#The Big Takeover

[radioheadarchive]

The Big Takeover #42, circa June 1998

[johnnyripped]

[qoppybirdie]

I worked so hard on this…ocelhira fans please gather.

[reunitedinterlude]

lofi phantasy: the album

tracks 1-4 (x)

[theknucklehead]

It was funny seeing this during Darryl's Theme Song Takeover. It also reminded me of those bootleg DVDs from Zootopia.

[movie-robotnik-positivity]

Thing we learned from the Twitter Takeover

-Shadow's favorite flower is latanas.

-Eggman's favorite creation is Sage. Other than that, the Egg Salamander from Sonic Rush.

-Knuckles glides by "bending the wind".

-The green chaos emerald tastes like sour apple according to Knuckles and Eggman.

-The chaos powers from Superstars are unique to the Starfall Islands and can't be used outside of it.

-Eggman sleeps on short intervals of twelve minutes.

-Knuckles brought Rouge flowers.

-Tarot reading is Amy's hyperfixation.

-Eggman stopped wearing his yellow cape because of "The Incredibles".

-Amy doesn't wear inhibitor rings but can shatter the earth with a swing of her hammer.

-Shadow and Knuckles sometimes stare at the trees of Luminous Forest for hours.

-Tails is afraid of thunderstorms because before he met Sonic he had no home and often slept outside.

-Eggman cries when receiving a compliment

-Sonic respects Shadow, so does everyone else.

-Knuckles has very low self-esteem

-Eggman suffers from seasonal depression

[cerebrocentric-bullet]

It's finally out!! My art for this year's @tf-bigbang!! I was partnered with @eatyoursparkout, who wrote an AMAZING fic that you should check out right now on AO3:

[eldritch-ambrosia]

Let me hit you with my Shade!Lancelot idea, keeping in mind I haven't seen that episode of Merlin yet. (This works for both established Arwen/established Merthur and Gwencelot/Mercelot in my mind so think of it whichever way you'd like but it does focus on Lancelot, Merlin, and Arthur.)

So! Morgana creates Shade!Lancelot using Lancelot's body and sends him back to Camelot to stir up trouble. Instead of trying to just break up Arthur and Gwen, he's meant to isolate Arthur and make him believe that he can't trust anyone except for Aggravaine.

So he flirts with Gwen, takes the knights out to have fun when they should be training/distracts them, and takes Merlin's attention away from Arthur as well, frustrating Arthur.

S!Lancelot and Aggravaine both place doubts in Arthur's mind directly as well and S!Lancelot realizes that Merlin betraying Arthur would be far worse than anyone else and sets his sights on Merlin instead.

So he keeps stealing Merlin away when Arthur needs him, makes comments about how he knows Merlin better than Arthur ever could and about how he knows Merlin sneaks away but he's loyal to Merlin over Camelot (which also upsets Arthur because that's one of his knights for god's sake!) and won't tell him where Merlin is going.

Arthur confronts Merlin about his sneaking away (magic things) and, when he refuses to tell the truth, Arthur thinks he can't trust him after all.

Merlin talks about having magic in front of S!Lancelot and, when he doesn't know what Merlin's talking about, Merlin becomes suspicious. He references something that didn't happen and S!Lancelot acts like he remembers that which confirms his suspicions but when he tries to sidle away out of the room to tell someone, S!Lancelot attacks him, attempting to choke him out.

Arthur finds them like this and S!Lancelot says that Merlin was sending information to Morgana so he had to subdue him which Arthur doesn't believe for ONE SINGLE MINUTE. Thus, they begin to duel as Merlin tries to recover his breathing and stop from passing out in the corner.

S!Lancelot attempts to kill Arthur and knocks him out, Arthur fading out with the last thing he sees being Merlin trying to push S!Lancelot's killing blow away as his servant stands.

Somehow (I'm thinking earlier in the ep Merlin finds a magical crystal that can hold souls released from the afterlife that Gaius is researching and Lancelot's real soul gets released during the ep and the crystal glows and maybe gets broken in the scuffle) Merlin pushes the Shade from Lancelot's body and his real soul is able to return to his body.

The Shade's form changes into a kind of Shadow Monster Lancelot and duels the real Lancelot now (who is very shaken and weak because he was just revived!) and, when he stabs the Shade, it does no damage. The Shade laughs and says that he can't be killed without magic and Lancelot says that then he'll just have to kill it like he killed the Griffin.

"You're a knight of Camelot and you're saying that you used magic to kill a Griffin?"

"No. I did." Merlin says, casting the same spell he did all those years ago on Lancelot's blade as he stabs through the Shade, killing it.

