And watching a lot of the Muppets.

Did the Muppets inspire those puppet versions of Tyler and Lil G from the title cards?

Yeah - Tyler and Lil G are actual puppets.

(At this point Gabe pulls puppet Tyler and puppet Lil G from a mysterious red duffel bag that’s been on the floor. I didn’t know what it held, but I didn’t expect puppets. Ecstatic, I try Tyler on)

Puppets are in a lot of what I do, but not everything. I’ve made YouTube videos with them too - my roommate is really good at performing with them. So the characters were designed to look like puppets.

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If Tyler & co. got a full series, would the puppets be in it?

Yeah, there'd be puppet cutaways. There’s an old Super Mario Bros show - it’s a really bad show, but funny - and they had intros and outros with live action actors playing Mario and Luigi on like a trash covered set. They’d do skits. So that makes me want to cap off Tyler episodes with puppet skits.

So Tyler came first, then how did the other characters come about - like Lil G?

Lil G is a younger, innocent guy that Tyler sees a lot of himself in. He feels like he has this chance to sculpt this younger dude, and kind of save him. He doesn’t want Lil G to screw up his life like he did.

How did Tyler screw up his life?

So Tyler used to be a child star in a show like Sesame Street. But his camera operators, the crew were super abusive to him, in order to get him to perform for the camera how they wanted. Pushed him into traffic, manipulated him, did really messed up stuff. They once strapped cursed swords onto his hands while he slept, and he involuntarily butchered a bunch of people while trying to find help. He got acquitted in trial and got a restraining order against them. But now he’s just trying to pick up the pieces, and his roommates are a huge part of that. The logline has been, “Tyler, why can’t you see that if you’ve got friends like these, you’ll be fine?”

Whose house is it that they’re living in? And what’s the dynamic among these roommates?

Rex’s - he inherited it from his grandma when she passed. Rex and Moe have a shared interest in ghost hunting. There’s another roommate, Rocko, who’s a retired boxing robot. There’s Marky Mouse, he hangs out, doesn’t hurt nobody. Lil G is a nuisance to them—he’s enamored with Tyler because Tyler’s the first person he’s met from out of state. So he associates Tyler with his dream of getting out of the town.

Where does this take place?

It’s set in the River Rouge area, by Detroit, Michigan. It’s where my dad grew up and he’s told me horror stories. Once in school, the river’s surface actually caught on fire. So they could see from the school windows that the river was in flames, burning oil on water. School wasn’t even cancelled. It’s a super heavily polluted river.

Have you ever visited there?

No, thank God.

So why does Tyler WANT to be Mayor of Cerealtown? Why is that of value?

Because they’re kinda losers, and that’s the kind of thing that’s important to them. These guys don’t really have jobs. The house was bequeathed to them. Moe does some tech repair, and he and Rex do freelance ghost hunting. Tyler’s big project is repairing a car, which’ll be his and Lil G’s way to get out of town. That’d be a big thrust of the show’s plot if it got a series.

Where do they want to go?

Anywhere else.

Let’s talk about the music in this, cause it’s great. How’d it come about?

All the music was done by Bo-en, and yeah, he did an awesome job. He composes music for games a lot, which is how I found him. He has this unique, glitchy style. I emailed him out of the blue, not even expecting a response. But he got back to me and immediately sent over a test composition. That was good because he was actually excited about the project. Overall, I went with everything that he chose.

Which cartoons inspire you most?

I’m more of an anime fan, usually. I’m a big Soul Eater fan - it’s stupid in the most creative ways, like I love the moon and sun up there gnashing their teeth and laughing when there’s a heavy emotional scene happening below them. FLCL and Gurren Lagann. Masaaki Yuasa is a big guy for a lot of people right now: his shows Kemonozume, Kaiba, and Tatami Galaxy inspire me, even if they all turn into trainwrecks by the end. That happens to a lot of stuff I like. My favorite scene in animation is from Kaiba; it has a lot of quick worldbuilding and weighty animation that i really like and tried to replicate in “Tyler” a bit. But I get a lot of inspiration from outside of animation too. Games, music.

Let’s hear about those influences, from games, comics, music, everything else?

One game is “Cave Story”, it’s incredible: it was made by a Japanese dude -- all by himself! I think that the more you can do on your own, the more your original soul and vision shine through. The character designs in the “Professor Layton” games are also pretty incredible, like retro anime with a european flair. Those two games are very different, but they both tell impactful stories!

I was all about Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics for a long time; they ended recently. I probably steal a lot of how I draw slouchy characters from him. Hellboy is probably my favorite character design ever, for a lot of reasons: the asymmetry, his big arm, the sanded down horns... just looking at him tells a story, and it's crazy rare to see a character design get that thoughtful. I like Soul Eater for a lot of the same reasons. Just about my favorite written comic is King City by Brandon Graham, which is all over the place but manages to stay very human at its core. Osamu Tezuka, Naoki Urusawa, Katsuhiro Otomo, Inio Asano, Enrique Fernandez.... I get too pumped talking about comics!!

