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Just a saltwater Vaporeon with thoughts and fandoms. (Queer, adult, furry, he/him.) AO3 | Ko-Fi | fic commissions Heinz Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus are boyfrienemeses in love and you can't convince me otherwise.

[revenblue]

suppose I should do the pinned post thing shouldn‘t I

queer adult furry.

perryshmirtz shipper. homestuck fan. I like weird mashups and weird roguelikes.

I reblog what I want, when I want, tags optional

my ao3 is under the same name

please don't interact if you're gonna tag with "q slur" or variations, or if you're going to defend the character assassination that is MMLs2. I don't want that in my notes and I will block. (for other things too as I feel like it)

post may be edited later as I think of things

[thickness-protection-program]

Why is this heat so hot 😩

[fagapult]

It’s the heat

[thickness-protection-program]

Source?

[mamoswole]

[thickness-protection-program]

[pepsimansthickjuicymeatyschlong]

[prokopetz]

Be honest: do you REALLY go back later and read all those posts you tagged "read later"?

Every day like clockwork

Not regularly, but I get to them eventually

Well, I do my best

My "read later" tag is a monument to my hubris

I don't have a "read later" tag because I don't reblog posts I haven't read

I have never read a post in my life – not even this one

Cheese sandwich

Voting ended onAug 21, 2024

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[revenblue]

#bro is so cat coded

Peer-reviewing these tags because they’re right but also I want to talk more about this.

Perry, in pet mode, has pet cat vibes but also imo pet dog vibes as well (it’s implied he plays tug-of-war with Phineas sometimes, plus playing fetch). Just generic pet mammal tropes in a platypus body.

And I have my theory as to how that happened. So, Perry was likely raised entirely in OWCA, complete with agent training at The Academy. The Academy likely trains animals now so they can become agents (though they trained humans in the past).

In agent mode, Perry doesn’t really act that animal-like.

So my theory is, training at The Academy involves training agents-to-be out of their natural instincts so they can be better agents. Then, afterwards, they’re given more training for their cover identity where they’re taught how to act like “a pet”, in a species-agnostic sort of way.

End result: a platypus who acts like a cat sometimes (this image) and a dog at other times, in service of his cover identity as a mindless domestic pet. And almost like a human occasionally too (agent mode).

(The effect this has on his perception of his species is… a headcanon for another time. But suffice to say it’s something else he and Heinz have in common.)

[puppiesareperfect]

I would also add that Perry lets himself slip into whatever platypus instincts look like while in pet mode.

Case in point: eats entire apple core

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or maybe he is also part horsne.

[revenblue]

I don’t think “eat entire apple” is something platypuses have instincts for XD

So, horsne it is.

[puppiesareperfect]

Honestly, yeah! Dan and Swampy have definitely said before that part of the reason they chose a platypus was because they could make some stuff up. So Perry just having traits of a bunch of animals makes sense as does your theory. That being said we do see him do platypus specific stuff sometimes! In “Primal Perry” there’s a scene where he uses his bill to dig up something underwater which is how platypuses hunt in the wild. Also the swimming stuff comes pretty naturally (no surprise there)

[revenblue]

And I suspect another part of the reason is to avoid the dalmatian effect, or whatever it’s called. (When a piece of media popularises a specific animal or breed, kids beg their parents for one, but then it turns out they were not equipped for the actual care of one and often take it to a shelter. Whatever that’s called. Happened with 101 Dalmatians for one.)

Primal Perry was late enough in the show that they’d had time to actually research platypus behaviour instead of just winging it all the time XD (Or realised they had to do actual research to make a platypus-themed episode work.)

And one of the fun parts for me is coming up with headcanons/theories for why/how all their winging it makes sense in-universe after all :P

(Obligatory gesture towards doylist vs watsonian explanations/analysis.)

[puppiesareperfect]

This is also true! Perry was very much made a platypus to prevent families taking on a pet they wouldn’t care for well. I think having him be a platypus specifically was a good choice because there is no possible way to obtain one as a pet. According to the wiki they considered making him a capybara at some point. Considering capybaras (especially recently) have been sold and transported illegally as pets, I’m glad that he’s a platypus (nothing against capybaras though).

[revenblue]

#they also said they wanted to have THE platypus character#and I think they succeeded

They absolutely did.

And yeah, I'm glad they made him a platypus. Very good choice on their part.

