#Like the Whole Point of that verse is that he DIDNT do it because He could see the future and knew we’d deserve it eventually that’s not ho

[moltengoldveins]

a Christian I know: well I mean, yeah, i know God loves me. Doesn’t mean I’m worthy of love though.

me, very confused: ok. What. What do you mean by that, though. Do you mean, like. That the corruption of your sin nature makes you incapable of remaining as you are in the presence of the most holy-

Them: oh no no. I mean I don’t deserve forgiveness and I’m not worthy of love 👍

me: ok. Ok so. I would be inclined to agree with some of that. Maybe. But I get the sneaking suspicion that you mean something very different than I do when you say that. You do know that God loves you anyway, though. Right?

them, unironically: no! God only loves me because He can see the future and He can see the adult person I will eventually become and that person is worthy of love, so he loves me because he knows I will eventually become lovable!

me: ……………… bitch what.

[mellohd]

hi tumblr look at my jayce theiry/rant i made

text version(more coherent less detailed 😭)

Jayce theory/headcanon

* heimerdink and ekko melt apart but jayce is different

* jayce splitting into multiple versions of himself

* melting affect barely happens to him(important)

* when he’s looking back at himself glitches multiple times after too and him becoming more stressed as memories keep popping up(which i find interesting)

* mage viktor waited for this moment to intercept and take jayce

* instead of going to ekko and hemeirdonkles verse (which i think the minor melting implied he was going) viktor interrupted

* split him into multiple versions of himself so that jayce could get enough experience or see enough of the hexpacolopse (maybe)

* comes back and re-merges with himself

* glitching = him still settling with himself

* potentially THOUSANDS of versions of himself torn apart then put back together

Ok i saw someone on here point out how jayce was most likely split into multiple timelines and i cant stop thinking about it

When we see everyone touching the wild rune how jayce’s body interacts is DIFFEREENNT from everyone elses like look ekko and hemeierdinker are like- spread apart disjointed theyre something turned into biblically accurate angels WHATEVER but when you look at jayce that melting affect barely happens, it still does but more minutely like in his eyes or at the edges of his being(WHICH COULD MEAN SOMETHING ILL GET TO THAT JN A SEC).

instead we see him being SPLIT the biggest example is when hes looking back here at all these other versions of himself.

And this whole time he keeps glitching like hes still being split into thousands versions of himself.

You can see him getting stressed as hea recalling like earlier moments in his life(specifica when he was getting save which i find INTERESTING).

I think whats going on is that mage viktor was waiting for this moment to happen and instead of jayce being transported to the univers ekko and hemierdinkler went to viktor intercepted this and took him to the future splitting him, duplicating him whatever thousands of times so that when he arrives he’ll get the experience he needs to defeat the herald. Know for SURE the ugliness of this reality that can’t happen

When he comes back we can see him merging with these versions of himself and then he starts doing this glitch effect again.

I think this is him settling with these different versions again- becoming one being again but obviously that would be HARD when you were literally thousands of people at once being forced to be one again like 😭 WHY ISNT THIS BEING TALKED ABOUT MOREE.

The fact that it acts up too when he’s thinking about the past like here when he says i thought you gave up on me LIKE COME ONNN

here’s where it gets a little head canony but this man didnt just spend months in isolation he potentially spent YEARS who knows how long because we don’t know how many versions of him split.

And think, if there were thousands of him all being sent to the same reality, think about how many different outcomes there could have been like this man probably DIED this man is walking around with the memory’s of a thousand different outcomes in the hexpacolopse.

This man is not tortured by just his minds memories and experiences he’s tortured with the thousands of jayces he was split into and forced back together again and he’s taking it like a CHAMP.

I suspect the only reason he held himself together so well is because he just didn’t have the time to process the collassal fuck of an experience he just came from.

The funnier thing is that if viktor just showed him how fucked up everythign was from then sent him on his way we’d probably get the SAME ENDING LIKE YOU DIDNT MEED TO DO ALL THATT or not idk but this poor man i need more fics where he’s just broken like NO he isn’t gonna recuperate IMEEDIATELY

[ihopesocomic]

See something funny

When I watched My Pride I always thought Feather was just Nothing's step-brother

Makes sense, son of her step-father, that's her step-brother

But then I watched your review on it and yall kept calling him her cousin and I went???? No that's her step brother

Until I realized, no he IS also her cousin, her mom and his mom are sisters AND I DIDNT KNOW

They did SUCH a bad job with establishing basic character relationships that I didn't know that Powerstrike and Waterhunter were sisters.

HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT THERE AREN'T MANY ADULTS IN THE PRIDE AFTER SHARPTONGUE DIES

Powerstrike and Waterhunter literally never interact it's hard to tell if they even know each other????

Like in IHS you can instantly tell the relationships between Clever, Careful, and Vicious and you can tell they're sisters because omfg they actually talk and interact like they know each other!!!🫨🫨🫨

Like you don't even need to make Waterhunter speak but just let her interact with ANYONE????

She feels like a such an outsider you can hardly tell that Nothing, our main character who she lived with and who grew up with her around, EVEN KNOWS WHO SHE IS

lmao yeah, we've got a lot of comments that are all 'you keep calling Feather her cousin when he's not, he's her little brother: this just proves you didn't watch the show properly and your whole argument is void!' and we're just there snickering because we know...

In some twisted way, nobody knows the ins and outs of this show like we do. We didn't study it for six months without dotting the i's and crossing the t's. We didn't ask for this. We could've become well versed in French or some shit but instead we became experts in My Pride lore. It's a curse. lolol

The only thing I think I messed up was calling Kyoga a 'god' once or twice but, in my absolute defence, she did transform into a literal god at one point so I don't know what the hell else I was supposed to call her. lol

But the weird thing about Waterhunter is that she was actually supposed to have lines and she did have a VA. The lines were just cut for whatever reason. I'm willing to suspect that Tribble probably found the notion of having a voiceless character quite funny but it just made her a big ol' waste of space. A lot of nonsensical things seem to happen just so Tribble could have her weird inside jokes (i.e. Nothing have that weird ass steak thing on her face, Feather randomly disappearing in the middle of the Nothing vs. Fire battle).

