I’ve had no motivation so I spent all day on this vore shitpost animatic based on @oh-i-need-a-name ‘s giant foster au, which, if you haven’t ever heard of, go read it, it’s one of my favorite aus of all time.
(also I’ve already submitted a bunch of fanart for it that’s only on their account, so I’m just adding to my pile of gf au doodles and I will continue to add to it, that’s a threat and a promise)
I can post this in a comic format later if I feel like it cause some of the frames go by really quick and it’s honestly kinda angsty without the vine context but idk we’ll see
context under the cut:
shout out to the anons that started this cause god knows I’m not funny enough to think of this shit on my own
MerMay is upon us, so be prepared for an overload of Mer stuff.
On that note;
@cottoncandythetrashpanda has just posted a Mer story called “Life by the Sea” and you do not understand how fixated on this idea I have become. They’ve only posted the first chapter and I am sitting on the edge of my seat just vibrating with excitement over the idea of more Mer crime boys content.
So here’s fanart that I speed ran and that I’m actually proud of for once!! (click for quality tumblr is weird)
I’m a sucker for language barriers, so now seems like a good time to point out that some small magical creatures can’t be understood by non-magic beings. A few can, though. Niki, and other mers, for example, can learn English as a second language to her mother tongue of chirps and clicks if they want. Most just don’t.
However, most aforementioned small magic beings don’t know that they can’t be understood. Like faes. Faes generally don’t know that they can’t be understood, and also can’t learn English for bs magic reasons.
So Tommy, Ranboo, and Tubbos’ first meeting went kind of like this:
Tubbo (according to Ranboo) was very surprised to learn that humans couldn’t understand him or his kind in general. He always assumed that humans were just jerks who refused to listen to them.
So as of right now Tommy and Tubbo communicate through charades. Well, one sided charades. Tubbo can understand Tommy just fine. And Tommy is weirdly good at somehow always knowing what Tubbo is trying to say, to the point where sometimes all Tubbo has to do is yell at Tommy and Tommy can tell what he wants by the tone in his voice (voice being, as Tommy hears it, little bell noises, like in tinker bell) (Tubbo was very mad to learn that thats what he sounded like to Tommy, and made it very known when he just started cursing out Tommy’s stupid non-magic human ears and Tommy lost it because Tubbo’s face was red with anger and he was clearly just screaming but all he heard was a lot of high pitched fast dinging)
Idk I just saw that one post from awhile back where you posted screenshots of me continuously asking for Dream and decided to do the sequel
Anyways
Dream
Speak of him
It can be anything about him in anything
Uuuuhhhh ok I have one random idea I’ve had in my head for the Dad’s Troubles AU that kind of had to do with an ask I haven’t answered yet and other random stuff because I’m in a vore and dnf mood rn for some reason so here’s that-
Firstly; I gave Dream a lip ring in that au because a. I think it’s hot and b. the idea of Dream doing his whole “I’m a scary human and I’m gonna eat you” bit but instead of George being terrified like every borrower before him he’s apparently the first one to think to just grab the fucking lip ring. So yeah that’s George’s way of rebellion if Dream ever tries to nom him when he doesn’t want to be nommed, cause Dream is honest to god terrified that George is just gonna pull the damn thing out one day. this one has a really shitty doodle to go along with it that I’ll probably post tomorrow cause it’s late rn
Also I don’t think I ever really specified Dream and George’s sexualities in this au (not the real people as always), but Dream is bi with a preference for men (i may change this but idk yet) and George is ace and didn’t know he was into men until recently *coughcoughDreamcoughcough*
Anyway one time Dream went up to Sapnap and started asking weird relationship questions like “how he knew that he was into Karl and Quackity” and “how he let them know he wanted to go out with them.” Dream figured that since Sapnap could snag two normal sized guys he could at least help him figure out his feelings for one very tiny guy. The problem was that Sapnap, as Dream’s best friend, was obligated to not only help Dream out a bit with relationship advice (though suggestions like “take them to a nice restaurant” weren’t great considering his circumstances), but to also tease him relentlessly, especially once Dream started refusing to say who or even what gender this person was. This has been Sapnap, Karl, and Quackitys’ favorite thing to make fun of Dream for recently.
In his defense, though, liking borrowers is far from normalized in this au. It’d be like dating a rat. And even if he knows Sapnap sees borrowers as people, given that his future step son is one, that doesn’t mean he’d understand why Dream would want a romantic relationship with one. Besides, Puffy had also made it very clear to him that she didn’t see borrowers as people. Hell, she still has one in a cage in her room that Dream goes and tries to talk to sometimes. He doesn’t respond much, but Dream has taken to calling him “his brother,” which seems to be at least slightly convincing the borrower that he’s no threat. But still, his guardian would never get it.
Also, George was in his stomach when Dream decided to have that conversation, and only realized what a dumbass move that was when Sapnap started asking specifics about Dream’s crush. Thank god he made sure George was asleep earlier, he just couldn’t be to careful, so he tried to be as vague as possible.
