#day 16: shadows

[archiesoniconline]

Sonictober 2024 Day 16! Theme: Secret. Eclipse the Darkling, the Black Arms’ contingency plan for their revenge against Shadow. He may not be able to best his older brother in a fight, but tearing his mind apart from the inside out works just as well.

Art by Akkorokamui

[evs-eme]

INKTOBER 16 - Messmer the Impaler, Elden Ring

"Mother, wouldst thou truly Lordship sanction, in one so bereft of light?"

The demigod and abandoned son of Queen Marika (another son the queen abandons, like Morgoth, Mohg and Melina too), one of the most difficult bosses of the DLC, is the coolest battle and my favorite of this expansion.

Eme

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[oz-qwin]

Mariner May: Day 16 - Traders Market

Fairies don't like it when their food is "Stolen" or "Prolonged" from them.

Shadow was only trying to follow so that he could get Sonic the jewelry ( & I forgor her hair tuft in the last drawing TnT)

[ultimateloserboy]

rare shadow the hedgehog post but i actually dislike shipping him with any of the girls and heres why (please hear me out chat) (no hate btw just an opinion)

first of all, rouge specifically is implied to have a sister relationship to him. its implied multiple times, especially in SA2 that he sees her as a sister the way he saw maria, and when shes in danger he feels the same fear of losing a sister. ignoring that, i feel, takes away from both of their characters and is kinda weird.

second of all, expanding on my previous point— i think shadows deep respect for women and girls is a huge part of him and it doesnt stem from attraction at all which i think is actually VERY important. he sees every woman as an extension of his sister, while her killers were men, and all villains afterwards are ALSO more men! he trusts women and girls naturally, while he distrusts every man he comes across. this doesn’t necessarily mean he sees every girl AS maria and every man AS GUN or other villains, but he does see them in similar light.

shadow has seen the cruelty of men compared to the cruelty of women and from his perspective, women have only been positive influences, people to admire— while the enemy is always a man. i feel turning that to attraction takes the sentiment away of WHY he respects women so highly in the first place. not saying he cant like women, i just feel none of the girl characters hes close to would work without taking this factor out of him. he cares for them so heavily out of deep respect and i feel its kinda disappointing to change that to attraction. it defeats the whole point.

and before anyone says “ok sonadow shipper!” or some dumb shit, the reason why i dont mind him being paired with men isnt cuz i just dont like straight ships or something stupid like that. i will defend hunter and willow from the owl house until i die. and also yuri 4 life dont get it twisted. BUT. shadow just doesnt fit with women in that way, he is gods strongest feminist soldier and i just dont think hed be attracted to them out of such deep respect he just wouldnt consider it. and you could easily argue hes aroace all together. however, with men specifically he doesnt have that deep relationship and respect that i explained prior. i feel it takes away no real meaning to pair him with a man. if anything, it could add a meaning onto his distrust and him learning to trust or something gay like that.

basically, i just enjoy seeing a male character so influenced by the girls around him and NOT wanting to bang them in any sense. i find that very important to me and i get it if you dont care but its still sweet to see.

finally tho.. im gonna piss people off here but the sonic fandom is very ship-brained and i need to put it into perspective for yall that both shadow and sonic would be 20 when amy would be 16. i get that she definitely isnt always younger than them, but she is in plenty of versions of herself and is intended to be half the time, so i just dont get how you can bring yourself to ship them. but maybe thats just me. ive always found that to be uncomfortable even when i was little watching sonic X. i just dont feel comfortable pairing most of the cast together, especially amy specifically due to even the most sliver of a question abt her age making me feel weird. its honestly kinda funny that, mostly, the only characters that are the same age to be shipped are all men. again, im not fujo-brained, its just a coincidence with the characters specifically that i think shipping the guys is genuinely more appropriate MOST of the time. (not always!)

idk i dont think anyone is terrible for shipping shadow with the girl characters but it does make me super uncomfortable and i just wanted to expand on that cuz i like talking here and seeing others thoughts or whatever. dont get it twisted tho, some of you ARE weirdos and i wont tolerate you. BUT. thats not rlly what this is about and its not all of you. please dont misunderstand

[incornarei]

RED STRIPES

JET BOOTS⁉️

[putting-shadow-kirby-in-places]

today's shadow kirby is... watching someone getting... murdered.

[bubbleaestheticnikkitea]

YOOOOOOO I GOT THE BLUEBERRY PENNYWISE!! JDKDGEJEUWKKAYWSK

🤡🤡💙🤡💙🤡🥛🥛🥛🤡💙💙🤡

[aexonn]

Day 16!

