#<- I guess??? like. that's literally just a bit they're doing

[scribbledswans]

I mean. Since you liked my Taph an' Deity killer reader...Have a lil bit more? :] I feel like them and their dynamic is very confusing to those who haven't seen it since the beginning; Dusekkar, Builderman, Shedletsky...Any of the admin-y characters I guess?? Taph did VAGUELY know Deity reader outside of forsaken but that was because they'd grabbed him out of the admin building to figure out if he was real or not LMAO Reader themselves however have little to no real memory of Taph outside of the Forsaken realm, since all mortal's are the same to them; and all come and go with the same dumb bravery and the same selfishness. (Going off of the idea that God's are real in robloxia, and are built off of the belief people have in them ^_^ The more belief a god has, the more power they have! So telamon's hella strong? It's because he's got a lot of belief! With me so far?) Deity reader is the god of either Harmonical Destruction, or just plain destruction. Yet despite that, they tried for a long time in their life to grant wishes to robloxian's but that uhm. failed. Mainly because most of them were horrible selfish and tried to take advantage of their kindness; which lead to Deity Reader quitting their wish granting and cursing all those who were greedy in their presence....which lead to HELLA belief in their existence... Anyways. Go my gay people or whatever. Reader doesn't exactly know how to display affection towards mortals, and especially with Taph they're a little. Blunt and stupid. So going off of what they know? They basically just dump hella cash on him. Literally. Within the spectre's realm they are allowed free reign to cause as much havoc as they please, so the spectre can go, idk. Jork its specticals. So on the not so rare occasion, They'll find Taph's cabin and simply sit there while it is literally filled to the brim with bux. I'm not joking, you could go swimming in there. Though they do eventually learn through his frantic hand signals that he just needs their company to be comfortable; so queue them cradling him in their lap preening his wings while he works on a tripmine or two. If another survivor walks in on this, they're immediately struck by literal lightning and burned to ash. It's not readers fault! They just...you know....their finger slipped!!

Also Deity reader probably has hella beef with the admins for no reason, mainly Shedletsky because his sword got stuck between their finger and their fingernail once, and they spent that entire round smashing him into the ground and bringing him back over and over again. (I promise reader's nice...I promise.....)

peak level: CATASTROPHIC holy moly

i really love the dynamic of God whos kindness was exploited and Guy who just wanna snuggle. I love you mystic flour cookie—WHO SAID THAT

this is so peak god bless

[householdcryptid]

you can ignore this if you want! but best friend! bob accidentally getting you pregnant 👀👀👀 the team would be INSUFFERABLE! and you guys would still be like ‘we’re raising this baby as FRIENDS’ lmao

anon your brain is crazy insane this is so fucking funny /pos this is probably sadder than you wanted it to be im so sorry 💔 uhhh tw for mental illness, pregnancy, addiction/sobriety mention, parental abuse mention, it's a bob fic yall 😔💔

i think this would have to be the moment where they're like. "okay maybe this isn't a friends thing anymore."

because like yeah they messed around and they definitely have fucked like..obviously, but this is a Baby. they MADE a kid. this is a whole new ball game now.

i think rob freaks the fuck out at first, tbh? he's thousand yard staring at reader, like you're speaking in a different language.

he never thought he'd be a dad, never was clean long enough to really even consider the possibility. he honestly didn't think he'd live this long, certainly not long enough to make a fucking kid.

he isolates himself by accident, it's instinctive. he knows it's a dick move, and he feels awful for it afterwards, but in the moment its all he knows to do? there's just too much going in his brain at the moment and he needs a few days to process it.

reader is obviously upset by this, but thankfully, you and bob have a mutual understanding of one another. if one of you needs space, the other gives it. to be honest YOU probably need a few days to process too.

i think reader knows she's in love with bob wayyyyy before bob realizes he's in love with her, so Bob is going through the fucking ringer about it.

he spirals. sits alone in the dark of his room and feels Awful because he feels like he's taken advantage of you (boy is horifically oblivious and does Not realize that you feel the same. yes, it's irrational, yes, he realizes that after you guys have a talk)

i think this is like..a week long conversation. he has to lay everything out in the open, which makes him actually sick, but he loves you and the fact that you Want to keep the baby and that you want HIM is enough to make it worth the discomfort.

he's terrified he'll be just like his mom, which surprises you, because you'd thought maybe he'd be worried about being like his dad, but no.

he knows he would never in a million years lay a hand on ANY child, especially not his own. he would literally rather die. no, bob is worried that he'll be like his mother. that he'll fuck his kid up emotionally, pass down this mental illness like his mom to him, that his mood swings and general instability will hurt yalls kid.