A lot of characters could've been combined here. Powerstrike and Waterhunter. Farleap and Feather. Maybe even Silentstalk combined with them two for good measure. There was also no reason for Quickmane and Proudmane to be separate characters either.

But thank you so much, anon. I think another thing that helps is that Cat also designed the three sisters to actually look related too. Powerstrike and Waterhunter not only do not remotely resemble each other but neither of them resemble their mother either. Which is weird because I don't recall Cow of the Wild having this issue. - RJ

[justanotherblogger]

Small Tang Ramble

Right now, I have started rewatching the entire Lego Monkie Kid series from the start while I wait to see the recent season 5 episodes (that I was suckerpunched with when scrolling through Tumblr and having some stuff spoiled whene I didnt even think a new season would come for at least a few more months).

Then, when I finally got to season 4, I noticed something interesting with how they handle Tang's powers.

At the start of the season, it's revealed that Tang's cheat sheet, given to him by Azure Lion, was something that supposedly should've been helpful to someone "mysticly powerful, comparable to the Great Monk, Tang Sanzang", then the sheet should be a piece of cake so to speak.

Then we see how Tang struggles and has a hard time finding where his friends are located, but then a Golden Cicada helps him to find Pigsy, which was the same one that flew around the Samadhi Fire ritual site when Mei had it reunited within her.

That's not my topic right now, though, so I'll just skip the "random destiny bugs" (name given to me by a friend), and keep going towards my main point.

Anyways, skipping a few episode to when the meet the Great Master (I forgot the guys name), we see how Tang got berated for his lack of courage and work ethic. Then Tang and the rest of the gang are put to train, and I'm not exactly sure on how long they were in training for, but I'm going to assume a few hours at the sky visibly got darker near the end of the montage.

(I'm pretty sure that something akin to a stop in time for them to train would have been stated in the show itself if that was an explanation for how long they have been training for, so I'm gonna rule out any sort of "checkpoint" or "rest stop" rules here, like when you can stay in a safe space for whatever amount of time and come out with little time passed afterwards.)

The reason why I'm talking about how long they've trained for, is because after (what I assume) is a few hours, Tang is able to teleport a WHOLE AIR BALLOON, RIGHT ON TOP OF WHERE THEY NEEDED TO BE, WITHOUT HIS STAFF NO LESS.

*ahem* We know Tang had struggled with the teleportation magic from the beginning, even with his staff along with only transporting 3 people, and the magic level required to do so is comparable to the Monk, who is very powerful considering what we've seen in how his training was revered by the great master for being extensive plus how the Monk focussed only on his studies, and in-show examples. (Ex. Releasing the heavenly seal put on monkey king singehandedly, sealing the Samadhi Fire along with three others, then also Sealing the Lady Bone Demon to where she can only escape through her self reflecting or a rare, mystical key, etc)

I'm just saying how it's very impressive how Tang could go from barely being able to teleport accurately with 3 people, the staff in hand, to figuring out how to teleport accurately, how to teleport something as big as an airship, and then gaining enough focus/mystic power to do the teleport without his staff for this first time shown in the show. And remember this: all of this growth was in, at most, half a day.

And we know how long the Great Monk had to study to get to where he was, "learning everything there was to learn" with him blocking out anything else to focus purely on his studies to get where he was, and yes, he probably studied more than just the teleportation magic in his time, but Azure said it himself, that someone "mysticly powerful, comparable to the Great Monk, Tang Sanzang" should be able to figure out the cheet sheet, or at least versed in the mystical topic.

I already showcased how much work is really needed through that comment, but then Azure showed it again in his comment of "if hes learned it in the mystical arts.." describing how this would have needed to be taught like how they gang were forced to with the Great Master. We already know how hard the training from the Great Master was to get even a fraction of Mk's power, and considering how heavily it's put on how the Monk only studied and studied when it was talked about, with the students in the flashback looking like the ones under the Great Master, I would assume learning the mystic arts takes a similar amount of time and effort.

And now that my points have been laid out, you guys get it when I was gobsmacked at how quickly Tang grew in the time with the Great Master, reiterating my point of how Tang was able to figure out HOW TO DO TELEPORT AND AIRSHIP WITHOUT THE CHEAT SHEET, WITH HIS BARE HANDS, IN A MATTER OF HOURS when it was heavily implied (from what interpreted) that doing something like this would take a considerable amount of time and training, even for the Monk as he was said to only focus on his studies to optimize his mystic abilities and to block any distractions.

And then to add to this, it was only ever shown in the show that Tang only read throughout the entire training session. Whenever we see him in the montage, it's him reading scrolls no matter what. We never see him practice, or even mimic any of the moves or exercise that I would assume would be on those scrolls for him to learn. Then, the first time he ever put those ideas he read about into practice after using the staff the entire time before and messing it up, he was able to make the transportation of the airship fast, accurate, and without the help of the staff entirely.

TLDR: Tang is either so good at cramming that he was able to shorten a good year of learning into a couple hours, or he's severely gifted in the mystic arts with the right training or examples. Either way, if you gave this man a week in the scroll library with some noodles and motivation from the Great Master, then I would assume he might actually become one of the most powerful characters LMK, given the time to do so. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[throwntotheair]

Tl;Dr

Homestuck in both canon and post canon have a remarkable throughline re:

John as a Person

Dirk as a Character

John consistently hyper aware of the narrative to the point of looping back to thinking only he could be real

Dirk consistently hyper aware of the narrative and embracing it to the point that he can only submerge himself further as a narrator

They give each other a reach around and deny everyone their personhood and agency

(Candy John is maybe improving but also maybe this is part of Ult Dirk's plan)

Anyways, I think they should kiss

My personal opinion is that John is kinda boring as a character - and wasnt that his whole point? average kid with an average life - loving father, suburban house, no tragic backstories just the folly of being a teenager

But if we sink into the verse and treat him as a person, he's almost believable. He was a fun guy (pre-canon), and then became horribly depressed and consequently awful (post-canon)... But like we've probably walked by a thousand Johns in the real world who maybe didnt become gods but who still treat the world like its not a part of them and theyre going through some shit that makes empathy real fucking hard - making them unpleasant to be with

John is a believable person

Dirk is a character - all the way to how he was Dave's Bro - this bigger than life figure. Who does all this crazy and cool shit - with all the irons in the fire, with all the sicknasty tricks, etc. etc.

