#19 Seeing Red

[tuiyla]

Alright. Okay. Seeing Red. Here we go.

[mikakuna]

tortured by the thoughts of what if bruce was just a slightly better person towards jason. he took in a homeless child and wasn't the adult for him he should've been. what if jason sometimes thinks about who he could've been if a different adult took him in? would he have been safer, happier? do you think, after he becomes red hood, he wonders why robin was too dangerous for 19 year old dick but fine for 12 year old jason?

[reineydraws]

wanted: marine hunter takanome mihawk

[crysdrawsthings]

Toxic Space Squid, Amnesiac Axe Murderer and Evil Hatman ft. ancient Russian-language meme and some dragons.

Baldur's Gate 3 is good, play Baldur's Gate 3.

[heguanshan]

He tian flawlessly skiing with trembling Momo in his arms 😩💞

[didhewinkback]

this just pissed me off so bad like actually how dare you

[buggyboyizhere]

Dips ASDF Land hat emo’ly

Hate the child solider trope/idea for AK, me thinks he grew up on base and decided on his own to join against everyone’s great advice ( Because Tord is evil and a poor influence )

[senoleaf]

Golden Soul and Silver Heart

Chapter 1: Golden Soul

Short Summary:

Behind a usually non-existent door a creature lies, waiting. Luring flies into its trap under the pretense of humanity.

A golden soul is the first fly to get caught—paying a bitter price for having been too naive and confident.

A silver heart is the second fly to get caught—paying a bitter price for not having been faster, for not having been more cautious.

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my take on how the story about Strangled Red (Door's Open) intersects with the creepypasta Lost Silver. also includes Insomnia Silver (Hypno's Lullaby).

Gold and Silver are in their early 20s in this fic.

written with the help of my best friend Tallulah Bangkok who also beta-read for me!!

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Chapter Summary:

Following a letter he had received, challenging him to a battle, Gold decided to meet his anonymous challenger all alone in the middle of the night.

Chapter Wordcount: +6000

Chapter Count: (1/2)

please beware the warnings in the tags on AO3!

[multiseb21]

coming soon to a store near you

[imthatwannabeauthor]

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[static-scribblez]

June 19th and June 20th

(I fucked up on the “I like looking at you” scene I made it look like something out of an analog horror fml 💀)

[disgustinggf]

why why why why is it so damn hard to pick what nails 2 get like i know i want long stilettos but choosing the color is impossible for me

[glittergroovy]

19 - pencey prep

[innocent-diamond-2090110]

♪ "I'm a boss, turn the radio on // Rise to the sky and glow in the dark" ♪

If you watched NMIXX's Track Listening Session for "Fe3O4: STICK OUT", then you might recall that the Korean title "별별별" for "See that?" has two meanings. One is "different/other" which aligns with the word "weirdo" from the lyric translations (plus how NMIXX's music is different from most groups), & the other is "star" which aligns with how NMIXX still shines in their own fandom/community! Since this CD is a continuation of their previous CD, "See that?" also makes me think of "DASH".

I have a lot of favorite B-sides again!

"SICKUHH": The full version is out! The only thing that the visualizer didn't include was everything from "(Temperature has reached critical level)" & beyond. Cheers to 6 all-rounders!

"BEAT BEAT": This is very upbeat & sounds like an anime opening song! ("Moving On" didn't appeal to me, but I agree with the others who said that this sounds like an anime ENDING song.)

"Red light sign, but we go": This song sounds familiar, but I can't recall from where. This also makes me think of (G)I-DLE for some reason. ^-^"

Full tracklist is here on YouTube!

[heguanshan]

Little Mo: want to pierce my ear? bring it on

My cutie is so cool this chapter 💞

[ranboo5]

Anyway [stretches] under a cut because it got Long as usual; tl;dr at the bottom

The thing abt c!Ranboo is his motivation and his actions don’t always align and that is bc of the eternal nature of c!Ranboo as living in a society and Balancing Priorities. He is always self-compromising in its relationships w/ others; more often than not when it agrees to do smth with someone it is doing it not bc it believes in the cause but because it has priorities it needs to mitigate. (Ranboo has not believed in any of the causes put forth by Someone Else in their life the closest they get is the Syndicate and even there it’s only reassured to bc it is reassured it can share opinions)

This starts off wayyyy early with it agreeing to help grief despite not really having a personal reason to do it, and with it collaborating w/ New L’Manberg even through things like the Butcher Army. It consistently does not want to be seen as In Opposition. It works with Tmmy and Techno in large part bc it doesn’t want to come off as opposed 2 them, and bc it has personal investment (+guilt) in Tmmy. Ranboo will literally act like this

- as self preservation - out of a desire to help+spare the feelings of ppl it doesn’t trust to negotiate with - especially later, so it can try to mitigate the parties it’s collaborating w/ -- if he’s involved in the effort, he has more traction 2 attempt to mitigate anything terrible it might do (even when most of the time he doesn’t manage to do this)

