#REJECTING the title

[bonjourxrenae]

Y’know when I started this Utena AU fanfic I hadn’t considered the symbolic implications of replacing “princes” with “heirs” and “kings” but HEYYYY LET’S GO

[hivemindscape]

R e j e c t i o n

[fonmythenmetz]

Sith Apprentice

[doctorsiren]

he’s mad she ratted him out

[rabidbatboy]

♱ MASC LOSER ID PACK . . .

NAMES ; aspen , noel , scottie , toms , robin , tyler , xavier , flynn , grime , zack , dominic , tucker , bruise , eddie , jacob , bobby , leon , rust , bane , lukas , dean , dexter , jason , will

PRONOUNS ; grime / grimes , rock / rocks , dirt / dirts , zomb / zombs , brui / bruise , cool / cools , gro / gross , lose / loser , bro / bros , scrape / scrapes , rot / rots , scab / scabs , weird / weirds , soda / sodas , dude / dudes

TiTLES ; the loser boy , the boy protagonist , this teenage dirtbag , [X] with bruised knees , [X] with scraped elbows , the awkward one , the videogame player , this weird dude

iDENTiTiES ; dirtbagteenic , dirtbagteenboy , stinkboy , unhingedloserfreak , emoloser , losergender , monsterenergygender , rotboy , rockmasc , hoodieboy , weirdbeing , protagboy , retrovideogamegender , weirdboy , pathetiboy , prettyboyloser , videogamegender , bandbruisenboy , recluminjuric , coolduden

SEE ALSO ; fem loser id pack

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[illmoraineakoi]

As much as I adore the idea of Alan being like a dad to the Color Gang, I am absolutely feral for interpretations where that’s not really the case.

Or, more specifically, when those feelings are very one sided.

The CG look up to him and adore him as a parental/guardian figure, loving him almost like a father, especially Orange in particular who 110% sees and loves Alan as a father figure, while Alan himself sees himself more as a tolerant friendly landlord; just a dude who’s letting five stick figures live on his computer and not really interacting with them (except for Orange) very much beyond playing a few games for them or sparring with them. And even with Orange, it’s more of a friendship relationship than a parent-child one. Just generally pretty emotionally detached/distant towards them, not really feeling very strongly about any of them. Sort of how IRL Alan speaks about them as characters; fond, but not loving*. He still largely just sees them as stick figures. Like smart little living desktop pets.

Which makes all of the potential scenarios where they meet on more equal grounds (Stick!Alan AUs and IRL!Sticks/Human!Sticks AUs) potentially very juicy.

The CG and Orange in particular are always very excited to meet and actually interact with Alan, and Alan just feels overwhelmed and awkward by all the affection/attention. Or perhaps even confused about why they seem to like him so much.

Which can very quickly turn into a situation where the Gang notices that Alan doesn’t seem very comfortable around them, that he’s not nearly as excited and enthusiastic about finally being able to touch and hug them as they are with him. That he seemed to be kind of distant from them, withdrawing away from them. Oh, he’s friendly and polite, and he’ll talk to them, he’s not being mean or ignoring them or anything, but it’s not really like how they always imagined meeting him would be. It’s not as happy and joyous. He doesn’t interact/engage with them on his own. Doesn’t offer hugs or pats or much affection at all. He’ll do it if they initiate or ask, but he never gives anything of the sort freely.

Perhaps they think it’s because everything is so new and fresh, that maybe he’s feeling a bit overwhelmed. Maybe he just needs a little time to get used to them.

But when they give him that time…nothing seems to change. And they’re just left even more confused and concerned. Why was he acting like this? He was never like this before… (or so they think.)

Or perhaps a situation occurs where it’s revealed that Orange sees him like a father, or perhaps Orange even calls him his father, and Alan denies it. Corrects him. Tells Orange that he’s not his parental figure, that he always thought they were just friends. That all of them were just a bunch of sticks he was letting live on his computer. He wasn’t their dad, where in the world did they get THAT weird idea from? He was just Alan, the owner of the computer they made their home on. He barely even knew them.

