#but I find I hate aus the most

[miserye]

A ranking of airports I’ve been through best to worst

1. My current airport- Tiny and wonderful, fast tsa because no one is ever there! Impossible to get lost in, only down side is that there are no good food options after tsa but there is a subway before it lol I think they ran outta space

2. MEM- efficient tsa, nice inside, charging areas that actually work!!!!! On the smaller side! Nice walkways and some food variety

3. SAT- relatively okay tsa, lots of food options, kinda long but that’s life, a bit small and a little busy for the size but it’s fine

4. Colorado- okay tsa, lots of lines for it so it helps, easy to read and understand metro line system within the airport, nice walkways <3

5. AUS- tsa is usually pretty quick but pick up and drop off area is hell on earth, meh food options, KING of slow ass walkers I’m gonna kill austinites at this rate

6. St. Paul- hell on earth. It’s hard to navigate those damn trains. However, spam shrine.

7. DFW- I have many issues with this place.

8. LAX- it wasn’t even that busy, they just have weird ass rules like I get it but at the same time no I don’t. Like showing my boarding pass AT tsa is so weird?? Also it’s so long and there aren’t walk ways and it’s so narrow???? Maybe it was just the area we were in but 😕

Honorable mention: incheon and jeju- both were great and fast airports, favorite bathroom of all time is incheon

[rooniearts]

Permission to maim, sir?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

MDZS x Firefly AU: A ragtag crew.

[yanderespamton78]

AJDJSOAJW I MADE MY SPAMTON PLUSH THE DEFRAG OUTFIT

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'm so normal. About. This comicc

Yes

Defragmentation by @zarla-s go read it if you haven't rjkwsjdkdhkash

[felix-dino]

Grief

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[hexcii]

I think some people are forgetting that I’m not an adult

So, reminder that I’m 17 and I’m fine with suggestive stuff and I won’t judge for nsfw stuff but please don’t leave that stuff on my posts

I’ve had one too many blatantly sexual comments and asks and it’s starting to make me a bit uncomfortable, please stop

Even if I was an adult it’s still weird to do that without knowing if I’m comfortable with it or not

[swiiivet-screamathon]

"Here-ye, here-ye! Your King has finally come to greet you, Shadow Milk Cookie!"

"Stop yelling kid! What on Earthbread makes you think you can stomp in here and shout my ears off??"

"My dearest and sincerest sorries Strawberry Crepe! But I've come to do my due diligence to my dearest servant!"

"Whaddya mean your servant?? HAHAHAAA-- He'd squash your crown with a strong enough puff of air, he'd never succumb to your pathetic claim to power."

"HEY!! Ahem-- yelling is indeed unbecoming for a king, but that was very mean! But you are in luck for not being a citizen of my glorious kingdom, so no royal punishment for you."

"Pfft, yeah right, you're the one in luck you didn't say that when I was in my servant era."

"Is he not here? Should he not have come down by now to greet his King?"

"I couldn't begin guessing why he wouldn't want to come talk to you."

"Well, where is he usually in here? I was told he has left my kingdom in favor of temporary camping in your workshop. Maybe I can just look for him myself in here."

"Unless you can spontaneously fly you're not getting anywhere in that goal."

"Wait, fly? Can he fly?"

"Have you really not heard anything about someone you're claiming to be your servant?"

"Of course not! A good King does not listen to rumours, the common cookies must be given their privacy!"

"Stop getting so loud-- sigh, sounds more like an excuse for you to never have to pay attention to your 'common cookies'."

"Well, if he can fly then he must-- oh, are you Shadow Milk Cookie?"

"Crepe did you start the timer?"

"The roughest of 5 minutes it took before he looked up once."

"Hey! You were timing me!?"

"Your incompetency is far too predictable, Custard Cookie the turd."

"Hey!!!"

"Now when you've used your eyes, mind filling me in? I don't recall any servants flocking you when I saw you last."

"Whuh-- 'saw me last'?? I've never seen you bluey around before!"

"Answer the question I don't want to be here all day staring at your face."

