#I also need to draw the season two gang

[glassrooibos]

Unsleeping City more like I DIDN’T sleep. Because I stayed up. Listening to it for so long.

[hoodedjelly]

my Jenny, Tuck, Brad, Shelden, and Vega older designs ^__^

i'm watching mlaatr, still not done, i think i got like 10 more eps (and if i'm being transparent i skipped around eps... i just wanted to see vega...). And i'm absolutely loving the show!!!! i love these characters a lot, didn't like Shelden at first i'm going to be honest, #1 Shelden hater for a bit there. but he chilled out in season two and i started to ship breldon with that too so now i just love him so much.

more about my personal headcanons:

Jenny: - I am under the belief that she is transgender. Jenny was made genderless, so her deciding to be a girl was strictly her choice and i believe that makes her trans. (She's also a lesbian) - she did grow a bit, im not gonna explain how idc really i just liked her being a taller lady :-) - she has A LOT of different cute outfits and hair styles, honestly too much to draw. she never transforms back into her base show outfit when crime fighting, she just fights in her cute summer dress she don't care. - her and vega are dating grrgrgrrrr - when vega is in rule she makes it so there is complete free access between earth and cluster prime for citizens in both places. - I say that cause i think when jenny is older she moves in with vega, technically living in cluster prime but visits earth like everyday. And brad/shelby/tucker/wakeman visit cluster prime - Jenny also hangs out with the nicktoons unite gang, but i deffo feel like its just that secondary friend group that you don't talk to with for months. when you talk again its the same goofiness as before - i think danny calls for her help when he needs it (also manny) Tuck: - he is still a little shit but we love him - adhd boy - questioning cis (he/him) - he got into robotics/stem and builds little silly things - with that, he gets help from Shelby - pretty much just a silly teen, he's on the internet a lot and has "cringe" interests - but idk he's having fun and being silly and finding himself (those interests is stuff like sonic and among us) Shelden(Shelby) - honestly kinda nervous about ppl thoughts on my Shelden, idk it makes so much sense in my brain - hits you with the transfem beam (she/they) Pansexual (she just wants anyone type of vibe) - I think when jenny is visiting vega often that leaves Shelby and Brad hanging out alone a lot. which they don't mind honestly, they are actually good friends! - but during that they just get closer and start catching feelings. Shelby eventually lets go of her feelings about jenny and realizes they were a real jerk and weirdo to her. brad helps them through that and eventually her realizing she's trans. blah blah they in love and kiss at some point. - Shelby is also a furry lmaooo her fursona is a cat.

Brad: - bisexual cis man (he/him) - Still his old brad self if i'm being honest. - totally forgot to say i think all 3 of them go off to college together (even though jenny doesn't have to i feel like she would prob want to just for the experience, but tell me if you think differently i'm still unsure) - i really don't know what else to say sorry brad! he's literally just as silly as ever man. he's just also gay - i will say here i feel it takes a lot longer for shelby and brad to start dating then jenny and vega. they got that slow burn kinda shit going on, since a lot of that is shelby being confused about her feelings. and jenny and vega just hit it off right away if im being honest, very high school sweethearts. - (also i think shelby makes brad make a fursona to match hers, so brad got a dog fursona)

Vega: - Lesbian cis (she/her) - That ending of her just ruling cluster prime was just so crazy to me cause like, aint she like 16? - i think she has a lot of stressed nights and fearing she's not doing the right thing for her people, and jenny tries to help as much she can - that is why jenny visits so much, she wants to help her. - very much got those nights were she accidently falls asleep at her desk, jenny finding her and giving her a blanket and a kiss goodnight - it's not like she's unhappy, she is actually very very passionate about her work and wants to NOT be like her mom - and yeah she deffo goes to robo therapy for the stuff with her mom. - i think it's a conflict where vega is scared her mom is gonna come back and jenny has to reassure her that if she does they'll get rid of her for good.

imma be honest a lot of my hcs are pretty half-baked and random things, im sure im going to think of more stuff in the future but that will be in different posts.

[softcitrus2345]

Heeeeeeeeyyyyy ;;w;;

So I've been kind of MIA since.. early november, wow. It's been a LONG time lol-

I really missed posting here and interacting with you guys, but I honestly think I did the right thing. Soon after I began my hiatus, I got moved to full time hours at work (retail during the holidays is a NIGHTMARE.) and it basically became my entire life. I had no time in the day to do anything besides sleep, eat, work, and then maybe if I'm lucky, I'd spend an hour with my family before they all had to go to bed for school/work the next day. It was a really hard time for me mentally and I had zero time for anything besides keeping up with my basic needs and just. existing honestly.

For about a week now, I've been back to part time hours at work, and I feel like I've finally been able to breathe again. I actually have time in my day to be productive and dedicate some time to my hobbies again.. I missed drawing so much, I missed talking to my friends and mutuals and I missed the cozy little community I've built here with you all.. I've been wanting to post this for a few days but couldn't really figure out what to say, so I'm finally just gonna word vomit here for a bit

Even if I hadn't been able to create much the past couple months, I kept my little noggin full of ideas just bouncing around in there and I've been deep in the trenches of an Arcane hyperfixation since season 2 came out LOL It's kind of embarrassing but it's what's kept me sane these past few months, being able to just focus on a thing I like and analyze it and see all the cool stuff other artists and editors have done with it has been really refreshing and allowed me to develop a little creative backlog in my brain of things I want to make :3 I've never really been into drawing fanart but that changed FAST after I was exposed to the Horrors (Jayvik) and got the ultra mega hyper gay brainrot. Those two bastards are living in my head and REFUSE TO PAY RENT so yall are just gonna see me posting Jayvik slop for a while, and I am NOT SORRY HAHA THIS IS MY BLOG, I DO AS I PLEASE-

Also I'm gonna try to be less shy about other (COUGHBERRY) kinks I've been wanting to post here too, so erm. If you're not a fan of that jazz just mind ya business (respectfully)

Damien, Vanessa, Matt, and the rest of the gang will be back, I promise, I just wanna have some fun with my silly Hextech founders ok-

Happy 2025 everyone! More to come soon :3

[averagespacekid]

the archivist 👁️

in the style of an anime screenshot because i say so.

