#anti-boomverse

[beevean]

I'm someone who's more on the sidelines but I'm personally sick and tired of seeing Ian Flynn being involved in official Sonic media and fans demanding he be THE one to handle whatever comes out next I want to see other people give their takes on the character and franchise, like with the Sonic Boom cartoon and the movie, and not one just one guy's over and over again. I groaned the second I saw that he was apparently hired as a consultant for Sonic Prime,-

conti- as if he's THE authority on Western produced Sonic media. Not only that, but I think he's just overrated as a writer in general. He is not good at long term, overarching story arcs and plots. The pacing problems in the Metal Virus arc isn't a new problem with his writing. I still can't get into the Archie comics even post-Penders and post-reboot because the pacing of his long story arcs just drags on, and in the Metal Virus arc's case becomes redundant every issue.

Yeah...

The love some people have for this guy, I just can't understand it. It may be mean, but I doubt they'd defend Pontaff with the same fervor if they were tasked to work on the Encyclospeedia and made a dozen of stupid mistakes. (20 rings to access the special stage, really, what the hell)

I don't reblog posts about Sonic's characterization just to dunk on Flynn, but mainly because I love Sonic as a character and I like reading people's interpretations on that. He's a great character, and so simple to get! But I won't deny, that when they announced that Flynn would write for Frontiers, and almost everyone started celebrating because yayyy pontaff is gone we have a great sonic writer now! praise chaos!!, well, I felt left behind. When I think of Flynn, I think of someone who's deadset on turning Sonic into a hero he was never meant to be, I think of someone who doesn't have much respect for the main villain after it took 10 years to gain it back from the fans, I think of someone who destroyed a great relationship and reintroduced a stupid cliché that should have died in 2008 for the sake of pushing his OC (poor Starline did not deserve to turn into Snively 2.0, I liked him better when he was a simp), I think of someone who had the ball rolling for a whole year before completely falling apart in plot and characterization... so I'll just say, I'm not happy either that this dude is gaining this much hegemony in the franchise. And the fact that Frontiers' premise already includes Eggman fucking up just like in the good ol' days? Written by someone who went into detail about how he thinks "Eggman never had a solid plan"? boy ._.

Also, wasn't he the one who wrote the "House of Cards" arc in Archie? The one where Sonic deadass says the words "The kid worships me, he'll get over it" referring to Tails? You telling me he was forced by some mandates even back then? Yeah, HOC is old now, but hey, Colors will turn 12 this year and fans still complain about Baldy McNosehair as if Sonic couldn't shut up about it, I don't feel guilty :V

Now, to be fair... We still know almost nothing about Frontiers, and we have about a year to get some previews. I don't want to immediately assume Frontiers' story will be trash just because I resent IDW. Writing for a main game is different than writing for a comic, so who knows. But I wonder what happened to Shiro Maekawa, for instance...

[stardust-selfships]

Welcome to my SELF SHIPPING blog!

I'm mod 🏁 and I write imagines and self shipping stuff! Please read this entire post to know what's up, and what I can and cannot do!

This blog is space, arcade, and nostalgia themed!

DNI / Don'ts:

Pretty basic, the normal DNI criteria

No pr*shipping please

Do not ask for ships of two characters from the same source, this blog is for self shipping/self inserts only!

No NSFT, I am still a minor (17)! This may update in the future if I feel comfortable doing it

Please ask if I write for a character that isn't on the list, do not assume I will write for them

Do's:

Imagines, small write ups/fan fictions, x readers

AFAB/AMAB readers (Please specify!)

All body types, nationalities, disabilities, etc. Everyone is welcome here!

Slightly suggestive imagines (NOT NSFT, just slight suggestive content)

Interracial/species ships (mobian x human, etc) (you guys are super valid!!!)

Poly ships involving more than one character

Sexuality/gender headcanons

Hurt/comfort, horror, romantic, any love trope (enemies to lovers, etc)

Vent/heavy topic write-ups (like SH comfort head canons and things like that)

FANDOMS:

Sonic the hedgehog

Sonic the hedgehog (all versions!) (This includes movie sonic and ugly sonic as well! Love those guys)

Shadow the hedgehog

Silver the hedgehog

Amy rose

Dr. Eggman (movie, boomverse, games canon)

Scourge (anti sonic or scourge)

Knuckles the echidna

Boom!tails (no NSFT)

Miles "tails" prower (platonic only)

Fleetway super sonic

Toy story

Sheriff Woody pride

Buzz Lightyear (toy version only, sorry!)

Andy Davis (teen/adult only)

Child's play

Chucky/Charles Lee ray (human, doll, or Nica!Chucky)

Tiffany Valentine (human or doll)

Glen/da (doll only, and platonic only!)

