(Suggestive) Now I’m A Believer
Added 2024-09-01 22:39:49 +0000 UTCAnd then I saw your face
Now I'm a believer~
Toffee’s love life has historically been a disaster. Colored strongly by his catastrophic relationship with his former mentor Donavan, then by Toffee’s own self-loathing, Toffee’s many short-lived flings often left him with crushing feelings of shame and loneliness. Much like Topher, he came to view “love” as entirely fictional, at least where it applied to himself. Love was not something he could even manage to feel for himself, let alone a partner, so how could he expect it from anyone? Toffee’s view of relationships becomes largely transactional, and he’d meet men and sleep with them periodically until they grew bored of him, or he got bored of them. He didn’t “date”. Why bother with frivolous nonsense when he’s got an entire church to run?
Enter Bob, beefy beaver construction foreman come to do much-needed repairs at Toffee’s shabby little church. Despite his grumpy face, Bob proves to be surprisingly friendly, and guides anxious Toffee through getting good repairs at prices that won’t bankrupt him. Toffee….likes Bob. A lot. And yet he’s very much surprised when Bob asks him out (really to just come over and watch hockey). But surely a couple decades worth of romance-related cynicism is more than a match for a surly burly (secretly a sweetie) big beaver man? Right…?
Toffee, biting into a piece of French toast: ......I’m gonna make this man my husband
P.S. decided toffee has wavy hair/ear fur like mama Eleanor until he brushes it every morning
P.S.S. do not insult Toffee’s man
Comments
That is SO metal of topher i love him so much
AsTheJayFlies
2024-10-24 04:28:55 +0000 UTCgod I love this stupid dog so much <3 please get well soon Honey
Antanas
2024-09-05 21:18:04 +0000 UTCHoney: Oh there's no need to be squeamish about the topic, Toffee, I'm proud of it! >:D I took the church's official pledge of virginity when I was 15, and I'm proud to have upheld it! Not til marriage, right? :3 Toffee: Er....well. Yes. That's certainly what some people decide, yes. Honey: But it's what everyone should decide! >:( Virginity is a sacred flower to be gifted to your future spouse, not given up willy-nilly! It's a big deal, Toffee! >:( I mean, you must've taken the pledge too! I trust YOU waited til marriage? Toffee: I......W-Well, Honey, dear, the thing of that is... Bob: *snorts into his coffee* Toffee: *trying to explode Bob with his mind* Topher, butting in: Yo are you talkin' about that stupid church pledge? You didn't go to that creepy purity ball too, did you? Honey, delighted: Why, yes! Daddy was my "date", of course, and at the end there was a ceremony where he presented me with my promise ring! *fishes a silver ring on a necklace out of her shirt* See the inscription? It says "Love Waits"~ Topher, squinting at it: Oh yeah, I remember. Dad tried to give me one of those. *shrugs* Ended up getting it melted down into a tongue ring so I could give better head. Honey, confused: .....head? Toffee, officially at his limit: TOPHER
Lopoddity
2024-09-05 19:15:59 +0000 UTCthe decision to give them happy trails despite being covered in fur is INSPIRED arghaahegrhwgrh (I'm so normal I'm so normal I'm so normal). It's kind of crazy to think of Toffee as being someone w a long and chaotic love life when we see so much of him as a settled and happy adult,,, I'm sure you've answered this already but how would Honey react to finding out about Toffee's earlier lifestyle, especially the hookup aspect of it? It seems like she's really started to look up to him and I wonder how much that would shake things for her (or even help illuminate that just because someone preaches the word of god, it doesn't make them holy (COUGH MERRY COUGH))
Antanas
2024-09-05 15:40:16 +0000 UTCi cant believe lopoddity invented gay people. my god they are so endearing and wonderful..........the first image i am just staring at it really hard. wow. love is real
blackjack .