Also fun fact about George, he pretends to be asleep sometimes after being nommed just to eavesdrop on what Dream is doing. He normally does this because when Dream thinks George is asleep, he’ll sing quietly to himself, and George will never admit that Dream’s voice has started to soothe him more than he ever thought it would. However this time with Sapnap was a bit more interesting. (no, George has no idea that he’s the crush, as much as some subconscious part of him wants it to be, he hasn’t thought about his feeling for Dream all that much and he doesn’t think a human would be into a borrower)
here’s the shitty doodle addition I was talking about for the first bit-
Idk I just saw that one post from awhile back where you posted screenshots of me continuously asking for Dream and decided to do the sequel
Anyways
Dream
Speak of him
It can be anything about him in anything
Uuuuhhhh ok I have one random idea I’ve had in my head for the Dad’s Troubles AU that kind of had to do with an ask I haven’t answered yet and other random stuff because I’m in a vore and dnf mood rn for some reason so here’s that-
Firstly; I gave Dream a lip ring in that au because a. I think it’s hot and b. the idea of Dream doing his whole “I’m a scary human and I’m gonna eat you” bit but instead of George being terrified like every borrower before him he’s apparently the first one to think to just grab the fucking lip ring. So yeah that’s George’s way of rebellion if Dream ever tries to nom him when he doesn’t want to be nommed, cause Dream is honest to god terrified that George is just gonna pull the damn thing out one day. this one has a really shitty doodle to go along with it that I’ll probably post tomorrow cause it’s late rn
Also I don’t think I ever really specified Dream and George’s sexualities in this au (not the real people as always), but Dream is bi with a preference for men (i may change this but idk yet) and George is ace and didn’t know he was into men until recently *coughcoughDreamcoughcough*
Anyway one time Dream went up to Sapnap and started asking weird relationship questions like “how he knew that he was into Karl and Quackity” and “how he let them know he wanted to go out with them.” Dream figured that since Sapnap could snag two normal sized guys he could at least help him figure out his feelings for one very tiny guy. The problem was that Sapnap, as Dream’s best friend, was obligated to not only help Dream out a bit with relationship advice (though suggestions like “take them to a nice restaurant” weren’t great considering his circumstances), but to also tease him relentlessly, especially once Dream started refusing to say who or even what gender this person was. This has been Sapnap, Karl, and Quackitys’ favorite thing to make fun of Dream for recently.
In his defense, though, liking borrowers is far from normalized in this au. It’d be like dating a rat. And even if he knows Sapnap sees borrowers as people, given that his future step son is one, that doesn’t mean he’d understand why Dream would want a romantic relationship with one. Besides, Puffy had also made it very clear to him that she didn’t see borrowers as people. Hell, she still has one in a cage in her room that Dream goes and tries to talk to sometimes. He doesn’t respond much, but Dream has taken to calling him “his brother,” which seems to be at least slightly convincing the borrower that he’s no threat. But still, his guardian would never get it.
Also, George was in his stomach when Dream decided to have that conversation, and only realized what a dumbass move that was when Sapnap started asking specifics about Dream’s crush. Thank god he made sure George was asleep earlier, he just couldn’t be to careful, so he tried to be as vague as possible.
Also fun fact about George, he pretends to be asleep sometimes after being nommed just to eavesdrop on what Dream is doing. He normally does this because when Dream thinks George is asleep, he’ll sing quietly to himself, and George will never admit that Dream’s voice has started to soothe him more than he ever thought it would. However this time with Sapnap was a bit more interesting. (no, George has no idea that he’s the crush, as much as some subconscious part of him wants it to be, he hasn’t thought about his feeling for Dream all that much and he doesn’t think a human would be into a borrower)
I AM SO EXCITED TO ANSWER ALL THE ASKS I HAVE IN MY INBOX FOR THE BET ON THE CROWN AU BUT IM REALLY REALLY BUSY SO FOR NOW TAKE SOME SHITTY DOODLES I MADE DURING CHORUS
(ignore the one of Techno in the top left, that’s for a pirate fic called “Bones in the Ocean”)
Also this does feature two new character that I’ve hinted about but can now be officially added to the au >:)
Close ups and descriptions of the images under the cut (click for better quality probably)-
A Tommy doodle cause idk what I’m doing with his design:
A Tommy doodle cause idk what I’m doing with his design:
New character alert! Jack Manifold is one of Wilbur’s confidants, and very out of his comfort zone traveling around with a demigod. Mans runs an inn for fucks sake. I drew this with the idea that Jack was being forced to fight someone with a weaponized Wilbur and Wil was absolutely exasperated at Jack being completely useless with a weapon.
Just Tubbo being a little shit we love him <3
Ranboo outfit concept cause I want him to look royal, androgynous, and also, like, otherworldly or something-
Another new character!! Niki is a tiny Mer that travels with Wilbur and Jack, and here I was experimenting with giving her a little net skirt and some accessories (honestly I dislike this drawing the most because her face came out weird).