SPOILERS FOR S5 OF TMA AHEAD‼️

heyo!! new hyperfixation time lesgo i’m killin it over here

i finished the magnus archives in about three weeks. it was an incredible experience lemme tell ya jonny sims and alex newall are gods among men

i love this depressed wet cat eyeball godbeing so much it hurts me. his voice has become my entire inner monologue. i think about him the instant i wake up and the second before i fall asleep.

him and his foggy soft sweater tea boyfriend restarted the fanfic addiction that i’ve been fully recovered from for two years. two years.

this is bullshit anyways have some art of him

here are some various progress shots of this guy, who took me surprisingly long to figure out how to draw.

he has no canon design, gang. none of these characters do. this scares me.

i tried to include all the scars he canonically has, but i apologize for my lack of knowing how to draw the scar from a worm fucking burrowing into your skin and i am not googling that thanks very much that’s fuckin terrifying

and here are some closeups because why not

i intend to draw his progression through the seasons at some point, but let’s just say in my head he went from a typical academic to… this thing pretty gradually

like, i headcanon him as having decently short hair at first just to be professional or whatever even though he prefers it longer, then season two hits and he just kinda forgets about it cause he’s too busy being paranoid and stalking his coworkers. he remembers again after the unknowing when he wakes up from his coma, but just kinda decides short hair is not worth the upkeep and buys a pack of hair ties that he then keeps on his person throughout the rest of the show, and ends up with something like this. maybe he has martin help him with it in various ways just to have an excuse for a domestic moment during the eyepocalypse, who knows

or maybe i just like drawing men with long hair ANYWAYS

if i were to serve a fear entity it’d probably be the vast, cause i love big empty spaces and big cities and buildings and the views from those buildings and idk if i see something big my first instinct is to pog face. also space is vast and i LOVE space. my legal last name is spacekid trust me bro

the worst one for me is the corruption, 100%. i fucking HATE insects so much and its whole thing is yknow THAT and it fucking sucks i hated the noises they added when jane prentiss attacked holy hell i’m gonna stop thinking about it now

also what in the hell is the mechanisms and why do they keep showing up in fics as a band jon was in? are they real? because if i am able to hear jonny sims singing then goddamn i need that shit RIGHT NOW

n e ways that’s about it gang… see ya later 👁️

[vidavalor]

Why does Crowley in season 2 have sideburns and Crowley in season 1 doesn't?🤔🐍

Because he's actually Elvis in S2. It's a theory I've been keeping to myself for awhile now because I was worried people might think I'd lost it but I feel comfortable enough now with all of you to share that I'm 150% sure that this will be revealed midway through 3.04, when Gabriel will return to tell Aziraphale that he forgot to mention it before he left for Alpha Centauri but he's had the real Crowley in a magical cell in Heaven since the end of S1. The one Aziraphale's been sleeping with since then is actually The King in disguise. (Elvis is supernatural so he can shapeshift, obviously, in case you were worried that I didn't think that bit through.)

Upon learning this, Aziraphale will pause, consider, then smirk and wiggle a little bit while making a dirty joke that involves the phrase "burning love", and then politely ask for his actual Crowley back. When Gabriel shrugs and says it's not his department because he doesn't work there anymore, Aziraphale's flaming sword will appear in his hand to match his rage. He'll slay Gabriel like Adam did the lion outside of Eden (because parallels, you guys...). The King-- who really didn't want to be a part of this and doesn't want to go on together with suspicious minds with anyone anymore-- chooses redemption, whips out his lethal banana (you gutter brains, it's an actual fucking banana...) and goes with Aziraphale to storm Heaven to rescue Crowley. David Tennant's really going to be stretched thin playing two characters at the same time in S3 atop all the flashbacks but we know he can make it work.

When they finally get through Michael (this takes about 40 seconds), our scrappy gang of Az, Elvis, a pair of ragtime singer ghosts played by Nina Sosanya and Maggie Service, and Crowley's two most emotionally damaged plants find the real Crowley curled up in the fetal position singing "All Shook Up" to himself (he and Elvis are permanently psychically linked now but don't worry, it's not a big deal, just a callback to the fly) and the dramatic score swells as Aziraphale rushes over and finally lays one on the real Crowley.

Aziraphale then recaps S2 to the real Crowley, who just stares. The only thing he reacts to is learning that Elvis snogged his girl. In a fit of rage, he has the Maggie and Nina ragtime ghosts (who are also angels, it's complicated) make him holy water and then hurls it at the demonic King of Rock 'n Roll, who lives long enough to sing: "Lord, Almighty, I feel my temperature risin'" before being eviscerated.

We might expect Frances McDormand to return here for this but she doesn't. We will be left wondering why The Voice of God didn't even show up to respond to the dying King and what that meant.

Except remember when I said that Crowley and Elvis were psychically linked?! Yeah. Crowley starts to die and Aziraphale sobs because, really, this was all very avoidable. This is when we all get wibbly because "A Nightingale Sings in Berkeley Square" covered by AI replicating the voice of Elvis plays as Crowley begins to draw the last breath he doesn't need to take. He dies. We're all sobbing. But it's okay because, as the final credits roll, Lord Beezlebub then appears, looks at the ridiculous mess in front of them, just says "this is so dumb", and then zaps Crowley back to life.

I don't know about you all but that really seems the most logical explanation to me. Especially since the alternative is just: "because he felt like it."

[thelemonsgod]

Sketchbook art dump!!! Metal Cardbot addition!!!

First time drawing them ^-^!!

Also! Since me and my little sister (We watched it together bc I forced her to) didn’t know the names of the characters so we made them up until I figured out their actual names. We still use Footbrawl (or Football) on Mega Trucker.

Okayyy sooo these past two weeks I’ve (and my lil sis) have gotten into Metal Cardbot, and for those wondering I watched it on YouTube all in Korean … with no subtitles…. Me and my sister had to interrupt a lot and I mainly know things bc I looked at the wiki 😭 Ligit how I found out their names… and the plot bc we only knew what was shown to us. Look the show is visually good and it’s a very good example of “show don’t tell” because we can (somewhat) understand the basic on what’s going on

My little sister favorite is Black hook or as we called him Captain Arg. Also Z is kinda really hard to draw 😭 this guy is difficulty! Also Winne the Pooh is here for fun.

Small redraw of when Dexter was laughing ^-^

Something I wish the show did was make the charters interact more then just their little duo or group :( like I thought it was cute to see Phoenix and Dexter with the strays cats and I wanna see more of their friendship

ALSO (spoiler for season 2) BRING BACK THE OG GANG PLZZ I NEED PHOENIX FIRE BACKKK plus everyone else

I feel like heavy Iron would have a grumpy friendship with Shadow X. But I wouldn’t know that IF THEY HAD STAYEDDD PLZZ I need them back :( Also needed more Gaurdy and Buffalo

Also small attempt on some of them as humans I wrote who’s who in the description of the image.

Got kinda lazy in the bottom :p

ALSO am a go on what I did b4 New years-

Also I watched Transformers Cyberverse, this will be its own post on its own but am I just say loved it. Season 3 but like the first half is my favorite season <3 but everything was cool!! I watched it all on one day (tho I did like kinda skim the two specials- :p) but urggg!! The world building is everything- am a just leave it there

Love ya all <3 Happy new year

[sarcasticscribbles]

I made a curious cat and people been asking about my designs so I thought I would share it here too If you have any question too you can send it here or over on curious cat!