2024-09-05 04:39:10 +0000 UTCTHE FIRST PIC W TOFFEES LIL SMILE MADE ME WELL UP HONESTLY 😭😭😭 I love them....happy for them
Jam Gram
2024-09-03 14:00:06 +0000 UTCI've got BEAVER FEVER and the only cure is MORE FRENCH TOAST
Must Love Frogs
2024-09-03 11:19:02 +0000 UTCI HATE LOVE (happy-sniffling and reaching for a box of tissues. they are so good)
knickknacks
2024-09-03 02:31:59 +0000 UTCJesus Honey, you really decided to say that out loud 😳
Res Hound
2024-09-02 21:41:45 +0000 UTCI LOVE BOB SO MUCH 😭 I've been eating up the stuff you give regarding their relationship man, it's so fuckin warm and sweet. Thank you for the good fuckin food 🙏🙏
Ash
2024-09-02 21:33:25 +0000 UTCOhhhhhh, she is infuriating to talk to
Bigsmile
2024-09-02 19:06:14 +0000 UTCDefinitely not a thing in FB, the general rule is I keep the more unpleasant animal facts out of the story. Remember, the cast is meant to be more "people" than they are "animals".
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 17:33:16 +0000 UTCIt's more that Honey grew up around Merry and absorbed many of his mannerisms. Particularly his way of "just saying what everybody's thinking"- a cruel unexamined thought wrapped up in a nice layer of southern faux sweetness and plausible deniability. Honey says incendiary things because Merry does. She's caught off guard when she wanders outside of her community and people start challenging her on the things she says. She's never been asked to reflect on WHY she thinks the way she does, has never had to consider who and what she's been influenced by, or whether these thoughts are harmful and bigoted. To Honey her thoughts are objectively correct, just like her daddy's. Bob doesn't seem like the kind of man her brother should want, so she says so. She expected him to agree, or at least sheepishly explain himself. Not push back.
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 17:20:37 +0000 UTCLop, there's also an INTERESTING fact regarding beavers and vanilla flavoring. ;) Is Honey too sheltered to know about it? Did she ever find out or is not a thing in this verse?
QuietZen
2024-09-02 17:13:08 +0000 UTCI think putting Bob behind a quick-paced high-pressure food & customer service truck is a recipe for a beaver throwing a plate of waffles at someone. XD
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 17:07:59 +0000 UTCAh. Is that the dreaded Homoerotic friendship-to-devastatingly-life-altering-situationship pipeline I smell?
Lammergayier
2024-09-02 17:04:11 +0000 UTCLOL YES it was sarcasm. i was thinking of the "I consent!" "I consent!" "I don't! Isn't there someone who you forgot to ask?" christian meme when i made my comment
gamigami
2024-09-02 17:04:09 +0000 UTCIt's actually somewhere between 0 and 1 :3
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 16:50:00 +0000 UTC“Manhandling”. Please, Bob walks behind Toffee and lightly puts his hands on his hips….and Tof flops backwards into his embrace like a swooning heroine limp as a noddle
Heather
2024-09-02 15:47:34 +0000 UTCBig talk from Honey too, considering her relationship experience, to my knowledge, is 0
Angsty Ram
2024-09-02 15:46:53 +0000 UTCToffee does a whole lot of pouncing in their relationship, but Bob's been known to pounce right back! >:3 He may be smol but he can manhandle Toff pretty easily
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 15:43:35 +0000 UTCOH you were being sarcastic LMAO [deletes paragraph] FR tho I'm starting to suspect that this is a projection issue on Honey's part
Lammergayier
2024-09-02 15:37:23 +0000 UTCBob is way too lame for Toffee, and Mal is way too good for Topher. will Honey's siblings please ask her before they get themselves into mismatched relationships?! smh!
gamigami
2024-09-02 15:02:18 +0000 UTCThe twink pounced!!!
Heather
2024-09-02 13:13:45 +0000 UTCThat's some good looking toast. Would Bob want a side hustle working a certain food truck? (jk but seriously that looks tasty)
Must Love Frogs
2024-09-02 12:16:18 +0000 UTCBob: (Feeds Toffee) Everyone at Toffee’s church, who has been trying to smuggle their pastor hotdishes for years: (Wild cheering and applause)
phobos
2024-09-02 10:26:59 +0000 UTCLove this for them. So much.
Emily Lemur
2024-09-02 06:56:59 +0000 UTCI just want a buffet consisting of bob’s french toast and mal’s pancakes every day of my life for as long as I shall live.
Haley Riggs
2024-09-02 06:43:04 +0000 UTCKinda reminds me of me and my friend He’ll see some guy on the street and look at me “is that daddy?” And I look and see the ok-est man to ever live. But then he’ll say “you’re a lesbian you can’t say anything!” And I can’t fight that.