This is part of why he initially joined th Syndicate and this is why he worked with Wilbur over th course of the burger arc. Some combination of this is also why he works w/ Dream, smth that is frequently overlooked in Ranboo Analysis; Ranboo volitionally[1] collaborates w/ Dream despite, obviously, having a lot of Active Dislike for Dream and what he is doing, out of a combination of a) he would not want 2 frame himself as Opposed To Dream in any interaction w/ Dream, b) he is generally sympathetic and pitying, c) ideological agreement w/ some aspects of Dream’s goals, and d) desire to mitigate/stay close to Dream. Ranboo keeps his friends close and enemies closer 2 some degree

His relationship w/ Tbbo is not an exception to this it is part of the pattern. It’s just one that has much more present, personal, and consistent stakes. Ranboo complies w/ Tbbo the same way he complies w/ the Syndicate when he’s worried they’re threatening, the same way he complies w/ NLM, the same way he complies w/ Wilbur in the burger arc, th same way he complies with Tmmy early on, the same way he complies w/ Dream offscreen. This is a Known Tactic Ranboo pursues; their project is ultimately of survival and compassion and survival and compassion are both things they have to sacrifice to keep

Tbbo is a unique priority to Ranboo almost in the same way all of the aforementioned r slightly different, unique priorities; in Tubbo’s case, Ranboo is extremely invested in keeping Tbbo safe from others and from Tbbo’s own self with a particular fervor for a very long time. I’m not rehashing the entire beeduo meta here but Ranboo does have particular interest and a particular prioritization for Tbbo for a long ass time; arguably post-NLM and thru burger arc, Tbbo is its first priority bc Ranboo loves him and has convinced itself it’s the only one who can fix him and has also mostly-correctly observed that no one has really been looking out for him. Tubbo is an urgent target in Ranboo’s projects of compassion and of survival both

When those stakes r released, tho, in the burger van conversation (the “you weren’t happy before?”) Ranboo no longer has Tbbo at the same priority level irt the project of survival especially, and, despite how guilty and upset it makes them, prioritizes their 5D chess game with Wilbur instead (ironically sacrificing a solid chunk of its project of survival). Its motives @ the end of Ho16 r commonly cited as being abt Tbbo but that’s not entirely what he says and if it was Ranboo HAS the kind of analytical presence of mind to know that it Killing Himself doesn’t help Tbbo as much as it deals with Wilbur

Ho16 is abt Ranboo winning aforesaid 5D chess game; Tbbo is only part of the stakes 4 that and Mitigating Tbbo is no longer Ranboo’s top priority w/ that. Ranboo’s final monologue is more than anything reminiscent of his earlier arguments about sides and collateral. It’s part of the larger project of compassion, and it’s about the distorted version thereof tht comes with Ranboo getting stuck in its head and its machinations, too; like Tbbo is important to Ranboo and the carelessness abt Tbbo is something unacceptable but to claim Ranboo’s motivations revolve around Tubbo specifically is reductive of his other relationships and actual larger ideological motivations 

I have a problem w/ framings of this as positive/romantic devotion that amkes Ranboo better or as devotion at all bc repeatedly it is shown it makes him Worse, and is in fact the opposite of devotion it's disingenuous by nature. Ranboo is lying. This is so essential to all of this when Ranboo acts like he is in step with you specifically he is lying you are never guaranteed to be the priority. This is him at his worst, th project of compassion at its most compromised, and it’s a state that they explicitly don’t like. Ranboo does not like compromising itself and when they do that they Get Hurt (NLM and outpost arc having the most confabulation we’ve seen in Ranboo in general, Ranboo hating himself for this, Ranboo complying w/ shit like the experiments, Ranboo in all these environments where he is playing this being Constantly Markedly Afraid)

Even throughout the time period where Tbbo is technically priority #1 Tbbo is still . Priority Number One as opposed to like a genuine devotion. Tbbo having a handle on Ranboo in this way is not devotion it is fear and it is again not a mechanism tht Ranboo Only engages for Tbbo it’s just a mechanism, that again IS BAD FOR RANBOO BOTH IRT MENTAL HEALTH AND MORALITY, that has thru circumstance become one tht Tbbo is best at unintentionally activating. Ranboo Does This When You Are His Project. And When He Had A New Project Aside From His Husband That’s What He Did To Him

TL;DR

Ranboo does comply with Tubbo in various activities tht he doesn’t believe in but this isn’t ? Unique to Tbbo this is just Ranboo’s general socialmeta+ what allows it to move in the world the way it does

Ranboo cares about Tubbo deeply and this is relevant to his motivations but that’s only one part of his larger motivations

It’s also honestly not great to frame this complianceas romantic or good bc it’s actively smth that Makes Them Worse in multiple senses

It takes out a ton of Ranboo’s decision making and the negative effects thereof

Anyway stream

[1] No, one dumb as fuck line from Dream Of All People in that lame ass excuse for a finale does not negate All The Things In CRanboo’s Story including working w Dream being part of this consistent pattern, Ranboo’s story being abt agency responsibility and decision in such a way tht it is completely undercut by mind ctrl plots, Ranboo’s ideological agreement w Dream on some matters, the alliumduo parallels, and everything we do know abt the enderwalk as a concept and Ranboo how he acts in and out of it