#that giraffes exist

[random-kazakh-stuff]

There are singing dunes in Kazakhstan. To be more precise there is one dune which is called "Aigaiqūm"(literally singing sand from Kazakh). The dunes are located in national park Altyn-Emel, Zhetysu province/oblast.

You can listen to the song here.

The nature of this sound isn't known for certain but it seems to be a combination of shape, size, consistency of sand(it has to be round and of a very similar size) and humidity (the sand does not always sing).

Obviously the dunes in Kazakhstan are not the only ones but there seems to be about 30 in the whole world. They seem to emit the sound of different frequencies.

And isn't this song beautiful?

#the thing is #as you mayure and become older you seem to forget how beautiful and wonderful #the world around you is #kazakhstan #Kazakhstan nature #nature #music #? #sometimes you just got to remember how fascinated you were when you found out #that giraffes exist #Youtube

[grubbylilgoblin]

Ive traveled oh so very far oh yes

The speed of light is the best

#steam powered giraffe #art #The astronaut #I'm not sure why the bottom blue streaks didn't show up on the black bg..... #Not super super happy with it but I'm glad it exists :0]

[internetgiraffekid1673]

ThePandaRedd Appreciation Post: Bill and Ted

This is me screaming into the void that I think my two favorite characters in the comic scene are Ted and Bill from the Pandaverse (the comics universe created by ThePandaRedd's tiktok skits). I freaking love these two because they are hilarious and I gotta say it somewhere.

Consider this a ThePandaRedd appreciation post.

Bill is a very long running Pandaverse character and is a professional henchman in Gotham City. He has been henching long enough to see the formation of the goonion, have batman steal so many of his bones that they're kept ground up in a jar, see the rise and graduation of every robin, batgirl, or other, and become so tired that he can backtalk his most consistent employer---the Joker.

Bill is a jaded henchman, mostly in the job because it's the easiest way to get money in Gotham, and because he's kinda in too deep to quit now. He's one of the best advertisers the goonion has, strongly discourages other people from henching in Gotham, and has so many residual medical issues from getting brutally beaten up by the batfam that he just doesn't care anymore. While he is regularly employed by the Joker, he has also been seen working for the likes of Penguin, Black Mask, and Bane, presumably when the Joker is in Arkham. Most other characters treat him with some instinctive respect for having stayed in the Gotham henching game this long, and he could absolutely go toe to toe with Superman if not just easily secure some Kryptonite and whoop his ass. Fortunately for Superman, Bill sticks to the Gotham scene.

Ted, meanwhile, is a relatively new character, and he has recently moved to Gotham from Coast City (where the Green Lantern lives). Suffice it to say, he is not aware of all of Gotham's idiosyncrasies and is still learning the wheel. If Bill the henchman is to be believed, Ted dropped out of the high school they both attended and may or may not have moved to Gotham for ease of employment.

One of his first appearances was when he'd just joined the GCPD and was trying to covertly get some info on the villain scene by asking Bill about how to start a career in henching. While Bill did not discover that Ted was working for the GCPD, he also gave away pretty much no valuable information since he instead launched into a rant about why anybody would be so suicidal as to try to START henching in Gotham City. His most recent appearance has him presumably out of a job again and noting some of his findings about Gotham as a Coast City Transplant (batburger's overrated, gang territories are gerrymandered, Robins are scarier than Batman, you'll be gifted with a water filter a gas mask and a gun upon moving houses if you send advance notice, etc.)

So, why are these two gag characters from a comic book tik-tok creator my favorite comic book/comic adjacent characters? Because they do exactly what they are designed to and narrow in on the every day.

Comic Books are a sci-fi/fantasy genre that focus on impossible stuff happening, frequently at a pretty grand scale. And while it is super cool to read or hear about stuff like Batman and his adoption problem or Superman being a basically god while still being the most human ray of sunshine ever, that's not even close to my favorite stuff.

No, my favorite type of media to consume is the kind where we get a peek into the everyday of someone in a vastly different circumstance from ours, and feel just how normal they are. I find a lot of comfort and humor in recognizing that even in very unfamiliar circumstances, there will still be simple, everyday things that persist.