I didn't really knew what to do and I thought "why not do a meme" so I did it :D

Lil noi discovered he gay for a mf black version of him (very handsome and huh huh 👀)

(here's the image without the watermark)

[weirdbabs]

how many books do you think nandor read before he found im okay, youre okay? at the end of season 4 he said that he might spend the next few centuries reading (which was the final nail in the coffin and caused guillermo to seek out derek bc OBVIOUSLY nandor wasnt going to do it), and 16 days later hes completely changed his view on life after reading it. do you think it was the first book? or do you think he got thru a few before deciding to completely change what he had planned for the next couple hundred years

[phantajam]

my hot take about descendants is that NONE of the core four were ready for a relationship until maybe like, the third movie (rant in tags)

[cuteniaarts]

First posted piece of 2024 featuring Ghazan’s older sister Haya, take 2!!

[midnightshard06]

Flufftober Day 16

AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50489362/chapters/128583955

Summary: Silver had been having issues with nightmares for some time. Shadow manages to help with that in a rather unexpected way.

Pairing: Shadow the Hedgehog/Silver the Hedgehog

Warnings: Nightmares? (idk if that needs to be a warning but just in case)

Word Count: ~700 words

@flufftober

Silver found it hard to sleep a lot of the time. He would be plagued by odd dreams that almost felt like memories, but he knew they hadn’t happened. Well maybe they had, he was a time traveler after all and weird things could happen. Whatever they were though they made it hard to sleep. For a while Silver suffered through the nightmares alone, certainly not getting enough sleep most nights. His friends had started to worry but he did his best to reassure them he was fine. He didn’t wanna worry them, plus what could they even do to help?

Things changed when he started dating Shadow. Not right away of course. There was a very awkward period where the two hedgehogs tried to figure out what worked between them. Eventually though with a lot of work it all settled out and the two moved in together. Silver remembered the day the move had been made official well. Rouge had tearfully waved goodbye to Shadow, sighing dramatically and making some comment about how she couldn’t believe he’d managed to land someone before her. Shadow had looked her straight in the eyes and told her to just work it out with Knuckles already. Her face was one Silver would never forget.

Once the two were moved in together it became impossible to hide his nightmare problem from Shadow. It had already been hard before and Silver really hated worrying his partner, but now he’d be forced to tell someone else about it. Shadow hadn’t interrogated him, but instead did his best to gently coax the information out of Silver. He caved and told Shadow about the nightmares. Shadow had hummed and pulled him into a hug, but didn’t bring it up again. 

The next time Silver was suffering from nightmares Shadow pulled him closer and much to Silver’s surprise began to sing. Silver didn’t recognize the song, but it was a soft melody that had him relaxing against his will. He found it wasn’t so hard to fall asleep and stay asleep after that.

This kept happening. Each time Silver would be having trouble with nightmares Shadow would pull him close and sing that song. It worked every time and Silver was so grateful for Shadow. At some point he asked what the song was. Shadow had shrugged, a faraway look in his eyes, before saying he wasn’t sure but it was something Maria had sung to him on the ARK when he had trouble sleeping. Silver immediately felt honored that Shadow had decided he was worth sharing something so personal too. 

Eventually the nightmares got less and less frequent. They didn’t go away completely but they became much less of an issue. Silver thanked Shadow, but the hedgehog just waved it off saying that it was no issue. Silver made sure that Shadow remembered his gratitude though.

One night things were different. Silver was starting to drift off to sleep when he felt Shadow start to move. He sleepily opened his eyes and looked over at his partner. Shadow was starting to curl in on himself and shake. Once Silver processed what was happening he felt awake. He sat up in their shared bed. Shadow’s quills were raised so Silver didn’t try to touch him as much as he wanted to. It was clear that Shadow was having some sort of nightmare; Silver had been through enough of his own to recognize that.

He was at a loss of what to do, but he couldn’t just sit there and let Shadow suffer. Then he had an idea. While there was no way he could do it the same justice Shadow gave it, maybe it would help. He started to softly sing the same song Shadow would sing to him. It was hesitant at first but slowly he got more confident as Shadow seemed to relax some. Once he deemed it safe Silver put a hand on Shadow and started to gently run it through his quills. 

As he got to the end of the song he snaked his arms around Shadow, pulling him close like the other hedgehog would do to him. As Shadow’s breathing evened out Silver smiled into his back, glad that he was able to finally return the favor.

[aidenwaites]

You've gotta be a little bit crazy to work in the film/tv/ect industry at all though is the thing

[devilsskettle]

also this is a problem i have with a surprising amount of series that are satirical, but i feel like if you make a satire of something specific and then make the topic of satire broader to appeal to a wider audience that doesn’t have interest in the specific topic you were satirizing, then what are you even saying at that point? the more you generalize, the less connected the satire is to the original topic, the less effective the satire is. this happens each new iteration of scream and it’s happening to each new season of what we do in the shadows until they stop being satire at all because of how many degrees of separation it is from the original topic of satire

[explosivequill]

"You dabble in Shadow, but you have no idea what it truly means"

I feel that way about being autistic, ma'am please stop calling me out like that

[boomingsmile]

who gave sharp the audacity to be so kind, loving, sweetest person. D:< no amount of words i can put up will ever be able to contain the vibe he has; i desperately need a drink with him and i dont even drink and he doesn't even exist!