#chocolate comes first

[doodleodds]

Happy Valentines, Akira. Happy Valentines, Asshole.

If you can’t read what Akechi’s secondary inner-dialogue says cause I obscured it too much behind his regular dialogue, here’s a transcription in panel order: Hello, you fucking- Ah- Hello, Akira! Fuck off, why should I tell you- Just a soda- there’s a new flavor.

I don’t want your shitty gift. Oh- haha! You’re so sweet.

I hope I choke. They’re lovely, thank you.

Like hell. Likewise. There’s no way it’s just a coincidence. Still though, it’s a funny coincidence.

#p5 #akeshu #akechi goro #kurusu akira #wow- me?? posting a valentines comic... actually on?? valentines????? wack. absolutely wack #it's a short one! I purposefully tried to keep it short. it was a challenge and it still ended up being 3 pages. but i blame my canvas size #also in case u can't see what akira is holding out to akechi: theyre chocolate covered strawberries on sticks! #i saw them irl and was like oh god i want those. i am going to project that feeling on my favorite characters so help me god #and now! here we are! but my shitty-ass coloring & line quality make it hard to discern them so. sorry about that lmaooooo #ANYWAY i don't do enough post-maruki stuff so. i made this one a little bittersweet. :) #why did i put akechi's scarf in a bow? honestly i dont know! i think i saw some art a while ago that did that too and i thought it was cute #well. plus i guess there's the symbolism of 'akechi being alive and reciprocating your feelings (however involuntarily) IS a gift' part #hence that hes wrapped up in a bow. like a present. :) #also god. the first panel is supposed to be akechi's reflection in a vending machine window. I could NOT get it to look right #so for reference!!! just so you guys understand!!!!!! thats what that panel is supposed to be!!! he is NOT in fact a ghost. (sigh) #hope you enjoyed and had a lovely valentines!! for my part i have eaten nothing but sweets today and hoo boy will that have been a mistake #ALSO in terms of the audience-participation comic...hopefully coming soon. if i can ever gain the will to draw it. #but at least tumblr has polls now so i can do the audience-choose-y bit without needing to use a separate website! so thats good i guess #anyway anyway anway thanks for listening to me ramble if you made it this far! have a lovely rest of your day and hopefully see u again soon

[cryptvokeeper]

don’t get me wrong I think the general interpretation of Leo being like “I put up a cocky front but deep down I don’t actually think I’m that great and that’s why I have something to prove” is good. It’s cool, plenty of drama/angst potential and probably what the creators were going for, I’m here for it.

But there is a distinct appeal to me of the slightly-to-the-left interpretation of Leo being like “it’s not a front, I know I’m that good/smart/skilled, but I also know I’m seen by others as just the goofball face man and that’s why I have something to prove.”

#Rottmnt #Wild metaphor incoming but it’s like the difference between a hersheys bar and fancy Ghirardelli or something #At the end of the day they’re both chocolate. But ones got a bit more depth. #where was I going with this again idk I got caught up in food metaphor #It’s like. With the first one it boils down to character A (in this case Leo) going “I’m useless because I’m not good at [thing]” #Resulting in those around him either going “of course you’re good at thing! Remember the time you were good at thing?” #Or sometimes “it doesn’t matter that you’re not good at [thing] we love you regardless of what you can provide” #And again THATS GOOD THATS SOME GOOD SHIT #I LOVE THAT #but with the latter it’s more like “I know I’m good at thing *but I don’t know how to prove it to you*” #And that gives you the best of both worlds where you CAN get character A feeling bad but not for their lack of thing #But because if no can see it surely they *must* be doing something wrong right? #And ALSO you get the characters around them getting all sorts of feelings of “we didn’t do enough to show we believe in them” #Or “we didn’t notice how hard they tried” #Cuz you can get that a little in the first one but it can come off as kinda meh cuz they didn’t actually do anything wrong #It also has more opportunities for emotions besides straight sadness #You can have anger and conflict of “why am I not good enough for you?!” #That straight sef deprecation doesn’t always allow for #You can also have jealously and envy that feels less toxic and more justified #Not that it strictly needs to be justified mind you #Sometimes some toxic feelings stemming from perceived inadequacy are fuckin *chefs kiss* #But again it’s abt the VARIETY yknow #This isn’t even about Rottmnt anymore I’m just rambling #It’s my post and I get to choose the bullshit tags

