Tmc - Blog Posts
“If she hates the coffee so bad, why does she keep coming back? If she lives I might kill her myself to have one less pain in the ass.”
— (1st pic) —
G: Sir, this is a coffee shop.
— (2nd pic) —
G: Favorite? Ha, funny. I’m not fickle enough to have “favorites.”
(A/N: It’s caramel mocha with extra whipped cream and added chocolate drizzle.)
— (3rd pic) —
G: Yes, yes, I’ll get to you, thank you…
G: Of course they know I’m also St. Gabriel’s pastor. Little hard to blend in when you look like this, and unlike the others I can’t just change this face like you’d change your clothes.
G: And look. I don’t care how people are spending their money here as long as I’m getting paid.
G: If someone wants the liquid equivalent of a bullet to the heart, then fine. You bought it, I make it, the end.
— (4th pic) —
S: Uh, Gabriel…we got another complaint from that 14 espresso shot lady. She’s blaming us for ending up in the ER again-
G: GOOD. I hope that witch dies this time.
OMG I LOVE THIS SONG!!!
When there's something you don't know
It's only natural to want to find out
Show me everything
And just for you, I'll show you mine too…
If you recognize the pose, you’re old enough to qualify for a veteran’s discount on Tumblr lol
You know what? Let’s turn the tables. What’s YOUR greatest fear, Gabriel? I’ll share mine if you share yours… 👀
Maybe he hasn’t read the Gen Z Bible, but he might’ve picked up on some other youth humor…
G: Oh, I’m afraid-
G: -afraid I’ll be a little late visiting your mom tonight.
Thanks so much for keeping the Mandela fandom alive <3
I want to ask though, did Gabriel put a claim on Dave at any point? Because it seems that although Dave left the church, Gabriel still misses him
Dave still visits in a way, though he doesn't appear at mass. Gabriel merely acts like he doesn't know who's on the other side of the booth.
And did Gabriel put a claim on Dave? Well, he'd tell you no...but he'd be a liar.
LMAOOOOO I LOVE IT
also I love ur nails <3 just thought I should say that
They both panicked 😔
I wanna give him a hug OMG!!! HE'S SO CUTE I LOVE ASTAR SM ALREADY please yap my ear off Astar :3
Victim 5 Missing Person “John Doe”
Astar Magdalene
Would you guys be mad at me if I posted a TMC OC instead of other content? 😔 (does it anyways)
So uuuhhh hiii I decided to make an OC…because I’m just so cool and based like that. This is Astar (like, Astaroth, hehe). For anyone who cares enough to read this, this guy tried to cancel his life subscription one too many times, saw a vision of Gabriel telling him life is worthless, and was brought back and kinda cracked. Decides "well...if life doesn't mean anything, I'll do what I want. And I want to study alternates." So, mf actively hunts them and tries to catalogue their behavior and biology. Like...paranormal biology. Parabiology.
He's weird, but he's a chill guy. Yaps people's ears off about biblical theology and the paranormal. Makes good soup. He lets ghost hunters, like BPS, stay in his house (which he paid dirt cheap for) in Mandela in exchange for their juicy camera footage of ghosts...or alternates.
OMG YOU FUCKING REPLIED TO MY ASK HRFIJFGHVRGFRTIJU
dude, I fucking love your AiA AU (and just your Madela Catalogue content in general) and I'm obsessed with it right now. I love the way you draw them all, how you write Gabriel (he's so silly!!!/), and I need to know if the other characters play a part in this AU
Like, does the BPS team still exist? did Sarah still create it, or is she and BPS just a bunch of teenagers hanging out together and causing chaos (though I'm pretty sure that Adam is still a baby in this AU so the other probably are). What about Ruth and Thatcher? Do they play a part, or are they all just kind of side characters in the AU?
I'm also currently drawing my ocs if they were in your AU cause god damn is it fun
anyway, thank you for reading, continue with your Mandela Drawings, I love them and so do many other people, and continue to being the silly goober you are <333
Yes, BPS still exists! Only, it stands for Bythorne Private Sleuths (formerly BAS, or Bythorne Amateur Sleuths), and instead of just specifically paranormal investigations, they are more like nonprofessional private eyes for hire at cheaper prices. I haven't ironed out their story quite yet, but as I vagued about in this post after September 1992, the Heathcliff family was told Mark is "a missing person, likely deceased" by police. Sarah grew up believing Mark went missing and probably died, and she worked out that it probably had to do with an alternate infiltrating his life by posing as someone he cared about. Her motivations and goal for starting BPS then are to discover ways to weed out alternate imposters.
I don't have a design for Sarah (or Evelin, who is a part of BPS in this AU) yet, but I do have a small doodle I did of AiA Jonah and Adam:
Still working out a definitive story for them too, but in this AU, Jonah's a former teenage delinquent, now an adult street rat delinquent (though...technically all of BPS are delinquents, but I digress). His personality is mostly the same, laid back and sarcastic, but he's good to his friends. Adam is...strange, like the type to stare unblinking at you. He still sounds mean sometimes, but he's generally slightly nicer than in canon. Most of the time, he's just incredibly blunt, always saying exactly what's on his mind, even if it's harsh. He's also younger than Jonah by two years, but there's a reason for that (that won't be relevant until later).
Jonah met Sarah first in high school, and the two formed a bond, with him later joining BPS first. Afterwards, Sarah brings Adam on after meeting him outside of school, and Jonah grows close to him pretty quickly. He doesn't know why, but Adam reminds him of a childhood friend he used to be close with...
Ruth and Thatcher are also in this AU, and generally play the same roles they do in canon. I haven't put too much thought into them, other than that Thatcher is close with Dave, and he was involved in Mark's case as well as Adam's.
Did you give Gabriel a part time job as a way to punish him or was that just a quick idea? I find it so funny lol cus imagine his greatest fear is just working as a barista again (or does it motivate him to destroy humans?)
Pretty much LMAO. I dunno if I mentioned it before, but most of the time alternates own their own businesses, which employ other alternates, since that's easiest for them to keep their cover. In this post, I mentioned Gabriel owns and operates a small coffee cafe called Paradise Brew because, surprise, the church needs money to run, and there aren't enough donations coming in because it's individually funded. But not many people attend church anymore due to the severely decreased population in Mandela, and generally people are losing faith. Which is all totally Gabriel's fault due to the alternate surge in the 1990s, but he didn't really think that far, did he??
So now, he suffers through people's atrocious drink orders and their nasty attitudes. It's not...the worst, there are SOME nice people, as he vagues about in this comic. But no, surely, all of humanity deserves to be destroyed.
...Yes, surely. Every last one...
can I give cesar a book of alcoholic drink recipes or does he already know most of them.. -N (not the alternate just the initial)
(if you recognise me heh.. nuh uh)
“Oh, he knows plenty of cocktail recipes just fine—he inherited it from the previous owner. That’s not the problem.”
“It’s getting him to shut up long enough to get any work done.”
“I’ll take the book though. Might more useful than someone around here.“
Biiiiiiiig stretch
Cat coded alternates they could never make me hate you
How the hell did it take being told straight to his face that he's an alternate for Adam to realize he's an alternate
These motherfuckers can mold their face like clay and you're telling me he's never done that?? Not even on accident?
I can't stop thinking about a scenario where Adam is just like- in class and is bored out of his mind holding his head up with his hand. He's falling asleep and then falls off his hand, hitting his face on his desk and when he sits back up his face is smushed.
Made an alternate for my OC because theres no way these bastards haven't made it to my county by now.