#but also i simply do not understand it and i WILL accidentally destroy any and all formatting without supervision

[dioslesbianwife]

Can I please request the jofoes boddy swapping with Their partner🙏

yess absolutely- this is a cool freaky friday idea, hope you enjoy and thank you for requesting!!

Dio

Dio wakes up in your body and immediately despises how weak and mortal he feels. He spends a good ten minutes just staring at his own reflection, irritated that this is what he’s trapped in. His usual godly power? Gone. His height and overwhelming presence? Gone. Meanwhile, you wake up in his body and suddenly understand why he acts so high and mighty all the time. You feel invincible. But good luck because Dio wants his body back, now.

Kars

Kars is initially intrigued by the experience. He studies himself in the mirror, testing out the limitations of your body. His first question? "How do you tolerate being this weak?" He doesn't mean it to be insulting, but he’s used to absolute perfection, so having human limitations irritates him. Meanwhile, you, in his body, accidentally grow blade-arms when you panic and have no idea how to retract them.

Esidisi

The second Esidisi realizes he's in your body, he screams. And not just any scream, but that over-the-top wailing cry. He flails, touches his face, and stares at his (your) hands in horror. He needs to be back in his own body immediately, mourning his lost abilities. You, meanwhile, wake up in his body and immediately feel like you're burning from the inside out. You sneeze once, and the floor melts.

Wamuu

Wamuu handles the situation gracefully. He sees no reason to panic- this is simply another trial. He studies your body carefully, testing strength and reflexes. "Your form may be weaker, but it has its own advantages," he muses. You, however, wake up in his massive body and nearly destroy the first doorway you walk through. Wamuu finds it amusing how clumsy you are in his form.

Kira

Kira does not like this. Not because he hates you- no, it’s because he hates change. His body is his carefully maintained routine, and now? Everything feels wrong. He refuses to go outside, fearing someone might see him like this. Meanwhile, you, now in his body, feel oddly calm- until Killer Queen suddenly manifests behind you and you have no idea how to control it.

Diavolo

Diavolo immediately assumes this is some kind of attack. Who did this? Why? He demands to know everything about how your body functions, treating it like an interrogation. He’s tense and jumpy, convinced that someone will take advantage of his vulnerability. Meanwhile, you wake up in his body and accidentally switch to Doppio mid-thought, having a full breakdown as the personality shifts overwhelm you. Doppio is confused but rolls with it, happily talking to the "Boss" even though he’s technically the boss now.

Doppio

Doppio wakes up in your body and, after a few minutes of confusion, actually enjoys it. He gets to experience what it’s like to be you, and that makes him happy. He has fun mimicking your habits, but when he realises he has no “cell” connection to the Boss anymore he panics and wants to swap back. Meanwhile, you in his body... accidentally answer a “phone call” from the Boss, and you’ve never been more terrified in your life.

Enrico Pucci

Pucci believes this must be a trial from heaven, a test of faith. He remains calm but deeply contemplative, spending hours trying to analyze what this means spiritually. He also hates how much slower your body feels compared to his own. Meanwhile, you wake up in his body, see Whitesnake materialize behind you, and scream because what the hell is this thing? Pucci gently takes your hands (in his body) and says, "Let us pray for guidance."

Funny Valentine

Funny is way too calm about this. In fact, he immediately starts planning. "Perhaps I can use this opportunity to test something important," he muses, already thinking about what he can gain from this experience. He has no trouble acting exactly like you, flawlessly imitating your speech and mannerisms to avoid suspicion. Meanwhile, you wake up in his body, suddenly aware of D4C’s existence, and realize... this man has way too much power.

Diego Brando

Diego wakes up in your body and loses it. "What is this?? Where are my muscles?!" He immediately starts training because he refuses to be in a weaker body, even temporarily. He glares at his own body (with you inside) and tells you not to ruin it. Meanwhile, you wake up in his body and accidentally activate his Stand, nearly tripping over your own tail with Scary Monsters before Diego can angrily guide you through how to use it properly.

Tooru

Tooru finds this annoying but somewhat interesting. He immediately starts messing with people, pretending to be you in a way that makes everyone suspicious. He gaslights people into thinking you’ve been acting weird for weeks. "What? I always stand like this. Maybe you’re just imagining things." Meanwhile, you wake up in his body and immediately turn to stone then flesh again then stone again.

[soundop-central]

RE: your post about rebranding to megasound-central. I've always thought the best flavour of megop has soundwave squeezed in the middle, and the best flavour of wavewave has megatron off to the side only half in frame. Which is to say megasound too also is only improved by optimus being in there somewhere. I understand you.

AJDBWIXBWIZWH

megasoundop is the only brand of megop that i can tolerate, not even going to lie.

i just think that both of them need a sort of buffer there. soundwave fundamentally understands megatron (imo), and has a knack for coming to deep and accurate conclusions about others. meaning that if he spent enough time with optimus, he'd probably end up liking him.

ive always shipped megasound, like how ive always shipped wavewave and optiratch. there is so many of my favourite dynamic tropes wrapped up in this ship (i.e.: knight/lord, guard dog/leash holder, devotee/idol, etc.). i've always liked ships that have subtle power dynamics wrapped up in a morally grey (or straight up evil) bow. megasound has always been "universe's worst enabler/universe's worst warlord" to me.

i havent always shipped soundop. i actually pavlov'd myself into shipping it just because i came up with a really funny crack au that accidentally sent soundop careening from "silly nonsense" to "oh god, they're actually really good". soundop isn't as cut and dry to me as megasound- there arent a lot of dynamic tropes that actually fit them, so it's hard to quantify in simple terms what their relationship would be like. but its based on agreements, a mutual acknowledgment of the past and the future, respect and understanding. it's a lot of work, but it's rewarding.

i love both megatron and optimus as characters, and i totally recognize why the fandom ships them (ESP the idw and tfo side) (though, side note, i do actually like dpax; my opinion on megop is very nuanced and continuity dependent.) either way, i just dont see it working after literal millions of years of war without someone to act as a sort of mediator. whether that be in a romantic or platonic position, its up to whoever is doing the interpreting; but here's my take.

so we've got this guy (soundwave) who's basically sworn to this other guy (megatron), and the depth of his oath has become pretty muddy to both of them, even teetering on blasphemous if one looks hard enough. their (now ex-) enemy is an all around pretty Okay dude (optimus). while he's definitely tried to destroy everything they've done, they have also tried to do the exact same thing to him. and now that it's all done and over with...

well hey, why not? optimus seems amicable. he's definitely still sympathetic to them; remembering their time together before the degeneration that the war had become. maybe it would be worth it to try and test the waters.

i see it as an enemies to friends to lovers deal on all sides. everyone has to want it, has to work towards it, has to put in that effort.

soundwave is very suspicious of optimus at first, and frustrated that megatron would simply welcome him in so easily. optimus has to earn soundwave's trust. soundwave is protective of megatron- it's hard to undo 4 million years of protecting him from the very person he's now let in their home.

optimus is, understandably, a bit intimidated by how... intense... the vibe is. he feels like he's constantly in hostile territory. but he also knows that he's the odd man out. he resents having to earn his place, but also understands that if they want to have any hope at success, he needs to have soundwave's trust.

megatron is... both delighted and cautious. he's probably the one who's walking the thinnest line. it was his idea, he's the one who kept touch with optimus, he's the one who wanted to at least try. he convinced soundwave, no easy feat, and optimus, only slightly easier. he has the trust of two people that he cares very much about on the line.

it's definitely stressful.

both optimus and megatron are stubborn mechs. megatron has a temper and optimus has a no nonsense attitude. both of them can bicker back and fourth for hours, and to anyone on the outside, it would look like a normal conversation. yet, it is bickering, and despite how much both of them try to deny their own internal feelings, it does leave them a bit more hollow each time.

megatron never wants to apologize; he can only admit fault if he's given irrefutable proof of wrong doing. it's like pulling teeth.

meanwhile optimus is trying so hard to be reasonable, but also firm in his stances. he wishes to help both soundwave and megatron adjust to a life without war- while he can barely do that himself.

but soundwave, at first, would be doing this for megatron. as always, he's the self-sacrificer, the one who will do whatever is asked in order to further their goals. that much hasn't changed, even if the rhetoric has. yet, as time goes on, he slowly begins to enjoy this arrangement. which is something he never expected.

soundwave is adaptable and level headed; able to parse out fact and fiction within a blink of an eye. as he slowly grows more confident in his identity beyond just being megatron's most trusted, he finds himself growing more and more satisfied by finding another ship in the sea that is loving megatron.

anyway, tl;dr - they're gay. painfully so. theyre also traumatized and like not having a good time usually. but they're trying to fix that and make it work. and if that isn't real love idk what is.