Bill might be a goon in a city with some of the most insane and terrifying vigilantes ever, working for some of the most insane and terrifying villains ever, and the city is explicitly a commentary on the general shittiness of urban environments like New York, but that's not what he cares about most of the time. Instead he's busy explaining why you shouldn't smoke to his fellow goons, or dealing with the fact that his employer won't keep a reliable schedule, or having a crisis that he regularly has to run away from a 12 year old dressed like a traffic light or else die trying, or trying to convince people to mask up during quarantine, or promoting that fellow goons "do bad shit safely." And I like to think that if I somehow ended up as an evil goon in someplace as nonsensical and dramatic as Gotham City, I might respond similar to Bill after a while. And that level of normalcy and sanity persisting in such a fantastical environment is both very funny and very comforting. Human nature will persist.

Ted is similar. Everybody who has experienced moving cities knows that it can be disorienting and confusing and even a little scary as you try to figure out how things work, but you'll figure it out regardless and probably have a fun(ish) time doing so. Ted shows that the same principle applies even when those differences get cranked up to 11 and include superpowered and/or impossibly determined and crazy people. He makes my own experience moving cities where I joke and complain about the differences feel validated and it's just so funny to see someone react so normally to such an abnormal situation.

Ted's experience is something that can actually he applied to my own life, like when I learned about Rural vs. Urban stupid zoning laws or trying fry sauce after moving to the mountain west and having to defend my stance that it is an abomination. So seeing someone like yourself doing the EXACT same thing in such an insane circumstance both strikes a chord of truth and makes me laugh myself to the floor.

I also really appreciate that the PandaVerse in general has connected lore for what is basically a gag series used to affectionately parody comics. Something about people actually caring about their jokes enough to make connected lore makes me so so happy.

So thank you ThePandaRedd for creating Ted and Bill, continuing along with them, and making me smile.

Seriously, all this was to say that ThePandaRedd is cool, you should go watch his stuff, and that Bill and Ted are hilarious.

#thepandaredd #bill the professional henchman #thepandaredd bill the henchman #ted the coast city transplant #thepandaredd ted #pandaverse comics #comics? #appreciation post #go watch thepandaredd's stuff #gotham city is insane #gotham city #fan appreciation explanation #idk what I'm doing #i wrote this while sick #idk how to use tumblr #average day in gotham city #average people in fantastic world #fry sauce is disgusting #SRSLY #WHY DOES IT EXIST #I moved a lot sue me #giraffe's ramblings

[saym0-0]

smooth spine means a lot to me

#he has a very special place in my heart #also i love sm the fact that busking era spine and rabbit both have prefixes so we know when we're talking about #smooth spine #and vintage/pants rabbit #obviously they both have individual reasons for existing #(transition and. smooth) #but i just think its a lil silly #spg #the spine spg #saymbles #steam powered giraffe

[brooklynisher]

My Little Pony My Little Pony aaaaaaaaaa

Robot design by @grubbylilgoblin (Under the cut)

Pony design by me!!! Pony designs are surprisingly easy and fun to do wowee

[x]

#bald pony #I was inspired by that gala post and ur response so that's why this exists #maybe you could've guessed #maybe not #who am I to say #did the princess build bc it matched their skinny and tall physique the best #but I decided against making them an alicorn bc how would that even work #if we did that. then all the robo alicorns and pegasi are getting sent to the rainbow factory /ref #steam powered giraffe #spg #my stuff #art #spg fanart #spg fanbot #tenrec spg #tenrec #grubbylilgoblin #mlp #my little pony

[bonesybonez]

Happy SPG concert day to all that are going (I need everybit of Zer0 moment told)

#steam powered giraffe #spg #east coast baddie over here (may have to wait until 2025ish for them to pop over here) #thank you to Rex who’s going and is going to tell Zer0 my words of adoration so he knows I exist #you’re a real one <3

[rockethorse]

Should I be allowed to include Sims 2 Store/preorder/exchange content in Calcinidae Bay

There are several reasons why I'm keeping Calcinidae Bay CC-free but first and foremost it's to see "how far can I get with only TS2 Maxis content?" and so there's always this nagging voice in the back of my head saying "but this is TS2 Maxis content".

Lots that I share will remain CC-free, and I'm not including Stories conversions. Only things made by EA, for TS2.