Dirk always seemed to be framed as someone who could never be real. So he can't become a believable person and his whole journey to villainhood is just another way for him to run away from his own (for lack of a better term) humanity.

It all circles back to the idea that John is a loser because he's basically an everyguy. I could meet a guy like John on the street and think there goes another divorcee father at forty. but if Dirk walks down the street, you will always look twice - you will always watch. That's Dirk's whole deal

And a good long way that canon and post canon seems to fight is because Dirk thinks that people want a spectacle - they want the keyfabe - they want the wrestling match

But the spectacle works best as an opening gambit - it works best as a way to grab people, hook them in - people come for the spectacle

People stay for John. And Rose. And Dave. And Jade. And (insert favorite character here).

They want people to form parasocial relationships with so they can read and be changed however minutely - however infitisemally. We can't as a matter of fact feel things about characters as written without the double think of "oh for a second that felt real". And Homestuck's general navel gazing into the nature of fiction has utterly forgotten the most important question of all

Why do we tell stories?

[safetycar-restart]

i do desperately want to pinch charles' cheeks

baby boy has had terrible luck and a bad season so far, so your darling needs all the reassurance and support he can get!

sure, he's had some great results, but sometimes it isn't all that good. he knows you'll pepper his face in kisses no matter how he does in a race or a session, and baby loves being praised! and even though he loves your affection anytime, there's something special about having you smother his face in kisses after he did especially well. like when he gets pole, or a podium, and of course when he wins.

but recently, you started pinching his cheeks a lot? and he like. loves it. so much.

he loooooves it! you started doing it when you help him get ready before he gets in the car along with the usual kisses he always gets from you.

and it's a great distraction for when a session is delayed! like because of rain, or a red flag because of something else. he spends that entire delay with you, in his garage, because he knows you can keep him interested and occupied! you tell him jokes, tickle him, poke him, kiss him and hug him, go through data together, and randomly, when your sweet little ray of sunshine was smiling and giggling about something, you couldn't resist pinching his cheeks. when you did, he erupted into even more giggles! and since that, he never wanted to go a race without you pinching his cheeks.

his whole face just lights up, giggling and laughing, and you swear if he head a tail, it'd be wagging right now. he's adorable. and he deserves all the cheek pinches.

It's finally time for a subby Charles ask!! Once I answer this I will have truly returned. God I missed 📓 and sub Charles. I also made this mommy kink, because if felt it was needed and I knew 📓 wouldn't mind (📓 I love you).

Firstly, I absolutely agree that he's just had the worst luck this season and he needs so much love and support. I actually think he would become quite vulnerable and even more clingy than usual? It's like he's always two seconds away from a complete breakdown and he needs his mommy to keep him from falling over the edge.

He's pouring everything he has into ferrari and each time it fails, he loses a little more light in his eyes. He's just... he's like a pane of glass with a hundred cracks in it and he needs his mommy to keep him from completely shattering. Last season really took the last of his resolve and now he's running completely on empty.

(That could be its own ask actually, could even be its own verse, but that's not the point right now)

Anyway, the point is that Charles wants you at every single race, well actually he wants you with him all the time. If he had it his way you would never ever leave, especially not now. While of course you do have your own life, you try to be there for Charles even more than normal because you can tell your poor little one isn't coping on his own at all.

And that's where pinching his cheeks comes from.

You always praise him and give him lots and lots of love no matter where he places and no matter how his race went. But of course there's something extra special to him about being praised and loved on when he's actually done well.

(Sidenote: I think Charles would love to give you his trophies? Whenever he's on the podium, he'll immediately run to you afterwards all giddy and excited and give you his trophy!! Cause he did so well! And he couldn't have done it without his mommy so his mommy must get his trophy!!)

The cheeks pinching though, that comes from a day where Charles didnt do well. You had only a few minutes with him before he had to go do media and he was on the brink of tears. He just didnt do know what to do with himself because he had done all he could and the team he's given his life to once again failed him.

You wish you could take him in your arms and let him have a little cry and keep him warm and safe until he's okay enough to face the public but you don't have nearly enough time for that. So you settle for trying to calm Charles enough to not be on the brink of a breakdown before he has to go do media.

You start by putting your hand on his cheek, cupping his jaw and kinda just stroking his face. He gives you a small smile, leaning into your hand because no matter how sad he is, he loves how it feels when you touch him so softly.

Without thinking you just... pinch his cheeks a little. He squeals and jerks his head away, pouting a little but you can see he's much happier all of a sudden. So you quickly reach for him and pinch his cheeks again. This time he's giggling!

And oh he's so happy!! He giggles and squeals and squirms, trying to get away from you but not really trying because the last thing he wants is for you to stop. It just puts him in such a better headspace, makes him feel so nice and warm that he can't stop smiling.

From then on, cheek pinches are always involved and Charles LOVES them. Whenever he's sad, he just comes to you and knows you'll love on him and pet him and give him plenty of kisses and cheek pinches until he's smiling and ready to face reality again.

So yeah, between races? During delays? While they work on the car? Of course he wants you! His mommy must be right next to him and giving him all the love and attention in the world.

[bullet-prooflove]

Can you do “I still remember the day we met, I was hanging on your every word, I didn't think I would ever let, Somebody see into my world” from your radio prompt list with Terry Bruno? Thanks 😊

Terry remembers the first time he met you. It was during a rape homicide case in the Bronx, you'd requested the detective who had been running the investigation before your boy had made the switch to murder.

He could tell you didnt have high hopes, by that point Bronx SVU had a bad rep and as far as you were concerned he was part of it.

It wasnt until he briefed the team that you realised how engaging he was, how hard he worked in a unit that was clearly floundering. The more you worked with him, the more you came to like him, you found yourself hanging on his every word as he discussed the psychological profile of the perp and his victims.

That night you end up in the same bar together, sharing a meal as you discuss the actions for the next day. You're a sergeant but he's well versed in mindset of the monster your chasing, you welcome his insight.

When he laughs, he laughs with his whole body, his face lights up and he throws back his head...

Christ that sound, it does something to you.