There's a beat where Merlin still isn't sure if it's the real Lancelot and asks him something only the real Lancelot would know, which he answers and they have a tearful/huggy reunion.

Arthur wakes up and they explain that it was a creature sent by Morgana and Lancelot is actually back with them now.

Later, when Merlin is getting Arthur ready for bed, Arthur tells him that he doesn't need to know where he goes off to because he trusts him. Merlin goes to tell him the truth but stops and thanks him instead, snuffing out the candles and shutting the door as he leaves.

(I want to hopefully write this one day but I will need to actually catch up and watch the episode first to get the vibes. Everything I know about it rn is from clips and gifs and such)

[disneytva]

When Kiff gets covered in Helen’s magic “Theme Song Takeover” potion, she finds herself transported across Disney Channel’s theme songs from Phineas & Ferb, Big City Greens, Kim Possible, Amphibia, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Hamster & Gretel, Gravity Falls, DuckTales and The Owl House!

[magalimachete]

GOOD MUTHAFUCKING LORDT!

I (s)creamed so hard during this episode. Y’all, my nipples were rock hard the ENTIRE time Big Dick Daddy Kento was on the screen. 🤤

This right here was a MAN handling business and I just know he would handle my pussy without any issues.

Hopefully, in the same rough manner. 😁

I NEED 20 MINUTES ALONE NOW. 🫠

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

GOLLY GGOSH WE DID IT!!

(I totally did not wait for the exact moment for it to reach 10000%🙃

woag... tin milleon per cent...

[justarandomsanenobody]

I hope they aren’t planning for another October takeover, because unless they’ll be playing games, it’s just slapping two villians onto the channel for a month. The Eclipse and Lunar show happened because Lunar wanted to play games and have fans and fun or something, they played games so it makes sense they’d rebrand it to themselves. The Bloodmoon and Ruin show (or whichever way it goes) took over the channel and played games, so it’d be rebranded to them. If this October they pull another takeover but the designated villians of the month don’t play games or barely do, that’s not a takeover that’s just rebranding it for a month, sure the lore could be more focused on that villian but there’d be no reason to rebrand the show since it wouldn’t make sense. I sound like a broken record but I just think it’s true.

[corviiids]

thinking about light yagami guest starring on sesame street

[tierras]

hi feeling grateful and loved

[anti-fairy-world]

You know, while we don't think Stuck In My Head/Mind The Gap were bad episodes or anything, we kinda wish they'd been cut in favor of making that time the part one to The Battle of Big Wand, with the actually episode being part two. Make it a whole big forty to forty-five special instead of trying to fit it with a twenty-two to twenty-three minute run time

We actually like everything they were trying to do with the special, but we just wish they had more time to flesh things out and play around with the jokes between the plot moments. The writers probably didn't really have much of a choice with the time they were given to work with and had to prioritize where screen time was used, and honestly they did what they could, but sometimes it felt like 'and now this is happening so we can get moving with the plot'

[fizzigigsimmer]

Steve’s got elfin blood. It’s boring. He’s good with plants and animals like him, but even ordinary humans can do that. His bloods not even thick enough to journey to the fae realm without getting a major skin burn from passing through the barrier. He always figured he’d end up with another elfling or maybe a human witch like his mom. In his wilder dreams he thought maybe some kind of nymph. Elves and nymphs get along well together and there’s a long history of cooperation between their clans. He never thought he’d end up with a shifter, and even if he had he’d never have thought even in his wildest dreams that it would be a dragon shifter.

Billy Hargrove is a dragon, and dragons are… they’re a lot. All of those stories about dragons razing cities, horeding treasure, and abducting helpless victims to stash them away in towers, they come from a place. Dragons are extremely powerful and when they go bad it’s bad for everybody. Even the good ones get away with shit just because there’s no easy way to stop something bigger than a house with impenetrable scales. Before Billy came to the academy Steve had never even met a dragon because they’re so preoccupied with accumulating power that they rarely leave the fae realm. Steve was crossing the quad headed for the astrology tower with Tommy when the sky above them darkened, a large shadow passing over the sun. One by one the heads of students and professors had looked up towards the sky to watch as the dragon had descended from the clouds and circled the castle mound, its huge wings churning up a furious wind with every stroke.

It had been difficult to tell with the sun in his eyes, but the dragon was blueish with scales that shimmered with hints of green and gold like the bottom of a stream in summertime. He’s gorgeous, Billy, in both shapes. It’s like he looked into the sun that afternoon and never got it out of his eye.

PART 2