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Fourth Wall Fight Round 3

Mother (Shoot From the Hip - The Leftenmost Window) vs Malcolm Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)

Propaganda for each character below the cut! May include spoilers

Mother

From video clip (starting at 5:19) until 6:25. It’s just such an iconic scene

MOTHER she literally walks into the audience

Malcolm Wilkerson

Malcolm looks directly into the camera and addresses the audience to give snarky monologues and asides. He's the king of complaining about his life to the people who tune in to watch the trainwreck.

was thinking abt queenie’s love of dogs and jornir’s wildshape and this was born

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These look like the little soot things from that one Studio Ghibli movie.

ep 1 jorqueens that are very important to me

Here's my piece for the Stobotnik Gift Exchange!

I got @softiethequail and they asked for some injured!stone + robotnik hugging him in relief that he's alive and okay— so of course I went crazy for it lol.

I imagined a specific scenario where Stone is protecting Robotnik from an attack, gets shot in the process, and then some kind of explosive goes off and they both go down— but the last thing Robotnik sees before his vision goes black is Stone laying motionless several feet away, bleeding onto the ground.

Cue him waking up in medical hours later with some bruises and minor surface wounds (and probably a concussion he's very much ignoring), and no Stone in sight. Of course he high tails it down the halls against medical advice, shoving nurses out of the way searching for Stone, only to freeze at the sight of him, alive— then immediately collapsing into a hug before he can even properly think about it.

Suffice to say that Stone (who was probably barely awake just seconds ago) is surprised at the sudden and unexpected affection.

Thanks for the very fun prompt, Softie! This was a delight to work on! 🥰

Every time AO3 starts trending on Tumblr and it’s NOT down I always get worried. Like what do you mean it’s not down??? What are we all doing here, then?

Hi, hello STFH fandom??? Yeah, I know a new longform just came out but I can't get Phantom Begruvia and Father Andrews out of my head for absolutely no reason so please have some shippy headcanons about them because I'm going insane. They came out of nowhere and took over my neurons

This is a really long post btw so beware

OKAY, ready?

in my mind I think Begruvia would prefer holding Andrews than being held simply from the sense of control that he gets - but also I think he’d have a secret soft spot for being held, too because it makes him feel safe. But specifically only from Andrews

I think Begruvia would be clingy. I can’t exactly explain why? It just kind of makes sense to me. Maybe something about all that pining or being worried about losing it all, idk. I also think he'd be very protective about Andrews, even if he never openly admits it. But he'll go out of his way to make sure Andrews is okay. Like anyone even vaguely threatening Andrews? Beguriva is instantly staring daggers at them somewhere nearby with fire in his eyes if they even so much as try anything

I think Begruvia would be the one to fall first, but it would be really reallllllyyyy gradual. Like sooooo so slow. Like think slow burn, but the slow burn takes an actual 2000 years before it stars burning. That’s how long it takes him to realize. And it’s not until they meet again that he’s like, 'wait. What. What are these like. Feelings???' And then he realizes that like, the revenge that he thought he wanted/the anger that he felt was actually just him pining for 2000 or so years

I don’t know about Andrews, though… I think he wouldn’t even consider it until after the 2000 years and maybe takes sympathy on Begruvia and then after a while he falls, too - though I imagine it would also be pretty gradual (but not 2000 years gradual, lol)

They would live in Andrews house for... Kind of obvious reasons (Begruvia does NOT have a house) but I imagine it would take them some time to get used to. In my mind they would have started sharing a bed out of either necessity or Andrews being like "I need to keep an eye on you" and then after a while it just becomes a habit

I think Andrews would do most of the house work, half because it’s his house and half because Begruvia doesn’t really do anything

I don’t think he’d mind, though. I think he’d just ask Begruvia to do basic stuff

Maybe he teaches Begruvia how to cook and for a while Andrews is the better cook out of the two of them, but then after learning Begruvia turns out to be wayyyyy better than Andrews so Andrews has him do most of the cooking, lol. I think Begruvia would enjoy cooking

I think Andrews would be better at baking, though? Idk. I just see them making deserts together 

On the other hand, Andrews does like. All of the cleaning. He asks Begruvia to do the dishes and he just. Never does. And Andrews reminds him tons and tons of times - and maybe he does it once or twice (or when Andrews is sick/tired and he almost feels bad) but after a while Andrews just gives up asking him because he knows it won’t happen

They do the shopping together, though, even if Andrews sometimes regrets it

I think Beguriva would convince Andrews for them to get a cat (I think Begruvia would be a cat lover)

That or he ‘convinces’ Andrews and Andrews had been against it before because it was a lot of work and he didn’t really know how to take care of a cat or if they could, but then Begruvia just like. Finds a kitten and brings it home one day and Andrews is just like “well shit, I guess we have a cat now because there’s no way we’re giving it away” and so then they have a cat

Andrews very quickly loves this cat

Begruvia gets to name it, though, and it’s the most wild name ever so Andrews either shortens it or gives it a nickname

I think it would be a tortoiseshell cat

Begruvia hears the cat’s breed/color/whatever you call that and gets angry about it because “WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘TORTOISE-SHELL’ IT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE A TORTOISE SHELL AT ALL”

I think the cat would like Begruvia more and it makes Andrews sad

Andrews will call the cat and it will completely ignore him, but then Begruvia calls from across the house and the cat is like !!! and goes running and Andrews is like, wtf why... :C

Over time I think Begruvia would learn to enjoy living a quiet life. At first I can imagine him being bored all of the time and just wanting to do things and cause chaos, but after a few years he kind of realizes that he likes the quietness of it all and just living alone with Andrews is nice and that’s all he wants in life

Okay, I'm going to inevitably have more thoughts, but for now I think that's more than enough - but if I think of more I will add them in the reblogs. Thank you for listening to my ramblings about these two, I love them - if you have any ideas please feel free to share

I always wondered how the AO3 team managed to make the character tags because I highly doubt they actually go and look at the source material - I guess they do work off of context clues, then! (and help from the fandom) I imagine the fanon names really mess things up. I'm always astounded when they actually go to the correct character tag

Hopefully it'll get easier since SFTH seems to be naming their characters way more frequently now than they did in the past

I was actually looking at the Beetroots & Murder tag today and wondering why it was a bit... Uh, messy - that does explain some things!

Sometimes I wonder what the AO3 tag wranglers thing about the SFTH fandom- we probably make things so difficult for them- just think about how many characters don’t have names, that in it of itself can’t make things easy

Anyway, thank you AO3 tag wranglers for dealing with the fandom. I love the tag wranglers

this drawtectives wiki page is so funny out of context