It's on the pavement outside that you make your move. The two of you are leaning close under the awning as the rain patters down onto the concrete. You can feel the heat of his body as he tilts his head down towards you.

You take a chance and you kiss him, his mouth is hot, his lips searing. It's a rush narcotics flooding through your system because now you've started you don't want to stop. But he does, he pulls away with woeful blue eyes. His lips lingering perilously close to yours because he wants to do it again. He wants to kiss you until your breathless, until you fall apart against him and beg for more.

There's just one problem.

His thumb hooks on the chain around his throat and he pulls it out, highlighting the piece of jewelry that settles over this heart.

"I'm sorry." He tells you, showing the ring. "But I'm married."

[gam3rsuar5sr3x]

problems with sending bible verses and the judgement of teachers and the church and undertale

@metakazkz was one guy i shared it to. hes the one who made the abysstale and moonside comics, of course ill admit i admired him too much to the point of putting his au in my take on dustfell (witch i think i,m at a possablility to quit because i saw a video on judgement day that scared me ill explain later) but to all my christian friends. my pastor did pray for me sence i had wierd ocd like thoughts like "i,m this person" or that person and it was usally about fictional characters like some of them were from undertale stuff and from roblox piggy like the abysstale frisk and sans and alphys (and i didnt want them cause i thought it was making me out to claim it and i refused cause my identity is in christ not in fictional characters) and plus evolution isnt biblical, and he told me that the lord told him that i was listening and watching some dark things that open up the door to demons and i had to cut off certian things and i first thought it was undertale but i kept listening to it until i saw a youtube short on a rebellious girl going to hell, and it scared me cause it had a scene from a movie of her out of body expierence and it was her in an ambulance and then shes in hell screaming (not burning but probably going to somewhere where she would burn) and laying down and it shows us shes screaming as she slowly gose into an area in her torment area and it scared the MESS out of me for some reason cause all i saw was her going somewhere and her screaming, i dont know what part of it scared me but i dont wanna see it ever again cause of how scary it was. but in the end i cut off undertale music and the entire genre of undertale and aus as a whole out of fear of going to hell, then i began repenting everyday just to make myself "clean" incase id die one of my nights on earth cause our lives could end in a flash and tomorrow isnt garunteed then i made it to sunday by the grace of god, and in the end i go from cutting it off without any problem of doing so to being greived by the fact i might have to cut it off and never enjoy undertale and its genre ever again, and not just undertale and aus but also piggy and the reading moonside comic with metakaz. but then that fear where i have to get clean from sin before dying went away and everytime i,m outside my room out my house i,m always thinking id wanna go enjoy undertale and aus and piggy and moonside comic (witch is fnaf fan so thats why i also wouldnt wanna read it) but whenever i go back into my room or am in my room i would have that tired feeling and irretated a bit like i shouldnt do it, so i told this to my mom and she asked if this was some religous spirit on me. to me it probably could have been cause i think "i gotta get clean or i,m going to hell" whenever i repent and in doing so i think i made the mistake of trusting in my works to get right with god, and she told me that it wasnt like i was trying to rebel against god whenever i listen to that stuff unless gods trying to call me away from it to show me something about or saying "hey come here". so i went along with the same thing she said and said it to myself as well. but of course she said that was as long as i put jesus first and by first we mean our priority cause the lord should be priority, as a result i still enjoyed it (probably too much) but i had a tendancy cut off undertale and piggy and moonside comic ect from time to time as well as waiting for a week or longer until i can finally go back to it (though i did during those weeks think of undertale and all that stuff). then i saw videos on judgement day and it really scared me cause the main character who got judged had sin of divorce and adultry but what had me back in the fear is that he justified his sin. it scared me cause i,m looking back at what i said saying "its not like i,m trying to rebel against god when i enjoy it its only when it becomes an idol" and i probably think i did go that far and shoudlnt have, it scared me and now i feel like by saying all that i think and feel as if i was trying justifying it as sin and got exposed. ima reblog

[dailyoyo]

like. ok. ok. i was teh one who played jet set radio first. and was fixated on it. and i wasnt planning to make any rp tuppers until i played future so i had more to pullfrom for my characterizations. but mod pseud encouraged me to go ahead and do it anyway since we're just fucking aroudn. so i did.

and then we immediatley did a joke rp in the pre-established "sonic cast group chat" with yoyo and beat beig trolls who got in because of the server security being busted lately (long story). and bc we hadn't played future yet they were solely based aroudn what we dredged out of og jsr and like some shit on the (then-unreliable) wiki. and we kept throwing them in and im like 70% sure that was helping feed my hyperfixation enough to manage to play future. and we were like "lol whatever" and started lore blending bc its the leapusverse who cares.

and mod pseud was like "hehe i kinda wanna give leapusverse!yoyo a slightly diff design cuz we're canon blending and i wanna give more lv characters minor design edits". and so they did that. and also did that for beat. and we just had this lore that like. to try to shake off some of the negative attention yoyo got from the mr backpacks incident he changed his style slightly, so like, him starting with having the og jsr design despite being increasingly based on future yoyo is Still canon?

but then we started developing our actual jsr hc-verse more OUTSIDE the context of the leapusverse and we wanted to keep the changed designs esp cuz its an au and stuff so like. we did. and now we have this confusing thing where paradox!yoyo mostly just has og jsr!yoyo's design until like, either after the kidnapping or postgame (which actively conflicts with the leapusverse timeline because in that he only changed outfits after mr backpacks specifically which yknow DID NOT HAPPEN IN THE JET SET RADIO UNIVERSE). in case youre ever wondering why some stuff on this blog is like Definitely not og jsr canon but yoyo looks like his og jsr self thats why btw. paradox yoyo stop being confusing you suck

and all of it spiralled into this whole like. thing. thats like a little hard to call an au at points because its not THAT heavily au'd and is mostly just future-based in most places at this point but it is objectively an au. oh god i didnt realize how long this post got. oh well

first thing he ever said in the leapusverse for some reason

[guitarbrain]

I DIDNT GET TO LISTEN TO IT AT MIDNIGHT BUT OMGGG VIOLET IS OUT. LS DUNES TIME.