Because I haven’t posted in a while here’s Ranboo’s backstory for the Bet on the Crown AU! There were a few asks for this, but they were more Tubbo oriented, so I’ll answer those with Tubbo’s backstory!
Tw: a LOT of religious talk
Ranboo is a prince of Enderia, as I said, but Enderia hadn’t really had royalty for a while before Ranboo. They used to have 2 different queens, but when Endermans began to seperate, the Queens were given less and less power until their thrones became meaningless (the queens are not specified characters and don’t have a role to play, they just exist because I didn’t know what Enderia’s royal system would have been like before Ranboo).
The separation came when the Gods showed themselves to the Endermen centuries ago, and the Endermen began to worship them. Everyone worshipped all the Gods at one point, but began to seperate when they realized how different each God’s core ideals were. And how could they worship all of the Gods when the Gods couldn’t agree on what to preach to them? So the Endermen split up, dividing themselves to go and worship the God who’s teachings they agreed with the most. The Gods then color-coordinated the Endermen so they would all know who was a friend and who was a foe.
Enderia is now mostly religion based, and Endermans vary in color depending on who they worship. The lighter color Endermen worship the Gods of life and death (HD ((they don’t know he’s dead)) and Kristin) and the darker Endermen worship the Gods of destruction and construction (XD and Callahan).
The lighter colored Endermen, mostly white with a slight purple-ish hue, were more family oriented and emotionally driven. They were more creative and valued individuality, since the Gods they worshipped were more benevolent and valued these things as well.
The darker colored Endermen, a dark, desaturated purple hue, were more business and success driven. Though they did care for each other, they were far less emotional. They didn’t gain emotional attachment, and tended to think of things in a more straight forward, blunt way, as did their Gods.
Endermen are born a bright light purple, and they get their colors at 10 years old. By 10 years, an endermen child will usually have their ideals decided, and know what’s important to them. Usually an Enderman will be the same color as it’s parents, since their parents usually instill their ideals and teach them to worship their Gods, but it’s not entirely unheard of for an Enderman child to be a different color. And it’s not that there can’t be creative darker endermen or more stoic lighter endermen, it’s fully about what’s most important to them and who they worship, since the Gods grant them their colors.
Until Ranboo. Ranboo was born unable to remember things long term, and because of this, he never really knew what he wanted. He had friends who would tell him the benevolence of their Gods, and he’d want to be with them. But he’d have other friends who told him the power of their Gods, and he’d want to be with them, too. The only problem was that he could never remember who he wanted to worship long term.
For the first time in centuries, there was an Endermen praying to every God, not picking a favorite, and not taking a side. So when the time came for him to be given his color, he hadn’t decided who he wanted to be. And shockingly to other Endermen, he didn’t plan on deciding. He liked the way he was, as shy and frazzled as he could be, and decided that picking a side and losing his friends because of that wasn’t worth it.
On his 10th birthday, he woke up split colored.
There had never been an Enderman like that. Word of Ranboo’s strange abnormality quickly made spread across the kingdom, and he suddenly found himself getting more attention than he ever had. Some people were concerned, and others tried to drag him into their religion and away from his neutrality. Some looked at him with fear, some with utter disgust. His favorite, though, was when some looked to him with genuine curiosity about his beliefs, and he was always more than happy to tell them.
Ranboo took the opportunity to teach others. By the time he was 15, he had become a public figure for teamwork and love, despite another’s beliefs. He was confident, but kind, serious and yet lighthearted when he wanted to be. No one had seen someone like him in a long time.
Enderia began a trial period of intermingling with the other colors and, to Ranboo’s delight, they found that they had more in common then they had thought for so long. And as more and more people decided that Enderia should no longer be split apart, they needed a new way to govern themselves.
For years it had been that each Enderman followed the laws of their God, but if all Endermen were to come back together, they couldn’t all just follow completely different laws, lest the kingdom be completely anarchist. They needed a new set of laws, one that would allow each Endermen to worship whoever as they please, but put them all on the same level as far as what to do and what not to do came.
Ranboo was asked to draft these laws, and did a damn good job of it. In fact, when it came time to decide who should lead their kingdom and enforce these laws, Ranboo was called upon once again.
Even though he was still a child, he was the one everyone rightfully accredited Enderia’s growth to, and they only thought it right that he take on the crown. They all trusted him, since the beliefs they were now trying to enforce had been his from the beginning. So at 16, Ranboo was crowned prince, and he proved that their trust in him was not unfounded.