[pickapea]

my job is reactivating and rehabilitating patients in post surgery care and one of the first things i tell them once they've tried to drink some juice and stand on their legs without throwing up is "every bite is a good bite" and i think that's a good sentiment for everyone

#i tell them “if you have to eat 5 panacottas and nothing else today then that's a win” and then i give them panacottas #actually it's not a win bc they need way more than that #5 panacottas and a few supplementary nutritional drinks and then we're all set #caramel flavoured chocolate pudding is also a good option #an option anyone outside a hospital would discourage to be the only thing you eat in a day. but we will nag and bug you until you eat 2 #ive seen a lot of people here on tumblr talk about the need for a neutral food view #that morals don't exist in food #and it's true #to become healthy after your body has kind of been under the greatest toll ever (stomach open wide) there is no such thing as bad food #pickapost #tho of course you will develop some health issues if you don't have a proper diet #like scurvy or kidney stones #that's no good #or blood fats that will lead to health issues later in life #but compared to malnutrition those are irrelevant #nutrition comes first otherwise you cannot live #and when it comes to nutrition every bite is a good bite

[uselessnbee]

ok but like the fall from the quarry before El saved Mike was so high like he didn't barely jump and then was immediately saved he fell a long way

just watching it is terrifying imagine how terrified Mike must have felt imagine him regretting jumping but knowing there's no way back and he could only watch as the ground neared as he neared his death like yes he was saved but that moment could have lasted a second and still be traumatising holy shit he was 12 im gonna throw up

#ok i'll be honest idk if the first part makes sense and is correct cause my brain is not englishing right now #but i'm having quarry thoughts again and needed to make it everyone else's problem #so hopefully yall get what i'm trying to say! #give mike wheeler a hug please he needs it #i'll be thinking im too overprotective of him but then i remember shit like this and suddenly i think i could be even worse tbh #mike wheeler #byler #no really byler related i guess? #mike wheeler protection squad #i would kill for this child fr i'm not even ashamed of it #that's my son that's my baby he's been through so much please give him a break #i don't care anymore what mistakes he did he never did anything wrong he can literally kill a dog and i'll be like it's ok #we all make mistakes it's fine come here do you want hot chocolate? yes? i'll wrap you in a blanket and we can watch a movie! yay! #yeah i'm in my feels about him again what about it

[wakanai]

Double Black? Wrong. DOUBLE RAT ATTACK

#chuunky you little menace- #yk when I first saw this ask I almost immediately thought of that dazai panel 😂😭 #GIRL I.. #this is going to haunt me :') #It's giving attack on titan 😭😭 #JSJDJSJSJS #FYODOR PLEASE COME BACK ALR #chuunky is losing her sanity :') #just like niko- #/J J J #on another note - go eat some chocolate noodles 😭 #chuunky is extra when she's bored or hungry.. #I think #chuunky #the patoots #mutuals #crazy mutuals #yes. #bye.

[just-bendy]

(( Asks are back open and we are starting the Christmas event! The Christmas event will basically just be them dressed up in holiday sweaters and have various Christmas decor around the house. ))

(( I will close the ask box again once it goes over 30, but I'll do my best to answer them quickly. ))

#bendy #batim #batim bendy #doodle #mun #amerrybendychristmas #<- tag for the christmas event #ive been waiting to put bendy in a christmas sweater ever since this blog first started and now my dreams are coming true #he is drinking hot chocolate :> #idk when but around christmas time i will be going away to spend christmas with my cousins so i wont be here for christmas #eh i'll make a post about it when the time comes #i've made a few changes to the blog.. okay maybe just two #the first one is how bendy's eyes work. he now moves the whole pupil and not the pie cut part #and now they are not the only toons in the world anymore! now there are lots of toons walking around. toons and regular humans #these are not ''canon'' toons but ocs because i dont want to do crossovers #thats pretty much it #oh yeah. im putting one thing from the game into the au #its small and unimportant tho so its not too interesting #a lot of whats in the game is already in the au as well as stuff that cant happen in the au #this is getting long so i'll end it here

[loverboyromanroy]

i like that bitey was clearly a childhood game about exerting dominance that shiv enjoyed and excelled at and i like that it came up while she was at odds with her brothers who were big brothering her out of decisions

#a+ episode expressly for getting chocolate milk in the range rover/mud on the confirmation dress/bitey all in one go...... #not to take away from the tomshiv of it all because that of course was it's own inspired masterpiece #but think it was fun that this is the first time bitey has EVER come up between them.... #when she is trying to reconcile with her asshole brothers #succession spoilers

[margizaa]

I wasn't particularly happy with how this was turning out so I'll just drop it as it is. Vee in a Halloweenish color palette for a friend.