[soulful-sin-deactivated20210805]

[revenblue]

#bro is so cat coded

Peer-reviewing these tags because they’re right but also I want to talk more about this.

Perry, in pet mode, has pet cat vibes but also imo pet dog vibes as well (it’s implied he plays tug-of-war with Phineas sometimes, plus playing fetch). Just generic pet mammal tropes in a platypus body.

And I have my theory as to how that happened. So, Perry was likely raised entirely in OWCA, complete with agent training at The Academy. The Academy likely trains animals now so they can become agents (though they trained humans in the past).

In agent mode, Perry doesn’t really act that animal-like.

So my theory is, training at The Academy involves training agents-to-be out of their natural instincts so they can be better agents. Then, afterwards, they’re given more training for their cover identity where they’re taught how to act like “a pet”, in a species-agnostic sort of way.

End result: a platypus who acts like a cat sometimes (this image) and a dog at other times, in service of his cover identity as a mindless domestic pet. And almost like a human occasionally too (agent mode).

(The effect this has on his perception of his species is… a headcanon for another time. But suffice to say it’s something else he and Heinz have in common.)

[puppiesareperfect]

I would also add that Perry lets himself slip into whatever platypus instincts look like while in pet mode.

Case in point: eats entire apple core

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or maybe he is also part horsne.

[revenblue]

I don’t think “eat entire apple” is something platypuses have instincts for XD

So, horsne it is.

[puppiesareperfect]

Honestly, yeah! Dan and Swampy have definitely said before that part of the reason they chose a platypus was because they could make some stuff up. So Perry just having traits of a bunch of animals makes sense as does your theory. That being said we do see him do platypus specific stuff sometimes! In “Primal Perry” there’s a scene where he uses his bill to dig up something underwater which is how platypuses hunt in the wild. Also the swimming stuff comes pretty naturally (no surprise there)

[revenblue]

And I suspect another part of the reason is to avoid the dalmatian effect, or whatever it's called. (When a piece of media popularises a specific animal or breed, kids beg their parents for one, but then it turns out they were not equipped for the actual care of one and often take it to a shelter. Whatever that's called. Happened with 101 Dalmatians for one.)

Primal Perry was late enough in the show that they'd had time to actually research platypus behaviour instead of just winging it all the time XD (Or realised they had to do actual research to make a platypus-themed episode work.)

And one of the fun parts for me is coming up with headcanons/theories for why/how all their winging it makes sense in-universe after all :P

(Obligatory gesture towards doylist vs watsonian explanations/analysis.)

[soulful-sin-deactivated20210805]

[revenblue]

#bro is so cat coded

Peer-reviewing these tags because they’re right but also I want to talk more about this.

Perry, in pet mode, has pet cat vibes but also imo pet dog vibes as well (it’s implied he plays tug-of-war with Phineas sometimes, plus playing fetch). Just generic pet mammal tropes in a platypus body.

And I have my theory as to how that happened. So, Perry was likely raised entirely in OWCA, complete with agent training at The Academy. The Academy likely trains animals now so they can become agents (though they trained humans in the past).

In agent mode, Perry doesn’t really act that animal-like.

So my theory is, training at The Academy involves training agents-to-be out of their natural instincts so they can be better agents. Then, afterwards, they’re given more training for their cover identity where they’re taught how to act like “a pet”, in a species-agnostic sort of way.

End result: a platypus who acts like a cat sometimes (this image) and a dog at other times, in service of his cover identity as a mindless domestic pet. And almost like a human occasionally too (agent mode).

(The effect this has on his perception of his species is… a headcanon for another time. But suffice to say it’s something else he and Heinz have in common.)

[puppiesareperfect]

I would also add that Perry lets himself slip into whatever platypus instincts look like while in pet mode.

Case in point: eats entire apple core

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A post shared by Holy Church of Perry The Platypus (@thephineasandferbpage)

or maybe he is also part horsne.

[revenblue]

I don't think "eat entire apple" is something platypuses have instincts for XD

So, horsne it is.

[plutosoda]

unlucky

[metamorphosemachine]

hello 2 dicey dungeons fans i come bearing gifts (mostly robot)

[cosmos-dot-semicolon]

*slaps inventor's head* this bad cube can fit so much hubris in her!