Andy Barclay (adult only)

Steven Universe

Steven Universe (teen/young adult Steven ONLY)

Spinel (reset or normal)

Peridot

Pearl (pink, CG pearl)

Pink diamond

White diamond

Rose quartz

Rainbow quartz (1.0/2.0)

Jasper

Lapis lazuli

Invader ZIM

Invader ZIM

GIR (PLATONIC ONLY)

Dib membrane

Professor membrane

(TAK is a huge maybe, idk if I'll write for her or not)

Super mario

Super "jump man" Mario (main games version)

Bowser (main games version)

My little pony

Pinkie pie

Twilight sparkle

Rarity

King sombra

Queen chrysalis

Trixie lulamoon

Sunset shimmer

Starlight glimmer

Rainbow dash

Sonic.exe

Sonic.exe (2011)

Xenophanes

Lord X

Tails doll (platonic)

FATAL ERROR

Needlem0use VHS

Sarah Henderson (human, spirit, or sonic body)

Luther artwright (human (young adult or adult), spirit, or tails body)

Friday night funkin' and alike fandoms

Senpai

Boyfriend

Girlfriend

Pico

Lemon monster

Tankman/captain

Sarvante

Ruv

Selever (no NSFT)

Skid and pump (spacefatcat's adult versions, the kid versions are platonic ONLY!)

Roy (from spooky month, no NSFT)

I will probably add more to the list but yeah!

Have fun!

[mechanomorphic]

first draft of a boom redesign for shadow and a design for rossum.

the reason i did this was mostly bcs like,,, i was watching the boom show and it made me realize they introduced all this new lore and really shaked things up and then they just. plopped shadow in as he was, like the only real change was making him MORE of a prideful jerk (almost like a certain prince a lot of people compare him to..) and then just?? never explain anything???? so im connecting him more into the universe by tying him into some of the unique elements the boomverse had to offer. no sports tape tho, sorry.

also i did boom!rossum bcs the idea of these two being a sort of yzma and kronk/pinky and the brain style duo cracked me up. i take my baby and i make them BIG.

in this au they woke up together and thus just are just regular siblings no angst edition. the pair of them are from the time of the anicents and were woken up recently (either by eggman or sonic or both). shadow is the “ultimate fusion of technology and organic life” (*sonic voice* yeah im just gonna shorten that to “ultimate lifeform”) and rossum was a failed prototype of said plan. shadow seems to have some grand overaching goal and rossum is just along for the ride.

im just gonna ramble a lil more under the cut.

shadow

shadows kinda got his own thing going on and is much less vegeta and more just like, mysterious kinda brooding anti hero. got a strong sense of justice, which can sometimes manifest uh, violently, if he feels the situation calls for it. initally he’d prefer not to fight sonic and co but if he gets in his way he’ll crush him, but after fighting sonic both of them realise it was kind fun. their rivalry is a lot more friendly tho either will take any oportunity to fight the other. also im keeping the fact he’d blow up the universe if he felt embarrassed mostly bcs i think its really goddamn funny, ross can usually talk him out of that tho.

design wise i gave him a lot more chest fluff to obsuce that mysterious collar(tm) around his neck. gave him some funny shapes on his forehead and chest to make him look different from regular vers shadow (mostly inspired by these other boom redesigns). the belt i gave him is based on the mind control device from shattered crystal and is supposed to be one that he repurposed. his inhibitor rings have these lil crystals that like bounce back his power (i just wanted them to be a lil more detailed to draw a lil more attention to them). also his rocket boots are heels bcs i think it would be funny if he was short and also the fact they work like actual rocket boots (like. he can fly w them) reminded me of starscream. also in the sketch i gave him a cape bcs i was originally going to give him one to go w his whole brooding loner thing but i thought it might be a little,, boring? and cover up too much of his design?

rossum

rossum isnt as active as a character as shadow is, theyre generally more reacting to situations as opposed to causing them. theyre still a lil dumb but its more,, being naive about Literally Everything (whereas shadow was let out during the past it seems rossums freedom/time to develop was a lot more limited). theyve still got a gentleness to em but unlike their regularverse theyre very much not a pacifist - though they dont enjoy fighting, but are good at it and thus often have to be encouraged into fighting by shadow. often times if theyre fighting the good guys rossum takes on the rest of team sonic whilst sonic and shadow have their Rival Brawl Fight. despite that i think rossum actually likes team sonic and considers them their friends. i think them and knuckles would be good pals bcs theyre both big and dumb and sweethearts.

onto the design: theyre supposed to be a sorta inbetween of knuckles and the regular sonic character body type, so theyre big but not as big as him. third eye was replaced with shape (since theyre not aliens anymore). rossum also has a collar tho unlike shadow theirs is cracked. they also have the same inhibitor rings, tho the crystal has either been torn or broken off at some point. it might be hard to tell but their gloves and boots are now armor to play into their role as kinda shadows body guard, also the boots loose their rocket spots bcs i couldn’t see them using it like shadow would during combat.

