pilky! pilky! pilky!

‼️ FORMERLY @smerchanted‼️ sophie 20 autistic based in texas

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intro post so that i dont have to cram everything into my bio 🦕

da basics: i’m sophie, my pronouns are she/her, i identify as unlabeled (bc i’m still questioning my sexuality), i’m from texas, and i’m 19 years old! nice to meet you :3

warnings n stuff:

‼️ i am autistic!! if you feel so inclined, please use tone indicators whenever possible :3 i can usually pick up jokes, sarcasm, etc. but some tones are a little trickier for me.

‼️ i do not post NSFW on my page, nor do i draw it, so this page is relatively safe for minors! this is both personal preference bc i want my page to be safe for everyone, and bc its lowkey weird to look at idk 😭

‼️ i am a full time college student so artposting (and posting in general tbh) does tend to get really dry during semesters

‼️ DNI list:

homophobic, transphobic, TERF, racist, sexist, etc. (the basics ig 🚶)

proship (loud get out sound effect)

anyone under 13 (terms of service)

autism speaks apologists and supporters /srs

if u dont like seals and horses /j

my interests!!! :D

my special interest has been the ricky gervais show and its associated media & people since 2017! we haven’t been fed in literally years so any interaction about them / fanmade content is so so so lovely :3 my fav is karl (if that isn’t glaringly obvious), but i love steve too! i only like ricky’s stuff pre-2006 ish (extras being the cutoff) because… yuck

my other interests / hyperfixations include:

metalocalypse (i do not like the music of dethklok tho so uhh…….. awk)

breaking bad and better call saul

madchester and britpop music and culture, more on that later (ask me about my pookies)

adult swim in general - shows like aqua teen hunger force, the venture bros, king of the hill, etc.

the 1975 (probably my fav “current” band)

i actually love sports very much, especially bc of college :3

my fav people / characters (both real and fictional):

karl pilkington obvi

stephen merchant

ricky gervais (to a certain extent……..)

charles offdensen (metalocalypse)

saul goodman (better call saul)

jesse pinkman (breaking bad)

jarvis cocker

damon albarn

wheatley (portal 2)

simon (rain dogs - char in my PFP)

rainbow dash (mlp:fim)

george harrison

fav music:

the 1975

the smiths (tomodachi life super all time fav) and their associated solo work

oasis

blur

pulp

suede

the beatles

gorillaz (my first ever real fandom 🤍)

the stone roses

the psychedelic furs

radiohead

random fun facts about me :3

i do colorguard full time in the fall

i collect records and i am the proud owner of the blue album

i am currently on my 2nd relisten of RSK on XFM + the podcasts and audiobooks

i own every single karl pilkington book

i’m trying to start a DVD collection, but right now the only real “valuables” i have are ATHF volume one, the office full series, arrested development full series (?), and a random frisky dingo i got from my dad 🚶

i can’t drive

i do all my art using procreate :3

i have not used the term “smerchette” to describe myself since like 2019

ASK ME ABOUT MY REDBUBBLE SHOP!!!!!

ok i think thats all for now bye :3

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in honor of super bowl sunday, i present to you dethklok’s NFL teams of choice

nathan - the tampa bay buccaneers, since he’s canonically from the tampa area

pickles - the chicago bears. he wanted absolutely nothing to do with wisconsin when he ran away from home, which included the green bay packers. so he started rooting for their main rival out of spite

murderface - the arizona cardinals, since i 100% believe the headcanon that he’s from arizona (SCOTTSDALE!)

toki - the detroit lions, because even the big cats are really cute cats to him. could be applicable to the cincinnati bengals or the jacksonville jaguars too

skwisgaar - he doesn’t care about football but he’ll watch the bucs with nathan. pirates are brutal, anyway

charles - the new york giants, because of my headcanon that he’s from new jersey

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bringing this back because it’s draft day!

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in honor of super bowl sunday, i present to you dethklok’s NFL teams of choice

nathan - the tampa bay buccaneers, since he’s canonically from the tampa area

pickles - the chicago bears. he wanted absolutely nothing to do with wisconsin when he ran away from home, which included the green bay packers. so he started rooting for their main rival out of spite

murderface - the arizona cardinals, since i 100% believe the headcanon that he’s from arizona (SCOTTSDALE!)

toki - the detroit lions, because even the big cats are really cute cats to him. could be applicable to the cincinnati bengals or the jacksonville jaguars too

skwisgaar - he doesn’t care about football but he’ll watch the bucs with nathan. pirates are brutal, anyway

charles - the new york giants, because of my headcanon that he’s from new jersey

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ASTRID HAS A TWITTER!!!!! go follow, interact, and leave some gimmicks on her strawpage!!!! :3

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for all 0 of you that are interested, i made a topster for astrid’s favorite things! birthday art coming soon :3

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Mastering a new fandom.

Practicing drawing Charles Offdensen.

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Pulp – ‘Do You Remember The First Time’

This is my single favourite Pulp song which isn’t directly about class. There is a level of ambiguity to this song which fascinates me, hinging on the line oh god // it must be great // to be straight. Yeah yeah yeah, it’s probably not meant to be taken like that. Maybe. But the funny thing about Pulp and Britpop is that Pulp was so antithetical to so much of what made Britpop, well, Britpop. There’s nothing laddish about Jarvis Cocker. He is androgynous and something about him is constantly shifting, making him impossible to get a fix on. What if the point of the song is ambiguity? What if the pronouns are ambiguous on purpose?

