#stumpy ask

[istumpysk]

The day the dudebros on ASOIAF reddit learn that half the posts they write on there are not 'theories' just headcanons they can use to plot out fanfic is the day I will know peace. Unironically I believe a lot of those people would be happier just reading and writing fanfic because they won't ever get what they want from Martin soooo.

I can't stand that shit. Nothing irritates me more than fanfiction masquerading as an evidence-based theory.

If your own words are compensating for the absence of textual evidence, your theory is bad.

#stumpy ask #anon

[atopvisenyashill]

why do you think jonsa is happening tho? jonerys is different bc they are going to be enemies, but i don’t see what jonsa does for the story

so let me first lay out roughly what i think is going to happen should jonsa become canon. I personally love going down meta and graphic spirals, so I'm including links to other people’s theories/explanations/graphics of events too - also I would like to shout out @istumpysk because half these metas and gifsets were stuff I found on their blog initially, and also was the one who really convinced me that jonsa is less of a crackship and more of a contender for an actual canon theory, and from there i really found my niche in this fandom. specifically this meta about jon being the mummer's dragon is what pulled me out of my "we're never getting twow and if we do it's just gonna be that stupid dany has jon's magical baby while tyrion watches, then they all die theory" slump and lit my brain on fire again. let's goooo:

The Ashford Tourney Theory - Something Shady goes down at the tourney Petyr has planned that requires Sansa to make a quick getaway, and likely causes her to run into Brienne while fleeing. This theory for me is about hinting at Sansa's romantic future, allies, and how she's getting the hell out of the Vale: both the dark haired, Not Targ Looking Targ Prince that is the son of A Great Prince That Never Was being her romantic endgame but also it's about Brienne (/Dunk) getting her the hell out of there and becoming Sansa's number one ally and protector (with Sansa's number two being Bronze Yohn!! But he's not fleeing with her - if he helps her get out of the Vale, it'll be to cause a distraction or a fight so Sansa can slip away unnoticed. Bronze Yohn is coming with the knights of the Vale later to help defend his girl!).

The Girl In Grey - Out of options on where to go, Sansa & Brienne makes a long, fast, and dangerous trek to the only family she knows is still alive: Jon Snow at the Wall. No, I don't think Alys Karstark is the girl in grey on a dying horse; I think she's a red herring, the same as the scene where Sweetrobin destroys the snow castle, and that the real girl in grey (who slays the savage giant) is Sansa. Melisandre says that she sees "Jon's sister" but doesn't specify more than that, or how she knows it's Jon's sister, even - why would she assume Alys is Jon's sister and not some random Northern girl? Why was she so sure that it was his sister? It's because Alys isn't the girl in grey, it's Sansa, her horse dying because she's traveled halfway across the continent with Brienne and Pod, desperately trying to keep ahead of the dozens of people hunting her down.

The Blood of Winterfell - Sansa and Jon will reclaim winterfell together. This one is similar to above; just like Alys was a red herring, the scene where Sansa rebuilds the castle has a lot of foreshadowing (imo) but that isn't the moment in the prophecy Arya hears. The Savage Giant is Littlefinger, the castle of snow is Winterfell, and Sansa is going to liberate her home alongside Jon and what's left of the Northern lords.

Stone and Snow Remains - THIS is where Sansa and Jon will fall in love while fighting for the North. This is also the part where you lose a lot of people, because they think the evidence is real weak sauce but like, I also think the Jonerys "evidence" is weak af too (and no wonder, we have at minimum 2k pages left to get through!!). There's several believed foreshadowing points to this one, bare with me for this weird ass formatting because I can't do sub bullet points on tumblr:

1. Sansa's linking of snow with love and affection - "drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks...She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams." along with her snow maiden and snow knight.

2. Bael the Bard and the Rose of Winterfell - the chapter where Sansa gets her period for the first time, Cersei refers to it as “flowering” a dozen times, linking being a maiden (a young girl, not quite of age or just barely of age) to flowers and several people refer to sex as ~plucking. Also notice the one who stole her from KL is Lord BAELish.