[randomthefox]

Neither Metal Sonic nor Shadow are better than Sonic in every way, and the story does not present them as such. This is the kind of description you would only make if you've never played the games.

Typical of someone with an Archie screenshot for an avatar

In Sonic CD Metal Sonic only shows up twice, the first time to kidnap Amy and then for his boss fight. Neither time is he presented as being "faster and better than" Sonic in any capacity. Hell, the boss fight is a race in which Sonic wins, in case you forgot.

In SA2 Shadow is introduced as being (indirectly) responsible for Sonic being jammed up with the cops, and Sonic tries to jump him on sight because of that. Shadow uses chaos control to freeze time teleport out of Sonic's grasp, which is not presented as Shadow being "faster and better than Sonic in every way" it's just a unique power that Sonic was not anticipating which allowed Shadow to elude him.

The next time they meet they fight to a draw which only ends as such because they're interrupted by Eggman calling on the phone and reminding Shadow about the bombs.

The next time they meet SONIC STRAIGHT UP INDISPUTABLY WINS. Sonic is CONSISTENTLY portrayed as BETTER than Shadow even in SA2, up to and including Shadow complimenting Sonic as being the "real ultimate life form" in the ending. Let alone in basically every single game afterwards.

There is no point in SA2s story where Shadow is EVER presented as Sonic's superior. That's like saying Blaze the Cat is introduced as being "faster and better than Sonic in every way" because she snatches the Sol Emerald out from him and then runs off before he have a chance to find out what her deal is. Or Infinite, for that matter. Since he also has a "whoa, he's fast! Wait, it's not his speed..." moment.

Figures that the example he's using for Metal Sonic is a screenshot from the OVA and not the actual video games. Means without a doubt that dude is basing his analysis of Shadow being "faster and better than Sonic in every way" entirely off of Sonic X and not Sonic Adventure 2.

You can always spot a Sonic hater. Archie avatar. Bases their franchise analysis off of the adaptations. No actual knowledge of the video games. They're all the same, they make these people in a fucking factory.

Eggman does not want to "destroy the world." He SPECIFICALLY *DOESN'T* want to destroy the world, he wants to conquer it. And has acted in the planets defense multiple times for that reason

once again, F on Understanding The Sonic Franchise And Its Characters from the archie fan

Neither Metal Sonic nor Shadow frames Sonic. Metal Sonic doesn't do anything even fucking remotely that could be misconstrued as being that even in the fucking OVA let alone the video games which you obviously know nothing about. And Shadow didn't even know Sonic existed. Shadow's crimes being pinned on Sonic was unintentional circumstance and potentially caused by GUNs internal corruption, Shadow didn't have anything to do with it. And he certainly doesn't view himself as being "more deserving" of being the "one true hedgehog" what the fuck are you even talking about?

Once again, I have to assume this is based on the Sonic X version of that story.

Metal Sonic does not sacrifice himself for the greater good in either Sonic CD nor the OVA, you're just making shit up at this point. And Shadow doesn't sacrifice himself either, depending on who you ask he either simply succumbed to exhaustion due to being inexperienced in using the Super Form or, if you're literate, he deliberately allowed himself to die in repentance for his crimes against Maria's wishes when he could have easily chosen to live and return to the ARK with Sonic. Either way, neither of them "sacrificed" themselves.

The actual comparison here would be that Sonic attempted to save Metal Sonic in the OVA and Shadow in SA2 from their fate, and they both rejected him and chose death instead. The one time you're accidentally right, and it's for the wrong reason lol.

These stories do not even remotely resemble each other even in the uncharitably generalized reductive description you have applied to them. You also very clearly aren't basing your description of SA2's story off of the actual video game, you are basing it off of Sonic X season 2.

also play Sonic CD ffs

[darklinaforever]

So...

I saw someone say that Severus was creepy and possessive towards Lily... We're talking about the guy who always let Lily have her own friends and left her alone as soon as she asked him to, just for information.

Oh, and also that apparently he was bullying Petunia thus probably destroying any chance of the bond between her and Lily returning. WTF ?! He accidentally dropped a branch on her when he was, what ? 10 / 11 years old ? I do not know anymore. Also, I remember that it was actually James who completely ruined Petunia and Lily's slim chances of coexisting.

Also, quite simply, Petunia was basically horrible to Lily because she was jealous. Severus has nothing fucking to do with it.

Then obviously say he linked up with bigoted racists. You know... during a period where he was experiencing misery at home, his friendship with Lily deteriorating and him essentially being a reject at school ? Like... It's pretty obvious that the guy is influenced. Are people aware that we can also join this type of dangerous stupidity through manipulation and not just by choice ? No ? All right. Because I feel like people forget that Severus is actually a half blood.

The person went so far as to say that Severus loving Lily, was like a member of the Klu Klux Klan falling in love with a black woman...

Also, to say that apparently he hoped Lily would come back to him by saving her from Voldemort and leaving James and Harry to die, which... is false ? He just wanted to save her because he loves her ? He didn't expect her to fall into his arms ? Where the fuck does this shit come from !?

Oh, and also, the funniest thing, complaining that he betrayed the Death Eaters... because then that would prove that this guy has no loyalty.

Or maybe that just goes to show that he didn't really know what he was doing in this big mess ? Just an idea like that.

And so obviously complaining that he's only faithful to Lily which is apparently very unhealthy.

Also, apparently, nothing makes him gray, his redemption is bogus. Harry naming his son after him is stupid and Lily would probably hate Severus in the afterlife.

And this all came from someone hating James & Lily as a character and romance.

Like... how can you misunderstand a character so much ? The HP Saga has many flaws for me, but the character of Snape is clearly in the top tier and an excellent gray character.

And I don't understand why a lot of people find it disgusting, twisted and sick that he did good things in honor of Lily's memory, still loves her and has the same patronus as her. Like... I really don't understand. Why do people try to blacken and pervert everything ? Oh I know. They are allergic to complexity.

Yes, Snape wasn't the best teacher in the world. Favored his house and let the Slytherin students annoy the Gryffindors but frankly with his past, we can understand why he became the way he is. Not everyone is lucky enough to be able to mentally move on from the horrible things that have happened to us. Especially since adolescence has a big impact on our future life.

[nevesmose]

I don't know anywhere near enough about Sanguinius to metaphorically crochet him into a little finger puppet for my primarch fics but how about a little baseless speculation about him and Fulgrim? Please note that this is all based on how I view them in the universe of my silly little stories and is in no way a claim about knowing how they are in canon / lore.

I would probably a) portray Sanguinius as a genuinely sweet adorable cinnamon roll too precious for this world and b) have Fulgrim utterly loathe him because of this.

I tend to write Fulgrim as being a pleasant and charming person who, deep down, is about 50% a deeply broken overthinking ultra-perfectionist and 50% really jealous and vindictive. Please understand that this isn't me saying he's just evil and always was because it really really isn't. It's entirely possible for someone with these traits to function perfectly well in society and not be a bad person in any meaningful sense.

However.

One of his formative experiences as a primarch was almost losing his entire legion due to the Blight corrupted geneseed that almost wiped them out right at the start.

