#infini-tree

[biolizardboils]

faun!George and selkie!Harold from @infini-tree’s adorable Monster AU! im addicted to baby seal videos now, thanks mells

[escarlatafox]

walks in your inbox tell me your Top 5 Melvinborg Moments

YESSSS omg what a good ask HAH. Let's do this counting down 5-1.

Okay so these aren’t necessarily 100% in order of like, worst to best... but it’s a rough approximation; a combination of that but also roughly just the order of me finding the screencaps for em when trawling through episodes. The scene of Melvin walking in on Melvinborg dancing and singing with Krupp would be in the top spot, but because I’ve already made a post for it, I’ll exempt it from the list!

5. Everything about the implications of this scene, the fact that it cuts away so quickly and the show is SUCH A TEASE in leaving us with this alone and not following it up with more:

The sheer resigned DETERMINATION of this, BAHAHA

4. he’s so. he’s soooo #dramatic and #quirky:

3. Oh he’s a little Angy:

a.k.a, laser eye, HELLO?

3. This scene/dialogue literally follows immediately after the above but I’m including it anyway because the above laser scene stands on its own by virtue of just how cool it is, so next we have:

Really I wish I could have so so many more exchanges like this one. The show gave us plenty and I’m not complaining, but I really think they could have gone even further with their interactions and dynamic like this.

2. GOD OKAY I love how the vast majority of the scenes I’m listing here come from the same episode. Anyway the Melvins’ banter is always such gold, also bringing us stuff like this:

Melvinborg: Somebody has to.

Melvin: No they don’t.

Melvinborg: ...

Bonus points in that kid Melvin’s criticism is hypocritical here, as he literally does the “because somebody has to” schtick himself in another episode. We can def see how Melvinborg and Melvin are the same person!!!

1. Melvin: “I’ll be a failure, I’ll be an embarrassment, I... I’ll be...”

Melvinborg: “You’ll be me.”

JUST??? Ok this scene being in the top spot of this list doesn’t make it special or like... necessarily above the others because the other scenes listed here are also so great imo. I love this exchange because like.... Okay here’s my specific reading of the scene. The tone in which he says it is so matter-of-fact. There’s a slight element of “it’s not the end of the world” potentially reassuring his younger self; (”You’ll be me [and that’s not so bad... right?]), with further implications that his kid self is a) being a little overdramatic in his reactions, b) the melodrama of kid Melvin’s behaviour here is kind of insulting of Melvinborg, because Melvin is complaining dramatically about the possibility of... Being him, becoming him. “You’ll be me”. It’s somewhat this blunt acknowledgement of the insulting nature of the overreaction. Like “right, right... you’re so upset because you’ll be me. Got it.”

But at the same time, Melvin never said anything about becoming Melvinborg being the reason for his woes - it’s obviously about the failure to get in to Eliteanati (which, yes, those two things are directly linked, but he was still focusing on the latter, not the former, while it’s Melvinborg who chooses to draw attention to the former). That was the connection Melvinborg drew! Melvin threw out the words “failure” and “embarrassment” and Melvinborg’s reply essentially just goes, “yep, those words apply to me alright.” His blunt reply is also this sort of resigned acknowledgement on his part that those words do apparently apply to him. At the end of the day they’re the same person with the same goals, and what Melvin sees as being a failure, of course Melvinborg will also see as a failure. He sees himself as a failure which is the entire reason he travelled back in time to help his past self like this. But Melvinborg, still being Melvin, has quite the ego regardless. So his reaction is like “yeah yeah, you’re being a little overdramatic, so you’ll wind up being ME... big deal, I know I’m a failure, what else is new... (but also I’m not that bad, wth).” seems to be a fair bit going on there imo.

“You’ll be me” also contains an element of “you’ve got this. we’ve got this” because me = still a boosted, great conception (tied into him still having a high opinion of himself)

And then he just nonchalantly tries to get his younger self to calm down and use the damn bag, fjdfjdfj

^This line too is so... lol. The element of shade to it. He’s watching his younger self all helpless and freaking out (in which the behaviour kind of insults him directly on a level as discussed above) and in his own way he’s trying to help out. but it’s also like “ok come on now” /observes his younger self being all cringe (lol)

I’ll admit this doesn’t necessarily feel like Top Spot material (and as we established, that actually goes to the dancing/singing scene which I exempted), but my god it’s fun all the same.

Honestly, just... all the Melvin banter and arguing is SO good, these examples can stand-in for other examples (like their huge discord in the finale). I didn’t find the bit that first reveals the laser eye thing and I remember that being good too. I also love Melvinborg just like... blatantly and purposefully ignoring things he really shouldn’t (the bee episode and the chances of his plan going wrong) he is just. so #silly hahahah

BONUS: Special mention to the scene where Melvinborg is chatting with Melvin through the phone in the two-parter finale and accidentally mutes himself, fjfjfdkjdfjk. It immediately came to mind when I was thinking up scenes to include and I really wanted it on the list..... It’s there in spirit. <3 Screencaps alone wouldn’t do it justice though, so it’s somewhat for that reason I didn’t include it. But my god it’s so good... The entire scene is just... So good.

