Lake (she/her)

Put your coffee cup far away from your paint water there is no good way for an interaction between these things to end. Not a dedicated art blog, but that is most of what I do here. The rest is nerd rambles and memes.

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

I'm gonna put the relevant custom tags to this account here as they become relevant because I am a tumblr boomer and this site confuses me greatly. (I'm not gonna put them in the actual tags nobody looking through those want to see this)

Also, here are some of the things that I post about for quick reference (which will be updated as time goes on):

Ace Attorney, Ever After High, Dimension 20, The Owl House, Adventure Time, Critical Role, Animorphs, Hatchetfield, The Glass Scientists, Lisa Frankenstein, Dandies in Danger, Gravity Falls, Baldur's Gate 3, The Magnus Archives, Undertale/Deltarune, Wicked

-franny being a lovable menace (ace attorney time-skip Franziska and Pearl having weird little adventures)

-coffeepaintart (art tag)

-yes I have thought about this cartoon for children designed to sell dolls from almost a decade ago for far too long why do you ask (eah stuff, mostly redesigns)

-circus of hubris-ridden Victorian British men (once every 6 months or so I spiral down a Gothic horror rabbit hole and this is what happens)

- wow there was a lot of jazz hands during that murder (Hatchetfield stuff)

-thinking about those bisexual witches again (Wicked)

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Carrying the human home from cooking lessons

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

I didn't figure out until like the 3/4 mark that Green has two Sonic-style eyes and not one big one with dark sclera. Tbh I like both, I think they're very cute regardless

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Spoiler free notes for deltarune chapter 5: I need everyone to understand how much Queen matters to me right fucking now, she is literally the funniest bitch on the planet and no one will ever be better than her

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

So when I have art block I like to go back and work on old projects and. God, I love Thumbnail Sans. This is peak Sans to me. I'm never gonna capture him better than this

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Still thinking about these freaks with alarming consistency

(I think that there's a couple days where the only food Dorothy can reliably get access to is apples that got thrown at her head. She's not gonna waste food, but she's probably not gonna be seeking out apples again anytime soon lol)

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

If I had a nickel for every time Tom Kenny voiced an academically-minded trusted mentor figure to a supernatural young girl who succumbed to madness due to the influence of an external device made with dubious intentions I would have two nickels. The second nickel comes from fucking Word Girl by the way. Did you know that. Did you know that that's one of the plots in Word Girl

[jadeharleyinc]

embarrassing for toby fox's USAmerican ass to shout "I LOVE TOUHOU BY JAPANESE DEVELOPER ZUN" in the inexplicably japan themed chapter of his USA-small-town-and-western-media themed video game, which he translates only to japanese... just as japanese developer ZUN announces a touhou remake translated to 10 different languages.

is toby fox racist for this? i'm not sure. my issue is that he's bourgeois about it. but it's painful to see and i WILL keep making fun of him for it

[jadeharleyinc]

#what a fucking joke#god forbid an indie game dev makes homages to the games that inspired him to make utdr in the first place🙄🙄#obviously you can hope for more translations but#theres a HUGE difference between an indie game and a huge long-running franchise!!!!!#and toby knows japanese so he can personally verify the quality of the localization#honestly you should be ashamed of making this post#deltarune spoilers

do you usually reblog people but insult them in the tags? lol

i don't know how to tell you this but speaking as an indie game developer it's piss-easy to have your game translated these days

also "indie game dev" means nothing, that man makes millions off his games and millions off the merch other people made for him

game developers do not personally check every translation. that's insane and completely unheard of. instead they do something called "providing the translation team with notes so they can understand the jokes and references" and "localization quality assurance"

actually if you only experienced media thanks to the work and love of translation communities, yeah it's lame to make giant homages to it in your art but give zero love back to translation communities

toby fox is not evil for refusing to translate his games but he is being a copyrightbrained capitalist about it and i'll make fun of him for it <3

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

I just watched Chicago (2002) for the first time and I need to talk to somebody about the costuming and choreography of "We Both Reached for the Gun" because I'm going insane

Her fucking eyelids are accurate. Her EYELIDS. Do you know how fucking hard it is to make a puppet move in a way that actually looks natural? Cause a good ventriloquist does! Do you know how hard it is to mimic the movements of a well-puppeted puppet? No! Because NO ONE FUCKING DOES THAT??? HOLY FUCKING SHIT HER FUCKING EYELIDS FALL AND FLUTTER OPEN WITH THE CORRECT WEIGHT AT THE CORRECT TIME FOR A VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY MOVING IN EXACTLY THAT WAY HOLY FUCKING SHIT BALLS DUDE I'M LOSING MY MIIIIND

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Reaaalllly feeling this one rn. Deltarune today.... Eventually...

