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haveaclock · 6 days

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Uhm...

Hi everyone?

Back from my little break I guess.

1 year is quite little

yea sure April 18 ,2023( the last time I posted) was a long time ago but,

"It's April 21st!! Of 2024!!"

oh wait I'm talking to myself again..

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Guess whose back, Back again, Shady's back..tell a friend.

yea

I have an excuse! I was going to take a break in observance of my little sister turning 10 (she's 11 she's growing up way too fast), boom one year later.

Genuinely forgot why I left Tumblr,for that matter social media after that..blame it on mental health and stress.

People should know that stuff happens in a year, things change. So guess what, this blog is changing..whoopi. Excluding my pfp I love it so much for absolutely no reason

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Blog things.

When I created this blog, I was in my "Jeantonio era", Jeantonio hyperfixation, if you were a CS fan in late 2022 most likely I was in your screen yapping about them and what not. Literally that was all my blog was good for, for that reason alone.

Yea, no more of that. I'm guessing the light switch turned off. I don't know what happened genuinely speaking they just aren't like..you can say I've gotten mature, when I look back at my posts I want to cry, bawl and curl up into a ball fetus position by the pure cringe of it. I don't know.

Not all only Jeantonio, it's just CS in general, sure I'm in a discord server (hi @tiredguyswag) about La Femme Rouge but I really just don't feel the same way about the show I used to. Blame it on personal life I guess.

now that I say that all I say on discord is how I stopped having a Jeantonio hyperfixation 🙃

Anyways,

Don't get me wrong I still love the,but I'll barely post about them. Yea, mind blower.

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Bio thing

It's funny how I haven't made this before but that's that I guess,

- I go by Cassandra,

(@r41nb0wzzz DO NOT CALL ME OUT, I KNOW WHAT MY NAME IS.)

-Minor (don't hit on me 😒)

-She/Her

Hobbies: Drawing, Animations, Running,..does talking count?

.. I'll just skip to the fandoms part.

- Avatar:The Last Airbender

- Carmen SanDiego (kinda obvious)

- Any kind of children's show

-Mandela Catalogue

- MLP

- Undertale, but just barely

- Steven Universe

- Genshin Impact

-Spiderverse

I've forgotten now

Now, this shall come as a Total shocker for you guys but,

- Total Drama Island

see what I did there

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Everyone knows what a hyperfixation is,

A character(s) or show, or something you like so much you traumatize them or you draw them in class so much you have 3 full pages of that one character.

(Okay, funny thing is I've never drawn El Topo and Le Chèvre like, never in my life until like, January this year during Carmen week, crazy.)

Anyways, I'm pretty sure I was never one of those users that had a new hyperfixation like, by the day, "Jeantonio 4 life man"

Which is funny,

Okay I'll get on with it Rajbow (Raj and Bowie) is cool guys.

I love Rajbow so much man..

It's like ... it's like Terry McGurin watched Carmen SanDiego and then implemented Jeantonio onto Total Drama Island.

I will go on and on about them like..

Like look at them!!

Look.

Goofy Goobers times 2x man..

I didn't even mention Wayne man..Wayne!!!

I will put each of them in my pocket..each!

It's a brainrot.. man..

Will I be making remarks about my hating Bowie? No!

Le Chèvre got them because I hated him but now I don't because I forgot my reason,

or I just made him too fem queen in my head..

I love Bowie man..

And Raj..

And Wayne..

Platonic Raynebow 4 life man..

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I forgot the majority of the stuff I came here to say, so I'll just say what I remember, and leave you guys to forget this,

-I'm going to delete a lot of my old posts most likely this weekend, they were very cringe man, understand where I'm coming from...

-Thetalkwithaveaclock isn't coming back, it's getting killed off. But then again nobody cared or knew what it was,

- Posting won't be something you'll be getting in every 56 seconds, it's more like every 56 days or something..I either just don't want to come back to Tumblr or its school man..

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Yeah, that's pretty much it..I forgot a lot of what I was going to say to you guys, okay..uh..

Anyways,

Bye Bye..CS nation?.. I'm guessing the majority of this will be read by CS nation..

- cassandra

#i was not being serious with this man #carmen sandeigo netflix #total drama

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she-who-fights-and-writes · 24 days

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WIP Questionnaire ±2

I was tagged by @rjcopeseethemald! I haven't done one of these in a while and really enjoyed the questions here, so I decided I'd give it a go for my wip: Wings of Faith!

Original from @illarian-rambling.

If you want to know more about Wings of Faith, check out my post here!

RULES: 1. Answer as few or as many of the following questions as you’d like! 2. In passing the tag along to others, you can add one question of your own, or replace an existing question.

This art is a bit old but it's the last time I've drawn everyone all together haha

1. What was the first part of your wip that you created?

Surprisingly enough, Emmie (a main character, but not the protagonist) is the first part of my wip that I created (See the red girl on the top left). She was the protagonist of the very first book I wrote in fifth grade, and I wanted to pay homage to that work by including her. However, she's changed a LOT since then (even her name!), and the only remaining carry-over is the red streak in her hair.