(# this is the moment bob decides he absolutely 100% needs to go to therapy)

you also have the 'i'm in love with you' talk, which goes about like you think it would. he'a red cheeked and fumbling over his words and he can't quite meet your eyes, but he holds your hand Tight like the thought of letting go terrifies him.

that night, after the tears have dried and the lights have dimmed, he lays with his head on your belly, ear pressed to your skin, hand on your hip, thumb caressing just beneath your belly button. he's mumbling, muttering barely coherent words, but he isn't talking to himself this time, not the Void either. he's talking to the baby, mumbling promises of love, that he'll try so hard, that he'll never hurt them the way his parents hurt him. He falls asleep like that.

its not perfect, or traditional, and you're both terrified, but its worth it. he loves you, and you love him return, and you're both going to love this baby with every bit of yourselves. everything else can be figured out in time.

the team loses their fucking minds btw they've had a betting pool going for MONTHS and somehow walker wins the whole thing (his guess was scarily accurate. nobody knows how he did that)

[thesizeofyoursoul]

About Armand being Muslim or Hindu and my personal take (also a little bit about Assad and how he is/might be treated).

First of all, this isn't shade, I respect if you disagree, I just want to give my own two cents about things.

So, a lot of the arguments people used for Armand not being a Muslim is that he was impersonating Rashid, that he didn't pray the correct way, we haven't seen much of it, Arun is an Hindu name, that not all of Assad's characters are Muslims, etc and I wanna share what I personally think about all that. Also, I'm not Muslim, Hindu and don't have the same ethnic background as Assad, so I apologize, welcome, accept and appreciate if you correct me in case I accidentally said anything offensive.

I've seen both Muslim people say he was doing the prayer wrong and that he did it right, I don't really know what to believe. Still, maybe the reason for the innacuracy is because he only recently began reconnecting with his faith or reverted to Islam not that long ago.

It could be an accidental mistake in real life, made by Assad, the director, the cameraperson or whoever, like when Assad's accent slipped for a second on the Loumand fight. For example, if the problem is that he wasn't praying turned to Mecca, maybe it was because Armand was supposed to be in Dubai, but Assad wasn't and he forgot to adjust? I don't know where Assad shot that scene in real life, but it could explain it. Also, if that's not the actual problem, then just ignore this example lmao.

As for them not revisiting that, it could be because they haven't fully developed his arc. Rolin said he has a plan of multiple seasons for him, there's still a lot we need to see. And there's a huge religious plot on books 5 and 6 they can still explore.

Regarding Arun being an Hindu name: Armand was kidnapped, trafficked, emotionally/physically abused, raped, groomed, exploited, indoctrinated, brainwashed and developed severe amnesia on the books. Some of that has already been confirmed on the show. It's possible that his birth name wasn't Arun and his memory is cloudy, just like it's possible that the prayer was an act. That's open to interpretation, I guess. I personally think it's more likely for him not to remember his past (since vampires don't remember their human life that well and he already had amnesia as a human) than trivialize religion like that. I don't know why they would play with religion, OFF ALL THINGS, not to mention how tone deaf or straight-up offensive is to use a religion that's already so demonized (CHRISTINIATY was right there if they wanted to do that) for that, they know it's their very own actor's religion in real life too and how faith is a big part of Armand's arc and could've used literally anything else to show Armand was lying. I see it more as a seed they planted for the future (like Lestat using the Spell Gift on the soldiers) than a lie or just accidental, random and a coincidence.

Given the fact TVC has a lot of Christian references, it's possible that Muslim Armand would make more sense with the narrative since Islam is also part of the Abrahamic religions.

Assad might have played characters from different nationalities and religions before, but he did say Rolin let him give some input and use some of his own life experience. I assume if he had any saying in that, he asked his character to be Muslim and not Hindu.