And the Gang is both shocked and heartbroken. They hadn’t known Alan felt that way, just as Alan hadn’t been aware of how they felt. It was so easy for misunderstandings and misinterpretations to happen between them when they couldn’t really communicate very well.

But Orange, Orange is devastated. It hurts, so bad, because Alan literally created him. Alan was his creator, the closest thing to an actual parent he had. And yet Alan didn’t want to fill that role towards him, didn’t want to be his father. He could have seen and understood Alan not considering himself the others’ parent, since Alan hadn’t made them, but Orange was undeniably his.

But Alan didn’t want him like that. Didn’t see him like that.

He was just a stick figure who frequently helped him animate and lived on his computer. The fact that Alan made him appeared to be irrelevant.

So Orange puts on a smile and accepts it, apologizing for misunderstanding. But inside, he’s raw. The rejection feels so awful.

And it stings just how relieved Alan looked after his apology, like he was grateful that they weren’t arguing about it.

Because they don’t. What more was there to say? Alan had made his feelings on the matter very clear, and who were they to try argue against that? To challenge him, and demand he change his feelings towards them? To demand he love them? No, that’s not how things worked. That wasn’t how love worked.

You can’t try to force someone who doesn’t love you to love you.

Instead, Orange goes to his room, and sobs. It hurts so much. It feels like a chunk of his heart has been ripped out, leaving a giant empty gap where it had been. He can’t stop thinking about why Alan didn’t love him even though he made him. He can’t help but wonder if it’s because somehow he wasn’t good enough. Or if he’d done something wrong.

Or if it was because he was just a stick figure. Not human. Not a “real” person in Alan’s eyes.

He doesn’t know, but it hurts all the same.

The others, too, mourn the loss of the only parent-like figure they’ve ever known. They never knew their own creator, whoever the person who actually made them even was, they only ever knew Alan. It stings, how all of his weird recent behavior now makes sense. He hadn’t needed time. He had never loved them as much as they, apparently mistakenly, thought he did in the first place. It leaves them feeling empty and bereft, at a loss for what to do with themselves now.

And Alan is left totally oblivious to just how badly he’s just hurt them all.

And totally oblivious to what he himself has just lost, the potential for what could have been.

…At least, until he goes through some Character Development and inevitably has some Realizations that “Oh shit, those actually ARE my kids, oh fuck what have I done?!” And he needs to claw back the gangs’ love and affection and trust they’d since given up on.

* - [Or at least that’s how it always felt for me, watching AvG reactions, though that could just be because IRL Alan just sounds kinda bland and introverted in most of his commentary on his own animations lmao “I mean I like Orange.” Bro that is your main character that has been spearheading your entire career for a literal decade, why do you sound about as enthusiastic about him as if someone just asked you about your favorite weather type lmao jk jk]

[falling-enthusiastically]

Shoot from the hip are the type of improv group that reject 'The Confused Racist Panda' as a title suggestion and end up with a play about a Nazi chinchilla 20 minutes later

[cinematitlecards]

"House Of 1000 Corpses" (2003) Directed by Rob Zombie (Horror) . . "The Devil's Rejects" (2005) Directed by Rob Zombie (Crime/Horror/Western) . . "Three From Hell" (2019) Directed by Rob Zombie (Action/Horror)

[r0semultiverse]

Okay, we’re only one episode in, but if you like the premise of The Boys & you like anime, I think you’ll enjoy Go Go Loser Ranger!

Smooth animation, a somewhat unique art style, & a twist on the sentai genre! Please check it out!

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

you ever think about how Osiris “grouchy old bastard recluse who rains down flaming death from above” was mentored by Felwinter, and we only recently discovered Felwinter was Rasputin, and therefore Osiris may be just now coming to the uncomfortable realization that there’s more of the Warmind in him than he’d like to admit

[knowledgeispunk]

If we don’t get news on the next book soon I’m going to explode.