DISCLAIMER: i have not proof-read any of this. this is all word soup. like stream of consciousness as i was listening. idk why i'm posting this publicly but hiiiiiiii. this album is great. spoiler.

like magick: i thought the song wasn't very engaging tbh, might take a couple more listens. but that guitar solo, frank's riff at the ending, and that smooth as fuck transition into fatal deluxe??? they have me hooked (they did even before i hit play though)

fatal deluxe: this song is fantastic man. obsessed with the riffs, the dynamics of the song's tone/mood. fantastic. this song kicks ass forever.

i can see it now: the drums and that nasty guitar tone in the intro. fantastic. i love the layers in the chorus. the second verse has frank doing some strange ass technique, then travis comes in with his lead part kinda diverting from what i expected to hear from that line (maybe a weird modal thing or smth??? i'm not great with hearing that stuff yet), the very heavy rocky bridge, then it quiets down, builds, and breaks open with these faint backing vocals and just a single chord to end it. love this one. yet another song that has you fucking blindfolded and you have No Idea Where It's Going To Go.

violet: i have written about this song before. i love the very post-hardcore-y sound of it, the chord progression and the way the chorus sits unresolved until that bridge part, but doesn't get a fully satisfying resolution, until the very last bridge part when frank in travis play that whole walk up in unison and bring it to its very end, finally resolving that progression that never really reached home until then. andt he song overall has this light feeling until the breakdowns hit, which again is one of those tone shifts i adore. and that last bridge when it goes "you're gonna get--" and then the instruments pause and don't come back in until the last syllable of the phrase and you hear those lovely melodies coming through. ugh. this may be my favourite song from the album unless something later on dethrones it. this song is just genius man. so beautifully put together.

machines: still kicks ass just like fatal deluxe! this one sounds very sparkly and nice but you get that nasty gritty bass line that starts the song and sits as a focal point the whole way through. i love how strong the focus on bass is in this band. really lets tim shine, he's insanely good at what he does. i love that harmonic-y muting between the chorus and verses. and the pre-chorus serves as such a great build-up for the chorus where the song kinda breaks open and you get that really bright octave riff from frank(?). only nitpick is that in the chorus the guitar is very heavy to the left since they have frank and travis panned to opposite sides and when travis isn't doing much the right feels too dark and empty and doesn't have that lead part to break things up.

you deserve to be haunted: WHOA. THIS INTRO. frank doing that crazy sliding thing while travis is doing that little palm muted riff??????? and straight into anthony screaming and then when the vocals clean up they hit a set of chords that bring the song in a new direction. and the drums picking up for the chorus that kinda bring the pace up because in the pre-chorus the drums were kinda rolling along and not driving the song much. but tucker is really great at leading through song sections with his drumming. i love the verses where you get frank doing a cool riff and travis is doing that screamy lead part overtop, makes it sound almost spooky. this song has a very fitting title. i am obsessed. and that palm muted build up at the end of that second(?) chorus and everything stops and then it goes into a really cool bridge part where frank and travis re playing similar riffs together with cool vocals layers and then this awful noise comes in to drown out the song and transition to the next. omg. so cool. but that noise really was awful.

holograms: another bass into!! with travis playing this really bright lead part and feedback-y sounds on franks side, the drums just pounding 8th notes until the verse starts and it loses that strong build0up feeling and gets GROOVY AS FUCK! i love the tone of this song. and the vocal layers, little separate lines in the back with different lyrics, sometimes joining as harmonies and then breaking separate again. AND A BRIEF FRANK SOLO! and it goes into a background riff which then gets really chuggy before the pre-chorus (?) and his part goes up super high. i'm starting to wonder if this is actually frank's line. he's covering what travis usually plays since travis seems to just be doing little chords and fills. not a fan of the fade out but that weird pitch modulation at the end is a cool touch.

paper tigers: I LOVE THIS SONG. second favourite single after violet. love that powerful bass line in the first verse with the guitars coming in not too strong towards the end so that the bass still keeps the focus. and that really bright riff in the chorus is just co cool and i love that the guitars feel very centred for the chorus, i assume since frank is just playing power chords so the panning isn't necessary to separate their lines. and i love that bridge. idk what else to say. my analyze-y brain is getting tired. i just wanna listen :P

a little side note. when they released how dare you last year and they really leaned into the mixing style of frank panned to the left and travis panned to the right. it really bothered me. but i am a changed man and i see the value in it. with the way this band plays and the way the guitars interact, i think their individual lines just would not get to shine very well if they were centred. they're often still in a typical range for their part, frank is rhythm so he sits lower and travis covers the higher end with his lead. but there are also a lot of parts where their ranges start to overlap, and even where they do not i think it is really great to have them pushed to opposite sides so that there's no chance of them clashing, and you can really strongly hear both guitars, making it even cooler when they line up and play something parallel to each other.

things i thought would last forever: OK WHAT. THIS SONG SOUNDS LIKE IT STARTS WITH A PRE-CHORUS?????? INSANE. just the way it's set up is an instant build up and sounds very pre-chorus-y. and it goes into a cool solo part from travis and frank and goes into more of a verse. then you get the pre-chorus. AND THEN THE CHORUS HITS. these powerful strikes of a chord and then quiet. fantastic. that chorus hits you hard. and then the next verse has that typical ls dunes flow. big fan of travis' part in the pre-chorus. THE BRIDGE. ooooooooobh. i can;t even form thoughts. this song fucks. this song is fantastic. this song is so cool. the bridge has so many layers of vocals. i think three separate lines? and then a super punchy ending with those strong chord hits and then it slides down and that's it. song is done! like wow. that was insane. i'm speechless.

forgiveness: i am still recovering from that last song man wtf. and this is the last one! i hope it is sadder than sleep cult. this guitar part is already making out to be that way. i love the focus of bass and frank's riff off to the right side and taking focus while travis mostly stays quiet until the pre-chorus, and when he does join in it's very soft and doesn't draw much attention. the harmonies in the pre-chorus are lovely. and omg this chorus is so pretty. and the interlude between verses leads nicely and makes sure you don't stop feeling emotional. lol. i love that going into the chorus you get that classic ls dunes riff that i don't know how to describe since idk how to play it but it's a specific movement of the notes and rhythm that you hear a Lot from the guitar in dunes songs. i love this bridge, harmonically it carries that sense of home that the chorus has. this song is like the opposite of violet where everything gets resolved beautifully. i adore the build up to the end that leads to that abrupt stop. great song. yay!