After Ranboo’s coronation, Enderia prospered more than it had in centuries, making new jobs, finding new trade partners, and all around became just a happier place. And the prosper only increased after Ranboo wed another prince, making it once again clear to the kingdom that he didn’t plan to follow any of their societal normality’s by marrying a different species, a fae named Tubbo. In fact, Tubbo was the first non-Endermen to come into Enderia in a long time. His citizens didn’t mind too much, the kingdom was just ecstatic to see their beloved prince so happy. Tubbo brought more fun and excitement into Ranboo’s life than he’d ever known, making him feel like the child he so often forgot he was for the first time since he got his colors. And that period of happiness and prosper is when Tommy meets Ranboo and his husband.
Now that there’s canon species for the Bet on the Crown au Beeduo, I believe I said I’d be posting art of it >:)
The Beloveds
this drawing isn’t my favorite and the designs may be slightly altered but don’t worry I will be drawing a lot more of them-
Also-
I’m on a bus for 5-6 hours tomorrow so if you wanna send asks I can answer about this AU (like any character’s backstory, how the beeduo met, if [random person] will be included they probably will be, how the worldbuilding works, etc.), that would be really appreciated!!
And if you wanna send me doodle requests that I can draw in like 5 minutes that would also be appreciated lol. I love the art requests I get but a lot of them are entire scenes that take a while to draw, cause dammit y’all give me too many good ideas. Like how can I take the serotonin inducing ask I just got and only draw a simple doodle? I have to make it a full comic.
And as much as I really do love drawing those, I can’t do that in a moving vehicle. So short shitpost-y ideas or simple fluff drawings might be easier for me (bet on the crown related things will probably get priority on answering since that’s my hyperfixation at the moment, but, as always, send asks about whatever you want <3)
The results for the Bet on the Crown Beeduo species are in!!
Honestly, that’s a lot closer than I thought it would be. It was mostly the second option in the lead for the most part, but over the course of the day there were a lot more votes for the first option last minute, which I thought was weird.
But, seeing as that won, even if it wasn’t by that much, Ranboo is going to be an average height enderman and Tubbo will be a fae!! (idk exact heights yet I’ll figure it out later)
But! If you’re sad that Ranboo isn’t a mini giant and Tubbo isn’t human I may have a solution!
@leetlezeetle made a really good mini-giant Ranboo and human Tubbo au series on their blog called the Above Average AU, so go check that out! There’s art, fully written short stories, and it’s all just so cute and so wholesome and Zeetle is just such a talented creator that I can’t recommend them enough
Ok, so, there’s a few things I’m changing but the basic idea and start of this au starts with how @aslitheryprinx said it does (the inspiration for this au is a fake fic title on xir blog). The main difference from what they mentioned is that Tommy is actually a king, not a prince. Also, I took the “weapon” bit really literally, so now Phil is a Soul Eater style knife.
Tommy is king of a wealthy kingdom called L’manburg that is recovering from a war that happened when Tommy was a little boy. His parents died in the war, which led to him being crowned king at a very young age. Technoblade, the kindom’s leading general and a close ally of the previous king’s, decides to raise Tommy to be a good ruler, and becomes Tommy’s older brother figure, even if he may not be the most emotionally driven person. All the matters to him is that Tommy is safe, and Tommy knows how much Techno loves him even if Techno doesn’t show it well. However, even though his kingdom won the war, there is still a constant fear that the kingdom that stated the first war, Essempi, will attack again and destroy them, since their leader, Dream, has partnered with other powerful countries since then, renaming his country “The Greater Essempi.”
Which is why Tommy goes to trade land for a legendary weapon, an ancient dagger that is said to kill anyone who’s blood is drawn by its blade. Tommy is deathly scared of Dream, knowing that Dream killed his parents, and wants the dagger to protect himself.
What he doesn’t expect is that the “dagger” is actually a tiny ancient cursed angel.
Tommy ends up making the trade and taking Philza back to his country after not only realizing that he is the legendary dagger, but that Phil is a person, and deserves to be treated as one.
Once they get home, Tommy explains to Phil that he can see how poorly he was treated with his last “owners” and plans to treat him better, even offering to let him leave if he really wanted to. Phil, after the initial panic of the new situation dissipates, explains that the legends about the dagger are true, and he was cursed to be able to transform into a dagger at will. He tells Tommy his history and explains that his wife is the Goddess of Death and his son is a Demigod, and that the latter is still on earth somewhere. Him and Tommy work out some agreements: Phil will allow himself to be used to protect Tommy when Techno can’t, and Tommy will use his connections as a king to try to help Phil find his son.
Now Tommy is slowly starting to see Phil as a father figure, and is worried about what will happen when Phil finds his son and abandons Tommy. And Phil is starting to care more and more about Tommy because of how much he reminds him of his son, and doesn’t know how to choose between wanting to leave and find his kid and wanting to stay and help raise Tommy.
Remember to send asks!!
There plenty more in this AU to talk about and unravel >:)
Apologies that I haven’t posted a lot of actual new content, I’ve been a bit busy, take some Dad’s Troubles AU George doodles I made in school
For context Dream found George a pair of Barbie sunglasses to help with his light sensitivity problems. Originally I said that he just bought them on Amazon, but I’m retconning that to say that Dream found a bin of Puffy’s old doll clothes that he stole for George.