[verysinglepieceofbread]

watching Love Is Better Second Time Around and i can't wait till iwanaga stops having fun. it's cool that you're all suave and mature, dude, i guess. now get the fuck vulnerable.

[hephaestuscrew]

Clara's father being an Earl means that her family outranks Baron DeVries' family in terms of the hierarchy of the nobility. DeVries - a mere Baron, the lowest rank of British nobility - is constantly making references to his family's heritage and history and the responsibilities that come with it. Meanwhile, Clara - the daughter of an Earl (which is two ranks above a Baron) - actively avoids mentioning her aristocratic heritage and is making every effort she can to construct an identity and a life that is separate from that heritage. DeVries' adventuring is a continuation of his family's legacy; Clara's is a rejection of her's.

[eisenbrave]

Saiyan God, Lunar, Liù'ěr Míhóu

[grifff17]

Audiodrama Sunday 3/31/24

Writing this at 11pm, don't tell me I'm procrastinating. On Wednesday I briefly thought it was Sunday and got halfway thru writing this post before realizing, not sure how that happened.

Well anyways @camlannpod this week was incredible, my favorite episode of the show yet. I think that one of the reasons that I liked this episode more than the others is that I am familiar with the source material, as opposed to Arthuriana which I am definitely not. It was such a cool modern take on an ancient character, the sound design was incredible, and it also raised more questions about the worldbuilding.

Also episode 2 of @worldgonewrongpod! Really liked this episode. Maybe its just because I've been obsessed with time loops recently, but this episode interested me more than werewolves did. Can't wait to see what the teaser for the third episode was about.

Two new True Tales of the Illuminati minisodes. I love the humor of this show, glad to see that the next season got funded.

@midstpodcast holy shit what an episode. I don't want to put spoilers here, but wow they really did just totally reshape our understanding of the story in 1 conversation.

I started s2 of @kingmakerpod! I really like how this season has a little bit more of a focus on geopolitics and various political figures, it's super interesting to me. Also the Flat Stanley fleshcrafter who helped with the jailbreak was horrifying. He can fold other people???

Part 2 of Mission Rejected's s5 pilot episode came out this week. I think that was one of my favorite episode of the show, it did so much for Skip and McGrath's characters and their relationship. I already made a much longer post raving about it, so I won't say any more.

The next season of @midnightburgr starts in 2 weeks, so I decided to relisten to some of it. I decided to listen to the 4 episodes in the last season after "Pockets", because I already relistened to that one shortly after it came out . The Pyrophyte is such an insane episode, in so many ways. Cannot wait for the next season.

[rabidbatboy]

♱ RELIGIOUS RURAL GOTHIC ID PACK . . .

NAMES ; noah , martyr , angelo , saint , seraph , michael , judas , israel , evangeline , lilith , brahms , dorian , lazarus , salem , mordred , micah , samuel , jakob , elijah , constantine , omen , addam , christian , josiah , faith , genesis

PRNS ; holy / holys , dust / dusts , fog / fogs , saint / saints , null / nulls , devout / devouts , goth / gothic , ash / ashs , bleed / bleeds , cro / cross , lost / losts , scar / scars , rust / rusts , rot / rots , grave / graves , ink / inks , burn / burns , book / books , chill / chills , mist / mists , proph / prophet

TiTLES ; the false prophet , the accursed one , the charismatic priest , the unholy one , [X] who chants prayers , [X] who is trapped by fate , the lonely one , [X] who stands before god , the one adorned with rosaries , [X] who feeds lies , the sinner , [X] who is chosen by god , the bloodstained preacher , the corrupt one , [X] who is alone in an empty church

iDENTiTiES ; churchruinic , abandreligic , creepthedric , batgothredal , holycannibal , vessoulic , angelesque , religioustraumathing , crucifingelic , unwelcathedric , humanthing , decayedgender , unholyheretic , priestgoric

SEE ALSO ; carnivorous / eerie angel id pack

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