overall! this album is fantastic. i will be listening to it on repeat for. a while. in my unprofessional and inexperienced opinion i love the way it was mixed, and the style of panning the guitars to opposite sides has really grown on me. i think these songs are really creatively and expertly crafted. it's almost like these guys do this. as their job. but yknow. it's still great and i feel the need to say how great it is! every song has such interesting dynamics and movement that you really stay hooked and sometimes can't really predict where things will go next. my one nitpick is that i think the singles stand out the most and some of the album songs fall behind them a little. i didn't find like magick to be very engaging even though it's the opener of the album. maybe these songs will grow on me as i listen more, but i feel like i wasn't as totally blown away as some of those singles had me feeling. but it's good they released their strongest songs as singles. because some bands release. weak or uninteresting songs as their singles (cough cough some of bring me the horizon's nexgen singles cough cough). the exception to this is forgiveness, and more notably, things i thought would last forever. omfg. that song was insane. i hope i get to hear it live. dunes show in less than 3 months. frank iero will finally be real.

my favourite songs are: things i thought would last forever, violet, forgiveness, and paper tigers.

[killrspringlock]

this, and i also feel like the spiderbyte situation was a completely different scenario.

you guys saw what miguel was doing in the go-back-home machine scene. that was a literal orb of time and space meant to send miles back to the reality that his spider belonged to. you have got to be kidding me if you say you didnt realize that MIGUEL WAS LITERALLY RIPPING A WHOLE ASS HOLE IN TIME AND SPACE WITH HIS BARE HANDS.

that whole situation is really messed up on all fronts, if im honest! it was either miles gets to escape, or miguel kills him. spiderbyte wasnt helping him because she “likes” him romantically, there is hardly any implication of that; its because miguel was fully capable—and had every intention—of hurting, or possibly killing, miles in that moment.

im not a super huge fan of gwen, mainly because i feel like there is a point in which you need to take accountability for your actions, and she doesnt do that, but i feel that way across the board. peter b. also needs to own up to his mistakes, especially considering both of them knew about miles and, not only refused to tell him, played it off as if they didnt know how to explain the situation when it makes perfect sense as to why people are worried about miles being apart of the verse or whateverthefuck.

call me crazy, but i would rather just rip the bandaid off instead of lie; gwen definitely messed with miles’ trust. he has every right to be hurt by that.

like look at that shit. you cannot tell me this man wasnt going to beat the shit out of miles more than he already did!

Nah the way people are hatin on Gwen for not immediately helping Miles is messed up, she is a teenager- literally every adult in her life is failing her. They are the only voices of reason she's had, and have been her only sources of stability.

Also where is this energy for Peter B.

I feel like this stems from people seeing her as "Miles' love interest" so they have higher expectations for her (seeing as there's been a clear competition between her and Spiderbyte in people's complaints)

-instead of seeing her as a girl who is just going through her own shit and still undoubtedly cares deeply about her friend despite how misguided her ways at caring are (again, bc the adults in her life are telling her this is how she should help Miles)

Girl I gotchu

Cept you taking out that figurine from its casing you're on your own there

[cherrrydragon]

hiya pooks, i wanted to get to know you more so i have a couple fun questions for you that include my personal answers! (i’m an oversharer)

1) fav media of spider-man?

i looooooove ultimate spider-man. i think it’s so over hated because the kids who watched spectacular grew up and were upset the next spider-man show was a kids show and not an adult show made for them. the fact that there just so much room for cameos from all other marvel media really helped me build a love for marvel as a whole. i wouldn’t know half as much marvel lore or characters without it since i never read the comics. (too poor to continuously buy growing up + can’t read comic panels over screen cause bleh. i think it was our first time meeting miles on screen too, which was awesome!)

it showed me who spider-man was at his core, a good person. and that’s what stood out to me. it also showed me that spider-man was super funny and always had a ‘quip’ lol. bonus points for ps4 spidey for being the first game i played of him and into the spider-verse for literally changing animation for the whole world. straight up best movie ever made.

2) fav media of dc?

gotta be the 2022 batman for me. i was so happy they finally got him right on the big screen! it took so long for people to realize that batman is only fear to his enemies, but hope to the people. they also count have picked a better catwoman! and the fact that the riddler is just some guy? mwah, perfection, amazing, incredible!

side rant; everytime i see someone mention how they thiugtt he robert patterson didn’t play a good bruce i wanna scream. how are we lacking so much media literacy nowadays that we can no longer recognize this is before he gets his whole playboy persona. he doenst even have financial stability! he’s literally just learning who he is. there’s deadass a whole scene dedicated to him trying to go into the club as batman and getting turned away vs being welcomed in as bruce and realizing bruce wayne has actual value to fighting crime.

3) fav non live action character?

sam anderson’s nova is so fun! he’s such a sweetiepie. i know earlier i said i don’t read the comics, but i do listen to them. i really wish they would put him in as teen trying his best with the guardians of the galaxy <3

klarion the witch boy is so silly (especially in young justice. his va is perfect for him.) he literally just terrorizes people for funsies. gotta love the lord of chaos and his cat.

hi hi! i just wanna preface this by saying a lot of media im a fan of i havent actually watch/read/played just because i cant truly sit down and consume content like i used to when i was younger. literally yesterday i watched the second deadpool movie after like, maybe 2 years since watching the first one (and i probably wouldnt have watched it if the new dp and wolverine movie didnt come out LOL) so i can't really answer these as efficiently as id like but ill try my best

fav media of spider-man?

before it would've been mcu spiderman simply because i havent watched the raimi or amazing spiderman ones, but now without a doubt i can say the spiderverse movies are my fav ones! all movies are pieces of art, but the spiderverse movies are truly by and for art kids. the animation and art is beautiful and i think the way it so artistically connects all things spider-man is really cool.

