#I dunno really I just wrote

[clonedchaos]

Machine Memories- Day 12: Copy

Summary:

Sometimes copies have errors.

Rating: G/PG

Sometimes copies have mistakes. Your printer runs out of ink or the cartridge gets jammed. You don't get what you bargained for in the end, nor what you expected. Words barely float on the paper; sometimes you'll get blank sheets.

Toying with the very forces of nature on the brink of magic... It takes trial and error. Lots and lots of trial and error.

First, it was Bendy.

The cartoonish imp had been fed through the machine in reels and spat out as a lopsided abomination. It wasn't what Joey wanted. It'd scare off the kids; more importantly, the investors. Its smile was all wrong, one of its gloves was missing, it dripped ink everywhere— the list went on and on.

It was wrong. And that wasn't just Joey's opinion, it was Thomas's and Gent's as well. The only reasonable course of action was to toss it aside and try again at a later time...

The copy was sealed in the closets and locked rooms throughout the animation studio as plans to fix it were underway. When more drastic measures were applied, he had even resorted to putting it in a chained ice box. He wished he could forget the mistake; could you blame him? 

None of the copies had ever turned out right. They were full of imperfections or weren't quite akin to his vision of them. Years went by and those dreams were left to rot inside the machine itself.

He was left a bitter, lonely old man... That was until he concocted another plan, in a similar vein to his first but completely different in other aspects. Perhaps he could make his own family. Not quite a copy, but something artificial.

There were a few mistakes. What was to be expected? One day, he was successful. He was given his daughter, a shining light in his otherwise dreary world. She was perfect in his eyes, regardless of her creation. He named her Audrey.

He tried his best in raising her until it was his time to leave this world.

Years later, Audrey discovered the copy. Rather than turning a blind eye at his suffering, she accepted him. She didn't see a mistake-- she saw someone trying to navigate the situation he was thrust into. It would take a lot of work, but she’d get there.

Audrey did what Joey could not... She took care of him.

[a2zillustration]

Part 2 of 2

Thanks for tossing me the ball on this one Larian I am now running with it at mach speeds.

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[bixels]

What did/do you like about Pharah?

Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.

Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).

But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.

There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.

Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.

[too0bsessedformyowngood]

Sorta a continuation of this post.

I’ve been thinking more about reverse robins AU with Duke as the Dick/Nightwing parallel, and I have some ideas.

So like, Duke came first. He was the light to Batman’s darkness. I don’t know if he would start off with Signal or another mantle and become Signal later on, but he definitely had the bright colors from the start. Batman might be the Dark Knight but Duke was Gotham’s (K)night Light. Batman fought what hid in the shadows but Signal chased the shadows away, provided a guiding light home. He was the Sunshine when the never ending grey clouds got too thick. He was Gothams hope and inspiration for a brighter future.

But don’t forget he was also a menace. I don’t think it would go down exactly like it did in the comics, it was the early years for Batman-and for the villains as well. After Duke’s parents were gone (maybe by Joker still turning them mad with Joker gas in Joker earliest year, maybe year one for him or something else) he started planning. He started working harder in school, focusing on the sciences to one day make a cure but also would go out looking for his parents, like in canon. He would stumble into things way bigger, overhearing plots from villains and mafias and decided to become an inconvenience for them. Letting the airs out of tires when no one was watching, a fire alarm pulled right before an attack, door stoppers on the outside of each door to a warehouse trapping the villains who where planning inside. A sudden strong of bad luck befalling the main terrors of Gotham. It didn’t go unnoticed, especially by Batman. Duke kept his streak of being unseen until one night he crossed paths with the Bat.