Under cut is a very long monologue about some design choices regarding my s1 gang, Gerry and some avatars!

S1: Jon, Martin, Sasha and Tim

Right off the bat I'll admit I had seen TMA fanart before, but I assumed it was a game from how consistent designs are (Jon and Martin); however when I started I avoided fanart (but I am not immune to TMA fanon designs). I'll explain S1 gang, they are my favourites. I find fcs helpful to keep them consistence.

Jon: I have a basic Jon design: short, brown man with long hair and glasses. Jon has a put together façade but, he wasn't qualified for the archivist position, and he doesn't know what he's doing. Therefore, I like him with longer hair he can't care for, therefore messy. It gets longer with the seasons and adding on all the marks he gains from the entities. I gave him half-moon, golden glasses with chains holding two eyes. I like to think it's a Beholding artefact, so Gertrude wore them before him. I used to have Dev Patel as a reference for him, but I've switched over to Riz Ahmed!

Martin: Very basic: fat man with fluffy hair and glasses. When I heard his voice, I thought of Harvey Guillén, who stayed a reference for Martin's body. I pictured him in a dorky attire; round glasses, ginger, comfy yet business appropriate clothing. I added eyes in the pattern of his jumper and added freckles. I've recently play around adding a beard, because I think he wants to look older than he is (re: CV; "I'm only 29!") but haven't found a style I like. I keep him fat throughout the series, instead of him losing weight s4.

Sasha: She has some canon traits: tall, long hair and glasses. I draw her hair up to stay out of her face. Contra Jon, I think she was more qualified for the archivist position, so Gertrude started preparing her for the role. She wears an eye necklace I draw Gertrude wearing that's in the same style as Jon's glasses. She has a matching bracelet with Tim and overall is one of my favourites. (notSasha): I took what was established and flipped it; short, short hair, no glasses. I imagine notthem could pass as cousins (since they still need traits to the victim's family?); no immediate resemblance but with a few traits of the original.

Tim: Canonically described as hot so I have my own bias. I started with general attractive traits: tall and fit. I think he puts a lot into his appearance. I use Keanu Reeves as a reference, and he works great for him. He’s a hair guy, gets it professionally cut and owns expensive products, skincare routine and dresses in fitted clothing. His standard is a shirt with an eye pattern. He takes pride in his appearance, so S2’s worm scars troubled him. He stops shaving to let it heal properly but they never go away. He never liked looking at them and they are a cruel reminder of the past (however, one scar splits his eyebrow to x2 bisexuality). S3 he stopped caring about putting in effort, the stubble grew into a beard and his clothes aren't fitted. He loses muscles, gains weight, and isn’t who he was in S1.

Gerard Keay

I had just assumed Eric was hispanic (for some reason) and then I connected that he's Gerry's dad, and apparently I headcanon him half hispanic lol

But it was why I wanted to draw the Mama family portrait to play with genetics. Letting his dad be rather tall, tan with dark curly hair and Mary be ginger with paler skin; Gerry's pale, ginger with curly hair as a child. He grew up looking like Mary and started altering his appearance to be more like his dad; dyed dark hair and taking some of Eric's clothing (I also gave both a beauty mark under their eye he'll highlight despite wearing make up). Alternative scenes and goths tend to straighten their hair but I let Gerry have naturally wavy to still resemble his dad more. I tried to give him trad goth make up, mainly looking at Siouxsie Sioux in the late 70s. And a fun bonus to have his hair often cover one eye because, The Eye

Gerry cared for his dad, even if he died when he was a toddler (if I remember correctly). Gerry's chosen name is the nickname Eric referred to him as, which is also where my trans headcanon comes in (afab). I haven't thought it out fully, or how that reflects on other characters since everyone else calls him Gerard but I think there's some symbolising there having a chosen name relating back to Eric

(some) Avatars

Oliver Banks: "the Egyptians believed the most significant thing you could do in your life was die,"; I take inspiration from Ancient Egypt for my Oliver design! He wears an Ankh around his neck, but I want to look into more about Egyptian death symbolism (he has a cross too, but I'll probably remove it for future designs). I've also taken some inspiration from Nordic mythology, with Hel (Hela In English? Loki's daughter (not Marvel) ) as half his face is beautiful, and the other is a corpse (skull). I don't wanna mix too many cultures just for the sake of it, but it was a really fun design decision. And he's goth. Bonus death aligned I next time I draw Georgie I'll draw inspiration from the Death's-head hawkmoth

The Distortions: Michael's 60s and Helen's 80s inspired, no reason, just vibes. I like to think of Michael as a spiral while Helen's a twist, if that makes sense, I've been meaning to draw them together to demonstrate, but I'll include a doodle of it

Jane Prentiss: I looked into a lot of paganism, and fell into a rabbit hole. She's described as a modern witch, so I wanted a subtle alternative look with a shaved side and gauges. One of her breasts are exposed because (boobs) in old pagan traditions a lot of rituals were performed nude, to be closer to nature. A lot of pagan art has a very strong feminine force, I want for Prentiss. She has one eye, but I'll probably remove the other too, I've seen a lot of people do for more holes

Nikola Orsinov: Drag king. Because we need more of those. I love drag so Nikola's has a mix of both male and female attributes since he's just trying to imitate a human. Their design is also inspired The Toy Soldier in the mechanisms (haven't listened? To it but a lot of people pointed me to that designing Nikola!) that's also her actor Jessica Law! I put all my gender into Nikola lol, and when I can sneak an IT reference in I will

Breekon and Hope: Wario and Waluigi

Annabelle Cane: She's described having web keeping her skull together, but for some reason I imagined it to be down her neck. So I pictured her head occasionally falling off and being restored by a web. So I gave her both lol. Her vintage style is old, goth Hollywood glam to me and I love looking at reference for her

Bonus Agnes: I haven't drawn her fully, but I wanna take inspiration from Scandinavian culture, think Midsommar (both the movie and the tradition) and maybe Norse paganism. I love Agnes story and how it's only told by other people, and her relationship with Gertrude is so interesting!

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

A Bastard's Carol: a work of fanfiction by scumbaganarchy 💣

Season's greetings, scumbags! I hope you're all having a pleasant day. I come bearing a gift (of a sort):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1we8qEVul2PTWFCtaVqyyXccVg8-xZBte/view?usp=sharing

A huge thank you to @viviangreeneart for the awesome art! ❤️ It turns out we should all definitely be making fake novel docs out of our fanfic. It's good for the soul.

Some pretentiousness about ABC below the cut.

