Courtney Wheeler - Blog Posts

Since there's not going to be a Valentine's day episode this month. I wanted to fill that void by making these. So here you all go, puns and all! Happy Valentine's day!

Just Wanted to Update My Touch Tank Idea:

I had this idea to do something with Tina as a creature from the touch tank a while ago. https://www.tumblr.com/qilin-crusader/697656683256741888/tacosandtouchtanks-okay-i-just-wanted-to-update?source=share I wanted to update it a little because I realized I had a better setup to include the entire echinoderm family for Tina, her siblings, and her friends (though I use friends loosely for some of them) Louise: Sea urchin by a long shot when I found out that sea urchins liked to wear hats (a sea urchin with bunny ears would be so cute X3). Not to mention urchin is a word for a troubled, street kid which fits Louise. Gene: Sand dollar because another name for the sand dollar is sea biscuit or cake urchin which fits him for obvious reasons. Jimmy Jr.: Starfish because of his passion for dancing. Jocelyn: Starfish for being blonde and popular. Tammy: Brittle star fits her perfectly. She tries to be a starfish but her facade very easily shatters. Also, another name for brittle star is serpent star and we all know why that fits her too. XD Zeke: Sea cucumber. The description Tina gives the sea cucumber in "Aquaticism" fits Zeke to a T. Also metaphorically speaking, a creature that spends so much time providing for other sea creatures and letting them live in their butthole while rarely getting anything in return also fits Zeke. Tina: She starts out desiring to be a starfish but insecurity over time makes her believe she's actually an urchin. Turns out she's neither starfish nor an urchin, she's a sea lily. Sea lilies without their stalks are also known as feather stars, so she could also be that but I like the lily one better because the phrase, "gilding the lily" fits her so well.

That's pretty much the update. I want to include Susmita as well, but I'm not sure which echinoderm to make her or if she should even be an echinoderm at all. I probably would make her another starfish because of space stuff if I want to keep with the echinoderm theme. I'm open to other suggestions though because I know touch tanks have more than echinoderms. I'm not even sure if sea lilies or brittle stars are normally part of touch tanks anyway? I just wanted to use them because they are part of the echinoderm family. lol I'm pretty set on all the ones chosen though and I believe fit all of them pretty well, I'm just stumped when it comes to adding other characters. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Update 1/12/2023: Adding more friends to the touch tank idea. Susmita: Hermit crab because it's cute and Zeke named one Saucey which can almost be a cute nickname for Susmita. So I rolled with it because I like hermit crabs. Henry Haber: Horseshoe crab because of his love of dinosaurs since it's a living fossil. Also, both hermit crabs and horseshoe crabs aren't real crabs so they have that in common. Darryl: Sea anemone because I found out that some species of sea anemones sometimes choose to sit on top of hermit crabs or sea snails. I just think it fits Darryl because of how much of a wimp he is. I think the idea of him sitting on hermit crab Susmita for protection is really cute. Rudy Stieblitz: Sea snail because I thought it fit him being the slowest runner in the world.

Courtney Wheeler: Starfish because of her being a blonde and also very stardom driven. Alex Papasian: Hermit crab because of that one time he wanted to run away.

Uuuh and before going a final sketch I made for Geneuary2025 heavily inspired by @gaywriterthings art specifically for day 3 Music, I've been loving their art for Geneuary, I'm glad this event made me meet such an amazing artist

thanks again @golden--doodler for such an amazing event

I actually also felt inspired and made other piece for Music, that one fresh out of my brain buuuut I forgot to save it in my phone, so I'll post it when I come back 😅

Love this episode, I rewatch it again to do this piece and I just love it, I dont ship Gene and Courtney romantically but I love them both and their bond deeply

There's some stuff that didn't made the final cut, and I want to edit it a little more, but I like it IS JUST A SKETCH THOUGH

the belcher kids are all very different people but i feel like they have two headcanons that i share for all of them: they all really appreciate ironic clothes and hats, and they all get teachers yelling at them to stop talking in class. gene talks really loudly in general, but so does courtney, so they end up having the loudest "whisper" conversations in the back of the class and their teachers always get mad, mostly about music and stuff. louise is normally pretty quiet when she sits near her friends but one time chloe sat in front of her and they just kept talking shit about each other incredibly loudly. a fight almost broke out. tina and susmita talk about ghosts, aliens, and cryptids in the back of class a lot, theyre not really being disruptive on purpose its just they really like talking about those sorts of things together and cant contain themselves if theyre sat near each other. its funny cause most teachers adore them for being respectful and quiet, but if they sit near each other its all over. its not really a problem with any of her other friends, in fact most teachers make her sit next to sam, but with susmita its like they cant stop talking. no one knows why.

sorry hugo stans i cant fucking stand that bitch! also logan, sorry i really dont get the hype.... i am also not a louigan shipper. i am sorry mutuals.