#i love me some gimmicks

[sentientstump]

what's there in the distance

133% team canada back in action? you bet

#ough man i really forget how it feels like to draw these guys sometimes #is this what people call falling out because i sure am suddenly on the floor from my comfortable slumber- LOL #crazy to think ive had some sort of tc legacy attached to me which is really cool btw im honoured to be seen that way #however its so surreal still and it gets even more surrealer each day and each month #nowadays i have no clue how to draw canadians because ive done it so many times in various ways that my brain is blanking #..have to say to myself every time to just draw without any hidden theme or gimmick and it'll be fine “xD #i love me some gimmicks #vintagebeef #ethoslab #pauseunpause #team canada #artstump

[blueskittlesart]

Not a request, but after the past few posts I wanted to let you know that I saw the Detective Conan 4D / live action show at USJ last week and that was my first official introduction to the series. Seriously considering going down this rabbit hole now.

go forth and enjoy batshit insane detective stories. ignore the fact that theres 1125 chapters this is a normal manga that will definitely end someday

#this is the best & most complete version of it ive found! it does use the localized names tho. so. jimmy kudo rachel moore etc etc #you can get the anime too ofc but the dub is um. interesting shall we say. it does have jerry jewell who is a national treasure #but they uh. make some interesting localization choices. and ive never watched the sub so idk how good it is #anyway once again fair warning this manga is batshit fucking insane ridiculously long and incredibly text heavy #but i love it <3 so #edit: nevermind the chapter i just read pissed me off dont read this manga #how do you write this many murder mysteries and not know that theres a very clear difference between entrance and exit gunshot wounds #THE GIMMICK DOESNT EVEN WORK. YOU CANT MISTAKE AN EXIT WOUND FOR AN ENTRANCE WOUND ESPECIALLY NOT AT POINT BLANK RANGEEEEE #sigh. being american sucks i wish i didnt know enough about guns to pick out the problem with that. anyways skip chapter 555 it sucks

[moonscape]

okay i'm going to be nicer to totk for real now *deletes most of my drafts*

#bwark #god i'm fucking trying to have some kind of epiphany here where i can have it all click and be like ''even if i have my problems i can still #get enjoyment out of it'' but this game makes it so damn difficult #''i can discuss the story'' wait nope can't. story sucks ass and butt #''what about the exploration? that was the best part of botw'' uh no can't do that when the surface is practically the same and there's no #substance to the sky or the depths #''gameplay?'' i don't like ultrahand. which sucks when that's 90% of the gameplay #i respect the work that must've gone into it and the creativity it's drawn from fans but making one gameplay aspect literally ALL YOU DO #runs the risk of alienating people who can't get behind #and sure other zelda games have their gimmicks but it's different #like take tp for example. i get that the wolf mechanic isn't for everyone. but aside from the early game twilight sections and a few sparse #puzzles in the later game you're never really forced to play as wolf so it doesn't overstay its welcome #god i just remembered that totk turned wolf link into meat chunks. another thing they took from us 😔 #actually on that genuinely why couldn't they just bring him back? #like you're reusing a ton of shit from botw anyway?? #which brings me back to my main point is that anything that isn't new is just. botw again #shrines are back but they're uglier. dungeons are the divine beasts but in a new coat of paint #why did they add more shrines to the game anyway? like you'd think they'd at least lower the number because fans didn't want them to return #the SINGULAR leg up i can think of id the bosses. yeah i love botw and i'll hold my hands up and say that a lot of the common complaints for #it don't bother me personally but yeah the blights absolutely sucked #divebombing colgera with the dragon roost theme playing was the closest thing that this game came to giving me an experience #okay i'll shut up now I'M GOING TO BE NICE EVEN IF IT KILLS ME

[charmixpower]