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Thursday, September 12

Spike: What happens if your girlfriend shows up? Angelus: I'm gonna give her a kiss. (to the Judge) Don't you look spiffy! Judge: Spiffy?

~~Innocence~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Birthday Date (Spike/Buffy, G) by EllieRose101

From Sunnydale to Los Angeles (Angel & Wesley & Cordelia, T) by summers-maclay-lehane (ofstormsandwolves)

'Til It Bleeds Daylight (Giles, Oz, M) by Sarah T

Folie a Deux (Giles/Ethan, M) by Sarah T

Serves in a Whirlwind (Giles/Ethan, M) by Sarah T

Messengers of Grey (Giles, Oz, M) by Sarah T

Birthday Date (Spike/Buffy, G) by EllieRose101

[Chaptered Fiction]

Eye of Eleos Chapter 45 (Spike/Buffy, R) by pfeifferpack

Garden of Eden Chapter 1 (Ripper/Randall, T) by CantSpeakFae

Chaos Bleeds Chapter 1 (OC, background Scoobies, T) by FangFriendly

Eye of Eleos Chapter 45 (Spike/Buffy, R) by pfeifferpack

Into Thin Air Chapter 2 (Spike/Buffy, NC-17) by Leighroyal

The Watcher (Willow, not rated) by Illyrian

[Images, Audio & Video]

Video: Sanctuary (Buffy x Dean) by nexusBOS

Video: Spike and Angel - Bad Guy by suvanaa

Video: Faith Lehane ϟ What Doesn't Kill Me by Katerina Smith

Stop motion animation: LEGO Buffy The Vampire Slayer Mini Clip by LegoHorrorVideos LegoHorrorVideos

Video: Buffy the Vampire Slayer · Padre Nuestro · Let There Be Light (Willow, Spike) by Kevin H

Video: Angel season 6 opening by Abduo Mohammad

Video: Spike and Drusilla song Afterglow by Buffy Spike

Video: Buffy as a talking pumpkin by The Custom Punkin Stencil Company

Video: 90's time machine Buffy ASMR - a visit to Spike's crypt by Daria_girlxoxo

[Reviews & Recaps]

Slayerfest 98 Live: Ryan Houlihan's "Previously On Buffy..."

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1x7 "Angel" Review by Cooksters Movie Reviews

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1x8 Review by Cooksters Movie Reviews

Pourquoi Buffy c’est génial 44: Him by pourquoi buffy

Thread: BtVS rewatch: SEASON 6 (cont'd) by multiple people

AtS Positives And Negatives - Season 2 (cont'd) by Andrew S., vampmogs, BTVS fan, Stoney

BOOM! BtVS 1.01 by buffylover

BOOM! Buffy #8 (cont'd) by multiple people

BOOM! Angel # 4 by Double Dutchess

Poll: Worst Buffy comics trash? hosted by TimeTravellingBunny

PODCAST: Still Pretty #90. Beer Bad (S4.05)

PODCAST: Welcome to the Boomverse , the first episode of a potential series

PODCAST: Pop Culture Role Call S07E01 - Justin Timberlake’s Ramen Hair - Lessons

[Recs]

flow's Spuffy fanfiction recommendation list [updated] by flowspuffy

"urgent as airmail, animal red" by seinmit recced by snickfic

"Catching Up" by badly_knitted recced by petzipellepingo

[Community Announcements]

Multifandom: Fandomweekly: A Multifandom Short Fic Challenge

BtVS rewatch: SEASON 7 will start on the weekend of October 11

Story claiming is open for banner artists in the Spuffy Big Bads Challenge

[Fandom Discussions]

I've got a theory [about Joyce] by roselightfairy

Do we know when Joss Whedon made the decision to give Spike his soul? (cont'd) by rahirah, alienscorpion

[like every other show that's ever aired, AtS wasn't as good as Buffy] (cont'd) by multiple people

Buffy references in other shows... by multiple people

Connor: A failure of the actor or simply a failure of writing? hosted by BtVS fan

Hellmouth #1 by multiple people

Buffy's evolution re: Dawn (s5+ spoilers) hosted by NCH007

Never Forget! Riley... [anti-Riley] hosted by wiqqido

You know you’re a Buffy fan when... hosted by ThrowawayZoloft

Idle Fantasy [about the soundtrack] by internetrando12

Buffy the Vampire Slayer saved my life by Fangirl Follies

New Characters with Old Board? [Buffy board game] by multiple people

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

Convention news: Amber Benson and Clare Kramer (as well as James Marsters) will be at Wales Comic Con this December