Tibbles Yorkie789
2024-09-02 02:23:14 +0000 UTCHoney: Trying to silence a woman...? Goodness, not very 'woke' of you....
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 02:22:12 +0000 UTCThe patience of god this man
D
2024-09-02 02:18:06 +0000 UTCHoney be quiet contest difficulty impossible
D
2024-09-02 02:16:00 +0000 UTCi love everything about this!! bob making toffee feel so safe and loved,,, Also. The other day i watched sondheim’s company for the first time (read a fanfic that had a character sing being alive at karaoke and got curious) and its a funny coincidence to me that the protagonist is named robert/bob/bobby like your beaver character is. tho tbh. being alive probably resonates more with toffee, since he’s the one who refused to date for so long. committing to bob mustve been a leap for him, huh? Love can be terrifying but incredibly worth it
AsTheJayFlies
2024-09-02 01:58:35 +0000 UTCHoney: Oh relax, would you? I'm not insulting him or anything. But surely even you can admit Bob isn't exactly the most....attractive. Toffee: *quiet growl* Honey: -Conventionally speaking, I mean. Toffee: He's the most handsome man in the world to me, Honey. Honey: *flat stare* Really?....The MOST? Toffee: When you love someone, they become the most beautiful person in the world to you. I've been with the sort of men you'd deem 'conventionally attractive', and not one of them made me feel the way Bobby does. He makes me laugh. Makes me feel safe, valued, loved, listened to. Waking up next to him is my favorite part of each day. And Honey, I pray that someday....you'll know that feeling yourself. Know how it feels for someone to see you exposed down to the bone, to see all your shortcomings and insecurities and failures, and choose to love you anyway. To MAKE you feel loved anyway. Honey: Uh-huh. And I pray that YOU understand that absolutely none of what you said makes sense. Toffee: ....It will. Hopefully. *hesitates, then ruffles her hair* Someday. Honey: *bats his hand away with a huff* Honey: *very, very quietly, so Toffee doesn't hear*.............pft, yeah right
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 01:43:52 +0000 UTCLmao no wonder Honey is so hateful, only thing she’s excelling in.
Tibbles Yorkie789
2024-09-02 01:03:16 +0000 UTCMerry is doomed to eat bland home cooked meals for the rest of his life
CardstockBroth
2024-09-02 00:43:48 +0000 UTCThank you! I LOVE drawing food. Back when I was an art teacher (a whole seven months ago, haha), I taught a whole unit on drawing desserts! The kids loved it. Anyway, the key to drawing appealing food is studying real life food and taking in the qualities about it that make one's mouth water. When I eat berries, I look for brightness and plumpness and a shiny exterior, so I try to capture those qualities when I draw them! With bread, you want to show off the texture- in this case I wanted to capture the areas browned from the skillet, and added a little sheen to help the bread look moist and buttery. Form is important and you can exaggerate- I made the bread slices extra thicc, not like the standard sandwich kind you buy from a grocery store. Syrup should look glossy and viscous, but it's also important to remember it has weight, it pools in the center of the bread and spills over the edges. Consider what makes food look enticing in real life, then practice recreating these qualities when you draw food!
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 00:19:52 +0000 UTCBut why did Toffee remind me of Frankie from Basement Yard defending his wife. Look up Basement Yard Ball and chain. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8J87QQv/
Nette Marie
2024-09-02 00:10:20 +0000 UTCI never know what people expect when they say that sort of crap about a person's partner. Like - "Oh, you're right, I just didn't notice that they're not considered attractive by society. Thank you for opening my eyes to how deficient my loved one is as well as how incredibly flawed my own judgement in people and in my own life is. I'll get divorced posthaste and seek out someone more societally attractive, thank you for opening my eyes to how supposedly unhappy I am"??? The Husband is not nearly as certified as I am, and I would verbally eviscerated someone for saying shit. You think it's *easy* to make me feel loved, asshat? I appreciate Toffee's restraint here, Honey would get a whole earful (or even two, with those big ol spaniel/setter ears)
Scyllarus
2024-09-02 00:05:46 +0000 UTCI love how their designs perfectly contrast each other and fit with their personalities, it's just such a great detail. Also I think it's been said before, but the way you draw food is amazing. Do you have any tips for drawing food and drinks?