#winx club #rus chatters #winx season 5 #the posters....of all of them....in their most recent outfits in their rooms.... #implying that they made them when they first got back to aflea for some god forsaken reason #the fucking Bloom shelf #the dance table #aren't these supposed to be dorm rooms??? how are they doing that with their beds and shelfs??? you cant install things in a dorm???? #Bloom's room is actually a nightmare. but the reference to her love of drawing is cute #Stella's room is probably my favorite because shes the only one who would #they visably gave up with Flora's room...like I'm pretty sure this begun and ended with plant lady #I can at least appreciate the aesthetic of Tecna's room. it looks like a home office and bedroom and i kinda love the vibe #the same person who designed Flora's room designed Musa's room #i can at least appreciate the mix of femme stuff and sporty stuff in Aisha's room. her bed is gorgeous #this would be so much more tolorable if these were theyre own room in their own house but!!!! #OH MY GOD I JUST SAW THE REFRENCES TO THE BAND SUBPLOT. I WILL BREAK THAT KEYTUAR OVER SOMEONE'S FUCKING HEAD #omggg s5 designers. i forgot what everyone's gimmick was. wanna beat me over the head with it in the background design??? thanks! #i am still not. and will never be. over those awful awful posters. i can tell im feeling angry or another negative emotion but by god #Rus liveblogs

[grahamcore]

if there’s one thing about taika waititi it’s that he is gonna put a bunch of queers on a boat

#taika waititi #our flag meets death #thor love and thunder #marvel #ofmd #thor #it's his little gimmick and i love him for it #also i did actually like it!! #some of the reviews made me nervous and i can see that there were flaws #but personally i still found it really entertaining

[sysig]

So full of love to give (Patreon)

Bonus:

Sauna-ley, he’s gotta plastic-wrap his arm

#Doodles #The Stanley Parable #TSP #Employee 416 #Thinking about v2 more! I'm not even going to pretend I'm not biased towards him lol #I really like v1 I think she's very fun ♪ She suits how I'd most like an Employee to be but v2 is just so interesting to my brain gosh darn! #So more of him for the moment! Haha #I was already thinking about Love Languages recently so why not bring it in with me lol - he's the type to express with gift-giving #Stanley doesn't really get it lol #Like he's not unappreciative he's just confused! Partially because of how Narra treats him lol the bucket was the first Object in how long? #Not counting the Demo with the mug haha #He's just trying to tell you he likes you Sinister! He wants to give you nice sensory experiences without being too intrusive! #That said he does want to hold hands so maybe not Just solo-play sensory experiences lol - keep dreaming 416! #Specifically wants to hold his free hand so he doesn't hurt him ♪ He probably hasn't seen Sinister's gimmick but he can see the ouchies #He turned out so cute in that intro panel ah <3 #Has everyone seen the original love triangle comic? I don't know the original artist unfortunately but ahh it's so good haha #Narra must've stuck Sin's hand into something again and he's telling him off haha #Poor lads hehe ♪ #Bonus of a post-bath Stanley! Been thinking about body hair headcanons again because who can stop me at this point lol #Have I ever mentioned I HC Stanley as having some Grecian heritage? Fuzzy lad <3 #Making sure to cover up his arm so as to not irritate it :) Would probably feel really nice in cool water ahh

[hostilecityshowdown]

the amount i need modern wrestling fans to study the von erichs until they're able to point at other wrestlers and go "i know where they learned that" is unreal

#[ colour commentary ] #yes yes we always come back to me rambling about kerry and mean mark callous what of it. /j #this is actually a post about fritz and japanese wrestling at heart but progressive diseases are robbing me of my ability to put anything #into words beyond a desperate plea to sit your ass down and Watch the decades of wrestling people have already suffered and died to bring us #and to Feel the impact of wrestlers of the fifties-eighties for yourself. not just be Aware of it. if wrestling as a vessel for storytelling #could be a book you read It Would Be. if it could be a handful of movies/videos you watch It Would Be. but it isn't. and when we #Care about wrestling and want to engage with it we have an obligation to engage With Professional Wrestling. With the athletics. With the #tapes. With the promotional material including printed programs and cut promos and magazine articles. learn about amateur and collegiate #wrestling. learn about grappling. names of maneuvers. origins of some of those names. the names and legacies of venues. the sociopolitical #history of time periods and regions in which wrestling was happening. you will read the gimmicks and you will love the pontiact silver dome #as you would a spouse and you WILL learn about the heart punch and why it is the most devastating move in professional wrestling-- #/j okay anyway. i lay back down now #train of thought inspired by the undertaker's kerry-honed drop kicks but Post inspired by fritz literally going to japan to save wrestling #okay. lay down now. #go watch some memphis tapes

