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AU where Miguel gets hung up on the nonlethal Canon Events instead.

"Miles you need to kiss someone while hanging upside down. I don't know why this is important but it is."

"Also have you ever shoved a ton of rubble off yourself? That's important too."

"If you ever come across an alien trying to turn itself into a costume, you have to put it on and then take it off later. You'll figure out why."

I was gushing to a friend of mine about how much I love Ludwig as a character - you know, as you do - and I thought maybe you guys might like to see it too.

He has the Captain Kirk paradox. Somebody on the Star Trek side of tumblr put it into words once: The Original Series Captain Kirk is somehow able to express large amounts of both masculine and feminine qualities, simultaneously, and not a single bit of it seems weird or out of place for him.

I see Ludwig the same way. He expresses his emotions really freely even in canon - I probably exaggerate it a little bit, but they must have made his face as flexible as they did for a reason. In my experience, none of the other mercs even come CLOSE to the detail of micro-expressions that can be put on him. He was specifically designed to be highly emotional.

Even with this high degree of emotion, he still manages to be masculine as hell in many shots, AND YET, you can look at those very same shots and still think 'babygirl you are a hot mess' completely unironically.

Despite being described simply as a 'mad scientist' or 'mad doctor', Ludwig is a remarkably deep character who is so far detached from gender norms that even observers who are looking for specific masculine or feminine qualities can't really nail them down completely, because he's never not expressing both types of energy.

In conclusion: Once again, it's 4AM, I am Not Okay™️ about that old man, and thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Soldier, do you know that the ridged edges of a ritz cracker is actually intended to be used to cut cheese

Soldier: [stares at the letter and then gets up to go into the kitchen and get out the box of crackers from the cabinet, staring at it for a while before muttering to himself] ..I could turn this into a weapon.

I don't know how you can look at sans' pacifist arc which is all about letting himself care about the future again and rekindling that ember of hope he never truly lost in the shape of this tiny, sensational, cosmically terrifying human kid in order to finally move on from his past life and fully live the life he has NOW with his new friends, trusting said kid with his story, letting them know it's okay (sans with a lot of people you don't recognize. you and sans with all of your friends. it doesn't matter, he looks happy)

...and then go "i think post pacifist frisk would hate him".

that adds nothing to the characters and it's so needlessly mean spirited it becomes straight up cheap. hate him for what? not keeping his promise in full? letting them die? this kid fought a god and won, frisk doesn't give a crap about dying! the only times they react to death in any capacity in canon it's:

1) someone else's death (which they caused)

2) a way to make their opponent feel bad and stop fighting

3) after flowey takes their SAVE powers.

this kid gets beaten to death by asgore an uncountable number of times and they still trot over to gerson in the epilogue to be like "is he a goat? is he immortal? okay but what if he adopted me, could he adopt me? i'm very adoptable you know". be real now.

Spiderman ATSV did in one movie what MCU failed to do with multiple movies and shows in the past 5 years.

Reignite my love for superheroes.

fic idea: hobie and pavitr break into the British museum to steal back everything that was took without permission and give it back to it's native country

i love this guy. the splotch

LESS miguel o’hara fanart of him looking sexily at the camera pulling up his shirt or whatever. MORE miguel o’hara fanart of him crying pathetically in the bathroom

with pavitr having his hair out of the mask, and hugging gayatri when he saves her, and having The Worst attempt at disguising his voice out of all the spiderkids (which is saying something, when you're up against miles and gwen) - i love the idea that everybody in mumbattan absolutely knows that pavitr prabhakar is spider-man, but all have an unspoken agreement to never actually acknowledge it, because he's sweet and helpful and god, he's just a kid.

tourists and visitors and people just moving there will gesture to his very visible and easily identifiable hair and open their mouths to comment on it, and the nearest Seasoned Member of the Pavitr Prabhakar Defense Committee™ will slap a hand over their mouth and wrangle them in the opposite direction before they can blow his cover and get him arrested

TF2 needs an exclusive "Heavy!" call for Medic. Where did my Heavy go. You are giant and loud but I cannot find you. I hear gunfire but see no smoke. I am a lost little german boy in a cave full of Enemie Teamen who want to murdern die Mediken gott hilf mir

Anyways for Father's Day I wanted to bring up a dynamic I think is incredibly underrated: Heavy and Scout with a found family dynamic.

Yeah yeah we all like DadSpy and it's cute and everything but listen to me when I say that this dynamic is so good. Both of them lost their father in one way or another. Scout never met his and Heavy's father was killed. Heavy had to grow up fast and be the guardian figure for his family once his father passed on. Scout was always seen as the runt of his family, the little brother who always picked fights and would run away as soon as it happened. Both ends of the spectrum.