2. If your story was a TV show, what would the theme song/intro be?

Intro song: "Run to the Devil" by Dragonwyck or "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult. Outro song: "It Will Come Back" or "Francesca" by Hozier Instrumental: "Dragonlord Placidusax" from the Elden Ring Soundtrack or "Danse Macabre" by The Oh Hellos

3. Who are your favorite characters you’ve made? Why?

Andrew, my protagonist, is by far my favorite character. Writing from the POV of an incredibly sensitive, incredibly traumatized person (who feels things very deeply), while outwardly projecting a cruel and defensive facade is... *chef's kiss* Otherwise, I'd have to say Emmie. She is a very layered and multifaceted character with an incredibly important role to play in the story, and her kindness is refreshing amid a mostly hardened cast of characters.

4. What other pieces of media do you think would share a fan base for your story?

Six of Crows fans

Dante's Inferno fans who don't mind me bending the lore a bit

Fellow ex-Catholics

Fans of Hozier's "Unreal Unearth" album

Supernatural fans into the "corrupted angel x man struggling for redemption" dynamic

5. What has been your biggest struggle with your wip?

Keeping the facts straight. This has been a 10+ year project and sometimes I forget the revisions I've made, and accidentally cut out important details...

6. Are there any animals in your story? Talk about them!

Yes! Rimfaxe is a wraith, aka a shapeshifting shadow monster that takes the form of the things he's killed and eaten. (See the top left of the art above!) Emmie stole him from the government and now he's basically her kid.

7. How do your characters get around? (ex: trains, horses, cars, dragons, etc.)

They mostly walk (or fly on Rimfaxe)! Because Hell has a ceiling, the authorities restrict car transport to government officials ONLY to keep down emissions.

8. What part of your wip are you working on rn?

A giant, chapter-long fight scene that I've been working on for a literal year. It's TORTURE. Can't explain much else because of spoilers haha.

9. What aspects (tropes, maybe?) of your wip do you think will draw people in?

The main romance is an mlm enemies-to-friends-to-lovers angel x demon pairing! (Angel x demon pairings where they're both assholes>>>>>) Also I feel like there's been a void in lore-focused media dealing with angels and demons, and I'm hoping Wings of Faith will fill that void!

10. What are your hopes for your wip?

That I get it done after 10+ years... and that people will like it :')

11. (Added by rjcopeseethemald) What pieces of media have been the most inspiring to you for this wip?

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Hozier's "Unreal Unearth" album

Adding a Question 12: Is there a part of your wip you wish that you could change, but it's too late to go back now?

I don't want to bother anyone by tagging them directly, so I tag anyone who sees this post and wants to do it! Blanks below.

What was the first part of your wip that you created?

If your story was a TV show, what would the theme song/intro be?

Who are your favourite characters you’ve made? Why?

What other pieces of media do you think would share a fan base for your story?

What has been your biggest struggle with your wip?

Are there any animals in your story? Talk about them!

How do your characters get around? (ex: trains, horses, cars, dragons, etc.)

What part of your wip are you working on rn?

What aspects (tropes, maybe?) of your wip do you think will draw people in?

What are your hopes for your wip?

What pieces of media have been the most inspiring to you for this WIP?

#long post #tag game #writing tag game #writeblr #booklr #writing #writers #wings of faith #wof #maddytalks #oc

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bookgeekgrrl · 1 year

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My media this week (12-18 Mar 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰👂‍The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books #1) (KJ Charles, author; Martyn Swain, narrator) - another knock out hit from KJC!!! I loved that most of the conflict was external - they had some shit to sort out but it was not drawn out excessively. Great sense of place. Really looking forward to the next book in the duology, but not because this one left me wanting. [audio narrator's voice was lovely-sounding but the pacing was TERRIBLE - very, very slow with drawn out pauses in the middle of sentences, just weird & annoying. I read it on 1.45x speed and it was just bearable but I mostly read it in text when I could]

🥰 All the Things Money Can't Buy series (Lys ap Adin (lysapadin)) - 62K series (45 main story, rest later vignettes) - Sheith modern sugar daddy AU, complete with a delicious 'snowed in together' section and a cute dog named Potroast 🐶

😊👂‍Death In Irish Accents (The Dublin Driver Mysteries #4) (Catie Murphy, author; Ruth Urquhart, narrator) - Megan just can't stay away from murders - literally opens with a body falling on Megan & her girlfriend while they are having coffee - absolutely love it!

😍Monoclonius (Zenaidamacrouras1) - 62K, stucky AU with single dad/environmentalist Steve & dino scientist Bucky - absolutely delightful, loved loved loved it to bits! Genuinely loved the OCs (including a very important stuffed trilobite; found family vibes off the charts (even outside of S&B)). Also there's a very decent amount of hot sex! THIS FIC HAS EVERYTHING.