Bruce for his part would have know about the little boy who lost his parents in the attack, and it would have also brought up some memories for him as well. He would have kept a small track of him, but noticed he was in foster care so didn’t do much until one day he came across the reason behind all the karma the villain have be having. Looking into the boys eyes and seeing the same fire that he had, blazing more fierce as Duke explains how he will find his parents and save them, and if he could prevent more bad things along the way he will. Something pinging in Bruce’s soul, this kid lost his parents like he did but not fully, and he still had hope among the need for justice, something that had faded so long ago for himself. He took Duke back that day, promising that he will find Duke’s parents, and kept a closer eye on him after the fact.

Duke noticed that after that day it became like clockwork, he would sneak out, search Gotham, cause a little chaos, get caught by the Bat and brought back to his current foster home. Bruce did some digging, looked for Dukes parents but also found out that Leslie Thompkins was the person in charge of Duke’s case. After a few weeks of the new schedule he met up with Dr. Thompkins. They talked about how Duke has been bounced around from home to home and sneaking out to find his parents almost every night. After a long conversation, and not as much convincing as one would expect, Duke found himself being driven to his next foster home, Wayne Manor.

Okay I’m going to leave this here for now. I ended up writing so much more than I though I would lmao. I have more ideas and will probably continue this soon.

[betweenblackberrybranches]

This is just an idea for an au

Idk the name would probably be something like the "(not so) imaginary friends au"

[drenched-in-sunlight]

I gotta say I did not expect I’d love Miles this much, enough to look up shit like Secret War and Civil War II reading order, and worse, subject myself to Bendis’ writing of all things (he’s the reason why I stopped being a comic stan 5 years ago. I were a DC/ Superfam fan. You know the beef was BEEFING). Like, my tolerance of that dude now only stops at him being one of Miles’ creators. So that better writers can do the kid justice years later. That’s it.

Like, why is the “r u and Ganke together haha” a whole shtick that comes up multiple times during his run? It’s so annoying and painful to read. Miles can go around being paired up with different girls but the moment THAT question came up you know he gonna be super defensive and >:( about it which, eh, just does not line up with anything else happening in whatever story is happening at the time. At all.

The only silver of light is that Miles actually never says he doesn’t like boys, he just denies ever dating Ganke. Like, he could just say he doesn’t swing that way and the question would have stopped, but he doesn’t. So I know he be running around kissing the punk-est boy in the whole spider verse, ha!

Idk I’m near the end of Bendis’ run and some of it r good but a lot of them put me thru excruciating pain (cringe) so I have to complain about it.

Did I mention I were a DC stan 6 years ago? I were a DC stan 6 years ago so this isn’t even my first rodeo with white dudes writing weirdest things in American comic, but I just can’t believe I got dragged into this again because Miles blinks his bambi eyes on screen and makes me want to rotate him in my brain so I need to know the lore of him in every medium, apparently.

[maranull]

i miss her

[sourtomatola]

Aaaaaah so this was a scrapped comic I decided not to finish, took place in the second season of the Camelot au. take it cause I'm still not finishing it XD

[quaggyday]

Gonna be real, I think Hoyo made Arlecchino really boring

It's been awhile and the Arlecchino story quest just got worse for me. With all the buildup she's had through trailers and the archon quests she always came off as a dangerous unknowable person, who at the very least has morals.

But I feel like Hoyo has been taking the easy route with her. By the end of the quest I feel zero intimidation with her because despite the stuff she does it doesn't phase me anymore because I expect her to not actually do anything threatening or unexpected.

She doesn't actually kill the hearth kids and probably planned not to from the beginning and she didn't actually kill that one guy who left for love, just gave him a beta version of the flame bottle.

Plus all the actually interesting stuff with her is no longer relevant at all in the story. She has the kids rat each other out if they say anything against the hearth, raises child soldiers that die in her protection despite saying to "put yourself first", she tells Freminet crying is bad, Lyney has like so many issues she specifically caused.

I think the worse part is that like I've said before Arlecchino can care about the Hearth kids and can have a sympathetic backstory and be better then Crucabena as a father. But at the same time she's still a fatui harbinger who has been shown time and time again to be someone who does morally questionable things but Hoyo keeps choosing the easier options then actually doing anything slightly dubious.