3. Aemon the Dragonknight & Queen Naerys - Sansa compares herself to Naerys, Joffrey to Aegon, and wishes for an Aemon, among the many similarities between her life and Naerys'. Jon not only calls himself Aemon, he has a deep connection with a different Aemon Targaryen. And if you’re thinking “Sansa isn’t Naerys, X is Naerys” I would remind you that Sansa as a character existed first, George purposefully had her compare herself to Naerys, and parallels don't belong to just one character.

4. Jenny of Oldstones and The Prince of Dragonflies - there's honestly a lot of parallels between them but like the Aemon/Naerys parallel, the Jenny/Duncan one stands out to me.

5. Janos Slynt - I mean. Iconic. This was the scene that made me first think about what their relationship could be in the future and there’s a reason Jonsas fixate on it. It’s about Sansa being desperate for a hero and the hero she dreamed about being Jon the whole time. 6. Societal Alienation - There's the bastard parallels here, the "it would be so sweet to see him again", the "Winterfell belongs to my sister, Sansa." It's about how Jon, through circumstances of his birth, finds himself alienated from the rest of society and reconnects with his prim and proper sister Sansa, who finds herself alienated from the rest of society as well but for vastly different reasons.

Robb’s Will - Howland is going to show up in the North, along with Maege and Galbert, with some WILD news about why Jon can’t rule Winterfell. There’s a lot of contention around this. Bran probably shows up around this time too, and Arya gets to the Riverlands to discover Lady Stoneheart and give her the gift of mercy. This is where all the inheritance stuff is going to happen and I have no idea how it's going to go down besides it's going to be messy as all fuck.

The Pact Of Ice And Fire - Jon & Sansa get secret married bc they’re in love, not siblings, & jon is the only man she trusts not to steal her claim. This isn't the only possible foreshadowing instance of a marriage either - some believe the Sandor/Sansa scene during the Battle of the Blackwater is foreshadowing as well (personally I feel that's a bit of a stretch but I wanted to include it anyway).

Jon As An Envoy - I talked about this in my "what's Jon's ending" a little but I believe Jon will act as an envoy for either Sansa or Bran to Aegon VI, essentially playing out a similar story that he does in the show with Daenerys. By which I mean, Jon is not the King because the ruler themselves do not go as an envoy, that’s stupid and dangerous, but he goes as an ambassador for Sansa or Bran, to treat with a new claimant to the Iron Throne that is gaining support - Aegon VI & Jon Connington. They will probably clash, Jon will probably have yet another identity crisis, there had BETTER be gay incest subtext, then Aegon dies, and Jon has his sixth quarter life crisis in a row.

“King” of the Gift - again, something I touched on in my Jon meta is that I think he’s going to have a hand in resettling the Gift. Personally, I think it's likely that Jon leaves to protect the claims of his siblings (see: Duncan and Jenny) and goes to the Gift to help resettle it to keep out of the way. This ending is typically referred to as the "bael the bard" ending but i like to think of it as the "brandon's gift" ending instead - though he is not physically with his family, Jon feels fulfilled having confirmed his family loves him through reclaiming Winterfell and marrying Sansa, being reunited with Arya, and being given the Gift by Bran. Sansa claims her children were fathered by a wolf.

So…what does all this do for the story?

Well, in my opinion, several things.

I think the main barrier here is that most people in the greater fandom describe Sansa's story as ~growing past childish wants~ and Jon's as ~rejecting love~ and I do not agree with either of those takes even a little bit. This is where (imo) the dividing line between Jonsas and the rest of the fandom is. I don’t think the answer to Sansa’s question “will anyone ever marry me for love” is going to be “nah" - that's not just a sad story to me (wanting to be married isn't childish! craving intimacy and understanding isn't childish! it's also not wrong for a child to be childish!), I think the idea that Sansa (or Jon) will not find another love just doesn't line up with how George approaches his story. Who Sansa's husband will be has been such a big question, and her story is so heavy into the more romantic tropes like courtly love and chivalry and the line between politics and love and identity, that the question of Sansa's hand in marriage will be plot relevant. I also think it's kinda naive of people to pretend like George isn't very interested in the sexual dynamics of the characters he writes about (yeah, sure, no woman needs a man but "needing a man" is not what this is about. look at everything this man wrote in F&B and tell me he is going to write a female character that longs for sex and desire and doesn't get it!).