#the owl house #vee noceda #pretend its a Halloween color palette or I will literally cry #Did a Pumpkin carving and bought some chocolates for the first time ever to humor our neighbors who are trowing a dia das bruxas party #hurry up and come over so I can dress my pijamas : #goodness I feel old :( #Halloween

[flaming-toads]

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#i made a ton of chocolate covered fruit today #and since then all i've wanted to do was read fanfics of my otps #feeding each other various chocolate covered fruits #date night fics #maybe i'll start writing again #but gosh gotta get these wips done first cuz i've been gone forever... #in my defense a lot has been going on lol #toad rambles #things keep going on #and they don't stop coming #and they dont stop coming #and i wanna watch shrek now #good day

[spaceballstheaskblog1]

Important question!!

Tagging a couple moots because I need info @professional-termite @abiscuit @hatbox-apologist @ literally anyone else

reblog for bigger sample size

#spaceballs #spaceballstheaskblog1 #my first poll omg #first poll ever even on my main blog #@ mutuals #another important question: can he have grapes 🤔 #Spaceballs #mel brooks #I came up with this question while making chocolate chip cookies with my Grammy <3 #she help come up with some questions too ;) #(some were so silly I didn’t add them XD)

[keirametzbrassknuckles]

Some non negotiables in my life are good coffee, good bread, good cheese, and good chocolate. I will spend So Much money on those things. Everything else? I'll get at dollar tree or whatever but even when I'm flat broke those are the four things I refuse to compromise on.

#made myself a pact when i moved out the first time that I'd never stoop to buying wonder bread #and I've never broken it #its not always like... the artisanal crusty sourdough of my dreams #and sometimes it does come pre-sliced in a plastic bag but its not wonder bread #but yeah.. super dark chocolate super dark roast small batch coffee and super stinky cheese are my little joys in life #and i WILL always find a place in the budget for them because im a grown up dammit and i deserve my treats #my little glass of red wine and my little square of chocolate....beloveds

[sketchy-scribs-n-doods]

Bee and Argie, Billy and Argyle

Arturo Guillermo Franco Valdes.

Arturo Guillermo, and a friend that calls him Guille, Artie, Argie.

A red faced Billy that pronounces Guillermo as ‘Gah-ee-ler-moh’ before learning that ‘ll’ makes a ‘yuh’ sound in Spanish.

Artie calling him Bee-yee, and later Bee, as a joke because of it.

Billy tosses out nicknames like the affection he’s never been sure how to express. But he loves the way his friend's name rolls off his tongue, the syllables strange and clunky and a challenge that Billy readily takes up. Soon, it falls full and melodic from his lips, prettier than any song he's ever heard on the old radio his mom left him with.

Mi amigo, Arturo.

Argie tells him not to sweat it, but Billy doesn’t understand why nobody else seems to want to make the effort. Like it’s too difficult, or like Argie isn’t worth the effort. Most of the other Mexican kids at school already know how to pronounce the names that give their white teachers pause, but outside of that demographic there’s a pathetic lack of effort that incites Billy sometimes. 

“Don’t sweat it, bro. Not everyone can roll their Rs as good as you.”

“What, like it’s hard? Fuckin’ idiots.”

(Years later, when they find each other again, Billy will know why his old friend Argie goes by Argyle, because Argyle will nudge him with a serene little smile of his and say, “Long time no see, Bee. Your ol’ pal Artie Gyle-ermo missed you, amigo.”)

Once, early in their friendship, Billy asks Argie why he has so many damn names. Why does he need like half a dozen of them? And Argie says,

“Well, I dunno. I think it makes me pretty damn special, though. How many ‘Arturo Guillermo Franco Valdes’ do you know?”

“Just you, obviously. But that doesn’t mean much, I don’t know any other ‘William Hargrove’s either.”

“Maybe not. But it’s prolly a lot easier for some random Hargrove to be named Billy than for someone to line up a buncha random names to smash together and create a Franco Valdes named Arturo Guillermo.”

“That ‘random Hargrove’ is me, jackass!”

“Exactly!”

“At least my name’s not a fuckin’ mouthful!”

“Oh, so I’m a mouthful, am I?”

“Fuck you!”

