I Still Think About The Ending Of This Fic And Cry....

Generic alien AU my beloved

(I know this AU idea has probably been done to death by now, but it's genuinely my favourite concept in this fandom and I've always been obsessed with making my own version of it 🙏)

In a nutshell, the weird-ass space goo Pim injects into his arm during the party ends up fucking with his DNA as a Critter later on, causing him to start developing alien traits because of it (Initially just stuff he could easily hide, such as pair of antennae and slightly green-ish pupils, but it later develops further into psychological traits as well, such as nocturnality and an instinctual longing to return to space)

Despite his usual apathy, Charlie finds out pretty quickly that Pim's hiding something (as he would, considering that they're together on jobs nearly every day), and once Pim tells him the truth, he opts to help him hide these changes for as long as they can (such as lending Pim his hoodie to hide his most prominent alien features, making up sick-day excuses for him, ect...), or at least until they can find a cure of some kind, despite not knowing where to start looking.

They both know they can't tell anyone about these changes happening to Pim, fearing that it might all end up in one of them accidentally blurting out what happened during that Saturday night that all culminated in Bill's death and them finding out that the earth is flat (both of which they're still trying to recover from, on top of all this.) --- I have a whole bunch of different ideas for this au that may not even make it into the final product (Glep was initially going to find out about Pim as well, but I scrapped that idea in the end, seeming as it kind of took away from the whole tension of P & C having to keep the UFO Hunting incident a secret), so maybe I'll make another, more refined post about this AU someday?? Who knows??? Bonus old doodles back when this AU was still in its baby stage:

Its been a long week. Someone pass me an image of The Character

I would love to hear more about your toxic pim and charlie headcanons. All I can think of is Pim might be too desperate to prove something and Charlie has that "alpha male" thing

SO GLAD YOU ASKED !!!! I need to rant about this to clear things up bc I think about how Charpim would work so much and it makes me go insane bc their dynamic is fucking incredible.

Ill take this as an opportunity to do a little character study and explain why i think they would inherently be toxic at their very core 👹👹 and how I think their relationship would even function.

First off, a HUGE roadblock is the fact that they have completely different ideals. They want totally different things in life and go about life almost in completely opposite ways.

Pim's been shown in canon multiple times to want a normal, healthy, nuclear family. He wants a wife and kids and wants to raise them well and be the father figure for them that he himself never had. It's apparent that he wants to settle down, and just hasn't found anyone willing to. When he even talks to Shrimpina, he can't help puking and making a fool of himself and tossing and turning at night over it. This makes it clear that while i do NOT AT ALL think he's a virgin, Pim doesn't have a lot of experience with this kind of stuff. It's probably all been pretty awkward and never lasted very long.

I don't think that him or Charlie have any problems with being gay, but I do think that Pim settling down with a guy does inherently shatter his ideals. ESPECIALLY with the way Charlie acts. Being with Charlie wouldn't be a picture perfect movie couple, and I think that would really frustrate and disappoint Pim when Charlie doesn't act like he's "supposed" to. He wouldn't really be a BOYFRIEND to him. Pim is just a lot more romantic and holds a lot more hope in the idea of love than Charlie does. He's an optimist and Charlie is VERYRYYY much a pessimist.

The way that Charlie goes about relationships is MUCH more laid back and casual. His girlfriend (who IS CONFIRMED to be his girlfriend by Zach himself in the commentary videos, you can find it pretty easy on YouTube) is hardly ever mentioned and doesn't seem to hold much weight to him at all. To me, that whole thing with her being there kind of confirmed that Charlie casually hooks up with people/dates a lot, and doesn't really take it all that seriously. He doesn't have any intentions of settling down or moving in with anyone. Even in the ep where the fucken mustard chick was flirting with him, Charlie didn't seem to give two shits or even get a little flustered. He'd USED to that kind of stuff, where Pim isn't.

It's been a joke multiple times that even for a critter, Pim is perceived as pretty unattractive and weird looking 😭😭 and that's the biggest difference between them I think. Charlie is single BY CHOICE, while Pim is single because he can't get anyone who wants to long term date him.

If Charlie and Pim ever slept together or did anything, I think it would hold a lot more weight for Pim than it would for Charlie. Charlie is a fucking asshole! He doesn't show affection well, he's pretty inconsiderate of other people, he's very slobby and hardly takes care of himself. He wouldn't want to DATE pim the way that Pim would want to date Charlie. Pim would want to do all that mushy stuff that he's seen in movies that he's never been able to try, like holding hands and cuddling and going out to cute dinners.

