#definitely not the case here

[megarywrites]

Something i’m really glad i’m doing with Seafoam is that instead of Thala being passive when it comes to her budding romance with Solera, she is pursuing just as much as Solera is. It’s a major pet peeve for me in sapphic romances when the main character is passive and things just happen to her.

[cubbyhole-for-flea-bee]

(Not) an approved use of the Power Of Friendship

[humming-fly]

(The most impressive thing here isn't that Rouge and Shadow didn't know they shared a birthday it's that Amy Did)

Last week I saw a lot of those "Happy Birthday Shadow" posts but didn't see any for Rouge despite the fact that based on character debut dates they actually have the same exact birthday, a fact I personally find extremely funny especially given how unlikely I think either of them is to ever notice it

[possiblyawesometmblr]

i'm allowing myself exactly one (1) moment of pure delusion:

jon martin jonah. thanks for your time.

[fannyyann]

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[pangur-and-grim]

it’s hard for me to feed myself right now (just in terms of physical ability), so my mom drove me and the animals to her place. she carried the cats in first, because I had to butt-scoot up the front stairs, and once inside, Pangur got scared and ran. she’s tucked herself away somewhere, and nobody can find her. I probably could, and I could lure her out and make her feel safe again, except that I’m largely immobile. I keep falling on the crutches and fucking my leg up further, and the likeliest hiding spots are up or down a fleet of stairs. it’s been 4 hours, and it’s killing me not to look for her. I’m so tempted to crawl down the basement stairs, broken leg be damned.

[literally-forever]

listen obviously Edwin's sigh of realisation as he's hugging Charles back murders me but also i haven't seen anyone talking about Charles' happy little sigh as he goes in for that hug and i need to know that i'm not the only person who got fully decked in the face by both of those damn sighs

[luna-loveboop]

Ooook I think this needs to be done

My bet is 16 wins the poll (<Not indicative of my vote)

I wanted to include 11 for both extreme sides of possibility, I ran out of options and I've seen a lot of people suggest he's in the twenties and didn't want to exclude those. If you vote eleven/twelve, or twenty three plus, feel free to specify which in replies or tags or whatever.

Looking in the notes of my posts, I didn't realise everyone in this fandom liked math so much. But a very mention of the number 4, and everyone likes square numbers and math puns. Go figure.

Edit/update section: Hmm I meant to add this

Jojo's words thus far on Four's age- 'not too far off in age' from Twilight (Four's theoretical words?), and grouped in teens with Wind. A bit confusing, there.

Anyways have fun! Maybe the whole fandom can be the apollos dodgeball meme if we get it right :)

Legend

masterpollst⛓️

[boxeom]

The most painful LI to be with when you're not mc is most certainly Caleb

[whathorselegs]

I don't think Chuuya would ever be jealous of Dazai finding a new partner in Kunikida. However, I do think at first, he'd be resentful he was 'replaced' by someone as boring as an uptight pencil pushing nerd. If Dazai was going to find himself a new partner, he could have at least put the effort into finding someone with flair, with gravitas.

That is, until he actually finds out more about Kunikida. What a good martial artist he is. Kunikida might not live for the fight like Chuuya does, but he's down to get his hands dirty in fight and Chuuya admires that.

How loyalty to his own and protecting his friends is so important to Kunikida that he's willing to put his life on the line to keep others safe.

That Kunikida's sense of justice comes his own experiences and morals and it's not just what society tells him they should be.

Okay, yeah, Kunikida's still kind of a nerd, but he's efficient, perceptive, a quick thinker, he puts that academic nonsense Chuuya doesn't really care for to use out on the field.

And Kunikida can be pretty terrifying when he wants to be. Chuuya physically shuddered when he heard what Kunikida pulled to defeat Akutagawa. Both from his own awful memories of being electrocuted, but also a strange thrill, an excitement at the idea of going to toe to toe with someone so resourceful in a fight he's physically outmatched in.

And the resentment changes into admiration. In fact, Chuuya's starting to think Dazai doesn't deserve such a partner.

The next time the mafia and agency work together, Chuuya starts paying more attention to Kunikida than he is to Dazai.

Kunikida is oblivious, after all, he doesn't really know Chuuya. He's just happy to find a person from the mafia so cooperative for once. It's making the case go much more smoothly. He doesn't realise it's because Chuuya's actively trying to impress him.

And Dazai comes to the horrifying realization that Chuuya shamelessly is trying to poach his partner from him. Right in front of his eyes. Well, he can't have that, he will not be out done by Chuuya.

[blaretartstuff]

Blasts your mystery twins with my transgender beam

little bonus sketch with ~lore~ under the cut

likes <<< reblogs

Basically right after the comic, the twins steal their dad's clippers and give each other haircuts. The next day at school is picture day. Filbrick is making Stan wear that shirt as punishment; he assumes the whole thing was Stan's idea.