😊👂‍Christmas at The Grange (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #3.5) (T.E. Kinsey, author; Elizabeth Knowelden, narrator) - novella

💖💖 +70K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Cross (lightgetsin) - Dresden Files: Dresden/Marcone, 33K - haven't read DF in years bc I'm well done with that canon but shout out to the inimitable @drunktuesdays, who threw this pairing onto my radar and 🤯🥵🤯🥵🤯

cybersex series (Adure) - Stranger Things: steddie, 7K - friends-to-accidental-sexters - short, sweet but super hot

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Ted Lasso - s1, e6-10; all season 2; s3, e1 [x2]

Maine Cabin Masters - s7, e10

Schitt's Creek - s2, e3

Dickenson - s1, e1-3

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Menus To Be Buried With - Judgement Day! • Comic Relief 2023

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - I Love You Guys So Very Much ("Season 3 Preview")

Shedunnit - The Trials of Madeleine Smith

Desert Island Discs - David Sedaris, writer

⭐Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Soundalikes

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Exploring the underworld with Jessica Leigh Hester

You're Dead To Me - Frederick Douglass

⭐Hit Parade Plus - Raise Your Glass Edition

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - NYC’s Most Beautiful Public Bathroom

Vibe Check - I Stand In Exhausted Solidarity

⭐99% Invisible #528 - A Whale-Oiled Machine

You Must Remember This - 1988: Kevin Costner, Sean Young, No Way Out & Bull Durham (Erotic 80s Part 11)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Manuscript Writing Cafe

Welcome to Night Vale #224 - Liminal Spaces

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Blurred lines with Stacy Horn

⭐Switched on Pop - Modern Classics: Seal - Kiss From a Rose

Into It - Are We Into Tom Cruise Skipping the Oscars, Nancy Meyers, and M3GAN's Sartorial Debut?

Switched on Pop - Switches Brew

You're Dead To Me - The Columbian Exchange

It's Been a Minute - Silicon Valley Bank and the sordid history of 'Palo Alto'

⭐ICYMI Plus - Pedro Pascal Is the Internet’s Daddy

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Remixes

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

TRUSTFALL [P!nk] {2023}

P!nk

Carly Rae Jepsen

Little Freddie King

The Hamilton Instrumentals {2015}

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galactichelium · 1 year

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I know I haven't drawn anything in awhile but I want it to be known that literally every day I try to think about things I could potentially draw. Because I really love drawing. But I just... don't really have any ideas! And it sucks. The only ideas I have would be to draw a new icon for my art blog, and maybe this blog too, but I'm really not good at drawing icons lmfao. I'd prefer to draw some other things first, so that I can get into the swing of things again, before I attempt to draw an icon.

Part of the issue also is that I really need a HDMI splitter so that I can have both my monitor AND my graphics tablet plugged into my computer at the same time. Also so that I don't have to reach to the back of my computer to unplug my monitor and plug in my graphics tablet Every Single Time I wanna start drawing. Because the cool thing about my old Surface Pro is that I could just pick up my pen and start drawing with little steps to get in the way. But it's over 9 years old now, it'll be 10 late this year. I got it second-hand 5 years ago, so I've had it for longer than how old it was when I got it. But Surface Pros are expensive, and so are laptops in general, so I opted to get a desk computer so that I could have actually decent hardware for once. Y'know, without needing to pay a shit ton for it. But it'd just be nice if all I needed to do was to like, press the on button, on my tablet, and then be able to start drawing. Especially nice if I'd be able to have my monitor on at the same time.

So yeah. Dunno man. Main issue is still the lack of ideas. I've been struggling with ideas so much for a year now, I'm not sure what suddenly made ideas so difficult. I used to draw a drawing once every 2 weeks! I was doing that consistently for 2 years! Sometimes once a week! Now I'm lucky if I draw once in a 2 month period.

#Part of it is also probably identity issues and the different ways I want to express that now from how I was doing it before in my drawings #But I just. Man. I wish ideas came to me as easily as they used to. I love drawing I miss drawing :(#Iron text

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kai-wanted-doa · 5 months

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Day 2 with my ipad on procreate I literally have only watched one video on YouTube about procreate and it just explained the concept of LAYERS pulling my hair out what the fuck anyway I'm trying to hype myself up about this purchase by doing what excites me and this lil jiji originally drawn by drawnbynana on Instagram seemed simple and cute so I went for it to practice how to navigate the app and have fun I need to watch a full-on beginner tutorial about all the features of procreate cos ya girl is LOST u could literally see the grains cos apparently the brush I used doesn't fill color well like ????? I'm not familiar with the digital art lingo either I am an old man trying to navigate new tech I am DROWNING I haven't updated my phone in years and this is my first apple product in +10 years HELP my jiji is a dope

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dynamoe · 2 years

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You draw Pete and Billy in so many outfits. Weren’t they poor in the 90s or something? I mean, you can’t just afford good quality clothes even if you belong in the lower middle class. Even now Pete wears THE ONE lucky shirt.

My dude... thrifting.

Every item of clothing they're wearing in this picture would be, like, two-for-a-buck at the Goodwill. The most expensive thing here are the sunglasses

Thanks for your question (even if you must hide your identity to ask it.)

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C'mon, I haven't drawn that many outfits for a 10-12 year period. The opposite! I thought I was reusing the same jeans/sweater/sneakers on Pete too much, if anything. I haven't designed any they couldn't have bought second hand on the cheap (except for Pete's 1998 Dot-Com CEO outfit— that's real monkey fur).

↓ over-thinking below the fold ↓

Luckily for them in the first half of the '90s, the "aesthetics of grunge" was romanticised poverty. Why were Chuck Taylors so popular with punks/grunge musicians? Because before Nike bought the brand and "made it fashion," they were literally the cheapest sneakers you could buy— $10-15 at a Kmart or a PX. Boots you got from an Army/Navy store. Layers of flannel because it's cold and wet in Seattle and your squat didn't have heat.

The other question is... how poor are they?

