The Adventures Of Erika

She/they. Likes cats, art, and other shit. Feel free to message or ask me stuff, idk. I’m never good at descriptions

[zarla-s]

Hi Zarla! I’ve followed your blog for a fair while now, mostly for handplates and the spamton comics you’re making (which are both amazing btw!), and I’ve seen art and things for “Vargas” over the years (which is also lovely). What actually is Vargas? I’ve tried looking it up and can’t find anything, but would love to get into it as well! If there’s a source for it such as a comic or any other media I’d love a link or an explanation of where to find it/where it came from!

Thank you for getting back to me if you do and thank you for all the wonderful things you make for us!

Ah thank you! :D And actually since I'm reblogging all this Vargastober stuff (which i STILL can't believe is a thing just oh my goooddd aaaaa thank you all so muuuchhh), it might be a good time for a refresher for any new people that've come around. |D

Anyway, Vargas is a VERY long fic I've been writing for a VERY long time about a side character in the Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comics called Edgar Vargas. I did a comic summary of the basic events in Vargas here, and a much longer text post about JTHM in general and how Vargas intersects with it here. A common joke is that Vargas is just... really hard to explain succinctly, haha. It's so long and so much weird and complicated stuff happens in it. I like describing it as a homoerotic psychodrama lol.

[erikatiger]

Reblogging so I can find this easy regularly

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I hope that someone, somewhere, voluntarily and unironically ends up spending New Year’s Eve reading the new chapter of my GRINCH x TONY THE TIGER Fanfic.

It has been read by a nun, blessed by a priest, and received rave reviews up to and including my personal favorite: “the best fic i’ve ever read in bible class“

…wait does the priest thing mean my cursed fic has technically been exorcized

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

got my wish!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

@gaysparklywizard deeply enjoyed your tags!

#i told my siblings about this fanfic  #my younger one couldn’t fucking figure out who tony the tiger was  #and my older one was so confused that they almost crashed the car  #and i was like ‘you want the link?’  #and they just screamed for a second before calmly saying ‘no’

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

NEW CHAPTER

and i can honestly say i am so pleased at how many of you have unwillingly, with the absolute most reluctance, become genuinely emotionally invested in a romantic ship between a cartoon cereal mascot and the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. this is now basically a hostage situation. but like, psychologically

[erikatiger]

FUCK YEAAAAA I BEEN WAITIN FOR THIS

[pukicho]

I’ve seen real life rats, real ones

[erikatiger]

Damn that’s wild

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

“if you liked this title you may enjoy” but with animal species

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

If You Liked [PINE MARTENS]

You May Also Enjoy:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

If You Liked [THE ROSEFINCH]

You Should Try [STRAWBERRY FINCHES]

[salt-gremlin]

Also Try [LEUCISTIC CARDINALS]

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

If you liked [CAPYBARA]

You may enjoy [QUOKKA and BEAVERS]

[rogertaylorsfalsettogivesmehives]

If you like [PIÑA COLADAS]

You may enjoy [GETTING CAUGHT IN THE RAIN]

[ametsunami]

How fucking dare you 

[posts-from-a-weirder-timeline]

If you’re not into [YOGA]

You may instead enjoy [HAVING HALF A BRAIN]

[erikatiger]

If you like [MAKING LOVE AT MIDNIGHT IN THE DUNES ON THE CAPE]

Then I’m [THE LOVE THAT YOU’VE LOOKED FOR] please write to me and escape

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

holy shit my tulips are bigger than yours & i've decided to take that as a sign of moral superiority

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

The Goodly L'rde Smileth Upon Min Own Garden Whilst Thine Vegetables Patch Remaineth Barren Bef're His Watchful Gaze, Margarethe

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

The L'rde Blesseth My Harvest, And In His M'rcifulness Dooms Thine Crops To Wither Ere They Be Sullied By The Touch Of Thy Harlot's Gossiping Lips, Margarethe

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

WEEPETH YOU WHORE

[erikatiger]

My Dutch boyfriend would love this, he loves tulips. Perhaps I’ll get him some when he can finally make it over, see him get all cute. The adorable softboy

[erikatiger]

I got the Puki sweater boiiiiis, just came in the mail today. I’m fuckin hyped!!

[dracogotgame]

So, India is dying.

Look, I know a good number of you are from the US and things aren't amazing there either, but my country is literally on the brink of collapse. So I'd love it if we could talk about that for a minute.

If you can't do anything else, please just read and reblog.

A second COVID wave has taken out the healthcare system. There are no more hospital beds. There's an oxygen shortage. There's a critical vaccine shortage. The Central Government has thrown its hands up and is passing the baton to the State Governments to do what they can.

There are over 16 million covid cases. A record 330,000 new cases reported yesterday - comparable to the US at its peak. 187,000 dead as of today.

There is no plan.

Mass cremations are taking place. The cremation grounds are running day and night and they are short on wood. People are watching their loved ones die while waiting for a hospital bed, and then they're unable to give them the proper burial rights.

Hospitals are overwhelmed. Patients are being confined, two to a bed. They're the lucky ones.

We are on the verge of people dying in the streets.

This is the second-most populous country in the world. The largest democracy. A country that encapsulates over 15,000 years of recorded human history and has endured everything from famine to invasion to colonisation.