[sillylittlecharacters]

Honestly, from the little that we know about Petronille's character, an initial rivalry between her and Mirabelle makes so much sense. If you play your cards right, you can craft a dynamic tailor made to play on their insecurities!

For example, Mirabelle has shown a lot of insecurity around her ability to complete basic tasks, like needing to be taught how to cut vegetables with a nursery rhyme presumably in her teens. How might she feel being faced with someone her age able to raise a child alone? And in the case of massive, important, life defining tasks - tasks as large as saving an entire country? Mira might think that someone like Nille probably could've saved Vaugarde alone, without dragging several other people down along with her to aid her in a doomed quest…

And in Nille's case, well, if one was going to have any type of grudge against a group of heroes for taking your younger sibling directly into royalty related danger, it would make sense that most of your ire would be focused on the capital H Hero herself. The Chosen One, handpicked by the crabbing Change God, beloved by all of Vaugarde and most importantly, the perfect replacement for Nille in Bonnie's life. After all, it was Mirabelle who was there for Bonnie when they needed an older sister the most - Nille might be worried that one day Bonnie will weigh their options and decide that Mirabelle is the better choice.

Now, obviously, this is all within the realm of speculation, but I think it's interesting. I know that Mira is sober for religious reasons, but their dynamic has the potential to be a perfect cocktail of insecurities, jealousy and imposter syndrome.

And buddy? I need a drink.

[shinysamurott9]

Y'know, in all the hype for Xenoblade X DE, one thing I've been thinking about is how amazing this must feel for the people at monolith, specifically the ones who worked on the original game.

The Wii U version was fantastic but was heavily trimmed down from what was initailly planned. The thing about that is a lot of the new stuff we saw in that trailer is cut content that was either shown in the original game but not delved into or stuff we know about because of the artbook. The new skell Hresvelg, the Ghosts, the new floating area, Neilnail and her twin skells, Elma's partner and the original ares, all of it.

I can't imagine how it must feel for the people at monolithsoft who were there working on the original game, knowing how much it had to be trimmed down, now getting the chance to not only revisit the game and add back in that cut content bringing the game far closer to the original vision, but also having a decade worth of player feedback to look at to, hopefully at least, make the game even better than it's original vision.

I imagine some stuff like the improved font and UI and the built in Overdrive guide were at least partially out of necessity to make the game work better from a design standpoint on Switch, but you cannot tell me they aren't at least aware of common fan criticisms when they specifically chose to draw attention to something as otherwise mundane as a Flight Module Skell jumping. Like come on they know.

[neversetyoufree]

I've been thinking lately about Vanitas and Noé's first "what is salvation" fight at the bal masqué and what it means about their individual definitions of the concept, and I've realized something about Vanitas.

Noé's definition of salvation is the obvious one. It feels natural. To save someone is to keep them from dying. But in a way, his understanding of salvation is also almost selfish. Noé's foundational trauma is the constant loss of his loved ones. He is the eternal sole survivor. So of course he wants to keep people alive—he wants to "save" the people he cares about in the way that keeps them by his side this time.

It's not wrong to want that, of course. I don't mean "selfish" as a condemnation. It's just that the definition of salvation that Noé starts the series with is inarguably the one that best serves his own happiness.

And it's the same with Vanitas.

When Vanitas kills the little girl Catherine by restoring her true name, he tells Noé he doesn't know what salvation is. He might be lying there, or he might be telling the truth in that he's never put his definition of salvation into words or acknowledged it on a conscious level. Either way, though, I do think he has a definition of salvation somewhere in his mind, and it's a very personal one.

Vanitas sees salvation as the preservation or restoration of one's true self. You're saved so long as you can preserve your essential self, uncorrupted by outside forces. Even if the price of that selfness is death.

While Noé's foundational trauma that informs his worldview is the loss of his loved ones, one of Vanitas's foundational traumas is the loss of his bodily autonomy. Through Moreau's experiments and Luna's mark/bite, he has been transformed into something no longer fully human, and he hates it. From the moment Luna told him he was dying, he said he wanted to die as himself rather than live as their kin, and he has been denied that opportunity.

Nothing is more important for Vanitas than being able to dictate the destiny of his own body, and malnomen are the ultimate corruption of bodily autonomy and selfness. Altering one's true name warps not only their physical body, but their very being on a metaphysical level. The curse takes everything a vampire is and changes it, and doing that to an unwilling victim is the ultimate horror for Vanitas.

Given that context, of course Vanitas thinks that killing a child to restore her true name counts as saving her. He's restoring her essential self and un-corrupting her body and being, and even if her self is only returned for an instant before she dies, it's preferable to living on as something warped by an outside force.

Vanitas absolutely starts the series with a definition of salvation, and like Noé, it's the one that best serves his own happiness. He wants to be saved. He wants to be returned to his human self, and failing that (since he knows it's impossible), he wants to wipe out all traces of the force that changed him and then die without going any further down the path of inhumanity.