#I keep writing up really long nerdy posts that are only relevant to me about the pros/cons for it #but most people play with this content already bc it's included in the modern installer #and if I'm already keeping it in my game forever bc it's Maxis stuff I feel like I should try and get the most use out of it #because otherwise I'm keeping stuff in my DL folder just for one or two uses. Or to never be used at all #which is the exact opposite reason of why I have this low-CC rule in the first place (to avoid CC creep + bloat) #plus a lot of these objects are either made to complement existing stuff or to fill needs that aren't met by the game content #so it just feels silly! to feel like there's a missing piece and to see it RIGHT THERE in my catalogue but not be allowed to use it!! #and half the lots I make in Calcinidae Bay aren't for anyone but myself in the first place #but there is this persistent voice that keeps saying 'but then it's not CC-free. and then what's the point' #well the point is to try and stretch the limits of The Sims 2!! And I feel like this bonus content is included in that definition!! #It does feel a little silly to be using tools like the Lot Adjuster and Shiftable Everything and SimPE #to make stuff that the average Sims 2 player back then would either not have known how to use or wouldn't have had access to #but then I'm like 'A giraffe plush that players got in the early 2000s for free with their physical CD? verboten'

[owlhari]

doodlin' bots (and humans) (and eldritch creatures) (and qwerty) without looking up any references because i was Lazy

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#steam powered giraffe #spg #the spine spg #upgrade spg #wanda becile #wanda walter #norman becile #qwerty spg #walter worker #spg fanbot #dante multo #the conductor #rabbit spg #spg eldritch au #thats it i think. #art #sketch #i will be back with polished art this week i promise #i want to draw so bad but Life exists

[yuridotcom]

i think ppl should start writing/drawing robin way taller then she actually is. let her be a giant

#and you know what. make nancy shorter while you're at it #make ronance look like one of those size difference couples in a yaoi /j #5'11 robin and 5'1 nancy. listen. #if st3ddies can exaggerate their ship's barely existent height difference then so can i!! #ive posted about making robin taller before but i just need it like. make her a giraffe #late night thoughts man idek #ronance #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #stranger things #mia yaps

[deepdreamnights]

Machine Giraffes

Turns out the Giraffe is nature's perfect killing machine, they're just being polite. We've solved that problem.

Prompt: a close up of a toy giraffe on a white background, concept art, by Brian Thomas, trending on polycount, bee, transformers war for cybertron, mech shaped like a snake, grey-white armor with chrome green accents, official illustration, saws, reverse, mattel, mimic, official product photo, vehicle, lit from the side, bull, hd illustration

#mecha #robot animal #giraffe #midjourney v4 #midjourney art #midjourney #toyetic #this toy does not exist #robot #unreality

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

How do we know god isnt a giraffe

#if I was god Id be a giraffe #like if they did exist #why do we assume theyd appear human

[h0dgep0dgee]

y'all i have both a confession to make and a bone to pick.

i just listened to both of the vice quadrant albums all the way through for the first time. (in my defense, the plot aspect was Threatening)

who was going to inform me of the absolute DELIGHT that is whale song. quite possibly the most adorable song i have ever heard in my life

#'thank you:D we love you too:D' excuse me while i s o b #listen i know we go Buck Wild over sad rabbit in this fandom. but. i raise you Happy Rabbit. #i feel like she would hop around like a happy rabbit the Creetur #idk if that headcanon already exists but its there now #rabbit does the lil binky dance #source: look into your heart #hodgepodge's ramblings #steam powered giraffe

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Who's your fave oc at the moment?? Tell me about them!

Hoo boy, here we go. Get ready for BACKSTORY!

The short answer is a pair of girls named CJ and Ren otherwise known as Cleric and Watchdog who are college students in a universe with superheroes and started freelancing for those superheroes as a way to make some extra cash. Have a picture of both their regular identities and their alter egos. Designs are still being workshopped. Also, I've been experimenting with different pens on my drawing app, so the artstyle'a a bit all over the place. I'm also bad at character proportions, but their heights are closest to correct in the alter ego picture.

The long answer? Is long. So I'll put it below a cut. :)

So, I have OCs for specific fandoms, but my current favorite OCs aren't actually attached to anything. They just live in a generic superhero verse that could honestly be anything from DC to Powerpuff girls. It wouldn't change much, but I do have some light worldbuilding around the city they live in.

Chorustown is your pretty par for the course comic book city with superheroes and supervillains and a new upstart team of anti-heroes that are basically violent robin hood (steal from the rich, give to the poor). Suffice it to say that whenever all these factions fight each other, it breaks shit, so renter's insurance ain't cheap. Also, suffice it to say that the heroes involved are constantly getting injured, as well as needing information on the ever-shifting threats.

