#And it didn't feel empty

[arthur-liquor]

Personal headcanon with tears being related to Time craft since it's a symbol of emotion anyways here's a Time craft Siffrin for a silly au idea I have in mind

[blackbearmagic]

@ my international friends and followers: I'm sorry. We tried. We really, really tried.

[xitsensunmoon]

The thing that kills me about dca and robots in general, is that no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to relate to an experience of having a childhood.

An experience of having a caregiver. Experience of growing. An experience of gaining experience.

They were brought into this world for a reason, for a specific purpose and their only function is to follow it. They have a motherboard without really knowing what the "mother" part of it means.

You were born knowing nothing? You were a blank canvas? You grew your knowledge and vocabulary and experience slowly with age? They wonder how that must've felt.

Are they even allowed to wonder, how could it be, to be able to choose your purpose? To be able to pursue the horizon if you want to do so. To be a canvas, and if you don't like the painting, to cover it up and start over.

No, no. They are no canvas. Circuit boards don't work that way. You erase, you rewrite. No layers, no wait time. You exist as you are or you don't exist at all.

Their future is determined by whoever knits the very strict lines of code into their system.

Your future is determined by you. Unlimited. You hold the brush.

Are you scared?

They know they would be.

No rules to follow? No, no. They wouldn't be able to choose what to do with their life either. It's probably a good thing they were made for this life! To tend to children, to soothe the parents. It's a life they fit into, it's a life they know and easily glide through.

It's a life that will never ever change.

Right?

[minamoreh]

[bixels]

I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...

[so-many-ocs]

i used to be so scared when adults told me my life would only get worse once i left grade school, or said that high school would be the best years of my life. there was a lot happening with me that i didn't understand and i was terrified of what would happen once i was in the "real world."

but you know what? i turned 20 last week. i've been out of high school for three years. i can say with confidence that things have gotten better—and i'm better equipped to deal with the bad shit, besides. the best years of my life are still ahead of me.

realistically, yes, i've experienced more serious things than some of the stuff i worried about in middle and high school, but being fourteen is fucking hard. i'm happier than i was then.

so if you're young and you've heard things like that, just know that life happens differently for everyone. some of us are late bloomers. sometimes it takes a while to strike a balance and find your people, but it will happen. it does get better.

[itreallyburns]

Whew. Maybe I'm wrong for this, and I apologize if I am, but it just seems so wrong to me to have 1D reunite AFTER Liam's gone.

I wanted it with all of them still around. Not like this.

Keep seeing posts of people saying they want them to reunite more than ever, but for me, it would just be devastating.

Precisely because we know that out of all of them, Liam wanted it and needed it the most.

It just feels wrong to have 1D without him.

I'm not into it. I don't want it.

Maybe I'll change my mind with time, I don't know, but Liam's vocals and stage presence were so important. IMO he was the foundation of the group. They all had their key roles, and I'm not saying his was more important, but there was something about what he offered within the group. It's irreplaceable.

I'm not trying to bring anyone down. I understand where it's coming from.

But personally... 1D is done for me. It died with Liam.

I will forever cherish that time, but I'd like to leave it in the past. A future of 1D without Liam is too heartbreaking to accept.

Sorry. 😞

Granted, if the remaining boys want to do it, that's their prerogative, but I won't be able to stomach it at all. Unless it's some kind of one-off to honour Liam, I don't know.

All my love to y'all who want it, though. I get it. I just... can't take it. 💔

[front-facing-pokemon]

[ineed-to-sleep]

*me immediately after going through a terrifying and traumatic experience* haha yeah I guess it was rough but I'm fine now like I'm totally chill. It was kinda funny actually if you think about it

[sasayan]

oh me? yeah, i'm fine. just sitting here thinking about how ki-ho said that the one time he regretted changing his identity was the day he and his brother found mok-ha bc all he wanted was to greet her as her friend, as himself, and he couldn't even do that. but he still bought her a new pair of shoes – just like he'd told her that he would back when they were teenagers and they both were terrified yet tentatively hopeful that they might successfully escape their fathers and leave the island behind them. he couldn't tell her the truth then, but he could get her new shoes to replace the old ones. this small act of kindness was the one thing he could actually do without giving himself away

[eposiemc]

see if we are talking in like an individual way as a gem and pearl watcher i'm really happy from what i've seen of this session because i got big mounders crumbs, pearl lying to scott (YIPPEE) and gem had a joyful time despite the couple failed attempts on her life

as a shiny duo enjoyer who is tuned into their characters' drama this season i, however, want to put them (c!gem and c!pearl) both in a pit and leave them there to starve.