We might be at the end. This might be the thing that does us in.

People are dying.

People are dying.

People are dying and there is no plan.

More good news? Variants are popping up. A double mutation strain has shown up. It is resistant to current vaccines. This will not go away. This is the devastation they warned of when the anti-maskers were out protesting the minor inconvenience of covering their face in public.

My country is on the verge of an emergency state. Our government has failed us. This is as dire a situation as it ever could be.

Look. I don't do much with my life. I write fics, some of you have read them and that's pretty much it. I spend my days with my head in the clouds because that's where I like to be.

But two days ago, my grandmother tested positive, had to be taken to hospital and the ambulance caught fire.

She barely made it to the urgent care she needs.

So, here I am, using whatever meager platform I have to cobble this request together. Because I have to do something.

If you can, donate.

Or spread the word.

Help. Please.

[erikatiger]

I’m fuckin losing my mind laughing after making this, I hope y’all enjoy

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

stop forgiving my crimes i worked so hard on those

[the-gin-djinn]

God - “You’re being pardoned”

Gaud - “no no no no no no you can’t do that it’ll nullify my speedrun”

[justsomeweirdbandkid]

Gaud you’re the goddamn funniest being in existence I swear

[the-introverted-extrovert-deact]

Fine, if you don’t want your crimes to be forgiven, you must go in the crime jar.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

FEED ME A GLOW STICK AND USE ME AS ECO FRIENDLY LIGHTING

[7crowsinadress]

This confirms gaud is not bioluminescent, which is a bummer because if they were, you could just shake the jar and theyd glow

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

false! I am bioluminescent but first you have to snap my interior bones to release the glow stick juice

[erikatiger]

How tf do I find the bones? I thought you were pink semi-solid slime???

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

there may have been a short period of time where i, as a child, assumed the word Italic was simply an old fashioned way of referring to Italy

[erikatiger]

Hey Gaud did you know pasta is italic

Hehe

[thegeminisage]

“frugal” eating recipes be like

oh its SO EASY, just buy this fifty dollar item for forty-nine dollars off with a coupon that you can’t find and don’t have time to cut out at a store that doesn’t have outlets in rural areas and then you can fill in the rest with odds and ends that are SURELY already taking up space in your kitchen that you totally somehow forgot about! [photo of a table full of perfectly arranged meats and fresh vegetables] this little family secret is SO easy and delicious just looking at it will make you gain ten pounds ;) so make sure pace yourself! this right here should be enough to stock your fridge for the next ten months at LEAST so you don’t have to worry about the hassle of mealtime again for awhile!

[thegeminisage]

you know what website actually has my motherfucking back? myfridgefood, put all three (3) things in ur cabinets into their site & even if it’s some stupid shit like “bread cheese and pickles“ they’ll still throw at least half a dozen Depression Meals™ your way

[imfemalewarrior]

For my followers! 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[lord-armitage]

Also try Jack Monroe’s Cooking on a Book Strap. Basically austerity meals Jack made for themselves and their young child when they were living on benefits, everything works out at pence a meal. Sidenote: Jack Monroe is a fantastic queer person and activist and you check them out regardless.   

https://cookingonabootstrap.com/

[tygermama]

Budget Bytes -

recipes broken down by cost per recipe and per serving, meal plans, meal prep, tips on stocking a pantry and how to freeze food

[erikatiger]

What was that? Oh I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the clap of my

Fat fucking ass

[prokopetz]

Currently watching a YouTube video of a person watching a different YouTube video.

[karalora]

That’s a relief; if you were watching a YouTube video of a person watching the same YouTube video, that would raise serious questions about the flow of time.

[prokopetz]

I mean, there’s nothing stopping you from livestreaming yourself watching your own livestream.

[erikatiger]

Reminds me of this Jerma bit

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

yes I complain constantly about tumblr's shitty user design that doesn't mean I want them to change anything

[erikatiger]

Oh god no not the Twitter users!!

They’ll cancel us all!!

[pukicho]

honestly surprised no one has tried to make the ocean tiny

[thundercuntvirgin]

Lake

[pukicho]

You think you’re so fucking smart but to snails that is an ocean.

[lovelyloser18]

Puddle

[pukicho]

Don’t make me bring ants into this

[erikatiger]

Raindrop

[pukicho]

Visit Original Link

I don’t know why I’m still up at 6am but I made a whole song tonight and felt like posting it, I don’t even know if I’ll regret uploading it when I wake up but FUCK IT, it BANGS. Please Enjoy, this one is fun, the bass may hurt you

Soundcloud

Spotify soon

[scentednightmaretree]

This fuckin’ slaps

[pukicho]

Thanks, I definitely feel like this one slaps in particular

[erikatiger]

Reblogging because SLAPS

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it is so so important to me that you know about the ancient egyptian god Medjed aka

THE SMITER

meet your new favorite Obscure God! mentioned only once in the Book of the Dead, this little fella "shoots rays of lights from his eyes, yet is unseen." Invisible Laser Eyes Sheet Ghost God!!!

[i-live-in-your-shower]

thats a bit sussy

[erikatiger]

I saw this and had to add a bit more

I hope you all hate it as much as I do