#curent brainrot

[maplethedarkshine]

An entire civilization went extinct to get the giganto car

[colorfulandblack]

With the amount of escape routes the Mafia have leading through the sewers you'd think they recruited Victor Hugo into their ranks

[damnedrainbows]

my deepest apology for my current hyperfixated thread that @hazbinned and I are doing

this is just so RAW AND CONSUMING MY ENTIRE MUSE RN

[lgbtlunaverse]

I think i need to explain why this line makes me go so feral

I think the "fine! I'll kill myself after I kill you" line from nie mingjue in chapter 49 permanently altered my brain chemistry and it has something to do with precisely how i got into the mdzs fandom space in the first place.

I've mentioned it a few times but i started watching the untamed in late 2019 right as it was blowing up everywhere and, likely due to a combination of undiagnosed adhd wrecking my ability to be interested in anything for longer than 4 seconds and me very much not being used to the specific style of acting, especially during fightscenes, i never finished it. The only concrete memory i have of it is seeing wen qing's face and meng ziyi completely short circuiting my little gay brain. I remember more of staring endlessly at pictures of her than I remember of the plot. Press F to pay respects.

Flash forward a few years and a friend recommends me a fic writer for an fma fic (the fic riter in question is metisket) and i like their stlye so much i decide to read other stuf they've written. Here we get to our prime suspect: "the one body problem" a genuinely hilarious fic where jingyi gets posessed by wei wuxian like a year before the plot happens and they become awkward brain buddies. 10/10 i loved it (and still do) even though i remember huasiang showing up in my first reading and I, having fully forgotten his name, had no fucking clue what was going on. (Little did i know...)

Anyway flash forward ANOTHER year and I decide to reread that fic, and then the other untamed fic metisket wrote, a wen qing time travel fix it that's also real fun. And then i'm like. huh. that's fun. wonder if there's anything in their bookmarks.

And then, within 20 days, I had read approximately 350 fics. Many of them 100k+ words. I cannot stress enough how much this CONSUMED my brain's ability to do or think about anything else. I now think back to the early days of getting my adhd diagnosis and insisted that while i had pretty much all other symptoms, I did not get hyperfixations. Lol. Lmao, even.

I am mainly focused on wangxian and the junior quartet becuase they are my baby ducklings and i love them. I do come across some 3zun fics and I think huh... this is interesting. But the 3zun brainrot is LIGHT at this point.

The thing about reading more than 350 fanfics is that at some point you kind of piece the plot of the source material back together backwards. Especially because my favorite genre was time travel fix its, where characters relive the whole plot and like to make allusions to all the ways everything went wrong last time.

Because I'm still squarely in my wangxian + juniors (plus a heavy dosis of yunmeng sibling reconciliation) corner here... the feelings on jin guangyao in my fandom corner are. different from where I'd end up soon after. He is my special little guy though, so I do kind of immediatley develop a fondness for him, and I approach my 3zun and early nieyao thoughts specifcially from the assumption that the widespread opinion is that nie mingjue is a fine good guy and jgy is the evil one (I have not seen the bad nmj takes yet. well... I am seeing DIFFERENT bad nmj takes but they're nice to him. In, like, the wrong way. With no solid undertanding of the inherent tragedy at the heart of him that makes him so blorbo to me. But still.) major reactions to the stairs scene as I see them on twitter are "girlboss! He should've kicked him harder ����"

And the baby jgy apologist in me goes :/ me no likey. And at this point I am also actively seeking out metas and analysis posts so i'm seeing some better opinions than that and getting a halfway solid graps on the themes. wwx and jgy being foils becomes very obvious to me very quickly. So, with my curent understanding of the plot, I go... you know all you people who are like "god i wish nmj would have killed jgy sooner" it uhh... kinda sounds like he'd have died if he did that. If he'd killed him before meng yao had gone off to spy there is a very big chance they'd have lost the sunshot campaign and most of the main cast would be dead. If he'd killed him at the stairs that's... well that's killing your sworn brother, which by the canon's own admission is a universally reviled crime, and jin guangshan could easily take advantage of this by demanding nmj's head in retribution, since he already wanted to get rid of him anyway. He doesn't give a fuck about a-yao of course but he could pretend well enough that he does. And what leg would nmj have to stand on? The jin clan is canonically both willing and able to slaughter entire clans for the murder or attempted murder of the leader or his family, and nie mingjue is the kinda guy who'd immediately offer himself up if it meant the rest of his clan would be spared.

This combined with jin guangyao specifcally dying for his murder of nie mingjue, with huaisang basically not caring much about everything else he does and wanting to get revenge only for his brother, it gives nieyao a sort of mutual doomed soulmates feel. For either of them, killing the other would spell death for themselves. They either both die or they both live, one cannot live on without the order. That's crunchy. I like it.

The fire palace though? well, on meng yao's part there is a real argument that if he'd let nmj get killed immediatly instead of dragging it out he wouldn't have been able to get wrh alone and distracted enough to assasinate him, so that's one half of the mutual doom coin, and if nmj had killed him during their fight there he's also done for. But after? Right before Xichen intervenes? I had no answer for that yet.

(You know what's coming. I did not)

It is at this point that i realize that if this is gonna keep being A Thing then i need to read the source material before I catch fatal fanon poisoning. Yes, I can piece together the plot and themes from seeing what stays consistent across fics and what are the author's own opinons. But I know just as well that sometimes fanon just agrees on shit that didn't happen and treats it like canon, and I have no way of knowing which is which. So I start reading the novel.

And of course, eventually I get to the empathy sequence. And remember, my "nieyao both live or both die" theory is heavy on my mind at this point, and the only stickler is that nmj could sort of have killed meng yao after the confrontation with wrh, still believing meng yao was actually working for him, and not a spy, and get off... not scott-free, Xichen won't be happy, but it's not gonna cost him his life.