Vanitas might not be able to admit that definition out loud (or even to himself directly), but it's there, and it guides him early in the series as much as Noé's own definition of salvation guides him in turn.

[syntheticsoda]

Hi I’m gonna ramble about TFA Beachcomber for a bit! Just my own personal interpretation of his character as well as some other general thoughts and reflections, nothing super crazy

CW for mentions of substance use and addiction, you know how it is

I can’t stop thinking about how TFA’s depiction of Beachcomber is like, one of if not THE most bleak representations of his character in any continuity to date??? Or at the very least one of the most unconventional. He never gets to see Earth or know a life outside of Cybertron, which is especially interesting considering his love for Earth’s ecosystems/inhabitants and the emotional connection he feels to the planet itself is arguably one of his most defining and memorable character traits in other continuities, namely G1.

Moreover, the prospect of being in the middle of Cybertron’s then ongoing war was seemingly so distressing to him that he not only refused to participate outright, but began avidly using drugs in (what I presume to be) an attempt to cope with/disassociate/mentally escape from the brutality of it; ultimately developing a persistent dependence on them in the process.

Following these events, he no longer peruses his interests or passions, and as it stands currently the local law enforcement view him as a dangerous criminal for no discernible reason aside from prejudice. I say this because Beachcomber is an infamous pacifist, plain and simple. He is not a violent person. Presumably this is something bots know about him, or at least it’s something they could very easily know if they were to speak to him or do research into his background for even a minute.

For Sideswipe to insinuate there would ever be an instance in which Beachcomber would be “gunning for a fight” , or otherwise pose some kind of threat to public safety as he implies here, comes off as incredibly disingenuous and rooted in some weirdly classist biases. Idk he’s literally a cop in this continuity so I guess it checks out (above panel is taken from The Stunti-Con Job)

Anyhow, to make matters worse, one of the few bots Beachcomber is ever stated to have been close to in any meaningful capacity, Swerve, ended up dying in battle. (Taken from his page of the TFWiki)

Which leaves Rattletrap, who, based off of his testimony here, is seemingly just as eager to sell Beachcomber’s valuable limbs/modifications off for money as he is to continue exploiting the guy outright, with little to no regard for his well-being whatsoever apart from being a reliable source of income.

And I mean, stepping back a bit, can you imagine what things must have been like for Beachcomber during the war? Especially its latter half. Consider where he must have been mentally as someone who viscerally opposes conflict/violence being surrounded by it on a near constant basis. Like, he didn’t know about Project Omega, or at least I don’t think he would have known. As far as his perspective was concerned he was on the defensive, backing a team that was actively bleeding resources and projected to suffer defeat, leading to inconceivable losses.

There was no hope for victory, and someone he personally knew ended up being a casualty alongside many others. It’s no wonder the guy suffered a massive mental break (what I interpret the aforementioned “overclocking bug” to be in reference to, something akin to an anxiety/panic attack, which Beachcomber was stated as being susceptible to in his original G1 character description) and wound up falling into substance use to cope. Shit must have been intense…

Without any hope for the future he just seems to be so aimless, lacking direction or drive. Just a drifter who espouses empty rhetoric about peace and universal oneness, deprived of any and all motive or resource to enact real tangible change.

And like, man I dunno. There’s something about the fact he doesn’t even pursue geology anymore that's especially upsetting to me. That was his hobby, his primary interest. The way in which he seemingly just doesn’t care for it anymore puts into perspective how dramatically his life has fallen off the rails.

For the most part he’s characterized in this very stereotypical tongue-in-cheek kind of way, and I feel like because of this nobody really talks about how miserable and tragic the reality of his life is, especially without any sort of canonical support system to help him through it. The more thought you give it the more you realize the poor guy seriously isn’t doing too great…

All that being said, I’m well aware this deeply saddening interpretation I’ve concocted isn’t anywhere near how the writers probably intended him to be perceived. I know full well they just wanted him to be a kindhearted, albeit ditsy, perpetually stoned out hippie with superficial optimism and a somewhat misguided naive view of the world à la “Who Needs The Peace Corps”. Which honestly can be interesting in and of itself! I enjoy both facets of his character and I think they can kind of coexist in a way.. I just wish people took him a bit more seriously sometimes, I don’t really see a lot of that predominantly with respect to him... but maybe that’s just my own bias talking. If it wasn’t already obvious i really really like Beachcomber lol

I’m also well aware of the infamy surrounding Beachcomber and the writers on Animated. I know they held a lot of negative sentiment towards him in particular for whatever reason. With that in mind, It’s kind of fascinating to me that despite their attempt to retroactively portray him as this kind of lame, archetypal “unlikable” character, they unintentionally wrote this iteration of him to be one of the most distinctive and compelling takes on his character to date. Well, to me at least!

[goldensunset]

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