After AGOT, nearly every time Sansa thinks about marriage involves her longing for love but believing she will never get it because a man will only ever love her for her claim. Giving her a man - like Jon - who not only will not steal her claim and in fact has defended it twice over already, who will love her for who she is and not what she can give him, is a really important aspect of her story in my opinion.

As for Jon, I am even more firmly against the opinion that his story is about rejecting love; Jon’s story is about wanting to be a good man, to measure up to his father ~despite~ his bastard blood. When Aemon asks if Ned would choose honor over love and Jon stubbornly says yes, Jon is wrong and it’s important to not forget that. Ned has never once in his entire life chosen honor over love; he chooses his daughter’s life over his honor, he chooses his sister & her son’s life over honor, he chooses Arya & Nymeria over honor, and on and on!!! Ned chooses love at almost turn but none of his children know that just yet - look at Robb choosing Jeyne’s honor over his own and how upset he is at the idea that Ned would be disappointed despite the fact that Ned would have understand Robb’s decision! Jon's whole arc is tied up in realizing that it is not wrong or dirty to feel and choose love, passion, and desire and if he never has another romantic arc again, I think you lose the second part of that lesson which is "you are responsible for how you act when you feel love but that doesn't mean that simply choosing love makes you a bad person."

There's also the fact that George has talked a lot about "who lives, who dies, who gets married" and yet we have not one marriage at the end of the show AND there's not a lot of guesses at what "who gets married" means besides Jon/erys (and even if Jonsa doesn't happen, I simply do not see Jon/erys happening. they are not similar enough, they will not be in the same space for long enough, and they are on wildlly different trajectories for their story, they are not getting married let alone having sex). I think Jonsa fits that bill very well.

These various theories - from Sansa being queen, Jon living in exile, The Ashford Tourney Theory, the secret marriage, every one of them - are ideas and themes that I have really been thinking about for about 12 years now. I think Jon and Sansa's relationship could fit with the themes in their stories, the overarching themes in the books, and my own personal opinions. I think it gives George a great opportunity to delve into the courtly love aspects he enjoys so much, as well as delve into inheritance, legacy, legitimacy, honor, incest (yes, that too), and above all, what George himself has said the whole series is about - love. The human heart in conflict with itself is what I think Jon and Sansa as a romantic couple does for the series.

#okay if i don't post this now it's going to continue to sit in my drafts while i make minor edits oh my god #anyways behold my jonsa manifesto with sources. i'm gonna go kms now bye #jonsa meta #jonsa #jon snow #actually jonsa #sansa stark #getting on my soap box #stone and snow remains #twow speculation #ados speculation #asks #anons #also stumpy's post being reblogged to asoiafuni just so people could dogpile her. is exactly why i stopped engaging with asoiaf fandom #after the show ended because it was just these obnoxious ass people dogpiling on fans with theories they didn't like over and over #annoying and not conducive to theory and analyzing!! #i hope i'm not missing some important meta here don't tell me if i am i'll die

[fablepatron]

half life request: crab of your choice

This is my best friend hevcrab zombie 👍

#my art #half life #digital art #fan art #fanart #ask #stumpy #thank youuuuu

[fried-trash]

MAN I LOVE GAY PEOPLE... 2!!!

#flint bonpyre #graham ness payser #firestarter #firesetter #pacesetter #ttcc #fried scribbles #toontown corporate clash #I just think they're neat. #giggling and doing little kickies because of them #Head full of too many Graham headcanons do not ask me about them #Far less for Flint sadly. I just think he has stumpy little horns under their helmet LOL

[softersynths]

Art request idea - Miru in this post

if i had a nickel for every time i drew a character in this pose. id have two nickels

#Thank you my lovely stumpy <3 #ask #swamppossum #miru #oc stuff

[bunnakit]

do you pay a lot of attention to the clothing in bl? do you have an especially beloved (or an especially beloathed 😈) outfit that a character has worn?