He had to build them up himself from nothing with the constant threat of annihilation both in the sense that "if I fuck up a war and lose however-many thousand Astartes in a terrible accident on the double-ended dildo planet I have no reserves or replacements" and also "every use of our geneseed is a gamble against the horrific mutation coming back and destroying us all over again". In that context the solution he turns to, and the only one that probably makes sense based on his prior experience on Chemos, is perfection.

Make no mistakes, ever, anywhere, because the cost of failure is incalculable, even if it means committing science-treason so you can purge all weakness from your own space dudes. It's not a desire for perfection based on arrogance, although he is of course immensely arrogant in a lot of ways, but one motivated deep down by fear.

People like to clown on Fulgrim based on Jaghatai's infamous "I hear you do strange things to your warriors 😂👌" sick burn, but to be honest, viewed from his context, what Fulgrim's doing is somewhat understandable.

That is if we assume that the Khan isn't just making a cheap insult but rather is implying he knows a lot more than would be preferable about Fabius dicking around with Astartes genetics in order to detect and eliminate carriers of the corrupted gene-seed so that the III Legion, one of the smallest of all numerically, can still survive. And then a lot of other things too because, like Fabius could believably say in one of the weirder McNeill stories, forbidden science is akin to the ancient Terran delicacy known as Pringles. Once you pop you can't stop.

With that in mind it feels like a lot of Fulgrim's post-heresy actions, not just the snake orgies but the general distance and lack of care for his sons, comes from revelling in just finally being free of that level of stress and pressure weighing down on him at all times. Even Perturabo doesn't withdraw from the Iron Warriors that much and he's a dick.

Anyway, back to pre-heresy days. He has all this going on and then in comes Sanguinius with his giant fucking angel wings who everyone loves and who turned his legion into One Direction (not really but you know... perceptions vs reality and no one in this setting actually communicates with one another since they'd probably have a lot in common regarding fears of being mutants etc)

It's the kind of thing that I think would feel like a dagger in the heart to someone like Fulgrim. Directly highlighting and literally embodying all of his fears about mutation and imperfection and yet somehow appearing to get away with it while he has to exercise constant control and do horrible things simply in order for his legion to exist.

So for that reason I think he would absolutely hate Sangy and do everything he could to undermine him.

"Oh no, brother! I've accidentally spilled this entire Big Gulp cup of bright red Tizcan wine all over your beautiful white wings, and only moments before you were due to make a speech to ten million people about how wonderful the Imperium is! Let me help you clean it up."

And then he pulls out a Looney Tunes sized bottle labelled Fabius's Finest Molt-O-Matic Guaranteed Feather Remover and starts spraying it on him.

[sunrisecaminus]

I literally love your writing!🤧🙏

Can I request tfp Dreadwing and a femme cybertronian autobot that’s so sweet, shy, and loves nature? They meet one time out in the open and it leads to them sitting down in a field of flowers cuddling!! SFW pls! And many soft kisses🩵🩵

Thank you so much! And thank you for feeding us with your beautiful work

Message - Dreadwing is such a lovely character, honestly one of my favorite side characters from TFP! Also thank you! I appreciate the compliment and I will continue to make this stuff!

Dreadwing x Autobot Reader SFW

Summary - Dreadwing is taken care of and snuggled by the sweet Cybertronian Autobot.

Warnings - None

Fanfic Type - Comfort/Fluff

The big blue Decepticon has not seen you for a long time. He knows who you are, he understands why you are in the opposite faction as him, but what he doesn't understand is how you show kindness to everyone. You are one of the sweetest Cybertronians Dreadwing has ever met, and can't seem to bring himself to kill you. There will be times during a battle where he sees you off in the distance, and he aims his gun at you. This would have been the perfect shot for him, but watching you fight made him realize that you never killed any of the Decepticon soldiers. you always found a way to hit them in areas that would make them pass out. You secretly patched a Decepticon flyer when they crashed…and he just couldn't pull the trigger. Dreadwing has never had such a hatred for someone yet also at the same time being soft. Megatron has once found out about Dreadwing's little pet, and once shot her down in a way to end her little schemes. What Megs didn't know was that was one of the days Dreadwing had to seriously control himself not to leave the faction. He thought you died that day, and never saw you again in battle. Sometimes he tries to tell himself it was for the better, as Dreadwing was always distracted by you and needed to get shit done, but it still hurts to know he could never see you again.

One day he went flying, scouting around when he found a lovely area not anywhere near Jasper. It was a giant field of Sagebrush, yellow flower bushes that were native to the Nevada state. Honestly Dreadwing needed a break, so he lands around the end of the field and started to walk around. He tries to take a breather, maybe he could forget about everything that this war has come to…maybe he could even forget about you. All of their battles, destructive paths, and destroyed planets; The war has turned his friends and family either to forget about what they were fighting for, or just made them into the dirt and ash they have left on Cybertron. Why did he keep going? His brother has been long gone and now the one thing that made him interested, was destroyed by the hands of his own leader. Dreadwing wanted to get to know you, maybe ask what he was doing wrong. Soldiers who were saved by you has said many things. "She was like an angel from Primus!", "She sounded like the mother I have always wanted.", "Her hands were so gentle"; All of these were said by people who got the luck to meet you, and he wondered what it would be like to be in their pedes. Soldiers would never come close to you, even in the heat of battle. They never wanted Megatron to find out about it, they also didn't ever want to hurt you. It became a huge debate with the lower ranks on how they should deal with you. The two main arguments was to trick you into joining as a medic, kidnap you and try to frame the Autobots has horrible people. Others just simply debated to just let it continue, for if they try to plan anything without Megatron knowing, they would be killed. One mech said something Dreadwing could never forget accidentally hearing.

"I wouldn't want to die, not because I am afraid of death, but because I don't want her hard work to all be in vain."

Everyone praised you, some called you Primus's Daughter. There were other nicknames like "The Angel", "The Enemies Light", and even "The Mother". Everything was positive, but it all had to end. When Megatron caught wind of this from Soundwave, he wanted to end this little Autobot to not risk his soldiers leaving the Decepticon Faction. Mid battle with Optimus, the moment he saw your figure far away in the corner of his optics, that was when he ignored Optimus and targeted you. The devastating blast that collided with you body, all soldiers stopped fighting just to watch in horror on what their Lord has done. It was one of the most tragic days of the war, with the soldiers not listening to their commanders anymore and retreating without Megatron's orders. Dreadwing has that day dated in his books, he wanted no one to forget the day the Decepticons lost 1/5 of their soldiers just from you alone.

He stared into the sky, watching as the sun raised up to make the flowers brightly show their colors. The light drapes over him, as he turns behind himself to watch the sunlight blanket itself around the entire field. That was when he held his breath. His optics widened from shock, his hands balled up. Dreadwing could see from half a mile away in the middle of the entire field, was you. The light went over your plating beautifully as you were standing there, watering some of the flowers next to you. There was different kinds of flowers that were all around your body. Was he looking at a ghost? Was he just seeing things? It was like he just found the last animal of an extinct species, the way he stepped back a bit in fear. Should he leave? Dreadwing thought he was ruining your flowers and made sure he wasn't stepping on any at the moment. When he looked back up, you are now staring at him. He froze, waiting for something to happen. Shit you might call the Autobots for help, one of the high soldiers in is a close vicinity of you. Your e/c (eye color) optics were going through him like they were staring into his soul, maybe you could see how pure his spark was. There was a bunch of rumors about you that he didn't believe, but seeing you finally alone for the first time kind of made him backtrack on what he believed or didn't believe. You close your eyes and give him the sweetest smile, waving your hand at him, motioning for him to come over. He straightened himself a bit and flew over, landing just a few yards from you. That was when he finally could hear the voice he dreamed of hearing. "Hello dear! I see you have found my garden."