The show is huge on intersectionality. Louis is a black, Creole and gay man. Claudia is a dark-skinned, black, sapphic woman. They could totally have a brown, South Asian, Muslim, queer man. All those sides can coexist on the show, just like they do in real life. They can even make him autistic(coded) as he is on the books, too.

Anyway, if we exclude prejudice, I believe we have more arguments for a Muslim Armand than an Hindu/not religious Armand. And now, more than ever, if they want to prove that they're really progressive instead of overlooking race, ethnicity, religion etc and other "complicated" and "controversial" stuff and they do respect their diverse cast, that's a great way to show support to Assad in the middle of such a prejudiced industry/world. That's not to say they can't have Hindu characters! The more representation the better! And religion and existential crisis are a huge part of the books, so to have different people from different backgrounds dealing with those on their own way would be interesting and a great contrast to explore (we even have a scene where Pandora said that the Christian God was never her God on the books and I love it). Still, there is a plenty of characters they can use/adapt for that, it's better to have Muslim people playing Muslims and Hindu people playing Hindu characters, respectively and not change what they have already teased with Armand.

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I have finally gotten around to watching Joel and Iskall's break up. Why are they like this

Iskall is. so devastated that he and Joel aren't having an affair

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[wonder-worker]

Wild how we know that Elizabeth Woodville was officially appointed to royal councils in her own right during her husband’s reign and fortified the Tower of London in preparation of a siege while 8-months pregnant and had forces gathering at Westminster “in the queen’s name” in 1483 – only for NONE of these things to be even included, let alone explored, in the vast majority of scholarship and historical novels involving her.

[vaguely-concerned]

it's so interesting that gideon opens his heart so quickly and completely and irrevocably to twig, while regarding mishka -- a parallel little sister/kid figure with some worrying hag magic attached, who also is in a situation similar to and has overlapping trauma with his own; they both have the scars of manacles around their wrists and are exploited for some inborn capacity other people want to make use of -- with such measured distanced distrust. and any reason you want to imagine there makes so much sense! it could be it's just too much like his own situation and he can't go there without getting into contact with things in himself he'd rather not feel or remember. might be instinctive flinch-away from still dealing with what happened to twig (and then jabberwock party wipe horror on top of that as a further attachment anxiety booster -- he didn't see kremy die since he's the first to go, but he sure gets to hear the story afterwards), and not wanting to risk that pain again so soon. twig meeting him at a moment where he was ready to let someone into his fiercely guarded in-group, and mishka didn't? just plain differences in personal chemistry (again... mishka is a lot like him in a lot of ways. perhaps. too much for comfort from some angles)?

if his trauma brain has decided that NO I've got kremy under one wing and twigsy under the other and sorry kid I only have two fucking wings, nothing is ever going to take this from me again while I'm alive to fight for it (the way they took my dad and my home and all those years of my life)... biggest FAIR ENOUGH GID! AS YOU WERE GID YOU DO YOU GID!! in history honestly even if it is a bit unfair to mishka

[oneluckydragon]

"What do you remember of being human, Echo?" The question is out of the blue and unexpected. But Sora offers a patient smile and tilts her head in curiosity, just enough that one of her ears flops over. It's endearing, if anything.

But Echo wishes she hadn't asked.

"Not much. Distinct memories are cloudy." A tired tone says softly, a pained recollection in her eyes and an acrid haze in her soul that endures, endures, and endures, "But I remember the discomfort more than anything. My body always did feel wrong back then. Misshapen. Condensed. Like it was too small for everything buried underneath, and that ache went so deeply some days that it would make my skin crawl. I hated that part the most."

At that, Sora's expression falls. She looks inexplicably sad, as if she'd hoped for a different response, a gentler one despite knowing the harsh truth about the dark future and the struggles Echo must have suffered. "But you had Grovyle, right? I'm sure he took care of you."

"He did, Sora, of course he did." A sigh, a flick of an ear and claws clenched tightly into the churned earth pressed under her paws. "I doubt I deserved his attention, though. I was too busy being angry at the world to give any care back."

In my lore, Echo does not look fully human during their time in the dark future. Since they were Darkrai before becoming human, and as a result of Palkia's reckless shattering of the Dimensional Portal which distorted both time and space, Echo's transformation was broken and accidental. They ended up looking pretty messed up and definitely (not) human. A lot of their characteristics as Darkrai carried over but rather morphed into something else.

