#byte's rambles

[rainbyte]

Hi hello! This is my first ask, but let me start off with saying I love this little AU I’ve been a personal fan of classic fairytales, so this is nice!

as for my question technically, it’s two, but are we allowed to draw are OCs as characters in your AU??

and are Frank and Eddie together ((I don’t know if it’s already been stated that they are so sorry if it has)) in this au along with anyone else like are there other ships???

And have a good day/night!

Thank you so very much!! 1. Yes! I am 100 % alright with it, and would love to see it ^^! 2. Yes they are together, but they haven't really announced it to the public since they're both busy with protecting the kingdom. ( Though there are rumors )

As for other ships, there's not really much going on officially but I'd say some pinning is going on...

[rainbyte]

🎉🩷 PINKIE PIE????

ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

[goldensunset]

splatoon fans are like “you GOTTA listen to ‘freshwater freekin it’ that one is straight fire” and link you to a song composed of synthesized cat meows, first graders playing recorders, and vine booms. and then by the end you’re absolutely furious because they’re right

[purplepenguintime]

Characters with tooth gaps>>>

Peak character design 

Edit: I forgot some!

[phoenixinthefiles]

Something something Margo spending most of her time and life in a virtual world and not feeling the same physical and emotional attachment to her world that the other spider-teens feel to theirs.

Something Something she develops a sort of acute touch-starvation because of her detachment to the physical world

Something Something that’s why flowerbyte works so well because Miles’ morals separates him from their peers and Margo’s slight derealization separates her and they relate to each other because they both feel a bit disconnected from that environment.

[aaronymous999]

What if we were all Spider-People, Multi-Romantic, Transgender, Autistic, Have Teeth Gaps and Were Trying To Overthrow The Spider-Society?

[rockybloo]

Changing Hail-Raiser's name to Frost Byte but I will probably make it canon he used to be called Hail-Raiser but people kept telling him how it didn't make sense since "hail falls from the sky, not rises"

Also he has sharp teeth and has def bitten some people's ankles.

He's also just a Rankin/Bass bootleg so...

there's that.

[daisyachain]

Restorative or Transformative?: Homoerotic Subtext, The Closet, and Ciphers in Pop Culture. The nature of commercial art is that it’s sometimes bad and inconsistent. Notably it’s also misogynistic. One way in which audiences try to reconcile massive plot holes or gaps in character motivation is by reading secrets or hidden information into a plot.

Commonly, male characters are interpreted as closeted gay or bisexual to reconcile the absence of women from commercial narratives with the generally stunted and poorly-written male characters that form the focus on said texts. This reading has become especially common among a non-heterosexual milieu. Rather than transforming the original text into some radically different new form, this closeted interpretation seeks to make the original text stand on its own as a story rather than a Swiss cheese of dumb writing decisions.

This interpretation only works for a specific type of pop, usually genre fiction. Any story in which tortured male leads eschew women in favour of male-male bonds (because female characters are constantly killed off, written sparsely, or written out, because the production team keeps casting their male buddies, because actors demand to keep having scenes with their bros, whatever) can become a sounder structure if you put one of them in a closet.

The gay interpretation is the natural consequence of shoddy misogynistic writing from ventures like Supernatural, Naruto, all the biggest hits. It’s also the natural consequence of more benignly misogynistic writing like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Lord of the Rings, where women aren’t necessarily rejected but are simply absent from the worlds of the protagonists. When the emotional crux of the story falls on male-male interactions, this reads as romantic because society at large priorities (definitively heterosexual) romance as the pinnacle of human connection. Two forces are in conflict, the primacy of heterosexuality (read as: romance) and the primacy of men.

Anyway. All that is to say that the typical gay or bisexual reading of male characters in pop fiction comes from a very real place. But, in some places, that’s the default interpretation. Angst, insecurity, secrets, double lives, fatigue, disappointment, restrained passion, stunted personal growth, anyone living in the closet can tell you that it impacts and defines your whole life to know that you live in a way fundamentally incompatible with The Proper Way that life is structured around down to tax law and superstore prices (which assume a heterosexual nuclear family unit). Characters in fiction also tend to have personal problems because that makes them interesting and tasty.

If you’ve grown up on stories with the specific type of misogyny that can be papered over with a closeted interpretation of the male leads, carrying this interpretation over to any male character will make sense more often than not. Even a bit of angst or insecurity? Well of course that makes sense if a character is closeted.

Except that’s hurt a normal part of fiction, and sometimes the closeted interpretation takes away from the point of a character. If a male character is on another axis of marginalization, the closeted interpretation imposed by the slash reading community downplays or trivializes the effects of that marginalization in the plot by overwriting it with another type of marginalization. Alternately, sometimes a character’s heterosexuality is a part of the story. There are some sorts of critiques or investigations of misogyny or masculinity that don’t work if the character has an ‘opt out’ of the cisheteropatriarchal perspective. Not that gay/bisexual men aren’t except from misogyny, but misogyny masculinity and heterosexuality are so tightly linked that it sort of defeats the point if you interpret that character outside of heterosexuality.

All that is to say—the closet interpretation is a quick and easy spice to apply to the weaker parts of action-adventure genre fiction to make it taste better. It draws from a large enough sample of art that it’s pretty widely applicable. Because of that, it’s part of some people’s [my] default interpretation package just because the semi-dull macho show at least gets less dull if you imagine there’s a reason for there to be no girls besides simple hatred. That then forms its own problem where the interpretation that works with your average genre work gets then blanket-applied to all genre works and obscures the places where the closet interpretation doesn’t fix the work, and actually makes it less interesting.

[hobartshobie]

margo kess and peni parker interaction in btsv plsplsplsplsplspls

[rainbyte]

the way you do plants is so edible teach me ur ways

BAM! Quick tutorial! Ish- thing? ( Please excuse my hand writing. )

My main take away is to keep within the color tones the plants type, and don't be afraid to start with a funny little blob- because plants really are just that! Also pay attention to where the leaf's 'fold' since that can effect how the light behaves!

( Also Also- I really like using brushes that are labeled as 'Watercolor'! They allow for fun blending ^^ )

[bytebun]

I WANT TO BE IN THE MACHINE SHOP

[achingly-shy]

god direct downloading is such a pain but i'm too scared to t*rrent so this is what i'm left with

[flippedorbit]

i miss snow :{ <-talked to her not even three hours ago

[gameboy-berry]

Both seasons of Paper Puppets are just a gay autistic person's really bad day.

[oh-meow-swirls]

3's good at wasting opportunities tbh. why do blunder n folly exist-

[aaronymous999]

“Flowerbyte is better than Ghostflower! Ghostflower is better than Flowerbyte!” This that etc

What if

Polyamory? Just a thought. Slowly came to this conclusion after thinking on it for a while because like, Miles and Margo don’t talk much but clearly they kinda just click with each other and Margo has Miles’ back which he definitely appreciates and recognizes. I also have various headcanons about them. Gwen and Miles are. They are more explicitly intended to be the main ship of the films so obviously they have a lot more content and stuff that I don’t really need to go into here.

Now Margo and Gwen is a harder sell because I don’t even think they exchange a line of dialogue in the film and the only interaction between them is often read as negative. HOWEVER. If you look at their personalities and backgrounds it’s VERY easy to see them as getting along very well. And I can headcanon them as being friends before the film or after they go save Miles together and they both work. I prefer the latter to an extent because like, girlies going to save the guy they like and then sorta falling in love with each other as well is very cute actually.

Will post my Ghostbyte headcanons soon, because these three work as couple ships and also a poly trio as well and I do dearly love Miles but if I talk about him I may actually explode because I will explode from my autism over him actually.