#alcohol trigger warning

[croakerverse-lore]

Lore fact: Hangover 👎🏻

[wordupcomics]

Part 2 of answering this ask

@differentcollectivecycle3 Trigger Warning: Alcohol

2- While I won't speak on Johnson or TJ, I like how you handle Becky's Alcohol addiction; while you notably say that Becky is a "High functioning Alcoholic" (playing into the trope where aliens don't have an effect of alcohol like humans do). She still struggles with the expectations placed onto her from Bob or the city at young, repeated through the story. She still remains that good person that she is, but isn't infantilized from problems that a normal person has.

Fun fact, this whole aspect just kinda happened accidentally. I realized I had a lot of moments, all in the past I believe, where Becky justifies drinking because she's been stressed, and just decided to start leaning into it a little bit, enough for it to be a problem to be discussed, but not so exaggerated that it doesn't feel like Becky anymore.

Part of the problem is that Becky is denial about why she will turn to a bit of alcohol to take the edge off. The first time she allowed herself that freedom, she did acknowledge that the reason was due to the pressures of being WordGirl and the pressures put on her by the city. However, as time went on, and especially now that she isn't WordGirl anymore, she will deny that this plays any roll. And as for the pressure Bob put on her, that's complicated... Becky, at no point in her life, would ever attribute her "needing to destress" to be related to pressure that Bob put on her. She doesn't even really acknowledge that Bob did put any pressure on her, at least no more than a typical parent would. (And Bob doesn't consider himself to have put that much pressure on her either, but that reality is going to get shattered for him soonish.) But the reality is, whether he intended to or not, he did put a lot of pressure on her, that lasted even after he had left.

I'm trying to portray the former-kid-now-adult characters not as taller versions of themselves who can now drive and work, but as people who grew up into into adults based on their experiences. This is part of the reason I've decided to go for a more adult theme, I want to give the characters the freedom to portray them as real adults just trying to get through life.

[somelazyassartist]

Idk how people drink for fun, even the "tastiest" alcohol I have invokes something akin to drinking drain cleaner in flavor. Even when diluted with something actually good. I don't get it

[merimerz]

some SI-5 doodles, design as always by ester-gal ✨

[mollysfoundfamily]

What are the epithet erased folks like when they're drunked?

Oh ho ho ho this is going to be fun! ( alcohol and drunk Tigger warning though)

Molly: No. No. No. No. no alcohol for the baby. EVER! Percy doesn’t even anything that even looks like it get close to her and her young still forming brain!! the others have kind of an unspoken rule about it to. SHES. JUST. TOO. PURE.

she hasn’t told them that her dad used to let her drink pumpkin spice beer at thanksgiving yet.

Sylvie: Don’t tell percy but Sylvie drinks wine the most respectable and classy of all adult beverages when he’s at office parties. The others are reluctant to let a 15 year old do it but he insists he‘s more then responsible enough. It’s purely to study the complex flavors anyway (he’ll never admit it but they all taste like expired cough syrup to him) not to get totally inebriated for the sake of it.... that part happened on accident. It only takes about one glass to do it and He goes into beef beef sheep mode but as a drunken out loud ramble. He comes up with alot of “ground braking theories“ when he gets like this too. He was once convinced that motion wasn’t real it‘s just an illusion our brains cook up to help us cope with our frozen world!!! He’ll just keep rambling and hiccuping for hours every once and a while admitting something very very embarrassing like How he doesn’t know what half the big words he uses mean or that his coffee is actually just chocolate milk until he eventually passes out on top of a pile of very tipsy sheep sucking his thumb.... which is usually fallowed by a visit from a very very glitchy beefton Who has fish fins for some reason because drunk dreams apparently aren’t as stable as regular dreams.

Giovanni: Gio doesn’t even really like alcohol (mostly because of Debby) but sneaks into bars every now and then because underage drinking is a major crime!! He can’t stomach anything unless it’s drowned in sweet strawberry staved ice or a million different juices and of course a tiny umbrella and it only takes one of those to get him waisted... His whole face flushes totally red even his ears! He’s somehow even louder and more obnoxious then usual! Dancing on tables swinging form ceiling fans yelling at strangers who don’t tip or harass The bar tenders and getting into fist fights with them which he usually loses (making out with crusher that one time) his few inhibitions completely out the window along with the Bar‘s jukebox.... it’s the only time he’s ever committed any kind of real crimes. Then on the second on he just Starts maniacally laughing and crying at the same time. Its actually pretty scary to witness so thank goodness Bear trap ain’t around. Until It eventually just becomes crying about all the mean stuff he did and how great it is but how it’s awful too and how he doesn’t wanna be mean but you have to be mean to be a bad guy so does that mean he doesn’t wanna be a bad guy? and really feels like he should have taken that four year baseball scholarship to the city’s top medical College!!