The whiplash he got from hearing your angelic voice. It was soft, quiet, and motherly. "I-I'm sorry mam, I did not mean to intrude on your space." He bowed his head a little in a formal greeting. What in the Allspark was Dreadwing doing?! Yes maybe you were sweet, but you were also the enemy! How were you alive?! He perked up from hearing you giggle. "My what a lovely gentlemen you are! You may stay as long as you like. I wouldn't mind the company." Hearing you compliment him made him heat up, his cheeks getting a bit flushed. A compliment from someone like you was like getting your prayers answered from Primus. "Um thank you, though I am confused. Didn't Lord Megatron kill you? I saw the explosion." He watches as you slowly stopped smiling and it made him want to go back in time to never ask you a question like that again. He just met this kind individual and just asked something very personal. Dreadwing was going to apologize, but than you answered his question. "Optimus pushed Megatron before he shot so it missed me. It hit the wall behind me, so I was very damaged. Thankfully my fellow team helped to bring me back to health and I stepped down as a major soldiers. I apologize to give you the bad news like this." Dreadwing grew even more surprised and waves his servos in front of him. "No no! The soldiers were devastated to see you perish. It's good to know that you are alive. They could never stop talking about you."

He sees the smile grow back on your face as the laughter kicked back in. "Awe the little children still remember me! I am glad to know that they still care. I was wondering if I could visit, but Megatron was always a big hurdle. I wouldn't want to get my lovelies in trouble." You looked back to your flowers and kept watering them. It was quiet again for some time as you put the giant watering can down, putting your arms in the air to stretch. It was peaceful until you hear a small hiccup. You turn to see Dreadwing a bit teary eyed, his wings drooped down and his one of his servos trying to hide his optics. "Oh you poor thing what's the matter?" Dreadwing hears you walking closure to him, feeling your servos cup around his face with such a gentle touch. He couldn't take it anymore. The war, the blood, soldiers starving for more energon. The more you were kind to him, the more it made him wonder how many sweet and innocent lives have they caused to end after 4 million years. His hand lets go of his faceplate and you see the tears running down Dreadwing's cheeks. He didn't know what to say to you. His throat was like a knot, if he tried to even speak he knew it was make him cry hysterically. Finally he just couldn't take it and leaned into your touch a bit, bursting. "I don't want to be here anymore!" He couldn't say anything else. His throat hurts from him trying to fight off the tears. No one has seen him cry, no one would want to see one of their highest members of the Decepticons in tears. All the issues of the war has just been bundled inside him. He promised himself never to show any weakness to anybody…but now he felt safe in your arms, feeling like if he just told you what he wanted, you could grant him his wish. Dreadwing feels your digits wipe his tears away from his optics. He blinks to see your face, watching you smiling at him with caring eyes. "Oh honey, let it all out of your system. You have done nothing, but fight for what you were thinking is right. You care for the people around you and it shows. Your ancestors watch you from the Allspark with great joy, showing how proud they are of you. War started and no one knows how to end it, but you should never blame yourself for things that people around you chose for themselves. Things happen that we can't control or be able to stop, all we can do is wait for the right time. I know you feel powerless, but you have been as strong as you can be. For the time being, lets try to breath, ok?"

Dreadwing feels your servos grab his, bringing him along to sit on the top of the hill you guys are on. You sit him down, guiding his head to your chest and let him hear your spark. "Repeat the rhythm of my breathing." Dreadwing obeys, feeling himself trying to match his breath with yours. The spark beating made his body limp. His brain, which before was thinking about death and sorrow, was not thinking about the present and what is happening to him right now. His mind starts to clear and his focus goes to the flowers around himself, watching as your servo rubs against his helm. It doesn't take too long for him to feel better, though he was very tired from the breakdown he just went through. You lay down with him in the grass, feeling Dreadwing hug you as if you would blow away if he didn't hold on to you. He doesn't want to think about what would happen after, he doesn't want this moment to end. Dreadwing never thought he would love someone, but after what just happened…you made him feel like you were his everything. "Thank you for your hospitality...I will never forget what you did for me."

[unholydeukae]

Hi hello how are you? I hope you are doing alright.

I'm not sure if you will do this one but do you think you could write anything about a reader, who has sexual trauma, wanting to take that step with their Dreamcatcher GF? I'm not sure if this is allowed to be asked. I read the "will not write" list but I wasn't sure if this counted under the noncon no's...

If you won't write this one, I understand

Hello anonie :) your request is absolutely fine, no worries! We say that we don't write non-con and made that post because we don't want to write the members as neither sexual predators nor victims of SA, but your ask doesn't include that, so you're all good!!

I hope you like it 🫶🏼

JiU:

Upon hearing about the trauma, she keeps calm to the outside but is boiling inside

If she ever sees that person in real life she definitely needs a good alibi, because there will be blood (hopefully not literally)

She never pushes anything sexually of course, even makes sure you’re okay before she pecks your lips

Since she’s a service top often, she listens to everything you say and ask her to do very attentively and doesn’t rush anything

The thought of taking the lead doesn’t even cross her mind, she simply does what you tell her and stops at the slightest sign of discomfort

SuA:

She definitely doesn’t keep calm on the outside when she hears about it

It wouldn’t have taken much more for her to run outside to find the person and slap them in the face (in her imagination - in real life she’s all bark no bite but that doesn’t make her reaction less strong and valid)

Tears of anger run down her face and she nearly starts yelling at the monster that did those things to you, despite them obviously not being there with you

Touching others is a difficult thing for you because of what happened to you, but her clear instructions help you a lot and you never feel pushed about anything

It’s very important for her that you never feel like it’s a problem if you can’t or don’t want to do something and that you never ever have to feel bad for stopping, even as the top

Siyeon:

When you tell her she looks at you blankly for a moment, struggling to process that someone would actually do something so awful to you

Upon realizing she’s so worried she’ll hurt you that she holds your hands tightly between hers and repeats a hundred times that you didn’t deserve that and that she’ll never do something like that to you because you’re the most precious person to her

(also, if she ever accidentally crosses that person’s way, she’ll definitely be tempted to make it look like an accident)

She always thought it’d be an amazing experience to make you feel good and while it still is, she’s also very scared to hurt you

Everything goes very slowly over the span of days and weeks until she even touches your bare chest, because nothing would destroy her more than be too rough and hurt you even more

Handong:

As soon as you tell her you want to talk to her, she shifts into her serious mode and listens attentively, but despite her best efforts to be solid as a rock for you, her eyes widen when you tell her everything (and the gears in her mind start shifting if she should maybe do some undercover digital psycho terror)

Feeling her arms around you as you quietly cry into her shoulder is all you need in that moment

When one day you tell her you want to go further than kissing, she asks once if you’re sure but doesn’t repeatedly ask again to not make you insecure about your decision

She asks you for some time and after cooking dinner for you, you walk into a decorated bedroom, candles burning that emit a relaxing scent and rose petals on the bed

During all of it she makes sure that everything is slow and gentle and is assertive to any signs of you being uncomfortable, not wanting you to think she wouldn’t care about you enough

Yoohyeon:

When you tell her about it, she freezes first, then starts bawling her eyes out until she’s calmed down enough to listen intently to what you say

She feels really helpless and doesn’t know how to support you because she thinks holding you and listening to you and making sure you feel valid is not enough

(You tell her that it is but she doesn’t believe you)

Your wish to take things further makes her be a little bit panicky and anxious, she’s really worried she’ll accidentally make everything worse

Checking in what feels like every five seconds is nearly a bit much for you but you know she does it with the best intentions possible, so you’re more than fine to give her what she needs

Dami:

Probably the most collected reaction, together with Handong

Hot chocolate is prepared when you tell her you want to talk about something and she listens quietly the whole time, only rubbing your hand or drying your tears when necessary

After you’re done explaining and getting some cuddles, she asks how you would like to proceed regarding sex

You two talk about boundaries, yes’s and no’s intensely and agree upon the light system and two nonverbal safewords just in case

So once you actually decide to take the next step with her, it goes very smoothly and you feel safe at all times, not doubting a second that she would react immediately once you put a stop to it

Gahyun:

Cries with you at first when you tell her, then gets angry and wants the person’s name and address but you calm her down quickly

Tells you that she’s more than okay with it if you don’t want to do any sexual stuff at all or for as long as you’re not comfortable

After the conversation, she collects a ton of information online and in books, doing a lot of research about both the best ways to go on about such an experience when it comes to sex and the psychological aspects of it

She’s actually the one to approach you about how to continue, suggesting and explaining things she found out and asks about your opinion and stance about it all

You’re so touched that she did so much research that it’s easy to relax enough with her - she made it very clear how much she wants the experience to be the best for you

[pouralaura]

This is like THE question of the ages but here goes. Is your Raphael capable of love? It is my understanding that devils are capable of an obsessive, manipulative, perverted version of it; but the Raphael in your fics has a particular human fallibility that is endearing, and a willingness to entertain those follies (for the sake of his favorite mouse) that I’m wondering if it’s possible that he would (accidentally) fall in love in a mortal sense, going against his fiendish nature (it would have to be a very special mouse). I’d love to hear your take on his fiend/human dichotomy. 🫶

what a fabulous question. thank you for asking! I've thought a lot about this and I always come to the same conclusion: yes, my Raphael is in fact capable of love. there is a "however" which I will get to shortly.

let me first say that I really simply do not care about canon. bro lives in my head rent-free as his own entity and does not necessarily fit DnD/BG lore in that space. that's just a disclaimer, take it as you will.