Bonus shitpost under the cut:
The sunglasses were not the only thing Dream found, and you’d better fucking believe he’s wheezing out of frame.
Apologies that I haven’t posted a lot of actual new content, I’ve been a bit busy, take some Dad’s Troubles AU George doodles I made in school
For context Dream found George a pair of Barbie sunglasses to help with his light sensitivity problems. Originally I said that he just bought them on Amazon, but I’m retconning that to say that Dream found a bin of Puffy’s old doll clothes that he stole for George.
Bonus shitpost under the cut:
The sunglasses were not the only thing Dream found, and you’d better fucking believe he’s wheezing out of frame.
I just watched the Tinkerbell Neverbeast movie for the first time and my mind immediately went to bedrock bros so take that as you will
Like Fairy Tommy finds this giant cursed monster boar thing and is like “yeah I’m gonna be it’s friend.” Techno grows to see Tommy as less of an annoyance and more of a little brother, meanwhile the fairy guard (probably led by Dream) are trying to track him down and kill him.
I may or may not do something with this idea, cause I have another au that I haven’t even posted yet so idk
notes: Next chapter! I was very excited for this one cause I finally get to write for everyone I like to write for in this chapter. Also, first chapter is also under the “Finding Family” tag if you haven’t read it <3
And oh boy we may be starting to get into plot here >:)
tw: none
The next morning was seemingly as normal as always as Schlatt woke up, stretching and reaching to take his phone off the charger. He groggily checked to see if there were any missed messages and was a bit more than surprised to see over 50 missed FaceTime calls from…Charlie of all people? Huh. That was…odd. Schlatt was about to call him back when the phone started to vibrate in his hands, showing Charlie’s profile picture.
He accepted the call to see Charlie looking more tired than he’d ever seen him, along with Minx just slightly farther from the phone, petting a giant guinea pig. Well, not giant, but on calls it was easy to forget just how small Charlie and Minx really were, so the sight off-put him a bit. “Jesus Christ, dude, finally! We’ve been trying to call you for like 40 fucking minutes!” Charlie shouted, interrupting Schlatt’s thoughts. “Yeah, I noticed. What the fuck is this urgent?” “There’s more borrowers coming to your apartment.”
Schlatt raised an eyebrow as he sat up and turned his lights on. “So? There’s a lot of you coming here already, what’s a few more?” “You don’t get it. My captain’s coming here. He ran the colony when the extermination happened. Y’know, in that apartment.” Schlatt winced at that, especially when he saw Minx’s eyes fall to the ground in the background. He knew that she had been in the colony longer than Charlie, and he expected that she had been there when it happened, but he never clarified it with her. If she didn’t want to talk about it, he wouldn’t force her to.
“I get that there’s been some bad shit that happened here, alright? But I didn’t have anything to do with that, and you know it. Just tell your captain that and-“ “He doesn’t get it.” Charlie interrupted. “He doesn’t think humans can be like us. He thinks you’re all soulless sociopathic monsters, he’s not willing to give human-borrower relations a chance.” “Then what do you want me to do?”
“Hide anything that could let the captain know that Tubbo is there. Ladders, ropes, anything you made to fit Tubbo’s size, hide it. Lock up his room and make sure he’s out of the apartment for the day.” Minx said, lifting her head in the background and joining the conversation. She stood up from Mochi’s side and walked closer to the screen. “I don’t think the captain would hurt him, but I don’t think he’d be to happy to know that a borrower as young as Tubbo has lived with humans for so long. I wouldn’t hold it past him to…take measures into his own hands.”
Schlatt sighed, swinging his legs off the bed and getting ready to start his day which was apparently going to consist of hiding all the small ropes and ladders he had set up for the borrowers’ convenience. “Alright, I get it, it’s urgent or something.” He said, running a hand down his face as he tried to make sense of the (apparently very non-specific) threat that this random borrower posed to his son. “When is this happening?” “Tomorrow before dawn.” Charlie answered. “Make sure Tubbo knows to stay away.” “Got it. Now if you’ll excuse me-“ “Go tell him now before you forget.” Minx interjected, crossing her arms. “I know how you are, Schlatt, your gonna put off tellin him and I’m gonna have to go and yell at you in person.” “How about you don’t tell me what to do you little bi-“ “Don’t fucking start with this it’s too early…” Charlie sighed.
