Jack of All Trades, Master of Fun

I'm Neverjay on Tumblr, DA, and @strayjay on twitter. This tumblr is dedicated to joy, unrepentant fangirling, storytelling meta, and webcomic fun.

[silversong79]

Someone: You can’t sum up the entirety of Peregrin Took with one sentence!

Me, an intellectual:

[neverjay]

Updated my twst room for summer festivities. ☆

[chronicyurning]

hey so when Grace gets knocked out the emergency light literally makes a line across his throat. yk. like he’s getting his head chopped off. like he’s dying. like the petrova line is killing him.

[letsdontdie]

Put them in less stressful situations!!

[zaerxa]

Do not separate them! ☁️

[agathah]

Arkco sketch I made on my new sketchbook

[ankle-beez]

sheep detectives is finally out on digital which means i can show you guys one of the funniest movie scenes of the year so far

[bisexualbaker]

Happy Moon Landing Eve! Remember to leave out milk and cookies for Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and don’t let Michael Collins convince you to prank NASA!

[bisexualbaker]

If Tumblr is still here next July 19th, I fully expect this post to obliterate my activity feed.

[niuniente]

[rat-facts]

listen this isn’t rat related but I’m going off the walls right now this is literally so fucking funny

[his-shining-tears]

You are what you eat.

[blujayonthewing]

So it occurred to me that ‘grawlix’ is sort of an obscure and specialized word, but what I didn’t know until I was googling around just now is that it was actually invented by cartoonist Mort Walker in his 1980 book The Lexicon of Comicana, in which he categorizes (and invents terminology for) all kinds of visual cues and shorthand commonly used in comics

In other news, this is now right up there with The Meaning of Liff as ‘books of made up words I desperately need to own”

[knitpool]

Important

[boweldisruptions]

heck yeah

[kazechama]

“As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them.”

—

Ursula Le Guin

[soursoppi]

let it snow~ ❄️

[peachfromcmbyn]

Screw writing “strong” cats write Practical cats, dramatical cats, pragmatical cats, fanatical cats, Oratorical cats, Delphic Oracle cats, skeptical cats, dispeptical cats romantical cats, pedantical cats, critical cats, parasitical cats, rom-

[wanologic]

re:mind’s updated rating, amirite?

[stealingpotatoes]

Do you have a favorite of the qiflings?

yes (coco) but also can you ever truly have one favourite qifling? they're a multipack you have to keep them together

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[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I don't know how you'd set it up but it would be really funny to force Tobias into a mission where he HAS to morph some other Bird of Prey because he would spend the entire time complaining endlessly about how the tail feathers are all wrong or something.

That would be amazing! God knows Tobias doesn't have nearly enough problems, and definitely needs more.

The obvious one would be a night mission that forces him to give in and just acquire a damn owl already. It's so funny to me that he goes the whole series without that morph, despite its obvious utility, out of sheer stubbornness. But even Tobias would (grudgingly) use owl if there was a mission that needed a very skilled flier at night. Heck, he might even enjoy it despite himself.

I could see him being forced into golden eagle morph if they need to carry a lot of weight in raptor shape — maybe he's assisting a fellow Animorph in snake form to the battle, like in #21. Tobias would haaaate it, but he'd probably also see the point in needing a shape that big.

Alternately, could there be a mission with a lot of close-quarters speed flying where he has to take on his other nemesis, the peregrine falcon? Maybe something where the Animorphs attack a yeerk base on the side of a cliff and need an ultra-fast getaway. I could also see Tobias — through his teeth — admitting that peregrine falcon is cool, the way he does with mallard. Golden eagle would probably be the only one he would never ever come around on, since he sees them as bullies and for him that'll always be a hard "no."

[chekhovs-raygun]

hey you know what i just realized? tobias goes the entire series without ever once complaining about red-winged blackbirds. this is unbelievable. in spring the horny little bastards do absolutely nothing but a) bweedleBWEEEEEEE and b) bodyslam every single raptor they can find.

i have seen so many miserable hawks falling out of trees under the pingpong barrage of enthusiastically deranged alpha bro blackbird aggro. i have seen an owl waddling along the edge of a cornfield as these guys do highschool jock crimes to their head. i have seen a blue heron get bodychecked into the water. i have seen so many ravens go down like cool goths getting hit by a firehose. i have seen falcons doing us airforce evasive maneuvers to get away, and failing. i have seen an actual factual bald eagle making the sad piccolo noise of a baby elf forsaken by god as it desperately tries to gain altitude with these tiny monsters hanging off its ass.

i can only surmise that tobias's feelings for red-winged blackbirds can't be printed in a middle grade novel series about wartime bodyhorror atrocities because the entirety of the thought is just:

FUCK.

[manyblinkinglights]

#tobias's silence on the red-winged blackbird situation is telling