"Poverty" for a super-scientist means not having a compound. Billy & White's day-to-day poverty is more about their lousy priorities and bad decision making. They were down to drop $50,000 on a shrink ray in Tag Sale, You're It. Billy's vintage toy collection is worth a couple grand at least. They buy equipment and gadgets. If/when they have money, they spend it on stupid shit. They're not poor; they're broke— there is a difference.

Pete shipped back anything he had in LA that he hadn't already hocked for coke (aka increasingly outdated outfits circa 1983-89). Billy buys from the children's section, which is cheaper. You'd hardly call it "good quality clothing," but that's not their priority.

Billy doesn't care what he wears unless they're doing an activity that requires "a costume." He goes overboard getting the right wardrobe for the job. (He gets so excited to dress-up.) Pete, paranoid about staying cool as he leapfrogs over 30, changes his style (but not his color palette) constantly, jumping on every trend (that falls under "stupid shit they waste money on.")

In my concept, at least, they have day jobs (lousy ones) for living expenses. Pete may be getting money on the sly from OSI for keeping Billy's memory wiped. Billy sells on Ebay. Conjectural Technologies periodically gets hired for a "rather steep fee" to do medical/scientific jobs but they spend money as quickly as they get it.

On the eve of the Millenium, exhausted by ten years of this endless cycle of gaining/losing fame and fortune, they both pledge to wear the same clothes every day and never do anything for the next 17 years. So they haven't spent any money on clothes between 2004-2018.

P.S. Any man, no matter how wealthy, can only have ONE lucky shirt.

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see all 2021 Master Billy & Mr. White posts

#q and a #your question #questions #question #ask #asks #master billy quizboy #pete white #vbros #venture bros #venture brothers #thrifting #thrift store #backstory #vintage fashion #90s aesthetic #90s nostalgia

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godadorgohome · 2 years

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When did you realize you had a older man kink? Was it an actor/character or someone you knew irl?

Me it was real life and you know the story 😉

There wasn't a single moment or person that make it all fall into pieces for me, really. Since before I can remember, I had always been drawn to side characters, to older characters, to the monstrous, to the villainous, to the aberrations. The first two characters I can remember looking at and having more feelings for than just 'ooh, I like that one' for were Hudson from Gargoyles

and Splinter from TMNT.

But I learned pretty quick not to show anybody anything I'd written for these characters, because they either made fun of me or looked at me like I needed HEAVY psychological counselling. So as I grew up, I just kept the ever-growing list of villains/old men/monster characters that I regularly fell in love with in my own head, thinking I was some kind of aberrant weirdo, until the fanfiction boom (and bust lol) of the mid-late aughts and early 10s. In I think 2006? I posted my first Bonnie and Silver (Treasure Planet) fic on ff.net and for the first time, I felt supported and seen. That encouraged me to post and write more and engage more openly with my old-man love.

But in real life, I still kept a damn tight lid on that shit because one of my dad's friends had shown me firsthand how shitty old men could be to young women when I was in middle school. Didn't stop me from having crushes on men two and three (and four) times my age even then, but I just... didn't express it outwardly. At all. And after the Great Fanfiction Purge of 2012, I stopped posting fanfic for a while.

I met my current partner by pure happenstance in 2013, and let's just say he's everything I want and more. He encouraged me to write what I loved. It worked in his favor too, because he's 10 years older than me. ;)

He was also the one that finally just sat on me (literally; the man had to pin my legs down) and made me watch Mad Max Fury Road. And then I met... Him.

That movie and this character-- and the small but fiercely good fan community called the Gigadumpster that grew up around him--was the cannon that launched me full bore back into writing fanfiction and helped me shed the last of my shame and shyness around liking old men.

That was in 2015, and I haven't looked back since. If you want the profoundly embarrassing truth, my coming out as liking old/villainous/monstrous men was more meaningful to me than my coming out as bi/agender.

So if you enjoy this blog, you owe most of your thanks to my beloved Old Man and to Immortan Joe. Say Thank you Daddy. ;)

#asks #cutebutpsycho83 #about the mod #immortan joe #hudson gargoyles #master splinter

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clowndensation · 2 years

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panopticon - there is literally no describing this episode. like you've either experienced it or you haven't. you either get it or you don't. to be fully clear: we are cheering and shouting and crying and hugging in joy listening to this episode. this is a celebration. a culmination of things years in the making. the final step in a master plan, and the sheer satisfaction of it all going perfectly.

quite literally if god hates a girlboss then why does he keep winning?

under a cut for the massive amount of screenshots that i frankly can't even justify <3 this is elias's episode and i need it to be witnessed in excruciating detail. not even like the important bits of the episode. it's my review and i can focus on elias being sexy if i want to.

your antagonist wishes, he fucking wishes he had this kind of entrance. he wishes his plan went off this cleanly, that his machinations could line up so fucking perfectly. elias sauntered out of prison just to show up and immediately serve cunt. losing my mind.

and he's still a coy little minx about it. look at him.

like this is a man who's gambling it all on one guy who he, frankly, has had a history of underestimating for the entire show. and the second he realized he was underestimating him, he immediately factored that into his evil plan, because he knew others would underestimate him, as well.

say what you like about elias, but when my man learns a lesson, not only does he learn it, he internalizes that shit to weaponize later. king of growth.

also including this bit because i just love elias and the fact that he says words and talks and serves girlboss realness literally always.

