#but does it have to be hetero-

[somereaderinblue]

Your Tumblr clan name sounds like a feelsy Hallmark movie about a young woman returning to her hometown and learning what it means to love through a dashing, though dangerous, bad boy that probably wears a leather jacket and drives a harley

............when you put it like that-

[leavethebagelalone]

hey uh hot take here but if your hc is that a canonically pansexual/bisexual character is actually gay, even when the creator explicitly says otherwise, your opinion is wrong. sorry i don't make the rules

[enginator2000]

What are your thoughts on Infidget (the ship of Infinite and Gadget the Wolf)?

i think its fine? i dont inherently dislike it or anything, and i dont mind seeing it from time to time. the only thing that i dont like is like, a lot of the shipping community's interpretations of it. and by that i mean the people that twinkify and feminize gadget into being a little wooby baby that cant do anything without his big strong man and infinite is just the stereotypical scary-on-the-outside soft-on-the-inside masc/male/im a man/im he him boyfriend. either that or gadget is fine and its just infinite who is extremely out of character. i had a lot of "he would not fucking say that" moments with infinite when infidget was at its most popular bc these kinds of depictions were everywhere and it was really annoying

the only version of infidget ive ever shipped was a lovers to friends to enemies to... somethings type deal where they dont go back to how they used to be by the end but its not vitriolic, they just outgrew each other in their own ways during the events of forces. that or their relationship cant get mended at all and theres no closure bc infinite dies or whatever like he did in canon. and i know this is the best version of infidget bc i made it up, thanks

i actually shipped it before forces even came out bc i thought that that was sort of the route that sonic team was going to take with tying the avatar into the story. it made sense to me for the avatar (or in this case gadget) to have some sort of previous history or connection with infinite bc in my onion, that makes their dynamic a little spicier and more compelling. in my version, gadget and infinite (then zero) used to be very close until zero started getting more involved with a local gang, the jackal squad, which began to drive a wedge between them until they got more and more distant from each other. and then some more time passes and gadget hasnt heard from zero for a long time and then the events of forces start. i think part of the idea was from this dialogue that we got to hear when footage of infinites second battle came out before the game itself:

(image text reads as infinite saying "and those eyes.. i feel like we've met before.")

-which implied that the avatar and infinite had history. which was technically true, but it was within the timeline of the game bc it turned out he was referring to like. the flashback cutscene of the avatar being too scared to fight back the first time they ran into infinite before joining the resistance, so it wasnt what i was hoping for

another reason iirc was uhhhh whatshisface? sega scourge on youtube? they made a theory video about infinite getting his mind wiped by the ruby or something and that added fuel to the fire. its a really cool concept and while i dont think that the avatar wanting to avenge those they lost is necessarily bad, i feel like its just kind of meh for the kind of story forces was trying to tell, what with the friendship-is-cool themes and whatnot. so i thought the avatar/gadgets arc was going to be we get to find out how they and infinite (or at least just the former lol) know each other, and how infinite became infinite in the first place, and gadget wanted to both help put a stop to everything but also get his friend back through, you guessed it, the power of friendship. hooray! i read a really good fic that was like that called til we touch the sun on a03 (that fic still makes me go insane thinking about it) that went with a sidestory for gadget that was quite similar to what i just described

plus the idea of infinite and gadget having shared a past but only one of them remembers it and now has to deal with a monster that looks like who they used to be but is no longer the same in every other regard due to them going dark side (willingly or unwillingly) is super angsty. and i like my ships raw and some degree of brutal for the soul. it keeps me young

but yeah im overall neutral. tl;dr: infidget is a fine ship, i just wish it had more canon-supported flavour and i wish the majority of shippers would stop writing infinite so poorly to make him fit properly into their milquetoast domestic fluff romances, but whatever. we all get enjoyment out of different things, even if theyre wrong :3 (for safety reasons i have to disclose that the previous statement was a joke)

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

Happy Pride Month y'all due to an in-class discussion we just had at uni I was reminded of how, when we were around fifteen, my best friend at the time chose the girls' locker room before PE class to - in the most unceremonious and casual way possible - tell us she was bi, and how the general (and tbh only) reaction to this was '...yeah makes sense. that tracks for you' and then it was never really a topic again XD

[carma-bis]

"you dont have to call yourself bi, just dont call yourself lesbian!" why wouldnt they want to call themselves bi? Is there part of the plot we're just refusing to say? Why, in troves, have people associated with every label made up with mix-matching old greek terminology rather than just saying 'bi'? I'll wait.

[since-times-long-forgotten]

this reminded me of Ozy & Not-Ozy’s noses! They’re both black tabbies, but Ozy has the pinkish nose and N.O. has a black nose. N.O.’s got darker stripes Ozy, so I wonder if the nose color/stripe darkness correlate in some way?

after seeing your post about coat patterns affecting toe bean colors i started wondering, do they also affect nose colors? id assume they do in a similar manner, but figured i should ask to satiate my curiosity

(the referenced toebeans post)

Yes, they do! With solid (genetically aa) colors, the nose leather is generally the same/similar-but-darker color as the pawpads':

black, blue, lilac, red

Colorpoint, silver, wide band ect doesn't affect the color...

black smoke, red point

...however tabby very much does.

The the nose leather of a tabby can be very variable even just between black tabbies: from dirty pink to almost black, and it can even change during life.

black tabbies

Blue, chocolate and other tabbies have generally lighter noses:

blue tabby with white, chocolate tabby point

And again, just like the toebeans, torties are often multicolored:

black tortoiseshell, blue tortoiseshell

White and white-spotted cats (can) have (partially) pink noses:

Look, here is two tabby-and-white cat's nose (one black and one red), to see the difference between tabby-pink and white-pink nose leather:

Black tabbies always have that dark outline, for example.