[malhare]

Gotta love how advertisements dont work on me but bizarre memes sure do, I genuinely want that Grimace shake so bad

#Trying to make myself wait because I already ate fast food once this week #Im also a Shamrock Shake enjoyer though so I think in general gimmicks just work on me #Love me some seasonal food even if it's synthetic lmao #malhare.txt

[starrysharks]

i usually just post about reassassination and ultimate excalibur alongside less developed stories/universes but brother i have a LOT of stuff that i either hardly talk about or never talk about at all publicly ,,, mostly because they don't have any character designs done yet 💀

#like let me dump a few of the ideas that will probably never actually become real here: #1. story about two vampire hunter girls and one goes missing and the other has to go find her and fights various vampires along the way #(i actually did finish a few designs for this but scrapped it and now a lot of the plot aspects are in reassassination #such as a coven of 7 vampires based on the deadly sins - now the 7 assassins of the clear crucifix organisation in RAA) #2. darkstalkers-ish fighting game that i was really convinced i could make once i learned how to code - #- where the guardians of love and heartbreak fight to prove which love is real #there were multiple characters planned - puppy love which was like a cute girl with a big ass scary fuckin hellhound #sweetheart love who was a chocolate themed magical girl (her gimmick being that she could transform and her fighting style would change) #fake love who was like a scam love doctor old lady called dr.diva #pure lust who was a super tall vampire guy etc etc the list goes on #i kinda want to go through with that one. one problem! i cannot code fighting games #and the one that was pretty well developed - metallic miracle which had a pretty complicated story #basically the world is being attacked by alien creatures that can only be killed by children (never decided why tho) #so the fucked up government takes a bunch of 5-8 year olds and put them into comas and then turns them into cyborgs #to go on suicide missions to kill these aliens. mira's mother is the scientist who created the technology that can send them into comas #and keep their bodies moving n shit and she takes mira onto a different planet to try and save her but theyre found after a while #mira's mother is killed and mira is drafted in the kids v aliens war BUT she is immune to the coma technology #she fights fully aware of what is going on for around a year? and eventually the aliens are driven out and mira is super traumatised #and is one of the only survivors of this 'greater good project' - so they put her in a coma that actually works this time #and send her in a space capsule for years to give her some peace (didnt develop why shes in the space capsule) #anyway 50 years later mira is woken up and taken back to her home planet to help these other guys against smaller-scale threats #and the whole thing is about mira recovering from what happened to her learning to trust others and stuff #looking back the story is kinda edgy n doesnt really make sense and stuff but i think it could be interesting idk #is this oc rambling if its only in the tags? #whatever #oc rambling

[nocturne-of-illusions]

i'm personally not much of a christmas / festive holiday person for a number of personal reasons... it's the kind of season that brings me down.

you wanna know who can bring me back in?? who's really the Reason for the Season????