you don't understand how much i love this overarching thread of elias being an unhelpful withholding fuck who refuses to share anything, ever. he is 200 years old and he is dealing with children, and it shows.

also i truly don't have anything even passingly intelligent to say about this next bit. like nothing at all. i just need you all to know it's literally so incredibly sexy. can not overemphasize that elias deserves literally all of the euphoria of this moment. he's won. centuries of working towards this goal, and he is genuinely actually winning.

also to be clear, ben meredith can fucking kill a diabolical/triumphant laugh. holy fucking shit. you aren't getting it. listen to him.

he's so fucking happy. triumphant. the world falls into order because he says so, and now all that's left is to revel in it. icon.

and, of course, we can't forget the star of our show, our shining beacon. or, perhaps, the moth drawn close to his beacon, the beautiful, blinding light of their god, beckoning them toward each other.

like sorry i can't be normal about the fact that elias can just call jon. that they can sense each other's presence. that they're inextricably linked through their god. that they could be a world away, and they would still be able to feel the presence of the other with only a passing thought.

okay, now who remembers that little conversation between peter and martin that i shared? you know? the shorter version of this one? this one right here?

and if i could just direct you here real quick:

literally losing my mind, the parallel to these two relationships, which have acted as foils for each other this entire time is so absolutely fucking gorgeous. it's such a concise summation of their relationships, and the ways they suit their gods.

and jon, scared to the bitter end. terrified of every experience he faces, the fear always biting into him and leaving its mark. he is truly the perfect archivist, so sensitive and reactive to everything life has to offer. a vessel for terror that will never pour over, that will never be inured to the powers he's faced with.

perfect in every way.

Ranking: 10, as if this episode could exist on a fucking numbered scale. dear god.

#i lost the fucking plot with this one girlies i will admit that #what you need to understand is that i love it when antagonists win #whilst holding out a hand to lovingly guide the protagonist to their side #so they can enjoy their victory together #even if the protagonist is weeping while they do so #like again can not overstate how not normal i am about the end of season 4 #which is literally just. hey! so you know how evil and selfish actions will always lose out to the good and the just? what if they didn't?#and the answer is literally the most amazing iconic events in the history of the world. actually.#and i know technically the victory doesn't really come until 160 #but its the fact that everything falls into place in this episode #the satisfaction of a gamble paying off #of watching all the dominos falling in your favor..... hehehehehe #tmags #tmags ranking #10 #s4 #ep 158

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cryptvokeeper · 2 years

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Genuine question, can you tell me a bit about the cup people you've been reblogging recently? The art and comics are always cool but I have no idea what this is from lmao. If you're busy, no worries! Hope you're having a great day 💛

ASDFGHJKL yeah sure! its like past midnight tho so this will not be coherent at all;

so thats cuphead and mugman from the indie game cuphead by studio mdhr which is a whole cool story on its own cuz like the studio was literally started by two brothers who one day were like "hey wee should make a game" and then took like 10 years to make it but it was their passion project and it grew and grew and when it finally released it was a huge success and has ports on like every console and has some dlc coming soon and also a Netflix show which we will get to and is honestly just such a feel good game development story which is so rare in the video game industry so yay ^_^

but anyway so the basic gist of the game is that its an extremely difficult bullet hell/run and gun game thats made with completely hand drawn animation in the rubber hose style of early cartoons like the fleischer brothers. all the music is also recorded by a live band which is rad. The plot is that the two brothers, cuphead and mugman, gamble with the devil and lose, so now they have to collect all the soul contracts of the devil's runaway debtors or theyre the ones who'll lose their souls. It came out in 2017 so its a couple years old at this point (almost 5??? holy shit) and you can definitely find plenty of playthroughs online. as I said it was notorious for being very hard and got called like "the dark souls of ___" which, eh, like I haven't played either cuphead or dark souls but I know for sure that their gameplay is NOTHING alike theyre both just really hard.

I used to think the game was really cool but never really got too far into the fandom because it got popular very quickly and it came with a fast and inevitable backlash of getting called cringe. but now im a tax paying adult woman who doesnt CARE about cringe and I do what I want and have been having a great time! The animated series came out on Netflix last month and I finally watched it and fell headfirst back into being into cuphead cuz its really good. It is a little different, it doesnt follow the game but its a fun time in its own right. I was struggling earlier to describe it cuz I wanted to say its low stakes but that isnt right, cuz its still get the premise of selling your immortal soul to the actual devil its just like...low impact? Like its not one of those cartoons like Steven universe or she ra or something with a heavy epic story with deep emotional beats its just like goofy looney tunes fun stuff yknow? with some plot thrown in for flair but never gets too serious which is a breath of fresh air honestly, I needed something light. the most you get is one dream sequence moment which is a little more serious but not too much, and just cuz its not super serious and deep doesnt mean its low quality in the slightest the animation is GORGEOUS it looks really great and reminds me of hand drawn animation even though its not Done that way like the game. really smooth, I like it alot.

im sorry this doesnt tell you alot abt like the characters themselves but honestly thats cuz there isnt that much to them? like theres plenty of head canon and aus and stuff you can extrapolate from the text (any and all of which I can absolutely talk abt if u want me to but this is already very long and I dont want to bore/overwhelm you) but the game itself is very light on story. the characters never actually talk and the show has some more characterization but its pretty simple so far especially cuz its only half of the firsts season (12 eps) and you probably got the gist if you've seen what ive reblogged; cupheads the dumb goofy one, mugman is also dumb but more of a straight man to balance his brothers impulsivenesss, that sort of thing. You may have also seen king dice, the casino owner working for the devil, the devil himself, and Ms chalice/legendary chalice, a character who in the games is a ghost that gives you new powers and is gonna be a playable character inn the DLC, and in the show, well, they haven't shown too much of her but she's implied to have got some secrets goin on.