AHH ANON im so happy i woke up to an empty inbox and was so sad but now im kicking my gay little feet

uhh sometimes i do, if they're interesting! i'm incredibly susceptible to the pressure of my little shows and thankfully Ai Di and i have a very similar style of dressing (i too have a closet of cute jackets and cardigans) so i DID buy myself the 'Best' rainbow sweater this week as a little holiday gift to myself and if i bought a cute little velvet choker well, what can i say? i usually wear chokers anyway.

i also dress a lot like the Not Me boys, i love the grunge look and it reminds me a lot of my childhood. anything pastel, grunge, or just kinda quirky is my jam.

as for stuff i loathed? i adore tankhun and his confidence, but boy do i hate most of his outfits. like, they're funny, and quirky, and very him, but he's about the only person in the entire world who can wear them lmao.

also papang posted a picture today in these pants and i'm tearing them off of him and not even for sexy reasons, i'm just going to burn them

for a bonus, oat face reveal and today's color coordinated outfit below the read more (in case people wanna keep what i look like a mystery lmao)

#bunn asks #anon my beloved #papang phromphiriya #i love my caduceus clay cardigan very much #that eyebrow is stumpy bc i have a birthmark at the end of it #not me the series #kiseki: dear to me #kdtm #kiseki dear to me #kinnporsche #kpts

[stumpyjoepete]

Thinking about getting an air purifier. Given that half of my followers are huge nerds living in various wildfire-smoke-affected cities, it occurs to me that you might have opinions on this topic.

What should I get?

#stumpy asks

[hyperionwitch-art]

So I have to say that the texture on your art is just *chef's kiss* and I have to 100% ask what brushes you use cause whatever it is just makes me wanna chomp your art it's so good.

Thank you (and sorry for the VERY late reply)!!

So, when I was still using Photoshop, my main inking brush was Stumpy Pencil from here: https://stumpypencil.blogspot.com/2009/11/return-of-stumpy-pencil.html I use the Pencil: Stumpy 6 pt. for basically everything. :P

As for color and texture, I BELIEVE most of my brushes came from Charlie Bowater (free, here: https://charliebowater.gumroad.com/l/BoiJD) and Kyle T. Webster (uuuuh I'm not sure which set exactly anymore, though I've had good experience with everything I've used so a good ol' Google search should get you pointed in the right direction)! There are a few others as well, I think, but I've just been transferring all my brushes from install to install and I nnnnno longer recall from whom they came, I'm so sorry 😢Maybe Algenpfleger?

These days, I use Clip Studio primarily, so it's a different story--I've had to make a few myself (I had to recreate Stumpy Pencil, for instance, to my endless sorrow), and I'm not sssure how to share those or if I even can in a couple cases since I was grabbing old brush shapes, but I have gotten these brushes from the Clip Studio Assets, and I've messed around with most of these and liked them!

Hope that helps! 🖤

#ask #art advice #I'm always happy to share what knowledge I got! but also... #my knowledge sucks because I have long ago forgotten where I got my stuff lmao #to be completely honest #in an average flat-color-with-texture image I use like maybe 4 brushes #stumpy for the lines then a hair brush a sandy looking texture brush and maybe a big soft airbrush for some spots #the fur brush from clip studio is great for crunchy paint lines as well as fur and short hair #OH and a freckle brush #but I think I made that one myself in PS and Clip 'cuz it's just varying the size and scatter of your brush #and then for the few paintings I do I use some blocky rectangular painting brushes for most of the details #which are somewhere among the clip brushes but I can't remember which #gives the faintest whisper of leyendecker y'know #but having a ton of texturing brushes can be really helpful for niche situations! #even if you don't use them much it's fun to have a bunch around and then try them out when you hit a wall #hmm this fabric could look rougher #what do I have that could do that #or what could I go get and try out #that sorta thing #v experimental #lol this got ramble-y sorry

[smileyland-guardian]

What do the characters smell like? (Excluding Pretty because I hate her!)

UHHHHHH... My, that'z an odd one.

Well... Ztumpy doezn't zmell very... pleazant, Quack Quack zmellz like dairy, Mr. Zat zmellz like gunpowder, Eugly doezn't really have a scent, Pretty zmellz like really gaudy and overwhelming perfume, and Olaf zmellz like... ize?

Oh! The Rulez kinda zmellz like a tv zcreen... whatever that zmell iz.