THAT'S RIGHT!!! IIIIIIT'S

#genuinely one of the few christmas-themed Things that makes me genuinely happy no matter what ^^ #it makes me feel like a kid again. oughhh. i love They. sega could not have come up with a better gimmick for a promo sampler. #anyway. i wish a happy christmas to any who celebrate and A Nice Day to anyone who doesn't!! #im big eepy and hoping to get some decent z's before i have to mask all day tomorrow kJNASKJFNAKJFN #046 texts #christmas - #nights - #clowns - #(jic)

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

sometimes when i say i “ship” something i mean im invested in these characters relationship and how their personalities will compliment/clash to make each other better/worse and im obsessed with the way their storylines intertwine with each other. and other times when i say i “ship” something i mean i find the idea of these characters dating hilarious and i dont care about their dynamic beyond a few memes. like an actual ship vs a crackship.

but sometimes i see a ship and think “oh thats funny” but then i find out people actually ship it and have written 80k words of meta on why the ship is Good, Actually. but when i read it i am overwhelmed by the They Would Not Fucking Say That-ness of it all. and in recognizing how They Would Not Fucking Say That i am forced to think about the ship and its dynamic in detail to decide what They Would Fucking Say. and by the end i can’t even crackship it anymore. because once you think about it too hard the ship stops being funny it just starts being bad

#this is about huntlow #and also the sonia-souda-gundham trio #and togafuka #most of my ships in the first category are canon ones #a few where theyre rly close in canon but its meant to be read as platonic while i am reading it as romantic anyways #serious ships include raeda vrisrezi naegiri catradora etc etc etc #i love a good meme about them but i also like to look at stuff about how their character arcs intertwine with each other and stuff #crack ships are just based on a few gimmicks and tropes and maybe flanderizing jokes #like gustholomule daristeve tsumioda etc etc etc #i like to see it but i also recognize theres nothing in canon that im like. actually invested in #meanwhile if i see a ship im ambivalent towards and ppl are like REALLY in to it #then if the fanworks get me into it i get into it but if i dont then i end up REALLY hating it #bc a lot of times i dont get into the ships bc the fan stuff is rly out of character or misses some of the nuances #or at least doesnt conform to my idea of what the characters are #especially annoying are works where one or both characters are changed to have no resemblance to their canon selves #bc the author thinks of one character as their self insert and/or another character as their romantic ideals #sir is this how she actually would act or do you just have a crush on her love interest #shut up pandora

[perenlop]

never thought id say this but i think i understand genwunners a bit now

#like not to the point of ''ALL NEW GAMES BAD'' bc i actually loved violet a lot and am excited to get the dlc tomorrow #nor do i think its a better game than the later games. ill probably always have it a bit lower on my list #but after dealing with all the new gimmicks and the new rosters and how commercialized the series is now #and the fangames that have these super complex storylines and characters and so much puzzles going on #idk. its nice to go back to the series roots and see what it was before all of that #when it was just a passion project made by a small company that wasnt expected to catch on #so they sorta just did whatever they want and made a lot of clunky but fun decisions #and you can see the first incarnation of all of these designs #gen 1 sprites are so fascinating bc yeah its easy to poke fun at some of them but theyre also a glimpse behind the scenes #my oc spectra being based on the gen 1 haunter is genuinely bc i think it looks kickass and i miss that initial style for it #idk. its humble. its cute. its like a flash to familiar times #echoed voice #seriously i cannot emphasize enough how much of a massive mistake it was for me personally to base my view of this gen on yellow

[creatureshrieks]

play all 5 legion tapes at once and you summon the blighted legion

#sorry i LOVE the tape gimmick in DBD I really wish I could like #use it more but some of the tapes dont offer much #give me a third add-on slot just for tapes that lets me just change the music thank u #Listening to the tapes all together is really cool it's its OWN SONG!!!!!! #tbd #all that glitters is not silver (ooc)

[pyrriax]

i feel like i should just share this rq because i talked about it (i don't own most of these characters i drew them for art fight <3)

i really probably should draw more but also i have like zero brain capacity for art like 99% of the time.

