#sandbox playing

[machidielontheway]

twinganes thought of the day (n°2) :

how long does it take Ryou to stop waking up from a nightmare, a dream, a memory, thinking he is Shiro ?

#machdraws #how disorientating it is to wake up and not remember where you are or what day it is #and i love the angst of characters waking up and forgetting their loved one is dead #until the harsh reality makes itself known again #how hard must it be to remember you're not even who you think you are ? #ryou in a daze or waking up or half asleep or wounded and confused #replying at the same time as shiro does #or 'what are you talking about ? i'm right there' when a pal speaking about talking to shiro when he'll be there #HMM !! #amnesia story where ryou forgot about ryou. and only remember about being shiro #oh good food. love me an amnesia story #epilogue would be a lot of 'damn you're really You and we missed You' #shiro losing his brother #actually epilogue would be angst too. how much work ryou did to be himself #and how quick it could be stripped away #sandbox playing #will be the tag i think #not sure yet if i'll separate it from machdraws #would make sense but i like seeing all things that came from me in one place

[magic-owl]

I don’t believe in gatekeeping at all but if you flat out admit to me that you’ve consumed little to ZERO of the canon media and have gotten all of your information based off of reading fluffy fic with woobified characters, I will not be taking ANY of your fandom opinions or meta seriously

#i will clarify: you’re more than allowed to have fun! write all the fic you want and play in the sandbox! #but do NOT ever act like you know what you’re talking about lol #‘canon is Wrong and i’ve only read fanfic so that makes me an expert on these characters uwu’ #STOP IT NO #one of my friends thought i shouldn’t kick the beehive #but i’m ready #owl blabs

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i lose 80% of respect for a movie the moment a female protagonist wakes up in bed with artfully tousled hair and a full face of unsmudged makeup what is that mcfuckery

#don't care how good the movie was up until that point #the director clearly has no meaningful grip on human reality #maybe i'll finish the movie but from this moment on i am watching a grown man playing with dolls in a sandbox #which is actually a bit insulting to kids as metaphors go #bc i've MET kids who have way more empathy for their dolls than this man apparently does to his female characters #who the FLIP gave this man a 50 million dollar budget. he has never met a woman

[fandom-hoard]

Obligatory reminder that Dick Grayson did not ever even consider sending Tim to Arkham

This is what he said-

He wanted Tim to talk to a therapist. One from Metropolis no less, so not even Arkham adjacent in any way.

And for more context here, these are the other things Dick said-

I’m not saying Tim was wholly in the wrong for not explaining himself or anything like that. And I understand that sometimes it’s fun to woobify Timbo a bit by writing fics and things were everyone was against him during this time and all of that. I get that.

But I also want everyone to know that Dick did not ever canonically do that.

Dick did not do everything right by any means, but he never wanted to send his little brother to Arkham. That is purely fanon.

#I’m not saying you can’t play in that sandbox! #you absolutely can #you do you #But at the same time #don’t count that as a strike against the character of Dick Grayson #because he never actually did that #batfam #batman #batfamily #dick grayson #tim drake #i speak #dc

[originalartblog]

concept: ADA!Chuuya, but All Men Are Equal gave him total control of his ability by stabilizing it and getting rid of his permanent singularity, so he reverted to his original power: enhancing others' abilities.

Bonus:

#for my jokes to work this ability needs to either be always active (like no longer human HA) #or for chuuya to not have full control over it (doesn't really follow all men are equal) #i also think there's a 50/50 chance fukuzawa's ability is made up but that won't stop me from playing in this sandbox #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd chuuya #bsd nakahara chuuya #ada!chuuya #ada!skk #armed detective agency #bsd dazai #skk #soukoku #bsd atsushi #bsd yosano #(looks at my collection of ada!chuuya: this bad boy can fit so many aus in him) #SPOILERS OOPS #bsd stormbringer spoilers #bsd storm bringer spoilers #nawy's comics #i have an alternate (less joke-y) vision for how chuuya would take it but it got angsty real quick and i didn't know how to end it #it might appear one day #we'll see #it liked the first part so i might use it on its own anyway #i mean kind of it's still unsure in the end

[fentoaster]

Ectoberhaunt Day 18: Unravel

Jack sat at his dining table, feeling pleased with his new invention. He scanned the room, waving around his prototype Fenton Ghoul-Glass, searching for spectral activity (albeit not expecting much.)