Mera: She’s a little harder to get waisted mostly Because she has to be really careful not to brake the fancy glasses her drinks come in. When she does it only makes her get more grumpy and makes her start scream ranting about how terrible life is and how terrible people are and just how much everything and everyone sucks all the time... expect for Indus

her affection for him is turned up a hundred fold she’ll throw herself on top of him and nuzzle into him like a kitty squeezing his muscles! She’ll ramble on about how he’s the handsomest sweetest person in the history of ever and how she doesn’t deserve him and just wants to kiss his big dumb face and from there it trails off into.... pg 13 territory untill she passes out and a very red faced indus has to carry her home.

Indus: Indus is also pretty hard to get drunk since he’s so huge it’s only ever happened once. It was from one to many of those wooden pints of ale at this theme bar because of course it was. Everyone there thought he was an actor or something and kept asking for selfies because he kept singing broken warrior drinking ballets and challenging people to drinking contests which only made things worse. After winning about 5 he couldn’t say too words without braking into giggle fit or hiccuping his head off. It would have been kinda cute if he hadn’t also lost all motor control, completely forgot how strong he was and smashed almost everything and everyone he came in contact with. He hugged about 7 people into the hospital, smashed a hole on the bar. and then tried to fight a forklift. But he probably would have done that last one anyway.

Percy: (aka the one you’re all waiting for) Has only ever taken a drink once in her life. Ramsey thought Champagne would be a good way to celebrate after closing a big case together... he has never regretted anything so much. She took one sip and she was immediately completely intoxicated a Drunken delinquent unable to control her own actions or the already rapidly forming addition she was suffering from. But she would work as hard as she could to get sober and decided to check herself into the nearest rehab center. He tried to stop her but she was determined to go strait there but she wouldn’t allow herself to operate a motor vehicle under such conditions so she decided to walk there right through the middle of heavy traffic. Once again totally unable to control her rash decisions. He eventually got her to come back thankfully without getting hit. Only for her to run straight into a stop sign. She got back up again immediately and acted like nothing was wrong even though blood was pooring out of her swelled up nose! He tried to take her to the hospital but she insisted on staying to defend her honor again the offending sign as irrational displays of strength was a common drunken activity. But electrocuting it was probably not the best idea since it sort of acted as a lightning rod and fired the underground wires the ran underneath it blacking out the next 5 city blocks. The video of the whole thing when viral and Percy uses as an example of the dangers of alcohol For the kids.

Ramsey: The man can afford freaking gold laced Champagne but chooses box rosé in the basement watching Adam Sandler movies like the king he is.

But somehow with out fail he will always always always wake up the next morning in the master sweet of a yacht he just bought with a bunch of passed out strangers half of which are furries in a giant pile of money totally unable to move his face because of the back ally Botox he got done. wearing nothing but his boxers, gold chains with a little gold rats on them, and solid gold crocks still holding that box of rosé....

Zora: We’ve done drunk Zora art here before she’s pretty much exactly what you would expect downing whisky and beer left and right just to see how far she can go!! Her competitiveness goes through the roof and she’s challenging anyone to anything darts, arm wrestle, poole, russian roulette, jump rope, anything she was one of the said people Indus got into a drinking contest with and the only one he lost too! She really isn’t that much different then her usual self since she drinks pretty regularly and has the highest tolerance out of everyone.

extra because I had too!!

Howie: It seems like its impossible to get him drunk. His worker bees get him to try and loosen up a little because like it or not he needs it. But he’s already downed 10 giant beers and seems totally the same.... until he gets a call about a new job gets up and walks right through the wall of the bar leaving a Howie shaped hole behind him.

[amelias-wardrobe]

Niall’s most recent Insta post is a little too far away to show the temple or hinge detail on Amelia’s sunglasses, which is what would allow me to ID them 100%. However, two really strong possibilities are: Warby Parker Morgan in Rosemary Crystal ($95 USD) Oliver Peoples O’Malley Sun in Dusk Blue with Carbon Grey lenses ($451 USD)

If you want your own, cheaper dupes of these guys your best search keywords are “crystal blue acetate round sunglasses” 🥰always wear sunglasses outside to protect your eyes!

[glassesmcfancyhair]

Sobriety pro-tip:

Keep fancy glasses around. Use them frequently. Develop a crippling addiction to fizzy water (get a favorite brand! Defend it vigorously!).

Sometimes you just want the aesthetic of the cocktail tumbler. The class of the martini glass. Sometimes you just want to pretend it’s a highball, dammit.

So pretend. Get stupid fancy with your beverages. Learn how to make syrups (it’s so, so easy, I promise! Bother me enough and I’ll make a separate post with all my fruit and tea syrups). Keep them in cute labeled jars in your fridge. Be ridiculously self indulgent about the tea you buy. The coffee. Give yourself a beverage experience that is better than alcohol ever was to you.

[totally-correct-batfam-and-co]

Young Jason, leaning close to Dick at a gala: Hey Dick?

Dick: Yeah?

Jason: I know that the guy over there is part of the drug cartel we are trying to stop and I wanted your help to make his stock plummet or something. But Bruce told us to behave

Dick already crossing the room to him: Listen, this is a piece of advice for all galas. If you get, or deserve to get,  glass of chardonnay thrown in your face it was worth it no matter what Bruce says