Just over five years ago, a naiver version of me had the idea of writing a Young Ones/Rivyan parody of A Christmas Carol. She started actually writing for this idea in December 2019... and promptly discovered it was going to be a whole lot bigger than she'd anticipated. With one chapter posted before the big day, she decided to kick the rest into the new year.

That new year was 2020.

Yes, that 2020. Although, to be fair, what other one could I be talking about?

We'll skip all of that. None of us need to relive it.

One year, two or three lockdowns, and four indefensibly long chapters later, ABC was finally done and dusted in December 2020. It stood at around 60K words, making it by far the longest thing I'd ever written. I guess we all had to spend that empty time doing something, right?

Followers of this blog will have noticed, I'm sure, that I've never shut up about ABC since. Maybe you even rolled your eyes when you saw the title of this notification? Uh oh, she's going on about that old thing again...

Yep.

Look, I'm incredibly bad at hyping up my own work - self-deprecation is a bad habit, but a common one - and the more time that passes between who you were when you wrote something and who you are today, the harder being positive about it can get.

I was 18 when I wrote ABC. I had only gotten back into writing properly at 17. The whole work went through one major copy edit a year or so ago, when I knew a little more about writing - but I still didn't know as much then as I do now, and I suspect (and hope) the same will be true for a future version of myself when she looks back on my writing from this time.

All of this is to say, sometimes ABC reads to me as something written by somebody else. 18 year old me didn't write exactly the way I do now; she hadn't gotten the Bachelor of Arts cheat code boost that I have. But she was extremely passionate. She did love the bastards Rik and the gang created with all her heart. She'd also studied A Christmas Carol for her GCSEs only a couple of years previously, so she did at least understand the text she was taking a chainsaw to. I think all of this mattered. I think this gave ABC heart.

But what's my point in saying all of this (again)?

For a very long time, I've wanted but held back on commissioning an artist to draw me a cover. Well, no more. Truly, thank you ever so much to @viviangreeneart for indulging me and creating something fabulous for this old fic of mine. Thank you too to everyone who has ever commented on or kudos'ed ABC on ao3 over the years. It really does mean more to me than I can say.

Having dropped a new and flashy PDF decked out like an actual novel, here's the link to ABC on ao3, which will always be its home:

Merry Christmas, scumbags. Cliff bless us, Everyone!

[feralboo-the-weirdo]

Here's where I get extremely nitpicky about the characters in Legend of Korra. Part two of my many rambly thoughts after watching S1 of LoK.

Amon and Tarlok, the two villains. I think they were well written as antagonists, until you look at their motivation. Why do they want Republic city? Why does Amon want to take bending away? Why does Tarlok want to get rid of all nonbenders? Why do they both want the city? What was their goals? It almost would have made more sense if they were the same person. How I think it should have played out was that Amon wanted to find Tarlok but he couldn't just go up to him for REASONS, because he wanted to apologize to Tarlok for leaving him, and start over. Maybe he was held hostage by benders cause he could bloodbend and that's why he was punishing benders idk. Then Tarlok is like "oh shit who is this guy?" He starts acting like a absolute menace to nonbenders to draw Amon out (the thing I think the show was trying to do) Amon is a no show. He goes to confront Amon, discovers it's his brother and freaks the hell out. He joins Amon??? Idk. They just needed better motivations, clearer ones, better goals. Something that makes Tarlok blowing him and Amon up hit harder than it does.

Tenzin was almost perfect. A mentor character that was also a very tired dad that has to adopt Korra. A great bender, not over powered, or overpowered only where he should be.

Korra. I don't know what to say about Korra. She wasn't a Mary Sue which I'm glad for, and I feel like her character was well flushed out, but she doesn't really have an ark. She starts out overconfident, cocky and headstrong and ends slightly less overconfident cocky and headstrong. Her ark should have been her unable to learn airbending because it requires you to be intune with yourself and able to follow the flow -Something Korra can't do- and then she learns to airbend not because it gets turned on, but because she learns to slow down and how to listen.

Mako, Zuko a little to the left just if he'd been left on the streets with a brother to take care of. Also what is this man's goal. Does he know what motivation is? Has he met a modivation? And like yeah, he's modivated by he wants to save his friend and keep Bolin safe but what does he want? Does he want a better life for himself? Does he feel like he has to protect Bolin always and that makes him overbearing? How does this affect his actions in the show? His goal seems to be first and foremost putting Bolin first. Keeping his baby brother alive. But we don't see this much after Bolin is kidnaped when he should be more protective of him. Maybe of Korra too. I don't know what his ark should be but him finding out he loves Korra feels empty. Like he started out a full character at the start and the the writers remembered they needed a love interest for their love triangle. I just don't get what he wants. Like he wants Bolin to be safe and a better life for both of them, which is why he moves in with Asami, but he trusts her too quickly in my opinion. This what eighteen, seventeen? Year old who lived on the streets and worked for a gang doesn't have major trust issues? He watched his parents get BURNED ALIVE. HE IS NOT OKAY. This parentified child trusts Asami's father instantly and it's ridiculous. Also, I feel like part of his ark should have been him being deeply distrustful of Fire benders, and that's why he doesn't like Korra. What I think his ark should have been. Learning that he doesn't have to be overbearingly protective of Bolin and that not all fire benders are bad people. So him letting Korra into the family dynamic would be more of a win. Would have mattered.

Bolin. Where to begin with Bolin. Sokka turned sideways. Naive, still immature, but that makes sense. Mako took on all the heavy stuff so Bolin could stay that way. Like Bolin isn't stupid, he hides behind humor, but somehow wears his emotions on his sleeves. He has the same problem as Mako. Starts and ends the season the same person. Also starts out a lived in character ends it the comic relief. Also him almost getting is bending taken away should have had a way bigger affect in him. I want nightmares, I want a fear of bending in public, I want him to be terrified of being found again. And I want Mako to be paranoid. Like Bolin just chill a day later- which as a person who experienced a lot of truamai find ridiculous. What is his modivation? His are even more fuzzy to me than Mako's. But I think I figured it out. I think fundementally what Bolin wants is to be loved. This is why he gets into so many messy relationships later in the series. He's a lost boy desperate for someone to fill in his needs where Mako can't. This is why he clings so hard to Korra, why he likes her so much. She treats him like a person, a friend, someone who deserves attention. This is why he cracks so many jokes. A desire to be noticed, to be cared about, attention that makes him feel like he won't be ignored. Because being a child on the streets messes you up. Mako grew up to fast, Bolin to slowly. A disconnect between them. Both struggling to meet each other's needs. I think what Bolins ark should be heading towards is learning he doesn't have to change who he is to be loved, that people will notice him and care about him when he isn't making noise. That should have been his ark in S1 or at the very least the direction it heads in.

Tenzins kids. Idk. They're kids. Meelo is annoying but most children his age are. Jinora was just there. Same with Ikki. Pema was fine. Kinda mid. Kinda just there cause Tensin needed a SO.