2. fav media of dc?

so... the last time i watched any dc media was when i was way younger LOL. i distinctly remember watching dc super hero girls, justice league unlimited, the flash (tv) and i think arrow (tv)? but like i said, i was young and don't remember much. ive seen from numerous people that the dc timeline is kind of a mess and that + the fact that there's so much content is what's keeping me from consuming it now. on the topic of batman 2022 there's literally nothing stopping me from watching it but i havent LOL i just cant sit down and watch it. i think the brainrot got to me rip.

i think what stops me from consuming content is the fact that i become a fan of it without actually participating. i read so much fanfic that i learn the plot of things through there, and because i already know what happens i dont desire to spend time and take it in. i might be cooked ngl. but anyway, no official favorite dc media from me

3. fav non live action character?

dude theres like way to many to name but one that comes to mind immediately is black cat (i dont think she's been in any live action from marvel yet?) something about those cat burglars man... LOL. i know this doesn't really count but i really like her portrayal in "Dark Matter" by mysterycyclone on ao3 (and amazing peter parker in gotham fic, highly recommend) i truly love the idea of the thief becoming friends with their crimestopper, because like catwoman, they aren't really hurting anybody (at least, from what ive seen)

as for dc... like i said i have not consumed enough media to pick LOL my bad 💔

[tomato-fendo-writes]

Hi there, I think my previous ask got eaten or something. First of all, I love your fic, Kazuya is gradually warming up, but he still has a long way to go. Last chapter made me squee, though it's kinda sad how long it took him to recognise affection.

I was thinking about how in the future, he might actually keep the pictures Jun sent him preciously. They are one of the only traces of her and the childhood he missed. Might be a source of regrets too, because what if he had decided to stay ? Especially if he manages to repair and build a relationship with Jin in the future.

Also, imagine him becoming a grandpa and not knowing what to do because he wasn't initially there for his son but it's also kind of like a second chance.

(The brainrot is real with your AU, it can go in so many directions)

AHHH BABY NO YOUR ASK DIDNT GET EATEN, IM JUST AN AIRHEAD WHO FORGETS MESSAGES EXIST ONCE I LOOK AWAY FROM THEM 😭

thank you so much!!! really gonna try to get back on it, gonna get the next chapter final beta’d soon even if i’m stuck as hell on the chapter i’m currently writing lol. i can’t comment TOO much on what you’ve posited here, but as ive said before, i rarely bring up seemingly important things in my work without it playing a part somewhere down the line ;) not if it can help it lol, i know i have a real habit of over-adding, but my sister-beta grabs me by the scruff for that p often

the idea of grandpa kaz in this verse is 😭 can’t spoil how he ends up of course, but now you’ve got me emotional thinking abt the concept dammit dhskdbjs

one final thing, i will say that i dont intend to go TOO far off the canon rails in terms of many things, but there will be an obvious deviation point way down the line where its clear things aren’t gonna be how they are canonically at all lol, just because of how we get there. i have since thought of a myriad of really interesting paths to take for this verse, but dangit the whole thing is plotted and i need to stick to the spirit of what im doing dhsjdj. maybe once its clear where things are going to be going overall, i can discuss some of those other ideas :’)

[rebellum]

Okay so something happened and I want some wider opinion on if what I said was really wrong or not, or if my mum is just overreacting a little.

So, last night my family watched The Rat Race (2001).

In this movie, they mention Christianity maybe a dozen+ times, tell people that they need to be good Christians (not, like, a known christian character telling that to a known christian character, but christian characters telling this to people whose religion they don't even know, and I think at one point to a Jewish character)(which in my opinion, comes off as being like 'person = christian, you need to be a good christian to be a good person' because they specifically weren't saying 'to be a good person', they were saying 'to be a good christian', but were talking about non-Christian specific stuff. Eg people should be kind, should help one another, should donate to charity, not be selfish.) They also mention bible verses multiple times, and at one point show someone who is christian being a bad christian/person (cheating people out of money, threatening violence) and he calls out "if god didnt like me doing this, he'd show me a sign" and then his business is destroyed by some completely separate events at that moment.

So, after that last part happened, (they mentioned god more times after too), I said something like "this movie is VERY christianity focused, it's making me a little uncomfortable" or "this movie is VERY christian, its making me a bit uncomfortable".

This morning, I just went downstairs, and my mum was like "hey, your comment last night really hurt me. I am a Christian, it is part of my identity. How would you feel if a movie mentioned Allah a few times and someone said 'wow this movie is so Muslim, it's making me uncomfortable.' Or if a movie had three trans characters, and someone was like *horrified and disgusted look* 'this movie has trans characters! that makes me so uncomfortable. they even mentioned HRT.'

me: I mean, the Allah thing would be wrong. But with the trans thing, that's not the same, people arent trying to literally outlaw Christianity.

Mum: Yes, it's not the same, I know it's not the same since trans people are a minority. But I have seen a lot of mockery of Christianity, and I can't even tell people I'm christian nowadays. I mentioned trans people because that's part of your identity, the same that christianity is part of my identity.

--

So that's the main parts of the convo that I can remember. I feel bad about making my mum SO upset, because she started crying during thisss, (and then I started crying because she was crying). But I am now unsure about whether or not I was wholly in the wrong for what I said. So I'd like other people's opinions.

Point to consider: If I had been watching a movie from a Muslim majority country, and they mentioned Islam in those ways, I wouldn't consider it odd at all, and it wouldn't make me uncomfortable. The movie takes place in and is made by the USA, which is a majority Christian country, even more so in the early 2000s, so it makes sense they would mention god and bible passages that much. So thats a point for me being in the wrong and being uniquely and problematically anti-Christian and anti-religion.

Please feel free to reblog with your opinion, write it in the replies, or send me a message or anonymous ask if you want a more 1 on 1 convo or don't want to be identified since this is a whole discussion about religion.

[hello-galad]

No but listen @yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt, I feel as if im encountering a celebrity right now because I read that fic in one day up until chapter 6 and then I read it again because I needed to experience the angst™ once more. It perfectly shows how dealing with a disability is a whole process and how internalized ableism works. I loved the fact that Ambrosius, even after he was told that physical therapy was not going to repair all the damage and he would need to rely on aids to walk again and the scars will never really fade, he hoped that once therapy ended he would walk unaided, he hoped that when the bandages came off, the scars would be gone. 

