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Ask me to tag something. Yell at me about your favorite television show. Unload something burdening you down in my ask box. Submissions are on, as is anon, I find IMs less stressful but do what you want. If I don't respond it's not personal! The message tag is for when you feel like shit, the happiness tag is for when you feel like shit but don't want to cry even harder. There are more tags, explore or ask if you're looking for something.
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Taegan Treichel aka Taegan Adam Francís Treichel (Danish-American, b. 1991, based Copenhagen, Denmark) - Labour for the Sun, 2025, Paintings: Acrylic on Canvas
Today (well, yesterday, technically) I called soccer "football" without realizing and @hippo-pot-o-mouse called her national biscuit "cookies". Fun times in international relationships. =)
pov your friend just got ritual sacrificed and you're trying to have a moment but your inner monologue gets interrutped by an unhinged twink trying to add grand theft auto to his list of crimes
shrue: hmm i really need to get rid of this illegal river god in my territory in order to encourage people to vote for me in the general election through a show of strength and unity, but i can't be seen getting my hands dirty... if only there were somebody who kills people for a living that i could hire to do it for me
uma thurman should not have been in the movie. quynh should have been the big bad. the movie should have been about the emotional weight of andy and quynh reconnecting and andy's mortality that should have been contrasted with nile coming to terms with her new immortality and what that means for her and how that affects her family with the subplot of booker earning forgiveness and learning how to live with his ghosts and not just survive and they should have Talked About It, especially joe and nicky, who were undeniably the ones most hurt with his betrayal and uma thurman should not have been in the fucking movie
Hazel McCallah (The Unexplored Places: Ruin's Gate):
#her best friend is a wild west sawbones who looks like jason mantzoukas #she's addicted to laughing gas made from space mushrooms #she wears a locket with a picture of her parents who are still back on earth #she was sent to space as an indentured child laborer and became a boxer and then part of a protection racket slash wildernes guide faction #and then she killed the leader of that faction when he threatened her beloved town and community #one time she fought an enormous skeleton monster called the Mother of Bones #anyway even if you don't vote go listen to Ruin's Gate
Emmy Acero (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY...):
You gotta vote for Emmy, he killed Batman!
You gotta vote for Emmy, look at that little face.
I need you to vote for Emmy and for Moenbryda because the art I commissioned of them for the bracket still isn't finished and they can't get knocked out before I even get the chance to use it
My boy Emmy can't lose! Go vote for Emmy!!!
Hazel & Emmy together:
Consider we could do the funniest thing right now yall
#hazel and emmy new power couple
#I think Emmy just got a new hot butch aunt yall #Hopefully this goes better than the last aunt
Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: Interstitial 2E):
6'7" silver-haired woman with an undercut, thigh and neck tattoos, and a battleaxe
Has a PhD in magic rocks but decided to also put stats into "muscle mommy" because she wanted to be able to cleave monsters in half with an axe. And she does! Often!
Sacrificed herself to save her friends and the world and is now "dead" but, through multiversal wizardly shenanigans, continues to exist but only as a memory; i.e. she can only exist as long as people remember her. Meaning if she loses this contest she will literally die
Mod Note: Please only vote for the Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn that appears in the podcast Tidal Wave Games Podcast: Interstitial 2e.
Art of Hazel McCallah by Dakota Curry.
Art of Emmy Acero by @violetfoxsketches.
Additional propaganda below the cut:
Hazel McCallah (The Unexplored Places: Ruin's Gate):
Middle aged woman who now uses her fighting skills to defend people.
Rescues a girl without a mother and gets so absorbed in teaching this girl how to ride a horse she misses a job.
Probably a lesbian.
Died and came back wrong. :)
Made me cry.