Lin. She's perfect. My favorite though I don't know why. Her modivations are inconsistent. She's kinda static. But she's cool. Idk. I don't know what she wants. She's chief of police. Did she inherit that from Toph? Did she chose that? Did she want that? It clearly means something to her. Though, I think what she wants boils down to her wanting to protect people and keep them safe. She seems to long for a parental role. Or at the very least would try to be good at one. I think this is what she wants judging by what she doesn in the show. She breaks everyone out of jail so she can find her officers. She stations her officers around the bending arena to protect the pro benders and the city. She sacrifices herself to Amon so Tenzin can get away and loses her bending. Idk. Regardless. Still my blorbo.

Asami. My least favorite. She felt like she was shoved into the story so Mako could have a love interest and there would be a love triangle. She's another character that I just fundementally do not get. Why does she stay with Mako? Why does she like him? Why does her being too nice at the start of the season feel like it's setting up her secrently being evil? Why couldn't she be secretly evil? Throw the viewers off track, make the dad just some guy. Like what does she want? Does she want anything? What is her goal? Her modivations for staying with new team avatar? Does she have any? Is she really just a plot device? Is that all she is? I don't know and it bothers me that I don't know. I think she should have been evil, working with Mako because benders killed her mom and she wanted to make them pay, but then she meets Mako and starts a relationship with the intention to get close to the avatar so she could make it easy for Amon to get her. But they she finds herself actually falling in love with him and she doesn't know what to do. Then it's revealed that she was evil and helping her father but she's changed, she wants to help them. Maybe she know a super important secret about Amon that she gives up do they'll trust her again. She had so much potential man. I would have ayte that up. And instead we have Asami, the "my father is evil but my only role is love interest and that's my whole character actually" character. Idk. Maybe I missed something, but she felt so shallow to me. Also there should have been more time devoted to Korra and Lin not being able to bend.

[deadairradioshow]

Does jughead match Betty's freak

this ask ended up twice in my inbox and i think that’s so funny. ask so real it came as a two-for-one deal !

honestly? no. jughead and betty are like, the epitome of an arranged marriage with the genders inversed. like specifically, jughead is the wife with unfortunate and irreversible neediness syndrome and betty is the strapping young man who has been tied down against his will. like, all betty wants to do is get out there and explore - first in a journalism sense, then in an investigator sense, then in a sexuality + life’s pleasures sense. betty really really likes being in charge of stuff, in taking command and moving stuff forward and getting shit done. she’s also a little more substantially fucked up than jughead in the sense that jughead is like. abandonment/inferiority complex 1000 ie. his mom left him, archie left him, his dad left him, his gf cheats on him or whatever. jughead is mostly a bundle of soft-type emotional-relationship issues which are fucked up in their own right, but he also expresses those issues a lot more openly (the whole Being A Writer thing, narratively the dying over and over thing, his whole misanthropy thing being just an accepted part of who he is).

betty on the other hand has: a serial killer father, serial killer grandparents, a mom who kills assailants and hides the bodies under floorboards, a serial-killer FBI-agent half-brother, a serial-killer cam hooker half-brother-in-law, a cult-indoctrinated accidentally-incestuous sister who had twins with the town dead boy who was killed by his father (said father also being one of betty’s own blood family), a boyfriend that dies every season and is an attempted gang leader, a cousin who is an insane witch, a gang-leader step-dad-situation who is also the father of her boyfriend, not to mention her serial killer genes! when i say she’s substantially more fucked up than jughead i mean that jughead weeps/whines/acts pathetic about his circumstances a lot more, which are sad in general bc that’s his role, but despite betty’s increasing “darkness” over the seasons (something that she says verbatim . lol) she still keeps it together on a surface level. still dresses in pastels still wears little pink sweaters and skinny jeans and does her cute hairdos and sheer pink makeup well into her adulthood, which makes her all the more fucked bc cognitive dissonance goes crazy!! the difference between how she’s perceived/what she’s supposed to be and all the things that happened to her/the way she’s supposed to react to it are two different ends of the personality spectrum.

of course, the problem this creates is that jughead (ultimate sad wet cat) sees her suburban good girl aura and takes it for granted that she will stay the same sweet girl and attaches himself to her - unfortunately, betty’s core directive is to keep moving, so naturally she starts looking in different directions. jughead needs her too much and she doesn’t really need him at all. consider that also jughead walks around like a festering open wound and betty graduated from the cooper school for emotionally repressed women…like. there was no way for betty to be weird (to be a weirdo. to not fit in and not want to fit in. she doesn’t even have a stupid hat on) like jughead is weird bc jughead is a freak because of his problems - ie he has no one, originally, bar archie, because he’s so “misunderstood” and “misanthropic”. the inverse of that - betty has, superficially, zero problems - which is what draws veronica and jughead to her, and her freak is just that much more intense because she never deals with it except in really unhealthy ways (a pile of coping mechanisms for which she is always looking to add to.)

tl:dr betty’s freak is a lot more intense and unsolvable than jughead’s and so while jughead can be fixed by a one-hit wonder vent novel and a new project-focused girlboss gf, betty can never be fixed - ergo they really need to see other people (NOT ARCHIE.)

[waltzing-rats]

MUSASHI HIGH SCHOOL HEADCANNONS

Tenga too!! Pretty Please

Wow okay! Thanks for the big ask anon!

(This is all my brain being silly mixed with my personal interpretation of the characters. If anything seems ooc i am sorry, and feel free to share your own headcannons on these two!)

High School Headcannons

Musashi ‼️

To me, he seems like the kind of person who gets along with literally everyone (especially the jocks) but has a hard time actually making close friends. I think he misses the BIC sometimes (and onigawara yoohoo)

Y’all know how in season 3 ep 1, he says he basically has no plan for high school and expects to help out at his family’s farm afterwards? Well, what if he runs into the same problem mob has in s3 and basically has an existential crisis. :)

Like. Maybe he can’t focus on academic stuff and he feels bad about it, so he pushes himself a lot in sports, to the point where people have to tell him like ‘dude you’re gonna break your bones’.

On a lighter note, i think it’d be cute if, during weekends, he and Tenga do study sessions so they can both stay afloat (and hang out more often)

Tenga helps him with essays and language subjects while Musashi helps Tenga with biology and geography :3

This is more of a self indulgent one, what if he joins the school hockey team huh. What then. C’maaahhh he’d look STELLAR in those uniforms

His guy classmates sometimes talk about the girls they’re talking to, or just general romance stuff, and he sits there like •_• i do not think this man’s love life improves

To add onto the hockey thing, I’m certain that the BIC takes him to dinner after games. It’s like a ritual

Goes for a run every day :3 he’s real stubborn about this.