Danny walked into the kitchen, sending his dad a questioning glance. Jack beamed at him, launching right into an explanation.

As he pointed the glass to look at Danny, though, the words died in his throat.

For where his son should have been, stood the Phantom of Amity Park.

#unraveling secrets? get it? haha ok ill see myself out #danny phantom #ectoberhaunt23 #ectoberhaunt #eh science #day 18 unravel #danny fenton #danny #phantom #jack #for anyone wondering this concept was based on the lens of truth from ocarina of time/majoras mask #with a dp spin on it #my art #ALSO IF ANYONE WANTS TO USE THIS IDEA YOU HAVE FREE REIN TO DO SO #my fav thing about the dp fandom is everyone playing w each others ideas. such a fun sandbox

[batneko]

This one’s gonna be at least two parts!

[next]

yes I know Bowser saw Mr. L before but he never recognized him as Luigi so just go with it

#a lot of people have been doing Mr. L stuff #it's a good sandbox to play in #my art #bowuigi #luwser #mr. l #bowser #luigi #mario #super mario bros #bowser x luigi

[armoralor]

please know that anytime I see you complain about toxic sapphic ships I will make them even more toxic. I want them covered in each other's blood and snarling. I want them filled with rage and hate, seconds away from killing the other. Give me the most toxic fucked up women that make each other worse.

#wolfwren #sabine wren #shin hati #ahsoka #i love soft wholesome ships too so don't get me wrong #but fiction is a sandbox for us to play with complex emotions and relationships #it doesn't have to be watered down or sanitized #it's allowed to be fucked up #please grow up #star wars lesbians #sapphic star wars #star wars wlw

[explodingstarlight]

"who gave this child coffee?? WHO GAVE THIS CHILD COFFEE?!??" my reblogs cry

it was me, i'm not sorry >:)c

*taps microphone* yes, thank you for tuning in 😌✨ now go follow the creator of the Alpha Stage/de-aged!Donnie AU, @snailsnaps and consume their content (not literally /j)

#said with the most /lh of tone #but also no i will not repent 😌 #my extended family thought that giving coffee to my 6-year-old self was a good idea and now i can fight god /lh /j #look me in the eyes and tell me that you truly think you could keep a de-aged donnie away from coffee #im waiting 🤨 #all this to say tho- snailsnaps is the god of the de-aged donnie AU so only they can reveal his coffee consumption status #thank you for letting me play in this AU's sandbox :) #gremlin turtle tots with a sprinkle of angst hits just right #i just want to invite chaos is that such a crime guys??? 😩🖐️ /lh #oh! in case you don't have the brand: deathwish coffee is a brand of coffee with a very high caffeine content in the USA #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #turtle tot donnie #turtle tots #also works for de-aged donnie #i had him in mind while doodling #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt fanart #my art #explodingstar art #phone doodles #rise donnie #tmnt donatello #back on my #alphastage rise #BS /affectionate #de aged donnie

[fettiowi]

No offense but if youre shipping a sonic ship with the hopes of it becoming canon youre doing it wrong

#this is our little sandbox for us to play on #sonic

[chirpsythismorning]

S3 is underrated bc it comes off so meaningless the entire time, when in reality it’s the opposite. The jokes in particular were top notch and it’s because most of them went over everyone’s heads. Like, do people even know that they hinted at Robin being lesbian right at the start of s3???

#byler #stranger things #queer-coding #not Steve turning off Robin so much the entire city shuts down 😭 #peak comedy #s3 was so camp #like everyone thinks of it as filler #and it is #the duffers themsleves admitted s3 was them playing in the sandbox #but I think one pro to that #is they can hide really unhinged meanings beneath the surface #and get away with it! #like imagine having dozens of deeper references/meanings only for your audience to say it was boring and nothing happened??… #I would be chilling #knowing that when the story is complete with 5 parts #they’re gonna look back and go #holy shit #these bitches are gay!!