Enter our protagonists: Serenity "Ren" Summers and Cory "CJ" Jack are a pair of college students with a lot of skills and not a lot of money, who are willing to do some questionable shit for income! Also, they're childhood besties turned girlfriends.

During their sophomore year, CJ and Ren realized that while nobody in the civilian sphere would be willing to hire undergrads and actually PAY them, superheroes must have much more limited options, what with the need to keep their identities secret and not have people ask questions. This is also a 'verse where superheroes aren't on great terms with regular law enforcement, so getting caught doing something illegal, even if it helps a lot of people, is a very real threat. It leaves superheroes without a whole lot of options when they need an expert for something in their superhero work. And CJ and Ren both happen to be notable experts.

Ren is an engineering major with a split focus in software and mechanical engineering, as well as some dabbling into social engineering. She's got tech chops and computer knowledge out the wazoo. She's also lived in Chorustown her whole life and knows the city like the back of her hand. Throw in the fact that she's an avid artist who spent (and still does spend) a lot of time sneaking around to make graffiti murals, and you have someone who is basically a surveillance GOD. She can hack anything she wants, follow people around without them ever noticing, and she's capable of designing tech like trackers and bugs (and posseses the skill to plant those). Ren is also a habitually nosy person who has always kept track of significant going ons, for superheroes and villains, major political players, celebrities, and her personal life. She is so uniquely qualified to gather information on people that it isn't even funny. And it goes both ways. She can help someone hide from surveillance just as easily as she can snoop out a hider because she knows exactly where nobody will look.

CJ is a very, very talented med student. She's been into medicine and biology her whole life, with a particular interest in the physiological differences between superheroes and regular people. This includes aliens, animal based powers, meta-humans, mutants---you name it, and she's probably hyperfixated on its biology for at least a month and retained that information. This means she's also dabbled in a lot of other weird disciplines like vet med and astrobiology (which would absolutely be a scientific discipline in a universe where aliens invade on a monthly basis). Add in her medical skills and her technologically inclined girlfriend, and she's got the skills and the tools to treat anything from a bloody nose to a broken appendage to a physiologically based power defect to a species specific disease for just about anybody.

The two of them decided that if they can't get stable income like normal people, they'll get it from superheroes, who will be forced to come to them because there are no other options! But obviously, they can't just publicly be helping out superheroes. That puts soooo many targets on their backs. They'd have villains, law enforcement, and even other superheroes after them (CJ and Ren don't really make a distinction between heroes and anti-heroes; as long as you're helping people, they're chill with you. That would make the more self-righteous folks of both categories pretty pissed to know that their confidants were helping people on the other side of the debate). So they'll need alter egos, and they'll need to be secretive about their base of operations.

And thus, Watchdog and Cleric were born! But the thing is, these two are REALLY paranoid about getting caught because they don't have supet powers to protect themselves from villains or even social power to protect themselves from the legal system. Remember, these two are broke undergrads who lowkey stole all their equipment from their university (it's technically all available for student use, but not in the quantities or for the purposes they use it for).

So they have a lot of fun measures in place. First off, you probably noticed, but their costumes cover their whole bodies and faces and are loose enough on their frames that you can't really tell anything about their body types beyond their height. Secondly, they're both utilizing voice filters that both pitch their voices low enough to sound like dudes and make them sound somewhat robotic so their tone doesn't come through. The settings on the filter can be adjusted as needed (CJ can turn off the tone modulator if she needs to sound soothing, or Ren can change the pitch if she needs to sound a specific age or gender as a distraction). So nobody knows what they look like or what they sound like, and most people assume they're men. Thirdly, Ren has designed some gadgets that disable trackers or bugs planted on their person. Nobody can follow them either.

Their biggest security measure, though, was how they revealed themselves to the super community. Instead of some big announcement, they just stalked the local Chorustown superheroes until opportunity arose. For Ren, it even functioned as advertising her skills since she's basically selling her stalking capability.

In the first fight that a hero got badly injured, CJ basically popped out of the woodwork in her Cleric getup, dragged them into a safe and hidden spot, delivered immediate and effective field first aid, and left the coordinates of an abandoned apartment complex that they've turned into her clinic, as well as a short letter offering her services.