"Saw me before?? When????--- Ugh, nevermind that I guess. All citizens of my kingdom, the Cookie Kingdom that is, are my servants and commoners!"

"Didn't clear much up frankly."

"...Huh? Did you not live within my kingdom for a whole year before coming here to stay temporarily?"

"I thought you didn't listen to rumors."

"Whuh-- yeah I don't!"

"Aww, babies first lies, always the sweetest."

"Argh! I didn't think I'd ever have one of your servants make me more mad than Chili Pepper Cookie! My turn to speak!!"

"I mean that cane of yours can be mistaken for a talking stick."

"Beyond my usual duties of being a good King I came to ask if you had any friends, because usually cookies don't come alone when they become citizens! They usually come in pairs or more, but I haven't heard any mention at all that there are any other undocumented cookies who lived on my land. I would like to meet them so I can do a proper royal greeting to them too."

"It is endlessly amusing that you categorize this encounter as a royal greeting. Anyways, friends huh? I suppose if you desperately wanted to you could call them that, I prefer minions though. They stayed behind, they were worried they were going to get too homesick if they came along."

"Wait, you've got friends?"

"The black and red duo who stole the show for an evening?"

"Ohh, yeah continue."

"I see, well I will consider them honorary citizens and they'll get a proper greeting once they arrive! The Cookie Kingdom is the best place to call home after all!"

"I'll be sure to tell them."

"Excellent! Your highness will then return to their vacation activities, a royal must know their kingly heritage and its history after all!"

"Whatever gets you out of my workshop quicker."

"I must not disrespect my heritage, but clearly the citizens of my kingdom is far nicer than the ones here! >:("

...

"You're not telling them are you?"

"Not unless they feel like going through torture for their vacation plans. :p"

"Maybe not sentence them to hell over there, but I am curious if you'll ever invite your minions over, do you just not like them and had the perfect excuse to disappear for years?"

"I have been thinking about them, red one would in a heartbeat, I'm sure she's still frothing over my disappearance, I don't know about the black one though-- I have a feeling that this crowd isn't his style."

"Do you want to invite them around?"

"And thats where that conversation ends, you have fun with your stuff." Poofs

"Grumble, another one to the list I guess, how does Pure Vanilla ever get answers out of him, I do not get it. >:/"

[evilmagician430]

mabeline/jonah wolf in my 2020s timeskip au! read my tags for more information about her

[clegfly]

Puter au Plot basically. Based off of this

[messianicfigure]

that feel when you choose to die by your adoptive brother/ward’s hand because you know it is the only way to save his soul and you desperately want to share the inner peace that you’ve finally found in redemption with him

[penn-dragon]

Kyoko still regularly visits the Corn clearing because it's her happy place, and early into the production Ren goes to visit the spot for nostalgia and happy memories. They run into each other there and Ren immediately realizes who she is

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Hello! Really random but I was talking to a friend about the deal with the “evil altean” alternative universe that unfortunately exists and knew you had some thoughts on it!

I want to be able to explain it better but you have a better understanding than I do! I hope you don’t mind me asking your thoughts on it!

Hollow-dweller has explained it much better than i ever could here and here, and most of my reply is just giving out the same points they made. Anyway in my opinion Hole in the Sky is a shit ass episode and i deeply resent it.

To start with this episode is another example of Reverse Racism the vld writers love so much and one of the many many many many Many examples of the fact that vld is very much written by white writers for a white audience and focusing on a white UsAmerican narrative that pretends to be progressive and inclusive but is absolutely shallow in its ideals and is not at all sympathetic towards minorities, victims of oppression, and those who are not white american. Furthermore this episode is yet another example of this shows contant need to criticize and punish Allura for wanting to reconnect with her dead people and culture.