Raphael's love with my Tav (both generic and my Eris specifically) is definitely just magnetic obsession at first until they realize how hard they match each other's freak. he power plays and power plays and power plays, letting his mouse in ON HIS TERMS ALONE until it's too late and she's as much a part of him as he is of her. fwiw, Tav/Eris's love is the same as his - but his makes him more human and hers makes her less, all for better or for worse. and I think his capacity for love has so much to do with the other person in the equation, which is extremely human of him - Tav pushes him back and needles him but also worships him in her own way, taking on some of his traits the more time she spends with him. some of that is unconscious and some is fully intentional. it's all a part of the Game, which, for her, is Understanding (literally figuring out what makes him tick), while for him it's Winning (taking what he knows of her and using/manipulating it however he wants). Raphael is a narcissist and naturally loves himself most of all, but once he sees himself reflected in another person I think that unlocks a new layer of longing and deep connection within him.

I've used the lyric I won't speak of love since the beginning of writing about the two of them and it's always gonna fit. Tav/Eris knows what the feeling is on both sides, because she is 100% human and overly perceptive, intuitive, and insightful. but she is smart enough not to push that understanding onto Raphael because attempting to force him to admit what he perceives as a weakness would destroy their dynamic.

which brings me to my main point: again, yes, he is capable of love. he is even capable of unconditional love.

BUT

he will not accept that about himself, even for a moment. his love is obsessive and manipulative and perverted OF COURSE but it's also his purest emotion, which is an embarrassment. he will ignore the truth of what it is fully out of pride. if Eris pushed him to acknowledge it he would drop her in an instant and shed all remaining traces of his humanity. it's simultaneously the strongest connection he has with anyone and the thinnest tightrope of a line they could possibly walk - but they complement each other so well that they've somehow found that perfect unacknowledged balance. Eris is prideful too but understands that to maintain the status quo she MUST swallow some of her pride and allow Raphael to keep up appearances for his own sake - which is one of her major ways of showing love from her side.

he loves her purely and earnestly and deeply but he will ALWAYS love himself and his image more. some might say that means he is not capable of real love but I think the two can coexist! people are complicated!

this is fun to think about and I really hope it makes any kind of coherent sense all written out.

[please-help-this-little-lesbian]

So I want to talk about The Bane/Pearlpelt, because his story is not going the direction I expected at all, and I have a lot of thoughts on it.

So when Gregor didn't kill Pearlpelt in book 2 I was like great good for him. I figured The Bane would grow up and we would see that Gregor and Nerissa were right, and The Bane would grow up to be a normal rat and everyone was freaking out for nothing. But this was not the case at all. But Suzanne Collins has taken this plotline in an entirely different direction. Instead, The Bane has grown up to be a violent, power-hungry, naive menace to society. I honestly didn't expect this at all given the anti-war themes of the books, but I do think it's interesting. Now, I'm only on chapter 4 of The Marks of Secret, so I don't know how this story ends yet. But I would like to share my thoughts on why I feel the Bane turned out like this. I think Ripred deliberately neglected The Bane, and now he's suffering the consequences for it.

When we first meet Pearlpelt, he's a sullen, angsty teenager. Gregor describes him as "an oversized, bullied child” (Collins, 24). This is pretty typical of any teenager. Pearlpelt also holds a particular hatred for Ripred, who has, despite his failings, been his primary caretaker. Also normal for your average caretaker. However, The Bane says of Ripred that he “‘hates me!’” (24). He says he humiliates him and treats him like a prisoner. Ripred argues that he has not abused the Bane, and reveals to Gregor that Pearlpelt has gotten in dangerous fights with other rats, (accidentally) killed his friend, and then proceeded to cannibalize his body to destroy the evidence (25). Pearlpelt has also fallen under the influence of other rats, who are trying to groom him into becoming king of the rats, and presumably overthrowing the humans (21-25). Ripred claims that he "got him too late” (28), and that the only option is to kill him so he doesn't become an even bigger threat. But I disagree. Ripred was not too late for Pearlpelt, he simply didn't bother to take proper care of him, and now he's trying to cover up his mistake.

One of the first things Gregor notes of Ripred's attitude toward The Bane is that he is being particularly cruel to him. He even asks Ripred to “lay off him” (24). Ripred does indeed humiliate him, making fun of his name (20), insult him (22), goad him (23), dismiss his feelings (24), and I would argue even emasculates him saying “‘King indeed! Do you really think anyone will take orders from someone who sucks on his tail?’” (26). He treats Pearlpelt like crap, and that’s when he’s around him. The Bane also reveals that he was mainly raised by a rat named Razor, which Ripred dismisses saying he spared his life, kept him fed, and protected him from the plague (24). This is a very common tactic of abusers, attempting to guilt their victims by bringing up all the positive things they’ve done for them.

Look, I love Ripred. He’s my morally gray dilf king, and I understand that being an asshole is just part of his personality. But he is genuinely abusing Pearlpelt right now, and it’s not okay. And, more importantly, his behavior is directly responsible for The Bane’s behavior. And that’s not even counting all the shit that happened before Ripred.

Ripred tells Gregor that Pearlpelt’s father killed his siblings so he wouldn’t have to compete for food, abused him and his mother, AND Pearlpelt witnessed his parents kill each other (28-29). That would fuck anybody up. We know Ripred has a soft side and he's capable of showing it. We also know he knows when it is and isn't okay to push people. Yet he doesn't apply this to The Bane. I understand that he got dropped on him out of nowhere, but he could have at least tried.

Again, I'm only on chapter 4. For all I know Suzzane may have Ripred take responsibility (nobody tell me). But right now, this is my assessment of the situation, and I'm really disappointed in Ripred.