(Moonkiller, a dope comic and to-be short film)

My favorite bands are probably Gorillaz and Passion Pit, and i think a lot about telling stories that feel like their music feels. I guess it’s mostly about hanging onto the feeling that the music gives you and drawing with that, like translating a language? I do my best work when I can already *see* a show in my head before i draw it. When I made Bombadiers, my old Frederator pitch, i was thinking of this song Beck made for a videogame. They don't like, sync up perfect, but they still ~feel~ the same to me. Beck's composing work in films like Scott Pilgrim and Nacho Libre is really great! I’ve also been into The Postal Service recently because a lot of their music sounds... backwards, almost, and it’s interesting to me. Baths is another cool guy who I almost worked with on Tyler; his music can sound very otherworldly.

On a whole other note: why did they put snakes in the attic?

They put them up there to clear out another infestation. It might have been rats, might have been gorillas… I don’t remember. But they didn’t expect the snakes to breed so fast. They put the rats or gorillas up there too. So it’s really been a series of bad decisions.

Why snakes thoo?

Well once, I caught a baby rattlesnake with a plastic bottle in the Lodge. It wasn’t until I let it go that we realized it was a rattler - and the baby ones are actually the most lethal, because they can’t control how much venom they release when they bite.

What’s the Lodge?

Oh, so at CalArts, you’re assigned a cubicle. And there are two buildings with cubicles, the Palace and the Lodge. The Palace is a lot nicer, but the Lodge is more fun, fewer restrictions. My friend Justin and I - he was the board artist on “Tyler”, and a character designer on Rick and Morty - we built a shanty town out of cardboard boxes in the Lodge. It was our cardboard fortress. And there was one student who was in charge of keeping the other students in line, and he ordered us to take it down. And as we felt that was a violation of our liberties, we started a bulletin called the Lodge Gazette, which we posted around campus to air our grievances and report important Lodge news. I still write for it, when I can.

Tell us about your friendship with Jonni Phillips, which may be Frederator’s #1 most adorable friendship story?

I met Jonni through “Rachel” and offered to carpool with her to Frederator, and we became friends. We have a lot in common! We both share a sort of fatigue over mainstream animation in the west and east, and it was helpful for us to vent about these toxic animation communities, like, realizing that we're not going crazy, haha. I make these comics about us in hell together.

She also convinced me to pitch Grandpa 2.0 to Nickelodeon, which was it’s own whole can of worms.

(Pls click that link for the Grandpa 2.0 experience, you will not regret it)

Okay, gonna need the whole Grandpa 2.0 story please, stat.

So Jonni DOUBLE dares me to submit it to Nick’s shorts program because "They'll make anything!!" so I pretty much have to do it. I just submit the website along with the description, "I based this pitch off my own life in which i replaced my grandpa with a robot” and turned it in. First thing in the morning I get a response from them: "When can you come in and pitch the boards???" Boards!!! There were no boards!!! So Justin and I spent the weekend cranking out these rushed but actually pretty funny storyboards for an episode of Grandpa 2.0. But I was suuuper unhealthy at the time, literally bleeding to death (42% of the blood an adult male should've had) and I straight up blacked out and missed my pitch date. We rescheduled, which is cool, but now I’ve gotta fight the 'unreliable' reputation that the first meeting got me. So I start by rifling through flash drives for 10 minutes. The files are actually in the folder "Grandpa 2.0". The last place I'd ever look!! While I'm pitching I get to a segment Justin drew at such low opacity that it’s straight up invisible on the projector screen. And I just have to describe to them whats going on. "IMAGINE if you will, a high tech display screen..." and this other part where grandpa has a guitar solo, Justin copy pasted the animation, like, an obscene amount of times, so even if I held down on the keyboard it still took minutes to chew through them. He wanted me to make the guitar noises. After the pitch was over they were like, "What’s the emotional connection between the boys and grandpa?" and im just like "I dunno.. fear??" And then way later i got an email saying that they were "blown away by how professional the pitch was..." (and I'm like um were you guys in the same room??) "...but the content just wasn't right for Nickelodeon”. That part almost makes me think they actually noticed all the 9/11 jokes and stuff... So that’s how the pitch went, and for now Grandpa 2.0 sleeps, unless I can convince Eric to swing it by Netflix or something, hahaha.

What are you working on now?

I’ve always got a lot of projects going. An animated feature idea, Token Town. And Moonkiller, a comic I’ve been working on that I want to turn into a short. Paper Desperado is a game I’m making - my friend is coding it. We’re fans of the old Paper Mario games, so we’re trying to draw from those - not copying, more like figuring out how they made everything and trying to build off of those techniques. I’m also working on a radio play called Spookwood, about a drug that turns you into a ghost. It’s tough because I’m so used to describing stuff visually, and now I have to get everything across with just words.

When it turns you into a ghost, do you stay a ghost or turn back?

No, you stay a ghost.

So the drug kills you?

Yeah, it kills you, and then you’re a ghost.

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Thus concludes our interview with Gabe Janisz! Thanks for taking the time Gabe, it’s always good talking with you. Sure we’ll be working together again in no time!

- Cooper

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