Ren literally listened in on the resident supers conversations until they expressed frustration at not having a particular piece of information, at which point she helpfully left them an anonymous tip as well as a burner phone number, a ghost email account, and some coords if they ever needed info again. Both instances were basically a free trial, since their letters of introduction also specified that payment in some form would be required for later assistance.

Also, because Ren is a damn good stalker and because CJ will have personally treated many heroes wounds and logged their identifying physical and medical traits, it doesn't take them long before they put together, like, everybody's secret identities. Heroes and villains. With a couple of exceptions on the villainous side, since they don't directly interact with them. But there's basically no hiding from them.

Most people also don't know they exist! Other heroes that the Chorustown protectors interact with do question where they're getting treated for injuries after really big fights, and villains know that SOMEONE keeps giving heroes information that foils their plans, but they don't really come to the conclusion that it's an independent party. They always make incorrect assumptions. Like "Oh, they must have a family member or non-combat teammate that fixes them up after fights!" or "Oh, clearly we have a mole who's being bribed or threatened," or "The Chorustown heroes have more powers than they're letting on." Outside heroes only really learn of these two when the Chorustown regulars talk about them, and only really believe it when Ren and CJ see fit to contact them for whatever reason. It's honestly hilarious.

Everybody who has been contacted by CJ and Ren knows where Watchdog's dropspots are and where Cleric's clinic is, but have no idea what they do otherwise. The clinic and the dropspots are nowhere near the university or where their apartment, so people have no reason to assume it's them. They have ghost emails and burner phones, but they're regularly replaced, and Ren is good at cybersecurity, so there's no tracking it that way.

Most people guess that they're associated in some way, since two freelance vigilantes appearing at similar times operating out of the same city with similar technology would be a bit weird otherwise, but it's also assumed to be strictly professional. Nobody would ever guess that they know each other in their civilian lives, much less that they're girlfriends.

People also realize Watchdog and Cleric know their secret identities (and probably other secret stuff, too) since they've been contacted as civilians, but they also aren't overly threatened by it. The two of them are clearly working for money, but they aren't selling any of the heroes' secrets and are honestly very trustworthy and confidential about it. There was paranoia for the first little bit, but it quickly just became a fact of life.

That's pretty much the whole backstory unless you want to know

Other interesting things about them that don't have a whole lot to do with their whole second job shtick!

Ren:

Ren loves art in all forms, but especially painting. She'll paint on anything she can get her hands on. Her notes, random walls and floors, parts of the school, and any of her possessions. The skirt pictured in her drawing is her own handiwork, and most of her other articles of clothing look similar. Most of their dishes have been custom painted with food safe paint. And as previously mentioned, she's a vandal who puts gorgeous murals and fun zany tags in places that they really shouldn't be.

She's rather anti-social. Ren is aggressively introverted and doesn't have a whole lot of patience for stupid people. She's got a pretty quick temper on her and can be very moody. She recognizes that all traits make her just as unpleasant for other people to be around her as it is for her to be around other people. So she mostly just avoids others. She has like 5 people in her social circle, and she's happy to mooch off CJ if she needs anybody else.

Ren has a lovely voice but has no technical knowledge of music. She just likes to sing.

Ren's a major bookworm, but she mostly reads on her phone. People think she's addicted to social media, but she's usually just reading a book. And she'll read literally anything. With enthusiasm. Sure she can argue classics with the best of them, but she reads so much that she also: can get deep into the mechanics of a 1980s space opera you've never heard of; happily engages in ship wars over the generic YA dystopia that's a disguise for a generic YA love triangle; keeps a running list of every perfectly mapped out hero's journey fantasy story she's read; has consumed an entire encyclopedia and REMEMBERS it; spent one memorable week reading nothing but foreign cookbooks; accidentally befriended her computer science professor over a shared love for tragic westerns; and has a categorized list of historical romances with metrics including historical accuracy, how smutty it is, plot outside the romance, time period, location, and social class of the characters, how healthy the romance is, and how compelling.

Her favorite snacks are plain baby carrots and straight honey. She enjoys traumatizing people at parties by drizzling honey straight into her mouth like whipped cream, and she eats so many carrots that multiple have questioned how she hasn't turned orange.

