Welcome! My name's Amber, 34, white, cis (she, her), and lesbian. Here to share anything I find interesting or funny. At any rate I have no idea how you found your way here but I sincerely hope you enjoy your stay for however long it may be. Let me know if I need to tag anything!
Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.
Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.
And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.
Robert’s eyes scanned around the meeting room.Flambae’s space was vacant. “Wait, where’s Chad?”
His team’s postures stiffened at once. Various excuses rang from them all, at the same time.
“Uh… Car! Practice. Car practice.”
“I don’t know who that is. Is that the new guy?”
“This pepperoni looks so good. It’s like the Van Gogh of pizza. Kinda sad. Speaks to me.”
Phenomaman clearly looked at war with the unspoken pressure. And the pressure won.
“For the past couple of months, Flambae has been engaging in acts of vigilantism alongside his family and has asked us not to divulge this information to you. We were bribed with donuts in exchange for discretion,” He hung his head shamefully. “…The donuts have won.”
I think it should happen super randomly for Flambae. Villains don’t have a 9-5, and an attack can happen anytime. Him being put in a position where he has to actively CHOOSE to help someone.
The person he saves basically says they don’t have the money for the SDN subscription, and they didn’t think any hero would come. “I mean, the only one we really had was Mecha Man. “
And YEAH, he can kind of relate. Their past aside, Flambae is at least able to acknowledge the guy was and IS good at his job.
(And if he did feel safer knowing his family, who could by all accounts live close to or in Torrance, was safe because of the guy. That’s his business.)
So. Vigilantism. Can’t be that hard. (It is. Very much. He unfortunately understands Robert so much more.)
Flambae faces former villains that are, SURPRISE SURPRISE, very bitter about him switching sides. OH YOU IMPROVED YOUR LIFE?? OH you think crime is beneath you now?? Are we not GOOD ENOUGH for you or something??
Mind you. Canonically, Flambae sucked as a villain, so these fuckers saw him hold his own with Mecha Man in 2018 and were like. Oh that’s our guy!! (That is NOT your guy)
Prism ABSOLUTELY knows and demands to be taken on patrol with him. He’s all like. Ali, I’m getting my ass beat every other Sunday PLEASE don’t come.
She does come. And makes a whole other account just to post tik toks of them fighting. As Flamedude and Nightlight. Yeah these are the names.
Which IS true. This man comes to work with a busted lung and five fractures because of course he only fights metahuman level threats. That’s just his luck.
Every single time it’s the most dumbass excuse you can think of. Because Robert WILL ask. “What happened to you?!”
“…I… Uh. Got into a fight. At the farmer’s market.”
“…You got into a fight. At the farmer’s market. You, the same guy who can lift cars for fun.” “YEAH, ROBER, MY FARMER’S MARKET IS INTENSE.”
He didn’t MEAN to involve his family, necessarily. They just. Know. Actually, they come to fights willingly.
His brother should’ve been in a courtroom and instead he’s out here punching the breaks off a dude named Crash The Spine Buster.
His father is just proud that he’s showing passion for his dream. Still has the hero costume sketches from when Flambae was 10. “YOU DID IT! YOU SAVED THE CITY!” “I saved a parking lot :/“ “YOU SAVED A PARKING LOT!”
Flambae hates hiding this from Robert, because HE hates not knowing things, and there he is, doing the exact thing he got angry about.
But he just. Doesn’t want to stress him out. He’s been doing so much for the team, and SDN, AND Mecha man, when time and life allow it.
Best believe his family will remind him of his crush. Constantly.
Robert finds a certain appeal in normality. Probably because it’s always been the hardest thing for him to be.
He can handle iron mantles.
But give him a boyfriend who rubs warm fingers into his back during flare ups, tests the latest recipes on him every day, insists on spoiling his dog with bubble baths and handmade bathrobes, and he doesn’t know how to pilot that.
Except maybe just take pictures of Flambae in the morning.
When his smile lines relax and his hair inks every inch of the pillow.
When he has Beef snuggled under his chin, and his eyes screwed shut, unhappy with sunlight breaching the blinds of his apartment. Their apartment.
“Bob-Bob, don’t take my picture. My hair isn’t done.”
Robert loves his voice in the morning. The way it’s soft and smoked out and crackling with good rest. He squeezes Beef to his chest and half heartedly tries swatting Robert’s phone.
“Yeah, cause you woke up 5 minutes ago. Also, you’re using Beef as a pillow. I AM taking a picture. Let me look at you.”
He likes those pictures the best.
When Flambae finds out about them, confusion knits his brows together
It’s just him.
Singing while getting ready in the bathroom, making shaving cream beards on Beef.
Snoring on Robert’s patchy sofa with drool slipping from his mouth.
Him with the team, mid cackle, mouth smeared with burrito sauce.
Or him in the morning, with his hair an absolute mess and free and getting his smiling face lapped at by that sentient baked potato.
“Why do you only have bad pictures of me?”
He’s playful about it, when he asks Robert. Whiny. Because it kinda scares him. Because he remembers how comfortable he felt in those moments.
And Robert will shrug. And he’ll do what he’s good at. Tell it like it is.
“I don’t know. I like it when you look like you.”
Robert can’t outrightly say ‘I think you’re beautiful and my hands don’t know how to hold beautiful things.’
And Flambae can’t say ‘I think you’re the only person I ever want to look at me’.
But Flambae can make food. And Robert can take pictures. And they’ll know.
you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.
lot of people commenting on this post like "who eats lunch at 4pm that's a terrible time to eat lunch" yes. that is the point. 4pm lunch is inadvisable. 4pm lunch is not the ideal. 4pm lunch makes the mind demons real.
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A sort of continuation of this comic. Please read for more in depth explaination for how I headcanon his fusion mutation with the Blood Eel and the Last Seed works:
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Simon has his days where his fears and temper gets the better of him, especially regarding the mutation and how he doesn't have control of his own body. He tried to remove all the teeth from his face, but they keep growing back.
Grace does his best to help Simon cope with the changes. Eventually, Simon accepts the teeth are a part of him now. He doesn't like it, but he learns to live with it. On top of growing tired of fighting the mutation, he doesn't want to worry Ryland or put even more burden on him with his problems.
Meanwhile, Grace is relieved Simon isn't hurting himself anymore. Also he thinks the teeth are neat. Weird, but NEAT.
Casually adding this ask here because @aweebshitdrawings' question fits close enough to what I made here owo Thank you so much for enjoying my work!!
This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.
I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV
I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!
Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.
Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:
Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.
These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.
With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.
Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.
Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.
Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.
This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.
Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.
The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.
Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.
Golden Girls was so incredibly progressive for its time and not even slightly afraid to be loud about it. They talked about queer people, about race, about ableism, and they made it central and overt. They talked about things that mattered, and they never punched down, and they were allies off the stage too.
Reblogging this again to add some context for anyone who may not know. In the 80's, being outed as gay could get you blacklisted in Hollywood. It ruined people's careers.
Bea Arthur and Betty White both suffered damage to their careers for standing up against racism and homophobia. Back in the 50s Betty White hosted a variety show that was canceled because she featured a black dancer and doubled down when they told her to stop.
mccoy doesn't have a chair on the bridge cuz he's the kinda guy who stands behind the couch to watch a whole 45 minute episode of something while insisting he doesn't need to sit down bc he's just checking out one scene. does this make sense