“Jesus Christ fine, I get it, I’ll go wake him and tell him what you told me. He can stay in Quackity’s apartment tonight into tomorrow, is that what you want to hear?” Tension that Schlatt hadn’t even noticed before drained out of Charlie and Minx, their shoulders dropping and both of them seeming just a bit less stressed. “Yeah, that’s what we wanna hear.” Charlie answered, Minx nodding right next to him. “Sorry to bug you this early, dude, I wouldn’t if this weren’t important.” Charlie sighed. “Don’t worry about it, you ever need anything just call. But I have a kid to go wake up, so…” Charlie laughed slightly. “Yeah, man, go do that. I’ll see you later!” Charlie smiled back, him, Schlatt, and Minx waving as he hung up the call. Schlatt set his phone down fully got out of bed, stretching and letting his joints pop into place. He needed to go warn Tubbo about whatever was going on tomorrow. And, as much as he liked to pretend Minx didn’t know anything, she was probably right about him forgetting if he waited too long to tell Tubbo.
~~~
Tubbo sat up, stretching as he yawned. He leaned over a pressed a small black button just to his right. The large duck nightlight (a gift from Quackity when he was very young that he had promptly named “Benson”) glowed brightly, illuminating the small corner of the cupboard he called a room. As he stood up and opened the little chest full of his clothes he flicked a few more switched stuck to the walls, turning on bee shaped fairy lights that had been stapled to his ceiling, fully lighting up the rest of the room.
He wasn’t sure what a normal room looked like for other borrowers, but he liked his room. Back when he was younger, on his 10th birthday if his memory served him right, his dad had cleaned out and fully re-purposed a cupboard in the kitchen for Tubbo to turn into a bedroom, and had given him full say over what went in it. He and his dads had spent hours online looking for decorations to make it feel like a normal human room. And that it did.
There were a weird number of things perfectly his size that humans used for things like school lockers and dollhouses, and he had found him-sized normal appliances like shelves, vanities, beds, and other things. Did he choose to use these things? Admittedly…no. Not most of them, anyway. He took advantage of having a few chests, chairs, and a nice little bee carpet that he found on Etsy, but there were still plenty of things in his room that were fashioned from bigger things than him. And while some borrowers might have jumped at the chance to have a room that didn’t remind them of their small stature, Tubbo couldn’t bring himself to care. After all, apparently beanbags make great beds! And Schlatt had the great idea to install an outlet in his room and glue a phone case to the wall, so it was like having a giant tv screen right across from his bed! He didn’t know many humans who had that. Well, he didn’t know many humans, period, but it made him feel good anyway. And it certainly beat the drawer in Schlatt’s room that he slept in for the majority of his life.
His morning routine was interrupted by a short knock on his “door” (and by door he meant the entire wall that faced away from the kitchen). “One second!” He yelled as he finished changing from his pajamas into regular clothes. He ran to a small lever to the right of his bed and pulled, releasing the wall and lowering it down till it was an extension of his floor.
That was another thing he liked about his room: both walls did that. It reminded him of the mystical castles in fairy tales he was told as a child, where a door would be lowered over a dangerous moat and allow entry to a some magical kingdom, which he thought was cool as shit. One wall could fall down towards his kitchen and give him a view of the window, where he could see the whole city. The other would fall down towards the living room, and he could interact with his family from the comfort of his own room. And that wall specifically was lined with a fluffy carpet! How cool was that?
The wall fell and Tubbo made his way onto the extension where Schlatt was standing, plopping down onto the carpet and idly fiddling with the course fabric. “What’s up?” “I got a…weird call from Charlie and Minx earlier. They said some other borrowers are coming over tomorrow and-“ Tubbo’s eyes widened as he cut of his father. “New borrowers?” He couldn’t help the excitement that rose up on his chest. New borrowers. More people like him. As much as he loved his human family, he knew so few borrowers, and the idea of conversing with someone new and his size was more than intriguing. “Hold on,” Schlatt interrupted his train of thought. “Charlie said it was really important that you absolutely don’t make contact with them. He and Minx were being really cryptic and shit, but they seemed serious. Said their captain and some others were coming by and Minx said she didn’t know what would happen to you if you were spotted.” Tubbo tried to process that. Why couldn’t he meet them? Would they hurt him? Were they cruel? Would they not want a borrower that wasn’t in their colony intruding in their territory or something? But Schlatt said Uncle Charlie and Aunt Minx referred to the new borrower as their “captain.” Uncle Charlie and Aunt Minx wouldn’t live with cruel borrowers, they were too nice for that. Schlatt apparently saw how much Tubbo was thinking about it, and began to lightly trail his fingers down Tubbo’s back, causing the borrower to snap out of his spiral of thoughts. “Look, I don’t know what the fucks going on either, but you should probably spend the night at Q’s place while I hide your ladders and shit, how about that?” Schlatt said, concern obvious in his tone. And though Tubbo would absolutely love to know what’s going on, he realized that whatever was happening was happening for his own good. He trusted Uncle Charlie and Aunt Minx and he definitely trusted his Dad.