I like to think that they kind of crave that sort of stable family dynamic. You could interpret it in any sort of way (father/son, brothers, anything), but I just think they work well off of each other and would like the company.

Little ramble

I don't mind Shadowpeach as a romantic ship - I find it very fun that it as a romantic relationship can be left completely up to viewer interpretation - but personally, I see it as a found family thing.

It's walking a line between friends and brothers. Like they were once so close they called each other brothers (putting the Brotherhood thing aside for a moment), and even now that they're separated they view each other somewhat as more past brothers than past bffs.

On that note, I need to see Macaque freeing Wukong. I need to see them again. Period.

Because if I am not SUPER CLEAR ABOUT THIS someone will come find my corner of the internet and accuse me of something: ship away! All the ships! I don't care! (Excluding problematic ones but we're not talking about those right now). Personally I think romantic relationships are left better off out of canon, and that's why fanfic exists.

I like Shadowpeach. For other people. I like reading them freak out about how they're married and draw cute comics about them kissing or being gay.

For me? They're found family.

And at the end of the day, we all get our cute little monkeys (I wrote this as monkies what has the show done to me), so it's nice to have a little corner to collectively vibe in.

demo and sniper would totally have a buzzfeed unsolved type show where they go hunting for cryptids and ghosts. demo is sure that the supernatural is real and has a deep respect for it, he tries to honor ghosts and not to piss off any entities that might hunt the places they go explore (like ryan bergara). sniper tho is the sceptic, he humors demo but doesn't believe in supernatural stuff even tho he witnesses supernatural shit go down every Halloween with merasmus and whatnot (shane medej)

both of them are 100% sure that medic is a demon

Soldier cant spell

I've been trying for hours to figure out how to use particle systems to make a medigun beam in Blender. I think I was actually getting pretty close when... this happened... whatever the hell it is.

I don't know whether it looks more like blood/guts or some kind of very huge weird fruit. But I knew as soon as I saw it that I had to let Ludwig play in it like some deranged cat kneading a squelching blanket of undefined gore.

A detail in RDR2 I hope was intentional is how at most of the camps Uncle's sleep spot is kinda all over the place. At Shady Belle he just plops down in the middle of a hallway. But when they get to Beaver hollow and Micah and them are starting to really threaten him he sleeps behind Arthur's cot.

Anyway if you're complaining about how the stupid idiot Tumblr babies don't know anything about the 1960s bc sometimes in fanfic a tf2 man will say the word "transgender", please remember that "ragequit", "camper", and "gg" are words that tf2 characters say in the game with their mouths. Was it historically accurate to the Cold War for Scout, a man with a chest tattoo of a song that came out in 1999, to tell you to ragequit

But also I'm not 100% sold on the idea that Medic revived Sniper like, intentionally to be malicious to the tfc people. I think he just wasn't fully integrated into them yet, and thus didn't really see how it'd be "playing both teams (fortress 2)" to revive Sniper after one of his new teammates shot him, bc he is still on Sniper's team in his head. I don't really think Medic seemingly not understanding that When We Shot Him We Wanted Him Dead You Useless Kraut Fuck was an act - obviously this is hard to read over webcomic text, but his sheer glee when he's going on and on about his Great Medical Achievement seems genuine. Think it's best to read Medic reviving Sniper not as a "Medic hates the tfc team the entire time he's on it" beat but as a "Medic actually likes his friends and wants to do things to help them" moment

@dreary-giraffe

This is a good question! And the answer is: I think the community made up the 'Fritz' part. Pretty sure that's what his name is in Emesis Blue (which is, incidentally, the video that reached up from my Recommended list and violently dragged me back into this fandom, hahah).

But as far as I know, the only name we know canonically is 'Ludwig,' and we're not sure if it's his first or his last name.

HOWEVER:

This sign is featured in the Man vs. Machine map 'Rottenburg.'

According to the wiki, this is a blurb from the official update that included this map:

"The second of our Two Cities finds the mercs defending the Medic's vaguely European hometown of Rottenburg — a sprawling village famous for its centuries-old traditions of 1) chasing the next in the resident lineage of mad doctors out of town with torches and pitchforks whenever they swapped out too many super-charged baboon hearts,"

Huh. Interesting.

Now, this is just conjecture, but this implies two things:

Ludwig is his first name, and his last name is Humboldt

HIS ENTIRE FAMILY LINE IS LIKE THIS

Of course, it's also possible that he was unrelated to whatever local mad scientist there was when he was a kid, but he decided 'hey, I'd like to do that too' and then grew up to eventually take over the pharmacy for himself. There are plenty of mom-and-pop type places that are operated by someone whose last name isn't actually on the sign.

So until Valve says something, we don't really know what his last name is - this is just an extremely strong hint.