I love how at some point Ballister juxtapositions in his head what he endured when he lost his arm and his healing process to that of Ambrosius and how he concludes that it would be too trivial and unfair for both of them to do that. I love how you wrote the fact that they are still working on figuring out their relationship because they have spent 15 YEARS as enemies. I love that Ballister is still upset about what happened at the joust and that he didnt just forgive Ambrosius because of what Ambrosius is going through (ahh that was just so refreshing!). 

I love so many things about this fic and all of them are because of your amazing writing! So thank you so much for taking the time to write this and thank you for sharing it with us and OHHHH I CANT WAIT FOR THE FINAL CHAPTER. 

Anyways, this is a reminder to all Nimona enjoyers to read this fic.

It happens in the graphic novel verse, so you might have a couple of questions if you have only watched the movie (read it anyways, its so worth it). I would also like to encourage you all to read the graphic novel if you haven't yet so you can experience the amazingness that is ND Stevenson's brain.

Heyoo it's Tuesday and it's not midnight and Chapter 6 is done and out! I can't believe there's only one chapter left until I finish this! It's been so fun writing long-form Comic Goldenheart, I love these boys and I am so happy and grateful for everyone who has followed my fic!! As for all my other followers no worries and you'll be back to your regularly scheduled brainrot after next week lmfao 💛

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[wolfsrainrules]

Okay but headcanons for each of the Acrobaleno as Tsuna's grandparent on Nana's side? I loved your reply about Reborn as.

ALL:

--In all of these, in varying ways, Iemitsu might have Tsuna with Nana, but he sure as hell doesn’t get away with his bullshit. None of them will have it, and all of them have different Consequences™ for him trying it. 

All are painful. All are effective. 

--Nana? Nana was taught to act a certain way but she’s a Boss Ass Bitch™ and the world is never ready for it, it’s great

--Tsuna will be taught to ALSO be a Bad Ass and no one can tell me he won’t. That’s a baby Sky with a grandparent that is the strongest Flame of that kind’s user, and all the instincts that come with that especially when the kid if actually of their blood. He’s gonna be a tiny little bad ass in one form or the other.  

yes, even Skull. Fite me.

FON:

--This means that Tsuna has Hibari blood in him, as does Nana. DO YOU KNOW HOW FUNNY THAT IS TO ME.

--He grows up around Kyouya. Kyouya  claims him as a tiny little toddler looking at tiny bby in his Aunt’s arms, and he will literally fight anybody over him, that’s his tiny sky fuck off.

--Tsuna does in fact have the Hibari FITE ME instinct, it’s just so unexpected, because he’s a Hibari that picks his battles and it shows. That his Grandfather taught him to fight??

--Tsuna is very very good at hand to hand, is an absolute mismatched mess of fighting that flows so well together it looks like a single style. Fon is very proud. Tsuna is having fun. Kyouya thinks this is amazing cause it makes him unpredictable in a conventional sense and he loves it. 

--He has Fon’s ever present calm. It gives Reborn the jitters cause he recognizes it but can’t place where, and he has a feeling he’s fucked up somewhere but can’t place how.

VERDE:

--Verde is kinda distant, but he pays a hell of a lot of attention. Just because he’s not there often doesn’t mean he isn’t watching. 

--He makes it a mission to FUCK UP Vongola Ninth for trying to seal his baby grandson. He succeeds.

--Okay, but Genius! Tsuna???? I’m living.

-- Spanner and Shoichi losing their entire minds over him. ALSO BONDED ELEMENTS IN THIS AU?????? P L S. 

--Tsuna has this bad habit of pulling things apart and putting them back together to see how they work, but he accidentally charges them with Sky Flames and it has wild effects that everyone (himself, Spanner, Shoichi, and Verde and later on maybe Gokudera) are INTERESTED IN. 

COLLONELLO

--this immediately makes Lal Grandmother, and she’ll argue it, but she loves Tsuna dearly, and absolutely melts when he calls her it, not that it shows.

--this means Tsuna grows up going to Mafia Land, and running into Skull and I love that immensely. 

---Collonello is teaching him firearms and army survival shit and living his best life. (Lal is 100% helping and calling it ‘making sure you dont fuck it up and get him killed’) 

---Tsuna loves Skull, and her motorcycle and wants to learn i m m e n s e l y. Collonello is kinda jealous and retaliates by teaching Tsuna to drive a tank. 

--His childhood is adventurous and rough and tumble and he loves it. 

--He’s so well versed in Mafia at this point, and the island loves him. Reborn can’t pull his thing in this au, cause the guards would laugh and wave him in and Tsuna would rock it anyway, including the cannon event Reborn made Tsuna attempt. 

VIPER

--OKAY BUT PLS VIPER TEACHING TINY TSUNA TO COUNT WITH MONEY --cries in oh no thats cute fuck---

--Tsuna growing up with very eccentric assassins cause Varia family is very important and they CANT not check out their Mist’s grandson okay-

--oh shit that’s a tiny primo what the fuck

--what the fuck kinda protections are THESE, fuck off that’s NOT quality 

--Varia brawls drop to zero when Tsuna is sleeping or Xanxus will get PISSED, as will Viper and Tsuna will cry and everyone hates that even if they dont say it. 

--Xanxus loves him very much, he’s an OLDER BROTHER NOW thats HIS Tiny Idiot, who reaching for his flames and gave him a heart attack by grabbing them with tiny pudgy toddler fingers and then didnt get burned okay,

Skull

--wanna see Skull actually truly rage?? Touch his family. Go ahead. Sign that death warrant.

--Tsuna is a tiny little grease monkey mechanic having the time of his life

--Tsuna is able to take apart and put together engines with his eyes closed

--He is totally an adrenaline junkie and he loves stunt driving with his whole heart

---He has accidentally, and then later on purpose, enhanced Skull’s bikes and things with Sky Flames

-- He grows up with Skull’s unbiased Flame use thing, so he does....a lot of shit most Skies would be like “Bitch what the FUCK” about. Cause Skull has some info, but is also aware of what caging the ‘belief’ factor of Flames will do, cause he can do shit with his Flames that made Reborn and the others s t o p, so he never stops Tsuna from experimenting.

--Tsuna is therefore a tiny Flame monster, ESPECIALLY when he figures out Sky  Flames are actually EVERY OTHER flame added together and he can in fact pull them apart if he concentrates.