This is the kinda guy who needs to be tied to his bed when he’s sick.

Oh but you know he listens in on gossip sessions. Nosy king

Tenga 🌀

He goes to that art high school but he’s still really timid about it. Like he basically only shows his art for class critique and to Musashi (:3)

I feel like he gets more and more punk in his fashion as he gets older. Spiked jackets, fingerless gloves, chunky tall boots, the whole package! I feel like, as he leaned away from the gang aesthetic, this was the next ‘rebellious’ dress style to try. (Don’t worry, the pomp stays)

He also can’t focus on academics, but it’s a bit different from Musashi. All in all, his grades are better than in middle school, but he still struggles with memorising and staying awake in class

I am a big advocate for neurodivergent Tenga, so I do think he gets overstimulated in class sometimes. Hides in the bathroom so he doesn’t snap at anyone though

Plays drums sometimes? Idk i can just see him making noise

Makes some friends, but has a hard time actually letting anyone in

Feeds the stray cats outside his block :) talks to them too (hes suuuper embarrassed about this)

He and Musashi text throughout the day :) once they both manage to emotionally open up, they just text randomly, whenever they want ( Tenga: MY SOCK GOT WET Musashi: My teacher yelled at me :/)

Y’all KNOW he doodles on the edges of his notebooks. Oh and i think he develops carpal tunnel at some point because of the constant writing and drawing, poor boy :(

He’s just a sleepy guy… he just wants to nap please let him nap on his desk don’t wake him up with your calculus just let the punk boy have his sleepy time (Anemia? Maybe he needs more sleep than other kids?)

Exercises whenever he can (sometimes he can’t bring himself to and he feels guilty about it)

[unicorn-virus-syndrome]

Mystreet Rewrite: Emerald Secret Part 1

A weird place to start off, but I would like to discuss my own take on an Emerald Secret season for Mystreet. First off, the cast is a little different. Aphmau (who I’ll be calling Aphia) & Zane are still there. Along with Ein one of the villains. Buuuuut there are some other people out here too.

Starting off, Aphia gets a call from her mom (who is a House Flipper.) She had gotten a job from The Ro'Meave Corporation to go fix up an old mansion for them. However, she would be available during that time for a reason she doesn’t specify but thinks that Aphia would be perfect for the job! Besides the Ro’Meave’s are offering a lot of money to get this job done and Aphia currently needs the money since she’s trying to save up to bring her friends to Starlight, since they had surprised her long ago with tickets to Love-Love Island. So she agree’s to take the job and hangs up the call. And we cut over to Sylvania, who places the phone down and turns to someone behind her. She says to them, “I’ve done what you’ve asked my dear. Oh! I cannot wait to have the whole family back together again…” and we get a look at her face, and her bright emerald green eyes.

As Aphia is preparing to head on over to the house Dante catches wind of what’s going on and convinces her (cough cough Begs Her. Cough!) to bring Gene along since he could also really use the money. She agrees and Gene ends up being Sasha and Zenix too. Surprisingly, Zane suddenly wants to tag along too. Mainly because he still doesn’t trust Gene and doesn’t want Aphia, his first ever friend, to head up to a mansion alone with Gene and his gang. So he insists on coming along to protect her. And thus! The House Fixers pack up into a rented van and head on up to the house. About half way to the mansion they stop at a gas station in a small town and meet Mikai, a Meif'wa working the register there. They pick up a couple snacks and head on the road again, eventually finding the mansion.

As expected the mansion is very old and definitely looks like it could use some love. After a small argument outside between Zane & Gene along with Sasha freaking out a little because she left her potions at home Aphia leads them all into the house using the key she found nearby. They find the powers out and Zenix offers to look around outside for a fuse box or something because he’s totally not afraid of the dark. Aphia, Gene, Sasha, and Zane look around inside until realizing that Zenix has a been gone just a liiiitle too long and Zane & Sasha go outside to look for him. The two find Zenix passed out in the snow. They pull him inside and when he wakes up they ask him what happened. To which he says he doesn’t remember much accept a sudden chill running through his body. Then suddenly there’s a sound of an explosion sending the three running towards the noise. They find a slightly charred garage with a damaged generator and Aphia & Gene clinging to each other with a protection spell wrapped around them (cast by Aphia, who had been practicing Abjuration Magic.) the two are thankfully unharmed but it looked like the power wouldn’t be coming on any time soon. Thankfully the boiler was working through! Small things. As the group is recovering another sound sends them into panic. The sound of something (or someone) breaking into the house. The group goes to investigate and see a pack of wolves searching the main floor. They all try to stay hidden, but Zane accidentally steps on a creaky floorboard and the wolves snap to look in that direction. Before anything else could react Zenix quickly grabs Zane and pulls him down behind the boxes again. And is…seemingly holding him protectively now. Which…is a little odd considering how Zenix usually acts. The wolves draw closer, but just as they are about to pounce a whistle is heard from outside and they promptly turn tail and run. Leaving the group of house flippers very confused and very frightened.

We then cut back to the old neighborhood and see Laurance & Dante packing up their car. They had decided it could be run to go drive up to the lodge to surprise everyone and check up on how they are doing. Garroth would have tagged along, but lately he has been very busy with his new job and sadly couldn’t join. But Laurance assured him that everyone would be fine. They attempt to at least call Aphia to let her know they are coming, only to receive no answer. They decide that she probably doesn’t have any internet up there and continue on, only a little worried now.

We cut back to the house flippers, who had decided to focus on fixing the house for now and worry about the wolves later. Besides they had installed new locks so now the wolves couldn’t get in, right? Zenix and Sasha are still a tad worried though and ask Gene if he really thinks they are safe here. He responses with a Yes. But when confronted by Zane later he admits that he just told them that so they wouldn’t worry anymore. To be honest, he wasn’t sure what they were up against. He wonders if maybe that had been a werewolf pack but Zane quickly denied that. Zane had studied a little werewolf history during his free time and the werewolves of today couldn’t transform into full animals like those wolves were. “The wolves were probably just hungry and stumbled into the lodge looking for food.” He says, blatantly ignoring the fact that they had closed the doors of the lodge upon entering. And normal wolves wouldn’t have been able to get in. Aphia at that point walks over and adds that wolves also tend to avoid people when they can. So the wolves probably got spooked upon realizing there were people here and wouldn’t be coming back!

After a long day of work the group settles down in one of the rooms near the fireplace and fall asleep. All except Zenix who keeps tossing and turning as he starts developing a bad headache. He eventually decides to just go take a walk and leaves the room….and as he passes by one of the hall mirrors instead of his reflection, we see the reflection of a tall man with silver hair, damaged armor, and a large scar over his eye….

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And that’s it for part 1, will post more parts about this idea later!