A few months later, well into Billy's friendship with Argyle, the kid invites him over to his place to check out his new bike or something, Billy doesn't remember.

What he does remember is meeting Argyle's dad and paternal grandma, Nana Hermelinda.

It's getting colder, for California at least, and Nana insists on making the kids chocolate abuelita while Argyle's dad is at work. A much richer hot chocolate than Billy is used to, the smell is spicy sweet and warm in the air as it foams up in the pot Nana is using, instead of the mild chemical sweetness of the mugs Billy puts in the microwave when he can sneak a packet of Swiss Miss in the winter. Her worn, wrinkled hands make quick work of it, expertly spinning between them a wooden stick with rotating round bits at the end that goes into the frothy mix. Nana calls it a molinillo when she sees him looking at it, and rather than freeze up over being caught staring, as he normally would, Billy instead finds himself trying to pronounce the new word for the remaining five minutes the chocolate takes to finish. The air feels almost soft around him, pleasantly warm and sweet like cinnamon as Nana lets the mixture cool while she searches for mugs in the cabinet above them. When she offers him his own, a brown mug with a rounded bottom and pretty dotted flower designs on its shiny finish, Billy is shy and hesitant to take it. But the warmth as he wraps his chilly fingers around it is welcoming and its smells so good. The first sip is cautious, slow like he's still unsure about whether he's allowed something so warm and comforting.

It's incredible.

Billy's pretty blue eyes light up like Argyle has never seen before. He can feel his heart thump awkwardly in his chest as those baby blues shine bright in the soft yellow light of the kitchen.

Then Billy lowers the mug, and a little mustache of foamed milk and chocolate lines his upper lip. Argyle quickly forgets the brief stutter of his heartbeat and cackles at the sight.

Billy is too busy having a religious experience over his mug of hot chocolate to bother with telling him to shut up like he normally would, but he doesn't truly mind- he likes the sound of Argie's loud bouncing laughter.

Nana looks fondly at them over her own mug, sitting comfortably on a stool by the kitchen counter as Billy politely thanks her for the drink with what little clumsy Spanish he's learned from Argyle so far. She coos at him, putting down her mug as she answers in a kind, lilting Spanish that Argyle will later tell him roughly means, "Of course, love. Come here whenever you like. I will make you a mug anytime, son." Billy inhales the warm steam wafting up from the mug he holds tight as Nana places a gentle hand on his cheek and calls him mijo.

Years later, Billy still remembers it as one of the last times he'd felt so held and cared for.

#my mutuals were posting about billy's spice tolerance from his california years and i started having feelings about billy and argyle okay #here's an edited excerpt from my billy time loop fic bc of it #billy hargrove #argilly #billy stranger things #sketchy fics #many thanks to @ thediktatortot and @ stranger-rants for fueling my brainrot every fukin day lol #argyle #argyle stranger things #fuc k it tagging argyle bc i have SO many headcanon and idea about his family for the billy haters to come at me about it #its okay i have a permit: #'i'm mexican and i can do what i want' #like cmon you cant name a character argyle have him be mexican and then not explain how tf that came about #die hard had not come out yet so in world that cannot be the explaination #gotta do everything myself around here #also the bit about billy's eyes going big and bright after his first sip of mexican hot chocolate is based on a friend of my sister's #except it was her trying horchata for the first time #but i stg that little girl's eyes grew twice their size at the first sip lol she had like 4 cups of the stuff that night during the party

[daincrediblegg]

WHY DO BARISTAS LOVE ACTUALLY GIVING ME FREE SHIT GIRL OH MY GOD

#today’s incident is as follows: walk in with my mom. they have chocolate espresso panna cotta #it looks fucking delicious it comes in chocolate cups. it is deffo too much espresso for me #we get to the counter. girl (whose first name is actually my middle name and we have bonded over this) takes our order. my mom asks if I’m #gonna get it. i say ‘nah’ and girl goes ‘OH WHAT WERE YOU GONNA GET?’. we talk about how cute the chocolate cups are #my mom ordered a croissant. so she hands us a box. get our coffee and leave #now picture me. at home #4:30 in the afternoon. #I go to the kitchen. to nibble on mothers croissant #LO AND BEHOLD #IN THE BOX IS THE CUTE LITTLE CHOCOLATE PANNA COTTA!!!! #she’s a little messy bc she was in my mom’s purse and she’s been sitting out for a couple hours #I down the divine thing over the sink full of shock and awe #SHE DID NOT CHARGE ME FOR THIS #THIS BITCH WAS PROBABLY LIKE 7 DOLLARS BC THIS IS ONE OF THE PLACES THAT OVERCHARGES #I COULD WEEP #what in fuck y’all why does this keep happening to me #anyway I’m going to have to burn this energy somehow but we’ll figure that out later but still