WeirdAsIzzie
2024-09-02 00:05:42 +0000 UTC...Before I settled on vanilla extract, I almost wrote "Bob suggests she juice the lemons herself instead of using the bottled stuff". And I love your idea! Maybe Honey THINKS she's a talented chef, but in reality she's below average. Mostly just inexperienced and too committed to the middling cooking advice she was taught by her mother, who was half-taught the same bland recipes by HER mother. Her lemon bars are one of the few things she can make decently well, so it would rattle her that Bob can see the obvious room for improvement.
Lopoddity
2024-09-02 00:04:40 +0000 UTCTbh considering she got married young it's not hard to imagine her lacking experience in house keeping (besides babysitting Topher).
CardstockBroth
2024-09-01 23:55:24 +0000 UTCI'm screaming crying throwing up this is so cute and making me yearn and miss my partner even though I literally saw him yesterday
Lammergayier
2024-09-01 23:53:54 +0000 UTC...Honey. Honey what - did you not think to add dessert MSG to your lemon bars? Lord, is this woman using margarine for the crusts? Lemon juice from the bottle? Like *come on*, Honey, how???? Also laughing at the idea that Kathy wasn't much for cooking, so of course Bob picked it up instead to save them from starving but also from Kathy burning the house down. He's not all that fancy or inventive, but the stuff he does make is delicious and comforting. .........Aaaaand your depressing thought of the day: Honey has no idea how to cook because Maple has no idea how to cook. Despite "keeping house" being a "womanly" skill, Maple's never had much of a flair for cooking - unless you count the weird health-food stuff she dabbles in now and then. She disguises a lot of supermarket-bought foods as her own creation...but she did try to bake with Honey as a sort of mom-daughter bonding activity, especially baked goods for the church.
Scyllarus
2024-09-01 23:49:33 +0000 UTCThis makes my heart MELT 🥰❤️
RagingRiptide
2024-09-01 23:32:36 +0000 UTC1) I love their relationship 2) that French toast looks really good and I want some
Millions of Bees
2024-09-01 23:24:37 +0000 UTCHA! Bob makes his own lemon bars and gets soooo many compliments on them >:)
CardstockBroth
2024-09-01 23:18:06 +0000 UTCBob tries her lemon bars and suggests she add vanilla extract. Honey laughs it off as ludicrous but goes home and tries it and is horrified when her bars do in fact taste better. Bob is placed on her shit list forever
Lopoddity
2024-09-01 23:16:30 +0000 UTCI NEED Bob to outsmart Honey in some way
CardstockBroth
2024-09-01 22:58:00 +0000 UTCThe amount of love and adoration I feel for this pairing is insufferable.
pookaWOODS
2024-09-01 22:57:03 +0000 UTClol toffee looks so done with Honey for her comments (as does everyone else)
MEllegoo
2024-09-01 22:55:39 +0000 UTCThere’s definitely a negative stigma attached to rodents, and predator/prey relationships are generally frowned upon, but in Honey’s case she’s mostly looking down on Bob for being blue-collar and working class. Toffee is a community leader and highly educated, so Honey, through a lens of unexamined classism, views Bob as a step down for Toffee. Also Bob is short and overweight and just not what Honey would imagine the “ideal partner” for her brother would be. Toffee takes great offense to this, to him Bob is more than he ever dreamed of.
Lopoddity
2024-09-01 22:53:51 +0000 UTCCan Bob please make me some French toast because that looks delicious
WAr
2024-09-01 22:51:55 +0000 UTCThese guys are too cute! 💜
Amanda Stidham
2024-09-01 22:50:28 +0000 UTCOh I just love these two, they are so sweet! AND THAT FRENCH TOAST LOOKS AMAZING, YOU ARE SOO GOOD AT DRAWING FOOD!!
Angsty Ram
2024-09-01 22:48:50 +0000 UTCI love these two together so much, I cannot begin to stress how heartwarming their dynamic is. 💜
Blizwolfthewolf
2024-09-01 22:46:55 +0000 UTCWhat’s the stigma against beavers for the Meadowsweets?
MEllegoo
2024-09-01 22:45:11 +0000 UTC