There was an intense laddishness about Britpop, all about leering at a bird’s tits and then having a fight outside a pub. Blur would be somewhere more upmarket, some sort of fucking yuppie wine bar, obviously, but it was still doggedly, suffocatingly heterosexual. Of course the simplistic explanation is that the lyric refers to someone 'straight-laced’, but. The trick to many Pulp songs is that the narrator isn’t Jarvis. But I’ve always wondered if the trick to this song is that it is. Or, to take it slightly differently, that you’re to treat the voice singing the song, a male voice, as possibly not-straight. When he wants a piece left for him, is it from the girl or the boy? Why does the narrator seem to think that his loneliness is caused by some sort of external pressure? 

THIS IS ALL CONJECTURE OBVIOUSLY DON’T SEND ME WEIRD HATEMAIL. But there’s something about the way Jarvis spits out the word straight live, that has always made me wonder. Jarvis who’s kissed his mates, had bisexual thoughts. I struggle to believe that someone as careful with words as Jarvis Cocker wouldn’t have realised the ambiguity to the word 'straight’. Wouldn’t have noticed how ambiguous the song is overall. But who knows? That’s what’s fun about music in general, about Pulp more specifically: sometimes their stuff is shockingly direct, sometimes you never quite know at all. It’s nice not to know. It’s nice to have this song mean something to me that it might never have meant to the man who sings it. MUSIC’S GREAT, INNIT.

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lazy days (and nights!!)

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kloktober day 1: the most metal member of dethklok ⚙️☕️👔

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a thought

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Just a couple weeks until the end of September, so you know what that means!

Kloktober is almost upon us! 🎃🦇

What is Kloktober?: An incredibly zazzy event taking place in October where we celebrate all things Metalocalypse. There’s a prompt for every day of the month to interpret as you see fit! Draw, write, cosplay, make memes, whatever you like - all forms of participation are welcome!

How do I participate?: Make your totally brutal creation inspired by the day’s prompt and post it using the tag #kloktober2024 - it’s just that simple! Post it here, post it to Twitter, post it to AO3, post it to Instagram, wherever you usually post your creative stuff!

But am I allowed to–YUP, ANYTHING GOES! There are no wrong answers during Kloktober! ✨ However you decide to interpret a prompt, it's valid! If you only want to do a few days, or even just manage to do one, that’s also completely valid. Please don't burn yourself out or stress, this is for fun!

What if I don't vibe with one of the prompts? No worries! If there's a prompt that doesn't suit you, please feel free to reach back in time and choose a prompt from a previous year's Kloktober (2023, 2022, 2021, or 2020). And as always, if you have any questions about anything, hit me up!

(plain text version of the prompts are below for anyone who needs them!)

your favorite character

your favorite relationship

horror movie crossover

dressed to kill

use a self-insert or OC

road trip or drug trip

furryklok or demonklok

a favorite headcanon

use someone's parents

bravery or cowardice

inspired by your culture

tattoos or piercings

create-a-skwigelf

use a Halloween treat

one year after AOTD

costume party or sleepover party

use the ghost of a dead character

palling around with another band

what if they never got famous?

Abigail Appreciation Day!

use two character who never met

too much booze or too much sugar

Dethklok as a different music genre

fix them or make them worse

inspired by a metal song

post-apocalypse or cyberpunk

bring back a one-off character

conspiracy theory or propaganda

birthday or funeral

HALLOWEEN!!!

YOUR choice!

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my HUSBAND 💜

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GUESS WHOS BACK FROM THE FUCKING GRAVE

prob drawing the other 2 soon - this was just a lil doodle bc i finished my readings for the day 😛 this is also technically a redraw from 2021 bc i used the same pose / expression / whatever

also gonna be using these guys in my intro to narrative class - only as placeholders tho - for a story i’m thinking about 🙈

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metalocalypse tumblr: i am currently planning on doing an art thing involving the boys + charles cheering on their fav college teams because college football is officially back!! i just need to figure out what teams skwisgaar and toki would rep (the other four were pretty easy).

so far i have:

charles - princeton because of my headcanon

nathan - florida state because he’s from florida and he’d definitely think osceola and renegade are totally metal

murderface - arizona because he has a very weird infatuation with arizona for whatever reason (as seen in renovationklok)

pickles - wisconsin because he’s from there

the closest thing i have for skwisgaar is wake forest only because it matches his color palette, and because he’d probably think the idea of “demon deacons” is moderately brutal. as for toki i’m completely lost. i could go the “really cool cat” route and pick a school with a cat mascot, but thats WAYYYY too many schools to narrow down. i also thought about a team with a bear mascot because of deaddy bear, or georgia tech because of the “not a bumblebee” thing.

anyways, if you somehow like both metalocalypse and college sports, help a girl out :3

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YALL REALLY DO BRING THIS BACK EVERY SEPTEMBER

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I just noticed that September is spelled wrong

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it’s the 17th of august

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