[undyinglantern]

when you’re so shit at Spanish that it literally doesn’t even occur to you how to pronounce this word until looking at the wiki 👍🏼

#though the most I’m familiar with the word when it comes to starting a car [insert all the times ive heard family say they have to #'arrancar el carro']. and like I know nothing about cars so bare with me in the way I’m gonna explain this but #when the engine won’t start so you open the hood and connect wires from the car that won’t start to one that works fine #anyways also very stupid of me considering I HAVE heard the term espada in terms of this series before #now I’m curious how arrancar is gonna be pronounced once I get that far #bc I was trying to guess and in my head I kept going Aron-kur(?) #but like knowing how 2000s anime pronounce jp works I wonder if they’ll butcher esp one too #are they gonna say ah-rahn-kar properly? cmon there’s a half Mexican guy in the series you can do this #<-(Falsely optimistic) #BUT ALSO IN MY DEFENSE i had never actually heard the word sword (espada) irl growing up #but my understanding of spanish is all sorts of fucked up tbh #like the first time i had champurrado i freaked out wtf i was getting this thick chocolate drink and not a hard giant cookie (champurrada) #my parents never said chancla they said chancleta #i had no idea a chicote was a whip until i looked it up later in life. i thought it was a belt which just happened to be made of leather.. #saying as someone whos parents didnt threaten them with a belt or sandals but A FUCKING WHIP. APPARENTLY. #papote instead of pajilla (later found out i was mispronouncing even that my whole life bc its actually pOpote) #and pelo colocho instead of chino are the other 2 big commonly spoken differences

[torgawl]

another day another opportunity to cry about kakavasha

#i love him dearly #tiny kakavasha who was cold and has mismatched shoes i am wrapping you in a blanket burrito style and making you hot chocolate #can aventurine's banner come already it's been 84 years of acheron #i need my man #i need to hear his sweet voice #actually kind of crazy this is aventurine's va first va job? how?? he did so well

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

"I hope I never made you sick with anything I cooked for you!" he replied, voice tinged with worry as his brow furrowed, concerned over the idea that he'd unwittingly made her sick every time he and his family had her over for dinner. He'd never really paid much attention to how much she ate (despite being something of a Clean Plate Club member, as his mother liked to joke), but he hoped she'd made eaten enough to avoid feeling ill.

(And admittedly, it was a disappointment to imagine a life without enjoying all of the foods he loved-his father's Irish recipes, his mother's New Orleans specials, all those recipe cards going to waste on the shelf...he would learn to live with it, of course, but it would still be a shame not to be able to enjoy them again...maybe the more blood mixed in, the better it would be to eat them?)

Still, he tabled this thought as he finished the last of his breakfast (making sure to savor every bite of it) before he continued to nurse his coffee, before venturing to ask Emily:

"What does...blood taste like, to a vampire?"

Everyone had tasted blood before-whether it was from a baby tooth being yanked or sticking his finger in his mouth after getting pricked, Randall had certainly tasted it, in all of its coppery glory. Still, it got him curious-once one became a vampire, did it taste...better? He hoped so; if he was going to subsist on it, he wanted it to at least taste good...

#((ah! i *also* know the 'sore tongue' feeling because in addition to having celiac)) #((i also have a mild cashew allergy that came about when i was a kid! first time i tried them; it irritated my mouth)) #((and after the second time where the same thing happened; i just figured i was mildly allergic and avoided them!)) #((it's much easier to avoid than gluten; that's for sure-though last year i *did* have a run-in with it)) #((i'd bought some chocolate from a local chocolate shop that opened up the next town over)) #((i'd really liked their chocolate cordials; so i opted to try some rocky road)) #((and as I'm sitting there; watching a show...the dreaded itchy feeling comes on)) #((and i want nothing more than to rinse my mouth out with sandpaper; just to make it stop!)) #((i let the gal know and she seemed confused since it shouldn't have cashews; it should just be peanuts)) #((mixed in with the chocolate and marshmallow but either way; i'm gonna steer clear of those from now on!)) #((also: happy easter!)) #outofhatboxes #beatingheart-bride #V:Dark Shadows