CJ:

CJ is into fashion, but not like trends or anything. She likes to look good while still having her stuff ethically sourced and affordable. She does a lot of thrift shopping and still manages to dress really good (or at least I think so). Her default and favorite style is punk-inspired bad bitch that, for lack of a better term, is a bit on the slutty side, but she does like to experiment. One of these days I'll probably draw lots of different civilian outfits for both of them.

CJ is the opposite of Ren in that she is a total social butterfly. Not only is she suuuuuper extroverted, she also isn't even a little shy, will strike up a conversation with anybody, and knows basically everyone. This also means she has friends from all walks of life, which gets really useful when Watchdog needs informants. The little old Mexican lady next door, the corner store butcher, the chronic smoker at the homeless shelter, the thrift shop owner they both pretend isn't selling drugs, the local town council member, the perpetually sleep deprived culinary arts student who likes to "experiment" in the school kitchens at 3 a.m., the league of legends nerds who always seem to be online, the manic party girls who keep inviting her to a night on the town---all of them get more information than people would expect, and CJ knows and is on good terms with all of them. And not for an ulterior motive, she just genuinely likes people.

CJ has extreme ADHD. She's lucky Ren has a scary good memory and would never let her forget her Adderall, otherwise she's be in trouble. As it stands, she still is rather hyperactive and has a. . .not short, but definitely jumpy attention span.

She's a plant mom. Their apartment has a ton of plants. She really likes ferns and shrubs, but they also have flowers, succulents, grasses, and literally everything else.

CJ plays the violin, but only in fiddle, bluegrass, and trad contexts, so she can barely read sheet music and learns almost everything by ear.

She hates wearing the color purple but has deliberately bought purple clothing solely for Ren to steal.

Both

Are self-proclaimed socialists who participate in a lot of fundraising, activism, and volunteer work.

Have another childhood best friend named Eli, who is a self-proclaimed anarchist and a business major at their rival university. They still get together all the time. He also knows everything about their double life. There's no secrets in this circle. They're all super close, but they have their favorite ways of hanging out. He and Ren bond by going on vandalism field trips where he puts up politically motivated rants, and she makes it look pretty. He and CJ bond by regularly forsaking civilization and going hiking or camping or just chilling in the woods. They all bond by drinking cheap wine mixed with Dr. Pepper while playing video games and doing their homework and drunkenly going on tirades about rich assholes.

He's also shipped them since middle school when he realized they liked each other, but he didn't want to meddle. He got increasingly frustrated by the mutual pining throughout their high school years and finally engineered a situation at their graduation party where they were locked in a closet together for an hour and warned them that if they didn't confess he was going to drug them and write it in permanent marker on their foreheads. They literally came out of the closet after sharing their first kiss and are willing to kill God for him in thanks.

They're both really messy, but in an organized chaos kind of way. Everything in their home does have a place, it's just not always the place that you'd expect. The place for dirty socks, for example, is "on the living room floor in a haphazard pile," and the place for tissue boxes is "three in every room in easily accessible places at all times."

Both of them can cook but prefer to just eat whatever unprepared food is lying around, and will try any combination if it means they don't have to cook. An average dinner in the Jack-Summers household is a bowl of uncooked pasta dipped in peanut butter like it's nacho cheese with a side of bananas.

They really really like cats. They are both allergic to cats.

They're not practicing any religion, but kind of both passively believe that there's probably a capital-G God and also that other lowercase-g gods exist.

#this got long #thank you so much for giving me an excuse to go on and on about my little lesbian babies #original superhero characters #there is also a greater story involving these two and the city of chorustown #but it only exists as a half formed idea in my head and many of the major characters don't even have names yet #I might make a post about it later if I flesh it out more #i do have a favorite child #it's these two #ocs #my ocs #oc artwork #oc art #oc backstory #original character #superheroes #but also not really #vigilantes #broke college students #digital art #lesbians #not disaster lesbians #these lesbians get shit done #Cory Jack #Serenity Summers #Cleric #Watchdog #Chorustown #my art #giraffe's ramblings

[eldritchpluto]

5, 20, 27 for the music ask game?

hehe music ask i love this. Ok, ramble time!!