First of all lets look at the motivation of Empress Allura that led her into making a colonizing mind-washing empire out of her once peace loving diplomatic people. Apparently it is similar to main reality in that the Galran attack and Alfor was killed, however this time they went with Allura's plan in the first episode to bring voltron together which leads to the Galran empire's defeat and Altea becoming the colonizing force instead (i rewatched that stupid episode just to answer this ask, so yes this is literally what happened in that episode. While the evil alteans dont say that Empress Allura brought the voltron together, it was jds who mentioned in an interview that that's what happened)

Problem with that is we already know how Allura would react to such situation! In canon! And sure she was (rightfully) hurt and angry about it, but she never let go of her kindness because of it! She lost her father And her planet And everyone she ever loved and still remained a kind and giving person to her own detriment.

And inspite of what your average Allura-hating Keith/Lotor/Klance stan would have you believe, her hatred towards Galran was never this deep to the point of enacting unjust violence on them, let alone destroying the universe because of it. Yes she was distrusting of Ulaz except he also broke into her castle and beat up her teammates which most likely did colour her opinion. Yes she was cold towards Keith except it only involved side-eye and a cold comment for which she apologized in the very next episode without anyone else's prompting. And people bring up her actions against Lotor after his reveal and rage against good!Zarkon to say she's a bigot, and i am sorry i don't have to explain how that's just plain stupid, all i can say is that even after everything the stans still think that she didn't deserve to kick both their asses let alone genuinely consider she was in the wrong then i am sorry but there really is no hope for them.

Also even if she had a damning corruption arc, do you really think Coran and the paladins of the old who very likely were alive to defeat the galran would have let her go that far? Do you really think she wouldn't have crumbled immediately if Alfor's Ai had come to know about this and looked at her with shock, pity, and disappointment?

Not to mention Alteans were established to be a peace loving diplomatic species. How did they end up being this colonizing brainwashing race? This was certainly not written to be a nuanced take on topics like "trauma and tragedy causing a massive shift in a culture causing continued cycle of violence" or "Oppression is relative in nature", because this was only one episode. One episode and the only thing we get is "All Alteans in this reality are evil" with no "it's not black or white" notion this series wants to preach but absolutely fails at.

This show does this thing a lot where it's much more critical of victims being angry at their treatment while coddling the perpetrators. Galra get the "They are not All Bad, they were just following Zarkon's orders who is also Not All Bad poor baby just got corrupted by bad quintessence and also if you are mean to them you are just as bad uwu 🥺🥺🥺". Meanwhile Alteans are just, "All Alteans in this reality are evil", and there's certainly no corrupting purple quintessence involved cause otherwise everything would be purple.

And yeah i knowww it's because it's one off episode vs entire series but it still could and should have been better. Have Sven be an Altean which actually makes sense given Guns of Gamara represent Blade of Marmora in this reality, or make it so it's not Allura who created this empire, or better yet! Just Don't Write that episode! One of the links i added above talks about an alternative dark!Allura which i found to be much more interesting and provided for a much more meaningful introspection and possible arc for Allura without turning into another "Oppressed can be as bad oppressors" shallow life lesson white people seems to think is height of nuanced truthful worldview. You could have had a Galra-won bad end timeline to establish multiple realities. There were just so many options.

And of course this episode is another example of putting down characters of colour to put fucking Keith on pedestal. All throughout the episode is Keith as this "logical, voice of reason who's always correct" white-coded man, While making Allura out to be "illogical dumbass who nearly handed clearly evil alteans an ore that would threaten all the realities all because she wanted the help from those Alteans 🙄🙄🙄" Black-coded woman. Maybe it was her trauma and wishful thinking talking but i feel like the moment she heard them call her Empress Allura while a Shiro looking hates Alteans, she should atleast some suspicions. But nope, Allura has to be an idiot specifically because she wants to get in touch with her culture while Keith is the extremely Specialist Boy who is always right. I fucking hate it here.