[marionetteangie]

Hi TKLUTS fandom I’m feeding you my self insert again 🥰

It’s been great getting to know you guys, I’m so glad I found friends here :D

So here’s more Anemone content! She’s basically my self insert if I lived in my two favorite Jules Verne books, 20K Leagues and From the Earth To The Moon

Essentially, her story is that she came from the place Nemo came from (I’m not canonizing Mysterious Island simply because I haven’t read it and I like Nemo being all mysterious) but basically in a last minute decision one of the crewmen, Mr Allard, decided to rescue this small baby amid all the fighting, and boom, Anemone’s on the Nautilus. She lives there for a few years and then gets dropped off at civilization because Nemo is like “it’s probably the right thing to do idk” and ends up with Impey Barbicane. Then, after the events of FTETTM, she goes wandering around and accidentally gets stuck on the Nautilus after falling asleep near some cargo on a dock. Subsequent hijinks ensue, and by the end her entire goal is to reunite Pierre and Nemo, as well as see her other dad again whenever he returns 😁

Character sheet with zoom ins is here! 🥰

If any of you want to ask me questions about her, or want to hear more about my ideas, feel free to send me a message n stuff! I love yapping about my ideas haha 🤣

There’s also the whole movie au situation, in that it’s basically just remove Barbicane from the story and have her live on the nautilus for her whole life. I like to think she’d feed Esme and have a bond with Allard since he’d be alive in that part of the story. She’d also avoid Ned because womanizer but she’d be really fascinated by Aronnax (maybe at the end of the film before she died with Nemo she’d find a way to save the journal, I found it insulting to the book that it didn’t go with them 😅)

If we’re going off the canon of Tokyo DisneySea, which says that instead of destroying Vulcania, Nemo opened it up for scientific discovery, I’d like to think in this version, based off the book, after the maelstrom Nemo and gang survived, met Anemone, and then they discovered Vulcania and made the mini nautilus Neptune ships which she now pilots :) leading into the story of the ride where you make these discoveries of weird sea creatures, and then ending with Anemone tracking down Pierre to reunite him with Nemo 🥹

Oh btw if anyone wants to write anything, draw anything with her etc, feel free! Just keep it safe for work and don’t ship her with anyone haha (one of her traits is she doesn’t conform to society and won’t get married because she hasn’t found anyone to love, which Barbicane supports and Aronnax understands (they’ve got similar traits))

Essentially, yay found family sweetness, ew no romance because lack of canon women and also Anemone shy 😂

Song for her:

Okay baiiii :)))

[kibutsulove]

tell us more about hideaki!!!

sorry I didn’t answer this sooner I spazzed out from excitement. cuz like. I get to INFO DUMP!!! YIPPEE!!!! finally……..

I’ve stated before that I’ve got like multiple versions of him but I guess I’ll just be focusing on on his Avatar self because that’s really my main audience here UH

A rlly funny thing abt this guy is that he’s a lightning bender that can’t firebend. At all. His bending isn’t tied to it at all. I wouldn’t even call it lightning bending at this point, what ever the fuck he does is like its unhinged cousin from Tallahassee. I’ll just call it electrobending.

What is his goal as a villain? <- you may ask

nihilism. fuck all yall, EVERYONE DYING. he literally just wants to destroy every single cell of life that’s exists on the planet, including himself, but that comes last. He undervalues the concept of life so much it’s genuinely crazy.

Originally, when he was younger, he had a wife and a daughter but then he accidentally KILLED them. Because he’s an IDIOT. And as he was staring at their corpses like a lost child in the supermarket, he went “is life this important if it can just flat out die this easily? No” and then he left.

And mind you, Hideaki as a person is not able to understand the concept of grief or regret, or literally any other emotion besides the drive to achieve his goal. So essentially, he is not “ruthless” or “barbaric”. He simply cannot comprehend that shit. So the Earth Avatar has to deal with an opponent who cannot emotionally nor mentally experience what to be human is.

Sulove what the FUCK is electrobending <- GOOD QUESTION

like I said before, lightningbending’s deranged cousin from Tallahassee. Electrobending is only just the generation of lightning, it’s also the manipulation of lightning and allows the convergence between the user and the lightning itself: meaning that he can just. Fucking teleport essentially. It also has something to do with magnetism, so if you’re wearing anything magnetic, you’re COOKED.

And with how cyberpunk-ish the new earth avatar’s era is, a villain being able to manipulate electricity and magnetism on a wide ass scale is not rlly good

[autumnistic-danmei]

FantasyFQ AU

I've been bored in my classes so I decided to just sit down and make something so like- Here's this thing lol.

-Roughly based in the Dark Ages (Early Mediaeval times), but with the fun little added addition of a touch of ✨m a g i c✨

-Yes, I have an obsession with Fenqing. No, I will not be shutting up about them. Yes, those two idiots are a central part of this AU. Yes, I also have an unhealthy obsession with He Xuan.

Humans:

Feng Xin - He was a royal beast tamer/slayer from the fallen Xianle monarchy, who now just wanders the lands in search of the creature that destroyed his kingdom. Over the years, he has encountered Mu Qing multiple times, but he doesn’t really understand why. He also thinks he’s being followed by an unnaturally large black cat, but he really doesn’t mind its company, and he has nicknamed the little creature “Fu Yao”.

Ling Wen - A scholar and mage living in a coastal merchant town who gains most of her income through dealing with literally everyone’s paperwork and taxes.

Qi Rong - He used to be the irritating younger prince of the Xianle monarchy, who now rules over his own little hidden town of lesser demons.

Quan Yizhen - A wandering beast slayer searching for his old teacher, who has just a touch of the tisms, but really, who doesn’t?

Shi Qingxuan - They are a young noble from a kingdom in the south, who has been cast from their kingdom due to the actions of their deceased brother and now lives in the streets of a small town nearby. They hate seafood of any kind.

“Ming Yi” - A reclusive beast tamer that prefers to live near the coast and specialises in creatures from the caverns, who has ties to the royal family and commonly attends the banquets purely for the food lol.

Pei Ming - A beast slayer from the same town as Ling Wen known both for his flirtatious attitude and his impressive feats.

Ban Yue - She’s a young beast tamer, but she is surprisingly skilled for her age, already having tamed a whole den of lethally venomous scorpion snakes.

Lang Qianqiu - The only remaining descendant of the Yong’an monarchy, but as of yet, he has ruled over the kingdom quite fairly.

Xiao Mengyou (Little guy!!!!!!) - He’s Lang Qianqiu’s best friend and the royal mage of Yong’an.

Creatures:

He Xuan - Very few people have ever seen him, but the few witness accounts say that he is a siren of sorts with black octopus tentacles instead of a fish tail. He rules over the waters in the south, where his bone dragons sink every ship that tries to sail, earning the area the name of the Black Water Demon Lair. He seems to still have some feelings of attachments to Shi Qingxuan, but has yet to act on them.

Hua Cheng - An infamous fox spirit known for his unpredictable behaviour, mysterious past, and his rule over the massive beast den known as the Ghost City. He usually stays in his foxlike form, and very few have seen his human form.

Yin Yu - A ghoul serving under Hua Cheng who was once Quan Yizhen’s teacher, but he accidentally caused the deaths of many during an accident with a dangerous beast, so he was banished and later on, killed.

Yushi Huang - She’s probably the most chill faerie you’ll ever meet, who lives in a large farming town in the north and blesses their crops. She can and will beat you up if necessary.

Bai Wuxiang - An ancient white dragon known for destroying kingdoms and sending mysterious plagues into cities, wiping out large populations of people in a single sweep. He has been missing for years now, but people theorise that he is simply resting in the northern mountains.

E-Ming - An infamous lesser spirit possessing a large silver longsword, which is tied to Hua Cheng and is by his side almost constantly.

Ruoye - A lesser spirit possessing a long silk band, which has a rather playful attitude when it’s around Xie Lian.

Who knows what they are at this point:

Mu Qing - He was born human, but most (everyone except Feng Xin and Xie Lian) do not consider him to be one anymore due to his curse that causes him to have catlike features and an alternate form of a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. He follows Feng Xin around out of curiosity, but he refuses to admit that he’s actually following him.

Xie Lian - We’re pretty sure he’s a human, but his eyes reflect light like a cat’s, and he’s practically poisonous from all of the weird stuff that he eats, so he’s just the neighbourhood cryptid at this point. He lives near Shi Qingxuan, residing in a small village a short distance south of them, and he used to be the crown prince of the Xianle Kingdom.