[nelkcats]

Right person, wrong time

In another situation, and at another time, they could have been happy soulmates, feel the pain and feelings of the other; but after their deaths the universal system broke for them, and that was more a bittersweet confirmation than a cruel assumption.

Jason felt the electrocution, felt his soulmate's heart stop as if it were his own heart, his despair; it made him stop during his patrol, worrying Alfred and Bruce when all he could do was cry and scream in pain. Until all that was left in his chest was a constant feeling of emptiness.

Danny felt the blows, not fatal at first, probably due to Robin's patrols, not that he knew that; the pain was a bit out of place, it didn't hurt as much in his ghost form because instead of pain it just felt...wrong, disconnected somehow.

Until the moment he screamed in the middle of dinner, in which he felt something crush his head, and a feeling of betrayal and despair in his soul; he ended up shielding his head, his sister reached out to him completely shaken, the already disconnected connection fading until it was simply empty.

Both Danny and Jason knew it, in different days, years and situations, but their soulmate had undoubtedly died, and their divine connection with them; while some dreamed of meeting their other half, guided by small feelings from love, to physical sensations of pain, they did not look for anything, they knew there was nothing to look for.

Jason came back to life and his chest continued to hum, although he was sure it was completely empty, he generally attributed the unpleasant sensations to the lazarus pit, and wasn't that an experience? Knowing that his mind hadn't been his for years and when he returned his very soul felt wrong.

Danny slowly relinquished the human side of him, not because he had anything against it but because he endured the hum of his core more than the rumbling emptiness in his heart, letting him know there was nothing waiting for him.

That's how they both simply denied the constant question from their friends or family "do you have a soulmate?" Because they didn't have it, not anymore.

[swan2swan]

How the dialogue would have gone if Sammy was allowed to focus on her Issues for this season.

[hephaestuscrew]

I do think there's something special about the way that audio drama creators seem to love including cameos of voice actors from other popular audio dramas. Obviously, part of the reason why actors from one show might pop up in another is because the audio drama creator community is relatively small and interconnected, and also because those actors are very talented.

But there's also often such a sense that creators are having fun with these cameos. Like Greater Boston casting audio drama heavyweights Briggon Snow, Zach Valenti, and Felix Trench as famous film actors Matt Daemon, Ben Affleck, and Mark Wahlberg respectively. Or Faux and Stallion having Tom Crowley (who plays a Victorian detective in Victoriocity) pop up as Dr Watson. Or Unseen casting Beth Eyre and Felix Trench as characters who are twins. Or Arden getting Emma Sherr-Ziarko to play an actor impersonating a character played by her former Wolf 359 costar Michelle Agresti (with Michaela Swee also appearing as an actor impersonating the other main Arden lead).

In these cases, it's not just that there's a cameo, but that the cameo is given particular (often comedic) significance to those who are aware of the featured actor's other work. The vast majority of people wouldn't recognise any of these voices. But by doing these very intentional cameos, these creators show confidence that a fair chunk of their audience will know these actors and enjoy the link. There's an awareness that listeners of one audio drama are fairly likely to listen to (or at least be aware of) other fiction podcasts, even when the shows in question aren't of particularly similar genres. Recognising these cameos feels like being in on a secret. It feels like these shows are giving a little nod to listeners to say that we're part of the same club.

[jojo-schmo]

Does Meta Knight know what happend to Dedede in TDX?

TDX is what the cool kids call "Triple Deluxe," right? lol

In the Roleswap, they both know the facts about the events in Dream Land... Meta Knight knows what happened to Dedede during the whole Dreamstalk incident, and Dedede knows what happened to Meta during the Haltmann invasion, for example.

But I don't think they'd get outwardly vulnerable enough to really open up to each other about how all of that made them feel.

....Not at this early point in the story, anyway. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

To be fair, they don't really share their inner thoughts and feelings with anyone. Prideful King and Stubborn Knight... They've both got their own images to uphold, even to each other! They bottle up their feelings in hopes they go away on their own! That ain't healthy!!

But they do have the ability to let down their walls a little, somewhere deep deep inside them. It would just take something very stressful to get either of them to open up....