“…Ok,” Tubbo nodded. “Sounds good. I can bug them about this in a few days.” Schlatt laughed lightly. “Me too, bud. Now what do you say we go get some breakfast, huh?” Tubbo grinned, nodding his head and stepping off the wall extension back into his room. He jokingly saluted as he pulled the lever once again and the wall began to rise. Schlatt smiled and saluted back. Tubbo laughed as the wall clicked back into place and he turned around to the lever on the left of his bed, pulling it and lowering the wall adjacent to the kitchen. The moment the wall was lowered enough, Tubbo jumped out. He knew Schlatt wouldn’t let him fall. And sure enough, he fell for approximately two seconds before he was caught, his father mumbling something about “lack of self preservation instincts,” but Tubbo was too busy laughing to care. Schlatt set him on the windowsill and began to get ingredients for breakfast out. Tubbo leaned against the cool glass of the window and watched the sunrise over the silhouette of the city, the colors blending together mesmerizing him.
He sat and stared until the sky was fully blue and the sun hurt his eyes. He turned to his dad, who was putting a very small amount of yogurt and very crushed up granola into a tiny bowl (that had been probably been made to go in a dollhouse set) with the ease that only someone who had done this everyday for twelve years would be able to do. “Hey Dad?” Tubbo asked. “Yeah?” “Can me, Ranboo, and Tommy have a sleepover?” Schlatt finished filling the little bowl and gave it to Tubbo, scruffing his hair with one finger. “Sure thing, kiddo, just don’t get into too much trouble.”
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“…So apparently I’m just not allowed to meet them! What kind of bullshit is that?!” Tubbo ranted, pacing back and forth across the floor of Ranboo and Tommy’s “house.” In reality, it was a few small interconnected rooms in the walls with little light and more dust than he would ever consider ok if he lived here, but neither other borrower seemed to mind it. That, and the one time Tubbo had brought it up, both of his friends had mocked him for being “extremely wealthy” and “too upperclass to be in the dwelling space of peasants like them” for a month. And don’t even get him started on the “eat the rich” comments, he still gets those. So yeah. Tubbo would deal with the shoddy living space that his best friends apparently preferred, all of them sitting in the one room that was just slightly larger than the other three, apparently making it the living room.
“That’s…weird.” Tommy said from where he sat on the floor. “I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? They don’t like you, so what? They’re not gonna murder you if they’re friends of Charlie’s.” “That’s what I was thinking!!” Tubbo shouted in frustration, flopping backwards onto a stolen cornhole beanbag that Ranboo was sitting on, laying directly on top of him. Ranboo didn’t seem to mind. That, or he had just gotten used to this. Tubbo assumed it was the latter, but like hell was he getting up. Ranboo was comfy.
“Are they a threat to you specifically or to any borrowers in this area? Cause if they were dangerous, Charlie would have told us, too, since we’re pretty close to your apartment.” Ranboo added, completely ignoring the fact the Tubbo was on top of him. “That’s a good point. But what would they want with me?” Tubbo thought aloud. The three of them sat thinking for a minute before Tommy turned to the other two with a mischievous grin on his face, his cat like eyes narrowing the way they did every time he got a bad idea. “Why don’t we find out?” He said simply, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. “No…” Ranboo started, turning to Tubbo who, to his horror, seemed to be actually thinking over the idea. “No! Absolutely not! We don’t know who these people are, and even if they’re not a threat to me and Tommy, are we really willing to risk you like that?” Ranboo finished, pulling Tubbo off of him to look him in the eyes. Tubbo sighed.
He didn’t like disobeying people he cared about, since he knew that they did everything for his well-being. He shouldnt want to spy on random borrowers. But…his dad was confused, too, wasn’t he? He knew what was going on about as well as Tubbo did, and Tubbo was confused as hell. So, maybe he was spying for the both of them? A flimsy excuse, but an excuse nonetheless. Besides, when had Tubbo ever just denied a chance for adventure? “…as long as we aren’t seen it should be fine.” Tubbo finally answered. Ranboo groaned and put his face in his hands as Tommy whooped in excitement. “But we absolutely can’t be seen!” Tubbo rushed to clarify. “Even if we figure out those borrowers aren’t an actual threat, I’d get an earful from Uncle Charlie and Dad. We have to be sneaky about this.” “Don’t even worry about it, Tubs, sneaky is my middle name.” Tommy said, moving to the shorter borrower to sling an arm around his shoulder. “Uh huh. Because trying to steal an entire can of coke out of a fridge and then cussing out Sapnap when you got caught is the definition of sneaky.” Ranboo deadpanned at his roommate. “Tell me, is ‘Sneaky’ before or after ‘CarefulDanger Kraken’?” “Why don’t you shut up, boob boy? My many middle names are just too cool for you.” Tommy shot back, sticking his tongue out at Ranboo. Tubbo laughed at their antics, the lighthearted banter helping ease some of the weight off his chest. This was gonna go well. It had to. So why was he so nervous on just spying on a few borrowers? Maybe it was just the lack of specified risk. His dad said Charlie wasn’t specific about why Tubbo had to stay away. That had to be it. But he didn’t have anything to be afraid of, it wasn’t like he was doing this alone, he had his two best friends coming along. And he didn’t think they were dangerous borrowers. So, there wasn’t anything that could go wrong…
Ok, so, I’m making an au based on @aslitheryprinx’s fake fic title “Bet on the Crown,” which is on xir blog. I’m gonna post an overview and a bit of artwork on that soon, because I’ve been stuck on how the beeduo fits in before I realized “wait this isn’t a beeduo-centric au I’ll figure them out later” cause I’m stupid so now it’s taken me much less time to think of an explication outline.