[heartfullofleeches]

i've missed the gallery, so here's a question. how would the gallery gang be with a nightguard/frequent visitor reader who's an aspiring artist? i've seen people talk about going to actual galleries for inspo or just sketching the paintings, and was wondering if the art pieces would be honored to be models or something. i dunno man this is my first ask im not sure how this stuff works lol

(I've done this as individual hcs - hope you don't mind!)

The Scavenger

"Draw, please..." "You want me to draw a candy wrapper?" "Draw."

If you want inspiration, Scavenger has got you covered. They'll pull out their finest stole goods for your seeing eyes alone - necklaces, vintage toys - and pretty much anything that catches their eye or isn't nailed to a wall. Most nights they just hold up a pocket mirror and tell you to draw what you see, because it's the best thing in the gallery. If you give them your sketches, don't be surprised if they just shove them in their mouth and return to their painting without another word. Something this precious must be kept on their person at all times.

The Painter

Gasp. A future master in their presence? Well, the only correct course of action is for two geniuses to put their heads together, and create gorgeous works of art together that will bring tears to the eyes of any manner of creature. If you are a painter like them, they create a palette for you out of their own flesh and blood. Hm, as perfect as their colors are - something feels missing. As, yes. Red. That other guard has lots, and is being selfish by hogging it all. Not to worry, dear - your muse is on the case! Sir, sir! Stop running - your sacrifice is needed for greatness!

The Lady in Red

How charming.... Will you sketch her something to put on the walls of her cabin while you are away? She'll let you go for the evening if you do. Leaving old sketches around when there are others on site will also secure their safety as she'll drop everything to have a piece of you. Draw a picture of her and she'll be the wailing ghost of the eve.

The Faceless Angel

Monitors your location and makes sure nothing disturbs you. If you ask them to sit down they will start to hum to fill the silence, stopping if you look their way. Even if you ask to sketch them, the angel is surprised when you show them the finished work. Ah, they've gone and ruined it with their tears. If they are allowed to be greedy, could you draw what you imagine their face to look like?

RoseBud

It's only logical a gallery would attract an artist. Rosebud points out the flowers that are in this season for you to warm up, and tells you to come when you're ready to draw the finishing piece. Their babes are extra yippy tonight, but they are just as excited as them and unable to contain it like their greater half. Give it directly to Rose or they will eat it, but unlike the Scavenger they feel bad and start to cry. Rosebud has some artistic skills of their own and will ask to draw you some nights

Soleil

You want to draw them? Oh, but their gears haven't been polished in ages - their casing could use a shine as well. Don't even get them started on their dials. Give them a few nights to spruce themselves up and they'll be the perfect model for you to sketch and adore

Anri

You draw? How cool! They'd love to draw with you, but they don't have the same talent as you. Would you still mind if they doodled a bit in your book anyway? Maybe when you get off work you can hit up a coffee shop and give them a few pointers.... Oh.

Julian

Outright steals your notebook and tells you to give up before you get ahead. Realizes he's doing the same as his parents and gets it back... with a few sketches thrown in the back. They're all of you in different parts of the gallery doing your job... Except for one. Why did he draw you sleeping? And why does he know the color of your bedsheets

The Director

How fun! The gallery is always open to new donations. He'd love if you drew him, or one of the many stories he has to tell. He has a perfect tale about a painter who got lost in the woods and tricked by a power beyond their understanding. Why won't you come up to his floor and let him watch you work your magic as he tells it to you? Kick back and relax. Stress is the last thing that should be on an creative's mind. Get comfortable...stay as long as you want.

[joeemaru]

INTRO POST HAII

this feels necessary because i am posting and being insane more now. hello.

my name is mug!! :)) or muggy.. i think i’ve been called every variation of mug, i do not really care.

i use she/her pronouns and i am a lesbian!!

🌟 i will pretty much only post pokemon until my insanity goes away.. which may be in months. or years. who knows.

you can also find me on tiktok and twitter!!

also, my disc is muggyfart and.. if u have pokemon servers (especially scarlet + violet) i will gladly join them .. (｡’▽’｡)♡ i need pokemon people to talk to!!!

🌟 carrd + strawpage for more info !!!

more about stuff i like.. :)) ↴

hello again. this is gonna be a lot of rambling cuz i’m great at that but YEAH I APOLOGIZE HELP

fav characters: PENNY!!! i love her a lot! she’s my favorite ever she is so me OH MY GOD I LOVE HER.. i also really like arven, nemona, rika and carmine. and most of the sv cast. they’re all great I LOVE TEAM STAR A LOT. TEAM STAR LOVER ME I LOVE THEM

i also like anzu kinashi, yuri + sayori (ddlc), and toko + syo fukawa!!!! i’m not interested in them as much rn though.

POKEMON STUFF: ive played alpha sapphire (i remember almost nothing. i played it in second grade.), sun and moon, sword, and scarlet + violet!! my favorite game is sv, but sun + moon and sword are also great.. i really like lillie and sonia!!! fav character is penny though. my favorite pokemon are tinkatink, tinkatuff AND tinkaton!! i love them all.. i also REALLLY like jirachi, eevee + the eeveelutions, CHARCADET, mabosstiff, ogerpon, and a lot more probably. i’ve also watched horizons!! at least what’s out on netflix in the US. i’ve also watched the scenes with penny because i could NOT wait!! ive seen most of the sun and moon anime too, but i never got to finish it 😭 ive seen some of journeys too.. i did watch the episodes with sonia and i think two seasons maybe but it was in 2022!!!

ships?!? i am not that interested in ships right now (surprisingly) but i really like giarven, mela and eri, rika and geeta, and NEMOPEN SOMETIMES!! there are probably others that i forgot about. OH MY GOD WAIT I LOVEEEE LIKODOT!!!! A LOT!!!!

i also like joemaru + saranzu (yttd), tokomaru + syomaru (danganronpa), and like a million others i think. those r my favorites though :) again not interested in these as much rn!!

not ships but i really like team star bffs.. and penny + arven. penny and a lot of people tbh, she needs all the friends i think

other fandoms i’m in areeee. danganronpa.. yttd, ddlc, liar liar (THE GAME!!!!!!), and other stuff i think? i lose interest in stuff and forget about it.

my favorite music artists right now are chappell roan and kimya dawson :)) I LOVE KIMYA DAWSON!!!!

i like drawing. a lot.. obviously cuz that’s what i post here but i make edits sometimes!!! and i cosplay occasionally..

okay that is it goodbye gang..