CHARLIE WOULDN'T WANNA DO THAT! He's VERY CLEARLY SHOWN in canon to not be that kinda guy. He can hardly even think about himself, he doesn't have the time or want to expend the energy thinking about someone else on a daily basis. Just look at the fucking difference in their rooms--

They work at the same job at the same position, they should be making the same amount of money. And from the Brazil episode where they talk about funds, it doesn't seem like its a super lot. But Pim spent more time and money making his room look nice and his sheets and pillows match, somewhere with a nicer view and cute painted walls. Charlie just bought the cheapest, ugliest little shithole he could find.

You can fucking bet that they would not be good living together, that is if Charlie even wanted to live with him. You can literally see in the back that his sink is full of dirty dishes bro. He probably uses paper plates and plastic cups for everything so he doesn't have to do the dishes, you can bet he's always ordering nasty ass takeout food.

Also sorry, but like please open your eyes and look at the way Charlie treats Pim in the show. Obviously he cares about him and holds him as a dear friend, but he just is kinda a shitty person and doesn't do it very well a lot of the time. He's constantly fucking negative and rude, and it clearly takes a mental toll on Pim. Pim's always the one trying really hard to invite Charlie out to things, like in the alien episode. Pim just wants to hang out and tried to find something Charlie might like, and Charlie was grumpy and dismissive and tried to leave multiple times.

In the most RECENT EPISODE, he got in a physical fight with Alan and was being a dick about physical contact that he basically initiated. In the alien episode, Charlie was screaming at the aliens and ignored pim, ended up clocking him in the fucking face and didn't say a single word about it because HE WASN'T SORRY, HE DIDN'T FUCKING CARE.

they're both incredibly flawed people in completely opposite ways, and they'd both want entirely different things out of the other one. They'd both be trying to change each other, the way they literally already do in the show.

i love charpim more than anything with my entire soul, and im not trying to be a doomer about it, im just so sick of people potraying them like

Charlie: I... I like you... is that okay?

Pim: yes.... would it be okay if I kissed you?

LIKE GIRL WHAT ARE YOU SAYINGGGG THEY ARE GROWN ASS, DIRTY, GROSS MEN WITH DICK AND BALLS.

There was a whole episode where pim literally turned into a fucking crazy ass creature because he was so incredibly jealous of Charlie getting what PIM had wanted. Pim wanted to be a hero and help people and save the day and live out his little idealized world, and when CHARLIE got that and he didn't, it pissed him the fuck off. He wasn't happy for Charlie, Pim WANTED what Charlie had.

LIKE OH MY GOD, THEY'RE JUST SO DISFUNCTIONAL!!!

Their relationship would be fucking crazy and rocky and TOXIC, and that's like the whole appeal of it imo. that's literally how they act in canon. I think that the two of them could eventually work things out to be pretty happy, but it would NOT be without its hardships and it definitely would still never be anything even close to textbook.

THEY'RE FUCKING FREAKS IDK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

also almost forgot, not even to mention Charlie's substance abuse and how its canonically shown he gets rude and violent. like r u kidding.

This happens to me a lot, actually! I'll hear a really beautiful piece of music in my dream, but when I wake up I've forgotten it altogether 💔

The only time that hasn't happened was years ago when I was really into Vocaloid/Kikuo, and ended up having a dream at one point with a song that went something like "Oh the moon, oh the moon. How it shines brightly down, trapping everybody in its white gleam."

(Said dream also ended with this really fucking disturbing portrayal of Miku with realistic eyes for some reason, but that's an art piece for another day)

I've never done anything with those particular lyrics since making music as opposed to listening to it isn't really my thing, but I still think about it on occasion.

It's 5:25 am and I can't sleep. There's a beautiful song playing from my dream. I wish I knew how to read music notes or whatever because I have this tune in my head that needs to be written down RIGHT NOW. Oh god I hope I don't lose this tune from my sleep like all the others.

FUCK IT I'll learn music notes rn what's another night without sleep lmao

Roblox Spraypaint but I only draw one single character on every server that I join -core

Also bonus Charlie that I managed to get one screenshot of before my game crashed:

grown ass man btw

Omen

I like when his neck does the little extend thing

He’s my little muse 🥰

OH??? OH???????

a casting call for smiling friends season 3 was posted recently!

pretty sure i'm the first person to break this news on tumblr. the screenshot below was originally posted on reddit.

SPOILER BELOW CUT

honestly with the fact that they're already filming green screen shots like this, this makes me think that season 3 isn't gonna end up being as long of a wait as season 2 was. here's to hoping season 3 drops sometime this year 🤞🏻 also this looks like it's going to be a boss and allan adventure!