#haunted ecosystem #apparition sketchbook #that's a silly art tag i like it #my art #i love acting like i'm allergic to main tags because i genuinely just cannot handle exposure #also you will pretend you don't see my old username #also i love tyler sm he is my lil guy. my fursona if you will #oh my god my little artfight gimmick where i added itemlabel plushes to each drawing i forgot about that #if i feel like drawing this year im totally gonna do that again #does this count as a longpost i have no clue #anyways yeah i draw (sometimes) ((very rarely)) #i've been writing so much recently that art has taken a backseat because i can only focus on one creative thing at a time lol #that reminds me i was planning a comic during my dsmp era i should probably post that concept at some point

[the-kipsabian]

card, draw and gimmick! :3

Card ~ If you could pick the matches for a wrestling event who would be in it and for what event? oh my god i have so many faves i would book to win tbh LMAO. i dont often fantasy book outside of my favorite storylines, so im just gonna stick this with one current dream match, but im just waiting for kip sabian vs speedball mike bailey to happen. i dont know how realistic that is since idk how open speebo would be with appearing in aew and kip doesnt do indies (yet?), but. i want it lmao

Draw ~ List 5-10 qualities about your favorite wrestler(s) that caused you to be fan of him/her/them? 1. hes just incredibly hot okay. like im not gonna sugarcoat it i first noticed he was cute and it was all downhill from there 2. his wife is hot. again, not sugarcoating it 3. hes funny as fuck 4. hes british. he has an accent. im gay 5. CROP TOPS 6. he has talent in the ring that captivates me like no other. the way he arches that back and moves those legs. again, i am Gay 7. hes also stupid as fuck (affectionate) 8. hes a nerd 9. he just keeps it real. like hes not above talking about things related to his life and career, he has opinions hes not afraid to share, if theres a thing he wants to talk about he will 10. hes also one of the nicest fuckers out there like. genuinely. he will stand up for other people. hes an ally. he goes out on his way to make sure others are good and comfortable. ive never seen him interact badly with a person who didnt deserve it (we talk like trolls or just assholes in general). he always takes and makes the time. hes just. so fucking wholesome

i could list so many more but lmao sorry

Gimmick ~ Your favorite and/or least favorite gimmick match? -OR- Favorite & least favorite gimmicks? i have a love/hate relationship with any and all gimmick matches so im opting out from answering that LOL buuuuut as for character gimmicks - its not a secret i love whatever the fuck orange cassidy is doing and has been doing for years now. his character is legit the reason i wanted to tune into aew since the beginning after all lol. another im gonna credit is monday night messiah seth rollins cause i was absolutely off the walls about him during the pandemic era. come back to my life you stupid crossfit jesus <3

as for least favorite gimmicks. i dont wanna say when a guy doesnt have a gimmick, but more like.. when a guys gimmick is "just some guy". like hes nothing but a shit brick house in speedos like. why should i care lmao. i usually dont hate gimmicks, some are extremely stupid sure, but i enjoy idiotic garbage so who am i to stay anything lmao

wrestling asks ~

#thank you for asking! <3 #thetimecrystal #you let me ramble about kip i hope youre happy LMAO #also no i didnt mention kip as my favorite gimmicks cause i have no idea what the fuck he is doing right now #boxman? TOP TIER S RANK LOVE HIM. whatever the.. sex idol is? im confused in aroace lmao #i still love him. just give him time to perfect some sort of a character right now tk im beGGING you #..anyways hi #wrestling musing

[humblemediagenius]

While I wait for my family to let me go visit my wife again, I remembered ss77 again. I need to revive them

#seaspeak #oc tag #IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT REDOING SOME OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS #leah just. wasn't compelling enough to me lmao I've barely thought about her #and I honestly kinda like apollo more as a main character #i need to rework Leah bc in theory she's a good character but she's soooo boring she has no gimmick #she's like just the token human character in a scifi story #i wanna make her be different #and I like apollo better anyway /lh #so I might make her and Apollo kinda switch places #everything else tho I think I have pretty set out #i love violet and tom they're so great and J and lantha #i actually made a design for lantha a few months back she's one of my favs #and J!!! she's one of my favs too #i have like3 more characters to design but then.. I can show ss77 off