And Grovyle, growing up in a world where humans have been extinct for longer than any living pokémon has been alive, has no concept of what a "true" human looks like. The only thing he knows is descriptions of humans from glyphs and texts in old ruins. Thus, he mistakes Echo for an actual human. And Echo, not knowing what a human looks like themselves due to amnesia, accepts this identification with nothing better to use.

[bmpmp3]

im curious to see how we'll see how we feel about takehiro and the others' new designs when they're fully revealed but it did get me thinking about how i would design his outfit. unfortunately i realized very quickly that i would just put him in my own fashion style: department-store-clearance-core

[mecha--maniac]

Dump of whatever random doodles on my phone involve Solaris; I don't remember what I've posted or not and I'm too lazy to check.

This guy is like a science experiment to me and I'm sure he wouldn't appreciate that.

Some words and extra doodle or two under the cut

Basic context: I got an AU (Frostbite) where 06 is as canon-compliant (up to and through 06) as possible except I fix shit afterwards and give my own spin on some character motivations. Most stuff is just worldbuilding though. These are a tiny fraction of my Solaris stuff but I don't put much on my phone/don't post much.

Anyway brief descriptions:

1. To me Solaris is a 'sibling' of sorts to Chaos, and also has 8 forms. This is a concept for Solaris 6; essentially a Persian Simurgh. 'Perfect Solaris' would be different from the boss fight we see, although similar; the boss fight Solaris is pretty god-equivalent-to-sick and is also too busy trying to deal with fixing Time to make himself 'presentable'.

2. His design is still changing a bit, but a kind of 'mobian' version of him. One more like how I normally do things, one more Sonic-y. I do not like the Sonic-y one. Nowadays Solaris 0 is more in the middle leaning Sonic, and Solaris 1 is a bit beastier but still close to the other one.

3. After Solaris is allowed to Solaris he might occaaaasionally go hedgehog for a bit; he was one for ~211 years so he's used to it. Gonna be cunty about it though, cause he's just like that. Shadow and Sonic look a bit young (if linear progression of time applies and we say Sonic is ~14 or so for Adventure, then for me that'd mean he's at least 16 for 06, and this couldn't take place until like 2 years later so I guess he'd be a whole-ass adult by then) but maybe they're the kind of people who just have baby-faces idk

Anyway some rougher stuff that's either real early practice or I'm hemming and hawwing over making 'canon' to the AU

[rintinningvt]

Started watching the Bayverse movies with my besties and... Are we just too gay for these movies??? Admittedly we only finished the first two and got through a quarter of the third, but the second one was such a drag to sit through at times and it probably doesn't help that we do NOT care about Sam that much. I hope that there is a character arc for him in the rest of the third movie. Because so far he has not been fun to watch in that one. He just comes off as a slight manchild to me, like... I can see why he would be frustrated with where he is in life but the way he acts with others and lashes out does not help him in the slightest. I do have to admit though that seeing him go to Cybertronian Heaven in the second movie was the funniest part for me and my besties lol.

I'll just hope that the other guy in the next movies will be at least a bit more interesting. Doesn't even have to be a good guy, just an interesting guy for me lol

[icewindandboringhorror]

"We can get through this by working together, reach out to your friends, community is all we have, a social network will be your security in the world, now is the time to lean on others!"

I do agree, and it's scientifically sound (pretty sure there is data about how people with better social networks live longer and etc) but also....augh..... what about the severe social issues, difficulty to leave the house, physical issues which lead to like zero socialization energy a majority of the time, etc. etc. Social support can be a replacement for structural support, but.. I guess I just wish it didn't have to be. Community is extremely difficult to build, even moreso if you're someone who has issues with social cues or group conversations or even just being around others in the first place. And blah, nuance, of course I'm just complaining or maybe being too negative or maybe misunderstanding, but, I hardly have the energy to brush my hair once every 2 months.. how am I supposed to maintain a wide social network and be active in a Community and Join Groups lol... sometimes it kind of feels like "er.. well if thats my only option then...... ruh roh". It's overwhelming

[cosmogyros]

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[sysig]

Some scribbles :) (Patreon)

[xcziel]

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[tropicalcontinental]

Fucked up slugcat and its iterator

I'll name them uhhh, Two Sided Coin idk

I'm getting more attached to this every passing second it's kinda fun