[sopuu]

I love your art so much, it's such an inspiration :D

2 questions about your champion au

First of all, Who would Romeo transform into after he forces Lukas and Jesse to fight? I would imagine Jesse because he needs that sort of power to do stuff to Beacontown. I could be wrong-

Second, would there be a confrontation scene in your au? Like that one scene in episode 5, Lukas confronted Jesse. Would that happen? I'm curious because Lukas also got teleported to the sunshine institute.

ooh ok so for the first, romeo still turns into jesse bc as you said he needs to have jesse's status as hero in residence to have the power to run the town as he wants- but i think this impacts jesse a lot more than it did in canon bc it literally happens right after he goes through the whole being romeo's perfect champion hell. like imagine going through all that, realising you've finally escaped and reunited with your friends, just to get hit with another immensely stressful situation that involves not only your friends but also your townspeople and possibly the world? everything just keeps getting worse for him

also i have this scene in my head where after romeo disappears and drops them all to the ground, the gang rushes to jesse to check up on him. but all he can do is sit there with his head in his hands, shakily mumbling that he needs a moment while he breaks down a little and processes everything. it's like he took one step forward and two steps backwards. the weight on his shoulders just got heavier and he's the only one who can lift it, but he's just...so, so tired. (everyone sits by him during this, and lukas gently wraps him into a hug, rubbing circles on his back until jesse feels better. once he's mentally caught up on everything he perks right up and frets over them instead, espcially lukas since he just had to fight him. typical jesse :,) ) i have no idea if i'll draw this later though so i'm putting this out there in case i don't sdjghf

for the second q, the confrontation still happens but this time it's with axel and olivia who's formed the dead enders (or whatever team name you chose in season 1). just like lukas they did that in hopes to remind "jesse" of what they, and most importantly he was like before they had any sort of fame, when they were just a bunch of nerds from a treehouse. also i kinda wanted to give them a more prominent role in the story since they barely had any screentime in s2 lol.

the difference between them and the ocelots tho is that the two aren't really fighters- not in the sense of power but in the sense that they didn't straightforwardly rebel against "jesse". some passive defiance was definitely there like telling him that he's not doing the right thing, but they didn't form the rebellion team until romeo threw them into the admin tower prison. that was their last straw and the final proof they needed to see that the new jesse no longer cared for them.

oughh this got so long im sorry ghfdjk. tl;dr, romeo still becomes jesse, and yes the confrontation happens but with axel and olivia. the thing about this au is that the major plot points stay the same: they go to jail, romeo terrorises beacontown, they find the weapon, romeo gets beat down etc- its just how they get there that's different. i just really like exploring how one small change in canon events affects everything else :]

[kiraridertime03]

My Adventures With... Supermen?

Alright, so, I just got done watching the third episode of My Adventures with Superman's second season, Fullmetal Scientist. Great episode, fun episode, as per usual. However, certain inclusions have me scratching my head, leading me to only one big question...

Which would be a spoiler, so beware below, but...

Are they gonna kill Superman?

Now, I am not confident in this conclusion at all, it is purely because of two primary character inclusions in the past few episodes that seem to be pointing in this direction. It could mean nothing, but I am crazy.

To see what I mean, we need to jump back to the 90's. One of DC's major events within that period was titled Reign of the Supermen. It was a story that was spread across the 4 main Superman comics of the time, Superman, Action Comics, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Adventures of Superman (ha). This brief storyline, in short, followed 4 Superman Related characters as they vie for the role of his successor. This is because, right before this, Superman famously died.

Yeah, this event is the sequel to the Death of Superman, and builds up to his revival at its end. It wasn't very long, less than a year, but it is there. However, what is important for now is who our four Supermen are.

The first, who we'll skim over because he is least important right now, is The Eradicator, some freak alien who steals Clark's body and takes his identity. The details currently don't matter, though keep a lookout for their stupid glasses!

The second is Conner Kent's Superboy. This is the clone one made up of Clark and Lex's DNA. You may recognize him from the series Young Justice, however, at this point, he was in his Leather Jacket Era, not his black T-Shirt era.

However the final two are more interesting to see. The first we'll talk about is Cyborg Superman. He was once astronaut Hank Henshaw, but he got all fucked up in space, blaming Superman for it for plot reasons. When he eventually died because of space, he was able to upload his mind into a almost clone body of Superman with Robot bits. He then claims to just be Superman revived. Eradicator does this too, but it's funnier for him.

Finally, there is who is one of the more popular characters we see in this event, probably only rivaled by Conner, that being John Henry Irons, aka Steel. He is the only one without Super in the name, having designed to design a suit that helps him be like Superman, though he also gives himself a rad as hell hammer because John Henry. He was later played by Shaq.

So, now we jump back to present day, with MAWS's second season. The first episode draws the gang to S.T.A.R. Labs in Coast City (A place important to the Reign of the Supermen arc for reasons we don't have time to get into and probably won't get into because it probably won't happen exactly like the comic if it does happen in the show) and we meet Hank Henshaw. Neat, me and many others think. It makes sense, he is a space science guy, so might as well draw on a character from the lore. Plus, it gives the creators the opportunity to do a Cyborg Superman later down the line, as this show does love its robots. However, I didn't think much more of it. That was until Episode 3, an episode primarily dedicated to introducing John Irons and making him Steel, if briefly. Now, on its own, this is still innocuous, he is a fairly popular Superman character, and they do a great job with him, I love his larger bodied design.

However, things become suspicious when these two are introduced in such rapid succession. The writers want these Supermen in play for... something. It, of course, hasn't introduced all of them. There has really been no trace of Eradicator, and it seems weird to have Lex cloning Superman this early in the show. So, while we have half of the Supermen here, we aren't quite there yet. Although... We do have another Super nearing us very soon.

Much of this season's arc seems to be prepping for the introduction of Supergirl, Kara Zor-El. You know her, she got her own TV show, she's probably more popular than most of the characters we've seen in this post. However, we don't know too much about her role in the season past that. From what we've seen from annoyingly spoilery Toonami bumbers, she's probably being controlled by the remnants of the Kryptonian empire, whether it be ruled by Zod or Braniac, and whether it being of her own volition or not, and her current arc seems nebulous. However, Superman has built up quite the positive reputation even just in the single season we've seen him in. Imagine the kind of pressure, whether she has taken an antagonistic role in the past of the series or not, that it may place on her if Superman "dies" (or get sent across the galaxy or captured by the government and made to be presumed dead by the public or something). Especially if she has to take down an evil Cyborg claiming to be her cousin.

Do I think this will happen this season. It's probably too early to say, but I find it to be... doubtful. I have my doubts to them ever "killing" Superman, fakeout or not. If they did, it would probably be a season finale cliffhanger before having a 2 episode premier the next season with a Reign/Return of Superman arc the next season. However, they definitely want to do something Reign related at some point. Whether that means "killing off" Supes is yet to be seen. Though, given how close the two arcs are to each other and how much the government (Amanda Waller) wants to kill Superman, I wouldn't be surprised.

Long story short... Uh... Good episode, fun episode. I like this show a lot and I hope it keeps being good.