No but seriously if you want a Cowboy With A Hard Past Who Wants To Get Home To His Family But After Decades Realizes He Has A New Community He Wants To Stay For but with a woman, Hazel delivers in spades.
definitely a lesbian
has terrible horrible visions of Doom
occasionally gets possessed by a supernatural force that makes her better at fighting demons and also makes smoke pour out of her eyes
described as "if Charlize Theron in Mad Max didn't have a celebrity skincare routine"
fights with a fucking sick axe with a red stone head
wears an old flight suit but with the arms tied around her waist like a classic hot scifi lesbian
died and came back wrong!!!!!!!!
her link to the world of the living is the motherless 12 year old girl she rescued from a mine collapse and taught how to ride a horse and who loves her sooooo much
almost got turned into a centaur made of plant and bone one time
has a horse named Freddie
can engage a small gang on equal footing
Hazel is literally a hot middle aged butch cowboy who died and came back wrong it does NOT get sexier than that
what's sexier than a middle aged butch cowboy with a shady past born out of desperation to survive on a harsh and unforgiving planet who makes the conscious decision to not only become a better person and use her strength to help her struggling community, but also who willingly sacrifices herself to atone for her past and then COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD, resurrected by the spirit of said planet, to continue to protect that community and the people in it?
is it a middle aged butch cowboy who rescues a young girl—who, grieving the loss of her own mother in a mining accident, ran away from home and got trapped in the same haunted mine where her mother died—and decides to become a mentor to that young girl, and is motivated by the desire to make the world into a kinder place for that girl than it was to her when she was a child?
or maybe it's a middle aged butch cowboy who, when she fights supernatural monsters with her cool hellstone axe, has smoke come out of her eyes and succumbs to prophetic visions of doom???
also she's HOT
Listen, I'm going to be honest here. I don't think I'd ever found a podcast character hot before Hazel. Now Hazel is the metric against which all other podcast characters are judged. I've never listened to that other show, but how Hazel isn't just absolutely running away with this thing is beyond me.
Emmy Acero (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY...):
Latino trans man, college student turned movie stunt double turned space bounty hunter. Father blew his entire college fund on a cryptocurrency scheme, now trying to raise enough money as a gig worker to pay off his debt before his school's tuition office's hitmen come after him. And that's before he finds out about the whole "secret destiny" thing…
Might be inexperienced (don't worry, he's a consenting adult) but he's a very quick learner. Just look how quickly he learned the saxophone!
Accidental rizz levels off the charts. Canonically has the most romantic/sexual success of any character in the podcast, almost entirely unintentionally on his part
You float the idea of knife play and he says "omg I thought you would never ask". Next thing you know you're sitting in a chair watching him perform actual knife tricks for two hours
Special skills: "True Strength is in the Core", "Can Fit in Spaces Most Can't", "Resting Innocent Face" (aka puppy dog eyes). I think you can fill in the blanks
There's just something about this guy, I can't quite put my finger on it...
Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: Interstitial 2E):
Summoned by Gwonam the wizard to Castlevania to kill Dracula because she (along with Lt. Worf of the Starship Enterprise and Squirtle, the Pokémon) was supposedly a distant relation of the Belmont bloodline, and was immediately like "yeah cool sounds great" despite not knowing what a Dracula was
FELL CLEAVE
I voiced this version of Moen. I do drop the accent after the first episode but whatever. Vote Moen. Give her the win.
Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn more like Moenbryda is gonna win
I have never heard of Animal Well but I've played Fez from a 12+ year old Humble Bundle, got Tunic for the Switch from my little sister last Christmas, have Outer Wilds via Epic, and have had Blue Prince on my Steam wishlist since last year. Given how much I like the three of the games in this bundle I've played, it seems like a good bundle! I just own all those games from other sources.
a new print for metrocon!! i LOVED the Princess Jellyfish anime, and while i still don’t think i’m ready to look at another reference photo of a jellyfish ever again, i’m really happy with how it turned out :) water’s soooo relaxing to paint
if you’re NOT going to metro and would like this as a print (or even a shirt????) make sure to check out my shop!!!
Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.
Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.
Hey if you have a chronically ill friend who is housebound, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind you to make contact with them. See if you can visit them (offer to sit in their room with them, tell them they don't need to worry about how clean it is), offer to bring them a meal or help with tasks they can't do themself, offer to go with them to a doctor's appointment, if they can leave the house sometimes let them know that the next time they have the energy they're welcome to come lie on your couch.
Housebound people feel free to add your own input, my housebound friend was able to visit recently and I was reminded of how isolating it can be for her. I love you and you deserve to get to see people in ways that don't hurt you more than they have to.
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