5. A song that needs to be played LOUD- Bodys by Car Seat Headrest

wow Static talking about CSH again, how original. BUT SERIOUSLY I ADORE THIS SONG! Definition of a song that is asking you to dance and live in the moment. I want to see this song in a coming of age movie SO badly, you have no idea. But, the amount of time I've fuckin blasted this song full volume is wild. It's beautiful and fun and has some amazing lyrics as well. CSH my beloved <3 I can ramble about these lyrics for a while I really want to paint some of them on a jacket >:3

(Honorable mentions: Dance Yrself Clean by LCD Soundsystem and Slip Away by Perfume Genius. Both INCREDIBLE songs)

20. A song that has many meanings to you-Honeybee by Steam Powered Giraffe

This is maybe my favorite love song ever (competing with Fair by The Amazing Devil) and is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Like holy SHIT those harmonies and lyrics and the overlapping part and the AHHHHH. If you can't tell this is one of my all time favorite songs lol. But it's a song that breaks my heart because I found it through an animatic that is SO fucking sad for one of my favoirte pieces of media, The Adventure Zone. That animatic fucking wrecks me and has made me cry multiple times. So, sometimes it makes me sad, but I still think it's amazing. And it's a song that my mom loves as well, its so fun to sing it with her in the car. :D ahhhh its so good. If you go and listen to any song here, it should be this one.

(Honorable mentions: Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales by Car Seat Headrest and literally any song from the Historians album by Lucy Dacus lol)

27. A song that breaks your heart- Elysian Fields by the Mechanisms and Welly Boots by The Amazing Devil

I have a LOT of options for this one because angst is my absolute favorite (as you know afgdhjsjkl) But this song has fully wrecked my shit SO many times. It's the ending of a narrative album called "Ulysses Dies at Dawn" which means the world to me, and this song is...well. Ulysses dying at dawn. But, the reason why I always return to it is it's stunningly bittersweet lyrics and the heartfelt instrumentals. Also it reminds me of the ending of my book which i also have big emotions about so that doesn't help lol. But this album is a fucking masterpiece and this ending will forever stick with me and make me VERY sad.

Welly Boots is my most listened to song on spotify across like four entire years worth of music lol. This song DESTROYS me and has some of the most beautiful lyrics I've ever heard. Also word for word also connects to my book (the same two characters actually), so I connect it with one of my favorite things I've ever written. Fuck, this song is so amazing. Also is very bittersweet and heartbreaking and ahhhhh

(Honorable mentions: It's ok to cry by SOPHIE, and levers by Roland Faunte (or ANY song by him ngl) )

Thanks for the ask! I fucking LOVE to ramble about my music. I have so many thoughts all the time :DDDD

#Thanks for the ask!! this is probably my favorite ask game #im very headfull about a lot of music #clearly #ask #ask game #i exist maybe #car seat headrest #steam powered giraffe #the amazing devil #the mechanisms #lucy dacus

[ramenwithbroccoli]

A story of ice cream and the defeat of the Necrostar

And just when they all thought the battle was lost, that's when the man in white appeared. Rusted around the edges with a navy hat upon his head, he began charging towards the enemy. While he wasn't as strong as Commander Cosmo or blessed with divine powers like the Equinox band, he knew that he was something different from anybody else.

He was the Ice Cream Man.

And he will win this battle.

1. Ice Cream Man, give him a hand

He wasn't like other people. Not because of his personality, although he certainly thought of himself as an interesting one, but because of the freezer that took the place of his chest and a pair of never-melting ice cream cones instead of eyes. It wasn't a big problem, as he could still see just fine, but they were quite uncomfortable when he tried to sleep on his stomach.

Still, his quirks guided him to his destiny of being an Ice Cream Man. He brought joy of cold deserts to the world and kids would go crazy whenever they saw him. He was their favorite and it didn't even bother him that nobody remembered his name. He was the Ice Cream Man. And everyone loves ice cream.

2. Fastest scoops in the west, his ice cream is the best

And he loved his job. He knew he was made for it, with two scoops replacing his hands. A terrible disadvantage in any other environment - maybe apart from competitive soup eating with no other utensils available. But being an Ice Cream Man meant that his scoopy hands could deliver happiness in the form of ice cream twice as fast as any other merchant would. Seeing the amazement on kids' faces was worth all the fuss of trying to get through everyday life with an uncooperative metal excuse for fingers.