[takoyuckyillustrates]

I always got the vibe that there was a negative connotation to optimizing characters in d&d. Which I never really got? I assume the idea is that building an optimized character would take away from roleplaying because you are more combat focused. I don’t fully understand this because any character option can be flavored to be anything in the story. The other thing I could see is that optimization takes away from other people’s fun in combat because you’re doing big damage with your build. I also don’t get this because I often just pick a random class and subclass and build around that and I get a really powerful character no matter what I picked. After reading the guide on character creation at the front of the book, any option you want to center your build on can be strong if you build it in a way that suits the toolkit. There are often several ways to build a specific character option to be effective! I decided to test this by picking the first character option in the book, a berserker barbarian. The core mechanic of this kit is that when you do a reckless attack, you deal extra d6’s equal your rage bonus. So I thought, “how do I make the most of this opportunity?” My solution was to maximize the number of attacks I made per round. For this I simply got weapon mastery in handaxes and light hammers. The hammer has the nick property, which allows for attacks with both light weapons in the same attack action (the hand axe has vex which is useful later). I picked Lizardfolk fir the bonus action bite for an extra attack. At level 5 with the extra attack feature, you are attacking 5 times per round with each attack dealing extra damage equal to strength, rage bonus, and d6s equal to your rage bonus. At level 9 you get brutal strike which deals an extra d10 and provides a extra effect if you give up the advantage from the reckless attack (which is easily solved with vex which gives you advantage on the next attack) This is essentially a walking hit point shredder with utility debuffs, but how would you roleplay it? There are MANY ways you could play this build a) a socially awkward lizard whose rage is them having a panic attack in combat and accidentally destroying everything in their path as they flail about. b) a cold blooded (pun intended) assassin whose rage is a moment of hyperfocus where they rush down the enemy with deadly precision c) a regular guy whose a werelizard, and his rage is his transformation. d) Michelangelo the Ninja Turtle Whose weapons are his nunchucks, and his rage is him thinking the enemy is a pizza and trying to eat them. What I’m saying is that class options have no bearing on the story you tell. Your build just determines how random some rolls are and whether or not you can survive an encounter. :)

[thecrispier0nion]

takes a deep breath. ik it hasn't even been a day but we need to talk about the umbrella academy season 4. obviously spoilers ahead. and a long, long fucking post full of complaints.

this season got me shinji chairing so hard. what the fuck. six episodes that last barely an hour each and all for THAT ending? don't get me wrong, the ending itself is... not the worst possible outcome, ig, but like. plot holes so big i can fit five's ego in there and still have spare space.

yeah, let's start from there. what the fuck was that? a half-assed five/lila romance was the last thing we needed. call me a hater, tell me i don't know how to appreciate complex stories, idc. that sucked ass. not only is it creepy in so many ways, but it also brought absolutely NOTHING to the story. "oh but if that didn't happen then five wouldn't have accidentally wandered into the station's coffee shop and met himself" I DON'T GIVE A SHIT!!!! IT COULD'VE HAPPENED IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS!!!!!! AND FIVE KNOWS BETTER THAN TO THROW HANDS WITH HIS BROTHER OVER A GIRL WHILE THE REST OF THEIR SIBLINGS ARE FIGHTING THE DAMN BLOB OF DEATH!!!

moving on ig. i don't like how allison's past actions seemed to be simply forgotten. i know they acknowledge it a couple times and that it's been six years, but lord almighty she assaulted luther, got him killed, and betrayed her entire family for a father that never cared about any of them. i don't think i could forgive that so easily (i'm looking at you klaus).

about the plot holes. first off, i would've appreciated even just a slight explanation of what the fuck reginald and abigail are? are they aliens? are they robots? are they alien robots? also, side note, what the fuck did reginald even do to grace atp? did he create a robot in the image of a human lady or did he turn the human lady into a robot???? and back to abigail for a moment: ?????????? and also the obsidian hotel????? AMERICA EXPLAIN. EXPLAIN

more plot holes: the solution to the cleanse problem. five said that the only way to fix the timelines is to let the cleanse happen, aka absorb them, so that the marigold inside them is destroyed since that's what split the timelines, no? and they made a big deal out of lila leaving because they needed all of the marigold holders to partake in this. except that YOU EIGHT IDIOTS ARE NOT ALL THE OCTOBER 1ST KIDS IN THE WORLD. THERE'S MORE, THAT WAS LIKE 43 WOMEN WHO GAVE BIRTH YOU DUMB FUCKING CUNTS. WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER 35 KIDS. uhm. sorry about that. moving on.

did not like how jennifer's character was treated at all. no time to develop, no time to get us to know her. straight to the blob of death without even explaining what was going on. how did the durango end up in her body? who even created that anyways? how did she end up in a damn fucking giant squid? why was she talking about the cleanse? what the fuck? listen im sure the comics explain this and ik this show is supposed to be a bit... confusing and nonsensical, but this is info you can't just leave out. feels like lazy writing.

and how the fuck did the cleanse cult even know that this nonesense that a kid coming out of a squid was blabbering about was connected to them having dreams of other timelines? how the fuck did jean and gene know? what?

yk what, im also gonna throw in some more personal points of view in here. i did not understand a single thing about the timeline/universe/whatever they ended up in at the end of s3. is it a new universe? if so, why is everything the same and WHY is the timeline still fucked? and where's the academy in this timeline? does it not exist? why? why and how is abigail still alive? was she even dead in s1, on the moon? or was that a cryo capsule? if so, why keep her there?

and there's more folks! why did the timeline train not stop at lila and five's stop? that was random and never explained, and feels like lazy writing, again. or like an excuse to get a specific two people to mingle just to create an unnecessary and unwanted love triangle? perchance?

lastly, how can claire and lila and diego's children still exist if their parents were erased from existence? and since they still exist but their parents never did, how does it work? do lila's parents just look after these random kids? without reason? wouldn't not having existing parents at all create legal problems?

overall, i have a lot of issues with this season. it feels extremely rushed, and honestly quite boring in comparison to the other three. and the lack of explanations makes it so hard to enjoy because i'm busy being confused. im not so mad about the ending, i kinda saw it coming (my choice was between they all die or they get stuck in a loop), and I don't think it's necessarily a bad ending for a story like this one. i am a bit sad, yes, and i will miss these characters and regret the fact that they didn't get the lives they deserved, but i think it's an ok ending. not the best, but ok. but the rest of the season? ass. yet another show absolutely ruined by netflix's inability to see past money and actually produce a good ending instead of rushing things. peace ✌️

[latenightcinephile]

Film #489: 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God', dir. Werner Herzog, 1972.

"My men measure riches in gold [...] I despise them for it."

One of the difficulties in evaluating any film directed by Werner Herzog is figuring out exactly how much of what Herzog says can be believed. The director is known as much for his fanciful exaggerations of the difficulties of filming as he is for his collaborations with the actor Klaus Kinski. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God, the first of these collaborations, Kinski plays the title character, a conquistador who usurps control over a party of Spanish explorers, driving them deeper into the Peruvian jungles in search of the lost city of gold. Aguirre's steadily-disintegrating sanity leads to exactly the kind of results you might expect for a group unprepared for the harshness of the conditions. If Herzog's descriptions of the film's production are to be believed, though, it's perhaps one of the more astonishing examples of 'Method production' the world has ever seen.

In late 1560, Pizarro's army of conquistadors are in search of the fabled city of El Dorado (in reality, Pizarro had died more than a decade before, but Herzog is playing around with truth and fiction throughout the film - Don Lope de Aguirre, like Pizarro, is a real historical figure). Running low on supplies, Pizarro elects to send a scouting team ahead, across swollen rivers and treacherous jungle. The scouting team is led by Don Ursúa, with Aguirre as his second-in-command, as well as Don Fernando de Guzmán and Brother Carvajal as the representatives of the Spanish crown and God, respectively. The group is immediately faced with difficulties: their rafts encounter rapids or are swept away overnight. Faced with the prospect of wasting time trying to rescue some of their party members from a trapped raft, they are instead killed; Aguirre renders the discussions about retrieving and burying the bodies by having the raft 'accidentally' destroyed by cannon fire.