#sorry this is long but also you aksed #so now you get to suffer my ramblings hehehe #srsly tho ty for asking ily kind stranger <3 #thank you for putting up with my bullshit #I literally found one blog that just happened to tag all their cuphead content from like four years ago and spent the last week scrolling #because like so many people deleted their content cuz they grew out of it #which is valid!#but alot of it was really good and its a shame #so much cool stuff lost to time #it was a trip #also there are not enough fics for this fandom #lots of ask blogs! but no fics #and the pics. they do have are a good 45% incest which EW #RETCH #theyre CHILDREN #I just want funny cup men content

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thegothicviking · 3 years

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This...

Earlier (around 10 pm, May 14th) out of nowhere....

Me and my mom got invited to my Maternal grandfather's 75th birthday. And meeting grandpa Viking would have been great if it wasn't for the fact that I haven't seen this man in

14-15 years. I wish I was kidding. But it's true. I haven't seen his face or heard his voice in 14-15 years.

AND he even got himself a new girlfriend!

Here is the story; my maternal grandmother (his first wife) died of breast cancer when I was 5 and my sister was 7.

After that there was a fight between my grandpa and my mom (she is the oldest of his children) about who was going to heritage the old house (the first house me, my mom, my dad and my sister lived in from I was 0-2 years old before we moved where me and my mom still lives now). And that fight just kept this man, my grandpa to slowly but steadily withdraw himself from his own family. Stopped congratulating us on our birthdays. Stopped sending holiday cards...stopped coming for visits.

THEN (when I was around 8 or 10? I think?) he got himself a girlfriend or re-married...I don't remember if they ever got married or were engaged but his new gf/wife really took initiative to include me, my mom, my sister, my aunt and uncles (my mom's siblings) and my cousins so we could all be together like a family should be.

But then something must have happened to my grandpa and his ex gf, because he began to withdraw himself again and according to my mom he told her that they had broken up. And so he kept withdrawing himself. Shutting us out.

And this is why all of this is extra sad;

Grandpa Viking still lives in the same house he did as when my grandma was still alive. Same house. Same adress.

This house is literally about a 30 - 40 minute busride away from me and my mom (my parents got divorced and my sister has moved out and lives in a different city, far away).

So this means that my grandpa has been living close to me, all this time. But what's even sadder is that;

His birthday is a day before mine. (May 15th and mine is May 16th) And I have always been aware of this. We used to celebrate our birthdays together when I was a baby and until my grandma passed away.

And NOW..out of nowhere...with less than 24 hour notice...his NEW girlfriend (that I had no idea about) wants me and my mom and probably also my uncle (my aunt and other uncle lives too far away)...to come and celebrate grandpa Viking's 75th birthday.

My mom asked me if I wanted to join.

My mom had told him over the phone that me and my sister were in Bergen or that "they are in Bergen" although my sister is the only one who lives there.

But my mom let me decide. And she said she had full understanding if I didn't want to come. As I haven't seen this man for 14-15 years.

But I accepted the invitation! I am going! I will meet grandpa Viking! I have no idea about his physical or mental health or how his and my late grandma's house looks on the inside today. I hope it looks like how I remember it. I remember it clearly.

I AM nervous! For 15 years this man has been "dead" to me. And its odd that I will meet him NOW as I have thought about him alot lately/past couple of years. Wondering how he looked like now. Wondering if I should randomly drive to his house and see him.

And now I AM going to see him!! And it feels surreal! And it might be the last time I will ever see him. He might die very soon or he may not enjoy our meeting and withdraw himself again. This might be the last chance I have! To see grandpa Viking! (It's from his last name that I have the word Viking in my full name. No seriously..I AM actually Viking something!)

He might hate the way I look now with my plum-red hair, my lip percing and my harshly drawn brows... I don't know!?!? I don't know what kind of a grandpa he could have been. The last conversation I had with him was short. I was 14-15 and my mom hadn't come home from work. I invited him inside for coffee although I had no idea how to make coffee with the coffee machine. He declined. He sat down and read the newspaper that was left on the livingroom table by my mom. And then out of nowhere he began to talk to me about how the prices of houses/apartments had gone up. As if I could have moved out at the age of only 15....??

And now he will see me again. One day before I'm turning 29. Of course I could have rejected him. Like he has withdrawn from me. But if this is a chance to have him in my life, even if only for 5-10 more years. Then I'll take it!

What is past is the past. It is what it is...although my mom has told me to play along and pretend for his new gf that me and grandpa Viking have been superclose this entire time..(as we don't know how much this girlfriend knows about our broken family ties.)

The thing that makes me the most nervous is that unfortunately (like my mom) I do look alot like my grandma. I have her face, her smile and her eyes. I hope seeing me won't remind him too much of her. I don't want to be the reason for why he is hurting. I don't know anything about his current health! I hope our meeting goes well. I am excited and nervous!