Melvinborg: “Fortunately I have a few obstacles for just an emergency.”

imagine getting roasted by your kid self so thoroughly like this, ffdhdfjdf. The kid self that you’ve been trying to help all season!! LOVE the drama they have

The other reason this isn’t included in the list itself is that it’s more Melvin-centric dialogue-wise and focus - the Melvinborg aspect is mainly how he mutes himself and watching him gesture so animatedly while unknowingly muted is so so funny dsujsdjds. If this was a Melvin AND Melvinborg list, or potentially just a Melvin list, this scene would totally 100% be listed, though.

[scalproie]

all the kfp villains for the bingo meme? (or just choose the most interesting one to put on the bingo board if you can't do all of them)

OF COURSE!!!

A lot of Tai Lung's appeal comes from 1) the prison escape scene, obviously, what an introduction to a character, and 2) the Shifu confrontation scene. The most interesting aspect of his character comes from the dynamic with Shifu. I included the "not technically canon" because I wouldve liked to see more of the foil dynamic with Tigress and the potential familiarity between the two. Also I like overpowered blue characters so💙

Dont let the fact that Shen has less circles than the rest fool you into thinking I like him less, its just that not a lot of cases fit him because hes so effective as a character and a villain. I wanted to include the dynamic one because same as the other two, some of his more interesting moments are shared with a particular character, here the soothsayer, but he has more... personal charisma than the other two, so all his scenes are constantly on the same level of quality, hence why I decided against it.

Kai, as usual, suffers from the movie hes in, and the fact that he has to share the spotlight with the panda village, from which he has kind of little personal attachement. Similarly, the person to whom he shares the most history with, Oogway, also has minimum interactions with him, wheras Tai Lung and Shifu and Shen and Po and the Soothsayer had... a bit more emotional impact out in their scenes? Which were also longer and more impactful? Kai and Oogway felt.. brief, which sucks, but again, it was a fault of the movie not revolving entirely on its villain for once. Anyway. I still like him as intimidating as he was originally supposed to be, or as the more jokey side that we got. I just wish he had been handled better.

[comfortmie]

hey!!! so i figure i should ask first but are we allowed to use the dreamworks most wanted screencaps you put up for edits/icons? thanks also love the art :)

They're not mine eitherway and I'm just sharing, feel free to use them! 👍

And thank you for the kind words!!!

[tornrose24]

I wanted to give Alexandra and David special designs inspired by @infini-tree‘s CU Pokemon Mystery Dungeon AU (which turned into an excuse to see them as teens).

Since infini-tree made Krupp an Abomasnow and Edith an Octillery, I wanted to use Pokemon that were similar in design. In the end, I had Alexandra also be part of a Snover/Abomasnow (partly since Krupp is one and partly because I’m not sure how exactly Pokemon breeding works since I last played the game), but I made David be a Clobopus/Grapploct as a nod to the octopus/alien theme infinity-tree was using with Edith.

(Also I thought David looking like a superhero would be very amusing (and fitting), given how Grapploct is a fighting octopus.)

the CU Pokemon mystery dungeon au (EDIT: is actually Called ‘Piqua mystery dungeon’ )belongs to infini-tree

Alexandra and David belong to me.

[anasten27]

Something something blackout after monster of the week, something something they’re trying to find the others and their flashlight runs out of battery. I imagine this could be the first time he sees her like this, but it would be kinda silly to find out she can do that this way.

Got inspired by @infini-tree‘s posts and Edith’s alien design. Thought it would be a fun scenario to draw! (though it probably doesn’t fit perfectly with the sticky notes au, idk)

[jackie-gremlin-ghost]

@infini-tree: *posts new art or writing drabble*

My brain: RELEASE THE SEROTONIN

Me:

[transdonaldduck]

“This is new.” (della for the prompts??)

“This is new.” Della observes, standing in the patch of grass lining the concrete surrounding the pool, motioning to his houseboat sitting in the chlorine water. Concrete felt like moon rocks under her foot, and god had she missed dirt.

He leans against the doorframe, sunlight glinting off his feathers, and she’s almost surprised at how good he looks. the years had been kind to him, it seemed. She hadn’t heard much about her time away. “I could say the same about all of you.” He says. the time for tears and jubilation had passed, emotions settling into a weird limbo under all their ribs, excitement and happiness simmering but not overflowing. she felt strange here, on earth, she felt... vauge. almost dreamlike.

She smiles and it reaches her eyes- she’s never been more happy, really, “Don’t get used to the long hair.” She tells him, her brother who in her darker moments she’d thought she’d never see again, “The first chance I get to go to a salon i’m chopping it off.” her hair felt so much heavier on earth, weighing her down. every part of her weighed down.

“The leg however...” She shrugs, “What can you do, y’know? That’s here to stay.”

He looks at her softly, and she winces at the pains she can see peeking out from the black of his pupil. She knew he wasn’t upset she was home, she knew he wasn’t hurt she was here- up there, on the moon, she hadn’t ever considered how her disappearance would have effected the people she’d left behind. it was residual pain, guilt, grief undoing itself. “And you..?” it’s his turn to wince, face twisting in hope or the desire to reach out and snatch those words out of the air between them. Della couldn’t tell which. her own twin, the person she knew better than she knew herself, now just a familiar stranger in front of her. she’d missed so much.

She nods, wiggling her feet in the dirt, smelling the crisp air, “I’m here to stay.”

Her sweeps her up, arms looping around her chest, and she marvels at the fact that she’s taller than him now. her spine had decompressed after all that time in low gravity. She winds her arms around him too, breathes out a shaky breath, and holds onto him even tighter. Grounding. Almost desperate.

Yeah. Here to stay.