#YEET GUN

[ominouspuff]

Continuing this fix-it AU where Commander Fox springboards off the deep end into a full-on rebellion, featuring unlikely allies belatedly finding out they are allies far too late to stop being allies but then again it’s never too late not to throw a terrifyingly destructive fit about it (Maul)

Close-up’s under the cut

[aprito]

was told to draw more swan lake au at gunpoint so of course i had to deliver @phellionphel

they feel bad for their future in law but not enough to deal with their comically evil cousin

part 1

[pourablecat]

SPACE COVEN SPACE COVEN

[hunxi-after-hours]

Do you have recommendations for other books where characters get existentially stapled to each other? It is also one of my favorite genders and I am always looking for more to read!

omg thank you SO much for asking! I namedropped a few in the tags of this post but I am always happy to elaborate. incomplete list off the top of my head:

ninefox gambit by yoon ha lee

a memory called empire by arkady martine

《烈火浇愁》 liehuo jiaochou by priest

I'm sure there are more but these are the ones most immediately coming to mind because I love them. it's about the dysphoria and the slippery slope of identity. it's about the horrible intimacy and the patchwork nature of unwilling trust. it's about having someone who sees deeply into the most intimate parts of you and doesn't turn away — can't turn away, in fact. and also!! it's about having a little guy (gender neutral) in your head who makes snarky comments that no one else can hear

existential plot-driven getalong shirt. unlimited buddy cop potential. the promise that you'll never have to be alone again. you see the genre. you understand

[anarchounity]

🏴❤️🏴💛🏴

[having-a-hyperfixate]

Don’t mind me sprinting to try and get this thought in order before the Anime Expo panel. I need it to be out in the wild Just In Case.

So, a few of the Gung Ho Guns have gotten reworked for Stampede, yes? To varying degrees.

Ninelives is apparently not a horrific flesh mech, Dark Souls boss thing, according to the end credits of episode 3.

E.G. the Mine just got a HUGE upgrade and didn’t get owned 3 seconds after he showed up.

Monev was an actual character with a fubar backstory and emotional impact instead of just Some Guy who trained in a basement for years specifically to kill Vash. (and Orange is SO EVIL for this)

Elendira is. *gestures futilely* There is so much going on there but yeah. She’s going to be terrifying once she achieves adult body and loses (drops?) the childish attitude. Also because of the whole Plant hybrid thing her nails truly are literally infinite sooooo.

So I have some thoughts about Hoppered the Gauntlet.

In Trimax, Gauntlet’s narrative weight comes from the fact that he makes Vash remember, which by extension makes US, the reader, understand what July really meant. Before that we had heard mention of it a few times as ‘a city destroyed in a single night’ and talk of there being ‘no survivors’ but we had no actual connection to it, and also no real idea if that was even true. But in Stampede, we saw July happen. We were there. So even if Vash’s memory is still shot afterwards, and he doesn’t remember Lost July, we the audience DO. So having the Dragon’s nest play out exactly the same isn’t going to have the same narrative punch in the gut that it did in Trimax. It can’t.

There’s also the fact that, given how we’ve met most of the major players in the story, or had them mentioned at least (hi Milly), it feels kind of Odd™ that we haven’t seen someone has emotionally impactful as Gauntlet yet.

Unless we have.

We saw with Rollo/Monev that Orange is willing to have the person’s regular name be one thing and then have a second Eye of Michael code name. I suspect that is going to happen with Gauntlet; either because EoM or because he has decided on his own to lie about who he was.

And yes, I do in fact have someone in mind.

I checked myself the translation there is accurate; the only change I would make is calling the gun ‘gaudy’ instead of ‘shiny’ but that’s not a huge deal. Also for the record, the original tweet is from Jan. 11, well before he makes his reappearance for the season finale. So when it talks about a ‘reappearance’, it is talking about seeing him again in July. Original tweet here, tweet containing the translation here.

I think Chuck Lee is going to be our Gauntlet. That he made it just far enough out of the city to survive, but that he was badly maimed in the process, and that his family didn’t make it. He’s the ONLY member of the military police with a unique design. He has an actual name, and the director himself tweeted about his backstory. His gun is so unusual that we would recognize it anywhere. Hell, I referred to him as ‘the gold gun guy from episode one’ when one of my friends didn’t recognize him immediately. His gun is so incredibly recognizable. Almost like we need to be able to recognize him by that alone, when everything else about him has changed.

THIS could be how narrative weight for Gauntlet is established in the Stampede universe when it can’t be done the same way as in Trimax. Taking a character who has, in a way, also been with the audience ALL ALONG, who was there with us for two pivitol moments, the beginning and the awakening, but who comes at it from such a horrifically different angle and bringing him back in such an agonizing way. Because he was very much in the wrong with his stunt at Jeneora Rock, but his rage over the loss of his family in July would be justified, even if we know it wasn’t Vash’s fault.

(Also, the IRONY of him ending up as one of Knives’s lackeys when Knives is the one that caused all of this? Damn.)

Footnote: I have Thoughts on why they can get away with adding Milly to The Squad late. That is a whole other Thought but tldr; (and also I haven’t actually written it out) Milly is the most perceptive of all of them she doesn’t NEED an extended intro to Vash to Know.

[icaxrus-moved]

HUNTED

SURVIVOR

ALONE

[rrotostap]

Day 2 for Royal Trio Week 2023: Showtime!

Crow/Violet showtime except it's just Crow throwing her to wherever she's needed (and dealing 9999+ damage)

[lu-sn]

you know, what you did, is a waste of food.

[nade2308]

Oh to be Mav picked up by Slider. Also, Ice, you are not subtle in your staring.

@thethistlegirl @malewifebillcage

[cannibalhellhound]

It's all lined 👍🏼

Now, I will be ✨suffering✨ because coloring is the fuckin worst.

[chippdhearts]

@frostysfrenzy requested - CSI + Favourite story arc ↳ Catherine's leaving arc

[mira0000000-blog]

that was so cool but im kinda sad that i could tell the latest terminal montage shadow animation was a paid promotion after a minute and a half

[edgymuses]

༶ ﾟ🥀 ┄─ the island's jungle humidity and the sun rising from the ocean's edge beat upon the young clone's sun kissed face. keeping a consistent routine is vital to eli. it was drilled into him since his days in africa.

always traveling to the edge of the juggle. each morning intently viewing any movement that wasn't the ocean's wave. awaiting the day his father and diamond dogs storm the island realizing the clone and the quiet child are still alive. parts of him that wished it did happen just so he could have the joy of killing his father. all the soldiers watching their leader's death. a tasteful wish, but was snapped into reality. they were stuck on this island and needed to find civilization.

sweat sliding down his face, the boy turns to the jungle expecting to see the lush green plants and trees but is greeted by the child with a gas mask. this didn't frighten the mamba, he was used to the other looming around his side. like an angle and devil on his shoulder.

❛❛ you're here. good. the adults think we're dead. now we have to leave this place and go to england. i will get my revenge on him. my father. ❜❜

starter call (no longer accepting) || @hubrisdescent (for mantis)

[darewolfcreates]

pov your getting a child launched at you