But If our meeting doesn't go well, if he doesn't accept me or us, me and my mom (for whatever reason) and wants to withdraw himself again...then I can't force him back. In the end this will be his decision. But I am open for (even a short) relationship with him. If he wants to.

But like my mom always says;

"If they don't want to do anything or doesn't want to be with you...you can't force them!"

Hopefully the meeting goes well, though we obviously cant hug each other in these times...

But I'm excited! Wish me good luck! 🤞

#i will meet my grandfather for the first time in 15 years #unfortunately i look alot like my late grandmother...i hope seeing me wont bring him back some sad memories #i will meet grandpa viking #this is the side of the family with the word viking in its name #personal viking

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cql of course but if someone's already asked this... mp100 :)

whew sorry I got to this one last floor. thank you for sending cql :) but I haven't talked about mob in a minute so let's do that one!

Favorite character: MOB MY BOY. phenomental writing. one of the characters of all time honestly

Second favorite character: ritsu :) I have grown very fond of teru as well

Least favorite character: can you believe reigen's hovering over here I just think the fanbase has ruined him with being super obnoxious about him and making the story about him rather than mob. I think he's a good character but I can't even tell if people are joking when they call him hot. but this must go to touchirou for being a piece of shit in every way

The character I’m most like: hmm mob or serizawa. more like serizawa actually I'm closer in age to him...wild how I watched/read this when I was about halfway between them in age (21?) and now im like oh thank god serizawa's also lost a lot of his life to his fear of the outside world and being different and he's still able to put himself out there and live his life even though he's not going to get back those years because it takes courage but he also has people around him supporting him

Favorite pairing: not really into any romances for mp100, especially not with mob. I do think he's bi and that ritsu and shou and teru and tome are all gay though. I would like ritsu and shou together more if they were't literally 13

Least favorite pairing: almost any of them lol. besides the obvious I just do not see mob and tome? they're friends. they're good platonic friends. also she's got crazy lesbian energies imo

Favorite moment: the first time we see his 100% that shit is breathtaking...mogami arc was really good too but despite what most of tha fanbase latched onto, it was good not for the darkness and tragedy, but for the hope and faith in people and the growth that's possible. also the entire time mob was asleep in wd arc that was amazing

Rating out of 10: 9.5/10. a nearly perfect story, but trips up on a relative lack of female characters, ONE being kind of weird and moralistic about college students, a somewhat unsatisfying conclusion to shou's arc (imo), and transmisogyny in an early arc. also I think some of the battle scenes are too drawn-out and the early claw villains in world domination arc were a bit unpleasant to read about. but overall it's this beautiful story of this young man accepting and embracing his differences and growing up and finding hope and strength and making connections to others and anyone who decides to read this and then make gore art of the kids or angsty AUs or paint reigen as some kind of savior just fucking miss the point pathetically badly can you tell I still harbor some rage from the boom of its popularity on tumblr. it's about kindness! it's a series about kindness between people!!!

anyway mp100 good, thank you!!!

#asks

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“Oh what a time it was and what a time it was; it was ... a time of innocence... a time of confidences”*

“... long ago it must be ... I have a photograph, hold on to memories... they’re all that’s left you...”*

We think time follows rules; strict and linear and precise... the truth is there are no rules: a moment can be a decade, a memory can immediately transport you back twenty years in a blink of an eye.

On January 6th, 2002 ... Fant Smart, my best friend was murdered ... I have never truly recovered... it’s been nineteen years, a few of us did a little writing about his place in our lives... thank you friends. Today the topic isn’t in question; for me, it’s a sacred day.... a day where time has no meaning... for this I’m glad. As I was contemplating how I would approach this, I was drawn to how unfathomable and meaningless the passage of time can be. I’ve known people for up to 50 years or more and many move in and out of my life like shadows passing through tall grass in the wind. I knew my friend from 1996-2002... in that short period of time we became close friends, good friends don’t need anymore time than that. In truth, my bond to Fant was cemented after only a couple of days as I’m inexorably drawn to eccentric, non conforming characters. But Fant was gentle and kind ... the only time I can recall him confronting someone in anger was when he confronted me over misplacing some photograph prints in his classroom. Even though I was getting the “chewing” I felt bad for him because he looked so damn uncomfortable being angry. A hour later, he came up to me and said, “hey, you know I found those prints, they were on my desk.” With an air of , “I told ya so,” I answered him with a snarky, “uh huh.” Fant looked embarrassed and said, “I guess half the story can be a dangerous thing, but not with friends huh?” We grinned at each and I replied, “...especially not with a couple of weird hippies like us.”

Fant Allison Smart was born in 1946 in East Texas. He and I taught together for six years which I think for him was sixteen years at his end. He was a songwriter, a traveler, a stone mason and about a dozen other things. To quote from an essay written by a friend of his in Goliad named Rocky trying to describe him on first sight,

“Most of our group were Children of the Sixties, and, try as some did to overwhelm their innate look of Child of a Small Town, one thing most of us didn’t sport—even those who lived and worked the ranch and farm—were cowboy duds.”

