#also FUCK THE ASTROS

[the-spoopy-pretzel]

no one can even try to claim that the mlb postseason is scripted, because literally everything that happens is a million times wilder than anything anyone could dream up --

Moreno hits a foul ball that's called a home run, they review and it's ruled foul, then he hits an actual home run on the NEXT PITCH ....... 🤯 and, that very home run sets the ALL TIME record for the most home runs hit by a team in a single inning in the post season..... you really can't make this stuff up.

[basimdasasonst]

hold up let me cook

[astrobei]

in my heart of hearts mike wheeler is absolutely an athena kid but i also have to offer up a concept that i think has extreme comedic and dramatic potential aka: repressed gay teenager mike showing up at camp half blood unsure of who his godly parent is and feeling insecure about not having powers and one day when he’s making not-so-secret heart eyes at his best friend and son of apollo will byers is when a bunch of glowing floating hearts show up above his head. and that’s how mike gets claimed by none other than aphrodite, the goddess of love and sexuality, and is in full denial about it for three days because he thinks it’s some kind of sick and twisted JOKE

(on aphrodite’s end, she’s upset mike is throwing away the gift of true love and keeps trying to trick him out of repression by making more and more improbable and hilarious gifts appear when he and will are hanging out. mike hands will a book and it turns into a box of chocolates and he has to fling it away like a frisbee before will sees it. they’re having lunch and romantic music starts playing. she gives mike the same blessing she used to claim piper and will can’t even look in his direction for a full day because he starts blushing so hard. fifty bouquets of flowers show up at the apollo cabin’s doorstep with a note that says love, mike and by the end of it, mike isn’t even repressed and unsure about his sexuality anymore — he’s just trying to not throw himself into the bonfire out of sheer embarrassment)

[astrowaffles]

Nothing funnier to me than jjk trending solely because nanami is hot

[computeriiworld]

THIS TOOK EIGHT HOURS

LIKE AND FUCKING SMASH THAT SUBSCRIBE BUTTON FOR MORE SHITTY ANIMATIONS🔥🔥🔥

[boyrobott]

Astro Boy’s Closet: 1980s

[canisbeanz]

I LOVE pluto and think the English dub is very good for the most part but I can't watch it bc the constant mispronunciation of very easy to say German words make me unreasonably angry.

[courtillyy]

im sorry chilled is another mcc ????? why tf am i just finding this out now. im going to lose my actual shit. god bless the gods who decided to make it easy to accidentally sign up. god Bless them

[that-starry-freak]

Okay uhhh, basic lore-

(Im obsessed with drawing him rn cause idk anyone else's designs for sure yet-)

Okay, so rundown of my new au

Basically its about healing and toxic relationships and the morally grayness of reality-? In a roundabout way lmao

Literally tho, it's about Sun, Moon, Eclipse, and Earth (and Monty ig). Sun and Moon were never created together, instead the Creator made Moon and Earth originally and put them in the daycare. While he was making Sun, he messed up and accidentally made Ecliose. He let him stay with Moon and Earth for awhile, before forcing him away and making him live with him

He lived with the creator for awhile but soemthing happened and he realized how awful he was and he ran back to the daycare. Sun was there now and he was confused but quickly got a crush on him

Uhh some drama yada yada more drama yada yada some shadowplanet at the end

And uhh- yeah!

Probably going to write a fic cause have sonmuch lore that idk how to just explain

[httpstes]

genuine question: aries risings, where are you, do you exist and if so, how are you doing because you guys are like an alienated life form in my eyes. i only come into contact with one like every 7 years like it’s some otherworldly ritual. next time i catch one of you guys u better be in a ufo ain’t no way y’all are real.

[nightseeye]

Ok for those who've read/unlocked shelly's description, i have a really funny story:

It's like floor 18, me (roger) and a teagan are the only remaining members of what was an initially 6 person dandy run. 6 twisted, 7 machines, and dandy and shelly have appeared (yes filling the machines were very annoying). Teagan and I are less than delighted to find out that dandy's music almost completely and utterly drowns out the footsteps and growls shelly makes, even if he's across the map and she's much closer.

Tbh you could only rlly hear her if she was pretty much right in ur area, and you were listening hard. Honestly it mightve been a lot harder without headphones

This paired with Dandy's description, and that i think during the group cardboard cutouts where his hides her slightly, makes her twisted description kinda funny and... kinda sad, too

Descriptions for shelly and dandy under the readmore for those who want to kno:

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Gambling Apocalypse Tenma AU

As I rewatch Kaiji I inevitably end up wanting to combine show I like with other show I like and stuffing fav characters into show. So here we are.

This was uh going to be a short summary type thing but I accidentally wrote a novella about it sorry

This AU starts off with a much more depressive Tenma. After Tobio's death, rather than immediately pour his grief into developing a robot version of his son, he recedes into himself, psychologically paralyzed, likely turning to alcohol to drown out his anguish.

His mental state is taken as an opportunity within the Ministry of Science to have him ejected from his position; Tenma was never the most well-liked director, and there were those with ambition to usurp him that would jump at the chance. Not that he especially cares in his state.

He's eventually dragged out of his stagnation by Ochanomizu - who, inadvertently, becomes the very catalyst pushing Tenma to develop a robot replacement to his child. This was not what he meant by encouraging Tenma to fill the void left by his son.