And of course the shit cherry on the top of this enormous shit pile of tone-deafness, you have this episode framing Alfor's decision to hide the lions be that if they had formed it.... It would result in evil altean reality. Not because the head of voltron is controlled by Zarkon, not because it's an extremely powerful weapon with very high chance of falling into wrong hands, not because they did not have enough paladins to pilot the whole thing, not because it was literally a losing battle. Nope! Apparently it was possible to win the war 10k years ago, but there was a possibility that living Alteans, including his own daughter would go on to take over the universe for asinine reasons so he pretty much hid the weapon so that the Galran can take over the universe and take over the universe and destroy multiple planets including his own. Yup this is totally a normal and logical thought process to have, nevermind that Alfor's ai literally says they should have gone with Allura's plan in the very first episode. Yup this a totally normal and logical thought process to have/s

Tldr- it's a shit ass episode

Honestly if you want to improve on it/keep it's elements here are my suggestions-

Make it a Lotor focused episode instead of Allura focused episode. Let other reality Lotor be the one who formed the empire instead of Allura. Especially if you want to redeem him. He's the one this obsessed with Alteans and this hateful towards Galran. He's the one who believes in sacrificing as many people as there needs to be in order to achieve peace. (In this episode it is implied he cause the death of many pilots while trying to get the Ore). Let him see this version of him who has achieved what he could only dream of, except he can stare in horror seeing a version of him has become just like their father

Or

2) Make Sven and Slav be unreliable narrators being lied to by Guns of Gamara and the two Alteans we see as lying liars who lie. Make these two Alteans extremists lying to Allura because they truly believed that she would agree with their plans and wanted to impress her. There's no Altean empire just Altean planet ruled by one of Allura's descendant who's trying extremely hard to arrest this extremist almost cultish group. No they haven't captured entire planets but instead kidnapped few aliens and brain washed them and the descendant is trying their best to stop these idiots. Have Sven and Slav be ex-victims of brainwashing by the extremist Alteans only to be "saved" By Guns of Gamara, who is anti-Altean faction who lied to them that the Alteans have colonized the entire universe whereas the truth is Alteans are just.... Alteans. Nothing sinister going on.

[danzainosolitude]

Once again I read fanfiction that seems to have been precisely written to deal psychic damage to me.

[lemurballing]

tangle is so fun because she is a juxtaposition of something collected and contained with something loose and free and in motion

she’s a rough brawler but she has a stance and a style. she’s impulsive and thrillseeking, but she wraps her arms in sports tape to protect them, a precaution. she longs for adventure and action but she will always need to come to rest at home with friends. she’s bouncy and restless, but she’s an intent listener and considerate. she’s got months of off-and-on experience fighting badniks, but is still so new to real Adventure.

and while there’s plenty of traits sonic and tangle share, you can’t reduce her to ‘girl sonic’ without neglecting something of her own characterization. she fundamentally wants something different out of life than sonic does, because she doesn’t need to be anchorless; she isn’t a backpacker, sleeping somewhere new every night. she’s more like a goose, or a frigate bird; flying free for ages and ages, knowing she wants to go somewhere, until time comes to call her back to her origin.

[imagionary]

Just a hypothetical situation

What would happen if someone were to say pry Dave a little too much about what he is? Or maybe find out

Looking at hymm dead in the eyes can freeze anyone in their tracks, and the constant stares and whispers of the enigma that is Dave will fill your mind and drive you insane; but he normally cuts whomever finds out what he is some slack by possessing and eating their memories of it,, unless he's especially unfond of you, than you'd make great soul fuel

((This is all still a wip, btw; there's other things/possible outcomes of finding out that I've been thinking of, but this is what I have for now on it))

[ekat-fandom-blog]

"It was retconned," they say.

"That only happened in an alt universe and not in the actual canon," they say.

"That happened in an alternate timeline, not in the current canon timeline," they say.

Fuck your retconned, alt-universe, alt-timeline, not canon bullshit. It is the version that made the most impact on me so it is part of my personal canon that I have built using scraps of what I've been given. You can disagree all you want with how I choose to write the characters I've used in my fanfics, but know that what I write is not written with you personally in mind.

"That's not how that character was characterized in this show/comic/movie that you're using as a basis," they say.

Guess what? I observed what they did in that media and extrapolated based on my own personal experiences and biases. I formed my own opinion and sometimes that opinion is skewed drastically based on who I think the character is most similar to among those I have close relationships with. Some characteristics struck a chord and stuck with me, others didn't. I'm not rewatching/rereading something I do not have time to find in order to make things fucking canon compliant.