This fellow had a nice gingham shirt on, pressed and the pearl buttons all intact with the right about of luster. Wranglers and shined on kaboy boots, and a big kaboy hat on the bar in front of him. Well, to the side, really, since in front was a domestic beer.”**

Fant was a walking, talking conversation piece with all he did and said. Once we had a rented a beach house in Bolivar to celebrate the retirement of a colleague. Having just the right amount of “coldbeer,” (to Fant it was one word without the hint of a pause), I sat down beside him on the deck. He was wearing flip flops I noticed as he always wore the aforementioned kaboy boots, and I looked down aghast at the sight that on his left foot, his big toe was missing. I freaked, “SON OF A BITCH, DAMMIT, WHERE THE F*** IS YOUR TOE?” He barely looked up and giggled and said, “I guess somewhere in Nacogdoches county. I kicked a running mower when I was eight... off it went.” Still recovering from the sight, just seeing Fant’s feet was shocking enough as it appeared that any type of pedicure had never entered his mind, “SHIT! I’m sorry dude.” He winked at me, “don’t be... it kept me out of Vietnam.... hmmm, that might make a song.” It was always like that with Fant...

A victim of heart break and unrequited love, Fant could no doubt be the inspiration for any old school, wang tangy, heartbreaking country song. He didn’t wear it on his sleeve; the bits and pieces of his hurt would escape on FAC (Friday afternoon club), song lyrics, or cryptic emails delivered late, late Friday nights or early, early Saturday mornings.. it just depended on how much coldbeer we had consumed. His mysterious late night emails which often were song lyrics written in reverse and signed to the love of his life, “we should’ve done it different Tressie Ann” or “ in my heart you’ll be Tressie Ann;” was his gesture to let his friends all over the country know that he’d made it home safely...we could all rest with a clear mind. His emails and correspondence were signed with one of his two nom de plumes: J. K. Schwartz or Vance Mart. There is a memorial brick on the square in downtown Nacogdoches with J. K. Schwartz placed on it. What a guy, you getting the picture?

Once, Russell, Fant and I had cooked out and had drinks at Russell’s home. We told him, “you’re not getting out of here tonight... your staying here,” to which he acquiesced pretty easily. There was nothing small or quiet or anything done with finesse when it came to Fant, yet as surreptitiously as a ninja, that six foot, 275 pound bear of a man snuck out of the house. We waited viewing the computer, waiting for his email so that we’d know he made it home safe. 12:10 an email from J. K. Schwartz hit the inbox, we could go to sleep.

FAC, (wasn’t that what I was writing about before chasing a rabbit), was where the witticism flowed like wine ... often literally. One night at O’Malley’s, he had his lap top out which had no Internet service, and we spent the night drinking and typing to no one how our conversation would sound if spoken in an Irish accent. Two big guys with ponytails, drinking copious amounts of coldbeer, speaking like Irishmen, and rolling with laughter at how the conversation looked typed on his lap top and no one was getting hurt. Ahhh “shiny times” ... his term for the best of times...and that they were.

Self discipline has to come into play with this piece, for truth’s sake, I could write for hours. I laugh and I cry when I tell Fant stories even after nineteen years. I’ve mourned him three times the number of years I knew him. I saw him yesterday, I see him now...remember what I said about time having no rules? My biggest fear is that someone so kind, creative, affable, wise, eccentric, funny and human to might be forgotten. We are a poorer species without him, but fewer and fewer people know it. At Lufkin Middle School where we taught, the kids and I and Madeline Porter made a memorial sidewalk to honor Fant. On the day of dedication, it was rainy and gray. I had my guitar and some kids accompanied me as I sang two of Fant’s songs: “Would it Matter if I Misspelled Thermometer” and “We are the Standing People,”(which is a grace he said over Thanksgiving one year as if the tall trees were praying). So many of the staff has moved on (myself included) and all the students grown to adulthood, that I reckon no one even know who the sidewalk is for. It is unavoidable I suppose, but as Merlin said in L’Morte de Artur, “it is the doom of men that they forget.”

I’ll not forget ole Bean, Frijole Compadre ...I know I write about him this time every year ... and it may seem morbid to some; but I subscribe to the Druidic belief that no one really dies, we just change form and we can hold on to special characters if they aren’t allowed to be forgotten

Kaep in kickin' mah stoatin mukker Fant Alisson Smart... I’ll nae ferget ye

Nineteen years ago, I lost my best friend to a senseless act of violence. There has not been a day that I haven't thought of him ....and the days have never been the same. The world lost one of the kindest, creative, gentle, imaginative, idealistic human beings I have ever known.... and had the most fantastic sense of humor that was delivered with a keen and childlike wit. I have experienced loss since and will again .... but have never lost such a rare spirit. I wish I could play guitar with him again ... as I have never played as well since, I wish I could dig deep into the well of philosophical dialogue again.... as I have never visited such since... I wish I could revel in nonsensical humor with him again .... as nothing has struck me as funny since.... I wish I could have one more Friday afternoon club at Flashback as Friday afternoons have felt much more lonely since. No one I know has started a phrase with, " I've heard it said," since I met my friend ... and only the best stories could begin with such words . The world has not been the same since his ugly departure from this realm. I don't feel anger or vengeance .... just loss ... deep loss. I miss you old friend ...the world is somewhat more dim since you went away, but my life is the better for having known you.

“You don’t know what you had Tressie Ann”

*”Bookends” by Paul Simon

**”Where You Bean, Frijole Compadre, J. K. Swartz” ...Rocky and Rosemary.

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