[machidielontheway]

twinganes thought of the day :

i like the headcanon of shiro’s face scar resulting from an injury and actually having daily impacts, and not just being a visual trait without grouding in the reality/physicality of the story. Making him snore when he didn’t before, difficulty breathing through the nose, habits changed so that breathing through his mouth is now the defaut, and how he feels when he can’t.

and now thinking of ryou and how his body is a copy of shiro’s, but not necessarily on all the details (ex : general hc that he doesn’t have the body scars shiro has, since we saw him wearing short-sleeved shirt), and that he could have the face scar but no anatomy modification because no actual injury.

does his implanted memories take the wheel and he follows shiro’s habits, does he explore his body once he knows he is ryou and is settled enough to take this time, does he want to do the discovery ? does he realizes here and there while living around shiro and being confronted to how the differences impacts him. Is he glad, in some ways, to have other ways to be not-shiro ? most important, does he meme “i’m built different”

#machdraws #twinganes as in shiro and ryou his clone not actual twinganes #i still think about this fic i prob read 5 years ago about shiro snoring and waking up the pals #it was great and i loved the concept and execution #3rd pov lite / input is awesome and it would be great here #like the pals being the ones seeing the difference #'you're so much quieter than shiro when you eat' 'what ?' #(i had to relearn that i can chew AND breath at the same time after not doing it for uh years i guess) #(and a few people have commentary'd in my life that i make noise when eating because between bites the intake of breath was sudden so heard #i've been contaminated long ago by 5+1 format so now i'm thinking about other stuff where they could be different #boss anytime i write about headcanons or story setting i feel like i should pay you royalties #i wanna try to do more of this #part of it is feeling engaging with fandom again but from my side to outside #like i don't care where it goes after but just the fact to make it go from silent inside me to written-born #i want to feel and be ! creative again and to have a trace of it #to get use to just putting small stuff out there as an habit #creation is always ! #sandbox playing

[helenedraws]

idk something about Call of Duty makes this splashy watercolor shit really attractive to do

#call of duty #cod mw2 #cod mwii #ghost cod #ghostsoap #my art #art on tumblr #call of duty modern warfare #call of duty fanart #i have not played the game and i will not play the game but i liked their banter so now i'm here #look i'm just playing in the sandbox #also i haven't done really watercolory watercolors in a long while and these things are fun #and painting skulls in watercolors are really a sort of special joy

[beaft]

i was talking to my mum about trans stuff in an attempt to pull her out of the terf hole (project ongoing), and during the conversation i asked her if she ever thought, when i was a child, that i would grow up to be trans. and without hesitation she said "no, i thought you were going to be a lesbian."

well, okay. i asked what age thinking she'd say like 11 or 12 and she was like "idk, maybe six" SIX??? i'm sorry but i am fascinated. what the hell was i doing at age six that made her look at me and think "oh there's no fucking way this kid's gonna be straight"

#was i like playing in the sandbox in a really dykey way or something #why was she so sure??? #be shh now

[motleyfam]

In the most non-judgmental way possible (because fandom is for fun and everyone is welcome to enjoy it whatever way suits them best), it really amuses me when people bookmark an ongoing fic series as “to read when complete” or something similar. Like, every individual fic within the series will be completed—it’s not a cliff hanger or anything!—but since the series itself is still actively updating, they’re holding out for that green check mark before they dive in.

Like maybe it’s the binge media consumption culture we live in or whatever, but it’s just so funny to me. Because when I get invested in a particular fic universe—whether as a reader or as the writer—I hope it never ends. I hope the author keeps on getting more ideas and expanding and growing and adding to that world that they created because it’s giving them so much joy they don’t ever want to stop. I hope we all get to play in that sandbox they created as long as possible because… what else was the point of making it?

An ongoing fic series just means that there’s still potential for more, and it always leaves me scratching my head how that could ever be taken as a bad thing.

#I get not reading an updating chaptered fic until it’s complete #because you don’t want to end on a cliff hanger or whatever #but when it’s a series? #when it’s a whole collection of individual fics in the same universe? #so many of those never get marked complete because the author’s having fun playing in the sandbox they created #and isn’t that that whole point?

[emry-stars-art]

Goofs and gaffs in the chat about mer Jean and Kevin seeing sunshine pirate/fisher/general beach enjoyer Jeremy and immediately deciding they need to somehow get his attention

#I wasnt gonna post ​this but then I decided #why not I post non-canon compliance all the time #and I am HERE for playing in the sandbox of these aus #this was like. a first draft of Kevin’s design #I have since changed it #but you saw that I think #rip Jeremy considering jean is still like 12 ft but that does include tentacles #twice Jeremy’s height #fan art #my art #aftg #all for the game #kevin day #jean moreau #kefin #squean #mer au #chibi #digital