[pancakemolybdenum]

prom?????? idk. this has been your quarter yearly homestuck post

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that what's brilliant about The Far Side is how it can imply an entire narrative with only a single panel. It's sequential art without the sequence. Like this one

There's the obvious implication of what's going to happen in the future (there's going to be a hunt), but it also stretches into the past: what circumstances in the anthropology of this group of cavemen must have happened to establish a tradition of dancing with Woolly Mammoths? Why does it, in spite of it's obvious absurdity, feel kind of right that there should be a dance before the cavemen and the mammoths engage in mortal combat? The reluctant fearful expression on the caveman at the bottom; is this his first hunt? Are those his elders trying to reassure him? Does the one mammoth actually seem to fancy him? What about the one looking fearfully back at his friends? How does he feel that the others aren't there to reassure him? One of the mammoths in the upper right looks just as fearful as the cavemen; why? etc.

And all of this is purely evoked. There's only simple line-drawing and two sentences of text, but you see it and it reminds you of other sorts of narratives you've seen or experienced, and your brain constructs a whole temporal sequence; and any possible answer you could get to above the questions would never be as satisfying as what your brain fills in.

I could write an entire essay about this.

[a-book-of-creatures]

[bogleech]

The professor Jenkins one was the funniest thing in the whole world to me when I saw it in a Sunday paper. Now this type of humor is much more common but it's still my favorite. It's what some people always confused with "random" or "nonsense" humor, but the humor isn't in a lack of logic, the humor is in the fact that we were excluded from that logic.

[pocketbeastie-deactivated202207]

So one time, one of my guy friends said, “I’m pretty sure I’m straight but I’ve never slept with a man so how do I know for sure if I’m not bisexual or gay” and so he actually went and picked up a guy, had sex with him and after ward he said, “Well that was fun but I appear to be straight.” and just went on with his life without making a big deal about his dip into homosexuality and really, I think everybody should be this relaxed about sexualities

[paper-mario-wiki]

Do you have any guiding principles when organizing an outfit?

strive to look like a player avatar from a 2000s web based mmorpg (e.g. gaia online)

[paper-mario-wiki]

think about all the cool accessories in those games. the halo is an obvious one. my clown nose is another. a favorite of mine red and blue 3d glasses. all of these things are things that nobody wears in real life. why? why not? theyre unobtrusive and look dope.

a highschool looking kid stopped me while i was walking my dog today. he stopped way ahead of where i was walking and stared at me the entire time i walked up to him. he asked me "why are you wearing that ring of light?" pointing at my halo. and i said "i just like to look like this" and only skipping half a beat he said "thats gangster" and i said "would you believe me if i told you i was wearing a clown nose earlier?" and he looked at me like i was a hilarious puzzle. and he said "you know what? have an amazing evening".

that's fashion baby.

[paper-mario-wiki]

i've got great news for you: there's an entire community of people who lovingly hand craft reasonably priced accessories and sell them, just like people who level crafting classes to sell accessories on the community marketplace In Hit RPG Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. and im not talking about fursuits, i mean just accessories.

here's tails, ears, reusable fangs, big paw gloves and small paw gloves (which are on sale at the time of posting), and while i couldnt specifically find a rainbow cotton candy cloud, i was able to find a pretty classy cloud headband that lights up from inside the cloud.

there ARE accessories out there, people. you just have to think to go get them.

[arajionator]

LOT OF PLATYPUS

[sevenelevenprophet]

The best thing I’ve learned this week is that some alcohol has a pear inside the bottle

How did it get in there? Like this of course

Bottles are slid over young fruits and tied to the trunk for stability. This makes them very difficult to care for and frankly the goofiest looking pear tree I’ve ever seen but am I going to buy a bottle of this just to stare at it? Probably.

[tobreakandblossom]

of course, this is exactly the same method that’s used for ships in bottles too

[lesbianralzarek]

do you think they know how much they contributed to online literacy? to the spirit of curiousity? to the idea of doing research yourself instead of always having it laid out in front of you?

[onithelovedemon]

[raychleadele]

“Why did you follow this person ? uwu”

I’ve been here for fourteen years, do you think I remember? I don’t know who any of these people are anymore. I don’t know why they’re on my dash. I allow them to stay because they haven’t pissed me off enough to unfollow them yet. “Why did you follow this person?” I’m not sure I ever did. They’re just part of my ecosystem now.