And then I read THIS.

Please Imagine dropping a whole block of pure elemental sodium into water. Except the sodium is this quote and the water is my poor little delicate brain. Not only is my theory right, it is ten times more unhinged than i thought it was.

And considering that Nie Mingjue does not seem like the kind of guy who'd consider something like a life debt to have an expiration date, and because after this he will link himself legally and socially to jin guangyao as family and declare that one among their brotherhood turning against the others is to be met with a painful death, I can no longer read the scene at the stairscase in jinlintai without the impression that he is still planning to die afterwards. Which, if you wanted to make that scene even more painful, this is a very efficient way of losing all your remaining hinges.

I think I'd have gone crazy about this line no matter what context I heard it in, but this one specifically? where I'm already obsessed with idea of nieyao's deaths being connected by the narrative and missing just this one piece and having it confirmed? out loud? from one of the characters himself? It's like giving cocaine to a baby.

[dum-dum12345]

Okayyy here's my introduction

I'm dum dum, im curently 17, my actual hyperfixation is woy, i like wandering eye lmao (that's obvious), I'm from Chile

And im brainrotting over Peepers (and maybe Wander)

I'll upload my art slowly, and make more in the future, if you like wandering eye (wander x peepers) and you causally found my page, then you're lucky bc I'll upload A LOT of this ship

Thanks!

[skybristle]

What do u think of earl gay cookie? (curently having earl gray brainrot)

hes cool ig but i care more abt the chess twins </3 i mainly think abt him by proxy because beloved mutual leftie really likes him. i SHOULD go watch the grandmaster hotel cutscenes,,,,

[maplethedarkshine]

Silver Espio and Metal spotted I won (ignore the fag (zavok))

I couldn’t see if charmy is there but he was on the screens so I hope that means he’s playable? I swear to god if he’s left out again I’m going to kill someone

Edit: CHARMY SPOTTED DON’T TALK TO ME ISLAIWISU

[maplethedarkshine]

We’re so fucking back Jet is back in the games

Also I noticed how he never appears on a car in the trailer, will he be exclusive to extreme gear or is it just a branding choice for the trailer? Eitherway my goat is back 🙏🙏🙏

[maplethedarkshine]

Saw someone in twitter say that the reason why idw characters will probably not be in crossworlds is because they don’t wanna do new models and that’s so real

Like why do you think all the npc are animals? Them sonic forces avatar models are doing wonders

And maybe that’s why prime characters are already confirmed, the models are already at reach

This means that characters with no 3d models or lowpoly ones (as in, the mobile game) have fewer chances… damm

[maplethedarkshine]

It’s called sonic racing crossworlds… because they be crossing through worlds… and they sure be racing… 💔

[maplethedarkshine]

So why is sega continuing to bring Zavok back?

Btw I’m not criticizing, I used to hate it but by now it’s basically a silly tradition, but I still find it interesting…

Why zavok out of all deadly six? Why only him? Is it popularity? If anything i’d say zazz is unfortunately the most recognizable one (sonic dash bossfight), and it’s not like the deadly six are the most popular characters ever…

And most people are neutral or dislike them, why do they continue to push zavok to be a thing? In the most random places ever, like girl why was he working with eggman in sonic team racing, what made the deadly six unique is that they hated Eggman and made him work with Sonic… At least in idw they make sense, don’t act out of character and most importantly there’s the six of them

And now is only zazz and zavok

I don’t like them all that much but it annoys me tf out how it’s never the six of them, like sega at least let them be a team you already got the models

My best bet is that they want a character to represent the 2010’s since they’re not just forgetting it existed and they really didn’t had a lot of new characters, and they’re NOT adding all six of them to saturate the cast.

Sticks is more of a boom thing and infinite is vanished from canon for some reason (I’m also interested on that… why can’t he ever appear on anything? Because he’s dead? Tikal is still here, and shadow was revived, so because his game was hated? Mephiles was brought back, and not like lost world was all loved… I don’t get it)

Who is the zavok fan in sega that keeps sneaking him up on anything lmao

Or maybe he’s just a stock villain that they can add without worries because it’s not like he has an over complicated lore or personality (and they STILL fucked it up in team racing how is that possible?)

Same thing was happening to Vector on the 2010’s

He was in riders, on sonic team racing, the olympic games, IN BOOM, VECTOR IN SONIC BOOM. BEFORE FUCKING ROUGE OR SILVER IQKSIQLDIAKQIQ HUH

And where was the rest of his team meanwhile? Idk he sold them to amazon ig

So glad they seem to back up from that and include them too, but who is the Vector fan in SEGA that kept insisting on putting him on everything, because it’s NOT a popularity thing, if anything Espio is the more known it would’ve made more sense to be him the one included in everything…

What is the thought process behind these decisions? Im gen curious please someone explain

Anyways so they’re the team abandoners duo

[maplethedarkshine]

Sonic prime characters in Sonic racing: crossworlds!!!

Manifesting chaos sonic manifesting chaos sonic manifesting chaos sonic mani-

[maplethedarkshine]

Cream’s car has a bow

That’s it that’s the post

(Should I do a separate blog for sonic racing crossworlds glaze? I’m afraid I’m getting annoying here-)

[maplethedarkshine]

His car looks so slick holly shit

Also is that a new model or is my brainrot eating me alive? Idk but he looks pretty

[maplethedarkshine]

Oh this was NOT a coincidence

Wasn’t expecting 2025 to be jet’s year but I am NOT complaining 🙏

[maplethedarkshine]

Ooh?

I lowkey wasn’t expecting new locations this is a welcomed surprise

(ALSO LOOK HOW PRETTY IT LOOKS)