If you think Arlecchino is well written though, props to you genuinely.

[zerodaryls]

i... i finished my first edit of my novel. 107,098 words.

i don't even know what to do now. do i just... start from the beginning and go through it with my metaphorical red pen again?

do i invite people to read it and give any notes?

idek how i'm gonna be publishing this when it's Finished Finished. i want it to be accessible to the target readership (queer neurodivergent young adults) and i hate amazon so like. idk where to host it. or if it should just be a file to download. or what. AAGGGGGHHHH.

but anyway... I JUST FINISHED MY FIRST EDIT OF MY NOVEL.

[random-bean-allie]

went to see daniel howell's show tonight.

for the very first time i saw a queer person freely making jokes about their sexuality and everyone in the room was cheering and.. it just made me really happy.

[b-e-e-h-o-p]

Damn… new writers really had no idea what they were doing with the lore so they looked up every single fan theory and hand held us into confirming it all with no real build up huh?

[razzek]

⭐️ for the director's cut?

Oh man, this is kind of a challenge. I haven’t written much in the past couple years and after getting brain damage last year I don’t remember what’s posted and what’s not without being prompted about a specific piece. XD The last fandom I was writing a lot for was Metalocalypse and all I remember from that is that I wrote some good stuff and currently thinking about the fandom/show just makes me sad.

Uuuuhhhh.... Despite how disconnected things seemed in my MTL series I did have some pretty epic ideas for both. “Florida” was a prequel/sequel (yes both!) to “Sense Memories” and was going to set up a reset of the world where the band gets kind of a “do over” only their reward for saving everyone is that they get a shot at being happy. They don’t reform Dethklok because it’s no longer needed. Nathan and Skwisgaar were going to kind of hook up in the third story and there was a thing where everyone would rush to be there for Murderface when he re-remembered his mom was dead. It was sweet but I wandered away from it, got distracted by like three other rifs on MTL “what ifs” and have since left the fandom, as one does.

Now let me tell you about Homestuck... :D

[lesbiansanemi]

When people leave comments on fics voicing that they don’t like something or are uncomfortable with it or weirded out… very confused about what they actually want. Like are they seriously convinced I’m gonna see that comment and go “oh my bad, let me just rewrite it and rework it specifically into something you like, I’ll get right on that chief” like bro what’s your goal there

[soni-dragon]

OKAY THIS ISNT A QUESTION BUT I HAVE TO TELL YOU I FOLLOWEED BECAUSE OF THE AMAZING DEVIL LYRICS ON YOUR BLOG OK MAYBE I HAVE A QUESTION HOW MUCH OF THE AMAZING DEVIL'S ALBUMS DO U THINK FITS INEFFABLE HUSBANDS (THIS IS A TRICK QUESTION BUT ALSO THERE IS A CORRECT ANSWER) no pressure btw i just got rly fucking excited

OH HI THIS ASK MAKES ME SO HAPPY I LOVE CHATTING ABOUT THE AMAZING DEVIL!! This is so funny I was literally ABOUT to make an ineffable husbands post with amazing devil lyrics as the caption

BUT ANYWAYS SO MANY OF THEM DO!! I may have just added the entirety of Love Run to my playlist lmao. After the new season ruin and marbles and rockrose and the thistle make me weep :’)

Also battle cries!! (I won’t let you turn our last night into this I’m going to binge watch a box set, drink wine, reminisce this isn’t a break up, dear heart, it’s a season finale) Blossoms fits very well for both of them after this season in my opinion, and horror and the wild fits for the line “give me back my heart you wingless thing” hehe

If you can’t tell amazing devil has been on my mind these past few days, ty so much for asking!! :DD

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Ngl would have honestly preferred if Holly's and Poppy's debuts in the Ever After High episodes had been similar to their doll diaries versus what we ended up getting.