#Kaeloo #anzwerz #rp #rp account #ask blog #stumpy #moignon #mr. chat #mr. cat #quack quack #coin coin #Eugly #Pretty #Olaf #the rules #La Règle du Jeu

[paterday]

👁👁

I am possibly making a small comic for one (1) single mildly funny joke

#dw about it smiles #ask #stumpy

[doom-dreaming]

🛼🕯️🍓🏜️

(describe your latest WIP in five emojis)

I had to screenshot this and email it to myself because . emojis are hard for the internet I guess?

(on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy editing? why?)

I'm gonna say I'm at a solid 6.5 on how much I enjoy editing. I don't hate it and I can actually really enjoy it, depending on what I'm working on. I like to see sentences get more coherent and I like to see dialogue get more natural and I like to be able to see the finished product (assuming it's a one-shot) and put more effort into making sure the structure works the way I want it to, BUT. at a 6.5 there is the ever-present risk that I will slide my way into an ambivalent 5 or even a loathing 4 if I've spent weeks trying to get the thing into the shape I want it to be.

(how did you get into writing fanfiction?)

So I don't think I've ever told anyone this, I can't remember. My first fanfic (at least the first one I remember writing) was for fucking. Finding Nemo. and it was about those damn sharks. Don't ask me what it was actually about plot-wise because I have no clue, I was like 8 years old. But at that point I figured out it was fun to write about other peoples' characters and I just...never stopped doing that. I did get a lot better at it though.

(what's your favorite type of comment to receive on your work?)

I mean. anything that's appreciative and not pushy or toned weirdly and all that jazz; the basics. But specifically, I really like hearing that I've done a good job with character voice and/or with making things look/sound natural. I struggle frequently with whether or not I'm making characters sound too much like me, and sometimes get stuck trying to describe actions or dialogue in a way that doesn't feel scripted or forced, so it's always nice to hear that I've accomplished those things.

#thank you stumpy. i love saying embarrassing things on the internet #don't take those emojis at face value btw #well. some of them #asked and answered

[istumpysk]

So new ish to the tumblr side of ASOIAF, why do you hate Dany so much?

I mean no disrespect anon, but I always laugh when someone asks me why I don't like the villain-coded character.

Anyway, why do I hate Daenerys? Let's see,

Her aspirations, and intentions

That whole oppression thing she's got going on

Her abuse of power

The human rights violations

The exploitation of the slaves she "freed"

The incompetence

The hypocrisy

Her family, and the admiration she demonstrates towards them

The Daenerys Targaryen propaganda machine, happening in-universe and out

Her constantly speaking in a manner that appears to be harmless, gentle, and naive, in order to intentionally hide her true nature

The casual violence and cruelty

Her xenophobic behavior towards her subjects who dare to express any form of dissent or disapproval

The pathetic fawning over despicable men, while knowing they're despicable men

Her entire retinue (not including the slaves she's enslaved)

Annoying, grating

Her destructive reptilian companions, and her unwavering affection and devotion towards them

Kind of an idiot

Hates trees

I could probably keep going.

Edit: "Then how come you like Cersei?"

Because she unapologetically owns it.

#stumpy ask #anon #anti daenerys

[fablepatron]

tell us the halo origin story

Hi stumpy thank you stumpy.

ALRIGHT. so. Back in like… 2020, maybe late 2019? I saw this clip on tumblr

Thought it was absolutely hilarious, but other than that didn’t think much on it. But then I kept seeing it. Over and over. And eventually I went okay. Let’s see what this is about.

And That’s How Hlvrai Got Me.

Hlvrai leads me into half life. I was vaguely aware of the games cuz I liked portal. But had never played them. Played through them, became a little obsessed. Nothing insane tho.

I follow a handful of half life blogs including one “Stumpy” @poisonheadcrabsalesman. You may know them. Said blog gets into halo, and at some point I see some posts about rvb. Specifically about how hard it is to draw the characters. For Some Fucking Reason I assumed it was about mecha, so I decide to watch it. It’s not mecha btw. I still don’t know why I thought that.

And that’s how rvb got me.