In the mean time I’m going to go into more detail on the shitposty Shark Tale AU
Firstly they’re all mers. None of the weird slightly human fish that the movie has. If they aren’t specified as a shark mer, then I don’t know what type of fish they are yet, and feel free to give me suggestions. Also if I do specify that they’re sharks, feel free to give me Shark species.
Tommy is Oscar. He constantly feels the need to let everyone know how important he is and gets into trouble by trying to constantly prove himself. He’s got some self-esteem issues.
Ranboo is Lenny. He’s a shark. He doesn’t want to kill people and he doesn’t want to be in the Shark Mafia, so pretty similar to the movie, except Ranboo is way more shy than Lenny. He takes a while to get used to Tommy, especially since he’s never had a friend before, nonetheless a friend small enough to fit in his hand. Tommy adjusts to Ranboo far more quickly because he has zero self preservation skills.
Tubbo is Angie (in a non-romantic way). He’s Tommy’s only friend (before Ranboo) and he just wants Tommy to realize that he doesn’t care who he is or if he’s “important,” he’s his best friend and always will be. He cleans up a lot of Tommy’s messes when he isn’t making his own. He’s also a major menace to Phil because of how often he just breaks into Tommy’s job unannounced to see how he’s doing.
Phil is the pufferfish whos name I don’t remember. He’s Tommy’s boss and has just learned to put up with him. If it were anyone else, he would have fired them a while ago, but he knows Tommy doesn’t really have anywhere else to go, and no one else could really put up with him, so Phil lets him stay. Don’t ask me what business he runs or where Tommy works because I don’t know.
Dream and the rest of the feral boys + bbh are all a part of the Shark mafia and are therefore all sharks. Antfrost, Velvet, and Callahan might also be sharks too, I haven’t decided yet. Dream is the head of the shark mafia and is Ranboo’s older brother and guardian.
Someone gets an anchored dropped on their head like in the movie (since that’s what kickstarts the whole plot) but I don’t know who yet.
I’ll fit Techno and Wilbur in maybe.
Maybe one of them can be the octopus dude but I’ll be honest I don’t remember what he does in the movie.
Preferably Dream Team for the Dad’s Troubles AU (or just chaotic stupid scenarios with Dream and George cause that’s my hyperfixation atm), but anything works.
I have artblock and I’ve been trying to break it but honestly my brain is just dead.
Keep in mind that I thought this up while I had a fever of 100.4° and I had taken a bunch of different congestion medications and hadn’t eaten like anything in 40 hours and was very tired but-
His role in his colony is to go out (usually to the apartment building’s terrace) and steal food from the little community garden they have up there. He’s not best suited for this, he’d be much better as a guard or a hunter, given that he’s kinda maxed out on helpful genetics, but there’s two problems there.
1: Hes lazy. He sleeps a lot and refuses to learn how to fight properly. And 2: sometimes a lot of good can become a bit…overwhelming. George may have a lot of idealized genes, but putting them all together? It makes his life much harder than other borrowers tend to realize, which is why he sleeps so often. While the others think he’s being selfish by not helping the colony as much as he could and napping, he’s literally just trying to get a break from life.
Mans has the funkiest mixed genetics of any of the borrowers in this au, with his weird mismatched pupils and downward pointed ears, both of which are very rare traits because of the weird genetic mix that needs to happen to lead to it. Not to mention the fact that claws, heterochromia, and animalistic noses on borrowers are both uncommon on their own, but putting them all together? George is a mess. But I love him.
Actually I’m very proud of how he came out hsksksh
Y’all want a borrower George ref drawing with proper lineart and everything or a sketchy colored drawing of Dream and George? I can’t decide which to post first.
Did I just say art earlier? I meant a whole ass comic, my bad.
It’s gonna go under the cut because vore and also it’s long, but please keep in mind that I’ve never done a comic before so this was a bit out of my comfort zone, also I was having technical difficulties with this one.
Also it’s very sketchy, but it took a hot minute, and I have other drawings of George and Dream, too, because I’ve gotten overly attached to these two in this au far too quickly.
Tw vore, and also click all of these for better quality because Tumblr
Ha I bet you weren’t expecting a gif lol
The quality of it is bad, because what I mean by “technical difficulties” is “Tumblr won’t let me upload the gif at a better resolution”
This took more effort than almost anything I’ve worked on art wise recently, so I have many little doodles and shitposts of these two to come. Who knew dnf vore could break you out of an art block, huh.