For the purpose of this blog, though, his name is Dr. Ludwig Humboldt. I haven't yet decided what Misha's last name is.

Speaking of Misha... apropos of nothing, but here's a shot from the supply room in the same map.

(Hahaha floating syringe. Why is it floating? Because players aren't supposed to be able to look at this room from this angle. When viewed from above, you don't notice it's floating.)

Anyway, I saw someone else once point out that our boy Ludwig is fucking obsessed with making diagrams of Misha. He studies him like he's the perfect specimen.

What's that? You want a close up of the diagram? Of course!

"This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like." -- Ludwig, probably

Anyway, as you can see, we unfortunately can't read the text when we zoom in. (EDIT: Actually, yes you can, at [this link]!) But I do have to note that it is hilarious that the ammo pouches and bandolier are part of the diagram, as if they're an essential part of his anatomy. That is also literally just an A-posed model they loaded in and slapped a skeleton on top of.

I choose to believe Ludwig made this diagram in Blender himself.

ur so right abt medics joyous whimsy btw. he loves wiggling his fingers when he sees unattended organs and going “ooh! don’t mind if i do!” his favorite things are skipping and twirling and killing and maiming

Where's that post that's like "Medic tf2 is a physically imposing six-foot-tall German man whose voice sounds like he would jump into the air and click his heels when he gets a new shipment of organs". Bc that pegged it

So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.

What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.

Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.

im an unfunny person so it was hard to come with an idea but yaay i did something :) also i think there should be more racoon dad soldier stuff. I need it.

Don’t ask about what process my brain went through when drawing this, cause there was no process 

Noticed i attracted a small bit of the tf2 fandom with my last post, anyways welcome to the page new folk. Currently finishing up with school then i should be able to post a bit more often until I get wisked away again in the fall. 

Making myself laugh at an au where it’s Peter Parker, became a vigilante at age 10, has been one for like 16 years now, so 26 years old max. and still, inexplicably, has his identity a complete secret, and so his file with SHIELD, if they knew him, should have stuff about him having spider abilities and a healing factor and a spider sense that helps him sense danger even without seeing it, etc

And so Spiderman thinks that his file, because they don’t know anything, just looks like a ton of question marks

But instead, it’s full of their observations that they’re 100% sure are correct based on misunderstandings and misconceptions, and that file just keeps leading to wild rumors, which end up just hiding Spiderman’s identity better, so the file’s like:

Spiderman must be about 50+, clearly knows how to fight, knows First Aid, has trouble working with others, knows military lingo (he figured it out as a kid due to various vigilante situations that put him near them), is clearly trained (they mostly think this because of the experience he picked up and because of his spidey sense), is a genius super scientist who makes his own equipment (this parts true but they don’t know he’s been mutated, they think it’s all equipment), etc

So they’re all like, obviously, Spiderman used to work for SHIELD or something (maybe there’s a rumor or they did actually used to use a weaker version of the soldier serum on agents, so they all think at most Spidey has weak super strength), definitely a government scientist at the very least, went on the run as lone wolf soldier after he witnessed some corruption*, maybe the government even killed off his family when he refused to do something corrupt, and now he wears bright clothes because he’s sick of working in the shadows, etc

(*misunderstanding based on the fact that one of the reasons why Spidey refuses to join SHIELD is because of how often it gets revealed that Hydra infiltrated it but then it gets covered up, and it’s getting covered up because they don’t want citizens to lose faith in SHIELD, like I have no doubts every single time Nick Fury is going out there and getting rid of them all, but to outsiders it just looks like SHIELD refuses to take accountability and is covering it up because they’re still there, and Peter’s Jewish ass can’t take any chances with that)

Every day. Every damn day I question why THIS is the way they established MK's Monkey Demon Form/Identity. He's flickering, shards are coming off of him (shattered sense of identity), he seems to be in pain, and he radiates so much power. Overall it gives the impression that he's fighting this form off, trying to maintain his humanity/the current status quo.

And I'm just sitting here waiting for his current negative character arc to go down FURTHER

This is my contribution as a Pavitr Prabhakar fan.

(I will update this when more movie screenshots become available)

☆ Palette challenge masterpost ☆

gay month

why do so many fics portray octavius as being super uptight and serious like have you seen him in canon this man is an agent of chaos and a complete enabler and enjoyer of jed’s unhinged behaviour

Update:

I introduced a Jane Doe/Penny Lamb from Ride the Cyclone AI to Soldier and Spy, and so far it seems like they are friends. They keep complimenting her doll and craftsmanship and she’s just happy to be here.

Anyway I think they’re her dads now or something.

currently hyperfixating so

stupid au where gen loss ranboo somehow escapes and ends up stranded in the middle of New Mexico where a bunch of stupid mercs are fighting

or a Gen Loss/Ride the Cyclone crossover au