After I wanna say like a year? Of being insane about rvb, I start poking around halo. Cuz halo is just deep cut rvb lore. Start poking about making an oc. Said oc is the same colour as Roland. I call her yellow.

I call Roland orange.

Stumpy points this out and I, absolutely committed to the bit make this comic, which I end up watching some spops to make. Cuz Yknow. Research. They then later commission me to colour said comic, which causes me to start talking about halo more.

And that’s how halo got me.

#ask #stumpy #so technically. it’s all bubby of Hlvrai fames fault

[infinityactual]

I have to tell you "the soft, fatty meat and fragile living mineral of his own head offered minimal resistance" has not left my mind since you posted the ai lasky fic and well. i was inspired

Been thinking on how to respond to this but all I got is a keysmash followed by a statement about how much that means to me.

I like to be descriptive but also include context in a 'a person would definitely think like that' way, because the way our masses of warm electric bacon process experiences doesn't always 'match' what we assume the reaction would be.

#i am glad u enjoyed my take on how one would analyze their own death #stumpy tag #asks

[dawnleaf37]

UWOAAAHSGH THING…….

th tall other mushroom is amanita by mutual @decompose1 lore under cut :)

Stumpy was a 6 year old who was raised in a small but quite religious town. He was born with psychic powers and often used them to tell the future. Unfortunately due to his age, not many people believed his predictions. He ran away from his town when nuclear disaster hit, devastating the area. Stumpy returned to see if anyone had survived, only to be attacked and taken over by a colony of genetically mutated fungi. The fight of the colony strained Stumpy’s psychic powers so much that they developed into dangerously strong telekinesis. The colony learned to speak and walk through Stumpy’s body, and sustained it so that it wouldn’t rot. Stumpy himself was already drained of life, but his willpower and psychic abilities overrided the colony, allowing himself to still somewhat control his own empty shell. However, the infection had corrupted the innocent child’s consciousness nearly entirely, which caused his controlling disposition to become quiet but unpredictably violent. Hyphae does enjoy the company of other mushrooms though, and will (probably) calm itself if told to do so.

Hyphae’s telekinesis is often performed without much effort or warning, without even a signature flash of eye or raise of hand. It likes hearing the sounds of things cracking by its ability, which has ranged from glass windows to bones. Despite being able to fly with this ability, zhe dislikes doing so. Upon being infected, Stumpy’s mouth was sealed almost completely shut. Now, Hyphae is required to split its mouth open again to eat (which as you can probably imagine is quite painful). Hyphae’s singular red eye does not change expression, and its second eye is actually false. It’s a patch of mold fashioned to portray a somewhat normal looking eye.

#stumpy used he/him but hyphae now goes by it/zhe 🎉 #hyphae #UH. ASK T TAG MUSHROOMS MOLD BODY HORROR STUFF EHEH. #IM SORRY PETRA IM NOT GOOD AT DRAWING AMANITA </3 #art

[thecrusadercomrade]

Since it went well for the major players of Amphibia, let's try with which tracks from Owl House would the heroic supporting players on Amphibia be in with Wally, Loggle, Mrs. Croaker, Ivy, Maddie, Felicia, Stumpy, Toadstool, Toadie, Olivia, and Yunan?

Wally: bard coven since he plays the accordion.

Loggle: construction coven specializing in statues and in the use of wood.

Mrs. Croaker: Not sure. Maybe beast coven because of her spider, Archie?

Ivy: no idea. I’ll go with abominations since she’d probably like using them to beat things up.

Maddie: potions coven, for obvious reasons.

Felicia: maybe healing or oracle coven? Don’t really know.

Stumpy: healing coven so he can try to replace his hand.

Toadstool: whatever would help him make tons of money. Maybe plant coven so he could grow tomatoes and sell them for a massive, risk-free profit.

Toadie: healing coven. I think he’d enjoy it.

Olivia: plant coven, since apparently her family is all about taking care of the land.

Yunnan: construction coven so she could build monuments to how amazing she is.

#ask #amphibia #ivy sundew #maddie flour #amphibia loggle #amphiba mrs. croaker #amphibia stumpy #mayor toadstool #amphibia toadie #amphibia felicia sundew #lady olivia #general yunnan #amphibia wally