...But, well, he is no longer the director of the Ministry of Science. His access to limitless government funds and resources for "scientific research" has been cut off, and this is a project he cannot finance on his own. He can't ask Ochanomizu for help, but...interestingly...a representative of a certain shady organization known as the Teiai Corporation reaches out to him, offering to finance and support his project. A sane and well-minded Tenma might think better of it, but grieving and desperate, Tenma accepts their offer and is able to create a robot in the image of his beloved Tobio. For a while, there's joy in his life.

But the bill, as ever, comes due: Tenma must pay up, and the very resources that had been at his disposal will certainly ensure that he will, or else. Of course, he doesn't have the money; instead, he is given a choice. He can relinquish the robot Tobio in order to wipe out his debt - the child is a sophisticated and powerful robot, after all - or he can participate in a certain illicit event hosted by the Teiai Corporation.

It's nothing major...just a four-hour gambling cruise with a collection of desperate, damned souls that were also swept into debt with Teiai. The conditions are simple: Those who choose to participate are given a chance to clear their debts wholesale should they win. And should they lose...?

Well...no one really knows what happens to the losers seized by Teiai. It's said that they labour away their debts under Teiai's watchful eye and are freed once their work has covered their debts, though it's rumoured that most perish before they reclaim freedom.

There's only one answer Tenma can give, of course; he's not willing to lose Tobio again.

Thus is Tenma's debut into the Gambling Apocalypse, where he must become cutthroat in order to survive; if he wants to see his son again, he must make choices that will doom the hapless to miserable servitude, with a nonzero chance it ends in their death.

He survives the cruise, but of course, it was hardly enough to clear his debt; the cruise was never going to be the end of it. Teiai doesn't let go of its victims that easily. He will be called on again: this is a weight that hangs over him, all while he returns to his son Tobio. The same hands that have pushed innocents into hell must now be the hands that can embrace his child.

He wants to protect Tobio from the truth and enjoy what peaceful moments he's allowed with his son, but it's difficult. It's difficult to be the parent of a child who cannot understand the danger that looms ahead; this "happy" home is not to last. Tenma angers quickly and easily. He turns that anger onto Tobio.

As Teiai's games become more and more vicious and unrelenting, as his conscience holds onto the last vestiges of thread that remain, Tenma even threatens, once, to give the boy in: it would all end, then; the debt would be clear and no longer would he have to endure Tobio's childish annoyances, his ungratefulness.

The next time that Tenma is beckoned, Tobio takes matters into his own hands. He does understand, now; and he would have, if only Tenma had bothered to explain sooner. If it's a debt that needs clearing, he will work. He will help his father clear his debts however he can. Of course, it's difficult to find work as a child; but a circus troupe finds amusement in the idea of a child robot, and takes him in. He is whisked into a certainly unpleasant working situation, but he remembers his father, and what he must be enduring. Tobio, also, will endure.

When Tenma returns, Tobio is gone.

All that held Tenma back from becoming something monstrous has disappeared. All that kept him going has disappeared. When he is called upon by Teiai, there is no knowing what sort of person might come out the other end; whether a monster clawing his way to freedom regardless of what actions he must take, or a desolate husk surrendering defeat.

There is still a light, however dim: Found by Professor Ochanomizu and rescued from the circus, Tobio - now Atom - is able to shed light on the situation which Tenma took great pains to keep hidden from his old friend. With time running out, Ochanomizu and Atom must do what they can to save Tenma - from Teiai, and from himself.

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UHHH and that's a wrap!!!! I couldn't quite decide which way Tenma would go after hitting Rock Bottom in this AU, and tbh it would really depend on the kind of mental state he's in at the time. On the one hand I like the narrative of Ochanomizu and Tobio racing to prevent Tenma from crossing a line (actual outright murder probably) - or having to pull him back into humanity (and yknow, his ensuing penance)

But on the other hand having him get sent to Teiai Evil Hell Prison would be interesting because a) there's a lot of narrative potential having Tenma faced with what Teiai is doing with the people that lose the games and b) need him to decimate the foreman at chinchirorin Kaiji style

Tenma's whole character is definitely a much different guy in this AU, he starts off pretty sympathetic, the guy you wanna root for, he just ends up having an inverse character arc where he gets worse instead of better. His conflict with "Tobio" is also kind of reversed, less about being unsatisfied with Tobio as a son and more not being able to handle the fact that he probably has intense PTSD now and isnt capable of coping with it in a way conducive to being a parent (or like, coping at all)

Anyway that's gambling apocalypse tenma!!!

[no1ryomafan]

God I reaaaally wanna do a video about how kikaider and Casshern influenced mega man cause it’s so obvious and no one talks about it but the issue is I’m also gonna at LEAST need to talk about Astro boy cause I don’t think anyone talked in depth about how it influenced mega man too- but the issue is my attention span can’t handle going through the 50 ep 2003 show-the one I wanna watch-or read the manga since watching long anime and reading manga is something I need to work on💀

[astrobei]

on june 11th 1993, mike wheeler drags his vaguely amused (and highly endeared) boyfriend will byers to the movie theater, shells out for the largest size popcorn they have available, and gets 2 premium, middle-row seats to watch steven spielberg’s jurassic park

(he’s been vibrating with anticipation ever since the first trailer came out. he makes will go see it with him another five times before it leaves theaters.)

[starsinthenigth]

I'm gonna change you- like a remix..

Then I raise you, like a phoenix ~ !!