3. Might I suggest, it's his ice cream to ingest

He noticed that something was coming days before the Necrostar's attack. There were a lot less children in town, many families suddenly going away despite it still being a school year. Fewer and fewer kids he could make smile with his tricks, and finally he noticed that noone was left. That's where news about evacuation hit him, so he decided to go to the outskirts of the city, where some sentimental people decided to stay despite the warning. He brightened their days by giving them customized desserts as they smiled in gratitude, wondering why ice cream tasted exactly like their favorite foods.

4. He has all your favorite flavors

At quite a young age he discovered that his freezer chest could grant him an ultimate supply of ice cream of any flavor known to man - and a few new ones. Not only that, but the ice cones on his face could make him see what the person needed most at the moment. Was it Neapolitan? Wonderful cheesecake from the party in fourth grade? Taste of peaches from your friend's garden? He could grant all of this request in a blink of an eye, sometimes handing a person their ice cream cone before they even opened their mouths.

5. He has ALL your favorite flavors

People stopped coming after a while.

Wandering through empty streets, Ice Cream Man wondered why it was all still going on. Commander Comso slapped a giant whale across the galaxy, shouldn't he just be done with that guy?

That's when he learnt what the Necrostar was - a being of death, hatred and darkness. How could you kill something that is not alive? How can you stop it when diplomacy fails and violence only feeds the monster you're actually trying to fight?

It was a tough dilemma. There was nothing he could do except wander into the city center to see the thing for himself. Maybe he could scoop something for the heroes fighting it, cheer them up. It's not like he had anything to lose.

Just as he almost reached his destination, a girl stopped him. She introduced herself as Olly, told him that he shouldn't be here while trying to ignore his odd facial structures. He was about to explain everything to the heroine when Commander fell from the sky, his cape half burned. Right behind him, the Necrostar rose from debris, looming over the group.

Ice Cream Man knew what had to be done.

6. HE HAS ALL YOUR FAVORITE FLAVORS

He charged straight for the alien.

Was it stupid? Reckless? Probably. What made him think he, from all people, could defeat the creature while the real heroes couldn't even get close to winning?

Was it his scoopy hands and unlimited supply of ice cream? Was it his navy hat? Love for people and the city they used to live in? Sense of purpose? Ultimate battle between destruction and creation?

The first ice cream scoop he threw at necrostar was an almond one. Second was mint with chocolate chips.

Third tasted of revenge.

One after another, he scooped as fast as he could, burying the Necrostar under layers and layers of ice cream. They were melting quickly in contact with the alien's skin, making it sticky and slowing it down while the Ice Cream Man emptied one container after another. To the surprise of all, the Necrostar started to retreat under this weird attack, folding into itself as if it wanted to run away. Why was it acting hurt when lasers, fire and blunt force didn't do a thing?

Ice Cream Man got through at least thirty containers before he looked around, and upon seeing a smile on other heroes' faces he knew, once again, that he did his job well.

7. Platypus surprise

"I'm sorry sir, can I ask you something?"

Ice Cream Man turned around to the red haired girl from before. "Sure, go on," he said while handing her a scoop of strawberry ice cream. She accepted it despite being a little surprised.

"I just need to know - how did you defeat the Necrostar? What was your secret?"

Ice Cream Man smiled to himself. "You see, Olly, the thing is…" - he took a dramatic pause in which he would consider winking, if only he had eyelids -

"The Necrostar was lactose intolerant."

#no lore on ice cream man? #fine. i’ll do it myself #All of this is basically a setting for the joke at the end #so yeah thanks for reading probably the forst ice cream man fanfic in existence ily #spg #steam powered giraffe #fanfic #fanfiction #ice cream man #commander cosmo #olly and the equinox band #spg album one

[owlhari]

Hey! Liked your newest art but I have a question, why is bester (I might not have his name right but the guy opposite Vivian) blue? In the comics on the spg website he seems normal but he was also blue in your family tree video so I was curious, what's the reason?

the reason buster's blue is because in the updated version of the webcomic posted to webtoon, it's shown that he has blue skin but hides it from the public with makeup!

fun fact, if you compare that version to the original page, his "normal" skin is actually colored a little greener to show that he's hiding something under the makeup now.

as far as i'm aware, we don't know why buster's skin is blue, but i'd bet it has something to do with the gate he's building, covered in green matter.

#ask #steam powered giraffe #spg #buster becile #i went so long without knowing the webtoon version existed #i Yelled when i saw hes blue in the newer version #buster!!! what did you DO!!!