Timelapse music vid of Helga’s kissing Arnold back –song is “I Want You To Love Me” by Fiona Apple, because the lyrics make me think of an adult Helga who’s held an unrequited (or so she thinks) torch for Arnold into her adult life
Made a fanfic cover for “Word of the Day” by darnold-longkid lol.
Summary: “The assigned sentence came easily, once again with a barely concealed pseudonym: “Hilda often showed a blithe disregard for public safety whenever she took the wheel.” Arnold marked the word on his hidden Hell Girl vocab list, thankful they were still too young to drive.
A blessing for sure, when he was dating a girl who was already trouble enough.”
lol I just read this excellent canon-divergent Hey Arnold fanfic “Love Language: Words” where Arnold transfers to Helga’s Advanced English class and it’s the first time he’s finally seen her participate in a class since grade school and she says some brilliant & insightful shit and gets all passionate on the literature and Arnold’s just like WHAAAATTTT you mean she was thatdeep and crazy and cool all this time what the fuuuuUUU
Man it sucks to love Arnold and Helga’s dynamic in the series and then find nothing that I liked about it in the movie there they finally become a couple haha
What’s a Shortaki fic without some Arnold and Gerald coming-of-age shenanigans? Next chap will be a deep dive into some Shortaki FLUFF (but what’s a little fluff without undercurrents of complex relationship dynamics–this is Arnold and Helga, after all!)
“There’s no way I’m marrying Helga, Gerald. No, it’s not like I’ve been obsessing over that stupid origami fortune teller for hours at this point. Well, OK, maybe I would’ve just ignored it if it answered Phoebe or Sheena or whatever–but that’s different, because this is Helgawe’re talking about. And it was the same answer every single time. You know, Helga G Pataki? My tormenter? My spitball dispenser? It’s just preposterous. Impossible! It’s not like I even dream about her that much, Gerald. She’s not gonna be in my dreams tonight, that’s for sure.”
Welcome everyone! It’s 2022 and time for another Shortaki Week! We had amazingly successful campaigns in 2016, 2017 and 2020; and it’s high time we get back to it!
Round 4 of Shortaki Week will be held from June 26th - July 3rd 2022! It’s our week long festival designed to celebrate Helga/Arnold by inspiring some gorgeous new fanworks in our beloved community!
Participating is easy! Simply choose a prompt, create something for said prompt, and post your creation to tumblr (using the #shortakiweek tag (make sure it’s included in the first 5 tags!)) on the day designated to the prompt. Creators can choose as many prompts and submit as many works as they’d like! There are absolutely no limitations here! Once your work(s) have been posted/cross-posted to tumblr they’ll be re-blogged to our community!
Day 1 - Muse / Trance / Baby Steps
Day 2 - Playground / Nightmares / Vulnerable
Day 3 - Nobility / Camping / Transparency
Day 4 - Vacation / Wrinkles / Spotlight
Day 5 - Pen / True Love’s Kiss / Dessert
Day 6 - Disguise / Flood / Ghosts
Day 7 - Lighthouse / Breathing / Escape
Day 8 - Creator’s Choice!
We encourage everyone who loves Helga and Arnold to participate and will be accepting a wide range of fanworks so no one feels excluded!
Also, please spread the word, folks! Let’s make the 4th Shortaki Week a great one!
We’re over halfway through May, which means we have a little over a month left until Shortaki Week! This is just your friendly reminder to keep/start working on those prompts! We have just a few more posts queued up for reblog that were 2020 submissions and we’re looking forward to all new content.