[queen-mihai]

It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

[queen-mihai]

Obligatory self reblog because Tumblr doesn't ever let anybody see my stuff unless I literally post it repeatedly

[queen-mihai]

I'd love if you'd reblog this and keep it moving, with love

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Deltarune Chapter 5 and Dandies in Danger 'Behind the Danger' on the same day

[bluefox4]

But, my father kept insisting, the Yeerks on their home world have been peaceful, these years since the attack that destroyed his honor. I didn't point out that the Yeerks on the home world had no choice: An Andalite fleet was parked in orbit above them, ready to shred anything that tried to come or go in the system. p. 34-35

How much does the Yeerk Homeworld know and support the space-faring Yeerks? How much of a split is there on the homeworld? We don't really know. Because their is an Andalite Fleet parked at their homeworld ready to blast everything.

So that also means that Yeerks like Esplin 9466 Prime that were born on the Yeerk spacecraft don't really have the option of just going home if they decide that they don't want to conquer other species. We know that some of the other Yeerks in his training program didn't like it but they really can't just leave.

The Yeerks that went willingly into space are one thing but the Yeerks born in space? They are born probably just to be more soldiers. Get the ones that don't want to fight to become parents because that process kills three Yeerks but get hundreds of new potential soldiers out of the deal. Sounds like a win-win for Yeerk high command. Pressure decenters out (tell them that they need to mate if they aren't going to fight) while getting more troops that you just have to feed the right propaganda to while young.

[zarohk]

OK, but given how little yeerks know about anything beyond their world before the andalites came, and how low-tech they and the gedds are, how many yeerks even though that they are? And of those who do how many even know why?

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

There's a really interesting question about thrownness and settler-colonialism in there. Like, suppose you're a guy with French parents and French culture... and you were born in Algeria in 1904. And you've never seen France. And now it's 1943 and France is occupied by Germany, and they're also invading Algeria.

Like, what do you even do in that position? You could do your best to be nice to your Algerian neighbors, but that won't stop them killing you first chance they get because you're on their parents' land. You could try joining that rumored Anti-Colonial League, but that wouldn't necessarily help Algeria and might even accelerate the rate at which Germany takes over the entire planet. You can't go back to France — it's occupied, you've never been there — but staying in Algeria makes you part of the problem. You could join the military, because at least then you're protecting your own, and you're helping prevent Germany wiping out Algeria entirely... but likely as not you'll get sent to "quell unrest" in Algeria instead.

I dunno. I feel like a lot of the ordinary yeerks are caught in a system too big to do anything about, and probably do their best not to think about it while also telling themselves that at least they're nicer to their hosts than the people on the aquatic hork-bajir project.

[changelingchilde9]

And that's assuming that the Andalites didn't just set the planet on fire and refuse to admit it. That does seem to be their usual MO.

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Interesting point here, especially given that (as far as I remember) the only actual look we get at the Yeerk home world is the chunk of the Time Vortex world that Esplin creates, which isn't even based on memories! It's justust what he thinks it would look like from how others have described it. Who's to say that barren rock and acidic calderas were always the default state of that planet?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

they seriously expected us to worship cops & soldiers when street cleaners and sanitation workers exist? fuck off i know who my heroes are

[tlirsgender]

I heart prey animal rage I love when characters are fucking insane with terror

[tlirsgender]

When they're not dangerous like a hunter but dangerous like a spooked horse kicking your skull in

[tlirsgender]

Let's hear it for prey animal rage let's hear it for killing everyone else in the world before you'll let them catch you

[fitzg3rald]

i get why it happens but i lowkey hate it when people lump lisa swallows in with ginger/jennifer/tamara/etc because while they all were corrupted by some sort of supernatural force lisa was just in it for the love of the game

[purrlockswatson]

Special place in my heart for characters who aren't left with no choice by undeniable circumstances, but choose to fly completely off the handle. They are not just unlucky, they absolutely dug that grave, made that bed and lay in it.

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

Picturing a support group for Women Who Responded to Abusers With Supernatural Violence and they're all talking about how their respective supernatural thing is what pushed them over the edge and when it shifted from "hurting those who hurt me" to "hurting" and what their respective monstrousness did to their view of the world. and then they get to Lisa and she's like

"Hiii, I'm Lisa, I'm undead. I killed my stepmom, some creep, another creep, and maybe a couple others but I didn't check."

"Hi, Lisa. When was your first kill? How long had you been undead?"

"Hm? Oh, no, that happened later."

"Wait what"

"Yeah, it's kind of unrelated tbh."

"... So what caused you to kill, then?"

"Well, my stepmom was threatening to put me in a psych ward and my boyfriend bludgeoned her over the head with my sewing machine."

"Oh, Lisa, that must've been terrible."

"I mean, sure, it was hard to get the stains out of the carpet, but we managed."

"That. That's not..."

"Anyways, once we buried her I figured we might as well keep the ball rolling!"

"..."

"...we?"

"Yeah, me and my boyfriend! He's so supportive."

"??????"

[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[dontmixpaintinyourcoffee]

I love the way this is worded and I completely agree, but also I read "greek chorus" and immediately my brain supplied "what if The Muses"

*Something terrible happens to me*

"Melpomene, you seeing this shit?"