Pizarro has ordered the scouting party to return after a week, but Aguirre mounts a rebellion and Don Ursúa is injured. Aguirre continues to manipulate the survivors, forcing Don Fernando de Guzmán into the role of the party's leader and pressuring him to sign a declaration of independence. The group continues further into the jungle, holding a show trial for Ursúa. Guzmán exercises his powers to grant clemency, but alienates the others by consuming most of the party's dwindling food. As their numbers grow lower and lower, the party begins to turn on each other more - Carvajal's zealotry results in him having two indigenous Peruvians murdered for blasphemy (when in fact they simply do not understand the concept of books), and before long Guzmán has been murdered. Aguirre takes control of the group and has Ursúa executed. Starvation and illness take root, and the survivors begin to hallucinate, imagining a large ship stuck in the branches of a tree, and failing to recognise when they are being shot at with arrows. Before long, Aguirre is the only survivor. As his raft is swarmed by small monkeys, he imagines starting a new dynasty in Peru with his (now dead) daughter. The film ends with a long tracking shot around the ruins of the raft, Aguirre cutting a lonely and delusional figure.

Themes of madness and obsession are common throughout Herzog's films, especially his collaborations with Kinski. Herzog has also prided himself on making his films on location and writing events from filming into his scripts. The destruction of the rafts in Aguirre, for example, is purportedly the result of the rafts being washed away during filming, necessitating a delay which Herzog immediately incorporated into the film. This commitment to experiencing in reality the fictional events of his film is similar to Herzog's approach to Fitzcarraldo (1982), another film in which Kinski starred, which tells the story of an opera buff who had his ship moved across a mountain range in South America. Despite the fact that Fitzgerald had the ship dismantled before moving it, Herzog conceptualised the film as a man having an intact steamboat pulled up a mountainside, and then set about 'replicating' this imagined scenario. Herzog seems drawn to - sometimes literally - larger-than-life stories about ambition, and these are often drawn from very brief pieces of inspiration. Aguirre, according to the film's audio commentary, was inspired by half a page of text in a book Herzog had borrowed, from which he constructed his entire initial screenplay. It also seems apparent from what Herzog has said about the experience of filmmaking that he views his craft in much the same way. He is a director driven, to an almost amoral degree, to make films. It is commonly agreed that the film with which Aguirre was made was stolen, a subject about which Herzog has said that he had a right to do so. Herzog has also said that Kinski's temper was so bad that, in a rage, he fired multiple gunshots at a hut where the production team were playing cards, resulting in an extra getting injured. If this is true, it suggests a level of neglect within the production bordering on outright criminality. Herzog thus comes across as a director who either has no compunctions about embellishing the real circumstances of his films as much as the fictional narratives within them, or who views these circumstances as a necessary peril. It says a lot about who Werner Herzog is that I genuinely cannot tell which is more likely. His apparent belief that someone as volatile as Klaus Kinski was the only person who could play Aguirre suggests, at the very least, a profound lack of understanding about how acting works.

For all that, there are moments in Aguirre, the Wrath of God that are nearly transcendental. I don't mean to suggest that there were no ways of achieving these results without putting everyone at risk, but I can see how Herzog might have seen the finished film and considered it a vindication of his production process. The difficulties of filming on a low budget and on location, in an environment spectacularly ill-suited for this, have created a very specific type of intimacy in the early scenes. The camera lens is frequently splattered with mud and water, implying to the viewer that there was no luxury of a retake for any of these scenes, and no ability to keep the camera and crew distant and safe from the action. As the film progresses, however, the camera seems to grow more distant and objective as the characters descend into madness. Whether this is a side-effect of Herzog's budget-based decision to film in chronological order, or an accidental aspect of the second half of the film being no longer hip-deep in mud, is difficult to say. These final scenes take place on the raft, which at the very least provides a flattish surface you could put a tripod on. Kinski's performance, which at first seemed erratic, takes on a kind of measured intensity in his final speeches, which makes his psychological collapse more mesmerising than I thought it would be.

None of this is to say that Aguirre, the Wrath of God is a perfect film. What it excels at is its portrayal of madness, and in merging this with a series of images that is at first gritty and embodied - full of blood and bile - and then increasingly removed from the corporeality of the world. However, this doesn't mean that Herzog is a particularly skilled craftsman. Many of the most spellbinding effects of Herzog's film could be accidental. Instead, Herzog's true calling is as a mythologiser. He makes his films seem like urgent missives, worthy of their troubled productions and all the worthier because of the difficulties involved. In this regard, it doesn't matter how good Aguirre is - it represents Herzog himself, and the limits and benefits of following your particular madness as far as it will take you.

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I remember reading a post or some comment from someone about what season 3 would have been like if Anders hadn't been taken to the fairy island but Johana had.

First we must clarify that Johana would end up on the same island as Anders, meeting Victoria and cooperating together to survive.Anders would now be taking care of Hilda and learning to be a responsible father, and with this understand how hard Johana's life was having to take care of an 'adventurous' girl (I imply that Anders lives the life of an adventurer and therefore that goes where it wants without worries. Well, now Anders will know what it's like to have to take care of another adventurer and try to understand why his daughter does such dangerous things)

*Anders and his daughter would be looking for Johana all over the place. Obviously they wouldn't find her, nor would there be any trace of where she could have gone. Hilda fears the worst, and Anders tries to calm her down by telling her that he may have gotten ahead of Trollberg and that everything is fine. After that, Anders takes Hilda back to Trollberg to wait for her mother.

*After spending the night waiting (and sleeping) on the couch, Anders realizes that Johana is not coming back. Hilda obviously starts to worry, even more than when Twig ran away.We will see the topic of how Hilda and Anders feel about Johana's disappearance in another post that I will do over the course of this weekend, so pay attention (it is both a warning and a threat because I don't know if it suits me or not)

*For a whole week Anders has had to do the things that Johana did in her daily life:*Anders gets up early, earlier than he is used to, just so he can cook something for his daughter to eat (even if it's just a little, worrying about his mother took away most of his appetite). On the first day Anders tried to cook something for his daughter in record time (it was 5 minutes before Hilda's classes were to start and both of them hadn't even fully woken up). In the end everything burned and Anders had to quickly go to a store to buy his daughter lunch. That's when Anders realized that Hilda didn't eat meat (he literally saw her open the sandwich and take out the ham while looking somewhat disgusted).

*Anders was learning to drive the new family car (that car that wouldn't start and seems to be closer to being junk than being a vehicle). They were late consecutively that week, it was a miracle if they arrived 30 minutes after the bell rang.Cleaning clothes should be easy as long as you had a washing machine, that's what Anders thought when he put as many clothes as he could into the washing machine and started it. For obvious reasons, the washing machine overheated because it had exceeded the maximum load and exploded (the family washing machine was also a bit old). Anders had to wash everything by hand (at least what was not destroyed after the explosion) (Hilda got very angry that day with her father for accidentally destroying the sweater that Johana had knitted for Hilda, Anders felt very bad that's why).

*Every day after school, Hilda left school to look for her mother everywhere. The first time Anders came for her after school was a little after 30 minutes when the school had closed. (Yes, it was the same day that the washing machine exploded and Anders arrived in the car while his clothes were still wet from quickly washing all those clothes by hand).And we're just getting started with parenthood.

*Every time Anders brought Hilda home from school they didn't spend much time together. Hilda simply arrived home, changed her clothes, and went outside to look for her mother with Twig and her friends (Alfur had even sent a report to gather information to find out if anyone had seen Johana). At first Anders saw no problem in searching for Johana separately, so they would cover more ground. However, with each passing night, Anders noticed how Hilda came home later and later. It was the last straw when she returned at 03:00 A.M. Anders thought something horrible had happened to his daughter or that someone had kidnapped or tricked her. Anders tried to ask Hilda about where she was and what she was doing... And well, the situation escalated just like when Johana started asking Hilda about her adventures.

*Anders hadn't screamed that loud in years, neither had Hilda (and even though she had argued with her mother a few times, it was strangely new to try to scream louder than her father).

*After the sun rose they both apologized, curiously they both had a nightmare where the other also disappeared like Johana did. Nobody wanted that to happen. They hugged and reconciled (I would add more drama and other ideas, but I would like to know how you would develop this father-daughter situation)Well, these are some of the things I thought about Anders being a single dad.

However, I would like to know what you think. Seriously, I love reading other people's opinions and thoughts regarding all kinds of fanfics, AU's and also their head-canon of the series. I will be reading them all (if they post anything)